Don’t get into the game until you’re ready or you will get
hurt. Today we are talking about the four principles of a team. T.E.A.M. To be
teachable. To be exclusive. To be ambitious. To move. To be a team, the members
of the team have to be teachable. If not, you will never get any better. Do you
really want who you are today to be your ‘best’? You cannot give what you have
not been given. How can you lay hands if you have not learned, if you have not
been taught. If you are unteachable how can YOU teach? Peter had to learn how
to be a fisher of men before he could go out and be that. To be in a team you
have to be exclusive. The disciples were exclusive to Jesus. The 5,000 were
spectators, not part of the team. They were not those that Christ had chosen to
come in closer. We did not choose Jesus, He chose us. A team member must be
ambitious. Ambitious means ‘having or showing a strong determination to
succeed’. Christ died so that we could win. We need to look at the world and
want to win those souls. Determine to succeed in winning those souls. Jesus did
not die on the cross for us to lose. We wonder, during storms, during hard
times, why God would allow us to go through this if He wants us to win. God
allows storms to come into our lives so we can get through it. To see we are
winners. To see that we CAN make it through. The kingdom of God does not
resemble our desperation. It resembles our victory. If we stay in that place of
despair and desperation we are not adequately representing the kingdom. Your
remaining in desperation is a sin. We cannot stay in that place we once were.
We must move. We must be active. Do not let the church be the only place that
you lift Him up.
Where we bring kingdom expansion, we bring kingdom blessing. As long as we are built on the foundation that is Jesus, Kingdom expansion is inevitable. There are many people in the body of Christ today that talk the talk but don’t walk the walk. They put on their make up and good clothes, go to church and pretend they don’t have mess. They envy after the brotherhood of the church, that team but you don’t get that brotherhood without sacrifice. You have to be willing to pay the price. How much of your talk are you willing to walk? There are three groups in the church. The first is the crowd. These people are like the 5,000 that Jesus fed. They are just part of the crowd. Members of the crowd come to receive something and that’s it. We need to begin to take what He’s given us and give it to others. We need to receive what Christ gives us but don’t let it stop there, we must pass it along. As you grow in your walk, church cannot simply be a refilling station. You’ve got to esta...

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