THE LOUDEST MESSAGE NEVER PREACHED
In 2004 I was working for a company in Sheperdsville, KY. I heard there was a preacher’s wife in the office and was told to watch my language around her. I let time pass and then I decided I wanted to meet this woman. I was going to lay the “SHOCK” treatment on her. See I was a lesbian a full blown dyke from hell. So I wanted to see how this “Christian” would treat me. So the day came when I was on the yard early and went in to meet her. I remember what I wore, my timberland boots, my shorts and a polo, OH and lets not forget the huge wallet in the back pocket. I was a walking poster child for “BUTCH”. I went in and found a lady that was nice to me, didn't shun me. But actually talked to me. She and I started talking on a regular basis and after a couple trips in the office the “invitation” came. An invitation to go to church with her. I passed on the first couple times, but then I thought, “lets see how she treats me around her church people and her family”. So I showed up one Sunday morning, and you guessed it, wearing my “BUTCH LOOK”. But to my surprise, she was not shocked. She and her husband greeted me and acted like they were actually glad I showed up. I was the one shocked. Now let me share a little of where I came from. For as many years as I can remember I played church. But never truly submitted and surrendered to G-d. So I went into this “going to church thing” with the mind set of “here we go again”. On about the 4th trip to this church I had taken about all I could take it. My hands could not hold on to the back of that pew any longer. I took what seemed at the time the longest walk in my life. I could not get to the alter fast enough. When I got to the alter there were several ladies that met me there. That morning something happened to me that was different than anytime before I had gone to an alter. This morning I met JESUS.
“THE TRIP OF A LIFE TIME”
When I got up from the alter I knew I was different than anytime before. I had something different this time. I could not put a name on it or explain the feeling, but I just knew I was different. For the first time in my life I truly felt there was a chance I would and could be free and be a real true Christian. So here we go, the trip began. I wont tell you it has was or has been easy. Just ask that little preachers wife who has walked every step of the way with me. The phone calls at 2 am, me crying screaming.. “I cant do it“, “this is too hard“, “I fell today“, “I am just going back”, “You just don’t understand”. But on the other end of that phone was a friend that kept telling me “YES YOU CAN”, “No I don’t understand but I know a G-d that can and has”. Every step of the way she has been there with me. This preacher and his wife and family took me into their family and loved me. No matter what, smelling like a smoke factory (cause see I was still smoking at this time) they loved me, AGAPE LOVE. Unconditional love. I am not saying all this to build them up or to put flowers on their chest. I am saying this to show you what it takes to see change in a people. I remember one Sunday morning I was sitting behind them at church. Oh yeah, I went from the back pew to the second pew in 4 weeks flat. But anyway, the preacher reached down during the worship service took a pen and penned what he thought was the title to a message on his notepad. To the best of my knowledge, it is a message he has never preached. G-d never gave him anything else on this. This is what he wrote, “Do Not Become A Product Of Your Environment”. What he didn’t realize at the time was he just preached the loudest message in his entire ministry and never spoke a word.
And this is what I want to share with you today in this message: DO NOT BECOME A PRODUCT OF YOUR ENVIRONMENT.
Just in case you have forget who you are I am here to tell you a few things.
1) You are a royal priesthood, a peculiar people
1Pe 2:9 But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: (ASV)
1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: (kjv)
2)You are joint heirs with Christ
Ro 8:17 ¶ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
3) You are set apart
Ps 4:3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
4) You are called for such a time is this
Ro 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 ¶ For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Okay, so WE have are a royal priesthood, a peculiar people, a chosen generation, an holy nation, heir of G-d, joint heir with Jesus. We been called out, set apart.
What does this mean to you? What does this mean to me? Well to me it means I am not my own any more. I cant go the places I used to go I cant do the things I used to do. Every step I take, I take Jesus with me. And to be honest with you, there places I been I would not want to take Jesus to.
See it don’t matter what your profession is what matters is what your CONFESSION is. In our daily walk do we confess JESUS to people. Do they see JESUS in our workplace, do they see JESUS in the grocery store? Do they hear Jesus when we speak? Or do we speak of things that would embarrass Jesus? I am a truck driver even though I dress in boots and jeans most of the time, I still walk as though I walk toward JESUS with every step. I don’t have to become a product of my environment. I don’t have to have the talk or the walk to fit in cause as a child of G-d I am not suppose to fit in. I am a square peg in a round world. ARE YOU?
But my question is this… NOW WHAT?
For the one reading this that does not know Jesus as your Savior and Lord, I want to tell you that there is nothing that you have done that G-d will not forgive you of. It don’t matter if you have been an addict for 30 years. Jesus tells you today that HE loves you and wants to help you. And that you can be free.
For that one that says, you don’t know where I been, all that I have done, the people I have hurt. No I don’t. But what I do know is you can only spell hurt and bound one way. And there is only one healer and deliverer and that is JESUS.
NO MATTER what you have done.
For the one that is reading this that is a Christian I have a few questions for you to ask your self.
What do I do when the drug addict comes to me all stanking and nasty and wants me to help them?
What do I do when the young girl down the road comes and sits in my home and tells me she has been abused or raped?
What do I do when my best friends daughter or son comes to me and cries and says I don’t want to live no more?
What do I do when a stranger comes to me and wants to be friends, a stranger that is not like me?
What do I do?
John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
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