 Serving is not a stepping stone Serving is not a stepping stone Steven we know we're in here. We see now. Maybe he did but we don't see it where he got promoted Into a better position in the church Because his ministry outside of the church was successful You don't see here was Steven like the church saw his sermon and YouTube went viral like outside of the church like dude He's gonna be part of our preaching team You don't see Steven after a few healings Peters like oh dude, man, we're gonna send you to other cities as well Man, you you're good The only thing that we saw here is that he didn't get promoted to a better ministry. He got promoted to a better place He went to God's glory You can't beat that kind of promotion Guys like you did so good. The church doesn't see it. I'm seeing it. You coming home sunshine. You coming home Now it's true. If you are faithful many times men will see it Man will appoint you God will open doors. He'll promote you He will exalt those who walk in humility, but it's important that we don't see this thing that we are doing for God as a temporary stepping stone until King Saul dies until Pharaoh gets the revelation on the guy Because then what we do is that we use the serving to build our ministry Instead of God using us to build this kingdom Plus the Bible presents the church as the body how many of you know you don't promote your heart to become eyes Because it pumps blood really good You don't give your heart after five years like you you've been pumping blood so good. I'm gonna make you a nose I'm gonna promote you into being here so everybody can see you I'm gonna promote you to be eyebrows so you can be on every single photo Nobody does that with her heart. Nobody does that with her lungs Sometimes the Lord doesn't promote us into visibility Because that is really our sweet spot where we are being effective and where we are serving him And we shouldn't compare the function and the visibility of the heart with eyebrows and eyes Because eyes cannot do without heart and heart cannot do without eyes We all have our functions where God will reward us not based on what people Thought of us not based on where we got invited to speak not based us where our books landed on New York Times Not based us on how many people followed us on social media or how many people listen to us God will promote us And how effective the heart was beating How effective the lungs were receiving air how effective were eyes seeing how effective were ears Hearing and so you have to understand you and I will stand before God and we will give an account Not how we measured in the eyes of man, but what we did in the eyes of God I'm all for promotion. I believe that God will exalt us, but our motives have to be pure God will purify our motives by sometimes Lingering our promotion so he can get all of the faults from our motives out so there are motives is not I'm using the church to build me to God using me to build this kingdom My name will die, but his name will live we live for the fame of his name We don't live for the fame of our name We don't use the church as a platform to get a ministry going We use our ministry as a platform to get God's kingdom spread There is only one name that heals the sick There is only one name that drives out demons and there's only one name that restores broken marriages There is only one name the hell is afraid of it is not the name hungry generation It is not the name glad it is the name of Jesus Christ the son of the living God The name that's been exalted above every name the name that heals the sick the name that islands will trust it Somebody shout that name Somebody shout that name Somebody shout that name