In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes that the significance of a person's life is not determined by material wealth, talent, or appearance. Rather, it is about having a heart that is willing to be used by God for His glory. The speaker highlights the humble beginnings of the early church, composed of ordinary individuals like fishermen, tax collectors, and prostitutes, who were despised by the religious elite. Despite their societal status, they experienced the power of God and boldly proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The speaker encourages believers to recognize their calling and the authority they have through Christ, emphasizing that they have the power to impact their communities and bring people to salvation.

Folks, can you see it? For the scripture says, For you see your calling, brethren. Do you understand that God has put the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ in the hands of the weakest of those who are called by the name of Jesus Christ? Do you understand that you have the power to go into situations and neighborhoods and say, let my people go! Let them go! Do you understand that you're not powerless in your community? You're not powerless in your apartment building. You're not powerless because society tells you you're disadvantaged. If you have Christ within you, you have the full victory of Christ on Calvary at your disposal. You have the power of God in your hand to stand in this generation. Don't be turned back because of former failure or because of what you see in the mirror when you get up in the morning. It's not about you! It's about Jesus Christ. Glory be to God. If we can lay hold of this one truth, thousands and thousands of people in New York City could come to Christ. We can get out from under that sea of power. Whatever God tells you to do, you can do it because God has spoken it. You stand in your weakness. You stand in your frailty. Let men laugh all they want to laugh. I had a vision in my heart as I was preparing this message of an older lady in her seventies looking out her window and seeing young men accumulating. And I just saw her going down by God. You were created to live for God and to serve God. Now you grab my hands and I'm going to pray. I'm going to command the devil to let you go that you may serve God. Now, I see the silence in here. No, it isn't. No, that's the way I work. That's where my power is found. I believe with all my heart that all hell trembles at the thought of grandmothers in the body of Christ realizing the authority they have. And young men and young women and older men and older women finally, finally realizing I need your power to come upon me. You need to tell me what it is that you want to do through my life and I need to set out and God, you'll make it a reality. You'll do it. Thanks be to God. He's pulling the curtain back one more time in this hour that we're living in and showing us that the ground is truly level at Calvary. It's the hungry heart that will know the power of God. It's not about education. It's not about your social standing. It's not about the size of your bank account, how well you can sing or how good you look. It's about the fact that you have a heart that says God, come and use my life for your glory. The church began in an upper room with 120 nobodies and nothings. Young fishermen and tax gatherers and harlots and publicans despised by the religious elite as it is of that day. But they got together and the glory of God came upon them and they stepped into the marketplace and their lives became a declaration of the reality that Jesus Christ is alive. He's risen from the dead. The religious who had crucified Christ looked at them and said, God, what must we do to be saved? Have you seen your calling? Do you understand what God wants to do? It's not just for a select few. It's not just for a spiritual elite. It's for the entire body. The sin of Israel in the Old Testament was that they limited the Holy One of Israel. They said in their hearts, can God furnish a table in this wilderness? Folks, that's the greatest sin you'll ever commit against the knowledge of God in the Scriptures is that you look in the mirror, you see the emptiness of yourself and say, oh, can God furnish a table in this wilderness? Not only can He furnish a table, but He can feed you until you overflow. He can fill your cup until you are forced to speak His name. You can die in the wilderness of unbelief or you can see one more time what God wants to do. I don't want New York City to go to hell. I don't know how you feel about it today. And New York doesn't have to go to hell. There is a church. There are 3,000 preachers in this building this morning. There is a testimony. The power of God is resident in His body. This city doesn't have to go to hell. Your people in your building don't have to go to hell. People in your workplace don't have to go to hell. The kids on your street corner don't have to go to hell. As long as Jesus lives in me, people don't have to go to hell. Do you have to go to Bible school? Do you have to get a Master of Divinity degree? No, you need to get a stick and a one-line sermon. That's all you need. Thanks be to God. Thanks be to God for those who teach the deeper things. Thanks be to God for those who expound the Scriptures. Thanks be to God for all of this. But if it doesn't lead you to that one fact, it's not brought you to the knowledge of Christ. We can't just gather and sing our songs and let this world go to hell. I'm not trying to put anybody under condemnation. The issue is, do you see? Do you see? Do you see? Do I see? Do we see our calling? The authority that God has placed within you is not of yourself. It's another's authority. Our part is to embrace it and walk in it. Believe it. When He says, do this, do it. When He says, go, go. When He says, speak, speak. Oh, but to go relatively, of course to go relatively. So long as you get saved.