The title of today’s message is “Purpose to Walk in Excellence.” We need to walk in excellence in every area of your individual life okay? Your professional life, your home life, your work in the church, and not only just in this area, in leadership of private organizations, corporations and governments. Everything that we do must be done in excellence and if it’s not done in excellence, it’s not going to last.

Follow me here. What’s happening is, if you do not walk in excellence, your talent and the giftings that you may have won’t last. You got to get this. God is the God of order. He wants things done right. He wants it done in excellence; He doesn’t want it half done. He doesn’t want it part way. Jesus told us in Luke 9:23, He said, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself,” that means your personal goals cannot come before Him.

People want things. People want to see things done, but when God has you to do something and especially for Him, it must be done in excellence. As a matter of fact, if it’s not done right with people, it’s still not going to last. I don’t care what it is. Right now, we currently see going on in the world, a lot of turmoil right now, a lot of issues. And a lot of these issues start with just the basic things and these basic things starts around food, shelter, economic opportunity. It’s tearing the world apart. If the government can’t do it right, it won’t last.

If you don’t do it right with God, it won’t last. Turn with me to 1 Samuel 2. Now, if you work in this church, everything you do has to be done right. You shouldn’t give God leftovers of your time. You shouldn’t put God as it were His stuff is half done, not done right, just do it how you want to do it. No, we’ll talk about this because what happens is these things become straight in characteristics of people, okay? And God is a God of excellence, amen! And when you proclaim to know God you need to walk in excellence.

This church needs to be a church in excellence.  I’m telling you one thing, I want to get it together because you’re not getting on your job right, you can be seeing me. If you get upset and want to walk, I don’t mind. I don’t mind because I’m not going to stand and pastor that’s halfway done. I’m not. And I’m telling you something, your job is not going to improve when you’re getting stuff’s halfway done right. They’ll let you go in a minute and won’t even think twice about it. I love you. You know, I’ll talk – I’ll work you, you know what I mean?

But people want everything done in excellence. Look here in 1 Samuel 2. Now God is going to do with high priest Eli because stuff wasn’t done right in the synagogue, in the temple and He had to deal with him. 1 Samuel 2:18 it says, “But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod. Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice and Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the Lord. And they went unto their own home.”

Now what happens is, Elkanah and his wife gave Samuel as a baby to the priest Eli to be in the house and to serve God and God used this young kid to have him trained up to be a new priest for him, to be over the people of Israel, because the old wasn’t doing right.

Verse 22: “Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.” Now his sons were supposed to be priests and they were supposed to be servants unto the Lord. But, what they’re doing is, they’re sitting at the door of the synagogue, of the temple checking out the women who they can sleep with.  Get your house in order.

Verse 23: “And he said unto them, why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people. No,