John K. Jenkins Sr - More Than Enough (01/24/2026)
Opening Prayer
Father, we thank You for the privilege of being in South Africa. Grateful for this ministry, the lives of these Your people. I pray that You take these next few moments and open our hearts to Your truth, that we might apply it to our life, that Your name be all of the glory. Put a hedge around this place—not only here but every location.
I pray, Father, that if there are unsaved lives, You draw them to Your kingdom. Uncommitted, backslidden, and unsure persons—that You might speak to them and draw them to Yourself. And let the name of the Lord Jesus get all of the glory and all of the honor. In Jesus' name, amen.
I pray, Father, that if there are unsaved lives, You draw them to Your kingdom. Uncommitted, backslidden, and unsure persons—that You might speak to them and draw them to Yourself. And let the name of the Lord Jesus get all of the glory and all of the honor. In Jesus' name, amen.
God bless you. Oh, before y’all sit, let’s thank the Lord for Pastor Bert Pretorius. He talks about how I have blessed him—he has blessed me in our ministry, in our life. And I’m so grateful for him and his beautiful bride, Pastor Char. Let’s thank the Lord for Pastor Char.
I want to thank Stephen Herd—Minister Reverend Stephen Herd, actually—for his ministry. I got some people with me that are here with me today. Let me start with Bishop Monty Norwood from Atlanta, Georgia. He’s here with us today.
And I also brought my executive assistant—she manages my life. She’s the real boss and the real pastor—her and her husband, Pam and Marcel Virgil.
More Than Enough
I want to talk to you today for a few moments that I have allotted to me. I want you to go to the Book of Exodus—Exodus chapter 40. And I want to title this message: More Than Enough. Say that: more than enough. That was a weak «more than enough.»
I want to take a look at the children of Israel. You know their story. They were in slavery. They were in bondage. And God raises up Moses and leads them out of bondage. And they’re headed toward a land that God had promised them. They’re headed toward the Promised Land.
But while they’re in the midst of this journey, a couple of unbelievable things—matter of fact, a lot of unbelievable things—happened. But I want to spend a few moments and talk about a couple of things that happened while they were on their way to the Promised Land that shook my world.
And it’s in—let me just talk for a moment in Exodus chapter 40. And let me read verses 34 and 35. I’m reading from the New King James translation. Verses 34 and 35: «Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.»
The Glory of God Filling the Tabernacle
I don’t know if you’ve had this experience in your life—I suspect you have—but during the course of our church, our pastor in Maryland, we had occasions and situations where the glory and the presence of God was so awesome and strong that we couldn’t even continue on with the worship experience.
That God began to come in and touch lives and speak to people without even a sermon being preached. People would begin running to the altar to get saved. People would be getting healed. Families would be getting together because the glory of God had filled the tabernacle.
I don’t know if y’all find that exciting—that’s exciting to me. It is the desire of my life to live in a place, to see lives change, to see people delivered, to see people healed, to see people responding to the gospel, to see God get all of the glory.
It is an amazing thing where you can sense the very awesome presence of God. And the question that I’ve asked myself over and over again—that I’ve wondered—what was it about the worship experiences that we had that those moments occurred that attracted God to step in and say, «I got it from here»?
I wondered. I was curious. I wanted to know. And I questioned and looked at this text, and I wanted to know: Lord, what caused You to move in such a spectacular way? I’m glad y’all want to know too. Somebody say, «I want to know the answer to that too.» Because that’s what I wanted to know.
Conditions for God’s Glory
Well, let me walk through just a few verses because the condition that facilitated God’s glory stepping into such an environment is right here in Exodus.
So they’re in the wilderness. They are trying to make it to the Promised Land. For 40 years they’ve been trying to get there. They’re following a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
And yet something occurs. They make a decision to build a tabernacle. Here they are out in the middle of the wilderness, and they make a choice to build a tabernacle.
Exodus chapter 25—slide there real quick. Exodus chapter 25—just jot these verses down and make a little note to yourself. Exodus chapter 25:8 says this—and here’s God speaking to them—He says in verse 8 of chapter 25: «And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.»
Stick a pin right there. Somebody say: God says, «I want a tabernacle that I may dwell among them.» That’s what God says. That’s chapter 25:8. God says the conditions that set Me to come and show Myself and manifest Myself began with them making a choice to build Me a tabernacle. Are y’all with me?
In Exodus 29, verse 42—jott that down. Exodus 29:42 says this—I love this right here—verse 42: «It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you to speak with you.»
Okay, y’all missed it. He said, first of all, I want to dwell with them. I want them to build a tabernacle so I’ll dwell with them. Secondly, He says, I want to speak to them.
I don’t know if you know how powerful it is when God talks to you. I don’t know if anybody here ever prayed and asked God for something that you didn’t discuss with anybody else, and then God spoke to you—took you to a Scripture, had a sermon preached, or spoke in your heart—and answered the very thing you had just talked to nobody else about but Him.
When you have the opportunity to have a relationship with God where He communicates with you—that’s an awesome experience to have.
Ministering to God
Let me tell you something: there’s nothing greater than to walk with God and talk with God and have Him tell you that you are His child.
And so in this place, the condition that led up to God’s glory filling the tabernacle was: one, they wanted to build a tabernacle so God could dwell there; secondly, God says, «I want to be able to speak with them. I want to meet them and talk with them and communicate with them.»
But here’s a third thing—oh, this is powerful. I’m almost finished. I’m just going through here real quick. It’s Exodus 29:44. Look at that—verse 44, just a couple verses down from where we are.
He says, «So I will consecrate the tabernacle of meeting and the altar. I will also consecrate both Aaron and his sons to minister to Me as priests.»
That went over y’all’s head—went right over your head. Let me roll it back and give it to you. Here’s—this is profound. It’s powerful. It’s amazing.
He says, «I want to consecrate the tabernacle of meeting"—that’s the place that they want to build—"and the altar. I will also consecrate both Aaron and his sons to minister to Me as priests.»
Now, we always come to church to be ministered to, but did you recognize that you can minister to God? You can do something. There are some things you can do. You can be in a posture to minister to the Lord.
Somebody tell your neighbor, «I want to be a person that ministers to God.»
Now, it says here that there’s a consecration going on upon Aaron and his sons so they can minister as priests. But I also believe that this verse is setting a standard that the ministry to God is not just with the priests, but God wants the ushers to minister to Him, the choir to minister to Him.
He wants the people who serve the food to minister to Him, that play an instrument to minister to Him, the production people to minister to Him. He wants you to minister to Him.
Come on, look at your neighbor and ask him: when’s the last time have you ministered to God? Wait for an answer. Wait to see what they got to say. Wait to hear what the answer is.
Oh, y’all missed a great spot to shout.
You Are the Tabernacle
Here’s what I’m trying to get to: this is them wanting to build a tabernacle out in the middle of the wilderness. Here they are in the middle of nowhere, trying to get to the Promised Land. Here they are out in the middle of the desert. Here they are in the middle of the wilderness, and they want to build a temple.
They want to build a sanctuary so God can dwell there, so God can speak to them there, and so they can minister to God. Oh, I feel a shout coming on my soul.
That is just a foreshadow of what God wants to do in you. Yeah, He wants to dwell in you. He wants to live in you. Y’all don’t get it. Y’all don’t understand.
He wants you to understand that you are the tabernacle. It’s not about a physical building anymore. He said that’s just a foreshadowing of what I want to do in you.
God says, «I want to dwell with you and walk with you and live with you.» And hold up—He says, «I want to communicate with you in your very soul and in your very being.»
Anybody here grateful that God lives in you? Somebody say, «He lives in me. He walks with me. He talks with me. He tells me that I am His own child.» I give God the praise.
It’s not about a physical temple. It’s about Him living in this. If we can just get the saints of God to understand that God dwells in you—it’s not in this physical building. He wants to dwell in you and live in you and talk to you and communicate with you and speak to you and answer your prayers.
Oh, when you have a walk with God and a relationship with Him—nothing can compare with God talking and communicating. Somebody high-five your neighbor: say, «I believe that.»
I said, «I’m walking with that.»
God Dwells in You
Okay, so now you know that He dwells with you. Now you know that your temple—this physical body—is God’s dwelling place.
I remember when I was in school—in the seminary—we used to have a class. In one of our classes, we would have to give a report about what we did that weekend. It was called weekend report.
Every Monday—after we took class on Friday—every Monday we’d have to come in class and talk about what we did that weekend. And one of the students—one of my classmates—came to class and gave his report.
And he said, «Well, when I left class on Friday, I went home and washed my car and did X, Y, and Z. And Saturday I went here and went there and did this and did that.» And then he said, «And then on Sunday"—he said—"I went to church, and the Lord met us there.»
The instructor—doctor—stopped him and said, «He met you there? Where was He Friday when you was washing your car? Where was He when you did all the stuff you did on Saturday?»
Y’all missing it—it’s going over your head. You know what you need to understand: when you went to the club, the Lord was with you. Whatever you did, wherever you went, whatever you said—He was right there. He was walking with you because He dwells in you.
Somebody say, «Thank God He walks with me and lives in me.»
Some of you today don’t have Jesus in your life. You haven’t accepted Jesus in your life. You’ve been living on your own, walking independently, not thinking that God cares about you.
But He loves you enough and cares enough about you to bring you into this building today—or put you in a place today—for you to hear that He wants to live in you.
Yes, you’ve done some bad things. Yes, you said some nasty things. Yes, you went some places you shouldn’t have gone. Yes, you wanted some stuff you shouldn’t have wanted.
But thanks be to God—no matter how nasty and how raggedy you have been—He still loves you and wants to have a relationship with you.
Somebody high-five your neighbor: say, «Thank God He still wants me.» Everybody else pushes me to the curb, but He still wants me. Everybody else rejects me and talks about me. But oh, I give God the glory that in spite of me and in spite of my errors—He still loves me.
Ministering with a Willing Heart
But hold up—wait a minute. I don’t want to skip this point: that they ministered to God. That Aaron and his sons ministered. That another word—some of the translations use the word—they served the Lord.
They made a commitment with their lives because they understood and they comprehended the truth and the revelation that we have the opportunity to serve God.
You’re not serving Pastor Bert—hallelujah. It’s not Pastor Char. It’s the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. They are the under—shepherds—but God is ultimately the One who gets the glory and the honor.
And He’s watching you and looking at you and observing you to see how you serve Him.
I’m almost finished. Let me also tell you: that’s not the only thing they did. While they were ministering to the Lord, they had a particular attitude while they served God.
Somebody lean over to your neighbor and say, «Your attitude makes a difference.» Attitude makes a difference.
Some of y’all don’t have the right attitude. You complain. You mad. You do it reluctantly. You do it with anxiety and frustration.
And I believe God is saying: if you can’t do it with the right attitude, stay home—keep it to yourself. God’s looking for somebody to have the right posture and attitude.
Look at what it says in Exodus chapter 35. Ooh, ooh, ooh—let me read verses 4 and 5 real quick. I just got several verses.
It says—and Moses spoke—verse 4, chapter 35:4—and Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, «This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying: 'Take from among you an offering to the Lord. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as an offering to the Lord: gold, silver, and bronze.'»
Get the picture: they’re out in the middle of nowhere. They’re out in the middle of the desert. There are no grocery stores. There’s no banks. There’s no stores. There’s no jewelry stores.
But yet they took from what they had and brought it as an offering for the building of the tabernacle. But here’s the key I want you to see: they did it with a willing heart.
Okay, y’all didn’t get it. Let me go to verse 21 of that same chapter. Verse 21: «Then everyone came whose heart was stirred, and everyone whose spirit was willing, and they brought the Lord’s offering for the work of the tabernacle of meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments.»
A Willing Heart
Let me go to verse 22 while I’m here—right here. Chapter 35:22: «They came, both men and women, as many as had a willing heart, and brought earrings and nose rings and rings and necklaces—all jewelry of gold. That is, every man who made an offering of gold to the Lord.»
They brought what they could to support the work of the tabernacle. Oh, y’all not listening to me.
Let me slide down to verse 29. Verse 29: «All the Israelite men and women who were willing brought to the Lord a freewill offering for all the work the Lord through Moses had commanded them to do.»
It went over y’all’s head. I got to explain it to you. Here’s what happened: they came—even though they were in the wilderness, even though they didn’t have a lot to offer, even though they just brought what was available to them—they brought what they had as a willing offering. They had a willing heart.
Somebody tell your neighbor: it was a willing heart. Now ask your neighbor: do you have a willing heart? Or do you come reluctantly?
Did you have to be dragged out of the bed to come to church this morning? Does somebody have to keep calling you to get you to come and do what you said you were going to do?
Did they have to keep asking you, keep calling you, keep texting you—did they have to keep hassling you to do what it is you said you wanted to do? Go ahead and preach, Pastor Jenkins. I’m doing the best that I can.
God wants a willing heart. And here’s what—oh, oh, oh—wait, hold up. Wait a minute. Yeah, wait a minute. Are y’all with me? Do you understand what I’m saying? You get the picture.
I’m not just talking about an offering. I’m talking about the offering of your service to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords—an offering of your skills, an offering of your time, and an offering of your money.
Somebody say: it all goes together with a willing heart.
More Than Enough
What I love about y’all’s worship here—and I’m coming to a close. I got 4 minutes left. I’m bringing my plane in for a landing. I’m about to land. I can’t take my time. Don’t tell me—y’all know I can’t take my time. Come back at 10:30 and tell me to take my time.
You got to have a kind of willingness that even when stuff don’t work, you still working. Somebody say, «I got a willing heart.» I got a heart.
Tell your neighbor, «I’m going to do my part.» Tell your neighbor, «I’m going to do my part.» I’m going to do what’s asked of me. Go ahead, tell them: I’m going to do what’s asked of me. Tell them on the other side: I’m going to do what’s asked of me.
I’m almost finished. But look at here—look at here. Exodus 36—let me close with this. Let me close with Exodus 36:6 and 7.
Exodus 36:6 and 7: «Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp: 'No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.' And so the people were restrained from bringing more, because what they already had was more than enough to do all the work.»
Can you imagine one Sunday Pastor Bert coming out here—you know, right now we normally take up our offering—but we got more than enough. We’re not going to take up an offering today.
I know y’all can’t imagine that. I can’t imagine it either. I can’t imagine having that ability to stand up in front of my church one Sunday and say, «We got more than enough.»
But here today, I’m declaring and believing that God’s going to do something spectacular among this congregation so one day you will hear him say, «We got more than enough.»
Somebody say, «More.» I look forward to the day when he says we got more ushers than we need. We got more than enough. We got more production people than we need. We got more than enough. We got more dancers than we need. We got more than enough.
We got more witnesses and more cell group leaders and more souls getting—we got more than enough.
Who am I preaching to today? Somebody make a declaration: I will do my part to produce more than enough.