1 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,200 If you have your Bibles this morning and I hope you do meet 2 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,400 me in the Old Testament. Book of the book of 1st 3 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:30,000 Chronicles in chapter 22. We're going to take a break from 4 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,100 our study in the book of 2nd Timothy and address a very 5 00:00:33,100 --> 00:00:36,300 important matter, that is relevant to our situation here 6 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:42,900 today is the first gathering on the Lord's day as Maranatha, 7 00:00:42,900 --> 00:00:45,800 Bible Church. And it wasn't something that we 8 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:50,000 had planned, but we believe that God had saw this in advance, he 9 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,600 planned it in advance and he providentially executed whatever 10 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,300 was needed for us to be exactly where we are today. 11 00:00:56,900 --> 00:00:59,600 And as you can imagine throughout the week, there have 12 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:03,200 been many thoughts and ideas of what should be said from this 13 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:08,300 Pulpit on this specific morning. But there is one dominant thing 14 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:12,500 that replaced everything else and that is this to allow the 15 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:15,900 word of God to turn our Attention to what's ahead. 16 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,100 It's not get entangled. What happened in the past, it's 17 00:01:20,100 --> 00:01:23,800 as simple as that and as a community of people who love 18 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,600 God's word, I believe you're here because you love God's 19 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,500 word, you honor the Scriptures. It is the supreme authority of 20 00:01:30,500 --> 00:01:34,100 your life. We have been given an amazing 21 00:01:34,100 --> 00:01:38,000 opportunity to build a Ministry from the ground up. 22 00:01:39,300 --> 00:01:42,100 And although, that is a very exciting thing. 23 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:47,400 It is also a very crucial window of time because we are laying a 24 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:51,900 foundation and that foundation will determine the future of 25 00:01:51,900 --> 00:01:55,200 this ministry. And I want to let you know this 26 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,400 morning that a foundation of a Ministry is far greater than who 27 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,500 is elected to be in the board of directors, or what kind of name 28 00:02:02,500 --> 00:02:05,300 you have or whether or not the government recognized you as an 29 00:02:05,300 --> 00:02:08,100 entity. Every single one of us has a 30 00:02:08,100 --> 00:02:11,200 role to play. Because Peter says, we are all 31 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:16,100 living stones being built up together as a spiritual house. 32 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:23,100 Every person here is a piece in the puzzle to make this house 33 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:26,900 the way God intended to be, but it requires us to honor God's 34 00:02:26,900 --> 00:02:30,400 principles. And when you hear the word, the 35 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,600 phrase of the label the Temple of the Holy Spirit, we often 36 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,300 limit that and apply it individually. 37 00:02:36,700 --> 00:02:39,700 I am a temple of the Holy Spirit, you are a temple of the 38 00:02:39,700 --> 00:02:41,200 Holy Spirit. That's not wrong. 39 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,300 Paul tells us that he tells us that our bodies are the Temple 40 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:47,700 of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it requires a 41 00:02:47,700 --> 00:02:50,900 protection to preserve the purity of the Sacred thing that 42 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:52,400 host. The presence of God. 43 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:59,000 But Paul also says that we are the Temple of the Holy Spirit 44 00:02:59,900 --> 00:03:03,700 Ephesians 2. 22 tells us that in him, we are being built together 45 00:03:03,700 --> 00:03:07,800 as a dwelling place for God by the spirit. 46 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:14,000 So that means that if in Christ, I am recognized as the Temple of 47 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:18,100 the holy spirit that demands more than just individual 48 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:22,300 responsibility, there is a corporate call in that identity. 49 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:27,400 And every single one of us here has a role to play in order to 50 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:31,400 ensure that the holy spirit of God would dwell in this place 51 00:03:32,100 --> 00:03:34,700 and radiates the glory of Jesus Christ. 52 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:39,000 With that being said, our aim today is to do one thing. 53 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,400 It's to draw insights from the Old Testament, with New 54 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:49,200 Testament eyes, to see how they built the temple of God, in 55 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:53,600 which he dwelt in at one point and see how it applies to us. 56 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:58,900 So that we may lay the right foundation for Maranatha bible 57 00:03:58,900 --> 00:04:01,400 church. Today, I want to speak to you 58 00:04:01,408 --> 00:04:07,200 about three vital principles. To building God's house. 59 00:04:07,700 --> 00:04:13,000 Pray with me. Lord your word says that we are 60 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:18,700 the Temple of the Holy Spirit. We realize the seriousness of 61 00:04:18,700 --> 00:04:21,100 such an identity, the responsibility, and even the 62 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:25,400 honor, we ask, Lord of that in this place, not one, heart would 63 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,900 be close to these instructions. What we pray for the empowerment 64 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:33,300 of the Holy Spirit to deliver this word, that man would 65 00:04:33,300 --> 00:04:37,500 disappear, but that the voice of Christ would be recognized. 66 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:43,500 We pray O Lord that your power. We destroy all lies, all doubts, 67 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:47,100 all unbelief, and that you would redeem onto yourself 68 00:04:47,100 --> 00:04:50,800 faithfulness from your people. And so Lord, in this moment, 69 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:53,500 would you cancel every assignment of the enemy? 70 00:04:54,100 --> 00:04:56,100 Would you shelter us from all distraction? 71 00:04:56,700 --> 00:04:59,400 And would you allow us to hear your voice at is? 72 00:05:01,100 --> 00:05:03,800 That is being delivered through your word through a broken 73 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,000 vessel. We ask these things in Jesus 74 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,600 name. Amen. 75 00:05:11,300 --> 00:05:14,100 Now, if you remember there was a structure in the Old Testament 76 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,900 that God had instructed, the people of Israel to build, and 77 00:05:17,900 --> 00:05:21,700 it was called The Tabernacle, it was this tent and this tent 78 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:24,700 would travel with the nation. That was delivered from Egypt 79 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:26,800 and they would go along through the wilderness. 80 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,600 And enter into the Promise Land, so that they would have a place 81 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,100 to worship. God, they would have a place 82 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:36,700 where God could cover their sin and that God would have a place 83 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:39,300 where he can do well in close proximity with his people. 84 00:05:39,300 --> 00:05:41,700 Because that is the heart of God, he long should dwell with, 85 00:05:41,700 --> 00:05:46,200 man? And this Tabernacle has been 86 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,700 given Specific Instructions, which is very, very, very 87 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:51,800 interesting. You've probably read through 88 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,200 Exodus, you probably read through numbers. 89 00:05:54,900 --> 00:05:57,700 In fact, if you look at the totality in the scripture of how 90 00:05:57,700 --> 00:06:00,200 much is mentioned concerned, the Tabernacle there is around 50 91 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:05,400 chapters And thinking about that tells us that God is very 92 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:07,700 specific with his needs and his desires. 93 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,000 And if he was specific with his desires, with that old 94 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,500 structure, that would reflect his glory and Hostess presents. 95 00:06:14,500 --> 00:06:18,000 How much more is he specific with his new structure you and 96 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,300 me being built together as the temple of God. 97 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:25,500 This Tabernacle came into the promised land, it was situated 98 00:06:25,500 --> 00:06:30,500 in a town called Shiloh. But after a while, when Israel's 99 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:35,000 monarchy started and the second king in line, David was in rain, 100 00:06:35,500 --> 00:06:38,800 we learned that there was something disturbing him in the 101 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,800 soul. There is this holy agitation 102 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:48,000 concerning the house of God? And the thing that kept him up 103 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,400 at night, was that he lived in a palace made of cedar while God 104 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,300 dwelt in a tent. And this concerned him. 105 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:02,000 How is it that God Almighty, who chose to make his Abode on Earth 106 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Here among his people is not dwelling in some place that 107 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,500 reflects his majesty and his Splendor. 108 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:11,500 How is it that when people look at where God dwells compared to 109 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:16,400 where a human King dwells, they see more excellence in this 110 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:18,200 house rather than in God's house. 111 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,400 So David determined within himself, that he would build a 112 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:29,500 new place, a new house for God. That there would be a place that 113 00:07:29,500 --> 00:07:32,400 would reflect his Divine Beauty in his Divine glory. 114 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:37,900 And so at that point, he was consumed with this passion, I 115 00:07:37,900 --> 00:07:44,200 must build God a house And it was at a specific time while he 116 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:50,600 was King that we receive a discovery from David of exactly 117 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:55,000 where geographically God's house would be built. 118 00:07:55,500 --> 00:07:57,900 And it's in first Chronicles 22 verse 1. 119 00:07:57,900 --> 00:08:02,400 We read then David said here shall be the house of the Lord 120 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:06,700 God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel. 121 00:08:09,100 --> 00:08:13,400 What happened prior to this? Well Davidson greatly and it 122 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,800 wasn't with Bathsheba, he created a census and we won't 123 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:21,500 get into why that was a sin. He numbered his people who could 124 00:08:21,500 --> 00:08:24,400 go to war. God, judges him disciplines him 125 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:29,300 and sends a plague on the nation since he was a leader, leading 126 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:34,000 his people into sin. But God in his discipline wants 127 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,000 to give away out into his mercy. And so he gives an instruction 128 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,799 through a prophet to David. If you want this plague to cease 129 00:08:42,700 --> 00:08:46,800 then you must make a sacrifice on a specific threshing. 130 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,400 Field owned by a man named ornan the jebusite. 131 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,700 So David makes his way there. He walks to this obscure 132 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:57,500 individual and he says, I need your land. 133 00:08:58,500 --> 00:09:01,500 The man is moved that the fact that the king is coming to him 134 00:09:01,500 --> 00:09:04,300 for such a request. And so he doesn't even hesitate 135 00:09:04,300 --> 00:09:06,500 to say, well it's yours just take it for free. 136 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:12,200 David says, no, I want a full price He builds an altar, he 137 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:17,000 makes a sacrifice fire falls from heaven to show God's 138 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:23,300 approval for this sacrifice and it is at that time David steps 139 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:27,000 back he looks and the Revelation comes to him. 140 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:31,300 This is where God's house has to be built. 141 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:37,000 It's amazing to know that the Bible tells us exactly where 142 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,400 that field was located bear with me. 143 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:43,500 Go to Second Chronicles chapter 3 and look at verse 1. 144 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,200 Then Solomon and second chronicles. 31. 145 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:56,100 Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem. 146 00:09:56,700 --> 00:10:03,200 Did you see it? We're on Mount Moriah. on Mount 147 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:07,200 Moriah where the Lord had appeared to David, his father at 148 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:10,300 the place that David had appointed on the threshing floor 149 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:16,000 of ornan the jebusite, Now, this is why Mount Moriah is so 150 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,500 interesting because it is only mentioned twice by name in the 151 00:10:19,500 --> 00:10:24,500 entire scriptures and second chronicles 31 here and where's 152 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:28,200 the other place? With Abraham and Isaac in 153 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:32,600 Genesis 22, verse 2, when Abraham was awakened by this 154 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:37,500 strange call by God, go to the land of Moriah and there you 155 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:43,400 shall sacrifice your son. And so the only two places where 156 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:48,900 Mount Moriah is mentioned, Is linked to the theme and the 157 00:10:48,900 --> 00:10:56,600 application of what sacrifice. Abraham was called to sacrifice 158 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,800 to give up his most prized possession, the long-awaited 159 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,700 promise. And though he drank from the 160 00:11:03,700 --> 00:11:07,200 goodness of God, for a short period and relish in the fact 161 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:11,900 that he has now from his old body, a an offspring God says, 162 00:11:11,900 --> 00:11:17,400 give him up. And David fast forward, hundreds 163 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:22,400 of years comes to the same area. To make a sacrifice. 164 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,100 And when on and says I'll give it to you for free. 165 00:11:25,100 --> 00:11:28,900 Let me read to you what David said in response and First 166 00:11:28,900 --> 00:11:34,300 Chronicles, 21 24. But King David said to ornan no, 167 00:11:34,700 --> 00:11:36,600 but I will buy them for the full price. 168 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,400 I will not take for the Lord. What is yours? 169 00:11:39,700 --> 00:11:43,700 Nor burnt offerings. That cost me nothing. 170 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:46,100 It's up there. Good. 171 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:54,200 What was David saying? I'm not interested in worshiping 172 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:55,900 God in the cheapest way possible. 173 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,400 If it doesn't cost me anything, it's not worth anything. 174 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,500 Here's the first principle for building God's house. 175 00:12:06,500 --> 00:12:11,900 Nothing will truly host. The glory of God apart from a 176 00:12:11,900 --> 00:12:15,600 collective attitude of people who are willing to give and 177 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:21,600 sacrifice, God's house must be built upon a people who are 178 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,500 convinced to being selfless. The same way. 179 00:12:24,500 --> 00:12:29,200 God's house was built upon a land that symbolized sacrifice. 180 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:34,100 That's the foundation. And that's what we saw in this 181 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:39,100 past week. How is it that you can see a 182 00:12:39,100 --> 00:12:41,800 Ministry being recognized by the government? 183 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:47,300 How is it that? When we were homeless for a 184 00:12:47,300 --> 00:12:51,400 brief moment, we received the home in the same night. 185 00:12:53,300 --> 00:12:57,500 And have all our meetings the same way they were before. 186 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,200 How is it that we can live stream our services in a place 187 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,700 that doesn't have internet in less than a week? 188 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:08,300 How is it that people were able to be picked up who don't have a 189 00:13:08,300 --> 00:13:12,400 car to get to the services? How is it that there are those 190 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:14,900 who move things from one place to another? 191 00:13:15,500 --> 00:13:20,200 How is it that people were willing to make food for busy 192 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,200 leaders who are trying to get things done in the background? 193 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:27,500 How is it? Because there are people who are 194 00:13:27,500 --> 00:13:32,700 willing to sacrifice. And not just in the family of 195 00:13:32,700 --> 00:13:36,300 faith that you're familiar with. But even this church, this place 196 00:13:36,300 --> 00:13:40,200 that is hosting us. It was their sacrifice. 197 00:13:41,500 --> 00:13:44,900 That said come be here. You are God's people. 198 00:13:44,900 --> 00:13:49,000 You are our brethren. We want to help you and without 199 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:55,100 hesitation saying you are among us, we worship the same Christ. 200 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,100 See, when you have a people who are willing to sacrifice 201 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,700 Miracles can happen. Supernatural. 202 00:14:04,700 --> 00:14:08,700 Things can occur. Things that we never thought 203 00:14:08,700 --> 00:14:11,500 could be accomplished could be accomplished. 204 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:17,900 This principle of unity in one minded and one hardness is so 205 00:14:17,900 --> 00:14:20,900 profound that it can even be utilized among the wicked. 206 00:14:20,900 --> 00:14:23,700 That's why when God saw the Tower of Babel being built, he 207 00:14:23,708 --> 00:14:27,600 says this is trouble. They're unified, they're set on 208 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,200 accomplishing something, and we got to get down there and 209 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:34,900 confuse them. And that's why we have to 210 00:14:34,900 --> 00:14:38,900 understand that. If we are willing to see this 211 00:14:38,900 --> 00:14:42,000 place, continue to grow with God's glory. 212 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,200 Each of us in this place who calls this ministry home. 213 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,000 Must say, whatever you ask of me. 214 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,000 God, I will do Just tell me and I'll do it. 215 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:55,400 Let me fill in the Gap. And I will do my best by the 216 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,800 grace of God. Notice David said something else 217 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,900 to orn and he says, I will not take for the Lord. 218 00:15:02,900 --> 00:15:06,800 What is yours? Unfortunately, there are many 219 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,300 Christians who have a different standard of worship than David 220 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:13,100 does here. In some cases, you have members 221 00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:17,800 of churches who just ride on the labor of others without making 222 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,100 any investment on their own and those are people who usually 223 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:25,300 complain the most. They make no contribution, they 224 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:28,800 come to receive receive receive and when it's not to their exact 225 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,700 taste, or when they want to see the menu change, they begin to 226 00:15:31,700 --> 00:15:33,900 complain. Well, join the club and do 227 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:39,800 something. and our other members who, Are not willing to serve 228 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:43,400 unless they occupy a certain position to their liking. 229 00:15:44,300 --> 00:15:47,200 They have their eye on a particular place with a specific 230 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:51,600 title and they say unless I have that I will not serve at all. 231 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,200 And then there are others who won't serve, unless they receive 232 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:00,300 the recognition that they desire because all of the serving is a 233 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:04,300 facade to feed selfish ambition. And so, if I'm not getting 234 00:16:04,300 --> 00:16:07,500 Praise of not, if I'm not being thanked if I'm not getting paid, 235 00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:11,100 And this place is not worthy of My Sacrifice. 236 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:14,600 I read something humorous, a long time ago, and I thought to 237 00:16:14,608 --> 00:16:16,500 myself, when will I ever be able to share this? 238 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:19,700 And it's a sarcastic comment that somebody made about their 239 00:16:19,700 --> 00:16:22,200 Church. They said no one appreciates my 240 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:28,500 steadfastness loyalty. And long-suffering. 241 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:33,600 So I'm leaving. Some of you will get that on the 242 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,400 way home. Very loyal of you. 243 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:43,200 Very long suffering of you. Sacrificial attitude that might 244 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,100 cost you something will contribute to the building of 245 00:16:46,100 --> 00:16:49,800 God's house. And I want to prove to you how 246 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,700 the opposite attitude is detrimental to the advancement 247 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:56,100 of the gospel, and the health of a local church. 248 00:16:56,300 --> 00:16:58,700 I want to show you how when people are consumed with 249 00:16:58,700 --> 00:17:01,700 anything else, except a willingness to lay down your 250 00:17:01,700 --> 00:17:06,599 life, your comfort, your desire, your pleasures, even This is not 251 00:17:06,599 --> 00:17:09,599 the first time that Israel had a project to build God's house 252 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:11,700 after many years. Many generations, they sinned 253 00:17:11,700 --> 00:17:15,000 against God continually, he warns them Prophet after prophet 254 00:17:15,099 --> 00:17:18,500 and even says, if you go this way, my house will be in Ruins. 255 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:23,400 Sure enough God kept his word, they send one generation was 256 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,300 exiled into Babylon. The place that Solomon built was 257 00:17:27,300 --> 00:17:29,400 destroyed. But after a certain amount of 258 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:34,000 time a new generation re-enters into the promised land, and they 259 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,700 begin to with excitement and adrenaline build God's house 260 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:43,600 again, And something happens. Outside. 261 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,200 Hostility comes because whenever you build God's house, Satan 262 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,300 won't do it. He won't allow you to do it 263 00:17:48,308 --> 00:17:52,600 without frustration and intimidation and persecution 264 00:17:53,300 --> 00:17:55,800 even at the foundational level. Be careful. 265 00:17:56,900 --> 00:17:59,500 So, the enemy recognizes that they're building God's housing 266 00:17:59,500 --> 00:18:03,200 and they start sending reports. They start slandering they even 267 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,400 go back to the leader. That let them out into the 268 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:12,700 Promise Land again and the project comes to a halt And then 269 00:18:12,700 --> 00:18:15,400 they waited and then they waited. 270 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,600 And then they waited and a long period of time goes by, where 271 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:24,800 the house of God was placed on pause then God speaks through a 272 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,000 prophet named haggai and I want you to hear this, you don't have 273 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,300 to turn there, haggai chapter 1, verse 2. 274 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,100 Thus says the Lord of hosts, these people say, the time has 275 00:18:35,100 --> 00:18:37,600 not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord. 276 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:40,800 Then the word of the Lord came by the hand of haggai. 277 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:45,400 The Prophet, is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your 278 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:49,200 paneled houses while this house lies in Ruins? 279 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:57,300 So, this halt became an excuse. They were willing to fight for 280 00:18:57,300 --> 00:19:00,300 God's house, they thought themselves, you know what, maybe 281 00:19:00,300 --> 00:19:02,800 we're not supposed to do this and they turned their focus and 282 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,500 their energy and their efforts to their personal homes. 283 00:19:05,900 --> 00:19:10,500 Making it more luxurious and spacious and glamorous is God 284 00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:12,700 against nice homes. Know the issue here is about 285 00:19:12,700 --> 00:19:17,900 priorities He says you're willing to continue in your 286 00:19:17,900 --> 00:19:20,200 life. You're willing to be so consumed 287 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:24,600 with your own Empire and your own little kingdom while my 288 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:29,700 house lies in Ruins. She was an attitude problem, it 289 00:19:29,700 --> 00:19:34,400 was a priority issue. And God's house could not 290 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,100 continue because the people's hearts were consumed with 291 00:19:37,100 --> 00:19:41,900 something else more than his glory more than the gospel more 292 00:19:41,900 --> 00:19:46,400 than the Great Commission. And I will tell you this, that 293 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:49,900 if we allow ourselves to be lullaby, I'd by The American 294 00:19:49,900 --> 00:19:55,500 Dream by our own personal plans. More than the kingdom of God, we 295 00:19:55,500 --> 00:19:59,500 won't go very far as a church. Well maybe just ride it along 296 00:19:59,500 --> 00:20:03,800 and come from meeting to meeting once in a while, have a potluck 297 00:20:04,300 --> 00:20:07,100 but that's not what church is. We want to see, Souls getting 298 00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:09,100 saved. We want to see people 299 00:20:09,100 --> 00:20:11,400 transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 300 00:20:11,700 --> 00:20:15,300 We want to live this life for eternity but it's going to 301 00:20:15,300 --> 00:20:19,000 require sacrifice. It's going to require sacrifice, 302 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,200 you know I've heard from missionaries and missionary kids 303 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,800 that when they come from the field back to America, they lose 304 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:30,800 the fire when they get here. They lose the fire and they wish 305 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,300 they can go back where they have to hide to have church where 306 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:38,100 they were threatened, to be killed for singing and reading 307 00:20:38,100 --> 00:20:42,800 the Bible. Prosperity has hurt the church 308 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:47,000 more than persecution ever has. But I want to tell you today, 309 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,600 that the foundation must be an attitude of sacrifice because 310 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,200 that's where God's house was built on Mount Moriah. 311 00:20:54,100 --> 00:20:58,400 Where an altar was planted to show God. 312 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:02,600 Whatever you ask of me, I will give it, but that's not the only 313 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:06,500 thing. Because David, although he made 314 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:09,700 an instrumental move by saying, I will not give to God that 315 00:21:09,700 --> 00:21:13,000 which cost me nothing. Realize that there is another 316 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,900 standard that God has in order for his house to be built. 317 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:19,300 And this one must have hurt David but he received it because 318 00:21:19,300 --> 00:21:22,300 he received it from God. This man was willing to 319 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:24,100 sacrifice. There is no doubt but 320 00:21:24,100 --> 00:21:26,800 unfortunately he had a reputation. 321 00:21:29,100 --> 00:21:34,200 He possessed a reputation that eliminated him as a direct 322 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:38,900 builder for the temple. It was so serious in God's eyes 323 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,800 that although David even in one of the Psalms says, my eyes, 324 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:46,100 can't sleep and less. I see this thing come to pass, 325 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,400 although he was daydreaming, although he tossed and turned, 326 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:52,200 although he took all his resources emptied, his bank 327 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,700 account to make it happen. God said, that's wonderful. 328 00:21:54,700 --> 00:21:56,200 David. It's a good thing that's in your 329 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,800 heart, but you can never build my house. 330 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:04,000 Why go back to 1st Chronicles, 22. 331 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:15,300 And look here at verse 7. David said to Solomon, my son, I 332 00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:18,700 had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the Lord, 333 00:22:18,700 --> 00:22:23,200 my God, but the word of the Lord came to me saying you have shed 334 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:29,400 much blood And have waged great Wars, you shall not build a 335 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,000 house to my name because you have shed so much blood before 336 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:39,000 me on the Earth. It's amazing that God doesn't 337 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,600 just have standards for leadership in the New Covenant. 338 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,400 He had it also in the old Because he's the same. 339 00:22:46,700 --> 00:22:51,000 And here we are. Told that David was not allowed 340 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:55,400 to be associated with the laying of the foundation of this new 341 00:22:55,400 --> 00:23:00,000 house, because his reputation was associated with war and 342 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,100 conflict. And God says, I will have no man 343 00:23:04,100 --> 00:23:08,500 of violence. Have any connection concerning 344 00:23:08,500 --> 00:23:14,800 my house, which represents peace and Holiness and beauty and 345 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:19,800 love. And so David was denied by God. 346 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:25,100 David was not allowed. In fact, it was passed down to 347 00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:29,400 his son. Solomon Solomon was the one who 348 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,700 had received the resources from David but he wouldn't be the 349 00:23:32,700 --> 00:23:34,600 Builder. Now, here's what's amazing 350 00:23:34,700 --> 00:23:41,300 Solomon's name means what peace. And this is also interesting. 351 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,100 The Tabernacle is the permanent structure before that was sorry, 352 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:48,100 the temple. The Tabernacle was the tent that 353 00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:50,500 Tabernacle when it first came into the promised land was 354 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:56,900 placed in a place called Shiloh. Which means tranquility Then the 355 00:23:56,900 --> 00:24:01,200 temple comes. David, you're not allowed to 356 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,900 build this house, it will be given to Solomon because of 357 00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:07,300 principle number two principle number one. 358 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:12,000 It must be built upon the collective attitude of 359 00:24:12,008 --> 00:24:15,500 sacrifice. But number two, it can only 360 00:24:15,500 --> 00:24:18,900 build be built by those who are men and women of peace. 361 00:24:21,900 --> 00:24:28,200 Men and women of rest. if you are someone who is attracted to 362 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:34,900 conflict, if the highlight of your life is drama, If you are 363 00:24:35,900 --> 00:24:41,200 drawn to people who are who make it, their mental and social 364 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:46,000 exercise to speak ill of others and to smear people's 365 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,600 reputations. You will have no part in 366 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:55,100 building, God's house. You're a man of blood, you're a 367 00:24:55,108 --> 00:24:58,100 woman of blood, I don't care how pretty your dresses. 368 00:24:59,300 --> 00:25:01,700 I don't care how much money you make, I don't care what kind of 369 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:06,800 title you have in society. Does it matter how much you 370 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,200 think you pray? In fact, much prayer for 371 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:16,300 people's gossip in disguise. It's just the perfume on the 372 00:25:16,300 --> 00:25:18,500 poison to say. Oh yeah, it's not really gossip. 373 00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:22,400 Your praying is not praying. Doesn't matter how much you 374 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,800 think you sing? How much scripture you, memorize 375 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:26,300 do? You realize, who David was? 376 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,900 Was he not a man of prayer. A real man of prayer, was he not 377 00:25:29,900 --> 00:25:33,100 a worshiper? Was not an author of scripture. 378 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:36,900 And yet God says, you cannot build my house because you're a 379 00:25:36,908 --> 00:25:43,600 man of war. God uses those who hate 380 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,800 friction. God uses those who are willing 381 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,300 to have awkward conversations so that they could put tension to 382 00:25:50,300 --> 00:25:55,600 rest, God uses those who actually obey the words of the 383 00:25:55,608 --> 00:25:58,300 Lord Jesus Christ. Who tells us what you should do 384 00:25:58,300 --> 00:26:04,500 when somebody sins against you. To such people does God give the 385 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:09,200 honor to help build his house. In fact, let me tell you this. 386 00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:14,500 Not only do you disqualify yourself of being a stone, a 387 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:17,100 piece in the puzzle of God's glorious Temple. 388 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,900 You might actually be a contributor to the destruction 389 00:26:20,900 --> 00:26:22,300 of that. Very same Temple. 390 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,000 In the New Testament. This is not Old Testament stuff. 391 00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:29,000 I'm fact, if I didn't give you the reference, you would 392 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,300 probably think what I'm about to quote, the use from the old 393 00:26:31,300 --> 00:26:34,200 Covenant, and it's not, but I want you to see it in your 394 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:43,900 Bibles for yourself and First Corinthians 3:16, Look what Paul 395 00:26:43,900 --> 00:26:46,700 says here to a New Testament Church. 396 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,400 Interesting enough who is also referred to as the Temple of the 397 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,400 Holy Spirit. But notice what he says at this 398 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:02,900 particular time Do you not know that you you see that word you 399 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:04,200 in the Greek? It's plural. 400 00:27:04,300 --> 00:27:06,500 So he's not talking individual, he's talking to the corporate 401 00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:11,000 body, the church at Corinth. Do you know that all of you are 402 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:16,100 God's Temple? And that God's spirit dwells in 403 00:27:16,100 --> 00:27:19,200 you. If anyone. 404 00:27:21,100 --> 00:27:25,000 Some. Professing Christians Heretics 405 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,600 know. If anyone destroys God's Temple, 406 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:37,400 God will destroy him. For God's Temple is Holy and you 407 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:44,400 are that Temple. Now, I'm sure all of us in here. 408 00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:48,400 Can conjure up what? It looks like in our minds for 409 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,600 somebody to destroy a physical building. 410 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,100 You vandalize. It take a sledgehammer to the 411 00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:56,600 walls. You bulldoze over it. 412 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,100 But here's my question reading this text. 413 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,000 How do you destroy a spiritual structure? 414 00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:05,200 Because that's what he is saying here, he's not talking about a 415 00:28:05,208 --> 00:28:08,500 physical Temple. He's talking to the church, he's 416 00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:11,400 talking to the body of Believers, the collective saints 417 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:16,600 that make up the church. How do you destroy that? 418 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,400 Do you punch somebody in the face? 419 00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:23,800 Do you catch either car? Do you flip over the pulpit? 420 00:28:25,100 --> 00:28:28,600 I'm sure many of us can draw principles from the word of how 421 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,600 God's church can be destroyed, but let's honor the context. 422 00:28:32,900 --> 00:28:38,100 Look here in verse 18. Let no one deceive himself. 423 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:42,900 If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him 424 00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:46,200 become a fool that he may become wise. 425 00:28:47,900 --> 00:28:52,000 What is he saying here? Paul is not advocating that 426 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,000 Believers. Let go of wisdom and apply 427 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,600 foolishness. The way, the Bible characterizes 428 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,500 it and condemns it as we read in Proverbs. 429 00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:05,400 For example, we all know that. He's talking about those who are 430 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:11,000 wise in this age and are proud of it and are Guided by it and 431 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,500 are led by it. A humanistic understanding 432 00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:18,800 modern philosophies and ideologies what he's saying is 433 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:24,500 let go of that and embrace God's wisdom, and Revelation and 434 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:28,900 whatever he sheds light on as your supreme authority in all 435 00:29:28,900 --> 00:29:34,200 things. That is very important because 436 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,700 this church was riddled with division. 437 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:42,700 And he points out the source of why, Corinth had so much trouble 438 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:47,100 internally, because there is a people who have elevated their 439 00:29:47,100 --> 00:29:52,400 own ideas, their own Concepts. Their own successful business 440 00:29:52,400 --> 00:30:02,500 models above God's word, God's Authority and that bread chaos. 441 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,700 And so you have a man in First Corinthians 5 who was in gross 442 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,500 sexual sin and you had a church that had no problem him 443 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,400 congregating with them because they would not honor the words 444 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,900 of the Lord, Jesus Christ about church discipline, and a little 445 00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:20,700 leaven affects the whole lump. And you are believers and First 446 00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:24,500 Corinthians 6, who had conflict with one another. 447 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:29,300 And they were what going to court going to secular court. 448 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:33,600 And a watching unbelieving world is seeing Christians who can't 449 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,400 get along and are willing to charge each other. 450 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,100 And then the first Corinthians 8, there are people who could 451 00:30:42,100 --> 00:30:45,000 care less about the weak conscience of others who have 452 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,900 come out of idolatry. So they're eating food and 453 00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:50,900 wounding the hearts of others who don't have the strength to 454 00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:54,000 understand the gospel of grace, that liberates them from such 455 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,400 things. And Paul says, you're not 456 00:30:55,400 --> 00:31:01,400 operating in love. It is because you are operating 457 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:06,600 with your own ideas. Your own desires, your own 458 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:11,400 feelings. And you are an Essence 459 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,800 diminishing, the power of God's word over your assembly. 460 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,000 That was the source of division. And I want to tell you 461 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,600 something. Over the years in Ministry, I've 462 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:26,700 learned a lot. I'm still learning, I will never 463 00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:29,500 stop learning. But I want to tell you one of 464 00:31:29,508 --> 00:31:32,100 the strongest things that I've learned throughout the past 465 00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:36,500 seven years, there are many people who profess to hold God's 466 00:31:36,500 --> 00:31:42,500 word as their ultimate guide and authority and final say, but 467 00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:45,600 very few who deny that by their practice. 468 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,000 Many people profess the holds God word is their ultimate 469 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,500 Authority, but those same people who deny it in their practice. 470 00:31:57,300 --> 00:31:59,700 I see many people who claim to love God's word by don't want to 471 00:31:59,700 --> 00:32:01,400 govern the church the way the scriptures do. 472 00:32:02,300 --> 00:32:05,800 I've seen many people who love to hear sermons but they also 473 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:10,900 love to hear and eat gossip. And spread slander and failed to 474 00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:13,000 approach a brother to clear a matter. 475 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,300 And instead use it as fuel, more hatred in their hearts, I've 476 00:32:17,300 --> 00:32:20,000 seen many people who are asking for counsel and their marriages 477 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,000 and their family and when you open the book and you point to a 478 00:32:22,008 --> 00:32:25,200 verse and you apply it to their situation, they refused because 479 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,300 their feelings are stronger than the scriptures and they invite 480 00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:33,900 chaos into their home's. Here's what I want to tell you 481 00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:37,000 this morning. If you don't honor God's word 482 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,400 and you don't submit to its teachings Maranatha Bible Church 483 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:45,000 is not for you. It's not. 484 00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:50,600 It's not I'm sorry because this church WIll Elevate God's word. 485 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,500 The pastures are not the supreme authority. 486 00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:57,800 The scriptures are, this is above all of us and if you're a 487 00:32:57,808 --> 00:32:59,800 people that doesn't want to take the Bible. 488 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:08,500 Seriously you're not welcome at this church. if you're not a 489 00:33:08,500 --> 00:33:13,800 person of peace, you have no part in building God's Temple. 490 00:33:16,900 --> 00:33:22,300 And please feel free to never come here again. if the Bible is 491 00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:25,400 not what you treasure and what you obey above everything else, 492 00:33:30,300 --> 00:33:32,900 God's house must be built upon a collective attitude of 493 00:33:32,900 --> 00:33:36,700 sacrifice. God's house must be built by 494 00:33:36,700 --> 00:33:40,500 people of peace and those who Endeavor to destroy God's 495 00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:44,900 Temple. God will find a way to destroy 496 00:33:44,900 --> 00:33:49,500 him. But there's something else. 497 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,100 Up to this point, we've learned those two things. 498 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,500 But it cannot be separated by the motive of wanting to be a 499 00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:01,800 people of Peace, the motive of wanting, to, lay down, whatever 500 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,400 it costs to make this happen. There's, there's a desire there 501 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:09,800 that drives that what was it in David that initiated this? 502 00:34:10,699 --> 00:34:12,800 What was it? That was consuming of the say, 503 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,199 Lord, whatever it is. Here's all the talents of gold 504 00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:18,400 and silver, Lord, whatever it is. 505 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,300 Even though I'm not the Builder, I won't have my name etched on a 506 00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:24,100 brick, let my son do it, or his son, do it. 507 00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:26,600 No matter what it takes for your name to be exalted. 508 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,000 What? What was it? 509 00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:36,800 1st Chronicles 22 verse 19. As David stands before. 510 00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:39,400 Not just Solomon, but all the leaders of Israel. 511 00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:45,699 And he says this to them. Now set your mind and heart to 512 00:34:45,699 --> 00:34:50,900 seek the Lord, your God, arise and build the sanctuary of the 513 00:34:50,900 --> 00:34:54,699 Lord God. So that the Ark of the Covenant 514 00:34:54,699 --> 00:34:58,000 of the Lord and the holy vessels of God, may be brought into a 515 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,500 house built for the name of the Lord. 516 00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:06,700 Do you see it arise and build wise so that the Ark of God can 517 00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:11,600 have a home? What was the driving passion and 518 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,900 David's heart the presence of God? 519 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:21,300 That God would have a place that would radiate his Beauty and his 520 00:35:21,300 --> 00:35:25,600 goodness and his Holiness. So that people could see, this 521 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:32,400 is who God is. and I want to tell you, That our ambition may 522 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,600 look different in New Covenant but it is the same in principle. 523 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:40,000 We want to see the glory of God in Christ Jesus. 524 00:35:40,300 --> 00:35:43,700 Put on display. We want to see the Gospel of 525 00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:48,600 Jesus Christ Advance with the greatest Force, possible through 526 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:55,100 these Jars of Clay. We want to see God's word obeyed 527 00:35:55,100 --> 00:36:01,100 and applied, so that his his image can be reflected and 528 00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:06,400 shining through us. And as I said earlier, if you do 529 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,400 not love Christ, if you don't really have a personal 530 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,300 relationship. If this is just religion for 531 00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:15,800 you, if this is just something that you can do to, just check 532 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,500 off your religious conscience because you need to go somewhere 533 00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:20,300 and tell people you go to a church. 534 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,300 If you don't believe that he is returning, if you don't believe 535 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:27,100 that all of this is coming to an end and Christ will rule and 536 00:36:27,100 --> 00:36:29,600 Reign. This is not the church for you. 537 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,600 I'm sorry to say it. It isn't, you're going to be 538 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:39,700 very very uncomfortable. This is not a place that has 539 00:36:39,700 --> 00:36:43,100 their sole ambition to make sure you don't feel lonely in life. 540 00:36:43,100 --> 00:36:46,000 So you have a community, this isn't a place to find friends, 541 00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:47,600 though. That's a byproduct. 542 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:52,600 This place is dedicated to Christ and Christ Alone. 543 00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:04,300 And just, like I said, earlier. if even the ambition of a 544 00:37:04,308 --> 00:37:10,300 handful, Is something else. That is enough for Havoc to 545 00:37:10,300 --> 00:37:15,500 ensue in this place. Because there was a king before 546 00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:18,400 David. His name was Saul. 547 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:24,100 And Saul had equal opportunity to take the Ark of God that was 548 00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:28,300 tucked in somewhere and bring it into a place where he would be 549 00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:32,800 honored and Central again in the nation of Israel, but he blew 550 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,700 it. He blew it, man. 551 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:42,000 He forfeited the opportunity. Why? 552 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,600 Because as we're learning on Friday, Saul did not have the 553 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:53,900 same passion as David David was Possessed with this desire to 554 00:37:53,900 --> 00:37:58,500 know the presence of God and unfortunately saw was possessed 555 00:37:58,500 --> 00:38:06,200 to maintain a position. The main concern was for saw was 556 00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:09,900 this is my Throne. This is where I have my power 557 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,700 and any threat to that. I will crush like a bug. 558 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:19,400 And here's this young teenager, David who kills Goliath and Saul 559 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,800 was told by a prophet that there is a neighbor among you, who is 560 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,300 better than you, who will take your place and he's trying to 561 00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:29,800 connect the dots. Is this, the guy They come back 562 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:34,800 from the battlefield into the main city and a new song is on 563 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:40,800 the top list of Israel's hottest radio station, Saul has slain 564 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:45,800 his thousands and David his tens of thousands and as he walks in 565 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:50,600 there, he realizes that people are praising David and that 566 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,500 wasn't the issue. Saw had, no problem, David being 567 00:38:53,500 --> 00:38:56,100 praised his issue as David was praised more than him. 568 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:02,600 Jealousy Creeps in and the man spends the rest of his Reign 569 00:39:03,100 --> 00:39:08,300 chasing David around. Instead of chasing the presence 570 00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:11,600 of God. In fact let me read to you what 571 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,800 David says about the the reign of Saul and First Chronicles 572 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,700 13-3. Listen, this is a very short 573 00:39:17,700 --> 00:39:22,000 sentence but it says a lot. David says when he became king 574 00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:26,900 then let us bring again the Ark of our God to us for. 575 00:39:26,900 --> 00:39:30,100 We did not seek it in the days of Saul. 576 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:38,200 What a terrible commentary. For Sol's leadership. 577 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,800 He had no concern about the presence of God. 578 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,400 He had no concern about the glory of God. 579 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:48,400 He had no concern about people coming into close proximity to 580 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,900 their God because he was consumed with a different 581 00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:54,400 ambition. It's about me. 582 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,500 It's about my Throne. My name, my reputation, my 583 00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:02,700 Monument. And the third principle to 584 00:40:02,700 --> 00:40:05,200 building God's house in a way that would host. 585 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:09,100 His Beauty, his power. His majesty is that we must all 586 00:40:09,100 --> 00:40:12,500 have the same goal Christ and Christ Alone. 587 00:40:14,900 --> 00:40:20,400 This man was the opposite but he symbolizes what's possible. 588 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,200 For those who are in leadership positions, or those who are in 589 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:28,000 congregations, I want to tell you according to the scriptures, 590 00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,200 the worst recipe that you can have. 591 00:40:31,300 --> 00:40:35,400 That would be the breeding ground for innumerable evils. 592 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:41,300 It's what consumes Saul jealousy? 593 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:47,100 And selfish ambition. Jealousy. 594 00:40:48,500 --> 00:40:52,500 And selfish ambition. Does that sound familiar to you? 595 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:55,700 Maybe you're not convinced of what I'm saying. 596 00:40:56,500 --> 00:40:59,500 All you have to do is look to Saul's Reign and realize the 597 00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:02,400 disaster that he left behind him as a king. 598 00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:06,100 The internal division, the heartbreaks. 599 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:12,600 Families, being torn apart. and a weakened Kingdom, that was the 600 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:17,600 laughing stock of a watching world that heard that the god of 601 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:21,700 Israel, the true and living God is apparently among this group, 602 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,400 Let me read to you. What James says just in case you 603 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,900 don't believe me and I'm reading too much into this and James 604 00:41:28,900 --> 00:41:32,900 3:16. He speaking to multiple churches 605 00:41:32,900 --> 00:41:38,600 and he says for where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, 606 00:41:38,700 --> 00:41:42,900 there will be disorder, and every vile practice. 607 00:41:46,300 --> 00:41:50,400 Jealousy and selfish. Ambition, when you have those 608 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:55,900 two things, operating in a church, You open the floodgates 609 00:41:55,900 --> 00:42:02,500 for every vile practice imaginable, lies, slander. 610 00:42:03,900 --> 00:42:10,100 Violence division. So what will it require to see 611 00:42:10,100 --> 00:42:12,500 God's house built for Maranatha Bible Church? 612 00:42:12,500 --> 00:42:16,400 Let me remind you. A collective attitude of 613 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,900 sacrifice like we've seen in this week, in a way that I will 614 00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:20,700 never forget for the rest of my life. 615 00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:25,600 Number two, built by people of Peace, you want war. 616 00:42:26,900 --> 00:42:31,400 You find joy. And creating clicks. 617 00:42:32,900 --> 00:42:37,300 You find joy and hurting others. You find joy and getting dirty 618 00:42:37,300 --> 00:42:40,200 details about somebody go somewhere else. 619 00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:47,100 And built by people who are unified in mind and heart saying 620 00:42:47,100 --> 00:42:51,500 we're here for Christ Jesus. We're here for him to be pleased 621 00:42:51,500 --> 00:42:59,100 and blessed at any cost. Where we are flushed by all 622 00:42:59,100 --> 00:43:04,100 pride and arrogance jealousy and envy let it die today. 623 00:43:04,100 --> 00:43:10,000 In Jesus name these things brothers and sisters If We Hold 624 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:14,800 true to our hearts and apply them, We will see God building 625 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:16,900 this house in a way that we can ever imagine. 626 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:22,300 We will see God do things in this place that I see a couple 627 00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:25,400 of times in the scripture where the ministers could not even 628 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,100 Minister. Because of the glory of God, 629 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:34,400 Taking over in that meeting. We have so much ahead of us, so 630 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:39,200 much to plan, so much to pray for, but none of that will mean 631 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:40,900 anything. Unless the foundation is laid, 632 00:43:40,900 --> 00:43:43,700 right? Let me ask you a question today. 633 00:43:45,500 --> 00:43:50,400 Are you willing to sacrifice? Are you willing to serve in a 634 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,500 way where you fill the Gap? Not serving the way you think 635 00:43:52,500 --> 00:43:56,700 you need to serve. Are you a person of peace? 636 00:43:58,400 --> 00:43:59,800 Are you a person that's willing to forgive? 637 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:01,800 Are you person that's willing to say you know it's a little 638 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,300 awkward but I'm going to call so and so because I heard this and 639 00:44:04,300 --> 00:44:05,900 I don't want to deal with this in my heart I don't want to 640 00:44:05,908 --> 00:44:07,400 think differently. Let me get all the facts. 641 00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,500 Straight hey brother is this true? 642 00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:13,900 Oh it's not oh whoa. Okay, I'm sorry. 643 00:44:13,900 --> 00:44:16,700 Maybe we should talk with so-and-so and figured I do that. 644 00:44:19,500 --> 00:44:22,900 And are you in this moment? I don't care how hungry you are 645 00:44:22,900 --> 00:44:25,700 today right now, I want to ask you, do you have a greater 646 00:44:25,700 --> 00:44:30,400 hunger for the glory of God? Are you living for Christ? 647 00:44:30,900 --> 00:44:34,300 Are you living for his gospel? Are you saying to yourself and 648 00:44:34,300 --> 00:44:40,100 to God on a daily basis? I live for one thing, His name. 649 00:44:41,300 --> 00:44:45,200 His pleasure. His truth, if not. 650 00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:51,200 I'm sorry, you're going to feel very very uncomfortable in the 651 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:55,100 days ahead. Because by the grace of God, we 652 00:44:55,100 --> 00:44:59,000 will try to obey as closely as possible. 653 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:00,600 Everything that's written in this book. 654 00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:04,300 People say what's the vision of the church? 655 00:45:04,300 --> 00:45:06,700 This, I don't have a fancy Vision. 656 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,500 It's this whatever you see here. That's our vision. 657 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,500 What's your model of ministry? I don't know what Jesus said. 658 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,000 What Paul said. I don't have tricks. 659 00:45:17,900 --> 00:45:21,300 We don't have a fog machine. We're not going to get one. 660 00:45:31,900 --> 00:45:36,000 What's your hope? That is long as its leadership. 661 00:45:37,900 --> 00:45:43,200 And as long as we are, people are alive and healthy and sound 662 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:44,600 in mind. Christ. 663 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,700 Would do whatever you want to do through us, and that he would be 664 00:45:47,700 --> 00:45:52,000 pleased to see a place that says, we are the Temple of the 665 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:58,900 Holy Spirit. We belong to you, host Your 666 00:45:58,900 --> 00:46:04,300 Truth, your power. Your manifold wisdom in this 667 00:46:04,300 --> 00:46:08,100 place. And let Christ be seen alone. 668 00:46:09,700 --> 00:46:12,800 On that note. Let's close in prayer. 669 00:46:22,700 --> 00:46:25,200 Would you apply these truths to your heart this morning? 670 00:46:29,900 --> 00:46:31,500 As the worship. Team comes up. 671 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,100 Let's spend a little bit of time in prayer. 672 00:46:37,900 --> 00:46:39,800 I hope my memory doesn't fail, fail me. 673 00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,100 If somebody can look at me and Nod is not today, the 674 00:46:42,100 --> 00:46:44,400 recognition to pray for the persecuted Church. 675 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:50,100 Is that today? Next week, it was last week 676 00:46:50,100 --> 00:46:51,300 well, because we missed the last week. 677 00:46:51,300 --> 00:46:52,700 We're going to do it this week as well. 678 00:46:55,100 --> 00:46:57,200 It's been an eventful two weeks, as you can imagine. 679 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,600 Just pray in your heart, spray in your hearts for this 680 00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,200 ministry. Pray in your hearts. 681 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,100 Well, what is it that you're asking of me. 682 00:47:05,100 --> 00:47:07,500 Pray in your hearts for the persecuted church. 683 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,500 That has endured way more suffering than you could even 684 00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:15,300 comprehend and ask God to have his way in his Temple. 685 00:47:17,900 --> 00:47:19,000 Just pray. Take your time. 686 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,100 Don't be distracted today. Take your time. 687 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,400 Heavenly Father, we come before you on this precious afternoon, 688 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,900 we've heard your voice today, we've heard your will and your 689 00:47:31,900 --> 00:47:38,800 purposes for this ministry and Lord together as living stones 690 00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:42,300 have been made Alive by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and 691 00:47:42,300 --> 00:47:45,600 dwelt by the power of the Holy Spirit, we long to be your 692 00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:48,700 temple. And Lord the same way. 693 00:47:48,700 --> 00:47:51,800 You were so detailed and how you constructed that Tabernacle. 694 00:47:53,100 --> 00:47:57,800 Through the words of Moses. Lord, we give you every detail 695 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:01,000 of Our Lives. We give you every detail of this 696 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,600 ministry. And we asked, oh God, that you 697 00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:08,500 would have your way, Lord. We pray that you would beautify 698 00:48:08,500 --> 00:48:11,000 it. As you see fit that, you would 699 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:15,100 color it that you would display it, that you would place it 700 00:48:15,100 --> 00:48:17,200 wherever you believe. It needs to be. 701 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:21,400 We ask you Lord that. As long as we are your temple, 702 00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,800 we would know your presence. That every meeting we would know 703 00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:27,600 your conviction, we would know the comfort of the Holy Spirit, 704 00:48:28,300 --> 00:48:31,900 we would know, illumination concerning the word of God and 705 00:48:31,900 --> 00:48:34,900 that people would walk in this place and realize, God is in the 706 00:48:34,900 --> 00:48:38,900 midst, God is in this place. They wouldn't give their 707 00:48:38,900 --> 00:48:40,800 attention to a man. They want to give their 708 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,300 attention to any gifting, they would even give their attention 709 00:48:43,300 --> 00:48:45,800 to the building itself. They would know something of the 710 00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:51,200 tangible presence of Christ. Make it so in Jesus name Lord, 711 00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,100 we pray for divine wisdom. In unity. 712 00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,800 We pray that we would all be a people of peace that are willing 713 00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,100 to obey. You, we subdue all personal 714 00:49:01,100 --> 00:49:06,500 reasonings even our experiences We submit it to the word of God, 715 00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:10,600 we say your word will be our Authority. 716 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:15,900 Lord, we ask that this church wherever you would take us. 717 00:49:16,100 --> 00:49:19,800 Would fulfill one thing. It would win, your smile, you 718 00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:24,800 would be blessed. People would be blessed that 719 00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:29,200 selfish ambition would die. It would not have any room to 720 00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,700 breathe in this ministry. Oh God, that it would be 721 00:49:32,700 --> 00:49:36,700 suffocated by a love for. Christ, that it would find no 722 00:49:36,700 --> 00:49:39,000 room to have its way in this place. 723 00:49:39,900 --> 00:49:42,000 Oh, Lord. Only you can do that 724 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,600 supernaturally within us. Lord, as a church, we lift up 725 00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:47,900 the persecuted church across the world. 726 00:49:48,500 --> 00:49:53,200 Lord, those who are hiding those who are speaking in code. 727 00:49:53,500 --> 00:49:56,400 Those who have lost family members, those who are at one 728 00:49:56,400 --> 00:50:00,600 time met together and the next week, their church was destroyed 729 00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:04,200 because they have been found and discovered and torn. 730 00:50:04,300 --> 00:50:08,900 Heart Lord, strengthen them. Strengthen them, we don't know 731 00:50:08,900 --> 00:50:12,200 them by name but, you know, them, Lord strengthen them in 732 00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:16,200 Afghanistan, strengthen them in Africa, and South America, in 733 00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:21,000 China and Russia, strengthen them and Canada have your way. 734 00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:24,100 Lord, Jesus. Strengthen those Pastors in 735 00:50:24,100 --> 00:50:27,700 those leaders. Oh God, the wives of pastors and 736 00:50:27,700 --> 00:50:28,300 leaders. Oh God. 737 00:50:28,300 --> 00:50:32,100 The children of ministers, or those who attend those churches 738 00:50:32,300 --> 00:50:36,100 who have paid a high price. Been disowned by their family 739 00:50:36,300 --> 00:50:39,900 who've lost their jobs, Lord, even as we pray. 740 00:50:39,900 --> 00:50:42,600 Now would you manifest your presence Comfort them? 741 00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:48,700 Embrace them. He continued to enjoy freedom in 742 00:50:48,707 --> 00:50:51,500 America met that freedom. Not be. 743 00:50:51,500 --> 00:50:55,500 Our curse may not be. Our hindrance may not be the 744 00:50:55,500 --> 00:50:58,600 lullaby that puts us to sleep Lord. 745 00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:02,500 While this window of time is still available, give us the 746 00:51:02,500 --> 00:51:07,200 grace and strength to stride and to move forward with great 747 00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,900 leaps. We asked, oh God, not knowing 748 00:51:10,900 --> 00:51:14,800 what tomorrow will hold. As we learn since Sunday, then 749 00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:19,000 not one day would be ways. It, our lives are more than our 750 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,400 homes. Our lives are more than 751 00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,300 vacations. Our lives are more than what we 752 00:51:24,300 --> 00:51:26,800 wear. Our lives are more than even our 753 00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:30,800 health, your gospel, your kingdom. 754 00:51:30,900 --> 00:51:36,000 Eternity, make us an eternity conscious people, only your 755 00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,800 spirit and your word can accomplish that though. 756 00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:41,400 We thank you for those who have supported us online. 757 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:45,600 Those who are watching even now bless them in Jesus name. 758 00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:48,700 Bless them. Lord, encourage them. 759 00:51:48,700 --> 00:51:52,600 Oh God, let them know. Let them know that we love them 760 00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:54,900 and that their support means so much. 761 00:51:55,200 --> 00:52:00,300 And in this moment as your temple, We sing to you. 762 00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,900 We sing to you and Thanksgiving for your goodness. 763 00:52:05,500 --> 00:52:10,000 Receive this level of Praise from a place that agrees that we 764 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,700 will be a people who was sacrificed be at peace and be of 765 00:52:13,700 --> 00:52:16,500 one mind in Jesus name, we pray. Amen. 766 00:52:16,500 --> 00:52:18,800 And amen. Can we stand and Worship the 767 00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:20,100 Lord Jesus together? Please.