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All right, get to see you 
tonight. 

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Here we are again, meaning 
together. 

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I to, I mean, second Samuel 
chapter six. 

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Second Samuel, chapter 6. 
You have your Bibles tonight, if

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you're a person who does not 
have a Bible and you don't 

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regularly bring a Bible come, 
see the leadership and we will 

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help you get a Bible. 
Okay, we want you to have a copy

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of God's written word and your 
hand and we are Advocates of the

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white pages with black ink in it
and red letter. 

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If you have the red letter 
version as well, and maybe we 

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will write a blog post or 
something about why that is the 

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case even in this 
technologically advanced age but

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that is not the purpose. 
Tonight's meeting I want to come

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to this chapter, ready with our 
hearts open, our brother prayed 

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but I think it's necessary to 
pray again. 

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As we have God's word before us 
afresh. 

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Well, we thank you from the 
bottom of our hearts that we get

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to be students of your word of 
the full Revelation that you 

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have given to mankind. 
Thank you, that we are not in 

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need of a different portion, 
like other people in different 

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parts of the world who only have
certain aspects of your truth. 

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You have given us and blessed us
with the totality of your word. 

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We do not take this for granted.
Well, we pray that you would 

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energize us that you would give 
us the grace to receive these 

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Truce that you would help us 
edify one. 

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Another that this meeting would 
not be interrupted free from 

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distraction Lord, and more 
importantly that we would sense 

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your presence and power changing
us as we realize what you have 

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to say. 
We give you maximum praise and 

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honor, more importantly, not 
just in our singing, but from 

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our obedience to your 
instruction, in Jesus name, we 

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pray. 
Amen. 

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You and I have now arrived at a 
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chapter in the book of second 
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And the reason for that is 
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scripture details David's 
campaign in retrieving, the Ark 

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of the Covenant, and to place it
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which is Jerusalem as we 
discovered last week. 

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Now, just just for those who 
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not familiar, the Ark of the 
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read about is arguably, the most
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that was designed for the house 
of worship at this time in of 

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History, which was known as what
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Tabernacle correct, not the 
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we're at the Tabernacle still a 
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have a few people in it but more
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elements and instruments within 
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many significant symbolic 
representation and purpose for 

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that time for the nation of 
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But the Ark of the Covenant was 
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as God's Earthly Throne so to 
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God Shows the ark to speak and 
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That's what he actually told 
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to design it. 
This is where I'm going to speak

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to you. 
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that this Arc, which is really a
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It was like a chest was used to 
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Israel's enemies, and there's 
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And one of the strongest ones 
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the ark was taken up, and they 
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He many times. 
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presence that brought about 
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different moments that. 
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But more importantly, the Ark of
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which was known as what The 
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And The Mercy Seat was essential
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of Israel. 
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Covenant that would be engaged 
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It would be interactive with 
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the purpose of God, dispensing. 
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sending people, which ultimately
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We know Jesus Christ, and the 
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meet God. 
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That is where we know God. 
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there. 
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that in light of Jesus Christ, 
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Wants it. 
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quite a while since we even 
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and we will discover why in a 
moment, but David wants to bring

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it to the political Capital. 
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Because as David has now been 
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wants to make sure as early as 
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know that he's really not the 
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He wants his people to know God 
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And so now he's establishing the
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wants it near him and he wants 
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He wants God's presence to be 
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though. 
He will be the king for quite 

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some time. 
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verses and can, I be honest with
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chapter. 
There's no way we're covering 

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this in one setting and that's 
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because even in the verses that 
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where to stop almost. 
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see what time does and how we 
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I'm going to read a few verses 
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going to open it up to see what 
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an initial reading you guys did 
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give any instruction, is as 
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really go on to share what you 
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So just for the sake of time and
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it was just Like one person 
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read a few verses. 
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on and the to about this. 
What simple reflective 

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questions? 
What does it say about God? 

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What is this? 
A about men? 

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What new testament principles of
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illustration, what's the wider 
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That helps me understand, this, 
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repetitions that? 
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understand God's emphasis, in 
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1, David again, gathered all the
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and David arose, and went with 
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from Bali Judah to bring up from
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called, by the name of the Lord 
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the cherubim. 
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a new cart, and brought it out 
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was on the hill, And uzza and 
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driving the new cart with the 
Ark of God, and Ohio went before

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the ark and David and all the 
house of Israel were celebrating

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before the Lord with songs and 
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tambourines, and castanets and 
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And when they came to the 
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put out his hand to the Ark of 
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oxen. 
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And God struck him down there 
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there beside the Ark of God. 
A mixture of emotion, right? 

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What do you see here? 
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this? 
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Things stand out to you? 
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Okay, so this is the first time 
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together. 
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Okay. 
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by The Oxen on a cart. 
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done another way, and we'll get 
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It's a key important part. 
Anything else. 

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Okay, so we see, we really like 
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We see this, this this 
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wonderful. 
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Lori had something. 
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So not just that, they didn't do
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to carry this, holy this, holy 
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else. 
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this which is an important 
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familiar passage and I'm glad 
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understanding what's taking 
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ask a little for fresh 
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Anything else? 
Any other observations? 

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Yes. 
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So this celebration quickly 
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think what we're going to learn 
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exuberance and joy and noise 
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God is happy. 
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Anything else is stands out? 
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Yes corgis. 
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So there's a little there's 
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Susana hiya. 
Why are they the ones who are 

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kind of leading the way for the 
ark to be transported to the 

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place of Jerusalem? 
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You were correct, there is a 
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the ox to stumble. 
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interesting place for the Sox to
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you are with us until the end of
this session, great 

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observations, anything else? 
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The Lord is teaching them 
obedience through a very very 

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hard lesson through discipline. 
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And it's going to teach us 
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Anything else? 
Yes, Grace. 

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Very good, David arose but the 
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He's going to seek something but
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seeking God unfortunately. 
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then we'll continue. 
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Did you hear that the emphasis 
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Now we talked already about the 
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We're always enamored about new 
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We'll see why that's dangerous 
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Anything else, great 
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As you and I come to this text, 
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instructive for us in 
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God's holiness and how his terms
of worship are what we subscribe

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to no matter what the goal of 
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planning or implementing is. 
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We should also have in our 
Bibles ready. 

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First Corinthians or rather 
First Chronicles 13. 

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That will be a helpful passage 
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the first two verses we see that
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men of Israel 30,000 and he 
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people but it's in first 
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And the first few verses that we
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and did to get the people to 
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acquire the Since of God, 
symbolized with The Arc. 

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And so, look at verse 1, a first
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verse 1 and 2 of chapter 6 of 
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David consulted with the 
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hundreds with every leader. 
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assembly of Israel, if it seems 
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Our God let us send abroad to 
our brothers who remain in all 

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the lands of Israel as well as 
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the cities that have 
pasturelands that they may be 

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gathered with us, or to us. 
Then let us bring again the Ark 

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of our God to us for. 
We did not seek it in the days 

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of Saul all the assembly agreed 
to do. 

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So for the thing was right in 
the eyes of all the people, many

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things can be said of this 
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Let me give you just two one 
thing that stands out to me. 

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In light of this is how David 
brings to the attention of the 

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people that the Ark of God was 
not sought after during the 

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reign of Saul, That is an 
indictment, yet again of saws, 

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leadership as the nation's King.
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for 40 years, there was no 
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the people's concern for the 
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And I think a text like that is 
incredibly insightful to help us

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understand the tragedies of this
man's life, as well as the 

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nation's. 
Leave God out and watch what 

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unwanted things will come in. 
You cannot neglect God from his 

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rightful place and at the same 
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exempt from Pain. 
Unnecessary pain. 

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At least chaos, confusion, 
oppression or division. 

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Saul, here is a very sobering 
illustration, and a wonderful 

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case study. 
Of the depths of the darkness 

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that you and I can discover when
we fail to actively acknowledge 

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and honor God. 
That is true individually and 

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that is true on a national 
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And so here's what you have to 
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joyful submission to God, is 
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be you open yourself and those 
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That is, you want to know why? 
Saw was the way he was. 

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You want to know why was such a 
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planning. 
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We need to get back to focusing 
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He's the one who does it. 
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And all it took was one person. 
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there is a God, and we are under
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place of obedience. 
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place of Disobedience. 
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Let's get back to pursuing, him 
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him. 
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you. 
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me to say that it will always be
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godliness will awaken other 
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That would be untrue, but at the
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not does not cancel that 
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The scripture even even pushes 
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pursue the Lord with greater 
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blessings that make come out of 
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fire and they will also pursue 
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in this place of putting God in 
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others. 
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Testament as well. 
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second Corinthians in my 
personal reading and something 

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popped out to me in a portion of
that text that people are a 

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little bit nervous around and 
it's a portion of Texas speaks 

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about giving right second 
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Corinthians 9, but it's in 2nd 
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phrase. 
There that bless me this 

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morning. 
I want you to see it because 

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it's tied into this. 
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very quickly. 
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he speaking to the Corinthian 
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them of something that they've 
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unknowingly. 
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something. 
That's really, really important 

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Not just God, but zealous 
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Look at verse 2. 
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Now pause what's he doing? 
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Christians to be a part of this 
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to the church in Jerusalem. 
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financial aid. 
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makes a personal by saying fry 
know your Readiness of which I 

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boast about you to the people of
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has been ready since last year. 
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ready to do this since last year
they've been making 

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preparations. 
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and he's telling the Church of 
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and your Zeal has stirred up 
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Your Zeal has stirred up the 
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Second Corinthians 8 and you see
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Macedonian Christians at this 
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We're extremely poor and yet 
they best says, They begged. 

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Paul to be a part of this relief
poor but they're saying, please 

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Paul don't hold us back from 
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We want to give to this relief. 
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Corinthians? 
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Zeal in the macedonians and Paul
saying hey you were the ones 

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that sparked this And don't lose
your fire. 

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Now, it was because of you that 
the macedonians are getting 

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excited, don't lose your 
excitement. 

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Listen, I've met over the years,
many sincere godly people who 

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love the Lord and they want to 
see their husbands love the 

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Lord. 
They want to see their wives 

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come to love the Lord with a 
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They want to see their children 
be serious. 

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They want to see their group of 
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that. 
That struggle in are lukewarm at

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times to be with them and 
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Are you one? 
Who says, if you're not part of 

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this church, or if you're a part
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church be more serious. 
About the things of God, I don't

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want to just hear a message on 
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as though, God wasn't in the 
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If that's you may I give you 
honest advice and exhortation 

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from the scripture be fervent 
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Be fervent yourself first 
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of these people who make these 
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desires are not at that place. 
I know that place that's not 

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always the case. 
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and the lack of concern around 
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to be at that place before they 
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how it works. 
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And so if you want to contribute
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around you that you love Love. 
To be consumed with the things 

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of God. 
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ride that wave long enough and 
don't be so sporadic yourself 

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and don't be so inconsistent 
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Do you want to know how 
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The are coming to Jerusalem? 
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It wasn't a post conference 
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It was so obvious to those 
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That there is a psalmist who 
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Zeal, his desire for the arc, 
there's anybody know that song 

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what number it is. 
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No, but you're close, not little
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You have to get into the 100's 
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it? 
Psalm, 132 look at the first 

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five. 
Verses I want you to see the 

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description of David's passion. 
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understandings of what true 
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God. 
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passion for God because they 
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and they come to Bible study. 
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notice what? 
Absolutely consumed David. 

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In verse 1 of Psalm 132 a song 
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We read remember O Lord. 
Here's what the psalmist says. 

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Remember O Lord, in David's 
favor. 

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All the hardships. 
He endured. 

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Yes. 
We studied all those hardships 

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and some not in scripture. 
I'm sure how he swore to the 

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Lord and vowed to the mighty one
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I this is what David said. 
I will not enter my house or get

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into my bed, I will not give 
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my eyelids until I find Place 
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A dwelling place for the mighty 
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That's the kind of Desire that 
Sparks something in those around

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you. 
That's that's what can even Mark

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and Nation. 
The psalmist here was so 

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impressed by, obviously inspired
by the spirit to write about 

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this and you. 
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it's that kind of, if that's, 
that's the kind of zeal that 

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will rub off on others and 
perhaps even cause them to be in

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the same place as you or even 
exceed. 

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You and so, If there's no prayer
in your home, be the first one 

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to pray. 
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If your friends are not, if 
they're inconsistent from being 

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in this place and how they are 
outside of this place, initiate 

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something initiate conversations
about the Lord initiate 

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testimonies, but more than 
anything else, just live it for 

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yourself. 
And you never know who might be 

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watching and who might share in 
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your life has made them thirsty 
for Living Water. 

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I may offer also word of caution
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Because the Temptation and the 
pitfall that somebody can have 

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in that pursuit of the Lord, 
with Zeal is to become 

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spiritually. 
Proud, that's the danger. 

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And so what happens is you now 
because you know, that there's 

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something different about you 
and that God does consume you 

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and you love the Lord and you 
Fellowship differently than 

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others and your priorities are 
different than others. 

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That can very, very easily cause
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Did you notice the attitude in 
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When he addressed his people to 
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Go back to 1st Chronicles, 13. 
What did he say? 

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How did he say it with 
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If it seems good to you in verse
2, if it seems good to you like 

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that's that's graceful, that's 
inviting. 

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That's soft, that's attractive. 
And then you read, there's 

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another, there's another word 
that reoccurs over and over, let

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us let us Let us let us. 
Let's do this together. 

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I'm no higher than you. 
I'm not greater than you. 

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I'm not Superior than you. 
Let's do this together. 

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I'm on the same level as you. 
And I want us to see the beauty.

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That's, would you join me in 
this? 

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And so many people who are 
zealous can fall into the Trap 

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of actually being repulsive. 
because there's an arrogance 

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that comes with their passion 
and there's this sense of you 

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just haven't arrived to where 
I'm at, And guess what? 

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If you're there you already 
lost. 

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There is no hope for those 
around you even want what you 

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have? 
In fact, true Zeal, choose your 

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true holding. 
His true godliness, does not 

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need to be advertised, it 
doesn't, you don't have to boast

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about what you know, or what 
you've done. 

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Fire doesn't scream, that's it 
and Fire doesn't put up, 

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advertisements in the 
neighborhood that I one of the 

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houses are burning, does it know
people see the fire and it 

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attracts And I want you to 
believe that about your pursuit 

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of the Lord, you don't have to 
trumpet, you don't have to Glow,

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you don't have to come to a 
place where you bully people, or

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make them feel small because 
you're somewhere where they're 

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not. 
In fact, Davey here contrast 

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another king who had the exact 
opposite Spirit. 

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He was an extremely zealous 
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a time where many people would 
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literally the exact opposite and
he overestimated his 

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faithfulness to God? 
Does anybody have an idea who 

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I'm talking about? 
He's not, he's not that much of 

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a known character, but once you 
see this, you're going to, 

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you're going to realize why 
these two are Polar Opposites, 

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who is the king? 
Or the king that did so much 

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damage to Baal worship. 
Close, but no good, guess very 

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good jehu and jehu in the middle
of this campaign of cleansing. 

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The land of Baal worship. 
Says something that really 

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stinks with pride. 
It's so unattractive. 

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It's so it just makes you kind 
of squirm. 

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And it shows you it's a reminder
of the danger that even if you 

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are doing awesome things for God
and destroying Idols around, you

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yourself can make yourself an 
idol. 

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Second Kings. 
Look at this, is this one verse.

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So simple, so clear. 
Turn those sacred pages to 

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Second Kings very quickly. 
I want you to see this in verse 

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10. 
Excuse me, verse 16 of chapter 

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10. 
He addresses Jehan adapt. 

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And look what he says in second 
Kings chapter 10, verse 16. and 

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he said, come with me and see my
Zeal for the Lord. 

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If I was Joanna W what I said? 
No, thanks. 

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Come with me and see my Zeal for
the Lord. 

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Region, whose life. 
He did wonderful things to deal 

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with the national compromise of 
his day, but as she sought to 

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destroy idolatry, he ended up 
worshipping his own Zeal. 

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Admiring his own Zeal. 
Elevating himself in comparison 

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to others. 
And it's the complete opposite. 

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Attitude, come with me and see 
my Zeal. 

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What did they even said? 
Let us let us, let us pure Zeal,

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00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,600
pure passion that is Honorable 
to God. 

453
00:27:36,900 --> 00:27:42,100
That will that will win people's
hearts does not say, I know more

454
00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:43,700
than you. 
I'm better than you. 

455
00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:46,300
You may not say that out of your
lips and my slip here and there.

456
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:52,100
But it doesn't even say it in 
the heart. you realize even when

457
00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:54,700
people are different levels of 
spirituality that you are, you 

458
00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:57,800
are just as susceptible as 
falling into that trap, you can 

459
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:01,300
easily be in a season where you 
don't think about God at all, 

460
00:28:01,300 --> 00:28:04,900
almost And you know, that 
whatever is happening in your 

461
00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:06,800
heart, whatever is happening 
through your life is by the 

462
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,900
grace of God, and you want 
others to share in the joy that 

463
00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:14,000
you have. 
Complete opposite attitude of 

464
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,900
this man. 
And so we see here that as Jay 

465
00:28:17,900 --> 00:28:21,500
who pronounces house L is he is 
David wants to Simply allow his 

466
00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:25,000
life to do the talking and now 
scroll down to verse 31 of 

467
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,100
Second Kings, 10. 
Look at how the holy spirit 

468
00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:31,700
gives commentary of J whose 
faithfulness and Devotion to 

469
00:28:31,700 --> 00:28:34,000
God, you ready for this verse 
31? 

470
00:28:34,700 --> 00:28:39,500
But Jay who was not careful to 
walk in the law of the Lord, the

471
00:28:39,500 --> 00:28:41,700
god of Israel with all his 
heart. 

472
00:28:41,700 --> 00:28:45,400
He did not turn from the sins of
jeroboam, which he meet is. 

473
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,900
Wilkinson. 
God had a different opinion 

474
00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:53,400
about jehu. 
Got a different opinion about 

475
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,700
jehu and that's scary that we 
can think differently about 

476
00:28:56,700 --> 00:29:01,700
ourselves that how God sees us. 
And so I want to, I want to be 

477
00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:05,100
where God wants me to be. 
And I want I want to know more 

478
00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:08,400
than anything that God is 
pleased with what he sees. 

479
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,100
I don't want to be pleased with 
what I see. 

480
00:29:11,300 --> 00:29:13,000
I want to know that God is 
pleased. 

481
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,900
That is the safest place to be 
and I hope that is a place that 

482
00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:19,800
you will be if you want to see 
others come alive in Jesus 

483
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,600
Christ, come alive in Jesus 
Christ and stay alive in Jesus 

484
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,300
Christ. 
Long enough for people to say 

485
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,700
that's the real deal. 
You know the reason why so many 

486
00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:31,800
can't buy into this, Because we 
don't, we don't stay in the 

487
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,800
place of fervency, long enough 
for people to ultimately be 

488
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,500
convinced. 
I can tell you this even about 

489
00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:41,400
the unbelieving world. 
When I was in college, I would 

490
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,400
be teased. 
I would be persecuted, I will be

491
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:44,500
mocked. 
I don't want to sound like a 

492
00:29:44,508 --> 00:29:47,000
martyr because my suffering was 
nothing in comparison to what 

493
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,200
other people are enduring. 
But I would tell you, I would be

494
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,800
made fun of in front of the 
whole class and all these 

495
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,400
things. 
And this is the thought that 

496
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,700
came to mind. 
Especially with a couple 

497
00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:59,500
particular people. 
They want to press me and they 

498
00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:02,700
want to, they want to squeeze me
enough to see if what I have is 

499
00:30:02,700 --> 00:30:05,800
the real thing or if I'm willing
to cave with a little bit of 

500
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,200
pressure in my life. 
And would you know one of those 

501
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,500
people ultimately after a whole 
year came and asked me, what is 

502
00:30:12,500 --> 00:30:15,700
it about? 
Jesus Why are you the way you 

503
00:30:15,700 --> 00:30:18,100
are? 
When all that time they were on 

504
00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:23,700
an Evangelistic campaign to see 
what I have is sincere and true 

505
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:28,100
people watch and want to see, 
are you willing to cave? 

506
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,500
Is this? 
Just a fad, are you going to 

507
00:30:30,500 --> 00:30:32,600
give in? 
Are you just like everybody else

508
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,400
that? 
Just yes one day no the other 

509
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,600
stay there and watch out people 
will be blessed by it. 

510
00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:40,600
Second Samuel, chapter six, 
that's come to verse 3. 

511
00:30:42,100 --> 00:30:45,800
David was able to get this. 
This group of people, the 

512
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,500
leaders, the people of Israel to
be on their feet and now they're

513
00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:52,500
going to the countryside to get 
the ark from the house of 

514
00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:57,900
abinadab in the countryside. 
And so they come And the careful

515
00:30:57,900 --> 00:31:00,200
student, as many of already 
observed will already know that 

516
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,800
there are red flags to this 
whole thing. 

517
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,200
And the red flags is the way 
that they got the arc. 

518
00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:09,300
We read here, that the way that 
they got the ark was by placing 

519
00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:13,800
it on a new cart. 
And to drive that new cart to 

520
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,800
Jerusalem, You heard it already.
I'll just say it again, for the 

521
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,000
sake. 
Of those who haven't heard God 

522
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,600
had given clear instructions 
back in numbers, how the ark was

523
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,300
to be carried on the shoulders 
of the Levites and not just the 

524
00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:30,500
Levites, but a specific family 
from the Levites who's that 

525
00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:35,600
family? 
Starts with a k. 

526
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:44,500
So we see here that there is a 
specific particular surgical 

527
00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:49,700
instruction and they just 
dismiss the completely They put 

528
00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:53,100
it on a new arc. 
And this is under David's 

529
00:31:53,100 --> 00:31:55,500
leadership. 
Where did David get this idea? 

530
00:31:55,500 --> 00:31:58,700
From somebody already said it 
but this is that anybody miss 

531
00:31:58,700 --> 00:32:01,100
it. 
Where did, where did he get this

532
00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:03,300
idea from, to put this arc on a 
new car? 

533
00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:08,100
The Philistines, the Philistines
capture the ark back and first, 

534
00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:10,200
Samuel. 
And after capturing the ark, 

535
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,200
they realized you can't mess 
with this Arc. 

536
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,300
In other words, The Arc can take
care of itself because the 

537
00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:19,400
presence of the Ark in enemy 
territory brought about plagues 

538
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,200
and judgment. 
They said we got ourselves in a 

539
00:32:21,208 --> 00:32:25,100
Messier, they send it back and 
the instructions were send it 

540
00:32:25,100 --> 00:32:29,700
back on a new cart. 
So it arrives on a new cart and 

541
00:32:29,900 --> 00:32:33,000
Makes you wonder if David being 
backslidden with the Philistines

542
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,600
for over a year, adopted worldly
philosophies, during that time. 

543
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,800
And now when he came to his 
chance, to bring about this 

544
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,300
wonderful fulfillment of the Ark
of God being Central again. 

545
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:50,600
He slips into the place. 
A putting it on a new cart. 

546
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,200
What's the lesson here? 
The lesson is very obvious. 

547
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:58,100
Israel, use the carnal method to
accomplish a righteous goal in 

548
00:32:58,100 --> 00:33:00,600
the Temptation. 
Here is the Temptation 

549
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,600
throughout all generations. 
Because what you will see here 

550
00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:10,700
is regardless of the intention 
regardless of the, the ambition,

551
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,800
the desired goal. 
God is not just concerned about 

552
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,100
what you're doing. 
He's also concerned about how 

553
00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:20,400
you do it. 
He's very particular, he is 

554
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:25,900
Holy, he has clear instructions 
and so God is Not merely 

555
00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:31,700
impressed by us doing it for a 
god-honoring reason even or in 

556
00:33:31,700 --> 00:33:34,900
the name of God. 
He's given obvious. 

557
00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:39,600
Clear, instructions of how we 
should go about it, the ends 

558
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:44,300
never justify the means ever. 
It might for others, not for 

559
00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:49,100
God, the result of something or 
the motor for something is not 

560
00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:50,800
the only thing that glorifies 
God. 

561
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,900
The means is what he prioritizes
more than anything else. 

562
00:33:54,100 --> 00:33:57,800
Despite the result, it's the 
means trusting in his wisdom 

563
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,200
submitting to his precepts. 
Got have you said to do it this 

564
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,600
way? 
Then we will do it this way. for

565
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:08,699
some reason, David doesn't Does 
anybody have an idea? 

566
00:34:08,699 --> 00:34:14,000
Why David used a new car? 
Why do you think he did it? 

567
00:34:15,699 --> 00:34:17,900
People debate, whether he was 
ignorant of the law or not. 

568
00:34:17,900 --> 00:34:19,800
People say, he knew very well 
what he was doing. 

569
00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:22,300
Some people say he would just 
wasn't aware of the part of the 

570
00:34:22,308 --> 00:34:23,500
Bible. 
You didn't show up to Friday 

571
00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:25,400
night that one night about what 
you do with The Arc. 

572
00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:30,699
Why did David put the Ark on a 
cart? 

573
00:34:31,900 --> 00:34:35,500
Can I give you my suggestion? 
Where was the house of abinadab?

574
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,100
The text tells you, huh, on the 
hill. 

575
00:34:41,300 --> 00:34:44,300
Where was Jerusalem situated? 
Was it a hilly area or is it a 

576
00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:46,300
flat area? 
Its mountainous? 

577
00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:51,199
So here's David's thinking it's 
much easier. 

578
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:57,200
To go up and down these Hills 
and to carry the Ark of God. 

579
00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:01,900
It's much more convenient, much 
less effort and we'll even get 

580
00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:05,500
there faster. 
If we do this with wheels, 

581
00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:09,000
instead of depending on the 
shoulders of men, And the 

582
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,600
natural man says, hallelujah 
Innovative. 

583
00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:17,900
Wonderful sounds great. 
But is it right? 

584
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:23,000
It is not right, just because 
it's lighter, just because it's 

585
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,700
faster. 
Just because it seems to bring 

586
00:35:24,700 --> 00:35:27,700
about quicker results. 
Does not mean God Smiles at it. 

587
00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:34,400
And that is the exact, well, a 
major reason why? 

588
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,800
Christians and Christian 
Ministries today. 

589
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,400
Do not completely rely and apply
the word of God to how they 

590
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,100
serve the Lord. 
It's more convenient to the 

591
00:35:47,107 --> 00:35:51,200
flesh. 
Why pray? 

592
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:55,600
Why why fast? 
Why preach why? 

593
00:35:55,600 --> 00:36:01,200
Wait on God, when we can do this
this and this and even see 

594
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:09,000
things happen, At a faster rate.
And so the church has to hear 

595
00:36:09,100 --> 00:36:13,300
what God is saying here. 
That we are always in danger. 

596
00:36:15,100 --> 00:36:19,800
Of looking at easier ways more 
attractive ways, it's new and 

597
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,500
then, apply that to how we do 
ministry. 

598
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,200
Do you know how many churches 
are encouraged to start their 

599
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:25,500
churches to see their churches? 
Grow? 

600
00:36:25,500 --> 00:36:29,200
Would you like to know how? 
Here's a popular method, create 

601
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:33,000
a survey go to your neighborhood
and on that survey asks people 

602
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,900
who are not saved or not 
regenerate who are not born 

603
00:36:34,900 --> 00:36:37,200
again, ask them. 
What would you like to see on a 

604
00:36:37,207 --> 00:36:39,100
weekly service at your local 
church? 

605
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:45,700
And gather the data and try to 
and try to balance Holiness and 

606
00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:49,100
and worldliness and bring 
something that will bring people

607
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:55,600
and keep them and grow. 
The days of Simply trusting 

608
00:36:55,600 --> 00:37:00,600
God's word. 
Are quickly being replaced by 

609
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:04,400
seeking that which is more 
convenient and appealing to the 

610
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,100
Flesh and that's what you're 
having today. 

611
00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:10,000
If you didn't recognize it. 
What do you where do you think 

612
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:15,200
they got this idea of preaching?
Be replaced with shorter. 

613
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:21,000
Ted Talk Like sermons. 
Because some of these Ministries

614
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,700
have been told, people want to 
be out of church by noon, they 

615
00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:27,300
have things to do, they have to 
go take care of their Garden. 

616
00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:30,600
They want to go watch the 
football game. 

617
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,300
They got to go here, they got to
go there so come on let's just 

618
00:37:34,300 --> 00:37:37,800
get it. 
Going communion service just do 

619
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,600
it. 
Quickly just say a couple words 

620
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,600
and she said we gotta go people 
have stuff to do on the Lord's 

621
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,000
Day. 
Come on you got to be relaxed. 

622
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,900
If you want people to be 
receptive you can't be so 

623
00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:51,800
confrontational. 
You just got to be relaxed. 

624
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,300
And let people see that you're 
kind of like on a porch setting 

625
00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:58,300
talking back and forth and 
people's attention spans are. 

626
00:37:58,500 --> 00:38:01,800
Very not very large these days 
because of everything just the 

627
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,600
day that we're living in. 
So just kind of give like one 

628
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:09,500
key truth and drive it and look 
the Bible like it's complicated 

629
00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:11,200
and people don't understand the 
depths of it. 

630
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,900
So just just buff it up with as 
many stories as possible. 

631
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,800
You got to get footnotes though 
because then people will you 

632
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,000
know they'll call you a heretic 
or unbiblical. 

633
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,800
So where did this come from? 
Came from somewhere. 

634
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,400
Came from the Philistines, 
that's where it came from. 

635
00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:30,800
And you, and I have to 
understand that. 

636
00:38:32,100 --> 00:38:35,800
This is a danger. 
More than ever today. 

637
00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:38,200
You know why? 
Because our brother said it, the

638
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,900
emphasis here is not just the 
cart, but a new cart new, new 

639
00:38:40,900 --> 00:38:44,100
new, new new new, right. 
And the time that we're living 

640
00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:48,200
in, there has never been a mass 
production at the pace that we 

641
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,900
are knowing of newness. 
Right. 

642
00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:54,800
Just think about how many apps 
and Trends have come and gone in

643
00:38:54,800 --> 00:39:00,000
the past five years things that 
were exciting and captivating. 

644
00:39:00,300 --> 00:39:05,100
Two years ago is lame and old 
and boring today. 

645
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:12,000
And because we're people living 
in this kind of a world, very 

646
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:16,500
easily can that stuff creep in 
and US say, we need to do it new

647
00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:18,600
new. 
We gotta, we gotta freshen 

648
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,400
things up, man. 
And so let's do virtual reality 

649
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,400
church and let's baptize people 
and fake water. 

650
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,600
People don't want to go and get 
wet and have to change and then 

651
00:39:31,100 --> 00:39:33,200
if they come in and their hair 
is not done, all right. 

652
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:40,700
Virtual reality Church, um, Live
stream. 

653
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,400
Listen, let me say something. 
Okay. 

654
00:39:43,700 --> 00:39:47,800
Just because the world produces 
things does not mean the church 

655
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,500
has to apply everything. 
Okay. 

656
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,800
Just because the world produces 
things does not mean we have to 

657
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,800
apply absolutely everything 
because we can get very we can 

658
00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:00,400
get a very tricky situations. 
So you know how many let me just

659
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,100
tell you this, you know, how 
many churches today as I'm 

660
00:40:02,100 --> 00:40:06,000
speaking are suffering actually.
Most churches are suffering in a

661
00:40:06,008 --> 00:40:10,000
post covid world because I'm a 
great percentage of those 

662
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,000
congregations have realized they
can do church and their living 

663
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,300
room. 
And something that's a blessing 

664
00:40:16,300 --> 00:40:18,600
of people are watching. 
Now, God bless you, that helps 

665
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,700
for those who are sick, who 
can't make it, who are injured? 

666
00:40:21,700 --> 00:40:25,300
We want to utilize that tool but
if you're not careful, it can 

667
00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:30,300
substitute obedience. 
And so, just like the new cart. 

668
00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:33,900
I was just talking to people in 
the past few weeks people in 

669
00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:37,000
leadership in churches, large 
chunks of the people are not 

670
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,400
coming regular anymore. 
Why? 

671
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,400
Because it's just easier to do 
church when you watch and you 

672
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,100
can do other things and get more
done. 

673
00:40:43,100 --> 00:40:45,800
It's a new cart. 
It's a new car. 

674
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:54,500
So be careful, be careful 
watching if you're a leader, be 

675
00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:57,200
careful, just because it's new 
just because it's a fad. 

676
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:58,500
Just because people are talking 
about it. 

677
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,000
Just because it seems more 
convenient, does not mean we 

678
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,500
need to apply it to church. 
We got to go back to the ancient

679
00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:12,200
paths as Jeremiah talked about. 
and so, We see in the remaining 

680
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,300
of this verse and these verses 
the fruit, the fruit of what 

681
00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:20,200
happens when you do not 
subscribe and give yourself 

682
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,700
completely to what it is that 
God says, how we should do 

683
00:41:23,700 --> 00:41:26,400
worship, how we should do 
ministry, how we should do 

684
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,200
Christianity? 
Let me just give you two 

685
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,800
observations notice in verse 5 
and David. 

686
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,400
And all the house of Israel were
celebrating before the Lord with

687
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,800
songs and lyres, and harps, and 
tambourines, and castanets. 

688
00:41:40,500 --> 00:41:45,800
And Here's what happens when you
try to do it the Philistine way,

689
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:51,200
instead of the biblical way. 
You got noise but you don't have

690
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,900
true worship. 
You produce noise, but you don't

691
00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:59,300
get true substance. 
You get large numbers and you 

692
00:41:59,300 --> 00:42:03,300
get a lot of activity, but it's 
void of the presence of God, 

693
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:07,200
it's void of his pleasure. 
If you were to read that verse 

694
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,000
in isolation, would you be 
impressed? 

695
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,500
I might be. 
Wow, this is something very holy

696
00:42:11,500 --> 00:42:13,300
that's going on, but you know 
what? 

697
00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:15,300
It was in God's eyes and empty 
production. 

698
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,300
It was an empty production. 
It was literally just a show. 

699
00:42:20,700 --> 00:42:22,200
And that's what happens to a 
Ministry. 

700
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,100
When it deviates from Total 
obedience to God's word it 

701
00:42:26,100 --> 00:42:30,700
forfeits true God honoring 
worship. 

702
00:42:31,900 --> 00:42:35,700
And we often make the mistake of
being impressed by that which 

703
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,600
which seems exciting, which 
seems loud. 

704
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,400
They're shouting. 
There's clapping what an 

705
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,100
exciting atmosphere. 
God must be blessing. 

706
00:42:45,100 --> 00:42:48,800
This place. 
Not necessarily not necessarily.

707
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,000
Here's a key example where you 
can have all of the hoopla. 

708
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:58,900
God, not even be in it at all. 
But because we're very soulish, 

709
00:42:59,300 --> 00:43:02,800
we're easily persuaded by. 
What seems to be true success. 

710
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,100
When in fact, it's a failure. 
It's a failure. 

711
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:08,900
And so you have to understand 
something. 

712
00:43:08,900 --> 00:43:11,200
If you want to be one to measure
yourself, more. 

713
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,300
Importantly, if you want to look
at anybody who claims to be 

714
00:43:13,300 --> 00:43:15,700
Godly, any Ministry that came to
claims to be God. 

715
00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:19,500
Honoring, the, the basic thing 
you have to do is, is What's 

716
00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:22,000
Happening Here in alignment to 
the scriptures. 

717
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:26,400
It's as simple as that, no 
matter how impressive it may 

718
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:30,100
seem. 
Is it lined up to the word of 

719
00:43:30,100 --> 00:43:32,400
God. 
People always ask me how that 

720
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,000
the Q&A. 
How do I know what's Church to 

721
00:43:34,008 --> 00:43:37,100
be a part of very simple. 
Look at all that they're doing. 

722
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,100
And see how much they exalt 
God's word over it. 

723
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,700
That's it. 
That's it. 

724
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:45,700
I've talked to many people over 
the years. 

725
00:43:45,700 --> 00:43:48,100
All that place man. 
It has awesome worship. 

726
00:43:48,100 --> 00:43:50,800
What they mean is the worship. 
Band is really good. 

727
00:43:52,300 --> 00:43:55,000
Okay. 
Oh that place man. 

728
00:43:55,100 --> 00:43:58,800
I whenever that guy talks I cry,
why do you cry? 

729
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,900
Okay, you cry. 
That's my I can show you a clip 

730
00:44:02,900 --> 00:44:07,700
on YouTube of people crying. 
Because they believed that there

731
00:44:07,700 --> 00:44:10,800
were Disciples of Jesus 
reincarnated and they were told 

732
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,900
tell us about the crucifixion 
and they were telling them about

733
00:44:12,900 --> 00:44:16,400
the crucifixion because they're 
part of a cult of a guy who 

734
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,100
believes that he is. 
Jesus Christ return on the 

735
00:44:18,100 --> 00:44:19,700
earth, okay? 
You cry. 

736
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,500
Is it lined up to the word of 
God? 

737
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:27,600
Is it according to the 
scripture? 

738
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:31,200
It's as clear as that. 
But let me, let me make this 

739
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,100
point as well, because here's 
the opposite extreme. 

740
00:44:34,100 --> 00:44:36,900
Now, you have people who 
consider themselves fundamental 

741
00:44:37,100 --> 00:44:39,800
conservative serious, 
bible-believing. 

742
00:44:39,900 --> 00:44:43,200
A verse by verse and there's no 
passion. 

743
00:44:45,100 --> 00:44:47,000
Every time they come to church, 
you think it's a funeral 

744
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,500
service. 
Hello the Lord resurrected from 

745
00:44:49,500 --> 00:44:52,500
the dead. 
And so you have the opposite 

746
00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:55,500
attitude to and here's here's 
here's what I want to say. 

747
00:44:55,600 --> 00:45:00,100
If there's anybody who should be
exploding with joy and gladness,

748
00:45:00,100 --> 00:45:01,600
it's those who are walking in 
the truth. 

749
00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:08,400
That's who and we see that later
on where when David comes back 

750
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,600
to do it the right way, he's 
dancing before the Lord not 

751
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:17,000
recommending that But he comes 
to Jerusalem with great gladness

752
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,400
great gladness. 
So this shouldn't be this, this,

753
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:24,400
this weird divide, where if you 
are biblical and you are sound 

754
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:29,200
your stiff as a board. 
But you have people here who are

755
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:31,900
not sound, who are not in 
alignment to God's word about 

756
00:45:31,900 --> 00:45:33,600
their passion, and their just 
emotional people. 

757
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,700
So now what you have is you 
equate emotion with heresy, and 

758
00:45:37,700 --> 00:45:41,800
if you're serious in your Godly,
you just whatever. 

759
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:44,900
I don't get that. 
I really don't see that in the 

760
00:45:44,908 --> 00:45:48,600
Bible. 
So what happens when you do the 

761
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,600
Philistine way, you got noise 
but you don't have true worship.

762
00:45:51,900 --> 00:45:55,000
You want to worship do it? 
The way the Bible says, and let 

763
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:59,100
the joy of walking in the truth,
translate in the way, you sing 

764
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,500
the way, you serve, the way you 
Fellowship, the way you 

765
00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:05,400
represent them on the Earth. 
verse 6 & 7, it's not just 

766
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:10,900
noise, but we see here that long
enough, you will bring spiritual

767
00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:14,300
death, Let me read this to you 
again. 

768
00:46:14,300 --> 00:46:17,000
And when they came to the 
threshing floor of Nathan, uzza,

769
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,400
put out his hand to the Ark of 
God and took hold of it for the 

770
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,700
oxen stumbled. 
Somebody said it earlier, isn't 

771
00:46:23,700 --> 00:46:26,900
it? 
Fascinating that eventually The 

772
00:46:26,900 --> 00:46:30,100
Oxen stumbled and it wasn't on a
hill. 

773
00:46:31,500 --> 00:46:37,400
It was on a flat surface, a 
threshing floor. and the point I

774
00:46:37,408 --> 00:46:43,100
want to make is that when you 
try to do it a different way 

775
00:46:43,100 --> 00:46:46,000
than God's way eventually, it's 
going to disappoint you. 

776
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,500
Eventually it's going to not 
work. 

777
00:46:49,500 --> 00:46:54,900
Something is going to go wrong 
and that's exactly what happens 

778
00:46:54,900 --> 00:46:57,700
here right? 
We see that God's holy work 

779
00:46:57,900 --> 00:47:03,100
cannot be carried but by Unholy 
means God's presence is 

780
00:47:03,100 --> 00:47:06,700
incompatible with us doing 
things in the flesh. 

781
00:47:07,300 --> 00:47:10,900
And so the ark stumbles, in such
a way it jolts where it looks 

782
00:47:10,900 --> 00:47:13,900
like the ark is going to slip 
off and fall to the ground. 

783
00:47:14,700 --> 00:47:16,700
And the thing that you take out 
of here is that it's going to 

784
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:19,400
Fail. 
It's never going to work. 

785
00:47:20,300 --> 00:47:22,000
And so let me give you an 
example of this. 

786
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:25,000
When you have people who 
strategize and say, let's just 

787
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,400
try to get the people in. 
And the way we're going to get 

788
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,900
the people in is avoid the 
controversial subjects. 

789
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,900
Let's not press on sin. 
Let's not talk about the current

790
00:47:32,900 --> 00:47:36,100
events that deal with morality. 
Let's just let's just get people

791
00:47:36,100 --> 00:47:38,800
to feel good, you know this what
happens? 

792
00:47:38,900 --> 00:47:42,000
You get the place packed. 
I mean you can do it within a 

793
00:47:42,008 --> 00:47:44,500
year. 
You have a you have a 

794
00:47:44,508 --> 00:47:47,200
charismatic enough person, a 
really talented band with pretty

795
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:51,600
people. 
Oh, you're set And what happens 

796
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:56,000
is you get people coming in and 
what not do you do when you need

797
00:47:56,000 --> 00:48:00,000
to talk about those issues? 
What's going to happen now when 

798
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,300
you need to address 
homosexuality, when you need to 

799
00:48:02,300 --> 00:48:06,300
address the biblical principles 
about gender, what are you going

800
00:48:06,300 --> 00:48:09,000
to do now? 
And you have people as I'm 

801
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:13,800
speaking who are in that dilemma
because they did it by starting 

802
00:48:14,300 --> 00:48:16,900
and putting the thing on the, on
the, on the cart and now when 

803
00:48:16,900 --> 00:48:19,600
they come down the road they 
realize well I don't know if 

804
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,700
we're seeing true disciples out 
of this, I don't know which 

805
00:48:21,700 --> 00:48:23,100
they're seeing their social 
media posts or their 

806
00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:24,600
congregation. 
They're seeing what they believe

807
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,500
about political things that are 
dealing with morality and 

808
00:48:26,500 --> 00:48:28,500
they're scared. 
So now we got to talk about and 

809
00:48:28,500 --> 00:48:30,900
now The try to talk about it. 
They know that they're going to 

810
00:48:30,900 --> 00:48:33,100
lose most of the people. 
Well some might say, Well 

811
00:48:33,100 --> 00:48:34,800
they're never going to talk 
about it, then they'll just keep

812
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:36,300
using the same method. 
Fine. 

813
00:48:36,300 --> 00:48:38,800
You want to go down Road, that's
what you're going to get death. 

814
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:40,300
That's where you're going to 
get. 

815
00:48:40,300 --> 00:48:42,900
You want to stay in that lane. 
This is what you're gonna get. 

816
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:45,400
You're going to get God's 
discipline. 

817
00:48:46,700 --> 00:48:50,400
And that's exactly what happens.
Who's that does? 

818
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:52,900
What to the arc? 
What did you do? 

819
00:48:55,300 --> 00:48:57,800
Touches it, God, strikes and 
dead. 

820
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,000
What's the point there? 
Well, it didn't start with. 

821
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:03,900
It was a touching, the art. 
It started with them. 

822
00:49:03,900 --> 00:49:07,400
Putting the Ark on a cart. 
One spiritual compromise will 

823
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:12,800
always lead to another. 
Always. so here's what happens 

824
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,700
when you're lenient and relax 
and when you, when you ignore 

825
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:19,000
one tenets of the faith or one 
aspect that is clear in the word

826
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:24,400
of God in due time in order to 
maintain the hoopla, in order to

827
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,900
move forward and what you think 
is Success, you're going to have

828
00:49:26,900 --> 00:49:30,200
to compromise on something else 
and another thing and then 

829
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:33,600
another thing and then another 
thing until what God shuts, the 

830
00:49:33,607 --> 00:49:38,300
thing down, Enough is enough. 
And he disciplines. 

831
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:40,600
And that's exactly what happens 
here. 

832
00:49:40,900 --> 00:49:45,500
They went from putting the Ark 
on a cart tuza now touching the 

833
00:49:45,500 --> 00:49:49,300
ark and God wanted to make an 
example of them and said, no. 

834
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,900
And he turns the lights off. 
So to speak the party's over. 

835
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,300
And more can be said about this 
but let me make this, let me 

836
00:49:59,300 --> 00:50:03,200
actually ask this question. 
Who are those who are in the 

837
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:06,200
category of the most susceptible
to making this mistake of being 

838
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:10,000
light with God's word, you might
be surprised by the answer. 

839
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:14,200
Who are those who are most 
susceptible to meet being light 

840
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:18,400
and Casual about the things of 
God, and the word of God, and 

841
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,300
the commands of God, if you want
to yes. 

842
00:50:24,100 --> 00:50:25,500
Very good. 
Did you hear the answer? 

843
00:50:26,100 --> 00:50:31,500
Those who are constantly 
surrounded by the things of God?

844
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,400
And how do you know that? 
Okay. 

845
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,800
Personal experience, good. 
Well, that's good. 

846
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:41,500
But there's another thing to 
according to the huh, nadav, and

847
00:50:41,500 --> 00:50:42,700
avihu is another example. 
Sure. 

848
00:50:42,700 --> 00:50:45,200
But our example is right here, 
all you got to do is again, 

849
00:50:45,300 --> 00:50:47,200
remember your tool belt. 
You still have it on, right? 

850
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:50,800
One of the tools is, how does 
the wider context, help me 

851
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:54,100
understand this present portion 
of scripture. 

852
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:58,900
We see here that 20 and Ohio 
were the ones who are driving 

853
00:50:58,900 --> 00:51:01,500
the thing, right? 
And uzza was the one who put his

854
00:51:01,500 --> 00:51:02,900
hand. 
Well, here's my question 

855
00:51:03,300 --> 00:51:04,900
whoo-hoo. 
Are these men? 

856
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:09,100
Where do they come from? 
Which house were they? 

857
00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:11,500
Were they a part of? 
I've been at that. 

858
00:51:11,500 --> 00:51:19,500
Have you heard his name before? 
yes, when First Samuel good. 

859
00:51:19,500 --> 00:51:25,200
When Okay, turn there to First. 
Samuel chapter seven. 

860
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:27,700
I want you to see this for 
yourself. 

861
00:51:31,300 --> 00:51:39,900
First Samuel chapter 7. 
It's a good verse one. 

862
00:51:45,100 --> 00:51:48,300
And the men of curia, theorem 
came and took up the Ark of the 

863
00:51:48,300 --> 00:51:51,700
Lord and brought it to the house
of who I've been a dab. 

864
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,500
Okay. 
So they brought the ark to the 

865
00:51:54,500 --> 00:51:59,100
house of abinadab on the hill 
and they consecrated his son 

866
00:51:59,100 --> 00:52:01,200
Eliezer to have charge of the 
Ark of the Lord. 

867
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:04,700
Now before we go to verse 2, so 
that is where the ark was for 

868
00:52:04,700 --> 00:52:07,000
quite some time. 
Does anybody know the amount of 

869
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,300
time that the ark was in a been 
adapts home? 

870
00:52:11,300 --> 00:52:14,000
Very good. 
Next verse tells us, we see her 

871
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,700
from that day. 
The ark was lodged from the day 

872
00:52:16,700 --> 00:52:19,400
that the ark was Lodge at Korea,
theorem a long time. 

873
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:26,100
Passed some 20 years who were 
whose own Ohio, the sons of 

874
00:52:26,100 --> 00:52:29,600
abinadab implying, what they 
grew up around the presence of 

875
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,700
God. 
So, this is for those who grew 

876
00:52:32,700 --> 00:52:35,400
up in the church, this is where 
those who grew up in Christ 

877
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:38,300
honoring home. 
This is, for those who heard the

878
00:52:38,300 --> 00:52:41,400
name of Jesus as early as you 
can remember. 

879
00:52:42,100 --> 00:52:44,800
Okay, there's a danger for such 
people. 

880
00:52:46,500 --> 00:52:48,300
And the danger is so clear as a 
not. 

881
00:52:48,300 --> 00:52:50,000
I mean some of you might be 
experiencing it right now, 

882
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,400
you're tuned out. 
This is like whatever. 

883
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:56,600
Man, I hope. 
Now you're here on a Friday 

884
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,100
night. 
Hope you're here for the right 

885
00:52:59,100 --> 00:53:02,200
reason. 
But we see here that the danger,

886
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:06,400
for those who grow up around the
presence of God is that you fail

887
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:09,800
to proceed moving forward, in 
life, with great caution. 

888
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:16,000
About how you walk with him. 
And so there is no more this 

889
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:20,300
sense of a reverence for God. 
That's lost. 

890
00:53:21,100 --> 00:53:26,700
And there's a familiarity that 
causes you to flirt with the 

891
00:53:26,700 --> 00:53:31,600
line of outright this honor. 
And carelessness. 

892
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,700
And so here's the thing, if 
you're a person who has grown up

893
00:53:36,700 --> 00:53:40,600
in the church, And if you can be
honest and reflect on your 

894
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:45,700
growth in the Lord, if you're a 
growing more and more. 

895
00:53:47,300 --> 00:53:52,400
In different if you have lost 
that sense of awe, if you don't 

896
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,200
tremble anymore, as God's word 
is being preached by men who 

897
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,100
tremble. 
At God's word, you're in a 

898
00:53:57,107 --> 00:53:59,100
dangerous place. 
You are. 

899
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,200
You're in like, code, red, 
alerts. 

900
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:05,800
Something needs to happen to my 
heart because the opposite 

901
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:07,800
should be happening in your walk
with the Lord. 

902
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:11,700
I'm under the conviction that if
you grew up in a house that 

903
00:54:11,700 --> 00:54:16,000
feared and honored, God and 20 
years has passed, You should 

904
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:19,200
have every year, every moment 
grown, in a greater fear of him,

905
00:54:19,700 --> 00:54:22,600
as you learn more and more of 
his Holiness of his love, his 

906
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:29,200
mercy of his wonderful power, 
not the opposite effect. and 

907
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:32,400
that is, unfortunately the case 
here and it is the case for many

908
00:54:33,900 --> 00:54:36,800
These men were comfortable. 
They were casual. 

909
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,800
They lost that sense of 
splendor. 

910
00:54:42,300 --> 00:54:44,100
And some might push back on what
I'm saying. 

911
00:54:44,100 --> 00:54:49,200
Now by saying booza, these 
helping got out, I mean, The 

912
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:52,400
Oxen stumbled and choose a put 
out his hand and he wasn't doing

913
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:54,600
an evil thing. 
He wasn't doing a vile thing, he

914
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:59,100
was doing a good thing. and so 
I'm just curious to know of 

915
00:54:59,100 --> 00:55:00,900
maybe this is your first time 
hearing it, maybe you've read it

916
00:55:00,908 --> 00:55:04,100
before who here if you're honest
and it's not a sin to confess 

917
00:55:04,100 --> 00:55:07,200
this was a little bit shook by 
reading about what happened to 

918
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:12,400
choose us so quickly when he did
this, anybody, okay, that's okay

919
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:18,000
if it's a case So you read this 
and you think Lord are, why did 

920
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,100
you have to bring such Swift 
judgment? 

921
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:24,200
Why something? 
So immediate no voice from 

922
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:25,800
Heaven. 
No warning, no call. 

923
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:29,900
Nothing. 
Well we already discussed why 

924
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,800
God had laid out. 
So obviously in his word these 

925
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:37,400
men should have known better but
especially especially to Za 

926
00:55:37,900 --> 00:55:41,300
especially Ohio because here's 
my question. 

927
00:55:41,300 --> 00:55:46,500
Now, what was the predicament? 
What was the context that 

928
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:50,200
brought the ark to his front 
step to even begin with? 

929
00:55:50,700 --> 00:55:53,300
Do you remember why it was that 
the Ark of the Covenant came to 

930
00:55:53,300 --> 00:55:56,700
the house of abinadab was it 
because they want some Lottery? 

931
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,200
What was it? 
What was the context behind 

932
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,600
that? 
The Philistines sent back the 

933
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:06,900
ark? 
The ark comes back within the 

934
00:56:06,900 --> 00:56:10,600
borders of Israel. 
And then something happens 

935
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:14,900
between that moment and the Ark 
being dropped off to this house.

936
00:56:15,700 --> 00:56:20,700
Who remembers it. 
The people looked into the ark 

937
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:26,900
and God struck 70 of them. 
And the people mourned because 

938
00:56:26,900 --> 00:56:28,800
the Lord had struck the people 
and they were fearful. 

939
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,900
And they said, we don't want to 
handle this thing, so they send 

940
00:56:31,900 --> 00:56:35,700
it to the house of abinadab. 
And here's the point that I'm 

941
00:56:35,700 --> 00:56:42,400
trying to make Huzzah new that. 
So what I'm trying to make the 

942
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:44,900
point, I'm trying to make is 
that who's had more than just, 

943
00:56:44,900 --> 00:56:47,900
the clear prescription of God's 
word telling him what to do with

944
00:56:47,900 --> 00:56:49,400
the ark, he had personal 
experience. 

945
00:56:50,900 --> 00:56:54,100
He personally with his own eyes 
and his own ears, his old 

946
00:56:54,100 --> 00:56:58,300
upbringing was around the 
realization that God can 

947
00:56:58,300 --> 00:57:03,100
actually manifest his Holiness 
and judge God is not to be 

948
00:57:03,100 --> 00:57:08,200
played with God in a holy way, 
may use this word is dangerous. 

949
00:57:09,100 --> 00:57:14,100
He's dangerous around, casual 
attitudes around his presence 

950
00:57:14,100 --> 00:57:15,600
and he Dubai was another 
example. 

951
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:21,700
He knew that firsthand he had 
the privilege and honor that 

952
00:57:21,700 --> 00:57:23,600
many of the Israelites would 
never known. 

953
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,700
He grew up with the ark. 
You know how significant that is

954
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:29,600
only the high priest. 
Once a year would come into 

955
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,500
close proximity with such a 
thing that Arc, I don't know 

956
00:57:32,500 --> 00:57:34,700
where it was placed in the 
garage and delivery, it was 

957
00:57:34,700 --> 00:57:37,800
close enough for him to see it 
and know, it was there every 

958
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:42,600
single day for 20. 
So before we start charging God,

959
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,800
for being unfair realized who 
were dealing with here, this 

960
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:49,300
isn't a stranger, this isn't 
just a teenager that doesn't he 

961
00:57:49,300 --> 00:57:52,400
hasn't matured yet? 
This is a grown man who knew 

962
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:55,300
full, well what God was capable 
of namely what this Arc is 

963
00:57:55,300 --> 00:57:57,800
capable of. 
And he's still presumed that he 

964
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:03,400
can put his filthy carnal sinful
hands on the presence of God. 

965
00:58:05,700 --> 00:58:09,800
So we might be shocked to see 
what happened here with Sousa. 

966
00:58:12,100 --> 00:58:16,200
But humans have a tendency pay 
attention to this point. 

967
00:58:16,700 --> 00:58:20,900
We have a tendency to be 
surprised at the wrong things 

968
00:58:20,900 --> 00:58:25,500
that we read of in the Bible. 
We do. 

969
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:31,000
We look at things. 
And we tend to question the 

970
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:36,900
wrong side of the equation. 
And what I want you to 

971
00:58:36,908 --> 00:58:39,800
understand is that there is a 
better question to ask, then why

972
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:42,500
did God kill ooza so quick? 
You ready for this? 

973
00:58:43,700 --> 00:58:51,700
Why didn't God kill everybody? 
Why didn't God destroy them all?

974
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:58,600
Especially the leaders, even 
David who are organizers behind 

975
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:05,300
this illegal procession. and so 
somebody, I heard the story of 

976
00:59:05,300 --> 00:59:09,900
somebody who asked a preacher 
Pastor. 

977
00:59:09,900 --> 00:59:12,900
I'm so conflicted by that verse 
in Romans 9, where says, Jacob I

978
00:59:12,900 --> 00:59:17,200
loved and Esau I hated How can 
God hate, Esau? 

979
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:23,100
Now, I understand hate to be a 
different way than how we 

980
00:59:23,100 --> 00:59:24,200
understand. 
Hey, we'll get to that when we 

981
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,900
get the Romans 9 and like 2048, 
okay? 

982
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:33,000
Jacob, I loved Esau I hated how 
can God Hades saw? 

983
00:59:33,100 --> 00:59:34,900
You know what the preacher said?
That's not my problem. 

984
00:59:34,900 --> 00:59:36,700
My question is, how can God 
loved Jacob. 

985
00:59:40,700 --> 00:59:45,200
How can God love a Despicable 
deceiving Trickster? 

986
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:52,800
Who continually Dishonored God 
for decades until he finally got

987
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,600
it. 
See, we're asking the wrong 

988
00:59:55,600 --> 01:00:01,500
question, a lot of the times and
the cause of, that is a lack of 

989
01:00:01,500 --> 01:00:05,200
a mature and honest 
comprehension of the character 

990
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:08,700
of God. 
In his Holiness and in his 

991
01:00:08,700 --> 01:00:14,900
majesty, while also failing to 
understand the absolute vileness

992
01:00:14,900 --> 01:00:16,700
of who we are in comparison to 
him. 

993
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:24,700
That's what it is. and the more 
you come into this word and the 

994
01:00:24,700 --> 01:00:31,200
more you realize who God is The 
last things you will be able to 

995
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:34,400
question. 
Because it all falls into place 

996
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:39,500
when you understand who he is. 
I think that's that's really the

997
01:00:39,500 --> 01:00:45,900
reason because we look at uzza 
and we go how when in fact we 

998
01:00:45,900 --> 01:00:52,100
should be looking at God and 
saying how And the way we save 

999
01:00:52,100 --> 01:00:55,200
ourselves from doing what David 
did, what was David's reaction 

1000
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:57,300
to this remind me inverse a 
David was angry. 

1001
01:00:58,300 --> 01:01:00,700
David was angry because the Lord
had broken out again Souza. 

1002
01:01:00,700 --> 01:01:02,000
That's what you have a lot 
today. 

1003
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:05,600
People angry at God, people 
upset with God, people accusing 

1004
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:07,700
God, how could you, how could 
you? 

1005
01:01:07,700 --> 01:01:10,100
How could you? 
Why would you? 

1006
01:01:10,100 --> 01:01:13,500
Why would you? 
Why would you How can God allow 

1007
01:01:13,500 --> 01:01:14,800
suffering? 
Let me give you a different 

1008
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:16,300
question. 
How can God? 

1009
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:18,500
So holy so pure. 
So brilliant. 

1010
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:20,800
Make a way for us to escape 
Eternal suffering. 

1011
01:01:22,500 --> 01:01:25,300
I'm not, I'm not here to 
minimize legitimate questions. 

1012
01:01:25,300 --> 01:01:27,200
I'm not here to say that, I'm 
not saying that that's proof of 

1013
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:30,500
a lack of maturity, but I'm 
saying when it, when it gets us 

1014
01:01:30,500 --> 01:01:34,100
to a place like David where we 
become will become those, who 

1015
01:01:34,100 --> 01:01:36,400
sit in the Judgment seat against
God, that's a dangerous place to

1016
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:39,300
be. 
And it's proof of a lack of 

1017
01:01:39,300 --> 01:01:41,700
understanding of who God really 
is. 

1018
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:49,200
And so, David goes from anger to
verse 9 to afraid. 

1019
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:51,900
He was afraid. 
This man was confused. 

1020
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:54,400
He was confused. 
He really was. 

1021
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:58,000
And you know how he's going to 
be rescued from this confusion. 

1022
01:01:58,300 --> 01:02:00,200
I'm not going to take you there,
but when you go to 1st 

1023
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:03,400
Chronicles 15, he realizes that 
the way we're going to do this 

1024
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:06,300
in a second attempt because the 
first attempt fail, this is 

1025
01:02:06,300 --> 01:02:09,700
going to be a second attempt it 
by doing it by, do order, the 

1026
01:02:09,700 --> 01:02:13,600
way that God laid it out. 
So that's how you save yourself 

1027
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:17,400
from a lot of confusion when you
just go to the word, really. 

1028
01:02:18,100 --> 01:02:20,300
But let me end on this point. 
Our brother brought it up and it

1029
01:02:20,300 --> 01:02:24,400
is a good point. 
Why do you think God allowed 

1030
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:26,500
this to happen, where it 
happened? 

1031
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:34,300
Where did it happen again? 
The threshing floor of naked. 

1032
01:02:35,500 --> 01:02:36,800
What happens at a threshing 
floor? 

1033
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:42,500
Very good. 
What happens on the threshing 

1034
01:02:42,500 --> 01:02:44,700
floors? 
You would have sheaves laid out 

1035
01:02:44,700 --> 01:02:47,400
on a flat surface, and then you 
would have some oxen, or 

1036
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:48,700
different animals. 
And sometimes you would have 

1037
01:02:48,700 --> 01:02:51,600
people with sticks and they 
would beat on the sheaves until 

1038
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:55,900
the hard external part is 
separated from, from the edible 

1039
01:02:55,900 --> 01:02:58,800
part in other way. 
And another way of doing is that

1040
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:00,600
you would take a mixture of 
things and you would take it 

1041
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:02,800
with a winnowing fork, and you 
would on a windy day, throw it 

1042
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:04,900
up into the air and the wind 
would blow. 

1043
01:03:04,900 --> 01:03:07,800
And then the chaff would be 
removed and the grain would fall

1044
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:13,300
to the ground and you would 
gather it as a harvest. and God 

1045
01:03:13,300 --> 01:03:18,000
in the place where separation 
took place made a statement 

1046
01:03:20,700 --> 01:03:23,800
There needs to be separation 
between the holy and the Unholy.

1047
01:03:27,900 --> 01:03:30,000
And I wonder if that click for 
them, it clicks for us because 

1048
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:32,400
we have the aerial view of the 
whole thing. 

1049
01:03:33,100 --> 01:03:36,900
I wonder if it clicked for them 
in the same way that in life, 

1050
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:39,700
there are things that are 
separate and that's what those 

1051
01:03:39,700 --> 01:03:42,100
laws are all about, by the way, 
you've probably heard it from 

1052
01:03:42,100 --> 01:03:45,600
somebody who says, you don't 
believe that you should have any

1053
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:47,300
approval of gay people. 
A, why are you wearing a 

1054
01:03:47,300 --> 01:03:49,700
different piece of cloth? 
And why do you do this? 

1055
01:03:49,700 --> 01:03:52,200
And why do you put grain in here
and not the same agriculture? 

1056
01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:54,600
Why do you do that? 
The whole thing is not about 

1057
01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:59,300
necessarily. 
Just arbitrary random rules, 

1058
01:03:59,300 --> 01:04:01,200
it's the principle of 
Separation. 

1059
01:04:01,700 --> 01:04:03,100
That's what God is trying to 
communicate. 

1060
01:04:03,100 --> 01:04:05,600
In those tax there is the 
uncommon, there's a common, 

1061
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:09,200
there is the holy there's the 
Unholy and in the place where 

1062
01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:11,900
day-to-day activity took place, 
where there would be a 

1063
01:04:11,900 --> 01:04:14,500
separation that occurred? 
God says, I want that in my 

1064
01:04:14,500 --> 01:04:17,500
people. 
I want that for my church. 

1065
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:22,700
I want that in you. 
And here's the danger when we 

1066
01:04:22,700 --> 01:04:27,400
refuse to after being exposed to
so much especially after being 

1067
01:04:27,400 --> 01:04:29,200
exposed with so much of what we 
grew up with. 

1068
01:04:30,300 --> 01:04:34,600
We invoke God's discipline. 
We invoke God's discipline. 

1069
01:04:35,200 --> 01:04:37,300
And here's what David learn and 
verse 8. 

1070
01:04:38,500 --> 01:04:40,900
And that place is called Perez 
Souza. 

1071
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:45,700
Perez Souza to this day last 
week. 

1072
01:04:45,700 --> 01:04:47,700
David named something else. 
Something what did he named that

1073
01:04:47,700 --> 01:04:51,600
place? 
Yeah, ball press seam, the Lord 

1074
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:55,400
of what breakthrough. 
So what did he learn? 

1075
01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:58,200
Their God can break through like
a flood and bring about a 

1076
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:01,600
blessing immediately in a 
second, God can turn things 

1077
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:08,300
around and the next chapter he 
realized Pres whoosah which 

1078
01:05:08,300 --> 01:05:13,400
means breaking out again Sousa. 
That this God also can break out

1079
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:18,200
in discipline. 
In judgment. and severity, and 

1080
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:24,600
not just in kindness, and David 
was angry at first He took a 

1081
01:05:24,607 --> 01:05:27,700
deep breath. 
He was afraid. 

1082
01:05:32,100 --> 01:05:35,100
He steps back. 
He does what the people did with

1083
01:05:35,100 --> 01:05:37,200
the house of abinadab, he takes 
the ark and he puts it in 

1084
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:40,400
another house, the house of 
obededom, and we will learn next

1085
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:41,500
week. 
What will happen from there? 

1086
01:05:42,500 --> 01:06:09,200
Let's pray. 
Lord, we thank you for this this

1087
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:18,300
study for stimulating, our 
hearts Lord, we pray that in 

1088
01:06:18,300 --> 01:06:22,300
this place. 
You would see a people who love 

1089
01:06:22,300 --> 01:06:24,200
to obey the pattern of your 
word. 

1090
01:06:25,900 --> 01:06:30,100
Help us in all things. to be 
able to say we do this because 

1091
01:06:30,100 --> 01:06:36,100
God said, we do it this way 
because God said, we go this way

1092
01:06:36,100 --> 01:06:42,200
because God said, Lord. 
Would you rescue us from the 

1093
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:46,300
trap of familiarity? 
Would you keep us from coming to

1094
01:06:46,300 --> 01:06:48,500
a place where we can touch the 
arc? 

1095
01:06:51,100 --> 01:06:57,900
we can defile that, which is 
holy, And without thinking twice

1096
01:06:57,900 --> 01:07:03,400
about it. 
Lord, we pray that we would not 

1097
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:07,600
be a statistic among those who 
become so familiar that we 

1098
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:11,400
become numb in the process 
because we've heard the stories.

1099
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:17,000
And we know the gospel Because 
we've been to meetings and 

1100
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:19,700
enough conferences to hear these
things over and over again, 

1101
01:07:20,700 --> 01:07:24,300
where we lose our sense of the 
Majesty of Jesus Christ. 

1102
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:28,100
If anything Lord, would you be 
merciful enough that the more we

1103
01:07:28,100 --> 01:07:35,400
grow in years, the more we grow 
in our, aw, Lord help us resist 

1104
01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:39,500
that temptation. 
Of the new cart. 

1105
01:07:40,900 --> 01:07:45,000
As a ministry, as a church Even 
in our own lives help us hold on

1106
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:49,000
to the ancient paths. 
And Lord though I may be slower 

1107
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:53,100
though may require more we want 
the true fruit of the spirit. 

1108
01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:57,100
We want the true results that 
come when we trust the holy 

1109
01:07:57,100 --> 01:08:01,600
spirit's leading and so, Lord, 
in this place, we gladly allow 

1110
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:03,400
you to separate us from the 
world. 

1111
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:05,900
We glad you. 
And we gladly invite you to 

1112
01:08:05,900 --> 01:08:10,500
remove all the chaff We gladly 
invite you to say oh God make us

1113
01:08:10,500 --> 01:08:13,400
pure like you are pure. 
Holy Like You Are Holy, lovely. 

1114
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:16,500
Like you were lovely. 
And Lord help us really 

1115
01:08:16,500 --> 01:08:19,800
understand. 
That even one person in this 

1116
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:23,200
place who is really committed 
and ignited by your spirit can 

1117
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:27,399
touch those around us without 
any effort on our part to try to

1118
01:08:27,399 --> 01:08:31,500
persuade them day after day. 
But just the live this out we 

1119
01:08:31,500 --> 01:08:35,000
honor you we want to worship you
tonight because you are the Holy

1120
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:40,300
One you are awesome and mighty 
and glorious. 

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And we see you for who you are. 
We do not assume that you are 

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like us. 
And so, Lord. 

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We say how, how can you a mighty
being be mindful of men to love 

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us, individually to care for us 
to actually have a plan for each

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of Our Lives? 
That you have ordained before 

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the world was even created, how 
can it be that such a glorious 

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being loves us. 
So we are amazed that you Lord 

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that you would even consider 
saving us mere creatures that 

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came from the Dust. 
And you chose for us to be your 

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Abode. 
We are amazed at your presence 

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in Jesus name, we pray. 
Amen, let's stand as we close 

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together. 
Worshiping the Lord