1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,240 Welcome to the official podcast of Rock Hill Baptist Church 2 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,480 where we are focused on glorifying God, spreading the 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:11,840 gospel, and making disciples of Jesus Christ right here in the 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:16,520 heart of Greenville, SC. Each week we bring you a life 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:20,600 changing word from our Senior Pastor, Pastor Matthew D Long 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,760 Junior, or one of our anointed guest speakers. 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,920 We pray this message strengthens your faith, deepens your 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:32,479 understanding, and empowers you to elevate in every area of your 9 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,200 life. Let's join the service. 10 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:36,800 Already in progress. Yeah, that's good. 11 00:00:47,170 --> 00:00:51,050 Second Chronicles chapter one verse one says, and Solomon the 12 00:00:51,050 --> 00:00:56,210 son of David was strengthened in his Kingdom, and the Lord his 13 00:00:56,210 --> 00:01:00,930 God was with him and magnified him exceedingly. 14 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:11,840 Jump down to verse #13 Then Solomon came from his journey to 15 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:16,760 the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem from before 16 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:20,320 the Tabernacle, the congregation, and reigned over 17 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:22,600 Israel, the word of God for the people of God. 18 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:27,120 Thanks be unto God as you take your seat, help me out. 19 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,720 Turn to your neighbors. Say hey, neighbor, are you OK? 20 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:36,120 OK. All right, All right. 21 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:37,080 I'm worried about a couple people. 22 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:39,320 Help me out real quick. Let's just do a real check. 23 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:44,560 Say hey, neighbor, are you OK? OK. 24 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:46,480 OK. All right. 25 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:47,320 Come on, baby. I hear you. 26 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:50,160 Come on. Glory to God in this third 27 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:53,680 installment of this series. I've got my daddy's blueprints. 28 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,160 I'm going to preach from the thought putting it all together. 29 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:00,960 God, y'all got real quiet all of a sudden. 30 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,000 I know it was the heat. It hit me all of a sudden. 31 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,320 Help me out. Hey say hey neighbor, putting it 32 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:12,360 all together. All right, putting it all 33 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,560 together. You know something funny 34 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:22,840 happened just the other day. I was on FaceTime Deacon houses 35 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:28,240 with my siblings and we were all laughing and catching up and 36 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,800 sharing stories. Matter of fact, I'll just go 37 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,480 ahead and tell you I was on the phone on FaceTime. 38 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,720 It's a lawyer Dick and Davis and with my youngest brother 39 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:45,720 Carrington, to whom sounds very close to me. 40 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:55,680 Sounds very close to me. And as as we were sharing 41 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:59,840 stories and just talking, suddenly my, my sister's face 42 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:02,320 had lit up. She said, wait, wait, wait, 43 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,360 y'all? She said, I've got to show you 44 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,360 something. And so she got up, I believe she 45 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,280 was at her house and adjusted her camera and carefully panned 46 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,880 over to this bookcase. And on those shelves, to my 47 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,200 surprise, for all these intricate Lego collections, 48 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,200 where's DJ at? But they were not just any 49 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:28,520 little blocks. I'm talking about a full 3D Lego 50 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,520 typewriter. I've never seen them all my 51 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:32,920 life. I was blown away. 52 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:35,240 And she said, Matt, look, it works. 53 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:37,440 I'm not a tea talk. It works. 54 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:41,400 I said, you put ink in it. And the Lego typewriter, she 55 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,720 said it works. I said, OK, OK, so she's going 56 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:49,200 just, you know, panning through this collection of Legos 3DS 57 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:55,480 that she's made, and she stops at this, this Lego version of 58 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,600 Stewie from Family Guy. Praise the Lord. 59 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,160 I knew it was a couple of people who watched Family Guy. 60 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:02,760 I knew it was. Thank you, Lord. 61 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:06,040 I knew it was going to come out, come out again. 62 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:10,800 I sat there. I really was. 63 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:15,360 I was amazed as I was peeping into my phone at this camera and 64 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,399 I couldn't ask. I said, girl, tell me, how did 65 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:22,640 you even do this? And Deacon housing and and that 66 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:24,400 little chest of cat smiles she got. 67 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,200 She looked at me and Karensen from her camera and said, Matt, 68 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,200 the project came with instructions. 69 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:38,120 She said you've got to follow each instruction if you want the 70 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,720 end result to match the picture they give you. 71 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,520 That's where we find ourselves, in between the black and white 72 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:49,080 pages of the book before you, or the electronic device on which 73 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:54,040 you may be reading from. Standing right dab in the middle 74 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:57,440 of a story where God has handed down the instructions, the 75 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,560 plans, the blueprints. And just like those Lego 76 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,960 projects, it's not about guessing, it's not about 77 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,840 rushing, it's not even about skipping steps. 78 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:12,280 But it's all about following what's been laid out piece by 79 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:16,960 piece so that the final outcome looks just like what the 80 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:21,720 intentions were of the master. If you will ride along with me, 81 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:23,480 I think I can get in the sky pretty quick. 82 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,160 But I've got a few movements in this text I want to explore. 83 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:28,320 You ready? I might thank him. 84 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,280 The first movement is in the very first verse, Second 85 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:37,440 Chronicles chapter one verse, one says, and Solomon, the son 86 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,640 of David was strengthened in his Kingdom. 87 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:46,000 Then the Lord his God was with him. 88 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,880 Is that what your Bible says and it says and magnified him 89 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,560 exceedingly. The very first movement of this 90 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:59,640 text is that we find you've got to stand strong with sovereign 91 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:03,000 support. To put it all together. 92 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,360 You got to stand strong with sovereign support. 93 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,600 Look at this, before Solomon lifted a stone or even raise a 94 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:16,760 scepter, the word says David, the father of Solomon, was 95 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:22,440 shrimpened in his Kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him 96 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,120 and magnified him exceedingly. Don't skip past that, because 97 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:31,080 before Solomon ruled, God had strengthened him. 98 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:34,080 That's real good. That's real good because it 99 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:38,720 wasn't about Solomon's title. Nah, it wasn't about Solomon's 100 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:42,120 experiences to pinky. Nah, it wasn't even about 101 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:48,880 Solomon's charm TT 2 But it was about the God who stood behind 102 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:53,080 him. It's here that the text shows us 103 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:57,000 literally from Psalm 20 and seven that says some trust in 104 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,480 Chariots and some in horses, but we will remember the name of our 105 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,120 God. That Solomon here shows us that 106 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,760 you got to stand on strength and not status. 107 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:09,160 Well, that's good preaching right there. 108 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,720 You got to stand on strength and not status. 109 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:18,360 Can I let you know this today that you don't need the crown 110 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,240 when you already carry God's covering? 111 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:27,840 I don't know who and what you're there is, but you don't need the 112 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:32,360 crown when God's giving you His covering. 113 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:36,760 You don't have to chase the world's approval when you stand 114 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,640 under God. God's anointing help me Jesus. 115 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:44,840 The text also shows us that he is strengthened by sovereign 116 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,480 supply. I was reading and I found this 117 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,960 scripture, but I think so eloquently shows us here how 118 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:56,120 Solomon in this moment of beginning his reign did not 119 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,680 start, but status did not start, but things that would be 120 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:03,520 flashing light scam. No, none of that. 121 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:07,680 He starts here being strengthened by sovereign 122 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,400 supplies. Zechariah chapter 4, verse 6 123 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:15,800 says not by night, nor by power, but by my spirit, said the Lord 124 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:19,520 of hosts, I'll let you know that the oil on your life outruns the 125 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:24,200 opposition against your life. I know that was that was a whole 126 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,400 lot. I know I got you. 127 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,880 Let me rewind it back for you. I send the oil on your lifeout 128 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:34,919 runs the opposition against your life. 129 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,240 Why? Because you are not self-made. 130 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:41,720 You are spirit made and I know we live in the world and 131 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:47,520 everybody says I made myself and I did this for myself, but I, I 132 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,600 want to call you back unto the mind of God. 133 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,680 That's where you and I originated before we were ever 134 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:56,920 anything. We were the thoughts of God, the 135 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,560 thought of God that was actualized in His creation of 136 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:04,120 your father and mother and the father and mother and the father 137 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:08,400 and mother and the father and mother and their father and 138 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,480 mother and their father and mother. 139 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:12,800 To bring you and I to this point. 140 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:17,000 Now that we can now be the actualization of God's thought 141 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:22,120 and that we can live out the realities of how God sees you 142 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,040 and how He sees me. Help me out. 143 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:27,280 Nudge your neighbor and say neighbor, you ain't self-made, 144 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:31,800 you ain't self-made, you ain't self-made. 145 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:36,680 But here in this first movement, we also see that Solomon must 146 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:41,200 get some, some type of wisdom, knowledge, understanding to know 147 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,600 that we are all set up for a spiritual success. 148 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:48,160 I promise you, I'm in your body, but I'm just trying to fly in 149 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:51,240 the sky real quick. Proverbs 16 and three says 150 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:57,120 commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be 151 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,160 established. The text says it was him that 152 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,120 Solomon, the son of David was strengthened in his Kingdom and 153 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:09,040 the Lord his God was. You ain't got no Bibles open. 154 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,720 You missed it, I said. And the Lord his God was with 155 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,720 him. This is the next part that 156 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,840 really trips me out because the text says and magnified him 157 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:24,800 exceedingly. When God magnifies you, no one 158 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:30,280 can minimize you. I, I, I think you missed it. 159 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:33,080 I think you missed it. And like I this, this stop 160 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:37,640 button is really popular today. Let me stop, let me rewind it 161 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:39,720 back for you and let me hit play. 162 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:44,400 I said, when God magnifies you, no one can minimize you. 163 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,560 It's not about proving yourself. It's about positioning yourself 164 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:52,240 under God's hand. Here in the very first movement 165 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:56,280 of this text, we find that Solomon teaches us us teaches us 166 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,880 that when we got to put it all together, you got to that stands 167 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:04,520 strong in sovereign support. But secondarily, as we continue 168 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,640 in the text, Solomon shows us in the second movement that you've 169 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:11,160 got to be surrounded strategically for sacred 170 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,960 stewardship. You like that word play on the S 171 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:16,240 Come here. Let me give it to you again. 172 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,800 I said you got to be surrounded strategically for sacred 173 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,320 stewardship. It's in your Bible saying 174 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,520 Chronicles chapter one, verse two and three says then Solomon 175 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:30,280 spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of 176 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:34,120 hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in on Israel, 177 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:38,720 and the chief of the Father. 3 So Solomon and Arthur 178 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:44,120 congregation with him went to the high place that was at 179 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:49,720 Gibeon, for there was the Tabernacle of the congregation 180 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:54,400 of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the 181 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:57,640 rudeness, the second, the second movement of the sex and 182 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,320 surrounding strategically for sacred stewardship. 183 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:05,440 Solomon gathered Israel's captains, Solomon gathered 184 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:11,240 Israel's judges, Solomon gathered Israel's elders, and he 185 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:13,880 surrounded himself with all the right people. 186 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:16,440 Why? Because you can't build sacred 187 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,640 things with scattered carnal people. 188 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,680 I had to drop the mic for you a little bit so you can hear that, 189 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:27,840 That you can't build sacred things with scattered carnal 190 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,800 people. That here he shows us that he 191 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,360 had to gather greatness and not groupies. 192 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:36,200 My name, brothers and sisters. I know, I know. 193 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,920 We live in such a strange, odd, weird time right now that 194 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:43,560 everybody want their own clique. Everybody want their own circle 195 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:45,400 and they don't like circles or overlap. 196 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:47,640 Because you ain't going to beef and you ain't going to be nice. 197 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:49,320 But this person, and I don't like that person. 198 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:51,760 No, no, no, no, no, no. Solomon don't get caught up in 199 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,760 all that drama. Hallelujah. 200 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:57,560 God, He does not get caught up in all that foolishness. 201 00:12:57,560 --> 00:12:59,880 Come here, I can hear Jennifer Pitts now. 202 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,160 Solomon does not get caught up in all that high school mess 203 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,440 because some of us still live in our high school glory days. 204 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:15,440 Class of 67, Class of 55, Class of 2008, Class of No, no, no, 205 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:17,200 no. Y'all know it's the truth. 206 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,880 That's why you giggle. Somebody still talking, but I 207 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:31,440 still got it at the €35 reunion. Okay, praise the I'm gonna leave 208 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:32,520 alone. I got a few minutes on the 209 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:41,560 cloud, but he got this still, he got this greatness and oh, he 210 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:46,400 doesn't gather groupies. Proverbs 13 and 20 says he then 211 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,560 walketh with the wise men shall be wise. 212 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:52,400 I want to let you know that you can't fly with eagles if you're 213 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:58,200 still nesting with chickens. Who you walk with shapes who 214 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,480 where you land my name, brothers and sisters. 215 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,000 If you show me your circle, I see your future. 216 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,640 It doesn't take a profit for that because who you hanger? 217 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:07,560 But come here, Mama. What? 218 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:12,960 She said Father. Oh, y'all don't like that one? 219 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:14,560 We must still be living in there. 220 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:18,320 Birds of a feather flock together. 221 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:21,160 I'm going to leave it alone. I felt something. 222 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:22,600 I'm going to leave it alone. Hallelujah to God. 223 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:27,520 So he gathers the greatness and not groupies because he realized 224 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:29,320 that he needed counselor, not chaos. 225 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:32,720 You missed it. It's in the Bible. 226 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,120 The Bible says then Solomon spake unto all the Israel, to 227 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:39,800 the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and 228 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:46,080 to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the what fathers? 229 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:49,920 He said, I've got to go and make sure that this pattern is tight, 230 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,080 that this blueprint has no holes in it. 231 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:57,120 You got to make sure that every level and layer is super put 232 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:59,200 together. So he says, I don't need 233 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,600 counsel. I need I don't need chaos. 234 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:04,800 I need counsel. Proverbs 11 and 14 says where no 235 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:08,040 counsel is, the people fall. But in the multitude of 236 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,720 counselors, there is safety. I'm going to let you know that 237 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:14,720 your future is shaped by the voices you trust and one wrong 238 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:19,000 voice can collapse the whole project you are trying to build 239 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,040 in life. I got to keep on moving, but I'm 240 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,760 going to let you know that the voice in your ear determines how 241 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:26,000 you walk. Come here. 242 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,040 That's why God is always so concerned about our sight, 243 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,240 because if we can never get our sight just on Him, then we can 244 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:37,600 get our ears tuned to His voice and He will gleed and guide us 245 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,160 in all ways and truth. The text shows us here that He 246 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:44,600 surrounds himself with spiritual sensitivity. 247 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,040 Amos chapter 3 and verse 3 says can two walk together except 248 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:49,520 they agree. I won't let you know. 249 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:52,160 If they can't agree at the altar, then they can't advance 250 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:55,200 in your assignment. That agreement does not mean 251 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:59,440 control, it means covenants. I think I better add a little 252 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:00,920 bit more to this before I take it back. 253 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,720 Agreement does not mean control, it means covenant. 254 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,120 And you don't need people who are in competition with you. 255 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:10,120 You don't need people who are complacent. 256 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:11,760 Look at this, look at this, look at this. 257 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:14,680 Solomon built the covenant, not competition. 258 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:20,240 He didn't gather people who wanted to outshine him, nor did 259 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:24,840 he lean on the convenient people or the complacent people. 260 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:27,920 I know that's tight, but it's still right. 261 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,440 Because convenient people come and it's fun. 262 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,000 Hallelujah. But Covenant people saving, It's 263 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,560 hard. Convenient people cheer when 264 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:40,320 you're winning, but Covenant people cover you when you're 265 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,640 wounded. Convenient people stand beside 266 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,320 you on the spotlight, but Covenant people stand behind you 267 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,120 in the struggle. I feel like I'm gonna go a 268 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:53,120 little bit deeper, that if you don't find yourself but these 269 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:57,240 people who are competitive and these people who are complacent 270 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:03,040 and these people who are always just there for the chaos and the 271 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,800 convenience, you'll find yourself in a state of 272 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:11,680 disobedience or disunity. Because disobedience or disunity 273 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:15,480 doesn't just threaten every dream, every idea, every plan 274 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:18,599 that God's given you, but it threatens your entire life 275 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:21,319 system. It threatens your personal 276 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:24,240 destiny. It derails your calling and it 277 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:27,079 delays your purpose. Come here and your family. 278 00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:30,320 It plants seeds of division, bitterness, and cycles of 279 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,960 generational pain where there should have been healing and 280 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:38,360 blessings in your business. It fractures trust and opens the 281 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,440 adored to things that are of question and could be 282 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:44,840 compromised as and ultimately weakens your witness as a 283 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,800 believer in the marketplace, in your community, in breeds and 284 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:52,520 justice fosters neglect. And are you in the room And 285 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:56,480 silence is the prophetic voice that's supposed to stand for the 286 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,160 vulnerable in the church. Disobedience and disunity will 287 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,960 turn a House of power into a hollow institution, a place 288 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,840 where the Spirit can't flow because the people can't align. 289 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,280 Come here Jesus. Jesus said there's nothing more 290 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:14,440 than a cemetery, a white wash, tombs that when disobedience 291 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:20,360 moves in, destiny moves out. But when covenant stays, glory 292 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:23,480 shows up. I'm reminded. 293 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:26,040 I'm reminded of an elite championship gaming team. 294 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:30,320 The strategy was clear, but one showboater decided to flex for 295 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,080 the crowd instead of following the plan. 296 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,560 And suddenly the whole team crumbles. 297 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,920 Not because of lack of skill, but because one ego broke the 298 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,120 flow. Solomon. 299 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:42,160 Solomon surrounds himself wisely. 300 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:45,680 Nor one wrong spirit can break the blessing God was about to 301 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,720 release. I think I better say this again. 302 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:50,800 I said I think last week, week before last. 303 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,680 But I need to let you know that your next move needs covenant 304 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:59,000 joints, not casual joints. You need people welded to your 305 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,520 purpose and not people clinging to your platform. 306 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,800 Lord, I'm preaching better than you talking. 307 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,280 Oh my God, I got to go on because I'm almost out of time. 308 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,400 But here we find ourselves into the third movement of the text. 309 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,280 And the third movement of the text we see a little bit more 310 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:16,400 happening. You ready? 311 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:21,000 It's in your Bible first, Second Chronicles, chapter one verse #3 312 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:25,920 says so Solomon and all the congregation with him went to 313 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,320 the high place that was at Gibeon. 314 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:32,560 For there was the Tabernacle of the congregation of God, which 315 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,960 Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the rudeness. 316 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:41,040 For the ark of God had David brought up from the kid, John, 317 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,120 Jerome to the place which David had prepared for it. 318 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:48,600 For he had pitched the tits for it at Jerusalem. 5 Moreover than 319 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:52,840 brazen altar, than Baziel the son of your eye, the son of her 320 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,440 had made, he put before the Tabernacle of the Lord, and 321 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:00,480 Solomon and the congregation sought unto it. 6 And I'm done. 322 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:04,640 And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar before the 323 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:06,640 Lord, which was at the Tabernacle. 324 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:12,960 Of the congregation and offered 1000 burnt offerings upon it. 325 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,960 Notice the third movement of the text is that you've got to seek 326 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,440 sacred space before sovereign speech. 327 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:26,320 I said you've got to seek sacred space before having sovereign 328 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,000 speech. Notice what Solomon does next. 329 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:34,000 He leads the people to the high please at Gibeon and offers 1000 330 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:35,200 burnt offerings. Come here. 331 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,080 I think I better pause real quick before I get into this 332 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,680 clothes. That Gibbon wasn't just any old 333 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,920 location. It was the place where the 334 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:49,640 Tabernacle, glory to God of Moses, still stood, where Israel 335 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:53,520 had historically met with God, and Solomon had to go back to 336 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:57,040 the last place where God's presence had tangibly dwelt. 337 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,640 Because sometimes you can't step forward until you go back to the 338 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:06,720 altar. Lord, that was good for me. 339 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,520 I'm sorry I had to praise Him. Because you keep wanting to go 340 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:11,880 forward. But I come to tell you, you 341 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:16,200 can't go forward without God. And I know he may have given you 342 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,720 a dream, may give you a blueprint, but if you don't 343 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,040 include God in every step and facet, come here to Lauria. 344 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,080 You will see the intended results. 345 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,880 I want, I want to let you know that it's here. 346 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,440 It's here. The Bible says that Gibeon. 347 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:34,200 Gibeon was not just any old location, but it was the place 348 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,320 where they last had worshipped. It's the place they had last 349 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:43,280 seen God move tangibly. Some people have moved on with 350 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,920 their lives but forgot that praise gave them. 351 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,280 But they need them, and they found themselves at the end of 352 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:53,120 their hope. They found they found themselves 353 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:57,080 forgetting the promises they made when they were desperate 354 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:01,160 for a breakthrough. So Solomon, Solomon now teaches 355 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:07,040 us that worship is not just a future act, but it's a return to 356 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,920 the last place where you and God met deeply. 357 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:12,960 I think I better say that for me. 358 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:17,320 I said Solomon teaches us that worship is not just a future 359 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:23,040 act, but it's a return to the last place where you and God met 360 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:27,880 deeply to remind your spirit that presence matters more than 361 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,160 progress. It's not about looking like 362 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:33,960 you've moved on. It's about making sure you 363 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,520 haven't left the God who brought you this far. 364 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:38,200 Come here. Him, right? 365 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:43,080 And we've come this far by faith, trusting and depending on 366 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:48,320 his, on his word, on his word that he of the text shows us 367 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,520 that if we're going to go forward, we got to be like the 368 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,880 old writer, what's his name? Andre Crotch. 369 00:22:54,880 --> 00:23:00,320 When he said take me back, take me back to the Lord, to the 370 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,280 place where I first received you. 371 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,880 Sometimes before God can move you forward and he has to bring 372 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:11,600 you back, he's got to bring you back to the place where your 373 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,280 knees hit the floor, where your voice it's cracked in 374 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:19,480 desperation, where you clung to him because you had nothing 375 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,400 else. And when the people of God 376 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:27,440 remember where they first met him, when they remember the 377 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:31,960 autumn, when they remember the praise they lifted when they 378 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,720 were at the end of the rope, that's when heaven. 379 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:41,000 Yeah, heaven opens up and the glory fills the house. 380 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:47,400 I'm sorry, but let me have this to your gumbo before I get out 381 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,520 your kitchen. That our worship is not some 382 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,960 rudimentary ritual. Yeah, but it has to be a 383 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:58,360 lifestyle. One that suppresses, surpasses 384 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:03,280 our temporary emotions. One that surpasses, surpasses 385 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:09,720 our temporary feelings, yet allows God to use those same 386 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:16,840 emotions, that allows God to use those same feelings to help us 387 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:22,720 recognize his spirit when he moves, when we've got a lot of 388 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:29,360 people, as Second Timothy three and five says, refine ourselves, 389 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:36,320 him the place of having a form here, a form of godliness, but 390 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:41,240 denying the power thereof them because we won't worship God. 391 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:47,160 Worship God not just on Sunday, not just for the 90 minutes I 392 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:52,560 call your attention to God, but when you worship God with your 393 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:58,560 lifestyle. The Bible says yeah, that we'll 394 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:04,840 find ourselves living beneath the idea that God has for our 395 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,560 life. How would we do it? 396 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,920 Do it. Remember too prideful to cry in 397 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:17,440 service will do it. Remember too prideful to yell 398 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:22,000 and dance. But do it remember too prideful 399 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:27,400 to jump and shout. Remember too prideful to give 400 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,240 God back his resources. Let me tell you, pride. 401 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:41,800 Pride will trap you in dead religion by your soul longs for 402 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:48,960 fresh revelation. So Jesus here allows us again to 403 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:56,160 know that you and I can't have dead worship you and I can't 404 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:02,680 elevate being fake and phony, treating God like a side piece. 405 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:09,840 But we gotta be like Solomon and we'll say Lord, I worship 406 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,440 because worship the man surrender. 407 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:22,840 Worship the round demands me and you to surrender until we 408 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:29,960 stretch every part of us until the part of us say that we keep 409 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:34,200 hidden from God becomes exposed to the Lord. 410 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:39,080 Give your worship never breaks your right. 411 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:45,800 It's not a workshop, it's just performance and we've got people 412 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:51,800 on stages and platforms just God performing because it keeps the 413 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,640 applause of people. But it it's the heart of God. 414 00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:59,720 Hold on one second. I feel like I better go further 415 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:05,120 here because the text shows us that this man of God named 416 00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:10,640 Solomon had prioritized presence before power. 417 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:15,760 I said he prioritized presence before power. 418 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:20,040 Come here. He prioritized presence before 419 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:24,080 power. John 4 and 23 says that the 420 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:30,800 Father seeketh such to worship Him in spirit and in true. 421 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:36,120 And your author will take you where your ambition never could. 422 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:42,560 You can chase positions, but only worship gives you proximity 423 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,760 to God. I'm gonna get out of here now, 424 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:53,680 but I'm so glad that the text shows us that Solomon offered 425 00:27:53,720 --> 00:28:00,160 obedience over the optics. I'm so glad the text here shows 426 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,600 us what he does when they finally get to get beyond the 427 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:08,960 high place, that when they finally get to the church house, 428 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,800 when they finally get to the sanctuary, He does not put his 429 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:20,840 mind on what just happened. He does not put his mind on his 430 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:25,600 daddy dying. He doesn't put his mind harm 431 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:31,080 this group of people with him, but he said his mind harm the 432 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,240 Lord. I feel like preaching God and 433 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,280 the Bible shows us that. I see. 434 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,720 Yeah. He offers obedience over the 435 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:46,280 optics because it's better to obey than to sacrifice. 436 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,760 I'm going to get out of here now, but I've got to let you 437 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:56,800 know that heaven. He responds to surrender and not 438 00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:03,560 stage light Tylerman yes, God wasn't putting on the show, but 439 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:07,800 he was laying himself down because putting on the show. 440 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:12,480 Yes, God might impress the people, but it would help you 441 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:17,320 Blocked by the power of God. Disobedience doesn't just cause 442 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:22,080 a leader his personal blessing, but it threatens the entire 443 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,280 Kingdom. And let me break it down a 444 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:28,320 little further. That disobedience doesn't just 445 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,880 threaten the Kingdom. It threatens your destiny. 446 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,320 It threatens your family's unity. 447 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,880 It threatens your business integrity. 448 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,280 It threatens your community's arrival. 449 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,960 It threatens the future of our church. 450 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:48,080 And when you disobey, disobeying God and your family, you pass 451 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:53,640 down patterns of dysfunction instead of patterns of 452 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:58,720 generational breakthrough. I'm so glad that you can find 453 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:04,520 yourself him the tax because the tax shows us that when you 454 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:11,640 disobeying God in your business, you sacrifice integrity for 455 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:17,640 short term gain, but you'll lose long term trust when you disobey 456 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:23,880 God in your community. You can shimmy to cycles of 457 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:29,800 injustice etcetera, rising up as an agent of change. 458 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:37,160 And when we disobey God as a church, we become a museum. 459 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:43,480 Come here, listen to me. A Museum of religion, etcetera, 460 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:47,160 movement, a revival and resurrection. 461 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:55,480 So Solomon says I'm a city right here and I'm a worship while I 462 00:30:55,480 --> 00:31:00,160 wait. I'm a worship him, the House of 463 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,520 the Lord. I know you're trying to hear me 464 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:07,600 over the organ, but I want to let you know that you got to put 465 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:13,000 your mind on God here because there's still more to go. 466 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,360 There's still away the journey. There's still more for you to 467 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,680 do. There's still more for your 468 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,560 plan. And you can't get stopped. 469 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:28,560 You can't get paused, you can't get caught, can't get snagged, 470 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:34,720 they can't get trapped. Right here, 'cause right here 471 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:42,120 God wants to see how will you handle the waiting room of life. 472 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:49,240 God wants to see how will you handle this place of not there 473 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:56,800 yet, this place of in between. Will you worship Him this place 474 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:04,840 or will you cause yourself to plan your party man that the 475 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,440 text shows us to put it together. 476 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:14,480 You got to commit to worshipping, worshipping him to 477 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:20,080 wait because when you worship him to wait, The Bible shows us 478 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:26,160 that God will whisper as he watch him to wait. 479 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,680 Hold on Alan, I got to get this one out. 480 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:33,920 I said God will whisper as he watches you wait, because how 481 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:37,600 you posture yourself in the waiting determines what you're 482 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,440 carrying, the winning. I said how you posture yourself, 483 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,520 him, the waiting, determines what you're carrying, Him, the 484 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,440 winning. I want to let you know today 485 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:54,040 that in this place of waiting, you'll find yourself #4 stepping 486 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,960 into a sovereign selection and supernatural supply. 487 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,280 I know it's my time, but I got to go. 488 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:05,360 I got to let you know that it was because of his worship that 489 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:11,960 Solomon now, yes Sir, prioritizes the presence of God 490 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:17,320 and he surrounds himself with the right people and they return 491 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:21,280 to the altar. And here comes the moment of 492 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:26,880 God's encounter. Verse #7 says, after all of that 493 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:31,400 worship, you got your Bible. I'm about to go for real, going 494 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:36,840 to fly together. You ready in verse #7 says In 495 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:50,200 that night God did appear unto Solomon and said unto him, ask 496 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:55,640 what I should give thee. I'm so glad tonight that we're 497 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,920 all about to leave together because I want to leave this 498 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:04,360 with you on the tablets of your heart that when you worship 499 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:09,760 you'll find yourself in a different position that you've 500 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:14,400 never been in before. And the text shows us all that 501 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:19,639 solemn had did and I'm going to let you know that when God came 502 00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:25,080 to Solomon, God did enhance Solomon A to do list. 503 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:30,080 No, he invited him into a conversation. 504 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,480 And here's the mind blowing homiletical highlight. 505 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:42,080 We keep asking God for solutions when God it's posing questions 506 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:48,520 because you and I are the solution He's placed in the 507 00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:50,840 earth. I think he missed it. 508 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:56,480 Let me run it back real quick. I said you and I are the 509 00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:02,080 solution through the Russians. The enemy wants to trap you in 510 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,880 doubt, make you question your purpose. 511 00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:09,080 He wants to make you believe you're stuck waiting on God to 512 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,800 fix it when God's already ordered yourselves, crafted the 513 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,480 plan. And that leans in asking you and 514 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:22,520 I, how do you want me to move with you? 515 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,440 That's all God was asking Solomon. 516 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,800 He saw his worship. And so God says, what do you 517 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:35,880 want me to do through you? Oh my God, you've been given a 518 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:40,600 genius, you've been given gifts and you've been given graces. 519 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,360 But will you activate them by faith? 520 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:48,120 So God questions Solomon. His question wasn't about 521 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:55,400 filling a God gap, it was about unlocking Solomon's own calling. 522 00:35:56,040 --> 00:36:01,400 Because Heaven's question is not because God is unsure, it's 523 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:06,160 because he's trying to reveal to you and I what's already inside 524 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,640 of us. I've got to go for real now. 525 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,840 You want to put it back together, Go back to the altar. 526 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,560 And when you go to the altar, you won't find God giving you 527 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:23,080 something else to do. But you're fine, God asking a 528 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,360 question. What do you want me to do? 529 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,720 I'm going to go for real now, but I want to let you know that 530 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:37,160 God has Solomon. What do you want? 531 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,880 He could have had a wealth, He could have had his enemies 532 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,360 killed. But he said, Lord, give me 533 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,240 wisdom. I got to leave for real now. 534 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,880 He didn't want weapons. He didn't want wealth, but he 535 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,880 wanted wisdom. And for some of us in this 536 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:59,120 season, they got enough money, didn't fumble that enough. 537 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,800 He didn't have enough relationships, been in and out 538 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,520 of them. But in this season we got to be 539 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:15,920 like Solomon and say, Lord, give me wisdom, Lord, give me wisdom, 540 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:20,000 because with wisdom I can win every war. 541 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,840 With wisdom I can handle every storm. 542 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:27,480 With wisdom I can triumph every tail. 543 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,120 With wisdom I know I want to lose. 544 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:38,160 Lord, give me wisdom. Lord, give me wisdom. 545 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:43,880 Putting it back together. Solomon does not ask for wealth. 546 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,760 It's a lot of scripture. I didn't go through all of it 547 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:54,120 because I want you to see just a few intricate details that at 548 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:59,960 the every step of this process. At the end of the day, it was 549 00:37:59,960 --> 00:38:04,120 not about something else. I can get to be flashy. 550 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:10,880 It was not something else for me to parade myself in this glory 551 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:16,760 of status and stature. But he realizes that if I'm 552 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,880 going to go to another level, I've already got your hand on 553 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,080 me. You're already with me, with 554 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:28,200 your spirit. But now I need check this out 555 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,480 not know how knowledge. I need wisdom. 556 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:41,400 And I'll be honest, for a lot of us, Hallelujah, the thing that 557 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:45,800 we lack it's wisdom for the moment. 558 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,560 I I I know, I know you may be offended because you say I'm 87 559 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:50,800 1/2. How you going to tell me I need 560 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,880 wisdom? Hear me in the Holy Ghost that 561 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:58,600 you need wisdom for a day you and I have never experienced it 562 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:03,480 might be similar, but you need wisdom to navigate this move. 563 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:11,080 This prayer was, Lord, there's a lot around me, but my eyes days 564 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,960 are fixed on you. And because it's fixed on you, 565 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:20,080 Lord, and down me with wisdom. Listen, I'm going to pray for 566 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:24,080 you today as we leave this place before I pray for you, you may 567 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,000 not know Jesus in the free pardon of your sin. 568 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:30,720 I want to invite you to get to know for yourself that God wants 569 00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:35,240 to not only just be there with you, but He wants to be there 570 00:39:35,240 --> 00:39:41,440 beside you, in you, around you. They don't want you to be 571 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,520 something, somewhere that you pick up when it's convenient, 572 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,520 but he wants to always be there leading you. 573 00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:52,360 That's why he hung, bled, and died. 574 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,040 Not so that you could be by yourself. 575 00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,400 Because this world we lives in, right living right now, want you 576 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,800 to be isolated. Thank you Deacon House, this 577 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,120 world that we live in want you to be by yourself. 578 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,760 That's why we still deal with come here, Surgeon General, this 579 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:12,400 issue of isolationism that people are secretly fighting 580 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,960 depression. And you come to church and you 581 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:20,800 play like you, OK, But I know you struggling because in your 582 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,000 mind, you're still stuck in a room. 583 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,880 You're still stuck in a place that you have allowed yourself 584 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,720 to hide in, but don't let you know. 585 00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:32,000 Get out of that room. Come to the altar, make a alt at 586 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,960 your house, wherever you're at. God wants to come into that 587 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:39,360 place. He wants to commune, converse 588 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,200 with you. He don't want that cute little 589 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,240 prayer. He don't want that little 2 590 00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:46,600 second grace. God wants your heart. 591 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:51,920 He wants you to break yourself, break your back, bend yourself 592 00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:55,640 in His presence because He wants to show that I really am 593 00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,000 everything you need. Let's pray this prayer with me. 594 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,560 Lord Jesus, come into my heart, save me. 595 00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:10,000 I want to be saved. Lord Jesus, thank you for dying 596 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:15,920 on the cross of me. Lord Jesus, thank you for rising 597 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:21,920 out of the grave for me. Lord Jesus, thank you for soon 598 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:26,720 coming again for me in Jesus name, Amen. 599 00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:28,880 If you pray that prayer, you're saved. 600 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:34,840 Thank you for tuning in to the Rock Hill Baptist Church 2 601 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,080 Podcast. We pray today's message planted 602 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,640 something in your spirit and gave you the strength to keep 603 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:44,120 growing here at the Rock Hill Baptist Church 2. 604 00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:47,600 We're a growing church, and growth starts with one step. 605 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,880 If you're ready to go deeper, visit us online at 606 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:57,480 www.myrockhill2.org and click Next Steps to get connected. 607 00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:00,880 Join a ministry or give your life to Christ. 608 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:05,320 Be sure to follow the podcast so you never miss a message and 609 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,440 share this episode with someone you know is ready to grow too. 610 00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:12,080 And remember, no matter what comes your way, you were built 611 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:15,480 to elevate. Until next time, walk in 612 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:18,880 purpose, live in power, and grow in grace.