1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:05,440 The Lord, a great handclap of praise, Amen. 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,440 The Spirit of the Lord does a drawing. 3 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:12,640 Spirit of the Lord does a drawing, Amen. 4 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:14,920 We honor the Lord. Amen. 5 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,600 Tonight for them, Amen. What God is going to do in their 6 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:20,960 lives. Hallelujah this evening. 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:24,640 Got out here after prayer tonight and there was some 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:31,440 Cologne on my front seat there with the name of Genesis Cologne 9 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:35,160 called Genesis. Brother Reese thought that that 10 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:37,720 would be appropriate and probably a Cologne that I need 11 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:39,760 for those that attend here regularly. 12 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:42,680 Before we went to connect groups. 13 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:46,160 I've been in a series on Genesis, matter of fact, here 14 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:48,480 and there, on and off. We've been probably about 50 15 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:52,240 lessons in Genesis. So they thought it necessary, I 16 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,040 guess that I have. I smelled it a little bit, 17 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:59,200 smelled a little tower Babble in there and maybe a hand of Sodom, 18 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,800 Gomorrah and even a few genealogies. 19 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:06,840 I think that they're. But that's funny, isn't it? 20 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:08,760 Amen. You can always depend on people. 21 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,680 Brother Boyd years ago said you don't have to worry about being 22 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,000 prideful, said because. People always keep you humble. 23 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,880 People always keep you humble. Amen. 24 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:23,800 I want to turn to the word of the Lord tonight. 25 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:29,000 Still yet in the prophet of Isaiah here tonight, prophet 26 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:34,440 Isaiah chapter #6 and a few verses of Scripture, Amen, this 27 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:43,400 evening. And I'll tell you, and, and this 28 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,640 is just the way it's been here of late. 29 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:49,880 And I, I'm just tell you right from the go, I will be 30 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:53,880 repetitive somewhat tonight. In preacher terminology, we call 31 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:59,520 it theological circling. That is that you come to the 32 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:01,640 same truth from several different angles. 33 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,240 And kind of like whenever Jesus, a New Testament scripture, he 34 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:10,120 said the Kingdom of heaven is like he tells a parable and a 35 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,120 little later down the Kingdom of heaven is like he tells a 36 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:16,320 parable and and he's coming from different angles to solidify a 37 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:18,640 truth, Amen about the Kingdom of God. 38 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,120 So I'm going to try to do that Amen here this evening through 39 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,160 God's Word. Isaiah chapter #6 again, good to 40 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,080 see you all, Tamara. So glad to have you. 41 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,040 Amen there by Amber. I know she's happy to have you 42 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,800 folks after church. You need to go see Amber's like 43 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,080 notebook. I can't even describe like the 44 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,440 outside of it, these little rubber like finger things, 45 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,640 they're all over it it. It looks like a sensory tool to 46 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:44,960 me, but. I said what? 47 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:46,320 In the world. You got over there, she. 48 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:48,240 Says that's my notebook I take. Notes. 49 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:49,920 I said, well that's fine, that's fine. 50 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,560 I'm just kind of drawn. To it for some reason. 51 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,840 So hey man, you need to check that out. 52 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,080 Check that out Isaiah 6 and verse one. 53 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:03,880 The Bible says in the year that King Uzziah died, Isaiah says I 54 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:08,360 saw also the Lord setting up on the throne high and lifted up, 55 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,680 and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the Seraphim's 56 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,840 which was a a classification or type of Angel. 57 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,840 Each one had 6 wings. With Twain he covered his face, 58 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,080 and with Twain, Twain means two, he covered his feet, and with 59 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,120 Twain he did fly and. One cried. 60 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:32,000 And two, another, and said Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. 61 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:36,600 The whole earth is full of his glory. 62 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,720 So there's a lot of different, it's a lot of different things 63 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,280 really that's contained within these first few verses. 64 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,160 We have our earthly king that has died. 65 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:48,520 We have we have Seraphim's and angels that are in the picture. 66 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,360 There are some things being cried. 67 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,680 Isaiah, no doubt is present. Amen. 68 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,640 But there's something not to be missed in the three verses as 69 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,360 well. That is the Lord. 70 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,880 And so with the help of the Lord tonight, I'm going to minister 71 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:13,760 this Beyond angels wings, beyond angels wings, Hallelujah. 72 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,160 Let's ask the Lord to help us. Father, I thank you. 73 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,000 I praise you, Lord, for another opportunity in time. 74 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,680 I don't want to ever take for granted, Lord, the opportunity 75 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:28,560 of coming, Lord, to your house and center in my life, Lord, 76 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,880 around your word. I pray, O God, that you're able 77 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,920 to help us tonight. I pray God that you're able to 78 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:38,560 enter this building, Lord, in a way that we could, Lord, feel 79 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,800 and acknowledge and recognize the Lord that you are here, 80 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,840 Lord, to do, to perform, to touch, to reorient. 81 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:49,720 I pray God, us in some fashion and way, God, we're so thankful 82 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,800 for what you've done today. God, we pray Lord, that you 83 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,680 would continue to do and accomplish something even here 84 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:00,040 this evening in our lives as we give ourselves over to you in 85 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,160 the lovely name of the Lord Jesus Christ that I pray 86 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,560 Hallelujah, Hallelujah in the church say Amen, Amen. 87 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,720 You may be seated tonight in Jesus name. 88 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,720 You don't have to raise your hand this evening when I ask you 89 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:19,400 the. Next couple of questions. 90 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:25,040 Kind of rhetorical for yourself or to somehow provoke your mind 91 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:30,360 and thinking in a direction, but has anyone here ever seen an 92 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:35,920 Angel or had what you would call an undeniable angelic 93 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,320 visitation? I don't know if maybe you have 94 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:43,440 or have not or perhaps known someone who who has, but 95 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:44,760 whenever I. Was a a. 96 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:49,480 Teenager. I remember saying as a teenager, 97 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,400 young of course, that I had seen an Angel. 98 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,720 But. If I'm honest, tonight what that 99 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,600 really was at least. For me, I'm just talking about 100 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,480 myself. Tonight was a yielding to. 101 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,120 The pressure of a lot of other. People that I was. 102 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:09,240 Around that was my age who were saying that they had seen an 103 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:14,200 Angel and being a young impressionable individual rather 104 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:18,320 Fred, I didn't want to be left out from not having seen an 105 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,280 Angel. I didn't want to seem as though 106 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:25,080 I was subpar to all of the rest. Of my peers. 107 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:29,440 And perhaps less spiritual, you know, compared to them, to 108 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,240 those. Who had claimed that they had 109 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,480 seen that and had that type of experience? 110 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:38,240 For that matter, I I confess. To you that I wanted to see it. 111 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:40,600 I wanted to be able to say brother. 112 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,040 Trout that that. I had seen it, but I admit a 113 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,360 standing before you. Today, not a teenager. 114 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,120 But 47 years? Old and tell you plainly. 115 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:53,280 And humbly that I did not see anything but. 116 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:58,480 What I did experience there was something very real. 117 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:05,000 I felt an overwhelming presence of the Lord Brother Mason in 118 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,800 that camp. Boys dormitory where I was. 119 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:13,080 I may not have seen an Angel, but I. 120 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:17,120 Had an encounter with God nonetheless. 121 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:21,040 And in retrospect, that matters more. 122 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,160 I grew up during the air. I'm just going to take a little. 123 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,880 Cautionary tale from my life. Tonight I grew up in during an 124 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:34,160 era of time when I was exposed to ministries that described 125 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:36,520 and, and I don't want to be misunderstood tonight, so I'll 126 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,760 probably throw disclaimers in there along the way, but that I 127 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,560 grew up during the time that that there was ministries that 128 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,920 that describe their encounter with with angels in vivid 129 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,000 detail. I I remember as a young man, 130 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,000 ministers and preachers and I, I do not fault that. 131 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,480 And I believe those episodes happen absolutely. 132 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:58,120 But I remember as a young man hearing those things spoken. 133 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,120 Of in vivid detail and. Even in services that I 134 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:05,920 attended, Brother Fred, people would testify openly about 135 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:10,400 angelic visitations, and they said that they saw them and 136 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,800 there would be others in the room that would affirm that they 137 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,000 likewise had seen. Them. 138 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:19,040 In that service as well, I remember just being a young, 139 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,440 impressionable young boy, remembering quietly and 140 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,480 wondering quietly, Brother Reese, how how spiritual this 141 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:26,920 is. Just the mind of a teenager, 142 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:33,039 mind you, how spiritual a person must be to see an Angel or have 143 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:37,960 an angelic presence that would come around them and make itself 144 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:42,200 known to them, particularly in a service that I was just as much 145 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,760 as part of as anybody else in that service. 146 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,680 And so without anybody saying, saying it out loud as a young 147 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:54,680 teenage boy, there was a unspoken hierarchy that begin to 148 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:59,280 be developed in my own mind. And that was those who had seen 149 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:03,680 something and those who had not seen something, those who had 150 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:07,360 experienced it and those who had not experienced it. 151 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,680 And so in in there was an atmosphere then as a result of 152 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:14,600 that that was engendered in my generation with this 153 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:19,920 preoccupation with with seeing or experiencing the angelic. 154 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:22,800 I remember this quite notably, Amen. 155 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,040 And so again, I want to be clear tonight, I believe those 156 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,040 episodes happen and I believe they still happen, Amen. 157 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:32,760 If it's in the Bible, it happens, all right? 158 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:35,960 It still happens. And I believe the Scripture in 159 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,880 the writer of Hebrews when he speaks to us and says that some 160 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,680 have entertained angels unawares, sometimes just through 161 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:49,760 simple acts of hospitality and kindness that we have shown to 162 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:53,560 strangers or people that we do not know. 163 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,800 And I also think tonight squarely based upon God's Word, 164 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:03,240 that we have likely entertained angels unawares far more times 165 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:07,440 even than what we realize. We may never recognize that we 166 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:11,760 may not ever seen some beaming glow around someone, but we've 167 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,840 experienced it. And so somewhere along the way, 168 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:18,720 however we begin though I I remember in that era that 169 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,160 they're they're in maybe even it still occurs today that there's 170 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:27,080 association with an angelic visitation as only happening for 171 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,280 the Super spiritual type people. Those those that have a certain 172 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:36,120 badge of spirituality being able to experience that or maybe just 173 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:40,560 a certain classification of Christianity that can experience 174 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:44,160 that Amen that that angels were just badges of spiritual 175 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:48,320 achievement on people's lapels when reality according to God's 176 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,720 word, they are servants that are on divine assignments all 177 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,640 throughout God's word. The Bible seems to indicate to 178 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:01,160 you and I that that the entourage of the Lord's very 179 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:05,800 presence is often times angelic in form. 180 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:10,680 It's angelic in practice. In other words, angels do not 181 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:14,600 announce a individual's spiritual rival because they've 182 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,560 seen that or witnessed that. If you've seen that Angel, then 183 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:21,440 you you've arrived spiritually or you got some type of leg of a 184 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,480 superiority in the spirit on top of someone. 185 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,520 No angels. What they really do for us, if 186 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:31,400 they are present is that they announced that we are in close 187 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:36,120 proximity to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and the 188 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,880 great divine. And so we've aired sometimes by 189 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:45,120 vying for the attention of angels, when really what we 190 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:50,360 should be looking toward and focusing on is a deeper hunger 191 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,960 and desire for the presence of God. 192 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:59,440 Someone say Amen. I guess my, my, my conveyance is 193 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:03,000 this tonight. Angels are not our destination. 194 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:09,120 Angels are just the accompaniment of the king. 195 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:15,840 They are the ambassadors, they are the escorts, they are the 196 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:19,600 cohorts, if you will, of God Himself. 197 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:24,480 Scripture tells us it describes angels as being ministering 198 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,360 spirits. It describes them as being 199 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:31,920 messengers of the King of glory. They deliver announcements. 200 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,640 They many times were found bringing about announcements 201 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:39,760 concerning miraculous births, births that could not happen had 202 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,280 it not been for the intervention of God. 203 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:46,520 Some angels have brought warnings of impending doom to 204 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:50,240 nations and people. In the book of Job, like we 205 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:54,800 spoke this morning, angels are called the sons of God. 206 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,200 Amen. That Satan even once walked 207 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,800 among in the presence of God. They are called in Scripture 208 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:07,240 holy ones or watchers, or a heavenly host or the host of 209 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:09,240 heaven. When you read in Scripture, 210 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:14,400 sometimes angels appear in human form with human characteristics. 211 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:19,080 Sometimes they speak like men, eat like them, fight like them, 212 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:23,320 possess wisdom at times that rivals human understanding. 213 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:28,000 And yet there's also times that they can be invisible, swift, 214 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,520 capable of flight which is beyond our human ability and 215 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,520 understanding. Angels in scripture were called 216 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,960 alongside to assist. They were called alongside to 217 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:43,560 guide and above all else they were called even and as we are 218 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:47,040 to worship. John tells us in the Book of 219 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:51,480 Revelation when he had a vision of the throne of God, he said as 220 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:58,280 I stood there, he said I beheld and I also heard a voice of many 221 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:04,440 angels around about the throne. He said they numbered 1000 * 10 222 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:08,440 thousands and thousands of thousands, and they were all 223 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:13,920 declaring with one voice Worthy is the the Lamb, Amen. 224 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:17,200 If I'm telling you right, tonight the angels are not 225 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:21,000 present, and they do not come nigh and do they do not come 226 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:26,040 near for the purpose of drawing attention to themselves, but for 227 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,600 the purpose of. Giving attention. 228 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:36,200 Of giving attention unto God. They are called to worship, not 229 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:43,480 to be worshipped. Church through the ages, even 230 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:47,000 the Apostolic Church through the ages has occasionally flirted 231 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,040 with the air. And it's not because of 232 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:52,200 rebellion or anything like that, but there's sometimes been a 233 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:56,680 misplaced fascination with the angelic. 234 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:03,680 But we need to have a longing for God that exceeds A longing 235 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:10,040 for the angelic Hey man. John himself, even in the Book 236 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:14,960 of Revelation momentarily fell into a moment of being 237 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:19,720 overwhelmed by what he was experiencing in the vision that 238 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:23,880 the Bible says the Angel that would been accompanying him. 239 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:27,400 Hey man, whenever John is seeing everything that he sees and 240 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,480 beholding everything that he beholds, the Bible says that 241 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:35,560 John the revelator fell down at the feet of the Angel and begin 242 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:38,800 to worship him. And the Angel seeing this 243 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:43,480 immediately spoke to John and he said, see thou do it not. 244 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:47,240 Don't you be kneeling here, Don't be worshipping here. 245 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:51,800 Don't be giving me any type of exaltation here, he says. 246 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:54,160 Because in essence, I'm a worshipper. 247 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,840 It's like you're a worshipper. In essence, I'm not the point, 248 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,920 it's the one. Who's sitting on the throne? 249 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:02,920 That's the point, folks. We can be fascinated by all 250 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:06,920 sorts and types of things, but blessed are they which do hunger 251 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:10,520 and thirst after. Him I don't need an Angel, but 252 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:11,880 I. Do need God? 253 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,800 Hey, man, Paul echoes this warning. 254 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:19,400 He. Cautions the Church at. 255 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:23,480 Colossians, he says, well, to them that would be beguiled by 256 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:27,560 worshipping of angels. God, he never rebukes a Angel 257 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:31,920 for accompanying him, but he does OFT times correct us, Amen. 258 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:36,560 Whenever we stop there, Amen. And we neglect the divine that's 259 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,400 behind the angelic, please understand. 260 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:41,120 And I got to tell you this because I don't want to be 261 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,800 misunderstood tonight. I believe in the existence of 262 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,720 angels. I'm not diminishing the purpose 263 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:50,480 of angels. I just simply want to tell you 264 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,120 tonight, yes, there should be honor and there should be 265 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,320 respect and there should be acknowledgement. 266 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:59,680 Haman And all of that is true. Haman The problem isn't angels. 267 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:03,760 The problem is I don't want to stop short at the angelic and 268 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:07,720 not press on through to the divine, because it's from him 269 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:12,560 and by him and through him that all these things come about. 270 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:14,480 It is for him. And to. 271 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:17,119 Him that all of these things are 4. 272 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:19,599 Thank God. I hope someone does see an 273 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:22,119 Angel, but you must. Understand they are an 274 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:27,319 ambassador of a higher power. They are a messenger of a divine 275 00:17:27,319 --> 00:17:34,280 God who just is very spittle became universes shut them 276 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,160 beyond angels. Wings. 277 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:42,080 That's what we see in Scripture, Brother Fred. 278 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:46,640 You see it a lot in the Old Testament angelic visitations 279 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:54,600 through the Old Testament Genesis, Abram and Sarah visited 280 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:59,000 by what they believe 3 angels. They did recognize something, 281 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,600 but it was only confirmed later that one of them was the Angel 282 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:03,800 of the Lord. And usually when that 283 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,600 terminology is used in Scripture, we're talking about 284 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,960 some manifestation of God Himself, almost like a theophany 285 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:13,760 is the, the, the, the, you know, proper terminology. 286 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:16,480 Amen. Showing himself manifested 287 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:18,400 himself. And it was later that they 288 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:23,800 realized what we had here then in reality was God accompanied 289 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:29,760 by two angels. When angels showed up in the 290 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:34,200 word of God, it wasn't because people were chasing angels. 291 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:36,960 It's because people were pursuing God. 292 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:44,280 Draw near unto God. The Bible even draws some 293 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:48,280 distinct line concerning classifications of angels we we 294 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:50,400 read of in Scripture. You probably got some in your 295 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:54,200 home, you know, cherubs or cherubim, hey man, or seraphim 296 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,280 and seraphim, that's spoken up throughout the Scripture. 297 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,680 These were so important that God even included them. 298 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,280 Amen. As a sign unto us in His design 299 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:06,560 for the Tabernacle and even the temple. 300 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,640 The Bible tells us in Second Chronicles, he told them 301 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:13,360 whenever you make the veil for the temple, make sure that you 302 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:16,200 weave it with cherubim upon that veil. 303 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:17,240 Amen. That's right. 304 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:22,160 Before going into the ark of God and the holies of holies, I want 305 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:26,360 you to stitch some angels right there to the very entrance of 306 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,840 God's presence. He says I want symbolically, 307 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,760 Amen, throughout my temple, my Tabernacle, whether it's in the 308 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:36,200 curtains, whether it's in the veil, whether it's in carvings 309 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,360 on the wall, whether it's in the tin carvings, Amen. 310 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:41,600 That's upon the 10 lavers in the temple. 311 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:45,640 I want you to put angels there, and I want you to put seraphim 312 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,400 there and cherubim there. What are you doing, God? 313 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:53,040 He says I'm just reinforcing, Amen, that wherever my presence 314 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,280 is, you're just going to find the Angelica, you're going to 315 00:19:56,280 --> 00:20:00,360 find angels, Amen. That if you see a Angel, it's 316 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:04,600 not there on its own or by its own reasoning or for its own 317 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:06,560 purpose. That I'm there. 318 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:11,400 That I'm. Present that Oh yes, cherubim 319 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,440 attended the ark of the covenant David, the Bible says in the 320 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,760 book of second Samuel, the ark of God had been gone for quite 321 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,360 some time. He goes to retrieve the ark of 322 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:24,960 God and the Bible says the ark of God, second Samuel 6 two the 323 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:30,920 ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the Lord of hosts 324 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:36,160 that developed between the cherubims, the Lord of hosts. 325 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,320 It's one of those fancy words. You ever heard the Scripture and 326 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,440 people pray them. You know, like Jehovah Jireh, 327 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:47,600 Jehovah Shamar, Jehovah tis canoe. 328 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:53,960 Well, Jehovah Sabeoth was the Lord of hosts. 329 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,880 That appears. That Lord of hosts appears 330 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:01,440 hundreds of times in your Bible and it declares him as the Lord 331 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:05,080 of the heavenly armies, or if you will, the Lord of hosts, 332 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:10,640 meaning the Lord of the angels, the Lord of the angels. 333 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,520 As a matter of fact, whenever David went to fight against 334 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,480 Goliath in that valley of Elah, Amen. 335 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:21,120 Here he is just a shepherd boy. Here he is with just his stone 336 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:24,200 and his sling and his shepherd's bag and his staff. 337 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:28,760 He cries out to that grand enemy of Israel, Goliath. 338 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,840 And he tells him, I don't come to you with a shield or with a 339 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:35,240 sword of all the modern botanics, if you will, of 340 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,880 warfare. He says, but I come to you, 341 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:41,240 Amen, in the name of the Lord of hosts. 342 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:46,000 This was never a battle against a a shepherd and a giant. 343 00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:50,840 It was a battle against a giant. And the Lord of hosts, the Lord 344 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,640 in his army of angels. What does that mean tonight? 345 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,360 That means wherever the Lord is. Amen. 346 00:21:57,360 --> 00:22:00,880 Folks, we are never outnumbered. We're never outnumbered. 347 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:04,280 The Bible says that Elijah was standing in a precarious place 348 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,440 one time with his servants, surrounded by enemies. 349 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,480 And the servant says, Elijah, we're, we're, we're at odds 350 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,360 here. We're, we're in a bad position 351 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:15,480 because we're surrounded by adversaries. 352 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,040 And there was something that Elijah had picked up on Amen, 353 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:20,760 that the servant had picked up on. 354 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:25,560 Elijah knew that he was walking right in the divine pathway of 355 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,480 the presence of God. And he says, I know if God's. 356 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,640 Presence is here. He's the Lord of hosts. 357 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,160 He's the Lord of angels. He lays his hands on that. 358 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:39,600 Servant, and he says God. Open his eyes so that that he 359 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,520 can see and the. Servant looked around and 360 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,240 there's. Horses and Chariots, angelic 361 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:53,320 fire, all of that was nothing more but a testimony that God 362 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,480 was there. God was there. 363 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,480 Amen. That's, I mean, angels are just 364 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:08,440 the Lord's personnel. They're always in Scripture you 365 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:14,880 read, they're always connected with God, and almost every 366 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:20,480 transition into God's presence seems to be in Scripture, many 367 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:24,600 times accompanied by the angelic. 368 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:34,120 Isaiah 37 tells us that he saw the Lord enthroned between the 369 00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:38,400 cherubim. The prophet Ezekiel harmonize us 370 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,360 with the account of Isaiah and says there in the 1st chapter of 371 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:45,560 Ezekiel, it's a fantastic descriptive reading. 372 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:50,040 He says that he saw these cherubim or these angels 373 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:56,120 supporting the very throne of God, and that they moved 374 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:01,920 wherever the Spirit moved. They're not moving of their own 375 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,040 volition or at their own command. 376 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,000 But wherever the Spirit moved, that's where we go. 377 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,800 That's where we follow Isaiah and our text said the seraphim 378 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:16,720 are crying. Holy, holy, holy. 379 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:18,640 They're not talking about each other. 380 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,480 They're talking about the one that's seated on the throne. 381 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,120 They're not talking about their brother Angel. 382 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:26,240 No, no, no. They're talking about the one 383 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,360 seated on the throne. Angels have appeared through 384 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:32,920 moments of time in Scripture. They've been there at births, 385 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,520 they've been there at deaths. They've been there at 386 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,880 deliverances. They've been there at callings. 387 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,920 But anytime they showed up, they were not the spectacle. 388 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,760 They were just a confirmation. That God is at. 389 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,600 Work. God is here. 390 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,480 God is in this place. God is about boy. 391 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,880 So they're not a end in themselves. 392 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:04,160 God's the central glory. Angels are just on the 393 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,080 peripheral. And I know sometimes we can be 394 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,960 dazzled by the outskirts, but it's the central glory. 395 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,240 It's that which is God's glory. That is the transformative 396 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:20,480 glory. An Angel can't save you for that 397 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,000 matter, I believe we said it here in the past few weeks. 398 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:27,640 What you got the Spirit of God even angels desire to look into 399 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:39,320 because here they are attendance of His glory, but they can't be 400 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,360 in the field with the Spirit like you and I are filled. 401 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:47,480 With the Spirit. And so they're interested in 402 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:53,800 that aspect of our lives. They're always connected with 403 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,320 God. Amen. 404 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,080 The Bible tells us Makaya, he's a prophet. 405 00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:01,200 You can read of him in First Kings 22. 406 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,360 This is what Makaya the prophet said concerning the Lord. 407 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:08,320 And it's very similar to what Isaiah saw in Isaiah chapter #6 408 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,360 Makai. The prophet basically said this. 409 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:14,160 He said, hear thou therefore the word of the Lord. 410 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:21,680 He says I saw the Lord sitting on his throne and all the host 411 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:28,040 of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on its left. 412 00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:32,360 What Makaya is describing here, the throne is central, the 413 00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:36,240 throne is the attention, the throne is the focus, and there 414 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:40,520 is an audience standing of the heavenly host on the left hand 415 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,200 and on the right sides. God in this picture is 416 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,160 surrounded by the angelic on each side. 417 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:53,920 But again, to witness the angels is to witness then your nearness 418 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,880 to God because they are accompanying Him. 419 00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:01,960 They are there because of Him. What are you saying? 420 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,200 I'm saying whenever Isaiah says in the year that King Uzziah 421 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,800 died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up. 422 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,520 If we would take a moment, there's a lot of things that 423 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,560 Isaiah could have been swept away by in what he was 424 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,000 experiencing and seeing and noticing in that moment. 425 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,680 He could have been overtaken by the fact that our earthly king 426 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,760 had expired and had deceased and there was going to be a new 427 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,600 kingship. That was necessary. 428 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,640 He could have been taken back by the fact that there are 429 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,600 seraphims that are above here with six wings, 2 covering their 430 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,720 face, 2 they're fine with and two covering their feet. 431 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,360 He could have you been intoxicated by the melody of 432 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:46,320 their cries of holy, holy, holy, but the end result of everything 433 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,880 that he experienced and seen earthly king dying. 434 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,640 The angelic in the atmosphere, he says. 435 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,520 Let me tell you what I saw though. 436 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:58,240 I saw the. Lord in and of it all. 437 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,440 He said. My focus, my attention. 438 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,680 What? Grabbed me more than anything is 439 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:07,360 that the Lord was still on his throne and he was high and he 440 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:20,920 was lifted up and his train. Oh Jesus, someone say glory. 441 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:28,160 It's the first thing he noticed. King's dead, yes, he says. 442 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:34,480 But I saw, I saw the Lord. It also interests me. 443 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:40,120 Brother Fred, with the cry of the Seraphim's did not concern 444 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,520 was not about. Isaiah. 445 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:48,760 Did not concern was not about one another, but they're holy, 446 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:54,720 holy holy that they spoke with in that scripture is followed 447 00:28:54,720 --> 00:29:01,760 with is the Lord of hosts and the whole earth is filled with 448 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,640 his glory. It wasn't a recognition of each 449 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,560 other and it wasn't a recognition of the mortal man 450 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,200 that was among them and it wasn't a recognition of the 451 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:14,200 mortal man that had passed away. Even the angels in this scenario 452 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,480 was captured by who they had audience with in that moment and 453 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,800 it was the Lord of hosts, the Lord of hosts. 454 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,120 Do you understand? And then in these few verses, 455 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:30,400 the emphasis is all about God. The emphasis is all about the 456 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,200 Lord. Folks, I hope we see some grand 457 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,440 things. I hope we experience signs and 458 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,160 miracles and. Wonders, but I never. 459 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,120 Want to get to the? Place where I am fascinated by 460 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:46,560 the sign and the miracle and the wonder, and I lose sight of the 461 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:51,920 one that's high and lifted up and sets on his throne and 462 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,760 causes and procures all these other things that we 463 00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:09,240 experienced. And again, this this might be 464 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:13,000 therapeutic session for me tonight, OK dealing with 465 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:19,840 something from my childhood. But God doesn't make mistakes 466 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,240 either. And I know what we speak from 467 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,800 this pulpit on a Sunday night goes in the airwaves and they 468 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,400 are forever listed in a podcast because I've had people contact 469 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:36,600 me later over. I'm asking myself sometimes, had 470 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,360 I ever missed the Lord while I was seeking and looking for an 471 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:57,790 Angel? They're present, but simply 472 00:30:57,790 --> 00:31:02,600 because He's present. Psalmist described as such that 473 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:08,280 the Lord rode up on a cherub. Cherub took flight and the Lord 474 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,200 says I'm going to use you as a vehicle today. 475 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,360 They're just attendants and worshippers and witnesses. 476 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:21,280 They testified to our encounters with God, but they never 477 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:27,440 determine them. Oh really? 478 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,040 Bert McGee yes. Let's think for a moment. 479 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:30,280 Just walk with me here for a moment. 480 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,560 I'll be mindful of your time, but just think for a moment. 481 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,080 There was a baby born in Bethlehem's Manger. 482 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,480 The Bible says they called him Jesus. 483 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:48,120 Yes, they also known as Emmanuel, God with us. 484 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:54,320 Do you know who appears at the birth to shepherds in a field 485 00:31:54,320 --> 00:32:00,240 over Yonder? The angelic singing Glory to God 486 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:10,280 in the highest peace on earth. Goodwill toward men. 487 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,760 If. They shepherds watching their 488 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:20,720 flock by night, had only been. Caught up in the angelic Whoa, 489 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,120 they would have missed that holy child. 490 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:35,560 Those angels weren't the point. The Manger. 491 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:42,080 But they had to accompany him because he had come down. 492 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:55,640 When he is resurrected. From the dead and there's some 493 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:59,040 that arrive to now the vacant tomb. 494 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:05,160 What do they encounter? Angel there. 495 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,040 Angel and other of the harmonies inside where he used to lay. 496 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,040 One person thought there was a gardener. 497 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:18,240 They're there because he had been there. 498 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:24,000 Whenever he ascends into heaven in Acts chapter #1 and disciples 499 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,360 are there, and they see his feet. 500 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,480 Leave that mount. Call all of it. 501 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,640 It's not very soon as they're watching. 502 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:34,200 Him go that angels. Appear and say, Why do you stand 503 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,480 here? Gazing the same Jesus that came. 504 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000 Amen. That's going away. 505 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,280 We'll. Come back to you. 506 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:44,120 Why are they there? Because they got to accompany 507 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,400 the divine and his presence. They're not the point. 508 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:53,680 He's. Everybody doing all right? 509 00:33:54,720 --> 00:34:04,720 Furthermore, go back to the. Garden of Gethsemane and Peter's 510 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:09,800 drawn his sword to cut off ears because of feeling threatened by 511 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:14,560 those who have come to the garden with stage and swords, he 512 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:19,480 tells Peter. Put up your sword and watch it 513 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,920 now. It's as though Jesus is 514 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:27,639 revealing to him. They would have been here, but 515 00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:28,920 I. Had to prevent them. 516 00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:32,679 Do you not know Peter? I could call 12. 517 00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:40,719 Legion of of Angels, you know, he said. 518 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,560 I have let this slide. For this time because they got 519 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,679 to apprehend men, so I just told them to stay over there in the 520 00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:49,239 distance, but. Normally they would be wherever 521 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:57,880 I'm at. You know what the Bible also 522 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:02,200 tells us then in the Bible, in the book of Thessalonians, 523 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:07,360 Second Thessalonians 17, the Paul, he opens his mouth and he 524 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:11,840 puts a pin to page and he says, I tell you this, that the day 525 00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:17,440 that the Son of Man returns, the day that Jesus comes back, he 526 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:22,560 says he will be accompanied by his mighty angels, because where 527 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,360 he goes, they. Go. 528 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,800 They're not the point. He's the point. 529 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,640 Their visitation ain't the point. 530 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,920 It's understanding you're having a visitation of God in this 531 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:37,640 moment. They show up when God is doing 532 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:44,160 something. Not us trying to see them, we 533 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:59,880 need to be trying to see him. Interestingly enough to me, I'm 534 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:02,800 getting there folks. Quite frankly, in my human 535 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:10,750 flesh, I'm tired. We don't have many names in 536 00:36:10,750 --> 00:36:16,350 scripture of angels if you and far between, but the ones that 537 00:36:16,350 --> 00:36:19,350 we know do know of for instance. Michael, you. 538 00:36:21,830 --> 00:36:25,550 Want to talk about how much there's this accompanying of God 539 00:36:25,550 --> 00:36:32,520 in them, Michael? Or if I could, Mike L, who means 540 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:37,320 who is like God. It's that El which is translated 541 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:42,800 as God. If he didn't have that, he would 542 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:49,480 just be who is like it's God that gives the meaning to his 543 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:54,960 name. When you read about Gabriel, 544 00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:02,480 that ministering Angel that announced the birth to, the 545 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,840 birth to to Elizabeth and Zachariah of John the Baptist, 546 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:12,840 and even the birth of Christ, it's Gabriel or Gabriel L, whose 547 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:19,800 name means strength. Of God without the L you just 548 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:20,560 got. Strength. 549 00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:26,320 It's the God. That gives the real meaning to 550 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,480 the Angel. I'm going to step further. 551 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:35,560 Who once was an Angel? Someone say glory. 552 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,240 I'm trying to set us up here because angels are never the 553 00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:42,080 source. They are the SIM ones. 554 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:48,440 The Bible says Lucifer. Well brother McGee, there's no 555 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:57,280 ail in there, just point it out. But Lucifer means light bearer 556 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:02,800 or Morning Star. You know what the Morning Star 557 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,040 is? It's that brightest planet 558 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:10,280 called Venus right before the breaking of the dawn. 559 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:21,960 Venus has no light of its own. It's borrowing light to shine 560 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:26,000 light, and it's always the brightest right before the sun 561 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:31,960 comes up. Honey, he. 562 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:36,120 Would not even to be a light bearer if there wasn't a light 563 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:40,160 to be born. But the great God of glory who 564 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:45,440 stepped into chaos and darkness said let there be light. 565 00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,880 He's the light of the world. He's the only one that gives 566 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:53,560 purpose and meaning to the supernatural and the angelic, 567 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,480 because they accompany and must our God. 568 00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:18,560 I'm talking about beyond angels. No, God, you can stand with me 569 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,240 before they get a Gurney to Take Me Out of here. 570 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:33,800 What I'm saying is this. The angelic has never been the 571 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:41,080 purpose. The angelic has always been the 572 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:47,680 evidence of the real purpose. They attend to His glory. 573 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:54,520 They don't replace His glory. They stand where God stands, 574 00:39:55,280 --> 00:40:00,720 they move where God moves, and they worship him with what he 575 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:08,120 deserves. So when angels appear, that's 576 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:12,080 not so much so heaven being showcased as much as it is, you 577 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:18,160 know what's going on. God is drawing near to us. 578 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,360 So ladies and gentlemen, thank you for the session tonight. 579 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:26,400 You've really helped me out. All those years ago, this is 580 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,040 what I know. Sister Jen Cruise all those 581 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:30,600 years ago as a teenage young boy. 582 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:34,640 Brother Mason all those years ago, I didn't need to see angels 583 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:40,560 to experience God. As I stood there not seeing 584 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:47,200 anything, I was feeling God. And perhaps, Brother Reese, 585 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,520 perhaps rather than staring and squinting my eyes to see if what 586 00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:54,560 others undoubtfully saw, perhaps I should have just closed my 587 00:40:54,560 --> 00:41:03,320 eyes and reflected and savoured that God is here and that's why 588 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:12,280 they are here. You never have one commandment 589 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:18,800 or mandate in scripture that says seek after angels, but we 590 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:24,600 are repeatedly towed. Seek after the Lord, feel after 591 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:28,360 the Lord. If haply you might find him, for 592 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:36,320 he's not far. He's not far from every. 593 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:39,640 What are you been saying tonight, brother? 594 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:41,960 Me, I can say this with confidence. 595 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,240 I felt him this. Morning. 596 00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,960 I feel him right. Now I tell you, with the 597 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,920 assurity of scripture and boldness, we are in the company 598 00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,040 of angels right now. Because he's here. 599 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:16,960 And I don't want anybody to go. I don't want to be my sisters 600 00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,200 to. I'm not discouraging you. 601 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:24,680 God would ever reveal the image of an Angel or the apparition of 602 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:26,280 an Angel to you. I'm not discouraging you. 603 00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:30,280 The danger is not in US believing in angels, but the 604 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,760 threat is just stopping with them. 605 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:43,480 What I encourage you to do is do, do as Isaiah did, come into 606 00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,680 that scenario and be looking for the Lord. 607 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,680 Come in that scenario of the melody of angels crying holy, 608 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:56,520 holy, and say that's sweet, but I know he's here somewhere. 609 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,760 That's sweet, but I'm looking for the Lord. 610 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:04,160 I'm looking for Him to be high and I'm looking for Him to be 611 00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,520 lifted up. Because ladies and gentlemen, 612 00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:11,480 beyond angels wings lies the presence of God. 613 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:16,360 Anything less than him is not the destiny, not the purpose. 614 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:22,040 He alone will always be, and His glory will always be the sole 615 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:31,760 purpose. And I feel Him, you know? 616 00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,560 You know the old chorus we used to sing Rebecca and Tag. 617 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:41,120 You guys know him. Surely the presence of the Lord 618 00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:47,520 is in this place. I feel his mighty power and his 619 00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:54,800 grace. I feel the rush of angels. 620 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:02,640 That's lyrically, biblically true, because they must 621 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:13,440 accompany they. Must accompany his presence. 622 00:44:24,950 --> 00:44:28,230 I would ask this tonight to enter a time right here at the 623 00:44:28,230 --> 00:44:31,670 closure of the service. I want you to close your eyes. 624 00:44:32,270 --> 00:44:34,750 I want you to minimize any distraction around you right 625 00:44:34,750 --> 00:44:39,720 now, and I want you to hone in and I want you to become 626 00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:45,280 fastened and fastened by the presence of the Lord. 627 00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,440 He's here. You don't have to take my word 628 00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,600 for it. Seek after Him right now. 629 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:57,400 Search after Him right now tonight would be a good night 630 00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:01,720 for somebody just to linger oh in the presence of angels yes 631 00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:04,880 that's just a byproduct, but ultimately you're standing in 632 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:10,360 proximity and closeness to the creator of the universe hell of 633 00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,240 a Messiah the. Judge of Old Judge. 634 00:45:13,240 --> 00:45:16,240 That will answer to one day. We're in it's presence. 635 00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:28,640 Come on Sir, ma'am, I want to experience the miracle, but I 636 00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:32,800 need the God of the miracle. I want to wonder, but he's the 637 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,240 God of wonder who come up behind. 638 00:45:35,240 --> 00:45:39,560 I want the inexplicable, but he's the God of the inexplicable 639 00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:46,640 just beyond angels wings. Come on, Sir, ma'am, if you 640 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:49,880 will, will you raise your hands right now just as a sign of 641 00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,960 surrender and obedience to the Spirit of the Lord that's in 642 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,160 this building? Will you just raise your hands 643 00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,200 right now? Will you create that funnel 644 00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,720 right now? Hallelujah, all across this 645 00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:01,920 building. You can begin to pray. 646 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,040 You can begin to speak in tongues. 647 00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,160 You can begin to give adoration and glory. 648 00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,800 I guarantee you angels are here worshiping. 649 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:14,680 I want to join in that company of a innumerable number that cry 650 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:42,280 holy, holy, holy, it's the Lord. But Brother McGee, Isaiah stood 651 00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,440 in that atmosphere and he said, Behold, I am a man of unclean 652 00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,400 lips and I do all among the unclean people. 653 00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,280 And the Bible says the seraphim, the Angel, went to the altar and 654 00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,560 picked up a life coat and took it and touched his to his lips 655 00:46:55,760 --> 00:47:00,280 and his lips became clean. They're ministering spirits. 656 00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,080 The coat from which that would probably come from was either 657 00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:08,720 the altar burnt offering or the altar of incense, both in the 658 00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:11,680 very beginning, the Tabernacle in the woods, you know, where 659 00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:16,120 the fire came from, initially came from God. 660 00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:20,520 He ignited the fire so there would have never been a hot 661 00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,920 Cove. For Isaiah's lips, though borne 662 00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:26,680 by an Angel, better not have been a God that initiated. 663 00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:30,200 The fire. He's always the purpose. 664 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:39,840 Let's worship Him one more. They're going to sing a song. 665 00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,560 These altars are open. I'm telling you, folks, I feel 666 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,680 unmistakable presence of God here right now. 667 00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:50,640 Unmistakable presence of God. I wish we would respond to his 668 00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,560 presence. Respond to his presence. 669 00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:55,360 Say, Brother McGee, I don't feel anything right now. 670 00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,520 That's OK. You can raise your hands and be 671 00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:59,960 respectful in honoring him. Amen. 672 00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:03,080 Because before we leave this place, there might be a fresh 673 00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,360 touch that comes along your Pew and upon your life. 674 00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:17,920 Sometimes we entertain angels unawares, and if they're there, 675 00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:20,080 he's there.