1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:01,680 Amen. Let's give the Lord some 2 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:04,720 blessing this morning. Thank you, Jesus. 3 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:15,850 Thank you. Amen. 4 00:00:15,850 --> 00:00:17,810 Lord bless you. If you'll just stand for just 5 00:00:17,810 --> 00:00:20,090 another moment, we'll hasten to the word of the Lord. 6 00:00:21,810 --> 00:00:26,330 Appreciate those overly kind words. 7 00:00:27,210 --> 00:00:29,570 Quick, quick trip down memory lane. 8 00:00:29,650 --> 00:00:32,960 I the next three steps I took made me feel a little older than 9 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:37,840 what I thought I felt, but it is reality and it is a blessing 10 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,000 from God and we are thankful for the journey. 11 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,400 Give honor to our Bishop and our pastor this morning. 12 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:48,160 Our youth pastor and brother Alex, sister Grace and brother 13 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:51,720 Zach and Sister Malen, the ministry families of this 14 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:54,400 church. My wife who puts up with me. 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,040 I am standing here today because of my circle. 16 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,880 Everybody needs a circle. The older I get, the smaller I 17 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:09,880 want my circle to be. It just feels a little safer 18 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:14,160 that way sometimes. But I am thankful, thankful, 19 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:18,520 thankful for them. Piper's about to say her first 20 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:22,120 word. She doesn't know it yet, but I 21 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,760 can tell by looking at her. She just, she just wants to say 22 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:29,160 Pops. I just, I just feel it. 23 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:31,760 I don't, I'm not saying it's spiritual, I'm not saying it's 24 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:38,440 prophecy, but I'm, I'm just feeling something there that she 25 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,440 and I might have to have a talk later just to just to verify. 26 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:44,600 Amen. Exodus chapter 30. 27 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,240 I won't keep you standing any longer. 28 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:55,160 It is Ministry Madness, AKA Month of March in spiritual 29 00:01:55,160 --> 00:02:00,000 celebration of March Madness. It is no secret that I am a 30 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,840 sports fan. I bleed Kentucky blue. 31 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,800 And so I am. I'm honored today that without 32 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:13,200 plan, it must have been in the spirit without plan, my family 33 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,840 showed up in blue today. I am in blue. 34 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:21,120 I've got my Kentucky socks on and my my favorite pastor's wife 35 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:26,120 who bleeds orange shows up in blue today and it, it looks blue 36 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,480 to me. So I I don't know what to say 37 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,760 about that other than I think the Lord is the Lord is kind and 38 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,560 and he, he, he, he is gracious and to those that disagree with 39 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,480 each other. Amen. 40 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,640 Exodus chapter 30 and verse #22 says, Moreover, the Lord spake 41 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:48,640 unto Moses, saying, Take thou also unto the principal spices 42 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:53,280 of myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much even 43 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:58,680 250 shekels, and of sweet calamus 250 shekels, and of 44 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,440 cassia 500 shekels. After the shekel of the 45 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,640 sanctuary and of olive oil and hen. 46 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,680 We talked about shekels in church a lot, but we don't talk 47 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:15,080 about the hen or the heen. In Hebrew it is translated as a 48 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,280 measurement, liquid measurement of roughly 1 gallon. 49 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,000 So we're talking about a gallon of olive oil with some poundage 50 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:27,400 of spices mixed in. Verse 25 says, and thou shalt 51 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:33,120 make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the 52 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:38,000 art of the apothecary. It shall be an holy anointing 53 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,280 oil very quickly. First Samuel 10 and one. 54 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,800 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and 55 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:51,160 kissed him, and said, Is it not because the Lord hath anointed 56 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,760 thee to be captain over his inheritance? 57 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:00,440 First Samuel 1616 and verse 13. My last verse. 58 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:05,720 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the 59 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,200 midst of his brethren, in the spirit of the Lord came upon 60 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:12,120 David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to 61 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,760 Rhema for a few moments this morning. 62 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:18,160 I want to minister on a, on a thought and I'm going to 63 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:22,480 introduce this thought in the most creative way that I, I, I 64 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:26,760 was able to come up with and our creative arts team really helped 65 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:29,800 me out here, Brother Alex and brother Trevor, and I appreciate 66 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:30,920 that. And brother James is going to 67 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,440 help me because I told you I believe blue and this is March 68 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:35,640 Madness. Whatever. 69 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,920 All right, So I'm trying to be as thematic as I can be, but 70 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:42,000 he's going to put slide up and we're going to introduce our 71 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,120 subject for today. Now, if you're not a basketball 72 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,480 fan, you probably don't appreciate what just happened, 73 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:53,800 but there we have it. I want to minister to you this 74 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,920 morning on a subject called unto the King. 75 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,640 All right, let everything we be do that we do be unto him. 76 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:02,880 Amen. Would you lift your hands and 77 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:04,760 just ask the Lord to help us this morning? 78 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:16,240 Hallelujah, Hallelujah, help us today. 79 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:21,840 God, we give you glory, honor and praise and Thanksgiving in 80 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:24,880 the name of Jesus. Lord bless you. 81 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,320 This morning you may be seated. That is a courtesy and not a 82 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:28,800 command. Thank you for standing. 83 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:34,400 The nation of Israel, also referred to as God's people, was 84 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:38,480 a people that God never intended to have a king like the other 85 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:42,200 nations of the world. Yet we find in First Samuel 8 86 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,800 and 19 nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of 87 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:50,920 Samuel, and they said, nay, but we will have a king over us, 88 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,720 that we may. We also may be like all the 89 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:00,360 nations, and that our King may judge us and go out before us 90 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:05,680 and fight our battles in their disobedience to God's desires 91 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,800 for them, which was to be a people separate and unlike other 92 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,960 nations. A people which heard directly 93 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:16,400 from the living God and depended on Him for their direction, 94 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,720 their policies, their provisions, their health, their 95 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,000 wealth, their education, their homes, their safety, their 96 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,840 skills, their crafts, literally everything they needed would be 97 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:30,880 given to them by the great provider. 98 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:34,200 Yet they insisted that they have a natural key. 99 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,480 They insisted that God's people, who, no matter how much they 100 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:43,080 send, how much they committed sin, remained even to this day, 101 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:47,040 His people, despite their insistence to pick and choose 102 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,480 where they wanted to be different and where they wanted 103 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:54,560 to be like the world. Before we consume our minds with 104 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,120 being too critical of Israel today, we must remember that we 105 00:06:58,120 --> 00:06:59,720 are not much different than them. 106 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,440 It is a common issue among humanity today, not just God's 107 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:09,240 people but humanity, that we often find ourselves in service 108 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:13,080 to Him more readily when we need Him than when everything is 109 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,760 going well. In her history, Israel had many 110 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:21,960 kings, but the first 2 might be the most notable among them as 111 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:26,440 they set the stage of history for an entire nation that has 112 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,720 impacted our world even unto today. 113 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:34,560 First there was Saul. I read to you from First Samuel 114 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,200 10 and one how Samuel anointed Saul to be the captain over 115 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,360 God's inheritance. And we read in first Samuel 10 116 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:46,120 and 17 and Samuel called the people together and to the Lord, 117 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,440 to Mizpah, and said to the children of Israel. 118 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,240 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel. 119 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,360 I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of 120 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,560 the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, 121 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:03,360 and of them that oppressed you. And you have this day rejected 122 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:08,160 your God, who Himself saved you out of all your adversities and 123 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,920 your tribulations. And you have said unto him, Nay, 124 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,880 but said a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves 125 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,720 before the Lord by your tribes, and by your thousands. 126 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,360 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come 127 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:26,280 near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken. 128 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:31,760 Focus was put in this passage of of happenings up on the tribe of 129 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:36,200 Benjamin for that is where Saul would be found. 130 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:40,000 So Samuel could proceed with the next step in the pronouncement 131 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,240 of Saul to be Israel's earthly king, not just any king, the 132 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:48,320 first earthly king that Israel would have, but the Bible says 133 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:53,280 that Saul could not be found because Saul hid himself among 134 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:57,640 the Bible says the stuff. Now, I want to tell you today 135 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:01,600 that if they had asked my opinion, I would have told them, 136 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:04,040 stop the interview process right here. 137 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,280 There's red flags here. This is there's a behavioral 138 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,480 issue right here. This is a big red flag. 139 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,880 The act of hiding among the stuff was a trait that would 140 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:17,720 later contribute to Saul's failures as Israel's king. 141 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,720 Saul was insecure. Samuel had to repeatedly 142 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:26,920 reassure him and confirm him for him to continue to proceed as 143 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:28,960 king. This is an indication. 144 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:32,280 Some call it. Some writers call it humility. 145 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:35,360 I'll be honest with you today. I call it quiet arrogance. 146 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,160 It was an ego that had to constantly be spoken to. 147 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:43,040 This measure of hiding shows itself several times in God's 148 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,960 Word, including when they were fighting a battle with Goliath. 149 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,360 Saul had no intentions of going out and protecting God's people 150 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:55,360 as their chief. Instead he let a 14 or 15 year 151 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:59,840 old boy do it for him. Now since they didn't ask my 152 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:02,680 opinion, I'll tell you Saul didn't work out. 153 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:06,720 We know the story. His weaknesses, his carnality, 154 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:11,600 his ego, his me. First my Kingdom mentality 155 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:15,480 became his downfall. Next there was David. 156 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:20,000 After requiring Jesse's sons to pass before him, Samuel saw 157 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:24,280 David, the last one, the youngest one, who had been 158 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:28,520 independently spending time by himself, just tending sheep. 159 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,800 First Samuel, 16 and 12, says, And he sent and brought him in. 160 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,120 Now he was rooting with all of a beautiful countenance, and 161 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:43,200 goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint 162 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:48,560 him, for this is he. Then Samuel took the horn of oil 163 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:51,600 and anointed him in the midst of his brethren, and the Spirit of 164 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,560 the Lord came upon David. From that day forward. 165 00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:59,960 There are three elements of the anointing ritual for Saul and 166 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:02,080 David that I want to contrast today. 167 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:07,040 The oil, the container the oil was in, and the anointing 168 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,920 ritual. Let's first look at the the oil 169 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:13,480 briefly. Both Saul and David were 170 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:17,160 anointed with oil. They were not just anointed with 171 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:19,720 oil, they were anointed with the same oil. 172 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,400 They were anointed with oil that since Exodus chapter 30, we have 173 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,720 no evidence that the recipe had changed. 174 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:33,120 It was the exact same wholly anointing oil set apart for very 175 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:38,080 specific ministry anointings established by God's design. 176 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,040 Same anointing. All right, we'll come back to 177 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,200 that later. The container Saul was anointed 178 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:49,240 with a vial of oil, but David was anointed with a horn of oil. 179 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,400 There were several steps of confirmation for Saul's 180 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,520 leadership. But as soon as Samuel laid eyes 181 00:11:55,520 --> 00:12:01,000 on David, the Lord spoke to him. Arise and anoint him, for this 182 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,480 is he. Saul had to 1st get into the 183 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:08,200 company of prophets for the Spirit of God to come upon him. 184 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:13,040 Yet while tending to, protecting and providing for sheep, it was 185 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,880 natural for David to worship. It was natural for David to give 186 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:21,400 homage to his God even when no one was watching him. 187 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:24,720 Sauls reason for worship was based on an agenda. 188 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,880 Davidde reason for worship was because he had a heart after 189 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,920 Almighty God. Well, I feel the Holy Ghost this 190 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,880 morning. The vial which was anointed, was 191 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:40,880 anointed for Saul was fragile. It was man made, it was man 192 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:45,920 shaped, it was easily broken. It provided oil for a kingship 193 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:50,000 that would depend heavily on human stature and human 194 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,640 affirmation, which would soon crack under the pressure. 195 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:57,440 The horn which David was anointed by was natural. 196 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:02,880 It was God made, it was strong, it endured the test of time it 197 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:07,200 represents and a kingship that was rooted in God's strength. 198 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:13,840 Amen. In Hebrew, the horn, Karen means 199 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:18,640 one of its definitions, means the corner of the altar. 200 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:22,840 Let me stop just for a moment and remind us children of God 201 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,840 that when we get an anointing from God, the manner in which 202 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,720 that anointing is delivered needs to be directly connected 203 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,000 to an altar. It needs to be directly portion 204 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,760 it to our time spent in prayer, spent before the face of God. 205 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:41,960 The altar must accompany my anointing. 206 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:48,640 So that leads us to the anointing ritual. 207 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:55,920 David was not distinguished from Saul by a different oil. 208 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:59,360 We already established that fact. 209 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,480 The oil was the same, the recipe was the same. 210 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:09,880 The difference between Saul and David was a different anointing 211 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:18,680 ritual in a different context. Saul was anointed from man, made 212 00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:23,840 vile as a king that the people wanted. 213 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,040 For David's anointing to be carried out and delivered by a 214 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:33,440 horn, there had to be a sacrifice. 215 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:42,000 Something had to die, and from this David became the king that 216 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,840 God chose. This defined a clear separation 217 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,880 between the reigns of both kings. 218 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:54,360 Saul's anointing, same oil, but in fragile container matching A 219 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,760 kingship born out of Israel's demand for an earthly king. 220 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:02,600 I almost believe and, and I, I, I, I, I can't say this with 221 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,000 fact. The Scripture doesn't 222 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,840 necessarily say this. This is just my imagination, but 223 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:13,240 I almost hear the voice of God saying, OK, I've been your king. 224 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,200 I've been your guide, I've been your provision. 225 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:19,480 And if I'm not enough and you demand a king, here's what you 226 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:27,760 get. Because there is no evidence 227 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:34,600 that God chose Saul, not in the way that he chose David. 228 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:40,200 It was a process. There was development that had 229 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,520 to occur for Saul's fragile ego to get him there. 230 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:49,560 Samuel anointed him with oil because he was trying to do his 231 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:54,520 best for the face of God. Samuel warned Israel. 232 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:59,240 Samuel did everything that he could do to warn them about what 233 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,320 they were about to do. But because of your demand, 234 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,800 let's let me, let me tell you this morning, be careful what 235 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:13,440 you demand from God because it is very possible that just that 236 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,480 I'm afraid that we believe that, well, if it works out, it must 237 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:18,880 be God. Not everything that works out in 238 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:24,640 our favor is God ordained because we still have power to 239 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:29,800 make our own choices. He gave us the ability to make 240 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:35,240 our own decisions. So we have to be careful in how 241 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:38,160 we determine what is and what is not God's direction. 242 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,160 And it can't simply just be what we demand. 243 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,680 David's anointing, same oil, born out of sacrifice, born out 244 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:49,440 of worship, born out of a pure heart rooted in God's choice. 245 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:54,280 When the man of God saw him, immediately God spoke to him and 246 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:59,400 said, arise and anoint him. This is him, this is him and to 247 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:04,040 this day, if you haven't studied Israel or the the word of God 248 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:07,920 and and how how things unfold for them from that point forward 249 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:11,839 to this day, the country of Israel still pays homage to 250 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:15,640 David. David set the stage of history 251 00:17:16,079 --> 00:17:25,319 for an entire nation that over 2500 years later steel looks to 252 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:30,680 David as part of their history. Saul was man's choice. 253 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,040 David was God's choice, a man after God's own heart. 254 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,320 Saul tried to set up his own legacy. 255 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,760 David established a God centric leadership that would carry 256 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:44,240 forward with an eternal plan that 14 generations later would 257 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:49,080 reveal itself in the man Jesus Christ, also referred to as the 258 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:53,560 Son of David. The unveiling of Saul's kingship 259 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:56,960 was met with publicity and with pomp and circumstance. 260 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,840 David's anointing the kingship was a private family ceremony 261 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,480 from which results would not be seen publicly for years. 262 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:07,280 See, there was a difference in the heart, there was a 263 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,560 difference in the mindset, there was a difference in what they 264 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:14,480 were targeting. David was an after fame, but 265 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,320 Saul needed fame to make himself feel good. 266 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,520 Saul needed signs to confirm God's anointing was with him. 267 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:25,040 But from the day David was anointed, the Bible says the 268 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:30,680 Spirit of God came upon him. The Spirit of God left Saul 269 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,520 because of his failures. David retained favor as God's 270 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:39,840 chosen despite his failures, because of his worship, because 271 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:44,480 of his repentance, because of his heart to yield himself to 272 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,120 the king. I want to tell somebody today, 273 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:50,120 your walk with God is not about perfection. 274 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:54,480 Your walk with God is not about being everything that you try to 275 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:56,880 be. Your walk with God is not about 276 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:00,200 man's affirmation. Your walk with God is about a 277 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:04,840 repentant heart and a worship heart before the throat of God. 278 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:09,440 I need you Jesus on a Monday. I need to wake up and say I need 279 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:14,880 you Jesus on a Tuesday. I need to remind myself, I still 280 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:20,200 need the Lord. Clap your hands to Jesus. 281 00:19:28,770 --> 00:19:33,890 If you're new to church, if you're new to God, please, 282 00:19:34,650 --> 00:19:37,130 please, if you don't hear anything else I've got to say 283 00:19:37,130 --> 00:19:39,530 today or any day after this, please hear this. 284 00:19:40,090 --> 00:19:41,930 God's not looking for perfection. 285 00:19:44,850 --> 00:19:50,400 Church is not a group of people who are perfect that come 286 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:52,720 together to measure their perfectness together. 287 00:19:55,440 --> 00:20:00,160 Church is a place that we gather together in humility to say 288 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,080 thank God, I'm not what I used to be. 289 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:06,160 I may not be what I need to be just yet, but every day I'm 290 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,680 trying a little harder. But thank God I'm not, not what 291 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:15,760 I was yesterday. And that's only because of His 292 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:19,320 grace. That's only because of his 293 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,640 mercy. Somebody say thank you Jesus. 294 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:29,440 So two men were anointed. That's that's important for us 295 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:33,760 to understand. Two men were anointed with the 296 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:36,920 same oil with different outcomes. 297 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:44,840 I have often wondered to myself for for years for for since 298 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,040 we've already established the fact that I'm getting old, I'll 299 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:51,280 say for decades I have wondered Brother Fred for for years upon 300 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:55,280 years, maybe most of my adult life, I have wondered how in the 301 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,600 world can can. This is going to sound 302 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,400 judgmental, so please forgive me, but how in the world can 303 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:06,160 that person do that in ministry when outside of the pulpit? 304 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:15,080 I know how they act. I, I know and, and if, if 305 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,680 anything else, I'm just going to express to you our humanity, all 306 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,600 right, because just because we're standing here doesn't mean 307 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,400 we're saying we're perfect. We are trying to live above 308 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,160 reproach. But I'm telling you, I put my, 309 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,160 my pant legs on the same way you, you gentlemen do. 310 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:36,120 But I have I have, I have known and and still know some 311 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:47,160 ministries that man, they stand here and it's powerful here is 312 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:50,280 representative of any pulpit. OK, not necessarily this 313 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:56,960 building man, you see them after church, they won't even look at 314 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:02,120 you wouldn't even talk to you. They are jerk personified. 315 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,680 And I walk away thinking, good Lord, how do you, how do you do 316 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,600 that? How do you walk around without 317 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:16,120 humility and have anointing? And I realized it. 318 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,960 It was, I realized it through this study. 319 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:23,600 I realized it because there's a difference in the heart. 320 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:37,280 Two men anointed with the same oil, but one failed. 1 succeeded 321 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:44,880 because the motive of our heart, our purpose, our reason for 322 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,080 pursuing our giftings, it matters. 323 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:54,160 I will say to you this morning, and I say this carefully under, 324 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,440 under God today, I say this sincerely and I say it very 325 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:01,000 carefully, but we've got to have more than just anointing. 326 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:09,840 I, I, I am, I am as I am as guilty as, as the next person of 327 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,320 just praying God, God, give us your anointing. 328 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,920 God, give us your anointing. And I think the intention is 329 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,040 right and I won't stop praying that prayer. 330 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,160 But I, I understand a little bit deeper now than what I did 331 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,480 understand is we need to have more than just anointing because 332 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,680 anointing by itself is not what's effective. 333 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:35,120 We need to have a spirit and an attitude of everything we do 334 00:23:36,360 --> 00:23:40,560 under anointing, everything we pursue, everything we do, 335 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,840 everything we attempt has to be done unto the king. 336 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:49,040 It can't be for me, it can't be for my Kingdom, it can't be for 337 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,480 my giftings, it can't be for my talent. 338 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,360 It can't be from my education, it can't be from my Polish and 339 00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:59,160 my know how. It has to be me pursuing him. 340 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:04,400 I need his anointing, but I need his anointing so that while I'm 341 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,600 pursuing him, somebody else might follow. 342 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:15,480 Saul was marked as a king like the nations, and David was 343 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,600 chosen by God. It don't get any better than 344 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,320 that. God is not looking for us to be 345 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,440 like the nations. God is not looking for us to be 346 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,240 like the world. He's not looking for us to be 347 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,000 like the church on the next street block. 348 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,880 There's, I don't, I don't, I don't know, I haven't done a 349 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:40,240 study on this, but per capita, I, I feel like Mount Carmel 350 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,680 might have the highest number of churches any place out there. 351 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,760 We got a bunch of churches and I'm not here to slander any of 352 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,960 them. I'm just here to say that as the 353 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,360 people of God, we're not here in competition with them. 354 00:24:55,200 --> 00:25:01,000 We're not here to be like them. God wants us operating in our 355 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000 callings and our giftings for Him. 356 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:11,960 And when we present him, our sacrifice, our worship, our 357 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:17,600 giftings, our talents, whatever those are, our purpose, when 358 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,640 that is presented to Him, God will work on them. 359 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:29,120 Amen. So being anointed on its own, 360 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,960 it's not enough. We need anointing to have 361 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,440 purpose. It's presentation must have 362 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,800 sacrifice. It's calling and direction must 363 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:44,880 be God chosen. May our anointing be from a horn 364 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:49,760 of sacrifice and not a carnal vile or a carnal decision or 365 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,360 carnal mandate. May we give unto the King today 366 00:25:56,040 --> 00:26:01,880 our sacrifice, our self. How do I give him myself? 367 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,960 Surrender your will. I need to give unto him our 368 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,960 worship. I need to give Him my worship. 369 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,880 When I worship, it's not just for show. 370 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,320 When I worship, it has to be sincere from the heart. 371 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,000 Sometimes we worry about what somebody else is going to think 372 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,520 of us. We will worry less about what 373 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,520 others think of our worship if our worship is centered solely 374 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:31,120 on Him. Our surrender, our giving to 375 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:35,440 Him, must be unto the King. Would you stand with me this 376 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:44,080 morning? Every single thing we do needs 377 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:48,160 to be unto the King. If we aren't presenting 378 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,440 ourselves to the King, then we're like a man anointed from 379 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:58,200 the fragile nature of a vial. And then this first bit of 380 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:04,560 pressure starts cracking. But if we can be anointed from a 381 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:09,760 horn, if we can be anointed from the corner of an altar, if we 382 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:14,880 can be anointed from a personal sacrifice where we are choosing 383 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,560 him, there's scripture in the Bible that tells us that when we 384 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:24,880 pray, nevertheless, not my will, but I will be done. 385 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,600 You know, that's an easy pray to prayer to pray whenever you 386 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:33,280 aren't necessarily wanting something, That's easy when when 387 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,400 there's no consequence to what you're praying, that's an easy 388 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,360 prayer. But when you're facing a 389 00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:43,440 decision and you and your flesh have already determined how you 390 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,440 want it to go, that's a hard prayer to pray. 391 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,440 That prayer requires sacrifice. It requires a certain level of 392 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:55,120 humility to say, OK, God, you know what I want, but I'm going 393 00:27:55,120 --> 00:28:03,000 to surrender my will to you. I believe anointing flows when 394 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,680 we get when we yield our self to the key. 395 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:08,720 Would you lift your hands right now? 396 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,400 Let's call on the name of Jesus. Together, let's present 397 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,280 ourselves to him in a a season of worship here. 398 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,160 There's revelation when we worship him. 399 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,880 There's understanding when we worship him. 400 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,760 So I don't, I don't know what's going on here. 401 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,760 That's all right. When we worship him, when we 402 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,880 when we surrender to his word, when we surrender to his voice 403 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,600 and his his desires for us, we start developing understanding. 404 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,520 We Start learning what he wants for us. 405 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,920 There are giftings and talents in this room today that God has 406 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:49,480 blessed people with and now I believe God has anointed them 407 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,760 with. But that anointing is not enough 408 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,560 if those giftings aren't used for him. 409 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:57,920 Got to surrender unto the King today. 410 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,160 This altar is open if you need, if you want to come and pray, or 411 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,720 if you just need a season of worship Today let our heart. 412 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:09,480 My prayer today is let our heart as the people of God, be center, 413 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:13,920 focused on Him, be center, focused on his word, be center, 414 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:18,200 focused on His spirit, on His desire for our life. 415 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:23,720 Order our steps, God, Order my steps, God as a man, as a 416 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,800 husband, as a family leader. Order my steps, Lord, not 417 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,320 according to my will or your purpose, but God. 418 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,680 Order them, God, as I surrender unto the King today. 419 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:34,960 This offer is open worship.