1 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:08,240 Amen. He's good all the time. 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,160 He is good. Amen. 3 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,640 Thank you for your faithfulness to the House of the Lord 4 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:19,440 tonight. It is good to. 5 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:23,320 Be here. It is I, I have not personally 6 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,960 been sick, but it is good to be healthy and I'm sure those that 7 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,360 have been sick and say Amen. Those that have not been sick 8 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:33,800 and say Amen. Very thankful, very thankful. 9 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,880 If you could stand for the reading of the word Exodus 33 10 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:48,160 and 12 where I'm going to be starting here. 11 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:53,320 Want to give honor to pastor and sister McGee as they they're out 12 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,360 of town. But I love and appreciate them 13 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:59,400 and hope not only that they were a blessing, but that they were 14 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:04,080 ministered to their their dear friends with the King. 15 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,000 So I'm sure they had they had a great time. 16 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:13,240 A lot of laughs, I'm certain. Love and appreciate our Bishop 17 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:18,120 and his wife, my grandparents. I am partial, but they are they 18 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,560 are just it. They are it. 19 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:28,640 Love and appreciate my parents, their support, my wife and I, 20 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:35,000 and our ministry and our life. And nothing does me does me any 21 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:42,040 better than to see the joy that they have to to be grandparents. 22 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,720 I'm very excited. I'm excited for them. 23 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:51,120 If you see how they are with our dogs, I know that our grand our 24 00:01:51,120 --> 00:02:00,120 kids will be perfectly fine, but love them and I love my 25 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:04,000 beautiful wife. I am. 26 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,120 I'm so grateful for her. Every day I just fall more in 27 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:14,800 love with her and she is precious to me and she she is a 28 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:20,320 trooper and I, I just couldn't do. 29 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:24,920 I couldn't do life without. Her and I'm so glad I don't have 30 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:28,160 to. I'm so glad I do not have to. 31 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,120 And so we are absolutely ecstatic. 32 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:32,920 We are so. Glad we are able to just. 33 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,680 Say it because we were done. I know she was in particular, 34 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:41,640 but I was also done with having who does know who doesn't know 35 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,160 is the whole monkey bar situation of making sure we 36 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:52,680 don't we don't slip it out or make sure that no one no one 37 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:58,080 people that are unawares before we were able to make the 38 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,720 announcements. So thank you for your love 39 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:08,000 already and I know that this church will love our our child 40 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,160 and and I'm I'm so grateful to know that even. 41 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,760 Beforehand I I've. I've seen it first hand and I 42 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:19,320 know that our kid will also get that same love and I am, I'm 43 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:25,480 grateful, grateful unto you, church body for that tonight. 44 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:30,240 Starting in Exodus 33 and verse. Verse #12. 45 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:35,640 Says And Moses said unto the Lord, See thou sayest. 46 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:39,840 Unto me bring up this people, and thou has not let. 47 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:44,400 Me know whom? Thou will sit with me, yet thou 48 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,880 hast said. I know thee by name. 49 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,520 And thou hast also found grace in my sight. 50 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,720 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in Thy sight, 51 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:59,000 show me not. Show me now Thy way, that I may 52 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,320 know thee, that I may find. Grace in thy sight, and consider 53 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:06,320 that this. Nation is thy people, and he 54 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,400 said my presence shall. Go with thee, and I will give 55 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,760 thee rest. And he said unto. 56 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,959 Him if thy presence go not with me. 57 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:22,480 Say go, not with me. Carry us, not a Pence. 58 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:29,560 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have 59 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:31,480 found? Grace in thy sight. 60 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:37,440 Is it not that in in that thou goest with us, so shall we be 61 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:42,520 separated I and thy people from all the people that are upon the 62 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:48,040 face of the earth and the. Lord said unto Moses, I will do 63 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:52,320 this thing also, that thou has spoken, for thou has found grace 64 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:56,160 in my sight, and I know thee by name. 65 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:03,600 Amen. Reflecting on verse 15, he said 66 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,120 unto him, If thy. Presence go. 67 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,600 Not with me, carry us, not a Pence. 68 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:16,920 I have a thought tonight and I feel like we've been, we've been 69 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,840 hitting up against something tonight and we haven't quite 70 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:33,120 pushed through it but. A thought the title It's just 71 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:39,360 land without the promise. It's just land without the 72 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,800 promise. Wonder if you can set. 73 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:44,240 Your Bibles down, lift your hands. 74 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,240 Help me pray tonight. God, I ask you just to. 75 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,080 Move to this place. Lord, let your will be done. 76 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,040 Your spirit is present. In this place. 77 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:55,000 Help us know. That we would entertain. 78 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,600 You God, your will would be done. 79 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:03,080 Lord anoint my lips of play, and then I when he will be spoken to 80 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,720 people today, or prepare hearts and minds Lord is planting 81 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:11,880 around with. The word that you. 82 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,560 Will not turn before, but you can just have your way in this 83 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,200 place and they won't fail to give you the honor and the glory 84 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:18,160 and the power in Jesus mighty name. 85 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:23,680 We pray and everyone said in Jesus name, you may be seated 86 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:31,280 tonight. Where we start out in our 87 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:34,360 reading there needs to. Be a little bit of. 88 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:39,600 Context before we got to this moment in. 89 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,520 Exodus 33 we have to understand. Why? 90 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:49,360 God told Moses slightly earlier in chapter 33 He would not go 91 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:51,600 with the people to the Promised Land. 92 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,400 While Moses was on Mount Sinai, he was receiving the 10 93 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,800 commandments in the instructions for the Tabernacle the first 94 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,960 time, and the Israelites grew impatient. 95 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:10,840 They thought Moses had been gone too long, so they demanded that 96 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:16,440 Aaron make them a God that they could worship. 97 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,640 In Exodus 32 and four it even says. 98 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:24,040 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a 99 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:28,040 graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. 100 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,720 And they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought 101 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,840 thee up out of the. Land of Egypt. 102 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:45,240 They worshipped a golden calf by substituting it for God, even to 103 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:50,080 the sense of saying which they have brought us out of the land 104 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:53,120 of Egypt, giving it glory instead. 105 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:58,680 Of the deliverer who was. God declaring it their 106 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:00,920 deliverer. They sacrificed to it, they 107 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,600 danced around it, they gave glory to an idol instead of the 108 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:13,240 one who actually freed them. God's response quite quickly in 109 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:17,640 just three verses. Later in verse 7 says, And the 110 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,040 Lord said unto Moses, Go get thee down. 111 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,720 For thy people which thou brought us out of the land of 112 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,560 Egypt, have corrupted themselves. 113 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:31,920 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded 114 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:33,720 them. They have made them a molten 115 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:37,520 calf and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and 116 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:41,640 have said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee 117 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:48,640 up out of the land of Egypt. God was so angry that he 118 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,680 threatened to destroy them entirely and start over with 119 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:56,400 Moses. Sounds pretty familiar, but 120 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,520 Moses interceded on their behalf. 121 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,680 He pleaded with God to spare them. 122 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:08,360 However, even after Moses's intercession, God declared in 123 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:12,760 verse 3 of chapter 33. He said unto a land flowing with 124 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,120 milk and honey. For I will not go up in the 125 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:20,880 midst of thee, for thou art a stiff necked people, lest I 126 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:27,280 consume thee in the way other other translations would even 127 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,440 stay. Consume thee in the way, destroy 128 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:33,120 thee in the way again. He, he, he was so, so 129 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:37,760 aggravated, so mad that these people that he just done this 130 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,840 great thing for bringing them out of the land of Egypt. 131 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:46,000 And he's giving Moses their, their leader on earth a command, 132 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,520 the commandments and for the Tabernacle and all these 133 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,560 different things. And they had no patience and 134 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:56,080 they decided that they would make their own idol and their 135 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,760 own goddess. God was essentially saying, I 136 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:05,720 will keep my promise. You can still have the land, but 137 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:11,000 my presence will not go with you If if I go, if I go with you, I 138 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:17,760 I'm liable to destroy you with how angry I am at you for your 139 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,360 rebellion. For some, this might have seemed 140 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,840 like a fair deal. It may have seemed like a fair 141 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:26,680 deal. They'd still get the land. 142 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:30,040 They still get the land that they were promised milk and 143 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:33,400 honey and blessing. But Moses knew better. 144 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:40,040 Moses understood that the land without God was meaningless. 145 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:44,840 That is why he declared in verse in chapter 33, verse 15, If thy 146 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:51,200 presence go not with me, carry us not a pence, carry us not a 147 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,040 pencil. This is where we have to pause 148 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:58,360 and ask ourselves, are we content with just receiving 149 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:03,880 God's blessings or do we desire His presence more than the 150 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:08,000 blessings? Throughout Scripture we see 151 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:13,720 examples of people who settled for the land without the 152 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:20,040 presence, without the promise of God, and it has always led to 153 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,400 destruction. Moses understood that without 154 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,400 God, the land that was meaningless. 155 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:30,240 But not everyone in Scripture understood this truth that Moses 156 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,440 understood. Time and time again we see 157 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,520 people who chose land. They chose success or comfort 158 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:41,560 without realizing that God was not in it. 159 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,800 They were walking into destruction. 160 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:52,480 One such man to reflect on would be in Genesis is Lot. 161 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:57,480 Abraham gave him a choice as his leader. 162 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,160 He gave him a choice, hoping that Lot would make the right 163 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:05,240 decision of which land to go to. Lot was given this opportunity 164 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,840 to choose where he would dwell, but instead of seeking God's 165 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,120 direction, he chose what looked best. 166 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:15,200 He even said it in Genesis 13 and verse 10 it says. 167 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:19,680 And Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain of Jordan, 168 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:24,600 and that it was well watered everywhere before the Lord 169 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,440 destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Even as the garden of the Lord, 170 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:33,200 like the land of Egypt, as thou comest into Zoar. 171 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,800 Then Lot chose him, all the plain of Jordan. 172 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:40,760 And Lot journeyed east, and they separated themselves one from 173 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,440 the other. This doesn't this, this 174 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:48,280 scripture passage does not start off and say that Lot prayed unto 175 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,840 God. And then he lifted up his eyes. 176 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:55,640 No, he was given a choice and he decided carnally to look up and 177 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,360 just look around and see what looks good. 178 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:02,440 He did not advise God. He didn't even advise his man of 179 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,640 God in his life. He decided that looks good and 180 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:10,640 that's what I'm going to do. Lot's decision would seem 181 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,120 logical. It could seem logical. 182 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,240 He chose prosperity. He he chose fertile land. 183 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:20,640 He he chose security. But there was one problem. 184 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,880 Genesis 1313 says. But the men of Sodom were wicked 185 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:29,480 and sinners before the Lord, exceedingly Moses. 186 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:35,520 Moses in our passage refused to take the Promised Land without 187 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:39,920 God's presence. But Lot did the exact opposite. 188 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:44,440 He chose what looked good without even consulting God. 189 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,720 Moses said if your presence doesn't go with Miss, we're not 190 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,880 going. Lot said this land looks good 191 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:57,520 enough, I'll go on my own. Lot chose the land without the 192 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:02,360 promise, and as a result he lost everything. 193 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:08,440 He lost his home, he lost his wife, and his daughters were 194 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,640 corrupted by the influence of Sodom. 195 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:17,600 Moses's wisdom in this passage of Exodus teaches us that what 196 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:23,320 Lots failure confirms, we should never pursue something, no 197 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:28,080 matter how good it looks, if God is not in it. 198 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:34,320 Lot wasn't the wasn't the only one to to choose what looked 199 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:39,840 good over what was right. The first king of Israel, Saul, 200 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:43,960 gives a good example of that. But instead of prioritizing 201 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,160 God's presence, he chose his own way. 202 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,600 Saul was given a Kingdom, he was given power, he was given 203 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:55,000 authority. But because of his partial 204 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,520 obedience, he lost the presence of God. 205 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:04,600 First Samuel 15 and 22 says, And Samuel said, half the Lord has 206 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:09,880 great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying 207 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,960 the voice of the Lord. Behold, to obey is better than 208 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:17,480 sacrifice into hearken than the fact of Rams. 209 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,800 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. 210 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:25,760 Stubbornness is as iniquity in idolatry. 211 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,760 Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also 212 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:36,640 rejected thee from being king. Now, right then and there Saul 213 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:42,400 technically was still king, but he was not king in God's eyes. 214 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:47,360 He kept his earthly title, but he lost his godly anointing. 215 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:53,200 It even goes further in in chapter 16 and verse 14 it says, 216 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:57,320 but the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and the evil 217 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:01,840 spirit from the Lord troubled him and evil spirit troubled 218 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:03,920 him. Moses understood that without 219 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:10,320 God even victory is empty. Saul, however, thought that as 220 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:14,160 long as he had his title, he had his army, he had his throne, he 221 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:17,280 was fine. Even when God's presence left 222 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:20,720 him. He wasn't convicted when 223 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:25,160 whenever he started to be threatened by David, he was 224 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:29,360 threatened by David because he knew that he didn't have the 225 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:35,640 anointing anymore. Moses's plea for God's presence. 226 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:39,680 He pleaded for God's presence and Saul ignored the fact that 227 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:44,240 it had even left him. You can have position, you can 228 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:48,080 have success, or you can have calling, but if you lose God's 229 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:55,680 presence, you have nothing. So Lot lost his home. 230 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:59,240 He lost everything. Saul lost his anointing. 231 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:03,440 But a a tragic moment in in Israel's history regarding the 232 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:08,040 presence of God, you have to look no further than the Ark of 233 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,920 the Covenant. The Ark of the Covenant was one 234 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:15,760 of the most sacred objects in Israel, representing the very 235 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,280 presence of God among his people. 236 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:23,599 Wherever the Ark went, victory and blessing followed. 237 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:28,840 But during the time of Eli the priest, Israel was in a 238 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:32,800 spiritual decline. The people were living in sin 239 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:38,360 and Elis sons were corrupt priests who defiled the House of 240 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:41,480 God. And one day Israel went to war 241 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,680 with the Philistines and suffered a terrible, terrible 242 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,280 defeat. And so they had this bright idea 243 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,240 then, instead of repenting, instead of seeking God for the 244 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:56,000 answer, instead of seeking God to to do something on their 245 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,880 behalf, that Israel decided to manipulate his power by bringing 246 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:06,440 the Ark onto the battlefield. They treated the Ark of the 247 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:11,040 Covenant like a lucky charm, if you will, thinking that as long 248 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,400 as they had the Ark on the battlefield with them, that 249 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,680 magically meant that they were going to win. 250 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:24,680 First Samuel 4 and three says, Let us fetch the Ark of the 251 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,400 Covenant of the Lord out of the Shiloh unto us, that when it 252 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,920 cometh among us it may save us out of the hand of our enemies. 253 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:36,200 They were so ignorant that they thought that as long as the 254 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:43,280 Ark's with us, we'll win. But they wanted victory without 255 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,120 seeking His presence. They just wanted His presence 256 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,080 there. They weren't seeking it. 257 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:52,080 They just thought, well, if this thing is here, we're going to 258 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:53,120 win. Obviously. 259 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:58,600 Obviously the Ark of the Covenant was not a magic weapon. 260 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,720 It was. It was a sign of God's presence. 261 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,640 The people of Israel wanted the symbol of God's power, but not 262 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:09,760 God himself. They treated, they treated the 263 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:14,080 land like a guarantee instead of walking in obedience with God's 264 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:16,440 presence. The the Philistines and by 265 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:20,480 consequence the Philistines ended up capturing the Ark of 266 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:23,560 the Covenant. And Eli's sons were killed in 267 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,760 battle. And when Eli heard the news, he 268 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,840 fell backward and he died. And Eli's pregnant 269 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:33,000 daughter-in-law went into labor, and she named her son Ichabod, 270 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:40,520 meaning the glory has departed. First Samuel 4 and 21 says. 271 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:43,360 And she named the child Ichabod, saying the glory is departed 272 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:47,680 from Israel because the ark of God was taken. 273 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:53,560 Israel still had the land, but they no longer had the presence 274 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:57,000 of God. Moses said, If you don't go with 275 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:00,360 us, we're not going. Israel, on the other hand, went 276 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:04,200 into battle assuming that they could force God's power to work 277 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:08,560 on their behalf without them. Seeking him without them 278 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:12,520 actually going into his presence and desiring his presence. 279 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:16,120 They just thought we can manipulate this for our our own 280 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:20,200 purposes. Moses refused to treat God's 281 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,920 presence like a guarantee. It was never a guarantee to 282 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:24,960 Moses. It was. 283 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,920 It was a privilege to Moses. Israel assumed that they could 284 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,480 carry that ark and automatically win. 285 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:37,840 A church and a ministry or a life without God's presence is 286 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,760 empty. You can still have everything 287 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:45,800 externally intact if you will, but if God has left, then there 288 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,600 is no substance, there is nothing there. 289 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:54,120 Losing the ark was that devastating moment in Israel's 290 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:56,160 history. And, and even after they 291 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,720 recovered it, the problem still remained. 292 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:03,040 They, they wanted the land, they wanted the success over, over 293 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,240 the history of Israel. You see the pattern of Israel 294 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,600 and, and they wanted all of these things and they wanted 295 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,520 the, the identity as God's people, but they didn't always 296 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:16,000 want him. I think of that as as we are 297 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,800 today, that we always want to be identified as God's people and 298 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,480 we want to, we want to have the success in the land and the 299 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:27,240 promises and the blessings of, of being God's people, but we 300 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,160 don't want him. We just want the after effect of 301 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:37,880 the byproduct of him. The same pattern showed up in 302 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,200 the New Testament. The Pharisees were one of the 303 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,400 most religiously devoted groups in Israel. 304 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,760 And then they knew the law, they knew it, They memorized 305 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,280 scriptures. They as as young children, they 306 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:55,360 grew up, they they learn the Torah and they upheld the temple 307 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:58,560 system. But when Jesus came, the very 308 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:03,200 presence of God in the flesh, they rejected him because they 309 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,160 did not have the presence. They had the system. 310 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,200 The Pharisees valued tradition over relationship. 311 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,520 They were more focused on religious status than they were 312 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:18,680 actually walking with God. They had they had the temple, 313 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:22,440 but they did not have God. They looked totally on the 314 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:26,520 outside, but on the inside they were spiritually dead. 315 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:32,560 Jesus exposed their hypocrisy in in Matthew 23 and 27. 316 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:37,480 It says Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, For ye 317 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:41,920 are likened to widest sepulchers, which indeed appear 318 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:47,000 beautiful outward, but with but are within full of dead men's 319 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,400 bones. The Pharisees had all the 320 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,680 religious symbols, they had everything just right out all 321 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,960 the things, everything was dusted just right and and it was 322 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,800 all clean, and it all, you know, they polished it and it all 323 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:03,240 looked beautiful, and they made sure they followed every single 324 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:06,400 law to the letter and all these different things. 325 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,360 But at the end of the day, there was no presence in the temple. 326 00:23:13,360 --> 00:23:17,520 That consequence of that was that in 70 AD the temple was 327 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,640 destroyed and it had never been rebuilt for many, many, many, 328 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:24,640 many, many, many years. The Pharisees had built an 329 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:29,160 entire system of religion without God, and it fell apart. 330 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:36,240 How will people know we are different if you don't go with 331 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,520 us? That's that's in essence what 332 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:41,080 Moses was saying in that encounter. 333 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,520 Also, he was, you know, how would people know where your 334 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:49,360 people if you don't go with us? We're it's it, we're acting. 335 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:54,320 By that point, the Pharisees were supposed to be God's. 336 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,440 Representatives, but they. Cared more about religion than 337 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,000 they actually did about being close to him. 338 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:07,880 Moses wanted intimacy with God. The Pharisees wanted an image of 339 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,640 godliness without true relationship. 340 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,400 And just like Moses knew the land, it meant nothing without 341 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,760 God. Jesus warned that religion means 342 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,760 nothing without true, true relationship. 343 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,680 The Pharisees. Had everything except the 344 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,800 presence. They had everything except the 345 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,720 most important thing. The danger of. 346 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,720 Living without God's presence didn't stop with just them. 347 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:44,280 Revelation. Three Verse 17 Because thou 348 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:49,120 sayest I am rich and increased with goods and I have need of 349 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:52,440 nothing and know it's not that thou art wretched and miserable 350 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:57,400 and poor and blind and naked. This is this isn't this is an 351 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,680 aspect of talking about the lady OC in church. 352 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:02,960 It would they were wealthy, they were comfortable, they were 353 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,640 successful. They believed that they had 354 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,840 everything that they needed, but the devastating part is they did 355 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:14,640 not have Jesus. It even stated later in verse 356 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,720 20. It says, behold, I stand at the 357 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:24,440 door and knock if any man hear my voice and open the door. 358 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:28,080 See we we always hear my voice. Hallelujah. 359 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,120 But there was action attached to that. 360 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:32,880 There was, there was the. And in there. 361 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:37,760 And open the door. I will come into him, and I will 362 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:43,640 Sup with him, and he with me. The Church of Lady Osea had it. 363 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,080 They were lukewarm, they had it all wrong. 364 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,480 They had it all wrong. And Moses refused to move 365 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:53,600 forward if God wasn't with them. But Lady Osea Church believe 366 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:59,840 that they were fine without him. We have come to a point in the 367 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:03,960 church today where we are comfortable with being 368 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:08,280 comfortable. We are comfortable with being 369 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,920 lukewarm. It does not convict us anymore 370 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:16,720 to be lukewarm, does not convict us to come in in this church 371 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:21,400 building time after time and leave time after time and be 372 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,360 unchanged. It does not convict us anymore 373 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,680 for us to not pray and read our Bible. 374 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,920 It does not convict us anymore to to not repent every day and 375 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,720 die daily. Does not convict. 376 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,240 We do not care. So it would seem. 377 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:46,280 On the outside looking in. Just as. 378 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:51,040 Moses talked about How does anyone know that we are God's 379 00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:55,240 people? How does anyone know that we 380 00:26:55,520 --> 00:27:00,680 have him? When we, when we come and we go, 381 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,680 we go through the motions and we go through the schedule and we 382 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,640 know that all of these different things are going to happen for a 383 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,680 service. And, and we go through that and 384 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,560 we know, OK, well, the, the man of God's going to come up to the 385 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,880 pulpit pretty soon. And then they'll, they'll go 386 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:19,040 anywhere from, from from 25 to 45 minutes or an hour or 387 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,280 whatever. And then we'll go home and, and 388 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,880 all these different things. And I won't actually listen to 389 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,160 what's being sung. I won't actually listen to 390 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,000 what's being preached. I'll just come to say that I 391 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:35,880 came. Because what happens? 392 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,480 In the bad times, what happens in the bad times is we want the 393 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,680 land, we want the promise, we want the, we, we want the 394 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,200 blessing, but we don't want the presence. 395 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,520 We don't want the promise. We just want, we want to make 396 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,080 sure that, that we're healthy. We want to make sure that we 397 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,040 have prosperity. We want to make sure and all 398 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,080 that, that great stuff. And so we come and we make sure 399 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,080 that we, we keep up appearances and everything like that. 400 00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:00,480 That's not what it is about. That is that is a lukewarm 401 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,880 mentality. That is not what God is 402 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:09,400 desiring. The lukewarm mentality, if you 403 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:15,120 will, is, is another aspect of not going deeper with God is not 404 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:20,120 desiring anything beyond the the checkbox of salvation. 405 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:23,720 And I have, I have gotten somehow like Willy Wonka and the 406 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,680 Chocolate Factory, my golden ticket to heaven. 407 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:28,600 And I don't have to do anything else. 408 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,160 I don't have to serve. I do not have to give of my 409 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:37,480 time, of my love, of my desire. I do not have to stand up, I do 410 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:41,160 not have to do be exuberant. And I'm not saying everyone has 411 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:45,160 to, but I'm telling you there is a difference between lukewarm 412 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:50,000 and on fire. And if you cannot tell the 413 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,960 difference then I'd ask you to seek Him. 414 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,680 We want. The land, But we do not want the 415 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:04,760 promise. I think. 416 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:09,400 I think of lukewarmness in this day and age as the church, and I 417 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,840 think of what the writer of Hebrews was talking about and 418 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,800 saying that they were as babes on spiritual milk. 419 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,680 And in the sense what he's trying to say, because what 420 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,040 happens, right, what happens when we're lukewarm is we forget 421 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,760 the basics. And so we have to always go back 422 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,760 to the basics. We have to OK, now this is what 423 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,320 you do. This is this is one God, this is 424 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,160 salvation. This is all these different 425 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,240 things. We have to always go back to the 426 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:37,840 basics. And the writer of Hebrews was 427 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,400 saying, we have done this for many, many years. 428 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,680 We have, we have you have been saved, you have been redeemed, 429 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,960 you have the Holy Ghost. We should not be back to the 430 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:51,160 basics and having to repeat it over and over to you again. 431 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:55,160 It was Hebrews was a plea from almost a pass master to a 432 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:59,000 congregation saying please go deeper. 433 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,800 At Lukewarm Church, we are fine with staying on schedule. 434 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,520 We are. Fine with staying in the groove 435 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,120 and not getting up and getting out of our scene and being 436 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,800 uncomfortable. Again, we are fine with being 437 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,440 comfortable, even if that means being Luke warm. 438 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:28,720 We're fine with it. I tell you this much, if if you 439 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,000 want to think that oh you go to conferences and everything like 440 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,000 that, everything goes perfectly as planned and everyone follows 441 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,800 schedule, I will. I will argue that point. 442 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:41,080 We just had Wicca couple weeks ago and we were supposed to have 443 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:42,880 a service after a breakout session. 444 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,040 We did not have that service. We continued on. 445 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,680 The whole breakout session was two hours. 446 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,280 Do not tell me that we cannot flow with the Spirit of God. 447 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,560 It just, it just cares. It matters whether or not 448 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,480 there's enough people to welcome Him. 449 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:07,120 He is here, but is He welcomed? If we're if we're Luke warm and 450 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,920 we're going to sit like bumps on a log, then more than likely 451 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,240 there's going to be those that are getting touched and getting 452 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,280 blessed. And maybe sometimes it feels 453 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,160 like it's just up here, but that's because we're 454 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,120 interacting. We're welcoming him. 455 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,800 Moses. Begged God not to leave them. 456 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:34,040 Have we even got to that point yet where we are begging God not 457 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,200 to leave us? Or are we just OK? 458 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,240 Or are we? Like Saul, we don't even realize 459 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,160 it. We realize that the anointing 460 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:52,960 has left us. We must not be so focused on the 461 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,120 the day-to-day, the the schedule, the success, the 462 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,960 success, the comfort that we fail to notice that Jesus has 463 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:05,720 been missing. Come on. 464 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:10,360 I would, I would be elated. I'll be elated if if we came 465 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,440 here and we had a blowout and, and I have to, I have to, I have 466 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:18,320 to, you know, sleep forever because I'm I'm exhausted from 467 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:24,560 us being being crazy for a service or two or however many 468 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:28,200 it goes on. So we get so. 469 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:33,680 Caught up in in the the usuals. I think of. 470 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:38,160 I think of of the mentality of just, we have screens and I love 471 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,120 them and and I'm the one that installed them and not we 472 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,400 planned it and I was like, yes, we got them. 473 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,480 But I think of. It and I'm looking at it and I'm 474 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,960 and we used to have him look. So it's about the same. 475 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,920 It's about the lyrics, but we we do it and we read. 476 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:57,640 We read it, but we don't entertain it. 477 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,960 It's up there, but. What are we singing about 478 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,640 tonight? Even tonight praising for the 479 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,440 victory. I don't know about. 480 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,800 You. But when someone praises for the 481 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:19,280 victory, I don't think it looks like praising for the victory. 482 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:19,680 Come on. Come on. 483 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:24,720 Now Lord help me. Lord help me. 484 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:36,600 Oh Jesus, are we, are we losing? Are we losing him so much that 485 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:41,920 we cannot entertain what is happening, what is going on? 486 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:49,440 We are we feeling him? Are we feeling him enter this 487 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,840 place? Are we? 488 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:58,720 Welcoming him into this place. Have we even noticed when Jesus 489 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:02,560 is missing and he he's here? It's not that he's missing from 490 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,080 here, but is he missing from you? 491 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:13,980 Have you welcomed him for you? Moses's. 492 00:34:13,980 --> 00:34:20,340 Response to God in Exodus 33 is is one of the most I believe of 493 00:34:20,340 --> 00:34:26,460 such a powerful expression of of spiritual hunger and intimacy in 494 00:34:26,460 --> 00:34:31,719 the Bible When when faced with this possibility of receiving 495 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,960 the promised land without God's presence, Moses did something 496 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:42,000 that set him apart. He refused to move forward 497 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:48,400 without God. First off 1st I have to pause 498 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:53,520 there even and state for us to to be in that type of 499 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:57,400 relationship with God that we tell God I refuse. 500 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:02,600 Anyone. Right now. 501 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:03,600 Want to dare? Come on, come. 502 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,000 On but he. Refused, he said. 503 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:12,200 God, I will not. He wanted more. 504 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:18,440 Than just God's blessing he wanted God breaking down Moses's 505 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:22,680 response and seeing why it's a good a good model for us today 506 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,760 is after Israel's sin with the golden calf. 507 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,880 God told Moses in verse 3 and he said he said again, you are 508 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,440 stiff necked people, lest I consume thee in the way if I if 509 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:38,600 I go, I might destroy you. But he's, he's saying he's 510 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,480 offering them land, he's offering them victory, he's 511 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,440 offering them blessing, just without his presence. 512 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,920 For most people, this would have been a good deal. 513 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,520 Like I said earlier, he they got the land of promise, they would 514 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,440 have got the milk and honey, they would have had victory over 515 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,720 their enemies. And if it was anyone different 516 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,560 of the Israelites that we're talking to God at this moment 517 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:05,960 and not Moses, that's probably what would have happened, but 518 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,920 not Moses. Moses knew something that Israel 519 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:15,080 did not understand, that without God the promise of the land was 520 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,120 meaningless. God with them was the promise. 521 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:24,440 That is why he declared, If thy presence is not go with me, 522 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,200 carry us not a pence He. I do not want the blessing 523 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,920 without the one who blesses. I don't want the promise without 524 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,440 the presence. I would rather stay in the 525 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:38,880 wilderness with you than enter the promised land without you. 526 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:45,440 If we only seek God for what He can do for us, but not for who 527 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:50,480 He is, then we have missed the point that this whole Bible is 528 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:55,800 trying to teach us. Moses didn't. 529 00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:00,400 Just ask for God's presence. He he pressed in for more than 530 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,480 that. He didn't ask just that God 531 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,160 would go with them. He said, Lord, as long as you 532 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,280 send me. He didn't say as Lord, as long 533 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,120 as you send an Angel, which that was what God was suggesting, 534 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,080 I'll send an Angel. He wasn't saying, well, as long 535 00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:16,640 as that happens and we'll be fine. 536 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:21,560 Instead he pleaded to God and verse 16, he says, for wherein 537 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:26,320 shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace 538 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:30,280 in thy sight? Is it not in that that go is 539 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:35,480 with us, so shall we be separated and I and my people 540 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,680 from all the people that are upon the face of the earth? 541 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,840 Moses understood. What made Israel different 542 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:49,320 wasn't the land, it was God. Egyptians had land, they just 543 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,760 came from there. They had plenty of land. 544 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:56,040 Canaanites had riches. It wasn't it wasn't something 545 00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:00,480 special that Israel would have. The other nations had kings and 546 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:07,400 they had armies, but only Israel had the presence of the Living 547 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,800 God. Only the Church of the 548 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:15,560 Apostolics have the presence of the Living God. 549 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,040 The truth of the Book of Acts doctrine. 550 00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:26,600 Only us have the truth. What? 551 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:33,400 Separates us is not what we own or what we accomplish in this 552 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:38,240 life, but it is the presence of God in our lives. 553 00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:42,880 So it wasn't. It wasn't even good enough for 554 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,880 Moses just to just to say your presence go with us. 555 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,280 It wasn't good enough. Moses could have stopped after 556 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,760 securing God's presence to come with them, but he did not stop. 557 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,080 He he didn't. He wanted to go deeper. 558 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:01,520 After. God said that he would go with 559 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,440 him. Moses made an even bolder 560 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:07,360 request in verse 18. And he said, I beseech thee, 561 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:14,400 show me thy glory. Moses had already experienced 562 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:18,120 the burning Bush. He experienced the Red Sea 563 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:21,400 parting. He experienced look witnessing 564 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,240 the plagues. He experienced manna from 565 00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:29,360 heaven, water from the rock, fire and smoke of Mount Sinai. 566 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:35,800 And yet, after all of this, he still wanted more of God. 567 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:42,640 And sometimes, after we have gone through the salvation plan 568 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:47,280 of Acts 238, we feel as though we have seen it all. 569 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:51,920 And that's all we need. Moses didn't even. 570 00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,560 Get to experience that's 238 message. 571 00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,920 But if you go through all of these different things that 572 00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,480 Moses has experienced, those are grandiose, those are crazy. 573 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,600 And if we had experienced our faith, our faith meter would be 574 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:09,200 off the radar. And he had faith, but he had so 575 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:13,120 much faith that he asked God boldly show me your glory. 576 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,720 He wanted, he was not satisfied with just enough of God. 577 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:24,120 God responded to Moses in verse 19, it says, And he said, I will 578 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,800 make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the 579 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,920 name of the Lord before thee. And he said, Thou canst not see 580 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,920 my face, for there shall no man see me and live. 581 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:39,240 Instead of showing Moses his full glory because he would not 582 00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:42,000 live, God placed him in the cleft of a rock and allowed him 583 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,680 to see his back and as he passed by. 584 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,720 The deeper we pursue God, the deeper we decide to go, the more 585 00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:55,600 He will reveal Himself to us. How much of God have you really 586 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,440 seen? You cannot blame. 587 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,600 God on Him not revealing himself to you. 588 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:04,840 You only have yourself to blame because you have not decided to 589 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,680 seek Him revealing. He has not revealed. 590 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:12,120 Himself to you, because you have not desired of it. 591 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,840 After this. Encounter Moses had been 592 00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:22,600 changed, verse 29 says, and it came to pass when Moses came 593 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:24,840 down. Exodus 3429. 594 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:29,680 Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony 595 00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:33,120 in Moses's hand, and he came down from the mount that Moses 596 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:36,440 was not. The skin of his face shone while 597 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:40,480 he talked with him. Moses didn't realize it, but his 598 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:45,480 face was glowing because he had been in God's presence. 599 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,880 Been. In the presence of the Lord, so 600 00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:56,840 long that His face shown, people were afraid to look at Him. 601 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,400 He had to wear a veil when speaking to them. 602 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:07,120 When you decide to go deeper with God, there may be people 603 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:13,080 that are afraid to look at you. They may be afraid because it's 604 00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,120 something that's not familiar to them. 605 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,040 They may be afraid because it convicts them. 606 00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,640 Whatever. The case Why would you not want 607 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:28,600 to exude His glory? Why would you not want to 608 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:33,280 reflect the Almighty? He. 609 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,520 Carried. He carried God's presence with 610 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:41,240 him externally. When you truly encounter God's 611 00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:45,560 presence, it changes you. You will begin to reflect His 612 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:46,320 glory. You will. 613 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,680 You will no longer look like the world. 614 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:53,240 People will see God's presence on you. 615 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:55,600 There's something different about them. 616 00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,120 There's something, there's something they have such a sweet 617 00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,640 presence about them. It's not your presence, it's 618 00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:08,160 God's presence. We can begin to stand and music 619 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,720 can make their way. Moses. 620 00:43:11,720 --> 00:43:13,640 Teaches us an important lesson here. 621 00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:23,560 Do not settle for just the land. Seek Him. 622 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:30,320 Seek Him for him, not for something else. 623 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:35,040 Don't be satisfied with with just the blessing. 624 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:42,640 Seek the one, the only one who blesses, the only one who saves. 625 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:45,400 Don't. Don't experience, just 626 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,680 experience God. Don't let it be a one and done 627 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:53,760 thing. Let His presence transform you. 628 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:59,080 The. Reason God revealed himself more 629 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,920 to Moses was because there was relationship there. 630 00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:08,080 How deep is our relationship go that we would actually be able 631 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:14,400 to experience something just as Moses had experienced as well. 632 00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:19,200 Don't just experience him, let it transform you. 633 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:23,680 So the question as these altars are open and they they begin to 634 00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:27,920 play is are you content with just God's gifts? 635 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:35,040 Are you satisfied with just receiving or can you be 636 00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:39,320 satisfied with him? With with. 637 00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,240 Seeking just him. There may be blessing on the 638 00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:46,720 after the app outside of that and on the other side of things 639 00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:48,760 and and all that great, that great stuff. 640 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:55,600 But are you are you satisfied with just his gifts or do you 641 00:44:55,600 --> 00:45:00,320 want him? I think about that and I think 642 00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,160 of of. I know I've probably sung it may 643 00:45:03,240 --> 00:45:06,920 way too many times, but song of of nothing else, I just want 644 00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,680 you. I think of that. 645 00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,600 Because it it's a whole song about going deeper. 646 00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,840 It's a whole song about not anything else. 647 00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,280 I'm not here for blessing. It even says. 648 00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,280 You don't owe. Me anything. 649 00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,200 You know the reason he doesn't owe you anything because he 650 00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:31,240 already paid it all. We we go through. 651 00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:34,480 This, this life and we, we think that, well, we need this, we 652 00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,120 need this and God, you, you need to do this and all these 653 00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,360 different things. And we act like God owes us 654 00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:47,280 something when we forget that he paid it all, gave his life as a 655 00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:54,280 living perfect sacrifice, and we just want to be in comfort. 656 00:45:57,240 --> 00:46:00,160 Are you? Seeking His hand or are you 657 00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:07,200 seeking His face? Are you bold enough to pray like 658 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:11,040 Moses and ask God to show you His glory? 659 00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:16,640 Are you afraid of what would happen or are you afraid of the 660 00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:21,280 answer? Does the answer eludes you? 661 00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,280 Does it? Does it maybe feel like if you 662 00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:27,600 ask God to show you his glory, he would say something like Who 663 00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:33,600 are you? If we do not. 664 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:42,400 Decide soon to go deeper. From lukewarmness we may come to 665 00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,120 a day where he looks at us and says, depart from me. 666 00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:49,120 I never knew you. If we decide that we are 667 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:53,240 comfortable with being comfortable, we may get to a day 668 00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:57,720 where God looks us in the face and says, Who are you? 669 00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:06,320 I ask you, Do you know him? Do you? 670 00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:09,880 Sup with him. Do. 671 00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:15,720 You rely and trust in him not for what he does, but because 672 00:47:15,720 --> 00:47:19,760 he's faithful, because he is constant, because he's alpha and 673 00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:25,160 Omega, because he's beginning and end, because he is the great 674 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:29,880 I am. Not because of anything that he 675 00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:34,320 has done except if you want to worship him for giving it all. 676 00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,560 Because he didn't owe you anything and he still decide to 677 00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:46,280 give you everything. Moses had everything that he 678 00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,000 could have needed, and he still had a relationship with God, but 679 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:53,440 he still asked, Show me your glory. 680 00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:56,760 I wonder if we. Could come to these altars 681 00:47:56,760 --> 00:48:02,600 tonight and ask, plead with God. Lord, I desire to go deeper. 682 00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:06,640 I desire to go deeper. Lukewarm mentality is not enough 683 00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:11,720 for me anymore. God, I desire you to move. 684 00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:17,040 God, if there's anything within myself that is not, it is not in 685 00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,520 alignment. It is not something that would 686 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:24,480 bring glory into you or it would bring a a hedger or something in 687 00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,360 between the two of us. That I cannot have a 688 00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:29,400 relationship to go deeper with you. 689 00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:34,440 God, correct me, convict me. If I have gone so far down the 690 00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:38,600 path that I can't even be convicted anymore, God, bring me 691 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:42,600 back not to conviction. Bring me back to an altar of 692 00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:46,080 repentance. God help me that I would change 693 00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,920 my heart. I would change my mind. 694 00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:54,480 Oh, we must not settle for the land without the promise. 695 00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:58,160 The question is, what do we want? 696 00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,680 What do we want? Are we willing to seek Moses, 697 00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:07,240 seek God after like Moses did? Are we willing to long for him? 698 00:49:07,240 --> 00:49:12,680 More than just blessed sings. Are we bold enough to say, Lord, 699 00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:24,920 show me your glory, God, I don't want the land without you. 700 00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:27,960 I don't want the promise without your presence. 701 00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:33,520 Lord, show me, show me. Without you it's just land. 702 00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:38,240 Without you it's just land. Hallelujah.