1 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:09,560 Amen. You can stand with me today all 2 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,800 across this place. I'm going to go to the word of 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,720 the Lord this morning in the book of Psalms, chapter 95. 4 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:18,960 Amen. To trust that you've had a good 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:23,680 week this week, Amen. Here back in Mount Carmel, Amen. 6 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:27,440 As we've had a good week, of course in Frankfurt, thankful 7 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:32,600 for what the Lord did there, strengthened and and you know, 8 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:34,120 it's kind of like A2 edged sword. 9 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,560 You come back and you're tired and body, but you're refreshed 10 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:38,120 in your soul. Amen. 11 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:40,440 But we're glad to be back. Amen. 12 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:42,480 Hopefully brought a little bit of it with us. 13 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,120 Psalms 95 going to be teaching here this morning. 14 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,360 Kind of ramping back up for tonight. 15 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:52,160 You know, I'm trying to get her going here and such. 16 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,040 Although I must admit that this was probably I've got the most 17 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,680 rest I've ever got at camp this year ever. 18 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,120 And that's because I'm, I'm not in any type of position that 19 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,920 requires necessarily me of anything. 20 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,720 And so that's now I understand life on that side and I don't 21 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,240 know if I ever want to go back. No, I'm joking, but Amen 22 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,560 actually did get rest. I got good sleep at night and 23 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,480 everything. So anyway, Psalms 95, there were 24 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,520 others among us that did not because now they're involved in 25 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:21,960 things and I'm like, I walked that road. 26 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,200 Happy for you, happy for you. Amen. 27 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:29,680 Psalms 95 verse #1 and going to read verse #2 and I'm going to 28 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:35,040 skip down to verse number six. The Bible says, O Come, let us 29 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:39,160 sing unto the Lord. Let us make a joyful noise to 30 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:44,520 the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence 31 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:49,200 with Thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with 32 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,640 Psalms. Verse number six says, O Come, 33 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:59,160 let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our 34 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,120 Maker. Amen. 35 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,120 For a little while this morning. I want to teach you along these 36 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:12,360 lines from praise to worship from praise to worship a man we 37 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,480 want both of those aspects or both of those aspects should be 38 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,640 a part of a relationship with God, both praise and worship. 39 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:23,400 But from praise to worship, if you've ever been appraiser, you 40 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,400 are appraiser. Praise hopefully will lead you 41 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,840 to worship. Amen. 42 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:30,440 Let's ask the Lord to help us today. 43 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:33,960 Father, we thank you today, God, for another opportunity to be in 44 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,840 your house. We're grateful, Lord Jesus, that 45 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,920 you have met us here and we meet you here. 46 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:41,640 We pray, O Lord, speak through your word today, God. 47 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:44,160 Give us instruction and direction, Lord. 48 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,720 Words to live by. Lord, help us, God, in our 49 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,800 everyday lives and will not fail, Lord, to thank you, Lord 50 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:51,520 Jesus, for what you accomplished. 51 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:55,040 Lord, through your word in the lovely name of Jesus Christ that 52 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:59,680 we pray Amen and Amen may be seated this morning in Jesus 53 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,840 name. The setting of Psalms 95 and 54 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,480 maybe some of you know this or don't, but the Psalms really get 55 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:12,200 tucked back in the other areas of scripture that that that came 56 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,080 before them and stories that come before them. 57 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,120 And that happens with a lot of scripture with like Job and 58 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,520 others going forward. They get tucked back into like 59 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,040 First and 2nd Kings and the Chronicles and Samuel and so on 60 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,560 and so forth. Because David pinned some of 61 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,400 these Psalms when different things were going on in his life 62 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,960 or the nation of Israel. And so Psalms 95, the real 63 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:40,960 setting of Psalms 95 is on this wise the temple of Jerusalem, 64 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:45,400 after a time of having been destroyed or broken down have 65 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,160 been restored. And so now that this this temple 66 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:53,680 has had its restoration, these things David are is pinning 67 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,880 down. He's given an invitation for 68 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,560 people to come back to Jerusalem and more importantly back to the 69 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:03,760 temple that they had known and offer praise and worship and 70 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,480 adoration and have Thanksgiving because after the doors had been 71 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:12,720 shut for some time or not not even existing for some time now 72 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:16,200 this House of worship is open for worship one again. 73 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:20,720 And so he's alluring the people he is, he is calling them to a 74 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,840 place of praise and worship because particularly during 75 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:29,800 their years of, of exile, we, there's two exiles, main exiles 76 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,560 that take place in Scripture and Assyrian exile. 77 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,800 But also probably the more, the more, what's the word I'm 78 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,520 looking for? Notable one or people have heard 79 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,760 about more often is the Babylonian exile. 80 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,480 During those times, the, the, the the temple and the House of 81 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:51,640 worship was in many regards neglected, right, because the 82 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:56,080 nation have been taken and displaced to a land strange to 83 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,960 them and foreign to them. And so praise and worship on 84 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:04,880 some respects as far as being at a temple was, was was neglected. 85 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,920 As a matter of fact, you will remember another Psalm that was 86 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:12,840 written during the exile years of Babylon is Psalms 137 and 87 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:17,960 Psalms 137 and verse 4 even ask the the question is ask how 88 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,840 shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? 89 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:23,960 And they're talking about the children of Israel station in 90 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:26,160 Babylon. They're saying how can we sing 91 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,480 the Lord's song in this strange place when we are in captivity 92 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,800 and things are not as they were. And if you'll remember, Babylon 93 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,000 is even requiring this of them. They're asking the Israelites, 94 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,200 why, why don't you sing one of those songs you used to sing? 95 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:42,840 Why? Why don't you sing one of those 96 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:46,720 songs that you sang in Zion, that you sang in Jerusalem? 97 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,880 But again, the Israelites are in a very oppressive state at that 98 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,040 time. And so they're hanging their 99 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,640 heads. And because their circumstances 100 00:05:55,640 --> 00:06:00,600 are just not they are just not in a favorable way that, you 101 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,240 know, praise would just come to their lips. 102 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,000 As a matter of fact, it's in that same setting, I believe it 103 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,760 is of Psalms 137. It describes as though the 104 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,920 Israelites had hung their harps on the willows, an instrument 105 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,320 that they would use and praise and worship. 106 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,480 They they hung their harps on the willows and they asked them 107 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,920 that question, how shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange 108 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,760 land? Because praise at this point, 109 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:32,040 praise was connected and is and always has been and will be. 110 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:38,320 Praise is connected to what God has done, what God has done for 111 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:42,600 us, what God has done for us. And so at this point in Israeli 112 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:48,360 history of Psalms 137, though he had done many wonderful things 113 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:52,440 for them as a nation, they couldn't observe with their eyes 114 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:54,280 him doing anything in the moment. 115 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:56,360 We're in captivity. What's God doing? 116 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,520 You know, where is God at? What's taking place right now? 117 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:03,640 And so they couldn't trace the finger of God at this moment in 118 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:05,560 time. And so since they couldn't see 119 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,840 him necessarily doing anything, there's a lack of praise because 120 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:14,120 praise is connected with what God does for his people. 121 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:19,080 And so their praise wanes and it, it, it dies, if you will, to 122 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,560 a certain, to a certain degree, because they cannot notice or 123 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:24,240 observe anything that God is doing. 124 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:29,280 And so as in our text, Psalms 95, the temple has now been 125 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:33,240 restored and the place of worship has been restored. 126 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,480 Israel now is coming there. They're going to gather there at 127 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,800 Jerusalem. The psalmist then is compelling 128 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:45,680 them to now praise God for what he has done. 129 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:49,880 You can read in the opening verses of verses one through 3. 130 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:55,240 He's he's, he's imploring them to sing unto the Lord, He's 131 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,920 imploring them to make a joyful noise unto the rock of their 132 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:04,360 salvation to come before the Lord with Thanksgiving. 133 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,400 Again, they're, they're given some type of verbalization of 134 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:12,760 praise for what God has done to, to, to make a joyful noise into 135 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:16,760 the Lord with psalms. He is imploring them to do. 136 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,000 Why? Why should we do all this 137 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,520 Psalmist? Why should we participate in 138 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,760 this? He tells him then in verses 3, 139 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:28,640 35 because the Lord is a great God, a great king above all 140 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,760 gods. His his hand are the deep places 141 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,360 of the earth. His strength is the strength of 142 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:39,480 the hills, the he made the sea. He's done these various things. 143 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,760 His hands have formed the dry hand land. 144 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,480 He just spoke some things that God had done, and so singing to 145 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,880 him make a joyful noise and to him come before his presence 146 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:56,480 with Thanksgiving because XYZ praise him because he has done 147 00:08:56,560 --> 00:09:00,520 these things. But Psalms 95 is really divided 148 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:04,680 in a couple of sections. He is not just imploring us to 149 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:09,240 praise, but we'll find very soon that he is also imploring us to 150 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:13,880 worship. It's the 1st 5 verses or so Amen 151 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:17,840 that he's telling us about this praise and connecting our praise 152 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:21,920 with what God has done for us. But in the second portion, 153 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:26,120 starting with verse 6 on, He's talking to us about something 154 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,880 else. Not now, just an invitation to 155 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:35,200 praise and to extol and bless the name of the Lord for what He 156 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,920 has done and for the things that He possesses. 157 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,520 But in verse 6, something changes. 158 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,800 Amen. Again, the the invitation is 159 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,600 very similar in our English Bibles. 160 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:49,000 He says O Come. He said that in verse one, O 161 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,080 Come. And the O Come was an invitation 162 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,320 to praise. But now the O Come is a 163 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:58,000 invitation to worship. In the Hebrew, it's two 164 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,440 different words for come. It's translated as come in our 165 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,880 English Bibles, but they're two different words in Hebrew, which 166 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:09,320 is indicating to us really this, that our approach to praise is 167 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,400 not the same as our approach to worship. 168 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,480 Our approach to praise is not the same as our approach to 169 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:18,600 worship. And it's important that we talk 170 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,080 about this. This is one of those things that 171 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:21,960 I like to talk about almost every year. 172 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,600 Praise and worship because sometimes we mistake in one for 173 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:30,000 the other or we just lump it all together and mistake maybe 174 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,960 worship for praise and praise for worship when in in reality 175 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:37,560 they are different. Praise and worship is different. 176 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:45,080 Again, praise has to do with with deeds or something that God 177 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:48,920 has done. And when we do that, we 178 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:53,600 primarily have some type of utterance that associates with 179 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,120 praise with our mouth. There's some type of utterance 180 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,160 we'll see here in a little bit, or the using of musical 181 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:02,280 instruments. The Bible even speaks about 182 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:04,880 these instruments having a voice. 183 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:08,520 All right, And so with instruments that we praise the 184 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:10,880 Lord. But whenever we talk about 185 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:17,240 worship, worship has to do with the character of the object 186 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:21,040 that's being worshipped. Worship has to do with the 187 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:22,920 character, the object being worship. 188 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,520 And worship many times is illustrated through our 189 00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:32,320 reverence or our all of whatever it is, is being worship to. 190 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,480 To kind of differentiate between the two a little bit. 191 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,880 You'll remember Leah, one of the wives of Jacob. 192 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:44,680 Her womb was opened, the Bible says, and she began to bear 193 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:48,080 children unto Jacob, one after the other. 194 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:52,880 She has one child other than the 3rd and on her fourth child, the 195 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:58,480 Bible says she has that son. And she said, now will I praise 196 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:02,160 the Lord? And she calls that son Judah. 197 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,120 We often times talk about how Judah, you know, means praise. 198 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,440 She says, now I will praise the Lord, Amen. 199 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:13,440 But what Leah is doing, she's praising the Lord because she is 200 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,760 thankful for what the Lord has done for her. 201 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:20,840 She has Levi and she has Reuben. She, she has these different 202 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,600 sons that are born, she's going to give thanks unto the Lord or 203 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,360 praise the Lord because of what He has done for her. 204 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:32,960 We read also in the book of Daniel chapter #10 Israel was 205 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:37,080 told that God is their praise. That's what he told them. 206 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:43,080 He said, God is your praise because He hath done for these 207 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:46,480 for the these great and terrible things. 208 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,440 Again the writer and Daniel is connecting them praise with 209 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:55,280 something that God has done for an individual or for a nation or 210 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,800 a group of people. And so in the Scripture we see 211 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:01,520 it over again in the Psalms and particularly about the Bible 212 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:06,120 speaking about singing praises or how we can praise him upon 213 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,760 the the high sounding symbols right. 214 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,240 Praise Him with the timbre on the dance, Speaking of musical 215 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,360 instruments or our dance, or with our voice. 216 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:20,440 And so praise many, if not all times involves a utterance from 217 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:24,640 an instrument or a utterance from herself, a person, or an 218 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:27,280 instrument. Praise is directed toward God 219 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,680 for what He has done, and we do that. 220 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,520 I thank you, Lord, for my house. I thank you, Lord, that the 221 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:35,920 bills are paid. I thank you, Lord, for healing 222 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:38,000 my body. I thank you, oh Lord, God, for 223 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:39,840 bringing a miracle in the hospital. 224 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,120 I thank you, Lord, for this or for that. 225 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,760 I thank you, Lord, for the house that you gave me and for 226 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,440 supplying the job that I can have resource for my family and 227 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,520 putting food on the table. I thank you, Lord, for helping 228 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,560 my family. Thank you for all these things. 229 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:58,240 But to become a praise people alone is a tragedy. 230 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,760 Just to be a people whose mouths is filled with praise is a 231 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,800 tragedy because praise is connected with what God does and 232 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:11,280 the blessings of God. And those things are only 233 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,840 momentary happenings. They're temporal. 234 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,640 You can have a job today and lose it tomorrow. 235 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:20,880 You can have your money in your pocket right now and just feel 236 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:22,720 lent in it, you know, the next week. 237 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,920 It's all just very temporal. But we praise God in the moment 238 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:30,280 for the momentary happening of what He has done, Amen. 239 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,640 All of those things that I praise God for many times just 240 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:37,480 have to do with, with matter or substance and time, but they can 241 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,280 just go right through our fingers. 242 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,800 But worship goes beyond just the facts, Amen. 243 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:47,360 Of what he did today or what he did last week or what He did in 244 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,400 a particular. Worship deals with something 245 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,360 that never changes. Worship deals with something 246 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,320 that doesn't fade. I said I was going to teach, but 247 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:56,520 I don't know what's going on right now. 248 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:59,280 Worship deals with something that never changes. 249 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:03,680 Worship lifts you to the level that deals with God and the 250 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,840 character of God. And though the flower may fade, 251 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,280 right, and all these other things, money and riches and 252 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:14,080 possessions and things of that matter may fall away, God went 253 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,280 on record and said, I change not. 254 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:22,040 And so worship is constant worship, praise is going to have 255 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,360 it's highs and it's lows based upon what God is doing in the 256 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,880 moment. But God is God and they don't 257 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:31,880 ever change. And so worship, there's not an 258 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:35,760 ebb and flow with worship. He's who he is, that's what he 259 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:42,360 was, that's who he will be. Therefore, I can be in awe of 260 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:46,840 God. Amen. 261 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:55,120 Worship is connected to something eternal. 262 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:04,920 Blessings come and go, but the blesser does not Amen. 263 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:09,080 It's eternal praise. It's many times it's just 264 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:11,320 expressed over something temporal or just a moment. 265 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,920 The Bible says in the New Testament scripture of 266 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:21,440 Colossians 2 and verse #3 it says in whom the whom is God, In 267 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:28,880 whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 268 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:35,080 All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in him, God. 269 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:41,920 So if I desire the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, I must 270 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:46,400 desire him because they're hid in him. 271 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,560 To try to seek those things, Sister Sheila, without seeking 272 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:54,400 him is going to be a very frustrated effort because 273 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:59,040 they're hid in him. They're not found independent of 274 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:06,839 Him, but they are hid in Him. To praise God only for what He 275 00:17:06,839 --> 00:17:13,240 has done and not worship Him for who He is, is faulty. 276 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:18,400 It's like desiring the treasures of knowledge and wisdom, but 277 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,720 they're connected to something. They don't stand alone, they 278 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,599 don't exist by themself. I can get tunnel vision 279 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:32,040 sometimes just focusing in praise on what God has done and 280 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:36,640 get so concentrated on the doing that I forget the doer. 281 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:41,400 Amen. Because the big picture reveals 282 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:49,800 to me that what God does or what He has done is because of who He 283 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:54,280 is. That's the reason why I'm saying 284 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:59,760 today that let us go from praise to worship that once I, I, I 285 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,960 thank him for the job and possession and, and the money in 286 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:06,760 my pocket and healing my body. I want to trace, if you will, 287 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:10,640 the shadow to the substance. I want to trace the bless, the 288 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,760 blessing to the bless her. And so I'm thanking him for 289 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,520 this, that and the other. But that's leading me to the 290 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:20,520 character of God of who he is. That blessing doesn't come 291 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,240 independent of the one from which it comes. 292 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:28,000 And so I praise him. But then I stand in the hall of 293 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,520 where all of this has flown from. 294 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:38,400 Amen. Some people are, they're praised 295 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:44,800 junkies, but they never form a relationship with the 296 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:49,640 underwriter of the blessing. Amen. 297 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,960 All of those things are really to pull us to a place of worship 298 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:04,440 after Abraham in in the book of Genesis chapter 14, of course 299 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:10,040 Lot and his family had pitched their tent towards Sodom and Lot 300 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,400 end up becoming a magistrate of the city. 301 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,640 And there were some kings that did war against Sodom, Gomorrah, 302 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,640 and they took away Lot and his family and several others. 303 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,160 And Abraham got a band of men together because a Lot was his 304 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:26,960 relative and he went to war as a result of them being taken. 305 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,640 And he rescued Lot, his family and several others and several 306 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:33,320 of the things that were taken from Sodom and Gomorrah. 307 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:37,440 And the Bible speaks to us very plainly that the king of Sodom 308 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:42,400 wanted to come out and he said, hey, much of this stuff that you 309 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:45,760 brought brought back, you can just have, he said, just give us 310 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:49,040 the souls, give us the people. And you didn't take any of this 311 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,520 stuff, stuff that you brought back into your own hand. 312 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:55,200 But Abraham said no. He said, whatever my men have 313 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,840 ate, OK, you know, that's fine, he said, but nothing additional 314 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,400 am I going to take from you? Because I don't want it to be 315 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:08,160 said that I've been blessed or empowered by the king of Sodom. 316 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,680 I'm not going to. Not a shoe latchet, He said he 317 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:13,880 was getting detailed, if we can say it this morning. 318 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,320 Not a tennis shoe string. All right. 319 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,440 I'm not keeping anything. That comes from you. 320 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,920 Hey, although you're offering these gifts, Why Abraham? 321 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:28,680 Because Abraham understood blessings from wherever they 322 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:33,240 come from, they come and go. But I know who my blessings come 323 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,680 from. Abraham was satisfied with more 324 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,240 than a blessing. He was satisfied with the 325 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,400 blesser. That's the reason why in the 326 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,040 very next chapter of Genesis, after this whole scenario played 327 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:49,000 out, we see in the very first verse of Genesis chapter #15 328 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,920 that after all these things that Abraham denied, that from Sodom 329 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,720 said, no, I don't want to take anything, it's sufficient, 330 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,480 everything's OK. That then the Bible says after 331 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:01,720 these things, the word of the Lord came unto Abraham in a 332 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:06,920 vision saying, fear not Abram, I am thy shield and thy exceeding 333 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,160 great reward. You know what he's saying, good 334 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:12,760 job, good job, Abraham. He says, because you know who 335 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,160 your blesser is. You don't just know about your 336 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,560 blessing, you know about your blesser. 337 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,080 And you don't have to receive anything from Sodom and 338 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,080 Gomorrah, this wicked and perverse nation, because you're 339 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,440 linked to me. And as long as you're linked to 340 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:28,400 me, there'll be times, there'll be money in your pocket, 341 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:32,960 there'll be livestock in your pasture, as long as you 342 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,840 acknowledge me. Amen. 343 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:42,800 Worship is tied to the eternal. And worship many times is the 344 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:49,560 result of revelation, of revelation, Amen, of an 345 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,200 encounter. We see this all times in 346 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:56,320 scriptures that people have an encounter with God. 347 00:21:57,360 --> 00:22:00,280 And the moment that they have an encounter with God, you know 348 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,640 what often happens? What's read next in Scripture? 349 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,040 They fell face down and worshipped. 350 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,960 Many times have some whether it's a burning Bush or however 351 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,600 God wishes to manifest himself. When there's an encounter, 352 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:20,600 people often in Scripture, they'll fall down and worship 353 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:24,560 because worship moves you further. 354 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:31,400 Worship is like being at the end of the spoke on a wheel, or 355 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,880 praise is praise is like being at the end of the spoke on a 356 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,960 wheel. But worship is about the worship 357 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:42,760 is about finding the hub, having an encounter with the hub. 358 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:49,040 The Bible tells us in Exodus 33, it tells us that when the people 359 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,840 saw the cloudy pillar at the Tabernacle door, they had 360 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:54,840 witnessed this. They they were all in their 361 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:56,920 tents. The tents of the nation of 362 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:00,440 Israel always faced toward the center where the Tabernacle was. 363 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,480 The presence of God was their tents faced inward. 364 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:09,480 It is truly it was God at the center of it all right, the 365 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:13,720 church at the IT was that in the Old Testament Amen wilderness 366 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,000 camping. Their tent door flaps were 367 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,360 toward that center place. And so the Bible says that the 368 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:23,080 the people were standing there and when they saw the cloudy 369 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,600 pillar at the Tabernacle door, they knew that to be the 370 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,840 presence of the Lord. They knew that to be the 371 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,840 Shekinah of God. The Bible says every man 372 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,960 worshipped. They were in awe. 373 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,960 He hadn't done anything. He was just present. 374 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,600 He was just present. He wasn't handing out this or 375 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,880 that at that moment. He was just present and they 376 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:51,640 were in awe and in the reverence they worshipped just because he 377 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:57,920 was there. He was just there wasn't per SE 378 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,680 doing anything in the moment. He was just see, God wants to 379 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,280 move us to that place. God wants to move us to a place 380 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:09,160 that will just be overwhelmed just by Him being there, even 381 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,160 even before he ever does anything. 382 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,440 I'm ready to get on board when he starts doing things. 383 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,480 I got tensions on today. It's like, woo Hoo. 384 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,400 But what about him just showing up? 385 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,480 What's your deal? He's here. 386 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,720 Were you down on your face for what got? 387 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,440 He hasn't done anything, but he's here. 388 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,080 He's not done anything yet right now, but he's here. 389 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,680 And as long as he's here, there's always the potential for 390 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:46,600 the doing so. Yeah, I'm going to reverence 391 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:50,880 that, huh? You know who? 392 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:57,120 He's just there in Moses. The Bible says in in the very 393 00:24:57,120 --> 00:25:00,160 next chapter, the Bible says that Moses made haste and he 394 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:04,640 bowed his head in worship when the Lord just passed by before 395 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:08,160 him. He's just passing by, huh. 396 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,040 The president, the Lord just passing by Moses and Moses 397 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:17,880 recognizes that's the Lord. He's not giving him a new, a new 398 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,400 mantor or a new staff that's made out of Hickory. 399 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:27,160 He's just passing by, and Moses is like bowing, making haste to 400 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,080 worship just because he recognized God was there. 401 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,800 Hey man, the Bible says in Second Chronicles 7 and 3. 402 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:44,280 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came 403 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,920 down in the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed 404 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:47,840 themselves. Here it is again. 405 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,160 They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the 406 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,720 pavement and worshipped. They recognized him in that fire 407 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:58,680 and that God's here. Listen, the more that we 408 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:05,000 acquaint ourselves with God and know Him, the more we'll be 409 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:10,280 compelled to worship Him again. Everybody can praise the Lord 410 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,080 because God has done something for everyone. 411 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:13,760 Saints Center. It matters not. 412 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,920 He has done breath in your body, you know, sustained your 413 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,720 heartbeat for another day. Everybody can praise the Lord 414 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:26,400 because of what He has done for them, great or small, and a 415 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,960 Sinner can even worship the Lord, but that worship will 416 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:34,240 always be birthed out of knowing, coming to understanding 417 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:38,120 that that's God, a revelation of an encounter. 418 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,560 That's Him. The Bible says in Isaiah chapter 419 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:48,720 #6 verses one through 5 popular setting of Scripture, it says in 420 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:53,320 the year that King Uzziah died, Isaiah says, I saw also the Lord 421 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,880 sitting up on the throne high and lifted up, and his train 422 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,760 filled the temple. Above it stood the Seraphim's. 423 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,840 Each one had six wings. With twain he covered his face, 424 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,880 and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 425 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:15,240 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the 426 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,440 Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his 427 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:24,320 glory. And the post of the door of of 428 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,480 the door moved at the voice of him that cried in the house was 429 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:32,080 filled with smoke. Then said, I woe was me, for I 430 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:36,920 am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and dwell in the 431 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:42,400 midst of a people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen 432 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:48,680 the king, the Lord of host. Note, now note verse #3 once 433 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:54,840 again, that these seraphims that are crying out, holy, holy, holy 434 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,120 is the Lord of hosts. They're holy, holy, holy. 435 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,440 No, they're holy, holy Holy isn't a praise service. 436 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,320 Their holy, holy, holy is a worship service. 437 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,960 All right, again, worship having to do with the eternal things 438 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,000 that never changed. Their worship had to do with a 439 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:16,040 character of God. The Bible tells us that God is 440 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,480 holy. He said be there, be there for 441 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,240 holy because I am holy. That that's not that's not 442 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:27,000 something that God does. That's who God is. 443 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:31,840 And so the holy, holy, holy crying of the Seraphim's wasn't 444 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:36,280 praise service, it was a worship service, because that's what he 445 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,760 is. But notice them the result of 446 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,440 true worship that took place there at the House of God, as 447 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:48,840 those Seraphim's are crying out and acknowledging him, just 448 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,200 acknowledging his presence, acknowledging being there. 449 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:56,600 The Bible says that the post of the door of the House of God 450 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,280 moved. It says that the house then was 451 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,880 filled with smoke and what happened next was just great. 452 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:08,760 In reality, Isaiah felt conviction, yeah, conviction 453 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,080 fail. And he says, woe is me, for I am 454 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,400 a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among the people of 455 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,880 unclean lips. That conviction that fail in the 456 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,840 House of God wasn't the result of a praise service. 457 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,480 It was the result of a worship service. 458 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:32,000 Whenever they recognize that God was, their conviction fail. 459 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:37,800 And Isaiah began to realize his own self in light of who God was 460 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:43,040 in that worship scenario. Hey man, whenever the whenever 461 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,120 the Israelites in the Old Testament, whenever they got 462 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:51,840 their release from from 400 or so years of bondage, their their 463 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,960 release happened is because God told Moses, he said have the 464 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,800 children of Israel. You tell Pharaoh that they need 465 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,640 to have some reprieve to come a three day journey into the 466 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,760 wilderness where they'll offer sacrifices and offerings unto 467 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,360 me. You tell them that is the 468 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,760 purpose all right of their of their travel and to do this to 469 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:16,160 go into the wilderness and to do this listen their call from God 470 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,520 to go that three day journey wasn't a call for praise. 471 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,040 It was a call for worship because worship is service. 472 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,560 Worship is sacrifice. What released them in essence 473 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:33,080 from the hand of bondage wasn't their praise, it was their 474 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:37,960 worship. I've seen people praise God left 475 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:42,200 right for things he done and still be bound, still be 476 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,120 incarcerated by A&B&C. But when you begin to 477 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:52,960 acknowledge God just for who He is, things begin to change. 478 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,080 They tarry. The Israelites do 40 years in a 479 00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:01,000 wilderness and God had an intended destiny for them, all 480 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,680 right. But there was only a few of the 481 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,680 previous generation that would actually make it to the promised 482 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,680 land. We understand, of course, Joshua 483 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,240 and Taleb. We also understand that it was 484 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,880 all those that were 20 years and older that would be lost in 485 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,560 their years of the wilderness. So there are, you know, those 486 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:22,120 that were 19 and younger that could be in the generation that 487 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,800 went into the promised land according to the word of God. 488 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,640 But there's only some that actually reached that intended 489 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,120 destiny out of millions of people that were in the 490 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,080 wilderness. And this is what the Psalms 95 491 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,560 says about this whole scenario of wilderness journey. 492 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:43,120 It says in verse #8 he says the psalmist says harden not your 493 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:48,480 heart as in the provocation, as in the day of temptation in the 494 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,480 wilderness. He said when your father's 495 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:59,600 tempted me and proved me and saw my work, he said for 40 years 496 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:04,280 long was I grieved with this generation and said it is the 497 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,360 people that do in do air in their heart and they have not 498 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,240 known my ways. Hold on now. 499 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:17,400 They knew His work, but they didn't know His ways, he says in 500 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,760 verse 11. And to whom I swear in my wrath, 501 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:27,040 that they should not enter into my rest folks Israel as a 502 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,520 nation, in their years of wondering, they were blessed 503 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:37,120 that God didn't several things for them in their wilderness 504 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:38,960 journey. Amen. 505 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:43,120 But they were all the time testing God and proving God. 506 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:48,520 And what they seen of God was his work, but they never 507 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,640 acquainted themselves with his ways. 508 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:57,240 All right, the word ways means manner, or habit, or course of 509 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:01,880 life, or moral character. They knew what he did, but they 510 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,560 didn't totally come to terms with who he was. 511 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,200 They saw his work. How Oh, they're crying out for 512 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,960 food and God sends mana from heaven. 513 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,680 A man just as as the frost would form that that little coriander 514 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,080 seed that that was white would form along with the the dew on 515 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,880 the ground and they could gather it six days a week and double as 516 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:26,440 much on the 6th day. God provided mana for them. 517 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,320 And when they got tired of that, he sent quail. 518 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,600 And as you said, the Scripture, it was quailed, that was 519 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,680 probably as deep up to a person's shin for a particular 520 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,520 area. And so they had quail. 521 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,520 They ate it so much till they were vomiting it out their 522 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:44,320 nostrils, so to speak. According to to Scripture, God 523 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,840 did something for them when there was no water source. 524 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,440 He caused water to come from a rock. 525 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,520 God did that. They praised him. 526 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:56,400 They knew the work of God and what that when the bitter waters 527 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:57,960 were there, they could not drink up. 528 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,840 He had them have a tree and throw it in the water and God 529 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,320 made the bitter water sweet. They could praise God for that 530 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,320 because of what he had done, could praise Him when the fiery 531 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,679 serpents appeared and He had him put a, a serpent on the Poe and 532 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:13,239 looked at that to get a reprieve. 533 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,000 God did that. They could praise Him for that 534 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,719 over and over again. But all that was temporal. 535 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,320 All of that man in that crowd, all of that was just bound to 536 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:26,280 the wilderness. They did not reach their destiny 537 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:32,679 because they elevated the work, the doings of God over never 538 00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:35,719 getting acquainted with the ways the character of God. 539 00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:42,960 They saw his work, but they didn't know his ways. 540 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,080 Let me say this morning, there are some places that worship 541 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:47,760 will take you that praise will not. 542 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:59,040 Praise didn't get them praise. It's those that that was mindful 543 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:03,640 in all in reverence, an acknowledgement of the way of 544 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,360 who the character of God, who he was. 545 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:11,800 Almost the whole generation of the old generation died off, but 546 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,600 they had witnessed everything he had done, but they didn't 547 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,400 familiarize him themselves with His ways. 548 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:26,440 You look at the Old Testament Tabernacle and you're in that 549 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,720 outer court of the Tavern. You have outer court, the inner 550 00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:33,440 court or what's known as the Holy of Holies, and then you 551 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:37,720 have that innermost place that the holiest of holies. 552 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,200 And in that outer court, of course, there wasn't a canopy 553 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,160 over it. There wasn't a roof over it. 554 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:47,320 And the natural light of the day help, of course, keep it lit 555 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,000 during the day and such. It was a place of sacrifice. 556 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,240 That's that's where the the altar was and the labor that the 557 00:35:55,240 --> 00:35:58,800 priest washed in was at. It was a place of sacrifice, 558 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,120 which to us makes sense that this is a place of worship. 559 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:06,240 If you'll remember in Genesis 22, whenever Abraham was 560 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:10,640 commanded of God to take Isaac up into this Mount Moriah range 561 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,240 to sacrifice him there, that's what was going to take place to 562 00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:16,960 offer him up. And that was his only son. 563 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,880 Whenever the other servants that were with Abraham were with him 564 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,080 and he says me and my son are going Yonder, his word choice 565 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,000 was we're going Yonder to worship. 566 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,800 But there was going to be sacrifice on that mountain, 567 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,200 which equated for us for one of the very first times in the 568 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,320 Scripture, the word worship be used equated for us. 569 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:38,680 What worship is about sacrifice says we're going Yonder to 570 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,360 worship. What's happening up there on the 571 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,400 sacrifice of my son? There's something that's dear to 572 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,840 me. And so worship. 573 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,520 And so here in the outer court where we have the the altar and 574 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,280 we have the labor and where sacrifice would take place in 575 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,160 essence, a place where worship would happen, right? 576 00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:00,400 Because whatever you deemed was so precious to you, you said you 577 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:04,320 could OfferUp for something that was more precious, acknowledging 578 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,080 him. Amen. 579 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,120 And listen, fuck, that's a big thing. 580 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,880 That's a big thing. Whenever God required like the 581 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,600 firstling of your flock, you understand how big that was, 582 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:22,000 that you invested seed and grain and thyme and watering for these 583 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,320 animals to then have a union and give offspring. 584 00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:30,320 And you're going to take the first one and you're giving that 585 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:36,560 to God with no guarantee that you or whatever there's ever 586 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:38,400 going to be another one born from their womb. 587 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:44,400 But by faith, that's all you got right now. 588 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:49,640 And it's like that one goes, I mean, that, that that's, that's 589 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:55,360 honoring something being more superior than what you have. 590 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,560 That's worship. And so then you go into that 591 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,960 holy place and, and it is covered with a canopy and 592 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,160 there's a roof over it and there's the the lamp stand that 593 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:11,120 is there that's that's providing a light for the purpose of of 594 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,200 the table of shoebread and for offering the incense. 595 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,160 It's a place of service. It's where the priest would go 596 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,160 in and he would eat from the table of shoebread and he would 597 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,880 OfferUp, if you will, the cause of incense on this altar from 598 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:28,320 the fire that came from the outer court altar. 599 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:31,000 And he's going to put that on there and he's going to trim the 600 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:32,560 Wicks. And so it's a place where 601 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,200 ministry is taking place. There's service that is taking 602 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:40,720 place, but then you're going to enter into the holies of holies. 603 00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:43,440 But even prior to that, whenever you enter into that holy place, 604 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,120 you're going to enter in through these these pillars that Isaiah 605 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,480 talks about, the wonderful counselor, the mighty God, the 606 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,600 everlasting Father. And so as you're going through 607 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,720 here, you're remembering this fact that he is wonderful. 608 00:38:53,720 --> 00:38:56,920 And so you know he's wonderful. You don't even have to account 609 00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,440 what he's done. He is just wonderful and they 610 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,800 counting all that in and you're taken by the awe and you're 611 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,320 taken by the wonder of just who He is. 612 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,840 It just produces and, and evokes, if you will, a posture 613 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:10,400 of worship. Amen. 614 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,120 For ourselves and for His service. 615 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,560 But we get into that holies of holies and and there is no 616 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,000 lampstand and there is no sunshine and there is a canopy 617 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,400 and if there's going to be any light there, he's got to be 618 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,760 there. It's dark without Him being 619 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,280 there. So there's going to have to be a 620 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,400 supernatural light, no natural light, no artificial light. 621 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,200 It's going to have to be the light that comes from him. 622 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,240 And in there, there's no service. 623 00:39:35,240 --> 00:39:37,200 There's there's, there's no, there's no bread. 624 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,320 There's no, there's no service. There's no work that's 625 00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,520 necessarily being produced right there. 626 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,600 What, what are we doing there then? 627 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:51,920 We're just to be in awe of the presence that shows up there. 628 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,600 Nothing else is allowed and you're not taking, you're not 629 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,960 taking no, no animal, you know, skin in there. 630 00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,360 You're not doing all that. The Bible even talks about, you 631 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,640 know, he was He's going to change his garments so that 632 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,400 there's no sweat allowed in this area. 633 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,880 All your problems, all your frustrations, none of that 634 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,000 because none of that is to share with the glory of the Lord, no 635 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,560 flesh your glory in his presence. 636 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,280 You just want to get into a space where there's nothing to 637 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:18,160 acknowledge but him and you worship. 638 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,200 Frustrations go to the back seat. 639 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,400 You're not bringing that there. You're just there to acknowledge 640 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,800 Him. When we get in a mind frame of 641 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:33,680 worship, worship, worship will will help us block other things 642 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,920 out that don't need to be entertained in the moment. 643 00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:40,000 Whenever we begin to acknowledge Him and see Him and then realize 644 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,240 in the moment in worship, we really truly begin to 645 00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:45,440 acknowledge God. You know what I realized when 646 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,680 I've come in with all my baggage and all my woes of the week and 647 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,680 I truly get into a place from praise to worship? 648 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,200 You know where I get to. Nothing else matters in this 649 00:40:55,200 --> 00:41:02,960 life but what's right here, God, all the headache and the stress 650 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:04,320 of work from the past week, Fred. 651 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,600 It just kind of sloths off over here to the side because in the 652 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:12,400 moment of worship, everything else subsides. 653 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,560 Amen. Psalms chapter #90 try to be 654 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:23,160 mindful of your time. Psalms 90 verses 1/2. 655 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:28,120 The psalmist says and, and these are really, I believe words that 656 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,240 are borrowed, if I'm not mistaken, from Moses. 657 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:32,880 We redo this and the first five books of the Bible. 658 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:40,440 Lord, thou has been our dwelling place in all generations before 659 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:44,800 the mountains were brought forth or ever. 660 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:50,520 Thou has formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting 661 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,600 to everlasting. Thou art God. 662 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,920 You have been our dwelling place in all. 663 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,600 In other words, it wasn't. It wasn't that you just became 664 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:06,680 that to us once there was trees and grass and the days of 665 00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:11,520 creation had taken place. No, prior to that, you have been 666 00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:15,880 our dwelling place in all generations, he says. 667 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,760 The psalmist is saying that our living was not based upon what 668 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:24,880 we had necessarily, because before the mountains, right, but 669 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,440 but, but before the earth was formed, before the world, it's 670 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:31,160 not based upon what we had, but upon who we knew. 671 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:40,120 Again, in verse 2, the emphasis is that before God did per SE 672 00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:45,840 anything, before there were any deeds of God, there was God. 673 00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:55,400 Sadly, sometimes as as generations have went on and on, 674 00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:59,480 we've based our living and our dwelling upon rather what God 675 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:05,120 does rather than just God. The mountains, the valleys, the 676 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:10,160 springs, the flowers. That's the reason why some many 677 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,960 times people are ready to uproot when it appears that God's not 678 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:18,680 doing anything for them, ready to throw in the towel when God 679 00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:25,000 isn't seemingly observably doing anything for them. 680 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,760 But that's just living in the shallow end of the pool. 681 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:33,880 We got to get back to the deep waters of worship and amount 682 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:38,720 must allow Him to be our dwelling place. 683 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,360 Everything else will pass, but He's eternal. 684 00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:47,800 Worship is eternal and so by divine decree man's has a 685 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,840 preoccupation with God. That is worship. 686 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,800 There's there's an old Pentecostal Apostolic saying 687 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,040 that used to say if you wonder where the wonder went, it went 688 00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:01,200 out with the wonder. Let me say it again, if you 689 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:05,720 wonder where the wonder went, it went out with the wonder, the 690 00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:11,880 all the reverence for just who God is in New Testament 691 00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,040 Scripture. You can read it in the Gospels. 692 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,720 The Bible says you know the story, two sisters, Mary and 693 00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:18,880 Martha. Martha was troubled about many 694 00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:20,480 things. The Bible says she was 695 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,880 encumbered. She she's serving in the house, 696 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,360 but she's frustrated because she's trying to serve without 697 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:34,280 worshipping. Mary said at his feet. 698 00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:40,400 She sat there a posture that made him in a very literal 699 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:46,320 display higher than she was She she's postured in a place that 700 00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,640 he is exalted. He he is the superior in this 701 00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:50,880 house. At this moment. 702 00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,920 She's sitting at the feet and Mary that was going to be very 703 00:44:54,240 --> 00:44:56,160 Martha looks at and says, Lord, do something. 704 00:44:56,160 --> 00:45:01,240 My sister isn't serving, but she was because she was worshipping. 705 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,840 Huh. She was perhaps better posture 706 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:11,320 to serve than Martha, because she's in a position of all of 707 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:15,200 who was there. She was worshipping, and 708 00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:18,720 Martha's really effectiveness of her service could only be as 709 00:45:18,720 --> 00:45:22,160 effective as her worship was. But she didn't have time for 710 00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:26,000 that Doo Doo Doo Doo. No, you needed to take time to 711 00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:31,680 acknowledge who's in your house, time to acknowledge who's there. 712 00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,760 So I don't want to find myself in a Martha type of mentality 713 00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:41,360 where I become frustrated trying to serve the Lord, trying to 714 00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,440 serve the Lord, you know, and make my life a service to the 715 00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,520 Lord. Just this, oh, I just want to do 716 00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:48,880 the things that are right and, you know, abstain from doing the 717 00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,400 things that are wrong. Listen, if that's what the 718 00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,280 service, your service for the Lord boils down to, just trying 719 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:58,120 to do the right and keep from the wrong, then you're going to 720 00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:04,440 find yourself frustrated and unsuccessful because worship is 721 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:08,480 when you have an encounter. Worship is not my list of do's 722 00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:12,200 and don'ts, right? It my service isn't based in 723 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,800 that. My service is acknowledging when 724 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,240 God shows up, Amen. When God is there or the God 725 00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:21,800 that is in my life, Amen. That's when I acquaint myself 726 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:27,880 with worship, and that is when my service exceeds and excels, 727 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,320 when I acknowledge him. Remember the Old Testament 728 00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:35,040 story, the, the, the, the Philistines. 729 00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:38,640 And it went around from Ekron and to five of the Philistine 730 00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,040 cities, the, the, the, the Ark of the Covenant, which was 731 00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:42,600 revered as the very presence of God. 732 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:44,760 And they took that thing and they put it in the temple of 733 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,280 Dagon. And you remember they put it in 734 00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,960 there and, and the next morning, you know, Dagon was cast down 735 00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:56,360 and everybody kind of, you know, the Humpty Dumpty back together 736 00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,680 again, you know, set him back up on his stoop there in the 737 00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:03,160 presence of the Lord, in the presence of that ark of the 738 00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:05,120 Covenant. And then the next day he's down 739 00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,800 again, says like those hands, just the stump remained. 740 00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:14,360 It's just broken off there. Listen, whenever we get to a 741 00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:24,040 place of worship of just his presence than anything else that 742 00:47:24,720 --> 00:47:28,120 is or in around just the acknowledgement of his presence 743 00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,480 won't be able to stand when there's true worship that is an 744 00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:36,160 acknowledgement of just him being there won't have the power 745 00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:39,160 to get back up, won't have the power to resist you because of 746 00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:42,800 the acknowledgement of him. So what are you saying you just 747 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:46,040 got to keep acknowledging him. You got to you got to keep 748 00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:49,560 unawareness about the Lord and please understand you've heard 749 00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,040 me say this before. Our acknowledging him doesn't 750 00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,800 just acknowledge in him in here. I I've stood in line at a 751 00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:59,520 grocery, you know, place before and acknowledge the presence of 752 00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:04,360 the Lord. Come in a moment on owl #13 I, 753 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:08,120 I've stood in on the line of the production line before doing 754 00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:12,240 work and all of a sudden God showed up and acknowledge that 755 00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:16,720 He is there. And so you just got to keep an 756 00:48:16,720 --> 00:48:20,280 awe and a reverence and acknowledgement of Him until God 757 00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:23,920 destroys the things in your life that that are trying to 758 00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,480 overpower and move in and seep in. 759 00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,800 They'll no longer have power over you when you acknowledge 760 00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:34,160 the one that is truly in power with you day in, day out. 761 00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,560 Amen. Come in. 762 00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:40,320 You know, praising, praising for the victory, Praise, pray 763 00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,600 sometimes might help you get the victory, but that's momentarily 764 00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:47,840 Worship will help you keep it. Praise might let you get it, but 765 00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:49,800 worship is going to help you keep it. 766 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,000 Amen. You stand for me today. 767 00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:04,440 Now I'll hasten to a close here in the end, when this thing's 768 00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:09,120 all over and the smoke is settled, and you know this has 769 00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,960 come to the great culmination of that great get up morning, and 770 00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:16,280 all things are said and done. You know what God ensures in the 771 00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:22,080 very end of time, not so much that everybody will praise Him, 772 00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:25,480 but that everybody will acknowledge Him. 773 00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:31,040 You know the Scripture in Philippians 2 Wherefore God also 774 00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,680 hath highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above 775 00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:37,840 every name Speaking of Jesus and that at the name of Jesus every 776 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:41,760 knee should bow, which is the the physical observable 777 00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:46,160 demonstration of worship, falling face down, reverencing 778 00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,080 every knee shall bow of things in heaven, of things on earth, 779 00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,320 things under the earth, and every tongue should confess that 780 00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:53,720 Jesus Christ is the Lord to the glory of God our Father. 781 00:49:53,720 --> 00:49:58,920 He says in the end of time, you know what I'm looking for, what 782 00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,840 I'm looking for, the acknowledgement of who I am, 783 00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:09,280 aside from what I've done, the acknowledgement of my way, my 784 00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:15,360 character, who I am. And so the Lord is constantly 785 00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:18,800 then dealing with us, moving us from praise. 786 00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,840 He's wanting us to follow the line, you know, follow the line 787 00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:26,080 to worship. You ever pulled, you ever pulled 788 00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,160 wire in your house or want to find out where that one thing 789 00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:31,560 was connected or what was on that and you had to trace a wire 790 00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:34,360 and you trace it back to, you know, it's different places. 791 00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:37,120 Oh, that goes to that. That's what you're doing with 792 00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:38,760 praise. He's wanting to take you from 793 00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:43,240 praise to worship, from the doing to the doer, from the 794 00:50:43,240 --> 00:50:49,120 blessing to the blesser, from the creation to the create door. 795 00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:54,280 In all generations, He has been my dwelling place. 796 00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:57,320 Can we close our eyes in this place this morning and can we 797 00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:01,760 just begin to acknowledge God? I know you may be able to rattle 798 00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:05,160 off the things He has done and the blessings that He has 799 00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,560 secured and provided in your life, but can you take a moment 800 00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:12,320 and aside from everything else, just acknowledge Him for who He 801 00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:15,960 is. He is holy, He is great, He is 802 00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:18,400 love. Can you just acknowledge Him for 803 00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:21,320 who He is? And when you begin to do that, 804 00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:26,640 there will be a all AWEA, all that will just just somehow 805 00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:28,920 begin to resurrect inside of you. 806 00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:32,040 A reverence. A reverence that causes you to 807 00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:36,880 stoop your head and bow your body in honor to this great 808 00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:41,240 superior God. Just who He is, who He is, is 809 00:51:41,240 --> 00:51:45,680 enough and who if if we can acknowledge just who He is and 810 00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:47,720 and not take for granted for who He is? 811 00:51:47,720 --> 00:51:52,360 Again folks, that He alone is The Fountainhead for all that 812 00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:56,000 which flows from Him as blessings that we praise Him for 813 00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,440 in our life. But if you disconnect yourself 814 00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:03,560 from Him, you disconnected yourself from the one that 815 00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:07,080 produces and affords the blessing. 816 00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:14,840 Follow praise to worship. Follow praise to worship. 817 00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:21,560 Come with your alabaster box that is of a family heirloom of 818 00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,480 of of a salary of a man's wage of a year. 819 00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:29,600 Come in with that alabaster box. What are you doing, lady? 820 00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:31,920 What are you? Some said she was a Sinner. 821 00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:38,120 What are you doing? I'm doing this. 822 00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,880 I'm acknowledging that there's one right here in this room. 823 00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:48,120 I'm acknowledging him. I'm acknowledging him and I'm 824 00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:51,560 going to take something that's worth a lot to me, and I'm going 825 00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:56,120 to say it's not worth so much that it can't be utilized on 826 00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:59,560 him. I deem that he's worth more to 827 00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:04,320 me than this very thing that I possess. 828 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:08,000 I acknowledge that. Would someone acknowledge him 829 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:11,800 today, Acknowledge him with your mind and knowledge Him with your 830 00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:13,720 heart. Hallelujah. 831 00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:18,120 Moses and Israel's falling down on their face just because his 832 00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:22,480 presence was there. Moses says he passed by and so I 833 00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:24,640 worship didn't do anything per SE. 834 00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:28,600 He was just there. Can we not, can we not somehow 835 00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:32,840 get callous to the fact of when we walk into the service morning 836 00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:36,440 and night and on Wednesdays that God is there and just, if you 837 00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:40,440 will savor the moment of just him being here, just savor the 838 00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,080 moment of just his presence being there? 839 00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:46,640 Oh, God, I thank you today. I thank you today, God, that 840 00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:49,760 you've allowed us to be able to entertain your presence. 841 00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:53,200 God that we're two or three. God that there you are in the 842 00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,080 midst. God, I acknowledge you. 843 00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,320 I acknowledge you. You're the great God. 844 00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:01,400 You're the holy God. You're the almighty one God. 845 00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:03,600 Yeah, I praise you for your mighty acts. 846 00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,680 But God, I'm going to worship you just for your existence. 847 00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:10,280 I'm going to worship you just for being, just for showing up, 848 00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:14,680 for being the Ancient of Days. You've been Lord, my habitation, 849 00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:18,720 Lord, in every generation. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, 850 00:54:18,720 --> 00:54:24,480 Hallelujah, Shalabukola Baba Baba sandhya Baba saye. 851 00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:28,280 Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. 852 00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,000 Why? Just because he's God. 853 00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:35,400 He's God. He's God, no strings attached. 854 00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,840 I worship him. I acknowledge him. 855 00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:43,880 Hanu Rabbasa Rabbasi DDD, some Nuraba Koshaya. 856 00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:47,960 Someone following from praise to worship. 857 00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,480 Follow the blessing to the blesser. 858 00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:54,840 Follow the doing that you have been supplied with to the doer. 859 00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,760 Don't separate the two. Keep them joined together. 860 00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,320 There's power in it. He's eternal. 861 00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:03,120 He's unchanging. He will not fade. 862 00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:06,000 He will not advocate his throne. He's gone. 863 00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:10,480 All alone and all by himself. I acknowledge that today. 864 00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:17,840 I acknowledge that today. Let's sing together. 865 00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:20,520 Amen, if we can. That's an act of praise. 866 00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,640 Let's sing together as we worship this morning. 867 00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:28,400 I love you, Jesus worship.