1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,560 Hi, this is Dave Olson. I'm the senior leader of 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:04,600 Heartland Church located in Ankeny, IA. 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,039 I hope the following message challenges, encourages and 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,160 ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us. 5 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:13,960 No, I am not the second coming of Pastor Dave. 6 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:24,080 This is for somebody. If you're feeling unsettled, if 7 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:26,920 you're feeling pressure about something right now, if you're 8 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,280 just, if you're just kind of and you don't know why and you can't 9 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:30,960 put your finger on it, Let me tell you this. 10 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,920 Sometimes God is comfortable with making you uncomfortable 11 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,880 where you are so he can move you when it's time to move you to 12 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,960 the next thing, right? So don't always interpret 13 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,120 everything in a negative light. Sometimes you need to just go, 14 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,120 OK, God, what are you doing here? 15 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:56,080 Kind of like me yesterday. I'm sitting in my house and I'm 16 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,000 just feeling uncomfortable and I'm just going, God, what in the 17 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,440 world? I mean, I've been a good 18 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:07,480 Christian this week. I'm this week and, and I, you 19 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:13,560 know, and I'm just feeling just unsettled. 20 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:16,920 And so I'm supposed to be like installing a toilet and getting 21 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,080 some plumbing stuff. And who doesn't love to do that 22 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:24,040 on a Saturday? But I instead, I just sat down 23 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,080 and I prayed for a while and I read, read the word a little bit 24 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:34,560 more and it was still there. So I'm walking around my kitchen 25 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:40,080 and I'm going, God, while we're talking about things, you gave 26 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:43,160 me this message like back in September, this, this sermon 27 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,200 thing. What are you going to do with 28 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,880 this? What, what, what are you going 29 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,280 to do? What, what, what do you want? 30 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,160 Still pretty quiet in my kitchen. 31 00:01:54,160 --> 00:02:00,680 So I decided to take a nap because I'm that spiritual and I 32 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,600 couldn't sleep. And I'm just laying there and 33 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,200 I'm praying. God, what is this? 34 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:11,080 I'm unsettled. I'm the guy that plays keyboard 35 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:15,280 or guitar. I'm not the guy that does this. 36 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:23,560 What? And Pastor Dave calls me, says I 37 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,480 can't be there tomorrow. And I felt like God told me you 38 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:35,820 had something. Why yes, yes, I do. 39 00:02:37,420 --> 00:02:39,820 Never lie to your pastor because that's not going to go well for 40 00:02:39,820 --> 00:02:41,980 you. I'm just telling you that right 41 00:02:41,980 --> 00:02:53,000 now. So here I am, and for those of 42 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,200 you that don't know me well, I'm one of the board members here, 43 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,680 so some of you voted for me. At least that Rick Arrowwood. 44 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:06,240 I, my wife Carrie and I have three wonderful daughters who 45 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,920 have snagged themselves three wonderful husbands and given us 46 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:20,020 6 1/2 grandchildren. Awesome, right? 47 00:03:20,020 --> 00:03:25,320 It is awesome. We've been here 17 years and if 48 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:29,760 you know Carrie at all my wife, you know that she loves snow and 49 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:39,400 she loves Christmas and Target. So on the Giving tree in the 50 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:44,560 back, she looked for A tag that had a Target gift card request 51 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,320 on it. And that's the one she snagged. 52 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,280 I'm just here to tell you there are more cards left on the 53 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:53,880 giving Tree. So you have an opportunity still 54 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,280 like one more week, I think, right, that you can, you can 55 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,720 bless someone. So what a great opportunity to 56 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:02,600 bless someone at Christmas. And it's pretty, it's easy to 57 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,880 do. And Carrie might have gotten the 58 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,200 last Target one, but you know, buck up, do something. 59 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,320 I really wanted to make this a Christmas message. 60 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,600 I really wanted to extend Pastor Dave's message series about 61 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,080 women who were alive at the time of Christ. 62 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,120 And I got started thinking of all the old politicians that we 63 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:36,880 know. And no, I guess I, I don't know 64 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:38,600 anyone. So I'm just going to have to 65 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:42,320 leave that to him to wrap up. But here's, here's the thing. 66 00:04:49,010 --> 00:04:52,810 This is, this is God poking at my heart first. 67 00:04:52,890 --> 00:04:56,880 This is me reading Isaiah chapter 6 in September and God 68 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,440 poking at my heart and going, you need to pay attention to 69 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:04,120 this. And so I'm sharing that with you 70 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,720 and I'm going to be a mess while I do it, and I don't care. 71 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,960 All right. And if you get messed up, 72 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:16,640 awesome. But the Holy Spirit is going to 73 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,360 move on us today. And what He showed me, He's 74 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,680 showing us because, see, God doesn't mean he isn't 75 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,480 vindictive. He shows this thing by the Holy 76 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:31,120 Spirit so that we can conform to His image in His will, so that 77 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,360 we can take part in the Kingdom. And we can be pleasing to His 78 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:38,120 heart because we're walking where He walks, right? 79 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:44,600 So I read this in the year that King Uzziah died. 80 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:52,440 I saw the Lord high and exalted, seated on the throne, and the 81 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,120 train of his robe filled the temple. 82 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,840 And above him were seraphim, each with six wings. 83 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,320 With two wings they covered their faces with two, they 84 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,800 covered their feet with two. They were flying, and they were 85 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,880 calling to one another. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God 86 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,480 Almighty. The whole earth is full of His 87 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:17,560 glory. As a worship leader, I've sung 88 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:24,280 this a million times, but on this day, God said, if you want 89 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,440 to really grasp the significance of this, you need to look at who 90 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:33,560 I, who Uzziah was. I mean, my Bible college 91 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,760 education was 35 years ago. My Old Testament history is a 92 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:42,880 little well, anyway, I have the Internet, so I'm good and I and 93 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,920 I have a Bible. So you can read the story of the 94 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:50,040 kings in Second Chronicles and Uzziah's story starts in chapter 95 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:51,320 25. Don't, don't read that. 96 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,960 Now we're going to talk a bit. So Isaiah also wrote about them 97 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,560 because he was alive during the reign of these kings. 98 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:03,120 So when you read Isaiah, the book of Isaiah, a lot of the 99 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,000 things that he was talking about were happening during the reigns 100 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,040 of these kings. The verse that Pastor Adam read 101 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:17,040 this morning, Isaiah 1 through 5, describes prophetically and 102 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:22,240 poetically the sad story of the kings Amaziah, Uzziah, his son 103 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:27,520 Jotham, his son Ahaz, and his son Hezekiah, Kings of Judah, 104 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,920 the southern Kingdom that was ruled by the House of David, 105 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,960 though they were the House of David now mostly in name only 106 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,680 and some barely. That Samaria to the north had 107 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,800 broken away was ruled by the House of Jeroboam, and they were 108 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:45,840 evil in every way you could think of. 109 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,920 And Isaiah's version gives us the spiritual side of the 110 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,800 chronology and Chronicles, but from the perspective of the 111 00:07:54,800 --> 00:08:00,880 broken heart of God. So Isaiah 2 says, come on, 112 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,600 descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord. 113 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:08,480 A plea. Isaiah 217 says the arrogance of 114 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,120 man will be brought low, and human pride will be humbled. 115 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:15,000 The Lord alone will be exalted in that day, and the idols will 116 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:20,920 totally disappear. And Isaiah 5 verses 20 through 117 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:23,040 25. And tell me if this doesn't 118 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:26,280 sound like a country we may have lived in. 119 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:32,559 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness 120 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:35,600 for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for 121 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:39,760 sweet and sweet for bitter. And woe to those who are wise in 122 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,159 their own eyes and clever in their own sight. 123 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:48,600 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at 124 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,800 mixing drinks, who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny 125 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:57,320 justice to the innocent. Therefore, as tongues of fire 126 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:04,000 lick up straw, and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so 127 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,200 their roots will decay, their flowers blow away like dust. 128 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:12,640 For they rejected the law of the Lord God Almighty and spurn the 129 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,760 word of the Holy One of Israel. And I know we're talking about 130 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,640 Israel, but it feels like America to me a little bit. 131 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,280 Therefore the Lord's anger burns against His people. 132 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,800 His hand is raised, He strikes them down the mountains shake 133 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,680 the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. 134 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,920 Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away. 135 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:43,240 His hand is still upraised. This was the heart of God over 136 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:52,000 Israel. Now for the history lesson. 137 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,200 To tell the story of Uzziah, we have to start with his Father 138 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,280 and Messiah and Messiah's father. 139 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:02,120 Joash was at first a really great and righteous king of 140 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,960 Israel. He rebuilt the temple and and 141 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:14,280 reestablished worship in Israel. But after the priest Jehoiada, 142 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,680 that's close enough. Nobody else is going to say it 143 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:21,080 better. Jehu Otto died. 144 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,880 And guys, you know how long he lived. 145 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,320 He was the priest who helped Joash take his throne and he 146 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,720 stayed as his advisor and he guided him in the hand of the 147 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,080 Lord. And tell me the Lord didn't 148 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,320 extend this because he lived 130 years. 149 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,120 Should have also been a clue to Joash. 150 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:47,520 Like I should probably keep doing that, doing those things. 151 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,000 But he didn't. He turned back to Asherah poles 152 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,240 and idol worship and set it up all over Israel. 153 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:03,600 He even when Joe had his son Zachariah, whom God sent to call 154 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:08,240 him to account for his wickedness, he participated in 155 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:13,080 his murder. So God gave him over to the 156 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,680 Arameans who killed him and his son Amaziah became the king. 157 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,000 And Joash, who was once the great reformer, the once the 158 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,320 great revivalist, was not even buried in the tombs of the kings 159 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:27,280 of Israel. They just put him in a box 160 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:33,760 somewhere. Amaziah was listed as one of 161 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:35,640 Judah's good and successful kings. 162 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:41,360 He had a lot of military victories, but in one of them, 163 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,680 over the nation of Sere, he brought home their gods and set 164 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:51,800 them up as his own. I mean, think of that, right? 165 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,680 Hey, these are the gods of the of the country we just 166 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:57,160 conquered. These should be pretty good, 167 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:06,160 don't you think? God wasn't pleased and Amaziah 168 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,520 became arrogant and he picked a fight with Joe as the king of 169 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:13,240 Israel. And God set this all up so that 170 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,720 he would start a war that he would lose miserably. 171 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,680 And he was captured and imprisoned in Samaria for a long 172 00:12:18,680 --> 00:12:24,720 time, but eventually was killed by his own people with plotting 173 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,240 his who'd been plotting his death ever since he turned his 174 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:34,240 back on the Lord. Arrogant, proud. 175 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:39,200 This is what was said of him at the beginning of his story, 176 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,000 Second Chronicles 25. Two. 177 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,080 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not 178 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:51,960 wholeheartedly. He served the Lord, but not with 179 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:58,080 the whole heart. His half hearted service to God 180 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:03,760 and his pride, his arrogance, he passed on to his son Uzziah. 181 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,480 So then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was 16 years 182 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,400 old, and made him king in place of his father, a Messiah. 183 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:18,840 He did a lot of good stuff. He was the one who rebuilt, 184 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,120 built Elath and some of the other cities that they'd 185 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:24,400 captured from the Philistines, restored it to Judah after a 186 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:26,600 Messiah had rested with his ancestors. 187 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:30,640 And Uzziah was 16 years old when he became the king, and he 188 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:34,840 reigned in Jerusalem 52 years. This is a long time for the 189 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:37,160 kings of the of those generations. 190 00:13:45,010 --> 00:13:48,450 His mother's name was Jacaliah. She was from Jerusalem. 191 00:13:48,490 --> 00:13:52,090 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his 192 00:13:52,090 --> 00:13:56,890 father Amaziah had done. Unfortunately, that wasn't a 193 00:13:56,890 --> 00:14:00,650 very high bar, right? We were talking about 194 00:14:00,650 --> 00:14:05,120 generations this morning, right? Amaziah, arrogant, proud and 195 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:09,360 half hearted and his son served the Lord just like him. 196 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,480 Fathers, this isn't this is just a gulp moment for us, right? 197 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,880 It's more than just good for you to serve the Lord. 198 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:27,160 How you serve the Lord is how your sons will serve the Lord. 199 00:14:32,420 --> 00:14:34,940 And that's for all of us who are physical and who are spiritual 200 00:14:34,940 --> 00:14:41,960 fathers to this house. He sought God during the days of 201 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:45,440 Zechariah the priest, one more time, a faithful priest guiding 202 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,920 the king, who instructed him in the fear of God. 203 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:52,080 And as long as he sought the Lord, God gave him success. 204 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:55,920 He won battles with the Philistines, the Arabs, the 205 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:57,840 Ammonites. He broke down their walls, 206 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:00,640 rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem and the gates of Jerusalem. 207 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,880 The Arameans brought him tribute. 208 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:08,160 He had a large and well equipped army. 209 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:12,280 He was famous in all the earth because God had helped him out 210 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:20,160 until verse 16 says. But after Uzziah became 211 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,400 powerful, his pride led to his downfall. 212 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:28,160 He was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple 213 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:31,440 of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. 214 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:38,640 Azariah, the priest with eighty other courageous priests, 215 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:41,200 Because you'd better be, because the king can. 216 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:45,080 Yeah, kill. You followed him in and they 217 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,320 confronted King Uzziah and said it is not right for you, Uzziah, 218 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:50,760 to burn incense to the Lord. That is for the priest, the 219 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,760 descendant of Aaron. Please don't do this thing. 220 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:57,400 They've been consecrated to burn the incense. 221 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,200 Leave the sanctuary for you. Been faithful, and you will not 222 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,200 be honored by the Lord your God in this. 223 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,720 But Uzziah, who had a sensor in his hand ready to burn incense, 224 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,600 became angry. And while he was raging at the 225 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,040 priests in their presence before the incense altar in the Lord's 226 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:15,920 temple. I mean, think of that. 227 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:20,040 He's come into the Lord's temple at the place where incense is 228 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:25,000 burned before the presence of the Lord in a role that's not 229 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,440 his. And he's raging at the priests 230 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:29,120 that are telling him you can't do this. 231 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,960 And as he was raging at the priests in their presence before 232 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,800 the incense altar in the Lord's temple, leprosy broke out on his 233 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:43,640 forehead. And when Azariah, the chief 234 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,520 priest, and all the year the priest, looked at him, they saw 235 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:48,960 that he had leprosy on his forehead, and they hurried him 236 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,400 out. And indeed he himself was eager 237 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,080 to leave, because the Lord had afflicted him. 238 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:59,240 And King Uzziah had leprosy until the day he died. 239 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:05,160 He lived in a separate house, a leper, A leper banned from the 240 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,640 temple of the Lord and from ruling the Kingdom. 241 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,319 Jotham, his son, had charge of the palace and governed the 242 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:21,839 people of the land. Now remember that it said that 243 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:24,560 it was his pride that he was down, it was his downfall. 244 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:30,640 David and his men, when they were fleeing from Saul, went to 245 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:32,880 the temple and they gave them the showbread that had been 246 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:34,880 offered for the before the presence of the Lord. 247 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,880 This only belonged to the priest, but the priest gave it 248 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:39,760 to them and they were all right. Why? 249 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:42,600 Because the heart of David was different. 250 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:49,320 His intent, his purpose was different, and he was anointed 251 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:57,280 to be king. But Uzziah went in there because 252 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,760 he was proud and because he was arrogant. 253 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:05,680 This makes me think that it's more than just a desire to 254 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:10,920 worship God, but he was using God, that this was a power play. 255 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,960 You know, like that time that Saul was ready to go into the 256 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:16,560 battle and Samuel was supposed to come and offer a sacrifice 257 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:18,360 before all the people went out to the battle. 258 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:24,040 And Samuel was late. And Saul is going, I can't do 259 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,920 this if I don't have the blessing of the Lord on this. 260 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:31,480 And so he decided that he would do the sacrifice himself. 261 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,360 And then Samuel showed up. So for all the things that 262 00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:42,200 Samuel that Saul did, trying to kill David, all of the, the, you 263 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:45,920 know, throwing a spear at him, just doing all the things that 264 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:51,640 he did, the thing that he was rejected by the Lord as king for 265 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:55,600 was this making this sacrifice. And this is what Samuel told 266 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,760 him. Because you have not honored the 267 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:00,680 Lord in front of the people. He has rejected you as king. 268 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:05,720 And I think Uzziah had the same heart. 269 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:23,360 I mean, ultimately he was wanting to be seen as one who 270 00:19:23,360 --> 00:19:27,400 wielded the power of God, maybe for his next conquest, or even 271 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:35,280 maybe God was his next conquest. Ultimately, his argument with 272 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:39,320 Priest wasn't. His argument with them was, who 273 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,000 are you to tell me that I can't do this? 274 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,080 Who are you to tell me that I can't do this? 275 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:45,400 And that wasn't the point at all. 276 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,560 God had said no, and he didn't care. 277 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:56,360 Uzziah God had said no and he didn't care. 278 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:02,680 This is the next step in Amaziah his father's dishonor of God and 279 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:06,480 arrogance, his son's dishonor of the very holiness in the 280 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,880 presence of God. So King Uzziah is in this 281 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:15,000 progression from holiness to idolatry at Joash. 282 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:20,840 His grandfather a passion, a passion from passion to half 283 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:25,640 hearted arrogance like his father and Messiah to arrogance 284 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:28,080 and brazen to Zane for the holiness of God in Uzziah. 285 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,240 And so he became the leper king cast outside the camp. 286 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,600 His son Jotham did better. He learned from what his father 287 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:38,640 did and he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. 288 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,200 It said that Jotham grew powerful because he walked 289 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,240 steadfastly before the Lord his God. 290 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:51,760 But Jotham's son, Ahaz, he could have been the wokest of the 291 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:56,040 woke. He might have invented the EI, 292 00:20:56,040 --> 00:21:03,760 I'm not sure. But what he did do was he closed 293 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:08,720 up the temple, sealed the doors, closed it up and set up Baal 294 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:13,000 worship. And he set up high places for 295 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,640 all the Israelites to worship in their cities and towns. 296 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:21,120 And he set up Asherah poles and he sacrificed children to Molech 297 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:23,120 in the fire in the valley of Hinnom. 298 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:31,840 This is the progression that starts with a half hearted king 299 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:38,520 who is arrogant and proud to a son who doesn't honor the 300 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:46,440 presence of God and skips a generation to the king who 301 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:54,900 abhors God entirely. Israel was dark. 302 00:21:54,900 --> 00:22:00,180 It was so dark. It was like Los Angeles in 2023. 303 00:22:00,180 --> 00:22:15,600 Dark but then God, always God. Hezekiah A has the most wicked 304 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:21,280 of the kings. His son Hezekiah did what was 305 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,880 right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had 306 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:26,280 done. That's what it says all these 307 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,640 other kings. It says he served the Lord just 308 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,440 as his father a Messiah had done or just as his father. 309 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:38,040 But for Hezekiah, they reached back to the king that God had 310 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:43,240 selected for the kingly line and said he's just like David. 311 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,480 Come on. Is that not the heritage that we 312 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,840 want? I mean, Richard Earwood is my 313 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,600 dad, but 6 foot 4, I'm never going to do that. 314 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:02,720 But I want to look like David in this generation. 315 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,920 I want to have the heart of David, the passion of David, the 316 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,360 reverence for the holiness of God, of David. 317 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,560 Hezekiah purified the temple, opened it back up and cleansed 318 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:24,880 it top to bottom, restored the Levites, the sacrifices. 319 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:29,240 They celebrated the Passover. They worshipped on the very 320 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,280 instruments that David had made. They pulled David's worship 321 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,760 instruments out of mothballs and worshipped like David. 322 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:42,080 Come on, I like piano, but man, I'd take me some of those David 323 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:48,640 instruments right now. It was stunning. 324 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,880 And anyone who had lived under his father a has his reign would 325 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:58,440 have never seen that in one generation all of this was going 326 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,600 to change. They'd have never imagined this 327 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:12,720 was possible. And I look at those kings and 328 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,320 I'm reminded of all the ministries where it became more 329 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,760 about the ministry than holiness. 330 00:24:26,890 --> 00:24:32,690 We've all been recipients of the fire that burned at IHOP, Jimmy 331 00:24:32,690 --> 00:24:35,250 Swaggart Ministries. I, I'm not even going to start 332 00:24:35,250 --> 00:24:37,770 naming names. You know what I'm talking about. 333 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:50,720 Lies, deceit, greed, perversion, serving God, but with the same 334 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,800 immorality as setting up an Asherah pole in the temple. 335 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,520 And I'm not talking about patriotism or righteousness in 336 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,920 government, people serving God and serving the country. 337 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,200 But Christian nationalism is something darker. 338 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:14,800 God becomes just the tool for the next political conquest, not 339 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:20,440 to serve Him, to serve us. I told you I didn't want to say 340 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:25,160 this, but it's swinging unholy incense in the very face of the 341 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:34,190 Almighty. Or how about how the Church has 342 00:25:34,190 --> 00:25:38,110 become comfortable with being religious without being 343 00:25:38,110 --> 00:25:45,070 wholehearted, without being sold out? 344 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,560 I hate every way that I've become comfortable with that. 345 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,720 Not just calling good evil and evil good, but not calling 346 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:05,280 anything anything. Not having the voice that we 347 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,160 were set to have in this generation for righteousness. 348 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:21,960 And that's when it hit me. In the year that King Uzziah 349 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:29,880 died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up, and his train filled 350 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:41,360 the temple. It has to die. 351 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:47,200 Uzziah in US, in the church, in the ministries of the church, 352 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,080 and the things that the body of Christ does to represent his 353 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:56,680 face in the earth. Uzziah has to die if we want to 354 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,560 see the Lord high and lift it up, if we want to see His glory 355 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:03,280 fill the temple. If we have built any kind of 356 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:09,440 altar to sin and enshrined it in any way, that Uzziah has to die. 357 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,440 If we've attempted to make God serve our ends instead of 358 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,920 serving His, that Uzziah has to die. 359 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:26,600 If we have been anything but blazing white hot with His fire 360 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,000 in our eyes, that Uzziah has to die. 361 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,560 Now I will tell you that I think this is already in progress. 362 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,720 Uzziah's name in the other manuscripts is also called 363 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,960 Azariah. And isn't it interesting that it 364 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,800 was Azariah the priest who confronted him when he went into 365 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,640 the presence of God? Same name. 366 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,600 God always has an Azariah, the priest and the 80 faithful 367 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,160 priest with him. He always has a remnant, and 368 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,680 they are always speaking for the Lord, and they are always there. 369 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,160 And I know that I'm looking at Azariah is in this room right 370 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:23,240 now. And after Ahaz, the worst of the 371 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,360 kings comes. Hezekiah, come on. 372 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:28,480 Just look at what's happened in the last two years. 373 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:33,560 Roe V Wade is gone. Who of us ever thought we would 374 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,560 live to see that day? It's gone. 375 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:45,160 The back of the unrighteousness in our Ahaz culture is breaking. 376 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,480 You can see it. You can even see it on Facebook. 377 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:57,680 That's, yeah. After Charlie Kirk's death, 378 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:02,160 there is a Hezekiah generation rising up now in the earth. 379 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,760 And even if we have been an Amaziah or a Uzziah or even 380 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:14,960 Ahaz, we can turn our hearts to the Lord and rise up as the 381 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,440 fathers and mothers who will hold the Hezekiah generation up 382 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,680 as they bring the glory of the Lord back into the earth. 383 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,600 It's generational. It's generational, but that 384 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,600 doesn't always mean generational curse. 385 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,200 There is generational glory that can be released to the earth. 386 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:48,600 And it's time for Uzziah and everything that he represents to 387 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,400 die. So here's your Christmas story, 388 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,440 right? I have to do this this December. 389 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:02,720 It's in the Bible. Do you remember that? 390 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,800 Carrie and I are also the facilitators for Ultimate 391 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,600 Journey Phases 2 and three, right? 392 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:12,760 You know that right? I love you guys. 393 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:16,920 So some of you have already heard me say this. 394 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,720 Jesus didn't come to fix your life. 395 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,800 Christianity is not a 12 step self help life improvement 396 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,440 program. It's a cross. 397 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,280 He hasn't come to fix your life, He's come to kill you. 398 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,920 But what he's killing isn't you, right? 399 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,800 If you've been an ultimate journey Phase 1, you know all 400 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,160 the lies that have been piled onto your life. 401 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,520 Every lie that the enemy has told you, that family members 402 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,240 have told you, that culture has told you that society has told 403 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:01,480 you, have been pasted on you by the enemy and said here, this is 404 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:06,560 your identity and it's built this form around you that's 405 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:11,080 marked by sin and the glory of God that's within you can't even 406 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:15,120 shine out through this crud caked on you. 407 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:23,480 And Jesus is saying, let me kill that because you were made in 408 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,280 fashion in the image and likeness of God, and that is in 409 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:31,520 here. And his Spirit cries out to your 410 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:38,760 Spirit and says, come on underneath of all of that, you 411 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:43,520 look like me, you love like me, you walk like me. 412 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,600 Let me free you from that dead thing. 413 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:55,440 That's on you. Let me kill it so that the you 414 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,480 that he's always seen and he's always known and he's always 415 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,200 loved. Did you know when Jesus died on 416 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,120 the cross for you? You're going to say AD 33, 417 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:07,360 right? You're wrong, it says. 418 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,760 Before the world was spun up, before the foundations of the 419 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:15,680 earth were laid, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God was slain. 420 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:22,400 What does that imply? All the things that I was ever 421 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,120 going to do wrong, because God knows all the things He already 422 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:30,160 knew, all the mistakes I'd made, He already knew I was going to 423 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,920 make them. And included in the price what 424 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,800 it would take to get past those things. 425 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:43,800 He who did not even hold back his own Son, how then with Him 426 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,880 will He not freely give us all things? 427 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:54,440 You, you on the cross. It says that He endured the 428 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:58,160 cross, despising its shame for the glory set before him. 429 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:02,080 If you read John 17 and you look at when Jesus said I've taken 430 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,000 the glory you've given me, and I've given it to an 431 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,840 organization, I've given it to a structure, No, I've given it to 432 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:16,400 them and all those who believe on my name, through them it's 433 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,560 you. You are the glory of God 434 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:27,520 revealed in the earth. All we got to do is chip off a 435 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:34,320 little Amaziah and we're good to go, right? 436 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,160 You were always loved. You were always. 437 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,320 He looked at you from the cross and said worth it, Worth it, 438 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:50,600 worth it. One passage even implies that he 439 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:56,000 bragged about the deal that he got in purchasing you. 440 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:11,600 Come on. So now we know who we know who. 441 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:14,560 Well, all of them are, but we know who Uzziah is. 442 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,960 Listen again, this is what's on the line for us. 443 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:29,560 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and 444 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:35,560 exalted, seated on a throne, and the train of his robe filled the 445 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,120 temple. And above him were seraphim, and 446 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,800 each with six wings. With two they covered their 447 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,159 faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they 448 00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:47,679 were flying and they were calling to one another. 449 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,760 Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. 450 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,159 The whole earth is full of his glory. 451 00:34:55,760 --> 00:35:00,720 Come on. And at the sound of their 452 00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:03,560 voices, the doorpost and threshold shook, and the temple 453 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:07,440 was filled with smoke. Look, I mean, doorposts. 454 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:12,280 Hold the door open, right? The threshold, it's the place 455 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:17,080 that marks inside the door. And outside the door, the door 456 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:22,680 is shaking, and on earth, as it is in heaven, is about to step 457 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,120 through the door. That's what a Hezekiah 458 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:37,280 generation does in the earth. Come Lord, oh come Lord, I can't 459 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,040 start praying yet. I got to finish the sermon. 460 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:49,160 And Isaiah's response, Woe to me, I cried, for I am ruined. 461 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,480 I'm a man of unclean lips, and I live among the people of unclean 462 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,840 lips, and my eyes have seen the king, the Lord Almighty. 463 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,680 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, 464 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,880 which he taken with tongs from the altar. 465 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,360 And with it he touched my mouth and said, See this has touched 466 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,760 your lips, your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for. 467 00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:17,520 Remember he cried out, not only am I guilty and are my lips 468 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:21,360 unclean, but he said My people and their lips are unclean. 469 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,000 And the Angel said, your sin has been atoned for. 470 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,320 Will we be the ones who stand before Almighty God and say, 471 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:41,920 touch me for my nation? Will you cleanse the lips of my 472 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:54,600 nation? God, this is our heritage, this 473 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:58,360 is our inheritance. Then I heard the voice of the 474 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:02,000 Lord saying, now, right now, Uzziah has died. 475 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:09,040 That which was polluted and broken and sinful and denying 476 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:14,960 God and dishonouring God has died and the glory of God is 477 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,280 released to the earth. And if you've been standing 478 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,640 there going, it's I'm not worthy, I'm not good enough, I 479 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,160 can't do this thing. See, here comes an Angel with a 480 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:31,280 coal in his hands for you, and you and you and our nation. 481 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,760 And Isaiah cried out, Here am I, the Lord said, who will go for 482 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:39,880 us? Who will I send? 483 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:45,880 And the Lord said and he replied, Here am I send me. 484 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,480 It's releasing the glory of the Lord and all the earth. 485 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:58,200 Let's stand together. It's shaking the doorways and 486 00:37:58,200 --> 00:37:59,880 thresholds so God can step through. 487 00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:03,120 It's removing the guilt and releasing atonement for the man 488 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,960 and for the nation of unclean lips. 489 00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:10,280 And then whom shall I send? And who will go for us, Says 490 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:15,800 God, to his house. Who will I send? 491 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:21,480 Who will go for us? Place your hands out in front of 492 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:30,490 you. Say this here am I, Send me. 493 00:38:30,490 --> 00:38:47,680 Oh God. God let every peace that looks 494 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:55,520 like he's I in our life, in the church, in the state, in this 495 00:38:55,520 --> 00:39:00,120 nation, burn it away. Burn it away, God. 496 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,960 And even the things that Jesus said, take up your cross and 497 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:07,840 follow me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 498 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:12,080 God, the things you're calling us to nail it to a cross, to 499 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:17,680 nail Uzziah in a cross and sacrifice it because it's not 500 00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,360 you and it's not who you made us to be. 501 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,560 And we don't want that in our lives. 502 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,880 We don't want that in our church. 503 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,920 We don't want that in our sons and daughters. 504 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:41,920 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and 505 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:51,000 lifted up. God come be high and lifted up 506 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,320 in the midst of your people, of us, God, of us. 507 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,680 And if we have to learn and we have to grow and we have to 508 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,840 study and we have to become. And if it takes work. 509 00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,560 It's not works like earning our salvation, it's works like 510 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:16,960 walking where you walk and following in your footsteps and 511 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:20,200 taking part in the family business which is redeeming the 512 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,360 earth. God here we are. 513 00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:40,050 Send us Uzziah has to die that the glory of the Lord may live. 514 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:46,520 Come Lord, come Lord, that's my altar call. 515 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:47,840 That's it. That's what I've got. 516 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:53,280 I kind of don't do the standard centered prayer that says, O 517 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,640 Lord, and this is my life helped my life to improve in me to be 518 00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:01,920 better and to do things right. He's got a cross for all that 519 00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:07,240 but his life in you. He wants to raise his life in 520 00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:09,680 you and he wants you to look just like him. 521 00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:13,400 He wants you to be the one that he says, just like my servant 522 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:17,560 David. Hezekiah looks just like my 523 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:22,160 servant David. He worships like David. 524 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:23,760 He plays the instruments of David. 525 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,360 He sings like David. He glows like David. 526 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:29,440 He represents me before the earth like David. 527 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:36,760 Come on. If you want to come to the 528 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:41,680 altars, the altars are open. You can kneel where you are, you 529 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:43,400 can try to drive home. It doesn't matter. 530 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:47,120 The Holy Spirit's got your number right now come to the 531 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:55,400 altar or pull over on your way home, because either way, God. 532 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,400 And remember, this started because I prayed a simple 533 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,600 kitchen prayer yesterday. God, what are you doing? 534 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:11,360 Prayed one prayer already. Ready. 535 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,400 Prayed this one with me. God, what are you doing? 536 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:20,040 Come on, God, what are you doing in me? 537 00:42:37,230 --> 00:42:38,830 Yeah. This is just time to do business 538 00:42:38,830 --> 00:42:40,550 with God. I don't have a different agenda 539 00:42:40,550 --> 00:42:48,080 than that. And and your simple yes might be 540 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,800 powerful enough right now to just do all the things that need 541 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,400 to be done. If your yes isn't good enough, 542 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,480 God can improve your yes. That's never a problem for him. 543 00:42:56,920 --> 00:43:00,200 A broken and contrite spirit He will never despise. 544 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:07,160 Never, never, never. You are so amazing, so valuable, 545 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:14,240 so wonderful to him. But if you need to come and 546 00:43:14,240 --> 00:43:17,440 pray, come and do that. And I'm going to close this with 547 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:24,080 a prayer and, and be sure to sign up for Ultimate Journey in 548 00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,320 January when the sign up sheets are out. 549 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:37,320 Jesus, I am so thankful that we are part of what you are doing 550 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,720 in the earth in this time and in this hour and that you've chosen 551 00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:44,160 not to pass us by, but to visit us, to come and be in our 552 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,640 presence, to come and make your presence felt and known, to make 553 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:51,480 your face seen in our hearts in this room right now. 554 00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:59,800 So I bless these your people to walk in the light of your glory, 555 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:04,280 to walk in your presence, not just in this moment and in this 556 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:08,040 time when they come to church. They are the Kingdom of God on 557 00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:13,560 feet in the earth today, in the places where they work, in the 558 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:17,160 middle of their families and all the things that we do or that we 559 00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,200 say. We represent you and we become 560 00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:24,520 you as you live and walk and move and breathe and fill us 561 00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:32,000 with your Holy Spirit. You thought you were not a big 562 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:33,840 deal. You thought you were not a 563 00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:35,360 thing. You thought other people got to 564 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,360 be the thing, but you didn't get to be the thing. 565 00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:42,920 You are the thing. You are the big deal. 566 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:50,400 You are the reason that heaven said I can't possibly imagine 567 00:44:50,920 --> 00:45:00,440 not redeeming you. So Father, we just bless your 568 00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:05,800 people to walk in your glory and Lord every God, I pray that by 569 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,040 your Holy Spirit you'll continue to show us the things if we have 570 00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:13,200 not been made aware of things that look like a Messiah in our 571 00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:17,600 lives that are not yet dead. Show us. 572 00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:21,840 Be merciful, O God, and show us and free us. 573 00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:29,240 God, we love you, we love you so much, You're so good to us. 574 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:35,480 We can't even express how great your glory in your presence is 575 00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:41,120 does how much you mean, but we love you with our whole hearts, 576 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,520 our mind and our soul and our strength. 577 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:55,200 Thank you Father, in Jesus name, Amen. 578 00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:58,800 Thanks for listening to our podcast. 579 00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,320 If you'd like to help more people hear this message, you 580 00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,920 can get the word out by subscribing and sharing it on 581 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,240 social media. 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