God inhabits the praises of his people and his presence becomes
manifest. It becomes there's an increase
where we sense his presence and a desire for that is not an
expression of immaturity. All right, we're going to jump
into the word turn with me to First Chronicles chapter 13.
Last week we addressed some of the exposures in the body of
Christ that are going on right now.
There's there's a lot of controversy exposures and as
your pastor, it was incumbent upon me to address some of that.
Some of you know, one of those individuals that has been in the
news was in our pulpit this year.
So we wanted to talk about that. You can go back and look at that
next week, But I want to what I want to do is I want to jump
into where we left off last week.
I was asking the Lord if he could just if he could give me a
passage to hang what I was feeling on.
I believe the word of God is a living.
It's living. It's alive, not a living.
It's living and alive. And it's, it speaks to our
current situations. You know, there's you can
approach the Bible as an academic book and that's a valid
way to approach it. But it's also alive and it's a
prophetic book and the knowledge of God speaks into the now of
your circumstances. And so we ask the Lord God, what
are you saying to us? And and I really felt like the
Lord impressed upon me. Second Samuel chapter 5, which
is the sister passage to this very passage here.
There was, there's two versions of this story that and, and you
know, the amazing thing about God is he never leaves all the
details in one passage. You know that he's going to hide
things in another passage for you because the Lord he, he's
never going to give the whole meal right in one passage.
It'd be too easy because what he's wanting to know is, are you
hungry? Do will you search it out?
Will you begin to connect the dots?
And it's an amazing thing that the Lord will take you on a
revelatory journey if you get in the word, if you begin to search
in the word and, and for me, it's like I'll be have you ever
been reading the word and it feels dry?
Don't look at me that way. I'm not the only one.
Sometimes I'll feel like I'm reading the Bible.
And if I hit it, it'd be it's just dusty and dry, but the Lord
is just drawing you in. And if you'll keep looking and
you'll keep looking, God's going to speak something to you.
And it's like you're walking down a dusty trail.
And also just a little flash, a glint of light over there.
And then it's gone. And it's like, man, I think I
saw a nugget. And you go over and you start
digging and all of a sudden you find a nugget and there's
another one. And you mind that vein out until
you wear that thing out and the Lord longs to take you into
those revelatory journeys in His Word.
Listen, that is not just for preachers.
If your time in the Word is relegated to sit in here reading
along while I preach, then you are leaving your inheritance on
the table unclaimed. There is so much more for you.
God wants to speak to you out of his word.
That's why John says and 1st John, he said you have no need
of a teacher. Now that's that's a big deal for
me because I kind of make my living doing this.
You know that like jobs, I'm threatening my own job security
when I tell you, you don't need a preacher, you don't need a
teacher. You're not dependent on that.
You have an anointing within you that will teach you all.
I'm going to, I'm up here to confirm what God is saying and
add some things that you didn't get.
But the fact is, you will get things I didn't get because
God's going to speak through your history, through your
experiences. He's going to show you things He
doesn't show me. That's why we need to be
fellowshipping over the Word. And listen, God's word, it, it
is an amazing thing. Just like I was talking when I
was an 18 year old kid and all of a sudden that tongues and
interpretation came into that meeting.
It's an amazing thing that God will speak to us through His
Word. I love to teach and preach the
word. I, I, I really, I got to pinch
myself. I can't believe I got more to
pinch these days, by the way. But I, I, I can't believe I get
to do this for a living. But there's something better
than delivering the Word, and that is getting something from
the Lord in private. And that is that is the blood
bot inheritance for all of us. God wants to speak to you out of
his word. He wants to open it up.
And it's, it's an amazing thing that the God of the universe
will drop into your quiet time and begin to speak to you and
you'll know. There's no way I would have
known, I would have never seen that had God not highlighted it.
And if you've never experienced that, I'm telling you, you're
leaving your inheritance unclaimed.
That is what God has for every one of us.
He wants to speak to you out of his.
He wants that book to come alive.
And every one of us have had dry times in the word.
But if you'll stay persistent and keep saying God, Proverbs 2
says cry aloud for wisdom, cry out for understanding.
Search for it as hidden treasure.
I'm going to tell you the ground to search for it is in the
between the pages of your Bible. Search for hidden treasure and
God will begin to speak to you the the creator.
God wants to speak directly to you, not not through a radio
preacher or a pastor and a pulpit, but he wants to speak to
you through your word. And once that begins to happen,
you're off and running you, you will be ruined forever when he
begins to speak to you out of his word.
Now, I don't know about you. When I first got saved, I looked
at that book and I thought, oh man, how am I ever going to
figure this out? That's a big book.
And it's an ancient book and it's in King James at the time.
And you know, I'm, I'm struggling with English and this
is Old English. And, and you think, man, these
guys are talking about what kind of helmets the Hittites wore.
How am I going to figure that stuff out?
And, and what I realize now is that as you get into the word,
knowledge will breed knowledge. And what will happen is you're,
you're seeking the Lord and you're asking God will drop
something. You'll see something like that
changed my life. But the beautiful thing is when
you cross the threshold into that room of revelation and you
come to this divine conclusion, Oh my goodness, this is amazing.
Once you start looking around that room, you're going to
realize there's five other doors to walk through.
And now there's five other things you got to chase down.
And you'll spend the rest of your life searching through this
book. And I believe we're going to be
doing that for eternity. I believe we're going to be
sitting in classes in heaven. And we're going to be sitting
the apostle Paul's going to say, you know what?
When I was writing Philippians right here, I didn't realize
what I was saying. I only realized the surface.
But there's so much more I've discovered since being here.
And we're going to be digging through the word for all
eternity. It's an amazing book.
And I want to encourage you don't don't limit your intake of
the word to listen to sermons. God wants to speak to you
directly from his word. And the people I know that are
on fire for God are people of the word, people that
consistently keep the fire burning.
One of the logs that they're throwing on that fire is the
word of God. And so let God minister to you.
Let God challenge you, let him speak to you.
It's an amazing, amazing book. So in light of that, let's look
at verse one of first Chronicles chapter 13.
David consulted with the commanders of thousands and of
hundreds and and with every leader.
And David said to all the assembly of Israel, if it seems
good to you from the Lord our God, let us send abroad to our
brothers who remain in all the lands of Israel, as well as to
the priests and the Levites in the cities.
Do that have pastor lands that they may be gathered to us.
And then listen to this. Let us bring again the ark of
God to us, for we did not seek it in the days of Saul.
What an indictment against Saul's leadership.
He's saying in the days of Saul we didn't care about the ark.
Now for those of you that are not familiar with what the ark
was, the ark was a cedar box that God had shown Moses the
blueprint for on the mount of God.
And God gave him this download and he had him build this cedar
box and then he covered it in gold and he molded A lid that
had two cherubim, these angelic creatures whose wings were
pointed inwards. And God, this lid with these
cherubims carved on it, it was called the mercy seat.
And God said, I will dwell between the cherubim, literally.
God said, if you want to meet with me, I'm I'll live on the
lid. I'm going to, that's where my
presence will reside on the mercy seat.
Isn't that beautiful? God sat on the mercy seat.
He didn't sit on the judgement seat.
He sat on the mercy seat. And then it had rings.
And they would carry that wherever they would go.
And so there was this understanding that there was the
manifest presence of God among us, and God gave them a physical
representation to lock their eyes on and know where God was.
That's the ark of the covenant. And David says, listen, we got
to get this thing back. We got to put this front and
center because under the regime of Saul, his predecessor, he
said, we didn't inquire of the Lord.
We didn't pursue the ark. The ark was in the House of
Abinadab, A Levite for 20 years, relegated to the sidelines.
In fact, let me give you a little history of the ark.
This is this is interesting to me.
The ark resided in the Tabernacle or at the Tabernacle
in Shiloh with Eli. So you know that we know Moses,
they had the ark made, they took it with them.
And then during the days of the judges, the final judge of which
was Samuel and, and Eli, the priest had this this ark and it
was at the place called Shiloh. It was retrieved by Saul for the
purpose of war in the 29th year of Saul's 42nd year reign, 42
year reign. The 29th year not to wasn't till
the end of his reign that he went and retrieved the ark and
it was captured and retained by the Philistines for seven
months. And so they lost the ark because
they were using it as a means to an end, as if the presence of
God was just a means to get what they really wanted, rather than
the presence of God being what they wanted.
And so the Philistines captured it and then it caused a problem
for the Philistines. It depends on the translation
you read. What happened is that they began
to break out in tumors. Some translations say tumors.
But if you follow the little, the little sideline, it'll it'll
all the translations will say could be hemorrhoids.
Let's just suffice it to say that the presence of God without
the fear of God will make you uncomfortable.
And we'll leave it at that, OK? It requires handling it with
reverence. And so they broke out.
And so they, they figured out how to send it back, which is a
fascinating passage in and of itself.
We don't have time to get into. And so then they sent it, it
came to Beth Shamesh and the Israelites opened it and 50,000
people died. That's where, you know, the
movie Raiders of the Lost Ark with Harrison Ford.
Remember that one? And they open it up and people
are dying. That's OK, that's Hollywood
version, but that's it was a it was a holy thing and it had to
be carried in the right way. And so this is a very sobering
thing. And so then it was brought to
Jar or Kariath Jerem, and it stayed in the House of Abinadab
for 20 years in the rain during the reign of Saul, 20 years.
So Abinadab was there. There were three different
people that show up in scripture named Benedab.
David had a brother of Benedab. Saul had a son of Benedab.
But there was a Levite named Benedab, and most likely it was
the Levite. It was at his house.
And Abinadab had two sons, Aza and Ohio.
He might have had more kids, we don't know, but we know he had
those too, Aza and Ohio. And so David attempted to bring
it from Abinadab's house in Koriath, Jerem, but Aza was
smitten and he abandoned the idea that ended up at Obed
Eden's house for three years until it finally came to
Jerusalem. So David, in this passage, it's
fascinating, David, he said, let's bring the ark of God to us
for we did not seek it in the days of Saul.
David was of a different heart posture than Saul.
Saul looked at the the presence of God as a means to an end.
David felt this is the end. This is what we want.
We want to be near the Lord and see, it begs the question, where
did David come up with this value system for the ark of the
covenant and the presence of God?
And we get a clue in Psalm 132 and Psalm 132.
It's a fascinating passage and it's, I am convinced you're
going to find out when we get to heaven that I'm right.
Solomon wrote Psalm 132 and he's, he begins it with this
fascinating verse. He said, oh Lord, remember David
and the suffering he endured. So he's reminding God of the
price his daddy paid to provide a place for the presence of God.
He's saying that, oh Lord, remember my dad, remember the
suffering he endured, remember the affliction that he went
through so he could make a place for you.
And he's moving the heart of God in the present by reminding God
of the price paid in the past by a dead guy.
Isn't that fascinating? And in in so doing, he reveals a
weapon or a tool and intercession that very few of us
understand is available to us, that we can actually move the
heart of God now by reminding him of those in our lineage that
that served him and paid a price and it moved the heart of God.
And so David reminds the Lord, and then it says in that
passage, it says he, it's, and, and we know that Solomon must
have heard this at David's knee, because Solomon talks in the
book of Proverbs. He said, he said, I'd sit up my
father's knee and he would share wisdom with me.
And undoubtedly he heard this story from his daddy David.
David tells him, we heard of it, the ark.
We heard of it in Coriath, Jerem.
We came upon it in the fields of Jar.
And he's talking about the area of Bethlehem.
David was raised in the area of Bethlehem.
And if when you begin to piece all these pieces together,
gathering these Nuggets from all these other passages, you
realize David was about 14 to 16 years old when the ark arrived
in the vicinity of his home. And he tells his son, he said,
listen, I heard about it in Bethlehem.
I heard the rumor it's arrived in our area.
And then he said, we came upon it in the fields of Jar.
David wasn't satisfied just to hear about the things of God.
He thought, man, I want to see this thing.
I've heard that God dwells between the cherubim.
And so David goes and it says he saw it in the fields of jar.
And then David in that passage of Psalm 132, it pulls out the
story of David and how David made a vow to the Lord.
I'm going to build a place for you.
I'm going to build a habitation for the Lord and it passed to
Solomon and Solomon is now using that to move the heart of God.
God bless what I've built for you, that it's the dedication
prayer of the temple. But he's talking about how David
was ruined for life once he encountered the presence of God.
Now we know that Samuel uncorked a horn of oil and poured the oil
over him and he was anointed king.
But that's not the only reason David was so ruined for the
things of God. It's because David had
encountered in that one encounter, ruined his life.
He was fixated. We've got to get the ark of God
unto us. And let me just say that I I, I
listen to preachers all the time.
I want to learn, but I also want to just keep my finger on the
pulse of what's being said to the body of Christ.
And there is a troubling sentiment I've been hearing
coming out of preachers mouths as of late, and that is they
I've, I've heard some that I respect some Pentecostal
preachers degrading in, in, in a chastising churches that are
about the presence of God and saying, Oh, people get all
fixated. We're we're a presence church.
Well, you, you might notice around here, we start, we've
started using the phrase we're a pet presence based church.
That's what we're about. And I say that unashamedly.
And see what they've done is they've psychologized that
they've patronized those who have a hunger for the presence
as if it's just some kind of psychological fascination.
And it's an it's an expression of immaturity that you want to
feel something. So then these same people would
say, no, we need to be people of the book and know the word as if
those are mutually exclusive. That book that I've given the
last 40 some years of my life to learning tells me that the
people in that book had a hunger for the manifest presence of God
in their life. See, David understood that there
was the omnipresence of God. David was the one who wrote, he
said even in hell I cannot escape you.
What he's saying is God, you're everywhere.
Even in hell people talk about a crisis, eternity, There's no
such thing because he is there. He is everywhere present.
David understood that. In spite of that, David, David
was hungry for the manifest present because God is
everywhere, but He's not everywhere to the same degree.
I don't know about you, but I experienced His presence during
worship to a greater degree than when I walked through the door
early this morning. Because God inhabits the praises
of His people and His presence becomes manifest.
It becomes there's an increase where we sense His presence, and
a desire for that is not an expression of immaturity.
Moses, so much so Moses was so hungry for God's manifest
present. You think Moses understood that
of God's omnipresence? Do you think someone had to set
him down and correct him? Moses, sit down.
We need to teach you some things.
You're kind of immature in the faith.
You need to understand God is everywhere present.
So for you to say, we're not going into the promised line
unless you go with you, you go with us, God's always with you.
Well, the problem is God was the one who told Moses, I'm not
going with you. And Moses said, God, if you're
not going, I'm not going. We're none of us are.
We don't want the promise, then we don't want real estate
without you. And God said, OK, then I'll go
with you. David was the one who wanted to
be around the ark, not because he was enamored with a metal
box, but because he wanted the presence that God promised dwelt
between the cherubim. That is not an expression of
immaturity. And don't let anybody ever
patronize you with some by degrading your hunger and saying
that's just some immature desire for feelings as opposed to what
you're really supposed to be after.
We need to be a people of the Word and the presence of God.
Matter of fact, Moses told God, he said.
God, what else is going to set us aside from all the peoples of
the earth? What's going to make us
different? And I'm going to tell you, it's
not teaching and it's not morality.
You know, there are some very moral atheists out there.
They're very moral people. They pay their bills, they love
their spouse, they love their kids, they help the poor.
They're very moral people, but they don't know God.
What sets us apart from the peoples of all the earth is the
presence of God on our life. And that's what people should
encounter when they encounter us, that they should be saying
things like there's something I can't figure out about you, you
are different. And that's the open door.
And we can tell them it's the presence of God on my life.
See that? That's what makes Moses said
that's what makes us different. You say, well, pastor, that's
old covenant. So you're telling me that Moses
under an inferior covenant has access to greater presence than
you and I in the new covenant? No way.
In fact, we get something he didn't get.
We have God living inside of us, residing within us.
We become partakers of the divine nature, according to
Peter. Man, that's an amazing thing.
So listen, we need to be like David, hungry for his presence.
And David tells it tells the people of Israel.
He said, listen, we've we've got to get the ark of God unto us.
In the days of Saul, we relegated it to the sidelines.
I want it front and center. And David was still in pursuit
of something he had experienced well over a decade earlier as a
young man. And it's not a coincidence that
David confronts Goliath around the time that the ark arrived in
his vicinity. Now, yes, I I know it was the
anointing that Saul poured out upon him, yes.
But I would propose to you that that encounter with God's
presence also gives us an idea of why David found the courage
to go and confront Goliath, because he had been transformed
by the presence of God. So David says, he says let us
bring the ark of God to us, for he didn't.
We did not seek it in the days of Saul.
And so they all they decide they're going to do that.
David assembled verse 5, all of Israel from the Nile of Egypt to
late Libo Hemath to bring the ark of God from Koriath Jerem
and David and all of Israel went up to Bilal, that is to Koriath
Jerem that belongs to Judah to bring up the ark of God, which
is called by the name of the Lord who sits and throned above
the cherubim. There it is right there.
It's an amazing statement. See, David really believed that
because it was in the word, David said.
I believe that and I want that and I want that in the center of
the nation. I want it in the capital.
And so, and they carried the ark of God on a new cart from the
House of Abenadab. And Uzza and Ohio were driving
the cart and David and all of Israel were celebrating for God
with all their might, with songs and liars and harps and
tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.
And so they they had a whole orchestra amassed.
And if you read the text, Chronicles gives us some details
that Samuel didn't. And they had he had amassed all
these prophetic seers that wrote the Psalms along with David.
You had Asaph, you had Ethan, you had all of these guys were
with him and they were celebrating to the Lord.
And this is an amazing thing. And then verse 9.
And when they came to the threshing floor of Chaidan, or
the Samuel calls it the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzza
put out his hand to take hold of the ark.
For the oxen stumbled, and the anger of the Lord was kindled
against Uzza, and he struck him down because he had put his hand
to the ark, and he died there before the Lord.
And what is so very, very sobering about this passage is
they had no I'll intent in their heart.
They weren't excited. David's value system was
correct. David was hungry for the things
of God. They were all very sincere.
The problem is they were sincere but ignorant of the protocol
that was required. They didn't understand how to
handle the Presence and in fact, the one that was struck dead,
Aza was one of the primary caretakers of the Ark when it
was at his dad's house for 20 years.
The guy who was a great steward of the presence when it was
stationary was killed by the presence when it was on the move
because it there was they had to handle it in a certain way and
they were ignorant. Now we don't know because later
on David says in this passage, and it doesn't say this in the
book of Samuel, we know from the Pentateuch that there was a, a
prescribed way in which they could carry it.
They couldn't carry it on a new cart like they were doing.
They would never be able to carry it on some mechanism made
by man. It needed to be carried by a man
the, the priests and they would, they put the poles through the
rings and they would have to carry it and it couldn't be
carried on a mechanism made by man.
It took men of God to carry the presence.
And it later on, David says this, he said, Hey, we, we got,
we're going to bring the presence of God to us.
We got it. God said the Levites have to
carry it, but before David gets to that point and wants to do it
again, there's several statements that are made of
David. I mentioned this last week, but
I want to just kind of dig down on this for a moment.
Look at verse 11. And David was angry because the
Lord had broken out against Aza. And that place is called Perez
Aza to this day. The very next verse, and it's
the same outline in the book of Samuel.
And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and he said, How can I
bring the ark of God unto me? And so the very next verse, 13.
So David did not take the ark home to the city of David, but
to the House of Obed Edom the Getite.
And so David was angry, David was afraid, and David was
unwilling. David got offended by God.
You ever been offended by God? You ever been walking along with
God? Man you're, you're, you're
excited, you're sincere as a heart attack.
You're man, this is great. God's doing great things.
And all of a sudden something is introduced in your life and it
was out of left field. And it's like man, you're
offended by what God did or what God allowed.
Whenever I've been offended by God, it's because of my own
ignorance. I didn't understand what was
going on. I'm going to tell you when the
when God is on the move, in your walk with God, there will always
be a threshing floor. And the threshing floor is where
he separates the wheat from the the chaff, that which is usable
from that which isn't. There's always a threshold.
There's no Rd. that will bypass the threshing floor.
There's not another route in the journey with God.
His, his prescribed path for you will always go by a threshing
floor. And those times there's an
opportunity for us to be offended by God.
And there are a lot of people. In fact, everyone does what
David did for a season. Listen, what happens here, it
can be a short season, it can be a long season.
I would recommend a short one. Verse 13.
So David did not take the ark of God to the city of David, but
took it home to the House of Obed Edom to get tight.
And the ark of God remained with the household of Obed Edom in
his house three months. And the Lord bless the House of
Obed Edom and all that he had. So like I said last week, David
is he's angry, he's afraid, and now he's unwilling.
And look at Vert chapter 14 in the ESV.
There's this heading, David's Wives and children.
Every translation will have a different heading.
But essentially what we need to understand is that the writers
of the Bible are communicating things all the time.
And this is a way for the writer to communicate David's wives and
children. And if you read the next
chapter, it's all about David took on more wives and had more
kids and built houses. And what it's communicating is
that once David stopped his pursuit, he was offended.
He backed away and he got caught up in all these other things.
He backed away and he got caught up in not, not bad things.
Having a wife, having plural wives is a bad thing, by the
way. But that's the sermon for
another day. But David, he, he had, he got
caught up in just doing his own thing because he was offended.
And then he heard about Obed Edom's house.
You heard about is the big tomatoes and the, the fluffy
lambs and the great brisket. He's put, he's got like Wagyu
briskets coming out of his farm. And, and I, you knew what I'd go
there, didn't you? And and so he, he says, I've got
to, I've got to get in on this. And this hunger begins to rise
up and David once again. And what happened is when David
said, how can I bring the ark of God unto me?
And he was angry and he was unwilling.
What he didn't realize is God was already answering the cry of
his heart. He was laying the groundwork of
the necessity of David's life. David had to become enlightened.
He had to understand how to handle the presence of God.
And the first criterion to getting there was the fear of
the Lord. The fear of the OR the presence
of God without the fear of God is a dangerous thing.
You know in the New Testament, God with Moses and the children
of Israel, let's go there. God says I'm not
got it. There we go.
Or the Lord tells him, I'm not going to go with you lest I kill
the people of Israel. In other words, I'm going to
withdraw my presence because it's dangerous for a stiff
necked people. So if we want to attract God's
presence, we've got to be a people that understand how to
steward the presence. We've got to be a people that
because God in his mercy says, you know what, I'm going to have
to withdraw. My dad when I was 16 years old
withdrew his presence from me lest he kill me.
OK. I was a rebellious kid that I
was unmanageable. So the way he withdrew his
presence is he invited me to find another place to live and
he did so with a clenched fist into my jaw.
When I got back up, he invited me once again with one more hit
and I deserved that probably 2 years earlier.
And I withdrew his presence because it had gotten to the
place where we could not dwell together.
I was so belligerent, so rebellious that he said, OK, we
don't have, we're not living together anymore.
And the consequences of that broke me and brought me back to
Jesus two years later. God loves us enough that he will
withdraw his presence. And that's why if you look in
the in the book of Acts where Ananias and Sapphira died, it
was because it was an hour of tremendous outpouring.
When God is on the move, this the stakes get higher.
And we don't talk about this in the American church.
We don't look at the things of God this way.
Well, God's a God of grace. Yes, he is.
And you know how he'll exercise that grace?
By withdrawing his presence. And if you want his presence,
then there needs to be a level of fear in our life.
And that's what David was or God was doing with David's.
He was instructing him. And then what it did is it
caused David to go back to the scrolls and look through the
scrolls and find out what is the protocol to carry the ark.
And so David tells them after he hears about Benedabs or Obed
Edom's tomatoes, he says, man, we got to figure this out, I
want them tomatoes. And so he goes into the scroll
and he begins to study. And he realized, he tells him,
listen, there's a prescribed way to carry the ark.
See Scripture says Proverbs 10 or 9, verse 10.
It says this knowledge of the holy is understanding and the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
I've always looked at it that God withholds his wisdom from
those who do not fear him. And I believe there's an element
of that being true. But what I didn't realize till
this morning, early this morning, is that there's also
the converse is true that the beginning or the first stages of
wisdom is the fear of the Lord because the fear of the Lord
awakens you to your need for wisdom.
See, David, David didn't think he needed to seek the Lord on
how to move the ark. He just figured, hey, God, God
will overlook our ignorance because we're sincere.
And it wasn't the case. And so God caused fear and
hesitation in David and then reintroduced that hunger.
And it got to the point where David said, I'm willing to go
and take another run at it. Can you imagine, think about
this? Can you imagine the hunger that
it took for them to pick up that ark after what happened to Aza?
He was split open like a ballpark, Frank sitting next to
the ark. It's a sobering thing.
And and then what they're going to do is they're going to pick
this thing up with poles and put it on their shoulders.
It took an act of faith in God's prescribed method to carry it.
And it also took a tremendous amount of hunger to say we're
still wanting this ark to come with us.
And what they did is they picked it up by the poles and they
would take, I think it says 3 steps and they would sacrifice
another bull and they'd sacrifice another ram and
another few steps. And if you do the math, there
was there was a lot of livestock that was sacrificed, sent to the
Lord that day. And David is dancing with all
his might. It took him three months to
overcome this thing, but David is dancing with all his might.
He's so excited, so much so his wife was embarrassed and rebuked
him. David was dancing like a
Wildman. Don't ever judge someone that's
dancing before the Lord. You don't know their story.
You don't know where they came from.
You don't know what God delivered.
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