1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,480 The word turn with me to Revelation the Revelation 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:08,039 chapter 5. My computer is demanding A 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,440 passcode will not do my finger here. 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:17,920 I don't know what's going on. There we go. 5 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:25,040 All right. I was had the the joy yesterday 6 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:29,000 of speaking at a conference in Newton with APEPT. 7 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:35,160 It's a network of churches and so forth and led by Doctor Dell 8 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:37,200 Bittner. And I don't know if any of you 9 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:42,920 know Dell, but he's a great guy. I love Dell and just got a just 10 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,800 a great history in God. He's a wealth of knowledge and 11 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,800 history and had a good time with them. 12 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,760 But I ended up speaking on some of the things we've been talking 13 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:56,000 about here this morning. And so I'm just going to 14 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,560 continue in that vein. What I want to do this morning 15 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,599 is I want to, you know, sometimes you're not just 16 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:07,000 teaching the word. There's there's times for 17 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,800 teaching the word, preaching, addressing cultural issues, that 18 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,320 that is an appropriate thing. And there's times we do that. 19 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:16,480 But there's other times we want to equip the Saints. 20 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,280 And part of that is providing a grid work, you know, framing 21 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:22,640 things out so people understand what's going on. 22 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,320 And what I mean is specifically about what Josh was just talking 23 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:31,720 about when he did transition. He was talking about high praise 24 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,240 and how when we we ascend the hill of the Lord is one of the 25 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,680 phrases used in scripture. It's an interesting phrase. 26 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,600 We ascend the hill of the Lord and from there we begin to do 27 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,400 Kingdom business and say, well, you know, pastors, that really 28 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:48,320 scriptural. Well, I'm hoping to convince you 29 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:52,760 this morning that it is. So I want to, I want us to 30 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,360 understand what happens in worship and I want to under, I 31 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:01,280 want us to understand what I believe is somewhat of a unique 32 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,680 assignment for us as a church. It's certainly not unique in all 33 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,280 the earth, but I think that God deposits different callings 34 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,880 within a region and everybody has their part. 35 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:15,520 I was just texting a pastor in town here this morning. 36 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:19,080 Tell them I'm praying for you. And, and I believe God's raised 37 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,760 them up and I was praying for their church that God's going to 38 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,720 use them. And I'm, I'm excited they're in 39 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,320 the city because they have a part to play. 40 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,480 We have a part to play. But you and I are responsible to 41 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:34,280 steward our part. And part of that is our worship 42 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:39,040 that there's, there's, there are different reasons for worship. 43 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,200 You know, we, we worship Jesus because he's worthy. 44 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,400 And if that's the only reason we worship, we could do that from 45 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,960 not just now till Jesus comes, but well after we for eternity, 46 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,960 we'll worship him because of his great worth. 47 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:58,000 And that's reason enough. But the fact is there are other 48 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,680 reasons that we worship Jesus. There is there We also worship 49 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,400 them for ourself. You know, we declare God's worth 50 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:12,080 to him and because he is worthy, but God is not insecure. 51 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,160 It's not that he needs to hear that. 52 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,880 You know, God wasn't wringing his hands last night saying, oh, 53 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,640 I'm feeling a little insecure. I looked down at the United 54 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:22,480 States and there's such chaos. I, I really hope Heartland 55 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,040 affirms who I am so I can be firm in my identity and fill my 56 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:27,720 job description for another week. 57 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:29,600 That's not going on in the heart of God. 58 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:34,360 God is very secure in who he is, but we worship him because he's 59 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:35,720 worthy. And it does create an, an 60 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:39,960 environment where God enthrones himself. 61 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,080 And that's, that's where we really want to go this morning. 62 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:45,760 But we also worship for ourselves. 63 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:49,040 We need to recalibrate things for ourselves. 64 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:53,600 You know, there is a, a false narrative continually that the 65 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,000 enemy is seeking to impose upon us. 66 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,400 And I use that word very carefully. 67 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:04,120 Narrative, you know, there's, there's narrators who impose a 68 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,520 narrative. And so you know that that idea 69 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:12,480 of a narrator is the voice off stage that interprets what's 70 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:17,399 going on stage. And there are voices that are 71 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:21,800 seeking to interpret the happenings in your life, some 72 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,000 good and some bad. There's the voice of the Lord. 73 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:28,920 There are angelic voices. Often I think when the Lord 74 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:30,440 speaking to us, it's really angels. 75 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,280 But that's it for another day. There, there, there. 76 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:35,360 There's a reason they're called messengers. 77 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:40,040 And so there's the voice of heaven seeking to interpret, and 78 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,000 much of that we get from the word. 79 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,800 That's why we need to be in the word, because we can interpret 80 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:48,040 incorrectly what's going on around us. 81 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,600 And the enemy has a vested interest in getting you to 82 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,240 misinterpret what's going on in your life. 83 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:01,360 So there's a narrator that's trying to create a narrative, an 84 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,640 interpretation, a perception of what's going on in your life. 85 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,920 And they're the the enemy is a very real narrator that is 86 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:15,000 continually trying to infuse the circumstances in your life with 87 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,240 meaning. According to his narrative, the 88 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,080 conclusions he wants to bring you to because you're believing 89 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,760 will determine your behaving. And if he can get you to 90 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,240 conclude the wrong things, perceive the wrong things, 91 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,560 misinterpret things, he can get you to act wrongly and it 92 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,720 literally becomes a self fulfilling prophecy because you 93 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,720 will act according to what you believe and it will become a 94 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:41,880 reality. If you believe the wrong things, 95 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,080 you're going to behave in a wrong way and your behaviour 96 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:53,080 will produce fruit in your life. Your present circumstances are 97 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:57,600 often the result of your belief systems, good and bad. 98 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:02,600 And so, and I'm not talking about us creating our own world, 99 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,240 I'm talking about us engaging with the spiritual realm. 100 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,280 And when we believe lies will live out as though those lies 101 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:12,680 were true and overtime they will become true because we 102 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,280 accommodate them. Does that make sense? 103 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:19,400 And so worship is one of the the combatants against that one. 104 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,520 It's one of those tools. God's given us weapons to combat 105 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:26,080 that because in worship we get things into clarity. 106 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:30,960 It's like, you know, when you are a, I was on a Zoom call the 107 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:36,080 other day and something said on my Zoom, I don't know how to use 108 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:37,520 this stuff. I could just get on there. 109 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,560 I see the face and there's my little face, but something said 110 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:42,480 on there, sometimes things will happen. 111 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,400 I'll wave my hand, little balloons will fly up. 112 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:46,320 That's just, you know, what is that? 113 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,320 I don't know how to change that. It's off right now because I was 114 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:50,400 talking and there was no balloons. 115 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:54,440 But now the, the background is really out of focus. 116 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,920 It kind of looks cool. You know, I didn't do that. 117 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:58,680 If you're on a Zoom call with me, that wasn't me. 118 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:02,800 I don't know how that happened, but the reason I bring that up 119 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:06,320 like pastor, that was squirrel. No, I've I'm going somewhere 120 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:11,000 with this that when we we bring into focus the Lord and his 121 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,560 narration, everything else kind of fades into the background. 122 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:18,280 Those other narratives, those other belief systems, those 123 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:21,680 other storylines that the enemy's trying to impose on us 124 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,040 and reinterpret our circumstance makes sense. 125 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,240 So worship is we are getting him into clarity again. 126 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:33,240 We're doing it for ourselves. We're worshipping to reprogram 127 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,800 and recalibrate and bring into focus so everything else fades 128 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,080 to the background. And that's a really good reason 129 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,280 to worship. We could worship for a couple 130 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:45,880 thousand years just on that one. But there's a third reason we 131 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,880 worship and that is and, and I thought it was interesting what 132 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,480 Josh said. Josh said pressing the will of 133 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,880 the Lord, because often this phrase will come to me. 134 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:56,880 So this morning I just thought, I'm going to look that up. 135 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,960 What what does that really mean? Because I'll say it, I kind of 136 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:03,760 had an idea, but it's pressing the crown rights of King Jesus. 137 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:09,960 We press the crown rights and pressing the Crown rights is a, 138 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:13,560 is a, it's a phrase from Commonwealth. 139 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,920 It's a phrase from kingdoms where there there are legalities 140 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:25,240 in which the those authorized with authority from the crown 141 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:26,920 will go and press the Crown rights. 142 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:31,040 Some of that often will that'll come up in the idea of property. 143 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:35,559 And so they're in going and seizing property or exercising 144 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:39,559 the crown rights over property. And that'll preach because 145 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,159 there's a property called Iowa. We want to see the crown rights 146 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:47,400 of King Jesus enforced. The earth is the Lords and the 147 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:52,440 fullness thereof. And so in worship, we catch the 148 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:56,400 heart of the Lord and we press his crown rights into situations 149 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:01,200 in our life. And so that's there's a there's 150 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:06,840 a warfare element to worship that we must be aware of. 151 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,640 And if all, if there's that old saying, if all you have is a 152 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:13,520 hammer, you treat everything like a man nail. 153 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:18,520 If the only way that you see worship is one way, then you've 154 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:21,200 got you have this one hit wonder where you're going to try to 155 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,360 treat everything like they're the same situation. 156 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,560 And there are times where we need to pick up high praise and 157 00:09:27,560 --> 00:09:31,680 begin to wield the authority, the crown rights of King Jesus 158 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:34,440 and impose his will into situations. 159 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,080 And so that's what we want to talk about this morning. 160 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:40,120 Now let me do it. Little, little background 161 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,680 because I haven't been in this pulpit for two weeks. 162 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,480 It's been, it was 3 weeks ago, man. 163 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,080 Someone said, hey, Pastor Avery, really biting at the bit to get 164 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,000 back in the pulpit. Well, I didn't preach a lot this 165 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,240 week. I just didn't get to preach from 166 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,800 here. But I want to, I want to kind of 167 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,600 do a little bit of review to get us back up to speed because what 168 00:09:57,600 --> 00:09:59,080 we've been talking about are two things. 169 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:04,760 We've been talking about the Psalms, Psalms 2 and Psalm 149. 170 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:11,080 Both of those, those bookend Psalms are talking about God 171 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:17,040 dealing with the nations. And this is very, very, very 172 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:21,280 relevant to us right now. We're living in a unique time in 173 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:25,640 history where there is global chaos and God is calling the 174 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:29,360 church to step to the forefront and begin to press his crown 175 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,920 rights into national affairs, not just in our nation, but in 176 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,240 other nations. But both of them come into play 177 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,680 that that the real hope of the United States of America is not 178 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:42,840 the White House, it's God's house and it's not the executive 179 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,080 office. It's the church stepping into 180 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:48,000 and pressing the crown rights of King Jesus. 181 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,760 And so we see in Psalm chapter 2, David is incredulous and he 182 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,880 says, why do the why do the heathen rage? 183 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,000 Why do the kings of this earth imagine a vain thing? 184 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:05,960 Why, why do they, the kings, the nations, the peoples and the the 185 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:09,480 other one I think was nobles. Why they what they're doing is 186 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,520 they rage and they say, let us throw off the yoke of the Lord 187 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:17,680 and his anointed one. In other words, we're not going 188 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:21,360 to, we're not going to come under God's rules, God's edicts, 189 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:27,200 God's laws, God's ethical ideas. We're going to, we're going to 190 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:29,080 throw those off and we're going to do our own thing. 191 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,600 And David, David's incredulous how, why would they do this? 192 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:34,440 And then he gives God's response. 193 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,000 This is Psalm 2. And he says he who sits in the 194 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:43,480 heavens laughs. And sometimes you and I, we need 195 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,480 to get in God's presence so we can see from God's perspective 196 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:50,000 how he's dealing with these things, because we can be from 197 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,160 an earthly perspective and wringing our hands while he who 198 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:56,040 sits in the heavens looks down and laughs. 199 00:11:56,680 --> 00:12:00,160 And then he says he holds them in derision. 200 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,160 Derision means to mock them. He puts them in a tight place 201 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:09,960 they can't get out of and he he mocks them in their rebellion. 202 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:14,680 These kings of the earth that are trying to rule and to, you 203 00:12:14,680 --> 00:12:17,800 know, to rebel against God. Now we need to understand that 204 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,800 this Psalm was first. There's there's really three 205 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:24,520 applications for this Psalm. And if we jump to the obvious 206 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:28,360 New Testament one, we will miss the other two and some very 207 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,360 valuable things that God has for us in Psalm chapter 2. 208 00:12:31,560 --> 00:12:35,280 And what I mean is this it was originally written to king. 209 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:41,720 It was a encounter that King David had, OK, And it was 210 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:45,760 written about David. And when he says, As for me, 211 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:50,120 he's saying he's reiterating to you and I what he heard in a 212 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:55,280 throne room encounter with God. He heard God say this, As for 213 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:59,920 me, I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill. 214 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,520 And that is he's he's saying that in response to the 215 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,040 rebellious kings of the earth saying we're not going to obey 216 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,960 God. And God's laughs cast him in 217 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:10,440 derision. And then he says to them, 218 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:15,160 listen, As for me, I've set my king on Zion on my holy hill. 219 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,760 And God is speaking to these kings through David. 220 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:20,160 And David is the king that he set there. 221 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,440 Now, why is that important for us? 222 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:26,880 Because you and I, we have a tendency to interpret this 223 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:31,000 solely as a messianic Psalm. And it is, OK, it's a messianic 224 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,280 Psalm. But it is first and foremost was 225 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,880 spoken of a human king named David. 226 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,840 And this is very important because there's also an 227 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:46,360 application for the Church of Jesus Christ who are seated with 228 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:51,000 him in heavenly places. And if we just reduce it to a 229 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,960 messianic Psalm, we reduce it to poetry about Jesus ministry 230 00:13:56,440 --> 00:14:01,160 rather than realizing that God was enforcing the rule of this 231 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:05,560 earthly king and he was in, he's also enforcing the rule of his 232 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:08,920 heavenly king that sits on the seat of David in the heavenly 233 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:10,920 realms. And we are seated with him and 234 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:12,840 we have a role to play in this thing. 235 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:19,920 OK, so it says that God is going to cast them in derision. 236 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:23,840 Let's let's look there. I'm sorry, let's let's make sure 237 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:25,440 So you know I'm not making this up. 238 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,880 Turn with me. Chapter 2 of Psalm, the second 239 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:34,280 Psalm. And I want to tie this in with 240 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,840 what we've been talking about in Revelation. 241 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,160 So look what he says he look at verse four. 242 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,960 He sits in the heavens, laughs, he holds them in derision, Then 243 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,840 he will speak to them in his wrath and terrify of them in his 244 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,800 fear. He's saying in verse 6, this is 245 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,640 what he says to them. As for me, in other words, the 246 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:56,680 one who sits on the throne of the universe, the epicenter of 247 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,280 governmental rule for all the cosmos. 248 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:05,640 As for me, I've set my king in Zion on my holy hill, and he's 249 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:07,440 telling these, these kings of the earth. 250 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:11,200 Listen, you better come come to terms with this because that's 251 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,000 the one I've chosen. I will tell of the decree, David 252 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,040 said. So David saying what I heard in 253 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,000 this encounter, I'm going to tell you what I heard the Lord 254 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,240 said to me. David, you are my son today I've 255 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:25,240 begotten you. We were talking in the school 256 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:31,640 about how this idea of royal sonship is all through the 257 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:34,440 ancient world. OK, royal sonship. 258 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:39,840 Sonship was the idea that a king, an earthly king, was a 259 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:44,880 earthly representative of the God which they worshipped. 260 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,960 We know that was true and and so they were known as the son of 261 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,400 God. Pharaoh was known as the son of 262 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:59,080 Rah, their God Rah Caesar was known as the son of God and 263 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:02,760 eventually became the embodiment of God himself on earth. 264 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:08,800 And so this was an ancient idea that Jesus steps in and he is 265 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:13,200 the son of God who is the embodiment of God on planet 266 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:15,320 earth. He came to bring his Kingdom. 267 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,240 All of that is very important. And here's the thing, we can 268 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:23,160 look back at these people and say, oh, these ignorant, 269 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:27,400 unenlightened, superstitious people that thought these human 270 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,120 kings were the representative of the God they worshipped. 271 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:35,120 But be careful with that because it very well maybe well, it it's 272 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:39,640 not very well maybe it the fact is they understood the alliances 273 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:43,640 between the physical realm and the spiritual realm far beyond 274 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:48,280 what most evangelicals, modern Christians do that they're there 275 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,920 that the spiritual realm. There are rulers in the 276 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:55,520 spiritual realm that seek to make alliances and coalitions 277 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:59,240 with earthly rulers and then their will can be manifest 278 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:00,960 through those kingdoms. Are you tracking with me? 279 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:03,640 So when we talk about principalities, these 280 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,400 principalities, there's a reason that when Daniel was praying 21 281 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,119 days and on the 21st day of his fast, the Angel shows up a 282 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,680 little rough for where and says from the day you started 283 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:18,240 praying, I, I, I came to you, the Lord sent me to bring you 284 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,680 the message you were praying for, but I was held up in the 285 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:24,400 heavenlies by the Prince of Persia. 286 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:28,760 It's where Daniel was praying. He was in Persia and he was 287 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:32,600 having to battle this spiritual darkness. 288 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:37,680 The the hesitancy, the the delay was not on God's end, nor was it 289 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,400 on Daniel's end. Daniel was determined to pray 290 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:45,960 through God sent it the day he began to pray the delay, the 291 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,040 battle was in the heavenly realms. 292 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:53,280 And so when we see this ancient idea, it's that they were, they 293 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:57,400 had much more perception because they were nearer to the 294 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:01,760 inception of God's design, that God meant for heaven and earth 295 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:07,080 to function together. And so this counterfeit of these 296 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:13,200 people being in these alliances was what David was addressing 297 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:16,280 here. So God says through David, you 298 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:21,120 are my son, you are my earthly representative, I've adopted you 299 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:25,160 as a son, and you are my representative on the earth, the 300 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:29,800 Most High God, and you are to press my crown rights and I'm 301 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,320 going to rule through you and bring these kings under 302 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:36,280 subjection tracking with me. So that's what's going on here. 303 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:40,840 Now look at what he says. Ask of me, and I will make the 304 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:43,720 nation's your inherit, your heritage, and the ends of the 305 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:45,960 earth your possession. You shall break them with a rod 306 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:48,760 of iron, dash them in pieces like a Potter's vessel. 307 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:53,040 And then now David declares. This is David declaring to these 308 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:56,080 kings. Now therefore, O kings, be wise, 309 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:59,560 be warned. O rulers of the earth, serve the 310 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,920 Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 311 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:06,440 Kiss the sun, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way. 312 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:07,920 For his wrath is quickly kindled. 313 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:09,880 Blessed are all take refuge in him. 314 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,200 And originally this was David Speaking of himself and saying, 315 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,880 hey, surrender on the front end. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, 316 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,760 and you perish in the way. But we know it's a messianic 317 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,760 Psalm of Jesus. But you and I, there are, there 318 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:29,440 are, this is a template by which God operates in the earth that 319 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,680 applies to the New Testament. We're enthroned with him. 320 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:36,520 And so God expects us to be involved in this process of God 321 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,240 enforcing his will on the earth through prayer and through 322 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:43,360 worship. Worship is a key part of this. 323 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:46,720 It's not just us getting in our prayer closet and praying alone, 324 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,400 and it's not even just a corporate prayer meeting. 325 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:53,400 There is a, an environment in which when we begin to worship 326 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:57,480 him that literally he enthroned himself in our worship. 327 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:02,280 Psalm 22 says, and, and the context we've talked about this 328 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,440 before, but this is crucial. So we're just going to kind of 329 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:08,120 reiterate some things this morning because I'm trying to 330 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:11,360 kind of frame this up for us so that we understand what we're 331 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:15,000 partaking of. Psalm 22 where it says you 332 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,400 enthrone yourself in the praise of Israel. 333 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,840 It literally means to be seated, but when God sits down, it's a 334 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,880 throne. There's a Japanese version of 335 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:30,000 that verse that says whenever God's people prays, they carry a 336 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:36,080 chair in which God sits upon. So in a very real sense, worship 337 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,640 is a chair that we all commit to. 338 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,680 Hey, let's grab the chair this morning. 339 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,080 Let's put it on our shoulders and let's bring it into the 340 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,960 sanctuary and let's set it down and let's welcome. 341 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,160 Lord, we invite you to sit upon the throne. 342 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:52,800 Because when you see you're seated now, Lord, we invite you 343 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:56,640 to begin to extend your scepter and change circumstances. 344 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:00,840 And it's got to be beyond just our own lives, OK? 345 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,120 It's not Lord, I'm struggling with this change that 346 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:05,280 circumstance. That's fine. 347 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:08,040 That's good. God really does care about you 348 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,760 as an individual. But there's something higher 349 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:14,440 he's called us to, and that is corporate worship for corporate 350 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:18,160 intercession to deal with regional and national and 351 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:25,520 international issues. And that is that is the the 352 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,840 privilege of all the Saints, the honor of all the Saints we're 353 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:32,200 going to see in Psalm 149 turn there. 354 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:36,000 So this is this is the second Psalm. 355 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:41,000 He introduces this in this praise manual, this hymnal of 356 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,240 the people of Israel. And, and again, I want to 357 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:47,720 reiterate this, this is very, very important that these hymns 358 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,560 were not just poetry that creative people wrote. 359 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:58,800 They are literally the records of the psalmist seers that 360 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:04,400 recorded went through scribes, their encounters, not just so 361 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,320 that we can look back and think, oh, that's neat that they got to 362 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:11,160 encounter those things. It's so that they would leave 363 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,520 the trail for you and I so that you and I could enter into the 364 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,960 same. This is the honor of all the 365 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,000 Saints. This isn't just for the special 366 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,840 few. We are enthroned with Him in 367 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,360 heavenly places and God wants us to ascend the hill of the Lord 368 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,360 and be brought into those encounters. 369 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:34,560 Because in those encounters you will receive things that you 370 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:38,080 need, that without them your life will not work as God 371 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:43,080 intended. If all that we have is our human 372 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:49,680 learning, we be in trouble. If if all we have is what we we 373 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,840 can study ourselves into, we're in trouble. 374 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,000 We need something beyond our human wisdom. 375 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,840 We need the Intel of heaven that God breaks in and gives us 376 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:01,280 directives. We need the mind of Christ. 377 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,600 And when we have that, then things change. 378 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:10,360 And so these are the, if you read the Psalms, you have to 379 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:15,600 come to the conclusion they're either just pretty poetry or 380 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:22,080 these are supernatural encounters of the seers, the 381 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,360 psalmists. David was called a prophet, 382 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:30,560 Asaph was a prophet. Scripture says one of the 383 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:36,400 authors of the Psalms and these prophets, the Old Testament 384 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:40,000 criteria for being a prophet. You'll see this phrase. 385 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,840 Yeah. He stood in the counsel of the 386 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:47,360 Lord COUNCIL. Standing in the counsel of the 387 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:50,640 Lord, many scholars believe, was the criteria. 388 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,200 That was the qualification to be a prophet. 389 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:59,200 And all of us as a new covenant people are, are invited to stand 390 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,800 in the counsel of the Lord as the ecclesia. 391 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:07,280 It's a very similar word and very similar idea when you look 392 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,800 at what the the Old Testament lays out. 393 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:17,760 It's not that God needs counsel, COUNSEL, but God is a team 394 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,440 player. He really does like to share his 395 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:21,960 authority. It's an amazing thing. 396 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:26,840 It's one of the most intriguing things to me about God that he 397 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,520 includes us. He does not need us. 398 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:35,960 In fact, like a father who wants to have his son working with 399 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:37,560 him. Hey, son, let's work on the car. 400 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,440 And now you know that it's going to take three times as long to 401 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,920 fix what you're going to fix because you got the little guy 402 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,400 over there and he's dropping things and he's using the wrong 403 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:46,360 right. You're trying to bring him 404 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:48,840 along. But God is good with that. 405 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,400 He could get there a lot faster on his own. 406 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,320 But he said no, Come on. Why don't you go work with me 407 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,200 today? When I worked at Teen Challenge, 408 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,040 we would have Randy, you remember this having wake up and 409 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,840 that meant you had to show up really early and wake all the 410 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,520 guys up and and you'd walk down the dorm. 411 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,760 All right, guys, get up. Come on, we're going to go, you 412 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,680 know, and they'd have to go to then they'd go down. 413 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,240 You'd do Med call and all that stuff. 414 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,680 And when my boys were really little, they'd say, Dad, can I 415 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,760 go to work with you today? And they'd they're a little MIT 416 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,840 in my hand and they'd be telling these grown men get out of bed. 417 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,680 Come on, it's time to get up, man. 418 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,760 Come on, guys, they're little. One day I took my little boy, 419 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,920 one of my little boys, I don't even remember which one, but he 420 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,000 was walking with me and saying, and the Lord said, that's how I 421 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,320 want you to be. I want every day. 422 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,680 Do you get up, say, Dad, can I go to work with you today? 423 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,560 That my tiny little voice and my little MIT in his big old hand 424 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,360 and I'm bossing things around in the earth. 425 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:50,160 So I got a big dad. And so God invites us to go to 426 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,120 work with him. It's an amazing thing. 427 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,640 He can get it done a whole lot faster without us, but he set up 428 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,680 a system that he will not do it without us and we cannot do it 429 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,760 without him. And this partnership between 430 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:08,240 heaven and earth is crucial. So Psalm 149, let's look at it. 431 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:14,560 Oh my goodness, it's quarter tail praise the Lord sing to the 432 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,120 Lord a new song that's a prophetic song. 433 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:19,800 It literally in the Hebrew, it's a song that's never been heard 434 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,320 that in the moment you hit you hit pay dirt and you begin to 435 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,920 release the now of God, the heart of God, his praise in the 436 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,880 assembly that Septuagint translates that ekklesia of the 437 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,040 God and let Israel be glad in his maker. 438 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,040 Let the children of Zion rejoice in their king. 439 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:40,160 This theme of Zion you keep seeing come up and there's in 440 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,760 the New Testament, Zion is the Kingdom. 441 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,040 It's the seat of God's governmental rule. 442 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,600 Let them praise him with dancing, making melody with him 443 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,400 to him with tambourine and lyre. Listen to what he's saying here. 444 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,960 This is not just this casual, you know, kind of half mast, you 445 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,880 know, Lord, we thank you. We're talking full body worship. 446 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:05,760 We're, we're talking using our body as a weapon and an 447 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,520 instrument to glorify him, though that stuff matters to the 448 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,160 Lord because it's you engaging your whole heart. 449 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,120 We, we and some of you are more reserved than others. 450 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:20,240 You know, I, I don't dance before the Lord as much as I 451 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,720 used to because I, I just can't get the air I used to. 452 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,360 And then when I stop, my body keeps doing it for a few seconds 453 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:28,760 like, well, that was embarrassing. 454 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,840 I know that ally's down there. Too much information, pastor, 455 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,440 too much information. I always I I got. 456 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,920 I need to put a camera on ally when I preach and then go back 457 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,080 and look at the the time mark and oh, I should never say that 458 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,160 again because of Ally's response. 459 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,680 Anyway, I digress. So but the fact is we need to 460 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,760 use our bodies as instruments of worship. 461 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:54,680 That really does matter to the Lord. 462 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,760 A matter of fact it there's a reason the psalmist said they 463 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:04,800 dancing he he crowns the humble with salvation because it's 464 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,920 humbling. I wasn't a good dancer, but you 465 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:10,960 know when I was out in the world man. 466 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,480 So anyways, I digress. So let let them praise him with 467 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,560 dancing for the Lord takes pleasure in his people. 468 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,160 He adorns the humble with salvation. 469 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,520 Now look at this verse 6. Let the high praise. 470 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,960 This is what Josh was talking about. 471 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:32,080 Let the high praise of God be in their throats and A2 edged sword 472 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:37,160 in their hand. We know that the sword of the 473 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:41,040 Lord is the word of God and we wield it. 474 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,920 A sword is not. He's not talking about using it 475 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,280 to cut bread or you know, do work on your house. 476 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:53,280 A sword is a weapon of warfare where we release the word of the 477 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,600 Lord to move things in the environment. 478 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:01,080 And there's a dynamic of the high praise that we enter into 479 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:06,720 when that happens. And so this, this is a warfare 480 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,720 mindset when we enter into worship, Worship is not always 481 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,000 warfare, but there are times it is. 482 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,800 And it's we catch the catch the heart of the Lord and we begin 483 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:22,160 to make these declarations that really do matter in the earth, 484 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,000 that God begins to move things and shift things. 485 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,600 And we need to develop a sensitivity in these this 486 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,480 environment when we're worshipping, that we hit those 487 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,280 those platforms of authority. We're going to begin to release 488 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,280 things over our families, over our children, over our 489 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,560 grandchildren, over our nation, over the governmental structure, 490 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,440 over our city, that we begin to release the word of the Lord 491 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:52,800 because it carries power. And we are subjecting the enemy 492 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,800 to the truth of God and pressing the crown rights of King Jesus 493 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:01,080 over those situations. And things have to move. 494 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,400 And so it's very, very important for us to understand this. 495 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,160 Otherwise we treat everything like it's an intimacy moment. 496 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,280 And then intimacy is foundational. 497 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:15,280 I'm, I'm not in any way minimizing that. 498 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,200 I'm just saying that there's other elements to this thing 499 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,200 that we need to be aware of. So what does he say? 500 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,000 What what is the purpose? Verse 7, to execute vengeance on 501 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,080 the nation's. And it is fascinating. 502 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:32,200 He mentions the same four groups of people he talked about in 503 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,520 Psalm 2. So in Psalm 2 he says they're 504 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,280 rebelling and they're saying I'm not going to submit to God's 505 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,120 rule. And in chapter 149, the second 506 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:46,560 of the last Psalm, he shows that you and I have a part to play 507 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,680 when he brings them into subjection. 508 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,400 What is that part? To execute vengeance on the 509 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,000 nation's punishment, on the people's, to bind their kings 510 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,080 with chains and their nobles with federal of iron. 511 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,120 To execute upon them the judgment written. 512 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:05,960 This is the honor for all his godly ones praise the Lord and 513 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:10,240 primarily what we're dealing with are those spiritual 514 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,560 realities those rulers and principalities and powers. 515 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:18,680 But there is a place where God will he will hem in a world 516 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:23,920 ruler. He'll muzzle them and turn them. 517 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,480 We talked about it a few weeks ago, Hall Hitler, when he came 518 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,280 out of his meeting with Chamberlain, he he confided in 519 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,160 his counselors and he was frustrated. 520 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:37,520 He said for the first time I didn't obey the voice and even 521 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,840 told Chamberlain in the meeting, he said, I don't know why I'm 522 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:45,400 giving you what you want. And we look back at that meeting 523 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,720 as an abject failure. And there's good reason too. 524 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,920 But there were some things that the Lord did secure in that 525 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:54,120 because of the prayers of the Saints, and it gave Britain a 526 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,440 little bit of time to build up their armament. 527 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,160 And although that was Chamberlain was suckered into a 528 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:05,760 deal and believed he'd secured peace when he hadn't, God used 529 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,720 that. And Hitler went against the 530 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,960 voice that he said he had followed since childhood. 531 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:17,520 There was a demonic counselor living within him and that would 532 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:22,800 violate the counsel of his his advisors and, and he'd win again 533 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,320 and again. And they were, they were just so 534 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,240 intrigued by how does this guy have this military brilliance 535 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,920 that goes counter intuitive to what we always tell them. 536 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,160 And it was the prayers of the Saints that begin to put a 537 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,840 harness in his mouth and steer him in the way that God wanted 538 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:45,440 him to go. And you and I need to pray for 539 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,480 world leaders, pray for our king, pray for our president, 540 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,520 pray for the kings of the earth. And we need to catch the word of 541 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,560 the Lord and get what God is saying and then begin to pray 542 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:58,000 that stuff. Because the real seat of power 543 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,600 in the universe is the throne room. 544 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,680 And the church in heaven, it's God's throne room. 545 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,080 And on earth, it's the Church of Jesus Christ. 546 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,840 And if we abdicate our role, things will veer off contrary to 547 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:15,000 what God wants. And so we need to understand the 548 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,640 high and exalted position that he's given us, not in an 549 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:24,080 arrogant sense, but with great humility that Lord, don't let us 550 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:28,400 shirk this responsibility. We are going to steer this thing 551 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,680 in prayer and our president needs our prayer. 552 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:38,240 Nathan, as a prophet of God, made a mistake and gave his king 553 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,720 this council. Do whatever's in your heart, God 554 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,680 be with you. And then the Lord corrected the 555 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,760 prophet Nathan and he had to circle back around and say, 556 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,280 actually, that was me. This is the word of the Lord. 557 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,480 And we we're not called to endorse everything any 558 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:59,200 candidate, any president says because we're we're above that. 559 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:03,240 We are speaking from heaven. And so we need to speak into 560 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,840 those things, the word of the Lord. 561 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:09,840 And there are times where on earthly president will make bad 562 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,239 decisions and we need to steer them. 563 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,560 And so the prayers are not just to get people in and out of 564 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,800 office. The prayers are to shepherd them 565 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,159 while they're there. This is an hour for Daniels, 566 00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:24,639 those who hear the word of the Lord and speak into the halls of 567 00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:27,040 power. Even if you don't have direct 568 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,000 access, spiritually speaking, we can pray in these things. 569 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,400 Amen. OK, I say all that, turn to 570 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:39,199 Revelation 5 and we're just going to go on into the second 571 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:40,360 server. I'm just kidding. 572 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:45,679 I really would like to Revelation chapter 5. 573 00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:49,920 So we talked about this two weeks ago, but I want it. 574 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,159 I want it again. I want to stress this that there 575 00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:57,880 is in chapter 3, the final church that John has a message 576 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,080 for the Church of Laodicea. What does he say right at the 577 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:05,560 end, verse 19, chapter 3, To those, those whom I love, I 578 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:09,000 reprove and discipline. So be zealous and repent. 579 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,320 So he's dealing with their hearts. 580 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:14,240 And then he says this, this famous verse, Behold, I stand 581 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:21,160 and at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and 582 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:25,040 opens the door, I will come in and eat with him and he with me. 583 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,000 So there's a feast on the other side of this invitation. 584 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,560 There's a door that you and I control. 585 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,560 He descends and he comes to us. And he says, listen, I'm 586 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,680 knocking on your heart. I want to deal with some things. 587 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,720 And when you feel the dealings of God, there is the promise in 588 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:48,000 this verse of a feast of revelation that God has for you. 589 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:52,520 If we respond, the famous painting of this, we've all seen 590 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,880 it where Jesus is at the wooden door. 591 00:35:55,120 --> 00:36:00,760 And if you look at that picture, there's no handle, no lock on 592 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,880 the outside. All the mechanism is on the 593 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,880 interior, because you and I control that door. 594 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:13,040 It's the door of intimacy. We must respond to Him. 595 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,480 But there's another door. The next passage, Revelation 4. 596 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:22,400 After this, I looked and behold, a door standing open in heaven. 597 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,640 And so there are these two doors. 598 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,240 There's the door on our heart that you and I have to respond 599 00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:29,280 to. And this is the door of 600 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,040 intimacy. And God wants to develop that 601 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,400 intimacy with us. But here's what we need to 602 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,800 catch, that there's more than mere intimacy. 603 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,480 It's not just about you getting saved and getting close to 604 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,720 Jesus. That is awesome. 605 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,440 Again, we could worship for eternity just on that one thing. 606 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,920 But He's not merely come to fellowship with you. 607 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,800 He wants you to come up and ascend the hill of the Lord. 608 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,360 And from there He wants you to rule and reign with Him. 609 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,680 And that isn't a someday thing. It's a right now thing. 610 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,280 And we do it through intercession and worship, 611 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:12,040 prophetic intercessory worship. And so this other door is 612 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:16,320 already open. Now the fact is, if we don't 613 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,000 open the first door, we're never going to be entrusted with the 614 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,880 second door. If we don't lay that groundwork 615 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:26,880 and develop an intimate relationship with the Lord, then 616 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:30,800 you'll never begin to step into the things that God wants you to 617 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,320 do in the earth, that God has given you authority. 618 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,000 You are seated in heavenly places with him. 619 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,360 We are whatsoever we bind on earth to be bound in heaven, 620 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,560 whatsoever we loose on earth to be loosed in heaven. 621 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:47,080 And so we're we're called to operate with the Lord in these 622 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:52,280 matters, but we have to have that groundwork of intimacy. 623 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,680 And so listen to what he says here in chapter 3. 624 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,800 He says I will come in and eat with him and he with me. 625 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,440 Verse 21, the one who conquers, I will grant with him, grant to 626 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,960 him to sit on my throne as I conquered and sat down with my 627 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,640 Father on his throne. He was an ear. 628 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:08,360 Let him hear what the Spirit would say to the churches. 629 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,840 So as we develop that intimacy with them, then we're taken into 630 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,240 the throne. I mean, listen what it says or 631 00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:21,920 one after this, I looked and behold, a door standing open in 632 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,880 heaven. He didn't see that door. 633 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:29,880 He it it was it was once he was he delivered the message about 634 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:34,000 the personal door that all of a sudden, behold, he saw a door in 635 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,280 heaven. And there was a voice saying, 636 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:40,240 come up here and I will show you what must take place after this. 637 00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:42,920 That word must is an interesting word day. 638 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:46,240 It's DEI day. That's what the that's how you 639 00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:49,920 spell it in the Greek and transliteration to be necessary, 640 00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:55,280 to be unavoidably determined by prior circumstances, something 641 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:59,520 understood with the contingency. What follows is, is the 642 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:03,400 revelation of a necessity. So when John hears this, he 643 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,480 says, the Lord said, come up here and I will show you what 644 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,160 must soon take place. And what transpires after that 645 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:14,880 is the revelation of something that is a necessity that God 646 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,560 needs to release on the earth. OK, The activity and order of 647 00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:22,240 events laid out in John's experience reveal throne room 648 00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:26,960 protocol to instruct us. We said, again, it's not just 649 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,400 the events that we read about and oh, this is end time 650 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:30,320 affairs. This is neat. 651 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:35,200 No, there are there are traces of throne room protocol that we 652 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:40,000 must not rush over because when we understand the order of these 653 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,360 events, when we understand what's going on here, you and I 654 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:47,840 can enter into the same. There is a protocol to these 655 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:52,120 types of matters. If you want to operate in what 656 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:56,720 God's called you to, We need to be very sensitive to how God has 657 00:39:56,720 --> 00:40:00,360 laid things out. So look at chapter 5. 658 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,480 Then I saw in the right hand of so John. 659 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,480 Verse 3 chapters he delivers to the seven churches. 660 00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,920 Chapter 4, he's invited to the upper. 661 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,320 He's invited to go into the a throne room encounter. 662 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:19,160 He begins to describe all that he's seeing around and then 663 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:23,360 chapter 5, then I saw so there's again and again you'll see 664 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,920 behold and then behold and then and those words are the triggers 665 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:32,080 to show when the scene changes. It's like John, suddenly there's 666 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:37,160 a reason that God has the then there because these things were 667 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:41,360 inaccessible prior. And you and I need to take very 668 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,800 careful attention to this because there are certain things 669 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,280 that must be in place before we can next move into the then. 670 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,320 Does that make sense? So there's certain things you've 671 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:56,520 got to fulfill the criteria to trigger the then. 672 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:02,080 And so John then sees this scroll in the Lord's hand 673 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,920 written with, within and on the back sealed with 7 seals. 674 00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,160 And I saw mighty Angel proclaiming with a loud voice 675 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,800 who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals. 676 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:16,640 And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to 677 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:23,480 open the scroll or look into it. There have been several songs as 678 00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:27,680 of late written out of this passage that we tend to like 679 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,720 around here. And I would propose to you, 680 00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:36,160 there's a reason we like those because it's speaking to a deep 681 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:41,680 sense of what we're called to. I'm talking about the cross, the 682 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,160 body of Christ. There's a reason that these 683 00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:49,520 songs are being written right now because they're crucial at 684 00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:53,760 these these pivotal moments in human history where there are 685 00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:55,720 the battles for the Thrones of the earth. 686 00:41:55,720 --> 00:41:58,760 God has to have a praying, worshipping bride that can 687 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:03,320 release his edicts and what we what was in his hand. 688 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,160 And the rest of the book bears this out. 689 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:10,320 It was a scroll with 7 seals. And what that scroll contained 690 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:17,240 were God's judgment against all opposition to his purposes on 691 00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:21,160 the earth. Think about that. 692 00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:28,600 Set aside all your eschatology for a moment and realize that 693 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:35,600 there Psalm 149 says we carry out the sentence written against 694 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:39,000 them. Psalm 2 talks about the edicts 695 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,920 and Revelation 5 says there's a scroll in God's hand. 696 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:51,280 God the most the the all powerful being, he who sat on 697 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,280 the throne had a scroll. It was his purposes. 698 00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,920 He told he he he communicated through an Angel to John. 699 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:02,920 These are the things that must take place, but yet they were in 700 00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:04,800 his hand and they had to be opened. 701 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:10,320 And John begins to wail because no one was found worthy in 702 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,520 heaven and earth or under the earth. 703 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,640 There was this eruption in John, this grief. 704 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,720 We've got to release God's purposes in the earth. 705 00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,640 We've got to release God's purposes in the earth. 706 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,800 You look at the massacre happening in some of the African 707 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,840 nations right now with Christians and there needs to be 708 00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,320 an eruption. God, we've got to release your 709 00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,240 purposes in the earth. We've got to when we look at 710 00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:39,960 what what's happening in our school system and them catering 711 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:44,280 to the the a mental illness and encouraging children to, you 712 00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:47,640 know, side with these misconceptions about themselves 713 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:49,360 and surgically alter their bodies. 714 00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,160 There needs to be something within us and in great grief 715 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,920 that says God, we've got to release your purposes in the 716 00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:56,400 earth. We've got to release your 717 00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:01,040 purposes in the earth. And here's the thing that that 718 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:06,080 that scroll was not released until John began to weep, and 719 00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:10,280 then the Lamb stepped forward. And I would propose to you that 720 00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:15,160 it's the tears of the Saints that released the Gears of War 721 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:20,360 in Heaven that causes God to begin to unreleased his 722 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:24,360 purposes. And he cannot entrust that level 723 00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:28,920 of authority to a people who will not be broken with tears. 724 00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:34,760 If we're not willing to cry over these things, then he cannot 725 00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,200 release to us the authority to deal with them. 726 00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:42,960 This, this level of authority and this what God wants to do 727 00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:49,960 must be wielded by a hand connected to a broken heart that 728 00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,880 we have compassion and we're broken for the brokenness of 729 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:54,800 humanity. Go ahead and stand. 730 00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:58,680 So you know I'm going to quit. I, I was, I was thinking about 731 00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:02,200 this again and years ago when we were in the old building, there 732 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:06,840 was a young man that I don't know who he was, but he, he said 733 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,800 he, he was passing through, came to a Saturday night service, 734 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,440 enjoyed it, came up to me after the service and he shared 735 00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,800 something with me. He said, I go to Joel and Linda 736 00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:19,560 Budds Church in Tulsa. At the time I didn't know Joel 737 00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,400 and Linda, but I, I knew of them. 738 00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:27,800 And he said, he said, our pastors, Joel and Linda shared 739 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,360 something with me, but I feel like I need to share with you 740 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:34,640 before I leave. And I don't know if it was Joel 741 00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,440 that had this vision or if it was someone that had spoken at 742 00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:42,160 their church, but they were talking about how the Lord in 743 00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:46,640 this vision, the Lord invited them into this little sphere of 744 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,800 a room and there were two chairs in it. 745 00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,360 And the Lord took one of the chairs in it and invited whoever 746 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,240 had this vision to sit next to him. 747 00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:57,360 And he closed the door and there was it was like a sphere. 748 00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,960 And there was this window on the front. 749 00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,960 And they it right outside was the the world spinning. 750 00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,600 And he said the Lord just began to weep as he watched the world 751 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:12,400 and he wept over the world. And then he just joined the Lord 752 00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:17,320 and they wept over the world as the world turns and just they, 753 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:19,680 they sat. And he said it went on for quite 754 00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,680 some time, like, you know, an hour, 2 hours, they just swept 755 00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:24,760 over the world. And all of a sudden the Lord 756 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:28,720 looked at him and reached over and opened a door that prior to 757 00:46:28,720 --> 00:46:31,360 that he didn't know was there, opened it. 758 00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,600 And then they climbed through. The Lord invited him to follow. 759 00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:39,880 And they were in this massive room, and in this room was like 760 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:43,720 a library. There were maps, reconnaissance 761 00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:48,560 maps and and computer screens with reconnaissance. 762 00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,440 And it was the strategy room of Heaven. 763 00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,680 And the message of the vision was this. 764 00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:01,040 Only those who are willing to weep over the world are granted 765 00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,320 access to the strategy room of Heaven. 766 00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,600 Listen, there is a there are scrolls right now. 767 00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:09,800 There are edicts already written. 768 00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:13,240 There are there are things that are in the hand of God that he 769 00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:17,160 longs to release upon the earth. But there is a royal protocol to 770 00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:20,840 this thing that he does not just do it on his own. 771 00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,720 He's looking for the the the invitation from the earth. 772 00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,080 He's looking for a people who will ascend the hill of the Lord 773 00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:32,280 and in worship catch the heart of God and weep over the world. 774 00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:36,000 And God longs to release some of those things right now. 775 00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,040 But he's got to find those people. 776 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,880 He's looking for those who will be broken for the things of this 777 00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:47,400 world. Even for our families. 778 00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:50,720 There is something about travail. 779 00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:57,440 It's one thing to pray for your kids, your spouse, your parents. 780 00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:02,000 It's one thing to pray for them. It's another thing when there's 781 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,520 a brokenness and you enter into that place of travail, that 782 00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,880 weeping things begin to move because you've caught the heart 783 00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:14,360 of God. So Father, this morning, Lord, I 784 00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:21,080 ask God that you would. Lord, I ask that you would grant 785 00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:27,160 us travail. Lord, roll out the weapon of 786 00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:39,440 travail in this hour. Man, I feel that I have been 787 00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:45,680 praying that for us for 20 years now, but I feel like God wants 788 00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,880 to roll out the cannons of travail. 789 00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:55,480 Just put your heart hands out to the Lord, and if you can pray 790 00:48:55,480 --> 00:49:00,240 this, I want you to do so. Lord, we present ourselves 791 00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:04,480 before you. Lord, we're asking God that you 792 00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:06,840 receive our hearts as your habitation. 793 00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:11,840 Lord, we open the door, come in. But Lord, we want to come up. 794 00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,960 Lord, it's not good enough for you just to merely enter the 795 00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:19,240 door of our heart. And we're so grateful, Lord, but 796 00:49:19,240 --> 00:49:22,000 God, we want to fulfill your purposes, Lord. 797 00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:26,280 Give us tears to cry for this hour, Lord. 798 00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:30,200 Lord, find in US a people through whom you can enforce 799 00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:34,400 your will, through whom you can press the crown rights of King 800 00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:40,640 Jesus on the properties of planet earth in Jesus name. 801 00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:47,920 Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Lord. 802 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:57,720 Thank you, Lord, thank you Lord, I just want to encourage you, 803 00:49:57,720 --> 00:50:01,840 take that this morning. Reach out and grab that. 804 00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:06,080 There's an impartation for those with the faith to grab it that 805 00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:08,400 we're presenting ourselves saying, God, I'm asking you to 806 00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,480 begin to break my heart for these things. 807 00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:15,960 Lord, bring us into a higher plane of prayer, a higher place 808 00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:20,240 where we can begin to see your purposes established in the 809 00:50:20,240 --> 00:50:23,240 earth. I'm going to ask the prayer team 810 00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:25,480 to come forward and stand across the front. 811 00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,480 If you need prayer this morning, you may just want to come and 812 00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:32,080 kneel and pray about. Just allow the Lord to do a work 813 00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,120 in your heart. But I want to encourage you what 814 00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:35,880 I just felt. Don't. 815 00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:40,520 I don't know what you felt, but don't just kind of move off this 816 00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,120 thing. God is wanting to give us 817 00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:44,680 something. He's wanting to impart. 818 00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:48,600 I'm telling you, the eyes of the Lord are looking to and fro for 819 00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:52,240 those He can entrust with his heart, his burden. 820 00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,400 Not just his mind, but his heart. 821 00:50:55,480 --> 00:51:01,600 His mind without his heart often makes for harsh reactions to 822 00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:07,400 others, but his heart with his mind will cut through things if 823 00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,200 you need to. If you need prayer this morning, 824 00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:13,080 the altars are open. If you need to get right with 825 00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:17,000 the Lord this morning, if you're saying, man, I need to, I need 826 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:18,960 to surrender, refresh. It might be something you've 827 00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:20,520 done before. It might be something you've 828 00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:22,680 never done, but you're saying I want to surrender to Jesus. 829 00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:25,440 I want you to raise your hand. We want to pray for you this 830 00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,200 morning. Everyone of us have had to do 831 00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:30,160 that at some time. You're saying I want to 832 00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,600 surrender to Jesus. I want to get right with God 833 00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:36,520 this morning. Want to make sure I see your 834 00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:38,200 hand this morning. We want to give you that 835 00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,400 opportunity that you're going to step over the line saying, God, 836 00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,000 I'm signing up. I want to walk with you. 837 00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:50,600 All right, listen, the altars are open if you need prayer. 838 00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:52,360 God bless you. I love you. 839 00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:53,600 Have a great week.