1 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,360 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:06,760 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:16,320 Now enjoy this message. All right, so John chapter 4, 4 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:21,400 verse 23 to 24 says this. But an hour is coming and now is 5 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:25,160 when the true worshippers say true worshippers say true 6 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:31,730 worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. 7 00:00:32,290 --> 00:00:38,650 For such people the Father what seeks to be his to be his what 8 00:00:39,530 --> 00:00:46,450 God is spirit verse 24 And those who worship him must must 9 00:00:47,210 --> 00:00:54,330 worship in spirit. And truth not, can, not, should, 10 00:00:54,930 --> 00:00:57,340 but must. Amen. 11 00:00:57,860 --> 00:00:59,900 Now who's talking in this passage of scripture? 12 00:01:01,140 --> 00:01:03,060 Jesus is. And he's actually talking to a 13 00:01:03,060 --> 00:01:06,580 woman that's obviously not living a very good life right 14 00:01:06,580 --> 00:01:09,340 now. This particular woman has come 15 00:01:09,340 --> 00:01:12,860 to get her some water from a well, and Jesus is hanging out 16 00:01:12,860 --> 00:01:15,380 there while his disciples have gone to get him some food. 17 00:01:15,940 --> 00:01:18,140 And so he's having a conversation with. 18 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:21,840 And what's brought this conversation to the point that 19 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:27,040 we're at is that, you know, he begins to engage her and he 20 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:32,960 technically in the natural should not because he is Jewish 21 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,280 and she's a Samaritan. So by all rights, he is 22 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,800 destroying A racial issue right here. 23 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,480 Not only is he speaking to a woman, but he's speaking to a 24 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,580 Samaritan woman. And so, you know, they have a 25 00:01:48,580 --> 00:01:51,100 little bit of a discourse and he's basically letting her know 26 00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:54,220 what he has because she's like, well, how you going to get some 27 00:01:54,220 --> 00:01:55,860 water? He said whatever, woman, if you 28 00:01:55,860 --> 00:01:59,580 knew who I was and you'd be asking me for the living water 29 00:01:59,580 --> 00:02:02,380 and you would never thirst again, right. 30 00:02:02,700 --> 00:02:05,580 So he ends up going in and telling her her life story a 31 00:02:05,580 --> 00:02:07,260 little bit. Well, you have had five husbands 32 00:02:07,260 --> 00:02:09,940 actually, right? And the one you would now is not 33 00:02:09,940 --> 00:02:12,260 the one I see. You're a prophet, right? 34 00:02:12,580 --> 00:02:15,860 So then she begets spiritual on him and starts talking about 35 00:02:15,860 --> 00:02:20,070 worship, where to worship at and what the people are saying. 36 00:02:20,470 --> 00:02:23,230 You know the religious will say a lot about worship. 37 00:02:23,950 --> 00:02:28,070 There's a lot to say in religion about worship. 38 00:02:28,990 --> 00:02:34,390 But then Jesus makes this statement here in John chapter 4 39 00:02:34,750 --> 00:02:37,590 and he says in hours coming in is now when true worshippers, 40 00:02:37,590 --> 00:02:39,590 which implies there are false ones. 41 00:02:41,470 --> 00:02:45,070 All right, so if there's true worshippers, then there must be 42 00:02:45,070 --> 00:02:48,070 false ones. Because again, Jesus saying true 43 00:02:48,070 --> 00:02:51,590 is letting us know there are faults, which then tells us the 44 00:02:51,590 --> 00:02:55,630 Bible must be able to reveal to us what false worship is. 45 00:02:58,350 --> 00:03:00,110 Okay. If he reveals us there are true 46 00:03:00,110 --> 00:03:02,790 ones. True worshippers will worship 47 00:03:02,790 --> 00:03:09,390 the Father in spirit and truth. Not just in spirit, but in what 48 00:03:10,150 --> 00:03:13,330 in truth. Which then tells us a false 49 00:03:13,330 --> 00:03:19,490 worshipper will worship the Father in spirit and in false. 50 00:03:22,890 --> 00:03:28,410 Because there are evil spirits, you can be led by an evil 51 00:03:28,410 --> 00:03:32,610 spirit. You can be in the spirit with 52 00:03:32,610 --> 00:03:36,530 the wrong spirits, with familiar spirits. 53 00:03:36,900 --> 00:03:41,580 So you can worship the Father in the spirit, meaning your spirit 54 00:03:41,740 --> 00:03:46,540 hearing from other spirits and it be false. 55 00:03:48,260 --> 00:03:55,460 Hallelujah, OK, all right. God is spirit and those who 56 00:03:55,460 --> 00:04:00,740 worship him must this is how we do it. 57 00:04:01,380 --> 00:04:07,280 OK, we must worship him in spirit and true notice it 58 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:15,160 doesn't say worship him in soul. So whether you feel it or not, 59 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:22,120 whether you're emotionally attached is not necessary. 60 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:27,160 Because when you worship in spirit, you can actually do it 61 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,720 in an emotion opposite of how you feel once you engage in 62 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,140 worship. And if you'll do that, then the 63 00:04:35,140 --> 00:04:38,300 actual soul realm can catch up to the spirit realm. 64 00:04:43,380 --> 00:04:45,420 I don't worship him because I'm happy. 65 00:04:47,460 --> 00:04:49,300 I don't worship him cause I'm glad. 66 00:04:50,660 --> 00:04:54,860 I worship him in spirit and what's going on in my soul is 67 00:04:54,860 --> 00:05:00,380 irrelevant and it will need to change to get in line with the 68 00:05:00,380 --> 00:05:05,870 spirit. Hallelujah. 69 00:05:07,190 --> 00:05:09,950 Are you hearing what I'm saying? Amen. 70 00:05:10,830 --> 00:05:13,150 So I'm. I'm ministering out of this line 71 00:05:13,150 --> 00:05:20,430 because there is false worship in the churches, OK? 72 00:05:21,030 --> 00:05:25,550 And so I need to dress a little bit because there's a problem in 73 00:05:25,550 --> 00:05:29,230 churches in general, OK? And it's really in religion. 74 00:05:29,230 --> 00:05:32,210 Can I just say it that way? There's a problem in religion 75 00:05:32,210 --> 00:05:37,170 because if you're religious, then words in the Bible have 76 00:05:37,210 --> 00:05:40,290 religious meanings. But when you're in the Kingdom, 77 00:05:41,210 --> 00:05:44,450 then words are defined according to the king. 78 00:05:44,730 --> 00:05:47,570 Why do I say that? We've said this before in the. 79 00:05:47,890 --> 00:05:53,250 Again, John 11 in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 80 00:05:53,250 --> 00:05:58,290 with God, and the Word was verse 14 of that same chapter one. 81 00:05:58,410 --> 00:06:02,270 And the Word became what's his name, Jesus. 82 00:06:02,310 --> 00:06:06,670 So Jesus is the Word. Well, if Jesus is the Word, he 83 00:06:06,670 --> 00:06:09,590 is the author of all words, which means he has the right to 84 00:06:09,590 --> 00:06:14,710 define them. So it's it's up to us to get in 85 00:06:14,710 --> 00:06:18,910 scripture to see how God's defining words, not how man's 86 00:06:18,910 --> 00:06:22,430 defining words, Because if man will define the word, the man 87 00:06:22,430 --> 00:06:25,870 will define it religiously. And once you take one of God's 88 00:06:25,870 --> 00:06:29,350 words and makes it a religious word, then it has no power. 89 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:38,160 But when you let the king define what he means by word, then you 90 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,240 get the full context. Like Lord, Lord is not a 91 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,000 religious word. It means supreme in authority. 92 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:49,120 So when we say Jesus Christ is Lord, that means He's supreme in 93 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,280 authority. What does that mean supreme in 94 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:53,880 authority? Who's the one in authority? 95 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,600 He is. And he is he the first one, the 96 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,340 supreme one. So then why are you making the 97 00:07:00,340 --> 00:07:05,820 decisions without him? Now religion will let you 98 00:07:05,820 --> 00:07:11,100 continue to do what you want to do and still call him Lord. 99 00:07:12,180 --> 00:07:16,460 Because the only thing that he has supremacy over is keeping 100 00:07:16,460 --> 00:07:22,340 you out of hell. Because he died on the cross, 101 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:25,140 his blood was shed for the forgiveness of your sins. 102 00:07:25,380 --> 00:07:27,810 You called on the name of the Lord. 103 00:07:27,810 --> 00:07:32,010 His name is Jesus and you were saved and he can do nothing else 104 00:07:32,010 --> 00:07:34,690 for you, but he definitely keeps you out of hell and you get to 105 00:07:34,690 --> 00:07:38,570 do your life like you want to. Cause by all rights religion has 106 00:07:38,570 --> 00:07:45,010 defined grace as the the the unmerited favor of God that 107 00:07:45,010 --> 00:07:49,930 allows you to continue to sin because you couldn't do anything 108 00:07:49,930 --> 00:07:51,530 to get right. So you can't do anything to 109 00:07:51,530 --> 00:07:56,730 stay, right? All right, I'm preaching better 110 00:07:56,730 --> 00:07:58,530 than y'all saying Amen, but that's all right. 111 00:07:59,970 --> 00:08:01,450 Hallelujah. You understand, some of y'all 112 00:08:01,450 --> 00:08:05,970 been here for some decades, OK? And what you're failing to 113 00:08:05,970 --> 00:08:08,890 recognize is that not everyone in the room has been here for 114 00:08:08,890 --> 00:08:13,210 decades, which means some people in the room are like, I have 115 00:08:13,210 --> 00:08:14,690 never heard this before in my life. 116 00:08:15,570 --> 00:08:21,890 And your lack of enthusiasm makes them think you don't know 117 00:08:21,890 --> 00:08:25,910 nothing either. That you're like, I've never 118 00:08:25,910 --> 00:08:27,510 heard this before. Because, you know, when you 119 00:08:27,510 --> 00:08:29,390 first started hearing things about the king and you became 120 00:08:29,390 --> 00:08:32,630 speechless. But when you know something, you 121 00:08:32,630 --> 00:08:35,510 should say Amen to it. When you're like, praise God, 122 00:08:35,549 --> 00:08:37,990 yes, I remember that truth. That's awesome. 123 00:08:38,110 --> 00:08:39,990 You should have some kind of engagement. 124 00:08:40,830 --> 00:08:43,190 Hallelujah. So can we do a little bit 125 00:08:43,190 --> 00:08:45,190 better? Amen. 126 00:08:45,710 --> 00:08:50,670 Praise the Lord. I mean, no coach is gonna let 127 00:08:50,670 --> 00:08:56,810 their team play flat. They finish a play, they walk 128 00:09:01,650 --> 00:09:03,290 all right. Offense is in. 129 00:09:09,170 --> 00:09:11,570 How many games do y'all play? Well, we played a lot of games. 130 00:09:11,570 --> 00:09:12,970 Coach been doing this for a Little League. 131 00:09:14,050 --> 00:09:18,370 Just just just tell us to play man, right? 132 00:09:18,860 --> 00:09:20,540 I mean, if y'all watching Y'all's team do that, y'all be 133 00:09:20,540 --> 00:09:23,100 screaming at the TV, throwing things at it, tearing your 134 00:09:23,100 --> 00:09:25,700 shirts off, Find another team. I got to be around teams, got 135 00:09:25,700 --> 00:09:27,780 passion. I mean, Pastor Mike totally did 136 00:09:27,780 --> 00:09:31,580 repentance because of that. He was so sick and tired of the 137 00:09:31,580 --> 00:09:34,980 mediocrity of Michigan. They says I'm going back to my 138 00:09:34,980 --> 00:09:36,380 roots. Is that not true? 139 00:09:37,940 --> 00:09:40,020 He said. I'm tired of mediocrity. 140 00:09:40,220 --> 00:09:44,180 There's no passion in their game and I was born in Ohio anyway. 141 00:09:44,180 --> 00:09:46,980 I'm going back to Ohio. And there he is. 142 00:09:48,170 --> 00:09:51,770 Total repentance. That's repentance. 143 00:09:52,690 --> 00:09:57,410 From Michigan to Ohio State. He has repented. 144 00:09:58,970 --> 00:10:01,210 Are you? Hearing me now, he'll get to 145 00:10:01,210 --> 00:10:03,130 heaven when he makes the Gators. His team? 146 00:10:04,010 --> 00:10:06,810 I'm just kidding. We're in mediocrity. 147 00:10:06,810 --> 00:10:08,850 I might be coming somewhere else myself. 148 00:10:10,650 --> 00:10:14,570 My point is, is why do we get into mediocrity and services 149 00:10:15,370 --> 00:10:18,640 when we're hearing truths, when we're hearing things? 150 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:23,120 Hallelujah. Because again, the more we 151 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,360 desire to know, the more we will know. 152 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,400 And The thing is, is that a religion can sneak in anywhere. 153 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:32,360 I said religion can sneak in anywhere. 154 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,720 Because religion starts to redefine God's word. 155 00:10:37,680 --> 00:10:39,440 And that's what the devil did in the garden. 156 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,400 Well, God said it, but his deception, 'cause? 157 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,600 That's what religion is. Religion is the deception that 158 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:54,600 you're right with God, although you know something, right? 159 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:58,760 But you're doing what you're supposed to do religiously. 160 00:11:00,290 --> 00:11:03,050 Hallelujah. But in the Kingdom, you have a 161 00:11:03,050 --> 00:11:06,330 daddy who sits on the throne. He's the creator of heaven and 162 00:11:06,330 --> 00:11:08,810 earth, and he's raised you up and seated you in heavenly 163 00:11:08,810 --> 00:11:12,130 places in Christ Jesus, where you're on the throne with him. 164 00:11:12,210 --> 00:11:19,330 You're a child of the king, and dad says that he looks for those 165 00:11:19,330 --> 00:11:22,930 who will worship him and they'll be true worshippers. 166 00:11:23,930 --> 00:11:28,130 OK, so in the majority of churches based upon religion, 167 00:11:28,130 --> 00:11:30,570 and I say this, I'm not just eliminated to the United States. 168 00:11:30,570 --> 00:11:34,010 When we hear worship, we typically think of singing 169 00:11:34,970 --> 00:11:37,210 because we have a phrase, we say praise. 170 00:11:37,210 --> 00:11:42,410 And why do we say this? See, we really don't even 171 00:11:42,410 --> 00:11:43,890 question ourselves half the time. 172 00:11:46,250 --> 00:11:49,050 And it's habit we get into habit. 173 00:11:49,050 --> 00:11:50,530 Well, we're having. Well, we're doing a praise and 174 00:11:50,530 --> 00:11:53,890 worship service. Well, praise can include 175 00:11:53,890 --> 00:11:59,020 worship, but worship doesn't always include praise. 176 00:12:04,780 --> 00:12:08,740 Hallelujah. It doesn't always include it. 177 00:12:08,940 --> 00:12:11,420 So when Jesus is saying here, he's looking for true 178 00:12:11,420 --> 00:12:14,980 worshippers, what he's not saying and what a lot of people 179 00:12:14,980 --> 00:12:17,340 will say, and you've probably heard this in your religious 180 00:12:17,340 --> 00:12:22,490 circles, we were created to worship. 181 00:12:25,090 --> 00:12:29,970 Now when they say that, you know, they saying we gonna sing. 182 00:12:29,970 --> 00:12:35,370 And what's bad is if you were created to worship, how come you 183 00:12:35,370 --> 00:12:42,130 sing so bad? Why would God create someone 184 00:12:42,210 --> 00:12:44,250 who's supposed to sing all the time? 185 00:12:44,370 --> 00:12:48,810 They Can't Sing a lick. I mean, that's cruel and unusual 186 00:12:49,210 --> 00:12:53,730 for dad to say. I want you to sing to me. 187 00:12:55,090 --> 00:12:59,930 You are created to worship me, to worship and meaning singing. 188 00:13:00,250 --> 00:13:03,010 And you Can't Sing and you're like Dad loves him. 189 00:13:03,010 --> 00:13:05,810 Better listen to that voice and here's mine. 190 00:13:11,050 --> 00:13:13,570 But it's amazing we say this. We're creating worship. 191 00:13:13,690 --> 00:13:17,830 We just can't wait to get there. Now, are we going to sing? 192 00:13:17,910 --> 00:13:20,470 Yes. But were we created to sing? 193 00:13:20,630 --> 00:13:25,830 No, no. Genesis 126 tells us what we 194 00:13:25,830 --> 00:13:29,070 were created to do. Let us make man in our image 195 00:13:29,070 --> 00:13:33,470 according to our likeness and let them have a good voice who 196 00:13:33,470 --> 00:13:38,040 can sing to me all the time, praises to my name only and 197 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:40,920 sing, sing, sing. They going to worship me, 198 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,080 worship me, worship me. So it can't be that worship is 199 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:51,520 singing and it's not slow songs praise and so we're praising him 200 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:54,240 when it's fast. We are worshipping him when it's 201 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:56,120 slow. Or we went to the worship set, 202 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:09,640 went to the worship set. Right, went to the worship, said 203 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:11,800 Oh, I just really love to worship God. 204 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,360 And here's the thing, what brought this conversation to me 205 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:23,640 as a 23 year old minister in Moundville, AL And he was about 206 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:27,680 to introduce me and he says my generation, all they want to do 207 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:33,840 is getting praise services. They love to sing. 208 00:14:36,690 --> 00:14:39,330 He said, but singing along won't change them permanently. 209 00:14:40,170 --> 00:14:44,210 And then he uses a scripture for that. 210 00:14:44,210 --> 00:14:49,090 And I'm like, that's good, that's good. 211 00:14:49,970 --> 00:14:55,850 Because what happens is when we are religious then we will begin 212 00:14:55,850 --> 00:15:00,850 to worship aspects of God are things that can you can do 213 00:15:00,850 --> 00:15:04,640 towards God. Ask the only thing. 214 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:08,600 The reason why we wrote the Force was because we tend to 215 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:15,320 find places that we want to stop and hug, and God never intended 216 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:20,320 us to have an expression to stop us, and all we want to do is 217 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:24,760 that. Period. 218 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:27,280 We are going. To let the word define what 219 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:30,560 worship is so you can understand what a true worshipper is. 220 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:36,390 Then are you hearing me? Because the king is looking for 221 00:15:36,390 --> 00:15:38,150 true. In fact, he seeks them. 222 00:15:39,230 --> 00:15:42,550 I said he seeks them. I said he seeks them. 223 00:15:43,270 --> 00:15:46,590 And we're going to see how he sought after one and what it 224 00:15:46,590 --> 00:15:54,150 really means to worship which. Can include singing All right 225 00:15:54,350 --> 00:15:58,510 Y'all with me now, okay. So man was created in God's 226 00:15:58,510 --> 00:16:01,030 image, in the image of God. According to Genesis 126, to 227 00:16:01,030 --> 00:16:05,950 have dominion or rule, man was to have dominion, to have 228 00:16:05,950 --> 00:16:12,110 rulership ruling can require him to sing to the supreme ruler. 229 00:16:12,910 --> 00:16:16,190 No problem there But it does not mean that's all they do. 230 00:16:16,350 --> 00:16:19,190 In fact, if we see let us make man in our image, turn it, put 231 00:16:19,190 --> 00:16:22,470 it up there real quick guys. Genesis 126 and let's find the 232 00:16:22,470 --> 00:16:26,890 singing in it. OK? 233 00:16:27,210 --> 00:16:30,290 Genesis 126. Then God said, let us make man 234 00:16:30,290 --> 00:16:33,810 in our image according to our license, and let them rule over 235 00:16:33,810 --> 00:16:38,090 the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the 236 00:16:38,250 --> 00:16:41,290 cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that 237 00:16:41,290 --> 00:16:45,130 creeps on the earth. God next verse God created man 238 00:16:45,330 --> 00:16:48,130 right in his image, both male and female. 239 00:16:48,130 --> 00:16:51,450 He created them so both male and female has dominion. 240 00:16:53,570 --> 00:16:57,350 He tells them to be fruitful. To multiply, to subdue. 241 00:16:57,670 --> 00:17:01,550 To keep five things he mentions to them on the 28th verse for 242 00:17:01,550 --> 00:17:05,310 them to do. Never does he say man was 243 00:17:05,310 --> 00:17:12,270 created to worship. Where worship means singing, it 244 00:17:12,270 --> 00:17:14,750 doesn't say. Let us make men in our image 245 00:17:14,750 --> 00:17:18,390 corner our lives and let them sing to the fish, sing to the 246 00:17:18,390 --> 00:17:22,710 birds, sing to the cattle. Now you sing all you want to to 247 00:17:22,710 --> 00:17:23,829 your pets. I don't care. 248 00:17:24,890 --> 00:17:32,850 But you weren't created right. Nowhere in there does it say 249 00:17:32,850 --> 00:17:38,490 that our sole reason for existing if we're defining 250 00:17:38,490 --> 00:17:45,090 worship as. Singing is the sing doesn't say 251 00:17:45,090 --> 00:17:50,540 that at all. So you understand why a lot of 252 00:17:50,540 --> 00:17:52,860 people sometimes don't want to make a relationship with Jesus 253 00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:55,020 because number one, they Can't Sing #2. 254 00:17:55,020 --> 00:17:57,460 It just doesn't make sense to them that they would sing for 255 00:17:57,500 --> 00:17:59,740 eternity. You understand? 256 00:17:59,740 --> 00:18:02,140 God has taken care of the singing for eternity. 257 00:18:02,820 --> 00:18:07,220 He has created beings. They are not humans that are 258 00:18:07,220 --> 00:18:12,230 around his throne and they have one song they sing what not like 259 00:18:12,230 --> 00:18:15,430 this that we do up here. One song they singing, they 260 00:18:15,430 --> 00:18:18,950 singing one song and they have not worn out that song nor has 261 00:18:18,990 --> 00:18:21,830 that song gotten worn out in the ears of the Lord. 262 00:18:22,510 --> 00:18:27,950 They are singing holy, holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty 263 00:18:28,230 --> 00:18:30,270 come on. And they keep singing it and 264 00:18:30,270 --> 00:18:33,510 they keep singing it and they keep singing it cause they were 265 00:18:33,510 --> 00:18:37,910 created to sing that song around the throne. 266 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:45,120 But man was not created to go around the throne singing. 267 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:53,520 So religions got people believing that they accept Jesus 268 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:57,720 into their heart so they die. They can go to heaven where he 269 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,280 currently resides to sing for eternity. 270 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:12,850 To him it is one massive choir, right? 271 00:19:14,090 --> 00:19:19,130 But the Bible doesn't say that religion does Hallelujah. 272 00:19:19,370 --> 00:19:23,250 Which means then if you are saying and all you're trying to 273 00:19:23,250 --> 00:19:28,090 do is be in praise services, again, according to their 274 00:19:28,090 --> 00:19:30,530 definition, praise and worship. I just love praise and worship 275 00:19:30,570 --> 00:19:32,010 services. Oh, I just love to be in praise 276 00:19:32,010 --> 00:19:33,690 and worship. I just love to get in the 277 00:19:33,690 --> 00:19:35,090 presence of God and praise and worship. 278 00:19:35,170 --> 00:19:37,410 I just love to be. That's all I want to do is be in 279 00:19:37,410 --> 00:19:41,660 the praise and worship service. Well, they can't be a true. 280 00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:48,260 They'll start running themselves to becoming a false worshipper. 281 00:19:51,940 --> 00:19:55,700 Are you hearing me? So let's see what happens when 282 00:19:55,700 --> 00:20:00,460 music plays first time in chapter 16, verse 14 to 23. 283 00:20:02,180 --> 00:20:05,860 Yeah, I know. Now y'all going to have to let 284 00:20:05,860 --> 00:20:08,180 me explain a couple things. OK, y'all going to be all right 285 00:20:08,180 --> 00:20:10,170 with me. Because the minute we read this 286 00:20:10,170 --> 00:20:12,730 first couple verses, they're very problematic. 287 00:20:13,130 --> 00:20:15,650 But again, This is why you have to read the Bible in context. 288 00:20:16,410 --> 00:20:19,090 This is again, This is why we say at Anchor Faith Church you 289 00:20:19,090 --> 00:20:21,730 need to read it from. Cover to cover Genesis 11 to 290 00:20:21,730 --> 00:20:25,330 Revelations 2221 because and again you have to interpret it 291 00:20:25,330 --> 00:20:30,250 based upon the covenants we're in, OK, the dispensations we're 292 00:20:30,250 --> 00:20:33,050 in because we're in a new and better covenant now in a 293 00:20:33,050 --> 00:20:35,610 different dispensation that things that were happening in 294 00:20:35,610 --> 00:20:38,210 this particular time don't have to happen like that. 295 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,880 And you can't be act like it's still happening that way when 296 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:47,360 you're born of God. OK now it says now the spirit of 297 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:50,960 the Lord departed from Saul. He was king of Israel and an 298 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:54,800 evil spirit from the Lord terrorized him. 299 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:59,720 Saul servants then said to him, Behold, now an evil spirit from 300 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:04,570 God is terrorizing you now. Is this is problematic because 301 00:21:04,570 --> 00:21:08,210 at this point you would have to conclude reading that, that God 302 00:21:08,210 --> 00:21:17,690 has evil spirits on his payroll, And that's troubling, right? 303 00:21:17,690 --> 00:21:20,410 This is troubling. So again, this is one of those 304 00:21:20,410 --> 00:21:24,450 verses that typically everybody wants to stay away from because 305 00:21:24,450 --> 00:21:26,090 we're like can't explain that one. 306 00:21:26,610 --> 00:21:31,690 Well, we can when we go to job. But when we go to Job because 307 00:21:31,690 --> 00:21:35,450 you understand there's a spiritual world out there. 308 00:21:36,010 --> 00:21:42,690 Besides God's heavenly spirits are righteous ones, there is 309 00:21:42,690 --> 00:21:46,810 another realm of spirit or fallen spirits. 310 00:21:48,130 --> 00:21:51,570 We can find this in Isaiah chapter 14 in Ezekiel. 311 00:21:51,570 --> 00:21:54,650 We are aware and we know of Satan himself. 312 00:21:54,650 --> 00:21:56,450 But you understand Satan's not alone. 313 00:21:57,660 --> 00:22:00,660 The Bible tells us that a third of the heavenly hosts were cast 314 00:22:00,660 --> 00:22:03,060 down. Right now. 315 00:22:03,140 --> 00:22:05,860 I'm not going to get into some other debates concerning some 316 00:22:05,860 --> 00:22:09,900 other context where people talk about it Preadamic race and that 317 00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:14,500 because of that, there's some things there of some disembodied 318 00:22:15,180 --> 00:22:19,540 spirits out of humans. That is subjective and there's 319 00:22:19,540 --> 00:22:22,180 not enough evidence for you to build doctrines on. 320 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,440 But when you don't know it entirely, you should keep 321 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,960 yourself open to be able to be taught. 322 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,240 That's all I'm saying. We do know there is a devil. 323 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,080 We do know there are evil spirits. 324 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,800 The Bible tells we know there are unclean spirits. 325 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,360 The Bible tells us this. We understand that these demonic 326 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:45,640 spirits, they can possess people. 327 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,880 We know this. This is clear doctrine. 328 00:22:49,450 --> 00:22:53,610 In scripture across the board and we know that the devil, 329 00:22:53,610 --> 00:22:56,650 Satan is what Jesus called him is the Prince of the power of 330 00:22:56,650 --> 00:22:58,810 the air. Now why is he? 331 00:22:58,810 --> 00:23:03,090 That is because he held dominion. 332 00:23:03,970 --> 00:23:07,770 Where did he get the dominion from Luke chapter 4 in the 333 00:23:07,770 --> 00:23:11,370 Temptation of Christ. Remember he takes Jesus up to 334 00:23:11,410 --> 00:23:14,650 high Pentacle, shows him all the kingdoms in a moment of time, 335 00:23:14,810 --> 00:23:18,060 not religions. But all kingdoms. 336 00:23:18,260 --> 00:23:23,100 And he says all these domains, that means the territory that I 337 00:23:23,100 --> 00:23:25,820 have authority over, I'll give to you, he said. 338 00:23:25,940 --> 00:23:28,540 All these domains I'll give to you. 339 00:23:28,540 --> 00:23:31,180 Cause they've been what? Hand it over to me. 340 00:23:31,260 --> 00:23:37,940 Where did the devil gain the possession of rulership at Adam? 341 00:23:38,060 --> 00:23:41,500 Because God told Adam, don't eat the fruit of the tree of the 342 00:23:41,500 --> 00:23:43,900 knowledge of good and evil, for the day you eat you will surely. 343 00:23:44,360 --> 00:23:48,640 Died when Adam ate the fruit based upon the words of Satan 344 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,760 through the serpent who deceived his wife. 345 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:59,800 He heard that conversation, watched her eat, then took it 346 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:04,520 himself bit into the fruit. The Bible says he immediately 347 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:12,080 died and a transfer of power. Now Paul says in 2nd 2nd 348 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,120 Corinthians 4 four that he is the God of this world. 349 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:19,880 He doesn't own planet Earth, but he has dominion over systems 350 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:25,080 that function on the planet, and up until the time of Jesus he 351 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:32,470 was controlling it all. Now he still has control based 352 00:24:32,470 --> 00:24:35,350 upon the fall and sin nature of man. 353 00:24:35,790 --> 00:24:38,990 There are kids that are still apart associated with him. 354 00:24:38,990 --> 00:24:42,230 Because remember Jesus said you are of your father the devil. 355 00:24:42,950 --> 00:24:45,750 So again, everyone on planet earth is not God's loving 356 00:24:45,750 --> 00:24:52,350 children. In fact, just to let you know, 357 00:24:52,630 --> 00:24:57,790 all of us are the minority because more are with the devil 358 00:24:57,870 --> 00:25:03,460 than with God. There are more unbelievers than 359 00:25:03,460 --> 00:25:08,060 there are believers. There are more children of the 360 00:25:08,060 --> 00:25:11,500 devil or children of darkness, children of wrath. 361 00:25:12,380 --> 00:25:15,940 Then there are children of light, children of God, children 362 00:25:15,940 --> 00:25:18,620 of righteousness. Because they've not come through 363 00:25:18,620 --> 00:25:20,860 the blood. Are you hearing me? 364 00:25:21,730 --> 00:25:26,930 So this is King Saul, this is the old covenant, this is before 365 00:25:26,930 --> 00:25:29,210 the death bear on resurrection of Jesus. 366 00:25:29,530 --> 00:25:33,610 And Joe gives us an insight of how the devil was trying to 367 00:25:33,610 --> 00:25:36,530 determine what did he get from Adam. 368 00:25:38,850 --> 00:25:42,490 So when he goes up before the Lord, cause he's the accuser of 369 00:25:42,490 --> 00:25:46,890 the brethren because again, he can devour you if you are in his 370 00:25:46,890 --> 00:25:50,810 territory. And his territory is where he 371 00:25:50,810 --> 00:25:52,730 steals, kills and destroy is death. 372 00:25:52,850 --> 00:25:55,810 It is sin. His territory is anything that's 373 00:25:55,810 --> 00:25:59,450 disobedient. Adam got underneath the devil's 374 00:25:59,450 --> 00:26:02,090 authority the minute he disobeyed God. 375 00:26:05,810 --> 00:26:12,810 He became a slave to the devil. The day he just the the second 376 00:26:13,330 --> 00:26:20,830 he disobeyed God, right? Which made him supreme in 377 00:26:20,830 --> 00:26:25,870 authority on the earth. Now God has given man dominion 378 00:26:27,870 --> 00:26:33,950 and he can't take it from the devil because, again, God can do 379 00:26:33,950 --> 00:26:35,990 whatever he wants to do. That's what religion says. 380 00:26:36,270 --> 00:26:38,150 Well, if that's the case, why didn't God come down the 381 00:26:38,150 --> 00:26:39,710 gardens? Slap the serpent? 382 00:26:42,910 --> 00:26:46,110 Take this invisible dominion that we can't see anyway? 383 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,040 And give it and say I forgive you Adam. 384 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:54,000 And give it back to Adam because the King's bound by his word. 385 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,120 So when God the Father says, Let man have dominion on the earth 386 00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:03,800 to rule now it requires a man to come back and get the dominion. 387 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,760 This is why God has to come as a man. 388 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,360 He has to put himself in a flesh suit. 389 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:17,140 Because it's legal entry. And God is a legal God. 390 00:27:19,620 --> 00:27:22,180 He does not go against his own word. 391 00:27:24,340 --> 00:27:27,140 And when Adam sinned, death came. 392 00:27:27,380 --> 00:27:30,140 And death has a price. Sin has a price. 393 00:27:30,140 --> 00:27:32,300 It's called death. It has to be paid. 394 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:36,540 The wages of sin is well did Jesus pay that price? 395 00:27:37,060 --> 00:27:40,740 Yes he did. He died and his blood was more 396 00:27:40,740 --> 00:27:44,220 precious than silver and gold, which paid a debt. 397 00:27:44,460 --> 00:27:46,540 That's why we're called redeemed. 398 00:27:48,060 --> 00:27:50,820 So the Death Bear on resurrection of Jesus is a 399 00:27:50,820 --> 00:28:00,660 financial transaction between two kingdoms where the Lord now 400 00:28:00,660 --> 00:28:05,680 has the legal right. To deliver anyone who will call 401 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,360 him Lord because he's paid the price for them, but now He will 402 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:14,360 not deliver them unless they acknowledge him although he's 403 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:19,080 already paid the price which means they have to denounce the 404 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:23,080 Devil is Lord supreme authority telling me what to do, and now 405 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:27,200 Jesus is supreme authority who I yield to and tells me what to do 406 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,960 because His words are love in life anyway, you do not keep 407 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,510 following this one. Expecting to go to heaven with 408 00:28:34,510 --> 00:28:41,310 that one. Are you hearing me? 409 00:28:41,870 --> 00:28:45,390 So the devil goes up and the Lord says, have you considered 410 00:28:45,390 --> 00:28:49,990 my servant job you. He said. 411 00:28:49,990 --> 00:28:50,990 What? He asked first. 412 00:28:50,990 --> 00:28:53,950 First thing he says to me, he says, he said Where you been? 413 00:28:54,590 --> 00:28:56,310 He said, well, you know, just roaming the earth. 414 00:28:56,950 --> 00:28:59,390 Why is he roaming the earth? That's where his kingship is. 415 00:29:01,230 --> 00:29:03,710 You're not in your kingship if you're not where Within the 416 00:29:03,710 --> 00:29:08,830 territory of your domain. President Biden is the president 417 00:29:08,830 --> 00:29:10,790 of the United States. He is not the president of 418 00:29:10,790 --> 00:29:12,630 China. Oh, y'all want to hear this? 419 00:29:13,510 --> 00:29:16,790 He can go to China all day long, but he has no authority in 420 00:29:16,790 --> 00:29:19,590 China. The only authority he has in 421 00:29:19,590 --> 00:29:21,310 China is what's in the home country. 422 00:29:21,830 --> 00:29:24,750 He only has protection from a land that he's not in. 423 00:29:25,350 --> 00:29:28,950 But at the end of the day, could China take him mean? 424 00:29:28,950 --> 00:29:31,320 I mean, capture him. He could. 425 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:38,160 It could happen. I mean, plenty of presidents 426 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:44,560 have been taken over before. He could go in for a summit and 427 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,800 they capture him, throw him in prison, hold him ransom. 428 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,760 Now, what takes place then? Anybody. 429 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:58,240 Well, you assume war number one. What happens is the vice 430 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,830 president assumes the role. That's what happens. 431 00:30:02,750 --> 00:30:07,030 Kamala Harris becomes president while he's in jail to negotiate 432 00:30:07,030 --> 00:30:10,910 with the country, to determine how they going to try to get him 433 00:30:10,910 --> 00:30:15,110 out, whether that's by brute force or through some form of 434 00:30:15,110 --> 00:30:17,790 negotiation or whatever. But she'll become. 435 00:30:19,550 --> 00:30:23,990 That's how that works. No problem. 436 00:30:23,990 --> 00:30:28,600 That's just how that works. My point is, is that the devil 437 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,960 is not going to heaven to take dominion. 438 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,040 The devil went up to heaven in the realm of the Spirit, you 439 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,040 understand in the heavenlies and the Lord's like what do you been 440 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:39,720 doing? Well, I'm roaming my domain 441 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,400 because they all my people down there, he said. 442 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,080 Why have you considered my servant Joe? 443 00:30:47,780 --> 00:30:49,940 Because ain't nobody like him. He's righteous now. 444 00:30:49,940 --> 00:30:53,580 He's righteous based upon the knowledge that's available of 445 00:30:53,580 --> 00:30:58,060 God on the earth that day at that time, and based upon what 446 00:30:58,060 --> 00:31:01,060 is known about God at that time. He is living righteous. 447 00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:03,780 And so he says, well, it's only cause you got him protected. 448 00:31:03,780 --> 00:31:05,580 Well, guess what God does to the righteous? 449 00:31:06,900 --> 00:31:10,620 He protects them. But then he says this, he says. 450 00:31:10,620 --> 00:31:13,860 Now listen, you take his stuff, he would curse you. 451 00:31:15,700 --> 00:31:18,660 In essence, He's only righteous because of the benefits that 452 00:31:18,660 --> 00:31:22,900 come with righteousness. If trouble actually came to him, 453 00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:25,140 ain't know what the Lord says. He says, well, he's in your 454 00:31:25,140 --> 00:31:28,740 power, which means he's already in your authority. 455 00:31:28,740 --> 00:31:32,820 It wasn't God authorizing Satan. It was him saying, well, his 456 00:31:32,820 --> 00:31:36,460 stuff is already in your authority because you have 457 00:31:36,460 --> 00:31:39,220 dominion over cattle. You all don't want to hear this 458 00:31:40,020 --> 00:31:42,180 you. Have dominion over the cattle. 459 00:31:42,540 --> 00:31:45,020 You have the dominion over his stuff. 460 00:31:46,370 --> 00:31:50,090 Now obviously he can't appeal to me, but in the end, you do have 461 00:31:50,090 --> 00:31:58,210 dominion over this. You're the God of this world and 462 00:31:58,210 --> 00:32:00,250 the kids that came from his loins. 463 00:32:00,690 --> 00:32:04,050 How was man made out of the dust of the earth? 464 00:32:04,130 --> 00:32:08,490 Now here's the problem. Daddy is doing sacrifices for 465 00:32:08,490 --> 00:32:12,010 kids because he's concerned that every night they having a party. 466 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,800 They may be doing things and saying stuff that is not 467 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,440 righteous to the king, and keeping themselves in the edge 468 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,600 of protection of which apparently they were not. 469 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,160 Because the Satan was able to do something to their skin suits 470 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,880 which was of the earth. And they all died. 471 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:39,200 They died, the cattle died, the plants died. 472 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,930 It was his dominion. Did he curse him? 473 00:32:43,530 --> 00:32:45,930 No. So he shows back up, which, 474 00:32:45,930 --> 00:32:51,410 well, I'm just roaming my domain, He said. 475 00:32:51,410 --> 00:32:53,610 Well, you you're still thinking about Job. 476 00:32:55,130 --> 00:32:56,610 There ain't nobody, right? Just like the guy. 477 00:32:57,370 --> 00:32:59,650 And he did not do what you said he would do. 478 00:33:00,610 --> 00:33:04,130 Because again, when the Bible says you move me to go against 479 00:33:04,130 --> 00:33:07,570 him, basically all he is saying is you moved. 480 00:33:08,740 --> 00:33:11,220 To take his stuff that was technically near your dominion, 481 00:33:11,340 --> 00:33:18,500 but by right of righteousness I could defend him, he says. 482 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:22,180 Well, you touch the man's skin, he's going to curse you. 483 00:33:22,540 --> 00:33:25,820 And guess what God does? He says, well, he's in your 484 00:33:25,820 --> 00:33:28,500 power. Meaning your is is true. 485 00:33:29,020 --> 00:33:33,300 I form man out of the dust of the and you have dominion over 486 00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:41,710 all the so you can put sickness on him, but you can't put a 487 00:33:41,710 --> 00:33:44,910 sickness that will cause his spirit to leave his body because 488 00:33:45,150 --> 00:33:52,910 he's done nothing deserving of death, so he limits how much 489 00:33:52,910 --> 00:34:03,190 sickness can be on him. Cause it's it's in your power 490 00:34:04,140 --> 00:34:05,540 now. You can't go. 491 00:34:05,540 --> 00:34:08,659 Well, I guess the Lord's letting the devil mess with my body 492 00:34:08,659 --> 00:34:11,060 today, because it's no, he's not in your power. 493 00:34:11,179 --> 00:34:13,699 He's been stripped and whipped of his power in this covenant. 494 00:34:13,820 --> 00:34:17,260 He has been whipped of his by the stripes of Jesus Christ. 495 00:34:17,340 --> 00:34:19,340 You've been healed. You don't have to wait one 496 00:34:19,380 --> 00:34:20,980 moment. You don't have to take one 497 00:34:21,020 --> 00:34:23,380 symptom because you're a child of the king. 498 00:34:23,380 --> 00:34:26,540 And the healthcare system of the king, is it by his stripes he 499 00:34:26,540 --> 00:34:29,739 were healed. So you don't put up with that. 500 00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:32,139 So you can't be pulling job over here. 501 00:34:34,230 --> 00:34:41,710 Job is even before the law, OK, just so we're clear, so, he 502 00:34:41,710 --> 00:34:43,389 says. It's in your power now what 503 00:34:43,389 --> 00:34:45,630 happens? He still doesn't curse him and 504 00:34:47,469 --> 00:34:49,830 in the end most scholars believe that was about a nine month 505 00:34:49,830 --> 00:34:52,590 period. The the Max is 18 months. 506 00:34:53,510 --> 00:34:57,310 Most say it's probably about nine months that the Lord says 507 00:34:57,310 --> 00:35:01,270 he did not do what you said. He maintained his righteousness 508 00:35:01,590 --> 00:35:07,430 and I have the legal right I do because of what he knows about 509 00:35:07,430 --> 00:35:09,630 me. He's following by faith. 510 00:35:11,030 --> 00:35:16,990 I always deliver the righteous out of all their trouble, so 511 00:35:16,990 --> 00:35:20,910 don't touch him no more. And when he couldn't touch him, 512 00:35:20,910 --> 00:35:24,630 what happened? He got double for his. 513 00:35:27,310 --> 00:35:31,910 Double the flock, double the farms, double the kids. 514 00:35:32,590 --> 00:35:34,350 Now he didn't have 14 kids on the planet. 515 00:35:34,350 --> 00:35:39,470 He had seven more because the other seven were with the Lord. 516 00:35:42,070 --> 00:35:44,590 Are you hearing me? Okay, y'all doing. 517 00:35:44,590 --> 00:35:47,910 All right. So then when we say an evil 518 00:35:47,910 --> 00:35:52,870 spirit from the Lord, then you have to understand, according to 519 00:35:52,870 --> 00:35:54,990 the scripture says, that the devil is the accuser of the 520 00:35:54,990 --> 00:35:58,240 brethren. In essence, Satan has come up at 521 00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:02,320 the time of King Saw and he says, you know, I got a legal 522 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:12,080 right to this man. You know he didn't do what you. 523 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,760 That's right, that's. Right. 524 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:20,160 You know he was disobedient and you've put the anointing that 525 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,160 was on him on somebody else already. 526 00:36:24,580 --> 00:36:31,140 And I I'm going to torment him. And the Lord, he's in your 527 00:36:31,140 --> 00:36:34,020 power, Okay. Just so we understand that this 528 00:36:34,020 --> 00:36:38,220 is functioning now. It's not God doing it, It's the 529 00:36:38,220 --> 00:36:42,780 devil going up. To that realm and saying I have 530 00:36:42,780 --> 00:36:47,580 a legal right under this dispensation that he was in. 531 00:36:47,700 --> 00:36:51,500 Now he can still do that with people that are that are #1 532 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:53,900 lost. Number two, he can do it to the 533 00:36:53,900 --> 00:36:57,580 believer who is Baxlidden. Make no mistake about it. 534 00:36:57,580 --> 00:37:00,900 You can't go out under grace and do a bunch of sin and the devil 535 00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:03,820 can't touch you. No, he's knocking out your door 536 00:37:04,180 --> 00:37:08,780 and he's letting the devil know I'll be talking to your son. 537 00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:12,340 I'll be visiting your daughter's house this weekend. 538 00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:19,340 And you tie his hands because you are living up underneath 539 00:37:19,340 --> 00:37:23,070 that domain again. And you're crying for grace to 540 00:37:23,070 --> 00:37:26,670 protect you. When grace that can't even be 541 00:37:26,670 --> 00:37:28,150 activated unless you're in faith. 542 00:37:28,790 --> 00:37:32,830 It's by grace through through what you know, how many people 543 00:37:32,830 --> 00:37:35,270 aren't in faith. So then you're not in grace. 544 00:37:38,630 --> 00:37:41,470 All right. Amen. 545 00:37:41,670 --> 00:37:48,780 But religion lets you do the least instead of the Kingdom. 546 00:37:48,980 --> 00:37:52,060 God clearly defines. This is what I can do and only I 547 00:37:52,060 --> 00:37:53,500 can do. And this is what you do. 548 00:37:54,260 --> 00:37:57,700 And when you do yours and I do mine, nobody can stop us. 549 00:37:59,980 --> 00:38:01,300 That's how the Kingdom functions. 550 00:38:02,540 --> 00:38:08,140 Are you hearing me? Because Adams without sin and 551 00:38:08,140 --> 00:38:15,060 the Creator could not stop it. Oh y'all, He could not stop it. 552 00:38:16,570 --> 00:38:19,490 All he could do was empower him to not do it. 553 00:38:21,170 --> 00:38:25,530 And he did with the word son. Don't eat from the tree of the 554 00:38:25,530 --> 00:38:27,650 knowledge of good and evil for the day you eat it, you will. 555 00:38:27,650 --> 00:38:33,570 Surely he empowered him, but he couldn't stop him and some of 556 00:38:33,570 --> 00:38:34,850 your parents if you don't watch out with you. 557 00:38:34,850 --> 00:38:37,490 Why you need to come to our parenting conference is that you 558 00:38:37,490 --> 00:38:39,570 are trying to stop things in your kids. 559 00:38:40,090 --> 00:38:43,730 You can't stop it. All you can do is empower them 560 00:38:43,930 --> 00:38:47,840 to make the right choices, and then hold them accountable to 561 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:55,040 make those choices all right. So do we understand where the 562 00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,880 evil spirits come from now? They petitioned, they went to 563 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,080 the courtroom, they went up to the Kingdom and says, hey, I got 564 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:08,920 a write to this guy because he's in disobedience and you pulled 565 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,960 the annoying. Anyway, there's no protection on 566 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:16,840 that king. All right, he goes on and says 567 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,480 this verse 16, let the Lord now command your servant. 568 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,960 This is his servants now King Saul's servant saying to him, 569 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:26,800 let our Lord now command your servants who are before you. 570 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:31,360 Let them seek a man who was skillfully A skillful player on 571 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,800 the harp, and he shall come about when the evil spirit from 572 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:39,200 God again that legally went to God, says, I got a right to go 573 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,080 to terrorize this guy on is on you. 574 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,000 Then he shall play the heart with his hand and you will be 575 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,960 well. So Saul said to the servant, 576 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,320 provide me a man who can play well and bring him to me. 577 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,320 So there must have been something that it was known in 578 00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:58,240 the land that when someone played evil spirits would get 579 00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:01,880 off people. Are you hearing me? 580 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,560 Then one man, then one of them young men said, Behold, I know 581 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,320 the son of Jesse. Who is a skillful musician, 582 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,240 mighty man of valor, a warrior, one prudent speech, a handsome 583 00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:17,000 man, and the Lord is with him. So Saul sent message, Jesse and 584 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,720 said, send me your son David, who was with the flock. 585 00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:23,120 Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread and a jug of wine, cause 586 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:28,960 you do not come to a king empty handed, and a young goat, and 587 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,560 sent them to Saul by David his son. 588 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,960 Then David came to, saw and attended him, and David and Saul 589 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,560 loved him greatly. And he became his armor bearer. 590 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,720 Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David now stand before me, for 591 00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:45,520 he has found favor of my sight. Verse 23 And and it came about 592 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,200 whenever, say whenever, whenever. 593 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,880 So that's not one time, it's whenever. 594 00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:59,840 Whenever the evil spirit from God came to Saul, David would 595 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:05,320 play the harp and play it with what his hand, and Saul would be 596 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,860 what? Refreshed and be well and the 597 00:41:08,860 --> 00:41:11,060 evil spirit would depart from him. 598 00:41:13,300 --> 00:41:18,060 And when we religiously define worship as singing, what happens 599 00:41:18,060 --> 00:41:23,860 is is the devil will accommodate environments. 600 00:41:25,980 --> 00:41:29,620 So you come to church, you're oppressed from the whole week, 601 00:41:30,220 --> 00:41:34,240 heavy burdened, and you just want to worship him. 602 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,360 I mean, you want to dance before him. 603 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,280 I mean, you want to give him your all. 604 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:42,680 You're going to dance like David Dance. 605 00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:44,400 You're going to sing like David saying. 606 00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:48,320 You're going to just pour it all out every time and the you sense 607 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:52,960 the president and all that heavyweight and it lifts and 608 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,600 you're like, I wish they would let us do praise longer. 609 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:57,440 I wish they would let it go longer. 610 00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,680 I just wish we could have more, You know, I just worship all the 611 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,320 time in my house. I've got music. 612 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,880 Going 24/7 all the time. I'm just singing praises all the 613 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:07,640 time. Why? 614 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:09,800 Because it lifts. And yet the Bible does say it'll 615 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:11,880 lift. But you know what? 616 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:15,320 That's not permanent, because why are those same people having 617 00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:21,280 to come in to get stuff off? Because whenever I said 618 00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:25,120 whenever, which means apparently the evil spirit had access. 619 00:42:26,420 --> 00:42:29,140 So what was going on in Saul's life obviously, or what's going 620 00:42:29,140 --> 00:42:32,820 on on these Christians lives, that there's always a heaviness 621 00:42:32,820 --> 00:42:35,820 that shows up that they need to get somewhere and sing to get it 622 00:42:35,820 --> 00:42:37,340 off. They got to get in the praise 623 00:42:37,340 --> 00:42:38,900 service. They got to go to the Hillsong 624 00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:41,780 concert or to the Gateway concert or to the Elevation 625 00:42:41,780 --> 00:42:44,020 concert, or they got to go down to the amphitheater or some 626 00:42:44,020 --> 00:42:46,940 other kind of Christian concert. They got to go to all these 627 00:42:46,940 --> 00:42:50,580 performances and get up and into all this music because why would 628 00:42:50,580 --> 00:42:55,920 it pulled up all my impression and it will for season, but it's 629 00:42:55,920 --> 00:43:01,440 not permanent and this is what that 23 old minister of 630 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,680 Moundsville said. He said that my generation, the 631 00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,160 guys my age, all they want to do is get in the singing, in the 632 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:08,960 worship conferences and all that. 633 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:17,760 And he says it's no permanent change because David's music did 634 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:26,940 not permanently change Saul. I don't care how much Pastor 635 00:43:26,940 --> 00:43:30,860 Marcus is worshipping up here, jumping, dancing, pouring his 636 00:43:30,860 --> 00:43:33,900 heart out towards the Lord, that is not permanent change going to 637 00:43:33,900 --> 00:43:38,060 happen for you. Will this environment lift the 638 00:43:38,060 --> 00:43:39,380 room? Yes. 639 00:43:39,540 --> 00:43:41,340 Will it be able to pull things off you? 640 00:43:41,340 --> 00:43:43,740 Yes. And why is it designed so that 641 00:43:43,740 --> 00:43:45,580 you can become a true worshipper? 642 00:43:47,870 --> 00:43:51,870 Because when it's lifted, you're supposed to then move into what 643 00:43:51,870 --> 00:43:53,590 causes you to be a tree worshipper. 644 00:43:53,790 --> 00:43:56,710 And it's has nothing to do with singing, although it may require 645 00:43:56,710 --> 00:43:57,470 it. At Tom's. 646 00:44:01,710 --> 00:44:03,590 You know how many people are obsessed? 647 00:44:04,590 --> 00:44:10,990 They are worshipping, singing to the Lord. 648 00:44:10,990 --> 00:44:13,470 They worship the music. They worship it so much they 649 00:44:13,470 --> 00:44:14,830 don't even listen to the context. 650 00:44:15,860 --> 00:44:17,260 You know what I mean? We you know what I mean? 651 00:44:17,260 --> 00:44:23,660 Songs we change. I can't even sing have to stuff 652 00:44:23,660 --> 00:44:26,620 this out there. It's full of doubt, unbelief, 653 00:44:27,980 --> 00:44:31,340 old covenant doctrine that it has no place in the new 654 00:44:31,340 --> 00:44:36,580 Covenant. But you know what it is, it's 655 00:44:36,580 --> 00:44:40,420 emotions. So what it is, is create an 656 00:44:40,420 --> 00:44:43,460 environment where they're worshipping him and again cause 657 00:44:43,460 --> 00:44:49,130 they define worship as singing in soul and scripture. 658 00:44:49,130 --> 00:44:52,170 That's how I'm gonna say it. Cause just cause you're using 659 00:44:52,170 --> 00:44:53,770 scripture don't mean you're speaking truth. 660 00:44:54,330 --> 00:44:57,090 Oh, you don't hear this. You can use scripture to 661 00:44:57,090 --> 00:44:59,770 manipulate. You can use scripture to bring a 662 00:44:59,770 --> 00:45:02,050 false doctrine. I mean even the devil quoted 663 00:45:02,050 --> 00:45:07,850 scripture with Jesus. So just cause they're using 664 00:45:07,850 --> 00:45:11,170 scripture in their song doesn't mean it's scripts role or it's 665 00:45:11,170 --> 00:45:13,740 truth. The Lord giveth and the Lord 666 00:45:13,740 --> 00:45:18,140 taketh away If you read Job. God took nothing from Job. 667 00:45:18,380 --> 00:45:22,180 The devil did. So why are we singing Job's 668 00:45:22,340 --> 00:45:25,740 misunderstanding? Because he has no context 669 00:45:25,740 --> 00:45:31,540 concerning the devil. You understand Job doesn't have 670 00:45:31,580 --> 00:45:36,020 our Bible. God himself didn't even tell 671 00:45:36,180 --> 00:45:43,630 Adam about the devil. He comes down the cooler day. 672 00:45:43,630 --> 00:45:46,710 That's how he communicates with him in the garden. 673 00:45:47,350 --> 00:45:56,790 He didn't say, Son, I just want you to know where I'm living. 674 00:45:56,790 --> 00:46:01,150 We had a little problem. I mean, it didn't take long 675 00:46:01,510 --> 00:46:04,430 because your daddy's powerful, you know? 676 00:46:05,390 --> 00:46:07,430 So I had this creative being that I had. 677 00:46:07,430 --> 00:46:14,420 He went rogue, got about 1/3 of some angels to go with him, you 678 00:46:14,420 --> 00:46:16,020 know. So they came against the Kingdom 679 00:46:16,020 --> 00:46:18,700 up there and came against Michael. 680 00:46:18,700 --> 00:46:19,900 Man. They were fighting some stuff, 681 00:46:19,900 --> 00:46:24,220 but I took care of that with the word right. 682 00:46:24,220 --> 00:46:28,700 Jesus said I saw Satan fall like Latin from heaven, so I've sent 683 00:46:28,700 --> 00:46:31,140 him down here. You need to be looking out for 684 00:46:31,140 --> 00:46:35,180 him. His name is never said that. 685 00:46:36,580 --> 00:46:38,660 He gave him one word that it doesn't matter if the devil 686 00:46:38,660 --> 00:46:41,550 showed up, walked around. Don't eat the fruit, son. 687 00:46:41,590 --> 00:46:42,990 You need everything else. Don't eat the fruit. 688 00:46:48,630 --> 00:46:52,470 So we're assuming Job has this context of the devil and Satan 689 00:46:52,470 --> 00:46:57,790 and what he's doing mean. Scholars believe that is 690 00:46:57,790 --> 00:47:00,430 Genesis. I think up to chapter 22, the 691 00:47:00,430 --> 00:47:03,110 whole book of Job is there is considered the oldest book of 692 00:47:03,110 --> 00:47:05,950 the Bible because it's the complete book before Genesis. 693 00:47:05,950 --> 00:47:08,630 He actually finishes being pinned of its history. 694 00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:14,640 So Joe doesn't have the the the five, the Torah. 695 00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:19,880 He didn't have this. He has the conversations and 696 00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,720 testimonies of things that God has done. 697 00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,960 There's some knowledge that has been passed on through Adam 698 00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,680 somehow in the earth and his son somehow. 699 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:34,960 Something's through to some degree that Job is able to have 700 00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:39,180 some context of God. Although we do know that Romans 701 00:47:39,180 --> 00:47:42,940 themselves says just through creation, God's invisible people 702 00:47:42,940 --> 00:47:44,500 are without excuse. No, there's a God. 703 00:47:46,500 --> 00:47:48,780 So there's something that he knew that kept him in this 704 00:47:48,780 --> 00:47:54,460 position of righteousness with the Lord, but he has no contest 705 00:47:54,460 --> 00:47:56,340 and everyone knows that God's all powerful. 706 00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,720 So at the end of the day, he's assuming then well, God, who am 707 00:47:59,720 --> 00:48:01,960 I to complain if God takes away what I have because I'm just 708 00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,520 going to worship him anyway? You know we should just worship 709 00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,120 him anyway, But God's giving us a whole scripture lets us know 710 00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,600 that's not my character. If something's being stripped 711 00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:12,960 from you and I'm a cause, it's cause you're in gross 712 00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,720 disobedience and I've done a lot to try to talk you out of the 713 00:48:15,720 --> 00:48:19,840 stuff you're in. I'm going to say that again, if 714 00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,200 the. Lord is personally involved. 715 00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:26,380 With the dismantling of stuff that you have, it's because 716 00:48:26,380 --> 00:48:30,660 you're in gross disobedience and he has been extremely 717 00:48:30,660 --> 00:48:33,820 long-suffering to talk you out of what you're in. 718 00:48:41,300 --> 00:48:44,100 So people want to just come to the singing stuff. 719 00:48:45,620 --> 00:48:48,500 I mean, most churches, the singing is longer than the 720 00:48:48,500 --> 00:48:55,970 preaching. Well, let's just feel better 721 00:48:56,530 --> 00:48:59,290 when they're really worshipping because of their definition of 722 00:48:59,290 --> 00:49:04,650 worship in soul and scriptures. That's how it makes them feel. 723 00:49:05,610 --> 00:49:07,570 And the more the song makes them feel good. 724 00:49:07,970 --> 00:49:11,350 Look, you know as well as I do, I could throw out some secular 725 00:49:11,350 --> 00:49:12,550 stuff. Right now, I'm talking stuff 726 00:49:12,550 --> 00:49:13,830 that's straight from the pit of hell. 727 00:49:13,830 --> 00:49:16,310 I'm talking stuff that. I mean, if I would have been in 728 00:49:16,310 --> 00:49:18,990 high school with some of the songs that come out today, man, 729 00:49:18,990 --> 00:49:20,230 it had been rough. Deal. 730 00:49:21,390 --> 00:49:24,230 It'd been rough. I mean, lyrically, there was 731 00:49:24,230 --> 00:49:26,190 some stuff in when I was in high school anyway. 732 00:49:26,390 --> 00:49:28,750 I mean, but it's become mainstream pop stuff. 733 00:49:31,110 --> 00:49:34,730 I mean, it's very descriptive. I remember when I was youth 734 00:49:34,730 --> 00:49:36,050 pastor. Now you understand this was 20 735 00:49:36,050 --> 00:49:37,530 something years ago. And this guy by the name of 736 00:49:37,530 --> 00:49:38,730 Nellie. Anybody know who Nellie is? 737 00:49:38,730 --> 00:49:44,090 OK, it got hot in here. I mean, you know that song. 738 00:49:44,610 --> 00:49:46,890 OK, some of y'all. Now you understand what happens 739 00:49:46,890 --> 00:49:49,690 when it gets hot. There is no way I wouldn't be 740 00:49:49,690 --> 00:49:53,210 going out and playing that with a girl in the car with the 741 00:49:53,210 --> 00:50:02,170 heater on. It's getting hot here. 742 00:50:05,340 --> 00:50:09,820 And I bet you there's a lot of girls that did that song. 743 00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:16,420 But I'm saying right now, you don't have to hear the words, 744 00:50:16,420 --> 00:50:25,380 but this, the beat starts going, you can't help but I see y'all 745 00:50:25,460 --> 00:50:28,340 y'all at the stadium. You'll be at the mall somewhere, 746 00:50:28,340 --> 00:50:30,340 you know, out and about. And if something's playing you 747 00:50:30,340 --> 00:50:36,970 can't be be like. Catching yourself working, that 748 00:50:36,970 --> 00:50:41,410 thing. UNICEF So Christian music, I'm 749 00:50:41,410 --> 00:50:43,490 talking about your shoulders. Working your shoulders. 750 00:50:44,730 --> 00:50:47,730 We are no longer at Nelly's song, so get your mind right. 751 00:50:48,290 --> 00:50:49,690 Y'all should be able to recover faster now. 752 00:50:53,100 --> 00:50:58,060 We're in church, people. But I'm just saying, I mean you, 753 00:50:58,100 --> 00:51:01,540 you can't help but be like you. I mean, we participate. 754 00:51:01,780 --> 00:51:04,300 We have no problem with moving with rhythm. 755 00:51:05,100 --> 00:51:07,860 I mean, OK, that is debatable, that is. 756 00:51:08,860 --> 00:51:11,820 Some do, but they still try, is what I'm saying. 757 00:51:16,060 --> 00:51:17,860 You know, you can't watch some of the people clap. 758 00:51:18,260 --> 00:51:21,550 You know you can't. You're like, I can't even sing 759 00:51:21,550 --> 00:51:30,630 this song now, but it's soul. And emotionally, I mean, you're 760 00:51:30,630 --> 00:51:34,390 screaming, you got veins popping, you're sweating, you're 761 00:51:34,390 --> 00:51:38,230 putting your whole soul in it. But your spirit may not even be 762 00:51:38,230 --> 00:51:40,230 close. In fact, most it's not. 763 00:51:40,670 --> 00:51:42,350 In fact, with some of the lyrics, it can't be. 764 00:51:45,550 --> 00:51:49,560 It can't even be. Again, I had teenagers before 765 00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:53,240 the Depot when I was in Florida that came to me and wanted me to 766 00:51:53,240 --> 00:51:57,360 sing a song with the worship team called Heaven Let Your 767 00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:58,880 Light Shine down by Collective Soul. 768 00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:00,640 Collective Soul, Is that what? Yeah, Collective Soul. 769 00:52:01,240 --> 00:52:04,440 It's secular. But why they want me to sing it? 770 00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:06,600 Because they have the word heaven in it. 771 00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:08,560 Yeah. Pastor Vanessa's youth group. 772 00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:10,600 I think she was the one who suggested it. 773 00:52:13,940 --> 00:52:15,260 Are you going to say it's Jimmy James? 774 00:52:15,260 --> 00:52:17,460 I see how it is. You're going to throw him. 775 00:52:18,820 --> 00:52:27,100 I saw Vanessa be over there. Yeah, I'm like, no, we are. 776 00:52:27,220 --> 00:52:31,340 No, no. Just cause it says heaven don't 777 00:52:31,340 --> 00:52:34,060 mean it's heaven. I mean it could be the first or 778 00:52:34,060 --> 00:52:36,220 second heaven where there's principalities out. 779 00:52:36,220 --> 00:52:38,060 But we ain't talking about the 3rd heaven people. 780 00:52:39,940 --> 00:52:42,500 Then I found out later that the guy wrote the song while in a 781 00:52:42,500 --> 00:52:46,370 strip bar and while I was watching the girl dance. 782 00:52:46,610 --> 00:52:55,650 This came to his mind. OK, just so y'all know, my point 783 00:52:55,650 --> 00:52:59,890 is, is that the enemy's doing a good job of keeping you in your 784 00:52:59,890 --> 00:53:05,370 soul realm and not in your spirit because he's redefined 785 00:53:05,370 --> 00:53:09,690 worship as singing and he wants you to be emotionally all in. 786 00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:15,440 Because he even knows that music has the potential and you can't 787 00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:18,680 get in atmospheres where it can pull things off. 788 00:53:19,240 --> 00:53:21,280 But here's the problem. If you do not do what's 789 00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:25,160 necessary, then even that environment. 790 00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:28,120 Will fail. And again we minister that you 791 00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,520 can get into worship and and things that are on you can begin 792 00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:33,440 to lift and they will. And I believe that you can come 793 00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:36,160 in Anchor Faith Church and we can do stuff here and things 794 00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:38,160 begin to rise. And it will rise. 795 00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:41,520 But the reason it's coming up off you is because of what you 796 00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:43,280 need to do to become a true worshipper. 797 00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,240 Because if you don't then you get First Samuel chapter 18. 798 00:53:47,330 --> 00:53:51,050 First time in chapter 18, verse 10 says this. 799 00:53:51,570 --> 00:53:54,930 Now it came about on the next day that an evil spirit from 800 00:53:54,930 --> 00:53:58,170 God, and we've already explained this, was mightily upon saw and 801 00:53:58,170 --> 00:54:01,970 he raved in the midst of the house while David was what 802 00:54:03,130 --> 00:54:05,370 playing the harp. And remember, whenever it came 803 00:54:05,370 --> 00:54:07,130 on, he played the harp and what took place. 804 00:54:07,730 --> 00:54:09,770 It would go away. He would be refreshed. 805 00:54:09,930 --> 00:54:12,610 He was playing the harp with his hands as. 806 00:54:13,350 --> 00:54:17,230 Usual. And a spear was in Saul's hand. 807 00:54:17,270 --> 00:54:22,990 Saul hurled the spear, for he thought, I will pin David to the 808 00:54:22,990 --> 00:54:26,030 wall, But David escaped from his presence. 809 00:54:26,550 --> 00:54:30,510 Twice. So this time, when singing went 810 00:54:30,590 --> 00:54:35,510 instead of them Saul come being refreshed, Saul got more angry. 811 00:54:40,060 --> 00:54:42,980 This is important because again, if you don't do what you need to 812 00:54:42,980 --> 00:54:45,940 do to become a true worshipper, then all the worship of Anchor 813 00:54:45,940 --> 00:54:48,900 Faith Church is going to do is make you mad because that's why 814 00:54:48,900 --> 00:54:50,500 you'll stand in the back like this. 815 00:54:57,020 --> 00:55:03,740 And Pastor Mars said, well lift your hands and you're hurling 816 00:55:03,740 --> 00:55:06,420 Spears in your mind because you're saying this is stupid. 817 00:55:06,420 --> 00:55:07,980 I wish they'd go on. Man, so dumb. 818 00:55:08,570 --> 00:55:10,170 I don't understand why there's people up there acting like 819 00:55:10,170 --> 00:55:13,210 that. It's just so idiotic, which they 820 00:55:13,210 --> 00:55:15,490 just shut up, sit down and let them preach. 821 00:55:15,810 --> 00:55:21,890 Well, the preacher is doing nothing for you, although it 822 00:55:21,890 --> 00:55:23,570 would do something for you if you actually would listen. 823 00:55:24,650 --> 00:55:26,290 Because there is a time to raise your hand. 824 00:55:26,290 --> 00:55:28,210 There's a time to dance. There's a time to shout. 825 00:55:28,370 --> 00:55:29,930 There's a time. I get it. 826 00:55:29,930 --> 00:55:31,850 There's there's a time when it's time to praise. 827 00:55:31,850 --> 00:55:34,730 Let's praise him, let's praise him, Let's lift our hands, let's 828 00:55:34,730 --> 00:55:36,050 clap. Let's do it all. 829 00:55:36,050 --> 00:55:39,050 I mean, the scripture says we should praise the Lord. 830 00:55:40,650 --> 00:55:42,650 But if you're having a hard time praising us because you've got 831 00:55:42,650 --> 00:55:45,370 more souls at. Because when things were lifted, 832 00:55:47,530 --> 00:55:50,490 you didn't do what you supposed to do to be a tree worshipper, 833 00:55:51,690 --> 00:55:54,330 and now you're mad in it. And it's ain't the only 834 00:55:54,330 --> 00:55:56,170 occasion. First Same year, chapter 19. 835 00:55:56,170 --> 00:56:00,130 Very next chapter, Chapter 9, a verse 9 and 10. 836 00:56:00,130 --> 00:56:02,970 Now there was an evil spear from the Lord on Saul as he was 837 00:56:02,970 --> 00:56:04,810 sitting in his house and his spear was in his hand. 838 00:56:04,810 --> 00:56:06,650 And Dave was playing the harp with his hand. 839 00:56:07,330 --> 00:56:09,850 And Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he 840 00:56:09,850 --> 00:56:13,000 slipped out of the Saul's presence so that he stuck the 841 00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,080 spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that 842 00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:18,120 night, that night because in this account, he sent the guys 843 00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:20,440 over to his house because at this point now he's married to 844 00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:22,400 his daughter, the first one. He wasn't married to his 845 00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:23,720 daughter. So he sends him off to the 846 00:56:23,720 --> 00:56:26,920 Philistines to get killed. And the reason he said, I'll let 847 00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:28,280 you know, you need to marry my daughter. 848 00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:31,920 And he said, look, I'm just a guy from the, you know, out in 849 00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:33,480 the field. I I have nothing to be able to 850 00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:35,760 do a dowry for your daughter. I can't even, you know, he's 851 00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:39,160 already rejected being his son once. 852 00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:40,680 Now he's like, what do you, what do I do? 853 00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:42,080 He said. Look, you just kill me. 854 00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:47,080 It's 100 Philistines and you know, basically circus size them 855 00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:49,960 and bring that, that, that, that piece of skin back. 856 00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:55,360 And David did it. He was hoping that David was 857 00:56:55,360 --> 00:57:04,160 going to die, but he did. And when David came to town 858 00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:07,520 after that one, they said Saul kills his thousands and David is 859 00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:12,880 10s of thousands and the worship service didn't lift him anymore. 860 00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:21,600 In fact, he was never in another musical session with David ever 861 00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:26,440 again because music could soothe him no more. 862 00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,440 And there's a lot of people in churches that music does not 863 00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:35,530 soothe them anymore. And now we're at a problem 864 00:57:36,330 --> 00:57:38,370 because you've been told religiously you were created to 865 00:57:38,370 --> 00:57:41,330 worship and you can't. In fact, that makes you mad. 866 00:57:43,770 --> 00:57:44,970 I'm preaching better than you're saying. 867 00:57:44,970 --> 00:57:46,450 Amen. But I appreciate the 1:00 868 00:57:48,290 --> 00:57:52,570 because we are in a culture right now that our praise and 869 00:57:52,570 --> 00:57:56,570 worship has gone so secular. I can name bands right now and 870 00:57:56,570 --> 00:57:58,850 y'all listening to them. You're watching them on YouTube. 871 00:57:58,850 --> 00:58:03,940 You're singing to the top of your lungs, and most of you're 872 00:58:03,940 --> 00:58:06,340 not even examining whether or not what they're saying is 873 00:58:06,340 --> 00:58:11,420 scriptural at all. Now, I'm not telling you to 874 00:58:11,420 --> 00:58:14,460 abandon singing. Please do not, please sing. 875 00:58:15,380 --> 00:58:17,540 I'm not telling you to never listen to anyone. 876 00:58:17,540 --> 00:58:20,580 I'm not saying that. I'm just saying be more 877 00:58:20,580 --> 00:58:22,060 understanding. As you grow. 878 00:58:22,060 --> 00:58:24,060 There's probably some things that you were singing you're 879 00:58:24,060 --> 00:58:25,820 probably not going to sing. And if the Lord's not dealt with 880 00:58:25,820 --> 00:58:27,300 you about a. Particular song Sing Away. 881 00:58:28,510 --> 00:58:30,630 But the minute you begin to realize, man, I don't know if 882 00:58:30,630 --> 00:58:34,470 that's right, then you need to make an adjustment because God 883 00:58:34,470 --> 00:58:39,990 wants you to be accurate. Are you hearing me Now? 884 00:58:39,990 --> 00:58:42,790 How can we determine what a true worshipper is? 885 00:58:42,790 --> 00:58:48,110 Well, we picked up this whole context about David showing up 886 00:58:52,550 --> 00:58:55,390 in first time. You're 16 in the 14th verse. 887 00:58:55,390 --> 00:58:57,350 If we go back to that chapter, verse seven, it says. 888 00:58:57,350 --> 00:59:01,190 But the Lord said to Samuel, do not look at his appearance or at 889 00:59:01,190 --> 00:59:04,230 the height of his statue, because I have rejected him. 890 00:59:04,230 --> 00:59:07,430 For God sees not as man sees, but man looks at the outward 891 00:59:07,430 --> 00:59:10,470 appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. 892 00:59:10,750 --> 00:59:16,550 What kind of heart is God going? After he tells us 3 chapters 893 00:59:16,550 --> 00:59:21,970 earlier in First Samuel 13 go to First Samuel 13 versus 13 to 14 894 00:59:22,170 --> 00:59:25,250 Samuel said to Saul, You have acted foolishly. 895 00:59:25,370 --> 00:59:26,610 You have not. What? 896 00:59:27,770 --> 00:59:29,490 Oh, come on. You have not kept the 897 00:59:29,490 --> 00:59:32,530 commandment of the Lord your God, which you which he 898 00:59:32,530 --> 00:59:36,530 commanded you. For now the Lord would have 899 00:59:36,570 --> 00:59:38,730 established your Kingdom over Israel forever. 900 00:59:38,730 --> 00:59:42,610 But now your Kingdom shall not endure, for the Lord has sought. 901 00:59:44,930 --> 00:59:48,380 He's looking now. Sought out for himself a man 902 00:59:48,420 --> 00:59:54,500 after his own heart, and the man and the Lord has appointed him 903 00:59:54,500 --> 00:59:59,380 as ruler over his people, because you have what not kept 904 00:59:59,740 --> 01:00:02,620 what the Lord commanded. You. 905 01:00:03,660 --> 01:00:07,250 Now what took place here? This here. 906 01:00:07,370 --> 01:00:09,810 The Lord said, hey, Samuel said show up. 907 01:00:09,930 --> 01:00:12,730 We're going to do a sacrifice. I'll be there to do the 908 01:00:12,730 --> 01:00:14,810 sacrifice. The people started to leave, so 909 01:00:14,810 --> 01:00:17,290 he wanted to please the people. Samuel's not there. 910 01:00:17,290 --> 01:00:19,970 He's not being patient. He doesn't do what Samuel says 911 01:00:19,970 --> 01:00:22,850 that the Lord said, so he doesn't sacrifice himself. 912 01:00:24,690 --> 01:00:28,170 And now the Lord says you didn't know, baby. 913 01:00:29,250 --> 01:00:32,090 Now he did a sacrifice to the Lord. 914 01:00:34,700 --> 01:00:37,980 But the Lord didn't say him to do the sacrifice, the prophets 915 01:00:37,980 --> 01:00:43,060 coming to do the sacrifice. So the Lord says I'm looking for 916 01:00:43,060 --> 01:00:46,500 somebody, but he gives him another opportunity or at least 917 01:00:46,500 --> 01:00:51,940 he again tries to come back to him and say, listen, if you're 918 01:00:51,940 --> 01:00:53,860 going to be a true worshipper, this how it works. 919 01:00:54,020 --> 01:00:58,380 So we go to the 15th chapter for Samuel, and he says now, so 920 01:00:58,380 --> 01:01:00,780 you're going to go into battle and this group of people right 921 01:01:00,780 --> 01:01:04,800 here, you keeping nothing? You destroy it all. 922 01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:06,720 You're not. You don't keep a thing. 923 01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:10,520 I understand that these past battles, you guys have taken the 924 01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:12,600 best. You've done a sacrifice. 925 01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:15,360 You've honored me with that because I helped you win the 926 01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:17,880 battle You've done. But with this group right here, 927 01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:20,680 I've already judged them. None of them are good. 928 01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:22,920 No one will ever be good out of this breed. 929 01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:26,560 No one will ever be good. God knows the end from the 930 01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:29,880 beginning. They'll nobody will ever turn to 931 01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:33,120 me out of this race here, this nation of people. 932 01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:38,600 Destroy it all. He kills everyone but keeps the 933 01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:41,720 best. And the Lord says I regret. 934 01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:45,880 I regret that I have made Sal king. 935 01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:49,720 And so Samuel all night contends with the Lord about this deal 936 01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:52,120 shows up and he says what in the world, John? 937 01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:56,400 He said I only obeyed the command of God and I love 938 01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:59,440 Samuel's response. Then what is the sound of sheep 939 01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:04,580 that I'm hearing right now? So he goes on and says, look, I 940 01:02:04,580 --> 01:02:06,700 mean, I did what God said we could have, But you know what? 941 01:02:06,700 --> 01:02:09,820 At the end of the day, some people came to me and we talked 942 01:02:09,820 --> 01:02:13,100 about how we should go ahead and sacrifice to God for this great 943 01:02:13,100 --> 01:02:15,420 win. And so we kept the best stuff to 944 01:02:15,420 --> 01:02:18,300 do a sacrifice. And here it comes in the 22nd 945 01:02:18,300 --> 01:02:22,340 verse of First Samuel. 15 Samuel said, has the Lord as much 946 01:02:22,340 --> 01:02:25,460 delight and burn, offerings and sacrifice as in obeying the 947 01:02:25,460 --> 01:02:29,980 voice of the Lord. Behold, to obey is better. 948 01:02:30,690 --> 01:02:37,490 Then sacrifice and to heed. Then the fat of Rams. 949 01:02:37,490 --> 01:02:43,690 For rebellion is is as the sin of divination and insombornation 950 01:02:43,810 --> 01:02:47,650 is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the 951 01:02:47,650 --> 01:02:52,010 word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king. 952 01:02:55,210 --> 01:02:58,930 A true worshipper. Bible definition of worship. 953 01:02:59,590 --> 01:03:09,670 Worship means obey God. If the Lord says give obey, 954 01:03:09,670 --> 01:03:13,550 that's worship. If the Lord says run obey, 955 01:03:13,630 --> 01:03:17,190 that's worship. If the Lord says be quiet, obey, 956 01:03:17,270 --> 01:03:19,870 that's worship. If the Lord says read the word 957 01:03:19,870 --> 01:03:23,270 obey, that's worship. If the Lord says pray, pray, 958 01:03:23,430 --> 01:03:25,150 that's worship. The Lord says forgive your 959 01:03:25,150 --> 01:03:27,550 brother, forgive him. That's worship. 960 01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:31,240 That's worship. And the Lord says I'm looking 961 01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:35,840 for true worshippers. I'm looking for people who obey 962 01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:38,720 me. And if the Lord says sing, sing. 963 01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:43,080 If he says shout, shout. But he did not take every town 964 01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:45,360 with a shout. Why do we go to churches and we 965 01:03:45,360 --> 01:03:52,360 want to shout every service? God didn't take every city with 966 01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:54,590 a shout. So it doesn't mean that we 967 01:03:54,590 --> 01:03:56,270 should have to shout every service. 968 01:03:56,550 --> 01:04:02,310 God didn't have expressions of joy in everything, so that that 969 01:04:02,310 --> 01:04:04,750 mean every service you got to be laughing and rolling on the 970 01:04:04,750 --> 01:04:10,790 floor. What you have to do is obey some 971 01:04:10,790 --> 01:04:12,430 of God's most powerful services, like. 972 01:04:16,660 --> 01:04:18,380 But because we're religiously worse. 973 01:04:18,620 --> 01:04:24,540 Oh Lord God, oh God, God, everybody else is quiet and 974 01:04:24,540 --> 01:04:29,740 you're screaming and Lord, I love you, Lord, Lord. 975 01:04:29,740 --> 01:04:34,100 And we're like God's not in your song at all. 976 01:04:34,340 --> 01:04:38,060 You are emotionally responding right now because if you were in 977 01:04:38,060 --> 01:04:40,900 the spirit, obedience would be be quiet. 978 01:04:44,170 --> 01:04:48,810 But now if everybody is like, glory to God, glory to God, and 979 01:04:48,810 --> 01:04:54,170 you're like, you're definitely not in the spirit. 980 01:04:55,050 --> 01:04:58,970 But I don't feel like shouting. But he says to shout. 981 01:04:59,290 --> 01:05:02,650 And I am do it by the Spirit, not by my emotions anyway. 982 01:05:03,010 --> 01:05:05,970 Because again, we all those little religious Christians, 983 01:05:05,970 --> 01:05:07,650 what do they do? Well, you know, we're supposed 984 01:05:07,650 --> 01:05:10,530 to be led by faith, but I don't feel like, well, you're not 985 01:05:10,530 --> 01:05:12,770 supposed to feel faith, right? You're just supposed to obey 986 01:05:12,770 --> 01:05:15,020 God. I don't feel like singing. 987 01:05:15,060 --> 01:05:19,780 Who cares? Sing and there. 988 01:05:19,780 --> 01:05:23,100 And since you're not created to sing all of us forever in 989 01:05:23,100 --> 01:05:26,660 eternity, although we will sing, you can make a joyful noise. 990 01:05:27,300 --> 01:05:30,260 So God did include. You right. 991 01:05:31,980 --> 01:05:36,260 So again, it should be easy. If people are truly worshipping, 992 01:05:36,500 --> 01:05:40,310 they come to church. Because he said, oh, forsake the 993 01:05:40,350 --> 01:05:44,270 assembly and you can't, you cannot interpret that any other 994 01:05:44,270 --> 01:05:48,270 way. And they are trying, but they 995 01:05:48,270 --> 01:05:50,670 are already. I mean, it's like they, you 996 01:05:50,670 --> 01:05:52,390 know, you don't have to go to church. 997 01:05:53,950 --> 01:05:55,710 They use this scripture all the time, assemble. 998 01:05:55,710 --> 01:05:59,590 But they didn't actually go to church that they assembled. 999 01:06:00,470 --> 01:06:04,950 They did assemble, and God says assemble and you can't assemble 1000 01:06:05,190 --> 01:06:10,130 by yourself. Can't happen. 1001 01:06:13,050 --> 01:06:17,730 I mean, it's just crazy doctrine out there, but it's because the 1002 01:06:17,730 --> 01:06:22,050 devil's really good at keeping people separated and not true 1003 01:06:22,050 --> 01:06:25,370 worshippers. Are you hearing me? 1004 01:06:26,930 --> 01:06:29,610 Well, How relevant is this to today? 1005 01:06:29,930 --> 01:06:35,370 Well, Mark chapter 12. Mark chapter 12, verse 28 to 34. 1006 01:06:35,450 --> 01:06:37,290 One of the scribes came and heard them argue, and 1007 01:06:37,290 --> 01:06:42,570 recognizing that he had answered them well, asked him what 1008 01:06:42,570 --> 01:06:44,050 commandment is the foremost of all. 1009 01:06:44,050 --> 01:06:46,770 Jesus said the foremost is here. Sing to the Lord. 1010 01:06:47,250 --> 01:06:48,610 Sing to the Lord with all your heart. 1011 01:06:48,610 --> 01:06:52,090 Sing, sing, sing because you were created to worship. 1012 01:06:53,090 --> 01:06:56,690 Now if you define worship like God, then you could say we were 1013 01:06:56,690 --> 01:07:02,900 created to worship because I was created to always obey my 1014 01:07:02,900 --> 01:07:06,380 Father. So it is true we were created to 1015 01:07:06,380 --> 01:07:12,620 worship when worship means to obey God whatever he says. 1016 01:07:13,180 --> 01:07:17,500 So if God says sing, I worship him singing because I obey. 1017 01:07:18,300 --> 01:07:22,380 If God says to lay down and be still, I worship him. 1018 01:07:22,540 --> 01:07:25,580 If the Lord says go to this place and pay for this person's 1019 01:07:25,580 --> 01:07:28,260 meal, I go do it. I'm worshipping him. 1020 01:07:28,580 --> 01:07:31,340 You know you can worship God that way. 1021 01:07:32,010 --> 01:07:33,370 We say worship God with your giving. 1022 01:07:33,370 --> 01:07:35,490 Well the reason we worship God with the giving because he says 1023 01:07:35,490 --> 01:07:40,690 give worship then means not because we're singing it out of 1024 01:07:40,690 --> 01:07:45,410 our hands, but it's because we're obeying the command of 1025 01:07:45,410 --> 01:07:48,330 God. So Jesus says, well, they asked 1026 01:07:48,330 --> 01:07:49,890 what's the form? Jesus answered the foremost. 1027 01:07:49,890 --> 01:07:54,050 It says here on Israel, the Lord our God is 1 Lord, and you shall 1028 01:07:54,050 --> 01:07:59,910 love the Lord with all your there's your spirit, all your 1029 01:08:00,630 --> 01:08:03,990 there's your soul Round that's your mind, will, emotion. 1030 01:08:04,270 --> 01:08:07,710 And with all your mind that's your intellect and with all your 1031 01:08:08,110 --> 01:08:10,510 that's your body. Your body's not your. 1032 01:08:12,350 --> 01:08:18,069 OK, the 2nd is this. You shall love your neighbor as 1033 01:08:18,069 --> 01:08:20,310 yourself. There is no other commandment 1034 01:08:20,310 --> 01:08:21,990 greater than these, the scribe said to him. 1035 01:08:22,149 --> 01:08:25,670 Right, Teacher, you have truly stated that he is 1 and there is 1036 01:08:25,670 --> 01:08:27,830 no one else beside him. Now look where this guy goes, 1037 01:08:28,189 --> 01:08:29,990 and that you shall love him with all your heart, with all your 1038 01:08:29,990 --> 01:08:31,590 understanding, with all your strength, and love your 1039 01:08:31,590 --> 01:08:37,750 neighbors and himself in so much more, is much more than all 1040 01:08:38,189 --> 01:08:43,229 burnt offerings and sacrifices. Didn't we just read this that 1041 01:08:43,229 --> 01:08:49,950 Samuel tells Saul you get no more Kingdom God stripping you 1042 01:08:50,830 --> 01:08:55,790 of your King's anointing because you are coming and giving a 1043 01:08:55,790 --> 01:09:01,550 sacrifice of praise? Oh, you don't want to hear this. 1044 01:09:01,550 --> 01:09:05,310 That's fine. You going to come and bring a 1045 01:09:05,310 --> 01:09:08,430 sacrifice of praise, but you're not going to actually obey me. 1046 01:09:10,229 --> 01:09:12,149 I mean, you gonna sweat more than anybody. 1047 01:09:12,149 --> 01:09:13,790 You gonna dance more than anybody. 1048 01:09:13,950 --> 01:09:15,390 You gonna shout more than anybody. 1049 01:09:15,390 --> 01:09:18,790 You gonna run more than anybody. Unless you in the house that 1050 01:09:18,790 --> 01:09:20,550 teaches this stuff and then you don't move at all. 1051 01:09:21,189 --> 01:09:23,430 But then you go to places that nobody knows you and you're all 1052 01:09:23,430 --> 01:09:32,540 over the place and he says all that burn off rings. 1053 01:09:32,540 --> 01:09:34,899 The second he said when Jesus saw, look what he says. 1054 01:09:34,899 --> 01:09:36,779 When Jesus saw that he answered intelligent. 1055 01:09:36,779 --> 01:09:40,500 Look what he responds, he said to him, look what he said. 1056 01:09:40,979 --> 01:09:48,580 You are not far from you want to get into Kingdom. 1057 01:09:48,979 --> 01:09:51,180 You got to obey. It's not you're not singing your 1058 01:09:51,180 --> 01:09:54,700 way in. You're singing is not making you 1059 01:09:54,700 --> 01:09:57,620 more Kingdom. Your obedience is what makes you 1060 01:09:57,620 --> 01:10:03,540 Kingdom, and sometimes the Kingdom says you need to sing, I 1061 01:10:03,540 --> 01:10:06,420 said you need to sing, you need to sing. 1062 01:10:06,700 --> 01:10:10,580 Because if the Lord tells me just to dance, or if He tells me 1063 01:10:10,580 --> 01:10:13,180 to run, I'll run if he tells. Me to shout, I'll shout and you 1064 01:10:13,180 --> 01:10:14,460 understand. I'll praise period. 1065 01:10:14,580 --> 01:10:16,540 And a lot of times, you know, you get in some places where 1066 01:10:16,540 --> 01:10:25,420 there's a lot of ministers. They don't do nothing, but I get 1067 01:10:25,420 --> 01:10:31,670 around a lot of Saints that all they do is sing and they ain't 1068 01:10:31,670 --> 01:10:37,750 obedient, which means they're not a true worshipper because 1069 01:10:37,750 --> 01:10:42,030 they don't put down the flesh, they don't crucify it, they 1070 01:10:42,030 --> 01:10:45,430 don't walk wholly, meaning they don't keep themselves separated 1071 01:10:45,430 --> 01:10:50,390 unto God. All right, it's getting getting 1072 01:10:50,390 --> 01:10:53,950 nice and loud up in this place right here who love it. 1073 01:10:55,460 --> 01:10:57,300 Well then we got to define love, right? 1074 01:10:57,300 --> 01:10:59,340 Because if God's looking for true worshippers and worship 1075 01:10:59,340 --> 01:11:01,660 means to obey him, he said Now like he seeks. 1076 01:11:01,780 --> 01:11:04,460 What was he seeking when he went after David? 1077 01:11:04,660 --> 01:11:06,300 A man after his own heart. And what was David? 1078 01:11:06,540 --> 01:11:13,300 A man who obeyed? There are only three accounts. 1079 01:11:13,300 --> 01:11:16,100 I believe it is 3 accounts of David of his failures. 1080 01:11:16,860 --> 01:11:18,940 But yet we act like, you know, they're right there. 1081 01:11:18,940 --> 01:11:21,780 Especially the you know the Bathsheba one right there. 1082 01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:25,400 You know what? He did so many more obedient 1083 01:11:25,400 --> 01:11:27,720 things. I mean, it just compels in 1084 01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:33,640 comparison his obedience to God compared to his three documented 1085 01:11:33,640 --> 01:11:39,240 disobedient things. He was a man after Gaza. 1086 01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:41,800 This wasn't. And most people say a man after 1087 01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:43,480 Gaza. Heart is a man who's quick to 1088 01:11:43,480 --> 01:11:47,200 repent. God was after his after this 1089 01:11:47,200 --> 01:11:52,610 guy, before he ever became king. So his repentance to Nathan 1090 01:11:53,490 --> 01:11:55,890 didn't mean it was a man after his own heart. 1091 01:11:56,730 --> 01:12:01,570 It was because he was already a guy that recognized worship is 1092 01:12:01,570 --> 01:12:03,930 obeying God. And since you've called me out 1093 01:12:03,930 --> 01:12:06,690 and you're right, who am I to kill the prophet? 1094 01:12:06,690 --> 01:12:14,810 Because other kings did that to make them continue to look good, 1095 01:12:16,610 --> 01:12:21,380 he said. I'm going to obey God because 1096 01:12:21,380 --> 01:12:22,820 that's what a true worshipper does. 1097 01:12:24,020 --> 01:12:28,180 They obey. And you can't obey God in spirit 1098 01:12:28,180 --> 01:12:30,380 and in truth unless you're connected to truth. 1099 01:12:36,980 --> 01:12:41,900 Hallelujah. Cause worship means you love 1100 01:12:41,900 --> 01:12:43,620 him. How do we know this? 1101 01:12:43,620 --> 01:12:46,860 John 1415 says it this way if you love me. 1102 01:12:49,160 --> 01:12:52,560 Who's saying this? So you can't just sing? 1103 01:12:53,160 --> 01:12:54,560 I love you, I love you. I love you. 1104 01:12:54,560 --> 01:13:00,480 I mean we sing these songs about how much we love God, but he's 1105 01:13:00,480 --> 01:13:04,280 like, I don't care you're, I mean, you know, half this half. 1106 01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:07,440 So many people are married and they're here and I love you. 1107 01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:13,000 And most don't believe it because it's a word without 1108 01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:17,750 action. And you know you're not duping 1109 01:13:17,750 --> 01:13:20,030 the Lord. The Lord's not a man that he 1110 01:13:20,030 --> 01:13:22,470 should lie, number one, nor is the Lord mocked. 1111 01:13:24,110 --> 01:13:26,710 So you can't say out of your mouth, I love you. 1112 01:13:26,710 --> 01:13:31,270 And he don't know in your heart that it's a lot to your actions 1113 01:13:32,350 --> 01:13:35,950 if you love me. Jesus the King defines how he 1114 01:13:35,950 --> 01:13:38,190 knows you love him. Oh my gosh. 1115 01:13:38,590 --> 01:13:41,470 Guys, I've already told you this in the bears repeating today. 1116 01:13:41,750 --> 01:13:45,350 God creates Adam in his image. He's just like God, no sin. 1117 01:13:45,470 --> 01:13:47,670 But how does God even know Adam loves him? 1118 01:13:47,830 --> 01:13:50,470 He's made his image. Why would he not know that Adam 1119 01:13:50,470 --> 01:13:52,630 loves him? He can only know one way. 1120 01:13:52,830 --> 01:13:57,350 Adam has to obey to show love. That's why he says you can eat 1121 01:13:57,350 --> 01:13:59,030 of any tree. But if the tree of the knowledge 1122 01:13:59,030 --> 01:14:01,190 of good and evil you shall not eat for the day you eat, you 1123 01:14:01,190 --> 01:14:02,750 die. I just want to know. 1124 01:14:02,750 --> 01:14:09,950 Adam, do you love me? It's the only way. 1125 01:14:11,030 --> 01:14:13,390 Saying I love you doesn't mean it. 1126 01:14:16,190 --> 01:14:23,350 And Jesus reaffirms this now. If you love me, you sometimes, 1127 01:14:24,190 --> 01:14:26,830 but not always, because you understand this is grace. 1128 01:14:26,830 --> 01:14:35,190 Anyway, you don't have to Jack. You will. 1129 01:14:35,950 --> 01:14:42,460 Keep my commandments and there's so many people religiously 1130 01:14:42,460 --> 01:14:49,420 worship in Jesus right now as false worshippers crying out. 1131 01:14:49,460 --> 01:14:52,180 This is why I'll never forget I was in at a particular 1132 01:14:52,180 --> 01:14:56,860 conference and I just teenagers were on this wall just wailing, 1133 01:14:56,860 --> 01:15:01,060 wailing in a in a praise session just, I mean crying everything. 1134 01:15:01,060 --> 01:15:03,780 And I'm like, wow man, these teens are going after it. 1135 01:15:03,860 --> 01:15:05,300 And the Lord told me he said no, they're not. 1136 01:15:06,850 --> 01:15:11,810 He says I don't even hear them. I'm like Lord, he said none of 1137 01:15:11,810 --> 01:15:15,290 them are connected to me in the spirit at all. 1138 01:15:15,650 --> 01:15:17,930 Now that doesn't mean God is not compassionate. 1139 01:15:18,370 --> 01:15:21,570 That doesn't mean that God isn't trying to move them somewhere to 1140 01:15:21,570 --> 01:15:25,050 get them somewhere. See, here's the thing. 1141 01:15:25,610 --> 01:15:29,170 Don't be so arrogant to think God's got accept how I'm doing 1142 01:15:29,170 --> 01:15:35,820 it. I mean, that's the I I I cried 1143 01:15:35,820 --> 01:15:37,140 out and cried out. He had. 1144 01:15:37,340 --> 01:15:39,780 God doesn't have to do anything but what His word says. 1145 01:15:39,780 --> 01:15:41,900 And if you'll do his word, then he has to do that. 1146 01:15:43,180 --> 01:15:44,780 That's why Jesus can be in a crowd. 1147 01:15:44,900 --> 01:15:47,620 It's why people are so crazy and they say, well, if I just get in 1148 01:15:47,620 --> 01:15:49,100 the presence of God, just get in the presence. 1149 01:15:49,100 --> 01:15:51,020 God has been in the presence of all kind of people and did 1150 01:15:51,020 --> 01:15:52,780 nothing. It did not change them 1151 01:15:52,780 --> 01:15:53,980 permanent. You know what miracles sound? 1152 01:15:54,140 --> 01:15:56,180 If we could just get the miracles back, can we just get 1153 01:15:56,180 --> 01:15:58,620 the miracles back? Miracle Signs and Wonders does 1154 01:15:58,620 --> 01:16:00,940 not. Mean permanent change in people 1155 01:16:01,100 --> 01:16:03,860 because Jesus did miracle signs and wanders 3 years into as 1156 01:16:03,860 --> 01:16:04,980 many. She said I ain't doing no more 1157 01:16:04,980 --> 01:16:06,980 miracles in this town. All you do is seek a sign. 1158 01:16:06,980 --> 01:16:08,860 You are a perverse and evil generation. 1159 01:16:08,860 --> 01:16:11,620 All you do is seek a sign. I'm so sick and tired of all the 1160 01:16:11,620 --> 01:16:18,020 signs that are testifying in me. If you if you believe the signs, 1161 01:16:18,020 --> 01:16:21,300 then you would obey me. But you're not obeying me, so 1162 01:16:21,300 --> 01:16:23,020 I'm not going to perform for you. 1163 01:16:24,350 --> 01:16:28,830 So you can't come and make me do what you want, nor can you make 1164 01:16:28,830 --> 01:16:32,950 me respond to you in your flesh. That's good. 1165 01:16:32,950 --> 01:16:35,590 I'm not going to be in your service just because you're 1166 01:16:35,590 --> 01:16:41,470 crying and you got a problem. But I'll be in your presence if 1167 01:16:41,470 --> 01:16:44,430 you'll make a demand on my word and I'll show up. 1168 01:16:44,710 --> 01:16:48,630 I'll show out. I'll stand up, I'll do it and 1169 01:16:48,630 --> 01:16:50,270 I'll deliver you like nobody else. 1170 01:16:50,950 --> 01:16:52,750 But you're crying doesn't do nothing for me. 1171 01:16:54,090 --> 01:16:58,490 He can say I got a whole book of criers that I did nothing. 1172 01:17:00,290 --> 01:17:03,490 Are you hearing me? Because this is how good God is. 1173 01:17:03,690 --> 01:17:06,130 You can be doing so much in the flesh and God to send you a 1174 01:17:06,130 --> 01:17:08,450 spirit man or woman to come by and say no. 1175 01:17:08,450 --> 01:17:14,450 Honey, I can show you some things that help move God, but 1176 01:17:14,450 --> 01:17:18,490 if you want to worship God your way religiously, then you'll get 1177 01:17:18,490 --> 01:17:26,150 that God Well, but he's done stuff for me. 1178 01:17:26,910 --> 01:17:29,830 He's done stuff for the people praying for you while you stay 1179 01:17:29,830 --> 01:17:38,070 ignorant. That's the problem. 1180 01:17:38,550 --> 01:17:40,550 Did God get you out of that? Yeah, but it wasn't your 1181 01:17:40,550 --> 01:17:42,390 prayers. It was someone who knew how to 1182 01:17:42,390 --> 01:17:45,990 tap God on your behalf. There was a Moses in your life 1183 01:17:45,990 --> 01:17:48,790 that was standing up while you were stiff, stubborn and 1184 01:17:48,950 --> 01:17:53,100 hardhearted doing it. Your way and somebody was in the 1185 01:17:53,100 --> 01:17:57,580 gap still for you. And yeah, it was God, but it was 1186 01:17:57,580 --> 01:17:59,180 nothing. You were snotting out. 1187 01:18:03,300 --> 01:18:07,500 Just say Amen. Anyway, this is true deliverance 1188 01:18:07,500 --> 01:18:11,060 right here, people, because this how you tap into God and become 1189 01:18:11,060 --> 01:18:14,420 a true worshipper, because you're like, I'll find out what 1190 01:18:14,420 --> 01:18:16,620 God says. Because he said now if you love 1191 01:18:16,620 --> 01:18:19,580 me, you'll keep my word. Then he goes on down in the 21st 1192 01:18:19,580 --> 01:18:22,900 chat verse of the same chapter and he says he who had, who has 1193 01:18:22,900 --> 01:18:25,860 my commandments and keeps them, is the one who loves me. 1194 01:18:26,660 --> 01:18:30,380 And he who loves me will be loved by my father, and I will 1195 01:18:30,380 --> 01:18:32,380 love him and will disclose myself to him. 1196 01:18:32,540 --> 01:18:35,740 But what is it that shows that we love him, we have His 1197 01:18:35,740 --> 01:18:39,780 commandments and we keep them? Then he goes down to 23rd verse. 1198 01:18:40,330 --> 01:18:43,770 In case you're confused, he says Jesus answer said that him if 1199 01:18:43,810 --> 01:18:50,090 anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my father will love 1200 01:18:50,090 --> 01:18:52,690 him. Which then implies if you don't 1201 01:18:52,690 --> 01:18:57,210 keep my word, Dad is definitely displeased. 1202 01:19:00,330 --> 01:19:04,490 OK. And we will come to him and make 1203 01:19:04,490 --> 01:19:07,810 our abode with him he who does not. 1204 01:19:08,180 --> 01:19:10,020 Love me now. How do we know who doesn't love 1205 01:19:10,020 --> 01:19:14,460 you? Doesn't keep my word. 1206 01:19:15,260 --> 01:19:16,900 Well, I love the Lord. Where you keeping his word? 1207 01:19:16,900 --> 01:19:18,340 Well, I mean, when you're going to church. 1208 01:19:18,340 --> 01:19:20,300 Well, I go when I want to. But the Lord says don't forsake 1209 01:19:20,300 --> 01:19:22,220 the assembly yourself together. You're supposed to get up 1210 01:19:22,220 --> 01:19:24,540 underneath the pastor man. Become part of a body, you know, 1211 01:19:24,740 --> 01:19:26,460 share, pray. I mean, you know. 1212 01:19:26,460 --> 01:19:28,420 Well, you know, someone so hurt me, I got church her. 1213 01:19:28,420 --> 01:19:29,700 Well, you're just offended, you know? 1214 01:19:29,700 --> 01:19:30,740 Get over it. Forgive. 1215 01:19:30,740 --> 01:19:32,570 Let's go. Well, you don't know what I've 1216 01:19:32,570 --> 01:19:34,090 been. OK, so you don't love him. 1217 01:19:34,090 --> 01:19:35,810 Then? Don't tell me I don't love hell. 1218 01:19:36,010 --> 01:19:37,490 You don't judge me. I'm not judging you. 1219 01:19:37,490 --> 01:19:39,170 The scripture said if you're not keeping his words, you don't 1220 01:19:39,170 --> 01:19:40,850 love him. What do you want me to say? 1221 01:19:44,570 --> 01:19:45,850 I'm not going to believe you're lie. 1222 01:19:50,970 --> 01:19:55,490 I mean you want me to believe you over the word who is saying 1223 01:19:55,490 --> 01:20:00,850 verse 24. He who does not love me does not 1224 01:20:00,850 --> 01:20:04,130 keep. My words and the word which you 1225 01:20:04,130 --> 01:20:08,690 hear is not mine, but the father who sent me and that's what he's 1226 01:20:08,690 --> 01:20:10,130 saying now. I'm not saying this. 1227 01:20:10,570 --> 01:20:14,850 Daddy told me to say this so you don't do what I'm saying and. 1228 01:20:16,330 --> 01:20:22,690 Then you have like you right with dad and your dad are tight. 1229 01:20:22,690 --> 01:20:27,930 I'll go on over to 1st John just so we have no confusion today 1230 01:20:27,930 --> 01:20:31,390 before we leave because God's seeking true worshippers that 1231 01:20:31,390 --> 01:20:33,870 are those listen. This is why heaven will be 1232 01:20:33,870 --> 01:20:36,390 nothing but worshippers. Because everyone who is with God 1233 01:20:36,390 --> 01:20:40,310 in heaven for the time frame we are before we come back to new 1234 01:20:40,310 --> 01:20:44,110 heaven, new earth. At the end of the day they will 1235 01:20:44,110 --> 01:20:46,270 be worshippers because we will obey dad. 1236 01:20:46,830 --> 01:20:49,870 We love to. I mean we just love to obey dad 1237 01:20:50,350 --> 01:20:58,310 because he's life, he's love, he's existence and his ways. 1238 01:20:58,830 --> 01:21:03,030 The only way, and we're so good with that, because it makes us 1239 01:21:03,230 --> 01:21:06,390 discover who we are and all that we can be. 1240 01:21:08,110 --> 01:21:10,350 First John Chapter 2, verse 3 through 6 is this. 1241 01:21:10,350 --> 01:21:14,270 By this we know that we have come to know him. 1242 01:21:16,270 --> 01:21:20,390 By this we know that we have come to know him notice. 1243 01:21:20,390 --> 01:21:25,150 It doesn't say experience him because you can experience 1244 01:21:25,150 --> 01:21:27,510 something about someone without knowing something. 1245 01:21:28,810 --> 01:21:33,490 I've been in plenty of sports or concert experiences or political 1246 01:21:33,490 --> 01:21:35,610 experiences for that and don't know the people. 1247 01:21:35,850 --> 01:21:37,770 But I've been in an experience and I've walked down and go, 1248 01:21:37,770 --> 01:21:44,290 wow, that was some experience and it touched me, it moved me. 1249 01:21:46,130 --> 01:21:49,250 But I don't have a personal relationship with that which 1250 01:21:49,250 --> 01:21:56,730 moved me. But this we know that if we have 1251 01:21:56,730 --> 01:22:04,250 come to know him, if we keep his commands, the one who says I 1252 01:22:04,250 --> 01:22:10,490 have come to know him and does not keep his commandments, is a. 1253 01:22:12,890 --> 01:22:19,890 Is a what? It's a liar and the so God 1254 01:22:19,890 --> 01:22:24,450 seeking after true worshippers and the and he seeks after them. 1255 01:22:25,190 --> 01:22:28,150 Who worship him in spirit. And so if you don't keep his 1256 01:22:28,150 --> 01:22:29,990 word, then you're a liar and the truth's not with you. 1257 01:22:29,990 --> 01:22:31,710 So that means you're really not a true worshipper. 1258 01:22:32,590 --> 01:22:35,470 So you're manipulating God's scripture to worship him the way 1259 01:22:35,470 --> 01:22:36,910 you want to, but he don't hear you. 1260 01:22:39,550 --> 01:22:48,700 But now he wants to be able to have the relationship, but you 1261 01:22:48,700 --> 01:22:52,700 have to have it on his terms. Jesus said I am the way, the 1262 01:22:52,700 --> 01:22:54,540 truth in life. We we don't get in this 1263 01:22:54,540 --> 01:22:57,880 relationship our way. Why do we think then we get to 1264 01:22:57,880 --> 01:23:03,440 love him our way. Okay. 1265 01:23:06,480 --> 01:23:11,160 So I have come to know him. If if one says I have come to 1266 01:23:11,160 --> 01:23:13,560 know him and does not keep his commandments, he's a liar. 1267 01:23:14,360 --> 01:23:17,400 The truth is not in him. But whoever keeps his word in 1268 01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:23,640 him, the love of God has truly been perfected by this. 1269 01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:27,050 We know that we are in him. How do we know? 1270 01:23:27,050 --> 01:23:30,010 Because we come to church and sing and we are the most 1271 01:23:30,010 --> 01:23:35,010 passionate singer. We sing more than anyone else. 1272 01:23:35,450 --> 01:23:36,770 Longer. Harder. 1273 01:23:41,250 --> 01:23:44,490 No. By this we know that we are in 1274 01:23:44,490 --> 01:23:47,130 him. The one who says he abides in 1275 01:23:47,130 --> 01:23:52,170 him ought himself to walk in the same manner as he walked. 1276 01:23:52,720 --> 01:23:56,400 And Jesus did not love his will even unto death. 1277 01:23:58,360 --> 01:24:00,800 Not my will, Father, but your will be done. 1278 01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:05,880 I'm only going to do what you say because I'm a true 1279 01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:15,430 worshipper. Thank you so much for listening 1280 01:24:15,430 --> 01:24:17,870 to this message. If you want more, subscribe to 1281 01:24:17,870 --> 01:24:21,230 our message podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and 1282 01:24:21,230 --> 01:24:23,270 SoundCloud. Rating and leaving a comment 1283 01:24:23,270 --> 01:24:25,390 will go a long way with helping our messages get better 1284 01:24:25,390 --> 01:24:27,710 circulation. 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