1 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:26,440 Matthew 18 verses 19 and 20 says again, I say to you that if 2 of 2 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,160 you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will 3 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:32,240 be done for them by my Father in heaven. 4 00:00:32,759 --> 00:00:36,240 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I 5 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:40,240 am in the midst of them. And that's us tonight. 6 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:45,240 We are gathered in His name. And it's up to you what supply 7 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,120 of faith you bring. Every time you come in here, 8 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:53,040 every time you come up in here. It is not a religious exercise 9 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,680 for us. We come in here and we bring our 10 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:57,960 supply of faith. So did you bring it tonight? 11 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,960 Amen. The presence of the Lord where 12 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,760 the Spirit of the Lord is. The Bible says there's liberty. 13 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,640 Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there's freedom. 14 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:14,640 Do we believe that is God's presence in you? 15 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,800 In you? You are the temple of the Holy 16 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:20,760 Ghost. He's in you. 17 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:25,880 We're going to look at Moses in an Old Testament example of 18 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:30,520 this, but it's no comparison to us in the new covenant today. 19 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:36,600 First Corinthians 619 says, do you not know that your body is 20 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,640 the temple of the Holy Spirit? Who's in you, whom you have from 21 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,600 God, and you are not your own. Do you not know? 22 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:48,800 First John 4/4 says You are of God, little children, and have 23 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:55,040 overcome them, because he who is in you is greater than he who is 24 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,760 in the world. We sang about our victory. 25 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,960 Do we believe that we have the victory? 26 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,080 Do we believe that we're more than conquerors in Christ Jesus? 27 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:08,960 If we believe that, then we're saying that we're speaking that 28 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:14,480 out loud, Isaiah 2913 says. Therefore the Lord said, in as 29 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:18,120 much as these people draw near me with their mouth, and they 30 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,160 honor me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far 31 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:26,680 from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the commandment 32 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:33,480 of men, I put that in here. Matthew 15-8 is another parallel 33 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,960 scripture for that these people draw near me with their mouth 34 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,120 and they honor me with their lips, but their heart is far 35 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,560 from me. I, I put that in here because 36 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:47,200 sometimes we all have a, a tendency to get in habits and 37 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,800 get in religious exercises and religious ruts. 38 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,800 And you got to make sure that everything you do is in faith. 39 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,440 Everything that you do, you're applying faith to whether you 40 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,040 felt like coming to church, whether you felt like coming to 41 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,720 morning prayer, whether you felt like reading your Bible this 42 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,040 morning. Are you applying faith to 43 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,840 everything that you're doing? Because that's how you're going 44 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:17,480 to get the word of God and the power of God out of what you're 45 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,880 doing. Now I want to go to Exodus 33 46 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,960 and we're going to look at Moses and we're going to see the 47 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:27,760 example of Moses and how he longed for the presence of God. 48 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:32,280 And then it and then it's got to cause us to, to take a step back 49 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:36,720 and examine our own heart and our own life and ask, are we 50 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,240 seeking and are we longing for the presence of God? 51 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,640 I'm going to read some of this to you and just act like you're 52 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,360 in grade school and I'm your teacher and just just soak it up 53 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,480 and listen to it. Then the Lord said to Moses, 54 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,960 depart and go up from here. You and the people whom you have 55 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:58,200 brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore 56 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,680 to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying to your descendants, I 57 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:05,760 will give it, and I will send my Angel before you, and I will 58 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:10,320 drive out the Canaanites, and all those people go up to a land 59 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:14,200 flowing with milk and honey. For I will not listen to what 60 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,680 the Lord says. I will not go up in your midst, 61 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:22,520 lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff necked 62 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,000 people. In other words, he's saying, I'm 63 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,560 going to send an Angel with you, but I'm not going to go with you 64 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,360 because you're stiff necked and and the, the golden calf thing 65 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,720 happened the chapter before and you're stiff necked and I you're 66 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,040 in rebellion and, and my presence will consume you. 67 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,400 And so verse 4 says, And when the people heard this bad news, 68 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,560 they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments. 69 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:53,520 For the Lord had said to Moses, say to the children of Israel, 70 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:58,440 You are a stiff necked people, I could come up in your midst in 71 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:04,360 one moment and consume you. Now therefore take off your 72 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,080 ornaments, that I may know what to do to you. 73 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,800 So the children of Israel stripped themselves of their 74 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:14,560 ornaments by Mount Horeb, and Moses took his tent and pitched 75 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,160 it outside the camp, far from the camp, and he called it the 76 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,680 Tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that 77 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,760 everyone who sought the Lord went out to the Tabernacle of 78 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,200 meeting, which was outside the camp. 79 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,520 So it was that whenever Moses went out to the Tabernacle, that 80 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:36,160 all the people rose, and each man stood at his tent door and 81 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,280 watched Moses until he had gone into the Tabernacle. 82 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,760 And it came to pass, when Moses entered the Tabernacle, that the 83 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,920 pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the 84 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,200 Tabernacle. And the Lord talked with Moses. 85 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,080 All the people saw the pillar of clouds standing at the 86 00:05:55,080 --> 00:06:00,000 Tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshipped each 87 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:05,600 man in his tent door. So the Lord spoke to Moses face 88 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,000 to face as a man speaks to his friend. 89 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:12,920 Verse 12. Then Moses said to the Lord, 90 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:17,440 See, you say to me, bring up this people, but you have not 91 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,280 let me know whom you will send with me. 92 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:23,000 I love this because Moses essentially is saying, these are 93 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,680 your people. And I realize they're stiff 94 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:27,720 necked, but you're not telling me who's going with me. 95 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:29,880 You're telling me an angel's going with me, but you're not 96 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:31,040 telling me anything more than that. 97 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,360 But you have not let me know whom you will send with me. 98 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:39,960 Yet you have said, I know you by name, and you have also found 99 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:45,400 grace in my sight. Now therefore I pray, if I found 100 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:50,160 grace in your sight, show me now your way, that I may know you, 101 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,680 and that I may find grace in your sight. 102 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,480 And consider that this nation is your people. 103 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:02,320 And he said, the Lord said, my presence will go with you and I 104 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,840 will give you rest. And I love this, this account of 105 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:09,360 Moses because he the the Lord was going to send an Angel. 106 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:11,920 And Moses said, these are your people. 107 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,640 You said you've graced me. Who you sending with me? 108 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,760 I want your presence. And in verse 15, Moses says, 109 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,560 then he said to him, Moses said this to the Lord, if your 110 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:28,320 presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. 111 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,000 If you're not going to go with me, I don't want to go. 112 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,880 We, we ought to have that posture in our everyday lives. 113 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:42,440 If you're not going to go with me, I don't want to go. 114 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,960 If there's not going to be an anointing, Lord, when I get up 115 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,760 here, I don't want to do it. If there's not going to be an 116 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,400 anointing when I go out to my workplace, I don't want to go. 117 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:02,680 Are we even asking? Are we even seeking? 118 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,480 I'm telling you, there is a major distraction in the earth. 119 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:12,880 And you know what it is? We don't take one minute. 120 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:18,280 We don't take 3 minutes. We don't take 5 minutes to spend 121 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:23,280 time in the presence of God. The Ding happens. 122 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,120 There's always something going on that's distracting you, 123 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:34,840 that's stealing your attention. The Bible says be still and know 124 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:38,320 that I'm God. Are we doing that? 125 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,640 There is a presence of the Lord that he wants to, to show you, 126 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:49,360 to reveal a glory of God, the goodness of God that he wants 127 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:55,680 to, to show you in your personal life, not just the glory in the 128 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:59,960 temple when we come here, but the glory in the temple. 129 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:08,880 But are we even asking, are we even taking time to get in his 130 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,640 presence and seek him? And, and Moses said, if your 131 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,040 presence doesn't go, I don't want to go. 132 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:19,880 For how then will it be known that your people and I have 133 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,200 found grace in your side, except you go with us. 134 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,760 Oh, that ought to be our cry. That's a distinguishing factor. 135 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,920 How are the people going to know that that you're for me and that 136 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:30,880 I'm with you and that you're in me? 137 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:34,240 If you don't go with me? How are the people going to 138 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,680 know? People ought to be able to look 139 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:41,000 at you and go, there's something different about you. 140 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:45,560 There's something different about your face. 141 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:52,240 Some of some of us need to check our face because sometimes our 142 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:57,800 faces don't even look happy. How are you when you're walking 143 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,480 through Walmart, when you're going to public? 144 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,480 Now, I know Walmart's not the greatest, but how are you when 145 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:06,880 you're walking through there? You ought to have a song on your 146 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:11,120 lips, a praise in your mouth. I'm not talking about going up 147 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:15,800 in Walmart and singing psalms in hymns and spiritual songs to 148 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:17,720 people. I'm not talking about doing 149 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,040 that, but I'm talking about it's in you. 150 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:25,080 You carry the glory of God because you've been with him, 151 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:30,840 You spent time with him. So Moses is saying, if I found 152 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,200 grace in your sight, how are the people going to know unless you 153 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,960 go with me? So we shall be separate, your 154 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,600 people and I from all the people who are on the face of the 155 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,600 earth, if your presence is with us. 156 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:46,480 So the Lord said to Moses, I will also do this thing that you 157 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,160 have spoken for. You have found grace in my 158 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:54,360 sight, and I know you by name. And Moses said, please show me 159 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:58,400 your glory. Please show me your glory. 160 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:03,920 I wonder how many of us have said that today or this week or 161 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,960 in a month or a year. God, show me your glory. 162 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:11,760 God, I want to be in your presence. 163 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:18,320 I'm just challenging you because in this fast-paced society that 164 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,000 we live in, it's super easy not to. 165 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:25,480 It's so easy to go, go, go, go, go. 166 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,240 You know, I can be in the presence of my husband and not 167 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:35,560 be in his presence. You have God in you, you have 168 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:39,840 the Holy Ghost in you, but it doesn't mean you're abiding in 169 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:44,760 His presence. I can be in the same room as Him 170 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:50,520 and not be communing with Him or talking in any kind of way or 171 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:53,360 being intimate with Him. It's no different. 172 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:58,840 Even though you've got God in you, you've got the greater one 173 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,320 on the inside. Do we live as though we have the 174 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:07,920 greater one on the inside? So the Lord said to Moses, I'll 175 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:09,640 do it. And he said, please show me your 176 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:12,480 glory in verse 19. Then he said, I'm already 177 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,040 spitting clouds of glory up here. 178 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:19,920 Then he said not really, not really, I am spitting, but not 179 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:23,680 that. Then he said, I will make all my 180 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:28,480 goodness. I will make all my goodness pass 181 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:33,200 before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. 182 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:37,320 I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will 183 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,680 have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 184 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:45,440 But he said, You cannot see my face, for no man shall see me 185 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:49,480 and live. And the Lord said, Here is a 186 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,080 place by me, and you shall stand on the rock. 187 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:57,880 And so it shall be while my glory passes by, that I will put 188 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:02,160 you in the cleft of the rock, and cover you with my hand while 189 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:05,040 I pass by. Can you imagine that? 190 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,960 Then I will take away my hand, and you'll see my back parts, 191 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:18,040 but my face shall not be seen. Exodus 34 I'm not going to read 192 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,160 all of it, just the first few verses and verse. 193 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:25,280 One says, And the Lord said to Moses, Cut 2 tablets of stone 194 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,720 like the first ones. And I will write on these 195 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:31,440 tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you 196 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,080 broke. So be ready in the morning and 197 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:37,000 come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to 198 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,200 me there on the top of the mountain. 199 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,880 And no man shall come up with you. 200 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:44,560 And let no man be seen throughout all the mountain. 201 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:47,720 Let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain. 202 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,880 So he cut the 2 tablets of stone like the first ones. 203 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:54,280 And then Moses rose early in the morning and went up to Mount 204 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:57,760 Sinai as the Lord had commanded him, and he took his hand. 205 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:00,720 It took in his hand the 2 tablets of stone. 206 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:05,600 Now verse 5 says, Now the Lord descended in a cloud and stood 207 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,440 with him and proclaimed the name of the Lord. 208 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:14,400 Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed the Lord, 209 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:16,800 the Lord God. Now he's, in other words, he's 210 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,040 saying this is who I am, the Lord, the Lord God, 211 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:25,960 compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding and 212 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:30,800 loving kindness and truth and faithfulness, keeping mercy and 213 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,880 loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and 214 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:40,040 transgression and sin. So the Lord stood with him and 215 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:45,880 says this is who I am in the Lord's presence and in his glory 216 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:51,040 is his goodness. It's his fullness, it's his 217 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:58,360 loving kindness, it's his faithfulness, it's his mercy in 218 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:06,040 his presence is everything that the I am is everything that you 219 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:09,960 need is in his presence. And if you jump down to verse 220 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,880 29, it says when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the 2 221 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:17,120 tablets of the testimony in his hand, he did not know that the 222 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:20,720 skin of his face was shining with a unique radiance because 223 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:26,360 he had been speaking with God. There was a glory on him that 224 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,800 the people couldn't even look at and he had to put a veil over 225 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:34,920 his face. And Moses spoke to the Lord face 226 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:40,480 to face like he was his friend, talked with him, communed with 227 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,880 him. Sometimes we have this picture 228 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:46,360 of God that he, he is, he is in the heavens. 229 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,480 But the Scripture says that you're seated there in heavenly 230 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,040 places with him. And the Bible tells us to 231 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:59,040 commune with the Holy Ghost and to go boldly before the throne 232 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:05,920 of God anytime and all the time. Do you feel worthy to do that? 233 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:08,560 You know most of the church doesn't. 234 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:10,480 I'm just going to be honest with you. 235 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:16,720 Most of the church does not operate in the being righteous 236 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,960 like God called us to be. You know, there's a difference 237 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,960 between being righteous and doing righteousness. 238 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:29,880 Being righteous is a gift and man, if you understood that 239 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:35,680 subject, if you understood that not only did God wipe away your 240 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:41,320 sins as far as the east is from the West, not only did he do 241 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,880 that, the scripture says he literally imputed his 242 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:50,120 righteousness to you. It's not innocence that gets you 243 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:54,040 into the Kingdom of God, it's righteousness. 244 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:58,640 The Bible says that the the scepter of righteousness is the 245 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:01,920 scepter of the Kingdom. Think about Esther. 246 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:05,880 He, she couldn't go before the king unless he extended the 247 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:10,400 scepter to her. Righteousness is your scepter. 248 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:15,040 It is your I can, I can come boldly, not because of what I 249 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:19,079 did, not because what I didn't do. 250 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:22,240 It's a gift. And the Bible says if you 251 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:26,119 understand the gift of righteousness, you will reign in 252 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,680 life. You'll reign in life as a king. 253 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:34,920 You need to understand it, and that's part of this subject of 254 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,360 the Lord's presence and coming into His presence. 255 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:40,600 If you don't feel worthy, then you're not going to do it. 256 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:48,360 If you're living in guilt and condemnation, then you're not 257 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:50,640 going to come boldly before the throne of God. 258 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:54,960 Not one of us should be living in guilt and condemnation. 259 00:17:56,320 --> 00:18:01,400 The Scripture says there is right now, therefore no guilt, 260 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:06,320 no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. 261 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,160 And then it goes on to say who do not live according to the 262 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,040 flesh, but according to the Spirit. 263 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:18,000 But the Scripture says that you are in the Spirit and that you 264 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,680 do know the Spirit and that you hear his voice and another you 265 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:23,880 won't follow. I'm just trying to encourage 266 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,200 you. You have the victory, you have 267 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:30,120 the righteousness of God, you have the boldness, you have the 268 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:32,080 access. Do it. 269 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:37,160 Quit letting your past failures and your your. 270 00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:41,120 The Bible says for your shame, He'll give you double. 271 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,920 The Bible says that He's redeemed you from the shame of 272 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:48,480 your youth. There's not anything that should 273 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,240 keep you out of the presence of God. 274 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:55,800 Not anything, not one thing. And then if you didn't know 275 00:18:55,800 --> 00:19:00,080 that, then tonight I expect you, whether you do it at the altar 276 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,480 or you do it when you walk out of here, for you to say I am 277 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:05,480 leaving those things that are behind. 278 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:11,280 I'm leaving them behind and I'm pressing on towards the mark of 279 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,640 the high calling which is in Christ Jesus. 280 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:17,320 Are you going to do it? Are we going to stay? 281 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:21,520 Are we going to stay in this complacent guilt, shame, 282 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,000 condemnation, inferiority complex? 283 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:26,880 No. We should be righteous 284 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:32,360 conscious, not sin conscious. If the devil can keep you out of 285 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:37,320 the Kingdom of God, if he can, if he can, if the devil can't 286 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,280 keep you out of the Kingdom of God, then he'll keep you in sin 287 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,280 consciousness. That's what I was trying to say. 288 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:48,360 Just because you're born again doesn't mean you're living in 289 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:57,000 righteousness consciousness. The battle is right here and it 290 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:00,920 is not a hard battle. Let me just say that God's 291 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,640 giving you everything you need for life and for godliness right 292 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,200 here on the earth. And so you're brand new, your 293 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:11,280 spirit is brand new. God lives on the inside of you, 294 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:15,120 but all the time you need to be transforming this right here, 295 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,520 right here. Sometimes we get born again and 296 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:22,200 we're excited and you should be, and God's on the inside of you. 297 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:24,320 And then we try to change our behavior. 298 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:26,800 God didn't ask you to change your behavior. 299 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:28,880 He asked you to transform your mind. 300 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,480 And then your behavior will change. 301 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:36,240 Get it right. Get it in the right order, OK? 302 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:41,160 It's not about what you can do to look good before God. 303 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:47,040 He already knows how you were, and He knows what He did to make 304 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:52,160 you white as snow and clothe you with a robe of righteousness. 305 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:56,480 Hallelujah. I'm going somewhere with this 306 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:01,000 Moses scripture, OK? The Lord is compassionate, 307 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,080 gracious, slow to anger, abounding, loving kindness. 308 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:07,560 And the glory of the Lord was on Moses's face, and they had to 309 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,520 put a veil there. This is the old covenant, this 310 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:15,160 is the Old Testament. We have a new and better living 311 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,120 covenant New Testament that we're living in. 312 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:22,800 So because of that, let's go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 3 in 313 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:27,640 light of what we just read about Moses, Second Corinthians 314 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:33,720 chapter 3 starting in verse 7. But if the ministry of death, 315 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:37,000 we're talking about the tablets of stone that we just read 316 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,800 about, we're talking about the the commandments that God gave 317 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,920 Moses. If the ministry of death written 318 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:48,240 and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children 319 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,600 of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses 320 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:56,000 because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was 321 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,880 passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be 322 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:04,680 more glorious? I need to ask that question 323 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,280 again. How will the ministry of the 324 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:15,040 Spirit not be more glorious than the glory that Moses had on his 325 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,560 face? How is the ministry of the 326 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:21,480 Spirit not more glorious that we shouldn't be walking around full 327 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,800 of the glory of God, full of the joy of the Lord, full of the 328 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:30,040 peace that surpasses all understanding that's in his 329 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,040 presence. So it says, how much more will 330 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,640 this ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious For the 331 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,840 ministry of, if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the one 332 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:46,480 we just read about, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much 333 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,960 more in glory, much more in glory. 334 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:56,120 The ministry of righteousness is the ministry of the Holy Ghost. 335 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:01,640 It is that For even what was made glorious had no glory in 336 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,560 this respect, because of the glory that excels. 337 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:09,600 For if what was passing away was glorious, what remains is much 338 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,680 more glorious. Therefore, everybody say, 339 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:19,880 Therefore, Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great 340 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:25,080 boldness of speech, unlike Moses, who put a veil over his 341 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,120 face, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily 342 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:31,520 at the end of what was passing away, but their minds were 343 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,600 blinded. For until this day the same veil 344 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:38,000 remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because 345 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,920 the veil is taken away in Christ. 346 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,320 But even to this day, when Moses is red, a veil lies on their 347 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,880 heart. Nevertheless, when one turns to 348 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,560 the Lord, the veil is taken away. 349 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:57,880 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, 350 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:02,560 there is liberty. But we all with unveiled face, 351 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:07,360 beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being 352 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:14,640 transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by 353 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,360 the Spirit of the Lord. I've said this countless times 354 00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:23,040 because I love the Scripture that says you behold what manner 355 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,880 of man that you are, and you walk away and you forget. 356 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:33,160 You behold in a mirror the glory of the of the Lord, the image of 357 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:39,640 Christ in you, and we walk away and we forget what manner of man 358 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,000 that we are. We're not ever supposed to 359 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,280 forget. We're always supposed to be 360 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:50,640 reminding that God what he sees because when he looks at you, he 361 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:56,040 sees Christ in you. He doesn't see your your old 362 00:24:56,040 --> 00:25:00,640 self and your old failures. He sees that righteousness that 363 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,360 he imputed to you. He sees Christ in you. 364 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,320 And so that's the confession of faith that you make in whatever 365 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:12,160 area that you're dealing with. There's there's an intimacy 366 00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:16,280 that's lacking in the church with the Holy Ghost. 367 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,080 Moses talked to him face to face. 368 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:29,000 Are we talking to him on a daily basis, face to face, spending 369 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:33,600 time with him? John chapter 14 says, and I will 370 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,400 ask the Father, and he'll give you another helper, comforter, 371 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:43,120 advocate, intercessor, counselor, strengthener, and 372 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:46,680 standby. I need to say that again, and 373 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,800 I'll ask the Father and he'll give you another helper. 374 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,560 This is the Holy Ghost within you. 375 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:56,080 He's your comforter. He is your advocate, he is your 376 00:25:56,080 --> 00:26:00,560 intercessor, he is your counselor, your strengthener and 377 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:04,200 your standby. There's a guy that we haven't 378 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,320 talked to for years that I just thought of this because I was 379 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:11,280 feeling kind of coachy, like I want to come down there and grab 380 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,760 some of you. I there's a guy that we haven't 381 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,280 talked to for years that called my husband before church. 382 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:21,720 We haven't talked to Joe for so long and I heard his voice all 383 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:22,880 the way. He's from New Jersey. 384 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,360 I heard his voice all the way through the through the phone 385 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:30,000 and apparently he's watched some of our, the Youtubes And he, he 386 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:35,240 told my husband, he said, I, I listened to you and he said and, 387 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:40,560 and your wife, what happened? She's like, she used to be like 388 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:47,520 quiet or and and I when we were at Rayma and I was indeed I was, 389 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,520 I was learning how and some people ought to do this when 390 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:54,400 they get born again. I was learning how my 391 00:26:54,400 --> 00:27:02,040 personality was going to be in Christ because I know how my 392 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:07,960 personality was and I know the coarse jesting and silliness and 393 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,680 fun and carnality and, you know, all the things that I did. 394 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,720 And so when I got born again, I was like, I don't know, I don't 395 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,120 know who I am. I don't know what to do. 396 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:21,560 Can I even speak? Like I'm not even sure what's 397 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,760 happening. I was so grateful and so 398 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:25,760 thankful because the Lord delivered me. 399 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:30,440 I was so I was so grateful and I just was so humbled. 400 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:35,800 And just like Lord I, there is a definite reverential fear of you 401 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:40,000 and, and all, and I trust you and I'm just going to yield all 402 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,920 of it to you. And now it's all here. 403 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:49,280 So yeah, yeah, yeah. So so he, I guess he had watched 404 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,680 of our videos and was like, what happened to her? 405 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:57,440 So anyway, John, chapter 14 that I felt kind of coachy right 406 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,480 there, like I'm like, are you with me? 407 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,040 Are you are you hearing what I'm saying? 408 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,360 Because I want to, you know, if they're not getting it on the 409 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:07,560 basketball court, I might go spank them or grab them or I'm 410 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,400 not abusing them. It's all love. 411 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,560 But sometimes I want to do that up in here, up in here. 412 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:19,280 OK, now, John 14, I don't even know what song that is. 413 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:20,120 I hope. I don't even know. 414 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,920 It's maybe not good. I'm sorry, I'm trying to get the 415 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:31,080 presence of the Lord here, OK? The Holy Ghost. 416 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:37,600 The Holy Ghost is in you. He's in you, and he'll be with 417 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,480 you forever. The Spirit of truth, whom the 418 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:46,160 world cannot receive and take to its heart because it does not 419 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,880 see Him or know Him. But you know Him because He, the 420 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,080 Holy Spirit, remains with you continually and will be in you. 421 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:58,200 You know Him. He can be in you and with you, 422 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,040 and you're not acknowledging Him. 423 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:07,760 You know, the Holy Ghost can be grieved, He can be quenched, He 424 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,200 can be lied to, He can be resisted. 425 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,800 The Scripture is clear about that. 426 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:19,360 And unfortunately, I think sometimes in the church we're 427 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:24,040 doing that and and we're seeing more and more of the more you 428 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:29,840 resist, the more you quench, the more you don't yield to the Holy 429 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:33,680 Ghost, the easier it is for your conscience to become seared. 430 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,560 The Bible talks about that. And then it's harder for you to 431 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:42,840 hear and easier for you to yield to doctrines of demons and 432 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:47,040 seducing spirits. And so I encourage you, if the 433 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:51,280 Holy Ghost is talking to you about anything, you know, when 434 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,200 when I first got born again, you know, he would talk to me about 435 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,960 little things at the time that now I'm like, I wish those were 436 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,320 the things that he was telling me to like give somebody a pair 437 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,720 of shoes or take a break from peanut butter, you know, 438 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:10,160 something like that. But but when you grow, there's 439 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:14,240 other things that he's going to talk to you about, you know, to 440 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,920 sacrifice to, to lay down, putting your flesh down. 441 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:22,960 And are we yielding to that or do we make justification for 442 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,480 what we thought? It's OK if I eat peanut butter. 443 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,760 I mean, God's not against peanut butter, but did he tell me to 444 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,200 stop for a season? Right now is not the season. 445 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:33,960 I had peanut butter today. But. 446 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,440 But he has told me crunchy, too, by the way. 447 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,680 Yeah, I can eat either. But crunchy? 448 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,600 There's something about crunchy peanut butter. 449 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,600 Are you careful? Careful. 450 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:54,640 Are you drawing near? James, 47, says. 451 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:59,840 Therefore submit to God. Quit texting me. 452 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:04,160 Resist the devil. Resist the devil. 453 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:10,040 OK, Focus, focus. OK. 454 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,840 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will 455 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:19,760 flee from you. Draw near to God and he will 456 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,880 draw near to you. Draw near to God and he will 457 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,400 draw near to you. Do you long for his presence, 458 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:32,160 His glory? Our access is greater if Moses 459 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:36,080 could talk to him face to face in the glory cloud could come 460 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,400 down and and envelope that space there. 461 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,440 So they all stood there on the edge of their tents and watched 462 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,040 the glory cloud. How much more in this new and 463 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,120 better covenant that we're in? Should we be living in the 464 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,760 glory? The glory of God is the full 465 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:57,280 fullness of his presence. The glory of God is the fullness 466 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:02,600 of his loving kindness, the fullness of his goodness. 467 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,120 That's the glory of God. Are we living in the glory of 468 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:11,640 God, God, God. Hebrews chapter 10 verses 19 469 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,480 through 23 says therefore, brethren, therefore, brethren, 470 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:20,800 having boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 471 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,760 thank you Lord, thank you Lord for the blood. 472 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:27,520 Thank you, Father. Having boldness to enter the 473 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:31,760 holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way in which 474 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:37,360 he consecrated for us through the veil that is his flesh, and 475 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,280 having a high priest over the House of God. 476 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:46,400 Let us listen to verse 22. Let us draw near with a true 477 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:52,760 heart, with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our 478 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,240 hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. 479 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,480 That's what I was just talking about a few minutes ago. 480 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,640 You either live in an evil conscious, a sin consciousness, 481 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,440 or righteousness consciousness. So it says, having our hearts 482 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,400 sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed 483 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:14,640 with pure water, let us hold fast the confession of our hope 484 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:19,120 without wavering. For he who promised is faithful. 485 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,520 Is he faithful? Will he do it? 486 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,400 Did he do it? Yes, Hebrews chapter 4 verse 16 487 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:31,280 says let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace 488 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:36,480 that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help us in our 489 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:41,760 time of need, empowering grace to overcome anything in our life 490 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,680 that that comes to us. We can boldly come to the throne 491 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:49,080 of God about it. Ephesians 3 verses 11 and 12 492 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,920 says according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in 493 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:58,120 Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom listen to verse 12 in whom we 494 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:04,680 have boldness and access, boldness and access with 495 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:10,480 confidence through faith in Him boldness and access, you have 496 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:15,639 access. Let's look at David in Psalm 51 497 00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:19,840 verses 10 through 12. This is right after David had 498 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:25,320 failed with Bathsheba and and David is crying out for the 499 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:29,120 presence of God, longing saying please don't leave me, please 500 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,560 don't take your Holy Spirit from me. 501 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:35,400 In verse 10 it says created me a clean heart O God, and renew a 502 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,880 steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your 503 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,719 presence and do not take your Holy Spirit from me. 504 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,719 And David didn't even have the Holy Ghost within him like we 505 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,440 do. The Holy Ghost would come upon 506 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,960 him, the prophet, priest, and king. 507 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,800 And he's saying, please don't take your presents from me. 508 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,680 Please don't take your spirit from me. 509 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:03,200 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me by Your 510 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,560 generous spirit. Psalm 139. 511 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,160 I'm going to fly through the rest of these. 512 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:12,240 Oh Lord, You have searched me and known me. 513 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,800 You know my sitting down and my rising up. 514 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:19,000 You understand my thoughts are far off, You comprehend my path 515 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,440 and my lying down, and you're acquainted with all my ways, for 516 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:24,920 there is not a word on my tongue. 517 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,520 But behold, O Lord, you know it all together. 518 00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:33,160 You have hedged me in behind and before, and laid your hand upon 519 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,080 me. Such knowledge is too wonderful 520 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:37,000 for me. It is high. 521 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,440 I cannot attain it. Verse 7. 522 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:43,880 Where can I go from your spirit, and where can I flee from your 523 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,280 presence? If I ascend to heaven, you're 524 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,400 there. And if I make my bed in hell, 525 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:53,440 behold, you are there. Where can you go from him? 526 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:58,440 You can run all day long, but there he is. 527 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,320 You're going to have to choose. I want you. 528 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,680 I want your presence. I'm going to quit running from 529 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,720 you talking to me. I'm going to quit running 530 00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:11,560 because I don't feel good enough. 531 00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:15,080 I'm going to quit running because I'm insecure or have 532 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,320 guilt or condemnation. I'm going to quit running from 533 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,920 your presence because everywhere I go, there you are. 534 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,760 I can't get away from you. Everywhere I'm at, there you 535 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,240 are. If I'm in hell, there you are. 536 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,480 If I'm on the mountaintop, there you are. 537 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:37,080 But are you engaging with him? Zephaniah 317 says The Lord your 538 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:42,000 God in your midst, the mighty one will save, He will rejoice 539 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:46,040 over you with gladness, and he will quiet you with his love, 540 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:49,000 and he will rejoice over you with singing. 541 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,440 It says the Lord your God in your midst. 542 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:56,560 When his presence is there, you'll know that he's rejoicing 543 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,800 over you with gladness. You'll know that he will quiet 544 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,600 you with his love. You'll know his love and that he 545 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,120 sings over you. You know, I love that that 546 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:09,080 recently really ministered to me that that God sings. 547 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,160 I never really thought about that. 548 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,680 I never really, even though I've read that scripture and other 549 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,120 scriptures, I never really thought about the fact that God 550 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:22,960 sings and, and, and literally brought me to tears. 551 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,800 You know, one day reading this Scripture and, and I tried to 552 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,120 convey it in one of my Kingdom institute classes. 553 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:35,280 But but God sings over you think about think about your, your, 554 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,720 your kids when they were little. I don't know if you all sang 555 00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:42,120 over them. We sang Pastor Mike even saying, 556 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,080 saying to the girls, and he's not a singer. 557 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:45,680 What was that song he used to sing? 558 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,520 Love is love is easily satisfied. 559 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,920 He made it up. And so he would sing that and I 560 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,360 would sing the Veggietales song. A thankful heart is a happy 561 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,480 heart. Be glad for what you have. 562 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,000 That's an easy way to start. I would sing that to them all 563 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,040 the time. And, and, and just sing songs. 564 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,600 If you know my girls or you've been in my home or you've been 565 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,840 in my car. I'm that meme that says nobody 566 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,400 ride with me because I want to sing. 567 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,040 I want to, I want to like belt it out. 568 00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,400 Like I don't just, I don't know what people are thinking next to 569 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:22,680 me because I sing and I like it and I just, I just sing to the 570 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,000 top of my lungs anytime I can. I'll sing. 571 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,320 And it's not because I want to perform. 572 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:32,760 It's because there's a song in me and it's because God sings 573 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,040 over me and he loves me. And, and if when your kids know 574 00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:37,920 that you love them, what do they do? 575 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,800 They just, they're happy. They just frolic around and run 576 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:46,040 through the house and dance and sing and, and, and that you 577 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:51,240 create an atmosphere of joy, an atmosphere of peace, an 578 00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:54,160 atmosphere of the presence of God. 579 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:58,200 Even when you're watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, you can, you 580 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:02,320 can turn it into something. That's what I always used to do 581 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:06,080 when, when my girls were little. We always, and the Bible says, 582 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,320 write the word of God on your doorpost, put it on your 583 00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:13,760 forehead, put it everywhere. Everything that you do, you're 584 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:17,640 the one that's training them up in the way that they should go. 585 00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,800 You're the one that's that's creating the presence of God in 586 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,120 your home. OK, let's talk about one way to 587 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,680 draw near and we're going to do it. 588 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:32,800 Praise and Thanksgiving is one way to draw near a focused 589 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,880 heart. Also, if I could say that, 590 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,840 remember, I read, you know that they, they, they say all the 591 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:39,480 right things. They do the right things with 592 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:43,560 their heart is far from me. You've got to focus your heart, 593 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,400 focus your mind. When you're with the Lord, you 594 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:52,960 can mindlessly be sitting here. You could, you could without any 595 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,920 thought be reading your Bible or putting it on, you know, read 596 00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:00,160 out loud mode and be doing the dishes and not giving one. 597 00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:03,400 Yep, I read it. No, you don't have a clue what 598 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:09,120 it said. Don't be mindlessly engaging 599 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,720 with God if you want His presence. 600 00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:14,480 If you want where the Spirit of the Lord is, there's true 601 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,960 freedom and liberty. Be focused, have a focused heart 602 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:23,440 and and always give thanks. Psalm 22, verse 3 is the 603 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:29,120 scripture that says God inhabits the praises of his people and 604 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,840 Israel, the praises of you, his people. 605 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:38,640 God's presence comes in in the praise when we were doing praise 606 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,480 and worship, loved, loved, loved. 607 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:44,360 And I want to do that first song again, that his glory fills the 608 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:49,840 temple as we worship Him. His presence fills your life 609 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:54,360 when you're worshipping him. Are you thankful? 610 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:59,480 Do you have a thankful heart? It's such a great habit to get 611 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:03,640 in with the Lord first of all, but also in your home. 612 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,720 If, if, if I can't say thank you to my husband or to my kids, no 613 00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:11,880 matter what it is, we're always like, thank you, appreciate you, 614 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,960 thank you for doing that. Have a thankful heart. 615 00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:20,200 Vocalize it. You know that it's not a 616 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:25,280 scripture, but it's a, it's a little saying that I like, dance 617 00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,720 like nobody's watching. Love like you've never been 618 00:41:27,720 --> 00:41:29,200 hurt. Was it? 619 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:33,440 What's the rest of it? Nobody knows anyway. 620 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:35,800 I can dance like nobody's watching. 621 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,440 I have a problem with that. Love like you've never been 622 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,160 hurt. Live life like it's heaven on 623 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:41,880 earth. When are you going to wait to 624 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:46,800 just fully love? When are you going to wait to 625 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:51,080 just really love people and just really vocalize your 626 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,960 appreciation for people? That's not what this is about, 627 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:56,880 but apparently somebody needs to hear it. 628 00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:00,840 Don't wait. Don't be locked up. 629 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:04,680 Don't, don't not tell the people around you how much you love 630 00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:10,800 them, how much you care, how thankful you are for them, for 631 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,360 their gift, not just what they can do for you, but just how 632 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,760 much you love them. Be quick to do that and do it 633 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:18,360 often. Do it often. 634 00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:24,080 Psalm 34, I will bless the Lord at all times. 635 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:30,080 Not sometimes, not in church, not every once in awhile. 636 00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,600 It says I'll bless the Lord at all times. 637 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,680 His praise shall continually be in my mouth. 638 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,640 My soul shall make its boast in the Lord. 639 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,320 The humble shall hear of it and be glad. 640 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:47,120 O magnify the Lord with me. Let me say something about this 641 00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,280 chapter. When we were at Rhema, Keith 642 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:54,000 Moore was one of our instructors, and he made us 643 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:57,960 every day in class without fail. Confess this out loud. 644 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:05,000 And some days I was like, and so I'm just telling you because if 645 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,760 some days you come in here and, and Chelsea or whoever's up here 646 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,480 says lift your hands and you're like, well, get a hold of 647 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,320 yourself and realize that it's for your good. 648 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,000 We're helping you be a conqueror. 649 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:24,120 We're helping you to step out of your comfort zone and and get 650 00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,200 into the presence of God and conquer some things in your 651 00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,520 life. Some of you need to break 652 00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:30,880 threats. They're free. 653 00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:33,640 You need to break free in the in this area. 654 00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,680 Take a run, you know, do something that's out of your 655 00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,360 comfort zone so that you know that you're free. 656 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,560 Sometimes you don't want to, but the Lord's prompting you get 657 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:46,440 out, do something, come down front, do something different 658 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,720 then what you're always doing. Quit staying in your little 659 00:43:49,720 --> 00:43:54,720 locked up achy, breaky heart. Let me keep reading. 660 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,200 Let me pull my pants up and keep reading, OK? 661 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:03,960 My soul shall make its boast in the Lord. 662 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:07,440 The humble shall hear of it and be glad. 663 00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:12,640 Oh, magnify the Lord with me. I'm saying to you, Oh, magnify 664 00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:17,160 the Lord with me. Oh, magnify the Lord with me. 665 00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,520 Oh come on, magnify the Lord with me. 666 00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:25,520 Hallelujah. And let us exalt his name 667 00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:29,040 together. I sought the Lord. 668 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,440 You know we like to see. I sought the Lord. 669 00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,520 And we sing that song. But do you believe it? 670 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:40,400 I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and he delivered me from all 671 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,720 my fears. They looked to him and were 672 00:44:43,720 --> 00:44:49,360 radiant. Oh my, Oh my, His presence. 673 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,960 It says they look to him. Are you looking to Him? 674 00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:57,840 If you're looking to Him, you'll be radiant, you'll be full of 675 00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:03,560 His glory, you'll be full of His presence, and their faces were 676 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:07,360 not ashamed. If you're in his presence, 677 00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:09,920 there's not any shame that's going to be on you keeping you 678 00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:14,120 out of it. Once you taste and see that the 679 00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:19,680 Lord is good, once you get in his presence and go, oh wow, I 680 00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:23,280 don't ever want to be out of this, then then there's no 681 00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:24,920 shame. There's no anything that's going 682 00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,920 to keep you out because you're able to discern the the 683 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:32,240 scripture says that the mature are the ones who by reason of 684 00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:36,120 use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil. 685 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:40,240 So, so when something like that comes, I can go, no, no, that's 686 00:45:40,240 --> 00:45:44,560 not what my God said. That's not what he said about 687 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,480 me. Let's keep reading. 688 00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,680 This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him and saved him out 689 00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,320 of all his troubles. The Angel of the Lord encamps 690 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:57,120 around around those who fear him and delivers them. 691 00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,200 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. 692 00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:02,440 Blessed is the man who trusts in him. 693 00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,040 Oh, fear the Lord, you his Saints. 694 00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,120 There is no want to those who fear him. 695 00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,200 In other words, there's no lack anybody. 696 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:11,040 You don't have to raise your hand. 697 00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,240 Anybody experiencing lack in this place. 698 00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:17,040 The scripture says there's no want to those who fear him. 699 00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,760 The Young Lions. Young Lions are pretty powerful, 700 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:23,440 right? Pretty, pretty awesome 701 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,320 creatures. The Young Lions lack and suffer 702 00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,480 hunger. People with all kinds of status 703 00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,360 and strength in the earth, they're going to lack and suffer 704 00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,440 hunger. But those who seek the Lord 705 00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:41,040 shall not lack any good thing, any good thing, not any good 706 00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,680 thing. Psalm 36, seven through 10. 707 00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,360 How precious is your loving kindness, O God? 708 00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:50,240 Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow 709 00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:53,680 of your wings. Because of your loving kindness 710 00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:57,160 You they are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of 711 00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,920 Your house and you give them drink from the river of your 712 00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:04,880 pleasures, for with you is a fountain of life. 713 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:09,920 And in your light or in your presence we see light. 714 00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,880 Oh, continue your loving kindness to those who know you 715 00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,600 and your righteousness to the upright and heart. 716 00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:22,320 Psalm 42, five and verse 11 says, why are you downcast? 717 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:26,280 Oh my soul, David, this is David, and why are you so 718 00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:31,440 disquieted within me, hoping God for I will yet praise Him for 719 00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:35,680 the help of His countenance or His presence. 720 00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:41,240 His presence will help you. His presence will pull you out. 721 00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:45,840 His presence will deliver you. His presence will give you 722 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,040 freedom. And this says hoping God for I'm 723 00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,960 going to praise him for the help of his countenance. 724 00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:56,440 Verse 11 says, Why are you downcast, Oh my soul, and why 725 00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,840 are you disquieted within me, hoping God, for I will yet 726 00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:04,720 praise him again for the help of my countenance and my God. 727 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:08,280 Psalm 95 says, Oh come, let us sing to the Lord. 728 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:12,080 Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. 729 00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:16,560 Let listen to this part. Let us come before His presence 730 00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:21,640 with Thanksgiving, and let us shout joyfully to Him with 731 00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:25,400 psalms. For the Lord is the great God 732 00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,840 and the great King above all gods. 733 00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,960 In His hand are the deep places of the earth. 734 00:48:32,240 --> 00:48:35,160 The heights of the hills are also His. 735 00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:39,800 The sea is his, for he made it and his hands formed the dry 736 00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,200 land. Oh, come, let us worship and bow 737 00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,640 down. Let us kneel before the Lord our 738 00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:49,600 Maker, for he is our God and we are his people, The sheep of his 739 00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:51,560 pasture and the sheep of his hand. 740 00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,600 Sorry, we are his people. I got, I, I feel like I'm about 741 00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:58,720 to like explode up here. We are the people of his pasture 742 00:48:58,720 --> 00:49:01,040 and the sheep of his hand. Psalm 100. 743 00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:04,280 I'm busting through a couple more scriptures so we can put 744 00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,800 our faith to action. Make a joyful shout to the Lord. 745 00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:10,080 All you land, serve the Lord with gladness. 746 00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:14,480 Listen, come before his presence with singing. 747 00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:17,800 Come before his. Do you do that at home? 748 00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,200 Do you come before his presence with singing? 749 00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:24,720 It's as simple as getting your car and saying thank you Lord, 750 00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:27,520 you're worthy. Oh, I honor you, thank you Lord, 751 00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,320 and just begin to sing out of your spirit. 752 00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:35,280 Just start thanking him. A thankful heart is is so huge 753 00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,080 for you to have victory in your life. 754 00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,320 Come before His presence with singing. 755 00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:44,120 Know that the Lord He is God. It is He who made us and not we 756 00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:47,120 ourselves, for we are His people, the sheep of His 757 00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:49,720 pasture. Enter into His gates with 758 00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:52,400 Thanksgiving and His courts with praise. 759 00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:57,920 Be thankful to Him and bless His name, for the Lord is good, and 760 00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:02,480 His mercy is everlasting, and his truth endures to all 761 00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:06,240 generations. Psalm 114 Seven tremble O earth, 762 00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:10,600 at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of 763 00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:14,280 Jacob. Psalm one O 5 verse 4 says Seek 764 00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:20,040 the Lord and his strength, seek his face or seek his presence 765 00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:24,600 forever more. Proverbs 1810, the name of the 766 00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:28,360 Lord is a strong tower. The righteous run into it and 767 00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:31,440 they are safe. Worship team, you can come. 768 00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,720 I have a couple more scriptures to read while you're coming. 769 00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:40,160 That tower, that strong tower is a high, very high place. 770 00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:47,400 It is a safe and high place that is inaccessible to anything down 771 00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:50,000 here. It says the name of the Lord is 772 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,680 a strong tower. The righteous run into it, and 773 00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:56,240 they are safe. Psalm 91 He that dwelleth in the 774 00:50:56,240 --> 00:50:59,280 secret place, what is that secret place? 775 00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:04,120 His presence. He that dwelleth in the secret 776 00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:08,120 place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the 777 00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:12,960 Almighty. I will say of the Lord, he is my 778 00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:18,760 refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust. 779 00:51:19,240 --> 00:51:22,920 I want by unction of the Holy Ghost for us to sing. 780 00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:26,440 Your glory fills the temple as we worship you. 781 00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:31,760 I want to sing that song again and and I want you to put action 782 00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:34,760 to your faith. I'm not asking you to run. 783 00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:40,160 I'm not asking you to dance. I'm asking you to genuinely give 784 00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:45,520 him all the praise, because if for nothing else, He's delivered 785 00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:49,000 you out of the domain of darkness and brought you into 786 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:50,520 the Kingdom of His son.