WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:18.720 Good morning, I want to take a little time today to talk about one of the most interesting 2 00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:22.600 topics in scripture, and that is angels. 3 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:28.720 I could probably do five or six broadcasts about angels, but to just get things rolling 4 00:00:28.720 --> 00:00:35.920 this morning, I want to talk about the importance of studying what the Bible says, because we 5 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:42.040 can have supernatural encounters with God, but we want to make sure that whatever we're 6 00:00:42.040 --> 00:00:47.640 doing or whatever we're encountering is actually biblical. 7 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:51.640 There's a wonderful scripture in 2 Timothy 2.15, and it says, 8 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:59.520 Be diligent to present yourself approved of God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, 9 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:03.840 rightly dividing the word of truth. 10 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:04.840 So what does that mean? 11 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:09.740 Well, people can wrongly divide it, correct? 12 00:01:09.740 --> 00:01:16.600 And so I had an encounter with something very supernatural when my father passed June 12th. 13 00:01:16.600 --> 00:01:22.940 I was next to him, and I was worshiping God. 14 00:01:22.940 --> 00:01:25.480 My heart was breaking. 15 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:26.800 It was sad. 16 00:01:26.800 --> 00:01:28.720 It was hard to hear. 17 00:01:28.720 --> 00:01:30.860 It was hard to listen to. 18 00:01:30.860 --> 00:01:32.460 It was difficult for him. 19 00:01:32.460 --> 00:01:35.600 It was difficult for me. 20 00:01:35.600 --> 00:01:39.920 And yet, I knew that God was where I needed to run to. 21 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:45.760 I needed to worship him and trust him in my pain. 22 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:49.000 So I began to sing, and I began to worship. 23 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:54.120 And that was fine for a while, and I was rocking back and forth, and I was holding his hand. 24 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:59.360 But at the end of it, sort of everything changed. 25 00:01:59.360 --> 00:02:08.440 And it changed when I began to sing about the holiness of God and how holy and beautiful 26 00:02:08.440 --> 00:02:09.880 he is. 27 00:02:09.880 --> 00:02:13.640 And I started singing, and I started worshiping. 28 00:02:13.640 --> 00:02:19.280 And suddenly something came in the room, and it was so powerful, and it went up, and 29 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:25.960 my dad was laying in the bed, and his eyes flew open, and he was like in shock. 30 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:34.520 And I was shaken because it was so holy, I was afraid. 31 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:37.640 And ever since that time, it's really kind of bothered me. 32 00:02:37.640 --> 00:02:45.800 I've wanted to get into my Bible and to prove scripturally, theologically, what was it that 33 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:46.800 happened? 34 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:47.800 What was that? 35 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:54.080 Have you ever had anything happen with God that you just didn't understand, didn't make 36 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:55.080 sense? 37 00:02:55.080 --> 00:03:01.240 I'd never, ever experienced God's presence where I was afraid. 38 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:07.240 And yet, when I began to go through and study worship and actually angels, I got some incredible 39 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:08.240 answers. 40 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:10.520 Now, what are angels? 41 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:12.440 Well, angels are spiritual beings. 42 00:03:12.440 --> 00:03:14.600 They've been created by God. 43 00:03:14.600 --> 00:03:18.400 They are basically staff in the kingdom. 44 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:20.560 They work for God. 45 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:22.960 They deliver messages. 46 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:26.240 They are about the Father's business. 47 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:29.760 They don't randomly interfere with men. 48 00:03:29.760 --> 00:03:33.520 They are involved in kingdom business. 49 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:44.240 They come when the Word of God is prayed or sung in faith, glorifying Jesus. 50 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:48.680 We are never to worship angels, we are to worship Jesus. 51 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:56.120 When we worship God, when we worship Jesus, and we glorify Him, that pleases angels and 52 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:57.120 they respond. 53 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:07.080 Not only that, they respond when we sing scripture, when we sing biblical truth. 54 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:11.120 They respond to the Word. 55 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:15.560 So I started digging in my Bible this week and I pulled out a book. 56 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:20.320 One of them was Understanding Angels by Terry Law, which is, I think, one of the best ones 57 00:04:20.320 --> 00:04:22.160 out there written about angels. 58 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:27.800 And then I just got into the old concordance and started looking for scriptures. 59 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:37.400 And when someone passes away, it is biblical that the angels come to comfort and to guide. 60 00:04:37.400 --> 00:04:40.000 And that reference, I found it, finally. 61 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:46.800 Luke 17, 22, so the beggar died and he was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. 62 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:49.360 The rich man also died and he was buried. 63 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:58.440 This is from Lazarus and it gives you that biblical example that we need scripturally 64 00:04:58.440 --> 00:04:59.960 that proves that 65 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.280 When someone passes away, it's a very holy thing. 66 00:05:04.280 --> 00:05:08.080 It shouldn't be taken lightly. 67 00:05:08.080 --> 00:05:14.320 When God comes, he comforts the righteous. 68 00:05:14.320 --> 00:05:18.640 It's a holy thing when you've loved God and you've served God and you're stepping into 69 00:05:18.640 --> 00:05:20.000 glory. 70 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:25.320 And he will come and he will comfort and he will guide you. 71 00:05:25.320 --> 00:05:32.160 Probably, well for me, it was one of the most painful things you'll ever go through 72 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:34.800 is the death of a loved one, especially a parent. 73 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:37.260 It's heartbreaking. 74 00:05:37.260 --> 00:05:43.720 But you have to be careful because when someone has a spiritual experience, it's very tempting 75 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:48.620 to somehow try to turn that into some sort of a doctrine when it doesn't really line 76 00:05:48.620 --> 00:05:49.720 up with scripture. 77 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:52.560 You know you need to go to church. 78 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:54.520 You need to read your Bible. 79 00:05:54.520 --> 00:06:00.920 You need to sit under a pastor who can teach you the word of God and who can help strengthen 80 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:06.560 you and answer those questions that you're going to have when you experience things. 81 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:10.440 So I began to go into scripture and I just saw some beautiful truths. 82 00:06:10.440 --> 00:06:11.440 Do you love worship? 83 00:06:11.440 --> 00:06:12.440 I do. 84 00:06:12.440 --> 00:06:20.160 I love praise and worship and I love studying biblical music over the course of human history. 85 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:28.520 I was a music major in college and there's a big connection between worship and the 86 00:06:28.520 --> 00:06:36.240 angels and it's also interesting now in modern contemporary worship that some of the most 87 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:41.980 anointed praise and worship songs that have been written in probably the last 20 years 88 00:06:41.980 --> 00:06:51.700 are songs that take portions of scripture that are biblically and theologically sound 89 00:06:51.700 --> 00:07:01.420 and those are put to music that empower the body of Christ to sing and worship Jesus. 90 00:07:01.420 --> 00:07:06.780 And there's some cool examples of that and the first one, of course, when I was looking 91 00:07:06.780 --> 00:07:12.820 at the angels are when Jesus was born in the hills in Bethlehem. 92 00:07:12.820 --> 00:07:13.820 Now think about that. 93 00:07:13.820 --> 00:07:15.300 There's two things that have happened there. 94 00:07:15.300 --> 00:07:21.740 Number one, the first thing the angels say is, fear not. 95 00:07:21.740 --> 00:07:26.460 And they begin to give instruction that in this day in the city of David is going to 96 00:07:26.460 --> 00:07:29.060 be born to you, your Savior. 97 00:07:29.060 --> 00:07:34.660 And then they go into in Luke 2, glory to God in the highest and peace on earth, good 98 00:07:34.660 --> 00:07:36.640 will towards men. 99 00:07:37.500 --> 00:07:47.560 When George Friedrich Handel wrote The Messiah, an oratorio, he was headed for bankruptcy 100 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:51.640 and he wanted to write something that would turn his life around because he was in big 101 00:07:51.640 --> 00:07:57.340 trouble and he was crying out to God and he sat down and he wrote The Messiah. 102 00:07:57.340 --> 00:08:00.000 It was either within 10 or 14 days. 103 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:06.200 It was like a download from heaven when he wrote that. 104 00:08:06.760 --> 00:08:12.200 One of the most beautiful portions of that oratorio is that chorus. 105 00:08:12.200 --> 00:08:18.200 I love the Hallelujah chorus, but I also love that glory to God in the highest portion that's 106 00:08:18.200 --> 00:08:20.360 in there as well. 107 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:24.320 Another beautiful example in scripture comes out of Revelation 5. 108 00:08:24.320 --> 00:08:29.320 Now there's a lot of beautiful examples of worship. 109 00:08:29.320 --> 00:08:34.000 We see examples of what happens in heaven in the book of Revelation. 110 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:41.559 When you study what's actually happening in heaven, we're to pray that according to the 111 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:47.000 Lord's Prayer that God's will be done on earth as it is in where? 112 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:48.000 Heaven. 113 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.080 Well, what's going on in heaven? 114 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:51.080 Worship. 115 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:54.600 The angels are worshiping Jesus. 116 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:56.400 They're worshiping God. 117 00:08:56.400 --> 00:09:01.760 A lot of people take the first portion of the church service, praise and worship, as 118 00:09:01.760 --> 00:09:03.480 kind of casual. 119 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:04.600 They'll show up late. 120 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:10.120 They'll roll in the back seat and slide in kind of like, well, we haven't missed anything. 121 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:12.000 It's just praise and worship. 122 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:16.980 Praise and worship is sacred and holy to God. 123 00:09:16.980 --> 00:09:20.920 When you go to church, you need to be there. 124 00:09:20.920 --> 00:09:21.920 You need to worship. 125 00:09:21.920 --> 00:09:24.200 Number one, it's what's healthy for you. 126 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:27.600 It's kind of like taking your vitamins. 127 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:29.360 Worshiping God is going to give you strength. 128 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:32.240 It's going to give you actually power. 129 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:33.240 Why? 130 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:39.000 Because when you're in God's presence, that's when you're going to hear from him. 131 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:43.000 And a lot of times, I don't know about you, but it takes me a while to kind of shut down 132 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.080 the world and what's happened this week. 133 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:52.080 I have to really think about, okay, Leanne, don't think about all those other things. 134 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:54.160 I'm here to worship Jesus. 135 00:09:54.160 --> 00:09:56.000 I'm here to love Jesus. 136 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:00.040 I'm here to focus on his goodness and his greatness and his bigness and his glory. 137 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.960 is glory, and not about all the dumb little petty things that are going on in my life. 138 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:08.440 When I do that, I enter His presence. 139 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:14.360 Biblically, it says we shall enter His gates with thanksgiving in our hearts. 140 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:20.520 We will enter His courts with praise, and that's connected to the tabernacle of Moses. 141 00:10:20.520 --> 00:10:25.200 That's how you get into God's presence, is through praise and worship. 142 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:29.380 Revelations 5, 11-14 Then I looked, and I heard a voice of many 143 00:10:29.380 --> 00:10:33.920 angels around the throne, living creatures and elders. 144 00:10:33.920 --> 00:10:41.000 And the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, 145 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:54.000 saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb who is slain, and worthy 146 00:10:54.000 --> 00:11:01.640 is the Lamb who is slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor 147 00:11:01.640 --> 00:11:03.360 and glory and blessing. 148 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:09.240 And every creature, that's including the angels, which is in heaven and on earth and under 149 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:16.200 the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying, Blessing 150 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:25.680 and honor and glory and power to Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, forever 151 00:11:25.680 --> 00:11:27.840 and ever. 152 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:32.600 And then the four living creatures, okay now these are the four living creatures that are 153 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:39.920 in heaven, they have the face of the man, the lion, the ox, and the eagle, and they're 154 00:11:39.920 --> 00:11:44.520 covered with wings, and they have eyes covering those wings. 155 00:11:44.520 --> 00:11:48.280 It's a wonderful study, go look at it at Revelations 4, my Bible classes used to draw 156 00:11:48.280 --> 00:11:50.480 it for me in Bible class. 157 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:57.160 And these creatures as well, they all say the same thing, Amen. 158 00:11:57.160 --> 00:12:02.320 And to the twenty-four elders, which are the twelve we believe potentially, the twelve 159 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:11.480 apostles and the twelve disciples, yes, or the twelve tribes, I'm sorry, and the twelve 160 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:17.560 apostles, they fall down and they worship Him who lives forever and forever. 161 00:12:17.560 --> 00:12:24.760 So that portion of Scripture shows you right there that heaven, the throne room, that's 162 00:12:24.760 --> 00:12:27.640 what we're going to be doing for eternity. 163 00:12:27.640 --> 00:12:32.400 We're going to be worshiping Him with the angels. 164 00:12:32.400 --> 00:12:38.960 So it would make sense that when we worship on the earth, when we go to church and we 165 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:45.880 put away our daily lives and we close our eyes, we don't focus on the band or the music 166 00:12:45.880 --> 00:12:53.920 or whatever, we focus on Jesus and we corporately sing praise and worship. 167 00:12:53.920 --> 00:12:58.000 You can sing and worship in your car, you can sing and worship in your living room, 168 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:08.940 but there's something powerful when you step into a corporate worship setting where people 169 00:13:08.940 --> 00:13:15.460 are singing scripturally, biblically, and honoring God. 170 00:13:15.460 --> 00:13:18.380 It's not about the musicians, never. 171 00:13:18.380 --> 00:13:23.300 It's about Jesus and our focus is on Him. 172 00:13:23.300 --> 00:13:26.340 And when we do that, we bless the Lord. 173 00:13:26.340 --> 00:13:30.740 That's our job first and foremost in praise and worship is to bless the Lord. 174 00:13:30.740 --> 00:13:38.020 And when we do that, that's when the angels come. 175 00:13:38.020 --> 00:13:45.560 Another portion of scripture, fear not, for behold, I bring you great news, great joy 176 00:13:45.560 --> 00:13:47.620 that will be for you and for all people. 177 00:13:47.620 --> 00:13:54.740 It's just another example of when you come into the presence of God or when the angels 178 00:13:54.740 --> 00:14:03.540 are there, we're not to fear that they have a job to do and they do that when we are worshiping 179 00:14:03.540 --> 00:14:05.540 Him. 180 00:14:05.540 --> 00:14:13.020 So when that angel, I'm back to when my dad passed, when that angel came in the room, 181 00:14:13.020 --> 00:14:14.660 I was terrified. 182 00:14:14.660 --> 00:14:25.580 I was instantaneously aware that I was not worthy, that I was a fallen person. 183 00:14:25.580 --> 00:14:31.300 I was not worthy to be in the presence of the holy thing that was in the room that day 184 00:14:31.300 --> 00:14:36.100 with my dad. 185 00:14:36.100 --> 00:14:42.140 But he was doing something that was so holy and so, I'm so thankful for what he did and 186 00:14:42.140 --> 00:14:45.540 how he did it looking back now. 187 00:14:45.540 --> 00:14:51.040 And it also produced fruit in me to want to study the Word and to want to go back into 188 00:14:51.040 --> 00:14:56.980 my Bible and then to prove what had happened to me theologically and scripturally. 189 00:14:56.980 --> 00:15:00.020 You know, I think we're living in a day now where a lot of... 190 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.640 People are going to be deceived. They're going to have fake encounters. They're going to have 191 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:09.760 what I call the new age encounters with things that aren't biblical. 192 00:15:09.760 --> 00:15:16.160 They're just not real. What do you do? Well, what you do is what I just did. 193 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:24.880 You go back to, can you give me scripture for that? Can you back it up theologically? 194 00:15:24.880 --> 00:15:32.240 Can you test it to the word of God? If you can, it's God. 195 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:40.560 Another thing, we are not to worship angels or we're not to worship encounters that we have. 196 00:15:40.560 --> 00:15:44.080 Now, this is from Revelations chapters 19, starting in verse 10. 197 00:15:44.640 --> 00:15:48.000 Then I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said, no, 198 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:51.600 he's talking about John who's having this encounter with this angel. He said, no, 199 00:15:51.600 --> 00:16:01.200 do not do that. For I am a fellow servant of yours and your brethren who hold the testimony 200 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:10.720 of Jesus. Worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 201 00:16:11.520 --> 00:16:18.480 Now, this book of prophecy, Revelation, would become one of the most significant books of 202 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:25.200 prophecy next to the book of Daniel, which parallels that. Zechariah also has prophecy. 203 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:30.320 Daniel also has prophecy. But Revelation is really kind of the New Testament book that 204 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:35.680 ties all of those things together. It confirms what is in the Old Testament. 205 00:16:36.640 --> 00:16:40.240 So, we want to study the whole counsel of God's word when we study. 206 00:16:41.040 --> 00:16:46.000 Then when we go back, we want to make sure that what we're experiencing and what we're 207 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:52.080 looking at scripturally and theologically, that it really lines up. I don't want to be deceived. 208 00:16:52.960 --> 00:17:02.400 I want to walk in biblical truth. I want to walk in the word of God, the blessing of God. 209 00:17:03.040 --> 00:17:09.040 I don't want to be deceived, and I do not want to deceive anyone that listens 210 00:17:09.760 --> 00:17:12.240 to the broadcasts or to the channel. 211 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:18.720 Thank you for listening today. It's important. If you've ever had an encounter with an angel, 212 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:24.480 I would appreciate it if you would leave me a testimony today. On my YouTube channel, 213 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:30.640 I'm going to post some additional videos there that pertain. I think they're important 214 00:17:31.760 --> 00:17:37.440 encounters with angels. They're important teachings regarding angels. They're voices 215 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:46.240 that I trust, and then also some good resources for you to study those things so that we can grow 216 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:55.040 up in the knowledge of God and we can show ourselves approved, rightly dividing the word 217 00:17:55.040 --> 00:18:10.640 of truth. Thank you for listening. Have a great day.