WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 Good morning. 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.000 Oh, guys, I have good news to tell you. 3 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:11.000 Something I've been working on for like seven months. 4 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:14.000 I am no longer a white belt in jiu-jitsu. 5 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:15.000 I have been promoted. 6 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:16.000 I am a blue belt. 7 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:19.000 Those of you that have been following along, you're welcome. 8 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:20.000 Just updating you. 9 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:21.000 My hands hurt. 10 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:22.000 Everything hurts. 11 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:23.000 Ribs hurt. 12 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:24.000 My fingers hurt. 13 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.000 But there's nothing like choking somebody out. 14 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:29.000 And so it's great. 15 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:32.000 And sometimes I'll think about staff that I'm frustrated with. 16 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:33.000 I'm like, Chris Felton. 17 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:34.000 No, just kidding. 18 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:35.000 I'm joking. 19 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:36.000 I'm totally joking. 20 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:37.000 I'm totally joking. 21 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:39.000 But yeah, I was excited this last week. 22 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:40.000 I got promoted to blue belt. 23 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:42.000 And so I've been pumped. 24 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:43.000 Really enjoying it. 25 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:45.000 Getting to do it with my brother. 26 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:46.000 And it's been a ton of fun. 27 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:49.000 And I've been the last four days been solo parenting with my kids. 28 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:51.000 My wife is on a retreat in Nashville. 29 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:53.000 Getting to kind of refresh yourself. 30 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.000 And you know what? 31 00:00:57.000 --> 00:00:59.000 It's great when you're a parent of young kids because they wake up at odd 32 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.000 hours to tell you odd things. 33 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:05.000 Like my daughter, I think it was 4 a.m. when she came to my room to tell me, 34 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:07.000 Dad, I can snap. 35 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:14.000 And I'm like, yeah. 36 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:16.000 I'm the only one in the house this week. 37 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.000 Go to sleep. 38 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:19.000 Yeah. 39 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:21.000 Or my son. 40 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:24.000 Or her waking up at 5 going, is it my birthday today? 41 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:27.000 I'm like, no, it's not. 42 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:30.000 It's not your birthday today. 43 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:32.000 She knows it's coming so she's asking every day. 44 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:33.000 It's awesome. 45 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:35.000 But then the other day she had to go to a princess birthday party. 46 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:38.000 And I was a little bit daunted at the idea of dressing her up for a 47 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:40.000 princess birthday party. 48 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:41.000 So I called my sister-in-law. 49 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:43.000 I was like, can I bring her to the house? 50 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.000 And you get her makeup and all that stuff and get her done. 51 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:47.000 And she gets in the car seat and they're leaving. 52 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:49.000 I'm like, okay, bye, babe, I love you. 53 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.000 And she goes like this. 54 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:53.000 Remember, I love you. 55 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:58.000 I'm like, everything I've done. 56 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.000 Anyway, so I'm surprised I'm standing. 57 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:03.000 My son is 6 and he's a force. 58 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:05.000 So it's a lot of fun. 59 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:08.000 But I want to tell you quickly before I dive into what I'm going to speak 60 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:10.000 about this morning, I want to talk to you about something that's coming our 61 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:13.000 way in the end of September, which is Open Heavens Conference. 62 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:17.000 If you've never been here for an Open Heavens Conference or you've been 63 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:21.000 here for many years and you've never attended an Open Heavens Conference, 64 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:24.000 normally we're rallying our troops to host that. 65 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:28.000 But I also wanted to invite so many of you who have never actually attended 66 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.000 that to attend the Open Heavens Conference. 67 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:33.000 This year we have Michael Koulianos coming in as a guest speaker. 68 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:36.000 And then Elisa Smith from Upper Room who's going to be doing guest worship 69 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.000 as well as our worship teams. 70 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:39.000 So it's going to be an amazing time. 71 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:41.000 So I wanted to kind of seed that into your minds. 72 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:42.000 It's the end of September. 73 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:43.000 Just think about it. 74 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:44.000 Look at your calendars. 75 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:46.000 It's the 28th, 29th, 30th. 76 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:47.000 So just think about it. 77 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:52.000 Anyway, I'm kind of stalling as well too because the level of anxiousness I feel 78 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:56.000 because the message is so important to my heart, but yet the person I learned it 79 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.000 the most from was on the front row. 80 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:01.000 And so I didn't know he was going to be here this morning. 81 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:06.000 And so I'm like, Lord, I learned all this from him. 82 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:10.000 So we're going to dive in this morning on a topic that's been really stirring 83 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:12.000 in my heart and just think Bill said it. 84 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.000 So if you're wondering, if it goes bad, Bill said it. 85 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:18.000 If it goes good, Bill said it. 86 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.000 But we'll pray, and then we'll get into it this morning. 87 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:26.000 Jesus, I thank you that you are here with us, and I thank you that you enjoy us, 88 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:28.000 that you don't tolerate us, that you enjoy us. 89 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.000 And I ask right now that your spirit of wisdom and revelation 90 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:34.000 and the knowledge of you would be with us this morning, 91 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:37.000 that we would see you a little bit differently today, 92 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:40.000 and we would dive into your nature more, and we would learn about you, 93 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:42.000 and you would fill us up with your presence. 94 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:45.000 In Jesus' name, amen. 95 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:51.000 Okay, so I'm going to talk to you about ministering to the Lord. 96 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:54.000 Now you're wondering why I'm nervous to talk about worship. 97 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:58.000 But let me give you a couple of verses that have been standing out to me. 98 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:03.000 Listen, I probably could count them, and there's like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 99 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:16.000 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. 100 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.000 A lot of verses in the Bible about worship. 101 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:22.000 I've only got 28 of them, only, but I won't dive into all of them. 102 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:26.000 But here's what I want to open us up with Matthew 28, 103 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:29.000 and there's going to be a lot of verses I'm going to make reference to, 104 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:31.000 and I'll give you the addresses to them. 105 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.000 Matthew 28 is going to set us up with something, 106 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:35.000 and then we're going to read Ephesians and Colossians, 107 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:37.000 and then we'll dive into some other ones. 108 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:42.000 But in Matthew 28, there's just one little sentence in Matthew 28, verse 17, 109 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:46.000 that I want us to see that's going to set us up for our conversation this morning. 110 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:50.000 So Matthew 28, 17, and it's really simple, really basic, 111 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:53.000 but there's so much depth to it for us. 112 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:55.000 Matthew 28, verse 17, 113 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:58.000 When they saw Him, they worshipped Him. 114 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.000 When they saw Him, they worshipped Him. 115 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.640 worshiped him. It says, but some doubted. We're not going to focus on that this morning. 116 00:05:04.640 --> 00:05:11.360 The first part, when they saw him, they worshipped him. When they saw him, they worshipped him. 117 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:15.680 Worship, this is the parameter and kind of the sandbox we're going to play in, is worship 118 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:21.440 is the response to his presence. That's what we're going to start with. Worship is the 119 00:05:21.440 --> 00:05:25.920 response to his presence. And worship, you know, God is not seeking worship. He's seeking 120 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:35.360 first. Boom. Okay. We'll start there. So Matthew 28, 17, when they saw him, they worshipped 121 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:40.080 him. So hold that in your heart, that worship is that response to his presence. Now, there's 122 00:05:40.080 --> 00:05:45.400 a couple of verses I want to read because I think they really set up something interesting 123 00:05:45.400 --> 00:05:55.040 for us. So Colossians and Ephesians, we'll read Ephesians first. This is Ephesians 2. 124 00:05:55.040 --> 00:06:02.320 You're getting your whole week's Bible reading in one sermon. You're welcome. If I can find 125 00:06:02.320 --> 00:06:07.280 it in my Bible, I know exactly where it is, but I'm shaking a little bit this morning. 126 00:06:07.280 --> 00:06:14.560 I just don't know why, but I'm shaking. Ephesians 2, and then it'll be Colossians 3 will be 127 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:19.240 the next one we're going to read. But Ephesians 2, man, there's so much good scripture to 128 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:24.800 read about this stuff. I'm just, as I go to Ephesians 2, I'm seeing notes on other 129 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:33.200 verses and I'm like, oh, it's a goldmine of goodness. Maybe you'll start reading the Bible 130 00:06:33.200 --> 00:06:37.480 differently today and they'll just start jumping out at you. That'd be exciting. Ephesians 131 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:46.720 2, verse 20, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ 132 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:51.520 himself being the chief cornerstone in whom the whole building being fitted together grows 133 00:06:51.520 --> 00:06:57.840 into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you are also being built together for a dwelling 134 00:06:57.840 --> 00:07:05.680 place of God in the Spirit. You are also being built together for a dwelling place of God 135 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:10.280 in the Spirit. We'll probably dive into this a little bit more depending on how things 136 00:07:10.280 --> 00:07:17.000 flow, but there's an individual, you as a temple of the Holy Spirit. It says this, when 137 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:21.840 the word became flesh and dwelt among us, that word dwelt is tabernacled. So tabernacled 138 00:07:21.840 --> 00:07:26.480 among us. And then we get the understanding through Paul's teaching that we are a dwelling 139 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:31.080 place. We are a temple of the Holy Spirit. We get that individual. And Paul is here, 140 00:07:31.080 --> 00:07:36.160 is highlighting another dimension to this. There is your, you are a dwelling place of 141 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:40.320 the Holy Spirit. He fills you and you carry God in the indwelling. Then there's something 142 00:07:40.320 --> 00:07:45.760 that happens with us together that's different than you individually. That you are being 143 00:07:45.760 --> 00:07:52.760 built together for a dwelling place. The question we should be asking ourselves, if God is not 144 00:07:52.760 --> 00:07:59.680 at church, is church church? If God is not at church, is church church? Because that's 145 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:04.080 what marks the distinction of the dwelling place is that for dwelling place of God in 146 00:08:04.080 --> 00:08:10.400 the Spirit. And Peter, we'll reference Peter in a little bit, that we are living stones 147 00:08:10.400 --> 00:08:16.880 being put together. A royal priesthood, we'll dive into the priesthood and ministering to 148 00:08:16.880 --> 00:08:22.120 the Lord in a bit here, but there's this dwelling place that God is creating with you and I. 149 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:28.560 So you and I all have that personal devotion to God, but then there's something that happens 150 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.800 when two or three are gathered in my name. There's something that happens when you and 151 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:36.240 I gather together. There's something when God is doing something beyond just our individual 152 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:40.840 devotion. There's something that happens when a group of people, a body of people start 153 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:45.520 to engage with that calling, that first assignment and that ministry to the Lord. This dwelling 154 00:08:45.520 --> 00:08:51.760 place where God starts to inhabit us and inhabit our praises that is distinct and different 155 00:08:51.760 --> 00:08:57.360 than your personal time, though both are necessary. Okay, so the other part of scripture that 156 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:03.760 I wanted to read right away is Colossians, and this one is because it highlights both 157 00:09:03.760 --> 00:09:08.280 parts of worship that I really wanted to highlight, but I won't be speaking on the other one. 158 00:09:08.280 --> 00:09:22.800 So Colossians 3 verse 16. A lot of Bible today. Sorry, not sorry. Hashtag sorry, not sorry. 159 00:09:22.800 --> 00:09:28.200 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one 160 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:33.720 another in psalms and in hymns and in spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to 161 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:38.680 the Lord. So there's one component of our worship, right? Our singing. Psalms, I believe 162 00:09:38.680 --> 00:09:46.120 it's Psalm 100 says, come before his presence with singing. So then the other part is whatever 163 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:50.560 you do in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord, giving thanks to God the Father 164 00:09:50.560 --> 00:09:55.600 through him. So we're not going to dive into this part as much, but everything we do is 165 00:09:55.600 --> 00:10:00.000 worship if our hearts are set towards him. Jesus has this concept. 166 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:01.280 when he says, your lips can praise me, 167 00:10:01.280 --> 00:10:02.480 but your hearts are far from me. 168 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:03.920 So it's not necessarily that you're singing 169 00:10:03.920 --> 00:10:07.000 that makes it worship, it's what's going on in here, right? 170 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:09.920 And so there's the idea that you could be changing a diaper 171 00:10:09.920 --> 00:10:10.800 and it's worship. 172 00:10:10.800 --> 00:10:12.480 You could be working as a lawyer and a teacher 173 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:14.680 and a doctor and a physician, whatever it may be, 174 00:10:14.680 --> 00:10:15.720 and it's worship. 175 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.040 So everything is worship. 176 00:10:18.040 --> 00:10:19.640 So that is so true. 177 00:10:19.640 --> 00:10:23.160 But what if you can do is you can highlight that so much 178 00:10:23.160 --> 00:10:25.600 that you can forget that singing is worship too. 179 00:10:26.860 --> 00:10:27.700 If that makes sense. 180 00:10:27.700 --> 00:10:29.320 You can go, everything is worship 181 00:10:29.340 --> 00:10:32.500 to the point where you could spend like kayaking with God. 182 00:10:33.620 --> 00:10:35.260 And it's so good. 183 00:10:35.260 --> 00:10:36.660 I don't like jujitsu with God. 184 00:10:36.660 --> 00:10:38.580 I don't know if that's really what I'm thinking about 185 00:10:38.580 --> 00:10:41.180 when I'm getting choked out, when my mouth is going. 186 00:10:43.060 --> 00:10:45.460 But there's these ideas that everything is unto the Lord, 187 00:10:45.460 --> 00:10:48.240 that no matter what our work, our parenting, 188 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:49.120 all of that is unto the Lord. 189 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:50.600 But then there's also this dimension 190 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:53.020 of the scriptures teaching us worship 191 00:10:53.020 --> 00:10:55.980 that is singing and bringing our song to the Lord 192 00:10:55.980 --> 00:10:58.460 and allowing that we would come with something 193 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:01.320 that only we can bring, which is our song. 194 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:03.160 So I'm gonna talk more about that this morning 195 00:11:03.160 --> 00:11:04.640 than everything is worship. 196 00:11:04.640 --> 00:11:06.760 Those two will go like that back and forth 197 00:11:06.760 --> 00:11:09.960 and dance and move in between each other. 198 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:11.680 You guys doing okay so far? 199 00:11:11.680 --> 00:11:13.560 Okay, great, awesome. 200 00:11:13.560 --> 00:11:18.260 So the idea here that we are being built together 201 00:11:18.260 --> 00:11:20.660 as a dwelling place for God in the spirit, 202 00:11:20.660 --> 00:11:22.920 that we are living stones chosen by God, 203 00:11:22.920 --> 00:11:26.800 a royal priesthood, a royal priesthood chosen 204 00:11:26.820 --> 00:11:28.460 that we might proclaim his praises 205 00:11:28.460 --> 00:11:31.300 because he has pulled us out of darkness and into light. 206 00:11:31.300 --> 00:11:32.940 That's Peter talking to you. 207 00:11:32.940 --> 00:11:35.100 He's telling you that you have been chosen for praises 208 00:11:35.100 --> 00:11:38.860 and you are a royal priesthood, a royal priesthood. 209 00:11:38.860 --> 00:11:41.100 And so the question we ask ourselves is, 210 00:11:41.100 --> 00:11:42.380 what is a priesthood? 211 00:11:42.380 --> 00:11:43.480 What is the priestly ministry? 212 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:44.580 What is that? 213 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.700 So we're gonna dive into a little bit. 214 00:11:48.700 --> 00:11:51.120 We'll see how far we go get together, guys. 215 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:53.620 I'm so excited that I'm still shaking. 216 00:11:53.620 --> 00:11:54.800 I'm not gonna lie. 217 00:11:55.020 --> 00:11:57.780 I feel such a like buzz inside of me 218 00:11:57.780 --> 00:12:00.420 that I'm like, wow, it's hard to focus, 219 00:12:00.420 --> 00:12:01.520 to be honest with you. 220 00:12:03.420 --> 00:12:05.240 Woo, it's good. 221 00:12:08.540 --> 00:12:12.620 You know, I used to, before I truly had this moment 222 00:12:12.620 --> 00:12:13.860 of giving my life to Jesus, 223 00:12:13.860 --> 00:12:16.340 my parents would take me to church on Sundays 224 00:12:16.340 --> 00:12:18.580 and I would go and worship when it happened 225 00:12:18.580 --> 00:12:23.580 and I would find myself getting gripped by something 226 00:12:25.020 --> 00:12:28.660 something would hit me and I didn't want to show anyone. 227 00:12:28.660 --> 00:12:33.180 So I gripped the chair in front of me as tears. 228 00:12:33.180 --> 00:12:34.700 So when the tears started to form, 229 00:12:34.700 --> 00:12:38.380 I yawned so that I could fake wipe them away 230 00:12:40.660 --> 00:12:42.420 because I could feel the sense of presence 231 00:12:42.420 --> 00:12:44.580 when people started to sing, 232 00:12:44.580 --> 00:12:45.980 that started to do something in me, 233 00:12:45.980 --> 00:12:47.100 but I was not ready for it. 234 00:12:47.100 --> 00:12:49.740 I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 235 00:12:49.740 --> 00:12:52.140 Whoa, this is too raw and real. 236 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:54.960 Like I was like, oh, I'm being undone already, 237 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:56.680 but I was young and didn't know what was going on. 238 00:12:56.680 --> 00:12:57.800 So I would grip the chair in front of me 239 00:12:57.800 --> 00:13:00.000 and then when tears, I would yawn. 240 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:03.200 And then I remember when I truly encountered the Holy Spirit 241 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.480 in my place of surrender, 242 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:08.960 you couldn't stop me from crying, 243 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:11.040 from shouting, from jumping. 244 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:14.280 I was doing circles in worship. 245 00:13:14.280 --> 00:13:15.840 I was jumping all around. 246 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:19.660 I was, you know, like just extravagant. 247 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:24.000 I was just being extravagant with it and passionate. 248 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.840 And you can say whatever you want about passionate people, 249 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:27.880 but I'll tell you what, 250 00:13:27.880 --> 00:13:30.320 passion looks like performance to the passive. 251 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:34.600 And so it's like I was letting my heart go, 252 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:37.000 just such a radicalness in me 253 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:39.880 that maybe my extravagance may have offended 254 00:13:39.880 --> 00:13:41.760 those that wanted to be in proximity to Jesus, 255 00:13:41.760 --> 00:13:42.600 but not intimate. 256 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:45.560 And so I was jumping all over the place 257 00:13:45.560 --> 00:13:48.560 and I find David moving the arc of the presence, 258 00:13:48.560 --> 00:13:49.760 doing things like that. 259 00:13:50.860 --> 00:13:53.460 I see this royal priest who wears the Lineni Fad 260 00:13:53.460 --> 00:13:56.500 because he's carrying this priestly part of his life 261 00:13:56.500 --> 00:13:57.420 and he's the king. 262 00:13:57.420 --> 00:14:00.420 And so he's bringing the arc back to Jerusalem 263 00:14:00.420 --> 00:14:03.160 and he's dancing undignified before God. 264 00:14:05.180 --> 00:14:08.100 And he's, someone died moments earlier. 265 00:14:08.100 --> 00:14:11.340 So like, hey, I'd be dancing like that too. 266 00:14:12.260 --> 00:14:13.620 If somebody died because they didn't, 267 00:14:13.620 --> 00:14:16.300 they mishandled the presence, mishandled the arc. 268 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:20.240 And so David is this royal priest dancing before God 269 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:23.640 undignified, completely giving himself away to God. 270 00:14:23.640 --> 00:14:27.340 This honoring of God in his whole being. 271 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:32.800 When David is operating in this, 272 00:14:32.800 --> 00:14:35.680 he's operating in what he knew was the priestly ministry 273 00:14:35.680 --> 00:14:37.880 that Deuteronomy 10 talks about. 274 00:14:37.880 --> 00:14:42.880 And then it's also in Exodus 19, in Deuteronomy 10, 275 00:14:43.860 --> 00:14:47.340 the Lord says, give me the Levites. 276 00:14:47.340 --> 00:14:49.280 Give me these priests who will minister to me. 277 00:14:49.280 --> 00:14:51.620 They will minister to me in song and incense 278 00:14:51.620 --> 00:14:53.220 and burning of offerings. 279 00:14:53.220 --> 00:14:56.260 And he gives all the other tribes of Israel 280 00:14:56.260 --> 00:14:58.100 portions of the land, inheritances. 281 00:14:58.100 --> 00:15:00.100 And then he says to the Levites, he says. 282 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:05.440 There won't have any inheritance in the land. He says, I will be their inheritance. 283 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:11.760 That the priestly ministry is gripped with the reward of God. 284 00:15:15.520 --> 00:15:18.000 And that we are gripped with God as our reward. 285 00:15:20.400 --> 00:15:22.240 That His presence is enough. 286 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:27.600 While we're seeing all these other things, all the tribes get what they want. That's good, good, good. 287 00:15:27.680 --> 00:15:31.680 We have God. We have the role of ministering to God, singing to Him with psalms, 288 00:15:31.680 --> 00:15:34.400 and bringing our song and the offerings of the people, representing the people. 289 00:15:34.400 --> 00:15:39.440 So priests had, we would call it three, but you can call it two types of ministry. 290 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:42.720 But you have that one ministry to God, right? That first ministry to God, 291 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:46.240 then ministry to the world. And then ministry to the world has two components, right? 292 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:48.000 To the church and to those that don't believe. 293 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:55.680 But the ministry to God is that first ministry that sets right everything else. 294 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:01.040 It's that first ministry that sets everything else right. 295 00:16:02.800 --> 00:16:06.480 And we, as individual temples, get to give our song to God. 296 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:11.440 And then we, as a body of believers, a church, we get to give God our song, 297 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:14.480 and He gets to dwell among us, which we'll talk about that a little bit 298 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:19.920 when you read verses like Acts 16, I think it's 16, 299 00:16:19.920 --> 00:16:24.800 where God shakes the prison as Paul and Silas are singing songs of worship. 300 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:26.240 Yeah. 301 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:28.880 And the prison shakes God. 302 00:16:28.880 --> 00:16:33.760 And then in Chronicles, where worship is happening, we'll get there. 303 00:16:35.040 --> 00:16:39.920 But temples were where God rules and reigns, and His presence is there. 304 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:44.560 That's what the idea was, that the temples would be these overlapping spaces, 305 00:16:44.560 --> 00:16:47.920 and the priests would have this ministry of ministering to God 306 00:16:47.920 --> 00:16:50.560 and offering all that they were to offer. 307 00:16:50.560 --> 00:16:53.920 And they had this heart of worship that treasured His presence, 308 00:16:53.920 --> 00:16:55.600 that knew that He was their inheritance, 309 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:58.480 that they would be doing this on behalf of all of Israel. 310 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:00.960 And then David has this royal priesthood moment 311 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:05.839 where he is offering his worship to God as he's dancing undignified, right? 312 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:11.680 We all know that song, I will be more undignified than this. 313 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:14.240 John Wimber said this, dignity is not a fruit of the Spirit. 314 00:17:16.560 --> 00:17:17.599 That's what John Wimber said. 315 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:22.640 It's something we've been testing out with our young adults, 316 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:25.200 is the exchange of dignity for presence. 317 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:32.640 As a group of people who have been so aware of social media 318 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:35.120 and how people see them and perceive them and how they project their life, 319 00:17:35.120 --> 00:17:39.120 that I'm going, yeah, you got to come to the altar, die, and watch what God gives you. 320 00:17:39.120 --> 00:17:41.520 You'll feel foolish at the end of it that you try to keep what you had. 321 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:44.880 But you'll get Him in such a way. 322 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:48.640 And so we also learned this, that with worship, 323 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:52.000 we started to learn that crowds are different than hungry people. 324 00:17:53.040 --> 00:17:57.600 We started to learn that because the numbers in the room 325 00:17:57.600 --> 00:18:02.320 didn't determine the level of presence that was being kind of experienced 326 00:18:02.320 --> 00:18:04.000 in the ministry that happened to God. 327 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.480 And you think about the woman with the issue of blood 328 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:09.360 who presses through the crowd and touches the hem of Jesus's garment. 329 00:18:09.360 --> 00:18:10.640 And Jesus says, who's touched me? 330 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:13.120 And the disciples paradigm is everybody's touched you. 331 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:16.720 And Jesus is like, no, no, no, who touched me? 332 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:18.960 And there's a woman who touched him and pressed through the crowd 333 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:22.720 that hunger is what we're talking about versus just a gathering of people. 334 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:25.760 And that there's this anticipation that you could touch God 335 00:18:25.760 --> 00:18:27.200 and that God would touch you. 336 00:18:28.800 --> 00:18:32.240 So worship, as we think about this more and more, 337 00:18:33.120 --> 00:18:37.280 there's dimensions of this, but the Thanksgiving praise and worship, 338 00:18:37.280 --> 00:18:41.440 when the priests would start to offer these kinds of ministries to the Lord, 339 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:44.640 Thanksgiving, I want to kind of sometimes be super practical with you 340 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:46.960 and other times we can dive into some deeper things. 341 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:53.200 But Thanksgiving praise and worship, as we're a corporate dwelling place for God, 342 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:56.720 Thanksgiving is in our individual life and together is our 343 00:18:58.560 --> 00:19:01.040 thanking him for his acts, the things he's done. 344 00:19:01.840 --> 00:19:05.360 Praise is thanking him, sorry, praise is a response to his nature. 345 00:19:06.800 --> 00:19:08.640 So how would that work? 346 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:10.080 If you're like, how does that work? 347 00:19:10.080 --> 00:19:12.800 Sometimes it just happens and you're not really thinking about it at all 348 00:19:12.800 --> 00:19:14.400 and it just flows naturally from you. 349 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:17.760 But other times it's God provides for you and all of a sudden you're like, 350 00:19:17.760 --> 00:19:19.680 oh, thank you that you've provided for me. 351 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:24.560 And then you move into praise, which is you are the provider. 352 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:28.000 There's that change that happens. 353 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:31.040 You go, oh gosh, I'm thank you for your provision, your acts. 354 00:19:31.040 --> 00:19:34.240 This is like when it says that Israel knew the acts of God 355 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:35.600 and Moses knew the ways of God. 356 00:19:35.600 --> 00:19:38.000 And you have this moment where the acts of God, 357 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:39.600 thank you, God, that you are provider. 358 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:43.120 Then, sorry, that you've provided. 359 00:19:43.120 --> 00:19:46.320 Then it's, oh, thank you and I praise you for being provider. 360 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:50.960 And so those two different distinct things are thanks and praise 361 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:53.200 and then worship is that response to his presence. 362 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:58.720 So you have the acts of God that you're thanks for what he's done 363 00:19:58.720 --> 00:19:59.840 and praise and thanksgiving. 364 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.520 and praise, and then you have worship response to Him. 365 00:20:03.520 --> 00:20:05.840 So the worship, the reason why this is important 366 00:20:05.840 --> 00:20:08.820 is because it is the priority of the church. 367 00:20:13.860 --> 00:20:18.660 Ministering to Him, the priority of the church 368 00:20:18.660 --> 00:20:20.760 to be gripped by God as their prize, 369 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:27.480 ministering to Him, unembarrassed in their love, 370 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:32.340 undignified. 371 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:40.160 There's, how do I put it? 372 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:43.040 Like, you know, if you've been on the lake 373 00:20:43.040 --> 00:20:45.980 and you've wakeboarded on the lake, 374 00:20:45.980 --> 00:20:48.780 there is, you fall, if you fall on a board 375 00:20:48.780 --> 00:20:51.560 and the person on the boat should put a flag up 376 00:20:51.560 --> 00:20:54.300 when you fall, and the flag isn't for you, 377 00:20:54.300 --> 00:20:56.080 you're in the water. 378 00:20:56.080 --> 00:20:56.920 You know you're in the water. 379 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:00.760 The flag is for everybody else who's riding on their boat 380 00:21:00.760 --> 00:21:03.120 to know that there's something in the water they can't see. 381 00:21:05.520 --> 00:21:08.240 And so the reason why I'm bringing this up, 382 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:10.680 because in the story of David in 2 Samuel, 383 00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:13.580 there's a moment as he's being undignified before the Lord 384 00:21:14.840 --> 00:21:17.160 that Michal sees him and is like, 385 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:21.080 oh, the king, so undignified before people, 386 00:21:21.080 --> 00:21:23.240 didn't see the undignified worship of David 387 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:24.640 as an opportunity for her. 388 00:21:24.840 --> 00:21:28.480 So, well, here's why I'm bringing this point in 389 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:31.000 from the wakeboarding reality is this. 390 00:21:32.320 --> 00:21:35.000 The people who are on the other boats are saying, 391 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:37.280 I see a flag, therefore there must be something 392 00:21:37.280 --> 00:21:40.480 in the water I can't see, but I must drive my boat 393 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:43.180 according to that reality, even though I don't see it. 394 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:48.300 David is giving an invitation to everyone. 395 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:53.100 Everyone going, there's something in the water 396 00:21:53.100 --> 00:21:56.020 you can't see, but if you can see it, 397 00:21:56.020 --> 00:21:59.340 you will respond like this and drive accordingly. 398 00:21:59.340 --> 00:22:03.420 And Michal doesn't, she actually holds that 399 00:22:03.420 --> 00:22:06.540 and it says she was barren from that day forward. 400 00:22:06.540 --> 00:22:10.100 The despising of the extravagance introduced 401 00:22:11.220 --> 00:22:12.560 an unfruitful life. 402 00:22:14.540 --> 00:22:16.880 That's why Isaiah says, sing, O barren one. 403 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:21.480 That's why Isaiah is going, sing, O barren one, 404 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:25.160 because the barrenness that got welcomed in 405 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:29.440 at that callousness towards David's worship 406 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:31.440 did something in her that can only get broken 407 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:33.640 when they step back into extravagant praise, 408 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:36.640 when they step back into worship and they go, 409 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:41.000 oh, I missed something, I've missed something. 410 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:43.680 In Mark 6, there's an interesting story 411 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:44.800 that has nothing to do with worship, 412 00:22:44.800 --> 00:22:47.280 but I feel like it has everything to do with worship. 413 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:49.280 You know, you have those verses, you're like, 414 00:22:49.600 --> 00:22:51.800 I don't know how this connects, but it does. 415 00:22:53.640 --> 00:22:56.720 In Mark 6, you have Jesus going to Nazareth, 416 00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:57.800 really interesting. 417 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:01.960 Mark 6, then he went out from there 418 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:04.640 and came to his own country and his disciples followed him. 419 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:05.680 And when the Sabbath had come, 420 00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:07.100 he began to teach in the synagogue 421 00:23:07.100 --> 00:23:09.180 and many hearing him were astonished saying, 422 00:23:09.180 --> 00:23:10.800 where did this man get these things? 423 00:23:10.800 --> 00:23:12.960 And what wisdom is this which is given to him 424 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:15.580 that such mighty works are performed by his hands? 425 00:23:16.500 --> 00:23:19.460 Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary 426 00:23:19.460 --> 00:23:24.260 and brother of James and Hosus and Judas and Simon 427 00:23:24.260 --> 00:23:26.380 and are not his sisters here with us? 428 00:23:26.380 --> 00:23:28.080 So they were offended at him. 429 00:23:28.940 --> 00:23:31.500 But Jesus said to them, a prophet is not without honor 430 00:23:31.500 --> 00:23:34.260 except in his own country, among his own relatives 431 00:23:34.260 --> 00:23:35.100 and in his own house. 432 00:23:35.100 --> 00:23:37.060 Here's the interesting verses five and six. 433 00:23:37.060 --> 00:23:38.820 And now he could do no mighty work there 434 00:23:38.820 --> 00:23:40.820 except that he laid his hands on a few sick people 435 00:23:40.820 --> 00:23:42.340 and healed them. 436 00:23:42.340 --> 00:23:45.140 And he marveled because of their unbelief. 437 00:23:45.740 --> 00:23:48.580 And they went about the villages in the circuit teaching. 438 00:23:49.740 --> 00:23:50.580 Here's what's interesting. 439 00:23:50.580 --> 00:23:52.400 Their familiarity with Jesus stopped them 440 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:54.200 from being able to receive from him. 441 00:23:56.180 --> 00:23:58.300 They couldn't get over what they knew about him 442 00:23:58.300 --> 00:24:00.300 in a way that was like, wait a second, 443 00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:04.340 isn't this so and so? 444 00:24:06.100 --> 00:24:08.740 The lack of honor, he actually calls unbelief later. 445 00:24:12.300 --> 00:24:14.900 The familiarity with Sunday morning, 446 00:24:15.660 --> 00:24:17.360 the familiarity with singing songs. 447 00:24:18.700 --> 00:24:21.460 If we're not careful, we can allow that familiarity 448 00:24:21.460 --> 00:24:23.260 to go, isn't that so and so, isn't that so and so 449 00:24:23.260 --> 00:24:27.740 and keep us from receiving what God wants to do 450 00:24:27.740 --> 00:24:28.580 to all of us. 451 00:24:28.580 --> 00:24:29.660 He'll end up doing to a few individuals. 452 00:24:29.660 --> 00:24:32.460 But when we together start to honor him, 453 00:24:32.460 --> 00:24:34.700 something happens in a room together 454 00:24:37.180 --> 00:24:42.180 that he's desired to do, but has received through honor. 455 00:24:42.220 --> 00:24:43.420 That has received through honor of him 456 00:24:43.420 --> 00:24:44.260 and the honor of others. 457 00:24:44.700 --> 00:24:46.260 You start to see others in worship 458 00:24:46.260 --> 00:24:48.980 and you start to let them be kind of catalysts 459 00:24:48.980 --> 00:24:51.300 to your own extravagance. 460 00:24:51.300 --> 00:24:54.100 That you see them entering into that holy of holies 461 00:24:54.100 --> 00:24:55.740 and you're like, I want that. 462 00:24:56.820 --> 00:24:58.700 And then you yourself start to honor God 463 00:24:58.700 --> 00:25:01.000 and you start to get over your own familiarity. 464 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:07.240 with God and your own familiarity with songs and you close your eyes and you 465 00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:11.240 return to the tenderness of your heart and recognize he's right there and all 466 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:16.240 of a sudden your heart erupts with worship and you start to receive from 467 00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:19.800 God in ways and then you realize again it's really weird when you're in worship 468 00:25:19.800 --> 00:25:25.400 that you get benefits. It's like you you talk about worship and you're always 469 00:25:25.400 --> 00:25:27.560 like and then this can happen in your life and this and you're like it's 470 00:25:27.560 --> 00:25:30.560 almost a little bit kind of like stark where you're like it's kind of weird 471 00:25:30.560 --> 00:25:36.000 because the joy is him but he's he's so amazing that he's not he's not content 472 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:44.560 in being a gift giver. He's like I want to give myself to you and so the worship 473 00:25:44.560 --> 00:25:49.760 as the highest priority of the church is so important for us to understand 474 00:25:49.760 --> 00:25:55.040 because when we do that everything else flows properly. Everything else flows 475 00:25:55.040 --> 00:25:58.960 properly. When we minister to the Lord, when we set our heart to minister to him 476 00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:03.360 to come together and go worship isn't the warm-up, that it's not the the thing 477 00:26:03.360 --> 00:26:06.520 we're doing to get to where the rest of it is so that we can learn about other 478 00:26:06.520 --> 00:26:10.760 things. It's that honestly worship is that prize, that joy, that delight 479 00:26:10.760 --> 00:26:17.280 that we get to give to God and if somebody preaches that's awesome. But 480 00:26:17.280 --> 00:26:20.800 there there there is instruction and that's important like I get that like 481 00:26:20.800 --> 00:26:24.480 absolutely important to give instruction and teach the Bible teaches that we 482 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:29.040 should be teaching but there is something that happens as a dwelling 483 00:26:29.040 --> 00:26:33.080 place of God together when we enter into that priestly role of ministry to the 484 00:26:33.080 --> 00:26:40.040 Lord where he becomes the price and we are infatuated with him and we are 485 00:26:40.040 --> 00:26:44.920 delighting in him and your heart comes alive in ways you didn't know it needed 486 00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:52.480 to come alive and then everything else you do makes total sense after that 487 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:55.640 because you can even you can even think about all the important things you're 488 00:26:55.640 --> 00:27:01.480 supposed to do in ministry before worship you can think about all the 489 00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:06.080 aspects of God's plan and mission to change the world that you're called to 490 00:27:06.080 --> 00:27:10.960 do before worship and jump right to them before worship but that priestly 491 00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:15.080 ministry to the Lord first is what sets everything in order that's why Isaiah 492 00:27:15.080 --> 00:27:19.400 has this encounter and in that encounter he's lost in the throne room of God and 493 00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:22.440 then he has this repentant moment because he becomes aware of stuff in 494 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:26.280 God's presence and then he hears that God is looking to send somebody and then 495 00:27:26.280 --> 00:27:32.440 he says here am I send me it comes from that encounter in the throne room of God 496 00:27:32.440 --> 00:27:39.880 that he gets sent out properly so worship is that response to his presence 497 00:27:39.880 --> 00:27:47.920 and we treasure his presence and what we worship shows what we value most that's 498 00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:52.880 worth sorry worship that definition to ascribe worth to something to show our 499 00:27:52.880 --> 00:28:01.680 highest value we orbit around him not ideas about him him that's why Israel 500 00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:05.600 cloud by day fire by night followed the presence wherever it went because the 501 00:28:05.600 --> 00:28:08.520 life of worship that ascribing worth at the most important things imagine 502 00:28:08.520 --> 00:28:15.040 setting your house in order and then the cloud moving like if any of you have 503 00:28:15.040 --> 00:28:17.800 this is kind of an exaggeration here but it kind of gets the point because any 504 00:28:17.800 --> 00:28:23.680 of you have moved ever you hate it it is horrible I'm in a minute middle of a 505 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:26.160 renovation I feel like I just moved into my house again I'm like this is 506 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:29.920 horrible there's dust everywhere but it's it's it's worth it for what you 507 00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:32.920 get but like the idea is that when you're moving somewhere like okay 508 00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:36.160 finally settle then you're like the cloud 509 00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:42.360 and that's it that's the test of worship right that's the test of our highest 510 00:28:42.360 --> 00:28:51.760 value is I've I've set my life in order but God is moving but God is moving I 511 00:28:51.760 --> 00:28:57.920 know I just did X Y & Z but God is on the move and my highest value is him so 512 00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:04.280 I move with him I go with him I remember it was a Sunday night it was stream of 513 00:29:04.280 --> 00:29:08.880 FTV and I was in my bedroom on hilltop and I could sense God was moving and I 514 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:12.280 drove down at 930 and just laid on the front carpet because I was like oh 515 00:29:12.280 --> 00:29:18.000 something is happening because there's there's a worship that anticipates God 516 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:23.560 dwelling there's a worship that anticipates that God would do something 517 00:29:23.560 --> 00:29:28.200 in our midst there's there's a worship that when you treasure his presence that 518 00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:38.400 you're like whoa the atmosphere all of a sudden is electric where you you are you 519 00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:46.080 all of a sudden you feel this sense in your heart why you're alive you're like 520 00:29:46.080 --> 00:29:49.160 I was doing all these great things in my life and all of a sudden you're 521 00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:54.800 worshiping and God starts to dwell God starts to inhabit our praises and then 522 00:29:54.800 --> 00:29:58.360 his rule and reign in your heart starts to come alive and you're like whoa 523 00:29:58.360 --> 00:30:01.560 everything else 524 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:10.000 starts to fade. And you say things like, David, better is one day in your courts than a thousand 525 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:16.880 elsewhere. That's that worshipper heart that's like, oh, better is one day with God 526 00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:24.080 in his courts than a thousand anywhere else. And that's an invitation for experience. That's not 527 00:30:24.080 --> 00:30:29.600 like poetry, just poetry. That's not David going, let me give you a poetic phrase that will just 528 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:36.320 provoke you to think great things about God. David's like, no, there's a way to taste God 529 00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:41.760 that you end up saying to yourself and everyone around you, better 530 00:30:43.120 --> 00:30:49.840 is one day. And I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than anywhere else because 531 00:30:49.840 --> 00:30:57.120 you start to taste God in worship. And his presence becomes your treasure and he starts to just 532 00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:03.280 move in such a profound way. And you're drawn deeper. You're drawn deeper and you're, 533 00:31:05.280 --> 00:31:08.880 the revelations of who he is like flashes before your eyes. 534 00:31:16.560 --> 00:31:22.640 And he inhabits our praises. And he, like, I think about inhabiting the praises of people, 535 00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:29.040 of his people. And I think about a chair and I'm always like, without praise and worship, 536 00:31:29.040 --> 00:31:35.520 God doesn't have a chair to sit. You can do all kinds of stuff, but you're like, no, 537 00:31:35.520 --> 00:31:40.560 my first job is to go, here's a chair for you. It's like that honored guest. It's that guest 538 00:31:40.560 --> 00:31:43.920 that comes in your home and you go, no, no, no, I've got, I've got a lot of things to take care 539 00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:51.280 of. But the first thing I take care of is you. Here's a chair for you. Here's a place for you. 540 00:31:53.520 --> 00:31:58.880 Because if we don't get this reality, if we don't hold onto this in our hearts, that that ministry 541 00:31:59.520 --> 00:32:04.000 to the Lord is our first ministry, that ministry of worship. If we don't get that in our hearts, 542 00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:08.320 we can actually reduce church to like instruction for living life. 543 00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:13.680 We can go, okay, let's just get the next instruction for how to do this, this, this, 544 00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:17.920 this, and this. And then let's get our next task and assignment for how we're going to change the 545 00:32:18.800 --> 00:32:26.080 world. And church can become just that equipping. Equipping is, gosh, that's what the saints, 546 00:32:26.080 --> 00:32:29.840 that's what you were supposed to do, equip for ministry. But if we forget that ministry to the 547 00:32:29.840 --> 00:32:34.480 Lord and we don't equip ourselves in that either, then there's a problem. And so for us, it's 548 00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:39.600 remembering that we're not coming just for instruction. We're not coming even just to be 549 00:32:39.600 --> 00:32:47.120 like, okay, cool. I saw my best bud. That's awesome. Those are all great things. It's like 550 00:32:47.120 --> 00:32:50.400 when you worship, you're like, oh my gosh, there's so many benefits, but I don't shout the benefits 551 00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:58.960 first. It's that I get to worship God and that there's a dwelling place for him created when I 552 00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:06.800 bring my stone to the table, that we are living stones being built together, that when I bring 553 00:33:06.800 --> 00:33:11.680 my stone to the table and to the conversation, I put it right where it's supposed to go. 554 00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:16.160 And then you and I, we link arms and we start to create this temple for God to dwell. 555 00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:24.080 It's the idea that we're not looking to tune ourselves to each other. 556 00:33:27.120 --> 00:33:30.640 Like a tuning fork, if we try to tune ourselves to each other, we'll be off. 557 00:33:31.840 --> 00:33:34.960 But if we tune ourselves to the same tuning fork, we'll be all synced up. 558 00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:41.520 And so when the presence, it's like this, the centerpiece of the kingdom is not the church, 559 00:33:41.520 --> 00:33:50.880 as Jack Hayford says, it is the king. It's that tuning fork. God's presence sets us all in order 560 00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:56.880 and sets us all in right relationship to one another. And we start to create a dwelling 561 00:33:56.880 --> 00:34:05.520 place for God and stuff starts to happen by accident. Chains start being broken off of 562 00:34:05.520 --> 00:34:10.880 people by accident. They weren't even anticipating that morning to get deliverance. 563 00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:18.880 But then someone sings a song of deliverance and all of a sudden their insides are shaking 564 00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:23.840 because they thought they were coming in to sing a few songs and hear a good message. 565 00:34:23.840 --> 00:34:29.120 But God moved as worship starts to erupt from people and God moves and all of a sudden they're 566 00:34:29.120 --> 00:34:36.080 going, whoa, what is happening in me? And then you wake up and you realize you were on the floor. 567 00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:47.120 That resisting that familiarity and rejecting tenderness is a key as well. 568 00:34:50.560 --> 00:34:54.800 The familiarity, when I say rejecting tenderness means when there's tears right here, 569 00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:56.080 don't try to fight them. 570 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.480 Like, it's like that moment when I pulled into the office 571 00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:04.320 the other day and I pulled in my car 572 00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:07.560 and I was listening to worship like the whole time in, 573 00:35:07.560 --> 00:35:09.040 but I pulled into my car 574 00:35:09.040 --> 00:35:11.520 and the moment I pulled into my parking spot, 575 00:35:11.520 --> 00:35:12.600 it was all of a sudden, 576 00:35:12.600 --> 00:35:15.520 as if like when the Psalm says, He cascades over you, 577 00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:19.200 all of a sudden, I felt like He cascaded over me 578 00:35:19.200 --> 00:35:20.800 the other day. 579 00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:23.900 And I was in my car for an hour just crying, 580 00:35:25.560 --> 00:35:29.640 just crying as I was one after another wave of God's love, 581 00:35:29.640 --> 00:35:32.280 wave of God's affection and desire, 582 00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:33.600 a sense of completeness. 583 00:35:33.600 --> 00:35:36.040 I started, like, it was just wild for me. 584 00:35:36.040 --> 00:35:38.440 And I'm going, okay, it's that turning to the burning bush, 585 00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:40.500 then you hear God speak, Moses, Moses. 586 00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:44.440 It's that making sure that when we're tender before Him 587 00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:45.680 and we're turning our affections to Him 588 00:35:45.680 --> 00:35:49.320 and we see how it just dramatically changes 589 00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:51.280 even the direction of our life. 590 00:35:59.640 --> 00:36:00.480 Okay. 591 00:36:15.720 --> 00:36:16.560 Let's read. 592 00:36:18.720 --> 00:36:21.120 Let me see in Acts 16, you guys should read, 593 00:36:21.120 --> 00:36:22.440 we should read this. 594 00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:23.280 It's a good one. 595 00:36:24.720 --> 00:36:25.820 It's just awesome. 596 00:36:30.640 --> 00:36:32.720 And then, let me see here. 597 00:36:36.520 --> 00:36:38.520 I told you a lot of Bible verses today. 598 00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:43.960 Go to Acts 16, then we'll wrap up with, 599 00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:46.240 let me find it. 600 00:36:49.680 --> 00:36:51.000 Yeah, okay. 601 00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:52.520 Then we'll do 2 Chronicles 5. 602 00:36:53.720 --> 00:36:56.120 Two places where God's invasion happens. 603 00:37:00.560 --> 00:37:01.800 Okay, Acts 16. 604 00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:06.800 Now, we will start and let's, 605 00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:09.400 we'll do verse 25. 606 00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:10.840 But just to let you know, 607 00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:13.240 typical day for Paul, preaching gets imprisoned. 608 00:37:16.120 --> 00:37:19.880 Just having a good old time and just stirring up the pot. 609 00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:22.200 Someone is talking to him and he, I love it. 610 00:37:22.200 --> 00:37:23.880 It's the one time I get permission to be annoyed 611 00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:24.720 in verse 18, where it says, 612 00:37:24.720 --> 00:37:28.400 Paul was greatly annoyed and turned to the Spirit. 613 00:37:28.640 --> 00:37:29.800 I command you in the name of, 614 00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:32.400 just there's no tolerating of this demonic spirit. 615 00:37:34.040 --> 00:37:36.080 That's just a message right there for us. 616 00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:41.200 So verse 25, they're imprisoned. 617 00:37:41.200 --> 00:37:43.080 And at midnight, Paul and Silas were praying 618 00:37:43.080 --> 00:37:46.040 and singing hymns to God. 619 00:37:46.040 --> 00:37:47.520 And the prisoners were listening to them. 620 00:37:47.520 --> 00:37:50.340 Suddenly, there was a great earthquake. 621 00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:53.760 So that the foundations of the prison were shaken 622 00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:56.240 and immediately all the doors were opened 623 00:37:56.240 --> 00:37:58.820 and everyone's chains were loosed. 624 00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:04.120 I love it. 625 00:38:04.120 --> 00:38:06.720 Two individuals who did, 626 00:38:06.720 --> 00:38:10.600 who were in there for the wrong reasons, right? 627 00:38:10.600 --> 00:38:12.560 They're just like, they're innocent in the sense of like, 628 00:38:12.560 --> 00:38:14.160 they haven't done any real crime 629 00:38:14.160 --> 00:38:16.520 in the eyes of these people there or whatever. 630 00:38:16.520 --> 00:38:18.840 But they have this heart that while they're in prison, 631 00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:20.340 worship is coming out of them. 632 00:38:21.340 --> 00:38:24.180 They're not going, this is unjust. 633 00:38:28.660 --> 00:38:32.860 This is, no, they're singing hymns. 634 00:38:35.580 --> 00:38:38.780 This is like the antithesis of complaining about a bad day. 635 00:38:41.380 --> 00:38:46.020 That worshiper is like, oh, I will offer song to God. 636 00:38:46.180 --> 00:38:50.060 That's just like, oh yeah, right. 637 00:38:50.060 --> 00:38:50.900 Good. 638 00:38:52.020 --> 00:38:53.140 So there was a great earthquake 639 00:38:53.140 --> 00:38:55.020 and the foundations of the prison were shaken 640 00:38:55.020 --> 00:38:57.020 and immediately all the doors were opened 641 00:38:57.020 --> 00:38:59.120 and everyone's chains were loosed. 642 00:39:00.820 --> 00:39:02.780 So he has this moment, he tells this prisoner, 643 00:39:02.780 --> 00:39:04.540 he's like, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ 644 00:39:04.540 --> 00:39:06.460 and you will be saved and so will your whole household. 645 00:39:06.460 --> 00:39:10.180 That this divine inbreaking of God follows this worship. 646 00:39:10.180 --> 00:39:12.540 So in 2 Chronicles 5 that I mentioned earlier 647 00:39:12.540 --> 00:39:14.880 is another divine inbreaking of God 648 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:17.200 that does something as the priests are ministering. 649 00:39:17.200 --> 00:39:19.220 Did you know that David had 4,000 people 650 00:39:19.220 --> 00:39:20.680 ministering with instruments? 651 00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:27.200 That's like if everyone in our service had an instrument 652 00:39:27.200 --> 00:39:30.360 and everybody in every service we have had an instrument 653 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:32.000 and was equipped with that instrument 654 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:34.600 for night and day, worship. 655 00:39:37.580 --> 00:39:39.440 You go, there's some better things to do. 656 00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:41.840 We've got a lot of stuff to go and take care of. 657 00:39:45.560 --> 00:39:48.200 It just confronts our productivity mindset sometimes. 658 00:39:49.240 --> 00:39:52.840 It confronts our quickness to go and do other things 659 00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:54.160 instead of be at his feet. 660 00:39:56.320 --> 00:39:58.560 So good, Jesus, help me. 661 00:39:58.560 --> 00:39:59.400 And so, 662 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.140 Let's read this whole you guys down for the longest portion of scriptural reading then we'll wrap up here 663 00:40:04.260 --> 00:40:09.120 So so Solomon assembled the elders of Israel. This is verse 2 and 2nd Chronicles 5 664 00:40:09.720 --> 00:40:15.080 Now Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes of the chiefs of the children of Israel 665 00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:20.540 Jerusalem that they might bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord up from the city of David, which is Zion 666 00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:26.960 Therefore all the men of Israel assembled with the king at the feast which was in the seventh month 667 00:40:26.960 --> 00:40:31.680 So all the elders of Israel came and the Levites took up the ark the priests carrying the ark 668 00:40:31.680 --> 00:40:34.360 Which we know they carried on their shoulders as God rests on them 669 00:40:35.200 --> 00:40:39.440 And they brought up the ark in the tabernacle of meeting and all the holy furnishings 670 00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:43.120 And and we're in the tabernacle the priests and the Levites brought them up 671 00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:49.740 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him before the ark were sacrificing sheep and oxen 672 00:40:50.240 --> 00:40:52.640 That could not be counted or numbered for multitude 673 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:59.320 Then the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple to the 674 00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:00.920 most holy place 675 00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:02.920 under the wings of the cherubim 676 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:06.400 For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and the cherubim 677 00:41:06.600 --> 00:41:08.000 overshadowed the ark in its poles 678 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:13.800 The poles extended so that the ends of the poles of the ark could be seen from the holy place in front of the inner 679 00:41:13.800 --> 00:41:15.360 sanctuary 680 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:19.080 But they cannot be seen from the outside and they were there to this day 681 00:41:19.560 --> 00:41:25.480 Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put there at Harab when the Lord made a covenant 682 00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:27.600 with the different children of Israel 683 00:41:27.600 --> 00:41:30.200 When they had come out of Egypt when it came to past 684 00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:35.440 The priests came out of the most holy place for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves 685 00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:42.360 without keeping to their divisions and the Levites who were the singers and all those of Asaph Haman and 686 00:41:43.200 --> 00:41:45.000 Jew 687 00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:46.480 And 688 00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:50.960 With the sons and their brethren stood at the east end of the altar clothed in white linen 689 00:41:51.240 --> 00:41:54.160 Having the symbols the stringed instruments and the harps 690 00:41:56.480 --> 00:42:01.580 And with 120 priests sounding with trumpets 691 00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:09.920 Indeed it came to pass when the trumpeters and the singer see this is just not chaos here. Look at this. We're as one 692 00:42:10.200 --> 00:42:12.200 You 693 00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:16.840 Can't make that unity just by trying to be like everybody else. This is coming because you have one focus 694 00:42:18.520 --> 00:42:22.520 They have one focus to make the sound the singers were to as one 695 00:42:22.600 --> 00:42:28.480 to make one sound to be heard and praise and thanking the Lord and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and 696 00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:35.280 The symbols and the instruments of music and praise the Lord saying for he is good for his mercy endures 697 00:42:35.680 --> 00:42:37.680 forever that the house 698 00:42:38.080 --> 00:42:41.560 The house of the Lord was filled with a cloud I 699 00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:49.080 Remember one time I did a shout of praise at the end of worship during the time when that glory cloud was here 700 00:42:49.080 --> 00:42:53.840 I did a shout of praise all of a sudden glitter started appearing across the stage and I went like this 701 00:42:55.920 --> 00:43:01.560 Here you go, I'm done. I don't know what to do with this. This is not my Chris is all like yeah. Yeah. Come here 702 00:43:01.560 --> 00:43:06.640 It's the cloud filled filled with a cloud so that the priest could not continue ministering 703 00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:14.240 Because of the cloud for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God 704 00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:23.360 So the priest could not continue ministering they could they were so raptured by God when his manifest presence 705 00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:27.320 They couldn't even continue doing what they were doing. That was great beautiful and wonderful 706 00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:31.200 They couldn't continue because God's nearness is manifest presence 707 00:43:31.720 --> 00:43:35.680 His excellence his beauty his wonder was so 708 00:43:36.640 --> 00:43:42.120 Saturating the environment of everyone there that they couldn't keep doing what they were doing 709 00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:51.720 These divine in breakings of God in response to a community who has set their hearts to be worshippers 710 00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:57.080 Anticipating what could happen when we're together and we sing I 711 00:44:03.880 --> 00:44:08.000 Don't know what you do when you read these things, but I get like hungry I 712 00:44:09.600 --> 00:44:11.600 Start to get like 713 00:44:11.600 --> 00:44:13.600 Kind of just like oh my gosh 714 00:44:14.120 --> 00:44:17.160 I don't know what you do when you read these things, but I get like hungry 715 00:44:17.160 --> 00:44:23.440 I start to get like kind of just like oh my gosh. I want this 716 00:44:26.280 --> 00:44:31.720 Like that's that my heart just starts to get provoked and it starts to cut at me and go oh 717 00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:34.320 This is that thing to hunger for 718 00:44:35.600 --> 00:44:41.360 The heart after God the seeking of his face the yes to the invitation of going after him 719 00:44:42.120 --> 00:44:46.080 We've I asked Bill and Dan like a couple weeks ago 720 00:44:46.080 --> 00:44:49.560 No, yeah a little about a month ago if we could just worship as a staff on Wednesdays 721 00:44:50.160 --> 00:44:54.880 Because just I felt this this has been in my heart and many other people's hearts my god 722 00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:59.960 This is not like that not like saying this is in my heart as anything special, but so many people coming 723 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.480 to a point of like, oh, we need to do this together. 724 00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:06.680 And I feel this renewing in our staff and in us. 725 00:45:06.680 --> 00:45:10.240 And I was like, God, okay, when do we feel this moving 726 00:45:10.240 --> 00:45:12.120 in directions, even in our church? 727 00:45:12.120 --> 00:45:14.120 And it's a weird message to preach 728 00:45:14.120 --> 00:45:16.080 because you're like, this is who we are. 729 00:45:18.560 --> 00:45:20.720 It's always that awkwardness where you're like, 730 00:45:20.720 --> 00:45:23.280 I'm like, oh, this is the beauty of who we are. 731 00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:25.400 And I feel like I'm just reminding myself 732 00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:30.000 of that responsibility and that privilege. 733 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:31.320 And we as a staff have been doing it. 734 00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:34.200 And it's been amazing to set our hearts, 735 00:45:34.200 --> 00:45:36.760 to minister to the Lord, to worship Him 736 00:45:36.760 --> 00:45:38.960 and allow our all to be given to Him, 737 00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:40.400 to seek His face together. 738 00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:44.120 And I felt like something, God was just amping us up 739 00:45:44.120 --> 00:45:45.600 in every level, on every service, 740 00:45:45.600 --> 00:45:48.760 in everything that we're doing, of that ministry to Him. 741 00:45:48.760 --> 00:45:50.360 Even for you guys in your homes, 742 00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:54.960 I had texted Bill about that first love stuff 743 00:45:55.520 --> 00:45:59.400 and that morning after I texted him about it, 744 00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:01.280 I put on that song that they played, First Love, 745 00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:02.920 they were playing it today. 746 00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:07.040 And my kids come out and they start to dance 747 00:46:07.040 --> 00:46:08.840 and my daughter grabs her pajamas 748 00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:12.000 and she just starts flagging in the house. 749 00:46:13.520 --> 00:46:16.800 And this first love childlike tenderness, 750 00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:18.520 and I'm just weeping at the table. 751 00:46:19.560 --> 00:46:20.400 I'm just crying. 752 00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:24.320 It didn't last hours, but it was enough. 753 00:46:24.520 --> 00:46:28.240 It was like, oh, this is bread and drink to me. 754 00:46:30.680 --> 00:46:34.320 And I felt so like, oh, what? 755 00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:36.720 I don't care anything else I'm doing. 756 00:46:36.720 --> 00:46:37.920 This is what I want. 757 00:46:39.200 --> 00:46:41.480 And I felt like that was just on God's heart for us 758 00:46:41.480 --> 00:46:44.000 this morning to remind us of who we are in this 759 00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:46.880 and to let our hearts be so provoked 760 00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:50.400 into what He has made possible for us, 761 00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:52.840 what He's made available for us 762 00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:55.040 as we carry that role of priestly ministry 763 00:46:55.040 --> 00:46:57.400 and we come together. 764 00:46:57.400 --> 00:46:58.960 What we do individually matters 765 00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:01.600 and it's almost like a backbone to corporate worship. 766 00:47:02.560 --> 00:47:05.320 But it's when we get together, oh my gosh, 767 00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:08.200 I'm like, I'm hungry. 768 00:47:08.200 --> 00:47:10.000 I have no idea where you are, 769 00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:15.000 but I am hungry to see God move in our times together 770 00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:19.800 because I'm like, listen, we get together 771 00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:23.480 not to just sing songs and to hear good messages. 772 00:47:23.480 --> 00:47:25.760 There is a celebration of His presence 773 00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:30.240 that is marking and distinctly different 774 00:47:30.240 --> 00:47:34.640 that I'm like, oh Lord, I'm hungry for more of that. 775 00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:39.960 So let's pray for that to increase 776 00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:41.320 that hunger in our hearts. 777 00:47:43.120 --> 00:47:44.840 I did this, I talked about this 778 00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:45.880 with our young adults the other day 779 00:47:45.880 --> 00:47:47.520 and it was this awkward moment 780 00:47:47.520 --> 00:47:50.080 where you end up trying to like minister 781 00:47:50.080 --> 00:47:53.000 and you sing and it's powerful and it's beautiful 782 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:55.040 and you're like, that's so uncomfortable. 783 00:47:56.480 --> 00:47:58.280 But Jesus, we ask right now 784 00:47:58.280 --> 00:48:01.840 for that ministry of the priestly ministry to settle on us, 785 00:48:03.320 --> 00:48:05.240 to refresh us in who we are. 786 00:48:05.240 --> 00:48:07.160 We know this, this is who we are, this is what we do. 787 00:48:07.160 --> 00:48:09.800 This is, this is, 788 00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:12.880 this is the gift we have from you. 789 00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:17.120 It's been pioneered for years here, God. 790 00:48:18.520 --> 00:48:20.320 And I feel like there's some 791 00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:22.240 that within the last two years moving here, 792 00:48:22.240 --> 00:48:24.960 God is drafting you into this 793 00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:27.440 in a way that you're like, oh, I've hungered for this, 794 00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:29.520 I've heard about this and there's a drafting in 795 00:48:29.520 --> 00:48:30.760 for some reason, I feel like the Lord is saying 796 00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:31.920 like there's some that have, 797 00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:34.440 that are getting put into a new way, 798 00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:37.480 it's something they haven't thought about much of. 799 00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:39.480 And Holy Spirit, I ask right now 800 00:48:42.680 --> 00:48:46.200 that you would start to fill our times together, 801 00:48:47.200 --> 00:48:48.680 that we would have everything be worship 802 00:48:48.680 --> 00:48:50.080 and then in our times together, 803 00:48:50.080 --> 00:48:53.360 you would inhabit the dwelling place you're creating. 804 00:48:56.360 --> 00:48:59.880 That from our hearts, we would touch your heart. 805 00:49:01.160 --> 00:49:03.480 We will be ones who are after your heart. 806 00:49:06.080 --> 00:49:08.200 We take on the ministry of worship to you, 807 00:49:11.520 --> 00:49:13.840 gripped by you being the prize, Holy Spirit. 808 00:49:16.560 --> 00:49:21.560 In Jesus name, amen, amen, amen, amen. 809 00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:25.840 Whoo, I feel like I'm sweating like crazy. 810 00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:28.840 Joel's gonna come up here 811 00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:31.800 and handle the rest of our time together. 812 00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:33.960 Love you guys, so great to be with you this morning. 813 00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:34.960 Bless you, bless you. 814 00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:35.800 God bless you. 815 00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:36.640 God bless you.