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2 Samuel 6 (Part 1) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  All right, get to see you tonight.
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  Here we are again, meaning together.
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  I to, I mean, second Samuel chapter six.
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  Second Samuel, chapter 6. You have your Bibles tonight, if
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  you're a person who does not have a Bible and you don't
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  regularly bring a Bible come, see the leadership and we will
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  help you get a Bible. Okay, we want you to have a copy
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  of God's written word and your hand and we are Advocates of the
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  white pages with black ink in it and red letter.
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  If you have the red letter version as well, and maybe we
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  will write a blog post or something about why that is the
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  case even in this technologically advanced age but
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  that is not the purpose. Tonight's meeting I want to come
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  to this chapter, ready with our hearts open, our brother prayed
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  but I think it's necessary to pray again.
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  As we have God's word before us afresh.
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  Well, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts that we get
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  to be students of your word of the full Revelation that you
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  have given to mankind. Thank you, that we are not in
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  need of a different portion, like other people in different
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  parts of the world who only have certain aspects of your truth.
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  You have given us and blessed us with the totality of your word.
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  We do not take this for granted. Well, we pray that you would
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  energize us that you would give us the grace to receive these
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  Truce that you would help us edify one.
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  Another that this meeting would not be interrupted free from
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  distraction Lord, and more importantly that we would sense
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  your presence and power changing us as we realize what you have
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  to say. We give you maximum praise and
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  honor, more importantly, not just in our singing, but from
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  our obedience to your instruction, in Jesus name, we
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  pray. Amen.
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  You and I have now arrived at a very captivating, very powerful
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  chapter in the book of second Samuel.
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  And the reason for that is because this portion of
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  scripture details David's campaign in retrieving, the Ark
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  of the Covenant, and to place it in the new capital of Israel,
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  which is Jerusalem as we discovered last week.
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  Now, just just for those who might have forgotten or who are
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  not familiar, the Ark of the Covenant that we are going to
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  read about is arguably, the most important piece of furniture
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  that was designed for the house of worship at this time in of
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  History, which was known as what starts with a t known as The
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  Tabernacle correct, not the temple, we're not there yet,
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  we're at the Tabernacle still a portable tent large enough to
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  have a few people in it but more importantly to have certain
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  elements and instruments within that house of worship that had
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  many significant symbolic representation and purpose for
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  that time for the nation of Israel.
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  But the Ark of the Covenant was something special it was known
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  as God's Earthly Throne so to speak and at times we see that
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  God Shows the ark to speak and give instruction to his people.
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  That's what he actually told Moses while they were preparing
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  to design it. This is where I'm going to speak
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  to you. And another key moments, we see
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  that this Arc, which is really a box.
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  It was like a chest was used to manifest God's power against
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  Israel's enemies, and there's many instances of that.
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  And one of the strongest ones that we know of is Jericho where
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  the ark was taken up, and they had to go around that huge.
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  He many times. And it was, it was God's
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  presence that brought about Victory and there's there's
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  different moments that. I'm sure you can recall.
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  But more importantly, the Ark of the Covenant had a lid on it
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  which was known as what The Mercy Seat, correct?
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  And The Mercy Seat was essential piece to the sacrificial system
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  of Israel. And it was the Ark of the
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  Covenant that would be engaged with.
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  It would be interactive with only one day out of the year for
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  the purpose of God, dispensing. Some measure of Mercy to his,
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  sending people, which ultimately points to Jesus Christ.
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  We know Jesus Christ, and the cross of Calvary is where we
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  meet God. That is where we experience God.
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  That is where we know God. That is the entry point, right
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  there. Many things, that can be said of
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  that in light of Jesus Christ, but we know that David here,
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  Wants it. He wants it because it's been
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  quite a while since we even heard of the Ark of the Covenant
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  and we will discover why in a moment, but David wants to bring
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  it to the political Capital. You know why?
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  Because as David has now been inaugurated, as the king, he
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  wants to make sure as early as possible that his people would
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  know that he's really not the king.
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  He wants his people to know God is really the king.
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  And so now he's establishing the spiritual center place and he
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  wants it near him and he wants to actually overshadow him.
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  He wants God's presence to be the very focus of his people
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  though. He will be the king for quite
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  some time. And before we get into these
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  verses and can, I be honest with you, I was overwhelmed with this
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  chapter. There's no way we're covering
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  this in one setting and that's okay, but I was just Vermont
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  because even in the verses that we will cover I just didn't know
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  where to stop almost. And so before we get there we'll
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  see what time does and how we will be led.
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  I'm going to read a few verses as we did last week and we're
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  going to open it up to see what What observations you make from
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  an initial reading you guys did wonderful last week and if I can
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  give any instruction, is as tempting as it might be to
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  really go on to share what you see, just just keep it minimal.
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  So just for the sake of time and and it was wonderful last week,
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  it was just Like one person after the next, I'm going to
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  read a few verses. I hope you have your tool belt
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  on and the to about this. What simple reflective
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  questions? What does it say about God?
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  What is this? A about men?
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  What new testament principles of I seen this Old Testament
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  illustration, what's the wider context?
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  That helps me understand, this, what are some details names
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  repetitions that? I see that can help me
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  understand God's emphasis, in this section of scripture verse
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  1, David again, gathered all the chosen men of Israel, 30,000,
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  and David arose, and went with all the people who were with him
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  from Bali Judah to bring up from there, the Ark of God, which is
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  called, by the name of the Lord of hosts who sits enthroned on
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  the cherubim. And they carry the Ark of God on
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  a new cart, and brought it out of the house of abinadab, which
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  was on the hill, And uzza and Ohio, the sons of abinadab were
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  driving the new cart with the Ark of God, and Ohio went before
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  the ark and David and all the house of Israel were celebrating
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  before the Lord with songs and lyres, and harps, and
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  tambourines, and castanets and symbols.
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  And when they came to the threshing floor of Nathan, uzza,
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  put out his hand to the Ark of God and took hold of it for the
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  oxen. Stumbled.
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  And the anger of the Lord was kindled against uzza.
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  And God struck him down there because of his error and he died
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  there beside the Ark of God. A mixture of emotion, right?
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  What do you see here? And your initial reading of
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  this? What?
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  Things stand out to you? Yes.
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  Okay, so this is the first time that he gathered God's people
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  together. Sure.
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  Okay. So we see that the ark was moved
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  by The Oxen on a cart. When really, it's supposed to be
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  done another way, and we'll get to that.
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  It's a key important part. Anything else.
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  Okay, so we see, we really like an orchestra here.
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  We see this, this this procession and it was, it was
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  wonderful. It was, it was amazing.
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  Yes. Yes.
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  Lori had something. Okay.
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  So not just that, they didn't do it the way God, prescribed them
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  to carry this, holy this, holy Ark, but they copied somebody
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  else. And that's really the root of
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  this which is an important observation to this is a
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  familiar passage and I'm glad most of you here are
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  understanding what's taking place here, but we're going to
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  ask a little for fresh Revelation as well.
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  Anything else? Any other observations?
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  Yes. Yeah.
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  So this celebration quickly turned into a tragedy and I
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  think what we're going to learn is just because there is
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  exuberance and joy and noise doesn't necessarily mean that
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  God is happy. Yes, anything else.
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  Anything else is stands out? Okay.
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  Yes corgis. Yeah.
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  So there's a little there's something going on here with
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  Susana hiya. Why are they the ones who are
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  kind of leading the way for the ark to be transported to the
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  place of Jerusalem? Yes.
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  You were correct, there is a sovereign thing happening for
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  the ox to stumble. At this point, it's an
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  interesting place for the Sox to stumble and you'll see that if
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  you are with us until the end of this session, great
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  observations, anything else? Yes.
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  The Lord is teaching them obedience through a very very
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  hard lesson through discipline. Yes.
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  And it's going to teach us something.
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  Anything else? Yes, Grace.
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  Very good, David arose but the David seek God's guidance.
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  He's going to seek something but we're not going to see him
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  seeking God unfortunately. Yes, maybe a couple of more and
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  then we'll continue. Very good.
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  Did you hear that the emphasis on a new cart?
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  Now we talked already about the cart and new cart.
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  We're always enamored about new things, aren't we?
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  We'll see why that's dangerous for the church.
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  Anything else, great observations.
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  As you and I come to this text, this will be extremely
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  instructive for us in Understanding God's holiness,
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  God's holiness and how his terms of worship are what we subscribe
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  to no matter what the goal of our worship or Ministry or
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  planning or implementing is. And so as you and I come here,
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  We should also have in our Bibles ready.
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  First Corinthians or rather First Chronicles 13.
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  That will be a helpful passage to parallel this with because in
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  the first two verses we see that David gathered, all the chosen
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  men of Israel 30,000 and he arose and went with all the
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  people but it's in first Chronicles 13.
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  And the first few verses that we see in detail what David said
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  and did to get the people to join him in this project to
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  acquire the Since of God, symbolized with The Arc.
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  And so, look at verse 1, a first Chronicles 13 to understand
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  verse 1 and 2 of chapter 6 of second Samuel in a clearer way.
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  David consulted with the commanders of thousands of
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  hundreds with every leader. And David said, to all this
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  assembly of Israel, if it seems good to you and from the Lord,
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  Our God let us send abroad to our brothers who remain in all
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  the lands of Israel as well as to the priests and Evite's in
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  the cities that have pasturelands that they may be
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  gathered with us, or to us. Then let us bring again the Ark
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  of our God to us for. We did not seek it in the days
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  of Saul all the assembly agreed to do.
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  So for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people, many
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  things can be said of this passage.
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  Let me give you just two one thing that stands out to me.
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  In light of this is how David brings to the attention of the
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  people that the Ark of God was not sought after during the
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  reign of Saul, That is an indictment, yet again of saws,
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  leadership as the nation's King. Because what this says, is that
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  for 40 years, there was no effort made by Saul to revive,
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  the people's concern for the things of God.
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  And I think a text like that is incredibly insightful to help us
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  understand the tragedies of this man's life, as well as the
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  nation's. Leave God out and watch what
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  unwanted things will come in. You cannot neglect God from his
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  rightful place and at the same time believe that you can be
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  exempt from Pain. Unnecessary pain.
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  At least chaos, confusion, oppression or division.
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  Saul, here is a very sobering illustration, and a wonderful
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  case study. Of the depths of the darkness
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  that you and I can discover when we fail to actively acknowledge
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  and honor God. That is true individually and
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  that is true on a national scale, happened to Israel.
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  And so here's what you have to understand, sincere worship,
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  joyful submission to God, is what stabilizes US.
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  It stabilizes your life, your heart, it stabilizes society.
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  And again, when you fail to place God, where he deserves to
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  be you open yourself and those around you to Untold disaster,
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  and that's what happened with sauce.
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  That is, you want to know why? Saw was the way he was.
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  You want to know why was such a dark period in Israel's history?
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  Because of this God was not in his thinking, God was not his
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  planning. God was not in his meditation,
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  God was not in his nothing and that translated to everything
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  else that happened in that period of Israel Nation.
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  But what's interesting here is the contrast David is the one
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  who is now initiating the project to say.
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  We need to get back to focusing on God.
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  He's the one who does it. But listen, he doesn't just
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  initiate it. He inspires a people to be a
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  part of it. And what I find.
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  So encouraging here is that all the assembly agreed to do.
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  So they said, let's do it. Let's do it.
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  And all it took was one person. One person to remind them, that
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  there is a God, and we are under him, and he has blessings in the
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  place of obedience. And there are curses in the
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  place of Disobedience. Let's get back in alignment.
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  Let's get back to pursuing, him and honoring him, and loving
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  him. And the people said we're behind
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  you. David It would be dishonest for
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  me to say that it will always be the case that one person's
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  godliness will awaken other people to spiritual fervor.
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  That would be untrue, but at the same time, the scriptures does
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  not does not cancel that possibility out, right?
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  The scripture even even pushes us to say, you know, if you
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  pursue the Lord with greater greater intensity, one of the
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  blessings that make come out of it as a others will also catch a
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  fire and they will also pursue and realize that there is a joy
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  in this place of putting God in the center, piece of who you
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  are. And that's exactly what David
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  does. His Zeal, inspired the Zeal of
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  others. And here's the thing, that's not
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  just true for David. That is true in the New
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  Testament as well. You know, I'm going through
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  second Corinthians in my personal reading and something
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  popped out to me in a portion of that text that people are a
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  little bit nervous around and it's a portion of Texas speaks
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  about giving right second Corinthians. 8, Second
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  Corinthians 9, but it's in 2nd Corinthians 9, that there is a
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  phrase. There that bless me this
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  morning. I want you to see it because
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  it's tied into this. So go to Second Corinthians 9
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  very quickly. And I want you to see verse 2,
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  he speaking to the Corinthian Christians and he is reminding
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  them of something that they've done whether knowingly or
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  unknowingly. He wants to remind them of
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  something. That's really, really important
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  for us to understand in our pursuit of.
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  Not just God, but zealous Pursuit Of God.
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  Look at verse 2. Fry know your Readiness.
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  Now pause what's he doing? He's reminding the Corinthian
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  Christians to be a part of this project to make a contribution
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  to the church in Jerusalem. That was that was in need of
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  financial aid. So he's teaching them but he
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  makes a personal by saying fry know your Readiness of which I
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  boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that aquella
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  has been ready since last year. In other words, they've been
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  ready to do this since last year they've been making
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  preparations. And for this offering a year ago
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  and he's telling the Church of Macedonia, notice what he says
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  and your Zeal has stirred up most of them.
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  Your Zeal has stirred up the Macedonian Church and you go to
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  Second Corinthians 8 and you see how great that Zeal was
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  Macedonian Christians at this time?
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  We're extremely poor and yet they best says, They begged.
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  Paul to be a part of this relief poor but they're saying, please
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  Paul don't hold us back from being a part of this.
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  We want to give to this relief. And what did that come from the
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  Corinthians? The Corinthians inspired that
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  Zeal in the macedonians and Paul saying hey you were the ones
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  that sparked this And don't lose your fire.
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  Now, it was because of you that the macedonians are getting
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  excited, don't lose your excitement.
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  Listen, I've met over the years, many sincere godly people who
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  love the Lord and they want to see their husbands love the
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  Lord. They want to see their wives
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  come to love the Lord with a passion.
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  They want to see their children be serious.
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  They want to see their group of friends that they grew up with
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  that. That struggle in are lukewarm at
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  times to be with them and pursuing God, right?
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  Are you one? Who says, if you're not part of
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  this church, or if you're a part of the church, I want to see my
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  church be more serious. About the things of God, I don't
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  want to just hear a message on Sunday and then talk afterwards
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  as though, God wasn't in the room.
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  If that's you may I give you honest advice and exhortation
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  from the scripture be fervent yourself.
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  Be fervent yourself first because at the same time, a lot
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  of these people who make these kind of comments and have these
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  desires are not at that place. I know that place that's not
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  always the case. But sometimes that is the case
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  and the lack of concern around them dampens their fire.
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  And so it's almost as though they are dependent upon others
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  to be at that place before they come to that place, that's not
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  how it works. It's not how it works.
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  And so if you want to contribute to the possibility of others
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  around you that you love Love. To be consumed with the things
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  of God. Well you get there first and
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  ride that wave long enough and don't be so sporadic yourself
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  and don't be so inconsistent yourself.
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  Do you want to know how passionate David was about?
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  The are coming to Jerusalem? It wasn't a two-week thing.
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  It wasn't a post conference experience.
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  It was so obvious to those around him.
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  That there is a psalmist who wrote in observation of David
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  Zeal, his desire for the arc, there's anybody know that song
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  what number it is. What song?
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  No, but you're close, not little bit more numbers.
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  You have to get into the 100's actually, Okay, you want to see
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  it? Psalm, 132 look at the first
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  five. Verses I want you to see the
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  description of David's passion. Because we all have different
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  understandings of what true passion is for.
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  God. Some people believe their
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  passion for God because they don't go to the bars on Fridays
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  and they come to Bible study. Well that's nice but notice
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  notice what? Absolutely consumed David.
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  In verse 1 of Psalm 132 a song of ascents.
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  We read remember O Lord. Here's what the psalmist says.
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  Remember O Lord, in David's favor.
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  All the hardships. He endured.
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  Yes. We studied all those hardships
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  and some not in scripture. I'm sure how he swore to the
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  Lord and vowed to the mighty one of Jacob.
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  I this is what David said. I will not enter my house or get
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  into my bed, I will not give sleep to my eyes or Slumber to
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  my eyelids until I find Place for the Lord.
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  A dwelling place for the mighty one of Jacob.
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  That's the kind of Desire that Sparks something in those around
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  you. That's that's what can even Mark
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  and Nation. The psalmist here was so
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  impressed by, obviously inspired by the spirit to write about
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  this and you. And I have to understand that
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  it's that kind of, if that's, that's the kind of zeal that
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  will rub off on others and perhaps even cause them to be in
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  the same place as you or even exceed.
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  You and so, If there's no prayer in your home, be the first one
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  to pray. Right?
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  If your friends are not, if they're inconsistent from being
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  in this place and how they are outside of this place, initiate
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  something initiate conversations about the Lord initiate
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  testimonies, but more than anything else, just live it for
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  yourself. And you never know who might be
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  watching and who might share in that Joy because the salt of
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  your life has made them thirsty for Living Water.
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  I may offer also word of caution even in that, right?
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  Because the Temptation and the pitfall that somebody can have
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  in that pursuit of the Lord, with Zeal is to become
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  spiritually. Proud, that's the danger.
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  And so what happens is you now because you know, that there's
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  something different about you and that God does consume you
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  and you love the Lord and you Fellowship differently than
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  others and your priorities are different than others.
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  That can very, very easily cause you look down on others.
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  Did you notice the attitude in the language of David?
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  When he addressed his people to join him in this project?
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  Go back to 1st Chronicles, 13. What did he say?
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  How did he say it with tenderness?
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  If it seems good to you in verse 2, if it seems good to you like
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  that's that's graceful, that's inviting.
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  That's soft, that's attractive. And then you read, there's
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  another, there's another word that reoccurs over and over, let
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  us let us Let us let us. Let's do this together.
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  I'm no higher than you. I'm not greater than you.
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  I'm not Superior than you. Let's do this together.
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  I'm on the same level as you. And I want us to see the beauty.
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  That's, would you join me in this?
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  And so many people who are zealous can fall into the Trap
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  of actually being repulsive. because there's an arrogance
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  that comes with their passion and there's this sense of you
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  just haven't arrived to where I'm at, And guess what?
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  If you're there you already lost.
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  There is no hope for those around you even want what you
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  have? In fact, true Zeal, choose your
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  true holding. His true godliness, does not
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  need to be advertised, it doesn't, you don't have to boast
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  about what you know, or what you've done.
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  Fire doesn't scream, that's it and Fire doesn't put up,
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  advertisements in the neighborhood that I one of the
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  houses are burning, does it know people see the fire and it
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  attracts And I want you to believe that about your pursuit
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  of the Lord, you don't have to trumpet, you don't have to Glow,
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  you don't have to come to a place where you bully people, or
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  make them feel small because you're somewhere where they're
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  not. In fact, Davey here contrast
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  another king who had the exact opposite Spirit.
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  He was an extremely zealous King, he did a lot for Israel at
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  a time where many people would not do what he did, but he had
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  literally the exact opposite and he overestimated his
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  faithfulness to God? Does anybody have an idea who
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  I'm talking about? He's not, he's not that much of
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  a known character, but once you see this, you're going to,
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  you're going to realize why these two are Polar Opposites,
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  who is the king? Or the king that did so much
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  damage to Baal worship. Close, but no good, guess very
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  good jehu and jehu in the middle of this campaign of cleansing.
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  The land of Baal worship. Says something that really
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  stinks with pride. It's so unattractive.
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  It's so it just makes you kind of squirm.
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  And it shows you it's a reminder of the danger that even if you
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  are doing awesome things for God and destroying Idols around, you
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  yourself can make yourself an idol.
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  Second Kings. Look at this, is this one verse.
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  So simple, so clear. Turn those sacred pages to
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  Second Kings very quickly. I want you to see this in verse
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  10. Excuse me, verse 16 of chapter
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  10. He addresses Jehan adapt.
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  And look what he says in second Kings chapter 10, verse 16. and
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  he said, come with me and see my Zeal for the Lord.
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  If I was Joanna W what I said? No, thanks.
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  Come with me and see my Zeal for the Lord.
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  Region, whose life. He did wonderful things to deal
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  with the national compromise of his day, but as she sought to
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  destroy idolatry, he ended up worshipping his own Zeal.
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  Admiring his own Zeal. Elevating himself in comparison
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  to others. And it's the complete opposite.
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  Attitude, come with me and see my Zeal.
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  What did they even said? Let us let us, let us pure Zeal,
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  pure passion that is Honorable to God.
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  That will that will win people's hearts does not say, I know more
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  than you. I'm better than you.
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  You may not say that out of your lips and my slip here and there.
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  But it doesn't even say it in the heart. you realize even when
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  people are different levels of spirituality that you are, you
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  are just as susceptible as falling into that trap, you can
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  easily be in a season where you don't think about God at all,
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  almost And you know, that whatever is happening in your
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  heart, whatever is happening through your life is by the
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  grace of God, and you want others to share in the joy that
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  you have. Complete opposite attitude of
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  this man. And so we see here that as Jay
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  who pronounces house L is he is David wants to Simply allow his
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  life to do the talking and now scroll down to verse 31 of
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  Second Kings, 10. Look at how the holy spirit
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  gives commentary of J whose faithfulness and Devotion to
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  God, you ready for this verse 31?
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  But Jay who was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord, the
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  god of Israel with all his heart.
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  He did not turn from the sins of jeroboam, which he meet is.
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  Wilkinson. God had a different opinion
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  about jehu. Got a different opinion about
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  jehu and that's scary that we can think differently about
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  ourselves that how God sees us. And so I want to, I want to be
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  where God wants me to be. And I want I want to know more
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  than anything that God is pleased with what he sees.
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  I don't want to be pleased with what I see.
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  I want to know that God is pleased.
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  That is the safest place to be and I hope that is a place that
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  you will be if you want to see others come alive in Jesus
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  Christ, come alive in Jesus Christ and stay alive in Jesus
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  Christ. Long enough for people to say
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  that's the real deal. You know the reason why so many
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  can't buy into this, Because we don't, we don't stay in the
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  place of fervency, long enough for people to ultimately be
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  convinced. I can tell you this even about
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  the unbelieving world. When I was in college, I would
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  be teased. I would be persecuted, I will be
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  mocked. I don't want to sound like a
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  martyr because my suffering was nothing in comparison to what
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  other people are enduring. But I would tell you, I would be
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  made fun of in front of the whole class and all these
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  things. And this is the thought that
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  came to mind. Especially with a couple
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  particular people. They want to press me and they
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  want to, they want to squeeze me enough to see if what I have is
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  the real thing or if I'm willing to cave with a little bit of
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  pressure in my life. And would you know one of those
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  people ultimately after a whole year came and asked me, what is
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  it about? Jesus Why are you the way you
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  are? When all that time they were on
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  an Evangelistic campaign to see what I have is sincere and true
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  people watch and want to see, are you willing to cave?
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  Is this? Just a fad, are you going to
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  give in? Are you just like everybody else
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  that? Just yes one day no the other
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  stay there and watch out people will be blessed by it.
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  Second Samuel, chapter six, that's come to verse 3.
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  David was able to get this. This group of people, the
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  leaders, the people of Israel to be on their feet and now they're
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  going to the countryside to get the ark from the house of
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  abinadab in the countryside. And so they come And the careful
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  student, as many of already observed will already know that
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  there are red flags to this whole thing.
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  And the red flags is the way that they got the arc.
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  We read here, that the way that they got the ark was by placing
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  it on a new cart. And to drive that new cart to
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  Jerusalem, You heard it already. I'll just say it again, for the
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  sake. Of those who haven't heard God
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  had given clear instructions back in numbers, how the ark was
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  to be carried on the shoulders of the Levites and not just the
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  Levites, but a specific family from the Levites who's that
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  family? Starts with a k.
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  So we see here that there is a specific particular surgical
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  instruction and they just dismiss the completely They put
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  it on a new arc. And this is under David's
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  leadership. Where did David get this idea?
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  From somebody already said it but this is that anybody miss
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  it. Where did, where did he get this
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  idea from, to put this arc on a new car?
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  The Philistines, the Philistines capture the ark back and first,
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  Samuel. And after capturing the ark,
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  they realized you can't mess with this Arc.
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  In other words, The Arc can take care of itself because the
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  presence of the Ark in enemy territory brought about plagues
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  and judgment. They said we got ourselves in a
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  Messier, they send it back and the instructions were send it
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  back on a new cart. So it arrives on a new cart and
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  Makes you wonder if David being backslidden with the Philistines
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  for over a year, adopted worldly philosophies, during that time.
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  And now when he came to his chance, to bring about this
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  wonderful fulfillment of the Ark of God being Central again.
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  He slips into the place. A putting it on a new cart.
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  What's the lesson here? The lesson is very obvious.
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  Israel, use the carnal method to accomplish a righteous goal in
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  the Temptation. Here is the Temptation
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  throughout all generations. Because what you will see here
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  is regardless of the intention regardless of the, the ambition,
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  the desired goal. God is not just concerned about
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  what you're doing. He's also concerned about how
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  you do it. He's very particular, he is
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  Holy, he has clear instructions and so God is Not merely
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  impressed by us doing it for a god-honoring reason even or in
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  the name of God. He's given obvious.
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  Clear, instructions of how we should go about it, the ends
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  never justify the means ever. It might for others, not for
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  God, the result of something or the motor for something is not
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  the only thing that glorifies God.
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  The means is what he prioritizes more than anything else.
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  Despite the result, it's the means trusting in his wisdom
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  submitting to his precepts. Got have you said to do it this
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  way? Then we will do it this way. for
• 34:03
  some reason, David doesn't Does anybody have an idea?
• 34:08
  Why David used a new car? Why do you think he did it?
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  People debate, whether he was ignorant of the law or not.
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  People say, he knew very well what he was doing.
• 34:20
  Some people say he would just wasn't aware of the part of the
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  Bible. You didn't show up to Friday
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  night that one night about what you do with The Arc.
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  Why did David put the Ark on a cart?
• 34:31
  Can I give you my suggestion? Where was the house of abinadab?
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  The text tells you, huh, on the hill.
• 34:41
  Where was Jerusalem situated? Was it a hilly area or is it a
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  flat area? Its mountainous?
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  So here's David's thinking it's much easier.
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  To go up and down these Hills and to carry the Ark of God.
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  It's much more convenient, much less effort and we'll even get
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  there faster. If we do this with wheels,
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  instead of depending on the shoulders of men, And the
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  natural man says, hallelujah Innovative.
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  Wonderful sounds great. But is it right?
• 35:19
  It is not right, just because it's lighter, just because it's
• 35:23
  faster. Just because it seems to bring
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  about quicker results. Does not mean God Smiles at it.
• 35:30
  And that is the exact, well, a major reason why?
• 35:36
  Christians and Christian Ministries today.
• 35:39
  Do not completely rely and apply the word of God to how they
• 35:43
  serve the Lord. It's more convenient to the
• 35:47
  flesh. Why pray?
• 35:51
  Why why fast? Why preach why?
• 35:55
  Wait on God, when we can do this this and this and even see
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  things happen, At a faster rate. And so the church has to hear
• 36:09
  what God is saying here. That we are always in danger.
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  Of looking at easier ways more attractive ways, it's new and
• 36:19
  then, apply that to how we do ministry.
• 36:21
  Do you know how many churches are encouraged to start their
• 36:24
  churches to see their churches? Grow?
• 36:25
  Would you like to know how? Here's a popular method, create
• 36:29
  a survey go to your neighborhood and on that survey asks people
• 36:33
  who are not saved or not regenerate who are not born
• 36:34
  again, ask them. What would you like to see on a
• 36:37
  weekly service at your local church?
• 36:40
  And gather the data and try to and try to balance Holiness and
• 36:45
  and worldliness and bring something that will bring people
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  and keep them and grow. The days of Simply trusting
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  God's word. Are quickly being replaced by
• 37:00
  seeking that which is more convenient and appealing to the
• 37:04
  Flesh and that's what you're having today.
• 37:07
  If you didn't recognize it. What do you where do you think
• 37:10
  they got this idea of preaching? Be replaced with shorter.
• 37:15
  Ted Talk Like sermons. Because some of these Ministries
• 37:21
  have been told, people want to be out of church by noon, they
• 37:24
  have things to do, they have to go take care of their Garden.
• 37:28
  They want to go watch the football game.
• 37:31
  They got to go here, they got to go there so come on let's just
• 37:34
  get it. Going communion service just do
• 37:37
  it. Quickly just say a couple words
• 37:39
  and she said we gotta go people have stuff to do on the Lord's
• 37:42
  Day. Come on you got to be relaxed.
• 37:46
  If you want people to be receptive you can't be so
• 37:48
  confrontational. You just got to be relaxed.
• 37:51
  And let people see that you're kind of like on a porch setting
• 37:55
  talking back and forth and people's attention spans are.
• 37:58
  Very not very large these days because of everything just the
• 38:01
  day that we're living in. So just kind of give like one
• 38:04
  key truth and drive it and look the Bible like it's complicated
• 38:09
  and people don't understand the depths of it.
• 38:11
  So just just buff it up with as many stories as possible.
• 38:15
  You got to get footnotes though because then people will you
• 38:17
  know they'll call you a heretic or unbiblical.
• 38:20
  So where did this come from? Came from somewhere.
• 38:24
  Came from the Philistines, that's where it came from.
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  And you, and I have to understand that.
• 38:32
  This is a danger. More than ever today.
• 38:35
  You know why? Because our brother said it, the
• 38:38
  emphasis here is not just the cart, but a new cart new, new
• 38:40
  new, new new new, right. And the time that we're living
• 38:44
  in, there has never been a mass production at the pace that we
• 38:48
  are knowing of newness. Right.
• 38:51
  Just think about how many apps and Trends have come and gone in
• 38:54
  the past five years things that were exciting and captivating.
• 39:00
  Two years ago is lame and old and boring today.
• 39:07
  And because we're people living in this kind of a world, very
• 39:12
  easily can that stuff creep in and US say, we need to do it new
• 39:17
  new. We gotta, we gotta freshen
• 39:18
  things up, man. And so let's do virtual reality
• 39:22
  church and let's baptize people and fake water.
• 39:27
  People don't want to go and get wet and have to change and then
• 39:31
  if they come in and their hair is not done, all right.
• 39:33
  Virtual reality Church, um, Live stream.
• 39:40
  Listen, let me say something. Okay.
• 39:43
  Just because the world produces things does not mean the church
• 39:47
  has to apply everything. Okay.
• 39:50
  Just because the world produces things does not mean we have to
• 39:53
  apply absolutely everything because we can get very we can
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  get a very tricky situations. So you know how many let me just
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  tell you this, you know, how many churches today as I'm
• 40:02
  speaking are suffering actually. Most churches are suffering in a
• 40:06
  post covid world because I'm a great percentage of those
• 40:10
  congregations have realized they can do church and their living
• 40:13
  room. And something that's a blessing
• 40:16
  of people are watching. Now, God bless you, that helps
• 40:18
  for those who are sick, who can't make it, who are injured?
• 40:21
  We want to utilize that tool but if you're not careful, it can
• 40:25
  substitute obedience. And so, just like the new cart.
• 40:31
  I was just talking to people in the past few weeks people in
• 40:33
  leadership in churches, large chunks of the people are not
• 40:37
  coming regular anymore. Why?
• 40:38
  Because it's just easier to do church when you watch and you
• 40:41
  can do other things and get more done.
• 40:43
  It's a new cart. It's a new car.
• 40:49
  So be careful, be careful watching if you're a leader, be
• 40:54
  careful, just because it's new just because it's a fad.
• 40:57
  Just because people are talking about it.
• 40:58
  Just because it seems more convenient, does not mean we
• 41:01
  need to apply it to church. We got to go back to the ancient
• 41:05
  paths as Jeremiah talked about. and so, We see in the remaining
• 41:12
  of this verse and these verses the fruit, the fruit of what
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  happens when you do not subscribe and give yourself
• 41:20
  completely to what it is that God says, how we should do
• 41:23
  worship, how we should do ministry, how we should do
• 41:26
  Christianity? Let me just give you two
• 41:28
  observations notice in verse 5 and David.
• 41:31
  And all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord with
• 41:35
  songs and lyres, and harps, and tambourines, and castanets.
• 41:40
  And Here's what happens when you try to do it the Philistine way,
• 41:45
  instead of the biblical way. You got noise but you don't have
• 41:51
  true worship. You produce noise, but you don't
• 41:54
  get true substance. You get large numbers and you
• 41:59
  get a lot of activity, but it's void of the presence of God,
• 42:03
  it's void of his pleasure. If you were to read that verse
• 42:07
  in isolation, would you be impressed?
• 42:09
  I might be. Wow, this is something very holy
• 42:11
  that's going on, but you know what?
• 42:13
  It was in God's eyes and empty production.
• 42:16
  It was an empty production. It was literally just a show.
• 42:20
  And that's what happens to a Ministry.
• 42:22
  When it deviates from Total obedience to God's word it
• 42:26
  forfeits true God honoring worship.
• 42:31
  And we often make the mistake of being impressed by that which
• 42:36
  which seems exciting, which seems loud.
• 42:39
  They're shouting. There's clapping what an
• 42:42
  exciting atmosphere. God must be blessing.
• 42:45
  This place. Not necessarily not necessarily.
• 42:49
  Here's a key example where you can have all of the hoopla.
• 42:54
  God, not even be in it at all. But because we're very soulish,
• 42:59
  we're easily persuaded by. What seems to be true success.
• 43:02
  When in fact, it's a failure. It's a failure.
• 43:07
  And so you have to understand something.
• 43:08
  If you want to be one to measure yourself, more.
• 43:11
  Importantly, if you want to look at anybody who claims to be
• 43:13
  Godly, any Ministry that came to claims to be God.
• 43:15
  Honoring, the, the basic thing you have to do is, is What's
• 43:19
  Happening Here in alignment to the scriptures.
• 43:22
  It's as simple as that, no matter how impressive it may
• 43:26
  seem. Is it lined up to the word of
• 43:30
  God. People always ask me how that
• 43:32
  the Q&A. How do I know what's Church to
• 43:34
  be a part of very simple. Look at all that they're doing.
• 43:37
  And see how much they exalt God's word over it.
• 43:40
  That's it. That's it.
• 43:44
  I've talked to many people over the years.
• 43:45
  All that place man. It has awesome worship.
• 43:48
  What they mean is the worship. Band is really good.
• 43:52
  Okay. Oh that place man.
• 43:55
  I whenever that guy talks I cry, why do you cry?
• 44:00
  Okay, you cry. That's my I can show you a clip
• 44:02
  on YouTube of people crying. Because they believed that there
• 44:07
  were Disciples of Jesus reincarnated and they were told
• 44:10
  tell us about the crucifixion and they were telling them about
• 44:12
  the crucifixion because they're part of a cult of a guy who
• 44:16
  believes that he is. Jesus Christ return on the
• 44:18
  earth, okay? You cry.
• 44:23
  Is it lined up to the word of God?
• 44:26
  Is it according to the scripture?
• 44:27
  It's as clear as that. But let me, let me make this
• 44:31
  point as well, because here's the opposite extreme.
• 44:34
  Now, you have people who consider themselves fundamental
• 44:37
  conservative serious, bible-believing.
• 44:39
  A verse by verse and there's no passion.
• 44:45
  Every time they come to church, you think it's a funeral
• 44:47
  service. Hello the Lord resurrected from
• 44:49
  the dead. And so you have the opposite
• 44:52
  attitude to and here's here's here's what I want to say.
• 44:55
  If there's anybody who should be exploding with joy and gladness,
• 45:00
  it's those who are walking in the truth.
• 45:02
  That's who and we see that later on where when David comes back
• 45:08
  to do it the right way, he's dancing before the Lord not
• 45:11
  recommending that But he comes to Jerusalem with great gladness
• 45:17
  great gladness. So this shouldn't be this, this,
• 45:20
  this weird divide, where if you are biblical and you are sound
• 45:24
  your stiff as a board. But you have people here who are
• 45:29
  not sound, who are not in alignment to God's word about
• 45:31
  their passion, and their just emotional people.
• 45:33
  So now what you have is you equate emotion with heresy, and
• 45:37
  if you're serious in your Godly, you just whatever.
• 45:43
  I don't get that. I really don't see that in the
• 45:44
  Bible. So what happens when you do the
• 45:48
  Philistine way, you got noise but you don't have true worship.
• 45:51
  You want to worship do it? The way the Bible says, and let
• 45:55
  the joy of walking in the truth, translate in the way, you sing
• 45:59
  the way, you serve, the way you Fellowship, the way you
• 46:01
  represent them on the Earth. verse 6 & 7, it's not just
• 46:05
  noise, but we see here that long enough, you will bring spiritual
• 46:10
  death, Let me read this to you again.
• 46:14
  And when they came to the threshing floor of Nathan, uzza,
• 46:17
  put out his hand to the Ark of God and took hold of it for the
• 46:20
  oxen stumbled. Somebody said it earlier, isn't
• 46:23
  it? Fascinating that eventually The
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  Oxen stumbled and it wasn't on a hill.
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  It was on a flat surface, a threshing floor. and the point I
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  want to make is that when you try to do it a different way
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  than God's way eventually, it's going to disappoint you.
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  Eventually it's going to not work.
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  Something is going to go wrong and that's exactly what happens
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  here right? We see that God's holy work
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  cannot be carried but by Unholy means God's presence is
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  incompatible with us doing things in the flesh.
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  And so the ark stumbles, in such a way it jolts where it looks
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  like the ark is going to slip off and fall to the ground.
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  And the thing that you take out of here is that it's going to
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  Fail. It's never going to work.
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  And so let me give you an example of this.
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  When you have people who strategize and say, let's just
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  try to get the people in. And the way we're going to get
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  the people in is avoid the controversial subjects.
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  Let's not press on sin. Let's not talk about the current
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  events that deal with morality. Let's just let's just get people
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  to feel good, you know this what happens?
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  You get the place packed. I mean you can do it within a
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  year. You have a you have a
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  charismatic enough person, a really talented band with pretty
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  people. Oh, you're set And what happens
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  is you get people coming in and what not do you do when you need
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  to talk about those issues? What's going to happen now when
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  you need to address homosexuality, when you need to
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  address the biblical principles about gender, what are you going
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  to do now? And you have people as I'm
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  speaking who are in that dilemma because they did it by starting
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  and putting the thing on the, on the, on the cart and now when
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  they come down the road they realize well I don't know if
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  we're seeing true disciples out of this, I don't know which
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  they're seeing their social media posts or their
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  congregation. They're seeing what they believe
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  about political things that are dealing with morality and
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  they're scared. So now we got to talk about and
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  now The try to talk about it. They know that they're going to
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  lose most of the people. Well some might say, Well
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  they're never going to talk about it, then they'll just keep
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  using the same method. Fine.
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  You want to go down Road, that's what you're going to get death.
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  That's where you're going to get.
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  You want to stay in that lane. This is what you're gonna get.
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  You're going to get God's discipline.
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  And that's exactly what happens. Who's that does?
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  What to the arc? What did you do?
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  Touches it, God, strikes and dead.
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  What's the point there? Well, it didn't start with.
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  It was a touching, the art. It started with them.
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  Putting the Ark on a cart. One spiritual compromise will
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  always lead to another. Always. so here's what happens
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  when you're lenient and relax and when you, when you ignore
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  one tenets of the faith or one aspect that is clear in the word
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  of God in due time in order to maintain the hoopla, in order to
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  move forward and what you think is Success, you're going to have
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  to compromise on something else and another thing and then
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  another thing and then another thing until what God shuts, the
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  thing down, Enough is enough. And he disciplines.
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  And that's exactly what happens here.
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  They went from putting the Ark on a cart tuza now touching the
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  ark and God wanted to make an example of them and said, no.
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  And he turns the lights off. So to speak the party's over.
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  And more can be said about this but let me make this, let me
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  actually ask this question. Who are those who are in the
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  category of the most susceptible to making this mistake of being
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  light with God's word, you might be surprised by the answer.
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  Who are those who are most susceptible to meet being light
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  and Casual about the things of God, and the word of God, and
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  the commands of God, if you want to yes.
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  Very good. Did you hear the answer?
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  Those who are constantly surrounded by the things of God?
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  And how do you know that? Okay.
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  Personal experience, good. Well, that's good.
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  But there's another thing to according to the huh, nadav, and
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  avihu is another example. Sure.
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  But our example is right here, all you got to do is again,
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  remember your tool belt. You still have it on, right?
• 50:47
  One of the tools is, how does the wider context, help me
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  understand this present portion of scripture.
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  We see here that 20 and Ohio were the ones who are driving
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  the thing, right? And uzza was the one who put his
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  hand. Well, here's my question
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  whoo-hoo. Are these men?
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  Where do they come from? Which house were they?
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  Were they a part of? I've been at that.
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  Have you heard his name before? yes, when First Samuel good.
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  When Okay, turn there to First. Samuel chapter seven.
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  I want you to see this for yourself.
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  First Samuel chapter 7. It's a good verse one.
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  And the men of curia, theorem came and took up the Ark of the
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  Lord and brought it to the house of who I've been a dab.
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  Okay. So they brought the ark to the
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  house of abinadab on the hill and they consecrated his son
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  Eliezer to have charge of the Ark of the Lord.
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  Now before we go to verse 2, so that is where the ark was for
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  quite some time. Does anybody know the amount of
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  time that the ark was in a been adapts home?
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  Very good. Next verse tells us, we see her
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  from that day. The ark was lodged from the day
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  that the ark was Lodge at Korea, theorem a long time.
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  Passed some 20 years who were whose own Ohio, the sons of
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  abinadab implying, what they grew up around the presence of
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  God. So, this is for those who grew
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  up in the church, this is where those who grew up in Christ
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  honoring home. This is, for those who heard the
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  name of Jesus as early as you can remember.
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  Okay, there's a danger for such people.
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  And the danger is so clear as a not.
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  I mean some of you might be experiencing it right now,
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  you're tuned out. This is like whatever.
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  Man, I hope. Now you're here on a Friday
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  night. Hope you're here for the right
• 52:59
  reason. But we see here that the danger,
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  for those who grow up around the presence of God is that you fail
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  to proceed moving forward, in life, with great caution.
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  About how you walk with him. And so there is no more this
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  sense of a reverence for God. That's lost.
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  And there's a familiarity that causes you to flirt with the
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  line of outright this honor. And carelessness.
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  And so here's the thing, if you're a person who has grown up
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  in the church, And if you can be honest and reflect on your
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  growth in the Lord, if you're a growing more and more.
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  In different if you have lost that sense of awe, if you don't
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  tremble anymore, as God's word is being preached by men who
• 53:55
  tremble. At God's word, you're in a
• 53:57
  dangerous place. You are.
• 53:59
  You're in like, code, red, alerts.
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  Something needs to happen to my heart because the opposite
• 54:05
  should be happening in your walk with the Lord.
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  I'm under the conviction that if you grew up in a house that
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  feared and honored, God and 20 years has passed, You should
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  have every year, every moment grown, in a greater fear of him,
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  as you learn more and more of his Holiness of his love, his
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  mercy of his wonderful power, not the opposite effect. and
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  that is, unfortunately the case here and it is the case for many
• 54:33
  These men were comfortable. They were casual.
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  They lost that sense of splendor.
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  And some might push back on what I'm saying.
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  Now by saying booza, these helping got out, I mean, The
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  Oxen stumbled and choose a put out his hand and he wasn't doing
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  an evil thing. He wasn't doing a vile thing, he
• 54:54
  was doing a good thing. and so I'm just curious to know of
• 54:59
  maybe this is your first time hearing it, maybe you've read it
• 55:00
  before who here if you're honest and it's not a sin to confess
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  this was a little bit shook by reading about what happened to
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  choose us so quickly when he did this, anybody, okay, that's okay
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  if it's a case So you read this and you think Lord are, why did
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  you have to bring such Swift judgment?
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  Why something? So immediate no voice from
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  Heaven. No warning, no call.
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  Nothing. Well we already discussed why
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  God had laid out. So obviously in his word these
• 55:32
  men should have known better but especially especially to Za
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  especially Ohio because here's my question.
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  Now, what was the predicament? What was the context that
• 55:47
  brought the ark to his front step to even begin with?
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  Do you remember why it was that the Ark of the Covenant came to
• 55:53
  the house of abinadab was it because they want some Lottery?
• 55:58
  What was it? What was the context behind
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  that? The Philistines sent back the
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  ark? The ark comes back within the
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  borders of Israel. And then something happens
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  between that moment and the Ark being dropped off to this house.
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  Who remembers it. The people looked into the ark
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  and God struck 70 of them. And the people mourned because
• 56:26
  the Lord had struck the people and they were fearful.
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  And they said, we don't want to handle this thing, so they send
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  it to the house of abinadab. And here's the point that I'm
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  trying to make Huzzah new that. So what I'm trying to make the
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  point, I'm trying to make is that who's had more than just,
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  the clear prescription of God's word telling him what to do with
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  the ark, he had personal experience.
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  He personally with his own eyes and his own ears, his old
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  upbringing was around the realization that God can
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  actually manifest his Holiness and judge God is not to be
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  played with God in a holy way, may use this word is dangerous.
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  He's dangerous around, casual attitudes around his presence
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  and he Dubai was another example.
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  He knew that firsthand he had the privilege and honor that
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  many of the Israelites would never known.
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  He grew up with the ark. You know how significant that is
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  only the high priest. Once a year would come into
• 57:29
  close proximity with such a thing that Arc, I don't know
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  where it was placed in the garage and delivery, it was
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  close enough for him to see it and know, it was there every
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  single day for 20. So before we start charging God,
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  for being unfair realized who were dealing with here, this
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  isn't a stranger, this isn't just a teenager that doesn't he
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  hasn't matured yet? This is a grown man who knew
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  full, well what God was capable of namely what this Arc is
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  capable of. And he's still presumed that he
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  can put his filthy carnal sinful hands on the presence of God.
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  So we might be shocked to see what happened here with Sousa.
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  But humans have a tendency pay attention to this point.
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  We have a tendency to be surprised at the wrong things
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  that we read of in the Bible. We do.
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  We look at things. And we tend to question the
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  wrong side of the equation. And what I want you to
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  understand is that there is a better question to ask, then why
• 58:39
  did God kill ooza so quick? You ready for this?
• 58:43
  Why didn't God kill everybody? Why didn't God destroy them all?
• 58:53
  Especially the leaders, even David who are organizers behind
• 58:58
  this illegal procession. and so somebody, I heard the story of
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  somebody who asked a preacher Pastor.
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  I'm so conflicted by that verse in Romans 9, where says, Jacob I
• 59:12
  loved and Esau I hated How can God hate, Esau?
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  Now, I understand hate to be a different way than how we
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  understand. Hey, we'll get to that when we
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  get the Romans 9 and like 2048, okay?
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  Jacob, I loved Esau I hated how can God Hades saw?
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  You know what the preacher said? That's not my problem.
• 59:34
  My question is, how can God loved Jacob.
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  How can God love a Despicable deceiving Trickster?
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  Who continually Dishonored God for decades until he finally got
• 59:52
  it. See, we're asking the wrong
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  question, a lot of the times and the cause of, that is a lack of
• 1:00:01
  a mature and honest comprehension of the character
• 1:00:05
  of God. In his Holiness and in his
• 1:00:08
  majesty, while also failing to understand the absolute vileness
• 1:00:14
  of who we are in comparison to him.
• 1:00:17
  That's what it is. and the more you come into this word and the
• 1:00:24
  more you realize who God is The last things you will be able to
• 1:00:31
  question. Because it all falls into place
• 1:00:34
  when you understand who he is. I think that's that's really the
• 1:00:39
  reason because we look at uzza and we go how when in fact we
• 1:00:45
  should be looking at God and saying how And the way we save
• 1:00:52
  ourselves from doing what David did, what was David's reaction
• 1:00:55
  to this remind me inverse a David was angry.
• 1:00:58
  David was angry because the Lord had broken out again Souza.
• 1:01:00
  That's what you have a lot today.
• 1:01:02
  People angry at God, people upset with God, people accusing
• 1:01:05
  God, how could you, how could you?
• 1:01:07
  How could you? Why would you?
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  Why would you? Why would you How can God allow
• 1:01:13
  suffering? Let me give you a different
• 1:01:14
  question. How can God?
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  So holy so pure. So brilliant.
• 1:01:18
  Make a way for us to escape Eternal suffering.
• 1:01:22
  I'm not, I'm not here to minimize legitimate questions.
• 1:01:25
  I'm not here to say that, I'm not saying that that's proof of
• 1:01:27
  a lack of maturity, but I'm saying when it, when it gets us
• 1:01:30
  to a place like David where we become will become those, who
• 1:01:34
  sit in the Judgment seat against God, that's a dangerous place to
• 1:01:36
  be. And it's proof of a lack of
• 1:01:39
  understanding of who God really is.
• 1:01:43
  And so, David goes from anger to verse 9 to afraid.
• 1:01:49
  He was afraid. This man was confused.
• 1:01:52
  He was confused. He really was.
• 1:01:55
  And you know how he's going to be rescued from this confusion.
• 1:01:58
  I'm not going to take you there, but when you go to 1st
• 1:02:00
  Chronicles 15, he realizes that the way we're going to do this
• 1:02:03
  in a second attempt because the first attempt fail, this is
• 1:02:06
  going to be a second attempt it by doing it by, do order, the
• 1:02:09
  way that God laid it out. So that's how you save yourself
• 1:02:13
  from a lot of confusion when you just go to the word, really.
• 1:02:18
  But let me end on this point. Our brother brought it up and it
• 1:02:20
  is a good point. Why do you think God allowed
• 1:02:24
  this to happen, where it happened?
• 1:02:30
  Where did it happen again? The threshing floor of naked.
• 1:02:35
  What happens at a threshing floor?
• 1:02:40
  Very good. What happens on the threshing
• 1:02:42
  floors? You would have sheaves laid out
• 1:02:44
  on a flat surface, and then you would have some oxen, or
• 1:02:47
  different animals. And sometimes you would have
• 1:02:48
  people with sticks and they would beat on the sheaves until
• 1:02:51
  the hard external part is separated from, from the edible
• 1:02:55
  part in other way. And another way of doing is that
• 1:02:58
  you would take a mixture of things and you would take it
• 1:03:00
  with a winnowing fork, and you would on a windy day, throw it
• 1:03:02
  up into the air and the wind would blow.
• 1:03:04
  And then the chaff would be removed and the grain would fall
• 1:03:07
  to the ground and you would gather it as a harvest. and God
• 1:03:13
  in the place where separation took place made a statement
• 1:03:20
  There needs to be separation between the holy and the Unholy.
• 1:03:27
  And I wonder if that click for them, it clicks for us because
• 1:03:30
  we have the aerial view of the whole thing.
• 1:03:33
  I wonder if it clicked for them in the same way that in life,
• 1:03:37
  there are things that are separate and that's what those
• 1:03:39
  laws are all about, by the way, you've probably heard it from
• 1:03:42
  somebody who says, you don't believe that you should have any
• 1:03:45
  approval of gay people. A, why are you wearing a
• 1:03:47
  different piece of cloth? And why do you do this?
• 1:03:49
  And why do you put grain in here and not the same agriculture?
• 1:03:52
  Why do you do that? The whole thing is not about
• 1:03:54
  necessarily. Just arbitrary random rules,
• 1:03:59
  it's the principle of Separation.
• 1:04:01
  That's what God is trying to communicate.
• 1:04:03
  In those tax there is the uncommon, there's a common,
• 1:04:05
  there is the holy there's the Unholy and in the place where
• 1:04:09
  day-to-day activity took place, where there would be a
• 1:04:11
  separation that occurred? God says, I want that in my
• 1:04:14
  people. I want that for my church.
• 1:04:18
  I want that in you. And here's the danger when we
• 1:04:22
  refuse to after being exposed to so much especially after being
• 1:04:27
  exposed with so much of what we grew up with.
• 1:04:30
  We invoke God's discipline. We invoke God's discipline.
• 1:04:35
  And here's what David learn and verse 8.
• 1:04:38
  And that place is called Perez Souza.
• 1:04:41
  Perez Souza to this day last week.
• 1:04:45
  David named something else. Something what did he named that
• 1:04:47
  place? Yeah, ball press seam, the Lord
• 1:04:51
  of what breakthrough. So what did he learn?
• 1:04:55
  Their God can break through like a flood and bring about a
• 1:04:58
  blessing immediately in a second, God can turn things
• 1:05:01
  around and the next chapter he realized Pres whoosah which
• 1:05:08
  means breaking out again Sousa. That this God also can break out
• 1:05:13
  in discipline. In judgment. and severity, and
• 1:05:18
  not just in kindness, and David was angry at first He took a
• 1:05:24
  deep breath. He was afraid.
• 1:05:32
  He steps back. He does what the people did with
• 1:05:35
  the house of abinadab, he takes the ark and he puts it in
• 1:05:37
  another house, the house of obededom, and we will learn next
• 1:05:40
  week. What will happen from there?
• 1:05:42
  Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for this this
• 1:06:09
  study for stimulating, our hearts Lord, we pray that in
• 1:06:18
  this place. You would see a people who love
• 1:06:22
  to obey the pattern of your word.
• 1:06:25
  Help us in all things. to be able to say we do this because
• 1:06:30
  God said, we do it this way because God said, we go this way
• 1:06:36
  because God said, Lord. Would you rescue us from the
• 1:06:42
  trap of familiarity? Would you keep us from coming to
• 1:06:46
  a place where we can touch the arc?
• 1:06:51
  we can defile that, which is holy, And without thinking twice
• 1:06:57
  about it. Lord, we pray that we would not
• 1:07:03
  be a statistic among those who become so familiar that we
• 1:07:07
  become numb in the process because we've heard the stories.
• 1:07:11
  And we know the gospel Because we've been to meetings and
• 1:07:17
  enough conferences to hear these things over and over again,
• 1:07:20
  where we lose our sense of the Majesty of Jesus Christ.
• 1:07:24
  If anything Lord, would you be merciful enough that the more we
• 1:07:28
  grow in years, the more we grow in our, aw, Lord help us resist
• 1:07:35
  that temptation. Of the new cart.
• 1:07:40
  As a ministry, as a church Even in our own lives help us hold on
• 1:07:45
  to the ancient paths. And Lord though I may be slower
• 1:07:49
  though may require more we want the true fruit of the spirit.
• 1:07:53
  We want the true results that come when we trust the holy
• 1:07:57
  spirit's leading and so, Lord, in this place, we gladly allow
• 1:08:01
  you to separate us from the world.
• 1:08:03
  We glad you. And we gladly invite you to
• 1:08:05
  remove all the chaff We gladly invite you to say oh God make us
• 1:08:10
  pure like you are pure. Holy Like You Are Holy, lovely.
• 1:08:13
  Like you were lovely. And Lord help us really
• 1:08:16
  understand. That even one person in this
• 1:08:19
  place who is really committed and ignited by your spirit can
• 1:08:23
  touch those around us without any effort on our part to try to
• 1:08:27
  persuade them day after day. But just the live this out we
• 1:08:31
  honor you we want to worship you tonight because you are the Holy
• 1:08:35
  One you are awesome and mighty and glorious.
• 1:08:41
  And we see you for who you are. We do not assume that you are
• 1:08:44
  like us. And so, Lord.
• 1:08:48
  We say how, how can you a mighty being be mindful of men to love
• 1:08:54
  us, individually to care for us to actually have a plan for each
• 1:08:58
  of Our Lives? That you have ordained before
• 1:09:03
  the world was even created, how can it be that such a glorious
• 1:09:07
  being loves us. So we are amazed that you Lord
• 1:09:12
  that you would even consider saving us mere creatures that
• 1:09:16
  came from the Dust. And you chose for us to be your
• 1:09:22
  Abode. We are amazed at your presence
• 1:09:25
  in Jesus name, we pray. Amen, let's stand as we close
• 1:09:28
  together. Worshiping the Lord