June 9, 2024 • 43 mins
What if honoring God’s presence could transform your entire community? Join us on our latest Christian Cafe episode as we recount our upcoming mission trip to Belize and reflect on the divine blessings we've experienced. We delve into the crucial practice of attuning our hearts to God's still, small voice amidst the cacophony of daily life. Plus, we invite you to explore past episodes and special content on our Facebook and YouTube channels, where you'll find a moving video detailing my wife's journey through depression and her miraculous recovery through faith.
Do you ever wonder how to truly invite God's presence into your life and community? This episode sheds light on the timeless story of David and the Ark of the Covenant. Learn from David’s initial mistakes and how his eventual adherence to God’s instructions led to immense blessings. As we continue our book series, we emphasize the importance of prioritizing God's will over our own methods to achieve spiritual transformation and success. By following God's ways, like David, we too can experience the fullness of His blessings.
Respect for God’s power is not just an abstract concept—it’s a vital practice for any believer. We delve into the necessity of sanctification to host God’s presence, drawing vivid parallels with the reverence electricians have for electricity. Through personal anecdotes and biblical accounts, we illustrate the significance of giving up worldly attachments to fully embrace God’s glory. As we close, we encourage you to become living arks, carrying God's presence with purity and reverence, and invite you to connect with us via email, Facebook, and YouTube. Your spiritual journey is important to us, and we are here to support you every step of the way.
Do you ever wonder how to truly invite God's presence into your life and community? This episode sheds light on the timeless story of David and the Ark of the Covenant. Learn from David’s initial mistakes and how his eventual adherence to God’s instructions led to immense blessings. As we continue our book series, we emphasize the importance of prioritizing God's will over our own methods to achieve spiritual transformation and success. By following God's ways, like David, we too can experience the fullness of His blessings.
Respect for God’s power is not just an abstract concept—it’s a vital practice for any believer. We delve into the necessity of sanctification to host God’s presence, drawing vivid parallels with the reverence electricians have for electricity. Through personal anecdotes and biblical accounts, we illustrate the significance of giving up worldly attachments to fully embrace God’s glory. As we close, we encourage you to become living arks, carrying God's presence with purity and reverence, and invite you to connect with us via email, Facebook, and YouTube. Your spiritual journey is important to us, and we are here to support you every step of the way.
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Welcome everyone to theChristian Cafe.
It is a great day here at theCafe.
I hope you're having awonderful day.
I know I am, and I'm just soglad to be back with you again
with some more good things fromGod's Word here at the Christian
Cafe.
I have been blessed.
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I hope you have been too.
It is Sunday, june the 9th man.
Where has this year gone to?
It's getting closely to the end.
I'll tell you what God has beendoing some great things since
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we last met.
We are getting closer andcloser to our trip to Belize and
getting ready for that andlooking forward to what God has
done and what he's going to doover in Belize.
I know he's going to do greatthings.
I hope it's beautiful whereyou're at.
The weather here is nice andwarm.
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We've been in the 80s most ofour week long and it's been
great.
I'm just so glad the rain'smoved out.
We went for several days andall we had was rain, rain, rain,
rain.
I'm glad it so is, but you knowwe need the rain to get
everything to grow.
I know I mowed my grass one dayand I guess three days later it
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rained for three days straightand it was ready to mow again.
Good thing.
I do use a ride no more.
I don't like pushing more.
Of course, I've got a big yardtoo, so it takes a while to mow,
even when I'm riding it.
But I'm glad you're here.
I'm glad that you've taken thetime to check us out and to hear
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One of the very first ones Idid when I was doing video was
about a lady dealing withdepression, and that lady is my
wife and she talks about how Godbrought her through it and how
god really helped her out and,uh, just uh, give her peace.
I know that time that she wasat in that period it was it was
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We all can use prayer every dayand I don't mind praying for
people.
I really want God to move inyour life.
I just got back from a men'sconference yesterday and God
moved.
It's not all the time that it'sall about the shout.
Sometimes God just speaks inthose still small voices, just
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like he did Elijah.
When Elijah was on the mountain, there was a big old wind and
some fire and everything, butGod was not into any of those.
It was not until he had thestill small voice that he spoke
to Elijah.
Sometimes we just need to payattention and be quiet and
listen for that and see what Godhas got in store for us.
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Sometimes we're too loud, youknow what I'm saying.
We're too loud and we can'thear what God is trying to say
to us.
So sometimes just sit back andlisten.
But we're going to get back intoour book today and trying to
finish up chapter six.
But we're going to get back intoour book today and trying to
finish up chapter 6.
We're going to get into it andwe're going to learn.
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We're going to find out if wewant to pay the price of God's
glory.
We got into last week where Godwas moving the ark and God broke
out of the box and just causedmen's plans to fall.
And that's what he does.
He likes to disturb our plans.
He's tired of therickety-rackety old stuff that
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we try to do and put his name onit, and he don't want no part
of that.
He wants to do things his way,and I found out in times past
that if I will listen to hisplans and do his plans, then I
don't have to worry aboutnothing failing, because God's
got an order that he wants itdone and when we follow that
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order, god is going to bless.
And we're going to find out alittle bit about that today,
about how God did bless and howDavid decided to listen and do
it the way God said do, and wecan title this episode as Do you
Want to Pay the Price?
But first we're going to take aquick break and we'll come back
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Welcome back, guys.
Thanks for tuning in.
We're going to jump back intoour book.
We're going to finish back intoour book.
We're going to finish upchapter six today.
Do you want to pay the price?
That's a question that we allshould answer.
What are we willing to do forGod?
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Are we willing to change ourmethods of things and doing it
the way God wants it done?
Are we satisfied with wherewe're at?
I hope we are not satisfied.
The minute we get satisfied,the minute things begin to not
do too good for us.
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So I hope you're willing tostep out on God.
Let's get right into the book.
So I hope you're willing tostep out on God, let's get right
into the book.
That is exactly where the churchis at this crucial moment in
time.
We have reached the point inthis move of God where we are
trying to transport the gloryback to where it belongs.
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We've run into the shakingplace at god's threshing floor
and it is time to ask ourselvesare we really the ones?
Do we really want to do it?
Are we willing to pay the priceand obey god's voice at all
costs?
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Are we willing to learn anewhow to handle the holy things of
God.
I must warn you that God'sglory, his manifest presence,
can literally split local churchbodies, like the split body of
Uzziah.
Many a godly pastor shouldapproach his congregation with
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kindness and diplomacy to say Ifyou're not serious about
seeking God's face, then youmight want to find another place
.
If you're uncomfortable aboutwaiting on the presence of God
and experiencing the weightinessof God's glory the weightiness
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of God's glory, if you areuncomfortable with the strange
and unusual manifestations thatsometimes occupy his coming,
then you need to find someplaceless hungry to stay.
We've had church our way longenough.
If you want to keep havingchurch the way Saul did it
yesterday, if you are content toput God in his familiar box and
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strap it to your own man-madeprograms and procedures, then
you might need to go somewhereelse.
I must warn you that the bumpin the road just told us that we
are not going to do it that wayanymore.
How would you feel if thepastor opened up one Sunday
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morning with those words whatwould that say to you?
I think to me.
If I had listened to that, Ithink I'd either get up and run
or decide to hey, maybe he's gotsomething here, because so many
times we kind of put God in abox in our church services.
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In everything we do about church, we try to do church our way.
My pastor was saying thismorning that we need to do
church God's way.
We've got our own littleprograms that we do.
We follow a script.
We go in at 10 o'clock and weopen up at 10.05.
We're going to sing this songat 10.10.
At 10.10, we're going to say aprayer, and et cetera.
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It goes on and on.
We got a schedule but we're noteven allowing God time to move
and I don't think God is in noplace for that.
We've got to stop doing thingsthe way that we want it done,
the way we think it needs to bedone, and think about the way
God wants it done.
We need to get back to whereyou know.
We're looking at what God wantsto do.
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We're looking at Scripture tosee how he's done it.
I mean Uzziah paid with hislife.
When they come to the threshingfloor and hit that bump and he
reached out to steady the ark,he immediately God struck him
dead.
Why?
Because, number one, they wasnot carrying the ark the way
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that God wanted it carried, andwe'll find out more about that I
don't want.
I don't want to jump ahead head.
But we'll find out about thatin just a minute.
Let's get back into reading here.
It's when you hit that holybump at the threshing floor of
preparation that you realizethis won't work anymore.
This is not right anymore.
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Until you hit that burnt bump,you will probably be perfectly
satisfied and at ease with alittle dancing, some small harps
that aren't too noisy, a fewpeople singing and dancing and
maybe even a few lessconservative things from time to
time.
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But once you decide to returnGod's glory to its proper place,
you are destined to hit a holybump.
When God's glory appears andslays some flesh right in front
of everybody, true repentance isan awesome flesh death sight to
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behold, too much for some tostomach.
That day, when I leaned over towhisper to the pastor in fear
and trembling, god could havekilled you, we both knew we had
reached a point of the bump inthe road.
Let me give you a littlebackground here for somebody
that didn't hear what happenedbefore the beginning of the
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chapter.
They were in service and theSpirit of God, the anointing,
was so powerful that it was likesomething come down and it
split the pulpit as the pastorwas standing in front of it.
Now, for some people, I imagineit scared the daylights out of
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them.
Can you imagine standing infront of that pulpit and the
Spirit of God struck the pulpitand split it in two?
That's the power of God.
And he reached a point wherethey got the bump of road and
God said are you serious aboutme coming?
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Do you really want me to?
Then you're going to have to doit my way.
So that's what God's trying totell us.
Now we're asking for him to comeand I'm sorry to get off here,
but I get excited when I talkabout this, because we ask God
all the time that we want him inour services.
But are we really serious aboutit?
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Are we really serious about theanointing and the power of God
coming in our service so muchthat it literally will split a
pulpit in half, that it hasreally, in times past, split a
human impact in half?
Do we really want him?
Do we really desire him to theplace that we are willing to
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give up everything we've put inplace for that service to say
God, this is your service, youdo what you want to do, because
that's what God wants.
If we want him in our services,then we have got to back off
and take a backseat and let himdo it his way, not our, because
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we find out that our ways don'twork.
Our ways are not producingsinners.
That's being born again.
Our ways are not producingpeople being healed, people
being delivered from addictionsand from all these things that
really need to be dealt with,because our way is not doing it.
We've got too many programsthat we say are designed for
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these things, but none of themare designed for God's spirit.
It's time that we get away fromthat.
Are we serious about him coming?
Are we serious about reallywanting him to?
And if we are, we need to stepback and let it have its way.
No one but God knows how theIsraelites handled the ark when
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they first loaded it into thenew cart at Ben-Hadad's house,
but we do know they handled itdifferently after Uzziah's death
.
We can be sure about one thingNobody touched it.
They had a new respect forGod's glory that wouldn't wear
off for a lifetime.
They probably said good luck,obed, lifetime.
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They probably said good goodluck, obed.
You should probably know thatwe have to bury a man today
because he touched that thing.
When we hit a bump in the road,you better be careful over
there, dm david wondered.
I don't know if I really wantthat ark in Jerusalem.
It might kill us all.
The only problem was that forthe next three months, david
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kept hearing reports about God'sblessings on Obed-Edom.
According to the Bible,obed-edom's house was so blessed
that everything he touched wasblessed too.
That seemed to includeeverything he owned.
All his family members and evenhis second cousins and farm
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animals were doing better, moneywas flowing in and everybody
was wealthy.
When David checked withObed-Edom this is probably kind
of the way the conversation wentbetween him and David Obed-Edom
said yeah, you heard right.
Well, what have you done?
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David would say.
I know we sure haven't touchedthat thing.
I won't let the kids get closeto it but ever since you dumped
that box off of my front porch,it's just like that thing is
emanating riches and power andauthority.
When I walk into town, thingshappen that I didn't even have
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anything to do with.
David had quickly reconsideredhis official position on the ark
.
It had suddenly dawned on himwhat the presence and the glory
of God could mean to a nation ifit brought blessings to even a
lowly farmer's family.
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Then he said I've got to takeand get that ark back to where
it belongs.
I'm going to get it toJerusalem.
When David put the ark on thenew cart the first time around,
he had all of Israel with himthinking Wow, god will be
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pleased with the way we did this.
Look at all the thousands ofguys gathered around the ark
playing instruments and dancing.
So let me just pause right here.
When the ark was in Obed-Edom'splace, the Bible said that he
was blessed beyond measure, thateverything that he touched was
blessed.
Imagine today that if we doneeverything the way that God
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wants us to do in our churches,in our community, in our homes,
imagine the blessings of Godthat would exist in our life.
Imagine things that God coulddo.
God would heal all of ourdiseases, our family could be
saved, all things I mean.
Just look, we have an exampleright here with Obed-Edom, how
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the, the presence of God wasbeing, was in a house and God
was blessing it.
See, sometimes, as David isSaul, he began to have second
thoughts because before he saidI don't know if I want this in
Jerusalem or not, it might killeverybody.
But now that he sees concreteevidence of what the power of
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God can do and the presence ofGod can do, then he won't sit
for Jerusalem.
He wants to get back there andhe sets out to do this.
But now he's got a new cart todo this.
But now he's got a new cart.
The first time he had a newcart and everybody was coming
around and everybody wasgathered around and was so happy
and was playing instruments andwas dancing.
He was doing it their way.
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But since no one bothered toask God for his opinion about it
all, he had to pull the plug ontheir party.
No more, Not one step further.
I'm shaking things up.
You've hit the holy bump on thethreshing floor and this is
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where the flesh gets off.
This is, as far as you go,doing it your way.
If you really want my presenceto be where it belongs, then
from here on out you do thingsmy way.
The second time around.
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David did what he should havedone the first time.
Have you ever said that toyourself?
I know I have.
David studied the history ofpast moves of God in the Word.
How did they move the Ark ofthe Covenant from one place to
another.
In Moses' day he rediscoveredthe true purpose and function of
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the Levites and the Aaronicpriest, and he noticed for the
first time that wooden staveswere meant to be put through the
mysterious strings on the sideof the ark.
Oh, so that's what those ringsare for.
It's amazing that God got bentout of shape over two sticks.
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We can't take God for granted.
A lot of hungry church leaderstoday are reading everything
they can find out about pastmoves of God.
Why?
Because we are at the holy bumpin the threshing floor.
We somehow sense that if wereally want the holiness of God
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and the fullness of his glory todwell in our midst, then we
need to find out how to properlyhandle the holy God's glory.
We know that this is where theflesh has to fall off, but what
is God's way to do it?
Our hunger is too deep for onemeal to satisfy us.
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We are after more than hisvisitation.
We want God's visitation tobecome a habitation.
Let me say that again we wantGod's visitation to become a
habitation.
You know, when you visitsomebody, when you go visit
family, you don't stay very long, do you?
It's a visit, that's all, doyou?
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It's a visit, that's all it is.
It's a visitation.
When you go on vacation, it'snot someplace you're going to go
and stay, You're just there fora short period of time, to have
fun and to visit, have sometime away.
Have some time away, but it'snot until you.
God's visitation is to come.
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Habitation is when God moves.
He will come and visit everyonce in a while, but he'll leave
.
But wouldn't you rather for himto take up habitation in our
lives, habitations in ourchurches?
We want his kabod, but not inkabod.
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We want his presence to be here.
We want him to be right with us.
We want him to abode in us andbe with us all time.
We want his kabod.
We don't want him to put inkabod over us and say that his
presence has left us.
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We don't want that over ourchurches, over our lives.
We want God's presence at alltimes.
I don't know that I would walkaround town or go to work or any
place else not knowing that Godis not with me.
I want an inhabitation of Jesus, not just a visitation.
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I'm tired of visitations.
I'm tired of just going tochurch, going through the
routines, and God come down andvisit a little bit.
There's a little shouting andand and things like that, and
you know a little bit of thingstake place.
But when God is with us at alltimes, he's constantly blessing
us, just as he did with Obadiahwhen the when the presence of
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the ark was there, God wasblessing him all the time
because his presence was there.
Wouldn't you want that?
I know I would.
We are in the same situation asKing David.
Our greatest danger at thispoint is for the sacred things
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to become a common.
The Ark of the Covenant washoused in Abinadad's home for a
long time, but God's presencewas only there in a limited
fashion.
Some writers think Uzziah grewup around the Ark of the
Covenant as a kid.
Perhaps he played on it, sat onit or swung his feet from the
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sides and generally didn't thinkanything about it from the
sides and generally didn't thinkanything about it.
If this is true, it was becauseGod was there in a limited
fashion.
However, when you start movingGod's glory back to the place
where it belongs, his felt ormanifested presence and power
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will begin to be restored withevery step back to his divine
order.
Could the stumbling have comefrom the additional weight of
the glory, the kabod, beingrestored to the ark.
You will no longer be able toget away with things that you
used to take for granted, thatyou used to take for granted.
If you're not careful, we canallow sacred things to become so
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common that we begin to think,like Uzziah, I can touch it.
See, I grew up with it.
It's harmless.
We're going to touch God'sglory one time too many.
Never take God's holy presencefor granted and never assume
that if no one is crying,shaking, manifesting odd
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movements or prophesying away,then God isn't at work.
Be careful when you stifle ayawn of boredom and complacency.
Many of the great saints inhistoric denominations and
churches knew that God doesn'talways have to manifest himself
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in things seen by the eye of theflesh.
They would solemnly warn all ofus don't come in here looking
for sensationalism.
Don't come in here looking forsensationalism.
Come looking for God and youwill find him.
See, that's the problem.
We go into our churches.
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We're not expecting anything.
We're looking for the samething, every single service
looking for them.
Get up to sing a few songs, saya prayer, take up an offering
and the pastor preach, give analtar call and go home.
We're just looking for somethingto get us out of our everyday
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routine and go to church andhave another routine and come
back home and do it all overagain next week, Not allowing
God to move in our midst.
You know why?
Because the presence has left.
The presence have left thebuilding.
An incubod is across the frontdoor.
It's time to get the bread backin the house.
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It's time to bring it back towhere it belongs and we've began
to see God move.
Let's take a break and we'llcome back.
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We'll see you next time.
We need to live with a newawareness of his constant
presence so it won't become socommon to me that I begin to
think I can casually reach outand touch His holiness with my
flesh at any point.
I want Him at any cost and Iwill not let sacred things
become common to me.
If you are committed toparticipate in the visitation
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and habitation of God, then praythis with me, Lord God, I am
here to meet with you and I'mlearning how to handle the holy
things of your presence.
Have mercy on me, Lord Jesus.
One of the first things Goddoes when he turns on the power
in his church is to bring back arespect for the power.
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Any electrician or experienceddo-it-yourselfer will tell you
that before they wire a house,they always turn the power off
first.
Why.
Most will admit it is becausethey have touched the power
before.
What did they gain from theexperience?
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They received a deep andpersonal respect for the power
of electricity and its effect onunprotected flesh.
Now I witnessed this firsthandmy brother.
He does a little electricalwork on the side and he's bad
about just not cutting power offsometimes.
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Well, this particular time hedid that and he grabbed a couple
of wires and it knocked himclean across the room.
Now he was stunned.
He didn't get seriously hurt,just the breath knocked out of
him.
That threw him up against thewall.
But you know, when the power isoff you can touch the lines all
you want to, but when thatpower's on, if you do not want
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to get blistered or knockedacross the room, then you better
leave the power alone.
You better leave those wiresalone.
He, because he again got adifferent respect for those.
That's the reason why I don'ttouch them now, because I've
seen what it does.
I'm scared to death to workaround electricity.
But before God brings his powerinto the earth in his mercy, he
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first restores our respect andall for his glory and the things
that are holy, and all for hisglory and the things that are
holy.
We need to regain a deep andpersonal respect for the power
of God's glory and unrepentantflesh.
It's not that we shouldn't comenear it, use it or dwell in it.
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Just as an electrician is ableto work around crackling
220-volt power lines with safety, once he learns to respect the
power electricity.
David and the Israelites learnedhow to honor and handle or
steward God's glory, manifestedin the Ark of the Covenant.
In fact, they even took the Arkinto battle with them later on.
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God is calling you and me tocarry his ark into battle with
them.
Later on, god is calling youand me to carry his presence
into battle with his everyday asliving arks.
Arks are tabernacles of theboast high God.
He wants us to dwell with himin intimate communion, but first
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the flesh must die.
The anointing and power ofGod's presence are going to come
upon us so strongly that hispresence will literally go
before us into our offices,plants, prisons and shopping
malls.
Because this great revival isbased on his glory and presence
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and not on the works of man.
It cannot be contained withinthe four walls of churches.
God's glory must flow out tothe world.
There is another point to noticein David's second attempt to
move God's glory into its properplace.
When he recalled the Levitesand the descendants of Aaron to
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the priestly duties as stewardsof the ark, he gave them a
solemn warning that applies toevery high priest in the kingdom
of God today.
In 1 Chronicles 15, verses 12and 13, it says and said unto
them Ye are the chief of thefathers of the Levites.
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Sanctify yourself before ye andyour brethren that ye may bring
up the ark of the Lord, god ofIsrael, unto the place that I
have prepared for it.
For because ye did it not atthe first, the Lord, our God,
made a breach upon us.
For that we sought him notafter the due order.
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The Hebrew word, translated assanctified, is kadesh, and it
means to separate or make holy.
In other words, we have tobecome holy like he is.
Do you know how David emphasizedthe importance of
sanctification to those men?
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I think he said I want to showyou the tombstone of a guy who
was sanctified.
You're about to carry the sameArk of the covenant that did
this to him, so you had bettergo through a cleansing ceremony
right now.
You better cleanse yourself.
I know that the first man tothrust a staff through the rings
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, counted himself as dead.
Only dead men walking can hostGod's holiness.
This move of God is worth morethan a Coke, and its taking
place across the earth has oftenbeen marked by night after
night of cleansing andrepentance.
If you allow God to take usthrough the complete process of
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repentance and brokennesswithout hindering or quenching
his spirit, then when the kabod,the weightiness, presence of
God, comes among us and upon us,then we will be able to carry
it without fear, because we willbe walking in the purity of
Jesus and our flesh will be dead, covered by the blood of the
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Lamb.
The old timers in the Pentecostmovement used to do some things
that I made fun of as a youngman.
I have an aunt who gave updrinking Coke when she was
seeking the presence of God inher life.
She was really enjoying.
She really enjoyed drinkingCoca-Cola, but she prayed God,
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if you will visit me, I'll neverdrink another one.
God took her at her word.
I used to laugh about it as akid and teased her as I waved a
Coke in front of her here youwant a Coke.
She would just laugh and sayher here you want a Coke.
She would just laugh and say,no, I don't want a Coke.
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Even then, that laugh of hersalways left me feeling like she
knew something I didn't.
Now, ever since the first day ofGod's manifest presence showing
up in Houston, I can say Iunderstand.
Now, auntie, I understand.
Nothing is worth holding on toso hard that you can't hold him.
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I want to say that againNothing is worth holding on to
so hard that you can't hold him.
What is it that we're holdingon to that is keeping us from
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moving into the anointedpresence of God?
What is it in our lives that weare allowing to take the place
of what God really wants to giveus?
There are things that we allowin our lives that are hindering
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us from really stepping intothat place God wants us to be.
I've learned in my life that Ihave allowed things to take the
place of God.
I've allowed things to keep mefrom achieving and moving into
the calling into a greaterextent than where I'm at.
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God has done great things in mylife.
He's moved and he's blessed me,he's healed me.
He's done so many things that Ican't even begin to tell, but
yet, and still, I've yet torelease some things in my life
that I hold on to things in mypast that I can't seem to break
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free from.
I'm praying and asking God fordeliverance every single day and
I know sometimes it just takesus just saying God, here it is.
But what is it?
When we do that?
It's like a vacation.
It doesn't change us.
We pick it right back up, we goright back and let it inhabit
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us again.
Back up, we go right back andlet it inhabit us again.
Until we are really dedicatedto it, really are ready and
serious of god coming into our,our lives and taking full
control.
We'll never experience whatabinadad did in his home, or
obadadim, excuse me, will neverexperience that, will never
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experience the continuingblessings of god.
God wants to bless us, god wantsto move in our lives, but again
, there's something we got to do.
It's not say god, I want to dothis and then, uh, we do, don't
do anything for him.
Where there's nothing we'regiving up, there's nothing we're
sacrificing to receive what hewants.
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People have died because theycome at god at the wrong way.
I don't want to do that.
I don't want to touch somethingthat is so holy that it would
cause me not to receive what godwants to give me, you know, can
.
Again, I've said it many timeswe can talk about how we want to
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follow God, how we want to dothings for God, but are we
really serious about it?
Because in the closet we'redoing all these things that we
know not to do and then wequestion why we're not where
we're at with God.
We need to think about that.
We need to think about that.
We need to think about, youknow, what are we holding on to?
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What are we holding on that wecan't let go?
If we let go of it, thenthere's something else we can
hold on to.
We can hold on to God becauseit's like I said a while ago
nothing is worth holding on toso hard that we can't hold on to
.
We can hold on to God becauseit's like I said a while ago
nothing is worth holding on toso hard that we can't hold on to
God.
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Guys, I hope you receivedsomething from this today.
I hope that you're payingattention and listening to what
God's trying to tell us.
He's wanting us to bring us toa place that we can experience
more than what we'reexperiencing now.
But we've got to do it his way.
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It is a great day here at theCafe.
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It is Sunday, june the 9th man.
Where has this year gone to?
It's getting closely to the end.
I'll tell you what God has beendoing some great things since
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we last met.
We are getting closer andcloser to our trip to Belize and
getting ready for that andlooking forward to what God has
done and what he's going to doover in Belize.
I know he's going to do greatthings.
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We've been in the 80s most ofour week long and it's been
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I'm just so glad the rain'smoved out.
We went for several days andall we had was rain, rain, rain,
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I'm glad it so is, but you knowwe need the rain to get
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I know I mowed my grass one dayand I guess three days later it
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Good thing.
I do use a ride no more.
I don't like pushing more.
Of course, I've got a big yardtoo, so it takes a while to mow,
even when I'm riding it.
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I really want God to move inyour life.
I just got back from a men'sconference yesterday and God
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It's not all the time that it'sall about the shout.
Sometimes God just speaks inthose still small voices, just
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like he did Elijah.
When Elijah was on the mountain, there was a big old wind and
some fire and everything, butGod was not into any of those.
It was not until he had thestill small voice that he spoke
to Elijah.
Sometimes we just need to payattention and be quiet and
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Sometimes we're too loud, youknow what I'm saying.
We're too loud and we can'thear what God is trying to say
to us.
So sometimes just sit back andlisten.
But we're going to get back intoour book today and trying to
finish up chapter six.
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finish up chapter 6.
We're going to get into it andwe're going to learn.
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We're going to find out if wewant to pay the price of God's
glory.
We got into last week where Godwas moving the ark and God broke
out of the box and just causedmen's plans to fall.
And that's what he does.
He likes to disturb our plans.
He's tired of therickety-rackety old stuff that
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we try to do and put his name onit, and he don't want no part
of that.
He wants to do things his way,and I found out in times past
that if I will listen to hisplans and do his plans, then I
don't have to worry aboutnothing failing, because God's
got an order that he wants itdone and when we follow that
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order, god is going to bless.
And we're going to find out alittle bit about that today,
about how God did bless and howDavid decided to listen and do
it the way God said do, and wecan title this episode as Do you
Want to Pay the Price?
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Thanks for tuning in.
We're going to jump back intoour book.
We're going to finish back intoour book.
We're going to finish upchapter six today.
Do you want to pay the price?
That's a question that we allshould answer.
What are we willing to do forGod?
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Are we willing to change ourmethods of things and doing it
the way God wants it done?
Are we satisfied with wherewe're at?
I hope we are not satisfied.
The minute we get satisfied,the minute things begin to not
do too good for us.
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So I hope you're willing tostep out on God.
Let's get right into the book.
So I hope you're willing tostep out on God, let's get right
into the book.
That is exactly where the churchis at this crucial moment in
time.
We have reached the point inthis move of God where we are
trying to transport the gloryback to where it belongs.
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We've run into the shakingplace at god's threshing floor
and it is time to ask ourselvesare we really the ones?
Do we really want to do it?
Are we willing to pay the priceand obey god's voice at all
costs?
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Are we willing to learn anewhow to handle the holy things of
God.
I must warn you that God'sglory, his manifest presence,
can literally split local churchbodies, like the split body of
Uzziah.
Many a godly pastor shouldapproach his congregation with
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kindness and diplomacy to say Ifyou're not serious about
seeking God's face, then youmight want to find another place
.
If you're uncomfortable aboutwaiting on the presence of God
and experiencing the weightinessof God's glory the weightiness
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of God's glory, if you areuncomfortable with the strange
and unusual manifestations thatsometimes occupy his coming,
then you need to find someplaceless hungry to stay.
We've had church our way longenough.
If you want to keep havingchurch the way Saul did it
yesterday, if you are content toput God in his familiar box and
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strap it to your own man-madeprograms and procedures, then
you might need to go somewhereelse.
I must warn you that the bumpin the road just told us that we
are not going to do it that wayanymore.
How would you feel if thepastor opened up one Sunday
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morning with those words whatwould that say to you?
I think to me.
If I had listened to that, Ithink I'd either get up and run
or decide to hey, maybe he's gotsomething here, because so many
times we kind of put God in abox in our church services.
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In everything we do about church, we try to do church our way.
My pastor was saying thismorning that we need to do
church God's way.
We've got our own littleprograms that we do.
We follow a script.
We go in at 10 o'clock and weopen up at 10.05.
We're going to sing this songat 10.10.
At 10.10, we're going to say aprayer, and et cetera.
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It goes on and on.
We got a schedule but we're noteven allowing God time to move
and I don't think God is in noplace for that.
We've got to stop doing thingsthe way that we want it done,
the way we think it needs to bedone, and think about the way
God wants it done.
We need to get back to whereyou know.
We're looking at what God wantsto do.
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We're looking at Scripture tosee how he's done it.
I mean Uzziah paid with hislife.
When they come to the threshingfloor and hit that bump and he
reached out to steady the ark,he immediately God struck him
dead.
Why?
Because, number one, they wasnot carrying the ark the way
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that God wanted it carried, andwe'll find out more about that I
don't want.
I don't want to jump ahead head.
But we'll find out about thatin just a minute.
Let's get back into reading here.
It's when you hit that holybump at the threshing floor of
preparation that you realizethis won't work anymore.
This is not right anymore.
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Until you hit that burnt bump,you will probably be perfectly
satisfied and at ease with alittle dancing, some small harps
that aren't too noisy, a fewpeople singing and dancing and
maybe even a few lessconservative things from time to
time.
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But once you decide to returnGod's glory to its proper place,
you are destined to hit a holybump.
When God's glory appears andslays some flesh right in front
of everybody, true repentance isan awesome flesh death sight to
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behold, too much for some tostomach.
That day, when I leaned over towhisper to the pastor in fear
and trembling, god could havekilled you, we both knew we had
reached a point of the bump inthe road.
Let me give you a littlebackground here for somebody
that didn't hear what happenedbefore the beginning of the
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chapter.
They were in service and theSpirit of God, the anointing,
was so powerful that it was likesomething come down and it
split the pulpit as the pastorwas standing in front of it.
Now, for some people, I imagineit scared the daylights out of
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them.
Can you imagine standing infront of that pulpit and the
Spirit of God struck the pulpitand split it in two?
That's the power of God.
And he reached a point wherethey got the bump of road and
God said are you serious aboutme coming?
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Do you really want me to?
Then you're going to have to doit my way.
So that's what God's trying totell us.
Now we're asking for him to comeand I'm sorry to get off here,
but I get excited when I talkabout this, because we ask God
all the time that we want him inour services.
But are we really serious aboutit?
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Are we really serious about theanointing and the power of God
coming in our service so muchthat it literally will split a
pulpit in half, that it hasreally, in times past, split a
human impact in half?
Do we really want him?
Do we really desire him to theplace that we are willing to
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give up everything we've put inplace for that service to say
God, this is your service, youdo what you want to do, because
that's what God wants.
If we want him in our services,then we have got to back off
and take a backseat and let himdo it his way, not our, because
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we find out that our ways don'twork.
Our ways are not producingsinners.
That's being born again.
Our ways are not producingpeople being healed, people
being delivered from addictionsand from all these things that
really need to be dealt with,because our way is not doing it.
We've got too many programsthat we say are designed for
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these things, but none of themare designed for God's spirit.
It's time that we get away fromthat.
Are we serious about him coming?
Are we serious about reallywanting him to?
And if we are, we need to stepback and let it have its way.
No one but God knows how theIsraelites handled the ark when
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they first loaded it into thenew cart at Ben-Hadad's house,
but we do know they handled itdifferently after Uzziah's death
.
We can be sure about one thingNobody touched it.
They had a new respect forGod's glory that wouldn't wear
off for a lifetime.
They probably said good luck,obed, lifetime.
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They probably said good goodluck, obed.
You should probably know thatwe have to bury a man today
because he touched that thing.
When we hit a bump in the road,you better be careful over
there, dm david wondered.
I don't know if I really wantthat ark in Jerusalem.
It might kill us all.
The only problem was that forthe next three months, david
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kept hearing reports about God'sblessings on Obed-Edom.
According to the Bible,obed-edom's house was so blessed
that everything he touched wasblessed too.
That seemed to includeeverything he owned.
All his family members and evenhis second cousins and farm
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animals were doing better, moneywas flowing in and everybody
was wealthy.
When David checked withObed-Edom this is probably kind
of the way the conversation wentbetween him and David Obed-Edom
said yeah, you heard right.
Well, what have you done?
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David would say.
I know we sure haven't touchedthat thing.
I won't let the kids get closeto it but ever since you dumped
that box off of my front porch,it's just like that thing is
emanating riches and power andauthority.
When I walk into town, thingshappen that I didn't even have
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anything to do with.
David had quickly reconsideredhis official position on the ark
.
It had suddenly dawned on himwhat the presence and the glory
of God could mean to a nation ifit brought blessings to even a
lowly farmer's family.
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Then he said I've got to takeand get that ark back to where
it belongs.
I'm going to get it toJerusalem.
When David put the ark on thenew cart the first time around,
he had all of Israel with himthinking Wow, god will be
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pleased with the way we did this.
Look at all the thousands ofguys gathered around the ark
playing instruments and dancing.
So let me just pause right here.
When the ark was in Obed-Edom'splace, the Bible said that he
was blessed beyond measure, thateverything that he touched was
blessed.
Imagine today that if we doneeverything the way that God
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wants us to do in our churches,in our community, in our homes,
imagine the blessings of Godthat would exist in our life.
Imagine things that God coulddo.
God would heal all of ourdiseases, our family could be
saved, all things I mean.
Just look, we have an exampleright here with Obed-Edom, how
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the, the presence of God wasbeing, was in a house and God
was blessing it.
See, sometimes, as David isSaul, he began to have second
thoughts because before he saidI don't know if I want this in
Jerusalem or not, it might killeverybody.
But now that he sees concreteevidence of what the power of
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God can do and the presence ofGod can do, then he won't sit
for Jerusalem.
He wants to get back there andhe sets out to do this.
But now he's got a new cart todo this.
But now he's got a new cart.
The first time he had a newcart and everybody was coming
around and everybody wasgathered around and was so happy
and was playing instruments andwas dancing.
He was doing it their way.
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But since no one bothered toask God for his opinion about it
all, he had to pull the plug ontheir party.
No more, Not one step further.
I'm shaking things up.
You've hit the holy bump on thethreshing floor and this is
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where the flesh gets off.
This is, as far as you go,doing it your way.
If you really want my presenceto be where it belongs, then
from here on out you do thingsmy way.
The second time around.
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David did what he should havedone the first time.
Have you ever said that toyourself?
I know I have.
David studied the history ofpast moves of God in the Word.
How did they move the Ark ofthe Covenant from one place to
another.
In Moses' day he rediscoveredthe true purpose and function of
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the Levites and the Aaronicpriest, and he noticed for the
first time that wooden staveswere meant to be put through the
mysterious strings on the sideof the ark.
Oh, so that's what those ringsare for.
It's amazing that God got bentout of shape over two sticks.
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We can't take God for granted.
A lot of hungry church leaderstoday are reading everything
they can find out about pastmoves of God.
Why?
Because we are at the holy bumpin the threshing floor.
We somehow sense that if wereally want the holiness of God
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and the fullness of his glory todwell in our midst, then we
need to find out how to properlyhandle the holy God's glory.
We know that this is where theflesh has to fall off, but what
is God's way to do it?
Our hunger is too deep for onemeal to satisfy us.
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We are after more than hisvisitation.
We want God's visitation tobecome a habitation.
Let me say that again we wantGod's visitation to become a
habitation.
You know, when you visitsomebody, when you go visit
family, you don't stay very long, do you?
It's a visit, that's all, doyou?
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It's a visit, that's all it is.
It's a visitation.
When you go on vacation, it'snot someplace you're going to go
and stay, You're just there fora short period of time, to have
fun and to visit, have sometime away.
Have some time away, but it'snot until you.
God's visitation is to come.
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Habitation is when God moves.
He will come and visit everyonce in a while, but he'll leave
.
But wouldn't you rather for himto take up habitation in our
lives, habitations in ourchurches?
We want his kabod, but not inkabod.
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We want his presence to be here.
We want him to be right with us.
We want him to abode in us andbe with us all time.
We want his kabod.
We don't want him to put inkabod over us and say that his
presence has left us.
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We don't want that over ourchurches, over our lives.
We want God's presence at alltimes.
I don't know that I would walkaround town or go to work or any
place else not knowing that Godis not with me.
I want an inhabitation of Jesus, not just a visitation.
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I'm tired of visitations.
I'm tired of just going tochurch, going through the
routines, and God come down andvisit a little bit.
There's a little shouting andand and things like that, and
you know a little bit of thingstake place.
But when God is with us at alltimes, he's constantly blessing
us, just as he did with Obadiahwhen the when the presence of
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the ark was there, God wasblessing him all the time
because his presence was there.
Wouldn't you want that?
I know I would.
We are in the same situation asKing David.
Our greatest danger at thispoint is for the sacred things
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to become a common.
The Ark of the Covenant washoused in Abinadad's home for a
long time, but God's presencewas only there in a limited
fashion.
Some writers think Uzziah grewup around the Ark of the
Covenant as a kid.
Perhaps he played on it, sat onit or swung his feet from the
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sides and generally didn't thinkanything about it from the
sides and generally didn't thinkanything about it.
If this is true, it was becauseGod was there in a limited
fashion.
However, when you start movingGod's glory back to the place
where it belongs, his felt ormanifested presence and power
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will begin to be restored withevery step back to his divine
order.
Could the stumbling have comefrom the additional weight of
the glory, the kabod, beingrestored to the ark.
You will no longer be able toget away with things that you
used to take for granted, thatyou used to take for granted.
If you're not careful, we canallow sacred things to become so
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common that we begin to think,like Uzziah, I can touch it.
See, I grew up with it.
It's harmless.
We're going to touch God'sglory one time too many.
Never take God's holy presencefor granted and never assume
that if no one is crying,shaking, manifesting odd
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movements or prophesying away,then God isn't at work.
Be careful when you stifle ayawn of boredom and complacency.
Many of the great saints inhistoric denominations and
churches knew that God doesn'talways have to manifest himself
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in things seen by the eye of theflesh.
They would solemnly warn all ofus don't come in here looking
for sensationalism.
Don't come in here looking forsensationalism.
Come looking for God and youwill find him.
See, that's the problem.
We go into our churches.
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We're not expecting anything.
We're looking for the samething, every single service
looking for them.
Get up to sing a few songs, saya prayer, take up an offering
and the pastor preach, give analtar call and go home.
We're just looking for somethingto get us out of our everyday
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routine and go to church andhave another routine and come
back home and do it all overagain next week, Not allowing
God to move in our midst.
You know why?
Because the presence has left.
The presence have left thebuilding.
An incubod is across the frontdoor.
It's time to get the bread backin the house.
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It's time to bring it back towhere it belongs and we've began
to see God move.
Let's take a break and we'llcome back.
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We'll see you next time.
We need to live with a newawareness of his constant
presence so it won't become socommon to me that I begin to
think I can casually reach outand touch His holiness with my
flesh at any point.
I want Him at any cost and Iwill not let sacred things
become common to me.
If you are committed toparticipate in the visitation
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and habitation of God, then praythis with me, Lord God, I am
here to meet with you and I'mlearning how to handle the holy
things of your presence.
Have mercy on me, Lord Jesus.
One of the first things Goddoes when he turns on the power
in his church is to bring back arespect for the power.
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Any electrician or experienceddo-it-yourselfer will tell you
that before they wire a house,they always turn the power off
first.
Why.
Most will admit it is becausethey have touched the power
before.
What did they gain from theexperience?
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They received a deep andpersonal respect for the power
of electricity and its effect onunprotected flesh.
Now I witnessed this firsthandmy brother.
He does a little electricalwork on the side and he's bad
about just not cutting power offsometimes.
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Well, this particular time hedid that and he grabbed a couple
of wires and it knocked himclean across the room.
Now he was stunned.
He didn't get seriously hurt,just the breath knocked out of
him.
That threw him up against thewall.
But you know, when the power isoff you can touch the lines all
you want to, but when thatpower's on, if you do not want
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to get blistered or knockedacross the room, then you better
leave the power alone.
You better leave those wiresalone.
He, because he again got adifferent respect for those.
That's the reason why I don'ttouch them now, because I've
seen what it does.
I'm scared to death to workaround electricity.
But before God brings his powerinto the earth in his mercy, he
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first restores our respect andall for his glory and the things
that are holy, and all for hisglory and the things that are
holy.
We need to regain a deep andpersonal respect for the power
of God's glory and unrepentantflesh.
It's not that we shouldn't comenear it, use it or dwell in it.
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Just as an electrician is ableto work around crackling
220-volt power lines with safety, once he learns to respect the
power electricity.
David and the Israelites learnedhow to honor and handle or
steward God's glory, manifestedin the Ark of the Covenant.
In fact, they even took the Arkinto battle with them later on.
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God is calling you and me tocarry his ark into battle with
them.
Later on, god is calling youand me to carry his presence
into battle with his everyday asliving arks.
Arks are tabernacles of theboast high God.
He wants us to dwell with himin intimate communion, but first
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the flesh must die.
The anointing and power ofGod's presence are going to come
upon us so strongly that hispresence will literally go
before us into our offices,plants, prisons and shopping
malls.
Because this great revival isbased on his glory and presence
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and not on the works of man.
It cannot be contained withinthe four walls of churches.
God's glory must flow out tothe world.
There is another point to noticein David's second attempt to
move God's glory into its properplace.
When he recalled the Levitesand the descendants of Aaron to
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the priestly duties as stewardsof the ark, he gave them a
solemn warning that applies toevery high priest in the kingdom
of God today.
In 1 Chronicles 15, verses 12and 13, it says and said unto
them Ye are the chief of thefathers of the Levites.
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Sanctify yourself before ye andyour brethren that ye may bring
up the ark of the Lord, god ofIsrael, unto the place that I
have prepared for it.
For because ye did it not atthe first, the Lord, our God,
made a breach upon us.
For that we sought him notafter the due order.
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The Hebrew word, translated assanctified, is kadesh, and it
means to separate or make holy.
In other words, we have tobecome holy like he is.
Do you know how David emphasizedthe importance of
sanctification to those men?
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I think he said I want to showyou the tombstone of a guy who
was sanctified.
You're about to carry the sameArk of the covenant that did
this to him, so you had bettergo through a cleansing ceremony
right now.
You better cleanse yourself.
I know that the first man tothrust a staff through the rings
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, counted himself as dead.
Only dead men walking can hostGod's holiness.
This move of God is worth morethan a Coke, and its taking
place across the earth has oftenbeen marked by night after
night of cleansing andrepentance.
If you allow God to take usthrough the complete process of
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repentance and brokennesswithout hindering or quenching
his spirit, then when the kabod,the weightiness, presence of
God, comes among us and upon us,then we will be able to carry
it without fear, because we willbe walking in the purity of
Jesus and our flesh will be dead, covered by the blood of the
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Lamb.
The old timers in the Pentecostmovement used to do some things
that I made fun of as a youngman.
I have an aunt who gave updrinking Coke when she was
seeking the presence of God inher life.
She was really enjoying.
She really enjoyed drinkingCoca-Cola, but she prayed God,
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if you will visit me, I'll neverdrink another one.
God took her at her word.
I used to laugh about it as akid and teased her as I waved a
Coke in front of her here youwant a Coke.
She would just laugh and sayher here you want a Coke.
She would just laugh and say,no, I don't want a Coke.
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Even then, that laugh of hersalways left me feeling like she
knew something I didn't.
Now, ever since the first day ofGod's manifest presence showing
up in Houston, I can say Iunderstand.
Now, auntie, I understand.
Nothing is worth holding on toso hard that you can't hold him.
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I want to say that againNothing is worth holding on to
so hard that you can't hold him.
What is it that we're holdingon to that is keeping us from
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moving into the anointedpresence of God?
What is it in our lives that weare allowing to take the place
of what God really wants to giveus?
There are things that we allowin our lives that are hindering
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us from really stepping intothat place God wants us to be.
I've learned in my life that Ihave allowed things to take the
place of God.
I've allowed things to keep mefrom achieving and moving into
the calling into a greaterextent than where I'm at.
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God has done great things in mylife.
He's moved and he's blessed me,he's healed me.
He's done so many things that Ican't even begin to tell, but
yet, and still, I've yet torelease some things in my life
that I hold on to things in mypast that I can't seem to break
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free from.
I'm praying and asking God fordeliverance every single day and
I know sometimes it just takesus just saying God, here it is.
But what is it?
When we do that?
It's like a vacation.
It doesn't change us.
We pick it right back up, we goright back and let it inhabit
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us again.
Back up, we go right back andlet it inhabit us again.
Until we are really dedicatedto it, really are ready and
serious of god coming into our,our lives and taking full
control.
We'll never experience whatabinadad did in his home, or
obadadim, excuse me, will neverexperience that, will never
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experience the continuingblessings of god.
God wants to bless us, god wantsto move in our lives, but again
, there's something we got to do.
It's not say god, I want to dothis and then, uh, we do, don't
do anything for him.
Where there's nothing we'regiving up, there's nothing we're
sacrificing to receive what hewants.
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People have died because theycome at god at the wrong way.
I don't want to do that.
I don't want to touch somethingthat is so holy that it would
cause me not to receive what godwants to give me, you know, can
.
Again, I've said it many timeswe can talk about how we want to
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follow God, how we want to dothings for God, but are we
really serious about it?
Because in the closet we'redoing all these things that we
know not to do and then wequestion why we're not where
we're at with God.
We need to think about that.
We need to think about that.
We need to think about, youknow, what are we holding on to?
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What are we holding on that wecan't let go?
If we let go of it, thenthere's something else we can
hold on to.
We can hold on to God becauseit's like I said a while ago
nothing is worth holding on toso hard that we can't hold on to
.
We can hold on to God becauseit's like I said a while ago
nothing is worth holding on toso hard that we can't hold on to
God.
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Guys, I hope you receivedsomething from this today.
I hope that you're payingattention and listening to what
God's trying to tell us.
He's wanting us to bring us toa place that we can experience
more than what we'reexperiencing now.
But we've got to do it his way.
I hope you've been blessedAgain.
Drop me a line at my email, atthe Christian Cafe 2022, at
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gmailcom.
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He's done it before he can doit again.
Send the rain Lord.
Send the rain Lord.
Well, god bless you.
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I hope you have a good day andthank you for stopping by at the
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