WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.419 Faith is more than a feeling or a theory. It's 00:00:03.419 --> 00:00:06.059 a decision that moves your feet, opens your hands, 00:00:06.219 --> 00:00:09.019 and activates God's promises. In our brand new 00:00:09.019 --> 00:00:11.820 book, Faith Act, Jeffrey and I take you on a 00:00:11.820 --> 00:00:13.839 powerful journey through some of Scripture's 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:16.800 most transforming moments, where ordinary people 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:20.699 dared to obey and saw heaven move on their behalf. 00:00:21.059 --> 00:00:24.160 Order your copy of Faith Act today on Amazon. 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:28.460 This is week number two. Everybody say week number 00:00:28.460 --> 00:00:31.480 two. Who was here last week? Wave at me if you 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:34.719 were here last week. If you were not here last 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:37.960 week, this series is going to continue to build 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:43.200 upon itself. So I encourage you, because we can't 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:46.259 go back and re -preach the messages, and we're 00:00:46.259 --> 00:00:48.100 going somewhere. Look at the person beside you 00:00:48.100 --> 00:00:50.259 and tell them we're going somewhere. We're going 00:00:50.259 --> 00:00:54.119 somewhere. We're not unloading the whole truck. 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:59.219 in one week. It's going to be five weeks before 00:00:59.219 --> 00:01:04.640 you get the full benefit of this series. So I 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:07.019 believe it's going to last through the rest of 00:01:07.019 --> 00:01:10.219 January, but I encourage you, if you were not 00:01:10.219 --> 00:01:12.799 here last week, please go to the podcast and 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:16.340 listen to last week. Someone in Singapore thought 00:01:16.340 --> 00:01:23.480 it was worth 122 people listening to it. So I 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:25.379 encourage you, even if you were here last week, 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:28.159 you may need to listen to it again to take hold 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:30.180 of it. This is week number two in the series 00:01:30.180 --> 00:01:33.799 that we're talking about the glory. I do want 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:37.599 to begin by reading some verses that we focused 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.359 on last week. I'm not reading all the verses, 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:43.859 but where we started at. This is Moses talking 00:01:43.859 --> 00:01:46.560 to God when it's time to leave Mount Sinai and 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:50.680 go to the promised land. Because I'd never really 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:54.180 seen this verse. this way before. I know I've 00:01:54.180 --> 00:01:59.719 read it quite a few times. But Moses said something 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:03.219 to God. And how many of you know if it's in the 00:02:03.219 --> 00:02:09.659 Bible, the Holy Spirit inspired it. Moses said 00:02:09.659 --> 00:02:12.620 this, for your presence, God, your presence among 00:02:12.620 --> 00:02:20.680 us sets your people and me apart from all other 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:26.780 people. On the earth. Now we've looked at the 00:02:26.780 --> 00:02:29.560 verse in the New Testament where it said that 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:32.400 people will know that we are Christ's followers 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:38.000 by our love. Everybody say love. And that's true. 00:02:39.780 --> 00:02:43.020 But it's also true that people will recognize 00:02:43.020 --> 00:02:52.460 us as being God's people by His presence. I'm 00:02:52.460 --> 00:02:55.199 going to go ahead and throw this out there. We 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:59.159 were doing a senior citizens conference in Myrtle 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:00.979 Beach. We didn't only do teenage conference. 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:03.560 We did a senior citizen conference called the 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:09.819 Joy Retreat in Myrtle Beach. And we had three 00:03:09.819 --> 00:03:14.099 groups on the program, and one of them had parents. 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:16.120 I don't know if you have ever heard of the Hoppers 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:19.219 before. Have you heard of the Hoppers? So that 00:03:19.219 --> 00:03:22.110 was one of the groups on the program. We had 00:03:22.110 --> 00:03:24.169 Karen Peck and New River, the Hoppers, and the 00:03:24.169 --> 00:03:28.610 Down East Boys on the program. But I just want 00:03:28.610 --> 00:03:35.949 to tell you something. Claude and Connie, who 00:03:35.949 --> 00:03:39.150 are the parents of the Hoppers, they didn't start 00:03:39.150 --> 00:03:43.889 out the concert. It was their kids, their son, 00:03:44.169 --> 00:03:47.569 their two sons, and then the wife and their kids. 00:03:47.689 --> 00:03:51.370 They started out the concert. And then Claude, 00:03:51.370 --> 00:03:54.250 who sings bass, got up and sang with them a little 00:03:54.250 --> 00:04:01.969 bit. But then Connie got on the stage. And I 00:04:01.969 --> 00:04:06.169 just want to tell you something. The whole atmosphere 00:04:06.169 --> 00:04:12.370 of the room changed when she walked out on the 00:04:12.370 --> 00:04:17.250 stage. It wasn't because of her overwhelming 00:04:17.250 --> 00:04:22.199 voice. I mean, she's sang her whole life and 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:29.540 she's a good singer. But in my, I guess I would 00:04:29.540 --> 00:04:34.339 call it my discernment, the reason why the whole 00:04:34.339 --> 00:04:38.040 atmosphere changed is because there was something 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:44.579 different about her than anybody else. And the 00:04:44.579 --> 00:04:48.060 only way I could describe it is this. She was 00:04:48.060 --> 00:04:55.509 a carrier. of the presence of God. And I say 00:04:55.509 --> 00:04:58.430 that because even when I was spending time with 00:04:58.430 --> 00:05:03.089 her, when she wasn't on the stage, there was 00:05:03.089 --> 00:05:05.310 just something about her that was different than 00:05:05.310 --> 00:05:08.149 everybody else. Now, the room was filled with 00:05:08.149 --> 00:05:11.610 Christians, right? The room was filled with Christians. 00:05:13.490 --> 00:05:15.910 But there was just something different about 00:05:15.910 --> 00:05:23.279 her. And I believe it was because of how serious 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:28.699 she was about the presence of God and the glory 00:05:28.699 --> 00:05:33.120 of God. And here's what I want to share with 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:38.019 all of us. If she can be a carrier of the glory 00:05:38.019 --> 00:05:44.800 and the presence of God, you can too. You can 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:50.060 too. And last week we talked about hunger. Because 00:05:50.060 --> 00:05:52.519 it's going to take each one of us being hungry 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:55.879 for the glory and hungry for the manifested presence 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:58.839 of God before any of us are even going to experience 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:03.240 it ourselves. But I believe there's a level of 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:07.319 hunger that we can have that will cause us to 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:11.839 just be carriers of the presence of God. And 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:14.180 I hope I'm not running over future weeks of the 00:06:14.180 --> 00:06:18.480 series. I probably am. I just had that on my 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:22.279 heart as we started because Moses recognized 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:24.899 something and we need to recognize something. 00:06:26.420 --> 00:06:30.220 We need to acknowledge and recognize the presence 00:06:30.220 --> 00:06:34.160 and the glory of God and recognize that that 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:39.500 is something, not only our love, but the presence 00:06:39.500 --> 00:06:44.519 of God will set us apart from everybody else 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:53.910 on the earth. I'll wait for future weeks for 00:06:53.910 --> 00:07:01.009 that. And then, this is the other verse that 00:07:01.009 --> 00:07:07.889 I've known and I've recognized, but Moses asked 00:07:07.889 --> 00:07:16.829 God, he said, God, show me your glory. Show me 00:07:16.829 --> 00:07:21.490 your glorious presence. Now listen, this is a 00:07:21.490 --> 00:07:26.750 man who had already spent 40 days at a time with 00:07:26.750 --> 00:07:33.470 God. This is a man who, when he went up on the 00:07:33.470 --> 00:07:39.610 mountain to spend time with God, clouds and lightning 00:07:39.610 --> 00:07:42.170 and thunder would surround the mountain. I mean, 00:07:42.209 --> 00:07:50.319 has he not seen the glory of God? I believe he's 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:55.300 seen the glory of God before. Listen, just seeing 00:07:55.300 --> 00:08:00.519 the glory of God one time is not enough. I can 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:03.259 look back over my life and see times when the 00:08:03.259 --> 00:08:05.639 manifested presence of God and the glory of God 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:11.980 overwhelmed me. But you know what? I shouldn't 00:08:11.980 --> 00:08:14.180 be satisfied with something that happened in 00:08:14.180 --> 00:08:18.959 the past. You shouldn't be satisfied with something 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:22.100 that happened in the past. If you've encountered, 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:27.220 see, that encounter should make you hungry. It 00:08:27.220 --> 00:08:30.839 shouldn't satisfy you. It should increase your 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:35.320 hunger. He said, show me your glorious presence. 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:40.200 And then we see that God passed by and wouldn't 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:44.200 let him see his face. This is old covenant, all 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:49.470 right? His sins weren't forgiven. He wasn't the 00:08:49.470 --> 00:08:54.309 righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. So God 00:08:54.309 --> 00:08:57.889 covered him with his hand, and his goodness passed 00:08:57.889 --> 00:09:02.169 by. As I was listening last week, I said, that 00:09:02.169 --> 00:09:03.929 wasn't in my notes, but that's worth repeating 00:09:03.929 --> 00:09:07.070 again. The goodness of God is so good, you can 00:09:07.070 --> 00:09:14.789 see it. His goodness passed by. And then Moses 00:09:14.789 --> 00:09:19.730 saw his glory again. But Moses experienced the 00:09:19.730 --> 00:09:26.470 glory of God a lot during this time. I'm going 00:09:26.470 --> 00:09:29.350 to be talking about that a little bit more. But 00:09:29.350 --> 00:09:34.570 the glory is the Hebrew word kalbod. And the 00:09:34.570 --> 00:09:38.490 literal translation is wait. Everybody say wait. 00:09:42.970 --> 00:09:46.909 This version of the word, because there's other 00:09:46.909 --> 00:09:50.309 versions of the word, but this version is always 00:09:50.309 --> 00:09:55.389 used figuratively in a good sense. It's translated 00:09:55.389 --> 00:09:59.509 in our English Bible as glory, splendor, honor. 00:10:01.669 --> 00:10:05.049 The glory of God. God, show me your glory. Show 00:10:05.049 --> 00:10:11.039 me your splendor. Show me your honor. The word 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:14.539 wait is a really good word because when you experience 00:10:14.539 --> 00:10:18.980 the glory of God, it's not just a mental concept 00:10:18.980 --> 00:10:22.139 that I'm talking about. It's something that, 00:10:22.259 --> 00:10:26.940 well, every time I've experienced it, I've felt 00:10:26.940 --> 00:10:32.320 it. I know we don't go by feelings, but you feel 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:42.309 the weight of the moment, the glory. Let's continue. 00:10:43.269 --> 00:10:48.450 We also looked at David. Well, let's finish this 00:10:48.450 --> 00:10:51.309 up. Moses wasn't hungry for better circumstances. 00:10:53.370 --> 00:10:57.970 See, most of us, when we go to God, to talk to 00:10:57.970 --> 00:11:01.309 God, to ask him for something, we're asking him 00:11:01.309 --> 00:11:05.610 for something for us. God, you see what I'm going 00:11:05.610 --> 00:11:08.629 through, and I need your deliverance. You see 00:11:08.629 --> 00:11:11.509 what I'm going through, I need your peace. You 00:11:11.509 --> 00:11:13.389 see what I'm going through. I need your joy. 00:11:14.190 --> 00:11:19.370 We're asking for something for us. But we see 00:11:19.370 --> 00:11:22.250 that Moses wasn't asking God for something for 00:11:22.250 --> 00:11:26.929 him personally. He wasn't asking for better circumstances, 00:11:27.029 --> 00:11:34.789 for relief. He was asking for God himself. God, 00:11:34.809 --> 00:11:40.450 I want you. God, I need you. God, I want to experience 00:11:40.450 --> 00:11:48.730 you. What a different mindset. Hello? What a 00:11:48.730 --> 00:11:51.909 different mindset than most of us when we go 00:11:51.909 --> 00:11:54.950 to God, we're asking for something for us. When's 00:11:54.950 --> 00:11:56.750 the last time you went to God and you just said, 00:11:56.789 --> 00:12:02.809 God, I need you. I want you. I don't want to 00:12:02.809 --> 00:12:11.200 go through today without you. And then we read 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:15.360 this from David, man after God's own heart. Oh 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:24.120 God, you are my God. I earnestly search for you. 00:12:24.779 --> 00:12:31.759 My soul thirsts for you. David was in the wilderness 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:34.899 at this point while he's writing this. He needs 00:12:34.899 --> 00:12:38.679 physical water, right? But that's not what he's 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:42.250 asking for. He's saying, oh God, you're my God. 00:12:42.309 --> 00:12:44.870 I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for 00:12:44.870 --> 00:12:50.350 you, God. My whole body longs for you. In this 00:12:50.350 --> 00:12:52.889 parts and weary land where there's no water. 00:12:54.929 --> 00:12:57.129 He's not saying, God, give me water, water. God, 00:12:57.210 --> 00:12:59.409 I need water. Show me some water. Help me find 00:12:59.409 --> 00:13:04.809 water. No, he's saying, God, my soul thirsts 00:13:04.809 --> 00:13:15.309 for you. I'm hungry for you. In verse 2, it says, 00:13:15.370 --> 00:13:21.409 I have seen you in your sanctuary and gazed upon 00:13:21.409 --> 00:13:26.389 your power and glory. Everybody say glory. You 00:13:26.389 --> 00:13:33.850 know why he was hungry? For God? Because he had 00:13:33.850 --> 00:13:39.269 seen God. He had experienced the power and the 00:13:39.269 --> 00:13:44.590 glory of God. And that time in the past wasn't 00:13:44.590 --> 00:13:52.049 enough. He wanted that today. David was hungry 00:13:52.049 --> 00:13:56.570 because he had seen something before that time. 00:13:57.330 --> 00:14:00.730 The glory of God is the manifested presence of 00:14:00.730 --> 00:14:05.220 God. I don't want you to forget that God is omnipresent. 00:14:05.299 --> 00:14:08.440 Everybody say omnipresent. Omnipresent. What 00:14:08.440 --> 00:14:10.100 does that mean? He's everywhere all the time. 00:14:10.379 --> 00:14:14.159 You can't go hide from God. You cannot escape 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:20.500 his presence. But then there are verses in the 00:14:20.500 --> 00:14:24.259 Bible that say where two or more gather together 00:14:24.259 --> 00:14:30.340 in his name, then he's here. He's there. Now, 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:35.860 why would the Bible say that? If he's omnipresent 00:14:35.860 --> 00:14:37.559 and he's already there anyway, why would the 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:40.919 Bible say that? That two or more come together 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:43.840 to lift up the name of Jesus. Why does the Bible 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:46.340 say that God inhabits the praises of his people? 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:48.879 If he's already there, why would the Bible say 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:54.000 that? Well, that's because that there are times 00:14:54.000 --> 00:15:02.860 when God is more here than other times. More 00:15:02.860 --> 00:15:09.090 here. Where we can experience and know not just 00:15:09.090 --> 00:15:12.029 his promised presence, but his manifested presence. 00:15:14.289 --> 00:15:17.289 And listen, this doesn't just only happen at 00:15:17.289 --> 00:15:24.870 church. It can happen for individuals. It doesn't 00:15:24.870 --> 00:15:29.389 just happen at a worship service with multiple 00:15:29.389 --> 00:15:33.549 people. It can happen with you by yourself. With 00:15:33.549 --> 00:15:38.289 God, again, I'll say it again, in your car, even 00:15:38.289 --> 00:15:40.409 while you're driving, you don't have to close 00:15:40.409 --> 00:15:44.750 your eyes to experience the glory of God. We 00:15:44.750 --> 00:15:48.529 can experience the manifested presence of God 00:15:48.529 --> 00:15:53.929 where we know. We can feel His presence and know 00:15:53.929 --> 00:15:59.929 His presence and be in awe of His presence. Today 00:15:59.929 --> 00:16:02.029 we're going to the New Testament, Ephesians 5. 00:16:03.340 --> 00:16:08.240 I'm going to start with verse 25. Like I said, 00:16:08.299 --> 00:16:13.399 we're going to continue unfolding and learning 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:16.000 more about the glory of God during this series. 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.399 So many times in the New Testament, we just read 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:22.019 right through that word glory and we don't even 00:16:22.019 --> 00:16:27.340 think about what it is or what it means. I mean, 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:31.879 I'm surprised. I surprise myself. on verses that 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:34.100 I've even memorized that have the word glory 00:16:34.100 --> 00:16:36.940 in them that I don't even, I've never even acknowledged 00:16:36.940 --> 00:16:42.600 that it was talking about the glory of God. Christ 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:48.259 loved the church. He gave up his life for her. 00:16:50.220 --> 00:16:54.679 Now, to keep it in context, this is right after 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:58.899 it says, Husbands, love your wife like Christ 00:16:58.899 --> 00:17:03.049 loved the church. But now we find out details 00:17:03.049 --> 00:17:06.710 of Christ's love. Christ loved the church. He 00:17:06.710 --> 00:17:10.109 gave up his life for her to make her holy and 00:17:10.109 --> 00:17:14.349 clean, washed by the cleansing of God's word. 00:17:15.369 --> 00:17:22.970 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious 00:17:22.970 --> 00:17:31.589 church. Everybody say glorious. How many of you 00:17:31.589 --> 00:17:33.190 can just figure out on your own that that's a 00:17:33.190 --> 00:17:36.529 version of the word glory? It's glorious, right? 00:17:37.609 --> 00:17:40.029 We'll get the definition in just a minute. Well, 00:17:40.049 --> 00:17:43.230 there it is. That word glorious. Glorious church. 00:17:43.869 --> 00:17:46.430 Remember, church is not a meeting. It's not an 00:17:46.430 --> 00:17:50.650 organization. That word church is a compound 00:17:50.650 --> 00:17:56.190 Greek word that means called out once. Called 00:17:56.190 --> 00:18:03.470 out once. So, what does it say? He did everything 00:18:03.470 --> 00:18:07.769 he did to present the called out ones to himself 00:18:07.769 --> 00:18:12.869 as glorious called out ones. What does glorious 00:18:12.869 --> 00:18:24.789 mean? The word is indoxos. You say it. And the 00:18:24.789 --> 00:18:30.450 Greek en is just like our English word in. So 00:18:30.450 --> 00:18:34.400 it's a compound word. Glorious means in glory. 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:43.039 In glory. So, Jesus did everything he did to 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:47.519 present the called out ones to himself as called 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:54.200 out people who are in glory. Glad one of you 00:18:54.200 --> 00:19:02.140 got it. Glory is doxa. It means glory. It means 00:19:02.140 --> 00:19:04.319 splendor. It means honor. When you look it up 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:07.039 in word studies, it's connected. It corresponds 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:13.319 to the Old Testament word kalbo. I'll just make 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:16.640 up my own pronunciation for that. To be heavy. 00:19:18.019 --> 00:19:23.140 Both terms convey God's infinite intrinsic worth, 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:29.539 his infinite intrinsic substance, his... Infinite 00:19:29.539 --> 00:19:36.720 and intrinsic essence. His essence. Everybody 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:42.720 say glory. Glory. Here's what we need to understand. 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:47.019 Jesus is coming back for a glorious church. Caught 00:19:47.019 --> 00:19:53.539 out people who are in glory. In the glory. Jesus 00:19:53.539 --> 00:19:55.519 has come back for a glorious church. He's not 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:57.920 coming back for a weak church. He's not coming 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:00.220 back for a bored church. He's not coming for 00:20:00.220 --> 00:20:03.519 a distracted church. He's not coming for a church 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:08.119 that's just trying to survive the weak. He's 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:10.359 coming back for a glorious church. Not a church 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:12.460 that's just satisfied with going through religious 00:20:12.460 --> 00:20:16.079 activity. No, he's coming back for a glorious 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:27.319 church. In glory. He's coming for a glorious 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:32.779 church. People who walk by faith. He's coming 00:20:32.779 --> 00:20:37.140 for people with a confident expectation. He's 00:20:37.140 --> 00:20:43.099 coming for people who are hungry. A church in 00:20:43.099 --> 00:20:50.700 glory. In glory. Let's take a look at this because 00:20:50.700 --> 00:20:57.430 we talk about being in Christ a lot. What does 00:20:57.430 --> 00:21:01.509 it mean to be in Christ? To be in Christ means 00:21:01.509 --> 00:21:05.529 that we have access to experience everything 00:21:05.529 --> 00:21:09.130 that is available to us in Christ. Everything 00:21:09.130 --> 00:21:12.150 that he did for us, everything that he promised 00:21:12.150 --> 00:21:19.869 to us, we have access to it. We can walk in it. 00:21:19.890 --> 00:21:24.549 We can know it. We can experience it. So in glory, 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:30.880 Means that we have access to everything that 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:34.140 comes along with the glory. The manifested presence 00:21:34.140 --> 00:21:39.039 of God. He's coming back for us who are in glory. 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:46.960 Somebody smile. That should make you smile. I 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:49.779 know it makes you think, but when it makes you 00:21:49.779 --> 00:21:51.819 think, it should make you smile when you think 00:21:51.819 --> 00:21:56.920 about it. What is the glory? The manifest presence 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:00.740 of God. The weight of who he is. His goodness 00:22:00.740 --> 00:22:07.559 revealed. His reality made known. Should I say 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:12.259 that again? Don't zone out on me. Don't zone 00:22:12.259 --> 00:22:18.359 out. The glory is the manifest presence of God. 00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:23.880 The weight of who he is. His goodness, remember? 00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:28.680 Moses asked to see the glory. Show me your glory. 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:35.359 What's involved in the glory of God? What did 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:41.019 God say? He said, my goodness will pass by. The 00:22:41.019 --> 00:22:44.039 goodness of God is found in the glory of God. 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:50.859 His reality made known. In the manifested presence 00:22:50.859 --> 00:22:58.539 of God, good things happen. Good things happen. 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:04.660 When we're in his manifested presence, when we 00:23:04.660 --> 00:23:07.359 acknowledge it, when we experience it, good things 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:13.220 begin to happen. Talk about me so much, I'm going 00:23:13.220 --> 00:23:17.440 to talk about Ganna. Ganna had a car wreck. That 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:20.740 was before Jeffrey was born, right? You were 00:23:20.740 --> 00:23:24.180 pregnant with Jeffrey. She was at a stoplight 00:23:24.180 --> 00:23:27.740 in Greenville, South Carolina. And the lady's 00:23:27.740 --> 00:23:30.680 testimony that hit her said that she never saw 00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:34.440 her and never touched the bricks. She rear -ended 00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:37.799 her, stopped at a stoplight at 45 miles an hour. 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:43.440 That's pretty hard to hit. So again, I had a 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:46.700 lot of pain from that car wreck. She went through 00:23:46.700 --> 00:23:51.519 it, going to, you know, physical therapy, chiropractic 00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:56.279 care. I mean, months and months and months. Hurting 00:23:56.279 --> 00:24:02.799 bad. Like crying bad most days. Hurting. And 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:08.759 then we went to a worship seminar. It wasn't 00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:13.140 even a service. It was a seminar. It was put 00:24:13.140 --> 00:24:15.039 on by Lamar Boschman. I don't know if you've 00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:17.259 ever heard him or not. He wrote a lot of the 00:24:17.259 --> 00:24:20.599 early praise and worship music. Lamar Boschman. 00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:22.299 You can look him up and maybe listen to some 00:24:22.299 --> 00:24:25.079 of it if you want to. But he was there teaching 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:30.900 worship leaders about worship. And during the 00:24:30.900 --> 00:24:33.140 seminar, he would say, okay, we're going to have 00:24:33.140 --> 00:24:36.720 a worship break. That was our break. It wasn't 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:43.480 a break to go get coffee. He taught for an hour, 00:24:43.539 --> 00:24:45.700 hour and a half. And then he'd say, okay, everybody 00:24:45.700 --> 00:24:48.240 stand up. It's time for a worship break. And 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:52.259 then we would sing for about 45 minutes. Him 00:24:52.259 --> 00:24:55.539 just playing the piano and just moving into different 00:24:55.539 --> 00:25:01.720 songs and things like that. And there were times, 00:25:01.960 --> 00:25:05.079 and I mean, this is something that he taught 00:25:05.079 --> 00:25:06.460 us. I wasn't planning on talking about this. 00:25:06.700 --> 00:25:09.000 But he says, as a worship leader, you need to 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:15.299 see the windows. He says, during a service, there 00:25:15.299 --> 00:25:21.539 are windows that come across. And they're windows 00:25:21.539 --> 00:25:25.799 to step into the glory of God. And he said, your 00:25:25.799 --> 00:25:28.059 job as a worship leader is to try to get as many 00:25:28.059 --> 00:25:30.500 people through those windows when they come as 00:25:30.500 --> 00:25:35.259 possible. To recognize it and to bring as many 00:25:35.259 --> 00:25:40.700 people as you can with you. Well, during one 00:25:40.700 --> 00:25:46.759 of those sessions, all of a sudden, all the pain 00:25:46.759 --> 00:25:51.059 left, all the pain never came back. Didn't have 00:25:51.059 --> 00:25:55.200 to go back to the doctor another time. Right? 00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:59.279 It's your testimony, right? Instead of talking 00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:06.359 about myself, I'm going to share that. But in 00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:13.220 the glory, good things happen. Good things happen. 00:26:17.180 --> 00:26:24.190 Good things happen. I keep wanting to say more 00:26:24.190 --> 00:26:26.769 than I probably need to say because we have three 00:26:26.769 --> 00:26:32.769 more weeks. If the end, if Jesus is coming back 00:26:32.769 --> 00:26:36.430 for a church that is in glory, if the end of 00:26:36.430 --> 00:26:39.950 the church's story is glory, then our journey 00:26:39.950 --> 00:26:54.019 should be filled with increasing glory. We need 00:26:54.019 --> 00:26:57.920 to be more hungry for the glory today than we 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:04.680 were last week. It should be increasing glory. 00:27:06.700 --> 00:27:11.480 2 Corinthians 3, 7 -11. There's some more glory 00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:16.440 in the New Testament. The old way, with laws 00:27:16.440 --> 00:27:23.579 etched in stone, led to death. Though it began 00:27:23.579 --> 00:27:28.420 with such glory that the people of Israel could 00:27:28.420 --> 00:27:34.640 not bear to look at Moses' face. Everybody say, 00:27:34.700 --> 00:27:40.200 that's a lot of glory. For his face shone with 00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:45.279 the glory of God. Even though the brightness 00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:50.720 was already fading away, shouldn't we expect 00:27:52.139 --> 00:27:58.599 Far greater glory under the new way. Now that 00:27:58.599 --> 00:28:04.480 the Holy Spirit is giving life, look at the person 00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:06.700 beside you and say, shouldn't we expect greater? 00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:11.720 Shouldn't we expect far greater? I mean, we read 00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:13.579 these stories in the Old Testament and we just 00:28:13.579 --> 00:28:18.700 say, wow, right? But the Word of God is saying, 00:28:23.529 --> 00:28:25.950 you can experience more glory than Moses did. 00:28:26.970 --> 00:28:31.309 Greater. And most of the time we look at it and 00:28:31.309 --> 00:28:39.170 say, wow, look what happened way back then. But 00:28:39.170 --> 00:28:41.690 the Bible says, shouldn't we expect far greater? 00:28:43.849 --> 00:28:45.890 See, if we don't expect it, we're not going to 00:28:45.890 --> 00:28:49.609 experience it. We need to be expecting not just 00:28:49.609 --> 00:28:55.779 the same level, But far greater. Some of you 00:28:55.779 --> 00:28:57.619 need to smile. I promise it won't hurt you to 00:28:57.619 --> 00:29:04.240 smile. I know this is deep. This is in a direction 00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:07.940 that we've never understood or heard before probably. 00:29:09.500 --> 00:29:12.660 But it should make us smile. If the old way, 00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:18.200 which brings condemnation, was glorious, how 00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:22.569 much more glorious is the new way? which makes 00:29:22.569 --> 00:29:30.970 us right with God. In fact, that first glory, 00:29:31.210 --> 00:29:37.430 listen, was not glorious at all compared with 00:29:37.430 --> 00:29:45.569 the overwhelming glory of the new way. So if 00:29:45.569 --> 00:29:49.829 the old way, which has been replaced, was glorious, 00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:57.039 How much more glorious is the new which remains 00:29:57.039 --> 00:30:04.900 forever? Can you see it? Can you see it? Remember, 00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:11.180 glorious means in glory. Still the glory. Still 00:30:11.180 --> 00:30:15.380 the manifested presence of God. There are three 00:30:15.380 --> 00:30:17.779 truths in these verses. The old covenant had 00:30:17.779 --> 00:30:24.269 real glory. It was a glory that faded, but it 00:30:24.269 --> 00:30:29.730 was still a very real glory. Just in case you're 00:30:29.730 --> 00:30:33.630 not familiar, when Moses would spend time with 00:30:33.630 --> 00:30:39.750 God, and then when he would come out, just like 00:30:39.750 --> 00:30:41.789 these verses say, and just like the Old Testament 00:30:41.789 --> 00:30:45.329 say, his face radiated with the glory of God. 00:30:47.029 --> 00:30:48.670 Now, if you were here last week, you remember 00:30:48.670 --> 00:30:51.910 that God's... God's glory appeared to everybody 00:30:51.910 --> 00:30:57.289 and God spoke to everybody at the mountain, but 00:30:57.289 --> 00:31:01.009 the people couldn't handle it. They said, this 00:31:01.009 --> 00:31:05.589 is too much. Hey Moses, go tell God that we don't 00:31:05.589 --> 00:31:11.710 want him to speak to us directly anymore. God's 00:31:11.710 --> 00:31:16.390 always wanted his people to be a kingdom of priests 00:31:16.390 --> 00:31:24.849 unto their God. But they said, nope. We'll just 00:31:24.849 --> 00:31:29.130 let Moses and the Levites be the priests. We 00:31:29.130 --> 00:31:31.569 don't want God to speak to us. We want God to 00:31:31.569 --> 00:31:33.569 speak to you, Moses, and then we want you to 00:31:33.569 --> 00:31:38.009 tell us what God said. But when Moses would spend 00:31:38.009 --> 00:31:41.809 time with God, when he would come out, I mean, 00:31:41.829 --> 00:31:44.130 it wasn't just a sunburn. It wasn't that he was 00:31:44.130 --> 00:31:49.970 just red -faced. Okay? The very glory of God, 00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:57.579 had imprinted on him to where the glory of God 00:31:57.579 --> 00:32:12.519 was radiating from his face. The glory of God 00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:20.380 was radiating from his face. And it was so much. 00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:23.799 I mean, the people already said, you know, we 00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:25.140 don't want to see God's glory. We don't want 00:32:25.140 --> 00:32:27.140 you to talk to us. But now they don't even want 00:32:27.140 --> 00:32:30.559 to see Moses' face because it's radiating the 00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:35.779 glory of God. So they put a cloth over his face. 00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:43.880 Put a cloth over his face. So the glory was very 00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:50.049 real. Here's something else that cloth did. Because 00:32:50.049 --> 00:32:54.289 when Moses came out from the presence of God, 00:32:54.369 --> 00:32:59.789 his face would glow, but it came time where the 00:32:59.789 --> 00:33:05.309 glory would fade. So he would keep that cloth 00:33:05.309 --> 00:33:09.289 over his face so people couldn't tell if the 00:33:09.289 --> 00:33:19.220 glory was not on him. So the glory was real, 00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:25.940 but the glory faded under the old covenant. The 00:33:25.940 --> 00:33:30.420 new covenant, however, brings access to a greater 00:33:30.420 --> 00:33:36.279 glory. Everybody say greater. Greater. Greater 00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:42.180 than Moses on the mountain. I mean, have you 00:33:42.180 --> 00:33:48.289 even considered this? That you can experience 00:33:48.289 --> 00:33:51.750 the manifested presence of God in a greater way 00:33:51.750 --> 00:33:56.509 than Moses did when he was on the mountain. It's 00:33:56.509 --> 00:34:06.089 available. Greater glory. And then the other 00:34:06.089 --> 00:34:13.030 truth is this, we should expect that glory. Not 00:34:13.030 --> 00:34:17.099 just admire it, not just study it, but Hunger 00:34:17.099 --> 00:34:22.340 for it and expect it. That's what the text said, 00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:26.699 right? That we should expect a greater glory. 00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:32.139 Because we have a greater glory under a better 00:34:32.139 --> 00:34:35.920 covenant. Moses' face shone with fading glory. 00:34:36.099 --> 00:34:39.960 Ours is a greater lasting glory. It doesn't have 00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:46.179 to fade. Now we're going to Haggai. Your pages 00:34:46.179 --> 00:34:48.000 might be stuck together in your printed Bible 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:50.119 in Haggai. You don't read out of Haggai a lot. 00:34:51.579 --> 00:34:58.199 Haggai 2 .9. This is prophetic. Even before it 00:34:58.199 --> 00:35:02.500 happened, the final glory of this house will 00:35:02.500 --> 00:35:07.679 be greater than the first, says the Lord of hosts. 00:35:09.579 --> 00:35:17.190 The final glory is greater than the first. You've 00:35:17.190 --> 00:35:20.489 got the wilderness tabernacle. You've got the 00:35:20.489 --> 00:35:25.150 temple. You've got the holy of holies. But the 00:35:25.150 --> 00:35:28.889 final glory of this house will be greater than 00:35:28.889 --> 00:35:34.530 the first, says the Lord of hosts. So where are 00:35:34.530 --> 00:35:37.849 we going to go from here? 1 John 5 .14 says this. 00:35:39.349 --> 00:35:43.610 We are confident that he hears us whenever we 00:35:43.610 --> 00:35:50.239 ask him for anything. that pleases Him. Remember, 00:35:50.460 --> 00:35:55.340 our prayer life is not just us figuring out what 00:35:55.340 --> 00:35:57.659 we want to beg God for and just keep begging 00:35:57.659 --> 00:36:01.019 Him for it. It has to be an agreement with Him. 00:36:01.099 --> 00:36:04.719 Everybody say agreement. We are confident that 00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:07.179 He hears us whenever we ask for anything that 00:36:07.179 --> 00:36:13.539 pleases Him. And since we know He hears us, When 00:36:13.539 --> 00:36:17.400 we make our requests, we also know, everybody 00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:21.840 say confidence, we also know that He will give 00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:28.099 us what we ask for. When we pray powerful prayers. 00:36:33.820 --> 00:36:37.519 See, we can't have faith for things God has not 00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:41.719 clearly promised to us. But when we know what 00:36:41.719 --> 00:36:46.559 God has said, then we have a place to anchor 00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:53.739 our faith. When we know what God has said. So 00:36:53.739 --> 00:36:55.880 even though most of us are looking like we're 00:36:55.880 --> 00:36:58.460 looking at a, like a calf looking at a new gate, 00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:01.920 it's like, where'd that come from? When we're 00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:05.599 talking about the glory of God, what has God 00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:09.650 said about it? See, we're going to have to have 00:37:09.650 --> 00:37:12.550 faith for the glory, a hunger and an expectation. 00:37:13.090 --> 00:37:16.150 Got to have faith for the glory instead of just 00:37:16.150 --> 00:37:19.150 living our lives like even if we knew about the 00:37:19.150 --> 00:37:27.650 glory, it's just if it happens, it happens. Just 00:37:27.650 --> 00:37:30.469 like a lot of things we talk about around here, 00:37:30.550 --> 00:37:39.920 it's not always just up to God. God's saying 00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:43.440 it's according to our faith. And we're saying 00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:46.920 it's just up to God. And God's saying it's according 00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:54.400 to your faith. So if we're going to experience 00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:57.179 the glory of God, we can't live our lives by 00:37:57.179 --> 00:37:59.360 if it happens, it happens. It's just all up to 00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:05.730 God. What has God said about his glory? We've 00:38:05.730 --> 00:38:07.389 looked at it. We've looked at the word of God, 00:38:07.449 --> 00:38:09.929 right? So this is God speaking about his glory. 00:38:10.150 --> 00:38:12.730 He's saying the latter glory will be greater. 00:38:13.849 --> 00:38:18.349 Everybody say greater. Here's what he said. The 00:38:18.349 --> 00:38:23.190 new covenant glory exceeds Moses's glory. Everybody 00:38:23.190 --> 00:38:27.730 say exceeds. He says he's coming for a glorious 00:38:27.730 --> 00:38:32.710 church. He's coming for a called out people who 00:38:32.710 --> 00:38:42.440 are in the glory. That's what he said. So God's 00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:45.699 will is clear. When we know what God has said, 00:38:45.780 --> 00:38:49.199 then we know what his will is. We don't have 00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:53.400 to ask him, God, if it's your will, show me your 00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:57.000 glory. Because he's already told us his will 00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:03.539 in what he said. You got to smile again. You 00:39:03.539 --> 00:39:09.550 got to help me. You got to smile. God wants glory 00:39:09.550 --> 00:39:16.210 in His house. What do I mean by His house? I'm 00:39:16.210 --> 00:39:19.909 not talking about a gymnasium in Davenport. I'm 00:39:19.909 --> 00:39:23.849 talking about people. I'm talking about all of 00:39:23.849 --> 00:39:29.630 us coming with hunger and expectation to encounter 00:39:29.630 --> 00:39:32.909 the glory of God, to experience the manifest 00:39:32.909 --> 00:39:36.630 presence of God, to expect to see His goodness 00:39:36.630 --> 00:39:44.500 flow. When we're here. He wants his glory in 00:39:44.500 --> 00:39:49.199 his people. He wants his glory in this generation. 00:39:52.079 --> 00:40:00.559 That's what God wants. That's his will. What's 00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:07.699 it going to take? What's it going to take? Us. 00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:13.840 Coming to the point in our faith where we have 00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:19.340 confident expectation of all the promises that 00:40:19.340 --> 00:40:22.440 God has given us and we're receiving those and 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:30.460 walking in those. Everybody say, grow up. See, 00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:40.150 at some point in our spiritual growth, We move 00:40:40.150 --> 00:40:44.150 in our faith from what I need or what I can get 00:40:44.150 --> 00:40:49.230 to the point where we're coming together and 00:40:49.230 --> 00:41:08.070 saying, what can we carry together? I know I 00:41:08.070 --> 00:41:15.130 need to say that again. We need to come to a 00:41:15.130 --> 00:41:24.510 point. We need to come to a place where we are 00:41:24.510 --> 00:41:30.090 mature in our faith to a point where we have 00:41:30.090 --> 00:41:33.750 already, we've taken hold of what God has promised 00:41:33.750 --> 00:41:37.840 us. We're experiencing what God has promised 00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:41.619 us. We're living in what God has promised us. 00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:48.119 Because we know what he's promised us. In every 00:41:48.119 --> 00:41:50.840 area of our lives, every need that you ever face, 00:41:50.940 --> 00:41:54.380 God has a promise that he's already supplied 00:41:54.380 --> 00:42:00.780 that need. No matter what it is. So we get to 00:42:00.780 --> 00:42:07.929 the point where we've... We've grown in our faith 00:42:07.929 --> 00:42:11.190 to where we're experiencing everything we need 00:42:11.190 --> 00:42:15.610 to experience personally. We're taking hold of 00:42:15.610 --> 00:42:18.570 it. We're experiencing it. It's happening in 00:42:18.570 --> 00:42:23.690 our lives. God wants us to get to that point 00:42:23.690 --> 00:42:26.809 so that we can move from that instead of what 00:42:26.809 --> 00:42:37.960 I can get to what we can carry together. God 00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:42.500 wants his manifested presence to be in this room 00:42:42.500 --> 00:42:46.019 to such a degree that if people who've never 00:42:46.019 --> 00:42:49.079 been here, when they walk in the door, they're 00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:51.400 going to leave saying, I don't know what's going 00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:53.639 on in Lation Church, but I met with God today. 00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:56.639 I didn't even know I could meet with God, but 00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:59.940 I met with God today. But it's going to take 00:42:59.940 --> 00:43:07.519 corporate to do that. What can we carry together? 00:43:08.460 --> 00:43:13.219 Our personal faith victories are not the destination 00:43:13.219 --> 00:43:18.480 of a glorious church. They're the training ground 00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:23.860 so we can believe for an outpouring of God, a 00:43:23.860 --> 00:43:27.860 move of God. Some people label that as revival. 00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:36.170 Demonstrations. Of the goodness of God. We're 00:43:36.170 --> 00:43:38.250 in the manifested presence of God. We find out 00:43:38.250 --> 00:43:42.409 that we have everything we need. In the glory. 00:43:44.690 --> 00:43:53.889 Lives being transformed. Our personal victories. 00:43:55.050 --> 00:43:59.570 Are just the training ground. For us to get to 00:43:59.570 --> 00:44:03.920 the point where we see this. manifest together 00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:12.079 as the called out ones. So we're going to have 00:44:12.079 --> 00:44:16.239 faith for the glory. Faith knows. Everybody say 00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:21.420 faith knows. Because faith is about being fully 00:44:21.420 --> 00:44:25.039 convinced that it's God's will to reveal His 00:44:25.039 --> 00:44:28.960 glory to His church. And we become fully convinced. 00:44:29.849 --> 00:44:33.070 Based on what he said. And knowing his will. 00:44:34.170 --> 00:44:38.409 So faith knows. What does faith do? Faith asks. 00:44:39.010 --> 00:44:43.590 Everybody say faith asks. Zechariah 10 .1. Those 00:44:43.590 --> 00:44:47.829 pages might be stuck together too. It says this. 00:44:47.829 --> 00:44:52.789 Ask the Lord for rain. In the time of the latter 00:44:52.789 --> 00:44:58.639 rain. It's not just talking about. Rain coming 00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:02.639 out of the sky to water the earth. He's talking 00:45:02.639 --> 00:45:05.099 about the glory of God. Ask the Lord for rain 00:45:05.099 --> 00:45:10.159 in the time of latter rain. We pray to God. God, 00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:16.920 reveal your glory among us in this house. Manifest 00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:21.500 your presence in our worship because we're all 00:45:21.500 --> 00:45:24.119 worshiping you. We're not just going through 00:45:24.119 --> 00:45:29.400 the motions. It's coming from our hearts. The 00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:31.699 songs that we sing, the things that we say, the 00:45:31.699 --> 00:45:35.199 prayers that we pray, it's radiating from our 00:45:35.199 --> 00:45:38.719 spirit to you, God. Manifest your presence in 00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:43.360 our worship. Let your glory rest on these called 00:45:43.360 --> 00:45:48.139 out ones. To where when we walk in the room, 00:45:48.280 --> 00:45:51.320 somebody goes, it's just something different. 00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:56.150 When you walked in here, something changed. The 00:45:56.150 --> 00:46:05.630 atmosphere shifted. And then faith speaks. Everybody 00:46:05.630 --> 00:46:10.889 say faith speaks. Psalm 145, 11. What does that 00:46:10.889 --> 00:46:16.289 say? It says, they will speak of the glory of 00:46:16.289 --> 00:46:23.809 your kingdom. Look to the person beside you and 00:46:23.809 --> 00:46:27.070 say, that's you. That's me. We're supposed to 00:46:27.070 --> 00:46:29.530 be speaking of the glory of the kingdom of God. 00:46:31.610 --> 00:46:34.849 They're not only going to speak of the glory, 00:46:35.090 --> 00:46:38.909 they're going to give examples of your power. 00:46:40.469 --> 00:46:45.570 Let me tell you what happened in the manifested 00:46:45.570 --> 00:46:49.769 presence of God last Sunday when we got together. 00:46:50.789 --> 00:46:52.690 You know, I see that you're going through some 00:46:52.690 --> 00:46:55.429 stuff. Come on, come to church with me next week. 00:46:55.610 --> 00:46:57.869 Come worship with me next week. Let me tell you 00:46:57.869 --> 00:47:01.130 what happened in the glory of God in this person's 00:47:01.130 --> 00:47:07.849 life, in this person's life. Hello? Just like 00:47:07.849 --> 00:47:09.710 I shared with you what happened in Gana's life 00:47:09.710 --> 00:47:13.849 in the glory. That needs to be happening every 00:47:13.849 --> 00:47:30.420 week. God is moving. God is moving. Oh, that 00:47:30.420 --> 00:47:32.639 Elation Church would be marked by the presence 00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:41.139 of God. Oh, that we would come expecting a manifestation 00:47:41.139 --> 00:47:46.739 of His glory. And then we'll see His goodness 00:47:46.739 --> 00:47:52.500 flow. You might just receive something you didn't 00:47:52.500 --> 00:48:01.179 even ask for. And that faith prepares. Everybody 00:48:01.179 --> 00:48:04.659 say, faith prepares. We talked about preparing 00:48:04.659 --> 00:48:07.420 last week a little bit. Just touch on it again. 00:48:09.159 --> 00:48:12.079 Here's the deal. If we believe something is coming, 00:48:12.239 --> 00:48:18.019 we get ready. If you really believe something's 00:48:18.019 --> 00:48:26.099 coming, you get ready. Right? I believe a baby's 00:48:26.099 --> 00:48:32.880 coming. Someday. But when the baby's coming, 00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:37.460 what do you do? You prepare. You get ready. Expecting 00:48:37.460 --> 00:48:41.360 a baby, you prepare a nursery. Expecting company 00:48:41.360 --> 00:48:45.659 to come to your house. Especially company that's 00:48:45.659 --> 00:48:50.739 allergic to the cat. Expecting company. You clean 00:48:50.739 --> 00:48:54.280 the house. Bless their hearts, they even got 00:48:54.280 --> 00:48:59.010 to vacuum the curtains every time I come. When 00:48:59.010 --> 00:49:00.789 you're expecting company, you clean the house. 00:49:01.210 --> 00:49:04.829 When you're expecting rain, you bring an umbrella. 00:49:06.530 --> 00:49:10.269 You forget the umbrella. Well, it's because you 00:49:10.269 --> 00:49:13.789 weren't expecting. If you were expecting the 00:49:13.789 --> 00:49:17.769 rain, you don't forget the umbrella. It's just 00:49:17.769 --> 00:49:22.469 when you kind of forget about it and say, I knew 00:49:22.469 --> 00:49:28.820 it was going to rain. After, But you lost the 00:49:28.820 --> 00:49:32.079 expectation or never formed the expectation before 00:49:32.079 --> 00:49:34.400 you went out that day. If you had the expectation, 00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:37.739 you would have carried the umbrella. You would 00:49:37.739 --> 00:49:50.400 have took your raincoat. How do we prepare the 00:49:50.400 --> 00:49:55.579 way? Genuine praise and worship to God. Not just 00:49:55.579 --> 00:49:58.170 going through the motions. Not just singing the 00:49:58.170 --> 00:50:04.670 songs. Genuine praise and worship. How do we 00:50:04.670 --> 00:50:08.489 prepare the way? By being hungry for it. You 00:50:08.489 --> 00:50:12.190 know, these verses, these stories, hopefully 00:50:12.190 --> 00:50:17.510 it'll make you hungry. Like if I started talking 00:50:17.510 --> 00:50:22.309 about some really good food right now, some of 00:50:22.309 --> 00:50:27.590 you would start getting hungry. So we're talking 00:50:27.590 --> 00:50:30.690 about the glory of God and what's available. 00:50:32.969 --> 00:50:36.230 That's to make you hungry and then to have an 00:50:36.230 --> 00:50:44.530 expectation. Have an expectation. That is preparing. 00:50:46.190 --> 00:50:51.530 That's preparing. One more thing. Almost every 00:50:51.530 --> 00:50:57.099 Sunday, one of the boys asked me, Anybody sit 00:50:57.099 --> 00:51:00.380 on the stool today? Who sat on the stool today? 00:51:00.500 --> 00:51:01.980 When we're loading up the trailer, they say, 00:51:02.079 --> 00:51:06.599 did anybody sit on the stool? Mason talked about 00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:12.360 this stool. You know, I was, back was hurting 00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:14.219 a little bit. He said, you need to get you a 00:51:14.219 --> 00:51:18.000 stool. I'd kind of been wanting a stool to match 00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:22.820 anyway. So I got a stool. But how many of you 00:51:22.820 --> 00:51:27.039 know? There's probably not going to be a Sunday 00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:34.260 when I just sit here. I've got to move my arms. 00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:36.059 I've got to move my feet. If I don't move my 00:51:36.059 --> 00:51:38.639 feet, my brain quits working and I don't even 00:51:38.639 --> 00:51:42.599 know what to say. I've got to move. So me just 00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:51.340 sitting here, you know. But in this series, I 00:51:51.340 --> 00:51:54.449 was reminded of a story that I heard. by a guy 00:51:54.449 --> 00:51:57.750 named Paul Young -gi Cho from South Korea. Has 00:51:57.750 --> 00:52:00.510 anybody ever heard of him? If you've heard of 00:52:00.510 --> 00:52:03.630 him, raise your hand. Just an amen corner over 00:52:03.630 --> 00:52:04.989 here. That's the only people who's heard of him. 00:52:08.210 --> 00:52:14.289 In the 70s, Paul Young -gi Cho, he later changed 00:52:14.289 --> 00:52:18.030 his name to David Young -gi Cho, but I met him 00:52:18.030 --> 00:52:20.550 when he was Paul, so I'm going with the name 00:52:20.550 --> 00:52:25.719 I met him by. During the early 70s or mid -70s, 00:52:25.719 --> 00:52:30.980 Paul Young -Hee Cho started an Assembly of God 00:52:30.980 --> 00:52:38.599 church in South Korea. And it started with five 00:52:38.599 --> 00:52:41.019 people. Everybody say five. It started with five 00:52:41.019 --> 00:52:45.900 people. It was him, his family, and his mother 00:52:45.900 --> 00:52:56.659 -in -law. Five people. When Gayna and I met Paul 00:52:56.659 --> 00:53:00.119 Youngichow, first time I heard him tell this 00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:02.400 story that I'm about to tell you, we were in 00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:04.360 the Greenville Memorial Auditorium. There were 00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:07.599 3 ,000 people there. Churches had got together 00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:10.400 and flew him in to come speak for one service 00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:17.760 to the pastors in Greenville. And at that point, 00:53:19.179 --> 00:53:24.199 He had the largest church in the world. Started 00:53:24.199 --> 00:53:27.599 with five people in the 70s. I believe when, 00:53:27.699 --> 00:53:35.800 I think he was over 300 ,000 people in the, what 00:53:35.800 --> 00:53:40.719 would that have been? Mid 80s when we met him. 00:53:41.739 --> 00:53:49.380 Over 300 ,000 people. The church. grew to a point 00:53:49.380 --> 00:53:52.780 where it got over 800 ,000 people. Right now, 00:53:52.920 --> 00:53:59.659 it's closer to 500 ,000. He passed away in 21. 00:54:02.340 --> 00:54:05.840 But he said this story. I don't know if it's 00:54:05.840 --> 00:54:08.059 a story for him or if it's just something that 00:54:08.059 --> 00:54:11.679 he heard, but he said a visiting speaker, I don't 00:54:11.679 --> 00:54:13.599 know if the visiting speaker came to his church 00:54:13.599 --> 00:54:18.340 to preach. Or if he just knew the story from 00:54:18.340 --> 00:54:21.599 somewhere else. So I'm not going to... I don't 00:54:21.599 --> 00:54:24.539 know. It was in the 80s. How am I supposed to 00:54:24.539 --> 00:54:30.880 remember? But there's a visiting preacher who 00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:35.719 came to the church. And he walked up on the platform 00:54:35.719 --> 00:54:41.119 with the pastor and the worship team. And there 00:54:41.119 --> 00:54:49.119 were chairs. And he walked up and he's like, 00:54:49.219 --> 00:54:51.000 well, there's this big chair right here in the 00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:54.760 middle. Has a higher back than the rest of them. 00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:58.440 And maybe since I'm the special guest speaker 00:54:58.440 --> 00:55:02.380 today, maybe the pastor is not going to sit in 00:55:02.380 --> 00:55:05.079 that seat and he wants me to sit in that seat. 00:55:06.179 --> 00:55:10.280 So the special visitor walked over to that seat 00:55:10.280 --> 00:55:14.530 and began to sit down. And I think it might have 00:55:14.530 --> 00:55:16.929 been Paul. Paul is in the seat beside, and there 00:55:16.929 --> 00:55:18.429 was another seat there. He said, no, no, no, 00:55:18.469 --> 00:55:26.769 no, no. He said, do not sit on the Holy Spirit. 00:55:30.170 --> 00:55:35.349 He said, you sit here. Do not sit on the Holy 00:55:35.349 --> 00:55:44.280 Spirit. So, from now on, If you ask who sat on 00:55:44.280 --> 00:55:51.360 the bench from the day forward to help us with 00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:56.619 our expectation, let's just say that we're reserving 00:55:56.619 --> 00:56:02.119 this one for God. We're going to reserve it for 00:56:02.119 --> 00:56:07.219 God. Now, after the service is over and we're 00:56:07.219 --> 00:56:09.099 taking it to put it in the trailer, you can still 00:56:09.099 --> 00:56:13.539 sit on it if you want to. Because he's, you know. 00:56:15.320 --> 00:56:17.539 But I want you to picture that as part of your 00:56:17.539 --> 00:56:22.440 hunger, as part of your expectation. I want you 00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:24.460 to, because see, I didn't even put my junk on 00:56:24.460 --> 00:56:28.820 it today. I've been using it as a table. Not 00:56:28.820 --> 00:56:37.440 anymore. Because I expect the glory of God. I 00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:43.650 expect his manifested presence. I expect for 00:56:43.650 --> 00:56:47.389 him to come sit right there every Sunday in our 00:56:47.389 --> 00:56:54.289 presence. I expect to see his goodness flow and 00:56:54.289 --> 00:57:02.849 his glory fill this place. And I believe if we 00:57:02.849 --> 00:57:07.309 all expect it together, I believe we will see 00:57:07.309 --> 00:57:18.719 it in increasing measure. Let's pray. God, thank 00:57:18.719 --> 00:57:22.099 you. Thank you for your word. Thank you for your 00:57:22.099 --> 00:57:26.460 truth. Thank you for revealing things to us that 00:57:26.460 --> 00:57:35.059 we've seen but not seen. Help us to see it. Help 00:57:35.059 --> 00:57:39.760 us not just read through and read past your word 00:57:39.760 --> 00:57:42.500 as you're trying to communicate something to 00:57:42.500 --> 00:57:45.469 us. But we've just gotten so religious that we 00:57:45.469 --> 00:57:51.449 don't get it. Help us to see it. Give us revelation 00:57:51.449 --> 00:58:00.010 of your truth. Thank you for what you're doing. 00:58:00.090 --> 00:58:06.489 Thank you for what you're going to do. In Jesus' 00:58:06.570 --> 00:58:11.139 name, amen. This online worship experience was 00:58:11.139 --> 00:58:13.539 brought to you by the friends and partners of 00:58:13.539 --> 00:58:14.360 Eulation Church.