WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Disruptive Glory Publishing Date: 2021-01-03T05:00:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/disruptive-glory/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.800 Okay, so guys, today I want to talk about a topic that came up when Chad was praying 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:13.800 for the church. 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:18.320 Praful, am I holding it the right way and at the right distance? 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:22.600 Just one sec guys, we've got to measure this. 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:35.680 So this came up when Chad was praying and he talked about us being so moved, so directed 00:00:35.680 --> 00:00:38.120 by the glory of God and nothing else. 00:00:38.120 --> 00:00:43.120 And so if you want a title for what we're going to talk about today and perhaps for 00:00:43.120 --> 00:00:48.640 at least another week, it's disruptive glory, disruptive glory. 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:52.240 That's the title, disruptive glory. 00:00:52.400 --> 00:01:00.960 Because when Chad was praying at the end he said, oh God, may we be so caught up in bringing 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:08.080 you glory just like it used to be in the days of old when your glory alone was sufficient 00:01:08.080 --> 00:01:13.520 and Moses would not be able to minister, the priests would not be able to minister and 00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:16.840 disrupt our lives with your glory. 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:22.680 And so felt that one of the things we should talk about is disruptive glory. 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:27.520 Disruptive, disruptive glory. 00:01:27.520 --> 00:01:30.320 Don't learn how to share with Phoebe please. 00:01:30.320 --> 00:01:31.320 Disruptive glory. 00:01:31.320 --> 00:01:33.880 Yeah? 00:01:33.880 --> 00:01:41.960 So guys, how we define it is glory has three main components. 00:01:41.960 --> 00:01:45.280 Glory has three main parts. 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:48.320 Glory has three main parts and so here goes. 00:01:48.320 --> 00:01:52.560 The first part, if you look at the Old Testament and the New Testament you'll find that glory 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:55.840 can be divided into these three main parts. 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:00.640 The first part is the dazzling brightness or splendor of God. 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:05.840 The dazzling brightness or splendor of God. 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:13.080 The dazzling brightness or splendor of God is often referred to as glory in the New Testament 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:14.080 and the Old Testament. 00:02:14.160 --> 00:02:25.040 So you read passages like Exodus 19, verse 16 to 19 and you see that God came in amazing 00:02:25.040 --> 00:02:26.040 glory. 00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:27.040 So let's read these passages. 00:02:27.040 --> 00:02:28.880 There's a lot of reading to do today. 00:02:28.880 --> 00:02:32.680 Exodus 19, 16 to 19. 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:42.600 It says that on the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning with a thick 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:45.880 cloud over the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast. 00:02:45.880 --> 00:02:48.000 Everyone in the camp trembled. 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:51.640 Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God and they stood at the foot 00:02:51.640 --> 00:02:52.640 of the mountain. 00:02:52.640 --> 00:02:57.760 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord descended on it in fire. 00:02:57.760 --> 00:03:00.820 The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace. 00:03:00.820 --> 00:03:06.040 The whole mountain trembled violently and the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder. 00:03:06.040 --> 00:03:08.480 Then Moses spoke and the voice of God answered. 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:14.040 So there is that part of God's glory which is dazzling brightness and splendor. 00:03:14.040 --> 00:03:19.840 Then there is glory that is His great power and strength. 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:24.420 His great power and strength. 00:03:24.420 --> 00:03:28.000 His great power and strength. 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:39.300 And you find that in passages like Psalm 105 verse 27 to 45 where it talks about how God 00:03:39.300 --> 00:03:50.200 led Israel out of Egypt with displays of strength and power where it became the reason why Yahweh 00:03:50.200 --> 00:03:56.000 was given much glory not just by Israel but by the Egyptians who released them to go and 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:03.560 by neighboring nations that kept a healthy distance because He delivered them by an outstretched 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:07.920 arm and a mighty hand or a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. 00:04:07.920 --> 00:04:13.240 And so there is this aspect of glory that is attributed to His great power and strength. 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:18.580 And then the third part is majesty and honor. 00:04:18.580 --> 00:04:21.020 Majesty and honor. 00:04:21.020 --> 00:04:26.220 Majesty and honor. 00:04:26.220 --> 00:04:27.220 Majesty and honor. 00:04:27.220 --> 00:04:32.620 And that's what you read in scriptures like Isaiah 6, 1-6. 00:04:32.620 --> 00:04:41.180 Isaiah 6, 1-6 is another scripture where you see that where I saw the king seated on his 00:04:41.180 --> 00:04:47.300 throne, the train of his robe filled the temple and that is the idea of majesty and honor. 00:04:47.300 --> 00:04:53.340 Very often what happens is in us as Christians there is a soulish hunger after the first 00:04:53.340 --> 00:05:00.960 one the dazzling brightness and splendor and in our soulish hunger for brightness and splendor 00:05:00.960 --> 00:05:08.020 and dazzle we forget that there are two aspects besides that to God's glory and so we miss 00:05:08.020 --> 00:05:11.500 out on this in our pursuit of this. 00:05:11.660 --> 00:05:20.940 And I'd say all three apply and we should hold them all together, not separate them. 00:05:20.940 --> 00:05:26.700 So disruptive glory, what disruptive glory does is disruptive glory and why call it disruptive 00:05:26.700 --> 00:05:27.700 glory? 00:05:27.700 --> 00:05:29.060 Why not just call it glory? 00:05:29.060 --> 00:05:39.380 I call it disruptive glory because disruptive glory draws a distinction, draws a distinction 00:05:39.380 --> 00:05:47.180 between the one true God, between the one true God and all else. 00:05:47.180 --> 00:05:51.280 The one true God and all else. 00:05:51.280 --> 00:05:59.740 He disrupts what is normal and he makes it very obvious that he alone is God and nobody 00:05:59.740 --> 00:06:00.740 else is. 00:06:00.740 --> 00:06:06.220 And you see this in the Old Testament and the New Testament where you see God being 00:06:06.220 --> 00:06:13.940 disruptive when he brings forth his glory in Egypt and through the ten plagues makes 00:06:13.940 --> 00:06:22.340 Ra and every other Egyptian God bow down and all the Egyptians acknowledge that Israel's 00:06:22.340 --> 00:06:25.100 God is God alone. 00:06:25.100 --> 00:06:30.500 You take the journey through the wilderness and you come to Sinai and you see that this 00:06:30.500 --> 00:06:36.940 God is called the dread of Jacob and the nations around fear him for he can do mighty 00:06:36.940 --> 00:06:43.260 things like opening the Red Sea and completely drowning Pharaoh and his army bringing to 00:06:43.260 --> 00:06:49.260 their knees one of the mightiest empires that existed in the world at that time. 00:06:49.260 --> 00:06:56.560 You look at Carmel and you see Elijah and the prophets of Baal, 850 of them and there's 00:06:56.560 --> 00:07:04.220 a disruptive glory that appears in the form of fire falling from heaven and it creates 00:07:04.220 --> 00:07:09.880 a distinction between who is Yahweh and who is Baal and it's settled once forever bringing 00:07:09.880 --> 00:07:15.760 a nation that had slipped into apostasy back into worshipping the true God. 00:07:15.760 --> 00:07:22.440 You go to Matthew 17 and you climb up with Peter, James and John to the Mount of Transfiguration 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:28.400 and you see a revelation of who Christ is in his glory and once again there is a distinction 00:07:28.400 --> 00:07:34.400 where this is no ordinary man, this is the son of God himself and Elijah and Moses come 00:07:34.400 --> 00:07:39.160 and begin to talk with him and there is a voice from heaven saying this is my son like 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:41.240 no other. 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:47.360 Disruptive glory when a church gets a hang of it is the kind of glory that makes it obvious 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:50.520 that their God is God alone. 00:07:50.520 --> 00:07:56.300 So much so that in 1 Peter 1, 18 or 2 Peter 1, 18 actually Peter is saying that listen 00:07:56.300 --> 00:08:01.220 we are not spinning fables and telling you stories, we are telling you what our eyes 00:08:01.220 --> 00:08:07.800 beheld on that mountain and when we heard from on high from the majesty we heard that 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:13.560 this son of mine is my begotten and my beloved, listen to him. 00:08:13.640 --> 00:08:20.160 Then you go to Revelation 1 and John is on Patmos and you see once again the glory of 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:26.560 the risen Christ being revealed in Revelation 1 where he appears his eyes blazing like fire, 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:33.200 his feet burning brass, his voice like mighty waterfall, no other, no other is able to stand 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:34.200 up against him. 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:38.520 You go to Revelation 4 and the heavens are open and you hear Jesus saying come up higher 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:44.720 and as John begins to see he sees a scene from heaven where elders and angels fall before 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:50.200 the one who is risen and who alone is God and his glory is like a thousand different 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:57.560 gems with rainbow and in all hues and colors and below his feet is a sapphire glass like 00:08:57.560 --> 00:09:02.520 surface and they bow before him and they begin to worship very naturally because what else 00:09:02.520 --> 00:09:07.560 can you say when you behold the one true God you end up saying yours is the kingdom, yours 00:09:07.560 --> 00:09:12.040 is the power, yours is the majesty, yours is the honor and this is what Chad was talking 00:09:12.040 --> 00:09:18.720 about when he prayed on Christmas Eve saying oh God we want to walk in this glory so that 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:26.480 we may give you the honor and majesty because when people see what God can be through us 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:29.880 honor and majesty is given back to him. 00:09:30.400 --> 00:09:40.400 The thing is guys why is it that we don't experience this or haven't experienced it 00:09:40.400 --> 00:09:50.400 like we should and it's a horrible truth that I'm going to tell you that we cannot live 00:09:50.400 --> 00:09:52.800 this year right? 00:09:52.800 --> 00:09:59.600 At least I don't plan to live this year with this next statement that I'm going to make. 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:11.280 The reason we don't experience this kind of glory is because we try to accommodate 00:10:11.280 --> 00:10:18.160 his glory. 00:10:18.160 --> 00:10:21.800 We try to accommodate his glory. 00:10:21.800 --> 00:10:23.240 We try to accommodate his glory. 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:27.940 It's like okay we got a service, we got our lives, we got the way we need to do church, 00:10:27.980 --> 00:10:32.940 we got to do our business this way, we got to run our family this way, we like the idea 00:10:32.940 --> 00:10:37.820 of your glory, we will make room for it, we will accommodate your glory. 00:10:37.820 --> 00:10:42.460 Here's the thing about God's glory, you cannot accommodate his glory, you can only be foolish 00:10:42.460 --> 00:10:44.420 and surrender to it. 00:10:44.420 --> 00:10:46.820 You cannot accommodate his glory. 00:10:46.820 --> 00:10:50.820 There is no worship service that can accommodate his glory. 00:10:50.820 --> 00:10:58.060 You can only be foolish and surrender to it and this church throughout this year will 00:10:58.060 --> 00:11:01.580 be foolish and surrender to the glory of God. 00:11:01.580 --> 00:11:03.560 We will do nothing to accommodate it. 00:11:03.560 --> 00:11:07.700 We will not give him half an hour, we will not give him one hour, we will not give him 00:11:07.700 --> 00:11:13.580 ten minutes, we will not cause things to change so that his little desires can be accommodated. 00:11:13.580 --> 00:11:17.020 It is either all or none. 00:11:17.020 --> 00:11:23.040 You cannot accommodate his glory, you can only be foolish and surrender to it. 00:11:23.040 --> 00:11:28.900 You have to be foolish if you want to surrender to it. 00:11:28.900 --> 00:11:33.300 And if you surrender to it, he will deconstruct your present infrastructure. 00:11:33.300 --> 00:11:37.460 If you surrender to it, he will deconstruct your present infrastructure. 00:11:37.460 --> 00:11:43.900 He will deconstruct all that you've neatly planned with godly wisdom because glory trumps 00:11:43.900 --> 00:11:46.640 godly wisdom. 00:11:46.640 --> 00:11:49.080 What do you mean glory trumps godly wisdom? 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:55.520 It is the presence, the majesty, the honor, the dazzling splendor, the power and the strength 00:11:55.520 --> 00:11:58.980 of God present amongst the people. 00:11:58.980 --> 00:12:11.960 You think that what you learned yesterday is sufficient to have you run tomorrow? 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:16.440 If we surrender, he'll deconstruct our present infrastructure and I want him to. 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:21.240 Because we have not gone this way before guys, where we are going we haven't gone before. 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:28.080 Joshua chapter 3 verse 4, God actually says to Joshua, Joshua as they carry the ark, make 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:33.320 sure there's a 2000 feet distance between you and the ark because you haven't gone this 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:36.320 way before so keep sufficient distance. 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:40.920 Watch where the ark is going as they carry it, as I direct them, watch where it's going 00:12:40.920 --> 00:12:43.840 and keep a distance. 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:55.220 One of the things I want to do and I'll let you know that by tomorrow is have us engage 00:12:55.220 --> 00:13:00.800 in seven days of surrendering to God's glory. 00:13:00.800 --> 00:13:04.180 Night after night after night after night for seven days. 00:13:04.180 --> 00:13:09.680 Not a worship service, not a church service but some form where you can participate where 00:13:09.760 --> 00:13:15.040 the beginning of the year we say to God, Father we have no desire to accommodate your glory, 00:13:15.040 --> 00:13:16.520 we're going to surrender to it. 00:13:16.520 --> 00:13:20.040 Be disruptive, deconstruct our infrastructure. 00:13:20.040 --> 00:13:24.380 We surrender to it, we want to be foolish so that their world may be attracted to the 00:13:24.380 --> 00:13:31.000 only one who they should be attracted to through us. 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:39.840 And I'll tell you about it once we know exactly what God wants. 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:45.100 Another word used in the Bible, I can't get away from the simple statement that the reason 00:13:45.100 --> 00:13:49.360 we do not experience his glory is because we are always trying to accommodate it as 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:55.400 in here is someone who's massive, we got a service to run, it'll take about two hours 00:13:56.400 --> 00:14:02.560 according to what Derek prayed today and we just want to make sure that you get your time 00:14:02.560 --> 00:14:04.320 to do you want to change the song? 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:09.920 You think changing a song is glory? 00:14:09.920 --> 00:14:17.200 It is to be completely surrendered and foolish where you have no say in the matter because 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:20.040 he alone is God and he runs everything. 00:14:20.040 --> 00:14:24.960 This is how Jesus used to live and you think it applies to a two and a half hour service? 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:31.260 It applies to my entire life, my finances, my business, my marriage, my home, my family. 00:14:31.260 --> 00:14:33.560 It applies to everything, applies to parenting. 00:14:33.560 --> 00:14:36.120 Oh God, I surrender to your glory. 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:40.520 Guys, just think of it when the Ark of the Covenant moved into Obeid Edom's home, there 00:14:40.520 --> 00:14:49.280 was not a part of Obeid Edom's home that was not touched by the absolute glory of God. 00:14:49.280 --> 00:14:50.540 What does it look like? 00:14:50.540 --> 00:14:53.080 For this reason we have arrived at this moment. 00:14:53.680 --> 00:14:58.600 Pastor Mike was saying that we've crossed over and we've come into a place of legacy 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:04.280 where if we can show what this looks like others will have shoulders to jump off instead 00:15:04.280 --> 00:15:06.680 of having to start from scratch. 00:15:09.880 --> 00:15:16.160 Another word for glory in the Bible that you often see or you hear preachers preach it 00:15:16.160 --> 00:15:18.440 because the word actually does not exist. 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:21.920 It's Shekinah. 00:15:21.920 --> 00:15:28.040 You've heard of Shekinah glory and the word Shekinah by itself is not really something 00:15:28.040 --> 00:15:30.200 that the Bible uses. 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:34.360 In fact, whenever it talks about the glory of the Lord in the Old Testament they call 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:36.400 it Kabod Adonai. 00:15:36.400 --> 00:15:38.840 Kabod is glory, Adonai is Lord. 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:43.560 Kabod Adonai and when it comes to the New Testament it talks about Doxa. 00:15:43.560 --> 00:15:46.840 Doxa meaning glory and Kurian meaning Lord. 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:50.920 My brother-in-law will be very excited that the glory of the Lord means Doxa Kurian because 00:15:50.920 --> 00:15:52.200 his last name is Kurian. 00:15:52.200 --> 00:16:00.600 Anyways Doxa Kurian is the glory of the Lord and the strange thing is Shekinah, the first 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:04.560 instance of it is in Genesis chapter 3 verse 23. 00:16:04.560 --> 00:16:09.680 Genesis 3, 23. 00:16:09.680 --> 00:16:16.120 Genesis chapter 3 verse 23 and it says that, 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:34.400 We have always assumed that he placed there an angel with a sword. 00:16:34.400 --> 00:16:35.480 That's not true. 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:41.640 What it is saying there is that at the entrance was an angel, a cherubim, who's almost, cherubims 00:16:41.640 --> 00:16:45.240 are almost always associated with the glory of God. 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:49.120 You'll see it in Ezekiel, you'll see it in Isaiah, cherubim, wherever cherubim appear 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:52.120 you know there is the glory of God. 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:56.240 But it is that there was an angel there and there was a flaming sword and that is the 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:03.640 first time you get an idea of the Shekinah as in the dazzling blazing brilliance of God 00:17:03.640 --> 00:17:07.880 that cannot be gone past unless he allows it. 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:12.720 It starts with this idea of a flaming sword and if you go to Genesis 15, 17 and someone 00:17:12.760 --> 00:17:18.440 was reading from Genesis 15 today, Genesis 15, 17 you see another instance of God's glory 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:23.440 and this time it was to establish a covenant and you read that when the sun had set and 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:28.560 darkness had fallen a smoking fire pot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between 00:17:28.560 --> 00:17:29.560 the pieces. 00:17:29.560 --> 00:17:32.640 The idea of a flaming torch once again the Shekinah. 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:34.720 What does Shekinah really mean? 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:37.240 Shekinah means the one who dwells. 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:40.080 Isn't that such a beautiful term man? 00:17:40.080 --> 00:17:45.240 When you think of Shekinah you're saying Shekinah basically means the one who dwells, 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:49.320 the one who dwells, the one who dwells. 00:17:49.320 --> 00:17:56.440 You can see why in Deuteronomy 25, if you go to Deuteronomy 25, Deuteronomy 25 verse 00:17:56.440 --> 00:18:04.000 8 and 9, Deuteronomy 25 verse 8 and 9. 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:18.080 When the elders of this town shall, Deuteronomy 25 verse 8, no I got it wrong, maybe it's 00:18:18.080 --> 00:18:40.680 Exodus 25, Exodus 25, Exodus 25, 8 and 9. 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:45.800 Then have them make a sanctuary for me and I will dwell among them. 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:50.520 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I showed you. 00:18:50.520 --> 00:19:02.720 It is this idea, Shekinah is the idea of the one who dwells and in Exodus 25 verse 8 and 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:04.880 9 God says two things. 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:14.720 One, listen, I want to dwell and two, make me a tabernacle. 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:17.000 Make me a tabernacle. 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:21.680 Out of these two words comes the idea of Shekinah. 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:25.080 One who dwells and make me a tabernacle. 00:19:25.080 --> 00:19:28.880 One who dwells comes from a word called, it doesn't matter, we don't need to learn Hebrew 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:32.140 because I don't know Hebrew anyways, I'd be quoting someone else. 00:19:32.460 --> 00:19:38.420 The idea of Shekinah is the one who dwells as in I want to dwell with you and two, can 00:19:38.420 --> 00:19:39.580 you make me a tabernacle. 00:19:39.580 --> 00:19:40.580 Why is this important? 00:19:40.580 --> 00:19:43.780 Because John 1.14, remember what it says? 00:19:43.780 --> 00:19:50.820 John 1.14 says, the word became flesh and tabernacled or dwelt among us and we beheld 00:19:50.820 --> 00:19:52.700 his glory. 00:19:52.700 --> 00:20:01.860 John 1.14 says, the word became flesh and tabernacled or dwelt among us and we beheld 00:20:01.860 --> 00:20:03.180 his glory. 00:20:03.180 --> 00:20:09.900 This idea of Shekinah has been so ancient and something so desirous in the heart of 00:20:09.900 --> 00:20:13.380 God that he was setting it up right from the beginning. 00:20:13.380 --> 00:20:20.620 Initially he made this beautiful tabernacle called the earth and then placed man in it 00:20:20.620 --> 00:20:22.720 and began to walk around with man. 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:28.020 Then he sets up a tent of meeting in the desert and he begins to occupy it. 00:20:28.020 --> 00:20:37.460 Then he turns up as God himself in Jesus Christ and you have the word becoming flesh 00:20:37.460 --> 00:20:42.180 and dwelling or tabernacling and we beheld his glory, John 1.14. 00:20:42.180 --> 00:20:47.160 And then it takes it to the next step where the indwelling of the spirit makes us a temple 00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:48.780 of the indwelling Christ. 00:20:48.780 --> 00:20:52.420 The indwelling of the spirit makes us a temple of the indwelling Christ. 00:20:52.420 --> 00:20:56.100 And now where does the Shekinah glory live? 00:20:56.100 --> 00:20:57.260 In me. 00:20:57.260 --> 00:21:03.940 The same wind and fire that you saw on Mount Sinai, you see that same wind and fire on 00:21:03.940 --> 00:21:08.180 Pentecost in Acts chapter 2. 00:21:08.180 --> 00:21:13.260 And the same wind and fire that caused God to arrive upon Mount Sinai is the same wind 00:21:13.260 --> 00:21:17.500 and fire that accompanies the arrival of the spirit in Acts chapter 2 verse 2. 00:21:17.500 --> 00:21:24.420 And now God indwells a new temple, a new temple that Paul then says is a mystery that has 00:21:24.500 --> 00:21:29.300 been hidden for generations and is now revealed Colossians 1.27. 00:21:29.300 --> 00:21:33.980 Christ in you the expectation or the hope of glory. 00:21:33.980 --> 00:21:41.140 Guys, this disruptive glory that we are talking about actually lives in us but unfortunately 00:21:41.140 --> 00:21:47.420 we do not experience it the way we should because we are always trying to accommodate 00:21:47.420 --> 00:21:48.580 God in our lives. 00:21:48.580 --> 00:21:51.780 We are always trying to accommodate his glory. 00:21:51.780 --> 00:21:53.500 Tradition accommodates his glory. 00:21:53.500 --> 00:21:56.860 Don't you think we are not traditional? 00:21:56.860 --> 00:22:06.060 We're going to put to death those things that prevent God from bursting forth bit by bit 00:22:06.060 --> 00:22:10.740 by bit will kill it every day. 00:22:10.740 --> 00:22:16.640 So that the legacy we leave is the legacy that boasts of nothing else but the glory 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:21.260 of the risen Christ as Paul said that I will boast in nothing else. 00:22:21.260 --> 00:22:28.340 Let no flesh boast. 00:22:28.340 --> 00:22:38.780 This is the legacy we leave for all the earth. 00:22:38.780 --> 00:22:40.900 We got to build by pattern Phoebe. 00:22:40.900 --> 00:22:46.540 We got to build by pattern so that you will not have to work hard when you grow up to 00:22:46.620 --> 00:22:54.780 walk into these because you will walk into these as if it's normal. 00:22:54.780 --> 00:23:01.140 So how do we go about making sure that this glory is not accommodated that this disruptive 00:23:01.140 --> 00:23:06.700 glory is something that bursts through us so that God can be everything he wants to 00:23:06.700 --> 00:23:12.180 be without being veiled without being limited. 00:23:12.180 --> 00:23:16.100 See the great thing about Jesus was that the glory of God dwelt in him and it says so in 00:23:16.100 --> 00:23:24.020 John 1 14 that the word became flesh and tabernacled amongst us and we beheld his glory. 00:23:24.020 --> 00:23:25.020 Go to John 1 14. 00:23:25.020 --> 00:23:26.500 Let's read the whole scripture. 00:23:26.500 --> 00:23:32.700 John 1 14. 00:23:32.700 --> 00:23:36.240 The word became flesh and made his dwelling or tabernacled among us. 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:40.340 We have seen his glory the glory of the one and only who came from the father and was 00:23:40.340 --> 00:23:42.160 full of grace and truth. 00:23:42.360 --> 00:23:51.040 The intent is father can acts 29 as a people become ones that allow you to be disruptive 00:23:51.040 --> 00:23:56.360 in your glory transforming changing affecting tearing down building up whatever you want 00:23:56.360 --> 00:24:07.400 to without being accommodated tolerated limited domesticated tamed. 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:14.920 There should be no taming of God no taming of God. 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:16.080 So how do we go about this? 00:24:16.080 --> 00:24:21.640 How do we do this? 00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:25.600 Guys the first thing we do is we build by pattern. 00:24:25.600 --> 00:24:32.520 We talked about this before but one of the things that really bothered me is a statement 00:24:33.120 --> 00:24:38.800 when he said we we lay aside trying to be cool Christians. 00:24:38.800 --> 00:24:41.360 I refuse this year to be a cool Christian. 00:24:41.360 --> 00:24:43.600 I refuse to be a sophisticated Christian. 00:24:43.600 --> 00:24:47.760 I refuse to be a Christian that is liked or accepted by all. 00:24:47.760 --> 00:24:49.440 I do not want that. 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:50.920 I do not want that. 00:24:50.920 --> 00:24:54.720 It doesn't bring anything God's way. 00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:58.360 All it does is it brings things my way. 00:24:58.360 --> 00:24:59.760 I become acceptable. 00:24:59.880 --> 00:25:04.600 I become one who both knows Christ and knows how to live in the world. 00:25:04.600 --> 00:25:10.840 Don't want it man. 00:25:10.840 --> 00:25:17.200 This year we'll try not to confirm to coolness not to be sophisticated not to follow trends 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:22.840 not to respond to stimulate the way the world expects the church to respond not to be caught 00:25:22.840 --> 00:25:28.120 up in success but only divine patterns only divine patterns go back and keep checking 00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:32.120 either go back to the word or go back to the spirit of God or go back to what God has taught 00:25:32.120 --> 00:25:38.360 us in the past and say what is the pattern here if you go to Ezekiel 43 Ezekiel 43 God 00:25:38.360 --> 00:25:44.280 says to Ezekiel hey listen teach them patterns man I'm showing you all this so that you can 00:25:44.280 --> 00:25:55.200 teach them patterns Ezekiel 43 verse 11 or starting at verse 10 son of man describe 00:25:55.280 --> 00:26:00.080 the temple to the people of Israel that they may be ashamed of their sins let them consider 00:26:00.080 --> 00:26:04.080 the plan and if they are ashamed of all they've done make known to them the design of the 00:26:04.080 --> 00:26:09.840 temple its arrangement its exits its entrances its whole design and all its regulations and 00:26:09.840 --> 00:26:16.040 laws write these down before them so that they may be faithful to its design and follow 00:26:16.040 --> 00:26:22.840 all its regulations faithful to the design follow all regulations 00:26:25.840 --> 00:26:34.040 we cannot bring in the glory of God on new carts like the Philistines did in second Samuel 3 00:26:34.040 --> 00:26:40.600 where the Philistines realized they got to send the ark back so what do they do they get a brand 00:26:40.600 --> 00:26:46.280 new cart and they put the ark on the back of the cart and send it back and what does David do David 00:26:46.280 --> 00:26:53.120 it copies what the Philistines have done we do not copy what the world does we do it the way heaven 00:26:53.120 --> 00:26:59.200 prescribes this is why I said earlier that whenever a government or whenever a church or 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:05.280 a people that belong to God begin to look to the government as the one that sets the agenda they 00:27:05.280 --> 00:27:15.240 stop listening to heaven because heaven actually sets the agenda it's not whether Trump becomes 00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:21.120 president or Biden becomes president that affects the kingdom the kingdom is aware of every president 00:27:21.120 --> 00:27:28.840 dictate a tyrant duly elected official that ever existed and will ever exist in the future and heaven 00:27:28.840 --> 00:27:36.520 has remedies for all of it when you think that the agenda of God will only progress if a certain man 00:27:36.520 --> 00:27:48.520 is on the throne we have just displaced the one who is on the throne we cannot bring in the glory 00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:56.440 on a new cart like the Philistines did in second Samuel 6 3 and the strange thing is the indwelling 00:27:56.440 --> 00:28:02.200 glory the Shekinah that is within us the presence of the risen Christ by the indwelling spirit in 00:28:02.200 --> 00:28:09.800 us as a people is experienced only when divine patterns are followed it is experienced only 00:28:09.800 --> 00:28:20.680 when divine patterns are followed go to Leviticus 9 Leviticus 9 Leviticus 9 verse 6 and verse 23 00:28:20.680 --> 00:28:32.280 Leviticus 9 verse 6 starting at verse 5 they took the things Moses commanded to the front of the 00:28:32.280 --> 00:28:37.400 tent of the meeting and the entire assembly came near and stood before the Lord then Moses said 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:44.120 this is what the look at the words man this is what the Lord has commanded you to do so that the 00:28:44.120 --> 00:28:49.000 glory of the Lord may appear to you the specific instructions you want the glory of the Lord to 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:54.320 appear this is what you have been commanded to do and then verse 23 Moses and Aaron then went into 00:28:54.320 --> 00:29:00.040 the tent of meeting when they came out the blessed people and the glory of the Lord appeared to all 00:29:00.040 --> 00:29:04.520 the people fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat 00:29:04.520 --> 00:29:10.400 potions of the altar and when all the people saw it they shouted for joy and fell face down the 00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:18.440 glory of the Lord enters a place or is experienced by a people in whom he dwells when they follow 00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:28.800 very specific instructions with regard to anything they do please don't think this applies to the 00:29:28.800 --> 00:29:36.600 church or applies to a worship service to to to to to to try and bottle God in a worship service 00:29:36.600 --> 00:29:49.200 is dishonorable this is not real life this is a two-hour activity or an event your participation 00:29:49.200 --> 00:30:03.600 in this two hours does not say anything about you Moses and Solomon knew this both of them knew 00:30:03.600 --> 00:30:11.040 that if you build according to pattern God will validate you see it in Exodus 25 40 where God 00:30:11.040 --> 00:30:16.480 specifically says to Moses Moses make sure that the blueprint I showed you on Sinai is exactly how 00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:23.280 you build in first Chronicles 28 19 Solomon is instructed by David David says listen I got this 00:30:23.280 --> 00:30:27.960 plan from God make sure when you build the temple you build it accurately both of them stuck to the 00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:34.340 pattern and when they stuck to the pattern God validated what they did in Exodus 40 verse 34 the 00:30:34.340 --> 00:30:40.240 glory of God entered the tent of meeting and the priests could not minister hundreds of years later 00:30:40.360 --> 00:30:46.600 the arc has just come into the temple that Solomon built according to blueprint and the glory of God 00:30:46.600 --> 00:30:52.160 comes into the temple and nobody could stand or minister what do you think will happen when 00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:57.080 acts 29 builds according to the patterns of God in different areas what do you think will happen 00:30:57.080 --> 00:31:08.440 God will turn up and flesh will have no part of it and God will show off this is what I desire even 00:31:08.560 --> 00:31:16.080 I'm preaching that I preach with everything I've got that I exhort I rebuke I correct I lift up I 00:31:16.080 --> 00:31:24.480 declare whatever God wants sometimes prophetically sometimes in a way that teaches but at the end of 00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:32.440 the day if I can put everything that I am supposed to in it and step out of the way then the the 00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:37.720 strength and the power and the majesty and the honor and the dazzling brilliance of God will begin 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:51.800 to affect lives like no orator can you can see why Paul loved the idea of his infirmities we want 00:31:51.800 --> 00:31:56.200 to be sophisticated we want to get all our words correct we want to get the zoom right we're going 00:31:56.200 --> 00:32:00.320 to get the pictures right we want to get the PowerPoint right the presentation has to be 00:32:00.320 --> 00:32:06.120 perfect why because if the presentation is not good enough people may be distracted really you 00:32:06.120 --> 00:32:11.200 think that one day when you have to stand before a PowerPoint and the glory of God which one will 00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:20.880 be more attractive glory or PowerPoint my hope is that we do the best we can with everything that 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:26.240 is given to us but my God there is someone else in this room someone else in your house someone 00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:33.200 else living within you someone else who wants to connect so radically with you so that through you 00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:42.760 the world is affected by his glory and that does not come with good pronunciation or good garments 00:32:42.760 --> 00:32:49.400 or whatever it doesn't come with that one of the reasons Jesus appeared the way he appeared as 00:32:49.400 --> 00:32:55.080 someone you wouldn't give a second look to as a dry shoot that came out of the ground was because 00:32:55.080 --> 00:33:01.640 God wanted his glory to be the only thing that was seen through his son and not some handsome 00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:07.480 hair-flowing sharp-nosed half white half brown guy walking the streets of Palestine 00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:23.240 he was not worth a second look you can see now why Paul says in 1st Corinthians 1 that 00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:31.320 God uses the foolishness his foolishness to confound the wise of the world so that 00:33:31.320 --> 00:33:58.840 no flesh may boast in his presence begin to revel in the fact that you are a cracked jar of clay 00:33:58.840 --> 00:34:10.520 that you will begin to boast in your infirmities and we will keep changing that we will keep 00:34:10.520 --> 00:34:27.280 getting healed but that the treasure is in the jar of clay and that we'll build according to 00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:38.120 pattern another thing that's necessary for disruptive glory is the fear of God the fear 00:34:38.120 --> 00:34:47.160 of God there must be the fear of a holy God the fear of a holy God precedes glory the fear of a 00:34:47.160 --> 00:34:58.360 holy God precedes glory it's time for us to return to having fear in the actual sense of 00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:09.160 awe and reverence that makes you a little scared fear of a holy God I've often described the fear 00:35:09.160 --> 00:35:17.280 of God in the New Testament as the as the fear of offending the one you love because it grieves 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:25.480 your heart to offend him and that is absolutely true but now to that definition I want to add 00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:34.680 this idea of awe and reverence where there is something so un-understandable and mysterious 00:35:34.720 --> 00:35:43.000 about God that we don't think of him as buddy Jesus got to make sure that there's sufficient 00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:49.720 awe and reverence and because the fear of God always precedes the glory of God in the Bible 00:35:49.720 --> 00:36:02.160 you go to Genesis 15 17 you go to Exodus 20 18 to 21 you go to first Kings 8 12 and in each of 00:36:02.160 --> 00:36:11.240 those situations where God showed up there was actually a time of darkness or dense clouds or 00:36:11.240 --> 00:36:23.840 an odd deep heaviness or dread that preceded his arrival in fact Solomon says in first Kings 8 12 00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:33.040 the Lord has said that he will dwell in a dark cloud so and so that Paul in Hebrews 12 29 says 00:36:33.040 --> 00:36:40.800 hey listen God is a consuming fire so make sure that there is awe and reverence as you approach 00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:52.200 him even as he shakes things when he came on Mount Sinai the people said could you make sure that 00:36:52.360 --> 00:37:02.400 you go talk to him because this is terrifying in the New Testament whenever God actually showed 00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:13.080 up people had to be lifted off the floor including John who actually walked with Jesus and the words 00:37:13.080 --> 00:37:25.760 that had to be spoken by either an angel or by God was do not be afraid I pray that either 00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:34.760 during the seven days or during this year we will once again know the fear of God so that we have 00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:42.000 an awe and reverence for him and so that the areas where we tolerate what is not to be tolerated 00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:50.360 will no longer be tolerated we are not here to accommodate his glory we're here to absolutely 00:37:50.360 --> 00:38:03.000 surrender to him I've got a word for a person called Susanna who somebody in the church 00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:13.400 mentioned and so here is the word for Susanna Susanna I loosen the vice like grip on your life 00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:23.120 I loosen constraints that tradition and people have put on you I take away the bitten bridle 00:38:23.120 --> 00:38:31.480 I transform you from a I don't even know how to pronounce this word lipizana or it's the kind 00:38:31.520 --> 00:38:37.760 of horse that does these horse shows in Leipzig in Austria I transform you from a lipizana to a 00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:46.080 horse that runs the hills and valleys main flying in the air I turn your chair into a recliner your 00:38:46.080 --> 00:38:53.680 table into a canvas that you can paint on your bed into a hammock I give you Psalm 27 verse 1 from 00:38:53.680 --> 00:39:03.280 the message light space zest that's me God so with me on your side be fearless afraid of no one 00:39:03.280 --> 00:39:13.600 and nothing I want to be a choreographer and return to you the joy of abandon the best way 00:39:13.600 --> 00:39:21.920 I can describe it is if you were to watch the Dubai fountain video just Google it you'll see 00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:29.040 these fountains just set to music choreographed where they just erupt when I made you and this 00:39:29.040 --> 00:39:35.400 was how you were when I made you I made you eruptive it was who you were and you are most 00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:42.320 creative in my hands when you are eruptive come away with me this year and let me teach you once 00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:51.640 again the rhythms of grace that's what someone called Suzanne the next way that guys this thing 00:39:51.640 --> 00:39:56.360 is once we know the fear of God which precedes the glory of God you will find that your worship 00:39:56.360 --> 00:40:02.920 begins to change your worship will begin to change because there is a tendency in most churches and 00:40:02.920 --> 00:40:08.920 especially among the younger believers and so another way of saying that is the young adults 00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:14.960 especially among younger believers or young adults there is a tendency to really be touched 00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:22.680 by or drawn by songs that are written by say hill songs or by Jesus culture and so on nothing wrong 00:40:22.680 --> 00:40:27.480 we sing that here I really like those songs but they are very evocative they're very emotional 00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:33.080 they draw you to the love of God and one of the things that happens once you realize what all 00:40:33.080 --> 00:40:39.480 and reverences is that you begin to enter into an explosive form of worship where his dazzling 00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:49.480 power majesty and presence is far more enamoring than his that than him being the one who loves 00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:55.240 you nothing wrong with that but there is another place in worship that God wants to take us to in 00:40:55.240 --> 00:41:01.400 second Chronicles 7 to when people see how God sends fire from heaven in response to what they 00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:06.040 have done I mean you should read it I love the way some of these scriptures are written second 00:41:06.040 --> 00:41:19.400 Chronicles 7 to when Solomon finished praying fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt 00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:24.280 offering and sacrifices and the glory of the Lord filled the temple the priests could not enter the 00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:30.240 temple because the glory of the Lord filled it when all verse 3 when all the Israelites saw the 00:41:30.240 --> 00:41:35.040 fire coming down and the glory of the Lord above the temple they knelt on the pavement with their 00:41:35.040 --> 00:41:41.120 faces to the ground and they worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord saying he is good and his love 00:41:41.120 --> 00:41:52.480 endures forever guys I long for the day this year when it'll be it won't be possible to stop 00:41:52.800 --> 00:42:02.080 because in bursts and explosive bursts around the church worship will just spontaneously burst 00:42:02.080 --> 00:42:08.720 forth it will be like fountains being open it'll have nothing to do with the worship leader I look 00:42:08.720 --> 00:42:15.200 forward to that day in this church because the awe and the reverence that we will develop and for 00:42:15.200 --> 00:42:21.760 the glory of God that we will see in a completely different way I don't know whether we will see 00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:29.760 the dazzling brilliance of God I've heard of it happen I've never seen it myself I've known the 00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:35.840 presence of God so tangibly that I've leapt off the bed and laid down on the floor weeping 00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:41.360 uncontrollably and scared of his presence but I've never seen some of the things that others have 00:42:41.840 --> 00:42:50.800 seen in present-day Christianity. Like I said the soul hungers after experiences like that but in 00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:56.720 the process may sometimes miss out on the majesty the strength the honor and the power of God in 00:42:56.720 --> 00:43:02.960 chasing after dazzling brilliance and that is when deception can creep in as it has in churches across 00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:05.200 the earth especially in California. 00:43:05.200 --> 00:43:10.800 Where you have to take things with a tinge of is it salt or pepper? Salt. 00:43:11.600 --> 00:43:17.920 Where you have to take things with a tinge of is it salt or pepper? Salt. 00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:40.160 Guys I'm not teaching this so that we learn something or we get some information about 00:43:40.160 --> 00:43:45.760 the glory of God. I'd be so pointless I'm teaching this because this is what God wants to do. 00:43:47.120 --> 00:43:52.320 Do you understand? That's a huge difference man. If I was teaching this because I want you to know 00:43:52.320 --> 00:44:00.000 about glory that's one thing or so we know about glory big deal. I'm teaching this because this is 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:06.880 what God wants to do in our midst he's giving us instructions so that when it happens we have the 00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:12.480 knowledge base for this to have roots otherwise we don't know what is happening. 00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:19.120 That's when Christopher Columbus lands up in North America and calls 00:44:20.880 --> 00:44:28.000 us Indians. You don't want this is when there's a knowledge base now 00:44:28.720 --> 00:44:35.120 and into that knowledge base that God is now supplying God can plant his glory. 00:44:44.640 --> 00:44:46.160 The next thing that helps us 00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:55.520 embrace disruptive glory is the idea of following presence. Follow his presence because 00:44:55.520 --> 00:45:00.240 we established this earlier on when we were talking about Shekinah that the indwelling 00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:09.440 of the spirit makes us a temple of the indwelling Christ who is the Shekinah glory. Let me repeat 00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:17.200 that again the indwelling of the spirit in us makes us a temple for the indwelling of Christ 00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:21.920 who is the Shekinah or the glory of God. 00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:33.200 So one of the ways we can have the glory of God in our midst become evident to others 00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:37.760 the intent is can we enjoy it and then can others experience it. 00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:45.200 One of the ways is to follow his presence follow follow his presence either through the word or by 00:45:45.200 --> 00:45:51.920 the spirit or through his voice follow his presence because he who follows his presence will find 00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:57.040 glory. He who follows the presence of God will find the glory of God. He who follows the presence 00:45:57.040 --> 00:46:02.240 of God will find the glory of God follow presence, and the glory will be visible over you and through 00:46:02.240 --> 00:46:08.240 you. Follow his presence and the glory of God will be visible through you and will be visible over you 00:46:08.240 --> 00:46:13.040 follow his presence and the glory of God will be visible through you and will be visible over you 00:46:13.040 --> 00:46:17.920 it's it's a cry of my heart this year father can I follow your presence every hour of the day 00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:22.000 so that your glory may be evident through me. 00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:24.880 I mean when you look at Numbers 9, 00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:29.440 I mean we really give Israel 00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:34.640 a bad rap because of the way they weren't able to fulfill certain things. 00:46:34.640 --> 00:46:38.560 But then you should see what Israel was able to fulfill. 00:46:38.560 --> 00:46:43.040 Numbers 9 verse 15 onwards, man imagine this eh? 00:46:43.040 --> 00:46:48.160 Imagine this Numbers 9 verse 15 onwards. 00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:51.920 On the day the tabernacle, the tent of testimony was set up, 00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:56.080 the cloud covered it. From the evening till the morning, 00:46:56.080 --> 00:46:59.840 the cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire. 00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:03.920 That is how it continued to be. The cloud covered it and at night 00:47:03.920 --> 00:47:08.400 it looked like fire. Whenever the cloud lifted from above the tent, 00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:11.680 the Israelites set out. Whenever the cloud settled, 00:47:11.680 --> 00:47:14.880 the Israelites encamped. At the Lord's command, 00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:18.960 the Israelites set out. At his command, they encamped. 00:47:18.960 --> 00:47:22.640 As long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, 00:47:22.640 --> 00:47:27.680 they remained encamped. When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a long time, 00:47:27.680 --> 00:47:30.480 the Israelites obeyed the Lord's order and did not set out. 00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:33.520 Sometimes the cloud was over the tabernacle only a few days. 00:47:33.520 --> 00:47:37.040 At the Lord's command, they would encamp and then at his command they would set out. 00:47:37.040 --> 00:47:41.280 Sometimes the cloud stayed only from evening till morning 00:47:41.280 --> 00:47:44.320 and when it lifted in the morning, they set out. 00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:49.040 Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud lifted, they set out. 00:47:49.040 --> 00:47:52.480 Whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle for two days or a month 00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:55.760 or a year, the Israelites would remain in the camp and not set out. 00:47:55.760 --> 00:47:59.680 But when it lifted, they would set out. At the Lord's command, they encamped 00:47:59.680 --> 00:48:02.720 and at the Lord's command, they set out. They obeyed the Lord's order 00:48:02.720 --> 00:48:06.560 in accordance with his command through Moses. Brilliant, eh? 00:48:06.560 --> 00:48:10.400 What kind of people are these? You're talking about a million people. 00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:16.320 Sometimes they've just put down their tent pegs. It's only six in the evening 00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:21.200 but six a.m in the morning, just when the kids are hitting REM, 00:48:21.200 --> 00:48:24.960 the cloud begins to move and now they all pack up and now they gotta move. 00:48:25.760 --> 00:48:31.120 Man, you could see why the glory of God was ever present with them. 00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:36.960 You could see why Moses knew that if your presence does not go with me, 00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:38.960 do not take me from here. I don't want to go. 00:48:41.600 --> 00:48:44.880 My God, the places we go to without the presence of God. 00:48:53.680 --> 00:48:56.320 A lot of places we go to, we go with prayer, not with presence. 00:48:57.280 --> 00:49:01.760 I want to change that. When the presence goes with you, you pray less. 00:49:02.240 --> 00:49:11.440 In everything, there's nothing that is exempt from his sovereign guardianship and keeping. 00:49:18.720 --> 00:49:23.920 They knew how to follow. They knew how to follow presence. 00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:29.920 In Exodus 13, verse 22, we know that the pillar of cloud used to go before them. 00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:34.960 It says that the pillar of cloud went ahead of them so all of Israel would follow after them. 00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:40.640 But then, once you follow presence, you find glory and the glory of God can be extremely 00:49:41.360 --> 00:49:46.400 protective. It becomes your God. It becomes something that nothing can penetrate. 00:49:47.280 --> 00:49:51.520 Why? Because you're walking now in or under the presence of God. 00:49:51.520 --> 00:49:55.520 So in Exodus 13, verse 22, it says the pillar of cloud went ahead. 00:49:55.520 --> 00:49:58.560 Then in 14, verse 20, it's brilliant what happens. 00:49:58.560 --> 00:50:03.440 In 14, verse 20, it says the pillar of cloud moved from the front to the back. 00:50:05.680 --> 00:50:10.720 Then it says that God looked down from the pillar of cloud and said, 00:50:11.200 --> 00:50:18.560 And then it says that God looked down from the pillar of cloud at the Egyptian army. 00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:23.760 It's, I mean, it's almost like a movie. He looked down at them. 00:50:24.560 --> 00:50:31.040 And then it says later on that after looking down at them, he decided that he would now send a 00:50:31.040 --> 00:50:40.160 little bit of confusion into their ranks. In Exodus 33, 10, it says that the pillar of cloud 00:50:40.160 --> 00:50:44.400 that used to lead them, whenever Moses would go into the tent of meeting, the pillar of cloud 00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:49.600 would come and settle at the entrance of the meeting while Moses was inside and his face would 00:50:49.600 --> 00:50:59.280 glow with the radiance of God. In Exodus 16, verse 10, it says that the pillar of cloud would begin 00:50:59.280 --> 00:51:05.280 to emanate with such brilliance that people would say the glory of God is visible in the cloud. 00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:15.280 So Jacob, does this happen today? We don't have any cloud to follow. True, but we have 00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:22.080 the Shekinah of God dwelling in us, not outside us. It is not a Moses that experiences it. 00:51:22.080 --> 00:51:34.800 It is the Jacobs and the Karunas and the Pawans and the, I'm looking for this guy's handle, 00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:46.800 Kevin's handle. What's the email? What's it? And warblebeasts, all these guys begin to partake in 00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:54.480 this. It's not just a few. And inside you now is the Shekinah. But to know his presence, 00:51:55.280 --> 00:52:00.560 the glory of God becomes a canopy above you. Isaiah chapter 4, verse 4 and 5, the glory of 00:52:00.640 --> 00:52:06.560 God becomes a canopy above you. Isaiah 58, the glory of God becomes your rear guard. 00:52:11.600 --> 00:52:15.360 Isaiah 60, arise and shine for the glory of God has risen upon you. 00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:24.240 Where do you go then, man? Once you start following presence? 00:52:24.240 --> 00:52:29.440 And guess what happens to people who come into contact with you? What do you think happens to 00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:39.280 them? They end up meeting the God in you through the you in God. 00:52:39.520 --> 00:52:42.320 Through the you in God. 00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:55.600 Should we long for a tangible experience? I don't think so because 00:52:58.720 --> 00:53:05.200 we're not a people who live by sight. We are a people who live by faith. Any encounter that 00:53:05.200 --> 00:53:11.360 happens will be an encounter that the Holy Spirit will have to bring out of his own sovereign desire 00:53:11.360 --> 00:53:19.200 and intent. Because in our longing for tangible experiences, we can miss out on the as real 00:53:19.200 --> 00:53:25.920 indwelling practice of God's presence. We can lose it. That's happening to so many churches. 00:53:25.920 --> 00:53:32.400 There are brilliant churches, guys. Churches that are so much better than us. But where one of the 00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:42.160 things that's happened to them is the running after tangible assurances and running after 00:53:42.160 --> 00:53:46.240 what they think is presence. And in the process, so much deception comes in. 00:53:53.120 --> 00:53:58.400 Another thing that happens when glory becomes something we embrace is glory disrupts 00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:05.440 powers and glory disrupts the systems of the world. Glory disrupts powers and glory disrupts 00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:13.120 the systems of the world. Nothing is as frightening to Satan and the satanic kingdom as a people who 00:54:13.120 --> 00:54:21.280 have suddenly come to know what it is to both experience and express the glory of God. Nothing 00:54:21.280 --> 00:54:29.840 is as frightening. See, we must remember one thing. Satan has seen God in his brilliance and his glory. 00:54:33.040 --> 00:54:34.080 And it frightens him. 00:54:36.560 --> 00:54:41.760 He knows what the dazzling brilliance of God is. He was kicked out from there. 00:54:41.760 --> 00:54:50.320 Disruptive glory is the key to the holy war that we are in. Disruptive glory is the key to the holy 00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:57.200 war that we are in. Haggai chapter 2, verse 7 and 8 says, the glory of the latter temple will be 00:54:57.200 --> 00:55:04.640 greater than the former. And know this, I mean, let's read it. Haggai chapter 2, verse 7 and 8. 00:55:05.440 --> 00:55:10.880 I know this. I mean, let's read it. Haggai chapter 2, verse 7 and 8. 00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:24.880 Haggai 2, verse 7 and 8. Starting at 6, this is what the Lord Almighty says, in a little while 00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:28.880 I will once more shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land. I will shake all 00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:33.680 the nations and the desire of the nations will come and I will fill this house with glory, 00:55:33.760 --> 00:55:37.920 says the Lord Almighty. The silver is mine and the gold is mine, declares the Lord Almighty. 00:55:37.920 --> 00:55:42.160 The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house, says the Lord 00:55:42.160 --> 00:55:49.280 Almighty. And in this place, I will grant peace, declares the Lord Almighty. As if he didn't want 00:55:49.280 --> 00:55:53.680 us to miss out on the fact that, listen, this is not some ordinary prophet speaking. This is the 00:55:53.680 --> 00:55:59.040 Lord Almighty speaking and he keeps repeating it. And he wants us to know that the temple that he 00:55:59.040 --> 00:56:05.280 is rebuilding, as in us, the church that he's rebuilding, will be furnished by the shaking of 00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:11.360 nations and the shaking of powers. And when nations and powers are shaken, you gather the spoils. 00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:16.560 When nations and powers are shaken, you gather the spoils. That's what he's saying here, guys. 00:56:17.360 --> 00:56:23.840 Isaiah 60, go to Isaiah 60. It's this continuous commentary on what the church is supposed to be. 00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:28.960 Go to Isaiah 60. Listen to it. 00:56:31.600 --> 00:56:35.120 Arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, 00:56:35.120 --> 00:56:39.360 darkness covers the earth. Thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you 00:56:39.360 --> 00:56:43.360 and his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light and the kings to the brightness of 00:56:43.360 --> 00:56:47.840 your dawn. Lift up your eyes and look. All assemble and come to you. Your sons from far, 00:56:48.240 --> 00:56:54.960 daughters carried on their arms. Go to verse five. Then you will look and be radiant. Your heart will 00:56:54.960 --> 00:56:58.960 throb and swell with joy. The wealth on the seas will be brought to you. The riches of the nations 00:56:58.960 --> 00:57:04.800 will come to you. Herds of camels will cover your land. All from Sheba will come bearing gold and 00:57:04.800 --> 00:57:11.200 incense. Kedar flocks will be gathered to you. The rams of Nebiyot. Who are these that... It just 00:57:11.200 --> 00:57:16.000 goes on. Foreigners will... Verse 10, foreigners will rebuild your walls. Your gates will always 00:57:16.080 --> 00:57:20.400 stand open. They'll never shut day or night. That men may bring you the wealth of the nations 00:57:20.400 --> 00:57:24.960 the kings led in triumphal procession. For the nation of the kingdom that will not serve you 00:57:24.960 --> 00:57:29.840 will perish. It'll be utterly ruined. What is God saying here? As I begin to build my kingdom and 00:57:29.840 --> 00:57:38.160 church, as I begin to build my temple, the temple will be furnished by the wealth of nations. 00:57:39.280 --> 00:57:43.360 What do you mean by temple will be furnished by wealth of nations? It'd be easy to say, 00:57:43.360 --> 00:57:49.840 oh by souls. But unfortunately as noble as that sounds, Hague chapter 2, 7 says, 00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:54.800 the silver is mine and the gold is mine. He actually means three things. One, he means 00:57:54.800 --> 00:58:00.320 the wealth of the nations as in real wealth. Two, he means silver and gold. Three, he means souls. 00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:08.560 It's all three. It's not one or the other. Know that once disruptive glory becomes part of the 00:58:08.560 --> 00:58:13.040 equation of a church, there is a gathering of spoils. One of the coolest stories in the Bible 00:58:13.040 --> 00:58:19.120 is 1 Samuel chapter 5 where Philistines capture the ark and they take it into the temple of Dagon. 00:58:19.680 --> 00:58:26.160 And they set it up in the temple of Dagon and 1 Samuel 5 verse 4 says, and Dagon fell on his face 00:58:26.160 --> 00:58:31.200 and he was broken in many pieces and they could not put Humpty Dumpty back together again. And so 00:58:31.200 --> 00:58:36.480 what do they do? They got to get rid of the ark. How do they get rid of the ark? You go to 1 Samuel 00:58:36.480 --> 00:58:44.880 6 verse 5 and they realize that to send back the ark by itself won't do. So they make gold tumors 00:58:44.880 --> 00:58:52.400 and gold mice to send as a gift to appease Yahweh. Whenever there is 00:58:55.200 --> 00:59:00.000 disruptive glory that goes into spiritual warfare, there are always spoils. 00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:06.000 So let me read that again. We can explore it later. Disruptive glory is the key to the holy war we are in. 00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:12.000 The temple will be rebuilt and furnished by the shaking of nations and by the shaking of evil powers. 00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:18.000 And there will be a gathering of spoils. What are the spoils? The spoils are the wealth of the nations. 00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:24.000 Isaiah 60 verse 5. The spoils are silver and gold. Haggai chapter 2 verse 8. The spoils are the souls of men. 00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:28.000 Isaiah 43 verse 6 and 7. The spoils are the wealth of the nations. Isaiah 60 verse 5. The spoils are the wealth of the nations. 00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:32.000 Isaiah 43 verse 6 and 7. 00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:40.000 See the problem with the prosperity gospel is it gets satiated with the spoils that are wealth and money 00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:46.000 and it loses its hunger for the souls of men. That's what happens with the prosperity gospel. 00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:54.000 The prosperity gospel begins to run after the first category, the wealth of the nations and forgets the souls of men. 00:59:54.000 --> 01:00:00.000 Unlike Abraham who says to the king of Sodom, you can keep all the wealth. I don't want to touch it. 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:08.000 But at the same time guys, don't be cynical of wealth because cynicism severs me from divine experiences. 01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:16.000 Whatever you're cynical about, whatever you despise, you will not possess. 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:26.000 I cannot be cynical about wealth because cynicism in the kingdom always severs me from divine experiences. 01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:36.000 Whatever you despise, you will not possess. Even if it comes your way. 01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:42.000 It's like that story where you will see it but you will not eat it. 01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:54.000 Why stop here and talk so much about this? Because I really believe based on what was spoken on Christmas Eve that 01:00:54.000 --> 01:01:04.000 just like poverty can be endemic in some churches, plenty also can be endemic in some churches. 01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:14.000 Plenty also can be released to churches so that churches in turn can be conduits that can release it further. 01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:22.000 Expect it. Expect it. 01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:26.000 Ah, I wish you were here so that someone would whisper an amen. 01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:36.000 I'm sure all of you are saying amen here in this room but those masks of yours don't allow me to see what you're mouthing. 01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:52.000 Last point. Man, we might finish so early that we won't even be able to fulfill Derek's prayer to finish in two and a half hours. 01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:56.000 Don't worry, we'll find something to do. 01:01:56.000 --> 01:02:06.000 Guys, glory begins where flesh ends. Glory begins where flesh ends. 01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:18.000 If you go to Exodus 40, verse 34, let's read these scriptures together. Exodus 40, verse 34. 01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:30.000 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:38.000 Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled upon it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:46.000 Go to 2 Chronicles 5, 13. 2 Chronicles 5, 13. 01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:54.000 2 Chronicles 5, 13. 01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:59.000 Starting at verse 11. The priests then withdrew from the holy place. 01:02:59.000 --> 01:03:05.000 All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves regardless of the divisions. 01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:17.000 All the Levites who were musicians, Asaph, Heman, and Jadetun, and their sons and relatives stood on the east side of the altar dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals and harps and lyres. 01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:21.000 They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. 01:03:21.000 --> 01:03:27.000 The trumpeters and singers joined in unison as with one voice to give praise and thanks to the Lord. 01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:33.000 Accompanied by the trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they raised their voice and praised to the Lord and sang, 01:03:33.000 --> 01:03:36.000 He is good and His love endures forever. 01:03:36.000 --> 01:03:43.000 Then the temple of the Lord was filled with a cloud and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud. 01:03:43.000 --> 01:03:46.000 For the glory of the Lord filled the temple. 01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:53.000 Go to 2 Chronicles 7, verse 3. 01:03:53.000 --> 01:04:00.000 This is shortly before Solomon prays and then after Solomon prays it happens again. 01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:05.000 So this was twice in a matter of hours. 01:04:05.000 --> 01:04:13.000 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and sacrifices and the glory of the Lord filled the temple. 01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:18.000 The priests could not enter the temple of the Lord because of the glory of the Lord filled it. 01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:21.000 When all Israelites... 01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:24.000 Now go to Revelation 15, verse 13. 01:04:24.000 --> 01:04:32.000 Revelation 15, verse 13. 01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:42.000 Revelation 15, not 15, 13, must be 15... 01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:46.000 Yeah, 15, 8. Revelation 15, 8. 01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:48.000 Let's start at 7. 01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:54.000 Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God who lives forever and ever. 01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:59.000 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power. 01:04:59.000 --> 01:05:04.000 And no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels was completed. 01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:09.000 At the end of the day, glory begins when flesh ends. 01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:22.000 Neither Moses nor the priests nor the angels nor the elders could stand before God or perform their service to God once the glory of God came into a place. 01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:25.000 What does it look like in the New Testament, man? 01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:30.000 In today's world, what does it look like? 01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:37.000 What will it be like when people are no longer interested in accommodating God's splendor, 01:05:37.000 --> 01:05:45.000 but they're only interested in just abjectly surrendering foolishly, helplessly to the glory of God, 01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:54.000 which is not coming from the outside in, but is bursting forth from the inside out. 01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:58.000 Because He now... Shekayana, remember the definition of Shekayana? 01:05:58.000 --> 01:06:10.000 Shekayana is the one who dwells and the one who dwells in a tabernacle, the one who dwells in a tabernacle called his people. 01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:15.000 What will it look like, guys? 01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:26.000 I don't want an anecdotal experience that we will write down in a journal and keep for the next 40 years telling our children, oh, when daddy was young. 01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:33.000 No, come on, man. That is so not what we're looking for. 01:06:33.000 --> 01:06:40.000 It has to be something that our people experience because their God is 24-7. 01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:45.000 Come on, Acts 29. This is our moment from God. 01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:50.000 This is not something that we are pining for or having to climb a mountain for. 01:06:50.000 --> 01:06:54.000 This is the God who claimed down the mountain and He's saying, hey, this is what I want to do with you. 01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:57.000 You ready? Remember what I said. 01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:02.000 I'm teaching this not because we want to find out or want information on this. 01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:14.000 I'm teaching this because this is what God wants to do. 01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:19.000 When the glory of God begins to become evident amongst the people, 01:07:19.000 --> 01:07:25.000 then the people begin to work the works of another because they begin to live the life of another. 01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:33.000 When the glory of God becomes evident amongst the people, because to begin with, it is indwelling. 01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:38.000 The word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory. 01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:43.000 The difference is now others will behold his glory because he dwells amongst us. 01:07:43.000 --> 01:07:47.000 And they will know that he is one who is full of truth and grace. 01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:51.000 And you think it won't affect them. 01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:55.000 We will not be able to perform our service the way we want to. 01:07:55.000 --> 01:08:03.000 Jacob may not get to preach for an hour. Can you believe how difficult that will be? 01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:12.000 I was shocked when I found out that on December, two Sundays ago, I preached for 89 minutes. 01:08:13.000 --> 01:08:17.000 I just wondered why I didn't go 90. 01:08:17.000 --> 01:08:21.000 That's just on the side. Really bad joke. Really bad. 01:08:21.000 --> 01:08:25.000 I told myself I wouldn't do this in 2021. 01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:27.000 You know what happens in New Year resolutions. 01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:30.000 So back to what we are saying, which is more important. 01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:36.000 Guys, the thing with the glory of God being evident amongst the people is one, 01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:42.000 you begin to work the works of another without even effort. 01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:46.000 The works of another begin to express because you are living the life of another. 01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:50.000 Someone else's life is what we begin to live. 01:08:50.000 --> 01:08:55.000 And therefore, someone else's works is what happens in our midst and to others. 01:08:55.000 --> 01:09:01.000 John 6, 63 comes out so alive and fresh that the flesh profits nothing. 01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:03.000 The spirit gives life because at the end of the day, 01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:09.000 it is the indwelling spirit who brings the Shekinah or the indwelling Christ in our midst. 01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:15.000 The flesh profits nothing. Glory begins when flesh ends. 01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:21.000 I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to it because in a sense, guys, it's very freeing. 01:09:21.000 --> 01:09:28.000 It is very freeing that Jacob does not have to worry about Jacob or how Jacob will appear 01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:33.000 or what people will think of Jacob or what Jacob thinks of Jacob. 01:09:33.000 --> 01:09:37.000 It doesn't matter anymore because he's beginning to step out of the way 01:09:37.000 --> 01:09:45.000 and as he begins to step out of the way, God, your God, this amazing, amazing God becomes more and more evident. 01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:50.000 And what do you want more than that? What do I want more than that? 01:09:50.000 --> 01:09:52.000 What does Acts 29 want more than that? 01:09:52.000 --> 01:09:57.000 Isn't that the only reason you exist? To pour out God by pouring out your life. 01:09:57.000 --> 01:10:02.000 Is there any other reason we're meeting together? 01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:05.000 Or we're being together, not meeting together? 01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:09.000 This is what we live for, guys. 01:10:09.000 --> 01:10:14.000 Glory begins when flesh ends and it is transformative. It is transformative. 01:10:14.000 --> 01:10:23.000 John chapter 2 verse 11 says, and this is how God first, this is how Jesus first revealed His glory. 01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:27.000 What was the way He revealed His glory? He did something transformational. 01:10:27.000 --> 01:10:33.000 At the wedding in Cana, He turned water into wine. 01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:35.000 It transforms things. 01:10:35.000 --> 01:10:43.000 Second Corinthians 3, 18 says about the same thing, that as we behold His glory, we get changed. 01:10:43.000 --> 01:10:50.000 We get changed. There's something about people beholding the glory of God through you that begins to change them. 01:10:50.000 --> 01:10:55.000 There's something about a church that understands that Shekinah is present because Christ is present. 01:10:55.000 --> 01:10:58.000 And we have no desire to accommodate you in our service. 01:10:58.000 --> 01:11:02.000 We just have this desire to be foolish and surrender to you. 01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:08.000 So have your own way, God, have your own way. 01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:11.000 You are the potter, I am the clay. 01:11:11.000 --> 01:11:14.000 Make me and mold me after your will. 01:11:14.000 --> 01:11:19.000 While I am waiting, always, every day, every hour, yielded and still. 01:11:19.000 --> 01:11:22.000 I got no desire to accommodate you. 01:11:22.000 --> 01:11:28.000 I just want to surrender foolishly, Lord. 01:11:28.000 --> 01:11:33.000 Dude, the audacity that we have to think that we can accommodate the glory of God. 01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:38.000 What are we talking about? The splendor, the strength, the honor, the majesty and the dazzling brilliance of God? 01:11:38.000 --> 01:11:42.000 Oh, we'll give you a little corner? Really? 01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:52.000 What do you know? I'm done. 01:11:59.000 --> 01:12:01.000 What do we do now, guys? 01:12:04.000 --> 01:12:06.000 So here's what I'm thinking, huh, guys? 01:12:06.000 --> 01:12:11.000 And I'll let you know for sure by tonight or tomorrow afternoon, hopefully. 01:12:11.000 --> 01:12:16.000 I'm thinking that we've done this once in the past, ages ago, 01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:21.000 when we used to meet at South Hall on Ross Street. 01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:26.000 Here's what I'm thinking, that either starting Tuesday or Wednesday, 01:12:26.000 --> 01:12:30.000 and I know you guys have house church too, and so we'll work that out, I don't know how, 01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:36.000 I'm thinking that for seven nights in a row, 01:12:39.000 --> 01:12:43.000 and this doesn't mean that there'll be worship every night or stuff like that, 01:12:43.000 --> 01:12:48.000 for seven nights in a row, we will surrender to 01:12:49.000 --> 01:12:55.000 and invite into our presence, make way 01:12:56.000 --> 01:13:01.000 for the glory of God so that he can disrupt and transform lives. 01:13:02.000 --> 01:13:04.000 Start the year off that way. 01:13:04.000 --> 01:13:08.000 Some churches do a 21-day fast, 01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:12.000 some churches have a reading plan, 01:13:13.000 --> 01:13:18.000 I just feel that this is something God wants to do in our midst. 01:13:20.000 --> 01:13:28.000 So just be aware of it, so you'll get, like you used to get links every mishmash, 01:13:29.000 --> 01:13:32.000 you'll get links for, what shall we call it? 01:13:32.000 --> 01:13:36.000 There's a church that I know in Bristol that used to call it Ten Days of Glory. 01:13:37.000 --> 01:13:41.000 Sounds a little corny, but we might have to go Seven Days of Glory or something. 01:13:41.000 --> 01:13:44.000 The name doesn't matter, the point is that 01:13:46.000 --> 01:13:49.000 I think that's something God would like to do in our midst, 01:13:49.000 --> 01:13:53.000 and it won't be like a service, that's not what he's after. 01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:05.000 So let's just be quiet for a moment and see if God wants something else done, 01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:07.000 otherwise we can call it a day. 01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:44.000 Hey guys, so 01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:52.000 so we're going to put up this song, 01:14:54.000 --> 01:14:59.000 but the way you sing it is not as a song of worship, but as a prayer. 01:15:01.000 --> 01:15:05.000 And it's that song that says, Oh the glory of your presence, be your children, 01:15:05.000 --> 01:15:09.000 give you reverence, arise from your rest, 01:15:09.000 --> 01:15:14.000 and be blessed with our praise as we worship in your embrace, 01:15:14.000 --> 01:15:17.000 as your glory now fills this place. 01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:22.000 Yeah? Could you pray it for us? 01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:25.000 Could you pray it for us? 01:15:25.000 --> 01:15:27.000 Don't pray it for yourself, 01:15:27.000 --> 01:15:30.000 don't sing it as a worship song, sing it as a song of prayer. 01:15:31.000 --> 01:15:33.000 Could you with all your heart 01:15:36.000 --> 01:15:38.000 pray it for us? 01:15:39.000 --> 01:15:42.000 So that we may leave a legacy here on earth. 01:15:47.000 --> 01:15:48.000 Yeah?