June 9, 2024
Do You Want To Pay The Price
Send us a text What if honoring God’s presence could transform your entire community? Join us on our latest Christian Cafe episode as we recount our upcoming mission trip to Belize and reflect on the divine blessings we've experienced. We delve into the crucial practice of attuning our hearts to God's still, small voice amidst the cacophony of daily life. Plus, we invite you to explore past episodes and special content on our Facebook and YouTube channels, where you'll find a moving video det...
What if honoring God’s presence could transform your entire community? Join us on our latest Christian Cafe episode as we recount our upcoming mission trip to Belize and reflect on the divine blessings we've experienced. We delve into the crucial practice of attuning our hearts to God's still, small voice amidst the cacophony of daily life. Plus, we invite you to explore past episodes and special content on our Facebook and YouTube channels, where you'll find a moving video detailing my wife's journey through depression and her miraculous recovery through faith.
Do you ever wonder how to truly invite God's presence into your life and community? This episode sheds light on the timeless story of David and the Ark of the Covenant. Learn from David’s initial mistakes and how his eventual adherence to God’s instructions led to immense blessings. As we continue our book series, we emphasize the importance of prioritizing God's will over our own methods to achieve spiritual transformation and success. By following God's ways, like David, we too can experience the fullness of His blessings.
Respect for God’s power is not just an abstract concept—it’s a vital practice for any believer. We delve into the necessity of sanctification to host God’s presence, drawing vivid parallels with the reverence electricians have for electricity. Through personal anecdotes and biblical accounts, we illustrate the significance of giving up worldly attachments to fully embrace God’s glory. As we close, we encourage you to become living arks, carrying God's presence with purity and reverence, and invite you to connect with us via email, Facebook, and YouTube. Your spiritual journey is important to us, and we are here to support you every step of the way.
Do you ever wonder how to truly invite God's presence into your life and community? This episode sheds light on the timeless story of David and the Ark of the Covenant. Learn from David’s initial mistakes and how his eventual adherence to God’s instructions led to immense blessings. As we continue our book series, we emphasize the importance of prioritizing God's will over our own methods to achieve spiritual transformation and success. By following God's ways, like David, we too can experience the fullness of His blessings.
Respect for God’s power is not just an abstract concept—it’s a vital practice for any believer. We delve into the necessity of sanctification to host God’s presence, drawing vivid parallels with the reverence electricians have for electricity. Through personal anecdotes and biblical accounts, we illustrate the significance of giving up worldly attachments to fully embrace God’s glory. As we close, we encourage you to become living arks, carrying God's presence with purity and reverence, and invite you to connect with us via email, Facebook, and YouTube. Your spiritual journey is important to us, and we are here to support you every step of the way.
00:23 - Christian Cafe
15:32 - The Ark of God's Presence
30:55 - Respect for the Power of God
41:42 - Christian Cafe Contact and Support
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Hello, this is your host, glenn Kivett, and welcome to today's episode of the Christian Cafe, where the bread is made fresh and delivered right from the Word of God.
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Welcome everyone.
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Welcome everyone to the Christian Cafe.
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It is a great day here at the Cafe.
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I hope you're having a wonderful day.
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I know I am, and I'm just so glad to be back with you again with some more good things from God's Word here at the Christian Cafe.
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I have been blessed.
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I hope you have been too.
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It is Sunday, june the 9th man.
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Where has this year gone to?
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It's getting closely to the end.
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I'll tell you what God has been doing some great things since we last met.
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We are getting closer and closer to our trip to Belize and getting ready for that and looking forward to what God has done and what he's going to do over in Belize.
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I know he's going to do great things.
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I hope it's beautiful where you're at.
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The weather here is nice and warm.
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We've been in the 80s most of our week long and it's been great.
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I'm just so glad the rain's moved out.
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We went for several days and all we had was rain, rain, rain, rain.
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I'm glad it so is, but you know we need the rain to get everything to grow.
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I know I mowed my grass one day and I guess three days later it rained for three days straight and it was ready to mow again.
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Good thing.
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I do use a ride no more.
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I don't like pushing more.
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Of course, I've got a big yard too, so it takes a while to mow, even when I'm riding it.
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But I'm glad you're here.
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I'm glad that you've taken the time to check us out and to hear what it's all about.
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I have a few episodes on there that do have video, one that I will tell you about.
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I did one.
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One of the very first ones I did when I was doing video was about a lady dealing with depression, and that lady is my wife and she talks about how God brought her through it and how god really helped her out and, uh, just uh, give her peace.
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I know that time that she was at in that period it was it was pretty rough and we stuck it out, worked together and god brought her through it.
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I'm just thankful for that.
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I don't know.
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We're just trying to work things out and trying to make things a little different, trying to improve things for our audience, because we want to do what God wants us to do.
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I really want God to move in your life.
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I just got back from a men's conference yesterday and God moved.
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It's not all the time that it's all about the shout.
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Sometimes God just speaks in those still small voices, just like he did Elijah.
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When Elijah was on the mountain, there was a big old wind and some fire and everything, but God was not into any of those.
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It was not until he had the still small voice that he spoke to Elijah.
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Sometimes we just need to pay attention and be quiet and listen for that and see what God has got in store for us.
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Sometimes we're too loud, you know what I'm saying.
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We're too loud and we can't hear what God is trying to say to us.
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So sometimes just sit back and listen.
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But we're going to get back into our book today and trying to finish up chapter six.
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But we're going to get back into our book today and trying to finish up chapter 6.
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We're going to get into it and we're going to learn.
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We're going to find out if we want to pay the price of God's glory.
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We got into last week where God was moving the ark and God broke out of the box and just caused men's plans to fall.
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And that's what he does.
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He likes to disturb our plans.
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He's tired of the rickety-rackety old stuff that we try to do and put his name on it, and he don't want no part of that.
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He wants to do things his way, and I found out in times past that if I will listen to his plans and do his plans, then I don't have to worry about nothing failing, because God's got an order that he wants it done and when we follow that order, god is going to bless.
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And we're going to find out a little bit about that today, about how God did bless and how David decided to listen and do it the way God said do, and we can title this episode as Do you Want to Pay the Price?
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But first we're going to take a quick break and we'll come back and we'll get back into chapter six and finish it out today.
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Thanks and have a great day.
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Welcome back, guys.
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Thanks for tuning in.
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We're going to jump back into our book.
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We're going to finish back into our book.
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We're going to finish up chapter six today.
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Do you want to pay the price?
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That's a question that we all should answer.
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What are we willing to do for God?
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Are we willing to change our methods of things and doing it the way God wants it done?
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Are we satisfied with where we're at?
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I hope we are not satisfied.
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The minute we get satisfied, the minute things begin to not do too good for us.
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So I hope you're willing to step out on God.
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Let's get right into the book.
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So I hope you're willing to step out on God, let's get right into the book.
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That is exactly where the church is at this crucial moment in time.
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We have reached the point in this move of God where we are trying to transport the glory back to where it belongs.
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We've run into the shaking place at god's threshing floor and it is time to ask ourselves are we really the ones?
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Do we really want to do it?
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Are we willing to pay the price and obey god's voice at all costs?
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Are we willing to learn anew how to handle the holy things of God.
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I must warn you that God's glory, his manifest presence, can literally split local church bodies, like the split body of Uzziah.
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Many a godly pastor should approach his congregation with kindness and diplomacy to say If you're not serious about seeking God's face, then you might want to find another place.
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If you're uncomfortable about waiting on the presence of God and experiencing the weightiness of God's glory the weightiness of God's glory, if you are uncomfortable with the strange and unusual manifestations that sometimes occupy his coming, then you need to find someplace less hungry to stay.
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We've had church our way long enough.
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If you want to keep having church the way Saul did it yesterday, if you are content to put God in his familiar box and strap it to your own man-made programs and procedures, then you might need to go somewhere else.
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I must warn you that the bump in the road just told us that we are not going to do it that way anymore.
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How would you feel if the pastor opened up one Sunday morning with those words what would that say to you?
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I think to me.
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If I had listened to that, I think I'd either get up and run or decide to hey, maybe he's got something here, because so many times we kind of put God in a box in our church services.
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In everything we do about church, we try to do church our way.
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My pastor was saying this morning that we need to do church God's way.
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We've got our own little programs that we do.
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We follow a script.
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We go in at 10 o'clock and we open up at 10.05.
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We're going to sing this song at 10.10.
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At 10.10, we're going to say a prayer, and et cetera.
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It goes on and on.
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We got a schedule but we're not even allowing God time to move and I don't think God is in no place for that.
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We've got to stop doing things the way that we want it done, the way we think it needs to be done, and think about the way God wants it done.
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We need to get back to where you know.
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We're looking at what God wants to do.
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We're looking at Scripture to see how he's done it.
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I mean Uzziah paid with his life.
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When they come to the threshing floor and hit that bump and he reached out to steady the ark, he immediately God struck him dead.
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Why?
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Because, number one, they was not carrying the ark the way that God wanted it carried, and we'll find out more about that I don't want.
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I don't want to jump ahead head.
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But we'll find out about that in just a minute.
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Let's get back into reading here.
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It's when you hit that holy bump at the threshing floor of preparation that you realize this won't work anymore.
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This is not right anymore.
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Until you hit that burnt bump, you will probably be perfectly satisfied and at ease with a little dancing, some small harps that aren't too noisy, a few people singing and dancing and maybe even a few less conservative things from time to time.
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But once you decide to return God's glory to its proper place, you are destined to hit a holy bump.
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When God's glory appears and slays some flesh right in front of everybody, true repentance is an awesome flesh death sight to behold, too much for some to stomach.
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That day, when I leaned over to whisper to the pastor in fear and trembling, god could have killed you, we both knew we had reached a point of the bump in the road.
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Let me give you a little background here for somebody that didn't hear what happened before the beginning of the chapter.
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They were in service and the Spirit of God, the anointing, was so powerful that it was like something come down and it split the pulpit as the pastor was standing in front of it.
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Now, for some people, I imagine it scared the daylights out of them.
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Can you imagine standing in front of that pulpit and the Spirit of God struck the pulpit and split it in two?
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That's the power of God.
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And he reached a point where they got the bump of road and God said are you serious about me coming?
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Do you really want me to?
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Then you're going to have to do it my way.
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So that's what God's trying to tell us.
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Now we're asking for him to come and I'm sorry to get off here, but I get excited when I talk about this, because we ask God all the time that we want him in our services.
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But are we really serious about it?
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Are we really serious about the anointing and the power of God coming in our service so much that it literally will split a pulpit in half, that it has really, in times past, split a human impact in half?
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Do we really want him?
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Do we really desire him to the place that we are willing to give up everything we've put in place for that service to say God, this is your service, you do what you want to do, because that's what God wants.
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If we want him in our services, then we have got to back off and take a backseat and let him do it his way, not our, because we find out that our ways don't work.
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Our ways are not producing sinners.
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That's being born again.
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Our ways are not producing people being healed, people being delivered from addictions and from all these things that really need to be dealt with, because our way is not doing it.
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We've got too many programs that we say are designed for these things, but none of them are designed for God's spirit.
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It's time that we get away from that.
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Are we serious about him coming?
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Are we serious about really wanting him to?
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And if we are, we need to step back and let it have its way.
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No one but God knows how the Israelites handled the ark when they first loaded it into the new cart at Ben-Hadad's house, but we do know they handled it differently after Uzziah's death.
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We can be sure about one thing Nobody touched it.
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They had a new respect for God's glory that wouldn't wear off for a lifetime.
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They probably said good luck, obed, lifetime.
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They probably said good good luck, obed.
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You should probably know that we have to bury a man today because he touched that thing.
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When we hit a bump in the road, you better be careful over there, dm david wondered.
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I don't know if I really want that ark in Jerusalem.
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It might kill us all.
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The only problem was that for the next three months, david kept hearing reports about God's blessings on Obed-Edom.
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According to the Bible, obed-edom's house was so blessed that everything he touched was blessed too.
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That seemed to include everything he owned.
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All his family members and even his second cousins and farm animals were doing better, money was flowing in and everybody was wealthy.
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When David checked with Obed-Edom this is probably kind of the way the conversation went between him and David Obed-Edom said yeah, you heard right.
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Well, what have you done?
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David would say.
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I know we sure haven't touched that thing.
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I won't let the kids get close to it but ever since you dumped that box off of my front porch, it's just like that thing is emanating riches and power and authority.
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When I walk into town, things happen that I didn't even have anything to do with.
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David had quickly reconsidered his official position on the ark.
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It had suddenly dawned on him what the presence and the glory of God could mean to a nation if it brought blessings to even a lowly farmer's family.
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Then he said I've got to take and get that ark back to where it belongs.
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I'm going to get it to Jerusalem.
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When David put the ark on the new cart the first time around, he had all of Israel with him thinking Wow, god will be pleased with the way we did this.
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Look at all the thousands of guys gathered around the ark playing instruments and dancing.
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So let me just pause right here.
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When the ark was in Obed-Edom's place, the Bible said that he was blessed beyond measure, that everything that he touched was blessed.
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Imagine today that if we done everything the way that God wants us to do in our churches, in our community, in our homes, imagine the blessings of God that would exist in our life.
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Imagine things that God could do.
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God would heal all of our diseases, our family could be saved, all things I mean.
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Just look, we have an example right here with Obed-Edom, how the, the presence of God was being, was in a house and God was blessing it.
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See, sometimes, as David is Saul, he began to have second thoughts because before he said I don't know if I want this in Jerusalem or not, it might kill everybody.
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But now that he sees concrete evidence of what the power of God can do and the presence of God can do, then he won't sit for Jerusalem.
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He wants to get back there and he sets out to do this.
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But now he's got a new cart to do this.
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But now he's got a new cart.
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The first time he had a new cart and everybody was coming around and everybody was gathered around and was so happy and was playing instruments and was dancing.
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He was doing it their way.
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But since no one bothered to ask God for his opinion about it all, he had to pull the plug on their party.
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No more, Not one step further.
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I'm shaking things up.
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You've hit the holy bump on the threshing floor and this is where the flesh gets off.
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This is, as far as you go, doing it your way.
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If you really want my presence to be where it belongs, then from here on out you do things my way.
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The second time around.
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David did what he should have done the first time.
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Have you ever said that to yourself?
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I know I have.
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David studied the history of past moves of God in the Word.
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How did they move the Ark of the Covenant from one place to another.
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In Moses' day he rediscovered the true purpose and function of the Levites and the Aaronic priest, and he noticed for the first time that wooden staves were meant to be put through the mysterious strings on the side of the ark.
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Oh, so that's what those rings are for.
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It's amazing that God got bent out of shape over two sticks.
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We can't take God for granted.
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A lot of hungry church leaders today are reading everything they can find out about past moves of God.
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Why?
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Because we are at the holy bump in the threshing floor.
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We somehow sense that if we really want the holiness of God and the fullness of his glory to dwell in our midst, then we need to find out how to properly handle the holy God's glory.
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We know that this is where the flesh has to fall off, but what is God's way to do it?
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Our hunger is too deep for one meal to satisfy us.
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We are after more than his visitation.
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We want God's visitation to become a habitation.
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Let me say that again we want God's visitation to become a habitation.
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You know, when you visit somebody, when you go visit family, you don't stay very long, do you?
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It's a visit, that's all, do you?
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It's a visit, that's all it is.
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It's a visitation.
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When you go on vacation, it's not someplace you're going to go and stay, You're just there for a short period of time, to have fun and to visit, have some time away.
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Have some time away, but it's not until you.
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God's visitation is to come.
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Habitation is when God moves.
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He will come and visit every once in a while, but he'll leave.
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But wouldn't you rather for him to take up habitation in our lives, habitations in our churches?
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We want his kabod, but not in kabod.
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We want his presence to be here.
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We want him to be right with us.
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We want him to abode in us and be with us all time.
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We want his kabod.
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We don't want him to put in kabod over us and say that his presence has left us.
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We don't want that over our churches, over our lives.
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We want God's presence at all times.
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