Speaker 1: Father and Jesus name. Lord God, I think you right
Speaker 1: now that your holy spirit is just going to speak
Speaker 1: through me. Lord God, I think you right now that
Speaker 1: I have prepared the horse has been made ready for battle,
Speaker 1: but the victory is yours. And God, I think you
Speaker 1: right now that these people in this room right now
Speaker 1: open up their hearts. They open up their hearts and
Speaker 1: their minds and their souls. Lord God, they are open
Speaker 1: books before you, Father, right on their hearts. Divide, use
Speaker 1: the sword, cut out anything that needs to be cut out,
Speaker 1: but Father God, that they might understand the heart beat
Speaker 1: of you, which is love in Jesus's name. Amen, are
Speaker 1: you ready? Buckle up, Buttercup, it's coming. I'm fun country too.
Speaker 1: So if you leave church on Sunday morning and you
Speaker 1: don't cry your eyeballs out and laugh, I have failed you. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I teach parenting around here. How many of you
Speaker 1: have been through my parenting class? Oh, Halla, Louijah, We've
Speaker 1: been doing it for years. There is I like to
Speaker 1: give parents hacks. You know what I mean by hacks
Speaker 1: where there's like one line zingers that kind of fix
Speaker 1: a lot of things, you know, because the kids come
Speaker 1: to you and they're like that, and you're like, what
Speaker 1: do I do with that? Right? And so one of
Speaker 1: one of my hacks, one of my good liners is
Speaker 1: and I've usually given it to the parents when they're
Speaker 1: the kids are fighting back, you know, kind of whining
Speaker 1: and fussing and wanting to debate. Any of your children
Speaker 1: ever want to debate your word of truth, and they
Speaker 1: want to debate. So the one liner hack, And if
Speaker 1: you walk away with nothing else this morning, this is it.
Speaker 1: You can look at them in the eye and you
Speaker 1: can say, I love you too much to fight with you. Right.
Speaker 1: So this line of I love you too much is
Speaker 1: a wonderful thing that helps you bring together truth with love.
Speaker 1: I love you too much to let you eat that
Speaker 1: whole bag of candy. It sounds all lot better than
Speaker 1: stop eating all that candy, right, I love you too
Speaker 1: much to let you Okay fill in the blank. So parents,
Speaker 1: you can take that home, use it, spouses can use it.
Speaker 1: I love you too much to leave the toilet seat up. Okay,
Speaker 1: never mind, I didn't try that first service, didn't go
Speaker 1: over well second, so I think I'll take that off
Speaker 1: my notes. Okay, So about two weeks ago they say
Speaker 1: that the word that has cut the preacher becomes the
Speaker 1: most powerful word. And I will tell you that the
Speaker 1: next coming thirty minutes is a rundown of what this
Speaker 1: little preacher has been going through for the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: So my goal here is that I'm just gonna kind
Speaker 1: of let you in the window of my world and if,
Speaker 1: if by any chance, the word might partially possibly apply
Speaker 1: to you, grab it and run. Okay, join me in
Speaker 1: my pain. But there was a moment about two weeks
Speaker 1: ago that I had a Holy Spirit moment where I
Speaker 1: heard him say, Joel, I love you too much to
Speaker 1: let you, and then he filled in the blank. And
Speaker 1: when you hear that from Holy Spirit, you're kind of like,
Speaker 1: there's a huge piece of me that wanted to say, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: you love me. That is not even nice, that's mean.
Speaker 1: And God, a God is a god of love, and
Speaker 1: a God of love doesn't make me do that. No, Joel,
Speaker 1: I love you too much to let you. And I
Speaker 1: was kind of stunned. I had to work through my rebellion,
Speaker 1: my frustration, my everything, and I had to start listening.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can relate. Okay, So my story starts back
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty in COVID. Remember COVID, who lived through COVID.
Speaker 1: I think you're all old enough to have no COVID. Well,
Speaker 1: COVID hit, and this little girl's response was to go
Speaker 1: into deep intercession and warfare prayer. Anybody there with me
Speaker 1: during COVID, you knew something was wrong and I, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'd always been a little bit warfairy. I kind of
Speaker 1: liked praying death upon evil and all sorts of things.
Speaker 1: I kind of enjoyed doing that, but I got even
Speaker 1: more and my war cry of uncover and cover, reveal, reveal, expose,
Speaker 1: expose the evil in the world. It was me and
Speaker 1: God against all the evil that was coming out. And
Speaker 1: I knew he was my buddy and we were working together. Amen,
Speaker 1: we were just like this. Now, let me describe to
Speaker 1: the me part of this. Okay, So the me part
Speaker 1: of miss of this is I am kind of a
Speaker 1: little black and white. Even though I'm fun and nice
Speaker 1: and warm and cozy and loving, I'm pretty black and
Speaker 1: white right and wrong. Right, And the part of I
Speaker 1: also really love the concept of God being the cleansing judge. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's my part of the duo. God's part of
Speaker 1: the duo to be honest with you, he felt exactly
Speaker 1: the same as I did, and I just knew it.
Speaker 1: So now fast forward to twenty twenty five. Me and
Speaker 1: God are continually like this. We're still praying, believing, warfare,
Speaker 1: prayer and over everything. But at this moment I'm starting
Speaker 1: to get a little perturbed because in reality, he ain't
Speaker 1: doing his side of the job. He's the cleansing jaw,
Speaker 1: you know, the cleansing judge, and I'm the one supposed
Speaker 1: to be praying and believing, and he's not holding up
Speaker 1: his end of the bargain. And I'm getting kind of
Speaker 1: mad at him, and I'm getting more and more mad
Speaker 1: at all the evil. Okay, so this is kind of
Speaker 1: my brain set. This is my mind so the other week,
Speaker 1: and please know that there were other issues that were
Speaker 1: kind of playing into this as well, where I was
Speaker 1: starting to misalign myself and I needed help. God loved
Speaker 1: me too much to leave me where I was at,
Speaker 1: and if I had continued, it wouldn't be good. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't be good for me, it wouldn't be good for
Speaker 1: my dear husband. Oh and it would not be good
Speaker 1: for you. So I decided a couple months back to
Speaker 1: do a deep dive into the psalms. And you know,
Speaker 1: the psalms are kind of like a crackerjack box. You
Speaker 1: open up the box and every box has a new
Speaker 1: little surprise in it, and you never know what your
Speaker 1: surprise is gonna be. So with every psalm, there's a
Speaker 1: new surprise about right to spring upon you. Either David
Speaker 1: is screaming and moaning and crying because everybody hates it,
Speaker 1: and then the next one, God is so good, and
Speaker 1: then the next one you knows, you know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about, right, So you never know. So every morning.
Speaker 1: So this morning, this particular morning, I got me a
Speaker 1: little mug of tea, my tea, and it's dark outside,
Speaker 1: and I sat down next to the Christmas tree, and
Speaker 1: I had my little blanket and my little foot heater,
Speaker 1: and I got out my Bible and I was all
Speaker 1: ready to go and just taste and see what that.
Speaker 1: The Lord is good in Psalm fifty. So I landed
Speaker 1: on Psalm fifty and I open up Psalm fifty and
Speaker 1: here we go, right, so we're gonna read this one.
Speaker 1: The first verse, the mighty one God, the Lord speaks
Speaker 1: and summons the earth from the rising of the sun.
Speaker 1: To the place where it sets, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden I knew we were in for a good one.
Speaker 1: I love it. The three names of God. The mighty
Speaker 1: one that is the word l that is that push him.
Speaker 1: He's at the top of the god food chain.
Speaker 2: He is the mightiest, most powerful, most holy, most incredible God.
Speaker 1: And then the next word there God, just plain God.
Speaker 1: That God word right there is Elohim. So he is
Speaker 1: the highest of all of the spiritual things. He is
Speaker 1: the top once again the food chain of the God
Speaker 1: out there, and he is so mighty and so powerful.
Speaker 1: This is how the psalmist starts. And then the next
Speaker 1: word Lord. Do you notice that it's all capitalized. When
Speaker 1: you see the word Lord all capitalized, he's referring to
Speaker 1: the word Yahweh, which is not only the big God,
Speaker 1: mighty God, powerful, almighty, holy God, but he's the covenant
Speaker 1: God with his creation. So there's a different meaning in
Speaker 1: LRD when they're capitalized. It's telling you about how much
Speaker 1: he cares about us, that there is a love in
Speaker 1: this God, a caring for his creation, a covenanting with
Speaker 1: you and me, who are not God. I'm kind of
Speaker 1: liking this psalm. I'm thinking this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: grand one. It's gonna be a doozy. So I take
Speaker 1: another sip of my tea and say, okay, God, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go. You're summoning the earth, the whole earth, all
Speaker 1: the peoples from Zion, perfect in beauty. God shines forth.
Speaker 1: Our God comes and will not be silent. Hallelujah. You're
Speaker 1: finally gonna do your thing. You're with me now. A
Speaker 1: fire devours before him and around him, A tempest rages.
Speaker 1: The word fire there is a word that brings about
Speaker 1: active judgment. The word tempest means overwhelming power. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a good one. This is a doozy. These
Speaker 1: are the kind of psalms I love. So he gathers awe.
Speaker 1: So he summons the heavens above and the earth. And
Speaker 1: here's where it takes a turn that he may judge
Speaker 1: his people, like wait, wait a second, judge your people.
Speaker 1: There's a whole world out there to judge. We're all
Speaker 1: here standing watching, listening to you roll in with fire
Speaker 1: and thunder, and you're coming after your people. There's got
Speaker 1: to be a typo. Gather to me, my consecrated ones
Speaker 1: who made us covenant with me, by sacrifice, and the
Speaker 1: heavens proclaim his righteousness. For God himself is judge here,
Speaker 1: oh my people, and I will speak, oh Israel, and
Speaker 1: I will testify against you. So now I'm in it
Speaker 1: to win it, but I'm not liking it. And I
Speaker 1: want to give you a little hint, people of God.
Speaker 1: There are some things in the Old Testament that are
Speaker 1: completed in the Old Testament and don't come over into
Speaker 1: the New Testament. That would be ceremonial laws, the sacrificial system.
Speaker 1: All of that does not make it through the Cross.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot in the Old Testament that make
Speaker 1: said all the way through the Cross and into today.
Speaker 1: And this is something that we're gonna talk about here today.
Speaker 1: Even though we're reading from the Old Testament, it comes
Speaker 1: to us into the New Testament. But here's a truth
Speaker 1: from the Lord. God loves you too much to let
Speaker 1: you do anything that is against his word. He loves
Speaker 1: you too much, and he will convict you privately. But
Speaker 1: if the private conviction won't work, he has no bones
Speaker 1: about taking you public. I'm like, God, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: In front of all the world. You're gonna judge your
Speaker 1: people first, And I know Over the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: there's been some judging of some of his consecrated ones
Speaker 1: very publicly. I want to listen to him privately. So
Speaker 1: I don't want my stuff. How many of you have, well,
Speaker 1: don't raise your hand. Anybody got some stuff, raise your
Speaker 1: hand on the inside. I don't want my stuff drug
Speaker 1: out before the world. I want to be judged privately,
Speaker 1: and that's what he prefers to do. So let's keep
Speaker 1: moving on Verse eight. I do not rebuke you for
Speaker 1: your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.
Speaker 1: I have no need of a bull from your stall,
Speaker 1: or of goats your pens. For every animal in the
Speaker 1: forest is mine, and the cattle on the Thousand Hills,
Speaker 1: I know. Every bird in the mountain, and the creatures
Speaker 1: of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I
Speaker 1: would not tell you, for the world is the whole
Speaker 1: world is mine, and all that is in it. Do
Speaker 1: I eat the flesh of bulls or drank the blood
Speaker 1: of goats? And what he's talking, he says it it's poetic,
Speaker 1: so it's repetitive. But what he's saying is, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to rebuke you for all of your obedience. You
Speaker 1: have been following my instructions about sacrifice and about all
Speaker 1: of that to a tee' I don't want. I'm not
Speaker 1: here to rebuke you about that. But he's saying that
Speaker 1: ain't all it's about. So now he's going to go
Speaker 1: on here and he's going to start unveiling what it
Speaker 1: is about sacrifice, Thank offings to God. Fulfill your vows
Speaker 1: to the Holy One, and call upon me in the
Speaker 1: day of trouble, and I will deliver you and you
Speaker 1: will honor me. This these two verse here they shift
Speaker 1: to the heart. I need you to be thankful. I
Speaker 1: need you to to fulfill your your promises to me.
Speaker 1: I need in the time of trouble, call upon me
Speaker 1: and I will be don't don't turn to anything else.
Speaker 1: So God is saying here, I'm not gonna rebeal you
Speaker 1: got all the outside going on, you are being obedient.
Speaker 1: I am wanting See.
Speaker 3: God's love for you is a little ruthless. God's love
Speaker 3: for you goes so deep. He's so jealous and ruthless.
Speaker 3: He doesn't want just the outer stuff from you.
Speaker 1: He wants to go down into your very depths of
Speaker 1: your being. He wants to own your heart too. Oh,
Speaker 1: and we give him his our heart. Everything comes into
Speaker 1: alignment verse sixteen. But to the wicked God says, and
Speaker 1: now I'm thinking to myself, Okay, now it's turning around.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get back to business. But instead he says,
Speaker 1: what right have you to recite my laws or take
Speaker 1: my covenant on your lips? By talking about his law
Speaker 1: and his covenant, it's very apparent he's not talking about
Speaker 1: the world and the earth yet, He's still talking about
Speaker 1: his people. But he's his word is a little harsh there.
Speaker 1: It's a little harsh, wicked what you hate my instruction
Speaker 1: and cast my word behind you. When you see a thief,
Speaker 1: you join in with him. You throw in your lot
Speaker 1: with the adulters. You use your mouthful evil and harness
Speaker 1: your tongue for deceit. You speak continually against your brother
Speaker 1: and slander your own mother's son. Now he's getting a
Speaker 1: little personal. You hate my instruction and cast my words
Speaker 1: behind you. Pastor George, you're getting a little rough on
Speaker 1: me right now. It's not me, it's Psal. I'm fifty.
Speaker 1: Beat me up pretty good. The word picture in that
Speaker 1: sentence is a very holy, consecrated saint walking with the scriptures,
Speaker 1: reading it and going mmm, eh, oh that's good. That's good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not really for me, picking and choosing, casting the word
Speaker 1: behind you. When you see a thief, you join, I
Speaker 1: have stolen nothing. But I will tell you that sometimes
Speaker 1: I kind of work things. You know, when you have
Speaker 1: to share the piece of cake with your brother, and
Speaker 1: you kind of cut the cake a little bigger on
Speaker 1: one side and then the other, and then you take
Speaker 1: the big sign just saying you throw your lot in
Speaker 1: with adulters. Well, I've never had adulterree Jesus, But can
Speaker 1: I remind you that Jesus is teachings said, if you
Speaker 1: even look with lust in your heart, you've broken the law.
Speaker 1: Oh see, God does God that he's a little ruthless,
Speaker 1: isn't he a little ruthless, getting a little personal, a
Speaker 1: little deep, a little harsh. He loves us too much
Speaker 1: to let us. You use your mouth for evil, and
Speaker 1: harness your tongue for deceit. You speak continually against your
Speaker 1: brother and slender your own mother's son. And this is
Speaker 1: one of the nights that kind of cut me, because
Speaker 1: I had been experiencing some things by some people, and
Speaker 1: I was kind of ticked off. It wasn't fair, it
Speaker 1: wasn't nice, it wasn't right. I had every right to
Speaker 1: tell my story, did I now? Verse twenty one, these
Speaker 1: things you have done and I kept silent. You thought
Speaker 1: I was all together like you? Yeah? Wow? That first
Speaker 1: half of that verse, these things you have done and
Speaker 1: I have kept silent. The Passion translation says it like this,
Speaker 1: and I love it. All this you have done, and
Speaker 1: I've kept silent. So you thought I was just like
Speaker 1: you sanctioning evil. Now remember that very first verse talks
Speaker 1: about who God is, mighty, powerful, holy. That's not me.
Speaker 1: I'm right here. But this verse in twenty one says
Speaker 1: you thought I was all together like you. The problem
Speaker 1: with sin is that sometimes God keeps quiet about it.
Speaker 1: Why does he do that? If you were to ask
Speaker 1: the Lord, he would say, because I'm giving you time
Speaker 1: to repent, time to turn. Honey. I've been working with you.
Speaker 1: You know, you know my heart. Come on, conviction, come on,
Speaker 1: it's better over Your life is better this way. He's
Speaker 1: working with you. You hear a sermon, you hear a
Speaker 1: little voice, and you have opportunity. Because he's keeping silent,
Speaker 1: you have opportunity to turn but instead God's people interpret
Speaker 1: his silence as accepting compromise. And when we accept compromise,
Speaker 1: we start thinking in our head, well, maybe God, you know,
Speaker 1: he understands, yeah, you know, a little bit here and there,
Speaker 1: he understands. There's a lot of grace in the cross.
Speaker 1: God is God is a good God. God is a
Speaker 1: good God. And so we start remaking God to be
Speaker 1: someone like me. I'm trying to be nice, but sometimes
Speaker 1: the word just cuts it. Just like that. C. S.
Speaker 1: Lewis speaks in Mere Christianity and he says, in God,
Speaker 1: you come up against something which is in every respect
Speaker 1: immeasurably superior to you. And unless you know that, you
Speaker 1: know God is that, and therefore know yourself is nothing
Speaker 1: in comparison, you do not know God at all. That
Speaker 1: raises a terrible question, how is it that people who
Speaker 1: are eaten up with pride can say that they believe
Speaker 1: in God and appear to be ever so wonderful. I'm
Speaker 1: afraid they are worshiping an imaginary God. They're theoretically admitting
Speaker 1: they theoretically admit themselves to be nothing in the presence
Speaker 1: of this phantom God, but are really all the time
Speaker 1: imagining how He approves of them and thinks them far
Speaker 1: better than other people. For for you, my dear precious saints.
Speaker 1: When we compromise and God's giving us time to come
Speaker 1: to him and repent, we have a couple of options.
Speaker 1: We can either repent and come back to Him, or
Speaker 1: we can begin to think that God is altogether like us.
Speaker 1: But I am here to say God is nothing like us.
Speaker 1: We are to become all together like him and his
Speaker 1: work in our hearts and he will never stop until
Speaker 1: we die. Is to be coming to us saying honey,
Speaker 1: I love you too much to let you do this.
Speaker 1: Come with me and become more like me. Become all
Speaker 1: together like me. Become all together like me. Stop making
Speaker 1: me be like you. I want you to become like me.
Speaker 1: Oh but God, if you want me to be like you,
Speaker 1: I have to fit inside. I have to be like Christ.
Speaker 1: Christ in me. I in Christ. I don't fit on
Speaker 1: the wrong shape. I carry anger, I have fear, bitterness,
Speaker 1: I have unforgiveness. And God says, no, don't make me
Speaker 1: be like you. Don't show my love through your lens.
Speaker 1: You come. You come and become altogether like me. Break break, break, break.
Speaker 2: Break off everything that you carry in your.
Speaker 1: Heart and in your mind. That is contrary. It hurts.
Speaker 1: I didn't like what he was bringing to me. But
Speaker 1: in reality, when we modernize the Gospel, it always removes
Speaker 1: his holiness, and we lose the holiness of God. We
Speaker 1: tend to create a God of our own making. I
Speaker 1: spent a few days walking around in a lot of humility,
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna lie. It went between what I
Speaker 1: call conviction and condemnation. The Bible talks about both. Conviction
Speaker 1: is straight from Holy Spirit. Condemnation is straight from hell.
Speaker 1: Conviction is the Holy Spirit saying, come on, life's better
Speaker 1: over here. Come on, come on, let it go. Just
Speaker 1: let it go and love. I don't want to love.
Speaker 1: They don't deserve it. Come on, let it go.
Speaker 3: Life's better here, y'ah. But you don't know, Yes, I
Speaker 3: do know.
Speaker 1: Let it go. It's a song, right, How many of
Speaker 1: you were thinking that I won't even try. My little
Speaker 1: Ellie can sing it real good? Okay, Come back to me.
Speaker 1: Where was I let it go? So it took me
Speaker 1: a couple days to put God back on the throne,
Speaker 1: back into who he was and his holiness, and realign
Speaker 1: myself underneath it of his child his creature, say by
Speaker 1: grace covered in the blood setting aside condemnation. Condemnation is
Speaker 1: when the judge's gavel hits and you are sentenced to death.
Speaker 1: Conviction says honey, before you go, before the judge, come
Speaker 1: on over here, let's make it right. That's what Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit does. So it was time to move to the
Speaker 1: next psalm, Psalm fifty one. I got brave enough see
Speaker 1: what we got here. So before you put it up
Speaker 1: on the screens, though, let me the very beginning of it.
Speaker 1: It says for the director of music. You know, there's
Speaker 1: always this little addendum at the beginning? Is I called
Speaker 1: an addendum preface? I don't know. A psalm of day
Speaker 1: when the prophet Nathan came to him after David had
Speaker 1: committed adultery with Bathsheba. Now context, David, young boy anointed
Speaker 1: as king, mighty man of faith. I watched the David movie.
Speaker 1: Even how many of you watched the David What a movie.
Speaker 1: I want to be just like him, this kid singing
Speaker 1: and going out against Goliath and the faith and the obedience.
Speaker 1: He was amazing, and he worshiped, and he brought sacrifices
Speaker 1: before the Lord and his heart is the same as God.
Speaker 1: Him and God are just like this, and his heart
Speaker 1: is close to God. And then one day he wakes
Speaker 1: up and he looks over the balcony and he's consumed
Speaker 1: with lust. He's consumed with jealousy. He's consumed with what
Speaker 1: he sees. And then he commits adultery, and then he
Speaker 1: commits murder, and then he lies about it. That's four
Speaker 1: of the commandments, the ten commandments, at least four right there.
Speaker 1: He does all this stuff, and he goes to bed,
Speaker 1: and he wakes up in the morning. No lightning bolts.
Speaker 1: He puts back on his kingly robe, puts his crown in.
Speaker 1: Everybody comes out, Oh, your Highness, yourhiness. Sunday rolls around
Speaker 1: time to go to church, kind of walks into church,
Speaker 1: no lightning bolts, nothing. He starts thinking, well, hmm, maybe
Speaker 1: God's holiness isn't what I thought it was. Maybe his
Speaker 1: requirement of those ten commandments are quite what I thought
Speaker 1: it was. And David begins to reconstruct God altogether like him.
Speaker 1: For a year. This went on for a year. He
Speaker 1: came into the tent, danced before the Lord, saying, worshiped,
Speaker 1: brought sacrifices, did everything on the outside, but his heart
Speaker 1: had moved away. He looked good, but his heart so
Speaker 1: one day, I don't know, during that whole year, I'm
Speaker 1: sure Holy Spirit, I don't know. Holy Spirit is Old Testament.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but you know, I think I probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't have done that conviction reading the word. Ooh yeah, well,
Speaker 1: nothing happened. I'm doing pretty good until God ended his
Speaker 1: silence and brought Nathan to publicly bring truth to him.
Speaker 1: God loved David too much to let David be comfortable
Speaker 1: in his compromise. And God loved God David too much
Speaker 1: to let David reconstruct God's holiness, lowering it down to
Speaker 1: his level and just walk around like everything's fine, people
Speaker 1: of God. God loved me too much for me to
Speaker 1: walk in my compromise, my unlovingness, all the things, and
Speaker 1: it took him breaking. Now nobody publicly came to me,
Speaker 1: because praise the Lord, I came to him first. But
Speaker 1: I'm bringing it publicly because I wanted to help you.
Speaker 1: New Horizon is going to be a church filled with humility.
Speaker 1: New Horizon is a church that fails, filled with people
Speaker 1: that fail. But we know exactly what to do with
Speaker 1: our failures. Horizon as a church, that we will not
Speaker 1: serve a God of our own making, but we will
Speaker 1: serve the God Elohim the Mighty one. Hallelujah, Yahweh, Jehovah, Jirah.
Speaker 1: Everything that is the God I will serve. And it
Speaker 1: took me a few days to put God back on
Speaker 1: the throne and me to extradite myself as being co ruler.
Speaker 1: God is altogether not like me. God is not me,
Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. And I am in the process of
Speaker 1: becoming altogether like him. Amen. So here's the cool thing.
Speaker 1: Remember I told you we're gonna get Psalm fifty one.
Speaker 1: God is holy, He's the creator of all things, He's
Speaker 1: all powerful ways, and his thoughts are higher than mine.
Speaker 1: I will not cast his words behind me, not one,
Speaker 1: not one single one. I will not hate his instruction,
Speaker 1: but I will yield to it. We must undo the
Speaker 1: God of our making, and instead we must all become
Speaker 1: altogether like him, conform to his image. That means I
Speaker 1: have to break. That means I have to be honest
Speaker 1: and confess. I'd rather get up you here and tell
Speaker 1: you how cool I am. Be like me because I'm
Speaker 1: so good. But I found myself weeping before the Lord
Speaker 1: in great humility. Now, is this a works sermon? No,
Speaker 1: thisays a heart sermon. This is a heart sermon because
Speaker 1: if I can align my heart well, I can move
Speaker 1: into twenty six and God is free to do everything
Speaker 1: he wants to do. So would you join me in
Speaker 1: a little bit of contemplation? Would you join me? After
Speaker 1: a second service? It was pretty cute for service. I
Speaker 1: made a lot of really good points and there was
Speaker 1: very little clapping. It's like, I'm thinking, this is not
Speaker 1: going over well at all. But I guess this sermon
Speaker 1: needs to work in our souls. I had to bring it, you, guys,
Speaker 1: I had to. I kept fussing at the Lord. No,
Speaker 1: I want to bring the fun ones makes us all
Speaker 1: feel happy. And God says, this will make you happy.
Speaker 1: This will make you truly happy, because when we let
Speaker 1: go of anything in our souls and in our hearts
Speaker 1: that are misaligned, we truly become the better version of ourselves.
Speaker 1: Let go of fear, people of God, let go let
Speaker 1: go of lust, let go of anger, let go of offense,
Speaker 1: let go of everything that contorts you out of the
Speaker 1: image of Christ. And you're constantly being preached at take
Speaker 1: on the image of Christ, and you're like, I'm trying, No,
Speaker 1: this is the image of Christ. Let it go, and
Speaker 1: once again, don't sing the song. But what's a better
Speaker 1: way to say that? Let it go? No, let go
Speaker 1: release it. I'm hoping the Holy Spirit right now is
Speaker 1: talking in your heart. Maybe you got it all together.
Speaker 1: I sure hope so. Maybe, but maybe there's a little
Speaker 1: something something Maybe I don't know. I don't know. We're
Speaker 1: so we gotta be great at both where the outer
Speaker 1: works are in place, but we don't get our salvation
Speaker 1: through them. We're just obedient through them. We have an
Speaker 1: obedient heart, but our hearts on the inside are so aligned.
Speaker 1: Let holy spirits speak right now. Maybe if you have notes,
Speaker 1: write it down, maybe he'll bring you something this afternoon
Speaker 1: or the next day. But here's the beauty of our God.
Speaker 1: Remember that covenant. Yahweh. He's so connected with you, he's
Speaker 1: so in love with you. He doesn't leave us in
Speaker 1: our brokenness. He meets us there and he heals us there,
Speaker 1: and he brings us into great things. David, pray to
Speaker 1: prayer in Psalm fifty one, and I want to pray
Speaker 1: it over you. I want you to pray it with me.
Speaker 1: I want you to pray it through with me. I'm
Speaker 1: going to read Psalm fifty one out of the passion,
Speaker 1: and then we'll be done. You can go about your day.
Speaker 1: I've messed with you far enough. Just take a moment,
Speaker 1: take a deep breath, and just listen the Holy Spirit. Listen.
Speaker 1: We're here because we love God, we need God, we
Speaker 1: want God. Let's just say we want Him all the
Speaker 1: way down, not just on the surface. So let this
Speaker 1: sink in with you. Okay, it's the passion. It'll be
Speaker 1: on the screens, but I don't want you to get
Speaker 1: lost in reading the words unless that helps you. Let
Speaker 1: it come in close your eyes, if you can find
Speaker 1: a place of humility in your soul. Pride, it is said,
Speaker 1: is the worst of sins, because remember it's pride that
Speaker 1: made Lucifer Lucifer. We have to let it go. So
Speaker 1: here's David. God, give me mercy from your fountain of forgiveness.
Speaker 1: I know your abundant love is enough to wash away
Speaker 1: my guilt because your compassion is so great. Take away
Speaker 1: this shameful guilt of sin, forgive the full extent of
Speaker 1: my rebellious ways, and erase this deep stain on my conscience,
Speaker 1: for I am so ashamed. I feel such pain and
Speaker 1: anguish within me. I can't get away from the sting
Speaker 1: of my sin against you. Lord.
Speaker 4: Everything I did, I did right in front of you,
Speaker 4: and you saw it all against you, and you above
Speaker 4: have I sinned. Everything you say to me is infallibly true,
Speaker 4: and your judgment conquers me. Lord, I have been a
Speaker 4: sinner from birth, from the moment my mother conceived me.
Speaker 4: I know that you delight, who set your truth deep
Speaker 4: in my spirit. So come into the hidden places of
Speaker 4: my heart and teach me wisdom. Purify my conscience, make
Speaker 4: this leper clean again.
Speaker 1: Wash me in your love until I am pure in heart.
Speaker 1: Satisfy me in your sweetness, and your song of joy
Speaker 1: will return. The places within me you have crushed will
Speaker 1: rejoice in your healing touch. Hide my sins from your face,
Speaker 1: erase all my guilt by your saving grace, Create a
Speaker 1: new clean heart within me. People of God, he is.
Speaker 5: So ready fill me with pure thoughts and holy desires,
Speaker 5: ready to please you.
Speaker 1: May you never reject me. May I never take from
Speaker 1: May you never take from me your sacred spirit. Let
Speaker 1: my passion life be restored, tasting joy in every breakthrough
Speaker 1: you bring to me. Hold me close to you with
Speaker 1: the willing spirit that obeys whatever you say. Then I
Speaker 1: can show to other guilty ones how loving and merciful
Speaker 1: you are. They will find their way back home to you,
Speaker 1: knowing that you will forgive them. Oh God, my saving God,
Speaker 1: this is the Yahweh we're talking about. This is the
Speaker 1: covening God who's chosen to lay aside his holiness to
Speaker 1: connect with you and me. This is his answer that
Speaker 1: was my part. Then my heart will once again be
Speaker 1: thrilled to sing the passionate songs of joy and deliverance.
Speaker 1: Lord godlock my heart, unlock my lips, and I will
Speaker 1: overcome with my joyous praise.
Speaker 2: For the source of your pleasure is not in my
Speaker 2: performance or the sacrifices I might offer to you. The
Speaker 2: fountain of your pleasure is found in the sacrifice of
Speaker 2: my shattered heart before you. You will not despise my
Speaker 2: tenderness as I humbly.
Speaker 1: Bow down at your feet. Our God is a God
Speaker 1: who takes our shattered hearts, shattered by sin, compromise all
Speaker 1: of that. People of God. Even now today, every moment
Speaker 1: of every day, Jesus is there standing putting your heart
Speaker 1: back together again. He doesn't leave you a sinner. Oh
Speaker 1: but Jesus, sometimes we want to stay sinners. But today,
Speaker 1: oh people of God, New Horizon, New Horizon. New horizon
Speaker 1: is filled with consecrated ones, saints that hear the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit in the quiet and responds so quickly it requires humility.
Speaker 1: Pride is gone out of New Horizon in Jesus's name.
Speaker 1: Pride from this very pulpit. Pride off of this stage.
Speaker 1: In every way, shape and form, Pride going through this
Speaker 1: the rose all the way to the back, all the way.
Speaker 1: Pride will not reign in this house. Pride will not
Speaker 1: find its place. And if you like pride, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to go somewhere else because it's gonna feel really
Speaker 1: weird around here. But humility reigns in this house. This
Speaker 1: is a safe house. I feel so safe with you
Speaker 1: that you won't judge me for telling you about my troubles,
Speaker 1: because I know you love me too much to let
Speaker 1: me stay there, and you love me too much to
Speaker 1: leave me there. God loves you so much it's turned
Speaker 1: towards him. Amen. Okay, are you left bleeding and beat up?
Speaker 1: Or do you feel the love of God in here.
Speaker 1: Realignment Setting twenty twenty five aside. God does not hold
Speaker 1: your past against you. But if you're gonna drag it
Speaker 1: with you everywhere you go because you haven't let it go,
Speaker 1: He'll deal with y'all through twenty six too. But I
Speaker 1: don't know if I want that. Amen, it's all stand.
Speaker 1: It's all stand. Prayer warriors, come on up. If God's
Speaker 1: work work in your heart, don't let it stop just
Speaker 1: because we're shifting. Took me a few days to process
Speaker 1: this one, not because Holy Spirit wasn't there to love me,
Speaker 1: but I needed to become contride of soul and that's
Speaker 1: completely contradictory to my flesh. Anybody in the room, Okay,
Speaker 1: don't worry him. Praise you Jesus. Let's just let the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit just settle in this room. If you need
Speaker 1: to go, I understand, but don't let the word go.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. I pray the Holy Spirit was
Speaker 1: released through it. Amen. If you have some confessions to make,
Speaker 1: if you have some people to straighten some things about,
Speaker 1: if you have some forgiveness to ask for, if you
Speaker 1: come to the altar and you know someone has aught
Speaker 1: against you, go to them. Let's clean it up. Let's
Speaker 1: realign all the way from the outer to the inner
Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. Hallelujah, have a blessed a come forward
Speaker 1: for prayer if you'd love to just you know, even
Speaker 1: if you just you have an acre of pain that
Speaker 1: you need prayer for, or you're believing for something, come forward.
Speaker 1: Or if you want prayer regarding the Word, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Come on up. We love you. Let's worship