Don’t Carry God Casually

God inhabits the praises of his people and his presence becomes

manifest. It becomes there's an increase

where we sense his presence and a desire for that is not an

expression of immaturity. All right, we're going to jump

into the word turn with me to First Chronicles chapter 13.

1 Chronicles 13 · chapter mention

Last week we addressed some of the exposures in the body of

Christ that are going on right now.

There's there's a lot of controversy exposures and as

your pastor, it was incumbent upon me to address some of that.

Some of you know, one of those individuals that has been in the

news was in our pulpit this year.

So we wanted to talk about that. You can go back and look at that

next week, But I want to what I want to do is I want to jump

into where we left off last week.

I was asking the Lord if he could just if he could give me a

passage to hang what I was feeling on.

I believe the word of God is a living.

It's living. It's alive, not a living.

It's living and alive. And it's, it speaks to our

current situations. You know, there's you can

approach the Bible as an academic book and that's a valid

way to approach it. But it's also alive and it's a

prophetic book and the knowledge of God speaks into the now of

your circumstances. And so we ask the Lord God, what

are you saying to us? And and I really felt like the

Lord impressed upon me. Second Samuel chapter 5, which

2 Samuel 5 · chapter mention

is the sister passage to this very passage here.

There was, there's two versions of this story that and, and you

know, the amazing thing about God is he never leaves all the

details in one passage. You know that he's going to hide

things in another passage for you because the Lord he, he's

never going to give the whole meal right in one passage.

It'd be too easy because what he's wanting to know is, are you

hungry? Do will you search it out?

Will you begin to connect the dots?

And it's an amazing thing that the Lord will take you on a

revelatory journey if you get in the word, if you begin to search

in the word and, and for me, it's like I'll be have you ever

been reading the word and it feels dry?

Don't look at me that way. I'm not the only one.

Sometimes I'll feel like I'm reading the Bible.

And if I hit it, it'd be it's just dusty and dry, but the Lord

is just drawing you in. And if you'll keep looking and

you'll keep looking, God's going to speak something to you.

And it's like you're walking down a dusty trail.

And also just a little flash, a glint of light over there.

And then it's gone. And it's like, man, I think I

saw a nugget. And you go over and you start

digging and all of a sudden you find a nugget and there's

another one. And you mind that vein out until

you wear that thing out and the Lord longs to take you into

those revelatory journeys in His Word.

Listen, that is not just for preachers.

If your time in the Word is relegated to sit in here reading

along while I preach, then you are leaving your inheritance on

the table unclaimed. There is so much more for you.

God wants to speak to you out of his word.

That's why John says and 1st John, he said you have no need

of a teacher. Now that's that's a big deal for

me because I kind of make my living doing this.

You know that like jobs, I'm threatening my own job security

when I tell you, you don't need a preacher, you don't need a

teacher. You're not dependent on that.

You have an anointing within you that will teach you all.

I'm going to, I'm up here to confirm what God is saying and

add some things that you didn't get.

But the fact is, you will get things I didn't get because

God's going to speak through your history, through your

experiences. He's going to show you things He

doesn't show me. That's why we need to be

fellowshipping over the Word. And listen, God's word, it, it

is an amazing thing. Just like I was talking when I

was an 18 year old kid and all of a sudden that tongues and

interpretation came into that meeting.

It's an amazing thing that God will speak to us through His

Word. I love to teach and preach the

word. I, I, I really, I got to pinch

myself. I can't believe I got more to

pinch these days, by the way. But I, I, I can't believe I get

to do this for a living. But there's something better

than delivering the Word, and that is getting something from

the Lord in private. And that is that is the blood

bot inheritance for all of us. God wants to speak to you out of

his word. He wants to open it up.

And it's, it's an amazing thing that the God of the universe

will drop into your quiet time and begin to speak to you and

you'll know. There's no way I would have

known, I would have never seen that had God not highlighted it.

And if you've never experienced that, I'm telling you, you're

leaving your inheritance unclaimed.

That is what God has for every one of us.

He wants to speak to you out of his.

He wants that book to come alive.

And every one of us have had dry times in the word.

But if you'll stay persistent and keep saying God, Proverbs 2

says cry aloud for wisdom, cry out for understanding.

Search for it as hidden treasure.

I'm going to tell you the ground to search for it is in the

between the pages of your Bible. Search for hidden treasure and

God will begin to speak to you the the creator.

God wants to speak directly to you, not not through a radio

preacher or a pastor and a pulpit, but he wants to speak to

you through your word. And once that begins to happen,

you're off and running you, you will be ruined forever when he

begins to speak to you out of his word.

Now, I don't know about you. When I first got saved, I looked

at that book and I thought, oh man, how am I ever going to

figure this out? That's a big book.

And it's an ancient book and it's in King James at the time.

And you know, I'm, I'm struggling with English and this

is Old English. And, and you think, man, these

guys are talking about what kind of helmets the Hittites wore.

How am I going to figure that stuff out?

And, and what I realize now is that as you get into the word,

knowledge will breed knowledge. And what will happen is you're,

you're seeking the Lord and you're asking God will drop

something. You'll see something like that

changed my life. But the beautiful thing is when

you cross the threshold into that room of revelation and you

come to this divine conclusion, Oh my goodness, this is amazing.

Once you start looking around that room, you're going to

realize there's five other doors to walk through.

And now there's five other things you got to chase down.

And you'll spend the rest of your life searching through this

book. And I believe we're going to be

doing that for eternity. I believe we're going to be

sitting in classes in heaven. And we're going to be sitting

the apostle Paul's going to say, you know what?

When I was writing Philippians right here, I didn't realize

what I was saying. I only realized the surface.

But there's so much more I've discovered since being here.

And we're going to be digging through the word for all

eternity. It's an amazing book.

And I want to encourage you don't don't limit your intake of

the word to listen to sermons. God wants to speak to you

directly from his word. And the people I know that are

on fire for God are people of the word, people that

consistently keep the fire burning.

One of the logs that they're throwing on that fire is the

word of God. And so let God minister to you.

Let God challenge you, let him speak to you.

It's an amazing, amazing book. So in light of that, let's look

at verse one of first Chronicles chapter 13.

1 Chronicles 13 · chapter mention

David consulted with the commanders of thousands and of

hundreds and and with every leader.

And David said to all the assembly of Israel, if it seems

good to you from the Lord our God, let us send abroad to our

brothers who remain in all the lands of Israel, as well as to

the priests and the Levites in the cities.

Do that have pastor lands that they may be gathered to us.

And then listen to this. Let us bring again the ark of

God to us, for we did not seek it in the days of Saul.

What an indictment against Saul's leadership.

He's saying in the days of Saul we didn't care about the ark.

Now for those of you that are not familiar with what the ark

was, the ark was a cedar box that God had shown Moses the

blueprint for on the mount of God.

And God gave him this download and he had him build this cedar

box and then he covered it in gold and he molded A lid that

had two cherubim, these angelic creatures whose wings were

pointed inwards. And God, this lid with these

cherubims carved on it, it was called the mercy seat.

And God said, I will dwell between the cherubim, literally.

God said, if you want to meet with me, I'm I'll live on the

lid. I'm going to, that's where my

presence will reside on the mercy seat.

Isn't that beautiful? God sat on the mercy seat.

He didn't sit on the judgement seat.

He sat on the mercy seat. And then it had rings.

And they would carry that wherever they would go.

And so there was this understanding that there was the

manifest presence of God among us, and God gave them a physical

representation to lock their eyes on and know where God was.

That's the ark of the covenant. And David says, listen, we got

to get this thing back. We got to put this front and

center because under the regime of Saul, his predecessor, he

said, we didn't inquire of the Lord.

We didn't pursue the ark. The ark was in the House of

Abinadab, A Levite for 20 years, relegated to the sidelines.

In fact, let me give you a little history of the ark.

This is this is interesting to me.

The ark resided in the Tabernacle or at the Tabernacle

in Shiloh with Eli. So you know that we know Moses,

they had the ark made, they took it with them.

And then during the days of the judges, the final judge of which

was Samuel and, and Eli, the priest had this this ark and it

was at the place called Shiloh. It was retrieved by Saul for the

purpose of war in the 29th year of Saul's 42nd year reign, 42

year reign. The 29th year not to wasn't till

the end of his reign that he went and retrieved the ark and

it was captured and retained by the Philistines for seven

months. And so they lost the ark because

they were using it as a means to an end, as if the presence of

God was just a means to get what they really wanted, rather than

the presence of God being what they wanted.

And so the Philistines captured it and then it caused a problem

for the Philistines. It depends on the translation

you read. What happened is that they began

to break out in tumors. Some translations say tumors.

But if you follow the little, the little sideline, it'll it'll

all the translations will say could be hemorrhoids.

Let's just suffice it to say that the presence of God without

the fear of God will make you uncomfortable.

And we'll leave it at that, OK? It requires handling it with

reverence. And so they broke out.

And so they, they figured out how to send it back, which is a

fascinating passage in and of itself.

We don't have time to get into. And so then they sent it, it

came to Beth Shamesh and the Israelites opened it and 50,000

people died. That's where, you know, the

movie Raiders of the Lost Ark with Harrison Ford.

Remember that one? And they open it up and people

are dying. That's OK, that's Hollywood

version, but that's it was a it was a holy thing and it had to

be carried in the right way. And so this is a very sobering

thing. And so then it was brought to

Jar or Kariath Jerem, and it stayed in the House of Abinadab

for 20 years in the rain during the reign of Saul, 20 years.

So Abinadab was there. There were three different

people that show up in scripture named Benedab.

David had a brother of Benedab. Saul had a son of Benedab.

But there was a Levite named Benedab, and most likely it was

the Levite. It was at his house.

And Abinadab had two sons, Aza and Ohio.

He might have had more kids, we don't know, but we know he had

those too, Aza and Ohio. And so David attempted to bring

it from Abinadab's house in Koriath, Jerem, but Aza was

smitten and he abandoned the idea that ended up at Obed

Eden's house for three years until it finally came to

Jerusalem. So David, in this passage, it's

fascinating, David, he said, let's bring the ark of God to us

for we did not seek it in the days of Saul.

David was of a different heart posture than Saul.

Saul looked at the the presence of God as a means to an end.

David felt this is the end. This is what we want.

We want to be near the Lord and see, it begs the question, where

did David come up with this value system for the ark of the

covenant and the presence of God?

And we get a clue in Psalm 132 and Psalm 132.

It's a fascinating passage and it's, I am convinced you're

going to find out when we get to heaven that I'm right.

Solomon wrote Psalm 132 and he's, he begins it with this

fascinating verse. He said, oh Lord, remember David

and the suffering he endured. So he's reminding God of the

price his daddy paid to provide a place for the presence of God.

He's saying that, oh Lord, remember my dad, remember the

suffering he endured, remember the affliction that he went

through so he could make a place for you.

And he's moving the heart of God in the present by reminding God

of the price paid in the past by a dead guy.

Isn't that fascinating? And in in so doing, he reveals a

weapon or a tool and intercession that very few of us

understand is available to us, that we can actually move the

heart of God now by reminding him of those in our lineage that

that served him and paid a price and it moved the heart of God.

And so David reminds the Lord, and then it says in that

passage, it says he, it's, and, and we know that Solomon must

have heard this at David's knee, because Solomon talks in the

book of Proverbs. He said, he said, I'd sit up my

father's knee and he would share wisdom with me.

And undoubtedly he heard this story from his daddy David.

David tells him, we heard of it, the ark.

We heard of it in Coriath, Jerem.

We came upon it in the fields of Jar.

And he's talking about the area of Bethlehem.

David was raised in the area of Bethlehem.

And if when you begin to piece all these pieces together,

gathering these Nuggets from all these other passages, you

realize David was about 14 to 16 years old when the ark arrived

in the vicinity of his home. And he tells his son, he said,

listen, I heard about it in Bethlehem.

I heard the rumor it's arrived in our area.

And then he said, we came upon it in the fields of Jar.

David wasn't satisfied just to hear about the things of God.

He thought, man, I want to see this thing.

I've heard that God dwells between the cherubim.

And so David goes and it says he saw it in the fields of jar.

And then David in that passage of Psalm 132, it pulls out the

story of David and how David made a vow to the Lord.

I'm going to build a place for you.

I'm going to build a habitation for the Lord and it passed to

Solomon and Solomon is now using that to move the heart of God.

God bless what I've built for you, that it's the dedication

prayer of the temple. But he's talking about how David

was ruined for life once he encountered the presence of God.

Now we know that Samuel uncorked a horn of oil and poured the oil

over him and he was anointed king.

But that's not the only reason David was so ruined for the

things of God. It's because David had

encountered in that one encounter, ruined his life.

He was fixated. We've got to get the ark of God

unto us. And let me just say that I I, I

listen to preachers all the time.

I want to learn, but I also want to just keep my finger on the

pulse of what's being said to the body of Christ.

And there is a troubling sentiment I've been hearing

coming out of preachers mouths as of late, and that is they

I've, I've heard some that I respect some Pentecostal

preachers degrading in, in, in a chastising churches that are

about the presence of God and saying, Oh, people get all

fixated. We're we're a presence church.

Well, you, you might notice around here, we start, we've

started using the phrase we're a pet presence based church.

That's what we're about. And I say that unashamedly.

And see what they've done is they've psychologized that

they've patronized those who have a hunger for the presence

as if it's just some kind of psychological fascination.

And it's an it's an expression of immaturity that you want to

feel something. So then these same people would

say, no, we need to be people of the book and know the word as if

those are mutually exclusive. That book that I've given the

last 40 some years of my life to learning tells me that the

people in that book had a hunger for the manifest presence of God

in their life. See, David understood that there

was the omnipresence of God. David was the one who wrote, he

said even in hell I cannot escape you.

What he's saying is God, you're everywhere.

Even in hell people talk about a crisis, eternity, There's no

such thing because he is there. He is everywhere present.

David understood that. In spite of that, David, David

was hungry for the manifest present because God is

everywhere, but He's not everywhere to the same degree.

I don't know about you, but I experienced His presence during

worship to a greater degree than when I walked through the door

early this morning. Because God inhabits the praises

of His people and His presence becomes manifest.

It becomes there's an increase where we sense His presence, and

a desire for that is not an expression of immaturity.

Moses, so much so Moses was so hungry for God's manifest

present. You think Moses understood that

of God's omnipresence? Do you think someone had to set

him down and correct him? Moses, sit down.

We need to teach you some things.

You're kind of immature in the faith.

You need to understand God is everywhere present.

So for you to say, we're not going into the promised line

unless you go with you, you go with us, God's always with you.

Well, the problem is God was the one who told Moses, I'm not

going with you. And Moses said, God, if you're

not going, I'm not going. We're none of us are.

We don't want the promise, then we don't want real estate

without you. And God said, OK, then I'll go

with you. David was the one who wanted to

be around the ark, not because he was enamored with a metal

box, but because he wanted the presence that God promised dwelt

between the cherubim. That is not an expression of

immaturity. And don't let anybody ever

patronize you with some by degrading your hunger and saying

that's just some immature desire for feelings as opposed to what

you're really supposed to be after.

We need to be a people of the Word and the presence of God.

Matter of fact, Moses told God, he said.

God, what else is going to set us aside from all the peoples of

the earth? What's going to make us

different? And I'm going to tell you, it's

not teaching and it's not morality.

You know, there are some very moral atheists out there.

They're very moral people. They pay their bills, they love

their spouse, they love their kids, they help the poor.

They're very moral people, but they don't know God.

What sets us apart from the peoples of all the earth is the

presence of God on our life. And that's what people should

encounter when they encounter us, that they should be saying

things like there's something I can't figure out about you, you

are different. And that's the open door.

And we can tell them it's the presence of God on my life.

See that? That's what makes Moses said

that's what makes us different. You say, well, pastor, that's

old covenant. So you're telling me that Moses

under an inferior covenant has access to greater presence than

you and I in the new covenant? No way.

In fact, we get something he didn't get.

We have God living inside of us, residing within us.

We become partakers of the divine nature, according to

Peter. Man, that's an amazing thing.

So listen, we need to be like David, hungry for his presence.

And David tells it tells the people of Israel.

He said, listen, we've we've got to get the ark of God unto us.

In the days of Saul, we relegated it to the sidelines.

I want it front and center. And David was still in pursuit

of something he had experienced well over a decade earlier as a

young man. And it's not a coincidence that

David confronts Goliath around the time that the ark arrived in

his vicinity. Now, yes, I I know it was the

anointing that Saul poured out upon him, yes.

But I would propose to you that that encounter with God's

presence also gives us an idea of why David found the courage

to go and confront Goliath, because he had been transformed

by the presence of God. So David says, he says let us

bring the ark of God to us, for he didn't.

We did not seek it in the days of Saul.

And so they all they decide they're going to do that.

David assembled verse 5, all of Israel from the Nile of Egypt to

late Libo Hemath to bring the ark of God from Koriath Jerem

and David and all of Israel went up to Bilal, that is to Koriath

Jerem that belongs to Judah to bring up the ark of God, which

is called by the name of the Lord who sits and throned above

the cherubim. There it is right there.

It's an amazing statement. See, David really believed that

because it was in the word, David said.

I believe that and I want that and I want that in the center of

the nation. I want it in the capital.

And so, and they carried the ark of God on a new cart from the

House of Abenadab. And Uzza and Ohio were driving

the cart and David and all of Israel were celebrating for God

with all their might, with songs and liars and harps and

tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.

And so they they had a whole orchestra amassed.

And if you read the text, Chronicles gives us some details

that Samuel didn't. And they had he had amassed all

these prophetic seers that wrote the Psalms along with David.

You had Asaph, you had Ethan, you had all of these guys were

with him and they were celebrating to the Lord.

And this is an amazing thing. And then verse 9.

And when they came to the threshing floor of Chaidan, or

the Samuel calls it the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzza

put out his hand to take hold of the ark.

For the oxen stumbled, and the anger of the Lord was kindled

against Uzza, and he struck him down because he had put his hand

to the ark, and he died there before the Lord.

And what is so very, very sobering about this passage is

they had no I'll intent in their heart.

They weren't excited. David's value system was

correct. David was hungry for the things

of God. They were all very sincere.

The problem is they were sincere but ignorant of the protocol

that was required. They didn't understand how to

handle the Presence and in fact, the one that was struck dead,

Aza was one of the primary caretakers of the Ark when it

was at his dad's house for 20 years.

The guy who was a great steward of the presence when it was

stationary was killed by the presence when it was on the move

because it there was they had to handle it in a certain way and

they were ignorant. Now we don't know because later

on David says in this passage, and it doesn't say this in the

book of Samuel, we know from the Pentateuch that there was a, a

prescribed way in which they could carry it.

They couldn't carry it on a new cart like they were doing.

They would never be able to carry it on some mechanism made

by man. It needed to be carried by a man

the, the priests and they would, they put the poles through the

rings and they would have to carry it and it couldn't be

carried on a mechanism made by man.

It took men of God to carry the presence.

And it later on, David says this, he said, Hey, we, we got,

we're going to bring the presence of God to us.

We got it. God said the Levites have to

carry it, but before David gets to that point and wants to do it

again, there's several statements that are made of

David. I mentioned this last week, but

I want to just kind of dig down on this for a moment.

Look at verse 11. And David was angry because the

Lord had broken out against Aza. And that place is called Perez

Aza to this day. The very next verse, and it's

the same outline in the book of Samuel.

And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and he said, How can I

bring the ark of God unto me? And so the very next verse, 13.

So David did not take the ark home to the city of David, but

to the House of Obed Edom the Getite.

And so David was angry, David was afraid, and David was

unwilling. David got offended by God.

You ever been offended by God? You ever been walking along with

God? Man you're, you're, you're

excited, you're sincere as a heart attack.

You're man, this is great. God's doing great things.

And all of a sudden something is introduced in your life and it

was out of left field. And it's like man, you're

offended by what God did or what God allowed.

Whenever I've been offended by God, it's because of my own

ignorance. I didn't understand what was

going on. I'm going to tell you when the

when God is on the move, in your walk with God, there will always

be a threshing floor. And the threshing floor is where

he separates the wheat from the the chaff, that which is usable

from that which isn't. There's always a threshold.

There's no Rd. that will bypass the threshing floor.

There's not another route in the journey with God.

His, his prescribed path for you will always go by a threshing

floor. And those times there's an

opportunity for us to be offended by God.

And there are a lot of people. In fact, everyone does what

David did for a season. Listen, what happens here, it

can be a short season, it can be a long season.

I would recommend a short one. Verse 13.

So David did not take the ark of God to the city of David, but

took it home to the House of Obed Edom to get tight.

And the ark of God remained with the household of Obed Edom in

his house three months. And the Lord bless the House of

Obed Edom and all that he had. So like I said last week, David

is he's angry, he's afraid, and now he's unwilling.

And look at Vert chapter 14 in the ESV.

There's this heading, David's Wives and children.

Every translation will have a different heading.

But essentially what we need to understand is that the writers

of the Bible are communicating things all the time.

And this is a way for the writer to communicate David's wives and

children. And if you read the next

chapter, it's all about David took on more wives and had more

kids and built houses. And what it's communicating is

that once David stopped his pursuit, he was offended.

He backed away and he got caught up in all these other things.

He backed away and he got caught up in not, not bad things.

Having a wife, having plural wives is a bad thing, by the

way. But that's the sermon for

another day. But David, he, he had, he got

caught up in just doing his own thing because he was offended.

And then he heard about Obed Edom's house.

You heard about is the big tomatoes and the, the fluffy

lambs and the great brisket. He's put, he's got like Wagyu

briskets coming out of his farm. And, and I, you knew what I'd go

there, didn't you? And and so he, he says, I've got

to, I've got to get in on this. And this hunger begins to rise

up and David once again. And what happened is when David

said, how can I bring the ark of God unto me?

And he was angry and he was unwilling.

What he didn't realize is God was already answering the cry of

his heart. He was laying the groundwork of

the necessity of David's life. David had to become enlightened.

He had to understand how to handle the presence of God.

And the first criterion to getting there was the fear of

the Lord. The fear of the OR the presence

of God without the fear of God is a dangerous thing.

You know in the New Testament, God with Moses and the children

of Israel, let's go there. God says I'm not

got it. There we go.

Or the Lord tells him, I'm not going to go with you lest I kill

the people of Israel. In other words, I'm going to

withdraw my presence because it's dangerous for a stiff

necked people. So if we want to attract God's

presence, we've got to be a people that understand how to

steward the presence. We've got to be a people that

because God in his mercy says, you know what, I'm going to have

to withdraw. My dad when I was 16 years old

withdrew his presence from me lest he kill me.

OK. I was a rebellious kid that I

was unmanageable. So the way he withdrew his

presence is he invited me to find another place to live and

he did so with a clenched fist into my jaw.

When I got back up, he invited me once again with one more hit

and I deserved that probably 2 years earlier.

And I withdrew his presence because it had gotten to the

place where we could not dwell together.

I was so belligerent, so rebellious that he said, OK, we

don't have, we're not living together anymore.

And the consequences of that broke me and brought me back to

Jesus two years later. God loves us enough that he will

withdraw his presence. And that's why if you look in

the in the book of Acts where Ananias and Sapphira died, it

was because it was an hour of tremendous outpouring.

When God is on the move, this the stakes get higher.

And we don't talk about this in the American church.

We don't look at the things of God this way.

Well, God's a God of grace. Yes, he is.

And you know how he'll exercise that grace?

By withdrawing his presence. And if you want his presence,

then there needs to be a level of fear in our life.

And that's what David was or God was doing with David's.

He was instructing him. And then what it did is it

caused David to go back to the scrolls and look through the

scrolls and find out what is the protocol to carry the ark.

And so David tells them after he hears about Benedabs or Obed

Edom's tomatoes, he says, man, we got to figure this out, I

want them tomatoes. And so he goes into the scroll

and he begins to study. And he realized, he tells him,

listen, there's a prescribed way to carry the ark.

See Scripture says Proverbs 10 or 9, verse 10.

It says this knowledge of the holy is understanding and the

fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

I've always looked at it that God withholds his wisdom from

those who do not fear him. And I believe there's an element

of that being true. But what I didn't realize till

this morning, early this morning, is that there's also

the converse is true that the beginning or the first stages of

wisdom is the fear of the Lord because the fear of the Lord

awakens you to your need for wisdom.

See, David, David didn't think he needed to seek the Lord on

how to move the ark. He just figured, hey, God, God

will overlook our ignorance because we're sincere.

And it wasn't the case. And so God caused fear and

hesitation in David and then reintroduced that hunger.

And it got to the point where David said, I'm willing to go

and take another run at it. Can you imagine, think about

this? Can you imagine the hunger that

it took for them to pick up that ark after what happened to Aza?

He was split open like a ballpark, Frank sitting next to

the ark. It's a sobering thing.

And and then what they're going to do is they're going to pick

this thing up with poles and put it on their shoulders.

It took an act of faith in God's prescribed method to carry it.

And it also took a tremendous amount of hunger to say we're

still wanting this ark to come with us.

And what they did is they picked it up by the poles and they

would take, I think it says 3 steps and they would sacrifice

another bull and they'd sacrifice another ram and

another few steps. And if you do the math, there

was there was a lot of livestock that was sacrificed, sent to the

Lord that day. And David is dancing with all

his might. It took him three months to

overcome this thing, but David is dancing with all his might.

He's so excited, so much so his wife was embarrassed and rebuked

him. David was dancing like a

Wildman. Don't ever judge someone that's

dancing before the Lord. You don't know their story.

You don't know where they came from.

You don't know what God delivered.

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