Sermon
Let your Heart be Different
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Transcript
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Hi, this is Dave Olson. I'm the senior leader of
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Heartland Church located in Ankeny, IA.
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I hope the following message challenges, encourages and
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ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us.
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No, I am not the second coming of Pastor Dave.
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This is for somebody. If you're feeling unsettled, if
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you're feeling pressure about something right now, if you're
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just, if you're just kind of and you don't know why and you can't
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put your finger on it, Let me tell you this.
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Sometimes God is comfortable with making you uncomfortable
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where you are so he can move you when it's time to move you to
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the next thing, right? So don't always interpret
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everything in a negative light. Sometimes you need to just go,
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OK, God, what are you doing here?
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Kind of like me yesterday. I'm sitting in my house and I'm
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just feeling uncomfortable and I'm just going, God, what in the
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world? I mean, I've been a good
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Christian this week. I'm this week and, and I, you
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know, and I'm just feeling just unsettled.
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And so I'm supposed to be like installing a toilet and getting
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some plumbing stuff. And who doesn't love to do that
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on a Saturday? But I instead, I just sat down
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and I prayed for a while and I read, read the word a little bit
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more and it was still there. So I'm walking around my kitchen
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and I'm going, God, while we're talking about things, you gave
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me this message like back in September, this, this sermon
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thing. What are you going to do with
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this? What, what, what are you going
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to do? What, what, what do you want?
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Still pretty quiet in my kitchen.
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So I decided to take a nap because I'm that spiritual and I
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couldn't sleep. And I'm just laying there and
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I'm praying. God, what is this?
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I'm unsettled. I'm the guy that plays keyboard
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or guitar. I'm not the guy that does this.
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What? And Pastor Dave calls me, says I
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can't be there tomorrow. And I felt like God told me you
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had something. Why yes, yes, I do.
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Never lie to your pastor because that's not going to go well for
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you. I'm just telling you that right
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now. So here I am, and for those of
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you that don't know me well, I'm one of the board members here,
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so some of you voted for me. At least that Rick Arrowwood.
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I, my wife Carrie and I have three wonderful daughters who
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have snagged themselves three wonderful husbands and given us
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6 1/2 grandchildren. Awesome, right?
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It is awesome. We've been here 17 years and if
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you know Carrie at all my wife, you know that she loves snow and
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she loves Christmas and Target. So on the Giving tree in the
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back, she looked for A tag that had a Target gift card request
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on it. And that's the one she snagged.
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I'm just here to tell you there are more cards left on the
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giving Tree. So you have an opportunity still
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like one more week, I think, right, that you can, you can
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bless someone. So what a great opportunity to
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bless someone at Christmas. And it's pretty, it's easy to
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do. And Carrie might have gotten the
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last Target one, but you know, buck up, do something.
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I really wanted to make this a Christmas message.
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I really wanted to extend Pastor Dave's message series about
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women who were alive at the time of Christ.
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And I got started thinking of all the old politicians that we
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know. And no, I guess I, I don't know
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anyone. So I'm just going to have to
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leave that to him to wrap up. But here's, here's the thing.
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This is, this is God poking at my heart first.
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This is me reading Isaiah chapter 6 in September and God
Isaiah 6 chapter mention
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poking at my heart and going, you need to pay attention to
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this. And so I'm sharing that with you
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and I'm going to be a mess while I do it, and I don't care.
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All right. And if you get messed up,
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awesome. But the Holy Spirit is going to
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move on us today. And what He showed me, He's
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showing us because, see, God doesn't mean he isn't
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vindictive. He shows this thing by the Holy
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Spirit so that we can conform to His image in His will, so that
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we can take part in the Kingdom. And we can be pleasing to His
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heart because we're walking where He walks, right?
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So I read this in the year that King Uzziah died.
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I saw the Lord high and exalted, seated on the throne, and the
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train of his robe filled the temple.
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And above him were seraphim, each with six wings.
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With two wings they covered their faces with two, they
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covered their feet with two. They were flying, and they were
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calling to one another. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God
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Almighty. The whole earth is full of His
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glory. As a worship leader, I've sung
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this a million times, but on this day, God said, if you want
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to really grasp the significance of this, you need to look at who
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I, who Uzziah was. I mean, my Bible college
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education was 35 years ago. My Old Testament history is a
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little well, anyway, I have the Internet, so I'm good and I and
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I have a Bible. So you can read the story of the
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kings in Second Chronicles and Uzziah's story starts in chapter
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25. Don't, don't read that.
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Now we're going to talk a bit. So Isaiah also wrote about them
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because he was alive during the reign of these kings.
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So when you read Isaiah, the book of Isaiah, a lot of the
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things that he was talking about were happening during the reigns
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of these kings. The verse that Pastor Adam read
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this morning, Isaiah 1 through 5, describes prophetically and
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poetically the sad story of the kings Amaziah, Uzziah, his son
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Jotham, his son Ahaz, and his son Hezekiah, Kings of Judah,
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the southern Kingdom that was ruled by the House of David,
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though they were the House of David now mostly in name only
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and some barely. That Samaria to the north had
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broken away was ruled by the House of Jeroboam, and they were
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evil in every way you could think of.
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And Isaiah's version gives us the spiritual side of the
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chronology and Chronicles, but from the perspective of the
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broken heart of God. So Isaiah 2 says, come on,
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descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord.
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A plea. Isaiah 217 says the arrogance of
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man will be brought low, and human pride will be humbled.
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The Lord alone will be exalted in that day, and the idols will
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totally disappear. And Isaiah 5 verses 20 through
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25. And tell me if this doesn't
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sound like a country we may have lived in.
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Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness
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for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for
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sweet and sweet for bitter. And woe to those who are wise in
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their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
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Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at
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mixing drinks, who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny
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justice to the innocent. Therefore, as tongues of fire
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lick up straw, and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so
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their roots will decay, their flowers blow away like dust.
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For they rejected the law of the Lord God Almighty and spurn the
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word of the Holy One of Israel. And I know we're talking about
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Israel, but it feels like America to me a little bit.
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Therefore the Lord's anger burns against His people.
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His hand is raised, He strikes them down the mountains shake
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the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets.
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Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away.
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His hand is still upraised. This was the heart of God over
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Israel. Now for the history lesson.
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To tell the story of Uzziah, we have to start with his Father
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and Messiah and Messiah's father.
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Joash was at first a really great and righteous king of
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Israel. He rebuilt the temple and and
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reestablished worship in Israel. But after the priest Jehoiada,
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that's close enough. Nobody else is going to say it
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better. Jehu Otto died.
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And guys, you know how long he lived.
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He was the priest who helped Joash take his throne and he
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stayed as his advisor and he guided him in the hand of the
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Lord. And tell me the Lord didn't
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extend this because he lived 130 years.
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Should have also been a clue to Joash.
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Like I should probably keep doing that, doing those things.
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But he didn't. He turned back to Asherah poles
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and idol worship and set it up all over Israel.
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He even when Joe had his son Zachariah, whom God sent to call
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him to account for his wickedness, he participated in
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his murder. So God gave him over to the
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Arameans who killed him and his son Amaziah became the king.
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And Joash, who was once the great reformer, the once the
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great revivalist, was not even buried in the tombs of the kings
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of Israel. They just put him in a box
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somewhere. Amaziah was listed as one of
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Judah's good and successful kings.
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He had a lot of military victories, but in one of them,
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over the nation of Sere, he brought home their gods and set
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them up as his own. I mean, think of that, right?
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Hey, these are the gods of the of the country we just
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conquered. These should be pretty good,
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don't you think? God wasn't pleased and Amaziah
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became arrogant and he picked a fight with Joe as the king of
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Israel. And God set this all up so that
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he would start a war that he would lose miserably.
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And he was captured and imprisoned in Samaria for a long
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time, but eventually was killed by his own people with plotting
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his who'd been plotting his death ever since he turned his
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back on the Lord. Arrogant, proud.
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This is what was said of him at the beginning of his story,
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Second Chronicles 25. Two.
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He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not
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wholeheartedly. He served the Lord, but not with
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the whole heart. His half hearted service to God
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and his pride, his arrogance, he passed on to his son Uzziah.
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So then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was 16 years
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old, and made him king in place of his father, a Messiah.
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He did a lot of good stuff. He was the one who rebuilt,
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built Elath and some of the other cities that they'd
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captured from the Philistines, restored it to Judah after a
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Messiah had rested with his ancestors.
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And Uzziah was 16 years old when he became the king, and he
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reigned in Jerusalem 52 years. This is a long time for the
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kings of the of those generations.
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His mother's name was Jacaliah. She was from Jerusalem.
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his
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father Amaziah had done. Unfortunately, that wasn't a
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very high bar, right? We were talking about
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generations this morning, right? Amaziah, arrogant, proud and
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half hearted and his son served the Lord just like him.
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Fathers, this isn't this is just a gulp moment for us, right?
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It's more than just good for you to serve the Lord.
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How you serve the Lord is how your sons will serve the Lord.
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And that's for all of us who are physical and who are spiritual
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fathers to this house. He sought God during the days of
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Zechariah the priest, one more time, a faithful priest guiding
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the king, who instructed him in the fear of God.
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And as long as he sought the Lord, God gave him success.
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He won battles with the Philistines, the Arabs, the
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Ammonites. He broke down their walls,
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rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem and the gates of Jerusalem.
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The Arameans brought him tribute.
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He had a large and well equipped army.
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He was famous in all the earth because God had helped him out
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until verse 16 says. But after Uzziah became
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powerful, his pride led to his downfall.
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He was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple
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of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.
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Azariah, the priest with eighty other courageous priests,
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Because you'd better be, because the king can.
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Yeah, kill. You followed him in and they
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confronted King Uzziah and said it is not right for you, Uzziah,
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to burn incense to the Lord. That is for the priest, the
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descendant of Aaron. Please don't do this thing.
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They've been consecrated to burn the incense.
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Leave the sanctuary for you. Been faithful, and you will not
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be honored by the Lord your God in this.
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But Uzziah, who had a sensor in his hand ready to burn incense,
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became angry. And while he was raging at the
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priests in their presence before the incense altar in the Lord's
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temple. I mean, think of that.
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He's come into the Lord's temple at the place where incense is
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burned before the presence of the Lord in a role that's not
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his. And he's raging at the priests
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that are telling him you can't do this.
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And as he was raging at the priests in their presence before
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the incense altar in the Lord's temple, leprosy broke out on his
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forehead. And when Azariah, the chief
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priest, and all the year the priest, looked at him, they saw
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that he had leprosy on his forehead, and they hurried him
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out. And indeed he himself was eager
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to leave, because the Lord had afflicted him.
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And King Uzziah had leprosy until the day he died.
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He lived in a separate house, a leper, A leper banned from the
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temple of the Lord and from ruling the Kingdom.
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Jotham, his son, had charge of the palace and governed the
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people of the land. Now remember that it said that
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it was his pride that he was down, it was his downfall.
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David and his men, when they were fleeing from Saul, went to
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the temple and they gave them the showbread that had been
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offered for the before the presence of the Lord.
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This only belonged to the priest, but the priest gave it
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to them and they were all right. Why?
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Because the heart of David was different.
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His intent, his purpose was different, and he was anointed
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to be king. But Uzziah went in there because
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he was proud and because he was arrogant.
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This makes me think that it's more than just a desire to
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worship God, but he was using God, that this was a power play.
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You know, like that time that Saul was ready to go into the
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battle and Samuel was supposed to come and offer a sacrifice
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before all the people went out to the battle.
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And Samuel was late. And Saul is going, I can't do
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this if I don't have the blessing of the Lord on this.
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And so he decided that he would do the sacrifice himself.
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And then Samuel showed up. So for all the things that
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Samuel that Saul did, trying to kill David, all of the, the, you
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know, throwing a spear at him, just doing all the things that
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he did, the thing that he was rejected by the Lord as king for
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was this making this sacrifice. And this is what Samuel told
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him. Because you have not honored the
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Lord in front of the people. He has rejected you as king.
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And I think Uzziah had the same heart.
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I mean, ultimately he was wanting to be seen as one who
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wielded the power of God, maybe for his next conquest, or even
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maybe God was his next conquest. Ultimately, his argument with
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Priest wasn't. His argument with them was, who
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are you to tell me that I can't do this?
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Who are you to tell me that I can't do this?
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And that wasn't the point at all.
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God had said no, and he didn't care.
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Uzziah God had said no and he didn't care.
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This is the next step in Amaziah his father's dishonor of God and
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arrogance, his son's dishonor of the very holiness in the
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presence of God. So King Uzziah is in this
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progression from holiness to idolatry at Joash.
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His grandfather a passion, a passion from passion to half
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hearted arrogance like his father and Messiah to arrogance
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and brazen to Zane for the holiness of God in Uzziah.
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And so he became the leper king cast outside the camp.
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His son Jotham did better. He learned from what his father
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did and he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.
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It said that Jotham grew powerful because he walked
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steadfastly before the Lord his God.
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But Jotham's son, Ahaz, he could have been the wokest of the
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woke. He might have invented the EI,
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I'm not sure. But what he did do was he closed
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up the temple, sealed the doors, closed it up and set up Baal
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worship. And he set up high places for
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all the Israelites to worship in their cities and towns.
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And he set up Asherah poles and he sacrificed children to Molech
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in the fire in the valley of Hinnom.
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This is the progression that starts with a half hearted king
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who is arrogant and proud to a son who doesn't honor the
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presence of God and skips a generation to the king who
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abhors God entirely. Israel was dark.
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It was so dark. It was like Los Angeles in 2023.
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Dark but then God, always God. Hezekiah A has the most wicked
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of the kings. His son Hezekiah did what was
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right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had
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done. That's what it says all these
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other kings. It says he served the Lord just
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as his father a Messiah had done or just as his father.
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But for Hezekiah, they reached back to the king that God had
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selected for the kingly line and said he's just like David.
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Come on. Is that not the heritage that we
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want? I mean, Richard Earwood is my
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dad, but 6 foot 4, I'm never going to do that.
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But I want to look like David in this generation.
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I want to have the heart of David, the passion of David, the
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reverence for the holiness of God, of David.
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Hezekiah purified the temple, opened it back up and cleansed
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it top to bottom, restored the Levites, the sacrifices.
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They celebrated the Passover. They worshipped on the very
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instruments that David had made. They pulled David's worship
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instruments out of mothballs and worshipped like David.
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Come on, I like piano, but man, I'd take me some of those David
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instruments right now. It was stunning.
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And anyone who had lived under his father a has his reign would
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have never seen that in one generation all of this was going
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to change. They'd have never imagined this
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was possible. And I look at those kings and
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I'm reminded of all the ministries where it became more
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about the ministry than holiness.
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We've all been recipients of the fire that burned at IHOP, Jimmy
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Swaggart Ministries. I, I'm not even going to start
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naming names. You know what I'm talking about.
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Lies, deceit, greed, perversion, serving God, but with the same
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immorality as setting up an Asherah pole in the temple.
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And I'm not talking about patriotism or righteousness in
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government, people serving God and serving the country.
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But Christian nationalism is something darker.
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God becomes just the tool for the next political conquest, not
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to serve Him, to serve us. I told you I didn't want to say
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this, but it's swinging unholy incense in the very face of the
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Almighty. Or how about how the Church has
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become comfortable with being religious without being
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wholehearted, without being sold out?
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I hate every way that I've become comfortable with that.
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Not just calling good evil and evil good, but not calling
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anything anything. Not having the voice that we
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were set to have in this generation for righteousness.
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And that's when it hit me. In the year that King Uzziah
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died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up, and his train filled
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the temple. It has to die.
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Uzziah in US, in the church, in the ministries of the church,
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and the things that the body of Christ does to represent his
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face in the earth. Uzziah has to die if we want to
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see the Lord high and lift it up, if we want to see His glory
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fill the temple. If we have built any kind of
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altar to sin and enshrined it in any way, that Uzziah has to die.
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If we've attempted to make God serve our ends instead of
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serving His, that Uzziah has to die.
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If we have been anything but blazing white hot with His fire
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in our eyes, that Uzziah has to die.
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Now I will tell you that I think this is already in progress.
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Uzziah's name in the other manuscripts is also called
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Azariah. And isn't it interesting that it
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was Azariah the priest who confronted him when he went into
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the presence of God? Same name.
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God always has an Azariah, the priest and the 80 faithful
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priest with him. He always has a remnant, and
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they are always speaking for the Lord, and they are always there.
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And I know that I'm looking at Azariah is in this room right
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now. And after Ahaz, the worst of the
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kings comes. Hezekiah, come on.
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Just look at what's happened in the last two years.
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Roe V Wade is gone. Who of us ever thought we would
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live to see that day? It's gone.
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The back of the unrighteousness in our Ahaz culture is breaking.
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You can see it. You can even see it on Facebook.
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That's, yeah. After Charlie Kirk's death,
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there is a Hezekiah generation rising up now in the earth.
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And even if we have been an Amaziah or a Uzziah or even
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Ahaz, we can turn our hearts to the Lord and rise up as the
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fathers and mothers who will hold the Hezekiah generation up
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as they bring the glory of the Lord back into the earth.
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It's generational. It's generational, but that
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doesn't always mean generational curse.
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There is generational glory that can be released to the earth.
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And it's time for Uzziah and everything that he represents to
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die. So here's your Christmas story,
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right? I have to do this this December.
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It's in the Bible. Do you remember that?
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Carrie and I are also the facilitators for Ultimate
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Journey Phases 2 and three, right?
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You know that right? I love you guys.
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So some of you have already heard me say this.
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Jesus didn't come to fix your life.
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Christianity is not a 12 step self help life improvement
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program. It's a cross.
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He hasn't come to fix your life, He's come to kill you.
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But what he's killing isn't you, right?
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If you've been an ultimate journey Phase 1, you know all
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the lies that have been piled onto your life.
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Every lie that the enemy has told you, that family members
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have told you, that culture has told you that society has told
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you, have been pasted on you by the enemy and said here, this is
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your identity and it's built this form around you that's
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marked by sin and the glory of God that's within you can't even
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shine out through this crud caked on you.
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And Jesus is saying, let me kill that because you were made in
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fashion in the image and likeness of God, and that is in
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here. And his Spirit cries out to your
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Spirit and says, come on underneath of all of that, you
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look like me, you love like me, you walk like me.
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Let me free you from that dead thing.
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That's on you. Let me kill it so that the you
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that he's always seen and he's always known and he's always
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loved. Did you know when Jesus died on
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the cross for you? You're going to say AD 33,
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right? You're wrong, it says.
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Before the world was spun up, before the foundations of the
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earth were laid, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God was slain.
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What does that imply? All the things that I was ever
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going to do wrong, because God knows all the things He already
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knew, all the mistakes I'd made, He already knew I was going to
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make them. And included in the price what
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it would take to get past those things.
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He who did not even hold back his own Son, how then with Him
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will He not freely give us all things?
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You, you on the cross. It says that He endured the
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cross, despising its shame for the glory set before him.
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If you read John 17 and you look at when Jesus said I've taken
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the glory you've given me, and I've given it to an
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organization, I've given it to a structure, No, I've given it to
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them and all those who believe on my name, through them it's
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you. You are the glory of God
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revealed in the earth. All we got to do is chip off a
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little Amaziah and we're good to go, right?
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You were always loved. You were always.
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He looked at you from the cross and said worth it, Worth it,
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worth it. One passage even implies that he
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bragged about the deal that he got in purchasing you.
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Come on. So now we know who we know who.
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Well, all of them are, but we know who Uzziah is.
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Listen again, this is what's on the line for us.
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In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and
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exalted, seated on a throne, and the train of his robe filled the
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temple. And above him were seraphim, and
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each with six wings. With two they covered their
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faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they
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were flying and they were calling to one another.
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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.
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The whole earth is full of his glory.
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Come on. And at the sound of their
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voices, the doorpost and threshold shook, and the temple
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was filled with smoke. Look, I mean, doorposts.
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Hold the door open, right? The threshold, it's the place
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that marks inside the door. And outside the door, the door
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is shaking, and on earth, as it is in heaven, is about to step
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through the door. That's what a Hezekiah
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generation does in the earth. Come Lord, oh come Lord, I can't
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start praying yet. I got to finish the sermon.
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And Isaiah's response, Woe to me, I cried, for I am ruined.
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I'm a man of unclean lips, and I live among the people of unclean
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lips, and my eyes have seen the king, the Lord Almighty.
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Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand,
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which he taken with tongs from the altar.
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And with it he touched my mouth and said, See this has touched
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your lips, your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.
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Remember he cried out, not only am I guilty and are my lips
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unclean, but he said My people and their lips are unclean.
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And the Angel said, your sin has been atoned for.
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Will we be the ones who stand before Almighty God and say,
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touch me for my nation? Will you cleanse the lips of my
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nation? God, this is our heritage, this
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is our inheritance. Then I heard the voice of the
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Lord saying, now, right now, Uzziah has died.
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That which was polluted and broken and sinful and denying
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God and dishonouring God has died and the glory of God is
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released to the earth. And if you've been standing
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there going, it's I'm not worthy, I'm not good enough, I
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can't do this thing. See, here comes an Angel with a
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coal in his hands for you, and you and you and our nation.
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And Isaiah cried out, Here am I, the Lord said, who will go for
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us? Who will I send?
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And the Lord said and he replied, Here am I send me.
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It's releasing the glory of the Lord and all the earth.
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Let's stand together. It's shaking the doorways and
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thresholds so God can step through.
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It's removing the guilt and releasing atonement for the man
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and for the nation of unclean lips.
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And then whom shall I send? And who will go for us, Says
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God, to his house. Who will I send?
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Who will go for us? Place your hands out in front of
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you. Say this here am I, Send me.
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Oh God. God let every peace that looks
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like he's I in our life, in the church, in the state, in this
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nation, burn it away. Burn it away, God.
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And even the things that Jesus said, take up your cross and
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follow me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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God, the things you're calling us to nail it to a cross, to
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nail Uzziah in a cross and sacrifice it because it's not
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you and it's not who you made us to be.
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And we don't want that in our lives.
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We don't want that in our church.
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We don't want that in our sons and daughters.
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In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and
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lifted up. God come be high and lifted up
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in the midst of your people, of us, God, of us.
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And if we have to learn and we have to grow and we have to
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study and we have to become. And if it takes work.
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It's not works like earning our salvation, it's works like
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walking where you walk and following in your footsteps and
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taking part in the family business which is redeeming the
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earth. God here we are.
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Send us Uzziah has to die that the glory of the Lord may live.
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Come Lord, come Lord, that's my altar call.
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That's it. That's what I've got.
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I kind of don't do the standard centered prayer that says, O
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Lord, and this is my life helped my life to improve in me to be
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better and to do things right. He's got a cross for all that
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but his life in you. He wants to raise his life in
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you and he wants you to look just like him.
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He wants you to be the one that he says, just like my servant
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David. Hezekiah looks just like my
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servant David. He worships like David.
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He plays the instruments of David.
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He sings like David. He glows like David.
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He represents me before the earth like David.
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Come on. If you want to come to the
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altars, the altars are open. You can kneel where you are, you
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can try to drive home. It doesn't matter.
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The Holy Spirit's got your number right now come to the
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altar or pull over on your way home, because either way, God.
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And remember, this started because I prayed a simple
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kitchen prayer yesterday. God, what are you doing?
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Prayed one prayer already. Ready.
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Prayed this one with me. God, what are you doing?
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Come on, God, what are you doing in me?
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Yeah. This is just time to do business
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with God. I don't have a different agenda
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than that. And and your simple yes might be
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powerful enough right now to just do all the things that need
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to be done. If your yes isn't good enough,
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God can improve your yes. That's never a problem for him.
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A broken and contrite spirit He will never despise.
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Never, never, never. You are so amazing, so valuable,
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so wonderful to him. But if you need to come and
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pray, come and do that. And I'm going to close this with
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a prayer and, and be sure to sign up for Ultimate Journey in
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January when the sign up sheets are out.
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Jesus, I am so thankful that we are part of what you are doing
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in the earth in this time and in this hour and that you've chosen
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not to pass us by, but to visit us, to come and be in our
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presence, to come and make your presence felt and known, to make
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your face seen in our hearts in this room right now.
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So I bless these your people to walk in the light of your glory,
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to walk in your presence, not just in this moment and in this
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time when they come to church. They are the Kingdom of God on
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feet in the earth today, in the places where they work, in the
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middle of their families and all the things that we do or that we
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say. We represent you and we become
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you as you live and walk and move and breathe and fill us
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with your Holy Spirit. You thought you were not a big
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deal. You thought you were not a
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thing. You thought other people got to
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be the thing, but you didn't get to be the thing.
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You are the thing. You are the big deal.
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You are the reason that heaven said I can't possibly imagine
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not redeeming you. So Father, we just bless your
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people to walk in your glory and Lord every God, I pray that by
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your Holy Spirit you'll continue to show us the things if we have
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not been made aware of things that look like a Messiah in our
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lives that are not yet dead. Show us.
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Be merciful, O God, and show us and free us.
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God, we love you, we love you so much, You're so good to us.
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We can't even express how great your glory in your presence is
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does how much you mean, but we love you with our whole hearts,
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our mind and our soul and our strength.
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Thank you Father, in Jesus name, Amen.
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