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Let your Heart be Different

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  1. Hi, this is Dave Olson. I'm the senior leader of

  2. Heartland Church located in Ankeny, IA.

  3. I hope the following message challenges, encourages and

  4. ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us.

  5. No, I am not the second coming of Pastor Dave.

  6. This is for somebody. If you're feeling unsettled, if

  7. you're feeling pressure about something right now, if you're

  8. just, if you're just kind of and you don't know why and you can't

  9. put your finger on it, Let me tell you this.

  10. Sometimes God is comfortable with making you uncomfortable

  11. where you are so he can move you when it's time to move you to

  12. the next thing, right? So don't always interpret

  13. everything in a negative light. Sometimes you need to just go,

  14. OK, God, what are you doing here?

  15. Kind of like me yesterday. I'm sitting in my house and I'm

  16. just feeling uncomfortable and I'm just going, God, what in the

  17. world? I mean, I've been a good

  18. Christian this week. I'm this week and, and I, you

  19. know, and I'm just feeling just unsettled.

  20. And so I'm supposed to be like installing a toilet and getting

  21. some plumbing stuff. And who doesn't love to do that

  22. on a Saturday? But I instead, I just sat down

  23. and I prayed for a while and I read, read the word a little bit

  24. more and it was still there. So I'm walking around my kitchen

  25. and I'm going, God, while we're talking about things, you gave

  26. me this message like back in September, this, this sermon

  27. thing. What are you going to do with

  28. this? What, what, what are you going

  29. to do? What, what, what do you want?

  30. Still pretty quiet in my kitchen.

  31. So I decided to take a nap because I'm that spiritual and I

  32. couldn't sleep. And I'm just laying there and

  33. I'm praying. God, what is this?

  34. I'm unsettled. I'm the guy that plays keyboard

  35. or guitar. I'm not the guy that does this.

  36. What? And Pastor Dave calls me, says I

  37. can't be there tomorrow. And I felt like God told me you

  38. had something. Why yes, yes, I do.

  39. Never lie to your pastor because that's not going to go well for

  40. you. I'm just telling you that right

  41. now. So here I am, and for those of

  42. you that don't know me well, I'm one of the board members here,

  43. so some of you voted for me. At least that Rick Arrowwood.

  44. I, my wife Carrie and I have three wonderful daughters who

  45. have snagged themselves three wonderful husbands and given us

  46. 6 1/2 grandchildren. Awesome, right?

  47. It is awesome. We've been here 17 years and if

  48. you know Carrie at all my wife, you know that she loves snow and

  49. she loves Christmas and Target. So on the Giving tree in the

  50. back, she looked for A tag that had a Target gift card request

  51. on it. And that's the one she snagged.

  52. I'm just here to tell you there are more cards left on the

  53. giving Tree. So you have an opportunity still

  54. like one more week, I think, right, that you can, you can

  55. bless someone. So what a great opportunity to

  56. bless someone at Christmas. And it's pretty, it's easy to

  57. do. And Carrie might have gotten the

  58. last Target one, but you know, buck up, do something.

  59. I really wanted to make this a Christmas message.

  60. I really wanted to extend Pastor Dave's message series about

  61. women who were alive at the time of Christ.

  62. And I got started thinking of all the old politicians that we

  63. know. And no, I guess I, I don't know

  64. anyone. So I'm just going to have to

  65. leave that to him to wrap up. But here's, here's the thing.

  66. This is, this is God poking at my heart first.

  67. This is me reading Isaiah chapter 6 in September and God

    Isaiah 6 chapter mention

  68. poking at my heart and going, you need to pay attention to

  69. this. And so I'm sharing that with you

  70. and I'm going to be a mess while I do it, and I don't care.

  71. All right. And if you get messed up,

  72. awesome. But the Holy Spirit is going to

  73. move on us today. And what He showed me, He's

  74. showing us because, see, God doesn't mean he isn't

  75. vindictive. He shows this thing by the Holy

  76. Spirit so that we can conform to His image in His will, so that

  77. we can take part in the Kingdom. And we can be pleasing to His

  78. heart because we're walking where He walks, right?

  79. So I read this in the year that King Uzziah died.

  80. I saw the Lord high and exalted, seated on the throne, and the

  81. train of his robe filled the temple.

  82. And above him were seraphim, each with six wings.

  83. With two wings they covered their faces with two, they

  84. covered their feet with two. They were flying, and they were

  85. calling to one another. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God

  86. Almighty. The whole earth is full of His

  87. glory. As a worship leader, I've sung

  88. this a million times, but on this day, God said, if you want

  89. to really grasp the significance of this, you need to look at who

  90. I, who Uzziah was. I mean, my Bible college

  91. education was 35 years ago. My Old Testament history is a

  92. little well, anyway, I have the Internet, so I'm good and I and

  93. I have a Bible. So you can read the story of the

  94. kings in Second Chronicles and Uzziah's story starts in chapter

  95. 25. Don't, don't read that.

  96. Now we're going to talk a bit. So Isaiah also wrote about them

  97. because he was alive during the reign of these kings.

  98. So when you read Isaiah, the book of Isaiah, a lot of the

  99. things that he was talking about were happening during the reigns

  100. of these kings. The verse that Pastor Adam read

  101. this morning, Isaiah 1 through 5, describes prophetically and

  102. poetically the sad story of the kings Amaziah, Uzziah, his son

  103. Jotham, his son Ahaz, and his son Hezekiah, Kings of Judah,

  104. the southern Kingdom that was ruled by the House of David,

  105. though they were the House of David now mostly in name only

  106. and some barely. That Samaria to the north had

  107. broken away was ruled by the House of Jeroboam, and they were

  108. evil in every way you could think of.

  109. And Isaiah's version gives us the spiritual side of the

  110. chronology and Chronicles, but from the perspective of the

  111. broken heart of God. So Isaiah 2 says, come on,

  112. descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord.

  113. A plea. Isaiah 217 says the arrogance of

  114. man will be brought low, and human pride will be humbled.

  115. The Lord alone will be exalted in that day, and the idols will

  116. totally disappear. And Isaiah 5 verses 20 through

    Isaiah 5:20–25

  117. 25. And tell me if this doesn't

  118. sound like a country we may have lived in.

  119. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness

  120. for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for

  121. sweet and sweet for bitter. And woe to those who are wise in

  122. their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

  123. Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at

  124. mixing drinks, who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny

  125. justice to the innocent. Therefore, as tongues of fire

  126. lick up straw, and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so

  127. their roots will decay, their flowers blow away like dust.

  128. For they rejected the law of the Lord God Almighty and spurn the

  129. word of the Holy One of Israel. And I know we're talking about

  130. Israel, but it feels like America to me a little bit.

  131. Therefore the Lord's anger burns against His people.

  132. His hand is raised, He strikes them down the mountains shake

  133. the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets.

  134. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away.

  135. His hand is still upraised. This was the heart of God over

  136. Israel. Now for the history lesson.

  137. To tell the story of Uzziah, we have to start with his Father

  138. and Messiah and Messiah's father.

  139. Joash was at first a really great and righteous king of

  140. Israel. He rebuilt the temple and and

  141. reestablished worship in Israel. But after the priest Jehoiada,

  142. that's close enough. Nobody else is going to say it

  143. better. Jehu Otto died.

  144. And guys, you know how long he lived.

  145. He was the priest who helped Joash take his throne and he

  146. stayed as his advisor and he guided him in the hand of the

  147. Lord. And tell me the Lord didn't

  148. extend this because he lived 130 years.

  149. Should have also been a clue to Joash.

  150. Like I should probably keep doing that, doing those things.

  151. But he didn't. He turned back to Asherah poles

  152. and idol worship and set it up all over Israel.

  153. He even when Joe had his son Zachariah, whom God sent to call

  154. him to account for his wickedness, he participated in

  155. his murder. So God gave him over to the

  156. Arameans who killed him and his son Amaziah became the king.

  157. And Joash, who was once the great reformer, the once the

  158. great revivalist, was not even buried in the tombs of the kings

  159. of Israel. They just put him in a box

  160. somewhere. Amaziah was listed as one of

  161. Judah's good and successful kings.

  162. He had a lot of military victories, but in one of them,

  163. over the nation of Sere, he brought home their gods and set

  164. them up as his own. I mean, think of that, right?

  165. Hey, these are the gods of the of the country we just

  166. conquered. These should be pretty good,

  167. don't you think? God wasn't pleased and Amaziah

  168. became arrogant and he picked a fight with Joe as the king of

  169. Israel. And God set this all up so that

  170. he would start a war that he would lose miserably.

  171. And he was captured and imprisoned in Samaria for a long

  172. time, but eventually was killed by his own people with plotting

  173. his who'd been plotting his death ever since he turned his

  174. back on the Lord. Arrogant, proud.

  175. This is what was said of him at the beginning of his story,

  176. Second Chronicles 25. Two.

  177. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not

  178. wholeheartedly. He served the Lord, but not with

  179. the whole heart. His half hearted service to God

  180. and his pride, his arrogance, he passed on to his son Uzziah.

  181. So then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was 16 years

  182. old, and made him king in place of his father, a Messiah.

  183. He did a lot of good stuff. He was the one who rebuilt,

  184. built Elath and some of the other cities that they'd

  185. captured from the Philistines, restored it to Judah after a

  186. Messiah had rested with his ancestors.

  187. And Uzziah was 16 years old when he became the king, and he

  188. reigned in Jerusalem 52 years. This is a long time for the

  189. kings of the of those generations.

  190. His mother's name was Jacaliah. She was from Jerusalem.

  191. And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his

  192. father Amaziah had done. Unfortunately, that wasn't a

  193. very high bar, right? We were talking about

  194. generations this morning, right? Amaziah, arrogant, proud and

  195. half hearted and his son served the Lord just like him.

  196. Fathers, this isn't this is just a gulp moment for us, right?

  197. It's more than just good for you to serve the Lord.

  198. How you serve the Lord is how your sons will serve the Lord.

  199. And that's for all of us who are physical and who are spiritual

  200. fathers to this house. He sought God during the days of

  201. Zechariah the priest, one more time, a faithful priest guiding

  202. the king, who instructed him in the fear of God.

  203. And as long as he sought the Lord, God gave him success.

  204. He won battles with the Philistines, the Arabs, the

  205. Ammonites. He broke down their walls,

  206. rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem and the gates of Jerusalem.

  207. The Arameans brought him tribute.

  208. He had a large and well equipped army.

  209. He was famous in all the earth because God had helped him out

  210. until verse 16 says. But after Uzziah became

  211. powerful, his pride led to his downfall.

  212. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple

  213. of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

  214. Azariah, the priest with eighty other courageous priests,

  215. Because you'd better be, because the king can.

  216. Yeah, kill. You followed him in and they

  217. confronted King Uzziah and said it is not right for you, Uzziah,

  218. to burn incense to the Lord. That is for the priest, the

  219. descendant of Aaron. Please don't do this thing.

  220. They've been consecrated to burn the incense.

  221. Leave the sanctuary for you. Been faithful, and you will not

  222. be honored by the Lord your God in this.

  223. But Uzziah, who had a sensor in his hand ready to burn incense,

  224. became angry. And while he was raging at the

  225. priests in their presence before the incense altar in the Lord's

  226. temple. I mean, think of that.

  227. He's come into the Lord's temple at the place where incense is

  228. burned before the presence of the Lord in a role that's not

  229. his. And he's raging at the priests

  230. that are telling him you can't do this.

  231. And as he was raging at the priests in their presence before

  232. the incense altar in the Lord's temple, leprosy broke out on his

  233. forehead. And when Azariah, the chief

  234. priest, and all the year the priest, looked at him, they saw

  235. that he had leprosy on his forehead, and they hurried him

  236. out. And indeed he himself was eager

  237. to leave, because the Lord had afflicted him.

  238. And King Uzziah had leprosy until the day he died.

  239. He lived in a separate house, a leper, A leper banned from the

  240. temple of the Lord and from ruling the Kingdom.

  241. Jotham, his son, had charge of the palace and governed the

  242. people of the land. Now remember that it said that

  243. it was his pride that he was down, it was his downfall.

  244. David and his men, when they were fleeing from Saul, went to

  245. the temple and they gave them the showbread that had been

  246. offered for the before the presence of the Lord.

  247. This only belonged to the priest, but the priest gave it

  248. to them and they were all right. Why?

  249. Because the heart of David was different.

  250. His intent, his purpose was different, and he was anointed

  251. to be king. But Uzziah went in there because

  252. he was proud and because he was arrogant.

  253. This makes me think that it's more than just a desire to

  254. worship God, but he was using God, that this was a power play.

  255. You know, like that time that Saul was ready to go into the

  256. battle and Samuel was supposed to come and offer a sacrifice

  257. before all the people went out to the battle.

  258. And Samuel was late. And Saul is going, I can't do

  259. this if I don't have the blessing of the Lord on this.

  260. And so he decided that he would do the sacrifice himself.

  261. And then Samuel showed up. So for all the things that

  262. Samuel that Saul did, trying to kill David, all of the, the, you

  263. know, throwing a spear at him, just doing all the things that

  264. he did, the thing that he was rejected by the Lord as king for

  265. was this making this sacrifice. And this is what Samuel told

  266. him. Because you have not honored the

  267. Lord in front of the people. He has rejected you as king.

  268. And I think Uzziah had the same heart.

  269. I mean, ultimately he was wanting to be seen as one who

  270. wielded the power of God, maybe for his next conquest, or even

  271. maybe God was his next conquest. Ultimately, his argument with

  272. Priest wasn't. His argument with them was, who

  273. are you to tell me that I can't do this?

  274. Who are you to tell me that I can't do this?

  275. And that wasn't the point at all.

  276. God had said no, and he didn't care.

  277. Uzziah God had said no and he didn't care.

  278. This is the next step in Amaziah his father's dishonor of God and

  279. arrogance, his son's dishonor of the very holiness in the

  280. presence of God. So King Uzziah is in this

  281. progression from holiness to idolatry at Joash.

  282. His grandfather a passion, a passion from passion to half

  283. hearted arrogance like his father and Messiah to arrogance

  284. and brazen to Zane for the holiness of God in Uzziah.

  285. And so he became the leper king cast outside the camp.

  286. His son Jotham did better. He learned from what his father

  287. did and he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.

  288. It said that Jotham grew powerful because he walked

  289. steadfastly before the Lord his God.

  290. But Jotham's son, Ahaz, he could have been the wokest of the

  291. woke. He might have invented the EI,

  292. I'm not sure. But what he did do was he closed

  293. up the temple, sealed the doors, closed it up and set up Baal

  294. worship. And he set up high places for

  295. all the Israelites to worship in their cities and towns.

  296. And he set up Asherah poles and he sacrificed children to Molech

  297. in the fire in the valley of Hinnom.

  298. This is the progression that starts with a half hearted king

  299. who is arrogant and proud to a son who doesn't honor the

  300. presence of God and skips a generation to the king who

  301. abhors God entirely. Israel was dark.

  302. It was so dark. It was like Los Angeles in 2023.

  303. Dark but then God, always God. Hezekiah A has the most wicked

  304. of the kings. His son Hezekiah did what was

  305. right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had

  306. done. That's what it says all these

  307. other kings. It says he served the Lord just

  308. as his father a Messiah had done or just as his father.

  309. But for Hezekiah, they reached back to the king that God had

  310. selected for the kingly line and said he's just like David.

  311. Come on. Is that not the heritage that we

  312. want? I mean, Richard Earwood is my

  313. dad, but 6 foot 4, I'm never going to do that.

  314. But I want to look like David in this generation.

  315. I want to have the heart of David, the passion of David, the

  316. reverence for the holiness of God, of David.

  317. Hezekiah purified the temple, opened it back up and cleansed

  318. it top to bottom, restored the Levites, the sacrifices.

  319. They celebrated the Passover. They worshipped on the very

  320. instruments that David had made. They pulled David's worship

  321. instruments out of mothballs and worshipped like David.

  322. Come on, I like piano, but man, I'd take me some of those David

  323. instruments right now. It was stunning.

  324. And anyone who had lived under his father a has his reign would

  325. have never seen that in one generation all of this was going

  326. to change. They'd have never imagined this

  327. was possible. And I look at those kings and

  328. I'm reminded of all the ministries where it became more

  329. about the ministry than holiness.

  330. We've all been recipients of the fire that burned at IHOP, Jimmy

  331. Swaggart Ministries. I, I'm not even going to start

  332. naming names. You know what I'm talking about.

  333. Lies, deceit, greed, perversion, serving God, but with the same

  334. immorality as setting up an Asherah pole in the temple.

  335. And I'm not talking about patriotism or righteousness in

  336. government, people serving God and serving the country.

  337. But Christian nationalism is something darker.

  338. God becomes just the tool for the next political conquest, not

  339. to serve Him, to serve us. I told you I didn't want to say

  340. this, but it's swinging unholy incense in the very face of the

  341. Almighty. Or how about how the Church has

  342. become comfortable with being religious without being

  343. wholehearted, without being sold out?

  344. I hate every way that I've become comfortable with that.

  345. Not just calling good evil and evil good, but not calling

  346. anything anything. Not having the voice that we

  347. were set to have in this generation for righteousness.

  348. And that's when it hit me. In the year that King Uzziah

  349. died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up, and his train filled

  350. the temple. It has to die.

  351. Uzziah in US, in the church, in the ministries of the church,

  352. and the things that the body of Christ does to represent his

  353. face in the earth. Uzziah has to die if we want to

  354. see the Lord high and lift it up, if we want to see His glory

  355. fill the temple. If we have built any kind of

  356. altar to sin and enshrined it in any way, that Uzziah has to die.

  357. If we've attempted to make God serve our ends instead of

  358. serving His, that Uzziah has to die.

  359. If we have been anything but blazing white hot with His fire

  360. in our eyes, that Uzziah has to die.

  361. Now I will tell you that I think this is already in progress.

  362. Uzziah's name in the other manuscripts is also called

  363. Azariah. And isn't it interesting that it

  364. was Azariah the priest who confronted him when he went into

  365. the presence of God? Same name.

  366. God always has an Azariah, the priest and the 80 faithful

  367. priest with him. He always has a remnant, and

  368. they are always speaking for the Lord, and they are always there.

  369. And I know that I'm looking at Azariah is in this room right

  370. now. And after Ahaz, the worst of the

  371. kings comes. Hezekiah, come on.

  372. Just look at what's happened in the last two years.

  373. Roe V Wade is gone. Who of us ever thought we would

  374. live to see that day? It's gone.

  375. The back of the unrighteousness in our Ahaz culture is breaking.

  376. You can see it. You can even see it on Facebook.

  377. That's, yeah. After Charlie Kirk's death,

  378. there is a Hezekiah generation rising up now in the earth.

  379. And even if we have been an Amaziah or a Uzziah or even

  380. Ahaz, we can turn our hearts to the Lord and rise up as the

  381. fathers and mothers who will hold the Hezekiah generation up

  382. as they bring the glory of the Lord back into the earth.

  383. It's generational. It's generational, but that

  384. doesn't always mean generational curse.

  385. There is generational glory that can be released to the earth.

  386. And it's time for Uzziah and everything that he represents to

  387. die. So here's your Christmas story,

  388. right? I have to do this this December.

  389. It's in the Bible. Do you remember that?

  390. Carrie and I are also the facilitators for Ultimate

  391. Journey Phases 2 and three, right?

  392. You know that right? I love you guys.

  393. So some of you have already heard me say this.

  394. Jesus didn't come to fix your life.

  395. Christianity is not a 12 step self help life improvement

  396. program. It's a cross.

  397. He hasn't come to fix your life, He's come to kill you.

  398. But what he's killing isn't you, right?

  399. If you've been an ultimate journey Phase 1, you know all

  400. the lies that have been piled onto your life.

  401. Every lie that the enemy has told you, that family members

  402. have told you, that culture has told you that society has told

  403. you, have been pasted on you by the enemy and said here, this is

  404. your identity and it's built this form around you that's

  405. marked by sin and the glory of God that's within you can't even

  406. shine out through this crud caked on you.

  407. And Jesus is saying, let me kill that because you were made in

  408. fashion in the image and likeness of God, and that is in

  409. here. And his Spirit cries out to your

  410. Spirit and says, come on underneath of all of that, you

  411. look like me, you love like me, you walk like me.

  412. Let me free you from that dead thing.

  413. That's on you. Let me kill it so that the you

  414. that he's always seen and he's always known and he's always

  415. loved. Did you know when Jesus died on

  416. the cross for you? You're going to say AD 33,

  417. right? You're wrong, it says.

  418. Before the world was spun up, before the foundations of the

  419. earth were laid, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God was slain.

  420. What does that imply? All the things that I was ever

  421. going to do wrong, because God knows all the things He already

  422. knew, all the mistakes I'd made, He already knew I was going to

  423. make them. And included in the price what

  424. it would take to get past those things.

  425. He who did not even hold back his own Son, how then with Him

  426. will He not freely give us all things?

  427. You, you on the cross. It says that He endured the

  428. cross, despising its shame for the glory set before him.

  429. If you read John 17 and you look at when Jesus said I've taken

  430. the glory you've given me, and I've given it to an

  431. organization, I've given it to a structure, No, I've given it to

  432. them and all those who believe on my name, through them it's

  433. you. You are the glory of God

  434. revealed in the earth. All we got to do is chip off a

  435. little Amaziah and we're good to go, right?

  436. You were always loved. You were always.

  437. He looked at you from the cross and said worth it, Worth it,

  438. worth it. One passage even implies that he

  439. bragged about the deal that he got in purchasing you.

  440. Come on. So now we know who we know who.

  441. Well, all of them are, but we know who Uzziah is.

  442. Listen again, this is what's on the line for us.

  443. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and

  444. exalted, seated on a throne, and the train of his robe filled the

  445. temple. And above him were seraphim, and

  446. each with six wings. With two they covered their

  447. faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they

  448. were flying and they were calling to one another.

  449. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.

  450. The whole earth is full of his glory.

  451. Come on. And at the sound of their

  452. voices, the doorpost and threshold shook, and the temple

  453. was filled with smoke. Look, I mean, doorposts.

  454. Hold the door open, right? The threshold, it's the place

  455. that marks inside the door. And outside the door, the door

  456. is shaking, and on earth, as it is in heaven, is about to step

  457. through the door. That's what a Hezekiah

  458. generation does in the earth. Come Lord, oh come Lord, I can't

  459. start praying yet. I got to finish the sermon.

  460. And Isaiah's response, Woe to me, I cried, for I am ruined.

  461. I'm a man of unclean lips, and I live among the people of unclean

  462. lips, and my eyes have seen the king, the Lord Almighty.

  463. Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand,

  464. which he taken with tongs from the altar.

  465. And with it he touched my mouth and said, See this has touched

  466. your lips, your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.

  467. Remember he cried out, not only am I guilty and are my lips

  468. unclean, but he said My people and their lips are unclean.

  469. And the Angel said, your sin has been atoned for.

  470. Will we be the ones who stand before Almighty God and say,

  471. touch me for my nation? Will you cleanse the lips of my

  472. nation? God, this is our heritage, this

  473. is our inheritance. Then I heard the voice of the

  474. Lord saying, now, right now, Uzziah has died.

  475. That which was polluted and broken and sinful and denying

  476. God and dishonouring God has died and the glory of God is

  477. released to the earth. And if you've been standing

  478. there going, it's I'm not worthy, I'm not good enough, I

  479. can't do this thing. See, here comes an Angel with a

  480. coal in his hands for you, and you and you and our nation.

  481. And Isaiah cried out, Here am I, the Lord said, who will go for

  482. us? Who will I send?

  483. And the Lord said and he replied, Here am I send me.

  484. It's releasing the glory of the Lord and all the earth.

  485. Let's stand together. It's shaking the doorways and

  486. thresholds so God can step through.

  487. It's removing the guilt and releasing atonement for the man

  488. and for the nation of unclean lips.

  489. And then whom shall I send? And who will go for us, Says

  490. God, to his house. Who will I send?

  491. Who will go for us? Place your hands out in front of

  492. you. Say this here am I, Send me.

  493. Oh God. God let every peace that looks

  494. like he's I in our life, in the church, in the state, in this

  495. nation, burn it away. Burn it away, God.

  496. And even the things that Jesus said, take up your cross and

  497. follow me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

  498. God, the things you're calling us to nail it to a cross, to

  499. nail Uzziah in a cross and sacrifice it because it's not

  500. you and it's not who you made us to be.

  501. And we don't want that in our lives.

  502. We don't want that in our church.

  503. We don't want that in our sons and daughters.

  504. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and

  505. lifted up. God come be high and lifted up

  506. in the midst of your people, of us, God, of us.

  507. And if we have to learn and we have to grow and we have to

  508. study and we have to become. And if it takes work.

  509. It's not works like earning our salvation, it's works like

  510. walking where you walk and following in your footsteps and

  511. taking part in the family business which is redeeming the

  512. earth. God here we are.

  513. Send us Uzziah has to die that the glory of the Lord may live.

  514. Come Lord, come Lord, that's my altar call.

  515. That's it. That's what I've got.

  516. I kind of don't do the standard centered prayer that says, O

  517. Lord, and this is my life helped my life to improve in me to be

  518. better and to do things right. He's got a cross for all that

  519. but his life in you. He wants to raise his life in

  520. you and he wants you to look just like him.

  521. He wants you to be the one that he says, just like my servant

  522. David. Hezekiah looks just like my

  523. servant David. He worships like David.

  524. He plays the instruments of David.

  525. He sings like David. He glows like David.

  526. He represents me before the earth like David.

  527. Come on. If you want to come to the

  528. altars, the altars are open. You can kneel where you are, you

  529. can try to drive home. It doesn't matter.

  530. The Holy Spirit's got your number right now come to the

  531. altar or pull over on your way home, because either way, God.

  532. And remember, this started because I prayed a simple

  533. kitchen prayer yesterday. God, what are you doing?

  534. Prayed one prayer already. Ready.

  535. Prayed this one with me. God, what are you doing?

  536. Come on, God, what are you doing in me?

  537. Yeah. This is just time to do business

  538. with God. I don't have a different agenda

  539. than that. And and your simple yes might be

  540. powerful enough right now to just do all the things that need

  541. to be done. If your yes isn't good enough,

  542. God can improve your yes. That's never a problem for him.

  543. A broken and contrite spirit He will never despise.

  544. Never, never, never. You are so amazing, so valuable,

  545. so wonderful to him. But if you need to come and

  546. pray, come and do that. And I'm going to close this with

  547. a prayer and, and be sure to sign up for Ultimate Journey in

  548. January when the sign up sheets are out.

  549. Jesus, I am so thankful that we are part of what you are doing

  550. in the earth in this time and in this hour and that you've chosen

  551. not to pass us by, but to visit us, to come and be in our

  552. presence, to come and make your presence felt and known, to make

  553. your face seen in our hearts in this room right now.

  554. So I bless these your people to walk in the light of your glory,

  555. to walk in your presence, not just in this moment and in this

  556. time when they come to church. They are the Kingdom of God on

  557. feet in the earth today, in the places where they work, in the

  558. middle of their families and all the things that we do or that we

  559. say. We represent you and we become

  560. you as you live and walk and move and breathe and fill us

  561. with your Holy Spirit. You thought you were not a big

  562. deal. You thought you were not a

  563. thing. You thought other people got to

  564. be the thing, but you didn't get to be the thing.

  565. You are the thing. You are the big deal.

  566. You are the reason that heaven said I can't possibly imagine

  567. not redeeming you. So Father, we just bless your

  568. people to walk in your glory and Lord every God, I pray that by

  569. your Holy Spirit you'll continue to show us the things if we have

  570. not been made aware of things that look like a Messiah in our

  571. lives that are not yet dead. Show us.

  572. Be merciful, O God, and show us and free us.

  573. God, we love you, we love you so much, You're so good to us.

  574. We can't even express how great your glory in your presence is

  575. does how much you mean, but we love you with our whole hearts,

  576. our mind and our soul and our strength.

  577. Thank you Father, in Jesus name, Amen.

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