Setbacks not Failures | Elder Terence Atkinson

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We hope this message will light up your day.

Last night it started to rain very heavily about eleven am.

But you know, el Mabele and me, we kind of

went asleep early yesterday, about nine thirty. That's because we

got up on a Saturday morning at four o'clock. We

couldn't sleep, so we decided go walking. So we started

at four am, which is usual for me but unusual

for her. Okay, because you know, thirty pounds does not happen,

you know, just like that, it's daily getting up at

four am to walk. But anyway, praise the Lord. We

were tired. We went to sleep and I'd set my

alarm for four am this morning because I get up

at four am to go for my morning walk. So

I can pray for the surveys, because nothing that I

say means anything, but only the anointing of the power

the Holy Spirit means something. Eleven am, I was deep sleep.

The eleven PM. Sorry, I was in a deep sleep,

and the Lord woke me up. She was awake and

the Mabel was awake, but I was. I was asleep,

and when I woke up, I could hear the voice

of the Lord say go downstairs, Go downstairs, Go downstairs,

And I'm thinking to myself, it's raining, Lord, why would

I want to go downstairs. I got to get up

at four am to pray. But the Lord said go downstairs,

so I got up. When I got up, el the

Mabel said, did you close the doors properly? Because the

light is blinking that the door is open. So she

couldn't sleep because that light was blinking. And I got

up and the Lord said go downstairs. When I went

downstairs in that heavy rain, it was like it was

raining in my hole. You see I got I got

two holes. One is on the inside, one is on

the outside. The outside is really where the family room is,

where we chill, and the whole place was raining inside.

Water everywhere was dripping from the ceiling, was coming down.

My furniture was wet, you know, my sofa was wet.

The dogs were going crazy. You know, we've got three

dogs to uh to our to our rescue dogs and

one were we're just looking after until my son in

law comes back. But it was just pouring down, a

water streaming down the walls, water coming from the top.

It was just some work was done and it ties

in today's today's message. Okay, some work was done on

the roof and it wasn't done. Well, oh my word,

you should say. And you know that my sofa is

very precious to me. How many of you know that

when a sofa gets wet, it ain't good. So at

eleven am at the mable and myself did all the

exercise I would have done if I got up at

four am in the morning. We had to clean the

place we had. I had to rearrange my first hall

and put all the furniture in a certain way, and

bring all the furniture from the from the other hall

into this one. And then came the process of cleaning

the sofa. Praise the Lord. I've got this kind of

carpet cleaner which I use, and it can suck water out.

So for one hour I was sucking order out of

there sofa. I put the egg on on to dry everything,

and praise the Lord. This morning everything's okay, sofa is dry,

no sting. You see, God is good. He woke me

up to tell me to go downstairs. Something was not right.

If I had not gone downstairs. Imagine I took out

so much water from the sofa, but it was not

thoroughly so yet if I had not got up, it

might have been permanently damaged. And God knows, God knows,

and God protected. And it's wonderful to listen to the Lord.

And then, you know, in spite when we should have

been saying why me, Lord, oh my Lord, you know

what was there was gratefulness in my heart. Thank you Lord,

that you woke me up and I heard, and you

know what, that was precious to me. So I said, okay, Lord,

now that I'm awake, I'll pray for this morning service

as reset my alarm not to wake me up at

four o'clock or that I could get some rest. And

we praise the Lord. That's how the day started. I'm

here to share with your message setbacks. Setbacks are not

necessarily failures. Hey, you and I we are so into

the word now of sharing with others that all may

know Matthew twenty eight, nineteen twenty, which we read just

now go into the world, Go you that for the world.

You know, preach the Gospel, make disciples. You know that

that word that tells us to go out, get it done,

get it done. Share. Do you know that we are

a second away from some madmen causing World War three.

I literally mean we are a second away. All it

takes is for one cycle to press that button. In

case you don't know, last week, put In said, we

are changing our stands and policy on the use of

nuclear weapons. No longer will we use it only if

somebody fires a nuclear weapon on us first. If we

feel we are threatened, we will go for it. That

was just about two or three days ago. And about

two or three days ago China responded, and China said,

don't do it. You and I gotta wake up. We

are not living in a world that we knew so

long ago. Scripture says, do not forsake the gathering of

the saints even as the day approaches. What day the

day of his second coming, the day of his appearing,

And one of the scriptures says, scripture says that when

the whole world turns against his children, which you know

is in the Middle East, it will signal the return

of Jesus Christ. And how many of you know there

is one alley, one friend of that Middle Eastern nation,

and that is a huge nation called the USA. And

USA is going through elections now and one of its

candidates hates that little nation. Did you know that? Hey,

in case you do not read the news, I've been

doing it for you, and I'm here to share you,

share you and teach you that Jesus is coming against soon.

And I always tell my children, maybe not in our lifetime,

but definitely in yours. That's how fast things have changed.

Oh you have I've not been here in the last year. Right. Oh,

I've been sharing how this has been coming, and I've

been giving details and and uh prophecies being responded to

an answered in all my messages throughout the last year.

So I'm here to tell you that if you've got

somebody who's not saved, go out and share with them

about Jesus. Hey, guys, the worst that somebody can say

to you is no, I don't want then their blood

be on their heads. But you and I we're not

called to save. Do you know that we only called

the share. Who is the one who say, blessed, I

use Simon by Jonah for flesh and blood has not

revealed this to you. But my father, who is in heaven,

whose job is to do the revelation. Well, John wrote

the Book of Revelation it's very good. Our job is

to do the telling. Our job is to do the discipling.

You know what is discipling? Monkey? See monkey? Do we

the monkey? You see other monkeys? Do we follow? I'm sorry,

We're not monkeys. But this is just colloquialism. Okay, this

is a simple understanding of what discipleship is. Discipleship is not,

you know, talking theory. I keep telling people that the

most people who got saved in my life as a

Christian happener when I knew nothing, when I only knew

Jesus saved me. And I feel good. Yeah. And when

I told that to people, they came to the Lord.

And like I said, most of the people who came

to the Lord in my early ministry they are now pastors.

And what did I do? I just shared with them.

I got saved. I feel good. Why don't you feel

good also? And believe in Jesus? And they God said,

But now I'm too smart. I know eschatology, that's the

study of Jesus Christ. I know all these theories. I've

read the Bible through and through so much a knowledge

up here. Not so many people coming to the Lord.

But what am I supposed to do. I'm supposed to tell,

and you know what. The thing when we tell, when

we tell and people don't listen, we get discouraged. Don't

allow the devil to discourage you, because you know what,

you are not meant to be encouraged by people getting saved.

If they get saved and you encouraged, praise the Lord.

But you know what you're supposed to be encouraged by.

I got an opportunity to share. Be encouraged with that,

and then you don't care whether people say yes or no.

Your job is just tell, man, Just get it out there.

Setbacks are not failures. I'm going to read from two

Samuel six three to five, and I think you know

this story.

So they set the ark of God. What's the ark

of God? The Ark of God is a kind of

a box that was inlaid with gold, and over it

they had like two angels with wings stretched out over

it that they were not real angels, they were models

of angels. And in it were put the if I'm

not mistaken, a piece of manner where the children were

walking in Israel. It was also that the ten commandments

that God had wrote with his finger on the stone

was put there. It wasn't and it wasn't an object

of worship, but it was a representation of the presence

of God kept in the Holy of holies, the tent

even as children walk through the desert to get to

their final hole, which is that place I was talking

about just now in the mid East. So they set

the Art of the Covenant on a new cart because

the old cat just won't do. Okay, They set in

a new cart and brought it out of the house

of a been Adwn. And I have said this so

many times, but this name never gets easier. Abenadub okay

okay mm, which was on a hill. And Uzzah and Ahiel,

the sons of Abinadab drove the new cart and they

brought it out of the house of my Binadab, which

was on the hill accomming the Ark of God and

a heel went before the arc twice twice, not once,

but twice. It was said that the ark was on

a hill. Why if something is significant or insignificant, Why

if something is insignificant is it mentioned twice? So the

hill must mean something. So I asked the Lord Lord,

what does the hill represent? Hey, guys, how many of

you are having a good life. Can I see it?

S your hands? Wait, I like that you have a

good life? You too, And you guess what, You're on

a hill. You're on a hill. So the good life

is when you're having a hill experience. There used to

be a song forty or fifty years ago, I want

to be the mountain fellowship in with the Lord. You

don't know that song. I don't blame you. It was

very it was. It was a number one song, okay,

in the late seventies. The art of covenant was on

a hill. Sometimes when you and I are having a

great life. Sometimes when you are having good things happen

to us. Guess what, you aren't supposed to stay there,

because if it was meant that you should just stay

on the hill, there would be no need for the

art of the covenant to be moved. You see, you

and I got to realize one thing. The Bible says

that God takes us from glory to glory. How many

of you know that in between one glory and the

next there might be value, There might be something you

have to go down in order to go and scripture

is full. If you are saying, oh, that's not scriptural,

you should not be having those kinds of things. Well,

tell that to Paul. Not this Paul, but the one

who wrote the Bible. Tell it to Paul. Because because

Paul said, I got this thorn in my flesh, And

what did God say? Just give it the program man,

get over him? The Holy Spirit's response was, get over it.

If you got a thorn in your flesh, it's all

right because you are just men to trust in me,

for when you're weak, you are strong. So if Paul

was only having a hell experience, then he would have

no weakness in his life. But you see what was

the weakness to him an opportunity to trust God more

getting it. Oh guys, so I know the children want

to hill fireh we.

Stood in all across if Jesus had to be taken

down from a hill and put it a tool.

Hey, guys, you and I we have no excuse to

break when things go wrong. I mean we could have said, oh,

my house is drowning, I can't make it a service.

God knew. God has known both of us enough to

know that. Should it have done that as we were

about to get ready for service, you know what the

both of us would have done. We would have just

let it be. If we got up this morning and

it was pouring, you know what we would have done.

Do your worst. We're going to church, and we will

just let it be. So that lesson has already been

proven to God, that lesson has always already been taught

by God, and we have already responded. Well, there is

no need for God to test us in this again.

Long ago, I had a fish tank, big one, it's

quite a big fish tank. It was in a window,

because you know, when I extended my house, instead of

covering up the window, I built a fish tank in

the window. So like coming from the back, coming through

the fish tank into the dining One day I got

up in the morning, I came down We're about to

go for service, and I heard the sound of rushing water.

And the first thing that I thought in my head,

the fish tank has broken, and it's far away from

where I come downstairs. But you know, this is how

the Lord's true. Enough, I went downstairs and the fish

tank had broken and water was pouring out of it,

and it was just about time for us to leave

for church, and held the people to myself. We said,

let's go to church and let God take care of

it because we can't manage it. So we went to church.

When we came home, that big fish tank and I

mean it's bigger. The glass was so thick because it

was really huge, had about so much water in it,

and every fish was still alive, all nine of them.

So we saved the fish and we gave it to somebody,

and I got rid of the fish tank, and I

built a showcase enough. But you see, God had already

tested us before, so he knew what our response would be.

Nothing draws us away from the worship of God on

a Sunday morning. And here you and I, some of us,

we find it so hard to come for service because

we went to Starbucks and left at two or three

a m. On Sunday morning. Scripture says, even as you know,

the days appearing for sake, not the gathering of the scenes.

You think God is saying it for He's good. Hey,

when Jesus comes again, you and I better be found

on the right side. All that from two hills amazing.

Then David, You're gonna love David, and all the house

of Israel played music before the Lord, and all all

kinds of instruments of forwood on HAPs on stringed instruments,

on tambourines, on systems, and on symbols. Sounds good, right,

sounds good? We were playing music Christian music. How many

of you know it just because you listen to Christian music,

you're not worshiping the Lord. It's not sufficient to just

listen to gospel music. And trust me, I've been listening

to gospel music for longer than most of you have

been alive. I have been listening to contemporary gospel music

since seventy nine, music with guitars and drums. And I'm

not talking about the choet type music, Okay, I'm talking

about gospel music that would shake up the dead since

seventy nine. But how many of you know that just

because you listen to gospel music does not make you

a Christian. There are so many people in the world

who love gospel music but who have got no relationship

with Jesus Christ. So here we had David, and he

had a relationship with Jesus Christ. A lot of worship. Well,

I don't know why those worship, but the Scripture says,

let me see it, they played all kinds of music

before the Lord. I think Scripture is very very sure

with its words. It might have been different if they

played all kinds of music to the Lord. It might

have been different if they played all kinds of gospel

music for the Lord. But something tells me they were euphoric.

They were happy, they were joyful, they were dancing, they

were in a disco man. But it was just before

the Lord. But I didn't hear those special words like

to the Lord, for the Lord, or about the Lord.

I didn't hear those words. They did it before the Lord.

When our praise and worship is defective, we may miss

out on doing the things that the Holy Spirit has

told us to do. You see, the name of the

game is success, and in order to achieve success, we

have to do things the way the Holy Spirit tell

to do. There was this man that was shared to

by so many people, and he was dying off cancer,

and he did not want to come to the Lord.

He said no, no, no, I'm not ready. No no no.

I went one time they shared with him, and when

he said no, I felt that was like a setback.

Then shut through the heart, so some of you went.

Love doesn't take place shut through the heart. They get

over it. God's able to find you somebody else. But

the issue is this all right? When he said no,

that was kind of like a setback, right, Oh, I failed,

So I don't want to share anymore. I failed, So

I give up. I failed. I failed in bringing him

to the Lord. So let's not this anymore. This is

where God was teaching me. Get over people saying no,

because it's just a sat back, but it is not

necessarily a failure. So anyway, two or three weeks later,

I found out he was now in hospital, and I

had the calling and the prompting in my heart go

and see him. So I sought the Lord, Lord, what

do I do with this guy? How do I share

with him? How do I get through? He already said no.

What's new that I'm going to tell him? You say,

because this guy said, I will only receive I will

only accept Jesus if I see him. Okay, you're so great,

you need to see God before I get you. Got

the message, so I prayed, say Lord, and anytime something

good is about to happen, it storms like I did

this morning. So as I was going to that hospital,

it was stormy. How many of you or your knicks

are getting tired when you see me walk up and down.

I was tired up. But you know what you're You're

you're still awake, right. If I stand still, you fall asleep.

So follow me, follow me, follow me. So I prayed,

you say God, what do I do? Even as I

was going to the hospital and the Lord, I mean,

his answer is quite funnier badminton. I'm asking you, Lord,

why what do I say to this guy who's dying?

And you are telling me badminton? Yes, badminton. Yeah. So

I went and see him and the first thing I

asked him was you do know you're dying? Right? Huh?

You would say that to a person who is in

that situation. The truth is the truth. You do know that, right?

He said yes? I said, Well, the Lord asked me

to tell you this, actually, yeah, do you play badminton? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,

I like badminton? Or really yeah yeah yeah yeah. So

I just told him, when Jesus died on the cross

and rose again to save you, he has served the

shuttle to you. Do you know that he cannot do

anything until you hit the shuttle back to him, And

when you receive him, you hit the shuttle back to him,

then he's ready to return it to you. I said,

the ball is in your corner. He served the shadow

to you when he died the cross. He's waiting for you,

and you want to see him as a friend because

you're going home soon. Do you want to receive Jesus?

He said, yes, guess what he received the Lord and

then he gave his destiny. He said he actually saw

the Lord come to the room, see him. You couldn't

see the face, but it was really bright light, and

he just knew there was Jesus. So you see, it's true. Man.

And then after that he told his niece, I saw

two men come into my room. They were bright white.

They had a little bit of a discussion. They looked

at me that they disappeared. So I just told his

niece he's about to pass away. Get ready, And within

a couple of days he left. It was a setback,

but man, God is good. Hey, some of those guys,

and I told you this before, at least I think

I have some of the people that God that you

have shared with. I'm not going to accept the Lord

while you're there, you know, but you'll meet them twenty

years later, thirty years later, and they've come to the

Lord because you shared Jesus with them. He was nineteen

eighty two and I left Singapore after studying. Some of

you may have heard this. I left Singapore ninety eighty

two after doing my A levels there, and as I left,

I had this friend. His friend. You know, he is

a very very rich Indonesian. We were learning a lot

about Indonesia, just not really really rich Indonesian. I mean,

in nineteen eighty two, if you owned a car in Singapore,

you were rich. He was the only one who had

his own car. It was a Nissan Bluebert. Okay, really

rich guy, but really nice guy is my classmate. So,

you know, thank God for the internet. One day found

him on the internet and he said, Terrence, guess what.

I'm a pastor. Say you're pastor? How did that happen?

He said, you ought to blame? What did I do? Said? Look,

don't you remember what you wrote in my autograph book?

I say, are you crazy? That was thirty years ago?

Thirty five years ago? How can I remember this? Is? Well? Anyway,

I was on my yacht. That tells you how which

he wasn't he had his own yard. This is I

was on my own yard and I was alone in

the waters. And something happened and I was about to

die and I couldn't There was no way for me

to get help. And I remembered what you wrote in

my autograph book, which was whenever you run into trouble,

call on the name of Jesus and he will come

and help you. At that moment, I called on Jesus,

and he came on the water and he helped me,

and he saved me. I got back to shore, I

gave everything up, and I decided to go full time.

I found out thirty five years later. Hey, guys, you're

a light bulb. And everywhere you go and everywhere you

set foot, you just talk about Jesus and you share

about him, and you go into the world and preach

the God. And it does not matter if you find

out there and then whether they received the Lord, because

one day you'll find out. One day you will see.

So all this from David playing instruments. And when they

came to Nachon's thrashing flow, it sounds like a potato chip.

And when they came to natural strashing floor, Usa put

out his hand on the ark of God took hold

of it for the oxen stumble. Sometimes the vehicle of

your transport may stumble. Sometimes you may think you're doing

the right thing, but there might be an occasion that

you stumble. And I want you to know what happened next.

Then the angle of the Lord was aroused against Uzza,

and God struck him there for his error, and he

died there by the arc of God because God had said,

don't touch the ark, because anyone who touches the ar

will die. Okay, this is the time for truth. How

many of you have read this passage before? Can I see?

Show hands? That's all I'm okay. You guys got to

go and read the old testimony because it's still a

word of God. Okay, that's number one. Okay, out of

those who read, how many of you? And this is

the I want you to search your heart and be honest. Okay.

How many of you after reading this thought that it

was very harsh of God to kill this man who

put out his hand to prevent the arc from falling.

I'm one of them. Okay. So how many of you

have read this and thought it was a little bit harsh? Okay?

That's about almost the same number, almost the same number.

Why would this be? Why would this be he did

something good and he died? Did he do something good?

You and I when we touched God? It had better

be with faith, because when you touch God with doubt,

you just may die. And I asked the Lord what

is the answer to this on one of my morning

walks at four am. This does not come from any commentary. Again,

this actually came from the Lord, the Lord of Lords,

the King of Kings, who built the universe and put

everything in its place by the power of his word,

and holds everything in his hands. Are you telling me

that this same God did not have the ability to

prevent the ark from falling supernaturally when Uza touched the ark?

You know what he was actually telling God? I can,

but you can't your honor. I will protect you are

unable to protect your own honor when you look at

it from that light? Do you see why God was angry?

You have known me all of your life. Don't you know, Oh,

I can take care of you. Don't you know I'm

able to do I spoke things into existence. Do you

know that if this earth just goes off a millimeter

of a degree, you and Ivory are dead? Are you

aware that the earth spins if I'm not mistaken twenty

six degrees on its axis, that if it was a

millimeter off that axis, life could not be sustained on

this earth. Are you aware that the center of the

Earth spins to produce a magnetic force field around the

Earth that prevents cosmic rays from burning you to a

crisp that if this center of the Earth was not

spinning and there was no magnetic field to protect it,

microwave effects from the Sun would fry us in a

few seconds. And this is the God who is looking

after all this and keeping all things in place. And

you mean to say he is unable to prevent an

arc from falling once you begin to see it. Now,

if God didn't, King Uzza, maybe you want to so seriously,

let me think about it. Guys, the God that we

believe in is not some ninety eight pound weekly Okay,

why I say ninety eight pound weekling? How many you

remember the comics there was the ninety eight pound weekling,

and then you buy something you put on muscles, so

they always call it a ninety eight pound week. Yeah,

I guess I'm speaking. This is really sad. He said, Hey,

you guys, gotta read more. Game it's really sad. You

don't know all these things. But this is the God

whom you and I believe in. Hey, guys, if you

want to touch God, touch him with faith. Do not

touch him with fear. He doesn't like it. Do not

touch him with doubt. He doesn't like it. Without faith,

it is impossible to what please God. Without faith, it

is impossible to make God like it. That's what pleases

Love pleases like, isn't it. So? Have you ever felt

that they were doing that, that we were doing the

right thing? And sometimes you feel we're doing the right

thing and that there was no progress? Because scripture says

the anger of the Lord was aroused against Musa and

God struck him there. And you know what next one

David became angry because of the Lord's outbreak against Musa,

and he called the name of this place perez Uza.

To this day, David was angry with the Lord. How

many of you know people who are angry with the Lord?

Do you know anybody here? No? I know I know

some people who are angry with the Lord. These are

the most I'm not allowed to say anything. I'll use

a kind word. These are the most senseless people in

the world. There's some other words starting the s. There

are few words eye to be angry with the Lord.

It's like the end, telling to the elephant, get out

of my face. The hair from the elephants steel fall

on the end. The end is no more. That's what

it is like. So this is sometimes how we feel

when we feel we're doing the right thing and there's

no progress. You know, sometimes we feel others are to blame, Gregna.

Do we feel that others are to blame for our

lack of success? Sometimes we even feel that even though

we were doing the right thing, we fail. So how

do we react? The obvious one is anger. Do we

get angry at someone? Do we get angry at someone

when we fail? We do? We do? But you know,

if you really want to get somebody who's responsible for

us failing, this is my advice. Go to your house,

Go to your toilet, because everybody's toilet has this, it's

a mirror. Look into it and get angry with that person.

If you have to this. It makes you feel that

you fail, make you fear it does, which is why

a few of us we don't like to share. Jesus Christ,

Can I be honest with you? How many of us

don't like to share Jesus because we've done it before,

people have rejected us. Can I see show hands? If

that's you honestly true, isn't it? How did Jesus feel

when he came and he said, seen me, you've seen

the Father. And yet the children of Israel said, stop

them from praising you. Stop the children from opening your

mouth and saying, God, you're great. What did Jesus say,

If they don't praise me, the stones who praise me doubt?

Do we doubt the plan? Hey? God, you really mean

for me to share? Hey? You know that's scripture in

Matthew twenty eight doesn't say those of you who've got

a big mount, you go and share. It did not

say those of you who are articulate, go and share.

He did not say those of you who are pastors

going share. Didn't say those of you who've known the

Lord for forty years, you go and make disciples. Didn't

say that. It did not. It just said going into

the world and preaching the gospel. Do you know that

the people whom this was told to, most of them

had experience with Jesus only three years? And do you

know that at that point of time, they had yet

to accept him as personal Lord and savior, because that

could only take place after Jesus died and resurrected. Did

you know that? And here you and I have been

in the Lord forty years and we think, oh, I've

got to offer. The devil is very happy when you

say that. Does it stop us? How many of you

have heard of this statement? Paralysis of analysis? You analyze,

and you analyze, your one, you analyze, You're then you're

still analyzing. You've already grown old, about to go into dementia,

still analyzing, family has already bought the coffin, still analyzing,

and you go home and be with the Lord, and

you've analyzed and done nothing. Guys, guys, come on, don't

let it stop you, because it's just a set back.

It's not the end of the story. The ark of

the Lord remained in the house of opened item the

geiti three months, and the Lord blessed old oh beed

edom and all his household. So now David was angry

and said, I don't want to have anything to do

with this wherever it is. Just leave it, man, just

leave it. I'm out of here. No, So he went

back to his place, and Albert Eden was very happy.

You don't want, I want, you don't take never mind,

leave it here. Leave it here because now it was

told to King David, saying, the Lord has blessed the

house of obed Eden and all that belongs to him

because of the Ark of the Lord. It took some

time for David to realize that Lord, the Lord was

blessing somebody else. You know why, you know I took

so long. It took some time because no Internet, maney,

it gets you every time I told his jokes so

many times. People always make in love because it's true.

You think you're only source of information Internet. Hey, so David,

you know what's right? Is right? So David realizes that

the Lord was blessing somebody else. So David went and

brought up the ark of God from the house of

over idemicity of David with gladness. Man, he realized what

was wrong, and he changed his attitude. Look, all of

us need attitude. Adjudge adjustments. You see, what prevents us

from experiencing the grace and power and blessings of the

Lord is simply an adjustment in our behavior. Because now

David realized, Hey, it's not anger. I need to exhibit

its gladness. So I'm going to bring back the Ark

of the Covenant. And what was different this time? This

time when David went to bring the ark, there was

careful sacrifice and worship. You see just now. The first

time it was nothing but a party atmosphere. Who sabration time,

come on, got a celebration, but the Lord's name was

not there, and it didn't work. So now David realized, yeah, yeah, yeah,

all those things are good, but there has to be

a deeper sense of worship. And I'm going to break

this down. Okay, you you ever this? This the Lord

did this morning? Okay, every six paces David sacrificed sheep.

You know, what was the distance of Albert Adam's house

to Jerusalem? Fifty kilometers? Fifty kilometers is one hundred and

sixty four thousand steps. How do I know because one thousand,

five hundred steps on my watch is one kilometer, So

one hundred and sixty four thousand steps six paces is

five feet. So how many paces were there from autumn

obed Adam's house to Jerusalem? Thirty two thousand. Now David

sacrificed sheep and oxen plural not singular, So just taking

it as two sheep and two oxen per six steps,

it worked out to Okay, I got working here, let's see, okay,

thirty two thousand steps, uh sixty four thousand, sixty four thousand. Now,

on the average, the price of the sheep and the

oxen together in one go was one thousand, four hundred

US dollars. So it took David eighty nine million, six

hundred thousand dollars worth of sheep and oxen he sacrifice,

and to break it down converted to ring it it

was half a billion dollars. David sacrificed half a billion

dollars to worship the Lord. Careful secon scrifice. David set

aside his kingly garments and simplified his attire. He just

wore an effort, you know why, because I'm going to

get down and worship the Lord, and I don't want

to be restricted, So he WoT something simple. The work

was not done until the careful, carefully prepared offerings were made.

David sacrifice to the Lord every six steps, every five

feet one two three four five one thousand, four hundred

US dollars one two three four five two thousand, eight

hundred US dollars and so on and so forth. My

man's not that good. So I did not work more

than that, don't you get it? And this time David

succeeded in bringing the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem.

But I want you to know that it did not

end there. Do you know after God got his dues

and after David had success, you know what David did.

He shared and gave to the people. It's in scripture.

It's in Scripture two six. After that, he gave gifts

to everyone, meaning what when the Lord blesses you, it's

not for yourself, it's for you to bless somebody else.

Success setbacks are not failures, but opportunities to get it right.

And with that, I hope you had a good time

listening and being blessed by the word of God. So

go out talk to that family member, share with them

about Jesus. If you can't talk to your family or

your father and mother because they are old school and

don't understand, start with this. Tell them dad, mom, I

love you. You have to start somewhere. Do that, rather

than when they've left this. Oh, I should have told

them no, no, no, no, No, they're here now tell

them now. Most likely they are like my and my mother.

They will think something is wrong with you, or there's

some prom her. What's wrong is every Okay? That was

the response that they gave me when I told them that.

I said, no, I would rather tell you now that

I love you than have regrets that when you're gone.

I didn't see it today. My father and mother tell

me that they love me. You may think that's normal, right,

because we tell our kids we love them, and they

tell us we love them. But have you told your dad?

Have you No, it's been a while. Has he told

you back to you? Can't think of a that He's

what I mean. Start a movement somewhere. Make it a movement,

you know what, because that will open the doors up

for you to be able to tell them about Christ.

Because before they listen to you about Jesus Christ, they

want to know that your life has changed. And because

they see that in yourself, Wow, you're so open to

me about your affection Jesus must have done something and

they will listen to you about Jesus. So that's your start. Hey,

if any of you have problems, I say this before

if any of you problem have problems sharing with some people,

and they need to know Christ. If you need help her,

come because I'm not afraid for people to tell me

no anymore. I'm not because once you get the word

in there, Hey, there's an opportunity. Okay, let's stay and

the ministry team is going to come and lead us

in the world through song and worship. How about that?

Did any of us ever realize that David sacrificed half

a billion ringed to bring and that is conservative estimates

because I took roughly one sheep to be worth about

two hundred US dollars and one oxen to be worth

about five hundred. But actually it's much more. Actually it's

much more amazing in it. And I just took plural

that because he said oxenden cheap. What if you sacrifice

three has three quarters of a billion dollars.

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