Kingdom Culture is Centered Around the Presence of the King | Kingdom Culture | Part 2

Oh you're agreed [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] well hello and welcome to life Church 7 this Sunday it's gonna be an amazing service today and I want to encourage you if you haven't shared the feed to share the feed this morning I heard a story recently about a person who is going through a hard time was having suicidal thoughts and a friend of his who's a part of this church shared the feet with him and says hey you gotta watch the serves it's really gonna encourage you and long story short what happened in that guy's he was encouraged and he's on his path towards healing and restoration and it all started from somebody sharing a feed so I want to encourage you sometimes wonder man does this matter listen you don't know what's going on on the other side of the feed you don't know what's going on on somebody's life on the other side of that feed and I want to encourage you so easy to click that share button and when you share this feed you don't know what God's gonna be doing inside of a person's heart there's a lot of things in the atmosphere right now how many know we need more of the kingdom in the atmosphere right now and that happens when you share the feed so I want to encourage you to do that and speaking of atmosphere this whole message and this whole sermon today is gonna be about atmospheres and so let's just start this service off right and let's welcome the Holy Spirit right into your home right into your heart right now so would you stand with me open up your hands and just begin to declare welcome Holy Spirit welcome Holy Spirit you're welcome in my home right now I shift the atmosphere in my home right now to welcome the Holy Spirit so come come into my heart come into my life I know when I get into your presence everything changes in your presence is fullness of joy so God whatever despair whatever sadness whatever thing I'm holding onto I release it right now in your presence and in exchange I receive your peace in exchange I receive your joy and today is your day your mercies are new every morning so God encouraged us as we worship you as we listen to your word as we get ministered to you by your presence we love you and we invite you here now Holy Spirit let's worship together [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] we Steve [Music] as you do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the kingdom of the kingdom [Music] you're the king of mine [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] No there is [Music] Jesus in song [Music] there is no Jesus [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there's no [Music] last [Music] so his weight and [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I never beat [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] like [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the bees [Music] to close the distance [Music] my your girl [Music] and me [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] when you come [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] right in your home you just lift your hands with me all my fountains are found in you all my hope is found in you Lord this this day we just stop and we lift our hands to you we welcome you Holy Spirit to come and to fill our homes with your presence to fill our homes and our hearts with your goodness to come and do exceedingly abundantly above all what we could remember astral today we welcome you Lord we welcome you Father you've not given us the spirit of fear but of love and power and of a sound mind we come against the strong man fear and we break its grip today in Jesus mighty name we declare your kingdom to come and your will and your purpose is to be done in Jesus name we speak your grace and your peace over Atlanta today in Jesus mighty name in Jesus mighty name we declare your purposes [Music] the fountain of your love and thank you fearless in Jesus name the strongman hatred in Jesus name net principality that power for darkness that continues a stir up and we ask in Jesus name by the blood of Jesus Christ that that strongman is broken that principality is broken now in Jesus name we raise that the standard of the Lord Jesus Christ against every work of darkness and we declare your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven [Music] we give you praise we give you glory [Music] [Music] we'll love you Jesus [Music] love you all to the life easily to all of you we welcome you on this amazing day we bless you in the name of the Lord I can see you by faith all that God is doing one day soon we'll all be back together we'll be worshiping it will be a grand a grand three Catherine and I list so look forward to that time but in the meantime we're gonna fix their eyes on Jesus the author and the finisher for faith it was just kind of a segue to an offering time we give it because we love Jesus I'm so grateful for all that God is doing I'm so thankful for your faithfulness of giving of your ties in your offerings this past week we wrote a humongous check to check to finish off be a studio area and up to this point people have continued to give of their ties they're offering special gifts have come in and during the month of June I believe that we can get all of this paid off because of God's goodness and His grace amen we come back we'll just come back to amazing time so as you prepare there beyond the scream ways to give give of your tithes and offerings we give because we love the Lord in this season we're gonna give because we're gonna see the kingdom of God forcefully advanced forcefully advanced where's your team is so amazing the band so thankful for all that's going on you can't see them but we had of an amazing camera crew and Matthew and his whole team back here we just want to say thank you to you so good as we prepare hearts pastor to has an amazing message today now and I just repair your hearts for it for their new Robin ink and Josh you're gonna come and give some announcements and we just bless them as they come [Music] man that was awesome that was amazing if you're not set on fire man I don't know how to help you cause you wondering that new song that Nathan did is called landslide okay powerful powerful song hey we do have a slew of announcements we're gonna go through these pretty fast like Pastor Mark said to start the feed go ahead and share this and you know it's not about the number of clicks or the number of views but it's about getting the gospel out we want the good news of Jesus to go out to as many people as possible so go ahead and click that share button if you would we would appreciate it we have daily Debose every weekday at 9:30 different pastors share different days we go through the life journal reading power plan and it's just as powerful it's a lot of fun I have fun I think most people enjoy it it's just it's just really good just a daily routine of spending time in the word and connecting via Facebook so go ahead and get on there Monday morning yeah we have a new children's pastor we've been talking about her she's amazing pastor Claire we are going to have a meet and greet pastor Claire this Thursday June 18th it's gonna be a drive by at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. she's amazing she's gonna be giving out popsicles and ice cream so come on out you want to bring your kids and meet pastor Claire this Thursday 10:00 a.m. and 2 p.m. if there's ice cream on there that's a true statement yeah that's true hey it is almost Father's Day next Sunday is Father's Day and so if you want to get a good gift for a father in your life the mighty men merchandise is on sale right now 10% off up through Father's Day and you can check out our Facebook page for more details on that if you are a Zoe mighty woman Zoe mighty woman I'm just gonna blend those together if you are a part of the Zoe ladies were actually taking signups right now for the small groups so you want to check out Facebook and what do you call it Graham town Graham town Graham town go to Graham town check out zoe women's ministry and sign up for a small group if you're new to the live church community you want to get connected this is a great way to do that yeah hey one more thing that I have and then Robins got a couple more announcements but text the word pray or salvation two four eight four eight four eight and somebody will connect with you if you need prayer we will some people call you and pray pray with you over the phone or if you have just given your life to Jesus go ahead text the word salvation two four eight four eight four eight and we will connect with you to get you off on the right foot last announcement I know we're so close hang in there tonight 6:00 p.m. out on the patio we're gonna have our Sunday night service last week was incredible we saw healings mark Sullivan's finger guy it was broken it was healed you don't want to miss it come out tonight we're gonna just spread revival fire across this region so we want to invite you 6 p.m. tonight also LC 7 SSM applications are open now if you are hungry you are feeling that call you are revivalist get online sign up today LC 7 SSM calm and that is it brother ooh pastor drew oh good morning I get set up here the Word of God I brought with me so fun will be getting into the word today kingdom culture atmosphere and presence we're talking about atmosphere and presence today kingdom culture serious pastor mark thank you so much for your your message last week on the importance of humility well is that a good message importance of humility the kingdom of God humility is a critical piece and posture for each of us moving forward and and really needs the to be the posture of every believers heart I think it's important to make this point that though there are many cultures around the world there's only two kingdoms there's a kingdom of darkness right and actually a Satan is the head of that Kingdom and then there's the kingdom of light and who's the king of that kingdom Jesus how many know that Satan tries to be real scary right Jesus has never lost a battle to that King so we're on the winning side how many like to win winning is fun kena but there's only two kingdoms right and and there's a battle going on right now isn't there in our land between the two kingdoms you can see it played out in the physical but there's a spiritual battle going on and it's two kingdoms colliding and it's really colliding for the destiny of our nation and so it's so important right now to pray I love the the prayer revival prayer of the patio and Saturday night prayer come for that as well at six o'clock same time we're just calling on God for our nation and last week's message Pastor Mark said that everything has a culture every home every organization every sports team every family every family has a culture doesn't it and how our culture is formed truth is I think it's safe to say that if you met a Dallas Cowboy fan or a Raiders fan you would recognize they have an interesting culture I like to poke fun at my cowboy friend fan friends but how our culture's form the truth is I think it's safe to say that most of us don't wake up in the morning with a 10-point plan on how to develop culture in our family that day you know like oh I'm gonna how can I intentionally but the truth is that every day through decisions and through our values and attitudes and agreements are gonna be talking about agreements today that every day intentionally or unintentionally a culture is being formed in US and around us and we're gonna look closer at agreements here in just a moment the first point is this that every culture has an atmosphere every group of people has a culture and every culture has an atmosphere the definition of atmosphere would be a surrounding influencer environment an intriguing or singular tone effect or appeal or or the surrounding air right the the the sky locality so atmosphere depending on its usage can mean something physical like the the air or something spiritual right non-physical so regarding kingdom culture Jesus is the king of the kingdom it's his kingdom and the atmosphere of this kingdoms culture is solely influenced by the presence of God the atmosphere of this kingdom is solely influenced by this presence of God isn't the present sweet this morning the big idea is this kingdom culture is centered around the presence of the king can we just apprehend that for a moment Kingdom culture is centered around the presence of the king let's just do that for a moment King Jesus Wow King G King Jesus we fix our eyes on you it's your presence that shape changes our hearts Holy Spirit we acknowledge that we need more of you it's your presence that changes everything what our nation needs right now Jesus is your presence so in every home right now I ask that your presence would be increased in every nation that is watching Lord we say have your way we invite you to bring this word to life in Jesus name Amen the atmosphere around you the Lord spoke this to my heart this week the atmosphere around you comes from what is within you it's influenced by what's inside of me the atmosphere around us is influenced by the kingdom that is in with within us have you ever been around a person for like I know sometimes it's a few minutes but you spend time like an hour with a person and at the end of the hour you feel anxious or confused or you know I'm talking about you those people where you're just like man I'm just physically tired after spending an hour with that person there's an influence happening from their atmospheres in there some of you experience it and you haven't put words to it but then how many know that there's people and there's a lot of people excuse me in this right now when you spend five minutes with him you get encouraged you feel uplifted the kingdom that's inside of them is influencing me and it feels good right and so the kingdom is within you influences the atmosphere around you you know what's interesting is I think it's a lot easier to just block people or disconnect from people in our life who have a difficult atmosphere but you know that as brothers and sisters we're supposed to help each other with the pruning process and actually these little things that that little agreements that we'll talk about here in a moment are actually pretty easy for the Lord to heal and to touch and I think part of unity and coming together is allowing ourselves to speak into one another's lives say hey here's here's what I'm picking up and I know it's not you personally but can we can we pray about this together rather than just building up a wall and then separating right that's easy but Jesus himself submitted himself to the pruning process didn't he so we know that that's not just sin or it's not maybe not even sin at all the pruning process is attitudes the way we speak to one another right so jesus said I let the father prune off everything in me that doesn't bear fruit so that I can bear much fruit so that wishes prune can bear more fruit and so in shifting atmosphere I just want to talk about a couple of things number one is the pruning process if you want to shift the atmosphere in your own heart and in your home allow the Holy Spirit to prune off things in you that don't bear fruit and in myself and when someone gives me feedback don't offended and angry how dare you bring it to the Holy Spirit say Holy Spirit I is this is this true do I need this to be pruned off of my life and then that humility piece that mark talked about last week the Lord begins to lift you up another way to shift atmosphere is worship kind of like Robin said you're in the presence and worship and you just get just blessing Jesus with your worship you're loving on him if you don't feel you're at misfortune again there's some pruning that needs to happen but it's beautiful worship shifts the atmosphere if you work in a difficult environment I would encourage you every morning on your way to work instead of sports radio or talk radio or more news listen to worship music and then engage your heart and worship and just watch the atmosphere in your vehicle shift will that be fun if there is in some of the van pools on the way out to Hanford someone just starts to play worship music right elevation worship or Bethlem music just just put on the phone just watch what happens in the atmosphere of the van pool that would be fun someone try that let me know how it goes but changing the way we think is another way to shift the atmosphere allowing the Holy Spirit to say no it's the mind of Christ that we need let's think a little bit differently so we're gonna keep going here we're gonna look at the big idea again is kingdom cultures centered around the presence of the king so we're gonna read chapter one again and mark if you have your Bibles if you turn there we're gonna be mark chapter one verse 9 and we're gonna read some of the same verses we did last week but with a little bit of a different emphasis the baptism of Jesus and and it's interesting that this is where Mark begins where Jesus enters into his gospel is that the baptism don't talk about that woman so mark chapter 1 verse 9 one day Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and John baptized him in the Jordan River as Jesus came up out of the water he saw the heavens splitting and the word there is schizo we're gonna talk about that but he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Holy Spirit descending on him like a dove and a voice from heaven said you are my dearly loved son and you bring me great joy so we just read in Philippians chapter 2 verse 7 this week in her life journal reading that it says this that instead he being Jesus gave up his divine privileges he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being when he appeared in human so you see Jesus gave up heaven became a man humbled himself was born as a human the word became flesh the Bible says right but in this moment the heavens splitting the word his skit sowed what actually means a violent ripping the the the physical atmosphere the heavens ripped apart and what Jesus left when he came to earth opened up the atmosphere of heaven came and rested on him Holy Spirit came through this violent ripping in the atmosphere the physical atmosphere and rested on Jesus the other time this word is used and I love this this gets me excited the other time this word is used as when the veil was skit sewed it was ripped into so the Holy of Holies was no longer there was no longer a physical barrier for you and for me between the Holy of Holies in the temple the veil was ripped violently ripped apart and the presence of God was released fifty days later ish on Pentecost right and so what Jesus gave up at his baptism this is so significant and when you read the Gospel of Mark through this lens that the first time we see Jesus is when the heavens are ripping apart and the atmosphere of heaven that the Spirit of God falling on him everything changes on the way you read the gospel because he was impacted right you know it's interesting about schizo is the root word for schizophrenia and you can't when you're schizophrenic you can't tell the difference between reality and like what's made up I love that because in this moment heaven and earth collide and all of heaven is resting on Jesus there's this atmosphere that is resting on him so point number one again every culture has an atmosphere Kingdom culture is centered around the presence of the king let's keep reading mark chapter 1 verse 12 the spirit then compelled Jesus to go out into the wilderness where he was tempted by Satan for forty days he was out among the wild animals in angels took care of him later on after John was arrested Jesus went into Galilee where he preached God's good news the time promised by God has come at last he announced the kingdom of God is near and that word near doesn't mean it's on its way but it's not here yet it means near is inhe kingdom of God right here I'm here when Jesus came he ushered in the kingdom right repent of your sins and believe the good news point number two is this atmosphere and presence is established through our agreements so I'm gonna talk about agreements for just a quick minute agreements are made between two parties something is offered and something is received the opportunity to make agreements come in many forms and one of the most sneaky forms of the opportunity to make an agreement is through our thoughts isn't it where the enemy will come and put a thought in your mind and then we get the opportunity to make an agreement with that that's why the full armor of God is so important in the helmet of salvation right against the tax of the enemy because the enemies trying to get us to make agreements it was the same in the Garden of Eden from the very beginning the enemy was trying to get him to agree try to get out and Eve to agree with him and to disagree with God but when Jesus came Jesus restored what was lost in the garden so Jesus came and he said repent of your sins break agreement with the kingdom of darkness repent of your sins that doesn't mean you should feel guilty no just just break agreement let go of your old ways and then it says and believe the good news so believing is a form of agreement when you believe someone you're agreeing with what they're saying so this is a simple invitation Bhaiji by Jesus but it's so powerful isn't it repent break agreement and believe form agreement with the kingdom of God an offended spirit is making an agreement with the enemy about somebody else when you have offense towards your brother or sister you are sitting in agreement with what the enemy says about them it's so important my Jesus says for us to forgive because when I have unforgiveness in my heart I'm saying that you know what you don't deserve my forgiveness and I'm in agreement with the wrong Kingdom over that person so listen this I wanna make this point regarding atmosphere agreeing with the presence of God welcomes the kingdom of God agreeing with the presence of God welcomes the kingdom of God it shifts the culture of my heart and it affects the atmosphere around me it shifts the culture of my heart when I'm in agreement with the presence and Brandan Wright said something in our second-year school of ministry that was so profound he said whenever I sense God doing something I just stop and I leaned in and I said what are you doing I love that God what are you doing in this moment I want to agree with what your presence is doing let's keep reading in mark chapter 1 verse 16 one day as Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee he saw Simon and his brother Andrew throwing a net into the water for they fish for living so we got two brothers Simon which will be Peter Simon Peter and Andrew little family business going on doing a little fishing Jesus called out to them come follow me and I will show you how to fish for people and what does it say in verse 18 and they left their nets at once and followed him a little farther up to shore Jesus saw Zebedee sons James and John in a boat repairing their nets we got some competition how many no fishermen are competitive right just up the shore we got another family business going on fishing in the same waters right and Jesus comes up at at once and isn't it funny that the kingdom of God is about unity isn't it so he looks at with these competitive fishermen these guys who are fishing in the same waters and he invites them he called them at once and they also followed him leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men leaving dad dear old dad Oh father Zebedee I mean fishermen zebedee and they leave him and there's no arguing there's no convinced me what I need to do Jesus or tell me more about this fishing for men in mark chapter 2 we see the same thing with Levi it says this then Jesus went out to the lake shore again and taught the crowds that were coming to him as he walked along he saw Levi son of Alphaeus who would later be Matthew sitting at his tax collectors booth follow me and be my disciple jesus said listen to that invitation follow me and be my disciple so Levi got up and followed him what did he do with the money what what about the booth the Christian comedian Michael jr. said when he quit his job at the gas station he went to his boss and he said hey I'm giving you my two-week notice and about two weeks you're gonna notice that I haven't been here in a while that's what it was for the disciples Jesus gave this offer no two-week notice no dad let's talk about this how this is gonna affect the family business he got up and he and they walked with him and I would like to I would like to make the point this that it wasn't a fancy words it wasn't it wasn't the words that Jesus was saying it was the presence of God is what just happened in mark chapter one when the heavens ripped apart and the Holy Spirit descended there was something so attractive about Jesus it was heaven resting on him that they couldn't help but just leave everything behind and follow him because there is something different about someone who has the presence of God resting on them and as point number three is this the presence of God is attractive the presence of God is attractive in Kingdom culture the atmosphere is fully dependent upon established and influenced by the presence of God the core values influence or protect a culture in the core value at life church number two core values that his presence is our highest priority his presence is our highest priority because we are fully dependent on the presence of God without his presence his presence is our highest priority we could be tossed about in all kinds of different directions we could go this movement or that movement depending on the season but his presence changes everything and in his presence anything is possible anything is possible I've seen crazy stuff happen I wanna say this about culture too you know it's interesting there's different cultures all around the world we went to Bulgaria one year and we went into this little gypsy churches speaking of racism because you could talk to some gypsies and find out what it feels like for someone to come in with bulldozers and absolutely tear down entire villages because you're a gypsy and the gospel is spreading like wildfire in Europe in the among the Gypsy people because the church decided to lay down racism and decide to love the unlovable the unlovable and so we went over and we were delivering food and we had this incredible time but here's something that I noticed that it was a completely different culture the music was really loud and really loud and in a small confined little building and they had some interesting instruments but the presence of God was unmistakable when the Holy Spirit is there it doesn't matter what culture what sound of music is coming out of whatever instrument the presence of God is so beautiful and it changes everything his presence is attractive we do it on time oh we're doing good if you turn your Bibles with me real quick Exodus chapter 33 so I preached from this a number of times but I just it's so beautiful and this is I would encourage you to read the whole chapter in though and they actually the book of Exodus is amazing but Moses had such a sweet relationship with the Lord he just valued he was a man who could not live without the presence of God and there's this exchange going on I want to read verse 7 it was Moses practice and listen to this atmosphere and listen when the presence of God is present watch what happens here it was Moses practice to take the tent of meeting and set it up some distance from the camp everyone who wanted to make a request of the Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp whenever Moses went out to the tent of meeting all the people would get up and stand in the entrances of their own tents all of a sudden something powerful is gonna happen and these people want see what's gonna happen right there won't be a part of this they would all watch Moses until he disappeared inside as he went into the tent the pillar of cloud would come down and hover at his entrance while the Lord spoke with Moses when the people saw the clouds standing at the entrance of the tent they would stand and bow down in front of their tents inside the tent of meeting the Lord would speak to Moses face-to-face as one speaks to a friend afterward Moses would return to the camp and watch this right here catch this but the young man who assisted him Joshua son of nun would remain behind in the tent of meeting the encounter with Moses was over Moses would leave but there was such a sweet atmosphere of the presence of God in that tent Joshua was just gonna hang out for a while I'm not going anywhere see you later Moses and and there's just something that happens when the presence of God comes in to an environment right we know he's in us we're temples he rests in us but there's something special and that's what's been so difficult about this time that there's something special in this auditorium is full of people calling on God to change their hearts calling on God to change their nation the presence comes and anything is possible at that point but there's times on Monday night the supernatural school ministry when it's so I was I've been laid out like right here where the presence is so heavy I just I don't want to get up I don't want to try to get up I'm just gonna hang out here for a while and Joshua here you see Joshua in the Old Testament before the veil was torn he goes into this this atmosphere that is so rich with God's presence he's gonna stay there for a while and it's noted in Scripture later we know who Joshua becomes but it's because of these moments that God promotes him it's because of these moments when he just stays this is I have such a value for the presence he becomes the leader of Israel one day I love that little further on in chapter 33 then Moses said if he tells the Lord this God gives him an opportunity going to the promised land without his presence he said I'll send an angel I'll send an angel the Lord is not happy with the way the behavior is going and just the whole environment of Israel and says I'll send you into the Promised Land I'll send an angel ahead of you but I'm not gonna go and then Moses says this then if you don't personally go with us don't make us leave this place how will anyone know that you look favorably on me and on your people if you don't go with us for your presence among us sets your people and me apart from all other people in the earth isn't that true today isn't it the presence of God in the kingdom culture isn't it the presence of God that sets our kingdom apart right his kingdom apart part that we are a part of it says his kingdom apart from all other kingdoms in this world it's the presence of God I love that his presence is attractive isn't it I remember in times in my life and I know some of your testimonies as well I was far from the Lord I was doing my own Kingdom which again isn't the kingdom of God I was doing my own thing I was far from the Lord and the thing that my heart needed wasn't religion the thing that my heart needed wasn't a 10-step program the thing that my heart needed and what I experienced in the back row of a church when a pastor a guest speaker at Bethany Christian assembly in Everett said there's people who need to get your lives right and the Lord says you're between the ages of 20 and 22 and I was like 20 and I felt as I responded as my heart came into agreement with the offer that God was giving I came forward and I felt the presence of God melt away years of running from him doing my own thing in a moment in a moment his presence changes everything when we come into the agreement with the kingdom of God and his presence it changes everything I want to read this because this is so fun I believe there's a key to unity in the church I believe and I want to prophesy this actually I believe that worship is going to unify the Church I think when we sit down and we discuss theology and the word I mean that all has its place but I think there's a lot of division that happens when we interpret Scripture and all this stuff I'm watching worship unify the body right now in Minneapolis there's a why I am leader who's leading worship and having AB worship service on the very corner that George Floyd died and we're going to get to I'll show a picture of that in a moment you can look goo --gel this is powerful and the presence of God is replacing what the enemy wanted to do for evil there's literally people getting saved and baptized and set free on the same corner that George Floyd was more murdered on and what I've noticed is when you sing a worship song when you fix your eyes off of the differences and you fix your eyes on that King of Kings and you invite his presence to come that unifies people I don't have to agree about you know my eschatology has to line up perfectly but when the song comes on and my heart opens up I get to worship the Lord and we unified voice gets lifted up to the Father all these differences kind of melt away don't they I think worship is the key to unifying our nation the worship of God and watching it happen in Minneapolis and I love that the place where all hell broke loose honestly now the presence is breaking loose and people are getting saved and I want worship leaders to pray about this because what would it look like at every rally riot whatever you want to call it every to just say hey we're gonna come alongside you but we're gonna ask the Holy Spirit to come and we're just gonna worship and praise God here is that okay is that cool listen to this second chronicles chapter 5 turn there if you would second chronicles chapter 5 we're still doing good with time pastor 2nd chronicles chapter 5 so Solomon finished all his work on the temple of the Lord then he brought all the gifts his father David had dedicated the silver the gold the various articles and he stored them in the Treasuries of the temple I want you to really key into this here so david desired to build a temple where the presence of the lord could rest where the Ark of the Covenant could be brought in and where God's presence could reside right and when the art came back into Jerusalem David danced and it was that moment when he he danced so hard his clothes came off right and but he was such a worshipper and he had this desire but the Lord said you can't build the temple your son is gonna build it and so he instead of growing offended helped his son build the temple and what we're seeing here is the culmination of generations of Israel wanting and desiring to have what is now completed in Chapter five so their hearts have so much anticipation and if you read earlier it describes the amount of detail and the amount of got like billions and billions and billions of dollars in today's money in gold and and lots of detail and speaking of atmosphere I love the detail where it says none of the stones all of the the the loud banging and clanging all of the machinery and tools that were used was done off-site something would be finished away from where the presence of God is going to be and it was brought in completed and finished so all they had to do was put it in place there is such a desire to have a clean atmosphere for the presence of God to come they didn't want to have the sound of tools in the same area where worship would be going on and here's this moment where it's complete and this is a little bit of a chapter so stay with me and listen to this Solomon then summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel the leaders he summoned the elders and all the heads of tribes the leaders of the ancestral families of Israel they were to bring the Ark of the Lord's covenant to the temple from its location in the City of David also known as Zion so all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the annual festival of shelters which is held in early autumn when all the elders of Israel arrived the Levites picked up the ark watch this the priests and Levites brought up the ark along with the special tent and all the sacred items that had been in it there before the ark the King Solomon and the entire community of Israel sacrificed so many sheep they're sheep goats and cattle that no one could keep count now in Western culture and way past the New Covenant right a wild into the New Covenant this seems gory and kind of strange but let me tell you something it was beautiful so many animals were sacrificed to the Lord I'm telling you there was blood everywhere animals everywhere but it was this offering to the Lord that no one could keep count verse 7 then the priests carried the Ark of the Lord's covenant into the inner sanctuary of the temple the most holy place remember the veil covered that up and place it beneath the wings of the cherubim remember when Jesus was laid in the tomb there was angels at either side the cherubim spread their wings over the ark forming a canopy over the Ark and its carrying poles these poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the holy place which is in front of the most holy place but not from the outside they are still there to this day nothing was in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Mount Sinai where the Lord made a covenant with his people of Israel when they left Egypt then the priests left the holy place all the priests who were present had purified themselves whether or not they were on duty that day and the Levites who were musicians Asaph Haman jeduthun and all their sons and brothers were dressed in fine linen robes and stood at the east side of the altar playing cymbals lyres and harps come on where my worship leaders at they were joined by a hundred twenty priests who were playing trumpets the trumpeters and singers performed together in unison to praise and give thanks to the Lord accompanied by more trumpets cymbals and other instruments they raised their voices and praise the Lord with these words he is good he is good his faithful love and tours forever he is good the cry of the church right now it needs to be he is good his faithful love endures forever no matter what we face he is good he is good at that moment listen to this a sick cloud filled the temple of the Lord the priest could not continue their service because of the cloud for the glorious presence of the Lord filled the temple of God that's called getting rekt that's called when you hear someone say I got blasted by the Holy Spirit that's what it looks like I can't continue what I'm doing because the glorious presence of the Lord is encountering me in such a powerful way and that's what we need right now isn't it we need a move of God that his presence is so thick in the seven cities that hatred is broken off that we laid down our agreements with hatred and fear and we pick up and we believe God and we declare he is good he is good his faithful love endures forever that's an agreement with heaven and when we agree with heaven he can't help but respond he can't help when a worship leader goes to Minneapolis and stands on the corner and says there's good news there's there's a kingdom that's spewing there there there 24-hour news cycle their kingdom they're there their culture trying to influence us but I'm gonna tell you there's it there's a one as a person named Jesus who came who died for you and his culture will radically change your life his atmosphere if he just get close to Jesus and we're seeing baptisms in the very place where George Floyd was murdered we're seeing the kingdom of God fall and the presence of God I wish I could be there to see what God is doing in this place you see he's never gonna be outdone by the enemy he's never lost the battle to Satan and he's not gonna start today he's just Walt it's not even a competition but you know what is a competition is who we're gonna agree with choice is ours are we gonna agree with heaven are we gonna agree with the kingdom of darkness worship team Hugh come on up please pull myself together here okay in closing SEC chronicles is amazing the glorious presence filled the temple I've been watching closely what's going on in our nation as I think most of us have been I mean it's it's impossible to avoid or to be unaware and we shouldn't be unaware of what's going on our nation and over the last couple of months honestly with the quarantine and and and then all the riots and and all the things that are going on the strife between police officers and the african-american community and just years of stuff bubbling up coming to a boiling point I've just been watching not like I bypassed media I don't I don't watch mainstream media I don't watch the networks I believe honestly that they're biased they have an agenda they have a culture and honestly for a lot of what I'm finding out I think a lot of people are discovering is they're not truthful they actually not even telling the truth half the time and so I don't want to fill my mind with stuff that's not even the truth so I bypassed media and I and I look to Twitter and I have people that I follow on Facebook that's kind of what's nice about social media is you can choose who you follow and you can kind of make a custom little like so the first thing that comes up on my Facebook feed are prophets like like Brian the strange and Sean Bowles and and I got bill Johnson so the first 10 or 15 things I see on my Facebook feed are the kingdom because I want that Kingdom to influence me and so I'm seeing what God is saying through these people that I trust and I love and that I've spoken into my life and and so I go I go to Twitter but I'm gonna be honest with you over the last couple months as I've been watching what's really happening it's really easy if you take your eyes off of Jesus for a moment the drift starts and it's really sneaky and so even though I'm like try to protect myself with media so I just started watching what was happening on Twitter and then like I would start to get angry right so the enemy says you should be offended with that he comes and he offers an agreement you should be mad you should be angry see they hate police and you you value the police in your community so you should be offended you should post something about that and all of a sudden I'm faced with a choice am I gonna make an agreement or not with the enemy Governor Inslee doesn't think that the church is essential well that's really sad I should be more concerned about his salvation than voting him out I'm not gonna vote for him in the fall and I hope somebody else gets in there but I should be more concerned about his the condition of his heart than whether or not he's in office in the November I should be more concerned about his heart let me just do that right now he agree with me Jesus we pray for our governor anything that's a fence towards him I lay it down in Jesus name I surrender that to you God I just ask that you forgive me you forgive me any other leaders that we hold hatred towards or our offense that has pride and I repent of any pride in my heart towards our governing leaders in Jesus name I ask for your presence to fill Olympia I ask that your presence would encounter him like pastor West has prayed that he would have a past Apostle Paul encounter you'd knock him off his course with your glorious presence in Jesus name so over the last couple months I just this is agitation and irritation growing up and I finally I just you need to do this sooner right that's just human nature finally I took up to the Lord like I here's what happened I had a dream I had a violent dream and dreams can be and not every time cuz dreams are weird and they're kind of whatever but dreams can be an indicator of what I've let into my soul and I had this violent dream and so woke up and like god I don't want that in my heart what's going on and he just showed me that I just been taking my eyes off Jesus and I'm looking at the problem and focusing on the problem that's affecting my spirit so I just repented and said Jesus and so I said Lord give me a word give me something that just kind of bring me back right to you and he he said this it was really simple he just said this he goes the Chiefs won the Super Bowl I was like I had this revelation oh yeah we were like doing backflips just like three months ago because the Chiefs won the Super Bowl and the prophet Bob Jones said that when the Chiefs no rest is he died years ago but if they were the Chiefs win the Super Bowl revival is gonna break out in America right and then we had this amazing New Year's Eve service where we listen to what the word of the Prophet Chuck Chuck Pierce was saying over the desert regions that revivals gonna start in the desert regions of Washington and he didn't even know there was desert regions but what happened what happened how quickly you can forget the word of the Lord if you take your eyes off Jesus that's why it Hebrews it says let us fix our eyes on Jesus fix them not looking to the left now looking to the right because my own heart is at stake here and the atmosphere around me and the culture of my home and the people that I pastor and the people that I need to be praying for who aren't saved yet so what happened the Lord gave me this chapter is a little bit we still got time Psalm chapter 73 if you turn if you could stand up with me this morning for those of you who are with me and stand up in your home as well I'd invite you how quickly you forget just doing plat backflips about the Super Bowl a few a few months before and the word of the Prophet when it's that slow drift and we take our eyes off of Jesus and Psalm 73 is the participe listen Psalm 73 is a key for all of us for the church it is how many of the Word of God has the answer for every problem it just does Psalm 73 I want I'm gonna kind of break this down as we go truly it's a psalm of Asaph truly God is good to Israel to those whose hearts are pure he's making a point about having a pure heart but as for me I almost lost my footing my feet were slipping and I was almost gone before I envied the proud when I saw them prosper despite their wickedness they seem to live such painless lives I'm gonna describe what it sounds like when the enemy comes along and wants to offer an agreement to you when I saw them prosper despite the weak wickedness they seemed to live such meaningless lives their bodies are so healthy and strong they don't have troubles like other people they're not plagued with the problems like everyone else they wear pride like a jeweled necklace and clothe themselves with cruelty and here comes the name-calling right these fat cats have everything their hearts could ever wish for they scoff and speak only evil in their pride they seek to crush others they boast against the very high and their words strut throughout the earth and so the people are dismayed and confused drinking in all their words what does God know they asked does the Most High even know what's happening looked at the result of agreeing with the enemy is confusion about what God says it's confusing the words of the Lord it's misrepresenting who God is God is good his faithful love endures forever right does the Most High even know what's happening look at these wicked people enjoying a life of ease while their riches multiply and here comes the victims spirit verse 13 here comes the victim spirit wanting to offer an agreement did I keep my heart pure for nothing did I keep myself innocent for no reason I get nothing but trouble all day long every morning brings me pain if I had really spoken this way to others I would have been a traitor to your people so I tried to understand in my own intellect in my own understanding on my own understanding why the wicked prosper but what a difficult task it is and watch the shift in verse 17 watch this then I went into your sanctuary Oh God that's where the presence of God is that's where the presence of the Lord is and when he's riding here than I went into your sanctuary Oh God and finally I understood the destiny of the wicked truly you put them on a slippery path and send them sliding over the cliff to destruction in an instant they're destroyed completely swept away by tears when you arise and listen to this truth when he's an agreement with the presence when you arise the Lord you will laugh at their silly ideas as a person laughs at the dreams in the morning then I realized that my heart was bitter Stew's getting a so-so and I was all torn up inside I was so foolish and ignorant I must have seen like a senseless animal to you yet I still belonged listen this is sure where God comes along he just restores his identity yet I still belong to you you hold my right hand you guide me with your counsel leading me to a glorious destiny Who am I have I in heaven but you I desire you more than anything on earth my health may fail my spirit may grow weak but God remains the strength of my heart he's mine forever those who desert and will perish for you destroy those abandon you but it's for me how good it is how good it is to be near God how good it is when his presence comes and just washes over you how good it is when we just lay our own Kingdom down and in humility come and say Jesus watch over me it's your presence that I need to wash hatred and racism away it's your presence that I need to wash away a fence for people that are actually the prize how good it is to be near God I have made the sovereign Lord my shelter now I will tell everyone about the wonderful things you do the sons of thunder two of the first four disciples that were called James and John Lord we call fire down and destroy them Jesus was like bro you're confused but here's what we need we need the fire of his presence to fall we the fire of his presence to fall not fire of judgment not fire of condemnation we need the fire of his presence to fall on this nation and it starts in our own hearts Kingdom culture is a culture of an atmosphere and the presence of God in his kingdom his presence is our highest priority because everything shifts with his presence everything so right now just begin to ask the Holy Spirit what needs - what do I need fire to fall on what do I need fire to fall on I'm gonna give you a key here it's and it was in Psalm 73 but it's also Jesus here's what we're gonna do whatever the Holy Spirit shows you right now how do I need to shift my thinking who do I need ask him who do I need to pray for let's begin to pray for our quote-unquote enemies right now let's begin to call on God for people that we've in our own mind have placed them as enemies when Jesus says they're the prize let's begin to pray right now Jesus we lift up our nation to you we lift up our nation to you Jesus we pray for our politicians on both sides of the aisle I don't care if it's a Democrat or a Republican and I repent of hatred I repent of fear I repent for picking up their Kingdom and they've offered I break agreements with political spirit I break agreement with the religious spirit and I want your spirit God to flood my heart my mind Holy Spirit we just ask you to clean us and guide us into all truth about what you say what you feel for people so Jesus we pray right now Jesus said Father forgive them for they know not what they do the very ones that put him on the cross so would you just do that right now let me forgive those who've called to search the church not essential we pray for that we bless them but we ask that you would encounter them this so that they become part of the church that God we just ask that for every person who doesn't understand how beautiful your church is that they would have an encounter with you the body can be part of the body of Jesus the Holy Spirit have your way [Music] shift our hearts Oh God Jesus name Jesus name worship [Music] is a weapon to shift atmosphere and unify our nation I'm telling you Lord we ask for an increase in worship got embolden our worship leaders just like David with the heart of worship he was the one the only one in Israel who was willing to run to the battle line and slay the Giant there was a worship leader who slayed the Giant it was a worship leader that slayed the Giant [Music] there was a worshiper worship so hard his clothes came off don't do that but we're online [Music] worship is a weapon because we can battle over a theology and eschatology and all this stuff but when it's just our hardships and worse we just all lower we just worship you it's your presence we just fix our eyes on you and this song that we're gonna sing to you unifies us all of our differences and all that doesn't matter we just worship you so let's do that right now let's worship together [Music] of dogs [Music] in the kingdom of life in the kingdom good man you're the king of mine you're the king of my [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] Jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you Jesus yes you rain at all thank you for your presence we're so grateful for the presence of your glory the weight of your glory that rests in our hearts and lives right now I just sense the holy spirit right now he's so powerfully working and moving in in this place right now and I want to encourage you if you're watching this whatever time of day the presence of God is available to you right now [Music] do not forget that on the day of pentecost it did not happen at the temple it happened in the upper room what does that tell us that God's presence is ready to invade your life wherever you are and if you're here on this phone watching it or if you're on your TV or wherever you are watching this on YouTube Facebook live wherever you're watching this I just want to give you an opportunity to respond to the Holy Spirit who's drawing you right now if you don't know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior today is your day you are being drawn by his presence and the key is to recognize where you are in your heart and asking it do I have the presence of God in my life is the presence of God the most important thing to me is that my highest priority if it's not we've got to ask the question why not what is taking that place and he's drawing you right now and he wants to make his life live in you and transform you from the inside out all the things in our country that's broken and lost it starts with the church praying and revival in our own souls and calling on God because the presence of God changes everything and as pastor drew said so well the kingdom of God is centered around the presence of the king and his presence wants to invade your life right now so wherever you are if you want to receive Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior I want to encourage you to stand up and repeat this prayer with me Jesus forgive me of my sins wash me and make me brand new I repent of my lifestyle our repents of going my own way I repent of all the sin in my life and I turn to you Jesus and I say I give my life to you I surrender everything I make you the Lord of my life and I'm gonna follow you all the days of my life in Jesus name Amen amen if you prayed that prayer welcome into the kingdom of God come on we worship Jesus we say thank you over every person I did that if you did that prayer I want you to just take a moment and text it to four eight four eight four eight the word salvation and we will follow up with you it's so important that we follow up with you if you became a follower of Christ now the last part of activation that I want to encourage you with because what pastor jus said is so important the presence of the king needs to be in every one of our lives because it creates culture it spills out from every one of us psalms 51:10 says it's so powerful created me a clean heart O God renew a loyal spirit within me it's amazing what happens when the Spirit of God is not in our lives in the culture of our homes our spirit becomes disloyal to the king wouldn't we become more loyal to Republican Democrat or are we more loyal to the king of Kings the Lord of lords where do our loyalties really lie because in his presence as we read is fullness of joy and it changes everything verse 11 says do not banish me from your presence and don't take your Holy Spirit from me restore to me the joy of your salvation make me willing to obey then this is so powerful I will teach your ways to rebels and they will return to you do we not see the pattern right there it starts with us doesn't it create in me a clean heart O God renew a right spirit within me so here's what I want to do if you want our right spirit if you want the presence of God to wreck you the way drew and I'll be careful if you're driving pull over real quick if you want disappeared to wreck you I want you to lift your hands to me right where you're at and we're gonna welcome him right through your phones right through your computers right through your TVs and in this and this building a life church 7 as it goes how holy spirit come have your way creating us a clean heart revival starts your kingdom starts at us your culture starts at us renew us Oh God may we have undivided hearts towards you Lord Jesus may we be loyal only to you king of kings and Lord of lords [Music] only to you song says we're gonna sing that again as you sing that my god you ran up on my heart over my emotions created lift your hands together [Applause] [Music] so wherever you're I just say this with me create in me a clean heart Oh God and renew a right spirit within me just as Moses said I'm not going without your presence thank you that your presence is here you live in us this new covenant gives us a brand new relationship with you thank you father for that relationship we are dependent upon your presence in Jesus name Amen amen I want to encourage you wherever you are his presence is available and he wants to dwell in you in such a powerful way that you are transformed from the inside out I want to invite you to come tonight to revival on the patio revival prayer on the patio set six o'clock right here live church 7:00 you are welcome to come and we are gonna call on God we're gonna encounter his presence we're gonna see revival flow throughout the land we're gonna see a nation transform because we are humbling ourselves and we are calling on God I want to invite you to come powerfully come with boldness come with prayer we get ready to worship and pray with us and we're gonna see God do mighty things amongst us amen we love you hope to see you tonight have a wonderful day [Music] [Music]

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Published: Sun Jun 14 2020