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who is worthy to be praised who is who is to who who is he always had open your mouth he's got a an old response i will call you oh yep your mouth yes here hello ncc family are you joining us today in dothan for our combined pull-up service that's white dolphin montgomery and communion city you still have time to get here this morning our combined service begins in the parking lot of the domes in dalton at 10 30 a.m central standard time don't miss this opportunity to come out and fellowship with all of our ncc campuses as we come to fellowship together and celebrate the birthday of our man of god our senior pastor hart ramsey come out and let's fellowship together and allow pastor ramsay and lady kay to see your faces we'll see you there join us every wednesday night at 7 pm for our midweek virtual bible experience check out our church website at nccfamily.org or our social media pages to tune in and experience the life-changing word of god looking for a church home and feel like you 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today is going to be an amazing journey so go ahead and share the stream with your family and your friends start a watch party and get ready for an incredible day hey it's adrian we're minutes away from ncc online share this now with your friends it's gonna be incredible do mmm hey it's pastor ray and i want to welcome you to ncc family at home today is going to be an exciting day as we hear from god's word and we worship together so listen share this link start a watch party get your friends and family together and let's journey together into god's heart for us today once again welcome to ncc family at home father god we come here just say that we will trust you we'll continue to lean on you and we'll continue to depend on you oh god so we thank you for your work that reminds us you are the branches he who abides in me will forever be fruit fall indeed i am the way the truth and the light no one gets to the father except that he comes through me come on family let's do it together foreign them father god this is my heart's cry on this morning okay i'm gonna trust in the lord with all my heart trust in the lord trust trust in the lord oh i is is i will hide your now come on and worship him we thank you for being who you are yes lord i will hide your words is i absolutely nothing without you god so that's why we put all our trust and all our hope and you oh god because without you we are absolutely nothing no god so we worship and we worship our own again yes thank you tears so sweet to trust in jesus just to take him at his word just to rest upon his promise just to know the saith the lord so jesus jesus how i trust you how i prove him more and more jesus jesus my precious jesus oh for grace to trust him daddy daddy how i trust to trust him i need the grace to trust you more i can't live without the grace to trust him more so i thank you for the grace to trust as the psalmist declared let us enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise father we declare that one day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere so we pray that you breathe an atmosphere of praise and worship into the homes of all of our viewers we set our affections upon you our ears and our hearts are attentive unto what you have to say to us today in jesus name we pray amen in today's 2020 we have the unique opportunity to connect in ways we never have before over the next month we like to invite you to gather with some friends digitally and spend a few moments in prayer we'd like to introduce you to our ncc prayer pods simply connect with a few friends weekly just a small group of no more than four people commit to connecting weekly on a digital platform feel free to use facetime zoom google me facebook rooms or whatever platform that allows you to connect these moments of prayer will be amazing and life-changing if you're not sure how to pray or what to pray for it's always safe to cover relationships finances family or health please shy away from intensely personal information this is going to be an incredible journey of prayer it echoes what pastor ramsey has stated it's one thing for us to pray for you it's another thing for you to pray for you our ncc prayer pods will be our true hub for prayer now get ready get set go grab your group and exercise your defiant faith in your ncc prayer pods father god we bless you father god we honor you god we thank you for being our everlasting father father god and we just come to love on you this morning we come to just give you all the love that you've given us so god we give it right back to you jesus because you're worthy the lord is my light of salvation whom shall i fear whom shall i be afraid the lord is my light and salvation whom shall i fear whom shall i be afraid i will wait on you i will wait on you and i will trust in you yeah i will trust in you the lord the i be lord the lord is high whom shall i be afraid i will remain confident in this i will see the goodness of the lord shall i be afraid and i will put my trust in you i will put my trust in you yeah i will god and yes i will and yes i will remain confident you are the everlasting the wine he said we've me i will see the hallelujah thank you god for your unfailing love and your goodness that you give to us so god and we honor you and we're forever grateful for you jesus hallelujah thank you jesus hallelujah thank you morning sec family this is the time of service where we get to worship god with our giving we call this opportunity for increase so as you get your tithing off and ready let me encourage you with the story found in luke the 10th chapter starting at the 25th verse we call this the story of the good samaritan what happened was a man was traveling from jerusalem to jericho and he came across robbers that nearly left him for dead a priest came along and saw him and he passed on the other side a levite followed and saw him and he passed on the other side also but the story picked up picks up with the samaritan seeing him and deciding to show this man compassion he saw his wounds he bandaged them up he took him to the local end and gave the innkeeper to dinari and said whatever expensive else expenses that you have let me know and i'll pay them see the good samaritan knew what they called them the good samaritan knew that they had no relationship and it was the levite and the priest that knew the calling that knew what was required of them and they had grown accustomed to just doing the bare minimum and this was enough for them their hearts had grown cold and they couldn't even help this uh traveler out and they passed on the other side now in this season in this day and age where we haven't been able to meet in a building for a very long time when we haven't been able to see our friends for a very long time we see violence in the world we see a pandemic going going we see we see chaos and confusion it's easy for our hearts to get cold but i'm wondering if god brought us into our house and said i'm coming for your heart i want you to change your heart i want your you to have the heart of the compassionate now even though the samaritan knew what they called him and knew that they had no relationship he still decided to show compassion so no matter what we think about ourselves no matter what they call us let us have the heart of the compassionate and let us trust god with our seed here at ncc we have five ways to give you can give at nccfamily.org you can go to the ncc family app or you can text ncc family to 77977 we have drop boxes at our dothan and montgomery locations or you can send your tithe and offering to the address on the screen now let's go to the father in prayer father in the name of jesus i thank you for every single believer that is uh tuning in today dear lord i thank you for every single giver to lord that you've given us the heart of the compassionate though god now i pray to lord that you bless this seed oh god you meet every single need in their life dear lord you do exceedingly and abundantly delivered above all they can even uh think or ask or even imagine oh god your lord we know that you are faithful oh god we know that you are faithful to your lord and your god that cares for us oh god so dear lord i pray that every single body that decides to give is just blessed right now in the name of jesus oh god now be with us in this place be with us the rest of this service have your way in jesus name amen hi ncc family today is a very special day today is our very own pastor hart ramsey's birthday and today we want to celebrate him husband i honor you i honor you for the man that you are i honor you as my man of god my pastor i honor you as my husband i honor you as my best friend my best part and my strong tower i honor you as a father and i honor you as the example that you are thank you for your attitude and serving god's people with your whole heart you have the most amazing heart that i've ever known thank you for your attitude and giving to god's people you are also the biggest giver that i've ever known thank you most of all for your sacrifice the sacrifice that you sacrificed to build such an incredible ministry thank you for saying yes to god and obeying the call on your life if you had not said yes and been obedient so many people including myself would not be where we are today so for that we say thank you you've poured into so many people and sown into people and deposited so much into people into many hearts around the world and today we wanted to take the opportunity just to say we thank you and we appreciate you we want to wish you a very happy birthday and we pray that today brings you the fullness of joy on behalf of myself the ncc family we want to say happy birthday to you father god we stand here just to give you the glory and the honor that you deserve oh god we come to give you the highest praise which is hallelujah we worship you my hallelujah belongs to you my hallelujah belongs to you my hallelujah belongs to you my hallelujah belongs to you cause you deserve it you deserve that you deserve it you deserve you deserve me my hallelujah all of oh glory is you you deserve it is i love my worshipping yes hallelujah my we give it up hallelujah if we'll give you hallelujah me all the glories you deserve you deserve it hallelujah hallelujah belongs to you my hallelujah when we don't have the words one more time i'm so grateful that you've ordained the kingdom where there's fivefold interference in the lives of every person that will come to you fightful intervention fightful disruption so that you can do what you desire to do so i pray for every person on the side of my voice i even pray for myself but you speak through me speak to me and cause us to change the way we see things today i came to speak to those who have been given effort with little results that's what you're speaking to today and so as i open my mouth god give me clarity give me vision give me insight but more than that give us hearts to hear give us hearts god to perceive what you're saying and what you're instructing us to do we give you honor glory and praise in jesus name everybody say amen you may see it in the presence of the lord i want to i want to talk to you a little bit i'd like to talk about church because church is new to me when i first came in i got dressed up today i could tell i'm overdressed when he was asking for a brand hey miranda when he's asking for a brand i didn't know what brand to say but um i'll say this when i first came to church i started hearing words that we didn't use on the streets and one of the words that i want to talk to you today about is the word glory everybody shout glory if you were to interview senior pastors from various denominations and ask them to tell you what glory was half of them more than half of them will not be able to tell you what glory is we use a lot of terminology in church and we don't know what they mean and so in doing so we have we have actually uh contributed to a culture worldwide of people who are excited but ignorant the problem with that is when it's time to defend what you believe especially in times like these then you don't know what to say or how or how to describe it and so i'm going to walk you through today i want to give you i'm giving you hebrew and greek and i'm not giving you hebrew and greek to impress you what i'm doing with the hebrew greek is i'm going back to original languages to grab stuff out so i could present it to you i'm going to spell the words i'm going to give you the words so you could double check me and resource yourself this is so critical because you're doing things today and because you don't know the definitions of what you're doing it you tend to misstep amen i in in the kingdom in the kingdom there's a word the word glory and the word honor are actually synonymous terms it means that they mean the same thing what glory is to the heavens honor is to the earth glory begins in heaven but when it comes to the earth it becomes honor when you when we honor in the earth it creates glory whenever the enemy as a matter of fact if you search the scriptures what you'd find is that every kingdom relationship all of heaven when you look at the relationship between the father the son of the holy spirit the apostles the prophets when you look at the relationships all kingdom relationships are held together by honor all cultures any culture in the kingdom that that will leave a great footprint making impact is fueled by honor movements in the kingdom are sustained by honor if there is no honor the move stops because glory leaves i'm going to take you through scripture and i'm not going to give you all the scriptures there's several words on minor words and major words in the old testament especially that speak to this subject of glory um there's a word hard hod and heart it speaks to the power of glory the things that glory can do it's a minor word there's another word the word i believe is habad and the word speaks to the of the impressiveness of glory when the children of israel first met god they're standing at a distance and god says to moses prepare the children of israel to sanctify themselves in three days they will meet me for the first time i imagine now they had heard of god and they seen him work in egypt after they become a nation they see god moving from a distance and god says i want to meet my people and so they're coming to the mount to meet god and the closer they get the more the mountain or begins to be consumed with fire and smoke comes down and hidden in this smoke is god and what god calls this whole presentation he called it glory her body is the impressiveness of glory when you look at glory you see it it's doing something you can't explain it or describe it but it's just something to behold the root word though or the main word that we want to deal with is the word kabbad it's pronounced kabad or kabode it's the same word two different pronunciations and they both authorize what you need to understand about this word kabad is that in the hebrew if you want to give a one-word definition or synonymous definition for the for the term kabad it's the word weight everyone say wait so the word actually means weight or weighty but when you describe it in a phrase it means to carry the weight everyone say to carry the weight this is important to your life and here's why many of you are trying to break into industries you're trying to be trying to become you feel in your heart that god wants you to be something or someone on some landscape in some arena and it seems like no matter how gifted you are or how hard you try you just can't seem to make the grade you now i sat with a singer one time and they were uh i never forget this was back in the day and um before her name was was or were renowned and there was a singer on the platform singing at this event and someone leaned over to me and said i sing better than she does and i lean back over and say yes but she anointed now wait it was not an insult it was an observation and what i said to the person was watch this now you will never get where she is by sitting out there dishonoring her listen to me listen i'm gonna throw a lot of bullets out there catch em whatever you dishonor will will avoid you whatever dishonor this is this arnold closes doors it shuts down avenues if you just whatever you just honor listen to me you could you could honor the man of god to his face but dishonor him behind his back and god will put something in his spirit where he will not feel comfortable promoting you this word cabard is a powerful word matter of fact all through scripture when you look at the word kabbalah in the hebrew most of the the bible's teaching on glory revolves around the word kabad now listen to something here's the question when i when i teach when i when a teacher ministers our job is not to go for the spontaneous eruption we're not going for effect i'm not going right now for your emotions i'm going for your head i'm approaching you from the standpoint of cerebral christianity god does not require you to have a lobotomy when you come to church what that means is he does not require to be stupid you could shout intelligently you may look a fool and they may not think you know what you're doing but your shot may not be dignified but you are now listen to this we sing and we sing it because we see it in scripture we give you the glory we give you the honor we give you in in the book of revelation chapter four revelation chapter five we give you power we give you dominion we give you watch this where are we getting it from to give to him are we just saying things well it can't be it's in the scripture we sing to god we how many of you ever saw we give you glory i give you glory how many you ever say glory to god what does it mean because think if you when you listen the bible says that god set his glory above the heavens put psalm eight i gave you a bunch of scriptures back then we'll throw up tomorrow in random order psalm 8 verse 1. i want to read some scriptures to you and if you could uh endure endure me how many of you heard my accent already you did how many you had actually let me see a show and hear my accent how many you already know where it's from what accent is this who's the virgin islands virgin islands that's right and the crazy thing is i've been i've been in the united states for going to 40 years but i refuse to lose my accent it gets me indoors it makes me sound deep and intelligent listen to psalm 8 and verse 1 it says o lord our god how excellent is thy name in all the earth listen to this who has set that glory above the heavens now this is what you need to understand about this word kabod or kabad listen to me everybody watch me for a minute the word literally means to reveal that which is hidden to reveal the part of a person that's covered to reveal the part of the person that we don't know and the thing about god is this here's the thing we know him if you're a believer if you've given your life to jesus christ we know him as simply father god unbelievers know him as just god but here's what you need to understand when god is so understated that even when moses came to him in exodus 33 and what is what moses said moses said show me your glory i want to know you here's what god said to him god says now here's a concern if i show you my face you won't live he said but there's a place by me where you can stand i hide you in the cleft of the rock he said i will walk by you i'll put my hand over you and when i pass by you here's what he says he said you will see my back parts he wasn't saying i'ma show you my backside the word for back parts means what's behind me or my history here's what here's what god says god said i'ma walk by you and i will cause my goodness everybody say my goodness god said i'm gonna cause my goodness to pass by you know what's important about this goodness of god is that when god begins to show his goodness he reveals what he's created says he reveals what he has created and so god begins to show moses all of christians from genesis chapter 1 and that's how moses gets to write the book of genesis moses did how would he have known this god begins to show me his history and god shown the first day creation at the end of creation god said and it was good second day creation and it was good god caused all the goodness to pass before him but when god began to show moses what he did the first thing he said out of his mouth was let there be let there be light and then he god says and there was light but he's so understated because as man became so much more advanced and began to study the stars that's what we found out it wasn't just that there was light what we found out was our galaxy has 250 billion planets and the more our technology began to advance we found out that their 250 billion galaxies each having 250 billion planets all of a sudden that's understated word let there be light has different meaning so the glory of god watches that when god says i'm going to reveal my glory the word glory as it relates to god means god said i'ma reveal to you incrementally who i really am what i can do and what i'm about that's the glory of god but the glory of man is who man was created to be why this is now not who i am but who i was made to be so when the bible reads that all have sinned and fallen short of the of the what the glory of god it says that you don't even know exactly what god made you to be we've fallen so far short of glory so paul said in second corinthians 4 and verse 17 he said this light of fiction that we're going through you say it works for us or far more exceedingly and he uses the word whatever i say the word wait say the word wait so i want to show you what the word kabod looks like when you consider as weight and why sometimes your efforts to break into situations and to make an impact don't work wait i've studied this movement all nations i've watched you from a distance people were saying that's a cult and so i looked at i started study because i know what a cult looks like and i started looking at you and i said this is not a call this is something different and all the old heads were like you showed daca because we think we know what we're seeing you show daca because we think we know what we're seeing i said let me see i said just give it a minute let me take a look when i met when i met apostle face to face he greeted me we sat down we were in atlanta uh both sharing and uh um at a conference and the conversation behind him the first thing i recognized the first conversation with him i recognized the spirit of god in him i asked the lord what am i what am i beholding and god says it's job 32 and 8 it's not the age of a man but the spirit in the man and the lord said the problem with the other these brothers that you're talking to is they cannot conceive the wisdom that he has because the wisdom is for me god says what you're seeing is a movement now watch this you're seeing a movement and so i said what is what will become of this thing and the lord says keep watching so although i'm not a prophet i have a prophet a prophetic ear so i kept watching you go from city to city and i noticed something with you and i have scripture for it it's the word kabad if you weigh 150 pounds as a matter of fact let me let me not not just be um random let me say it like this in leviticus chapter 8 when the priests were being ordained the bible says that aaron would stand he had to stand his sons up in front of him and they each had to hold their hands out they were slaughtered or um a calf a bull a lamb i think it was four different animals and the bible says that they will hold their hands out and they will reach into the animal get the guts and the fat the long lobe of the liver the kidneys with the fat around it and each priest would have them put in his hand can you imagine standing there the stench the blood the guts the feces and they have to hold all that in their hand and you know the bible called it consecration it's called the filling of the hands and every person watch us now every person who submitted to the feeling of their hands when when the question was asked will you serve the lord you put your hand out and they'll fill your hand with all that gore and they go to the next person you have to stand there with this stuff in your hand now let's say that stuff the the purpose of god for your life that's sometimes difficult let's say let's say it only weighs 50 pounds let's say it was 50 pounds let's say you weightless give you 150 pounds how much should you weigh when you step on the scale this ain't hard this simple math if you weigh 150 pounds and they put blood and guts and goal in your hand called your purpose and it weighs 50 pounds how much does the scale weigh 200 pounds so what happens when you step on the scale and the scale reach 10 000 you step off again you check the scale it goes back to zero you step on the scale again it goes to ten thousand you're looking what's going on what you didn't know was when you stick your hand out to god and say fill my hand with purpose god took his hand and put it on your head the way glory works is you could you could listen you could put social media advertisement out and say meet us in new york meet us in nashville and you could take a simple step of faith into a city and literally shake the city and no one understands why the city shakes why you show up when you show up what they don't understand is there's glory on it now watch this watch this now this is important for you to understand you can look watch this people will see you doing it wow we'll do it too so everybody go to make out their little graphics they put on meters and when they step into the city don't nobody even know they're there now now listen this is no shady what i'm showing you is the difference watches now between having the weight of glory on you you got it and not some of us are trying to walk indoors start businesses operate in ministries do things for god and we have yet to stick our hands out and say god fill my hands with purpose and here's the thing the purpose that god fills your head it stinks sometimes sometimes because there's a part of it watches now i'm submitting to someone else and notice the part of the animal that's been put in their hands the only good part that i remember in scripture is the right thigh so what they do they put they put blood on the right earlobe blood on the thumb blood on the right big toe and they give you the right thigh of whatever animal and you're standing there with stuff trying not to vomit but you don't realize is by the time the man who put that stuff in your hand comes around again and takes it from your hand and burns it on the altar when you walk away from that moment your life has waked your life has glory on it the problem is though is that many of us when we think glory we don't understand what uh how it comes into our lives i want to explain to you i asked the question we sing to god we give you glory we give you honor we give you where did we get it from well in psalm 8 i want to keep reading it says out of the mouth of the babies and sucklings thou thou has ordained strength because of that enemies that thou mader is still the enemy in the avenger when i consider the heavens the work of thy fingers the moon and the stars which thou has ordained what is man that thou art what mindful of him and the son of man that thou does what visits him now verse 5 says for thou has made him a little lower than the angels but when you when you read this in this in the in the hebrew it says that was made him a little lower than elohim l is singular for god elohim is the triune god in other words you've made him a little lower than yourself he is this he's the image bearer of god he's a seed bear of god and then it goes on to say in verse in verse 5 for thou has made him a little lower than the angels and as what read it out loud come on come on read the whole thing that was what crown him with everybody said god has crowned me with glory and honor now notice now i said to you that glory and honor is the same thing in two different spaces in heaven glory is the weight of god it's who god is and he's not some little some people used to acting faster they said you teach the bible they said oh where did god come from and i said you don't read the bible right for you to ask me where god comes from you don't understand the bible says in him we live in him we move in he is not where he came from everything exists in him you see me wrong you think you think that because he would limit himself to a building or to a box or whatever you think that's where he that's not who he is who god really is is the sovereign of the universe before anything was he is everything he made came out of him and it really still exists because of him when you start understanding the glory of god and what it is and when you go to the book of revelation and see you know the question is asked what color is jesus that's a big question we discover him in revelation chapter 4 and 5. the bible describes him on the throne as the color of a red stone that that refracts different colors from different angles you look at him like nothing you've ever seen from one angle he looks crystal the bible says that we don't read that the glory of god is not something you discover he has to reveal himself here's the word that messed the church up and i still hear today shekinah now so so what you do is you you you put you have a worship service you got a band you got lights you got a smoke machine and you happen to be worshiping you lift your hands and you catch a little bit of glimpsey said shekinah i want to serve notice on you about a couple things number one the word shekinah is not in the bible if you find the word shakin in the bible i will eat your bible right here you're messing past eve no no no listen the word shekinah is a rabbinic invention written in the targum the hebrew targum and the purpose of the word was to describe what they would see when god will show up so let me tell you what shekinah is shekinah is is the mixture of cloud and light that god hid himself in whenever he would show up the bible says when when they first set the tabernacle up and finished everything that god told him to do to include ordaining the priests the bible says the next thing that happened is god comes down from heaven in shekinah and he rests in the tabernacle now this is important i want you to see something this setting that we use to have church is from it's from the the jewish synagogue we said it just like a synagogue congregation is out there pulpit in the middle and people behind if you look at the old baptist churches or some of the pentecostal churches remember there used to be a big choir stand back here you know why they had a revelation of something when whenever the shekinah glory came down it didn't just come down randomly it went to one spot and then what was significant is when after after the tabernacle was retired and solomon built the temple also again she kind of came down to one spot when i said sheikhani i refer to the cloud and light mixture that god hid himself in god was actually using shekinah to hide himself when adam and eve you don't understand how glory works when adam and eve sin before they sin the bible says they were naked and not ashamed you know why they concede themselves eve takes the fruit gives it to adam he eats and immediately you know what they do they run to do what cover themselves and when god shows up and he sees them covered in fig leaves here's what he does he immediately goes he sacrifices the lamb he brings the skin of the lamb and he clothed them why to cover their glory what are you i mean come on when you see a person naked you say i wanted to i went into the room by mistake and i saw him in all his glory what do you mean i saw him naked right do you ever realize that none of the animals wear clothes none of the animals we wear clothing we actually wear the animal matter of fact when the left the lesser your glory is the lesser the lesser glory that's on your life the more you need not just to wear clothing but to wear name-brand clothing wait wait when you don't know who you are at first it was just about covering your nakedness but now you got to have a logo and a symbol to show now let me show you why let me show you wait wait wait set out wait wait wait wait wait you what you're not going to do all day so you're not going to disrupt me when i'm trying to teach cause you because you i know how you are you shout in a minute okay say that let me show you something when you i know i went through it i didn't just buy watches i had time pieces and people said what's that a time a time match oh no this is a rolex this is a particularly watch this i got to give a name you know why cuz i didn't know my own when you know the glory that's on your name now when they ask me at them google me what about that listen to me what the lesser amount of glory you perceive on your life is the more you start grabbing for things to cover and i fear i listen to me my concern for this man of god because i see where this is going you are about to shake nations wait wait before you get excited if you if the honor of this house remains intact if it's on or up on a down honor all around if you understand what we're about to teach for the next couple weeks you're about to rock nations some of you in here hands will be laid on you you'll be sent forth hey that's why because the honor on your life cannot be overlooked be careful not to get connected with this honorable people listen to me no no no way hear me hear me hear me when when god saw adam and eve's fall he went to them to preserve their glory all of sin and falsehood of the glory of god and every act of god i have to share this with you before justification when i first the moment i believe in jesus christ i'm justified listen to the process or glorification the moment i see him face to face i'll be changed in the twinkling of an eye in the middle of that sanctification is the entire process of restoring glory where god is trying to get me watch us now to rest to get glory restored in my life so here's what he does god will send glory down from heaven he said pastor where do we get it from the bible says god crowds us with it he crowns you with glory but what god understands about glory is if he sends glory to the earth and it falls on you and makes you heavy watch this now we tend to when we become weighty throw our weight around we tend to when we become weighty become swollen we tend to when we become weighty forget how we became waiting watch this now so you have pastors around the world who got where they got because they stuck their hands out as a god here i am send me and god fill their hands and he put him on a scale and when he weighed them they were weighing ten thousand pounds they would go out and preach simple messages and shake a whole city people coming from everywhere just now and then they forgot that the only reason that they weigh more in the eyes of people is because god was standing on the scale with them i'mma get there a minute is this helping anybody yet so shekinah is all she kind of really is is god hiding himself he's shrouding himself shekinah was was retired after the destruction of the first temple no one ever saw it again king nebuchadnezzar i'm going to talk about him in a minute he came in he was anointed by god now we'll say something that's very unpopular but you need to understand something god will give his glory when i say glory i'm talking about weight everybody shall wait god would give his glory to a person that you don't think is worthy of it and the reason he does it is because he has purpose so israel was that was a nation to house the glory of god as a matter of fact god did not move in the earth anywhere but in israel more specifically god did not move except in the tabernacle of the temple you got this now i understand this but when israel kept kept taking his glory making it their own dishonoring him and one another with the glory you know what he did he put his glory on a man a king named nebuchadnezzar and he sent nebuchadnezzar to destroy jerusalem and the bible says he tore down the wall he raised the temple he burned the city he took the most intelligent and most beautiful people took him away as captives he left the poor ugly folk i'm sorry the poor people that didn't look so good he left them in jerusalem now this is for real and and he left them there knowing they couldn't govern themselves or they couldn't reproduce to anything great the last thing he did with their king king zedekiah he let the king see him slaughter his two sons and he poked out both his eyes he was a ruthless scoundrel but every time the holy spirit talked about nebuchadnezzar god said have i not raised him up not every tool in god's toolbox is designed to build some tools in god's toolbox are designed for nothing but destruction and so whenever a people receive the glory of god but receive to give glory back to god because the only reason god gives you glory is to give it back to him because the exchange of him giving me glory and be returned to him is what makes him known in the earth but when we don't do that what god does he'll raise up a wrecking ball who can't tell the truth who always running some game to come in and like a sledgehammer beat down everything he's built for years sounds familiar when you start studying this through as i have there's so much we i can say about it but there's a lot i can't say today but i want to leave you with a couple things i want to remind you real fast what glory is to heaven honor is to earth so to honor someone is to to acknowledge the weight or the value they carry on their lives it's you paying attention to their weightiness what makes them significant what makes them valuable you you acknowledge that the place and the gifting that they have like glory honor covers three areas i want to cover them real fast number one honor acknowledge what a person is acknowledges who a person is number one number two it acknowledges what he or she has done number three what he or she can do that's potential and there's one more i'm giving you four and the effect of that person's presence i'm gonna say it again honor or glory acknowledges who the person is what he or she has done what he or she can do and number four the effect that that person has on your life this is honor now i want to show you something i have grown children and one of my sons is very anointed and and when he was coming to a certain age he always he was he had a very disrespectful tone whenever he talked to me and i would stop him say i am your father and he will say to me he says i can't be honest with you because i'm honest with you you think i'm dishonoring you can i show you something we get our word honor and honest from the same latin word the word ernesto h-o-n-e-s-t-u-s ernestos means honor and honest so you cannot watch us now you cannot use the guise of being dishonorable to say i'm just telling you the truth if you have to dishonor a person if you have to dishonor god to just tell the truth or just be yourself you don't understand honesty or honor this is a critical part of this now i'll show you so we talk about giving when i give get what's giving glory to god it means i have to i have to first know what god has given me i'm gonna show you how it works so so she stood up to sing the song young girl she probably was about 18 years old and when she but she got finished singing the song a lady came up to her and she said oh my god you blessed me so much for the song here's what the young lady says it wasn't me it was god stop it was not god first of all it was god it would have been better it wasn't that that good right it was good but it was not that good somebody it was god no no it wasn't god it was you we know it's you because you're flat if you want to be if you really want to be honest in that third verse you a little flarp not just flat but you're a little sharp too at the same time if you want to be honest i was just trying to give you a compliment everybody listen to me i want to show you something listen to this listen to this listen to this when god gives you glory sometimes it comes through people a compliment sometimes is god giving you glory is a perfect example to use so when a person comes to you say that word really bless me your response should be thank you watch this now then you take note you take note that this person got blessed by something from my life that means it was the weight of god on me that touched them so i take note that they honored me listen to this every time someone honors me there's glory in it say it out loud every time someone honors me there's say it again every time someone and if there's glory in it watch us now the honor belongs to you but the glory belongs to so what i do is i leave that place and i take note of all the compliments i get what they say and when i get by myself i take the i take the glory that's in the honor and i give the glory back to god i keep the the purp the reason some people are so arrogant is because the glory in the honor that you're given has exceeded its shelf life you kept the glory too long and when glory stays on your life too long it makes you arrogant to the point where folks say that's i just something about him he just you know what it is he got god's glory all over and won't give it back to god in every so so here's the thing so you have this move of god i'm telling you i'm here uh i i started church 23 years ago is my second church pastor's my first church in germany um you i think you've heard the story we start the church i passed it in germany was right down the avenue or just down the alley from a witch's coven i was 25 years old when i took the church and um at 27 one of my members died and the lord uh sent me to her bedside and while she was there brain dead the lord told me to go back and tell the church that she would live and not die i wasn't going to do it but when i started to speak it just came out my mouth i don't know how it happened i said it after i said it i can take it back long and short of it is at that young age this young church had the dead raised right down the street and when that happened i never forgot what i told the lord when i left the church i never passed again it was the most the the pressure from being in that situation and here's what the lord is saying the lord said that the problem with the way you approached this was that you're all the whole time my hand was on you my hand was heavy on you and you treated the weight of my presence like a problem the weightiness of your assignment is a call to prayer but waiting when you feel the weight on you if you say man this is that's man it's so heavy the reason it's heavy is because if god has glory on it what is now then god wants to take care of it but the problem with you is you lean on your gift for so long that you believe that god needs your gift god does not need your gift god chooses you are nothing but a vessel to god he's filled you with purpose and what he wants to do is to order you so you could honor him all nations let me tell you something what would happen what would happen if we got this honor piece right let me show you something so imagine how it works you didn't have glory to give to god when i first came to church i didn't have glory to give to god he crowned me with it he gave it to me and all he asked of me is this give me back the glory and give me give the people around you honor in first peter chapter 2 verse 17 here's what it says it says honor all men love the brotherhood fear god honor the king honor all men the the word all is the is the greek word pass p-a-s and pos means not just the whole but every little piece of the whole that's what it says regardless of whether or not the person deserves honor regardless of whether or not the person has earned your honor god says what says i need my people to show honor to the word all people why because if my people are honorable it keeps glory flowing whenever you find yourself getting offended with people when you find yourself or your heart is turned to it you sit on this side of church because she said on the side of the church you are disrupting glory now let me show you i'm gonna show you something i started now let me tell you how i teach i start a piece i jump to something else and i come back to the first piece let's go back to the first piece when i told you about the the layout of the jewish synagogue every single time that glory came down in the old covenant it it found its place between the faces of the cherub so you have these covering cherubim at first they were on the mercy seat of the uh the ark of the covenant they were made like that but when solomon remade the temple he actually built these two big old angels looking like big old birds with their wings facing in and what the people noticed was whenever shekinah came down when the glory came down it came down between the faces of the people face to face experience so i remember some years ago uh i invited a well-known speaker to our church and he came to my heart when he said he said heart he said you have an amazing music ministry he said here's the problem he said your music ministry is so good that the people stop singing i say yeah i noticed that i said but you know they can't sing anyway i laughed right he didn't laugh he said that's not funny he said if they watch these people sing there'll be no glory here i so what do you mean he said didn't don't you know that glory is created face to face it's not just that they're singing glory is not crush this glory does not come down here if the people here are singing and the people they're not glory does not come here watch this you see the problem with you is you walk in the front door and you feel glory you sense the glory of the house so you think gloria is at the front door no glory comes in in one place wherever there's face-to-face worship where there's face-to-face honor where there's face-to-face glory of god if you say if you if you're praising god here and praise god that glory falls here what about friendships two people instead of talking about why do you create glory between you you got a business you got a marriage what do you have a situationship no i'm not a relationship what's this that just slipped all the way out let me watch this create glory face to face then when you start the bible says a big thing is in malachi 3 when when the saints start speaking to themselves about about how good god was the bible says god took note and wrote a book of remembrance because glory happens face to face and i'm going to tell you this right now you you want to be honored you started business don't nobody come in you know it says to me when you step on the scale it's just your weight so i want to leave you the story i got 15 minutes i want to do this it's in the book of daniel chapter 5. the the story is of king belshazza before i just put that's all scripture on the screen daniel chapter five i'm gonna read about uh oh we're gonna go to sleep and go from verse 12 but i want to catch you up on this story you're good everybody say pastor i'm good okay now in daniel chapter 5 the bible says that king nebuchadnezzar died say that out loud king nebuchadnezzar died nebuchadnezzar was the king that god gave all his glory to he had so much weight on his life that the bible says wherever he went whoever he fought he won he was he became world renowned renowned because this king was one of the few kings that could go into jerusalem and he knocked down the wall he tore on the city and everyone all the neighboring countries knew that god lives there the god of the universe lives there so he became famous everywhere he went god's hand was on him he died and his son the bible says if you read the king james version that belshazza was his son but when i was studying this some time ago um it didn't set right with me i don't know why but i went to study it and i found out that belshazzar was not his son his son who inherited the kingdom from him decided he did not want to govern he wanted to travel so he appointed belshazzar as king and he traveled the world as an emissary for babylon so belshazzar now is king of babylon and one day he gets into this drunken stupor has a big party for him and his wife and his officials and he does something now how many of you remember the story in the old testament where the bible says um the glory of the lord filled the temple so that the priest could not stand to minister remember that if you read the whole story what you'll find is right before that happened they dedicated the vessels that they that are for the temple of the lord all the vessels that would use the cups and the goblets they were dedicated and then after the dedication that god came in to fill the temple no one could go in the glory of the lord fill the house well those very vessels when nebuchadnezzar destroyed jerusalem he took those vessels and he put them in this room belshazza now known the whole story he gets drunk he's having a big old party and he says you know what bring me those vessels that we got from jerusalem and he begins to sit in this this thing and he passed out the vessels to all the people around him and the bible says they all fill with wine and they drinking and as they're drinking from the vessels dedicated to the lord they start praising the gods of gold and silver and iron and wood and stone they start praising other gods and giving other gods credit for this fortune that they have and out of nowhere a hand comes out a man's hand and begins to ride on the wall perez marison what does it mean so he's looking at this thing he sees everyone see he said no one knows the same time the queen mother comes in when she sees it she says there's a man in this kingdom his name is daniel and here's what she said in her language the spirit of the gods is in him let me translate there's some glory on him i've seen him do something to get him in here they sin for daniel and so the king said i heard about you i heard that you know how to interpret dreams and and mysteries and stuff he said what does this mean but before daniel tells him the meaning daniel reads him not this writing the word he reads him there are times when god gets ready to shift who you are he has to read you he has to send someone into your life to look at you and measure your weight i was going to a wedding one time in indiana the whole uh going to whatever reception the hotel was on by the waterfront back then i was wearing every bit of 125 pounds i got at the limo and that wind took a hold of me i was too embarrassed now you're always you're cool but then i'm walking in that one was pushed me i listened everybody everybody in the in the hotel looking out i can't even get to the hotel door i'm like try to get to the door you know and i get inside they said man that thing almost took you away i was too shame i said i've got to gain some weight that's your story you need to gain some weight you are picking fights in weight classes that you don't qualify for even boxers know i don't care if you're an excellent lightweight and got fast hands if you're good bantamweight featherweight they know that you don't mess around in the heavyweight class because all it takes is one blow to put you to sleep for about three months and when you wake up your head will hurt listen some of you are trying to enter into arenas and you don't have to wait for it the glory that you need to win in that arena you don't have it yes you have the skill yes you have the calling yes you have the gifting but you don't have the you don't have the the weight you have to wait talk to the people you admire talk to the people on the platforms ask them about their battles ask them about their asked them about their heartbreaks before i came here my armor bearer i said i was going to tell a story but my armor bear one of my armor bearers and and i call them arm bearers they're actually men that help me i love them they're like my brothers my sons advent and whatever the week it is sometimes sometimes they're my assistants sometimes they're my resistance um but a song was a night as i'm leaving out he all stands in a certain place i've just pat my heart he pats his heart to god friday morning two days later they give this call first thing in the morning pastor bro had a stroke a stroke what do you mean a stroke we're looking within a stroke is he alive he's not non-responsible were you being non-responsive listen my word goes into chaos the crazy part i got an elder that's laying dying and i said to the lord here's what i said this is too much when i was praying the lord said i built you like a tank look listen i said it to my wife i said the lord told me he built me like a tank and i don't know why he told me that she said he told you that for me she said because i was concerned just watching you right watch this carry the weight the apostle paul talked about the weight the burden of the word in the greek is boros the burden of what you call to do you asking god for stuff that you don't have to wait to carry it and how do i get the weight through honor when you begin to honor people and begin to honor god for what he's put in them then it gets you closer it gives you the gift of proximity and you get close enough to see what is now their humanity if you're wise enough to see divinity in the humanity if you're wise enough to understand that this person is nothing but a box nothing but a vessel that the the earthen tread the earthen vessel carries a treasure they're not the treasure if you could if you could square with that and be good with that and honor them for what's in them and honor god for sending them do you know you have in your midst a gift that i have not seen the likes of one time in my whole life i'm 58 years old shut up you have the gift that walks among you is a once in a lifetime gift and i bet you through familiarity you treat him like he's common you know you're telling god i don't give you glory for what you've given to me when we become entitled with the glory of god when we start treating the glory of god like it's nothing it lifts up and it goes away remember the the word the hebrew word is kabaddi everybody said khabad have you ever heard the word ich khabad it's departed glory when instead of the chapter of ezekiel 9 you see that glory departs incrementally first it lifts up from between the cherubs it leads from face to face and it's it rests on the threshold so as people come to church and they still feel a little bit of glory because god on the threshold then when you if you keep doing what you're doing he will lift up again and he'll move a little bit further then he says shut it down and go somewhere else i didn't come to put a damp on you i came to tell you to open your eyes to what's on my around and among you i'm going to leave you with this so this story put daniel 512 on the screen i want to read the rest of this are you good i don't know what am i reading it from up there okay well i guess i have to read it from you daniel chapter five new yorkers your bibles how you got a smart device of the bible on it okay put up the new living translation on your smart device daniel chapter five and i'm gonna read from verse 13 i guess y'all got it i'm wait i'm gonna wait on you i got six minutes but if you slow up i'll borrow five from you and make it 11. okay there you go good i would read from the screen the bible says so daniel was brought in before the king the king asked them are you daniel one of the exiles brought from judah by my predecessor kingdom nebuchadnezzar next verse i have heard that you have the spirit of the of the gods within you and that you're filled with insight and understanding and wisdom keep rolling down my wise men and enchanters have tried to read the words on the wall and tell me their meaning but they cannot do it next verse i am told that you can give interpretations and solve difficult problems if you can read these words and tell me their meaning you will be clothed in purple or robes of royal honor you will have a gold chain placed around your neck and you'll become the what number and the reason he could not make him the second highest is because he was already number two the number one was traveling the word remember i told you that now it says now go to the next verse daniel answered to the king he said keep your gifts or give them to someone else but i will tell you what the writing means keep rolling down he said your majesty the most high god gave sovereignty watch this now he gave majesty he gave glory and he gave honor to your predecessor look watch this for a minute whenever you see the words glory and honor put next to each other speaking about something in the earth it means that the kabbalah the weight of god and the outcome of it the glory and the outcome okay next verse put it up there he said he made him so great that all of the people of all races and nations and languages trembled before him in fear he killed those he wanted to kill and spared those he wanted to spare he honored those he wanted to honor and disgrace those who wanted to disgrace next verse but when his heart and mind were what say allah with what puffed up with arrogance remember what i told you how do you become puffed up with arrogance when you start when you keep the glory for yourself so the bible says again put it up here it says when it when he when he's when he's a mind his heart and mind and it happens in the heart and in the mind you start seeing yourself different you start thinking it's you before you before you go to platform you say god be with me because you know i can't do this mother myself now you're saying i'm about to wreck this place look at this now this is what the scripture said but when his heart and mind were puffed up with arrogance he was brought down from his royal throne and stripped of his glory what it means is now when he gets on the scale he weighs exactly what he should weigh there's god is not cheating the scale anymore by putting his foot on it or putting his hand on his life it's just him and the danger of it is sometimes watching us now is that you you're thinking that the glory is still on you when glory is on your life why are you looking so different goliath looked at david and said what am i a dog that this little boy would come at me with a with a sling and a stone to go like i'm about to end this real quickly what he didn't see was the big old god that was behind him what he didn't know was david didn't have to be good when david released the stone in the sling god will get a hold of it take it exactly to where it needed to go samson didn't look strong that's why delilah asked him she said from whence cometh that great strength he didn't look like he went to the gym but when god came on him he was lifting off city gates and walking away with it you don't have to look the part your resume your resume doesn't have to read the part your business doesn't have to be in the best location but if the glory of god is on your life people will find your little restaurant and stand in line to eat there people be looking for clothing that you're making watch this put it up there again i'm almost done i'm almost done he was driven after he became arrogant he was driven from society human society he was given the mind of a wild animal he lived among the wild donkeys he ate grass like a cow he was drenched with the dew of heaven until he learned that the most high god rules over the kingdoms of the world and appoints anyone he desires to watch you see the word rule twice let me show you something let me get piano real soft let me show you something god rules god reigns but he's looking for people to do it through the issue in your life right now this light affliction you're going through the things that's happening in your life is god pulling you into a glory check he will shake your life all the way down to increase your weight he will strip your friendships and income and for some of you whatever you glory in beside him he will take it he doesn't care if you cry because what he understands is this if you're gonna fulfill the purpose of god in your life he understands that he has to bring you to a place where you can hold glory and not destroy you there's another part of this i want to tell you about when people fail around you it's a glory test because what's supposed to happen in the church is when someone fails we're supposed to go to them and try to to raise up the level of glory in them not throw them away our job is to ask them where's the glory of god in you why are you behaving like this well and our job is to work with them and work on them till the glory of god is resurrected in them let me show you something almost done go go back up here on the screen for me almost done i'm almost done he says you are his successor or belshazzar and here's what he said to him he said you knew all of this he said everything i'm telling you you knew but you refused to humble yourself put it back up there let me keep ruling i'm out of time he says you knew all this yet you have not humbled yourself next verse he said this he said for you proudly defy the lord of heaven and you you have these cups from his temple brought before you you and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver gold bronze iron wood stone guards that neither see nor hear no no anything at all but you have not honored the god who gives you the breath and the life of the breath of life and controls your destiny next verse that's what he said he says so god has sent his hand to write this message this is the message me name to kel parson here's what he says next verse this is what these words mean meanie means numbered god has numbered the days of your reign and has brought you to an end that's what he said because god said i can't trust you with glory i can't use you anymore this is not everybody said this message is not for me say that i said this is not my message say i glorify god i'll come on here now watch this next verse he said watch this you read with me to kael means read it again to care means read the rest you have been weighed on the balances here's what god told him god said watch this god says i gave nebuchadnezzar all of this watch this he gave it to you when i gave it to him he could give it to whomever he chose he gave it to you watch this now he said but you didn't value it you thought you could do this without me he said so i weighed you to see if you were right he said you know i found you aren't heavy enough god is looking for people to carry his weight he's looking for people who can carry the glory in their life and not become somebody else he's looking for people who honor him and on the leadership watch us now he's looking for people that people that leadership could honor and they could pass the honor back to leadership while honoring people around them he's looking for people that when the leaders say step we're gonna take a step of faith i watched you step into cities and every time you got ready to step i held my breath for you a simple step of faith and when you put your foot down that whole place shook and every time i saw it happen i said the glory of god is on this thing and the funny thing is if you take when you step away from the step and look behind you you took a little step and left a big footprint how you know god's glories on your life is when you did when you do little things that have big impact can i ask you a question can i ask you a question is there anybody here today that could honestly say god you know what my life needs more glory let me by lift both hands if that's you say that's me that's me lift both hands this is why i'm here i'm gonna show you something let's see about me god keep them up because we're gonna declare some things where you are there are people who've been trying the same things for years you're frustrated it's not working other people are having the success that you thought you were going to have and you don't know what's wrong and god said we got to up your weight so wait is about to increase in this place today but it's gonna begin with honor while your hands are lifted before god here's what i want you to know you are not supposed to understand everything your man of god does this is not by committee god to you he's just he that's just a pastor no to the nations he's going to be somebody else and when god shifts this and he will in a big way the entire anwar or move is going to shift with it and you have to make sure that when god calls your number you're ready so i don't like the way i've been treated listen to me sometimes god of god has to use redemptive correction to straighten us before we mess some junk up permanently and that's to the glory of god what you should be telling god is thank you don't know that god don't leave me alone don't throw me away keep doing what you're doing so say these words with me say unto the lord say father thank you for pouring glory on my life more and more i need you to increase my weight that i may honor you and those i'm connected to and fulfill purpose in the earth let nothing i've heard today go to waste but stir something in me use me as your address the place you live to direct people who are looking for you collectively make us the house of god the place where you dwell the place where your glory resides and increases i thank you for choosing us for choosing me for this great work in jesus name amen what an incredible message i hope you were paying attention and taking notes so you can apply what you've learned and grow from it hey listen i don't want to take for granted that you have a relationship with god someone extend three invitations to you today the first is for salvation if you were to die today do you know for sure that you'd go to heaven and spend eternity with god if not today is your day to respond the second invitation is for reconnection we understand that in your walk with god sometimes you stumble and fall sometimes your heart grows cold toward him what better day than today to reconnect to god the third invitation is for church membership listen it was never god's will that you surrender to christ and then go it alone if you're looking for a church family i want to invite you to join norfolk christian church today if you responded to any of these invitations a number will pop up at the bottom of the screen i want you to text the words i have decided to that number and someone from our membership services team will be in touch with you for the appropriate next steps if you want to receive salvation i want to pray a simple prayer with you listen they'll be my words but let it come from your heart you may even have more to say than what i'm going to say let's bow our heads to right now and pray dear god i come to you now i confess that i'm a sinner in need of salvation i believe that that salvation was supplied for me through your son jesus christ i believe you sent your son to the earth to die for my sins that he died on a cross and that you raised him from the dead three days later lord i come to you now and i ask you to forgive me of my sins through jesus i ask you to make me a new creation let your spirit come and live inside of me and lord through my confession i thank you that i am saved i thank you that you're my father and i'm your child in jesus name i pray amen listen if you pray that simple prayer we believe you're born again according to romans chapter 10 verses 9 and 10. i'm going to let you go now but before we go i want to say a simple benediction over you my benediction comes from numbers chapter 6 so you can lift your hands where you are and receive this by faith may the lord bless you and protect you may the lord smile on you and be gracious to you may the lord show you his favor and give you his peace in jesus name hey listen have a great week and we'll see you next time father god we come to just say that we will trust you we'll continue to lean on you and we'll continue to depend on you oh god so we thank you for your work that reminds us you are the branches he who abides in me will forever be fruit falling deep in the air i am the way the truth and the light no one gets to the father except that he comes through me come on family let's do it together foreign trust in the lord trust in the lord please is is trust me oh i now come on oh is is now come on and worship him father god we can do absolutely nothing without you god so that's why we put all our trust and all our hope in you oh god because without you we are absolutely nothing no god so we worship and we worship and we cause we know got a heart and you're kind of mine and you'll kind of you

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