Where Is The Glory in the Praise? - Bishop Jackie McCullough

his grace is sufficient to keep us and his strength is made perfect in weakness if you've been strengthened by the lord give him a standing ovation right now [Music] i greet you tonight in the name of jesus thanking the lord for safe travel bringing us through the highways of the sky the plane landed that's always a blessing amen and i am here with family in the person of bishop-elect marvin winans and we want to salute him one more time one more time amen to to all of the pulpit dignitaries to all of you who are leaders and ministers and evangelists and missionaries pastors wives to the host pastor or the pastor of this church and to his wife i want to say a special praise the lord to you amen and to every member of christ church you're special to god turn around and tell your neighbor you're special to the lord amen amen you may be seated praise the lord it's good to be back at holy convocation and holy convocation is not something that we have made up when you read the scriptures especially the old testament they came together to worship the lord they sang together they prayed together they gained strength together and they went back and lived a life of holiness from that particular setting tell your neighbor i'm taking home a whole lot this week there's a whole lot that the lord did amen my assignment is to bring you the word of god and i'm going to ask you to turn your bibles to the 108th psalm psalm 108 and i'm just going to read one verse the first verse the psalm 108 verse 1. you might have to get it up on your eye pod or your iphone i'm reading from the king james version you may have another version but in psalm 108 verse 1 he begins reading of god's word god my heart is fixed i will sing and give praise even with my glory so far the texts and the subject or the title is in a question where is the glory in the praise where is the glory in the praise i love the psalms i love the psalms because contrary to what most proficient outstanding preachers think they're not just cute poetry and they're not just sermons for beginning preachers when you dig into the psalms you find that the psalms talk talk about praise and that's the name of the book book of praise but it takes you into the life of the ancient hebrews but also the first century church jesus quoted the psalms the apostles used the psalms the psalms teach as opens up in the first psalm it talks to you about what god requires that you meditate day and night the psalms also [Music] opens up your human emotions you know many many churches you go to you can't speak above a whisper because they'll put you out of the service can't raise your hand can't clap your hands but when i read the bible the psalms teach me that my emotions must be engaged in worship that i should not divorce my feelings from my god so the psalms the psalms that of psalms of complaint hear my cry oh god so christians do cry attend unto my prayer from the ends of the earth will i cry unto thee and when my heart is overwhelmed when i just can't handle it anymore lead me to the rock that is higher than i for thou has been a shelter for me strong tower from mine enemy there are individual psalms psalms written by david and asaph and heman but there are also national psalms psalms that they sang at their convocation when they gathered together and went up those steps to the temple the psalms of ascent or the psalms of the of decree when they walked up they said praise the lord for his mercy endure it forever let the redeemed of the lord say so whom he hath what redeemed from the hands of the enemy the psalms also prophesy the psalm that jesus used my god my god why hath thou forsaken me prophesied about jesus's sorrowful moment on the cross but what about this song something very special about this song some say that it has to do with the children coming out of babylonian captivity but the majority of the scholars say it had to do with a time in david's life when it was very rough a man with an anointing living like a fugitive rough a man that is called to serve a people who has openly rejected him rough a man that is called to take over a kingdom while the present king is still sitting on the throne i call that rough and so david had to hide in caves and foxholes because saul the present king wanted to kill him why did he want to kill him because david had something that he had lost david was now kissed with god's favor david had the anointing dripping off of him and saul couldn't take it tell your neighbor that's why folk hate me right now that's why they hate me right now so where did david go where did david go david at one point ran and hid in a cave of adulum and he was in this cave it had become his headquarter and this is a fascinating period in david's life because because even though he was living like a fugitive he was still a leader because now 400 to 600 men had gathered themselves and surrendered themselves to his leadership very peculiar bunch not the monk not the rich and the famous men who were in debt men who were discouraged men who were discontented these were the rejects of society and they ran to a man who was also rejected but he had something that they wanted and that was leadership hard to find so they're in the cave hiding and david you'll go to first samuel 22 and 1. just want to read you five verses so you'll kind of get the feel of what's happening here begins god's word david left the gath escaped to the cave abdullah when his brothers and his father's household heard about it they went down to him there all those who were in distress who were in debt those are the kind of people that we don't want nobody want poor folk or discontented gathered around him and he became their leader about 400 men were with him from there david went to misfa in moab and said to the king of moab would you let my father and my mother come and stay with you until i learn what god will do for me so he left them with the king of moab and they stayed with him as long as david was in the stronghold but the prophet tell your neighbor thank god for a prophet the prophet said do not stay in the stronghold tell your neighbor get out of hiding get out of hiding go into the land of judah the land of praise when you want deliverance you don't go in the cave you go to the land of praise when you want god to break the back of the enemy you don't go in a cave you go to the land of praise depressed people go in a cave but when you want to come out of depression you don't have to take a pill you just have to pray so he left and went to julian why was it necessary for david to go to judah and come out of that country because he had to be restored to his nationality he was going to be king of judah he was going to be king of israel he had to go back and connect with his people and connect with his assignment got to come out the cave so you could be set up for your assignment not only that you are surrounded with pagans and superstitious people david and they have a way of contaminating you and with your kind of assignment you can't afford to be secular that's what's wrong with the church today we're being contaminated with secularism i know you don't like that but i want to say one more time we are influenced impressed fascinated and taken over by the world and all the world does is laugh at us because we are the ones who are supposed to influence and fascinate them get out of your hiding place if you keep hanging around them after a while you lose what i've put up on you you keep hanging around you're going gonna shake like samson and nothing will happen after a while you will lose your focus and lose your passion and lose your purpose you got 600 men depending on your commitment don't you hang out in that little corner right there come on out tell your neighbor come on out come on out now how do you preserve your position your place your passion your commitment in the midst of overwhelming secularism how do you stay clean how do you stay on contaminated how do you keep it so straight when everybody doing it so crooked i'm almost finished how do you press forward and not get sidetracked how do you stay as a servant of the lord and not let them make you a celebrity how do you hold on to the anointing that god has given you to destroy yoke and to further the gospel and not compromise it just a little bit how do you remain in the minority when they have isolated you ignored you how do you keep on pressing got three things and i'm out of your way it's right here david if you stay hanging out with these people you got your mama and your brother down there but you can't go down there and stay cause you got to go further soon you'll be king in hebron and then you'll be king of all of israel you got somewhere to go you got somewhere to go ah there's a place i have for you you're going to affect history you're going to leave your print in this earth i've got an anointing to take you to another level come on boy get out of that corner get out you got too much to lose tell your neighbor you got too much to lose here so how do you do it the first point is you must have a praising heart that's one of the problems with the church even in leadership we know how to rock to the music but do we praise there's a difference than feeling good and feeling something and shaking with the music and god knows we got good music but but a praising heart has a certain kind of constitution here it is my heart is fixed the worst person in the world is a person who is unstable jacob was blessing his son and he said to ruben you're unstable as water i would give you the kingdom you deserve the double portion you deserve to be the priest of the nation you deserve the birthright but i got to take it from you because you can't control your passion if you're with green people you're green if you're with red people you're red if you're in a round cut your round if you're in a script i just can't trust your roommate cause your heart is not sick the heart in the bible the heart is used interchangeably with the will and the mind talks about your intellect the center of your feelings the center of your life for you people who do yoga since you're so fascinated you do yoga with christian music and you do this yoga and it talks about centering going to your belly and centering yourself and being one with yourself here here's how you get one with god i don't know about one with yourself but but but but your heart your emotions your intellect your will must be fixed and the word fixed means must be set up established it must stand firm heart is fixed the old folks used to say we don't say it anymore and my mind is made up thank god for them opiates and they meant that too you know that wasn't as a church and stuff those mothers meant that thing broke and and got to walk to church and got one white dress but their heart was fixed and their mind wasn't wavering we're dealing in a time when people waver they're not solid they're not sure they're not settled and the bible said when you are unstable you will not get anything from god it means his heart was firmly established but now it's interesting his heart is not firmly established because he's king his heart is not firmly established because he's got everything that he wants his heart is firmly established at a time when things are haywire he's he's he's hiding in a cave saul wants to kill him but right in the midst of trouble his heart is fixed if there's anybody that you can trust is a person whose heart is fixed when things are going bad ah you can't trust them when things are going well of course your heart is fixed when the but when the money's in the bank of course your heart is fixed when the home is okay of course your heart is fixed when your body is well oh but when the storm is raging and your heart is fixed you're trustworthy i don't know why this man hates me i don't know why he wants to kill me i don't know why he's chasing me but my heart is fixed i don't know why israel doesn't want me i don't know why i'm anointed as king i was minding my business and taking care of my father's sheep and look what my life has come to but my heart is fixed it's so fixed that i'm unshakeable ah i got my eyes set on him and i'm not gonna take it off lord some may come and some may go but i got my eyes dead on god for he is my health he is my way and he's my strong tower if your heart is fixed put your hands together let me hear you one of the problems with the church today people are not settled they're a member of one church at 7 30 a member of another church at 11. they have been in this church for three months now they're in another church for three months their season is up over here and their season starts over there the church has become a circus where nobody is fixed he that is planted in the house of the lord shall flourish in the courts of our god can't grow if you're not planted can't be stable if you're not planted ah and god is not a crazy vineyard keeper you've got to abide in order to grow heart is fixed this is not fickle commitments or we rebuilt the spirit of fickleness it has taken over the land of the church like a pig every everybody's got their own anointing your own private holy ghost the church has become a place where you visit but not a place where you get planted churches are in trouble we can't go by who is there on sunday because we don't know you your ties are not there your name is not on the book your name is over there on the other side because it's a fickle generation but in the midst of a fickle generation there's a group of people whose hearts are fixed resolute determined unshakable steadfast uh pocketbook is empty but steadfast eviction notice on the door but steadfast marriage about to blow up but you wouldn't know it cause i'm steadfast oh come on ladies and gentlemen that's why jesus died to make you steadfast i know some of y'all don't know what i'm talking about because you're taught by this secular gospel that you got to feel it you got to like it you got to make you relieved and that's why all we do is go from church to church looking for relief like rolaids god never promised us relief he promised us his grace his mercy his power his deliverance is healing and whether i feel it or not i believe that he's able my god to do exceeding and abundant come on steadfast people i want to hear you praise him in the house [Applause] every day churches are closing every day pastors are leaving ministries every day saints are contemplating suicide because something has happened to our heart it's not fixed determined to go through psalm 138 and 1 says i will praise you o lord with all my heart before the gods i will sing your praise the bible said that we must love the lord with all our heart with all our mind with all our soul and with all our strength with everything in us that's the only way to make it you see secularism they don't play they put all their monies and their energies into whatever they're doing ah maybe that's why you're fascinated so you've got to step up your game ah they are pulling out all the stops to attract your attention and if you're not settled in him you'll be bamboozled and fooled and next thing you know you'll be hindu pentecostal oh i know y'all didn't get that i know you all didn't get that but i'm standing on a firm foundation i'm holding up the bloodstained banner of the lord and in him i trust and he's the way the truth and the life and no man coming to the father but by him and i don't negotiate it put your hands together and let me hear the church breaks you shall go save it [Music] another way to avoid contamination that will subtly just get you off your course and next thing you know you have no desire passion vision to finish your work and you pass it on to people who are novices people that don't have any ethics people that can't get it together you just drop the vision in their hands so you could go off and entertain your secular experience but to keep yourself from being lured seduced flattered and bamboozled by people who have studied you people who have done background check people who know where you've been and what you did last summer people understand your taste and your move they know how to press a certain button and they know if they press it they got you but look what you're forfeiting an assignment that comes out of heaven an opportunity to make a dent in the kingdom of hell uh an opportunity to turn many hearts to god to change the course of the nation to stop the advancement of violence ah to turn things around by one intercession look what you're giving up just for a little pat on the back and your name and a little magazine ah you're willing to back up and sell your soul but tonight i rebuke the spirit of contamination say it in the lord god rebuke you at the hand of god buying you i need somebody to help me up here put your hands together let me hear you praise him in the house okay tell your neighbor keep the vision clear keep the vision clear one of the examples when nehemiah was building the wall bible said san balance tobiah and all they came to help him and he said no thank you and they kept pressing him but he was so focused his heart was so fixed he said i don't have coffee or tea i'm not interested in having lunch because somehow when you have lunch you say too much and you give up too much i'm doing a good work and i don't want to be interrupted tell your neighbor i don't want to be interrupted oh come on many of you almost got into something cause you were interrupted but i find that spirit of interruption right now come on put your hands together i'm an assignment to whip the devil off your assignment come on and let me hear your praise [Applause] the second way to keep this thing guarded tell your neighbors too precious is to have not only a fixed heart but to have a praising voice and in this text it means i will sing and the will there means it has nothing to do with feelings i will sing now we know we know how to sing in church but singing was a part of the hebrew worship and even the heathens worship singing the israelites sang praise unto the lord i will sing unto the lord over 35 times in the psalms i will sing unto the lord psalm 13 and 6 i will sing praises unto the lord psalm 27 and 6 sing unto him a new song psalm 33 and 3. so singing is an integral part first samuel 18 and 6 and it came to pass they came and when david was returned from the slaughter of the philistines that the women came out of all the cities of israel singing and dancing to meet the king exodus one of my favorite scripture miriam the prophetess aaron's sister took a tambourine in her hand we don't play damn marines anymore and all the women followed her with tambourines dancing i will sing unto the lord but he has triumphed gloriously horse and riders thrown into the sea the lord my god ah is my victory oh we need to sing and sing until the heavens open up we need to sing not to be entertained but to sing until chains fall off sing until hearts are broken sing until people's minds are changing sing until curses come off of you uh it don't take a deep song just a little bit of song all you got to do is say yes just sing yes and people go to shake and come on ladies and gentlemen we need to go back to old-fashioned singing we need to go grab the hymn all hail the power of jesus name let angel prostrate forth oh crown him for his lord of all years i spent in vanity and pride caring not that my lord was crucified knowing not that it was for me he died at calvary mercy tell your neighbor mercy it was great and grace was free but we don't sing those things anymore we don't sing our faith we sing our feelings you see when i sing my faith i get strong prone to one the lord i feel it proud to leave the god i love her but here's my heart here's my heart here's my heart oh take and seal it seal it for the you can't sing that in backslide come on put your hands together i need somebody come on and help me pray first chronicles 16-8 give thanks to the lord call on his name make known among the nations what he has done sing to him tell your neighbor sing saying sing something that makes sense sing put jesus in the song see call his name jesus and sin that's what makes a devil tremble when you put jesus in the song he don't know who you're talking about unless you call his name but there's power in his name and there's healing this is where pentecost is coming sunday and sadly a whole lot of preachers didn't even know pentecost was sunday but but ephesians 5 and 18 and i love this because this is where i came from and i ain't going to never leave it do not get drunk on wine see that see that now i know you sophisticated theologian says god didn't say wine drinking was a sin but since we know our people we know you can't hold your liquor but here it goes ephesians 5 18. said do not be drunk with one which leads to debauchery but be filled with a spirit speaking to one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs and sing and make music in your heart to the lord that's how some of us got the holy ghost we got drunk i know some of you sophisticated people think that that's ended with the first century and you don't need to speak in tongues because you're so theologically limited oh but the same holy ghost that fell on pentecost falls today and intends to make me drunk come on put your hands together we don't get drunk anymore tell your neighbor i need to get drunk in here tonight i need to get drunk james 5 and 13 says is any one of you in trouble he should what pray is anyone happy let him what sing songs of praise now so so so we we're keeping it real now we're keeping it pure we're keeping it real we're keeping it out of the hands of the enemy that wants to redefine us you see that's the that's the the plot and that's the design of the enemy to redefine christianity they know they can't get rid of us how are you going to get rid of us we're like the women in israel the jewish women you try to get rid of us and we keep having babies just keep having oh lord have mercy you can't do nothing with saints they're like cockroaches just keep hatching over here if we can't have it in here we have it in australia if we can't have it in australia we have them in south africa if we don't have them in south africa we have them in nigeria you can't stop the advancement of the church but since they can't stop it they want to redefine it and the devil is a liar you can't define me upon this rock [Applause] lord have mercy you want to read three define me by telling me what to preach what i can't preach you want to redefine me by telling me not to say the three-letter word sin you want me to call it challenges and struggles if if i leave that out if i leave that out then there's no hope for the sinner you see because the sinner is who jesus came for he didn't come for the righteous he came for the sinner so we need to tell the sinner jesus came just for you he wants you with your wretched raunchy self he came for me with my low down wickets sinner say by grace or y'all help me praise him now cause i am so happy no good no good absolutely no good in this black and white top no good lord have mercy if it's not his grace i wouldn't be here tonight i said no good ain't no good thing in me ain't nothing in me right but jesus oh my righteousness this is a filthy rag and in the hebrew it's a soiled feminine napkin ah that's how nasty i am but thank god for the grace of god i know you think you're wonderful that's why you keep sinning the day you accept the fact that you ain't no good that's when grace comes in as long as you're okay you're gonna keep messing up but when you say god here i am i'm absolutely no good i just can't get it together i'm a mess from the crown of my head to the soul of my feet and god said come here baby i got you i got you i got you come here baby you're the one i want i want you i died for you i love you put your hands together let me hear you [Applause] so this wonderful thing this wonderful assignment this wonderful call this wonderful purpose tell your name i got purpose when you have purpose you don't sleep all night long because the seal of the lord hath consumed burns within your soul a driving force that cannot be stopped a fire that cannot be quenched when you sleep all night seven days a week something happened to your purpose when you have purpose you can't all sleep all night long something moving you and shoving you so you got to guard it because that's what the enemy wants he don't want your mercedes you never don't need praise me sayings i'm losing my car no no no no the car is not the issue that's what's wrong with us we're just worried about stuff he's not after your car he used the car to get at you he don't want your house he just used the house to get at you what he wants is your faith and your purpose because what you have he has lost the devil lost it and will never have it and he doesn't want you to have it and you're dumb enough to make him put his hands on it but i want you to have a fixed heart a praising voice and then finally here's where the rubber meets the road right here it says in this one verse is loaded even with my glory because it's possible to have your mind made up to serve the lord it's possible to even sing but here's the issue right here this flesh wants a piece of the glory i know you're gonna get quiet but i'm coming home we can sing and still take the glory i can preach and be effective but under the table i'm stealing some glory and that's the point of competition right there and we forgot that god said my glory i will not what ah you can have the blessing but you can't have the glory he says yet with my glory also with my glory that's what that word yet more over with my glory that means in addition to the singing and the fixed heart i'm adding something key what is glory you know we throw those words around glory glory means the person has the ability to carry the weight it literally means their splendor their honor their greatness god is the only one who can carry the weight of my sin he's the only one that can bear the burden of my life i don't have the ability to carry the weight you want all that power but you don't have the ability to carry the weight what happens when you steal the glory and can't carry the weight you fall a lot of weight when you try to be everything to everybody a lot of weight when you try to have everybody like you it's a whole lot of weight when you want to be popular and great because when the curtains go down that's too much weight to go to bed with that's why you go to bed with something else can't carry the weight i know you all didn't go help me you weren't made to carry the burden you were just made to agree with who is in charge so david is saying i know i'm in a bad place but i'm going to praise you and my heart is fixed when i'm gonna give up something else because it doesn't belong to me in the first place what is man's glory your intellect you're so smart you can't stand yourself your tongue your tongue is so sharp you out talk yourself lord have mercy you're so talented you don't know what to do with yourself you see what i'm saying ah you want all the honor all the clap clap clap you want all the attention you want all the respect the wisdom all of the superiority you want to be out front you want the magnificent so come on mccullough can't we get a little clap clap clap not the way you want it not the way you want it no no no we're gonna clap because you did well we won't pay you because you did well we want to put your name on a piece of paper cause you did wet but that's not what we want ladies and gentlemen we want the glory and the honor we want the attention and the credit lord have mercy what do i have that god didn't give me how come i wasn't born everything that i have i got it from the lord when i woke up this morning it's because god woke me up when i moved my fingers it's because the nerves got hooked up in the right place could have had a stroke but the lord kept me together so all the glory well come on and help me praise him right here i say all the glory and this is how it works so my heart is fixed i'm praising him and another thing to god this purpose is to give up something give up give up my self-importance give up my ambitions give up my self-centeredness i mean just just turn it over turn it over just come out the spotlight and let him get in the light huh just shut up and let him talk just back up and let him work let the praise go to him back up and let the clap clap go to him sit down and let the praise go to him you see that's all he wants you understand and if you're smart you'll give it up because when you give it up to him he turns around and blesses you if you had enough sense to give it to him if you could get the memo that you give him the glory he gives you the blessing so what is what is the real glory then what's real glory the real glory is knowing god philippians 3 10 that i might know him let's tell your neighbor that's glory right there glory is not your shoes glory is not your title your glory is not your your voice or your your what you call your talent the glory is to know him in the power of his resurrection in the lost ship of his suffering see got quiet now in the fell low shift of his suffering being made conformable unto his death what's real glory the real glory is that he chose me see i didn't choose him stop singing him song that i found him he wasn't lost he chose me and listen i was not the creme de la creme i was at the bottom of the barrel but he chose me lord have mercy the problem with church folk is they try to act like they were so wonderful that jesus had to choose them oh it's the mercy of god i don't give you a born in the church it's the mercy of god that he chose me in spite of me ephesians 2 and 1 and you have the quicken who were dead in trespasses and sin wherein in time past you walk according to the course of this world spirit of disobedience ah but he chose us and he gave us his love and his mercy and quicken us together what's the real glory of the cross tell your neighbor to cross the cross of course we don't preach the cross anymore because it's too bloody but anything got life got to have blood lord have mercy the day you don't have no blood that's the day you're dead everything that has a life must have blood and the blood that is shed on the cross is bad enough to wash away my sin jesus have mercy it was not a prick on the finger it took a gushing out of his side they had to stab him here and stab him there and stab him in his hands just to wash away my sin so my glory is in the blood of jesus what can wash away my nastiness nothing but the blood of jesus do i have a church in the house what can make me whole again my glory is in the cross glories on the cross romans 8 and 18 for i reckon that the suffering of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory whatever i'm going through the glory is in the future tell your neighbor when i'm going through god's getting ready to give me something way beyond my expectation the glory is not in my flesh i said the glory is not in my flesh you can preach i can preach ain't no glory you can sing barbin can sing by the glory you can write somebody else can write where the glory you can dance somebody else can dance big deal the glory is not in the flesh this flesh that needs to be bathed every day every day and if you don't do it it'll stink this fresh you better put on some deodorant honey because this flesh doesn't smell good if you don't fix it up this flash that needs a little perfume and cologne this flash that when something hits it it can be afflicted a wonderful fletcher and all cancer has to do is lay the flesh down and what used to be wonderful is not rotten this flesh that the earthworms are waiting for this flesh that the grave is coming after ain't no glory in the flesh but our glory in the will of god i glory in the name of the lord i glory in the fact that he rose from the dead and that he lives forever i glory in the fact that he called me by my name slapped his hands on me turned me around and gave me eternal life you better praise him for the glory you celebrating flesh you worshiping personalities that's why the church is in trouble every one of us here on this pulpit these wonderful glorious people blessed people are your servants [Applause] best all i'm doing tonight is working you see me sweating this ain't no celebrity this is work i'm working because god is glorious i'm working because he loves you enough to give you direction or you better thank god for being the glory of your life all right in case you don't agree let me give you two examples of what it looks like in the bible when somebody gives up their importance when they give up their titles give up their paper and give up who is who in america and give up their well-known name see because when you get before him he ain't worried about no name because he got a name himself you see he was given a name above every name so when i stand before him i ain't got no name with his and that's the name i want to see if he's been given a name above every name i don't want no mccullough i want his name lord have mercy if i have any sense i'll drop them a color and pick up the name of jesus or somebody ought to drop your name your name too wonderful honey your name's wonderful the bible said two examples and i'ma sit down ii samuel 6-14 and david danced before the lord with all his might and david was girded with a linen ephod what does that what does that mean when david finally became king and he brought the ark of the covenant into the midst of the people and he thought about how god kept him kept his word the bible said he danced out of his outer tunic that means he's kingly and he had on a dress like every other man but he had on a linen ephod and the linen ephod was not exclusively given to king priests wore it levi wore and other folk word even little samuel wore it so to just have on the tunic and the linen ephod is to say to the world i have reduced myself to the commonality of people that all these people here and i are on the same level before god and i'm going to dance with this ephod to let the whole world know that he is the one that's in charge and he danced and he was unrecognizable if you saw if you were in the crowd you wouldn't know him from joe blow because he was taken off his glory came out of his importance his robe that made him somebody he took it off laid it down and came before god and dance and listen here when you do it like that somebody gonna criticize you somebody gonna put you down because they want you to walk around with pride and pop and they want you to walk around with arrogance ah but david said i gotta dance to dance and i'm gonna dance in humility cause you don't know like i know what the lord has done for me and when he got home when he got home his wife said to him you embarrassed me today ah you acted foolishly with all the women around you didn't walk around with your crown you didn't hold your scepter you didn't keep on your robe you got down too low and you made yourself too common and david said back up woman i got something to tell you right here it was god that kept your daddy off of me it was god that preserved my life and if you think i dance today you better check me tomorrow come on and take off your glory put your hands together and praise it oh jesus [Applause] come on get down get down the best place is to be at his feet prostration has left the church when i was growing up in the church we didn't mind prostrating we didn't mind going down today lay hands with me but don't knock me down david dance and he danced in a way to let everybody know this is not my show your neighbor this ain't my show hey guardian tell your neighbor this is not my time to stage i'm not trying to upstage god as a matter of fact i want him up front and center come on put your hands together i want to hear you praise him [Applause] oh jesus now i gotta i gotta conclude with this the bible said there were four and twenty elders all right now see he said well that's david i didn't see the apostles doing that all right so scholar let's go to heaven revelations 5 and 7 4 and 20 elders now if there's anybody who should be arrogant and stoosh and feel a sense of accomplishment are the 4 and 20 elders who made it [Applause] they accomplished their goal for jesus they should be standing before him waiting for their badge of honor but the four and twenty elders of bible said and he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that set up on the throne and when he had taken the book the four beasts and the four and twenty elders fell down did i say fall down i said faith we don't kneel no more we don't even want altars in our church because we don't intend to come on down but the 4 and 20 elders who came through difficulty who overcame the devil who accomplished the will of god they fell down before the lamb having every one of them hearts and golden vials of odors which are the prayers of the saints and they sung saying down on the floor with their nose licking up the ducks that were worthy to take the book to open the sea thou who were slain and that's redeemed us to god by the blood of every kindred and tongue and people and nation and has made us unto god kings and priests and shall reign on the earth the elders fell down and praise him why can't you give up your importance cross your leg with your fancy shoes and can't say hallelujah sit up in god's house as if he owes you something oh but if you ever get the memo and fall down and give up your glory your god your vision your god your purpose a new anointing will fall upon you leaders are in trouble because they're too special they're too important they're too arrogant come on down ladies come on down gentlemen that's where the power is down at the foot of the cross come on and help me praise fish of our soul [Applause] so you've been all over the world come down so you have written a lot of books come down so you preach the large clock crowds come down you got 20 000 in the church come down lord have mercy you've been on tv you've been on internet everybody know you but come on down you see when you learn that secret you can't be trapped so easily you see the reason why the devil is on your trail and secularism is eating you up is because you don't realize where to go when you give up your glory he guards you he that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall have eye under the shadow of the shadow of the shadow of the almighty you see this the devil can't touch you can come close to you but they can't mess with you give you a little scandal but they can't stop your anointing what's wrong with you i learned how to come on down i learned how to give up my glory here don't even give me no title calling me hey you ah cause i got his favor i don't need a title i got his favor i don't need it to put me on the back got his favor don't need you to recognize me i got this favor where you get your favor at the foot of the cross at the foot of jesus huh ah i gave up my glory i gave up my self-importance i don't need to be impressed and i don't need to impress i just need to know where my help comes from where my covering comes from with my protection come on and help me praise him i need somebody to help me praise [Music] lord you'll help me that nobody answered me come on put your hands together [Music] somebody is after your assignment there's a plot afoot to this credit your purpose there are meanings and strategies to silence your tongue situations have been set up [Music] to stop your progress but they forgot that i found the secret they forgot that who i belong to i don't belong to you but i belong to him and as long as i stay where he wants me to be you can come close but you can't have it ah you can't take this purpose i was born to be i was born to jew i was born to create i was born to give the devil trouble i was born to do the will of god all i got to do is stay down there come on down girl stay down there baby just stay down there until he picks you up stay down there until he saturates you give up your importance don't be bamboozled by all this flattery they want to the day and they ignore you tomorrow why aren't you having a meltdown because all the glory belongs to him as long as i give him what's due i'm safe my heart is fixed i said my heart is fixed i've been broke too much for my heart to be moved i've been talked about too long for me to get a little funny right now my heart was fixed in the heat my heart was fixed in the night my heart was fixed when they talked about me you think i'm going somewhere now tell your neighbor my heart got doubly fixed i got even a little crazy is that what david said to his wife if you think that i'm crazy i got worse and i'm going to praise him i may not have the right key but i'm going to sing i'm going to sing on to him a new song i'm going to bless him with my heart in the shower in the car on the street with the tears running down when my heart is broken i'm going to sing when i don't know what to do i'm going to praise him when i feel like i'm alone i'm going to praise him i'll learn the secret i learned how to give him glory i've learned how to give him honor i've learned how to bless his name in the good times in the bad times when i'm up and when i'm down and then i've learned how to give it up give up the glory give up being impressed give up using what you've accomplished as your calling card it's not where you've been it's who took you there it's not what you have it's who gave it to you it's not what you're doing it's who empowered you so right now you've got the formula to guard this special thing that nobody else can do but you he didn't call your brother your sister he didn't call your friend he called you to do this so how do i guard it this relationship this special time this intimacy this love god this care this vision this clarity how do i guard this when so many things are pulling how do i stay focused and not get hungry my heart is fixed hey hardest fix hey my heart is fixed my collar heart is fixed hey hey hey pastor reverend doctor uh heart is [Applause] what you've got to offer cannot be compared to what he's getting ready to give me oh come on here ladies and gentlemen you settling out for some cheap stuff something will last now i want to give him the glory my job is to lead you to him not lead you to me i can't do nothing for you i'm to lead you so what i want you to do if you have an inkling you don't even have to know everything that god has dropped in your breath to play a strategic part in the unfolding of his ministry his work if you know that you've been called to be his and none other jesus have mercy if you know that you belong to him and him alone i want you to praise him and give up the glory tonight take off your importance i want to hear it i want to hear it [Applause] give another [Music] [Applause] come on i want you to do it with understanding he just wants the glory and this is how you keep focus when you give him what he desires then he keeps you and holds you oh come on you're not praising him enough you're getting too tired you're too cute you don't want to get sweaty but if i were you i would give it my best chance hallelujah i would raise my hand and out of my belly i would praise him i don't care what my title is now no more check him foreign [Music] come on worship the lord worship the [Music] lord [Music] yes [Music] uh [Music] as they played very softly they're those of you whose hearts are fixed your mind is solid you're not wavering you're not hankering you're not looking or seeking you know in whom you believe and you are persuaded hallelujah to jesus if you have that settled in your spirit i want you to raise your hand because god is going to now seal you [Music] things are coming to contaminate you but [Music] what you have just done you have made a public statement that you're settled that you're fixed that you're not marketable that nobody can seduce you and buy you that you're standing on a firm foundation and that all you have is in him and you don't need anything else and if that's so put your hands together and open your mouth why come on and let me hear you praise him with a loud voice glory to god glory to god glory to god

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Published: Tue Apr 27 2021