When God Walks Among His People

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Leviticus 26.

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Father, we thank you for this incredible woman of God who's called and anointed even to bring your word into the villages and to be powerfully used of you. You've prepared her for such a time as this. And thank you that you added her here to our number to say yes and to make covenant with us together and. And you in the vision of King's Cathedral and chapels, bless her. Now we pray over a canopy of anointing and protection the covering, the pastoral covering of this house and ask that you would use her powerfully and the gifts of the Spirit would be in operation.

So much so that when she. When it's all done, the trumpet sounds or we go to meet you, she would hear. Well done, good and faithful servant. May her gifts find great operation here in this congregation. Thank you.

Thank you for bringing her here. In Jesus name, Amen. Congratulations, Christie.

You may now stand. And that's the book of Leviticus, chapter 26. I'm so sorry for any confusion there, Christie and the congregation. Leviticus 26. We're going to read 13 verses of scripture.

When God walks among his people is what I've entitled it. Brace yourself. Are you ready? You're not ready? I don't know if I'm ready.

Come on, God, let's go. Leviticus 26 and verse 1. New King James. It's on the screen as well. You should not make idols for yourselves.

Neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear rear up for yourselves. Nor shall you set an engraved stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the Lord your God. Read verse two with me. You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary.

I am the Lord. If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and perform them, then I will give you the rain in its season. The land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Verse 5. Your threshing shall Last to the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing.

You shall eat your bread to the full. Come on, somebody say bread. Hallelujah. Bread to the full. And dwell in your land safely.

I will give you peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid. I will rid the land of evil beasts, and the sword will not go through your land. You will. You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. Five of you shall chase.

A hundred and a hundred of you shall chase shall put 10,000 to flight. Your enemies shall fall by the sword before you. Verse 9. For I will look favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm my covenant to you. You shall eat the old harvest and clear out the old because of the new.

I will set my tabernacle among you. My soul shall not abhor you. I will walk among you and be your God. You shall be my people. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt that you should not be their slaves.

I've broken the bands, your yoke and made you walk upright. Whoa. Let's go. Father, thank you for your word. A lamp unto a feet and a light upon our path.

I ask God that you would take a coal from your altar, place it upon my lips. And as I preach, as I teach, as I speak, it would burn faith in the hearts of every single man, woman, boy and girl, those here in this great sanctuary, those listening perhaps in the future have your way, oh God, on this Pentecost, have your way. On this Sukkot, have your way, God, today we thank you for it. In Jesus name, amen. Turn to somebody and say, oh, yeah.

Turn to somebody else and say, God's walking among his people.

I'm very encouraged by many, many things. In fact, I had to pull my car over on the way here. Actually, I didn't even get out of my driveway. I started driving. I had to pull over because I began to weep.

Of all the goodness and the grace of God and the power of God just resting on me as I drove to the sanctuary, to the church. Today. It's good to remember the good things that God has done and all that he's done for us. And I want to tell you that our. Our nation is turning, returning to biblical, biblical morality.

You say, how do you know that? I'm writing your notes now, and if you don't have those, go ahead, lift a hand, and they'll bring that to you as they put it on my screen Our nation is returning to biblical morality. You say, well, I don't believe that. There's still. No, no, no.

I know there's still a nightmare out there. But anytime you have a president rededicate the country 250 years and you have a just. There's a turning, there's language. They don't even say God and things like that. They just generally say that in years previous now they say Jesus.

I mean, when they did the rededication of the United States of America, I mean, there's politicians that are preaching the gospel. I mean, who has. I'm not in my lifetime, I'm not very old, but I mean, who remembers when that's happened? They would allude to it, but not want to offend anybody and just be kind of gracious. Not.

They're just straight saying, believe in Jesus and you'll be saved. He's the way, the truth and the life. They're not mincing any words. Politicians, governors, senators.

Marco Rubio, man, he's a great preacher. This is our federal government. I said, this is our federal government doing this. Now, the White House and our federal government isn't going to bring revival, but they, you know who does bring an awakening? God's people.

When they awaken to the reality even of the text I'm about to preach to you. It turns a land, it turns a nation. And I believe that our nation is returning to biblical morality. Well, what do you mean by that? What I mean by that is in previous years there has been a sociological law, and I've taught this to you.

Sociological law is making laws based upon what you think is right, based upon the culture of the day. It is a grave mistake because you can't base laws on. On what people think or what's popular because that changes doing certain things. Years ago, everything changes. Butter, it'll kill you now.

Butter is like amazing. Eggs would kill you now. It's a perfect food. Man is fickle and he changes, goes back and forth and back and forth. But the word of the Lord will remain and will endure forever.

Truth is not. It's not. It's not. What you see is truth. It's absolute truth.

Now, I preached that the roadmap is reliable. I preached it a number of weeks ago. Go listen to it again. What I'm preaching to you from is truth from the Old Testament, which I will apply to the new. But America is turning towards God.

And America, as well as every other nation, is made of families. I believe families are turning towards the Lord.

Our founding fathers saw this country and declared it to be a city on a hill. And we have gotten off track in recent years. But there's a. There's a turnaround. I believe there is a turnaround.

The blessings of God come to the believer, come to the nation, who's right with God. That is how it is. And if you're not right with God, you ain't getting no blessings.

Number of years ago, I had somebody call. Was in another one of our churches in a faraway land. And they called and they said, pastor, will you come and bless our house? I. I said, sure. Have we met?

Yes, we've met. I said, are you a part of the church? No, we're not a part of the church. I said, so you just want me to come and bless your house? They said, yeah.

We asked a lot of churches around town, and none of them will come and do it. I said, oh, why is that? Oh, because we're gay. We live a gay lifestyle. It's two women.

I said, oh. They said, so will you come and pray over our home? I said, absolutely. She said, you will? I said, of course.

So I went and read Deuteronomy 28. The entire thing, the whole thing. Now you're like, why did people laugh? Maybe you've not read Deuteronomy 28. You read through Deuteronomy 28.

It's all the blessings and all the curses. And it's really not up to God whether you're going to be blessed or cursed. It's up to you. I'm getting ahead of myself.

On May 21, sundown, the evening of May 21, just this past week started what's called the Feast of Weeks. It's also called Shavot in Hebrew. S H A V U O T. And they go extended all the way through Saturday evening. That's last night. May 23rd, it is Shabbod, or the Feast of weeks, we call it in the New Testament church from the Greek, which is pentecost.

Penta means 50.

So the celebration of the Feast of weeks, they count it. They call it the Feast of weeks because they were commanded to count off these weeks after the Passover.

So the Passover, we go all the way back to Egypt. The Passover takes place. The death angel passes over. It's the last plague. The death angel passes over the house that has the blood of the Lamb on the doorposts of their home.

The death angel will pass over. If you had no blood on the doorpost, then the firstborn in your house, maybe even if it was you raise your hand if you're a firstborn, all right, you'd be dead. But if the blood is on your. On your doorpost, as directed by God, as directed by Moses, then the curse would go over or the death angel would pass over and. And you'd be protected.

That's why it's called Passover. Everybody say the death angel passes, or he does what he passes over when he sees the blood. Of course, it has New Testament application, profoundly A type and a shadow, a literary type and literary shadow. A foreshadowing, a prophetic sign of what God will do, that one day he send his lamb and whoever would believe on him would not perish, but move on into everlasting life. That death would pass over the second death.

So there's. They're commanded then as they go on this journey to Mount Sinai, He. He. God brings them to himself there at Mount Sinai. And Moses goes up the mountain and he meets with God and the cloud and the fire, and God speaks to him, gives him the Ten Commandments.

So he comes down from the Ten Commandments. Now you know what day it is when he gets the Ten Commandments, when he gets what's called the law. The law that is 50 days after Passover. So literally, they're celebrating the feast of weeks at Shavuot. They're celebrating what we're celebrating right now as Pentecost, because something else happened at Pentecost, but I'm giving you the background there.

So they. At 50 days after he gets the law. So Shabbat, the feast of weeks, because they count weeks. There's a number of weeks until. Until they're to celebrate Pentecost.

What we call Pentecost is the celebration of the day when Moses got the law. It's the same day to tie it all together. I mean, you could really call it today. Of course, it ended the Hebrew calendar yesterday. But it's a great celebration.

I mean, there's so many parallels. And we're going to look at the text now. There's so many parallels, but 3,000 people got killed in Moses day, who rebelled against the Lord. And 3,000 people get saved on the. On the day of Pentecost when Peter comes out and preaches.

There's a lot of parallels, and you could spend a lot of time looking that Israel comes out of Egypt, they come to the mountain, and God basically gives them the law. And it's at that same time period that Leviticus the. The book of.

Leviticus. Pardon me, the book of Leviticus is given Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus Numbers, and Deuteronomy, all written by Moses, which is hysterical. And one particular says. Version 1 verse says that Moses was the most humble man of all, which is funny because he wrote it. Of course, that's God's opinion.

It was under the, the inspiration of the Spirit. Okay.

In Deuteronomy 28, Exodus 23, Joshua 24, and there are some. There are some others. As well as in Hammurabi culture, ancient cultures, there is what's called legal text. Some of the books of the Bible are legal texts. This is a legal text.

It's a covenant. It's. It's a contract. How many of you ever signed a contract? It's a God speaking a contract with them.

And he's emphasizing obedience basically, in two areas. He emphasizes this two areas. The first one, obedience in two areas is emphasized.

The first one, the first two commandments found in Exodus 20 says, you shall have no other gods before me.

And the second emphasis is, you shall not make for yourself an idol. Don't make for yourself an idol. Set up a sacred stone. You say, well, I've not made an idol. I'm pretty sure no one here has carved out and set up a sacred stone on your property.

If you had, I'm really glad you're here. But that, that's a different kind of idolatry. But it is all over the world. Yeah. In America, demons are a little bit more crafty and idolatry is a little bit more subtle in some ways.

First two commandments are emphasized, and then observe my Sabbath and have reverence for my sanctuary.

He goes on to say, if you do these things, if you do these things.

If you do these things. I'm not stuttering, I'm emphasizing, if you do this, then I will do all of these things. If you obey. He's telling them, look, here's a great deal for you. It's a contract.

Very simply, this, this morning, God speaking to us because idolatry is rampant in present day America.

I would say idol of self is probably the biggest one. Oh, you don't, you don't necessarily see people bowing down to some statue they made, but there are those that also do that.

Yeah, like I said, it's a little bit more subtle. The idols of sex, idols of money, idols, idols of fame, self. Really, it's entrenched. America's entrenched in self. All the world is self.

You know, I, I was talking to somebody who's going through a real difficult time. There's many people going through a difficult time. And I I don't like difficulty, but I love what it does for my walk with God. I don't, I don't care for being persecuted. I certainly am not contending and believing for trouble.

We know that. Consider it not strange when you face all kind of fiery trials. James says there's a fallen world and fallen people and there's a number of reasons that we go through difficulties. Sometimes it's us. You blame the devil all you want, but it was your foolish mistake.

I was going to say stupid, but it's more dignified to say foolish. So I'm going to say foolish. But you know, it was dumb and you did some things and you ended up in trouble. Or maybe you tried to ease your pain or your broken heart through retail therapy, which retail therapy is when you just swipe away. And now, now you have 21, 22, 25% on your credit card and your garage is full of stuff, but you still brokenhearted.

You had an idol.

Idolatry is rampant in present day America. But I do believe that God is causing our nation to turn towards God. And in the midst of difficulty, in the midst of pain, and there's been some, I mean, it's been disturbing to hear about.

I'm choosing my words so I can say it graciously. The fact that people would even think that you could change your gender is really an evidence that people really think that they're God and they're acting as God to change their gender. God doesn't make mistakes. And so anytime a culture begins to endorse perversion, as our nation has in the past, and I say, I do believe we're turning. We've turned.

The whole, the whole rest of the country has to come around. But there's been a turning and I'm grateful for that. I run into. When you run into difficulty, you run into problems. I was saying I don't care for them.

I don't like it, but I love what it does for you. Run into pain, you run into difficulty and things aren't working out. Ask God why that is. Why, why, why am I going through what is happening right now? And you might find that you've got something in your life that's an idol.

You might find that you've got a belief system, a way of thinking that's contrary to truth. And that belief system is. It's just running like rampant in your life. It's a reaction. You're a reactionary person, constantly getting angry.

How many of you don't raise your hand? It's rhetorical. Which means don't say anything. You, something happens and you just get so angry. Oh, you're so angry.

And you realize in that moment, my anger is 10 times what the crime was. In other words, there's an, there, there's an, an overwhelming response welling up on the inside of. You realize, my gosh, it was just a really little thing, but it set me off. Well, I got a short fuse. You know, you, you have, you have an iniquity, you have an unhealed place in your life and you need to get healed, you need to get set free.

So when you go through difficulty, you know, it's a good time to take a look at you. Take, take a look at your life. Take a look. And I think that an 8. Our nation is waking up to some of the difficulties.

We've got to pray. I think about Matthew 19 and Mark 10. The rich young ruler comes. Prominent young man comes to Jesus and he asked him, teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life? And Jesus talks to him about the ten Commandments.

Five deal with his, with our relationship with God. Five, five deal with our relationship with man. You break the ten Commandments up in two, they're split five and five. And it's fascinating. And so he, he basically tells the man about the, the ten Commandments and he says, oh, all these I've done since my youth, except there's one thing he didn't do.

And Jesus puts his finger. How many of you know Jesus just has a way of doing it, puts his finger on that thing. He says, oh, you've done all those things. Very good then just give all that you have and come and follow me. He had an idol of wealth and it says he goes away sad.

There's a man by the name of Richard Stearns who wrote the Hole in Our Gospel. It's a good read. I'd encourage you to read it. The Hole in Our Gospel. He was the president of, well, he's the president of World Vision, but he works for Lennox Corporation for many years.

Very, very successful. The Lord spoke to him as he was praying and the Lord said, would you be willing to leave everything that you're doing right now to serve me in full time ministry? And he said, I will, I'm willing. And an opportunity came where he then became the president of what's called World Vision. He took a 75% cut in pay and the power of God.

He writes in his book about his struggle with the idolatry of wealth and money. And he writes about it and the power of God is put on display that they have been. World vision has been so used by God in this world. And perhaps it wouldn't have happened without a Richard Stearns who killed the idol of, of Mammon. It's really what it is.

Consistent worship to God's important. Consistent worship to God's important. He said, you keep my Sabbaths. You know, this is the most important meeting all week right here. It's the most important meeting all week, every week throughout our entire state, throughout the nation.

The church house, coming to church. It's important to, to be faithful to church. Leviticus is. This is God talking to Moses and the Israelites on, on the day that's basically like today. It's Shavot.

The law has now been given and he's in Leviticus. It's, it's being shared with people. It's, it's literally like the same time period. So it's fascinating that we get to hear it like that. And he's telling them, my Sabbath, keep the Sabbath.

Do you know that people that work seven days a week don't end up necessarily getting ahead? In fact, it's been proven by some economists. I've read some things. I can't prove it to you. I'm just glad I know my name.

You work six days, you rest on the seventh. Now, does that have to be Sunday? Honestly, for me, this is not a big rest day, okay? Not a big rest day. Sunday's a big work day.

It is not when I take my Sabbath. And he said, well, I thought it had to be on a specific day. Sunday was definitely the day that the New Testament church had their Sabbath because it's based upon Jesus rising from the dead on the third day and them discovering it on Sunday. Okay, so that's why the Sabbath, Shabbat, if I could say it that way, for a Christian, is. Is on Sunday, not on Friday.

Do we honor Friday nights and Shabbat? I think we can. It's wonderful. The, really the truth is, because you've got people out there. Seventh Day Adventists.

It's Adventists. It's gotta be Saturday. It's gotta be this day, it's gotta be that day. Let me just tell you that your, your Sabbath rest and God can be whatever day you want, but really it can be whatever day. Everybody say, whatever day.

Whatever day. Really, you should rest in Jesus every day. Every day. You should rest in him. Labor to enter into his rest.

I mean, that really is the New Testament revelation. But then I do believe in having one in seven Off. I have one day off. Our staff, we have one day off. You don't have two days off.

No. And it sure ain't the weekend. It's one day off. And mine kind of fluctuates. It's been Mondays for 25 years, but I've just recently shifted it to Thursday.

And so I try to guard over that because it's a way of honoring the Sabbath. It's a way of honor. Well, how do you honor the Sabbath? Get in the word. I mean, I think you can go snow machining and horseback riding, and I think you can do that.

But it's really about being recharged and refreshed and honoring God. Now, many of you, this is your Sabbath. You're off today. You come to church. That's good.

Spend time with your family. Put the phone away. Talk to each other, relate to each other. Have. Have a Sabbath rest.

Thanks. Where was that God, Brother Ramsey? I should know. Can I get a better Amen? So it's important.

It's not something that you just casually pick now. Now it says, reverence my sanctuary.

I'm going to stay on this. Consistent worship of God is important. It is. It is important. You know, it's important to have consistent worship in the house of the Lord.

Everybody say, in the house. In the house. Our power conference falls on.

Yeah, it falls on. What is that? What is that? Hallmark made that thing with the hearts and all that Valentine's Day. I don't know if Hallmark made it, but it always falls on Valentine's Day.

What better place to be in the house of the Lord than on Valentine's Day? And then this year, the super bowl is on Sunday. Let me tell you how much I care about that. Zero. I do not care.

Because if you think about now, I love sports and I played sports and sports helped me and I. I tune in a little bit, and some of you, you know, at that super bowl time, and some of you play fantasy football and all that. And I'm not against anything that as long as it doesn't become an idol. But it is rather insane if you ask me, for a set of pe. For people to go nuts over a piece of pig skin, which was considered unholy in the Old Testament, going through an upright, painting their faces, wearing giant cheese hats or whatever they do.

I mean, have you seen those reels where all of a sudden their team loses and the father takes a piece of furniture and throws it into his hundred inch tv? I mean, I think he needs deliverance. Yet in church, you take the same guy, you put him in church. And he says there's something seriously wrong with the people that can't yell and shout and scream and holler over the greatest play that's ever made. Redemption of mankind through Jesus, who took your sin.

Took my sin. And. And, oh, I will be damned before I shut the church down because of some event that's taken place out there. It will never happen here, so. Well, that's kind of intense.

I know it is. Yes. It's intense.

I'm gonna obey God and I. I have a. When we travel, we go to church. Consistent word. How is your worship of God? Are you consistently in the house of the Lord?

Could it be that the Curses of Leviticus 26 are catching up to our nation? That I do believe there's a turnaround. But our nation in previous. Over previous years has forgotten God. And they used to have blue laws.

Everything used to be closed on Sunday. The center of the community was the church, and now it's the bank. Now it's the Costco. Now it's. I mean, I love Costco.

I love me some Costcos. Come on. Somebody say hallelujah.

I love the fact that our. This building was placed right in the center of this community, right at the entrance of Wasilla with a big cross. It says, we love God and we're going to worship him. And it is a prominent. This is the most prominent.

To me, I'm sure I'm biased, but it's the most prominent corner in the whole valley. It is. How. How did that happen? God.

God did it. God did it. I had somebody tell me, an investor said. Said to me, tell me what you're doing with your property. I said, oh, the church here, it's like this.

It goes like this, and the church is going to be up front. He says, nope. I said, yeah. He said, no, bad idea. I said, okay, what's your idea?

He says, what you do is you put the church down below. You put the church down below. I know that property down below. You put it down on the bottom property line and. And do all of that and sell off the whole front part, because then you could be in the church with no expenses, sell that whole part.

And we had. When we. When we got this place moved forward and dropped a drop. The. The excavation work brought it down six feet.

We had people come and offer us nine million that I think there was $12 million offer. Just the land, not the building. Nine million right now, just a front part. No. Why?

It's not for sale. Why? Because it's called to be the most prominent church, should be the most prominent place in the community.

And God has done that. Here. Listen to this. Isaiah 58, verse 13.

If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day. If you call the Sabbath a delight. Oh, we have to go to church. Something wrong with you. Come on, bump your neighbor and say he's not talking to you.

No, we can't. Have to go. Okay. If you honor the Lord. If you.

If you honor it by not going your own way, but by. And doing as you please and speaking idle words, then you'll find your joy in the Lord. Does your week of revolve around worship?

What are your first thoughts? You wake up in the morning, what's your first thoughts?

Some of your first thoughts are violence because you watch so many karate movies the night before. Kung fu.

God gives three promises to those who obey. Let's move quickly through this. Found in verse 4, verse 6, and verse 11, in fact. I will give. I will give.

I will give. It's three times, you see in the scripture, Strong's 54:14, Nathan in the Hebrew. I will give. I will give you if you obey. You.

You. You love the Lord. You don't have any idols. You. You keep the Sabbath.

You reverence his sanctuary. Then I will give you rain and good harvest. Verse 4. We don't understand this so much because we're not really an agrarian society. Here in Hawaii, we're a little bit up Hawaii.

Here in Alaska, we're a little bit more tuned in to the weather. Been talking to the Lord about it, as a matter of fact.

If it rained too early, you had a problem. If it rained too late, back then, you had a problem. Some of you are putting gardens in. Don't be. If you brought your tomatoes out now, they're dead.

I will give you peace. Let. Let. Let me say an application and give you rain and good harvest. How does that apply now?

It means he'll bless you now. And what, you're doing the work of your hands now? The work of their hands was an agrari. It was a great farmers, animal husbandry. What.

What is the work of your hands now? What do you. What are you giving yourself to now? It's blessing in that area, whatever that area is. Contractors, teachers.

Come on. Where's my teachers at? Say hallelujah. Is that. Is that what we got?

Is that it? The hallelujah from the teachers? Can I get a better one? Much better.

I'll give you peace. You don't have to be afraid anymore. Your obedience to God in keeping these things releases blessing, releases peace. And all of these things apply to Jesus. Jesus fulfills them all.

I will give. I will give you rain. I will give you a harvest. I will give you peace. Look at number three in your notes.

I will set my towel. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my God. I will set my tabernacle among you.

It's the gift of God's presence. The new living translation says, I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you. It's a beautiful picture of God dwelling among us. He made his tabernacle among us. John 1.

Talking of Jesus, God and flesh. Fully God fully. Man comes and makes his dwelling among us, and then he comes to live inside of your heart. He comes to live inside of my heart. Oh, peace.

I got peace like a river. I got peace like a river. I got peace like a river. It's flowing through my veins. I got joy like a fountain.

I got joy like if I'm singing myself into the Holy Ghost right now. Joy and peace. I am not afraid. You don't have to be afraid. Don't yield to fear.

Love God, obey his word, and peace will come like a river in your life.

Brother C. Brian, you lost your mother this week. Father, thank you for this incredible woman of God who's gone on to her reward.

Lord, comfort the whole family. Oh, her faith and her steadfastness showed you the way. Thank you for this great man of God, his wife, his whole family. She's rejoicing. She's on streets of gold.

Gloria Os Senior Gloria, comfort my brother. I pray. Love you.

I will set my tabernacle among you. It's the gift of God's presence. Had some moments this week where as I pressed in and was really seeking God for. For solutions and answers and wisdom, I needed wisdom this week. So I fasted and prayed.

At day one, it's like the Lord just came.

It's terrifyingly awesome.

And I went out into my yard. I just lifted my hands, and I felt like I was in the Garden of Eden or something. Now, you might not know what that's like, but you certainly can. You gotta. You got to turn the reels off.

You got to shut off the noise of. Of the distraction that's in your head and all the busyness and all the things. You got to turn that off and just. Just turn your satellite towards God and have a revelation that he lives on the inside of you. He wants to fill you afresh and walk with you and talk with you.

And he wants to tabernacle among you. His presence. Just walking. Begin to weep. Because of everything that God's done for me and everything that God has done for us.

And I'm just walking at the. With the Lord and worshiping God and singing to him. I'm sure my neighbors thought I was nuts, but the birds were singing also. I am. I am nuts.

I'm. I'm not of this world. I'm an alien.

God says nothing like God's presence. It's Pentecost Sunday. God pours out his spirit in the upper room. He's pouring out his spirit again. In your notes, our choice stops the curse.

You'll notice it says if. If, if, if, if, if. That's that. None of that is contingent on God. It's all contingent on you.

It's all contingent on me. We have what the theologians call the glory of man. You know what the glory of man is? The glory of man is that you get the ability to choose. Now, you can choose a blessing, or you can.

Or you can miss it. How come God doesn't do that for me? He did it for. Listen, you need to shut your mouth and check your own heart and see if you're. That wasn't very nice.

You need to be quiet.

Check yourself. Quit belly aching. Oh, I want to go back where there's garlic and leeks. How come you brought us out of this place? To kill us.

You brought us to kill us. That's what Israel did. No. God's intention is for you to walk in victory. God's intention is for you to walk in blessing.

But you must take it. And you take it through your obedience. There's no other way. God says, just gonna come upon a mess and bless it. God don't bless no mess.

He blesses those who seek him, those who obey. It is that simple. Why is all the blessing over happening on that person or this person or that church and this church and not here? Well, check yourself. Sometimes it's just a sovereign move of God, but other times you made some choices that were dumb, not wise.

Our choice stops the curse.

Now, I didn't read the curses, but you can go read the curses. But I read the blessings. You can go read the curses. All of these things are fulfilled, realized in Christ. Understand that New Testament application?

Absolutely. You know what I love is if we failed, we can repent. If we failed. Oh, has anybody ever failed? How if we failed, we can repent.

Look at verse 40. Listen to that. We didn't read it, but read it to you. But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers. Are you all there in verse 40?

Leviticus 26, verse 40. But if they confess their iniquity, the iniquity of their fathers with their unfaithfulness, in which they had were unfaithful to me, and that they've also walked contrary to me, verse 41. And that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies, if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they accept their guilt, then I will remember. Verse 42. Then I'll remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, my covenant with Abraham.

I will remember and I'll remember the land. Gosh, it reminds me of second Chronicles to echo there. If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and turn from their wicked ways, I'll hear from heaven and heal our land. This is. This is written on Shabot.

It's written on the 50th day. It's written on Pentecost.

So Moses at the mountain bringing this, the law to God's people, realized in Christ where Jesus was the lamb that was slain. And 50 days later is Pentecost. When Peter preached and 3,000 got saved. And the fire on the mountain is in the. Is a fire in the room, the upper room.

And the fire is not just on a mountain. It's in the heart now. It's in the human heart that he makes himself. He makes you his house. He makes you his dwelling place.

Place. It's profound how it ties all together.

The blessings are realized in Christ. All of these blessings are realized in Christ.

Lift your hands to Jesus. Say, oh God, show me any idols in my life. Come on, apply it. What's God saying to you right now? Come on, apply it to your life.

Apply it to your life. Is your life surround worship or is worship an aspect of your life? Is your life? Is your life focused around the word and around loving God? The One who made you, the one who knit you together when your mother's womb?

The one who called you, the one who anointed you, the One who saved you, the one who watched you? Is your life surrounding him? Is he the highest thing in your life? Is he number one in your life? Because it's not.

You're not reverencing his. You're not keeping his Sabbath or reverencing his sanctuary. It's not just coming to church on a Sunday. It's every day of your life, loving God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul and strength. Oh, I was so called out by God this week.

Had certain things happen. I saw responses in my heart. I thought, oh, that's not God. How do you know it's not God? It's a great question.

Because I read the Word and I've beginning to grow up in the Lord. And I realized that response to that situation was my flesh. And I thought, oh, no, no. And I said, lord, I don't like that. I repent God.

That it even came to my mind. And God touched me and helped me do the right thing. I was moving in the right direction. I think there's something to that. You got to get going and do the right thing.

I don't feel like it. Yeah, that's your problem. You. You live according to your feelings. You live according to God's word.

If you. One of the evidences. And I'll close with this. One of the evidences that God's word is. God's word is if you do it, he does his part.

If you do your part, he does his. Well, I don't want to. I don't think. I don't. I don't.

I. You know, I don't know. I think man wrote it. Yeah, that, that. That.

Let me know how that works for you 20 years from now. Me know how your marriage is doing. Let me. Let me know how. Let me know how that works.

So I want my kids to just. I want my kids to pick their faith. I just want. Yeah, no, they will be drawn right into the cesspool of our culture. You.

You make them go to church, and you do it in love and kindness, and then you model it. You just come. Come to church and act like the devil. Devil at home. You.

You learn to get sanctified and set apart. And you don't have any idols, and you get filled with the spirit and you worship God with all your heart, with all your mind and all your soul and all your strength. And what you will find is that God will give you peace and God will give you rain, and God will give you a harvest, and God will give you blessing, and he will make his tabernacle to dwell among you. But you must do your part. You've got to do your part.

America. America, Come on, people. You gotta do your part. And if you get angry at God and you haven't done your part, it's not God's fault. Snap out of it.

Wake up. Wake up this morning. Wake up this morning on this memorial Pentecost Sunday, do God's Word live for him and watch the blessing and the fire that was on the mountain. Then in an upper room come and fill and flood your heart and enter. Empower you to do the same all over the world.

Come on, somebody say Hallelujah. Can you say a better Hallelujah?

Well, I hope you were encouraged by God's Word. Thank you again for listening to Kings Alaska Podcast. God bless you. For more great content, go to kcalaska.com and may God's face shine upon you and give you peace.

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