The Lord's Offering
Pastor Adrian Hood 3/2/2025
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Summary
Pastor Adrian Hood explores the necessity of a willing heart in building God's kingdom, drawing parallels between the Old Testament Tabernacle offerings and the New Testament mandate to offer our very lives as living sacrifices. He emphasizes that God values wholehearted investment over abundance and uses our unique giftings to construct a sanctuary for His presence.
Key points
- •Every believer has unique talents (gold, wood, silver, spices) necessary for the building of God's sanctuary; no contribution is small or insignificant.
- •God does not measure value based on earthly standards or 'leftovers' but based on a spirit of willingness and wholehearted investment.
- •Investing in the kingdom ensures God's protection and provision, as where you place your investment is where you place your faith.
- •Effective ministry requires abiding in both the 'shadow of the Almighty' (spiritual intimacy) and the 'tent of the father' (submission to the local church and leadership).
- •True revival begins when believers stop looking at their own perceived unworthiness and spontaneously volunteer themselves to God's purpose.
Scripture
Stewardship
Ministry
Worship
Sacrifice
Revival
Life application
Identify one talent or possession you have been withholding due to insecurity or 'excess' thinking, and consciously offer it to your local church ministry this week. Commit to spending time in the 'shadow' of prayer today to rediscover your specific purpose in God's current building project.
Reflection questions
- Are you giving God your 'first fruits' or just the leftovers of your time and energy?
- In what ways have you let 'identity politics' or comparison to others' talents hinder your own service?
- Is there a specific 'burden' for a need in your community (like the homeless ministry mentioned) that God is trying to birth in you right now?
- What does it mean for your life today to be a 'lively stone' that bears the unique signature of the Creator?
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0:00know you love them so much and I thank
0:00you for that amen amen praise the Lord
0:00if you could go to Exodus chapter 25
0:035 and we'll begin reading at at verse
0:06number one Exodus 25 And1 the
0:10Lord is meeting with Moses upon the
0:14Mount of
0:15God and he's revealing to
0:18Moses his plan for the Tabernacle and
0:22he's going into all sorts of detail and
0:24he's giving Moses instruction and we
0:28read it in verse number one and the Lord
0:30spake unto Moses saying saying Speak
0:33unto the children of Israel aren't you
0:36thankful for a man of God that will
0:38speak unto you who hears from the word
0:41of the Lord speak unto the children of
0:44Israel that they bring me an offering of
0:48every man that giveth it willingly with
0:50his heart ye shall take my offering and
0:53this is the offering which ye shall take
0:55of them gold and silver and brass and
0:59blue and purple and Scarlet and fine
1:01linen
1:02and goat's hair and RAM skin dyed red
1:05and Badger skin and shamwood and oil for
1:07the light and spices for anointing oil
1:10and for sweet incense onx stones and
1:13stones to be set in the ephod and in the
1:17breastplate verse number eight and let
1:19them make me a
1:22sanctuary a sacred place that I may
1:26dwell among my people that I may dwell
1:29among them according to all that I show
1:32thee after the pattern of the Tabernacle
1:35and the pattern of all the instruments
1:37thereof even so shall you make it and if
1:41we can flip real quick to Exodus
1:4435 a lot happens in these 10 chapters
1:48but here in Exodus 35 Moses is speaking
1:53uh to the children of Israel he's giving
1:54them that instruction that God gave to
1:57him in in chapter 25 and we pick up in
2:00Exodus 35 and verse vers number 20 and
2:03it says and all the congregation of the
2:05children of Israel departed from the
2:08presence of Moses and they
2:10came everyone whose heart stirred him up
2:16and everyone whom his Spirit made
2:18willing and they brought the Lord's
2:21offering to the work of the Tabernacle
2:23of the congregation and for all his
2:26service and for the holy garments and
2:29they came both men and women as many as
2:33were willinge hearted and brought
2:34bracelets and earrings and rings and
2:36tablets all jewels of gold and every man
2:39that offered an offering of gold unto
2:42the Lord and verse number 29 says the
2:45children of Israel brought a willing
2:47offering unto the Lord every man and
2:50woman whose heart made them willing to
2:54bring for all manner of work which the
2:57Lord had commanded to be made by the
2:59hand of Moses praise God I want to
3:02minister to you for the next little
3:04while on this subject it's a simple
3:06subject but I want to minister to you on
3:09the Lord's offering the Lord's offering
3:12would you lift your hands unto God right
3:14now and let's just go to him and worship
3:16and prayer once more almighty God I love
3:19what I feel in this place your presence
3:21is here Among Us Lord your anointing is
3:24here I pray that you would open up our
3:26heart and our spirit unto your word
3:28speak to us oh God help me to deliver
3:31the burden of the word word of the Lord
3:32today anoint us oh God to hear to listen
3:37to receive in the name of Jesus Christ
3:40Hallelujah you may be seated
3:43amen
3:48amen the Lord's
3:52offering as we read there in Exodus 25
3:55God was
3:57instructing all of those Israelites who
4:00were willing to come
4:02to bring their possessions unto this
4:06building project it was important that
4:10the the material for the building of
4:13this Sanctuary unto God came from among
4:16the possessions of the Israelites they
4:18were dwelling in the wilderness they
4:20were dwelling in a desert there wasn't a
4:22lot around them that they could use they
4:24couldn't look to somebody else to bring
4:27what was necessary they had to bring of
4:30what they had they had curtains that
4:33were to be made of of fine linen of blue
4:36of purple of scarlet they had to bring
4:38silver for the sockets they had to bring
4:40brass they had to bring a a mixture of
4:42spices that were used for the oil the
4:44anointing oil and for the oil that was
4:46put in the lamp that was to continually
4:49burned for the Ark of the Covenant they
4:52had to bring wood it was made of wood so
4:56the man that had his wood had to come
4:58and he had to lay it before the Lord and
5:01then the Bible tells us it was overlaid
5:03with gold and so the man with gold would
5:05come and lay his gold at God's feet God
5:09was drawing on different people
5:12according to what they had you've got
5:15something that God can use for the
5:17building of this Kingdom whatever you've
5:19got in your house the Lord says I will
5:21use it to build my house I will use it
5:24to build up my kingdom where my presence
5:27dwells there's no room for jealousy in
5:30the church everybody has a part to play
5:33in the building of God's house
5:36everybody's got callings and giftings
5:38and talents that the Lord has placed
5:41inside of you and one of these days he's
5:44going to call you out of the willingness
5:46of your heart to come and to bring it
5:49forward so that the sanctuary can be
5:52built we don't have time to waste
5:55looking at the talents of other people
5:58just because you may bring an offering
5:59of wood and somebody else may bring an
6:02offering of gold doesn't mean your
6:03offering of wood is any less significant
6:06it doesn't mean it's of any less worth
6:08or value the ark was first built with
6:11wood and then came the
6:14gold the house of God requires both
6:17there are some Ministries that are more
6:18visible than others but every Ministry
6:21is necessary in the kingdom of God you
6:24may never preach In a Pulpit that's okay
6:26you can still teach a Bible study you
6:28may never leave song service and sing in
6:31the choir but that's okay you can still
6:33knock on somebody's door and said hey
6:36you want to come to church with me this
6:38Sunday I'm getting a Bible study
6:40together I just want to know if you're
6:42interested oh yeah but wait a minute you
6:45might preach you might sing in the choir
6:47but that doesn't mean you can't get on
6:49your knees before the Lord and pray and
6:52consecrate yourself to
6:55God there are different giftings there
6:58are different talents that the Lord uses
7:00for his kingdom they needed the gold and
7:03the wood they needed the silver and the
7:05brass they needed all those different
7:06mixtures and spices they needed that
7:09fine linen yes gold makes for beauty yes
7:13but wood makes for structure you better
7:15be careful what you discount as
7:17invaluable or not valuable in the house
7:20of God everybody's gift unto the Lord
7:23has
7:24value everybody's gift unto God has
7:30worth the enemy wants to divide us from
7:34each other based on what we see our own
7:37flesh likes to play identity politics
7:40man judges after the outward appearance
7:42but just as Samuel Samuel was going to
7:45anoint the next king in the house of
7:47Jesse and Jesse brought out all of his
7:49oldest sons and they were tall and they
7:51were strong and they look kingly but God
7:53said nope it's not that one nope it's
7:56not that one and and Samuel was
7:57wondering what's going on and the Lord
7:59says man looks on the out out W
8:02appearance but it's God who looks at the
8:04heart it's God who looks at the hidden
8:07things it's God who looks at in sees
8:10what no one else can see you've got
8:13worth you've got value in the kingdom of
8:15God don't let anybody ever tell you that
8:17you don't don't that let don't let the
8:20devil try and tell you you're worthless
8:22don't let somebody even close to you say
8:24you're just wasting your time going to
8:26that church no I've got worth in the
8:29house of God he's called me by name he
8:32died on a cross for my
8:34[Applause]
8:35[Music]
8:39sin when you read it there in Exodus the
8:42measure of the value of the offerings at
8:44the Tabernacle were weighed according to
8:47the shekele of the sanctuary the value
8:50was not determined by what the Egyptians
8:52had to say value was not determined by
8:55what the surrounding Nations had to say
8:57that pattern of the Tabernacle was not
8:59based upon the temples of Egypt or the
9:01the temples of Babylon but it was God's
9:04own pattern it was the value that he had
9:08established it was his own standard
9:11whatever you have to bring whatever you
9:13can offer the lord it's valuable it has
9:17worth you can't be looking at what
9:19somebody else gives because that just
9:21distracts you from what you can give
9:23unto the Lord right the Lord saying keep
9:26your eyes on me don't look to the left
9:28hand or to the right you just keep your
9:30eyes on the Hills from whence cometh
9:32your help uh because David said My Help
9:35Cometh From The
9:36Lord your value comes from the Lord not
9:39from anybody else your value comes from
9:42heaven above and what God has birthed in
9:44you even before you were
9:47[Applause]
9:51born Jesus we have to fight against so
9:54much condemnation we've got to fight
9:56against so many insecurities we don't
9:58have time to be focused on what other
10:00people are saying we get distracted even
10:02by what we say about ourselves but the
10:04Lord is just saying if you will come if
10:06you will come willingly to me if you
10:08will bring that offering unto me that
10:10I'm going to build something out of itth
10:12if you will just lay down your
10:15possession then I'm going to build this
10:18house I'm going to build this Temple
10:21where my spirit can dwell and be among
10:25youu come on you're not you're not
10:27getting it yet you're not getting it yet
10:29that's all right
10:31if you withhold your offering from the
10:33Lord then he's not going to build
10:35through you you're going to miss out on
10:37the building of this sanctuary if you
10:40withhold your offering and talents from
10:41the Lord then your ministry is going to
10:43die on the
10:46vine and the construction doesn't stop
10:50just because you want to sit on the
10:51sidelines and so just because you're
10:54having a bad day the Holy Ghost is still
10:56going to move whether you like it or not
10:59whether you want it to or not
11:04God doesn't have to build through you he
11:06can raise up other builders he can raise
11:08up other givers he doesn't have to build
11:11through you but he wants to he wants to
11:13build through you because he's given you
11:15talents he's given you a calling he's
11:17given you a purpose that the world
11:19doesn't understand that even your
11:21neighbor doesn't understand he's given
11:23you something that is unique to your
11:25character that is unique to your
11:27personage and he's saying if you will
11:29just come and offer yourself to me then
11:31I will build through you if you will
11:34bring then God will build if you will
11:37make yourself available to the Lord then
11:40he will use you for Great and Mighty
11:42things it doesn't matter your age your
11:45age doesn't discredit you your gender
11:48doesn't discredit youly I believe
11:51there's only two I'll lay off that
11:56though listen your knowledge level in
12:00this word of God whether it's there or
12:02isn't doesn't discredit you whatever
12:05your story is that brought you into this
12:07house today does not discredit you he's
12:10calling you exactly as you are he wants
12:13you to know that there is value and
12:15worth in
12:17you
12:19Hallelujah to God too often we feel we
12:23have to look a certain way or act a
12:25certain way in order for God to use us
12:28but he's saying I want somebody that's
12:29willing I want somebody that will will
12:31just come unto me I'm not looking for
12:33somebody that's so super spiritual I'm
12:36not just looking for somebody that prays
12:3814 hours a
12:40day he wasn't calling those no who were
12:44so holy everywhere they went they
12:45floated right the only prerequisite that
12:49God had in Exodus 25 was for those that
12:53were willing for those that were willing
12:57to come for those that were willing to
12:59offer themselves unto the Lord
13:02Lord you might be a sinner you might be
13:05a drunk you may have made that same
13:07mistake that you've made a thousand
13:09times and your flesh has beating you
13:11upside the head trying to tell you that
13:13you're worthless that you have no value
13:15in the kingdom of God that you might as
13:17well stop going to church trying to shut
13:20up your praise trying to shut your mouth
13:22and giving Glory unto God but if you
13:25just have a little willingness in your
13:26heart to say Lord I know I've made so
13:29many mistakes uh I know God my WRA
13:32sheets longer than a football field but
13:35God whatever I have uh I give it unto
13:37you uh Lord use me take my ability use
13:41it for your
13:42[Applause]
13:44kingdom it's not about what you look
13:46look like all that matters is if you're
13:49willing all that matters is if you're
13:50willing to come before the Lord to get
13:53involved in the work of the Kingdom to
13:56step out in faith and to let the Lord
13:58use
13:59you let him trans form you let them
14:03change your life the Bible says there is
14:06therefore now no condemnation to them
14:08which are in Christ Jesus who walk not
14:10after the flesh but after the spirit
14:13somebody today needs to stop looking
14:15through the eyes of the Flesh and get a
14:17little Heavenly perspective and see that
14:19God loves you that he's placed so much
14:22value inside of you nobody can take it
14:24away from you he's put hidden treasures
14:27inside of you that he's trying to bring
14:29forth out of you
14:32but if you're too busy looking what
14:34other at other people are doing if
14:36you're too busy listening to your own
14:39flesh given into that condemnation the
14:42Bible say you don't walk in condemnation
14:44when you're walking in the spirit that's
14:46some of you need to walk in the spirit
14:47again some of you need to get back in
14:49this Altar and say God I've got to have
14:52the moving of the holy ghost in my life
14:54uh I need you to fill me up again
14:57yes Hallelujah can we just Worship the
15:00Lord for a moment
15:02come on worship God invite that presence
15:05of the Lord upon you right now in the
15:08name of Jesus Christ hallelujah
15:16hallelujah you might
15:18be that missing piece to God's project
15:22that he's been waiting on that he wants
15:25to put you into a specific
15:27position but wait a minute God's not
15:30going to wait on you you
15:32forever this house will get built with
15:35or without you but in the longsuffering
15:37of the Lord he's waiting on somebody
15:40today to say God I'm here I know I've
15:43been holding back some things from you
15:45Lord but today I Surrender those things
15:48God I know I've been struggling with my
15:50own insecurities Lord I know I've been
15:52struggling with feeling feeling
15:54worthless but God I come before you I
15:57surrender all whatever I have Lord will
16:00you take it will you use it for your
16:02kingdom will you use it to build will
16:04you use it Lord to help me grow in my
16:07Ministry to help me grow in my faith
16:10Lord to be able to speak to somebody
16:12about this
16:16truth that they can
16:18come that they can come before the Lord
16:21in the name of Jesus when we read in
16:25Exodus 35 and verse number 30 Bible says
16:30and Moses said unto the children of
16:32Israel see the Lord hath called by name
16:35he's called by name bezel the son of URI
16:40the son of her of the tribe of Judah and
16:43he hath filled him with the spirit of
16:46God in wisdom and understanding and
16:50knowledge and all manner of workmanship
16:52to devise curious Works to work in gold
16:55and silver and brass and cutting of
16:56stone to set them and carving of wood to
16:59make any manner of cunning work we're
17:01talking about just the same man one
17:03individual that God was working all
17:05these incredible things through he hath
17:08put in his heart that he may teach both
17:11he and a holab the son of AAC of the
17:14tribe of Dan them hath he filled with
17:18wisdom of heart to work to work in all
17:22manner of work of cunning work to come
17:27if you're willing to come he's called
17:29you by name before you you were ever
17:31born he placed that purpose inside of
17:33you and he said somewhere along the way
17:36this person here is going to have an
17:38encounter with the Divine somewhere
17:41along the way in your life uh God
17:43brought you to a place where you could
17:45fall on your knees and cry out to him
17:48and maybe you've drifted from that but
17:50the Lord's saying I'm calling you back
17:52to a place of prayer I'm calling you
17:55back to a place where you can offer
17:58yourself to me and I'll fill you with my
18:00spirit IR uh I'll fill you with the
18:02spirit of God uh he'll fill you with
18:05wisdom he'll fill you with understanding
18:07he'll fill you with
18:10strength he filled bezel with the spirit
18:12of God so that he was able to build the
18:16holy transaction that takes place is if
18:19I'm willing to come then he'll fill me
18:22with the Holy Ghost he'll give me that
18:24knowledge he'll give me that
18:26understanding how do I become a better
18:29witness how do I lead the ministry that
18:32my pastors entrusted me with how do I go
18:35out there and face a world that hates
18:37God and hates this message of Jesus
18:40Christ H how am I able to come to church
18:43when I I've been so eaten up with pride
18:45and selfishness how can I look and and
18:48stand around the people of God when I
18:50have such a broken heart when somebody
18:52close to me has betrayed me and they've
18:54inflicted pain upon me how can I worship
18:58God when I feel lonely how can I worship
19:00God when I feel
19:03depressed you won't know the answer
19:06until you're willing to come unto the
19:09Lord and let him fill you with the
19:11spirit until you're willing to surrender
19:14yourself to God and say Lord you can use
19:17me Lord You Can Heal Me God I believe in
19:21it come on do you have faith in the
19:23ability of this God that we serve faith
19:26that he can change and transform your
19:28life Faith that you may be sitting in
19:31Darkness but that light of Jesus Christ
19:33can shine through
19:35you that change that you desire to see
19:38in your life it only comes by the spirit
19:41of
19:43God I can
19:45remember just just a few years
19:48ago in uh in in during covid year in
19:51July of of
19:552020 I had been drifting away from the
19:58Lord I had been growing cold I didn't
20:01have a crisis of my faith I'm thankful
20:03to say but I had just been getting cold
20:06from God I was growing unserious in my
20:09relationship with the Lord I had allowed
20:11too many too many things to influence me
20:14away from God and I can remember I was
20:17sitting in a work van and I pulled into
20:19a a parking lot at a at a park and I was
20:22with my
20:23coworker and we were sitting there
20:25eating lunch and and he didn't go to
20:27church and in fact he was a
20:29backslider but he pulled out his phone
20:32and and he was watching something on
20:33YouTube and it wasn't preaching it
20:35wasn't a sermon it it wasn't anything
20:38like that but whatever he was watching
20:40for whatever reason the narrator of that
20:43video came on and began to quote
20:46scripture he began to to talk about the
20:49greatness of God Isaiah 48 where the
20:51Lord says I call into the heavens and
20:53they stand up
20:55together and I'm sitting over there I'm
20:59sitting over there in the driver's seat
21:01and tears began to flow down my
21:04face I was at a place where I was lost
21:07with God I was at a place where I was so
21:10distant I know I looked the part I'm I'm
21:12the pastor's son but I was so distant
21:15from God I was basically half
21:20backsliding but the Lord found me in
21:24that place in that
21:26Park and I got out of that
21:29van listen
21:31I I it it was in a park there was so
21:33many people around I was just looking
21:35for a place to pray a quiet place to
21:37pray unto God I couldn't find anywhere
21:39in that Park that I could go until
21:42finally my eyes came across one place
21:44the only place I could go it was a porta
21:48poot it was a porta poot and the irony
21:51wasn't lost on me but I didn't care I
21:55walked to that porta potty I opened up
21:57the door I went inside and I just began
22:00to pray
22:02I just began to weep before the Lord
22:05right there in that place of stink and
22:08filth right there I just began to cry
22:11out to the Lord saying God I want you
22:14Lord I need you Lord would you forgive
22:18me for growing distant from
22:21[Applause]
22:24you and from that moment the Lord began
22:27to deal with me in some areas of my life
22:30in fact it it was a month later that I
22:31was here in church with all of you and
22:34and and I was right here and I had such
22:36an amazing touch from God it was one
22:38month after this had happened and then
22:41in September I had another incredible
22:43encounter with the Lord he he was he was
22:46little by little he was drawing me back
22:48to
22:48him he was drawing me closer to him and
22:52there were some doors of ministry I had
22:53no idea I I I I couldn't see them but
22:57the Lord could see him and he was
22:59opening some doors of ministry for me to
23:01walk through and and I'll spare you the
23:02whole story but it was a few months
23:04later in April of 2021 I was I was
23:07sitting in an office at our church and
23:09and I just began to weep before the Lord
23:12I felt this this incredible burden come
23:15over me a burden I had never felt before
23:19and I began to cry out to God on behalf
23:21of all the homeless that that God had
23:24all the homeless that had come into our
23:26city and and the numbers had skyrocketed
23:28like like Pastor Elms was saying and I
23:31just began to weep and say God we've got
23:33to reach him with the word and and Lord
23:35who's going to take it to him how are
23:36they going to hear except they have a
23:39preacher and it just washed over me and
23:42I I had never felt that burden before
23:43and I was never against homeless
23:46Ministry but it was probably something I
23:47had
23:48overlooked but God opened that door
23:51because a few months prior to that I
23:54made up in my mind Lord I just want to
23:56serve you Lord I just want to come
23:59before you God I don't feel worthy right
24:02now I've made mistakes I've had so many
24:05problems I still got them going on but
24:07Lord use whatever I have for your
24:11kingdom
24:13listen I'm not trying to put myself up
24:16here as an example I'm just letting you
24:17know I've been through it I've been
24:19through it and God opened up a door in
24:22the next couple of months and he brought
24:24a team of people together from our
24:26church some of the greatest Christians
24:27that I know some some beautiful people
24:30amazing people people and every Friday
24:32we began to go down into those homeless
24:34shelters in downtown Denver and we begin
24:37to teach them Bible studies we began to
24:38talk to them about their day we began to
24:41just love on them show them love ask
24:43them how they were doing and pretty soon
24:46God opened up another door for us to
24:47have a little building down there where
24:49we could have church we're going on four
24:52years four
24:56years and in that time between our
25:00downtown location in our main campus
25:02we've seen over 300 people come and get
25:05baptized in the name of Jesus we've seen
25:09about the same number come and get
25:11filled with the gift of the Holy Ghost
25:13with the evidence of speaking in
25:16tongues I'm telling you if you're just
25:18willing to come unto the Lord there is a
25:21Revival that is brewing on the inside of
25:23you there are some great things that God
25:26wants to work through you to affect this
25:29Kingdom to grow this kingom
25:31to bring your lost family to church to
25:33bring your lost co-workers to church to
25:35bring that stranger on the street into
25:37the house of almighty
25:40God where they can be filled with the
25:43gift of the Holy Ghost where God can
25:47grow his
25:48church hallelujah hallelujah some great
25:52things that the Lord's been doing back
25:54in Denver and I know great things that
25:56he's doing here but before those things
25:59could take place
26:01with this this ministry that God has has
26:04put upon us I had to decide and those
26:08people a part of our team had to decide
26:12that they would be willing to give some
26:15of us we look at the task and it becomes
26:17so great that we're almost fearful to
26:19get involved but if I can just remind
26:22you of what the Bible says of what the
26:25Lord said in Zechariah 4 it's not by
26:28might nor by power but by my spirit
26:32sayeth the Lord it's by the spirit of
26:34God that this house grows it's by the
26:37spirit of God that he fills you with all
26:39sorts of wisdom and strength and
26:42understanding and
26:44love something that I've prayed and my
26:47prayers over the last few years is God
26:49help me to love people like you love
26:51people I can't love them enough on my
26:54own but God give me the capacity to love
26:58give me the capacity to serve
27:01help me Lord to be willing it's
27:03something I've got to continue to pray
27:05it's something that you've got to
27:06continue to pray we have to get past all
27:09this all these problems all these
27:11struggles of Life all these demonic
27:13spirits we have to fight through we have
27:15to get past our own flesh our own human
27:18Spirit we can do it by humbling
27:20ourselves before the Lord and saying
27:22like the prophet did Here I Am Here I Am
27:27Lord send me don't pass over me God God
27:31but stop by my house Lord fill me up
27:34with your spirit use what I have for
27:37your
27:38kingdom
27:40bezel that name it means in the shadow
27:44of God in the shadow of God you see you
27:49can't do this work unless you're in the
27:52shadow of God that's talking about the
27:54spirit that's the covert of his wings
27:57that David talked about that's the
27:59shadow of the almighty under which we
28:01abide that Moses mentioned in Psalm 91
28:04that's that's the rest and refreshing
28:06whereby he calls the weary to rest under
28:10that shadow of almighty God where he
28:13draws you into a secret place and he
28:15fills you up with things he talks to you
28:18about things that not everybody knows he
28:21empowers you to do things for the
28:22kingdom of God that you never thought
28:24were possible it happens there in the
28:28shadow of God a holy am
28:31that was the other one that God called
28:32by name and a holy AB means tent of my
28:38father you see the two of them go
28:41together you can't be filled with the
28:43wisdom and power of God unless you're in
28:45the church you can't be filled with the
28:48spirit of God he won't speak to you he
28:51will not Empower you to do anything
28:53unless you're in the church unless
28:56you're here unless you're submitted to a
28:58pastor unless you're submitted under
29:00beneath your Shepherd and it's not about
29:02this whole church hopping business I'm
29:04going to go to where I can find a place
29:05that I like and that I can feel good no
29:08you get yourself planted in the church
29:11in the house of the Living God you
29:13submit yourself under the pastor under
29:15the leadership of your
29:18pastor because the building does not get
29:21constructed God does not fill you up
29:23with the wisdom and the understanding
29:25you don't get to live and reside under
29:27the shadow of the almighty if you're
29:29living on the outside of your father
29:30father's tent if you're out from
29:32underneath that covering you've got to
29:34get inside you've got to get underneath
29:37that covering in the tent of your father
29:39you've got to get rooted and grounded in
29:42the church if you're going to build his
29:44house then you've got to be willing to
29:47live according to what he says You' got
29:50to be living under his shadow you've got
29:52to be living in the Kingdom of almighty
29:55God you've got to be willing and he'll
29:58make you able
30:00I want you to see something if my reader
30:03will get ready brother Johnny we can go
30:06to Mark chapter
30:0912 verse 41 Mark 12 and 41 Jesus has
30:15just he's just called out the Pharisees
30:18for their hypocrisy they like to stand
30:21on street corners they like to to to
30:24receive the Praises of men and and
30:26contort their face and and try and make
30:28it look like they've just been fasting
30:29for so so many days and that they've
30:31been praying for so long but the Lord
30:33called him out and said you are
30:35hypocrites vipers he said you're just
30:37whiteed sepers full of dead men's bones
30:40they could show all the outward signs of
30:42devotion but there was no inner
30:45consecration but the story which follows
30:47oh it's such a beautiful and Powerful
30:50contrast in Mark 12 and 41 amen praise
30:53God go ahead and read it brother Johnny
30:56and Jesus sat over against the treasury
30:59listen he sat over against the treasury
31:02he was watching what the people were
31:03giving make no mistake God watches what
31:07you give he knows exactly how much you
31:10give and exactly how much you hold back
31:13you might fool other people but you'll
31:15never fool God you're not paying your
31:18tie if you're not giving in the offering
31:20out of that cheerfulness of your heart
31:22if you're not giv of your time when
31:24Pastor calls a prayer meeting or when
31:26they say we're doing Outreach God takes
31:29notice he sits by the treasury he knows
31:32exactly how much people bring and how
31:34much they hold back he was sitting by
31:36the treasury keep reading and beheld how
31:39the people cast money into the treasury
31:42keep going and many that were Rich cast
31:44Rich cast in much next verse and there
31:47came a certain poor Widow listen there
31:51came a certain poor Widow right you know
31:55what that tells me that there were other
31:57poor widows in the city but they decided
31:59to stay stay home there were other poor
32:02folks around but they decided to hold on
32:05to what little they had rather than give
32:07it unto God But Here Comes This certain
32:10poor Widow and she's not affected or
32:13influenced by what everybody else is
32:15giving yes she's surrounded by people
32:17that are richer than her yes she's
32:19surrounded by people who according to
32:21man have these great gifts and offerings
32:23to give under the house of God but that
32:25didn't distract her that didn't affect
32:28the offering that she was willing to
32:29give
32:30it had no influence on what she was
32:32going to give unto God's house there
32:36came a certain poor Widow keep going and
32:40she threw in two mites yes she threw in
32:42her two mites if only everybody in the
32:45church could give their two sense like
32:46this woman not trying to tell the pastor
32:49how to run things not trying to tell God
32:51it's got to be like this or that not
32:53trying to instruct somebody else how
32:54they should live their life there's an
32:56authority structure in the kingdom of
32:58God you have your preach it you have
33:01your instruction from your P from your
33:03pastor you don't get to put yourself
33:04over other people and act like you're
33:06Superior come
33:09on a lot of people like to tell others
33:12how to live but they're not willing to
33:14get of what give of what they have right
33:16she gave of her two mites which make a
33:18farthing keep going brother Johnny and
33:20he called unto him his disciples called
33:23his disciples keep going keep going and
33:25saith unto them he said unto them verily
33:28I say unto you yes that this poor Widow
33:31hath cast more in more than all they
33:34which have cast she cast in more into
33:37that treasury than all the other people
33:39that had come that day than all the
33:41other Rich folks she gave of all that
33:45she had she invested all that she had
33:49into the house of almighty God when you
33:52give of all that you have to God it's
33:54not about the monetary value that's
33:56important all that's important is that
33:58you invest yourself
34:00the value is in yourself and what you
34:03give unto God the value is in what
34:06you're willing to invest she invested
34:09all of her life into this truth into
34:13giving unto God into making sure that
34:16she didn't hold anything back from
34:19God when you invest all of yourself into
34:22the Lord then you're telling God hey
34:24Jesus this thing better work out because
34:27I've given all that I have this thing
34:29better work out Lord because I've jumped
34:31in with both feet I've invested
34:33everything
34:35Lord it better work out God because if
34:38it doesn't I'm in trouble because I
34:40haven't withheld anything from
34:43you when you invest all of yourself into
34:45God you don't have time for the petty
34:47problems and little fights that people
34:49like to
34:50start when you invest all of your time
34:53into God you don't have time for
34:55jealousy for Envy you don't have time to
34:58be focused on what your neighbor's doing
35:01when you invest all of your time into
35:04God you don't have time to be a
35:06benchwarmer to sit on the sidelines I've
35:09given it everything Lord I've got to
35:11make sure this thing works I've got to
35:13make sure I'm in position for God to
35:15speak through me to work through me to
35:17affect this ministry that I'm in to grow
35:20the church that I'm a part of to bring
35:22Revival to my
35:24city she invested all that she had
35:29because she had faith in the house of
35:32God where you place your investment is
35:35where you place your faith and the Lord
35:37is saying if you will just invest in me
35:40then I'll invest in you if you will just
35:42invest in My Kingdom then I'm going to
35:44make sure I take care of your every need
35:47if you will just invest in God he says
35:49I'll never let you go hungry I'll never
35:51let your family go too far I'll bring
35:54restoration to you I'll never let your
35:56hopes and your dreams die I'll make sure
35:58your Min Ministry expands I'll make sure
36:01there's joy in your heart and there's a
36:04song in your soul and there's a dance
36:06and a shout that you can
36:09give when you invest into the Lord he
36:12says I'll make sure any devil or any
36:14person that tries to fight you they'll
36:16have to go through me
36:18first when you invest all of yourself
36:21into God there is Revival there is
36:24growth there is
36:27increase that God has for you
36:31she invested of all that she had praise
36:35God read that next verse for all they
36:37did cast in of their abundance list they
36:39all cast in of their
36:42abundance they had given all of their
36:45time and money to other things and what
36:48little they had left over they said I'll
36:50give that to
36:51God rather than making God the first
36:53thing on the on their agenda they said
36:56I'm just going to give them the
36:57leftovers but God doesn't watch your
36:59leftover
37:00he wants all of you they gave of what
37:02little excess they had after they had
37:04gone out and lived in the world but he's
37:06not looking for excess he's looking for
37:08increase because the Bible says of the
37:11increase of his government in peace
37:13there shall be no end but increase
37:15cannot take place unless the people are
37:18willing to give all of
37:21themselves I can give in my leftovers I
37:24can give in just my excess and not have
37:27to give all of myself I can give in my
37:29sucess and act like I'm giving a lot
37:31unto God but he's saying no no I want
37:34all of you not just your leftovers I
37:37want all of you you've got to invest all
37:40of yourself into the kingdom of almighty
37:42God read that next part in verse 44 but
37:46she of her want did cast in of her want
37:50did cast in all that she had even of all
37:54her
37:55living even of all her living I'm
37:59praying in my own life in my church I
38:03prayed upon this congregation that the
38:05Lord would baptize Us in the want to and
38:09the desire to serve him listen she did
38:12not give of all that she had because she
38:15expected a blessing in return she gave
38:18of all that she had because she wanted
38:20to that's it that was her only reason
38:24because the desire in her was to invest
38:26her whole self into the kingdom of God
38:29her desire was Lord I may not have much
38:32but I'm giving it all unto you because I
38:34want to even when my finances are dis in
38:37disarray God I'm going to come to church
38:39because I want to even when my marriage
38:42seems to be falling apart uh even when
38:44my job is is giving me a tough time God
38:47I'm going to worship I'm going to sing
38:49I'm going to shout I'm going to
38:51consecrate myself unto you Lord because
38:54I want to because you're worthy he's
38:57worthy of our time
39:00he's worthy of all that we have to give
39:03unto him he's worthy we worship him
39:07because we want to we worship Him from
39:10that desire in our heart just like this
39:13wonderful wonderful poor woman the Bible
39:17says but a certain poor woman because
39:20she came and she gave of all that she
39:23had I don't want to withhold anything
39:27from God it's better to give all unto
39:29him him rather than hold back a little
39:31and try to work things out on my own you
39:34don't have the wisdom of God you don't
39:36have the knowledge of how to build this
39:38structure to make it strong and
39:40unyielding but God does you can give it
39:43unto him you don't have to be the one
39:45that's in control Let Jesus Take The
39:48reigns of your heart let him build the
39:50structure you just be willing to come
39:53you just be willing to offer the
39:55material that he's looking for
39:59children of Israel were to make a
40:01sanctuary I'm trying to hurry the
40:04children of Israel were to make a
40:06sanctuary so that God could dwell among
40:08them the sanctuary could not be built
40:12unless they came and offered what they
40:13had it could only be built on what they
40:16offered the revivals that you want to
40:19see in your city will never extend
40:22beyond what you're willing to give it
40:24will never extend beyond what you're
40:26willing to surrender unto the Lord if
40:28you want your ministry to go if you want
40:30to go into deeper places with God then
40:33you've got to be willing to give of all
40:35of
40:36yourself the more you give the greater
40:39the Revival the more you give the more
40:41the Lord will restore those things that
40:43you've lost the more you give the the
40:45more the Lord will call you deeper and
40:48deeper and take you into new heights of
40:50his Spirit and the new territories in
40:53the spirit
40:54world there's a great need for souls to
40:57be one to the Lord there's a a great
40:59need for souls to be brought into this
41:02Kingdom there's a great need for the
41:04Fishers of Men to go out and cast their
41:06Nets again and reap in all of those who
41:09are standing on the edge of Eternity
41:12there's a great need for Laborers in the
41:14fields that are white with Harvest but
41:16the great need can only be filled by
41:18those who are willing to come and to
41:21offer themselves unto the work and the
41:24building of this
41:27Sanctuary Paul said it in first
41:29Corinthians 6:19 know ye not that your
41:33body is the Temple of the Holy
41:36Ghost you see that pattern there in
41:39Exodus 25 was that they would give of
41:42their material possession but the
41:44pattern of the church in the New
41:46Testament is that you would give of
41:49yourself you are the Lord's offering you
41:53are the one that God is wanting to work
41:55through you are the one that he's trying
41:58to build up this Sanctuary into increase
42:01into Revival into a growth that lasts
42:04From Here to Eternity because of the
42:07increase of this government in peace
42:09there shall be no end he's calling you
42:12just as you are right now because he can
42:14refine you he can give you the power he
42:17can give you the ability for the task at
42:20hand he can polish off your scuff marks
42:23he can purify and cleanse you but not
42:26unless you're willing to be the Lord's
42:28offering yes the riches of Egypt will be
42:31used to help build this Temple but not
42:34before there are those people of God who
42:36are willing to come first God can raise
42:39up Osiris and anoint him to help build
42:41this Temple but not until there's a
42:43people that are willing to come of
42:46themselves and to build our service to
42:49God is all about the building of a
42:52sanctuary where he can dwell Among Us
42:55and through us he can begin to give us
42:57increase in our Liv life in our ministry
43:01in our church in our city and it just
43:04continues to grow like that river that
43:06Ezekiel Saw in Ezekiel 47 he said the
43:10man had the line in his hand and when he
43:12measured that river that came from the
43:14temple it was a river that went to the
43:15ankles and he went out a th cubits more
43:18and that River was at the knees and he
43:20went a th000 cubits more and it was at
43:23the waist and he went a thousand cubits
43:25more and Ezekiel said the river was
43:27above my head that I just had to swim in
43:31this increase of God's Kingdom in this
43:35revival God has promised us a Revival in
43:39this last day seven times it says
43:42greater than the former Reign there are
43:44great things that God is about to do in
43:47this city there are great things that
43:49God is about to do through Cathedral of
43:52Pentecost some great things that are
43:54getting ready to be
43:57born but you've got to be willing to
43:59come you've got to cry out to God when
44:03Zion travailed the Bible says she
44:06brought forth her children you're going
44:08to see this revival you've got to come
44:11before the Lord you've got to offer all
44:13of yourself don't hold anything back
44:15from God they were building a physical
44:18structure under the Lord in the Old
44:20Testament but in the New Testament he's
44:22looking at the Temple of your body
44:24that's where he wants to dwell in your
44:27heart yes with all of your problem s
44:30with your past with your story with all
44:33of your consternation with all the pain
44:35that you are feeling right now in body
44:37or in spirit or in
44:39mind he's calling you to Come Just As
44:42You
44:44Are
44:53God come on the witness of the Holy
44:56Ghost has just walked into this place
45:04Oh
45:05Glory Oh Glory unto God In The Name of
45:10Jesus in the name of Jesus I'm bringing
45:12it to a
45:14close I'm bringing it to a close come
45:19just as you
45:21are those sweet people in our downtown
45:25church and I hope they're not watching
45:28this
45:31but most of them don't look
45:34Pentecostal they come in they've got
45:36tattoos all over them they've got
45:38piercings everywhere and you know they
45:41might be praying in the Altar and
45:44talking in tongues and then five minutes
45:46later they go out and take their smoke
45:49break let me tell you something about
45:51those people I've seen the willingness
45:55in their heart to come before the Lord
45:58even in all the problems that they have
46:00and you can't imagine some of the things
46:01that they face in those shelters or
46:04being out on the street the the the the
46:06violence that is there the drugs that
46:08are there the death the murder that
46:11takes place the sickness the
46:13disease it gets cold in Colorado many of
46:16them are living on the street with no
46:18warmth but they're willing to come to
46:20church they're willing to jump on that
46:23bus and to be a part of Friday service
46:26and then they can't wait to jump on the
46:28bus Sunday morning and go up to the main
46:31campus and I see him shaking hands and I
46:34see him hugging on people I see them
46:36welcoming them to the house of
46:38God there's a willingness that's there I
46:42wouldn't trade one of them for 10,000
46:44people that looked theart but didn't
46:46have an ounce of
46:49willingness don't worry about what you
46:51look
46:53like because God will fill you up with
46:55the spirit he'll cleanse you he'll
46:58purify you he'll speak to you he'll
47:02reveal things to you he'll build on top
47:05of you like those Lively stones that
47:07Peter talks about building up a
47:09spiritual house unto God when I was in
47:12Jerusalem a couple years ago our guide
47:15was taking us around the wall of the old
47:18city and he pointed out in the stones of
47:21this this wall these markings in the
47:24stone and there were so many different
47:26markings and he said this is the
47:29signature of the man that laid this
47:32Stone in this
47:34Foundation it was the unique identifier
47:37of the one that came and built here
47:40right
47:41here God is wanting to build through you
47:45as a Lively Stone with the uniqueness
47:48that he's given you your uniqueness is
47:51why God wants you that unique Mark upon
47:54your life is why he's calling you
47:56forward he's saying if you'll just come
47:59I'm going to use you as Lively Stones as
48:02that Living Sacrifice to build up this
48:05house of God in the name of Jesus if we
48:09could all stand I want to leave you with
48:12this verse and then I want us to come
48:15and I want us to pray I want us to
48:17really seek after God if you would be
48:19willing to do that in Psalm
48:23110 and verse number three this is a
48:27Psalm of David it's a Messianic Psalm
48:30he's prophesying about
48:32Jesus in verse number three it says thy
48:36people thy people shall be willing in
48:41the day of thy power in the beauties of
48:44Holiness from the womb of the morning
48:47thou Hast the do of thy youth thy people
48:51shall be
48:52willing there will be those who are
48:56willing that word willing there
48:58literally means means
49:00volunteers and in the context of the
49:02verse it means that they will come
49:05spontaneously they won't have to think
49:07about it for too long because when you
49:09think about something for too long you
49:11get paralysis of
49:13analysis you decide I'm not going to do
49:15it you don't have to think about it just
49:19come out of that spontaneous that
49:21spontaneity of your heart just come and
49:24volunteer yourself to this fight thy
49:27people shall be willing in the day of
49:30thy power one translation says in the
49:32day of thy Warfare as God calls his army
49:35together he's looking for those
49:37volunteers who will come and offer
49:40themselves willingly to the
49:43fight but then he
49:45says in the beauties of
49:49Holiness the beauties of Holiness it's a
49:53term that David uses several times does
49:55throughout the Psalms he's talking about
49:58the holiness of God but really that term
50:01Beauty signifies the face of God yes
50:05it's talking about his majesty his glory
50:09it's talking about his Splendor because
50:12God's face is his identity and his face
50:16is glorious his face is Holy and David
50:20is saying when we come into the beauties
50:22of Holiness God we're standing before
50:25your face where your face shines down
50:28upon us and light and truth and spirit
50:32and Holiness when we worship God in the
50:35beauties of Holiness we begin to reflect
50:38the very thing that we
50:40worship it's why it matters what you
50:42wear it's why it matters what you what
50:45you say and how you act because when you
50:48come before the Lord and worship you
50:50begin to reflect his Holiness you begin
50:52to reflect that light you represent more
50:56than just yourself you represent that
50:59Temple of your body which is the Temple
51:01of the Holy Ghost and God says I'm going
51:04to come in and if you surrender yourself
51:06to me my light will shine through you
51:09and people will begin to see me through
51:12you David said they're going to come in
51:14the day of your power willingly they
51:16will come and worship you in the beauty
51:18of Holiness people are going to see
51:20Jesus Through you people are going to
51:22come to this truth because you decided
51:25to invest all that you have into the
51:28kingdom of all almighty
51:30God from the womb of the morning you'll
51:33have hope that Springs like a new day
51:35the de of thy youth thou Hast the do of
51:38thy youth uh he'll give you strength and
51:40vigor like a young man you'll have
51:43strength you'll have hope you'll have
51:45power you'll have that Holiness of God
51:48that shines through you but you've got
51:51to be willing to come in the name of
51:53Jesus willing to offer yourself unto the
51:57Lord would you come
51:59in the name of Jesus everybody that's
52:02willing would you step out and just make
52:05that walk of Faith down here maybe maybe
52:08you just want to stay where you are
52:10that's okay but lift your hands unto the
52:12Lord tell them God I'm sorry I'm sorry
52:16Lord that I've been distant from you
52:19he's calling somebody back to their
52:21first love some of you walk with him in
52:24those deep places of God some of you
52:26used to rejoice in the preaching of the
52:28word
52:29some of you had that song and that joy
52:31and that dance in your step but you've
52:34drifted away the Lord saying come unto
52:36me return unto me in the name of Jesus