What Will You Do?
Evangelist Ethan Elms Preached on 2/1/2026
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Summary
Evangelist Ethan Elms challenges believers to move beyond mental belief into active faith, demonstrating through the lives of Joshua and David that God’s greatest moves often follow a step of risky obedience.
Key points
- •Faith is recognizing that the invisible spiritual realm is more real and permanent than the visible world.
- •True biblical faith is not just mental agreement or a feeling; it is action and obedience.
- •God often requires a step of obedience (getting your feet wet) before He performs a miracle (splitting the Jordan).
- •Worship is a sacrificial choice made regardless of circumstances or the opinions of observers.
Scripture
Faith
Obedience
Salvation
Worship
Life application
Identify one area where you have been waiting for a 'sign' to act, and take a tangible step of obedience this week-whether that is forgiving someone, serving, or literal baptism-trusting God for the outcome.
Reflection questions
- In what area of your life are you currently 'staring at what is seen' instead of focusing on what God is doing behind the scenes?
- How have you transitioned from being a 'hearer' of the Word to a 'doer' recently?
- Like David dancing before the Ark, what keeps you from worshipping with 'all your might' in front of others?
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Full transcript
0:00service. This is a monumental moment. Thank you, Jesus. I've got two sections of
0:04scriptures for you today. First, 2 Corinthians 4:18. and the second will be hebrews
0:0911 1-3 you can flip there in your bibles or you can look at the
0:15technology we've placed on the back wall here it's very convenient and you can't rip
0:20the pages of the tv screen but i've accidentally ripped pages of my bible and
0:25thought i was going to immediately be struck with lightning but i stand here today
0:30witness that god's mercy is great i'm so thankful i have my wife with me
0:36today we celebrated a year of marriage together on our cruise It's been the
0:41greatest year of my life. I love you, Lorraine. Let's read 2 Corinthians 4,
0:47verse 18. Paul writing says this, Now, while we look not at the things
0:52which are seen, not at the things which are seen, but at the things
0:58which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the
1:04things which are not seen are eternal. And then over in Hebrews chapter 11,
1:09this is the great chapter, the hall of faith we have kind of
1:15Coined it, if you will. It's just all the superheroes in the scriptures. There's a
1:21few missing, but there's a lot of great people in here. But it's all about
1:26faith, and it starts like this. It gives a definition for what faith is. Now,
1:32faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For
1:37the things, oh, that's the wrong verse. Through faith we understand, verse 3, that the
1:43worlds were framed by the word of God. So that things which are seen were
1:49not made of things which do appear. I don't know if you see the connection
1:54between those two verses. But I hope I can get you to see that connection
1:59today. Over the next few moments I'm going to speak on this subject. What will
2:03you do? What will you do? A question that demands action. Won't you pray over
2:08this service with me? Lord, I thank you for your sweet presence that's already swept
2:13across this room in the first service. And just now we've experienced it again in
2:18the worship service. I thank you Lord that you don't change. There is no variable
2:24of turning with you. There's no change within you God. You are Jesus the same
2:29yesterday, today and forever. We trust Lord that if you've done it before, you can
2:35do it again. You are not a God that is dead. We do not serve
2:41a God that remains in the grave. But you are the Savior. that took
2:47deliverance in His own hands so you can place it into ours.
2:52We worship You today, Lord, and if you believe that to be
2:58true, lift up your voice and lift up your hands and worship
3:04the only worthy God. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Everybody say in Jesus' name, Amen.
3:10You may smile at your neighbor as you're seated, unless you didn't
3:16brush your teeth today, in which case grin with no teeth showing,
3:22please. Mints and the receptacles in the back. Before there were mountains
3:28that you could touch, before there were oceans that you could stand beside and
3:33breathe in the fragrance of the salt in the sky, there was a word
3:39spoken that you could not hear. And there was a command given by God
3:45that you weren't there to experience. Before there was light in the atmosphere, there
3:51was a voice that spoke in the darkness. Because that's how God does things.
3:58That's how God works. He does His greatest work in places that your eyes
4:03cannot see. Places your ears cannot reach. And this is what Paul and the
4:09author of Hebrews is telling us here. There is a force behind the invisible
4:15that is responsible for everything that we see. It is the invisible that is
4:21responsible for the visible. And it's not the other way around. There is an
4:27entire world that's just Beyond the vision of possibility. And that is what we
4:32struggle with. We're people of sight. That's how we know things are accurate. We can
4:38see them. We trust the things we can measure. We trust the things that we
4:44can count. The things that we can calculate. Myself, I find myself calculating a lot
4:49of things over and over again. By the time I go to write down the
4:55answer, I immediately forget it. I can't tell you how many times I've I've tried
5:01to calculate my tithes. Now, I'm not that dumb. That's 10%. But then you try
5:06to calculate the offering, and you're trying to give it at the same time. And
5:12I'll calculate it out on my calculator, and I will close the calculator app. And
5:17in the span of time it takes to get from the calculator app to the
5:23church center app, I have forgotten what I calculated. And I'm like, well, God, I'm
5:28not afraid of giving too much. But, you know, you know the bank account, Lord.
5:35So let's rendezvous to the calculator app again. We're people that just try
5:40to calculate things over and over. It's just our nature. When the waiter
5:46comes with the check and it says suggested tip amounts, 18%, 20%, 22%,
5:5125%. I'm not there yet. One day I'll give with the 25 percenters.
5:57I do my best. But it'll say what the percentage is with the
6:03exact amount in money. And immediately I go, hmm, is that accurate? Is
6:08that actually 20%? I carry over the decimal, multiply it by two, yeah, it checks
6:13out. It's just who we are. We calculate things. That's how we know something's true.
6:17Even if it doesn't change the situation, if you can see it, it kind of
6:22makes you have a little bit more confidence. This was Sophia's first cruise, and you
6:26handled it like a champ. But any time a wave hit the boat, first of
6:30all, I didn't mean to lie, but I immediately was like, no, somebody just dropped
6:35luggage outside. Because I needed this to be a good cruise so that we could
6:39cruise for the rest of our life. And eventually you found out when the waves
6:45came splashing by our window that, well, it wasn't that bad. I don't want to
6:50be dramatic. We found out that they were waves, in fact. But for Sophia, the
6:55thing that helped her is just if you go on the little channel guide, in
7:00that little devil box on the wall, you can see there's a compass of where
7:04the boat is. And knowing we're close to... Cuba or maybe not Cuba, but we're
7:10knowing we're close to any of these other islands we can get to accessibly. Man,
7:15praise the Lord. But knowing we're close to these islands that could save us if
7:21we started sinking helped us, even if it didn't change the fact that waves were
7:26hitting the boat really hard. It's because it's in our nature to have more faith
7:32if we can see it. If we can see it, then I can believe it.
7:37If I can calculate it, then obviously I can put my faith in it.
7:43But the thing is, when we can't see it, we panic. And the moment we
7:48don't understand it, we assume that God is not doing a thing. But Paul said,
7:54"While we look not at the things which are seen." Not at the things which
7:59are seen. What do you mean, Paul? That's all I have my faith to base
8:05off of? No, no, no. Not at the things which are seen. In other words,
8:10stop staring at what is in front of you. Because that's only half of the
8:15story. There is a world beyond what you can see. There is something that's not
8:21tangible with your hands, but it is tangible with your heart. There is a vision
8:26that you can't see with your eyes, but if you'll do as the song says,
8:32"Open the eyes of my heart, Lord. I want to see you." There's a world
8:37beyond the visible. We tend to live backwards. We say, "God, once I see it,
8:42then I'll believe it." But the reality is, if you will believe it first, Then
8:48you'll see it. That's just the way the Bible works. Faith isn't pretending problems aren't
8:54real. That's not applicable to our life. That's not what faith is. Faith is trusting
9:00that although I only see this much, faith is trusting that God is working in
9:06the places I cannot see. He is doing a work in what I cannot change
9:12with my own hands. That is what faith is. And I want to stir
9:18Faith in the house today. Faith that God is working even
9:24though you don't have any reason to believe that he is.
9:30I believe he's working even when I don't see it, he's
9:35working. Even when I don't feel it, he's working. He never
9:41stops. Never stops working. Sometimes we're looking at situations that seem
9:47to be dead. Situations that should be alive. Relationships that look
9:53dead. Dreams that look dead. Finances that look dead. Callings that you thought were
9:58alive, but now it's starting to feel like God's kind of retreated from you. Health
10:04that looks more like death. These are things we look at and we think to
10:10ourselves, "How come this is the part you trusted me to see?" Because you can't
10:16see movement, you think nothing's happening. But hear me today. Just because you can't see
10:21God moving doesn't mean He isn't working. Just because you can't trace the
10:27place his hand has been does not mean his hand is short. Does not mean
10:33his hand is weak. Does not mean that his hand is not moving. You've got
10:39to have faith in the things that you cannot see. Because the truth is, if
10:45you could see it, then it's not faith. Let's go to the definition. Faith is
10:51the substance of things hoped for. It is the evidence of things that you cannot
10:56see. I can see it. Why do I need faith? But
11:02I want to tell you, if all you have is faith, that's all the evidence
11:08that you need. Because it is the evidence that something is going on that I
11:14cannot see right now. You know what the scriptures say? Eye has not seen, ear
11:19has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man. All of these
11:25things. There's something going on you can't see. Oh, you can feel it. But
11:31it's easy to ignore when you don't have that picture you can put in
11:37your mind. There's no cruise seat compass for faith. I wish. Sometimes you have
11:42to borrow some. It's like an IOU. Somebody else gets their miracle. And I'm
11:48like, you got a little extra of that faith? Like, you know, you're scratching.
11:54You got extra? You got extra hope? Because sometimes we come to services so
11:59hopeless, hoping, so desperate for a breakthrough that even if my neighbor gets it,
12:05Let me get close enough that maybe some of that faith will rub off on
12:11me. Maybe a little bit of that miracle juice will rub off on me and
12:17I'll get a little bit of hope. Maybe if I'm close enough to where the
12:23miracle will happen, I will get the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews continues to
12:28say the things which are seen were not made of the things which do appear.
12:34In other words, God built everything you see out of something you couldn't see. So
12:40why is it that we don't think He can do that in our life the
12:45same way? We have the faith to believe that He spoke, "Let there be light
12:50in the middle of darkness," and there was light. We have faith to believe absolutely
12:55the evidence is there. The Big Bang doesn't make sense when you compare it to
13:00the Bible. It's just like this makes way more sense than all this happening on
13:06accident. I've got evidence. I can believe that God spoke to the firmament
13:11of the waters and they divided. That makes sense to me. But the thing
13:17we cannot grasp today is that if God made the world out of nothing,
13:23can He make a way out of nothing? If God spoke and there was
13:29light in the middle of darkness, could it be the middle of my darkness
13:35He could speak and there be light? That's what we've got to get a
13:41hold of today. There is a world that we cannot see. I
13:47wish I could tell you it's easy to see if you follow
13:52this exact fasting program. But you can't fast your way into forcing
13:58God's hand. I'm sorry, you just can't. You fast to work on
14:04you so that when he speaks, you're listening. But there's no... program
14:09that helps you see the invisible it's just one of those things you
14:15have to have faith and the good news is the Bible says to
14:21every man is given a measure of faith every man I'm a Chargers
14:27fan that means I use my faith in dumb ways alright don't clap
14:33but here's why I wanted to get practical because preachers myself included get
14:39so caught up in metaphors that you leave kind of confused so I
14:44want you to know this Faith is not just believing something
14:50in your head. Faith is not making up in your mind,
14:56I believe that's what God said. It's not what is coined,
15:01the term is coined as mental assent. Lifting up my mind,
15:07I believe, yes, God, you do want to heal me. It's
15:12not just that moves. Faith takes steps. Faith does something because
15:18faith isn't just what you believe. Faith is the things that
15:23you're willing to do. Faith demands action. If faith never leaves your head, then
15:29it never changes your life. At some point, faith has to come along and
15:35say, "I'm done asking. It's time to do. It's time to act." James comes
15:41along and he says it plain. I love how James says things so matter
15:46of fact. He says in James 1:22, "But be ye doers of the word."
15:53and not hearers only. Watch this next part. Deceiving your own
15:58selves. You know what happens when you've heard something enough times,
16:04but you don't act on it? You convince yourself that you
16:09did it. When I was younger, my mother would say, take
16:15out the trash. And I'd say, yes, ma'am. And a few
16:21minutes would go by, and she'd say, did you take out
16:26the trash? I said, in a minute, ma'am. You better say
16:32that, ma'am. That ring finger. But, I had said yes
16:38to taking out the trash so many times that I had
16:43genuinely persuaded myself. I indeed took out the trash. And I
16:49found out through the leather that keeps my dad's pants up
16:55that I did not take out the trash. I had deceived
17:00my own self because I was a hearer of the word,
17:06but you know I was not a doer. If you hear
17:12the word constantly... but you do not apply it, you will
17:17deceive yourself into thinking you're living right. You can hear somebody preach conviction
17:23enough times that you think you're living with conviction, but you're not. And
17:29it's not your fault. It happens to anybody that refuses to be a
17:34doer. It just happens. It's natural. You deceive yourself into thinking. What happens
17:40is you get inspiration, but no application. But real faith moves.
17:46Real faith does something. Real faith steps out and
17:52does something before it even understands what's going on.
17:57Real faith demands action. Sacrifice is great, but don't
18:03get it twisted. The scriptures tell us obedience is
18:09greater than sacrifice. I want you to know, if you want, you can
18:15make up your mind that it's going to be done. And with the help of
18:19Jesus Christ, it shall be done. There is a prosperity in doing. Psalm 1 tells
18:24us this. It says, "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of
18:28the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of
18:33the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His
18:37law doth he meditate day and night." Now notice, he did not say, Doing something.
18:43He just said not doing something. If you don't walk with the counsel of the
18:48ungodly or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of the
18:53scornful, the byproduct is your delight will be in the law of the Lord. And
18:58His law, you will meditate day and night. And then there's this promise. He shall
19:03be like a tree planted by the rivers of water. that bringeth forth his
19:09fruit in his season, his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he
19:15doeth shall prosper. Now we love that! Whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. Get
19:20a little shake in your system right there. Whatever I put my hand
19:26to. And it's true, Ecclesiastes says, Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, doeth
19:32all thy might. Paul told us do everything in the name of the
19:38Lord. But here's the deal. Whatsoever he doeth, prosper. If you live
19:44by the Bible, I promise you this scripture will come to pass. It doesn't
19:50matter what you do for work. If it's along the lines of scripture, put
19:56your hands to the plow and it will prosper. Flip things on Facebook marketplace,
20:01it'll prosper. Sell homes, it'll prosper. Make cartoons, it'll prosper. But live your life
20:07by this. But the thing is, you must do something.
20:13There's prosperity in it, but you must do something. It can't stay up here
20:19forever. God will place a burden on your heart in an altar call, but
20:25I want you to know it can't stay in here forever. At some point,
20:31it has to move. It has to become, I can do this. And then
20:37you see a whole other level. James just doubles down, man. Sometimes it'd be
20:43easier to live for Christ if James wasn't a book. Because he's like straight
20:49up. But he says in chapter 4 verse 17, he
20:55says, "Therefore," let me take it up a notch here, "to him
21:01that knows to do good and doeth it not, it is not
21:06a slap on the wrist, it is not a look down the
21:12nose or a frown, it is accounted to him for sin." It's
21:18now not just, "I didn't know," it's, "I knew but I didn't
21:23move." And that's why every preacher that gets in this
21:29pulpit will do everything in their power to tell you Jesus saves. And
21:35He does save. And they will sit up here and they will shout
21:41until their face turns red and blue. And they'll cover their iPad and
21:46spit. But it's just because they want you to know there is a
21:52way to escape the life of sin. There's a way which seemeth right
21:58unto a man. but the end thereof is destruction. So don't do what seems
22:04right to a man. Make sure you do what's pleasing unto God. Don't stand in
22:10the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful. Find your delight
22:16in the law of the Lord, because once you know, it's on you.
22:23And we will do all we can to say be baptized today for we do
22:28not know the hour that the Lord is coming back. Be baptized in Jesus name.
22:34Be baptized again if you were baptized in the titles. Not because you didn't take
22:40a step of faith but because there is more for you. For neither is there
22:45salvation any other name there is no other name under heaven given amongst
22:51men whereby we must be saved my brother my sister there is no name
22:57like the name of jesus you can call on the father and jesus will
23:02show up you can call on the son and jesus will show up and
23:08my god you will be filled with the spirit of jesus for in him
23:14dwelleth all the fullness of the godhead bodily There is one God
23:20and one mediator between men and God, the man Christ Jesus. Hallelujah. It's not
23:26just, "I didn't know." It's what you did know, but you didn't do. That's
23:32why Bible faith is different than a thought. It walks, it takes steps into
23:38uncomfortable places. At some point you've got to stop talking about it and you've
23:44got to do it. Don't push it off another Sunday. "Oh, I want to
23:50stay here a second." Don't push off baptism another Sunday. Don't push it
23:55off another Sunday. Don't wait for a special guest. Don't wait for your hair to
24:01look pretty, it's going in the water anyway. Don't wait for the right heels, you
24:07won't wear them in the baptismal tank. All I'm saying is, there's no feeling like
24:13coming out of that water and knowing all of your sins drowned in the blood
24:18of Jesus Christ. You came up child of God. Don't wait, don't wait, don't wait.
24:24Today is the day of salvation.
24:31Some of you already know what the Lord's been speaking to you
24:37all week. And I just want to confirm it. True faith does
24:43not move on feeling. It moves in obedience. The Lord is telling
24:49you, pray just a little bit more. Forgive them. Let it go.
24:54Serve in ministry anyway. Give sacrificially. Step out in faith. Make
25:00this the first service where you take the leap of faith to break
25:06the chains of comfort and come to the altar for an altar call.
25:12That is today. I'm going to tell you there's a whole realm right
25:18on the other side of that fear you feel. And it is a
25:24realm you cannot see, but I know you can experience. Hallelujah. So the
25:29question today is not do you know? The question is what will you
25:35do? What will you do when you study your
25:41Bible? You start to see patterns repeat themselves and I encourage you when you
25:47read the Bible Try to find patterns repeating it'll change your life. It'll change
25:53everything about how you read the Bible You will see revelations of Jesus in
25:58Exodus. You'll see revelations of Jesus and Corinthians. You'll see revelations of Jesus in
26:04Zechariah just look for the patterns You see a pattern that repeats itself following
26:10this journey of the Ark of the Covenant. You see it in Joshua chapter 3.
26:16God instructs His people to go to the Jordan River. Now, the Jordan River is
26:22flooded. The Bible says its banks were enlarged because it was flood season. They couldn't
26:27pass. There was no bridge, no boats, there was no, I don't know, no cranes,
26:33I guess. There was no way that they could get past this Jordan River.
26:40But God said, I want you to go over it. And here's what I'll do.
26:45I'm going to split it just like I did the Red Sea. But there was
26:51one requirement. I want those priests that are carrying the Ark of the Covenant to
26:56step in before I split it. I want them to get their feet wet.
27:02Get a step into that river. I want you to feel that fear that comes
27:06over your body when that cold water rushes past your foot. And you know if
27:10I went any deeper I might get taken in the current. I want you to
27:14feel that fear. Why? He doesn't want you to be afraid. No, no, no. We
27:18are not subject to the spirit of fear. Perfect love casts out fear. Fear has
27:23torment. That's not for us children of God. No, it's not so you can feel
27:27afraid. It's so that you can know. It's not you that split that Jordan River.
27:31Because when your foot goes in you immediately know God I'm in over my head.
27:37I can't do this. That is called faith my friends. When you know I cannot
27:43do this alone but God. Here I go. I'll take the step anyway Jesus. You
27:49split the river. I'll take the step anyway Jesus. I'm afraid I can't make it.
27:55But you said you'd do it. You said if I took the step you'd split
28:01it. So God I'm closing my eyes. And you know what happens?
28:06They take the step and the river splits in two. And they go across
28:12on dry land because this is a pattern. They step before they know the
28:18outcome. A few chapters later we see there's another situation that the Israelites are
28:24facing. But equally as impossible, equally as immovable, but this time it's not a
28:30God structure. See, the river was a God thing. But Jericho is a man-made
28:36structure. It's a man-made structure. And sometimes the crisis that we face, it feels like
28:42it's God against us. And I know that's not true because the Scripture says He
28:46will neither leave us nor forsake us. And if it feels like He's blocking us,
28:51He maybe is trying to get us to go another direction. But it's not out
28:56of hatred or bitterness or anger. No, no, no. He corrects us. He guides us.
29:01But there are times where we feel forsaken. Sometimes God just wants to know,
29:07"Will you serve me when I'm not giving you all these goodies?" "Will you love
29:12me when I don't give you the promotion?" "Will you love me when they take
29:18the car?" "Will you love me when your child cusses you out and leaves off
29:23to their bedroom?" "Will you love me anyway?" And those are Jordan rivers. Things that
29:28only God did and only God can fix. And you know you can trust Him
29:33through it anyway. But there are times where what you're facing is man-made. That can
29:39mean a few things. It can mean people around you are an obstacle that you
29:45are saying, "God, I don't like what the Holy Ghost is making me do when
29:50I have to bite my tongue around them." Or it could be generational curses. "Lord,
29:56help me. My daddy did this. His daddy did that. His daddy did that. Lord,
30:01help me. This is just all I know about families." It could be any of
30:07these things, but there are times we face problems that are man-made. But there
30:12is an answer for those two. God tells them the strangest battle plan. He says,
30:17"Keep your swords down. Keep your ladders in the tents. Don't try to take this
30:22wall down because that's what we'll do when we see it's a man-made obstacle. We
30:27think, 'I'm a man. I can take this down.' He says, "No, no, no. It's
30:32not going to work that way. You need to know without a shadow of a
30:37doubt, I did the work." So He says, "Go for six days. Walk around." And
30:42then a seventh day do it, but this time do it seven times. And I
30:47want you to do it in silence. I want you to be obedient. And I'm
30:51going to tell you in advance, the shout is going to tear down the wall.
30:55But then I'm going to say, wait to shout, wait to shout, wait to shout,
31:00wait to shout. Sometimes God will give us words to give someone. And you know,
31:04that's the word that will change their life. But then he says, wait to give
31:08it. wait to give it it's not time if you gave them that word right
31:14now they won't receive it and they'll turn on me don't give them that word
31:19yet what do you do when you know how to win but god tells you
31:24to wait faith faith makes you walk when you have to keep your mouth shut
31:29faith makes you think that i i can end it now but i'd rather be
31:35obedient i'd rather be submitted to his will so they walk around six times in
31:40the seventh day they walk around Seven times, one each day for the six days.
31:45And on that last time, you know that it was bubbling up inside of them.
31:51I can't imagine the kind of ridicule the people of Jericho was screaming down at
31:56them. You think your God can save you? Oh, you're going to shout these walls
32:01down? All right. And they shouted with all... They could. And you know the story.
32:07You might have heard it in Sunday school. This might be your first time hearing
32:13it, but I want you to know when they shouted, the walls came crumbling down.
32:18It means a whole new thing when you're facing a wall that you can't destroy.
32:24When you're facing a problem that you can't solve. But suddenly when God gives you
32:30the release to shout, There's something that wells up
32:35inside a son and a daughter of God when they say, "Now is
32:41the time!" But they shouted before the walls fell. See the pattern? It's
32:47repeating. David brings the ark of the covenant back into Jerusalem. It's in
32:53his heart to build God a house, but it won't be him that
32:59builds it. He doesn't even know that yet. All he knows is this:
33:04"I don't know what's going to happen, but right now, I'm going to
33:10dance anyway." I'm going to rejoice because the presence of God
33:16is with me. I'm going to rejoice because I don't know what
33:21the future holds, but He is worthy of my dance. Let's read
33:27it together. 2 Samuel 6:13 And it was so that when they
33:33bare the ark of the Lord, had gone six paces, He sacrificed
33:38oxen and fatlings. Every six steps He had a praise break. Took
33:44six steps, said, "God, You're worthy." God, you're worthy. And you can
33:49only worship Him so much before you start getting a little bit of energy behind
33:55it. Because when you think about the goodness of Jesus, all that He's done for
34:00you, your soul will cry out, "Hallelujah!" Take six steps and he sacrifices. And David
34:06danced before the Lord with all his might. And he was girded with the linen
34:11ephod. This is not what kings wear. So David and all the house of Israel
34:17brought up the ark of the Lord shouting, The sound of the trumpet.
34:22And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of
34:28David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked down through a window, saw her husband
34:34there, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord. And
34:40she despised him in her heart. Let's skip forward to verse 20.
34:46Then David returned to bless his household. Michal, the daughter of Saul,
34:52came out to meet David and said, "How glorious was the king
34:58of Israel today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the
35:04handmaids and of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly
35:09uncovereth himself." And David said to Micaiah, "It was before the Lord."
35:15I'm not dancing for you. I don't care what you think. It
35:21was before the Lord. which chose me above thy father, before thy father,
35:27and before his house to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord,
35:33over Israel. Therefore will I play before the Lord, and yet I will be
35:39more vile than thus, and will be base in my own sight. You know
35:44what kind of worship that is? That's the kind of worship that says, I
35:50don't care who's looking. I'm going to worship anyway. That's the kind of
35:56worship that fills this house. David, don't look up and see my cow. Lift your
36:01eyes a little bit higher, David. Look unto the hills from which cometh your help.
36:06Don't look up at those that are judging you, David. Lift up your head, O
36:12ye gates. "Be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors." David, don't look up at those
36:17that are looking down on you. Look a little higher. "When I consider the heavens,
36:22and the works of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained,
36:28what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that
36:33thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and
36:38crown his head with glory. David, don't look up at the doubters.
36:44Look up a little higher. Look up for your redemption draweth nigh.
36:50I am not ashamed of why I dance. I'm not ashamed of
36:55the gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of God
37:01unto salvation. So then, which believe on this cruise ship, Sophia and
37:07I passed by one of these adult scavenger hunt things. We peeked
37:12in there. And I saw people losing their
37:18mind. They jumped and they danced and they smiled the
37:23whole time. They spun in their chairs. They climbed over
37:29seats to get closer to the front. They were literally
37:35running back and they were losing clothing items, kicking off
37:41their shoes. And I thought that looks apostolic to me.
37:49I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Don't shame me because I
37:54worship a God that frees me and not a God that delivers me into the
37:59hands of death. Don't shame me because I'm not afraid. Don't call me crazy. Call
38:04that crazy. Because they're going to wake up with a headache. And they're going to
38:10wake up hating the night before. But tomorrow I'm waking up with mercy. He's brand
38:16new. I'm waking up knowing that someday the sky is going to split apart. And
38:22my Jesus is coming back for me. Music, y'all better come help me quit. I
38:28am not ashamed to dance. He gave me a reason to dance. He took
38:33me out of my shackles. He stepped my feet on a solid ground. I want
38:38to tell you, this is what God did. Lest you forgot, he took you up
38:43out of the pit that you were in. He washed your sins away. He took
38:48his stripes, applied them to your life, and gave you healing. Don't let me
38:54tell you something you don't know. Don't act like you forgot where you were.
39:00I know you're dressed nice this Sunday morning, but don't forget the street corner
39:06you used to be on. It was the Lord that changed your life. That's
39:12what he did. My question is, what will you do? I
39:17will be more vile than thus. I will become base
39:23in my own sight. Don't get this twisted. I'm not
39:29trying to hype up a crowd here. I'm not trying
39:34to spark up something so that people can look happy
39:40again. No, no, no. I'm simply saying you should have
39:46been there when I prayed through. The church was on
39:51fire. Holy Ghost too. From the top of my head
39:57to the sole of my feet I felt the Spirit moving
40:03all over me Listen, listen You don't believe I've been redeemed
40:08Follow me down to the Jordan stream I stepped in the
40:14water, water was cold Chilled my body but not my soul