Part Twelve: Obedience
Pastor Aaron Batchelor Preached on 8/12/2026
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Summary
Pastor Aaron Batchelor explores Psalm 132 to show that biblical obedience is rooted in a heart of love that prioritizes God's desires over personal comfort. Using the life of David, the sermon illustrates how true discipleship involves surrendering our plans to God's timing and ensuring our faithfulness outlasts the moment.
Key points
- •Obedience is not merely a duty but a response of love and trust, born from a heart that desires what God desires.
- •True obedience often requires sacrificing personal comfort and surrendering even 'good' desires to God's greater will and timing.
- •God's 'no' to our plans (as seen with David and the Temple) is not a rejection of our usefulness but a redirection to our specific assignment.
- •One generation's obedience creates opportunities for the next, but each individual must eventually choose to obey God for themselves.
- •Obedience must outlive the emotional 'altar moment' and be integrated into daily life, work, and relationships.
Scripture
Obedience
Discipleship
Surrender
Purpose
Spiritual Growth
Life application
Identify one area where you have become 'comfortable in your comfort' and ask God if there is a 'holy discontent' He wants to stir in you. Commit to saying 'yes' to God's instructions this week, even if they involve stopping a project or serving in a way that doesn't grant you the credit.
Reflection questions
- David was uncomfortable being comfortable while God's ark was in a tent. What 'holy discontent' do you feel regarding the Kingdom of God today?
- Has God ever told you 'no' to a good desire? How did you respond, and can you see now how that 'no' served His larger purpose?
- In what ways are you currently living off the 'spiritual coattails' of previous generations rather than developing your own personal walk of obedience?
- How can you ensure your obedience on Monday morning matches the worship you offer on Sunday?
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Full transcript
0:00God. Thank you, Jesus.
0:05Amen.
0:10Praise God. Praise God. Well, let's open
0:13up our Bibles and we're going to go to
0:14Psalm 132.
0:19We're nearing the end of our journey
0:21through the Psalms of Ascent. A song of
0:25degrees as the inscription would say
0:27above the chapter.
0:32These songs they believe were sung as
0:35pilgrims, Jewish pilgrims were making
0:37their way to the temple way making their
0:41way to Jerusalem.
0:43And these are the songs that they sang.
0:46This described their faith. This
0:48described their journey of a believer of
0:52a disciple. And that's how we're
0:54approaching this. And I pray it's been a
0:56blessing to you. It's one of the longer
0:58series that I've done, but we've
1:01entitled this series [music] Keep
1:03Climbing. And my hope and prayer for
1:06every member of the body of Christ
1:08connected to New Life St. Louis is that
1:11you indeed have committed to keep
1:13climbing no matter the season, no matter
1:16what comes against you, no matter what
1:18victory you may be celebrating that
1:19you're in. That you won't stop now, but
1:22that you'll just keep climbing by the
1:23grace of God. Anybody committed to just
1:26keep climbing?
1:27Praise God. Psalm 132. It's the longest
1:31of the songs of ascent. And we're going
1:33to read the entire chapter tonight.
1:36Psalm 132 and verse one. Lord, remember
1:40David and all his afflictions. How he
1:43swore unto the Lord. He vowed unto the
1:46mighty God of Jacob. Surely I will not
1:48come into the tabernacle of my house. I
1:50won't go up into my bed. I'm not going
1:52to give sleep to mine eyes or slumber to
1:54mine eyelids until I find out a place
1:58for the Lord, an habitation for the
2:01mighty God of Jacob. Lo, we heard of it
2:03at Epherta. We found it in the fields of
2:06the wood. We will go into his
2:08tabernacles. We will worship at his
2:11foottool. Arise, O Lord, into thy rest.
2:14Thou and the ark of thy strength. Let
2:16thy priest be clothed with
2:19righteousness. Let thy saints shout for
2:22joy. For thy servant David's sake, turn
2:25not away the face of thine anointed. The
2:28Lord hath sworn in truth unto David, he
2:31will not turn from it. Of the fruit of
2:33thy body will I set upon thy throne. If
2:36thy children will keep my covenant and
2:39my testimony, that I shall teach them,
2:41their children shall also sit upon thy
2:44throne forever more. For the Lord hath
2:46chosen Zion. He hath desired it for his
2:48habitation. This is my rest forever, and
2:51here will I dwell, for I have desired
2:53it. [music] I will abundantly bless her
2:55provision. I will satisfy her poor with
2:58bread. I will also clothe her priest
3:01with salvation, and her saints shall
3:03shout aloud for joy. There will I make
3:06the horn of David to bud. I have
3:08ordained a lamp for mine anointed. his
3:11enemies will I clothe with shame, but
3:14upon himself shall his crown flourish.
3:17Amen. To the word of the Lord tonight.
3:19Psalm 132 in this song of a sense. Our
3:22word for this journey of a disciple. Our
3:26word, we've made some steps. We've made
3:28some progress. We're traveling together.
3:30But our word that we're going to pull
3:32from this chapter, I believe the Lord
3:34wants to speak to us [music] tonight is
3:36obedience. Somebody say obedience.
3:38Heavenly Father, thank you so much for
3:40your presence here. Thank you for your
3:42wonderful people. And now we approach
3:44your word with humility. We approach it
3:47with faith. I pray that you would use
3:49these lips of clay as I stand here to
3:51preach and deliver what you have said
3:54that it would come across as you have
3:56designed from your word. Lord, let me
3:59not add to it or take away from it, but
4:01just what your word wants to declare to
4:04your people in these last days. Thank
4:06you for meeting with us. Thank you for
4:08speaking to us tonight and we give you
4:10praise and glory in advance for it. In
4:12Jesus name we pray and everybody said
4:14amen.
4:16>> God bless you. You may be seated in the
4:18presence of the Lord.
4:20Psalm 132 begins with this unusual
4:25prayer.
4:28The psalmist writes,"Lord,
4:30remember David and all his afflictions,
4:37not remember Goliath." We all know the
4:39wonderful story about David and Goliath.
4:41Who doesn't know that? Even people that
4:42don't attend church have probably heard
4:44the story of David and Goliath.
4:47But the psalmist doesn't say that. He
4:49doesn't say remember Goliath. He doesn't
4:51say remember the crown or David's wealth
4:53or his military accomplishments. He
4:56says,"Remember what David was willing to
4:59sacrifice for you in his afflictions."
5:04All the way through verse five here, the
5:07psalmist writes, "David's commitment."
5:10He said, "Surely," David said, "I will
5:12not come into the tabernacle of my
5:14house. I'm not going to go to my house,
5:16nor go up to my own bed. I'm not going
5:18to give sleep to mine eyes or slumber to
5:22my eyelids until I find out a place for
5:27the Lord. In other words, David was
5:30saying, I can't be comfortable when my
5:32heart is burdened to do something for
5:36God.
5:38I think we could all agree with this
5:40statement that until you become
5:42uncomfortable with your comfort,
5:45obedience will always feel like a burden
5:48and not a joy.
5:51>> David was uncomfortable
5:54being comfortable.
5:56That's the heart from which this word
5:59obedience we're talking about tonight
6:02can grow from. That's the soil of the
6:04heart. Whenever we have a holy
6:06discontent, as one man called it, in
6:10order to say, "I'm not comfortable being
6:12comfortable." Whenever there's more that
6:15we can do for God,
6:18before obedience can ever reach our
6:21hands to do something, God first has to
6:26have our heart.
6:28Now, people obey for a variety of
6:30reasons. I I think it's interesting to
6:33discover an individual's motivation to
6:35obey. People will obey out of fear.
6:38They'll say, "Well, I don't want to
6:39suffer the consequences. I don't want to
6:41be punished." So, they'll obey out of
6:42fear. Some obey out of reward. I'll obey
6:46because I know what obedience will get
6:47me. Some obey out of pressure. I don't
6:50want people to be disappointed in me, so
6:52I'm going to do it. Some people just do
6:54it out of duty. They're disciplined
6:55enough to say, "I have a duty to my
6:58family, to the job, to the church." And
6:59so it's simply what I'm supposed to do.
7:03Some people will obey out of trust. They
7:07believe in the one that's giving them
7:08instructions and they believe that that
7:10person knows better than they do. So
7:12they're going to obey what that person
7:14has instructed them to do. And I think
7:17the pinnacle of obedience, the full
7:20expression of obedience is found in this
7:22word. 1 Corinthians 13 is written all
7:24about it. And that word is love.
7:27Love says,"I want to please the one that
7:30I love, and so I will obey."
7:33I believe that obedience, biblically
7:35speaking, falls into those two words,
7:37trust and love. In fact, Jesus said in
7:40John 14:15, he said, "If you love me,
7:43keep my commandments." In other words,
7:46if you love me, obey me. The first thing
7:50that I want us to remember here tonight
7:51is that obedience starts when God's
7:55desire becomes my desire.
7:59David already had a house. God didn't.
8:02That bothered David. God had never asked
8:05David to build him a permanent house.
8:08David cared deeply about what honored
8:10God. That's what motivated David to do
8:12this. 2 Samuel 7:2, David said, "See
8:15now, I dwell in this beautiful house of
8:17cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth
8:19within curtains." David looked around at
8:22all of his blessings and he thought,
8:24"Something is wrong with this picture.
8:27He couldn't enjoy what he had without
8:30thinking about what God deserved."
8:33>> That's an identity of a mature believer.
8:37Whenever we begin to care about God's
8:40desires and God's heart more than our
8:43own desires because we know he'll take
8:45care of us and he's already provided
8:48more than we could ever imagine. David
8:51looked around and he said, "I want to do
8:54something for God. I want to build
8:56something for him." We usually define
8:58obedience as this that God told us to do
9:01something and so we do it. And
9:03ultimately that that is obedience. But
9:05here's what David shows us. That before
9:07a command was ever given to David, he
9:10said, "I love God so much, I'm thinking
9:12about what would honor him, even when he
9:15hasn't asked me for anything."
9:18God never told David to build me a
9:20house. That was David's heart. That was
9:22David's idea. He looked at that cedar
9:24house he lived in. Then he looked at the
9:26ark uh behind all those curtains. He
9:28looked at his house. And then he looked
9:30at the ark. He looked at his house. He
9:31looked at the ark of the covenant. and
9:32he thought, "How can I be discomfortable
9:35while the presence of God dwells in a
9:38tent?" A mature believer gets discontent
9:42with their own comfort when they look
9:44around and say, "There is more that we
9:46could do for God." There there's more
9:48that we can do for the kingdom of God.
9:50There's other people that need to hear,
9:53that need to know, and I want to see God
9:55please.
9:58What David wanted wasn't necessarily
10:00what God was asking for, but God loved
10:03the heart behind it. Which is why the
10:05Bible says that David was a man after
10:08God's own heart.
10:11But here's what David learned about
10:13obedience.
10:15Obedience will cost you comfort.
10:20>> I want you to notice David's language
10:21there at the very beginning of this
10:23chapter. He said, "My house, my bed, my
10:25sleep, my slumber." He said, 'I won't
10:27even go there. I'm not even going to get
10:28comfortable and snuggle up in my in my
10:31little bed and my pillow and and my
10:33house and everything that's around me
10:35that I love. I'm not going to get
10:36comfortable. And those things aren't
10:37sinful things. David wasn't saying all
10:39those things are sinful. Nothing wrong
10:41with the house, nothing wrong with
10:43sleeping, nothing wrong with wealth. The
10:45issue wasn't sin versus righteousness.
10:48It was a comfort versus calling.
10:51David said, 'I refuse to become
10:53comfortable while God's purpose remains
10:56unfinished. There's something within me
10:58that can't cause me to stay where I'm
11:00at. Prayer costs sleep, and fasting cost
11:04appetite, and giving costs money, and
11:07serving cost time, and forgiveness cost
11:10pride, and faithfulness cost options.
11:13But somebody who's following after God
11:15says, "I can't be comfortable in my
11:18comfortableness. I've got to do
11:20something for the kingdom of God.
11:24>> That obedience will cost you something.
11:28>> But on the other hand, disobedience will
11:30cost you a whole lot more.
11:33>> You just ask, you just ask David's
11:36predecessor, King Saul.
11:38>> King Saul. Yeah. That guy before David,
11:41>> he got in a whole lot of trouble. Was
11:43rejected as king over Israel. He he he
11:47was rejected. He was allowed to keep his
11:49job, but God took his anointing away
11:52from him. That's a dangerous place to be
11:54in. You don't judge people just by the
11:57position that they're in. Just because
11:58they still got position doesn't mean
12:00God's pleased or God has an anointing
12:03upon them. God can let you keep your job
12:05and still fire you.
12:08>> Here was King Saul. He's saving sheep.
12:11He's saving cattle for sacrifices that
12:13God told him to destroy. And God knew
12:16the heart. He knows our heart. He can
12:18read our motives [laughter] better than
12:20people can because we look on the
12:22outward appearance. But God looks at the
12:24heart. And when the prophet Samuel came
12:26in, the word of God exposed everything.
12:28This is what the Bible teaches. The
12:30Bible teaches that the word of God is a
12:32two-edged sword piercing even to the
12:34dividing of sunder the soul and spirit
12:36and joints and marorrow, and is a
12:38discerner of the thoughts and intents of
12:40the heart. Neither is there any creature
12:42that's not made manifest in his sight.
12:44For all things are naked and open before
12:46the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
12:49I think that's why some people don't
12:50want to crack the word open. Because
12:52when you open up the word, you're not
12:53just reading the word. The word begins
12:55to read you.
12:58>> You've been there. Come on. I've been
12:59there. Pastors been there. I told you on
13:01Sunday, I don't just open up this book
13:03anymore just to find a sermon. I open up
13:05this book to find God. And in the middle
13:07of that, God finds me. And he points out
13:10things in my life that are good. and
13:12he'll point out things in my life that
13:14needs some work, that has some growth
13:15yet to do. That's what happens to the
13:17word of God. And that word through the
13:19prophet Samuel walked into that palace
13:21and there in front of King Saul, he
13:24said, "King Saul, why do I hear the
13:25bleeding of sheep and why do I hear
13:27these cattle and why is all of this when
13:29God said that you were supposed to
13:31destroy it?" And Saul made up this
13:33sounding good kind of excuse that, well,
13:36these are sacrifices and these are
13:38things that the people did and blah blah
13:40blah. went on and tried to make this
13:42excuse for it. And the word of God came
13:44through the prophet Samuel that can help
13:46all of us because Samuel looked at him
13:49and he gave him a word that still echoes
13:51through to the 21st century. And he
13:53said, "Obedience is better than
13:56sacrifice.
13:59Obedience is finding out what God likes
14:02and giving him what he wants, not just
14:05what you think he wants."
14:10The real test of obedience came to David
14:13when God told David, "I appreciate what
14:16you're doing and because of your heart's
14:18desire, I'm going to build you a house.
14:20But David, you don't get to build me a
14:23house."
14:25>> David, listen, this is God help us to
14:27receive this tonight. David had to
14:29surrender even his good desire
14:33>> to God's greater will.
14:36David was a man after God's own heart. A
14:39heart for God says what would please
14:42him. But then obedience says what has
14:44God actually said.
14:47>> Obedience isn't doing something great
14:50for God. It's doing what God says.
14:54>> And so that leads us to something we've
14:56got to remember tonight is that
14:57obedience sometimes means accepting that
15:01you don't get to do it.
15:04David wanted to build this temple in all
15:06of its grandeur because his heart wanted
15:09to do something wonderful for the
15:11presence of God to abide in. But God
15:14said no.
15:16He said, "No, but your son can do it
15:18after you." In 1 Chronicles 28:6, the
15:20Lord said, "Solomon, thy son, he shall
15:24build thy house." Let me just take a
15:26small little rabbit trail. We'll hop
15:28right back on where we're supposed to
15:29be. But when the Lord said Solomon will
15:31build thy house. That ought to build
15:33somebody's faith in here because Solomon
15:35was the child of Basheba and David,
15:37David's greatest mistake ultimately
15:40became the path for God to do something
15:42mighty in David's family and generation
15:45and blessed all of Israel. And we're
15:47still being blessed from it today. Let
15:48me just burst every lie of the enemy
15:51that's told you because you made some
15:52mistake in your life that God can't use
15:54you. God loves to turn what the enemy
15:56thought to do as evil for good. And God
15:59can turn mistakes into miracles.
16:02Come on. God can take your messed up
16:04life and everything that you did wrong,
16:06he can turn it around and say, "I'm
16:07going to bless you. I'm going to find a
16:09way to use it for my glory and I'm going
16:11to bring my presence." You just got to
16:13trust him in the process. You got to
16:15humble yourself under the mighty hand of
16:17God, and he'll exalt you in due time.
16:19Does that make anybody else happy
16:21tonight that though I have sinned and
16:23though I made mistakes because I humbled
16:26myself, God is able to lift us up and
16:28work something out for the good?
16:32Oh, if God's done something like that
16:33for you tonight, why don't you just give
16:35him praise? If he's turn something in
16:38your life that you thought was going to
16:40destroy your future and yet you're here
16:42today, why don't you just give him
16:44praise right now? [applause]
16:47Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Lord.
16:53>> Thank you, [applause] Lord.
16:56>> Praise God. Praise. Oh, I love the word.
16:58Don't you love the word? I love the
17:00word.
17:02>> The word doesn't hide people's mistakes,
17:05and neither does it hide God's
17:06faithfulness. [laughter]
17:10>> Hallelujah. All right, we're going to
17:12hop back on now. We're back on. We're
17:13back on where we need to go. Just had to
17:15take a moment there to give God thanks
17:17for that. Thank you, Lord.
17:19>> God explains his reasoning of why he
17:21said no. 1 Chronicles chapter 22, but
17:24the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
17:26"Thou hast shed blood abundantly. You've
17:29made great wars, David. Thou shalt not
17:31build a house unto my name because thou
17:34hast shed much blood upon the earth in
17:37my sight."
17:38And then God contrasts David with
17:41Solomon right after that in verse 9 and
17:4310 says God says behold a son shall be
17:46born to thee who shall be a man of rest.
17:50I will give him rest from all his
17:52enemies round about. I'll give him peace
17:55and quietness unto Israel in his days.
17:58And he shall build a house for my name,
18:01God's house.
18:04He wanted his house to be defined by
18:07rest.
18:11And the only blood shed
18:14was the perfect lamb of God that could
18:17take away the sins of the world. That's
18:20why we've got to be careful if we want
18:21the spirit of God to continue to abide
18:23in this tabernacle
18:26that we seek God's rest. And I'm not
18:28just talking about laying down and
18:29sleeping a good night's sleep tonight.
18:30I'm talking about peace and unity and
18:33love among the body of Christ.
18:35Now, we don't pull our sword out and
18:37stab somebody just because they offended
18:39us. That we're not looking to backstab
18:41somebody because they hurt us or because
18:43we don't like their personality or
18:44because
18:47one of the abominations the Bible says
18:49is he that saw a discord among the
18:51brethren. Because God has such an
18:53intense desire to dwell among his
18:55people, to pour his spirit about upon
18:57us, that he wants his rest to be among
18:59us. He wants people to come in and find
19:01pasture. He wants to lead us beside the
19:04the rivers of living water. He wants to
19:06lead us into paths of righteousness for
19:09his name's sake. And we've got to seek
19:11rest that comes in Christ. And there is
19:13a warfare. Don't get me wrong. There is
19:15a fight, but not with flesh and blood,
19:17but against principalities and powers
19:19and spiritual wickedness and high
19:21places. But you can't do that on your
19:23own.
19:25>> I said you can't do that on your own.
19:27And if you're too busy fighting
19:28everybody else around you, you're going
19:30to lose the battle with the enemy before
19:32it even gets started. We need each other
19:35to come together because it's not by
19:37might, it is not by power, it is by my
19:40spirit, says the Lord. And so you need
19:42to put some offense underneath your feet
19:44under the blood. Give it over to God.
19:46whatever you need to do so that you can
19:48back that enemy up off of your life and
19:50come together as an army of Jesus Christ
19:53and say where two or three agree
19:56together it shall be done
20:02and whatever you bind on earth is going
20:04to be bound in heaven and whatever you
20:06loose on earth is going to be loose in
20:08heaven but you don't get that kind of
20:10authority being the lone ranger out
20:12there by yourself and I'm off my notes
20:13again but here we go we better get
20:16together because the enemy is coming to
20:18bring confusion and division and fear
20:21and we can't let anything divide. We got
20:23to stand together shoulder to sheddder,
20:25shoulder, arm to arm, feet to feet. And
20:28we got to walk together by the blood of
20:30Jesus Christ and the grace of God.
20:35>> Rest. Somebody say rest.
20:38>> This is how we walk in rest.
20:40>> We walk in it. And so God said, "I want
20:42my house where my presence abide. I want
20:45it to be a a time of rest. I want it to
20:47be a place of peace." David had a
20:49burden, but Solomon would get the
20:51building. David was the right man for
20:54one assignment, but not for the next
20:56one. This is important. David's warfare
21:00helped create the conditions in which
21:02Solomon could build. What David did
21:05wasn't sinful, wasn't wrong. He went out
21:08and fought Goliath. He was the one that
21:10fought the Philistines and he's the one
21:12that defended God's people. He's the one
21:15Saul has slain his thousand. David his
21:17tens of thousands. God had used David
21:20mightily in battle. And that was David's
21:23assignment.
21:25>> So God wasn't saying, "David, you're no
21:27longer useful." He was saying, "David,
21:29this is not your assignment."
21:32>> David could have argued. I want you to
21:34just hear David's heart right now
21:36because this could have gone differently
21:38if David would have looked and said,
21:39"But God, this is my idea.
21:44>> Nobody wants this more than I do. I've
21:46already got a a future for the
21:48resources. I fought all these battles
21:50for Israel." But obedience is not just
21:53being willing to do something for God.
21:56Obedience is being willing not to do
21:59something for God when God says it
22:01wasn't yours to do.
22:06Woo. That helps somebody right now. That
22:08that cross up somebody's theology right
22:10there. Sometimes God uses you to fight
22:13the battle, but somebody else gets to
22:15build the building. [cheering]
22:18>> Can you handle it?
22:20>> Help us, Lord. Was it my kingdom to
22:22begin with, or was it God's? Was it my
22:25church or was it God's church? Was it my
22:27house or is it God's house? Sometimes
22:30you pioneer it and other people pastor
22:33it. Sometimes you plant and other people
22:35water it. Paul said, "I planted, Apollos
22:37watered, but God gave the increase."
22:40[snorts] Jesus said in John 4:38, "I
22:43sent you to reap that whereon you
22:45bestowed no labor. Other men labored and
22:48you entered into their labors." That's
22:50kingdom work. That's why Paul wrote this
22:52scripture in Colossians. He said,
22:54"Whatever you do, do it heartily as to
22:57the Lord and not unto men." And you know
22:59why the Holy Ghost inspired him to write
23:01that? So you and I wouldn't get bent out
23:03of shape.
23:06>> When God says that's not your
23:08assignment, I've called you to build.
23:10I've called you to water, but I've
23:12called this person over here to plant. I
23:14I've called this person over here to
23:15this assignment. We've got to fall in
23:17line to where God wants us and not step
23:20out of line. Otherwise, we get promoted
23:22like like to our own will, our own
23:24selfish desires, and our own
23:25self-righteousness. And we become most
23:28like Satan when it becomes my will, not
23:31thy will.
23:34>> David had another heart though and he
23:37heard God's assignment. I think there's
23:40something else we can pick up from David
23:42here that would help us is don't let
23:44yesterday's assignment become today's
23:48identity.
23:50David knew how to fight. Man, did he
23:52know how to fight. He was a man of war
23:53from his youth. I fought a lion and a
23:55bear. I know how to handle this. I know
23:57how to do I'm good at it. I I'm good at
23:59fighting. But God wasn't asking him to
24:01fight forever. There are seasons. Help
24:04us, Holy Ghost, right now. There are
24:06seasons when God develops something in
24:08us because it's necessary for that
24:11season. And you can get stuck in a
24:13rotation thinking, "Well, this is what I
24:15did good in my youth, and this is what I
24:17did good in this season, and I'm just
24:19going to stay right here." When God's
24:20saying, "Hold on just a second." That
24:22may have been the assignment for this
24:24season, but now I'm moving you into the
24:26next assignment. What made you effective
24:29in one season may not be what God wants
24:32to emphasize in the next. Are you God's
24:35or are you your own? My Bible says that
24:38my body is not my own. I was purchased
24:41with the blood of Jesus Christ.
24:43Therefore, you've got to sanctify
24:45yourself body, soul, and spirit all unto
24:48God and say, "I'm yours, Lord.
24:50Everything I've got, everything I'm not.
24:53I'm yours, Lord. Try me now and see. See
24:57if I can be completely yours. Day to
25:01day, age eight, I'm yours. I belong to
25:03you.
25:07>> A mother may spend years holding
25:09everything together for her children,
25:12but eventually obedience may mean that
25:14you got to loosen your grip and you got
25:16to trust God with the people that you
25:18spent years protecting.
25:21A single adult may spend one season with
25:24tremendous freedom to go here and there,
25:26travel, give, pour into other people,
25:28and another season may bring
25:30responsibilities that require you to
25:32stay put and to establish roots and to
25:35build something lasting. This is called,
25:37are you ready for it? It's in your
25:38Bibles. Walking in the spirit,
25:43>> not according to the flesh. And David
25:47before the day of Pentecost, we'll talk
25:49about the day of Pentecost in just a
25:51moment. It may just surprise you about
25:53this psalm here, but before the day of
25:55Pentecost, David was the one who wanted
25:57to be in alignment with God's spirit.
26:01And David handled God's no remarkably
26:04well. When God said Solomon would build
26:07it, David didn't say, "Well, if I can't
26:08build it, nobody's going to build it. If
26:11I can't build it, I'm not helping." No,
26:13he gathered. He prepared. He gave. He
26:15organized. He encouraged Solomon and he
26:17did it all with joy knowing that he may
26:20not see it in his generation but the
26:22next generation is going to see it. Cuz
26:24sometimes obedience is go, sometimes
26:27obedience is stop. Sometimes obedience
26:30is build. Sometimes obedience is prepare
26:34something and somebody else will build.
26:37>> But real obedience doesn't need the
26:39credit.
26:41>> It just wants God's will to be done.
26:43Above all, I want God to be pleased.
26:45Above all, I want God to get the glory.
26:47Above all, I want God to be elevated. I
26:49want God to be lifted up.
26:52I think this is important here tonight
26:53for us to remember that one generation's
26:56obedience can become the next
26:58generation's obed uh opportunity.
27:02One generation's obedience can become
27:04the next generation's opportunity. You
27:06remember the children of Israel in the
27:07wilderness? If Joshua's generation, he
27:10was one of the good ones. He was the one
27:11that had faith. He was the one that
27:12said,
27:15we can do this. We can take this land.
27:16The others were saying, "We look like
27:18grasshoppers. There's no way that we can
27:20take it. It's too big for us. The land's
27:22too big, too widespread. We can't do
27:24it." Uh 10 were bad. Two were good. And
27:26the two were good. Joshua's one of those
27:28good ones. Joshua is the one that said
27:30we could do it. If his generation would
27:32have just had some obedience in them to
27:34take the land like God said they could
27:36take it, it would have blessed the next
27:38generation. But one's generation's
27:40disobedience created a problem for the
27:43next generation, not an opportunity.
27:45Your obedience can create an opportunity
27:47for the next generation or your
27:49disobedience can create a problem for
27:51the next generation.
27:53>> Now, there's a lot of scholars that
27:55believe this psalm was written by
27:56Solomon. We're not sure. We don't know.
27:58But we have a clue in Psalm 132 there in
28:00verse 8 and 10. The language says,
28:02"Arise, O Lord, and to thy rest thou and
28:04the ark of thy strength." And that
28:06language is directly similar to
28:08Solomon's prayer in 2 Coronicles chapter
28:106 at the dedication of the temple. And
28:12so they're assuming as they read through
28:14this, it looks a whole lot like Solomon
28:16is the one who wrote it. Which is
28:18amazing to me because if Solomon is
28:20behind writing this psalm, he wrote,
28:22"Lord, remember David." Solomon is
28:26standing in something that David dreamed
28:28about, that David sacrificed for, that
28:30his father prepared for it, and then
28:33Solomon got to inherit.
28:36And here's the warning for our
28:37generation tonight.
28:40Solomon eventually had to choose whether
28:43his father's God would become his God.
28:48>> Because just because you have a blessing
28:50from one generation doesn't guarantee a
28:53personal obedience.
28:56David's obedience didn't become
28:58Solomon's obedience, but it did give him
29:01an opportunity to obey.
29:04You can inherit, and I have, this is why
29:06we're sitting here. We can inherit the
29:08fruit of somebody's obedience, but we
29:10cannot inherit their obedience.
29:14>> Our elders prayed, our parents
29:17sacrificed, somebody paid for the
29:19building, somebody taught the doctrine,
29:22kept the doctrine. when all hell was
29:23fighting against them, somebody fasted
29:25and prayed. Somebody stayed when leaving
29:27would have been easier, but they stayed.
29:29Somebody built something that we get to
29:31sit and stand in. But eventually, we've
29:34got to make the decision to obey God for
29:36ourselves. Somewhere along the line,
29:38maturity has to kick in and say, "I
29:40can't keep hanging on to the coattails
29:42of those that have gone before me, their
29:45faith, and their ministry and their
29:46life." Somewhere, I've got to get it for
29:48myself. I got to put my own armor on,
29:50the armor of God, and I've got to walk
29:52by faith and not by sight. Somewhere,
29:54like Abraham, I got to step out by
29:56faith, and I've got to follow God, and
29:58I've got to do something with what's
30:00been entrusted into my care. Can I just
30:02be real transparent with you tonight? I
30:04am so honored to pastor this wonderful
30:06church. I feel so blessed. I know that
30:09there's a million other couples and
30:11young men that would just love an
30:12opportunity to stand and to pastor you
30:15wonderful people and this legacy church.
30:17But there's not a day that goes by that
30:19I'm not thankful that I don't remember
30:22the price and the sacrifice of those
30:24that have gone before us, saints of God,
30:26who gave so much so that we could be
30:29here, men and women of God who labored,
30:31who prayed, who fasted. And I've been in
30:34trusting. That's why I can't just build
30:36any old thing that I want to build. I
30:38got to get back to the word and prayer
30:39cuz that's where they were at in prayer
30:42and the word. This church was built in a
30:44prayer meeting in University City. We
30:47can't afford to get away from prayer.
30:50>> We've been entrusted with something.
30:52Somebody prayed over you. Listen, it
30:54doesn't matter if your parents or your
30:56granddaddies were in the ministry or
30:58even in the apostolic faith. You've got
31:00spiritual fathers. You've got spiritual
31:02mothers. You've got church people that
31:04were praying for you and laboring for
31:06you. And somebody carried this gospel so
31:09that you and I could walk into an air
31:11conditioned building and lift up our
31:13hands and give God the glory for turning
31:15our messes into miracles. Somebody paid
31:18a price so this gospel could be printed
31:20and could sit in our home so we could
31:22read it. So that you could flip open
31:24your iPad and you begin to read the
31:26word. But somebody paid the price.
31:31Their [applause]
31:34obedience created an opportunity for you
31:37and I to make a decision.
31:40But choosing obedience once is not
31:44enough. Cuz I know that many of you
31:45have. That's why you sit here tonight.
31:48You perhaps walked up to an altar. You
31:50came to a place where you repented of
31:51your sins, baptized in Jesus name,
31:53filled with the Holy Ghost, found a
31:55secret place with God and said, "God,
31:57whatever you want from my life, I'm
31:58yours." Obedience in that moment is
32:00powerful. But one time is not enough.
32:02The real test of obedience is not just
32:05what I do in the moment. It's whether I
32:07keep obeying when the moment has passed.
32:12>> Can you keep on obeying when it doesn't
32:14feel good? Can you keep on obeying when
32:17other people walk away? Can you keep on
32:20obeying when God says no? Can you keep
32:22on obeying whenever the the enemy comes
32:25against you and he starts fighting
32:27against you and he starts casting his
32:29can you keep on obeying
32:32which brings us now to this nearing the
32:35last point obedience has to outlive the
32:38moment
32:40now I tell everyone that comes to our
32:41next steps that happens we're now in our
32:43third week getting ready to start our
32:44third week and it's wonderful we've got
32:46an incredible group that comes back to
32:48our next steps but I always tell them
32:49our three words that encapsulate the
32:52vision for New Life St. Louis. It's just
32:53three words. I know you know them, so
32:55you'll be able to say them with me.
32:57Experience life. Now, I love that those
33:01three words encapsulate disciplehip
33:03process, mission statement, vision. What
33:05we're trying to do here in in in St.
33:07Louis is we want people to experience
33:09the love of God. You can experience God
33:12anywhere. You really can. Do you know
33:13that you can experience him in your car,
33:15at the house, in the grocery store, his
33:17presence is there and he is drawing and
33:19calling us closer to himself. You can
33:21experience God anywhere. We design
33:23services like this where God's presence
33:25can be felt and can be experienced. But
33:28that moment of experience with God is
33:31not enough.
33:35I ask a big question that I asked our
33:37staff. I ask our leaders. I ask those in
33:39the next steps room. This wonderful
33:41experience in the altar and what we're
33:42going to feel here tonight and what the
33:44Lord is speaking to us is such a
33:46wonderful thing. But I know that there's
33:48those of you and other people that have
33:49started attending this church that
33:51they'll walk out of this service and
33:52they'll go, "Man, what an incredible
33:54experience. It was so wonderful. Now,
33:56how does that connect to my job? How
33:59does that connect to my finances and my
34:00parenting? How does that connect to my
34:02life?" That's why the experience side is
34:04wonderful. When you get in touch with
34:06Jesus, whether you accept him or reject
34:08him, you'll never be the same again.
34:11When you come in contact with Jesus, the
34:13experience is necessary to be born again
34:15of the water and of the spirit. It's
34:16wonderful. But after that, how do we
34:18walk this life? Well, we come closer to
34:21Jesus through community. We come closer
34:23to Jesus by living this life with one
34:26another throughout the week. That's why
34:27we've got to have one another. We've got
34:29to be close together. Jesus said, "I am
34:32the way, the truth, and the life." And
34:34the best Jesus that people will see
34:36right now on this side of heaven is you.
34:41>> You are the Jesus that people see. How's
34:44that make you feel tonight? You are the
34:47Jesus that people will hear. You are the
34:50epistle, as it were, being read. And so,
34:53obedience has to live out the moment.
34:55It's got to outlive that, and it's got
34:56to go with you to work tomorrow.
34:58Obedience has to be with you when you go
35:00home. Psalm 132 said that the Lord had
35:03sworn in truth unto David, "If thy
35:05children will keep my covenant and my
35:07testimony, that I shall teach them." if
35:09they will keep my co covenant. The
35:13challenge is not just obeying in the
35:15moment. It's staying obedient. And
35:17Solomon, David's son, is a sobering
35:21illustration in scripture about this
35:23because the Bible says in First Kings
35:25chapter 11, when Solomon was old, his
35:27heart was not perfect with the Lord his
35:30God and he went after the gods of his
35:32wives.
35:34I want you to think about this tonight.
35:36You can build God's house and still
35:38neglect your heart.
35:41>> You can go to church every Sunday and
35:43you can still ignore God Monday through
35:45Saturday.
35:47>> You can know the songs and not know his
35:50voice. You can raise your hands in
35:53worship and you can still refuse to
35:55surrender what he's asking for. You can
35:58serve on a dream team and you can still
36:00be spiritually empty. You can know your
36:03Bible and still not obey what you know.
36:06You can have a prayer life and still
36:09have an area where God has told you no.
36:12You can look faithful on the outside
36:14while you're drifting on the inside.
36:18God is not just looking at the obedient
36:21moment. He's looking for an obedient
36:24life.
36:26Because obedience, and I'm coming to a
36:28close if the musicians want to come,
36:29connects me. obedience connects me to
36:32something bigger than me. Cuz listen to
36:35what the psalmist said in Psalm 132. Of
36:37the fruit of thy body will I set upon
36:40thy throne. Now something I want you to
36:41know about the Psalms is whenever you're
36:43reading through the Psalms, you can see
36:45Jesus in every psalm. You can see this
36:47prophetic futuristic view of God's plan
36:50narrated all throughout the Bible and
36:53especially in the Psalms. You see it
36:55right here in Psalm 132. It ultimately
36:58is pointing us toward the Messiah,
37:00towards Jesus Christ.
37:02Here's something that may interest you
37:04apostolics. We love to quote Acts 2:38.
37:06Then Peter said unto them, "Repent, be
37:07baptized every one of you in the name of
37:09Jesus Christ." We all know that
37:10scripture. We love that scripture. Did
37:12you know that Peter whenever he was
37:14preaching on the day of Pentecost, that
37:15very first apostolic Pentecostal
37:17message, that he reached back all the
37:19way to Psalm 132 that we're talking
37:21about tonight, and he pulled it into his
37:23message in order to preach Jesus. Acts
37:262:30, he said, "Therefore, being a
37:28prophet," speaking of Jesus, "Knowing
37:30that God has sworn with an oath to him
37:32that of the fruit of his loins of his
37:34body according to the flesh, he would
37:36raise up the Messiah, Christ, to sit on
37:39his throne." Psalm 132 isn't just about
37:41David and Solomon and the temple. God's
37:44story arc is bigger than that. It was
37:46about David. It was about God's promise
37:49to bring about the Messiah and
37:51ultimately his kingdom that we can be
37:53born again into. David had no idea how
37:56enormous the story would become. He just
37:58simply obeyed God in his generation. And
38:01then generations later, Peter stands on
38:03the day of Pentecost and he says God
38:05kept his promise to David. In other
38:08words, your obedience is going to
38:11outlive you. David couldn't see
38:14Pentecost. He couldn't see Peter
38:15preaching. He couldn't see 3,000 saved
38:17in one day. He couldn't see Jesus
38:19sitting upon the throne. David just
38:21obeyed. He obeyed.
38:24You rarely know what's all connected to
38:26your yes to God. You don't know what
38:30your prayer is preparing or what your
38:33giving is building or what your
38:35faithfulness is preserving and what your
38:37children are watching and what your
38:39friends are looking at when they look at
38:41you. You just have to obey God even when
38:44it's inconvenient. You just got to
38:46continue to say yes to him because you
38:48don't know what God can do through your
38:51obedience.
38:53I don't know how much longer before
38:55Jesus comes again. I don't know how much
38:57longer. I'm looking at the signs all
38:59over and earthquakes and famines and
39:01wars and rumors of wars. All these
39:03things that Jesus said, we begin to see
39:05and to hear. I can't give you the day or
39:07the hour. Jesus himself told us that. We
39:09don't have the exact day. We don't have
39:11the exact hour. But that's why I've got
39:13to continue to obey because there's
39:15coming up another generation after us
39:18that they're going to have an
39:19opportunity because of our obedience. I
39:21don't want to be a stumbling block to
39:23them. I don't want to present problems
39:24to them. I want to present an
39:26opportunity and let them know that if
39:27you'll just obey God, it will be worth
39:29it all. That if you'll just stay
39:31faithful, that God is faithful. And that
39:33if you'll just stay in it, that God will
39:35bring more to you than you could ever
39:36imagine. But you got to stay with it.
39:38You got to be obedient. I realize that
39:41my life and every choice that I make is
39:43have an impact on people around me. You
39:45right now don't even understand or know
39:48those that are looking at your life
39:50right now. New life, you don't know the
39:52people on the outside, on the inside
39:54that are watching you and your choices
39:56and your attitude and how you
39:58communicate with one another. In fact,
40:00even Jesus said they're going to know
40:02that you're my disciple. And notice, he
40:04didn't say by how many times you attend
40:06church. He didn't say they'll know
40:08you're my disciples by how much you give
40:09in the offering. He didn't say they'll
40:11know you're my disciples by how well you
40:13look. He said, "They'll know you're my
40:15disciples by the love
40:18that you have for one another because
40:20you are willing to obey his commandment
40:22to love thy neighbor as yourself.
40:26You obeyed his command." And Jesus said,
40:28"They're going to see you. They're going
40:30to watch you. And your obedience is
40:32going to make an impact in their life."
40:34I don't know who's watching your life
40:35tonight. I don't know who's going to be
40:37watching your life tomorrow. Could be in
40:38your house. Could be on the job. It
40:40could be just a stranger that you're
40:42that you're communicating with. My wife
40:43and I were standing out in our yard
40:45today and we had a young man that was
40:46doing a little bit of work around the
40:48house and while we were standing there
40:50all of the sudden uh my wife just began
40:52a great conversation with this great
40:54spirited young man and and began to talk
40:56to him and and he just had started
40:58coming to the Lord and starting to
41:00believe but he's new to all of this and
41:02and he's got a new baby a two-month old
41:04baby and they've got some challenges and
41:06things they're trying to work through
41:07and the Lord just opened up a door and
41:09we begin to share the gospel with them
41:11begin to share love with him. We invited
41:13him to Friends Day.
41:16We invited him to Friends Day. We
41:17invited him. He opened it up and he
41:19said, "Listen, I don't know if y'all
41:20would ever be opened up to uh my wife
41:22and I taking you out to eat and you all
41:24just talk and maybe just help us along
41:26the way." And I said, "Let me check my
41:27schedule." Yeah, we can do that. Yeah,
41:29we're going to make that happen. Because
41:31you don't know what your obedience is
41:32doing for people around you. You just
41:34got to keep obeying God and watch God
41:36open up doors and watch God transform
41:39lives and watch God provide
41:40opportunities for other people. This is
41:42what it's about, church. It's the most
41:44exciting thing on earth that we get to
41:46labor in the harvest field. There is
41:47nothing greater, [clears throat] nothing
41:49more rewarding, nothing more wonderful.
41:51The moment that we begin to start being
41:53selfish and looking on ourselves and
41:55caring more about our own interest is
41:57the moment your joy gets sapped is the
41:59moment that you'll lose every bit of joy
42:01out of following and obeying God. But
42:03when you obey him from the heart like
42:05David and say, "God, I don't want the
42:07glory. This isn't about me. It's about
42:09you and your kingdom and your presence.
42:12God will pave ways and open up doors for
42:14you that'll not only bless you, but
42:16generations that are coming after you.
42:18It'll create generations. We're getting
42:20ready to bury our wonderful elder,
42:22Brother Larry Park, in the ground. But
42:24that man was faithful to serve the Lord.
42:27He was faithful to worship the Lord. He
42:29was faithful to do the best that he
42:30could. And there's an impact that he has
42:32had on people's lives. As I was talking
42:35to Sister Amanda, his daughter, we were
42:37conversing about people that he has
42:39impact that we don't even realize
42:41whenever we're living in the moment. But
42:44there are people that are watching you
42:45right now. And so, the Holy Ghost is
42:48pleading with us tonight to keep on
42:50being obedient to him and following
42:53after him with all of our heart. and
42:56don't lean to your own understanding,
42:58but in all of your ways acknowledge him
43:01and he shall direct your paths. Would
43:04you stand with me tonight right now? If
43:07you want to obey, if you want to be
43:08willing to submit and surrender your
43:10life to him, would you just lift your
43:12hands to heaven right now all over this
43:14place? Would you make a real commitment
43:16to the Lord right where you're standing
43:18before I invite you to the front? Would
43:20you lift up your voice and say, "God, I
43:21want to be used like that. I don't know
43:23what you're doing through my obedience,
43:25but I'm yours, God. I want to be a
43:27light. I want to be salt, Lord. If I
43:30never get the reward, if I never get
43:31glory out of it, God, I just want to
43:34build something. I want to do something,
43:36Lord, for your kingdom. I want to please
43:38you with everything, Lord, that I have.
43:42Would you tell him tonight? Come on.
43:43Would you open up your heart to him,
43:45Lord Jesus, tonight? I thank you for
43:48your precious blood that has redeemed
43:50us, that has saved us. I thank you that
43:53you [music] brought us out of the muck
43:54and the mire of sin. You have brought us
43:56into your glorious light. That's why we
43:59praise you tonight. But Father, I pray
44:02Lord that you'd help us to remain
44:04faithful. Help us to be obedient like
44:06the pilgrims making their way to
44:09Jerusalem who were singing about your
44:11faithfulness and singing about previous
44:14generation sacrifices. I pray that you
44:17would help us to remain faithful no
44:19matter the cost, no matter the
44:21sacrifice. Help us to keep on walking
44:24faithfully, Lord. And I pray that you'd
44:26help us to bring other people with us.
44:28Help us to be an example. I pray that
44:31your glory would shine through our lives
44:33and our example. Oh Jesus, do it through
44:36new life. I pray cuz there's no telling,
44:38Lord, who you're working on. There's no
44:40telling the sheep that you have in this
44:42city that we haven't even known yet.
44:44There's no telling what that slider is
44:46watching our post or watching our life.
44:49Help us to be obedient to you. I pray
44:52Lord if there's anything in our heart
44:54that needs to change to soften. If
44:57there's anything in our heart that needs
44:59to be cleaned out, [music] I pray that
45:01you would do it tonight Lord. I'm yours.
45:02I'm opening up myself and asking that
45:04your word [music] would clean me and
45:06wash me and purify me and be a light, oh
45:09Lord, in my heart. Check us tonight.
45:12Keep us obedient and faithful to you,
45:15Lord, in this generation so that the
45:18next generation, oh
45:22that the next generation will have the
45:25opportunity to faithfully follow after
45:28you, oh God. We will keep believing and
45:31we will keep on praying and fasting and
45:34seeking, Lord, and holding on to this
45:36truth you've entrusted to us, Lord,
45:38tonight. Oh yes, God, we're yours.
45:44Oh, I wonder tonight, right now, if I
45:47invite you to the front of this place,
45:48if you wouldn't come alone. I wonder if
45:50I just invite you down, if you just grab
45:52the hand of a brother or a sister, throw
45:54your arm around them. I wonder if you'd
45:56bring them down to this place and pray
45:57together tonight. Ask God to bring us in
46:00unity so that we won't just be
46:02individuals that obey [music] him, but
46:04that we're a body. We're a church. We're
46:06a movement of obedience. We're a
46:08movement of faithfulness, that we're a
46:11movement of God's glory throughout this
46:13city in the name of Jesus. I wonder if
46:15you bring somebody, bring somebody,
46:17throw your arm around somebody, pray
46:19with them and say, "Oh God, help us, oh
46:21Lord. We surrender ourselves to you. We
46:24want to know your voice. We want to
46:26please you. We want to know your will,
46:28God. We want to be like David and have a
46:31heart that goes after you, God." Oh, his
46:34presence is here. Come on. Would you
46:35respond just for a few moments right now
46:38to his word, to his prompting? [music]
46:40Oh, thank you, Jesus. Thank you that
46:42you're with us right now.
46:46Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, for
46:48your people that want to obey you. Thank
46:50you, Lord, that you're speaking to us
46:52tonight.
46:56Forgive us, oh God, if we've put walls
46:58up, if we've held on to offenses far too
47:01long. Forgive us, oh God, if we've been
47:03ungrateful. Forgive us, oh God, if we've
47:06clouded our thoughts, Lord, with doubt
47:08and fear tonight. Clean us, wash us,
47:11purify us, and unite us together as your
47:14body, as your people. We want to be a
47:17holy people.
47:20We want to be a holy people, oh Lord. I
47:22want to get back to obeying you to what
47:25pleases you. Order my steps in your word
47:28tonight.
47:30Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost and the faith
47:33of God's people tonight. Come on. I feel
47:35his spirit in this house tonight.
47:37There's a yearning. There's a desire.
47:39There's a hunger here tonight to please
47:42God. Come on. That get God's attention
47:44right there. [music] That transforms
47:46generations right there. Oh, we're
47:48building something new life. Come on.
47:50We're building something. We're laboring
47:52where others have sown. We're laboring
47:54where others [music] have planted.
47:58Oh, yes, God. Let there be a fresh
47:59anointing. Let there be a fresh
48:01anointing on your people tonight. Let
48:03there be a refreshing, oh God, an
48:05empowerment of your spirit on the young
48:07and old alike in Jesus name.
48:10[music]
48:13>> Come on, that's it. Open up your mouth
48:15and bless the name of the Lord. Open up
48:17your mouth and pray in the spirit. Pray
48:19with understanding.
48:21>> Oh, I'm yours, God. I'm yours, God,
48:25>> to [music] do whatever you want to.
48:29to do whatever you want to.
48:31[singing and music]
48:34I will make room for you
48:40to to do whatever you want to
48:44to do whatever you want [singing] to.
48:49I will make room for you
48:56to do whatever you want to
48:59to do whatever you want to.
49:04I will make room for you
49:11to do whatever you want to.
49:15To do whatever you want to. Yeah. is I
49:20will make room for you
49:26to do whatever you want to
49:30to do whatever you want to.
49:32[music and singing]
49:34I will make room for you
49:41to do whatever you want to
49:45to do whatever you [music and singing]
49:47want to.
49:50I will make room for you
49:57to do [music] whatever you want to
50:00to do whatever you want.
50:02>> Oh yes, God. Come on. There's a [music]
50:04deep work in here tonight. Come on.
50:06God's uprooting some things and planting
50:09other things. Oh yes, God. Say yes to
50:12[music] what you want to say yes to,
50:14Lord. Say no to what I should be a part
50:17of, what I shouldn't do. But whatever
50:18you say, I say, oh God, yes, I will
50:21obey. I will follow after you, Lord. I
50:24will make room for you, God, to do
50:28whatever you want to.
50:30>> Oh, I want to make a difference, Lord. I
50:32want to make a difference, oh Lord, in
50:34the lives of people around me. I want to
50:36draw people closer to you, God. I want
50:40to be a vessel, oh Lord, that preaches
50:42the good news. [music]
50:44I want to be a river of light to someone
50:46that you can flow through, Lord.
50:49>> Oh yes, Jesus. Not my will, but your
50:52will be done.
50:58>> [music]
51:01>> Oh yes.
51:06And I will make room for you.
51:10[music]
51:13Do whatever you want to.
51:17Do whatever you want to.
51:22Shake [music] off the ground of all my
51:25tradition. Break down the walls of all
51:28my religion. It always [music] is
51:31better.
51:33Yes, it always is better.
51:37Shake up the ground of all my tradition.
51:41Break down the walls of all my [music]
51:44religion. Your way is better. Your way
51:48is better.
51:50>> [music]
51:51>> Shake up the ground. Shake up the ground
51:54of all my tradition. [music] Break down
51:57the walls of all my religion. [singing]
52:00>> Your way is better.
52:02>> Your way is better. Your way is better.
52:08Shake up the ground of all my tradition.
52:12Break [music] down the walls of all my
52:14religion. Your way is better.
52:19cuz your way is
52:22[music] and I will make room for you
52:29to do whatever you want to to do
52:33whatever you want [singing] to. [music]
52:37I will make room for you [singing]
52:43[music]
52:44to do whatever you want to
52:48to do whatever you want [singing] to.
52:56Oh hallelujah.
52:59Hallelujah.
53:02Hallelujah. [music] Praise God. Praise
53:06God. I know you're praying. If you're
53:07praying, you keep on praying.
53:10I want to give opportunity right now.
53:12We're already at the altar. We're
53:13already up front. Why waste the
53:15opportunity? But [music] I felt this in
53:16the spirit tonight that I want to help
53:18somebody. If there's anybody here
53:20tonight that you've come up to the
53:21front, you just need a healing in your
53:22body. Or maybe you need some grace. You
53:25need some strength tonight. You need the
53:26body of Christ to pray for you
53:28specifically. You're yielded. You're
53:29saying yes, but you have a need in your
53:31life tonight. Uh, I know it's [music]
53:33not always typical that we do it this
53:35way, but I want to do it right now and
53:36give you opportunity if there's one or I
53:38see brother Leman over here. Come on. I
53:40see one of you over here. Sister Stacy,
53:42their hands lifted up. If you've got a
53:44need in your life and you'd like prayer
53:45tonight, we're already gathered up.
53:46We're one big family. [music] If you
53:48have a need, just raise your hand right
53:50now. Come on, sis. Right here. I wonder
53:52if you just come on up.
53:58All right. Come on. I need some to come
54:00and help pray with my sister right now
54:01in the name of Jesus. Some of my
54:03brothers that are up here. Men and women
54:04of faith, I wonder if [music] you just
54:06come on up. If you've got a need, just
54:07lift your hand. Lift your hand. Y'all up
54:09here for All right. Woo. Come on. We're
54:12in the right place. We're in the right
54:14place serving God in this in this house
54:16right now. Hallelujah. Do I have any
54:19believers? I know I do. I got more than
54:20one of you. Would you just come on up
54:22right now and find a brother? Find a
54:24sister. They're going to lay a hand on
54:26you. They're not going to rough you up,
54:27but they're going to lay a hand of faith
54:28on you. And we're going to speak the
54:30name of Jesus. Believers, you know how
54:31to pray. So, right now, by the authority
54:33in the name of Jesus, hallelujah. By the
54:36power in the word of God, and according
54:37to their faith, so be it unto them
54:40tonight in the name of Jesus, that
54:41whatever they have need of in this
54:43midweek service. So Lord, on a Wednesday
54:45night, you're the same God as you were
54:47on Sunday. You're the same God tonight,
54:50Lord. You're faithful. You're a healer.
54:53You're a deliverer. and nothing [music]
54:55is too hard for you. So in the mighty
54:57name of Jesus
55:25And I'll say yes, Lord. Yes [music]
55:29to your will and to your way. I'll say
55:33yes.
55:40I'll say [music] yes.
55:41>> Thank you. Come on. This is body
55:43ministry right now. Come on. It's the
55:45body of Christ. Members, serving
55:48members.
55:49[music]
55:50Oh yes Jesus. Oh yes Jesus. Thank you
55:55Lord. Thank you Lord.
55:57>> Yes Lord. [music] Yes to your will and
56:01to your way. I'll say yes.
56:07I'll say [music]
56:11I'll say yes, Lord. Yes to [music] your
56:15will and to your way. I'll say yes.
56:22I'll say yes.
56:26I'll say [music] yes, Lord. Yes to your
56:31will and to your way. [singing] I'll say
56:34yes. [music]
56:37I'll say yes.
56:41Oh, I'll say yes, Lord. Say yes to your
56:46[music] will and to your way. I'll say
56:50yes.
56:54Oh, [music] I'll say yes. I'll say yes,
56:58Lord. [singing] Yes to your will and to
57:02[music] your way. I'll say yes.
57:08I'll say yes. I will make room. And I
57:12will make room.
57:14for you [music]
57:18to do whatever you [singing] want to
57:22to do whatever you want to.
57:27I will make [music] room for you
57:34to do whatever you want to
57:38to do whatever you want to.
57:42I will make room for you
57:49to do whatever you want to
57:53to do [music] whatever you want to shake
57:57up the ground. Shake up the ground
58:00[singing] of all my tradition. Break
58:02down the walls of all my religion.
58:06[music] Your way is [singing] better.
58:08Your way is your way is better.
58:12Shake up the ground. Shake up the
58:14[music] ground of all my tradition.
58:17Break down the walls. All my religion.
58:23[music]
58:33Break down the walls of all my [music]
58:35religion. Your way is [singing]
58:39your way.
58:41I will [music] make room. I will make
58:44room for you to do whatever you
58:48[singing and music] want, Lord. To do
58:50whatever you want to
58:54to do [music] whatever you want to.
58:58I will make room for [music and singing]
59:01you
59:05to do whatever you [music] want to.
59:09to do whatever you want to.
59:14I'm [music] going make room for you
59:20to to do whatever [music and singing]
59:22you want to
59:24do. I'll say yes, Lord. I'll say [music]
59:30yes, Lord. Yes to your will and to your
59:35way. [music] I'll say yes.
59:40Yes.
59:44I'll say yes, Lord. Yes to your [music]
59:49will and to your way. I'll say yes.
59:55[music] I'll say yes.
59:59Oh, I'll say yes, Lord. I'll say yes
60:02[music]
60:03to your will and to your way. I'll say
60:08yes. [music and singing]
60:11I'll say yes.
60:14Oh, I'll say yes, Lord. Yes to [music]
60:19your will and to your way. I'll say yes,
60:26I'll say yes.
60:30Oh, let's lift our hands to the Lord one
60:32more time tonight. Lord, thank you, God,
60:34for every declaration of faith made
60:37tonight. I thank you, oh Lord, that
60:39you're working it out in those that
60:41believe. And we love you. And I thank
60:43you, Lord, for the obedience of your
60:45people. Now, I'm asking that you would
60:47guard us and guide us and order our
60:49steps, Lord. We want to be light and
60:51salt. Light and salt. Light and salt.
60:54So, I pray that you would use us as a
60:56body. Use us as your church, Lord, as
60:59we're moving through this week to bring
61:01others to you, God, and to always be
61:03watching and ready and waiting, oh Lord,
61:06for you to return again by faith. We
61:09believe it in the name of Jesus. Thank
61:11you, Lord. I pray grace [music] and
61:12blessing upon your people tonight. In
61:15Jesus name we pray. And everybody said,
61:17"Amen."
61:18>> Everybody said, "Amen." Praise God.
61:21Praise God. Praise God. I love you. Why
61:24don't you love one another before you
61:25leave? Hug their neck. shake their hand
61:28and don't get that confused. Don't shake
61:29their neck and hug their hand, but shake
61:32their hand, hug their neck, love on
61:34them, and you're dismissed in the
61:36wonderful name of Jesus. I love you. God
61:37bless.
61:47Heat. Heat.
61:50[music]
62:26Hey
62:32feel.
62:49>> [music]
62:58>> Yeah.
63:29Hey,
63:34hey hey.
64:54Heat. Heat.