Bringing Back the Ark Part 3 "Trying to Do God a Service"
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1 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
2 And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the Lord our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
3 And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we inquired not at it in the days of Saul.
4 And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
Introduction.
Introduction.
Communion tonight
Youth service next Sunday night
The ark was at Kirjath Jearim for 100 years. Samuel had come and gone, Saul had come and gone, David was King.
The ark needed to be brought to its place, but there was a time and season for that.
There is a principle in Scripture that “Obedience is better than sacrifice”.
It is never right to do the right thing the wrong way.
This isn’t politics, the end never justifies the means.
(Butterfly effect)
For want of a nail the shoe was lost,
For want of a shoe the horse was lost,
For want of a horse the rider was lost,
For want of a rider the battle was lost,
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail. Benjamin Franklin
Little foxes spoil the vine.
Bro. Branham speaking of David:
His intentions were good. But God does not give us merits on good intentions. There is only one way to serve God, that’s by doing His will at His command.
And God, being sovereign, there is no one to tell Him what to do or how to do it. He does it the way, He knows the right way to do it.
But one great thing, again, about God, He has not left us, now, without knowing what’s the Truth and how to do it.
(Doesn’t punish us without telling us what to do)
He’s a God that speaks the Word and expects His children to believe It. And, therefore, He knows what’s best, and when to do it, and how to do it. We have our ideas of it, but He knows. 65-0718M - "Trying To Do God A Service Without Being The Will Of God"
We should always examine what we are doing by the Word. Just because it is a religious act doesn’t mean the Lord is in it.
There are five “musts” that Bro. Branham gives us in his sermon on this topic:
1. It must be His time
2. It must be His season
3. It must be the man He chose
4. It must be a Prophet
5. The prophet must be vindicated
David had some of these things right but not all of them.
5 So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim.
6 And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the Lord, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.
7 And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.
8 And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
9 And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
10 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
11 And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez-uzza to this day.
What went wrong?
Three things:
They had already done one thing wrong, two things wrong. First, they never consulted Nathan. The next thing they did, they went down there by not consulting the Word of God.
Which, the…Samuel was the Word in that day…And he never consulted the Word of the Lord. Then, when they did, they went contrary to the Word of God.
And here this good man, that had been caretaker, he was a bishop, thought, “Well, here, I don’t want God to be let down,” so he put his hand on the ark. Where, he wasn’t a Levite, and he died. Three things! 65-0718M - "Trying To Do God A Service Without Being The Will Of God"
1. Nathan wasn’t consulted.
2. The Ark was carried on a new cart.
3. Uzzah put his hands on the Ark.
Now, God revealed the thing to them by David, and by the ministers, and by the people, and by the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, but not by Nathan who had THUS SAITH THE LORD.
And the Lord said He would do nothing until He showed that prophet of the age, first, what to do.
See what they did? They went straight out of the Word of God, went and put the ark upon a new cart. See? So they went about to do it apart from God’s commandment and God’s provided way. 65-0718M - "Trying To Do God A Service Without Being The Will Of God"
Many times this Message is used to scare people into doing nothing.
Bro. Branham is having an altar call and says this:
Listen, friends, I know they say, “Pentecost, they organized pentecost.” That’s wrong.
Pentecost is an experience. The Methodists get It. The Baptists get It. All of them get It. Pentecost is not organized. It’s an experience. And if you haven’t had the experience of pentecost, come receive It now.
Remember, if you believe me to be His servant, His prophet, remember, there is a genuine baptism of the Holy Ghost.
Right in the midst of all the fanaticism, there is still a genuine Holy Ghost, a genuine Life. You come, believe It right now. 64-0404 - "Jehovah-Jireh #3"
If there’s someone setting here that’s never had that beginning Spirit experience, and got that same Spirit that poured out on the beginning, why should we take a substitute?
Why should we take something fanaticism? Why should we take some radical, cold, formal, indifferent creed, when the Pentecostal skies are full of the real genuine article? Why take a substitute?
Lord, let’s go back to the beginning, and receive it like they did at the beginning, and have the same works, signs, wonders that bears the same fruit: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience. 61-0119M - "Things That Wasn't So From The Beginning"
They were not wrong to have a meeting.
They were not wrong to be emotional.
They were not wrong to dance or have music.
We know this because when they brought back the ark for good, they did all those things.
I’ve found that most folks are not really concerned about consulting a prophet, what they are really concerned about is not consulting them.
A bogus dollar only proves there is something real. Lets have the real.
These discernments, visions, we have plenty of impersonations, we always. But remember, before there can be a bogus dollar, there has to be a real dollar first; first has to be a real dollar, and then they’re made off of that.
Just like we had a real Moses and a real Aaron, then we had a Jambres and Jannes after them. You see how it all comes? They see it and then they try to impersonate that, when there’s truly one original. 65-1127B - "Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God's Will"
This is why I’m wary of folks who claim to have discernment from the platform. I’ll say this, don’t fight it, just watch and see what it produces. It could be a real gift that people use in a wrong way, but Thus Saith the Lord only comes to the prophet to the age.
Now, those are the spirits of the gifts that’s in the Church. But the only person that has a right to say, THUS SAITH THE LORD, is an a vindicated prophet. 50-0405 - "Expectation"
Everything else is to be judged before it is presented to the church.
The Bride has “Thus Saith the Lord” under her messenger.
1. David never consulted Nathan.
1. David never consulted Nathan.
There is only one messenger to this age.
Now I do not deny that people will prophesy in this last age and their ministries can and will be correct. I do not deny that there will be prophets even as in the days of Paul when there was “one, Agabus, a prophet who prophesied of a famine.” I agree that is so.
BUT I DENY UPON THE INFALLIBLE EVIDENCE OF THE WORD THAT THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MAJOR PROPHET-MESSENGER WHO WILL REVEAL THE MYSTERIES AS CONTAINED IN THE WORD, AND WHO HAS THE MINISTRY TO TURN THE HEARTS OF THE CHILDREN TO THE FATHERS.
“Thus saith the Lord” by His unfailing Word stands, and shall stand and be vindicated. There is one prophet-messenger to this age. An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages (9 - The Laodicean Church Age)
(He had seven stars in His hand, not eight or nine)
1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.
2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
So say I, in the Name of Jesus Christ: Don’t you add one thing, don’t take, put your own ideas in It, you just say what is said on those tapes, you just do exactly what the Lord God has commanded to do; don’t add to It!
I bring heavens and earth before you today, in a challenge: Has God ever said anything that He has not fulfilled and done exactly what He said He would do for us? Hasn’t He done it just the way He said He would do it?
That’s exactly. So will He continue to do it. Just don’t add to It. Don’t take from It. Just believe It and walk humble before the Lord your God, for we’re nearing the going into the Land. 65-0718M - "Trying To Do God A Service Without Being The Will Of God"
The Bride’s Revival is a Word revival, announced by the Prophet to the Age.
Education can never bring Life. It takes the Spirit of God to bring Life, and that Life must not come out of just the intellectual revival.
It’s got to come out of the Bible, Word revival, and that Word is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And when It falls today, and quickens, you get the same results you did in Acts 2. Exactly. It always has, and it always will be, because it’s the Spirit of God that conditions the atmosphere. 65-0123 - "Broken Cisterns"
The move is on.
Some of you people that really believe This to be the Truth, that we’re entering another age, we’re entering the Raptured Age, you know the church can’t go in its condition, and it can’t get any better. It must get worse.
It’s got to get worse. And it can’t go like this. See? It’s got to be Something, and It’s moving right now, friend. It’s on, the move is on for the Bride. That’s the Truth. That’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. 65-1125 - "The Invisible Union Of The Bride Of Christ"
I am the Bride Revival. the prophet was consulted and the Word was restored to its rightful place.
2. He put the Ark on a New Cart
2. He put the Ark on a New Cart
They went and picked up the ark and put it upon a new cart, put it upon a new cart, or, “a new denomination is going to start up,” and not upon the God-given, ordained way to pack it.
It was supposed to be packed on the shoulders of the Levites. But, you see, when you start wrong, you’ll keep on going wrong. 65-0718M - "Trying To Do God A Service Without Being The Will Of God"
That’s the way David did it. He had it in his way, so he just said, “You know what I’ll do? We’re moving.” He had a revelation. “We’re moving now, so we’ll do a new way.
The days of miracles is passed, so we’ll just make us another organization. We’ll build a new cart, showing a new thing has started.” What a false prophecy!
You’ve got to go back the way God said do it. They put it upon the shoulders of the Levites, and that was over the heart. The ark, the Word, is not to be packed upon a new denomination, upon the theories of some man, but in the heart.
The Word of God is not to be handled by denominations; It’s to be handled by the heart of a man, where God can come in there and reveal Himself. 65-0718M - "Trying To Do God A Service Without Being The Will Of God"
“The Levites’ shoulders,” was God’s original way to do it. And they had put it on a new cart. Now, it’ll never work. They didn’t consult the right way.
And that’s what’s happened today. When men, no matter how sincere, try to do Him a service outside of His provided way of revealing it, they always mess it up.
God sets it in His way. Men, no matter how sincere, you try to do it outside of that, you’ll mess it up. 65-0718M - "Trying To Do God A Service Without Being The Will Of God"
The Word is not in the mind, It’s in the heart! “Not on a new cart.” Represented something new, David did there, spoke of every denomination there’d ever be.
God’s Word is not to be by…carried by state presbyters or bishops, and so forth, of denominations.
It’s the Baptism of the Holy Ghost in the heart of man, and not in some ecclesiastical move. The Holy Spirit is a treasure of God’s love in the heart of men and women to obey.
Was on the shoulders of His ministers, His ministers was the Levites. Put it up over their left shoulder and packed that ark like that, because it was up over their heart. They had the burden of the Word on their heart. Amen! 65-1127B - "Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God's Will"
God won’t leave His program. That’s the reason we know that, this day, It’s got to be simple. See? Now, He always works in simplicity.
But God, in the beginning, that could have made the sun preach the Gospel, or the winds preach the Gospel, or an Angel preach the Gospel, but He ordained men for that purpose, and He never changes it.
He never ordained denominations, He never ordained groups of men, He ordained men to preach the Gospel, not machinery, mechanical devices, or any Angelic Being, it was men. 63-0317M - "God Hiding Himself In Simplicity, Then Revealing Himself In The Same"
Anything contrary to that is a new cart.
3. Uzza put his hand on the Ark.
3. Uzza put his hand on the Ark.
And listen, just as Uzzah was killed because he was under that false inspiration, so is many true Christians losing their experience back in those old dead denominations, because they’re putting their hand on the Ark when they’re not ordained to do so. 65-1127B - "Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God's Will"
It was at then, when that man died, that David with the anointing saw what he had done wrong. O David, you pastor, can’t you see your dead creeds and denominations you’re holding on to?
Can’t you see what it’s doing? It’s killing a Uzzah. Spiritually dead, and you wonder why there ain’t no revival, letting your women cut their hair, paint their face, wear shorts, send your boys away to Ricky schools, and so forth like that, where half of them comes home homosexuals, and everything.
Innocent people die when we put our hands on the ark. Immoral living in the church is a symptom of false teaching.
David wanted the revival in his own denomination, his own house.
There was no place ready for it at that time, and so is it today. These great mysteries that’s been unfolded by the Seven Seals, there’s not a place in any denomination…would have to quit being a denomination to take It.
Christ is our Ark, the Word. They want their denomination. He cannot, notice, cannot be carried on the new carts of the denomination, His Message cannot go on the cart of a new denomination when It’s supposed to be bore and come on the heart of a prophet.
It cannot. He promised it, It would be thus, and that’s the way It must be. 65-1127B - "Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God's Will"
Christ the Ark has returned in our age, to His rightful place, the hearts of men and women who believe. This is our revival. this is why we shout, the Lamb has opened the Book.
Don’t never start or try an organization. Don’t try to build upon anything else.
But stay humble before the Lord your God, for it looks like the gates may open into the promised Land soon. Then let us go in with the true singing and rejoicing, when the Bride and Groom takes its place at the Throne.
Live humble. Live loving. Love one another. Don’t never get nothing among you. If you see something coming up in your heart against somebody, get it out of there right then.
And Satan will do his best to get among you. See? Don’t you let that happen. Some slicked-tongue fellow might come along and try to take you away from It. You think they could talk Moses out of the Presence of God, where he had stood there and seen It? No, sir. No.
We don’t take from It or add to It. Just keep It the way the Lord said. We don’t want no denomination. We don’t want no organizations. We don’t want no malice. We don’t want no strife. We want God, and He is the Word. 65-0718M - "Trying To Do God A Service Without Being The Will Of God"
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
Lord, help us to simply obey the Word. How David must have felt when he saw Uzzah die! I don’t want my family to die because I put the Word on a New Cart. Let me carry it always on my heart.