Praise in the Highest

Gods Habitation

Psalm 34:3 KJV 1900

3 O magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt his name together.

Ezekiel 28:11–12 KJV 1900

11 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

I have been studying the Companion Bible and there is a study within it that talks about the King of Tyre as Lucifer or Satan.

It’s important to note that even though this letter was to the king of Tyre, it’s talking about Lucifer. These scriptures are really talking about Lucifer, one of the three arch angels, Gabriel, Michael and Lucifer and his name means light bearer.

It says “thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. He was perfect in beauty and still is today. He is not this two horned demon that the movies predict him as.

Ezekiel 28:13 KJV 1900

13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

He had all the precious stones with in his body. Lucifer was in heaven with the glory of God and he had all those stones, he was the light bearer and when the light of Gods glory hit him he shined as you can imagine with the brightness of these stones. These are the same stones that the high priest wore on their breast plate as they went into the Holy of Holies.

The next part of this verse says “The workmanship of thy tabrets, or percussion, and of thy pipes, or anything wind instrument, was prepared in the day he was created”.

Ezekiel 28:14 KJV 1900

14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

You are the anointed Cherub. Cherub is one who blesses or continually praises. “Thou wast upon the mountain of God. He was in heaven continually praising God.

Ezekiel 28:15 KJV 1900

15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

He was perfect in all of his ways. I imagine that he still is a perfect, beautiful being coming as an angel of light.

Lucifer was created to praise and glorify God Continually.

Can I tell you this morning that God created you to praise Him continually? David said in Psalm 34:1 “1 I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth.”

God created us to replace the devil! God created us to praise Him continually!

God Created You To Praise Him!

1 Peter 2:9 “9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:”

Ps 150 says “Let everything that hath breath Praise the Lord!”

God breathed breath into Adam and he became a living soul. Our breath is the Lords! When David said let everything that hath breath praise the Lord he was saying let everything with the breath of God praise the Lord! How many of you have the breath of God this morning!

I am glad that my breath is the Lords! You see all these people going around vaping tainting the breath that God created! God gave you breath to praise Him!

Psalm 22:3“3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.” Do you want God to inhabit you? Most people just want a visitation, but I want a habitation. God will fill your praise and worship!

Your praise comes out of deliverance and freedom!

Though praise and worship God fills you and everything thats around you! David said in Psalm 23:5 “5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.” His habitation delivers you and gives you;

freedom from the darkness of this world!

Freedom from the devices of the devil!

I will praise Him for bringing me out of the darkness of sin!

I will praise Him for breaking the chains off of my life! How about you!

Do you have the breath of God to praise Him! What has he done for you! Have you experienced freedom and deliverance? You ought to praise Him with everything you got! Let your cup run over with the glory of God!

How many of you know that when God fills you it will show on the outside? Its like a joy that can not be contained! It consumes you and your body reacts to the presence of God!

My body belongs to God! I will show forth the praises of Him who has done everything for me! I will raise my hands, shout for glory, dance before the Lord in praise to Him!

My body reacts to the Glory of God! Romans 12:1 “1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”

It is my reasonable service to praise him! Its should be your reasonable service to praise Him!

The bible says in Luke 6:23 “23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.”

Lucifers job, the reason he was created was to glorify God, to lead the heavenly choir to praise God in the highest. He was the light bearer, the morning star, the most beautiful angel and one day he decided not to praise God ever again.

The bible says Ezekiel 28:17“17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.”

The day Lucifer turned into a devil

When Lucifer decided not to praise God he flipped from being a powerful arch angel into being the devil.

We learn in Jude 6 “6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.”

They refused to worship. What happened to them when they refused to praise and worship God?

They were cast down

They left their first estate and left their on habitation and were cast down.

If you are in a valley, you have learn praise your way out of that valley! Let God fill you with His glory in the midst of your valley!

You don’t have to live cast down!

You don’t have to live depressed!

I got things in my life that if I think on those things the devil whispers in my ear and tries to steel my joy, my peace, and the praise of God in my life! If I focus on all the things that are wrong in my life it will depress me. Even if I have victories going on all around me, the devil can use the smallest thing to still my praise!

The devil whispers:

But that should depress you!

But that should steel your joy!

But that that should steel your peace!

But that should make you worry yourself silly!

If you refuse to praise and worship God you can become cast down, depressed and chained up by the devices of the devil!

I have learned that when the devil tries to put me down that all I have to do is open my mouth and shout a praise to the Lord! Let my body react to the inhabited glory of God!

David said in Psalm 43:5“5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, Who is the health of my countenance, and my God.”

I have noticed that when the presence of God shows up that even the young babies pay attention when the king shows up. When the King of Kings shows up we can’t do anything but show forth the praises of God!

The second thing that happens to you when you refuse to praise and worship God is:

2. They were chained

If you don’t praise Him you begin to be chained by satan. You begin to pick up things that is not pleasing to God. You begin to turn back to those things that God has delivered you from.

Everyone goes through season of attack and if you don’t learn to praise Him you get down and then bound with chaines. The bible says in Luke 11:24–26 “24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. 25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. 26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.”

You have to stay full of Jesus!

You have to stay full of the Holy Spirit!

Praise fills you to overflowing!

Praise is the key to overcoming!

Don’t let your mistakes and failures tuen the praise of God in your life off! What you put your mind on is what you become!

3. If you don’t worship you encourage someone else not to worship.

When Lucifer chose not to praise and worship God a third part of the angels were influenced and were cast down with him.

When you don’t praise Him you are influencing those around you! It might be your children! I don’t want our church to be a dead church that never worships! that never shows forth His praise! If you want to see the glory of God we must praise Him! we must show forth an example of praise!

The bible says in Luke 19:40 that if we don’t praise Him the rocks will cry out the praises of our God!

I don’t want the rocks to cry out for me! I am going to praise His name!

If I were the devil I would minimize praise and thats exactly what he does! If i were the devil I would steel every bit of the joy, peace, happiness and praise from everyone I could.

If I were the devil I would stop people from praising God because thats what I was created to do.

If I were the devil I would corrupt the music to where it does not give Him glory.

Don’t let him steel your praise! Praise God every chance you get!

We were created to replaced the DEVIL!

God created us to replace the devil to bring forth the praises of God. We have become the light bearers through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit! We are the children of the light! Lets replace the devil and show forth the praises of God like we were created to do!

Let your life show forth the glory of God!

Leet your light shine through praise!

Be an example of praise to those thats around you!

Don’t let the devil steal your praise!

Lets not let Jubilee become a dead church that never gets out of the ordinary through the praise of our God! Come on and shout Hallelujah! Lift your hands in praise and show the devil that he as been defeated! Let’s praise Him!

CON: What has God done for you! What can you praise Him for this morning? I want to give you an opportunity to get your praise back! Our church service should be filled with the praises of God! I look out sometimes and it like I am seeing statues that says I shall not be moved. At times its hard to even get an amen. If our praises would be unified, what glory! what powerful move of God we would see. You can sit there if you want and not be moved but I have something to praise Him for!