Godly People #1 LOVE GOD
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Good morning, this morning were going to begin a 5 week series of sermons on the church needing Godly people. We need Godly people, we need people who love the Lord, we need people who pray, we need people that love human life, we need people that love the gospel, and we need people that give.
So this is what I am going to be teaching on in the days ahead. This morning I wanna talk to you about one of the greatest scriptures I think regarding revival. All revival is is loving God with all your heart mind soul and strength. Its when the Lord comes down and manifests His presence. Thats what revival is… so I wanna talk to you this morning on this topic.
Godly People Love God that is godly people love revival. Isaiah was living in a day when the Babylonians were crushing Jerusalem. In fact by the time he wrote this Jerusalem the city of God had already been destroyed and leveled and Isaiah was mourning because of that.
He is crying out to God, OH GOD WOULD YOU PLEASE COME DOWN, Lord dont just look down, COME DOWN and be with your people.
Oh, that You would rend the heavens!
That You would come down!
That the mountains might shake at Your presence—
Isaiah 64:2-
As fire burns brushwood,
As fire causes water to boil—
To make Your name known to Your adversaries,
That the nations may tremble at Your presence!
When You did awesome things for which we did not look,
You came down,
The mountains shook at Your presence.
For since the beginning of the world
Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear,
Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,
Who acts for the one who waits for Him.
You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,
Who remembers You in Your ways.
You are indeed angry, for we have sinned—
In these ways we continue;
And we need to be saved.
But we are all like an unclean thing,
And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags;
We all fade as a leaf,
And our iniquities, like the wind,
Have taken us away.
And there is no one who calls on Your name,
Who stirs himself up to take hold of You;
For You have hidden Your face from us,
And have consumed us because of our iniquities.
But now, O Lord,
You are our Father;
We are the clay, and You our potter;
And all we are the work of Your hand.
Do not be furious, O Lord,
Nor remember iniquity forever;
Indeed, please look—we all are Your people!
Your holy cities are a wilderness,
Zion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
Our holy and beautiful temple,
Where our fathers praised You,
Is burned up with fire;
And all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Will You restrain Yourself because of these things, O Lord?
Will You hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?
Gods people yearn for God they love God they want revival, and that’s where we are. I want you to look at me and I want to tell you straight up we need revival. We need people saved, we need people healed we need people set free. The church in america is in trouble.
But I want you to know that God is a God who want His people to want Him, and to love Him. There are many people in this nation that dont love God, dont love Jesus, dont love anyone who follows Him, dont love what I preach dont love what you believe.
The hope of america is not in the republicans hands or the democrats hands, or in the supreme courts hands, or in the presidents hands, the hope of America is in the church house, and whether or not Gods people want Him to come down and empower His churches.
Many of you have heard this passage:
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.
Often times it is used by pastors who say to individuals listen the Lord is standing at your hearts door and He is knocking would you let Him in. While that is true the context of that particular verse is that the Lord is standing outside of His church and He is knocking and He is wanting to have fellowship with His church but they wont let Him in.
If Christ does not come in to His churches our nation is doomed. If He does maybe theres hope.
Godly people love God and they love:
Godly people love God and they love:
WHEN GOD REVEALS HIS PRESENCE
WHEN GOD REVEALS HIS PRESENCE
Oh, that You would rend the heavens!
That You would come down!
That the mountains might shake at Your presence—
Isaiah 64:2-
As fire burns brushwood,
As fire causes water to boil—
To make Your name known to Your adversaries,
That the nations may tremble at Your presence!
When You did awesome things for which we did not look,
You came down,
The mountains shook at Your presence.
Look at that first word OH everybody say OH. We have lost that in our prayers. Rare do you pray OH GOD we just go to God and we God heres what i need today bop,bop,bop,bop in Jesus name I know that’ll get it take care amen.
What happened to OH GOD, OH LORD OH HOLY ONE. Were missing Oh God in modern Christianity. Job he suffered so much he had the oh.
Oh, that I knew where I might find Him,
That I might come to His seat!
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good;
Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested.
Psalm
Oh, that my head were waters,
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah
Jesus Himself in His great preistly prayer
O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me.
John
Paul when He thought about the grace of God and the soverignty of God
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
We have lost the Oh we have lost the awe and reverence for God. We have lost that. Do you want your prayer life to go to another level quit saying God and start saying OH GOD!
But say it from the heart, the Oh comes from desperation, the OH comes from passion, the OH comes from feeling something.
What was Isaiah desperate for?
The presence of God
OH COME DOWN
He says look down but here he says COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN.
Oh, that You would rend the heavens!
That You would come down!
That the mountains might shake at Your presence—
As fire burns brushwood,
As fire causes water to boil—
To make Your name known to Your adversaries,
That the nations may tremble at Your presence!
When You did awesome things for which we did not look,
You came down,
The mountains shook at Your presence.
Whats HE thinking about here whats he talking about here? He is going back to the OT when God came down on MT Sianai to give Moses the 10 commandments.
Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
Exodus 19:16-
Sounds exactly like
Isiaiah is pleading with God for a real close encounter with Him. Just like what happened when God gave the 10 commandments. He loved God He wanted God to reveal His presence He wanted God to come down.
Its exactly what happened on the day of Pentecost Jesus had ascended to Heaven. Jesus told His disciples He said yall stay here and dont you leave here until the Spirit of God comes down upon you. for 10 days those believers stayed in the upper room and they prayed, and then it happened.
When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 2:1-
ON the day of Petecost God did great things which they did not expect God came down the upper room quaked at the presence of God. I’m telling you if you truly love god YOU LONG FOR THE PRESENCE OF GOD, IN HIS PRESENCE IS FULLNESS OF JOY!
IF YOU ARE A CHIRSTIAN AND YOUR HUNGRY FOR GOD, YOU WANT GOD TO COEM DOWN IN YOUR MARRIAGE, YOU WANT GOD TO COEM DOWN IN YOUR CHURCH, YOU WANT GOD TO COME DOWN IN YOUR OWN LIFE, YOU WANT GOD YOU DONT WANT JUST TO KNOW ABOUT GOD YOU WANT GOD,
and you dont just want Him to look down you want Him to come down and manifest His presence in your life. Oh that God would do this in our lives in our homes in our churches in our cities.
IN our schools in our houses of government, in our halls of judgment, OH THAT GOD WOULD COME DOWN.
Godly people love god when God reveals His presence.
Godly people love God: WHEN GOD DEFEATS HIS ENEMIES
Godly people love God: WHEN GOD DEFEATS HIS ENEMIES
You say God has enemies. Thats right there are some people who hate the Lord Jesus Christ. There are people who hate you because you follow the Lord Jesus Christ. We have enemies who are powered by the advesary Satan Himself because they hate the Lord Jesus Christ.
If only You would tear the heavens open
and come down,
so that mountains would quake at Your presence —
as fire kindles the brushwood,
and fire causes water to boil—
to make Your name known to Your enemies,
so that nations will tremble at Your presence!
Isaiah 64:1-
verse 2 one of the reasons Gods people wanted God to come down was to make His name known to His enemies. God does have advesaries. He is saying I want them to know your name, I want them to tremble at your presence.
They have laughed at You long enough they are laughing that JErusalem is in ruins. Oh Lord DEFEAT YOUR ENEMIES. When you translate that into NT terms we are told by the apostle Paul that our real enemy is not people, our real enemy is the devil and demons.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:12
Your enemy is not Donald Trump your enemy is not barack Obama your enemy is not your coworker or your ex your enemy is the devil and the demons.
Were in a spiritual war and thats why you have to pray.Its not just something you do when you really need something or when your feeling extra thankful and wanna just talk to the Lord NO, its a daily discipline that yo do first. You do it whether you feel like it or not.
Because things will happen if you pray that wont happen if you dont pray. Your family needs you men to start praying over them, they need your prayer protection dads they need for you to dress them in the whole armor of God everyday your wife needs for you to be a man of prayer sir, your wife needs that she needs a prayer filled husband.
You mam, your husband needs your prayers more than your cooking and all the baking and homemaking, He needs your prayers. Your family needs a woman of God who spends time in prayer. This church needs praying preachers, praying staff members, praying staff members, praying deacons, praying Sunday School teachers because when we pray we access God and when we access God HE COMES DOWN IN HIS POWER AND GOD DOES THINGS THAT HE WOULD NOT DO IF WE DID NOT PRAY.
god defeats his enemies, we need victories in our life that only god can give us. God says hey Christian you got some enemies out there.
“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
There are many athiest that hate us, because we believe in God and we believe in His Son Jesus Christ. oh there are many Satanist and wickans who hate us because we believe in God and His Son Jesus Christ have totally defeated Satan and His demons.
There are many progressive liberals and they hate Christians because we believe that Biblical marriage is between ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN. We also believe that an unborn baby is a living human being that is created in the image of God and should have rights to be able to live.
We believe that and they hate us because of it.
Many other religions hate us because we believe what Jesus said
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Oh they hate us because we follow Jesus and we believe in the Bible. But we have to love them.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,
so that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. For He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
They may hate us but were going to love them to Jesus, and were gonna pray Oh God let awesome things come down which we did not expect, save people, heal people, set people free from sinful strongholds, pull people out of the miry pit of their own sin, set their feet on the rock of the Lord JEsus Christ and the word of God.
Put in them a new song which comes from the Spirit of God living in them singing praise to their God.
COME DOWN LORD LET THE MOUNTAINS QUAKE AT YOUR PRESENCE LORD WERE ASKING YOU TO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMIES WHO ARE AGAINST THIS NATION.
Godly People Love: WHEN GOD DISPLAYS HIS POWER
Godly People Love: WHEN GOD DISPLAYS HIS POWER
When You did awesome things for which we did not look,
You came down,
The mountains shook at Your presence.
Isaiah 64:3
Again at this time people are wandering out in the wilderness and all of a sudden the man of God is called up onto the mountain and all of a sudden thunder and lightning start coming down a thick cloud of smoke comes down on the mountain. Then theres this loud trumpet sound, it makes all the people in the crowd shudder its a sound like they have never heard before.
Its the sound thats going to come right before the Lord returns the trumpet is going to sound and mount Sinai was covered in smoke and the Lord came down in fire and smoke went up like smoke from the furnace and the whole mountain was shaking, can you imagine that?
Isaiah was asking God to do something like that again. He said hey you did it in Moses day your the same yesterday today and forever why dont you do it again.
theres been other times God has shaken, theres been other times God gave fire.
then Isaiah gave a verse in His OT book that made it into the NT.
For since the beginning of the world
Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear,
Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,
Who acts for the one who waits for Him.
Waiting on God praying to God trusting in God crying out to God. GOD WORKS ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO WAIT ON HIM! ARE YOU WAITING ON GOD ARE YOU PRAYING, OR ARE YOU TRYING TO FIGURE IT ALL OUT ON YOUR OWN?
You spend more time on the phone trying to get counsel about some problem when you could get more help from God if you would just get on your face before God and say God i need your help, Im just gonna shut myself in this room, Im gonna get down on my knees and I am not going to stand up until I get what I went down for.
I WONT LET YOU GO UNTIL YOU BLESS ME, WITH YOUR PRESENCE
When is the last time you prayed like that? Whens the last time you prayed like it mattered?
Well this made it to the NT we read in
But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
Isaiah says come down Lord rend the Heavens
Do you remember when Peter and John went down to pray and they met this lame man beggin at the gate. They stopped and said sivler and gold we dont have but what we do have you can also be healed in the name of Jesus get up.
He began walking and leaping and praising God. Most baptist churches wont let him in cause hewas acting that way amen. Walking and leaping and praising God. Never walked before never came to church before he couldnt because he was a lame cripple and now he goes in there and he comes out and he is still jumping around and you know WHAT YOU WOULD TO IF YOU HAD NEVER JUMPED BEFORE IN YOUR WHOLE LIFE!
And a crowd gathered they preached the gospel people got saved and the religious leaders got mad and came and arrested them and they said YOU STOP THIS PREACHING IN JESUS NAME and the Bible says they said ok well never say it again.. no thats not what they said.
But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide; for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
They went back to their little house and they got everybody together in prayer. There are some people that say Pentecost can never happen again, OH no I dont believe that I believe that God can send down His power whenever He wants to.
HE gave another little shaking in
And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant that Your slaves may speak Your message with complete boldness, while You stretch out Your hand for healing, signs, and wonders to be performed through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”
Acts 4:
When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak God’s message with boldness.
GOD SHOOK THE BUILDING THEY WERE IN, WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF WE GATHERED TOGETHER IN PRAYER AND GOD SHOOK THE BUILDING.
Oh come on Kyle you dont really believe God shook the building do you, are you kidding I BELIEVE GOD CAN SHAKE A BUILDING IF GOD CAN SHAKE A MOUNTAIN HE CAN SHAKE A BUILDING
GOD CAN SHAKE A BUILDING GOD CAN SHAKE A NATION, GOD CAN SHAKE A GOVERNMENT, How many of you agree America needs some shaking amen!
They need some shaking
YOU NEED SOME SHAKINGI NEED SOME, WE NEED GOD TO SHAKE US TO GET THE PRIDE OUT OF US AND GET THE SIN OUT OF US AND GET THE SELFCONFIDENCE OUT OF US AND GET US DOWN ON OUR FACE AGAIN AND SAY OH GOD WOULD YOU REND THE HEAVENS AND COME DOWN.
Oh but I dont have time to pray YOU BETTER NOT LET JESUS HEAR YOU SAY THAT!
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oh God give us a good old fashioned shaking
We keep saying we want God back in our courthouse, God back in our schools and God back in our government and thats good as far as it goes, but I tell you what we need God back in our churches.
i know
I know that there is a business side to chruch but thats not the main thing, a church is a ministry. Its not business that has a ministry side, its a ministry that has a business side.
MINISTRY IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
We have churches out here that are watering down the message because if you preach against sin some people wont come and we have got to have people, weve got to have bigger offerings , and we have got to have more attendance and weve got to keep this organization going so we got to water down the message in order to keep people.
Im so thankful for everyone in this room but my job is not keeping you here, my job is to care for your spiritual health and wellness and if you coem in here and I give you a watered down condensed sermon because I know thats what you like.
Thats the equivalent of having cancer and coming to the doctor and him giving you some tylenol and saying your healed go home and be blessed.
the church has lost its focus we think lets attract people lets get the people in, NO LET THE CHURCH BE ATTRACTIVE TO GOD AND THE PEOPLE WILL WANNA BE HERE!
How many of you want God?
when GOd reveals His presence Godly people love it
When god defeats His enemies Godly people love it
When god displays His power godly people love it
Godly People Love God: WHEN GOD FORGIVES OUR SINS
Godly People Love God: WHEN GOD FORGIVES OUR SINS
You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,
Who remembers You in Your ways.
You are indeed angry, for we have sinned—
In these ways we continue;
And we need to be saved.
We didnt just sin once or twice we stayed in it, we were like a dog who returned to his own vomit, we were like a fool who repeated our folly.
But we are all like an unclean thing,
And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags;
We all fade as a leaf,
And our iniquities, like the wind,
Have taken us away.
I am just going to do my best do you know what your best is like to God?
FILTHY RAGS
Dirty bloody rags
The best you can do is not good enough.
But we are all like an unclean thing,
And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags;
We all fade as a leaf,
And our iniquities, like the wind,
Have taken us away.
We are so out there just blowing around, were just like dead leaves being blown about by the winter wind.
And there is no one who calls on Your name,
Who stirs himself up to take hold of You;
For You have hidden Your face from us,
And have consumed us because of our iniquities.
there is no one!
(spiritual discipline of prayer)
Yet Lord, You are our Father;
we are the clay, and You are our potter;
we all are the work of Your hands.
Isaiah 64:
Isaiah was saying were the clay your the potter mold us as you wish. How many of you would pray bold prayer like that GOD DO WITH MY LIFE AS YOU WISH WHATEVER THAT MEANS? CHANGE ME MAKE ME WHOLE
You are the potter I am clay,
mold me and make me, this is what I pray
Do not be furious, O Lord,
Nor remember iniquity forever;
Indeed, please look—we all are Your people!
Your holy cities are a wilderness,
Zion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
Our holy and beautiful temple,
Where our fathers praised You,
Is burned up with fire;
And all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Isaiah did what the prophets do, He reminded God of the terrible situation and He pleaded for Gods help.
Will You restrain Yourself because of these things, O Lord?
Will You hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?
Isaiah was a godly person He wanted forgiveness of sins.
Is God not angry with our nation, is God not angry with the church? Have we not continued in our sins for a long time?
(THE GOSPEL)