WEBVTT 00:00:15.900 --> 00:00:17.765 Come on, family, don't stop, don't stop. 00:00:17.765 --> 00:00:20.030 Hallelujah, hallelujah. 00:00:20.030 --> 00:00:23.044 Y'all give me that go-go. 00:00:23.044 --> 00:00:23.405 Beat again. 00:00:23.405 --> 00:00:25.319 One, two, three. 00:00:25.319 --> 00:00:27.267 It's good to be alive. 00:00:27.267 --> 00:00:29.487 What a day. 00:00:29.487 --> 00:00:32.509 It's good to be alive. 00:00:32.509 --> 00:00:35.433 What a day. 00:00:35.433 --> 00:00:37.285 Come on, take it with that. 00:00:37.285 --> 00:00:38.804 It's good to be alive. 00:00:38.804 --> 00:00:42.363 What a day. 00:00:42.363 --> 00:00:45.529 It's good to be alive. 00:00:45.529 --> 00:00:47.512 But it's good to be alive. 00:00:47.512 --> 00:00:48.754 Hey, bring it down. 00:00:48.754 --> 00:00:49.234 Bring it down. 00:00:49.234 --> 00:00:50.457 Listen. 00:00:51.541 --> 00:01:06.941 I realize that for some of us, it's hard for us, in certain seasons of life, to be thankful for life, but I want to remind you that if God has woken you up this morning guess what? 00:01:06.941 --> 00:01:07.905 It wasn't your alarm clock. 00:01:07.905 --> 00:01:26.290 If God has allowed you to go through some of life's situations and some of life's issues, and even allowed you to be here today, I want to remind you that it's good to be alive, but I need to dare you to live. 00:01:26.290 --> 00:01:31.832 It's good to be alive, but I dare you to live. 00:01:31.832 --> 00:01:49.293 When you think about all that God has done for you, when you think about all that God has brought you through, it's good to just exist, but the Bible says that he came, that I might have life, and life more abundantly. 00:01:49.293 --> 00:01:53.049 It's good to be alive, but it's best to live. 00:01:53.049 --> 00:01:54.365 I need you to get on your feet. 00:01:54.365 --> 00:01:58.168 Come on, we're going to set a praise in here like never before. 00:01:58.168 --> 00:02:01.307 Come on, come on, we ain't come just to spectate. 00:02:01.307 --> 00:02:03.564 This is our chance to participate. 00:02:03.704 --> 00:02:10.502 Everybody say it's good to be alive, but it's best to live. 00:02:10.502 --> 00:02:11.723 Come on, say it. 00:02:11.723 --> 00:02:14.507 It's good to be alive, but it's best to live. 00:02:14.507 --> 00:02:20.276 It's good to be alive, but it's not to live. 00:02:20.276 --> 00:02:26.515 Oh, it's good to be alive, but it's not to live. 00:02:26.515 --> 00:02:29.455 Oh, it's good to be alive. 00:02:29.455 --> 00:02:32.909 It's good to be alive. 00:02:32.909 --> 00:02:35.367 I'm so grateful to be. 00:02:35.367 --> 00:02:38.206 It's a pleasure to be. 00:02:38.206 --> 00:02:41.518 I'm so grateful to be. 00:02:41.518 --> 00:02:46.391 It's because of the Lord that we're alive today. 00:02:46.391 --> 00:02:56.590 Good to be alive, it's so good to be alive and it can't be the best of things. 00:02:56.590 --> 00:02:59.709 Come on, clap your hands and give God some praise. 00:02:59.709 --> 00:03:03.510 I said clap your hands and give God some praise. 00:03:03.510 --> 00:03:05.280 I said clap your hands and give God some praise. 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:09.191 Bless the Lord, o, my soul and all that's within me. 00:03:09.191 --> 00:03:16.174 Bless His holy name, because he is good and His mercy endures. 00:03:16.174 --> 00:03:20.371 The reason you're here today is because of His mercy. 00:03:20.371 --> 00:03:23.669 The reason you're alive is because of his mercy. 00:03:23.669 --> 00:03:29.045 So, what you're going to do with your life, it's good to be alive, but it's best to live. 00:03:29.045 --> 00:03:38.955 When we live, we show forth his greatness, we show forth his favor when we live, we show the world just how great of a God we serve. 00:03:38.955 --> 00:03:43.201 It's good to be alive, but it's best to live. 00:03:43.201 --> 00:03:50.936 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. 00:03:51.801 --> 00:03:55.271 I realize, I realize that there's some of you that say that on move. 00:03:55.271 --> 00:04:05.555 I realize that there's some of you that find it hard and challenging to give God what he's created you to give him. 00:04:05.555 --> 00:04:16.473 Realize that it's hard and challenging for some of us to be able to see the lighter side of life, simply because of the things that we're going through right now. 00:04:16.473 --> 00:04:24.685 Some of us have stalled out on living and have relegated ourselves to just existing, going through the motions. 00:04:24.685 --> 00:04:30.406 But when you truly understand, as the song said, that's what he came for. 00:04:30.406 --> 00:04:33.307 Jesus is the door. 00:04:33.307 --> 00:04:35.906 Let him set you free. 00:04:35.906 --> 00:04:38.065 He's your victory. 00:04:38.065 --> 00:04:40.704 It's good to be alive. 00:04:40.704 --> 00:04:45.860 I need for about 15 of y'all to get that in your spirit before you sit down. 00:04:45.860 --> 00:04:46.745 It's good to be alive. 00:04:46.745 --> 00:04:51.206 Won't you look at somebody and tell them, in the faith it's good to be alive, come on. 00:04:51.206 --> 00:04:51.968 This is why we're here. 00:04:51.968 --> 00:04:53.122 It's good to be alive. 00:04:53.122 --> 00:04:55.963 I know you've been dealing with some things in your life. 00:04:55.963 --> 00:04:57.764 It's good to be alive. 00:04:57.764 --> 00:05:06.202 I understand that you have some struggles and some trials and some strains and some difficulties and some confusion and some heartache and some bad nights. 00:05:06.202 --> 00:05:07.286 It's good to be alive. 00:05:07.286 --> 00:05:13.283 But because I'm here right now and I'm breathing, I declare with my whole heart it's best to live. 00:05:13.283 --> 00:05:24.819 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:50.949 If you can real quick turn in your Bibles to the book of Numbers, the 16th chapter, we'll do the first three verses Number 16, verses 1 through 3, number 16, 1 through 3. 00:05:50.949 --> 00:05:58.759 As is our custom here, we all stand and read the word of the Lord together. 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:17.131 Let us read One day Korah, son of Izzah, a descendant of the Kohath, son of Levi, conspired with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and Om, son of Peleth, from the tribe of Reuben. 00:06:17.131 --> 00:06:28.668 They incited a rebellion against Moses, along with 250 other leaders of the community, all prominent members of the assembly. 00:06:28.668 --> 00:06:35.466 Verse 3, they united against Moses and Aaron and said you have gone too far. 00:06:35.466 --> 00:06:42.408 The whole community of Israel has been set apart by the Lord and he is with all of us. 00:06:43.259 --> 00:06:49.454 What right do you have to act as though you are greater than the rest of the Lord's people? 00:06:49.454 --> 00:07:02.694 Before you take your seats, find five people, look them in the face and tell them there's a cost to complaining. 00:07:02.694 --> 00:07:10.773 There's a cost to complaining. 00:07:10.773 --> 00:07:13.829 You may take your seats in the presence of God. 00:07:13.829 --> 00:07:16.240 There's a cost. 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:33.673 I got to be honest and transparent and I know some of y'all came today. 00:07:33.673 --> 00:07:38.737 I'm not that handsome young man that y'all was expecting to see when you walk through the door. 00:07:38.737 --> 00:07:43.946 And again, can we celebrate our pastor for his birthday? 00:07:43.946 --> 00:07:52.199 And I don't know if you caught what he said, but he and Lady Tiffany also celebrated their 15th year anniversary. 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:54.699 Come on, can we celebrate them both? 00:07:54.699 --> 00:07:58.302 Amen, amen. 00:07:58.302 --> 00:07:59.363 It's good to be alive. 00:07:59.363 --> 00:08:01.326 It's best to live. 00:08:01.326 --> 00:08:02.988 Amen, amen. 00:08:02.988 --> 00:08:04.370 We are grateful. 00:08:04.370 --> 00:08:06.054 We're grateful. 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:29.288 We're going to get into the full text of this message in order to understand the weight of what is happening in this moment, but I wanted you to take your seat because as we go through these scriptures, mother, I fear that we're going to end up complaining if I had you staying for the whole time. 00:08:29.288 --> 00:08:34.769 So I ain't want you to be guilty before we get in the word amen. 00:08:34.769 --> 00:08:39.196 Rem Shank gave me a message before I got up here. 00:08:39.196 --> 00:08:40.381 She said just let it flow. 00:08:40.381 --> 00:08:44.928 So I'm grateful for the support of all of these clergy. 00:08:44.928 --> 00:08:47.653 Rem Shank gave me a message before I got up here she said just let it flow. 00:08:47.653 --> 00:08:51.259 So I'm grateful for the support of all of these clergy and support of all of our leaders and all of you. 00:08:51.259 --> 00:08:55.604 I pray that you would pray my strength in the Lord as we get into this. 00:08:55.625 --> 00:08:59.431 This is actually 10 o'clock, a part two of the message we did at 8 am. 00:08:59.431 --> 00:09:01.937 Part two of the message we did at 8 am. 00:09:01.937 --> 00:09:52.872 The message was entitled the Good News Is the Bad News Was Wrong some cases is challenging because, despite all of our wanting to receive good news and the good things of God, there's something in us that often causes us to reflect more so on the bad and the negative and somehow another, because of our lack of perception, we've convinced ourselves that the good things that God has prepared for us are otherwise too far and too high, too much for us to attain. 00:09:52.872 --> 00:09:55.809 They in essence become bad news. 00:09:55.809 --> 00:10:15.720 When God is telling you it's good to be alive, but it's best I've come that you might have life, and life more abundantly, the reality is, no matter how many times you hear that, no matter how many times you rehearse that in your psyche, in your mind, the, the truth of the matter is oftentimes because of that bad news. 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:22.810 Because of the way our minds gravitate to the negative things, it's hard for us to accept the good things of God. 00:10:22.810 --> 00:10:44.982 Here's why I realize sometimes it's hard for us to accept the things that God has promised to us because, if we're honest, god, sometimes it takes too long. 00:10:44.982 --> 00:10:52.654 You said you'd bless me, and I believe that when you said you'd bless me, that meant right now. 00:10:52.654 --> 00:10:59.510 I believe that when you said you'd bless me, that meant that you would give it to me right now. 00:11:01.093 --> 00:11:18.451 We brought out a point in that first message that Israel had spent 400 years as slaves, bound in slavery, and as God delivered them, they wanted instantaneous deliverance. 00:11:18.451 --> 00:11:29.605 As God told them that I'm going to bring you into this new land, that's all yours, they folded their arms with complaint and said why, why it's taking so long. 00:11:29.605 --> 00:11:32.542 Y'all gonna help me preach this this morning. 00:11:32.542 --> 00:11:42.766 Anybody ever been in a situation in your life where you believe that God said that he was gonna do something in your life, but the reality was God, you were just taking too long. 00:11:42.766 --> 00:11:44.090 I see that step. 00:11:44.090 --> 00:11:44.832 I ain't going nowhere. 00:11:44.832 --> 00:12:03.656 God, you were just taken too long and what I'm finding is that the the more we can accept in transparency where our faults lie. 00:12:05.241 --> 00:12:21.792 In the delay oftentimes in getting to God's promise, the easier it is for us to obtain deliverance in our mind, in our sight and in our faith to believe and receive the things that God has for us. 00:12:21.792 --> 00:12:25.625 What am I saying when you realize that you are part of the problem? 00:12:25.625 --> 00:12:42.207 Because oftentimes, when it comes to the good things of God, the promises of God, we find excuses to bring everybody else, to blame everybody else, why it is that we aren't where we should be. 00:12:42.207 --> 00:12:56.744 So I see here in number 16, what I loved about this is that it started off with a call out and a conspiracy. 00:12:56.744 --> 00:12:58.851 It started with a call out and a conspiracy. 00:12:58.851 --> 00:13:04.484 It started with a call out and a conspiracy. 00:13:04.484 --> 00:13:06.585 Can you put verse one back up there for me again? 00:13:06.585 --> 00:13:11.301 Starts with a call out and a conspiracy. 00:13:11.301 --> 00:13:21.789 Uh, we all uh, tune in every once in a while when there's always a good call out and a good conspiracy. 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:27.691 The Bible opens up in this 16th chapter, this first verse. 00:13:27.691 --> 00:13:30.887 It says one day Korah, stop there. 00:13:30.887 --> 00:13:44.860 From the moment Israel left Egypt to the moment they got to this place in time, you never once heard a man named Korah. 00:13:44.860 --> 00:13:58.222 This call out was so significant that the Lord had to call him out by name because of what was in his heart. 00:13:58.222 --> 00:14:18.591 I want to remind somebody in here that you've got to be careful as you go through life's journeys when you have found yourself on the opposite end of what it is that God is trying to do in your life, that oftentimes he has to call you out by name. 00:14:18.591 --> 00:14:28.349 I know some of you don't like that kind of teaching because you've grown up in an entitled mindset, thinking that everything that God does he's got to do for you. 00:14:28.349 --> 00:14:35.193 But I've come to remind a few of you in here that it's only because of God's breath that you breathe life. 00:14:35.193 --> 00:14:41.026 The Bible says that he called him by name. 00:14:41.026 --> 00:14:42.409 You, you can take that down. 00:14:42.750 --> 00:14:43.732 I want to read this from the. 00:14:43.732 --> 00:14:46.365 I want to read this from the message Bible. 00:14:46.365 --> 00:14:49.352 Listen, if any y'all got the message Bible, listen. 00:14:49.352 --> 00:14:51.203 This is the hood translation I love. 00:14:51.203 --> 00:14:52.787 I love the message Bible. 00:14:52.787 --> 00:15:00.383 I can't sometimes get with the King James because it's sort of hard, brother Ronnie, to to kind of dissect the Taoist and Tao art sometimes. 00:15:00.383 --> 00:15:02.605 I just need it, hood, I need to understand. 00:15:02.605 --> 00:15:07.085 So let me read this real quick, and this is why I wanted y'all to sit down so you can hear it. 00:15:07.085 --> 00:15:08.890 Y'all ready, just listen to this. 00:15:10.059 --> 00:15:26.208 Getting on his high horse one day, korah, son of Izzah, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, along with a few Reubenites, uh dathan and abiram, son of eliab and uh on and son of peleth, rebelled against moses. 00:15:26.208 --> 00:15:32.791 He had with him 250 leaders of the congregation of israel, prominent men with positions in the council. 00:15:32.791 --> 00:15:39.826 They came as a group and confronted moses and aaron, saying you have overstepped yourself. 00:15:39.826 --> 00:15:45.262 This entire community is holy and God is in their midst. 00:15:45.262 --> 00:15:49.170 So why do you act like you're running the whole show? 00:15:49.170 --> 00:15:49.872 I didn't write that. 00:15:49.872 --> 00:15:50.360 It's in there. 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:51.424 It said just like that. 00:15:51.424 --> 00:15:53.129 It said just like that. 00:15:53.129 --> 00:15:57.301 Why do you act like you're running the whole show? 00:15:57.301 --> 00:15:58.924 Watch this, it said. 00:15:58.924 --> 00:16:04.454 Y'all ever watch Love and Hip Hop, this love here. 00:16:05.700 --> 00:16:11.192 Upon hearing this, on hearing this, moses threw himself face down on the ground. 00:16:11.192 --> 00:16:14.981 Then he addressed Korah and his gang. 00:16:14.981 --> 00:16:23.594 I promise y'all this in here In the morning, god will make clear who is on his side, who is holy. 00:16:23.594 --> 00:16:27.850 God will take his stand with the one he chooses. 00:16:27.850 --> 00:16:43.375 Now, cora, here's what I want you to do, you and your gang, tomorrow take censors in the presence of God, put fire in them and then incense. 00:16:43.375 --> 00:16:46.467 Oh, holy Spirit, just showed me something, just that fast. 00:16:46.467 --> 00:16:53.019 Then we'll see who's holy See whom God chooses. 00:16:53.019 --> 00:16:56.089 Son of Levi, you've overstepped yourself. 00:16:57.620 --> 00:16:59.067 Moses continued with Cora. 00:16:59.067 --> 00:17:14.627 Listen well now, son of Levi, isn't it enough for you that God of Israel has selected you out of the congregation of Israel to bring you near to him, to serve in the ministries of the dwelling of God and to stand before the congregation to minister to them? 00:17:14.627 --> 00:17:21.880 He has brought you and all your brother, levites, into this inner circle, and now you're grasping for the priesthood too. 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:31.425 Let me stop there for a minute, because when you understand what's happening here, korah was a Levite. 00:17:31.425 --> 00:17:45.104 Now, the Levites were given privilege by God to be the ones that would establish his tabernacle, that would establish worship in his temple. 00:17:45.104 --> 00:17:51.571 They were the ones that were giving privilege watch this to be in the inner circle. 00:17:53.379 --> 00:18:12.282 Yeah, when you understand what proximity means to God, you've got to understand that there was a reason that God had established laws and requirements, because if you got too close and you weren't authorized to be there, true, it could cost you your life. 00:18:12.282 --> 00:18:20.346 So God established certain order to allow the people of Israel to have a right relationship with him. 00:18:20.346 --> 00:18:26.875 God established certain perimeters and boundaries so that they wouldn't get beside themselves. 00:18:26.875 --> 00:18:38.769 So now we have somebody that's a part of the inner circle that's saying that oh, man of God, I don't trust your voice, no more, man of God, I don't trust your leadership, no more. 00:18:38.769 --> 00:18:40.385 Who do you think you are? 00:18:40.385 --> 00:18:44.267 All of us, god has called, all of us, god has anointed. 00:18:44.267 --> 00:18:47.609 Who do you think you are to lead us to this place? 00:18:47.609 --> 00:18:49.206 Now let me pause there for a second. 00:18:49.206 --> 00:18:54.591 All of this happened because they didn't get what they wanted when they wanted it. 00:18:57.520 --> 00:19:11.405 This is where the dangers of our life come in when we find ourselves challenging the voice of god, when we find ourselves challenging the leadership and direction of god, all because you and your entitled mind want what you want when you want it. 00:19:11.405 --> 00:19:15.240 But god says there's an order to getting to where I need you to be. 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:33.490 So what we find here is that this inner circle person has now said being here ain't good enough, I want to be closer. 00:19:33.490 --> 00:19:44.914 Now that sounds innocent enough, especially for most of us that truly just want a better relationship with God. 00:19:44.914 --> 00:19:52.368 We want to be closer to his presence, we want to be closer to his hand, we want to be closer to his fire. 00:19:52.368 --> 00:19:59.623 That's great when it's all coming from a pure heart, coming from a pure heart. 00:19:59.643 --> 00:20:05.903 But the reality is many of us only want God because of what he can do for us. 00:20:05.903 --> 00:20:09.982 You don't really want God. 00:20:09.982 --> 00:20:12.082 You want God's provision. 00:20:12.082 --> 00:20:15.302 You don't really want God. 00:20:15.302 --> 00:20:17.201 You want God's promise. 00:20:17.201 --> 00:20:19.581 You don't really want God. 00:20:19.581 --> 00:20:21.729 You want what God can do for you. 00:20:21.729 --> 00:20:28.031 And here we find this leader that had already been given privilege. 00:20:28.031 --> 00:20:29.786 Let me bring it home. 00:20:29.786 --> 00:20:36.965 Here we find chosen city, who's already been given privilege, right where we are. 00:20:36.965 --> 00:20:45.533 But that wasn't good enough, because now we want more. 00:20:45.533 --> 00:21:02.607 You've got to be careful in this season, in this dispensation of time, to ensure that the more that you want is in alignment with what God wants for you, because oftentimes the cash, the clothes and the crib that you want don't align with his will for your life, because he know you won't, he can't trust you with it. 00:21:02.607 --> 00:21:16.375 So now you got an attitude, because God ain't giving you what we have, what we have manipulated the scriptures to say, is ours. 00:21:17.060 --> 00:21:24.222 I had to pause there for a second, because oftentimes we've gotten into this mindset where we've learned how to pimp God. 00:21:24.222 --> 00:21:25.988 Can I talk like the message Bible talk? 00:21:25.988 --> 00:21:27.972 We've learned how to pimp God. 00:21:27.972 --> 00:21:38.130 We've seen some folks get blessed and when they get blessed, we realize that they've gotten blessed when their hands were lifted and when they were giving God a shout of praise. 00:21:38.130 --> 00:21:44.681 So we've realized that in order for me to get what we want, in order for me to get the breakthrough that I need God. 00:21:44.681 --> 00:21:48.480 Somebody told me that when praises go up, blessings come down. 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:50.788 The problem is your heart ain't right. 00:21:50.788 --> 00:22:01.466 Cora, said Cora said Cora said Cora said Cora said Moses, who do you think you are? 00:22:01.466 --> 00:22:04.066 God is with us all. 00:22:04.066 --> 00:22:06.646 Who do you think you are? 00:22:06.646 --> 00:22:09.047 We holy, just like you. 00:22:09.047 --> 00:22:11.446 Who do you think you are? 00:22:11.446 --> 00:22:13.947 We hear from God, just like you. 00:22:13.947 --> 00:22:18.059 Here is why I paused when I read that, eldoranda. 00:22:18.059 --> 00:22:24.504 It's because Moses said all right, bro, you got it. 00:22:24.504 --> 00:22:30.788 Y'all going to catch this in your shana now, in a minute. 00:22:30.788 --> 00:22:31.210 Watch this. 00:22:32.860 --> 00:22:38.173 The first thing he did when he heard them rebel was he fell on his face. 00:22:38.173 --> 00:22:44.846 I need to talk to the worshipers in the room. 00:22:44.846 --> 00:22:51.049 When you feel opposition in your life, they ain't time for you to match energy and throw your hands. 00:22:51.049 --> 00:22:54.386 Pastor told us a few months ago we fight different. 00:22:54.386 --> 00:22:56.442 This is one of the ways we fight. 00:22:56.442 --> 00:22:58.269 When he faced the haters. 00:22:58.269 --> 00:23:01.840 The first thing he did, uh, latara, was fall on his face. 00:23:01.840 --> 00:23:07.281 How many times have you sought the Lord in the face of your enemies? 00:23:07.281 --> 00:23:12.367 How many times have you sought the face of God in the midst of your opposition? 00:23:12.367 --> 00:23:15.249 How many times have you fallen on your face? 00:23:15.249 --> 00:23:21.088 Listen, he fell on his face. 00:23:21.088 --> 00:23:26.309 He fell on his face. 00:23:26.309 --> 00:23:29.303 Then he start talking to his hater. 00:23:29.303 --> 00:23:38.296 He said to his hater it's your world dog, you're the man. 00:23:38.296 --> 00:23:43.868 Listen if you think that you the man, listen if you think that you the chosen one too. 00:23:43.868 --> 00:23:46.614 Here's what I want you to do. 00:23:46.614 --> 00:23:50.726 I want you to go and get a sensor. 00:23:50.726 --> 00:23:54.754 I want all 250 about the about as many of y'all in this room. 00:23:54.754 --> 00:23:58.185 I want, I want all of y'all to go and get your sensors. 00:23:59.067 --> 00:24:03.754 This was a I don't know what you call it. 00:24:03.754 --> 00:24:15.648 It was a material that God commanded them to put fire and incense in in order to offer their worship before God. 00:24:15.648 --> 00:24:20.865 But watch this that was only for certain people to do. 00:24:20.865 --> 00:24:33.250 Moses told the hater if this is what you really want, go and get you a censer. 00:24:33.250 --> 00:24:35.908 I want you to put some fire on it. 00:24:35.908 --> 00:24:44.139 I want you to put some incense on it and tomorrow I want you to go and offer it unto the Lord. 00:24:46.263 --> 00:24:56.071 See, listen, when you already understand the will and the order that God has set up for your life, you ain't got to worry about no hater taking your spot. 00:24:56.071 --> 00:24:59.704 You ain't got to worry about nobody that's hating on where you are. 00:24:59.704 --> 00:25:03.061 You ain't got to even worry about what they've been saying about where you are. 00:25:03.061 --> 00:25:04.246 It's your world, bro. 00:25:04.246 --> 00:25:07.907 If you think you can get to God's presence, go right ahead. 00:25:07.907 --> 00:25:09.585 This is what he was saying. 00:25:09.585 --> 00:25:10.461 Go, go right ahead. 00:25:10.461 --> 00:25:19.539 But what he wasn't telling him was you're operating Out of order. 00:25:19.539 --> 00:25:25.201 Here's what I want to get to. 00:25:28.096 --> 00:25:35.529 Number one God's demand for order supersedes our opinion. 00:25:35.529 --> 00:25:44.207 God's demand for order supersedes our opinion. 00:25:44.207 --> 00:26:00.568 See, korah thought that because he had witnessed all that God had done for Israel, he thought that he was so special that he didn't need the order that God had set up for their life. 00:26:00.568 --> 00:26:13.703 But what I need for you to understand is that before any promise in your life that God has promised to fulfill in your life has to first be met with the requirements for his order. 00:26:13.703 --> 00:26:18.238 We won't. 00:26:18.238 --> 00:26:23.018 We won't the things from God, but we don't want the order of God. 00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:26.746 So look back at this verse again. 00:26:26.746 --> 00:26:33.052 I left off at 10. 00:26:33.052 --> 00:26:33.313 It said that. 00:26:33.313 --> 00:26:43.077 Verse 11, it said it's God that you have ganged up against, not us that you have ganged up against, not us. 00:26:43.077 --> 00:26:49.398 What you have Against Aaron and your bad mouth in him. 00:26:49.398 --> 00:26:54.264 Your issue Is with God, not with me. 00:26:54.264 --> 00:26:55.787 Verse 12. 00:26:55.787 --> 00:27:00.700 Moses then ordered Dathan and Abiram, sons of Elia, to appear. 00:27:00.700 --> 00:27:05.222 But they said Watch this, we not coming. 00:27:05.222 --> 00:27:09.440 Take a sip of water. 00:27:09.500 --> 00:27:31.735 On that one, what I can't stand I'm trying to scan the crowd to make sure I ain't saying that out of order what I can't stand is, uh, what I can't stand I told you I hope y'all praying with me. 00:27:31.735 --> 00:27:35.765 I was telling a brother, uh, on Friday, thursday, he was asking him was I ready? 00:27:35.765 --> 00:27:37.300 I said, man, I've been cussing a lot this week. 00:27:37.300 --> 00:27:41.097 I got to make sure my heart is right, my heart is fixed and my mind's made up. 00:27:41.097 --> 00:27:42.421 I got to make sure it don't nothing slip. 00:27:42.421 --> 00:27:47.337 Listen, I told y'all to make sure you got a delay back there so that we don't go viral for the wrong thing. 00:27:47.337 --> 00:27:53.781 Listen, what I can't stand is for jokers that got so much to say but won't show up. 00:27:53.781 --> 00:28:00.461 You got so much opinion but don't want to show up. 00:28:00.461 --> 00:28:02.322 You got so much attitude, but you don't want to show up. 00:28:02.322 --> 00:28:04.374 You got so much attitude but you don't want to show up. 00:28:04.374 --> 00:28:08.162 You got so much issue but you don't want to show up. 00:28:08.894 --> 00:28:11.679 Everybody talking about the election how many showed up? 00:28:11.679 --> 00:28:15.359 Everybody talking about the issues in the country how many showed up? 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:20.179 Everybody got issues with stuff that's going on in their community how many is showing up? 00:28:20.179 --> 00:28:31.994 Listen? 00:28:31.994 --> 00:28:33.057 Community how many is showing up? 00:28:33.057 --> 00:28:33.398 Listen? 00:28:33.398 --> 00:28:34.861 I want to get all worked up over elections once every four years. 00:28:34.881 --> 00:28:38.349 Jace, where you at the truth of the matter is, we need you on them lines every year. 00:28:38.349 --> 00:28:40.338 You need to be in them. 00:28:40.338 --> 00:28:41.605 City council meetings every month. 00:28:41.605 --> 00:28:42.066 You need to be in them. 00:28:42.066 --> 00:28:43.049 Government planning sessions every month. 00:28:43.049 --> 00:28:43.894 You need to be in them. 00:28:43.894 --> 00:28:45.903 Government planning sessions every month. 00:28:45.903 --> 00:28:47.090 I got some contractors in here. 00:28:47.090 --> 00:28:47.835 Know what I'm talking about. 00:28:47.835 --> 00:28:51.450 You need to know what them planning committee is talking about every month. 00:28:51.450 --> 00:28:54.804 How many planning committee school board meetings have you showed up to? 00:28:54.804 --> 00:28:57.014 But you want to talk about an election? 00:28:58.557 --> 00:29:04.208 The bible says moses told them to here, but they said we're not coming. 00:29:04.208 --> 00:29:10.462 Boy, I promise you I'm trying not to say nothing. 00:29:10.462 --> 00:29:12.642 That's who I want to talk like. 00:29:12.642 --> 00:29:15.036 I want to talk, bernard. 00:29:15.036 --> 00:29:16.298 I want to talk like I want to talk. 00:29:16.298 --> 00:29:17.259 I can't do it right now. 00:29:17.259 --> 00:29:22.869 Help me, lord, watch this. 00:29:22.869 --> 00:29:31.215 This is what they said. 00:29:31.215 --> 00:29:31.696 We're not coming. 00:29:31.716 --> 00:29:37.086 It said isn't it enough that you yanked us out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? 00:29:37.086 --> 00:29:40.979 And now you keep trying to boss us around? 00:29:40.979 --> 00:29:42.000 This is in the word, word. 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:42.822 This is what it say. 00:29:42.822 --> 00:29:58.338 It said face it you haven't produced, you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, you haven't given us the promised inheritance of the fields and vineyard. 00:29:58.338 --> 00:30:02.580 You have to poke our eyes out to keep us from seeing what's going on. 00:30:02.580 --> 00:30:03.258 Forget it. 00:30:03.258 --> 00:30:08.108 We're not coming. 00:30:10.163 --> 00:30:30.483 There's some folk that's adamant that the places that they've been and the things that God has delivered them from is better than where God is taking them to, and they have convinced themselves that where I was is better than where I am. 00:30:30.483 --> 00:30:44.481 My God, what a place to be in when your heart is so overturned with despair that you can't see the things that God has set right before you All. 00:30:44.481 --> 00:30:51.101 Because you were comfortable in bondage, justin, who am I talking to? 00:30:51.101 --> 00:30:54.501 You were comfortable when they had chains on your body. 00:30:54.501 --> 00:30:55.444 You were comfortable. 00:30:55.444 --> 00:31:06.523 I believe that there was a quote from the great Harriet Tubman that said I would have been able to free many more slaves if they realized they were slaves. 00:31:06.523 --> 00:31:13.861 They told Moses we ain't coming. 00:31:15.443 --> 00:31:20.087 So Moses temper blazed white hot. 00:31:20.087 --> 00:31:22.049 Moses was fighting mad. 00:31:22.049 --> 00:31:29.216 Now he said to God don't accept their grain offering. 00:31:29.216 --> 00:31:33.015 I haven't taken so much as a single donkey from them. 00:31:33.015 --> 00:31:34.260 I haven't hurt them. 00:31:34.260 --> 00:31:36.917 I haven't hurt a single hair on their head. 00:31:36.917 --> 00:31:42.264 You know it's mad when the man of God don't even want to pray for you. 00:31:42.264 --> 00:31:45.417 No more, pastor Walt. 00:31:45.417 --> 00:31:47.284 We sorry, we apologize. 00:31:47.284 --> 00:31:54.804 Moses said God don't even listen to him, don't accept none of their worship. 00:31:57.556 --> 00:32:02.377 Moses said to Korah bring your people before God tomorrow, appear there with them. 00:32:02.377 --> 00:32:10.528 And Aaron, have each man bring his censer filled with incense and present it to God. 00:32:10.528 --> 00:32:15.105 All watch this 250 censers. 00:32:15.105 --> 00:32:18.221 And you and Aaron do the same. 00:32:18.221 --> 00:32:19.525 Bring your censers. 00:32:19.525 --> 00:32:23.181 Verse 18 says so. 00:32:23.181 --> 00:32:25.117 They did so. 00:32:25.117 --> 00:32:25.941 They all did it. 00:32:25.941 --> 00:32:31.967 They brought their censers filled with fire and incense and stood at the entrance of the tent meeting. 00:32:31.967 --> 00:32:35.003 Moses and Aaron did the same. 00:32:35.003 --> 00:32:38.662 It was Korah and his gang against Moses and Aaron. 00:32:38.662 --> 00:32:40.406 At the entrance of the tent of meeting. 00:32:40.406 --> 00:32:42.383 The entire community could see the glory of God. 00:32:42.383 --> 00:32:43.246 I'm going to say that again. 00:32:43.246 --> 00:32:44.371 The entire community could see the glory of God. 00:32:44.371 --> 00:32:45.075 I'm going to say that again. 00:32:45.075 --> 00:32:48.144 The entire community could see the glory of God. 00:32:48.144 --> 00:32:50.202 God's about to do something right before your eyes. 00:32:50.202 --> 00:32:52.302 He's about to do it so you can see it. 00:32:52.302 --> 00:32:54.282 He's about to do it so your family can see it. 00:32:54.282 --> 00:33:01.758 He's about to do it so everybody can see it right before their eyes, their eyes. 00:33:01.817 --> 00:33:23.885 The Bible says that God said to Moses and Aaron separate yourself from this congregation so that I can finish them off and be done with it. 00:33:23.885 --> 00:33:48.206 Moses and Aaron's response they fell on their face again because, no matter how much or how bad or how mad he was with Israel, he knew that he didn't want God to ultimately wipe him out because it would impact God's reputation to the entire world. 00:33:48.206 --> 00:34:09.280 Isn't it something to understand that the reason God has allowed you to live with your foul mouth, the reason that God has allowed you to live with your backward heart, with your hard heart and your crazy thinking, the reason that he's allowed you to sustain through all of your drama, is just so that he wouldn't take you out, so the world could see what mercy looked like. 00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:16.846 God told him separate himself. 00:34:16.846 --> 00:34:17.807 I'm about to do a man. 00:34:17.807 --> 00:34:23.063 They threw themselves on their faces and said oh God, oh God of every thing. 00:34:23.063 --> 00:34:26.519 When one man sins, are you going to take out a whole community? 00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:27.581 God spoke to Moses. 00:34:27.581 --> 00:34:33.146 Speak to the community and tell them back off from the tents of Korah, dathan and Abiram. 00:34:33.146 --> 00:34:34.650 Back off, back off. 00:34:34.650 --> 00:34:41.036 I'm telling somebody in here right now back off from the folk that's trying to make you turn your heart against God, back off from them. 00:34:41.036 --> 00:34:42.203 Folk that's trying to make you doubt the hand of God. 00:34:42.203 --> 00:34:42.726 Back off from them. 00:34:42.726 --> 00:34:44.838 Folk that's trying to make you doubt the hand of God, back off from them. 00:34:44.838 --> 00:34:48.260 Folk that's trying to make you regret or giving your life to God. 00:34:48.260 --> 00:34:50.333 Back away, back away, back away. 00:34:50.333 --> 00:34:55.615 Look at somebody and tell them back away, back away, back away, back away. 00:34:58.221 --> 00:35:00.385 Moses got up and went to Dathan and Biram. 00:35:00.385 --> 00:35:03.621 The leaders of Israel followed him. 00:35:03.621 --> 00:35:15.081 He spoke to the community and said back off from the tents of these bad men, don't touch a thing that belongs to them, lest you be carried off in the floods of their sins. 00:35:15.081 --> 00:35:18.837 So they all backed away from the tents of Korah, dathan and Abiram. 00:35:18.837 --> 00:35:26.199 Dathan and Abiram by now had come out and were standing in the entrance of the tents with their wives and children and babies. 00:35:26.199 --> 00:35:29.387 Moses continued to address the community. 00:35:29.467 --> 00:35:38.056 This is how you'll know that it was God who sent me to do all of these things and that it wasn't anything I cooked up on my own. 00:35:38.056 --> 00:35:39.900 You got to watch this because I'm almost done. 00:35:39.900 --> 00:35:48.000 If these men die a natural death like all the rest of us, you'll know that it wasn't God who sent me. 00:35:48.000 --> 00:36:03.561 But if God does something unprecedented, if the ground opens up and swallows a lot of them and they are pitched alive into the show, then you'll know that these men have been insolent with God. 00:36:03.561 --> 00:36:04.644 Watch this 31,. 00:36:04.644 --> 00:36:11.664 It says the words were hardly out of his mouth when the earth split open. 00:36:11.664 --> 00:36:18.804 I need to remind somebody in here that it's dangerous when you're messing with the anointed of God. 00:36:18.804 --> 00:36:25.605 I need to remind somebody in here there's a reason he said touch not my prophet and do him no harm. 00:36:25.605 --> 00:36:40.869 Touch not my anointing and do my prophet no harm because when God's judgment comes down, the Bible says he couldn't get the words out of his mouth and the earth split open and swallowed him whole. 00:36:44.855 --> 00:36:54.719 I believe that God is trying to encourage somebody in here that there's some struggles, some battles. 00:36:54.719 --> 00:37:08.014 You don't have to worry about fighting Some of the things you've been trying to figure out, what the next step was going to be was all because you were getting opposition. 00:37:08.014 --> 00:37:20.530 All because you get an opposition from somebody that's daring to be bold enough to oppose your God. 00:37:20.530 --> 00:37:34.541 To oppose your God I want to remind about 25 of you in here that's falling into that category to allow your heart to be still because the things that God said that he was going to do in your life. 00:37:34.541 --> 00:37:38.181 You don't have to worry about how it's going to get worked out. 00:37:38.181 --> 00:37:41.503 You just continue to speak the word of faith. 00:37:41.503 --> 00:37:43.166 You continue to speak the word of faith. 00:37:43.166 --> 00:37:48.422 You continue to speak the word of life and allow God to deal with judgment the way he's going to deal with it. 00:37:48.422 --> 00:37:51.778 Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, and I will. 00:37:51.778 --> 00:37:55.701 Am I talking to anybody in here? 00:37:58.056 --> 00:38:14.860 God says the Bible says that before he could get the words out of his mouth, before he can get the words out of his mouth, the earth opened and swallowed them alive. 00:38:14.860 --> 00:38:16.764 Watch this. 00:38:16.764 --> 00:38:22.519 At the sound of their cries, everyone around ran for dear life. 00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:26.106 We're about to be swallowed alive. 00:38:26.106 --> 00:38:33.110 Verse 35 says then God sent lightning. 00:38:33.110 --> 00:38:38.815 The fire cremated the 250 men who were offering incense. 00:38:38.815 --> 00:38:39.726 God spoke to Moses. 00:38:39.726 --> 00:38:39.853 Watch this. 00:38:39.853 --> 00:38:41.203 God spoke to Moses. 00:38:41.203 --> 00:38:45.491