Whose On The Lord's Side? (Exodus 32:22-26) | Pastor Kelvin Shaw (Sermon)

There is a war for the worship of your heart.

In this sermon, Pastor Kelvin Shaw preaches from Exodus 32:22–26 and brings us face to face with Moses’ urgent question: “Who is on the Lord’s side?”

The golden calf was not just an ancient idol. It reveals a present-day warning: compromise that is tolerated today can become something that controls us tomorrow. What begins as a small excuse, a hidden habit, divided loyalty, or a desire to fit in can eventually compete with the place that belongs to God alone.

This message is a call to leave every idol, reject every excuse, and step decisively into loyalty, holiness, and surrender to Jesus Christ.

God is not looking for a divided heart. He is calling His people out of compromise, out of mixture, out of fear, and out of anything that has taken His place.

In this episode, you will be challenged to consider:

• What has been competing for the worship of my heart?
• Where have I allowed compromise to become comfortable?
• What excuse have I been using instead of taking responsibility?
• What does it look like to visibly stand on the Lord’s side?

The call is clear: do not let compromise rule you. Choose the Lord. Stand with Him. Surrender fully.

📖 Scripture: Exodus 32:22–26
🎙️ Speaker: Pastor Kelvin Shaw
🎧 Podcast: New Life Now
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Transcript

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Exodus chapter 32. Verses 22 to 26. I'm gonna read out of the new living translation for this first verse. And uh sometimes that you preach a message that you kind of know in your spirit who you're preaching to. Other times you preach sermons where it's for everybody, and you know the Lord's gonna do something. Sometimes you preach and you have no clue who the Lord is working with or who the Lord is speaking to. But other times you know that it's uh it's a direct word for somebody. And uh you might not know who, but I do know that he that hath an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to you and to his church. Exodus chapter 32. If you have it, say I got it. If you don't, it's too late. Don't get so upset, my lord. Aaron replied, and the context of the scripture Aaron had just created a golden calf, and he says, Don't get too upset, my lord. He's not talking to God here, he's talking to Moses. So you see the small L and look what he says, Moses. You yourself know how evil these people are. Verse 23. They said to me, Make us gods who will lead us. We don't know what happened to this fellow Moses. Moses has been gone for 40 days and 40 nights, and imagine your pastor just leaves for 40 days and 40 nights. That sounds like a good idea, actually. I need a vacation. This sister Lee, that's not a good idea. That's not a good idea. What happened to this fellow Moses who brought us here from the land of Egypt? Wait a second, wasn't it God who took them there? Pastors get blamed for everything. Verse 24. So I told them, okay, here's the compromise: whoever has gold jewelry, take it off. And when they brought it to me, look, I simply threw it in the fire, and all of a sudden came this golden calf. Wow, what kind of fire is that? Verse 25. Moses saw that Aaron, his assistant pastor, had let the people get completely out of control, much to the amusement of their enemies. And Moses, verse 26, stands at the entrance to the camp and shouted, All who are on the Lord's side, come here and join me. The Bible says, All the Levites gathered around him. And as I read that, something jumped in my spirit, and I just want to preach from this passage of scriptures, particularly 22 to 24, this subject called whose side are you on? I want you to look at your neighbor and just ask him, who ask him this question? Whose side are you on? Now, next, look at your neighbor on the other side. And this time I want you to point at them and just say, Whose side are you on? Why don't you tell them? I'm on the Lord's side. I'm on the Lord's. Amen. If you put your Bibles down, let's pray one more time that God would have his way. Bow your heads and just speak to God in your own way. Thank you, Heavenly Father, Lord, for the opportunity to be in your presence just one more time. God, you have been so good to us, God. And I believe you have a word for somebody here today. Lord, speak, Lord, through your word. Let it be clear. Let it be filled with your wisdom, with your understanding. Let it be filled with your anointing and your power. Shake somebody's heart this morning. Lord, I don't know who this is for, but I know it's for somebody that's walked in this house. I know it's for somebody that's even watching today online. Bless them, Heavenly Father, and you've brought them to this point of choosing. And Lord, I'm gonna say in advance, I choose you. Above everything else, Lord, we choose you above our own self. We choose you above our circumstances, situation. We choose you, and God, we're gonna be careful to give you all the glory and honor that's due to your name. Bless this service, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray. Somebody shout amen. And you may be seated in God's presence. Exodus chapter 32 is quite an amazing set of scriptures because it shows that there are moments in Scripture where there is a distance between God's glory and our compromise. In Exodus chapter 19, you'll see that Israel stood at the foot of Mount Sinai. This mountain at that time was trembling under the power of God. It had clouds, it had fire, it had lightning. And the Lord, if you read in Exodus 19, speaks out of the cloud, out of this mountain. The people are so afraid, they say, we don't want to hear from God, but we'll hear from God through Moses. And God sets up a contract with his people, and the people at that point decide that they are going to hear and listen to the word of God. Exodus 19 and 8 tells us, all that the Lord has spoken, they say we will do. At this point, they had seen God do so much in their life. Exodus, the seventh to twelfth chapter, we read and we watch them going through all the plagues in Egypt. We see God miraculously cut down every God with every plague of Egypt. And God shows them and shows the world who he is. God shows and answers a question that Pharaoh asked when Moses first went to Pharaoh. He said, I don't know of your God. I don't know who you're talking about, Moses. Who are you to tell me, let my people go? And Pharaoh said that long enough for God to answer him. And God answered him through the plagues. Exodus 7 to 12, we'll see that. We see that the people of God in Exodus 14, 21 and 22, that they have walked all the way to the Red Sea. We know the scripture. If you don't know, I'm letting you know that Moses and had brought a million plus people to the corner, the edge of what we call the Red Sea. The enemy came and chased them, and they didn't know what to do. And Moses lifted up his hands and lifted up the provision of God, the rod of God, and miraculously the Red Sea opened. And they walked on dry land. They knew what it was like to be following God in the wilderness and be fed and clothed by God. Their clothes did not expire. Their shoes on their feet, although they were walking in a dusty wilderness, stayed clean and stayed right. They even were fed by God. Exodus 16, 4, and chapters verse 14 and 15. It also tells us that they ate this bread called manna. Mana really wasn't his name, but manna was how they described it. Mana is what is this? It was a heavenly food that they got directly from God. They even had supplements from a rock. I don't know about you, but I don't remember the last time I got refreshing spring water from a rock. Why don't you go outside and pick up a rock and see how much water you can squeeze out of it? You might just get a bit of dust. They had seen the miraculous hand of God move upon them in every situation. And not only that, God led them day and night. The Bible says there was a cloud hanging over them in the day. And if the cloud moved in the day, it was God's instruction for them to move. And God didn't leave them in the night either. The Bible says there was a pillar of fire that came down at night and showed them exactly where to go and how to get there. God had brought them out. However, we see in Exodus 32 a reminder that even though God brings his people out of Egypt, the real problem or the real struggle is getting Egypt out of the people. Because while Moses was on the mountain receiving commandments from God, the people were at the bottom of the mountain losing patience with God's timing. Moses had been gone too long for their comfort. Yes, the cloud was still there. They could still see where Moses was, but they were upset because they could not see Moses anymore. And they said to themselves, who's leading us here? Remember, they made an agreement. They didn't want to hear from God from themselves. They only wanted to hear from God through their leader, Moses. So when Moses took too long, they started to get uneasy. Can I tell you this morning? Impatience can make people manufacture what faith is supposed to walk us through. So they came to Aaron and they said, Aaron, make us gods who will lead us. Now let me tell you something. They weren't really asking for God to be replaced. They just wanted something in the place of God to worship instead of God. Oh, some of you will catch that later. You see, they were comfortable still saying we're gonna worship God, but we want to worship God through our man-made traditions. Uh-oh. I'm gonna worship God in what I can see and what I can form. And if if it's not to my liking, I won't worship him anymore. So we see the Bible tells us that the same Aaron that witnessed the voice of God through Moses, the same Aaron that watched God do many miracles to take them out of Egypt, takes gold, puts it in his hand, and the Bible says that he forms it into a calf. And the people begin to worship what their hands had already made. You see the golden calf is not just an idol in the camp, but it's really a recovery or a showing, an uncovering of what their heart really was. They had a divided heart. God on one side, their own creation on the other. You see, they wanted God's blessings, but they didn't want God's boundaries. They wanted the protection of God, Brother Davis, but they didn't want the authority of God in their life. Come on, somebody. Oh I want to be called the people of God, but I don't want to do anything that the people of God do. And here lies the tension of the text. Because the greatest danger is not always that people stop talking about God, but sometimes the greatest danger is that we keep the language of worship while giving our loyalty to something else. The exchange glory of the living God for something that can be made by their own hands. And really that's the danger that can happen in all of our hearts. Can I tell you the devil is not afraid of us worshiping God? He doesn't try to stop us from worshiping God, but he does try to put allow us to demote God. You don't have to deny him, but just demote him. Don't deny him, but just don't put him first. Can I talk real this morning? He doesn't have to convince us to stop coming to church. He only has to convince us that Jesus is only a part of our life and not the fullness of our life. It's getting quiet in here. That's okay. That's okay. Just stay quiet. Just stay quiet. The devil doesn't have to take God out of our mouth, but he does try to take him out of our rule. So the question I want to ask this morning is not do you simply believe in God, but the question is what I want to ask is what Moses asked. Whose side are you on? By this time, Moses comes down the mountain and the camp is totally out of control. He sees the people. In fact, Joshua is like, I'm hearing worship. If you read it, Joshua says, I hear worship. And you see, worship can sound a different way, but it it there's many people that worship, but it's when Joshua came down, he found out who they were actually worshiping. Moses gets so upset. He takes the same tablets that God just gave him and throws it at the calf. Busts up the tablets. These were the tablets that God wrote by his own finger. You know, Moses wasn't really supposed to be doing that. You say, really? The next time he wrote the tablets, God said, You since you broke mine, you write it this time. So Moses had to chisel it on the rock the next time. Be angry and sin not, Moses. Be angry. And Moses, if you read the story, he I don't even, this is it sounds so crazy, Brother Jamel. He grinds up the calf and puts it in Kool-Aid. And he says, You drink it now. It wasn't Kool-Aid, it was water. Puts it to dust, puts in water, says, You drink this calf. Because sometimes if we worship things that aren't God too long, God will make us drink the consequences. I heard it say, we can't pray our way out of what we behave our way into. And Moses doesn't turn to the people right away, and he he turns to Aaron and he says to Aaron, basically, can I paraphrase, what are you doing? How did this happen? And Aaron does what many of us do even today. Somebody else made me do it. Excuses. He says, You know how evil they are? He says, They brought the gold to me. All I did is throw it into the fire. And can I tell you, out came this calf? Aaron says probably one of the most unbelievable statements in the Bible that we've ever seen. Because later on we see, earlier on in Exodus chapter 19, and even the earlier in Exodus 32, we see that the Bible says that Aaron is the one who actually crafted himself. But like all of us, when God challenges us, the first thing we do is look to blame somebody else. Aaron, if I could talk to Aaron, and one day when I when I get on the other side, I'm gonna talk to Aaron and say, Aaron, what was that about? Aaron, are you kidding me? I read the scripture, you created it, and then you turn around and say, I don't know how this happened. It tells me something that our idols don't just come out of fire, but our idols come out of compromise. Someone trying to say, oh, well, this person made me do it. And here's here's the famous one the devil made me do it. There's uh years ago that used to have a bumper sticker and it says, the devil made me do it. I don't think so. And what I realize in this scripture is what we compromise today will rule us tomorrow. But Moses stands at the camp after confronting the compromise. And he stands and says, Whose side are you on? Where are you going this morning? What direction are you gonna head? Worship is never gonna be just a neutral place. Can I tell you in Christ, you're either on his side or on the other side? I know this is not a shouting message this morning. Many times God is calling us with the same message. Whose side are you on? Who, who's, who, who, which team are you on? I'm team Jesus or I'm team everybody else. Several years ago, I read this book. Um the author's name is Kyle Eidelman, and the book is called God at War. Or God's at War. And uh this book challenges anybody who reads it. If you want a good book, it's a great book to read. It's challenging the thought process that at some point we have to decide as people who sits on the throne. The book argues that the greatest battle in our life is not whether or not we believe God, but whether or not God stays. At the forefront of our lives. It uses the concept of idols. And it goes all the way back to Exodus chapter 20, verse 3 to 5. Can we read this? Did I give that to you on the screen? Exodus chapter 20, verse 3 to 5. It says, this is out of the Ten Commandments, you shall not, you shall have no other gods before me. This is God speaking to his people. Verse 4. You shall not make yourselves a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water underneath. Verse 5, it says, You shall not bow down to them nor serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. And he visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hates me. And the foundation of this book is pulled from this. You shall not have any other God before me. The foundation is not just simply talking about carved images, although it includes it. But the foundation of this book that is pulled from the word of God is saying that God is saying there's nothing that we should put before Him. We call that word an idol. Now, oftentimes when we think about an idol, we think about a statue, right? We think about something that's made, we think about something that's carved, we we think about something that people bow down to. But the book says and it's challenging us that idols, although they previously were and still are in images, idols also change clothes. Meaning that idols show up in our modern day life in other ways. Basically, it tells us that idols, there's anything that we allow to put before God. Anything prescient, or we think that it's more precious than the presence of God can be an idol. Can I talk to a few things here? It says comfort can be an idol. You're like, what? Comfort. Somebody say, I'm comfortable. Let me let me get uncomfortable. It talks about pleasure as an idol and entertainment as an idol and success. And it even says relationships can be in idols, careers can be in idols, control can be in idols. It even says idols that happen from other people in our life. That rejection from people can be an idol, failure can be an idol, loss and criticism can be an idol. And I as I'm reading this book, I say, whoo, those idols, they they're pretty common in the day that we live in. Is anybody still with me? But the question really is: who sits on the throne? I realize reading through this book, everybody worships something. Say, Pastor, I don't worship anything. Well, you worship something. You know what? You worship yourself. Some people worship comfort. I'll come to the house of God as long as it doesn't disrupt my schedule. Brother Davis, can you preach with me? I said everybody's getting quiet in here. It's okay, Sister Lee. I'm gonna serve God as long as it works with my schedule. I'm gonna pray as long as there's nothing on my Instagram feed that's more important. Uh-oh, I'm touching somebody here. Some people worship approval. I'm too afraid of disappointing this pastor, this person, or this other person, or uh and and I'm I'm more concerned about disappointing somebody rather than disappointing God. Some people worship money. Money becomes more than just a tool. And how many people want to have more money? Look, nobody's honest here. That was a trick. I wanted to see. Look, I want to have more money. Look, look. Let me ask that again. Now that you heard me the real time, how many people want more money here? Okay, okay. You didn't raise your hand, you have enough. I'm gonna see you after church. My wife put two hands up. What happened? You see, money is just a tool. But it's not my security. It's not my peace. It's not my identity. I know they have pictures of people's face on money, but give to Caesar what is due to Caesar and give to God. Oh, come on, somebody. You see, because whether I have it or not, God is still sitting on the throne. I feel like preaching now. Some people want to worship relationships. Oh, I'm gonna compromise my holiness to keep somebody else happy. But can I tell you whether you're with me or not, I'm gonna stand on the word of God. Come on, somebody, because I know who I worship. Some people worship pleasure. You know what is wrong with pleasure? It's something that you chase after that you never catch up to. Ooh, that just came out of my head, Sister Shaw. Pleasure is fleeting every time I think I get up to it. I I think I obtain it and it keeps running. That's why you can have all the pleasure in the world. But if you don't have Jesus, you'll still feel empty inside. I'm talking about who is on the throne. Some people worship control. I don't mind that God is my savior. I just struggle with him being my Lord. Uh-oh. Yeah, he can save me, but he can't tell me what to do. Oh, God, quiet. I'm preaching good. Probably. He's the savior of my life, but just don't let him lead me. Come on, somebody. I uh I'm talking about a worship that says, God, you can save me and you can keep me and you can lead me, and no matter what is happening in my life, I'm gonna follow the Lord. I think the scripture says, the righteous man follow. Come on, somebody. But here's the biggest idol of all, Brother Davis. It's not, the biggest idol is not, and this is the idol that all of us will wrestle with at some point or the other. Maybe you're saying, well, Pastor Shaw's not speaking to me because I don't worship approval and comfort and success and relationships and pleasure. But can I tell you there is one idol that we all fight? Somebody do this, just take your hand and then turn it back to yourself. It's the idol of self. It's the idol of my will, my feelings, my preferences, my timing, my opinion, and my way. But hear me clearly this morning. The greatest idols are not often the things that we hate. The greatest idols are the things that we love too much, you see that I don't have to wrestle with loving everybody else, but I really love myself too much. There's something going around called main character syndrome. Anyone ever heard of it? It means that we always, as humans, we we put ourselves in every scenario. You ever done that? You ever heard this before? You're talking about your own struggle, you're talking about your own stuff, and somebody says, Oh, yeah, me too. And before you're done telling the story, they start dominating and tell you everything about. Oh, now I got a couple people understand. Oh, I have a headache this morning. Oh, if you saw the headache I had last week, it blew my head off. My back's hurting. Oh my Lord, I don't have a back anymore. See, I don't of self. But here's what the Lord says. I will not share my glory with another. I will not give my glory to anyone else. God says, I look before me, I look behind me, and I know I'm for God. He's willing to try to let us know. That is the only one. So who sits on your throne this morning? And guess what? Idols don't come out of nowhere. Look at that scripture again. Exodus 32 and 24. Can I take my time? I'm gonna do it anyway, isn't that what I always say? Exodus 32 and 24. They gave me the gold, they took it off, they brought it to me. I simply threw it in the fire. And out came this calf. Aaron is the one who shaped it. Aaron is the one who crafted it. Aaron's the one who even had the idea to create the calf. He left out one simple statement. I shaped it. And here's what we don't like to hear, and and I'm including myself. Because a lot of the struggles we end up into is not because of somebody else. I shaped it. The fire never creates idols, it only reveals what compromise has formed. And you know what compromise is? Compromise is the slow surrender of convictions we used to hold. I know what God said, but let me leave room to have my own interpretation of it. And small compromises, they start exactly how I was described, small. I wonder what got Aaron to that point. He said, Maybe he thought, you know, well, they're still gonna be worshiping God. So it's not that serious. Everybody's doing it. Maybe he thought, I'm gonna be able to control how big this idol is. So it won't be as big as the mountain, but it's just small. It still will be smaller than God. But like I said, what we tolerate today always rules our tomorrow. Here's a question in a serious tone for you. What's been shaped and shaped in your life? I'm not here to condemn anybody, but I feel the Lord really asking this question to somebody. What have you let, what have we let stay too long in our life? That's really not supposed to be there. What have I called as a weakness? Oh, it's just a weakness. What is really an idol? What can I blame the fire for? But thank God the scripture doesn't stop there. Moses stands at the gate, stands at the camp. The idol has been busted down. The music suddenly screeches and stops. Celebration is no more. And the people are staring at Moses. Kind of like how you're staring at me. And Moses has a paraphrase, who is on God's side? And look how he says it. He says, if you put up the scripture, Exodus 32 and 26. He stands there and says, whoever is on God's side, come here and join me. I'm gonna preach in a second, but can we can we can we catch this? He doesn't just declare, who is on God's side? But he says, whoever is on the Lord's side, come here and join me. I was thinking about this and I was like, Lord, what is so particular about this? And there's something special here. Uh can I do an example of brother Johnson? If you're on the Lord's side, come and stand here with me. Brother Gaynor, if you're on the Lord's side, come stand here with me. Now, I'm I'm gonna use somebody as a bad example. Who wants to be a bad example? Hello, Andrea. Now, when I call you this time, don't move. Just say, just agree with me. Andrea, if you're on the Lord's side, come here. Now, now I want you to say it with a little bit more umph, okay, this time. Like, just just respond to the first part. If you're on the Lord's side, when I say it on the Lord's side, just go, yeah, I'm on the Lord's side, okay? Everybody help her. Andrea, if you are on the Lord's side, come and join me. She even had the organ with her. One more time. Now I'll I want you to, this time I want you to stand up and just wave and and Chanel, why don't you help her? Help her out. I need some organ, and you know what? I want everybody just to chair for her when she does it. If you're on the Lord's side, I want you to come here. That was a good job. You see, what I realized is a difference between just praising what I hear and true worship to God. True worship to God always causes us to move to the direction of where God is taking his people. So it's not good enough to just come and say, ooh, and yeah, I love the Lord. Oh, I love God, I serve him with everything. Oh, don't you hear how good I can praise him, Shelby. But if I stay in the same position that I was before and after, it will just be a lip service unto God. Uh-oh. You see, when when I'm moving with God, it means I I go where God tells me to go. And if God, if God is telling me to talk a certain way, I talk the way God tells me to talk. Uh-oh, I'm gonna mess with something. And I and I I look the way the Lord tells me to look. And and this is even more important. I think the way the Lord tells me to think. You see, just like that example, it doesn't do anything. If I say, Yeah, I'm on his side and stand and do nothing. But if I'm called by God, God will always make me move in the direction that he wants us to go. Some of you, you want to know how you know you're serving God, not because you move at everybody else's face, but you still move. Step by step, little by little. Glory to glory. How do I know that I'm really uh living for God? It's because I every time God moves in the direct, every time I open up the word and I see something from me, I don't just hear it, I get happy about it, but I begin to follow wherever he goes. So I follow. Well, I I'm I'm but again, there's something moving me here in the spirit. You see, it's the undercurrent. I and this is what this is what I like. This is what I like what Jesus is doing in this place because it's not just with a shout with our mouth, it's off he's asking somebody to move on his side. So when he says, Who's on my side? Come here, he's asking. I want you to come a little bit closer to me. He said, Pastor Sean, thank you, brothers. Didn't they do a great job? He said, Pastor Sean, is this really what the Lord does? Can I tell you all through the scripture? All through the scripture, God asks this question: Who is on my side? Moses. Exodus 32, 26. He says, Who's on the Lord's side? Come here, Joshua. Joshua 24 and 15, he says, Choose you this day. Whom you will serve, Elijah. 1 Kings 18, 21, and says, How long will you halt between two opinions? Jesus shows up on the screen scene and says, You can't serve two masters. And they say, How do I get there? He says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. Come on, somebody. The whole Bible, what God is even telling us today is, whose side are you on? The question hasn't changed. And God is still asking, Whose side on your own? And can I tell you, we don't overcome idols by just declaring things. We overcome idols by moving a little closer. Wherever God is telling us, whatever he's saying to us, we don't declare, we don't overcome it by just saying, Oh, I've overcome. It says, I've oh in fact, the Bible says, Thank you, Lord, I overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of the testimony. You know what your testimony is? Your testimony is testifying of what you've walked through. So I overcome things by walking through things. And here's I'm about to close. I'm gonna close. You're saying, Pastor Charles, isn't it too early? We have an opportunity to say yes to the same question this morning. God is asking, Where is your heart? Will you give me my heart? Your heart? We can say yes. In fact, somebody say that yes. God is asking, can I have your plans? Can I have your relationships? Can I have your your life? I'm not asking this question. Here's a bigger one. God is asking, can I have your habits? Can I have your future? Can I have your throne? You see, the Levites didn't just say yes with their mouths, and I'm not saying that for us, but they took a step towards God. Now look at this. The Levites are one of the 12 tribes of Israel. The Bible says that they're the only group that stepped towards God. And look what's important. For them to step towards God, they had to step away from everything else. You see, our walk with God constitutes us stepping towards God, but sometimes it also includes stepping away from the things that hold us back. I don't want to serve God because of this person. What will they think about me? Sometimes I gotta step away. I don't want to serve God because my resources are too important. Sometimes I gotta step away and just say yes. And today, this is the call as we stand this morning. Music, you can come back. This call is really not for perfect people. If you're perfect people, if you're perfect, I'm not speaking to you. So if you're perfect, you can relax. But I'm not talking to perfect people, but I am talking to people that are willing to move to what God is calling them to. This altar call this morning is for everybody, and really as I was thinking about this word, I was thinking, Lord, calm me down today. So I I I really want to just get this message through. God is calling somebody to just take another step towards Him. This is a if you want to know, Pastor, how do I respond to a word like this? A respond is just saying, God, wherever you see me, I want to consecrate even more to you. That means that unless you're perfect, you don't have to consecrate. But if you know that you're not perfect, I want you just to say, God, let me go a little farther in you today. You see, can I tell you this word is for me just as much as it is with you when the Lord was when showing me this word? I said, Lord, what areas of my life should I lay down so that I can get closer to you? And I realized what Moses was doing was not really about condemnation, it was an invitation. Who's on God's side? Come and join me. You don't know all the wonderful things that He's told me on the mountain about you. Come so that you can hear. And this morning, this altar call is going to be open for those that just say, God, I want a little bit more from you. Yes, God, I've been serving you for a long time, but I haven't exhausted what you have for my life. There's still more than I can get. So here's my question to you, and this altar is open. Who is on the Lord's side? If you're on the Lord's side and something is speaking to you, I'm asking you just to make this place an altar. You say, Pastor, I don't know what to do up here. Just say, God, not my will, but thy will be done. God, not anything that I have, but everything that you have in me. And just declare a yes. Even from your seat, you can do it. Declare a yes. Come on, somebody, lift your voice in this house and just say, God, yes. Whatever you have for me, yes, Lord. Yes, Lord, yes, Lord, yes, Lord. That's it. Lift your voice in this house.