WEBVTT 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:11.759 You're listening to the road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:20.719 Men and women, I think it's really important that even when everybody else forgets about you, God doesn't. 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:22.640 Even in your own family. 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:37.039 I mean, we get a picture again in the next chapter in the Valley of Elah with how his brothers almost despise David with such a condescending attitude toward their youngest brother, David. 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:42.000 He's not really esteemed highly, even in his own family. 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:45.759 But God notices his heart. 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:52.079 At The Road, our vision is to raise up wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ. 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:56.640 For more information on The Road, visit theroad.org. 00:00:56.799 --> 00:01:01.920 We hope you are encouraged by today's message from Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:12.719 We are in the second week of Worshiper Warrior, and we are looking at the life of David. 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:15.359 Some of you know this, some of you may not. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:34.879 But five years ago, when I resigned at Mountain Springs Church, not knowing what God had for me, but having had the word seven times the road less traveled, I began to walk and walk and prayer walk mile after mile each day. 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:38.079 Really, really a difficult time. 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:50.879 And I would walk sometimes for hours out in Black Forest where I live, and then come back to my fire pit and read about this guy named David. 00:01:52.400 --> 00:02:00.239 And God used David in my life to restore my heart. 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:09.439 And it's my conviction, because there's more about David than anyone else in all of the Bible, his motivations, his sin. 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:11.759 Talk about a saint and sinner. 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:18.240 I read one author who said, if there's ever anybody who is bipolar in the Bible, it's David. 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:32.080 I mean, his notorious sin, if you ask almost anybody, even on the street, you know anything about David in the Bible, it's going to be Goliath and David and Bathsheba. 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:33.680 I mean, that's what everybody knows. 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:48.479 Well, those are pretty, a pretty good picture, prophetic picture of the man David at his lowest, probably not his highest, but definitely close to one of his highest with the battle in the Valley of Elah with Goliath. 00:02:49.759 --> 00:03:08.479 So it's my prayer, as we talk about being worshippers and warriors here at the road, and you hear me talk about it all the time, it's the name of our men's ministry, that you would understand that with David we can relate to a man who wasn't perfect. 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:11.599 He certainly didn't have altar boy qualities. 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:22.080 But God judged him and raised him up, not because of the morality of his life, but because of the direction of his heart. 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:35.439 And so as we look at David, we're looking at a man whose heart, the only man in the Bible who it says his heart was hard after God, and he had a heart after God's heart. 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:53.840 And in God's somehow mysterious editing process, men and women, of how he views a man, how he views a woman, he looks differently at us than we look at ourselves. 00:03:54.319 --> 00:04:17.040 And in a in a world where the church has been prominent in our nation since its founding, religious traditions have built up and ways of judging churches and judging each other, many times have been become very different than what the inerrant, infallible scriptures show us. 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:22.720 And I think this is no better true and no deeper true than in the life of David. 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:32.959 So if you turn in your Bibles to 1 Samuel 16, and we talked about being wholehearted last week, and so I don't want to cover that again. 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:51.600 But here's what I believe: I believe David is a prophetic witness to us today that began with the New Testament, with the coming of the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts, of a new work of the Spirit, a new work of God's Spirit in the nations today that are affecting us. 00:04:51.839 --> 00:05:06.639 And really, Mark and Carrie and Dallas and Dan and you guys here in Schuyler are a picture of what the scriptures prophetically said in the book of Acts. 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:17.519 This is in Acts 15, it says, After this I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down. 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:25.920 I will rebuild its ruins and I will set it up so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord. 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:29.839 Now I'm not going to go into it today, but next week I'll cover it more. 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:47.519 This idea of what David did in raising up worship artists, what David did in raising up thousands of men and women to make up choirs and praise and worship like the world had never seen at that time. 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:52.480 And God is raising up that tabernacle of David again in our day. 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:53.519 It's exciting. 00:05:53.759 --> 00:06:09.439 I remember going to Newport Beach, California in the 70s and being introduced to Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa and seeing a rock band up front. 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:13.360 I was like, now this is an oxymoron, if I'd ever seen one. 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:16.079 I had grown up Lutheran, high church. 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:19.439 My dad was a liturgical high church guy, clerical collar. 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:20.480 I was an acolyte. 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:23.759 Crucifer carried the cross in with the choir behind me. 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:30.879 The biggest controversy in the Lutheran church in the 1960s and 70s was they changed the color of the hymnal. 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:33.279 Now that's some big wars right there, folks. 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:34.000 Let me just tell you. 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:35.199 That's really important. 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:48.399 And then I go out and I see this band, I see Chuck Gerard on the stage, and I see Love Song, and we'd go on Friday nights, and I, my mind was blown out. 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:49.920 I could not believe it. 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:59.360 And I remember coming back to the South after that, and nobody could believe what I had seen because I didn't have a little camera on my phone, you know? 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:01.519 And so I said, no, they don't do that. 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:02.480 No, they do, man. 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:03.279 I'm telling you. 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:04.879 It's a new kind of music. 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:06.800 It's coming to the church. 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:09.040 Tabernacle of David. 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:11.199 Men and women being built. 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:18.639 A new way of looking at church, a new way of looking at life as worshipers and warriors like the world had never seen. 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:20.800 And God's raising that up again, even in our day. 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:31.199 Do you realize, men and women, there's more people alive today in the world than all the people that have ever lived combined? 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:45.040 That means that in this generation, as God brings revival, as God brings reformation, as God brings a revolution of the kingdom of God, we're going to populate heaven like never before in history. 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:50.399 And God has his hand on this generation, the next generation, and the next. 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:56.000 And that's why we say around here, we're building a kingdom of God revolution that will last for a hundred years. 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:14.639 If we were to come back a hundred years, we would want to, if the Lord tarries, that God would have built a strong and powerful worshiper and warrior church, building wholehearted disciples of Jesus that is still having an influence and an impact upon our city and upon the Rocky Mountain region. 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:21.439 So in 1 Samuel 16, let's pick it up again, like we did last week, verse 6. 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:24.879 So it was when they came, this is Samuel. 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:31.519 If you remember, he comes to Bethlehem, he's been instructed by the Lord to anoint the next king. 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:38.720 So it was when they came that he looked at Eliab, that's the oldest son, and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before him. 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:47.279 So even Samuel is still looking as a man looks, still looking at height and looks and pedigree. 00:08:47.840 --> 00:09:03.279 But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him, for the Lord does not see as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:09.360 So Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel and said, Neither has the Lord chosen this one. 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:14.240 Then Jesse made Shammah pass by, and he said, Neither has the Lord chosen this one. 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:19.759 Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:24.000 And Samuel said to Jesse, The Lord has not chosen any of these. 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:29.519 And Samuel said to Jesse, Are all the young men here? 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:31.679 I think he's confused at this point. 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:36.480 And then he said, Oh, wait, I forgot. 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:39.679 There remains yet the youngest. 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:42.320 Oh, there he is. 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:46.879 So he must have looked out the window or something, keeping the sheep. 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:54.559 And Samuel said to Jesse, send and bring him, for we will not sit down until he comes here. 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:57.039 Men and women. 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:06.159 I think it's really important that even when everybody else forgets about you, God doesn't. 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:08.480 Even in your own family. 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:28.799 I mean, we get a picture again in the next chapter in the Valley of Elah, with how his brothers almost despise David with such a condescending attitude toward their youngest brother, David, he's not really esteemed highly, even in his own family. 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:32.480 But God notices his heart. 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:41.840 There's something about the secret places with God that gets only God's attention. 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:54.159 Those times of prayer, those times of crying out to God when nobody's there and nobody notices, and nobody gives any mention to who you are, God does. 00:10:54.720 --> 00:11:02.480 And God is noticing something in David about his heart that he's calling out. 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:05.679 So he went and brought him in. 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:10.320 He was ruddy with bright eyes and good looking. 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:13.840 And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him, for this is the one. 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:19.360 Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:24.320 And the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:27.200 So Samuel arose and went to Rama. 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:33.440 But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a distressing spirit from the Lord troubled him. 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:35.919 And let me just make an addendum here to this. 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:44.799 All through the Old Testament, any demonic spirit is seen as a spirit from God. 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:48.080 It's actually part of the dispensation of that period. 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:50.240 You see it different in the New Testament. 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:53.440 It's concealed in the old and revealed in the new. 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:56.159 So we believe this is a demonic spirit. 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:01.519 And Saul's servant said to him, Surely a distressing spirit from God is troubling you. 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:11.120 Let our master now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is a skillful player on the heart. 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:18.960 And it shall be that he will play it with his hand when the distressing spirit from God is upon you, and you shall be well. 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:25.279 So Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man who can play well and bring him to me. 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:27.600 I want to talk about a resume. 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:29.679 The resume of David. 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:31.600 David had a resume. 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:33.360 David had a resume. 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:39.840 And I believe there's a spiritual resume for all of us men and women that God is developing in you. 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:42.720 So we often look at our educational pedigree. 00:12:42.879 --> 00:12:47.279 We often look at maybe how intelligent we are, our IQ, or whatever. 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:52.320 But God has a spiritual resume that He's developing in your life. 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:56.240 And that spiritual resume is usually developed through hardship. 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:58.559 It's usually developed through difficulties. 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:06.080 And how we start responding to those situations that are difficult in our life are actually forming a spiritual resume. 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:12.799 So for the next few weeks, I'm going to talk about a spiritual resume of a worshiper and warrior. 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:15.679 And I want you to notice a key word here. 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:21.200 It says here, verse 16, he was skillful. 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:24.399 David was skillful. 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:28.799 David is 13 years old, we believe. 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:30.080 Some say 15. 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:33.039 So between 13 and 15, I'm going to choose 13. 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:39.440 He's 13 years old because we know for 17 years he ran from Saul, and at 30 he became king, so I believe he's 13. 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:41.200 I'm pretty good at math. 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:47.759 But at 13 and at 13, listen now, he's developed a skill. 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:52.000 I love what my wife has often said, every kid is a genius. 00:13:52.240 --> 00:14:04.320 Every kid has a skill, and it's probably one of the most important things we do as parents is to notice the potential in our kids and call it out. 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.759 So someone had noticed it, I don't know if someone had noticed it. 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:13.200 David had a heart after God, and he and he had developed a skill on a heart. 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:20.799 Malcolm Gladwell, in his powerful book, Outlier, explains the importance of the 10,000-hour rule, is what he called it. 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:24.879 10,000-hour rule in developing a skill. 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:44.480 Which he considers the key to success in any field, a matter of practicing a specific task that can be accomplished with 20 hours of work a week for 10 years, or 40 hours a week for five years, of focused attention on a skill. 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:46.000 David, can you believe this? 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:50.240 David at 13 has put in probably 10,000 hours on the heart. 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:54.080 And he's become skilled in his life. 00:14:54.720 --> 00:15:00.000 Listen up, young people, it's so important to develop a skill. 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:04.320 The education need, if you want to be a doctor, you're gonna have to go to college. 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:07.039 If you want to be an engineer, you're gonna have to go to college. 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:11.679 If you want to be someone who is a mechanic, then you gotta work on cars. 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:15.360 If you're a woman and you want to be a housewife, you gotta get married. 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:17.759 I don't know the 10,000 hour rule. 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:21.279 Don't date for 10,000 hours, please. 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:29.679 But Proverbs 22 says, Do you see someone skilled in their work, they shall stand before kings. 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.440 Some of you know Amy Lathan here in our church. 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:35.279 Amy's been a county commissioner. 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:39.120 And she and I were in the back talking today. 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:44.320 And she's now managing Cimarron Hills in that water district. 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:46.960 Has 44 employees under her. 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:53.200 And she couldn't have that job if she hadn't been a county commissioner. 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:59.039 And all the aspects of the education that goes with the leadership that would put her in the position she is now. 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:02.480 And she prays all the time. 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.559 She prays at work, she prays with employees. 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:08.000 Her door is open. 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:17.360 They see a difference in Amy's life because she's bringing the presence of the kingdom into that role, but she's skilled. 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:19.759 Develop a skill. 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:27.120 You know it's interesting in Ephesians 1, it talks about the spirit of wisdom and revelation. 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:32.080 In Acts 2, it talks about the anointing and the power of the Holy Spirit coming. 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:34.240 Do you guys realize that's the same spirit? 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:35.919 Hello? 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:37.919 That's the same spirit. 00:16:38.159 --> 00:17:03.279 So when we're developing a skill or we're working to be something that God's called us to be, to be a missionary in that, maybe in that role or in that job that we have, asking the Spirit for wisdom and revelation to be there and to be used of God there, that's just as spiritual as the Holy Spirit coming upon us and us singing a song. 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:06.799 God anoints us for things. 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:08.640 Some of you are artists. 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:12.480 Some of you are principals of schools and educators and lawyers. 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:13.440 Man. 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:16.720 That's huge. 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:22.319 It's interesting though, because I want to put a different light on Gladwell. 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:35.440 New research on brain development and skills acquisition is showing that one can master a skill much faster than the 10,000-hour rule that Gladwell espoused. 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:42.079 In recent years, there's been a flurry of interest in skill acquisition and particularly rapid skill acquisition. 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:45.759 Tim Ferris, in his book, The Four-Hour Chef. 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:50.640 I'm not saying you want to be a chef, but this is where the research comes out of. 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:56.000 Throughout his book, Ferris introduced millions of readers to the idea of meta-learning. 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:58.960 That is the learning about learning. 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:05.599 What they're doing right now, and you guys have heard me talk about this before with neuroscience, and I would call it neurotheology. 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:17.200 Neurotheology, the idea that God, in his creation, has actually created your brain to learn stuff faster than normal. 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:28.319 That you can pick up, you can pick up things, you can develop new habits, you can develop new skills way faster than even the 10,000-hour rule, but you learn by learning. 00:18:28.799 --> 00:18:36.640 In other words, as we start to study how the brain works, we're learning that if we'll do those things, that we can learn faster. 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:37.759 So it's learning about learning. 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:39.920 He says three things, and I just passed this on to you. 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:43.680 Number one, create a smart feedback loop. 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:46.400 Create a smart feedback loop. 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:53.119 In other words, let's say you want to play the guitar or you want to learn to play the piano or you want to learn to whatever it might be. 00:18:53.279 --> 00:19:03.759 It's having a feedback loop by which either through coaching or mentoring, you're getting feedback quickly on the skill that you're trying to learn. 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:08.640 Number two, deliberate practice, so focus practice. 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:11.119 And then number three, this is really crazy. 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:15.200 We've always known it to be true, and it's called the learning pyramid. 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:16.720 Teach it. 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:20.799 Teach what you're trying to learn to someone. 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:24.079 That the more you teach it, the more you learn it. 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:26.079 Haven't you guys found that to be true? 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:36.160 That if you'll even even if you only have this much knowledge, if you'll just start teaching it to someone younger than you or someone uh less equipped than you, you actually learn quicker. 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:42.480 And they're saying that it just defies the whole 10,000-hour rule as you learn to do that. 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:47.359 So my point here is that David developed a skill. 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:51.440 And part of our spiritual resume, men and women, is to develop a skill. 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:58.640 Ask God for wisdom and what he's called you to do and what he's called you to be. 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:01.200 Verse 17. 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:06.720 So Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man who can play well and bring him to me. 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:12.480 So I want you to note that Saul's perspective is somebody who can play well. 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:14.960 His focus is on the skill. 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:26.000 But there's a real anointed guy within the circle of the camp of Saul that has a different perspective. 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:28.000 And I think verse 18 is huge here. 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:29.920 Verse 18 is huge. 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:43.680 Then one of the servants answered and said, Look, I've seen a son of Jesse, the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, yes, that's true, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person. 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:45.279 Now, this is the part that's key. 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:46.319 It's cryptic. 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:47.599 Don't miss this. 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:51.680 The Lord is with him. 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:54.000 The Lord. 00:20:54.400 --> 00:21:00.799 So someone noticed that the Spirit of God was upon David. 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:02.799 So secondly, he's a worshiper. 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:06.079 But he's a worshiper in the presence. 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:09.359 He's a worshiper in the presence. 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:12.799 He's a presence-based young man. 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:14.319 That presence is upon him. 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:21.599 How many of you know that the presence of God is with you if you're saved, but it may not rest upon you? 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:25.119 The presence of God is with everyone who's saved. 00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:30.559 We have the Spirit of God, but the manifest presence comes through worship. 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:32.160 It comes through prayer. 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:34.720 It comes through meditation in the Word. 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:39.200 As we start to spend time in God's Word, the presence comes. 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:41.839 Sometimes you feel it and sometimes you don't. 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:46.480 But there's a manifestation of His presence that's evidently upon David. 00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:54.240 And man, are we going to see next week when we look at what happens with David as he faces a demonized king in worship? 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:57.920 That manifest presence has to be upon him. 00:21:58.880 --> 00:21:59.759 You know what we need today? 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:04.880 Men and women, is we don't need just skilled musicians on a stage. 00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:11.920 We need skilled musicians on the stage who manifest the presence of God, who release the presence. 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:13.920 You can't release what you ain't got. 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:20.640 And so when we, when we're filled with the Holy Spirit, that's just step one. 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:25.039 But then it's time in His presence. 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:29.680 It's time seeking Him, it's time with the Word opened up before Him. 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:30.720 It's worship. 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:39.920 It's putting on those earphones and worshiping the Lord, closing your eyes, taking your eyes off yourself, off of your problems and your issues, and worshiping him. 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:45.039 And as you become a worshiper, the Spirit of God begins to rest upon us. 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:52.240 I mean, the Spirit of God, I think, was hovering around Jesus in Joseph and Mary's home. 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:58.079 But here's what we know is that at his baptism it rested upon him. 00:22:58.640 --> 00:23:00.880 And the Holy Spirit is like a dove. 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:08.079 And if I had a dove on my shoulder, how would I move? 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:18.319 Maybe a lot slower, maybe more gentler, maybe a little more long-suffering. 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:25.920 Because if man, if I'm agitated and worried and moving and jumping around, that dove's not hanging out very long. 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:32.880 That dove rested upon Jesus, and that dove wants to rest upon you and me. 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:36.000 It's the presence of the kingdom. 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:44.079 And I was telling Amy, I said, Amy, when you go in in that water district with your job, you're bringing the kingdom. 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:49.039 And the desire of all the nations is true. 00:23:50.240 --> 00:23:58.160 Our world is looking for presence-based Jesus, wholehearted disciples. 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:02.960 Not the condemning kind, but the loving kind. 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:12.160 And so as we come with that presence-based part of our heart that people begin to notice, that's what they notice. 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:18.000 That's what this guy was, this guy who, whoever this unnamed person is in verse 18. 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:20.319 I want to meet him in heaven. 00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:23.359 Here's Saul just looking at the exterior. 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:24.880 I just want music. 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:28.960 I just want somebody who can play Jessica. 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:30.000 You know? 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:33.119 I just want somebody who can play Almond Brothers. 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:37.599 I just want somebody who can give me some good tunes so I'll relax. 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.440 So no, you need someone who the Spirit of God is upon. 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:52.400 You know what's interesting about the harp is every sound of the harp touches every part of our body like no other instrument. 00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:57.680 So David has the Spirit of God resting upon him. 00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:05.599 And David would later say, as he came to the end of his life, that it wasn't his fight with Goliath. 00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:14.079 It wasn't the tremendous land acquisition that became a part of Israel all over Israel at the time of his reign. 00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:19.440 This is what he said about himself near the end of his life in 2 Samuel 23. 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:22.480 Now these are the last words of David. 00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:25.359 Thus says David, the son of Jesse. 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:34.559 Thus says the man raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob and the sweet psalmist of Israel. 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:37.119 David is a worshiper. 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:47.599 And men and women, David was the one who said that you are holy and you are enthroned upon the praises of Israel. 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:53.680 David discovered that when he worshiped and when he praised, God came down. 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:55.759 God was there. 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:57.119 He was raised up. 00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:03.839 He was enthroned upon praise in his life, and the presence of God came. 00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:07.039 So, church, may we be worshipers. 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:10.880 May we be skillful, but may we be worshipers. 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:12.559 Encourage you. 00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:18.960 Spend time with the Lord every day to come into the presence of God and worship him and bless him. 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:26.319 And that and that Spirit of God will begin to rest upon us in greater and greater measure in everything that we do. 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:27.599 And you'll bring that. 00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:34.960 You'll not only receive it, but you'll also release it to others in your lives. 00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:41.599 You've been listening to The Road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:44.640 We hope you have been blessed by today's message. 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:48.720 To connect with us further, visit theroad.org. 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:52.720 If you are walking through a difficult time, we want to pray for you. 00:26:52.960 --> 00:27:00.079 Go to theroad.org, click on the ministries tab, and go to our prayer page to send us your prayer request. 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:08.079 Thanks again for tuning in today, and be sure to listen to the next edition of The Road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt.