WEBVTT 00:00:01.120 --> 00:00:04.240 Psalms 95 and 2 Chronicles 20. 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:06.799 Thanks for being in church tonight. 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:11.679 I uh I really do appreciate you being here rather than watching the Olympics tonight. 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:16.879 Now, uh, you know, I'm not against that as far as watching them or anything like that. 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:20.640 Uh if you're taping it, I'm gonna watch it later or something like that. 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:22.800 But I appreciate you being in church tonight. 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:27.519 Psalms 95 and 2 Chronicles chapter 20. 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:33.200 We're gonna go through a few scriptures tonight that deals with one specific topic. 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:42.560 Every scripture in this Bible that we hold in our hands, God set the words in there just the way he wanted them. 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:43.840 And we believe that. 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:46.880 And you say, well, do you believe in uh divine inspiration? 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:49.759 Yes, and in divine preservation also. 00:00:50.079 --> 00:01:02.479 And the idea is the words are set in this book, and and uh for my part, I believe that if you read uh uh the words and then look them up in an English dictionary, you can get everything you could handle for a lifetime. 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:06.799 And the idea, though, is every word in here is written by God. 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:10.719 So as we study God's Bible, we are studying God. 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:17.840 When God puts something in here, it shows his character in that he wanted it put forth. 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:23.439 So I I I don't want you to think that this is just sometimes you you hear some preaching and you go, well, yeah, that was nice. 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:27.519 He must have looked up in concordance and found that word and just ran some scriptures. 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:29.120 Uh that's not what I've tried to do. 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:34.319 In fact, I wrote this message uh a couple of Monday nights ago at a camp meeting, and I didn't look up any of the scriptures. 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:35.120 They just started coming. 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:40.239 I just started writing them down and everything, and then we started cording, I started correlating a little bit later. 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:51.920 So with that in mind, look at Psalms 95 as we start, and let me introduce this to you tonight, and we'll just quickly run through some scriptures, and we'll be out of here in good order tonight so you can have some fellowship still in the summertime. 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:54.560 Psalms 95, it says this in verse 1. 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:59.120 Oh, come, let us sing unto the Lord, and let us make a joyful what? 00:01:59.280 --> 00:01:59.680 Say it. 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:02.239 Noise to the rock of our salvation. 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:06.719 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and make a joyful what? 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:08.560 Noise unto him with Psalms. 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:11.199 Not every noise is what we think about. 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:12.960 Oh, don't be so noisy. 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:15.840 Not every noise in God's ear is a negative. 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:21.120 As you study this Bible, God uses and created sound, if you would, for a reason. 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:23.439 Psalms 100 re-emphasizes again. 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:28.000 If you're right there, it says, make a joyful noise in the Lord, all ye lands. 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:31.120 Now with that in mind, look at 2 Chronicles chapter 20. 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:33.199 2 Chronicles chapter 20. 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:34.960 Remember, these are his words. 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:37.039 2 Chronicles chapter 20. 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:43.840 And notice what happens here because there are a lot of different noises out there, and I just want to talk to you a little bit about that tonight. 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:45.599 2 Chronicles chapter 20. 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:48.000 Look if you would in verse 13. 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:51.840 And if you'll read that scripture down a little bit in verse, I'm sorry, 15. 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:56.639 In verse 15, if you'll read down that scripture, Jehoshaphat is facing a battle. 00:02:56.719 --> 00:03:02.879 And the end of verse 15 of 2 Chronicles 20 says, For the battle is not yours, but God's. 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:09.680 And then he goes on down to verse 17 and says this, ye shall not need to fight in this battle. 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:14.319 Again, if you're just getting to the scripture, it says, The battle is not yours, Jehoshaphat, it's God's. 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:20.560 And then he says that tomorrow when you go out, uh, and inferring that, you'll not need to fight this battle. 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.599 But look what they did in verse 21. 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:27.360 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed what? 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:29.039 Singers unto the Lord. 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:30.000 What were they going to do? 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:31.520 They're going to make a joyful noise. 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:43.680 And that sh that that and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army and to say, Praise the Lord, for his mercy endureth forever. 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:48.240 So all God was doing was listening to their singing, if you would, that joyful noise. 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:49.439 And look at verse 22. 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:50.960 And when they began to do what? 00:03:51.280 --> 00:04:00.639 Sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushes among the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, which were come against Judah, and they were what? 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:01.439 Smitten. 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:09.120 When they began to sing and to praise and to give uh glory to God in that joyful noise, God heard that noise. 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:11.840 It was sweetness in his ears, and he fought for them. 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:16.480 Brother, now all the noises of this Bible have a purpose and a reason. 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:19.279 Look at what at 2 Samuel chapter 5. 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:22.639 2 Samuel chapter 5 and 1 Kings 19. 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:23.680 We'll go quickly. 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:26.399 2 Samuel 5 and 1 Kings 19. 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:33.120 Now, I I have a reason to get down to, but I want to have you study your Bible a little bit along the way. 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:34.560 2 Samuel 5. 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:38.879 You see, for me, laying a foundation means you study your scriptures. 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:39.279 Amen. 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:47.600 And then we get down to the message, the text verse, and that way you get a little bit on the front side of a message and get to study your book a little bit more. 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:51.199 And along the way, you might underline something and say, Well, I want to go back and study that a little bit later on. 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:53.519 Look at 2 Samuel chapter 5. 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:55.120 Joyful noise. 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:56.319 2 Samuel 5. 00:04:56.399 --> 00:05:02.399 And if you notice in verse 19, David asks God what he should do concerning the Philistines. 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:06.000 And in that verse, the Lord says to David, Go up. 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:10.560 And you ought to circle that, for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines unto thine hand. 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:12.399 So he tells him, Go on up, David. 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:14.160 And David does go up. 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:22.240 But he comes to a second place shortly thereafter, where in verse 23 David inquires of the Lord in 2 Samuel chapter 5. 00:05:22.399 --> 00:05:23.600 And look what he says. 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:26.800 David inquired of the Lord, and he said, Thou shalt what? 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:28.000 Not go up. 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:32.560 So he says, Go up, and then he says, Now don't go up, but here's what I want you to do. 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:34.480 Fetch a compass behind them. 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:36.079 He says, Go around them. 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:38.399 And come upon them over against the what? 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:39.519 The mulberry trees. 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:41.519 And you'll hear this cliche once in a while. 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:44.560 And let it be when thou does what? 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:54.399 Hearest the sound, it's a noise, of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself. 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:55.759 You know what he's saying? 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:57.519 Wait for the noise. 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:00.160 Don't do anything. 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:05.759 Don't go up, go around them and listen to the noise in the trees. 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:14.639 And when you hear the noise, get yourself up, for then shall the Lord go out before thee to smite the host of the Philistines. 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:20.639 Obviously, if they would have gone before they heard the noise, they would have gone ahead of God's will and God's timing. 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:30.399 They were supposed to go out and wait until they heard the sound in those mulberry trees, and that was the sound that God was ready to go in his timing. 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:34.079 Doesn't matter what he was doing, he's going to do whatever he's going to do, anyways. 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:40.879 They were just supposed to wait, and when they heard that sound, they were obedient, and they went out, and God delivered a great victory that day. 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:42.879 It was the right noise at the right time. 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:44.240 Look at 1 Kings 19. 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:44.959 Stay with me. 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:47.199 1 Kings chapter 19. 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:58.399 This is the story where the prophet Elijah is out, and he's just had a rough go of it and been threatened by Jezebel. 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:03.199 And look what he says in verse 11 of 1 Kings 19. 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:07.839 And he said, Go forth and stand upon the mountain before the Lord. 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:09.199 That's Elijah going out there. 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:11.360 And here he is standing up on that mountain. 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:14.079 And behold, the Lord passed by. 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:16.879 And a great and strong what? 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:17.519 Wind. 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:22.319 Now I don't know if you ever heard a great and strong wind, a tornado or a hurricane. 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:23.600 It just howls. 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:24.720 There's a noise with it. 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:28.720 Rent the mountains and break the pieces in pieces the rocks before the Lord. 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:32.240 Can't you just hear the sound of these rocks breaking? 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:38.079 And I mean, uh, when you ever if you ever heard rocks break or crack, there's a great sound that goes with it. 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:39.920 And the Lord was not in the wind. 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:43.199 And after the wind and what? 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:44.160 An earthquake. 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:48.160 Now listen, you can't tell me when the ground cracks, there's not a noise. 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:51.600 But the Lord was not in the what? 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:52.720 In the earthquake. 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:54.560 And after the earthquake, a what? 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:55.279 A fire. 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:59.439 And a fire has a great noise to it, but the Lord was not in the fire. 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:06.240 And after the fire, a still small voice. 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:13.680 Sometimes, brethren, it doesn't have to be a loud noise, but it has to be a noise from God. 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:16.959 And it was so when Elijah heard it, what? 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:23.759 The still small voice that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entering end of the cave. 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:28.720 And behold, there came a voice unto him and said, What doest thou hear, Elijah? 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:34.879 The idea, brethren, please look up here, is that God uses noises in a lot of different ways, shapes, and forms. 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:36.240 Let me show you a little bit further. 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:40.240 Look at 1 Samuel chapter 4 and Ezra chapter 3. 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:42.159 Now we're going to get to something in just a minute. 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:42.879 Stay with me. 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.399 1 Samuel 4 and Ezra chapter 3. 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:54.879 I wouldn't want to just have a message that was just informational or Bible institute style of teaching is something from the Bible. 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:56.799 I want you to get something very practical. 00:08:57.039 --> 00:09:01.039 1 Samuel 4 and Ezra chapter 3. 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:08.960 In 1 Samuel chapter 4, I'd like you to see verse number 5. 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:12.720 1 Samuel 4, verse number 5. 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:14.879 Are you guys with me still back here? 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:16.159 All right, good. 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:23.679 And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel did what? 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:24.960 They what? 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:31.360 They shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again. 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:41.440 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout? 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:44.320 And see, we think about that, but you know what? 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:57.440 You go to a stadium today, uh, go down to that Atlanta stadium, where I don't know how many they fit in one stadium, maybe a hundred thousand people, and and one of the people uh that's from the United States wins, and there grows up a great roar. 00:09:57.600 --> 00:09:59.519 That's only a hundred thousand people. 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:06.960 Hey, you studied out there was many more Israelites shouting that day in that camp. 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:13.360 I know way back when they were out in the wilderness, there were six hundred thousand going to war. 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:20.399 You get six, seven hundred thousand people that are men shouting at once, and the earth will rattle a little bit, amen. 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:24.639 And the Philistines heard that. 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:29.440 What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:32.399 And they understood that the ark of the Lord was coming to the camp. 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:33.679 Now watch verse 7. 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:35.679 And the Philistines were what? 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:39.519 That that shout put fear in them. 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:40.879 Now, please look up here. 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:46.480 If you know anything about uh uh in the Civil War, they had what was called the rebel yell. 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:51.120 And they would start yelling like uh like they were getting ready to charge. 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:53.840 And I mean that had a demoralizing effect. 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.639 And then the Union began to have their yell. 00:10:57.279 --> 00:11:03.600 Uh, if you read the uh the the wars, uh the Pacific Wars, the Japanese had the bonsai charge. 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:10.799 And they just knew it was going to come wave after wave after wave, and they blew that trumpet and began to shout. 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:20.159 You see, there's something to this thing about noise, if it's the right kind of noise. 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:24.799 Look, if you went a little bit farther, look at Ezra chapter 3. 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:26.960 Ezra chapter 3. 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:32.879 Now, God wouldn't put this in here just to, well, that's that's a nice study. 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:34.559 Stay with me. 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:40.399 You know, when the Israelites came to Jericho, what were they told to do? 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:45.840 They were told to walk around that city just with the trumpet blowing and keep quiet. 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:49.039 And they were to do that for a seven-day period. 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:55.279 And on that seventh day, when they walked around seven times, when the trumpet blew long, they were supposed to all shout. 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:01.120 And God heard that noise, and please look up here, it was a noise of obedience. 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:05.440 And when they shouted according to obedience, the walls did what? 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:06.080 Talk to me. 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:06.799 They fell down. 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:14.080 I think if they would have not shouted, God wouldn't have had the walls fall down because he was waiting for their obedience. 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:21.039 Now I'm not saying tonight that the place has to be a chaotic shout, and I'm not advocating that you're missing the point. 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:24.240 Look, if you would at Ezra 3, look at verse 10. 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:37.120 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, they set the priest in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the son of Asaph, with symbol to praise the Lord after the ordinance of David, king of Israel. 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:43.600 And they sang together by court in praising and giving thanks unto the Lord, because he is good. 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:46.639 For his mercy endureth forever towards Israel. 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:50.960 They were just happy after their destruction and their captivity. 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:55.360 Remember, they were carried away by Nebuchadnezzar and served in hard bondage. 00:12:55.519 --> 00:13:00.720 They were happy to be free out there and have the liberty to go lay the foundation of that new temple. 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:07.679 And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:23.840 But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers who were ancient men that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house, that was Solomon's temple, was laid before their eyes, they wept with a loud voice. 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:28.799 And many shouted aloud for joy, so that the people could not discern the what? 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:30.000 The what? 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:35.120 The noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people. 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:40.080 For the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off. 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:46.879 And brethren, in a church, sir, as there may be the noise of shouting, but there almost also may be the noise of weeping. 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:54.240 Nothing wrong with any one of those noises, because God hears them all and he's able to discern the noises. 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:58.480 And he's able to see the heart from which the noises rise up. 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:00.799 You think of old Gideon. 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:05.679 Gideon goes out and he says to those 300 who are facing a multitude. 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:06.960 He says, Here's what you do. 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:08.960 We're dividing off into three companies. 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:12.799 You stand up there, you break the pictures and hold up the light. 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:18.720 The trumpet's going to sound, and when it sounds, you say, The sword of the Lord and Gideon. 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:20.960 The sword of the Lord and Gideon. 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:23.600 That was obedience. 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:27.360 Simple obedience. 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:30.559 Look at Luke chapter 1 and Ezekiel 37. 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:31.279 Stay with me. 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:34.320 And we're coming into the context of the message. 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:36.879 Luke 1, Ezekiel 37. 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.360 You don't have to worry about being in a long message. 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:41.440 Luke chapter 1, it will be. 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:43.360 And Ezekiel 37. 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:45.840 I just don't want you to worry about it. 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.120 Luke chapter 1 and Ezekiel 37. 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:51.440 Isn't it wonderful to have a Bible we can study? 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:54.159 Now remember, these are the words of God. 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:58.399 We get to know the character of God by studying his word, old and new. 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:01.120 Luke 1 and Ezekiel 37. 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:05.440 Ladies, I want you to look at this very carefully. 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.600 In Luke chapter 1, and look at verse 39. 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:20.559 And Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste in the city of Judah and entered into the house of Zacharias and saluted who? 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:21.759 Elizabeth. 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:25.600 Now remember, Elizabeth was with child with who? 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:26.720 John the Baptist. 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:28.639 Mary was with child with Mary. 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:38.639 And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb. 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:40.799 Huh. 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:48.639 Mary comes in and salutes Elizabeth, and when Elizabeth is saluted by Mary, the baby's jumping around. 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:50.960 And Elizabeth was what? 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:51.519 Say it. 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:53.840 Filled with the Holy Ghost. 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:56.879 Now, brother, when we get filled, something happens. 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:58.799 It's consistent. 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.519 And it's not speaking in tongues. 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:06.080 Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:08.320 And look, she spake out with a what? 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:10.320 Say it, a loud voice. 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:13.759 And said, Blessed art thou among women. 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:15.759 And blessed is the fruit of thy womb. 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:16.799 Who's she talking about? 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:17.519 Mary. 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:19.840 It didn't say fall out and worship her. 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:23.039 She's just blessing the fact that Mary has been chosen. 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:28.480 And whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:35.919 For lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded that noise, in mine ears the babe what? 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:38.559 Leaped in my womb for joy. 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:41.440 And blessed is she that believeth. 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:46.720 For there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. 00:16:46.879 --> 00:16:56.080 When there was a filling of the Holy Spirit, even this woman with a loud voice gave this description about Mary and God's choice of her. 00:16:57.440 --> 00:16:59.440 In the book of Acts, chapter 2. 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:05.119 If you remember when the Holy Spirit comes, he comes with the sound of a rushing mighty say it, wind. 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:09.440 And there's a rushing mighty wind that comes in, and they're filled with the Holy Spirit of God. 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:10.319 Wait a minute. 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:16.160 And they begin to speak with tongues that are languages that are easy to be understood by everybody there. 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:16.799 Yes or no? 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:17.519 Talk to me. 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:22.559 And everybody hears in their own language about the Lord and the gospel. 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:30.960 And Peter stands up and begins to speak and begins to preach, and all these hear in their own ears what's going on and what's being said. 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:37.359 And the end result of that feeling, there was a loud noise that happened, and 3,000 people got saved. 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:47.519 When God fills someone, it's there's weeping sometimes, but don't be surprised when there's a feeling if you just kind of well up and want to shout or say something. 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:51.200 Look, if you would at Ezekiel 37. 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:53.759 Ezekiel 37. 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:01.599 In Ezekiel 37, you know it, it's the valley of dry bones, but I want to point something out to you. 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:07.039 This is an army, if you would, that's going to be raised back to its feet. 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:09.359 And the bones begin to shake. 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:15.279 Verse 5, thus saith the Lord God unto these bones, behold, I will cause breath to enter to you, and ye shall live. 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:22.720 I will lay sinners upon you and will bring up flesh upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you, and ye shall live. 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:24.640 And ye shall know that I am the Lord. 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:27.920 So I prophesied, as I was commanded. 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:34.240 And as I prophesied, he says, as I was speaking, as I was preaching, I was telling, there was a what? 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:34.960 Noise. 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:35.920 What did he hear? 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:37.920 He's heard bones rattling, amen. 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:43.599 And behold, a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:47.279 And the Bible says later that he breathed in the breath, and they stood up. 00:18:47.519 --> 00:19:09.119 But there was a noise, and please look up here, just like uh when there was a filling of that Holy Spirit and that babe leap, when these when this army was given life, there was a noise, and and please look up here, it was God's plan, and God put it in a baby that when a new baby is born, that when that baby comes out and it's alive and it's healthy, if you would, God put it in that baby. 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:12.480 When they slapped that baby, the first thing you hear is a noise. 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:18.400 Now, God chose that evolution, didn't God chose that to happen. 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:22.240 If a healthy child comes out, that mother waits to hear that sound. 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:32.400 And I'm not trying to uh make anybody feel bad if something like that didn't happen with one of your births, but may I say there's nothing like a woman, and I'm not a woman, but I've seen my wife so many times. 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:33.200 Amen. 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:46.960 And that child comes out 7.5 times, and when that baby is slapped, or maybe that baby doesn't even need to be slapped, and that baby begins to cry. 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:49.599 I tell you what, there's a relief to that mom. 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:55.440 And when there's new birth going on, there's some noise involved. 00:19:55.759 --> 00:20:00.640 Look, if you would at 1 Kings chapter 6 and 1 Chronicles 20, stay with me. 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:04.240 1 Kings chapter 6, and let me get to where I'm going. 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:09.039 1 Kings 6 and 2 Chronicles chapter 20. 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:11.440 Now watch this carefully. 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:21.359 And 2 Chronicles chapter 20. 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:29.359 In 1 Kings chapter 6, look at it, brethren, real carefully. 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:31.759 We're three-quarters of the way through the message. 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:41.519 Verse 6 talks about how Solomon began to build the temple. 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:44.400 And how were they they were constructing it? 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:47.759 And notice if you would verse 7, watch it carefully. 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:56.799 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither. 00:20:57.279 --> 00:21:03.359 So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron. 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:04.799 What's the next word? 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:07.039 Heard in the house. 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:14.160 So they kept that noise down to a minimum in the house while it was in a building. 00:21:14.799 --> 00:21:19.440 So in the temple itself, they wanted it to be something, if you would, something special. 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:32.720 And so they they did everything they could on the outside of the temple and preparing the stones and fitting them just perfectly and the wood and everything so the hammer wasn't needed, and the axe wasn't needed, and the iron tool wasn't needed. 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:38.720 And I was sure there was a little noise, but not like you would hear the can the hammering of a construction site. 00:21:39.519 --> 00:21:42.720 But look if you would with that in mind in 1 Chronicles 22. 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:45.119 1 Chronicles 22. 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:50.799 In 1 Chronicles 22, verse 3. 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:54.079 And David prepared verse 3. 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:55.759 1 Chronicles 22. 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:58.480 And David prepared iron in abundance. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:06.160 For the nails, for the doors of the gates, for the joinings, and brass in abundance without weight. 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:08.880 Also cedar trees in abundance. 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:14.960 If you look down a little bit further, and you'll notice in verse 5, or 15, look at verse 15. 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:27.200 Moreover, there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men of every manner of work, gold and silver. 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:28.480 Please look up here. 00:22:28.799 --> 00:22:39.440 Even though there was a minimal amount of sound going on inside the with the building that was happening, there was a great deal of sound and noise going on in preparations for that. 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:42.640 On the outside, they were where they were hewing the stone. 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:48.240 And I don't know if you've ever been around a rock quarry and heard them uh uh blasting away, if you would, and cutting the stone. 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:50.880 I don't know if you ever heard a big tree fall. 00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:59.039 But there's a great deal of noise going on outside of the workplace, so inside of the workplace maybe there's a minimal, but please look up here and listen to me. 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:09.519 It's sort of like a church, should be. 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:22.079 Shouting and running around and all kinds of stuff, and I'm not against that. 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:31.119 As long as there's work going on outside of the building, as long as somebody during the week is hewing the wood and and and and cutting out the stone. 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:57.599 Because if all of the services we have in here, and all that we have is where you gotta come to church to get charged up to shout a little bit, and understand services where there wasn't much noise at all going on in there, and there wasn't a great deal of shouting going on, but a lot of people getting running on the orbiter, and then they went out the next week and witnessed to somebody, and woman somebody to Christ and witnessed to somebody else, and all they came in, and they people get baptized, and that brings in the noise. 00:23:58.640 --> 00:24:04.240 You see what goes on outside of the building prepares us for our services here. 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:09.359 Somebody asked me one time, how do you uh what's the secret of your spirit in your church? 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:15.279 I said, Well, I I I I guess a lot of it it says uh if you bring your sheaves with you, there'll be joy. 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:29.279 And whether people hear testimonies about what's been happening outside of the church walls, in some ministries, or in door knocking, or in in in in when we heard about the prison revival and different things like that, hey, didn't it create some noise in here? 00:24:30.559 --> 00:25:02.000 A dead church, a church where there's no sound, except for someone complaining about the color of the carpet, or someone slandering someone else, or someone complaining and murmuring about something, and most of the time, I'll tell you what, those that are out hewing the wood, and those that are out cutting the stone, and those that are out trying to do something for the Lord in the church, they might complain a little bit, but it's of a minimal. 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:15.680 Noise in the church house needs to be preceded by something going on outside the church house. 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:19.440 Let me give you an example, and and nobody knew why I was going to do this or anything. 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:19.680 Mrs. 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:23.920 Schultz, could you come up here and uh we just asked you before the service to give a quick testimony? 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:24.960 Where are you at, Jan? 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:26.160 If you'll come quickly. 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:32.240 Because uh let me just demonstrate or illustrate what I'm what I'm trying to get across to you about this thing about noise. 00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:35.519 Uh Jan, just give a give a testimony for half an hour or so. 00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:54.400 Last Sunday we went to Las Calinas, and it was set up by excuse me, Charlie Kiterling, and um they invited us to come in to witness to help to hold a service. 00:25:54.720 --> 00:25:56.880 We held two services. 00:25:57.200 --> 00:26:08.640 Actually, the preacher was um Mike Klein, and we were assisted by um Roger Monette, and I was there to witness to the women. 00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:13.759 I usually stand in the back of the room, and if they want to get saved, they come back. 00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:25.119 Well, they were ready, they were ripe, and God had them where they should be because we were covered. 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:26.799 I was covered with women. 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:30.720 The chaplain was sitting over there and we she couldn't even see me. 00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:39.359 And we tried to figure out, we were so busy, I was so busy writing their names in the little how to be saved books after they accepted Christ. 00:26:39.519 --> 00:26:43.200 And the beauty of it was they knew they were sinners. 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:52.160 And and then the second service were people that were going out to CIW, they're they're going, they're going to a different prison. 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:54.880 A lot of people in there are lesbians. 00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:58.480 There's a lot of people that didn't even bother coming to a church service. 00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:01.119 But three of those women got saved. 00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:07.519 And we conservatively estimated there were 23 women saved that day. 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:10.880 And what a blessing it was to us. 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:12.960 And the preaching was wonderful. 00:27:13.119 --> 00:27:14.720 It was different, both services. 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:23.839 He had the same message, but God put the right words in his mouth to make it briefer for the one group and longer for the other who needed it. 00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:26.079 It was it was magnificent. 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:30.079 And it's a blessing for us to be able to go out and do this. 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:36.960 But you could, if you could have seen their eyes, they were they were rushing to get what it was he was offering. 00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:43.440 And what he was offering was peace that passeth all understanding through Christ our Lord. 00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:44.319 Amen. 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:48.559 So you get my point? 00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:56.160 Hewing on the outside of the church brings the right kind of noise inside the church. 00:27:56.880 --> 00:28:02.559 Cutting of the stone out there, when you hear about it, what do you say when you hear 23 ladies got saved? 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:05.440 It brings the right kind of noise. 00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:11.200 Hey, there ought to be more noise in our church about salvation than about business meetings. 00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:19.599 Look, if you would with me and uh go a little bit farther and look at Ezekiel chapter 1. 00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:23.039 And would you also pick up Revelations chapter 7? 00:28:24.079 --> 00:28:27.279 Ezekiel 1 and Revelations chapter 7. 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:34.079 Let me read you another one. 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:36.720 And we could probably go on and on and on. 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:41.680 Ezekiel 1 and Revelations chapter 7. 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:50.799 I have a letter from the chaplain on the USS, I think I'll pronounce this right, Juno. 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:54.000 It's LPD 10. 00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:59.440 Here in Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 7. 00:28:59.920 --> 00:29:04.400 Dear Pastor, allow me to introduce myself to you. 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:06.559 My name is Miles Brown. 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:14.240 I'm a United States Navy chaplain stationed aboard the USS Juneau, an amphibious assault ship homeported here in San Diego. 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:23.680 The reason I'm writing you today to ask if you would be willing to send a set of services and Bible studies to us while we're overseas. 00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:29.440 Over the past two years, our ship has been underway more than she has been in port. 00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:35.519 Your tapes would be a great blessing to many of our young Christians as they strive to grow in Christ. 00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:41.440 This would also be a great way to introduce your church to many Navy families that are new to the San Diego area. 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:48.160 He goes on to say thank you for considering the request, and he says how to contact him and everything like that. 00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:51.599 But when I got this mess or this letter, I thought, let's see. 00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:54.880 Oh yeah, we've got some men on that ship. 00:29:55.359 --> 00:30:00.079 I got another letter from a guy on another ship who said that the ministries have been growing. 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:04.160 It's so good to get letters from people that say, hey, could you give us more? 00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:06.400 Could you send some tapes out here? 00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:07.920 Could you help us in some way? 00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:12.960 Hey, listen, that's hewing the stone, and that's the timber outside of the temple going on. 00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:16.559 But I'll tell you what, it ought to cause the temple to shout a little bit. 00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:27.759 Somebody sooner or later will wonder about the concept of this noise. 00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:29.039 And may I say this? 00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:32.799 In this Bible, there's noise that's depicted that's not godly. 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:39.359 For example, uh Elijah says to those prophets of Baal, go on and cry out. 00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:40.799 Go on, cry out. 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:42.960 Maybe he's asleep and can't hear you. 00:30:43.119 --> 00:30:46.720 And they go out and cut themselves with lances and begin to cry out. 00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:47.359 You know what? 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:49.359