WEBVTT 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:06.559 Welcome to this week's message from the Church at Chelsea Westover. 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:12.640 Our core values are vibrant worship, intimate fellowship, fulfilling service, and clear biblical truth. 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:15.199 We pray that this message changes your life. 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:19.679 Let's tune in to today's message and see what God has in store for you. 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:28.960 Well, I'm excited today because one of the favorite, by the way, uh, Steve, I didn't know you could do that. 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:29.679 I can't. 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:30.480 Yes, you can. 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:31.039 Amen. 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:31.920 That was awesome. 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:33.200 Let's give them a hand. 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:33.679 Amen. 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:36.640 They're a little short today, but look, all right. 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:40.159 In fact, I think I need you to be over there on the invitation, Steve. 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:41.520 I just drafted you. 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:43.200 Yeah. 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:44.320 Amen. 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:46.640 Don't let nobody know what you can do right now. 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:47.359 That's right. 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:48.479 Amen. 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:50.799 Well, but hey, who are you doing it for? 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:51.280 Come on. 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:52.000 For the Lord. 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:52.719 Amen. 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:55.840 I'm going there today, so you better say amen. 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:01.679 Hey, God didn't save us to just take us to heaven. 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:06.079 God saved us so that we could worship him. 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:07.359 Amen. 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:09.200 So that we could worship him. 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:15.040 Now, a lot of people would say, no, no, no, God saved us so that we could work for him. 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:16.719 No, no, no, no, no, no. 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:20.480 God saved us so that we could worship him. 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:28.799 Because when you worship him, hey, all hell can't stop you for working for him. 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:30.640 You'll give everything. 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:31.359 Amen. 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:33.200 So the key is worship. 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:35.359 And that's what we're going to be looking at today. 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:40.319 I want you to turn in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 2. 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:43.599 The wise men still seek him. 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:45.599 And we're going to be looking at that. 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:46.480 How many of you? 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:51.280 In fact, I saw one yesterday off 51 at is it Oak Mountain Pleasant? 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:57.599 There's a Pleasant Baptist Church right here off 51, right close to the intersection 5155. 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:04.079 Anyway, I came by there yesterday, and on their sign it had the title of my message. 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:09.120 Wise Men Still Seek Jesus. 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:13.280 Wise men still seek Jesus. 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:23.919 Well, you know, the Bible is a book filled with examples, many examples of wise men seeking Jesus. 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:25.599 Wise men and wise women. 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:26.960 In fact, just a few. 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:39.759 Enoch and Noah, they were wise enough to walk with God during their lifetime and during their generations when all the others did not. 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:43.520 And the whole world chose to not walk with God. 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:53.919 And the, hey, the end result was Noah and Enoch ended up with God, and the rest ended up destroyed by God. 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:56.000 What a tragedy. 00:02:56.240 --> 00:03:01.199 And then there was Ruth, ladies, the wise woman we call her. 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:12.159 She was wise enough to say to her Jewish mother-in-law in Ruth chapter 1, verse 16, for where thou goest, I will go. 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:18.319 And your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:20.240 What a wise woman. 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:34.159 And then there was Andrew in the New Testament, John chapter 6, where every see three different times he's mentioned in the New Testament, and every time you see Andrew, he was wise enough to be bringing people to Jesus. 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:35.199 Amen. 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:40.560 He was wise enough to be bringing people to Jesus. 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:43.280 How exciting that was. 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:44.560 It really was. 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.599 Now, I know he's ready. 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:48.800 I'm getting there. 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:49.680 I'm getting there. 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:51.199 I'm building this up. 00:03:51.439 --> 00:04:02.560 And then there was David, who was wise enough to say, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:12.719 And then there was Mary who was wise enough to sit at Jesus' feet and be taught. 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:25.920 And then, lastly, there were the wise men who came to worship the Lord Jesus when he was but a child. 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:36.639 And at that time, they had no idea that Mary was birthing the child of God. 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:40.720 You know, today there are still wise men and women that seek him. 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:50.000 Now, the truth that we have to realize is that God sought us first. 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:52.399 You've not chosen me. 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:58.800 In fact, he says in John 15, 16, you've not chosen me, but I've chosen you and ordained you. 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:00.319 And hey, and what? 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:02.639 I've chosen you to what? 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:10.079 So that you could worship me and I could use you to reach a world with the good news, the gospel. 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:14.800 But once God chooses us, listen to me, folks, listen to me. 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:16.959 Then it's our duty to seek Him. 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:18.079 Can I get an Amen? 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:22.399 And to seek Him with all our heart and soul. 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:30.319 So that's what the men in our text here in Matthew chapter 2, verses 1 through 12, did. 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:37.920 They followed the star until they came face to face with the baby Jesus. 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:44.560 And when they came face to face with the baby Jesus, Jesus changed their life. 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:54.000 Ladies and gentlemen, when you and I come face to face with the Messiah, the baby Jesus, he radically changes our life. 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:59.279 Therefore, if any man be in Christ Jesus, he's a new creation, old things have passed away. 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:02.720 Behold, all things have become new. 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:08.160 When they met him, their lives changed forever. 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:12.240 The baby changes everything. 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:14.639 Every time. 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:23.519 In the text before us today, I want us to look at and get a glimpse of worshiping through what the wise men did. 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:31.040 In fact, their whole purpose, their whole purpose for coming to baby Jesus was one word. 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:33.279 Worship. 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:38.079 They came to, look at verse 2, worship him. 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:39.759 Verse 2 and verse 11. 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:44.079 And it says, saying, Where is he that is born king of the Jews? 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:49.680 For we have seen his star in the east and are come to what? 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:50.399 Worship. 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:52.560 Worship him. 00:06:53.439 --> 00:07:03.519 And then verse 11, and when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and what did they do? 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:05.279 And worshiped him. 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:12.720 And when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:18.959 So we see the purpose of them coming was to worship him. 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:36.879 What the wise men do, and what we see the wise men do in this paragraph, verses 1 through 12, you and I should seek to do not just once a year at Christmas, but we should seek to do this daily in our lives. 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:37.439 Amen? 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:38.720 Daily. 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:44.959 It's not a once-a-year worship, it's a daily worship. 00:07:45.279 --> 00:08:02.000 So I want us to look at in this paragraph, powerful, powerful, seven characteristics of worship that these wise men did that will be in, it will have such a huge impact on our lives daily if we will do this. 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:04.639 And it's it's right here in black and white. 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:17.920 So let's begin and let's look at these seven characteristics that the wise men expressed and portrayed during their journey as well as their arrival. 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:19.279 And it's powerful. 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:25.360 So first of all, the wise men sought Jesus through worship. 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:28.160 But under that, let's look at some things. 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:31.360 First of all, their worship was intentional. 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:32.879 It was intentional. 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:41.679 Verse 2, again, he says, we have seen his star in the east, and we have come to worship him. 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:44.159 They had a purpose. 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:47.840 They didn't just come, hey, to go to church. 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.320 They didn't just come to go to the temple. 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:53.679 They didn't just come, hey, to even bring gifts. 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:56.879 They came to worship Jesus. 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:05.360 Oh, ladies and gentlemen, how many times we, and I've been guilty of this myself, have come to church not prepared to worship him. 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:07.279 Amen. 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:12.159 Now we come to church because we're supposed to come to church or we made to come to church. 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:15.440 I didn't like going to church when I was a teenager. 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:16.960 But I have one problem. 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:20.320 I live with my grandparents, and my grandparents had one rule. 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:21.679 Well, they actually had two rules. 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:23.039 Two rules. 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:27.519 They said, one, Sunday morning, you're going to church with us. 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:29.360 There's no debate. 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:31.600 And I don't care if you're sick. 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:37.679 If you're sick, you'll go and you'll sit in the car and listen to it on the radio, but you're going to church. 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:40.399 My granddaddy's pretty tough about that. 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:44.639 And the second rule was you got to be in before 12 o'clock at night. 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:49.519 My mama used to say nothing good happens after 12 o'clock at night. 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:50.559 Amen. 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:53.360 And you better not be 12.02. 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:57.440 And Sunday mornings, you got up. 00:09:57.519 --> 00:09:59.440 If you didn't, Papa's going to get you up. 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:00.639 And I'm not joking. 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.120 He liked to throw water on me. 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:04.879 He would. 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:08.000 He'd get a couple ice, and he wouldn't get just regular water. 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.480 He'd put ice in it and get it good and cold. 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:12.159 Then he'd throw it on me. 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:22.240 Woo! Hallelujah! And he'd giggle and say, church time, Danny boy, church time. 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:24.159 Woo! It's gonna be a great day. 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:26.480 This is a day the Lord hath made. 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:31.120 I'm saying, oh, but I went to church. 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:32.399 Thank God I did. 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:38.799 Because one of those times I didn't want to be there, God got a hold of my heart and saved my soul and changed me forever. 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:44.559 So when you start talking about, do I need to take my kids to church if they don't want to? 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:45.919 Absolutely. 00:10:47.279 --> 00:10:47.919 Absolutely. 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:49.759 Well, they're not getting anything out of it. 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:52.879 Well, what are they gonna get out of where they stay when they stay home? 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:56.720 At least they have the potential to get something. 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:57.679 Can I get an A? 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:00.000 Especially with our children's ministry. 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:08.000 We are so strategic on sharing the good news and teaching them about Jesus and that Jesus loves them and Jesus died for them. 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:11.120 We've already had three or four children saved in the last month. 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:11.600 Amen. 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:12.639 Can I get an amen? 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:15.120 That's what it's all about, folks. 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:21.519 They intentionally came to worship Christ. 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:24.240 Hey, they were left their homelands. 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:26.399 Hey, they brought their treasures. 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:29.519 They journeyed hundreds and hundreds of miles. 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:33.360 Worship was at the heart of what they wanted to do. 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:41.039 Jeremiah 29, 13 says, You shall seek me and find me when you shall search for me with all your heart. 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:45.200 Their heart was for the purpose of what? 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:48.080 Worshiping the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:52.000 Ladies and gentlemen, don't just come here on Sunday mornings to sit here. 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:53.919 Come here to worship Him. 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:57.679 You get ready, you prepare your hearts. 00:11:57.840 --> 00:11:58.960 It's awesome. 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:02.799 Worship should not be something that just happens. 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:05.440 It ought to be intentional. 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:07.600 It's what we set our hearts on. 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.039 Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:13.360 And all these other things should be added unto you. 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:15.039 Matthew 6, 33. 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:16.399 It was intentional. 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:17.440 Notice the second thing. 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:18.960 Verse 2 again. 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:21.919 Their worship was volitional. 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:23.840 What do you mean by that, Pastor? 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:26.559 That is, it was an act of their wills. 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:31.200 They determined in their hearts that they would worship him. 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:36.879 No one forced them to leave their homeland and journey hundreds, hundreds. 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:40.799 Anywhere from possibly six months to a year it took them to get there. 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:43.759 They came from the Mesopotamia area. 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:46.960 They're outside the region of Babylon. 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:52.559 I meant that it took them, I meant, six months to a year to get there. 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:54.559 Can you imagine that? 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:57.600 I meant they did this with an intention. 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:02.559 No one forced them to leave home and family to travel across the desert to find Jesus. 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:05.279 No one made them give them their gifts. 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:08.320 No one made them bow and worship. 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:23.840 They did it because their heart was so full of love for the prophecy that had been told them, and they had not seen it, but they believed it out of Numbers 24, 17. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:32.399 And the prophecy had been written by Ezekiel and Daniel, and they had read it, they knew it, but they now wanted to go see it. 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:33.279 Can I get an E? 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.759 I'm about to Wow. 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:39.759 Let us go see this thing. 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:48.320 This person that we've read about, that we've studied about all these years, very well-educated men. 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:53.200 We ought not to sing just because the congregation sings. 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:54.000 Hello. 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:59.679 We ought not bow in prayer just because the pastor asks you to bow in prayer. 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:04.080 We ought not to just come to the altar because the pastor asks us to come to the altar. 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:05.440 We ought to come to the altar. 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:06.159 We ought to pray. 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:09.120 We ought to sing because our hearts are full. 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:10.000 Amen. 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:11.120 Overflow. 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:12.480 Overflowing. 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:17.759 Oh, he says in Psalms 95, 6, let us come and worship and let us bow before the King. 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:20.960 There's something about coming to this altar. 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:22.799 That's why I'm so glad, Bob. 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:25.200 First thing we did, we built these altars. 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:28.799 That was the first thing we did before we really even started worshiping. 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:30.000 Built the altars. 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:30.480 Why? 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:32.240 So we could worship him. 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:34.480 Pray to him. 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:39.120 And what a beautiful picture we see with these wise men. 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:41.600 Their hearts were there. 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:47.600 They were glad when they said, Let us go find the King. 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:54.000 They were glad when they said, Let us go unto the house of the Lord. 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:56.639 Psalms 122, verse 1, David said. 00:14:57.840 --> 00:14:59.519 Worship ought to be exciting. 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:00.879 It ought to be fun. 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:13.519 We should determine in our hearts that every song, every prayer, every sermon, every deed, every day, every breath has one purpose, and that's to thank God and worship Him. 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:20.480 Go, Jason, to John chapter 4, verse 23 and 24. 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:30.240 And it says, And the hour is coming, right now, when that true worship, hello, there's a difference between a worshiper and a true worshiper. 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:33.519 And the difference is a true worshiper really knows the Lord. 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:42.240 He says, when true worshipers, the reason he makes that statement, they were all kind of worshiping going on during Jesus' day. 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:47.679 The Orthodox Jews, I meant the Catholics, they were all kind of worships going on. 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:53.519 But he said, true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:54.559 Now watch. 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:59.200 Because the Father seeketh such to worship him. 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:01.679 He seeks our worship. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:03.279 He wants our worship. 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:09.759 And then he goes and says, God is spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:11.519 Do you see how important that is? 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:14.720 And by the way, those words right there are written in red. 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:16.480 Hello. 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:21.200 Jesus desires our worship. 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:22.639 He desires it. 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:24.000 He wants it. 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:26.000 Now let me ask something. 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:28.879 Now, when I worked for Dr. 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:36.879 Falwell, he was the founder of the largest evangelical university in the world right now, over 100,000 students. 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:45.360 My job was as the dean of the seminary to train pastors, but my other job was to do what Dr. 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:46.960 Falwell wanted me to do. 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:54.960 And he wanted me to build a seminary that was evangelistic, soul-winning, go get them, building church plants. 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:56.480 That's what he wanted. 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:00.559 We had enough academic institutions and seminaries. 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:06.079 He wanted a seminary that trained preachers how to preach, how to win souls, and how to build churches. 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:10.640 And that's what we did for 13 years. 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:11.759 And I loved it. 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:15.440 But one of my jobs was I wanted to please him. 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:22.079 And then I was thinking about this this week as I was working and I miss him so much. 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:26.799 I've been thinking about him all week. 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:30.079 Because he poured so much into my life. 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:33.200 I learned that nothing's impossible with God. 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:37.759 I watched him when everybody was against him and he was down for the count. 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:38.799 He never gave up. 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:40.000 He got back up. 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:46.480 And he kept saying one day there'll be 50,000 students on this mountain. 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:48.480 Well, now there's a hundred. 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:52.079 Not on all on the mountain, but there's a hundred thousand students. 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:55.759 He didn't live to see that, but he did leave to live. 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:58.240 Hey, but it's kind of like Walt Disney. 00:17:58.319 --> 00:17:59.680 Hey, he didn't live to see it. 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:01.519 He didn't have to, he had already seen it. 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:05.839 Woo! He had already seen it. 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:14.640 He had written it down. 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:17.440 So we see what worship. 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:23.759 But I thought, what about if we know, according to this verse, God desires our worship? 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:26.480 How could we do any less? 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:36.400 I meant, oh, how can we do any less, but at least once a week worship him? 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:39.759 But not just once a week. 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:41.599 Every day. 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:45.839 Once a week is just when we come together as a family to worship him. 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:48.720 But every day we should be worshiping him. 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:50.640 Notice the third thing. 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:52.079 This worship was. 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:55.519 This worship was personal. 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:57.279 Oh yeah. 00:18:57.440 --> 00:18:58.079 Verse 2. 00:18:58.240 --> 00:19:00.240 He says, We have come. 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:01.920 Look, look at verse 9. 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:03.599 They had come. 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:05.119 Look at verse 11. 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:06.960 They came. 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:08.240 It was personal. 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:09.920 They had an agenda. 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:15.279 And each of them said, We are going to worship the king. 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:18.160 It was personal. 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:22.240 Ladies and gentlemen, your worship ought to be personal. 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:23.359 Amen. 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:24.559 I can't worship for you. 00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:25.599 If I could, I would. 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:28.720 If I could have a spell for you, I'd love to have two or three spells. 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:30.160 So I wouldn't have a problem. 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:31.680 Suzanne having a spell. 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:33.200 Suzanne has one on her own. 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:33.759 Amen. 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:35.599 And I appreciate that. 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:37.440 Help you'll go, girl. 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:38.480 But you know why? 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:39.839 Because it's in here. 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:42.720 She's got the king hepets. 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:43.839 Amen. 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:45.759 So it is. 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:46.640 It is. 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:49.599 But it's personal, folks. 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:51.920 It's individually personal. 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:53.680 Now let me show you what I'm talking about. 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:56.960 They did not allow others to do their worshiping for them. 00:19:57.279 --> 00:19:57.839 Hello? 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:01.759 In other words, they didn't do it by proxy. 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:03.119 Amen. 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:05.839 In fact, look, look at how they worship. 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:06.799 This is awesome. 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:07.759 Look what they did. 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:10.000 First of all, verse 2, they came. 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:15.279 You gotta have a personal intention to come to worship the king. 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:27.519 There's gotta be a time, there's gotta be a place, there's gotta be that that quiet area somewhere in your home where you come and you spend time in prayer and in the word and in praise and worship. 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:29.920 There's gotta be a set time somewhere. 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:32.319 And you gotta go. 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:36.319 You just don't happen to let it happen. 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:38.400 You make sure it happens. 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:40.640 Amen. 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:43.359 You say, Well, I don't feel like worshiping. 00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:44.880 It's not about feelings. 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:45.440 Amen. 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:49.759 Did he say, I seek you to come and worship me when you feel like it? 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:52.319 Jesus. 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:54.640 In fact, you know what? 00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:59.839 I've gotten up and didn't want to do it and been upset, have a bad attitude? 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:04.720 Well, how in the world can you go into a quiet time preacher with a bad attitude? 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:08.000 Because it's the quiet time that a straightened attitude out. 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:10.400 Hello, can I get an amen? 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:13.119 Yeah. 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:16.000 And sometimes I have a bad attitude. 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:17.599 Oh, the preacher has a bad attitude. 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:18.960 Don't look at me, you do too. 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:19.680 I know. 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:20.799 Amen. 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:22.000 Hello. 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:24.000 Just look in the mirror, that's right. 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:25.039 We all do. 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:27.599 It's those quiet times that convicts you. 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:32.079 And hey, I go in and I'm upset with Susan. 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:40.400 Now I go into my quiet time and I say, okay, Lord, let me tell you about, and I don't even get any further than let me tell you about Susan. 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:41.839 And he's pfft. 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:44.400 And he doesn't say Susan. 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:46.160 No, he said, pfft, what about you? 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:47.119 You, you, you. 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:48.960 I didn't come to talk about me. 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:50.400 What about you? 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:56.880 And that makes me madder. 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:00.480 Hello. 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:01.200 Amen. 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:03.440 I'm getting honest. 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:04.799 It's Christmas. 00:22:05.599 --> 00:22:06.640 Santa Claus is coming. 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:07.759 I want to be nice. 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:08.720 I want to be good. 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:10.400 I want to get everything out. 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:13.200 Have you not heard that song? 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:14.319 You better watch out. 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:15.359 You better not cry. 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:17.519 Santa Claus coming down. 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:22.079 But really, in fact, the eyes of the Lord in every place behold the evil and the good. 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:23.519 You can't get away with it anyway. 00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:25.119 Amen. 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:27.279 You can't. 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:30.720 So fess it up, get it right, and be happy. 00:22:31.279 --> 00:22:31.920 Amen. 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:37.839 But anyway, we we have to come to Him, and we have to, hey, we've got to come with a purpose. 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:39.920 And then they came by faith. 00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:43.359 They walked by faith, not by sight, sacred credit by self. 00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:43.839 Why? 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:46.240 They had read the prophecy and they had seen the star. 00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:48.720 They believed the prophecy and they believed the star. 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:52.000 They said, we're going to see this king. 00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:57.680 I'm talking about 700 miles plus. 00:22:58.079 --> 00:22:59.359 They had to come. 00:23:01.759 --> 00:23:03.119 They believed. 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:06.559 Nothing's impossible with God. 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:11.680 He that believeth, hey, nothing's impossible with God. 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:16.640 The disciples prayed, Lord, we believe, but help our unbelief. 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:17.200 Amen. 00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:18.240 Mark 9. 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:19.599 We need to pray that, don't we? 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:21.599 Lord, I do believe, but help my unbelief. 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:25.920 It's not that we don't believe in him, it's that sometimes we don't trust him. 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:27.440 Hello? 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:30.640