2nd Samuel Chapter 6 David gathered his choice men around 30,000 people and
just go with me for a second he gets he gets the Ark of the Covenant which is
where the presence of God dwelled the manifest presence of God was on the Ark
of the Covenant and he puts the Ark of the Covenant on a new cart
everybody say new cart now that's pretty thoughtful of him let's get something
new not something old put the Ark of the Covenant on a new cart and then they
went bananas it was like you know bepah music on steroids as they had thirty
thousand people like whoa tambourines and shofars you know and all the
Christian gymnastic stuff as they were you know revival toys as they were
bringing the presence of God back into Israel and they're just gone for loving
the Lord just praising and and all of a sudden that ox that was carrying the new
cart kind of had a misstep a little bit and as it did the Bible says that a guy
named Uzzah tried to help God put his hand out to try to steady the cart and
as he went to steady the cart the Bible says that it aroused the angle or anger
of the Lord and the Lord came and split him in half because of his error like this
is like rated-r right here in the Bible split him in half because of his error so
David was was upset and he sends the Ark of the Covenant right there to a guy's
house named Obed-edom and when the Ark of the Covenant goes into Obed-edom
house the Bible says his life was extremely blessed because God came into
his house and all of a sudden like everything in Oben-eden's house
began to prosper and thrive so David hears about this and he's like
man we need the presence of God here again so that's it he goes he gets the
presence of God but this time what's different is he gets the presence and
the Bible says that the men who were carrying the presence of God took a few
steps and then they stopped and they sacrificed bulls to it to worship the
Lord but you got to take notice of something the Bible says that the men
who were caring the presence of God what men were they they were Levitical
priests they were Levites the the ark of God the presence of God was never given
to us to rest on the program's of men where we
put our faith in programs and different stuff to just carry us along and bring
us success so that we don't have to partner with God in relationship but God
wants divine relationship he wants connection he wants colabor in where we
move together and the Levitical priests were a tribe Levi was it was one of
Jacob's sons and their tribe was set apart to be worshippers under the Lord
there's something profound in this that if we can look at this the Levitical
priests with each step had praise in their hearts with each step they were
magnifying God as they worshipped and as they exalted the Lord and then they
would stop and they would sacrifice thousands of animals I mean imagine the
helicopter drone view of this just a trail of blood as they as they brought
the Ark of the Covenant back into theirs into this great city as David freaks out
and just loses his mind and a few articles of clothes of clothing and because it
danced before the Lord and these tells us why he says I'll become even more
undignified than this so many times were afraid of what people think but if we
want to be in an outpouring of the Holy Spirit we have to be willing to look
foolish sometimes like when you look at revival on TV it just looks weird let's
be real you just gotta forget what people think it's interesting because
when you look at the book of Acts where there was an outpouring of the Holy
Spirit Joel chapter 2 happens on the day of Pentecost the Bible says that they
were they begin to speak in other tongues and the people who heard them
speaking in their language heard them magnifying the works of the Lord what do
you mean they were just giving God praise they were shouting to the Lord
what is it the outpouring of the Holy Spirit gonna look like one of the major
manifestations is their life praise will be erupting and I'm not talking about
Paul McClure just leading worship for me I'm not talking about depending on
Bethel music to be my worship leader for me but I'm talking about a song coming
from my heart a song coming from my soul you know when you wake
in the morning and there's a song your spirit that's burning a song in your
spirit that's just playing and that didn't just happen to be there that's
God dropping His song in your heart for the day and it's time to grab that song
and lift up praise to the Lord and say God my life for your glory I want my
life to be a sign posts for your movement on the earth