The God of Revelation & Ritual | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

join me in your in the word in the book of Exodus chapter 9 19 verse number one what a wonderful presence of God that we're feeling here this morning and I Echo everything that uh brother Ericson brother Hammond have said about about the weather and so good to have everybody here an unbelievable an unbelievable crowd of people that are here this morning to hear the word of the Lord Exodus chapter 19 verse 1-9 and then we're going to read from Exodus 27 verse 20 and 21 in the third month when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt the same day came they Into the Wilderness of Si for they were departed for from radam and were come to the desert of Si and pitched in the wilderness there camped Israel before the mount Moses went up unto God and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain saying thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob and tell the children of Israel ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians and how I bear you on Eagle wings and brought you unto myself now therefore now therefore if you will obey my voice indeed keep my Covenant then shall you be a peculiar treasure unto me of of all people for all the Earth is mine ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation these are the words which Thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel Moses came down and called for the Elders of the people and lay before their faces all these words which the Lord had commanded him and all the people answered together and said all that the Lord has spoken we will do Moses turn the words of the people unto the Lord and the Lord said unto Moses lo I come unto thee in a thick Cloud that the people may hear when I speak with thee and believe thee forever and Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord Exodus 27 and verse number 20 praise the Lord the mighty move of God's presence we've had this morning Exodus 27:20 and thou shalt command the children of Israel that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the lamp or for the light to cause the lamp to burn and would you say that word with me to burn always in the Tabernacle of the congregation with without the veil which is before the testimony Aaron and his son shall order it from evening to mour before the Lord it shall be a statue forever unto their Generations on the behalf of the children of Israel let's pray this morning Father we thank you God for your wonderful spirit that has met us here today God we thank you Lord that your word was so brought true to us today that you do inhabit the Praises of your people God I thank you today Lord that I'm surrounded with men and women Lord that love you and men and women God that would be in your house today Lord I Thank you most of all that we're surrounded by your presence now Jesus if you would for the next few moments anoint my lips of clay anoint my heart help me God to articulate the thoughts that I've had while studying your word and what I believe God that you want to be spoken here today I give you praise and honor today in Jesus name I do pray amen and amen thank you for standing in honor of the reading of the word you may be seated as the sun was coming up this morning as my custom is I made my way into the den area and there I fell up on my my knees and I begin to pray knowing that you the church would be here today and I begin to name several here today I call their names and I I made such a a difference between the names that I called because we're here today and we may be serving the same God but we all have different needs we all have different needs in our lives there are those here today that only have known the Lord embrace the truth within the last 30 days there are others here today that have known the Lord and embraced the truth for well over 30 years so the needs today that we have in this place are diverse but yet we serve the same God who is a Wonder of all wonders it's amazing how a God same God can come down on an eight-year-old boy or girl bring them down to the front of the altar they would give praise and worship to God but the same God God same God can move up an 80y old man or woman and cause them to lift up their hands and begin to Worship the Lord so as I begin to pray and ask God for direction today this word came to my heart that I had been looking at for the week so this morning for the Bible lesson for the Bible class I want to preach to you on the god of Revelation and and ritual the god of Revelation and ritual you know ritual is not really a welcomed word in Christianity much we have people today that you mention the word ritual it's a it's almost a taboo word it's almost a word that that oh they have rituals there and oh we need a how many times I've said it I I'll be I'll be transparent with you today I've said we need to get rid of the you know we need to get out of the rituals we we we need to let go and let God have his way and no doubt I wasn't causing harm to the word of God but the word ritual actually comes from the word routine comes from the word routine I've often said the word tradition is not a bad word it's only a harmful word if it's connected to something that takes us away from the word of God God but if it's a tradition that tethers us or ties us to a commandment then I would say that it would be a good it would be a good tradition as you study the word of God Church you'll find that yes the word tradition was used in a in a mo in a in a rebuke that Jesus would give the Pharisees the religious people when he would say that you exalt your Traditions above the Commandments of God but the Apostle Paul in the same Bible would tell the church to hold fast keep a hold on the Traditions that have been delivered to you so when we mention the word ritual today we're simply talking about a routine a routine is something that you do over and over and over again why we could call it a holy habit we could call it a holy habit when we talk about the word routine we talk about the word ritual today you see like it or not like it or not ritual can be a Most Blessed word it is our routine to come to the house of the Lord today why in the world would such a massive crowd come out on such a day that we have today with the weather not being the best I'll tell you why it's summed up in one word we are in the room routine of having church we are in the Holy habit of having of having church it's amazing that as you begin to do a word study on the word ritual and on the word routine that you come up with the word route or to make a way you come up with the word route or routine or to make a way so when we talk about we are a people of ritual we're simply saying today we are in a holy habit of coming to church we are in a holy habit of praising the Lord we have a routine over and over again it's the same routine it's the same song it's the same way we sing it's the same way that we worship it's the same thing that's going to happen if you were being critical about our service you could pretty well say about five minutes into the service somebody's going to go down to the front and somebody's going to begin to lift their hands and about 10 minutes there'll be a pretty good siiz crowd down there in the Altar and and then it'll last for a little bit and they'll get up and have prayer request and they'll get up and take up the offering and then the preacher will get up and preach and God only knows how long he lasts a preach and we maybe God doesn't even know that but anyway and then they'll gather back up around the Altar and they go home and some would say that in a in a critical way but when you understand that our routine today our routine today our holy habit today is creating a route a route for us to get into the presence of God and for God to come into our presence so I say today if we're creating holy habits and a holy routine and a holy route come and bring it every Sunday morning and come and bring it every Sunday night for for it is creating a way for our God now I told you today that he is a god of Revelation and he is the God of routine now when you understand the opening scripture text today God had brought the children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage with 10 massive plagues that totally devastated the land of Egypt and then 90 days later 90 days later he leads them to mount sin it would be at Mount Si that Moses would be called to the top of the mountain for one purpose and for one purpose alone God wanted to reveal himself in a wild movement in a wild movement to the people sure the plagues were a wild movement sure when they saw the plagues Israel was moved because he's a god that revealed I will fight against what has you in bondage you see today I'm thankful for a strong will but I am thankful for a God that will fight against what has you and I in bondage let that sink in for a moment thankful for a strong will but a strong will will only take you so far a strong will will only open the door and I hope you don't open it to the arm of flesh but I hope you open it to the power of God because what God showed Israel in Egyptian bondage is I am able to fight and Destroy what has you in bondage that ought to cause somebody today to say praise the Lord that ought to cause somebody to be thankful today that if you have found yourself in the grip of a habit you have found yourself in the grip of some destructive Behavior today take courage dear child of God because God is able to fight fight and destroy everything that is against what God wants you free God wants you happy God Wants You delivered because God wants to make a people out of you what a what a wow moment that they had what a wild moment that they had when Moses went up to the mountain and God said now Moses I want you to go down to the mountain want you to go back down and I want you to to tell the people that I'm going to do some things on this mountain that they're going to believe you you're the spokesman you're the conduit for my word I want you to go down and I want you to tell the people to get ready because I'm about to reveal myself to them I'm about to reveal myself to them and Moses comes down from the mountain if we had time today and I ask you in your your study time next week I'd ask you to read the entirety of chapter 19 because Moses comes down from Mountain and Moses says we're about to hear from God God is going to speak to us and Moses asked some unusual things of them he said I need everybody to wash your clothes I need everybody I need everybody to wash your clothes not only that I'm going to set a border up there's going to be a border around the mountain there's going to be a border around the mountain and don't touch the Border don't don't don't don't anybody touch the Border because if you touch the Border you're going to die God said you'd die if you touch the border and said matter of fact keep your animals tied up because if an ignorant ox or an ignorant animal stumble over and if an animal touch the the Border I'll kill that animal God said and so Moses said I need you I need you all to wash your clothes I need you all to not go across this border here today now you know as well as I do people or people whether it's today or back in Moses's day and no doubt there had to be some people there saying well I think my clothes are clean after all I mean there was some people there that were saying I well why would we have to wash our clothes well the answer to that is do you want to hear from God see the why can be answered why is do you want to hear from God God said that I want them to all to wash their clothes and I and I want I want them all to understand there's a there's a border here there's a there's a there's a there's a there's a border here and if you go beyond that border or even touch that border I'll strike you through I I I I'll take your life from you because I I want to give you a revelation moment I want to give you a wow moment I I want to show to you that I am the god I am the god I am the god God of a revelation I want to reveal myself in power and so they're looking at this huge mountain and and not only that let me go a little further and kind of I didn't have this in my notes today but Moses is like their Pastor Moses is like their pastor and they're hearing Moses is hearing from God and Moses is going down and telling the people this is what God has said for us to do and he goes back up and when Moses comes down brother Mayo Moses comes down from the mountain and says hey everybody I've been on the mountain with God and God says that he wants all of you to wash your clothes and he wants me to build a border around the mountain and and don't touch the Border you die don't let an animal touch you you die because God wants to make a peculiar treasure out of us God wants to make I I know we've been slaves I I know that we've been poor I know that we we we we we don't have much we we don't have much self-confidence I know that for years we have been slaves down in Egypt I know all of that but God is wanting to make a peculiar a different people like no other people on the Earth today and not only did he add peculiar but sister P he added treasure God wants to add treasure and I stop right here for a moment Satan will tell you you are trash but our savior will tell you you are a treasure Satan will tell you you can't but God will tell you you you can Satan will push you down but God will lift you up but the decision whether you're trash or treasure is how you respond to the word of God of course they said back to God or excuse me they said back to Moses you tell you go tell God all that he says we will do and Moses took back up the mountain Moses told God said God they're in they're all in God they're all in God they'll do whatever you say what what what whatever you say and and Moses went back down and and a matter of fact Moses being a good pastor Moses being a good pastor if you read chapter 19 he's a good pastor because Moses come down and told them exactly what God had said he says you wash your clothes don't touch the mount and then Moses added something to that he said come not nigh to your wives he said we're going into a few days and the main thing that you need to have on your mind is to be in the presence of God now now that Moses wasn't saying that that that you're not to have a relationship with your wife ever he's just saying why don't you take some time and deny your flesh you see there's a lot of things that are not wrong but sometimes we just need to put them aside and let God know you are the main love of my life you are the main thing in my life you you got to have that inside of you to where you've got to realize you you can't go through life you'll never really amount to anything in your relationship with God if you're always always asking the question if I do this will I go to hell if I do this will I be lost you you're never really going to amount to anything sometimes youve got to put aside what you would be allowed to do in order to focus up on the Lord and show the Lord you mean more to me God than anything in this world today you mean more to me I I guess that's why pastors try to get you together and for a few moments say hey just just focus on God right now let's just focus on God right now there be nothing wrong with talking to the person on the left or the right but just for right now can we just magnify the Lord and can we just lift up the name of the Lord can we just give him praise and give him honor Hallelujah Moses good pastor Moses said hey folks just just for right now the next few days just focus on the god of the mountain just just deny yourself what you could do just deny yourself what you could do you see I I I I've got a great marriage today and I don't go through that marriage saying you know um if I don't open the car door for her will she leave me if I don't give her you know th those vows are pretty simple nothing was said about birthday cards anniversary cards making coffee let you know nothing was said about that because when you really enter into a relationship you take hell out of it and you take pleasing into it will this please the Lord will this will this bring Glory and Honor will this be pleasing you're you're not asking yourself the question is this a sin you're asking yourself the question does this please the Lord and so Moses goes up and when Moses goes up I mean the mountain sets on fire and the ground begins to shake and a black cloud descended upon the mountain and a fire it looked like a volcano of all volcanos there and the trumpet begin to the trumpet begin to sound in a loud way and there Israel was introduced to the god of Revelation you can't tell me they were trembling the Bible says they were trembling in absolutely amazement at what God had done I I mean the plagues in Egypt the plagues in Egypt told me that God would fight against my enemies but this God of the mountain that shakes and it burns with fire and the ground trembles and there's this incredible trumpet this is incredible trumpet that sounds No Doubt the people were in absolutely amazement they were this is the god that is delivered us this is the god this is the awesome God the all powerful God the all presentes God the all knowing god there is no other God like him but you see today from chapter 19 to the end of Exodus God was not only revealing himself as a powerful God he was not only revealing himself as a powerful God you see conviction is wonderful how many remember this morning how many remember what it was like the day or the night you sat in church and fell under conviction how many remember that an amen how many remember that maybe maybe you don't have what you claim you have have if you don't remember that boy I remember that I remember the gripping of the Pew I remember the knots in my belly I remember the tears that I tried to brush brush away so they wouldn't run down my face that my mama could see me crying I I I I I I remember I remember conviction I remember going to Revival and riding my motorcycle my mom gave me permission if you go to church tonight let you ride your motorcycle over there and I rode my motorcycle cycle over there and had the neatest evil coneval helmet that I had had an XL 100 Honda and um mama let me write it over there and the the Evangelist that night Dennis Denny he was preaching and he got to tell him a story about somebody down in Texas was in one of his Revival services and rejected God should have come to the Altar and rejected God and walked out the back door and got on his motorcycle and drove down the Texas Highway and there he met a a gas uh tanker hit a gas tanker head on he said sent that man out into eternity and then he said these words then said these words he said I saw a motorcycle helmet here tonight and I'm scared and I thought you're scared buddy I got to ride that dude home but I'll never forget conviction I'll never forget what it was like to have the wow of conviction I'll never forget what it was like for God to turn my belly into knots and put a clump in my throat I never forget what it was like to go to the altar never forget what it was like to see fire in Martha Le's uh brother Ben your your grandmother's eyes to see fire and and nobody can listen you can argue all you want to I saw fire in her eyes I saw fire in that woman's eyes she played that organ she did this right here to me she did this right here to me and I look back down at the floor and I I mean I'm tell the woman's eyes had fire in them and she did this right here and I looked down in the floor maybe if I look down in the floor she won't look at me anymore a few minutes later somebody tapped me on the side somebody said hey somebody want you I looked down end the Pew and it was you it was your grandmother she just simply reached out she touched my hand she said these simple words don't you think it's time I said yes ma'am I do I crawled over people I got out of that Pew and I went to The Altar and I stood in the altar and there I stood in the Altar and somebody got in my ear and somebody said tell him you love him I said I love you Jesus and when I said that I am not bragging tonight I toor this morning I'm ashamed at things that I did but I'm simply telling you this to help somebody I've been drunk and I've been high but when I said I love you Jesus I never felt anything like that before it felt like a cool breeze come across my ankles and I remember thinking to myself I I I that that feels good somebody got my ear and they said say tell him you love him and I said I love you Jesus and I felt that same coolness come around my midsection and I thought that sound that that felt good I felt that spirit I felt that God that felt good they said say it again I said it again and I felt that Spirit up around my chest area and then if I've ever heard the wicked vile voice of the adversary as he said in my ear you are about to make a fool out of yourself when I heard that Wicked vile voice somebody yelled in my ear and said say it again I love you Jesus and when I said that there was a wave hit me that would have sunk the Titanic there was a wave that went Plum up over my head I found myself laying flat of my back I found myself laying there remember distinctly seeing that my mother had red high heill shoes on that night riding to church with her I saw that she had red high heill shoes I looked out the corner of my eye laying flat on my back in that altar I could see my mother's two high heel shoes like two singer Soul machines going up and down like this right here and I did have the thought oh God I hope she don't step over here on my head but I can remember I can remember thinking to myself I didn't have a lot of knowledge of God but I can remember thinking because something was going on with my tongue something was going on with my tongue my tongue I felt and this is the only way I've got to explain it somehow I felt when I fell and on the floor that I must have broke loose something in my tongue because my tongue felt like a big long roll of biscuit dough and I felt like it was on the side of my face and my mama asked me going home said did you did you hit your head when you fa and I said no she said you kept rubbing the side of your face I said Mama I said I thought that my tongue the string had broke and my tongue had come out of my mouth and was laying over here on the side of my face and I was trying to put my tongue back in my mouth I was trying to put it I couldn't stop my tongue from moving and I was trying to put my tongue back in my mouth I'm so glad that I have the memory of that wow moment with God I have a revelation I have a Mount Si and oh I could I could we could be here to tomorrow morning just letting person after person after person get up and begin to tell about their Mount Si where you were at when you got the Holy Ghost and how you acted when you got the Holy Ghost although my tongue had come out and I was trying to put it back in my mouth I got up from that altar I didn't like the apostolic people I didn't like them I didn't like them no I made fun of them I criticized them uh brother Perry you remember Sister McGee how she'd get out of her Pew she'd get out of her Pew and she'd do this right here she'd go around the aisles she'd go around the aisles then she'd come right back to her Pew and slide right in and people says she did that with her eyes shut I said no she don't no she don't I've watched the old woman she begins to peek when she comes back down the aisle here I didn't like the apostolic people but when God gave me a revelation of Mount Si I got up from that altar that night and I started hugging everybody I that's more that was where they taught me you don't hug the women son I mean I was hugging everybody I just I just hugging I love I loving on everybody that night I thank God that I met the god of Revelation I met the God that I know that I know that I know that I know that I know do do you know the god that you know I I mean there there there is no it was either and I'm sorry I'm going down memory Road it's either my mother or my granny wadell that used the phrase 4100 demons cannot stop me from believing this 41100 I I don't even know that that's a number 411 you talking about you talking about 51 is that what you 40 40 and 11 will be 51 but to her it was 411 can I tell you when you've got a Mount Si 411 cannot stop you from believing when you have got a Mount Si experience it doesn't matter what some so-called Theologian wants to try to tell you that the Holy Ghost is not real and this is really not right and it's of the devil it doesn't matter anymore and let me say this if the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues is of the devil it's the only thing the devil has that'll make you want to get out of sin and make you want to start going to church and make you want to start living for God and make you want to start loving everybody and I don't believe he would have that but that's what the good I wonder today am I preaching to anybody in this place that could stand to your feet right now and say brother Carpenter I have got a god of the revelation I'm telling all this for a reason probably after that the most memorable morning of my life was the morning of July the 21st 1984 would probably be July the 21st J July the 21st did you have that wrong I know we got married on 20th but I'm telling the story she trying to get the marriage right all right the morning of July the 21st after we got married on the evening of July 20th can remember waking up and looking over and seeing my bride and for a few moments I was AED at the fact that we're married that what a glorious life we have ahead of us and I can remember there you hadn't woke up yet you hadn't woke up yet but I can remember laying there and looking at you and thinking this is going to be great yes God this is going to be awesome this is going to be awesome that moment was only interrupted by the hotel phone ringing and it was just a little after Daybreak and my mother-in-law yeah you go ahead and hide had called y'all get up and get at it y'all y'all get this marriage started out right what a wow moment not my mother-in-law calling me what a wow moment what a wow moment I think we all share this what a wow moment what a wow morning we all woke up on that Monday morning I can remember waking up on that Monday morning after many years of a building program and saying to my wife did we really get in the front part of that building was it really a what did we really have church in the new part of the church in the new Auditorium did we really have church and yes it was it was a wild moment we going brother Carpenter here's where I'm going a lot of people give up on God and they give up on their marriage and they give up on things because they're wanting the same feeling that they had the night they got the holy ghost or when they first got married or when they first finished the project but can I tell you today I have something much sweeter this morning than what I had when I got the holy ghost in the story that I just told you I have a relationship with God God that goes far deeper than that experience that I had that night at the altar sister Carpenter and I have a relationship today that's far deeper and meaningful than that July 21st morning that I woke up and oh yes even this congregation here this building has become sweeter in our minds of the young men and young women that have stood here and exchanged their vows or the caskets that's rolled down the front of this building of saints of God that we've sent on to Glory from this place what I'm trying to tell you today is simply this I'm thankful for the god of Revelation but I'm more thankful for the god of the ritual I'm thankful this this morning that I have learned God in a whole more vast Way by having a ritual by having a routine by having something that we do over and over and over and over again don't get out of the routine don't get out of the Holy habit there won't be another generation if we stop praising the Lord let's praise the Lord till we can't praise him anymore let's run the race until we can't run it anymore if Jesus doesn't come brother brother ham if Jesus doesn't come in our generation when it's time let's pass it on and give it to somebody else that they can run so we have don't get discouraged keep on coming to church keep on praising the Lord keep on going to the prayer room it's over and over and over oh such a such a thought today such a thought today but can I invite your attention I told you the mountain was a revelation the mountain was a revelation awe mindboggling they tremble they're in a at the god of Revelation in chapter 19 but from chapter 19 of Exodus all the way through at the end of chapter Moses is on the mountain and guess what God is giving him plans to the Tabernacle he's telling them the Ten Commandments he's telling them how they ought to treat their brother he's telling them if you find an oxen that's lost you tie it up in your yard and you wait for the owner to come by it's not Finders Keepers losers weepers it's no no no no it's how we treat one another there's Ten Commandments Thou shalt have no other God before me there's all these laws there's a tabernacle plan that's going oh yes the Tabernacle plan that's going to be a place of routine it's going to be a place they bring sacrifice after sacrifice after sacrifice why would God want such a tabernacle built why would God want such a tabernacle to be built for one reason and we find it I believe it is in Exodus chapter 25 it is in Exodus chapter 25 and I believe it is verse 6 let's just take a stab at it right now could you give me Exodus 25 and verse number six on the screen real quick could somebody give the Lord a hand clap offering while they're doing that God is telling them in Exodus 25 and verse 6 he's telling them everything that the Tabernacle needs it needs oil for the lamp for the light spices for anointing oil and sweet incense give me verse seven please onx Stones stones to be set in the ephod and in the uh breastplate verse number eight please here's the reason I I wish we would see this why are you telling me to have a tabernacle why are you telling me to have a routine animal after animal blood after blood oil after oil day after day holy days Passover the the the Feast of Pentecost all these holy days why are you asking for a ritual why are you asking for a routine why are you asking me to get into a holy habit why are you asking me to do this it's summed up in verse eight why don't we read it together and let them make me a that I may I want you to have holy habits I want you to have a routine I want you to create something that causes me to be able to come down and walk in the midst oh the next time the devil discourages you he's against Church he's against routine he's against coming to the house of God you know why he understands the more they create a routine the more that God can come walking right in the midst and when God comes walking in the midst I have to begin to lead that's why he's trying to tell you not to come to church that's why he's telling you not to develop a prayer life that's why he's telling you not to be a tither or not to be an offering Giver because when you create the routine oh I wish somebody give him praise right now somebody give him praise right now come on give him praise right now he comes to verse chapter 27 I read it in my text chapter 27 verse number 20 here he is developing the routine Exodus 27:20 Thou shalt command the children of Israel that they bring pure oil olive beaten for the lamp cause the lamp to burn always in the Tabernacle of the congregation without the veil which is before the testimony Aaron and his son shall order it from evening to morning before the Lord it shall be a statue forever unto their generation on the behalf of the children of Israel it's never to go out there's to be a light in the routine there's to be a light in the routine there's to be a lamp in the routine that never goes out God says it never goes out now look at this closely with me if you will the responsibility for the lamp never to go out was not God's it was Israel's responsibility and guess what it wasn't just the preacher he said tell the children of Israel to bring me olive oil beaten and they're to bring it to Aaron the priest and he and his sons shall fill up the lamp and trim the witch can I tell you it's not good enough that you go to a church where the preacher praise it's not good enough that you go to a church where the choir worships it's not good enough that you go to a church where this happens everybody's got to be involved in the routine you see your responsibility is to pray and get here my responsibility is to feed you when you get to the house of God but God has used I hope you're understanding this today but God has used this routine to keep us in a a way that he can come walking Among Us stop beating yourself up that you don't feel God like you did on that night when you got the Holy Ghost stop beating yourself up and thinking about walking out of that marriage because you don't feel like you felt on your honeymoon morning stop beating yourself up because you don't feel the church is what it used to be get in the routine of worshiping and praising God and you'll look back and say it gets better and it gets better and it gets sweeter and it gets sweeter that's oh I don't know if you're receiving this word today if you're receiving it would you give a shout of praise it gets sweeter it gets better when I go to the prayer room and I pray through it gets sweeter it gets better as the game goes it's going to take everybody it's going to take everybody it's going to take everybody wait a minute I got a god shaking the mountain I got a God that I am absolutely amazed at but one week turns into two weeks two weeks into three weeks a month 40 days can I tell you if you're only serving God based on Revelation it'll wear dull it'll wear dull on you cuz look what happened to him in chapter 32 verse number one of Exodus look what happened and when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from out of the mountain it's about 40 days or so later it's about 40 days since they felt the ground tremble under their feet it's about 40 days after they wash their clothes it's about 40 days after they wiped tears calmed their trembling hands because God shook Mount Si it's about 40 days after God revealed himself in power when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said unto him up make us Gods which shall go before us for as this Moses the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt we wrought not what has become of him and Aaron said unto them break off the Golden Earrings which are in the ears of your wives and of your sons and of your daughters bring them unto me and all the people break off the Golden Earrings which were in their ears brought them unto Aaron and he received them at their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool after he had made it a molten calf and they said these be thy Gods oh Israel which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt when Aaron saw it he built an altar before it and Aaron made Proclamation and said tomorrow is the Feast of the Lord they rose up early on the morning and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings and the people sat down to eat and to drink and roast up to play the Lord said unto Moses get thee down for thy people notice now he don't even call them his people he said thy people your people which thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them and have made them a molten calf and have worshiped it and have sacrificed there un to and said these be thy Gods oh Israel which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt and if I kept on reading if I kept on reading I tell you where they stripped off their clothes nak and I can show you where they drunk till they were that they they drank till they were drunk there they laid naked and there they danced and there they praised they had an Egyptian form but they were trying to add God to it we are living in a culture today that have made ritual a bad word I didn't say they had become atheist they have made ritual a bad word ask them do you believe in in God they will tell you they do believe in God ask them questions and they will answer you I do believe that their God but they are a people of no ritual hear me today you can't have the god of Revelation without having the god of ritual these two go together our ritual reminds us of our Revelation every time I come into the house of God and you come into the house of God you should come in with a spirit of praise and gratitude for I once was lost but now I'm found I once was bound but now I'm free you can't remember that if you don't have a ritual but if you keep a ritual you'll keep connected oh yeah I believe in God I'm going to heaven don't you condemn me where you go to church oh I don't do Church oh you don't do Church what group do you belong to what people do you belong to oh oh I I don't do people either it's just me and Jesus we got our own thing going I'm sad to tell you you don't have your own thing going you don't have your own thing going a revelation proved that it takes more that's what God was trying to tell Moses Moses Hur up and get down show them the Tabernacle cuz they going to strip off naked and get drunk and act like the world until you build a Tabernacle in their life and they're going to they're they're going to I'm I'm even going to tell them where to move their tents to the Tabernacle is not going to be on the outside of their neighborhood the Tabernacle is going to be smack dab that's a Greek word there come from me it's going to be smack dab in the middle it's going to be smack dab in the middle of them I want you to put the Tabernacle just this smack dab right in the middle of them and then I want you to tell them I want tribes on the East and tribes on the west and tribes on the North tribes on the south in the middle of their lives revolve the house of God can I tell you something I'm not against Sports I'm not against activities that are non-spiritual out I'm not against activities other than uh church activities but I am against when those activities come in the center of your life and God goes to the outer edges of your life God goes to the Outer Outer edges of your life I was told last night I was told last night of individual and and not not in this church please don't don't waste don't worry a word on your brain trying to figure out who it was but an unbelievable job a dream job an unbelievable job that has come this individual's way but it keeps them out of church on Sunday and it keeps them out of church on Wednesday can I tell you that's not a dream job that's a job that you need to be praying that God gives you another job because the most important thing that you need your marriage needs your kids need your family needs is to have the house of God smack dab in the middle of your life to where God I'm remembering you God I'm remembering you you're the main thing on my mind God and when people want to say it's a ritual you keep doing the same thing over and over and over again I do do the same thing over and I'll be back tonight Lord willing at 5:30 for prayer you're here every Sunday night at 5 I know it because I'm creating a way for the almighty God to come into my life and me come into him oh my goodness is it 20 to 12 already oh do you get the Gest of what I'm saying today now brother Carpenter that's the Old Testament that's the Old Testament okay I'll give it to you strike you one for that's the Old Testament Hebrews chapter 10 verse verse number 19 Hebrews chap 10 verse number 19 musicians would you come singers would you come Hebrews chapter 10 verse number 19 having therefore Brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus by a New and Living Way which he ha consecrated for us through the veil that is to say his flesh you do see the typology here Paul is using the Old Testament Tabernacle and he's bringing it down to us today Jesus blood Jesus was the flesh was the veil by a New and Living Way which he hath consecrated for us through the veil that is to say his flesh having an high priest over the house of God let us draw near with a true heart and full Assurance of Faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water see I's trying to tie us back to that let us hold fast firm let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised let us consider one another to provoke and to love and to Good Works look at this now not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching for if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin what is Paul trying to tell you and I today hold on to the ritual hold on to the routine hold on to the holy habit hold on to this Paul is trying to say then he comes and he says don't forsake the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is folks I hope you get a new revelation of how important it is to belong to be to have a holy habit of coming to the house of God I hope today you leave here and thank God that's my church that's where I go that that's where I worship that's where I praise that's where I'm fed well why do you go there because it's a holy habit and I'm creating a holy habit that God can come walking through not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is let me ask you a question today let me ask you question today the people that you've seen the families that you've seen that have stopped coming to the house of God do you envy them has their life got better are they drawing closer to God now I'm going to tell you something I don't care what the first generation that leaves the church says I want to examine what the second generation they produce look like can I tell you today I'll answer I can't answer for you but I'll answer for me in my over almost going on now 50 years of preaching the gospel I don't know one preacher and his wife and family that have left the message that have left the church that I would say man I'd like to be like them folks man I'd like to I'd like to be like him but I could tell you and it take me all day long I could name them after name them after name them shipwreck children on drugs marriages separated suicide and the list goes on and on and on can I tell you today it is better for you to have a holy routine and a holy ritual of coming to the house of God to know the god of Revelation and the god of ritual would you would you stand with me right now and you would you make the ritual of lifting your hands right now with me oh I love you Jesus I love you Jesus oh God I love you oh God I love you oh God oh God can we praise him maybe just maybe just maybe when we get to heaven just maybe just maybe just maybe we'll meet a man Lauren by the name of Cornelius just maybe and Cornelius may say hey Josh I know you're on the earth you the Gentile I'm the first Gentile to come in the church I was the first Gentile to receive I was the first Gentile to reive the Holy Ghost brother Namy I remember making a trip to the Philippines and yall introduced me to one of the first men if not the first man to receive the Holy Ghost to be baptized in the Philippines and that was an honor to meet that elderly gentleman there'll be a man in Heaven by the name of cornelus he'll say hey hey Amanda I was the first Gentile well use a gentile on Earth I was the first Gentile to get in the church well Cornelius how did you get in you see I had a habit of praying I had a routine i' get up and pray every morning I had a habit of giving arms I had a habit of helping people I I just had a holy routine I had a holy habit of praying and one day an angel came and come to my house and he said Cornelius your prayers and your arms giving have come up in heaven as a memorial can I tell you God sent me a preacher because I had a ritual going on in my life and I become the first Gentile to get in the church if God carries his coming you're going to have descendance that you're going to meet in heaven that you never saw here on the earth let's just face it let's just face it I will probably I will probably never see Nolan I will probably never see Magnolia's great grandchildren I'll probably never that's not being don't don't anybody try to rebuke me right now I'll probably I'll probably never see them okay if God cares is coming I'll be long gone dead in the grave but I believe that if we can keep mag Magnolia going in the right direction and Magnolia can keep her kids going in the right direction and her kids can keep her kids going in the right direction there going to be some kids come up in heaven some people walk up in heaven and say you didn't know me down here on Earth but I'm Magnolia's grandon and I want you to know that I would have never known the truth if it wasn't for somebody that just kept on and kept on and kept on and kept on and I'm done I'm done I'm done somebody might say you had done 20 minutes ago you might be right but I'm here to tell you what would mville be like today if there hadn't been a James and Judy John Jeff and James rwood we started a little church over on McGinley Street where would we be today that had the routine I'm here to tell you Penny I love you more today than I've ever loved you in all my life you fascinated me you were everything I wanted physically in a woman you were everything that I ever wanted you had the truth you had the beauty I would fell in love with you we would talk on the phone late at night and uh but baby I love you more right now today than I've ever loved you in my whole life oh y'all kept that feeling all these years not necessarily we kept a routine we've never went we've never we decided we would never go to bed angry with one another that we would well no we'd never go to bed here's the truth we'd never go to bed without telling each other we loved each other all right if we had disagreements and we didn't get them resolved we'd Say Hey I Love You you I love you too I love you too well I love you well I love you too I really love you well I really love you too I don't want to go to bed like this man long nights but I'm so glad we kept that routine going because here we are today more in love with each other than ever before I wonder if we could just routinely come to the altar don't have to feel like it don't have to have a holy Mudge don't even have to have a problem going on in our life it's just a routine that I'm coming right now God I love you God I praise you God I magnify you I wonder if we could just routinely come to this altar push in as close as we can I hope your routine is to try to get up to the altar I hope your routine is to try to get up around the altar right now come on push in as close as you can God I don't have to feel a chill bump I don't have to feel an urge it's just right to do it oh yes God come on take a few moments and pray before they start singing God I know you is the god of a routine God I know you the god of a ritual right now God oh God I know you a god of routine the god of a ritual right now oh I love you Jesus I love you Jesus I love you Lord I love you Lord I love you Lord oh I love you Lord I love you Lord I love you Lord I love you Lord I love you Lord oh I love you Lord I love you Lord I love you Lord I love you Lord come on love him right now now come on remember back when the god of Revelation brought you out love him right now how the god of Revelation has forgiven you oh pray right now