Created For Eternity
Pastor Erickson preaches from the fall of Lucifer, heaven's first worship leader, and from David dancing before the ark in 2 Samuel 6 to show that pride is the enemy of worship. He calls the church to lay pride aside and worship God freely, because people were created to worship him on earth and for eternity.
The message in 6 points
Heaven's first worship leader
Pastor Erickson says people were not God's first plan for worship. Lucifer was created to lead worship around the throne and to reflect God's light, but he got confused and thought the brilliance was his own. We are nothing without God, however talented we are.
1:04:24Pride is the silent assassin of worship
From Isaiah 14 he shows Lucifer saying I will exalt my throne, and from Proverbs that God hates pride. Pride turns worship into performance and puts the focus on us instead of on God, so in his house we set our own wants aside.
1:11:27Made to be living instruments
Mankind was created to fill the place Lucifer lost, with the same gift of music built in. Our breath and voices make us instruments, and anyone can make a joyful noise. God breathed the breath of life into man so he could give God praise.
1:14:56David found what man was made for
God called David a man after his own heart who would fulfill all his will. David danced before the Lord with all his might, spinning until his royal robe came off and showed a linen ephod. He was a worshipper before he was a king or a warrior.
1:22:14Michal and the spirit of pride
Michal, Saul's daughter, despised David for dancing, and David answered that he would become even more undignified before the Lord. He warns young people to make sure the person they date loves God and loves to worship.
1:32:51Bible worship, now and forever
Pentecostal worship began when David brought the ark into his tabernacle and set singers and musicians before the Lord day and night, as the Psalms and Chronicles show. Worship is our natural state, and what we learn here is practice for eternity.
1:46:48
In his words
“Pride turns worship into performance, making it about us instead of about him.”
“He wasn't a king that worshiped. He was a worshipper that ruled a kingdom.”
“We worship the way we worship, because that's what we are created to do. We just do it naturally. It's who we are in our natural state.”
Taken word for word from the video, with punctuation added.
Scripture
He reads
1 Corinthians 1:29
29That no flesh should glory in his presence.
King James Version.
Psalms 29:2
2Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
King James Version.
Psalms 150:1-2
1Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. 2Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
King James Version.
Psalms 150:6
6Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
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Ezekiel 28:13
13Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
King James Version.
Isaiah 14:12-15
12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
King James Version.
Proverbs 16:18
18Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
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Proverbs 8:13
13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
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Genesis 2:7
7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
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2 Samuel 6:14-16
14And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. 15So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. 16And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
King James Version.
2 Samuel 6:20-21
20Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself! 21And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.
King James Version.
2 Samuel 6:17
17And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
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Psalms 47:1
1O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
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Psalms 27:6
6And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
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Psalms 134:1-3
1Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD. 2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD. 3The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.
King James Version.
Psalms 149:3
3Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
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1 Chronicles 23:5
5Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
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1 Chronicles 9:33
33And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
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Psalms 122:1
1I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
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Psalms 27:4
4One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
King James Version.
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