Worship, Why We Do What We Do
Pastor Erickson preaches from 1 Samuel 16, Acts 13 and 2 Samuel 6 on why apostolic churches worship with shouting, dancing and lifted hands, tracing it to David bringing the ark to Zion and opening his tabernacle to open worship. He calls people to lay pride aside, worship God with all their might as the instruments they were created to be, and receive the Holy Ghost.
The message in 6 points
A man who would fulfill all God's will
He reads how the Spirit of the Lord came upon David and how God called David a man after His own heart who would fulfill all His will. He says he will preach on why apostolics worship as they do, because some who grew up in church may not know why.
1:10:38David cared where the presence of God was
Saul used the ark as a war machine and let it sit forgotten, but David's first act as king was to go and bring it back. When the ark rode on a new ox cart and Uzzah touched it and died, David learned that God must be approached the way God asks, not the way others do it.
1:20:43Dancing with all his might
David took off his royal robe and danced before the Lord with all his might, not ashamed to look undignified. Pastor Erickson says pride is the biggest blocker of blessing and that true worshippers praise God with everything they are, even through pain.
1:29:12How God sees worship despisers
Michal watched David dance and despised him in her heart, and God let her never have a child. He points out that the promised seed came through Bathsheba, who sinned and repented, rather than through a woman who despised worship.
1:34:56David's tabernacle opened the way to worship
David brought the ark past Moses' tabernacle at Gibeon into his own tabernacle, where all the people could come and worship freely. He walks through the Psalms and Chronicles to show clapping, shouting, lifted hands, dancing, instruments and singers praising day and night.
1:40:23Created to be worshippers
Lucifer was made to lead heaven's worship but fell, and God made people to be worshippers in his place. Every person with breath is a living instrument, and he calls the church to praise with all its might and to be filled with the Holy Ghost living inside them.
1:53:03
In his words
“Somewhere along the way we got to say, God, I don't care what I'm wearing, I don't care who's around me, I don't care what anybody thinks of me, pride has got to go out the window when it comes to worship and praise.”
“I refuse to worship God alone because God is a creator of all things and a God who creates all things wants to be worshipped by all things.”
“We were created to be worshippers, we were created to be musical instruments, we were created to let noise come up out of us and give praise to our creator.”
Taken word for word from the video, with punctuation added.
Scripture
He reads
1 Samuel 16:13
13Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
King James Version.
2 Samuel 6:14-15
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.
King James Version.
2 Samuel 6:16
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.
Acts 13:23
23Of this man’s seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
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.
King James Version.
Psalms 47:1
1O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
King James Version.
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.
King James Version.
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.
King James Version.
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.
King James Version.
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.
Psalms 84:1-2
1How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! 2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
King James Version.
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.
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