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The Attitude of Praise
August 19, 2025 · 46 min
Explore the true meaning of worship and praise, transcending emotions and expressed through an steadfast life of faith.
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The Attitude of Praise 0:01 Welcome to the ALSC podcast. Here at ALSC, we seek the lost, teach the found, and send the disciples. We truly hope you are encouraged by this week's message.0:13 We're gonna jump into the word in the message today. And if you have a Bible, would you turn to second Samuel chapter 6? Lately, the past couple Wednesdays with our pastoral preaching team,0:25 we've kinda given them the the freedom on Wednesday nights to kind of be able to share with whatever's been in their quiet time, devotional time, what the Lord's been ministering to us. Normally, we do a week long serie0:37 or month long series of this or that. But for the summer, we kind of felt like, hey, on Wednesdays, for that night to impress on us as we can hear from0:49 And so as I was trying to really discover and pray, God, God, what is it that we could talk about tonight? What is it that would be apropos to us overarching theme.1:08 And here's the title theme, and here's the title of the message if you're taking notes today. It's called The Attitude of Praise. The Attitude of1:20 Praise. When I was a lot younger, and even when I was newer in my faith, when I would think of praise and worship in my head, it would directly correlate to just the1:31 emotional response of what that looks like. And so I would look at someone like Daniel Johnson, our worship leader, praises1:43 God more than I do. Because I would measure my faith and my walk according to the emotion or just the expression that someone1:55 has in the moment. And so therefore, I would judge my own encounters according to their emotional response, which for some people, they're just outgoing2:07 individuals. If you know Daniel, he could be talking about raising canes and have that much energy talking about raising canes. If you ever2:19 pull up to the church offices, you can see Daniel just out jumping and leaping. As if he's in a Mary Poppins theme. Right? You see, so2:31 I'm looking at an individual's personality and how they worship and then I'm correlating upon my own praise. But the reality is is praise is not an emotion.2:43 It's not who is the loudest, who dances the most, but it comes down to the attitude of praise and worship. Now are there times that it's2:55 an appropriate response for all of us to show some praise and get wild? Absolutely. But it's not limited to just the expression. You know many people they'll say, you know when they talk3:06 about their occupation in the church, they'll say, I'm a worshiper. And what they mean by that is they say, I'm the 1 who you see dancing and jumping and clapping during praise and3:18 worship. As if being a worshiper is a spiritual gift or a position in the church. It's not. We're all called to worship. We're all called to praise God.3:31 And so it's not a position, it's a call for every believer to be in a place of praise and worship. And what I don't want you to get caught up today because we're gonna learn from David that it's not just about the3:42 emotional expression, it's about the attitude of both your lifestyle and also how others view you. Because I've met people who they praise and worship at the altars on Sundays3:54 but they cuss everyone out on Monday. And so on Sunday they'd be at the altar hands crying, weeping, blah blah blah blah blah And then I see them at the4:06 store and this poor little waitress is just crying and weeping because their french fries were well done. And then as they leave they say, You should come to my church. Come check out my4:18 church. God loves you. Because we get caught up sometimes with the expression and not the attitude of what it means to worship God. And so for4:29 me, as I look at this story, not only does it challenge me to express my emotions in the Lord, but it also challenges me to approach my attitude when it comes to the ways of the4:41 Lord. Because me, plainly speaking, I'm a generally pretty stoic individual. You could talk to my wife. Just because I preach, most people think that I'm a super outgoing individual.4:53 But this is just my gift that God has called me to do. When when I step on stage to preach the word of God, me that that's the spirit's doing. Because normally,5:05 there's a little person inside of me that's like, don't do it. This isn't you. This is it. This is contrary to who you are. And then there's this zealousness to preach the gospel where God says, you know, I'm gonna use5:16 you. It's like almost like Moses. Like, I don't know how to speak. I don't know how to do this. So I'm generally a very quiet, stoic person. I experience God more up here in my mental capacity than I do5:28 in my like dancing and jumping and singing and blah blah. I can go to a football game and not smile or clap once and be happy. I'll tell a story in a little bit. I do it all the5:40 time. It drives my wife nuts because she's like, You look like an alien here. You just sit there. And I tell her, Babe, I'm here. I'm up here. I'm trying to figure out I wonder how much their camera cost. I5:52 wonder how much this LED wall cost. I'm like in church mode, you know. I'm like looking at the announcer going, man, he'd make a good preacher. I'm just like, I'm all up here. And then when a football player does6:04 something super technical and amazing, my mouth stays closed, but my mind goes, wow. That was incredible. And unless you engage me and ask me,6:16 there is a whole party that just happened up here that didn't express out here. And over the years, I'd be insecure about that to say, man,6:28 I'm not equal to this person or that person who knows how to 1 of my best friends is a guy named Jeff Osborne. You can look up on Instagram. He's the most outgoing guy in the world. I get so jealous of Jeff. Because I6:40 think to myself, man, he can meet anyone and they'd be his best friends a minute. Me, I may not speak for 30 minutes but at some point we'll be friends. So I look6:52 at that and go, man. So a lot of times when we start to compare, we're gonna see it because King David in a moment, he gets in a tiff with his wife because her understanding of what it7:04 means to worship God outside was different than David's. And so his wife judged him as the King which ultimately led to a curse7:15 on her life because of her judgment towards a man's expression of worship towards God. And so we're gonna read some passage today. There's like 5 parts because I don't want to7:27 read this all at once as to overwhelm anyone or to get you to check out when we read, you know, 20 verses. So I'm just gonna cluster them, explain them, and then towards the end just share brief 3 points of7:39 thoughts of what this teaches us about the Attitude of Praise. But I want you to look at 2 Samuel chapter 6. I wanna read, you know, the first 6 verses or so And then we'll have a conversation7:51 about what it means because we're gonna learn a few things tonight that this book teaches us and this chapter teaches us. So it says this, speaking of King David, who was the second king of Israel. Saul was8:03 the first 1 who the people asked for. David being the second choice was God's choice. And so he's now anointed as king. He's the king. And, we'll explain each little nuance that's brought up here. So it8:15 says in verse 1, David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, 30000. So he gathered 30000 men. And David arose and went with all the people who were8:27 with him from Baal Judah to bring up from there the Ark of God. We'll talk about that in a moment, which is called by the name of the Lord of hosts who sits enthroned on the8:38 Cherubim. And they carried the Ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of the house of AbenAbdab, which was on the hill. And Uzzah8:50 and Ahio, the sons of AbenAbdab, were driving the new cart with the Ark of God and Ahio went before the Ark. Keep reading for a second. And David and all9:02 the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord with songs and leers and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals. They had every instrument within their9:14 artillery. And when they came up to the threshing for of Nachon, Uzzah put out his hand to the Ark of God, took hold of it, and for the oxen stumbled, and the9:26 anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah. I just wanna pop, stop here real quick. So what is it that David and his 30000 men got? Well this was the Ark of the Covenant.9:38 This was known as the presence, as the dwelling place of God Almighty. It was the storage place. It was a golden altar with 2 cherubims on top where their where9:49 their, their wings met each other. And I have a picture of it so that it could give you a mental image of the Ark. So this is what the ark looked like completely golden. There were those beams that went at the10:01 bottom and then through those beams you would put in wooden sticks, through them because according to the law of God, what was stored in there was the was the 10 commandments that God originally gave to10:13 Moses. The 10 words, the 10 laws, which were the laws of Israel. And so there was a rule because what happens is is God's presence cannot dwell within10:25 an unrighteous person, within a sinful person. And so because God is all pure, and God is all holy, and God is all righteous, if you were to touch that10:37 and have any sin, then you would immediately die. The wrath of God would be poured on you. Be because it it was a law of God's that you could not touch the Ark of the Covenant. Why?10:49 Because a holy God cannot mix himself with impurity and stay pure. Just part of God's law. It's part of God's law. If you don't believe me, it's a very practical law.11:01 I want you to begin it. Pastor Daniel said this before, I want you to make some cookies and I want you to only put 1 scoop of dog poop in it. And bake the cookies11:13 and then take them out and eat them all up. Well, no. We would immediately say what? It's been contaminated. The whole thing, the whole bunch. So therefore, if you saw me with that11:25 scoop of dog poop, and I went to put in it, you would immediately what? You would reject it out of something that requires sanitation. So even if I went to a restaurant right now,11:38 and I went in the back of the kitchen, and I took something that was unsanitary, and I went in through it. I took raw chicken, and I went in through it all on all their counters, and rubbed it on there. They would11:49 immediately have to stop everything they were doing and sanitize the process. Because they could not put something holy, clean, a piece of beef, a piece of something cooked12:00 over something that's been defiled. And so the Ark of the Covenant was told that it could not be touched and only once a year a priest was supposed to kill a calf and put it on12:12 top of those wings and allow the blood of that calf to drip down on the Ark as a way of atoning for Israel sins. While,12:24 what happened was, is Israel was, actually came and conquered for a moment by the Philistines. So the Philistines took the arc and they held it as a ransom. David and his men at 1 point, they went and David and12:36 his men at 1 point, they went and got it back. But then at the time, their temple wasn't built, so they put it in a storage warehouse at someone's house. So this is the most precious thing in12:48 Israel. And God's holiness dictates no 1 could touch it. Regardless of your own ambition, or regardless of your own purity, what happens is, is even our best deeds are13:00 filthy rags to God. So what happens is the arc begins to tilt because some of the oxen's tripped and 1 man goes to touch it to prop it up13:12 because it was tipping. So here's what happens when we read that because it's important to know what the Ark is and what's its places in Israel. It's a atonement point for Israel at this time. And so what happens it13:23 says, and Uzzah held it and stopped it. And it says, The Lord's anger was kindled against Uzzah in verse 7, and God struck him down, there because of13:35 his air and he died there beside the Ark of God. That the Lord had broken out against Uzzah and that place is called Perez Uzzah to13:47 this day. And David was afraid of the Lord that day. And he said, how can the ark of the Lord come to me? So David was not willing to take the Ark of the Lord into the city of David, but David took it13:59 aside to the house of Obed Edom, the Gittite, and the Ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed Edom, the Gittite 3 months. And the Lord blessed Obed Edom and14:11 all of his household. So what happens is is David gets angry because Uzzah goes to profit and then Uzzah instantly dies. Because14:22 an impure man touched a Holy Place. And so David's thinking was, why did this happen to Uzza? God, why14:34 did you do that? What's going on? And so it says that David was now angry at God because he's thinking, man, was a good guy.14:47 He be he be he He was 1 of our boys. He's 1 of my 30000. But what happens is, this is where the beauty of God often becomes man's14:58 wrestle. It's because we want God to be the same yesterday, today, and forever. So we want God to not change. We want this15:10 word to be a foundational principle. And we want to say, God, no matter what happens to our times, may this thing never change. But then at the15:22 same time, we wanna say, but God, for me, could you make a little exception? Just a little 1. God,15:34 could you just not be God for 1 minute? Now that we don't even need 1 minute who's only touched it for 2 seconds. God, could you not be God for 215:46 seconds? God can't. God cannot be not him at any point in time. So what's often the15:57 beauty of God and where people often say, why doesn't God do something about this person or that person and about this thing? Well, he does. There will come a time where16:09 he will exercise judgment over the most evil of people. So he he does do that but then the conversation has to be, well then how16:21 evil is evil and how good is good? Because that's what people often wanna ask, why does bad things happen to good people? And the exact answer to that is, you needed to divine to me16:33 what is a good person. What's a good person? And at what point should God intervene and not intervene? So we can all agree16:45 God could intervene at Hitler. Right? But does He intervene at your cousin who stole something? Or your16:56 friend that molested a woman? At what point should He intervene at? And so what happens is in this moment, the Ark represents God's17:08 judgment throne, His judgment seat. What we know to be real in heaven where all people will have to answer to, why we need Jesus. Because trust me, you wanna go to God in righteousness and there's nothing you can do.17:19 There's not a prayer you and I can pray. There's not a good deed you and I can do to attain that affection from God, that forgiveness from God. So that's why the gospel is so important. That's what this arc represents.17:32 It represents the need for a permanent fulfillment so that if you and I experience God's presence, we could do it in a way that doesn't kill us because of his holiness.17:44 So the Bible tells us later on in the New Testament according to Acts that that the moment we give our life to Christ, the work of the cross makes us righteous in God's eyes. So therefore, the God's17:56 spirit can dwell inside you and I, which means then we could come to a place of worship and a place of prayer and a place where we come at the altar and we can experience God's presence without happening to us18:08 what happened to Uzza. So there's a principle that we're learning. And what happened was David lost sight of the principle of God and the rule18:20 of God, which we want him to do. We don't want him making exceptions for sin. Trust me, you don't want that. You you you don't want that being slid. So what18:31 happens is is is God doesn't make any exceptions. So now what happens is it says, he then gets mad at God. So he says, I don't wanna take it to the center of our city anymore because I'm mad at God for what happened at18:43 Uzzah. So what I want to happen now is Obed Edom, would you store it at your house? And Obed Edom's like, Yeah, you can store it at my house. So it says18:55 what happens now is it was there for 3 months presence,19:08 now you're blessed? Because what happens is when you touch the ark, that represents you trying to be in the position of the ark. But when you're in its presence,19:21 you get the blessing of the ark. And a lot of times, we as Christians, we wrestle with God, not over His presence, but over our desire to be in His position.19:33 To dictate what people should and shouldn't get, should and shouldn't do, be and shouldn't be. And so we step into the position of God when our call as Christians is19:45 actually to dwell in His presence. See, sometimes we're not blessed by God because we've been fighting with God over His position, who He is, than rather19:58 being in His presence. So Obed Edom, his household became what? Became what? A holding place for God's presence. So I'm looking at that. I'm saying God,20:09 my job in my household is not to be in the position of God, but it's meant to be a place that carries your presence. And20:21 so, Obed Edom caught the lesson from God. Uzzah went to be in its position. No matter how well intentioned he was, there was20:33 a law of God that he can't make exceptions. And so here's what happens. Here's what we jump into. David saw how blessed Obed was. That it says it was only at his20:45 house for 90 days. Because David was like, yo, I need some of that. We need some of that. Oh, Ben, thanks for holding it bro. That's like you asking your friend20:57 to hold on to something for you, and then all of a sudden you see it on the news that it's worth like 10000000 dollars you you're gonna go to your friend's house really quick and be like, yo,21:09 could I get that China set back that I asked you to hold on to? Because I couldn't store it in my house no more. My grandpa's old watch, could I get that back? Come to find out it's worth like 200 grand. Can I get it21:21 back? So David goes to get it back. And now David fully is aware of the benefits of being in the presence of the art.21:34 So I want you to imagine the first time they're taking the ark, when we just read in second Samuel chapter 6, what is David doing? He brings 30000 men to go get it from storage and it says21:46 what? That they were playing music. No way does it share with us what he's doing. But now, the second21:58 part, when he goes to get it back, he has a totally different attitude means to have the presence of God in your space.22:10 And now, he begins to have an attitude of praise. The first time, he had the sounds of praise. They had the emotions of praise. He had music playing, he was walking, he just you22:22 know, it's almost like I could play worship music all day and just have it playing in the background but but am I engaging with it? Is it sitting in my spirit? Is it is it in my confessions? Is it in my worship? Is it in22:34 my prayer life? Because the first time he just has the environment of praise happening. The second time that we're about to read, oh, he's got the attitude of praise. And this is his expression of22:46 his attitude because he recognizes what it means to be in God's presence. I want you to watch the rest of this story. We're just going to read the rest. It says this. And it was told King David,23:00 it was said that King David, the Lord of Hosts, has blessed the household of Obed Edom. And all that belongs to him because of the Ark of God. And brought up the ark of God from the23:11 house of Obed Edom to the city of David with what? With now rejoicing. And when those who bore the ark of God had gone 6 steps, he sacrificed an ox and fanned again. So now23:23 he goes to a place of sacrifice. No. He goes to a place of worship. He now kills an ox. He places it over the ox or over the ark. He begins to go to a new level of worship, a new level of23:35 sacrifice because he recognizes now, well this is God's presence. God's presence equals blessing and not just financial blessing. It doesn't tell us what type of blessing23:47 Obed Edom had, but we recognize that it blessed his whole household. It was now generational, went into his household because of Obed Edom's, position of accepting the23:59 Ark. So now what happens is it says this, and he sacrificed an ox and fattened the animal and David danced before the Lord with all of his might, all of his might.24:11 And David was wearing a linen ephod. So David and all the house of Israel brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn. And as the Ark of the Lord came into the24:23 city, Michelle, the daughter of Saul, which is David's wife,24:36 and they brought him the arc of the Lord and set it in his place and inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. And when David had24:48 finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of host and distributed all among the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of24:59 bread. It's time to eat a portion of meat and a cake of raisins to each 1. Then all of the people departed and each to his house. And David returned to25:11 bless his household, but Michelle, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet David and said, how the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his female25:22 servants as 1 of the vulgar fellers that shamelessly uncovers himself. And David said to Michelle, It was before the Lord who chose me above your father and above all his25:34 house to appoint me a prince over Israel, the people of the Lord. And I will celebrate before the Lord. I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in25:46 your eyes. But the female servants of whom you spoken by, them I shall be held in honor. And Michelle, the daughter of Saul, had no child to the day of her death.25:58 No child to the day of her death. You see, so what happens is is David is wearing his kingly garb and so because of probably the heaviness, because of probably the heat26:10 of the day, because, you know, Israel weather is very similar to California And so, it can get really warm in the afternoons and in the days. And so, probably because of what he was wearing26:22 as a king, he decided to strip away his royalty into a place of humility and so what every person back then had what was called an ephod which was almost26:33 like a it would be a white linen cloth that wraps around all of their private Israel areas. We would just call it underwear. Plain and simple as that. And it looked very similar to that.26:46 And so what happens is he completely loosens his what? He loosens his position in Israel. He loosens his placement in Israel26:58 as king and gets to a place of bare nakedness as much as he could within appropriate reason. So that's why he said, I'm still in honor of the female servants, but I27:09 got to the lowest place I could go without being in a place of dishonor amongst humanity. And so he goes, and so instead, I rid my position, I rid my placement to get27:21 into a place of blessing with God. In a place of God's presence. And so what happens is his worship at the first time, it was at a place where they just27:33 played music and did all the celebration. He did everything that we church people are told to do. Right? So it's like create a nice ambiance, play the keys, have some nice lights and27:45 nice smoke. I totally believe if we were in David's time and our modern technology existed there would probably be more fog than we have in David's temple27:57 with the ambiance that they would try to set. If you gotta remember something, the temple of David, the 1 that his son built was all gold everything. Just boujee as you could28:08 believe. So, Old Testament had more boujee than any of us ever have. The fact that you're sitting in a comfy seat and we have a few lights does not compare to the28:20 boujee that they had back then. And so what happens is is in his celebration, he begins to a place to go to a place of worship, a place of let's feed the people, let's celebrate now.28:32 We have the arc now. It's in our presence. And not only is it our presence, he now understands to have God's presence comes with his presence in Israel's28:44 life. Because God had shown him through Obed Edom what it means to have God's presence in your life. And so I want you to imagine this, whenever we talk about28:55 praise, whenever we talk about worship, it's not necessarily your expression of what you do on the outside. It's the attitude in which you approach it. It's29:07 the attitude of what is within your heart because David, he had such a radical moment of celebration with God that yes, his emotions went to a place where it said, he praised and worshiped29:19 with all of his might, But it doesn't say that all of Israel copied and did everything that he did. They didn't take off their clothes either.29:31 This was an expression for David in the moment of the goodness of God that he recognized in Israel's place. That was the right expression of worship for him in that moment29:43 that dealt with his deliverance. So I want you a few moments we have. We have 5 minutes left. Look at these 3 points. This is something David teaches us what praise is. The first thing we learn is we see through David29:55 that praise is personal. Yes. Praise is personal. Yes. Praise is personal. When you worship God and when you come to a30:07 place where you lift God up in your life, you are doing it for an audience of 1. Yes. You're doing it for an audience of 1. Yes. And I think sometimes for me for many years,30:19 it would be concerned with the person on the left or right of me. I'd look at the person on the left or right of me and I'd say, well, they're not worshiping. Worship may not be in this room. Or I'd look at the person30:30 few rows down to me who was worshiping like this and I'd think to myself, they're a lunatic. They're crazy. Like no 1 just worships like that. You're weird. You're doing it for30:42 attention. I would have all of these expressions, all of these judgments on other people, but here's what you gotta recognize. I don't do I don't worship God for nobody. I don't30:54 I I don't need God. I don't need anyone to inspire me to worship my God. I don't need I don't even need God to answer all of my prayers, to be able to get my worship31:06 to God. I don't even need to be able to get everything that I'm asking for, every deliverance I need for God to get my appropriate worship. Because every single day I wake up and I live for an audience of 1.31:19 And my praise and my worship is not dictated of what I do for an hour and a half on a Wednesday or Sunday. It's what I do on a regular basis.31:32 And so David's wife saw this and she thought that she had a say on how David lives his life and how he worships God. I try to I try to look at stuff and you know,31:45 I I try to hear other people's things and they make comments about what it means to follow God and what it means to believe in Jesus. And I always say, I'm glad I'm not doing it for you or your approval.31:57 I'm not I'm doing it because I recognize who Jesus is. I recognize what he's done for my life. I've recognized the faith that it takes to believe God. And so therefore, I do32:09 this for an audience of 1. I don't do it for anyone else. And so it's deeply personal. You know, a few years ago, there was a fan of, a soccer team in Italy. The32:20 soccer team is called the Udinese soccer team. And this fan, his name is Orego Brobadani. This is a picture of him. And it just so happened that their team was playing a team. And32:32 here's the thing that has to happen in a lot of European soccer clubs. Not just the not the big ones, but the regular everyday soccer clubs that everyone goes to, is you generally have to separate all the fans32:44 from each other because they'll kill each other if if they don't. So there's always 1 side It's not it's not like I mean, and some of you Raider fans know.32:56 Like, you know, like, you go to a Raiders game, if anyone's a fan of anyone else, good luck getting out of life. In Vegas, it's a little different now, but when it was in Oakland, good luck. They would even say that. You33:08 could go cheer the other team, but you better not wear that team stuff. Because everyone was intertwined. But over there, they keep them separated. So it just so happened, the Udinese team was playing in another33:20 city in Italy and no 1 showed up other than Arago. No fan. Arago was the only fan that showed up to the game. And33:32 so on 1 side, you had all of the locals who covered an entire side of the arena, and on the opposite side, completely empty with 1 fan holding 1 flag.33:45 And the soccer players who all played that day, guess what? The Udinese team won 2 to 0 that day. And they said they were inspired by the 1 fan34:00 players took him out for coffee after the game. You see, what I see is a lot of us, we want the stadiums filled. Seeing what34:12 we've seen. See what car I'm driving. You see what God's doing in my life. You see this person I married. You see what's going on. We want everyone, everyone to comment on it. We wanna but here's the thing. When that34:22 happens, it is just fuddled with noise. It is fuddled with fandom, it is fuddled with expressions, and every single 1 of us, we're looking, does that person approve? Does that person approve? What's that34:34 person say about me? What's that person say about me? But the Udinese team was more inspired by 1 man who came to watch them play. So inspired that they won the34:45 game other than a field stadium. It is inspiring not to have the attention of all people. It's inspiring to have the intention of 1 person. And34:57 so the Lord is the only 1 that we live our praise for. Right. Right. Praise is deeply personal. The second thing also, while it's personal, praise is also35:09 participatory. It's something that you and I all can take in. It's something you and I can all take part in. Not just the songs of worship but through our prayer time, through the35:21 reading of our word. You know, as you and I, it is a common denominator of participation that all of us can understand regardless of how you grew up, regardless of how you were raised,35:33 regardless of your race, regardless of your gender. Praises God and the poor man praises God, God looks at neither with special35:45 favor, 1 or the other. It's participatory. It's the great equaling point where we can all go before God. Why? Because we can all do what David did. We can strip ourselves of our position.35:57 So for the rich man, he's got to take off the watch, he's got to take off the rings, he's got to put the car in the garage, he's gotta leave the house keys in the house, and he has to come to God with his head bowed. The36:09 poor person, they can take everything they have, the lack of things that they have, the lack of food, the lack of necessities, the lack of clothing, and we can go to God at all of us in a place of nakedness36:20 like David, where we're all stripped of everything before the praise of God and say, God, I worship you above all things. In order to praise God, we all have to36:32 strip ourselves of everything that we came in with. Come to a place of humility and then we can all participate in God's presence. And we learn something from the Ark. If we all participate in God's presence, we can36:44 experience God's blessing because we've all come to experience the praise of God. And then the last point is this as we begin to play begin to close begin to close. Praise36:56 is passionate. It says that that that that David worshiped God with all of his might. It doesn't say David worship God with37:08 all of God's might. God's. It doesn't say David worship God with all of God's. It doesn't say David worship God with all of God's. It doesn't say David worship God with all of God's might because Michelle didn't have37:14 much might. So it wasn't very hard to worship God like Michelle worship God. She worshiped God what? It says she was still in the window of the house. She didn't even get out the house to worship37:26 God. And so, I'm not concerned with Michelle. And so what happens is David says within his own might. So you and I, we're all called to worship God according to our37:37 passion. What are you passionate? So when people always ask me, well how long should I pray? How long should I read my bible? How many times should I go to church? My question would be37:49 often be, tell me what your passions are in life? Well, I love football. How often you watch football? 3, 4 times a week. Okay. How often you38:01 look at football stats? Like 6 times a day. Okay. How how how much football jerseys and memorabilia? You got my whole house is filled. Talking potentially a woman, it38:13 may be football too, but it may be How how much do you love shopping? How often do you spend on Instagram going through Shein and all these other, you know?38:26 Every single day, you're going on Shein and Nasty Gal and all these women's fashion Nova. And, you know, you get that 80 percent off text message from fashion Nova.38:40 How often do you spend on that thing? Yeah. So so your passion may not be my passion. Because truthfully for me, I mean, I grew up in church. So so my passion really is38:52 this. My my passion is the house of God. That's that's I But I grew up around that. I I I was raised around that. So so I'm not looking for anyone to have necessarily my full passion because I39:04 wasn't always on staff at a church. I was in I was in bible college. I went to 6 churches in between growing up in abundant living and being. And when I was at those other churches, I went to every men's gathering they39:15 had. I served in every ministry I could because that's what I was passionate about. I love church. So I don't expect anyone to meet my passion. I just expect you to meet your passions.39:27 Right. Right. So, if you'll get up on the drop of a dime and meet up friends for coffee and lattes and do whatever. You'll pick up a dime and get on your motorcycle and meet up with your well then, you'll pick up a39:36 you'll pick up a dime and get on your motorcycle and meet up with your crew. Well then God should meet that passion. And if you want to be like David, it should exceed those passions. If you reallyShow more In this video 0:00 The Attitude of Praise1:02:32
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