# A lesson from David on worship

Key Passage: 2 Samuel 6
Date: June 7, 2024

Second Samuel chapter six. Second Samuel chapter six.

By the way, we have been off the subject of the life of David for over a month now. We’ve been on overall for over a year, beginning of 2020. We started this. And we’re at this point. Let me just kind of refresh us all. We’re at this point.

Anybody tired tonight? Anybody tired?

We got a lot of shaking hands, raising hands, all right, good. This side is, anybody tired over here? Y’all are good to go. Y’all had your geratol, weeys, had it all. You are good to go over here. That’s a good thing.

But they had just went out the ark, and you remember the first time they went to get it, they carried it on a new cart. God had already told him how it has to carry it—not to carry it like that, but the Philistines had done it like that, the world. And they followed the world in the worship of God.

And, of course, you remember the story? They came over a bump, if you will, come to the Threshing Floor there, and a man named Uzzar reached out to kind of steady it, and God killed him. God took his life.

And David wasn’t real happy about it. In the end, David said, “Hey, you’re right, I’m wrong. You told us.” And we’ll begin reading. We’re going to read a lot of verses more than typical tonight at the beginning. But you’ll notice at the beginning that where the ark ended up at this guy named Obed Edom’s house, God was blessing him. David said, “Man, we need those blessings.” And so they went and brought it up to Jerusalem the right way.

And David worshiped the Lord during this time. And we’re just going to try to be brief tonight. Notice I said, “Try to be brief tonight.”

And some lessons—lessons from David’s worship. That’ll be the title for tonight: Lessons from David’s Worship. Just try to pull out a couple things briefly tonight from God’s Word. We’re in Second Samuel 6. We’re going to start in verse number 12, if you would please. And would you please stand for the reading of God’s Word just to show it respect?

And 2 Samuel 6 in verse number 12. Stick with me as I read a little bit tonight.

“And it was told King David saying the Lord had blessed the house of Obed Edom and all that pertained unto him because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark from the house of Obed Edom to the city of David with gladness.

“And it was so that when they bare the ark of the Lord”—that’s how they’re supposed to carry him—had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings. And David danced before the Lord with all his might. David was girded with linen ephod, this priestly garment. So David and all the house of Israel were brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, with the sound of the trumpet.

And as the ark of the Lord came to 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. 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.

Now, as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Hosts. And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to everyone a cake of bread and a good piece of flesh and a flagon of wine.

Now, that wine is not an intoxicating wine. It’s just simply means blood of the grape, if you will. He gave him a bunch of brownies and Little Debbie cakes and some Coca-Cola and Mountain Dew and Dr. Pepper. You’ve got to study real deep for all that.

So all the people departed everyone to his house, and 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 today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovered himself!”

And David said it to Michal, “It was before the Lord.” Watch here, he’s jabbing back at her now, “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. Now will I yet be more vile than thus. I will be base in mine own sight. Of the maidservants that I have spoken of, of them shall I be had in honor.” Therefore, Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no child unto the day of her death.

Father, Lord, thank you for people that, Lord, I don’t know one of them that has to be here tonight. They’re just here for you. And they want to learn, they want to grow, trying to obey your word. And Lord, so would you give them something from you? Would you feed them? Lord, help us to leave being stirred by you and your word and your spirit. Lord, have us to be wiser for you because of tonight. And we’ll thank you, Lord, for what you do. In Jesus’ name we pray and believe. Amen.

Thank you so much for standing. You may be seated.

Now, get a picture of it. Get a picture of it if you would. They’re bringing the ark back. And David is down amongst the people praising the Lord. He was dancing with all his might. He is offering up sacrifices.

By the way, it wasn’t a sensual dance. A man and a lady that’s not married hugging all over each other. No, no, no. The Bible says it’s not good for men not to touch a woman, so he’s praising the Lord. He’s not doing that. He’s dancing for the Lord. They’re offering up sacrifices and giving gifts to people. And David’s giving to the people, if you will.

You may be able to just kind of title that: David was a little bit—at least at the moment, for a lot of his life—a little bit of a fanatic for the Lord, just zealous for the Lord. Got a lot of zeal for the Lord. We said sometime in our day and time, he was on fire for the Lord. He was fired up for Jesus. That’s David. That’s what David’s doing.

Michal, his wife, but also the former king Saul’s daughter. So she knew what it was to be around royalty. She grew up in that somewhat, and live in a palace and have all that. Notice she’s looking out a window. She’s not down there in the street where they’re carrying the ark. She’s up. I don’t know, maybe in a palace, maybe in the Hilton, maybe in the upstairs of the sanctuary. And I’m kind of using that lightly there. But she’s not down there amongst the people. She’s up here. And she looks out and she sees her husband, the king, and he’s just a fanatic for the Lord. She’s not down there amongst the common people. She’s up somewhere or somewhere looking out of a window. I would take it up so she can see David down there amongst the crowd.

And she despises David in his moment of being zealous for the Lord. She despises him in her heart. Now we can learn a lot from that. Just a couple of things. We’ll try to just pull out: Be careful of despising zealous Christians.

Sometimes I know it may be a whole lot of zeal and a lack of knowledge from time to time, and I’m not saying David was there. He was doing it God’s way this time. But if we’re not careful, we can despise it. Look, if somebody’s got a higher standard than you, you understand? We get Bible truths and Bible principles, and then on top of that, we have some conviction. And then usually we’ll put a standard in our life that helps us keep those convictions.

I forgot about this. This week, my wife and I were reminded. We went somewhere to kind of remind us years ago. We went to church in Nashville before our church was really started, and we’d visit churches around at the time, a couple months there, and I went to church, and the preacher—I remember him—just reminded he had made fun of an old preacher named Lester Roloff. Have you ever heard of Lester Roloff? Yeah.

And this preacher was making fun of Lester Roloff for being totally against TVs. I mean, Lester Roloff was like, you don’t even have a TV in your house. I mean, that was back in the day when some preachers were taking TVs out back and shooting with the 12 gauge, you know. And this preacher was making fun of him. Now, here’s my thing: I don’t really have the regular TV. We have a TV. We can plug in the HD micro and all that stuff. But listen, even if I have a TV in my house, why in the world would I want to make fun of a guy that has a higher standard? America would be about 10,000 times better if we didn’t have TVs in America.

So I say, don’t despise a fellow that’s got a higher standard than you. You understand what I’m saying? That’s exactly what Michal was doing—just despising David for being a zealous Christian. Look, if somebody’s got a higher music standard than you, don’t go around and criticize them. So praise God, they’ve got a high standard.

If somebody has a little bit higher dress standard than you, don’t go over there trying to knock them down and say, “Praise the Lord, we need Christians in America that stand.” Why do I want to criticize somebody trying to stand for the Lord? I don’t think it’s probably the best way to hold a John 3:16 sign up at a football game or something, but praise the Lord, they’re doing it. I’m not going to knock that.

It’s very easy for us sometimes, if you’ve been around for a while, just to maybe despise a little bit those that are zealous. Some people—and I, of course, I’m a pastor, I don’t have a problem with this conviction at all, you know—but some people, they just like any time the offering plate is passed, they want to put at least a dollar bill or something in there. So I say, “Oh, you know, they’re always—it’s just a dollar. Why do they always put a dollar in there?” My praise the Lord, they put a dollar in there. They have a conviction. They want to put a penny in there every time. Praise the Lord. But it’s so easy sometimes, rest just to get a little bit, oh, cynical, despising those that maybe are just zealous for the Lord.

Everybody’s a little different. Some churches—some churches—they don’t believe in clapping if somebody were singing a solo or special. They don’t believe in clapping for them. And I understand where they’re coming from. We don’t want to worship man. I like to show someone I appreciate their time and their effort for the Lord. The Bible is told by giving honor where honor is due. But look, if that’s their conviction, praise the Lord for them. They got the right to have that conviction. We have a couple people in our church. They have that conviction. I’ve not said, “What in the world’s wrong with you?” Hey, they want to have that conviction. Let them have it.

But Michal, man, she just despised when she saw David down there dancing before the Lord and offering these sacrifices and fatlings and giving gifts out to people and amongst the common view. She got mad about that thing.

And if we’re not careful, we’ll do the same in our own day and time. Don’t despise. You ever been to church? I remember a country church that preached to revival years ago. And some of you’ve been in churches like this. And before service starts, all the men go in the back room, you know. And I said, “Praise the Lord, we need all the prayer we can get,” you know. And we went back there—I don’t have any men. It wasn’t a huge church. We all go back there and get on our knees and everything. And all of a sudden, everybody starts praying at the same time.

I have a little hard time focusing because I’m not used to it. There are a couple of churches, Brother Marley, a couple of you guys, rather, another church—I think of another couple church—and great people. Look, they’re used to it. They can probably focus on praying when everybody else is praying. But, friend, don’t despise them. Don’t say, “What in the world are they doing?” They’re praying. That’s what they’re doing. They’re doing it a little different than you. That’s all right.

And I’m not talking about going to worldly worship. We mentioned that at the beginning. Don’t go to the world’s way. Don’t bring the world’s music and all their sinfulness into the church house. No, no, no. But look, friend, everybody’s going to be a little different. And they may have even a more zealous way than you. Don’t despise it. That’s what Michal was doing there.

Can I say this, just about this little thing? We’re going to move on. Be careful—I don’t know of the proper term here—but be careful of getting old, and I use this term lightly, but getting into high-browed worship. Now follow me for just a minute here. Follow me for just a minute.

You notice David was down there amongst the common people. He wasn’t up somewhere, we go out of window, kind of, you know. We’ve had Catholics that have gotten reached, and several of them. My wife will know what I’m talking about. And they’ll say, “Man, this is where it ought to be. I know this is right. It’s a New Testament church.” They like all that. But they come and they say, “You know, but I still miss… I’m talking about someone who’s been raised in a Catholic church. I say, ‘I still miss the ambience that the Catholic Church creates.’ But what’s the term? The aura of it? May I say that right? Or the aura of it?” And it creates that a little bit just full. Not God’s a holy, He’s a thrice holy God.

But did you notice how they looked down in verse number 12 there? We just read it. Look down verse number 12. “And it was told King David saying the Lord had blessed the house of Obed Edom and all that pertained to him because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed Edom into the city of David with… Had to read the whole verse to get that last word. That’s what. With what? Gladness. Gladness. Yeah.

Let’s keep reading. “And it was so that when they had bare the ark of the Lord and gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.” It was giving. They’d sacrifice it. And by the way, giving’s a part of worship. We’ll get to that a second here. “And David danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was girded with the linen ephod.” And so David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.

We had a man in—in fact, he’s in heaven now—but he said, “I just can’t get over when you come to that church, y’all shake hands.” And I can’t get past the amens. By the way, I like the amens. Keep them coming. Amen. Sick them, you know. That’s what it means right there, you know. I like that.

And be careful of just a—look, gladness. Serve the Lord with gladness. I say this often: Man, I like our church. I think it ought to be bright. I’ve already told the architect for a new building, “We want it bright and cheerful.” We, all the other storefronts we were in, we never could, you know, do some things. And so we moved here and we added on back here. So, man, we’re going to put a lot of lights in. You say, “Man, preacher, you did. We got lights everywhere in here.” If you notice, and somebody even said it, oh, I think somebody that day said, “I know you’re on the lights.” I like every light in the house. Man, I want to know something’s going on in the church that God… Somebody said, “Well, what about the electric bill?” Hey, if we don’t have a God big enough to pay for a couple of lights, we don’t have a big God, you know. Man, I like a bright and cheerful. I like that. That’s where it ought to be. They served them with gladness. They’re worshipping the Lord. They’re dancing before David was with all his might and shouting and trumpets. Yeah. I like it cheerful. I like our preludes when our pianists plays before service and it creates such an atmosphere. I like a little bit faster than the typical, and we want the upbeat songs. We want people to come in here cheerful and gladness, and we’re happy, we’re saved, we’re going to heaven, we’re redeemed. That’s the atmosphere we want. That’s what David was doing—worshiping with gladness, and it’s happy and praising God.

I helped—I didn’t preach, but I helped with a funeral a couple of weeks ago, a month ago, down in Murfreesboro, and the fellow that passed was Greek Orthodox. He’s from Jordan. And praise the Lord, he had gotten saved. Dr. Jorgensen preached for us a while back. He had taken a Torah group to that church, and that man’s daughter was singing in that group, and so the man came to hear his daughter after church. Dr. Jorgensen had witnessed and got saved. And he passed away about a month. And so the family—and they were very kind about it all—but they had said, they said, “Look, he’s Greek Orthodox, most of the family was there, and they could speak Arabic and all that.” So they had a Greek Orthodox priest come in for the first part of the funeral. And Dr. Jorgensen got up and he was supposed to tell how he led the man to the Lord, and then I got up and just basically presented the gospel at the end of the funeral. That’s my job.

But here’s the thing: that Greek Orthodox priest, he came up and was very kind, and he said his spiel, and then he really started reading—I wouldn’t say quite in the quote—but reading a lot of Bible verses. It wasn’t too bad. I was listening in, tuning in for all of it. But I think the gospel wasn’t clear, but he was reading and seemed like for the most part as King James, but he would kind of have that certain cadence about, “Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and then we walk through the valley of the shadow of death.” And he could do it better than me. Amen. It was almost like, you know, peaceful and calm. And I thought, “That’s interesting.” And just kind of chant it almost like it. And if you grow up around it, it does create a little bit of an ambience. And you get just where you just, you can kind of get relaxed in that.

But if I understand right, David, man, he would serve the Lord with gladness. Man, he’s out there shouting and trumpets and dancing with all his might. That’s exciting about serving God. There’s a difference there. My thing, going back to the Catholic Church: the Catholics said, “If you give me a child from the time he’s born to the time he’s five, he’ll be Catholic for life.” That’s all part of it. But that’s not the kind of worship David was giving. He was excited and zealous for the Lord and busy for the Lord and dancing for the Lord.

So be careful sometimes of despising those who maybe have higher standards, and be careful sometimes of what may call—might call—higher-browed worship. Hey, we just want to serve the Lord with gladness, glad I’m a Christian, and bright and cheerful. That’s what David was doing.

Let’s try to pull a couple other things out here. Look down, if you would, in verse number 13 again. Verse number 13. You all still with me? Amen? Amen? Look at verse number 13. “And it was so that when they had bare… they that bear the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.”

Now, I don’t know how far they had to travel, but you can imagine every time six paces, they stopped and offered up. That’s got to run a little chunk of money, you understand that.

Now look down in verse number 19: “And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to everyone a cake of bread, a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.” So all the people departed everyone to his house.

Now, here’s what I just want to—just giving was part of his worship. Giving. Giving to the Lord. You sacrifice the oxen and the fatlings and giving to people. I hope—I hope you learn the joy of giving. There’s just joy. I didn’t pay, and I wanted Brother Bill to know, I didn’t pay for that little Chromecast thing. The church paid for it, but there was a little joy. I had a little joy. I had just been able to give something. And it really didn’t cost me any of the church. But there’s just joy in giving.

Remember Paul over there in Acts 20 and verse 32? And he’s quoting Jesus, and he said, “Remember what Jesus said? It is more blessed to give than to receive.” I hope you just learn the joys of giving. There’s a blessing in giving, giving to the Lord.

That man Sunday, he pulled out that $200 and gave it for the building fund. I guarantee he left Sunday afternoon and he was happier than just about anybody. Someone and I gave a $100 bill for the building fund. Boy, I guarantee you, I’m happy about it because we need all of it for the building fund, amen, you know. But I guarantee you they got more joy than I did. Joy in giving. Part of your worship ought to be giving.

You say, “Well, you take offerings all the time.” Yeah, part of worship is giving. You say, “We’re always trying to raise for the building fund.” The older I get, the more I realize that’s a good thing for our people. It’s a good thing for the building and all that in our needs, but it’s a good thing for our people. Some preachers say, “Well, I don’t want to get into faith promise.” They might give the faith promise instead of the church. Hey, God takes care of a giving church. It’s good for our church to have opportunity to give to missions, and it’s a great thing mission conferences come right around the corner, and boy, you learn just the joy of tithing, yes, and even more offerings, just giving to God. The people he’d actually give to—there’s joy there. It’s a blessing.

There’s joy. David’s giving, he’s giving to everybody around him. All these people, he made sure they all had some food, something to drink. At Fontaine’s, I was over there a week or two ago, and they said, “Preacher, who gave us that groceries?” I said, “I don’t know.” They said, “Somebody just bought a bunch of groceries at Walmart, and I believe they had Walmart deliver them.” You know, they delivered this. We don’t know. I said, “I don’t know who did it, but whoever did it, I guarantee they got a lot of joy.” Just joy in giving.

And David’s giving out. He’s worshiping the Lord. He’s giving to the Lord. He’s sacrificing and giving to all the people there, making sure they’ve got food, giving out to all of them. It’s giving. Giving ought to be a—it’s part of true worship, giving. If you’re a Christian, you say, “I’m just not going to give a—not going to put anything on that offering plate.” That’s your prerogative, and I don’t know who gives what. I don’t know who gives what. I don’t know who gives what. I don’t know who gives what in their church. But I kind of say this: your worship is not complete. You’re lacking in your worship of the Lord until you learn to give. There’s joy there. Something about it.

Look over one passage real quick. We’ll move to the next point. Look over Proverbs 13—Proverbs 17. Proverbs 17, verse number 13—verse number 7. And verse number 7, Proverbs 13, verse number 7. And I want you to notice the last two words of this verse. Proverbs 13, verse number seven. I want you to find that. Would you say, “Amen?” Good. Here we go. Verse number seven, chapter 13: “There is that maketh himself rich; he’s always worried about getting, making himself rich, yet hath nothing.” “There is that maketh himself poor,” he said he’s giving out all the time, “yet hath”—here’s the words—“great riches.” That fellow was out to get rich, didn’t have anything. That guy just giving out everywhere, always giving out and making himself poor, he had great riches. Someone said the only thing you can take to heaven with you is what you give away. Very interesting thought. Great riches. Just hope you learn the joy of giving. Worship—it ought to be part of your worship to the Lord.

Then last thought, we’re done. Last thought, and we’re done. Number one, we’ll just talk about: Be careful despising someone who’s more zealous than us in the service of the Lord at that moment. Number two, we’ll talk about worship a little bit there. Then number two, giving. Giving ought to be part of your worship. And number three, number three: Be careful about pulling down a family member when they’re on a spiritual high.

We’re all up and down. The best of us are up and down. Only one of us is the same yesterday and today, as Jesus. All of us. The instant in season and out of season, talking a preacher there, we’re all up and down. I mean, if you do when I’m down all the time, you wouldn’t listen to me. I don’t want to listen to that preacher. We’re all there.

And so in your family, you’re going to be up and down, and your other family members are going to be up and down. And maybe you’re down. Maybe it’s just not your week to be on the top side for the Lord, and your spouse is up here. And if you’re not careful, the devil will use you to bring them down. This is David’s wife.

And she sees him out, and David’s just zealous for the Lord. And boy, she despised him in her heart. That’s what the Bible says. Hey, if somebody’s in your family, whether it be your kids or the parents or a spouse, if somebody’s just on the top side—maybe they’re just, man, that just seem like they’re always talking about the Lord or passing out tracts everywhere they go, and they’re just praying all the time—be careful that you don’t despise it and devalue them. You might have to say, “Well, I’m not there right now, but praise God, they’re there right now.” Hey, you’ve got to forgive me, I’m not there right now, but I’m glad you are there right now. No, don’t destroy. Don’t pour water on the fire. Thank God you’re there. I’d like to get there a little bit myself. Pray for me.

It’s amazing how often you’ll see this in the ministry. Can I be honest with you? It affected David too. It brought him down. Look down at verse number 22. Verse number 22. His wife has been criticizing him. He’s zealous for the Lord. What does David do? Verse number 22: “I will yet be more vile than thus.” Wow. Sounds like I got to David for sure. He said, “I’m going to be more vile.” Pretty sad thing. “And I will be,” look what he says, “and I will be base in mine own sight. It’s just my own opinion about it. What I’m doing is not right.” But he said, “I’m going to be base in mine own sight. And of the maidservants which I have spoken of, of them shall I be had in honor.” His wife had no child.

It got to—it got to. Isn’t it interesting, Jesus, the one that he said, “Get thee behind me, Satan,” was one of—not just his apostles, but one of the inner three, Peter. And Jesus identified the devil using someone that’s close to him. Often what the devil does, he gets those people that are very close to us because they have a way in our… and he’ll work. And Peter didn’t know what in the world was going on, but the devil did. And Jesus looked, he said, “Get thee behind me, Satan.” Jesus was wise enough to realize what was going on. Satan was trying to use someone close to him to get to Jesus.

And be so careful. It’s a shame when we—and we’ve all been guilty—when we pull down, maybe someone in our house is on a spiritual high, and we discourage it. That’s exactly what’s going on. And interestingly, Jesus is in that house, and there’s a whole lot of people there, and his mom and his brothers and his sisters, half-brothers, half-sisters come there. They didn’t come inside. Now, everybody else got inside. They really wanted to. They got inside, but they just weren’t on tune with everything. And outside, “Hey, you go tell him to come outside here and talk to us.” And Jesus said, “No, no, no, no.” He said, “Look, you know who’s my brother, my brother and sister? Those who do the will of God.” I’m saying Jesus has experienced family, and he didn’t go there.

Oh, be so careful that I don’t pull down family members when they’re on a spiritual high. Man, praise God for them. By the way, can I say on the flip side, if somebody’s not where you are at that moment, don’t preach it then. Your spouse or your children, you know. Now, if they’re younger children or whatnot, or live inside your house, there’s a different category there. But your grown children or people, your family, don’t go around and preach. You’re not going to get them right with the Lord by preaching at them. You come closer and you happen to get right with God just by loving them, praying for them.

Satan’s always trying to use us to bring each other down, especially those we’re close to. God—excuse me—Satan used Michal to bring David down. A little sad ending to the chapter.

I remember years ago, a young teenage girl was in the bus ministry in Chicago. It was a very intense bus ministry. We even had a Christian school for bus kids. We really wanted to do right. You realize the Chicago environment was just awful. And it was a home, two daughters. This was the older of the two daughters, the single mom trying to raise those girls for the Lord in Chicago. There’s, you know, Mexican town, there’s Puerto Rican town. This was in Polish town. And anyway, this teenage girl got on fire for the Lord.

I’m talking about sold out. She wanted to get rid of her own friends. She wanted to go to the Christian school. She wanted to witness. She wanted to live right—kind of music, right kind of dress. She just wanted to go all out for the Lord. And the mom was happy about that in the Chicago land area that her daughter wanted to do right, but she didn’t want her daughter to be a fanatic.

So every time that girl just went all out for the Lord, that mom just slowly pulled her daughter back. You’d see it. And she’d let me watch her go to and be involved in at church and so on and so on. And I sat in that story eventually later on. The mom got in church, started doing right. It should pull her daughter so far back that her daughter went back sleeping. And actually, I believe her daughter backslid, and then the mom got in church, if I remember right, the whole story, and the daughter actually came to her wedding down in Florida—I mean, the mom did. But that teenage daughter was on fire for the Lord, she always pulled her back. She backslid and just fell into a life of sin. And the mom was brokenhearted. I thought all those times, I said, “Don’t pull your daughter back.” But if you will, she despised a little bit that her daughter was becoming a fanatic.

Hey, don’t be like Michal. She looked out that window and saw David dance before the Lord and offering up, giving out things to everybody, and he wasn’t in this high-brow; he was just down there with the common people. And she despised him. Praise the Lord for them. Maybe sometimes they need to gain a little knowledge to the zeal. I’m not saying necessarily David here, but praise God if they’re zealous for the Lord. Man, let’s encourage and praise God, thank God for those people. Just lessons from David’s worship.

Would you bow your heads and close your eyes? We won’t be long today.

Maybe you hear you say, “Preacher, sometimes I despise those who are on fire. I’m going to work at that. If somebody’s on fire for the Lord, I don’t want to despise them. I don’t want the devil to plant that thing in my heart. I want to stay away from that. God spoke to my heart about that tonight.” That’s you with heads bowed and eyes closed? That’s me right there. God spoke to my heart about that. Just look at your hand and preach. That’s me. God bless you. God bless you. It’s a good thing. God bless you.

Thank you so very much. Thank you so very much. You put your hands down. You’re here tonight. You said, “Preacher, I want to grow in giving. I just want to grow in my worship of the Lord as far as giving. I want to be a better giver for the Lord.” God spoke to my heart about that. And I like that, preacher. I like to grow in giving. God bless you. Me too, me too, me too, me too. It’s a great thing. Oh, it’s a wonderful thing. Thank you so very much for letting the Lord work in your heart.

Maybe you’re here tonight when you said, “Preacher, I don’t want—I don’t want the devil to use me to pull down family. I want to be wise about that. I don’t want to despise and discourage those of my family, maybe under a spiritual high.” God spoke to my heart about that. I don’t want to be a part of that right there. God spoke to my heart about that. That you’re not going to sleep your end of prayer. God bless you. God bless you. Me too.

Would you please stand? Let’s all stand if you would, please, for a word of prayer. Would you just spend some time with the Lord? Just say, “Lord, what’s for me in this thing tonight? What am I supposed to get out of it?” Maybe come to an altar, just be obedient to the Lord. Let the Lord work in your heart. We’ll pray. Would you come as instruments play?

Father, thank you for David. Thank you for showing us the truth about what’s going on here. Lord, help us to glean and grow and learn from it. Father, thank you for those that are zealous. I’d like to be there more often, Father. Lord, help us to be a help and encouragement to those that are, and help us to be there more consistently for you. Bless our people tonight, Father, please. We’ll thank you for what you do. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

Original File: A lesson from David on worship - Pastor Paul Chisgar Sunday pm 12421