# Filled with glory

Key Passage: Exodus 40:33-38
Date: June 7, 2024

Turn your Bibles, if you would, to Exodus, the book of Exodus, chapter 40. Would someone just look in the kitchen and see if there’s a glass, something you can see through a glass? Brother John, I appreciate that. If you bring that up whenever you get it, that would be great.

We have been on the life of David pretty much all year long. But the last several Wednesday nights, we’ve kind of taken a detour. We focused on that phrase, “that dwelleth between the cherubim.” It’s found three times in the Bible. Last Wednesday, we changed course with the election and whatnot. By the way, let’s keep praying about that. Let’s stay faithful. We’ll see what the Lord will do. I’ll just keep trusting in Ecclesiastes 5:8, but we ought to keep it a matter of prayer. Let’s keep praying about that. We want to get back to this saying of the dwellers between the cherubim and the temple of God and so on. But we’re not really going to go there; we’ve used that phrase as the springing board. If you just bring that visual up, that would be great. That word.

We’re going to jump over here to the tabernacle. Brother Jim, if you have those visuals, let’s look real quickly. If you have the ark there first, thank you, John.

Of course, there’s the ark. Let me turn these lights off. You can see a little better there. It’s not a perfect image, but a picture of the Ark of the Covenant. Of course, the mercy seat up top, the cherubim here. And three times the Bible says it dwelleth between the cherubim. It’s amazing that Almighty God would dwell there in that little area, but He did. He did so for years in a special way.

The ark was in the Most Holy Place of the tabernacle. I pulled that up with Jim. God gave clear instruction for the tabernacle because He wanted to dwell among them. Actually, Exodus 25 tells us that. And if you go back to that other one, Brother Jim, there you go. You’d come in there to the brazen altar, a lot of sacrifices there. And then the laver, they’d wash there in the water, and the table of showbread, twelve of those, the altar of incense for praise, and the menorah of the golden candlesticks. And then that veil, and inside the veil, the Most Holy Place, was the Ark of the Covenant. God dwelt there, and out of that would come the cloud and the fire, and they’d be led by that. I just want to get that concept in your mind a little bit.

God gave Moses very strict guidelines on how to make it. God gifted some men to help Moses. By the way, it was made after the pattern. The Bible used that phrase several times, meaning the real ones are in heaven. Moses saw that pattern, and God gave instructions on how to build it.

Moses—this is amazing how many times God told Moses to do something, and he got it done! Boom, boom, boom. God tells him something, and he does it. Over 40 times, the Bible calls him a servant.

Over here in Exodus 40 is when the tabernacle was complete. I want you to notice something once the tabernacle is complete. Brother Jim, you can just turn that off. I just want to give you a little visual of what’s going on. They just finished building the tabernacle. We are in Exodus 40, and we’re going to start at verse number 33.

Exodus 40, look in verse number 33, if you would, please: “And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work; the tabernacle was built.” Notice what happens now: “Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.”

“And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation because a cloud abode there. And the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.”

“When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys. But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.”

“For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and the fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.”

I wonder what it would be like to be there. This happened several times when Solomon dedicated the temple, but I wonder what it would be like. It’s just amazing that this cloud came down and the glory of God filled it. It’s to the point—very interesting—to the point, you see verse number 35, to the point that Moses was not able to enter into the tent. Now that’s amazing. God was there with such power.

Moses had met with the Lord on the Mount before. He had been on Mount Sinai for 40 days. He came down and had the glow of God on him, and yet this time, the glory of the Lord had filled it to the point that Moses couldn’t enter in. It’s hard—I don’t know exactly—trying to visualize that a little bit: the cloud and the glory of God filling it. I’m not exactly sure what that would look like. I was trying to get a better understanding today, and I thought this might add a little to our search for exactly what it was like. First Kings 8, verse number 11: when Solomon dedicated the temple, the same thing happened.

But it says over there, “so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.” Then Solomon spoke, “The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.” Maybe that’s a little description of what was going on: thick darkness.

Can you imagine this cloud coming down? A cloud is typically a covering, and then the glory of the Lord. I think about the day of Pentecost, when there was the sound of a mighty rushing wind and the fire set on them. I wonder if there was noise when the glory of God just—I don’t know.

Solomon described it as thick darkness in another instance. Maybe that cloud was so dark you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face. I’m not sure. Of course, then it talks about the glory of the Lord. When Jesus was on the mountain, He was transfigured, and it began to shine. It’s almost interesting, the darkness and yet it shines, maybe. And maybe it’s beyond our human comprehension; it’s God.

Can you imagine the feeling of holiness? Maybe some fear, some reverence going on, some awe? God just moved in there. A reverence, perhaps a quaking. It’s almost too wonderful to enter in there. Maybe that was the feeling Moses had. You just feel it—God just moved in there. It’s amazing. Moses could not enter in. When I get to heaven, I’d like to watch the rewinds of that one right there. It’s awesome. It’s amazing.

Now, here’s the thing. We’ve studied it out—not last Wednesday, but the Wednesday before. In our day and time, there was a tabernacle, then the temple, a bit more permanent than our day in time. The Bible calls us—me and you, if you’re saved—calls our body His temple. 1 Corinthians 3:16: “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” 1 Corinthians 6:19: “What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” Your body is this temple.

Here’s another amazing thing. If you look over in Ephesians chapter 5, many of you know the verse. Keep your finger, by the way, in Exodus; we’ll go back to it. Ephesians 5. I remember he’s talking about when they dedicated the tabernacle—Moses finished it, and God moved in there, filled it up with glory, cloud filled it. Now the New Testament tells us our bodies are temples. Romans says we have the Spirit of God dwelling in us.

Now look at Ephesians 5, verse number 18. You’ll know the verse, I’m sure, most of you. Ephesians 5:18: “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.” It’s capital S, filled. It kind of reminds you what we were just reading about in the tabernacle and the temple being filled. Now God’s living inside of us, and God says, “I want you to be filled with God.” God, the Holy Spirit—that’s God. Filled. I’m going to be filled. That’s a command from God. It’s amazing—“filled.” It is usually mentioned when the glory of God just filled the tabernacle or temple, like that on the dedication.

It reminds me, maybe, when people just get saved. I thought about Chuck Craigger. How many of you were here years ago when Tracy Orms’ dad got saved? Chuck Craigger. I remember Chuck Craigger got saved. It was quite a ways back. A lot of people were here. But our people bonded together to pray for him to get saved like I’ve never seen. I try to get our people to pray, to really get burdened about something, and I don’t know that we’ve ever matched that intensity. We’d have people come in saying, “I can’t sleep at night; all I think about is Chuck Craigger. He had cancer, he’s going to die, go to hell.” All through the night, I’m just praying, “Lord, get Chuck saved.” You could just almost feel it; everybody was burdened and praying for Chuck Craigger to get saved.

It’s a wonderful thing. Many people tried to talk to him about the Lord. In the middle of the night, Mrs. Linda woke up just in time to see him over there on his knees getting saved in the middle of the night. That’s awesome. He passed—I don’t know how much longer after that—but he was able to come to church several times after he got saved before he died.

My wife often says about Chuck Craigger that even his face changed more than any person she’s ever seen before salvation afterward. He just looked different. Before, he was a good man; he’s in heaven now, but he had a little scorn on his face, and he had a lot of preachers try to witness to him. I heard he could be very, very mean. Praise the Lord, he was pretty nice to me. But man, when he got saved, it just changed him. You could look at him, and he looked different because God had moved inside and filled him. And he wanted to be at church every time he could until he passed.

I thought about Brother Marlon. When he got saved, you could just tell God did something. It’s awesome. But not just at salvation, it’s an open command to be filled. I love it when somebody gets saved; you can just tell God did something. I remember a man down the street here got saved. He came forward at the invitation one time. Me and Brother Kevin were down there. I know his wife now; she’s remarried, and rightfully so. He’s in heaven. He said, “Man, I tell you what, I’ve never been like this.” He said he was riding home from work the other day, and the sun shining through the trees looked so beautiful that he had to pull over on the side of the road just to thank God. It just changes somebody when God moves inside and fills them.

Yet God wants us to be like that all the time: filled. We are commanded to be filled with the Spirit of God and God Almighty.

Now let’s look a little bit at this Old Testament tabernacle. We know He lives inside of us now, and let’s get some comparison for when it was filled with the glory of God, and we are commanded to be filled with the Spirit of God. Would you look at a couple of things about comparisons? Just a little study about this. Look back over in Exodus 40. Look in verse number 34. Exodus 40, verse 34. Once you find that, would you say amen? Good. You’re quicker than I am. You’re ready to go.

Verse number 34: “Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.” I’m going to be filled with the Spirit. Here are a couple of thoughts about that: If I am filled with the Spirit, filled with God, it is going to be about His glory, filled with His glory. It cannot be about my glory. By the way, it is very easy for us to focus on our glory. But if I am filled with His glory, it can be no longer about my glory because it is filled with His glory.

Here is an interesting verse along that line: Proverbs 25:27. It says, “It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.” If I am going to be Spirit-filled, it has got to be all about His glory.

Our motives can be very tricky. We’ve got to let the Holy Spirit go through us with a fine-tooth comb on that thing. Years ago, I was at a preacher’s meeting at a young church. The church was on its third pastor at that time, the prior ones having left for bad reasons. The first guy who started the church, about an hour away, contacted me from a small Bible college in Florida, and we were glad to go down there and help. Some of you visited the very beginning of that church. We tried to go support them several times. In fact, one time when we were down there helping them get started, one of our ladies got very sick and ended up in the hospital. We had to hang out a little bit until she got released. We put a little investment there. I believe I preached there, and we did a little revival there at their beginning. Then that pastor was called to the mission field; we still support him as a good guy doing a great job.

The next guy came on board; God really used him to get that church a building. I remember he told me—he was an older man, I believe—he said, “I believe God has really used me, and my mission is to get this church its own property.” And he did. When he did, we went down there and cut trees and trimmed trees for them a lot and tried to help them on the new property. Some of you were with us when we cut those trees.

Funny thing is, I can tell this because Brother Bruce is in Colorado now. Brother Bruce was about to get married. He was engaged, but he came in January; I think he got married in June. He went down there and helped us cut. A lot of them were cedar trees, and ticks and chiggers are all in cedar trees. He went off to get married and had chiggers all over. It was horrible. Poor guy.

We did a lot of work down there, and we had helped financially at the beginning. Then the third pastor is there; he’s a good guy, a good friend of mine. He was having a preacher’s meeting with a singing group and a lot of other preachers. For them, it was a big day, praise the Lord for it. He got up and started talking about this church that had helped, and this church had helped, and this pastor and this pastor. Well, my flesh—we helped before any of these churches even knew about it. We gave; we’ve invested a lot of hours down there. He didn’t even know.

The Spirit of God said, “It’s really about the Lord’s work, isn’t it, Paul? What does it matter if he knows what you and the church did or not? I thought you were doing it for the Lord.” I had that battle with my flesh. I say that to say, you don’t always know your motives as much as we think we know them. They have to be revealed. On purpose, I’ve never said a word because I’d rather just keep it that way, and maybe the Lord uses that to keep the flesh down a little bit. But it cannot be about our glory.

Maybe part of the reason Moses could not enter in is because God said, “I don’t want this to be about man. This isn’t about man; this is about Me.” The glory of the Lord filled that thing. And if I am going to be Spirit-filled, it cannot be about me and my name and what all I’ve done. No, it’s got to be about the glory of the Lord. The glory of the Lord filled that thing. I’m not there—I’m not saying I’m there, I lied if I said that—but you can get to the point where every decision you make is about His glory.

Look over in 1 Corinthians chapter 10. This chapter talks toward the end about whether they could eat meat offered to idols. The thing about that was they would offer this meat to these idols, which were just pieces of wood or rock. They couldn’t eat the meat, and so once they were done with the meat, you could get a good deal on steak. Say amen right there! I mean, filet mignon, sirloin—you get a good deal on it. I like good deals.

Yet some people thought it was a sin because it was offered to idols. Paul explained in another chapter: “Look, we know those idols don’t mean anything, but if it causes my brother to be offended, I won’t do it.” That’s pretty amazing.

Now that’s the context. Look at 1 Corinthians 10, verse number 31: “Whatsoever therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” Everything—every decision, even eating or drinking—can I give God glory out of this thing? Can I make God look good out of this thing? If I am going to be Spirit-filled, it cannot be about me; it’s got to be filled with the glory.

Brother Bobby Robertson is one of my heroes. I love Brother Bobby. He preached for us one time. Someone had said, “Brother Bobby, he runs about 3,000.” He had about 3,000 in church, and Brother Bobby got up, and I was so impressed. He said, “We didn’t have 3,000.” I can’t remember the exact number, maybe 2,500, but I liked it. He had been in that church—Gospel Light Baptist Church in North Carolina—for many years. God used him so greatly. He is an old country preacher. Brother Bobby is down-to-earth, one of the most humble men I’ve ever been around.

When he was very young, Brother Bobby had a heart attack and basically a nervous breakdown. Then God began to bless his ministry in great ways. After the heart attack and nervous breakdown years later, he got cancer. He got over that, I don’t know if it was once or twice. Then his wife passed; he was very old at that point. Then he got cancer again.

I’ve heard his son, Steve, talk about it. Steve said Dad was praying, hoping to get over the cancer, as he was very old at that point. But Brother Bobby told his son, “You know, Steve, it may be that the Lord doesn’t want to heal me from this cancer because I don’t want it to become about Brother Bobby.” People were talking about how Brother Bobby had outlived cancer once already, a heart attack, a nervous breakdown, his wife passed, and he was still going. He said, “I just felt like maybe it’s getting a little bit too much about Brother Bobby; maybe that’s why the Lord won’t heal me of this cancer.” I’m just saying, if I am going to be Spirit-filled, it cannot be about my glory. The tabernacle was filled with the glory.

A couple other things. Two more things about this. We’re going to go home. Look back over in Exodus 40, verse number 34: “Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.” It’s interesting how that word “filled” comes up a lot. Ephesians 5:18, we just read it: “Be filled with the Spirit.” The Bible uses that word every time it describes when God would fill the tabernacle like that; we’d always use that word “filled.”

Now let me use this illustration. You say, “Well, that’s empty.” Yes, I understand that’s probably what I’d say too, but really, it’s full of air. If it takes some water, and the more I fill it with water, the less air there is. And if I fill it all the way up, it would spill. It wouldn’t be full of anything else; it would just be filled with water. All the other things that were in there before would be chased out.

The Bible keeps using this word: filled, filled. If I am going to be filled with the Spirit of God, I cannot be full of Paul. I cannot be full of my passions, my dreams, my desires, what I am after. I cannot be full of sin, pride, or lust. I cannot be full of all my plans and my passions. I can be full of the Lord. It is part of emptying. I get sick of Paul sometimes. I am so full of Paul. And Father, I don’t like that because I cannot be full of the Lord if I am full of Paul. People don’t need us; they need the Lord.

To be filled with the Spirit, there is a part of dying, as Jesus said. That corner of weeds has got to go; it’s got to die if it is going to bear fruit. I have got to die to myself, as Paul said. He said, “I die daily.” I have got to die to me, me, me, me, me. If I am going to be full of the Lord, filled with the Lord, there has got to be some dying going on. I have got to get rid of some things out of my life.

To be filled with the Spirit of God—it is filled with this glory. Is there a part in your life that is not filled with God? Maybe an area of your life not filled with the Lord? Sometimes it’s, “Well, I want to serve God. God, You can have all this, but here are my finances over here.” If I am to be filled in every area of my life, it has got to be surrendered to You. You gave it to me. What do You want to do with it?

Someone recently gave me some gifts for Pastor Appreciation Month, and I appreciate it very much. Someone asked me, “Did you find out how much that cost?” I said, “Well, I did look it up a little bit because I wanted to tithe off of it.” They said, “You tithe off of gifts?” I said, “Yes, I do.” I learned a long time ago at a conference that I was supposed to follow Proverbs 3:9 and give off all my increase. They said, “Well, I never heard that,” and they had been in our church for years. I thought, shame on me, I never shared that. I told them, honestly, when I learned that, I was already pastoring here, and I started putting it into practice. God just blessed our finances. I thought, maybe I am doing our people a disservice; I need to share that. So that’s why I’m sharing it tonight. It has to fill every area of your life.

We are so often hanging on to music, or we are hanging on to some bitterness, or some little closet of our heart, and we say, “No, no, God, You can’t have that. I can’t be filled if I don’t give You everything.”

When I am filled with the Spirit of God, I cannot be full of all the other things. I have got to empty myself of those things to be filled. Here is a good thing I like about it: Anybody can be filled. You do not have to have a ten-gallon bucket; you can have a little glass like this. It does not say how much you have to have; you just be filled. Maybe a young Christian who does not know much Bible and does not have it all together, but wherever they are in their Christian life, they can be filled at that point. By the way, the way it increases is: stay filled, and God will increase your measure.

Being filled—to be filled with the Spirit of God. I may not have a ten-talent or a five-talent, one-talent Christian, whatever. It does not matter. You are just filled at your stage of Christianity, wherever you are. You are filled at that point. But does God have every area, every nook and cranny of your life? Are you filled with the Spirit of God?

I wish God would fill me. He may want to fill you, but there might be some chamber in some area where you say, “God, that’s mine; I’m not going to let go of that.” And God says, “I can’t fill you.” If I am not going to be filled with the Spirit of God, I have got to say, “Lord, I want You in my living room, and in the hallway, and the bathroom, and the bedroom, and the closet. I want You to have every area of my life, only filled with You.” That is how you get filled with the Spirit of God. You let Him go through every area of your life—my child-rearing, my marriage, my finances, what kind of Christian I am at home—in every area, I’m going to be filled with You. He fills you.

You invite Him; you allow Him; you want Him. That is why Luke 11:13 says, “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?” You invite Him into every area of your life, every single thing. Just like He says, “Whether ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God,” He fills every area of your life by being filled with the Spirit of God.

Let’s look at one more thing here, just trying to get an analogy from the tabernacle being filled to us being filled as Christians. Back over there in Exodus chapter 40. By the way, the great need of the hour is Spirit-filled Christians. It really is.

I said this often, but I worked in a lot of factories, a lot of shops with a lot of wicked men. If you drop a self-righteous Christian who thinks they have it all together right in a group of those men, he is going to repel them. They are like, “If that’s Christianity, forget it.” But you drop a Spirit-filled Christian in the middle of those men—not all of them, but a whole lot of them will be drawn to that.

If you want to make a difference in your home, be a Spirit-filled Christian. It is a great need of the hour. Curtis Sutton used to compare it to trying to chop a tree down with a dull axe. You stop, you sharpen that axe, and then you start chopping—man, chips go flying! A Spirit-filled Christian is empowered, energized by God Almighty. You are filled with Him.

Last thought about that over here in Exodus 40. Look in verse number 36: “And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys. But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.”

Here is the thing: The Spirit of God had control. If the cloud—the cloud by day, fire by night—if it moved, they said, “All right, we’re moving.” I can get up in the morning, get out of my tent, open the flaps, and check: Is the cloud still there? All right, we’re staying. Cloud’s moving? Up! Get everything up; we’re going to be moving. It had control. God had control. They followed His leadership.

If I am going to be filled with the Spirit of God, He has got to have control. He has got to have leadership in my life. He has got to be able to say, “Hey, I like that right there,” and I say, “Yes, sir.” How many times the Spirit of God has said, “Paul, give so-and-so a tract,” and so many times I have failed Him. I often tell the Lord, “I’m so sorry. Forgive me. Would You be merciful with me? Would You be merciful with them? Give them another chance.” He might have been trying to connect my path with theirs for weeks, find an opportunity to be there, and He spoke to me, and I didn’t do it. What a shame. Does He have control? He has got to be able to direct you.

Ephesians 5:18, we just read it: “Be not drunk with wine.” It is comparing a Spirit-filled person to a drunk person.

You may have heard me talk about my Uncle David. He was saved but backslid and had a hard time overcoming the bottle, though he finally won over the thing before he went home to heaven. Praise the Lord for that. Growing up, I would stay at Granny’s house, and Uncle David, who was handicapped from a stroke when he was very young, just had a problem with alcohol. I loved Uncle David; I was the best man at his wedding.

One time, Granny had piglets in a cardboard box. They grow quick and get big. Uncle David had had some drinks, and it was going to storm that night. The pigpen was out in the back pasture, and it gets muddy. Uncle David did not want those little pigs in the pen there. He and Granny had it out over that. Uncle David wanted to bring the little pigs inside the house, and Granny wasn’t hearing of that. They were fighting over it. Uncle David said, “Those pigs will be all right in the rain; they’re pigs. They aren’t coming in this house.” He was making a fuss over these pigs in the box, saying they would drown in the rain. They would have been fine; he knew that. He was under the influence.

As far as I know, when we went to bed that night, Uncle Dave was out there with the pigs. When we woke up the next morning, he was still out there with the pigs—I think on the front porch, I hope at least. He would do crazy things when he was under the influence.

I remember the first time I was over there, he said, “Hey, Paul, would you read the Bible to me?” I thought, man, this is amazing; we have revival going on. I stayed up and read the Bible to him. It seemed like hours; it probably wasn’t like that, probably ten minutes, but it seemed like a long time. God is doing something here. He fell asleep. The next morning, I asked, “Hey, do you remember I read the Bible to you?” He said, “Did I really?” He didn’t remember a thing about it.

Uncle David would open a can over here and go into the next room and forget he left it. Me and Granny would go over there and pour that one out. We went through them pretty quick because we were pouring them all out down the drain. He would just do crazy things. One minute he would say, “Oh, I love you boys” (talking about me and my brothers), and the next minute he would be hitting the wall, saying, “I can still take you, boys.” I just never knew what to think because he was under the control of another substance. He was under the influence.

That is the comparison. “Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.” Not with that—no, no, no, no. That is wrong. But just like you are controlled by that, I want you to be controlled by the Spirit of God. Sometimes people say about a Spirit-filled Christian, “Man, they’re a little odd.” Yes, they march to a different drumbeat than the world. They are intoxicated by something better than alcohol. The president of my Bible college was at a restaurant, and the waitress asked if he wanted beer or wine. He said, “No, I’m already high.” She said, “You’re already high?” He said, “Yeah, I’m high on Jesus.” You are controlled, you are led, and you are walking in the Spirit. He has control over your life. I am not there like I like to be, but I like to get to the point where He just says do something, and I just boom, do it. I like to be there. The Holy Spirit has control. He can lead you, He can guide you, He can give you commands, and you do them. Does He have control, or do you seek His leadership, sometimes moment by moment? Does He have control even of your emotions and your mind? If the Spirit says, “No, I don’t want you going there,” you don’t need to go there with your thoughts. Spirit-filled—He has some control, like a drunk person.

There was a man on a train back in the day. He sat down on his side; there was a table in between. Three other guys knew each other, started getting cards out, and gambling. They said, “Hey, sir, you want to join in? You like to gamble with us?” He said, “No, I can’t.” He said, “I got no hands.” They said, “Oh, sorry, we didn’t realize that.” Later on, they came by and put some glasses out there to drink water or something. The man just picked his glass up. They said, “Hey, wait a second, bud. You said you didn’t have any hands. You’ve got hands right there.” He said, “Oh, these aren’t mine. I got saved. I gave them to God. I used to gamble, but these are God’s now.” Where He has control—it’s bought with a price; his body is yours.

Just like that cloud could move, and they would say, “All right, we’re moving.” That’s pretty hard to just move like that, but they would. It had control in their life.

I thought about one of our men. He was already saved, but when he got into church, he got some things right and began to live for the Lord and got really dedicated to the Lord. He is a blessing. But really, we’re just really getting things right and just selling out for the Lord. His family members told him, “Husband, Dad, whatever, it seems like since you got in church, you just have a little glow about you.” Man, it’s because he was filled with the glory of the Lord. That is what God wants us to be.

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