The Worship God Longs for....: Oct.28. 2007)
David M7 Sunday, October 28, 2007
Title: The Worship God Longs for…
Prop: candle, Rolheiser’s book…
Text: 2 Samuel 6; 1 Chronicles 15: 11-15, John 4:23
Big Idea: A healthy spirituality includes a soul that is aligned to God’s Word (ie through obedience) and passionate for God (a passionate spirit of exuberant love for God).
Ronald Rolheiser, author of the Holy Longing (great book), says spirituality concerns what we do with our desire. Spirituality is about how we channel our eros… i.e. our creative, sexual energy.
Rolheiser writes about how Mother Teresa, Janis Joplin (the rock star) and Princess Diana their channeled their eros, their creative, sexual energy…
Rolheiser says few people consider Mother Teresa an erotic woman. Yet she was very erotic in her own way… a dynamo of energy. Mother Teresa was able to channel her eros in a focused, life-giving way. She was able to will the one thing: dedication to God and the poor.
Few people would consider Janis Joplin, the rock star, a very spiritual woman. People think of her as the opposite of Mother Teresa, erotic but not spiritual. Yet Joplin had her own forceful spirituality, but unlike Mother Teresa, however, Janis Joplin could not will the one thing.
Her great energy went out in all directions: creativity, performance, drugs, drinking, sex, coupled with neglect of normal rest… She died from a drug over does (“lack of rest”) at age 27.
Most of us, according to Rolheiser, are more like Princess Diana--half-Mother Teresa and half Janis Joplin. In looking at Diana, people spontaneously put together the erotic and spiritual. Like Lady Di there is a part of us that wants to will God and the poor… The problem is we, like Lady Di… want to will everything else as well. We want have a simple lifestyle, but we also want all the comforts of the rich; we want to have the depth afforded by solitude, but we do not want to miss out on anything… We want to have the soul of a saint, and the experience of a sinner…
Rolheiser says a healthy spirituality must do two things. It has to give us energy and fire, so that we do not lose our vitality for God and for life… The other task of healthy spirituality is to keep us glued together, integrated, so that we do not fall apart and die. A person with a healthy spirituality is a person whose soul keeps us both energized and glued together.
David, though not perfect, portrays a healthy spirituality as he brings the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem. Today, we’re going to look at this story and explore the kind of spirituality that honors God and our soul.
Let me set up the context:
King Saul, the first king of Israel, was afraid that David, the popular young emerging leader, would be the one whom the people would prefer as their king. So, Saul sets out to kill David, but King Saul ended up dying in a battle and David goes to be crowned king over the state of Judea (in Southern Israel) at age 30, and then king over all of Israel at age 37.
When David becomes king over all of Israel, he makes Jerusalem his capital city. One of the first things he does to legitimize his new capital city is that he brings the Ark of the Covenant back to Jerusalem. During King Saul’s reign, the Ark of the Covenant, which symbolized the presence of God, had been carted off by an enemy to enemy territory. For some 20-30 years, the Ark had not been in Jerusalem. One of David’s first major acts as king of Israel was to bring the Ark of the Covenant back to Jerusalem.
David brings the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem partly to bring credibility to Jerusalem as the new capital, political centre. But David also wants to bring the Ark into Jerusalem so people would be encouraged to worship God there. Under King Saul’s leadership, public worship had been in decline, David wanted public worship to be revived in Jerusalem.
Not everyone here would be familiar with the Ark of the Covenant. (show powerpoint image.) The Ark of the Covenant was a rectangular box, almost 4 feet in length and a little over 2 feet in depth and width. It was made of wood, overlaid with gold. Two angelic-like figures, created out of gold (the cherubim) were placed at either end of the mercy seat with their wings outstretched. Inside the ark were tablets of stone which had The Ten Commandments inscribed on them, a jar of manna (wafer-like wheat which God provided for the Israelites as they walked across the desert from Egypt to the promised land of Canaan). And, third, inside the ark was Aaron’s rod which had miraculously produced blossoms. All these things served to remind the people of Israel that God is with them. The stone tablets would symbolize that God has spoken to them. The manna symbolized that God was their provider and Aaron’s rod which had budded symbolized that God had sent leaders to bring his people out of slavery into the land of promise and a reminder that the living God is a God who saves.
The ark did not have magical properties (an idea that you might entertain if you’ve been a little too influenced by movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark), but was a powerful reminder of God’s presence. The ark represented the holy presence of God and everywhere the ark was placed, the light of God’s presence shone down upon it, like a laser….
The Ark wasn’t simply some little Middle Eastern museum artifact, but was a sign that God was among his people. The people of Israel had grown stale in their expression of worship to God, and David wanted to bring the Ark of the Covenant back to Jerusalem so that the people of Israel would again have a central place of worship.
The Ark had been sitting in the village of Kiriaih Jeriam in the house of an elderly priest named Abinadab. Abinadab had assigned his two sons, Uzzah and Ahio, to supervise the delivery of the ark to Jerusalem.
Please turn to 2 Samuel 6.
The Ark Brought to Jerusalem
1 David again brought together all the able young men of Israel—thirty thousand. 2 He and all his men went to Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, the name of the LORD Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim on the ark. 3 They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart 4 with the ark of God on it, and Ahio was walking in front of it. 5 David and the whole house of Israel were celebrating with all their might before the LORD, with castanets, harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.
6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled. 7 The LORD's anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down, and he died there beside the ark of God.
8 Then David was angry because the LORD's wrath had broken out against Uzzah, and to this day that place is called Perez Uzzah.
The passage begins with a sense of elation and festivity as the ark is being transported. And then the oxen stumble and apparently the ark begins to slide off the cart. One of the attendants of the Ark, Uzzah reaches out to steady the ark and gets struck down by God.
This is a troubling passage for us. We know that God is a God of love, mercy and patience, but here he strikes someone dead for touching the Ark. We don’t know all the reasons why God struck Uzzah dead. We don’t pretend to understand all of what is going on here, but, as commentators like Eugene Peterson have pointed out, Uzzah’s reflexive act of trying to reach out and steady the ark as the oxen stumble likely wasn’t simply mistake of the moment, it was a part of his life-long obsession with managing the ark. There were laws given by Moses in the book Exodus 25 that gave clear directions about transporting the ark. It was not to be touched by human hands, but supported by priests who inserted poles through rings attached to the ark. Uzzah ignored this part of God’s law and substituted the latest Philistine technical innovation--an ox cart to move the Ark. Using an ox cart is clearly a more efficient technology for moving the ark than priests on foot, but it also impersonal… and it as we pointed out a violation of God’s instruction as to how the ark was to be transported.
After Uzzah was struck down for disregarding the holiness of God, David was understandably afraid of God and afraid to continue the trip. Three months passed by. David hears about God blessing the house of Obed-Edom where the ark is stored. David is encouraged by this news and decides to bring the ark to Jerusalem, but this time he is very careful to move the ark in a way that honors God.
In 1 Chronicles 15: 11-15, a parallel passage, one of David’s counselors God reminds David that the law says that the transported by the Levities and carried with poles that would be attached to the Ark through rings… So David summons priests from the tribe of Levi to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel…. So the priests carried the ark of God with the poles on their shoulders, as Moses had outlined in the law of God…
What this part of the story shows us is that part of what it means to have a spirituality that honor and welcomes God… is that we obey God even in the small details of our lives… how to carry the ark seems like a small detail… but it mattered to God.
It is quite common for people to assume that God is only really concerned about the big issues of justice… not the “little things” like whether we keep the 10 commandments or not.
The priest Ron Rolheiser in his book Holy Longing describes getting to know a Christian social worker named David… one day David asks Ron, “Do you really think God gives a damn about whether you pray, or hold a grudge against someone, or sleep with someone we are not married to.” Many people think that our personal lifestyles and moral choices don’t really matter in the bigger scheme of things… that sounds very plausible and appealing, but according to the Bible it’s not so…
According the Scriptures part of a healthy, honor-honoring, God-welcoming spirituality includes obeying God…
Jesus says in John 15 “if you love me, you will keep my commandments…” Part of what it means to love God is to obey the commandments of God.
Part of way we demonstrate that we are living with a God-honoring, God-welcoming spirituality way is by keeping God’s commandments.
When we obey God we honor the design of our soul…
Think of a temptation you face… maybe it’s a way to numb your senses when you are feeling down… through over drinking, or over eating, or spending an excessive amount of time watching TV or viewing pornography… how do we feel afterwards… we may experience a temporary lift, but afterwards our soul feels more empty…
Sin makes a fraudulent promise to fulfill, but leaves more hollow than before…
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. has defined sin as the vandalism of shalom… i.e., the vandalism of our wholeness…
Part of the reason why a healthy spirituality includes obedience to God is because obedience to God keeps our soul whole and this creates the condition where we are most fully able to experience God…
A healthy spirituality includes obedience to God that integrates or keeps our soul whole.
But what else does a healthy spirituality include?
Look at 2 Sam 6:13
13 When those who were carrying the ark of the LORD had taken six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf. 14 Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the LORD with all his might, 15 while he and the entire house of Israel were bringing up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of trumpets.
A healthy, God-honoring spirituality also includes passion for God and life…
David was dancing with all his might before the Lord. Why? Because he is overcome with joy before God. He is wearing a linen ephod, an apron-like cover, dancing with all his might before God. And when you have been overcome with joy, you dance. David dances because he is overcome with joy in the presence of God…
When you are at a wedding, it is a very joyful occasion. That’s why people dance after weddings…. When a hockey player scores a winning goal… when a baseball player hits a home run to win the game… a football scores a winning touchdown players are overcome with a surge of joy… may pump the air and do a goofy dance or a jig, and when they experience joy before something … when we can’t contain our joy we try to shake it out. We dance… We express it in some way… Like little Penguin “Mumble”we get “Happy Feet”…
When we are aware of how great God is… we will express in some way… we will have passion for God and life… in a way that shows…
We have a dog, a Golden Retriever… that we take care of, who has this habit of running toward us with great passion and heart… I want to be this way for God….
A few weeks ago I was on the East Coast to attend some meetings and do some speaking. I had the opportunity to spend a little time with my younger sister’s family in Montreal. My brother-in-law came to pick me up from the airport and we arrived home right when my younger sister was also arriving home with her 5-year-old daughter Julianna. When Julianna got out of the car and ran around the back end with her short little legs, shouting “Uncle Ken! Uncle Ken!” and she came and gave me a hug and said, “I haven’t been able to sleep because I have been so excited about your coming!”
I thought that is the way I want to be with God, eager to connect with him and to display our care for God, like David did…
Part of what it means to live with a healthy spirituality is to live with passion for God… part of what means is to get enough rest, hard to be love with anyone if we’re too tired, stress out all the time…
part of what it means to expose who are passionate for God… passion is contagious, when I loved playing basketball with a guy named Jay… he wasn’t a phenomenal athlete he always played basketball with passion and joy… and some of it would rub off on me…
part of what it means is to take time recall how great God is… there when will forget the math equations we learned in high school, or who was in the worlds series this year… but let’s never forget how great God is… and if remember we live with passion before him…
When we really recognize how great God is… we live with passion and demonstrate that in some way… people have asked me, why is do you put so much focus on Jesus in the church… some people find to weird to be in a place where people sing songs to honor this person named Jesus… and I find myself saying once you really come to know Jesus, how great Jesus is, you’ll understand why we praise Jesus as we do…
Ronald Rolheiser writes: A healthy soul must do two things for us—it must put some fire into our veins, keeping us energized by living with zest, but a healthy soul also fixes us together, it integrates us.
Part of what it means to live with a healthy spirituality—God welcoming, God-honoring spirituality, as David did, is to worship God with fire and energy. This is what David does as he worships and dances for the Lord as the Ark of the Covenant is brought back into Jerusalem…
Part of what it means to have a soul that is kept integrated, whole by living in a line with the word of God…
Passion and purity… fire and water… This is what a healthy spirituality is all about.
We live a healthy, God honoring spirituality… if we live fire before God and if we will live a life in synch with our design…
Jesus said that the Father God is looking for those who will worship God in spirit and in truth… So let’s set up and become people before God with passion and purity…
Pray…
(The sermon can be heard on line at: www.tenth.ca/audio)
Title: The Worship God Longs for…
Prop: candle, Rolheiser’s book…
Text: 2 Samuel 6; 1 Chronicles 15: 11-15, John 4:23
Big Idea: A healthy spirituality includes a soul that is aligned to God’s Word (ie through obedience) and passionate for God (a passionate spirit of exuberant love for God).
Ronald Rolheiser, author of the Holy Longing (great book), says spirituality concerns what we do with our desire. Spirituality is about how we channel our eros… i.e. our creative, sexual energy.
Rolheiser writes about how Mother Teresa, Janis Joplin (the rock star) and Princess Diana their channeled their eros, their creative, sexual energy…
Rolheiser says few people consider Mother Teresa an erotic woman. Yet she was very erotic in her own way… a dynamo of energy. Mother Teresa was able to channel her eros in a focused, life-giving way. She was able to will the one thing: dedication to God and the poor.
Few people would consider Janis Joplin, the rock star, a very spiritual woman. People think of her as the opposite of Mother Teresa, erotic but not spiritual. Yet Joplin had her own forceful spirituality, but unlike Mother Teresa, however, Janis Joplin could not will the one thing.
Her great energy went out in all directions: creativity, performance, drugs, drinking, sex, coupled with neglect of normal rest… She died from a drug over does (“lack of rest”) at age 27.
Most of us, according to Rolheiser, are more like Princess Diana--half-Mother Teresa and half Janis Joplin. In looking at Diana, people spontaneously put together the erotic and spiritual. Like Lady Di there is a part of us that wants to will God and the poor… The problem is we, like Lady Di… want to will everything else as well. We want have a simple lifestyle, but we also want all the comforts of the rich; we want to have the depth afforded by solitude, but we do not want to miss out on anything… We want to have the soul of a saint, and the experience of a sinner…
Rolheiser says a healthy spirituality must do two things. It has to give us energy and fire, so that we do not lose our vitality for God and for life… The other task of healthy spirituality is to keep us glued together, integrated, so that we do not fall apart and die. A person with a healthy spirituality is a person whose soul keeps us both energized and glued together.
David, though not perfect, portrays a healthy spirituality as he brings the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem. Today, we’re going to look at this story and explore the kind of spirituality that honors God and our soul.
Let me set up the context:
King Saul, the first king of Israel, was afraid that David, the popular young emerging leader, would be the one whom the people would prefer as their king. So, Saul sets out to kill David, but King Saul ended up dying in a battle and David goes to be crowned king over the state of Judea (in Southern Israel) at age 30, and then king over all of Israel at age 37.
When David becomes king over all of Israel, he makes Jerusalem his capital city. One of the first things he does to legitimize his new capital city is that he brings the Ark of the Covenant back to Jerusalem. During King Saul’s reign, the Ark of the Covenant, which symbolized the presence of God, had been carted off by an enemy to enemy territory. For some 20-30 years, the Ark had not been in Jerusalem. One of David’s first major acts as king of Israel was to bring the Ark of the Covenant back to Jerusalem.
David brings the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem partly to bring credibility to Jerusalem as the new capital, political centre. But David also wants to bring the Ark into Jerusalem so people would be encouraged to worship God there. Under King Saul’s leadership, public worship had been in decline, David wanted public worship to be revived in Jerusalem.
Not everyone here would be familiar with the Ark of the Covenant. (show powerpoint image.) The Ark of the Covenant was a rectangular box, almost 4 feet in length and a little over 2 feet in depth and width. It was made of wood, overlaid with gold. Two angelic-like figures, created out of gold (the cherubim) were placed at either end of the mercy seat with their wings outstretched. Inside the ark were tablets of stone which had The Ten Commandments inscribed on them, a jar of manna (wafer-like wheat which God provided for the Israelites as they walked across the desert from Egypt to the promised land of Canaan). And, third, inside the ark was Aaron’s rod which had miraculously produced blossoms. All these things served to remind the people of Israel that God is with them. The stone tablets would symbolize that God has spoken to them. The manna symbolized that God was their provider and Aaron’s rod which had budded symbolized that God had sent leaders to bring his people out of slavery into the land of promise and a reminder that the living God is a God who saves.
The ark did not have magical properties (an idea that you might entertain if you’ve been a little too influenced by movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark), but was a powerful reminder of God’s presence. The ark represented the holy presence of God and everywhere the ark was placed, the light of God’s presence shone down upon it, like a laser….
The Ark wasn’t simply some little Middle Eastern museum artifact, but was a sign that God was among his people. The people of Israel had grown stale in their expression of worship to God, and David wanted to bring the Ark of the Covenant back to Jerusalem so that the people of Israel would again have a central place of worship.
The Ark had been sitting in the village of Kiriaih Jeriam in the house of an elderly priest named Abinadab. Abinadab had assigned his two sons, Uzzah and Ahio, to supervise the delivery of the ark to Jerusalem.
Please turn to 2 Samuel 6.
The Ark Brought to Jerusalem
1 David again brought together all the able young men of Israel—thirty thousand. 2 He and all his men went to Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, the name of the LORD Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim on the ark. 3 They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart 4 with the ark of God on it, and Ahio was walking in front of it. 5 David and the whole house of Israel were celebrating with all their might before the LORD, with castanets, harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.
6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled. 7 The LORD's anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down, and he died there beside the ark of God.
8 Then David was angry because the LORD's wrath had broken out against Uzzah, and to this day that place is called Perez Uzzah.
The passage begins with a sense of elation and festivity as the ark is being transported. And then the oxen stumble and apparently the ark begins to slide off the cart. One of the attendants of the Ark, Uzzah reaches out to steady the ark and gets struck down by God.
This is a troubling passage for us. We know that God is a God of love, mercy and patience, but here he strikes someone dead for touching the Ark. We don’t know all the reasons why God struck Uzzah dead. We don’t pretend to understand all of what is going on here, but, as commentators like Eugene Peterson have pointed out, Uzzah’s reflexive act of trying to reach out and steady the ark as the oxen stumble likely wasn’t simply mistake of the moment, it was a part of his life-long obsession with managing the ark. There were laws given by Moses in the book Exodus 25 that gave clear directions about transporting the ark. It was not to be touched by human hands, but supported by priests who inserted poles through rings attached to the ark. Uzzah ignored this part of God’s law and substituted the latest Philistine technical innovation--an ox cart to move the Ark. Using an ox cart is clearly a more efficient technology for moving the ark than priests on foot, but it also impersonal… and it as we pointed out a violation of God’s instruction as to how the ark was to be transported.
After Uzzah was struck down for disregarding the holiness of God, David was understandably afraid of God and afraid to continue the trip. Three months passed by. David hears about God blessing the house of Obed-Edom where the ark is stored. David is encouraged by this news and decides to bring the ark to Jerusalem, but this time he is very careful to move the ark in a way that honors God.
In 1 Chronicles 15: 11-15, a parallel passage, one of David’s counselors God reminds David that the law says that the transported by the Levities and carried with poles that would be attached to the Ark through rings… So David summons priests from the tribe of Levi to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel…. So the priests carried the ark of God with the poles on their shoulders, as Moses had outlined in the law of God…
What this part of the story shows us is that part of what it means to have a spirituality that honor and welcomes God… is that we obey God even in the small details of our lives… how to carry the ark seems like a small detail… but it mattered to God.
It is quite common for people to assume that God is only really concerned about the big issues of justice… not the “little things” like whether we keep the 10 commandments or not.
The priest Ron Rolheiser in his book Holy Longing describes getting to know a Christian social worker named David… one day David asks Ron, “Do you really think God gives a damn about whether you pray, or hold a grudge against someone, or sleep with someone we are not married to.” Many people think that our personal lifestyles and moral choices don’t really matter in the bigger scheme of things… that sounds very plausible and appealing, but according to the Bible it’s not so…
According the Scriptures part of a healthy, honor-honoring, God-welcoming spirituality includes obeying God…
Jesus says in John 15 “if you love me, you will keep my commandments…” Part of what it means to love God is to obey the commandments of God.
Part of way we demonstrate that we are living with a God-honoring, God-welcoming spirituality way is by keeping God’s commandments.
When we obey God we honor the design of our soul…
Think of a temptation you face… maybe it’s a way to numb your senses when you are feeling down… through over drinking, or over eating, or spending an excessive amount of time watching TV or viewing pornography… how do we feel afterwards… we may experience a temporary lift, but afterwards our soul feels more empty…
Sin makes a fraudulent promise to fulfill, but leaves more hollow than before…
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. has defined sin as the vandalism of shalom… i.e., the vandalism of our wholeness…
Part of the reason why a healthy spirituality includes obedience to God is because obedience to God keeps our soul whole and this creates the condition where we are most fully able to experience God…
A healthy spirituality includes obedience to God that integrates or keeps our soul whole.
But what else does a healthy spirituality include?
Look at 2 Sam 6:13
13 When those who were carrying the ark of the LORD had taken six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf. 14 Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the LORD with all his might, 15 while he and the entire house of Israel were bringing up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of trumpets.
A healthy, God-honoring spirituality also includes passion for God and life…
David was dancing with all his might before the Lord. Why? Because he is overcome with joy before God. He is wearing a linen ephod, an apron-like cover, dancing with all his might before God. And when you have been overcome with joy, you dance. David dances because he is overcome with joy in the presence of God…
When you are at a wedding, it is a very joyful occasion. That’s why people dance after weddings…. When a hockey player scores a winning goal… when a baseball player hits a home run to win the game… a football scores a winning touchdown players are overcome with a surge of joy… may pump the air and do a goofy dance or a jig, and when they experience joy before something … when we can’t contain our joy we try to shake it out. We dance… We express it in some way… Like little Penguin “Mumble”we get “Happy Feet”…
When we are aware of how great God is… we will express in some way… we will have passion for God and life… in a way that shows…
We have a dog, a Golden Retriever… that we take care of, who has this habit of running toward us with great passion and heart… I want to be this way for God….
A few weeks ago I was on the East Coast to attend some meetings and do some speaking. I had the opportunity to spend a little time with my younger sister’s family in Montreal. My brother-in-law came to pick me up from the airport and we arrived home right when my younger sister was also arriving home with her 5-year-old daughter Julianna. When Julianna got out of the car and ran around the back end with her short little legs, shouting “Uncle Ken! Uncle Ken!” and she came and gave me a hug and said, “I haven’t been able to sleep because I have been so excited about your coming!”
I thought that is the way I want to be with God, eager to connect with him and to display our care for God, like David did…
Part of what it means to live with a healthy spirituality is to live with passion for God… part of what means is to get enough rest, hard to be love with anyone if we’re too tired, stress out all the time…
part of what it means to expose who are passionate for God… passion is contagious, when I loved playing basketball with a guy named Jay… he wasn’t a phenomenal athlete he always played basketball with passion and joy… and some of it would rub off on me…
part of what it means is to take time recall how great God is… there when will forget the math equations we learned in high school, or who was in the worlds series this year… but let’s never forget how great God is… and if remember we live with passion before him…
When we really recognize how great God is… we live with passion and demonstrate that in some way… people have asked me, why is do you put so much focus on Jesus in the church… some people find to weird to be in a place where people sing songs to honor this person named Jesus… and I find myself saying once you really come to know Jesus, how great Jesus is, you’ll understand why we praise Jesus as we do…
Ronald Rolheiser writes: A healthy soul must do two things for us—it must put some fire into our veins, keeping us energized by living with zest, but a healthy soul also fixes us together, it integrates us.
Part of what it means to live with a healthy spirituality—God welcoming, God-honoring spirituality, as David did, is to worship God with fire and energy. This is what David does as he worships and dances for the Lord as the Ark of the Covenant is brought back into Jerusalem…
Part of what it means to have a soul that is kept integrated, whole by living in a line with the word of God…
Passion and purity… fire and water… This is what a healthy spirituality is all about.
We live a healthy, God honoring spirituality… if we live fire before God and if we will live a life in synch with our design…
Jesus said that the Father God is looking for those who will worship God in spirit and in truth… So let’s set up and become people before God with passion and purity…
Pray…
(The sermon can be heard on line at: www.tenth.ca/audio)
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