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Thank you once again for joining in John devia see you guys all right, so Today we've finished our chapter on Personal and corporate worship We start with chapter 9 Today in page Which pages that page 32 chapter 9? But it's moving prophetically in praise and worship Okay, moving prophetically in praise worship Okay, I hope you guys are ready to learn something new about prophetic worship today and I hope your hearts are ready. I hope you are excited And let me see if I can also go ahead and share this screen and depending on where we finish with this chapter We'll see if it's possible for all For us to also watch a video Let's go Okay, so today we look into the prophetic and the spontaneous worship that's what this chapter is all about moving spontaneously and prophetic and We're simply going to do this by looking at it in four different ways one is Like we've been learning about Music and worship this whole course. We just very briefly look at the connection between music and worship and Then the connection between music and worship with the prophetic Right of what's the connection between that and and a place where all of these three comes together the music Worship and the prophetic comes together in one place. Okay, and what does it really mean? What is it important? Is it is it just a cliche thing to say, you know that We need to go move in the prophetic. We need to see the prophetic culture because it's a seems to be like another popular Thing to use these days. Okay, so we'll we look at all of that in this chapter. All right guys, so let's start off by looking at the connection between music and worship very brief So we learned one of this Hebrew words if you remember in chapter 2 on it's called one of the Hebrew words for praises Samar Which literally means to touch the strings But that's what it means right to make melody and music Okay, so there's a connection of music already then when you put it in the context with the scriptures and someone 49 verse 3 It says let them praise his name with the dance Which is another expression of praise and worship and then it says let them sing praises to him with the timbrel and harp Right both these instruments you are required to hit them with the hand With the harp you pluck the strings with the tambourine. You play that you hit it on your hands Okay, so let them praise his name with the dance. Let them sing praises to him with the timbrel and harp And other scripture says some and when Psalm 150 we all know there's some praise him with the sound of the trumpet Praise him with the loot and harm Praise him. Oops. Sorry Praise him with the timbrel and dance praise him with stringed instruments and flutes praise him with loud symbols praise him with clashing Symbols I like the other translation that says praise him with resounding symbols So just look at it, right? There is a clear connection between the importance of music in worship Okay music in worship and there's beautifully put together for us and in the scriptures as we just read, okay Now let me kind of briefly understood how music is connected in worship Let's see how music is connected with the prophetic What does it have to say about the music and the prophetic and this we we know this Popular scripture from what once Samuel chapter 10 verse 5 it says after that You shall come to the hill of God where the Philistine garrison is And it will happen when you have come there to the city that you will meet a group of prophets Coming down from the high place with stringed instrument a tambourine a flute and a harp Before them and they will be prophesying Interesting isn't it? I Mean there's so many you can make a sermon out of this but But the one who's giving this information is the prophet Samuel himself And just think about the prophetic on him and the details that he's going into Right. He's telling Saul After he's been anointed by Samuel as king He's saying okay, you know, you will come to so-and-so place and then you will come across this bunch of people who are prophets They will be playing stringed instruments It's got the details the tambourine the flute and the harp before them and they will be prophesying Right, so now there's a connection with The prophetic on the Samuel is prophesying about a bunch of prophets who saw Saul will encounter and These prophets will be playing musical instruments and then they will be prophesying right and So we all know what happens after that and then you know once Saul comes to that place and he encounters these people and he starts prophesying as well Saul right so A lot of connections like these with music and prophetic through the scriptures and other Scripture is Is second Kings chapter 3 verse 14 to 16 it says and Elisha said as the Lord of hosts lives before whom I stand Surely we're where it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah I would not look at you nor see you but now Bring me a musician Then it happened when the musician played That the hand of the Lord came upon Elisha and he said thus says the Lord Okay Again the prophetic on the Elisha is giving clear directions You know to the other people as to what he wants and then as he calls for the musician and the musician comes and plays The hand of the Lord comes upon Elisha, right now one thing we need to make very clear is As we are learning about these scriptures and as we are learning about these examples from the scriptures you know that How music supports the prophetic Okay One thing that I want to make very clear is that God doesn't need music to move God doesn't always need the music to move it, you know to activate the prophetic in our lives And how many say how many times have we seen a prophetic move in our lives without music being around? But music plays an important tool You know in context of our worship You mean just like any tool any vessel that God uses God chooses to use music every now and then to move to activate the prophetic to release the prophetic to release his kingdom His realm in this realm and that's what these scriptures are all about these references are all about, okay? Okay, so King Jehoshaphat Goes along with two other kings to meet the prophet Elisha and that's the context of this scripture and that's when Prophet Elisha gives this instruction saying bring me you know a Musician so this is slow down a little bit So we've looked so far the connection between music in worship Right, and if I were to ask you the importance of music and worship Everybody all of you would agree that it is important but music by itself Is not worship and once again if we remember the definition we studied in the much earlier chapters is when music and What we sing becomes worship when it's you know when when it's come when it comes from a Christian from a born-again Believer right because it's going towards Jesus Okay, so music and worship music and the prophetic Right and then we see all these three elements music prophetic and the worship coming together in the tabernacle of David, okay, and I would also encourage you to you know get your hands if you haven't already Some of you might be doing the course on the prophetic I Please download this PDF for free understanding the prophetic. It's one of our ABC publication. I can download it for free read it Yeah, it's it's a powerful book written by Pastor Ashish and so yeah, get your hands on it, okay So let's continue to look at the tabernacle of David and See and see how all these three comes together. Okay now Let's paint Let's paint a picture. Let's try and give Understand the background of the tabernacle of David a little bit Okay So if you would if you will let's go to the book of first Samuel chapter 4 First Samuel chapter 4. I hope you guys are doing all right. I hope your Monday is Not too blue Right because you're all there in the book of first Samuel chapter 4 It's very important for us to understand the context of this scripture Alright, okay, there we are Yeah, we're behind us awesome. Okay Okay First Samuel chapter 4 Verse 4 to 4 to 11, can I request somebody to read that please first time you're chapter 4 verse 4 to 11 So the people sent to Shiloh and from there they carry the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord of Hope of the Covenant of the Lord of Horse who sits above the cherubim and the two sons of Ellie Of me and Finna has where they're in the Ark of the Covenant of God As the Ark of Covenant of the Lord came into the camp all Israel shouted with a great shout So that the earth resounded When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout they said what does the noise of this great shout in the Camp of Hebrews me then they understood that the Ark of the Lord had come into the camp The Philistines were afraid for they said God has come into the camp and they said woe to us For nothing like this has happened before vote to us who shall deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods These are the gods who smote the Egyptians with all kinds of plates in the wilderness Take courage and be men of Philistines or you will become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been slaves to you therefore be men and fight I'll read I'll continue. Yeah, just continue jump. Yeah, right So the Philistines fought and Israel was defeated and every man fled to his tent and the slaughter was very great For their fellow Israel 30,000 foot soldiers and the Ark of God was taken and two sons of Eli Hope me and Finna has died Thanks That's enough So just a quick context there is during this period, right? By now they They had forgotten about the tabernacle of Moses, you know, and around this time they had gone back to You know using altars as a you know to perform their acts of worship And Sacrifices and all would regularly happen but around this time as we know that Philistines would often attack Israel and Judah and Israel went to war. That's the context, right? But if you read the previous chapters that at least Chapter 2 onwards chapter 2 first time your chapter 2 and chapter 3 you see Eli who was the high priest back then had to Two sons and they were evil, right? They were very evil. They had no relationship with the Lord. There's no intimacy and whatnot So what they did is okay, you know, they're going to fight this battle with the Philistines and The history they knew a little bit of history and what was that is okay every time they went into the battle They took the Ark of the Covenant into the battle in the front and they would win the war They would win the battle Right, and they were like, okay. It's okay. You know what? We are not strong enough to defeat the Philistines, but Let's go get the Ark of the Covenant. That's what it says that you know from verse 4 in chapter 4 They send people to Shiloh Get the Ark of the Covenant back and they thought that they could win the battle and just use God without any intimacy and whatnot to win And you know when when they got the Ark of the Covenant inside them the everybody was excited It's like, yeah, we're going to win this, you know, and the enemy was terrified and whatnot, but the end result was that 30,000 men died 30,000 30,000, you know could be fathers brothers sons Just to think about it. Okay, we can't reduce people to just number Which we often so often do but just to think about the 30,000 individual person died and Even this news went to Eli and you know one of the wives so Eli falls off his chair breaks his neck and dies and And One of the wives the daughter-in-law of finish the wife of Phineas was pregnant and when she hears this news She goes into labor and she dies And then she names that son Ichabod, which means the glory of God has been departed Ichabod simply means the glory of God has departed and It was on that day that the Ark of the Covenant was also captured by the Philistines Okay, and if you go on to read the chapter 5 of first Samuel, you know, it shares the rest of the story Okay, which we don't want to go into too much of details. So The Ark of the Covenant is captured Okay, and then it's taken into custody by the Philistines and I don't want to talk about everything that happens, you know under custody and From there on and when you just keep reading, you know chapter after chapter When you come to first Samuel chapter 8 Israel asks for a king Okay, and in first Samuel chapter 9 Samuel anoints Saul as king Right and Chapter 10 we see that Saul has made king Okay, and then Samuel gives him a bunch of commands to what to follow what go and defeat and whatnot and then finally in chapter 13 Samuel rebukes Saul because he did not completely obey the Lord's command Now in during all of this period From chapter 4 during all of this period The Ark of the Covenant is not there the Presence of God was not there the glory of God was not there in Israel and in Judah and Then we read again chapter after chapter and chapter 15 we see the Lord rejects Saul as king and Then chapter 16 we see David is being introduced into the picture and then chapter 17 is about David and Goliath and and from chapter 18 it's about Saul's jealousy towards David and You know the chapter goes by chapter goes by and chapter goes by Nothing seems to happen Until you come to second Samuel second Samuel chapter 6 while Saul Was a man After position Right what Saul does is when he disobeys God when Samuel comes to rebuke him Saul says okay, just come with me Walk with me until you know outside so the people will know that you are still for me and the Lord is with me He wanted to protect he wanted to protect his position By Saul was the man of position David was a man after the presence Right one of the reasons when you read in the book of Psalms, sorry Psalms and also Samuel Is time and time again you will read that the Lord was with David the Lord was with David The Lord was with David the Lord was with David. I simply be It keeps saying that the Lord was with David because David was with God. He wanted to be with him He was a man of Presence he wanted to go after his presence Right, so just for you know our sake You know just to understand this a little bit because it's beautiful We all know it, but then something happens when we read the scriptures. Okay Let's read from second Samuel. Let's go to second Samuel. Okay? Second Samuel. Let's go to yeah, we'll read from chapter 6. I'll read for us. Okay David again brought together out of Israel chosen men 30,000 in all You think there's some significance about the number that David bringing back 30,000 men He must have learned I'm you know, he must have learned that 30,000 men died when the Ark of the Covenant was captured And so David was like, I know the history I'm gonna take 30,000 men back with me to bring the Ark of the Covenant back Isn't that wonderful? I'm not I don't know if it does anything to you, but it's This is awesome, you know Verse two it says he and all his men set out from Bala of 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 that are on the Ark? They set the Ark of God on a new cart There it goes a little off and brought it from the house of Abinah that Okay, let's pause there now. We know the rest of the story It was in the house of Abinah that where the Ark was kept For all those years, okay, so In brief the Ark returned to Israel for almost after 70 years Right 70 years and in second time of 617 Yes 617 it says they brought the Ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it and David sacrificed burnt offerings and and a fellowship offerings before the Lord Okay So David David is learned from his mistake You know that our was supposed to be carried by the Levites the Kohotites to be more specific Then he does that and then in verse 17. He's pitched a tent for it to be set And now the Ark is set in the tent Okay, the Tabernacle of Moses was still pitched at Gibeon if you read the scriptures as mentioned second chronicles and first chronicles You know the sacrifices were still being performed was still being carried out, you know The Holy of Holies was still there, but there was no Ark inside What had happened Ichabog right the glory of the Lord had departed, right? This should be a very important warning for us as worshippers and as Christians is We can play church all we want to play but if the presence of God Is not there if if your church is not about the presence of God if you as an individual are not about the presence if If you are not after the presence of Jesus Everything that you do Sunday Saturday Bible studies on Wednesdays fasting prayer on Fridays and all of that will be absolutely meaningless So I hope this encourages us to be men and women After his presence of God Amen Let's move on. So it's a couple of differences for us to understand a little better The difference between the Tabernacle of Moses and Tabernacle of David There was a veil between the holy place and the most holy place and David's Tabernacle had no veil We'll talk about in just a second after we run through this differences David's Tabernacle the presence of God was open to all and Moses Moses the Tabernacle only the high priest once a year could walk in David's Tabernacle unity was the experience of all Israel all Israel brought the ark back It represented the grace of God and the way open into the very holiest of all Now I hope you're still in second time in chapter 6. I hope you're still there Okay Second is the worst that I want us to read. Okay second Samuel chapter 6 Let's read verse 13 okay 13 and 14 13 and 14 it says when those who were carrying the ark of the Lord had taken six steps He sacrificed the bull and a fattened calf every six steps Verse 14, this is what it's important David wearing a linen e-fod Danced before the Lord with all his might Okay David wearing a linen e-fod, which was only worn by the priests Okay, the linen the breast played with all the e-fod with all the 12 gemstones on it David wore it and he worshipped Right. What's the significant about it? And now we begin to understand why there was no veil in the Tabernacle of David was David was the perfect symbol in many ways of and a prophetic symbol of Royal priesthood David was a king means royalty and Then he was behaving has acting out his worship as a priest by wearing the e-fod and so David constantly constantly lived You know in the present out of the new covenant Like he understood that there is a greater law That Jesus says the greatest law is to love the Lord you God with all your heart soul mind and strength He understood that And it is from that place David was a worshipper. Okay, so let's move on So what are some of the key takeaways? Let's just look at let's go to 1st Chronicles chapter 25. Okay before we Actually before we go to 1st Chronicles chapter 25. Let's go to 1st Chronicles chapter 16 Are you guys doing all right? Are you guys with me? Yes Thank you 1st Chronicles chapter 16 I'll read from verse 1 to verse 6. Okay 1st Chronicles 16 they brought the Ark of God and Set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it and They presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before God after God after sorry after David had finished Sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He blessed the people in the name of the Lord Then he gave a loaf of bread a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each Israelite man and woman Okay He appointed some of the Levites to minister before the Ark of the Lord to make petition To give thanks and to praise the Lord the God of Israel Asaph was the chief Zachariah 2nd then Jail Shamuramot Jahiel, Matathaia, Eliyab, Benaniah, Obed Edom and Jail They were to play liars and harps Asaph was to sound the symbols and Benaniah and Jehaziel the priests were to blow the trumpets Regularly before the Ark of the Covenant of God Okay, this is the beginning of how The Davidic worship or worship in the tabernacle of David was being organized or administered Okay, David was very intentional. He was he he wanted He had it's like he thought about it so beautifully like who's going to be doing what Well, he gave priority To worship and to minister before the Lord. Amen. That's so wonderful, right? So now with that in mind, let's look at You know how it was how the tabernacle and how worship was set up in in the tabernacle of David When it was in its full form. Okay, and now let's look at first chronicles chapter 25 first chronicles chapter 25 By the way, if there's if you if there's something that you can that you want to teach your worship team Teach them from first chronicles 25 teach there's so much to teach the worship team from first chronicles 25 From from David's worship team. Okay, because of the way he set it up. All right Let's look at the first verse only the first verse first chronicles chapter 25 verse 1 David together with the commanders of the army Set apart some of the sons of Asaph he man and Jirith him for the ministry of prophesying Okay, look at that ministry of prophesying Accompanied by harps liars and symbols all of this was not there in the tabernacle of Moses the tabernacle of Moses gave them ornaments While the tabernacle of David was giving not just the ornaments but instruments and and worship Okay He set aside these three people for the ministry of prophesying And how they were accompanied with musical instruments with harps liars and symbols modern day We could call it guitars and keyboards and pianos and drums and etc. Etc. Okay, let's come down all the way to verse 6 All these men were under the supervision of their fathers for the music of the temple of the Lord Can I read that again? All these men Were under the supervision of their fathers for the music of the temple of the Lord With symbols liars and harps for the ministry at the house of God Asaph Jirith and he man were under the supervision of the king Along with their relatives all of them trained and skilled in music for the Lord They numbered 1988 young and old alike teachers as well as students cast lots for their duties In other words, there was a roster Washington roster gives me nightmares because But hey, there was there were roster As to who's going to be doing taking care of which slot right So the point is that's mentioned in on the screen, right? Just some of the summary highlights There were 288 prophetic singers 4,000 odd musicians or more 24-7 day and night worship Skilled they were all skilled musicians There were not just average, you know, Chalta here kind of musicians. They were all skilled Leaders in charge of music and songs to be sung. They were all organized worship and worship was prophetic in nature and All the worship leaders were prophetic Prophetic song was being sung in the tabernacle of David Okay, this was the Davidic order of worship in the tabernacle But then we see in acts chapter 15 was 16 and 17 What's that once again quoted from Amos chapter 9? It says after this I will return and Will rebuild the tabernacle of David Which has fallen down I will rebuild its ruins and I will set it up So that the rest of the mankind may seek the Lord Amen, we just need to again pause and Raise God being so specific about not the tabernacle of Moses, which was very important, right? Let's not take away anything from the fact from from From the tabernacle blueprint that God gave Moses God gave Moses right and That tabernacle was the tabernacle of Moses was the bridge between Heaven and earth for almost like you know if you if you remember what we discussed from the time Adam and Eve sinned To about Exodus chapter 20 or 25 The timeline the gap is about 2,500 years and for that many years there was no dwelling place for the Lord And Moses at the tabernacle of Moses was the first dwelling place in 2,500 years But and then you know that goes away and then David builds a tent puts a tent Right, but it's his son Solomon who builds a very grand temple But God doesn't say any of that. He says I will rebuild the tabernacle of David, right? I'm sure there are so many answers to it. We can all ask God. Why did you mention that in specific? And I'm sure if I were to ask you you would give You know all the right answers, you know because David was after his presence. There was authenticity in his worship Because he was a man after his heart and when you say that he is a man of God's own heart You're simply saying that he was man after his presence. You want to please him and whatnot and Then you look at movements around the planet right now in our day in age And we see what God is doing in the movement of worship, you know and prayer and intercession God is raising up so many movements that you know raising up prayer rooms You know that are for example one of the things that I know of is I hop is which is international house of prayer Right in Kansas City and they've been a blessing to me so much, you know their worship Their teaching has been a blessing to me so much. So that's just one example, you know, and they Prayer word and intercession happens 24 seven through the year and Like that, there are so many movements that God is raising around the earth so many prayer rooms It's all of a sudden, you know, there's this rebuilding of the tabernacle of David happening Where people are not going after a name or fame But they are only going after his presence. They're seeking his face Right and that's what David was all about and again, you know when you read in some 27 This is worse for we all know this one thing Have I desired of the Lord that will I seek that I may dwell in the house of the Lord? For all the days of my life and that I may gaze upon the beauty of the Lord And then you go down a couple of verses in Psalm 27 to verse 8 you see My heart said seek his face and your face will I seek Lord? David writes right Sorry, so there I see a question 280 a prophetic singers 4,000 musicians. Who are the who are prophetic singers? And how are they different from the musicians? So, I mean there were musicians and there were singers, right? But when you look at the very first verse Actually, if you read this entire chapter, but beginning with verse 1 it says David set up our sons of ASAP sons of he-man and sons of jerethen Okay, now by now he is realized and learned that only the Levites are to minister in the house of the Lord Right because it was That the responsibility fell upon the the house of the tribe of Levites to serve in the house, right? and so Who are they? They were all related sons of ASAP sons of he-man sons of jerethen. They were set aside for Ministry of prophesying Okay, now if you look at verse 2 It just gives us more names from the sons of ASAP, Zakur, Joseph, Netanyahu and Aserella The sons of ASAP were under the supervision of ASAP who prophesied under the king's supervision As for jerethen From his sons bunch of names six and all under the supervision of the father jerethen who prophesied using the harp and thanking and praising the Lord. Maybe they played and sang, right? And then sons of he-man bunch of names verse 5 all these were sons of He-man the king's seer They were given him through the promises of God to exalt him. God gave he-man 14 sons and three daughters Okay, and I Mean first chronicles most of us Why it's often the most boring ice boring book or you know, but people think it's boring or it's not Everybody's favorite book is there's a lot of names. Isn't it? There's a lot of names and so Like I'm sure they were all related and they were all from the tribe of Levites that's for sure But how they are different from musicians. I don't know how to respond to that, but I Mean, I'm sure some of them play the musicians and sang and Some just sang they I mean they would sing scriptures Sing the word prophetic songs as well, so Yeah, I'm not sure how to respond to that. I'm not sure if I did respond to that No, no problem. Thank you. Thank you. So I was just thinking about the Different words being used for like a category they are seeing right? So that's why I was wondering Yeah, thanks, but it's very interesting, you know when you read and I would say These these parts these sections are really important for us to You know understand Don't ignore the names What if your name was mentioned you would want to read it and you would want to show your family and friends Isn't it tasty? Look, my name is there Right so That's important. Also the book of numbers, you know, when you read the book of numbers god is giving clear instructions Towards from the tribe of Levites. There were three different clans Levi had three sons and these three the and I mean, what what are the lineage people who are born of these three sons? They were all given different Responsibilities, right? So it's very important for us to just read that as well. Okay, and uh And I see there's another question from john While tabernacle was moving from Philistines. Why was uza killed even though he tried to help? Yeah I think An answer to that can offend a lot of people but No This is video By bible project. Okay, it's on the holiness of god. You should watch it Okay, the video is called the holiness of god by the bible project. It's on youtube. We can check it out and how they explain is They refer to god's holiness as let's say son Right and anybody goes close to it, uh, you know They evaporate But that's the nature of the sun it's just That's what it is. I mean you look at the holiness of god and who he is Uh, it's not one of the attributes of him when you talk about the holiness of god You're talking about the the person of who he is He is holy And there is no other attribute or name. That's you know, the angels worship are repeat three times, right? You and I both know that and I think one was The their people were not obedient. They did not know that it was it was to be carried by people Right, um, that's that's one thing for sure and then What uza tried to touch was the very raw power of god And it was not just uza when you look at the sons of uh, who is this who's the sons of? Moses brothers when they try to perform false sacrifice Uh, they were Levites Aaron. Yeah, Aaron. Yeah, thank you They died as well Okay, and I think it's It's something it has something to do with obedience there, john and people in it I will again, I'm sorry, but I don't really have like a proper answer to that because there could be so many answers to it so many reasons One of the things what I shared, you know, some time ago and other lessons was The kings were supposed to read the law the word of god when they become kings, right and had Uh Had david done that he would know that the word of god says That the arc of the covenant was to be carried By the tribe of levite and so which he does After this incident, you know, he was upset. He's angry. He doesn't just walk away, but he Again, another thing about david is that he learns from his mistake and he comes back Right, he comes he goes after god. He is like, okay, you know, I don't know what to do You know, he goes after him And Yeah, I don't have a certain answer, uh, you know as to why who's always good I don't know, but the only thing I know is that god is just Yeah, he is Just and there could be so many reasons as to why that happened Yeah, yeah, thank you Okay, guys, what we'll do right now is we'll kind of take a break and close this session and We resume after the break and we'll see if we can watch a video after that. All right. Thanks for joining in. Um, thank you so much Yeah, and let's see you all after the break. Ciao Thank you so much, sir You're welcome