Good evening. Welcome to the Only Believe Broadcast. I'm your host, evangelist Lydia Benton. And as always, it's a pleasure to be able to come into your homes to share with you the good news that being the gospel.
I'm excited again. I'm always excited to preach. I love to preach. Anybody that knows me knows that I love to preach.
I love his word. And I'm telling you, it doesn't matter how many times you read the word, you always get something that's always for right now in that moment. And so I'm going to my text. I'm coming from Exodus and I'm going to start in chapter 33, verse 1.
And it's talking about Moses when he was to lead the people out of Egypt and to bring them, I'm sorry, when Moses went to Mount Sinai and he was trying to lead God's people and they were rebellious just as we are today. And I'm just, I'm going to let the word do the work. In chapter 33, verse 1, it says, in the Lord, Santa, Moses, depart and go up hence, thou and the people which thou has brought up out of the land of Egypt unto the land which I swear unto Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, saying unto thy seed will I give it. And I will send an angel before thee and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites and the Pergocites, the Hivites and the Jebusites unto a land flowing with milk and honey, for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiff-necked people lest I consume thee in the way." Now do you see just in starting why this is a relevant word?
We have become a stiff-necked people just as Israel was and is. He is waiting on us to accept Him. You know, many of the Jewish people have not accepted Jesus as the Messiah. Two thousand years later, they still, some of them, have still not accepted Jesus as Messiah.
Can you imagine us waiting on Jesus to come? And our human minds cannot comprehend that. How do you not know that Jesus has already came? How could you not know that?
How can you be so blind? You have to ask yourself that. Why have I been so blind and having accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior when we have the book? They have the book.
But guess what? They only read the Old Testament and we have so many better promises and we don't read to the old or the new. What's wrong with us? We have all of the prophets as our examples of what to do and what not to do.
And we have this mindset that I can come to God whenever I want. I can do as I want and He has to accept me. You've got to be kidding me. All He has to do is blow and you will be no more.
But because of grace and mercy, He's still calling Israel. He's still calling the Jew. And the reason that He hasn't came and got the Gentiles because He's still waiting on the Jew to come to know Him, to accept the Messiah. But how are they going to accept them if we don't reach out to them?
You can't have this mentality my for and no more. You can't have that mentality. We are to go into the hedges and highways and highways and compel men and women, all people to come to Him. Heaven is not going to be segregated people.
I'm going to leave that alone. But we are so stiff-necked that we won't even respond to His Word. Just like Israel, He wants to get you an eye to a land flowing with milk and honey. But we've become stiff-necked.
He said that He wasn't going to come down as He had done so many times, but that He was going to send an angel down. I like angels, but I'd rather see Him. I'd rather experience His presence. Verse 4 says, And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned and no man did put on his ornaments.
Honey, you mentioned party and we're all about it. But there's no greater party that I would want to be invited to than to Christ. This party is going to be everlasting. All other parties are going to stop after a while and your life will be required.
And you'll get to make a choice. You'll get to make the choice where you spend eternity by the confession of your mouth. Verse 5 says, Exodus chapter 33 verse 5 says, For the Lord has said unto Moses, say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people, I will come up into the midst of the in a moment and consume thee. Don't you know that the Bible says that the Lord is a consuming fire?
But He said that He would no longer destroy the earth with a flood. It's going to be fire next time. It says, Therefore now put off their ornaments, thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee. And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the Mount Horb.
Moses took the tabernacle and pitched it without the camp, or far off from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of the congregation. Isn't it something if you just think about that for a moment? We have been pitched outside of the camp. Our churches are closed.
We're outside the camp. Why do you think that is? Why are we not able to worship in freedom because of this virus? There are going to be plagues and earthquakes and famines and all of these natural disasters.
Things are going to continue to happen, but we've got to get back in the camp so we can be about our fathers business, but our tabernacle has been moved. But it's the issue in about it being outside of the camp. But are we going to go outside of the camp and worship outside the camp? And it came to pass that everyone which sought the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
Or even if the tabernacle, even if our worship is outside the building, are you going to go where the worship is outside the camp? Are you going to sit in your home and just reminisce about what was? When the children of Israel were, when they came out of Egypt and things didn't go their way, what did they say? We had been better off if we'd stayed in Egypt.
Many of us even now, in this day, we're walking around in Egypt. He's already brought us out physically, but our minds are still back in Egypt. What do you want for him to do for you today? He can bring, he will tabernacle among us outside the camp if we're looking for him to come.
Our sake says, and it came to pass when Moses went out into the tabernacle, that all the people rose up and stood every man at his tent door and looked after Moses until he was going into the tabernacle. What are you going out to see? Many of us are coming out of our houses, out of the tent door, so to speak, that we'll go out to see a riot, we'll go out to protest, we'll go out to do all of these things, but we won't go to get to the tabernacle that's outside the camp. Oh, Hallelujah.
It says they all went and they looked after Moses until he went into the tabernacle. We're watching people go into their tabernacle, but we're not willing to go into our own in the secret place. Verse 10 says, and all the people saw the, I skip one, verse nine, back up to verse nine, it says, and it came to pass as Moses entered into the tabernacle. The cloudy pillar descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
All he's waiting for is for you and I to go in and he'll come and talk to you and he'll talk to me just as he did to Moses. Verse 10 says, and all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door and all the people rose up and worship every man in his tent door. You can worship him right where you are. Make him a sanctuary.
The Lord told David it was in his heart to build him a sanctuary. But it wouldn't be him that it would be his son. Do you want to forfeit your chance to tabernacle for him? Do you want to forfeit your chance to go into that land of, oh my, of more than enough?
But you've got to be willing to go outside the camp looking for his presence to come down and dwell. We don't want a visitation. The visitation means you come in and you're going to view what's going on and then you're going to move on. So we want a habitation of his glory to be seen and revealed in us.
This is every man worship, worship him right where you are. Just say hallelujah. I love you. I adore you.
I praise you. I lift you up. Elohim, the mighty God, the Prince of Peace. I love you because you first love me.
Verse 11 says, and the Lord spake him to Moses face to face as a man speaking unto his friend and he turned again into the camp. And his servant Joshua, the son of none, a young man departed not out of the tabernacle. I'm calling for the youth. It's time for you to rise up.
Maybe you feel like you don't have a leader. You don't have an example. Yes, you do. You have the word.
Open the book. Open the Bible. And he promises that he will seal your instructions. Young people, we need to rise up for the calls of Christ today.
We need to be starting revivals all over this land. The youth, you need to rise up. I don't care if you're 5, 10, 13, 20, it doesn't matter. You need to rise up until the Lord that you're available to make a difference for him, that you want a tabernacle.
You want his presence to come down to earth and dwell with man on the earth. And verse 12 said, and Moses said unto the Lord, see, thou say unto me, bring up this people, and thou has not let me know whom thou will sin with me. Yet thou has said, I know thee by name, and thou has found also found grace in my sight. Young people, he knows you by name, and he has already put in you what he wants you to do.
You just have to tell him, Lord, I'm available. You don't even have to say that. Just say, here am I. I'm right here.
He's calling you. Young people. You want to rise up and you want to fight a cause, rise up and fight this cause that nobody can kill, that nobody can diminish, that nobody can act like it doesn't exist. He's coming back.
The Bible says, for a church without a spot or a wrinkle or any such thing, but what will he find you doing? If you know he's called your name, answer today. Verse 13 says, now therefore I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight and consider that this nation is thy people. You know when all of this stuff started, what happened in America calls riots all over the world?
I just got chills when I said that. Why can't this nation that was founded on God not rise up and fight this battle for Christ by spreading the good news? Spread this news that Jesus is alive and will and let other nations follow in our footsteps that we follow Christ. That's what we need to be a witness to the nations that we, the United States, please is God.
Abraham, he inherited the blessings because it said he please God, Moses. He knew him by name because he was faithful to what the Lord had called him to do. Will you be faithful today to what he's called you to do? You've heard him call your name and you keep making excuses.
I'll come when I get rid of this girlfriend and I'll come when I get tired of doing drugs and I'll come when I do this and I'm young and I got my wild oaks and so and I'll come. We've got every excuse in the world that's going to cause us to lose our soul if we don't confess him as Lord today. You don't need to wait till you get right because you can't get right on your own. Only the precious blood of Jesus can cleanse away every sin.
When you accept him as Lord and Savior and you open this book and you read his word, the word changes you and you learn his ways, then you change. The word changes you, not just your confession. The word changes you. Verse 13, at the end of 13 I just read, he said, consider this nation as thy people.
We consider the United States, God's people, don't we? We don't we consider this a God for your nation? We used to. I don't know what we do now because everything goes and you can do anything and still come but we have to get back to hearing his voice, hearing his calling, hearing him call our name and doing what he's called us to do.
He says, 13 says, now therefore I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy side, show me now the way that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy side and consider that this nation is thy people and he said, my presence will go with thee and I will give thee grace. If you want healing in this nation, you have to. Go follow your knees, ask the Lord to save you and your household. You have to pray for the President.
We talk about Trump like a dog and we call ourselves, Chris says, you've got to be kidding me. The Bible says, I'm not talking about what the world says, but the Bible says that we have to respect dignity and authorities. You don't have to like him. It's a lot of folk that I don't like, the things that they do, but they're still over me and I have to respect the position.
So you wonder why things aren't going right in your life. Won't you start praying for him and blessing him that he'll hear his voice and be led by God so that he can lead this nation through Christ. Change what comes out of your mouth even toward him if you want God to rule and reign in our country. But he says that his presence would go with him and Moses simply says, if thy presence does not go with me, don't carry me up.
Don't let me go anywhere that your presence won't go. Everywhere you go, when you confess him as Lord, you're taking him with you. But you have to say, I'm not going to be a part of this conversation. I'm not going to be a part of this movement or whatever else if God isn't in it.
You haven't seen, and I'm coming to a close, but you haven't seen one person in these movement or protest or anything. You haven't seen any of them come together and pray. You only see them talking rhetoric. We better get busy about our father's business because he's soon to return and you won't be called up to meet him in the air with mess.
Verse 16 says, for we're in shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight. Is it not that thou goest with us? So shall we be separated, I and thy people from all the people that are on the face of the earth. And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou has spoken, for thou has found grace in my sight.
And I know thee by name. And Moses simply says to him, Lord, I beseech thee, show me thy glory. If you want the glory of the Lord to be seen in the earth in your community, in this day, be where he can use you. And simply say, Lord, show me your glory.
I'm not going anywhere where you're not there. It don't matter if it's inside the camp or outside the camp. I want you to tabernacle with me. I tell you, trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean into not into your own understanding.
This has been only the lead God bless. This is a good day to know.