![]() In other words, you come in in control, and you leave in control. A lot of people in worship, in the worship portion of the service, where we're singing, a lot of people sing, but don't abandon themselves to God. This went off in me like I can't even tell you. They enter the mystery, abandoning themselves, that'd be full trust, to God. More and more people are seeing this: they enter the mystery, abandoning themselves to God". "He taught me how to sing the latest God-song, a praise-song to our God. But here's what The Message says, alright. Talking about abandoning ourselves to God. Many will hear it and fear and trust in the Lord. And it's a famous passage in New King James, New Living Translation NIV, ESV about God has put a new song in my mouth. And I like to read through the Bible every year and I'm reading it through The Message right now, and I was in, I read in Psalm 40. So this week, the title of the message is The Foundation of Abandonment. So this week we're going to talk about the eagle, and the eagle represents worship, but the Lord zeroed me in on a word that, I've never used this word to talk about worship before. So it's taking us somewhere differently, taking us somewhere deeper and higher. Well, what humility does is it takes us to what Jesus did. So even though you're serving that person, you might kind of be serving yourself. You could be serving someone like a boss or someone in your life, but you're actually serving yourself, because that person has the power to promote you, or give you a raise or give you a good review. I would like to say this, and I think he's taking us higher in our area of servanthood and humility. The ox represents servanthood, and yet God took us to a specific part of servanthood, which is humility. ![]() It was like, Wow, I hadn't thought about that. But the point is, because God zeroed us in on something in that first message, it was own giving ourselves grace for failures after we've been saved. Alright, so but all of us can drift, okay? I was going to say spouse, and I thought that's probably not a good illustration. Our drift during a conversation with our. For instance, when I talked about grace, I could have said, I'm going to preach on grace, and subconsciously, some of you might've had a little moment to think, Well, I know about grace, Pastor Robert. But what I believe God is doing during this series is highlighting an aspect of each face to take us higher as a church. I know it refers to Jesus, so it refers to everything Jesus is. Some people will say it refers to righteousness because it's Jesus. Now some of those are repeats, but he still decided to put it in there in those four books, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, 82 times. Jesus himself referred to himself in the gospels 82 times as the Son of Man. And so we talked about the man, and the man represents Jesus, the Son of Man. So God takes us higher in our understanding of certain things in scripture. But the other thing it does is it goes higher and higher. Wherever the Spirit goes, the creature goes, but it never turns, it goes in that direction with that face then facing wherever the Spirit is going. And there are four creatures and each creature has four faces: the face of a man, an ox, an eagle, and a lion. And were these four living creatures are in Revelation and in Ezekiel. I will say it's kind of fun, don't you think? Just say it anyway. ![]() ![]() It's something that I know you've been wanting to hear for years. So we're in a series called The Four Living Creatures. TOPICS: The Four Living Creatures, Abandonation, Worship ![]()
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