WHERE ARE WE LOOKING

PSALMS 121:1-8

INTRO:   VERSE 1, THAT’S WHAT WE NEED TO BE DOING TODAY, LOOKING UNTO THE HILLS, FROM WHENCE COMETH MY HELP.   DAVID KNEW WHERE TO LOOK, UNTO GOD.

--I’M AFRAID PEOPLE ARE LOOKING EVERYWHERE BUT THE RIGHT PLACE.

--THE ANSWER IS’NT MONEY, CARS, FAME, POPULARITY, THE LUSTS OF THIS WORLD, BUT THE ANSWER IS JESUS!

--BUT NOTICE BY THE WAY OF INTRODUCTION:

3 THINGS HE WILL PRESERVE:

1-  HE SHALL PRESERVE THEE FROM ALL EVIL.   V.7                                  --I THANK GOD HE WILL KEEP AND PRESERVE US.    THANK GOD HE CAN KEEP US PURE, UNSPOTTED, OUT OF THE SNARE OF THE DEVIL, HE WILL MAKE AWAY OF ESCAPE.  WE JUST NEED TO CALL ON HIM.

2-  HE SHALL PRESERVE THY SOUL.   V.7

--ITS GOOD TO KNOW YOUR PRESERVED IN THE LORD.

--PRESERVE—(wd)   TO PROTECT FROM HARM, DAMAGE, ECT..   TO KEEP FROM SPOILING.

--ABLE TO KEEP US.

--IVE ANCHORED MY SOUL IN THE HAVEN OF REST, TO SAIL THE WILD SEAS NO MORE.

3-  HE SHALL PRESERVE THY GOING OUT AND THY COMING IN FROM THIS TIME FORTH, AND EVEN FOR EVERMORE.    V.8

--ITS GOOD  TO KNOW THAT GODS PEOPLE ARE PRESERVED FROM HARM, DAMAGE.

--IM GLAD HE WILL NEVER LEAVE US NOR FORSAKE US.

--W-1828)—GUARD, TO PROTECT, ATTEND TO.

BUT THIS MORNING I WOULD LIKE TO PREACH ON THIS SUBJECT: WHERE ARE WE LOOKING?

--LIKE I SAID DAVID LOOKED UNTO THE HILLS, HE KNEW HIS STRENGTH CAME FROM THE LORD.

--SO LETS LOOK AT SOME HILLS IN THE BIBLE WE NEED TO LOOK TOO!  WE NEED TO LOOK UNTO THE HILL OF:

1-  CONVICTION    MT. SINAI    HEB.12:18-21

--WHAT DO YOU MEAN, MT. SINAI,  THE HILL OF CONVICTION?

--WE KNOW IN EXODUS 20, IS WHERE MOSES RECEIVED THE 10 COMMANDMENTS.

--BUT HERE IN HEB. 12:18-21,  SINAI WAS A MOUNTAIN:

1-  NOT TO BE TOUCHED   V.18

--EX.19:12-13 “And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.”

2-  THAT BURNED WITH FIRE     V.18

--EX.19:18

3-  WITH BLACKNESS, DARKNESS, TEMPEST    V.18

--EX.19:16-18

4-  WITH A SOUNDING TRUMPET AND THE VOICE OF GOD.  V.19

--EX.19:19

--AND WHEN MOSES SEEN THESE THINGS HE FEARED, AND QUAKED(SHIVER) HEB.12:21.

--I BELIEVE MT. SINAI WAS A PLACE OF HOLINESS, WHEN THE PEOPLE OR ANY BEAST COULDN’T EVEN TOUCH IT LEST THEY BE STONED.

--IN EX.19:16, WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW THE THUNDERS AND THE LIGHTNINGS, AND THE THICK CLOUD ON THE MT, AND THE VOICE OF THE TRUMPET EXCEEDING LOUD, ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WAS IN THE CAMP TREMBLED.    I BELIEVE BECAUSE OF THE HOLINESS AND THE PRESENCE OF GOD.

--WHEN YOU GET AROUND OR SEE THE HOLINESS OF GOD AND HIS PRESENCE, I BELIEVE, IF THERES SIN IN YOUR CAMP,  THERE WILL BE CONVICTION,  WE WILL SEE HOW LOW AND MISERABLE , AND WICKED WE REALLLY ARRE.

--YOU CANT READ HIS WORD AND LIVE IN YOUR SIN WITHOUT BEING EVENTUALLY CONVICTED,  OR COME INTO HIS PRESENCE WHILE YOUR LIVING IN YOUR SIN AND NOT FEEL CONVICTION.

--WE NEED PREACHING THAT WILL BRING CONVICTION, AND BRING IT IN OUR CHURCES.       I WOULDN’T GO TO A CHURCH WHERE THERE WAS NO CONVICTION.

--WE NEED SOME HOLY GHOST CONVICTION.     IM GLAD ONE DAY I GOT UNDER HOLY GHOST CONVICTION.  

--CONVICTION IS THE PROCESS OF BEING CONDEMNED BY ONES OWN CONSCIENCE AS A SINNER BECAUSE OF GODS DEMANDS. (WD)

--AND THANK GOD IT LED ME TO REPENTANCE.

--STORY OF PAUL AND SILAS (JAILER AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE WAS GOING TO KILL HIMSELF BECAUSE THE PRISON DOORS WAS OPEN,  PAUL SAID DO THYSELF NO HARM, AND HE CAME TREMBLING, AND FELL DOWN BEFOR PAUL AND SILAS AND SAID SIRS WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED, AND THEY SAID BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED, AND THY HOUSE.     CONVICTION CAME!

2-  CALLING --    MT. HOREB

--IM GLAD HE CALLED ME ONE DAY AND I HEARD HIS VOICE.

--BUT IN EX.3:1-10,  WE SEE THE COMMISSION AND CALL OF MOSES,  WHILE HE WAS ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE DESERT, HE CAME TO THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD, EVEN TO HOREB.   AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM IN A  FLAME OF FIRE, OUT OF THE MIDST OF A BUSH, AND HE LOOKED AND THE BUSH WASN’T CONSUMED.        AND GOD CALLED UNTO HIM OUT OF THE  MIDST OF THE BUSH  AND SAID, MOSES, MOSES, AND HE SAID HERE AM I.      AND HE SAID, DRAW NOT NIGH HITHER, PUT OFF THY SHOES FROM OFF THY FEET, FOR THE PLACE WHEREON THOU STANDEST IS HOLY GROUND.

--AND THE REST OF THE STORY,  THE LORD CALLED MOSES TO LEAD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT OF EYGPT.     (HE SAID HE WAS SLOW OF SPEECH)

--IF GOD CAN CALL MOSES HE CAN CALL YOU.

HOW DOES GOD CALL:

A-     BY THE PREACHING OF THE WORD OF GOD.

B-      BY HIS WORD

C-      BY THE HOLY GHOST

--MOMA DIDN’T CALL ME, BUT GOD DID.

--GOD MAY BE CALLING SOMEONE FOR HIS SERVICE THIS MORNING, HE’S BEEN DEALING WITH YOU ABOUT DOING SOMETHING FOR HIM.

--GOD CALLED SAMUEL ABOUT 3 TIMES AND HE THOUGHT IT WAS ELI.   AND WHEN SAMUEL CAME TO ELI  THE 3^RD TIME , ELI SAID GO LIE DOWN AND IF HE CALL THEE SAY SPEAK LORD, FOR THY SERVANT HEARETH.   THE LORD CAME AND SAID SAMUEL, SAMUEL, THEN SAMUEL ANSWERED,  SPEAK , FOR THY SERVANT HEARETH. (1SAM.3:10)

--LETS HERE THE CALL OF GOD!

--IM GLAD HE’S CALLING FOR THE  SINNER TODAY  (ALL THAT SHALL CALL UNPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED.)    

--COME WHILE HE IS CALLING.

3-  COURAGE    MT. CARMEL       1KINGS 18:17-40

--COURAGE MEANS   THE QUALITY OF BEING BRAVE.

--WE NEED SOME MEAN LIKE ELIJAH, JOHN THE BAPTIST, THAT WILL NOT BE SCARED OR COWARDLY AND STAND FOR THE LORD AND WHAT THEY BELIEVE IN.     THERES TOO MANY SISSYS , COMPROMISERES, IN OUR DAY ANYTHING GOES.

--BUT HERE IN 1KINGS 18,  ELIJAH HAD COURAGE,  TO STAND BEFORE  THESE 850  FALSE PROPHETS.     I TELL YOU IT TAKES COURAGE, MEN THAT ARE BRAVE TOO STAND AGAINST THE MODERNIST AND FALSE PROPHETS OF THE DAY.    ELIJAH  KNEW GOD WOULDN’T LET HIM DOWN, HE KNEW WHOM  HE SERVED.

--IT TAKES BACKBONE, COURAGE, TO STAND ALONE .

--WE NEED MEN AND WOMEN WITH MORALS TODAY.

4-  HIS COMEING    MT.OF OLIVES

--ZECHARIAH   MENTIONS  THE MOUNT OF OLIVES IN REFERENCE TO THE FUTURE DAY OF THE LORD. ZECH.14:4 “And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.”

--THRU STUDY THIS IS REFERRING TO THE SECOND ADENT.

--BUT LISTEN FOLKS HE’S COMEING AGAIN (MATT. 24:44)

--1 THES. 4:13

--NO MAN KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR, IT COULD BE TODAY.

--JOHN 14:1-3“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”

--AND WHEN HE COMES HE’S GOING TO UNLOCK ALL THE GRAVES THAT ARE IN THE LORD.    AINT NO GRAVE GOING TO HOLD THIS BODY DOWN.

5-  CLEANSING     MT. CALVARY

--THANK GOD FOR THE CLEASNING POWERE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB.

--WITHOUT SHEDDING OF BLOOD THERE WOULD BE NO REMISSION FOR SIN.

--WHAT CAN WASH AWAY MY SIN, NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD OF JESUS!

--THANK GOD IVE BEEN TO THE HILL OF CLEANSING,   THERES SOMEBODY HERE TODAY THAT NEEDS TO GET TO CALVARY.

--THERES A FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH BLOOD DRAWN FROM EMANUELS VEINS.

--ISA. 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

--COME AND LET JESUS WASH YOU WHITE AS SNOW!

CONCLUSION:    LETS  LOOK  UNTO THE HILL FROM WHENCE COMETH MY HELP!