GOD ON THE MOVE
I SAMUEL 16:1-13
• GOD HAS PLACES
• GOD SOVEREIGNLY SELECTS SCENES AND SETTINGS IN ORDER TO INSTITUTE AND INITIATE HIS WILL
• GOD IS GEOGRAPHICALLY STRATEGIC
• HE CONNECTS HIMSELF TO MAN
o NOT ONLY THROUGH HISTORY
o BUT ALSO THROUGH GEOPGRAPHY AND TOPOGRAPHY
• GOD HAS PLACES
• PLACES HOWEVER DO NOT HAVE GOD
• ON MARS HILL PAUL SPEAKS TO THE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE OF ATHENS
o HE SAID “THE GOD THAT CREATED THE WORLD AND ALL THINGS THEREIN, SEEING THAT HE IS LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, DWELLETH NOT IN TEMPLES MADE BY HANDS.”
• GOD TRANSCENDS TERAFIRMA
• GOD CANNOT BE CIRCUMSCRIBED BY HIS OWN CREATION
• GOD CANN BE LIMITED BY LOCATION
• GOD CANNOT BE REGULATED BY LAWS OF LONGITUDE AND LATTITUDE
• GOD IS NOT CONTROLLED BY A COMPASS
• GOD IS NOT LOCKED IN BY N, S, E, AND W
• GOD CANNOT BE RESTRICTED BY BOUNDARIES OF BRICK AND MORTAR
• GOD CANNOT BE LOCATED BY A GPS
• IN FACT GOD IS OMNIPRESENT
o HE’S EVERYWHERE AT THE SAME TIME
o ABSENT FROM NO WHERE AT ANY TIME
o HE MEETS HIMSELF COMING WHEN HE’S GOING
o AND GOING WHEN HE’S COMING
o HE EXITS WHEN HE ENTERS
o HE ENTERS WHEN HE EXITS
o HE’S UP WHEN HE’S DOWN
o AND DOWN WHEN HE’S UP
o THERE IS NO CONTROLING GOD
o HE IS
BOUNDLESS
ENDLESS
LIMITLESS
TIMELESS
ETERNAL
AND INFINITE
• GOD IS NOT SOME LOCAL DIETY
• GOD IS NOT BUDDAH THAT YOU CAN SIT AND PUT IN YOUR PLACE
• GOD IS NOT SOME MOON DIETY
• WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT GOD’S NAME IS JEHOVAH
o REPEAT
• HE NAME IS NOT
o BUDDAH
o BRAHMA
o ALLAH
o MUHAMMUD
• HIS NAME IS JEHOVAH
• HE IS THE ONE AND TRUE LIVING GOD
• NOT ONLY IS HE GOD BUT HE’S GOT A SON NAMED JESUS
• AND HE GAVE HIM A NAME ABOVE ALL OTHER NAMES
• THAT AT THE NAME OF JESUS
o EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW
o EVERY TONGUE COFESS
o THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD AND HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED
• THE HEAVEN’S ARE HIS THRONE
• AND THE EARTH IS HIS FOOTSTOOL
• THE PROPHET ISAIAH REMINDS US THAT HE MEASURED THE WATERS IN THE HALLOW OF HIS HAND
• HE MEADED OUT THE HEAVENS WITH A SPAN
• HE COMPREHENDED THE DUST OF THE EATH IN A MEASURE
• HE WEIGHTED THE MOUNTAINS ON A SCALE
• AND PUT THE HILLS IN A BALANCE
• GOD HAS PLACES
• BUT PLACES CAN NEVER HAVE GOD
• GOD HAS PLACES THAT ARE ASSIGNED FOR THE UNVEILING AND UNFOLDING OF HIS PURPOSE
• I NEED TO TELL THE PREACHERS THAT FOR WHATEVER PURPOSE GOD HAS FOR YOU
• HE WILL NOT ONLY GIVE YOU THE PURPOSE
• BUT HE WILL ALSO GIVE YOU THE PLACE
• AND IF GOD HAS PUT A WORD IN YOUR MOUTH
• YOU DON’T HAVE TO ASK ANYBODY TO PREACH
• YOU DON’T HAVE TO INVITE YOURSELF TO ANYBODIES PULPIT
• IF GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO PREACH
• HE WILL OPEN DOORS AND YOUR GIFT WILL MAKE ROOM FOR YOU
• GOD HAS PLACES
• SO IN EDEN GOD PUTS ADAM TO DRESS AND TO KEEP IT
• NOAH AND HIS FAMILY ARE ON A MOUNTAIN CALLED ARAFAT BECAUSE
• GOD HAS PLACES
• JOSEPH IS IN A PRISON ON HIS WAY TO A PALACE BECAUSE
• GOD HAS PLCES
• SAMPSON ‘S HAIR IS GROWING IN A PRISON BECAUSE
• GOD HAS PLACES
• ELIJAH IS BEING FED BY RAVENS ON HIS WAY TO A WIDOWS HOUSE BECAUSE
• GOD HAS PLACES
• JOHN THE APOSTLE IS WRITING A REVELATION ON THE PATMOS ISLAND BECAUSE
• GOD HAS PLACES
• GOD WORKS IN SPECIFIC PLACES
• AND GOD WORKS IN SPECIFIC PEOPLE IN THOSE SPECIFIC PLACES
• IMAGINE THE MINISTRY OF OUR MASTER
• COULD WE REALLY PREACH JESUS
• AND NOT PREACH ABOUT HIS PLACES
• CAN YOU REALLY TALK ABOUT JESUS AND
• NOT TALK ABOUT THE PLACES AND SPOTS THAT GOD HAD TAKEN JESUS TO
• THINK ABOUT IT
• JESUS IS SENT FROM A PLACE CALLED HEAVEN
• BORN IN A PLACE CALLED BETHLEHEM
• CONCEALED IN A PLACE CALLED EGYPT
• REARED IN A PLACE CALLED NAZARETH
• BAPTIZED IN A PLACE CALLED JORDON
• TEMPTED IN A PLACE CALLED THE WILDERNESS
• INTRODUCED IN A PLACE CALLED CANA OF GALILEE
• DISCOVERED IN A PLACE CALLED CAPERNAUM
• CONFIRMED IN A PLACE CALLED CAESAREA OF PHILLIPI
• REJECTED IN A PLACE CALLED GADERA
• TRANSFIGURED IN A PLACE CALLED MT TABER
• BELIEVED ON IN A PLACE CALLED BETHANY
• AGONIZED IN A PLACE CALLED GETHSENAME
• ARRESTED IN A PLACE CALLED THE KIDRON
• JUDGED IN A PLACE CALLED GORGOTHA
• FORCED TO CARRY HIS CROSS IN A PLACE CALLED THE VILLA DEL A ROSA
• CRUCIFIED ON AN OLD RUGGED CROSS IN A PLACE CALLED CALVARY
• RESURRECTED FROM A PLACE CALLED AN OLD BORROWED TOMB
• AND GOT ON A CLOUD IN A PLACE CALLED MT OLIVE
• AND WENT BACK TO HEAVEN
• BUT I GOT BETTER NEWS THAN THAT
• NOT ONLY DID HE LEAVE
• BUT HE’S COMING BACK AGAIN
• AND WHEN HE COMES BACK AGAIN
• HE IS COING BACK TO A PLACE
• HE’S GONNA SPLIT MT OLIVE
• AND HE WILL REIGN A THOUSAND YEARS
• GOD HAS PLACES
• BUT PLACES NEVER HAVE GOD
• BECAUSE GOD IS ALWAYS ON THE MOVE
• AUTHENTIC AND REDEMTPIVE MINISTRY CAN ONLY TAKE PLACE WHEN GOD MOVES THE RIGHT PEOPLE INTO THE RIGHT PLACES
o REPEAT
• GOD HAS A PLCE FOR YOU
• TOUCH SOMEONE AND TELL THEM
o GOD HAS A PLACE FOR YOU
• GOD HAS NOT FORGOTTEN WHERE YOU ARE
• GOD KNOWS YOUR NAME
• GOD KNOWS YOUR ADDRESS
• AND EVEN IF NOBODY ELSE KNOWS YOU
• GOD HAS A PLACE FOR YOU
• THE ONLY THING THAT WE HAVE TO DO IS TO OBEY GOD
• AND WHEN YOU OBEY GOD HE’LL MOVE YOU TO WHERE YOU NEED TO BE
• HE’LL PUT YOU IN PLACES PEOPLE NEVER WOULD HAVE PUT YOU
• BECAUSE GOD IS ON THE MOVE
• TO FLFILL HIS ETERNAL PURPOSE
• THAT IS WHAT IS CLEAR ABOUT THIS WELL WORN PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE IN I SAM 16
• LOOK AT IT
• GOD SENDS THE PROPHET SAMUEL TO BEHLEHEM
• VS 4 – THE MOVERS AND THE SHAKERS – BIBLE CALLS THEM ELDERS
• THEY WANT TO KNOW WHY SMAUEL HAS COME TO THEIR PLACE
• THEY ASKED – DO YOU COME PEACEABLY
• THEY WANTED TO KNOW WHY THIS PARTICULARE PREACHER HAD COME TO THIS PARTICULAR PLACE
• WHY DOES GOD SEND A SAMUEL TO BETHLEHEM
• WHY DOES GOD PUT A PREACHER IN A PLACE WHERE THERE ARE ALREADY SOME ELDERS
• GOD SENDS THE PREACHER SAMUEL TO BETHLEHEM BECAUSE GOD WANTS BETHLEHEM TO LIVE UP TO IT’S NAME
• BETHELEHEM = HOUSE OF BREAD
• BUT WITHOUT A PREACHER BETHLEHEM CAN’T BE A HOUSE OF BREAD
• BETHLEHEM WAS KNOWN AS THE BREAD BASKET OF THE JORDAN VALLEY
• BUT IN ORDER FOR BETHLEHEM TO BE WHAT IT WAS CALLED TO BE
o IT NEEDED A PREACHER
• IT WAS GONNA NEED A PREACHER BECAUSE MOSES MADE IT CLEAR
o MAN CANNOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD
• IT BETHLEHEM IS TO LIVE UP TO IT’S NAME
• IT NEEDED A PREACHER
• YOU SEE BETHLEHEM’S PURPOSE IS TO SHARE THE BREAD OF LIFE
• THAT EXPLAINS WHY THE BREAD OF LIFE WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM’S BARN
• JESUS CAME INOT THIS WORLD AS THE BREAD OF LIFE
• HE TOOK BREAD AND BROKE IT
• GAVE THANKS AND GAVE IT AWAY
• YOU SEE MINISTRY IF IT IS ANYTHING, IS A BREAD BREAKING ENTERPRISE
o REPEAT
• AND WHEN GOD SENDS SAMUEL INTO BETHLEHEM
• HE SENDS HIM INTO BETHLEHEM TO ANNOUNCE
• THAT YOU NEED MORE THAN SOMETHING TO LIVE ON
• EVERYONE HERE NEEDS MORE THAN JUST SOMETHING TO LIVE ON
• WE NEED SOMETHING TO LIVE WITH
• WE NEED MORE THAN SOMETHING TO LIVE ON
• YOU NEED SOMETHING TO LIVE BY
• YOU NEED MORE THAN SOMETHING TO LIVE ON
• YOU NEED SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR
• WE NEED MORE THAN CREATURE COMFORTS AND BIGGER BARNS
o MORE THAN TOYS AND TRINKETS THAT TARNISH WITH TIME
o MORE THAN HOUSES AND CARS
o MORE THAN CASH AND CHECKS
o MORE THAN BOATS AND BLING BLING
o MORE THAN PLASMAS AND PLAY STATIONS
• WE NEED PREACHERS THAT KNOW HOW TO BREAK THE BREAD
o REPEAT
• WE NEED MORE THAN GOOD EXEGESIS
• WE NEED SOME BREAD BREAKERS
• WE NEED MORE THAN GOOD HOMOETICS
• WE NEED SOME BREAD BREAKERS
• MORE THAN DIALETICAL PREACHING MODELS
• WE NEED BREAD BREAKERS
• GOD GIVE US PREACHERS WHO WANT TO DO MORE THAN ENTERTAIN
• GIVE UP PREACHERS THAN DON’T MID GETTING IN THE PULPIT AND BREAKING BREAD
• WE NEED PREACHERS WHO HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH JESUS
• WE NEED PREACHERS WHO KNOW THE GOSPEL
• WHO KNOW HOW TO TELL THE STORY
• WHO GOT AN UNCTION
• WHO GOT A PASSION
• WHO CAN REIGHTLY DIVIDE THE WORD OF TRUTH
• WHO AREN’T AFRAID OF CHURCH FOLK
• WE NEED PREACHERS WHO KNOW HOW TO BREAK BREAD
• WHATEVER PETTY CRITICISM THAT YOU HAVE OF YOUR PASTOR
• ALL THE LITTLE STUFF THAT MAKES YOU MAD ABOUT YOUR PASTOR
• WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT
• CAN HE BREAK THE BREAD
• AT THE END OF THE DAY
• CAN THE PREACHER BREAK THE BREAD
• HE DON’T HAVE TO DRESS LIKE YOU WANT
• HE DON’T HAVE TO DRIVE WHAT YOU WANT HIM TO DRIVE
• BUT CAN HE BREAK THE BREAD
• THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WANT MORE THAN A READERS DIGEST JOKE
• THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DON’T WANT TO BE ENTERTAINED
• TELL ME WHAT GOD HAS BEEN SAYING TO YOU ALL WEEK
• BREAK THE BREAD
• PREACHERS MUST BE READY TO BREAK THE BREAD
• SAMUEL COMES TO BETHLEHEM
• BECAUSE WITHOUT A PREACHER IT IS A BREAD ONLY PLACE
• BUT WHEN YOU GET A PREACHER YOU CAN HAVE MORE THAN BREAD
• YOU CAN HAVE THE BREAD OF LIFE
• SO I SAMUEL 16 BEGINS TO TEACH US SOME THINGS
• IT TELLS US WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN GOD IS ON THE MOVE
• VERSE 1
• SAUL REPRESENTED A SYSTEM THAT SAMUEL WAS EMOTIONALLY AND SPIRITUALLY ATTACHED TO
• SAUL AND SAMUEL HAD HISTORY
o BY THE WORD OF THE LORD SAMUEL ANOINTED SAUL KING
o BY THE WORD OF THE LORD SAMUEL WARNED SAUL
o BY THE WORD OF THE LORD SAMUEL JUDGED SAUL
• NOW SAMUEL IS SO INVESTED THAT HE MOURNS FOR SAUL EVEN THOUGH GOD IS THROUGH WITH SAUL
• SAULS DISOBEDIENCE WAS ENOUGH
• GOD REGRETTED MAKING HIM KING
• GOD WAS DONE, BUT SAMUEL WAS NOT READY TO MOVE ON
• GOD HAD MOVED PAST SAUL, PAST THE SYSTEM
• 1. WHEN GOD IS ON THE MOVE, HE REQUIRES REDIRECTION
• GOD ALWAYS REQUIRES REDIRECTION
• BUT GOD PROVIDES REDIRECTION BY REJECTION
o REPEAT
• SAMUEL COMES TO BETHLEHEM TO ANNOUNCE THAT GOD IS ON THE MOVE
• TOUCH SOMEONE AND SAY “GOD IS ON THE MOVE”
• TELL THEM “GOD IS DOING A NEW THING”
• TELL THEM “IT’S TIME TO MOVE ON”
• BUT INSTEAD OF MOVING, SAMUEL IS MOURNING
• THERE ARE TWO KIND OF FOLKS IN CHURCH
o 1. FOLKS THAT ARE MOURNING
o 2. FOLKS THAT ARE MOVING
• THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO SPEND ALL THEIR TIME MOURNING THE PAST
• AND WILL MISS GOD’S MOVE TO THE FUTURE
• WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION
o MOURN OR MOVE
• SAMUEL LEARNS THAT WITHOUT REJECTION THERE CAN BE NO REDIRECTION FOR A NEW ANOINTING
• REJECTION IS NOT PERSONAL
o IT’S SPIRITUAL
• REJECTION IS USED TO PUT YOU WHERE YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE FIRST PLACE
• JESUS WAS REJECTED OF MEN
• THE REJECTION WAS A SET UP FOR THE RESURRECTION
• IF YOU HAVE BEEN REJECTED, GET READY FOR THE RESURRECTION
o GOD’S GONNA RAISE YOU UP
• THANK GOD FOR ALL THE REJECTIONS
• MY REJECTIONS WERE A SET UP FOR MY BLESSINGS
• IF GOD IS THOUGH WITH IT
o WE NEED TO BE THROUGH WITH IT
• GOD IS MOVING AND YOU NEED TO MOVE WITH GOD AND WITH THOSE WHO ARE MOVING WITH GOD
• THE GOOD OLD DAYS WERE GONE
• SAMUEL HAD TO MAKE A DECISION
o AM I GONNA STICK WITH THIS
o OR MOVE WITH GOD
• TELL STORY OF PREACHER WITH GROWING CHURCH
o PULPIT = GRAMPA PREACHING
o CHAIR = DADDY PRAYING
o POST = PLACE SAVED
o SIS SAID, GIVE THE BROTHER THE POST AND LETS MOVE WITH THE PROJECT.
• SOMETIMES WE GOTTA GIVE THEM THE POST AND MOVE ON
• MOVE WHEN GOD SAYS MOVE
• REDIRECTION REQUIRES REJECTION
• 2. GOD CHANGES HOW WE ARE DOING CHURCH
• SAMUEL SAID THEY WILL KILL ME
o THE PAST SYSTEM
o SAUL
• GOD TOLD SAMUEL TO TAKE A HEFER WITH HIM
o A RED HEFER
o MARQUIS SACRIFICE
o TOTAL ASH SACRIFICE
• TO FACE THE FORMER THING YOU MUST SACRIFICE YOUR LIFE TO GO TO THE NEXT LEVEL
• NOTHING CHANGES WITHOUT SACRIFICE
• GOD HAS SOMETHING BETTER THAN WHAT WE ARE HANGING ON TO
• FOR GOD TO MOVE US WE HAVE TO GIVE UP SOMETHING
• MAYBE SOME TRADITIONS WE HAVE HELD ON TO
• MAYBE SOME PENTECOSTAL PLITICS WE NEED TO GET RID OF
• MAYBE SOME AGENDAS WE ARE GONNA HAVE TO RIP UP
• GOD IS ON THE MOVE
• OUR FAITH IS ROOTED IN SACRIFICE
• AT CALVARY GOD WAS WILLING TO GIVE UP HIS BEST TO MAKE A CHANGE
• WE CANNOT CHANGE UNTIL WER ARE READY TO SACRIFICE
• GOD REQUIRES REDIRECTION
• GOD CHANGES THE WAY WE DO CHURCH
• 3.GOD CHOOSES WHOM HE PLEASES
• AMUEL ARRIVES IN BETHLEHEM
• LOOKS AT THE 7 BOYS, BUT THE OIL WOULDN’T FLOW
• GOD LOOKS ON THE INWARD HEART
• GOD SETS THE CRITERIA FOR THE CALL
• GOD WILL PROMOTE FOLKS YOU DON’T LIKE
• GOD WILL ANOINT PEOPLE YOU CAN’T STAND
• GOD WILL BLESS PEOPLE YOU’VE BEEN ROLLING YOUR EYES AT
• BUT GOD CHOOSES WHO HE WILL
• HE QUALIFIES THOSE THAT HE CALLS
• GOD MAKES
o MURDERERS INTO LEADERS
o ADULTERERS INTO KINGS
o CUPBEARERS INTO GOVENORS
o EXILES INTO HEROS
o PERSECUTERS INTO PREACHERS
• GOD WANTS YOU TO MOVE
o LOST TO SAVED
o JUST SAVED TO SANCTIFIED
o SANCTIFIED TO BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY GHOST
• GOD IS ON THE MOVE
• ARE YOU GONNA MOURN OR MOVE
• COME TODAY
