WORSHIPPING THE MOST HIGH AGAIN PART 2!!!!

Psalm chapter 95







Today we are walking in: Worshipping The Most High Again PART 3!!!!










Today we look to the word-IDOL- H457 'eliyl --of nought, good for nothing, worthless; of false gods








The Torah testifies...............






Leviticus 26:1




Ye shall make you no idols H457 nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.









The prophets proclaim..................








Isaiah 31:7




For in that day every man shall cast away his idols H457 of silver, and his idols H457 of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.











The writings bear witness...........................






Psalm 96:5




For all the gods of the nations are idols: H457 but the LORD made the heavens.







Dear children keep yourselves from idols! Do what? Keep yourselves--how do you stay away from them?? In other words they are always creeping up, creeping in and you have to do something all the time. You have to keep watching them because they will creep in. That's why, one day you'll have a great experience with the Most High and the next day it is like He is not there because something has become more worthy. Some of your worship experiences are like that. People use a template and say, you know but you didn't sing right or you know the musicians didn't have the right spirit or you know this person didn't do whatever. The point is you have to keep checking, monitoring, not what you're doing but who you're doing it to. That is key! Because here you are trying to learn the words of the song, for example. You don't know the words to the song so now you're already distracted because you have to concentrate on the words of the song. So you can't really sing to the one who the song is about because you don't even know the song yet. So you see how there is still a struggle, already in worship. Being on one accord will attract the attention of the Most High! In other words, everybody is on the same page! You know you sing a solo, that's supposed to be your personal song to The Most High! Most of the time our solos are a performance for the people so--the Most High still doesn't show up. Why do we rehearse is a good question to ask yourself. Maybe you need to go do some thinking about why you rehearse. You could rehearse because you are more concerned about what the people think than about presenting quality to the Most High. So now your song has become an idol. Your performance has become your idol. Therefore the means has taken over the end again. But you have to keep yourself from that stuff!!! How do you dress when you come to lead worship can become an idol--you become more concerned about your hairdo than the One who made the hair!! Imagine coming in late because you were more concerned about how you looked than about being on time for the Most High. In the book of Exodus are very interesting details, you have to be careful, the Most High told Moses, to tell the people tomorrow at 3 o'clock--I will meet them at this particular mountain, put a barricade around. He tells them to come at 3 o clock. Wash--He tells them how to wash themselves. He tells them where to stand to meet Him.

The Most High gives them many details-- imagine being late for an appointment to worship the Most High, because you found something more worthy. It happens all the time. 1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

He says Exodus 20:3 (KJV)Thou shalt have no other gods before me. This is very interesting. The first commandment is a jealous commandment. You can understand why. The word Yah is not just a title. What does the title Yah mean? First it means self-sustaining one. Secondly the word Yah means self-sufficient one. Thirdly the word Yah means he who is. Fourthly, the word Yah means he who sustains. What a word, every time you use the word Yah--you are saying that whole list of things!

Read this first command again, what does it say? He says you shall give no one else credit for creating and sustaining everything. Do you see why He starts there? Look at everything that exists--don't give the credit to anything else! That is what that verse means. You shall not have no one else identified as the source of all things! If you do that, He says you've broken the first commandment of life!

Let’s look at the next commandment --Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

In other words, don't you put more worth on anything I created then you put on Me!! What does the word Yah mean? The one who sustains--imagine abandoning your sustenance to find sustenance!! We do it all the time.
Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy Yah am a jealous Yah, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Pause right there, can you conceive of you hating the Most High? He says the way you prove that you hate Him, is by putting worth on anything else including your song to me. That's a horrible word hate. Can you see you hating the Most High?? Come on we love Him!! He said anything that is more worthy, than me can cause you to hate Me. Do you know what is called the first commandment in the law?

Yahusha said it--a man came to Maschiach with a question. Matthew 22:36-38 26 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Yahusha said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy Yah with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment.

That's it--with all of you!! In other words you have nothing left for anything else! Love Him with your heart, your mind, your soul, your strength, if you do that there isn’t anything left for no one else! Yahusha said that's the first commandment--don't let anything come between you and the Most High! Even your worship of the Most High! He says, I will curse your children if you make your car, your spouse, your job or your song more important than Me! I think we can confuse spending time together talking about the Most High with worshiping Him. We confuse the two because we say well you know we had spent time together today in singing and dancing and clapping and quoting scriptures. Because it is an end in itself, we had a good time. Nevermind, what the Most High had. So we had a good time and the process satisfied us--we checked off all the boxes. Yet what consideration was there for and to the Most High?

Creation versus the creator, this is the challenge--I want you to get this foundation because if we don't understand this we won’t keep worshiping, worship!! It's tough spending hours trying to find the Most High and can’t find Him. David says Psalm 63:1 O Yah, thou art my Yah; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; Are you tired of not having the Most High? Have you got enough of being in His absence, presence?

That is what this teaching is about, not about the songs you write or the songs that you sing. It's whether we are singing to Him--whether the songs are for Him. Not to make you famous! There is this balance, a thin line. Why do you write a song? You have to ask yourself a question.

Now let’s look at Pharaoh--when the creation becomes more important than the Creator, the result is misplaced worship. This is the creation of idolatry. When what the creation becomes more important than the Creator, then the worship is misplaced.

Point number two, the greatest temptation in human experience is the elevation of, the distraction by and the preoccupation with the creation more than the Creator. That's our greatest experience problem as humans. Let me say this to you, do not feel bad, because this is not new. You know when the Most High told the children of Israel, I am going to take you out of Egypt and I will bless you and I will take you to a land filled with milk and honey in other words, I'm going to give you a good life!! Milk represents cattle and honey represents fruits--a land with agriculture and fantastic capital. In those days wealth was measured by the stock or number of cattle you had. He said I'm going to make you wealthy, prosperous and rich! Watch the Most High now--listen He says when you become rich--do not forget the Most High, your Yah. Why did He put that sentence in? Because there's this battle between the creation and the Creator. You prayed for the Most High to give you a job, then you suddenly stopped worshiping and praying. The Most High says, I gave you the job but now you won’t worship? So you don't read the Bible anymore---you got to go to this job the Most High gave you?! He is saying wait a minute, I'm going to bless you with the job but when thou have the job do not forget Me!

Write this down please, the value of all things are summed up by the manufacturer of the thing. I am going to say that again, the value of all things are summed up by the manufacturer of the thing. This is a very interesting statement, when I understood this I trembled a little bit. Everything that exists, its value is in the manufacturer. How many ever bought a product, an excellent product and then when it went bad you tried to contact the company who made it and the response was that company went out of business? Have you ever had the problem? How did you feel? First, you felt abandoned. You felt helpless and you were stuck with something that is worth-less. The value of a thing is summed up in the manufacturer of the thing. In other words, everything that exists is as valuable as the source that made it. If that source pulls back on that thing it loses its value making it worthless. I think when you go to buy something, that it costs very much, you should ask the question how long has this company been in business and how strong is this company? Why? You are about to invest a lot of money and you don't want a company closing up on you in two years of making your purchase because you're stuck with a product that can't be fixed!

How many of you got a computer right now, that they say we don't make parts for it anymore? That computer is no good to me. Why? The company closed down--you can't find the people!

What you are left with is worth-less! I'm saying this for a reason, you and I better worship the Most High, because if we don't worship the Most High whatever we worship will cease being sustained by Him! And what you will end up with is a worth less idol. He says your idols have

no eyes they cannot see. The Most High laughed at us, Psalm 115:5-7 5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: 6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: 7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. In other words whatever they do I, the Most High have to do it for them, and you forget me?!?

Write this down, the source is more important than the resource. I am going to say that again, the source is more important than the resource! We should never preoccupy ourselves with the resource at the expense of the source! We must constantly acknowledge the source and thank the source for the resource! What I'm going to teach you is this--worship is not supposed to be something you struggle to do! The reason why we don't worship and even praise the Most High is because we don't connect the source and the resource. What we do is we try to manipulate the source at different times. We have what we call cheerleaders in the church--a cheerleader is a worship leader. What do worship teams do? They've been raised up to force people to praise the Most High. That is because people come without a song, without a hymn, without a tone, without a praise upon their lips! Paul says when you come, there's something Paul discovered that generated a song before the meeting started! If you come without worship or praise already on your tongue--you are an idol worshiper. The reason why you are having so much difficulty even lifting your hands or singing even when the cheerleaders are trying hard to get you to do it. I have seen the cheerleaders sometimes they are tired and struggling--trying to get you to raise your hand to say hallelujah. You should never have to be told to say hallelujah! The reason why is because you haven't connected the source yet to the resource! Because when that connection takes place you sing all the time you praise all the time--His praise will continually be in your mouth! The only way for that to happen is if you have this consciousness that

everything you are, have, ever will have or possess is His! It cannot happen until that thing connects! Praise should be a natural result of the awareness of the source, of the resource--that you have. Hallelujah!!! You have not connected the Most High Yah to the clothes you are wearing! That's why you don't sing--you put on clothes as a matter--you should have been singing when you first saw the clothes hanging in the closet. Thank you the Most High for these clothes that You gave me! Not only that but the wool from the sheep that made the clothes came from You!! It is supposed to be natural--Most High, look at what You gave me--every element of the cloth, thread, buttons, zippers were all supplied by You Most High to make this for me! What I am about to put on my body is from your sheep! How dare you not thank the Most High for your clothes right now!!! This is what He has provided to cover you! We have to realize that He is our source and understanding that, makes Him worth-y! And so you lift your hands and you say thank you for these clothes! But you don't connect the two. You think that your money bought these clothes with money from your job that you work, from your boss, from your company! So you come with the clothes--then the cheerleaders have to wear themselves out for 30 or 40 minutes trying to get you to lift your hand and open your mouth to give the source thanks!

Because you don't connect the clothes. When you come together, Paul says, each one comes with a hymn and a song and a spiritual song. The parking-lot is supposed to be full of noise--people just making their way to the door and there's the sound in the parking lot--these people already connected the car! The oil that the cars made from, came from the mountain that He created!! And the oil came from the ground that made the gasoline and the rubber came from the tree that He made! Now you know this car isn’t mine thank You the Most High!!!

See you wouldn't need no one to encourage you!!! But you have to connect that car to the source!!! How much does your car cost? This is where we miss it, thank the Most High once--that's the problem. Every time we get into that car forget not His benefits!! Thank Him every time you sit in that vehicle! That is acknowledging the worth-ship of the Most High!! Worth-ship, write this down. When we acknowledge the source--worship begins! Acknowledgement of the source is the beginning of worship.

Write this down please, worship begins with acknowledgement! Until you acknowledge, you cannot worship. When you acknowledge the source--worship has started! Singing is not worship. Clapping is not worship. See clapping is supposed to be a natural behavior as a result of realizing something else. It is supposed to be natural from something that you discovered! That's why I started this teaching saying you cannot worship, beyond what you know!

Worship should be on which you know--only what you know about the Most High, will determine how much you worship Him! You cannot worship beyond your knowledge, write it down. I don't care how deep you think you are, this is why the Most High will allow you to go through difficulties not to hurt you but to keep introducing Himself to you at different levels through different ways. So He allows you to go through a lot of difficulty so you can have more material to worship with! When David writes a song it's not for entertainment!! Read the Psalms, all of David's songs come out of an experience with the Most High! He said I killed that lion--the Most High gave me the ability to kill the lion! So David started celebrating the sources’ credibility for the experience! He wrote a psalm. Psalm 48:1-2 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for the situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. Psalm 61:3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. He says, I was saved, why? I was in trouble, on the run I experienced His name--shield and buckler. The Most High, takes you through experiences to introduce himself to you, so you could have more material to give Him more worth-ship! The bigger the situation the Most High brings you through, the more value you put on Him! That's why you cannot worship beyond what you know about the Most High. You can't invent things about the Most High--it has to be an encounter. You have heard people say, if you knew Him like I know Him then you would praise Him like I praise Him!! In other words you can praise at this level because you have not been at this level of problems yet and they're right. You cannot call the Most High, deliverer if you never needed deliverance! So He's not worth that to you. That's why you can sing a song that someone has written and it doesn't become worship because you are singing someone else's testimony in that book or that hymnal and it doesn't connect to you.

You have to lose something to sing that song! Come on somebody!! You have to lose something to say Amazing Grace, I lost my house and I am still here. Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound but if you have never lost nothing, it's just a song and it becomes a means to going through a service. Am I making sense? The value of your God, the Most High is determined by your knowledge of your God, the Most High--you cannot worship beyond your knowledge of the God you worship! That's why you can't worship idols--because they can't see. So you can't say what

the idols saw for me. So I thank the idol for seeing. So you cannot really worship, that's why the Most High is angry. Because you are putting false value on something that doesn't perform. I love what the Most High told Elijah. He said tell them to bring all their gods! Build an altar one for them and build one for me too. Now put plenty of water on mine. Why? I'm going to show you that their gods cannot perform!! Have you found one thing to thank Him for?? The problem with worshipers is we forget His benefits. That is when people sit back and say, There is no spirit in this service. I don't feel the anointing--let me tell you the problem!! It is not the Most High! He is there but you forgot where, He bought you from! You don't understand so I am going to help you. You know what you used to be, do, drink, smoke, sleep with, hang out with! But David says bless the Lord!! Who was he talking to? Himself! Oh my soul and do not forget His benefits Why? Because He has done something for me!! He healeth my diseases, who crowned me with loving-kindness! Your worship has to come from your experience! Write this down, the Most High demands worship when I read this is amazing! He calls every man to him to worship Him The Most High calls 6.7 billion people today to worship Him only, in Exodus chapter 8 verse 1-2 And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me. And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

Now he has a threat from the Most High now--listen to me this is heavy. Look at the word Lord, how does it look in your Bible in all capitals you see. That's the way I got it right from the Scriptures the word Lord here means owner. Read the verse again and put the word owner in--the one who owns everything. The owner says to Moses go and tell Pharaoh, I own him too right, tell him this is what the owner says, let’s stop right there, the owner of everything including Egypt says I want the people to come and acknowledge where everything comes from. Are you listening to me? Do you understand what I just said? It's a powerful command! He said look, whatever they are doing in Egypt--they are not given me credit. The problem is that Pharaoh, you have called yourself God and now you have these people who are believing that you are providing for them. He said to the people, how did they get to Egypt? They got to Egypt because of the famine. He said they were starving and they went to Egypt and I fed them. Now they think that Egypt is their source, they have forgotten Me! Watch what he's going to touch--He touches everything that affects the economy. Pharaoh, if you don't let them go by yourself, I am going to destroy what they think is their source! Do you understand? First I'm going to send you some locusts, they will eat up all the crop then I'll turn the water into blood that means nothing will grow. Then I will send flies. They’re going to finish off all the rotten and ruined crops. Then I'll send death, kill all the first born boys, who's supposed to be the strength family to plant the crops back. Are you ready to let them go now? Do you know what Pharaoh's response was at the end of the whole thing? Go serve your Yah. Pharaoh gave up. Whenever the Most High calls you, He's calling you out to worship Him. What is worship, to acknowledge Him as the source. He’s got to remind you--there's some things that you are not acknowledging me in. Come on nothing can make you worship the Most High faster than the hospital bed!

All of a sudden you want the Most High! He says look don't let me send the files from Egypt, to come and get you. Now what I have done--I am doing and what you know I could do for you and start thanking me now, worship.
Exodus 4:22-23 22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn: 23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn. Is the Most High rough? Anything that competes with Him for credibility is doomed!!

Worshipping the Most High, again simply means going back to acknowledging Him as the source of everything and that nothing you do for Him is more important than Him--including your worship!

It's very rare that you really sang a song. We sing through songs. We don't really sing the song. Oh Lord, the Most High, you are beautiful I believe it's a tough song to sing if you never saw His beauty am I right? That's like singing about someone you never saw! We sing it but it doesn't connect because it's just words to us, so I want you to stop for a minute and think about a place where you saw his beauty. How about when you were at the point where you just about to give up and he brought in someone or something that saved you from something, and you said what a beautiful solution. That's the beauty of the Most High! Now you can sing that song!! But it's not a song if you don't know that experience, you cannot sing it to Him. So you simply sing it about him.

How many of you heard the voice of the Most High, today? Did you hear something that He said to you? Did He rebuke you? I believe the Most High made the Ark of the Covenant dark so the priests couldn't see anything else. I believe the Most High made the Holies of Holies the darkest room was on the earth. It was covered with badger skin, goat skin, cow skin--all these. It was so dark the only thing that lit that room was Shekinah glory and that was the heart of the worship experience! I believe that's why the Most High sometimes shut all the lights off in your life so you think it's dark. What He's doing is trying to become personal. Anybody been through a dark period--where nobody could help you. I mean you are laying in a hospital, the doctor says it's all through your body and we hope you make it. I don't care how much light in that room--it's dark. You know it's very easy to worship but in order to worship,you have to go backward first! I hope you get it!

You cannot genuinely worship the Most High, until you go back and remember His benefits. Remember when you rented and now you own a house! You used to catch the bus and now you have your own car! The Most High says to us, I have provided all of this for you and you are still trying to find a reason to worship? Having the worship team pump you up so that you can say bless the Most High. Has your soul forgotten all the benefits?

He who heals your diseases? Who satisfies your mouth with good things? I too just like you have to remember--I know people get tired of me talking about where I came from, but let me tell you something that's the source of my worship!

We should every day give Him thanks and praise for where He has brought you from!! Let us not forget the benefits of the Most High! Anybody remember any benefits that you got from the Most High??