Those Who Tremble at His Word, Part 3

Let's look at verse seven. Since the days of our fathers, have we been great trespass on this day, and for our iniquities have we and our kings and our priests been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands we been delivered to the sword meeting war to captivity and to a spoil and confusion of faith as it is this. That's why were in place.

We are right now, first aid and now for a little space.

Grace has been shown from the Lord our God to leave us a remnant to escape and to give us a nail in his holy place that our God may like their eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage, for we are body men. Yet God has not forsaken us in our bondage but has extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia to give us a reviving to set up the house of our God and to repair the desolation. Is there nothing to give us the wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. So Ezra spray anything in God.

I know that since the days of our fathers, we have continually one after another thought into captivity. All these hundreds of years and centuries. Over and over again you've allowed us to go into captivity because of our great tribe against us because even arcane pre-Jane the three have committed these trespasses. That's why we been allowed to be delivered to get it again the captivity why we bid in the 70 year stretch now for a little space you have shown this grace and allowed just a remnant to escape out of this captivity and bondage that we can go back to Jerusalem and rebuild your house a little space of grace. Oh, that God will give America a little space of grace. I believe that after 9/11, God gave this nation has space for a lot of people, or God minded like they hadn't been in a long time, and for the first time in years. Churches were filled on Sunday mornings and people were God conscious and people were trying to get close to God and return to the old landmarks.

Amen that they had removed and like I preach last week. Get rid of the double standard. Amen in the bag and the weights that were deceptive. But you know what it's almost 20 years later, and America's more we get than she's ever been a net people forgotten all about 9/11. Do you know that sometimes one social media at 9/11 anniversary when they post pictures of the two towers with the fire and the smoke that some social media cover-up states to violent should be shown how deceived, can you be, we need to see it. We need to remember.

Amen. Lord, that you would give us a little space of grace and what he say that you would give us all reviving not to bring you giving us a space of grace, that we could have a nail in your holy place. When does that mean a nail in his holy place is a figure of speech. That means that we could go back and build the house of God. You've given us a space of grace and you've allowed a remnant to escape because King Cyrus did not dismiss every last Israelite only a group and really people don't realize, I think it was like 500 years before they all went back over us. Of time Ezra led some and then 13 years later Maia led some amen but he was saying you've given us a space of grace and you've allowed a remnant to escape this bondage that we could go back and build the house of God and what he say he said you had enlightened our eyes all my God that the church would have a revival that God would enlighten our eyes open our eyes to fit the size of our spiritual understanding would be enlightened that we would see as God sees. Hadn't see all the way to feed himself.

Don't care what the politician says, what does God say about America.

I don't care what this one says and that was what about the condition of the church that we see in the store with me. Start with me, Lord, open my eyes. Let me see my own condition, heart you shine the light of conviction into it every corner, in every cranny. Amen.

That God would call the people to tremble at his word.

I people that would be ashamed of the sins of America/at their sins and the people that would say Lord give us a space of grace revive us and open our eyes and so this is the prayer that he said and he went on to say and I'll paraphrase now. He said, and what am I going to say. After all this, we have forsaken your commandments you told us not to intermingle with the people and not to intermingle with their filthy abominations, but we didn't listen we didn't listen.

We rebelled and we disobeyed and then he said now all this is come upon us for our trespasses and our iniquities, I just paraphrase 10 through 14 Ella 315 O Lord God of Israel.

You are righteous, for we remain, yet escape as it is this day. Behold, we are before the in our trespasses, for we cannot stand before you. Because of this I hope you see the picture as rest and he felt so much of the guilt of the nation. It was so great that it was hard for him to even request the God have mercy to the point that he could not even lift up his face to head but all he could do was lift up his hands in surrender as he interceded on behalf of the people and I want you to notice something very striking throughout his entire prayer of intercession.

He said our iniquities, our trespasses, we have forsaken your commandments we cannot stand before you. Because of this throne was a godly man. Ezra was one of the few that was true and faithful to God who Is commandments. But in his prayer session just called God. They are so wicked and I have done and he said we we because in a way this is a mark of true repentance, humility and contrition, and because it is very real sense, the righteous, and now bringing up today. The church would be not because we made the abominations we have not stood against them strongly enough. We haven't stood against them. We we were against him.

We don't believe in it. We believe in all this stuff. We don't believe in same-sex marriage but in 2015, it became legalized. We don't believe in abortion but not only has it been the law of the land since 1973.

In recent years it's been amped up to late-term abortion and now this one past year. It's amped up to the time of birth, and now the next thing that they had already said in some states for some reason the baby survives the abortion. You can kill them. You can let him die where I have read where one doctor breaks their neck so they'll die. No, no we think it's horrid.

We think it's abominable. It's barbaric, it's atrocious, but we have not stood up strongly enough against it for what happened. Same-sex marriage would've never been put through in 2015. It would not of going through except the administration put in very liberal judges put two very liberal judges in and those two new judges, both of whom were women.

And it's the women they're saying it's not right. They made the court swayed it that way. It was very close. It was 544. It in for against, but those two new judges made to go that 54, same-sex marriage, amen. It's because of liberal administration put in there by voters and you get quiet and you cannot like what I say I'm quoting fax go Google it. See the names of the judges that voted for same-sex marriage look up their names and you will find when they were put in office. Amen and how they voted and let all the tremble at the word of God say amen. So when he prayed, he prayed in such a way that he said we we have not called out against sins of the people we have not called out the sins of the ministry. We haven't called out against it, that he was a Levite. He had some authority did he ever speak up. We don't know we don't know if he said what you priests doing marrying these pagan women we don't know but we know that he included himself. We have taken your commandments and that's what many in the church have done. They have forsaken the commandments of God for the popularity of people not wanting when sending some of the people in their congregation look at things differently. We all were entitled to our opinions but were not entitled to change the commandments of God. That's not up for opinion. Amen we have to stand up against it and we have not or have not progressed to this point.

Isaiah 58 one says cry aloud and spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet. People world people their transgression and their sins. We can show the people their sins that don't know the word of God.

We got now really to generations that are grown-up without the Bible and without prayer, so they don't really know. Amen. And they only know what they've been told and they been told that God is a mean God hates people and will judge people. They even jaywalking is going to be all over them or they been told he has so much love he loves you so much. It doesn't matter what you do because he loves you and both of those are polar opposites in the truth of God is balanced. God is love. But he also was a God of justice. And he hates iniquity. He will judge iniquity.

Amen. And so we see here that Ezra cried out, and when he did this. Now he's got all these people around him and these are the people the tremble at the word of God.

Amen.

They tremble at the word of God and so now he's finished telling them all this and what happened, what was the result of his intercession. Look at chapter 10 verse one now when Ezra had prayed and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God there assembled on the him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children for the people wept very sore. What a picture, a great number of people, not just the men but the men, the women and the children and shepherd. Now I am the son of Jackie L.

One of the sons of Eland answered and set on the Ezra we have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land but yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and such as are born of them according to the Council of my Lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God and let it be done according to the law.

According to the law of God, not the law of man.

So what happened after he prayed this some of the men came to him and now were talking about those who are in leadership came to him and said we have trespassed against God. We've taken strange wives we had married pagan women and we knew we were supposed to do it. We know so now let us make a covenant with God because we believe there is hope because of your intercession Ezra because of the way you just pray we believe there is hope that if we confess that we can make a new copy. When God divorced our wives put away means divorce and King James and we will divorced our wives and the children that we have had with them.

I know you're thinking some your thinkable what's not. The children, but you gotta understand first of all, it would be very cruel to separate the children from their mothers. Amen.

Especially in that time, women were the ones who cared for the children. I mean the fathers had very little doing with the training of the children on a daily basis. Amen. And so to separate the children from their mothers would've been a cruel thing it was going to be hard enough as it was, but they had to divorce their wives not tell you that was a huge change.

A huge change of heart and that was an extremely hard thing to do but and when did this great change of heart and conviction come upon them after Ezra prayed his prayer of intercession. Amen. I believe that the church will intercede America's behalf. If the church will intercede for the great transgressions of the church's backsliding not only the evil of America, the unsaved and the unchurched, but the charges backsliding. I believe God can send a spirit of paintball all whole until they come to a place of repentance I can tell you this much. It really won't happen if we don't we will not take place. We intercede amen and so they were ready they were ready they confess they were convicted.

Now we gotta do the right think you can just repent of your setting and then go back and still do it you can and then returned to the same lifestyle and was in a matter well. We will no longer have sex with them anymore, but was still live with them. We won't have sex with them and were no no no, the when we got the separate we have the divorce get the put them away because we don't want then to influence us with their paganism and their idolatry and their sin.

Amen we have to keep the holy seed, and the only way to have a holy seed is to get rid of the contaminate orders and the contaminated seed, you can't get all emotional thing, but I don't think that's right but I don't think that's fair. I don't like that. It doesn't matter if you think it's fair you're not God and God is looking at the big picture he's looking at having a holy seed that is looking at keeping that seat. Holy not until the day that he send his Messiah.

Amen. I'll paraphrase never sick a time a proclamation was sent out to all the towns in all the cities and all the people of Judah and Jerusalem. And they were told. You have three days to come and gather here in Jerusalem we are going to have a meeting and so they came. The people came but the particular day that they finally all gathered in.there was not trouble rainy day it was raining, as they say cats and dogs. And yet the people start out in the street before the house of God. They sat there in the rain and listen to Ezra talk to them and tell them you have transgressed taken a strange wives and you've increase the trespass of Israel before our God and he called upon them is to do a broadsheet judgment upon us for your sin. Now, confess your sins to God and then separate yourselves, he said two things from the people of the land and from your wives, your strange wives. Another words, stop your assimilation. All of your socializing and fraternizing with the people of the land you're in the land but you're not of the land you're in the land but you're not of the people of the land like Jesus said your but you're not of the world so that was number one. Stop all your fraternizing with the wicked people of the land for their abominations are filthy. Number two. I know this is going to be harder than number one, but you must divorce your wives put them away and their children. And you know what all the congregation with the one loud voice said we must do but it was so many people, my goodness it was so mean that it can, it was so many on then Eddie was such terrible downpour of rain they said there is no way we can accomplish this here today. They decided everyone would go back to the uptown their own city, they would get an appointment with the elders and the judges of their cities and towns. They would come before that and they would divorce their wives and put them away with their children and this altogether took three months for this to be carried out three months and do you know that a great number of these men were priests were priests we wouldn't read on.

But if you just glance in your Bible from verse 18 and chapter 10 from verse 18, all the way to verse 43.

Look at all those names see all those names tons the names there. All priests and Levites and singers platform workers. There were so many of them amongst the people and the last verse says all these had taken strange wives and some of them had wives, by whom they had children. I will say this I like the fact when I read some because it indicates to me that there were a lot of children involved, ginseng and many had children said and some had children by these wives, so it indicates to me that it wasn't a great number of children why there wasn't a great number of children. I don't know. Maybe God first them with fairness, so they would have a lot of children because you know that was one thing that would happen to the wicked and the ungodly. Amen.

So today we have called for a day of fasting and prayer for the church at large churches around the country are doing this and were going to join with them that we will intercede for the sins and transgressions of a marathon, and for the sins of the church. So when we intercede. We can't just say all God America so we get. They are this and they are that I was going to go to Daniel but I would be too long-winded so I won't.

But if you read Daniel's prayer of intercession. It's the same thing. We have sinned, we have committed these sins in your sight. He says it like six or seven times in his intercessory prayer. Amen. Because we're all guilty because even if you haven't committed some of these sins. Truth be told, you stood up against them strongly that if you thought well I'm not getting into that or if you thought well I can't help it. I can't do nothing about it is what it is, God doesn't look at that way. Amen. So as we praying today. We need to include ourselves and folks.

Please understand this.

This is not about partisan politics. This has nothing to do with red states or blue states. This has to do with the sins of America. The abominations of the land in the sins of the church. Amen. It's about that. It's about the abomination of abortion, it's about the abomination of home homosexuality that's in the church to portions of the church to oh yes it is. I know people in the church about abortions.

These are the things we need to pray for. We need to repent of this we need to intercede and ask God to give a marathon space the brakes give the church a space.

The brakes give us revival in the church and I don't just mean that we can shout and get happy and feel good and get five I mean that the size of our spiritual understanding would be enlightened to be able to see the picture that God. Amen. I'm at a close with this Scripture. First Peter 417 and 18. For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God, and if it begins at what shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God, and if the righteous scarcely be saved. Where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear God says judgment begins at his house.

How many people you hear preaching that in pulpits. He said time is, it must begin at the house of God, God will judge America for her wickedness. He is charging America and we will see judgments increase as the wickedness increases. But he said it must begin at the house of God, and there are people in the church that are committing adultery and fornication and homosexuality there people in ministry that are in these things.

There are people in the church and in ministry that are on alcohol and drugs. This is a awful thing to say but there are pedophiles in the church and in the course of this church.

We had one or two in pedophilia now is is one of the greatest sins on the increase. With all this sex trafficking, snatching children. I've seen videos parents walking down the street with their child and someone tried to snatch them out of the parents hands urine Walmart with your child or grandchild, you must keep your eyes on your children. Don't be looking around here looking at why got to see what color I want to get you think.

But I've got them right here in the car sitting here, I doesn't matter, they watch you. They want you they see how attentive you are or aren't and when you turn away for that second base will be like the eagle swoops down and gets its prey, and off with your child, I'm telling you God is going to judge the church for her sins and for not standing up strongly enough against all these abominations. This is how we must pray, amen.

That's Stan, if we would together. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for your word because your word is forever settled in heaven. Your word is not a matter of man's opinion, but your word is your law which you have spoken and if we obey your word that it opens up the vista of blessings and you take the sender that promised land of flows with milk and honey in the spirit. For we know Lord that we live in a fallen world and we lived even in a nation that was founded to be a Christian nation on Christian and Judeo principles, but America has strayed far far far from the and these are now mocked and ridiculed and held against people that see this and people that seek higher office people that would be nominated to the Supreme Court child against that if there are Christian and yet we hear that there are those that if they have leadership. They will place in other religions like Muslims in every place in every part of administration, they'll put them in, and yet Christians are sanction for believing in Christianity. What a day. We have come to we have strayed far far from the foundation that you have given us in this nation of America. But if you give us a space of grace in your mercies and your long stop writing your loving says you will give usyou will run by your charts once again on your why they didn't cry this nation are thin, they are not standing up strongly against these abominations, then Lord God, we do repent we pray Lord that that would come to pass. We put all these things in your hands. Father God, you have the power to raise up you had the power to put down. You have the power login change can change the bowl you can change the lives of those that have been blinded for it will be… Blinded the glorious light of the father we pray Lord that you will revive us. You will start our hearts. What is the spirit of the homely conviction about the only good father we pray that you will do the same. You will do the same Lord is the charge intercede charges across joint and unity as we come together with one being the best price. The blood stained the brake jobs writing that was once delivered under the same as our prayer today. We pray that much good will come out of it. We pray for your anointing to be upon us, and even as you lead a personal interest for our own families and children and grandchildren and family members law and that you and that we would want that we would not abortion but that we would that we would not abort but we would mail until the birth we have in Jesus name Lord watching us start our hearts, that the word of God. Don't let the Holy Spirit deal with witness what is the word of the Lord in your Scriptures lane everywhere shall be established. We thank you for every real man and woman of God in ministry. We thank you for every real prophet or prophetess. We thank you for every real apostle teacher. We thank you for every real son go to HR every real one in the ministry of the body of Christ. We shield around them. The enemy and give them a greater anointing. We ask it all in Jesus