Mike Bickle emphasizes the necessity of delighting in God's beauty, particularly in times of conflict and distress, as exemplified by David in Psalm 27. He explains that experiencing God's beauty is not merely a luxury but essential for spiritual stability and strength, especially during life's challenges. Bickle encourages believers to engage with God's beauty through meditation, declaration, and community, highlighting that our words can transform our hearts and minds. He stresses that the beauty narrative is vital for overcoming fear, despair, and the trials of life, ultimately leading to a deeper relationship with God. The sermon concludes with a call to actively seek and share the beauty of God in our lives.

Okay, here's what we're going to do tonight instead of ministry time Because I love to have ministry time I'm gonna have a Q&A time and we won't always do that and you don't have to stay for it Obviously, but a bunch of you had questions at the end and like how does this work and that work? And so I want to do that on this first round because I don't want you mystified about The biggest thing I want to do is I want to demystify the process the where it's not like out of reach and impossible to Get that's one of my main goals So We'll have a little Q&A time for maybe 15 20 minutes at the end if you stay for it If you want we'll take a minute to break and so you can slip out of the room and fellowship out in the hallway So we can get right back to the Q&A time in here And I love it when people slip out in the hallway and talk and become friends. I love the Kingdom community friendship dimension So my goal isn't to keep everybody in the room But for those that are saying I please stop don't run out answer this question, please I get that because I was I was there once and and the preacher left and I went hey get back here. I got questions So I get that Father we thank you We Excuse me. I Wasn't saying excuse me to God he said I ain't got no problem Amen, okay He gets it he gets it Okay, number three the necessity of and the way to delight in the beauty of God I have a little repeat and there and but I'm not going to cover the repeat and the reason I like to put some repeat on notes because Notes get around in funny places through the internet and stuff and some guy far away reads this I want him to have a little context and my goal I my passion is that people would have this stuff because that's what we put it on the internet And I keep it in a word format so people can take the documents Right. I mean change them put their name on it Like I said put your mother's name on it do anything with you you want I want people to take this use it and make it theirs. That's my goal. And so that's why I like to have the some extra Know some extra ideas on some handouts because I know they're gonna go out there even though we just covered it in the last session Okay, let's look at Roman numeral two The necessity of the beauty of the Lord now we're going back to Psalm 27 Psalm 27 because you know, that's the this one thing I desire the beauty but I have found that there's a lot of folks who really love the verse This one thing I do all the days of my life Behold his beauty or one translation says I gaze on his beauty and other says behold his beauty look on his beauty study his beauty Encounter his beauty you can put any of one of those words in there and pretty much have the right meaning But what is surprising to some people is the context of which David wrote it He wrote it in a in a context of great conflict He was in his most severe conflict of his life When he wrote about the beauty and that really makes beauty Different it's not just something to enjoy which it is. That was my last session It is a matter of life and death to David to experience beauty. So let's let's look at the context he says in verse 2 when the wicked came against me and Though an army may camp against me. My heart shall not fear and here's why Because this one thing I do I'm engaged in the beauty narrative for my life I'm I'm my spirit is tenderized by seeing his beauty and my heart is Encouraged by knowing he has a plan to leave me in his beauty and to impart it in me That is what stabilized David. This is remarkable Because again in the midst of the of a great conflict look at paragraph 1 it wasn't a man It was an army coming against him An army was camping around him. It was a large group now the army That was the most Painful army that came against David that almost destroyed him was the great revolt at the end of his life By his son Absalom because when it was the other armies he defeated them He was not so troubled by those other armies, but here there was a revolt in his kingdom If I had to guess it doesn't tell us expressly, but we know that it's David in Jerusalem After he's defeated all the other armies because he has the tabernacle of David established So he's been king and he's defeated all the armies around him But there was one great army that would come against him yet in his future and that was his own son Absalom raised up a rebellion and many of David's friends and Companions betrayed him and turned against him. It was the most severe painful thing that I could imagine They wanted to destroy his life They wanted to destroy his reputation because they don't not only wanted to kill him Then they wanted to change the story about him to validate killing him so they were going to go on a smear campaign after his death to make themselves heroes and Rewrite the story of David's life in the history of the nation and their hour. They wanted to absolutely malign his reputation I want to put that in there because not very many of you have experienced somebody trying to kill you But you have experienced somebody trying to Malign your reputation and that's what was going on here. But then they wanted to take all of his possessions David was a very wealthy man. They wanted his position. They wanted his throne they wanted his position his possessions destroys rub his reputation and ultimately to kill him and This is a Again, it's it doesn't say Absalom in here, but we know it's an army that comes against David After the throne of I mean the Ark of the Covenant is in David's hands while he's King in Jerusalem and when you read the life of David he is in a String of victories against all the Gentile armies. It was his one son in that army That was the one that really had him in a tight squeeze. So I'm in my Opinion a strong opinion. It would have been Absalom. But again the greatest betrayal Revolt losing his family losing his position his reputation being maligned and David says I lean Into the beauty narrative as my way through this that is a huge point that I want you to connect with Because a lot of folks again, they just read this verse and they don't read the verses before and after it's all about trouble Psalm 27 Let's look at paragraph C Paragraph C Isaiah This is the verse we've talked about in the last session Isaiah 33 He prophesies in essence the truth that David just declared in Psalm 27 that in the time of great trouble The beauty of God would be the stability of the people of God Because Isaiah 33 is about the generation the Lord returns Now we know I mean when you read Isaiah 33 It doesn't describe the Antichrist and the mark of the beast then described the ten nation Confederation and the harlot Babylon you don't find out those things with those details So you read the book of Revelation, but Isaiah 33 is about that time of life and the Holy Spirit Knows what's going on in Isaiah 33 and here's the prophecy that the knowledge and it Meaning the knowledge of God then I'm adding the knowledge of God is the knowledge of his beauty. It's also the knowledge of his power But even his power is a demonstration of his beauty as well the knowledge of God the knowledge of his beauty Isaiah said this is in the generation the Lord returns will be the stability of your times That is a massive statement, this is what David was talking about in Psalm 27 He said it will be the strength of salvation it will be what makes your heart empowered It will be what causes you not to give up And then he goes on a few verses later 17 Isaiah says let me just say to you real clearly your eyes will see the beauty of the king It's the beauty narrative that's going to be the stability of the people of God in the greatest hour of difficulty Number one under sea it will be a time of escalating lust I mean already in the pornography world and the immorality that's a it's escalating So it's the whole sexual immorality narrative in the culture that everything is okay Everything is esteem you give this 10 or 20 years from now You you know let's just imagine the the six the six-year-olds are being indoctrinated in the gay agenda Because you can't stop them and they're in that they're learning everything a B and C every dimension because we can't we can't You know In any way be against nobody you give those six years old About 20 years in that environment and then where pornography is going to go to holograms virtual reality Augmented reality way beyond what it's going to give 20 more years to the civilization lust will be at a level We can't comprehend Right now already. It's at a level where I couldn't imagine 30 years ago describing. What's happening in 2017, but Lust will be at a level, but there's a strength. That's greater than lust Fear will be at a level Jesus said in Luke 21 verse 26 men will faint for fear all over the earth That's just fear will come over them the beauty narrative will be the rescue and stability Persecution, you know they will rise up against the church and the church will say are you kidding my life is filled with beauty a-to-z Here I am. I'm not afraid of death. This is my liberty. This is my Savior I step across the line and everything is I mean think of You know, I remember when I was a kid and Dorothy went around the corner and saw Oz. I remember I was about six I would oh like that will beloved. It's way beyond that when you step across that line Be the greatest moment of your life when you go like that and they say we're gonna kill you you say is that the best? You have are you kidding? You're going to liberate me into the world of indescribable beauty and that's your threat Are you gonna hit me a bunch of times before you kill me? I mean what I mean, what are you talking about here? my point being this beauty narrative is not a kind of a cool poetic peripheral it is Absolutely essential David found it essential in his life and Isaiah describes it as essential Paragraph to love will be so strong in people's hearts. They will have so much confidence in his leadership It will make sense no matter what they take from us. No matter what we resist no matter what we give up What no matter what we endure it's all worth it when you're anchored in the beauty narrative of your life No sacrifice will be seen as too great none whatsoever top of page two Now let's go back to King David again Psalm 145 Psalm 145 Is one of the most instructive Psalms I Mean one of the most detailed it's simple, but it's so one two three. It just brings it all together Instructive Psalms on how to engage with God and how to walk in victory over dark emotions I'm talking about despair lost fear and Probably the worst of all is the feeling of worthlessness I think that's probably the worst negative despairing feeling that there is I mean fears pretty bad Well, all of them are bad But the fear that are the feeling the that your life is irrelevant and it's going nowhere and means nothing is the most one of the most torturous Emotions a person could have and I'm guessing millions of believers live in that mindset And I and and we say and our our message to them is we have good news for you There's another narrative for your life, and it's real and but you grow into it little by little you don't it's not one day It's all there. It's progress. It's progressive. It's just one step at a time But anyway, it's Psalm 145 David puts together three very simple activities We can grow in beholding his beauty and we can grow in engaging in the beauty narrative in these three ways Meditating Blessing and declaring it's so simple. It's like It's like someone said that it's so simple anyone can do it, but it's so simple almost nobody does it Verse 5 David said I will meditate Look at he describes the beauty on the glorious splendor of your majesty my goodness what David was really? Elaborating he's taught. He's been met. He's been gazing on the beauty beholding the beauty all his life He goes all my days, and he goes I do this I lock into the beauty It's not just the beauty that he possesses in his person but it's the beauty that's even expressed in his leadership and his activities and Psalm 145 develops that it talks about his wondrous works as well as his beauty his person itself Then he goes on and he says something slightly different Verse 6 I'm not just gonna meditate. I'm gonna declare it. I'm gonna say it out loud This is this is absolutely essential To say it out loud Verse 10 and your saints are gonna bless you to bless the Lord means to say back to God What you admire about him to bless the Lord is the same as to praise the Lord And it doesn't just mean I praise you. I praise you. I praise you, but I mean that counts for sure I mean, that's real, but it's saying to God in a detailed way what you admire about his person and his leadership and Little phrases, it's just little phrases. We say back to him and when we bless him for who he is and what he does Something touches our heart and then verse 11. It says we will speak of the glory of your kingdom Okay, let's go paragraph 2 under this I've said this over and over but it I just want you to really get it the process of Transformation occurs little by little. I mean there's those moments Where you have a giant step, but most of them, you know, you know It's like the mother may I when you were a kid baby steps and giant steps. I forgot how the game really went but You have giant steps a little bit or giant steps But most of our progress is little steps and that's how it's meant to be that way We speak simple inspired thoughts back to God and what I mean by inspired thoughts we speak what we admire and Every now and then when we speak what we admire we feel inspired. It's simple It's little things like I love you for the way that you Touch my family in this way and one time you say that and you don't feel nothing the next time you say it you feel a little bit of inspiration on it and and what I have done over the years is that when I Feel inspired when I say something real simple to God. I write it down and I and I say it again Maybe the next day I have pages of things I've written down because when I said him I in prayer just little little just a little bit of inspiration on it just a little bit and I think hey this this is how the Spirit in me Communicate with the Father and the Son because I feel inspired It's like the Holy Spirit saying this is how you're made to connect with that phrase that phrase touches who you are So when I get inspired I talk to people about study how the anointing of God works in your life Because you have a tailor-made teacher in you called the Holy Spirit It tailor-made He will he will escort you along according to your personality your journey Your way and the way you do it you say little things and you feel inspired then you capture them Because when I capture I'm saying Holy Spirit, this is how you and me do good I mean This is how we connect When this is how you help me connect with the Father or the Son when I talk to them and he's and I imagine him You're getting it and it's this simple little thing called journaling when I talk to God just but I don't mean Pages and pages and pages sometimes it's pages, but mostly it's a phrase It's a sentence and I write it down and I keep it in a place and I go back and look at it And I'll say it again and the next time I may not feel nothing But I'll say it later and I'll feel something and I say hey, this is one that's got my name on it this phrase here Okay, let's look at him paragraph B first meditate When we meditate on God, this is the area the time where we're searching it out We're thinking deeply on who he is what he's done But it's when I say what he's done. I don't just mean in salvation history what he's done in science I mean in creation, so we study a little bit of science. I mean, I'm not a scientist I don't want to be a scientist, but I study a little bit about the stars I want to know about him and I want to know just a little bit I don't want to know all the stuff and beat somebody and you know Astronomy Jeopardy or something. I don't want to do that but I want to know a little bit about history a little bit about you know, I watched the The way you call it. I don't know what you call it But it's the animal kingdom stuff with the you know The Lions and the Bears, you know the National Geographic Channel because I want to see I'm gonna say Lord I want to get glimpses of what you're doing over there. This is bizarre What these guys are doing? I mean these animals these fish these plants I go. Why did you do this? What are you saying? And he's so extreme some of the answer that I get in my heart is I'm extravagant. I'm Creative I'm abundant. There's the limit and that's how I do everything, you know There's more fish in the sea and flowers on mountains that no human has ever seen Well, why did you make them because you you know, so much of what you did was to bless the human race because I'm creative I'm extravagant. I'm powerful and I I create that's what I do And when I see these different parts of creation again, just a little touches of science It's just little bits. It expands my my thoughts about God So the meditating is not just meditating only on Jesus died on the cross Of course, that's the ultimate in the most glorious imaginable, but I'm talking about just looking again with with real Informed observation around I spend time trying to search these things out a little bit again I don't want to be a scientist and a doctor and all those things But I want more information to make my heart wonder get filled with wonder and just go wow This is the beginning of the beginning of the beginning and you only have a little bit limited time with that But a lot of folks and they're limited time their little bandwidth they got they spend it on so many other things that don't create wonder in their heart and I want to put myself in the in the way of things that create wonder and Again, whether it's you know, I'm looking at animals or creation or history. They don't always create wonder But that's what I'm searching for all the time Meditating is searching it out You're thinking about it and you're studying it and you're looking everywhere that's point one studying searching noting thinking point one number two activity two After you've searched and you've noted and you've you've discovered information about creation Redemption history and again when I say history his leadership over all of history his leadership over Redemptive history his leadership over the history of your life the history of your friends the history of the end times the history of Eternity in the future history is all of those subjects And so I would that's why one reason I love the study of the end times isn't just so I understand it So I'm personally prepared. I want to be I want to have wonder in my heart Like Jesus you had a white a blank whiteboard when you created this hundred and fifty chapters storyline What kind of mind do you have that you created this storyline? You know the book of Revelation they talk about it It's the end time plan. I go really it's the man behind the plan That's the one that fascinates me who would have thought of that I look at you know the Antichrist is raised up, and he has a mark of the beast. Why did you let that happen? Who's this harlot Babylon? What on earth is all the nation surrounding Israel for Jesus talk to me about your beauty and your wisdom I mean searching out I just like to search out that not just because I might be in it and I need to be preparing preparing people That's obviously a reason as well. I want to prepare people, but I want to be lost in wonder at the man. I Read the book of Revelation Probably every Friday night. I must say it wrong, but some many years. I'd say five or ten years I don't really know how many it was, but I did every Friday night We had a Friday night prayer meeting that went for three hours on Friday nights And I always made a point to read the whole book of Revelation No, it didn't take that long, and I didn't read the book of Revelation at all for the end times action plan I didn't care about it to be honest in those years I read the book of Revelation to see majesty to see the man To see what he was like and I would just do it because it was the book called the revelation of Jesus That's what attracted me to revelation was the first sentence. It wasn't the plan at the end times like oh, that's cool You know whatever I truly I wasn't that interested in it I the man excited me and so when we study it out the meditating is the searching it out Beloved be learners be students search out matters And I don't mean the philosophical matters of why the left doesn't like the right and why the right doesn't like the left I don't I don't want to get super heavy into that stuff I want to search out things that create wonder in my heart for him because you only got a little bit of time and a little bit of bandwidth and In a minute a year will go by and in two minutes ten years will go by if you're 22 You're gonna sneeze twice, and you're gonna be 32 I Promise you Misty. Where'd Misty go is that right Misty? No, I told Misty there. She was back there in the sound booth when she was 19 years old I go to Misty you're gonna sneeze twice And I hops gonna be 10 and you're gonna sneeze another time and I hops gonna be 20 years old And you're gonna be 20 years older She looked at me big old eyes and thought I'm never gonna be 40 I know you're gonna be it's gonna. You're gonna be 20 years from now in a minute Was it only minute? I know you're not 40. You're only 12 you started. I hop when you're 9 minus 10 She was 10 years yet in her mother's room before she came She's only 12 right now. No, but buddy Remember how I used to tell all the young people and I hop that 18 years ago. I said in a minute It'll be 10 years. I always laugh and now they're all about 40 and they're going. Oh my god. It happened to me I promise you it's gonna happen to you and my point is People spend their days as though they're gonna be 22 for 50 years and in a minute You're 32 another minute. You're 42 and you can't ever get those hours back Beloved take your hours don't squander them and all the kind of the curiosity about You know, there's Jen still like Brad or maybe I'm old-fashioned or however that went way back when I saw that at the on the store I was like what? Anyway, don't go there, you know Put yourself in a whole nother place of wonder study Meditate think about it study it and then think about it related to God. So it creates wonder in your heart number two This is different than searching it out and relating it to God to look for wonder Actually say what you're grateful for What you have affection for and what you admire? Say it with your mouth back to God Very important a lot of people think it but they don't say it our delight grows when we say it that is an absolute true print your delight in the beauty of God and your insight in the beauty of God will increase if you will say it with your mouth to God and Again, you'll say little phrases write them down Write those phrases down and like the Holy Spirit led me in a way where this touch me your friend You'll say it and I go like okay, then do not to me because the Holy Spirit's a tailor-made teacher for you He knows again your personality your calling your future your past your pain your journey your mindset Your weakness is your strength and he tailor makes it for you. He will show it So nobody will bless you more or nobody will inspire you more than your own words My favorite Bible teacher by far is me And Your favorite Bible teacher by far is you I promise you it is It's 1st John 2 20 the anointing abides in you and I don't mean Bible teacher publicly I'm talking about when I talk to God I say things like oh that moved me and I just keep writing I go Lord And a lot of folks might say well, it never happens to me. Do you ever do it? I did it once no not once do it a thousand times before you give up on it and I tell you the Holy Spirit the anointing abides in you and your own Words when you read the Bible say things back to God when you read the Bible and you will inspire you Because the voice that impacts you though I'm kind of saying a tongue-in-cheek when I tongue-in-cheek when I say my favorite Bible teachers me Your favorite you what I'm really saying is the most influential voice to you is yours If you will say it, but you know what a lot of believers do they say the dark narrative They say with their mouth to themselves and to other people and it marks their heart and that's the most Influential voice is theirs and they don't they don't reckon with they don't add up how Empowerful their voices to their own spirit. Well, that doesn't mean anything Beloved you can talk yourself right out of despair and darkness and I know there's other components involved But your words have such a powerful Impact on the way you feel you change your words your mind follows your words and your emotions Follow your mind You feel dark and despairing you start talking that way to everybody Your mind will get more entrenched in darkness and your emotions will get entrenched in where your mind is You go the other way just say you know what? I'm gonna just turn things off turn things away. I'm gonna open my Bible I'm gonna start telling God I'm gonna read it and with something a phrase inspires me I'm gonna tell him The the way that I admire him in this the way the gratitude you start saying it all sudden You'll start seeing more your mind will be enlightened your emotions It won't happen in a minute little by little wolf. They will always follow your mind your emotions will they will follow your mind if in time and So you can change your mind your heart your mind and God will change your heart A lot of people try to grit their teeth and change their emotions You can't change what you say, then it will change what you think and then it will change what you feel Don't start with changing what you feel you can't make it happen that way and I won't a hundred percent start Just start with changing what you think that's connected with what you say start saying it start open your Bible And I'm reading it. I'm saying it. I'm saying it. I'm saying it I go I haven't thought about that in a long time and all of a sudden my mind starts lighting up beloved I'm telling you the way out of a dark way. It's so simple psalm 145 Blessing the Lord the reason why paragraph see the kingdom principle is when we say the truth about God the Holy Spirit moves That's the principle when you say the truth about God the Holy Spirit moves in Genesis 1 when Jesus spoke let there be light the spirit moved When Jesus laid his hands and healing healing When you when you pray for people the spirit does more even if you just mutter little phrases the spirit follows a declaration and It will happen in your own heart and and one of the things I'm most grateful for some Bible teachers way back When taught me this and I believed it and I started saying stuff to God and it started inspiring me I went wow, I'm gonna do this more and then I would write it down Because I wanted to remember it because I couldn't remember the next day I go I was really inspired yesterday, but I can't remember what I said I was real touched so touched. I can't remember then I look at my notes. I go. Oh, yeah, I remember and again I'll say it again that I didn't do nothing, but the day after it touches me again Activity number three Don't just bless God or say it to God say it to others And I don't mean trap your best friends and have a Bible study, you know, they're walking down the hallway and say I may be sensitive to it. But but so much of the dialogue of people Believers is outside of the vein of this and it's okay. Some of that dialogue is just normal every day There's small talk in life. That's real and there's having fun with one another and there is small talk But but we want in our relationships somewhere where we're saying what we admire about God But in specific ways not just I admire the sunset. Oh, that's cool too to say that but But the more specific you get The the more that it's not just a general statement and you're gonna find out that your delight in his beauty will grow And other people's delight and beauty will go but again, I'm not saying trap your friends and preach to them all the time But when we verbalize it our insight grows when we verbalize it our delight grows our heart gets realigned Like me teaching this course you're hearing this the person by far the most impacted tonight is me Because it's going through my system It's marking me more than you if you were talking and be marking you more than and you're listening But the person talking that's why I encourage the singers, you know in the prayer room or wherever prayer rooms I don't care who's in the room Three people are there Well number one of thousands of angels are there but the Holy Spirit will mark you don't worry how many people in the room? I say things to God all the time with no one in the room I want my spirit marked and if you say it, it will just little by little touch you When you verbalize it, it realigns your heart to God paragraph II CS Lewis said we delight to praise what we enjoy but he catches now we delight to praise what we enjoy Because the praise not merely Expresses our delight, but it completes it Let's say that again. We love to praise what we enjoy. That's why you know Somebody will go to a movie that really moves them They will go to some kind of event that really moves them They it's a sport event a family event, you know, I'm just been going I just been like out of control the last couple days because I took my son my grandson To the Jim Baker show on TV, and he's six years old He's so cute and they interviewed him and I'm just bothering all of IHOP telling them about my grandson I go Mike. This is like the eighth time you've told us I go. It's really eight Oh, I was only four and I go now you just stop stop telling us and because I love to tell tell that story Oh and then he said on TV Darling and he talked about Jesus. Okay, my god had got it. I don't care if they got it. I want to tell it again So it's not just or a Dramatic event or a play or a family or they witness something out in society good bad or ugly It touches him. They want to tell it they have to tell somebody You know, I I heard a joke my wife said don't ever tell jokes because you always mess them up Because I get touched by the punchline, but I forget the beginning how to get to the punchline I know the punchline got me, but I always forget how I got it, but it's like something like this is That there's a okay. Hang on a preacher Well for real Yeah, that's it. I got it. Okay, so the preacher he hears About you know his leadership team. They're skipping church. The elders are various times. They go play golf on Sunday morning He's just thinking hey, we all got when that body gathers We need to be here and you know I'd love to take go play golf on a Saturday morning on a Sunday morning and that it up So he calls in sick one Sunday and he's not being honest He goes clear on the other side of town and he's gonna just go play golf And so he gets out there on the whole of I'm not a golfer So I don't really get a lot of golf So he gets up there and he hits the ball and he hits a hole-in-one like 300 feet. Boom right in the hole You know, and then the joke goes that Peter looks over at Gabriel it didn't really work that way and says Why did you let him do that? And Gabriel says who's he gonna tell? So he's gonna be suffering all the time with this great story like There's nothing worse than having a great story you can't tell that's kind of the joke. Did you guys get the joke? Thank you. That was that wasn't horrible My wife always says don't tell jokes that's not your power alley. She goes be corny. You're okay corny It's sometimes bad, but it's okay, but not jokes. Don't do jokes. And so What's that Don't tell well, no, I actually told this one a year or two ago and she was sweating on the front row She was she was don't tell it a lot. Maybe every ten years Okay, okay Paragraph F, you know when we talk about Glorifying or magnifying God, you know because the scripture says magnify the Lord glorify the Lord some folks go Well, what does it mean to magnify the Lord? How do you glorify the Lord? How does that happen to magnify the I just wanted to give a kind of a real practical definition you magnify God Will you discern and delight in his beauty? That's what it means at the end of the day by treasuring Enjoying this I'm saying the same thing in different words Celebrating making much of who he is the way you make God big you magnify him by treasuring who he is enjoying who he is Celebrating who he is making a big deal in your heart or with others who he is That's how you bless the Lord and you do it by declaring it to others and by reflecting that truth in your life So if somebody says how do we glorify God that's a pretty long sentence here But because I gave you a bunch of words to say the same thing in a different way So you could get the feel of it and so magnifying God. We're discerning his beauty. We're treasuring and enjoying it We're declaring it to others reflecting that truth about God in our life That is how we magnify God because the scripture says over and over magnify the Lord and it's more than only Verbalizing it but it's actually celebrating the thing that touches you about him the thing that really you admire about him. I Love this phrase by John Piper Says God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him I mean what a great statement and that's how one way that I glorify God is by enjoying God that glorifies him It's like in the same with you when you enjoy him, it's like you're putting a neon sign saying God is Worth enjoying God is attractive and I don't mean you walk around, you know, just happy and making a lot of noise Yeah, I don't mean that's the point because some people would hear this and they would just go into a new personality kind of mode And so that's not what I mean But when you when you enjoy the Lord you are it's it's it's like an arrow a neon sign saying God is Enjoyable look at that person's life. They enjoy the Lord. So that's one way we glorify him is by enjoying him We glorify God by enjoying God Well, I'm gonna end with this two verses from Paul and Ephesians Then we'll have a short little Q&A Paul said to me. Oh, I love this 3-8 to me grace was given Grace was given that I would preach The unsearchable riches of a person now instead of the word grace put the word the anointing I was anointed Paul was saying to make known the unsearchable beauty of one man God anointed me not to get a crowd so I could prove to my mother. I made something out of my life We're not anointed so we get a crowd and we have self-worth We are anointed to make known the riches of a man That's what the Holy Spirit is excited about anointing people so it's really easy because we're humans that we get Excited by the impact if we do something on social media a lot of people like it like whoa That's exciting because a lot of people liked it or they lead a worship set and a lot of people They talk about and they want to sell the CD or they write a book or they have a conference and a lot of people Are touched and they go. Oh look everyone's being touched Isn't that amazing and we have to always realign we're anointed to make known the riches of a man Not to gather a crowd and to establish our reputation It's okay if a crowd gathers But that's not the point of why the Holy Spirit's anointing us and we want to constantly Reline up to why we want to be anointed and it's not just to proclaim the riches of a man that's premier, but then the riches liberate the people and then the people tell the riches and then those people Liberate other people and it just goes on and on and on But when we get when we get in engaged in the beauty narrative Ephesians 3 8 becomes a more it's easier to line up with this this purpose of getting the anointing a Stronger anointing in our life and nobody is just there automatically we get it then we lose it But we line back up But the more that I live in the beauty narrative the more Ephesians 3 8 the more net the more I line up with that I go wait a second. There's this Indescribably beautiful man, I Want to make him known and whether a lot of people or a few people that's your business God if they get if they track With it. I'm gonna make it known and go home and and my day was successful I've made known the riches of that man, and that's a one-on-one conversation. That's a song. That's a blog. That's an encouragement That's a prayer for somebody There's lots of ways we do that and then of course the the well-known prayer Ephesians 1 father of glory Paul man He had so much. He had so much of value in this prayer the Spirit of Revelation Open the eyes we cry we search for it, but we pray for Holy Spirit help us We are in search of treasure We can't get only by our natural abilities our natural abilities We can search for it, and that's important, but we can't actually discover the gold Without a divine escort we need help We need to be in unity with the Spirit And we need to be talking to the Spirit to get to discover the gold that we're after in that gold hunt that we have In this life his whole life is a treasure hunt it really is of the riches of Christ Jesus Well amen and amen