In order to take our cities for God we first must deal with the Jebusites in our life and in our churches.
Charismatic enthusiasm without the holiness will stir up greater opposition against us because of the unrighteousness.
Enthusiasm without the holiness and secondly without it being the express clearly revealed plan of God will be ineffective.
Once the tabernacle of David have been erected and David was able to hear the very voice of God and his leaders heard the voice of God, then they moved with a strategy from God so that they only struck the Philistines three times and they never had a problem again for 40 years.
They took over the Philistine cities, put down garrisons in them and there was a total complete victory because they were holy and what they did was in explicit obedience to what God told them to do.
God said I have found in David a man after my own heart through whom I was able to do all my will. David didn’t find God in the tabernacle of Moses. He met with him, out in the hills, playing his harp, worshipping, singing and there was born in him this tremendous passion that God would come back again and be centre stage amongst his people.
Now that was his motivation, he wasn’t thinking about an evangelistic purpose. He wasn’t thinking about a powerhouse to bring the kingdom in. His heart was hungry for God and he wanted the reality of God and wanted to produce a physical environment in which God could show up and be welcomed and be at home with his people.
Now God had much greater plans than David had for his tabernacle. David just wanted God, but God wanted David because of what he was going to do through David.
If we just focus on what we get out of the tabernacle of David, face to face encounters with God, then we are going to miss the purpose of the tabernacle. We need to let the blessings turn into a river of power in us, and then we will become a river of life out from which we will start to touch our society.
This is what David’s tabernacle is all about. It is not just a place of intimacy, but it begins there, this is where we must start.
When Joshua came to the city of Jericho, he was looking for a strategy to take a city. God wanted him to first be a worshiper.
He wanted a plan to get through the wars, The lord said take off your shoes and worship me. That is the beginning of the plan to take this city.
And that is where some of us have got to come, we are too busy, busy with activities and we think worship is a waste of time. This is where it all starts; we become lovers of God for his own sake.
Once we enter into Passionate worship, then we are going to be motivated in a way that we have never been motivated before, we are going to see the harvest, we are going to see God’s own people the ethnic Jews and the gentiles come into the kingdom. We are going to be working together with God in the restoration of all things.
David was not permitted to take the Ark back to Moses’ Tabernacle. It had to go to a new tent which we come to know as the tabernacle of David .
The fortress of Zion which was the God chosen place for it was not vacant territory, it was occupied.
From the stronghold of Zion there was a group of people, called the Jebusites that were never conquered, and that part of the city was never taken.
Now think how many years ago that was, this is the beginning of the book of Judges. And now were coming to the reign of David and all that time in the middle of what looked like God’s conquest of the land of Canaan and all the tribes coming into their inheritance, there remained yet one thing. The fortress of Zion remained in the hands of the Jebusites, those who mocked God .
We read about this in second Samuel chapter 5 for example. All the days of Saul, he kept going out to attack the Philistine’s and was at war with all the enemies of God never seeing a conclusion to that war, never seeing a permanent victory.
If we are going to see the power of David’s tabernacle raised in our city, we better get rid of the Jebusites (the root of the word means threshing place).
The first thing David did was to get rid of the Jebusites we read about it in 1 Chronicles 11, they went up by way of the water chute and they killed them and took the stronghold.
It says that the lame and the blind are hated by David’s soul. We must understand what that means. This is all written for our instruction; it is allegory to teach us spiritual principles.
What is God saying, he is saying this, when I gave Jesus as the mighty sacrifice at Calvary, the power of Jesus is powerful enough to save you from everything. It doesn’t matter what kind of horrendous background we came from. we are not a prisoner of it for the rest of our life.
You may have been abused as a child, but doesn’t mean you go limping for the rest of your life in the kingdom of God because there is deliverance in the name of Jesus.
There may be one stronghold of the enemy in your life, but when Jesus saves, you are cut off from that stuff. He is able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through him that is what the Bible says.
This must be our expectation. We are not going to have any lame or blind people in our church they are going to be so healed and so saved and so delivered that they are whole, godly people that can walk in all the righteousness of God.
We won’t have a church that us full of lame or halt people that have been coming in the same condition for decades amen.
God hates it because it’s an insult to his savior. There is a power in Jesus to set the captives free. There is a power in the risen Christ that is utterly and gloriously transforming. And that should be our testimony.
I was like that once but not anymore, because I met the power of God and I am finished with all of that. Now here is the interesting thing, the very place that was the place of shame and ridicule all the days of Saul.
From the beginning of Israel’s journey where they began occupying the land, right up to the reign of Saul that mocking spirit remained in Mount Zion. Jesus or David will never come in here.
That very place became the site that God chose to place his glory. I love it. Don’t you love that, you see that’s our God, not only will I deliver you but I will make that very place of shame the place of glory, the area where your weakest, I am going to make you the strongest!
Through David, a man after my own heart, to whom I am able to do all my will, my way is to get rid of the lame and the blind in the halt and make my church glorious.
Whatever condition they come in, they don’t stay like that. That very place of shame, became the place of glory. God said right where those Jebusites use to mock me and my kingdom for all those years, that’s where I want the tent, right there.
And there my glory is going to come, and that is going to become the center of praise and worship. The center of my kingdom. It is going to be the place where I presence myself.
