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Today instead of welcoming everyone and going through the announcements I have been lead by the Spirit to welcome God and to praise God and we are welcoming our Lord so as a cloud will enter into each and every place and meeting and congregation across the planet as we tell the Lord that we Love Him, it does not matter if we are The Church Ministries or not we are all here to praise the Lord. We can be any where in a rec-hall in a church building, or a place with tree stumps and logs for seats, and a old rocky cliff where everyone sits at different levels and on different parts of rock formations and can see the speaker or the minister or the pastor, or it could be anyone who piggy backed in this sermon. It could be just one person in an apartment in some large city or a group in a house around the kitchen table. It could be somewhere on the many beaches of the world and it could be anywhere and all, but we want so much to welcome our God who we Love. We praise the Name of the Lord and we are here to honor Him and acknowledge His presence and His Love. We should praise our God first before we go into any other details, or other announcements or other needs. We are to look back at all the kindness of what He has shown us and all the mercy He has given each and everyone of us, and this will give us more inspiration to worship Him in a better way and even more. Now we can ask the congregation for anyone who is facing death, or other major problems please let us all know I haven’t read all the emails for the last two days and I have to go over them all and that takes hours, I had to start writing The Church Ministries sermon yesterday because over 20 hours on Saturday is too much for my body to handle, and I will catch up and add in any problems after I get through this opening part of our service, there is not anyone at the moment in our congregation on their way to be with Jesus, except maybe myself, we can all pray now for what ever is happening with in every ones group if you haven’t already, what ever the problem is in this persons life that we all can get together and pray together to help anyone out that needs help this week let us all know, and we can have a group prayer or I can send out a letter to everyone and let us all pray as a group and everyone knows there is power in unity. I haven’t got any direct emails in the church box in the last couple of days and I got a letter from brother Rev. Joaquim K Kalala that wants to come over here and He is from Angola, Africa and He wants to come to the States to help out with The Church Ministries, and I got another letter from G.A Babu from India, needing bibles if anyone near him in India that can help this pastor and his congregation it would be a blessing, me I don’t have any way of helping anyone, now that things have changed with my Social Security I am worse off then I was before, in fact no one knows what I am going through, and for me to right this sermon in the conditions I am in that is only through the hands of God. Otherwise I would be in tears and could not even type one sentence. So I guess a praise God is in order, because if it wasn’t for God in my life I would have been long gone, that other house I was supposed to move into is already sold so I would be out on the streets with nothing sleeping under the bridge with many other brothers and sisters, people think if you have a church and a computer and you live in America you are rich well that is not the case. Some of us are poorer then some of the others in 8 countries that we are close with, all of us are struggling but God supplies what we need exactly when we need it. [“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”] (Phil. 4:19) I thank God that the owner changed his mind which left me the ability to stay here and then on top of it raised my rent so that alone is going to be very hard to deal with. Well let me welcome everyone to The Church Ministries 93rd Church Service, and we welcome every new saint or brother or sister to the Bible Truth Christian Church who gets there messages from the Lord and the directions and what to preach and when and why. The Prayer ministry has suffered because of the doctors appointment on Tuesday and we don’t know how many lives that have been hurt and effected because I was not able to send out to many prayer letters, and then on Thursday I got the Social Security letter so between Tuesday and Thursday any man without faith would have by now just gave up everything and tossed in the towel, but how can any normal Christian do that, even the faith of a mustard seed that is all you need, God will handle the rest. And here I am now with my life waiting all weekend for an answer to a life question to whether I live like a normal person or I suffer even more than I have for the last two years. The warfare is the same and there is an entity here in this place, I don’t know what happened in this place years ago or what kind of religion was here or what flew in when a deliverance ministry came here a few times and it could have been anything, but many things are still are being altered by evil, but God and His angels and my friend Jesus are all here so you would figure as you look around and the church office and the alter where I pray is a beautiful sight everything in this place is a devotion not an idolatry to God and Jesus Christ.

Solomon Blesses the People, Please open your bibles to 2 Chron. 6

Then Solomon prayed, "O LORD, you have said that you would live in thick darkness. But I have built a glorious Temple for you, where you can live forever!"

Then the king turned around to the entire community of Israel standing before him and gave this blessing: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has kept the promise he made to my father, David. For he told my father, `From the day I brought my people out of Egypt, I have never chosen a city among the tribes of Israel as the place where a temple should be built to honor my name. Nor have I chosen a king to lead my people Israel. But now I have chosen Jerusalem as that city, and David as that king.' "

Then Solomon said, "My father, David, wanted to build this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. But the LORD told him, `It is right for you to want to build the Temple to honor my name, but you will not be the one to do it. One of your sons will build it instead.'

"And now the LORD has done what he promised, for I have become king in my father's place. I have built this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. There I have placed the Ark, and in the Ark is the covenant that the LORD made with the people of Israel."

As Solomon prayed, he knelt (6:13) and the rest of all the people all around that heard and knew the blessing that Solomon was making they jut all stood. As we all know standing and kneeling are added acts of respect, admiration, worship, and reverence. As we perform these acts let us say a church or prayer, or our other church gatherings were it just might be a field, or a clearing but these acts make us feel like we are putting forth adoration, love, and devotion, and the main thing is that others can see that we are worshiping God, when a small child grows up in this situation when this child grows up he already knows how he is supposed to act and feel. Plus it shows that we are giving God a particular honor. As history is in the making we all now that when we go that extra devotion we are not just plain people buy acts of tradition but we are showing God that we have an added extra Love for Him. And in my book I think God deserves a lot more than kneeing or standing I wish right now I could show Him a better way to show our respect and love with some sort of an embracement action.

Solomons Prayer of Dedication

Then Solomon stood with his hands spread out before the altar of the LORD in front of the entire community of Israel. He had made a bronze platform 7 1/2 feet long, 7 1/2 feet wide, and 4 1/2 feet high and had placed it at the center of the Temple's outer courtyard. He stood on the platform before the entire assembly, and then he knelt down and lifted his hands toward heaven. He prayed, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in all of heaven and earth. You keep your promises and show unfailing love to all who obey you and are eager to do your will. You have kept your promise to your servant David, my father. You made that promise with your own mouth, and today you have fulfilled it with your own hands. And now, O LORD, God of Israel, carry out your further promise to your servant David, my father. For you said to him, `If your descendants guard their behavior and obey my law as you have done, they will always reign over Israel.' Now, O LORD, God of Israel, fulfill this promise to your servant David.

In those days it was unusual for a king to kneel before someone, especially in front of the whole crowd or congregation of people, but the thing is Solomon learned a lot from his father King David, but kneeing is just another added way to so not only to have respect devotion and love but it meant just a bit more like submitting to someone higher in authority. And we all know that Solomon had a great love for God and out of shear reverence, when he was a boy learning from his father he not only showed his feelings to God as an recognized King with authority and it also shows to all the others to have a positive reaction of encouragement to show the same respect and Love and submission to the God of Israel.

Solomon wondered and thought it was a miracle that the Temple could mean so much to God, he could not understand with God and all that power would He want to enter into the temple made by human hands and would He or could He even reside with so many sinful people. But then again we know that God sent His only son to live with us, but His plans of the thin line of redemption and His plan for Jesus to live amongst us in flesh and blood, plus to bring us all salvation by suffering and dieing on that cross at Calvary, we have to admit God has gone way above board for what we all deserve. But also the thing is He is still reaching out to us all to show us His love, Many of us just get involved with the world and forget or get to busy or have numerous problems and afflictions we still have no excuses to reach back right at Him to show how much we love Him and we can only do this by exposing our hearts because God always looks at the heart of a man or woman . There are many ways to get to know God, people think it is hard to communicate to the Lord and it isn’t He hears every word we say and He is everywhere so He could be right with you at all times, so don’t ever think you can’t communicate , He does talk through whispers and we have to get used to those whispers and we have to learn to listen, Mother Teresa was asked how she prays and she says she listens and then she says then I listen more. This whole subject I was lead to and I didn’t know why I was sent to this book and chapter I was going to do something on missions, but God inspires us to move through His book and to teach and show us His communication, just by writing this I know this is and inspiration from the Holy Spirit leading me in these directions and to tell you all the truth I am learning to communicate better with God, we need that relationship and there are so many souls out there that just live their lives and forget about the God who gave them everything, and most of the time they don’t realize that they were given their job and where they live, God plans everyone’s life out piece by piece and day by day. I hope someday I could get on a big speaker to the whole world and explain how God wants us to share our lives with Him. Someday maybe soon, when I heal up and can stick my teeth in my mouth and smile, that will be a glorious day, a day I will cry for joy and thankfulness. We know God has all this power and how mighty he is we are to fear the Lord that alone brings us knowledge, but we can’t fear him so much not to talk to Him, remember He wants to here from us, and He wants us to get to know Him.

"But will God really live on earth among people? Why, even the highest heavens cannot contain you. How much less this Temple I have built! Listen to my prayer and my request, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is making to you. May you watch over this Temple both day and night, this place where you have said you would put your name. May you always hear the prayers I make toward this place. May you hear the humble and earnest requests from me and your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, hear us from heaven where you live, and when you hear, forgive.

So Solomon is on this large platform leading everyone in prayer, and he is asking God to hear all their prayers as he goes through all different situations. And he really covers all the bases and more. Prayers for transgression, adversary attacks, the invasion of foreigners, general or prayers for war, deficiency, like no rain or to much rain and famine food crisis’s and food shortage ages, wars and peace, sin and people just forgetting morality , and there are so many things that we just bring on from ourselves and we get ourselves into so many situations and predicaments and we all need prayer for all of these things that happen, God always and I mean always want us turn to Him in prayer, remember I said before God wants to here from us because He cares and loves us. And He cares for what ever situation we are in and if we are facing a terrible crisis He still wants us to pray and He still wants to help us all, like now I am facing crisis after crisis and I don’t know how I am going to have all these things get done, and all of us He wants us to pray, in fact if I didn’t pray so many times I would be running and pacing and shaking and I would have my ulcer come back and I would just be staring at the wall in tears, I thank God that He is there for us all, He has calmed me down and helped me to have a positive attitude when everything looks so dark, but God is love and light and He will take us out of the darkness. And my brothers and sisters when it looks real bad let’s say my life and the situations I am in right now we should never ever doubt His love and care for us.

"If someone wrongs another person and is required to take an oath of innocence in front of the altar at this Temple, then hear from heaven and judge between your servants the accuser and the accused. Punish the guilty party, and acquit the one who is innocent.

"If your people Israel are defeated by their enemies because they have sinned against you, and if they turn to you and call on your name and pray to you here in this Temple, then hear from heaven and forgive their sins and return them to this land you gave their ancestors.

"If the skies are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and then they pray toward this Temple and confess your name and turn from their sins because you have punished them, then hear from heaven and forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them to do what is right, and send rain on your land that you have given to your people as their special possession.

Our next question why would Solomon think the weather had to do with sin, well my brothers and sisters we all know that we have sinful cities and not all of the cities are full of complete sin, there may be many sections that are full of sin, like Las Vegas but New Orleans I used to live there too and I can tell you stories, and I lived in Galveston Texas also and they are not getting hit like New Orleans, but Galveston wasn’t a very sinful city, and I can share some stories about sin there too. It seems like Solomon is doing a pre-before it happens prayer because he knows how much sin there is when he is there everyday and if he is the king well he knows just about everything and what is going on with who, and who is hurting this person and this marriage is having trouble and this family is so poor anyway, Solomon must have had a reason for the prayer he prayed. The thing is in Deut. 28:20-24 God did make some sort of pack that drought would come through sin. So I will print the scripture and we can read it over and that will be the answer to the reason he prayed the way he did.

[“The LORD himself will send against you curses, confusion, and disillusionment in everything you do, until at last you are completely destroyed for doing evil and forsaking me. The LORD will send diseases among you until none of you are left in the land you are about to enter and occupy. The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew. These devastations will pursue you until you die. The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron. The LORD will turn your rain into sand and dust, and it will pour down from the sky until you are destroyed.”] (Deut.28:20-24)

Now that is a heavy situation I would not want to be in.

"If there is a famine in the land, or plagues, or crop disease, or attacks of locusts or caterpillars, or if your people's enemies are in the land besieging their towns--whatever the trouble is—and if your people offer a prayer concerning their troubles or sorrow, raising their hands toward this Temple, then hear from heaven where you live, and forgive. Give your people whatever they deserve, for you alone know the human heart. Then they will fear you and walk in your ways as long as they live in the land you gave to our ancestors.

Some of us go through life and at times we feel distant from God, the distant feeling is cause by sometimes we feel like we failed at something and we have had a person problem that we are trying to heal up or deal with or someone has hurt us real bad, We know Solomon was wise and in his prayer he wanted to highlight the fact that God is always ready to hear our prayer, he is always ready to get that distant feeling away, but it is up to us to tell God what is on our mind we must ask God to forgive us of our sins and He then wants to mend back to relationship that you had with Him so that He feels very close again, things can always happen in all situations and our lives may fall into sin and we may feel guilty over the situation and if it is guilt, Satan will come in and start digging at you and making your guilt feel worse then it ever was, so you must go directly to God and confess your guilt to God and show God you can be obedient and understanding, and then Satan will get off your back, what ever is bothering you even if you are afraid you go to God and confess of your fear because if you are afraid that shows you are not trusting God and that hurts God, so you have to explain your inner feelings about the fear and then God will take that fear from you. Satan also works on what ever you fear he will make a little mole hill into a mountain of dirt, so stay close to God as best as you can, tell the Lord everything, even if you are shaking and your have a bleeding ulser and you are crying like I was the other day when I left a doctors appointment, do you believe it a simple doctors appointment made me so upset the cab driver thought I was crazy talking to part of the time myself, and part of the time to him, and part of the time to God, I was a mess, it makes me feel like I do not want to see another doctor again. Our God is the great Physician I should not even worry about regular doctors. I keep going to them and I am the one that gets hurt and I am the one suffering, I am the victim and I even feel worse when I leave doctors offices, most all the good doctors are on the friends pages on the website there are 3 pages to see and I think there are 6 doctors on there and two Pharmacies. I do have to add a Pharmacy on there but I have been so week and poor I can’t even take the camera in and get the film put on a CD plus I make a set of prints. Anyway back to prayer, God is always willing to refresh you and to make you feel better about yourself and when you restore the relationship back together you do feel better, put it this way I would not be able to type today if it wasn’t for God, yesterday I was upset because someone said like it is my fault that doctors are the way they are, because of me, now that hurt and I could not even believe that, and right now the downtown church has two candles burning for one doctor and one for the friend. I have good relations with my regular doctor and now Satan is the cause of me losing her and now I have to travel to the other side of the island to see another doctor unless my Medicare comes through so I will need your prayers, because remember if you know me I have been suffering for 22 months and I have to wait a month and a half because you have to be sick for a whole two years to get the card and this is a life or death situation, please say a prayer for me, God is helping me not to be worried about the whole thing, now you see what a pastor has to go through, I mean yesterday I almost gave up on the prayer ministry, and that is ridicules, because there is no way I am going to let Satan win this because he already lost and Jesus made a public spectacle of all evil.

[“You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ. He forgave all our sins. He canceled the record that contained the charges against us. He took it and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ's cross. In this way, God disarmed the evil rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross of Christ.”] (Col. 2:13-15)

So my brothers or sisters don’t ever wait around and let Satan mess with your mind go directly to God and tell Him the whole story and after that you will feel better if you don’t call me and we can prayer together anytime day or night the numbers are on the Church needs and goals page.

"And when foreigners hear of you and your mighty miracles, and they come from distant lands to worship your great name and to pray toward this Temple, then hear from heaven where you live, and grant what they ask of you. Then all the people of the earth will come to know and fear you, just as your own people Israel do. They, too, will know that this Temple I have built bears your name.

"If your people go out at your command to fight their enemies, and if they pray to you toward this city that you have chosen and toward this Temple that I have built for your name, then hear their prayers from heaven and uphold their cause.

"If they sin against you--and who has never sinned?--you may become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to a foreign land far or near. But in that land of exile, they may turn to you again in repentance and pray, `We have sinned, done evil, and acted wickedly.' Then if they turn to you with their whole heart and soul and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors, toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name, 39then hear their prayers from heaven where you live. Uphold their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

Well we all know that no one has ever gone through there life without sinning even people who think their perfect and even God’s Kings Sin is something that dwells with all of us and we all have to understand we are human and we still have the flesh of the world upon us, that is why sometimes I feel God let me loose all the weight I had, even though I was built like Rocky it is all gone now, but as we all know it is nothing but vanity and it still is what is in a persons heart that makes them who they are, so we all sin and we all have to ask for forgiveness, and we hope there are not to many people out there that think they can sin just because God will forgive them, remember the wages of sin is death so sin is nothing to play around with, so my advice to everyone is try to live your lives as good quiet simple Christians and avoid sin when ever possible. We must realize we are all going to sin sooner or later and just by that notion alone that would make anyone want to stay close to God, we need to stand up to temptation and that devil has had much practice with humans twisting the truth and making you think well that is OK to do, no don’t listen to evil or any demonic voices, sin is sin and God hates sin so it is best we ask God for strength and guidance to keep us off the red hot stone kettle and be loving people that care for one another and share what you have with one another and don’t ever look down on one another or complain or murmur about one another or try to judge one another. We are loving and forgiving and understanding people that is what Christians are we are not seeking things for ourselves we are seeking for better ways to spread the gospel and to pray for people, we are a unique race of people, we don’t even let that go to our heads, pride is out of our lives and lust is out of our lives and greed and the element of power, and ambition for ourselves, we are trying to look for ways to give God the glory He deserves and to give the honor to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to love one another.

But no, all have turned away from God; all have become corrupt No one does good, not even one! Psalm 14:3

There is not a single person in all the earth who is always good and never sins. Ecc. 7:20

For all have sinned; all fall short of God's glorious standard. Rom. 3:23

"O my God, be attentive to all the prayers made to you in this place. And now, O LORD God, arise and enter this resting place of yours, where your magnificent Ark has been placed. May your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and may your saints rejoice in your goodness. O LORD God, do not reject your anointed one. Remember your unfailing love for your servant David." 2Chron.6:1-42

The Dedication of the Temple, Please open your bibles to 2 Chron. 7

1When Solomon finished praying, fire flashed down from heaven and burned up the burnt offerings and sacrifices, and the glorious presence of the LORD filled the Temple. 2The priests could not even enter the Temple of the LORD because the glorious presence of the LORD filled it. 3When all the people of Israel saw the fire coming down and the glorious presence of the LORD filling the Temple, they fell face down on the ground and worshiped and praised the LORD, saying, "He is so good! His faithful love endures forever!"

We know that God’s cleansing supremacy is to make something holy, so our God sent fire down from heaven and it amazed everyone, and this blast was to devour or burn up the offering and also have a continuous alter that is constantly burning the burnt offering. This continuous fire everyone knew it was God and this fire was His symbol of His presence so the people were even shocked at the whole thing they were face down on the ground during this situation. Here are a few more examples of the Lord’s power and His rules

[“Then the LORD said to Moses, "Give Aaron and his sons the following instructions regarding the whole burnt offering. The burnt offering must be left on the altar until the next morning, and the altar fire must be kept burning all night. The next morning, after dressing in his special linen clothing and undergarments, the priest on duty must clean out the ashes of the burnt offering and put them beside the altar. Then he must change back into his normal clothing and carry the ashes outside the camp to a place that is ceremonially clean. Meanwhile, the fire on the altar must be kept burning; it must never go out. Each morning the priest will add fresh wood to the fire and arrange the daily whole burnt offering on it. He must then burn the fat of the peace offerings on top of this daily whole burnt offering. Remember, the fire must be kept burning on the altar at all times. It must never go out.”] (Lev. 6:8-13)

These scriptures carry a few in depth meanings first we are dealing with a general priestly procedure. But the main concentration was that the alter could not go out and it had to be ceremonially clean and the fire can not go out that is the most important thing. God started the fire in the beginning. This is a representation of God keeping His eternal presence and the sacrificial structure. It also showed that God’s favor made their sacrifices acceptable. We have to look at this another way not just with things on the outside remember there is a lot of theory behind all scripture, so with us once we are a believer there is a fire burning light within us, and the fire is light when the Holy Spirit is present living inside each one of us, and God is the one feeding the fire to keep it going, in other words we try so hard to do this or that to please God and sometimes deeds are just not necessary, so God is feeding the fire for us and helping us along and some of us are not even aware that God is keeping this great light burning with in us, so that we grow, remember the prayer and how God does certain things and we can’t figure out why, well that is the main concern don’t ask why, we are to trust God, when we start asking why that means that we don’t trust His actions, and of course we are in wonder because we don’t see God feeding the fire within us and he is helping us at the same time, we don’t feel a fire burning inside us but we do feel the warmth of God and that is what I call love. He wants us to grow in grace as we walk in fellowship with Him. See now you are understanding the complexities of God. So when we feel that warmth inside that love I call it we have that inner confidence to go to Him for forgiveness of our sins and to be fixed back up to a kind of refurbishment. This way we regain a new power and a new strength to carry out particular task with better zeal.

["This is what you are to offer on the altar. Offer two one-year-old lambs each day, one in the morning and the other in the evening. With one of them, offer two quarts of fine flour mixed with one quart of olive oil; also, offer one quart of wine as a drink offering. Offer the other lamb in the evening, along with the same offerings of flour and wine as in the morning. It will be a fragrant offering to the LORD, an offering made by fire. "This is to be a daily burnt offering given from generation to generation. Offer it in the Lord’s presence at the Tabernacle entrance, where I will meet you and speak with you. I will meet the people of Israel there, and the Tabernacle will be sanctified by my glorious presence.”] (Ex.29:38-43)

Have you really ever noticed the true holiness of God how things have to have a refined order and the cleanliness and all the other factors involved? Now today w are not giving God the respect He deserves a lot of us are running late into church we are having conversations with people as we are not even sat down yet, some people treat it like a big place to have a social club, and we are there to worship the God of the universe the life of our lives the giver of all our things even down to the cloths we picked out for the day, are we looking good for everyone else or are we looking good to please God, I would like you all to answer that question honestly to yourselves. Don’t forget that deep intense truth when you are praying and worshiping, as you come to Him with certain elements in your mind of admiration, respect, with sorrow, remorse, and repentance.

[“After that, Aaron raised his hands toward the people and blessed them. Then, after presenting the sin offering, the whole burnt offering, and the peace offering, he stepped down from the altar. Next Moses and Aaron went into the Tabernacle, and when they came back out, they blessed the people again, and the glorious presence of the LORD appeared to the whole community. Fire blazed forth from the Lord’s presence and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When the people saw all this, they shouted with joy and fell face down on the ground.”] (Lev. 9:22-24)

Then Moses told them, "When you have followed these instructions from the LORD, the glorious presence of the LORD will appear to you." (Lev. 9:6)

We know that Moses and Aaron were faithful and they followed God to a tee, and then right after the glory of Lord showed up to them, are we out there looking for great acts of God before we follow the instruction book or are we waiting for God to show Himself first before we do things afterward, we are a race of devoted and obedient Christians that want to stay a step ahead of the game, we are here to do things for God not wait for God to show us some mighty work and then we do our obligations, we should just serve God out of love when ever the feeling is at the proper time like I said we don’t wait for the mighty works to be shown, it would be like a captain on a ship wouldn’t you want to have everything prepared and when the captain came down and saw all your accomplishments I think the captain would have a better review of you then you would normally think and understand your service and obedience..

4Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices to the LORD. 5King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. And so the king and all the people dedicated the Temple of God. 6The priests took their assigned positions, and so did the Levites who were singing, "His faithful love endures forever!" They accompanied the singing with music from the instruments King David had made for praising the LORD. On the other side of the Levites, the priests blew the trumpets, while all Israel stood.

Solomon made this day a special dedication to God , we all know what a dedication is to take some thing or honor or some type of award, but this beautiful temple they were trying to give full dedication to God, so He would be closer to us amongst us even, but even though He is spirit and He has made the world, God went along with the event and with the dedication because He knew how much it meant to His children who built it and did the planning and all the craftsmanship. The purpose was to be a special place were they could worship God and if God’s essence would be there within the walls it would be a wonderful way to worship God and to pray. So in the long run the dedication of the temple shows we may also in the process dedicate ourselves to complete the whole process.

Don't team up with those who are unbelievers. How can goodness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? What harmony can there be between Christ and the Devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever? And what union can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said: "I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people. (2Cor. 6:14-16)

Paul was a good spokes person he had a way with words he realized that if we shared relationships with other believers that it might effect us if we carry the weight to far, you see he even mentioned to say with a spouse if they are not believers because there is always time, and I have seen people converted to Christianity even after a short time of marriage, but he also warns us the other way that we don’t have much in common to start with but it is our job to stand our own ground and to preach the good news and have better witnessing techniques along the way if we are bouncing around with different types of non-believers. Belial is another name for Satan or the devil and once you understand the true light of God you realize that you would have nothing in common with people who lived in darkness, beside you can’t be in the same room when it is both dark and light it is impossible. And we also have to remember in this world there is a vast variety of different sins, we have to be able not to be tempted and to even be moved the way of the sinner we are children of the light and we are not going to let sin put out the beautiful light of God.

You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at the Lord's Table and at the table of demons, too. What? Do you dare to rouse the Lord's jealousy as Israel did? Do you think we are stronger than he is? You say, "I am allowed to do anything" but not everything is helpful. You say, "I am allowed to do anything" but not everything is beneficial. Don't think only of your own good. Think of other Christians and what is best for them. (1Cor. 10:21-24)

Because we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit. And let us work toward complete purity because we fear God. (2Cor. 7:1-2)

When I wrote to you before, I told you not to associate with people who indulge in sexual sin. But I wasn't talking about unbelievers who indulge in sexual sin, or who are greedy or are swindlers or idol worshipers. You would have to leave this world to avoid people like that. (1Cor. 5:9-10)

Now, I will speak to the rest of you, though I do not have a direct command from the Lord. If a Christian man has a wife who is an unbeliever and she is willing to continue living with him, he must not leave her. And if a Christian woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he is willing to continue living with her, she must not leave him. For the Christian wife brings holiness to her marriage, and the Christian husband brings holiness to his marriage. Otherwise, your children would not have a godly influence, but now they are set apart for him. (But if the husband or wife who isn't a Christian insists on leaving, let them go. In such cases the Christian husband or wife is not required to stay with them, for God wants his children to live in peace.) You wives must remember that your husbands might be converted because of you. And you husbands must remember that your wives might be converted because of you. (1Cor.7:12-16)

You must accept whatever situation the Lord has put you in, and continue on as you were when God first called you. This is my rule for all the churches. For instance, a man who was circumcised before he became a believer should not try to reverse it. And the man who was uncircumcised when he became a believer should not be circumcised now. For it makes no difference whether or not a man has been circumcised. The important thing is to keep God's commandments. (1Cor. 7:17-19)

God's secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to his good pleasure. And this is his plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ everything in heaven and on earth. Furthermore, because of Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us from the beginning, and all things happen just as he decided long ago. God's purpose was that we who were the first to trust in Christ should praise our glorious God. And now you also have heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. The Spirit is God's guarantee that he will give us everything he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. This is just one more reason for us to praise our glorious God. (Eph. 1:9-14)

Solomon then dedicated the central area of the courtyard in front of the Lord’s Temple so they could present burnt offerings and the fat from peace offerings there. He did this because the bronze altar he had built could not handle all the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and sacrificial fat.

For the next seven days they celebrated the Festival of Shelters] with huge crowds gathered from all the tribes of Israel. They came from as far away as Lebo-hamath in the north, to the brook of Egypt in the south. On the eighth day they had a closing ceremony, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the Festival of Shelters for seven days. Then at the end of the celebration, [Solomon sent the people home. They were all joyful and happy because the LORD had been so good to David and Solomon and to his people Israel.

The Lords Response to Solomon

So Solomon finished building the Temple of the LORD, as well as the royal palace. He completed everything he had planned to do. Then one night the LORD appeared to Solomon and said, "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this Temple as the place for making sacrifices. At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or I might command locusts to devour your crops, or I might send plagues among you.

Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and heal their land.

Solomon asked God to explain what will happen to his people now that the temple was completed and dedicated and he wanted God to explain to Solomon how will it all work out. God said there will be 4 different situations that will warrant forgiveness our first situation or a condition to the prayer would be the person must remain humble and you have to constantly admit your sins, 2 you simply pray to God and ask for forgiveness. 3 seek God continually and have an established relationship where you both know each other, 4 we all sin and we all do things repeatedly like if any of us have a habit for anything that hurts us my it be food drugs, pornography, drinking or smoking if you truly want forgiveness you have to make a complete turn around and repent, we can’t just say we repent, repentance is a complete change of ways and attitude, so in order to be forgiven you have to change you can’t go on sinning doing something that is evil and then asking God to forgive you and then the next day you go back and do it again, that is not true repentance, you have to change, if your looking up things on the internet you have to change into a new man and just not do it any more, then you will receive forgiveness. So if you are in a small group a prayer all the way up to a large nation following Gods steps will lead you to forgiveness.

15I will listen to every prayer made in this place, 16for I have chosen this Temple and set it apart to be my home forever. My eyes and my heart will always be here.

Months even years have gone by since the original prayer of dedication for the temple, and there have been other projects that have been completed so then after all of this time God told Solomon that he had herd Solomon’s prayer. You see that is the amazing thing about prayer , God does here us the very day we say the prayer but we have so many reasons of why prayer doesn’t get answered, so people just think God can’t listen to every prayer but the truth is He does here every prayer plus the fact God is perfect and He will deliver the prayer on His perfect time table. People think well I am ready for the instant prayer well it just does not work like that the other reason is evil now we can say a prayer one lets say one day, and in the book of Daniel a prayer was held up for 21 days so you never know what is going to happen like I have said before God is in control of everything including prayer. God does here everything and He does provide and we must trust God if we don’t, expect for most of your prayers to never be answered, that is the key word trust.

17"As for you, if you follow me as your father, David, did and obey all my commands, laws, and regulations, 18then I will not let anyone take away your throne. This is the same promise I gave your father, David, when I said, `You will never fail to have a successor who rules over Israel.'

"But if you abandon me and disobey the laws and commands I have given you, and if you go and worship other gods, then I will uproot the people of Israel from this land of mine that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have set apart to honor my name. I will make it a spectacle of contempt among the nations. And though this Temple is impressive now, it will become an appalling sight to all who pass by. They will ask, `Why has the LORD done such terrible things to his land and to his Temple?' And the answer will be, `Because his people abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead. That is why he brought all these disasters upon them.' " (2Chron. 7:1-22)

God is a very fair God and he has written down His laws and regulations and He talked things over with Solomon and He explained if you follow Me he and his descendants would prosper and if Solomon didn’t continue to follow the Lord he and the whole nation would be destroyed. Sin can be misleadingly beautiful, I know it sounds strange when you don’t want to be involved with sin, but with the help of the devil sin can change a man, instead of devoting your life against sin, Satan is tricky and he is a liar and he uses people to help push you or hurt you or make you do things you normally don’t do. So our Solomon eventually turned away from God and then the family and his son and heir messed up the whole kingdom. You would not think something like that could ever happen to a man so wise, but getting to the facts following God brings benefits and rewards of all different kinds, Turning away from God brings suffering, punishment , and in due course destruction, there is no difference between then and today everything as far as a relationship and following the Lord is the same today then with Solomon’s time, I would suggest my brothers and sisters that you choose to obey the Lord and live a fruitful life ahead.

Dear Holy Father, let me count the ways of Your love , because there are so many, I have been doing much thinking after all of this and maybe I myself haven’t given You enough time, I mean I have been suffering for a long time, and the church has been all right with people passing the word, but I have no idea how far or if anyone is going deeper and deeper into the un-chartered areas, we know in places the words move the prayer letters and sermons, because we do get recall on those, but I haven’t heard much on secondary routes and I haven’t received any letters on that, but it would be awfully hard because they don’t have any computers, it is only one way going in, and there is not any way to get a message back out, but I believe someday someone will find a way and they will pass it forward and I will get the message, but one day when I was really down and out I got a letter from a women that held on to our prayer letters and she was a cripple and now she isn’t and she kept our prayer letters for over a year, so we just don’t know till she wrote me and told me, We have so many prayer responses that I have never even posted yet and I have well over enough to make about three to four pages, but God is this what you want, this is your church, the church of Jesus Christ, and I wanted Jesus to know he had a church that was honorable and loyal towards His teaching and I have followed all the steps for a prosperous church, maybe the mission, God I don’t know what you want me to do, It is hard to run this whole thing by myself and I have two people that want to be assistant Pastors, maybe I will just wait upon what You tell me to do, because I should be on my face right now in front of that alter with it lit up and I should be going though every person that ever submitted a prayer that I answered to and even the ones I couldn’t answer to, I used to pray for everyone in Florida , every night but I stopped doing that when I don’t even get any mail from them any more, I should just continue to pray for each one of them. And I should send out more responses and work more on the church, but it is not like I am lazy I am working everyday without fail, there were days I didn’t do much because I was just sick and not feeling well. Well Father we will all try to follow you more and spend more time with you I think that is the ticket, I have so much stress upon me I don’t have any other choice, I mean I could very well die in about a week, because I am in several bad situations mounting on top of one another and the only chance for my survival will be You and Jesus and the Holy Spirit and anyone who reads this sermon or hears it if it does get into the deep parts of the un-chartered countries please somehow let me know where you are and when you have heard the good news, so I can start making a pin map where you stick the pins in the areas you think we have gone. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen and Amen.

Then the cloud covered the Tabernacle, and the glorious presence of the LORD filled it. Moses was no longer able to enter the Tabernacle because the cloud had settled down over it, and the Tabernacle was filled with the awesome glory of the LORD.

Now whenever the cloud lifted from the Tabernacle and moved, the people of Israel would set out on their journey, following it. But if the cloud stayed, they would stay until it moved again. The cloud of the LORD rested on the Tabernacle during the day, and at night there was fire in the cloud so all the people of Israel could see it. This continued throughout all their journeys. (Ex. 40:34-38)