you're going to talk about his going through a mountaintop going around the mountain going the mountain top that each of us have a choice if we get to the mountain i would pray that father god that there would be a desire within our hearts to get to the top of the mountain experience  glory lord many times were dissatisfied the debate looking up at from the base looking up to the top of mountains that all that's great that people get to the top is great that they take pictures as great that it tugged to take video so i don't have to experience it and what we're really saying is we don't know what it's like to be on top of the mountain when you've been at the top you know of pictures you want to take the pictures and the father got i think we need some top experiences because those montel but spirits is change us they transform us we can't be the same when we got from mt top experience yet many in this room have never truly had a mount top experience where the glory of god shines in their life and i'm praying to be something that is shared in the midst of your work in the midst of the principles that we teach the cause abraham went binny took somebody with anybody know he took with them isaac his son so see if we get there or not so rabbi just the way i am i want to get you thinking i want you to remember the sermon of nothing else remember what i wore ok this is african  dress does that make me have the ability to climb the top of the mountain but i got booed so will these boots get me there why there's a song about those boots was that song on the name of jesus i am covered by the blood of jesus will just knowing jesus get me to the top of the mountain if you as a choice that you have to make too many people are dressed up like a christian they dress the right way the acolyte way like right way they talk the right you want you can do bible studies and all that but are you allowing god to transform you such that there's a spirit of god living within you that you're walking with the power in the noise of god that's a choice that you make so there's a price to pay to get to the top of the mountain know be a good idea to get in shape for that be a good idea how we know it be a good idea to find a guide who leads you because otherwise you might go around the mountain around and around and around and never get to the top you turn around that you're going up  actually going down ok how many know that a guide was also help you when it gets tough to keep you going how do you know half way through you say i you know what it is a really worth it and what if it's raining and the wind's blowing something you says god tell me not to do this and that's how we are many times when it comes to life we say you know what i want it whatever it is say i want to get the victory over addiction since i want to get the victory we talked about anger i want to get the victory over anger i want to get the victory over this is my life i want to be used by god whatever your goal is where that mine top experience may be is so many of us are just going around and around and around the mountain because we won't pay the price to get to the top because soon as it gets tough what do  get the experience of eight hundred dollars in fact i want to see everything so i paid twenty five hundred to get to see everything how many know that then you're going to go up to the top of the melted as you're going is bob is going to get a little bit harder a little bit tougher and how many people pay to get to the top and they turn around and when it gets tough they go right back down and they quit and how many christians when it's time to change your life when god is speaking to you about something these a change maybe it's to quit smoking maybe to just to be a more loving person maybe god's calling you to share your faith but here's what happens this is to share your faith are right praise god i'm going to go share my faith i prayed this morning and jesus when i get on the bus i just want to talk something about jesus on the sits right next to the buses all the seats open and they decide to sit next to you now think about it if you said i'm going i want to share the gospel somebody and i get on a bus and nobody's on the bus but me and some because the bus they sit down next to you what do you think you think that might be divine appointment they got to do there and you say all this is great you get up and you go system place else because you're  and then you say all that you know what that person looks like the devil put them there let me tell you the devil could put him there and god smiles and says yeah the devil put him there and i put you next to them because the spirit of god is in you to touch that devil that's in them out of it you go to talk to him and you never been a starter until then are you and you struggle and then what do you do you feel embarrassment you feel shame and so what do you do zip it up and you know say a day and then what happens after you get off the bus what do you feel you feel guilt if three grat you feel like you god gave you the opportunity and you missed that opportunity and then you turn around and then you beat yourself up and then you say the name of the if i'm a christian or not because if i was really a christian i would have shared my face and the devil starts getting at you now what if i was to tell you you may have to get through that three four five times of that experience before you actually do it so what should you do go through the experience you're going around the mountain but if you go around the mountain with the go to get to the top where you get to the top yeah it also mentally you share your faith and then when you share your faith you say well it wasn't that good of an experience because the something and we always find a way to get out of it so we don't have an email to experiences because we're always disobeying god notice i did say the mount up experience is always going to be a high experience but he turned around to share with them and then they accept christ and you know  a fact that it was real would that do something to you you know they get puts a bug in you and the next see you know you can't wait to get on the bus but because it's only up one time your ex i was on the album called us share the gospel and feelings if you're obeying god you're probably not going to like it until you learn what you learned that you start to obey god and this feels good there's a something that comes with it so there's that that amount up experience now let me tell you i'm dressed up pretend i'm in africa i'm going to climb the mountain in fact i look like a guide so i'm a guide i'm not the guy the clown i take you to climb the mountain you do have to suit up you get up you do suit up in the climbing coals i should put them on every day for a year and look myself in the mirror says if you look like a climber that first you say look like a white man that's an idiot and they turn around and say look like i got my pajamas on but after a while you start saying in jesus name i'm going to climb that mountain what will happen if you end up climbing that mountain maybe you will get to the top maybe you're not in shape maybe not going to make it to top but you know you tried you gave  that's what's important you give your all because we're all going to fall short a times kilimanjaro what's interesting is do you think people got to the top i think people climb the topical image or what you think i guess what it means there's all kinds of names but one of the means names of it is the hill that defeats is that interesting the hill there defeats if you knew who i headed to i is the hill the hill that defeats would the mountain is has become difficult or impossible impossible oh my goodness is a possible to serve jesus going to do it it's impossible to kick drugs i'm not going to do it as a possible to be a man or woman of god because if you knew our bloodline there's nobody tha ever served god in our bloodline ever it's impossible for me to break that cycle where if you believe that guess what you're going to go around the belts and and you can do the same things that generational sin has been your family for years and years whatever the generational sin is you turn around  dover's were just poor people if you make that confession guess what you'll be you'll be poor now if you make a confession of the rich will you be rich you know you have to do more than the confession work it you gotta do now the last definition of kilimanjaro is on cli somebody said that's a lie somebody said was a lie and somebody else it was a lie is something else it was a lie and they said devil you're a liar i can i can climb that mountain so what is your milton what is your challenge that you have how are you going to beat that challenge first thing is you've got to suit up suit up put the word of god in you read the word of god confess the word of god proclaim the word of god so many people and i've been one of them that's against that name and claim it that he missed out on something there is a principle about naming it claiming it if i turn around and say i'm a loser i'm a loser you just named it claimed it and guess what you'll be a loser but you see you know i'm a big crises i'm more than a conqueror in christ jesus and through crises i can do all things through him who strengthens me the very spirit that raised jesus from the grave lives within me and that's where the rage is when the great can conquer anything and everything i will rise above my circumstances and you start confess you start believe it guess where you'll be you'll be a lot closer than the top of the melton that here's the promise some of us were happy with the pictures we're happy with national geographic now when you think about something some of us i mean to stop me i'm going to say and i got a spot i researched it yes right did i researched it where am i most likely see sea turtles most likely to find the last i want to witness to the law so i'll go to a church now there's lost people the church by tell you if you want to read this mission is to the last you should probably go to the last hour or so out of it you study you prepare with the word of god so i study so i'm all excited so i go out there and i go and then i find some i find three of them there's only a problem they're closer to the shore where the rocks are and the shore is where the rocks are guess what the waves do they smash into those rocks it's kind of touch you turn if you've got a snorkel on you get water in your snorkel all kinds of stuff and i got my camera and i'm i'm as i start to get closer that they are they could not get and so i got this fear and then all of a sudden there's no sharks around but guess what happens in my mind so he sharks are in the area too so the sharks are behind me the rocks are in front of me and the sea turtles  next to me i'm doomed but i said i'm going to get a picture guess what in life it feels like you're doomed it feels like you know a lot it just isn't worth it i'm going to give up i give up and if i were to gave up guess what would have happened i want to have that experience that always be with me i didn't get the best pictures but i got the best experience sometimes things aren't the way you want them but if you're obedient there's something  i said i'm a conquer all my fears i'm going to use wisdom you should use wisdom use wisdom that's how we should live our life we should live or lidl care if you're a low level person that doesn't much doesn't excite you and you barely can get up in the morning or you're a person that can't wait to get up in the morning just do whatever god tells you to do just do it get to the top of the mountain i was determined but i what about being determined for the sake of the to lead somebody their cries determined to give up your finances to support something or another that's going on that you believe in determined to hang with some people that are homeless and touch their lives to whatever it may be and get that melon top experience you see once you've gone snorkeling and if you like it guess what you can't wait to do it again and again and again as you whatever it may be now another month or so i believe any amount to experience you experience the glory of god it we can't wait to go the promised land is a trick question did they say how will you we want to go to the promised land yes at first they're leaving israel i mean israel even egypt captivity they absolutely said we want to get out of captivity and so they're excited but then they get into the good of the desert then what happens all that stuff in the midst of all this god says the most is we got to do something here moses i want you to come to the top of the what it's time to get on your knees and pray about this situation and then when you go to do it you have to eat you have to sleep you have to brush your teeth you have to make some phone calls and you never get that time with god to moses turns around gus's we're going to come presence of a holy god so he has a face to face with a camera god is a face to face was the bible say it says that he sees the back of god he just sees the back of god what a bummer i didn't get to see him face to is you should want to be in the very presence of god and experience whatever glimpse that you get of god because you'll know if he's bald or not you know who god is when you have an encounter with god you'll know who god is what you absolutely you know everything means a nobody can see the back of god can he know but it's a very present god and what happens a mere most in the presence of god what happens to moses the glory of god comes upon moses when you have a mountain top experience the glory of god will come on you every because then i went out to preach so hard because the spirit would just do the preach in the presence of god do the preaching did you hear me get into the presence of god and guess what you don't have to do a lot of convincing god starts to do the working and out of it most has an encounter with god he comes down and when he's with god what is god giving was he giving ten commandments god gives him the ten commandments ten rules of what god says of how to live time the same time moses writes it think about that for a moment sometimes because of our response to certain things that god turns around and says i'm not going reveal my glory in the same way to guess what he got to be the one to write it even though the first time was god he got the chance to write it god will still give you opportunity be used by him no matter what no matter what you do no matter how much you fall short god was to intervene in your life if you allow him to what i don't want it i don't know what it's like to have an encounter with god because i don't know what it's like i don't want it how many christians are living that kind of life i don't know what it's like to really serve jesus i don't know what it's like oh i don't know what it's like to live my hands up and worship so i won't do it guess what don't believe trans up a warship and guess what you will know what it's like to lift up your hands and worship gotta start somewhere dad here i am god i worship you here i am i give you all my worship and all of a sudden as you say god here i am i give you all my worship give you everything i got and you mean it you're not just doing it to do it for some kind of routine thing is that god here i am but you say i don't want that experience i don't know what that's like i don't want to experience it then you will be the person who gets to turn around and have god give you the ten commandments to give to a people you will be the one that god gives you something to give to somebody else because you see when you experience the going around the mountain and you're ok to see the videos ok d you know what is great to see that evangelists preach it on t v all of it all those people got saved and i'm thrilled and i'm happy that all got saved what is it that you want to say you know what i want to do  says god says we're all the preach the gospel of jesus christ who are the great commission is your to take the gospel and you're not supposed to preach it you're supposed to disciple and who is every single believer that commitment was to the pastor was to the preacher w mountaintop experience and you're able to be used by god instead of going around the mountain it is best to reject you need to know jesus christ your lord and savior jesus said behold i stand at the door and not going to be one hears my voice and opens the door i will come in robust and if you would like to talk to me person you can always give me a call toll free anytime one eight six six one g life seattle open door church once you know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves you there doors are open to 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