Church History & Function #12 - The Key of David: Heart of Worship

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   foreign good morning this is a class entitled The Key of David the Heart of Worship and we're going to start off with prayer because that's always a good good idea so let's pray Lord I just thank you for this day I thank you for our students and fire and gray School of ministry Lord I pray that you would just um just touch them and bless them and anoint them through this class Lord help them to draw closer to you through the the knowledge that they received today Lord I pray that your anointing would be on it and in Jesus name I just bind spirits that would try to hinder I bind spirits of antichrist that would try to hinder this lesson or hinder anyone from from hearing it and understanding it and implementing it in the name of Jesus Lord I just pray your blessing on our class today and thank you for it amen so we're going to start off in Revelation 3. the Church of Philadelphia in verse 7 we're going to read 7 through 13. and it starts off with and to the angel of the church in Philadelphia right these things saith he that is Holy he that is true he that hath the Key of David he that openeth and no man shutteth and shutteth and no man openeth I Know Thy Works behold I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it for thou Hast little strength and hath kept my word and Hast not denied my name behold I will make them of the synagogue of Satan which say they are Jews and are not but do lie behold I will make them to come and worship before thy feet and to know that I have loved thee verse 10 because thou has kept the word of my patience I also will keep thee from the hour of Temptation and that word there keep thee from the hour means guard not and preserve it doesn't mean take you out of of like some people say with the pre-trib Rapture Theory uh false Doctrine which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the Earth verse 11 behold I come quickly hold that fast which thou Hast that no man take thy crown him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God which is New Jerusalem which cometh down out of Heaven from my God and I will write upon him my new my new name he that hath and ear let him hear what the spirits say it saith unto the churches now if you've been in the church world for any period of time you've heard about the Key of David and there's a lot of different theories um or you know assumptions about what

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   that is yet if you look it up you'll find you know people worship leaders will always always say it's worship or intimacy some people say it's actual keys that represent Authority gospel um I I think it's all of these things David had a special place with God it was described as a man after God's Own Heart and what was different about uh David well one of the things that was different is he operated as a prophet a king and a priest that was very different for back then who else operated as a prophet King and priest Jesus so that's pretty pretty significant in this class we're going to look at the priesthood though that part of of David we're going to look at the priesthood and the Tabernacle that he built that the Lord had him build so the priesthood the Levites were the descendants of Jacob's third son Levi and that word Levi that name meant joined to they were set apart for service in the sanctuary the service of the sanctuary and Deuteronomy 21 5 says and the priests the sons of Levi shall come near for them the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister and or wait on him so they were specifically chosen to wait on God or to minister to God that's that's a big important job so we're going to look at you know there were priests before David and the Tabernacle came along but it was a very different setup so I came across a book we're going to look at how the priesthood changed when David came along and built his Tabernacle the Tabernacle of David there's a really uh interesting book that I got a hold of it's called The Tabernacle of David and so we're just going to take I've I've copied a couple of a page out of that book and we're just going to go through and compare because there was a very there was a big difference in the way they did things before David came along with the relationship and the intimacy and after he instituted the Tabernacle of David in the way that they worship God so we're just going to go through starting with number one and instead of trying to regurgitate everything that Kevin Connor said I'm just going to read his little explanations of what these are these are this is the order of worship that was established when the Tabernacle of David came along and we're going to compare it to the Old Testament Church which was the Tabernacle of Moses and see how God changed things so number one is the ministry of singers and singing David appointed certain Levites to be singers in the Tabernacle of David the

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   ministry of the singers in the song of the Lord was very prominent in his Tabernacle no singers ever sang in the Tabernacle of Moses so number two it was the ministry of the musicians with instruments King David also ordained musicians with a variety of instruments to play and sing before the Lord in his Tabernacle no musical instruments were ever played in the Tabernacle of Moses those are two very significant differences right from the get-go and you know if you know anything about King David he was he loved to minister in music I mean that was that just came out of his heart writing Psalms and playing before the Lord and even when he first began using you know music to soothe the the crazy King so number three Ministry of the Levites before the ark the Levites were appointed to minister before the Ark of the Covenant continually day by day as every man worked every man's work required this was indeed in great contrast to the order of the Tabernacle of Moses only the high priest on the day of a great the day of atonement ever dared to enter into the holiest of all and stand before the Ark of God then it was in silence and solemnness if any other had dared to presume into the most holy Place judgment would have fallen on them but here in David's Tabernacle stood a group of Levites of the Priestly tribe they stood in their courses day by day to minister before the Ark of God it will be remembered that the Tabernacle of David signifies the transference of the holiest of all from the Tabernacle of Moses to Mount Zion thus the Levites had access within the veil so to speak so they had closer access to the Lord just like we do when Jesus died and the veil was torn you know we have direct access and that was the beginning of that that was um a precursor to that so number four Ministry of recording King David set set Levites in his Tabernacle to record the word record means to set it down so that it can be remembered it involved the ministry Of The Scribe many of the Psalms especially those with concerned to Zion which concerned Zion must have been given by the inspiration of the holy spirit in connection with the Tabernacle of David the title of Psalm 80 as well as the whole Psalm is an example of this asaph prayed a prophetic prayer as he stood before the Ark of the Covenant and The Shepherd of Israel who dwelt between

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   the cherubims the Psalms would be recorded by the levitical scribes and thus set down so that they could be remembered what a vast treasure would have been lost if the Psalms had not been recorded Moses was the only one who wrote inspired scripture in relation to the Tabernacle called by his name Psalm 90 and 91 have been attributed to Moses in the Tabernacle of David many Levites wrote Psalms as well as King David and I would say I guess our modern day Ministry of recording would be our media team here as I've said in in most a lot of messages that I've done is that we're all supposed to write down what the Lord says we're all supposed to if he gives you dreams you write it down if he gives you a word you write it down we're all supposed to care enough about what the Lord is speaking what he's saying to record it and that's what happened that's why we have the Psalms because there was a Ministry of recording and so we can be blessed by that number five is the ministry of thanking the lord David appointed the Levites to thank the Lord also many of the Psalms exhort God's people to thank the Lord for his Mercy giving thanks is an expression of gratefulness and appreciation to The Giver of all things unthankfulness is a sign of the last days and is that not the truth um we're definitely there those who were set in the Tabernacle of David were to give thanks continually for all things under the Tabernacle of Moses Israel could render a voluntary thank offering to the Lord but it wasn't the same and that's what we are supposed to do in our lives is to continually give thanks even when we don't feel even when we don't feel it number six Ministry of Praise was in the Tabernacle of David part of the order in David's Tabernacle was to praise the Lord for his goodness and mercy there were always Levites in their respective courses praising the Lord one just needs to check the concordance and count the number the numerous references to praise to realize the importance of this and unto the Lord it is scriptural to say praise it is scriptural to sing praise also the Psalms especially exhort the people of the Lord to sing praise there are over 70 references in 150 Psalms to sing praise there was no singing of Praise in the Tabernacle of Moses all with silent order but in the Tabernacle of David there was continual sounds of praise and I know this is a lot to read but I just want everybody to get the the understanding of what went on in the Tabernacle of David and how it's

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