You Were Born for Connection With God – Bill Johnson (Sermon Clip) | Bethel Church

You were born to live in seamless connection with God Himself. It has always been His design and desire to fill you with His glory and co-labor with you to see His Kingdom fill the earth. In this sermon clip, Bill Johnson teaches on the priesthood of every believer and God’s heart for seamless connection with yielded sons and daughters.

see his longing is always to accomplish

the significant things through

co-laboring through the yieldedness of

his people those who’ve been made in his

image created in his image would respond

with likeness with the same heart as he

has

so here we are in this moment fast

forward to solomon’s day he builds this

temple and it’s time to dedicate this

i’m going to assume the most extravagant

building that’s ever existed

man i would love to see it

and so here’s this moment where

the priests have come together

and i remind you

uh exodus 19 verse

6 and isaiah 61 verse 7

announce to the people of god you shall

be

priests unto the lord

ii peter 2

verse 9 says you are

priests under the lord

old testament pointed to the future said

it’s hep it’s going to happen

peter and the book of revelation chapter

1 i think it’s verse 5 announce

it’s not coming it is now

you have the right and responsibility to

minister directly to him so everything

we see of that nature of that of that uh

that function in in the old testament is

is to seed the cloud just to give us

insight and so here we have uh we have

all these priests gathered together

and um we have uh um verse 12 let’s just

start there it says the levites who were

singing all those of asaph and haman and

jedithan with their sons with their

brethren

stood at the east end of the altar

clothed in white linen they had to wear

linen they couldn’t wear wool because if

they wore wool they would sweat and

there was nothing you could do on your

own works sweat in the presence of god

everything was to be by grace so here’s

another glimpse you’re never there by

your works and that was that was the

insistence of the lord they had symbols

stringed instruments harps

and with them 120 priests sounding

trumpets man that had to be something

i mean there were entire family lines

their whole job was just to play

trumpets

and you think about it almost seemed

silly a whole another family line they

were singers a whole nother group they

were just symbol players the whole point

was they had to become excellent what

they were doing and they were to carry

on that mantle throughout their family

line

120 priests sounding trumpets

verse 13 it came to pass when the

trumpeters the singers were as one

to make one sound

yeah but i want to stand out no you

don’t no no you don’t you’re privileged

to be a part of the whole

it’s not about you

it’s not about me

whenever as one to make one sound to be

heard in praising and thanking the lord

when they lifted up their voice with the

trumpets and symbols and instruments of

music and praised the lord saying for he

is good for his mercy endures forever

that the house the house of the lord was

filled with a cloud

so that the priest could not continue

ministering because the cloud for the

glory of the lord had filled the house

what did we read in haggai the glory of

the latter house will be filled will be

greater than the former

it’s always his intent to take us from

glory to glory

anything less is man’s influence

it’s always his intent to take us from

glory to glory

does doesn’t come

because it’s my goal

it comes

because i surrender to his

so here in this moment we find i don’t

know how many are there there’s at least

120 they’re there that are playing

trumpets then you’ve got probably the

same amount or more that are singers

you’ve got the symbols you’ve got

stringers you’ve got all this stuff so

you’ve got this massive massive crowd

and they’re all playing

not for the nation of israel they are

playing for the audience of one we are

playing to him directly to him

every strum

every clanging symbol every

vo every syllable that is lifted up in

song everything is for the one

and when that happened and it became a

united sound when they sang as one with

horns that’s a miracle right there

when all of that comes together as one

sound

the cloud

the cloud came

and so filled the temple nobody had to

stand up and say i think it’d be

appropriate if we went to our knees

right now just to honor the lord i

believe those moments are fine i’ve done

it and probably will do it again who

knows day’s not over

but it wasn’t that kind of a moment it

was an involuntary

i’ve got to hide my face from the one

who just entered the room

here’s the deal

this all happened under an inferior

covenant

and inferior covenants do not release

superior blessings

if what happens in this context

happened

in the old testament when they were just

learning what it was to sing to the lord

and to honor him and to give offerings

of thanksgiving and praise if if it

would happen in that environment

then how much more has he not designed

it to happen

here with us i remember a prophetic song

we had in weberville

prophetic songs were as the song of the

lord with the lord himself

is is singing i mean i didn’t hear his

voice but we

we heard through another voice

i remember the word he said did i not

fill

the tabernacle of moses with my glory

did i not fill the temple of solomon

with my glory

how much more should i fill the place

that i build with my own hands my

beloved i’m building you

no matter what we throw into the mix our

ambitions for our families our countries

our cities or whatever just

put it all in the pile

it is all

profoundly impacted

by the glory

where is this thing headed

i

i can’t shake the fact that his goal

is for the whole earth to be filled with

his glory

now he’s god he can make that happen now

but it would be a military invasion it

wouldn’t be through partnership

see his longing is always to accomplish

the significant things through

co-laboring through the yieldedness of

his people those who’ve been made in his

image created in his image would respond

with likeness with the same heart as he

has

to model to illustrate to release

to activate his will in the earth

and that’s the heart of god that’s the

heart of god that’s the privilege that

we have in this hour we we know his

heart i may be confused by a thousand

things but the one thing that’s not

confusing not if i read this

the one thing is not confusing is he has

got me on a track

it’s not a road where i can take

directions i want it’s a railroad track

you don’t turn

the direction has been set

you can stop you can go backwards but

you can’t change the assigned direction

the direction is from glory to glory

from glory

to glory

so

i remember

i’ve been uh sentimentally

stirred up in the last week or so

just in my own private little world

remembering i’ll never forget the sunday

sitting

right down there where

brian my sons happen to be leading in

worship that sunday

he may have played two chords i’ve

always said it was one but it might have

he might have gone to a second chord but

something happened

on that second chord

where

he

filled the

room

and we didn’t get to our first song for

40 minutes

and no one was keeping track it was

after a fact you look back why because

some something happens when he comes in

everything that was important to you you

can’t even remember

it’s not like ah i’ll bring it up later

no you can’t remember it in in the

manifest presence of the king of glory

suddenly there’s only one thing on your

mind it’s what i was born for i i was

born for this seamless interaction

between the king of glory who has made

me qualified because i could never

qualify myself

he’s qualified me to be here in this

moment

and it’s in those moments

we hear him say who shall i send

and without even thinking the hand goes

up

people who tell me i love to worship the

lord i don’t like to

i don’t like to

leave that place i’m not sure they saw

him yet

i’m not sure they actually saw him

because i’m not sure he could see his

heart

and not want to go

i i don’t know if it’s possible to sit

in that moment where where you see him

or where there’s overwhelming sense of

who he is and what he’s like and he says

who shall i ascend and you find your

hand going up said i’ll i’ll do it you

name it i’ll do it i’m there

i don’t know what i’m doing

but i trust you go with me

i’ll go

i i’m not sure that anybody who wants to

just sit there

and

and do nothing

has actually seen what they claim to

have seen

there’s

there’s something about

who shall i send i’ll go there’s

something about that moment of going

where that glory never leaves you it’s

not like i’m departing the glory it’s

like i’m i’m going to now enter into a

greater realm of glory because i will

now be an instrument in his hand

and perhaps that is how

the whole earth

becomes filled with this glory

as people in the presence

carry the presence

to bring change