Shout Unto God With the Voice of Triumph — Carter Conlon

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The Prophetic Call to Shout With Triumph

Psalm 47, please, if you'll go there with me. I'm going to speak what I feel is a prophetic message for many of us who are here today called shout unto God with the voice of triumph. Shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

Now, typically, when a preacher preaches a message like this, then he gets everybody shouting at the end. But that's not going to be the case today. That's the flesh. It would do no good for anybody here.

There is a shout, though, that does come to the righteous. And you'll know your time. Nobody will have to tell you to shout. You'll just know your time. It's like popcorn in a pot of hot oil. Your time comes eventually to explode.

Everyone else around you might look the same, but there's just something in your heart that breaks out. You're going to begin to understand what that is today. And I believe that many, many people in this sanctuary and in the body of Christ who are searching for truth in this hour of time that we're living in are going to experience this shout to God with the voice of triumph.

Father, I pray, God, for the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Thank you, Lord, that you love when your people's hearts are open to receive your word. God, you want to do something so marvelous in all of us.

And I pray that you give my mind and spirit the ability to convey this truth that you've spoken to me. Give us hearts to believe it and help us, God, to move into these places of promise that you have made available to those who walk in obedience and truth and the fear of God.

Father, I thank you for this. Thank you, Lord, that you're going to do something marvelous. Lord, a work that is going to astound many. And I thank you for it with all of my heart in Jesus' mighty name.

Psalm 47, verse 1, Oh, clap your hands. All you people shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the Lord Most High is terrible. He is what means awesome. He is a great king over all the earth. He shall subdue the people under us and the nations under our feet.

He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob, whom he loved. God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. Sing praises to God, sing praises, sing praises unto our king, sing praises.

For God is the king of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding. God reigns over the heathen. God sits upon the throne of his holiness. The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham.

For the shields of the earth belong unto God. He is greatly exalted. Oh, clap your hands. All you people shout unto God with the voice of triumph. Now, back in the Old Testament in Joshua chapter 6, the people of God were instructed to shout when coming in to possess the land of promise, which for us today is the land of God's promises.

Obedience and the Conquest of Jericho

He said, you're to go into this particular land. And he said, I'm going to give you some instructions, which are going to look foolish to those who are outside of this place of promise. You remember that the people were instructed to march a specific number of days in a prescribed order round about these impenetrable walls that the enemy had established in this land that was promised to the children of God.

And, folks, there are some here today that you are given promises, but the enemy has made encampments in your mind. He's got encampments in your heart. And they're places that you simply cannot go to in human strength.

You cannot defeat them in human strength. You've tried and you've failed. In some cases, it's depression or discouragement, or maybe it's an addiction. Maybe it's a mental stronghold, an attitude of heart, something that is in this place where there should be, in reality, a promise of God coming to life.

And you have faced this in the place of God's promise. But the Lord gave this instruction, and he brought the camp as it is into divine order, and said, I want you to walk a certain way. Really, walk in obedience to me.

Just do it the way I say to do it. And trust me. And go around about this city for seven days, and at this prescribed time, he said, I'm going to tell you, you're going to hear the sound of a trumpet.

And when you hear the sound of the trumpet, I want you to shout. And he said, at the time of the shout, I'm going to bring down all the walls of your enemies. And every man, not just a few of you, but in Joshua chapter 6 and verse 5, he said, every man is going to go into these former strongholds as a conqueror.

Not just a select few, but every man is going to go. And if you can see this as I see it this morning, it's a type of something that Christ has made available to the entire body that is called his church on this side of eternity.

He said, I want you to walk in obedience. That's why you and I have got to get into the word of God. We have to know what God is saying. We have to walk in the order that God is calling us to walk in.

Now, these people, all they could do was obey him. As foolish as it might have seemed at the time, they simply just obeyed him and did what they knew to do. And at the end of this testing, as it is of obedience, they heard the sound of a trumpet.

And I don't think they had to force it. I think it just exploded within them. There was a shout that came into their heart. And as they shouted, these walls of their first and established enemy came crumbling down in this city called Jericho.

And every man went into this stronghold that was in the promised land, and he went in as a conqueror. Verse 20 says, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they shouted with a great shout. Now, remember, we read in Psalm 47, verse 5, the Scripture says, God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

Christ’s Triumph Over Death and Strongholds

He rose from the dead. Folks, when he rose from the dead, he conquered death. He conquered the power of death. He conquered the strongholds of death. He conquered the gates of death. He conquered the plans of death.

He conquered everything that had come with sin, death, and destruction from the time of Adam to the time that he rose from the dead. And when he rose from the dead, the psalmist in verse 47 describes it as the sound of a trumpet.

God rose from the dead with a shout as it is. Christ rose from the dead. And this trumpet sounded. And for those who can hear it, when he rose from the dead, he conquered death, and he conquered sin, and he conquered fear, and he conquered suicide, and he conquered depression, and he conquered inability, and he conquered cultural limitation, and he conquered spiritual blindness, and he conquered woundedness and bruisedness in the heart that the enemy would want to cause to have you walk in pain for the rest of your life on this earth.

He conquered it when he rose from the grave. And the scripture says when they heard this sound of the trumpet, when they heard this sound of victory that God alone can provide to those who are walking in obedience to him, they shouted with a great shout.

And in the Hebrew, the word means to shout with an ear-splitting joy over a conquered enemy. Hallelujah. They shouted a shout that could not be any louder, any deeper, than can come from everything that God has enabled us to shout.

There was just this shout that came from their inward parts as if they had conquered even before the walls began to crumble. They began to shout because they heard something in their inward parts. Now, I shared with you before that this shout was without doubt accompanied by faith.

Romans 10 .17 tells us, Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. These people were in divine order. Their steps were being led by the word of God. And as God's plan and order were being revealed to them.

You know, folks, it's so important that you and I get into this book and that our steps begin to be led by God. We begin to desire to obey him. Now, I venture to say to you today, you know, if you read this in Joshua, there was a prescribed order.

They marched in a certain order. They did things a specific way. They were a type of the church in our generation. They were walking in obedience. They were in divine order. They had no capability within themselves to bring these walls down.

But they did have the power to obey God in as much as they were able to do so. And for those who play games with the word of God, for those who don't take the word of God seriously, this message will mean nothing to you.

You will shout, but you'll never know the victory. There's a shout beyond anything that will ever be worked up in a service. It cannot be worked up by my preaching. It is something the Holy Spirit alone can do within you.

He tells you when to shout. There's an agreement with something that God is doing. And you're the only one that knows it. You're in the middle of a worship service, and everybody is worshiping as they normally do.

And all of a sudden, you just burst through something. And a shout of glory comes into your soul. And God begins to tell you, Yes, you have the victory in this area of struggle in your life. Yes, your son, your daughter will live for me.

I will bring them out of the prison where they are right now. And I'll bring them into my life. And you know it. God knows it. And nobody else. It doesn't matter who else knows it. You know it. And you are shouting.

You are dancing. You are leaping into the air. The person beside you is looking and saying, What happened to her? What happened to him? They're not supposed to be responding this way to the song that we're singing right now.

But the reality is that there's a shout that has come into your soul. You've heard the sound of the trumpet. You've heard the sound of the victory that Christ has won for you. It has become so real to your heart.

You cannot contain it. You have to shout out to God. You have to give Him glory. You have to clap your hands. You have to shout to God with a voice of triumph. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I can see these people walking in obedience around about this city.

Their enemies are leaning over the wall and laughing at them. Talking about their foolishness and all the rest of it. But they're expecting in their hearts any moment to hear this sound of triumph. They're expecting to hear the trumpet.

And yes, we have enemies that we have to face. But as we walk in obedience, this sound of Christ's triumph comes into our ears. And as I said, we're the only ones next to Christ Himself who might hear it.

The sound of triumph. Psalm 89 verse 15 says, Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Thy countenance. In Thy name shall they rejoice all the day, and in Thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

Blessed is the people who know the joyful sound. Blessed is this people who are walking in obedience to the Word of God and have become to hear something that nobody around them is hearing. They're hearing a sound.

They're hearing the sound of victory that only Christ can give. They're hearing this trumpet that has declared that Jesus rose from the dead and sits at the right hand now of all power and all authority.

All kingdoms, all kings, past, present and to come are in subjection to Him. He rules over all and will be Lord and God of this universe for all time to come. Thanks be to God. We are in Him, in heavenly places, seated at the right hand of God in Jesus Christ.

Paul said, that you might see the exceeding greatness of His power to us who believe, that we might begin to understand it, that the shout of God might come in to the inward parts of God's people once again.

But, folks, it doesn't come into the hearts of the disobedient. And sad to say, not every shout that comes from God's people is a shout of triumph. There's a lot of shouting that goes on in the house of God, I dare say today, but not much of it is a shout of triumph.

Empty Shouts and Religious Tradition

Some is just shouts of tradition. I'll show this to you in 1 Samuel chapter 4, if you'll go back in your Bible with me. Talking about the shouts of tradition. We shout just simply because that's the thing to do.

The church we go to shouts, so we shout. They shout at the appropriate time, so we shout at the appropriate time. The preacher raises his voice, we raise our voices. They give us an altar call at the end of the service, and the preacher seems to be excited, so we get excited.

And we lift our voices and shout. And, folks, it can all just become tradition. Now, tradition is something that we learn, which we do, and we do it even in the name of God, but it loses all of its meaning.

I've been into some of these meetings where it's just a scream fest from the beginning to the end. And all I ever got from it was a headache. Folks, I kid you not, I've sat on platforms as a preacher in some of these conventions, and I've had to take Tylenol migraine before even going into the service.

I'm not making this up, because I knew I was going to get a headache from all the shouting and screaming in these services, because it's all tradition. The army is virtually on the edge of defeat. There's so little victory, but they've learned to shout, because that's, of course, the Pentecostal charismatic thing to do is we shout.

We make a lot of noise. And, unfortunately, there's not a lot of victory in it. Now, 1 Samuel 4, verse 4, I'm going to show you this. He says, So the people sent to Shiloh that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, which dwells between the cherubims.

And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. Now, here is the ark represents the power, the promises of God, the provision of God. We know all of these things.

And when the ark traditionally came into the camp, the people shouted just like they did on the days when they marched around Jericho. And the shout was this shout of victory that only God really can give to the hearts of those who are walking in obedience.

But, you see, this is a priesthood and a people who are not walking in obedience. The sons of Eli are committing fornication right at the doors of the temple. They are greedy and they are out for their own gain.

They're demanding the choice cuts of the offerings that the people are bringing into the Lord for themselves. And so, verse 5 says, The ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, and all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.

Basically, it means the earth was trembled. The earth shook. I mean, I've heard that. And when we were in Nigeria a few years back, and there was a shout among the people at one point. And I don't know how many were there exactly, but there were hundreds of thousands for sure.

And literally, I had a sense of what this must have sounded like. When that many people begin to shout, the earth literally trembles. And you can see this ark coming into the camp, which represents everything that God has promised to the people.

And all Israel shouts with a great shout, so that the earth rang again. Now, part of what I want to tell you is that the enemy fears this shout. The enemy fears the shout of righteousness. The shout that comes when people are walking in obedience.

He fears this. Every devil of hell fears this. Satan himself fears it. But there are shouts in the house of God that the devil doesn't fear. When the Philistines, verse 6, heard the noise of the shout, they said, What means the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?

And they understood that the ark of the Lord was come into the camp. Now, keep in mind, this is a type of the promises of God have come, in a sense, into the hearts of God's people again. But, of course, this was not really the case.

And the Philistines were afraid, verse 7, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us, for there has not been such a thing heretofore. Can you imagine how much more hell must be afraid when the Holy Spirit comes in full measure into the life of a believer in Jesus Christ?

Your life from mine, when we're walking in obedience to God. Here was just a physical ark that represented something which was, it was for the people, but it was, in effect, outside of the people. Now, here in the New Testament, we have this same presence or provision of God in the power of the Holy Spirit now because of Christ abiding within us.

And when you and I have the promises of God, folks, do you get this, how simple this is? When we have the promises of God come into our heart, and they're not just things we're memorizing in a class somewhere.

And we're not just quoting it out of tradition. We believe it. And it comes into the heart, and finally, the weakest of God's saints stands up and says, Devil, who do you think you are to be making a mess with my mind and my house and my life and my future and my kids?

And we begin to stand up. And the Philistines said, when they heard this noise, they said they were afraid. They said, God has come into the camp. And they said, woe to us. Hallelujah. You have to have a picture of how hell sees it when you and I are fully engaged in obeying God and honoring his name.

Woe unto us, they said in verse 8. Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? They are the gods. Now, they said it in the plural because they didn't know that God was one. But he said, these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.

Then verse 9 says, be strong. This is the enemy speaking. And quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that you be not servants to the Hebrews as they have been to you. Quit yourselves like men and fight.

Now, folks, when the promises of God come into your heart, it doesn't mean that it's going to be without a fight. There's a cease of obedience in this. There will be a fight. Your enemy will mount up every resource that he has at his disposal and he will fight against your faith in the promises of God.

He will accuse the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. He will accuse you. He will come against you. He will fight against your mind. He will do everything he can to afflict you and to stop you from believing the promises of God.

And the Philistines fought and Israel was smitten and they fled every man into his tent. And there was a very great slaughter for the fell of Israel, 30 ,000 footmen. And the ark of God was taken and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas were slain.

So the typology here really is there was a very, very great defeat among the people of God. They shouted, but their shout was not in obedience. Folks, this is why this year in this church we're going to be moving into the word of God like never before.

Not just from the pulpit, but I'm believing in my heart for every Christian who attends this. If you consider this, your congregation, you're going to start moving into the word of God. And say, God, I'm beginning to see some things.

I'm beginning to understand. There's great, great provision for me, great victory, but it doesn't come apart from obeying you. I can't walk in willful disobedience to the word of God and then shout and think I'm going to have victory.

Folks, there are people here living in adultery. People cheat on their taxes. People do all kinds of things. They lie about their past. They lie about their present and their future. They're in illicit relationships.

They're doing all kinds of things they shouldn't do. And then come into the house of God and shout, expecting this marvelous victory. Well, folks, you won't have any more of a victory than Hophni and Phinehas had.

And ultimately the promises of God will be literally taken out of your heart by your enemy. And the priest or the position you thought you had will be taken away. You will lose it all if you play games with the word of God.

Oh, there's incredible provision in the kingdom of God. But it comes to those who obey God. And there has to be a genuine fear of God because God is good. God is wonderful. God is marvelous. But God is holy.

God does not play games with people anymore in the New Testament than he did in the Old Testament. Now, this is a shout of tradition. It's without the fear of God. It's without obedience. And it brings spiritual defeat and death.

The Golden Calf and a False Concept of God

Now, Exodus chapter 32, if you go there, I'll show you another shout where there's no power. Exodus chapter 32 and verse 15. These are shouts from people who are gathered around the wrong concept of God.

And they're headed in the wrong direction. A lot of camps in Christianity today that are doing a lot of shouting. But they have fashioned another God. They've called him Jesus, but he isn't Jesus. And they're headed in the wrong direction.

Instead of moving into the promises of God, moving into this life which will be an example of the life of Christ to their generation, moving into a life of selflessness and giving of oneself for the purposes of God, they're moving in a direction of Egypt.

That's where these people were going. They had fashioned a God who could take them back into that which they had left behind. Amazing. And we think that this foolishness is only found in Exodus 32. But I tell you, it's all over America today in the Christian church.

Fashioned a God. They've called him Jesus. But this Jesus that they've fashioned out of their own minds leads them now back into the world that they've left behind. They can drink and dance. They can party.

They can seek out wealth and riches and fame and all these other things and have salvation at the same time. They can shout and scream. They can jump like pogo sticks in their services. They can run the aisles.

But ultimately, their shouts are not heard. They're powerless. Exodus 32, 15. When Moses turned and went down from the mount and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand. You see, he has the word of God in his hands.

But these people are now fashioned another God which is in opposition to the word that is before them. The tables were written on both their sides. On one side and on the other were they written. And the tables were the work of God.

And the writing was the writing of God graven upon the tables. And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, there's a noise of war in the camp. And he said, it's not the voice.

This is Moses speaking of them that shout for mastery. In other words, this is not people who are fighting for the honor of the glory of God. They're not fighting to achieve something. Neither is it the voice of those that cry for being overcome.

But it's the noise of those that sing. Do I hear? And so here is a people who have defied and pushed away the word of God. They formed another Christ as it is if I use it as a type for our generation.

And they've gathered around this other Christ and they're dancing and shouting and singing. And he said, it's noise. Moses had been in the presence of God and it wasn't worship. It was noise. All the shouting was in vain.

It was for nothing. God was not hearing them. You go to First Kings. Don't bother turning there. But in First Kings chapter 18 is the famous chapter in the Old Testament where Elijah had a contest. With the prophets of Bill, because the people's hearts were moved away from truth.

And they were gathered around an altar whose prime focus was self-preservation, personal comfort and financial provision. And the Bible tells us that in verse 28 in First Kings 18, they cried loud. They gathered around this altar.

They cut themselves with knives. They were extremely sincere about what they were doing, but they were extremely wrong in their pursuit. They were way, way far away from the heart of God for his people.

And they shouted. They cried. You can just hear them. The scripture says they were leaping on the threshold of their altars and leaping off. And every man was getting his opportunity for glory. I can see these prophets leaping on their altar.

And I believe that probably the next guy up was pushing the previous guy off. Because everyone wanted to be there when the glory. They wanted to be known as the man who brought the glory. And they're shouting and they're dancing.

And they're all about themselves. And their theology, if you look at the theology of Baal, I don't really have time to go into it. It's all about a full cupboard and a full closet. And it's all about having more than all of your neighbors.

It's about preservation, comfort and provision. That's the theology of Baal. And they're dancing around this altar and they're crying aloud. And there's a tremendous shout going up. I mean, if you walked unaware onto this scene, you'd think, man, there's a revival going on in Israel.

This must be revival. Look at all these people gathered. Tens of thousands and all this shouting that's going on. And look how sincere they are. They're even cutting themselves and showing their sincerity before God.

And they're putting a tremendous amount of human effort into this altar that they've just built. But you go on further in the scripture. In verse 29, it says, there was no voice, there was no answer, and nobody even regarded them.

Amazing. No voice, no answer, nobody regarded them. A lot of shouting, a lot of human effort. And I've seen this over the years. So much shouting, so much human effort going on in the house of the Lord.

So many preachers just wanting to be the man who brought the glory and worked the people into a frenzy. But, folks, there's no change. There's no voice. There's no direction. The people leave the sanctuary.

They don't know what to do. They don't know where to go. They don't know how to live. They don't know how to get there. There's no power to accomplish anything. They're out of the Word of God. They're moving strictly in this realm of human emotion and human effort.

And there is no victory there. There's no victory. And if any of you have come in today and you've come out of these types of conventions, you know exactly what I'm talking about. The only way you have even a sense of victory is you have to stay around this altar of shouting, because that's the only place where it feels like there's at least a momentary release and a momentary victory.

David’s Obedience and the Battle With Goliath

But there's no voice. There's no answer. There's no hope. There's no future in it. There's no strength in it. It's very quiet in here. I told you you wouldn't shout. 1 Samuel chapter 17. Now, this is a time in Israel's history when there are very, very few people that are hearing the sound of victory.

They're under the leadership of flesh. They're under Saul's leadership. Saul has lost touch with God. Saul is into methodology. All he can offer the people now, if anybody can win the victory against our enemies, you'll marry my daughter, your house will be free, and you'll have a new car.

I mean, basically, that's the type of theology he had. This is all he could offer. And all of Israel's soldiers are standing on the hillside. They're unable to fight. They're filled with fear. Everything is gone.

They're not hearing the sound of victory anymore. And they're shouting. But the reasons that they're shouting are as varied as those that we have just discussed. 1 Samuel 17, verse 20. It said,. And so David is not aware of what God's going to do in his life.

He shows up. He's got a donkey. He's got some cheese on it. He's simply a young man who's walking in obedience to God. He's obeying his father. His father told him, take some cheese and bread to your brothers and find out how they're doing.

So he's simply a young man who walks in obedience. He doesn't even know that God's going to use him to bring about this marvelous deliverance. And that's usually the way it is. Folks, I'm telling you something.

If you just start obeying God, you just start doing what is right. You just start saying, Lord, if I see it here and you say to do it, that's what I'm going to do. And you just start walking that way.

As a Christian, you can be the person who brings deliverance into your house. You bring deliverance into your family. You bring deliverance to people in the workplace. You might be the one who brings deliverance into drug-infested neighborhoods that you might be living in and around in your city.

You don't know. You're not even aware of it. But you're just a person who's walking in obedience because God can use you if you're walking in obedience to Him. Hallelujah. And David walks in. And he's doing as Jesse, it says, had commanded him.

And he came to the trench and the host was going forth to the fight and shouted for the battle. But it's just a shout of tradition because it's what we're supposed to do. I can see the army of Israel getting up every morning.

Hooray! Hooray! This is the day. And they head down into the valley and they come back and they're wounded and beaten. And they know that there's not a man among them that has the courage to fight against this giant that has risen up and challenging the armies of the living God and, in fact, challenging the honor of God.

So they're a defeated army even while they're shouting. They're defeated. The enemy is against them. The enemy is swallowing literally the testimony of God in that generation until David comes. And when David comes, the men of Israel again begin to hear a sound.

A sound they haven't heard in years. They're starting to hear. They're starting to hear this sound of victory that only God can give. It's the sound of a trumpet that only comes to those who walk in obedience to God.

They're beginning to hear the sound of this trumpet. Folks, you've got to hear this today. God is not looking for superstars. He's looking for people who will walk in obedience to Him. And obedient people who have opened this book and say, if it says, husbands, love your wives as Christ loves the church, then I am going to, by the grace of God, love my wife as Christ loves the church.

Obedient men and women of God. Not superstars. Obedient. And in the world's sight you might look like no more than somebody with a mule with a bit of cheese and bread on it. But you come into the camp and all hell knows that you are the man, you are the woman, you are the young person that God can use to bring glory to His name again because you've learned to obey Him.

You're hearing a sound that nobody else is hearing around you. They're all looking at their armor. They're all looking to their fleshly king who has no answers. All their methodology has failed them because something has risen up and human spirit cannot come against this.

It's demonic what's standing in front of them. And the human spirit cannot triumph over it. We're living in a generation, folks, where absolute demonic activity is baptizing our society and filth. And flesh can't stand against it.

No seven steps of anything are going to win this battle. God needs an obedient people again. David comes into the camp. In verse 45, David hears this threat against the honor of God. And he starts running around and he's just a kid with a donkey and some cheese.

And he says, is there not a cause? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? Now, his brothers are offended at him. And they say, we know the naughtiness of your heart.

With whom have you left these few sheep in the wilderness? Oh, we know why you're here. You just came to see the battle, didn't you? You want to see real men fight. That's why you're here. And you're just frothing off at the mouth.

But David says, no. No, I'm hearing something. Nobody else seems to be hearing it, but I'm hearing something. In verse 45, David, after convincing Saul, I don't know how for the life of me Saul was ever talked into this.

I'm going to have to look this up in the archives when I get to heaven. But somehow, Saul was talked into letting a 15 or so year old boy go down with a sling into a valley to fight a giant who had been a warrior from his youth.

And David came to the Philistine in verse 45. Now, I want you to keep in mind. Follow me in this. There's been shouting. Every day there's been shouting. But there's no victory. And the men are skeptical of their own shouts.