The Consecration of New Testament Levites — Bob Sorge

Yes, we get it. And they thank you this morning for this opportunity.

And father, we just thank you for bringing Bob, the man of God, here with the word of the Lord. And father, we just receive not just from a man, but we receive from your spirit this morning. And God, your word says repeatedly, he who has ear, let him hear what the spirit is saying to the churches.

And father, we just pray that over every church here, God, for Shiloh Church and all those represented, we pray that God, what you're speaking to these churches this morning, that father, your word would be clear, not only from Bob, but just in our hearts, that it would resonate in us, that it would go beyond just a morning, but you would set into course things that would change the scope of cities.

God, this morning, we thank you for Bob and the vessel that he is, God, and how he's positioned himself, God, over the last decade and beyond, Lord, in this whole journey. And we thank you, God, for the man of God.

We honor him this morning. And you said in your word, blessed are the feet of those who bring the good news. And father, we pray this morning that, Lord, that you would strengthen him beyond anything he's known in the recent past.

And we thank you for the word of God this morning. And so father, we receive from you today, God. We thank you for your presence in this place. We thank you for all that you're gonna do and say in the name of Jesus, amen.

Entering the River of God in Worship

You just got, I just, I do everything after my ministry. I'm not after my, get this book, game ready. Did you come ready? Let me see it, okay. There is a river in worship that you can find. It gets deep for Jesus.

You might be a warm center. Take feet in the glory of God so that you get a little bit of mist on the river of God. Shallow service orders do. And so if you prefer that you're trying to have a choice to make, stay with your insecurities, just kind of, whoa, what am I saying?

Out of the boat, let's walk on water. Let's go with the river of God, because I don't come to the house for your song list. I come to the house for the river. I wanted a song list service. I would just stay home and turn on the CD.

Straight line, turn on your CD. Track one, track two, track three, track four, track five, you'll never get out of your CD player. You will never get the river out of your CD player. But by the time it gets into your CD player, that thing is just boom, boom, boom, boom.

Let me just say this while I'm getting stuff off my chest this morning. Service on the webcast is a song. All you're doing is a song list service. Stay home and watch the webcast. You just get the same straight line at home that you get in the house.

But if you're following the river, well, Jack, the guests, they're getting the list, but in the house, we're in the house. You missed it. Sorry, you can get the podcast, but the worship is a one-of-a-kind, flowing relationship with the beloved.

It's moving in sync with the spirit of God. It's a river that happens in the house, apples and not other houses. See, there's a movement going, and the most of God that they leave their Starbucks church in order to get into the river of God.

Prophetic Worship and the Authentic Anointing

Give it to us, Lord. If you don't have everything today, we're just following the spirit, which is your song list. To get out of the, this isn't working, we'll just come back to the song. Very important piece.

You got something on your feet, and you can lift God. Preparation is, everybody's leading, the singers, and they were together, start pushing into this realm of spontaneity. Every once in a while, they found it, and when they found it, something would descend, you know, groove, because everybody's sharing everything, and the thing would be full stadium or concert hall.

They follow the cassettes into the thing, basically recognizing there is a presence here that's greater than any of us here in the band. Now, why am I even talking about Grateful Dead? Because where there is the counterfeit, it only is a demonstration of the authentic.

There is an authentic, holy anointing that has been replicated and duplicated by an unholy anointing in the world, but the, to the church, music, that most of our, into the Bay Area here this morning, you have an inheritance in prophetic worship, you have an inheritance in the river of God, you have an inheritance to flow in the depths of the river of God, take it, it's yours.

End-Time Prophetic Singers and the Return of Christ

In the last hour, that is so powerful, Isaiah 42 actually points, that's Isaiah 42, verses 10 to 13, gonna release, Isaiah 42, 13, is about the return of Christ, and there is a prophetic song at the end of the age that is actually gonna prepare the way for musicians, singers.

You have an inheritance that's just more than getting a little bit of mist on a Sunday morning. You have an inheritance to sing a prophetic song that brings a mighty torrent of the river of God, and Jesus Christ, there are prophetic singers that God is anointing in these last days to stand up with a clear spirit, with a strong voice, with eyes that see in the spirit, with a heart that burns like John the Baptist, prophetic songs, sing the word of the Lord, and declare the oracles of God, and will even speak Jesus, and Jesus Christ will return to a prophetic song from an end time, fun is not the question.

We are at the end of the age. This thing has got to come to birth. The earth is in birth pangs to bring forth the manifest sons of God, and I don't care if you're having fun or not having fun. There's a fire that is to be kindled in this hour, and let me suggest, when that fire kindles your life, you probably won't have a whole lot of fun.

Paying the Price for a Prophetic Anointing

Paul said, I'm to do a burning in my spirit, and I'm about something. God, give us people who have a fire in their spirit, who have a mandate from heaven, and who are stewards of a divine mandate that say, I've got to find a prophetic anointing.

I've got to see in the spirit. I've got to hear the voice of God, and I am willing to pay whatever price tag has to be paid. I'm not trolled in the fire, get a prophetic voice, walk and step with my Lord.

I'm entering into the battleground of the ages of good versus evil, and when you're in a war, it ain't always fun, but Abba, would you put a fire inside of us for your agenda in these last days? Malachi, jealous of Chess.

The Levite’s Calling and the Refiner’s Fire

You're just saying, I am a Levite of God. I stand in the courts of the king at the end of the age to lift a prophetic song at the end of the age. Well, guess what you're signing up for? A refiner's fire.

Jealous that there be personal agendas. About 5%, 20%, whatever the percentage we have our personal agendas. When you have God came, and when he visited my life. When God visits you with his fire, not simple.

I was thinking, okay, Lord, deal with the issue. I'll repent of the issue, and let's get on with it. Lord says, no, no, no, no, while we're at it. He's not simply a forerunner. He wants to make you come lovesick for Jesus with a fire in your heart, with holiness and righteousness, with a clean spirit, with clear eyes, and with a heart that wars against love Jesus.

We wanna do our calling. We wanna sing the song of the Lord, and we're saying yes, but we have so much because of issues that happen in the war zone because the flesh is warring against the spirit, the spirit against the flesh.

I've got a smile on my face, and I'm singing my prophetic song, and inside, target issues, and there will come a desperation inside of you and a fervency inside of you that says, I have got to deal with this stuff because I have to have you.

I have to have your spirit. I have to have your anointing. Foxes and the little compromises. There's this huge anointing that is weighed down with all the weights of the fleshly issues that haven't been dealt with, and because his gifting is so strong, he's able to rise up in a Samson-like kind of strength and deliver the goods in a way that makes everybody in the house think he's okay, and a wrestling match on the inside, a war zone because of the flesh warring against the spirit.

Consecration and the Spirit of Elijah

The else and now. We're just all gonna respond, all right? Is that okay? Just decide right now, I am doing this altar call. Give us some light. There is some console. He took the boxing gloves off. Wanna be a great American Christian?

Don't mess with it. And a view that is far beyond Americanized Christianity I'm saying, God, would you give us burning and shining lamps in the spirit of Elijah according to the order of John the Baptist?

That's what Malachi's talking about. He says, I'm gonna send the spirit of Elijah at the end of the age. Beloved, the spirit of Elijah, the John the Baptist forerunner anointing is coming to the church in this hour to prepare for the second coming of Christ.

And if you want in on that, failures, enticement in your spirit that says, I know that there's stuff available for me in God and I want it. And the only way to get it is the narrow road because if it's something you can rise, it's ability to do something to get my eyes clear.

Everybody says, let's do this. I'm also a purpose nibbling on it, not just getting fed by your pastor. He says, elves in you richly. I don't wanna simply understand about holiness. I want holiness to enter my spirit and I wanna become a living theology on righteousness.

I want that to enter me. I wanna live in righteousness. Today I was in a journey in your Bibles too. Say that to say, oh boy, we are in the body of Christ train wreck. I say that to say, I am in. There is an awakened of God that when you come so precious to you, worship service, but having this, this is my worship resource.

This is what kindles my heart. When I'm in a worship service, I'm always looking at stuff. I'm like, ooh, yeah, look, there are words on the screen, the scripture, oh yeah. This is what kindles my heart.

When I go to a prayer meeting, I'm dead in a prayer meeting without this. This is what inflames my prayer life. I just say, Lord Jesus, would you awaken the bride of Christ to the power of your word? And I believe that one of the missing ingredients in the worship life of the American church is we haven't found the joy of worshiping.

Now it's in 102 verses to empower your worship life and you left it at home or sitting in your pew and worshiping, get the Bibles out on the music stands and use the word of God. That's what's gonna unlock another prophetic level in your worship.

Every member on your worship team should have a Bible open. Well, as every person in the congregation. Spouting off a little bit here today, which is why there's this movement that's international right now of turn the house lights down so that we get this ambience.

And I'm like, okay, I like how cool this feels, but we've just sent one big signal to the bride of Christ. You don't need your Bible during a worship service because nobody can read it. So I'm like, turn the lights up so we can get into the word and allow the word of God to interact.

And I don't even know what y 'all do here on Sunday morning. I might be stepping on toes right now. Lights up and let us interact with the word of God that it can dwell in us and we can worship God while I'm feeling better now.

Okay, number three, number one is fasting. Number two, live in the word of God. Number three, the guys in the house that know. Book 31 verse one, I've made a cup. Why then should I look? Yes, I've got this resolve in my heart to fire.

I wanna look at your fire. How many know you gotta decide which fire you want? Can't have her fire and his fire at the same time. Which fire, yes, yes, yes. And as I'm praying the verse, Holy Spirit nails me, we've done it.

But yes, yes, yes on the verse. As you don't mess with God with cheap vows. Vow before God on my wedding day and I was a one vow guy for quite a while. I just don't go. I'm gonna blow. Oh, she's you into his heart.

With God and all, you know. 16. Do you. Christ is my. Word of your mouth against me today. Fear of God. Jesus Christ, I wanna clear great spirit. I wanna hear his voice. I wanna see him. I wanna be an end time.

Modesty, Generosity, and Warfare Against Materialism

Perfuse my insecurities to find my identity in whatever, whatever kind of issues. I am saying yes to modesty and even allowing other sisters and into your life and say, how am I doing? Am I meters adjusted?

Amen. Is it making sense? Need others in the body of Christ. Ministries beloved. But vessels that have an offering of righteousness as you have. Just talk about the offering in the offering bucket. I'm talking about slipping 10 bucks to a single mom.

Slipping 20 bucks. However the Lord leads you and where his heart that is giving to the poor. We have got to do warfare against the spirit of seduction in our culture. We have got to do warfare against the spirit of materialism in our culture.

And Jesus said, the way you cleanse yourself from materialism is through almsgiving. Right there, Luke 11, 41. When you give to the poor, you are washing yourself of the greed that wants to wrap around your soul.

And just give something away right now. Here's this five bucks, 10 bucks, 20 bucks. With the eyes and into the altar call, okay? So if we can get around here, worship him, give us some language. Let's respond.

Let's say yes to the Lord. God, give us burning and shining lamps in this hour who stand in your presence offering an offering in righteousness, who seek clearly, who hear clearly, who can declare the word of the Lord, who stand at the end of the ages lifting up a prophetic song.

Come Lord Jesus, we have got to have you Lord. And we invoke the presence of Jesus in this last hour.