Honoring God
Honoring God
(The Jealousy of God)
David Wilkerson
The word ‘consecration’ means to be wholly consecrated to the will in the purpose of God, to have no will of your own. ‘My purpose has to line up with His eternal purpose that I am going to trust Him with everything I am and all that I have.’
This is what must cause the jealousy of God to stir. We move Him to jealousy, when we’re afraid to go all the way in faith.
We’re afraid to commit, totally resign and commit ourselves to the will of God.
That’s consecration when you say,
“I really don’t care about my career. I don’t care about my future. I don’t care about anything. But to give my life wholly into His hands
and to fully trust Him.”
That is worship. That is the highest form of worship to trust your life, to trust your will into His care. The Bible said, “If you do this, there is a full reward.”
Remember what Boaz said to Ruth. He said,
“A full reward shall be given to thee of God.
The God of Israel under whose wings you’ve come to trust.”
Ruth 2:12
The Holy Spirit began to speak so very clearly. Let me share with you what I believe as the heart of this.
God’s jealousy has to do with His honor. When God closed up to red sea, He said, “Now I’m gonna bury them all in the sea. And then I’m gonna get honored before all the heathen. All of the Egyptians are gonna know. The whole world is gonna know.
My people are going to know. I’m gonna honor myself right now
by making my deliverance plan.”
David said,
“Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house
and the place where thine honor dwell it.”
Psalms 26:8
He said, in other words the house of God shall be a place where God is truly honored. The church is the place to protect His honor.
Oh Lord, thou art very great
Thou art clothed with honor and majesty
Psalms 104:1
The Bible said that we as the church be to Him a name of a joy, a praise, and an honor before all the nations, and an honor before all the wicked, before all the heathen (Jeremiah 33:9).
We have a people today. In fact we have a church today that is dishonoring the Lord before the eyes of the whole world.
We dishonor Him by walking in fear. We dishonor Him before by complaining in front of the wicked. We dishonor Him by making God seem powerless. It’s dishonor to His name.
And on the job you’re murmuring complain both that you have Christ in your heart and that He’s all sufficient. You try to get them come to your all sufficient Christ. And they hear you murmur. They hear you complain. They see you’re down in the dumps. They see you walking in despair.
You’re dishonoring His name. And that brings the jealousy of God,
brings forth the jealousy of God.
It has to do with honoring His name. This is from Malachi
You say the Lord be magnified
Malachi 1:5
In other words, you praise me. “God be praised.” “God be magnified.”
Now a son honors his father. And a servant honors his master. If then, I’d be your father. Where is my honor? Where’s my fear?
Malachi 1:6
God said,
“The problem is this people draw near with their mouth
with their lips, they do honor me but they removed their heart far from me.”
Isaiah 29:13
But the real honor that we give God in the church of Jesus Christ
is there’s no mixture in us. It’s not half the world and half the consecration.
It’s that we’re fully consecrated and that everybody around you can say, they take note that
“You’ve been with Jesus.
You have been with the Lord.
You are His.”
And that’s your testimony. It’s not just words, but it’s deeds that when sorrow or tribulation or tragedy strikes in your home. You don’t come apart. You don’t fall apart. You don’t go to your ungodly friends and unburden your bosom about how hard things are.
You go to the secret closet and you unbosom your heart to Jesus
so that when you face the wicked out there you can come with the peace in the calm and the quiet.
You can stand in front of the whole world and say “I want you to serve Jesus because I proved He lives in my life in my body.”
What are you like on the job?
What are you like every day in front of your workers,
everybody around you?
What kind of testimony?
How much honor are you giving to His name?
Do you honor Him?
Do they see the joy of the Lord that’s supposed to be your strength?
Do you gossip? There’s should be nothing coming out of your lips but that which is in the heart because what’s in your heart will come out of your mouth, will come out of your heart, will come out of your lips.
If you have been spending time with Jesus, it’s just natural. You don’t have to be on guard on the job. You shouldn’t have to be setting up your guard all the time. It should be natural that it flows out of relationship of being in love with Jesus.
I want everybody to pledge to your heart right now, every one of you, that from now on you don’t pick up the telephone. You don’t go to somebody else. You don’t pick up a book or a tape.
When you need help,
when you’re in crisis,
you go to your room.
You bow down and talk to Jesus.
You go to the Lord from now on.