1 00:00:00,190 --> 00:00:02,030 A brown book if you need it. 2 00:00:02,750 --> 00:00:05,430 Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in 3 00:00:05,430 --> 00:00:06,790 his wonderful face. 4 00:00:08,270 --> 00:00:11,070 Things of earth will grow strangely dim in 5 00:00:11,070 --> 00:00:12,690 the light of his glory and grace. 6 00:00:13,750 --> 00:00:15,129 Let's just sing that together. 7 00:00:16,630 --> 00:01:23,040 Let me 8 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:27,420 say this, if more Christians sat at his 9 00:01:27,420 --> 00:01:30,120 feet, less Christians would fall on their face. 10 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,460 We should sit every day at his feet 11 00:01:35,460 --> 00:01:36,660 in the quiet time. 12 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,220 It's something we should do every day. 13 00:01:39,340 --> 00:01:40,260 Let me give you an example. 14 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:42,880 I came off a week of spiritual highs. 15 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:45,540 Every day I felt like I was on 16 00:01:45,540 --> 00:01:47,640 top of Mount Sinai in the presence of 17 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:47,980 God. 18 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:50,540 I felt like I was in that cliff 19 00:01:50,540 --> 00:01:53,120 to the rock with God walking by me 20 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:54,640 and allowing me to see his backside. 21 00:01:54,860 --> 00:01:56,980 You know those experiences, those spiritual highs, but 22 00:01:56,980 --> 00:01:59,840 what comes after the spiritual high, right? 23 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:01,780 You can't stay on top of the mountain 24 00:02:01,780 --> 00:02:02,560 forever, right? 25 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,280 Well, at the end of the week, I 26 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:06,220 was very fatigued. 27 00:02:07,020 --> 00:02:10,140 16, 17 hour days, very fatigued. 28 00:02:10,700 --> 00:02:12,840 I normally get up at 4.45 in 29 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,320 the morning to have my quiet time. 30 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,320 And that Friday morning, I was rushed. 31 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,300 I rushed my quiet time. 32 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,400 I rushed to my office at work and 33 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:24,640 I was in the flesh all day. 34 00:02:24,780 --> 00:02:27,760 I fell, I fell in my walk. 35 00:02:28,740 --> 00:02:30,880 I fell in my walk, I'll say that. 36 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,280 Well, as I was driving home, I was 37 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:36,660 praying. 38 00:02:37,700 --> 00:02:41,000 And I said, Lord, why did that happen? 39 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:44,140 Why did I fail so miserably today after 40 00:02:44,140 --> 00:02:47,900 being in your presence so strongly throughout the 41 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:48,100 week? 42 00:02:48,100 --> 00:02:49,540 How did that happen, Lord? 43 00:02:51,260 --> 00:02:54,040 And it was as if he spoke to 44 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:54,180 me. 45 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:55,300 You know how he speaks to you in 46 00:02:55,300 --> 00:02:57,620 a quiet place in your heart and no 47 00:02:57,620 --> 00:02:59,520 one else speaks to you in a quiet 48 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:00,120 place here? 49 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:05,120 He spoke to me and he said so 50 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:11,120 clearly, he said, you cannot face today, let 51 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:15,280 alone this hour on yesterday's experience of me. 52 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:18,600 You must seek and meet me every day. 53 00:03:19,780 --> 00:03:21,380 Then a text came to me in the 54 00:03:21,380 --> 00:03:24,220 Old Testament so vividly, I thought about the 55 00:03:24,220 --> 00:03:27,500 Israelites and the manna and how God ordered 56 00:03:27,500 --> 00:03:29,740 them not to store up the manna because 57 00:03:29,740 --> 00:03:32,000 what happened when they stored up the manna? 58 00:03:33,020 --> 00:03:34,520 Got worms in it, didn't it? 59 00:03:35,340 --> 00:03:37,120 And that voice came to me again. 60 00:03:37,860 --> 00:03:41,940 And that voice told me, unless you seek 61 00:03:41,940 --> 00:03:46,480 me afresh every day, your Christian walk will 62 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:48,940 have worms in it, worms in it. 63 00:03:49,980 --> 00:03:51,580 And that's the problem with a lot of 64 00:03:51,580 --> 00:03:53,280 preaching today, it's got worms in it.