Let's take the ark home

The text that I have chosen today is found in First Chronicles in chapter 13. It is an extremely rich, long passage and I am going to try to pack it up. One of my problems this morning was that the introduction itself is too content. But I want to concentrate on a call to the men of our congregation, to the fathers in particular, but to all the men but this also obviously includes our sisters as well, to the whole family, actually. And the theme I've chosen is called Bring the Ark Home. And I'm going to get fully into the text. I'm going to skip, because there are two or three different chapters and we can't read them all, but thank God that many of you know the passage where David tries to bring the ark to Israel, to Jerusalem rather, the city of David, and has an initial failure and then finally gets it done. I am very aware that recently, last Thursday in fact, we discussed that passage with the worship ministry and that's where I got the idea of this passage in a different context, the context of praise, worship, the call of God. to the worshipers. But I realized looking for something for today that the Lord also had an approach that was very applicable to parents, to men who have been delegated by God, commissioned by God to bring the presence of God to our homes in a very specific way for man. . Our women are also obviously conductors of God's anointing in our homes, but the man has something very special, the father has a very special call to conduct God's anointing at home.

This passage tells of how David intends to move the ark to Jerusalem. In First Chronicles, chapter 13, it says, "Then David took counsel with the captains of thousands and of hundreds - that is, his generals, - and with all the chiefs." And he says to the entire assembly of Israel, "If it pleases you and if it is the will of the Lord our God, we will send everywhere for our brothers who are left in all the lands and bring the ark of our God - Verse 3 – to us, because since the time of Saul we have paid no attention to it.” David sets out in his heart to bring in the ark that has been in virtual exile and neglect, forgotten by a mishap that we do not have time to discuss in too much detail, which had happened many years ago in Israel's history. And because of the tragedy of that loss of the ark and its return, the ark was left neglected in a person's home there, stored and forgotten from its central place in the life of Israel. The ark was considered an embodiment of Jehovah's presence in the midst of his people. It embodied the anointing, the power, the divine protection, the divine energy in Israel. And that is why the Hebrews, throughout their history, had taken the ark to war, because it was a symbol of power, the power of God with the armies of the Lord. And now the ark has fallen into disuse, and David, being a man who had a tender heart toward God, conceives the project of bringing the ark again. Notice David's solicitude as king, he wants to bless his people and he wants to introduce the ark back into the presence in the midst of Israel. He is solicitous to bless your house. What is the house of David? Your nation. Like fathers, men must also be solicitous for the spiritual health of our home. Parents must, and men, must be very careful to know that we have an assignment from God to bless our homes by facilitating and channeling the presence of the Holy Spirit, the presence of God's blessing in our homes. David wants to include the ark that has been in disuse in the economy of his people again.

So, he conceives the plan to bring the ark from the place where it is over there by a field, and bring it back, install it in the tabernacle that would later be built into a temple, later, by his son Solomon. So, he sends for the ark to be brought in and he devises a whole national plan, everyone is gathered, a big party, they put the ark on a wooden cart, pulled by oxen, a new cart that has never been used. And then it says in verse 7, “they brought the ark of God from the house of Abinadab in a new car and Uzah and Achió guided the car. And David and all Israel rejoiced before God with all their might, with songs, harps, psalteries, drums." It was a great party. Imagine a party where everyone is enthusiastic, content, happy, jumping, celebrating and suddenly someone dies in the middle of the party. How will that feel? One of the most important guests falls there destroyed. And that was what happened to this town. It says, "But when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza stretched out his hand to the ark to support it." The ark, imagine being pulled by oxen, a cart, a cart, on a probably stony and uneven road, the ark wobbles and Uzza thinks it is going to fall and impulsively touches it to stabilize it. And it's like he's grabbed a 5,000-volt power line and then he's destroyed right there by the force of that ark. I don't think it was necessarily the ark or God resentfully, it's that the wrath of God was contained in that ark, because when you touch God's blessing in an inappropriate way, that blessing can often turn into harm because the God's things must be handled with great care. And Uzah falls charred, electrified by the ark of God and for a moment the noise stopped, the celebration, the joy, the party, everything stopped. A great disappointment in the midst of so much joy.

And verse 12 says that “David feared God that day and said, “How can I bring the ark of God into my house?” He's frustrated, he's disappointed, he's discouraged, he's scared. And it says, "David did not bring the ark to his house in the city of David, but he took it to another place, to the house of Obed Edom, a Gittite." Interestingly in verse 14 it says, “The Lord blessed the house of Obed Edom and all that he had.” When the presence of God is in a home, when the presence of God is in a church, there is prosperity, there is blessing, there is abundance. And this man, Obed Edom, who looks like he was there at home nearby, is blessed by the presence of God. Why do we want God's presence in our homes? Why do we want divine blessing in our homes? Because there is blessing in it. Our children are blessed, our marriages are blessed, our finances are blessed, there is protection from God. All of us should want to facilitate God's presence in our homes. We should not assume that simply because we are evangelicals and go to church, that God's presence is actively going to be in our homes. The presence of God requires effort. The active presence of God requires intentionality. The presence of God requires that we do things to facilitate the movement of that presence, as well as in the church.

So, David is totally disappointed, discouraged and still fearful and they wonder, so how will we get in? He is frustrated as there has been this situation. Time passes and the ark stays there and one day, David perhaps listening to something, advice or something, remembers a detail that they had forgotten when they wanted to bring the ark the first time. It says, David thought – verse 2, First Chronicles 15 – “Then, said David, he knows that the ark of God must not be carried except by the Levites because the Lord has chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to serve him forever. .” The light bulb went on. He said, look, what happened is that we didn't handle the power of God carefully the first time. We chose non-consecrated lay people, people who did not know what they were doing and that is why there was a disaster. Brothers and sisters know that we must use the methodology that God has provided so that his grace can be channeled in the life of our homes. Good intentions are not enough. Just going to church like that carelessly is not enough. Something that I've learned in my study of the Scriptures these days, in a concentrated way reading the Bible, has been that God took it - I think I've said this perhaps before - God took a lot of trouble at the beginning of the life of Israel to teach them how they should build all aspects of worship, each piece of furniture in the sanctuary, the dimensions of the tabernacle, the location of the different instruments, the clothing of the priests, even the composition of the incense that they were going to use had to contain certain elements and certain very specific herbs to specifically produce the incense that God wanted, imagine. God is a God of details.

And God had also determined that the ark, when it was built, would have four rings on the sides, at the ends, through which bars made of acacia wood, covered with gold, could be inserted when they were going to carry them from one place to another. other. And that ark could only be carried by Levites holding the ends of those bars so as not to touch the ark. Imagine, David had ignorantly put the ark there simply on a cart, with good intentions, and had put unconsecrated people. I already said that only those who could carry it were Levites. All that. A very big rape, innocent but costly. And David suddenly realizes, oh wait, that's the thing to do. And then he conceives a plan and says that he called the priests, he called the Levites, he made them consecrate themselves, he determined that the ark was loaded by them with the bars that God had determined. And in verse 13 of chapter 15 he says, "For not having done so, we the first time, Jehovah our God, broke us because when we did not seek him according to his ordinance."

Brothers, there are ways in which God wants to manifest his presence in our homes. And I tell you, sisters, let me first, anything I say here about men is in no way designed to diminish or underestimate the importance, the irreplaceable value of women in the church. I have supreme respect for our sisters who are co-heirs of the kingdom, says the word. And that I know they have a unique role to play in the economy of the church. But by virtue of referring to men, I also want to say some things that are important and this is it. God has determined for reasons that sometimes one cannot explain, that man has an essential role, a unique role in the blessing of the home. God has chosen men to be channels of a kind of grace in their homes. And when men ignore that priestly role that God has given us, there is danger and there is loss. There are blessings that God wants to channel to our children, our economy, our homes, our marriages, that only through an appropriate use of man giving himself to the Lord, consecrating himself to the Lord, man is the Levite to a certain extent that has a role that play. And so the word clearly says in many passages. And unfortunately many times in the churches what is least there is that priestly role in men. And God has his protocols that he wants to use.

Now, the woman has many ways to bless her home as well, let me tell you. The feminine, maternal touch is something that has no substitute in the home. But there is something that man has that God has made important and men have to, in obedience, become channels of God's blessing in our homes. And when we men deny and neglect this protocol, that God has placed a special energy in us, that God has called us to be initiators of God's grace. God wants us, like David, to be nurturing in our home. David wants to bless Jerusalem, David wants to bless his people, he wants to set up the ark, and he's not even a priest. He is a king, he is a warrior, he is a ruler, but he wants to bless his house and he knows that he has a role to play. And that's why he says, I want to bring the ark. How many of us are aware that in these particular times of life, we need to cover our homes with a special anointing. Our children need God's anointing. Our children are at war with a culture that wants to steal their blessing, a culture that wants to fill them with doctrines of demons, a culture that wants to make them violate their sexuality as God designed them, a culture that talks to them about rebellion, about questioning their the authority, of things that if they ingest, will be a curse and destruction for their lives. Satan is trying to destroy families. Satan wants to divide homes, he wants to divide husband against wife because he knows that if he does, he will interrupt the flow of God's blessing. Satan wants men to forget their priestly calling. Satan does not want the power of God, the presence of God, the blessing of God to dwell in homes because he knows that where the Lord is, God says, "You shall not pass through here," to Satan and the demons.

And then, we have to understand how important it is that the ark of God, the presence of God, the blessing of God be in our homes and that this is not only for priests. It is not only the pastor, it is not the church that does this, you as the head of your home, as a man in society even, because men are necessary in any dimension of the life of a society, you have a special calling, a special responsibility that you cannot leave to your wife. David knew that he had a power to summon that no one else had and that is why he received that call. I have to make sure that the presence of God enters my house again, which is Israel. And God wants us men to get up and understand God's call for our homes, because there is a protocol to follow and that protocol includes men in a very essential way. And that requires us, and I'm going to forget the text, as God is calling me to just take the rice and beans and mix them together with the meat and the sauce.

Brethren, David tries to bring the ark, he doesn't use the correct protocol and then there is death. And after time he finds out and then he calls the Levites, says to sanctify themselves; call the priests, every seven steps or certain distance for progression, the procession with sacrifices, songs, adoration, because adoration is important to facilitate the presence of God. He sanctifies the priests, the singers, he puts the Levites to carry the ark. All done according to pattern. And then comes the blessing. So, God cooperates with the effort and blesses it, and they joyfully arrive in Jerusalem with their ark and are able to set it up where it needed to be set up, because the guidelines were followed. Many times we wonder why my home is not progressing as it should. There are women who are hungry to see their husbands take their place in the home, their priestly place. There are wives who want to see their husbands become priests, like David becomes a priest at one point. It says that David, when the ark came, in the second effort, dressed in an ephod, dressed almost like a priestly linen slip. Imagine this warrior, probably muscular, because David fought many battles, this man, a man's man, manly in the extreme, king, warrior, ruler, dressed there in a delicate little dress dancing before God with all his might.

There are women who would like to see their husbands make a fool of themselves by dancing in front of the church. Yes or no, sisters? [Laughter] There is a hunger in the woman usually for her husband to become a spiritual leader. My brothers, do not think that I am dumping on you, I am not spanking you. I am encouraging all of us, including myself because I have a lot to learn about how to facilitate the presence of God, how to be a blessing to our children, to our women to channel the power of God. David forgets that he is king and with all the cameras on him he starts dancing like crazy. A warrior, I imagine a warrior dancing is the most ridiculous thing in the world. I don't think David had taken dance lessons. He did what he could there, like he was flapping in the water, drowning, but he was worshiping the Lord. He forgot his dignity. And God wants us to be worshippers. God wants us men to become priests, to dress in a linen ephod and dance in the presence of God, to lose consciousness of ourselves. You know that men are very aware of our own dignity, yes or no? We worry, what do people think of me. Man is like that, man is very careful about his dignity, he is very self-aware, very self-aware. And God often wants us to learn to do things that we are not used to doing.

Men, if you, if I, wait until we feel comfortable before worshiping, dancing, praying in public, singing, we will never do it, because man is like... Man by nature is self-contained, man is more rigid. The woman is looser. God has given blessings to men and women. God has made man careful, cautious, critical. Man by nature is a ruler, he is a legislator, and legislators and rulers always stop influences to examine and judge them before letting them enter within themselves. That is what makes men, in their role as legislators and rulers, very good, but it is also our handicap because it sometimes does not allow the teachings of the church to enter us. Sometimes the pastor says something and we immediately close the gate. It is more difficult for us to submit to teachings, to calls. The shepherd says, “come forward,” the women like skipping lambs all come, the men are there very rigid, very self-conscious. No, I'm too strong for that, how am I going to make a fool of myself. If I go there afterwards she's going to tell me it looked like this or that, dancing there, like Mical did, actually. So men are like that. Our strength is our weakness to some extent. Our manly character prevents us from being innocent. The women quite the opposite. The woman is teachable, the woman is tender to teaching, the woman submits more easily to what comes from outside. And that is her blessing and it is also her weakness because many times the woman in her ability to see the environment and to understand many things is also sometimes penetrable, I am going to say it this way, to heresy and teaching. Many of the great heresies of the church have come through women, especially in these times. Forgive me my sisters. It's true.

But this weakness of women makes it tremendously easy to participate in things of the spirit. The woman has a natural sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. The woman is more easily taught. The woman can sing freely and has no problem. There are men who feel ridiculous singing. Many men do not sing in churches, because singing is associated with the feminine. But we have to know that singing is something for all of us, men and women. The man at the beginning will feel uncomfortable singing, but he has to obey the word of God and do it until comfort comes. Men are very difficult to pray in public. There are many men who have difficulty praying in public. Women don't, women kind of don't have that chip in their brain. They can freely, naturally pray in public, and they are helped by the fact that their brains are built to handle language better than men. You know that psychology and neurobiology have discovered that the female brain is more gifted in the area of language than the male brain. So, men many times feel clumsy and clumsy in praying in public, in speaking, in giving testimony. Women do not have that awareness, women are simple, they are open, they cry easily, they are easily instructed, they easily participate in an invitation, because they have that feminine tone, and that is what makes them good mothers. That is what makes them participate in the presence of God more easily.

So, if we men are going to enter the area of the spiritual priesthood, we will have to go a different path than women. The woman's path is clear, it is easy because of her constitution. The path of man is rockier and more difficult. So, in order to enter into the blessing of God and into the spiritual priesthood, man has to start doing it out of principle and by obedience, by faith. Not because you feel it in your heart, or because you feel it in your emotions, or because you feel the willingness to do it. He has to do it because God says it has to be done, and because he knows that by doing it God is going to bless him and support him and that as he does it, in obedience, the Lord is going to release the anointing and it will come. a time when you will no longer have to think twice about them, but will do so by nature. I have discovered that in things of the spirit, if one wants to enter the deepest dimension of the spirit, one has to first go through a path of discomfort. If you are not used to worshiping the Lord with a certain level of ease, you are going to have to start doing it out of obedience. When you raise that hand it will be like a piece of iron is being raised, you will almost hear the sound of the machine rising due to lack of oil, but as you do it more like a muscle that has been atrophied For a long time, you gain strength, naturalness, spontaneity and that becomes easier.

But, men, if you or any of us want to get into the use of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, we have to start in the area of discomfort. And as we learn to flow in the spirit then the power of God begins to flow in us. When we obey God's guidelines, the anointing comes and the support comes. When David did things as he was supposed to, as the manual said, God says that he cooperated with the Levites and made it possible for the ark to enter Jerusalem. Brothers, God has a purpose in our men. Society is in need of men. And men, I believe that we have to make a resolution that we are not going to get carried away by our manly temperaments, that God has endowed us with a special endowment and that if we do not do what we have to do, we will always remain small. . Our women are going to be in the lead. When what God wants is for them to walk in pairs, we walk in pairs, instead of them coming to church with the boys in tow and us staying there watching the football game or reading the newspaper, that we be the first getting up in the morning and telling her, “Everyone get ready,” that when our wives get up to make breakfast, we already have been praying for an hour, crying out to the Lord, seeking his face for the blessing of our homes.

Brothers, when a man assumes his role, his priestly calling, the life of a home, a church, is transformed. The Muslim world, for example, has learned that. Look at the images of Mecca and other places of worship, the mosques, full of men. The force of Islam comes, rather it is a biological masculine force, because men take their role. They do it at the expense of women, right, they enslave women, they suppress women, and that's not what God wants. But certainly there is a special blessing, there is a special energy that runs in a home and in children when a man assumes his role and says, “I am going to pay the price. I'm going to feel uncomfortable, it's true, I'm going to make mistakes like David did, I'm going to make a fool of myself sometimes, but I'm going to do it because God says that's the way. That's the manual. It says that the blessing is going to flow through me and I am going to do it. I am going to bless my wife, I am going to bless my children.”

And you know what? The fact that a man takes the spiritual priesthood does not mean that the woman will be suppressed. I believe that one of the things, is more, for the woman to be blessed, I believe that the man has to play his role. And when a man is put in authority in the home and assumes his authority, one of the first things he should do is invite his wife to come into authority with him, and make it as easy as possible for his wife to get her into authority. Using your gifts, help her. Many times our wives would like to perhaps study, but we say to them, “Oh, and who is going to wash the dishes? And who is going to cook tonight?" And then we suppress. The man must… if your wife wants to learn to drive, or learn English or pursue more advanced studies, sometimes we have to pay the price. And you're going to have to wash the dishes from time to time. Someone seems to agree with me out there. [Laughter] I hope your husband is not with you because otherwise there will be problems at the end. But the fact is that Christ is the head of the church and the Bible says that the Lord sends his Holy Spirit to create a church without spot and without wrinkles.

The Holy Spirit has been appointed by Christ and by the Father to work in his church, preparing it for the wedding day. Christ wants that on the day of his wedding with his bride, that bride be resplendent and that is why he takes time, using the Holy Spirit to provide opportunities, experiences, discipleship for his church here on earth, perfecting it, polishing it for the day of the consummation of their relationship at the marriage of the lamb. The Lord wants his church, his wife, to reach its maximum height and the man of God uses his authority, not to oppress, he uses the position of spiritual head not to suppress his wife or his children, but to help them reach the level that they must arrive There is nothing that blesses a woman more than a husband who prefers her, treats her with affection and helps her enter into maturity. That must be the way. Many times our wives are forced to steal their place instead of us giving it to them because of our spiritual capacity. It is important that we understand this. This meditation today is a call to our men. You know something else, brothers, that God's blessing is so great on a man who decides to enter into his role, that there should be no doubt in us that if we undertake this effort, the Lord is going to bless us with a great harvest. We are not going to fail.

Because I think many men think, no, if I start that I know I'm going to fail. I don't have the intelligence, I don't have the education, I don't have the fluency that my wife has, I don't have the ease with words that she has, I have made too many mistakes in my life, the deficit is already too big, and that's why there's an implicit little voice in us that says, "Don't even bother trying." But we have to believe that if I do my part, God will do his. If I follow God's protocol, God will accompany me and bring the ark to my house. If I make an effort and set myself a goal, a vision of becoming a man filled with the Holy Spirit, a priest in my home, a person who understands the word of God and I set that as the vision, God is going to do it. so be it. I will not fail. I will not fail in the attempt. My brother, you have to believe that if you take authority, God's anointing will be on you and God will take you where you need to go. I have seen it many times in brothers who, after years of neglect, have finally put their batteries together and have said, I am going to enter my spiritual priesthood and God blesses, and then prosperity comes to the home.

There are many homes where right now, one knows of cases in which – this is not here, don't worry, it is not here in León de Judá or with you – but there are cases in which one sees a husband who loves God greatly, a wife who loves God greatly, they do many good things but everything goes sleeves up at home, nothing works. Because? Because there is a mismatch, there is a lack of synchronization in the home. Protocols are not being followed. The woman walks by her side doing her things, the man by his side doing his and there is no teamwork and each one understands what God has called them to do and then, there is imperfection. It's like two vertices going in opposite directions and instead of coming together and using energy in a coordinated way, they steal energy from each other. God has made women for certain things, men for others, and then later, the two mix and do marvelous things. So, God calls you, man, and along the way, as I told you, you are going to have to deal with many obstacles, many things. Another thing that I believe kills a man in his call to be a priest is the fact that we have had very bad role models. As I said at the beginning, many men are of the first Christian generation and in our homes there has never been a man who was a spiritual priest. And that is a recording that is playing in our brain, because we have no background for what a man is, truly a priest, a David dressed in linen, dancing and bringing the ark to Jerusalem. We don't have models, so it's difficult for men. Many women have had examples of dedicated, self-sacrificing, active, dynamic, entrepreneurial mothers with their children, and they already have an endowment.

But unfortunately, males, that is something generational, it is a generational curse that many times in our families there has not been that pattern and so we have to invent things while we are on the road. And we have to look for good models, read the word, study good examples in Scripture, like now, we have to take time to seek God, seek wisdom from the Lord, revelation, worship the Lord, invest time, go to discipleship , learn, there are many things that must be invested, brothers, at the beginning. You have to pay the price in advance, you have to strive on principle. When you are invited to come to the house of the Lord on a sunny day like today, that requires effort. When you're invited to go to a discipleship class and you're like, “Wow! 12 weeks, I spent an hour and a half in a room there learning, I have never done that.” And you let yourself be defeated by that inertia, you lost the battle before it started. When you let yourself be overcome by sleep and do not take a moment to adore God, seek the face of the Lord, you have lost the battle. The anointing of God comes through those moments of sacrifice that we give to the Lord believing that if we do, God is going to honor us and give us victory and bless us and put our battery to one hundred percent. but there is a price to pay. We don't have the models, but if we do it by faith, God does it.

Another problem that we have in our culture, our culture tells us that the woman is the one who takes care of the children, the woman is the one who prays, the woman is the one who goes to church, the woman is the one who worships. And man doesn't have to do any of those things, or just doesn't do them. And in reality I believe that within every passive man there is an accuser who tells him, “You are wrong. You are not doing what you should do." But we have put that little voice down deep and we pretend not to listen to it. But you know that our children, our homes pay the price because there is energy theft. You know, man, son of God, man of God, if you are not giving God one hundred percent, you are stealing one hundred percent from God. Not giving God what God deserves and what God asks for is robbing the Lord. The Lord says to those who do not tithe, “You have robbed me,” that is another part. I'm not saying that in a way to make you worry. But not giving God what He needs is robbing God. The Lord says that he who does not give scatters, or something like that. He who does not collect with me scatters, he says.

There is something, brothers, then, our culture has told us not to do it, but culture is not a commandment from God. And we have to have the integrity to say, although I don't have to do it because my culture doesn't demand it, I'm going to do it because it's what God wants. And then when you do that, God begins to work in your life and God begins to bless your children. What I was saying is that in these times, as men filled with the Holy Spirit are never needed, men are needed who are willing to pay the price. Priests are needed to say, although I don't have it as a background, although my father or my mother did that, or my father, even though I don't have a suitable masculine role, I'm going to do it because God says that if I do it, He is going to put the ark in my home. Right now, brothers, I cannot tell you the devastation that is in the lives of our sons and our daughters. Homosexuality is eating away at our youth. Doubt about sexual identity, our daughters and our adolescents are eaten away by doubt about themselves, their beauty, their value. Facebook and all the media impoverish their self-image, fill them with doubts about themselves. Schools tell them it's okay to be a lesbian or whatever you want. Our men sometimes do not have an adequate model of healthy masculinity. But there is a teacher out there or there is a mean little friend who is willing to tell them what masculinity is and many times it is something devilish that inserts itself into their sensitivity.

But I believe that when a father adopts his position as a priest, when he dresses in a linen ephod like David, when he pays the price for his own pleasure and his own comfort, as David also did dancing before the Lord, the ark of God come in and seal our children and there is a blessing. I believe that if we search... I know that there are good parents, brothers, I know that there are good parents that it is not necessarily due to a mistake they have made, it is not due to an oversight, but brothers, I have discovered something and that is that there is no mysteries in the world. There is always something that explains why the enemy is served with a big spoon in a house and many times, like David, at the beginning he had good intentions and he did not know why God killed this man, it will be that God does not want him to the ark comes, until later he understood that there was an error, there was a hidden failure. And I believe that many times the hidden flaw is the lack of a father who models character, the presence of Christ in the home, who models what healthy masculinity is in the home. A healthy masculinity, brothers, blesses both the males and the females. A priestly man in the house blessing his home with tenderness, even if it is making mistakes, but striving to channel the glory of God in his house, is seen by his sons and daughters. And men learn the beauty of balanced masculinity and they will pass that blessing on to their wives.

When a man sees a father who loves the Lord, who is strong and manly but tender at the same time, considerate, sacrificial, that is marked in him, and there is something that happens in his subconscious that seals him about what it is to be a healthy man, and that affirms his masculinity. You may hear things out there, but you'll have a healthy brake that will say, “No, that's not right,” when offered destructive alternatives. There is something instinctive that is planted in the hearts of our children that goes beyond external intellectual teachings. I think that's what we want, to seal our sons with a sense of what it is to be a man and the pleasure of being a man. And our little girls are going to learn too, because the modeling of a healthy femininity is not only for the mother, with respect to her daughter. The girls, the girls, need to understand what a healthy man is, what a husband is. For a woman to give herself to a man, she has to have confidence in what a man is, because sometimes women or men transmit certain models subliminally, subconsciously. If a woman has seen a father or a husband abusing his wife, just flattened in a corner watching television every day while her mother does a number of things, abusing her mother, not taking into account her children, that girl many times it's going to convey that image to masculinity in general. Many times she will develop resentments and reservations regarding what a man is and when the time comes to give herself innocently, openly to her husband, she will not be able to do it because there is a brake that tells her, being a man is dangerous, being a man it is harmful. And we are responsible for that. When a young lady, a girl learns to become attached to her daddy, to touch his body, to smell the masculine scent in a positive way, that prepares her for femininity and a healthy marriage.

So, men of God, we have a responsibility that at this particular time is terribly important because years ago, brothers, there were so many other defenses about the family, the culture worked in favor of teaching the family, the teachers shared the same culture and taught the sound doctrine of what it is to be a man, to be a woman, to submit to authority, the entertainment helped, like Disneyworld before it became a source of demonic doctrine, as it is now. Before, Disney was family, it was children, now it is the opposite. So, today, there aren't the defenses that there were before, there aren't the facilities, the backing that the family had. Today this is a desert and if the home does not serve as the source of sound teaching, you will not find it anywhere, brothers. Maybe church but church only a couple of hours a week, the most important modeling has to take place in the home, when a father picks up his son or daughter and walks with them, talks to them, expresses love, It is present, it consults them when they have problems, it teaches them the love of God, it teaches them what the love of the father is, that becomes an internal compass that will follow them all the days of their lives. They won't know why they love healthy masculinity, the priesthood of God, but something within them will tell them what the right path is.

So, man, you have a special, unique call, like David, God has called you to be a Levite, a priest and your call is to invite that ark of God to enter your home, facilitate the presence of God, take time , study the healthy values of proper parenting, fill yourself with the power of God, the anointing of God, love God in an endearing way, not let yourself be carried away by the inertia of your feelings. Do not depend on your feelings, depend on what God has said in his word and apply the word of God in all your habits and your way of being a father, a husband and you will have God's blessing. Much more than we could say, brothers, but I call you in the name of Jesus, men in particular. I forgot something that I will share with you later. Mical, the wife, brothers, even if it's a bit, let me tell you, Mical forgets... the woman has a lot, being a mother, sisters, wives, if you also want your husbands to enter into God's blessing, encourage them, no criticize them too much. When you try and fail, be patient. Mical had many reasons to be resentful, many things that had happened in her life that we can more or less investigate slightly. Mical had become bitter and I think David had probably neglected her and forced her to marry him, because Mical spent a year as another man's wife, given to another man by Saul. And David had forced her to marry him because of a contract he had made on Mical with her dad, Saul. I imagine that there was resentment in Mical and when she saw David dancing and being this great man of God before the public, I think that perhaps there was resentment in her heart and instead of receiving David with joy when he arrives at the house, she tells him, “Hmm, look at this king standing before the crowd, cringing like everyone else, dancing before God.” And he criticized him, he hurt David spiritually.

Wives, perhaps you have many reasons to be resistant and resent your husbands, perhaps there have been years of abuse, neglect, neglect, perhaps there have been offenses, perhaps your husband loves the Lord imperfectly. Maybe he makes mistakes, maybe there are inconsistencies in his walk, maybe there are things in his behavior that you don't like, but you have two options, or you apply the law and criticize him and remind him of all the bad things he did in the past and retain resentment, or you understand that whatever it is, the advantage for your home and for your children is that you make it easier for your husband to enter your priesthood, that we forgive more, that we are less critical, more patient, that at any sign of effort you are ready to bless him, that you exalt his masculinity. Men are very delicate, we are very fragile. Our strength is our fragility and when they hit us our lion hearts neutralize us. We are shy, the slightest failure neutralizes us and men need wives to encourage us and bless us, praise us, tell us when we do anything well done. Look, even if it's a lemonade, if it turned out well, bless him and tell him, "That lemonade turned out well."

Sisters, bless your husbands. Don't be like Mical who criticized her husband perhaps with good reason, but it was not appropriate. A home where there is a critical and discontented woman will not be blessed by God. And husbands, make life easy for your wife, give her opportunities and reasons to praise you and bless you because this is a very delicate mechanism. Above all, a woman submits to a wise, consecrated, understanding, dedicated, sacrificial, kind man, so for a woman to hold on, there must be a man who lifts her up and invites her. And for the man to dare to enter his priesthood, he has to have a woman who encourages him and forgives him and encourages him to enter her priesthood despite the mistakes he may make. That is what God wants, brothers. God wants us to bring the ark into our homes.

Let's lower our heads for a moment. Man of God, I want to speak to you specifically now, so that you do not miss the true intention of this sermon. Man, perhaps you have never even been to church before, perhaps you are not used to a church, perhaps you have never had a background where there are men delivered to the Lord, consecrated to God, but today the Lord calls you to adopt your priesthood. God calls you today to say yes, I have a special calling and I have a privilege and I accept it and embrace it. And if you have not given your life to the Lord, then I ask you to start looking for God today. Why not invite the ark of God into your life? If there's any man here who wants to receive Christ and invite him into his home, this is a special time now. I invite you to invite the Lord into your heart. If you want to raise your hand, if you want to stand up, if you want to come forward, however you want, I invite you but don't let this moment pass. Do not let the moment of your saying pass, Lord, the ark enters my house. The ark enters my heart. Invite Jesus into your life. Become a mechanism, a conductor of God's grace in your home. Invite the Lord to take control of your life. Right now promise yourself that you are going to assume your responsibility and you are going to seek God with all your heart, you are going to be a hungry servant of the presence of God in your home.

Would you like God to start making transformations. Dare now. Invite Jesus into your heart and into your home. Convert from a mere receiver to a producer of sacred energy in your home and I promise you it will be a transformational change. I know that God is speaking to some, many of us this afternoon. I invite you to accept God's call to be a priest in your home, a David who enters the ark into the house of God. Father, I ask in the name of Jesus that you move with power in the hearts of my brothers. Move in my heart first, move in the heart of every man in every home and do your work, a transforming work in our homes. Change our disposition, Lord, and point us in the direction we need to go. May your word go deep, Lord, in our lives. I declare that today is a day of transformations in many homes here in León de Judá, that you are doing new things and we will see your glory, Lord, manifested. we thank you. Thank my Lord. Tell the Lord thank you and tell the Lord, promise him to start a new song in your home today in Jesus name. Thank my Lord. Amen and amen.