Synopsis of Sermon 6.23.24

Delivered by Bishop Joseph W. Walker, III 

Psalm 20:6-7 NIV 
6 Now I know that the Lord saves His [a]anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven with the saving strength of His right hand. 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.

I.          INTRODUCTION 

1. A big part of living in relationship with God, involves trust.
2. Trust occupies a profound place. It is a deep seeded reliance on God’s character. Proverbs 3:5-6 NKJV says 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall [a]direct your paths. – Trust is surrendering to God. Psalm 9:10 NKJV says ¹⁰ And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You. – Trust really highlights the faithfulness of God over generations. You have placed confidence in God.
3. Trust is not easy. We like to be in control of our own lives.
4. Trust requires relinquishing control and relying on God. While we’re trying to figure it out, God has already worked it out.
5. It is impossible to access the promises of God without trust. We put trust in everything else, but we struggle with putting trust in God.
   1. You sat on your chair and didn’t worry about it not working. You just trusted it to be strong enough to hold you.
   2. You get on a plane and put your life in the hands of the airline. You don’t question the pilot or plane. You just trust that the airline has everything the way it is supposed to be.
6. When you’re in relationship with God, no matter the challenges you face, there comes a moment where you just have to put your trust in God.
7. This Psalm today is important to understand. Psalms were songs. This particular Psalm today, was a song that was sung prior to going into battle. David and his army sung the victory before the battles even began. You have to go in declaring that it is already done!

II.          REMAIN SPIRITUALLY AWARE 

• A relationship with God requires that you know what you know. Lots of people live their whole lives not knowing what God has available to them, because they never put in the work.

A.  Revelation Is Progressive 

1. Revelation is the apprehension of truth at your own comprehension. This means God reveals things when you can understand it. An example of revelation is like this phrase, “If I knew then what I know now, I would have done better”.
2. You are constantly learning. God is constantly revealing Himself to you.

B.  Knowing Makes The Difference 

1. When you know, you act differently. People that know don’t walk around hopelessly and never walk around holding their heads down. They know that joy comes in the morning.
2. If people knew what you knew, they would act like you act! You know all things work together to them who love the Lord and who are called according to His purpose.

III.          REMEMBER THE LORD SAVES HIS ANOINTED 

• God will never anoint you and then allow you to succumb the the attack of the enemy. God has you in protective custody.

A.  The Anointing Attacks Adversity 

1. When there is a gift or assignment on your life, God anoints you for it. God never allows us to copy someone else’s anything. Whatever your gift is, God anointed you for it.
2. Stay in your lane and you will stay in your anointing.
3. Anointing was used to set people aside for a Holy Purpose. This is to be set apart. This also means you have been placed on a higher display for an easier attack. When you are anointed, you become a target of the enemy.
4. In the bible days, Priest were set apart. Exodus 28:4 NKJV says ⁴ And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, an ^[a]ephod, a robe, a skillfully woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. So they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to Me as priest., 1 Samuel 16:13 NKJV says ¹³ Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Ramah.,1 Kings 19:16 NKJV says ¹⁶ Also you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi as king over Israel. And Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place., – Don’t be surprised, but when the oil of God is on your life, you become a threat to the enemy.
   1. Jeremiah wouldn’t have been depressed if hadn’t been anointed. Stephen wouldn’t have been stoned if hadn’t been anointed. You go through what you go through, because of what is on your life.
5. The anointing destroys the yoke. People don’t see you but they see God through your anointing. God puts his super on your natural!
   1. What does it mean to say that the yoke is being destroyed? The yoke was a wooden piece put on the neck of two animals used to controlled both animals together. Be careful of demonic entanglements, because you could be yoked with the wrong people and being pulled in directions you weren’t designed to go in.
   2. The anointing breaks the yoke. Once the yoke is broken, you are separated from what you were yoked up with. Isaiah 10:27 NKJV says ²⁷ It shall come to pass in that day That his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, And his yoke from your neck, And the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil. – Burdens and oppression are seen as yokes. Spiritual bondage shows up as that which is controlling your Destiny, just like a yoke. God is going to destroy your yoke, because He is greater than the plan of your enemy.
6. God is about to destroy your every yoke.
   1. Remember, somebody is controlling the yoke that is controlling you. When God destroys your yoke, the one controlling the yoke will no longer have any power, so they will try to attack you, to keep you from your destiny. Matthew 11:28-30 NKJV says ²⁸ Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am ^[a]gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
7. When you are anointed, it is designed to liberate people from their yokes. Luke 4:18 NKJV says ¹⁸ “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me ^[a]to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind,To set at liberty those who are ^[b]oppressed; – What is a person’s yoke? It’s poverty, diabetes, worry, sorry, and etc. Every yoke we experience is included in verse 18, God came to liberate you from it all.
8. The moment you tell people they can do more, the enemy will attack you.

B.  The Lord Protects His Investment 

1. Protection of Investment: Your gift is an investment. In financial institutions, your principle or original amount is protected by risk mitigation. They use instruments, programs, and hedge funds to try and protect your investment.
2. Your gift wasn’t supposed to be one dimensional. For example, if you get fired over here, you have enough gift to be able to create over there.
3. How does God protect you? God uses strategies and hedges to protect too. We are his investment. Remember God had a hedge around Job. Satan had to get permission to harm him. God will always protect his anointed investments (us).

IV.          RELATIONSHIP WITH A SAVIOR WHO ANSWERS 

A.  He Hears From Heaven 

1. Transcendence means God is above us. He’s high enough, above us, to be reverenced, but low enough to be with us.
2. Every resource in heaven is available to us now. The Lord’s prayer says “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”.

B.  He Has Enough Power To Change My Predicament 

1. He saves me with the strength of his right hand. The right hand is the hand of power.
2. When you get in the hand of God, no force can pluck you out of His hand. God has power over cancer, depression, unemployment and whatever else you may be dealing with.

V.          REST IN THE SECURITY OF YOUR ALLEGIANCE 

• People trusted in chariots and horses back in the biblical days. This was symbolic.
• Horses and chariots provided speed and agility. If you had a chariot and horse, you had the advantage during times of war.
• There is a tendency for us to put trust in our own resources. This could become a form of idolatry. Psalm 20:5-7 NKJVsays ⁵ We will rejoice in your salvation, And in the name of our God we will set up our banners! May the Lord fulfill all your petitions. ⁶ Now I know that the Lord saves His ^[a]anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven With the saving strength of His right hand. ⁷ Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God. – When David and his men went into battle, they were often outnumbered and out resourced. Psalm 20 was the song they sang on their way to battle. They were saying, despite what they were facing, they were going to remember the name of their God.

A.  Our Resources Can Often Be Unreliable 

1. We put trust in people and people keep letting us down. David says they will remember the name of their God.

B.  His Name Says It All 

1. Names were significant in scripture. There are two types of names given. They were
   1. Given Names – These are names given by our parents that might have religious meaning, identify our culture, or have some kind of importance concerning our heritage.
   2. Earned Names? These are names such the GOAT (greatest of all times), or other names earned by something you used to do or be.
2. Knowing this about names: So when David and his army think of the name of God, they think He has so much history, they know that they can trust Him to see them through it.
3. The name of God is never given to us as nouns, they are adjectives which are descriptive. They were given by people that had experiences with God.
4. Jehovah Jirah – The Lord will provide – Genesis 22:14 NKJV ¹⁴ And Abraham called the name of the place, ^[a]The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
5. Jehovah Rapha – The Lord who heals – Exodus 15:26 NKJV ²⁶ and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”
6. Jehovah Nissi – The Lord is my banner or miracle. – Exodus 17:15-16 NKJV ¹⁵ And Moses built an altar and called its name, ^[a]The-Lord-Is-My-Banner; ¹⁶ for he said, “Because ^[b]the Lord has sworn: the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
7. Jehovah Shalom – The Lord is my peace – Judges 6:24 NKJV ²⁴ So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it ^[a]The-Lord-Is-Peace. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
8. Jehovah Raah– –  The Lord is my Shepard. – Psalm 23:1 NKJV 23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not ^[a]
9. Jehovah Tsidkenu – The Lord our righteousness. – Jeremiah 23:6 NKJV ⁶ In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called: ^[a]THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
10. Jehovah Shammah –– The Lord is there – Ezekiel 48:35 NKJV ³⁵ All the way around shall be eighteen thousand cubits; and the name of the city from that day shall be: THE^[a] LORD IS”
11. All these names represent experiences of God.
12. Story: Bishop explains that every Sat, the family goes to Chick Fillet. Bishop asked the kids what they wanted, so the kids gave their order to their dad.
    1. When it was time for Bishop to place his order, the worker asked Bishop what name the order needed to be placed under. He gave them his name, which is “Joseph”.
    2. After the order was prepared, they asked if Bishop was the name on the order. After he indicated that he was the person that paid for the order, they put the food in the car. Bishop handed the food to his kids and it hit him, the kids were benefiting from their father’s name. They were benefiting from what their father have already paid for.
    3. In like manner we are the benefactors of blessings that our father has already paid for. Because the Lord is there. With his His name we have position, and we have power.