The Confidence to Ignore an Angel - Part 1

By doing that one thing, you collide with God’s timeline.

In this powerful word, Pastor Kim reveals how confidence is born when you align with what God has already prepared.

🔥 What if fear cannot stop a person walking in divine timing?

This message will challenge how you face pressure, delay, and unseen battles.

Transcript

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Thank you for tuning in to Pursue Him Podcast. We are committed to serve you with the now word of God that will inspire and encourage you to be a God chaser. Help us reach out to many by subscribing, sharing, and leaving a review for us on your favorite listening app. This is Sam, your host, and this is an excerpt from our recent word ministered by Pastor Kim. Let's dive in.

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Let's close our eyes and lift our hands and thank Daddy God. He is the bestest. What a loving father, what a good, good father. Can I tell this to somebody? It is okay to fail. It is okay to fail. Can you tell this to yourself? It is okay to fail. You know this house is a safe space. Never miss the house of God. This side, are you awake? You know we love Gen Z because the world calls you Gen Z. We we see you as Gen Z, generation greatness. Yeah. You were there last time? You were blessed by the word? What was the word all about? God's timeline. So tell me what did you learn about God's timeline? Because uh today what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna continue the word, okay? Continue the on the same topic by the grace of God. Um so what did you learn last time about God's timeline? Anybody, this is not uh a QA session. This is for to help out somebody who was not there last time. What did you learn about God's timing? Timeline. God's timeline, yeah. Your father, your spiritual father is your timeline. What else? What is God's timeline? Now, okay, what is God's timeline? Indeed, how good our God is. How good no matter how many times you talk about the goodness of God. Amen. And he is a God who wants to bring you to his timeline. So he spoke about what happens when you walk in God's timeline. You tend to do things differently. What is God's timeline? Can I make it very simple? Okay. God's timeline is God's thoughts for you. The plans that God has for you. So if you look at this, it looks like a line. Picture this as God's timeline. This is your life. This is my life. And this is what is happening right now. You can see? Now do you understand? Okay, timeline big, big words, simple. God's thoughts and God's plans, that is where it is, and this is your life. And this was never meant to be a parallel line. These were never meant to be parallel lines. It was destined for this to collide with this, and that has to happen in all of our lives. Basically, there has to be an overlap of that on this that causes change in your assignment. Where if you are moving, these have to be intersecting lines. See, there are two ways you can live life. One is you take each day as it comes. But there is another way where you can trigger something that can cause God's timeline to collide. That is in your hands. This is what the enemy wants. He never wants you to get close there. Because he knows that you are called for greatness. He knows what you are capable of. He knows the authority that has been given to you by your Baba. He knows it. And what does he do? He brings friends in your life that will make sure that you don't go close to that timeline. He will bring uh situations in your life, addictions in your life, things that will push you away from God's timeline. And trust me, this is not for the world, this is for believers. This is for children of God in the church, in the house of God. In the house of God, you may at times feel offended. And all these are tactics of the enemy to push you away from God's timeline. Hallelujah. Your man or woman of God is what did he say? Is your timeline. In other words, this is the job of your man or woman of God. This is their job. Okay, this is their job. Through the word and instruction that they bring, they this is what happens to you. This is the agenda. That's what he meant when he said, Your man or woman of God is God's timeline for you. They are the one who, by bringing an instruction from God, triggering a collision. Hallelujah. You may be seated. Thank you. Did you understand? Okay, I'm running the relay race from where we stopped last time. I'm just taking you ahead. So, this time, as I'm speaking, I want to focus on the part where we learned last time how your man or woman of God becomes God's timeline for you. Uh, and how do they become by the word? The word that they bring, the instruction that they bring to you. So today I want us to go back to the story of David, and we'll go back to the story of Deborah, okay? And from their life, I'm gonna pick up two characters which I have never heard anybody preach about. This is not from a um a place of whoo, I got a revelation. Maybe I've not heard many people. So we're gonna talk about two people who based their lives on an instruction they received, okay, and that caused them to get into God's plan, God's timeline. How does it sound? Okay, so we're gonna look at two lives. First, I want to talk about one person. Um, when I was reading the account of this person and his conversation with David, I looked at him and I said, Okay, this guy was a man with an alabasta jar. When I looked at it, I said, maybe this description fits him. Kind of a man with the alabasta jar. Can you guess who in David's life, in David's story? So we are gonna open our Bibles to 1 Chronicles 21 and from 18 onwards. Okay, I'm talking about Arona. Arona. Uh, in this account, his name is mentioned as Orna or something. Ornan. Okay, you'll say Arona only. Um so are we all there? 1 Chronicles 21, verse 18 onwards. Before we get into the story, let me give you a background of what has happened. Count all the fighting men in my army. And when he does that, um God gets very angry because Parmeshwar Hamesha se keta ayata ki, I am your strength. So eighty daudne ginti ki upne senaki, he was trying to depend on his own strength, and that hurt the heart of God. And God sends the prophet Gad to David and said, Because you did this, three things, three options I'm giving you. Okay, one option is um um three years of famine. This is this is one consequence because of uh what you did. Second is three months of attack by the enemies, and third option is three days where I'm gonna cause a plague in Israel, or tumare jo is. So, what does David do? He picks up the third option, right? You're talking to me? He picks up the third option, and so according to the third option, God sends an angel. Or angel kya karai, or sub Israeli, okay? God is a good God, even in his uh judgment, there is mercy and there's goodness, and you will see that happening when the angel begins to kill. God, you know, David interrupts and asks forgiveness, and God withholds. God gives him a key. Do this, and we'll play Qadamuja. Okay, so you got the background. Now let us read from 1 Chronicles 21, 18 onwards, slowly.

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Therefore, the angel of You can be seated, okay?

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You I want you to sit, but I want you to focus on the word of God.

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1 Chronicles 21, 18.

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Therefore, the angel of the Lord No, you can read from 16 onwards, sorry.

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Okay.

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Verse 16. Then David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between the earth and heaven, having in in having in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem.

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Oops, angel kada hai between heaven and e heaven and the earth, and he's got a drawn sword. It's not a sword that is sparked in the sheath, it's taken out, it's pointing towards Jerusalem. Then what does David do?

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So David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

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When they saw the angel, what was the response?

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They fell on their faces.

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They fell on their faces. Again, when they saw the angel, what was the response? They fell on their face. They fell on their faces.

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Yes. And David said to God, Was it not I who commanded the people to be numbered? I am the one who has sinned and done evil indeed. But these sheep, what have they done? Let your hand, I pray, O Lord my God, be against me and my father's house, but not against your people, that they should be plagued. Verse 18. Therefore, the angel of the Lord commanded God to say to David that David should go and erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Aruna the Jebusite.

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Hold on. So there is a problem, and David asks forgiveness from God, and now he's getting a solution. The angel of the Lord goes to Prophet the Lord says to Gad to go to David, and what is the solution? David has to go and erect an altar. On the threshing floor of Arona, the Jebusite. Do you know who the Jebusites were? Do you know about the Canaanites? All those ites, peresites, Hittites, Amorites, Ammonites, Jebusites unmisithi. So these Jebusites were not godly people. They were Canaanites. Okay, so Aruna the Jebosite, he was a Canaanite. That means he was an anti-Israel guy. And if you look at Judges chapter 5, it gives a small story. You know, these Jebosites they lived in Jerusalem. So when God promised the land of Israel to God's people, right? God took them out of Egypt and God said, Go to this land, that land was Israel, and conquer every place and take it over. And at that point, Jebusites were the residents of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Canaanites. Or Jab Daud Raja Banta. When David becomes the king and God tells him to take over Jerusalem, you know these Jebusites they made fun of David. We are going to read that. Jerusalem was at a height. When you go to Israel, you'll see Jerusalem is at a height. So because it was at a height, it was very difficult for Israel to conquer them. The Jebusites in Jerusalem. There was no way to bring them down because they have an undue advantage. They are at a height, right? And plus they have their walls. And David and his men are down in the valley. And they are looking at Jerusalem, and that's where he wants to build God's house. Eventually, you see, this is the same place where Solomon built the temple of God, right? So David, his conquest is not over till he conquers Jerusalem. And he's looking down and he's looking at a big place at a height. And those people read.

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2 Samuel 5, verse 6. It says, And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites. The inhabitants of the land who spoke to David saying, You shall not come in here, but the blind and the lame will repel you, thinking, David cannot come here.

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So do you see what is happening? When David is about to conquer Jerusalem, these Jebusites are looking down at David and they are making fun of David. They were teasing the man of God. And if you read further on, God gives David an idea that you know David's army goes up through a watershaft. Though this is off topic, okay, but you make sure you read it. This is in the same chapter when you read ahead. Because Jerusalem was at a height, they were dependent on water from the valley, and they had made a very deep shaft to pull the water up. And David and his not David, his men go up through the watershaft. And that's how they go up, they open the city doors and and they you know take over Jerusalem. But the point is these were very proud people, Jebusites. They were Canaanites and they were right on top. And imagine these guys were making fun of David, who was anointed of the Lord. Can you imagine telling him Hamare Andi? It's like Hamare Bachebi tumko haradeenge our blind and our lame shall defeat you. So that is the background of Jebusites. So can you imagine the hatred between David and the Israeli men and the Jebusites? Okay. So now you understand the context of Aruna. He was a Jebusite. So this is what must have happened. Okay, David has conquered Jerusalem, he's taken over the people of Jerusalem, their property, everything. Yet there were some Jebusites who were very stubborn. You know, when you conquer a place, you also allow some people to stay. This guy, he owned a prime property in Jerusalem. So can you imagine David is now the king. Okay? That chapter is over where he defeated. He conquered Jerusalem. Now he's the king. He rules over Jerusalem and most of the parts of Israel. And yet there is one guy who's very stubborn, who's holding on to his land. And he is refusing to let go. He's he's still there. Can you imagine the stubbornness that this man must be carrying? Or for whatever reason, he's saying, I'm not letting go. This is my place. This is mine. And he that he's he's he's he's stayed put in that land. Okay, now so so do you remember now what has happened? The angel of the Lord, David, sees, and then God tells him, Go to this guy, this Aruna, the Jebusite, and ask him for something. So, so you can read now from verse 19 onwards.

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1 Chronicles 21, 19. So David went up at the word of God, which he had spoken in the name of the Lord. Now Aruna turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. But Aruna continued threshing wheat.

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Oops! Just hold it, just hold it. Did you catch something here? What did you catch? This is a verse that I latched on to in my spirit, and that's when you know this opened up for me. If I were to name this part of it, give it a title, I'll say a confidence that ignores angels. You look at every instance in the Bible where people encountered angels, and you see that every time anybody saw angels, either they fell down, they trembled with fear, they could not even engage with the angel. Abraham went and he bought sacrifice. In the entire Bible, you will not find a verse like this. And previously we just read, right? When David saw the angel with his now, how is the angel? Angel is not with his hands in the pocket, right? He is in a very aggressive position, he's holding a sword, and he's out on a mission. It's it's not a pleasant scene. When David and his men see the angel, they fall flat on their face and they put sackcloth on, and that's their response. And look at Aruna's response. This is so weird. When he sees the angel, it says his four sons who were with him, they hid themselves in fear. And this guy was threshing wheat. And you know, this land was in an elevated position. Already Jerusalem was at an height, and when you do winnowing, you can use it. So it these kind of places are at an elevation. So can you imagine at a height? It's imagine a flat ground where this guy is threshing wheat, and he sees an angel, and what does he do? What does he do?

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And his four sons who were with him hid themselves, but Aruna continued threshing wheat.

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Can you even imagine? Like he sees the angel. Now I was hung up on this verse for so many days. I said, what could be the reason? Now you tell me. What could be the reason for this kind of response from Aruna? What is it that is causing him to ignore the angel? You suddenly see something unique, you you kind of respond, right? Some reaction has to be there. Forget angel. Suddenly, if you see a yellow truck on the road, or forget truck, an elephant, suddenly he will pause and say, Hey, what is happening? What made him ignore the angel? Could it be, you know, what do we ignore? Something that we see often. Something that is familiar to us, we ignore. This if the sofa is there every Sunday, you won't be bothered. Suddenly, if there's a giant chair, then you look, right? So maybe this is this is you know the spirit's interpretation. Maybe that was not the first time he was seeing an angel. He had seen the angel so many times that now it became like a daily car. And think what could have caused the angel to show himself to Arona. Can I tell you? Do you know this was the same land where Abraham took his son Isaac for the sacrifice? So this land was already carrying a grace. And this is what I'm heading to. But you know, when you are in a company of people who are smoking, it so happens that that environment influences you, right? If anybody is with a vice, you and you are with that kind of friend circle, uh effect upper honahi hai. How much more in the realms of the spirit, how much more that there could be a grace upon somebody that when you connect to that person, that grace jumps on you. You know, Abraham had that grace of encountering angels, and this was the place, that's why I said, Don't miss church. This place carries a grace, and I'm still sticking on to my topic. Um, you remember the two lines? That means I can come under the grace of my man or woman of God, and it can push me to a place where I start receiving their encounters. So the reason why Aruna could see angels because there was a grace in that place that he tapped into.

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It says, Now Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Aruna the Jebusite.

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Yeah. So you saw it's on the same place, it talks about Solomon now building the temple. Now, verse 21. What so did you get a background of Jebusites? Now you understand who Aruna is, his background, what bitterness he may be carrying in his heart, what is he seeing? Imagine he's not even an Israelite. The people in your office, they may not be believing your God, but they should be able to identify some grace that is upon their life because of their connection to you. They may not use this word grace, but there's something, something I work with this girl, all my projects are completed before time. I work with this person, and there's a different joy that she carries, and and you see that getting transferred on to them. If that could happen to Aruna, why not? The people around you, amen. So, verse 21.

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So David came to Aruna, and Aruna looked and saw David, and he went out from the threshing floor and bowed before David with his face to the ground.

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Oh, did you see he ignored the angel? But when he sees the man of God, when he sees the king, he looks at the king, he drops whatever he's doing, and he bowed down with honor. I'm telling you, honor, honor, honor. Honor is the key. Honor is the key. Look at this guy was at the heart level, I'm sure must be hating David. Because of what David and David's army did to their people. But when he sees David, he goes and falls flat on the ground. Say honor is always a win-win. Say it like you believe it, okay? Honor is always a win-win. You know, there are certain things you do, you may win, you may lose. Honor is something you may win and you'll always win. Because that carries the blessing of God. For some of us, it's easy to honor a man of God, and yet we find it difficult to honor our husband. Oops. For some of us, it's easy to celebrate the woman of God in the house, and yet we overlook the gift that God has given us in the form of a wife. Some of us, it's easy to honor our spiritual father and mother, and yet we are not able to honor our own parents. Trust me, you use this key and you'll see multiple doors opening. When you use honor, and start honor starts with your own house. You know, there are times when Pastor Derek would tell me, Don't do this. Whatever, okay? Don't do this in the kitchen, or this is not right. And then I would do what he says, but when he's not there in the house, I'll go back to doing what I do. And that's when the Holy Spirit said, Honor is a condition of your heart, it's a state of your heart. It's about you. When it comes to the church, honor is not about the man of God, it's about you. Many times we think honor, when we honor, we will test. You know, the man of God may become proud. But it is never about the man of God. Honor is about you, it's God testing your heart. What is in your heart? Amen. So try honor. Okay, this is something that will never fail. Try because you can't be different at home and you can't be different in the house of God. Because God is not interested in the honor of your lips, it has to be in your heart. Are you getting it? And imagine Aruna was having an upper edge here. Why? Because, first of all, he was, David was, you know, against his people, right? And now he's in a position where God is fighting the Israelites. Normally God would fight the Jebusites. He could have been so cool. Oh, Abhi Ayah David. Abiyaya David mere hat ki niche. Because now God, who always stood for them, is fighting them. So can you imagine? Aruna must be looking. All the Israelites are dying. It was just how many, how what was the time frame? Three days. They are dying left and right. This guy had the upper hand. He could have stood there. And somehow I I you know that's the way God speaks. I'm sure God must be nudging the heart of Aruna, like you said. God must be preparing him for this. Because his response was so spontaneous. Where he could have stood there and he could have made fun of David again. He fell he falls flat on his face. So honor, very important key. Okay, what all these keys are making you collide with God's timeline. Amen. Okay. So what do we read now further ahead?

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Verse 22. Then David said to Aruna, Grant me this place, uh, grant me the place of this threshing floor that I may build an altar on it to the Lord. You shall grant it to me at the full price, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.

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So David has opened up his cards. He's saying, There is a problem, and I need this land. And you take whatever you want. If I was Aruna, I would have said, No, I won't give. And David would have not fought him because he was already under distress. He already had messed up. He's not the guy who will snatch and take it. You know, he would have to look to God for another option. But look at the response of Aruna.

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Verse 23. But Aruna said to David, Take it to yourself and let my Lord the King be what My Lord, he's calling David.

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Look at the level of his honor. My Lord.

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Let my Lord the King do what is good in his eyes. Look, I also give you the oxen for burnt offerings, the threshing implements for wood, and the wheat for the grain offering. I give it all.

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Whoops. This is where the alabaster jar breaks. Did you see what he did? He imagine, okay, he's a farmer, he's threshing. So what does he have? He has a piece of land, he has grains of wheat, he has oxen, he has the threshing equipment, and threshing equipment or bo charare. So David is asking for what he wants land. Because God said at this place you build an altar. And look at the response of Aruna. He says, You take this land. Then he's thinking, okay, you are gonna build an altar, you will need wood. So do one thing, take all my threshing equipment. Lakrisa, take it. Acha. Abi Vedito Bangaye, uskyo parek janwar ko chatana, take my oxen. And if you need grain offering, take my wheat. Did you see that? Did you see the generosity of this man? And he says, I give it all. That's why I said this man could be the man with the alabaster jar. You see, Aruna was not giving out of fear. He was not giving out of fear, he was giving because he had an upper hand. He didn't give because he saw an angel, he was giving out of the generosity of his heart. That's always how a giving has to be. Can you imagine? After he and he's he's not even asking for a price. He didn't say, I'm selling this to you, I'm selling my this because you will need it. Where will you go now? Climb down, look at some other place in Jerusalem for wood because the people are getting killed, right? There is an emergency, and he can really jack up the price, he can demand he has to do it. So, can you imagine? He didn't say, I'm selling this land and I'll sell this and I'll sell this and I'll sell this. No, he's saying I'm giving you this land and I'm giving this and I'm giving this and I give it all. Hallelujah. That's grace. That is when I feel this man was pushed into God's timeline. That collision happened because he obeyed an instruction. Whether that instruction was pressing on his heart from God or whether it came from David, he was not even pally with David, but just the act of obeying an instruction, his collision happened. And how do we know that? It's the same place where Solomon built the house of God, it's exactly on the same place. So, can you see this Gentile got a name for himself and got a mention in the Bible because his assignment changed after that? He had no job, he was giving everything. He didn't even think, What am I going to do? How is it gonna work? He didn't even ask for money. It was, I feel it was not Aruna and David talking, it was two kings talking. The first king came and said, just take everything. And the second king said, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I will take it only when I pay a cost. It was not two men, it was two kings talking. And I'm telling you, when two kings talk, the heavenly king interferes. Because that's when God looked and said, Pele happe, Abraham Ayah, then he gave a sacrifice. So this place carries some grace. Firihape, Arunaya. He's giving it all. These are kings. Kings are generous in their giving. And then David comes in, another king, and God is saying, Okay, Abraham, Aruna, David, what is happening? Let me settle the deal. Let me step in. He's saying, Sare kings ekhtraf, now I'm sending my son. And it was in Jerusalem that God gave Jesus, who crucified, who was crucified on the cross. The big boss settled the deal. He's saying, You can't outbeat me. You can't, you can't do that. So that's collision. That's when Aruna's story changed. Hallelujah. Are you learning something? Did you ever think about it in this way?

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