Jim Bakker Show - Kissing God - Rabbi Jonathan Cahn
Aired: 2017-01-19
Duration: 03:24


=== Worship as Kiss (03:07) ===

[00:00:00]  It's called kissing God.
[00:00:04]  I don't remember that one.
[00:00:05]  I don't know why.
[00:00:07]  Go ahead, tell us.
[00:00:08]  And this is right for those who don't know, there's a story around it.
[00:00:12]  So there's a disciple.
[00:00:14]  He meets a man called the teacher.
[00:00:16]  He spends a year in the desert, and every day the teacher opens up another mystery of God.
[00:00:20]  So here, it's kind of a school of disciples.
[00:00:22]  So here's where it begins.
[00:00:24]  There was a gathering in the school's open-air tent.
[00:00:26]  It was a time of worship and praise.
[00:00:28]  We were just outside the tent listening.
[00:00:31]  What do you think of, asked the teacher, when you hear the word worship?
[00:00:34]  Singing hymns, prayers, words of praise.
[00:00:37]  That's the outward form of worship, he said.
[00:00:39]  That's how worship manifests.
[00:00:40]  But what's the heart of worship?
[00:00:42]  I don't know.
[00:00:43]  I'll give you one definition: a secret.
[00:00:45]  It's found in the New Covenant scriptures.
[00:00:46]  It only appears in the Greek.
[00:00:48]  It's the word proskuneo.
[00:00:50]  And do you know what it means?
[00:00:51]  I had no answer.
[00:00:52]  It means to kiss.
[00:00:54]  True worship, said the teacher, is to kiss.
[00:00:57]  And what does this reveal?
[00:00:58]  What's a kiss?
[00:00:59]  A kiss is the most intimate of acts.
[00:01:02]  Therefore, worship is to be the most intimate thing you can experience.
[00:01:05]  To worship God is to kiss God, I asked.
[00:01:07]  In the spiritual realm, yes, to kiss from your heart, from your innermost being.
[00:01:11]  And when you kiss, you don't do it because you have to, you do it freely from your heart, because you want to.
[00:01:17]  So true worship is never done by compulsion, I said, but freely from the overflow of your heart.
[00:01:22]  And why does one kiss? asked the teacher.
[00:01:24]  Because of joy.
[00:01:25]  Yes, a kiss is an expression of joy, and kissing brings you joy.
[00:01:29]  So true worship is an expression of joy.
[00:01:31]  You worship out of joy.
[00:01:32]  Your joy becomes worship, and your worship becomes joy.
[00:01:36]  Teacher, I said, we didn't say the most obvious, which is one kisses because of love.
[00:01:41]  I said, a kiss is an expression of love.
[00:01:44]  It is, he said.
[00:01:45]  So then, what is true worship?
[00:01:47]  Worship is an expression of love.
[00:01:49]  Yes, said the teacher, it's as simple as that.
[00:01:51]  It's the most intimate act of love and joy.
[00:01:54]  Worship is as simple as kissing God.
[00:01:59]  Amen.
[00:02:00]  Now, at the bottom of the page, you have what we call the mission.
[00:02:05]  There's always a mission to take the mystery and apply it to your life.
[00:02:08]  That's where it can transform your life.
[00:02:09]  So the teacher gives the disciple a mission, a way to do it.
[00:02:13]  But it's really for the reader.
[00:02:14]  Today, the mission, today, draw near to God and worship in love and joy in the deepest of intimacy.
[00:02:20]  Learn the secret of kissing God.
[00:02:23]  It's beautiful.
[00:02:25]  Beautiful.
[00:02:26]  I've never heard that before.
[00:02:28]  No, no, but it's there.
[00:02:30]  I mean, it's actually in, it's actually there.
[00:02:33]  That's what the word means.
[00:02:35]  You don't read it in English, but that's what the word means.
[00:02:37]  This word right here.
[00:02:38]  Prosconeo.
[00:02:40]  Thank you.
[00:02:42]  But interesting, that's in the New Testament.
[00:02:44]  Go back to the Hebrew scriptures, and what do you read in the Song of Solomon?
[00:02:48]  Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, of his love.
[00:02:51]  For your love is better than wine.

=== Romance Under Attack (00:31) ===

[00:02:54]  God wants us to be romantic with him.
[00:02:56]  He's romantic with us.
[00:02:58]  Yes.
[00:02:59]  Yes.
[00:03:00]  I think in this generation, so much of romance has become considered like evil stuff.
[00:03:06]  That's right.
[00:03:07]  You know, that's right.
[00:03:08]  And instead of the beauty of relationship, the beauty of marriage.
[00:03:12]  Yeah.
[00:03:13]  The enemy attacks everything that God creates, you know, marriage and even romance.
[00:03:18]  I mean, if it's in God, it's all to be a reflection of our relationship with God.
[00:03:23]  That's it.
[00:03:23]  That's it.