Here in 2 Samuel 6, I like a couple of the statements that are made.  We see the fourteenth verse, “And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.  So, David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.  And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.”  What do you think that was all about?  Why would somebody despise another person for worshiping the Lord?  One thing that’s obvious is that the first purpose of her heart was not to glorify God.  Whatever it was that caused this despising was something that had to do with her own pride.  We see that when she reproved David.  “You’re the king.  You’re out there just making a display of yourself.”

I think some of us would be helped a little bit if we would stop worrying about what people thought about us and worship God instead.  If there’s shouting, then shout.  If there’s dancing, then dance.  But everything is to be done unto the Lord, and it’s to be done with all of our might; amen?  I know people who are trying to suppress some of these outward expressions of worship.  Personally, I don’t prefer some of the services in the third world that we go to where there’s constant noise, yelling, shouting, and people dancing up and down the aisles.  I don’t think the Bible tells us to do that every service, but when there’s a visitation of God, and we recognize His presence, it is biblical for all these different expressions to manifest themselves; amen?  Can it be overboard?   Can it get into the flesh?  Yes.  When we think it must be every service, when this becomes some kind of unspoken rule, or if men make it an ordinance of the church, if you please, then we must do something about it.  It cannot be disorderly.  It is not to disrupt the teaching of the Word or the gifts of the Spirit.  But there are times of praise.  As you look at it in Hebrew, you look at the word “worship,” and you look at “praise.”  They have to do with jumping, shouting, and dancing.