? (Theme Song) ?
? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all... ?
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? all the praise... ?
Pastor Byrd: We talk about
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what's appropriate
and what's inappropriate.
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Noted Adventist historian
Ronald Graybill, in his
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article "Enthusiasm in Early
Adventist Worship," written
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in "Ministry
Magazine," by the way --
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that's the magazine from
the G.C. to the preachers,
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says that our spiritual
ancestors had livelier services
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than many of us
would be comfortable
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with today.
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That's what he says.
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He says that if those who
view the Adventist pioneers
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as cold, stoic and stiff
liturgists could turn back
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the clock and visit a
19th-century Adventist
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worship service,
they would be shocked
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at what they would hear.
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Now, he says, while the
use of musical instruments was
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not a major factor, and
you need to know why it wasn't
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a major factor
-- let me explain.
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It wasn't a major
factor, he says, because many
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of the early Adventist groups
met in homes where no musical
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instruments were present
because they couldn't afford
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to buy musical instruments,
or they lacked the skill
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to play them.
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In fact, in the
early Methodist church,
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the Methodist congregation
that Ellen White once belonged
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to was one of the first
to buy and install an organ
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in their church.
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And she was
criticized for doing it.
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Why?
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Not because it was
spiritually wrong, but because
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nobody had ever done it before.
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Ronald Graybill continues,
he says, the music of that era
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was rhythmic, enthusiastic,
repetitious, and possessed
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broad appeal.
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He says the singing was
pervasive, provided a powerful
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emotional stimulant, and
served the same pragmatic
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function as the music of
the frontier revival tradition.
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Adventist pioneer Jeannie
Ayars Kellogg, in her article
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"Growing Up With the Third
Angel's Message," as recorded
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in the "Adventist
Review," said that almost all
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of the early Adventist
meetings she attended began
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with singing.
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Singing.
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She said they were full
of hearty singing throughout.
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They ended, she said,
with hand-shaking, they ended
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with hugging, and they
ended with hearty singing.
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According to her,
most of the catchy tunes
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of the early Adventist
church reflected the ardent hope
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of the soon
return of Jesus Christ.
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Since the imminent return
of Jesus was the core belief
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that united early Adventists,
early Adventists opted
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to discard the primary use
of European hymns for music
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that more accurately reflected
the contemporary hopes,
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aspirations,
dreams and disappointments
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of the church.
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They chose to employ
musical styles that were solidly
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grounded in Jesus
Christ but were more in touch
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with current popular forms.
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Early Adventists sang gospel
tunes to well-known secular
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notes.
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You don't believe me?
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Our Seventh-day
Adventist hymnals.
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Today's popular songs
such as "What Child is This?"
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"How Sweet Are the Tidings."
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Both of these songs
borrow their direct melodies
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from popular secular tunes.
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Which means it
can't, that it's the music
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that's Christian.
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We always talk about
what's Christian and what's not.
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We've got to
listen to the words.
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Early Adventists were
also vocal worshipers.
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Ellen White, in a
letter written in 1876, after
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attending Adventist
camp meetings from Kansas
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to Minnesota, declared, "I
saw singing to the glory of God
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often drove away the enemy."
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Drove away the enemy,
she said, and shouting
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would beat him back.
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Beat him back.
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Beat him back.
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And would give the victory.
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She said, I saw there was too
little glorifying God in Israel
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and too little
childlike simplicity.
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So, Pastor Byrd, so
Ellen White didn't condemn
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fervent singing or
musical instruments or shouting,
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for that matter.
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But Pastor Byrd, what about
what Ellen White said about
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the Indiana Flesh
Heresy Movement of 1900 and her
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terms "the bedlam of noise"?
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Now, remember,
read it carefully.
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If you will read what
she wrote about the bedlam
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of noise, number one,
she was writing a letter
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to a specific person.
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In her writing a
letter to a specific person,
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she was writing a
letter to the person based on
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what they had told
her, which means Ellen White
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was not an eyewitness
to what transpired at that
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Indiana camp meeting.
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Somebody wrote a letter to
her and, based on what they
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had written to her,
she responded to them.
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Careful contextual study
of this incident will reveal
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that Ellen White and the
Holy Flesh Heresy condemned
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the doctrinal fallacies
of the Holy Flesh Heresy.
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The people were
believing, they were believing
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that Jesus had attained
holy flesh in Gethsemane
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like that of
Adam before the fall.
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Likewise, the
people erroneously believed
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that when revived by the Holy
Ghost, they would never die.
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You don't believe me, look
it up in the SDA Encyclopedia.
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Now, in this incident, Ellen
White in "Selected Messages,"
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page 31, condemned
the extreme use of emotive
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elements that produce scenes
of insanity and utter confusion
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in the Holy Flesh Heresy.
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She said people were shouting,
people were praying and singing
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until somebody in the
congregation would fall
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prostrate and unconscious
from his or her seat.
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Then, she said, one or
two men walking up and down
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the aisle for this
purpose, would drag the fallen
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person up on the rostrum.
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She said then about 12
people, a dozen individuals,
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would gather
around the prostrate body,
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some singing, some
shouting, some praying,
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all at the same time.
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Now, let me be clear.
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I would be the first
person to say that if we sang,
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preached, prayed and
shouted at the same time, until
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somebody fell unconscious
and they're unconscious from
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their seat, and they brought
their unconscious body up
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here by me, and we stand
over them and we start singing,
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shouting, preaching and
praying at the same time,
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something would
be wrong with us.
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But let's not take her
writings out of context.
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Ellen White did not endorse
worship experiences that were
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too weighted toward emotion.
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But she also constantly
challenged the tendency
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of some to trust
experience and feeling.
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What did Ellen
White promote, then?
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Balance.
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Balance.
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Ronald Graybill in his article
"Enthusiasm in Early Adventist
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Worship" said that
even in her condemnation
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of the issues of emotion
in the Holy Flesh Heresy,
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Ellen White left proper room
for the use of these emotional
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components and instruments
of worship, declaring that
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if conducted right,
they would be a blessing.
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Which further illustrates
for us today why we need balance
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in our worship.
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You hear me say it
at Oakwood all the time.
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We need something for everyone.
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We need law and grace.
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We need
redemption and relationship.
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We need cognition and emotion.
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We need
information and inspiration.
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We need integrity and intensity.
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We need Amen and
we need Hallelujah.
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We need the Holy
Scriptures, but we also need
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the Holy Ghost.
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It's my baptized brain
that makes me want to shout.
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It's my sanctified
psyche that makes me say glory.
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We need something for everyone.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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When Israel used the
string instruments, the horns,
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the trumpets,
everything had to have synergy.
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It had to be in harmony.
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It had to be in intonation.
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It could not be in dissonance.
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It had to be in
harmony, because their music was
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the
representation of the harmony
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among the people.
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So when the people played
in harmony, they said, let's
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play in harmony because
if we play in harmony we send
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the enemy a message
that we're together.
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We send the enemy a
message that we, along with God,
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are together.
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That's why when you
read Psalm 137, when they
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were taken into
exile, their captain said,
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"Sing us one of
those songs out of Zion."
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They said, "How can
we sing the Lord's song
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in a strange land?
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How can we sing this in
a place where there is no
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harmony, where there is no
unity." And so regardless of
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the instrument, regardless
of what you praise God with,
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regardless of how you
praise God, it must be done in
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unity.
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There must be harmony,
because if there is no harmony,
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then God rejects it.
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Praise God with the
sound of the trumpet.
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Praise him with the
psaltry and the harp.
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Praise him with the
stringed instruments and organs.
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Praise him upon the
loud cymbals: praise him upon
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the high sounding cymbals.
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But make certain
that when you praise him,
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there is harmony.
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So let me make this practical.
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Everybody say harmony.
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Come on, say harmony.
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All right, Uncle
Jimmy, I'm ready.
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Lower register,
give me an A-flat.
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[Organ] Give me a C, give me
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an E-flat.
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Everybody say harmony.
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That's
intonation, that's a chord.
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That's what we
call an A-flat chord.
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You didn't think I knew that.
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Come on, say Amen.
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[Aud response]
PB: Now, Uncle Jimmy,
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hit an E with an E-flat.
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[Organ] Hit a C, hit an
A-flat. That's what we call
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dissonance.
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That's out of harmony.
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Now, upper register.
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Give me an E, give
me a C, give me a G.
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Hit that chord.
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That's called harmony.
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Everybody say harmony.
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Now give me an E, give
me a C, give me an A-flat.
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That's called disharmony.
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God says, I'm looking
for, give me an E, give me a C,
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give me a G.
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But what I'm getting is, give
me an E, give me a C, give me
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an A-flat.
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And so what's happening
is, God says, I'm watching you
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praise me.
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But your issues
are coming through.
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And when it looks like you're
praising me, all your stuff
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is sounding crazy to me,
all your stuff isn't right, it's
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out of harmony, it's dissonance.
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You're all not
hearing what I'm saying.
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[Aud response] PB: So
let me try it this way.
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Let me go to this side.
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Auntie, come to this piano.
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move quickly.
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Aud: [laughter] PB: All right,
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this is what Satan
wanted to do in heaven.
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Let me show you.
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Auntie, play "I'm So
Glad Jesus Lifted Me."
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Play it, don't be scared.
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Play it.
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[Piano] Steven, play "Amazing
Grace." [Organ] Rodney, play,
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"What a Fellowship."
[Third instrument] It's a mess.
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Stop.
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Aud: [laughter] PB:
They're all playing, but they're
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playing their own thing.
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It's all music, but it's
not sounding right because
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they're not playing harmony.
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Aud: [clapping] PB: The
same thing, are you hearing what
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I'm saying?
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Aud: [applause] PB:
That's what God is saying.
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Listen to me, church.
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God is saying, how can you
come in my house, how can you
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come in my house, how can
you be praising, and when you
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leave out, you
don't speak to each other?
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Aud: [applause] PB: When
you leave out, you talk about
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each other.
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You do harm to one
another, you do your own thing.
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God is looking for harmony.
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[Aud response] PB: That's
why music has to have meanings.
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The songs were songs, they
were sung in public worship,
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the words pointed
to a faith in God.
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Study your Bible.
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Careful study will reveal
that when Israel went into
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battle in the Old Testament,
most times they never used
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bows and arrows.
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They never used swords, they
never used shields, they did
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not have guns, they did
not have tanks or explosives.
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All they had in the Bible
was a preacher and a choir.
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Think about it.
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Jericho's walls came
tumbling down through a preacher
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and a choir.
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Gideon and the Israelites
defeated the Midionites
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through a preacher and a choir.
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Which means victory has
always been in our praise.
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[Aud response] PB: Let
me say that one more time.
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Victory has always
been in our praise.
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Even the slaves.
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Victory was in their praise.
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Deliverance is in your praise.
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Your healing is in your praise.
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Your salvation
is in your praise.
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That's why I'm blessed in
the city, I'm blessed in the
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field, I'm blessed in my
going out and my coming in.
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I'm blessed.
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The psalms were written
out of experiences in Israel.
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When they wrote these psalms,
David and the other psalmists
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wrote them, and they
were saying, these are our
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experiences.
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The Lord is my
light and my salvation.
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Whom shall I fear?
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The Lord is the
strength of my life.
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Of whom shall I be afraid?
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The Lord is my refuge and my
strength, a very present help
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in time of trouble.
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The Lord is my
shepherd, I shall not want.
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I will lift up mine eyes
to the hills from which cometh
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my help.
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My help comes from the
Lord, lift up your hands, oh ye
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gates, and be ye lifted
up, ye everlasting doors.
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And the king --
[Organ] That's what makes
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these songs different.
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That's what makes gospel
different from the blues.
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You've got to pay
attention to the words.
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Stop singing all the words
to these songs that don't make
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sense.
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In church we do it too.
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Singing that song, I'm
coming up the rough side of the
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mountain.
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You've gone and come up
the rough side of the mountain.
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God told me to speak to
that mountain, and that mountain
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will be removed, that that
mountain will get out of my
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way.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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[Aud response] PB: Quit
trying to do something that's
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not in the will of God.
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Let me tell you something.
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Whatever I can get my hands
on, I'm going to praise God
00:15:25.76\00:15:27.86
with it.
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Wherever I am, I'm
going to praise God.
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Let me tell you all something.
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I love you all.
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I love me some Oakwood church.
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Got married in this church.
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Come on, say Amen.
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My wife was baptized,
married, she'll be buried in
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this church.
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Come on, say Amen.
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Thank God for
the Oakwood church.
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Come on, say Amen.
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I love you all; but
let me tell you something.
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If I've got to praise
him by myself, I'll do it.
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[Aud response] PB: I love
the choir, but I don't need no
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choir.
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I don't need a praise team.
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I don't need musicians.
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Folk may look at me and
say, Pastor Byrd, why are you
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always trying to sing?
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Aud: [laughter] PB: I
know you all don't say that.
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Come on, say Amen.
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Let me tell you
why, since you must know.
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Because you can't sing
what I can sing, I sing
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because I'm happy.
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[Aud response] PB: I
sing because I'm free.
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You see, I don't want to
be in any worship experience
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where I'm in a straitjacket.
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Because the Word says
where the spirit of the Lord is,
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there's liberty.
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The psalms, then, give us
our motivation for praise.
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Verse 6: Let everything
that has breath praise the Lord.
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Praise ye the Lord.
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What does this mean?
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Any person with breath.
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Everybody go [breathes in].
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You have an
obligation to praise God.
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You see, God has not called
me to be a member of Praise
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Anonymous, where nobody
knows you praise God but you.
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And let me be clear,
because I don't want you to
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misinterpret Pastor Byrd.
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That does not mean
that everybody has to
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jump up and down.
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I've do praise and worship
seminars across the country,
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and I tell people, if
a person does not want to
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get up for praise and worship,
you don't have to force them.
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You don't have to beat
them up, you don't have to beat
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them down.
00:17:42.90\00:17:43.90
Some folk can
praise God from their seat.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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[Aud response] PB:
Some people praise God with
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meditation, reflection, some
people praise God with tears
00:17:50.23\00:17:55.76
flowing down their cheeks,
some people praise God in
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their testimony to others,
some people praise God by
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saying Amen, some people
praise God by clapping their
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hands, some people praise God
by saying, "Praise the Lord."
00:18:07.73\00:18:11.93
Let everything that
hath breath praise the Lord.
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So let me tell you
this before I take my seat.
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Reflect back on
what you've been through.
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When you begin to think
about what the devil took you
00:18:23.16\00:18:25.53
through, if the devil had
his way, you wouldn't be alive
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today.
00:18:29.26\00:18:30.26
Somebody ought to thank
God that they are alive.
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You may be sick,
but you're alive.
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You may not have a dollar
to your name, but you're alive.
00:18:42.96\00:18:48.23
You may not be in life where
you wanted to be in life, but
00:18:48.23\00:18:51.33
you're alive.
00:18:51.33\00:18:52.66
Is anybody just
glad to be alive?
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[Aud response] PB: Every
time you inhale, every time you
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exhale, every time you
breathe, it ought to be a
00:19:02.13\00:19:06.13
testimony to
the goodness of God.
00:19:06.13\00:19:08.40
You see what breath
means, let everything that hath
00:19:08.40\00:19:10.40
breath, comes
from the word ruach.
00:19:10.40\00:19:12.40
Let everything that hath
ruach, let everything that
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has breath, praise the Lord.
00:19:14.40\00:19:15.40
Let it praise the Lord.
00:19:15.40\00:19:16.40
Where does this
breath come from?
00:19:16.40\00:19:18.40
We know, Genesis 2:7 says,
"And the Lord God formed man
00:19:18.40\00:19:20.40
of the dust of the ground,
breathed into his nostrils
00:19:20.40\00:19:22.50
the breath of life, man
became a living soul." So,
00:19:22.50\00:19:24.93
when God made Adam, when
God made Adam's hands and feet,
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Adam still wasn't alive
until God breathed in him.
00:19:28.76\00:19:33.26
That's when he became alive.
00:19:33.26\00:19:35.13
Ezekiel 37, what do you see?
00:19:35.13\00:19:37.16
A valley full of dry bones.
00:19:37.16\00:19:39.46
σσ bones.
00:19:39.46\00:19:40.46
Disjointed bones.
00:19:40.46\00:19:41.53
It's not until God breathed
on these bones that these
00:19:41.53\00:19:45.23
bones became alive.
00:19:45.23\00:19:46.90
This breath that I have,
it does not belong to me.
00:19:46.90\00:19:51.93
The breath that you have,
it does not belong to you.
00:19:51.93\00:19:56.26
The fact that I am
standing breathing is a gift.
00:19:56.26\00:19:59.90
The fact that
you're breathing is a gift.
00:19:59.90\00:20:01.93
Which means what I'm supposed
to do with this breath, I'm
00:20:01.93\00:20:05.60
supposed to give glory to God.
00:20:05.60\00:20:08.03
We've got too many folk who
don't understand the gift you
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have.
00:20:10.26\00:20:11.26
When somebody is knocked
out, when somebody is laid out,
00:20:11.26\00:20:14.66
when somebody is stretched
out on the floor and you run
00:20:14.66\00:20:17.56
to see if they're okay,
when the paramedics get to them,
00:20:17.56\00:20:20.56
the first thing they do is
check to see if the person is
00:20:20.56\00:20:22.73
breathing.
00:20:22.73\00:20:25.16
If you're
breathing, you're all right.
00:20:25.16\00:20:27.83
Why is breathing important?
00:20:27.83\00:20:29.23
Your breathing is important
because your breathing is an
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indication that whatever you
went through didn't kill you.
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[Aud
response/applause] PB: Hey, hey!
00:20:36.00\00:20:43.93
That you're still
surviving, if you're breathing.
00:20:43.93\00:20:50.56
And I just stopped by to
tell somebody that I'm still
00:20:50.56\00:20:54.46
breathing, because the
devil couldn't kill me.
00:20:54.46\00:20:59.63
I'm still breathing, because
the folk that said I'd never
00:20:59.63\00:21:03.83
be anything need to
know I'm still here.
00:21:03.83\00:21:07.60
I'm breathing.
00:21:07.60\00:21:08.26
Because when they said
I'd never recover, I did.
00:21:08.26\00:21:14.33
I'm breathing.
00:21:14.33\00:21:15.60
Because God blocked whatever
the devil had coming my way.
00:21:15.60\00:21:18.93
And by God didn't let me fall.
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Let me tell you, I didn't
come to Oakwood today DOA.
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I said I didn't come to
Oakwood DOA, dead on arrival.
00:21:27.13\00:21:36.16
But I come today
to praise the Lord.
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[Aud response] PB: For
his loving kindness, for his
00:21:40.86\00:21:44.53
tender mercy, for
making a way out of no way.
00:21:44.53\00:21:49.96
For allowing me to be here
today, for allowing me to get
00:21:49.96\00:21:52.80
an education
from this institution.
00:21:52.80\00:21:54.86
I've got to praise him.
00:21:54.86\00:21:58.36
And so today all the choir
singing and the praise team
00:21:58.36\00:22:01.03
and σσ, Brother Byrd,
with all this music, I notice
00:22:01.03\00:22:04.20
praise.
00:22:04.20\00:22:05.20
My praise may get on
somebody's nerves, but let me
00:22:05.20\00:22:07.60
tell you this as I take my seat.
00:22:07.60\00:22:10.80
I'll make a deal with you.
00:22:10.80\00:22:12.80
When God stops blessing me -
00:22:14.26\00:22:18.80
[Aud response] PB:
Then I'll stop blessing him.
00:22:20.90\00:22:25.26
When God stops blessing
me, I'll stop praising him.
00:22:25.26\00:22:35.26
You see, you want me to stop
praising him, but he woke me
00:22:35.26\00:22:37.50
up this morning.
00:22:37.50\00:22:38.50
You want me to stop praising
him, but he put food on my
00:22:38.50\00:22:42.13
table.
00:22:42.13\00:22:43.13
You want me to stop praising
him, but as an old man I'm
00:22:43.13\00:22:46.43
about to have a baby.
00:22:46.43\00:22:47.83
Come on, say Amen.
00:22:47.83\00:22:49.40
Aud: [applause]
PB: Hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:22:49.40\00:22:53.63
[organ] PB: It still works.
00:22:53.63\00:22:55.73
Come on, say Amen.
00:22:55.73\00:22:58.23
I've got a right, I've
got a right to praise him,
00:22:58.23\00:23:03.40
I've got a right to bless him,
when I think of the goodness
00:23:03.40\00:23:07.13
of Jesus and all he's
done for me, my soul cries out,
00:23:07.13\00:23:18.20
hallelujah.
00:23:18.20\00:23:19.66
[organ] PB: Thank
God for saving me.
00:23:19.66\00:23:24.06
Praise God in his sanctuary.
00:23:24.06\00:23:26.60
Praise him in the
firmament of his power.
00:23:26.60\00:23:29.76
Praise him for his mighty acts.
00:23:29.76\00:23:33.36
Praise him according to
his excellent greatness.
00:23:33.36\00:23:36.56
Praise him with the sound
of the trumpet: praise him with
00:23:36.56\00:23:40.96
the psaltery and harp.
00:23:40.96\00:23:42.80
Praise him with the timbrel
and dance: praise him with
00:23:42.80\00:23:46.96
stringed instruments and organs.
00:23:46.96\00:23:49.33
Praise him with the
loud cymbals: praise him upon
00:23:49.33\00:23:55.00
the high sounding cymbals.
00:23:55.00\00:23:56.56
Let everything, let
everything, let everything
00:23:56.56\00:24:06.00
that hath breath
praise ye the Lord.
00:24:06.00\00:24:18.63
God loves you,
God won't fail you,
00:24:18.63\00:24:22.46
God's coming back to get you.
00:24:22.46\00:24:24.46
Praise ye the Lord.
00:24:24.46\00:24:30.66
Lord, you are the source
of my strength, you are the
00:24:30.66\00:24:35.93
strength of my life.
00:24:35.93\00:24:40.06
I lift my hands in
total, total praise to you.
00:24:40.06\00:24:59.90
Whether if it's to say
Amen, or whether it's to sit
00:24:59.90\00:25:04.63
quietly in my seat, I've
got to praise the name of Jesus.
00:25:04.63\00:25:12.90
If a person wants to sit
and worship and just meditate,
00:25:12.90\00:25:17.23
leave them alone.
00:25:17.23\00:25:20.26
If a person wants to say Amen
in church, leave them alone.
00:25:20.26\00:25:24.80
Just give your
total praise to God.
00:25:24.80\00:25:32.96
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You're not in it to stay,
you're just going through it,
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trying to get to it.
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But when God has been
there for you, when all else has
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failed you, and you have
nothing else to sustain you
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but God, you will learn to
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