>> IT'S BEEN 2,000 YEARS SINCE
THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF THE CROSS
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ILLUMINATED A WORLD
VEILED IN DARKNESS AND CONFUSION
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ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF GOD.
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AND STILL TODAY, THE GREATEST
NEED OF MANKIND IS A REVELATION
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OF GOD'S LOVE AS
REVEALED IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST.
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AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS
"THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL"
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WITH PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR,
COMING TO YOU EACH WEEK
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FROM SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
CHURCH IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA.
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DISCOVER HIDDEN
TREASURES IN GOD'S WORD TODAY.
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>> THE MORNING'S
MESSAGE IS TALKING ABOUT
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MORE PRAISE IN YOUR DAYS.
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AND OF COURSE, YOU CAN'T
HAVE GENUINE PRAISE APART FROM
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THANKSGIVING BIBLICALLY,
THEY'RE REALLY ONE IN THE SAME.
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THIS IS A HOLIDAY THAT I THINK
AS CHRISTIANS WE CAN REALLY
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GET EXCITED ABOUT.
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WE ARE A PEOPLE OF THANKSGIVING.
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I REMEMBER A STORY YOU
MAY HAVE HEARD BEFORE ABOUT
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A CIRCUIT-RIDING PREACHER.
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IT GOT OLD AND IT WAS
TIME FOR HIM TO RETIRE.
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THIS WAS BACK IN THE DAYS WHERE
THESE PREACHERS WOULD RIDE THEIR
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HORSE FROM TOWN TO TOWN,
THEY'D DO A LITTLE REVIVAL,
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THEY'D GO ON TO THE NEXT TOWN.
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AND HE WAS A LITTLE OLDER
THAN HIS HORSE, SO HE THOUGHT
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HE'D SELL HIS HORSE.
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WELL, HE FOUND A PERSPECTIVE
BUYER WHO CAME BY AND HE SAID,
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"I'D LIKE TO TAKE THE
HORSE FOR A TEST DRIVE."
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HE SAID, "FAIR ENOUGH."
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HE SAID, "BUT I NEED TO LET YOU
KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, AFTER ALL,
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I AM A PREACHER AND THIS HORSE
IS NOT LIKE TYPICAL WESTERN
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HORSES.
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IF YOU WANT TO GO,
YOU DON'T SAY, "GIDDY UP,"
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YOU SAY, "PRAISE THE LORD."
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IF YOU WANT TO STOP, YOU DON'T
SAY, "WHOA," YOU SAY, "AMEN."
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HE SAYS, "HE'S USED TO
THESE BIBLICAL TERMS AND THAT'S
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ALL HE'S GONNA RESPOND TO."
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HE SAID, "FAIR ENOUGH, I
THINK I CAN HANDLE THAT."
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HE SAID, "LIKE TO TRY HIM OUT."
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HE SAID, "HELP YOURSELF."
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AND SO HE HOPS ON THE HORSE
AND THEY LIVED THERE ON THE EDGE
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OF TOWN, HE SAID, "GIDDY
UP," AND THE HORSE DIDN'T MOVE.
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HE SAID, "OH,
YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH."
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HE SAID, "PRAISE THE LORD."
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AND SO THE HORSE TOOK
OFF, AND HE STARTED WALKING.
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HE GOT OUT OF TOWN A LITTLE
BIT AND HE SAID, "AH, THIS SEEMS
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LIKE A GOOD HORSE."
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HE SAID, "I WONDER IF I KICK IT
UP A NOTCH, "PRAISE THE LORD!"
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THE HORSE STARTED
INTO A FASTER TROT.
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THEN HE SAID, "PRAISE THE LORD!"
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THE HORSE WENT
INTO A FULL GALLOP.
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AND THEN HE THOUGHT,
"WHOA, THIS IS PRETTY GOOD,
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THE HORSE IS PRETTY FAST."
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BUT ALL OF THE SUDDEN HE LOOKED
DOWN THE TRAIL AND HE COULD SEE
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THAT THE HORSE WAS
GALLOPING TOWARDS A CLIFF.
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HE SAID, "WHOA!
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STOP!
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HALT!"
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AND THE HORSE IS JUST CHARGING
UP TO THE EDGE OF THIS CLIFF.
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AND HE'S TRYING TO THINK,
"WHAT WAS THAT WORD AGAIN?"
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HE SAID, "AMEN!"
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AND THE HORSE LOCKED HIS
LEGS AND STOPPED, AND WENT
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SCREECHING, RIGHT UP TO THE EDGE
OF THE CLIFF, AND ALL THE DUST
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BILLOWED PAST AND
TUMBLED OFF THE CLIFF.
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AND THE MAN TOOK A BREATH AND
HE WIPED HIS BROW, AND HE SAID,
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"PRAISE THE LORD!"
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WELL, YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW
WHEN TO SAY, "PRAISE THE LORD,"
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IN A CHURCH, AND WHEN NOT
TO SAY IT, AND WHAT IT MEANS.
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WE TALK A LOT ABOUT
PRAISING GOD, AND I'VE FOUND IN
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THE CHURCH THAT REAL PRAISE IS
SOMETHING THAT IS MISUNDERSTOOD,
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BOTH TIME AND PLACE.
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IT'S APPROPRIATE FOR US TO TALK
ABOUT AND STUDY THE SUBJECT OF
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MORE PRAISE IN OUR DAYS,
BECAUSE IT IS A BIBLICAL THEME.
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OVER 290 TIMES IN THE BIBLE
YOU'LL FIND THE WORD "PRAISE."
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IT'S INTERESTING, IT
GOES ALL THE WAY FROM GENESIS
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TO REVELATION.
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THE FIRST MENTION OF
PRAISE IN THE BIBLE YOU FIND IN
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GENESIS 29:35, WHEN LEAH
GIVES BIRTH TO THE BOY, JUDAH.
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AND SHE CONCEIVED AGAIN AND BEAR
A SON, AND SHE SAID, "NOW I WILL
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PRAISE THE LORD," THEREFORE
SHE CALLED HIS NAME JUDAH.
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IT'S VERY INTERESTING THAT
THE WORD "PRAISE" IN HEBREW IS
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"YUADAH," WHICH MEANS "JUDAH."
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AND IT SIMPLY MEANS "PRAISE."
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IN GREEK THE WORD IS "AINOS."
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"AINOS" IS HOW YOU
WOULD SAY "PRAISE."
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BUT I WANT TO GO BACK TO
THAT VERSE THERE IN GENESIS 35--
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OR 29:35.
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FIRST TIME YOU FIND THE
WORD "PRAISE" IS WITH THE SON OF
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THE TRIBE JUDAH, THROUGH WHICH
THE MESSIAH WOULD COME--HE WAS
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THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF PRAISE.
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AND IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT
EVERY CHRISTIAN BE A MEMBER OF
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THE PRIZE--OF THE
TRIBE, RATHER--OF PRAISE.
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PRAISE SHOULD BE
PART OF WHO WE ARE.
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MAYBE I SHOULD
START WITH A DEFINITION.
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PRAISE COMES FROM THE LATIN,
"PRAETERIA," OR "TO PRIZE."
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IT'S DRAWN EITHER FROM
THE WORD "TO PRIZE," OR
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"TO PRICE" SOMETHING.
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AND MATTER OF FACT, THAT'S WHERE
WE GET THE WORD "AN APPRAISER."
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AND SO THE WORD "PRAISE" MEANS
"EXPRESSION OF WARM APPROBATION,
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APPROVAL,
COMMENDATION OR ADMIRATION.
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TO EXTOL, LAUD, WORSHIP, TO
EXALT A DEITY, RULER OR HERO.
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TO PRAISE."
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NOW, NOT ONLY ARE WE
TALKING ABOUT PRAISING THE LORD,
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BUT JUST IF WE WERE TO TALK IN
A MORE GENERAL SENSE OF THE WORD
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"PRAISE,"
EVERYBODY APPRECIATES PRAISE.
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I THINK EVERYBODY LIKES
BEING TOLD, "YOU DID A GOOD JOB,
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WE LIKE WHO YOU ARE."
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TO EXTOL SOMETHING GOOD THAT
YOU'VE DONE OR TALENTS YOU MIGHT
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POSSESS.
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AND JOHN RUSKIN ONCE SAID,
"WHEN WE FAIL TO PRAISE SOMEBODY
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THAT DESERVES IT,
TWO SAD THINGS HAPPEN.
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FIRST OF ALL, WE RUN A CHANCE OF
DRIVING HIM FROM THE RIGHT ROAD
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FOR LACK OF ENCOURAGEMENT.
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AND WE DEPRIVE OURSELVES,
SECONDLY, OF THE HIGHEST
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PRIVILEGE OF BEING A REWARDER
OF HIM WHO DESERVES REWARD."
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YOU ARE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY OF
DISPENSING REWARD WHEN YOU OFFER
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PRAISE.
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SOMEONE ELSE SAID, ROGER ASHKIN,
"THERE IS NO SUCH WHETSTONE TO
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SHARPEN GOOD WIT AND ENCOURAGE
EVERYONE IN LIFE AS PRAISE.
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IT'S NOT JUST IN THE SCHOOLROOM,
IT'S TRUE EVERYWHERE--PRAISE
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WILL SHARPEN AND IMPROVE
ANY SITUATION, RELATIONSHIP, ANY
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PERSON, PROVIDED THAT IT'S TRULY
DESERVED AND SINCERELY GIVEN.
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YOU'VE PROBABLY ALSO KNOWN
PEOPLE THAT ARE ALSO THANKING
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AND PRAISING
PEOPLE FOR EVERYTHING.
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AND THAT'S GOOD AND WE ALL WANT
TO BE AROUND PEOPLE LIKE THAT,
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BUT SOMEBODY ONCE SAID,
"HE WHO PRAISES EVERYONE,
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REALLY PRAISES NO ONE."
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IF YOU HAVE NO RATIONING AT ALL
OF YOUR PRAISE, THEN PRETTY SOON
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PEOPLE BEGIN TO
WONDER HOW SINCERE YOU ARE.
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AND SO THE PRAISE OUGHT
TO BE GENUINE, AND IT OUGHT
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TO BE TIMELY IN THE
WAY THAT IT'S GIVEN.
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EVERYBODY
APPRECIATES BEING APPRECIATED.
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A PAT ON THE BACK ACCOMPLISHES
A LOT MORE THAN A SLAP
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IN THE FACE.
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MATTER OF FACT, THERE'S PROBABLY
A LOT OF YOU HERE WHO MAYBE HAVE
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HAD FATHERS THAT USED TO
RATION THEIR PRAISE A LITTLE
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TOO SPARSELY.
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MY DAD WAS THAT--HE
ALWAYS WANTED TO GET BETTER
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PERFORMANCE, AND SO YOU'D OFTEN
HEAR THE CRITICISM AND SELDOM
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WOULD YOU HEAR THE PRAISE.
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I THINK IT WAS THE DUKE
OF WELLINGTON, THE ONE WHO
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CONQUERED NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO,
WHO WAS A VERY BRILLIANT
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GENERAL, BUT HE WAS ALSO A
VERY EXACTING OFFICER AND GAVE
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OUT VERY SCANT
RECOMMENDATION TO PEOPLE.
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VERY RARELY EXPRESSED
APPRECIATION OR PRAISE FOR A JOB
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WELL DONE.
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AND HE
RECOGNIZED THAT WAS A FLAW,
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BECAUSE AT THE END OF HIS
LIFE SOMEONE ASKED HIM, "IF YOU
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COULD LIVE YOUR SUCCESSFUL LIFE
OVER AGAIN, IS THERE ANYTHING
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YOU'D DO DIFFERENTLY?"
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HE SAID, "YES.
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I WOULD PRAISE MORE."
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NOW, THAT COULD PROBABLY BE SAID
NOT ONLY OF THOSE IN POSITIONS
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OF LEADERSHIP FOR PEOPLE YOU'RE
WORKING WITH OR PARENTS, BUT I
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THINK THAT COME ETERNITY
EVERY CHRISTIAN IS GOING TO SAY,
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"YOU KNOW, I WISH DURING
THIS LIFE I HAD PRAISED MORE."
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BECAUSE REALLY THAT'S WHY WE
EXIST--WE EXIST TO GIVE WORSHIP
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TO GOD.
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YOU KNOW, YOU REALLY DON'T ENJOY
ANYTHING UNTIL YOU SHARE IT
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WITH SOMEBODY ELSE.
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AND IF YOU SEE A BEAUTIFUL
SUNSET AND YOU'RE BUY YOURSELF,
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UNLESS YOU CAN EXPRESS PRAISE TO
GOD FOR IT OR TELL SOMEONE ELSE
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THAT YOU ELBOW, "ISN'T THAT
BEAUTIFUL," YOU REALLY HAVEN'T
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FULLY DELIGHTED IN IT.
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PRAISE IS THE
EPITOME OF YOUR EXISTENCE.
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AND SO--AND THE
BIBLE IS FULL OF IT.
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MATTER OF FACT, I THOUGHT OF
THIS WHILE I WAS JUST UP THERE
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LISTENING TO THE SPECIAL MUSIC.
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YOU LOOK IN LUKE 24, TYPICALLY
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE GOSPELS
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OF MATTHEW AND MARK, THEY
END WITH THE GREAT COMMISSION.
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AND YOU THINK ABOUT THE GOSPEL
OF JOHN, IT ENDS TALKING ABOUT
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JESUS AND HIS
COUNSEL TO JOHN AND TO PETER.
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BUT WHEN YOU GET TO THE END
OF LUKE, IT SAYS IN VERSE 50,
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"HE LED," AND
THIS IS LUKE 24:50,
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"HE LED THEM OUT AS FAR AS
BETHANY, HE LIFTED UP HIS HANDS
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AND HE BLESSED THEM.
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NOW, IT CAME TO PASS AS HE
BLESSED THEM, HE WAS PARTED FROM
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THEM AND CARRIED INTO HEAVEN."
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NOTICE, "AND THEY WORSHIPPED HIM
AND THEY RETURNED TO JERUSALEM
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WITH GREAT JOY, AND THEY
WERE CONTINUALLY IN THE TEMPLE
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PRAISING AND BLESSING GOD."
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THEY WENT FROM WORSHIPPING
GOD INTO THE TEMPLE WHERE
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THEY WERE--OCCASIONALLY
OR CONTINUALLY--CONTINUALLY
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PRAISING AND BLESSING GOD.
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CHRISTIANS, IF KNOWN FOR
ANYTHING, WE OUGHT TO BE KNOWN
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FOR PEOPLE THAT PRAISE GOD.
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NOW, THERE'S A LOT OF
MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT
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WHAT IT MEANS TO PRAISE GOD.
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AND SOME OF THIS CAME FROM
RECENT GENERATIONS WHERE SOME OF
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THE TELEVANGELISTS WOULD HAVE
PROGRAMS--THEY HAD ONE PROGRAM
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CALLED "PRAISE THE LORD."
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AND YOU MIGHT HEAR SOMEONE SAY
THE WORDS, "PRAISE THE LORD,"
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90 TIMES DURING ONE SHOW,
AND SOMETIMES SEVERAL TIMES
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IN SEQUENCE.
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IT WAS JUST LIKE VAIN
REPETITION, "PRAISE THE LORD!
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PRAISE THE LORD!
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LET'S ALL PRAISE THE LORD."
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THAT WOULD MEAN EVERYBODY STARTS
RAISING THEIR HANDS AND WAVING
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THEM, AND
SAYING, "PRAISE THE LORD!
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PRAISE THE LORD!"
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THAT'S NOT REALLY WHAT PRAISE
IS, 'CAUSE PRAISE IS WHERE YOU
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EXTOL, YOU IDENTIFY, YOU
SPECIFY SOMEONE'S GOODNESS,
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YOU SPECIFICALLY THANK
THEM FOR SOMETHING SPECIFIC.
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IF YOU WALK UP TO A STRANGER ON
THE STREET AND SAY, "THANK YOU,
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THANK YOU; THANK
YOU," THEY THINK YOU'RE MAD.
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"FOR WHAT?"
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THEY'D SAY.
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YOU'D HAVE TO
GIVE 'EM A SPECIFIC.
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AND SO A LOT OF CHRISTIANS
HAVE KIND OF--AND I'VE DONE IT,
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TOO--WILL JUST SAY, "PRAISE
THE LORD," AND THAT'S OUR WAY
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OF SAYING, WE'RE
GIVING CREDIT TO GOD, BUT IT'S
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USUALLY FOR SOMETHING.
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YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
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YOU'RE NOT PRAISING THE LORD
WHEN YOU JUST REPEAT IN VAIN
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REPETITION, "PRAISE THE LORD."
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'CAUSE JESUS TOLD US ABOUT
PRAYING IN VAIN REPETITION.
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DID THAT MAKE SENSE?
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I WANT TO MAKE SURE SOMETIMES,
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S ME
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OR YOUR EXPRESSION, BUT I
WONDER IF I'M GETTING THROUGH.
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SO JUST CHECKING WITH YOU.
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AND IT'S OKAY TO GIVE
EACH OTHER ENCOURAGEMENT;
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EVERYBODY NEEDS IT.
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DOES GOD EVER
ENCOURAGE AND PRAISE PEOPLE?
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IS PRAISE ONLY FOR GOD?
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NO?
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YOU CAN READ IN THE
BIBLE ABOUT CORNELIUS.
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DOES GOD PRAISE PEOPLE?
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YES.
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ACTS 10:4, AN ANGEL COMES TO
THIS ROMAN CENTURION, SAYING,
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"GOD HAS LOOKED AT YOUR
GENEROSITY, HE'S LOOKED AT
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YOUR ALMS AND YOUR KINDNESS."
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HE SAYS, "YOUR PRAYERS
AND YOUR ALMS ARE COME UP
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AS A MEMORIAL BEFORE GOD."
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GOD HAD BEEN TAKING NOTE
OF THAT AND GOD SENT AN ANGEL
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TO TELL HIM THAT HE NOTICED.
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IN THE BOOK OF JOB, DOES
THE LORD TALK ABOUT HIS SERVANT,
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JOB, AND SPEAK OF HIM IN
A PRAISEWORTHY NAME OR WAY?
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HE EVEN SAID TO THE DEVIL,
"HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT,
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JOB, THAT THERE'S NONE
LIKE HIM IN THE EARTH?"
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IT'S LIKE HE'S BRAGGING ON HIM.
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"A BLAMELESS AND AN UPRIGHT
MAN WHO FEARS GOD AND TURNS AWAY
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FROM EVIL."
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NOTICE, HE GIVES THE SPECIFICS.
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BY THE WAY, JESUS SAID THAT
IF WE SPEAK UP FOR HIM, IF WE'RE
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NOT ASHAMED OF HIM, GOD WILL NOT
BE ASHAMED OF US, AND HE WILL
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CONFESS OUR NAME BEFORE
THE FATHER AND THE ANGELS.
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THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED
WHERE HERE GOD WAS CONFESSING
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THE NAME OF JOB BEFORE
THE THRONE OF GOD AND BEFORE
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THE ANGELS.
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WOULDN'T THAT BE
SOMETHING TO HAVE GOD PRAISE US?
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WILL JESUS SAY TO THOSE THAT
ARE SAVED, MATTHEW 25:21, "WELL
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DONE, GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT.
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ENTER INTO THE JOY OF THE LORD.
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YOU'VE BEEN FAITHFUL OVER
FEW THINGS, I'LL MAKE YOU RULER
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OVER MANY THINGS?"
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GOD IS PRAISING THOSE WHO HAVE
DONE A GOOD JOB, "WELL DONE."
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HOW MANY OF YOU WISH THAT MAYBE
YOUR PARENTS HAD SAID THAT MORE
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TO YOU, "WELL DONE, GOOD JOB?"
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TO BE ENCOURAGED, TO BE
COMPLIMENTED--OUR HEAVENLY
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FATHER DOES.
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YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY GETS ME?
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HE EVEN DOES IT AMONG
THOSE WHO WEREN'T PERFECT.
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WAS ABRAHAM PERFECT?
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DID ABRAHAM KIND OF TELL A
HALF-TRUTH WHEN HE SAID SARAH
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WAS HIS SISTER?
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AND A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS,
TAKING AN EXTRA WIFE, THAT
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SURELY WASN'T THE
RIGHT THING TO DO.
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BUT WHEN GOD THEN REFERS
BACK TO ABRAHAM, BECAUSE ABRAHAM
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ACCEPTED THE BLOOD AND SACRIFICE
OF THE LORD, GOD LOOKED UPON HIM
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AND HE SAID, "ABRAHAM IS ONE WHO
KEPT MY COMMANDMENTS AND HE'S
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DONE THAT WHICH
WAS RIGHT IN MY EYES."
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WHAT ABOUT DAVID?
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DID DAVID LIVE A LIFE
THAT WAS WORTHY OF PRAISE?
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WELL, FOR THE MOST PART
HE MADE SOME BIG BLUNDERS.
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AND YET, LISTEN TO WHAT GOD
SAYS ABOUT DAVID, 1 KINGS 14:8,
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"AND YET, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN
AS MY SERVANT DAVID, WHO KEPT
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MY COMMANDMENTS, WHO FOLLOWED
ME WITH ALL OF MY HEART,
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TO DO ONLY THAT WHICH
WAS RIGHT IN MY EYES."
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WELL, DOES GOD HAVE A BAD
MEMORY OR HAD GOD FORGIVEN HIM?
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LOOKED UPON DAVID
AND HE PRAISED HIM.
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HE ALSO LOOKED
AT THE BIG PICTURE.
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NOW, SO MANY PEOPLE WHEN
THEY LOOK BACK ON A LIFE WHERE
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THERE'S BEEN A MAJOR MISTAKE,
THAT'S ALL THEY THINK ABOUT;
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THEY WON'T THINK ABOUT THE
GOOD THINGS THEY MAY HAVE DONE.
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SOMETIMES HISTORY IS UNFAIR
IN THE WAY THAT IT JUDGES,
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BUT GOD PRAISES PEOPLE.
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JOHN 1:47, JESUS SAW NATHANIEL
COMING TO HIM AND HE SAID,
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"BEHOLD AN ISRAELITE IN
WHOM THERE IS NO GUILE."
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HE DIDN'T SAY HE WAS SINLESS,
BUT THIS WAS A VERY HONEST MAN,
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NATHANIEL.
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AND JESUS BROUGHT THAT OUT
AND HE WAS ENCOURAGED BY IT.
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OF COURSE, IN THE WORLD, WE
SOMETIMES ARE MORE PREOCCUPIED
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WITH THE PRAISE OF MEN
THAN THE PRAISE OF GOD.
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IF YOU'RE GOING TO SEEK
PRAISE--AND DON'T LIVE TO TRY
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AND GET PRAISED BY MEN, BE
MORE CONCERNED WITH THE PRAISE
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THAT COMES FROM GOD.
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JOHN 12:43, "FOR THEY LOVED
THE PRAISE OF MEN MORE THAN
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THE PRAISE OF GOD."
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I WANT GOD TO
BE PLEASED WITH ME.
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NOW, I THINK EVERYONE KNOWS THAT
OUR PRIMARY PURPOSE IN LIFE IS
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WE LIVE TO
WORSHIP AND PRAISE GOD.
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THE BIBLE BEGINS WITH WORSHIP
AND ENDS WITH WORSHIP; THE FINAL
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BATTLE IS OVER WORSHIP.
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AND SO PRAISE IS CENTRAL TO THAT
AND WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND IT.
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WE NEED TO SPEND
MORE TIME PRAISING GOD.
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WE WORSHIP GOD FOR WHO HE IS,
WE PRAISE HIM MORE SPECIFICALLY
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FOR WHAT HE'S DONE.
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WE THANK HIM FOR WHAT HE'S DONE.
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BUT SO OFTEN--AND IT HAPPENS
IN RELATIONSHIPS, IT HAPPENS IN
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MARRIAGES, IN FAMILIES, WITH
WORKERS--WHEN SOMEONE'S DOING
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A GOOD JOB, WE SORT OF TAKE
IT FOR GRANTED AND WE FORGET TO
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EXPRESS APPRECIATION.
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I WAS THINKING ABOUT ALL OF THE
THINGS I HAD TO DO TO PREPARE
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FOR THIS TRIP, JUST CAME BACK
FROM A TRIP, GETTING READY TO GO
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ON ANOTHER TRIP.
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I UNPACK, GET USED TO THE TIME
ZONE, NOW I GOTTA GO AND GET
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USED TO ANOTHER TIME ZONE.
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AND I GET REAL BUSY.
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AND ALL OF THE SUDDEN IT POPPED
INTO MY MIND HOW HARD EVERYBODY
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AT THE "AMAZING FACTS" OFFICE
WORKS, ESPECIALLY DURING THIS
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TIME OF YEAR.
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AND I THOUGHT, A LITTLE VOICE
SAID, "DOUG, WHEN WAS THE LAST
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TIME YOU TOLD 'EM THAT?"
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I'M A LITTLE LIKE MY
FATHER, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST TAKE
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EVERYBODY FOR GRANTED.
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AND SO I SENT A LITTLE E-MAIL TO
THE OFFICE--AND I DON'T, I'M NOT
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VERY ELOQUENT THAT WAY AND--BUT
I SAID, "YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT
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TO TELL EVERYBODY HOW MUCH I
APPRECIATE THE HARD WORK AND ALL
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THE SACRIFICE THAT YOU INVEST."
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AND ALL OF THE SUDDEN I
GOT ALL THESE E-MAIL BACK FROM
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THE PEOPLE IN THE OFFICE,
THEY JUST WERE SO THANKFUL
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TO GET THAT LITTLE BIT, IT
WAS JUST A SENTENCE OR TWO,
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OF ENCOURAGEMENT.
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BUT SOMETIMES WE
FORGET TO EXPRESS IT.
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AND SOMETIMES YOU THINK, "WELL,
YOU KNOW, I'VE DONE IT BEFORE,"
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AND WE FORGET
HOW LONG IT'S BEEN.
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IT'S SOMETHING YOU NEED TO
DO FREQUENTLY, KIND OF LIKE
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PAINTING THE GOLDEN GATE
BRIDGE, YOU'RE NEVER DONE.
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SOON AS YOU'RE DONE GETTING
TO ONE END, YOU'RE STARTING AT
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THE OTHER.
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AND YOU SHOULD NEVER REALLY
BE DONE EXPRESSING APPRECIATION.
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LIKE THE HUSBAND, HIS WIFE SAID,
"YOU NEVER TELL ME YOU LOVE ME
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ANYMORE."
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AND HE SAID, "WELL, I
TOLD YOU WHEN I MARRIED YOU.
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IF I CHANGE MY
MIND, I'LL LET YOU KNOW."
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AND LET'S FACE IT,
WE'RE ALL THAT WAY SOMETIMES.
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I REMEMBER AT THE END OF THE
YEAR, IT USUALLY HAPPENS ABOUT
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THIS TIME OF YEAR, KAREN AND
I, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE GIVE
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MONTHLY TO DIFFERENT MINISTRIES,
AND AT THE END OF THE YEAR
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WE THINK ABOUT SUPPORTING,
WE SUPPORT, YOU KNOW, A SPECTRUM
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OF DIFFERENT MINISTRIES.
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AND I THOUGHT, "WELL,
YEAH, WE JUST GAVE TO THEM."
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AND KAREN WILL GET OUT THE
CHECKBOOK, AND, YOU KNOW, YOU
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THINK IT WAS JUST LAST WEEK, AND
SHE'LL SAY, "DOUG, IT'S ACTUALLY
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BEEN TWO YEARS."
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ANY OF YOU EVER
FOUND THAT BEFORE?
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AND I WENT TO THE DOCTOR AND
HE SAID, "YOU KNOW, IT'S TIME
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FOR YOUR CHECKUP."
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I SAID, "I JUST SAW YOU
A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO."
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AND THE RECEPTIONIST I WAS
ACTUALLY TALKING TO, AND SHE
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SAID, "MOST PEOPLE, YOU BETTER
DOUBLE WHATEVER YOU THINK.
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YOU THINK IT WAS A COUPLE OF
MONTHS AGO, AND IT WAS ACTUALLY
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A YEAR AGO."
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I SAID, "NO.
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I JUST HAD MY TEETH
CLEANED LAST MONTH."
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"NO, IT'S BEEN SIX MONTHS."
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AND SOMETIMES YOU LOSE
PERSPECTIVE OF HOW LONG
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IT'S BEEN.
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WELL, WHEN IT COMES TO SHOWING
APPRECIATION AND THANKS, TRUST
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ME--IT'S BEEN LONGER THAN YOU
PROBABLY THINK SINCE YOU TOLD
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SOMEBODY THAT
YOU APPRECIATE THEM.
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AND SO, JUST TO BE SURE, DO IT
MORE FREQUENTLY THAN YOU MIGHT
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ANTICIPATE.
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ERWIN LUTZER SAID, "PRAISE
IS AN ACT OF WORSHIP, AND IF WE
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HAVEN'T LEARNED TO WORSHIP, IT
DOESN'T REALLY MATTER HOW WELL
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WE DO ANYTHING ELSE."
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IF WE'RE NOT LEARNING TO PRAISE,
IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER HOW
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WELL YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE.
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THERE WILL BE PEOPLE IN HEAVEN
THAT MAYBE WENT TO CHURCH ON
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THE WRONG DAY, BUT THERE
WON'T BE ANYONE IN HEAVEN
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THAT DOESN'T PRAISE GOD.
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SO IF WE DON'T GET THAT
RIGHT, WE GOT IT ALL WRONG.
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HEAVEN IS FILLED WITH
BEINGS THAT PRAISE GOD.
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GOD IS PRAISED IN HEAVEN.
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REVELATION 7:10--AND THERE
ARE SEVERAL VERSES I COULD READ,
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"THESE ANGELS AROUND THE THRONE
OF GOD, THEY CRY WITH A LOUD
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VOICE, SAYING, SALVATION TO OUR
GOD THAT SITS UPON THE THRONE,
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AND UNTO THE LAMB.
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AND ALL THE ANGELS STOOD 'ROUND
ABOUT THE THRONE AND ABOUT
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THE ELDERS AND THE FOUR BEASTS.
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AND THEY FELL BEFORE THE
THRONE ON THEIR FACES AND THEY
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WORSHIPPED GOD, SAYING, "AMEN,
BLESSING AND GLORY AND WISDOM,
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AND THANKSGIVING AND HONOR, AND
POWER AND MIGHT BE UNTO OUR GOD,
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FOREVER AND EVER."
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THEY'RE THANKING AND
PRAISING HIM IN HEAVEN.
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IF WE HOPE TO BE THERE, WE
NEED TO PROBABLY START LEARNING
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TO DO THAT MORE HERE.
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AGAIN, REVELATION 19:5, LAST
PLACE IN THE BIBLE YOU FOUND
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THE WORD "PRAISE."
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"AND A VOICE CAME OUT OF THE
THRONE SAYING, PRAISE OUR GOD,
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ALL HIS SERVANTS, AND ALL
YE THAT FEAR HIM, BOTH SMALL
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AND GREAT."
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IF WE'RE
SERVANTS, WE PRAISE GOD.
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ISAIAH 6:3, HE HAD THIS VISION
OF HEAVEN AND THESE ANGELS, BY
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THE THRONE OF GOD, ARE SAYING
CONTINUALLY, "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY
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IS THE LORD OF HOSTS.
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THE WHOLE EARTH IS
FULL OF HIS GLORY."
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THESE ARE COVERING
ANGELS BY THE THRONE OF GOD.
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WHAT WAS THEIR JOB?
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THEY WERE TO PRAISE GOD.
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HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED
THAT THE TRANSITION POINT FOR
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LUCIFER, WHEN HE STOPPED BEING
A CHERUB AND STARTED BEING THE
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DEVIL AND SATAN, AND A REBEL?
00:20:31.23\00:20:33.06
WHEN HE CEASED TO PRAISE
GOD, WHEN HE BEGAN TO FROWN IN
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THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND WANT THE
PRAISE FOR HIMSELF, INSTEAD OF
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BEING WILLING TO OFFER IT FREELY
TO GOD, HE THEN CEASED BEING
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THAT ANGEL AND HE
TRANSITIONED INTO BEING A REBEL.
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AND WHAT DO YOU THINK
DISTINGUISHED THE FALLEN ANGELS
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FROM THE GOOD ANGELS?
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I CAN GUARANTEE YOU THE FALLEN
ANGELS STOPPED PRAISING GOD.
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AND I THINK THAT SOME PEOPLE
FALL, THEY BACKSLIDE IN THEIR
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EXPERIENCE, WHEN WE FORGET TO
THANK AND TO PRAISE GOD FOR ALL
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THE BLESSINGS THAT
HE'S, AGAIN, GIVEN US.
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ALL OF CREATION PRAISES
GOD, NOT ONLY IN HEAVEN,
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BUT EVEN HERE ON EARTH.
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LUKE 19:40, "FOR WHEN JESUS WAS
COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN AND ALL
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THE CHILDREN WERE CRYING
OUT, SAYING, PRAISE THE LORD
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AND HOSANNA, HOSANNA.
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AND THEY TOLD JESUS,
TELL THEM TO BE QUIET.
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AND HE SAID, IF THESE SHOULD
BE QUIET, EVEN THE STONES WOULD
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IMMEDIATELY CRY OUT."
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VERY NATURE WOULD PRAISE GOD.
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PSALM 148:5, YOU'LL FIND A
LOT OF PRAISE IN THE PSALMS.
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IT SAYS, "PRAISE THE LORD.
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PRAISE THE LORD FROM
THE HEAVENS, PRAISE HIM FROM
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THE HEIGHTS.
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PRAISE HIM ALL YOU ANGELS.
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PRAISE HIM ALL THIS HOST.
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PRAISE HIM SUN AND MOON.
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PRAISE HIM ALL--" YOU KNOW,
IT'S STRANGE THAT SOME PEOPLE
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WORSHIP THE SUN AND THE MOON.
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THE BIBLE SAYS THE SUN
AND THE MOON WORSHIP GOD.
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"PRAISE HIM ALL
YE STARS OF LIGHT.
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PRAISE HIM YOU HEAVENS OF
HEAVENS, AND YOU WATERS THAT
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BE ABOVE THE HEAVENS,
LET THEM PRAISE THE NAME OF
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THE LORD, FOR HE
COMMANDS AND THEY WERE CREATED."
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YOU GO TO PSALM 96:11-12,
"LET THE HEAVENS REJOICE,
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LET THE EARTH BE GLAD.
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LET THE SEA ROAR AND
THE FULLNESS THEREOF.
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LET THE FIELD BE JOYFUL IN
ALL THAT IS THEREIN, AND ALL
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THE TREES OF THE WOOD REJOICE."
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AND YOU'VE HEARD THAT SONG,
"ALL THE TREES OF THE FIELD
00:22:31.00\00:22:33.03
WILL CLAP THEIR HANDS."
00:22:33.03\00:22:34.43
IT TALKS ABOUT
NATURE PRAISING THE LORD.
00:22:34.43\00:22:37.76
SOME OF YOU HAVE HEARD
A DOG BARKING AT NIGHT.
00:22:37.76\00:22:41.10
HEAR YOU THOUGHT IT
WAS PLAIN OLD NOISE.
00:22:41.10\00:22:42.60
MAYBE HE'S PRAISING GOD.
00:22:42.60\00:22:45.50
JUST SOUNDS LIKE NOISE.
00:22:45.50\00:22:47.66
AND LET'S FACE IT, WHEN
CHRISTIANS ARE OUT IN THE WORLD
00:22:47.66\00:22:50.53
PRAISING THE LORD,
SOMETIMES THE WORLD THINKS WE'RE
00:22:50.53\00:22:52.70
JUST MAKING NOISE.
00:22:52.70\00:22:54.90
BUT GOD KNOWS
WHAT IT'S COMING FROM.
00:22:54.90\00:22:56.76
PSALM 150, THIS
IS THE LAST PSALM.
00:22:56.76\00:23:00.30
MATTER OF FACT, YOU COULD
READ THAT--MATTER OF FACT,
00:23:00.30\00:23:02.00
I'M GONNA DO THAT REAL QUICK.
00:23:02.00\00:23:02.90
IF YOU GO TO PSALM
50-- PSALM 150:1-6.
00:23:02.90\00:23:09.30
"PRAISE THE LORD."
00:23:09.30\00:23:10.90
THIS IS THE LAST OF THE PSALMS.
00:23:10.90\00:23:13.00
I THINK THERE'S A REASON THAT
YOU FIND THIS WORD SO FREQUENTLY
00:23:13.00\00:23:15.63
HERE.
00:23:15.63\00:23:16.76
"PRAISE GOD IN HIS SANCTUARY.
00:23:16.76\00:23:19.53
PRAISE HIM IN THE
FIRMAMENT OF HIS POWER.
00:23:19.53\00:23:23.03
PRAISE HIM FOR HIS MIGHTY ACTS.
00:23:23.03\00:23:25.60
PRAISE HIM ACCORDING TO
HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS.
00:23:25.60\00:23:28.10
PRAISE HIM WITH THE
SOUND OF THE TRUMPET,
00:23:28.10\00:23:30.10
WITH THE PSALTERY AND HARP.
00:23:30.10\00:23:31.33
PRAISE HIM WITH
TIMBREL AND DANCE.
00:23:31.33\00:23:33.96
PRAISE HIM WITH
STRINGED INSTRUMENTS AND ORGANS.
00:23:33.96\00:23:36.83
PRAISE HIM WITH THE
LOUD CYMBALS, PRAISE HIM ON
00:23:36.83\00:23:38.96
THE HIGH SOUNDING CYMBALS.
00:23:38.96\00:23:40.90
LET EVERYTHING THAT HAS
BREATH," THAT'S NOT JUST TALKING
00:23:40.90\00:23:44.03
ABOUT PEOPLE.
00:23:44.03\00:23:45.43
"EVERYTHING THAT HAS
BREATH PRAISE THE LORD."
00:23:45.43\00:23:48.16
AND THEN IT ENDS, THE LAST
WORDS IN THE BOOK OF PSALMS ARE,
00:23:48.16\00:23:51.26
"PRAISE YE THE LORD."
00:23:51.26\00:23:53.50
THAT'S A COMMAND THAT GOD
IS INVITING US TO PRAISE HIM.
00:23:53.50\00:23:58.50
SO EVEN THE VERY
CREATION PRAISES GOD.
00:23:58.50\00:24:01.43
AND YOU WANT TO PRAISE
HIM WHILE YOU'RE ALIVE.
00:24:01.43\00:24:04.56
YOU KNOW, IN THE EGYPTIAN TOMBS,
THEY WOULD TAKE SOME OF THEIR
00:24:04.56\00:24:08.90
SACRED WRITINGS AND THEY'D
PRAISE HORUS, AND THEY INSCRIBED
00:24:08.90\00:24:14.03
IT IN THE WALLS OF THEIR TOMBS.
00:24:14.03\00:24:16.23
BUT IT DOESN'T DO YOU
ANY GOOD TO PUT IT THERE,
00:24:16.23\00:24:19.43
THE DEAD AREN'T READING THOSE;
THEY'RE NOT PRAISING THEIR GOD.
00:24:19.43\00:24:23.76
MATTER OF FACT, THE BIBLE'S
PRETTY CLEAR, PSALM 115:17-18,
00:24:23.76\00:24:28.60
"THE DEAD DO NOT
PRAISE THE LORD, NEITHER ANY
00:24:28.60\00:24:31.70
THAT GO DOWN INTO SILENCE.
00:24:31.70\00:24:33.23
BUT WE WILL BLESS THE
LORD FROM THIS TIME FORTH,
00:24:33.23\00:24:35.70
EVEN FOREVER MORE."
00:24:35.70\00:24:37.56
SO THE BEST TIME TO LEARN TO
PRAISE GOD IS WHEN YOU'RE ALIVE.
00:24:37.56\00:24:42.40
WE SHOULD BE COMFORTABLE
PRAISING HIM IN PUBLIC.
00:24:42.40\00:24:46.16
AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE DEVIL
HAS TRIED TO INTIMIDATE GOD'S
00:24:46.16\00:24:51.36
PEOPLE WITH THE SCORN
OF THE WORLD IF YOU PRAISE
00:24:51.36\00:24:55.53
THE LORD IN PUBLIC.
00:24:55.53\00:24:56.76
YES, THERE WILL BE SOME
PEOPLE THAT LOOK AT YOU NARROWLY
00:24:56.76\00:24:59.23
OR THINK THAT
YOU'RE MAKING A SPECTACLE.
00:24:59.23\00:25:01.86
AND I'M NOT SUGGESTING YOU
MAKE A SPECTACLE, BUT DON'T BE
00:25:01.86\00:25:04.23
ASHAMED THAT YOU BELIEVE IN GOD.
00:25:04.23\00:25:07.10
ARE THE ANGELS EVER
ASHAMED TO GIVE GLORY TO GOD?
00:25:07.10\00:25:11.00
DO THEY EVER HIDE IT?
00:25:11.00\00:25:13.76
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT HOW MANY
OF THE CREATURES IN THE UNIVERSE
00:25:13.76\00:25:16.93
BELIEVE IN GOD, IS IT
THE MAJORITY OR THE MINORITY?
00:25:16.93\00:25:22.10
THE VAST MAJORITY.
00:25:22.10\00:25:23.90
IT'S ONLY IN A MINISCULE
FRAGMENT OF HIS CREATION ON
00:25:23.90\00:25:28.90
THIS PLANET THAT DON'T
BELIEVE THAT HE EXISTS,
00:25:28.90\00:25:31.20
THAT DON'T PRAISE HIM.
00:25:31.20\00:25:32.80
ARE YOU GOING TO COW DOWN TO
THAT SMALL GROUP THAT'S GOING TO
00:25:32.80\00:25:35.50
LOSE IN THE END, AND HIDE YOUR
PRAISE, BECAUSE YOU'RE AFRAID
00:25:35.50\00:25:39.73
OF WHAT THEY THINK OF YOU?
00:25:39.73\00:25:41.03
THEY'RE ON THE LOSING TEAM.
00:25:41.03\00:25:42.53
OR ARE YOU GONNA REMEMBER
THAT ANGELS ARE WATCHING?
00:25:42.53\00:25:44.73
AND DON'T BE ASHAMED
TO GIVE GOD THE GLORY.
00:25:44.73\00:25:47.53
FOR, YOU KNOW, OUR FOUNDING
FATHERS, YOU JUST LOOK IN THE
00:25:47.53\00:25:50.20
EARLY WRITINGS AND EVERYTHING,
ALL OUR ANTHEMS ALL TALKED
00:25:50.20\00:25:53.06
ABOUT PRAISING GOD.
00:25:53.06\00:25:55.30
SOMEONE TOLD ME, I'VE NOT BEEN
UP THERE TO SEE, BUT I'VE BEEN
00:25:55.30\00:25:58.10
ON THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT,
BUT I'VE NOT BEEN ON THE CAP.
00:25:58.10\00:26:01.26
BUT THE CAP OF THE WASHINGTON
MONUMENT, THERE IS OSTENSIBLY A
00:26:01.26\00:26:03.83
BRASS--BRONZE OR A BRASS
PLAQUE, AND IT SAYS IN LATIN,
00:26:03.83\00:26:08.96
"PRAISE THE LORD."
00:26:08.96\00:26:10.93
THE WHOLE IDEA WAS THAT THEY
HAD THIS, TECHNICALLY IT WAS
00:26:10.93\00:26:15.50
SUPPOSED TO BE A BIG SUNDIAL.
00:26:15.50\00:26:18.70
IT LOOKS LIKE AN
EGYPTIAN OBELISK.
00:26:18.70\00:26:20.46
BUT THE TOP OF IT WAS SUPPOSED
TO POINT TO GOD AND SAY, "PRAISE
00:26:20.46\00:26:23.26
THE LORD," WHEN THEY MADE THIS.
00:26:23.26\00:26:25.83
SO, I MEAN THAT WAS ALL
INTRINSIC, BUT NOW, YOU SAY IT
00:26:25.83\00:26:30.50
IN PUBLIC AND--I FORGET
WHERE I--I WAS IN A TICKET LINE,
00:26:30.50\00:26:34.13
I THINK, IN AUSTRALIA JUST
LAST, A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.
00:26:34.13\00:26:37.96
AND SOMETHING WENT
WRONG ON MY FLIGHT HOME.
00:26:37.96\00:26:40.76
AND I HAD RESERVED THE
TICKET AND IT LOOKED LIKE
00:26:40.76\00:26:45.03
I HAD LOST IT.
00:26:45.03\00:26:46.46
AND I WAS A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED
BECAUSE I WAS BACK BY THE
00:26:46.46\00:26:50.80
RESTROOMS, WHICH ISN'T
SO BAD; I'M NOT ABOVE THAT.
00:26:50.80\00:26:54.76
BUT WHEN YOU'RE ON A, YOU KNOW,
14-HOUR FLIGHT AND YOU TRY AND
00:26:54.76\00:26:58.20
SLEEP, AND YOU'RE RIGHT--YOUR
SEAT IS RIGHT NEXT TO FOUR
00:26:58.20\00:27:00.93
BATHROOM DOORS, AND ALL THROUGH
THE NIGHT, THE DOORS ARE OPENING
00:27:00.93\00:27:05.26
AND CLOSING, YOU, YOU KNOW,
HEAR ALL THAT FLUSHING AND THOSE
00:27:05.26\00:27:07.56
STRANGE SMELLS COMING OUT.
00:27:07.56\00:27:09.03
IT'S NOT--IT'S NOT
WHERE YOU WANT TO SIT
00:27:09.03\00:27:13.46
IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO.
00:27:13.46\00:27:15.16
AND I KNOW MY
PLANES PRETTY WELL.
00:27:15.16\00:27:16.63
I LOOKED AT MY SEAT AND
I WAS WAY BACK IN THE BACK.
00:27:16.63\00:27:19.03
I'M GOING, "OH, NO.
00:27:19.03\00:27:19.80
YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT I HAD
MY-- I CALLED BONNIE AND SAID,
00:27:19.80\00:27:21.46
'I THOUGHT I HAD
A SEAT FURTHER UP.'"
00:27:21.46\00:27:22.93
AND I GOT TO THE
AIRPORT THREE HOURS EARLY.
00:27:22.93\00:27:25.80
I WAS A LITTLE WORRIED
ABOUT THAT LONG TRIP HOME.
00:27:25.80\00:27:28.43
AND I WENT UP TO THE TICKET
COUNTER AND SAID, "I THOUGHT
00:27:28.43\00:27:29.76
I HAD THIS OTHER SHEET."
00:27:29.76\00:27:31.16
AND SHE DID A LITTLE TYPING
AND SHE CAME OVER, AND SHE SAYS,
00:27:31.16\00:27:32.86
"YEAH, YOU'RE BACK
WHERE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE."
00:27:32.86\00:27:34.40
AND I SAID, "PRAISE THE LORD!"
00:27:34.40\00:27:35.60
HERE I WAS IN AUSTRALIA,
ALL OF THESE PEOPLE WAITING
00:27:35.60\00:27:37.36
FOR THEIR FLIGHT.
00:27:37.36\00:27:38.26
AND AT FIRST I THOUGHT,
"OH," I FORGOT HOW SECULAR
00:27:38.26\00:27:41.06
THEY ARE HERE.
00:27:41.06\00:27:41.90
AND I THOUGHT,
"WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?"
00:27:41.90\00:27:43.76
"WELL, I AM HAPPY!
00:27:43.76\00:27:44.83
PRAISE THE LORD!"
00:27:44.83\00:27:46.53
AND SO, YOU KNOW,
YOU SHOULDN'T BE AFRAID
00:27:46.53\00:27:49.03
TO EXPRESS YOUR PRAISE.
00:27:49.03\00:27:51.06
DO YOU NOTICE THAT KIDS ARE NOT?
00:27:51.06\00:27:54.86
LITTLE KIDS, YOU KNOW, WE
TEACH THEM THEIR INHIBITIONS.
00:27:54.86\00:27:58.63
WHEN THEY'RE
LITTLE, THEY'RE VERY HONEST.
00:27:58.63\00:28:01.50
THEY'LL STAND THERE RIGHT
IN LINE NEXT TO YOU AND THEY'LL
00:28:01.50\00:28:03.56
SAY, "WOW, DAD, LOOK
AT HOW BIG THAT LADY IS!"
00:28:03.56\00:28:05.93
AND YOU GO, "SHH!
00:28:05.93\00:28:06.56
YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED
TO--" THEY'RE, THEY JUST,
00:28:06.56\00:28:09.86
THEY HAVE NO INHIBITIONS.
00:28:09.86\00:28:11.76
I REMEMBER, I FORGET WHO IT WAS,
ONE OF OUR KIDS WHEN THEY WERE
00:28:11.76\00:28:14.83
LITTLE, THERE WAS SOME PREGNANT
LADY IN LINE, THAT'S WHY I SAID
00:28:14.83\00:28:16.93
THAT, AND HE LOOKED
RIGHT AT HER, HE SAID,
00:28:16.93\00:28:18.63
"HOW COME YOU'RE SO BIG!"
00:28:18.63\00:28:22.80
AND, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY OF YOU
HAVE HAD THOSE THINGS WITH YOUR
00:28:22.80\00:28:24.93
KIDS WHERE YOU SAY, "SHH!"
00:28:24.93\00:28:27.36
WELL, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY'RE
LITTLE LIKE THAT, THEY'LL BE
00:28:27.36\00:28:29.43
SINGING "JESUS LOVES
ME" IN THE SHOPPING CART,
00:28:29.43\00:28:31.53
GOING UP AND DOWN THE AISLE.
00:28:31.53\00:28:33.26
AND THEY'RE, THEY THINK,
"LOOK, IF HE LOVES ME IN CHURCH,
00:28:33.26\00:28:36.10
DOES HE STOP LOVING
ME HERE AT THE STORE?"
00:28:36.10\00:28:38.40
AND THEY'RE NOT AFRAID.
00:28:38.40\00:28:40.60
BUT WE ARE NOT SO INCLINED
TO SING HYMNS OUT IN PUBLIC,
00:28:40.60\00:28:46.03
BECAUSE AH, THAT'S FOR CHURCH.
00:28:46.03\00:28:47.90
WELL, THE BIBLE TELLS
US WE SHOULD BE HAPPY TO
00:28:47.90\00:28:51.40
PRAISE HIM PUBLICLY.
00:28:51.40\00:28:53.20
PSALMS 109:30, "I WILL PRAISE
THE LORD WITH MY MOUTH, YES,
00:28:53.20\00:28:59.50
I WILL PRAISE HIM
AMONG THE MULTITUDE."
00:28:59.50\00:29:02.90
ISAIAH 24:4, "PRAISE THE LORD,
CALL UPON HIS NAME, DECLARE
00:29:02.90\00:29:07.46
HIS DEEDS AMONG THE PEOPLE."
00:29:07.46\00:29:10.33
PUBLICLY IN
CHURCH AND OUT OF CHURCH.
00:29:10.33\00:29:12.73
MATTER OF FACT, YOU FIND
AN INTERESTING STORY IF YOU'LL
00:29:12.73\00:29:14.90
LOOK IN YOUR BIBLES, ACTS 3.
00:29:14.90\00:29:16.93
THIS IS A GREAT STORY;
AGAIN, WRITTEN BY LUKE.
00:29:16.93\00:29:21.36
PETER COMES TO THE BEAUTIFUL
GATE AND THERE'S THIS MAN WHO
00:29:21.36\00:29:24.46
HAS NEVER WALKED IN HIS LIFE.
00:29:24.46\00:29:26.23
HE WAS LAME FROM BIRTH.
00:29:26.23\00:29:29.03
LEGS ARE GNARLED AND CRIPPLED,
SO HE COULDN'T WALK AND SOMEONE
00:29:29.03\00:29:32.56
WAS KIND ENOUGH, THEY'D CARRY
HIM EACH DAY AND THEY'D SET HIM
00:29:32.56\00:29:35.06
DOWN AT THE DOORS OF THE TEMPLE.
00:29:35.06\00:29:36.66
AND HE'D HEARD ABOUT
JESUS, BUT HE HAD MISSED
00:29:36.66\00:29:38.43
GETTING HEALED BY CHRIST.
00:29:38.43\00:29:40.53
HE JUST WAS ALWAYS IN THE WRONG
PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME, AND SO
00:29:40.53\00:29:44.16
HE HAD NEVER BEEN HEALED DURING
ALL THE MINISTRY OF JESUS.
00:29:44.16\00:29:48.53
AND HE STOOD AT THE
GATE THERE AND BEGGED.
00:29:48.53\00:29:51.20
HE COULD NOT GO IN
'CAUSE HE WAS LAME.
00:29:51.20\00:29:53.10
DO YOU REALIZE THAT THE
CRIPPLES WERE NOT ALLOWED IN,
00:29:53.10\00:29:55.66
ACCORDING TO THE LEVITICAL LAW.
00:29:55.66\00:29:57.93
AND PETER AND JOHN COME AND THEY
SEE THIS MAN, AND THEY COULD
00:29:57.93\00:30:00.73
TELL THAT HE HAD FAITH, THAT
HE WANTED TO BE HEALED BY JESUS,
00:30:00.73\00:30:04.50
BUT NOW JESUS HAD BEEN CRUCIFIED
AND ASCENDED TO HEAVEN--
00:30:04.50\00:30:07.46
HE'S GONE.
00:30:07.46\00:30:08.53
AND THAT'S WHEN PETER REACHED
OUT, HE TOOK HIS HAND AND HE
00:30:08.53\00:30:11.16
SAID, "SILVER AND GOLD I DO
NOT HAVE, BUT SUCH AS I HAVE,
00:30:11.16\00:30:13.40
I GIVE UNTO THEE.
00:30:13.40\00:30:14.33
IN THE NAME OF JESUS
CHRIST, RISE UP AND WALK."
00:30:14.33\00:30:17.10
THIS IS A GREAT STORY.
00:30:17.10\00:30:19.00
THE BIBLE SAYS "HE TOOK HIM
BY THE RIGHT HAND AND HE LIFTED
00:30:19.00\00:30:21.86
HIM UP," I'M IN ACTS
3:7, "AND IMMEDIATELY HIS FEET
00:30:21.86\00:30:26.53
AND HIS ANKLE BONES RECEIVED
STRENGTH, AND HE LEAPING UP,
00:30:26.53\00:30:31.46
HE STOOD AND HE WALKED,
AND HE ENTERED WITH THEM
00:30:31.46\00:30:36.43
INTO THE TEMPLE."
00:30:36.43\00:30:37.96
NOTICE HERE, "WALKING AND
LEAPING," HE'D NEVER WALKED
00:30:37.96\00:30:41.23
BEFORE, BUT HE'S
LEAPING, "AND PRAISING GOD.
00:30:41.23\00:30:45.43
AND ALL THE PEOPLE SAW
HIM WALKING AND PRAISING GOD.
00:30:45.43\00:30:50.93
NOW, YOU KNOW,
SOMEBODY SAID ONE TIME, "A BODY
00:30:50.93\00:30:55.36
IS NOT REALLY CRIPPLED
'TIL IT CEASES TO PRAISE."
00:30:55.36\00:31:00.26
AND IF A PERSON DOES NOT PRAISE,
THEN THEY ARE TRULY CRIPPLED.
00:31:00.26\00:31:05.23
YOU MIGHT HAVE A PERFECT BILL OF
HEALTH FROM THE DOCTOR, BUT IF
00:31:05.23\00:31:09.36
YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO PRAISE
THE LORD, YOU ARE SPIRITUALLY
00:31:09.36\00:31:11.63
CRIPPLED.
00:31:11.63\00:31:14.23
AND YET, YOU COULD BE
PARALYZED FROM THE NECK DOWN
00:31:14.23\00:31:17.76
LIKE JONI EARECKSON
WAS, BUT IF YOU PRAISE GOD,
00:31:17.76\00:31:21.56
YOU'RE LIBERATED.
00:31:21.56\00:31:24.70
AND SO ALL OF US SHOULD HAVE
SOMETHING FOR WHICH WE CAN BE
00:31:24.70\00:31:29.70
THANKFUL, AND PRAISE HIM,
AND PRAISE HIM PUBLICLY AS WELL.
00:31:29.70\00:31:37.86
AGAIN, LUKE 24--OH, I
READ THAT TO YOU ALREADY,
00:31:37.86\00:31:41.80
"BLESSING HIM IN THE TEMPLE."
00:31:41.80\00:31:42.96
PRAISE IS SOMETHING THAT
WE MIGHT NEED PRACTICE AT.
00:31:42.96\00:31:46.50
HOW DO YOU PRACTICE PRAISE?
00:31:46.50\00:31:48.36
ISN'T THAT
SUPPOSED TO BE SPONTANEOUS?
00:31:48.36\00:31:49.96
WELL, THAT'S THE BEST THING.
00:31:49.96\00:31:50.86
BUT IF YOU PRACTICE,
THEN IT BECOMES SPONTANEOUS.
00:31:50.86\00:31:55.26
YOU KNOW, I TELL THE BOYS THIS,
THEY BOTH PRACTICE DIFFERENT
00:31:55.26\00:31:57.43
INSTRUMENTS; STEVEN THE
PIANO, NATHAN THE GUITAR.
00:31:57.43\00:32:00.30
AND THE MORE YOU PRACTICE
AN INSTRUMENT, THE EASIER IT IS
00:32:00.30\00:32:06.13
TO PLAY BY EAR.
00:32:06.13\00:32:09.23
YOU GOT THAT?
00:32:09.23\00:32:10.36
THE MORE YOU PRACTICE SOMETHING,
THE EASIER IT IS TO DO IT
00:32:10.36\00:32:13.46
SPONTANEOUSLY.
00:32:13.46\00:32:15.60
THAT MEANS IT'S OKAY TO BE
DISCIPLINED ABOUT YOUR PRAISE,
00:32:15.60\00:32:18.70
'CAUSE THEN IT'S EASIER TO BE
SPONTANEOUS ABOUT YOUR PRAISE.
00:32:18.70\00:32:23.13
SO THAT MEANS SCHEDULE TIMES
OF PRAISE BESIDES CHURCH ONCE
00:32:23.13\00:32:28.33
A WEEK, WHERE WE COME
TOGETHER TO WORSHIP GOD.
00:32:28.33\00:32:31.23
MAKE A LIST WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR
MORNING PRAYER--I'M ASSUMING
00:32:31.23\00:32:34.33
YOU HAVE IT--OF THINGS
FOR WHICH YOU'RE THANKFUL.
00:32:34.33\00:32:37.80
PRAISE GOD FOR THOSE THINGS.
00:32:37.80\00:32:40.50
IF YOU PRACTICE THIS PRAISING
GOD, DISCIPLINE YOURSELF TO
00:32:40.50\00:32:46.26
PRAISE THE LORD IN THE THINGS
YOU HAVE TO BE GRATEFUL FOR, IT
00:32:46.26\00:32:48.90
BECOMES A LOT MORE SPONTANEOUS
WHEN YOU GET SOMETHING NEW
00:32:48.90\00:32:52.00
FOR THE LIST.
00:32:52.00\00:32:53.63
SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:32:53.63\00:32:55.33
SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT
YOU CAN PRACTICE DOING.
00:32:55.33\00:32:58.80
"YOU DON'T LEARN PRAISE IN A
DAY," SO QUOTING ERWIN LUTZER
00:32:58.80\00:33:02.86
HERE, "ESPECIALLY SINCE YOU MAY
HAVE BEEN COMPLAINING FOR YEARS.
00:33:02.86\00:33:07.43
NEW HABITS TAKE TIME TO DEVELOP.
00:33:07.43\00:33:09.96
YOU CAN BEGIN TODAY AND PRACTICE
TOMORROW AND THE NEXT DAY,
00:33:09.96\00:33:12.73
UNTIL IT BECOMES PART OF YOU.
00:33:12.73\00:33:15.20
GOD GIVES US BLESSINGS
SO WE CAN GIVE GLORY TO HIM.
00:33:15.20\00:33:18.76
MOST OF THE VERSES WRITTEN ABOUT
PRAISE IN GOD'S WORD WERE PENNED
00:33:18.76\00:33:22.20
BY MEN AND WOMEN WHO FACED
CRUSHING HEARTACHE, INJUSTICE,
00:33:22.20\00:33:26.16
TREACHERY, SLANDER AND SCORES
OF OTHER INTOLERABLE SITUATIONS,
00:33:26.16\00:33:30.16
AND IN THE MIDST OF ALL
THAT THEY LEARNED TO PRAISE GOD.
00:33:30.16\00:33:33.50
THEY HAD DISCIPLINED THEMSELVES
TO PRAISE GOD DURING THEIR
00:33:33.50\00:33:36.10
BLESSINGS, SO THEY COULD
KEEP PRAISING GOD THROUGH THEIR
00:33:36.10\00:33:38.96
TRIALS."
00:33:38.96\00:33:39.70
BY THE WAY, THAT WAS WRITTEN
BY JONI EARECKSON TADA HERSELF.
00:33:39.70\00:33:45.73
YOU KNOW, I'M NOT AN EXPERT IN
RADIO COMMUNICATIONS, BUT I KNOW
00:33:45.73\00:33:49.60
THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT
FREQUENCIES THAT GO DIFFERENT
00:33:49.60\00:33:52.30
DISTANCES.
00:33:52.30\00:33:54.76
AND I THINK THE FREQUENCY
THAT TRAVELS THE FARTHEST
00:33:54.76\00:33:57.63
IN PRAYER IS PRAISE.
00:33:57.63\00:34:00.56
AND IF YOU WANT TO GET
YOUR SIGNAL THROUGH, MAKE SURE
00:34:00.56\00:34:05.10
AND INCORPORATE PRAISE
IN PART OF ALL YOUR PRAYERS.
00:34:05.10\00:34:08.90
THINK ABOUT DANIEL 6, I THINK
IT'S VERSE 10, WHEN DANIEL KNEW
00:34:08.90\00:34:14.13
THAT THE WRITING WAS SIGNED
AND HE WAS GOING TO BE SENT TO
00:34:14.13\00:34:16.53
THE LION'S DEN--WHAT DID HE DO?
00:34:16.53\00:34:18.40
HE WENT TO HIS UPPER ROOM
AS HE'D ALWAYS DONE WITH HIS
00:34:18.40\00:34:20.76
WINDOWS OPEN TOWARDS JERUSALEM,
AND HE KNELT UPON HIS KNEES AND
00:34:20.76\00:34:24.26
HE PRAYED, AND HE GAVE
THANKS THREE TIMES THAT DAY.
00:34:24.26\00:34:31.80
COULD GOD WORK A
MIRACLE FOR HIM OF DELIVERANCE?
00:34:31.80\00:34:35.30
'CAUSE PRAISE AND
THANKS WAS PART OF HIS REGULAR
00:34:35.30\00:34:38.23
ROUTINE EVERY DAY.
00:34:38.23\00:34:40.13
HE WAS ABLE TO DO IT DURING
TRIAL, 'CAUSE HE HAD LEARNED
00:34:40.13\00:34:42.90
TO DO IT DURING
THE TIMES OF BLESSING.
00:34:42.90\00:34:45.00
SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE
CAN PRACTICE IN OUR LIVES.
00:34:45.00\00:34:49.80
"THE HEAVENS REJOICE," OH WAIT,
I'VE GOT SO MANY NOTES HERE
00:34:49.80\00:34:54.06
AND I'M MISSING,
MISSING SOME OF MY POINTS.
00:34:54.06\00:34:56.93
PRAISE IS NOT FLATTERY.
00:34:56.93\00:35:00.93
SOME OF YOU REMEMBER
THE STORY OF "SNOW WHITE."
00:35:00.93\00:35:05.26
AND THAT WICKED QUEEN--I
DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO SHE WAS.
00:35:05.26\00:35:08.56
AND DON'T ACT LIKE YOU DON'T
KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
00:35:08.56\00:35:11.43
AND SHE'D GO TO THE MIRROR
ON THE WALL, THE MAGIC MIRROR.
00:35:11.43\00:35:15.90
I STILL REMEMBER AS A KID
WATCHING "THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF
00:35:15.90\00:35:17.73
DISNEY" WITH MY MOM.
00:35:17.73\00:35:19.50
AND SHE'D SAY SOMETHING TO
THE EFFECT, "MIRROR, MIRROR ON
00:35:19.50\00:35:24.23
THE WALL, WHO IS THE
FAIREST OF THEM ALL?"
00:35:24.23\00:35:28.26
I DON'T KNOW,
SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
00:35:28.26\00:35:30.63
HUH?
00:35:30.63\00:35:33.40
THAT'S IT?
00:35:33.40\00:35:34.76
YEAH, SO YOU KNOW, TOO.
00:35:34.76\00:35:36.90
AND THE MIRROR WOULD COME BACK
AND SAY, "OH, YOU'RE THE MOST
00:35:36.90\00:35:40.10
BEAUTIFUL."
00:35:40.10\00:35:41.60
UNTIL, OF COURSE,
TOLD HER ABOUT SNOW WHITE.
00:35:41.60\00:35:44.93
BUT SOME OF US THINK MAYBE GOD'S
UP THERE IN THE SKY LIKE THAT
00:35:44.93\00:35:48.16
WICKED QUEEN, WHO SAID, "PRAISE
ME, I AM--PRAISE ME, I AM THE
00:35:48.16\00:35:53.50
ONE THAT GETS ALL THE PRAISE."
00:35:53.50\00:35:54.76
AND GOD IS ASKING
US ALL TO FLATTER HIM.
00:35:54.76\00:35:57.46
IS GOD SHALLOW LIKE THAT?
00:35:57.46\00:35:59.83
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN PRAISE, REAL PRAISE,
00:35:59.83\00:36:01.96
AND FLATTERY?
00:36:01.96\00:36:03.63
FLATTERY IS WHEN YOU TELL
SOMEONE SOMETHING NICE, 'CAUSE
00:36:03.63\00:36:06.36
YOU ULTIMATELY WANT
SOMETHING FROM THEM.
00:36:06.36\00:36:09.90
YOU WANT TO USE THIS PERSON
SOMEHOW, SO YOU'RE TELLING THEM
00:36:09.90\00:36:12.10
WHAT THEY THINK--OR YOU THINK
THEY WANT TO HEAR, BECAUSE YOU
00:36:12.10\00:36:15.90
NEED THEM OR YOU WANT USE THEM,
OR GET SOMETHING FROM THEM.
00:36:15.90\00:36:20.26
GOD IS NOT ASKING US TO PRAISE
HIM BECAUSE THAT'S THE WAY WE'RE
00:36:20.26\00:36:23.83
GONNA GET SOMETHING OUT OF HIM.
00:36:23.83\00:36:25.56
IT'S TRUE THAT THERE ARE
BENEFITS THAT FOLLOW, BUT THE
00:36:25.56\00:36:30.06
REASON TO PRAISE HIM IS BECAUSE
IT'S MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN
00:36:30.06\00:36:33.26
TO RECEIVE.
00:36:33.26\00:36:34.30
YOU ARE BLESSED.
00:36:34.30\00:36:35.96
YOU ARE
TRANSFORMED INTO HIS IMAGE.
00:36:35.96\00:36:37.93
WHEN YOU LOOK AT HIM AND
HIS GOODNESS, YOU FIND OUT ABOUT
00:36:37.93\00:36:40.70
HIS CHARACTER, YOUR LOVE FOR
HIM GROWS; YOU SERVE HIM BETTER.
00:36:40.70\00:36:44.90
AND IT'S THE PURPOSE
FOR WHICH WE'RE EXISTING.
00:36:44.90\00:36:47.70
HE'S NOT FORCING IT FROM
US; IT MUST BE GIVEN WILLINGLY
00:36:47.70\00:36:50.76
FROM LOVE.
00:36:50.76\00:36:52.16
HAVE YOU EVER HAD TO
FISH FOR A COMPLIMENT?
00:36:52.16\00:36:55.20
DO YOU ENJOY IT AS MUCH
WHEN YOU GOTTA FISH FOR IT?
00:36:55.20\00:36:58.86
SOMEONE SAID TO
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,
00:36:58.86\00:37:00.93
THE FAMOUS WRITER AND
PHYSICIAN--UNLIKE HIS BROTHER,
00:37:00.93\00:37:06.46
JOHN, WHO WAS VERY HUMBLE.
00:37:06.46\00:37:09.43
MATTER OF FACT, JOHN SAID THE
ONLY COMPLIMENT HE EVER GOT WAS
00:37:09.43\00:37:12.00
WHEN THEIR NANNY WAS COMBING
HIS HAIR AND SHE COMMENTED
00:37:12.00\00:37:15.70
TO THE MOTHER, "HIS
EYES AREN'T THAT CROSSED."
00:37:15.70\00:37:19.73
HE SAID THAT WAS THE
ONLY COMPLIMENT HE REMEMBERED
00:37:19.73\00:37:21.16
EVER GETTING.
00:37:21.16\00:37:22.93
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES' BROTHER,
ON THE OTHER HAND, MUCH MORE
00:37:22.93\00:37:25.23
FAMOUS, HE KEPT EVERY COMPLIMENT
ANYONE EVER WROTE HIM,
00:37:25.23\00:37:28.83
HE KEPT THEM IN A JOURNAL.
00:37:28.83\00:37:29.90
AND HE LIKED TO OPEN IT AND
FLIP THROUGH IT, AND LOOK AT ALL
00:37:29.90\00:37:32.30
THE PRAISES AND NICE THINGS
THAT PEOPLE HAD WRITTEN TO HIM
00:37:32.30\00:37:34.83
OR SAID ABOUT HIM.
00:37:34.83\00:37:36.33
AND AS HE GOT OLDER, WHEN
SOMEONE WOULD SAY SOMETHING NICE
00:37:36.33\00:37:38.93
ABOUT HIM, HE WOULD ALWAYS
PRETEND HE COULDN'T HEAR 'EM.
00:37:38.93\00:37:41.30
HE'D SAY, "COULD YOU PLEASE
SAY THAT A LITTLE LOUDER?"
00:37:41.30\00:37:44.20
SO THEY'D REPEAT IT.
00:37:44.20\00:37:47.20
SOMEONE SAID, "NOTHING
WILL IMPROVE A PERSON'S HEARING
00:37:47.20\00:37:48.96
LIKE PRAISE."
00:37:48.96\00:37:52.43
PEOPLE ARE TYPICALLY
BORED LISTENING TO SOMEONE PAY
00:37:52.43\00:37:55.73
THEM--UNLESS THEY'RE
PAYING THEM A COMPLIMENT.
00:37:55.73\00:37:59.80
SO FLATTERY IS NOT
PRAISE-- IT'S DIFFERENT.
00:37:59.80\00:38:03.33
IT SHOULD BE GIVEN--PRAISE IS
NOT FLATTERY, RATHER, IT SHOULD
00:38:03.33\00:38:06.40
BE GIVEN FROM THE
HEART, BECAUSE GOD IS WORTHY,
00:38:06.40\00:38:09.10
AND WE'RE BLESSED BY DOING IT.
00:38:09.10\00:38:11.23
AND THEN I WANT TO MAKE
SURE THAT I HAVE ALSO COVERED
00:38:11.23\00:38:15.46
THE IDEA OF PRAISE IN SONG.
00:38:15.46\00:38:19.26
GOD WANTS US ALL
TO SING HIS PRAISES.
00:38:19.26\00:38:24.33
NOW, SOME OFF US JUST FEEL LIKE
WE PROBABLY SHOULDN'T DO THAT,
00:38:24.33\00:38:27.43
AND LEAVE THAT TO OTHERS.
00:38:27.43\00:38:29.13
IT'S LIKE THE MOTHER THAT
BOUGHT THE BABY GRAND PIANO
00:38:29.13\00:38:31.90
FOR HER DAUGHTER.
00:38:31.90\00:38:33.33
TOLD A FRIEND ABOUT IT, A COUPLE
OF WEEKS LATER A FRIEND SAID,
00:38:33.33\00:38:36.40
"WELL, HOW ARE HER
PIANO LESSONS GOING?"
00:38:36.40\00:38:38.66
SHE SAID, "WELL, WE
SOLD THE PIANO, WE BOUGHT HER
00:38:38.66\00:38:40.20
A CLARINET."
00:38:40.20\00:38:42.56
SAID, "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?"
00:38:42.56\00:38:43.53
SHE SAID, "SHE CAN'T
SING WITH A CLARINET."
00:38:43.53\00:38:48.46
BUT THAT SHOULDN'T BE
YOUR ATTITUDE IN CHURCH.
00:38:48.46\00:38:51.90
IS ALL OF US TOGETHER
KIND OF BALANCE EACH OTHER OUT.
00:38:51.90\00:38:56.83
AND EVEN FOR SOME IT MIGHT
BEING MAKING A JOYFUL NOISE,
00:38:56.83\00:39:00.96
WE SHOULD ALL SING.
00:39:00.96\00:39:02.13
WHEN THAT GROUP WAS SINGING UP
FRONT JUST A MINUTE AGO, I DON'T
00:39:02.13\00:39:05.43
KNOW IF THEY CAUGHT IT, BUT I
WAS HUMMING BEHIND THEM, 'CAUSE
00:39:05.43\00:39:07.40
I KNEW--DO YOU KNOW I CAN HUM
IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES, ACTUALLY?
00:39:07.40\00:39:12.93
EVERYBODY SHOULD SING.
00:39:12.93\00:39:14.73
SOME CHURCHGOERS SEEM TO HAVE
PICKED UP THE IDEA THAT SINGING
00:39:14.73\00:39:17.46
IN CHURCH IS FOR SINGERS.
00:39:17.46\00:39:20.06
NO, THE TRUTH IS THAT
SINGING IS FOR BELIEVERS.
00:39:20.06\00:39:23.50
THE BIG QUESTION IS NOT DO YOU
HAVE A VOICE--THE QUESTION IS
00:39:23.50\00:39:27.23
DO YOU HAVE A SONG?
00:39:27.23\00:39:29.46
SO EVERYBODY SHOULD BE
ABLE TO SING TO THE LORD.
00:39:29.46\00:39:32.30
LET ME GIVE THE SCRIPTURES.
00:39:32.30\00:39:33.50
EPHESIANS 5:19-20, "SPEAKING TO
ONE ANOTHER IN PSALMS AND HYMNS
00:39:33.50\00:39:38.83
AND SPIRITUAL SONGS,
SEEKING--SINGING AND MAKING
00:39:38.83\00:39:43.00
MELODY WITH YOUR
HEART TO THE LORD ALWAYS.
00:39:43.00\00:39:46.36
GIVING THANKS FOR ALL
THINGS IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD
00:39:46.36\00:39:49.16
JESUS CHRIST, TO
EVEN GOD THE FATHER."
00:39:49.16\00:39:52.66
WE ALL HAVE A SONG THAT
WE CAN SING FOR THE LORD.
00:39:52.66\00:39:57.10
NOW, AGAIN, WE'RE NOT TALKING
ABOUT SINGING IN VAIN REPETITION
00:39:57.10\00:40:00.30
ANY MORE THAN WE TALK ABOUT
PRAYING IN VAIN REPETITION.
00:40:00.30\00:40:02.93
AND I LIKE--WE
SHOULD ALL SING NEW SONGS.
00:40:02.93\00:40:05.96
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF
DEBATE IN THE CHURCH ABOUT WHAT
00:40:05.96\00:40:08.20
THEY CALL MAYBE CONTEMPORARY
WORSHIP OR TRADITIONAL WORSHIP,
00:40:08.20\00:40:12.43
LIBERAL WORSHIP,
CONSERVATIVE WORSHIP.
00:40:12.43\00:40:14.86
YOU ALL KNOW THAT I FALL ON A
MORE CONSERVATIVE SIDE OF THAT
00:40:14.86\00:40:19.10
QUESTION, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN
YOU SHOULDN'T SING A NEW SONG.
00:40:19.10\00:40:22.83
AND I LOVE SOME OF THE
NEW PRAISE SONGS, AS LONG
00:40:22.83\00:40:25.33
AS THEY'RE SCRIPTURALLY SOUND.
00:40:25.33\00:40:27.20
SOME OF THEM HAVE
BEAUTIFUL MELODIES.
00:40:27.20\00:40:28.66
WHAT I'M NOT REAL
EXCITED ABOUT IS THE REPETITION.
00:40:28.66\00:40:32.43
AND YOU HEARD ME TALK TO
YOU ONCE ABOUT "THE 7/11 SONGS"
00:40:32.43\00:40:35.10
IS WHAT I CALL THEM.
00:40:35.10\00:40:36.30
YOU KNOW, EVERY NOW
AND THEN I STOP AT 7/11.
00:40:36.30\00:40:40.66
BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO DO
YOUR GROCERY SHOPPING--IT'S
00:40:40.66\00:40:42.86
A CONVENIENCE STORE, IT'S
SOMETHING YOU DO OCCASIONALLY,
00:40:42.86\00:40:45.40
'CAUSE YOU NEED ONE ITEM.
00:40:45.40\00:40:46.83
THIS WEEK I HAD STOPPED AT
A CONVENIENT STORE AND I JUST
00:40:46.83\00:40:50.96
GOT LIKE A GRANOLA BAR, I
DIDN'T HAVE TIME FOR DINNER.
00:40:50.96\00:40:53.13
I KNEW I WAS GONNA GET
HUNGRY BEFORE THIS BOARD MEETING
00:40:53.13\00:40:54.96
WAS OVER.
00:40:54.96\00:40:56.03
AND SO, BUT YOU PAY MUCH
MORE THAN YOU'D NORMALLY PAY.
00:40:56.03\00:41:01.23
GROCERY STORES ARE WHERE
YOU GO FOR THE NUTRITIOUS FOOD.
00:41:01.23\00:41:05.36
AND THOSE HYMNS THAT ARE IN
YOUR HYMNAL, AND YOU MIGHT THINK
00:41:05.36\00:41:08.43
THEY'RE OLD AND STODGY--BOY,
THEY GOT GOOD DEEP THEOLOGY, AND
00:41:08.43\00:41:12.03
SOME OF 'EM BEAUTIFUL LYRICS.
00:41:12.03\00:41:14.46
BUT YOU KNOW IT'S OKAY EVERY NOW
AND THEN, I LIKE SOME OF THOSE
00:41:14.46\00:41:16.80
PRAISE SONGS.
00:41:16.80\00:41:17.63
WHAT GETS ME IS THE ONES
THAT SAY THE SAME THINGS OVER
00:41:17.63\00:41:19.76
AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
00:41:19.76\00:41:21.83
THAT'S WHY WE CALL THEM
"7/11 SONGS," BECAUSE THEY
00:41:21.83\00:41:23.70
SING THE SAME SEVEN WORDS,
ELEVEN TIMES, ELEVEN VERSES.
00:41:23.70\00:41:28.63
THERE'S THIS ONE SONG, "WE
EXALT THEE, WE EXALT THEE."
00:41:28.63\00:41:32.73
AND THERE'S THIS ONE CHURCH
WHERE THE PEOPLE WERE SINGING
00:41:32.73\00:41:35.90
IT, AND THEY SING
IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
00:41:35.90\00:41:38.23
AND SOMEONE FINALLY LISTENED
CAREFULLY AND THEY HEARD
00:41:38.23\00:41:40.20
A LITTLE GIRL BEHIND THEM THAT
DIDN'T KNOW THE WORDS, AND SHE
00:41:40.20\00:41:42.33
WAS SINGING, "WE EXHAUST
THEE, OH LORD, WE EXHAUST THEE,
00:41:42.33\00:41:45.36
OH LORD."
00:41:45.36\00:41:48.70
AND YOU WONDER
SOMETIMES, I MEAN DOES THE LORD,
00:41:48.70\00:41:51.90
DOES THAT REALLY PRAISE?
00:41:51.90\00:41:54.33
I MEAN IF VAIN REPETITION IS
WRONG, THEN THE VAIN REPETITION
00:41:54.33\00:41:57.33
IN SINGING CAN BE WRONG ALSO.
00:41:57.33\00:42:00.33
IT SAYS, "SING," PSALMS
47:7, "FOR GOD IS KING OF ALL
00:42:00.33\00:42:04.43
THE EARTH, SING
PRAISES WITH UNDERSTANDING."
00:42:04.43\00:42:07.20
THE SONGS WE SING OUGHT TO HAVE
SOME INTELLIGENCE AND REASON
00:42:07.20\00:42:09.83
BEHIND THEM.
00:42:09.83\00:42:11.46
PSALM 146:2, "WHILE I
LIVE, I WILL PRAISE THE LORD.
00:42:11.46\00:42:14.83
I WILL SING PRAISES TO MY
GOD WHILE I HAVE MY BEING."
00:42:14.83\00:42:19.76
PSALM 147:1, "PRAISE THE LORD,
FOR IT IS GOOD TO SING PRAISES
00:42:19.76\00:42:23.90
TO OUR GOD.
00:42:23.90\00:42:25.10
IT'S PLEASANT AND
PRAISE IS BEAUTIFUL."
00:42:25.10\00:42:30.80
SO DO YOU HAVE A SONG?
00:42:30.80\00:42:35.16
I HEARD ABOUT A MAN
THAT DEVELOPED LUNG CANCER.
00:42:35.16\00:42:41.86
AND THIS WAS SEVERAL YEARS
AGO WHEN SOME OF THE TECHNIQUES
00:42:41.86\00:42:44.56
FOR THE SURGERY WERE
A LITTLE MORE RADICAL.
00:42:44.56\00:42:47.06
AND THE DOCTOR HAD EXPLAINED TO
HIM THAT THEY WERE GONNA HAVE TO
00:42:47.06\00:42:50.03
REMOVE A LARGE SECTION OF HIS
TONGUE, AND IT WAS GONNA MAKE IT
00:42:50.03\00:42:53.03
VERY DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO SPEAK.
00:42:53.03\00:42:56.20
AND THE MAN WAS ESPECIALLY
CONCERNED, BECAUSE UP TO THAT
00:42:56.20\00:42:59.00
POINT HE HAD A BEAUTIFUL VOICE.
00:42:59.00\00:43:01.40
SO IN THE SURGERY ROOM
EVERYTHING WAS PREPPED AND THEY
00:43:01.40\00:43:04.46
WERE ABOUT TO PUT HIM UNDER,
HE SAID, "DOCTOR, IS IT TRUE
00:43:04.46\00:43:06.76
THAT I'LL NEVER BE
ABLE TO SING AGAIN?"
00:43:06.76\00:43:08.93
THE DOC DIDN'T EVEN HAVE
THE HEART TO ANSWER THE GUY, HE
00:43:08.93\00:43:10.90
JUST LOWERED HIS HEAD
AND SHOOK, SHOOK HIS HEAD.
00:43:10.90\00:43:13.06
HE SAID, "WELL, BEFORE
YOU PUT ME UNDER," HE SAID,
00:43:13.06\00:43:15.80
"CAN I SIT UP HERE?
00:43:15.80\00:43:16.96
I JUST WANT TO
SING ONE MORE TIME."
00:43:16.96\00:43:19.56
AND SO THERE IN THE HOSPITAL
ROOM HE SANG AN ISAAC WATTS SONG
00:43:19.56\00:43:22.63
THAT SAID, "WHILE I HAVE BREATH,
I WILL SING YOUR PRAISES."
00:43:22.63\00:43:26.90
HE SAID, "THIS IS THE LAST
I'M GONNA BE ABLE TO SING."
00:43:26.90\00:43:28.93
HE SAID, "THE LAST THING I SING,
I WANT TO SING PRAISES TO GOD."
00:43:28.93\00:43:32.66
DO YOU HAVE A SONG THAT
YOU WANT TO SING TO THE LORD?
00:43:32.66\00:43:37.26
PRAISE AND WORSHIP IS THE
MOST PROFOUND WAY OF EXPRESSING
00:43:37.26\00:43:41.16
OUR LOVE TO THE FATHER.
00:43:41.16\00:43:42.93
GOD LOVES US; HE LOVES
TO BE SINCERELY PRAISED
00:43:42.93\00:43:47.70
AND WORSHIPPED.
00:43:47.70\00:43:49.46
HE DOESN'T WANT US TO PRAISE HIM
JUST THROUGH VAIN REPETITION;
00:43:49.46\00:43:53.40
IT NEEDS TO BE FROM THE HEART.
00:43:53.40\00:43:55.60
SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S BEAUTIFUL
ABOUT SINGING PRAISES TO GOD,
00:43:55.60\00:43:58.43
IT BRINGS DELIVERANCE.
00:43:58.43\00:44:01.53
I THINK WE ALL REMEMBER THE
STORY ABOUT JEHOSHAPHAT WHEN
00:44:01.53\00:44:04.56
HE WAS SURROUNDED BY THREE ENEMY
NEIGHBORS THAT WERE ALL COMING
00:44:04.56\00:44:08.00
AT ONE TIME IN THE CONFEDERACY,
THE EDOMITES, THE MOABITES
00:44:08.00\00:44:10.90
AND AMMONITES WERE ALL
GOING TO ATTACK JEHOSHAPHAT.
00:44:10.90\00:44:13.86
THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL TO THE
NORTH HAD ALREADY BEEN CONQUERED
00:44:13.86\00:44:16.26
BY THE ASSYRIANS, HIS
ARMY WASN'T BIG ENOUGH AND THEY
00:44:16.26\00:44:18.90
PRAYED AND SAID,
"LORD, WHAT DO WE DO?"
00:44:18.90\00:44:21.00
AND THEY WENT INTO THE TEMPLE
AND THEY WERE SINGING PRAISES
00:44:21.00\00:44:22.90
TO GOD.
00:44:22.90\00:44:24.00
AND FINALLY THE PROPHET
TOLD THEM TO GO OUT TO BATTLE.
00:44:24.00\00:44:27.26
AND THEY WENT OUT TO BATTLE
AND THEY STATIONED THE SINGERS
00:44:27.26\00:44:30.83
OUT AHEAD OF THE SOLDIERS.
00:44:30.83\00:44:33.20
AND WHILE THEY WERE SINGING AND
PRAISING GOD, MARCHING OFF TO
00:44:33.20\00:44:36.73
MEET THE ENEMY, SOMETHING
WENT SIDEWAYS WITH THE ENEMY
00:44:36.73\00:44:41.33
COMMUNICATIONS AND THEY
ALL TURNED ON EACH OTHER.
00:44:41.33\00:44:44.03
AND THEY ALL FOUGHT
WITH EACH OTHER RIGHT DOWN
00:44:44.03\00:44:45.43
TO THE LAST MAN.
00:44:45.43\00:44:46.80
AND BY THE TIME JEHOSEPHAT AND
HIS SOLDIERS GOT THERE, THEY HAD
00:44:46.80\00:44:49.03
ANNIHILATED EACH OTHER, FOR THE
CHILDREN OF EDOM AND MOAB TURNED
00:44:49.03\00:44:52.80
ON EACH OTHER, AND THEN
THEY TURNED ON THE PEOPLE OF
00:44:52.80\00:44:57.03
MOUNT SEIR.
00:44:57.03\00:44:58.36
AND FINALLY THEY GOT THERE
AND ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS CARRY
00:44:58.36\00:45:03.93
AWAY THE SPOIL.
00:45:03.93\00:45:05.16
IT TOOK THEM THREE
DAYS TO COLLECT IT ALL.
00:45:05.16\00:45:07.16
AND THEY WERE SINGING WITH JOY
IN THEIR HEARTS ON THE WAY HOME.
00:45:07.16\00:45:09.60
THEY NEVER SHOT AN ARROW OR
FIRED--I WAS GONNA SAY A GUN,
00:45:09.60\00:45:15.53
THEY DIDN'T HAVE 'EM--NEVER SHOT
AN ARROW OR PULLED THEIR SWORD
00:45:15.53\00:45:17.76
OUT OF THEIR SHEATH BACK THEN.
00:45:17.76\00:45:20.10
THE WAY THEY
FOUGHT WAS THROUGH PRAISE.
00:45:20.10\00:45:22.16
I WONDER HOW MANY BATTLES WE'VE
LOST BECAUSE WE TRY AND FIND
00:45:22.16\00:45:24.63
SOME EARTHLY MEANS AND
MAY NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO.
00:45:24.63\00:45:27.23
JUST PRAISE GOD.
00:45:27.23\00:45:28.63
ANOTHER STORY, NEW TESTAMENT,
ACTS 16:25, PAUL AND SILAS ARE
00:45:28.63\00:45:35.23
IN JAIL IN THE
STOCKS, NO WAY OF ESCAPE.
00:45:35.23\00:45:38.60
THEN FALSELY ACCUSED AND BEATEN,
THEY'RE IN PAIN; MISERABLE.
00:45:38.60\00:45:43.56
AND IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES,
IN THE DARKEST HOUR--
00:45:43.56\00:45:48.20
WHAT TIME IS JESUS COMING?
00:45:48.20\00:45:50.10
REMEMBER I TALKED
ABOUT THIS LAST WEEK?
00:45:50.10\00:45:52.26
DARKEST HOUR, MIDNIGHT.
00:45:52.26\00:45:54.10
BUT AT MIDNIGHT PAUL AND SILAS
WERE PRAYING AND SINGING HYMNS
00:45:54.10\00:45:57.36
TO GOD.
00:45:57.36\00:45:58.73
THEY'RE SINGING IN
THEIR DARKEST HOUR.
00:45:58.73\00:46:01.10
SHOULD WE BE PRAISING
GOD IN THE DARKEST HOUR OF
00:46:01.10\00:46:02.90
THE CHURCH'S HISTORY?
00:46:02.90\00:46:04.63
THEN WE NEED TO START NOW.
00:46:04.63\00:46:05.93
THEY WERE SINGING HYMNS TO GOD
AND THE PRISONERS WERE LISTENING
00:46:05.93\00:46:08.70
TO THEM.
00:46:08.70\00:46:09.76
SUDDENLY, THERE WAS A GREAT
EARTHQUAKE, SO THE FOUNDATIONS
00:46:09.76\00:46:12.73
OF THE PRISON WERE SHAKEN AND
IMMEDIATELY ALL THE DOORS WERE
00:46:12.73\00:46:15.86
OPEN, EVERYONE'S
CHAINS WERE LOOSED.
00:46:15.86\00:46:19.13
WHEN THEY BEGAN TO SING AND TO
PRAISE GOD, THEY GO THE VICTORY,
00:46:19.13\00:46:21.40
A MIRACLE HAPPENED.
00:46:21.40\00:46:23.66
YEARS AGO, BACK TO NAPOLEON,
WHEN HIS SOLDIERS WERE ABOUT TO
00:46:23.66\00:46:28.06
INVADE AUSTRIA, THEY WERE CAMPED
OUTSIDE A LITTLE TOWN CALLED
00:46:28.06\00:46:30.90
"FELDKIRCH."
00:46:30.90\00:46:32.76
AND THE PEOPLE IN THIS LITTLE
TOWN, THEY DIDN'T HAVE VERY BIG
00:46:32.76\00:46:35.53
WALLS OR DEFENSES, AND
THEY FIGURED, "WHAT DO WE DO?
00:46:35.53\00:46:38.56
DO WE FIGHT?
00:46:38.56\00:46:39.80
WE'LL PROBABLY BE ANNIHILATED."
00:46:39.80\00:46:41.23
THE FRENCH SOLDIERS WERE
MUCH MORE EXPERIENCED AND BETTER
00:46:41.23\00:46:45.06
EQUIPPED, MUCH BIGGER ARMY.
00:46:45.06\00:46:47.56
THEY SAID, "DO WE RAISE
THE FLAG AND SURRENDER?"
00:46:47.56\00:46:49.90
AND THEY ALL GATHERED IN
THE CHURCH TO MEET AND SAY,
00:46:49.90\00:46:53.00
"WHAT DO WE DO AS A TOWN?"
00:46:53.00\00:46:55.20
AND IT SO HAPPENS
THIS WAS EASTER SUNDAY,
00:46:55.20\00:47:00.10
WHEN THIS WAS HAPPENING.
00:47:00.10\00:47:01.33
AND THE PASTOR SAID, "YOU
KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
00:47:01.33\00:47:05.20
GOD KNOWS WHAT TO DO.
00:47:05.20\00:47:06.26
WHY DON'T WE
PUT IT IN HIS HANDS?
00:47:06.26\00:47:07.80
LET'S NOT SURRENDER, LET'S NOT
FIGHT, BUT LET'S RING THE BELLS
00:47:07.80\00:47:10.93
LIKE WE ALWAYS DO ON THIS DAY."
00:47:10.93\00:47:13.46
AND SO THEY BEGAN TO JUST
RING THE BELLS IN THE CHURCH.
00:47:13.46\00:47:17.66
AND THE FRENCH HEARD THAT
AND THEY THOUGHT, "OH, NO,"
00:47:17.66\00:47:20.06
THEY WERE REJOICING BECAUSE
THE AUSTRIAN ARMY IS PROBABLY
00:47:20.06\00:47:22.63
ON THE OTHER RIDGE, AND THEY
WEREN'T REALLY PREPARED TO TAKE
00:47:22.63\00:47:25.83
ON THE WHOLE AUSTRIAN ARMY.
00:47:25.83\00:47:27.23
AND SO THEY PANICKED AND THEY
FLED, JUST LIKE IN THE BIBLE.
00:47:27.23\00:47:30.33
THEY JUST DECIDED TO
PRAISE GOD AND RING THE BELLS,
00:47:30.33\00:47:34.30
AND LET GOD TAKE CARE OF IT.
00:47:34.30\00:47:35.36
AND NAPOLEON'S ARMY WITHDREW.
00:47:35.36\00:47:37.43
ISN'T THAT SOMETHING?
00:47:37.43\00:47:38.90
YOU GET THE VICTORY
WHEN YOU TURN IT OVER TO GOD
00:47:38.90\00:47:41.36
AND PRAISE HIM FOR HIS POWER.
00:47:41.36\00:47:43.96
WELL, WE'VE GOT A LOT OF
REASONS TO PRAISE THE LORD.
00:47:43.96\00:47:47.53
AND, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT
TO MYSELF, "DOUG, THIS SERVICE
00:47:47.53\00:47:50.56
REALLY WOULDN'T BE COMPLETE
IF I JUST STAND UP HERE AND
00:47:50.56\00:47:53.03
PONTIFICATE ON PRAISE."
00:47:53.03\00:47:55.03
AND SO I SPOKE TO A COUPLE OF
OUR FAMILIES, I JUST GRABBED 'EM
00:47:55.03\00:47:57.76
WITHOUT HARDLY ANY WARNING,
AND I ASKED IF THEY'D COME UP
00:47:57.76\00:48:00.70
FOR A MOMENT.
00:48:00.70\00:48:01.50
SO WHY DON'T YOU COME ON UP.
00:48:01.50\00:48:02.46
I THINK THE
RENJIFO'S, AND RICH AND DIANE.
00:48:02.46\00:48:07.53
AND WHO ELSE?
00:48:07.53\00:48:09.06
ERIC AND DEBBIE.
00:48:09.06\00:48:10.66
WHY DON'T YOU COME
UP HERE FOR A MINUTE?
00:48:10.66\00:48:12.76
I SAID, "JUST THINK ABOUT
SOMETHING YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE
00:48:12.76\00:48:14.26
IN A FEW WORDS ABOUT WHAT YOU'D
LIKE TO THANK THE LORD FOR."
00:48:14.26\00:48:19.06
AND I THINK WE SHOULD HEAR
FROM AT LEAST PART OF THE CHURCH
00:48:19.06\00:48:21.73
FAMILY.
00:48:21.73\00:48:22.50
I THOUGHT, "WHAT MIGHT
HAPPEN IF I JUST SORT OF TOSSED
00:48:22.50\00:48:25.26
THE MICROPHONE OUT
INTO THE AUDIENCE?"
00:48:25.26\00:48:27.86
BUT YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT TO
EXPECT THEN, SO I JUST KIND
00:48:27.86\00:48:29.30
OF TAPPED SOME PEOPLE.
00:48:29.30\00:48:32.86
YOU'VE GOT A MIKE,
RICH, WHY DON'T YOU START?
00:48:32.86\00:48:36.56
>> YEAH, I WANT TO THANK
THE LORD AND PRAISE HIS NAME
00:48:36.56\00:48:38.43
FOR THIS THANKSGIVING TIME
SPECIFICALLY, BECAUSE WE WERE
00:48:38.43\00:48:42.20
ABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME TO HAVE
ALL OUR FAMILY TOGETHER OVER
00:48:42.20\00:48:46.06
THANKSGIVING, WHICH IS
OF COURSE ALWAYS A BLESSING.
00:48:46.06\00:48:50.23
IT'S BEEN ABOUT SEVEN, EIGHT
YEARS SINCE THAT'S HAPPENED.
00:48:50.23\00:48:53.53
I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE LORD
FOR THIS PAST YEAR IN THAT HE'S
00:48:53.53\00:48:56.30
GRANTED US ANOTHER GRANDCHILD,
AND THE NAME IS SAVANNAH.
00:48:56.30\00:49:00.80
AND THAT'S THE SECOND ONE,
WITH THE THIRD ONE ON ITS WAY
00:49:00.80\00:49:04.86
WITH KIMBERLY.
00:49:04.86\00:49:06.96
I WANT TO THANK THE LORD
ALSO THAT I HAVE DAUGHTERS AND
00:49:06.96\00:49:11.40
SON-IN-LAWS THAT WANT TO SERVE
THE LORD WITH ALL THEIR HEARTS,
00:49:11.40\00:49:14.83
AND THAT THEY WANT TO RAISE
THEIR CHILDREN TO ALSO SERVE
00:49:14.83\00:49:18.20
THE LORD.
00:49:18.20\00:49:19.03
IT'S VERY PRECIOUS WHEN YOU
SEE TROY FOLDING HIS HANDS AND
00:49:19.03\00:49:22.56
GIVING THANKS TO THE LORD FOR
WHAT THE LORD HAS PROVIDED HIM.
00:49:22.56\00:49:26.73
SO I THANK THE
LORD FOR ALL THAT.
00:49:26.73\00:49:31.56
>> MOVE OVER HERE.
00:49:31.56\00:49:32.60
MAY YOUR TRIBE INCREASE.
00:49:32.60\00:49:36.26
YOU'VE GOT THAT
FATHER OF-- HERE, HUH?
00:49:36.26\00:49:40.03
>> WELL, DEBBIE AND I,
WE'VE ALSO STARTED THE CHURCH
00:49:40.03\00:49:44.76
GROWTH MOVEMENT, KIND OF
LIKE THE MCSHERRY'S HERE.
00:49:44.76\00:49:48.36
AND WE'VE BEEN SO BLESSED;
13 MONTHS AGO WE HAD A WONDERFUL
00:49:48.36\00:49:51.73
LITTLE BOY AND THE LORD
HAS DECIDED TO BLESS US AGAIN
00:49:51.73\00:49:54.53
WITH ANOTHER CHILD.
00:49:54.53\00:49:55.66
AND SO I'M JUST SO GRATEFUL FOR
HIM, FOR TAKING CARE OF ALL OF
00:49:55.66\00:49:58.86
OUR NEEDS AND FOR
PROVIDING JACK A SIBLING.
00:49:58.86\00:50:03.13
>> AMEN.
00:50:03.13\00:50:04.03
SO IN CASE YOU DIDN'T
GET THAT, DEBBIE'S EXPECTING.
00:50:04.03\00:50:06.86
AMEN?
00:50:06.86\00:50:10.43
>> ME?
00:50:10.43\00:50:12.40
I'VE ALWAYS PRAISED THE LORD
WITH EVERY PRAYER FOR THE LOVELY
00:50:12.40\00:50:16.70
WIFE THAT HE HAS
GIVEN ME AND FOR MY FAMILY.
00:50:16.70\00:50:19.80
I HAVE TRULY BEEN
BLESSED WITH MY WIFE, ELIZABETH,
00:50:19.80\00:50:23.13
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.
00:50:23.13\00:50:24.53
BUT ANOTHER THING THAT I AM
THANKFUL FOR IS FOR THIS CHURCH
00:50:24.53\00:50:27.90
AND FOR THE WONDERFUL CHURCH
FAMILY THAT WE COME TO TALK
00:50:27.90\00:50:31.26
TO EVERY SABBATH.
00:50:31.26\00:50:32.70
IT HAS TRULY BEEN A BLESSING,
EVERY SABBATH, IT NEVER FAILS,
00:50:32.70\00:50:36.16
WE ARE ALWAYS SPIRITUALLY FED.
00:50:36.16\00:50:38.33
I HAVE NEVER LEFT HERE
HUNGRY, THIRSTY FOR MORE.
00:50:38.33\00:50:41.86
AND I THANK THE LORD FOR
THE WONDERFUL PASTORS, AND
00:50:41.86\00:50:44.86
PASTOR DOUG AND HIS MINISTRY,
AND ALL THE OTHER ELDERS
00:50:44.86\00:50:48.00
AND DEACONS HERE.
00:50:48.00\00:50:49.13
THIS IS A WONDERFUL TRUE CHURCH
AND I'M SURE THAT EVERY SABBATH
00:50:49.13\00:50:52.20
IF YOU MAKE IT A HABIT OF
COMING HERE, YOU TOO WILL BE
00:50:52.20\00:50:55.13
SPIRITUALLY FED, AND YOUR LOVE
TOWARDS CHRIST WILL GET CLOSER
00:50:55.13\00:50:59.46
AND STRONGER.
00:50:59.46\00:51:01.16
AND I PRAISE THE
LORD FOR THAT, PASTOR.
00:51:01.16\00:51:03.93
>> ELIZABETH, WERE
YOU GONNA SAY ANYTHING?
00:51:03.93\00:51:05.96
>> YOU KNOW, I
NEED TO SAY SOMETHING.
00:51:05.96\00:51:08.53
OUR KITCHEN CREW WORKS SO
HARD EVERY WEEK, AND WE FORGET
00:51:08.53\00:51:12.96
TO SAY THANK YOU.
00:51:12.96\00:51:14.26
I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR THEIR
HARD WORK THAT THEY DO EVERY
00:51:14.26\00:51:18.33
WEEK, YOU KNOW, PREPARING THOSE
MEALS FOR US AND FOR ALL OF US,
00:51:18.33\00:51:22.26
OUR GUESTS.
00:51:22.26\00:51:23.33
AND I WANT TO PRAISE
THE LORD FOR OUR PASTORS.
00:51:23.33\00:51:25.56
YOU KNOW, WE'RE SO
BLESSED IN THIS CHURCH.
00:51:25.56\00:51:27.33
WE HAVE FOUR PASTORS THAT WE
LOVE SO MUCH AND THEIR FAMILIES.
00:51:27.33\00:51:30.93
AND WE PRAISE THE LORD
FOR ALL OF YOU, FOR, YOU KNOW?
00:51:30.93\00:51:35.40
>> AMEN.
00:51:35.40\00:51:37.10
THANK YOU, VERY MUCH.
00:51:37.10\00:51:38.03
GOD BLESS YOU.
00:51:38.03\00:51:39.86
YOU KNOW, I JUST WANTED TO, I
WANT TO ADD MY APPRECIATION FOR
00:51:39.86\00:51:44.63
MY FAMILY, VERY, VERY
THANKFUL FOR KAREN AND THE BOYS,
00:51:44.63\00:51:49.03
AND SUCH A SUPPORT.
00:51:49.03\00:51:50.10
IT'S DIFFICULT BEING MARRIED
TO ME, DID YOU KNOW THAT?
00:51:50.10\00:51:52.70
AND HAVING A DAD
THAT'S TRAVELING.
00:51:52.70\00:51:54.60
AND BUT I--AND I ALSO NOT ONLY
AM VERY THANKFUL FOR THE FAMILY,
00:51:54.60\00:51:58.26
IT'S WONDERFUL HAVING
OUR PARENTS, BONNIE AND ED,
00:51:58.26\00:52:00.83
HERE TO BE SO CLOSE BY.
00:52:00.83\00:52:02.90
I WANTED TO ADD EXACTLY
WHAT ELIZABETH SAID, I AM
00:52:02.90\00:52:06.10
SO THANKFUL NOT ONLY
FOR OUR CONGREGATION HERE--
00:52:06.10\00:52:09.06
YOU ARE A WONDERFUL CHURCH.
00:52:09.06\00:52:11.20
BELIEVE ME, I'VE
SEEN A LOT OF CHURCHES
00:52:11.20\00:52:12.90
AND I'M NOT JUST SAYING IT.
00:52:12.90\00:52:14.10
AND I AM SO THANKFUL FOR
OUR STAFF HERE, PASTOR STEVE AND
00:52:14.10\00:52:17.96
MIKE, AND HAROLD, AND MELISSA
IN THE OFFICE AND EVERYBODY THAT
00:52:17.96\00:52:21.70
HELPS, WE'RE JUST SO GRATEFUL.
00:52:21.70\00:52:23.80
WE'VE GOT A WONDERFUL TEAM
HERE AND GOD IS TRULY BLESSED.
00:52:23.80\00:52:26.00
AND I PRAY THAT HE'LL
BLESS YOU IN THE SEASON AHEAD.
00:52:26.00\00:52:30.16
YOU KNOW, I HEARD A
STORY THAT THEY HAD A GATHERING
00:52:30.16\00:52:35.83
AT A CONVENTION IN
OMAHA A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO.
00:52:35.83\00:52:40.10
BUT THEY GAVE EVERYBODY
THAT CAME IN TO THE CONFERENCE
00:52:40.10\00:52:43.56
A HELIUM FILLED
BALLOON AT THE BEGINNING,
00:52:43.56\00:52:47.63
AND IT WAS AN OUTDOOR MEETING.
00:52:47.63\00:52:49.53
AND THEY SAID, "IF AT SOME
POINT DURING THE SERVICE TODAY,
00:52:49.53\00:52:54.16
WHEN YOU FEEL THAT YOU WANT
TO EXPRESS PRAISE TO GOD BECAUSE
00:52:54.16\00:52:57.93
YOU HAVE IT IN YOUR HEART,
JUST LET YOUR BALLOON GO."
00:52:57.93\00:53:02.43
AND SO AS THEY WERE GOING
ON WITH THE SERVICE, YOU KNOW,
00:53:02.43\00:53:05.90
EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU'D
SEE THESE BALLOONS GO UP, AND
00:53:05.90\00:53:08.13
THE PASTOR WOULD SAY SOMETHING
INSPIRATIONAL, A FLURRY OF
00:53:08.13\00:53:10.60
LITTLE BALLOONS WOULD FLY UP.
00:53:10.60\00:53:12.96
BUT WHAT THEY OBSERVED IS
AT THE END OF THE SERVICE,
00:53:12.96\00:53:15.86
ONE-THIRD OF THE PEOPLE
STILL HAD THEIR BALLOONS.
00:53:15.86\00:53:19.33
THEY HAD NEVER
REALLY LET THEIR PRAISE GO.
00:53:19.33\00:53:24.26
AND HOW SAD TO BRING IT HOME AND
WATCH IT SLOWLY LOSE ITS LIFT
00:53:24.26\00:53:30.90
AND TURN INTO A PILE OF SAGGING
RUBBER IN THE CORNER SOMEWHERE.
00:53:30.90\00:53:37.23
YOU WANT TO LET
IT GO WHILE IT FLIES.
00:53:37.23\00:53:41.40
THE LIVING PRAISE THE LORD.
00:53:41.40\00:53:43.26
HAS GOD GIVEN YOU
SOMETHING TO PRAISE HIM FOR?
00:53:43.26\00:53:46.66
HAS HE GIVEN YOU
SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR?
00:53:46.66\00:53:50.23
THANK HIM.
00:53:50.23\00:53:51.93
YOU KNOW, THE MORE YOU
THANK HIM, YOU PAVE THE WAY
00:53:51.93\00:53:54.13
FOR FUTURE BENEFITS.
00:53:54.13\00:53:56.40
FATHER IN HEAVEN, LORD, IT IS
OUR DESIRE THAT THE WORDS OF OUR
00:53:56.40\00:54:02.53
MOUTH, MEDITATION OF OUR HEARTS,
THE PRAISE IN OUR VOICES, WILL
00:54:02.53\00:54:07.53
BE ACCEPTABLE IN YOUR SIGHT.
00:54:07.53\00:54:09.73
LORD, I PRAY THAT YOU'LL HELP US
TO ADD MORE PRAISE TO OUR DAYS.
00:54:09.73\00:54:14.20
I PRAY THAT WE WILL PRACTICE
PRAISE, SO IT WILL COME MORE
00:54:14.20\00:54:17.50
SPONTANEOUSLY AT
THE APPROPRIATE TIMES.
00:54:17.50\00:54:21.03
HELP US NOT ONLY TO PRAISE
YOU IN THIS HOUSE OF WORSHIP,
00:54:21.03\00:54:23.63
BUT HELP US TO PRAISE
YOU BEFORE THE MULTITUDE,
00:54:23.63\00:54:26.66
THE WORLD THAT IS LOST.
00:54:26.66\00:54:28.30
AND WE KNOW THAT SOON A MIDNIGHT
HOUR IS COMING, AND I PRAY THAT
00:54:28.30\00:54:32.06
WE CAN BE PRAISING
YOU NOW, SO WE'RE PREPARED
00:54:32.06\00:54:35.13
TO PRAISE YOU THEN.
00:54:35.13\00:54:36.43
BLESS YOUR PEOPLE, LORD, WE
HAVE SO MUCH TO THANK YOU FOR,
00:54:36.43\00:54:39.73
INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON OUR
MISFORTUNE AND OUR TRIALS, HELP
00:54:39.73\00:54:44.06
US TO FOCUS ON YOUR
GOODNESS AND OUR BLESSINGS.
00:54:44.06\00:54:46.76
BE WITH US AS WE GO FROM THIS
PLACE, THAT WE MIGHT BE A PEOPLE
00:54:46.76\00:54:50.36
FROM THE TRIBE OF
JUDAH, A PEOPLE OF PRAISE.
00:54:50.36\00:54:53.20
WE ASK IN CHRIST'S NAME, AMEN.
00:54:53.20\00:54:56.06
>> HELLO FRIENDS,
I'M DOUG BATCHELOR.
00:54:57.90\00:54:59.76
FOR MORE THAN 40
YEARS, AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN
00:54:59.76\00:55:03.46
A MINISTRY OF EVANGELISM,
REACHING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE,
00:55:03.46\00:55:07.93
CHANGING LIVES WITH THE
POWERFUL MESSAGE OF HOPE
00:55:07.93\00:55:11.20
AND PURPOSE FOUND IN THE BIBLE.
00:55:11.20\00:55:13.40
AS DISCIPLES OF CHRIST, WE HERE
AT AMAZING FACTS HAVE ACCEPTED
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THE GREAT COMMISSION CHALLENGE,
TO SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS
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THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
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WHAT BEGAN AS A 15-MINUTE RADIO
PROGRAM HAS BEEN BLESSED BY GOD
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TO GROW INTO A MULTIFACETED
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA MINISTRY.
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THESE ARE TRULY EXCITING TIMES,
YET WE CANNOT DO ANY OF THIS
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WITHOUT YOUR
CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP.
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>> THE AMAZING FACTS HAS
BEEN A HUGE CORNERSTONE IN
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MY WHOLE CONVERSION EXPERIENCE
AND MY WALK WITH CHRIST.
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>> INVESTING IN
AMAZING FACTS IS A NO-BRAINER.
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IT'S AN INVESTMENT IN ETERNITY.
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>> I'M SO THANKFUL FOR WHAT'S
HAPPENING AT AMAZING FACTS.
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IT'S CHANGING PEOPLE'S LIVES.
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>> AMAZING FACTS HAS
TOUCHED MY LIFE IN WAYS THAT
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I CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN.
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>> WE ARE A PART OF
GOD'S GREATER, GREATER PLAN.
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>> INVESTMENT IN AMAZING
FACTS IS ACTUALLY AN INVESTMENT
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IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
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>> I'M A PRODUCT OF THE
GIFTS THAT SOMEONE HAS GIVEN.
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>> I'M ONE CHANGED LIFE.
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>> I'LL NEVER BE THE SAME.
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>> THOUSANDS OF LOST
SOULS ARE COMING TO KNOW JESUS,
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AND ARE BEING
TRANSFORMED INTO HIS LIKENESS.
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THOUSANDS MORE ARE
EXPERIENCING NEW DEPTH IN
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THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST.
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WE BELIEVE THAT THROUGH
CONTINUED PRAYER, TRUST IN GOD,
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AND OUR SACRIFICIAL GIVING,
THAT WE CAN TAKE THIS MESSAGE
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OF HOPE AROUND THE
WORLD TO ONE AND TO ALL.
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>> HOW MUCH MORE
EXCITING CAN IT BE THAN THAT?
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>> JOURNEY BACK THROUGH TIME
TO THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE,
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DISCOVER HOW A PERFECT
ANGEL TRANSFORMED INTO SATAN,
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THE ARCH VILLAIN,
THE BIRTH OF EVIL,
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A REBELLION IN HEAVEN, A
MUTINY THAT MOVED TO EARTH.
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BEHOLD THE CREATION OF
A BEAUTIFUL, NEW PLANET
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AND THE FIRST HUMANS.
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WITNESS THE TEMPTATION IN EDEN.
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DISCOVER GOD'S AMAZING
PLAN TO SAVE HIS CHILDREN.
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THIS IS A STORY THAT INVOLVES
EVERY LIFE ON EARTH, EVERY LIFE.
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"THE COSMIC CONFLICT," IF GOD
IS GOOD, IF GOD IS ALL POWERFUL,
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IF GOD IS LOVE,
THEN WHAT WENT WRONG?
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AVAILABLE NOW ON DVD.
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