Sing this Sabbath song.
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We call, this is
Black History Month.
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We'll take it back a little bit.
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Is that all right?
Come on and sing with us.
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I love to praise Him
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I love to praise His name
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I love to praise Him
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I love to praise His name
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I love to praise Him
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I love to praise His name
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I love to praise His Holy name
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I love to praise Him
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I love to praise His name
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I love to praise Him
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I love to praise His name
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I love to praise Him
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I love to praise His name
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I love to praise His holy name
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Say He's my rock
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He's my rock
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My rock, my rock
My sword and shield
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And He's my wheel
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He's my wheel in
the middle of the field
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I know He'll
never I know He'll never
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Never let me
down Never let me down
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He's just a
jewel He's just a jewel
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That I have found
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Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
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I love to praise His name
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Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
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I love to praise His name
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Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
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I love to praise His name
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I love to praise His Holy name
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Let say it again, say.
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Say He's my rock
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He's my rock
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My rock, my rock
My sword and shield
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And He's my wheel He's my wheel
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In the middle of the field
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I know He'll
never I know He'll never
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Never let me
down Never let me down
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He's just a
jewel He's just a jewel
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That I have found
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Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
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I love to praise His name
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Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
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I love to praise His name
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Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
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I love to praise His name
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I love to praise His Holy name
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Say He's my rock
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He's my rock
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My rock, my rock
My sword and shield
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And He's my wheel He's my wheel
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In the middle of the field
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I know He'll
never I know He'll never
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Never let me
down Never let me down
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He's just a
jewel He's just a jewel
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That I have
found That I have found
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Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
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I love to praise His name
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Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
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I love to praise His name
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Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
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I love to praise His name
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I love to praise His Holy name
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I love to praise His name
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I love to praise His name
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I love to praise His name
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I love to praise His Holy name
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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How great is our God
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We all know that one.
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Sing with me
how great is our God
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All will see how great
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How great is our God
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You know he is great.
Come on, sing that again.
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How great is our God
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Sing with me
how great is our God
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All will see how great
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How great is our God
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Come on, I'm gonna sing
and I want to hear you'll sing.
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Come on.
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I am ready now God
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That's not good. Come on.
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He is my Lord.
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Everybody sing
with me, sing with me.
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How great is our God.
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Only sing, yeah...
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How great is our God.
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Here we go, come on.
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You're the name above all names.
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You're the name above all names
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You're the name above all names
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You are worthy of my praise
You are worthy of my praise
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And my heart will
sing And my heart will sing
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How great How great
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Is our God Is our God
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You're the name above all names
You're the name above all names
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You are worthy of my praise
You are worthy of our praise
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And my heart will
sing An my heart will sing
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How great How great
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Is our God Is our God
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Listen to my theme, come on.
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Then sings my soul Come on.
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My Savior God, to Thee
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How great God Thou
art You know it, come on.
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How great Thou
art How great Thou art
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How great Thou art
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Then sings my
soul Then sings my soul
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My Savior God, to Thee
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How great
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How great Thou art
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How great
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How great Thou art
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How great
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How great is our God
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Sing with me
how great is our God
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All will sing All
will sing how great
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How great How great
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Is our God Is our God
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Is our God Is our God
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Come on.
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Is our God Is our God
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Is our God Is our God
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Come on.
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Is our God Is our God
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Is our God Is our God
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He's my God Is our God
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He's my God Is our God
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Is our God Is our God
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Is our God Is our God
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Is our God Is our God
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Is our God Is our God
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How great
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No music, come on.
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How great is our God
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Sing with me
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Sing with me
how great is our God
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You got to believe in this song.
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All will sing
All to sing how great
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How great How great
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Is our God.
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Hallelujah.
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I'm gonna sing 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna sing 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna sing 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna sing 'till Jesus comes
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I'm gonna sing 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna sing 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna sing 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna sing 'till Jesus comes
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I'm gonna sing 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna sing 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna sing 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna sing 'till Jesus comes
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It was grace that brought
me It was grace that taught me
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It was grace that kept me
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And it's grace
that will lead me home
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I'm gonna pray 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna pray 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna pray 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna pray 'till
the Spirit moves in my heart
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Can't you feel
the spirit moving?
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Can't you feel it moving?
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Can't you feel it moving?
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Can't you feel it moving?
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I'm gonna shout 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna shout 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna shout 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna sing 'till Jesus comes
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I'm gonna shout 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna shout 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna shout 'till the Spirit
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Moves in my heart
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I'm gonna shout
'till Jesus comes
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Till He comes
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I'm gonna sing
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'Till my Jesus
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Till He come.
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Waging War - Aiming
Our Worship Weapons.
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Let's pray.
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God our Father,
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we come before You humbly
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and we just ask for
You to fill this place.
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There's nothing I
can say or do dear Lord
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without Jesus Christ,
speaking on my behalf.
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So hide me behind the cross
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and let this
"word" be a word from you.
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We pray in your holy Son's name.
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Amen.
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War, it's a small
three letter word,
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that can radically
change one's life for ever.
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For most of us the word "War"
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conjures up images of
the injured, the destitute,
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the frightened
people embroiled in war
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all over the world
in far away nations.
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We watch this on
the news every day,
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and we hear incisive reports
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of people from around the world,
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whose homes, whose workplaces,
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whose lives are ravaged by war.
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All though it is a
small three-letter word,
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War is no small matter.
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War experts
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who consider they're an
nefarious trade and art,
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they tell us that there
are various types of wars
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that can be waged
through out the world.
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They tell us that there
is conventional warfare,
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they uses the weapons of
tanks, planes, and troops.
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There's also guerrilla warfare,
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they use as the
tactics of fighting
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in small bands and ambushes.
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Then you have
psychological warfare,
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which uses propaganda,
threats, intimidation
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and demoralization.
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And there is political warfare,
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which we've seen a lot
of, haven't we recently?
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Political warfare,
which uses political means
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to compel your will.
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And then finally,
there is ideological warfare,
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which uses opinions
and ideas as weapons.
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But you know,
United States of America,
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here, we're talking
Black History Month,
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has waged 12
wars in its history.
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But the most heinous war,
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the most hard war
was the Civil War,
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The Civil War.
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It was filled by the debate
over slavery and state rights.
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The American Civil War
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was a war that
pitted north against south.
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It was so
despicable and so horrible.
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This war was a war that
was waged on our own soil.
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Fathers,
brothers, uncles, cousins
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fought amongst each other.
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And so in this war,
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it boasts the
highest causalities
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of any war in the United States.
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Over 140,000
people died in that war.
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It was an illusive,
horrible, ideological war
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that had been
fought for generations.
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It was a war that only
took four years of weaponry.
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But yet, civil rights
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and slavery
rights were being fought
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even after the
weaponry war was ended.
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It was a war that
if you look closely,
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is still being fought today.
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You know, I--
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as pastor said, I
attended Andrews University.
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And back when I was at school
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at Andrews University
in Radiologic technology.
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The program had a
two year internship,
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where you had to
attend a medical facility.
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Now Andrews has
no medical facility
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near the campus,
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so you had to
select one of three.
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And I selected
Hinsdale University
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in Hinsdale, Illinois.
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Now Hinsdale, Illinois is
a beautiful affluent town.
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If you look at
the 2010 census today,
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it's 90 percent Caucasian,
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and it is one in the one percent
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highest affluent
area in Illinois.
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So imagine when I was going
to college back in the back,
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in the--
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back in the.
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So it was very affluent
and it was predominantly white.
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Unfortunately I was one of
two African-Americans students
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selected to join that program.
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It was a prestigious honor.
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I said it was a
prestigious honor
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until I
experienced the prejudice.
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Until I
experienced the overt racism,
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until I experienced the bigotry
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from our own
Christian brothers and sisters.
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I said it was a
civil war, did I say that?
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Because back then, I
wasn't fully converted,
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help me Jesus.
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And so, therefore
civil war broke out.
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But thank God, I was able
to maintain my academic status.
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Transferred out of there
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and not become
academic fatality.
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Amen. Amen. Amen.
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But sometimes, we have
to endure that kind of war,
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and the United States
was not the first kingdom
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to be embroiled in a civil war.
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The Bible tells us,
that in Revelation 12:7-8,
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that there was war in heaven.
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There was a civil
war that was fought
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between Michael, Jesus Christ
00:16:38.43\00:16:40.63
and the dragon,
the devil in heaven.
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The celestial war between
the forces of good and evil
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continues here on earth.
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For millennia,
Satan and his minions
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have waged spiritual
warfare against God's people.
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Satan's war
weapons that he aims at us
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are temptations and trials.
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Temptations and trials.
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Let's read our text
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that was read so nicely
by the elder, Exodus 17,
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I'm gonna read 14-16 again.
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And I'm reading from
the New King James Version,
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and it says, "Then
the Lord said to Moses,
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"Write this for a
memorial in the book
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and recount it in
the hearing of Joshua,
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that I will utterly blot out
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the remembrance of
Amalek from under the heaven."
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And Moses built an
altar and he called its name,
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The-Lord-Is-My-Banner,
for he said,
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"Because the Lord has sworn:
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the Lord will
have war with Amalek
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from generation to generation.'"
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Now we have to ask the question,
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what happened,
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why did God decide
to have war with Amalek,
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what is the
explanation for this text?
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Well, in order to find
that out, we got to go back.
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Amen.
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We got to go back, because
we need to know who is Amalek.
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Well, in Genesis 36:12,
you don't have to turn there.
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Amalek was the grandson of Esau,
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the grandson of Esau.
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Now Esau, we remember
was the twin brother of who?
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Jacob.
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Of Jacob, the
twin brother of Jacob.
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And Jacob was the father
of the Israelites, right?
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So Amalek and
Israelites were cousins.
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They were
cousins. They were family.
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Now the
Amalekites, the Bible tells us,
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"They were the first
people to fight Israel
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in the wilderness.
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Three trials took
place in wilderness.
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The first one was drought.
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There was bitter
water made sweet.
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And then the
second one was a famine.
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Bread was sent from heaven.
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And the third one
was a drought again.
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Lord was trying to teach
them something, wasn't He?
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Was a drought again, and
water came from the rock.
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And they journeyed from Elim,
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and all the congregation
of the children of Israel
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came to the wilderness of sin.
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So they should've known
there is going to be a problem.
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Amen. Amen.
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In the wilderness of sin
which is between Elim and Sinai
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on the 15th day
of the second month,
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after they departed
from the land of Egypt.
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So they just left Egypt.
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Then the whole congregation,
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the children of Israel
complained against Moses
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and Aaron in the wilderness.
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And the children of
Israel said to them,
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all that we have died
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at the hand of
the Lord in Egypt,
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when we sat by the pots
of meat, can you hear them?
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And we ate the
bread to the full,
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for you have brought
us out into the wilderness
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to kill the whole
assembly with hunger.
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Then the Lord said to Moses,
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"Behold, I will rain
bread from heaven for you.
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And the people shall go out
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and gather a
certain quota every day,
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that I may test them,
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whether they will
walk in My law or not."
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Now, the Israelis were
in the wilderness of sin,
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and Satan tempted that Israelis
with trial of famine, okay.
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They complained
that they were hungry,
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'cause there was no food
out there for them to eat.
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They were so
accustomed to the meals
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and the food that
they had in Egypt,
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then when it was time
for the Lord to feel them,
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feed them, to strip
them down, they complained.
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How many of us do
the same thing, come on?
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When it's time for the Lord
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to get into our
minds and to talk with us.
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He starts removing things
from us, we start to complain,
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instead of seeing it as God
doing something in our lives.
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So they started to complain,
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but Satan's weapons
of temptations and trial
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can become God's test of faith.
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Amen.
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Now we're
complainers, and I know for me,
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my parents are West Indian,
my parents are from Trinidad.
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Amen. Any Trinidadians here?
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And my parents used to
say, "You want to complain,
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I'll give you
something to complain about."
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You'll know that? You know that.
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Some of y'all know that.
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Not nowadays, you all
will know what that's about.
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That was back in the day.
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But you see, God is not like us.
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And He is not like
my parents used to be.
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When they complain, God said,
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He was gonna
give them His glory.
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When they complain, God
said, "I've heard your complains
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and in the morning
you will see My glory."
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So we give God
grumbling and gripes,
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and God hears our complaints
and He gives us a gift.
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He gives us His glory.
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But if God is
gonna give us His glory,
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then we need to
understand what does that mean.
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What exactly does it mean
for God to give us His glory?
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Let's go to Exodus
33. Let's go to Exodus 33.
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And many of us know this story.
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This is the story
where Moses is asking God
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to show me Your
glory, show me Your glory.
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And so, in verses 18 and 19,
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Moses said, "Please
show me your glory."
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And then God says,
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"I will make all my
goodness pass before you.
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And I will proclaim the
name of the Lord before you,
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I'll be gracious to
whom I'll be gracious,
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and I will be--
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have compassion on
whom I'll have compassion."
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So you see, when God
gives us His glory, God said,
00:22:36.28\00:22:40.86
"I will make My
goodness pass before you."
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"I will make My
goodness pass before you,
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and I will proclaim
the name of the Lord."
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God's glory is God's goodness.
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What God has done
for us is His goodness.
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Amen. Amen.
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The things God has
done for you over and over
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is God's goodness.
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And don't we say God is good.
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God is good. In all the time.
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Because what He's done
for us is His goodness.
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And that is why we praise. Yes.
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Don't we praise
God 'cause He is good.
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'Cause He brought you out,
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because He's
done things for you.
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So God's
goodness is why we praise.
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And then God's
glory is God's presence,
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because the Hebrew
word for glory means honor,
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splendor, and reputation.
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Exodus 16:8.
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We shall be seen,
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when the Lord gives you
meat to eat in the evening,
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meaning his glory.
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And in the
morning, bread to the full,
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but the Lord
hears your complaints
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which you make against him.
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Okay.
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So God gave them the
manna, manna rained from heaven,
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bread from heaven, the manna.
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And when they ate that bread,
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the digestion of
the bread of heaven
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allowed them to
partake of God's glory.
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Now, how did that happen?
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Because the Bible
says in Psalms 38,
00:24:01.90\00:24:04.47
"Oh, taste and see
that the Lord is good."
00:24:04.51\00:24:08.41
The Bible also
says in John 6:51,
00:24:08.44\00:24:11.21
Jesus said, "I
am the living bread
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that came down from heaven.
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If anyone eats up his
bread, he will live forever.
00:24:16.08\00:24:19.72
And the bread that I
shall give is my flesh,
00:24:19.75\00:24:22.92
which I shall give for
the life of the world."
00:24:22.96\00:24:25.26
Jesus Christ was symbolizing
the manna, the living bread.
00:24:25.29\00:24:30.37
So when they ate the bread,
00:24:30.40\00:24:32.20
it was symbolic of
having Jesus Christ
00:24:32.23\00:24:34.30
being part of their life,
00:24:34.34\00:24:35.70
digesting the
word, eating the word,
00:24:35.74\00:24:37.87
the living
bread of Jesus Christ.
00:24:37.91\00:24:40.38
And we're only
able to worship God,
00:24:40.41\00:24:42.51
when we are covered by
the blood of Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
00:24:44.98\00:24:46.31
Otherwise our
worship is as filthy rags.
00:24:46.35\00:24:49.98
So they have to ingest the bread
00:24:50.02\00:24:52.02
to have Christ inside.
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So if they worship,
00:24:53.76\00:24:55.09
when that glory fell down
could be covered by the blood.
00:24:55.12\00:24:59.13
And that's what
we need to do today.
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Amen.
00:25:00.53\00:25:01.86
To experience God's glory
and His goodness in the manna.
00:25:01.90\00:25:05.13
We had to digest
the living bread,
00:25:05.17\00:25:07.17
the word of God, and
have Jesus Christ inside,
00:25:07.20\00:25:10.04
so that our worship is
not like clanging gongs
00:25:10.07\00:25:12.41
and tinkling cymbals.
00:25:12.44\00:25:14.18
So then our
worship becomes something
00:25:14.21\00:25:16.11
that is a sweet
melody to the ear of God.
00:25:16.14\00:25:19.18
Amen.
00:25:19.21\00:25:20.55
You don't have to
worry about the ear of man.
00:25:20.58\00:25:23.22
It's God who we're trying
to please with our worship.
00:25:23.25\00:25:25.79
Amen.
00:25:25.82\00:25:27.16
It is God that we're trying
to please with our praise.
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And therefore, we
need to be covered
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by the blood of Jesus Christ.
00:25:32.43\00:25:34.70
Now this is a
worship lesson to all of us.
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You see, each day
00:25:37.60\00:25:39.23
we should be having
praise and worship on our own.
00:25:39.27\00:25:42.54
Collecting and
getting that bread down,
00:25:42.57\00:25:44.87
digested deep down inside.
00:25:44.91\00:25:47.38
And each day we
should be getting a portion
00:25:47.41\00:25:49.78
like God said just a portion,
00:25:49.81\00:25:51.65
and then when
Friday night comes,
00:25:51.68\00:25:53.25
and you have your
Friday night worship,
00:25:53.28\00:25:54.75
then you'll get
a double portion.
00:25:54.78\00:25:56.18
Amen. Amen.
00:25:56.22\00:25:57.55
With your family and
friends in a double portion.
00:25:57.59\00:25:59.65
So when you come
here to this house,
00:25:59.69\00:26:01.59
you're not coming to
get, you're coming to give.
00:26:01.62\00:26:04.96
You're so
filled up with worship,
00:26:04.99\00:26:07.13
you're not coming to
receive, you're coming to give.
00:26:07.16\00:26:10.27
You have the worship down inside
00:26:10.30\00:26:12.57
and you're not coming to be fed,
00:26:12.60\00:26:14.64
there's somebody to feed you.
00:26:14.67\00:26:16.24
You're coming to help others
00:26:16.27\00:26:18.17
and to make sure that
your worship is a witness.
00:26:18.21\00:26:20.88
Amen.
00:26:20.91\00:26:23.68
So when they were
in the wilderness,
00:26:23.71\00:26:25.61
and He was the living bread,
00:26:25.65\00:26:27.15
and He gave them
manna from heaven.
00:26:27.18\00:26:28.92
And now we've
learned outworship lessons.
00:26:28.95\00:26:31.09
So in the wilderness,
00:26:31.12\00:26:32.45
when you have
trials and tribulations,
00:26:32.49\00:26:34.56
in the wilderness
when you have problems,
00:26:34.59\00:26:36.83
in your wilderness God can
turn your problems into praise.
00:26:36.86\00:26:40.70
Amen.
00:26:40.73\00:26:42.06
You don't have to worry about
what's happening in your life,
00:26:42.10\00:26:44.47
God can turn your
problems into praise.
00:26:44.50\00:26:47.80
The third trial, talking about
the trials in the wilderness
00:26:47.84\00:26:51.01
was water from
the rock in Exodus 17.
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The Israelites were
still in the wilderness of sin.
00:26:54.18\00:26:57.15
And they complained
and complained again,
00:26:57.18\00:26:59.71
they started
complaining again, right?
00:26:59.75\00:27:02.15
They were thirsty
and there was no water
00:27:02.18\00:27:04.39
and they wanted
to return to Egypt.
00:27:04.42\00:27:06.52
So in Exodus 17:4,
00:27:06.55\00:27:08.89
Moses cried out
to the Lord saying,
00:27:08.92\00:27:11.26
"What shall I do
with these people,
00:27:11.29\00:27:14.90
they are almost
ready to stone me?"
00:27:14.93\00:27:18.23
Don't we do that sometimes?
00:27:18.27\00:27:20.80
Behold God says, "I
will stand before you
00:27:20.84\00:27:23.20
on the rock of Horeb, and
you shall strike the rock,
00:27:23.24\00:27:26.41
and water will come out of
it, that the people may drink."
00:27:26.44\00:27:29.28
Now look at this,
Moses is so upset,
00:27:29.31\00:27:32.08
because the people
that are his people,
00:27:32.11\00:27:34.48
his own family are
trying to stone him
00:27:34.52\00:27:36.95
because of
trials and tribulations
00:27:36.99\00:27:38.45
that they are going through.
00:27:38.49\00:27:39.82
Like he had anything to
do with there not be a water.
00:27:39.85\00:27:42.36
And don't we do that,
00:27:42.39\00:27:43.73
blame other people
for our own issues.
00:27:43.76\00:27:45.76
God's trying to
teach us a lesson.
00:27:45.79\00:27:47.80
We blame the boss,
'cause he fired me,
00:27:47.83\00:27:49.60
or maybe you
weren't a good worker.
00:27:49.63\00:27:51.10
Maybe I
shouldn't have said that.
00:27:55.24\00:27:57.34
But maybe you
weren't a good worker,
00:27:57.37\00:27:59.27
maybe you were so obsessed,
00:27:59.31\00:28:00.68
you weren't spending
time with your family.
00:28:00.71\00:28:02.81
Maybe the Lord
wants to show you,
00:28:02.84\00:28:04.31
that you
shouldn't worship your job,
00:28:04.35\00:28:05.88
you should worship him.
00:28:05.91\00:28:09.08
Sometimes our
trials are for a reason.
00:28:09.12\00:28:12.02
And we have to go
back and learn the lesson.
00:28:12.05\00:28:14.72
So Satan takes stones,
and he pelts them at us,
00:28:14.76\00:28:18.56
but you see when Moses said,
"They are trying to stone me."
00:28:18.59\00:28:22.10
God said, "Strength the rock."
00:28:22.13\00:28:23.83
See, God will take our problems.
00:28:23.87\00:28:26.07
There are stones
Satan is throwing at us
00:28:26.10\00:28:28.57
and turning it into
a rock of Jesus Christ.
00:28:28.60\00:28:31.54
He'll take that
problem, that marriage,
00:28:31.57\00:28:34.28
that might be a
stone is thrown at you,
00:28:34.31\00:28:36.11
because you're getting a divorce
00:28:36.14\00:28:37.58
or you're having
marital problems.
00:28:37.61\00:28:39.65
And He will
turn it into the rock
00:28:39.68\00:28:41.18
of a stronger
relationship down the road.
00:28:41.22\00:28:44.72
He may take that
stone of illness,
00:28:44.75\00:28:47.59
you're diagnosed with cancer,
00:28:47.62\00:28:49.72
and turn it into the
rock of a stronger faith.
00:28:49.76\00:28:53.96
We have to know
00:28:54.00\00:28:55.33
that Jesus Christ
in our wilderness,
00:28:55.36\00:28:58.00
God can turn our
misery into a miracle.
00:28:58.03\00:29:01.47
Amen.
00:29:01.50\00:29:02.87
God can turn our misery
into a miracle in Isaiah 30:20,
00:29:02.90\00:29:09.74
Isaiah 30:20, it says,
00:29:09.78\00:29:12.11
"And though the Lord gives
you the bread of adversity,
00:29:12.15\00:29:15.65
and the water of affliction,"
in verse 21 it said,
00:29:15.68\00:29:19.72
"Your ear shall hear a
word behind you saying,
00:29:19.75\00:29:23.06
'this is the
way, walk ye in it.'"
00:29:23.09\00:29:28.56
God may allow
adversity and trials
00:29:28.60\00:29:30.80
to come into your life.
00:29:30.83\00:29:32.30
But it is not
to give you misery,
00:29:32.33\00:29:35.00
it's to show you His power
00:29:35.04\00:29:36.40
and work a miracle in your life.
00:29:36.44\00:29:39.71
And sometimes,
when we are in battle,
00:29:39.74\00:29:42.38
and when we are
in our wilderness,
00:29:42.41\00:29:44.98
God will turn your
problems into praise,
00:29:45.01\00:29:48.05
and your misery into a miracle.
00:29:48.08\00:29:50.72
Now Moses, when
we're talking about Amalek,
00:29:50.75\00:29:54.36
why did they want to
have war with Amalek?
00:29:54.39\00:29:56.62
And when God made
that promise to Moses
00:29:56.66\00:30:00.70
and told him that he was gonna
fight Amalek for generations.
00:30:00.73\00:30:04.33
Then Moses built an
altar, remember that,
00:30:04.37\00:30:07.44
Moses built an altar,
00:30:07.47\00:30:08.80
and he called the name
of the altar "Jehovahnissi."
00:30:08.84\00:30:12.41
Amen.
00:30:12.44\00:30:13.81
Let God fight your battles.
00:30:13.84\00:30:16.95
Let him turn your
misery into a miracle.
00:30:16.98\00:30:20.68
And sometimes it's
not the miracle we expect.
00:30:20.72\00:30:23.62
But we got to
give God praise anyhow.
00:30:23.65\00:30:25.72
Amen. Amen.
00:30:25.75\00:30:27.16
Because He's sovereign.
00:30:27.19\00:30:29.12
And we have to
stop trying to tell God
00:30:29.16\00:30:30.76
what we want Him to do,
00:30:30.79\00:30:32.36
and allow Him to
do for us what's best.
00:30:32.39\00:30:34.56
Amen.
00:30:34.60\00:30:37.40
So Satan's weapons
of temptation and trials
00:30:37.43\00:30:40.10
becomes God's test of faith.
00:30:40.14\00:30:42.50
Before God can
send you out to fight,
00:30:42.54\00:30:45.84
first God will test
you to build your faith.
00:30:45.87\00:30:50.25
You know, I'm from New
York. We had a basketball game.
00:30:54.92\00:30:58.22
Now I was the
captain of the cheerleaders.
00:30:58.25\00:30:59.99
I dated one of the
basketball team members.
00:31:00.02\00:31:02.49
So the girls from
Turtle Hook were there,
00:31:02.52\00:31:04.63
and they decided
to launch a threat.
00:31:04.66\00:31:08.63
They came over to us,
00:31:08.66\00:31:10.07
me and my girlfriends
are sitting down in the area,
00:31:10.10\00:31:13.13
and he said, "look,
00:31:13.17\00:31:14.80
we are tired of
you all taking our men,
00:31:14.84\00:31:17.87
you need to meet us
in the cemetery tomorrow,
00:31:17.91\00:31:21.24
and we are
gonna kick your butt."
00:31:21.28\00:31:24.95
So the question
is why did God say--
00:31:24.98\00:31:29.18
Come back with
me. Come back with me.
00:31:31.39\00:31:34.92
Why did God say that He
was gonna blot out Amalek.
00:31:34.96\00:31:40.10
We haven't answered
that question yet, have we?
00:31:40.13\00:31:42.86
Why did God said,
00:31:42.90\00:31:45.20
that He was gonna
utterly blot out Amalek.
00:31:45.23\00:31:49.40
Let's read Deuteronomy 25,
00:31:49.44\00:31:51.41
I'm gonna get back to
the story, don't worry.
00:31:51.44\00:31:54.64
I will leave you hanging.
00:31:54.68\00:31:56.38
Let's read Deuteronomy 25:17-18,
00:31:56.41\00:32:00.12
but I'm going
somewhere with the story.
00:32:00.15\00:32:01.85
There is a point.
00:32:01.88\00:32:03.22
Deuteronomy 25:17-18,
00:32:03.25\00:32:05.95
and the point is
not I get beat up.
00:32:05.99\00:32:07.59
In verse 17, it says,
00:32:10.99\00:32:14.70
"Remember what Amalek did to you
00:32:14.73\00:32:17.57
on the way as you
were coming out of Egypt,
00:32:17.60\00:32:21.47
how he met you on the way
and attacked your rear ranks,
00:32:21.50\00:32:26.21
all the stragglers at your rear,
00:32:26.24\00:32:28.78
when you were tired and
weary, and he did not fear God."
00:32:28.81\00:32:35.52
Now Amalek, attacked Israel,
00:32:39.32\00:32:43.09
the attack on
Israel was unprovoked.
00:32:43.12\00:32:45.89
They met them on their way,
when they were tired and weary
00:32:45.93\00:32:48.90
and they ambushed them.
00:32:48.93\00:32:51.73
The attack on Israel's
ranks was above barbaric,
00:32:51.77\00:32:55.80
guerrilla warfare
that they launched.
00:32:55.84\00:32:58.24
And the Israelis
stragglers in the rear,
00:32:58.27\00:33:01.08
were all taken
captive or killed.
00:33:01.11\00:33:04.28
Now many other heathen tribes
had attacked the Israelites.
00:33:04.31\00:33:09.85
Many other heathen tribes
00:33:09.88\00:33:11.89
had probably
ambushed the Israelites.
00:33:11.92\00:33:14.46
So why did God say
00:33:14.49\00:33:17.23
that He was
going to blot them out.
00:33:17.26\00:33:20.30
Because Deuteronomy
25:18 gives us the answer.
00:33:20.33\00:33:24.33
It says, "He feared not God."
00:33:24.37\00:33:28.00
And the Hebrew
word for fear there
00:33:28.04\00:33:30.24
means reverence, worship.
00:33:30.27\00:33:34.84
Amalek did not worship God.
00:33:34.88\00:33:39.35
So God decided to blot them out.
00:33:39.38\00:33:44.92
Now this is one
of the most insipid
00:33:44.95\00:33:47.92
and subtle tactics,
00:33:47.96\00:33:49.52
that the devil uses to
war against us as Christians.
00:33:49.56\00:33:53.50
You see, because it's
not that we don't worship,
00:33:53.53\00:33:56.03
it's the context,
00:33:56.06\00:33:58.50
it's how we worship
and what we worship,
00:33:58.53\00:34:04.07
because when
our worship is weak,
00:34:04.11\00:34:07.04
anemic, focused on ourselves,
00:34:07.08\00:34:09.58
self-centered,
people-centered, other-centered.
00:34:09.61\00:34:13.31
You see that worship
is not powerful worship.
00:34:13.35\00:34:17.25
And it doesn't have the
power of God embedded in it.
00:34:17.29\00:34:20.42
So you're a weak Christian.
00:34:20.46\00:34:22.59
And when somebody says
something about the song,
00:34:22.62\00:34:24.99
you take offence.
00:34:25.03\00:34:27.10
Because, see, your
worship isn't rooted
00:34:27.13\00:34:28.96
in the God of the worship,
00:34:29.00\00:34:30.57
it's rooted in the
song of the worship.
00:34:30.60\00:34:35.10
And so every
little thing that happens
00:34:35.14\00:34:37.67
is an offence to you.
00:34:37.71\00:34:39.27
And so therefore, we
become worshipers we think,
00:34:44.15\00:34:48.32
but we're really
spiritual weaklings.
00:34:48.35\00:34:51.49
We're not worshipers,
we're spiritual weaklings.
00:34:51.52\00:34:54.59
So then, when something happens,
00:34:54.62\00:34:56.39
you're sitting there and
sister or brother so and so
00:34:56.42\00:34:59.39
was here last week,
00:34:59.43\00:35:00.76
but now they are
out of the church
00:35:00.80\00:35:02.60
because they are the
stragglers in the back.
00:35:02.63\00:35:05.67
They're the ones
that we don't notice.
00:35:05.70\00:35:07.90
They're ones in the back.
00:35:07.94\00:35:09.30
So when Satan ambushes them,
00:35:09.34\00:35:11.27
they're not strong
enough to maintain.
00:35:11.31\00:35:14.44
Your worship has to be deep,
00:35:14.48\00:35:16.68
personal inter-relationship
with God almighty.
00:35:16.71\00:35:20.32
Amen.
00:35:20.35\00:35:23.39
We worship in
order to engage with God,
00:35:23.42\00:35:26.65
to seek out His faith,
His plans for our lives,
00:35:26.69\00:35:29.42
not to tell Him what we
want and expect Him to do it.
00:35:29.46\00:35:31.99
We wonder why,
00:35:38.40\00:35:40.10
we don't have the fortitude
to make it through the trials.
00:35:40.14\00:35:43.44
Because our
worship needs to be deeper,
00:35:43.47\00:35:46.64
our worship
relationship with God
00:35:46.68\00:35:48.38
needs to be seeking his face.
00:35:48.41\00:35:51.31
And when we do
that, then God's power,
00:35:51.35\00:35:54.62
God's strength
will envelop our lives,
00:35:54.65\00:35:57.42
and then we can
withstand the trials.
00:35:57.45\00:35:59.19
Amen. Amen.
00:35:59.22\00:36:00.56
And the tribulations.
00:36:00.59\00:36:03.26
To fight a war, to fight a
war, and this is war, amen.
00:36:03.29\00:36:08.90
Its war, when you're Christian.
00:36:08.93\00:36:10.57
Satan has
declared war against you.
00:36:10.60\00:36:13.84
This is war. You
must have weapons.
00:36:13.87\00:36:18.24
Satan has all kinds
of crafty subtle ways
00:36:18.27\00:36:22.28
to infiltrate our lives,
00:36:22.31\00:36:24.41
and to launch his
simple war weaponry against us.
00:36:24.45\00:36:28.72
We live in the
"I" culture, don't we?
00:36:28.75\00:36:32.42
We got the iPhone,
the iPad, the iBook,
00:36:32.45\00:36:34.26
the I life, the I world.
00:36:34.29\00:36:36.69
It's all about
me. It's "I" life.
00:36:36.73\00:36:40.10
And we look at this,
00:36:40.13\00:36:41.50
and we are just steeped
in this American culture.
00:36:41.53\00:36:45.30
And there are
Amalekites all around us.
00:36:45.33\00:36:49.80
There are
Amalekites all around us,
00:36:49.84\00:36:52.61
and we don't mind any more.
00:36:52.64\00:36:54.41
We kind of like the Amalekites.
00:36:54.44\00:36:56.88
We don't have a
problem with the Amalekites,
00:36:56.91\00:36:59.61
because we live in a
culture of creeping compromise.
00:36:59.65\00:37:05.89
Look at what we
look or at on TV.
00:37:05.92\00:37:11.16
Reality TV has just
completely changed our culture.
00:37:11.19\00:37:16.46
And things like pride,
selfishness, materialism,
00:37:16.50\00:37:20.30
greed, anger, I have
never seen such careless,
00:37:20.34\00:37:24.01
ruckus women in my
life as on reality TV,
00:37:24.04\00:37:29.11
and our young women
are emulating these people.
00:37:29.14\00:37:33.75
We have got to do something...
00:37:33.78\00:37:35.58
Okay, at the moment
I'm so block, I'm sorry.
00:37:35.62\00:37:37.22
We have got to do something
00:37:37.25\00:37:39.62
about what we allow
our children to watch.
00:37:39.65\00:37:42.29
Greed, anger, lying, lust,
gossip, adultery, pornography
00:37:42.32\00:37:48.00
all of these things have become
acceptable social behaviors.
00:37:48.03\00:37:53.50
The next day, after school...
00:37:53.54\00:37:56.17
my girlfriends and I--
00:37:59.64\00:38:01.28
and so the first
thing we had to do
00:38:01.31\00:38:03.08
was get our hair cornrow,
00:38:03.11\00:38:04.51
back in the day,
you remember that?
00:38:04.55\00:38:06.51
We had to get
our hair cornrowed.
00:38:06.55\00:38:09.05
Now the second thing
women are gonna do in a fight
00:38:09.08\00:38:11.95
is they're gonna
mess your face up.
00:38:11.99\00:38:15.59
They're gonna scratch
you, and leave you scarred,
00:38:15.62\00:38:18.46
and that's humiliating.
00:38:18.49\00:38:20.10
You can't go to school
the next day with scar.
00:38:20.13\00:38:22.10
So back then, we had
to use petroleum jelly.
00:38:22.13\00:38:25.33
Hey, someone know
what I'm talking about,
00:38:25.37\00:38:27.84
that's you need to
slap that stuff on,
00:38:27.87\00:38:30.91
'cause you didn't want
them to scratch your face.
00:38:30.94\00:38:34.48
Now the other thing,
00:38:34.51\00:38:35.84
I told you, I went
to public school, right?
00:38:35.88\00:38:38.01
The thing they're gonna
do is rip your jewelry out,
00:38:38.05\00:38:41.62
or have on the
biggest rings you ever saw.
00:38:41.65\00:38:44.75
Some people have been in
the street fight, I see it.
00:38:44.79\00:38:48.56
Put on the biggest
rings you ever saw,
00:38:48.59\00:38:50.73
and punch you with those rings.
00:38:50.76\00:38:52.99
Now I was like David,
I opted out of the armor,
00:38:53.03\00:38:55.36
didn't need the jewelry,
00:38:55.40\00:38:56.73
'cause my girlfriends
had on all these jewelry.
00:38:56.77\00:38:58.43
Said, "I don't
need the jewelry."
00:38:58.47\00:38:59.83
But they were
getting the jewelry ready
00:38:59.87\00:39:01.47
for the fight.
00:39:01.50\00:39:02.84
Now the other
thing you need to do,
00:39:02.87\00:39:04.47
when you're gonna
be a girl in a fight
00:39:04.51\00:39:06.21
is you got to put
on a lot of clothes,
00:39:06.24\00:39:08.44
'cause they're gonna
rip your clothes off,
00:39:08.48\00:39:12.55
and expose you
to the neighborhood.
00:39:12.58\00:39:15.45
So you got to have
on layers and layers
00:39:15.48\00:39:18.09
and layers of clothes.
00:39:18.12\00:39:19.45
And then the final
thing you have to do,
00:39:19.49\00:39:21.62
when you are in a street fight,
00:39:21.66\00:39:23.12
is you got to have
on the right shoes.
00:39:23.16\00:39:26.03
Somebody is talking
about the armor, right,
00:39:26.06\00:39:27.80
you got to have
on the right shoes.
00:39:27.83\00:39:29.53
And see you can't be cute
with the heels on that day,
00:39:29.56\00:39:32.23
and me, I was planning to
run, so I had to have sneakers.
00:39:32.27\00:39:35.54
So there is a ritual
and you must prepare,
00:39:38.57\00:39:42.41
and you need the right
weapons to be in a fight
00:39:42.44\00:39:46.11
and to have warfare.
00:39:46.15\00:39:47.48
You with me today? Okay. Yes.
00:39:47.52\00:39:49.65
So the question is,
how can we be prepared
00:39:49.68\00:39:53.15
if we are Christians
in a warfare with Satan,
00:39:53.19\00:39:56.46
how can we be prepared to fight?
00:39:56.49\00:39:59.73
What are the weapons,
and what is the ritual,
00:39:59.76\00:40:03.23
that allows us to fight Satan?
00:40:03.26\00:40:06.60
Come on now, 'cause we need
to aim our war weapons at him.
00:40:06.63\00:40:11.07
So let's look at God's
war weapon in the second text
00:40:11.11\00:40:14.54
that was read today.
00:40:14.58\00:40:15.91
Exodus 25:8-9,
00:40:15.94\00:40:19.98
Exodus 25:8-9, it says,
00:40:20.02\00:40:26.76
"And let them
make me a sanctuary,
00:40:26.79\00:40:30.13
that I may dwell among them,
00:40:30.16\00:40:33.96
according to
all that I show you,
00:40:34.00\00:40:36.90
that is the
pattern of the tabernacle,
00:40:36.93\00:40:39.83
and the pattern
of its furnishings,
00:40:39.87\00:40:42.44
just so shall you make it."
00:40:42.47\00:40:45.54
So God's war weapons
are lost from his sanctuary,
00:40:45.57\00:40:49.74
where there is a pattern,
and a ritual for worship.
00:40:49.78\00:40:54.38
Now God's word
weapons that he gives to us
00:40:54.42\00:40:57.45
is praise and worship.
00:40:57.49\00:40:59.89
God gives us praise and worship
00:40:59.92\00:41:03.26
as our war
weapons to combat Satan.
00:41:03.29\00:41:06.46
You see, because
when you are worshipping,
00:41:06.49\00:41:08.50
you're in the presence of God.
00:41:08.53\00:41:10.20
And that means
that God feels you,
00:41:10.23\00:41:12.50
and when you praise Him,
00:41:12.53\00:41:13.97
we know we inhabits our praises,
00:41:14.00\00:41:15.97
so that means that
God's presence is with you
00:41:16.00\00:41:18.41
and therefore
demons have to flee.
00:41:18.44\00:41:21.61
They cannot launch their weapons
00:41:26.82\00:41:29.35
against you.
00:41:29.38\00:41:31.19
So God's war weapons
are praise and worship.
00:41:31.22\00:41:33.92
And there is a proper
pattern for praise and worship.
00:41:33.96\00:41:37.33
Praise is the
gateway to worship.
00:41:37.36\00:41:40.16
Praise is what?
00:41:40.20\00:41:41.53
Gateway-- To worship.
00:41:41.56\00:41:42.90
Praise is the
gateway to worship.
00:41:42.93\00:41:45.67
God gives us praise and worship
to wage war against Satan,
00:41:45.70\00:41:50.11
not war against each other.
00:41:50.14\00:41:53.88
Amen.
00:41:53.91\00:41:55.91
The first mode of praise
is, offering a sacrifice.
00:41:55.94\00:42:00.38
Back in the Bible times,
they had to kill a bull or goat
00:42:00.42\00:42:05.15
all that drag
something to the altar.
00:42:05.19\00:42:07.52
Today hallelujah, Romans
12:1, we offer ourselves.
00:42:07.56\00:42:10.86
The second mode of
praise is physical movement.
00:42:10.89\00:42:14.33
What is it? Physical movement.
00:42:14.36\00:42:15.86
Physical movement.
00:42:15.90\00:42:17.53
So when you are in worship,
00:42:17.57\00:42:19.47
and you stand to
read a scripture,
00:42:19.50\00:42:21.40
what is that?
00:42:21.44\00:42:23.14
When you're in worship
00:42:23.17\00:42:24.51
and you kneel down
to read a scripture,
00:42:24.54\00:42:25.94
what is that?
00:42:25.97\00:42:27.48
When you're in
worship, and you bow your head,
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what is that?
00:42:29.51\00:42:31.21
There are also other
kinds of physical movement,
00:42:31.25\00:42:33.18
you can clap your hands.
00:42:33.21\00:42:34.92
In Psalms 47:1,
and in Nehemiah 8,
00:42:34.95\00:42:38.35
it shows you standing
and sitting and bowing,
00:42:38.39\00:42:40.79
they're all physical movements.
00:42:40.82\00:42:42.39
Clapping, Psalms 47:1
is a physical movement,
00:42:42.42\00:42:45.86
Psalms 96:5,
00:42:45.89\00:42:47.50
bowing and
kneeling, physical movement.
00:42:47.53\00:42:49.66
2 Samuel's 6:14-16,
00:42:49.70\00:42:52.10
dancing, leaping,
whirling, physical movement.
00:42:52.13\00:42:54.84
Psalms 63:4, 1 Timothy 2,
00:42:54.87\00:42:57.87
lifting our
hands, physical movement.
00:42:57.91\00:43:01.18
Now you don't
have to do all of them,
00:43:01.21\00:43:03.08
and every church doesn't
have to participate in each one.
00:43:03.11\00:43:05.98
But why we're fighting about it?
00:43:06.01\00:43:07.72
Amen.
00:43:07.75\00:43:09.08
If you go to the church,
get stands when they read,
00:43:15.49\00:43:18.69
hallelujah, physical movement.
00:43:18.73\00:43:21.10
And if you go to the church
that claps when they sing,
00:43:21.13\00:43:23.77
hallelujah, physical movement.
00:43:23.80\00:43:26.00
But is God the focus?
00:43:26.03\00:43:30.91
Because that's what
determines. Yeah. Amen.
00:43:30.94\00:43:35.11
Because if it's all
about us and what we do
00:43:35.14\00:43:37.71
that God's not
hearing that anyway.
00:43:37.75\00:43:40.65
The most beautiful
music that we can sing,
00:43:40.68\00:43:43.82
the most glorious
sounds of the anthem
00:43:43.85\00:43:46.92
and the operatic voice.
00:43:46.96\00:43:48.52
If God is not
feeling that sound,
00:43:48.56\00:43:50.96
it is noise before His throne.
00:43:50.99\00:43:54.10
So we have to stop
judging one and other,
00:43:57.30\00:44:00.47
and allowing ourselves
00:44:00.50\00:44:02.24
to understand the
biblical knowledge
00:44:02.27\00:44:04.71
and understanding of worship,
and stop fighting each other
00:44:04.74\00:44:07.88
and aiming these
weapons at Satan,
00:44:07.91\00:44:10.21
where they belong.
00:44:10.25\00:44:13.48
Third one,
silence and meditation.
00:44:13.52\00:44:17.59
Silence and meditation.
00:44:17.62\00:44:22.06
We go to churches and we
say, it's too dead in there,
00:44:22.09\00:44:24.06
it's too silent, I
can't worship in there.
00:44:24.09\00:44:25.83
Silence is the form of worship.
00:44:25.86\00:44:29.50
You need to take
time to hear God's voice.
00:44:29.53\00:44:33.03
You need to take time
to meditate on His word.
00:44:33.07\00:44:36.54
Psalm 77:12 tell
you, silence is necessary.
00:44:36.57\00:44:40.58
Psalm 119, silence
is part of worship.
00:44:40.61\00:44:44.85
You go to some churches,
00:44:44.88\00:44:46.21
there is never a
minute of silence.
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Well, testimonies
are mode of worship.
00:44:48.55\00:44:50.49
2 Chronicles 16:9, Psalm 66:16,
00:44:50.52\00:44:54.92
I'm not telling you
without the bridges things,
00:44:54.96\00:44:56.93
I'm giving you the word of God.
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Amen.
00:44:58.43\00:44:59.76
Testimony is
the mode of worship.
00:44:59.79\00:45:02.13
Prayer is the mode of worship.
00:45:02.16\00:45:04.07
Isaiah 56:7,
Matthew 23:13, God said,
00:45:04.10\00:45:07.60
"My house will be a house
of prayer for all people."
00:45:07.64\00:45:09.97
It is a mode of worship.
00:45:10.01\00:45:11.54
A holy life is
a mode of worship.
00:45:11.57\00:45:15.14
We're worshiping, worshiping,
worshiping all the time.
00:45:15.18\00:45:17.35
This is my praise team leader
00:45:17.38\00:45:18.71
and they're just
worshipping all the time.
00:45:18.75\00:45:20.08
And then they're leaving it
00:45:20.12\00:45:21.45
a meanest person in your church.
00:45:21.48\00:45:22.82
If you're involved in
worship and it's serious,
00:45:26.32\00:45:28.79
you would be transformed.
00:45:28.82\00:45:31.23
Nobody goes into the
presence of God and Jesus Christ
00:45:31.26\00:45:34.46
and comes back out the same.
00:45:34.50\00:45:37.37
Something in you
would have to change.
00:45:37.40\00:45:39.63
Even if it's incremental,
something would have to change.
00:45:39.67\00:45:43.14
And so the fruit of
worship is also a holy life.
00:45:43.17\00:45:49.58
These are forms of worship,
00:45:49.61\00:45:51.71
but finally and you
see that in 1 Peter 3:9
00:45:51.75\00:45:55.62
and in Hebrews 12:14
00:45:55.65\00:45:57.92
that the mode of worship,
form of worship is a holy life.
00:45:57.95\00:46:01.29
But finally, music, the seventh,
00:46:01.32\00:46:05.49
is a form of worship.
00:46:05.53\00:46:07.33
Praise is most
invariably linked to music,
00:46:07.36\00:46:10.23
both instrumental and vocal.
00:46:10.27\00:46:12.23
References to
music in the Bible,
00:46:12.27\00:46:14.57
44 out of the 66 books in
the Bible reference music.
00:46:14.60\00:46:19.37
The Book of Psalms,
00:46:19.41\00:46:20.74
the largest book in the
Bible is God's personal hymnal.
00:46:20.78\00:46:24.11
Music is God's
choice for worship.
00:46:27.88\00:46:31.29
It continues incessantly
at his throne, music.
00:46:31.32\00:46:35.66
Psalms 69:30, Psalms
150:3-5 and 2 Chronicles 7:6,
00:46:35.69\00:46:41.43
is a form of worship.
00:46:41.46\00:46:43.43
But too many of
us worship the music,
00:46:46.87\00:46:49.30
and not the Master.
00:46:49.34\00:46:53.31
Too many of us worship the music
00:46:53.34\00:46:56.64
and not the Master.
00:46:56.68\00:46:59.91
When we engage regularly
00:46:59.95\00:47:02.12
and praise is a
part of our daily ritual,
00:47:02.15\00:47:04.69
it is God's weapon
to fight against Satan.
00:47:04.72\00:47:09.59
You see when your
life is filled with praise,
00:47:09.62\00:47:12.23
and these hardships
come into your life,
00:47:12.26\00:47:14.53
it's a hardship,
it's a difficulty,
00:47:14.56\00:47:16.83
but you take it differently,
00:47:16.87\00:47:20.94
because you are
involved with the Master,
00:47:20.97\00:47:23.54
and you see the divine purpose.
00:47:23.57\00:47:25.87
And you can summit yourself
to whatever like Joe said,
00:47:25.91\00:47:29.74
"Though he slay me,
yet will I trust him."
00:47:29.78\00:47:33.28
Ellen G. White,
says in her writings
00:47:33.31\00:47:34.92
in Gospel Workers,
00:47:34.95\00:47:36.69
"The human heart, uncontrolled
by the Spirit of God,
00:47:36.72\00:47:40.52
is void of the
meekness of Christ,
00:47:40.56\00:47:44.23
but loves to
battle for the truth.
00:47:44.26\00:47:47.86
Those who are proclaiming
God's message to the world
00:47:47.90\00:47:50.73
must not be captious or
critical or overbearing.
00:47:50.77\00:47:54.70
They should not be too free
to criticize or condemn others.
00:47:54.74\00:47:58.07
They should be careful
not to let the words wound,
00:47:58.11\00:48:02.24
but should led
pure biblical truth
00:48:02.28\00:48:05.78
cut its way to the heart."
00:48:05.81\00:48:10.09
So let's quickly
look at the biblical truth
00:48:10.12\00:48:12.99
of the pattern of the sanctuary.
00:48:13.02\00:48:15.42
The sanctuary is
God's blueprint for worship.
00:48:15.46\00:48:21.16
The sanctuary is what?
God's blueprint for worship.
00:48:21.20\00:48:23.03
It's God's
blueprint for worship.
00:48:23.06\00:48:25.23
The sanctuary
service of ancient times
00:48:25.27\00:48:28.00
is the cornerstone
of the musical motif
00:48:28.04\00:48:31.71
of today's
contemporary praise of worship.
00:48:31.74\00:48:34.98
So the sanctuary
service of ancient times
00:48:35.01\00:48:38.51
is a model of today's
praise and worship service.
00:48:38.55\00:48:43.89
Now Judson Cornwall,
00:48:43.92\00:48:45.75
who is a
Pentecostal worship writer
00:48:45.79\00:48:48.22
from the late '70s
and '80s promoted the idea
00:48:48.26\00:48:53.16
that the worship
leader can take the people
00:48:53.19\00:48:56.70
on a musical worship journey
00:48:56.73\00:48:59.33
that mirrors the
journey into the holy of holies
00:48:59.37\00:49:02.60
or the most holy place.
00:49:02.64\00:49:05.87
At every point, and he
used Psalms 100 as his model.
00:49:05.91\00:49:10.15
Then later he said, first,
must know where the people are,
00:49:10.18\00:49:16.08
where he wants or
she wants to take them
00:49:16.12\00:49:18.85
and then when they've arrived.
00:49:18.89\00:49:21.19
So in order to know that,
00:49:21.22\00:49:22.89
you have to understand
the needs of the people.
00:49:22.92\00:49:28.36
Now there are three areas
00:49:28.40\00:49:29.73
we know of that
comprise a sanctuary,
00:49:29.76\00:49:31.43
the outer court.
00:49:31.47\00:49:33.23
And the outer
court had an open space
00:49:33.27\00:49:35.87
that was enclosed by gate
00:49:35.90\00:49:37.57
and this area
contained the brazen altar
00:49:37.61\00:49:39.91
of burnt offering,
00:49:39.94\00:49:41.54
which was
closest to the entrance.
00:49:41.58\00:49:43.48
And then between
the altar and the door
00:49:43.51\00:49:44.98
was a tabernacle
with the bronze laver
00:49:45.01\00:49:47.82
and with bronze
laver was made from mirrors
00:49:47.85\00:49:50.89
that was given by the women.
00:49:50.92\00:49:52.55
And the bronze laver
00:49:52.59\00:49:53.92
was where the priest washed
their hands and their feet.
00:49:53.96\00:49:56.22
So it was made by mirrors,
00:49:56.26\00:49:57.79
because you
need to see your sins
00:49:57.83\00:49:59.66
before you want
to be cleansed out.
00:49:59.69\00:50:01.03
Amen.
00:50:01.06\00:50:03.80
So the first phase
00:50:03.83\00:50:05.90
in this five phase musical model
00:50:05.93\00:50:08.87
is that, when you
enter into the sanctuary,
00:50:08.90\00:50:12.14
the outer court and
you're just so thankful,
00:50:12.17\00:50:14.84
that you can be
cleansed of your sin,
00:50:14.88\00:50:16.75
and that Christ
was the sacrifice.
00:50:16.78\00:50:19.05
The first phase is
songs of personal testimony
00:50:19.08\00:50:21.65
in the camp or jubilation.
00:50:21.68\00:50:24.35
Songs of
jubilation, love lifted me,
00:50:24.39\00:50:27.06
songs of jubilation.
00:50:27.09\00:50:28.86
The second phase is through
the gates with thanksgiving,
00:50:28.89\00:50:33.03
so songs of thanksgiving,
00:50:33.06\00:50:35.20
through the gates
with thanksgiving.
00:50:35.23\00:50:36.87
And the third phase, we enter
into his courts with praise.
00:50:36.90\00:50:41.54
So that's the musical model.
00:50:41.57\00:50:43.64
Then you have
the two apartments,
00:50:43.67\00:50:45.47
the holy place, and
the most holy place.
00:50:45.51\00:50:47.84
And in the holy place, we
know was a table of showbread,
00:50:47.88\00:50:50.71
the golden lampstand
with a seven candlesticks,
00:50:50.75\00:50:53.11
the altar of incense.
00:50:53.15\00:50:54.85
And then there was
also the altar of incense
00:50:54.88\00:50:57.55
where the horns
were sprinkled with blood
00:50:57.59\00:50:59.05
and this is before the veil.
00:50:59.09\00:51:00.89
Now in that, in the holy
place, the fourth phase is all,
00:51:00.92\00:51:05.76
because in that place
00:51:05.79\00:51:07.23
where the prayers
of the saints go up.
00:51:07.26\00:51:09.90
The candle is the Holy Spirit,
00:51:09.93\00:51:12.20
you're in awe that
Christ can dwell within you.
00:51:12.23\00:51:15.94
So the musical
motif is one of all,
00:51:15.97\00:51:18.91
and then the final,
00:51:18.94\00:51:20.54
when you go into
the most holy place.
00:51:20.58\00:51:22.78
And you're taking
them on a musical journey
00:51:22.81\00:51:25.01
where you see the
Ark of the Covenant
00:51:25.05\00:51:26.88
where the presence of God is,
is falling down in adoration.
00:51:26.92\00:51:31.95
For the presence of
God, so it's the adoration.
00:51:31.99\00:51:35.72
So the musical,
the sanctuary message
00:51:35.76\00:51:39.06
has a modern
application for today.
00:51:39.09\00:51:42.60
We as spiritual Levites,
we as those, the last day,
00:51:42.63\00:51:46.17
the remnant church will worship
00:51:46.20\00:51:47.54
is the core of
our remnant message.
00:51:47.57\00:51:49.87
We need to understand worship,
00:51:49.90\00:51:52.04
and we need to be
the ones out there,
00:51:52.07\00:51:53.91
sharing the
message without the phase.
00:51:53.94\00:51:56.44
Amen.
00:51:56.48\00:51:58.61
Not squabbling
against one another.
00:51:58.65\00:52:00.82
Now you may say, now
the bridges, I don't know.
00:52:04.85\00:52:09.02
I don't believe
what you just said
00:52:09.06\00:52:10.39
about praise and worship music.
00:52:10.43\00:52:12.26
I don't believe that
music can be a weapon
00:52:12.29\00:52:16.06
to fight a war against Satan.
00:52:16.10\00:52:18.00
Well, I tell you then ask David,
00:52:18.03\00:52:20.60
because when King
David played his heart
00:52:20.64\00:52:23.34
and Saul was
filled with the demon.
00:52:23.37\00:52:25.74
The demon had to flee.
00:52:25.77\00:52:29.04
Well, you say I don't know,
Elder Bridges I don't know,
00:52:29.08\00:52:32.61
because that still
doesn't mean anything to me.
00:52:32.65\00:52:34.78
Well, ask
Joshua, because Joshua,
00:52:34.82\00:52:37.45
the Lord didn't even
tell him to fight the war.
00:52:37.49\00:52:39.82
He just said,
"Blow the trumpet."
00:52:39.85\00:52:41.49
And the walls came falling down.
00:52:41.52\00:52:45.26
I don't know, you say,
00:52:45.29\00:52:46.63
it still doesn't
seem like proof enough.
00:52:46.66\00:52:48.16
Well, ask Jehoshaphat
00:52:48.20\00:52:50.07
because he just sent
out the Levites to sing.
00:52:50.10\00:52:53.07
And the Lord sent
ambushes among the armies.
00:52:53.10\00:52:56.20
But finally Jesus Christ says
00:52:56.24\00:52:58.11
that when He
conquer sin and dead,
00:52:58.14\00:53:00.04
the trump shall sound the
dead in Christ shall rise.
00:53:00.08\00:53:04.78
And then sin, dead and
hell will be blotted out.
00:53:04.81\00:53:08.15
We need to
understand that this is a war,
00:53:13.59\00:53:18.49
and that musical worship
is a weapon to fight Satan,
00:53:18.53\00:53:23.16
not each other.
00:53:23.20\00:53:25.90
And I don't know if
you have a piano player,
00:53:25.93\00:53:27.27
that will be good.
00:53:27.30\00:53:30.51
The next day we
made it to the cemetery.
00:53:30.54\00:53:36.61
We had on all our gear,
00:53:36.64\00:53:39.71
we were dressed to fight.
00:53:39.75\00:53:43.82
And as we were walking
in to this huge cemetery
00:53:43.85\00:53:47.96
around the corner from my house.
00:53:47.99\00:53:51.33
All I could think to
myself is Lord, Jesus,
00:53:51.36\00:53:55.36
my parents are gonna kill me.
00:53:55.40\00:53:57.40
and unfortunately,
00:54:00.47\00:54:03.57
as I was walking
to that cemetery,
00:54:03.61\00:54:09.71
the only
Christian among my friends,
00:54:09.74\00:54:14.68
I should have been
the one to convince them
00:54:14.72\00:54:17.35
that this was foolish.
00:54:17.39\00:54:19.52
I should not have succumbed
to temptation and trials
00:54:19.55\00:54:23.86
but I did.
00:54:23.89\00:54:26.09
And while we were
walking to that cemetery,
00:54:26.13\00:54:30.77
I kept thinking to myself,
00:54:30.80\00:54:32.37
"Lord, how can You
get me out of this.
00:54:32.40\00:54:34.94
This is gonna be a mess.
00:54:34.97\00:54:37.84
And when we
arrived at the cemetery,
00:54:37.87\00:54:40.54
there was already a
crowd that had gathered.
00:54:40.58\00:54:43.85
Because all other
people in my neighborhood
00:54:43.88\00:54:46.21
had come to see what was
gonna happen during this fight.
00:54:46.25\00:54:50.59
And we were standing there
00:54:50.62\00:54:52.59
waiting for
either blows to be thrown
00:54:52.62\00:54:56.12
or for something to happen.
00:54:56.16\00:54:58.59
And suddenly, as I
looked further in the distance,
00:54:58.63\00:55:03.63
there was another
crowd of people coming.
00:55:03.67\00:55:06.80
You see I attended
the junior high school
00:55:06.84\00:55:10.77
from seventh to ninth grade,
00:55:10.81\00:55:12.87
but most of us, myself
and my girlfriends included,
00:55:12.91\00:55:17.28
we had siblings
in the high school.
00:55:17.31\00:55:20.88
and you see,
although we made a pact,
00:55:20.92\00:55:23.89
not to tell our
sisters the word got out
00:55:23.92\00:55:27.36
that there was gonna be
a fight at the junior high.
00:55:27.39\00:55:30.03
So as we look in the distance,
we saw our sisters coming.
00:55:30.06\00:55:36.03
And they were ninth graders,
they weren't seventh graders.
00:55:36.06\00:55:39.83
So they were big and
they were dressed in war gear,
00:55:39.87\00:55:44.34
their hair was braided,
00:55:44.37\00:55:45.87
and their faces were
slavered with Vaseline,
00:55:45.91\00:55:48.54
and they had on extra cloth,
00:55:48.58\00:55:50.35
'cause they
were coming to fight.
00:55:50.38\00:55:53.48
And suddenly the girls from
Turtle Hook changed their mind.
00:55:53.52\00:56:00.02
They didn't feel the
need to fight that day,
00:56:00.06\00:56:02.72
and not a blow was thrown.
00:56:02.76\00:56:05.09
Amen.
00:56:05.13\00:56:06.46
Because you see, our advisory
knew we had an advocate,
00:56:06.49\00:56:10.53
that was coming to our rescue.
00:56:10.57\00:56:13.03
You see, when you
worship and praise God.
00:56:13.07\00:56:17.24
God knows you have an advocate
who comes to your rescue.
00:56:17.27\00:56:22.31
You no longer
have to fight Satan.
00:56:22.34\00:56:24.91
Jesus Christ shows up Himself
00:56:24.95\00:56:28.15
and fights the
war on your behalf.
00:56:28.18\00:56:30.95
We no longer need to tussle
and to wrestle with Satan,
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because we will lose the war.
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But Jesus Christ is
a victor every time.
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Amen, amen.
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And so my plea to
you is simple today.
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Let's stop fighting one another.
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Let's ask God to fill
our lives, and our hearts,
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and our minds with
His biblical worship.
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Let's not talk about preference.
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Let's talk about God's presence.
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And let's fill ourselves
with a holy word of God
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and His worship principles.
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If you want to make
that commitment today,
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just raise your hand.
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The angel see you,
just raise your hand.
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Hallelujah.
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