Hello, friends.
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Welcome to 3ABN
Sabbath School Panel.
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My name is John Lomacang.
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I wanna thank you
for taking the time
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to tune in to join us,
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we always enjoy
your participation.
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We are talking about Education
for this fourth quarter lesson.
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And today's specifically
is Worship and Education,
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what you need to
join us as a Bible
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and a Sabbath School lesson.
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If you'd like to
get a copy of the lesson
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two ways you can get it.
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One, you can download
one at ABSG.Adventist.org.
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That's for the digital copy.
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Or if you
prefer a physical copy,
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look for a local
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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and walk in and join
them for an exciting walk
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through the Word of God.
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Education is
something we all need
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and worship is the highest offer
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that we can give to the Lord.
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So join us right now
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as we dive in the
Word of God together
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on our 3ABN
Sabbath School Panel.
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Hello, friends.
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Welcome to 3ABN
Sabbath School Panel.
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I'm John Lomacang.
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Thank you for taking the
time to tune in and join us.
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Today, we're talking
about Worship in Education.
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Now worship spans a number
of different subcategories,
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but worship is
the supreme category
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because every one of
us worships something.
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And we're gonna find out today,
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what category you
might possibly fit into.
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So all you need is a
Bible and some time to join us.
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And thank you for
deciding to make us
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the Sabbath School
Lesson Study of your choice.
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We do appreciate that.
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Today, I have my
family with me again.
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And I know that you,
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if you are a regular
you know these names,
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but if you're just joining us,
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I'd like to introduce you
to those who are on our panel
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to walk you through.
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To my immediate left
is Vice President of 3ABN,
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Jill Morikone.
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Good to have you here, Jill.
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Privilege to be here.
Thank you, Pastor John.
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But today you're in
a different capacity.
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You're the list lady today.
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Yeah, I think so.
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If you don't know her title,
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that's her
subtitle, the list lady.
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And you'll find out
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how much we
appreciate those lists.
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Ryan, good to
see you here today.
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Man, I'm
blessed. Good to be here.
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Pastor and singer in
Israel and the newest member,
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it's gonna be a while
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before you're not
the newest member,
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but hey, we
appreciate you anyway.
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You know, I'm not technically
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the new Jason
Bradley's been on here
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and he's kind of the new guy.
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I'm the second newest I guess.
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Okay. All right.
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But that's okay.
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And, Shelley Quinn.
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Good to see you, Shelley.
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It's so good to be here.
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Yes.
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It's always a blessing
to open the Word of God
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and to hear what
everyone has to share.
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Yes. Okay.
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And, Pastor Dinzey, we
share something in common,
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the name, John.
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Yes. Good to have you here.
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Thank you. It's a
blessing to be here.
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And I'm looking forward to it.
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He's head of 3ABN Latino
who's done an amazing job.
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I think he's the
veteran on the panel today.
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He's been here
longer than all of us.
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That's right.
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And it's been
about 30 years almost?
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Almost 31. Almost 31. Wow.
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Good to have you here
today, man of the Word.
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And we thank you for
tuning is taking the time.
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Would you have
prayer for us today, John?
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Sure. Okay, let's do that.
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Our loving Heavenly Father,
we are grateful to You, Lord,
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because You have
given us this day of life.
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We are grateful to You, Lord,
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because we can
open the scriptures
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with the confidence
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that Your Holy Spirit
will guide us into all truth.
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So we ask for Your Holy Spirit,
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that You may use us
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according to Your good pleasure.
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We also ask that You will bless
everyone that is joining us.
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Help them also to understand
and see wonderful things
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in Your scriptures.
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In Jesus' name. Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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We all worship something.
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Now years ago, I used to
say if you wanna find out
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what people worship,
look at their checkbook,
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but who use checkbooks anymore?
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Some people still do.
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Once in a while
somebody might say to me,
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write me a check.
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And that sends
me into a tailspin
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because I'm starting to forget
what a checkbook looks like,
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but if you wanna find
out what people worship,
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maybe you might look at
their credit card statement
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or maybe you might
look at their phones
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to see there's a
new thing on Apple.
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Many of you
probably know about this.
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It's called Screen Time,
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and will tell you
how long you've been
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on a particular
app on your phone.
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And I would hate to say
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that if you look at
some people's phones
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that have that feature turned on
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you'll say, "Ah!
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They've in Facebook
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a lot longer they've been
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in their Bible Ellen White app."
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Something always
pulls our attention.
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And it tends to take
precedence over the place
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that belongs to the Lord alone.
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Our memory text is
in 1 Chronicles 16:29.
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I'll read that in your hearing,
if you'd like to join us there.
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This is a beautiful passage.
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The Bible tells us
in 1 Chronicles 16:29,
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"Give to the Lord
the glory due His name,
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bring an offering,
and come before Him.
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Oh, worship the
Lord in the," what panel?
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Beauty.
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"Beauty of holiness."
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For whatever reason,
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Satan has tried to paint
holiness as an ugly thing,
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or worship as a terrible thing.
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Sometimes
people approach worship
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as what do I have to give up?
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Well, when you recognize
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that the greatest
beauty and greatest joy
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is in the experience of worship,
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it is something
you'd wanna haste to,
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something you'd
wanna do with an exuberance
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and a joy looking forward to it.
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When you look at
the Jewish culture,
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they would prepare
for Sabbath worship,
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and they would
begin on Wednesday.
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So they wouldn't
wait till Friday,
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the preparation day,
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they would be done
by the preparation day
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because they
literally celebrated
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the Sabbath, Sabbath worship.
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People today tend to decide
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to pick the day
they wanna worship,
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but the reality of it is,
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we'll find it in
a newer translation
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of a particular book,
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I'll share with
you in a moment here,
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that worship is not something
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that happens on a
only on a particular day,
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but when you become a Christian,
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you're worshiping
the Lord all the time.
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Everything you do
is an act of worship
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towards the Lord,
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but I wanna share with
you worship in the noun sense
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and in the verb sense.
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In the noun,
worship is the feeling
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or expression of reverence
and adoration for a deity,
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the freedom the feeling
or expression of reverence
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and adoration for a deity.
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And so, yes, it should bring
a sense of awe and reverence
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when we are in the
presence of the Lord,
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but feeling
shouldn't be the primary focus.
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Sometimes people make
feeling the primary focus,
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and they would
listen to a message
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that's replete
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with beautiful
examples of Christ
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and what we should do,
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but some people say,
"Well, I didn't feel that."
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Well, the caution is,
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while the word feeling is
included in this definition,
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don't allow feeling
to be the primary focus
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of your worship.
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The verb is also to
show reverence and adoration
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for a deity
through a religious ritual,
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and that ritual will be worship.
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Worship is a part of humanity,
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it's a part of everybody's life.
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It's a part of human nature.
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Everybody has something
that naturally draws them,
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but wrongly understood
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it could draw them to something
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that they might
consider worship,
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when in fact,
it's just an addiction.
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Some people do
things out of what they call
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a repetitious clock.
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Some people go to church,
because their parents did,
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and their parents, parents
did, and so on and so forth,
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but they never make
a connection to the one
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that they're
supposed to worship.
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So some people know
their doctrines back and forth,
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even in our
church 28 fundamentals,
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some people can
recite them back and forth,
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but they've
never come to the place
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where they are beyond intellect
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to where their heart is filled
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with a desire to
worship the Lord.
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Worship, another definition
is whatever we love the most,
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whatever we focus on the most
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and give our
attention to the most,
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whatever we live for
that is what we worship,
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but when you look at the Bible
worship is mentioned 197 times
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in varying ways of
worship, worshiping.
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And I thought,
"Wow, that's a lot."
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You find that worship
is a very primary thing,
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but go to Genesis 22:5-8,
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and I'll show you
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one of the core
truths about worship.
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It's found
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in the very first reference
of worship in the Bible,
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one of the first
references about worship,
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the core truth about
worship is listed here.
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Verse 5 of Genesis 22,
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it speaks about
Abraham and Isaac.
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"And Abraham
said to his young men,
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'Stay here with the donkey.'"
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By the way, the
Lord impressed him
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to go ahead and
sacrifice his son Isaac.
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So he's journeying now
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to this place where
the Lord told him to go,
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he's going now to
the place of sacrifice.
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And the Bible says,
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"The lad and I will
go yonder and worship,
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and we will come back to you.'
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So Abraham took the
wood and the burnt offering
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and laid it on Isaac his son,
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and he took the fire
in his hand, and a knife,
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and the two of
them went together.
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But Isaac spoke to
Abraham his father and said,
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'My father!'
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And he said, 'Here I am my son.'
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Then he said, 'Look,
the fire and the wood,
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but where is the lamb
for a burnt offering?' "
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And I love this.
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"And Abraham said,
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'My Son, God will
provide for Himself
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the lamb for a burnt offering.'
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So the two went together.'"
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When I look at this,
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what I discovered
and the Lord impressed me
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as I studied this verse.
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Sacrifice always
precedes worship.
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Worship that
does not have a price
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will not yield any interest.
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Worship that does
not cost you something
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will not yield any interest.
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So in this particular story,
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the Lord wanted to see
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how far Abraham
was willing to go
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to prove
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that he was willing to worship
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the Lord at any cost.
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And that's the key.
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And this is vital today
because a lot of people say,
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"Well, I would
worship on the Sabbath,
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but I have to go to
work, but I have a class,
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but it's my most
convenient day to shop."
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It doesn't cost them anything.
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So what doesn't
cost you anything
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brings no interest to you
and really no interest to God.
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Worship requires the willingness
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to surrender the thing
that is nearest to your heart.
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And that's what
the Lord was testing
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Abraham about.
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Look at Luke 14:26-27
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and this is what the Lord meant
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when He said
this to His disciples.
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He was measuring
their willingness
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to worship Him, it
always comes as a cost.
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Luke 14:26-27,
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"If anyone comes to Me
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and does not hate
his father and mother,
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wife and children,
brothers and sisters, yes,
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and his own life also,
he cannot be My disciple.
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And whoever does
not bear his cross
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and come after Me
cannot be My disciple."
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You know, David Foster
said, David Foster Wallace says,
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"If you worship the wrong thing,
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it will eat you alive."
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It's a powerful statement,
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"If you worship the wrong thing,
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it will eat you alive."
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If we worship the wrong
thing, it will eat us alive.
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It will be filled with us,
it'll ingest and digest us,
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but if we worship the true
God, we will be filled with Him.
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There's a difference altogether,
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what you want to be filled with.
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Also worship has
to come at the risk
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of even giving away your life.
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Look at Daniel 3:18,
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don't allow anything that
wants to rob your worship,
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to penetrate the sphere
that belongs only to the Lord.
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When Daniel,
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when the Hebrews were
at the most fragile place
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in their worship,
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notice how they responded
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to the king who demanded of them
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to bow and worship an image.
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Daniel 3:18,
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he talked about God
is able to deliver us,
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but he said, "But if not,
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but if not, let
it be known to you,
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O king, that we do
not serve your gods,
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nor will we worship
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the gold image
which you have set up."
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And, friends, today,
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something is gonna try
to erect itself in your life
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as an image of worship.
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It could be
television, it could be media,
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it could be your
iPad, some people,
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their phones are a lot
closer than their Bibles.
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They grope in the
dark for their Bibles,
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but they can grab
their phones at an instance.
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And that's why
I always recommend
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to put your Bible
closer to your bed
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than your phone.
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So when you wake
up in the morning,
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and you reach for
anything, there it is.
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Get the living Word
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before you get
the news of the day,
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the latest gossip and
put that as the doorposts,
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put that as the bar
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from all the
other things to come in,
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but in the interest of time,
I wanna go to Romans 12:1-2,
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worship can only
occur within the parameters
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of transformation
and not confirmation
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without a
renewed mind and heart,
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worship will always elude us.
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I'm reading this in the NIV,
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I love the way it
translates it here.
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Romans 12:1-2.
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Paul says, "Therefore,
I urge you, brothers,
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in view of God's mercy,
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to offer your bodies
a living sacrifice, "
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same thing Isaac
and Abraham learned
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a living sacrifice,
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"holy and pleasing to God,"
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I love the way,
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"this is your
spiritual act of worship."
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NIV.
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This is your
spiritual act of worship,
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presenting your body, your mind,
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your heart to
the Lord every day.
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This is your
spiritual act of worship,
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and then when you do that,
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"Do not be conform
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any longer to the
pattern of this world,
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but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind.
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Then you will be able to test
and approve what is God's will,
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His good,
pleasing and perfect will."
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That's where worship begins.
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Amen. Jill.
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Thank you, Pastor John,
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what an
incredible lesson, worship.
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That's right.
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This entire life
is all about worship.
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The conflict at the
end is all about worship,
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who will we serve?
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And as parents and
grandparents and teachers,
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it's important to teach
your children and grandchildren
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who they need to worship.
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That's what my day is about.
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And Declare Them
to Their Children
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which is really
training your children,
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teaching your children,
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instructing them
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to have a
relationship with Jesus,
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teaching them about Jesus.
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Teaching them His Word,
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His law that's
what this day is about.
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We're gonna go to
Psalms, but before we go there,
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let's look at Deuteronomy 8.
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Deuteronomy,
sorry, Deuteronomy 11:18.
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That's where the eight
came in, Deuteronomy 11:18,
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and then we'll go to the Psalm,
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which was what we
had for our lesson today.
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Deuteronomy 11:18,
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"Therefore you shall
lay up these words of mine
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in your heart and in your soul,
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and bind them as
the sign on your hand,
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and they shall be as
frontlets between your eyes.
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You shall teach
them to your children,
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speaking of them
when you sit in the house,
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when you walk by the
way, when you lie down,
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and when you rise up.
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And you should write them
on the doorposts of your house
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and on your gates,
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that your days and
the days of your children
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may be multiplied
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in the land of
which the Lord swore
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to your fathers to give them,
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like the days of the
heavens above the earth."
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We are called, now
Greg and I are not parents,
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but parents especially,
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are called or
mothers or fathers in Israel,
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who can offer instruction
to other young people,
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or older woman
instructing the younger,
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or older men
instructing the younger
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or teachers,
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we all have people
that we have influence over,
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teaching them all day,
every day, every opportunity,
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opening up the
Word of God to them.
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So the lesson talks about Psalms
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and the importance of
Psalms in ancient Israel.
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Psalms, of
course, it's just poetry
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that was set to music,
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you could say sacred
poems that were meant to be sung
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used often with
the children of Israel
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during times of
worship, Pastor John.
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There's, of course, 150 Psalms,
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and they were written
spanning close to 1,000 years.
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King David wrote most of them,
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but we have
several other authors
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in the Book of Psalms as well.
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There's many
different Psalm types,
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you could say.
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There's individual and
community prayers for help.
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There's individual
and community prayers
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of thanksgiving and praise.
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There's hymns honoring God
as our Creator and as our King.
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There's songs of
trust, and songs of Zion,
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there is royal songs
and pilgrimage songs,
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and liturgies or
rituals for public worship.
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There is Torah Psalms,
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and the Psalms
covers an incredible theme,
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incredible range of themes.
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There's a worthiness
of God as our Creator
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and Judge and Savior
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and Redeemer and
Sustainer and Healer,
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Refuge and Shepherd.
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There's great
cries for deliverance.
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I know when I need that,
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I open up and read
something that David wrote,
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these cries for
deliverance are vindication.
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There's sorrow for
sin and confession of sin,
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discussion of the
law, the coming Messiah,
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the righteous and
the wicked, the Sabbath,
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the heavenly and
earthly sanctuary,
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salvation and suffering,
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the Book of
Psalms covers it all,
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but we're going
to Psalm Chapter 78.
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Psalm 78,
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and that's the
Psalm we're focusing on
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in today's lesson.
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Of course, Psalm 119
is the longest Psalm,
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but 78 is the
second longest Psalm.
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And it's written by Asaph,
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who's a
contemporary of King David.
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This is really a wisdom Psalm
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that recounts God's mighty
acts for His covenant people.
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It starts from
Egypt, and the Exodus,
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and it goes all the way
down to the time of David.
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We're only gonna focus
on the first eight verses,
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which is the call
to pass this knowledge,
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this instruction on
to future generations.
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That's what
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the first eight verses focus on.
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After that there
are some accusations
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against Ephraim or Israel.
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There's this cycle of
the wilderness experience
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where they went away from God
00:18:52.13\00:18:53.46
and then God's
judgment and mercy.
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That happens twice,
and then at the very end,
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it ends with some promises,
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but we're just looking
at the first eight verses.
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I call this the call to parents.
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You know, if you think about it,
00:19:07.18\00:19:08.51
in today's society,
00:19:08.54\00:19:09.88
there are many
single parent homes,
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and the role of the
father is marginalized.
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If you watch any
sort of television,
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you look at sitcoms or anything.
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What do you see?
00:19:21.96\00:19:23.29
The father's role is
marginalized or made fun of.
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There was a quote I
read once, which is horrible,
00:19:28.10\00:19:32.23
but it says this,
00:19:32.27\00:19:33.70
"Fathers are a
biological necessity,
00:19:33.74\00:19:36.10
but a psychological absurdity."
00:19:36.14\00:19:38.67
Nothing is
further from the truth.
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The role of moms is
vitally important, yes,
00:19:42.81\00:19:45.88
but the role of fathers
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is just as important
in teaching and educating
00:19:47.68\00:19:52.05
and training children.
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As goes the home
so goes the society.
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So the role of
parents in the home
00:19:58.36\00:20:00.43
is vitally important.
00:20:00.46\00:20:01.80
So let's look at
this call to parents.
00:20:01.83\00:20:03.20
We're in verse 1.
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I divided the
call to parents up,
00:20:04.60\00:20:06.53
kind of into three
different sections.
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The first section is
the invitation to hear
00:20:08.24\00:20:11.11
and understand,
00:20:11.14\00:20:12.47
this is verses 1-3.
00:20:12.51\00:20:14.28
"Give ear, O my
people, to my law,
00:20:14.31\00:20:17.51
incline your ears to
the words of my mouth."
00:20:17.55\00:20:21.85
Now that word
give ear means to hear,
00:20:21.88\00:20:23.95
to listen with
understanding, to hearken.
00:20:23.99\00:20:27.96
So pay attention to my law,
00:20:27.99\00:20:30.63
pay attention to
what I'm going to share,
00:20:30.66\00:20:32.86
pay attention to the
words in the Word of God.
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Now the word incline
00:20:36.67\00:20:38.00
is really
interesting in the Hebrew,
00:20:38.03\00:20:40.14
it means to stretch
out, to bend or bow,
00:20:40.17\00:20:44.47
literally like a dog or a horse
00:20:44.51\00:20:46.74
that kind of
swiveled their ears around
00:20:46.78\00:20:48.31
when you're talking to them,
00:20:48.34\00:20:49.68
you know, they could
have their back to you,
00:20:49.71\00:20:51.41
and you call
their name at the ear,
00:20:51.45\00:20:53.11
you can tell just the ear turns
00:20:53.15\00:20:54.68
and you think
they're listening to me,
00:20:54.72\00:20:56.52
even if they did
not turn their head.
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What's it mean?
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We need to lean
forward to catch everything
00:21:00.46\00:21:04.39
that God wants to give us.
00:21:04.43\00:21:06.43
Verse 2, "I will open
my mouth in a parable,
00:21:06.46\00:21:09.70
I will utter
dark sayings of old,
00:21:09.73\00:21:12.20
which we have heard and known,
and our fathers have told us."
00:21:12.23\00:21:15.64
Now that word dark sayings
00:21:15.67\00:21:17.01
doesn't literally
mean dark sayings,
00:21:17.04\00:21:19.14
but it would be a
riddle or a perplexing
00:21:19.17\00:21:21.64
saying or question.
00:21:21.68\00:21:23.48
Psalm 78 is a history
00:21:23.51\00:21:25.81
of God's
dealing with His people,
00:21:25.85\00:21:29.08
God's faithfulness, His
mercy, His love, His grace,
00:21:29.12\00:21:33.09
His judgment.
00:21:33.12\00:21:34.86
And by contrast, we see
Israel's unfaithfulness,
00:21:34.89\00:21:38.89
Israel's stubbornness,
and Israel's rebellion.
00:21:38.93\00:21:44.73
It's important that
we remember the past,
00:21:44.77\00:21:49.14
not that we repeat
the mistakes of the past,
00:21:49.17\00:21:52.21
but that we remember the past.
00:21:52.24\00:21:54.94
There's a quote
Ellen White makes,
00:21:54.98\00:21:56.31
this is in Life
Sketches, page 196,
00:21:56.34\00:21:58.98
I really liked this quote,
00:21:59.01\00:22:00.82
"We have nothing to
fear for the future,
00:22:00.85\00:22:02.92
except as we shall forget
the way the Lord has led us,
00:22:02.95\00:22:06.45
and His teaching
in our past history."
00:22:06.49\00:22:09.79
It's important for
parents to teach their children.
00:22:09.82\00:22:13.53
This is what God has
done in our lives in the past.
00:22:13.56\00:22:16.53
This is the way
we had seen Him work.
00:22:16.56\00:22:19.27
And this is how
we can have faith
00:22:19.30\00:22:20.80
for how He's going to work
in our lives in the future.
00:22:20.84\00:22:23.94
The second
section is verses 4-5,
00:22:23.97\00:22:26.47
the invitation to teach
the children and grandchildren,
00:22:26.51\00:22:30.18
"We will not hide
them from their children,
00:22:30.21\00:22:32.71
telling to the generations
00:22:32.75\00:22:34.22
to come the praises of the Lord,
00:22:34.25\00:22:36.89
and His strength
and His wonderful works
00:22:36.92\00:22:38.75
that He has done.
00:22:38.79\00:22:40.56
For He established
a testimony in Jacob,
00:22:40.59\00:22:42.46
and appointed a law in Israel,
which He commanded our fathers,
00:22:42.49\00:22:45.66
that they should make
known to their children."
00:22:45.69\00:22:49.36
It is important
to communicate truth,
00:22:49.40\00:22:51.13
especially God's
Word to our children
00:22:51.17\00:22:54.10
in succeeding generations.
00:22:54.14\00:22:57.21
Don't hide it. Don't
forget to speak of it.
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Don't water it down,
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simply speak the Word of God
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into your children's lives.
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And the third
section is verses 6-8,
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this is the goal
of this instruction,
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"That the generation
to come might know them."
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Why do we teach children?
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Why do we teach grandchildren?
Why do we do that?
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So that the generation
to come might know them,
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they might know the Lord,
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"The children who would be born,
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that they may
arise and declare them
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to their children,
00:23:25.67\00:23:27.47
that they may set
their hope in God,
00:23:27.50\00:23:29.40
and not forget the works of God,
00:23:29.44\00:23:31.04
but keep His commandments."
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Don't make the
mistakes of the past.
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"And may not be
like their fathers,
00:23:35.08\00:23:37.35
a stubborn and
rebellious generation,
00:23:37.38\00:23:39.91
a generation that did
not set its heart aright,
00:23:39.95\00:23:43.22
whose spirit was
not faithful to God."
00:23:43.25\00:23:46.52
Future generations need
to know the Word of God.
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Future generations need
to understand the mercy,
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grace and kindness of God.
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Future generations
need to teach this Word
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continually to their children,
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to remember God's goodness
to them and to their parents,
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to trust God and
to learn to hearken
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to walk in
obedience to God's commands.
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What a call is upon parents,
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especially mothers and fathers
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to teach the Word of God
to succeeding generations.
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Wow. Thank you, Jill. Amazing.
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When you look back on your life,
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and I look back on my life,
00:24:24.33\00:24:25.66
I could see the
greatest impression
00:24:25.69\00:24:27.03
of who I am today,
00:24:27.06\00:24:28.40
started when my
parents taught me
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about the Lord,
00:24:30.27\00:24:31.60
specifically the
lady that raised me,
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and that's the responsibility
each one of us has as a parent,
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but we're gonna go to
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So welcome back to our
topic, Worship in Education.
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And we are on
Tuesday now Pastor Ryan Day
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In Spirit and In Truth,
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I love that title.
00:25:26.12\00:25:27.46
Hey, you got
that right, Brother,
00:25:27.49\00:25:28.82
In Spirit and In Truth,
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lots to say
little time to say it,
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but we got to go.
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So here's the thing,
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we're gonna be
talking about the two legs
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on which true worship stands.
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And that's spirit and in
truth, you leave one out,
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that's not true worship.
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So we have a lot of
people who worship the Lord
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and what they
believe to be in spirit,
00:25:43.94\00:25:45.87
but they don't
worship the Lord in truth,
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where you have those
people who worship the Lord
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and all the truth that they know
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and all the
truth that they have,
00:25:50.95\00:25:52.28
but they're not
worshiping Him in spirit.
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So where we find
the foundation of this,
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or what we find this
reference in Scripture
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is in the story
of Jesus conversation
00:25:57.89\00:26:00.46
with the woman at the well.
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And that is
found in John 4:7-26.
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We may not read
the entire story,
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but I just wanna
reference here for those of you
00:26:08.00\00:26:09.60
who may be
watching for the first time
00:26:09.63\00:26:11.20
and have never
heard the story before.
00:26:11.23\00:26:13.23
Basically, the
background of this is Jesus
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and His disciples,
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they're kind of on
an evangelistic mission.
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They're kind of
going from city to city,
00:26:18.14\00:26:19.57
Jesus is performing miracles,
00:26:19.61\00:26:21.24
Jesus is introducing Himself
to the people in the area.
00:26:21.28\00:26:24.35
He's doing a
wonderful preaching work
00:26:24.38\00:26:26.48
and sharing the gospel.
00:26:26.51\00:26:27.85
And He ends up in Samaria.
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And so they end up
in this particular city.
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And the Bible says
00:26:31.49\00:26:32.82
the disciples go
into town to get food,
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okay, they've been traveling,
00:26:34.82\00:26:36.16
and Jesus stops and
has a divine appointment
00:26:36.19\00:26:38.69
with this woman at a well.
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And, of course,
He tells the woman,
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you know, "Hey, I'm thirsty,
00:26:41.93\00:26:43.26
could you give me
some water to drink?"
00:26:43.30\00:26:44.87
And she's caught
off guard by this
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because if you know the history
00:26:46.40\00:26:47.74
between the Jews
and the Samaritans,
00:26:47.77\00:26:49.10
the Samaritan
people were kind of looked
00:26:49.14\00:26:50.77
as a lower class of
people from the Jews.
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They were kind of looked at
00:26:53.91\00:26:55.24
as a kind of a much lower class,
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I'll just put it that way.
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And so she's
taken off by the fact
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that she's caught
off guard by the fact
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that Jesus being a Jew
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is having this
conversation with her.
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So she says, "You know, yeah,
you would Jew speaking to me?"
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You know, Jesus says,
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"Look, you know,
give me a drink of water."
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And she says, surely, you know,
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you know, you
surely you can give
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your own self some water
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because, you
know, I'm a Samaritan,
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and you're a Jew,
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and it just really
doesn't work out, right?
00:27:18.27\00:27:20.00
And just, you
could just read into this
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and clearly see
00:27:21.84\00:27:23.17
that this is an
awkward encounter
00:27:23.20\00:27:25.01
between her and Jesus,
00:27:25.04\00:27:26.88
but then Jesus
begins to tell her
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about this living water.
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He says, "Look
because I have a water
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that I can give you,
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that is a living water,
you will never thirst again,
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it will change and
transform your life."
00:27:35.12\00:27:37.65
And, of course,
she begins to inquire
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about this living water.
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And she eventually learns
00:27:41.32\00:27:43.73
that after Jesus
reveals Himself to her
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and begins to say
things about her life,
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He begins to predict
things or not predict things,
00:27:49.10\00:27:50.87
but He begins to tell
things about her life,
00:27:50.90\00:27:52.83
then perhaps no
one else would know,
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a complete stranger.
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And she recognizes
00:27:56.24\00:27:57.94
that this surely you
are a prophet, she says,
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a prophet of Israel,
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but interesting
that she quickly diverts
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the conversation to worship.
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And this is the
meat of our conversation.
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And I really just went through,
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if you wanna read this
story a little bit more clearly,
00:28:10.12\00:28:12.15
go to John Chapter 4
and read from verses 7
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all the way
through to about verse 18.
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And that'll kind of
give you the background
00:28:16.86\00:28:18.46
of what we're
about to talk about,
00:28:18.49\00:28:20.00
but in verse 19, let's
pick up there, John 4:19,
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the Bible says,
"The woman said to Him,
00:28:25.07\00:28:26.94
'Sir, I perceive
that You are a prophet.
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Our fathers
worshiped on this mountain,
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and you Jews say
00:28:31.24\00:28:32.57
that in Jerusalem is the place
where one ought to worship.'
00:28:32.61\00:28:35.51
Jesus said to her,
'Woman, believe Me,
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the hour is coming
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when you will
neither on this mountain,
00:28:39.28\00:28:40.72
nor in Jerusalem,
worship the Father.
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You worship
what you do not know,
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we know what we worship,
00:28:45.52\00:28:46.92
for salvation is of the Jews."
00:28:46.96\00:28:48.82
Now it kind of sounds like
00:28:48.86\00:28:50.19
Jesus as being a
little kind of little selfish,
00:28:50.23\00:28:52.16
a little proud, proud
here, that's not the case.
00:28:52.19\00:28:54.66
This is a divine appointment,
00:28:54.70\00:28:56.03
He knows exactly
what's happening.
00:28:56.06\00:28:57.57
And He's got a
special, special message
00:28:57.60\00:28:59.63
He wants to share with her.
00:28:59.67\00:29:01.00
So notice what
happens in verse 23.
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He says, "But
the hour is coming,
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and now is,
00:29:05.37\00:29:07.21
when the true
worshipers will worship
00:29:07.24\00:29:09.71
the Father in spirit and truth,
00:29:09.74\00:29:12.11
for the Father is
seeking such to worship Him."
00:29:12.15\00:29:14.85
And then here's the
verse, verse 24, "God is Spirit,
00:29:14.88\00:29:17.95
and those who worship Him
00:29:17.99\00:29:19.82
must worship in
spirit and in truth."
00:29:19.85\00:29:23.86
So let's first get
this out of the way.
00:29:23.89\00:29:26.13
We have to
understand the difference
00:29:26.16\00:29:27.50
between worship
and actions of worship.
00:29:27.53\00:29:30.33
Of course, there
are actions of worship,
00:29:30.37\00:29:32.00
there are
expressions of worship,
00:29:32.03\00:29:33.97
but then there's a little
bit more of a formal name for
00:29:34.00\00:29:36.40
and that would be the liturgy.
00:29:36.44\00:29:37.77
Many people go to church,
00:29:37.81\00:29:39.14
and they do things
and they call it worship,
00:29:39.17\00:29:41.98
raising of the hands,
clapping, singing songs,
00:29:42.01\00:29:44.25
those are the actions
00:29:44.28\00:29:45.88
which are expressive of worship,
00:29:45.91\00:29:47.78
but worship is
00:29:47.82\00:29:49.15
as Pastor John
brought up beautifully,
00:29:49.18\00:29:50.52
and I'm just
gonna kind of add this,
00:29:50.55\00:29:51.89
that worship is the
attitude of the heart.
00:29:51.92\00:29:54.26
It's a state of being, okay?
00:29:54.29\00:29:56.32
You worship God in your
actions and in your choices
00:29:56.36\00:29:59.89
and in your very attitude
towards God each and every day.
00:29:59.93\00:30:03.13
And so when we worship God,
00:30:03.16\00:30:04.50
we must worship Him
in spirit and in truth.
00:30:04.53\00:30:06.80
So what does that mean?
00:30:06.84\00:30:08.57
I'm gonna start
with the Spirit aspect
00:30:08.60\00:30:09.97
'cause this is the one
00:30:10.01\00:30:11.34
that usually most
people don't fully understand.
00:30:11.37\00:30:13.71
I'm gonna read a quote here
from Desire of Ages, page 189.
00:30:13.74\00:30:16.41
Notice what she says here
00:30:16.44\00:30:17.78
about this
worshiping God in spirit.
00:30:17.81\00:30:20.52
"Since the
religion that comes from God
00:30:20.55\00:30:22.68
is the only religion
that will lead to God.
00:30:22.72\00:30:25.89
In order to serve Him aright,
00:30:25.92\00:30:27.82
we must be born of
the Divine Spirit."
00:30:27.86\00:30:31.56
Keep that in mind.
"Born of the Divine Spirit.
00:30:31.59\00:30:33.76
This will purify the
heart and renew the mind,
00:30:33.80\00:30:37.13
giving us a new capacity
for knowing and loving God.
00:30:37.17\00:30:40.60
It will give us
a willing obedience
00:30:40.64\00:30:43.30
to all His requirements."
00:30:43.34\00:30:45.17
Okay, notice this.
00:30:45.21\00:30:46.54
It goes on to say,
00:30:46.57\00:30:47.91
"This is true worship in spirit.
00:30:47.94\00:30:51.21
It is the fruit of the
working of the Holy Spirit."
00:30:51.25\00:30:55.72
Okay, so I'm gonna
reference this really quickly
00:30:55.75\00:30:58.09
worshiping in spirit, if
you just go back a chapter,
00:30:58.12\00:31:00.52
we just read the meeting
00:31:00.56\00:31:02.26
between Jesus and
the woman at the well,
00:31:02.29\00:31:04.13
in John Chapter 4,
00:31:04.16\00:31:05.49
but if you go back a
chapter to John Chapter 3,
00:31:05.53\00:31:07.36
Jesus had already explained
this spiritual transformation.
00:31:07.40\00:31:11.10
If you're gonna worship
the Lord in spirit, okay?
00:31:11.13\00:31:14.27
Don't miss this point.
00:31:14.30\00:31:15.80
You have to be
renewed by the Holy Spirit.
00:31:15.84\00:31:18.07
You have to have
00:31:18.11\00:31:19.44
a spiritual
transformation from Christ.
00:31:19.47\00:31:22.18
And it has to be
an ongoing experience
00:31:22.21\00:31:24.18
in which you are
led by the Spirit of God
00:31:24.21\00:31:26.82
into an obedient
relationship with Him.
00:31:26.85\00:31:29.62
Therefore, it puts you
00:31:29.65\00:31:30.99
in a constant state of
worshiping Him in spirit,
00:31:31.02\00:31:35.19
referencing John Chapter 3
00:31:35.22\00:31:36.56
when Jesus was
talking to Nicodemus, okay?
00:31:36.59\00:31:39.09
Nicodemus says,
00:31:39.13\00:31:40.60
"You're telling me to go
back into my mother's womb
00:31:40.63\00:31:42.03
and be born again."
00:31:42.06\00:31:43.40
He's like, "Nah,
man, you missing it,
00:31:43.43\00:31:44.77
you missing it either.
00:31:44.80\00:31:46.13
What's of the
flesh is of the flesh,
00:31:46.17\00:31:47.50
but what is a born of
the spirit is spirit."
00:31:47.54\00:31:49.87
And then he gives an example.
00:31:49.90\00:31:51.24
He says, "You don't take
into consideration the wind."
00:31:51.27\00:31:53.58
He goes, "You know,
you feel its effects,
00:31:53.61\00:31:54.98
you can hear it,
00:31:55.01\00:31:56.34
but you can't see
00:31:56.38\00:31:57.71
where it's going
so is the spirit."
00:31:57.75\00:31:59.08
In other words, he's
like, "It's a spiritual thing.
00:31:59.11\00:32:00.75
You need to be
born of the Spirit."
00:32:00.78\00:32:03.02
And at any time that can happen,
00:32:03.05\00:32:04.69
but here's what you got to do.
00:32:04.72\00:32:06.05
And I'm going to reference this.
00:32:06.09\00:32:07.42
This is John 3:14, Jesus says,
00:32:07.46\00:32:09.56
"As Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness,
00:32:09.59\00:32:11.96
even so must the Son
of Man be lifted up."
00:32:11.99\00:32:14.13
And so how can we have
00:32:14.16\00:32:15.50
this constant ongoing worshiping
00:32:15.53\00:32:17.87
in spirit
00:32:17.90\00:32:19.23
in which we are
being renewed by the spirit
00:32:19.27\00:32:20.77
and the Holy Spirit
blows through our heart
00:32:20.80\00:32:22.84
and transforms our life,
00:32:22.87\00:32:24.31
you have to be
constantly looking
00:32:24.34\00:32:26.98
to the uplifted Savior.
00:32:27.01\00:32:28.64
You have to put
Jesus in the forefront
00:32:28.68\00:32:31.21
and constantly
keep your eyes on Him.
00:32:31.25\00:32:33.05
Now I'm speaking
spiritually here.
00:32:33.08\00:32:34.62
Obviously, we have
lives, but spiritually speaking,
00:32:34.65\00:32:37.59
Christ should always be
at the center of our lives.
00:32:37.62\00:32:40.39
When we lift up the Savior
00:32:40.42\00:32:42.02
and we behold
the uplifted Savior,
00:32:42.06\00:32:44.03
all the time, we will
be renewed day by day.
00:32:44.06\00:32:47.96
The Holy Spirit as
the Bible teaches us
00:32:48.00\00:32:49.70
in John Chapter 14
and John Chapter 16.
00:32:49.73\00:32:52.50
He teaches us all things,
00:32:52.53\00:32:54.50
he will bring all
things to our memory,
00:32:54.54\00:32:56.40
he will reprove
the world of sin,
00:32:56.44\00:32:57.77
he will guide
you into all truth,
00:32:57.81\00:32:59.94
and he will
always glorify Christ
00:32:59.97\00:33:02.18
by revealing his
character to you.
00:33:02.21\00:33:04.31
Again, that's John 14,
and John 16, and John 14:26,
00:33:04.35\00:33:08.68
and John 16:8, 13, and 14,
I'm going pretty fast here,
00:33:08.72\00:33:12.99
but you can go to YouTube
and rewatch it and pause it.
00:33:13.02\00:33:16.09
Let's move on.
00:33:16.12\00:33:17.46
So being
transformed by the Holy Spirit,
00:33:17.49\00:33:19.89
being led by the Holy Spirit
00:33:19.93\00:33:21.26
to live an obedient,
faith-filled life in Christ
00:33:21.30\00:33:25.27
that's worshiping God in spirit,
00:33:25.30\00:33:26.87
but what about truth, okay?
00:33:26.90\00:33:28.80
Worshiping God in truth,
you see, at the same time,
00:33:28.84\00:33:30.94
we must worship in truth,
00:33:30.97\00:33:32.67
we must have some
correct knowledge of God,
00:33:32.71\00:33:36.01
but we also need to
know that we need to know
00:33:36.04\00:33:38.11
His requirements for us.
00:33:38.15\00:33:39.48
In other words,
00:33:39.51\00:33:40.85
this is where doctrine comes in.
00:33:40.88\00:33:42.22
Many people wanna
worship the Lord in spirit.
00:33:42.25\00:33:43.65
In other words,
00:33:43.69\00:33:45.02
I've been to
churches and grew up,
00:33:45.05\00:33:46.39
you know, in certain churches
00:33:46.42\00:33:47.76
where it was all
about the feelings
00:33:47.79\00:33:49.12
and the emotions,
00:33:49.16\00:33:50.49
but there was no truth.
00:33:50.53\00:33:51.86
You have to pair the two.
00:33:51.89\00:33:53.23
Jesus said in John 17:17,
"Sanctify them by Thy truth.
00:33:53.26\00:33:58.00
Thy word is truth."
00:33:58.03\00:33:59.70
How are we sanctified?
00:33:59.73\00:34:01.20
By the Word of God.
00:34:01.24\00:34:02.60
Jesus Himself said
00:34:02.64\00:34:03.97
that if you're
gonna be sanctified,
00:34:04.01\00:34:05.34
which by the way means to
be set apart, for a holy use,
00:34:05.37\00:34:07.51
God wants to set us
apart for a holy use.
00:34:07.54\00:34:10.71
He wants us to worship Him
in spirit, but also in truth.
00:34:10.75\00:34:15.38
That's why in 2
Thessalonians Chapter 2,
00:34:15.42\00:34:17.75
Paul talks about,
00:34:17.79\00:34:19.12
you know, those who do not
have the love of the truth,
00:34:19.15\00:34:22.09
this is 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
00:34:22.12\00:34:24.49
talks about
those in the last day,
00:34:24.53\00:34:25.86
they don't have a
love for the truth.
00:34:25.89\00:34:27.23
And therefore he says,
00:34:27.26\00:34:28.60
"For this reason
00:34:28.63\00:34:29.96
God will send
them strong delusion,
00:34:30.00\00:34:31.33
that they will
continue to believe a lie,
00:34:31.37\00:34:33.13
that they may be condemned
00:34:33.17\00:34:34.70
who did not believe the truth."
00:34:34.74\00:34:37.01
My friends, you can think
00:34:37.04\00:34:38.37
you're having a
spiritual experience.
00:34:38.41\00:34:40.54
You can think that you're having
00:34:40.58\00:34:42.34
this great, amazing,
emotional spiritual experience,
00:34:42.38\00:34:45.68
but if you are rejecting
00:34:45.71\00:34:47.32
the truth of
God's Word, my friends,
00:34:47.35\00:34:49.35
that's where Jesus says
they worship Me in vain.
00:34:49.38\00:34:53.02
Jesus talks about being worship.
00:34:53.05\00:34:54.39
That's why Paul
said in 2 Timothy 4:2-4,
00:34:54.42\00:34:57.56
"Preach the word!
00:34:57.59\00:34:58.93
Preach the word, be instant,
in season and out of season.
00:34:58.96\00:35:01.30
Reprove, rebuke
00:35:01.33\00:35:02.66
with all
longsuffering and doctrine."
00:35:02.70\00:35:04.83
They don't save us, but
they lead us to the Savior.
00:35:04.87\00:35:07.50
"For the time
will come," he says,
00:35:07.54\00:35:08.87
"when they will not
endure sound doctrine,
00:35:08.90\00:35:10.74
and they shall turn away
their ears from the truth,
00:35:10.77\00:35:12.67
and shall be
turned into fables."
00:35:12.71\00:35:14.08
So, my friends, I
wanna end with this.
00:35:14.11\00:35:16.04
This is John 8:31, it says,
00:35:16.08\00:35:19.21
"Then Jesus said to those
Jews which believed on Him,
00:35:19.25\00:35:21.65
'If you continue in My word,
00:35:21.68\00:35:23.59
then you are My
disciples indeed.
00:35:23.62\00:35:24.95
And you shall know the
truth, and the truth shall, "
00:35:24.99\00:35:27.72
not set you free,
but, "make you free."
00:35:27.76\00:35:30.46
Be free in Jesus,
00:35:30.49\00:35:31.96
worship Him in
spirit and in truth.
00:35:31.99\00:35:33.40
Amen. Hallelujah.
00:35:33.43\00:35:34.76
So far, I think this
is my favorite lesson now
00:35:34.80\00:35:36.73
if we turn back.
00:35:36.77\00:35:38.10
I have Wednesday,
00:35:38.13\00:35:39.47
which is The Beauty of Holiness.
00:35:39.50\00:35:41.74
If you open your
Bibles to 1 Chronicle 16,
00:35:41.77\00:35:46.88
we're going to spend
some time in 1 Chronicles 16.
00:35:46.91\00:35:50.11
I wanna start off with verse
29 because this is the topic.
00:35:50.15\00:35:55.62
It says, "Give to the
Lord the glory due His name,
00:35:55.65\00:35:58.92
bring an offering,
and come before Him.
00:35:58.95\00:36:02.82
Oh, worship the Lord in
the beauty of holiness!"
00:36:02.86\00:36:07.30
How do we worship the
Lord in the beauty of holiness?
00:36:07.33\00:36:10.30
We're concentrating on
His purity, His perfection,
00:36:10.33\00:36:14.80
His power, His
purpose, His plan,
00:36:14.84\00:36:18.71
but there's more than that,
00:36:18.74\00:36:20.11
you know, as we
concentrate on the Lord,
00:36:20.14\00:36:24.05
it draws our hearts to
thanksgiving and praise,
00:36:24.08\00:36:28.88
but there's
more and you hit that
00:36:28.92\00:36:30.99
is that we worship the
Lord in the beauty of holiness,
00:36:31.02\00:36:34.52
when we are living our lives,
00:36:34.56\00:36:37.69
according to His plan
00:36:37.73\00:36:40.36
when we are set
apart for His purposes.
00:36:40.40\00:36:43.77
Obedience is the
highest expression
00:36:43.80\00:36:47.34
of worship
00:36:47.37\00:36:48.70
when you think about that.
00:36:48.74\00:36:50.74
So let's look at 1 Chronicles.
00:36:50.77\00:36:52.94
Well, let me just set this up.
00:36:52.97\00:36:55.41
1 Chronicles Chapter 16,
00:36:55.44\00:36:58.75
has one of the most
beautiful psalms in it.
00:36:58.78\00:37:02.35
And this is the,
00:37:02.38\00:37:04.55
at the dedication
of the tabernacle,
00:37:04.59\00:37:07.86
in Mount Zion.
00:37:07.89\00:37:09.42
And what had happened is,
00:37:09.46\00:37:11.39
the Philistines
had stolen the ark,
00:37:11.43\00:37:16.56
then it was returned to Israel,
00:37:16.60\00:37:19.40
and it rested at
the house of Abinadab.
00:37:19.43\00:37:24.81
Aren't you glad your
name is not Abinadab,
00:37:24.84\00:37:28.24
but it was there for 20 years.
00:37:28.28\00:37:29.84
Now he had two sons,
00:37:29.88\00:37:33.62
one son was Eleazar, the priest,
00:37:33.65\00:37:37.02
but also Uzzah was his son.
00:37:37.05\00:37:40.39
So King David prepares
this tabernacle in Jerusalem.
00:37:40.42\00:37:44.59
And, you know what, I
love about the tabernacle,
00:37:44.63\00:37:46.76
it is theology in physical form.
00:37:46.80\00:37:52.33
It all pointed to Jesus,
00:37:52.37\00:37:54.07
it was all about
the plan of Jesus,
00:37:54.10\00:37:56.91
and worship, we need
worship in education,
00:37:56.94\00:38:00.58
we need to let
the plan of salvation,
00:38:00.61\00:38:04.41
the love of Jesus be the center,
00:38:04.45\00:38:07.35
but so what he has done is
he's built this tabernacle.
00:38:07.38\00:38:13.92
And, you know,
they would go there
00:38:13.96\00:38:15.32
and they'd give burnt offerings,
00:38:15.36\00:38:17.03
which that was to indicate
00:38:17.06\00:38:20.70
their total
commitment to the Lord.
00:38:20.73\00:38:23.33
They would give
fellowship offerings
00:38:23.37\00:38:25.10
that was to indicate
00:38:25.13\00:38:26.47
the covenant
relationship with the Lord,
00:38:26.50\00:38:28.87
but they go...
00:38:28.90\00:38:30.24
Oh, David also made
music an intrical part,
00:38:30.27\00:38:34.34
you know, he
appointed the musicians,
00:38:34.38\00:38:36.61
and I'm telling you,
00:38:36.64\00:38:37.98
they had the trumpeting priest,
they had the string ensembles,
00:38:38.01\00:38:41.78
and clanging cymbals.
00:38:41.82\00:38:43.69
This was pretty good step,
00:38:43.72\00:38:45.49
but they go down to get the ark,
00:38:45.52\00:38:48.42
that is at Abinadab's.
00:38:48.46\00:38:51.99
And they move it
00:38:52.03\00:38:53.36
not according to
God's instructions.
00:38:53.40\00:38:56.60
So Uzzah is struck dead.
00:38:56.63\00:38:58.90
And they have to leave
the ark at Obed-Edom's house.
00:38:58.93\00:39:04.31
Now the interesting
thing is, he's a Philistine,
00:39:04.34\00:39:07.64
but he was loyal
to David and Israel,
00:39:07.68\00:39:11.21
but Obed-Edom and he's got it
for three months at his house,
00:39:11.25\00:39:14.78
and he's unusually
blessed, while the ark is there.
00:39:14.82\00:39:20.22
So now the second attempt,
00:39:20.26\00:39:21.59
they bring the ark to Jerusalem.
00:39:21.62\00:39:25.23
And they
transported it this time,
00:39:25.26\00:39:27.73
according to the
prescribed Old Testament law,
00:39:27.76\00:39:31.20
but what I love if you
look in 1 Chronicles 15,
00:39:31.23\00:39:34.90
I know that we can't
base our worship on feeling,
00:39:34.94\00:39:39.54
but I don't, I
mean, feelings alone,
00:39:39.57\00:39:41.81
but you can't really
worship without feelings.
00:39:41.84\00:39:44.11
You've got to let
have feelings in your heart
00:39:44.15\00:39:46.61
that love for the Lord.
00:39:46.65\00:39:48.08
David was so excited to think
00:39:48.12\00:39:49.82
that the ark was
gonna come to rest
00:39:49.85\00:39:52.12
in a permanent place
00:39:52.15\00:39:54.32
that his house would be
blessed from here on out.
00:39:54.36\00:39:57.83
He's so excited that
as they're proceeding.
00:39:57.86\00:40:01.13
He's dancing before the Lord
in the procession going there.
00:40:01.16\00:40:05.20
He remember
00:40:05.23\00:40:06.57
and he writes
this beautiful song
00:40:06.60\00:40:10.04
that he's
remembering, and recounting
00:40:10.07\00:40:13.44
and rejoicing in God's
works for his covenant people.
00:40:13.48\00:40:18.25
So let's look at this.
00:40:18.28\00:40:20.15
1 Chronicles verses,
00:40:20.18\00:40:22.35
it is 1 Chronicles 16:8-13.
00:40:22.38\00:40:27.92
He's exhorting the
people to recall and proclaim
00:40:27.96\00:40:32.66
what God has done in the past.
00:40:32.69\00:40:35.36
You know what,
that's what praise is about,
00:40:35.40\00:40:37.60
as we're praising God for
what He's done and listen,
00:40:37.63\00:40:40.84
oh, listen what he says,
"Oh, give thanks to the Lord!
00:40:40.87\00:40:44.61
Call upon His name.
00:40:44.64\00:40:46.41
Make known His
deeds among the peoples!
00:40:46.44\00:40:49.41
Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him,
00:40:49.44\00:40:51.71
talk of His wondrous works!
00:40:51.75\00:40:54.05
Glory in His holy name,
00:40:54.08\00:40:56.72
let the hearts of those
rejoice who seek the Lord!
00:40:56.75\00:41:01.96
Seek the Lord and His strength,
seek His face forevermore!
00:41:01.99\00:41:07.66
Remember His marvelous
works which He has done,
00:41:07.70\00:41:10.57
His wonders, and the
judgments of His mouth,
00:41:10.60\00:41:14.20
O seed of Israel His servant,
00:41:14.24\00:41:16.50
you children of
Jacob, His chosen ones!
00:41:16.54\00:41:19.71
Woo!
00:41:19.74\00:41:21.08
I'm already worshiping
when you're reading that,
00:41:21.11\00:41:23.14
just gives me chills.
00:41:23.18\00:41:24.78
Now verses 14-22.
00:41:24.81\00:41:27.38
David rehearses
the Abrahamic covenant
00:41:27.42\00:41:31.95
that was renewed
with Isaac and Jacob
00:41:31.99\00:41:35.52
talking about the land
that they're going to get,
00:41:35.56\00:41:38.33
that the
Messiah is going to come
00:41:38.36\00:41:40.06
from these progenitors
00:41:40.10\00:41:41.73
and talking about the
everlasting justification
00:41:41.76\00:41:47.37
by faith in verse 23 and 24.
00:41:47.40\00:41:51.64
He adds an evangelistic thrust
00:41:51.67\00:41:55.94
that all the world should
learn about the God of Israel.
00:41:55.98\00:41:59.71
Listen, verse 24,
00:41:59.75\00:42:01.58
"Declare His
glory among the nations,
00:42:01.62\00:42:05.99
His wonders among all people."
00:42:06.02\00:42:09.29
You know, the whole purpose,
00:42:09.32\00:42:12.06
if we look in
Deuteronomy, where Moses said,
00:42:12.09\00:42:16.87
"The Rock, your Rock begot you."
00:42:16.90\00:42:21.17
You are begotten of God, Israel,
00:42:21.20\00:42:24.27
which that term
means to be set apart
00:42:24.31\00:42:26.91
for unique covenant purpose.
00:42:26.94\00:42:28.88
The whole reason
he chose these people,
00:42:28.91\00:42:31.58
is that the
world would understand
00:42:31.61\00:42:34.22
through their experience,
00:42:34.25\00:42:36.12
how wonderful God was,
00:42:36.15\00:42:38.05
and understand the
plan of redemption.
00:42:38.09\00:42:41.16
Now in verse...
00:42:41.19\00:42:43.43
We're still in 1
Chronicles 16:25-27 is
00:42:43.46\00:42:48.36
He's the only true
God, worship Him as Creator.
00:42:48.40\00:42:51.83
Verse 28 and 29,
this is interesting.
00:42:51.87\00:42:55.90
Worship Him with offerings,
and let me tell you something.
00:42:55.94\00:43:00.48
Praise is an offering
to God, we're supposed to.
00:43:00.51\00:43:04.35
God's works should motivate us
00:43:04.38\00:43:07.88
to service and
part of that is praise.
00:43:07.92\00:43:10.39
Verse 28, "Give to the
Lord, O families of the peoples,
00:43:10.42\00:43:16.12
give to the Lord
glory and strength."
00:43:16.16\00:43:19.19
It's saying
00:43:19.23\00:43:20.56
ascribe these attributes to Him.
00:43:20.60\00:43:23.06
Let your mouth
worship Him for this.
00:43:23.10\00:43:26.47
"Give to the Lord
the glory due His name,
00:43:26.50\00:43:31.94
bring an
offering, come before Him.
00:43:31.97\00:43:35.44
Oh, worship the Lord in
the beauty of holiness!"
00:43:35.48\00:43:40.12
When is the last
time you worship the Lord
00:43:40.15\00:43:43.89
in the beauty of holiness.
00:43:43.92\00:43:47.06
Now he goes on
00:43:47.09\00:43:48.42
and just I wanna
get here verses 30-33.
00:43:48.46\00:43:52.36
He talks about the power of
God as Creator is recognized
00:43:52.39\00:43:57.57
and that we're to
testify of His glory.
00:43:57.60\00:44:00.34
But he ends with the need
to rely on God for salvation.
00:44:00.37\00:44:04.01
Let's look at 1
Chronicles 16:34.
00:44:04.04\00:44:07.68
"Oh, give thanks to
the Lord, for He is good!
00:44:07.71\00:44:10.75
For His mercy endures forever.
00:44:10.78\00:44:13.31
And say, 'Save us, O
God of our salvation,
00:44:13.35\00:44:17.12
gather us together,
00:44:17.15\00:44:18.49
deliver us from the Gentiles,
00:44:18.52\00:44:20.42
to give thanks
to Your holy name,
00:44:20.46\00:44:23.26
to triumph in Your praise.'
00:44:23.29\00:44:25.39
Blessed be the
Lord the God of Israel
00:44:25.43\00:44:28.36
from
everlasting to everlasting!"
00:44:28.40\00:44:32.43
He's talking about
00:44:32.47\00:44:33.80
God's eternal unchanging nature.
00:44:33.84\00:44:36.07
"And all the people said," what?
00:44:36.10\00:44:38.34
"'Amen!' "
00:44:38.37\00:44:40.24
So bottom line is
what God has done,
00:44:40.28\00:44:43.68
deserves our praise and worship,
00:44:43.71\00:44:47.65
when you think of
the sacrificial system,
00:44:47.68\00:44:51.42
and how God became a man
00:44:51.45\00:44:55.66
and was our
substitute on the cross,
00:44:55.69\00:44:59.59
this gives us
hope for eternal life,
00:44:59.63\00:45:02.26
but we should worship Him
in the beauty of holiness.
00:45:02.30\00:45:07.40
And I just want
to encourage you.
00:45:07.44\00:45:11.01
I make praise, at
least 50% of my prayer,
00:45:11.04\00:45:15.94
I always begin with
praise and thanksgiving.
00:45:15.98\00:45:18.75
It's probably 50
to 70% of my prayer
00:45:18.78\00:45:22.48
because then I am reminded
00:45:22.52\00:45:26.35
of the beauty of
the holiness of God
00:45:26.39\00:45:28.86
in everything that comes
after that the supplications,
00:45:28.89\00:45:33.09
even the intercession,
00:45:33.13\00:45:35.16
it's based on knowing the
God who's going to answer.
00:45:35.20\00:45:39.00
Amen.
00:45:39.03\00:45:40.54
Could you mention the
scripture you read last one
00:45:40.57\00:45:43.37
because I think you said
00:45:43.41\00:45:44.74
Corinthians while
you meant something else?
00:45:44.77\00:45:46.11
1 Chronicles. Okay.
00:45:46.14\00:45:47.48
Did I say
Corinthians, isn't that funny?
00:45:47.51\00:45:49.08
How we do that?
00:45:49.11\00:45:50.45
1 Chronicles 16.
00:45:50.48\00:45:51.88
Thank you. Thank you very much.
00:45:51.91\00:45:53.45
Well, God's blessings continue
00:45:53.48\00:45:55.15
as we go into the
next day's lesson.
00:45:55.18\00:45:57.82
Now I wanna read
some of the titles
00:45:57.85\00:45:59.19
that we went through
00:45:59.22\00:46:00.56
because the title of this lesson
00:46:00.59\00:46:01.92
is Worship in
Education then we heard,
00:46:01.96\00:46:05.53
we all worship
something, the next one,
00:46:05.56\00:46:08.90
And Declare Them
to Their Children,
00:46:08.93\00:46:11.17
the next one In
Spirit and In Truth,
00:46:11.20\00:46:13.34
and then you just
heard The Beauty of Holiness,
00:46:13.37\00:46:15.74
this one is entitled
Idolatry in Education.
00:46:15.77\00:46:18.51
Why?
00:46:18.54\00:46:19.87
Because we are
facing a great controversy
00:46:19.91\00:46:22.91
between good and evil.
00:46:22.94\00:46:25.38
And you see this
even in education.
00:46:25.41\00:46:27.58
So when we look
at the word idolatry,
00:46:27.62\00:46:30.92
and you look it
up in the dictionary,
00:46:30.95\00:46:32.55
one from Merriam Webster says,
00:46:32.59\00:46:34.09
"The worship of a
physical object as God,
00:46:34.12\00:46:37.86
also a moderate attachment
or devotion to something."
00:46:37.89\00:46:42.56
And I will add or someone
00:46:42.60\00:46:45.20
because people worship people,
people worship celebrities,
00:46:45.23\00:46:49.87
some people worship singers,
which are also celebrities,
00:46:49.90\00:46:52.97
some people worship
presidents or kings,
00:46:53.01\00:46:56.08
but the only one
worthy of worship is God
00:46:56.11\00:46:59.28
and God alone.
00:46:59.31\00:47:00.92
Now the word in the Greek
00:47:00.95\00:47:02.92
is very similar to the
way it sounds in Spanish,
00:47:02.95\00:47:05.85
idolatria, which means also,
00:47:05.89\00:47:08.69
when you look it up,
is image worship, as well.
00:47:08.72\00:47:13.16
So we need to be
extremely careful with this
00:47:13.19\00:47:16.77
because we are
facing a great controversy
00:47:16.80\00:47:19.10
between good and evil.
00:47:19.13\00:47:20.47
I will read to you
from Revelation 13:15-17,
00:47:20.50\00:47:24.61
to remind you that
we are living in times
00:47:24.64\00:47:26.98
when we are going to see this.
00:47:27.01\00:47:29.84
"He was granted power
00:47:29.88\00:47:32.95
to give breath to
the image of the beast,
00:47:32.98\00:47:36.05
that the image of the beast
should both speak and cause
00:47:36.08\00:47:40.49
as many as would not
worship the image of the beast
00:47:40.52\00:47:43.86
to be killed."
00:47:43.89\00:47:45.23
This is coming.
00:47:45.26\00:47:46.66
"He causes all,
both small and great,
00:47:46.70\00:47:48.56
rich and poor, free and slave,
00:47:48.60\00:47:51.10
to receive a mark
on their right hand
00:47:51.13\00:47:53.90
or on their foreheads,
00:47:53.94\00:47:56.87
and that no one may buy or sell
00:47:56.91\00:47:58.77
except one who has the
mark or the name of the beast,
00:47:58.81\00:48:02.14
or the number of his name."
00:48:02.18\00:48:04.51
So this is idolatry.
00:48:04.55\00:48:06.72
And you may think today,
00:48:06.75\00:48:08.08
"Well, people don't
worship images as they used to,
00:48:08.12\00:48:11.42
but yes, they do."
00:48:11.45\00:48:13.15
I can tell you that.
00:48:13.19\00:48:14.72
Every week, some
people bow before images.
00:48:14.76\00:48:18.36
You may know in some countries,
they do worship things,
00:48:18.39\00:48:21.90
from rocks to plants,
00:48:21.93\00:48:23.67
and different
things of this nature.
00:48:23.70\00:48:26.50
It's not a secret,
you can go to India.
00:48:26.53\00:48:28.20
I remember our son was in India,
00:48:28.24\00:48:30.94
preaching over there.
00:48:30.97\00:48:32.31
And as he was
walking by, he says,
00:48:32.34\00:48:34.21
"Oh, look at
this beautiful plant."
00:48:34.24\00:48:35.58
"Don't touch it."
00:48:35.61\00:48:36.95
He was told,
"That's a god here."
00:48:36.98\00:48:39.01
It was a plant.
00:48:39.05\00:48:40.38
And so people
worship different things.
00:48:40.42\00:48:42.48
Satan has worked hard
00:48:42.52\00:48:45.32
to put something
else in front of people
00:48:45.35\00:48:48.26
so that people will worship
something else instead of God,
00:48:48.29\00:48:51.09
but he is the one
that wants worship.
00:48:51.13\00:48:54.03
Notice what he said to Jesus,
when he tempted him in person,
00:48:54.06\00:48:59.80
there in Matthew Chapter 4,
I'm going to read verses 8-10.
00:48:59.83\00:49:03.81
"Again, the devil took Him up
00:49:03.84\00:49:06.01
on an exceedingly high mountain,
00:49:06.04\00:49:08.18
and showed Him all the kingdoms
of the world and their glory."
00:49:08.21\00:49:13.82
Verse 9, "And he said to Him,
00:49:13.85\00:49:15.18
'All these
things I will give You
00:49:15.22\00:49:17.29
if You will fall
down and worship me.'"
00:49:17.32\00:49:20.72
This is what the devil wants.
00:49:20.76\00:49:22.52
He wants worship.
00:49:22.56\00:49:24.39
And if you won't
worship him directly,
00:49:24.43\00:49:26.93
he wants you to worship
something else or someone else,
00:49:26.96\00:49:30.40
but Jesus said in verse
10, "Then Jesus said to him,
00:49:30.43\00:49:33.34
'Away with you," I like that,
00:49:33.37\00:49:34.77
'Away with you, Satan!
00:49:34.80\00:49:37.54
For it is written,
00:49:37.57\00:49:38.91
'You shall
worship the Lord your God,
00:49:38.94\00:49:40.81
and Him only
you shall worship.'"
00:49:40.84\00:49:44.98
Praise be to God,
that's whom we shall worship,
00:49:45.01\00:49:48.12
the only one
worthy of our worship.
00:49:48.15\00:49:50.59
And I encourage you
to consider your life.
00:49:50.62\00:49:52.52
You may have something
00:49:52.55\00:49:53.89
that you're
worshiping in your house.
00:49:53.92\00:49:55.52
And what could that be?
00:49:55.56\00:49:57.03
Pray, God will reveal it to you.
00:49:57.06\00:49:59.19
If God is not the one
that you're worshiping.
00:49:59.23\00:50:02.40
Stop today and
worship the only true God,
00:50:02.43\00:50:05.50
our Creator.
00:50:05.53\00:50:07.20
Now the lesson
brings Mark 7:1-13
00:50:07.24\00:50:11.11
because we have
some principles here
00:50:11.14\00:50:13.17
that we need to highlight
00:50:13.21\00:50:15.61
because we're talking
about Idolatry in Education.
00:50:15.64\00:50:19.81
How can idolatry get
into education you may ask?
00:50:19.85\00:50:23.12
Well, this is more of
something you may see,
00:50:23.15\00:50:26.19
you may see it in
Christian schools,
00:50:26.22\00:50:27.56
but you'll see
it most definitely
00:50:27.59\00:50:29.22
in the secular
educational system.
00:50:29.26\00:50:33.06
So let's look,
00:50:33.09\00:50:35.13
we don't have time to
read the whole Mark 7:1-13.
00:50:35.16\00:50:39.97
I encourage you to do so,
00:50:40.00\00:50:41.34
but here's the scene
where the Pharisees and scribes
00:50:41.37\00:50:43.34
came to attack Jesus,
00:50:43.37\00:50:46.27
let's say attacking Jesus,
00:50:46.31\00:50:48.01
finding a way to
cause Him to stumble
00:50:48.04\00:50:52.21
to have something to accuse Him.
00:50:52.25\00:50:54.18
So they're in Mark Chapter 7
00:50:54.22\00:50:56.05
and I'll just read
verses 5 maybe through 9.
00:50:56.08\00:50:59.85
And this is what the Bible says.
00:50:59.89\00:51:01.22
"Then the Pharisees
and scribes asked Him,
00:51:01.26\00:51:03.46
'Why do Your disciples not walk
00:51:03.49\00:51:05.86
according to the
tradition of the elders,
00:51:05.89\00:51:09.30
but eat bread
with unwashed hands?'
00:51:09.33\00:51:12.00
He answered and said to them,
00:51:12.03\00:51:13.60
'Well did Isaiah
prophesy of you hypocrites,"
00:51:13.64\00:51:17.67
now this is strong language,
00:51:17.71\00:51:19.04
but this is what they were,
00:51:19.07\00:51:20.64
"as it is written,
00:51:20.68\00:51:22.01
'This people
honors me with their lips,
00:51:22.04\00:51:25.58
but their heart is far from Me."
00:51:25.61\00:51:29.08
You see, if you're
just worshiping God,
00:51:29.12\00:51:31.15
from your lips, but
your heart is far from God,
00:51:31.19\00:51:34.62
then you're not
really worshiping God.
00:51:34.66\00:51:36.69
Like it was already said
00:51:36.73\00:51:38.29
we must worship God
in spirit and in truth.
00:51:38.33\00:51:40.56
And to do this, you must
do so with all of your heart.
00:51:40.60\00:51:43.90
Notice, "And in
vain they worship Me,
00:51:43.93\00:51:47.90
teaching as doctrines
the commandments of men."
00:51:47.94\00:51:52.07
Notice what they do.
00:51:52.11\00:51:53.44
"For laying aside
the commandment of God,
00:51:53.48\00:51:56.75
you hold the tradition of men,
00:51:56.78\00:51:59.38
the washing of
pitchers and cups,
00:51:59.41\00:52:01.82
and many other
such things you do.'
00:52:01.85\00:52:04.45
He said to them,
00:52:04.49\00:52:05.82
'All too well you
reject the commandment of God,
00:52:05.85\00:52:08.66
that you may
keep your tradition.'"
00:52:08.69\00:52:11.66
Be careful with tradition,
00:52:11.69\00:52:13.83
if what you do is not
found in the Word of God,
00:52:13.86\00:52:17.90
it is a tradition
00:52:17.93\00:52:19.43
and should not be
put above God's Word.
00:52:19.47\00:52:23.74
Now, what
happens when you do this?
00:52:23.77\00:52:26.88
Verse 13 is the
highlight of this,
00:52:26.91\00:52:31.11
it says, "Making the Word of God
00:52:31.15\00:52:33.65
of no effect
through your tradition
00:52:33.68\00:52:36.08
which you have handed down.
00:52:36.12\00:52:37.95
And many such things you do."
00:52:37.99\00:52:39.75
So when you put
something else above God,
00:52:39.79\00:52:43.79
then you are putting
aside God and the Word of God
00:52:43.83\00:52:48.86
and you are
worshiping that becomes an idol.
00:52:48.90\00:52:52.70
Now I wanna say something to you
00:52:52.73\00:52:54.10
because there's a
great, great danger
00:52:54.14\00:52:57.61
in the school systems.
00:52:57.64\00:53:00.08
And that is the
children are presented ideas
00:53:00.11\00:53:04.85
that are
contradictory to scriptures,
00:53:04.88\00:53:07.42
and I'm gonna
mention one of them
00:53:07.45\00:53:08.78
that is easy to see, evolution.
00:53:08.82\00:53:12.79
Now evolution is an
idea that is not founded
00:53:12.82\00:53:15.46
on the Word of God.
00:53:15.49\00:53:16.83
It puts God aside and
say we came from nothing,
00:53:16.86\00:53:21.50
basically from
nothing, but God created us.
00:53:21.53\00:53:23.97
We are created in His
image, Praise be to God.
00:53:24.00\00:53:26.97
Now I want to
mention something to you
00:53:27.00\00:53:29.14
about the
illusion of truth effect.
00:53:29.17\00:53:32.21
Wow, I don't have
enough time to do this,
00:53:32.24\00:53:35.14
but the
illusion of truth effect,
00:53:35.18\00:53:38.81
the validity effect,
00:53:38.85\00:53:40.22
truth effect or
reiteration effect
00:53:40.25\00:53:42.82
is something
that has been proven
00:53:42.85\00:53:46.02
by studies, by
universities, what it is?
00:53:46.05\00:53:48.59
The repetition of an idea,
00:53:48.62\00:53:50.59
even if it's a false idea
that you know, it's false,
00:53:50.63\00:53:55.53
but you keep hearing
it over and over again,
00:53:55.56\00:53:58.03
your mind it becomes
familiar in your mind,
00:53:58.07\00:54:01.07
and you then look
at that as a truth.
00:54:01.10\00:54:04.81
So consider these children
00:54:04.84\00:54:06.34
that come into the kindergarten,
00:54:06.37\00:54:09.01
first grade,
00:54:09.04\00:54:10.38
and all the way through college.
00:54:10.41\00:54:12.31
They tell you,
evolution, evolution, evolution,
00:54:12.35\00:54:16.62
this can have a
devastating effect
00:54:16.65\00:54:18.55
on people they begin to question
00:54:18.59\00:54:20.76
and they begin to
accept these things as truth.
00:54:20.79\00:54:24.19
In a 2015 study,
00:54:24.23\00:54:27.06
researchers discovered
00:54:27.10\00:54:28.43
that familiarity can
overpower rationality,
00:54:28.46\00:54:32.43
and that repetitively hearing
that a certain fact is wrong
00:54:32.47\00:54:37.47
can affect the hearer's beliefs.
00:54:37.51\00:54:40.88
Researchers attributed
the illusory of truth effects
00:54:40.91\00:54:47.32
impact on participants
00:54:47.35\00:54:48.68
who knew the correct
answers to begin with,
00:54:48.72\00:54:51.22
but were persuaded
to believe otherwise,
00:54:51.25\00:54:54.26
through the
repetition of a falsehood
00:54:54.29\00:54:57.59
to a processing
fluency, very dangerous.
00:54:57.63\00:55:02.20
And I encourage
you to consider it,
00:55:02.23\00:55:04.63
you know, your children
are going to public school,
00:55:04.67\00:55:06.17
some people can't afford to pay,
00:55:06.20\00:55:07.90
but you must hold
these family worships,
00:55:07.94\00:55:11.91
and keep continuing to
present to them the truth,
00:55:11.94\00:55:15.68
the truth of God's Word,
00:55:15.71\00:55:17.58
to counteract the things
00:55:17.61\00:55:19.85
that may lead them
away from the Lord.
00:55:19.88\00:55:22.18
So, and I encourage you
to consider Psalms 16:11,
00:55:22.22\00:55:27.26
"Thy will show
me the path of life,
00:55:27.29\00:55:28.99
in Thy presence
is fullness of joy,
00:55:29.02\00:55:32.43
at Thy right hand
00:55:32.46\00:55:33.90
there are
pleasures forevermore."
00:55:33.93\00:55:35.60
Let's worship the only true God.
00:55:35.63\00:55:37.77
He alone is
worthy of our worship.
00:55:37.80\00:55:39.80
Amen. Amen. Amen.
00:55:39.83\00:55:41.17
Wow. What a powerful lesson.
00:55:41.20\00:55:42.54
I mean, this has
been a beautiful lesson.
00:55:42.57\00:55:44.67
We were laying foundation.
00:55:44.71\00:55:46.41
We can't say for
the last six lessons,
00:55:46.44\00:55:48.48
but surely this was
one of our favorite ones.
00:55:48.51\00:55:51.81
Education is coming up next,
00:55:51.85\00:55:53.88
Education and Redemption
is gonna be the next one
00:55:53.92\00:55:55.72
we're talking about.
00:55:55.75\00:55:57.09
If you notice the
entire core is about education.
00:55:57.12\00:55:59.29
So, Jill, why
don't you summarize
00:55:59.32\00:56:00.66
what you cover today?
00:56:00.69\00:56:02.16
I had declare
them to their children.
00:56:02.19\00:56:05.39
Revelation 14:12.
00:56:05.43\00:56:07.16
"Here is the
patience of the saints,
00:56:07.20\00:56:08.86
here are those who
keep the commandments of God
00:56:08.90\00:56:10.93
and the faith of Jesus."
00:56:10.97\00:56:12.67
So the goal of education,
00:56:12.70\00:56:14.94
the goal of
parenting is to teach children,
00:56:14.97\00:56:18.24
young people to know
understand God's law,
00:56:18.27\00:56:21.91
and to love Jesus.
00:56:21.94\00:56:23.38
Amen.
00:56:23.41\00:56:24.75
Jesus says in John Chapter 16
00:56:24.78\00:56:27.32
that the Holy Spirit
is the spirit of truth.
00:56:27.35\00:56:31.89
And so if you worship the
Lord in spirit and in truth,
00:56:31.92\00:56:34.29
you're kind of getting
an all encompassing deal.
00:56:34.32\00:56:36.59
So to worship God
in spirit and truth
00:56:36.62\00:56:38.23
means to submit
yourself to the Holy Spirit,
00:56:38.26\00:56:40.80
that He may
constantly lead you into truth,
00:56:40.83\00:56:43.16
and to worship
and serve God always.
00:56:43.20\00:56:45.20
Amen and amen.
00:56:45.23\00:56:46.57
Mine was the Beauty of Holiness.
00:56:46.60\00:56:48.34
And I would just say this,
that central to all worship,
00:56:48.37\00:56:52.34
and all worship education
is the plan of salvation.
00:56:52.37\00:56:56.48
Teach your children
how much God loves them,
00:56:56.51\00:56:59.61
and what He stand for them.
00:56:59.65\00:57:01.75
Amen. Amen.
00:57:01.78\00:57:03.12
I want to highlight
a song very well-known,
00:57:03.15\00:57:08.09
God and God Alone.
00:57:08.12\00:57:09.56
God and God alone
00:57:09.59\00:57:11.19
created all these
things we call our own,
00:57:11.23\00:57:13.33
from the mighty to the small,
00:57:13.36\00:57:14.70
the glory in them all
is God's and God's alone.
00:57:14.73\00:57:17.77
God and God alone
00:57:17.80\00:57:19.13
is fit to take
the universe's throne.
00:57:19.17\00:57:21.80
Let everything,
everything that lives
00:57:21.84\00:57:23.91
reserve its truest
praise for God and God alone.
00:57:23.94\00:57:27.68
That's right.
00:57:27.71\00:57:29.04
And my thought is
before the spirit of worship
00:57:29.08\00:57:31.81
is expressed in your actions,
00:57:31.85\00:57:33.95
the truth of God's Word
must be embraced in your heart.
00:57:33.98\00:57:37.99
Education and Redemption
is gonna be the next quarter.
00:57:38.02\00:57:41.42
We were blessed by
the study, haven't?
00:57:41.46\00:57:43.26
But the next
lesson, lesson number eight,
00:57:43.29\00:57:45.56
and we are
encouraging you to join us then,
00:57:45.59\00:57:48.23
but remember what we said today,
00:57:48.26\00:57:50.40
if you're not
worshiping the Lord,
00:57:50.43\00:57:52.23
your worship is in vain.
00:57:52.27\00:57:54.20
Find out where
that roadblock is,
00:57:54.24\00:57:56.74
and remove it and put the
Lord on the altar of your heart.
00:57:56.77\00:58:00.21
Join us next time
for an exciting study.
00:58:00.24\00:58:03.14
God bless you
until we see you again.
00:58:03.18\00:58:04.91
Amen.
00:58:04.95\00:58:06.28