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Scripture Portraits of the Church (4) - God's City · Stornoway Free Church of Scotland - Sermons

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We're going to begin our worship today singing in Psalm 107, Psalm 107, and we're singing
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from the Sing Psalms Version, page 143, verses 1 to 9.
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O thank the Lord, for He is good, His love endures always. Let those whom God redeemed
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say this, those rescued by His grace. He saved them from their enemies and brought
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them from the lands, from east and west, from north and south, safe from oppressing hands.
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We're singing verses 1 to 9, Psalm 107, page 143, and we're standing to sing.
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O thank the Lord, for He is good, His love endures always. Let those whom God
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God redeemed say this, those rescued by His grace. He saved them from their enemies and brought
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them from the land, from east and west, from north and south, safe from oppressing hands.
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Come on dirt in the desert ways, not finding any way, to reach a city where they might obtain
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enough place to stay. Where life and strength were having passed, in partial
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and emptiness. Then in despair they sought the Lord, who saved them from distress.
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straight was the path He led them on, a city to attain. So for the Lord's unfailing love, let them give thanks again.
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the Lord's unfailing love, let them give thanks again.
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And for the awesome deeds of power, which He for them achieves, for hungry souls He fills with good, the
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thirsty He relieves.
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Well, let's pray together now. We're praying a short prayer just now, mainly for the children, and we'll have the main prayer afterwards.
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Let's call upon the Lord in prayer.
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Lord, our gracious God, we give thanks today that we gather here in Your name, that we do so willingly and freely, and that we take delight in doing so.
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We thank You today, O Lord, that we are gathered together. We know from Your Word how important it is for Your people to be gathered together to worship You.
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And we give thanks for this occasion, and we give thanks for this day. We pray that You would help us to maintain the Lord's day, as a day that is separate and kept for worship, and for thinking upon Yourself and upon Your salvation, and upon Your creation as we see it around us.
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Lord, we thank You, O Lord, we thank You, O Lord, as they come to learn more of Your gospel, of the truth of Your Word, that it may be truly blessed to them, and that they may grow up to know more and more of You through this Word that You have given us.
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Help them, Lord, we pray, as they interact with the message of the gospel today.
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Protect them in the world, we pray.
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Give them to be shielded from the many harmful things that exist in our world.
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And give them, Lord, we pray, to pray for themselves, for Your own guidance and protection in life.
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And now go before us, we pray, and help us as we engage in worship, that we may do so depending upon Your Holy Spirit to guide us into Your truth.
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Receive our thanks and forgive our sins, for Jesus' sake.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Okay, children.
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In the main sermon today, we're going to be thinking of a city, because God's Word describes the church as God's city.
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The people of God are citizens of that city.
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But I want to tell you about another city mentioned in the Bible, and that's in Genesis chapter 11.
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Because in Genesis chapter 11, we read about an attempt to build a city or to build a tower,
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and the top of it was going to reach right up into the heavens.
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It came to be known as the Tower of Babel.
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Babel means confusion or scattering.
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Let me just read these words in Genesis 11.
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Here were the people of that time a long, long time ago.
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And when they came to a certain place, they said,
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Come, let us make bricks, and we'll burn them thoroughly.
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So they had bricks.
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And then they said,
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Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens.
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And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed and scattered over the face of the whole earth.
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They were afraid of being scattered, separated from each other over the whole earth.
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And so they tried to make a place where they would be safe and where that wouldn't happen.
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And it's a passage that tells us about an attempt to produce safety without God.
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In fact, it tells us something important there, that the Lord came down to see the city that they were attempting to build,
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and the very thing that they were afraid of and they were trying to prevent, the Lord actually caused.
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He gave them all sorts of different languages.
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They couldn't understand each other, so they were scattered abroad on the face of the earth.
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Now, that tells us something very important today.
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We need safety.
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We need security.
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We need salvation.
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But we can't have that without God.
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If we try and build salvation for ourselves, that's going to end in failure and disaster.
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Because here they were trying to build this city with the top of it reaching up to heaven
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in order to try and make for themselves a place of safety.
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Now, the Bible tells us that our place of safety, of salvation, is in Jesus.
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Jesus is the one.
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When we come to believe in Him, to trust in Him, to give our lives to Him,
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then we are within safety.
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We have salvation.
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No one can take that away from us.
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And then whatever happens, we know that that's going to be always true of us,
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that we will be safe in Jesus.
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So today, for the adults and for myself and for yourselves,
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we are here to build up our lives not by forgetting God, but by actually trusting in God.
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Because when we try and build up without God, inevitably we're going to fail and it'll bring disaster.
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And we will fail in a way that will actually not have salvation,
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but have what the Bible calls the opposite of that.
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We will be lost.
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We will not be saved.
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And so today, you have this huge advantage or privilege to know about Jesus, to learn about Jesus,
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but it's so that you can come to have God in your life and not leave God behind and build up your lives with God at the center and foundation of your life.
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So we're going to say the Lord's Prayer then.
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And then we'll actually have another singing after that when you go through to your classes.
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So let's say the Lord's Prayer together.
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Our Father, our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
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Thy kingdom come.
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Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
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For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
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Amen.
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We're going to sing again.
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This time we're singing from Psalm 106.
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This is in the Scottish Psalter, Psalm 106.
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Psalm 106.
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Again, we're standing to sing.
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Amen.
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God's mighty works who can express the show for all this great.
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Blessed are they that judgment keep, and justly do always.
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Remember me, Lord, with that love which I to thine does pay.
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With thy salvation, O my God, to visit me draw near.
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That I thy chosen's good mercy, and in their joy rejoice.
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And live with thy new merit as triumph with cheerful voice.
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I'm going to read now from God's word in the book of Psalms.
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Two Psalms, firstly Psalm 48, and then Psalm 87.
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First of all, Psalm 48.
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Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God.
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His holy mountain, beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth.
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Mount Zion in the far north, the city of the great king, with her citadels.
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God has made himself known as a fortress.
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For behold, the kings assembled and came on together.
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As soon as they saw it, they were astounded.
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They were in panic.
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They took to flight.
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Trembling took hold of them there, anguish as of a woman in labor.
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By the east wind, you shattered the ships of Tarshish.
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As we have heard, so have we seen.
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In the city of the Lord of hosts.
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In the city of our God, which God will establish forever.
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We have thought on your steadfast love, O God, in the midst of your temple.
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As your name, O God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth.
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Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
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Let Mount Zion be glad.
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Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.
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Walk about Zion.
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Go round her.
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Number her towers.
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Consider well her ramparts.
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Go through her citadels.
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That you may tell the next generation that this is God.
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Our God forever and ever.
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He will guide us forever.
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And if we turn to Psalm 87, we'll read through that short psalm as well.
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Psalm 87.
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Psalm 87.
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Psalm 87.
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Psalm 87.
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Psalm 87.
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Psalm 87.
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Psalm 87.
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Psalm 87.
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Psalm 87.
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Psalm 87.
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On the holy mount stands the city he founded.
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The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
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Glorious things of you are spoken, O city of God.
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Among those who know me, I will mention Rahab and Babylon.
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Amen.
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Behold Philistia and Tyre with Cush.
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This one was born there, they say.
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And of Zion it shall be said, this one and that one were born in her.
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For the Most High himself will establish her.
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The Lord records as he registers the people, this one was born there.
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Amen.
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And may God bless to us these readings of his word.
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Let's again join together in prayer.
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We give thanks, O Lord our God, as we call upon your name again.
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We give thanks that we belong to your church in this world.
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We give thanks for the teaching of your word in regard to belonging to your own believing people.
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We give thanks today for the many privileges that are ours and for the many promises that your word sets out for those who trust in you.
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We thank you today for the opportunity again to worship you together.
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And we thank you for the way in which we are able to do so, using the resources that you have given us in your word.
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And to call upon you in prayer and to sing your praises.
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And to have your word expounded.
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Lord, it is our great privilege to be gathered together here today again.
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Help us, we pray, to avail ourselves of this opportunity to make maximum use of it.
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We thank you, Lord, for the way that you continue to bless us from week to week.
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And for your patience with us and your long-suffering toward us.
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For the way that you repeatedly bring us before your word.
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And bring your word to our minds and laid upon our hearts.
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Lord, we come today confessing that we are unworthy of the least of your mercies.
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We come confessing our own sins.
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Confessing our many failures and shortcomings.
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The many ways in which we know we sin against you.
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In our very thoughts we sin against you.
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We sin against you in the words that we speak from time to time.
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In a way that is ill-advised and not in accord with righteousness and truth.
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We sin against you in our behavior, in our relationships.
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We, Lord, don't have the ability to number the many sins that we commit against you.
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As each day and each week and each year goes by.
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But we give thanks today that your mercy far exceeds our sins in their greatness or in their number.
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We thank you today that your word teaches us that your justice and your mercy reach the clouds.
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That they are greater than anything that we ourselves may engage in.
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We thank you today for your mercy.
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We thank you for your forgiveness of our sins.
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For your cleansing by your Holy Spirit.
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By your truth of our hearts and lives.
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From sin and from the effects of sin.
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Help us, we pray, always to come before you conscious that you are the one who calls us into your presence.
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That with you there is forgiveness.
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So that you may be feared.
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That we may revere you.
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That we may honor you.
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And that we may pay homage to you at all times.
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Bless us, we pray today, as a people, as a congregation.
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Oh, Lord, we ask that you would give us today your blessing through your Spirit.
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To be with us as we gather.
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And with those who are unable to gather with us physically.
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Bless them where they are.
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We ask that you would bless the means that you have given us, Lord.
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Of people in their homes.
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Being able to share in the services.
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And we thank you for those who simply cannot be with us through illness of different kinds.
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And, Lord, we ask your blessing for them today.
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And as your gospel reaches them, we pray that it may truly be precious once again to them.
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We pray for those who are ill at this time.
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Remember them, we pray, O Lord, in hospital.
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Those at home or those in care homes.
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We commit them to you and ask that the care they receive may be blessed to them.
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And that we may all be grateful and thankful to you.
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For your continuing goodness, Lord, in providing us with so many resources.
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We pray today also for those of our number, O Lord, who are not here and not watching online.
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We pray for those damaged by the COVID pandemic particularly.
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Those who have slipped away from following you, from confessing you,
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from being meaningfully part of your gathered church.
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Lord, we pray for them today.
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We ask that you would recover them.
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We pray that your grace, Lord, will be with them.
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So as to shield them, to protect them, but to bring them back into your ways, O Lord.
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We pray for those who have difficulties of their own health as well today.
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Remember those who have issues of mental health.
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We commit them to you, Lord, and ask that you'd bless them.
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We pray that your word may be precious to them.
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And we ask that they may draw their strength from yourself.
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We give thanks that you know us so intimately, so perfectly in the workings of our mind and hearts,
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in our emotions, in our concerns, in everything to do with us.
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O Lord, we give thanks that your knowledge of us is perfect.
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And we give thanks that you are able to meet every detail of our need throughout all the circumstances of life.
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Remember those today who mourn the passing of loved ones.
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Lord, in our communities, we are so conscious that there are families from day to day and week to week
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who miss loved ones and who have bereavement to contend with.
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We ask that that will be so for those today, Lord, who have these circumstances in their experience.
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Bless, we pray, those who tend to our needs at such times.
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We give thanks for the undertaker's staff, and we thank you for their own contribution, O Lord, to our well-being.
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As we need their services from time to time, we thank you for them and for the provision you have made for us in that.
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We thank you, Lord, today that we can call upon you on behalf of many who don't pray for themselves.
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And we pray for our world.
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We pray for our nation.
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We pray for our governments.
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We pray for those in authority of different kinds over us,
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those who have the task of maintaining law and order.
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We pray for our police force.
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We pray for our ambulance service.
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We pray for all those resources that are this time so stretched and so short-staffed.
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And we ask, O Lord, that all the emergency services will know your blessing
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and will know your provision to continue to follow them.
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And we ask that you'd bless now our gathering here today.
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We pray that you'd bless those, O Lord, who were mentioned in our intimations today.
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We pray for Dooney.
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We give thanks for his time as treasurer.
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We pray that you'd uphold him at this time and that he may know your grace, O Lord, for his recovery.
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We thank you for that measure of recovery that he already knows.
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We pray, too, Lord, for Gordon as he takes over.
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We thank you for his willingness to do so.
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And we pray for him, not only in that role, but also as a counselor.
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And all others who serve in the core of the two.
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We pray today for them, Lord, and ask that you'd bless them.
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We ask, too, for Ian as he takes on gift aid, treasurer duties.
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We pray that you'd bless him, Lord, in that task.
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And help him and all of them together as they look after these aspects of the congregation's well-being.
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We thank you, Lord, for the generosity of your people.
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We pray at this time for those who are facing hard times financially.
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Bless those, Lord, facing loss of work.
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We pray for those who find the cost of living increased to be such a challenge in their homes and families.
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We ask that you'd bless them.
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And those who are unemployed and looking for work, we remember them in your presence.
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We pray that you'd continue, Lord, to provide for them and to encourage them and to be their portion.
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And so, go before us now, we pray.
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Look upon us in your mercy and guide us into your truth.
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And all for Jesus' sake.
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Amen.
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Well, we're going to have one more singing before we come to look at Psalm 87.
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This singing is from Psalm 132, and as you find it on page 423.
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We're singing verses 13 to 18.
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For God of Zion hath made choice, there he desires to dwell.
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This is my rest, here still I'll stay, for I do like it well.
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That food I'll greatly bless, her poor with bread will satisfy.
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Her priests I'll clothe with health, her saints shall shout forth joyfully.
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Verses 13 to the end of Psalm 132 to God's praise.
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For God of Zion hath made choice, there he desires to dwell.
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For God of Zion hath made choice, there he desires to dwell.
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This is my rest, here still I'll stay, for I do like it well.
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How good and great, he bless her poor, with bread will satisfy.
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And there will I make day this home.
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who'll be nice, there he does, or тысяч would perish.
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For God for blessing me, for him that mine amointed is,
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A love poured in the light
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As with our garment diamond rose
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With shameless Henry's own
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But yet the crown that he can wear
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Upon him flourish shall
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Now will you turn with me please back to the book of Psalms and Psalm 87
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And looking at this short psalm as we read through it a short time ago
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We're just continuing with our short series of studies on Scripture portraits of the church
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We've already seen three from one version, 1 Timothy 3.15
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And we've seen some of the imagery there, some of the illustrations, if you like, that the Bible uses
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To describe God's church
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We looked at the church described there as a household
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And also as the pillar and buttress of the truth
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Looking at the different aspects in which these are important elements of the church's life
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And the Bible's illustrations, of course, are always the best for us
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I know we try and hopefully get illustrations that we can use in the sermons that we preach
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So that hopefully that will help to blend in with the words of Scripture and the message itself
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But the Bible's own illustrations are so brilliant
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And by far better than any other illustrations you can get to illustrate the truth of God for us
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And here we also have an illustration of the church or a portrait of the church
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And it's actually a portrait that combines two things
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It is a portrait of a city in which God has His dwelling
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But there is also an element of, you might say, mothering or motherly care
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On the part of the church for those who belong to the church
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Because it speaks about those who were born there in Zion
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And being born there means being born but looked after by the church herself
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In the imagery of her being a mother
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Which, of course, as we'll see, takes in our responsibility to look after each other
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As those who belong to God's church in this world
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So as we look at these images in the psalm
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I want to look at just three things to try and bring out the teaching of the psalm in that regard
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First of all, this is God's city
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On the holy mount stands the city He founded
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The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob
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Glorious things of you are spoken, O city of God
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So the emphasis there, obviously, is on the city
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Zion
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Zion is often used, the word is used often interchangeably with Jerusalem
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Because Mount Zion, outside Jerusalem, where the temple was situated
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Sometimes the word Zion, sometimes it's the word Jerusalem
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But in the spiritual meaning of them, especially in the book of Psalms and the prophets
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They really stand for the people of God in covenant with Him
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Not just the place, but the people who gather in that place
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Who belong to God as His people
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And we saw in our first study that it's so important that we realize the church is people, not buildings
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That it's important that the church is comprised of people in covenant with God
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And not the buildings in which they meet
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Although that's sometimes referred to as the church, of course
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So here is the city of God, God's city
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Secondly, there's an emphasis, verses 4 to 6
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On the mother city of God's children
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The place where God's people are nourished, brought up, and nurtured
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Just as a mother takes care of her children
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So the church is responsible to take care of those who belong to her
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And thirdly, you find in verse 7
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That it's a city of joy and life
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For life and joy
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Singers and dancers alike say
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All my springs, all my well springs are in you
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Let's try and unfold some of the teaching in those three points
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First of all, it's the city He founded
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Now we sang already in some Psalms of Zion earlier on
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And how Zion, despite its small size comparatively
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To those enemies that came to attack from time to time
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Nevertheless, God looked after his city
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God looked after Zion
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Zion was very small compared to the likes of Babylon
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Or Nineveh or these great cities in the world of these times
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But it's mentioned this year
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God founded this city on the Holy Mount
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In other words, there's a stability about this city
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Which is brought out by the fact that it mentions on the Holy Mount
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The city of Zion
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Zion, a place built upon the mountain
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Not just elevated, but also secure in terms of where it is anchored
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And of course that spiritualized is really and is proper for us to spiritualize
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That's what the Bible does
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It reminds us that when God establishes us as a people
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He establishes us on a sure foundation
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It's not something like we saw with the children
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The Tower of Babel
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The attempt of human beings by their own ingenuity
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To try and provide security for themselves
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To try and actually provide a basis for life
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On which they could safely build
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And that passage and others tell us
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You just can't build that for yourself
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You need to belong to the city of God
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You need to belong to the people that God is anchoring firmly in himself
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On the mount that he himself is
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The rock that he himself is
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And of course you carry the imagery of Zion
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As a city
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And the church as a city
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You carry that forward
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Indeed the Bible does it for us
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When it speaks of heaven as a city
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You go to Revelation
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And you find a description there of heaven
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Set out in terms of it being a city
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And you recall what's said in Hebrews chapter 11
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About Abraham especially
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And Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
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They traveled about different places
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They didn't have a place that they could actually settle in
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And this is what it says about Abraham
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He dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob
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Heirs with him of the same promise
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What promise?
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The promise of a lasting inheritance
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For he was looking for a city that has foundations
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Whose builder and maker is God
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And in that wonderful chapter
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Chapter 11
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That list
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That wonderful logbook if you like
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Of those who lived by faith
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You come to the middle of the chapter or thereabouts
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It tells us that those who
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Actually came to know the Lord
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They might have had opportunity to return
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To go back
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But they didn't want to do that
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They were looking for a homeland
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And so God is not ashamed
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To be called their God
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For he has provided for them a city
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He has made for them
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He has created for them a city
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When we call God today
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Our God
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When you call God
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My God
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You're using covenant language
34:05
You're using the language of citizenship
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You're using the language of belonging to God's church
34:11
And you're looking forward to a city
34:14
That has foundations
34:16
To heaven
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Whose builder and maker is God
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And you notice what he says here
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The Lord loves the gates of Zion
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More than all the dwelling places of Jacob
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Now often the gates of a place in the Old Testament
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Mean the important center place of that city
34:34
It's not just gates in the sense of which
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Gates were placed on the walls for security
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The gates were often where the council met
34:42
Where the important people who took the decisions met
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In the city
34:46
The gates of Jerusalem
34:48
The gates of Zion
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Are where the business of the place takes
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The business of the place occurs
34:54
Where decisions are taken
34:55
So it's really saying
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The Lord loves the gates of Zion
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He loves the people
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He loves what's going on in Zion
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More than all the dwelling places of Jacob
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Because Jacob you see
35:07
As we mentioned with Abraham as well
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Went from place to place in tents
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Dwelling places you could just lift up and take with you
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Because they were looking forward to permanence
35:18
Looking forward to stability
35:20
That would last for them
35:21
A city that has foundations
35:23
Whose builder and maker is God
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And now he's saying
35:27
God loves the gates of Zion
35:30
Why does he love the gates of Zion
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More than all the dwelling places of Jacob
35:34
Because he has fulfilled his promise
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That he would actually come to speak
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Of a place where he would build
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A temple would be built for him
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Where his people would gather
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Where they wouldn't have to go from place to place
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Where they would no longer be traveling
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Through the wilderness
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Where they would be settled in the land of promise
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And he loves the gates of Zion
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More than the dwelling places of Jacob
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Doesn't mean he didn't love the dwelling places of Jacob
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But it does mean that
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When they settled and built a temple
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And worshipped in Zion
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God's love was focused upon them
36:09
It's a covenant community
36:13
In relationship with God
36:16
Isn't that such a precious thing for yourself
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And for myself
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And for ourselves
36:25
We shouldn't really be thinking
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So much in individual terms
36:29
As in the congregational sense
36:32
Because as we gather here
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We're gathering here as a covenant community
36:36
As a people who stand in covenant with God
36:39
As baptized members of His church
36:41
Most of us at least
36:43
And that means that in that covenant
36:46
We have with God
36:47
God is our God
36:49
We can take Him as our God
36:50
He delights in being known as our God
36:53
And in His love He has provided salvation for us
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In Jesus Christ
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It says glorious things of you are spoken
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O city of God
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What glorious things
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Well especially those things
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That are mentioned then
37:13
In the following verses
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But glorious things
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Are spoken of the church
37:17
Because the church's future
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Is amazingly glorious
37:21
You see all of these enemies
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That try to actually deal with Zion
37:26
And wipe out Zion
37:27
And the same down through the ages
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Wiping out the church
37:31
If it were possible
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Which it isn't
37:33
Denominations come and go
37:35
But God's church remains
37:36
And as long as sun and moon endure
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God will have a covenant
37:40
People somewhere in the world
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Until the end of the world
37:43
You see here is Zion
37:45
This tiny place
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Compared to Babylon
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Or the might of the Assyrians
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Whatever it was
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Whatever
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People were attacking her
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And yet she survived
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Look at the apostles
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Look at that small group
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Of people gathered
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After Jesus' resurrection
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Before He ascended to heaven
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And then even afterwards
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Look at them gathered there
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Before the day of Pentecost
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Before the Spirit came with power
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What are they in number?
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They're so small
38:12
They're so insignificant
38:13
In comparison to the world around them
38:15
How were these people
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That small group of people
38:18
Ever going to produce something
38:20
Ever going to be something
38:22
Meaningful in that great world?
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Well if you look at the history
38:27
Of the church
38:28
That's something you see
38:29
All the way down to the present day
38:31
Why is there a church?
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What's the reason
38:36
The church continues to exist?
38:39
What's the reason
38:40
Despite all the attempts
38:41
To actually do away
38:43
With the gospel
38:43
And do away with the church
38:45
How come it's still there?
38:47
How come we still have
38:48
A believing people
38:50
Left in the world
38:50
In covenant with God?
38:52
Because God
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The Most High
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Establishes her
38:55
That's why
38:55
It's God's church
38:56
That's what He said to Peter
38:59
Wasn't it?
38:59
Matthew 16
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I will build
39:02
My church
39:03
Jesus said
39:04
And the gates of hell
39:05
Shall not prevail against it
39:07
You see using
39:08
The gates in the same way
39:09
As it's used in the psalm here
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The gates of Zion
39:12
The gates of hell
39:13
The powers of darkness
39:15
The powers of enmity
39:17
To the gospel
39:17
All the different ways
39:19
In which the
39:20
The thinkings
39:21
The intrigues
39:22
The plans
39:23
The purposes
39:25
Of the kingdom of darkness
39:27
In which they conspire together
39:29
Against the church
39:30
And we're still here
39:31
We don't take pride
39:34
In being here
39:35
It's not our
39:36
Doing as such
39:37
But God has seen to it
39:39
That He will establish
39:41
His church
39:41
Glorious things of you
39:43
Are spoken
39:44
O city of God
39:45
And when you go
39:47
And when you go
39:47
Into the New Testament
39:49
And onto the book of Revelation
39:50
And find the imagery
39:52
There described
39:53
Where heaven is described
39:55
As a city
39:56
With all this wonderful
39:58
Emphasis on
39:59
The most precious stones
40:01
And gold
40:02
And all the rest of it
40:03
These are just images
40:05
Of something far better
40:06
Than diamonds and gold
40:08
In themselves
40:09
It's the presence of God
40:12
Life with God
40:14
Salvation
40:15
Through Christ
40:16
Glorious things
40:21
Are spoken
40:22
Of the city of God
40:24
Aren't you privileged today
40:26
To be a citizen of Zion
40:28
To be a citizen of the church
40:31
To be brought up
40:34
Under the teaching
40:34
Of the gospel
40:35
To be in covenant
40:37
With God
40:38
And to have these promises
40:41
Addressed to you
40:42
As believers
40:43
But it's also
40:46
Secondly
40:46
The mother city
40:47
Of God's children
40:48
You see this
40:49
Emphasis from verse 4
40:50
Among those who know me
40:52
I mention Rahab
40:53
And Babylon
40:54
Philistia
40:55
And Tyre
40:56
With Cush
40:57
This one was born there
40:58
They say
40:59
And of Zion
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It shall be said
41:01
This one
41:01
And that one
41:02
Were born in her
41:03
For the most high
41:04
Himself will establish her
41:06
The Lord records
41:07
As he registers
41:08
The people
41:09
This one
41:09
Was born there
41:11
Three times
41:11
You have mentioned there
41:12
This one was born there
41:14
Because Zion is a
41:16
Spiritually a place
41:18
Of living people
41:19
People come to
41:21
Spiritual birth
41:23
Through belonging
41:25
To the church
41:26
And even if you
41:27
Are outside of the church
41:28
Completely
41:29
And never belong
41:30
To the church
41:31
And God starts working
41:33
In your life
41:33
A person's life
41:34
Anybody out there
41:36
Today who's never
41:36
Been to church
41:37
Who's never heard
41:38
The gospel
41:38
And God comes
41:39
Into their life
41:40
Well then they're
41:41
Joined to the church
41:43
They come to belong
41:43
To Zion
41:44
They come to be a part
41:46
Of this covenant
41:47
Believing community
41:48
You can never separate
41:50
The church
41:51
And what the church
41:52
Is
41:53
From rebirth
41:54
From being born again
41:56
This is what
41:56
It takes us to
41:57
The New Testament
41:59
But
41:59
Look at what it's saying
42:01
There
42:01
Mentioning
42:02
Rahab, Babylon,
42:03
Philistia, and Tyre
42:04
Most of these
42:05
Were enemies of Israel
42:06
Enemies of the Jewish
42:08
People of Zion
42:09
And yet it speaks here
42:11
Of a great intake
42:13
You'll find that
42:15
In the prophets
42:15
Likes of Isaiah
42:17
Chapter 2
42:17
Chapter 25
42:19
Chapter 56
42:20
And of course
42:21
In the New Testament
42:22
Ephesians
42:23
Chapter 2
42:25
The death of Jesus
42:26
Is the means
42:28
By which God
42:29
Has brought together
42:30
And joined together
42:31
Jew and Gentile
42:33
Alike
42:33
Within the one church
42:34
And so important
42:36
To the apostles
42:36
That there is
42:38
Only one church
42:39
One believing people
42:40
Of God
42:41
However many
42:41
Denominations
42:42
There may be
42:43
But there are
42:45
There is only
42:45
The one believing
42:47
People of God
42:48
Why was that
42:50
Important to the apostles?
42:52
It was important
42:52
Because
42:53
They saw it
42:54
That God's
42:56
Zion
42:56
God's church
42:57
Was one
42:58
Right through
42:59
From the Old Testament
43:00
Into the new
43:01
And on into eternity
43:03
They weren't thinking
43:05
Of the church
43:06
Of the Old Testament
43:07
As a different church
43:09
To the church
43:09
Of the New Testament
43:10
In its essence
43:11
They are the people
43:12
Of God
43:13
And so that's
43:15
What remains true
43:16
For ourselves
43:17
We come today
43:19
To be God's
43:20
People
43:21
In covenant
43:22
With himself
43:22
And as we do so
43:25
We connect with those
43:26
Who've gone before us
43:27
And that's another
43:28
Image that the
43:29
New Testament uses
43:30
God willing
43:31
We'll come to look
43:31
At that one too
43:32
The image of the church
43:33
As a body
43:34
The body
43:36
Of Christ
43:37
The body
43:38
That's joined together
43:39
Different parts
43:41
But all functioning
43:42
As one
43:43
Well there's the intake
43:45
Of the Gentiles
43:46
Of which you and I
43:48
Ourselves are part
43:49
The Gentiles being
43:50
All those who are not Jews
43:52
Apart from the Jewish people
43:54
Everybody else in the world
43:55
Were known as the Gentiles
43:57
The Gentile world
43:58
This is what God had
43:59
In his purpose
44:00
To bring Gentile
44:01
And due together
44:02
To be one believing
44:04
People in his name
44:06
And of course
44:08
The emphasis
44:10
In the New Testament
44:10
Of being born again
44:13
You see how it's
44:14
Mentioning here
44:14
The register
44:15
That God keeps
44:16
The Lord records
44:17
As he registers
44:19
The people
44:19
This one was born there
44:22
Where?
44:23
In Zion
44:24
They belong to his church
44:27
And it's interesting
44:30
Isn't it
44:30
That there's an emphasis
44:32
There on the people
44:35
Together
44:36
Congregationally
44:38
Corporately
44:39
The totality
44:41
If you like
44:41
Of the people
44:42
And yet
44:43
There's also
44:43
This wonderful emphasis
44:45
Individually
44:46
The Lord records
44:48
As he registers
44:50
The people
44:50
This one
44:52
And that one
44:53
Was born there
44:55
Because when you come
44:59
To be born again
45:00
And when the Lord
45:02
Takes note
45:03
Of your spiritual rebirth
45:05
That he brings about
45:06
And when as it were
45:08
He records
45:08
Your birth certificate
45:10
In his register
45:11
In heaven
45:12
You're there
45:13
As an individual
45:14
It belongs
45:15
To this larger group
45:16
In other words
45:17
God is actually saying
45:20
That each one
45:21
That is born
45:21
Is precious to him
45:23
It's pastorally
45:25
Significant
45:26
To God himself
45:27
Because it means
45:28
Every single one
45:29
Of these individuals
45:30
Born in Zion
45:31
Are precious to him
45:33
And have his full attention
45:35
They have his care
45:39
And full attention
45:40
As he actually records
45:42
That they are his people
45:44
That they belong to him
45:45
That they are the born
45:47
Children
45:48
Of Zion
45:49
You know
45:51
One of the things
45:51
That I
45:52
Fail to appreciate
45:53
Myself
45:54
Is the
45:56
Relevance
45:58
And importance
45:59
And the privilege
46:00
Of belonging
46:01
To the church
46:02
Of belonging
46:04
To God's people
46:05
In this world
46:05
Of having my place
46:08
Amongst those people
46:09
Of whom this is said
46:11
And other things
46:12
Are said
46:13
We sometimes
46:14
You know
46:15
Find it all too easy
46:16
Just to have
46:18
A criticism
46:20
Of the church
46:21
And that's sometimes
46:21
Very rightly the case
46:22
Because we all need
46:24
Sometimes
46:24
To be criticized
46:25
And to find fault
46:27
With us
46:27
But what a huge
46:30
Privilege it is today
46:31
For you and for me
46:32
To belong
46:34
To this people
46:35
To be a citizen
46:36
Of Zion
46:37
To be born
46:38
In the church
46:39
Of God
46:39
To be looked
46:40
After by God
46:41
To have God's
46:42
Full attention
46:43
As he brings up
46:44
His children
46:46
Spiritually
46:47
For himself
46:48
And
46:50
That image
46:53
Of the church
46:54
Is so important
46:56
For ourselves
46:57
Because
46:57
It's not just
46:58
A case of
46:59
Looking at
47:00
An image
47:01
When you go
47:03
To the New Testament
47:04
And when you go
47:05
To a passage
47:05
Like
47:06
Colossians chapter 3
47:08
Verse 12
47:11
This is really
47:12
What it comes to
47:13
When you find
47:14
Zion
47:15
Being
47:16
The place
47:17
Or the people
47:17
In which we are
47:18
Nurtured and nourished
47:19
Spiritually
47:20
Remember how
47:22
Paul there writes
47:23
As follows
47:23
Put on then
47:24
As God's chosen ones
47:25
Holy and beloved
47:27
Compassion
47:28
Kindness
47:30
Humility
47:31
Meekness
47:32
And patience
47:33
Bearing with one another
47:35
And if one has a complaint
47:37
Against another
47:38
Forgiving each other
47:39
As the Lord
47:40
Has forgiven you
47:41
So you also
47:43
Must forgive
47:44
And above all these
47:45
Put on love
47:47
Which binds
47:48
Everything together
47:49
In perfect harmony
47:51
And let the peace
47:53
Of Christ
47:53
Rule in your hearts
47:54
To which indeed
47:56
You are called
47:57
In one body
47:58
And be
48:00
Thankful
48:01
You see there is
48:03
The church looking after
48:04
Looking after
48:06
Its own members
48:06
Looking after
48:07
Those who belong
48:08
As children
48:09
To the church
48:10
How they look out
48:12
For each other
48:13
How they actually
48:15
Remember each other
48:15
How they help each other
48:16
How they forgive each other
48:18
How they deal with
48:19
One another
48:19
On the pattern
48:21
Of how God
48:22
Has dealt with them
48:23
How we all feel in this
48:25
We all have to accept
48:28
That we don't measure up
48:29
As we should
48:30
To these great words
48:32
But it's our privilege
48:34
Nevertheless
48:34
To be here
48:35
In order to try
48:37
And as far as possible
48:38
Do that
48:39
And be the church of God
48:42
And show ourselves
48:43
To
48:44
To
48:45
To be
48:46
In the privileged position
48:48
Of being Zion's children
48:49
Of whom glorious things
48:52
Are said
48:53
The church
48:54
To put it another way
48:56
Ought to be
48:57
A safe place
48:59
People think nowadays
49:00
And speak nowadays
49:01
Of having a safe place
49:03
Having a place
49:04
Where they find safety
49:05
Whether it's mental health issues
49:07
Spiritual issues
49:08
Physical issues
49:09
Relationship issues
49:11
Whatever
49:11
But the church
49:12
Must be a safe place
49:14
And we must project
49:15
That it is a safe place
49:17
A place where people
49:19
Will have
49:19
Their own situation
49:22
Dealt with
49:23
Honestly
49:23
Seriously
49:25
Lovingly
49:26
Tactfully
49:27
Patiently
49:28
All those things
49:29
This is
49:31
The mothering qualities
49:34
Of Zion
49:35
Of the people of God
49:36
Together
49:37
As we seek to
49:39
Grow
49:40
In being nourished
49:41
Through God's truth
49:42
And thirdly
49:44
It's a city
49:44
Of life
49:45
And joy
49:46
He says here
49:48
In verse 7
49:49
Singers and dancers
49:51
Alike
49:52
Say
49:52
All my springs
49:54
Are in with you
49:55
There's a picture
49:56
Of that
49:56
Part of the imagery
49:57
It's a picture
49:59
Of a joyous
50:00
Celebration
50:01
Of life
50:02
Talks there
50:03
About wellsprings
50:05
All my wellsprings
50:07
Are in you
50:07
Just like you find
50:09
A spring
50:10
Or a fountain
50:11
Bubbling up
50:12
Through the ground
50:13
And providing
50:14
It's refreshing water
50:15
So
50:16
David is saying
50:17
So
50:17
The psalmist
50:19
Is saying
50:19
This is how it is
50:21
With the church
50:22
All my wellsprings
50:24
Are in you
50:25
What does he mean
50:26
By that?
50:26
Well he means
50:27
That God
50:28
Actually provides
50:30
The water
50:30
Of life
50:31
For us
50:32
But it comes
50:33
To us
50:34
Via his church
50:35
It comes to us
50:36
Through his word
50:37
Through his word
50:38
Preached
50:38
Through his word
50:39
Read
50:39
Through his word
50:40
Sung
50:40
And through the
50:41
Sacraments of
50:42
Baptism
50:43
And the Lord's
50:43
Supper
50:44
The springs
50:46
If you like
50:47
Situated in the church
50:48
Through which God
50:51
Brings nourishment
50:52
To our souls
50:53
And here is
50:54
The psalmist's
50:55
Confession
50:55
All my
50:57
Wellsprings
50:58
Are in you
50:59
Singers and
50:59
Dancers alike
51:00
Say this
51:01
Doesn't mean that
51:02
Stornway Free Church
51:04
Is going to introduce
51:04
Dancing
51:05
Into its
51:06
Services
51:08
This is just
51:10
An imagery
51:10
Of great
51:12
And wonderful
51:13
Celebration
51:14
Singers and
51:16
Dancers together
51:16
As they celebrate
51:18
Something that is
51:19
Really meaningful
51:20
And express
51:20
Such great joy
51:22
Well he's saying
51:22
This is what
51:24
Characterizes
51:25
Zion
51:25
This is what must
51:26
Characterize the church
51:27
It is a place
51:29
Of great joy
51:31
A place where there's
51:32
Vibrancy of life
51:33
As God
51:34
Fuels or
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Provides
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The streams
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Of blessing
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The streams
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Of life
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Through the church
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Through the
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Ordinances he's
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Given to his church
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And of course we come
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This Lord's
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Day to remember
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That God willing
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Another communion
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Is anticipated
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Next Lord's Day
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So here we are
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Today
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At one of the
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Wellsprings
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In the gospel
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In the word
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Preached
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And here we are
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Looking forward
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Next week
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To another one
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At the Lord's
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Supper
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Along with the word
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May we say
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With the psalmist
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All my wellsprings
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Are in you
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The church I belong to
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The church of Christ
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The church of God
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May our mind be
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Truly set
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Believingly
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And longingly
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Upon God
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Blessing
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These wellsprings
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To us
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On us
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Drawing the water
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From these great
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Wells of salvation
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That through the church
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Come to be enjoyed
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By God's people
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You remember
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The woman of Samaria
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In John chapter 4
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Sitting there
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By the well
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And the Lord
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Comes along
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Enders into
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Conversation with her
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As only he could
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And eventually
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Draws her to the point
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Where he says to her
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When she mentioned
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The Messiah
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The Savior
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I who am speaking
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To you
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I am he
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And in the conversation
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She said
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Lord give me more
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Of this water
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So that I don't need
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To come here
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To draw water anymore
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She didn't quite follow
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What he was saying
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At that point
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And he said to her
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Whoever drinks
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Of this water
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That's the water
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Of this well
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This literal water
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Whoever drinks
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Of this water
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Shall thirst again
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But whoever drinks
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Of the water
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That I shall give him
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Shall never thirst
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But it will be in him
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A spring of water
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Welling up
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To eternal life
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I've mentioned
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Many times already
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A place that's
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Quite precious to myself
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A spring of water
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Bubbling up
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Through the sands
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Down at Airtongue
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Where I was brought up
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There last week
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In fact
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Went down just again
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To see it
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Despite the fact
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That for generations
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The sea has been
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Coming in
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To cover that
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Little spring of water
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Covers it up
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And then the sea
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Goes out again
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And still that water
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Keeps bubbling up
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And it's like that
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In your soul
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As a Christian today
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When you're in
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Covenant with Jesus
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When you're born again
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When your life
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Is secure in him
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Whatever things
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Wash over your life
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From time to time
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And let's face it
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There are many people
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Here who know
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Better than I do
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Of the sheer difficulties
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And challenges of life
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But whatever water
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Wash over you
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To cause distress
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And trauma
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And pain
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And challenge
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You will always find
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Where God places
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Spiritual life
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That it cannot
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Be extinguished
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It keeps welling up
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And I'm sure
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Most if not all
54:44
Of you today
54:45
Are thankful
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In some regard
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For that
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In some way or other
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That you can say
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Of your life
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Lord
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I'm so thankful
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That when things
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Were critical for me
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And when I faced
54:57
A challenge
54:58
That was far greater
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Than I could cope
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With myself
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Your spring of water
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Kept flowing
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Your spring of life
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In my soul
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Kept bubbling up
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Kept feeding me
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Kept me in life
55:13
All my wellsprings
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Are in you
55:18
The psalmist
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Is saying
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Now you have been
55:22
Sitting
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By a well
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Today
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Where the water
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Of life
55:28
Is placed
55:29
By God
55:30
You've been sitting
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At the well
55:32
Of the gospel
55:33
You've been sitting
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Beside
55:35
One of the
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Wonderful provisions
55:38
Of God
55:39
One of these
55:41
Wellsprings
55:42
That he has placed
55:44
In his church
55:45
But it's one thing
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To be sitting
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Near the well
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That's another thing
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To drink of it
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And I hope today
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That no one here
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Has left this building
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Without drinking
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Of Christ
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Without drinking
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These precious waters
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These wellsprings
56:06
In the gospel
56:08
That he's placed
56:08
In the church
56:09
That's why we're here
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That's what it means
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To us
56:14
To belong to the church
56:15
It's where God
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Flows life
56:20
Into our souls
56:21
And you notice
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That the title
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Of the song
56:27
The title of the psalm
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Is simply
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A psalm
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Of the sons
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Of Korah
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And then it says
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A song
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Very simple
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But very profoundly
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Important
56:39
Because all the
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Great truths
56:41
That we have
56:42
In this psalm
56:43
The great truths
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About God's city
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God's church
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Being a city
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Well founded
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Well placed
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And situated
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And stable
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The great truths
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Of the church
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Being a place
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Where people
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Are nourished
56:56
Spiritually
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In the gospel
56:58
There's great truths
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About a place
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Of joy
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And of
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Vibrancy
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Of life
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God is saying
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That's for you
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To sing about
57:10
That's for you
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To channel
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Into your praises
57:14
Of God
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Because that's why
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It's here called
57:18
A song
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And as we come
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In a few moments
57:23
To our final singing
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Today
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To conclude
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This service
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Sing
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Of the privilege
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Of the privilege
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Of belonging
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To the church
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Doesn't matter
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What you might say
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Your quality of voice
57:39
Is
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Or even if you think
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You don't have a voice
57:40
At all
57:41
Of any
57:41
Of any quality
57:42
Sing it
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Let it out
57:47
Make sure
57:49
God hears you
57:50
Singing
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Of what it means
57:52
To you
57:53
To belong
57:53
To God's church
57:55
To God's city
57:58
To God's mother city
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To God's place
58:02
Of joy
58:03
And celebration
58:04
Of life
58:06
May God bless
58:08
His word to us
58:09
Once again
58:10
We're singing now
58:12
In conclusion
58:13
From Psalm 46
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Psalm 46a
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In the Sing Psalms
58:18
Version of Psalm 46
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That's on page 59
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Verses 4 to 7
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A river flows
58:31
Whose streams
58:31
Delight the city
58:32
Of our God
58:33
The holy place
58:35
In which the Lord
58:35
Most High
58:36
Has his abode
58:37
God is within
58:38
His holy place
58:39
The city will not yield
58:40
For God will come
58:42
At break of day
58:43
To be her help
58:45
And shield
58:46
On to verse 7
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The Lord Almighty
58:48
Is with us
58:49
To strengthen
58:50
And sustain
58:51
For Jacob's God
58:53
Our strong defence
58:54
And fortress
58:55
Will remain
58:56
These verses
58:58
Then in conclusion
58:58
Again we stand
58:59
To sing
59:00
A river
59:06
Close to
59:09
Saints
59:11
Delight
59:13
The city
59:16
The city of the God
59:20
The holy place
59:26
In which the Lord
59:30
Most high
59:34
Hath is upon
59:38
God is within
59:44
God is within
59:46
His holy place
59:50
The city
59:52
Will not yield
59:57
For God will come
1:00:03
The kingdom's day
1:00:09
To be her help
1:00:11
To be her help
1:00:13
And shield
1:00:15
The nations are in disarray
1:00:17
The kingdom's day
1:00:21
The kingdom's day
1:00:31
The kingdom's disappear
1:00:35
God speaks
1:00:37
The kingdom's day
1:00:39
The kingdom's day
1:00:41
The kingdom's day
1:00:43
The kingdom's day
1:00:44
God is within
1:00:56
The kingdom's day
1:00:58
Lord Almighty
1:00:59
The kingdom's day
1:01:01
The kingdom's day
1:01:03
The kingdom's day
1:01:05
The kingdom's day
1:01:09
The kingdom's day
1:01:11
The kingdom's day
1:01:13
For Jacob's day
1:01:16
The kingdom's day
1:01:18
The kingdom's day
1:01:20
The kingdom's day
1:01:22
The kingdom's day
1:01:24
And fortress
1:01:26
Will remain
1:01:31
After the benediction
1:01:35
I'll go to the main door
1:01:36
This morning
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Now may the grace
1:01:38
Of the Lord Jesus Christ
1:01:40
The love of God the Father
1:01:41
And the communion
1:01:42
Of the Holy Spirit
1:01:43
Be with you now
1:01:44
And evermore
1:01:46
Amen
1:01:46
Amen
1:01:51
Amen
1:01:53
Amen
1:02:14
Amen
1:02:15
Amen
1:02:16
Amen
1:02:16
Thank you.