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We Are Worship- Minister Max Lucado Daily Sermons · Max Lucado Daily Sermons

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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm happy to report I survived another season of travel.
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  Speaker 1: It is a great honor to speak at churches and
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  Speaker 1: events across the country. But I got to tell you
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  Speaker 1: there's no place I'd rather preach than right here at
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  Speaker 1: Oak Hills. On one of the legs of my journeys,
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  Speaker 1: I broke my glasses, so I decided to order some
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  Speaker 1: glasses that would not break, some good sturdy ones. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when I got home and showed these to my daughters,
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  Speaker 1: they said that these are cool glasses, that I am
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  Speaker 1: really in style, that I'm right on the edge of trends.
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  Speaker 1: I begged to differ, and I dug around and I
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  Speaker 1: found this photograph of me in the fourth grade. I
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  Speaker 1: think that I've been in style already in my life.
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  Speaker 1: You know you're getting old when trends come around yet again.
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  Speaker 1: So hang on to all your glasses, folks. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to need them someday. And you know you're getting old
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  Speaker 1: when you get multiple chances to talk about a favorite subject,
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  Speaker 1: which is the subject that we're going to be discussing today,
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  Speaker 1: the subject of worship. If you're a guest or new
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  Speaker 1: to Oak Hills, let me explain that we're working our
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  Speaker 1: way as a church through the thirty core competencies of
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  Speaker 1: the Christian Faith. We're using the Believed Book as compiled
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  Speaker 1: by Randy Frasey, and this weekend we ask the question,
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  Speaker 1: how do I honor God in the way He deserves?
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  Speaker 1: We want to have a prayer before we continue our message,
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  Speaker 1: and in our prayer, we're going to pray, as we
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  Speaker 1: do each week, for a congregation that's participating with us
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  Speaker 1: in this Believed study. This week we're offering prayers specifically
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  Speaker 1: for Pastor Dwayne Low and the New Life Fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pray together.
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  Speaker 1: Almighty and Gracious God, we praise your name. We pause
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  Speaker 1: and consider your splendor, that you have always been and
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  Speaker 1: you always will be, and that out of the kindness
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  Speaker 1: of your heart you express your love in creating people,
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  Speaker 1: and out of the extreme mercy of your heart you
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  Speaker 1: express your love in sending your son, Jesus Christ, to
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  Speaker 1: live on this earth and be a sacrifice for our sins. Father,
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  Speaker 1: we pray that today you would draw us closer, please
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  Speaker 1: closer to that message. For Pastor Dwayne Low and the
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  Speaker 1: New Life Fellowship, we pray as well, asking your blessing
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  Speaker 1: upon them and every work of their hands. Please forgive
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  Speaker 1: the sins of our speaker, they are many, and help
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  Speaker 1: us to see Christ just Christ through Christ. We pray, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Let me describe a scene to you, and then come
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  Speaker 1: back to it at the end of the message. An
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  Speaker 1: old man walks down a Florida beach. The sun sets
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  Speaker 1: like an orange ball on the horizon, and the waves
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  Speaker 1: slap the sand. The smell of salt water stings the air.
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  Speaker 1: The beach is vacant, no sun to entice the sun bathers,
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  Speaker 1: not enough light for the fishermen. So aside from a
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  Speaker 1: few joggers and strollers, the gentleman is alone. He carries
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  Speaker 1: a bucket in his bony hand, a bucket of shrimp.
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  Speaker 1: It's not for him, it's not for the fish, It's
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  Speaker 1: for the seagulls. He walked to an oscillated pier that
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  Speaker 1: is casting gold by the setting sun, and he steps
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  Speaker 1: out to the end of the pier. And the time
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  Speaker 1: has come for his weekly ritual. He stands and he waits,
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  Speaker 1: and soon the sky becomes a mass of dancing dots.
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  Speaker 1: The evening silence gives way to the screeching of the birds,
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  Speaker 1: and they fill the sky and cover the moorings. They're
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  Speaker 1: on a pilgrimage. They have come to meet the old man,
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  Speaker 1: and for a half hour or so, the bushy browed,
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  Speaker 1: shoulder bent gentlemen will stand on the pier, surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: his feathered friends, until his bucket is empty. But even
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  Speaker 1: after the food is gone, the birds still linger. They
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  Speaker 1: linger as if they're attracted to more than just food.
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  Speaker 1: They perch on his hat, they walk on the pier,
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  Speaker 1: and they all share a moment together. Who is this man?
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  Speaker 1: And how do we explain this moment. I'll answer both
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  Speaker 1: of those questions at the end of the message, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll also tell you how his story illustrates the theme
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  Speaker 1: of our weekend study, the theme of worship. We turn
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  Speaker 1: an important page in our believed.
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  Speaker 2: Book this week.
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  Speaker 1: Having spent ten weeks considering what to think and how
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  Speaker 1: to think, we now ponder how to act. Some of
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  Speaker 1: you have been waiting for this, Some of you go getters,
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  Speaker 1: task oriented folks are saying to yourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Finally I get to do something.
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  Speaker 1: Enough of this pondering of platitudes and thinking about doctrines.
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  Speaker 1: Finally I get to do something. Well, not so fast
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  Speaker 1: before the saint is called to roll up the sleeves.
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  Speaker 1: We are called to bend our knees, and the primary
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  Speaker 1: purpose of the Christian is to worship. We are first
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  Speaker 1: and foremost called to be people of worship. The key
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  Speaker 1: idea for the week. I worship God for who he
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  Speaker 1: is and what He has done for me. We worship openly, publicly,
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  Speaker 1: and joyfully. We declare that God is good, as the
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  Speaker 1: Psalmist announced in our key verse, Come and let us
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  Speaker 1: sing for joy.
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  Speaker 2: To the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Let us come before Him with thanksgiving and extol him
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  Speaker 1: with music and song. This verse contains the laments of worship.
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  Speaker 1: Look at it. Worship is corporate. Let us sing together.
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  Speaker 1: Worship is vocal. Let us sing together with music and song.
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  Speaker 1: It is Christ centered and God hondoring. We sing to
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  Speaker 1: the Rock of our salvation. The first and appropriate response
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  Speaker 1: of the Saint to our salvation is the act of worship.
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  Speaker 1: I like Randy's paragraph on the top of page one
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  Speaker 1: seventy six page one twenty eight in the student version,
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  Speaker 1: as we read in chapter one, the first key belief
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  Speaker 1: in the Christian life begins with God. It is only
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  Speaker 1: logical that the first key practice in the Christian life
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  Speaker 1: is worshiping God. When we worship, we are taking the
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  Speaker 1: revelation about the One True God, Father, Son, and Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit and reaffirming our belief that He is involved in
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  Speaker 1: our lives and wants to be in a relation relationship
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  Speaker 1: with us. As we do this, the amazing truths about
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  Speaker 1: God moved from concepts in our head to cries of
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  Speaker 1: our hearts. When we worship God for who he is
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  Speaker 1: and what he has done for us, it not only
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  Speaker 1: cements our confidence in God as we approach each day
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  Speaker 1: in situation, but it also enables us to receive his love.
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  Speaker 1: When we receive God's love in our hearts, we begin
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  Speaker 1: to see the world differently as people made in God's image. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when we think about worshipers in the Bible, we often
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  Speaker 1: think about someone like David in the Book of Psalms
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  Speaker 1: or the Apostles in.
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  Speaker 2: The Book of Acts.
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  Speaker 1: But I would like to propose a different example, an
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  Speaker 1: example from the Gospels. I've never seen it listed as
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  Speaker 1: a passage that is an example of worship, but I
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  Speaker 1: think it should be read it and see what you think.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Chapter fifteen, Jesus left there and went along the
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  Speaker 1: Sea of Galilee. Then he went up on a mountain
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  Speaker 1: side and sat down. Great crowds came to him, bringing
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  Speaker 1: the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others,
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  Speaker 1: and laid them at his feet, and he healed them.
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  Speaker 1: The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking,
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  Speaker 1: the crippled made well, the lame walking, and the blind seeing,
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  Speaker 1: and they praised the.
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  Speaker 2: God of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus called his disciples to him and said, I have
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  Speaker 1: compassion for these people. They have already been with me
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  Speaker 1: three days and have nothing to eat. I do not
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  Speaker 1: want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse
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  Speaker 1: on the way. Many times I wish the New Testament
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  Speaker 1: writers had been just a bit more descriptive. This is
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  Speaker 1: one of those times, says and he healed them. What
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  Speaker 1: a short phrase to describe what must have been an astonishing,
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  Speaker 1: an astonishing series of events. Let your imagination go. Can
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  Speaker 1: you see the scene? Can you imagine the was blind
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  Speaker 1: man singing his wife for the first time, his eyes
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  Speaker 1: gazing into her tear filled ones, like she was the
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  Speaker 1: queen of the morning. Can you envision the man who
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  Speaker 1: had never walked now walking. Don't you know he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to dance a jig? And run a circle. And don't
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  Speaker 1: you know he did both? What about the mute who
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  Speaker 1: could suddenly speak? Can you picture him sitting by the fire,
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  Speaker 1: laden into the night and talking as long as anyone
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  Speaker 1: would listen, singing and singing everything and anything he had
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  Speaker 1: ever wanted to say and sing? What about the deaf
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  Speaker 1: woman who could now hear? What was it like when
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  Speaker 1: she heard her child call her mama for the first time?
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  Speaker 2: For three days? It went on.
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  Speaker 1: Three days, three days, four thousand people, person after person,
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  Speaker 1: crutch after crutch, smile after smile. No record is given
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus preaching or teaching, or instructing or challenging.
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  Speaker 2: He just healed. Matthew says.
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  Speaker 1: The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking,
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  Speaker 1: the crippled made well, and the lame walking and the
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  Speaker 1: blind seeing. Four thousand amazed people, each one telling a
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  Speaker 1: story grander than the one prior. And in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of them all is Jesus, Jesus smiling, Jesus receiving, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: enjoying every minute. Then Matthew, again, the great economizer of words,
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  Speaker 1: gives us another phrase on which I wish he would
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  Speaker 1: have elaborated. He said, they praised the God of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder how they did that. It became a worship service,
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  Speaker 1: the healing service became a worship service. How do you
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  Speaker 1: suppose this looked. I feel more certain of what they
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  Speaker 1: didn't do than what they did. I feel certain that
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  Speaker 1: they didn't form a praise committee. I feel certain that
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  Speaker 1: they didn't mumble or grumble or sing with great reluctance.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very confident they didn't doze off in between songs.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very confident they didn't elbow each other. And how
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  Speaker 1: long is this going to last? When are we going
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  Speaker 1: to get to go home? I seriously doubt if they
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  Speaker 1: wrote a creed on how they were to praise this god.
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  Speaker 2: They had never worshiped.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot picture them getting into an argument over technicalities,
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  Speaker 1: complaining that some of the songs were too traditional, or
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  Speaker 1: some of the songs were too contemporary.
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  Speaker 2: I just can't.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine them splitting into factions according to worship styles and preferences.
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  Speaker 1: I have a feeling that no one tried to strut
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  Speaker 1: or show off or sing so loud that they were
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  Speaker 1: noticed or impress other people. In all probability, this was
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  Speaker 1: one of the purest worship services in all of history.
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  Speaker 2: They just did it. They just did it.
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  Speaker 1: Each one in his or her own way, with his
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  Speaker 1: or her own heart, just praise the God of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe some of them fell at Jesus' feet, Maybe some
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  Speaker 1: of them applauded him. Maybe some recited psalms that they
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  Speaker 1: had learned from their youth. Maybe they went up onto
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  Speaker 1: the hillside and looked into the sky.
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  Speaker 2: They worshiped.
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  Speaker 1: I can picture a mom and dad standing speechless before
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  Speaker 1: the healer as they held their newly healed baby. I
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  Speaker 1: can envision a leper standing in awe at the one
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  Speaker 1: who took away his terror. I can imagine throngs of
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  Speaker 1: people pushing and shoving, wanting to get close, not to
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  Speaker 1: request anything, or make any demands, or even ask any questions.
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  Speaker 2: They just wanted to say thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe someone even tried to pay Jesus, but what payment
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  Speaker 1: would have been sufficient? Maybe some tried to return his
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  Speaker 1: gift with another, but what gift would adequately express the
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  Speaker 1: gratitude they felt That day, All the people could do
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  Speaker 1: was what Matthew tells us they did. They praised the
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  Speaker 1: God of Israel. You see, worship is when you praise
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  Speaker 1: the God of Israel. Worship is when you're aware that
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  Speaker 1: what you've been given is far greater than anything you
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  Speaker 1: can give. Worship is the awareness that were it not
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  Speaker 1: for his touch, were it not for his kindness, were
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  Speaker 1: it not for his intervention, you'd be hurt broken. Bitter
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  Speaker 1: worship is this half glazed expression on the parched face
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  Speaker 1: of a desert pilgrim as he discovers that the oasis
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  Speaker 1: is not a mirage. Worship is the Hallelujah that.
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  Speaker 2: Just refuses to be silenced. How's your Hallelujah level? These days?
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  Speaker 1: The Psalma says, come, let us sing for joy to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Let us shout aloud to the rock of our salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him
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  Speaker 1: with music and song. This passage is almost like a
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  Speaker 1: table of contents for a book on worship. Look how
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  Speaker 1: the keywords of this verse suggest key principles of worship. First,
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  Speaker 1: worship is corporal. Let us sing together, Let us sing together.
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  Speaker 1: It is certainly appropriate for us to have our moments
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  Speaker 1: of worship in solitude. It's yet equally important for us
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  Speaker 1: to come together, to sing together, to stand together, to
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  Speaker 1: blend our voices together, to worship together. I believe something
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  Speaker 1: supernatural occurs when God's people gather to declare God's name.
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  Speaker 1: You see, we have this wonderful promise in the Book
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  Speaker 1: of James. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
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  Speaker 1: Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.
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  Speaker 1: When we worship. Are we not resisting the devil? When
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  Speaker 1: we resist the devil, does he not flee from our presence?
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  Speaker 1: If we desire that the devil flee from our communities,
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  Speaker 1: from our nameighborhoods, from our cities. Does it not make
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  Speaker 1: sense then that large numbers of people would look for
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  Speaker 1: opportunities to come together and proclaim the name of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Satan will not linger where God is worshiped, He will not.
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  Speaker 1: So let God's people come together and worship. From the
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  Speaker 1: perspective of the supernatural, from the perspective of the heavenlies,
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  Speaker 1: something profound happens when God's people come together and worship.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you've been in an airplane, high up in the sky,
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  Speaker 1: flying at night, and you look down on a city
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  Speaker 1: and you can see the city lights coming up through
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  Speaker 1: the darkness. I wonder if that's how our cities look
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  Speaker 1: when we're worshiping. When a band of people come together
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  Speaker 1: in a congregation. From the person perspective of heaven, there
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  Speaker 1: is a light, a light of hope, a light of
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  Speaker 1: God's presence, a light of strength that lives up to
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  Speaker 1: the heavenlace when God's people come together, when you bring
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  Speaker 1: your little torch of faith and I bring my little
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  Speaker 1: torch of faith, and we bring them together, and we
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  Speaker 1: create this bonfire of belief as we worship, and the devil,
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  Speaker 1: who will not linger where God is worshiped, turns and
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  Speaker 1: leaves and looks for another place to haunt. There's something
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  Speaker 1: supernaturally powerful about corporate worship, so I would encourage you
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  Speaker 1: to take full advantage of it. Take full advantage of it.
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  Speaker 1: There are times I understand when you cannot make it
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  Speaker 1: to a church service. Sickness, travel complications, a variety of
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  Speaker 1: factors can keep you away from a corporate gathering, but don't.
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  Speaker 2: Let them keep you away. Often.
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  Speaker 1: I love our online worshipers, and I have to take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of it myself sometimes when I'm away and unable
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  Speaker 1: to attend a worship service, and I love to log
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  Speaker 1: online and worship online. But even to you who worship online,
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  Speaker 1: let that be the exception and not the rule. Gather
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  Speaker 1: with God's people. Let your children experience what it's like
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  Speaker 1: to hear the voices of God's people. Let your neighbors
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  Speaker 1: see you gathering with God's people. And most of all,
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  Speaker 1: let God hear you as you join your voices with
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  Speaker 1: the voices of other believers in worship. Be a part
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  Speaker 1: of the corporate declaration. Let us sing together, and let
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  Speaker 1: us sing for joy. Here's a good point. Worship is vocal.
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  Speaker 2: It's vocal.
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  Speaker 1: This almost says, let us sing together with music and song.
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  Speaker 1: What a great idea God had when he invented music.
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  Speaker 1: How gracious of him to create the whole idea of
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  Speaker 1: harmony and melody.
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  Speaker 2: Music is to the ear.
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  Speaker 1: What a rainbow is to the eye, or perfume is
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  Speaker 1: to the nostril. It just bypasses all rationale and just
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  Speaker 1: goes quickly into our heart, and it touches us.
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  Speaker 2: Music moves us.
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  Speaker 1: So how appropriate that we use this wonderful gift to
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  Speaker 1: move each other toward Christ. When we sing together with
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  Speaker 1: music and song, God is honored and our soul is fed.
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  Speaker 1: Please note the text does not say let us sing
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  Speaker 1: together with.
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  Speaker 2: Skill and perfection.
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  Speaker 1: Our singing is not graded by a heavenly judge but
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  Speaker 1: it is received a heavenly Father.
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  Speaker 2: So let us sing.
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  Speaker 1: Worship is corporate, worship is musical, and most of all,
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  Speaker 1: worship is Christ centered.
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  Speaker 2: It is God honoring.
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  Speaker 1: The Psalmist says, sing to the rock of our salvation
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  Speaker 1: with thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: We sing to God.
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  Speaker 1: We sing to the rock of our salvation, not because
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  Speaker 1: he needs to hear it, but we need to express it.
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  Speaker 1: Worship is this voluntary act of gratitude offered by the
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  Speaker 1: saved to the savior, by the healed, to the healer,
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  Speaker 1: by the delivered to the deliverer. And if you or
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  Speaker 1: I can go days without feeling an urge to say
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  Speaker 1: thank you to the one who healed us, delivered us,
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  Speaker 1: and saved us, then we would do well to remember
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  Speaker 1: what he did for us. Would do well to remember
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  Speaker 1: the story of the old man on the pier. He
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  Speaker 1: couldn't go a week without saying thank you. His name
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  Speaker 1: was Eddie Rickenbacker. And if you happened to have been
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  Speaker 1: alive in October of nineteen forty two, you remember the
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  Speaker 1: day that he was reported missing at sea. He had
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  Speaker 1: been sent on a mission to deliver a message to
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  Speaker 1: General Douglas MacArthur with a handpicked crew and a B
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  Speaker 1: seventeen known as the Flying Fortress. He set off across
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  Speaker 1: the South Pacific, but somewhere in the journey he became lost,
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  Speaker 1: and the fuel ran out, and the plane went down,
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  Speaker 1: and all eight members went.
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  Speaker 2: Into the water.
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  Speaker 1: They escaped into life rafts, but they battled the weather,
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  Speaker 1: the water, the sharks, the sun, but most of all
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  Speaker 1: they battled starf After eight days, their rations were gone
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  Speaker 1: and they ran out of options. It would take a
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  Speaker 1: miracle for them to survive, and the miracle occurred. After
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  Speaker 1: an afternoon devotional service. The men said a prayer and
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  Speaker 1: tried to rest. As Rick and Balker was dozing with
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  Speaker 1: his hat over his eyes, something landed on his head.
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  Speaker 1: He would later say that he knew it was a seagull.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't know how he knew. He just knew the
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  Speaker 1: seagull meant food if he could catch it, and he did.
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  Speaker 1: The flesh was eaten, the intestines were used as fish bait,
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  Speaker 1: and the crew survived. What was a seagull doing hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of miles away from land, only God knows. But whatever
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  Speaker 1: the reason, Rick and Balker was thankful was result. For
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  Speaker 1: much of the rest of his life. Every Friday evening,
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  Speaker 1: this old pilot walked to the peer, his bucket full
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  Speaker 1: of shrimp and his heart full of thanks. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we've much in common with Eddie Rickenbacker. We too were
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  Speaker 1: saved by a sacrificial visitor. We too were rescued by
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  Speaker 1: one who came from only God knows where, And we,
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  Speaker 1: like the captain, have every reason to look into the sky.
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  Speaker 2: And say thanks. Let's do that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pray together, and so, Heavenly Father, as we rededicate
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  Speaker 1: ourselves to be people of worship, we ask you to
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  Speaker 1: please forgive us for worshiping the small deities of this world,
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  Speaker 1: turning our attention away from you and on things which
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  Speaker 1: will only rust in road. We asked that you start
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  Speaker 1: within us a deep desire to worship you in spirit
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  Speaker 1: and in truth, with hearts full of gratitude. This is
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  Speaker 1: our prayer through Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 3: Amend And.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be all right. You don't have to stay, if
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  Speaker 4: you've already chosen. I won't stand in your way. I
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  Speaker 4: can feel it in your distance.
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  Speaker 5: And the way you barely speak, like your heart is
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  Speaker 5: somewhere else now, somewhere I can't reach. I was trying
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  Speaker 5: to just to hold us. Why are you slowly slipped away?
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  Speaker 5: Now I'm left with all the silence you didn't want
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  Speaker 5: to say. Maybe I just help along to something.
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  Speaker 6: Already gone.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be fine.
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  Speaker 6: You can leave. You don't know anything. If your heart
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  Speaker 6: is found, Louis, how do what we used to be?
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  Speaker 6: How be fine?
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  Speaker 5: Don't look back?
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  Speaker 6: How survived this sempty space?
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  Speaker 3: Not tonight?
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  Speaker 5: Theye, not soon? But holler to be okay. We don't
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: need to fake the feeling. I can see in your eyes.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: There's no reason left the stand when the love already died.
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  Speaker 5: Through the quiet and your voice, I can't.
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  Speaker 3: Hear your choice.
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  Speaker 6: Be fine.
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  Speaker 2: You can't leave.
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  Speaker 6: You don't know me anything. If your heart has found?
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  Speaker 6: How do what we used to be? I'll be fine.
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: Don't look back. Survived this empty space not tonight? Maybe
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  Speaker 6: not shown, but I'll learned to be okay.
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  Speaker 5: I don't need a reason why. I can see it
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  Speaker 5: in goodbye.
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  Speaker 6: And it breaks me head Dutch, But I won't ask
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  Speaker 6: you to stay.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be fine.
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  Speaker 6: You, Kelly, you don't know me anything. Give your artest
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  Speaker 6: bound away? How of what we used to be? I'll
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  Speaker 6: be fine.
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  Speaker 5: Don't look back?
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  Speaker 3: How to serve? I have this empty space?
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  Speaker 6: Not to Li baby, not so, but I'll learn to
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  Speaker 6: be okay, I'll be all right.