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Garment of Praise | Ps Melanie Politanski · Citipointe Church Caboolture

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  Hey, welcome to the City Point Church podcast.
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  Thanks for joining us. Every day is an opportunity to
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  take hold of, so we hope this message inspires you and builds
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  your faith, but it helps you have more of a God perspective
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  for your day. Enjoy.
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  In the last 25 years, things have changed.
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  I'm sure that there are ones like Kathy and Ilya who hold
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  dear treasured memories of things that took place in those
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  253045 years for Dan and Anne that are beautiful.
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  But on this day of celebration, I want to say to us as a church.
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  And so would you receive something this morning, Church?
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  Even before I've said it. If you are.
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  Open to go. OK, I'm going to receive this
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  word. Would you just maybe put your?
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  Hands out and say, OK, I'm ready to receive, ready to receive
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  church. We would never stop.
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  We would never Commission to stop praising, put on that
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  garment of praise. I know the expression is
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  different today than maybe the era in which you walked in.
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  Maybe you look at the young people on the Isle or in the on
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  the altar at the beginning who jump around in a certain way,
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  but Once Upon a time that garment of praise had an
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  expression for you. And so I'm going to ask you
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  this. Morning to receive a garment of
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  praise because you know what it deals with.
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  A spirit of. Heaviness.
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  If you've received that this morning, say I take that garment
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  of praise and I put it on and I'm going to express it.
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  I'm going to let it shine out in my life in Jesus name, Amen.
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  Why would I do this on this day of celebration?
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  Do you know? It's really important to know
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  that? Just because.
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  We do things a certain way in the House of God today doesn't
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  mean it's always been done that way.
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  And there were many great ways. Do you know when I came or
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  before I came into? Church the photo Photographs.
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  Up in my amazing church in Townsville showed an era of
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  flags. Who was a part of the Flag era?
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  It was. Awesome.
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  Our whole platform was lined with these giant flags and I
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  have seen video footage on a VHSI know some of you don't know
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  what that is. But avhs of people coming
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  forward in the praise of worship and lifting one of these giant
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  poles and coming down and waving it with their whole body and it
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  took an incredible expression to say God, you are sovereign and
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  you are the banner over this area.
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  And we declare this area for Jesus.
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  Do you know that that is not dead?
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  Who was a part of the flag era? Stand up if you.
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  Waved a flag. Yeah, you did.
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  Yeah, you did. Don't be afraid to wave your.
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  Flag today, Kathy and Elia, don't be afraid.
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  To wave your flag today. The Joy of the.
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  Lord is your strength. I saw you down the back too.
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  Don't be afraid to wave your flag now.
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  When I when I was little, the ultimate praise expression, the
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  ultimate that I looked at when I was all of my little Evelyn's
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  age was to be part of the Daughters of Zion.
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  Come on. Some of you know exactly what
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  I'm talking about here. Some of you know it came with an
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  instrument, all right. And in that.
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  Era from the. Turn of the 70s to the 80s a
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  huge. Altar like this?
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  Would be filled with glorious white skirts to the floor and
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  matching white shirts with a red or purple.
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  Sash that fell to your side. And a glorious tambourine that
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  did not have empty. Space.
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  On. This particular one would have
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  been streams of ribbons, and as a young girl in the house, I
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  caught a passion to praise the Lord because women.
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  Used to. Line this to do this.
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  If you know the song, you need to help me because it's been a
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  while. Dad's going to know this one.
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  It went like this from the rising of the sun to the going
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  down the sun. The Lord's.
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  Made is. To be paced.
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  I'm not going to show the chorus because it involved a spin and
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  then, and I'm just not that good anymore, but I made it to
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  Daughters of Zion by 7 because in that era, this is an
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  expression of how we praised who played a tambourine in church.
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  Stand up, of course. Look, Anne.
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  Oh, Trudy, dead. Look.
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  Don't be afraid like the youth. Jump.
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  Today, you know, unabandoned. I'm trying to match it.
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  It's like a it's like a cool backwards jump of some sort.
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  Chris can do it really well. All right.
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  No, I'm good and I'm done. And you can take the tramp.
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  Damn. I was going to say trampoline.
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  We never did trampolines. We did tambourines but.
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  Every single era has had a way that they praised, and I want to
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  ask why did we stop? Young people never.
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  Stop, don't stop. Do it.
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  Don't get. Too old.
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  It's OK, My body doesn't do some of the things that it once could
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  do either, OK? But at one time.
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  This is this. Is a huge part.
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  Of my childhood in the early. 80s everybody could clap.
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  With enthusiasm come. On if you could clap like that
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  in that era. Would you stand?
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  You had a real arm swing. None of these ones.
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  All these ones, all these ones, they were.
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  Real. Don't stop praising.
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  Bring your expression, that praise that hits your youth and
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  your young adult years. Bring it.
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  Now when revival broke out in the 80s and I remember it
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  because I was a church kid, I was there every day of the week.
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  The whole church would dance. Now my my father-in-law can do
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  this one really well. He can, even in his 70s.
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  And many of you know what we're about to do.
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  And if you did this, I want you to jump on your feet and if you
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  can do it, do it. And if not, grab the person
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  beside you and step it out, 'cause we're going to two step.
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  And that one. Complimented the swinging arms
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  we were built to praise in every era.
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  Don't stop when the young people are jumping. 2 step.
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  When the young people are jumping, climb with your hands.
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  Wave your flags and play your tambourines.
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  This is what the word of God says.
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  It says bring your timbrels. Hello, sounds crazy now.
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  I was really grateful for that era because it also broke some
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  super spiritual things off the church, some religious spirits,
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  because I loved this. It was not uncommon.
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  We would move in the auditorium. Who was in the era where you
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  moved in the auditorium? So either you were moving in a
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  March. Blessing and honor, glory and
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  power be unto. The Ancient of Days, come on,
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  you remember. And we would March around the
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  middle as a church, all right. And those who?
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  Were really talented. I remember my dad doing this
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  were two stepping big clapping in that formation.
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  I can't even do it if I tried, right?
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  But I could in that era, and I had a tambourine.
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  So. And then a move of God swept
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  across our nation and every single one of us no longer felt
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  restrained or restricted by the the seat in front of us.
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  We got out into the aisles and we stood on the altar, 'cause we
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  would go. I went to the enemy's camp and I
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  took back what he stole from me, and I took back what he Come on.
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  If you did. That I want you to.
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  Stand to your feet. Show us how it's done ready
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  because we're going to show what happens after it of.
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  Course you didn't. Solely I can see this.
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  Ready. So I went to the enemy's camp
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  and I took back what he stole from me.
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  Yeah, I took back. Come on, get.
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  Low. We didn't really low.
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  Took back what he stole from me. Yeah.
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  I went to the enemy's camp and I took back what he stole from.
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  Ready. He's under my feet.
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  He's under my feet. He's under my feet.
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  He's under my feet. He's under my feet.
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  He's under my feet. Satan is under my feet.
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  Come on, let's rejoice. Do you know some of you?
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  Who just. Put on your garment of praise
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  are going to have to stomp on the enemy's head.
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  Keep doing it. It's OK in praise and worship
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  when you're like. I came in this morning and this.
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  Is what it? Actually feels like.
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  The enemy is trying to do it my week.
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  So in praise and worship where they're going, praise the Lord.
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  You're going now I can praise. It's OK.
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  I don't remember the Grapevine. What was the Grapevine song we
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  used to do you remember? We'd go across the order from
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  and we'd link arms. Who remembers that song?
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  Donna. Remembers linking arms and going
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  across the auditorium. This is how every era has it all
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  right now. I'm grateful for those eras.
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  You can hear them puffed because of them.
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  They are far more energetic than this era.
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  Because I did not feel that puffed in praise and worship.
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  Thanks. But I'm grateful for it because
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  the 90s came along and it changed.
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  And I remember, I remember the 80s church having a problem with
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  the 90s younger people. I I get it, it was not as
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  expressive as the didn't have tambourines and banners.
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  But that's because we could only pencil jump.
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  Come on, John, we did, didn't we?
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  Pencil jumped. We.
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  Were I'm going to be. A history maker in this land?
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  Come on. And if we weren't doing that, we
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  were taking ground in new ways, big stances with our heads.
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  I'm going to be. The speaker of truth.
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  To all mankind, it's true. John had magnificent hair when
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  he did that in that era. But you know.
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  What kind of? Think about it.
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  I didn't struggle with any mental health in all the era I
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  banged my head around. In my era, they were not talking
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  about anxiety and depression. And we weren't talking about
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  stiff necks either. We were more concerned about how
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  long we could grow our hair. So.
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  That in the. Next meeting.
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  We could throw it. Around Rachel Collins would have
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  been the envy of all the girls. All right, in all seriousness,
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  that spirit of praise that you carried, whatever era, don't let
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  it be gone. It's OK if we see some head
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  banging. We won't come and cast it out.
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  We might check that. But you know what I think
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  happened? I was really reflecting on this
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  this week at the end of the, at the end of the 90s, a specific,
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  specific but very beautiful move of God came through and people
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  fell to their knees. And we call it a seeker
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  movement, but I'm not going to get up very well from this.
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  Just prefacing. But what happened in that era is
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  we went from praising to this. The problem is is we never got
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  up. Do you know why?
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  Because it's hard. Legit what?
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  What? Proceeded from there was an era
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  where we actually lacked praise songs.
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  For those of you who were in the church, you know, we had a big
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  chunk of time. We had amazing worship coming
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  out across the planet and no praise.
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  And so I think for some of us who are from eras of tambourines
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  and flags and two steps and giant arms, big hair, we forgot
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  how to praise church. I would like to say I know I've
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  filled a lot of my time this morning with this, but we can't
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  forget what God did in us in those eras.
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  And when the young people backwards jump, it's actually
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  very comfortable if you give it a try.
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  It's like relaxed on your knees. We can join them with what God
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  did and has continued to do and will continue to do in our lives
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  from here forward. Can I Commission you this
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  morning to get up, to get up and praise?
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  Oh, you are right. And while you're on your feet,
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  why don't you lift a mighty shout of praise to God.
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  You are worthy, You are righteous, You are awesome God,
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  and we will continue to praise you.
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  We will continue to praise you. Hallelujah.
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  Come on, lift your voice up. We can.
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  We will continue to praise you. Can I have the creative team
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  come and join me on the platform?
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  We will continue to praise you God.
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  Church don't tarry. While we wait for a ban, because
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  it doesn't require a ban to praise the Lord, some of you
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  right now need to start to stomp on the enemy's head.
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  Some of you right now begin to wave your arms because you're
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  going to declare He is sovereign and He is Lord.
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  Some of you need to shake your hands like you've got a timbrel
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  in your hands and go. You Lord, have delivered me, so
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  I am going to testify to Your goodness right now.
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  Some of you need to jump up and down and be reminded you were
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  called for a purpose and a generation to make a move in
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  this time. You were asked this and you were
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  called for this season. Some of you need to rush your
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  head and say mental health and depression.
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  You have no say and no place, but I am going to praise the
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  Lord. Come on.
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  Because that's what you do when you believe in Jesus.
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  Come on. Right now we're going to sing
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  Hallelujah. We're going to praise the Lord.
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  We're going. To sing praise.
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  And I don't know what era you came into church.
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  Maybe you came here today and you went, I'm at the stage of
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  war, that's OK, that's OK. Whatever the Lord leads you to,
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  maybe you need, we need to get out of your seat because you
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  know what? Our altars have been empty
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  because we forgot to praise. Get out of your seat and praise
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  the Lord in this house this morning.
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  Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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  Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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  Now, because my message requires substance, I've got to give you
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  some scripture. No, I don't need the pulpit.
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  I used my phone. That is not something for you to
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  learn. Bring your physical Bible
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  church. Bring bring your.
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  Physical Bible generation who didn't do this?
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  You have permission to lead our next generation.
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  Do you know that right now in our nation they are calling us
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  as believers, as the church, biblically illiterate, because
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  we don't know our word. But we need you to example how
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  to open it, how to live by it. Teach us, Teach us.
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  How to? Read it.
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  Teach us how to study it. Teach us.
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  That's another message. Praise Psalm 117.
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  Verse one says praise the Lord. All your nations extol him.
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  All your people, What does that mean?
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  Who here is not by origin or ethnicity?
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  Australian if you are. Anything else?
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  But Australian, put your hand up, praise him, praise him in
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  your language, lift him up. All you peoples extol him, for
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  he is good in this church. You have permission to praise in
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  every language. In every language.
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  Lift him up. 150 verse 6 We have just declared this in song.
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  Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
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  Come on Romans 1511. Praise the Lord all you
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  Gentiles. Who?
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  Here this morning is a Gentile. You're not of Jewish descent.
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  Put your hand up. Praise the Lord.
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  That means you praise the Lord. All you Gentiles let.