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The People of Praise · CCC West Covina

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  A number of weeks ago, 3 or 4 weeks ago, I, I told you that as
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  a church, our, our passion is to pursue the Christ and that is to
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  be done in a way that, that honors the Lord.
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  And so that that pursuit is to be done aggressively, not
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  passively. And because our, our passion is
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  to pursue him, our, our priority is to portray him.
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  And that portrayal is to be done authentically, not
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  hypocritically. And then we, we told you that
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  our, our purpose is to proclaim the Christ and that is to be
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  done authoritatively. But our practice is to praise
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  the Christ, and that is to be done automatically.
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  In other words, the Lord said Isaiah 23 or Isaiah 41 verse #23
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  the people that I have formed for myself, they will declare my
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  praise. In other words, praise is that
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  which is automatically done by those whom Christ has formed for
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  Himself. It's not something that you have
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  to necessarily muster up. It's part of our spiritual DNA.
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  And so we give praise and honor to God.
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  And you always have to wonder what, what is our praise life
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  like? This morning I want to talk to
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  you about the people of praise. We're on this pathway.
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  It's called the pathway of praise.
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  We began with the privilege of praise, then we move to the
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  prophet of praise. And today I want to talk to you
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  about the people of praise. What are they like?
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  What do they praise the Lord for?
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  The expectation is in Hebrews 13 verse #15 which says through
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  Him. Then let us continually OfferUp
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  a sacrifice of praise to God. That is the fruit of lips that
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  give thanks to His name. Through Him Christ is in us and
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  we are in Christ. And yet through him, like we are
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  to rejoice in the Lord, we are to give thanks through him by
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  offering up a sacrifice of of praise, the fruit of our lips,
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  which is giving thanks to God. And this is to be done
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  continually. The psalmist said it this way in
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  in Psalm Psalm 34. We said these words.
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  Psalm 34, verse #1 I will bless the Lord at all times.
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  His praise shall continually be in my mouth continually.
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  Psalm 71, verse #6 He says by you I have been sustained from
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  my birth. You are He who took me from my
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  mother's womb. My praise is continually of You.
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  I have become a marvel to many, for You are my strong refuge.
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  My mouth is filled with Your praise and with Your glory all
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  day long. In other words, because He
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  continually praises the Lord, because his mouth is filled with
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  the glory of the Lord all day long, He has become a marvel to
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  all those who are around him. Because you see, for the most
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  part, people just don't do that. But the psalmist did.
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  He understood it. That's who we are.
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  Listen to the words of Charles Spurgeon.
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  He says these words. We are to offer the sacrifice of
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  praise to God continually, because in so doing you will
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  answer the end of your being. Every creature is happiest when
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  it is doing what it is made for. A bird that is made to fly
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  abroad Pines in a cage, an eagle would die in the water, even as
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  a fish that is made to swim perishes on the river's bank.
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  Christians are made to glorify God, and we are never in our
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  element till we are praising him.
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  The happiest moments you have ever spent were those in which
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  you lost sight of everything inferior and bowed before
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  Jehovah's throne of light with reverent joy and blissful
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  praise. When your whole soul is full of
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  praise, you have at last reached the goal that your heart is
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  aiming at. Your ship is now in full sail,
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  your car is on the tram lines. Your life moves smoothly and
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  safely on. This is the groove along which
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  it was made to slide. Before you were trying to do
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  what you were not made to do, but now you are at home for the
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  praise of God. Your new nature has fashioned
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  and it finds its rest there in Keep to this work and do not
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  degrade yourself by doing something less.
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  So true. Why would we degrade ourselves
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  by doing something less than praising God?
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  Because that's what the people whom God has formed for himself
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  have been created to do. And so we offer up continually
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  praise to God. These Hebrew people in the book
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  of Hebrews would be wondering if you want me to embrace the new
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  covenant and forgo the old covenant.
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  And then under the old covenant we are offering sacrifices day
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  and night always to God. What kind of sacrifices will we
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  offer under the new covenant? And so the writer of Hebrews
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  answers that question by saying you will offer a sacrifice of
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  praise to God. And it would be a great
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  sacrifice for them because they were Hebrew people.
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  And in so doing, they would be ousted from their homes, they
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  would be ousted from the synagogue, they would be ousted
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  from their friends. They'd be all alone.
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  And when you give praise to God and give thanks to him for what
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  he has done, because the shadow now is gone, because it's filled
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  with the substance, all the ceremonies that you've engaged
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  in have all been fulfilled by the one who came, the Messiah,
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  Christ, and now you're praising him.
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  It will be a great sacrifice for you to do that because your
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  friends won't, your family won't, but you do.
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  And that's a sacrifice you offer.
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  You would go to the temple and you will offer sacrifices in the
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  morning. You would go to the temple, You
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  would offer sacrifices at night. But guess what?
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  Your body now is the temple of the Holy Ghost of the Holy
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  Spirit. And now you are the sanctuary,
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  You are the holy place. And in that holy place you
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  OfferUp a sacrifice of praise to God.
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  And you do it continually because you are now priests in
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  His Kingdom. You're priests in that temple,
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  which is your body where you OfferUp sacrifices of praise and
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  giving thanks to your God, and Satan doesn't want you to do
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  that. The enemy will fight against
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  your your praise. He he wants you to complain.
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  He wants you to grumble. He wants you angry and bitter.
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  He wants you to have an unforgiving spirit.
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  He wants you just to never lift a voice of praise and
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  Thanksgiving to God doesn't want you doing that.
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  Isn't it interesting that in the Old Testament that the the the
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  psalmist was always raising his hands in praise?
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  The psalmist that this way in, in Psalm 63 verse #4 so I will
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  bless you as long as I live. I will lift up my hands in your
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  name. I will lift up my hands in your
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  name. That is according to your
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  person, You're the Messiah, you're the king.
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  I will lift up my hands. And then the psalmist says these
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  words in Psalm 119. He says, I shall lift up my
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  hands to your commandments. So not only does a psalmist lift
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  up his hands to the person of God, he lifts up his hands to
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  the precepts of God. And then over in in Psalm 134,
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  he says, behold, bless the Lord, all servants of the Lord who
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  serve him by night in the House of the Lord, lift up your hands
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  to the sanctuary and bless the Lord.
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  So he lifts up his hands to the person of God.
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  He lifts up his hands to the place of God, and he lifts up
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  his hands to the precepts of God, but he can't lift up dirty
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  hands. They have to be clean hands.
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  The psalmist says in Psalm 24, verse #3 Who may ascend into the
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  hill of the Lord, or who may stand in his holy place?
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  He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted
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  up his soul to falsehood and is not sworn deceitfully.
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  In the Old Testament, the the the Hebrew people would lift
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  their hands and praise to God, but they would only lift clean
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  hands because clean hands represented a pure heart.
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  And they would they would lift empty hands, not hands filled
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  with something else. Why?
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  Because their hands would be consecrated to God.
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  Not just clean hands, but consecrated hands.
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  Why? Because they're they're employed
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  to be used in the service of God.
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  And if my hands are holding something else, then my
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  employment in the service of God will be hindered.
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  So the hands are, are open, they're clean, and they're
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  consecrated to God to be used by him in any way possible.
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  And that's why they would, they would praise the place of God,
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  they would praise the person of God, they would praise the
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  precepts of God. Why?
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  Because I'm here to be used by you, O Lord.
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  So the writer of Hebrews comes along and says through him,
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  through the Messiah, through the one who has fulfilled all the
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  the shadows that were portrayed in the Old Testament, the
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  substance has arrived. Let us OfferUp a a sacrifice of
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  of praise to him. Let us offer thanks, the fruit
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  of our lips, giving thanks to God for all that he has done,
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  praising his glorious name. That's the people of praise.
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  In fact, it's illustrated in in the book of Acts and you could
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  read all throughout the book of Acts.
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  But if you just go to Acts chapter chapter 2, it says these
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  words verse 46 day by day continue one mind in the temple
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  and breaking bread from house to house.
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  They were taking their meals together with gladness and
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  sincerity of heart, praising God, having favor with all the
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  people, and the Lord was adding to their number day by day,
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  those who are being saved, that that's just a great testimony.
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  God was adding to their number because they were appraising
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  people. God was adding to their number
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  because they were doing what they were created to do that
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  they were filled with praise in spite of the fact that this
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  Jewish community in Jerusalem would be ousted because of the
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  sacrifice of praise. But they didn't care.
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  That was irrelevant to them. They had recognized all that God
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  had done and they wanted to praise his glorious name.
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  And God says, I'm going to add to your number daily because of
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  your praise to me. Could it be that that we we
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  hinder our family coming to Christ because we're not
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  praising God as we should continually?
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  They see in us a a downcast spirit.
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  They see in us a bitter spirit. They see in us an angry spirit.
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  They see in us a complaining, grumbling, mumbling spirit.
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  And they're like, wow, that's just that.
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  That's me. I do that.
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  And yet they say they they, they worship the King.
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  They say they're Christians, they say they love the Lord, but
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  they don't live like they love the Lord.
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  Because if you really love him, you'll praise him and honor him
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  and glorify his blessed name. His praise will be continually
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  on your lips all the day long, which would cause your family
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  then to marvel as they did the Psalmist.
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  Does your unsafe family marvel at the fact that you continually
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  OfferUp a praise to God no matter what the situation, no
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  matter what the circumstance, because you want to give thanks
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  to his glorious name? Early church, they were a people
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  of praise. You go to Acts chapter 3 and
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  you've got the physically disabled man.
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  He was disabled from birth from his mother's womb.
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  And when Peter healed him, verse 8, with a leap, he stood upright
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  and began to walk. And he entered the temple with
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  them, walking and leaping and praising God.
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  And all the people saw him walking and praising God, and
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  they were taking note of him as being the one who used to sit at
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  the beautiful gate of the temple to beg alms.
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  And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had
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  happened to him. Of course he would praise the
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  Lord. He'd been lame from birth.
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  And Peter healed him and everything changed his life.
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  They began to leap and to praise and honor his God.
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  And people wondered were filled with awe because of what God had
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  done. But in Acts chapter 5 it says
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  these words in verse 40. They took his advice, and after
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  calling the apostles in, they flogged them and ordered them
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  not to speak in the name of Jesus and then release them.
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  So they went on their way from the presence of the council,
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  rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer
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  shame for His name again. They, they would continually
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  OfferUp a sacrifice of praise. They were told you can't speak
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  in the name of Jesus anymore. But they, they kept doing that.
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  So they flogged them. They flogged them.
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  That that's, that's 29 lashes on the back and 10 on the front.
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  They, they were cut to the quick and they were bleeding, but yet
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  they rejoiced. Why?
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  Because their praise was a sacrifice and they as priests in
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  the the Kingdom of God, wanted to OfferUp their continual
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  praise to God no matter what, because they had suffered for
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  his namesake. And then over in Acts chapter
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  16, you have Paul and Silas. They're in prison.
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  It says in verse 22 these words. The crowd rose up together
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  against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off
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  of them, and proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods.
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  When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into
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  the prison, commanding the jailer to to guard them
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  securely, and he, having received such a command, threw
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  them into the inner prison and fasten their feet and stalks.
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  But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing
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  hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to
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  them, and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the
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  foundation of the prison house were shaking, and immediately
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  all the doors were open and everyone's chains were
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  unfastened. Instead of cursing God like
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  everybody else in prison did, because they were in chains and
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  were beaten with rods, instead of blaspheming the name of God
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  and instead of complaining that that they were in prison, they
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  began to pray and then sing praises to God, giving thanks to
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  God, and everything changed from that standpoint.
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  Now you see that the point is this, that so many times we are
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  in the the chains of bitterness and the chains of stubbornness
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  and the chains of selfishness and the chains of unforgiveness.
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  Why? Because we refuse to give praise
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  to God and we kept keep ourselves bound by those chains
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  because we're unwilling to praise God for what he has done
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  and what he's going to do. They had no idea that their
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  chains would fall off. They had no idea they'd be
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  released from prison. They had no idea that the jailer
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  would be saved. They had no idea.
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  They just knew that they had to offer continually a sacrifice of
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  praise to their God. That's the people of praise.
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  Those are those on the on the pathway to praise who recognize
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  the fact that this is my sacrifice that I give to God
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  continually, day after day, no matter the hardship, no matter
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  the pain, no matter the difficulty, no matter the
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  negative circumstances, I'm going to offer praise to God.
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  So what do you say? What do you do?
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  Let me give you 6 principles that will help you understand
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  what you want to say when you give praise to God.
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  Here's the first one. You need to always recite His
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  wonderful works. You begin to praise him by
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  reciting His wonderful works. Listen to Psalm 145.
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  Let the let the Word of God speak for what it is.
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  I would extol you, Oh my God, O King, I will bless your name
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  forever and ever. Every day I will bless you.
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  I will praise your name forever and ever.
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  Great is the Lord and highly to be praised.
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  His greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise your
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  works to another and shall declare your mighty acts.
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  He's going to recite the the wonderful works of God.
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  On the glorious splendor of Your majesty, on on your wonderful
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  works, I will meditate. Men shall speak of the power of
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  Your awesome acts, and I will tell if Your greatness.
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  They will eagerly utter the memory of Your abundant
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  goodness, and will shout joyfully of Your righteousness.
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  The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and
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  great in loving kindness. The Lord is good to all, and His
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  mercies are over all His works. All your work shall give thanks
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  to you, O Lord, and your godly ones will bless you.
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  They shall speak of the glory of Your Kingdom and talk of your
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  power to be known to the sons of men, Your mighty acts, and the
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  glory of the majesty of Your Kingdom.
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  Your Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and your dominion
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  endures throughout all generations.
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  He recites the wonderful works of God, He recites his
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  greatness, He recites his glory, he recites his goodness, he
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  recites his grace, he recites his government, and then he
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  recites his generosity. He says this.
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  The Lord sustains all who fall, and raises up all who are bowed
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  down. The eyes of all look to you, and
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  you give them their food. In due time you open your hand
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  and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
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  The Lord is righteous in all His ways and kind in all his deeds.
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  The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon
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  Him in truth, He will fulfill the desire of those who fear
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  Him. He will also hear their cry and
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  will save them. The Lord keeps all who love him,
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  but all the wicked. He will destroy.
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  My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord, and all flesh will
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  bless His holy name forever and ever.
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  What a great Psalm, He says. Let me recite the works of God.
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  Let me recite not just His goodness and His greatness, not
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  just His government and His grace, but let me recite to you
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  His generosity. Because this is the God who
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  sustains the lowly. Here's, this is the God who
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  satisfies their longings. This is the God who who saves
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  the lost. This is the God who secures his
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  loved ones. You.
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  You praise him by reciting his wonderful works.
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  That's why Psalm one O 6 is such as a sad a sad Psalm because in
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  Psalm one O 6, they are continually forgetting all that
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  God had said and all that God had done.
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  It says in in Psalm one O 6 these words, they did not
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  remember your abundant kindness. Verse 13, they quickly forgot
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  your works. They did not wait for your
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  counsel. Verse 21, they forgot God their
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  Savior, who had done great things in Egypt so easily.
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  We forget all the great things that God has done that that's
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  why you spend time reading the Psalms, recognizing that the
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  Psalms or the psalmist would recite the wonderful works of
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  God. And that's where our praise
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  begins. And once you recite the
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  wonderful works of God, then you respond with thankful hearts.
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  You respond with thankful hearts.
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  He was 1315. You give thanks to his name.
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  It says over in, in Psalm 63, Psalm 63, these beautiful words
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  with a psalmist said these words.
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  Psalm 63 verse #4 in fact, I'll begin with verse #3 because of
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  your loving kindness is better than life.
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  My lips will praise you so I will bless you as long as I
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  live. I will lift up my hands in your
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  name. My soul is satisfied as with
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  Morrow and fatness, and my mouth offers praises with joyful lips.
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  When I remember you on my bed, I meditate on you in the night
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  watches for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your
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  wings I sing for joy. My soul clings to you.
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  Your right hand upholds me Over in Psalm 100, the psalmist said
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  these words in verse #1 Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the
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  earth. Serve the Lord with gladness.
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  Come before him with joyful singing.
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  Know that the Lord Himself is God.
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  It is He who has made us and not we ourselves.
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  We are His people in the sheep of His pasture.
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  Enter his gates with Thanksgiving, and his courts
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  with praise. Give thanks to Him.
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  Bless his name, for the Lord is good.
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  His loving kindness is everlasting and His faithfulness
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  to all generations. When you begin to recite the
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  wonderful works of God, there's one response, and that's to
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  respond with thankful hearts, Thanking and praising God for
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  all that He's done #3 recognize His powerful hand.
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  Recognize His powerful hand. Remember back in First Samuel
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  chapter 2 where Hannah would give praise to God because the
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  Lord had answered her prayer. The Lord had remembered her and
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  opened her womb and gave her a son.
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  Son's name would would be used by God in a mighty way, young
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  Samuel. But she says in verse #1 She
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  prayed and said, My heart exalts in the Lord.
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  My horn or my strength is exalted in the Lord.
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  My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, because I rejoice in
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  your salvation. She said there is no one holy
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  like the Lord. Indeed there is no one beside
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  you, nor is there any rock like our God.
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  Then she says these words in verse 6.
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  The Lord kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and
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  raises up. The Lord makes poor and rich.
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  He brings low. He also exalts.
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  He raises the poor from the dust.
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  He lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with
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  nobles and inherit a seat of honor.
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  For the pillars of the earth are the Lords, and He set the world
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  on them. He keeps the feet of his godly
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  ones, but the wicked ones are silenced in darkness, for not by
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  might shall a man prevail. Those who are contented with, or
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  those who contend with the Lord will be shattered against them.
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  He will Thunder in the heavens, and the Lord would judge the
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  ends of the earth, and He will give strength to his king, and
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  would exalt the strength of his anointed.
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  Hannah recognized that God's hand was over everything, that
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  God. God kills and God saves.
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  God raises up and God puts down. God makes a man rich, God makes
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  a man poor. She recognized the mighty hand
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  of God over everything. And so when you're praising God,
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  you're recognizing his powerful hand.
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  David did the exact same thing over in Second Samuel chapter 12
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  after the sin with Bathsheba and the baby was born and, and, and
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  the baby was going to die. God told him the baby was going
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  to die. And David began to pray and and
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  to fast. And it says in verse 18 it
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  happened on the 7th day that the child died.
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  Verse 19. But when David saw that his
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  servants were whispering together, David perceived that
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  the child was dead. So as David said to his
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  servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
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  So David arose from the ground, washed and anointed himself, and
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  changed his clothes. And he came into the House of
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  the Lord, and he worshipped, he offered a sacrifice of praise to
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  his God. Then he came to his own house,
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  and when he requested they set food before him and he ate.
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  The servant said to him, What is this thing that you have done
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  while the child was alive? You, you fasted and wept.
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  But when the child died, you arose and ate food.
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  And he said, while the child was still alive, I, I fasted and
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  wept. For I said, Who knows, the Lord
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  may be gracious to me that the child may live, but now that he
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  has died, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again?
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  I will go to him, but he will not return to me.
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  Here is David recognizing the mighty hand of God, the powerful
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  hand of God, and submitting to that that that strength of his
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  hand, knowing that God was in control of the life of his Son.
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  And when the Son died, he arose, He changed his clothes, and he
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  worshipped You. Give praise to his God.
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  Why? Because he recognized the
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  powerful hand of God. And that's what the people of
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  praise do. They recite his wonderful works,
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  they respond with thankful hearts, and they recognize his
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  powerful hand #4 here's a good one.
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  They radiate with cheerful giving.
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  They radiate with cheerful giving back.
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  In First Chronicles, First Chronicles chapter 29, David had
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  collected from the people of God and offering that would be used
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  in the building materials for the temple.
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  It says in verse #9 and First Chronicles 29 Then the people
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  rejoiced because they had offered so willingly, for they
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  made their offering to the Lord with a whole heart.
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  And King David also rejoiced greatly.
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  So David, bless the Lord in the sight of all the assembly.
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  And David said, Blessed are you, O Lord God of Israel, our Father
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  forever and ever. Yours, O Lord, is the greatness
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  and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty,
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  indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth.
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  Yours is a dominion, O Lord, and you exalt yourself as head over
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  all. Both riches and honor come from
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  you, and you rule over all. And in your hand is power and
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  might, and it lies in your hand to make great and to strengthen
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  everyone. Now, therefore, our God, we
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  thank you and praise your glorious name.
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  David knew that the people of Israel would give willfully.
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  They would give liberally to the work of the Lord, and that would
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  bring glory and honor to God. David, recite riches and honor
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  come from you. We have what we have because of
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  you, and therefore we give back to you that which you've already
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  given to us. And they they would radiate with
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  cheerful giving that that's what people of praise do, that
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  there's this certain cheerfulness about giving.
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  That's why in Second Corinthians Chapter 9, it says that the Lord
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  loves a a cheerful giver. Why?
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  Because the Lord wants you to give willingly and freely to
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  him, not grudgingly, not bitterly, but because you
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  recognize that he is the giver of all things.
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  Listen, those who recognize that what they have is from the Lord
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  are the ones who give the most back to the Lord.
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  Those who do not recognize that what they have is from the Lord.
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  They want to keep holding on to what they have as if they earned
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  it, as if they were the ones who obtained it, as if they were the
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  ones who worked hard for it. But it's God who makes 1 rich.
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  It's God who makes 1 poor. It's God who gives to man, and
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  therefore the people of God. They recognize that, and they
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  radiate with cheerful giving because they recognize His
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  powerful hand, and they respond with thankful hearts because
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  they recite His wonderful works. Next, the people of praise
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  remember his purposeful sacrifice.
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  They remember His purposeful sacrifice.
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  This morning we're going to partake of the Lord's table, and
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  the Lord said, do this in remembrance of me and the people
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  of praise. They remember the purpose behind
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  this sacrifice, that it was for their welfare, their welfare,
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  their well-being, their salvation, and so they remember
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  Jesus Christ. 2nd 28 The Senate of David risen from the dead,
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  which is my gospel. Paul said they give thanks into
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  God for his indescribable gift. 2nd Corinthians 9 verse #15 They
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  understand, as First Corinthians 1557 says, thanks be to God who
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  gives us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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  They remember His purposeful sacrifice, and #6 They rejoice
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  in Worshipful Psalm. The people of praise rejoice in
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  Worshipful song. Psalm 69 verse #30 I will praise
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  the name of the Lord with Psalm. The Bible says in Psalm one O 4
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  verse number 33, I will sing to the Lord as long as I live.
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  I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
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  Let my meditation be pleasing to him.
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  As for me, I shall be glad in the Lord on the eve of the
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  crucifixion, after they had celebrated the last Passover
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  with the first Communion table, after our Lord had prayed His
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  High priestly prayer. The Bible says in Matthew
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  chapter 26 verse #30 after singing a hymn they went out to
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  the mount of all of us. So they would gather together
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  that one. Last night Christ would wash the
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  disciples feet. He would give them instruction
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  as to what was going to happen. He would pray with them for them
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  and before they left the upper room they would sing a hymn.
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  The question is which hymn did they sing?
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  Well, the answer to that is that because it was Passover, they
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  would sing the the six songs of the Hallel, which means to
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  praise, and more than likely they would sing the last of the
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  Psalms of Hallel. Psalm 118 and Psalm 118 begins
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  this way. Give thanks to the Lord, for He
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  is good. So here was our Lord leading
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  them in a final hymn of praise before he's about to be
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  sacrificed on Calvary's mount. And they sing Give thanks to the
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  Lord, for he is good. In fact, the last verse of that
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  same Psalm says Give thanks to the Lord for he is good.
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  But right in the middle of that, these are the words of the sixth
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  song of the halal, verse 21. The stone which the builders
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  rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
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  They were singing the praise that the Messiah of the stone
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  would be rejected. And then it says this is the
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  Lord's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.
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  What is the Lord's doing? The Lord's doing is that his Son
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  would be rejected. The Lord's doing is that his Son
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  would be crucified. For Isaiah 53 says it pleased
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  the Lord to crush his Son. And then that very familiar
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  verse, Psalm 119, or excuse me, Psalm 118 verse #24 this is the
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  day which the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad.
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  What day is that? It's the day of the crucifixion.
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  We use that verse quite readily in the everyday conversation.
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  Well, this is the day that the Lord has made, but particularly
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  significantly. It speaks of one day.
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  That was the day the the stone would be rejected.
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  That would be the day that was marvelous in our Lord's eyes.
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  That would be the day that the Lord has made, the day in which
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  the Messiah would die. We will rejoice and be glad.
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  And the Lord LED them in that last song of praise, knowing
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  that he would make his way down the Kidron Valley, back up again
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  and ascend unto the Mount of Olives.
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  He would go there to pray. And it would be that night that
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  he would be betrayed, be that night that the temple police,
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  the temple guards, the Sanhedrin, the Pharisees would
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  come to take him away to be beaten and crucified.
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  That you and I might be saved. That's why we rejoice and be
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  glad. Why?
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  Because that's the day that the Lord made.
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  He made that day. He was delivered up by the
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  predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God.
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  It was always the plan. And that's why, as our Lord LED
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  them in a a song of praise, He would sing along with them.
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  This day is marvelous in the Lord's eyes.
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  For this is the day that the Lord has made.
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  Let us rejoice and be glad. Why?
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  Because the Lord is good and His long-suffering, His loving
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  kindness is everlasting from generation to generation in the
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  people of praise. Praise Him by rejoicing in
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  worship for Saul. Let's pray together, Father.
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  We thank you, Lord, for this morning and the reminder of the
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  people of praise. This is who we are.
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  This is what we do. We don't forget your wonderful
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  works. We recite them, we remember
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  them. We respond with a thankful
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  heart. We are the ones who who radiate
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  with cheerful giving. We are the ones who truly
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  remember your sacrifice and rejoice knowing that we have the
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  benefactors of Your great grace. As you partake at the Lord's
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  table, help us never to forget what you did for us on Calvary's
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  tree, that we might obtain eternal life in Jesus name,
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  Amen.