Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 364.
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And now I’d like to call on our
brother Brian Luke to give us
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And now I’d like to call on our
brother Brian Luke to give us
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the 4th session of the day which
he entitles.
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I had rather be a doorkeeper in
the House of my God brother
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Brian.
Thanks, brother Ron, I’d like us
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to come back to an earlier
chapter in Chronicles, the first
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of Chronicles Chapter 6.
Now as you know, there were
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three main branches of the
Levites and verse one tells us
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their names, the sons of Levi,
the Gershon, Kohath and Murari.
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And this chapter is about the
the sons of Levi and their
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divisions and the line of the
priests and the line of the
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singers.
It’s an interesting chapter in
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that regard.
So we have the three branches of
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them in verse one, and then it
gives to us of the sons of
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Kohath, and in verse 4 it gives
us the lineage of the
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priesthood.
Eliezer was a son of Aaron and
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his son was Phineas.
And so down the line it goes
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right through to verse 14 and
verse 15, Azariah begat Seraiah
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and Seraiagat Jehozadak, and so
on, under the time of
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Nebuchadnezzar and his invasion.
So that’s the line of the
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priesthood.
Then in verses 16 to 30, because
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the priests were of the greatest
and most important office, it
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then gives to us the line of the
principal person in each of the
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three divisions of Levi.
So it repeats in verse 16, the
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sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath,
and Murari.
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And the lineage of Gershon is
given in verses 20 to 21, And
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the lineage of Kohath is given
in verses 22 through to verse
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28.
All right.
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And then still following the
principal person in each of
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those 3 divisions, we have the
sons of Murari in verse 29, and
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that goes through to the end of
verse 30.
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So there’s the three main
branches of the Levites, the
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priest to take it to one side,
and then we’re given the line of
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the principles of those three
main divisions of the Levites.
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Then it says in verse 31, these
are they whom David said over
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the service of song in the House
of the Lord.
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After that the ark had rest.
So from verses 31 to 48 we have
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the genealogy of the three
principal singers.
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I wonder if in our ecclesial
life we would attribute that
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kind of importance to singing
and praise and song.
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I wonder.
I just suggest that the
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loveliest thing that you can do
in ecclesial life is to combine
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your study of the word, which
inspires the heart, with
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expressions of song and praise,
which involve the heart and the
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feelings of our community.
I think they’ve been some of the
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most happy times in our
ecclesial life where there’s
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been a nice connection of those
two things.
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So often it’s easy to have a
brother get the first one, but
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the second one involves us all,
and perhaps we we don’t find it
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so easy time being like it is
sometimes to get the practices
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in place and to be able to enjoy
a multitude of people expressing
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themselves and joy to God.
I mean, it’s like in Bible
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school when somebody turns up
with a piece of music and within
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about four days we get it all
together, don’t we?
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You never know how it was done,
even to the second last
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practice.
Sure it will never work, but you
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know, there it is.
The nights put on it works and
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it’s always a very, very
wonderful and happy night.
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And that’s done really in Bible
schools around the world.
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Same things done at Rathmines.
Everybody rise and nobody has
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any idea what music we’re going
to be singing.
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And yet by I think it’s Thursday
night also that there’s an
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evening put on and you’d think,
you know, they’ve been working
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on it for weeks.
So that’s something to remember
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in ecclesial life.
If you’re going to have an
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effort and bring joy into
meeting and the understanding of
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the word of God.
See if we can combine that with
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something that involves more
people, more hearts open, more
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giving expression to God,
singing and making melody in
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their hearts so that the
ecclesial whole is filled with,
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with people with exultant
thoughts and, and expressions in
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their mind.
And you know, David was great
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enough to always see that.
One of the things that comes
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down through history about David
is that isn’t he, wasn’t he an
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amazing man, a man of so many
parts.
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He could write, he could fight,
he could bring together, he
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could revive, he could inspire,
he could write Psalms, he could
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find the music, made instruments
organized.
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What an incredible man he was.
Man of all parts, an absolutely
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amazing man of God.
Well after the and and these are
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they whom David said oh you see
in verse 31 when the ark had
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rest they ministered before the
dwelling place the Tabernacle.
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The congregation with singing
didn’t wait until the temple
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note this got underway before
the temple when there’s just a
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Tabernacle there Tabernacle of
David that he had set up.
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It was just a tense structure
didn’t have any mercy seat and
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Caribbean they they had yet to
come with with the art.
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When the art was brought in, he
actually constructed this
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Tabernacle for them and never
either had the other furniture
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that never came into the the
Tabernacle of David.
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The art came in and then these
things began to happen.
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He didn’t wait until the
building of the temple he got
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underway when as soon as that
ark had arrived, he then
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instituted these things.
They ministered before the
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dwelling place of the Tabernacle
of the congregation with singing
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until Solomon had built the
House of Yahweh in Jerusalem.
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And then they waited on their
office according to their order.
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Now we’re beginning to already
understand that, aren’t they?
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Because the the order was made.
We we saw that in those other
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references in our last study.
It was an order established
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under David by the writing of
the spirit upon his hand.
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And then that went down for
hundreds of years.
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All right.
Did you notice this is all about
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the Levites?
Pretty important people, these
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singers, weren’t they?
We’ve only just been told who
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were the principal people down
the line of the three main
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branches.
The next people we’re told about
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are the principal singers.
I don’t know that we attribute
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that degree of importance upon
that office in our ecclesial
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life.
So there’s something to take
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back home, isn’t it?
And here we go, verse 33, three
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branches of the Levites.
Well, there was a principle from
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each.
And these are they that waited
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with their children.
That’s an interesting thing.
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We’re going to see how that
develops with their children of
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the sons of the Koothites.
He man a singer now he we he’s
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the one that had fourteen sons
that we read about in the first
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Chronicles chapter 25.
And you’ll see there’s a little
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reference there across in the
margin.
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He meant a singer.
Now he was in the Kohathites,
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Gershon Kohath and Murari.
So he comes down that line and
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if you look back just a couple
of names, you’ll see it says the
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son of Joel who had a boy called
Joel Samuel, somebody said, and
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that’s where it says in the next
little statement, the son of
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Shemuel.
And that should be Samuel and he
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was the son of Elkanah.
And that’s what it says in verse
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34.
So that’s our Samuel.
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Isn’t that interesting?
So He Man was the grandson of
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Samuel.
This is a lot more interesting,
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this record than what we
suspected, isn’t it Samuel El
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Karna and then back the other
way to He man.
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Well, where does the lineage go
back to verse 37?
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We’re still going back to cohab
and it says the son of Tahath,
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the son of ASA, the son of Evie
Asaph, the son of Korra, the son
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of Isphah, the son of Coat, the
son of Levi, the son of Israel.
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Well, that’s a very interesting
genealogy, isn’t it?
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It starts from Kohath to Isha to
Korra, and we all know who Korra
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was, don’t we?
Korra, Dathan and a Byron in
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Numbers chapter the 16.
They arose, didn’t they?
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And rebelled against the
authority of Moses and an Aaron
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and Cora lost his life.
And yet he’s a genealogy that
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continues on after him and runs
right down to Samuel and to his
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grandson.
Who was he man?
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Now that’s an interesting thing
because Joel didn’t go too well,
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did he?
He didn’t.
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He didn’t go too good.
There was two sons of Samuel and
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they were not as their father.
But nevertheless, Joel had a son
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whose name was he man, and he
became a remarkably wonderful
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person.
So there’s some inspiration too,
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isn’t it?
And sometimes you see that in
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the truth, somebody can come
back the next generation.
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They can be quite inspirational
in eclosure life, whereas in
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fact their their parent was, you
know, a bit hazy about things
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sometimes.
Verse 39 and says and his
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brother Asaph, who stood on his
right hand, even Asaph the son
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of Vera Kai.
And then the genealogy runs down
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until we get to Gershon verse
43, who was the son of Levi,
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Gershon, Kohath and Murari.
So Asaph is from Gershon and he
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man is from Cohab.
What about Murari verse 44 And
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their brethren the sons of
Murari stood on the left hand
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Ethan the son of Kishi.
And he goes right back that says
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to Murari verse 47 the son of
Levi. 3 branches of the Levites.
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From each branch there were
singers taken and their names
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were He Man from Kohath verse
33, Asaph from Gershon verse 39,
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and Ethan verse 44 from the sons
of Marara.
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So we can see that the singers
were taken from the three main
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branches of the Levites.
There was a component of each
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and that’s what our chapter has
outlined for us.
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Verse 31 and 32 illustrate that
they were brought into their
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office when the ark came in to
the Tabernacle of David.
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When the Ark came to rest, then
the singers voiced their their
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praise in continuous rounds of
service in song.
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And obviously they were very,
very important as far as Sir
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David was concerned.
And that’s why their names are
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given after such a auspicious
people.
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Before that, if we come back to
our chapter in Chronicles, the
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first of Chronicles chapter 25,
we note firstly in verse one,
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what we noted in the previous
study, that David was going to
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induct them into office in the
company of very auspicious
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people.
There was the King and the
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captains of the Host, and it
says that they separated to the
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service of the sons of Asaph,
and of he Man, and of Jedduthan.
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Now we understand that now,
don’t we?
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The three branches of the
Levites all represented, except
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that where, as he was called
Ethan in First Chronicles 6,
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here he is called Jedduthan.
Why then did David bring in
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these captains of the Host?
Why couldn’t if you bought him
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Princess or priests or other
things?
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Well, I think there’s a reason
for that, and the reason is seen
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very beautifully in Second
Chronicles chapter 20.
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What David was saying was that
these men with their instruments
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and their praise to God are
greater than military generals.
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100 years later there is a
threat from Edom and Moab and
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the children of Ammon against
the Judah in the days of King
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Jehoshaphat.
Then upon Jahaziel, verse 14,
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the son of Zechariah, the son of
Benaiah.
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This is the Second Chronicles
20, verse 14, Upon Jahaziel the
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son of Zechariah, the son of
Benaiah, the son of Jehiel the
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son of Mataniah, a Levite of the
sons of ASA, came the Spirit of
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the Lord in the midst of the
congregation.
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And he said, Hearken ye all
Judah, and the inhabitants of
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Jerusalem, and thou King
Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the Lord
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unto you, Be not afraid nor
dismayed by reason of this great
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battle, for the battle is not
yours, but God’s tomorrow.
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Go ye down against them.
Behold, they come up by the clip
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of Ziz, and you shall find them
at the end of the brook before
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the wilderness of Jerome.
Ye shall not need to fight in
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this battle.
Set yourselves, Stand he still,
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and see the salvation of the
Lord with you, O Judah and
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Jerusalem.
Fear not nor be dismayed.
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And tomorrow go out against
them, for the Lord will be with
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you.
And Jehoshaphat accepted that.
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He bowed his head with his face
to the ground and all due in the
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inhabitants of Jerusalem fell
before Yahweh worshipping him.
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And the Levites of the children
of the Koathites and of the
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children of the Qorite stood up
to praise Yahweh, God of Israel
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with a loud voice on high.
And you can understand what’s
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saying that in verse 19, because
the three branches of the
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Levites were involved in the
singing.
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And they haven’t lost their ID,
their, their, their customs and
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their, their abilities and their
knowledge of the music and of
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the words and, and how to do it.
Because here, just in this
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sudden instant, when they’re,
they’re brought to this crisis
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in Israel, they know what to do.
And they’re not, they’re not
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concerned about the about the
enemy.
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It’s one of their number in
verse 14 that stood up and said
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to the king, don’t fear, O king,
this matter is of God and God
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will deliver us.
So when they should be preparing
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for war and sharpening their
knives and getting their Spears
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ready, this group is standing up
to praise Yahweh, God of Israel,
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with a loud voice on high.
And they rose early in the
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morning and went forth into the
wilderness of Tekoa.
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As they went forth, Jehoshaphat
stood and said, Hear me, O
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Judah, and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, believe in Yahweh
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your God.
So shall you be established.
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Believe his prophet, so shall
you prosper.
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Imagine that the armies marching
out, the king saying to them
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these things, who inspired him?
Those singers, they were not
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ordinary men, were they?
They were leaders in faith that
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had kept up a practicing culture
through persistence.
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There was ingrained into their
minds from very young ages in
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such a way that they would never
let it go.
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So that hundreds of years later,
this is 100 years in the days of
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David, 100 years down the track,
they knew exactly what to do at
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the right moment.
And you think of your own
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children or your own
grandchildren or great
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grandchildren, great
grandchildren and what
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confidence would you have, my
dear Ben sisters, that they
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would have in their heart the
same strength of belief that you
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have or that your parents have.
So you’re looking at something
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very great, very wonderful that
that same strength of feeling is
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in those were at a moment’s
crisis.
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They went out into the street.
So so to speak, and they led the
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army.
They did when he had consulted
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with the people Verse 21, he
appointed singers unto Yahweh
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and that should praise the
beauty of holiness as they went
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out before the army and to say
praise the Lord for his mercy
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endureth forever.
And when they began to sing and
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to praise Yahweh said
ambushments against the children
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of Ammon and when they got
there, there wasn’t a living man
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to contend with them.
What did it the song Who’s
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Greater, Benaiah or Joab or ASAP
Jedotham?
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And he man, it was the note of
praise to God that brought God
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onto their side.
And so those great generals were
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learning as much as what the the
singers ever learnt and they had
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to come and see the importance
of the induction of that office.
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I can imagine them standing
there with all their generals
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uniforms and thinking, you know,
this is kid stuff.
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What am I being brought into
this for?
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But David was teaching them and
all the nation that there’s more
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strength in the voice of Solomon
prize than there is in the
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training of military might.
What amazing man David was.
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You look at all in verse one.
What a unexpected bringing
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together of facts David and the
captains of the hosts separated
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to the service of the sons of
Asaph.
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He managed to do then who should
prophecy with harps.
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What’s different, what’s the
more contrasting than a man of
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military might and a harp.
But that’s what David had come
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to learn that the songs of God
and the praise of God brought
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the great God of heaven on your
side, and it was stronger than
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steel.
And so these men are are
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enumerated for us that said that
they prophesied with harps, with
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sultries and with symbols and
the number of the workmen
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according to their service was
it tells us in fact, of the sons
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that each one had Asaph is
mentioned first in verse 2.
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He becomes the principal of
them.
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Then it mentions Judithan in
verse 6, in verse 3 and he had
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six sons.
And then it mentions he man in
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verse 4 and he had fourteen
sons.
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Add that up 64 and 14.
Yes, it makes 24 again, doesn’t
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it?
So from each one of these
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principal families of the
singers, there are key boys that
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are chosen 4IN Asaphs, 6
introduces and 14 in he man’s.
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They are chosen to be these
these leaders of song.
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You know, it really is an
incredibly interesting record,
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isn’t it?
It says that they were under the
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hands, verse 2 of Asaph.
And then it says who prophesied
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according to the order of the
King.
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But the AV is just hiding
something there a little,
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because under the hands is the
same expression as according to
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the order.
So what that’s really saying is
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that there was their Father’s
hands upon them.
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My son, this is how you’re going
to do it.
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And upon his hands, with the
hands of the king, so to speak.
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So who was the the prime
initiator and conceiver of the
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concept?
It was David, wasn’t it?
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And ASA, he man and Jedduth were
going to do exactly as the king
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said, and their boys were going
to do exactly what Dad said.
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There’s a miracle, isn’t it?
Now, isn’t that an amazing
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thing, my dear?
But I, I do find this, this
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whole study just just absolutely
amazing.
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And there were 24 boys.
And in verses 9 to 31, there
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were 24 courses.
And this, let’s pick up the idea
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and we’ll come back to some of
those words and pull out some of
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the beautiful things.
But to see in verse 8, it says
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they cast lots ward against
ward, course against course, as
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well as small as the great, the
teacher as the scholar.
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They weren’t all as skilful as
each other.
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Now the first lot came forth for
Asaph to Joseph.
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And if you swing across to
Asaph’s names in verse 2, you’ll
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see that his second boy was
called Joseph.
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C Got that Joseph mentioned in
verse nine.
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The first lot came for him and
he was the second son of Asaph.
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Now the second lot came to get a
line.
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And if you look across the game
to verse 3, you’ll see that get
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a lie is the first mention of
Jaduthan’s sons.
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All right, So it follows that
pattern right through.
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And we have from verse 9 to 31,
we have 24 of these boys, and
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with each of them there were 12.
So they’ve got 3 principals.
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We’ve got their 24 sons, and
each one of those 24 has got 12
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associated with him. 12 * 24 is
288.
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So we have a male choir of 288
boys, skilful with instruments
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under the hands of their fathers
and the King’s hands is
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authority upon them.
Now doesn’t that tell you
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something about David?
Again, it really shows some
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great things in these things,
right?
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Even says, you know, when you’ve
got something coming up in
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ecclesial life and you’re and
you’re busy, the event can come
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and go and think, oh, I really
never got into that.
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I know there must be many people
that feel that way.
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I never never really got
involved in that.
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And you know, we could have done
so much more.
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We could have turned that
occasion into a really wonderful
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things.
We had to learn this and you
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know, they’d have worked in with
that.
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And if we had have gone on to do
it this way.
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Oh, wouldn’t that have been
marvellous if we if we’d seen
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the whole picture and developed
it all had those feelings many
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times.
All the event came and it went
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was OK, but it could have been
special.
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You know, David was the type of
person who wouldn’t let it just
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be ordinary.
It would be special because he
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came right down from his throne
and all the things he had to
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worry about and his ill health
and and 38,000 Levites and and a
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Kingdom that didn’t want him or
half of them didn’t.
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And so on training his son David
Jonathan Solomon to take over
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all of those issues that he had.
He came down from all of that
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and he saw that they were making
the instruments the exact way
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that he had said they should.
In fact, the designer, what does
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he know about designing of
instruments?
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Could you make a an instrument?
Well, David did.
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The king, the shepherd boy, the
warrior, the psalmist, the
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writer, the inspiring
administrator.
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He could also design instruments
and make sure that they were
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made according to that patent.
Oh, what an amazing man, truly a
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great man.
And these boys then had to learn
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from their father exactly how
they should play those parts,
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what things should be said on
this particular day, and what
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Psalm should be said on that
particular day, and how they
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should sing it.
And the parts, no doubt that
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they would hang.
What an inspiration.
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Arranging brethren, others that
are associated with ecclesial
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administration.
Do not say I’m too busy, I’ll
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just let the thing pass, but say
I’ve got to make my, my
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contribution if I possibly can
to this, this occasion that’s
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coming up.
Because when it comes up, it
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must be special because it’s to
God, not just another thing
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ticked off the eclosure program,
but something special that’s
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going to involve everybody and
lift up the hearts unto Yahweh.
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Well, that’s what he was like.
And because you see, God had
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seen in the, in the, in this,
that there’s going to be 24
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elders in the future, which are
going to be typical of Jew and
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Gentile of the Saints.
There’ll be king, priests and
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singers.
Revelation 5.
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They lifted up their voice.
They just made us kings and
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priests.
They’re singers too, aren’t
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they?
And there’s Jew and Gentiles, so
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there’s 12 of each for both
Israel.
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And there’s thousands of them.
Not 288, but there’s thousands
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upon thousands.
But because that’s the pattern
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of the future, therefore there
was 2 * 12 back here.
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And they were gathered out of
all of these families because
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God had that pattern in mind.
And a beautiful thing.
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The Bible is a wonderful book.
Nothing else like it is
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absolutely nothing else like it.
So these boys are going to give
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in the lowly circumstances of
Israel 3000 years ago.
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They’re going to give a pattern
of things that are going to
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expand out until they’ll be seen
in all their beauty in the
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Kingdom of God.
Let’s come back to ASAP.
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Then it says that he prophesied.
This one had said if they
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prophecy with harps, he was
definitely the leading
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individual. 12 psalms were
written by this this Asaph a
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wonderful man indeed, and
probably he was the chief
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musician almost certainly that
you have referred to in the
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Psalms.
It says Jaduthan prophesied with
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harps.
See verse three.
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Who prophesied with a harp to
give thanks and to praise
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Yahweh?
He man is spoken of as the
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King’s seer.
Verse 5.
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These were the sons of him and
the King’s seer in the words of
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God to lift up the horn.
He was one of the the prophets
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around David.
Remember Gad that we had in
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second Samuel 24?
Well, there was other prophets.
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Nathan was another one.
He man was another one.
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David had a group of different
prophets around him because he
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was a man of God.
Saul.
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He didn’t know the prophets, was
he?
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He came to Samuel and he said,
you know where Samuel lives.
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And Samuel said I’m him.
So I didn’t know who he was, but
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David did.
He had all these prophets around
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him and he now was instituting
this.
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So all these singers were
prophets.
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And that too is instructive.
My dear brother sisters, isn’t
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in our ecclesial life because
when we do make song to God,
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there’s got to be a content to
it.
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We don’t just want tunes that
are happy and nice and light and
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easy.
That’s not really the point of
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it, is it?
It is a praise unto God and it’s
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a very good thing.
So beautifully illustrated in a
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00:29:28,520 –> 00:29:33,200
lot of our hymns where the the
content evidences that there’s a
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rich mind in the things of God.
They are our best hymns.
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You know, we think about a hymn
book now, aren’t we?
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A new hymn book, a new new hymn
book.
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00:29:42,400 –> 00:29:45,000
Well, then the best thing you
can do for that hymn book is to
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write a good solid hymn.
If you’ve got the ability, you
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know someone has that and do it.
Do it now because the diamond do
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00:29:51,320 –> 00:29:54,720
it is now.
But our most beautiful hymns are
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those in which there’s a real
content.
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These men were not found, you
know, reading comics in their
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spare time.
You wouldn’t find them caught on
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the Internet.
You wouldn’t find them dribbling
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00:30:07,640 –> 00:30:11,000
their nice way with novels.
They were men of God, men of the
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Word of God.
So therefore they had a mind
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that made sure that the praise
to God had content in it.
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00:30:18,800 –> 00:30:20,400
There was power in what they
were doing.
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And that’s what we need in our
official life.
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Not just sweet songs, but
sometimes seem to almost echo
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00:30:26,800 –> 00:30:30,160
what you hear about sign.
But something’s got content.
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00:30:31,120 –> 00:30:33,120
So the mind is touched as the
heart is touched.
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That’s important thing, very
important thing.
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And I’m sure that that is
becoming to our God.
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They prophesied with harps.
How do you do that?
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They’re playing an instrument.
How do you prophecy with a harp?
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00:30:48,520 –> 00:30:54,480
Where did that idea come from?
It’s Samuel, isn’t it?
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First Samuel, chapter 10.
In First Samuel chapter 10, Saul
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is trying to find his asses.
And he has stumbled across the
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prophet, and the prophet anoints
him with oil, and he is given
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direction.
This is what it says in verse
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five, First Samuel 10, verse 5.
After that thou shalt come to
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the hill of God, where is the
Garrison of the Philistines, And
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it shall come to pass, when thou
art come thither to the city,
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that thou shalt be a company of
prophets coming down from the
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00:31:42,600 –> 00:31:48,240
high place, with a sultry and a
tabore, and a pipe, and a heart
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00:31:48,840 –> 00:31:52,760
before them, and they shall
prophecy.
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That’s where it comes from.
It’s a Samuel piece of culture.
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He has linked together the
praise of God with the knowledge
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of God, the study of the Word,
to put it in our terms with
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singing and praise unto God.
Samuel’s brought back and it
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00:32:12,720 –> 00:32:16,080
says in verse 6, And the Spirit
of the Lord will come upon thee
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soul, and thou shalt prophecy
with them, and shall be turned
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into another man.
Saul stumbled up to the House of
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Samuel and didn’t even know
where he was, and he lived just
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round the corner, so to speak.
If you look at the map and have
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00:32:32,560 –> 00:32:35,960
a look where Giba was and where
Naoth was, you’ll find look, it
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was just down the road and he
didn’t have a blue clue who the
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00:32:39,840 –> 00:32:45,720
prophet was and he lived
alongside him and he thought
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you’d go to the prophet to find
out where your answers were.
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That’s how much he knew.
In fact, his servant knew more
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about the prophet than he did.
He said at least take a gift.
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00:32:55,720 –> 00:32:59,480
Paul Saul was very happy to take
a gift, but really he knew
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00:32:59,480 –> 00:33:01,040
nothing of the prophet that
lived down the road.
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Now that says oceans about Saul.
David was an entirely different
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person, but in the mercy of God
and isn’t it great He brought
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Saul into that company.
He said Saul, I want you to
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experience something you’ve
never known.
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00:33:14,280 –> 00:33:16,720
When you get involved in that
company that are coming down the
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00:33:16,720 –> 00:33:20,040
hill singing praise to God with
their instruments, this company
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00:33:20,040 –> 00:33:22,440
of province, you’ll be turned
into another man.
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00:33:24,120 –> 00:33:26,600
It’s like coming away for study
weekend, isn’t it?
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All the other things that were
worrying us back home, they sort
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of drop off after a while and we
begin to see what’s really
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00:33:32,720 –> 00:33:35,360
important.
And let it be when these signs
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have come unto thee, that thou
do as occasions serve thee, for
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God is with thee.
And God gave him another heart.
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It says in verse 10 when he
came, Isn’t that beautiful?
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00:33:46,600 –> 00:33:51,960
Saul saw that and forgot it, but
David didn’t.
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In First Samuel 19, it’s David’s
turn now.
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He’s going to go to Samuel’s
house and he’s an extremity.
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He didn’t live close to Samuel,
but he knew absolutely all about
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him.
There was a kindred spirit in
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this man.
And the first of Samuel 19,
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00:34:13,040 –> 00:34:18,080
verse 18, it says when Saul was
seeking to destroy David, what a
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00:34:18,080 –> 00:34:21,440
crazy man.
And there was David playing with
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00:34:21,440 –> 00:34:23,920
the heart.
You know it was though he was in
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the company of the prophets
again, there was a young man in
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00:34:26,960 –> 00:34:30,199
front of him playing with all
the skill that he could, and
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00:34:30,199 –> 00:34:33,159
endeavouring to turn that
melancholy spirit away from the
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King.
And you can imagine, my dear
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00:34:34,960 –> 00:34:38,239
brother says, with what feeling
he would have done that, with
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00:34:38,239 –> 00:34:41,520
what sincerity he would have
done that, to try and turn his
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father-in-law into another man
and to take away that melancholy
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00:34:44,960 –> 00:34:47,560
feeling that he had and
disposition that everything was
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00:34:47,560 –> 00:34:51,800
against him, and to convey to
him a sense of positive
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00:34:52,719 –> 00:34:55,440
well-being as he, as he was
ruler of Israel.
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David would have done that with
all the skill of his heart and
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00:34:58,640 –> 00:35:03,360
of his fingers, and Saul through
a stort sword at him in the
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middle of it.
He’d forgotten entirely what he
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00:35:05,520 –> 00:35:07,440
had learnt in the company of the
prophets, hadn’t he?
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But David escaped, escaped from
his own house, Michael, Michael
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00:35:13,360 –> 00:35:16,400
letting him over the wall.
And he fled, verse 18, and
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00:35:16,400 –> 00:35:19,360
escaped and came to Samuel, to
Raymar, and told him all that
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00:35:19,360 –> 00:35:22,160
Saul had done to him.
He knew where to go, didn’t he?
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00:35:23,280 –> 00:35:27,320
And he, he and Samuel went and
dwelt in Naoth, which must have
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00:35:27,320 –> 00:35:31,360
been just outside of Ramo, eh,
Ramo was the village and Naoth.
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00:35:32,200 –> 00:35:36,400
Naoth means a dwelling.
And I, I think it’s a lovely
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00:35:36,400 –> 00:35:37,880
word, isn’t it?
In the context?
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Because it was the dwelling was
where the God of Israel was
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00:35:42,640 –> 00:35:45,600
dwelling, Wasn’t he really in
Samuel?
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00:35:46,400 –> 00:35:48,760
In that house was the Spirit of
God dwelling.
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00:35:49,480 –> 00:35:51,440
So there was Raima, but he was
the dwelling.
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People called him.
Then he went straight to him.
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He didn’t need to tell him where
it was.
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00:35:58,960 –> 00:36:02,960
And all his troubles vanished.
He was told Saul saying, Behold,
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00:36:02,960 –> 00:36:07,680
David, is it Naoth and Raima and
Saul sent messengers to take
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00:36:07,680 –> 00:36:08,400
that.
Where didn’t he go?
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00:36:08,400 –> 00:36:14,080
Himself?
And when they saw the company of
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00:36:14,080 –> 00:36:17,240
the prophets prophesying and
Samuel’s standing as appointed
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00:36:17,240 –> 00:36:20,760
over them, the Spirit of God was
upon the messages of Saul, and
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00:36:20,760 –> 00:36:22,720
they also prophesied.
And they never went home.
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00:36:25,520 –> 00:36:28,920
And Saul got to know, so he said
other messages, verse 2, How
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00:36:28,920 –> 00:36:32,520
silly can you be?
And they also didn’t come home.
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They prophesied likewise and
Saul sent messages again the
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00:36:36,680 –> 00:36:40,040
third time and they prophesied
author hadn’t even hadn’t any
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00:36:40,040 –> 00:36:43,000
vestige of memory about what
happened when he first met them
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00:36:43,000 –> 00:36:45,720
in Rainmar and he was turned
into another man.
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00:36:45,960 –> 00:36:48,800
Did he think that he could
resist the power of God, the
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00:36:48,800 –> 00:36:52,360
company of the prophets and
mingling that with the the
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00:36:52,360 –> 00:36:54,480
praise of God and the hearts up
to God.
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00:36:54,640 –> 00:36:57,360
There was no power in Israel
that could be controlled by that
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00:36:58,240 –> 00:36:59,600
that couldn’t be controlled by
that.
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00:37:00,800 –> 00:37:03,440
And so the great man comes up
and all of his towering
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00:37:03,440 –> 00:37:06,920
strength.
It went also to Raymond, came to
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00:37:06,920 –> 00:37:12,080
a great well that is in session
and asked and said, where are
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00:37:12,080 –> 00:37:17,160
Samuel and David?
Oh, foolish man, It’s a terrible
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00:37:17,160 –> 00:37:18,600
thing to read that, my dear
friends.
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00:37:18,600 –> 00:37:22,320
He knew where they were.
What was he asking for?
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00:37:23,240 –> 00:37:24,960
Because he knew what he was
doing was wrong.
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00:37:24,960 –> 00:37:30,920
And once said, behold, where
you’d expect, they’re perfectly
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00:37:31,000 –> 00:37:33,080
fine.
They’re not fleeing, they’re
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00:37:33,080 –> 00:37:37,280
just staying still.
They’re in the dwelling in
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00:37:37,280 –> 00:37:41,480
Naoth.
And he went thither to Naoth and
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00:37:41,480 –> 00:37:45,920
Rhema, and the Spirit of God was
upon him also.
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Look at the mercy of God in
that, my dear.
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And sisters, Wouldn’t Saul begin
to feel that he was tracking
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00:37:54,280 –> 00:37:59,200
along an old path?
The Spirit of God was upon him
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00:37:59,200 –> 00:38:05,080
also, and he went on and
prophesied as it happened to him
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00:38:05,080 –> 00:38:07,920
in the very beginning.
God was giving him another
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00:38:07,920 –> 00:38:12,000
chance, until he came to the
dwelling in Raima, and he
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00:38:12,000 –> 00:38:15,400
stripped off his clothes also,
and prophesied before Samuel in
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00:38:15,400 –> 00:38:18,680
like manner, and lay down naked
all that down all that night.
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00:38:18,800 –> 00:38:21,560
Wherefore they say, his souls
among the prophets.
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00:38:22,280 –> 00:38:26,240
He was never seen them.
David never forgot that
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00:38:26,240 –> 00:38:28,120
occasion.
You couldn’t forget it, could
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00:38:28,120 –> 00:38:29,200
you?
Well, you could.
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00:38:29,280 –> 00:38:35,160
Saul forgot it, but there was
David’s enemy, so to speak.
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00:38:35,800 –> 00:38:39,200
There were souls enemy, and they
were brought together in
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00:38:39,200 –> 00:38:43,400
fellowship together in the
company of the prophet who
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00:38:43,400 –> 00:38:46,760
prophesied with heart.
What a beautiful thing, my dear
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00:38:46,760 –> 00:38:51,320
brother and sisters, when David
left that house.
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00:38:52,200 –> 00:38:55,160
It says verse one that David
fled from Naoth in Raymart and
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00:38:55,160 –> 00:38:58,440
came to Jonathan.
When he fled that house, he
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00:38:58,440 –> 00:39:00,280
remembered the power of that
room.
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00:39:01,120 –> 00:39:03,560
There was big soul.
There was his three groups of
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00:39:03,560 –> 00:39:05,480
messengers.
How many were there in total?
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00:39:05,480 –> 00:39:07,720
We don’t know.
There’s a lot of men in that
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00:39:07,720 –> 00:39:13,520
room and they were completely
dispowered by the presence of
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00:39:13,520 –> 00:39:15,560
Samuel and the prophets in that
room.
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00:39:15,560 –> 00:39:18,280
And one young man remembered
that.
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00:39:18,280 –> 00:39:21,600
And that was David.
And I can imagine because you
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00:39:21,600 –> 00:39:24,080
know, he he didn’t know a lot
about Samuel before that.
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00:39:24,080 –> 00:39:26,680
Because it’s not that many pages
back, is it, that he was
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00:39:26,680 –> 00:39:31,920
anointed, right?
It’s not that many pages back.
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00:39:33,200 –> 00:39:37,240
So he didn’t know Samuel in his
early youth, before Samuel came
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00:39:37,240 –> 00:39:40,440
to Bethlehem, it’s clear he had
had no association with Samuel.
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00:39:42,360 –> 00:39:46,360
Yet in that brief time, there
has been some associations which
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00:39:46,360 –> 00:39:49,640
are very beautiful and important
to this whole record.
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00:39:50,840 –> 00:39:54,320
And David has had experiences
there that he will never forget.
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00:39:55,040 –> 00:39:57,760
And what he’s going to do is
take what he learned in that
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00:39:57,760 –> 00:40:01,040
little room and he’s going to
take that out of Naoth and
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00:40:01,040 –> 00:40:02,800
Raima.
And he’s going to take that up
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00:40:02,800 –> 00:40:07,120
to Jerusalem.
And he’s going to concrete that
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00:40:07,120 –> 00:40:12,560
whole concern and that power in
an institution that will last in
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00:40:12,560 –> 00:40:18,640
Israel for 400 plus years.
What an amazing boy he was.
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00:40:19,200 –> 00:40:21,920
One man saw it and forgot it
within years.
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00:40:23,040 –> 00:40:25,480
And the other man saw and he’d
never let it go.
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00:40:25,640 –> 00:40:28,200
And he put that in a high
position in Israel.
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00:40:29,000 –> 00:40:32,280
He had seen that the singers
that prophesied without were
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00:40:32,280 –> 00:40:34,440
stronger than the greatest of
the men.
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00:40:35,320 –> 00:40:38,040
And he said, you generals, you
come out and you see these men
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00:40:38,040 –> 00:40:41,040
inducted into office.
Believe that, my dear friend.
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00:40:41,040 –> 00:40:47,560
Sisters not theory isn’t when
the greatest precious are upon
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00:40:47,560 –> 00:40:53,240
us the release of our feelings
in praise to God, finding him in
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00:40:53,240 –> 00:40:56,760
the Word of God is the way
through whatever the problem
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00:40:56,760 –> 00:41:01,200
might be.
That is the way David saw that
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00:41:01,640 –> 00:41:04,240
what he must have felt like with
Saul, what inches away.
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00:41:05,600 –> 00:41:08,400
Saul could have just pulled out
his sword and killed him
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00:41:08,400 –> 00:41:12,920
perhaps, but he was involved in
the things of God as David was
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00:41:13,240 –> 00:41:15,480
Saul that wanted to throw a
javelin and try three times
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00:41:15,480 –> 00:41:18,800
already to do it, and then they
were together in Samuel’s house.
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David never forgot that and he
took that little thing that
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00:41:22,280 –> 00:41:25,280
happened in life.
He took that to great things in
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00:41:25,280 –> 00:41:28,880
the Kingdom.
Very, very beautiful person he
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00:41:28,880 –> 00:41:32,240
was.
Samuel had been involved in
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00:41:32,240 –> 00:41:35,000
teaching him great things.
He never forgot that.
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00:41:35,000 –> 00:41:37,640
Now let’s come back to our
Chronicles, chapter first
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00:41:37,640 –> 00:41:46,640
Chronicles 25.
These young men that were so
626
00:41:46,640 –> 00:41:49,960
carefully instructed, we’re
going to be involved in some of
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00:41:49,960 –> 00:41:54,120
the greatest events in Israel’s
history when the Temple was
628
00:41:54,120 –> 00:42:01,160
opened, these 288, the sons of
Asaph, He Man and Judithan, they
629
00:42:01,160 –> 00:42:04,160
were brought together for this
auspicious occasion.
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00:42:05,680 –> 00:42:08,160
Just think, my dear, and this is
of the power of what we’re
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00:42:08,160 –> 00:42:10,720
actually reading.
You’ve got fourteen sons.
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00:42:13,560 –> 00:42:18,320
Just imagine fourteen sons.
I’ve got a daughter that’s got
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00:42:18,320 –> 00:42:22,280
four sons, just four sons, and
you know, she’s finding a
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00:42:22,440 –> 00:42:27,680
handful.
I had four sons and you know,
635
00:42:28,920 –> 00:42:33,800
they were a fair bit to do with
14 sons.
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00:42:35,560 –> 00:42:36,800
Imagine the table.
Here we are.
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00:42:36,800 –> 00:42:38,240
We need a table that size,
wouldn’t we?
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00:42:38,240 –> 00:42:43,080
Fourteen sons.
It’s not that many years ago
639
00:42:43,080 –> 00:42:44,920
that people did have that.
I remember being down at
640
00:42:44,920 –> 00:42:49,640
Riverton in New in Bicargo,
rather in, in New Zealand.
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00:42:50,360 –> 00:42:52,520
And I was asked how many
children I had.
642
00:42:52,520 –> 00:42:55,760
And I said I have seven children
and I’m used to people sort of
643
00:42:55,760 –> 00:42:57,680
going on a bit.
So I thought, oh, here they go.
644
00:42:57,680 –> 00:43:02,040
But it was an old couple and
they’ve never said a word.
645
00:43:02,040 –> 00:43:09,400
And I said, oh, how refreshing.
And then I knew why because this
646
00:43:09,800 –> 00:43:14,320
old brother, he quietly said to
Brian, he said I was one of 12.
647
00:43:16,080 –> 00:43:18,800
And then a little bit later, not
to be outdone, she quietly said
648
00:43:18,800 –> 00:43:22,320
from the other corner of the
room, Brian, I was one of 14.
649
00:43:23,880 –> 00:43:27,520
So there we were.
He man might have been early in
650
00:43:27,520 –> 00:43:32,560
time, but it wasn’t the last 14
sons.
651
00:43:33,040 –> 00:43:36,560
How are you going to get those
sons to learn to play together
652
00:43:38,280 –> 00:43:44,680
and to want to play and to learn
their part and to work together
653
00:43:45,360 –> 00:43:49,720
and to listen to what Dad says
because they’ve got to do it
654
00:43:49,720 –> 00:43:52,200
properly.
These boys are going to be there
655
00:43:52,200 –> 00:43:55,960
when the temple is going to be
open and the glory of God will
656
00:43:55,960 –> 00:43:58,640
fill the temple.
These boys are going to be
657
00:43:58,640 –> 00:44:00,560
there.
They’re only young lads, many of
658
00:44:00,560 –> 00:44:03,880
them, and they’ve got to learn
to do it properly.
659
00:44:05,200 –> 00:44:07,960
That’s the most inspirational
picture for family life.
660
00:44:09,080 –> 00:44:12,600
You know, one of the saddest
things in our eclesial life is
661
00:44:12,600 –> 00:44:16,280
the loss of our children.
You know, it’s a pretty
662
00:44:16,280 –> 00:44:19,160
universal thing.
It’s something we as a body need
663
00:44:19,160 –> 00:44:21,440
to really think about, really
think about.
664
00:44:22,000 –> 00:44:26,560
We are losing our children.
Our children are being
665
00:44:26,560 –> 00:44:31,040
influenced more and more by the
world that we’re living in.
666
00:44:32,040 –> 00:44:37,600
Sometimes we are to blame.
I mean that we bring into our
667
00:44:37,600 –> 00:44:41,080
homes things that destroy our
children’s minds.
668
00:44:41,160 –> 00:44:47,160
We do and we know we are and we
won’t do something about, and
669
00:44:47,160 –> 00:44:50,320
we’re losing our children.
You can go through a large areas
670
00:44:50,320 –> 00:44:52,920
of ecclesial life, my dear
brother and sister, and see an
671
00:44:52,920 –> 00:44:57,640
increasingly less number of
children, sometimes where
672
00:44:57,640 –> 00:45:00,600
ecclesial holes are going to be
closed soon because they’ve got
673
00:45:00,600 –> 00:45:04,960
no future generation.
I believe that our Heavenly
674
00:45:04,960 –> 00:45:10,080
Father will hold us responsible
for that because we are not
675
00:45:10,080 –> 00:45:14,520
prepared to make the commitment
we should to save our children’s
676
00:45:14,520 –> 00:45:17,720
lives.
We have said their course that
677
00:45:17,720 –> 00:45:22,240
they have to do to be a whatever
dentist, if you like, whatever
678
00:45:22,240 –> 00:45:25,840
it might be, is more important
than them being in my home and
679
00:45:25,840 –> 00:45:31,520
it’s not.
He will hold us responsible if
680
00:45:31,520 –> 00:45:35,040
we are prepared to allow the
world to influence our children
681
00:45:35,240 –> 00:45:38,920
against the things of God.
I can’t put it any other way.
682
00:45:38,920 –> 00:45:42,520
I can’t see it any other way.
I don’t want to be judgmental
683
00:45:42,520 –> 00:45:44,640
upon anyone.
We’ve all got our sadness.
684
00:45:44,640 –> 00:45:50,760
We’ve all got our failures, but
we are losing our children and
685
00:45:50,760 –> 00:45:52,200
that means we’ve got to get
together.
686
00:45:52,280 –> 00:45:54,640
Love the truth.
We’ve got to get together and
687
00:45:54,640 –> 00:45:58,400
say how we’re going to stop that
happening because it’s got to
688
00:45:58,400 –> 00:46:02,960
stop or we’re going to
increasingly dilute our ecleses.
689
00:46:03,960 –> 00:46:09,120
Here were children that only
knew one thing, 14 boys, and a
690
00:46:09,120 –> 00:46:11,040
whole lot of them learnt to do
that properly.
691
00:46:11,680 –> 00:46:16,520
This institution went right
through Israel and 300 and 5400
692
00:46:16,520 –> 00:46:19,560
years later, after the exile,
these boys came out of the
693
00:46:19,560 –> 00:46:23,840
woodwork and they were able to
produce exactly the songs the
694
00:46:23,840 –> 00:46:25,720
way that David first ordained
for them.
695
00:46:26,800 –> 00:46:28,480
Think about that.
How was that done?
696
00:46:30,000 –> 00:46:32,320
Well, anything I can think of,
my dear friend sisters, is that
697
00:46:32,320 –> 00:46:35,320
in the training of those
children there was such an
698
00:46:35,320 –> 00:46:40,280
ingrained consistency that those
children were taught that when
699
00:46:40,280 –> 00:46:44,240
they had children they had to
maintain that exactly as it had
700
00:46:44,240 –> 00:46:46,640
been, that there’d be no
deterioration.
701
00:46:47,000 –> 00:46:49,520
Otherwise, gradually, gradually,
it would be lost, wouldn’t it?
702
00:46:50,400 –> 00:46:53,840
How was it that they were able
to come out of Babylon and still
703
00:46:53,840 –> 00:46:57,280
have the same costumes, the same
interests, the same music, the
704
00:46:57,280 –> 00:47:01,760
same harmony on the same day?
And working with the priests?
705
00:47:02,640 –> 00:47:04,360
What an incredible wonder that
is.
706
00:47:05,160 –> 00:47:06,880
And it goes down to good
parenthood.
707
00:47:08,160 –> 00:47:10,120
And I think we’ve got to help
each other in that regard.
708
00:47:10,120 –> 00:47:11,600
My difference.
We’ve got to be serious about
709
00:47:11,600 –> 00:47:13,280
it, though.
We love our children.
710
00:47:13,440 –> 00:47:15,880
I love my children.
I love my grandchildren.
711
00:47:16,800 –> 00:47:19,520
Remember my mother saying to me
once, you know, I never thought
712
00:47:19,520 –> 00:47:21,800
I could love anything like my
own children.
713
00:47:21,800 –> 00:47:24,320
And we were just sort of leaving
the place.
714
00:47:24,320 –> 00:47:27,000
But she said when your children
come round, she said, I don’t
715
00:47:27,000 –> 00:47:28,720
know.
That was the grandchildren.
716
00:47:28,800 –> 00:47:31,480
We do love our grandchildren and
we love our children.
717
00:47:31,480 –> 00:47:33,480
We love all our children in our
meetings.
718
00:47:34,680 –> 00:47:37,720
Were there ours or not ours?
We love every one of them and we
719
00:47:37,720 –> 00:47:41,600
do not want to lose any of them.
And we’ve got to do something
720
00:47:41,600 –> 00:47:46,240
about that because we are, as a
body losing our children.
721
00:47:47,480 –> 00:47:49,600
We must have to look at that
problem more and more.
722
00:47:49,760 –> 00:47:50,120
Thank you.
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