314: Leen Ritmeyer – Hidden Treasures in the Titles of the Psalms

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Welcome to good Chris Selfian
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are sharing the talk.
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this week’s talk.
Hey everyone, it’s Jason Hensley

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and this week we are going to be
listening to a talk by brother

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Lane Rittmeyer given in 2013 at
the New Zealand Family Winter

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Bible School.
The overarching topic is using

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the Psalms for overcoming, so I
think that’s a pretty relevant

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thing for a lot of us.
We want to consider how do we

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have victory over our own flesh
and over all the struggles that

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we have.
So that’s great as the

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overarching topic.
And then the specific topic here

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is a little bit different.
It’s called Hidden Treasures in

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the Psalm titles.
And one of the reasons I am so

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excited to share this with you
is not only because multiple

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people have recommended it, but
specifically because this is the

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kind of thing where if you were
to just look at the topic of the

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class, you might think, really,
we have a whole class about the

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titles of the Psalms.
But trust me, this is exciting.

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I think you’re really going to
like it.

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There’s a lot of depth here in
the Hebrew.

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And Brother Lane really brings
that out.

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And not only so, but I think he
shows us that these Psalms are

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much more than what we often
take them to be.

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Now, this is class #1 and I
purposely did that because this

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class lays the foundation for
all the rest of what comes in

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the series.
So we’re going to post the whole

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series.
I hope you have a chance to

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listen to the whole thing, but
if you don’t, Class 1 is a great

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way to start.
All right, here we go.

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This is class #1 Hidden
Treasures in the Psalm titles by

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Bethelane Rittmeyer.
The title of this study is Using

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the Psalms for overcoming.
We should know all individually

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what we need to overcome.
We turn to Romans chapter 12.

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These words are very familiar to
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That says, I beseech you
therefore, brethren, by the

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mercies of God, that you present
your bodies a living sacrifice,

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holy, acceptable unto God, which
is you reasonable or you’re

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intelligent service, and may not
conform to this will, but be

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transformed by the renewing of
your mind, that you may prove

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what is that good and acceptable
and perfect will of God.

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The possible exhort us to renew
our mind or our spirit.

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And he sums up this chapter with
the last verse, Be not overcome

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of evil, but overcome evil with
good.

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So how then can we renew our
minds so that we may be able to

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overcome evil with good?
The apostle John has a very

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similar message.
I read this out to you one John

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5 verse four and five.
Whatsoever is born of God

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overcometh the world.
And this is the victory that

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overcomes the world, even our
faith.

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Who is he that overcomes the
world?

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But he that believeth that Jesus
is the Son of God.

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Jesus, of course, was the first
to overcome the world in

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himself, as he says in John 16
and 33.

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The things have I spoken unto
you, that in me you might have

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peace.
In the world you shall have

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tribulation.
But be of good cheer.

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I have overcome the world and in
overcoming the world in Himself,

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Jesus set an example for us to
follow for we also need to

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overcome the devil or the
adversary.

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If you turn to one Peter 5 South
one Peter 5 and starting reading

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a few verses at verse 8, it says
be sober, be vigilant because

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your adversary the devil as a
roaring lion walk us about

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seeking whom he may devour, whom
resist steadfast in the faith,

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knowing that the same
afflictions are accomplished in

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your brethren that are in the
world.

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But the God of all grace, who
has called us unto his eternal

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glory by Christ Jesus.
After that ye have suffered a

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while, make you perfect,
establish, strengthen, and

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settle you.
To him be glory and dominion

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forever and ever.
The adversary or the devil is

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described as a lion, and that
reminds us of the story of

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Samson.
Through death Jesus destroyed

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him.
That has the power of death.

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That is the devil.
The question is how did Jesus

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overcome the world in himself?
We’re looking at Samson in

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Judges 14 and verse 5 and 6.
We read.

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Then Samson went down, and his
father and his mother to

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Timnath, and they came to the
vineyard of Timnath.

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And behold, the young lion
roared against him, and the

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spirit of Yawa came mightily
upon him, and he rent him as he

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would have rent the kid.
He had nothing in his hand, but

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he told not his father or his
mother what he had done.

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The lion in this case is a type
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Samson did not overcome the line
by his own strength.

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He had nothing in his hand but
by the Spirit and the power of

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God’s Word.
We too need the power of the

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Spirit to overcome.
But as we don’t believe that we

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have the Holy Spirit as many
evangelicals claim, how then can

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we be helped by the Spirit of
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Brother John Thomas told us
plainly that we can only have

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the Holy Spirit in as far as we
read the Word of God, absorb it,

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and act on it.
We are even told in the Epistle

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of Jude in verse 20 that you
must pray in the Holy Spirit.

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But ye beloved, building up
yourselves on your most holy

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faith, praying in the Holy
Spirit.

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So how can we then develop a
Holy Spirit in ourselves?

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It’s imperative that we do.
If you go to Romans chapter 8,

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we read that first nine, but ye
are not in the flesh, but in the

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spirit.
If so be that the Spirit of God

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dwell in you.
Now if many any man have not the

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Spirit of Christ, he is none of
his.

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And if Christ be in you, the
body is dead because of sin, but

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the spirit is life because of
righteousness, and the verse 11.

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If the Spirit of him that raised
of Jesus from the dead dwell in

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you, he that raised the Christ
from the dead shall also quicken

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your mortal bodies by his Spirit
that dwell us in you.

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So how can a spirit dwell in US?
How can we pray in the Holy

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Spirit as we are commanded to
do?

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Speaking for myself, and I know
I’m not alone.

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We often feel inadequate in our
prayers.

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We don’t always know what to
pray for as we ought, in other

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words, how to pray in an
acceptable way.

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Even the preacher and
Ecclesiastes sought to find

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acceptable words, written
upright words of truth.

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And in this study, we ought to
show the pivotal role which is

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Psalms played in the life of
Jesus and how they can help us

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develop the mind of Christ.
And we hope that you will go

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away from this study better
equipped to approach God in

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prayer, to overcome the old man,
to develop a sound mind, and to

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go on to perfection.
Scripture tell us that Jesus

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used the Psalms many, many
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There’s several recorders.
For example, when he was hanging

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on the cross, he shouted out
Psalm 22, My ail, my ail, wise

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thou forsaken me.
Psalm 316970 and many more.

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After Jesus was raised from the
dead and he was talking to those

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two disciples on the way to
Emmaus, he explained to them,

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These are the words which I
spake unto you while I was yet

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with you, that all things must
be fulfilled, which you are

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written in the law of Moses.
They’ve been talking about that

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and in the prophets and in the
Psalms concerning me, says

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Jesus, it’s about him, they’re
written for him.

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In the Psalms we have a record
of the mind of Christ as you

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just read in Colossians chapter
3 and 16 that the word of Christ

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dwell in you richly in all
wisdom.

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How?
By teaching and admonishing one

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another in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing with

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grace in your hearts to the
Lord.

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Please turn to Ephesians that
we’ve got a parallel passage in

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Ephesians chapter 5.
Read the verse 18.

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Be not drunk with wine.
It’s interesting actually that

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if call hard drinks spirits,
don’t they So be not drunk with

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wine wearing his excess, but be
filled with the spirit.

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How?
Speaking yourselves in psalms

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and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody that

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is actually psalming.
Making melody is sallow in the

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in the Greek psalming in your
heart to the Lord, giving thanks

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always for all things, and to
God and the Father in the name

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of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The brother who instructed us in

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in Israel on the kibbutz always
used psalms in his prayers.

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He said they were our
instruments for overcoming, and

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he got the idea from the Hebrew
titles of the Psalms.

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He apparently relied on the work
of a certain George Fennick, who

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I’ve got a copy here.
In 1749 I wrote a little

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treatise called Thoughts on the
Hebrew titles of the Psalms and

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on some of those in the
Septuagint, endeavouring to

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discover the meaning and point
out the use of them.

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What we’ve been studying for the
last 20 years I found almost

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encapsulated in this book, which
I only found two months ago.

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And this man rightly pointed out
that the titles are an integral

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part of the sounds and therefore
they’re part of the inspired

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words of God.
And the literal translation of

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the Hebrew first verses was
quite a revelation.

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It gives an insight into the
spiritual meaning of the sounds.

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So many scholars believe that
those some titles contain merely

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musical directives.
And this book, which is the only

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publication that I know of that
endeavours to give a direct

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translation of the titles of the
sounds.

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He’s actually frequently
referred to in the Hebrew

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Lexicon written by Parkhurst.
That was a lexicon that was

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always used by John Thomas with
Phoenix.

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I believe that the Hebrew titles
have a spiritual meaning and

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therefore rightly belong.
They’re not titles.

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They’re the first verse of the
Psalm.

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And in the recent discoveries of
the Dead Sea Scrolls, many

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copies, as I told you in the
introduction of the Psalm

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scrolls, were found.
A new Psalm was always indicated

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by a new paragraph.
Here’s part of the Dead Sea

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Scrolls, and here is the end of
It’s cold in New Zealand,

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because this thing only works
when it is warm.

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It’s coming, I hope.
But you see that the line break

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is on the right.
There’s the end of one thumb and

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the next Psalm begins in the
middle of the next line.

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That’s the beginning of a new
Psalm, and what we call the

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title is the beginning of a new
Psalm.

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So there’s always a break in
between the Psalms in the this

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Hebrew Bible, which is more than
2000 years old.

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What is presented in the King
James Bible as a title is always

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the first verse of the Psalm in
many translations.

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I want to show you just a few.
Hope you can read it.

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This is the beginning of Psalm
22 in Dutch.

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I can read that because I am
Dutch.

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It says first one Psalm of David
for the oppen song Master of

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Ayerta Shacham is Dutch, but we
call the title in King James is

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first one in Dutch.
In French Psalm 22, first one is

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of Chef de Sante Schuebis de la
Roer, Psalm de David, our title

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is first one in the French.
In German, just the same, our

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title is first one in German and
Lee David, Dr. Milo D and

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Hirschu and Morgan, and in the
Hebrew by which you can buy, you

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get their first one lemonade SE
al Ayerta Saha Miss Morla David,

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the title is first one.
You can of course, in the

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Spanish as well.
O musical principals Sobra

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ayerta Saha Samo de David, first
one of the Sam.

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When you use a computer, you get
into trouble because you must

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put first zero, yes, and the
first but is actually first one

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is first two.
My God, my God, why is thou

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forsaken me?
And here’s our King James to the

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chief musician on ayat Shahran,
the Sam of David.

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First one, my God, my God, why
is thou forsaken me?

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Out of sync with the Hebrew
Bible and most other

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translations.
And then you get, of course, the

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good news translation, which
leaves out the title altogether.

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It’s the bad news translation
because they leave out about 120

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Holy Spirit inspired words from
the Bible just because you don’t

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understand them.
If you go to Psalm 22 for

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example, or many many Psalms, it
starts with to the chief

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musician.
We just look at several examples

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written as a title which is
wrong to the chief musician upon

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Ayeletta Shahar, a Psalm of
David.

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This usually translate or
understood As for the conductor

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upon a certain tune like the
Yellow Submarine or Ayeletta

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Shahar, a Psalm of David.
But that is not what Hebrew

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means.
First of all, I’d like to

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concentrate on that title to the
chief musician.

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It’s Le Manatsea in Hebrew, and
then the chief musician would be

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Manatsea.
It comes from a three letter

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word, which is this word here.
I’m very fortunate to have a

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Hebrew scholar in our midst, one
of my Hebrew students from

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Adelaide, and she can read it,
I’m quite sure.

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So you read Hebrew from right to
left?

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What’s this?
Like a Alexander, the no and

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then the Saudi.
And the last one is.

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So in Hebrew, all the words,
nouns or verbs are derived from

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a three letter root.
That’s the basic meaning of that

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word.
Nazar doesn’t mean chief

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musician.
It means to overcome.

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See, David wrote the Psalms
during a time when he was

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persecuted by his soul.
And they give an insight into

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the mind of David in his
tribulations, but also in the

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joy of the salvation that God
has promised him.

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And so reading through the Psalm
we see the daily struggles here

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to cope with and how we overcame
them.

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It says David the son of Jesse
said the man that was raised

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upon high, the anointed of the
God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist

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of Israel said the spirit of
Yahweh spake by me and his word

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was in my tongue.
And that includes the titles of

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these psalms.
She brought the sisters memory

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through the gospels.
We have a record in the

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narrative of all what Jesus did,
where you went to, and what was

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done to him, but it doesn’t tell
us what went on inside.

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We don’t get to know the mind of
Christ by reading just the

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gospel record.
We only get to know the mind of

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Christ when we read the Psalms.
God actually if you’re student

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Psalm 23, look what it says he
dwells in the Psalms.

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It says in verse 3 thou art holy
that inhabitants or that dwells

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in the Psalms of Israel.
That’s where God dwells.

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That is his mind.
And that is why those beginning

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of the Psalms are so important.
You see, to the chief musician

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is Le Manat Seyaq.
But there is nobody called a

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chief musician in the Bible.
There was no chief musician.

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There’s nobody who conducted
like we do in our Western

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orchestra.
See, the word menatsea is used

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only as overseers.
On the bottom of the screen you

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can see when they’re building
the temple, there is some

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overseers, but that is not the
meaning of the word.

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Going back to that word netsak,
if you go to one Samuel 15 now,

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though, these passes are on the
screen.

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I really want you to look them
up.

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It was 28 we read that Samuel
said unto Saul, Yahweh has rent

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the Kingdom of Israel from the
disdain, has given it to a

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neighbour of dying.
That is better than thou.

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Also the strength of Israel will
not lie nor repent, for He is

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not a man that he should repent.
Who is He talking about?

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The strength of Israel?
The Netzah of Israel is God

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himself.
Not talking about a cheap

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musician here.
And when you go to One

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Chronicles chapter 15 where you
get a list of all those people

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that were put in their jobs by
David and Samuel after he fled

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from Seoul.
In One Chronicles chapter 15 and

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we have the a list of musicians.
It speaks about all these people

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that David had gathered out of
all Israel to Jerusalem.

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And he’s the ordering the
service of the temple.

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It says in verse 15 the chance
the Levites that bear the ark of

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God upon their shoulders to
stave as Moses commanded

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according to the word of Yahweh.
And then David spake to the

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chief of the Levites to appoint
their brother to be singers with

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instruments of music, sultries,
harps, cymbals, sounding by

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lifting up the voice with joy.
So the Levites appointed all

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these people.
Now if you go to verse 21, it

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speaks about Matatya and Ellie
Filet and Mignea and Howard Edo

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Manier El and SSI with harps on
the shammy need to excel.

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The word excel is the word is
the word for a chief musician.

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It’s netsa.
Well, you don’t play a harp on

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top of this chief musician, do
you?

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Don’t stand on the head of the
of the conductor to start them

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playing your fiddle.
You don’t do things like that.

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So they played with the harp on
anointing for overcoming because

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that is the real meaning of that
word that is behind the phrase

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to the chief musician.
I go to Chronicles chapter 29

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where I got this wonderful
prayer where David praise God if

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there’s nine, when the people
rejoiced for they offered

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willingly for the temple because
it’s a perfect heart.

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They offered willingly to
Yahweh.

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And David the king also rejoices
great joy.

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And then David blessed Yahweh is
all the congregation.

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And David said, blessed be thou,
Yahweh, Alim of Israel, our

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Father, forever and ever thine
Yahweh is the greatness and the

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power and the glory and the
chief musician, the victory and

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the majesty, for all that is in
heaven and the earth is dying.

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Dying is the Kingdom Yahweh, and
thou art exalted as health above

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all is the basis for the prayer
of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And that is what that word
actually means.

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You go to Isaiah chapter 25.
That’s beautiful, a chapter

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about the resurrection.
Now, aren’t we looking forward

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to the time when it says that
Jesus will come back and we will

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destroy in this mountain, Mount
Zion, the face of the covering

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that is cast over all the
people, the veil that is spread

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over all nations.
He will swallow up death in the

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chief musician in victory.
That’s the meaning of that word.

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Yaara Elvim shall right away all
tears from of all faces.

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And that is the meaning of that
word to the chief musician.

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It actually does not say he was
swallowed death in victory.

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It says Le Netzer, he will
overcome death to victory.

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Christ not only was victorious
over his own death, but he

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destroyed him.
That has the power of death, but

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is the devil, so that we also
can be saved.

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That verse, of course, is quoted
in One Corinthians chapter 15

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and verse 54.
And then the word victory is

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Nikos.
Well we know that word don’t we?

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What are the best running shoes
guys?

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Nike shoes, aren’t they?
And what is the best camera?

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Sorry brother Glenn, it’s a
Nikon isn’t it?

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Because they are the best
cameras it means the victory.

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So Christ was the first to gain
the victory over death as

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written in Psalm Hebrews 214.
That through death he might

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destroy him as the power of
death.

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That is the devil that were
nutsack therefore means to have

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the victory or to overcome in
modern Hebrew, when you play a

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game of, you know, fruity or
basketball, whatever you’re

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doing, you’ve won the game.
You said Nizaki, I’ve won, I’ve

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got a victory.
There’s the meaning behind that

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word.
So the phrase to the chief

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musician means to him that
overcomes.

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If you turn to Revelation
chapter 3

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readers, what Jesus promises to
the believers and loud to see

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him.
Verse 21 to him that overcometh

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will I grant to sit with me in
my throne, even as I also

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overcame and I’m sat down with
my father in his throne.

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Now the New Testament has been
translated into Hebrew and it’s

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amazed to find that this phrase
to him that overcome us.

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They used le Manasseh to the
chief musician, the very same

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phrase as you have in many
titles of the Psalms.

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So it means to him that overcome
us and actually it is such an

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enormous reward to receive to
him that overcome us.

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Let’s go through the five, the
seven ecclesias to Ephesus.

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He says to him that overcome us,
the chief musician.

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Now to him that overcomes all I
get to eat of the tree of life,

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which is the midst of the
paradise of God.

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Smyrna, be faithful unto death,
and I’ll give thee a crown of

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life.
He that overcometh shall not be

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heard of the second death.
Bagomos.

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To him that overcometh will I
give to each of the hidden

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manner, or give him a white
stone name, the stone a name

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written which no man knoweth.
Saving he that receiveth it

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Thyatira, He that overcometh and
keepeth my works unto the end,

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I’ll give him power over the
nations.

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He shall rule the misery of the
vine as the vessels of the

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Potter shall they be broken to
shivers.

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Even as I received of my father,
I’ll give him the morning star.

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Sardis.
He that overcometh the sayings

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shall be closed in white
raiment.

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Now not blot out his name out of
the book of Life.

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Thou confess his name before my
father and before his angels.

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Philadelphia.
Him that overcometh will I make

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a pillar in the temple of my
God.

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He shall go out no more.
Now write upon in the name of my

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God, the name of the city of my
God, which is New Jerusalem,

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which comes down from heaven,
from my God, and my new name.

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And then this one we looked at
before.

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To him that overcometh that I
grant to sit with me in my

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throne, even as I also overcame
and am sat down with my Father

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in his throne.
It even continues in the Book of

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Revelation, because that phrase
onikon, the one that has the

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victory, the one that overcomes
is also used in the Revelation

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chapter 5, where John that much
in verse 4 because no one was

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found worthy to open and to read
the book.

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Now to look thereon and one of
the elder says unto me, weep

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not.
Behold, the lion of the tribe of

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Judah, the root of David, has
prevailed, he has overcome, and

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therefore he is worthy to open
the book and to lose the seven

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seals thereof, and that is
followed by a great victory.

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Look what it says in chapter 6.
I saw when the Lamb opened one

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of the seals, and I heard as it
were the noise of Thunder, one

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of the four living ones saying,
Come and see.

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And I saw him yield a White
Horse, and he had sat on him,

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had a bow, and the crown was
given unto him, and he and forth

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conquering, and to conquer.
That’s what Jesus says to him

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that overcometh.
But I grant to sit with me in my

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throne, so that in the Kingdom
we can overcome all the ennies.

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But you first of all have to
overcome the world in ourselves.

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If you go to Psalm #4, it has
the very same title, the same

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beginning as Psalm 22, and this
particular title to achievement

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session on Neginhof the Psalm of
David occurs in Psalms 4 and

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650-455-6776.
But now it says to the chief

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musician or to him that
overcomes upon Naginov.

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What’s that mean?
Naginov means stringed

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instruments and he was derived
from the nagan, which means to

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play on an instrument of
strength, especially the harp.

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Remember then an evil spirit of
God came on soul.

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You read, you can read on the
screen in one Samuel 16 and 23.

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It says it came to pass.
There’s an evil spirit from

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Ellen was upon soul that David
took a harp and he played.

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That’s that word.
Nagan, he played on the harp

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with his hands.
So soul was refreshed and was

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well, and the evil spirit
departed from him.

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Soul was probably refreshed more
by the spirit words which David

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composed on the harp rather than
the music itself, although that

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must be pretty good as well.
We can be sure that Jesus also

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used these instruments to
refresh his Spirit too.

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And as he made these words which
David wrote down for us, he was

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reading them, he was praying
them, he was meditating on them,

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and so they became the word of
Christ as we read in Colossians

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chapter 3.
The Psalms and the hymns and the

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spiritual songs which are in the
middle of our Bible, those are

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the Psalms, hymns and the
spiritual song.

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This is our true hymn book as
the only Holy Spirit inspired

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hymn book we have in the Bible.
In Luke 6 and verse 12, you

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remember it says that Jesus
continued all night in prayer to

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God.
What’s the point actually of

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00:34:06,760 –> 00:34:12,719
saying that if he don’t know how
he prayed and what he prayed

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00:34:12,719 –> 00:34:15,480
for?
How can he imitate the Son of

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00:34:15,480 –> 00:34:20,440
God if he are left in the dark?
In the matter of prayer, the

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00:34:20,440 –> 00:34:26,239
Greek text is a lot clearer.
It doesn’t say he continued all

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00:34:26,239 –> 00:34:30,199
night in prayer to God.
It says he continued all night

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00:34:30,199 –> 00:34:36,320
in the prayer of God.
He didn’t spend the night

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00:34:36,320 –> 00:34:40,440
composing his own prayers, but
he made full use of those that

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00:34:40,440 –> 00:34:44,199
were provided by gods for him
through the Spirit word of the

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Psalms.
And perhaps therefore, David had

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to suffer so much so that his
words could be used by Jesus at

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the right time.
David must have wondered

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00:34:57,560 –> 00:35:05,280
sometimes what or what manner of
time the Spirit of Christ which

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was in them that signify which
when it testified before the

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sufferings of Christ and the
glory that should follow and

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that’s you find in the Psalms.
Let’s go to Psalm 18 and how

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does this start this Psalm
start?

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What is first one to the chief
musician?

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00:35:29,600 –> 00:35:32,400
Now we know it.
It means to him that overcomes

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the Psalm of David.
And as we go through our

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studies, there are many of these
phrases which are referred to in

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00:35:39,040 –> 00:35:42,160
that, in that little handout
which you’ve been given, it’s

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just a direct translation of
those phrases.

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On this CD which you’ll get,
there will be a file in which

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you I have translated all the
titles of the Psalms so you can

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read them.
Now.

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This says then to him that
overcomers for David, the

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servant of Yahweh, who’s spoken
to Yahweh the words of this song

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in the day that Yahweh delivered
him from the hand of all his

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00:36:08,960 –> 00:36:11,200
enemies and from the hand of
soul.

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00:36:12,520 –> 00:36:18,960
But David was indeed delivered
from the hand of soul, but this

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00:36:18,960 –> 00:36:24,920
says he’s delivered from the
hand of all his enemies and from

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the end of Seoul.
Source put at the end of that

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verse.
But he actually was the first

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enemy of David.
It doesn’t make sense, does it?

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00:36:37,920 –> 00:36:42,480
God first delivered him from the
end of Seoul and then from all

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the enemies.
And that is how we look at this

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Psalm as David used it, that
word Saul.

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The name Saul occurs in verse 5.
It says the sorrows of soul of

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Sheol, of the grave, compass me
about the snares of death,

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00:37:08,800 –> 00:37:11,160
prevented me.
Now Jesus said when he was

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00:37:11,160 –> 00:37:16,000
hanging on the cross.
So the name Saul is identical to

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Sheol.
So this Psalm is a Psalm for

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David.
Then God delivered him out the

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hand of soul, but a sound for
Jesus.

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00:37:24,320 –> 00:37:28,440
Then God delivered him out of
the hands of the grave, because

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God raised him up from the dead.
It was Jesus who was delivered

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00:37:35,800 –> 00:37:42,840
from the last enemy, not soul,
but from Sheol the grave.

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00:37:44,000 –> 00:37:48,760
And that would fit in this one.
Corinthians 15 it says the last

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enemy that shall be destroyed is
death, and it is Shiong.

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So I read this title, but I read
it.

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It says that David said the
words of this song in the day

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00:38:00,600 –> 00:38:03,280
that Yao delivered him from the
hand of all his enemies and from

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00:38:03,280 –> 00:38:06,760
the hands of the grave.
And that is how it applies to

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00:38:06,760 –> 00:38:09,960
Jesus.
And this Psalms specifically

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00:38:09,960 –> 00:38:12,960
must have been such a great
source of strength for Jesus

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00:38:13,360 –> 00:38:17,640
when the saw the sorrows of the
grave, compass me about the

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00:38:17,640 –> 00:38:24,000
snares of death prevented me.
And what did you do about it

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00:38:25,240 –> 00:38:29,360
when you felt so terrible
hanging on that cross?

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00:38:30,280 –> 00:38:36,320
Now the words were prepared for
him, because verse 6 is actually

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written in the future tense in
the Hebrew.

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It says, In my distress I will
call upon Yahweh, and I will cry

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00:38:46,680 –> 00:38:50,240
unto my Elohim.
He will hear my voice out of His

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00:38:50,240 –> 00:38:56,080
temple, and my cry will come
before Him even unto his ears.

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00:38:58,440 –> 00:39:03,480
And his words were prepared by
David for Jesus to be used when

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00:39:03,480 –> 00:39:08,400
He hung on the cross.
And the answer was made evident.

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00:39:08,600 –> 00:39:12,720
It came immediately because in
Luke 23 we read that it was

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00:39:12,720 –> 00:39:16,840
about the 6th hour and there was
darkness over all the earth

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00:39:16,920 –> 00:39:23,480
until the 9th hour.
And Jesus knew beforehand that

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00:39:23,480 –> 00:39:27,440
that would happen because it
what it says in the Psalms.

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He knew that God would come down
to witness the death of His Son

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00:39:32,440 –> 00:39:36,440
and to shield Him from prying
eyes by the darkness that came

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00:39:36,440 –> 00:39:41,920
over all the earth.
There’s no other scripture but

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00:39:41,920 –> 00:39:49,560
Psalm 18 going to get an insight
into how God would have felt

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00:39:50,080 –> 00:39:53,080
when He saw His Son dying on the
cross.

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00:40:05,880 –> 00:40:11,720
It says in verse 7 is the answer
that God gave Jesus when he

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00:40:11,720 –> 00:40:15,400
cried out to him.
Then the earth shook and

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00:40:15,400 –> 00:40:20,240
trembled, the foundations all
softer hills moved and was

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00:40:20,240 –> 00:40:25,520
shaken because he was rough.
The event up was smoke out of

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00:40:25,520 –> 00:40:28,680
his nostrils and fire out of his
mouth.

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00:40:28,680 –> 00:40:31,480
Devoured coals were kindled by
it.

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00:40:32,240 –> 00:40:36,320
He bowed the heavens also, and
came down, and darkness was on

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00:40:36,320 –> 00:40:39,200
his feet.
He rode upon a carapen there to

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00:40:39,200 –> 00:40:43,240
fly, made it fly upon the wings
of the winds.

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00:40:43,760 –> 00:40:47,760
He made darkness his secret
place, His pavilion.

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00:40:47,760 –> 00:40:52,400
Round about him were dark waters
and thick clouds of the skies.

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00:40:53,040 –> 00:40:55,520
At the brightness that was
before him the thick clouds

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00:40:55,520 –> 00:41:02,040
passed hail and coals of fire.
Yahweh thundered in the heavens,

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00:41:02,640 –> 00:41:07,600
and the Highest gave his voice
hail and coals of fire.

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00:41:08,120 –> 00:41:10,600
He sent out His arrows and
scattered them.

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00:41:11,080 –> 00:41:13,920
He shot out lightnings and
discomforted him.

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00:41:14,360 –> 00:41:16,640
Then the channels of the waters
were seen.

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00:41:16,880 –> 00:41:19,920
The foundations of the earth
were discovered at thy rebuke

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00:41:19,920 –> 00:41:24,800
hour, at the blast of the breath
of thy nostrils.

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00:41:25,840 –> 00:41:33,800
That’s how God as a father felt
when he saw his Son dying on the

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00:41:33,800 –> 00:41:37,880
cross.
And He just knew all this

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00:41:38,280 –> 00:41:41,760
beforehand.
He knew that His Father would

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00:41:41,760 –> 00:41:46,320
come and save him, because the
Son continues.

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00:41:46,800 –> 00:41:51,480
And that is now Jesus replying
to His Father.

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00:41:51,920 –> 00:41:55,960
He sends from above.
He took me, He drew me out of

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00:41:55,960 –> 00:41:58,960
many waters.
He delivered me from my strong

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00:41:58,960 –> 00:42:03,080
enemy and from them which hated
me, for they were too strong for

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00:42:03,080 –> 00:42:05,240
me.
They prevented me in the day of

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00:42:05,240 –> 00:42:08,040
my calamity.
But yeah, was my stay.

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00:42:08,800 –> 00:42:12,400
He brought me forth also into a
large place.

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00:42:12,800 –> 00:42:15,840
He delivered me because he
delighted in me.

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00:42:16,360 –> 00:42:20,520
Yawa rewarded me according to my
righteousness, according to the

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00:42:20,520 –> 00:42:22,960
cleanest of my hands as he
recompends me.

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00:42:23,200 –> 00:42:27,200
For I’ve kept the ways of Yawa,
and I’ve not wickedly departed

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00:42:27,200 –> 00:42:30,520
from my alabine.
For all His judgements were

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00:42:30,520 –> 00:42:33,200
before me.
I did not put away His status

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00:42:33,200 –> 00:42:35,640
from me.
I was also upright before Him,

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00:42:35,800 –> 00:42:39,720
and I kept myself for my
iniquity, Therefore, as Yahweh

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00:42:39,720 –> 00:42:43,320
recompense me according to my
righteousness, according to the

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00:42:43,320 –> 00:42:46,200
cleanness of my hands in His
eyesight.

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00:42:48,560 –> 00:42:52,800
And so this sound made it
possible for Christ to grow

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00:42:53,120 –> 00:42:58,040
through this terrible, terrible
suffering, dying on that cross.

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00:42:58,320 –> 00:43:02,360
But his Father was right there
with him, visible in the

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00:43:02,360 –> 00:43:06,160
darkness that came over all the
earth, and the earthquake that

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00:43:06,160 –> 00:43:08,960
ran the veil of the temple from
top to bottom.

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00:43:11,400 –> 00:43:15,560
The psalmist quoted in Second
Samuel chapter 22.

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00:43:15,560 –> 00:43:31,520
And there we have David
composing a prayer using several

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00:43:31,840 –> 00:43:40,120
parts of Psalms.
It says David’s spoken to Yao

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00:43:40,120 –> 00:43:42,800
the words of this song in the
day that Yao has delivered him

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00:43:42,800 –> 00:43:44,920
out of the hand of all his
enemies and out of the hand of

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00:43:44,920 –> 00:43:48,760
soul.
What is missing here to achieve

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00:43:48,760 –> 00:43:54,360
musician to him that overcomes
and why is it left out here?

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00:43:54,800 –> 00:43:59,080
There’s a very good reason for
this by their sisters because

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00:43:59,080 –> 00:44:05,000
the next chapter says now these
are the last words of David.

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00:44:06,600 –> 00:44:11,360
David, the son of Jesse said the
man who was raised on high, the

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00:44:11,360 –> 00:44:13,000
anointed of the element of
Jacob.

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00:44:13,240 –> 00:44:16,880
The sweet psalmist of Israel
said, The spirit of Yahweh spake

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00:44:16,880 –> 00:44:19,560
in me, and his words was in my
tongue.

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00:44:20,960 –> 00:44:25,360
Then he spoke the last words.
At the end of his life.

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00:44:26,000 –> 00:44:30,640
He must have had the same state
of mind as the apostle who said

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00:44:30,640 –> 00:44:32,360
at the end of his life in
Timothy.

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00:44:32,640 –> 00:44:36,360
For now I’m ready to be offered.
The time of my departure is at

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00:44:36,360 –> 00:44:38,680
hand.
I fought a good fight.

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00:44:39,280 –> 00:44:41,760
I’ve finished my course.
I’ve kept the faith.

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00:44:42,120 –> 00:44:45,800
Henceforth has laid for me a
crown of righteousness with the

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00:44:45,800 –> 00:44:47,280
Lord.
The righteous judge shall give

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00:44:47,280 –> 00:44:51,040
me a dead day, and not to me
only, but unto all them that

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00:44:51,040 –> 00:44:57,200
love.
His appearing time is going a

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00:44:57,200 –> 00:45:00,680
bit faster than I would like it
to go.

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00:45:04,640 –> 00:45:27,160
I want to come back to Psalm 22.
It says to the two musicians to

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00:45:27,160 –> 00:45:31,920
him that overcome us upon ayalat
asaha.

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00:45:33,040 –> 00:45:39,640
The Psalm of David is a prayer
which Jesus prayed on the cross,

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00:45:39,640 –> 00:45:44,120
as you know very well, although
he changed one word.

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00:45:44,960 –> 00:45:48,640
But more about that later on in
our evening programme.

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What does ayelet hashaka mean?
Shakur.

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00:45:57,640 –> 00:46:03,000
What is shakur?
It’s black, it’s darkness.

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00:46:04,080 –> 00:46:14,120
And Ayelet comes from AO which
is power, and therefore that

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00:46:14,160 –> 00:46:23,760
title, if you translate it,
means to him that overcomes over

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00:46:23,760 –> 00:46:33,600
the power of darkness.
A Psalm of David and Jesus refer

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00:46:33,600 –> 00:46:46,720
to that if you go to Luke
chapter 22 in Luke chapter 22

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00:46:47,320 –> 00:46:59,640
when Jesus was arrested verse
52, Jesus said unto the chief

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00:46:59,640 –> 00:47:01,960
priests and the captains of the
temple and the Elvis which will

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00:47:01,960 –> 00:47:05,840
come, come to him be you come
out as against a thief as swords

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00:47:06,000 –> 00:47:10,600
and stays when I was daily with
you in the temple, ye stretched

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00:47:10,600 –> 00:47:17,160
forth no hands against me, but
this is your hour and the power

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00:47:17,200 –> 00:47:20,360
of darkness.
I yell at Hashaha.

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00:47:22,360 –> 00:47:30,000
So Jesus was now in the power of
darkness and he said his Son to

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00:47:30,000 –> 00:47:39,520
overcome that power of darkness,
and he did by using this Psalm

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00:47:40,160 –> 00:47:44,840
because it was not the only
verse which he cried out.

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00:47:44,840 –> 00:47:48,440
We read in the gospel Ali Ali,
Lama Sabachthani, but

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00:47:48,800 –> 00:47:54,800
undoubtedly would have said the
whole Psalm to God, to his

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00:47:54,800 –> 00:47:57,720
Father who was able to save him
from death.

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00:48:00,320 –> 00:48:06,400
But Jesus has also delivered us
from the same power of darkness.

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00:48:06,640 –> 00:48:17,200
You go to Colossians and of
course that was that epistle we

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00:48:17,200 –> 00:48:19,480
started with our first reading
with.

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00:48:21,240 –> 00:48:28,720
It says there in verse 13 or
verse 12 for connection.

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00:48:29,920 –> 00:48:33,520
Giving thanks unto the Father
which has made us meet to be

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00:48:33,520 –> 00:48:37,840
partakers of the inheritance of
the Saints in light, who has

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00:48:37,840 –> 00:48:42,800
delivered us from the power of
darkness from Ayalata Shahar,

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00:48:43,560 –> 00:48:48,160
and has translated us into the
Kingdom of His dear Son, in whom

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00:48:48,160 –> 00:48:50,200
we have to redemption through
His blood.

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00:48:50,560 –> 00:48:55,160
Even the forgiveness of sins was
the image of the invisible God,

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00:48:55,400 –> 00:49:01,720
the first born of all creation.
And then the apostle Paul tells

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00:49:01,720 –> 00:49:06,680
us how we should change our
lives because we are delivered

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00:49:06,880 –> 00:49:15,960
from the power of darkness.
In verse 14 May be the right

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00:49:15,960 –> 00:49:18,360
reference.
But that he might walk worthy of

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00:49:18,360 –> 00:49:22,880
the Lord, and to all pleasing,
being fruitful in every good

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00:49:22,880 –> 00:49:27,120
work, and increasing in the
knowledge of God strength of his

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00:49:27,120 –> 00:49:29,680
own might, according to his
glorious power.

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00:49:29,920 –> 00:49:33,120
And to our patience and
long-suffering with joyfulness.

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00:49:33,400 –> 00:49:36,680
Giving thanks unto the Father,
which has made us meet to be

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00:49:36,680 –> 00:49:40,200
partakers of the inheritance of
Saints in light, who has

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00:49:40,200 –> 00:49:43,960
delivered us from the power of
darkness and translated into the

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00:49:43,960 –> 00:49:46,560
King of his dear Son.
And we have to redempt you

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00:49:46,560 –> 00:49:49,560
through his blood.
Even the forgiveness of his sin

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00:49:49,920 –> 00:49:57,840
was actually the first. 10 And
so Brian says, we are in such a

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00:49:57,840 –> 00:50:03,720
privileged position that Christ
has overcome using the sounds,

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00:50:04,280 –> 00:50:09,600
the power of darkness.
And Jesus and David overcame

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00:50:09,600 –> 00:50:13,120
those powers of darkness by
using the sounds.

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00:50:13,520 –> 00:50:16,880
And the more we become familiar
with the Psalms, I believe the

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00:50:16,880 –> 00:50:20,240
more they can help us also
overcome.

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00:50:20,920 –> 00:50:23,920
And once these beautiful
expressions we have in the

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00:50:23,920 –> 00:50:28,880
Psalms become ours, then we can
use them in our prayers also.

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