409: James Diliberto – All To The Glory of God

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Hello and welcome back to good

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My name is Gideon Ryan, I’m a

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member of the Hunter Valley
Ecclesia in New South Wales,

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Australia, and I’m your guest
host for GCT this July.

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The talk this week is from a
series called Worship God, Let

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Your Life Song Sing and it was
given by James Diliberto at our

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local Ncyc’s annual camp called
Novi in 2025.

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This particular talk is called
All to the Glory of God and it’s

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both inspiring and incredibly
practical.

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There is a section where James
gives a helpful list of actions

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to take to have a good memorial
meeting of worship, which I

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think will be incredibly
beneficial for listeners to

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hear.
I also really appreciate the

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nuance that James brings to our
relationship with God and how he

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talks about worshipping through
worry and wrestling with God in

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our trials.
I did in fact attended this camp

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and thoroughly enjoyed chatting
to James about the concepts in

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his studies surrounding worship,
sacrifice, and devotion.

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Actually, you’ll hear a funny
anecdote in this talk told by

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James about some NCYC hoodies I
tried to sell him, which he then

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connects to the idea of
sacrifice and cost.

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So listen out for that.
But I really did personally

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benefit from this series when it
was given, partly because it

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happened to coincide with the
release of Ncyc’s second album,

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of which I played a part in.
It really helped myself and all

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the people involved in that
project give it to God as a

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devotion.
It really helped us be in the

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right frame of mind and give God
the glory.

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So I hope it has the same effect
on you as you listen.

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As always, the accompanying
talks will be available on GCT

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Extended.
This is James Diliberto on

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Worship God, Let your life song
sing.

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Study three, all to the glory of
God.

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All right, we’re doing all to
the glory of God creating

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systematic devotion and it and
it would have sort of flown on

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from looking at when God becomes
yours, my Lord, my God and have

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an intimate fellowship.
And I think we’ve already gotten

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there.
So I think we’re there.

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We understand that.
We know that that’s important.

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We know that that’s what God
wants.

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We know that that’s what God
wants.

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But how do we do that?
What do we do to get there?

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Like how do I get there?
That’s the polls.

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I how do I actually approach
that?

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And and I think the the first
thing that we need to be willing

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to do is it needs to cost
something.

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Now we finished our last one
with the ultimate cost from

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Abraham.
He was willing to pay to worship

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God, the ultimate cost.
God doesn’t always ask for costs

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that big, that costly to honor
him, to serve him, to worship

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him.
Like that’s like the ultimate

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Christ example of of that.
And obviously he, Abraham

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rejoiced to see Christ today,
was glad when we saw it.

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But not all the costs are quite
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But cost worship does.
Turn to First Chronicles chapter

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21 and look at verses 21 and 24,
because we cannot look at

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worship without looking at
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So First Chronicles 21 and let’s
look at verses 22 and 24.

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Now this may be a, a familiar
passage to some of you and maybe

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for some of you, this might be
the first time that you’ve seen

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it.
So let’s just look at, we’re

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only going to look at a couple
verses here, but I’ll try to

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give you some try to give you
some context.

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So first Chronicles 21 and we’re
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24.
So David makes a mistake, David

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makes a mistake and this mistake
is something that rippled

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through Israel and there was
going to be a cost that he was

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going to have to pay for his
mistake.

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And James 3 verse one says be
not many masters for you know

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you will receive the greater
condemnation or the harsher

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judgment.
So the first thing to say is if

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anyone is a position of
leadership or a worship leader,

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that is a serious
responsibility.

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And the impact that it has when
you make mistakes can impact an

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entire nation, entire
generation.

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And so let’s not ever make that
same mistake that David did.

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Notwithstanding, David knew how
serious that was and he wanted

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to make repentance.
He wanted to make an offering to

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Godfrey’s transgression.
And if you just look at this is

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the threshing floor of Ornan,
the Genesis site, David came to

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Ornan and Ornan looked and saw
David and went from the

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threshing floor and paid homage
to David with his face to the

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ground, basically worships David
out out of out of honor for him.

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And David said to Ornan, give me
the sight of the threshing floor

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that I might build on it an
altar to the Lord, just like the

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patriarchs we looked at in our
last session, that I might build

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an altar unto the Lord.
And he says, Give it to me for

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full price.
This is the heart of David.

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Give it to me for full price,
that the plague may be averted

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from the people.
Then Ornan said, take it.

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Let my Lord the king do whatever
seems good to him.

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See, I give oxen for burnt
offerings, threshing Florence

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the sledges of wood and wheat
for the grain offering.

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I give it all to you.
Seems like a pretty good deal.

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Everything’s provided.
Here you go.

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I got the wood, I got the
offering.

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You build the altar.
Seems like a good deal.

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I’m from New York.
So like, you make deals, right?

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That’s a good deal.
I’ll build the altar.

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You do the stuff.
And we we call it even.

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But that is not OK for David.
The King said no, but I will buy

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them for full Christ.
I will not take for the Lord

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what is yours nor burnt
offerings that cost me nothing.

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God is not interested in cheap
worship on other people’s

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accounts.
Full price, no discounts.

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Now Giddy tried to sell me one
of these.

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He successfully sold me too.
And he said to me when they

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first came out, I said, oh, I
want to support NCIC, give me

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one of these.
And he goes, I’ll send you a

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discount.
And I’m like, I want to pay full

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price.
And he’s like what?

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And I’m like, I’m paying full
price.

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He’s like, I don’t get it.
I’m like, I’ll explain it at

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Novi 2025 S Giddy.
Here’s your explanation.

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So I paid full price for this
and I bought 2 and I wanted to

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because I love NCYCI, love NCYC
and I wanted it to cost me

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something.
In fact, in in, in many of the

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elements of that for me, like if
I had been given it for free,

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like I’ve just chucked it over
there, like I wouldn’t maybe,

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you know, valued it.
And so for David, in order to

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offer something to God, he
didn’t want to take stuff that

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cost for somebody else.
He didn’t want a free ride.

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That’s not worship, that’s not
an offering.

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Stuff that’s free stuff that’s
cheap.

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That’s not, that’s not David.
So this beautiful heart of David

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saying, I will not offer unto
Yahweh that which costs me

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nothing.
Are you willing, are you willing

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to give God the cheap stuff, the
extras, the stuff that’s easy or

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the stuff that’s riding on the
coattails and other people doing

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the work, and you just want to
kind of be part of it?

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Yeah, I’ll offer that and do
anything for it.

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But, you know, I’ll take it.
That is not the heart of David,

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and that’s actually not the
heart of the patriarchs.

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Remember Abraham did the same
thing with his wife Sarah.

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Remember that?
I want to buy.

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I want to buy this plot because
it doesn’t mean anything if it

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doesn’t cost me something.
And that’s the beauty of

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offerings to God.
When we offer them to God,

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they’re infused with meaning
because they’re from our hearts.

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We give until it hurts.
And that’s the kind of giving,

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that’s the kind of offering that
God is looking for.

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And David would not accept
anything else.

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So full price, no discounts.
If that’s the kind of

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Christianity you’re looking for,
that’s not the kind that God

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wants.
And that’s certainly not the

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spirit of what we see in the
Bible from his people.

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And it ultimately it won’t mean
much to you.

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And many people that take it
easy and have it don’t do the

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work, don’t put the time in.
It’s easy to walk away.

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You know why?
Because it cost you nothing.

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So it’s easy.
You have no skin in the game.

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So you guys kind of get
involved.

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You got to put something of your
own in.

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You got to invest, you got to,
you know, I don’t care what it

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is like.
Give financially time your, your

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thought, your care.
Join committees.

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Like this community doesn’t run
on other people’s work.

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But like in reality, a lot of
the time, 80% of the work is

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done by 20% of the people,
right?

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That’s not how it ought to be.
Let’s not offer to God something

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and try to ride on the coast of
other people.

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So first of all, awesome point.
I just feel like David sets the

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bar and I’m inspired by that.
I don’t always do that, but I’m

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like, that’s the bullseye.
I want that spirit in me.

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And I hope that you can kind of
pick up a little bit of that

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from from David.
All right, another one.

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Look, by the way, it’s just like
so hot up here and I don’t have

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water.
Can I just get a drink?

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Oh, Elliot, I’m so thirsty right
now.

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Lord, I just want to thank you
for Elliot in my life.

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Elliot has been a blessing.
He went through a lot of effort

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to get me this drink of water.
As much as I would have liked to

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have it on myself, Lord, I would
like to just give it to you as

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an offering.
I’m grateful and I poured this

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out unto you.
Turn over to Second Samuel

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chapter 23 and Elliot to fill
that water up so I can actually

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have some.
There you go, Elliot.

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It cost you nothing.
All right, Second Samuel, 23

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versus 13 to 17.
Now, because I am thirsted at

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the moment, does anyone else
want to read this?

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Anyone want to read for me?
Nice and loud, volunteer.

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Elliot’s like ready to go.
Anyone want to read it for me?

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Yeah, sure.
Go ahead. 23 of US second sample

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of 23/13/70.
And three of the 30 chief men

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went down and came about harvest
time for David in the pave of a

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Dolan when abandoned.
Philistines was a camp in the

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valley of Brepham.
David was there was then in the

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stronghold of the in the
Garrison of the Philistines was

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then a brethman.
And David said longingly, 00

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that someone would give me water
to drink from the well of

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Bethlehem, that is by the gate.
Then three mighty men broke

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through the camp of the
Philistines and drew water out

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of the well of Bethlehem that
was by the gate, and carried it

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and brought it to David.
But he would not drink of it.

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He fought it on the ground and
fought it out to the Lord, and

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said, Far be it from me, O Lord,
that I should do this.

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Shall I drink of the blood of
the men who went at risk of

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their lives?
Therefore, he would not drink

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it.
These things the three mochi men

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did.
First of all, that’ll be dry in

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about 5 seconds and so on here.
But that is exactly what David

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did.
What made the water was worth

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nothing?
It was worth 0.

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Like it’s just a cup of water.
What made that cup worth

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something to David?
There’s a few reasons in the

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text.
What made it?

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What made it valuable?
Effort.

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Yes.
One, it’s effort.

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And what kind of effort?
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did, risked to their lives.
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Like, it wasn’t just like it
took effort.

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They had to, like, walk up the
street.

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They risked.
They literally risked their

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lives for getting this water.
What else made it special to

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David particularly like that?
It wouldn’t.

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It wouldn’t be special in the
same way if it was given to me.

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What made it special?
That’s right.

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It was like home turf water.
Now if you ever have water from

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New York, it’s not really that
good, but bagels made in New

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York water is great.
So if I’m not have these bagels

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here in Australia and just like,
oh man, so I can just have a

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bagel from New York and I’ve had
friends like come on the plane

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like you’re not even supposed to
take food into the country.

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They like wrap this bagel like,
hey, I brought this all the way

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from New York to like give to
you.

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It’s like super stale.
And I was like, oh, this is

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great.
I’m going to throw it in the

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garbage unto the Lord for you.
But like, but like it meant

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something that they took that
right, that amount, that first

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of all, it meant something to
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So it was in my direction, not
just something that they

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thought.
And two, it took a lot of

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effort.
So that little bit of water, he

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pours it out unto the Lord.
Like what is that?

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Pour it unto the Lord.
There’s no law about that.

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But it’s like a sign for what
all devotional life looks like.

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If there’s something valuable in
your life, you can either take

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it on yourself or you can
actually spend it on others.

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And even if it’s not others,
just unto God.

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So how would you feel if you
were those guys that brought the

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water?
How how would you feel if you’re

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the ones that brought the water?
How might you feel Confused.

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They’re confused like, OK, what
else?

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Cheesed off?
It’s a real Australian term.

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OK, cheesed off.
I’m assuming that’s angry.

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OK, what else?
Yeah, like maybe you said all

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those things, but I think those
mighty men, because their heart

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beats the heart of David, they
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Honor that to the Lord.
I’m not getting you a second

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one, but but that’s fine.
So what made that valuable for

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David is the fact that it cost.
It meant something to him.

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It was in his direction.
And so he poured that out as an

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offering unto the Lord.
Now I was at a camp one time and

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I asked my wife, I said, man,
I’m like, I really could use it

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like a real coffee.
They had only like the kind of

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like the bag kind of coffee.
And I said, look, can you just

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go get me a coffee?
I would really appreciate that.

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And, and, and she came back and
said, look, it was a bit of an

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ordeal.
I had to go to three different

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places.
It was all closed because it was

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a long weekend.
It wasn’t that easy.

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I had to push the stroller with
the kid like, you know, uphill

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both ways.
And but I got this like hot

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coffee for you.
So I just poured it out unto the

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Lord.
No, just getting up the first

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class invitation to the
doghouse.

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But but, but like it would have
meant it would have been like

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meaningful head.
Now it takes a serious level of

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spirituality.
That’s just not some silly

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thing.
But I think there’s some

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beautiful things that we can
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What can you do in your life to
glorify God?

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What can you do to glorify him?
Well, here’s the most important

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element.
Just quality time.

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You guys thought I was making it
up before about quality time.

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Actually, have you ever thought
about the fact that Sabbath?

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Even just giving some time away
for God, Why was the Sabbath

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there?
Literally, the Sabbath is equal

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to all, any time with God, not
distracted by anything else,

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devoting an entire period of
time to Him.

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Now, Israel was in big trouble
at the exile at the time that

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Babylon was coming down.
Nebuchadnezzar’s plans were in

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place.
He looked at the meat or

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whatever that thing was, and he
was like, all right, it’s over

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going to Jerusalem.
It’s all over.

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And Jeremiah 17 has a little
perspective on what it would

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take to turn an entire nation
around.

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And what that is, is systematic
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Turn to Jeremiah 17.
Let’s just have a look at God’s

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advice to the prophet Jeremiah.
So when I say systematic

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devotion, I mean ad hoc is
great, on the fly is great,

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pouring out water, like
randomly, like that’s great.

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But God also wants us to have a
systematic regular approach.

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I’m not saying booked in quality
time, but you don’t have to know

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how it is if you don’t make time
for it.

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If you’re not disciplined about
that devotion, it can just slip

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and slip and slip.
And that was the wisdom of the

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Sabbath.
So have a look at Jeremiah 17

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verses 19 to 25.
Does anyone else want to read?

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Because it’s like a late session
trying to get like more people

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involved.
So who wants to read?

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And, and this time I will, I
will provide reward.

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Who wants to read this one?
For me, Yeah.

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Jeremiah 171925 Thus says Yahweh
unto me, Go and stand in the

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gate of the children of the
people, whereby the kings of

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Judah come in, and by the.
Which they go out.

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And in all the gates of
Jerusalem.

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And say unto them, He ye the
word of Yahweh, ye kings of

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Judah, and all Judah, and all
the inhabitants of Jerusalem

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that enter in by these gates.
Thus says Yahweh, Take heed to

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yourselves, and bear no burden
on the Sabbath day, nor bring it

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in by the gates of Jerusalem.
Neither carry forth a burden out

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of your houses on the Sabbath
day.

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Neither do ye any work but
hallow ye the Sabbath day, as I

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commanded your Father’s.
But they obeyed not, neither

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inclined their ear, but made
their neck stiff, that they

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might not hear nor receive
instruction.

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And it shall come to pass, if ye
diligently hearken unto me, says

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Yahweh, to bring in no burden
through the gates of this city

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on the Sabbath day, but hallow
the Sabbath day, to do no work

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therein.
Then shall there enter into the

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gates of the city kings and
Princess sitting upon the throne

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of David, riding in Chariots and
on quarters, they and their

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Princess, the men of Judah, and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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And this city shall remain
forever.

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Wow, God is saying you give me
the Sabbath.

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Jerusalem won’t get destroyed.
There will be kings that will

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stay on the throne forever.
All I need from you is the

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Sabbath and I can take
everything else from there.

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Because if God was given the
Sabbath, then he could work on

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their hearts.
Then he could recapture their

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adoration.
Then He could help them, help

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them with their relationships.
All he needs was time.

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And all I was asking them for at
that time was time.

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He’s not even saying like, get
rid of all your idols and you

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have to have everything perfect.
Just give me the Sabbath and you

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give me that good quality time,
then I will not destroy this

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city and there will be kings.
I conferred.

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Now of course that didn’t
happen.

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They profaned the Sabbath and it
all went to pot.

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But I this is a really important
lesson for us when we think

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about what time do we give now
for us, that is the memorial

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meeting.
Now just want to be really

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practical here when we have
memorial meeting Sunday.

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Just some tips and I’d love to
hear your thoughts on it too, if

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you’re, if you’re willing to
share.

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Just some practical tips.
Broken my finger.

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All right, first of all, how
often do you go into a Sunday

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morning and literally pray that
God would give you a good and

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honest heart?
If you’re anything like me, you

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probably just show up now,
especially once you have kids.

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You’ve barely made it out the
door.

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The kids are fighting in the
car, you’re tripping out.

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You’re having like breakfast in
the car, spilling coffee on you

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just like you barely made it.
But even before that, even

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before all of that distraction,
I could have prayed.

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Do you pray before meetings on a
Sunday?

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How about a warm up with the
word?

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Remember I told you guys
earlier, have my coffee with God

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when things are going bad.
Have a coffee with God on a

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Sunday morning.
You say I’m having too quiet

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time with God doesn’t have to be
long. 5 minutes.

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Spend a little devotional time
with God.

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Purify your mind.
I know we’re like addicted to

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our phones and it’s all just
right in front of us all the

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time.
Maybe just like put away.

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Have it have literally like have
a Sabbath from social media or

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whatever it is that’s on your
phone.

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Just like put it away on Sunday
morning.

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Because if you rock up Sunday
morning, you got all this stuff

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swirling in your head and then
you want to have an effective

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worship service.
You want to be super connected

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with all those deep thoughts
that we talked about earlier

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today.
You’re going to show up and

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you’ve got YouTube running and
the latest TikTok and it’s, it

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just can get very distracting.
I some of you probably saw that

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I, I recently got rid of the
social media apps on my phone.

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I just found it too problematic.
Like even at my age with all the

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stuff that I got going on, it
was still there.

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It’s still frustrating.
And yeah, I just had to sort of

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put it aside.
So now I have to be really

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deliberate about going to check
it out.

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Maybe you guys might want to do
that as a tip all the time.

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Just so, so convenient, but
especially on a Sunday morning,

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it’s just really distracting.
Another one like trust in the

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truth that you already have.
Like go in with a mind ready to

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challenge what you hear.
Trust in the truth that you

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already have.
Don’t always be looking for

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something else.
Listen.

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Trust in the truth that you
know, get a good rest on

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Saturday night so you can be
alert, so you can not be a Leech

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and a waste.
You can contribute something,

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add something, make a comment
you know not like dragging

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yourself in there.
And also your Sunday school

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teachers will be much happier
having you there.

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I teach your age and I love
them.

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Like, man, you guys got no sleep
earlier.

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Walk in on Sunday morning
without rumbling and criticism.

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It’s so easy just to just just
be frustrated.

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Something’s not your way.
Something’s not done the way you

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like.
Just like put that aside.

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Just go.
I’m here for God, not for

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people, not for an experience.
I’m here for God.

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So show up ready to worship,
have a heart that’s meek and

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teachable.
Be still and focus your mind and

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heart’s affection on God.
All that stuff that we talked

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about this morning and think
earnestly about what is sung,

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prayed and preached.
Lastly, desire the truth more

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than you desire richest your
food.

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It’s really difficult on a
Sunday Sunday morning,

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especially if things go along.
Especially like right now you’re

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in between a meal, you’re
thinking about food, like get a

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good breakfast so you can be
focused and distracted.

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If you’re, if you got emails,
like work emails coming like on

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your phone or you can use your
phone like just put it away.

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That doesn’t matter.
Whom have I in heaven but you?

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There’s nothing on earth that I
desire besides you.

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You are everything that I need.
And sometimes we go in with

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feelings like we have other
earthly needs.

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Whom have I on?
There is no one in heaven that I

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desire besides you and nothing
on earth who I desire besides

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you.
So those are just some some tips

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for me to have a really
effective Sabbath in our world.

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All right, here’s another one.
When things are going bad, when

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the waves of life are crashing
on you, remember that God hasn’t

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changed.
He hasn’t moved and he is still

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worthy.
So worship through your worry.

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Why is worship good for worry?
Everything that you know what

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what?
Why would worship be a good

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antidote for worry?
Haven’t haven’t.

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OK, why turn to worship?
Because a lot of times when

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you’re going through a difficult
time, that’s the last thing that

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you wants to do.
Why is it a good thing to do?

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Perspective.
Times the fuck is out with Mike

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from you.
What is it times the fuck is out

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with Mike from you?
That was really close to your

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head, but I made it.
Yes, Because guys, praise brings

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perspective and perspective
brings power.

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God is still on the throne.
He still is great as the reasons

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why you worshipped him.
As all power and authorities we

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give to him.
All the nations are completely

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under the control of the Lord
Jesus Christ.

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He is totally providentially
looking forward to everything.

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Romans 828 is still a thing.
All things are working together

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for good because we love God and
we’re called according to His

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omnipotent purpose.
And when you praise, or when you

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listen to praise, it brings
perspective.

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It turns your eyes upwards.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look

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full in his wonderful face, as
the hymn is, and the things of

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earth will become strangely dim
in the light of his glory and

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grace.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look

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full in his wonderful face, and
the things of earth will become

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strangely dim in the light of
this glory in peace.

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Praise brings perspective and
there are so many beautiful

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songs that are like that.
For example, the song, the old

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hymn.
It is well with my soul.

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Anybody know it?
When peace like a river that’s

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headed my way.
When sorrows like sea mills

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roll.
Anybody know the rest?

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Come on, where’s my old team,
people?

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No, you guys don’t see it.
Anyway, the point is that this

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has been People have been
writing songs like this for

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years.
It is well with my soul.

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Turn your eyes upon Jesus.
Casting Crowns wrote this

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awesome song.
Praise you in this storm.

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From the same album that life
song comes from, we also have

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Matt Redmond song Blessed Be
Your Name, and I hope we get to

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sing later.
Hard Fought Hallelujah has just

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come out recently by you guys.
Anyone bring if you know it.

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OK, Hard fought Hallelujah,
Praise you anywhere by Brandon

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Lake Sovereign Over us by Aaron
Keys, which was actually the

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thing last night which I was
like, oh, that’s pretty cool.

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It’s kind of a throwback to the
first, though, because that’s

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when we did that song last.
But there are praise songs for

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times of pain that are
specifically there to help you

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rise up and triumph over your
challenges with praise.

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So when you think about the
weapon of praise, when you’re

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going to battle for a
perspective, praise is a weapon.

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Pick it up now.
What do you do when you don’t

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have the words?
If you don’t know what to say, I

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highly recommend that you pray
the psalms.

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Pray them because if you don’t
have the vocabulary and you

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don’t know what to say, turn up
some of these psalms and pray

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the psalms until your Spirit
comes into sync with God’s

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Spirit and you can start praying
in your own words.

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I highly recommend thinking
about psalms as a way to get

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through challenging times.
Spurgeon put it this way my dear

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friend.
When grief pushes you to the

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dust, worship there No hint from
the song?

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Hint from the song in the
previous slide.

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Who is the best example that you
can think of in the Old

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Testament for praising when they
hit rock bottom?

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Who praised when they hit the
bottom?

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Joseph.
Joseph.

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Who said Joseph.
Yeah.

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Wait.
When he gets trapped in prison.

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OK.
Yeah.

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Like, I’m assuming that’s what
he did.

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That makes sense.
Like, maybe like a Paul and

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Silas kind of thing.
They’re singing hymns.

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They’re in prison.
They sing hymns.

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The shackles come off.
Take the shackles off my feet.

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So I’m convinced.
So good.

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Anyway, Well, sorry, that’s what
I’m saying.

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This is my daughter.
She’s like, you can’t do that in

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public, but I can’t.
All right, somebody else said

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over here, what was who was it?
Joe?

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That’s right.
So let’s look at Joe.

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Blessed Be Your name.
That’s why I wanted to sing this

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song.
And if we can do Blessed Be Your

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00:30:34,360 –> 00:30:37,600
Name later, that would be so
amazing if we could just sing

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00:30:37,600 –> 00:30:42,680
that together because Blessed Be
Your Name is all about phrasing

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and still saying let’s it be
your name.

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God hasn’t changed.
He hasn’t moved.

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He still has all the reasons why
he’s worthy has not changed at

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all.
And look what Job does at the

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bottom.
It’s just so wonderful.

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And that’s where we’re checking
out.

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So Job 11, obviously we know
Job.

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He’s blameless.
Look at this guy’s life of

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worship.
He’s blameless and upright.

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He feared God and he turned away
from evil.

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So this is a brother who is the
real deal.

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Job is legit.
He’s like Cornelius, like of the

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Old Testament, right?
This is like before the law.

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There’s no law at this time
where Job is.

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So it’s like he found a way to
praise and to pray and have a

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relationship with God even when
he is, even when he is outside

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of what appears to be the law
arrangements.

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So we get that about Joe.
Then you get down to verse 5.

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What happens to Joe?
He loses all of these things.

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And the, the, the accusation
against Joe is that if he loses

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the comfort abilities of life,
he’ll stop worshipping, he’ll

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stop praising, right?
It may be, it may be that my

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children have sinned and cursed
God in their hearts.

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And thus he did continually.
He’s made the offerings for his

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family.
But the thought was, well, maybe

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this Satan character in the
story is saying, well, if if you

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stretch out your hand like Joe
against Joe, he will, he will

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curse you.
And unfortunately, somebody in

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his family comes along and
recommends that Job do exactly

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that.
That happens in in chapter 2.

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So just two more things, verses
20 and 21.

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So Job loses everything, you
know the story, but what does he

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do?
He fell on the ground and

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00:32:33,240 –> 00:32:35,760
worshipped.
So he loses everything.

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And while he’s on the bottom, he
falls down on physically on the

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ground and worship and he says
naked have I come from my

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mother’s womb naked have
returned.

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But look at how he ascribes the
authority to God.

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He says the Lord gave total
sovereignty.

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The Lord has taken away total
sovereignty, blessed be the name

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of the Lord.
And in all this, Joe did not sin

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or charge God with wrong.
Even though he didn’t

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00:33:07,800 –> 00:33:11,240
understand.
He’s, he’s in this battle to try

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to understand why, but he never
blames it on God.

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He never turns away from God.
He still blesses God and he’s

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still in all this loss.
He is still making offerings for

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00:33:22,760 –> 00:33:27,520
his family.
Now skip over to chapter 2 and

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00:33:27,520 –> 00:33:32,880
look at verses 9 and 10.
Then his wife said to him, Do

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you hold fast your integrity,
curse God and die?

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He said to her, You speak as one
of the foolish women speak.

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Shall we receive good from God
and not receive evil?

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00:33:42,720 –> 00:33:47,000
And again, in all of this, Job
did not sin with his lips.

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Flip over to Havocup Chapter 3.
I know this is a hint.

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It’s actually one I really like.
The new version of this that we

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have in our green book doesn’t
get sung that often because it’s

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one of the old anthems.
Although the feature is shot,

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00:33:59,040 –> 00:34:00,960
not blossom, it’s a really,
really good one.

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00:34:01,120 –> 00:34:03,800
Has two really good movements
and we don’t really see it that

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00:34:03,800 –> 00:34:05,680
much.
So we used to sing it around the

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00:34:05,680 –> 00:34:08,520
campfire, like kind of like
swung and kind of like a waltz

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00:34:08,520 –> 00:34:12,080
style.
And it’s a good way to do it.

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All right, have a Cup 3 versus
17 to 19.

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All right, life is life is not
good in this time, He’s

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struggling, he’s literally, he’s
trembling In the previous verse

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and verse 17, here is the
perspective of a worshipper.

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Although the fig tree shall not
blossom, nor fruit beyond the

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00:34:49,239 –> 00:34:52,159
vines, the produce of the olive
failed.

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00:34:52,760 –> 00:34:56,560
The fields yield no food.
The flock be cut off from the

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00:34:56,560 –> 00:34:59,360
fold, and there be no herd in
the stalls.

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Yet.
Yet will I rejoice in the Lord.

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I will take joy in the God of my
salvation.

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God the Lord, is my strength,
and He makes my feet like the

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deers.
He makes me travel in high

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00:35:19,200 –> 00:35:21,880
places to the choirmaster on
string issuance.

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00:35:22,080 –> 00:35:28,160
It’s a song, and the song is
just like all those other songs.

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It’s a song about praise,
ringing perspective.

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00:35:31,880 –> 00:35:35,680
Although I should lose
everything yet, will I?

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00:35:36,200 –> 00:35:38,480
Psalm 116.
I’m going to raise up the cup of

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00:35:38,480 –> 00:35:40,240
salvation because I’m still
safe.

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What can mortal man do to me?
I’m still saved.

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00:35:43,680 –> 00:35:46,600
I’m still in the bundle of life.
He is still God on the throne.

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00:35:46,600 –> 00:35:49,840
And I will rejoice in that
because it’s the God of my

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00:35:49,840 –> 00:35:51,880
salvation.
And in that the Lord will give

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00:35:51,880 –> 00:35:55,000
me strength.
That’s how to get out of a funk.

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00:35:55,320 –> 00:35:57,560
That’s how to get out.
When you’re struggling on the

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00:35:57,560 –> 00:36:01,000
ground, you need perspective
because most of the time, the

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00:36:01,000 –> 00:36:03,040
time that we’re struggling
unless we’re literally

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00:36:03,200 –> 00:36:07,080
physically hurt is because we
have lost our perspective of the

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00:36:07,080 –> 00:36:12,760
Socrates of God.
So that is, that is my very

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00:36:12,760 –> 00:36:16,400
strong recommendation to you.
And my prayer is that you do

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00:36:16,400 –> 00:36:19,360
that.
The way you do that is in

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00:36:19,360 –> 00:36:22,320
private.
I think it’s difficult to praise

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00:36:22,320 –> 00:36:24,040
in your pain when you’re with
other people.

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Songs are helpful, but when you
need to do business with God,

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00:36:27,520 –> 00:36:29,000
you might need to wrestle with
God.

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00:36:29,760 –> 00:36:33,160
I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you a
brief story about myself during

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00:36:33,400 –> 00:36:36,880
during that time when my parents
were in the middle of I didn’t

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00:36:36,880 –> 00:36:37,880
know what way it was going to
go.

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00:36:37,880 –> 00:36:39,560
I didn’t know if they were going
to be getting divorced.

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00:36:40,040 –> 00:36:42,920
I was so mad at God for not
redeeming my family.

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I was angry.
I didn’t understand.

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00:36:44,920 –> 00:36:47,680
And I used to go outside and I
used to literally shake my fist

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00:36:47,680 –> 00:36:50,280
with this guy and ask why.
A lot of times I was crying and

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00:36:51,560 –> 00:36:53,960
wrestling with God in, in that
kind of prayer.

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00:36:54,280 –> 00:36:58,040
And I don’t think I ever
ascribed evil to God, but kind

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00:36:58,040 –> 00:37:00,440
of like Joe, like what’s going
on here?

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00:37:00,440 –> 00:37:02,600
Why not?
And I was just wrestling with

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00:37:02,600 –> 00:37:04,360
God.
And a lot of times I, I didn’t

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00:37:04,360 –> 00:37:06,920
do things like the Psalms and
the Psalms are filled with

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00:37:06,960 –> 00:37:09,800
people said, how long, Oh Lord,
how long until you’re going to

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00:37:10,000 –> 00:37:12,960
figure this out?
But that’s an OK perspective to

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00:37:12,960 –> 00:37:16,960
have, but you need to do it in
your version of the tentative

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00:37:16,960 –> 00:37:18,960
meeting.
You know, when we have a

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00:37:19,040 –> 00:37:23,080
corporate situation in worship,
many people don’t realize this,

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00:37:23,080 –> 00:37:26,640
that the intimacy that Moses had
that time, that he was going

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00:37:26,640 –> 00:37:28,480
through a difficult time
carrying Israel.

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00:37:28,880 –> 00:37:33,000
It says that in addition to the
Tabernacle, it says that he used

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00:37:33,000 –> 00:37:38,400
to pitch a tent outside of the
Tabernacle and outside of the

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00:37:38,400 –> 00:37:42,600
camp, and he used to go there
and meet with God.

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00:37:43,040 –> 00:37:46,640
Now, it’s a really cool thing to
see that that’s the beginning of

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00:37:46,640 –> 00:37:50,720
Joshua’s ministry was actually
this intimacy with God and Moses

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00:37:50,720 –> 00:37:54,520
in this in this tent.
And the most wonderful thing

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00:37:54,520 –> 00:38:00,920
about this story is that it says
when he went into this, you know

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00:38:00,920 –> 00:38:05,880
what all the other people did,
It says they stood at their own

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00:38:05,880 –> 00:38:11,600
tent entrances and worshipped
worship in intimacy.

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00:38:12,000 –> 00:38:14,880
But you are having your own time
with God and people see that

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00:38:14,880 –> 00:38:17,680
that’s how you’re doing it.
That could inspire other people.

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00:38:17,920 –> 00:38:22,280
And Moses inspired a whole
nation to go, whoa, he is going

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00:38:22,280 –> 00:38:26,320
in to actually meet with God.
He’s going to meet with the

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Almighty.
And they would likewise fall

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00:38:29,280 –> 00:38:32,800
down at the at the entrances of
their tents and similarly

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00:38:33,080 –> 00:38:36,120
worship.
And it basically says that they

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00:38:36,120 –> 00:38:40,520
bow down on their face.
Now, getting down like this in

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00:38:40,520 –> 00:38:44,400
terms of posture, getting down
on your face is probably a good

655
00:38:44,400 –> 00:38:48,440
way when, especially in a
Mediterranean culture, of which

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00:38:48,520 –> 00:38:51,400
I am part.
So hello to the Greeks in the

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00:38:51,400 –> 00:38:52,800
back and the Italians at the
front.

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We are very expressive people,
as you have worked out.

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And in Mediterranean culture, at
least at that time,

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00:39:01,040 –> 00:39:04,200
Mediterranean culture, they
literally expressed when they

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00:39:04,200 –> 00:39:06,200
were grieving.
You saw it when they were sad,

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00:39:06,200 –> 00:39:09,960
they put sackcloth and ashes on
whalers came and like they they

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00:39:09,960 –> 00:39:12,040
were not afraid to feel.
They were, they were not

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00:39:12,040 –> 00:39:15,240
nonchalant.
They felt all of their emotions.

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00:39:15,800 –> 00:39:21,080
And one of those things that is
just consistent in all of these

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people, Abraham, Moses, David,
Aaron, Ezekiel, Daniel at the

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Transfiguration with the
disciples and the 24 elders in

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Revelation, they are all face
down.

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Now, I don’t know about you, but
this is a very, very rare

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00:39:37,640 –> 00:39:40,200
occurrence for me.
But the time that it happens

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00:39:40,200 –> 00:39:43,440
most is when things are
difficult and sometimes getting

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00:39:43,440 –> 00:39:47,120
your body into a posture that
helps your mind and your

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00:39:47,120 –> 00:39:49,680
mentality.
It’s the same thing about

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00:39:49,680 –> 00:39:52,600
perspective.
You need to get yourself down

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00:39:52,800 –> 00:39:58,120
low, associate yourself with the
ground, elevate God.

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00:39:58,320 –> 00:40:02,080
This is why David when he was
sad after the after the loss of

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00:40:02,080 –> 00:40:04,680
the baby from the city with
Bathsheba, it says that he

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00:40:04,680 –> 00:40:08,440
prostrated himself literally on
the ground face down all night.

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00:40:09,480 –> 00:40:13,120
And so maybe in your prayer,
just in maybe some of your

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practical devotion, maybe you
can try to change your posture

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00:40:17,880 –> 00:40:20,920
in your prayer life.
Obviously we bow our heads.

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00:40:20,920 –> 00:40:23,640
This is probably the most common
1 standing.

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00:40:23,640 –> 00:40:27,920
We do this fairly commonly.
Kneeling, pretty rare, but it’s

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00:40:27,920 –> 00:40:29,680
really powerful.
And we have it when our kids,

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00:40:30,080 –> 00:40:32,240
you know, we have our kids kneel
by the side of their bed.

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00:40:32,560 –> 00:40:35,640
But I don’t, I don’t know, does
anyone actually do that, have

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00:40:35,640 –> 00:40:37,200
their kids kneel by the side of
their bed?

688
00:40:37,440 –> 00:40:38,920
I don’t know.
My parents never did it.

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00:40:38,920 –> 00:40:41,440
We never did it.
But I can tell you when I’m

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00:40:41,520 –> 00:40:44,240
really wrestling with God and
prayer and something, or whether

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00:40:44,240 –> 00:40:46,200
I’m really grateful for
something, if I get down on my

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00:40:46,200 –> 00:40:49,440
knees like I did before, it
really changes how I pray.

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00:40:49,520 –> 00:40:53,680
It changes my mentality,
obviously faces to the ground.

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00:40:53,680 –> 00:40:56,320
We’ve seen some examples, just
plenty of that lying on the

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00:40:56,320 –> 00:40:57,880
ground.
What I mentioned with David,

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00:40:58,800 –> 00:41:00,760
eyes raised up.
Here’s another one.

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00:41:01,200 –> 00:41:04,760
Maybe sometimes, especially when
you’re out in creation, pray,

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00:41:04,760 –> 00:41:06,840
but don’t close your eyes, Leave
them open.

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00:41:06,920 –> 00:41:10,240
See what’s around you.
There’s actually a little subtle

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00:41:10,240 –> 00:41:14,680
thing I’ve, I’ve kind of felt
like sometimes when we only ever

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00:41:14,680 –> 00:41:18,360
close our eyes when we pray,
it’s like we’re kind of putting

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00:41:18,360 –> 00:41:21,200
God in a compartment.
Like I’m never picturing God

703
00:41:21,200 –> 00:41:22,680
anyway.
Like I don’t, I don’t know what

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00:41:22,680 –> 00:41:24,680
that looks like.
And sometimes I feel like it

705
00:41:24,680 –> 00:41:28,160
takes me out of the present.
But if I pray when I’m walking

706
00:41:28,280 –> 00:41:31,080
or praying while I’m driving,
practicing the presence of God

707
00:41:31,160 –> 00:41:34,360
just day-to-day, or even just
praying with your eyes open,

708
00:41:35,240 –> 00:41:36,800
closing your eyes.
It’s something that we do

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00:41:36,800 –> 00:41:41,240
culturally, but maybe raise your
eyes up to the sky and pray that

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00:41:41,240 –> 00:41:44,640
way.
Here’s one that some of us do

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00:41:44,640 –> 00:41:47,880
occasionally.
It’s one that we don’t do a lot

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00:41:47,880 –> 00:41:50,200
of, but you’ve seen a lot of
pictures of in my slides.

713
00:41:50,640 –> 00:41:54,800
This is a super, super Old
Testament and New Testament way

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00:41:54,800 –> 00:41:57,720
to pray.
My uncle John Warner in

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00:41:57,720 –> 00:42:01,520
California, he had a his
systematic devotion.

716
00:42:01,560 –> 00:42:04,320
He always prayed with his hands
up always.

717
00:42:04,360 –> 00:42:07,680
I can’t remember a time that he
didn’t pray that way at home in

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00:42:07,680 –> 00:42:11,560
the meeting anytime, ever.
And for the times, if anyone has

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00:42:11,560 –> 00:42:14,400
ever tried to do that, maybe
tonight is a good time for you

720
00:42:14,400 –> 00:42:17,320
to try that.
What does it do when you open up

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00:42:17,560 –> 00:42:22,440
your hands like this?
It opens up physically you feet,

722
00:42:22,440 –> 00:42:25,720
you’re opening up your spirit
and and look, there are a few

723
00:42:25,720 –> 00:42:29,120
different ways that you can do
this, but the point is that if

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00:42:29,120 –> 00:42:32,800
you try to with your your knees
or with your body or with your

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00:42:32,800 –> 00:42:36,560
hands or your eyes open up to
God instead of being kind of

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00:42:36,560 –> 00:42:41,760
like physically closed, that
might help you in your in your

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00:42:41,760 –> 00:42:44,320
worship.
Another way is when you’re

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00:42:44,320 –> 00:42:47,200
praying, even by yourself, pray
out loud.

729
00:42:48,120 –> 00:42:52,320
Think about this.
When when Hannah prayed, her

730
00:42:52,320 –> 00:42:54,040
mouth was moving.
The two really tell what was

731
00:42:54,040 –> 00:42:56,320
happening and she was praying
out loud.

732
00:42:56,800 –> 00:42:59,200
I often don’t do that.
I pray in my head, but you can

733
00:42:59,200 –> 00:43:01,400
get lost in your thoughts.
Anybody do that?

734
00:43:01,400 –> 00:43:03,200
When you get when you pray,
you’re like lost in your

735
00:43:03,200 –> 00:43:04,880
thoughts.
You know, I guess I’m the only

736
00:43:04,880 –> 00:43:05,840
one.
All right.

737
00:43:05,880 –> 00:43:07,800
Well, anyway, praying in my
head.

738
00:43:07,800 –> 00:43:09,640
Sometimes I get lost in my
thoughts.

739
00:43:09,880 –> 00:43:12,760
And sometimes if you just pray
out loud, even for your own

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00:43:12,760 –> 00:43:16,840
self, it just helps you speak.
And obviously God doesn’t mind

741
00:43:16,840 –> 00:43:22,280
pausing this at all.
And then lastly, there are some

742
00:43:22,360 –> 00:43:26,560
awesome examples of prayer in
corporate worship and I just

743
00:43:26,560 –> 00:43:29,640
hope maybe that’s something that
you all can adopt.

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00:43:31,080 –> 00:43:33,000
I like to quote something else
that would just be I have to

745
00:43:33,000 –> 00:43:36,520
sort of wrap up now, so I want
to just maybe close with a

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00:43:36,520 –> 00:43:40,320
couple more things. 1 is a quote
from Matt Jacoby.

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00:43:40,600 –> 00:43:42,760
Just back-to-back to praying the
Psalms.

748
00:43:44,720 –> 00:43:47,520
What does a healthy relationship
with God look like?

749
00:43:47,560 –> 00:43:49,720
This is like a systematic
devotion relationship.

750
00:43:49,880 –> 00:43:52,280
It looks like honest
communication.

751
00:43:52,760 –> 00:43:55,520
It even looks like constructive
conflict.

752
00:43:55,920 –> 00:43:59,320
We must take the idealistic
boundaries out of our

753
00:43:59,320 –> 00:44:03,600
communication with God and allow
for a range of expression that

754
00:44:03,600 –> 00:44:05,840
is congruent with the
complexities of life.

755
00:44:06,080 –> 00:44:07,320
I’ll let you sit on that for a
second.

756
00:44:08,000 –> 00:44:10,440
Our formulaic prayers, very
formal, especially in the

757
00:44:10,440 –> 00:44:14,840
congregational zone, often just
don’t hit what life really looks

758
00:44:14,840 –> 00:44:18,040
like.
It’s another reason why I really

759
00:44:18,040 –> 00:44:20,720
like a lot of songs, a lot of
songs that are more devotional

760
00:44:20,720 –> 00:44:23,280
and this and meditational kind
of songs, and we’ve had a few of

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00:44:23,280 –> 00:44:25,520
those this weekend.
They’re really good because

762
00:44:25,520 –> 00:44:28,760
that’s when you can kind of get
things a little bit more folky,

763
00:44:28,760 –> 00:44:31,320
a little bit more in line with
the complexities of life.

764
00:44:31,320 –> 00:44:33,960
But what does he say?
He says, what does it look like?

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00:44:34,080 –> 00:44:37,520
It looks like the Psalms.
This is because we come to the

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00:44:37,520 –> 00:44:40,760
text with our ideals.
We analyze the Psalms, such

767
00:44:40,760 –> 00:44:42,800
questions as can you say that to
God?

768
00:44:42,960 –> 00:44:44,800
Are you allowed to pray?
That sort of thing.

769
00:44:45,440 –> 00:44:48,840
The Psalms were written not to
dictate religious habits or to

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00:44:48,840 –> 00:44:51,960
achieve certain engines.
They are expressions of the

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00:44:51,960 –> 00:44:55,840
heart, written to cultivate us
in our innermost, in the very

772
00:44:55,840 –> 00:44:57,520
heart that they themselves
express.

773
00:44:57,680 –> 00:45:01,400
They are given to us to shape
our innermost desires and

774
00:45:01,400 –> 00:45:05,920
therefore open up our capacity
to live in a relationship with

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00:45:06,240 –> 00:45:09,320
God.
Those are the deeper places that

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00:45:09,320 –> 00:45:11,920
hope that your systematic
devotion will drive you too.

777
00:45:13,120 –> 00:45:14,720
All right, I’m going to finish
with this one.

778
00:45:17,440 –> 00:45:19,400
Can you imagine getting to the
Kingdom?

779
00:45:19,720 –> 00:45:21,320
I told you before?
Like, could you imagine the

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00:45:21,320 –> 00:45:24,560
Kingdom without God or Jesus?
Well, the good news is that

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00:45:24,560 –> 00:45:29,040
that’s not going to happen.
The bad news is one of the

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00:45:29,040 –> 00:45:33,880
scariest verses in the Bible may
be true for you or me.

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00:45:35,520 –> 00:45:43,640
And it’s this one right here on
that day, many will say to me,

784
00:45:44,680 –> 00:45:51,480
Lord, Lord, did we not insert
thing do many mighty works in

785
00:45:51,480 –> 00:45:58,880
your name?
Then I will say I never knew you

786
00:46:00,080 –> 00:46:05,920
the part for me.
Can you imagine if we get to the

787
00:46:05,960 –> 00:46:10,400
Kingdom and we have never
cultivated A systematic

788
00:46:10,400 –> 00:46:15,080
devotion, a literal relationship
with God, Not corporate, not

789
00:46:15,080 –> 00:46:21,000
here is the experience, but your
relationship with God and Christ

790
00:46:21,000 –> 00:46:26,680
says I never do.
Like I don’t know who you are.

791
00:46:29,920 –> 00:46:33,840
Very, very scary.
And it should be something that

792
00:46:33,840 –> 00:46:36,920
arrests our attention.
It would be such a shame to gain

793
00:46:36,920 –> 00:46:41,640
the whole world and lose our own
soul, all because we did not end

794
00:46:41,640 –> 00:46:46,000
up having a relationship with
our Lord Jesus and our Heavenly

795
00:46:46,040 –> 00:47:02,950
Father through it.
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