Leen Ritmeyer – Using The Psalms For Overcoming – Class 3 – More than Conquerors

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Oh, good morning, Bernie and
sisters and young people.

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I’m glad to see a good number of
you here, which I didn’t quite

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expect, so good on you.
The title for this study is

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taken from Romans chapter 8.
If you turn to Romans chapter 8,

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although we read it yesterday,
let’s just read the last few

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verses of this chapter, starting
at verse 35.

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That who shall separate us from
the love of Christ, tribulation

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or distress or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or peril,

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or sword, as it is written, for
thy sake, we are killed all the

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day long.
We are counted as sheep for the

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slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are

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more than conquerors through Him
that loved us.

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If I persuade her that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor

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principalities, nor powers, nor
things present, nor things to

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come, nor height, nor depth, nor
any other creature, shall be

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able to separate us from the
love of God, which is in Christ

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Jesus our Lord.
And the apostle lists the

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difficult circumstances in which
he found himself many times in

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the verse 35.
He had a fair share of his

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tribulations.
If we ask ourselves how did he

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conquer the fear which he
undoubtedly must have

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experienced when he spent nights
in the deep and in jail?

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We too may find ourselves in
difficult circumstances when we

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show our love for the truth and
stand up for the truth.

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The possible exhort is to be
followers or imitators of me, as

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I am also of Christ.
And what did Christ do when he

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was persecuted?
If you go to One Peter chapter 2

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One Peter 2 verse 21 by the
middle of the verse 21 for even

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here and to were ye called
because Christ also suffered for

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us, leaving us an example that
he should follow his steps, who

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did no sin not was guile found
in his mouth, who when he was

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reviled, reviled not again when
he suffered, he threatened not,

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but committed himself to him
their judges righteously.

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So we should learn from this
that when we are in

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difficulties, we should commit
ourselves to God.

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And how can we do that if not
through prayer and using the

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Psalms, we commit ourselves to
God.

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It puts our minds right, for we
develop the mind of Christ.

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Now we started a new day, didn’t
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It was a bit hard, but it was a
new day.

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And if you go back to our Psalm
5, which we read this morning,

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then the best way to start a
day, as I’m sure most of you do,

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is with a prayer to God.
Now this Psalm 5 is actually a

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morning prayer, as it says in
verse three, my voice shout out

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here in the morning, Yahweh.
So it is a morning prayer.

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But what that does, does that
first verse or the title in the

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KGV actually mean to the chief
musician upon Nekhilot, a Psalm

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of David translating it, It
means to him that overcometh

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toward an inheritance, the best
fruits for the beloved.

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Nikhilot means an inheritance.
And the Hebrew word upon is not

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upon, is not al, it’s al is
toward, or as Phanic actually

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says, is the power of the
inheritance.

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And of course that is expressed
in verse 7.

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But As for me, I will come into
die house in the multitude of

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Thy mercy.
There’s our inheritance.

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That’s where we want to go to.
So when we use this prayer in

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the morning, we are thinking of
the inheritance which has been

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laid up for us.
Look at Psalm 16, which speaks

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about an inheritance in verse 5.
Yahweh is the portion of mine

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inheritance and of my cup.
Thou maintainest my lot.

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The lines have fallen unto me in
pleasant places.

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Yeah, I have a goodly heritage.
I will bless Yahweh who has

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given me counsel.
My reigns also instruct me in

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the night seasons.
I’ve said Yahweh always before

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me because he’s at my right
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I shall not be moved.
So to get an inheritance we must

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said Yahweh always before us
from our waking hours till we go

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to sleep, because that can
change our mind and our

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behaviour.
It will make us receive God’s

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counsel and His instructions and
it teaches us to commit our ways

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and to Yahweh every minute of
the day.

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So if you say this summer’s all
your heart, then we are ready to

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receive God’s counsel and to be
led by the Spirit.

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You see, it starts then like
this.

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Give ear to my word.
Shower.

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Consider my meditation.
You can’t say this Psalm early

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in the morning.
If you haven’t meditated on

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anything, you should have
meditated on things.

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Otherwise you can’t say this
Psalm and we can’t pray to God.

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So I see that the Psalms work
two ways.

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It’s a prayer to God.
If we can only say this Psalm if

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you really mean it, you can’t
say consider my meditation if

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you’ve thought about nothing at
all.

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And then it continues saying my
foreshadow here in the morning

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hour.
And then it continues in the

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morning where like it says
direct my prayer.

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But my prayer is an in italics.
It isn’t there in the Hebrew

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because you already said that
you will pray.

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The word direct means to arrange
yourself in the morning.

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Will I arrange myself unto thee,
and I will look up.

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And that is what we do when we
use this Psalm.

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So in the morning we pray to God
and we have meditated on him,

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and now we’re going to say that
we’re going to set our life in

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order.
And how I could do that?

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That the Psalm tells us, doesn’t
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What are the things that are
spelled out for us in verse 4?

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Thou art not an ale that has
pleasure in wickedness.

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So if you encounter wickedness
in the place we work, where we

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study, or wherever we find
ourselves, then don’t join in,

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because you know that God has no
pleasure in wickedness.

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And then now they shall evil
dwell with thee.

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We mustn’t do evil.
It’s very easy to do, but if you

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keep your Psalm in mind, then it
will direct your your way of

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life with God.
And it says the foolish shall

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not stand in thy sight.
It’s all right to have little

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joke here and there, but to act
foolishly.

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If you do that, we won’t stand
in God’s sight.

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That’s what the Psalm says.
Now, hatest all workers of

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iniquity be living in an evil
world.

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And I thought it was made plain
to us last night, but God hates

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those things.
So it’s not only not joining in,

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but not even allowing it and
warning other people of wicked

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ways.
Thou shalt destroy them that

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speak well leasing.
It’s not leasing a car.

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It’s lies.
God will destroy them that speak

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lies.
And how easy is it by his

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sisters.
Many of the conversations people

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outside to have a little lie to
make yourself look better, but

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God hate lies and Yahweh abhors
the men of blood and deceit.

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So there’s six points here in
these verses 4-5 and six.

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And if you just remember this
Psalm and we say it in the

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morning and keep it in our mind,
it’ll direct our paths and then

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we commit our ways into Yahweh.
That is how this prayer can help

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us, and we soon find out that if
you use these psalms for our

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prayers and the commitment to
memory or even a small section

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of it and stick it up here, then
our minds become more pure, more

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like the mind of Christ and less
like our own mind.

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It’s good to start the day with
prayer.

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David always did.
So put a few things on on the

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overhead, but look at Psalm 63.
It’s a Psalm of David when he

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was in the wilderness of Judah.
And it says, then Elvim dawat my

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ale early will I seek thee.
The word early is the word for

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shaka.
That is the darkest part in the

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night.
We had a good opportunity to put

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this into practice when the
alignment of 3:00 in the

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morning, yes, it was still dark
when David woke up in the

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wilderness and it was dark, he
said in the early dark morning,

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I was sickly.
My soul thirsts for thee, my

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flesh longest for thee, in a dry
and weary land where no water

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is.
David said this time in the

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wilderness.
The nation of Israel was formed

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in the wilderness, far from the
distractions of the world.

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But if we love the world more
than God, we won’t pray this

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Sam.
The peasant world has many

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attractions, especially for
young people.

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The question is, do we look upon
the world in which we live as a

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wilderness or do we take full
advantage of all the

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distractions, the so-called
attractions it offers to us?

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So it becomes clear that if you
do use the Psalms, and we think

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about them, that it will change
our mind and it brings us closer

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to God and we are in good
company.

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Then we pray in the morning.
Daniel prayed three times in a

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day, in the morning, at the
time, in the afternoon, at

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evening sacrifice and before he
went to bed.

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And also David prayed in the
morning.

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You can see there Daniel prayed
three times in a day.

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David also three times in a day.
Psalm 55, evening and morning.

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And at noon will I pray.
Psalm 59, I’ll sing aloud to Thy

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mercy in the morning.
Psalm 88 in the morning my

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prayers shall come before Thee.
And at the 19, I prevented the

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dawning of the morning, and I
cried.

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So it is a good thing to start
the day with God, to commit

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yourself and to him.
Keep those guidelines in mind,

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which the prayers Psalm 5 says.
And then we are ready.

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We’ve arranged ourselves to face
the day.

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And then before we go to work,
we have breakfast and we give

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thanks for our food to God.
And it is a good thing to do,

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but it is easy to fall into kind
of the Christadelphian

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phraseology.
Now we thank God for the food

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that we are going to eat, and we
pray that the strength derived

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thereof we may use in dying
service, that we don’t serve God

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with our stomach.
Jesus fasted for 40 days and he

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still served God.
But this good to give thanks for

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food.
And why not use the sounds for

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giving thanks?
You know you can compose a

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prayer using sounds.
This is something I often say.

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The earth is yowers and the
fullness thereof the world.

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And they that well dream because
God gives rain on the righteous

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and on the unrighteous.
So the soil produces food.

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It has got the thanking for it.
The eyes of all people and

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animals alike wait upon thee and
I’ll give them their food in due

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season.
You can say something like this.

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Bless our Elimi people and make
the voice of his praise to be

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heard, which hold is our soul in
life and suffers not our feet to

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be moved.
I always end giving thanks for

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my food by saying who gave his
food to all flesh for his mercy

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and yours forever.
I’m not telling you how to give

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thanks, I’m just showing you
that it’s possible to vary our

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prayer and use spirit words in
even giving thanks for our food.

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It’s good to give thanks like
you could turn to Psalm 103.

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I suppose the older you get, the
more thankful you are to God

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that He gives us life and still
some energy.

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He gives us a family.
Lovely companion and there’s so

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many things we should give
thanks to God for and this is a

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section the 1st 5 verses which I
this so I know the heart and

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it’s it is also pain your heart.
So bless Yao my soul and all my

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inwards.
It’s actually says his holy

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name.
Bless Yao my soul, and forget

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not all his benefits, who
forgive us all thy iniquities,

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who healest all thy diseases,
who redeemest thy life from

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destruction, Who redeem is the
life from the structure.

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Crown is the is loving kindness
and tender mercies.

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Who satisfies not thy mouth just
and he would thy future which

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good things?
So thy youth is renewed like the

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eagles.
This is a Psalm for the beloved.

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And if you say this Psalm, then
we are beloved of God too.

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So the Psalms are very
practical.

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We know that God will hear his
own words, but you’ve got to

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think about it that can we
actually say or do we actually

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mean?
Do we live up to the words we

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say to him though?
Those words help us to put us in

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the right frame of mind to help
our behaviour.

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And then he can pray that Psalm
to God.

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We all fail at times, don’t we,
during the day, especially when

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we let our guard down and we
don’t remember our morning

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prayers.
We’re not the only ones that

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fail at times, but we believe as
it says that if you confess our

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sins, God is faithful and just
to forgive us our sins and to

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cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.

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And the words to ask God for
forgiveness have all been

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prepared for us.
And they give us an insight into

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the sin of David and how he
struggled and, and how he came

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out of it.
And we go through the same

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process.
And the Psalm tells us exactly

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how David felt.
Go to Psalm 32.

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I start by saying, and he knew
this beforehand.

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Bless it.
And after this word, this means

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happy.
Happy is he whose transgression

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is forgiven, whose sin is
covered.

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Happy is the man unto whom Yao
impute is not iniquity, and in

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his spirit there is no guile.
There’s David.

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That is what he wanted to be.
But like all of us, he fell,

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didn’t he?
Then he says, When I kept

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silence, my bones vexed all
through my roaring, all the day

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long, for day and night thy hand
was heavy upon me.

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My moisture is turned into the
drought of summer.

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Si la but we all go through this
process.

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It’s not easy to confess our
wrongdoing.

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David tried to hide his sin with
Bathsheba for a long time.

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He got a pregnancy, called you
HO for hoping that he will sleep

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with his wife so they can
pretend he was his baby and he

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refused.
So he had to send him back and

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put him in the battle and have
him killed.

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And all the time he was trying
to hide his sin.

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But while he was doing so well,
it says, I kept silence.

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And we can all, you know,
remember that we can all

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associate ourselves with it.
We like to keep science.

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We don’t like to confess the
things we’ve done wrong.

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But you know, your, your bones
get old and you’re roaring all

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day long.
And if you’re God’s hand, they

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must have felt God’s hand heavy
upon him.

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His moisture turned into the
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And that’s the state of mind
David was in for a long time,

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more than half a year.
I don’t know exactly how long

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and he was suffering because he
didn’t want to confess.

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His sin was such a shameful
thing to have to say.

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When David, when Nathan the
prophet came to him and he said

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thou art the man.
It must almost have been this

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relief that David said I have
sinned and then he could

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continue that next verse.
I acknowledge my sin unto thee

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and my iniquity, if I not hate,
although it took a long time to

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confess it, I’ll said, I’ll
confess my transgressions into

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Yao, and thou forgave us the
iniquity of my sin seala.

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So the first seala shows the
state of mind we are in if we

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don’t confess our sins.
The second seala is very

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valuable to remember that if you
acknowledge your sin, then God

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will forgive it and he could
live again.

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He wrote another Psalm after
that same event, which is Psalm

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51, the very powerful Psalm.
When we lived in Jerusalem, we

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often used this Psalm for our
morning prayer because we’ve all

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sinned.
It gives an insight into how

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David felt.
Look at verse 10.

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He after he confessed his sin,
he said create in me a clean

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heart, Elovene and renew a rite
or a constant spirit within me.

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Cast me not away from thy
presence and take not Thy Holy

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Spirit from me.
Restore unto me the joy of thy

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salvation and have helped me.
There’s a free of his, a willing

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spirit.
He couldn’t be king anymore.

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He couldn’t give guidance to his
people.

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He didn’t feel spiritual anymore
because only when God created a

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clean heart in himself in David
again and he was sure that he

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was not castaway from God’s
Princess, which we are.

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If we don’t confess our sins,
then in verse 13 says our teach

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transgressors thy ways and sin
is shall be converted unto thee.

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How can we teach other people
when we haven’t confessed our

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own sins?
See David’s heart at this

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particular time was not right.
This God.

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It’s always good to examine our
heart.

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See a Psalm which very powerful
and often when you come to the

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truth early on, you can
associate with this Psalm 139.

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And if you just would keep this
always in our head, it would

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help us so much. 139 To the
chief musician, the Psalm of

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David.
For him that overcome is just

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the best fruit of the beloved.
And it gives you an insight into

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God himself and our relationship
with him says, Thou asserted me

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and known me.
Thou knows my down sitting and

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my uprising.
Thou understands my thought afar

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off, Thou compasses my past and
my lying down, and art acquaint.

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It is all my ways, but it’s not
a word in my tongue.

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Thou knowest it all together.
And if we realise that God looks

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down on us, He can look into our
heart every minute of the day,

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then they’re more careful how we
conduct ourselves in the day.

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But then if he do that, then we
get confidence that we can pray

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this Psalm to God and look at
Psalm 20, the verse 23 at the

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end of the Psalm.
Then they could say, search me

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Elohim, and know my heart, try
me and know my thoughts and see

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if there’ll be any wicked way in
me and lead me into the way

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everlasting.
If you go to Psalm 17,

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because if we are right with
God, we can say this.

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This is verse 3.
And can we really say that by

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the sisters, thou has proved my
heart, Thou has visit me in the

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night, Thou stride me and found
nothing.

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I’m purposed that my mouth shall
not transgress.

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And that is a beautiful state of
mind to have.

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Brothers and sisters, there’s
another very practical Psalm

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which helps us to develop a pure
heart and to keep that perfect

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man in focus, and it’s Psalm 15.
It’s such a beautiful short,

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Sam.
It’s the best fruit for the

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beloved Yahweh.
Who shall dwell in thy

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Tabernacle?
Who shall dwell in thy holy

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hill?
Remember Psalm 5, fame.

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It overcomes towards an
inheritance.

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That is our inheritance.
To be in the Tabernacle of

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Yamaha, to dwell in his holy
hill of Jerusalem in the

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Kingdom.
Only people that are like this

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will be there.
He had workers, uprightly

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workers, righteousness, speakers
the truth in his heart.

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Backbite does not resist tongue,
nor does evil to his neighbour,

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doesn’t take up a reproach
against his neighbour in his

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eyes of vile personalist
contempt, but he honest them

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that fear.
Yahweh swears to his hurt and

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change, does not put his not out
his money to usury, nor take His

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reward against the innocent.
He that doeth these things shall

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never be moved.
Learn the Psalm by heart by my

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sisters.
We have it with you all the

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time.
And we Harry Tennant one saying

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when he visited people in the
hospital and they couldn’t use

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their hands, they couldn’t hold
the Bible open.

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How much scripture do you have
at your command?

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If you don’t have the Bible, you
can say the Lord’s Prayer, maybe

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Psalm 22 if that’s all we know.
It’s pretty poor, isn’t it?

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The sounds have been designed to
be prey to God, and they put us

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right.
It helps us also to control our

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thoughts, how to channel our
brain functions into the into

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the right directions, not to be
distracted by mobile phones and

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iPods and iPads and whatever we
have.

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There’s a lot of there’s
distress in the workplace and at

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home.
We are exposed to advertising

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that prey on our lust and our
desires.

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There’s peer pressure among
young people.

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They all know our the
advertisers all know our weak

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points.
And the Apostle Paul also knew

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about his humour of weakness.
I saw another law of our members

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boring against the law of my
mind and bringing into captivity

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to the law of sin, which is in
my members.

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Then he counsels in Second
Corinthians chapter 10,

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he speaks about our warfare,
because for the weapons of our

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warfare are not carnal, but
mightily mighty through God to

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the pulling down of strongholds,
casting down imaginations or

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reasonings, and every high thing
that exalts itself against the

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knowledge of God.
And listen to this bringing into

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captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ.

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How many thoughts go through our
heads all day long?

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I’m still struggling with it by
the sisters to bring every

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thought captive to the obedience
of Christ.

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I found this Psalm such a great
help because they put our minds

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right.
Whenever a wrong thought comes

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in your mind, I would like to
say a Psalm or a portion or one

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verse or a sealer verse.
It helps you in your life.

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It helps us not to listen to the
inner voice, and it would be

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more suitable to silence it,
just as David did for a while

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when he had seen this Bachiva
and he didn’t silence that, that

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that voice that made him sing.
So I said before in Psalm five

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and first one, it says, consider
my meditation Says in Psalm 19,

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Let the words of my mouth and
the meditation of my heart be

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acceptable in thy sight.
Yeah, my strength and my

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redeeming.
But how do we meditate?

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Doesn’t mean sitting on the
floor with your knees crossed on

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your hands empty your brain.
That’s not meditation.

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There’s just nothing.
It’s emptying your mind.

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Meditation means to think about
something.

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Look what it says in Psalm 63.
See often we can’t sleep,

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especially after last night.
And it says in verse 6, I

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remember thee upon my bed and
meditate on thee in the night

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watches.
But what do we think of think

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about when we wake up in the
middle of the night, but all the

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troubleshootal after a previous
day about the the fight together

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as a colleague at work or some
kind of a discord in the family.

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Now you focus on God’s word.
It says that Psalm 77 is on the

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screen that our meditate of all
thy work and talk of thy doings.

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Psalm 1 or 219.
I will meditate in thy precepts

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and have respect and to thy
ways.

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So we need to meditate on
something, namely on God and his

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work, and to think of his
precepts.

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And the words meditate is the
same as speak in Hebrew.

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And so when it says, My mouth
shall speak of thy wisdom, and

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the meditation of my heart shall
be of understanding, those are

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the words for meditation.
It says, how love are thy law.

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It’s in my meditation all the
day, and it helps us to

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meditate.
And that actually is the word

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Hagar in Hebrew.
That’s the word Hagar that means

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to meditate quite interestingly
in modern Hebrew.

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You remember how Eliezer Benura
tried to use old biblical Hebrew

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for modern concepts?
You drive a car, don’t you?

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And I’ll be glad there’s a
steering wheel because of as you

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crash into things.
So the steering wheel makes it

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possible for the car to go in
the right direction.

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Do you know what’s called in
Hebrew?

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A Haggar?
Same as the words for

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meditation.
As the steering wheel steers the

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car through the roads.
So our meditation will steer us

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through life.
Very clever that was.

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And so the sounds are are
instrument to help us meditate.

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Look what it says in Psalm 9.
Go to Psalm 9 please, because

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there that word Rigayon is used.
And verse 16, this yawa is known

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by the judgment which he
executed.

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The wicked is snared in the work
of his own hands.

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Higayon Si La is an important
first, because Yao is known by

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the judgement which he executed.
So last night that fierce

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judgement which got poured out
on those wicked cities, and the

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wicked was snared in the work of
their own hands.

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Those are just things to
meditate on.

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Nobody being jealous of the
wickeds of the wicked, We need

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to see their ends, and then we
won’t be distracted by them.

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Psalm 19 Let the words of my
mouth and the meditation, the

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Higayon of my heart, be
acceptable in thy sight, Yahweh,

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my Redeemer.
And so higayon is an interesting

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word.
It helps us to meditate on God’s

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words.
It says in Psalm 1, this happy

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is the man that walketh not in
the council of Jim Godly, nor

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stands in the way of sinners,
nor sitters in the seat of the

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scornful, but his delight is in
the law of Yahweh, and His law

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does he meditate day and night.
There’s actually a very

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interesting connection with the
book of Esther.

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I’d like you to go to the book
of Esther.

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We know the story.
The king Archiviros, he had a

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wife.
He put on a feast.

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And first he wouldn’t come
because she kept her own feasts.

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She didn’t want to you know
although dressed in a beautiful

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dress, she had a beautiful
countenance to show herself in

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front of all those men as she
didn’t realise that all her

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beauty was derived from the
king.

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And so the king was going to
look for a new queen and

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remember that all those virgins
were gathered together.

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And in verse 12 it says of
chapter 2 Now when every maid’s

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turn was come to go in to King
Archuvios, after she had been 12

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months, according to the men of
the women, for so were the days

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of their purification
accomplice. 6 months is oil of

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Mir.
The oil of Mir is used in the

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anointing oil which represents
the Spirit word of God.

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And six months is odours and
other things to the purifying of

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the women, probably incense,
which is type of prayer.

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So just came every maiden unto
the king.

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Whatsoever she desired was given
her to go with her out of the

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House of the women into the
King’s house.

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In the evenings she went, and on
the morning she returned into

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the second House of two women to
the custody of Shah Gaz, the

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King’s Chamberlain, which kept
the concubines.

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And she came in into the king no
more, except the king delighted

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in her, and she was called by
name.

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Basically it was a House of
death that the king didn’t call.

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You stuck there and you couldn’t
marry anybody else.

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And this way you spent the rest
of your life.

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But now verse 15, when the turn
of Esther, the daughter of

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Abigail, the uncle of Mordecai,
who had taken her for his

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daughter, was come to go in unto
the king, she required nothing

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but what Haggai the King’s
Chamberlain, the keeper of the

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women appointed.
And Esther obtained favour in

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the sight of all them that
looked upon her.

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And then the king made the great
feast.

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In verse 18 / 17.
The king loved Esther of all

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women.
She obtained grace and favour in

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the sight more than all the
virgins.

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So he said the royal crown upon
her head and made her queen

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instead of fasting.
But we want to be the bride of

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Christ, and he’s going to be
king.

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Then we hope to be the queen,
don’t we?

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But how can we make the king
love us?

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All those girls had to go
through the same process of

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purification and then they could
choose something extra.

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Well, I’m the girls.
So what would you choose, girls,

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Women, you go to the king.
Nicely coloured socks or so or

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nice shoes, some some earrings
or necklace.

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You go to the hairdresser, nice
little hairdo.

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What do you do to please the
king?

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Well, actually it’s something.
And she won the contest, as it

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were, as a pity that we don’t
know what made it acceptable was

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the king.
I must have the right idea.

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When those one of those young
women went to the king, it

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wasn’t just to spend the night
with him, because the king had a

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full day of work to do.
He had to receive guests and the

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Queen was his companion.
She had to be able to hold a

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conversation with the guests and
she must show an interest in the

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work of the king, knowing that
even if she would marry the king

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and have children, that she must
be able to bring up those

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children because the king was
very busy.

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He needs a wise an intelligent
companion.

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A king has only so much interest
in talking endlessly about

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hairdos and earrings and so on.
The interesting thing is that it

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is possible to know what made
Esther accept it.

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With the king she took nothing
but what Haggai had appointed.

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The Haggai is the same word as
Higayon.

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Same with us.
Haggad is where it comes from.

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It means meditation.
Why did God choose Mary to be

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the mother of his son?
Because he pondered those

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things.
In her heart she thought about

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things.
She was a had a reflective mind.

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And that’s what the king needs.
He needs to be able to trust his

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screen, to look after the wives
of the ambassadors and to

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entertain them in an intelligent
way.

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A bit in the bed.
That’s part of life.

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There’s only very small section
of it, isn’t it?

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So he wanted a woman that can
think, can speak, that has read,

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that is intelligent and it is
attractive.

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And we can be like that if we
meditate on the Word of God.

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And I found that there is no
part of Scripture so powerful to

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do that as the sounds I would
like to read you something

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because I’ve got a few minutes
left of the writings of John

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Thomas see been a struggle in
our community all the time how

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to praise God and how to and to
pray to him.

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And the apostle Paul says I will
sing Mr. Spirit.

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I will sing Mr. Understanding
also I would sing is actually

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the word Psalm.
So I’ll sing with my

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understanding and I’ll Psalm
with the understanding.

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John Thomas wrote in 1836 an
interesting article in the

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Apostolic Advocate in the second
volume called the Psalmady, and

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in his terminology that means
the hymn book.

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I already quoted you from Elpos
Israel that John Thomas wrote.

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It is true that no man has a
right to worship God as he

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pleases.
This is a Protestant fallacy.

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Man has a right to worship God
only in the way God himself has

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appointed.
Then he writes the word Samadi

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is compounded of Salo to sing,
or a poem or a composition in

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measure.
This is his general

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signification in its restricted
and scriptural sense.

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The term is applied to the
singing of meters or measures

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dictated by the Holy Spirit.
Psalmody under this limitation

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was the means prescribed by the
apostle to the Ephesians, by

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which to exhilarate and cheer
their hearts.

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He presented as the anthesis to
wine, and says, Be filled with

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the Spirit speaking to one
another in psalms, hymns, and

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spiritual songs, singing and
making melody in your hearts to

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the Lord.
And again he says, Let the word

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of Christ dwell.
Rich dwell in your richly with

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all wisdom teach Mananadi and
admonish Mananadi by psalms,

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hymns and spiritual songs,
saying with gratitude in your

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heart to the Lord.
Let people ask him, what

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00:41:33,400 –> 00:41:35,520
psalmony, What hymn book shall
we use?

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He said, I replied, the book of
Psalms.

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This was the national psalmody
hit, the national hymn book of

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the Jewish nation for many
centuries.

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It is full from beginning to the
end of the word of Christ.

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Jesus and his apostles have and
stamped upon it the divine

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impremature, whatever that
means, and all things must be

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fulfilled which were written
concerning me, says Jesus in the

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law, the prophets, and the
Psalms concerning Him.

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So he was on the right track.
He loved the Psalms, and in the

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rights.
If there were no other

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prophecies available to us than
those contained in the book of

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Psalms.
This contain abundant and

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sufficient testimony to prove
that the Messiah of God should

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be a sufferer for sin.
That He should be declared

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righteous by resurrection from
the dead, be exalted to the

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right hand of the majesty on
high, be an object of adoration.

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That He should descend from
heaven again.

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Attended with incessant
lightnings that should come to

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Zion, raise the dead, subdue the
nations, and establish His name

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forever.
All that he says you can learn

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from the sounds.
The whole gospel is laid out for

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us in the book of sounds, says
John Thomas.

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And he was struggling with the
hymn book because it was Robert

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00:43:04,120 –> 00:43:07,120
Roberts who brought in the
golden harp.

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And John Thomas loved the
sounds.

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He was one of the best psalmist
of the best hymn books, and we

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call it one of the best because
one of the least inconsistent

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00:43:20,600 –> 00:43:25,920
with the truth is the collection
of rhymes in use among us.

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But still the objections to
other soundies lies with equal

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00:43:30,760 –> 00:43:38,400
weight against this one, namely,
it is composed of uninspired

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deities, that’s John Thomas.
Hence our hymn book does not

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contain a single spiritual song
or song of the Spirit.

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In my view of the case, the
Samadi of the body of Christ

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ought to be as spiritual as the
revelations of the Old and New

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Testaments, and we might just as
well have a great book for our

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Bible as human political
compositions for our Samadi.

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Uninspired men, however great,
good, learned or poetical, are

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all incompetent to the task of
composing a Sartre fit for the

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celebration of the works, the
wonders and the excellencies of

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the Lords.
Our God.

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Then you ask yourself what can
be done under these

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circumstances?
In reply to this enquiry says, I

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would observe that if I had no
remedy to propose, I should have

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remained silent upon this topic,
which is a delicate one.

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It’s difficult.
We all love our handbook.

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00:44:40,080 –> 00:44:41,960
We’ve got to be careful.
There’s things in there which

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are not Scripture, so it had
only a new compilation of

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uninspired rhymes.
To offer the foregoing

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00:44:49,640 –> 00:44:52,480
observation would be invidious,
but I feel as free from this

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00:44:52,480 –> 00:44:55,440
imputation as though no meters
were in use of us.

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I now advocate the claims of the
psalmody of which the Holy

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Spirit is the author, in
preference to all others

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00:45:02,000 –> 00:45:05,320
whatsoever.
I have therefore been encouraged

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00:45:05,320 –> 00:45:09,600
by several brethren to undertake
the work, determined to attempt

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00:45:09,600 –> 00:45:12,880
the improvement, or rather the
restoration, of the ancient

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00:45:12,880 –> 00:45:16,720
psalmody of the body of Christ.
Now I’m more impelled to essay

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this in obedience to the command
of the apostle, which has

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already been considered a
command.

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I conceive as much to be obeyed
as any other that can be

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00:45:25,120 –> 00:45:29,200
adduced.
And he started to put the psalms

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to meter.
There’s an example here of Psalm

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51 here in the Samadi.
He went through the psalms and

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put them to meters.
So without changing the words,

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hardly he wanted to use the
sounds and make the sounds.

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00:45:47,200 –> 00:45:51,040
Our handbook.
If you look through the old

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00:45:51,040 –> 00:45:54,920
Christadelphia you find several
of those psalms 72 another ones,

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and I don’t know why that was
never taken up.

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Maybe his work was destroyed by
that fire that destroyed his

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printing press.
It was certainly John Thomas

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00:46:06,320 –> 00:46:10,320
idea that we should use the
sounds in our worship, both in

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our prayers and in the hymns we
sings.

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And he concludes his article
with this by query.

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A query by way of finale.
What psalmody extant?

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00:46:23,960 –> 00:46:30,080
Is it probable Messiah will
choose to the praise and glory

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of God when He comes to open the
worship of the millennial age?

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Would you select the rhythmical,
uninspired traditions of any

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00:46:40,240 –> 00:46:45,520
sect extent, or rather those
spiritual odes so replete with

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00:46:45,520 –> 00:46:49,800
the celebrations of His varied
fortunes as either psalms,

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hymns, and songs of the Spirit
of God?

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Doubtless the latter.
Let us then resolve to do so

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too, but it.
John Thomas, thank you.