{"id":1270,"date":"2025-03-09T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/338-roger-lewis-the-faithfulness-of-the-house-of-asaph\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T01:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:24:23","slug":"338-roger-lewis-the-faithfulness-of-the-house-of-asaph","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/338-roger-lewis-the-faithfulness-of-the-house-of-asaph\/","title":{"rendered":"338: Roger Lewis – The Faithfulness Of The House Of Asaph"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we are listening to the a class by Bro. Roger Lewis from his series on “The House of Asaph – Family of Faith and Masters of Music” that he has given at several Bible Schools over the years (we are unsure which Bible School this recording is from). This is the fifth class from that series titled “The Faithfulness of the House Asaph” . <\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to good Chris Selfian
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\nI’m Levi, I’m Chris, I’m Jason,
\nand I’m Brian. <\/p>\n

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\nThank you for joining us this
\nweek on this podcast. <\/p>\n

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\nworld.
\nThen we record a short intro <\/p>\n

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\nbeforehand as a personalized
\nrecommendation to you on why we <\/p>\n

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\nare sharing the talk.
\nAnd now let’s talk more about <\/p>\n

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\nthis week’s talk.
\nHi, this is Brother Levi. <\/p>\n

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\nThis week’s class is titled The
\nFaithfulness of the House of <\/p>\n

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\nAsaph that Roger Lewis gave a
\ncouple times. <\/p>\n

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\nI actually can’t find from where
\nI download this class. <\/p>\n

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\nI can’t find exactly where he
\npresented it, but I do know that<\/p>\n

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\nhe presented this series
\nmultiple times. <\/p>\n

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\nI listened to it in person when
\nI was much younger, which is how<\/p>\n

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\nI remembered this class.
\nI was actually reading Ezra <\/p>\n

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\nchapter 3 and, and, and ran into
\nsome notes in my Bible of from <\/p>\n

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\nthis class, from this series and
\nfrom this session in particular.<\/p>\n

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\nI really, I, I, I remember this
\nclass very well and it was <\/p>\n

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\nreally fun to listen to it
\nagain. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s an excellent kind of use of
\nBible study, but also a really <\/p>\n

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\ninspiring story about how the
\nHouse of Asaph kept the songs, <\/p>\n

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\nkept the old songs for hundreds
\nof years. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it’s a neat, neat kind of
\nverse chain to see them showing <\/p>\n

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\nback up, presenting it.
\nIt’s absolutely an example of <\/p>\n

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\nfaithfulness.
\nRoger also ends with a <\/p>\n

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\ndiscussion kind of on our own
\nhymn book, on the Christophian <\/p>\n

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\nhymn book and the importance,
\nyou know, of, of maintaining the<\/p>\n

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\nsame kind of songs that are
\nbiblically sound but also <\/p>\n

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\nidentify in a way us as
\nChristadelphians. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I I that thought has also
\nhas stayed with me since he <\/p>\n

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\npresented it that I mean, some
\nsome have even said before that <\/p>\n

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\nyou could kind of define a
\nChristadelphian as someone who <\/p>\n

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\nsings from the Christadelphian
\nhymn book, which is what Roger <\/p>\n

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\nsays or someone who reads from
\nthe Robert Roberts reading plan.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s those two things are
\nactually kind of our most <\/p>\n

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\nunifying documents as a larger
\ncommunity. <\/p>\n

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\nSo, and I do think our community
\nhas that same heritage as the <\/p>\n

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\nHouse of Asaph that we need to
\nhold our principles and you <\/p>\n

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\nknow, the the truths that we
\nunderstand from the Bible from <\/p>\n

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\ngeneration to generation as as
\nthe House of Asaph shows here. <\/p>\n

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\nSo it was fun to revisit this
\nclass and I’m excited to to <\/p>\n

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\nshare it here on the podcast.
\nThis is the house, the <\/p>\n

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\nfaithfulness of the House of
\nAsaph. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, thank you, brother
\nchairman, and my dear brothers <\/p>\n

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\nand sisters in the Lord Jesus
\nChrist. <\/p>\n

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\nYou’ll remember that in our in
\nour previous study yesterday, we<\/p>\n

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\nlooked at the House of Asaph
\nfrom the time of Jehoshaphat to <\/p>\n

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\nthe time of Hezekiah.
\nYou’ll remember how we saw <\/p>\n

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\nJehoiada’s revival 25 years
\nafter Jehoshaphat in <\/p>\n

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\napproximately BC 835, and how he
\ninsisted on having the very best<\/p>\n

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\nof the singers present at the
\ncoronation of Joash. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd how that the sons of Asaph,
\nin fact, were the leading cause <\/p>\n

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\nof those leading singers in
\npraise who were there at the <\/p>\n

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\ncoronation of the King, so that
\nthe very best of standards might<\/p>\n

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\nbe the benchmark of the young
\nKing’s reign. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd then you’ll remember that
\nabout 120 years later, in <\/p>\n

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\napproximately BC 715, we saw the
\ntremendous readiness of the <\/p>\n

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\nHouse of Asaph in the days of
\nHezekiah. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we learned how this amazing
\nfamily had practiced their songs<\/p>\n

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\nin secret through all those
\nyears of dreadful apostasy. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we learned to appreciate,
\ndid we not, the excellence of <\/p>\n

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\nendeavour.
\nAnd to know that for the House <\/p>\n

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\nof Asaph, even their practice
\neach day was considered to be <\/p>\n

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\nout of their offering to
\nAlmighty God. <\/p>\n

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\nSo what happened then to the
\nHouse of Asaph after Hezekiah <\/p>\n

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\ndied?
\nWell, you know, the reigns of <\/p>\n

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\nthe next two kings in Judah,
\nwe’re amongst the worst in the <\/p>\n

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\nhistory of the nation.
\nIn fact, if you come to the <\/p>\n

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\nSecond of Kings and chapter 21,
\nwe’re told of the circumstances <\/p>\n

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\nof the king that followed
\nHezekiah, who was of course his <\/p>\n

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\nson Manasseh.
\nAnd we’re told him the Second of<\/p>\n

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\nKings chapter 21.
\nAnd reading from verse, perhaps <\/p>\n

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\nreading from verse 4, it says
\nthis. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he built altars in the House
\nof Yahweh, of which Yahweh said <\/p>\n

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\nin Jerusalem, I will put my
\nname. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he built altars for all the
\nhosts of heaven, and the two <\/p>\n

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\ncourts of the House of Yahweh.
\nVerse 7. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he set a graven image of the
\nGrove that he had made in the <\/p>\n

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\nHouse of which Yahweh said to
\nDavid and to Solomon his son. <\/p>\n

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\nIn this house and in Jerusalem,
\nwhich I have chosen out of all <\/p>\n

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\ntribes of Israel, will I put my
\nname forever their brothers and <\/p>\n

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\nsisters inside the very House of
\nGod. <\/p>\n

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\nManasseh put a graven image of
\nthe Grove. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat would it have been like to
\nbe one of the singers in the <\/p>\n

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\ndays of this man Manasseh
\nbrothers and sisters and and his<\/p>\n

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\nsuccessor Amon was little better
\nthan he because in this same <\/p>\n

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\nchapter in the reign of Amon,
\nwe’re told in the second of <\/p>\n

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\nKings chapter 21 and verse 21,
\nit says of Amon or Amon his son,<\/p>\n

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\nand he walked in all the way
\nthat his father walked in and <\/p>\n

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\nserved the idols that his father
\nserved and worshipped them. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he forsook Yahweh, Elohim of
\nhis fathers, and walked not in <\/p>\n

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\nthat particular way, the way of
\nGod, but his son, son of Amon, <\/p>\n

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\nsurprisingly, was a man
\naltogether different in spirit <\/p>\n

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\nto his father, because of
\ncourse, the son of Ammon was <\/p>\n

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\nnone other than good king Josiah
\nof Judah. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd if you come to the Second of
\nChronicles chapter 34, this man <\/p>\n

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\nwas going to launch yet another
\nrevival in the nation of Judah. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd the history of that people
\nwe’re told in the Second of <\/p>\n

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\nChronicles, chapter 34 and verse
\n30, right at the end of the <\/p>\n

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\nchapter, it says this.
\nIt says, And the king went up <\/p>\n

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\ninto the House of the Lord, and
\nall the men of Judah, and the <\/p>\n

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\ninhabitants of Jerusalem, and
\nthe priests and the Levites, and<\/p>\n

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\nall the people great and small,
\nHe read in their ears all the <\/p>\n

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\nwords of the book of the
\ncovenant that was found in the <\/p>\n

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\nHouse of Yahweh.
\nAnd the king stood in his place <\/p>\n

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\nand made a covenant before
\nYahweh to walk after Yahweh, and<\/p>\n

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\nto keep his commandments and his
\ntestimonies and his statues with<\/p>\n

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\nall his heart and with all his
\nsoul, to perform the words of <\/p>\n

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\nthe covenant which are written
\nin this book. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so he was a man that was
\ngoing to begin things afresh. <\/p>\n

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\nHe repaired and he cleansed the
\ntemple, and then standing here <\/p>\n

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\nat the temple, he bound the
\nnation into a covenant promise <\/p>\n

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\nthat they might keep the law of
\nGod. <\/p>\n

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\nAgain, as it was written in the
\nscroll of the book of <\/p>\n

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\nDeuteronomy.
\nYou see, Josiah, I believe, knew<\/p>\n

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\nby this stage that judgment
\ncould not be avoided. <\/p>\n

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\nHe knew that judgment would come
\nand that it could not be <\/p>\n

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\navoided.
\nBut the desire of Josiah was <\/p>\n

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\nthat he would try to build
\nnevertheless a spiritual remnant<\/p>\n

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\nwho, although carried away to
\nBabylon, would become the <\/p>\n

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\nspiritual core of those who
\nmight one day come back to the <\/p>\n

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\nland of promise.
\nHe knew that he could not avoid <\/p>\n

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\nthe judgment on Judah.
\nIt had already been pronounced <\/p>\n

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\nin this chapter.
\nGod had already said, they will <\/p>\n

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\ngo into captivity, the nation
\nwill be judged. <\/p>\n

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\nBut I think Josiah’s spirit of
\nendeavour here in causing the <\/p>\n

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\nnation to be pledged again to
\nthe law was that he might build <\/p>\n

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\na remnant that could be saved
\nout of Babylon in due course. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd then we’re told in chapter
\n35 and verse one of the great <\/p>\n

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\nPassover that Josiah celebrated
\nin his 18th year. <\/p>\n

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\nNow I want you to notice
\nsomething really interesting <\/p>\n

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\nabout the opening verses of the
\nSecond of Chronicles 35. <\/p>\n

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\nIt says in verse one.
\nMoreover, Josiah kept the <\/p>\n

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\nPassover unto Yahweh in
\nJerusalem, and they killed the <\/p>\n

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\nPassover on the 14th day of the
\nfirst month, that he set the <\/p>\n

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\npriests and their charges and
\nencouraged them to the service <\/p>\n

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\nof the House of Yahweh.
\nAnd he said unto the Levites, <\/p>\n

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\nthat taught all Israel, which
\nwere holy unto Yahweh, put the <\/p>\n

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\nholy ark in the house, which
\nSolomon the son of David king of<\/p>\n

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\nIsrael, did build.
\nNow if those words are true, you<\/p>\n

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\nbrothers and sisters, in the
\nsecond of Chronicles 35 and <\/p>\n

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\nverse 3, then the burning
\nquestion of this chapter is <\/p>\n

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\nwhere was the ark and who had
\nit? <\/p>\n

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\nIf the command came to the
\nLevites in the third verse that <\/p>\n

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\nthey should put it back into the
\nhouse, where was the ark of God?<\/p>\n

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\nAnd I think that there are three
\npossibilities as to what had <\/p>\n

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\nhappened to the ark on this
\noccasion in the history of the <\/p>\n

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\nnation.
\nThe 1st is, and it has been <\/p>\n

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\nsuggested and it’s perfectly
\nreasonable that it was taken out<\/p>\n

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\nby by Josiah himself at the time
\nof the cleansing of the temple. <\/p>\n

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\nSo that’s one possibility, and
\nit may well be so, that Josiah <\/p>\n

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\nhad removed the ark in the
\ncourse of his cleansing and <\/p>\n

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\nrepair of the Temple in the
\nprevious chapter. <\/p>\n

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\nA second possibility is, and
\nthis is what the rabbinical <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:52,040 –> 00:10:56,600
\nwriters of the Jews say, is that
\nit was actually sent forth by <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:56,600 –> 00:11:02,160
\nManasseh to make room for the
\nidolatrous statues that he <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:02,160 –> 00:11:04,560
\nwished to bring into the House
\nof God. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:05,480 –> 00:11:08,080
\nThat it was at the request of
\nManasseh that the ark was <\/p>\n

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\nremoved in order that he might
\nbring in his own private <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:11,880 –> 00:11:15,560
\nworship, idols of worship, into
\nthe house. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:16,720 –> 00:11:20,280
\nBut a third possibility is, and
\nI’m going to suggest to you this<\/p>\n

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\n00:11:20,280 –> 00:11:23,920
\nmorning, that this is quite
\npossibly what did happen. 1\/3 <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:23,920 –> 00:11:29,920
\npossibility is that the Ark of
\nGod was removed by the Levites <\/p>\n

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\nthemselves in order to prevent
\nthe desecration of the Ark in <\/p>\n

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\nthese times of the apostasy of
\nManasseh and Amon. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:41,600 –> 00:11:44,640
\nNow were the Levites who have
\ntaken the Ark, who would carry <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:44,640 –> 00:11:45,640
\nthe Ark?
\nAnd of course, well, there’s no <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:45,640 –> 00:11:47,720
\ndoubt about that, is there?
\nIt would be the Koathites. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:47,920 –> 00:11:51,320
\nOnly the Koathites were allowed
\nto lift the Ark, but who would <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:51,320 –> 00:11:55,800
\nbe with them in spirit?
\nAnd the answer is surely the <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:55,800 –> 00:11:59,760
\nHouse of Asaf, because the House
\nof Asaf, Well, their whole job <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:59,760 –> 00:12:04,000
\nwas to sing before the Ark of
\nGod and to celebrate the <\/p>\n

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\nsacredness of that ark and what
\nit stood for. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:06,480 –> 00:12:09,680
\nIf there was ever a family in
\nIsrael that would want to see, <\/p>\n

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\nthat, would want to prevent any
\ndesecration to the Ark, it would<\/p>\n

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\nbe the House of Asaph.
\nAnd we wonder whether perhaps <\/p>\n

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\nthe House of Asaph, in
\ncollaboration with the <\/p>\n

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\nKoathites, had had ensured that
\nthe Ark was spirited away at <\/p>\n

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\nthis time into a place of safety
\nso that it might, might not be <\/p>\n

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\ndefiled or profaned.
\nNow, do you know why we suggest <\/p>\n

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\nthat that is possibly what
\nhappened? <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s because of the strange
\nphrase that occurs later on in <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:37,320 –> 00:12:40,840
\nthis third verse, because you
\nsee what the verse goes on to <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:40,840 –> 00:12:44,480
\nsay.
\nJosiah says, put the holy ark in<\/p>\n

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\n00:12:44,480 –> 00:12:47,960
\nthe house which Solomon the son
\nof David, king of Israel, did <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:47,960 –> 00:12:49,920
\nbuild.
\nAnd then he says this. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:50,720 –> 00:12:56,120
\nIt shall not be a burden upon
\nyour shoulders. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:57,080 –> 00:12:59,160
\nNow, by the way, those words
\ncome from the first of <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:59,160 –> 00:13:02,840
\nChronicles 23 and verse 26, as
\nthe margin tells us. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:03,160 –> 00:13:06,960
\nAnd, and in those words of David
\non an earlier occasion, what <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:06,960 –> 00:13:09,920
\nwe’re being told is that when
\nthe ark of God finally came to <\/p>\n

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\nits resting place in the temple,
\nthe Levites were told that it <\/p>\n

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\nwould no longer be their burdens
\nto carry the ark anymore. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:17,680 –> 00:13:20,520
\nIt had come to its final resting
\nplace. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:21,680 –> 00:13:26,360
\nSo why does Josiah in chapter 35
\nof the Second of Chronicles, in <\/p>\n

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\nverse three, say to the Levites,
\nIt shall not be a burden upon <\/p>\n

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\nyour shoulders, unless the ark
\nhad in recent times become yet <\/p>\n

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\nagain a burden of responsibility
\nto the coophytes? <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:44,000 –> 00:13:47,920
\nAnd why might it have become in
\nrecent times a burden again to <\/p>\n

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\nthe coophytes?
\nThe answer is because they had <\/p>\n

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\nrecently borne the ark 4IN
\ncollaboration with the sons of <\/p>\n

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\nAsaph, who would be determined
\nto safeguard it from damage and <\/p>\n

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\ndefilement.
\nAfter all, as the verse says, it<\/p>\n

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\nwas the holy Ark.
\nSo I believe, brothers and <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:06,960 –> 00:14:10,920
\nsisters, that when Josiah in
\nthis verse asked the Levites to <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:10,920 –> 00:14:13,960
\nput the ark back in the house,
\nI, I think, well, sorry, when he<\/p>\n

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\nasked for, for the Levites to
\nput the ark in the house, I <\/p>\n

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\nthink he meant for them to put
\nit back in the house because <\/p>\n

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\nthey had it.
\nAnd that that’s therefore <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:25,920 –> 00:14:31,160
\nexactly what they did.
\nAnd what then follows is a <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:31,200 –> 00:14:34,080
\nmagnificent Passover
\ncelebration, the like of which <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:34,080 –> 00:14:37,360
\nhad not been seen for hundreds
\nof years in the history of the <\/p>\n

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\nnation.
\nThey observed everything <\/p>\n

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\naccording to the writings of
\nDavid and the writings of <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:42,120 –> 00:14:44,240
\nSolomon and the writings of
\nMoses. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:44,360 –> 00:14:47,920
\nEverything was to be done
\naccording to Scripture and the <\/p>\n

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\nwriting of Scripture on this
\noccasion. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:49,800 –> 00:14:52,480
\nAnd one thing I can tell you,
\nbrothers and sisters, and it’s a<\/p>\n

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\n00:14:52,480 –> 00:14:55,400
\nremarkable thing, is that when
\nthe ark of God suddenly <\/p>\n

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\nreappears back in the temple on
\nthis occasion, guess who’s <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:58,440 –> 00:15:02,160
\nthere?
\nQuick as a flash, verse 15. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:06,320 –> 00:15:14,000
\nAnd the singers, the sons of
\nAsaph, were in their place <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:16,240 –> 00:15:20,760
\naccording to the commandment of
\nDavid and Asaph and Heman and <\/p>\n

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\nJudithan, the King’s seer, and
\nthe porters waited at every <\/p>\n

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\ngate.
\nYou know, it was not a <\/p>\n

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\nrequirement of the Passover law
\nthat the singers be present at <\/p>\n

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\nPassover time.
\nSo the House of Asaph are not <\/p>\n

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\nthere in verse 15 because it is
\nin any sense a commandment of <\/p>\n

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\nMoses.
\nAnd I don’t think that they were<\/p>\n

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\nthere because Josiah had
\ninstructed them to be there, <\/p>\n

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\nbecause the record doesn’t tell
\nus in any, at any stage of this <\/p>\n

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\nchapter that Josiah had
\nspecifically requested that the <\/p>\n

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\nHouse of Asaph be there.
\nAnd although they were there in <\/p>\n

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\naccordance with the instructions
\nof David, I don’t think they <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:00,120 –> 00:16:02,920
\nwere there because of the
\ncommandment of David either. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:05,120 –> 00:16:09,160
\nI think the House of Asaph was
\nthere in the 15th verse for one <\/p>\n

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\nreason only.
\nThey were there on an entirely <\/p>\n

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\nvoluntary basis, brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:14,400 –> 00:16:18,920
\nThey were there because no power
\non earth could have stopped them<\/p>\n

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\n00:16:19,000 –> 00:16:22,880
\nfrom being there that day.
\nThis was their chance to <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:22,880 –> 00:16:25,920
\nminister before the Ark with the
\nsinging of their family. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:26,000 –> 00:16:29,320
\nFamily psalms.
\nYou try stopping them from being<\/p>\n

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\nthere that day.
\nThere must have been tears for <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:33,000 –> 00:16:37,120
\njoy in the House of Asaph as
\nthey sang their psalms before <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:37,120 –> 00:16:39,840
\nthe Ark on this occasion,
\nbecause the discipline of <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:39,840 –> 00:16:44,240
\npractice now had its fulfillment
\nand an outpouring of praise in <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:44,240 –> 00:16:48,600
\npublic worship.
\nSome of these here this day had <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:48,600 –> 00:17:00,080
\nwaited all their lives for this
\none moment, this one day in the <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:00,080 –> 00:17:06,440
\ntime of Josiah, for the chance
\nto sing before the ark just this<\/p>\n

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\nonce.
\nCan you imagine, brothers and <\/p>\n

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\nsisters, if we were told that we
\nhad but one chance, but one <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:12,520 –> 00:17:15,880
\nopportunity, to sing in an
\nevening of song and praise, in a<\/p>\n

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\n00:17:15,880 –> 00:17:18,359
\nchoral evening of worship to our
\nFather? <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:18,440 –> 00:17:23,800
\nOne chance in our life to sing
\nin a choir and to offer praise <\/p>\n

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\nto the Father.
\nHow would we sing on that night?<\/p>\n

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\nWouldn’t we strain every fiber
\nof our being and lifting up our <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:35,720 –> 00:17:38,320
\nour songs of praise?
\nYou know, this is the last <\/p>\n

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\noccasion, Brothers and sisters,
\nthis chapter, the second of <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:42,000 –> 00:17:47,800
\nChronicles 35, is the last
\noccasion in recorded history <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:48,440 –> 00:17:52,280
\nthat the Ark of God appears
\namongst the children of Israel. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd who’s there singing in front
\nof the ark with all their hearts<\/p>\n

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\nbut the House of Asaph?
\nIt’s exactly the spirit that we <\/p>\n

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\nwould have expected of this
\nfamily. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:09,760 –> 00:18:14,240
\nYou know, Psalm 81 celebrates
\nthat particular time in the life<\/p>\n

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\nof Josiah.
\nIf we come back to Psalm 81, <\/p>\n

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\nwe’re told this, and we’ve
\nalready looked at this in terms <\/p>\n

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\nof the fact that the great theme
\nof Psalm 81 is connected with <\/p>\n

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\nboth the book of the Law and the
\ntheme of Passover. <\/p>\n

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\nBut just have a look at the
\nrecurring refrain, the recurring<\/p>\n

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\nrefrain of Psalm 81, because you
\nsee, I think that this Psalm was<\/p>\n

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\nbrought forth by the House of
\nAsaph at the very time of <\/p>\n

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\nJosiah’s reformation, and that
\nwhat it captures is the <\/p>\n

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\nbittersweet sadness of Josiah’s
\nreformation. <\/p>\n

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\nHe knew that the bulk of the
\npeople were lost. <\/p>\n

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\nHe desperately wanted to build a
\nremnant if he could. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:00,480 –> 00:19:02,720
\nAnd here’s the refrain of Psalm
\n81. <\/p>\n

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\nVerse 8 Here, O my people, and I
\nwill testify unto thee, O <\/p>\n

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\nIsrael, if thou wilt hearken
\nunto me. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:16,360 –> 00:19:23,520
\nVerse 11 But my people would not
\nhearken to my voice, and Israel <\/p>\n

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\nwould none of me.
\nVerse 13 Oh, that my people had <\/p>\n

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\nhearkened unto me, and Israel
\nhad walked in my ways. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:34,520 –> 00:19:37,480
\nAnd you see what this Psalm
\ndwells on, Brothers and sisters,<\/p>\n

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\n00:19:37,640 –> 00:19:41,880
\nit is a lamentation of the
\ntragedy of a people for whom the<\/p>\n

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\n00:19:41,880 –> 00:19:46,320
\ntime of repentance had gone.
\nIf only they had listened, if <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:46,320 –> 00:19:49,480
\nonly they had hearkened, what
\ncould have been done? <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:49,560 –> 00:19:51,400
\nWhat might have been
\naccomplished? <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:52,440 –> 00:19:57,160
\nIt’s a Psalm of lamentation that
\nshows all the pathos and all the<\/p>\n

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\n00:19:57,160 –> 00:20:02,600
\nheartbreak of those there who
\nsaw Josiah’s mighty effort and <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:02,600 –> 00:20:06,480
\nwho knew the desperate sadness
\nof the king in his endeavours of<\/p>\n

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\n00:20:06,480 –> 00:20:08,760
\nreformation.
\nI think that that Psalm from the<\/p>\n

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\n00:20:08,760 –> 00:20:13,160
\nHouse of Asaph breathes all the
\nsadness of that moment in the <\/p>\n

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\nhistory of the nation.
\nDo you know when this episode <\/p>\n

295
\n00:20:15,440 –> 00:20:19,320
\ntook place?
\nThe great Passover of Josiah in <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:19,320 –> 00:20:21,880
\nthe Second of Chronicles,
\nchapter 35? <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:22,200 –> 00:20:32,280
\nWell, this is about BC 620.
\nAnd therefore it is 95 years <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:32,440 –> 00:20:36,520
\nafter Hezekiah’s reformation in
\nthe Second of Chronicles chapter<\/p>\n

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\n00:20:36,520 –> 00:20:39,240
\n29.
\nSo from the time that the <\/p>\n

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\nsingers sang in the days of
\nHezekiah, we’ve marched now <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:42,720 –> 00:20:48,040
\nanother 95 years to come to the
\ngreat Passover of Josiah in the <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:48,040 –> 00:20:51,480
\nSecond of Chronicles chapter 35.
\nThat’s about another 3 <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:51,480 –> 00:20:56,120
\ngenerations of the House of
\nAsaph, but they’re still there, <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:56,120 –> 00:20:59,800
\nquick of the flesh, when the Ark
\nof God reappears in the temple <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:59,880 –> 00:21:06,440
\nin Josiah’s time.
\nSo what must this family have <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:06,440 –> 00:21:11,760
\nfelt when a man, when a king as
\ngood as Josiah died? <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:11,760 –> 00:21:15,400
\nWell, we’re told actually in the
\nSecond of Chronicles chapter 35,<\/p>\n

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\n00:21:15,400 –> 00:21:18,480
\nbecause of course, this is the
\ntragedy of what happened in the <\/p>\n

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\ntime of Josiah.
\nHe embarked upon this <\/p>\n

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\nreformation and upon this
\nwondrous Passover at which the <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:25,040 –> 00:21:28,760
\nHouse of Asaph sang.
\nBut we’re told in the Second of <\/p>\n

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\nChronicles chapter 35 and verse
\n23, and The Archers shot at King<\/p>\n

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\nJosiah.
\nAnd the king said to his <\/p>\n

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\nservants, have me away, for I’m
\nsore wounded. <\/p>\n

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\nHis servants therefore took him
\nout of that chariot and put him <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:44,680 –> 00:21:46,200
\nin the second chariot that he
\nhad. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd they brought him to
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he died and was buried in
\none of the sepulchers of his <\/p>\n

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\nfathers.
\nAnd all Judah and Jerusalem <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:55,320 –> 00:22:00,800
\nmourned for Josiah, and Jeremiah
\nlamented for Josiah, and all the<\/p>\n

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\nsinging men and the singing
\nwomen spake of Josiah in their <\/p>\n

322
\n00:22:05,840 –> 00:22:10,240
\nlamentations to this day.
\nYou see, I can imagine how how <\/p>\n

323
\n00:22:10,240 –> 00:22:14,400
\ndesperately sad the House of
\nAsaph would have been when such <\/p>\n

324
\n00:22:14,400 –> 00:22:17,840
\na man as this, who was so close
\nin spirit to them, died. <\/p>\n

325
\n00:22:18,040 –> 00:22:21,280
\nAnd that work of revival began
\nto decline again, because with <\/p>\n

326
\n00:22:21,280 –> 00:22:26,120
\nthe death of Josiah, the nation
\nnow rapidly did decline through <\/p>\n

327
\n00:22:26,120 –> 00:22:30,600
\nthe reign of Jehoiahs, through
\nthe time of Jehoiakim, through <\/p>\n

328
\n00:22:30,600 –> 00:22:34,560
\nthe reign of Jehoiah Qin, to the
\ntime of Zedekiah. <\/p>\n

329
\n00:22:36,080 –> 00:22:40,360
\nWhen finally all was lost and
\nthe nation was about to be <\/p>\n

330
\n00:22:40,360 –> 00:22:44,400
\ncarried forth into captivity,
\nthe House of God was burned with<\/p>\n

331
\n00:22:44,400 –> 00:22:49,400
\nfire.
\nAnd Psalm 74 and Psalm 79 were <\/p>\n

332
\n00:22:49,400 –> 00:22:53,560
\nwritten by the House of Asaph,
\nweeping as they went forth into <\/p>\n

333
\n00:22:53,560 –> 00:22:56,880
\ncaptivity in Babylon at the
\ndesolation that had come upon <\/p>\n

334
\n00:22:56,880 –> 00:23:02,680
\nthe House of God, and bitter
\nlamentation or the spiritual <\/p>\n

335
\n00:23:02,680 –> 00:23:07,480
\nfailure of the nation.
\nIn the meantime, brothers and <\/p>\n

336
\n00:23:07,480 –> 00:23:12,360
\nsisters, the sons of Asaph were
\nput in the basket of good figs, <\/p>\n

337
\n00:23:14,200 –> 00:23:15,560
\nand they were carried to
\nBebelen. <\/p>\n

338
\n00:23:17,000 –> 00:23:19,240
\nAnd what was their spirit when
\nthey got to Bebelen, do you <\/p>\n

339
\n00:23:19,240 –> 00:23:21,720
\nthink?
\nWhat do you think the spirit and<\/p>\n

340
\n00:23:21,720 –> 00:23:25,400
\nthe attitude of the family of
\nAsaph was when they came into <\/p>\n

341
\n00:23:25,400 –> 00:23:28,880
\nthe land of the stranger and
\ninto their place of captivity? <\/p>\n

342
\n00:23:28,880 –> 00:23:31,760
\nWell, I think we know.
\nI think we’re given a Psalm that<\/p>\n

343
\n00:23:31,760 –> 00:23:37,560
\ntells us exactly how the how the
\nwhoops, how the House of Asaph <\/p>\n

344
\n00:23:37,640 –> 00:23:40,920
\nfelt in captivity.
\nNow, what might that Psalm be, <\/p>\n

345
\n00:23:41,080 –> 00:23:48,400
\nyou know?
\nWell, it’s Psalm 137. <\/p>\n

346
\n00:23:49,360 –> 00:23:52,440
\nNow come and have a look at this
\nbecause I think that this Psalm <\/p>\n

347
\n00:23:52,440 –> 00:23:57,320
\ntells us exactly what the spirit
\nof this family was in the time <\/p>\n

348
\n00:23:57,480 –> 00:24:00,360
\nof their captivity in the land
\nof Babylon. <\/p>\n

349
\n00:24:01,880 –> 00:24:05,960
\nIt says there in the first
\nverse, you see what this Well, <\/p>\n

350
\n00:24:06,080 –> 00:24:08,520
\nin fact, before we even get to
\nthe first verse, they’re heading<\/p>\n

351
\n00:24:08,520 –> 00:24:15,200
\nover my Bible for Psalm 137 says
\nthe constancy of the Jews in <\/p>\n

352
\n00:24:15,200 –> 00:24:17,920
\ncaptivity.
\nThat’s the heading for the <\/p>\n

353
\n00:24:17,920 –> 00:24:21,680
\nPsalm, the constancy of the Jews
\nin captivity. <\/p>\n

354
\n00:24:21,840 –> 00:24:26,160
\nBut I, I don’t think that the
\nPsalm celebrates the constancy <\/p>\n

355
\n00:24:26,160 –> 00:24:30,480
\nof the Jews in general.
\nI think that this Psalm <\/p>\n

356
\n00:24:30,480 –> 00:24:35,920
\ncelebrates the constancy of a
\nparticular group of Jews in <\/p>\n

357
\n00:24:35,920 –> 00:24:38,760
\ncaptivity.
\nNow, do you know who that that <\/p>\n

358
\n00:24:38,760 –> 00:24:40,960
\ngroup might be?
\nWell, I’ll tell you. <\/p>\n

359
\n00:24:40,960 –> 00:24:44,000
\nIt’s the group who are known as
\nthe Singers. <\/p>\n

360
\n00:24:44,680 –> 00:24:48,640
\nThis Psalm is all about the
\nsingers who went to Babylon, and<\/p>\n

361
\n00:24:48,640 –> 00:24:51,800
\nthe Psalm will reveal the spirit
\nof the House of Asaph. <\/p>\n

362
\n00:24:51,960 –> 00:24:57,480
\nHere’s a break up or a breakdown
\nas the case may be of Psalm 137.<\/p>\n

363
\n00:24:57,880 –> 00:25:06,400
\nIt’s a very simple 1 verses one
\nto three pathos, verses 4 to 6 <\/p>\n

364
\n00:25:06,640 –> 00:25:12,200
\ndefiance, verses 7 to 9
\njudgement. <\/p>\n

365
\n00:25:13,200 –> 00:25:17,440
\nThis Psalm is the spirit of the
\nHouse of Asaph in Babylon. <\/p>\n

366
\n00:25:17,680 –> 00:25:21,520
\nThey were determined not to give
\nup their songs, but they were <\/p>\n

367
\n00:25:21,520 –> 00:25:24,360
\nequally determined that they
\nwould not sing them to the <\/p>\n

368
\n00:25:24,360 –> 00:25:26,720
\nheathen.
\nAnd so when it says, well, <\/p>\n

369
\n00:25:26,720 –> 00:25:31,000
\nwedding in verse one by the
\nrivers of Babylon, there we sat <\/p>\n

370
\n00:25:31,000 –> 00:25:33,560
\ndown.
\nYeah, we wept when we, when we <\/p>\n

371
\n00:25:33,560 –> 00:25:37,520
\nremembered Zion.
\nWe hanged our hearts upon the <\/p>\n

372
\n00:25:37,520 –> 00:25:41,440
\nwillows in the midst thereof.
\nFor there they that carried us <\/p>\n

373
\n00:25:41,440 –> 00:25:46,800
\naway captive required of us a
\nsong, and they that wasted us <\/p>\n

374
\n00:25:46,800 –> 00:25:51,280
\nrequired of us mirth, saying,
\nSing us one of the songs of <\/p>\n

375
\n00:25:51,280 –> 00:25:53,720
\nZion.
\nNow who might the Babylonians <\/p>\n

376
\n00:25:53,720 –> 00:25:57,000
\nhave asked to sing the songs of
\nZion? <\/p>\n

377
\n00:25:57,000 –> 00:26:00,320
\nBrothers and sisters, but the
\nfamilies of the singers, of <\/p>\n

378
\n00:26:00,320 –> 00:26:02,760
\ncourse.
\nAnd what was the spirit of the <\/p>\n

379
\n00:26:02,760 –> 00:26:04,240
\nsingers?
\nVerse 4? <\/p>\n

380
\n00:26:04,480 –> 00:26:08,920
\nHow shall we sing Yahweh song in
\na strange land? <\/p>\n

381
\n00:26:09,120 –> 00:26:12,160
\nNow you see, I think that the
\nwords of verse 4 is not the <\/p>\n

382
\n00:26:12,160 –> 00:26:16,560
\nspirit of apathy.
\nI think that here instead was <\/p>\n

383
\n00:26:16,560 –> 00:26:20,920
\nthat silence which sprang from a
\nburning loyalty to the truth, <\/p>\n

384
\n00:26:21,160 –> 00:26:25,200
\nonly made more intense by the
\ndisaster of the captivity. <\/p>\n

385
\n00:26:25,360 –> 00:26:28,200
\nIt wasn’t that this family
\nweren’t prepared to sing the <\/p>\n

386
\n00:26:28,200 –> 00:26:30,960
\nsongs of God, brothers and
\nsisters, that they would not <\/p>\n

387
\n00:26:30,960 –> 00:26:35,840
\nsing them to strangers.
\nYou see what verse, what verses <\/p>\n

388
\n00:26:35,840 –> 00:26:39,400
\n5 and 6 say?
\nIf I forget the O Jerusalem, let<\/p>\n

389
\n00:26:39,400 –> 00:26:42,560
\nmy right hand forget her
\ncunning. <\/p>\n

390
\n00:26:42,880 –> 00:26:47,600
\nIf I do not remember thee, let
\nmy tongue cleave to the roof of <\/p>\n

391
\n00:26:47,600 –> 00:26:53,840
\nmy mouth.
\nTongues and hands. <\/p>\n

392
\n00:26:55,520 –> 00:27:00,600
\nNow who might those two words
\nrefer to in Psalm 137? <\/p>\n

393
\n00:27:00,960 –> 00:27:08,560
\nTongues and hands, but the
\nsingers on instruments. <\/p>\n

394
\n00:27:09,840 –> 00:27:14,440
\nThis is the vow of loyalty that
\nthe singers made in Babylon, <\/p>\n

395
\n00:27:15,000 –> 00:27:19,440
\nthat they would never forget
\nJerusalem in all of their <\/p>\n

396
\n00:27:19,440 –> 00:27:23,640
\ncaptivity.
\nNow, you see, I think that this <\/p>\n

397
\n00:27:23,640 –> 00:27:27,240
\nparticular Sam is appropriate to
\nthe overthrow of Babylon. <\/p>\n

398
\n00:27:27,240 –> 00:27:29,680
\nThat has been used, by the way,
\non some occasions in the <\/p>\n

399
\n00:27:29,680 –> 00:27:33,040
\nbrotherhood to argue other
\ncauses, such as relating it to <\/p>\n

400
\n00:27:33,040 –> 00:27:35,440
\nthe time of the Assyrians and
\nSeneca. <\/p>\n

401
\n00:27:35,440 –> 00:27:36,920
\nBut I do not think that that’s
\nso. <\/p>\n

402
\n00:27:37,160 –> 00:27:40,280
\nI think it is definitely a Sam
\nrelating to the Babylonian <\/p>\n

403
\n00:27:40,280 –> 00:27:42,760
\ncaptivity.
\nI can think of three good <\/p>\n

404
\n00:27:42,760 –> 00:27:47,560
\nreasons for saying so.
\nFirstly, in verse 7, the day of <\/p>\n

405
\n00:27:47,560 –> 00:27:52,080
\nJerusalem that is referred to is
\nthe day when the foundations of <\/p>\n

406
\n00:27:52,080 –> 00:27:54,200
\nthe city of Jerusalem were
\ndiscovered. <\/p>\n

407
\n00:27:54,360 –> 00:27:57,480
\nIt is clearly the day of
\nJerusalem’s overthrow. <\/p>\n

408
\n00:27:58,280 –> 00:28:00,960
\nThe overthrow of Jerusalem never
\nhappened in the days of the <\/p>\n

409
\n00:28:00,960 –> 00:28:03,600
\nAssyrians.
\nSennacherib never got even <\/p>\n

410
\n00:28:03,600 –> 00:28:06,240
\ninside the city.
\nHe never did overthrow <\/p>\n

411
\n00:28:06,240 –> 00:28:09,440
\nJerusalem.
\nBut this Psalm is a lamentation <\/p>\n

412
\n00:28:09,440 –> 00:28:13,520
\nfor the day when Jerusalem fell
\nthat relates to the Babylonians <\/p>\n

413
\n00:28:14,440 –> 00:28:17,760
\nin verse 8.
\nThe words happy, the word <\/p>\n

414
\n00:28:17,760 –> 00:28:23,200
\nreward, and the words served are
\nall deliberately taken from <\/p>\n

415
\n00:28:23,200 –> 00:28:30,160
\nJeremiah chapter 51 and verse 56
\nconcerning the future overthrow <\/p>\n

416
\n00:28:30,160 –> 00:28:34,760
\nof Babylon.
\nThe very verbs of Psalm 137 <\/p>\n

417
\n00:28:34,760 –> 00:28:39,080
\nverse 8 are taken specifically
\nfrom the prophecy of Jeremiah <\/p>\n

418
\n00:28:39,080 –> 00:28:44,080
\nchapter 51, verse 56, which most
\ncertainly is not about Assyria, <\/p>\n

419
\n00:28:44,360 –> 00:28:49,760
\nit’s about Babylon.
\nAnd lastly, verse 9 says, Happy <\/p>\n

420
\n00:28:49,760 –> 00:28:54,760
\nshall he be that taketh and
\ndasheth thy little ones against <\/p>\n

421
\n00:28:54,760 –> 00:28:57,560
\nthe stones.
\nAnd Rotherham’s translates that <\/p>\n

422
\n00:28:57,800 –> 00:29:02,040
\nblessed is the man that shall do
\nthese things. <\/p>\n

423
\n00:29:02,160 –> 00:29:06,880
\nAnd this Psalm looks forward to
\na particular individual that one<\/p>\n

424
\n00:29:06,880 –> 00:29:10,880
\nday would conquer Babylon and
\nanswer the prayers of the <\/p>\n

425
\n00:29:10,880 –> 00:29:13,920
\nsingers who were there.
\nAnd you see, I think that what <\/p>\n

426
\n00:29:13,920 –> 00:29:17,360
\nPsalm 137 is talking about,
\nbrothers and sisters, is that <\/p>\n

427
\n00:29:17,360 –> 00:29:20,960
\nthe way by which the singers
\nwould not forget Jerusalem was <\/p>\n

428
\n00:29:20,960 –> 00:29:24,600
\nthat they would continue to
\npractice the songs of Zion in <\/p>\n

429
\n00:29:24,600 –> 00:29:28,480
\nthe blazing conviction that one
\nday they would return there. <\/p>\n

430
\n00:29:28,640 –> 00:29:33,800
\nThis Psalm is the passion and
\nthe drive and the commitment of <\/p>\n

431
\n00:29:33,800 –> 00:29:37,600
\nthe House of Asaph in captivity.
\nIt wasn’t that they wouldn’t <\/p>\n

432
\n00:29:37,600 –> 00:29:42,200
\nsing the temple songs in a
\nstrange land, but they wouldn’t <\/p>\n

433
\n00:29:42,200 –> 00:29:46,280
\nsing them for the public
\namusement of profane and <\/p>\n

434
\n00:29:46,280 –> 00:29:51,280
\nscornful heathen.
\nSo in public, therefore, they <\/p>\n

435
\n00:29:51,280 –> 00:29:56,200
\nshowed that their singing was
\nover and their harps abandoned. <\/p>\n

436
\n00:29:57,520 –> 00:30:03,400
\nBut in private they practiced
\nlike they always had, because <\/p>\n

437
\n00:30:03,400 –> 00:30:08,080
\nthey vowed in the Psalm that
\nthey never, ever would forget <\/p>\n

438
\n00:30:08,080 –> 00:30:11,880
\nJerusalem with their heart or
\ntheir hand or their tongue. <\/p>\n

439
\n00:30:12,160 –> 00:30:16,480
\nYou see, this family never gave
\nin, and they never gave up. <\/p>\n

440
\n00:30:18,280 –> 00:30:26,160
\nAnd one day, one blessed day,
\nthe deliverer of their prayers <\/p>\n

441
\n00:30:26,560 –> 00:30:32,560
\nappeared, and his name was
\nCyrus. <\/p>\n

442
\n00:30:34,440 –> 00:30:38,760
\nAnd then Ezra chapter 1, we’re
\ntold of the great proclamation <\/p>\n

443
\n00:30:38,760 –> 00:30:43,880
\nof Cyrus that would lead to a
\nreturn of the Jewish people from<\/p>\n

444
\n00:30:43,880 –> 00:30:47,560
\ncaptivity.
\nAnd this is what we’re told in <\/p>\n

445
\n00:30:47,720 –> 00:30:53,040
\nEzra chapter 1 and reading from
\nthe second verse. <\/p>\n

446
\n00:30:55,920 –> 00:30:58,600
\nThus saith Cyrus, king of
\nPersia. <\/p>\n

447
\n00:31:00,840 –> 00:31:03,440
\nThe Lord God of heaven hath
\ngiven me all the kingdoms of the<\/p>\n

448
\n00:31:03,480 –> 00:31:07,600
\nearth, and he has charged me to
\nbuild him in a house at <\/p>\n

449
\n00:31:07,600 –> 00:31:12,320
\nJerusalem, which is in Judah.
\nWho is there among you of all <\/p>\n

450
\n00:31:12,320 –> 00:31:13,760
\nHis people?
\nHis God? <\/p>\n

451
\n00:31:13,760 –> 00:31:17,080
\nBe with him, and let him go up
\nto Jerusalem, which is in Judah,<\/p>\n

452
\n00:31:17,080 –> 00:31:21,200
\nand build the House of Yahweh,
\nGod of Israel. <\/p>\n

453
\n00:31:21,360 –> 00:31:23,680
\nNow Can you imagine, brothers
\nand sisters, this phrase in the <\/p>\n

454
\n00:31:23,680 –> 00:31:26,440
\nthird verse utter than the
\nproclamation of Cyrus? <\/p>\n

455
\n00:31:26,640 –> 00:31:29,760
\nCan you imagine the impact of
\nthis phrase upon the House of <\/p>\n

456
\n00:31:29,760 –> 00:31:34,240
\nAsaph in particular?
\nWho is there of all His people <\/p>\n

457
\n00:31:34,640 –> 00:31:36,600
\nthat might, might respond to
\nthis call? <\/p>\n

458
\n00:31:36,800 –> 00:31:39,120
\nWell, you just know that it
\nwould have to be the House of <\/p>\n

459
\n00:31:39,120 –> 00:31:41,440
\nAsaph, wouldn’t you?
\nThat of all the families that <\/p>\n

460
\n00:31:41,440 –> 00:31:44,880
\nwould desire to go back to the
\nland of Israel killer, to the <\/p>\n

461
\n00:31:44,880 –> 00:31:48,160
\nplace of the House of God and to
\nthe presence of God amongst his <\/p>\n

462
\n00:31:48,160 –> 00:31:50,200
\npeople, it would be the House of
\nAsaph. <\/p>\n

463
\n00:31:50,400 –> 00:31:54,760
\nSo it is with no surprise then
\nthat when we come to Ezra <\/p>\n

464
\n00:31:54,760 –> 00:31:59,240
\nchapter 2 and we read the list
\nof the genealogy of those who <\/p>\n

465
\n00:31:59,240 –> 00:32:03,840
\nreturned in this first wave,
\nthis first return of the <\/p>\n

466
\n00:32:03,840 –> 00:32:07,480
\nredeemed to Zion under
\nZerubbabel and Joshua. <\/p>\n

467
\n00:32:07,720 –> 00:32:12,920
\nThat in Ezra chapter 2 and verse
\n41 amongst those who came in <\/p>\n

468
\n00:32:12,920 –> 00:32:20,440
\nthis very first wave, it says
\nthe singers, the children of <\/p>\n

469
\n00:32:20,440 –> 00:32:27,760
\nAsaph and 120 and 8.
\nSo this was the family, perhaps <\/p>\n

470
\n00:32:27,760 –> 00:32:31,920
\nabove all others who celebrated
\nthe spirit of Psalm 137 that <\/p>\n

471
\n00:32:31,920 –> 00:32:33,480
\nthey would never forget
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n

472
\n00:32:33,600 –> 00:32:37,040
\nBecause when the when the chance
\nfirst came to come back to the <\/p>\n

473
\n00:32:37,040 –> 00:32:40,520
\nland, the House of ASA are there
\nright at the front, right in the<\/p>\n

474
\n00:32:40,520 –> 00:32:42,400
\nforefront.
\nAnd that brings us you see to to<\/p>\n

475
\n00:32:42,440 –> 00:32:44,800
\nEzra chapter 3.
\nNow just come and have a look at<\/p>\n

476
\n00:32:44,800 –> 00:32:48,520
\nEzra chapter 3 then, because
\nhere and there is the story in <\/p>\n

477
\n00:32:48,520 –> 00:32:53,280
\nEzra chapter 3 of the laying
\nagain of the foundation of the <\/p>\n

478
\n00:32:53,280 –> 00:32:56,040
\nTemple.
\nThis was an exciting, exciting <\/p>\n

479
\n00:32:56,040 –> 00:32:58,000
\nmoment in the history of the
\nnation. <\/p>\n

480
\n00:32:58,240 –> 00:33:01,800
\nNow you see what the seventh
\nverse says in Ezra chapter 3. <\/p>\n

481
\n00:33:02,600 –> 00:33:06,680
\nIt says that they gave money
\nalso unto the Masons and to the <\/p>\n

482
\n00:33:06,680 –> 00:33:11,480
\ncarpenters, and meat.
\nNow that word meat, by the way, <\/p>\n

483
\n00:33:11,480 –> 00:33:14,680
\nin verse 7 ought to be
\ntranslated meal, shouldn’t it? <\/p>\n

484
\n00:33:14,680 –> 00:33:18,400
\nIt’s the word for meal.
\nSo it’s really to do with grain.<\/p>\n

485
\n00:33:18,760 –> 00:33:24,640
\nSo they gave grain and drink,
\nand that drink is wine and oil <\/p>\n

486
\n00:33:25,080 –> 00:33:29,080
\nunto them of Zeidan, and to them
\nof Tyre, to bring cedar trees <\/p>\n

487
\n00:33:29,080 –> 00:33:32,240
\nfrom Lebanon to the sea of
\nJoppa. <\/p>\n

488
\n00:33:32,400 –> 00:33:35,800
\nSo what this first tells us is
\nthat they made arrangements to <\/p>\n

489
\n00:33:35,800 –> 00:33:44,480
\nsupply exports of grain, of wine
\nand of oil in return for Cedars <\/p>\n

490
\n00:33:44,480 –> 00:33:47,520
\nfrom Lebanon floated down to
\nJoppa. <\/p>\n

491
\n00:33:47,920 –> 00:33:49,520
\nDo you know where that all comes
\nfrom? <\/p>\n

492
\n00:33:51,080 –> 00:33:55,240
\nThat is a deliberate reenactment
\nof the days of Solomon. <\/p>\n

493
\n00:33:55,440 –> 00:33:58,160
\nNow hold your hand in Ezra
\nchapter 3 and come back to the <\/p>\n

494
\n00:33:58,160 –> 00:34:01,400
\nSecond of Chronicles chapter 2
\nbecause, well, this is what <\/p>\n

495
\n00:34:01,400 –> 00:34:03,840
\nhappened in the days of Solomon.
\nYou see, we’re told in the <\/p>\n

496
\n00:34:03,840 –> 00:34:08,159
\nSecond of Chronicles chapter 2.
\nAnd then reading firstly from <\/p>\n

497
\n00:34:08,159 –> 00:34:12,760
\nverse three, it says this here’s
\nSolomon building the temple. <\/p>\n

498
\n00:34:13,360 –> 00:34:16,199
\nAnd I think that you see in Ezra
\nchapter 3 that those who had <\/p>\n

499
\n00:34:16,199 –> 00:34:19,360
\ncome back to the land
\ndeliberately did it this way <\/p>\n

500
\n00:34:19,560 –> 00:34:21,760
\nthat they might echo the days of
\nSolomon. <\/p>\n

501
\n00:34:21,760 –> 00:34:25,840
\nThey wanted to recreate the
\ngolden age of Solomon all over <\/p>\n

502
\n00:34:25,840 –> 00:34:27,800
\nagain.
\nNow in the second of Chronicles <\/p>\n

503
\n00:34:27,800 –> 00:34:32,360
\n2, verse three, it says, And
\nSolomon sent to Hiram the king <\/p>\n

504
\n00:34:32,360 –> 00:34:37,960
\nof Tyre, saying, As thou didst
\ndeal with David my father, and <\/p>\n

505
\n00:34:37,960 –> 00:34:41,760
\ndidst send him Cedars to build
\nhim an house to dwell therein, <\/p>\n

506
\n00:34:42,440 –> 00:34:46,880
\nEven so dwell with me.
\nAnd then in verse 2, verse 10, <\/p>\n

507
\n00:34:47,320 –> 00:34:50,080
\nhe he, he said that this is what
\nhe would be prepared to pay. <\/p>\n

508
\n00:34:50,679 –> 00:34:53,280
\nBehold, I will give to thy
\nservants the hewers that cut <\/p>\n

509
\n00:34:53,280 –> 00:34:58,400
\ntimber, 20,000 measures of
\nbeaten wheat and 20,000 measures<\/p>\n

510
\n00:34:58,400 –> 00:35:05,480
\nof barley.
\nSo that’s the grain, and 20,000 <\/p>\n

511
\n00:35:05,480 –> 00:35:11,680
\nbaths of wine and 20,000 baths
\nof oil. <\/p>\n

512
\n00:35:13,480 –> 00:35:18,680
\nSo there was an arrangement for
\nthe export of grain, of wine and<\/p>\n

513
\n00:35:18,680 –> 00:35:21,280
\nof oil.
\nIn return for what? <\/p>\n

514
\n00:35:22,560 –> 00:35:25,760
\nWell, in return for trees.
\nAnd Hiram agreed. <\/p>\n

515
\n00:35:25,760 –> 00:35:29,200
\nBecause verse 15 says Now
\ntherefore the wheat and the <\/p>\n

516
\n00:35:29,200 –> 00:35:33,600
\nbarley, the oil and the wine
\nwhich my Lord has spoken of, let<\/p>\n

517
\n00:35:33,600 –> 00:35:36,640
\nhim send unto his servants, and
\nwe will cut wood out of Lebanon <\/p>\n

518
\n00:35:36,640 –> 00:35:39,600
\nas much as thou shalt need, and
\nwe will bring it to thee in <\/p>\n

519
\n00:35:39,600 –> 00:35:43,840
\nfloats.
\nIf I see so Joppa. <\/p>\n

520
\n00:35:44,920 –> 00:35:49,000
\nOh, now that’s the very language
\nyou see of Ezra chapter 3 and <\/p>\n

521
\n00:35:49,000 –> 00:35:51,080
\nverse 7.
\nAnd I think that what happened <\/p>\n

522
\n00:35:51,080 –> 00:35:53,800
\nis when they came back to the
\nland that they deliberately <\/p>\n

523
\n00:35:53,800 –> 00:35:57,600
\nreenacted the story of Solomon.
\nThey wanted to recreate the <\/p>\n

524
\n00:35:57,600 –> 00:36:01,440
\ntemple as it was in its glory in
\nearlier times. <\/p>\n

525
\n00:36:01,440 –> 00:36:04,560
\nCome back to Ezra chapter 3 and
\nand now read verse 8. <\/p>\n

526
\n00:36:05,640 –> 00:36:10,400
\nSo in Ezra chapter 3 and verse 8
\nit says now in the second year <\/p>\n

527
\n00:36:10,480 –> 00:36:13,920
\nof their coming into the House
\nof God at Jerusalem in the <\/p>\n

528
\n00:36:13,920 –> 00:36:19,680
\nsecond month began Serababul and
\nJesua. <\/p>\n

529
\n00:36:20,440 –> 00:36:23,720
\nAnd if we were to ask what was
\nit that they began in the eighth<\/p>\n

530
\n00:36:23,720 –> 00:36:28,400
\nverse, the answer is they began
\nto lay the foundation of the <\/p>\n

531
\n00:36:28,400 –> 00:36:29,960
\ntemple.
\nBut when did they lay it? <\/p>\n

532
\n00:36:30,080 –> 00:36:33,520
\nWell, the eighth verse says it
\nwas in the second month, but if <\/p>\n

533
\n00:36:33,520 –> 00:36:36,560
\nyou come back to the First of
\nKings chapter 6, you’ll find <\/p>\n

534
\n00:36:36,560 –> 00:36:42,440
\nthat that was the very month
\nthat Solomon began to build the <\/p>\n

535
\n00:36:42,440 –> 00:36:44,480
\ntemple.
\nAnd I think that they chose this<\/p>\n

536
\n00:36:44,480 –> 00:36:47,520
\ntime deliberately.
\nYou see in the First of Kings <\/p>\n

537
\n00:36:47,520 –> 00:36:52,040
\nchapter 6, we’re told in the
\nfirst verse, it came to pass on <\/p>\n

538
\n00:36:52,040 –> 00:36:55,880
\nthe 480th year after the
\nchildren of Israel would come <\/p>\n

539
\n00:36:55,880 –> 00:36:59,160
\nout of the land of Egypt in the
\nfourth year of Solomon’s reign <\/p>\n

540
\n00:36:59,160 –> 00:37:05,840
\nover Israel in the month Ziff,
\nwhich is the second month that <\/p>\n

541
\n00:37:05,840 –> 00:37:12,840
\nhe began to build the House of
\nYahweh, first of Kings 6, verse <\/p>\n

542
\n00:37:12,840 –> 00:37:14,200
\none.
\nAnd not only that, but if you <\/p>\n

543
\n00:37:14,200 –> 00:37:19,040
\ncome to the very if you come to
\nverse 37 of that chapter, first <\/p>\n

544
\n00:37:19,040 –> 00:37:23,760
\nof Kings 6, verse 37, it says in
\nthe fourth year was the <\/p>\n

545
\n00:37:23,760 –> 00:37:28,200
\nfoundation of the House of
\nYahweh laid in the month Ziff. <\/p>\n

546
\n00:37:29,120 –> 00:37:32,040
\nSo the second month was the very
\nmonth that Solomon laid the <\/p>\n

547
\n00:37:32,040 –> 00:37:37,440
\nfoundations of the temple.
\nAnd now in Ezra chapter 3 and <\/p>\n

548
\n00:37:37,440 –> 00:37:41,840
\nverse 8, Joshua and Zerubbel
\nbegin to lay the foundations of <\/p>\n

549
\n00:37:41,840 –> 00:37:46,080
\nthe temple in the second month.
\nOh yes, I think they knew <\/p>\n

550
\n00:37:46,080 –> 00:37:48,760
\nexactly what they were doing on
\nthis occasion. <\/p>\n

551
\n00:37:48,960 –> 00:37:52,560
\nNow come back to Ezra 3 and
\nverse 10. <\/p>\n

552
\n00:37:55,600 –> 00:37:59,880
\nAnd when the builders laid the
\nfoundation of the temple of <\/p>\n

553
\n00:37:59,880 –> 00:38:07,440
\nYahweh, they set the priests in
\ntheir apparel with trumpets and <\/p>\n

554
\n00:38:07,440 –> 00:38:16,840
\nthe Levites, the sons of Asaph
\nwith symbols to praise Yahweh <\/p>\n

555
\n00:38:16,840 –> 00:38:19,080
\nafter the ordinance of David,
\nKing of Israel. <\/p>\n

556
\n00:38:20,560 –> 00:38:22,560
\nAnd you see, what we’re being
\ntold in verse 10, I think, is <\/p>\n

557
\n00:38:22,560 –> 00:38:26,080
\nthat this was again exactly the
\nsame as it were in the day that <\/p>\n

558
\n00:38:26,080 –> 00:38:28,520
\nthe ark of God was taken in, in
\nSolomon’s celebration. <\/p>\n

559
\n00:38:28,520 –> 00:38:30,040
\nIt’s all the same all over
\nagain. <\/p>\n

560
\n00:38:30,040 –> 00:38:32,840
\nYou see, the trumpeters are
\nthere, the singers are there, <\/p>\n

561
\n00:38:32,880 –> 00:38:35,720
\nthe instruments are there.
\nThey’re all clothed in the in <\/p>\n

562
\n00:38:35,720 –> 00:38:38,080
\nthe robes of linen.
\nIt’s exactly as if it’s <\/p>\n

563
\n00:38:38,080 –> 00:38:42,120
\nSolomon’s day all over again.
\nAnd yet of course, it wasn’t <\/p>\n

564
\n00:38:42,120 –> 00:38:47,240
\nSolomon’s day and it was.
\nHonestly, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n

565
\n00:38:47,240 –> 00:38:52,000
\nin the 10th verse of Ezra 3,
\nreally there is rending pathos <\/p>\n

566
\n00:38:52,200 –> 00:38:56,120
\nto this particular scene on this
\noccasion because as we looked <\/p>\n

567
\n00:38:56,120 –> 00:39:00,120
\nabout the hill on which they
\nstood on the occasion of Ezra 3 <\/p>\n

568
\n00:39:00,120 –> 00:39:04,680
\nand verse 10, the signs of
\ndesolation are everywhere. <\/p>\n

569
\n00:39:05,600 –> 00:39:08,400
\nThe Temple Mount is still
\nscarred and ravaged from <\/p>\n

570
\n00:39:08,400 –> 00:39:12,680
\nBabylonian fire.
\nThat there, amidst the signs of <\/p>\n

571
\n00:39:12,680 –> 00:39:17,320
\nruin, embedded into the good
\nearth of Mount Moriah, sunk into<\/p>\n

572
\n00:39:17,320 –> 00:39:22,440
\nits rocky outcrop, was a row of
\nfreshly dressed stones, clean <\/p>\n

573
\n00:39:22,440 –> 00:39:25,040
\nand sharp.
\nThat was the beginning of a new <\/p>\n

574
\n00:39:25,040 –> 00:39:29,800
\nfoundation for a new temple.
\nAnd who’s there ready to sing <\/p>\n

575
\n00:39:29,800 –> 00:39:31,640
\nthe songs of the Lord?
\nVerse 10. <\/p>\n

576
\n00:39:31,720 –> 00:39:34,040
\nWhy the sons of Asaph?
\nYou notice, by the way, in the <\/p>\n

577
\n00:39:34,040 –> 00:39:37,320
\n10th verse it doesn’t mention
\neither Heman or Judithan. <\/p>\n

578
\n00:39:38,640 –> 00:39:42,080
\nThere’s no record that either
\nthe sons of Heman or the sons of<\/p>\n

579
\n00:39:42,080 –> 00:39:45,720
\nJudithan returned at this time.
\nOnly the sons of Asaph are <\/p>\n

580
\n00:39:45,720 –> 00:39:47,680
\nthere.
\nYou see, these are the ones, <\/p>\n

581
\n00:39:47,680 –> 00:39:51,560
\nperhaps more than any others,
\nwho kept that burning flame of <\/p>\n

582
\n00:39:51,560 –> 00:39:56,160
\nPsalm 137 alive.
\nAnd look what it says in verse <\/p>\n

583
\n00:39:56,160 –> 00:40:00,040
\n11.
\nThey sang together by course. <\/p>\n

584
\n00:40:01,160 –> 00:40:04,000
\nDo you know that the Nehemiah
\nChapter 7, we’re told that when <\/p>\n

585
\n00:40:04,000 –> 00:40:06,520
\nsome of the priests came back to
\nthe land that they couldn’t <\/p>\n

586
\n00:40:06,520 –> 00:40:09,240
\nprove their lineage, could they?
\nAnd they were not able to <\/p>\n

587
\n00:40:09,240 –> 00:40:11,880
\nestablish what priestly course
\nthey belonged to? <\/p>\n

588
\n00:40:11,880 –> 00:40:16,840
\nDo you remember that the sons of
\nAsaph had no trouble with <\/p>\n

589
\n00:40:16,840 –> 00:40:21,160
\nknowing what their course was?
\nThey were ready to sing in their<\/p>\n

590
\n00:40:21,160 –> 00:40:24,760
\ncourses after all this time
\nwithout hesitation. <\/p>\n

591
\n00:40:24,840 –> 00:40:28,400
\nThey knew exactly what their
\norders and their courses were, <\/p>\n

592
\n00:40:28,520 –> 00:40:31,520
\nand they were ready to sing at
\nthe command of Joshua and <\/p>\n

593
\n00:40:31,520 –> 00:40:32,960
\nZerubbabel.
\nAnd what are they sing? <\/p>\n

594
\n00:40:32,960 –> 00:40:35,800
\nVerse 11?
\nThey sang together by course in <\/p>\n

595
\n00:40:35,800 –> 00:40:39,720
\npraising and giving thanks.
\nAlso there there are two <\/p>\n

596
\n00:40:39,720 –> 00:40:43,640
\nkeywords.
\nThey praised and gave thanks, <\/p>\n

597
\n00:40:44,840 –> 00:40:49,640
\nand you’d never believe, but the
\nwords of their song were <\/p>\n

598
\n00:40:49,720 –> 00:40:55,360
\nbrothers and sisters, would you?
\nThey gave thanks unto Yahweh <\/p>\n

599
\n00:40:56,880 –> 00:41:06,200
\nbecause He is good for His mercy
\nendureth forever toward Israel. <\/p>\n

600
\n00:41:07,600 –> 00:41:10,040
\nWhy?
\nThat’s the first of Chronicles <\/p>\n

601
\n00:41:10,040 –> 00:41:17,000
\nchapter 16 and this 34.
\nYou see, the foundation might be<\/p>\n

602
\n00:41:17,000 –> 00:41:20,520
\nnew brothers and sisters, but
\nthe singers who sang in front of<\/p>\n

603
\n00:41:20,520 –> 00:41:25,440
\nthat new foundation this day
\nsang their old songs to the old <\/p>\n

604
\n00:41:25,440 –> 00:41:29,280
\nwords.
\nThey didn’t find them old <\/p>\n

605
\n00:41:29,280 –> 00:41:32,840
\nfashioned.
\nThey found them absolutely fresh<\/p>\n

606
\n00:41:32,840 –> 00:41:35,360
\nand new because they believed
\nthat they were singing eternal <\/p>\n

607
\n00:41:35,360 –> 00:41:37,200
\ntruths.
\nDo you know that this episode <\/p>\n

608
\n00:41:37,200 –> 00:41:39,480
\nand Ezra chapter 3, brothers and
\nsisters? <\/p>\n

609
\n00:41:39,760 –> 00:41:44,400
\nWell, it’s 85 years after the
\ntime of Josiah in the Second of <\/p>\n

610
\n00:41:44,400 –> 00:41:48,560
\nChronicles 35.
\nIt’s 85 years later. <\/p>\n

611
\n00:41:48,560 –> 00:41:57,440
\nThis is BC 535, but it’s 460
\nyears after David gave this <\/p>\n

612
\n00:41:57,440 –> 00:42:03,680
\nPsalm to this family in the
\nfirst of Chronicles 16, 460 <\/p>\n

613
\n00:42:03,680 –> 00:42:06,280
\nyears later, brothers and
\nsisters, you know, we’re told on<\/p>\n

614
\n00:42:06,280 –> 00:42:09,040
\nthe occasion of this chapter
\nthat there were some who wept, <\/p>\n

615
\n00:42:09,160 –> 00:42:12,240
\nsome who wept because of the joy
\nof building a new temple, some <\/p>\n

616
\n00:42:12,240 –> 00:42:14,800
\nwho wept because they remember
\nthe glories of the old. <\/p>\n

617
\n00:42:15,000 –> 00:42:17,400
\nI would have wept on that day,
\nbrothers and sisters, for a <\/p>\n

618
\n00:42:17,400 –> 00:42:22,880
\nfamily who after 460 years could
\nstand up and sing the same hymn <\/p>\n

619
\n00:42:22,880 –> 00:42:26,960
\nfor the same words, and never
\nhave forgotten it in their <\/p>\n

620
\n00:42:26,960 –> 00:42:30,120
\nfamily through all those
\ngenerations. <\/p>\n

621
\n00:42:30,280 –> 00:42:32,840
\nAnd you see, this is the spirit
\nof Psalm 137. <\/p>\n

622
\n00:42:32,960 –> 00:42:36,520
\nThey said, never let us forget
\nthose who said, raise it, raise <\/p>\n

623
\n00:42:36,520 –> 00:42:38,760
\nit to the very foundations
\nthereof. <\/p>\n

624
\n00:42:38,880 –> 00:42:43,520
\nAnd now in triumph they sing
\nbefore a fresh foundation that <\/p>\n

625
\n00:42:43,520 –> 00:42:47,080
\narises upon the good earth.
\nYou see, they didn’t despise the<\/p>\n

626
\n00:42:47,080 –> 00:42:50,880
\nday of small things.
\nThey were always there. <\/p>\n

627
\n00:42:51,000 –> 00:42:53,600
\nAt the time of a spiritual
\nrevival of brothers and sisters <\/p>\n

628
\n00:42:53,600 –> 00:42:57,560
\nin the nation, the House of
\nAsaph were there, ready to sing <\/p>\n

629
\n00:42:57,680 –> 00:43:00,440
\ntheir ancient songs all over
\nagain. <\/p>\n

630
\n00:43:00,560 –> 00:43:03,040
\nYou see, I think that this is
\nthe great lesson of our study <\/p>\n

631
\n00:43:03,040 –> 00:43:06,880
\nthis morning.
\nIt is the lesson of the virtue <\/p>\n

632
\n00:43:07,040 –> 00:43:12,720
\nof constancy.
\nThe virtue of constancy is one <\/p>\n

633
\n00:43:12,720 –> 00:43:16,520
\nof the great principles that the
\nHouse of Asaph stood for. <\/p>\n

634
\n00:43:17,160 –> 00:43:21,880
\nYou know, we have hymns in our
\nhymn book today that come from <\/p>\n

635
\n00:43:21,880 –> 00:43:25,400
\nthe Golden Harp.
\nNow you know what the Golden <\/p>\n

636
\n00:43:25,400 –> 00:43:28,320
\nHarp is.
\nGolden Harp was the very first <\/p>\n

637
\n00:43:28,320 –> 00:43:29,520
\nChristadelphian.
\nThe hymn book. <\/p>\n

638
\n00:43:29,520 –> 00:43:32,280
\nYou know that we’ve still got
\nhymns that we sing today from <\/p>\n

639
\n00:43:32,280 –> 00:43:35,440
\nthat first hymn book.
\nI think that’s marvellous that <\/p>\n

640
\n00:43:35,440 –> 00:43:39,040
\nwe still sing according to the
\nprinciples of our own ancient <\/p>\n

641
\n00:43:39,040 –> 00:43:41,280
\nheritage.
\nYou know our hymn book, brothers<\/p>\n

642
\n00:43:41,280 –> 00:43:44,120
\nand sisters, the Christadelphian
\nHymn book over the years. <\/p>\n

643
\n00:43:44,400 –> 00:43:47,600
\nWell, it did borrow hymns from
\nother sources, but I’ll tell you<\/p>\n

644
\n00:43:47,600 –> 00:43:52,440
\nwhat, our earlier brethren that
\nborrowed those hymns put them <\/p>\n

645
\n00:43:52,440 –> 00:43:57,920
\nthrough a mighty fine sieve.
\nAnd by the time they got through<\/p>\n

646
\n00:43:57,920 –> 00:44:02,320
\nthat soothe into our hymn book,
\nthe words and the spirit so <\/p>\n

647
\n00:44:02,320 –> 00:44:06,480
\nutterly echoed what we believe,
\nthat we could sing that Psalm or<\/p>\n

648
\n00:44:06,480 –> 00:44:09,480
\nthat song and give a hearty Amen
\nto the words. <\/p>\n

649
\n00:44:09,520 –> 00:44:15,280
\nIt preserved the heritage of our
\nfaith, and we need to appreciate<\/p>\n

650
\n00:44:15,400 –> 00:44:19,560
\nhow vital a hymn book is in
\nholding together a community to <\/p>\n

651
\n00:44:19,560 –> 00:44:21,240
\nthose principles that we believe
\nin. <\/p>\n

652
\n00:44:21,240 –> 00:44:25,520
\nYou see this house, they never,
\never once changed their hymns <\/p>\n

653
\n00:44:25,680 –> 00:44:29,720
\nbecause they believed that the
\ntruths they sang were eternal. <\/p>\n

654
\n00:44:29,800 –> 00:44:32,480
\nWill sow out our truths,
\nbrothers and sisters, and <\/p>\n

655
\n00:44:32,480 –> 00:44:35,840
\ntherefore we believe that we
\nshould treasure and value the <\/p>\n

656
\n00:44:35,840 –> 00:44:38,480
\nhymn book that we have.
\nWhenever I hear a brother or <\/p>\n

657
\n00:44:38,480 –> 00:44:41,440
\nsister saying that they think
\nthe hymns are boring, I think <\/p>\n

658
\n00:44:41,440 –> 00:44:45,000
\nthere’s a problem.
\nI think they haven’t discovered <\/p>\n

659
\n00:44:45,000 –> 00:44:48,320
\nthe true majesty and power of
\nthe scriptural record that will <\/p>\n

660
\n00:44:48,320 –> 00:44:51,760
\nmake those hymns come alive.
\nBut what I do know for certain <\/p>\n

661
\n00:44:51,920 –> 00:44:56,000
\nis that the solution doesn’t lie
\nin borrowing from modern <\/p>\n

662
\n00:44:56,000 –> 00:45:00,360
\nChristian sources.
\nAnd there is a bit of that in <\/p>\n

663
\n00:45:00,360 –> 00:45:01,840
\nthe Brotherhood today, isn’t
\nthere? <\/p>\n

664
\n00:45:03,000 –> 00:45:07,000
\nAnd increasing use of music from
\nmodern Christian sources. <\/p>\n

665
\n00:45:07,000 –> 00:45:11,920
\nBut the danger is that we may
\nnot use the same careful <\/p>\n

666
\n00:45:12,120 –> 00:45:16,840
\ndiscriminating process that was
\nused by earlier generations of <\/p>\n

667
\n00:45:16,840 –> 00:45:21,560
\nChristadelphians, especially
\ngiven the fact that modern <\/p>\n

668
\n00:45:21,560 –> 00:45:26,720
\nChristian music is nothing other
\nthan pure humanism with a <\/p>\n

669
\n00:45:26,720 –> 00:45:29,920
\nreligious coat on.
\nIt’s nothing more than that. <\/p>\n

670
\n00:45:31,040 –> 00:45:33,200
\nIt’s utterly different to the
\nspirit of the truth. <\/p>\n

671
\n00:45:33,400 –> 00:45:36,960
\nWe need to be very careful,
\nbrothers and sisters, in terms <\/p>\n

672
\n00:45:36,960 –> 00:45:41,880
\nof the source of our music.
\nNow, I’m all for exploring new <\/p>\n

673
\n00:45:41,880 –> 00:45:45,400
\nmusic and worship.
\nI think it’s good, and we do, <\/p>\n

674
\n00:45:45,600 –> 00:45:48,920
\nespecially in our special
\nevenings of of song and praise. <\/p>\n

675
\n00:45:49,160 –> 00:45:53,480
\nBut if the spirit of searching
\nfor new music is to replace our <\/p>\n

676
\n00:45:53,480 –> 00:45:56,840
\nhymn book because we think it’s
\nboring, then I’m passionately <\/p>\n

677
\n00:45:56,840 –> 00:45:59,920
\nagainst new music if that’s the
\nmotive. <\/p>\n

678
\n00:46:01,400 –> 00:46:04,920
\nBut if we want to sing other
\nspiritual songs as well as <\/p>\n

679
\n00:46:04,920 –> 00:46:07,880
\ntreasure our hymn book, then I
\nthink that’s a wonderful thing. <\/p>\n

680
\n00:46:08,160 –> 00:46:12,480
\nOur hymn book should remain the
\ncore of our spiritual worship. <\/p>\n

681
\n00:46:12,640 –> 00:46:17,280
\nAnd that hymn book, in turn,
\nought to maintain the heritage <\/p>\n

682
\n00:46:17,280 –> 00:46:22,000
\nof our faith and be the standard
\nbearer for what we truly believe<\/p>\n

683
\n00:46:22,160 –> 00:46:25,840
\nis proper music according to the
\nbenchmark of the House of Asaph.<\/p>\n

684
\n00:46:26,000 –> 00:46:28,640
\nYou see, the spirit of today is
\nwe want something new. <\/p>\n

685
\n00:46:28,720 –> 00:46:32,280
\nWe want something new.
\nThe spirit of the House of Asaph<\/p>\n

686
\n00:46:32,280 –> 00:46:35,360
\nwas treasure.
\nThe old, treasure the old. <\/p>\n

687
\n00:46:36,480 –> 00:46:37,600
\nIt’s a different spirit, isn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n

688
\n00:46:39,000 –> 00:46:42,160
\nBut you see, that spirit of that
\nfamily is what kept them <\/p>\n

689
\n00:46:42,160 –> 00:46:44,720
\nfaithful down through all these
\nyears. <\/p>\n

690
\n00:46:44,880 –> 00:46:48,560
\nYou know, change sometimes can
\nseem to be very small. <\/p>\n

691
\n00:46:49,480 –> 00:46:54,440
\nSuch a little change here and
\nthere may seem to be harmless. <\/p>\n

692
\n00:46:57,200 –> 00:47:03,640
\nThe where the triumph of
\ngradualism. <\/p>\n

693
\n00:47:06,440 –> 00:47:11,360
\nIt is by little changes,
\nbrothers and sisters, that our <\/p>\n

694
\n00:47:11,360 –> 00:47:14,280
\nsongs of worship might
\nimperceptible be altered over <\/p>\n

695
\n00:47:14,280 –> 00:47:23,000
\ntime until our faith is lost,
\nand we don’t ever want that to <\/p>\n

696
\n00:47:23,000 –> 00:47:26,520
\nhappen.
\nSo you watch for trends, you <\/p>\n

697
\n00:47:26,520 –> 00:47:30,280
\nsee, you watch for trends.
\nAnd if the trend is towards an <\/p>\n

698
\n00:47:30,280 –> 00:47:35,760
\nincreasing focus on music at the
\nexpense of the words, then <\/p>\n

699
\n00:47:35,760 –> 00:47:41,440
\nresist the trend and stay with
\nthose old and lovely things that<\/p>\n

700
\n00:47:41,440 –> 00:47:44,360
\nwe have sung as a community and
\nthat have kept us faithful as a <\/p>\n

701
\n00:47:44,360 –> 00:47:46,280
\nbrotherhood now for a long
\nperiod of time. <\/p>\n

702
\n00:47:46,760 –> 00:47:53,080
\nNot as long, mind you, as the
\nHouse of ASAP who managed to <\/p>\n

703
\n00:47:53,080 –> 00:47:56,600
\nstay on the same hymn book
\nwithout revision for an awful <\/p>\n

704
\n00:47:56,600 –> 00:48:02,400
\nlong period of time.
\nThe virtue of constancy. <\/p>\n

705
\n00:48:03,680 –> 00:48:07,400
\nYou see, the instruments of
\nmusic were specially made by <\/p>\n

706
\n00:48:07,400 –> 00:48:12,880
\nDavid for praising the Lord.
\nIt suggested that David received<\/p>\n

707
\n00:48:12,880 –> 00:48:17,600
\nthe pattern for these by the
\ndivine revelation, and that he <\/p>\n

708
\n00:48:17,600 –> 00:48:20,400
\nreceived this in common with the
\npattern for all other <\/p>\n

709
\n00:48:20,400 –> 00:48:23,440
\ninstruments that were used for
\nservice in the temple. <\/p>\n

710
\n00:48:24,600 –> 00:48:28,280
\nThey were known, therefore, as
\nmusical instruments of God. <\/p>\n

711
\n00:48:29,800 –> 00:48:33,520
\nLater revivals of the temple
\nworship did not deviate from <\/p>\n

712
\n00:48:33,520 –> 00:48:36,960
\nthis standard, and the songs of
\nthe Lord were still sung with <\/p>\n

713
\n00:48:36,960 –> 00:48:39,200
\nthe instruments of David, the
\nman of God. <\/p>\n

714
\n00:48:40,400 –> 00:48:44,280
\nIn similar fashion.
\nThe words of these songs were <\/p>\n

715
\n00:48:44,280 –> 00:48:46,720
\njealously guarded by the House
\nof Asaph. <\/p>\n

716
\n00:48:47,120 –> 00:48:50,240
\nThe original Psalm delivered
\nthem, delivered to them by <\/p>\n

717
\n00:48:50,240 –> 00:48:53,080
\nDavid.
\nTo sing became the center of <\/p>\n

718
\n00:48:53,080 –> 00:48:57,520
\ntheir praise.
\nIt’s simple majesty, undimmed by<\/p>\n

719
\n00:48:57,520 –> 00:49:02,360
\ncenturies.
\nIt is reasonable to assume that <\/p>\n

720
\n00:49:02,360 –> 00:49:09,560
\njust as both instrument and word
\ndid not vary, so also the music <\/p>\n

721
\n00:49:09,560 –> 00:49:15,280
\nplayed remained unchanged
\nthroughout the centuries. <\/p>\n

722
\n00:49:16,560 –> 00:49:19,560
\nI believe that brothers and
\nsisters, I believe that when the<\/p>\n

723
\n00:49:19,560 –> 00:49:24,040
\nHouse of Asaph sang their songs
\nin Ezra Chapter 3, that they <\/p>\n

724
\n00:49:24,040 –> 00:49:29,760
\nsang the same words played on
\nthe same instruments, sung to <\/p>\n

725
\n00:49:29,760 –> 00:49:33,960
\nthe same tune.
\nThey never, ever varied. <\/p>\n

726
\n00:49:33,960 –> 00:49:36,880
\nThis faithful family.
\nWell, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n

727
\n00:49:36,880 –> 00:49:39,920
\nthey’re back in the land.
\nThey’ve come back. <\/p>\n

728
\n00:49:41,440 –> 00:49:44,120
\nAnd there’s more to the story
\nyet, because the story’s not <\/p>\n

729
\n00:49:44,120 –> 00:49:48,240
\nquite finished.
\nBut as to what finally happened <\/p>\n

730
\n00:49:48,880 –> 00:49:53,360
\nto the House of ASAP, well, we
\nmust wait until tomorrow to find<\/p>\n

731
\n00:49:53,360 –> 00:50:08,260
\nout.
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\n00:50:10,700 –> 00:50:13,140
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\n00:50:13,140 –> 00:50:15,500
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