{"id":1366,"date":"2025-09-07T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/364-brian-luke-the-singers-and-the-sons-of-asaph\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T00:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:19:00","slug":"364-brian-luke-the-singers-and-the-sons-of-asaph","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/364-brian-luke-the-singers-and-the-sons-of-asaph\/","title":{"rendered":"364: Brian Luke – The Singers and the Sons of Asaph"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s talk is a class by Brother Brian Luke titled \u201cThe Singers and the Sons of Asaph\u201d from the series, “I Have Set my Affection to the House of God” which he gave at the Lompoc Bible Study Weekend in 2000.<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to good Christophian
\ntalks. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m Levi.
\nI’m Chris. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m Jason.
\nAnd I’m Brian, thank you for <\/p>\n

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\njoining us this week on this
\npodcast. <\/p>\n

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\nWe select one talk a week to
\nhelp us get the Bible in our <\/p>\n

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\nEach week we post a talk that we<\/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 everyone, it’s Jason Hensley.<\/p>\n

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\nThis week we are listening to a
\ntalk by brother Brian Luke given<\/p>\n

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\nin Lompoc, CA in the year 2000.
\nNow I have a special connection <\/p>\n

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\nto this class.
\nI feel like I should explain it <\/p>\n

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\na little bit in that this is the
\nfirst time that I met Uncle <\/p>\n

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\nBrian and he was kind of a big
\npart in really shaping who I <\/p>\n

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\nhave become as a Bible student.
\nHe was one of the first ones to <\/p>\n

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\nreally inspire me to jump into
\nthe Bible and try and understand<\/p>\n

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\nwhat it was saying.
\nIn fact, one of the things that <\/p>\n

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\nreally stuck with me was when I
\nasked him a question about <\/p>\n

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\nDaniel, he said to me, tomorrow
\nnight you and I are going to sit<\/p>\n

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\ndown together and we are going
\nto work through the book of <\/p>\n

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\nDaniel.
\nAnd we did the next night and we<\/p>\n

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\nsat down for hours and we walked
\nthrough the book of Daniel <\/p>\n

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\ntogether.
\nAnd that made a really big <\/p>\n

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\nimpression on me as a teenager.
\nNow, that’s not what we’re <\/p>\n

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\nlooking at in this class, but I
\nfelt like it was, it was a <\/p>\n

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\nlittle bit of significant
\nbackground for understanding why<\/p>\n

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\nthis class, I think really
\nresonated with me. <\/p>\n

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\nIn addition, I think what he
\ndoes in this class is pretty <\/p>\n

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\nexciting because number 1, he
\ntakes a section of the Bible, <\/p>\n

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\nwhich is the end of the book of
\nFirst Chronicles, a section of <\/p>\n

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\nthe Bible that can sometimes be
\nkind of dry. <\/p>\n

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\nIt feels like it’s just a lot.
\nSo he takes that and he, he <\/p>\n

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\nbrings a lot of lessons out of
\nit. <\/p>\n

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\nSo I think number one, that’s
\nreally helpful and #2 being <\/p>\n

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\nsomeone who is, I think, still
\nconsidered a young person, I <\/p>\n

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\nreally appreciated his emphasis
\non recognizing the importance of<\/p>\n

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\nwhat has gone before.
\nNot that it’s always right and <\/p>\n

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\nhe makes that clear, but at
\nleast having a respect for what <\/p>\n

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\nhas gone before and
\nacknowledging that the people <\/p>\n

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\nbefore you worked hard.
\nAnd I really, I appreciated that<\/p>\n

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\nreminder.
\nSo I hope you do too. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I hope that this class is
\nmeaningful for you. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is brother Brian Luke, the
\nyear 2000 Bom Pococclesia, and <\/p>\n

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\nit is his class called the
\nSingers and Sons of Asaph. <\/p>\n

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\nNow brother Scaramastra made
\neasy deal of that difficult <\/p>\n

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\nchapter, didn’t he?
\nIt’s one of those that we used <\/p>\n

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\nto remember when we were going
\nthrough with the children that <\/p>\n

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\nwas very difficult to when you
\nget to that section, for them to<\/p>\n

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\nclimb their way through all of
\nthose names, especially he man’s<\/p>\n

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\nfourteen sons.
\nDid you notice the, the variety <\/p>\n

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\nhe had there?
\nIt must have been quite an <\/p>\n

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\nexercise for his wife to think
\nof a new name, eh, when you’ve <\/p>\n

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\ngot fourteen sons.
\nBut when you look at those <\/p>\n

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\nnames, you rather think that he
\nhad a fair vocab. <\/p>\n

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\nIt didn’t seem to run out, did
\nhe? <\/p>\n

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\nI actually want to turn back a
\nchapter or two back to chapter <\/p>\n

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\n23 and give you just the at
\nleast the bones of this chapter.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd then chapter 24, which is of
\ncourse, in between we will deal <\/p>\n

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\nwith when we deal with the
\nspecial offices of David later. <\/p>\n

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\nBut here’s David with an
\ninsurrection in the environment <\/p>\n

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\nin which he’s living.
\nHe’s just come through the time <\/p>\n

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\nof Adonis’s attempt to take the
\nthrone. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd yet look what this man gets
\nup to in verse 2 of chapter 23. <\/p>\n

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\nIt says he gathered together all
\nthe Princess of Israel with the <\/p>\n

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\npriests and the Levites.
\nAnd you might think, well, if <\/p>\n

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\nhe’s reorganizing the Levites,
\nthe priests and the Levites, why<\/p>\n

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\nthen has he bothered about
\ngetting all the Princess <\/p>\n

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\ntogether as well?
\nWell, David, David really had a <\/p>\n

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\na sense.
\nHe really had an excellent sense<\/p>\n

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\nof the greater occasion.
\nHe he knew how to put things <\/p>\n

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\ntogether to have its maximum
\neffect upon people. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd sometimes in a cliche of
\nlife, you’ll find that a person,<\/p>\n

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\nhe knows how to organize an
\nevent so that it really comes <\/p>\n

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\nhome with impression.
\nDavid had that undoubted <\/p>\n

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\nability.
\nHe could sense the value of a <\/p>\n

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\nmatter.
\nHe could sense how to bring it <\/p>\n

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\nhome to people.
\nFor example, in a similar kind, <\/p>\n

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\nlook at chapter 24 and verse 6.
\nIt says there and Shemayiah the <\/p>\n

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\nson of Nethanel the scribe, one
\nof the Levites, wrote them <\/p>\n

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\nbefore the king and the
\nPrincess, and Zadok the priest, <\/p>\n

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\nand Hemelich the son of Abartha,
\nand before the chief of the <\/p>\n

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\nfathers of the priests and
\nLevites. <\/p>\n

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\nNow what they’re doing is
\nsetting out the names of the <\/p>\n

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\ndifferent sons of Eliezer and
\nIthima, who would be in the 24 <\/p>\n

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\ncourses of the priests.
\nBut he didn’t do it just sort of<\/p>\n

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\nin the backroom, did he, where
\nno one was aware these men were <\/p>\n

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\nbeing inducted into their
\noffice. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it was done with due
\nprocedure. <\/p>\n

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\nHe’s a very clever man, very
\nastute, a king. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so in verse 6, it describes
\na little scene. <\/p>\n

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\nYou can see all these very
\nimportant people all there. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd each one of these then is is
\ncalled by name and their name is<\/p>\n

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\nwritten down before the king and
\nthe Princess and Zadok the <\/p>\n

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\npriest, and Ahimelech the son of
\nAbartha, and before the chief of<\/p>\n

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\nthe fathers of the priests and
\nLevites. <\/p>\n

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\nIn other words, he was given
\ngreat occasion to their <\/p>\n

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\nappointment.
\nThey were not to see their <\/p>\n

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\noffice just as another thing.
\nKnow something about that in <\/p>\n

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\necclesial life.
\nJust another example before we <\/p>\n

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\nbroaden that outlook at chapter
\n25 and verse one. <\/p>\n

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\nMoreover, David and the captains
\nof the hosts separated to the <\/p>\n

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\nservice of the sons of ASAP and
\nof Haman and Jaduthan. <\/p>\n

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\nDid you notice anything when we
\nwere going past that reading? <\/p>\n

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\nI mean, brethren says what what
\nhave the the generals of the <\/p>\n

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\narmy where it says the captains
\nof the host? <\/p>\n

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\nWe’re talking about Joab Abishai
\nwith his bulging boseps biceps <\/p>\n

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\nmighty men Ben AI, you wouldn’t
\nhesitate to take on a lion. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat’s a out there with a what
\nwe might call the, you know, the<\/p>\n

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\nsecretary of the of the singing
\nclass ASAP and he man and <\/p>\n

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\nJudithan, they are singers.
\nWhatever has it got to do with <\/p>\n

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\nit that he should bring their
\ninduction of office into the <\/p>\n

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\ncompany of the captains of the
\nhost? <\/p>\n

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\nHe knew a few things, didn’t he?
\nHe was a very astute person and <\/p>\n

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\nhe could see that the people
\nmight discredit perhaps the <\/p>\n

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\noffice of those who were singing
\nand making music. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so he brought out the great
\nstrength of the empire and he <\/p>\n

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\nput them there in front of them.
\nAnd these young boys that came <\/p>\n

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\nup 28, the 24 that we’ve read
\nout today and were put into <\/p>\n

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\ntheir offices.
\nAnd they were received their <\/p>\n

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\ntheir office in the presence of
\nthese great and the well known <\/p>\n

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\nrenowned soldiers of the realm.
\nAnd they had to do respect unto <\/p>\n

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\nthem because, in fact, there was
\ngreater power in their office <\/p>\n

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\nthan there was in the office of
\nthe of the generals of the army.<\/p>\n

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\nHe’s a very, very wise person,
\nwasn’t he? <\/p>\n

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\nYou know, sometimes in ecclesial
\nlife, we, we missed that point. <\/p>\n

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\nSomebody’s going to be appointed
\nto a certain committee and <\/p>\n

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\nyou’re busy at an AV meeting and
\npoll other things on the agenda.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd so.
\nOh, yes, somebody else for that <\/p>\n

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\ncommittee.
\nOK. <\/p>\n

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\nYeah.
\nHe’ll fit in. <\/p>\n

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\nYeah.
\nGo and ask him. <\/p>\n

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\nSo recorder’s busy that Sunday
\nmorning. <\/p>\n

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\nHe rushes up, said, look, would
\nyou mind helping out with the <\/p>\n

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\nGospel Advancement Committee or
\nwould you like to go on the <\/p>\n

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\nsocial committee?
\nAnd the person’s caught on the <\/p>\n

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\nspot and they say like, I’m too
\nbusy or whatever. <\/p>\n

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\nSee, there’s a way to do it,
\nisn’t there? <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s not the way to do it.
\nIf you want that person to feel <\/p>\n

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\nthe value of what you’re
\nspeaking about, it really needs <\/p>\n

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\nmore than one of the arranging
\nbrethren to be interested in <\/p>\n

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\nthat.
\nAnd so, you know, did Brother <\/p>\n

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\nRecorder see you out to so and
\nso? <\/p>\n

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\nIt doesn’t matter if he has or
\nhe hasn’t really. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s always best perhaps if he
\nhas, but if he hasn’t, it’s <\/p>\n

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\nstill saying that person to that
\nperson that the arranging <\/p>\n

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\nbrother very interested in in
\nthat matter and the the <\/p>\n

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\nappointment of of the right
\nperson. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we really think you are the
\nright person for that job. <\/p>\n

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\nIt puts therefore value upon the
\noffice. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s just a very wise way to do
\nit rather than just in the <\/p>\n

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\nhelter skelter of events.
\nJust shoot out invitations here,<\/p>\n

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\nthere and every, and wonder
\nsometimes why people are not all<\/p>\n

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\nthat keen to take the office on.
\nBut if the picture is built and <\/p>\n

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\nseen to be a part, an integral
\npart of ecclesial life, a <\/p>\n

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\nvaluable part, then the person
\nthat’s asked to do that will <\/p>\n

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\nsay, yes, I, I see the point.
\nThis is, this is good. <\/p>\n

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\nI’d like to help out in that
\ncapacity. <\/p>\n

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\nSo, you know, just little things
\nlike that. <\/p>\n

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\nDavid was very clever, wasn’t
\nhe? <\/p>\n

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\nVery clever?
\nWho would have thought to bring <\/p>\n

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\nout the, you know, the
\nsecretaries of the, of, of the <\/p>\n

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\nsinging class and, and set up
\ntheir sons in front of the <\/p>\n

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\ngenerals of the army.
\nThey must have thought what’s he<\/p>\n

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\nknow about playing a playing 1\/2
\nor a violin or something or, or <\/p>\n

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\nsymbols.
\nBut you see, he had a greater <\/p>\n

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\nconcept in mind.
\nVery clever person, very clever.<\/p>\n

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\nAll right.
\nSo chapter 23 and verse 2, he <\/p>\n

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\ngathered together all the
\nPrincess of Israel and he’s <\/p>\n

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\ngoing to reorganize the Levites
\nand among them the priests. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so he does it in an
\nauspicious manner. <\/p>\n

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\nNow I think this is just a
\nwonderful thing. <\/p>\n

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\nMy dear Britain said I know this
\nis all names and I don’t want to<\/p>\n

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\nmake the the study too bitty,
\nbut I really want us to feel the<\/p>\n

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\npower of what David’s doing.
\nWould you would you be concerned<\/p>\n

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\nin the last years of your life
\nand you’ve had years in your bed<\/p>\n

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\nabsolutely worn out to a subtle
\nand would you want to be <\/p>\n

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\nbothered with 38,000 people that
\nneeded reorganization because <\/p>\n

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\nthat’s how many Levites there
\nwere 38,000. <\/p>\n

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\nI mean, that’s like being the
\nchief administrative officer in <\/p>\n

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\na, in a multinational company,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n

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\n38,000 men.
\nHe’s going to get hold of them. <\/p>\n

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\nHe’s going to reorganize their
\nlives. <\/p>\n

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\nHe’s going to spruce up their
\nofficers. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd they’re going to have to
\nknow exactly what positions <\/p>\n

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\nthey’ve got.
\nAnd those officers are going to <\/p>\n

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\nhave to be attended with a new
\nshine and a new interest. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he’s going to have to convey
\nas king, he’s going to have to <\/p>\n

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\nconvey to them his interest in
\nwhat is being done. <\/p>\n

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\nI don’t tell me you, you know,
\nranging brethren, once they’re <\/p>\n

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\npast 70, you’re out out on the
\npaddock. <\/p>\n

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\nI really get a little vexed by
\nwhat are you laughing for, Bob? <\/p>\n

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\nI thought he’d be crying.
\nDo you know, we ought to think <\/p>\n

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\nabout that because there is a
\ntendency in our society just as <\/p>\n

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\nput people, you know, when they
\nget into their might be 50s or <\/p>\n

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\n60s, it couldn’t be 50s.
\nI know that. <\/p>\n

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\nBut but to just sort of put them
\nout in the paddock. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I think that is just so
\nwrong. <\/p>\n

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\nI couldn’t think of anything I’d
\nvalue more in our ecclesia than <\/p>\n

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\nif we had 370 year olds sitting
\non our AB. <\/p>\n

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\nI’d love that.
\nI really would. <\/p>\n

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\nBecause they have gone through
\nthe heat and burden of the day. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I think in in terms of, of
\nyoung folks positions and so on.<\/p>\n

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\nYou’ve got an older brother
\nwho’s involved with the young <\/p>\n

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\npeople and he’s brought his
\nchildren through. <\/p>\n

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\nHe’s got an immense amount to
\noffer in that place and let <\/p>\n

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\nalone on the arranging board.
\nI grew up in a meeting with many<\/p>\n

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\nof the old.
\nThe arranging brethren were <\/p>\n

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\nolder brethren.
\nIt was a very good thing. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know, a 60 year old man, a
\n70 year old man today is not <\/p>\n

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\nworn out.
\nAnd in many cases, look, there’s<\/p>\n

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\na lot of smiles coming from
\nearly. <\/p>\n

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\nThey have a lot of sagacity to
\noffer our meeting. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd their stability of life,
\ntheir stability of life, having <\/p>\n

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\ngone through times when the
\nworld was very different, offers<\/p>\n

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\na lot to our younger meetings
\nand to the younger people in our<\/p>\n

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\nmeetings.
\nSo I just mentioned that David <\/p>\n

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\nwas old in the terms of
\nadministration, but he had the <\/p>\n

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\nzeal to go with it and what an
\ninspiration he was. <\/p>\n

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\nSo just bear that in mind.
\nNow it says in verse three that <\/p>\n

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\nthe Levites were numbered from
\nthe age of 30 years and upward. <\/p>\n

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\nActually David increased that.
\nAnd if you look across the verse<\/p>\n

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\n27, you’ll see by the last words
\nof David, the Levites were <\/p>\n

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\nnumbered from 20 years old and
\nabove 30 was the time that was <\/p>\n

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\ngiven back in numbers.
\nWe won’t go back there because <\/p>\n

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\nthat it’s just a sort of
\ntechnical matter, but the, the <\/p>\n

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\nreferences are back in numbers.
\nChapter 4, verse 3 and verse 47 <\/p>\n

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\nwhere it was from 30 to 50
\nyears. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it says there and they’re
\nnumbered by their polls, man by <\/p>\n

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\nman was 30 and 8000.
\nThat’s a lot of people that were<\/p>\n

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\nnumbered in that age group of
\nwhich, and here’s the division. <\/p>\n

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\nIf you’ve got a little piece of
\npaper, just write this down so <\/p>\n

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\nwe’ve got a picture of it.
\nSee 38,000. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s the total number of the
\nLevites. 24,000 were to set <\/p>\n

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\nforward the work of the House of
\nYahweh. 24,000 You just think <\/p>\n

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\nhow many people that is.
\nThat’s a lot of people, isn’t <\/p>\n

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\nit?
\n24,000 and note the number 24, <\/p>\n

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\nit’s 2 by 12.
\nAnd in the chapter we read <\/p>\n

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\ntoday, we had 24 courses of the
\nsingers and the chapter in <\/p>\n

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\nbetween, which is chapter 24,
\nthere’s 24 courses of the <\/p>\n

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\npriests.
\nSo it’s not accidental that it <\/p>\n

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\nsays 24,000 would have set
\nforward the work of the House of<\/p>\n

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\nYahweh.
\nSee, they were obviously in <\/p>\n

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\ncourses, weren’t they, 1000
\nLevites? <\/p>\n

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\nAnd of course, the priests and
\nof course of the singers, they <\/p>\n

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\nwere obviously in groups that
\nworked together like that. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat a beautiful organization.
\nWould you like me thinking about<\/p>\n

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\nthat at his age and his health
\ncircumstances, they had to get <\/p>\n

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\nall those families rounded up so
\nthat they knew exactly when they<\/p>\n

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\nwere coming on to their their
\ncourse. <\/p>\n

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\nNo, you’ve got saying, oh, look,
\nI can get there next Tuesday. <\/p>\n

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\nIf you’re supposed to be there
\nMonday morning. <\/p>\n

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\nThey had to be there ready for
\ntheir office. <\/p>\n

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\nThey couldn’t swap with someone
\nelse. <\/p>\n

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\nIt was their job to be there and
\norganize their life. <\/p>\n

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\nTherefore accordingly to fit in
\nwith what the king was <\/p>\n

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\norganizing over all the land.
\nWhat an amazing man he was. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s the work of God.
\nThis comes first and you’ve got <\/p>\n

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\nto fit in with this is what he
\nwas saying. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m reorganizing this whole
\nthing. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s not going to be on some
\nshamble sort of organization. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s going to have a very
\ndistinct organization and this <\/p>\n

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\nis it.
\nSo I pulled that nation <\/p>\n

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\ntogether.
\nI find that just absolutely <\/p>\n

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\ninspiring.
\nMy dear Vince, how how many of <\/p>\n

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\nus sometimes feel that at least
\nis a little bit weary and you <\/p>\n

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\nwonder if you’ve got the, the
\nzeal and the the courage and the<\/p>\n

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\nthe strength to sort of get the
\nthing going again, Really <\/p>\n

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\norganize them where there’s a a
\nreal passion in the meeting. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, there’s inspiration, isn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n

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\nWhat if your role and your
\necclesia was 38,000? <\/p>\n

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\nYou’d feel a bit weary, wouldn’t
\nyou? <\/p>\n

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\nToo big a task?
\nHow could I ever be bothered <\/p>\n

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\nwith it all?
\nBut the inspiration of David is <\/p>\n

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\nthat though whilst the work was
\nenormous, he nevertheless put <\/p>\n

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\nhis hand to it because he could
\nsee that that great building was<\/p>\n

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\ngoing to arise and it had to be
\ntherefore properly conducted. <\/p>\n

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\nSo he’s going to get all those
\npeople properly organized into <\/p>\n

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\ntheir positions, 24,000 to set
\nforward the work of the House of<\/p>\n

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\nthe hour.
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\nof the size of that house,
\ndoesn’t it? <\/p>\n

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\nI mean, what does 1000 people
\naround a house do if they’re in <\/p>\n

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\ncourses of 20 of 1000 each?
\nThat’s a lot of people around <\/p>\n

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\nthe place, isn’t it?
\nAround the building, A lot of <\/p>\n

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\npeople.
\nWhat are they all doing? <\/p>\n

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\nIt was a very busy place indeed,
\nand a lot of work to be done. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd David therefore had this
\namazing number of people that <\/p>\n

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\nwere involved in the Tavern, in
\nthe in the temple and in its <\/p>\n

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\nservice.
\nAnd their number by their names,<\/p>\n

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\nman by man, was 30 and 8000, of
\nwhich 20 and 4000 were to set <\/p>\n

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\nforward the work of the House of
\nYahweh. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd secondly, 6000 were officers
\nand judges, 6000 were officers <\/p>\n

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\nand judges.
\nNow that’s a an amazing number <\/p>\n

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\nof judges, isn’t it?
\nAnd you might remember how that <\/p>\n

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\nin the Second of Chronicles
\nchapter 16, in the days of <\/p>\n

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\nJehoshaphat, we have an
\nexcellent example of how the <\/p>\n

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\nvirtue of those people was seen
\nin the Second of Chronicles <\/p>\n

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\nchapter 16.
\nThat’s not right. <\/p>\n

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\nIs it 26?
\nIs it 2nd Chronic was 19 verse <\/p>\n

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\nverse 6, verse 5 and 6, and he
\nset judges in the land <\/p>\n

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\nthroughout all the fence cities
\nof Judah, city by city, and said<\/p>\n

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\nto the judges, take heed what ye
\ndo for ye judge, not for man, <\/p>\n

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\nbut for Yahweh who is with you
\nin the judgement. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s a very beautiful
\nexpression, isn’t it? <\/p>\n

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\nYe judge for Yahweh who is with
\nyou in the judgement. <\/p>\n

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\nJust keep your hand there and
\nlook at Psalm 82, which is a <\/p>\n

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\nPsalm about these people.
\nThis was a Psalm of Asaph, one <\/p>\n

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\nof the principal singers, who
\nobviously was more than a <\/p>\n

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\nsinger, but a very spiritually
\nminded man as well. <\/p>\n

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\nIn Psalm 82 it says God standeth
\nin the congregation of the <\/p>\n

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\nmighty, He the judgeth among the
\nElohim, the gods. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd that’s the expression that
\nJesus is borrowing when he says <\/p>\n

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\nto the Jews of his day, Does it
\nnot say in your law I said, ye <\/p>\n

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\nare gods?
\nAnd that’s in verse 6. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is to the judges of Israel
\nwho were called Elohim, because <\/p>\n

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\nGod’s name was upon them to give
\nto the people the judgments and <\/p>\n

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\nprinciples of God.
\nSo verse one then reads Elohim, <\/p>\n

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\nthe mighty ones, these people
\nthus appointed standeth in the <\/p>\n

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\ncongregation of the ale.
\nHe judgeth among the Elohim. <\/p>\n

321
\n00:19:36,240 –> 00:19:38,840
\nSo there were judges that were
\njudging Israel and what the <\/p>\n

322
\n00:19:38,840 –> 00:19:44,040
\nPsalm says beware because God is
\nyour judge. <\/p>\n

323
\n00:19:45,480 –> 00:19:48,800
\nPeople come to you and you give
\nthem verdict, but you are <\/p>\n

324
\n00:19:48,800 –> 00:19:52,000
\nstanding in the presence of the
\nthe ale Himself. <\/p>\n

325
\n00:19:52,360 –> 00:19:56,960
\nSo the Elohim, the judges in
\nIsrael, were those who stood <\/p>\n

326
\n00:19:56,960 –> 00:20:01,280
\nbefore God and would receive
\ntheir judgement of Him as they <\/p>\n

327
\n00:20:01,280 –> 00:20:04,480
\ngave judgement unto others, and
\ntherefore their judgement needed<\/p>\n

328
\n00:20:04,480 –> 00:20:06,880
\nto be just.
\nThat’s of course based isn’t <\/p>\n

329
\n00:20:06,880 –> 00:20:10,400
\nupon Exodus where they were
\ncalled Elohim for the first <\/p>\n

330
\n00:20:10,400 –> 00:20:12,120
\ntime.
\nThe Lord knew that, didn’t he? <\/p>\n

331
\n00:20:12,120 –> 00:20:15,320
\nHe just picked it, picked it out
\nin John chapter 10 verse 30, <\/p>\n

332
\n00:20:15,520 –> 00:20:17,640
\njust plucked that statement
\nstraight out of the record and <\/p>\n

333
\n00:20:17,640 –> 00:20:20,360
\nsaid that’s not say in your law
\nthat ye are judges, these ye are<\/p>\n

334
\n00:20:20,360 –> 00:20:22,440
\ngods.
\nHe knew all those little <\/p>\n

335
\n00:20:22,440 –> 00:20:24,360
\ndetails, didn’t he?
\nHe knew his Bible. <\/p>\n

336
\n00:20:25,240 –> 00:20:26,680
\nAnd so that’s how we ought to
\nbe. <\/p>\n

337
\n00:20:27,520 –> 00:20:31,160
\nAnd so in the days of
\nJehoshaphat, when things had not<\/p>\n

338
\n00:20:31,160 –> 00:20:33,360
\nbeen done quite right and he
\nwanted to bring that nation <\/p>\n

339
\n00:20:33,360 –> 00:20:36,760
\nback, he then used these people
\nfor that offer. <\/p>\n

340
\n00:20:36,760 –> 00:20:41,600
\nSo there’s our 6000 officers and
\njudges in all the cities of <\/p>\n

341
\n00:20:41,840 –> 00:20:46,240
\nJudah and of Israel.
\nAnd the Psalm gives us <\/p>\n

342
\n00:20:46,240 –> 00:20:48,640
\nillustration of their
\nresponsibilities. <\/p>\n

343
\n00:20:50,720 –> 00:20:57,200
\nNow coming back to First
\nChronicles 23, we’ve got 38,024 <\/p>\n

344
\n00:20:57,200 –> 00:21:02,640
\nthousand or rather 24,000 were
\nin the work of the House, 6000 <\/p>\n

345
\n00:21:02,640 –> 00:21:05,560
\nofficers and judges.
\nAnd then in verse 5 it says <\/p>\n

346
\n00:21:06,280 –> 00:21:11,880
\nmoreover 4000 were porters.
\nThey were really doorkeepers. <\/p>\n

347
\n00:21:12,480 –> 00:21:17,360
\nThey were also about the house,
\nbut about the the keeping of the<\/p>\n

348
\n00:21:17,360 –> 00:21:21,520
\ndoors.
\nThey kept the sanctity of God’s <\/p>\n

349
\n00:21:21,520 –> 00:21:24,280
\nhouse, the atmosphere of that
\nhouse. <\/p>\n

350
\n00:21:24,280 –> 00:21:27,480
\nThey were guardians to that
\nhouse and we will have a look at<\/p>\n

351
\n00:21:27,480 –> 00:21:34,280
\nthem later on. 4000 of them.
\nHow many doors did this temple <\/p>\n

352
\n00:21:34,280 –> 00:21:36,760
\nhave?
\nHow many gates were there? <\/p>\n

353
\n00:21:38,760 –> 00:21:42,960
\n4000 people involved in it.
\nWell, they weren’t always at the<\/p>\n

354
\n00:21:42,960 –> 00:21:45,400
\ntemple.
\nThey were also in courses. <\/p>\n

355
\n00:21:46,040 –> 00:21:50,920
\nIn fact, all of these Levites,
\nall of these priests, they were <\/p>\n

356
\n00:21:50,920 –> 00:21:53,800
\nnot public servants full time,
\nso to speak. <\/p>\n

357
\n00:21:54,320 –> 00:21:57,200
\nThey also had their normal life
\nas well. <\/p>\n

358
\n00:21:57,760 –> 00:21:59,600
\nThey weren’t lounging upon the
\nnation. <\/p>\n

359
\n00:21:59,600 –> 00:22:04,000
\nThey had to conduct their own
\naffairs and so they were giving <\/p>\n

360
\n00:22:04,000 –> 00:22:07,080
\na part of their life to the
\nservice of God. <\/p>\n

361
\n00:22:08,640 –> 00:22:12,000
\nSO4000 praised Yahweh with
\ninstruments is the next <\/p>\n

362
\n00:22:12,000 –> 00:22:17,040
\nstatement in verse 5, and the
\nchapter that deals with them is <\/p>\n

363
\n00:22:17,040 –> 00:22:20,760
\nchapter 25.
\nSo you can see what these <\/p>\n

364
\n00:22:20,760 –> 00:22:24,320
\nsubsequent chapters are doing.
\nIf you look at chapter 26, <\/p>\n

365
\n00:22:24,800 –> 00:22:31,920
\nthat’s all about the porters.
\nSo we had 4000 porters and their<\/p>\n

366
\n00:22:31,920 –> 00:22:38,840
\nchapter is chapter 26 and we had
\n4000 the singers or those that <\/p>\n

367
\n00:22:38,840 –> 00:22:41,880
\npraised Yahweh with instruments,
\nand their chapter of <\/p>\n

368
\n00:22:41,880 –> 00:22:47,720
\norganization is chapter 25 and
\nwe had the priests as well and <\/p>\n

369
\n00:22:47,720 –> 00:22:51,840
\ntheir chapter is chapter 24.
\nSo you can see that chapter 23 <\/p>\n

370
\n00:22:51,840 –> 00:22:56,440
\nis now going to be expanded and
\nthe organizational structure and<\/p>\n

371
\n00:22:56,440 –> 00:22:59,880
\nthe names involved is going to
\nbe outlined in the subsequent <\/p>\n

372
\n00:22:59,880 –> 00:23:03,200
\nchapters of First Chronicles 23.
\nSo you can see that this whole <\/p>\n

373
\n00:23:03,200 –> 00:23:06,280
\nsection of Scripture, First
\nChronicles 21, First Chronicles <\/p>\n

374
\n00:23:06,280 –> 00:23:10,320
\n29 is all set in the last part
\nof David’s life and is speaking <\/p>\n

375
\n00:23:10,320 –> 00:23:15,360
\nabout his reorganization of the
\nof the whole city really and in <\/p>\n

376
\n00:23:15,360 –> 00:23:18,600
\nparticular of the Levites that
\nwere about the service of God. <\/p>\n

377
\n00:23:20,520 –> 00:23:25,840
\nA new house was going to need a
\ngreat more organization than had<\/p>\n

378
\n00:23:25,840 –> 00:23:30,480
\nbeen before, and it says in
\nverse 6 that David divided them <\/p>\n

379
\n00:23:30,800 –> 00:23:35,920
\ninto courses among the sons of
\nLevi, namely Gershon, Kohath, <\/p>\n

380
\n00:23:36,400 –> 00:23:40,080
\nand Murari.
\nNow, just for the purpose of <\/p>\n

381
\n00:23:40,600 –> 00:23:42,840
\npicking up the structure of
\nthis, I’d like you to have that <\/p>\n

382
\n00:23:42,840 –> 00:23:46,560
\nlittle piece of paper again if
\nyou’ve got it, and just put Levi<\/p>\n

383
\n00:23:46,760 –> 00:23:48,800
\nand then three arrows down from
\nLevi. <\/p>\n

384
\n00:23:48,800 –> 00:23:51,520
\nIf I put this on a transparency,
\nyou’ll look at it once and <\/p>\n

385
\n00:23:51,520 –> 00:23:53,720
\nforget it, but if you write it
\ndown, you’ll remember it. <\/p>\n

386
\n00:23:54,680 –> 00:24:05,720
\nSo Levi and he has three sons,
\nGershon, Kohath and Murari. <\/p>\n

387
\n00:24:07,960 –> 00:24:12,000
\nAnd the, the, the scripture says
\nthat David divided them into <\/p>\n

388
\n00:24:12,000 –> 00:24:17,800
\ncourses among the sons, the
\nthree sons. <\/p>\n

389
\n00:24:18,640 –> 00:24:21,920
\nSo this chapter is going to be
\nabout the Levites, and it is <\/p>\n

390
\n00:24:22,400 –> 00:24:25,240
\nchapter 23.
\nThen it’s going to tell you <\/p>\n

391
\n00:24:25,240 –> 00:24:28,880
\nabout some of the sons of
\nGershon who were principally <\/p>\n

392
\n00:24:28,880 –> 00:24:33,920
\ninvolved, and some of the sons
\nof Coeth who were principals <\/p>\n

393
\n00:24:34,160 –> 00:24:38,880
\namong the Levites, and some of
\nthe sons of Murari who were <\/p>\n

394
\n00:24:38,880 –> 00:24:44,000
\nprincipal sons of Levi.
\nAnd so he does also with the <\/p>\n

395
\n00:24:44,000 –> 00:24:48,880
\nporters and with the singers.
\nThey will come from each of <\/p>\n

396
\n00:24:48,880 –> 00:24:51,840
\nthose main divisions of the
\nLevites. <\/p>\n

397
\n00:24:52,120 –> 00:24:54,680
\nSo to get that picture clear in
\nyour mind is important, isn’t <\/p>\n

398
\n00:24:54,680 –> 00:24:56,520
\nit?
\nLevi, Gershon, Kohath and <\/p>\n

399
\n00:24:56,520 –> 00:25:00,480
\nMurari, and from these and from
\nthese and from these, he would <\/p>\n

400
\n00:25:00,480 –> 00:25:04,160
\ntake certain particular people
\nto be principles of the Levites <\/p>\n

401
\n00:25:04,160 –> 00:25:07,600
\ngenerally in the work of the
\nhouse, to be principles in the <\/p>\n

402
\n00:25:07,880 –> 00:25:13,120
\nPorter area or door keeping
\narea, principles also in the <\/p>\n

403
\n00:25:13,520 –> 00:25:16,680
\nsinging area.
\nThat’s how he structured it. <\/p>\n

404
\n00:25:16,680 –> 00:25:19,080
\nOf course, the priests came only
\nfrom one line. <\/p>\n

405
\n00:25:19,400 –> 00:25:23,960
\nThey came from the line of Aaron
\nwho was among the sons of cohab.<\/p>\n

406
\n00:25:28,000 –> 00:25:34,040
\nNow this became therefore a very
\nimportant structure in the whole<\/p>\n

407
\n00:25:34,040 –> 00:25:39,040
\nof Israel’s future, and for
\ncenturies that structure was <\/p>\n

408
\n00:25:39,040 –> 00:25:42,520
\npreserved.
\nAnd if you come to 2nd of <\/p>\n

409
\n00:25:42,520 –> 00:25:45,160
\nChronicles, which is really
\nturning over all the period of <\/p>\n

410
\n00:25:45,160 –> 00:25:49,920
\nthe Davidic Kingdom in the
\nSecond of Chronicles chapter 35,<\/p>\n

411
\n00:25:51,200 –> 00:26:01,160
\nyou’ll see how important that
\nbecame. 2nd of Chronicles 35 and<\/p>\n

412
\n00:26:01,160 –> 00:26:05,560
\nverse 4, we’ve gone right over
\nto Josiah, who’s getting towards<\/p>\n

413
\n00:26:05,560 –> 00:26:11,560
\nthe end of the Kingdom of Judah,
\nand this is what it says and <\/p>\n

414
\n00:26:11,560 –> 00:26:17,880
\nprepare yourselves, verse 4, by
\nthe houses of your father’s, he <\/p>\n

415
\n00:26:17,880 –> 00:26:24,000
\nsays as he speaks to the Levites
\nand the priests after your <\/p>\n

416
\n00:26:24,040 –> 00:26:28,280
\ncourses.
\nAccording to the writing of <\/p>\n

417
\n00:26:28,280 –> 00:26:32,840
\nDavid, king of Israel, and
\naccording to the writing of <\/p>\n

418
\n00:26:32,840 –> 00:26:36,080
\nSolomon his son.
\nWasn’t that instructive? <\/p>\n

419
\n00:26:36,520 –> 00:26:41,600
\nWe’ve turned over 300 odd years
\nand there is the comment which <\/p>\n

420
\n00:26:41,600 –> 00:26:45,320
\nJosiah says to his people.
\nSo what we’re reading back here <\/p>\n

421
\n00:26:45,320 –> 00:26:51,200
\nin First Chronicles 232425 and
\n26 is going to be an <\/p>\n

422
\n00:26:51,200 –> 00:26:54,800
\norganizational structure that
\nwill be implemented for 300 <\/p>\n

423
\n00:26:54,800 –> 00:26:59,080
\nyears and or always be
\nrecognized as having been laid <\/p>\n

424
\n00:26:59,080 –> 00:27:03,040
\ndown by the hand of David’s
\nwriting and Solomon after him, <\/p>\n

425
\n00:27:03,520 –> 00:27:06,840
\nwho obviously established that
\neven for there’s an interesting,<\/p>\n

426
\n00:27:06,960 –> 00:27:09,080
\nvery interesting.
\nSo it wasn’t just up to <\/p>\n

427
\n00:27:09,080 –> 00:27:10,560
\nHezekiah.
\nI said, oh, I wasn’t going to do<\/p>\n

428
\n00:27:10,560 –> 00:27:12,160
\nit this way.
\nYou know, I’m going to <\/p>\n

429
\n00:27:12,160 –> 00:27:15,400
\nreorganize the place this way.
\nLike, you know, 1 government <\/p>\n

430
\n00:27:15,400 –> 00:27:18,760
\ncomes in, one party goes out and
\nyou get a complete change of the<\/p>\n

431
\n00:27:18,760 –> 00:27:21,160
\nway the government’s run.
\nThat’s how it is in Australia. <\/p>\n

432
\n00:27:21,280 –> 00:27:23,440
\nYou don’t really know how to
\nturn up the telephone book <\/p>\n

433
\n00:27:23,440 –> 00:27:25,280
\nanymore because you, you don’t
\nknow where you’re going to find <\/p>\n

434
\n00:27:25,280 –> 00:27:27,080
\nthis particular office of the
\ngovernment. <\/p>\n

435
\n00:27:27,080 –> 00:27:28,360
\nIt’s, it’s all changing, isn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n

436
\n00:27:28,360 –> 00:27:29,840
\nOur world’s just changing like
\ncrazy. <\/p>\n

437
\n00:27:30,480 –> 00:27:33,600
\nSame here, is it?
\nYeah, same everywhere, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

438
\n00:27:33,600 –> 00:27:37,560
\nMadness in the world.
\nBut in the days of David there <\/p>\n

439
\n00:27:37,560 –> 00:27:41,000
\nwas something laid down that was
\nby divine decree and it was <\/p>\n

440
\n00:27:41,000 –> 00:27:44,200
\nestablished.
\nAnd Josiah, who had respected <\/p>\n

441
\n00:27:44,200 –> 00:27:46,440
\nthat, he resurrected that and
\nsaid this is how it’s going to <\/p>\n

442
\n00:27:46,440 –> 00:27:50,640
\nbe done according to my ancient
\nfather’s direction, because God <\/p>\n

443
\n00:27:50,640 –> 00:27:55,800
\ngave him that in the Second of
\nChronicles 8 verse 14. <\/p>\n

444
\n00:27:55,800 –> 00:28:01,400
\nNo, that doesn’t mean the same
\nidea insisted in ecclesial life.<\/p>\n

445
\n00:28:02,200 –> 00:28:05,760
\nThere can’t be any change.
\nI’ll tell you what it does mean <\/p>\n

446
\n00:28:05,760 –> 00:28:08,640
\nto me.
\nIt meant, and I’d like our <\/p>\n

447
\n00:28:08,720 –> 00:28:12,520
\nyounger brethren to hear this.
\nWhat it does mean to me is that <\/p>\n

448
\n00:28:12,520 –> 00:28:17,280
\nwe ought to have respect at
\nleast for the way things have <\/p>\n

449
\n00:28:17,280 –> 00:28:20,000
\nbeen done.
\nIf you want ecclesial peace and <\/p>\n

450
\n00:28:20,000 –> 00:28:26,240
\nharmony, have respect the way
\nthat older brethren have seen <\/p>\n

451
\n00:28:26,240 –> 00:28:28,920
\nfit to do things.
\nIt doesn’t mean to say that’s <\/p>\n

452
\n00:28:28,920 –> 00:28:32,280
\nalways perfect.
\nGod did not tell us by divine <\/p>\n

453
\n00:28:32,280 –> 00:28:36,760
\ndecree how to do it.
\nBut surely if you want peace in <\/p>\n

454
\n00:28:36,760 –> 00:28:41,520
\nyour meeting, it is right that a
\nyounger brother respects what <\/p>\n

455
\n00:28:41,520 –> 00:28:42,640
\nhas been.
\nIsn’t that true? <\/p>\n

456
\n00:28:43,440 –> 00:28:46,440
\nIt must be true.
\nAbsolutely must be true. <\/p>\n

457
\n00:28:48,560 –> 00:28:52,400
\nAny movement that doesn’t
\nrespect its pioneers is going to<\/p>\n

458
\n00:28:52,480 –> 00:28:54,160
\nbe a movement that just goes off
\nthe rails. <\/p>\n

459
\n00:28:55,600 –> 00:28:58,000
\nIt must mean that must when you
\nstop and think about it. <\/p>\n

460
\n00:28:58,280 –> 00:28:59,760
\nBecause God is working in our
\nmidst. <\/p>\n

461
\n00:28:59,760 –> 00:29:01,320
\nYeah, well, He was working in
\ntheir midst too. <\/p>\n

462
\n00:29:02,160 –> 00:29:04,120
\nAnd this is the way that things
\nwere done, and they were done <\/p>\n

463
\n00:29:04,120 –> 00:29:07,600
\nvery well for many, many years.
\nIf we live here 4 in an age <\/p>\n

464
\n00:29:07,640 –> 00:29:10,120
\nthat’s turning over, turning
\nover, turning over, don’t get <\/p>\n

465
\n00:29:10,120 –> 00:29:12,880
\ncaught up with that age.
\nThe odds are that it’s going to <\/p>\n

466
\n00:29:12,880 –> 00:29:15,640
\nbe doing a lot of things very
\nwrongly as far as God’s <\/p>\n

467
\n00:29:15,640 –> 00:29:18,480
\nconcerned or totally unrelated
\nto the principles of God. <\/p>\n

468
\n00:29:18,480 –> 00:29:20,280
\nBut that wasn’t the case with
\nour grandparents. <\/p>\n

469
\n00:29:20,920 –> 00:29:23,400
\nThey were God fearing men who
\nsaw fit to do it in certain <\/p>\n

470
\n00:29:23,400 –> 00:29:26,040
\nways.
\nDoes it mean to say everything <\/p>\n

471
\n00:29:26,040 –> 00:29:28,560
\nwas perfect?
\nDoesn’t mean that at all, but it<\/p>\n

472
\n00:29:28,560 –> 00:29:31,720
\ndoes mean if a pleasure piece,
\nit’s going to be realized that <\/p>\n

473
\n00:29:31,880 –> 00:29:34,000
\nthe younger generation has
\nrespect. <\/p>\n

474
\n00:29:35,400 –> 00:29:37,240
\nLike Josiah had respect, didn’t
\nhe? <\/p>\n

475
\n00:29:37,240 –> 00:29:40,440
\nAbsolute respect.
\nAnd he never ever knew Dave <\/p>\n

476
\n00:29:40,640 –> 00:29:42,800
\nhundreds of years from the
\nbackground, but he had absolute <\/p>\n

477
\n00:29:42,800 –> 00:29:45,920
\nrespect for that.
\nAnd you know, they even had the <\/p>\n

478
\n00:29:45,920 –> 00:29:48,720
\nsame instruments.
\nThey they didn’t change the <\/p>\n

479
\n00:29:48,720 –> 00:29:49,880
\ninstruments.
\nIncredible. <\/p>\n

480
\n00:29:51,040 –> 00:29:54,800
\nDavid made it this way.
\nThat’s how it be made in the <\/p>\n

481
\n00:29:54,800 –> 00:29:58,080
\nsecond chronicle was 8.
\nThis is the days of Solomon. <\/p>\n

482
\n00:29:59,000 –> 00:30:00,400
\nSolomon was a brilliant young
\nboy. <\/p>\n

483
\n00:30:00,880 –> 00:30:02,120
\nHe could make up his own
\ncharter. <\/p>\n

484
\n00:30:02,120 –> 00:30:04,720
\nSurely he didn’t need to rely
\nupon anybody here. <\/p>\n

485
\n00:30:04,720 –> 00:30:07,320
\nHow did how did he need to walk
\nin the steps of anyone? <\/p>\n

486
\n00:30:07,640 –> 00:30:09,320
\nWell, you have a look in Second
\nChronicles 8. <\/p>\n

487
\n00:30:11,440 –> 00:30:16,360
\nSecond Chronicles 8, verse 14,
\nbrilliant young man, but he <\/p>\n

488
\n00:30:16,360 –> 00:30:20,240
\nappointed according to the order
\nof David his father. <\/p>\n

489
\n00:30:20,240 –> 00:30:23,720
\nIsn’t that lovely?
\nI love that according to the <\/p>\n

490
\n00:30:23,720 –> 00:30:27,360
\norder of David his father.
\nI’d love my boys and I’d love my<\/p>\n

491
\n00:30:27,360 –> 00:30:31,640
\ndaughters to think like that,
\nnot because it’s me, but because<\/p>\n

492
\n00:30:31,640 –> 00:30:35,440
\nof the principle involved.
\nThat’s how really we need to be <\/p>\n

493
\n00:30:35,440 –> 00:30:39,480
\nin ecclesial life, to teach our
\nchildren to respect their elders<\/p>\n

494
\n00:30:39,920 –> 00:30:43,640
\nso that they have a desire to
\nuphold what their fathers and <\/p>\n

495
\n00:30:43,640 –> 00:30:47,400
\ntheir grandfathers and other
\nfathers in the faith have stood <\/p>\n

496
\n00:30:47,400 –> 00:30:49,480
\nfor, because that’s a good
\nthing. <\/p>\n

497
\n00:30:50,360 –> 00:30:53,960
\nIs Solomon all his presence?
\nWas there ever a sharper mind in<\/p>\n

498
\n00:30:53,960 –> 00:30:57,200
\nIsrael than that?
\nBut according to the principles <\/p>\n

499
\n00:30:57,200 –> 00:31:01,880
\nof death, what Dad established
\nthe courses of the priests to <\/p>\n

500
\n00:31:01,880 –> 00:31:05,000
\ntheir service, the Levites to
\ntheir charter, with the details <\/p>\n

501
\n00:31:05,640 –> 00:31:08,800
\nto praise and minister before
\nthe priests, as the duty of the <\/p>\n

502
\n00:31:08,800 –> 00:31:13,480
\npriests, as the duty of every
\nday required, the porters also <\/p>\n

503
\n00:31:13,480 –> 00:31:18,320
\nby the courses at every gate.
\nFor so had David, the man of God<\/p>\n

504
\n00:31:18,320 –> 00:31:22,200
\ncommanded.
\nThat’s impressive, isn’t it? <\/p>\n

505
\n00:31:22,200 –> 00:31:26,520
\nVery impressive indeed to see
\nthe detail that is given there. <\/p>\n

506
\n00:31:27,600 –> 00:31:36,480
\nNow if you come back into the
\nfirst of Chronicles 28, you’ll <\/p>\n

507
\n00:31:36,480 –> 00:31:39,040
\nsee that David did in fact
\nreceive that pattern. <\/p>\n

508
\n00:31:43,240 –> 00:31:45,920
\nYou might say, well he he saw
\nthe pattern of the temple, <\/p>\n

509
\n00:31:46,200 –> 00:31:48,840
\nthat’s true.
\nBut he saw more than that. <\/p>\n

510
\n00:31:49,960 –> 00:31:54,760
\nHe saw how the place would work.
\nVerse 11, First Chronicles 28 <\/p>\n

511
\n00:31:55,320 –> 00:32:00,520
\nDavid gave to Solomon his son,
\nthe pattern of the porch and of <\/p>\n

512
\n00:32:00,520 –> 00:32:05,360
\nthe houses thereof, and of the
\ntreasuries, and of the upper <\/p>\n

513
\n00:32:05,360 –> 00:32:09,240
\nchambers, and of the inner
\npalace, and of the place of the <\/p>\n

514
\n00:32:09,240 –> 00:32:11,960
\nmercy seat.
\nSo I not just saw, you know, the<\/p>\n

515
\n00:32:11,960 –> 00:32:15,120
\nvery holy place and most holy
\nplace, did he? <\/p>\n

516
\n00:32:16,120 –> 00:32:18,800
\nHe saw the whole structure of
\nthat temple right down to the <\/p>\n

517
\n00:32:18,800 –> 00:32:20,760
\nstorehouses and the place where
\npeople would live. <\/p>\n

518
\n00:32:22,080 –> 00:32:24,880
\nAnd what’s more, verse 12 and
\nthe pattern of all that he had <\/p>\n

519
\n00:32:24,880 –> 00:32:29,200
\nby the spirit of the courts of
\nthe House of the Lord and of all<\/p>\n

520
\n00:32:29,200 –> 00:32:32,400
\nthe chambers round about, of the
\ntreasuries of the House of God <\/p>\n

521
\n00:32:32,640 –> 00:32:34,840
\nand of the treasuries of the
\ndedicated thing. <\/p>\n

522
\n00:32:34,960 –> 00:32:40,560
\nAlso for the causes of the
\npriests and the Levites and for <\/p>\n

523
\n00:32:40,560 –> 00:32:43,440
\nall the work of the service of
\nthe House of the Lord and for <\/p>\n

524
\n00:32:43,440 –> 00:32:45,640
\nall the vessels of service in
\nthe House of the Lord. <\/p>\n

525
\n00:32:46,200 –> 00:32:49,880
\nAnd therefore he’s able to put
\nthese various matters of, of <\/p>\n

526
\n00:32:49,880 –> 00:32:52,160
\nsubstance, the gold and the
\nsilver and so forth that was <\/p>\n

527
\n00:32:52,160 –> 00:32:54,000
\nnecessary.
\nHe could and he could work out <\/p>\n

528
\n00:32:54,000 –> 00:32:58,440
\nthe amounts that were required.
\nThat’s why in verses 14 to to <\/p>\n

529
\n00:32:58,440 –> 00:33:01,240
\n18, he was able to work out all
\nthe amount of metals that were <\/p>\n

530
\n00:33:01,240 –> 00:33:04,960
\nrequired in stones because he
\nhad this little drawings of all <\/p>\n

531
\n00:33:04,960 –> 00:33:06,840
\nof these things.
\nI said drawings. <\/p>\n

532
\n00:33:06,840 –> 00:33:11,000
\nLook at verse 19.
\nAll this said David, the Lord <\/p>\n

533
\n00:33:11,000 –> 00:33:15,840
\nmade me understand in writing by
\nhis hand upon me, even all the <\/p>\n

534
\n00:33:15,840 –> 00:33:17,640
\nworks of this pattern.
\nBeautiful. <\/p>\n

535
\n00:33:19,000 –> 00:33:20,800
\nThat really is a very beautiful
\nthing, isn’t it? <\/p>\n

536
\n00:33:21,000 –> 00:33:23,840
\nTo put that whole picture
\ntogether shows that what David <\/p>\n

537
\n00:33:23,840 –> 00:33:26,480
\nwas instigating was not
\nsomething dreamt up out of his <\/p>\n

538
\n00:33:26,480 –> 00:33:28,520
\nown mind, but something that God
\nhad given him. <\/p>\n

539
\n00:33:28,680 –> 00:33:32,000
\nHe caused his hand to write it
\nout, even down to the the <\/p>\n

540
\n00:33:32,000 –> 00:33:35,400
\nvessels and the the treasuries
\nand the place where people would<\/p>\n

541
\n00:33:35,400 –> 00:33:38,400
\nlive and all the other
\napartments that were related to <\/p>\n

542
\n00:33:38,400 –> 00:33:40,840
\nthe temple.
\nWhat an amazing thing it was. <\/p>\n

543
\n00:33:41,760 –> 00:33:44,560
\nAnd yet now he’s an old man, he
\nhas to implement that, bring it <\/p>\n

544
\n00:33:44,560 –> 00:33:47,360
\nin.
\nIncredible. <\/p>\n

545
\n00:33:47,360 –> 00:33:50,200
\nIt’s an incredible concept.
\nAnd you know, my dear brothers <\/p>\n

546
\n00:33:50,200 –> 00:33:54,920
\nand sisters, as you think about
\nthat, you’re realizing this <\/p>\n

547
\n00:33:54,920 –> 00:33:59,120
\nsurely, that when God’s hand,
\nwhen God’s Spirit comes upon <\/p>\n

548
\n00:33:59,120 –> 00:34:03,280
\nDavid and he writes that out,
\nwhat would God have in mind? <\/p>\n

549
\n00:34:05,480 –> 00:34:08,719
\nIs this the greatest temple?
\nIs this the greatest king? <\/p>\n

550
\n00:34:11,600 –> 00:34:14,679
\nReally?
\nHis mind is full of the future <\/p>\n

551
\n00:34:14,679 –> 00:34:17,800
\nyet again, isn’t it?
\nIt’s the greater temple in <\/p>\n

552
\n00:34:17,800 –> 00:34:21,080
\nJerusalem with the greatest Son
\nof David that really is the <\/p>\n

553
\n00:34:21,080 –> 00:34:22,679
\nultimate that God must have in
\nmind. <\/p>\n

554
\n00:34:23,480 –> 00:34:28,360
\nTrue, He cannot surely give
\nsomething to David in those <\/p>\n

555
\n00:34:28,360 –> 00:34:30,800
\ntimes that’s not going to
\nreflect what will be in the <\/p>\n

556
\n00:34:30,800 –> 00:34:33,239
\nfuture.
\nOf course not. <\/p>\n

557
\n00:34:34,440 –> 00:34:36,800
\nNo more than you and I who might
\nset something before our <\/p>\n

558
\n00:34:36,800 –> 00:34:38,320
\nchildren.
\nWe’ve got an ultimate concept <\/p>\n

559
\n00:34:38,320 –> 00:34:39,920
\nwith them.
\nWe’re not going to set something<\/p>\n

560
\n00:34:39,920 –> 00:34:41,840
\nthat’s going up in this
\ndirection if we want them to go <\/p>\n

561
\n00:34:41,840 –> 00:34:44,199
\nthere, are we?
\nWe’re going to set them <\/p>\n

562
\n00:34:44,199 –> 00:34:46,719
\nsomething here might say, well,
\nthat’s as much as they can take <\/p>\n

563
\n00:34:46,719 –> 00:34:48,920
\nin for this time.
\nBut in the end, I know it’s <\/p>\n

564
\n00:34:48,920 –> 00:34:51,880
\ngoing to develop to that full
\npicture in the end. <\/p>\n

565
\n00:34:53,159 –> 00:34:55,480
\nSo we have a bit of a treasure
\nhere in Chronicles, don’t we? <\/p>\n

566
\n00:34:57,560 –> 00:34:59,960
\nIt’s a treasure of how things
\nwill be in the Kingdom, I’m <\/p>\n

567
\n00:34:59,960 –> 00:35:02,920
\nsure.
\nIn fact, I can’t think of any <\/p>\n

568
\n00:35:02,920 –> 00:35:06,840
\nother way in which we could, we
\ncould get some way, some picture<\/p>\n

569
\n00:35:06,840 –> 00:35:10,600
\nof how Jerusalem will work apart
\nfrom Ezekiel’s description at <\/p>\n

570
\n00:35:10,600 –> 00:35:15,520
\nthe end of his prophecy.
\nI can’t think of any better way <\/p>\n

571
\n00:35:15,720 –> 00:35:18,560
\nof seeing how the priests and
\nothers will work together than <\/p>\n

572
\n00:35:18,560 –> 00:35:21,400
\nthese old chapters in
\nChronicles. <\/p>\n

573
\n00:35:21,960 –> 00:35:25,400
\nThese chapters have many words
\nand many big long names and that<\/p>\n

574
\n00:35:25,400 –> 00:35:28,320
\nare so difficult to understand.
\nAnd yet there is a, there’s a <\/p>\n

575
\n00:35:28,320 –> 00:35:32,000
\nprecious value to them because
\nthey are outlining to us that in<\/p>\n

576
\n00:35:32,000 –> 00:35:34,440
\nthe Kingdom to come, things are
\ngoing to be done according to a <\/p>\n

577
\n00:35:34,440 –> 00:35:38,400
\nvery strict protocol.
\nAnd it will be given by God and <\/p>\n

578
\n00:35:38,640 –> 00:35:42,160
\nit’ll be kept up and people will
\ncome to understand that one <\/p>\n

579
\n00:35:42,160 –> 00:35:44,320
\ngeneration to another will, will
\nunderstand. <\/p>\n

580
\n00:35:44,320 –> 00:35:47,520
\nThat’s how things are done in
\nthe temple in Jerusalem and <\/p>\n

581
\n00:35:47,520 –> 00:35:50,320
\nChrist is king.
\nThat’s why in the, in the Book <\/p>\n

582
\n00:35:50,320 –> 00:35:53,120
\nof Revelation, there are 24
\nelders. <\/p>\n

583
\n00:35:54,000 –> 00:35:57,160
\nSurely that 24 is based on the
\nfact that we’re 24 priests and <\/p>\n

584
\n00:35:57,160 –> 00:36:00,760
\n24 courses of the singers, 24
\ncourses of the of the <\/p>\n

585
\n00:36:01,120 –> 00:36:04,160
\ngatekeepers and so on. 24,000 of
\nthe Levites. <\/p>\n

586
\n00:36:04,200 –> 00:36:08,280
\nIt’s interesting, isn’t it?
\nObviously when God caused that <\/p>\n

587
\n00:36:08,280 –> 00:36:10,360
\nto be written, he had the great
\npicture in mind. <\/p>\n

588
\n00:36:11,000 –> 00:36:14,040
\nAnd so here is a lovely way
\nseeing how things will be <\/p>\n

589
\n00:36:14,040 –> 00:36:17,680
\norganized in the Kingdom.
\nSo there’s a treasure in these <\/p>\n

590
\n00:36:17,680 –> 00:36:20,520
\nold chapters and chronicles.
\nSo when you come to the readings<\/p>\n

591
\n00:36:20,520 –> 00:36:22,400
\nnext time and your little
\nchildren say, oh, do we have to <\/p>\n

592
\n00:36:22,400 –> 00:36:25,680
\nread this one, Mum and Dad say,
\nwell there’s a secret in here <\/p>\n

593
\n00:36:25,760 –> 00:36:29,120
\nand it’s telling us about things
\nto come, even if it’s about <\/p>\n

594
\n00:36:29,400 –> 00:36:34,240
\ndetails of the past.
\nNow I said that he took various <\/p>\n

595
\n00:36:34,240 –> 00:36:38,280
\npeople from different to the
\ndifferent divisions of Levi, and<\/p>\n

596
\n00:36:38,280 –> 00:36:42,520
\nthose divisions were Gershon,
\nKohath and Murari. <\/p>\n

597
\n00:36:42,520 –> 00:36:46,080
\nVerse 6.
\nNow look at how the chapters <\/p>\n

598
\n00:36:46,080 –> 00:36:52,320
\norganized verse seven of the
\nGershonites of the Gershonites, <\/p>\n

599
\n00:36:55,600 –> 00:37:01,160
\nverse 12.
\nThe sons of Kohath, which was <\/p>\n

600
\n00:37:01,160 –> 00:37:10,480
\nthe second one mentioned, and
\nverse 21 of the sons of Murari. <\/p>\n

601
\n00:37:10,800 –> 00:37:14,200
\nSo there’s the structure of the
\nchapter 3 main divisions of the <\/p>\n

602
\n00:37:14,200 –> 00:37:19,040
\nLevites, Gershon, Kohath,
\nMurari, Gershon verse 7, Kohath <\/p>\n

603
\n00:37:19,040 –> 00:37:27,520
\nverse 12 and Murari verse 21.
\nAnd from there there are 24 who <\/p>\n

604
\n00:37:27,520 –> 00:37:31,760
\nare chosen out.
\nYou’ve got, for example, in <\/p>\n

605
\n00:37:31,760 –> 00:37:34,760
\nverse 8, you’ve got three
\nmentioned. <\/p>\n

606
\n00:37:35,320 –> 00:37:38,000
\nJust perhaps ring that little
\nthree with a pencil if you like.<\/p>\n

607
\n00:37:39,360 –> 00:37:43,240
\nAnd in verse 9, you’ve got of
\nthe sons of shimi 3 particular <\/p>\n

608
\n00:37:43,240 –> 00:37:47,760
\npersons who were going to be
\npreeminent among the 24,000. <\/p>\n

609
\n00:37:48,880 –> 00:37:53,800
\nAnd then in verse the 10, it
\nsays these four were the sons of<\/p>\n

610
\n00:37:53,800 –> 00:37:58,920
\nShimii.
\nSo you’ve got 3 + 3 is 6 + 4 is <\/p>\n

611
\n00:37:59,040 –> 00:38:02,600
\n10.
\nAnd if you come down to verse <\/p>\n

612
\n00:38:02,640 –> 00:38:08,360
\n16, you’ve got another one
\nmentioned, and his name is <\/p>\n

613
\n00:38:08,480 –> 00:38:12,480
\nChebuwel, and another one
\nmentioned in verse 17. <\/p>\n

614
\n00:38:13,840 –> 00:38:18,080
\nSo we’re up to 12, aren’t we?
\nAnd verse 18 is another one <\/p>\n

615
\n00:38:18,080 –> 00:38:21,840
\nmentioned, the chief.
\nAnd in verse 19 it mentions <\/p>\n

616
\n00:38:21,840 –> 00:38:26,840
\nanother 4.
\nAnd in verse 20 there’s another <\/p>\n

617
\n00:38:26,840 –> 00:38:31,960
\n2.
\nThe second see, And there’s 2IN <\/p>\n

618
\n00:38:31,960 –> 00:38:36,240
\nverse 21 and there’s three in
\nverse 23. <\/p>\n

619
\n00:38:37,080 –> 00:38:38,920
\nIf you add those up, it comes to
\n24. <\/p>\n

620
\n00:38:39,640 –> 00:38:43,480
\nSo they obviously from those 3
\nprincipal divisions of the <\/p>\n

621
\n00:38:43,480 –> 00:38:48,600
\nKoathites, they were the 24
\nelders among the Levites, among <\/p>\n

622
\n00:38:48,600 –> 00:38:52,720
\nthe 24,000.
\nSo 1000 in each group, 24 litres<\/p>\n

623
\n00:38:52,720 –> 00:38:54,560
\nof 1000 each.
\nIsn’t that interesting? <\/p>\n

624
\n00:38:54,920 –> 00:38:58,160
\nNow would you want to worry
\nabout that when you were in his <\/p>\n

625
\n00:38:58,160 –> 00:39:00,640
\ncondition of health?
\nBut David got to that, didn’t he<\/p>\n

626
\n00:39:01,120 –> 00:39:04,720
\ngot his mind onto it, organized
\nhimself and and and approached <\/p>\n

627
\n00:39:04,720 –> 00:39:08,040
\nthat with great interest and he
\ngot that all implemented in <\/p>\n

628
\n00:39:08,040 –> 00:39:11,720
\nIsrael.
\nWell, it was a little more <\/p>\n

629
\n00:39:11,720 –> 00:39:14,280
\ninvolved than that, wasn’t it?
\nBecause we we missed out the <\/p>\n

630
\n00:39:14,280 –> 00:39:19,440
\nbracket in between and says in
\nverse 12, the sons of Kohath <\/p>\n

631
\n00:39:19,440 –> 00:39:23,720
\nwere Amram.
\nSo where you’ve got your little <\/p>\n

632
\n00:39:23,720 –> 00:39:30,720
\ndiagram, Levi, Gershon, Kohath,
\nand Murari now make 4 arrows <\/p>\n

633
\n00:39:30,720 –> 00:39:37,400
\ndown from Kohath, and the names
\nof those to those 4 arrows are <\/p>\n

634
\n00:39:37,640 –> 00:39:46,240
\nverse 12.
\nAmram is ha and Hebron and <\/p>\n

635
\n00:39:46,280 –> 00:39:50,240
\nAziel.
\nSo Kohath had four sons. <\/p>\n

636
\n00:39:50,880 –> 00:39:59,760
\nAmram is ha Hebron and Aziel.
\nNow Izha has one of his sons <\/p>\n

637
\n00:39:59,760 –> 00:40:06,960
\nchosen in verse 18.
\nSee that Hebron has four of his <\/p>\n

638
\n00:40:06,960 –> 00:40:13,800
\nsons chosen in verse 19.
\nI just ran a a little line down <\/p>\n

639
\n00:40:13,800 –> 00:40:16,160
\nand joined the two up so I could
\nalways see that. <\/p>\n

640
\n00:40:17,560 –> 00:40:22,520
\nAnd Aziel, he had two in verse
\n20. <\/p>\n

641
\n00:40:23,520 –> 00:40:26,240
\nThe chapter’s got a lot of
\nstructure to it, hasn’t it? <\/p>\n

642
\n00:40:27,440 –> 00:40:31,000
\nKohath, Amram, Isha, Hebron and
\nAzil. <\/p>\n

643
\n00:40:31,000 –> 00:40:33,720
\nWhat about Amram?
\nWe know who Amram was. <\/p>\n

644
\n00:40:33,720 –> 00:40:37,840
\nHe’s the father of Moses, father
\nof Moses and Aaron. <\/p>\n

645
\n00:40:39,080 –> 00:40:43,960
\nAnd so we read in verse 13 the
\nsons of Amram, Aaron and Moses. <\/p>\n

646
\n00:40:45,760 –> 00:40:50,320
\nHe puts Moses aside and says,
\nand Aaron was separated, that he<\/p>\n

647
\n00:40:50,320 –> 00:40:54,840
\nshould sanctify the most holy
\nthings, he and his sons forever,<\/p>\n

648
\n00:40:55,400 –> 00:41:01,600
\nto burn incense before Yahweh,
\nto minister unto him, and to <\/p>\n

649
\n00:41:01,600 –> 00:41:05,080
\nbless in his name forever.
\nThere’s the four things that are<\/p>\n

650
\n00:41:05,080 –> 00:41:10,160
\nnoted of the priesthood of the
\nsons of Aaron, sanctify the most<\/p>\n

651
\n00:41:10,160 –> 00:41:18,080
\nholy things, burn incense,
\nminister unto him and to bless <\/p>\n

652
\n00:41:18,080 –> 00:41:22,640
\nin his name forever.
\nThe priests were separated for <\/p>\n

653
\n00:41:22,640 –> 00:41:27,040
\nthat work and their chapter is
\nthe next 1 chapter 24. <\/p>\n

654
\n00:41:31,960 –> 00:41:36,440
\nAll right, so that helps us to
\nsee that there isn’t a structure<\/p>\n

655
\n00:41:36,800 –> 00:41:39,960
\nin the in the first of
\nChronicles, chapter 23. <\/p>\n

656
\n00:41:41,000 –> 00:41:44,120
\nNow there’s a few general
\ndescriptions about the duties of<\/p>\n

657
\n00:41:44,120 –> 00:41:47,120
\nthe Levites.
\nThese were the sons of Levi, <\/p>\n

658
\n00:41:47,240 –> 00:41:51,480
\nverse 24, after the House of
\ntheir fathers, even the chief of<\/p>\n

659
\n00:41:51,480 –> 00:41:54,560
\nthe fathers, as they were
\ncounted by number of names, by <\/p>\n

660
\n00:41:54,560 –> 00:41:57,840
\ntheir poles that did the work
\nfor the service of the House of <\/p>\n

661
\n00:41:57,840 –> 00:42:00,120
\nthe Lord from the age of 20
\nyears and upward. <\/p>\n

662
\n00:42:00,440 –> 00:42:04,520
\nFor David said, the Lord God of
\nIsrael hath given rest, and his <\/p>\n

663
\n00:42:04,520 –> 00:42:10,840
\npeople, that they may dwell in
\nJerusalem forever rather, and he<\/p>\n

664
\n00:42:10,840 –> 00:42:14,200
\ndwells in Jerusalem forever.
\nAnd you’ll see that the margin <\/p>\n

665
\n00:42:14,200 –> 00:42:21,880
\nactually renders it that way.
\nSo does the RSV sense, doesn’t <\/p>\n

666
\n00:42:21,880 –> 00:42:24,320
\nit?
\nThe Lord God of Israel hath <\/p>\n

667
\n00:42:24,320 –> 00:42:28,760
\ngiven rest unto his people, and
\nhe dwells in Jerusalem forever. <\/p>\n

668
\n00:42:28,760 –> 00:42:33,040
\nThat’s why we’re getting
\norganized, because the Lord God <\/p>\n

669
\n00:42:33,040 –> 00:42:36,840
\nof Israel is coming home, as it
\nwere, to rest in Jerusalem. <\/p>\n

670
\n00:42:36,840 –> 00:42:38,760
\nWe’ve got to be ready for that.
\nWe’ve got to have things done <\/p>\n

671
\n00:42:38,760 –> 00:42:41,000
\nproperly.
\nThis can’t be just <\/p>\n

672
\n00:42:41,000 –> 00:42:42,640
\nlackadaisical.
\nThis has got to be done <\/p>\n

673
\n00:42:42,640 –> 00:42:44,960
\nproperly.
\nAnd so we’re reorganizing. <\/p>\n

674
\n00:42:44,960 –> 00:42:47,080
\nWasn’t David a wonderful man of
\nGod, my dear? <\/p>\n

675
\n00:42:47,080 –> 00:42:51,120
\nAnd sisters, he saw the scope of
\nwhat was involved, and he <\/p>\n

676
\n00:42:51,120 –> 00:42:54,800
\nthought, oh, if the Lord God of
\nIsrael is going to come into <\/p>\n

677
\n00:42:54,800 –> 00:42:58,800
\nthis, the capital city, then
\nthis city’s got to run right and<\/p>\n

678
\n00:42:58,800 –> 00:43:00,120
\nthings have got to be done
\nproperly. <\/p>\n

679
\n00:43:02,520 –> 00:43:04,320
\nI wonder how much of that is
\nlost today. <\/p>\n

680
\n00:43:04,320 –> 00:43:09,160
\nNow it clears your life and the
\nsanctity of our meetings. <\/p>\n

681
\n00:43:09,400 –> 00:43:14,120
\nI don’t think our meetings need
\nto be stiff or cold formal to <\/p>\n

682
\n00:43:14,120 –> 00:43:15,560
\nthat degree.
\nI don’t like that. <\/p>\n

683
\n00:43:16,760 –> 00:43:19,920
\nBut I do think that there should
\nbe a sanctity in our meetings. <\/p>\n

684
\n00:43:20,640 –> 00:43:24,360
\nYou know, there’s a certain
\ndiscipline in our meetings so <\/p>\n

685
\n00:43:24,360 –> 00:43:29,000
\nthat concentration can be good,
\nso that people know they’re <\/p>\n

686
\n00:43:29,000 –> 00:43:33,000
\nabout something serious.
\nWe don’t just sort of turn up to<\/p>\n

687
\n00:43:33,000 –> 00:43:36,760
\nthe meetings like we turn up to
\na picnic, like if we’re going <\/p>\n

688
\n00:43:36,760 –> 00:43:38,760
\ndown the beach.
\nIt’s just not right, is it? <\/p>\n

689
\n00:43:40,200 –> 00:43:41,720
\nThis isn’t the way we should do
\nthings. <\/p>\n

690
\n00:43:41,720 –> 00:43:43,080
\nWe’ve never done things that
\nway. <\/p>\n

691
\n00:43:43,360 –> 00:43:45,720
\nIt’s only really our modern
\nworld that does things like <\/p>\n

692
\n00:43:45,720 –> 00:43:48,880
\nthat, and we don’t have to
\nconform to that. <\/p>\n

693
\n00:43:49,440 –> 00:43:52,480
\nWe’re really separated, aren’t
\nwe, to a different and a holy <\/p>\n

694
\n00:43:52,480 –> 00:43:54,920
\ncalling.
\nAnd in our brotherhood all <\/p>\n

695
\n00:43:54,920 –> 00:43:57,200
\nacross the world, my dear Ben,
\nsister, we need to be careful of<\/p>\n

696
\n00:43:57,200 –> 00:44:00,400
\nthose things, not to make that
\nthe big issue, but nevertheless <\/p>\n

697
\n00:44:00,960 –> 00:44:03,400
\nto preserve the sanctity of our
\nmeetings. <\/p>\n

698
\n00:44:04,600 –> 00:44:06,640
\nIf what our children do in the
\nhall, it’s not a place for <\/p>\n

699
\n00:44:06,640 –> 00:44:09,400
\ngames, you know, you don’t play
\ncricket in the hall, or is it <\/p>\n

700
\n00:44:09,400 –> 00:44:11,280
\nbaseball?
\nIt’d be even a bit more <\/p>\n

701
\n00:44:11,280 –> 00:44:16,120
\ndangerous, wouldn’t it?
\nThere should be a proper <\/p>\n

702
\n00:44:16,120 –> 00:44:19,120
\nenvironment in our hall that
\nteaches or even our children <\/p>\n

703
\n00:44:20,280 –> 00:44:24,080
\nthat this is a place where we
\nworship God and where we learn <\/p>\n

704
\n00:44:24,080 –> 00:44:26,880
\nabout the things of God and we
\nkeep the sanctity of the <\/p>\n

705
\n00:44:26,880 –> 00:44:29,000
\nmeeting.
\nThat’s how David feels. <\/p>\n

706
\n00:44:29,120 –> 00:44:30,400
\nGod’s going to come into
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n

707
\n00:44:30,400 –> 00:44:33,560
\nWell, I’ve got to get this place
\nright, got to have everybody <\/p>\n

708
\n00:44:33,560 –> 00:44:34,640
\norganized.
\nThey’ve got to feel it. <\/p>\n

709
\n00:44:34,640 –> 00:44:35,760
\nThey’ve got to be touched by
\nthis. <\/p>\n

710
\n00:44:35,760 –> 00:44:38,920
\nThis is too wonderful that this
\nis going to happen. <\/p>\n

711
\n00:44:39,200 –> 00:44:41,720
\nWasn’t he a beautiful man?
\nHe really was a man of God. <\/p>\n

712
\n00:44:41,880 –> 00:44:45,360
\nGreat fear of God in his heart.
\nAnd it says in verse 26, and <\/p>\n

713
\n00:44:45,360 –> 00:44:48,120
\nalso under the Levites, they
\nshall no more carry the <\/p>\n

714
\n00:44:48,120 –> 00:44:50,680
\nTabernacle, nor any vessels of
\nit for the service thereof, <\/p>\n

715
\n00:44:50,680 –> 00:44:54,760
\nbecause it’s coming to stay.
\nOr by the last words of David, <\/p>\n

716
\n00:44:54,760 –> 00:44:58,680
\nthe Levites were numbered from
\n20 years old and above because <\/p>\n

717
\n00:44:58,680 –> 00:45:01,640
\ntheir office was to wait on the
\nsons of Aaron for the service of<\/p>\n

718
\n00:45:01,640 –> 00:45:04,280
\nthe House of Yahweh in the
\ncourts and in the chambers, and <\/p>\n

719
\n00:45:04,280 –> 00:45:07,520
\nthe purifying all holy things
\nand the work of the service for <\/p>\n

720
\n00:45:07,520 –> 00:45:10,360
\nthe House of God.
\nLook at all the things that they<\/p>\n

721
\n00:45:10,360 –> 00:45:13,400
\nhad to be about, both for the
\nshowbread and for the fine <\/p>\n

722
\n00:45:13,400 –> 00:45:16,200
\nflour, for meat offering and for
\nthe unleavened cakes, and for <\/p>\n

723
\n00:45:16,200 –> 00:45:19,000
\nthat which is baked in the pan,
\nand for that which is fried, and<\/p>\n

724
\n00:45:19,000 –> 00:45:21,000
\nfor all manner of measure and
\nsize. <\/p>\n

725
\n00:45:21,640 –> 00:45:24,240
\nYou know, I never had much idea
\nof what it was involved in, in <\/p>\n

726
\n00:45:24,240 –> 00:45:28,040
\nthe offerings of the temple
\nuntil one time a little piece of<\/p>\n

727
\n00:45:28,040 –> 00:45:30,120
\nland I had, we, we lost an
\nanimal. <\/p>\n

728
\n00:45:30,240 –> 00:45:32,440
\nIt was a, it was a, it’s always
\nthe best one you lose. <\/p>\n

729
\n00:45:32,440 –> 00:45:33,840
\nAnd this was the best one in the
\nherd. <\/p>\n

730
\n00:45:34,160 –> 00:45:38,080
\nAnd we lost this animal, you
\nsee, beautiful cow was, and I <\/p>\n

731
\n00:45:38,080 –> 00:45:39,360
\nthought, what am I going to do
\nwith that? <\/p>\n

732
\n00:45:39,360 –> 00:45:41,760
\nAnd the neighbor says, well,
\nyou, you burn it up, you see. <\/p>\n

733
\n00:45:43,040 –> 00:45:44,320
\nSo I thought, all right, we’ll
\nburn it up. <\/p>\n

734
\n00:45:45,240 –> 00:45:47,760
\nSo I got this wood together.
\nAnd as I was putting this wood <\/p>\n

735
\n00:45:47,760 –> 00:45:50,920
\non the on the animal and it was
\nall bloated, of course, because <\/p>\n

736
\n00:45:50,920 –> 00:45:54,720
\nbeen there a day or two, I began
\nto realize what a tremendous <\/p>\n

737
\n00:45:54,720 –> 00:45:58,920
\nwork this was to put fire to an
\nanimal and devour. <\/p>\n

738
\n00:45:58,920 –> 00:46:00,360
\nHave you ever done it?
\nWho’s done it? <\/p>\n

739
\n00:46:00,640 –> 00:46:03,800
\nAnybody done it?
\nIt’s an amazing John need half a<\/p>\n

740
\n00:46:03,800 –> 00:46:07,520
\nforest to burn an animal.
\nIt’s absolutely amazing how much<\/p>\n

741
\n00:46:07,960 –> 00:46:10,280
\nwood you need to to consume the
\nanimal. <\/p>\n

742
\n00:46:10,600 –> 00:46:13,640
\nThis was just a full grown cow.
\nAnd I came back, you know, a <\/p>\n

743
\n00:46:13,920 –> 00:46:16,560
\ncouple of hours later and things
\nstill burning and all the wood <\/p>\n

744
\n00:46:16,560 –> 00:46:17,920
\nwas gone.
\nSo I heaped a whole lot more <\/p>\n

745
\n00:46:17,920 –> 00:46:19,880
\nwood on.
\nI came back a couple of days <\/p>\n

746
\n00:46:19,880 –> 00:46:21,040
\nlater.
\nI had to do the same again. <\/p>\n

747
\n00:46:21,040 –> 00:46:25,120
\nCame back a couple of days
\nlater, still enough and I began <\/p>\n

748
\n00:46:25,120 –> 00:46:27,440
\nto have some idea of what was
\nactually involved. <\/p>\n

749
\n00:46:27,600 –> 00:46:31,000
\nYou know, when it speaks in the
\nlaw of of hundreds of offerings,<\/p>\n

750
\n00:46:32,160 –> 00:46:34,080
\nsometimes thousands of
\nofferings. <\/p>\n

751
\n00:46:35,000 –> 00:46:38,320
\nThose men would have been
\nworking like Trojans to get <\/p>\n

752
\n00:46:38,320 –> 00:46:41,360
\nthrough that work.
\nAnd every day that was coming up<\/p>\n

753
\n00:46:41,960 –> 00:46:45,840
\nto the to the the place of the
\ntemple, those Levites had to <\/p>\n

754
\n00:46:45,840 –> 00:46:48,200
\nreally work.
\nAnd you can understand why there<\/p>\n

755
\n00:46:48,200 –> 00:46:50,680
\nwas all these people, why it had
\nto be organized. <\/p>\n

756
\n00:46:50,760 –> 00:46:53,640
\nIf it couldn’t be held handled,
\nthen it wouldn’t happen. <\/p>\n

757
\n00:46:53,640 –> 00:46:55,280
\nPeople say, oh, it’s now just
\ntaking your animal up there. <\/p>\n

758
\n00:46:55,280 –> 00:46:57,880
\nYou have to wake up, wait, wait
\nfor a week before it’s offered. <\/p>\n

759
\n00:46:58,720 –> 00:47:01,880
\nIt had to be done then, didn’t
\nit had to be done properly. <\/p>\n

760
\n00:47:02,640 –> 00:47:06,600
\nHow do you kill an animal?
\nYou say you take it off to the, <\/p>\n

761
\n00:47:07,240 –> 00:47:09,480
\nI say the abattoirs, you say the
\nslaughterhouse, don’t you? <\/p>\n

762
\n00:47:09,480 –> 00:47:11,840
\nAnd you don’t know what happens
\nthere, do you? <\/p>\n

763
\n00:47:12,040 –> 00:47:16,920
\nBut how do you kill an animal?
\nHe’s a, he’s a, a Bullock and <\/p>\n

764
\n00:47:16,920 –> 00:47:19,280
\nhe’s full grown.
\nHe weighs 1000 kilograms. <\/p>\n

765
\n00:47:20,280 –> 00:47:21,680
\nAll right, here’s the knife.
\nYou’re going to kill him. <\/p>\n

766
\n00:47:23,760 –> 00:47:26,480
\nHow do you do that?
\nVery difficult, isn’t it? <\/p>\n

767
\n00:47:26,800 –> 00:47:28,640
\nHe’s not going to like it.
\nHe’s going to stand there for <\/p>\n

768
\n00:47:28,640 –> 00:47:31,520
\nyou.
\nYou’re going to have to have <\/p>\n

769
\n00:47:31,520 –> 00:47:34,640
\nsome very strong ties around
\nthat animal to be able to <\/p>\n

770
\n00:47:34,640 –> 00:47:36,920
\nachieve that.
\nAnd then you’re going to have to<\/p>\n

771
\n00:47:36,920 –> 00:47:39,000
\nbutcher the parts, take it
\napart. <\/p>\n

772
\n00:47:39,920 –> 00:47:43,080
\nAnd in fact, it was a lot of
\nwork, an enormous amount of <\/p>\n

773
\n00:47:43,080 –> 00:47:45,280
\nwork.
\nAnd I began to realize just how <\/p>\n

774
\n00:47:45,280 –> 00:47:48,280
\nmuch wood would be involved.
\nThat has to come from the, the <\/p>\n

775
\n00:47:48,280 –> 00:47:51,040
\nforests all around, doesn’t it?
\nSo there were wood offerings. <\/p>\n

776
\n00:47:51,280 –> 00:47:53,120
\nYou read about them, don’t you,
\nNehemiah? <\/p>\n

777
\n00:47:53,120 –> 00:47:56,960
\nYou read about them, Malachi.
\nSo it was a very large <\/p>\n

778
\n00:47:56,960 –> 00:48:01,000
\ninstitution, very busy, and had
\nto be so because people were <\/p>\n

779
\n00:48:01,000 –> 00:48:02,960
\ncontinually coming with their
\nconcerns. <\/p>\n

780
\n00:48:04,000 –> 00:48:05,560
\nI’ll tell you another thing
\nwould make you think, wouldn’t <\/p>\n

781
\n00:48:05,560 –> 00:48:08,160
\nit, if you take a big animal
\nlike that up to the temple <\/p>\n

782
\n00:48:08,160 –> 00:48:10,200
\nbecause you had sinned, you’d
\nthink twice about sinning <\/p>\n

783
\n00:48:10,200 –> 00:48:13,200
\nanother time too.
\nI never thought of that until <\/p>\n

784
\n00:48:13,440 –> 00:48:15,280
\nthat happened to me.
\nYou’d, you’d really stop and <\/p>\n

785
\n00:48:15,280 –> 00:48:19,080
\nthink, eh, you’re going to break
\nGod’s law again. <\/p>\n

786
\n00:48:19,080 –> 00:48:20,840
\nWell, you better be careful
\nbecause they’re going to cost <\/p>\n

787
\n00:48:20,840 –> 00:48:24,480
\nyou something.
\nSo there were all these people <\/p>\n

788
\n00:48:24,680 –> 00:48:27,560
\nthat were involved, but there
\nwere other things too. <\/p>\n

789
\n00:48:27,560 –> 00:48:31,400
\nVerse 30 and to stand every
\nmorning to thank and praise <\/p>\n

790
\n00:48:31,400 –> 00:48:34,480
\nYahweh.
\nAnd likewise that even the <\/p>\n

791
\n00:48:34,480 –> 00:48:38,800
\ntemple was a lovely place to go
\nto, to stand every morning to <\/p>\n

792
\n00:48:38,800 –> 00:48:42,920
\nthank and praise Yahweh.
\nAnd likewise it Even so, it was <\/p>\n

793
\n00:48:42,920 –> 00:48:47,360
\na place of song and of
\nhappiness, of heart, of uplift, <\/p>\n

794
\n00:48:47,360 –> 00:48:49,720
\nof spirit.
\nIt was a beautiful place, a high<\/p>\n

795
\n00:48:49,720 –> 00:48:53,280
\npriest to be going past near the
\nbells ringing on his on his <\/p>\n

796
\n00:48:53,280 –> 00:48:56,000
\ngarments.
\nAnd there was an alacrity about <\/p>\n

797
\n00:48:56,000 –> 00:48:57,960
\nwhat they were doing.
\nAnd these men that were given to<\/p>\n

798
\n00:48:57,960 –> 00:49:01,200
\nsong and to praise.
\nIt wasn’t a starchy old place. <\/p>\n

799
\n00:49:01,200 –> 00:49:04,120
\nIt was a place where the the
\nnerve center of the nation would<\/p>\n

800
\n00:49:04,120 –> 00:49:08,520
\nbe felt and God was there and so
\nthey had to be in respect to <\/p>\n

801
\n00:49:08,520 –> 00:49:11,960
\nthat and to offer all birth
\nsacrifices unto Yahweh in the <\/p>\n

802
\n00:49:11,960 –> 00:49:14,920
\nSabbaths.
\nLook at all the things they had <\/p>\n

803
\n00:49:14,920 –> 00:49:17,640
\nto remember, young men, many of
\nthem. <\/p>\n

804
\n00:49:17,680 –> 00:49:20,520
\nThey had to remember what you
\ndid on the Sabbath and when you <\/p>\n

805
\n00:49:20,520 –> 00:49:24,200
\ndid it and how you did it and
\nwho did it and what day. <\/p>\n

806
\n00:49:24,480 –> 00:49:27,800
\nIn the New Moons there were
\nspecial sacrifices for the the <\/p>\n

807
\n00:49:27,800 –> 00:49:33,480
\nturning of the month, and on the
\nset feasts 3 * a year they were <\/p>\n

808
\n00:49:33,480 –> 00:49:35,680
\nset piece, and they all had
\ntheir various offerings. <\/p>\n

809
\n00:49:35,840 –> 00:49:39,320
\nAnd the boys need to know when
\nthat was, and do it properly by <\/p>\n

810
\n00:49:39,320 –> 00:49:42,080
\nnumber, according to the order
\ncommanded unto them. <\/p>\n

811
\n00:49:42,080 –> 00:49:46,480
\nContinually before Yahweh there
\nwas a little spot effort or a <\/p>\n

812
\n00:49:46,480 –> 00:49:47,640
\nBible school, and it was all
\nover. <\/p>\n

813
\n00:49:47,800 –> 00:49:50,720
\nIt went on through the year.
\nAnd that they should keep the <\/p>\n

814
\n00:49:50,720 –> 00:49:53,960
\ncharge of the Tabernacle of the
\ncongregation and the charge of <\/p>\n

815
\n00:49:53,960 –> 00:49:58,640
\nthe holy place, and the charge
\nof the sons of Aaron, their <\/p>\n

816
\n00:49:58,640 –> 00:50:01,600
\nbrethren, in the service of the
\nHouse of the Lord. <\/p>\n

817
\n00:50:02,480 –> 00:50:04,320
\nThat was a great work, my dear
\nbrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n

818
\n00:50:04,320 –> 00:50:07,560
\nAnd in that we can see something
\nof what’s going to be in the <\/p>\n

819
\n00:50:07,560 –> 00:50:12,880
\nfuture and what a busy place
\nJerusalem is going to be, be a <\/p>\n

820
\n00:50:12,880 –> 00:50:15,480
\nplace of joy and happiness and
\nsinging and praise. <\/p>\n

821
\n00:50:15,480 –> 00:50:18,360
\nIt’s going to be busy too, isn’t
\nit, when people are coming from <\/p>\n

822
\n00:50:18,440 –> 00:50:21,600
\nall nations to Jerusalem to
\nworship. <\/p>\n

823
\n00:50:22,320 –> 00:50:24,240
\nAnd at that time it’s going to
\nbe up to us to know the <\/p>\n

824
\n00:50:24,240 –> 00:50:27,080
\nprotocols and to be able to lead
\nthose people. <\/p>\n

825
\n00:50:27,080 –> 00:50:29,320
\nIt says in Zechariah doesn’t
\nthey shall go to him that is a <\/p>\n

826
\n00:50:29,320 –> 00:50:32,120
\nJew and take hold of him and say
\nwe will go with people. <\/p>\n

827
\n00:50:32,120 –> 00:50:33,320
\nWe have heard that God is with
\nyou. <\/p>\n

828
\n00:50:33,320 –> 00:50:37,320
\nWhat about the Saints?
\nIsrael are going to learn in <\/p>\n

829
\n00:50:37,320 –> 00:50:39,040
\npart from the Saints.
\nThat’s you and me. <\/p>\n

830
\n00:50:39,040 –> 00:50:43,000
\nBut what if we haven’t done our
\ndaily readings now? <\/p>\n

831
\n00:50:43,760 –> 00:50:45,880
\nWhat if we’re slack in
\nattendance of our Bible class? <\/p>\n

832
\n00:50:47,560 –> 00:50:50,120
\nWhat if we don’t think there’s
\nany need any longer to, to put <\/p>\n

833
\n00:50:50,120 –> 00:50:51,880
\nout lectures and we don’t really
\nknow these things? <\/p>\n

834
\n00:50:52,440 –> 00:50:55,000
\nAnd somebody tugged it out and
\nsaid, look, tell me I used to <\/p>\n

835
\n00:50:55,000 –> 00:50:56,640
\nlearn about the Trinity, but how
\ndoes it go? <\/p>\n

836
\n00:50:57,760 –> 00:51:00,000
\nI say Trinity.
\nOh, I’m not sure, mate. <\/p>\n

837
\n00:51:00,960 –> 00:51:02,680
\nI, I forget now.
\nI was baptized a lot of years <\/p>\n

838
\n00:51:02,680 –> 00:51:05,640
\nago.
\nI mean, that’s not what a <\/p>\n

839
\n00:51:05,640 –> 00:51:08,000
\nsaint’s going to do, is he?
\nHe’s going to be able to open <\/p>\n

840
\n00:51:08,000 –> 00:51:10,560
\nthe book and say, look, this is
\nwhat it says in the Scriptures, <\/p>\n

841
\n00:51:10,560 –> 00:51:14,000
\nand we’re going to be able to do
\nthat then because we know it <\/p>\n

842
\n00:51:14,000 –> 00:51:16,080
\nnow.
\nThis is the day of preparation, <\/p>\n

843
\n00:51:17,800 –> 00:51:20,000
\nso we’re in for wonderful
\nthings, my dear brother and <\/p>\n

844
\n00:51:20,000 –> 00:51:23,680
\nsisters, in the future, and let
\nus prepare diligently for that <\/p>\n

845
\n00:51:23,680 –> 00:51:24,480
\ntime.
\nThank you. <\/p>\n

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\n00:51:39,680 –> 00:51:41,800
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364: Brian Luke – The Singers and the Sons of Asaph<\/a><\/blockquote>