1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:04,000 We've been working our way slowly and methodically through 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:10,480 the Lord's Prayer for weeks now, and we're now in stage four of 3 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,720 four. The prayer can be divided into 4 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,160 sections. Talk first about the invocation. 5 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:20,320 We pray to a loving and able father. 6 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:23,840 The second section has to do with prayer requests or 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:27,920 petitions about God. We start with God's Kingdom and 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:30,640 honour and name and agenda. His will. 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,640 And you move into the third section, petitions about our own 10 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,960 needs, our needs for daily provisions, our need for a. 11 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,200 Pardon in the Gospel. And so in our need for 12 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:49,280 protection against our enemies, our own sinful desires, the 13 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:51,240 world. And the devil. 14 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,880 The fourth section is not in the main block of text in your 15 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:58,760 Bibles, but is often in the footnote of your Bible, the 16 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:04,319 section we call the Doxology. The doxology for Lion is the 17 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,160 Kingdom and the Power and the glory, forever and ever. 18 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,160 Amen. So we'll talk a little bit about 19 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:14,440 why it's down in the footnote later, but I just want to begin 20 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:18,520 with a word of introduction about what that churchy word 21 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:22,280 means. What, after all, is a doxology? 22 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,640 Doxology. The roots of the word are 23 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,600 actually helpful in this case. The roots have to do with glory 24 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:33,840 and word. A word of glory or a word of 25 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,400 praise. A doxology. 26 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:41,240 Holy Scripture is punctuated through the whole Bible, Old and 27 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:45,480 New Testament, with songs of praise, brief words of praise. 28 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:50,440 Often in poetry, the definition of a doxology is usually a brief 29 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:54,520 word of praise. Perhaps you're used to singing a 30 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,560 hymn called the doxology. You notice there's just one 31 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:58,800 verse. It's not a a. 32 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,200 Long thing and it's. Oriented to praise. 33 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:08,800 The Lord. One of my favorite passages in 34 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,480 what I've read, and I've read a lot of one of my heroes, CS 35 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:16,160 Lewis, one of my favorite passages has to do with him 36 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,160 talking about what praise is. And what it isn't? 37 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:25,560 And he shares his journey, discovering more and more about 38 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,120 what praise is. And I want to introduce this 39 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,640 sermon by sharing some of his words with you, some of his 40 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:35,120 journey with you. It can be easy to think of 41 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,760 praise as mere compliment. I like your shoes. 42 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,800 I like your hair. It can also be a way to kind of 43 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,720 think, you know, what kind of God is this? 44 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,960 Is he insecure? Is he someone who just needs 45 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:49,880 compliments all the time? Is he a narcissist? 46 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,120 Oh, God, you're so great. You're so lovely, You're so 47 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:57,480 wise. So it's a a journey to for Louis 48 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:01,680 to talk about growing in his idea of praise beyond mere 49 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:07,560 compliment of someone to a deep and welling appreciation for 50 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:12,760 someone or something. As he goes through this section 51 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,520 that I will share some of with with you this morning, he he 52 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,440 goes through several different stages. 53 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:23,440 First, he notices that our enjoyment of things tends to 54 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:27,680 almost always overflow into praise. 55 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:28,360 What? Does that mean? 56 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:32,640 Let me illustrate. Let's just imagine for a second. 57 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:34,920 You're going to hate me for this, but let's just imagine for 58 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:39,560 a. 2nd that you have in your possession an award-winning 59 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,840 chocolate chip cookie. It's perfect in every way. 60 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,760 Perfect temperature, perfect size. 61 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,320 Perfect texture. It's perfect in every way. 62 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,680 And when you enjoy this, you don't just nonchalantly, 63 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,800 hopefully just cram that thing in your mouth and gulp down some 64 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:59,200 milk and just be like, OK, what's? 65 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:04,600 Next I'm leaving no most. People, they actually slow down, 66 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:09,480 they chew more slowly, They want to feel the textures in their 67 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,320 mouth. They want to experience what it 68 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,200 feels like to go down their throat. 69 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:14,920 And you know what? They make noises like this 70 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:25,400 yummy. The enjoyment of this good, this 71 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:30,120 goody, overflows into praise. We may start talking. 72 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,680 About who made it. And how they got the secret 73 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,040 recipe from your dead aunt or wherever it came down to you 74 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,480 from this award. Wedding cookie needs to be 75 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,920 praised in order for us to complete our enjoyment. 76 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:43,600 It just it just. Happens. 77 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,800 Enjoyment overflows into. Praise, Lewis says. 78 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:54,440 The world rings with praise lovers praising one another, 79 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:59,360 readers praising their favorite poets, walkers praising. 80 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,800 The countryside players. Praise praising their favorite 81 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,760 game. You hear praise of the weather, 82 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:13,560 praise of wines, praise of dishes, actors, cars, horses, 83 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:18,160 colleges, countries, historical personages, children, flowers, 84 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,880 mountains, rare stamps, rare beetles. 85 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,960 Even sometimes, and this is my favorite part, even sometimes, 86 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:32,000 politicians or scholars. No offense to the scholars in 87 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,680 the room. CS Lewis himself was a scholar. 88 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:36,480 He's taken a stab of his own self. 89 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,120 Right there the. World rings with praise of 90 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:43,560 these. Things enjoyment overflows into 91 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:48,600 praise. His second observation are two 92 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:52,520 sides of the same coin. He's noticed throughout his life 93 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,560 that it's the humble people that praise the most. 94 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:00,800 Humble people tend to well up with appreciation and want to 95 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:06,880 share it with others. The flip side is the snobs find 96 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:10,480 fault with everything, even things that are good. 97 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:15,120 They detect deficiency and they want to point it out. 98 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:16,680 They want to share that with others. 99 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:20,600 They want others to know that their tastes are so refined that 100 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,960 they're not going to be duped as something by something as simple 101 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,720 as the world's perfect chocolate chip cookie. 102 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:34,880 They find fault with everything. I had not noticed how the 103 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,560 humblest and at the same. Time most balanced minds. 104 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:44,800 Praise most, while the cranks, misfits and malcontents praise 105 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,760 least. He goes down a little further 106 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:52,280 and says. Praise seems to be inner health 107 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:58,360 made audible. Inner health made audible. 108 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:05,960 You also notice that we can't help but share our praise as a 109 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,800 factor of our enjoyment with other people. 110 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:13,040 We invite others to praise what we like. 111 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,880 Have you noticed this? Just as men spontaneously praise 112 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,440 whatever they value, so they spontaneously urge us to join 113 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:24,800 them in praising it. They say things like isn't she 114 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:29,080 lovely? Wasn't it glorious? 115 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:39,390 Don't you think that was magnificent last move? 116 00:07:41,030 --> 00:07:43,910 Our enjoyment is actually incomplete unless we do this. 117 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:45,840 We. Feel a little bit. 118 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:50,080 Frustrated, a little pent up if we can't express ourselves and 119 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:55,280 share it with others. One of the most beautiful places 120 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,880 I've ever. Been in my entire life is 121 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:02,480 Yosemite Valley. I've been a lot of beautiful 122 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,080 places. If I want to think about 123 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:09,520 something beautiful besides Deidre, I think about Yosemite 124 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,280 Valley. I love it. 125 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,840 So much. You can imagine the rock 126 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,880 formations and the. Waterfalls and the Meadow and 127 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:22,680 the river and you're just like, how is this place here on earth? 128 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,160 How could Eden have been any better? 129 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,560 You want to stop by the side of the road, you want to see, you 130 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:31,720 want to praise, you want to take pictures, you want to share it 131 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,720 with others. And if you can't, then you 132 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:39,640 actually feel frustrated, Lewis writes. 133 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,960 I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise 134 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,840 not merely expresses, but completes. 135 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,040 Our enjoyment. Praise is it's appointed 136 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:54,040 consummation. It's not out of compliments that 137 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,560 lovers keep telling one another. How beautiful they are. 138 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:58,880 Their delight is actually incomplete until it is 139 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,200 expressed. It's frustrating to have 140 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,080 discovered a new author and not be. 141 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,080 Able to tell anyone how good he is. 142 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,680 Or to come suddenly at the turn of a road upon some mountain 143 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:13,280 valley of unexpected grandeur, and then to have to keep silent 144 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:15,440 because the people. With you in the. 145 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:20,080 Car care no more for it. Than for a tin can in a ditch. 146 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,240 It's. Frustrating to hear a good joke 147 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:26,480 and find no one to share it with. 148 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,280 Our enjoyment. Of something is incomplete 149 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:34,360 without praise. And so he goes on to talk about 150 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:35,600 how. Important it is for us to 151 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:37,760 understand. That the praise of God is not 152 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:41,200 because you have a a needy, insecure God who needs 153 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:46,160 compliments our praise of God. Is an invitation. 154 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:53,360 To the bliss of enjoying that who is most. 155 00:09:53,360 --> 00:10:00,360 Beautiful, true, holy and good. And in our finest moments of 156 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,440 most transcendent bliss in this life, they're just mere glimpses 157 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:11,160 of what is possible for a fully sanctified person in the 158 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:14,360 presence of God to experience the bliss. 159 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:22,440 Of God himself, and so the Church. 160 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,720 When coming to the end of the Lord's Prayer and our Lord. 161 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,400 Sort of abruptly. Ends it with a prayer of 162 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,040 protection from the devil. The Church isn't seeking to 163 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:38,200 improve Holy Scripture with this doxology, but rather they want 164 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,520 to use the. Prayer in public worship. 165 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:47,720 And they want to express an exuberant moment, a note of 166 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:52,720 praise at the end of the prayer. So very early, very early in the 167 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,960 manuscript tradition, we see this doxology. 168 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,400 In the text. So that may be used for public 169 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,600 worship for the church and its corporate prayers to end on a 170 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:04,320 note. Of praise to thine. 171 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:06,160 For thine is the. Glory and the Kingdom and the 172 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:11,920 power forever and ever and ever. So we're going to dig in there a 173 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:15,680 little bit, ask some some questions of the text. 174 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:20,320 Try to learn more. About what this actually means 175 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,600 for us. We'll do this today and next 176 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:24,120 Sunday and the Sunday after and I got. 177 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,960 To divide it in. Certain places, but these three 178 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:29,440 make a set A. Set devoted to understanding 179 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,320 this. Doxology. 180 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:37,080 So first question in your bulletin outline is why? 181 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:39,680 Why do we praise? Why do we praise? 182 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:42,400 I have several reasons for you. For why we. 183 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:49,880 Praise one of them first, and perhaps the most obvious reason 184 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:53,360 we praise God is that we owe it to him. 185 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:59,160 Don't we don't Don't we owe a debt of gratitude to our Maker? 186 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,000 Don't we owe a debt of gratitude to the author of the. 187 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,120 Creation that we enjoy. Don't we owe a debt of 188 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:12,400 gratitude, words of honor and praise to the one we claim? 189 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,280 If we're Christians has redeemed our soul, don't we owe a debt of 190 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:21,000 gratitude to someone who will give us the hope of glory to 191 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,040 live with ever? With him, someday we owe praise 192 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:30,640 to God, don't we now? That's true. 193 00:12:31,560 --> 00:12:34,720 That's good. We got a hearty Amen and I he'll 194 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,280 say hearty Amen. As well. 195 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,040 To that we owe. God glory Jesus. 196 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:44,000 After healing a group of lepers, they all go. 197 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:49,240 Only one comes back to say thank you and Jesus said hey, weren't 198 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:50,680 there, weren't there? Like nine others. 199 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:54,160 Where are the rest of you guys? We owe a debt of gratitude to 200 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:55,760 our Lord, our Healer. Our Savior. 201 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:59,360 Our Maker. However, there's more. 202 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:02,680 To it than this isn't there. And we experienced this in our 203 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:04,080 relationships. Too. 204 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:05,720 You know, it's it's Mother's Day. 205 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,560 And I technically owe my mother a debt. 206 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:13,760 Of gratitude I should. Send her a card, but my mom 207 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:15,800 would probably rather not receive. 208 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,120 My. Card if I just knew that I was. 209 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,840 Doing it out of. Some sense of duty or some sense 210 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:25,120 of obligation. Similarly, my wife I owe a debt 211 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:29,320 of honor and gratitude and and she would probably not like. 212 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,520 On our. Anniversary to feel like I was 213 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:37,480 just doing my duty for her to give her a card or to take. 214 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,160 Her out to dinner. So though our first reason is 215 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:44,080 that we owe our Maker this debt of honor and gratitude. 216 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:46,760 There's there's more. To it, And this is back to that 217 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:51,640 introduction from CS Lewis, that if we truly delight in a 218 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:55,160 relationship, in a mother or in a spouse or a husband, whatever 219 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:59,760 have you, then we can't help but praise and adore. 220 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:02,880 And give expression to our adoration. 221 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:07,400 It is the consummation. Of our enjoyment of that person. 222 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,640 So why do we praise? It's because we can't help it. 223 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:12,480 It's the consummation of our joy. 224 00:14:13,560 --> 00:14:16,440 But the third reason, and I get this from Ji Packer in his book 225 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,160 On the Lord's Prayer, he talks about a feedback loop, a 226 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:25,240 positive feedback loop between petition, which is the hard work 227 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:31,880 of prayer, and the praise which lifts us up and gives us fuel to 228 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,720 pray. So if you think about that in 229 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:36,480 any relationship that makes sense. 230 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:38,640 If I have to ask you for something, I'm a. 231 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,440 Little bit nervous? What if you say no? 232 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:43,560 Well, I don't. Really like rejection. 233 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:45,400 I'm going to go ahead and ask. You it's going. 234 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:49,320 To be a little bit uphill, but then you say yes, or you answer 235 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,800 my prayer or my petition in an even better way. 236 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:55,480 And I'm like, thank you, that was awesome. 237 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,760 I love you. And I feel this boost of energy, 238 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,520 this fuel. That comes from the praise. 239 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:04,600 Next time. When I need to. 240 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,880 Ask you again, I have a memory of how it went before and so I'm 241 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,280 less scared. Perhaps I can ask again, you 242 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,040 answer my. Prayer in a way that I. 243 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:15,880 Was even better. Than I can imagine. 244 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,320 And I have even more reasons to praise. 245 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:21,440 And so Packer talks about this. Being a a loop. 246 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:23,720 A cycle that builds and builds upon itself. 247 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:28,120 The hard work of Petition is buoyed and powered by. 248 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:29,760 Praise. I think he's right. 249 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:32,400 So why do we praise? Did you catch? 250 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:37,360 These Why do we? Praise first, we owe it better. 251 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,440 We can't help it. It's the completion of our joy. 252 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,560 And 3rd because. Praise powers A. 253 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:49,760 Healthy spiritual life. In our second section. 254 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:51,720 This morning I'd like to talk about the what? 255 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:55,280 For thine is the Kingdom in the power and the glory forever. 256 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:56,440 Amen. I mean, you need to divide it 257 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:57,720 somewhere. Let's take Kingdom in. 258 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,120 Power this morning. Kingdom and power, they kind of 259 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,760 go together. You can't really have a Kingdom 260 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:06,440 without power. A Kingdom is a type of dominion, 261 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:10,640 a type of rule. And interestingly, one of the 262 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,000 most exciting things I learned this week is that it's likely 263 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,840 that the early church brought this doxology, nestled it under 264 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,840 the Lord's Prayer, got this doxology from another place in 265 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,200 Holy Scripture, the Scripture that Connor read. 266 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:29,120 This morning from us. From Chronicles 1st. 267 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:34,760 Chronicles, chapter 29. Notice the echoes of the Lord's 268 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,400 Prayer. Notice how this text reminds you 269 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,680 of the Lord's Prayer. And notice again you could 270 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,960 circle or underline how many times he's talking about Kingdom 271 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:47,440 and might and. Power, therefore David, King 272 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,880 David, bless the Lord in the presence of all the assembly. 273 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,560 And David said, Blessed are you, O Lord the God of Israel, our 274 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:56,160 Father. Forever and ever. 275 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,280 Yours, O Lord, is the greatness. And the power, and the glory. 276 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,520 And the victory? And the majesty for all that is 277 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,640 in the heavens and in the earth is yours. 278 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:08,400 Yours is the Kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as Head 279 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,599 above all. Both riches and honors come from 280 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:15,839 you, and you rule over all in your hand or power. 281 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:20,599 And might and in your hand. It is to make great and to give 282 00:17:20,599 --> 00:17:23,800 strength to all. And now we thank you, our God, 283 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:28,240 and praise your glorious name. King David is welling up with 284 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,720 appreciation for the King of Kings. 285 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:35,200 You know being king is a stressful job, you think? 286 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,960 You want that job. But as Coldplay sings, who would 287 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,600 ever want to be king? It's not that great. 288 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:45,200 Of a job. So you have King David, this 289 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,400 guy, he, you know, he has this stressful job and he takes great 290 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:52,880 comfort in his faith from the sovereignty of a king. 291 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:57,720 Who is sovereign over all? We're going to talk about how. 292 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:02,240 The sovereignty of God, though, that can make our knees shake 293 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:03,800 and we wonder what He's doing at times. 294 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,360 It's actually the source of our greatest comfort and our 295 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:10,480 greatest joy. Friends trust me. 296 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:15,080 You do not want. To live in a world with a God 297 00:18:15,360 --> 00:18:17,680 that isn't sovereign, you don't want to live in that world. 298 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:25,280 And even though. It seems like our suffering is 299 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,160 harder if we believe in the sovereignty of God. 300 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,680 It's actually the only way through. 301 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,800 You must cling to His dominion, His. 302 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:35,840 Sovereignty. His might if you're going to 303 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:37,480 have any hope. For the adversity. 304 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:45,160 That you're going through, it's interesting to think about God's 305 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:50,120 sovereignty, to think about his power over it all. 306 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,360 It's interesting to think. About how? 307 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:57,640 The Lord Jesus himself fulfills. These things as the King of 308 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:00,000 Kings and I want to just read to you. 309 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,960 From Ephesians. Chapter 1, verses 16 through 22. 310 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:06,360 That the first chapter of Ephesians. 311 00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:10,120 Is amazing. Big long thing of praise. 312 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:14,680 He's just just just welling up and spouting all of his praises. 313 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:16,360 For God, For his. Glory. 314 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:18,120 In the gospel, all the things that he's done. 315 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:20,560 For us are spiritual blessings in Christ. 316 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:23,760 He's just, he's just pop. The Apostle Paul's just just. 317 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,640 Welling up and expressing these things. 318 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:33,000 Verse 16 says this. I, Paul, do not cease to give 319 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,880 thanks for you. Remembering you in my. 320 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,520 Prayers. That the God of our Lord Jesus 321 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:42,080 Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of. 322 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:46,280 Wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him having the. 323 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:51,600 Eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the 324 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,120 hope to which. He has called you Paul saying. 325 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,160 I think about y'all. All the time. 326 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,600 I have a major prayer request for y'all. 327 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,560 All the time. It's that the Spirit of God will 328 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:07,640 make very real to you what the hope. 329 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,440 To which he's called you. You need hope. 330 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,080 I'm praying for you to have hope. 331 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:17,000 That hope is coming from the gospel, that you may know the 332 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,080 hope to which he has called you. What are the riches of his 333 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:20,800 glorious inheritance in the Saints? 334 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:22,440 And he's going to start talking about. 335 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:23,680 Power and might. You ready? 336 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:25,840 Verse 19. And what is the immeasurable 337 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,880 greatness of His power toward us to believe according to the 338 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:30,840 workings of His great? Might. 339 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:35,320 Now here's the clincher, verse 20, that he worked in Christ 340 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,280 when he raised him from the dead. 341 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,280 And seated him. At his right hand, in the 342 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:44,920 heavenly places, far above all. Rule and authority every name 343 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,840 that is named, not only in this. Age, but also in the one to come 344 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,560 and he put. All things under his. 345 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,960 Feet and gave him as head. Over all things to the Church, 346 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:56,360 which is His body, the fullness of him who. 347 00:20:56,360 --> 00:21:06,760 Fills All in all, wow, wow. King of Kings, Lord of Lords. 348 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,920 There's a power working in us. We were singing about it earlier 349 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:12,880 this morning. We were singing about that power 350 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:14,840 working in us. That is the same power that 351 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:19,440 raised Christ from the dead, sat him on the throne, the King of 352 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,680 kings, the Lord of Lords. Thine is the Kingdom and the 353 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:27,240 power. This gives us tremendous hope. 354 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,680 And this is the hope. That we desperately need. 355 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:36,400 That informs our reality whether things are going really, really 356 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:40,000 well or things are going really, really, really bad. 357 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,560 I love this song. More modern song where the the 358 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:49,280 writer is talking about our need to praise God in the good times. 359 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:53,200 And in the bad times? This songwriter will actually 360 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,560 Nestle the stanzas like this. Good. 361 00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,480 Bad. Then does it again. 362 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:02,760 Good. Bad bottom line. 363 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,760 I'm going to praise him. I'm going to praise him. 364 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,640 Maybe you know this song. If you don't, you can look it 365 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,040 up. Blessed be your. 366 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:16,040 Name in the land. That is plentiful where your 367 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,760 streams of abundance flow in Yosemite Valley. 368 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:20,880 I added that. That's not there. 369 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:26,560 Blessed be your name in. Yosemite next stanza. 370 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:30,400 Blessed be your name. When I'm found in the desert 371 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,560 place. When I walk through the 372 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,920 wilderness. Blessed be your name. 373 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,440 Poet toggles back to. The good things now. 374 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,960 He's on the beach, apparently. Blessed be your name when the 375 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:45,720 sun. Is shining down on me. 376 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,680 When the world's all as it should be, kids are building 377 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:54,240 sand. Castles, I've got a refreshing 378 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,440 drink. I can feel the. 379 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,960 Sun on my face, in the sand between my toes. 380 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:03,720 Blessed be your name. And then he's going to go right 381 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,760 back to the hard thing. Blessed be your name. 382 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:11,720 On the road marked with suffering, though there's pain 383 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:17,160 in the offering. Blessed be your name, my 384 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,200 friends. That's what the worshipping 385 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:23,760 community is doing, whether all is as it should. 386 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,240 Be or whether we're. There's pain in the offering. 387 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,760 We are together, rejoicing with those rejoice, rejoicing and 388 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:31,920 mourning with those who are. Mourning, praising. 389 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,680 God, who is working out a grand story of redemption far greater 390 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:37,760 than anything that we can see or understand. 391 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,160 So glad the book of Job is in our Bible. 392 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,720 What would your Bible be without the book of Job? 393 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:51,560 It'd be missing something, and after Job and his wife have lost 394 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,840 everything. His wife is in despair, isn't 395 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,000 she? In. 396 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,160 Despair, she cries out. Are you still holding on to your 397 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:07,480 integrity? Curse God and die, Joe replied. 398 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:11,040 Job replied and asked her shall we accept good from God and not 399 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,880 and not trouble in? All of this job. 400 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:18,120 Did not sin in what he said though. 401 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:20,520 He slay me. I will hope in him and present 402 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:25,240 my case before him. He clings in faith to a God He 403 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,400 assures greater than his circumstances. 404 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,840 And that's what we have to do too, no matter what we're going 405 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:36,320 through, good or bad. Some applications for us. 406 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:41,960 Before we conclude, let's have one main application for us 407 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:46,120 today, thinking about how the Bible sort of punctuated with 408 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:49,400 praise, how it's. A kind of musical. 409 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,160 I don't know if you guys like musicals or not. 410 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,600 Some of you love them. Some of you are like, oh boy, I 411 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:59,640 can just hear a song coming. The Bible's punctuated with 412 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,280 these these songs of praise, whether. 413 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,600 It's in a a story. You can think about the songs of 414 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:13,240 the Advent narratives. Were there those songs of praise 415 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,800 in the Psalm book in the middle of your Bible? 416 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,680 Lots of examples. So as I was. 417 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,400 Thinking about this, I was like, well, that should be how our 418 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,320 lives are. Our lives should just be kind of 419 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,640 punctuated with these brief songs of praise. 420 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,480 In your daily life, there should be just these moments of. 421 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,120 Praise where our appreciation. Wells up and maybe those are 422 00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:38,840 native to your own heart and you can kind of just say them 423 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,320 extemporaneously or maybe you need help from from your 424 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:49,720 favorite praise. Songs deploy doxology. 425 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:57,960 Deploy doxology. My kids at this point might be 426 00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:59,880 getting a little annoyed with me when we're out. 427 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:02,800 On our bicycle rides. We love to ride bikes together. 428 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,240 We particularly love the. Cardinal Greenway. 429 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:08,920 Amazing. I don't. 430 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,080 Know if they're annoyed or not. But they're we're out there and 431 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:16,000 it's a pretty day at some point. Their dad's probably going to 432 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:17,400 make a big. Deal about it. 433 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:21,360 I love it out here. This is amazing. 434 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:23,800 Look at that bird. Look at these trees. 435 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,960 How y'all doing? We're fine, Dad. 436 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,240 I want them to. Experience their dad as. 437 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,200 Somebody who wells up with appreciation, whether we're out 438 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,200 on the Greenway, on our bike somewhere. 439 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,960 Or whether it's the. Food at table, something that 440 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,680 happens. Parents, teach your children not 441 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,080 the grumbling life, but the life of gratitude. 442 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:57,600 This welling up, deploy your doxologies, express your 443 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:02,720 Thanksgiving for who God is and what He has done in creation and 444 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,240 in salvation. You need to go places and 445 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,720 experience creation in its beauty. 446 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:16,360 Give thanks to God for His amazing artistic beauty 447 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:17,800 expressed in creation. I was out. 448 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,200 I was out riding my bike. Early one morning, I think this 449 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,880 was last week, might have been the week before and. 450 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,520 Suddenly there were goldfinches all around me. 451 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:30,760 It's like this has never happened to me. 452 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:31,760 Is this OK? Are these OK? 453 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,720 There's there's. Goldfinches all around me. 454 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,160 It was amazing. I don't know if they were taking 455 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,640 a trip or what, but I was in a little flock of goldfinches. 456 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,080 I usually only see them one at a time. 457 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:41,320 And here I. Am I'm just surrounded? 458 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,680 I'm like, thank you God, that was beautiful. 459 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,280 I can't wait to tell my family what just happened. 460 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:50,800 And how they? Should ride with me. 461 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,120 Because if they don't, they miss out. 462 00:27:55,440 --> 00:28:00,320 Deploy Doxology. Play the songs in your home. 463 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,880 You want to hear the creation songs. 464 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,320 You want to hear the Salvation songs? 465 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,400 Because this this God. Who makes the flowers and the 466 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,560 birds? He's also redeemed us and we 467 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:16,880 have a story to tell and the song of praise can can well up 468 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,000 to tell to tell the next generation to tell the listening 469 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,720 congregation how I was lost but now I'm found. 470 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:28,680 Let me tell you about it. I was in despair. 471 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:33,120 I had no hope in Jesus changed everything. 472 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:39,120 Glory be, glory be, praise Him. For who he is, for what he has. 473 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,520 Done in creation and salvation, we can also praise Him for what 474 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:46,120 He's going to do, even when we can't see or make sense of 475 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,480 what's happening to us. You're marked out on a road of 476 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,440 suffering. There's pain in the offering, 477 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,160 but you don't know. How this is? 478 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,560 All going to turn out. Whether you'll have a testimony 479 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,000 of healing in this life or whether your. 480 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,920 Testimony will be 1. Of giving him glory through. 481 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,480 A suffering that ends in death, but it's totally restored in 482 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,760 resurrection. Your Christian hope says you win 483 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,960 in the end. And you'll be. 484 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:18,200 Full in the end, come what may, though he slay me yet I will 485 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:24,160 praise him. Deploy Doxology. 486 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,840 If you are an evaluator, what's that mean if you're somebody who 487 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,920 grades papers or works in administration or somebody 488 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:35,840 who's. Constantly trying to improve. 489 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:40,280 Things you have to remember to balance evaluation and grading 490 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,880 and criticism with a buoyant life of praise. 491 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,760 And Thanksgiving. If you only criticize and fault 492 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:53,720 find, you will harm. People they need. 493 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:59,240 Words of encouragement. They need life. 494 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:06,320 Giving encouragement. I know we need to make things 495 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:11,160 better, but we also. Need to be thankful for what is 496 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:18,560 so so good. Talk to our staff about this. 497 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,360 We would like to continue to improve UCC, but maybe we can. 498 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,040 We can. Start our time with 499 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:25,880 Thanksgivings for what's going well. 500 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:28,800 Does anybody have a story to share? 501 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:33,520 And our our staff is great about remembering precious moments of 502 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,680 things that they can that we can be grateful for. 503 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,600 And we must in order to be spiritually healthy. 504 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,240 You may need additional helps. I got one more like quick 505 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:46,520 little. Tip on my list before I'll. 506 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:50,440 Conclude and I don't. Know this is maybe this is not 507 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,920 just for parents, but since I'm in the thick of it right now, 508 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,080 it's kind of what I'm thinking about. 509 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,880 It could be for anybody. We at our house like to have 510 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:02,400 sort of a a prayer, a written prayer that. 511 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,080 Maybe is a? Historic prayer or? 512 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,440 Something that we can. Repeat once a week. 513 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:08,960 For a period of time. What does that mean? 514 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,120 So. Right now, I've told you we're 515 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:14,920 in 50 days of Easter, so the Saturday night prayer at our 516 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,280 special meal going into Sunday Deidre upgrades the food, and 517 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:23,960 there's always dessert for our prayer for that meal during this 518 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:27,520 Easter time before Pentecost, we've picked the tedium. 519 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:32,240 It's not in Latin, just the the title is in Latin because I want 520 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:36,400 them my kids to have a. An opportunity to learn. 521 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,600 An ancient. Text a song of praise from the 522 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,800 church. That has been said for over 1500 523 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:49,040 years and it's been really interesting. 524 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,800 This is our second year during Easter tide to go through this 525 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,800 once a week prayer as a family. They don't quite yet have it 526 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,880 memorized yet, but they. They know when the. 527 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,080 Cadence is. Supposed to go faster or? 528 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,200 Slow they're they know. They're starting to sense when 529 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:08,560 we're supposed to lift our. Voices goes like this, we praise 530 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,240 thee, O God, we acknowledge. Thee to be the Lord, all the 531 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,880 earth doth worship thee the Father everlasting. 532 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,880 To thee all angels cry aloud the heavens and all the powers 533 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,320 therein. To thee cherubim and Seraphim 534 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,880 continually do cry. Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of 535 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,160 Saba, oath, Heaven and earth are full of the majesty of Thy 536 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,800 glory. The glorious company of the 537 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,560 Apostles praise Thee. The goodly fellowship of the 538 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,360 prophets praise Thee. The noble army of martyrs praise 539 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,000 Thee. The Holy Church throughout all 540 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,680 the world, hoth Acknowledgie, the Father of an infinite 541 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,440 majesty, Thy known Adorable. True and only son. 542 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,440 Also the Holy Spirit, the Comforter. 543 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,760 Thou art the King of glory. O Christ, thou art the 544 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,720 everlasting Son of the Father. We now took us upon thee to 545 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,560 deliver man. Thou just humble thyself to be 546 00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:00,400 born of a virgin when thou hast overcome the sharpness of death, 547 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,280 that is to open the Kingdom of heaven to all believers. 548 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,040 Thou sittest at the right hand of God, in the glory of the 549 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,920 Father. We believe that thou shalt come 550 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:14,520 to be our judge, and therefore pray thee help thy servants whom 551 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,480 thou hast redeemed with Thy precious blood. 552 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,560 Make them to be numbered with Thy Saints and glory 553 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:23,240 everlasting. O Lord, save thy people. 554 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:27,240 And bless thy heritage, govern them and lift them up forever. 555 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,000 Day by day, we. Magnify thee and we. 556 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,640 Worship Thy name ever world without end. 557 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,680 Vouchsafe O Lord, to keep us to stay. 558 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,200 Without sin. O Lord, have mercy upon us, have 559 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,040 mercy upon us. O Lord, let Thy mercy be upon 560 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:45,240 us, as our trust is in thee. O Lord, in thee have I trusted. 561 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:55,150 Let me never be confounded. Deploy your doxologies. 562 00:33:55,750 --> 00:34:00,280 Learn your doxologies because it's the only thing that is 563 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:05,240 going to be your ballast and your stay no matter what happens 564 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:09,440 to you. So I don't know what you're 565 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,360 going through. Some of you, I know many. 566 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,159 Of you I don't. And I don't know what you need 567 00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:21,600 to hear today, except that the. Sovereign God knows and is in 568 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,880 control. So I pray that you'll be able to 569 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:25,920 take. Comfort in that. 570 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:31,560 So to conclude our praise of God's. 571 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:36,840 Sovereignty completes our joy and gives us hope that we so 572 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:37,679 desperately need.