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This is a reading from God's 
word, the book of Exodus. 

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Thus the Lord saved Israel that 
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Egyptians, and Israel saw the 
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Israel saw the great power that 
the Lord used against the 

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Egyptians. 
So the people feared the Lord 

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and they believed in the Lord. 
And in his servant Moses, Then 

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Moses and the people of Israel 
sang. 

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This song to the Lord sing 
saying I will sing to the Lord. 

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For he has, triumphed gloriously
the horse and his rider. 

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He has thrown into the sea, the 
Lord is my strength and my song,

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and he has become my salvation. 
This is my God, and I will 

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praise him. 
My father's God, and I will 

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exalt him. 
The Lord is a man of war. 

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The Lord is his name Pharaoh's 
chariots and his hosts. 

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He cast into the sea and his 
chosen officers were sunk in the

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Red Sea. 
The floods covered them. 

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They went down Into the Depths 
Like a Stone. 

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Your right hand, O Lord, 
glorious and power. 

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Your right hand O Lord, shatters
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your majesty, you overthrow your
adversaries, you send out your 

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Fury, it consumes them like 
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At the blast of your nostrils, 
the waters piled up the flood 

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stood up in a heap. 
The deeps congealed in the heart

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of the sea. 
The enemy said I will pursue. 

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I will overtake. 
I will divide the spoil. 

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My desire shall have its fill of
them. 

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I will draw my sword. 
My hand shall destroy them. 

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You blew with your wind, the sea
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They sank like lead in The 
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Who is Like You O Lord among the
gods. 

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Who is like, you Majestic in 
Holiness. 

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Awesome in glorious. 
Deeds doing wonders. 

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You stretched out your right 
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The Earth swallowed them. 
You have led in your steadfast. 

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Love the people whom you have 
redeemed. 

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You have guided them by your 
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The peoples have heard they 
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Pangs have seized the 
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the Chiefs of Edom dismayed, 
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Moab all the inhabitants of 
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Terror and Dread fall upon them.
Because of the greatness of your

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arm, they are still as a stone, 
till your people, O Lord passed 

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by till the people pass by whom 
you have purchased, you will 

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bring them in and plant them on 
your your own Mountain, the 

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place O Lord, which you have 
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sanctuary of Lourdes, what your 
hands have established, the Lord

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will reign forever and ever for 
when the horses of pharaoh with 

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his chariots and his Horsemen 
went into the sea, the Lord 

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brought back the Waters of the 
sea upon them, but the people of

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Israel Walked on the dry ground 
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Then Miriam. 
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Aaron took a tambourine in her 
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In all the women went out after 
her with tambourines and dancing

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and Miriam sang to them, sing to
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gloriously the horse and his 
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He is thrown into the sea. 
This is the word of the Lord. 

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Please be seated. 
Thank you. 

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Corey very much. 
Last Sunday, I asked you and 

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urged you to take time this week
to hit replay. 

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And hear the song of Moses and 
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and over again, not a day, went 
by this week, when I was up here

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that somebody didn't say to me, 
I've been reading over and over 

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again, this portion of 
scripture, Exodus 15. 

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And I want you to do that. 
I encourage you to do that it 

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informs so much about who God is
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Him. 
It's easy on a Sunday like this 

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when we focus a bit on missions 
and pray for those who are going

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out to think, these are the ones
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Truth is, we're all being sent 
wherever you leave today and go.

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You're a missionary wherever you
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work. 
You're a missionary wherever you

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play. 
And have Recreation, you're a 

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missionary you called to make 
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Sometimes it's easy to think, 
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we exist to extend the 
transforming presence of the 

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kingdom of God, of Christ of our
Lord and Savior Jesus to Dallas 

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in the world that we think about
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missions. 
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It actually really dangerous. 
Every Time We Gather in this 

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Sanctuary to worship and those 
who gather with the some who 

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live all over the world online, 
we are extending, the 

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Transforming presence of God. 
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is about the presence of our 
holy God With Us and us being 

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overwhelmed by who he is, just 
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recognizing. 
His Transcendence is glory and 

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experiencing his intimacy. 
The word extend. 

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We've used it for many years. 
It means three things that means

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to cause to grow wider, Deeper. 
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to someone and it means to exert
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That's true. 
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That's true of our worship. 
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every Sunday, you left this 
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I exerted myself to the utmost. 
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lunch that's coming next or the 
baseball game, that's coming 

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next or whatever. 
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And there's a lot coming next 
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prepared and I was present and I
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worship to the utmost. 
You made a vow to do that, by 

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the way. 
If you remember, you promised to

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support the church and its 
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your ability. 
That's not just writing a check,

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It is the way you worship. 
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What did the people who don't 
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us? 
They need our abiding 

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relationship with Jesus apart 
from me, you can do nothing. 

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He said and then that abiding 
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It's so obvious that we are 
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that when people come into this 
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him, they would, at least know 
they are in love with Jesus 

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Christ. 
That's the joy of this calling. 

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The people of Israel had their 
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They were overwhelmed. 
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Remember means this. 
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a huge mass. 
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something. 
It means to be defeated soundly,

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and they had experienced that 
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defeated soundly. 
They have been under the mass of

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pharaohs oppression. 
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constant onslaught of receiving 
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they weren't ultimately Now they
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their backs are against the 
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Seeing the enemy coming, they're
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If God doesn't show up, they 

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will die. 
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the flesh Moses. 
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We were better off in the 
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Now, by the way, they're going 
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they cross. 
The Red Sea but shows us, why we

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need his word and his promises. 
I want you to continue to read 

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this section of scripture this 
summer and has the Lord to show 

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you more and more things about 
who he is and who you are in 

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him. 
This morning, I want to focus on

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one verse It's verse 11. 
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Who is Like You? 
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Among the gods who is like, you 
Majestic in Holiness. 

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Awesome and glorious Deeds doing
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I believe. 
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our worship service, that's how 
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When you leave this place and 
you have a conversation about 

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what your experience was like 
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We know we will be pleasing God,
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from our heart, we say, who is 
like our Lord, who is like my 

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savior, who is like my song, If 
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audience and we hear something 
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yeah it's need. 
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We are so far away from where he
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We need to leave this place. 
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powerful. 
The Triumph in Christ is real, 

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it's dark. 
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and it's going to get darker, 
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Decay. 
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our Mighty Fortress, who has a 
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future, which has been promised,
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service, he's present That. 
That's what brings them Glory. 

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That's what gives us such Joy. 
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Who is Like You O? 

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Lord, as Moses pain, this him 
that they would sing over and 

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over again and recite over and 
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with their children, with their 
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highlights two things from this 
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He highlights the attributes of 
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And the Deeds of God, he 
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the work of god. 
Let's just look at a few. 

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Let's start with his attributes,
with his character, who is like,

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you God in Holiness verse 11, he
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Majestic in Holiness he alone is
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He is set apart. 
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Who is like you in power look 
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In the ESV says, the Lord is a 
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The Lord is his name. 
That means warrior, we need him 

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to be a warrior. 
He is a warrior and he has an 

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enemy. 
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Pharaoh verse 9. 
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pharaohs words. 
I will pursue. 

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I will overtake. 
I will divide the spoil. 

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My desire shall have. 
Its fill of them. 

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I will draw my sword. 
My hand shall destroy them. 

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Well, don't you want a warrior 
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But who is like our God and 
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Now I'm saying something that's 
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All powerful. 
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power. 
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power, so can you You could have
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you would see my power or lack 
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We can measure the power of an 
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But God's power is immeasurable.
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He's a warrior. 
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governs, all things. 
Spoken of again in verse 6, your

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right hand, O Lord glorious and 
power. 

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Your right hand O Lord shatters 
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Our enemies, not fair. 
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It's his demons. 
His word tells us, he roams 

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around like a roaring lion, 
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You are someone your children 
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I am someone he wants to take us
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He's real. when we find 
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the water, when we experience 
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the wars of the world, the 
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every Sunday come into this 
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being real sticking to us. 
Living in us, we have a warrior 

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who is Holy who is omnipotent 
but he is also full of love it 

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with me. 
At verse 13, speaking of his 

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Leading, the People Moses 
writes, you have Vlad and your 

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steadfast love, that means 
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Like his power, his love can't 
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epistle speaks of how wide and 
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love of Christ in the Greek 
that's language is says it's 

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immeasurable. 
It goes on and on and on my love

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I'm sorry even to my wife and 
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That's why I have to confess all
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I have fallen short but not God.
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would, but he can't because his 
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You think about that? 
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he's leading us. 
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Listen to his reputation, verses
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Those who have heard about God, 
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said, Moses sings the peoples of
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Pangs of sees the Evidence of 
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Edom dismayed, trembling seizes 
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inhabitants of Canaan and have 
melted away Terror and Dread 

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fall upon them because of the 
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still as Stone. 
They are paralyzed. 

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This is true of this God. 
And it's true of the same God 

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that's living in us the same. 
God whose presence, we know Who 

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is like him? 
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In his raining, look with me at 
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forever and ever. 
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King God is eternal. 
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They're all connected to his 
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Who is like, you God, and loving
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us who is like, you in redeeming
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defending us. 
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So, how can we? 
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A religious affection. 
A zeal. 

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I'm not saying just an emotion 
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this particular expression of 
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posture where we come into this 
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more of his glory exiting. 
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conversations about sports. 
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those. but with something far 
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Worship of the Living, God is 
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do. 
It is about being. 

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I want to read something to you.
That was recorded in the summer.

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Of 1990, June 21. 
A minister was asked the 

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question what constitutes 
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Most importantly, this pastor 
wrote, I think that the presence

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of God constitutes worship, it 
is not a human endeavor, but one

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that is inspired by the presence
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Did you think about that coming 
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Now, I want to be very 
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Some of you are like, Mark, we 
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I know. 
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recognize you did. 
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time, they needed the same God 
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But Mark my husband, I fought 
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I know that's not my experience,
my wife and I never fight on the

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way to church because we never 
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on the Sundays we do It's pretty
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Oh, Every time, we enter this 
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people desperate for God, just 
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worship Him. 
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Miriam. 
How to trim Berean. 

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And the other women too, of all 
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quickly, they knew they needed 
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And what did it sound? 
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being saying to suddenly hear 
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tambourines. 
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you're playing a little bit 
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All right, think that one sounds
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This isn't actually my favorite 
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I Wish Moses would have. 
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church. 
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That is so sick. 
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Satan, is bringing a war against
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going to fight about, God have 
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has, and he's patient with us. 
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This same Pastor said, in answer
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inadequate models of worship, 
what are they immediately, your 

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mind might run to something, but
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wrong. 
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He says, first worship is not 
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make worship about the sermon or
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stimulation that we get worship 
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It is that for sure. 
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service. 
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which is accompanied by a few 
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hymns. 
Second worship is not a training

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center, training happens because
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is useful for teaching, rebuking
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but it's not primary the place 
where we give you just tools for

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evangelism or tools, even for 
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It's more than that. 
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says, people are being 
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Third worship is not simply for 
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means of Grace. 
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but if we walk out of here, 
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fellowship with other people is 
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That's not the ultimate goal. 
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not evangelism. 
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and give an invitation every 
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news of Christ. 
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primarily to the unchurched is 
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Worship is about the people of 
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presence. 
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thing we can do at Clowney calls
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It's where people look at us and
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they have, but I want that. 
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first mission trips with this 
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Asia that we no longer able to 
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Of the Secretary of this region 
of the Communist party, went to 

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her mom on that mission trip. 
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and her mother's. 
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She said, I don't know, but may 
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and when she asks, one of our 
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it's Jesus, she went back to her
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Her mother said, You may trust 
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evangelism. 
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in us when we were not even able
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The worship service is not 
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time for the church. 
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This question was asked, lastly 
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What do you think is the biggest
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My guess is that you're going to
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they're doing wrong. 
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Spirit, ask it to yourself. 
What do you think? 

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Is the biggest failure in your 
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This pastor wrote. 
I think we have too many 

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addicted. 
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We're trying to can cram into 
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way, we go over an hour, most 
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He rides were trying to instruct
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Bill vision and give out all the
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running for a week all in one 
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I wish you knew how many ideas 
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about what people think should 
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And many of them are really 
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Worship. 
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We cannot allow many things to 
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worship rather than Focus. 
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leading one. 
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God. 
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That Pastor around the age of 
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He was the first senior pastor 
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have joined and don't even know 
who he is. 

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This him. that the people of 
Israel seen saying, informs what

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we should be singing. 
But also how we should be 

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singing it informs. 
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And how we should be listening 
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It actually informs how we 
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preparing if you're only 
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Happens at the beginning of the 
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prepared. 
You need to prepare the night 

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before you need to think about 
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You need to think about what's 
coming and that you are going to

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enter into a place where it's 
our goal is, the leaders of this

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church along with you, to have 
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The transforming presence of 
Christ, every Sunday. 

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Seen and his attributes. 
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Seen in what has happened in the
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Promised in the future. 
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rushed, not hurried, we 
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can just check a box on and move
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And say remember that sermon in 
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we in the power of the spirit 
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be overwhelmed. 
You've entered this place, most 

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Sunday's overwhelmed by 
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Fear of the world. we need to be
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something, greater The word 
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I'm going to say it again to be 
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To receive too much of something
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With his back against the cross.
Jesus Christ was overwhelmed. 

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He received too much of 
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His father's wrath, the Wrath 
that you and I deserved that 

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poured out on us. 
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mass of your sin and mine all of
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He was defeated soundly. 
He said it is finished. 

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He breathed his last and he died
his heart. 

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Literally burst his heart was 
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Three days later and you've 
heard it from the beginning of 

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this worship, service, to the 
end, three days later. 

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Jesus Christ, the father and the
Holy Spirit, overwhelmed, our 

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greatest enemy death death 
received too much of Jesus. 

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Death. 
Was dismissed. 

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Defeated soundly. 
Death was buried forever. 

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Under the glory of the Risen 
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That story is the story of our 
Exodus spoken of from the past 

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the promise to the Future and 
the present reality of it. 

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Now, so that when we sing in 
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Fortress We're singing of the 
god, the true God, who is 

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absolutely present with us. 
His people that he has rescued 

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right now and what is our 
response, what can it be other 

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than praise Father in heaven. 
We are not trying just to lather

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ourselves up our to have some 
emotional experience. 

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We're trying a lord to see that 
apart from you, we could never 

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bring you glory in the way we 
worship you. 

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So we pray that you would end 
this moment overwhelm us 

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individually and corporately 
that we would be free because of

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the victory that is ours already
in Christ. 

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And we would sing and freedom. 
But also with this fear and all 

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of your Transcendent character, 
while all the while being more 

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present to us than anything 
else. 

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That is tempting to overwhelm 
us. 

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Give us voice to bring you 
glory. 

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I pray in Jesus name. 
Amen. 

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Please stand.