1 00:00:04,900 --> 00:00:06,400 Good morning. My name is Alan. 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,700 How are y'all doing today? Being cheered on, I like it. 3 00:00:10,700 --> 00:00:11,700 Hello. Hello. 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:17,100 Well I am going to attempt to walk through psalms with us 5 00:00:17,100 --> 00:00:20,400 today. And but first, I want to say 6 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,700 man, I love getting to watch you sing. 7 00:00:23,700 --> 00:00:27,400 If you're here all the time, if you're new here again, my name 8 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:29,400 is Alan. If you hear a lot, you see me up 9 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,800 here a lot and I say it all the time that I love getting to 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,600 watch you. Sing, I love getting to watch us 11 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:41,300 worship together and sing out phrases that we can sing as a 12 00:00:41,300 --> 00:00:44,500 body. That say, Behold Him for, he is 13 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:45,800 our savior. He is Jesus. 14 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,700 The Messiah and we're going to talk a lot about that. 15 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,400 Today we're going to talk about salvation coming through our 16 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:56,000 Lord today and how that is great and good good news and so I'm 17 00:00:56,008 --> 00:00:58,300 happy to be up here. I don't do this very often I 18 00:00:58,300 --> 00:01:02,300 would be lying if I said I wasn't a little nervous because 19 00:01:02,300 --> 00:01:07,000 I feel I have a hard time communicating my thoughts in a 20 00:01:07,100 --> 00:01:10,600 communicative all way. A lot of times it's just very 21 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,300 difficult for me. If you don't believe me, you 22 00:01:13,300 --> 00:01:16,200 should see interactions with like me just talking to my kids 23 00:01:16,300 --> 00:01:18,500 and Shay just looking like, what's happening? 24 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,600 Now and I think that I understand what I'm saying but 25 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:24,500 no one else seems to ever think that they understand what I 26 00:01:24,508 --> 00:01:25,800 think of that, I understand what I'm saying. 27 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:30,000 So we're going to try to get through it today but first I've 28 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,500 got to say it's my mom's birthday so happy birthday Mama. 29 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:40,700 Happy birthday. I love you very very much and 30 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:43,700 thank you for all that you have just always done for me. 31 00:01:44,300 --> 00:01:46,700 So it's a birthday like today. It's not in a few days. 32 00:01:46,700 --> 00:01:48,600 So I got to say it. We're not going to sing Happy 33 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,200 Birthday yet. We can later, if this starts to 34 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,000 go south, y'all just start singing. 35 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:55,700 Happy Birthday! It'll be fine! 36 00:01:55,700 --> 00:01:57,400 I'll get the cue will wrap it up. 37 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:01,700 Okay, okay so we're in we're in Psalms so we're what we call our 38 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:04,200 summer of Psalms. We do this every year, we walk 39 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:09,000 through different songs during the summer with the hope that 40 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,400 these are collections of songs that we can sing out to God and 41 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,300 bring praise to him. And so we try to break some of 42 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:18,600 them down last week, Steve talked about Psalm 131 and it 43 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:20,500 had some it was only three verses. 44 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:23,500 So well done with three verses. I think I would be done. 45 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:25,300 Now that's all I have is just three verses. 46 00:02:25,300 --> 00:02:28,100 I'll be like well I read them, there you go. 47 00:02:28,500 --> 00:02:32,900 But it said language like do not do not have haughty eyes or do 48 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:35,600 not do not see yourself as high and lifted up. 49 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,500 So it wanted us to To see the almightiness of the Lord and it 50 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:44,600 said for us to rely on the Lord paraphrasing a little bit, but 51 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:49,600 like a weaned child. And man, that that hit me hard. 52 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,100 Because most of the time I think of like, dependency as like a 53 00:02:53,100 --> 00:02:55,200 small little baby. Right? 54 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:57,900 So when they're first born, they are completely dependent upon 55 00:02:57,900 --> 00:03:01,600 their parents, but a weaned child is a lot more than just a 56 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,600 dependency on your parents. So Wayne just means they're 57 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,600 starting to come to understand, but they're completely content 58 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:13,300 with the Lord. And so I'm blessed in that, that 59 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,700 kind of part in my life right now, with my two kids is that 60 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:18,400 most of the time, not all the time. 61 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,300 They're starting to get out of that stage, but most of the time 62 00:03:21,500 --> 00:03:24,300 they are happy when they're just with me and Shay. 63 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:26,800 Like we don't have to be doing anything. 64 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,600 You know, the more that we do, I guess the happier they get at 65 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:34,700 times but most of the time, if they're just with us their 66 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:37,400 content because they depend on us and they love us that much. 67 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,600 And so this Psalm talked about not trying to understand things 68 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,000 that we can understand not seeing ourselves as too high and 69 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,600 mighty but to have that kind of relationship with the Lord that 70 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,200 we are. We're just happy to be in his 71 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,100 presence. And so, so often I'm not, I'm 72 00:03:54,100 --> 00:03:56,900 always trying to do my own Or do it doing something in the Lord's 73 00:03:56,900 --> 00:04:00,100 part of it? And so, man, I really love that 74 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:02,200 word last week so that was last week. 75 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:06,800 Psalm 131 I thought it was really good, so this week we're 76 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:08,800 going to be. If you've got your Bible, you 77 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:10,300 can go ahead and turn there. It's going to take us a minute 78 00:04:10,300 --> 00:04:13,900 to get where we read it, but it'll be in Psalm 148. 79 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,700 And we actually sing a song last week and this week, that was 80 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:19,800 titled that. Oh, praise him. 81 00:04:20,899 --> 00:04:22,300 I think that's the name. I'm not sure what the name of 82 00:04:22,300 --> 00:04:24,100 this song. Praise His Name is the name of 83 00:04:24,100 --> 00:04:26,200 the Sonic driver says, oh praise him quite a bit in it. 84 00:04:26,300 --> 00:04:31,400 But praise praise His name. So we're going to attempt to 85 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:35,500 answer kind of an age-old question today. 86 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:42,200 That is, why am I here? What's the purpose of life? 87 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:44,900 What's the meaning of life? Why are we doing this? 88 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:49,200 What's it all about? Why am I here? 89 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,000 So I figured I'd take the biggest theological, you know, 90 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,900 or cultural question ever, we'll just all explain it. 91 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:00,300 But before we get there, I want to, I want to State a couple 92 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:05,000 things. So Most of us I think would 93 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,300 agree. It leaks. 94 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:08,600 It is with me and what our culture teaches is that our 95 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,100 purpose while we're here is generally to make ourselves 96 00:05:12,100 --> 00:05:14,000 happy. This isn't from a Biblical 97 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,100 perspective, this is just how we do things in life in general. 98 00:05:17,900 --> 00:05:22,800 If If you want some evidence of that, I'm going to, I'm going to 99 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:25,300 use some WWE quotes. Don't hate me for this. 100 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:29,000 Okay, I really like, yeah, there we go. 101 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,800 It's all for you, buddy. They say things like this. 102 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:34,400 Some of the really quotable things are. 103 00:05:34,900 --> 00:05:36,900 He's got him Triple H and he would say things like, I'm the 104 00:05:36,900 --> 00:05:39,800 game and I'm that good. There's a guy named them is it 105 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:41,800 would say I'm The Miz and I'm awesome. 106 00:05:43,900 --> 00:05:45,300 Bret Hart, used to say, I'm the best. 107 00:05:45,300 --> 00:05:48,300 There is the best there was and the best there ever will be 108 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:51,700 Hulk. Hogan, would say what you going 109 00:05:51,700 --> 00:05:55,100 to do when Hulkamania runs wild on you. 110 00:05:57,100 --> 00:05:59,500 Guy named Steve Austin would say and that's the bottom line. 111 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:01,900 Why? Because Stone Cold said so, 112 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:04,900 There's a guy right now. His name is Roman Reigns. 113 00:06:04,900 --> 00:06:07,600 His big catch phrase is acknowledge me. 114 00:06:08,900 --> 00:06:12,500 So in all this, I know that silly, but in all this, it is 115 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:14,300 some way to Puff ourselves up, right? 116 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:15,700 It's a way to say acknowledge me. 117 00:06:15,700 --> 00:06:19,300 And that last one acknowledge me is something that I've never 118 00:06:19,300 --> 00:06:23,100 heard somebody with the gumption to go around and just say 119 00:06:23,100 --> 00:06:26,500 acknowledge me. I want you to acknowledge me, 120 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:27,500 but you know what? I do. 121 00:06:27,500 --> 00:06:29,000 See, I see on Facebook all the time. 122 00:06:30,300 --> 00:06:32,100 Or I'll see you on Twitter. I'll see you on Instagram or 123 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:35,300 hear stories. Because it's about acknowledge 124 00:06:35,300 --> 00:06:37,500 my faults acknowledge my opinions, that knowledge, My 125 00:06:37,500 --> 00:06:39,700 Views acknowledge. What I want you to hear me. 126 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:43,000 Say acknowledge all of this and so we tend from just a worldly 127 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,200 perspective, all the time to Puff ourselves up or at least I 128 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:54,000 do, maybe maybe that's just me. But I look at things like for me 129 00:06:54,500 --> 00:06:57,600 on like Facebook and I've heard that it's called, you know, like 130 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,500 a you can it's like a town square and you can voice all 131 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:04,100 kinds of things and that's true. But the thing about town squares 132 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:06,400 is there was also a lot of Village idiots in those Town 133 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:10,000 squares. And so, for me, anytime that I 134 00:07:10,008 --> 00:07:13,800 would ever get on there, I would be the big village idiot and I 135 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,000 would try to put myself up. And so what we're going to look 136 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,700 at today is that puffing ourselves up? 137 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:26,900 Like we talked about last week is in contrary to God's word and 138 00:07:26,900 --> 00:07:29,300 we're going to talk about why. So if our purpose isn't just to 139 00:07:29,308 --> 00:07:31,400 make ourselves happy, if our purpose isn't just a puff 140 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,000 ourselves up, if our purpose isn't to succeed in business or 141 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,700 succeed in a job or commenting and Min ago, make money or hold 142 00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:44,500 on to all of this stuff, if all of that is fleeting, Then what 143 00:07:44,500 --> 00:07:49,900 is our purpose? There's a there's a quote from 144 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:53,600 Tom Brady. Back in like 2005. 145 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:58,200 I think you'll probably know Tom Brady's, pretty good and he had 146 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,000 won three, Super Bowls. By the time, he was 27 and 147 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,100 there's a really cool clip of him and interviewer was just 148 00:08:05,100 --> 00:08:08,600 asking and he said, what what's next, you know, like what's 149 00:08:09,900 --> 00:08:12,500 what's your favorite ring? Whatever and he says, my next 150 00:08:12,500 --> 00:08:15,500 one, my next one is my favorite and then they keep going a 151 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:18,100 little bit and he says we've done all this stuff. 152 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:21,200 So what's like, what are you going to do next? 153 00:08:21,500 --> 00:08:23,200 And his answer. A little heartbreaking as he 154 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:26,500 goes, you know, about 27, I've done everything that I know to 155 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:29,200 do. There's got to be more than 156 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,799 this. There has to be and the 157 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:35,400 interviewer goes, what is that? And he goes, I don't know. 158 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:40,200 I wish I knew I wish I knew, I wish I knew what else there was. 159 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:46,300 And so there's more all of that long get around and saying 160 00:08:46,300 --> 00:08:49,700 there's more and when some of the recent stuff in our day with 161 00:08:49,700 --> 00:08:55,100 Roe versus Wade which Kyle you did a fantastic job a couple 162 00:08:55,100 --> 00:08:57,600 weeks ago, explaining the significance of that. 163 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:02,200 But why does it matter that we can celebrate? 164 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:08,500 if there's not more, right? So if from the world tells us 165 00:09:08,500 --> 00:09:11,500 that we're here and then we're gone and then it doesn't matter. 166 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:15,800 Why does it matter so much? That we celebrate life. 167 00:09:18,300 --> 00:09:21,400 And so we're going to get into that a little bit this morning, 168 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,200 that's all my WWE. It's almost say about WWE. 169 00:09:25,100 --> 00:09:26,600 There's there's a lot of life lessons their kids. 170 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,400 I'm just saying go home and watch it. 171 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,000 So our purpose, I believe at a cord level, I think the Bible 172 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,100 teaches it is to glorify God. That's why we're here. 173 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:43,100 We are here to glorify the Lord. We are here to praise His name 174 00:09:43,100 --> 00:09:46,800 as we sang about. Not to Puff ourselves up. 175 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:52,600 Not to be haughty but to praise His name and his name alone for 176 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:58,400 he is exalted. So let's go to Psalm 148, I'm 177 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:00,800 going to pray before we read and then I'm just going to read all 178 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,500 of Psalm 148. So let's pray first. 179 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:11,100 Lord, we love you. I thank you for your word. 180 00:10:11,900 --> 00:10:15,200 I thank you that we get to come together corporately as one body 181 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,600 And sing out your praises. And speak to how good you are. 182 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:29,400 Speak to how Just You Are. And just to say, thank you. 183 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:32,800 Thank you for your revealing yourself to us through your 184 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:37,300 word. For we love you in Jesus Christ 185 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:40,500 name. Amen, amen. 186 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:46,000 Okay, Psalm 148. It starts. 187 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,200 It's got a little heading and it just says, praise the name of 188 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,200 the Lord. So we're going to start in verse 189 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,300 1. It says it says, praise the 190 00:10:53,300 --> 00:10:55,300 Lord. Praise the Lord from the 191 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:58,700 heavens, Praise Him in the Heights, praise him all his 192 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:02,900 angels, praise him. All his hosts, Praise Him, sun 193 00:11:02,900 --> 00:11:04,500 and moon. Praise him. 194 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:07,500 All you shining stars, Praise Him. 195 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:10,800 You highest heavens and you Waters above the heavens. 196 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,200 Let them praise the name of the Lord, for he commanded that they 197 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:17,600 were created and he established them forever and ever. 198 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,500 He gave a decree and it shall not pass away. 199 00:11:22,300 --> 00:11:26,000 Praise the Lord from the earth. You great sea creatures, and all 200 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,500 deeps fire, and hail snow and missed stormy. 201 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:32,500 Wind fulfilling his word mountains. 202 00:11:32,500 --> 00:11:37,100 And all Hills fruit, trees, and all Cedars beasts, and all 203 00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:41,900 livestock creeping things, and flying birds Kings of the earth, 204 00:11:41,900 --> 00:11:45,600 and All Peoples, princes, and all rulers of the earth, young 205 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:47,800 men and maidens together. All men. 206 00:11:47,900 --> 00:11:51,400 And children, let them praise the name of the Lord, for his 207 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,400 name. Alone is exalted. 208 00:11:53,500 --> 00:11:56,100 His majesty is above Earth, and Heaven. 209 00:11:56,900 --> 00:11:59,300 He has raised up a horn for his people. 210 00:11:59,700 --> 00:12:03,800 Praise for all his Saints, for the people of Israel who are 211 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,300 near to him. Praise the Lord. 212 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,300 Mmm, Mmm. So a couple things that I want 213 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:14,300 to start here. Is this, this little slogan? 214 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:17,800 Praise the Lord. So Psalms is it's a collection 215 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:23,400 of writings that all kind of have a this this story that is 216 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:27,300 is really pointing to the Redemption of Israel, there's 217 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:28,900 Victory coming, there's Victory coming. 218 00:12:29,100 --> 00:12:34,000 And so it kind of starts, you know, proclaiming is praising as 219 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,300 it kind of moves on. We see the kind of the rise of 220 00:12:36,300 --> 00:12:38,400 David King, David and then The fall. 221 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,100 And then it's kind of a story and as it ends it ends with 222 00:12:41,100 --> 00:12:44,400 these last five books, the conclusion of Psalms and they 223 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,400 all start with, praise the lord. And there are looking for this 224 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:51,700 coming Messiah. And so they all start and end 225 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:57,400 146 on, 146 through 150, they all start and end with praise 226 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:01,800 the Lord, which is can be broken down into The Fray Just Praise 227 00:13:01,900 --> 00:13:06,800 yah or Hallelujah. And so that in essence is what 228 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:07,800 it's saying. Hallelujah. 229 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,500 And an interesting thing with the word. 230 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:11,900 Hallelujah. Is that a lot of times, I think 231 00:13:11,900 --> 00:13:15,000 we might even sing it. Or we'll say it as, like, a way 232 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,300 to talk to the lord. It's actually a phrase that 233 00:13:18,300 --> 00:13:20,600 would be used like, To each other. 234 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,000 So I would be saying, you know to Jasper. 235 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,300 Hallelujah is saying. Hey you Jasper, praise the Lord. 236 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,500 So when we say hallelujah, it's a corporate phrase that we can 237 00:13:29,500 --> 00:13:32,300 all say together that we are encouraging each other. 238 00:13:32,300 --> 00:13:35,800 To praise the Lord. So this is written when it's 239 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:37,800 saying this, it's say it's really talking to us as the 240 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,800 reader, praise the Lord, you who's reading this, let's praise 241 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:44,700 the Lord together and then it starts listing out some things 242 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:49,900 and so it starts and ends. By saying you praise the Lord, 243 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:52,000 and then it'll kind of list some reasons why. 244 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:57,000 And so this song breaks down into two, main parts, it breaks 245 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,600 down into saying, praise the Lord really everything in the 246 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,500 skies and the heavens. And then the second part of it 247 00:14:03,500 --> 00:14:06,600 is, praise the Lord everything on Earth and inner that kind of 248 00:14:06,608 --> 00:14:08,600 breaks it into two parts of creatures. 249 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:13,300 And then us as people And so, verses 1 through 6, if we look 250 00:14:13,300 --> 00:14:14,400 at them, I'm going to read them again. 251 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,000 Real fast. Praise the Lord. 252 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,200 Praise the Lord from the heavens, Praise Him in the 253 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,200 Heights, praise him all his angels, praise him. 254 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,900 All his hosts, Praise Him, sun and moon. 255 00:14:24,900 --> 00:14:27,400 Praise him. All you shining stars, Praise 256 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,300 Him. You highest heavens and you 257 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:31,900 Waters above the heavens. If you've been in Sunday school 258 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,500 whenever we started it, we talked a lot about the very 259 00:14:34,500 --> 00:14:38,400 creation and this sounds very familiar. 260 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:42,700 It's got some of that same language, so He is stating that 261 00:14:42,700 --> 00:14:48,900 the Sun, the moon, all of the heavens Stars, Heavenly angels. 262 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:53,100 We'll all and should all praise the Lord. 263 00:14:54,900 --> 00:15:02,600 And this is significant because science or culture or whatever 264 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,500 you want to call. It would say, a lot of these 265 00:15:04,500 --> 00:15:07,500 things are just in adamant is that the right word inanimate 266 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:10,600 objects in eight objects. An atom. 267 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:14,500 Is that right inanimate? They don't move, they don't move 268 00:15:14,500 --> 00:15:16,400 around. It just is this A rock in the 269 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:18,700 sky right? Tapping to be there. 270 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:24,300 It's just a son it's just stars and just they they are born and 271 00:15:24,300 --> 00:15:27,100 then they die and then that's it which is pretty bleak. 272 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:29,700 If you think like if you relate that to us this is important 273 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:33,200 because right there in verse 5 it says let them praise the 274 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:38,800 Lord, why it says for he commanded and they were created. 275 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,100 He established them forever and ever, he gave a decree and it 276 00:15:43,100 --> 00:15:49,500 shall not pass away. Which blows my mind to look up 277 00:15:49,500 --> 00:15:52,000 in the sky or to think about this and know that the Lord 278 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:56,000 created these things for the purpose to glorify his name. 279 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,700 They're not just happenstance or not just by chance that they 280 00:15:59,700 --> 00:16:04,800 that they happened, the Lord created, and the Lord made these 281 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,700 things to worship him to praise His name. 282 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:13,200 From Angels. The Stars he has decreed exactly 283 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:17,600 how our solar system is going to go is decreed exactly how the 284 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:21,800 Earth's going to turn is decreed exactly how daytime and 285 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:26,700 nighttime will happen. He has made all of this. 286 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:33,700 For his glory. Verse seven, it changes in goes 287 00:16:33,700 --> 00:16:38,800 to the Earth. Praise the Lord from the earth, 288 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:42,900 you great sea creatures, and all deeps. 289 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,000 We just went to anybody go to the beach this year. 290 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,800 So far. Yeah, like everyone not yet. 291 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:51,800 Who's going to the beach? Yeah, there you are. 292 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,000 There's some creepy things in the beach, all know that making 293 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,900 the water. Some creepy stuff. 294 00:16:57,900 --> 00:17:00,900 I was talking to Cory the other day for Cheatham and he's, it's 295 00:17:00,900 --> 00:17:03,500 tell me about scuba diving stuff that he had done and went down 296 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:08,700 like a hundred feet and how it was essentially like, you know, 297 00:17:08,700 --> 00:17:10,800 being in somewhere like the Grand Canyon or something, but 298 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:12,700 you're underwater, and there's just there's mountain range. 299 00:17:12,700 --> 00:17:16,700 Like it's just it's it's a whole other world down there that 300 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:18,200 Sighs me. I'm not scared of a lot of 301 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:20,400 things but like going deep in the water is not something that 302 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:24,500 sounds like fun to this dude at all. 303 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:26,500 That just sounds like a nightmare in the disaster 304 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:29,800 waiting to happen. So praise the Lord, all you 305 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:31,500 great sea creatures and all Deep's. 306 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:33,900 One more thing about the ocean, then I'll get off of it. 307 00:17:33,908 --> 00:17:38,400 So there's a movie called Lucas And it's a I think it's a cool 308 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,700 movie and there's a little creature in there, it's a fish 309 00:17:40,700 --> 00:17:42,300 that's got its a real type of fish. 310 00:17:42,300 --> 00:17:44,200 It's got a little light that hangs in front of its face. 311 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:48,000 If y'all ever seen these weird things, Like, I don't know what 312 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,700 their purpose is or what they do, they just swim around and 313 00:17:50,700 --> 00:17:53,200 complete blindness with this little light that attracts other 314 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:57,900 fish to them, and they eat them like what a life they're down. 315 00:17:57,900 --> 00:18:00,900 I don't know how far they're down in the pitch, Blackness of 316 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:03,500 the ocean and they just swim around and they try to trick 317 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:05,700 other fish that they can eat them like. 318 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:09,000 Wow. All right, I'll get off of us 319 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,200 are fire and he'll snow and Mist stormy. 320 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,900 Wind fulfilling his word. My point in all of that is just 321 00:18:15,900 --> 00:18:17,900 like the stars. Like There are things that I 322 00:18:17,900 --> 00:18:23,600 don't understand at all. There are so many creatures that 323 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:29,200 we probably haven't even found and they're not just by chance. 324 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,200 That they didn't just happen. They didn't just evolved from 325 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,000 all these other things. These these creatures these 326 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:41,000 animals, these plants, these reefs, all of these things are 327 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:45,900 created by the Creator. Why? 328 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,300 To praise His name. Then it goes on. 329 00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:52,600 It doesn't just leave it at creatures either. 330 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:56,800 He says, mountains and all Hills fruit trees and all Cedars 331 00:18:57,100 --> 00:19:01,600 beasts and all livestock, livestock creeping things, and 332 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:05,600 flying birds. This encompasses everything. 333 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:12,300 Made to praise the Lord. All of it from The Little Ant. 334 00:19:14,100 --> 00:19:15,800 To the whale. We actually got to see a 335 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,600 dolphin. It was kind of cool to see a 336 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:19,300 dolphin sounds like the nice thing. 337 00:19:19,300 --> 00:19:20,500 That's not even the creepy animals. 338 00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:27,200 Created to praise His name and then in verse 11 it turns a 339 00:19:27,208 --> 00:19:32,000 little bit and it goes from just mountains and Hills which is a 340 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,700 cool thought, just to think about them praising. 341 00:19:33,700 --> 00:19:36,100 The Lord that they're created to glorify his name. 342 00:19:36,500 --> 00:19:38,900 Other parts of the Bible says, even the rocks can cry out like 343 00:19:38,900 --> 00:19:43,500 what God is capable of. Is astounding to me. 344 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:47,400 Then in verse 11, it says Kings and of the earth, schnauzer were 345 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,800 relationship to me and you a little bit more Kings of the 346 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,800 earth and All Peoples, princes, and all rulers of the earth, 347 00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:58,500 young men and maidens together. Old men and children. 348 00:19:59,700 --> 00:20:02,300 It's going to say praise the Lord but here's why. 349 00:20:02,300 --> 00:20:03,700 Here's why all of that's important. 350 00:20:03,700 --> 00:20:07,500 Here's why from the earth, great sea creatures, mountains and 351 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:08,800 Hills, we should praise the Lord. 352 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,900 It says let them. Praise the name of the Lord. 353 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:18,300 Verse 13 for his name. Alone is exalted. 354 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:25,400 His name alone is exalted. His majesty is above Earth, and 355 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:30,200 Heaven. Your name's not exalted. 356 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,700 My name is not exalted and praise God for that. 357 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:39,100 Man, the scary enough thought that. 358 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:44,300 I get to lead my wife and children. 359 00:20:45,700 --> 00:20:48,100 And go, man. Don't don't mess this up, right? 360 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:50,000 Praise the lord, it's not just up to me. 361 00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:55,800 But for his name, alone is exalted, his name, alone is 362 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,300 lifted high. For he is the Lord, most high. 363 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,200 And then we're going to get into verse 14 here. 364 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,000 Says this. That's it. 365 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,700 It kind of pointed that these books Point towards a coming 366 00:21:11,700 --> 00:21:13,200 Messiah. We're going to spend much of the 367 00:21:13,208 --> 00:21:17,700 rest of our time on this. For, he has raised up a horn for 368 00:21:17,700 --> 00:21:22,600 his people, praise for all his Saints, for the people of Israel 369 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,400 who are near to him, praise the Lord. 370 00:21:27,300 --> 00:21:29,900 So, when I first read that I was saying to myself, I was like 371 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,100 Self. What, what is the horn have to 372 00:21:33,100 --> 00:21:36,100 do with it? And you see this phrase a lot, 373 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:38,400 you'll see, well maybe not a lot, but you'll see this phrase 374 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,900 throughout as a common theme throughout the throughout the 375 00:21:40,900 --> 00:21:43,700 Old Testament and New Testament of lifting up your horn. 376 00:21:44,700 --> 00:21:49,800 And we first see it, the sign of a horn when Abraham was going to 377 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,600 sacrifice his son and so he's about to do that and then a ram 378 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:58,000 gets caught, right by his horns. It's called by his horns. 379 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,200 And so, from there, on out, the bible really talks about About a 380 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:07,100 horn as something of a power of something of strength, as 381 00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:09,700 something of Victory, you will see it. 382 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,100 The walls of Jericho come down after they blow the trumpet, 383 00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:16,800 which is likely it's a horn. It's like a just like a Bighorn. 384 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,600 It's got a little curve on it, they would call it a shofar. 385 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:20,700 I think it's how they would say it. 386 00:22:20,700 --> 00:22:24,400 I don't know if that's the correct pronunciation of it and 387 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,400 so they would blow this trumpet or blow this horn for a sign of 388 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:31,300 victory. So he is saying that the Lord 389 00:22:31,300 --> 00:22:34,300 has raised up a horn. He has raised up a sign of 390 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:40,400 victory for who for his people, praise for all his Saints, 391 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:49,500 praise for all his Saints. And the cool thing is that, that 392 00:22:49,500 --> 00:22:55,600 kind of points. Praise for all his Saints, man. 393 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,800 It's just it's I'm getting a little sidetracked. 394 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:03,000 It's astounding to me that he is saying and he is pointing to the 395 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:08,200 Messiah. That Jesus will save us, Jesus 396 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:09,600 is called The Horn of our salvation. 397 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,500 And so we'll get there in a second. 398 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:16,000 This is where my brain sometimes gets lost in some of my 399 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,800 thoughts. Because it's so amazing to me 400 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:24,100 how they how the Riders and how the Lord has orchestrated 401 00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:26,400 everything to make complete sense. 402 00:23:27,300 --> 00:23:31,700 Maybe not to Me Maybe not always to me but man his word does not 403 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:35,100 fail. So, he has raised up a horn for 404 00:23:35,100 --> 00:23:41,900 his people. So back to the question, why are 405 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:44,700 we here? What's the purpose? 406 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:48,800 Its meaning of life? We are here and the purpose and 407 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,800 the meaning of life would be to glorify God to praise His name. 408 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,100 But there's still a question that I have after that, it would 409 00:23:57,100 --> 00:24:03,100 be why. Why? 410 00:24:03,100 --> 00:24:08,100 So, we're people he can have rocks that can crowd his name. 411 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:13,200 All the other creatures can crowd, is named Stars, the Sun, 412 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,500 the moon mountains Hills, Why Us? 413 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,600 Why are we just made to glorify the name of the Lord? 414 00:24:25,100 --> 00:24:26,700 When all the rest of creation can do it. 415 00:24:30,100 --> 00:24:32,300 And it is because he has raised up a horn for us. 416 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:37,400 He has raised up salvation for us to be with him because he 417 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:42,400 loves us. He loves you, he loves me. 418 00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:49,700 Jesus is the Horn of Salvation. We know that now and when they 419 00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:52,500 were riding this, they knew a messiah was coming, but now we 420 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:56,100 can firmly stand that Jesus is the Horn of Salvation. 421 00:24:56,100 --> 00:24:59,300 He is our victory in him alone. His name is exalted. 422 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,000 That is our purpose is to continue to blow this trumpets. 423 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,700 As shout in this horn, to say, he is our victory. 424 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:15,800 All the time. So if he is our trumpet or our 425 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:20,700 horn, he is our Victory. What we are to do in response to 426 00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:30,200 that Let's repent and believe. for by Grace, you have been 427 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:37,700 saved through faith in Christ and we know all of that now We 428 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:39,400 have no excuse not for doing this. 429 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,100 And I'm great at making excuses. Anybody else great at making up 430 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:45,700 excuses. Why you don't do things, man. 431 00:25:45,700 --> 00:25:48,400 I'm good at it. You to Scarlett. 432 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,700 Yeah, I hear you. I hear you. 433 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,600 I don't remember what was happening the other day, but she 434 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,400 had asked me to do something I was like, yeah, yeah. 435 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:56,100 Yeah. I'll do it. 436 00:25:56,700 --> 00:25:59,000 And then, before I know it, I'm playing Odyssey with Ethan. 437 00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:02,100 Playing a video game, and then I see her do it. 438 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:05,000 And I was like, I was about to do it. 439 00:26:06,500 --> 00:26:09,700 I need it. I just had to go see what had 440 00:26:09,700 --> 00:26:10,400 happened. He just asked me. 441 00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:13,500 To do this or whatever. This is a daily occurrence all 442 00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:15,900 the time. I'm sure I'm the only one but 443 00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:19,600 I'm really great at making up excuses of why I'm not doing 444 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,300 something or why I did this or why didn't do that or why blah 445 00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:26,300 blah blah. And I'm really good at that 446 00:26:26,300 --> 00:26:34,200 internally with the Lord or so. I think I know I'm not Why 447 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,900 didn't I read this? Why didn't I get in my word? 448 00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:40,100 Why didn't I blah blah blah. I'm really good at it. 449 00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:44,800 But Paul State some stuff in Romans 1, as far as the Lord, 450 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,700 being the Horn of our Salvation or about about Christ and him 451 00:26:48,700 --> 00:26:53,600 reveal himself that leaves us with no excuse for praising his 452 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,000 name. So it says it's got your Bibles 453 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:04,200 and turn to Romans 1 It turned over here, I've got too many 454 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:05,500 sticky notes. Everywhere should have labeled 455 00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:09,900 these things. Okay, so Romans 1 will start in 456 00:27:09,900 --> 00:27:13,700 verse 18 and right before that. So when Paul is writing to the 457 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:21,000 Romans he is he is writing and he starts off in verse 16 and 458 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,000 he's talks about the gospel. And so he's I'll just save and 459 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,900 I'll start in verse 16. He says, for I am not ashamed of 460 00:27:25,900 --> 00:27:29,400 the gospel for it is the power of God, for salvation to 461 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,500 everyone, who believes to the Jew first. 462 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,300 And also, to the Greek, to the Gentile for it is the 463 00:27:36,300 --> 00:27:38,000 righteousness of God. In it. 464 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,700 The righteousness of God is revealed from faith for Faith. 465 00:27:40,700 --> 00:27:44,000 As it is written, the righteous shall live by faith. 466 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,500 And then he says, this in verse 18, He says for the wrath of God 467 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:51,000 is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and 468 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,900 righteousness and unrighteousness of men who by 469 00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:56,600 their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 470 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,600 That's like the hold-down Cal talked about this, not too long 471 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,100 ago or Jasper, one of y'all did it talked about this idea of 472 00:28:02,108 --> 00:28:04,800 trying to hold something underwater, you know, you making 473 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,500 suppress it but it is trying to burst forth. 474 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:13,200 Fourth. Who by their unrighteousness 475 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:19,000 suppress the truth. And then he says, for what can 476 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,200 be known about God is plain to them? 477 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,000 Why? Because God has shown it to them 478 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,800 for his invisible attributes. Namely, his eternal power and 479 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,700 divine nature have clearly been perceived ever since the 480 00:28:31,700 --> 00:28:34,500 creation of the world, in the things that have been made. 481 00:28:34,500 --> 00:28:39,100 So they are without excuse for. Although they knew God, they did 482 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:41,300 not honor him as God or give thanks. 483 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,100 Thanks to him but they became futile in their thinking and 484 00:28:44,100 --> 00:28:46,900 their foolish Hearts were darkened claiming to be wise, 485 00:28:46,900 --> 00:28:51,000 they became fools and exchanged, the glory of the immortal. 486 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,900 God for images, resembling mortal man and birds and animals 487 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,500 and creeping things. Therefore, God gave them up in 488 00:28:59,508 --> 00:29:02,400 the lusts of their hearts to impurity to the dishonoring of 489 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:06,500 their bodies among themselves because they exchanged the truth 490 00:29:06,500 --> 00:29:10,700 about God, for a lie and worshipped and served the 491 00:29:10,700 --> 00:29:15,200 creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. 492 00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:18,800 Amen. And then he goes on. 493 00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:24,300 And in verse 2, he wraps it all up a little bit and he says 494 00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:28,500 therefore and between the verses he talks about a lot of 495 00:29:28,508 --> 00:29:32,800 dishonorable passions that we've talked about here in the last 496 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,200 several weeks that have consumed us that have made unnatural 497 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,900 relations, instead of they've traded natural relations for 498 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:42,600 unnatural relations that goes on and talks about evil covenants. 499 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,800 Malice lust murder Strife of a bunch of not good things that 500 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,100 are not god-honoring. And then in verse 2, he says, 501 00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:55,400 therefore You have no excuse. Oh man, every one of you who 502 00:29:55,400 --> 00:30:02,000 judges. we have no excuse because to not praise the Lord 503 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,000 because he has clearly Given us, every reason to praise him. 504 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,000 From the rising of the Sun to the setting of the sun. 505 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,900 He has made himself known. To us. 506 00:30:16,300 --> 00:30:19,800 And maybe if you haven't called on to that right now, his word 507 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,100 is clearly telling us that. So I hope that you have ears to 508 00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:25,700 hear that. Hope that I'm communicating that 509 00:30:25,700 --> 00:30:31,500 somewhat good ish. He's made himself known through 510 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:35,900 all of creation and Paul goes on throughout Romans and threw out 511 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:40,000 some other books and he says things that are pretty clear 512 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,700 that we are with this knowledge to trust and follow Jesus. 513 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,400 He says, if we confess with our with our mouth, that Jesus is 514 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,000 Lord, and we believe in our heart that God raised him from 515 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,900 the dead. He says, you will be saved. 516 00:30:54,300 --> 00:30:57,500 This is true Faith with beliefs of these are not just ideas. 517 00:30:57,500 --> 00:30:59,700 These are not just things that we reading and I think that was 518 00:30:59,700 --> 00:31:03,400 probably true. This is a true active faith for 519 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:09,900 his word is living and active. It requires requires action on 520 00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:13,400 our part to show people that we believe this is true. 521 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:19,200 You know, we can stand and just read it but it says in John that 522 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,700 Jesus says they will know you are my disciples by the way that 523 00:31:22,700 --> 00:31:25,900 you love one another. By the way, we take this into 524 00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:29,800 action. Trusting and following Jesus is 525 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:34,400 a faithful faith. Other places Paul says on how 526 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,900 will they know or how will that not, how they know, how will 527 00:31:37,900 --> 00:31:40,600 they call on him? If they, if they don't believe 528 00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:42,100 it says? And how will they know if they 529 00:31:42,100 --> 00:31:46,000 don't hear? And how will they know? 530 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,700 Or how were they here if they're not sent? 531 00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:54,600 And so it wraps back in of why we're celebrating the disciple 532 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,100 the nation's of different missionaries with six kids. 533 00:31:57,100 --> 00:31:58,900 Wow. A bunch of kids. 534 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:07,800 A lot of kids in Paris, right? Italy, it's closed across Seas. 535 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:12,900 Why we can celebrate things like that is because they are sent to 536 00:32:12,908 --> 00:32:18,000 do what Their sense of praise. The name of the Lord by telling 537 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,900 people, by proclaiming his goodness, by proclaiming the 538 00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:24,400 gospel. And this is all a big circle of 539 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,100 what discipleship that's why. When we say here at New Life 540 00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:30,900 Community Church, we want to grow in our faith and in our 541 00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:34,700 love for one another, as we want to grow in our, in our knowledge 542 00:32:34,700 --> 00:32:37,500 of the were going to grow closer to the Lord, we were in grow in 543 00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:40,600 our love towards one another so that we can share with other 544 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,000 people so we can make disciples that will turn around and 545 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,900 hopefully do the same thing that will preach the word. 546 00:32:46,700 --> 00:32:49,200 Maybe not up here. This terrifies me up here. 547 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,800 But you don't have to be up here, to read his word, don't 548 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,400 have to be up here. To share the gospel, don't have 549 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,900 to be up here to acknowledge that he has created the things 550 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:01,900 around us and that we are to praise him for it. 551 00:33:04,100 --> 00:33:06,200 So who will send them? How will they know? 552 00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:08,300 They'll know by proclaiming his word. 553 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:14,700 Because his word is good and his word is true. 554 00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:18,400 And that's why we can sink things, like Behold Him. 555 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,200 Hallelujah. You over there. 556 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,600 Praise the Lord with us. Hallelujah. 557 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,200 Don't know if I told you I was going to be super short but I'm 558 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,000 going to be fairly short I'm about. 559 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,400 Ready to wrap this up so team, y'all can come back up. 560 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,700 Got a couple more things before we sing. 561 00:33:37,700 --> 00:33:40,300 We're going to sing a song called abide in a minute that 562 00:33:40,300 --> 00:33:46,600 we've sang a few times and The ending of it says I depend on 563 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:50,700 you and it just repeats that I depend on you I depend on you. 564 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:56,700 It starts by saying for my daily breath or for my waking breath. 565 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,400 So from the moment we wake up to the moment, we lie down our 566 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:07,200 life, there's a purpose. There's a meaning. 567 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,699 And is to glorify the father because he loves us. 568 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:14,800 Because he wants that relationship with you. 569 00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:21,800 So, I'm going to turn over to Corinthians. 570 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,500 I want to read, this is from. Put my notes first. 571 00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:31,100 Greetings. Actually. 2nd Corinthians. 572 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:39,300 I'm going to read verse 11. Says this is Paul again, he's 573 00:34:39,300 --> 00:34:43,100 writing to the Corinthians. He says, therefore, or because 574 00:34:44,100 --> 00:34:47,900 knowing the fear of the Lord we persuade others. 575 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,400 But what we are is known to God and I hope it is known. 576 00:34:53,400 --> 00:35:00,400 Also to your conscience, this is referring back to ax. 931 and 577 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,300 it's just says so. So the church throughout all 578 00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:09,600 Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built 579 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,300 up. So, the church throughout these 580 00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:15,900 regions had peace and was being built up and walking in the fear 581 00:35:15,900 --> 00:35:18,900 of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it 582 00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:24,800 multiplied. So that's really Our Hope for 583 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:29,400 coming together. Is that we can Worship the Lord 584 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,900 and that we can walk in the fear of the Lord knowing that he is 585 00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:39,500 sufficient and in the peace and comfort of the Holy Spirit, 586 00:35:40,500 --> 00:35:45,500 knowing that whatever comes our way he is greater and he is 587 00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:49,400 better. And that we can abide in him and 588 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:53,300 just say, Lord, I depend on you, I don't want to be lifted up 589 00:35:53,300 --> 00:35:58,100 myself. I'll shout it from the Town 590 00:35:58,100 --> 00:36:01,700 Square because you are worthy. But it always point to you, 591 00:36:01,700 --> 00:36:05,200 Lord. And I'm going to read a little 592 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,400 bit more lengthy part of scripture, but I think it is 593 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:12,300 important for us to hear that. It was important for me to hear 594 00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:14,000 it. Second Corinthians five, 595 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,500 starting verses verse 14. It says this, for the love of 596 00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:21,400 Christ controls us because we have concluded this. 597 00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:25,300 This is what we've concluded. That one has died for all. 598 00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:29,600 Therefore, all have died and he died for all that those who live 599 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,500 might no longer live for themselves. 600 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:36,000 But for him, who for their Sake died and was raised without 601 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:41,900 Jesus. from now on there, for We regard no one according to the 602 00:36:41,900 --> 00:36:45,000 flesh, even though we once regarded Christ, according to 603 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,500 the flesh, we regard him. Thus no longer for, He Is Risen. 604 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,500 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. 605 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:57,700 The old has passed away behold. The new has come all, this is 606 00:36:57,700 --> 00:37:01,500 from God who through Christ reconciled us to himself and 607 00:37:01,500 --> 00:37:03,500 gave us the ministry of reconciliation. 608 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:08,000 That is in Christ. God was reconciling the world to 609 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,800 himself. Not counting their trespasses 610 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:16,400 against them and entrusting us the message of reconciliation. 611 00:37:17,900 --> 00:37:21,100 It's entrusting us as Believers, the message of reconciliation 612 00:37:21,100 --> 00:37:26,500 says therefore now because of all of that we are ambassadors 613 00:37:26,500 --> 00:37:32,000 for Christ God making his appeal through us. 614 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,900 Paul says this, I love this. He says, we implore you on 615 00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:42,100 behalf of Christ to be reconciled to God, we implore 616 00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:47,800 you, we beg of you. For our sake, he made him to be 617 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:52,200 sin who knew no sin that in him. We might become the 618 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:56,200 righteousness of God working together with him. 619 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,700 Then we appeal to you working with the Holy Spirit working 620 00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:03,700 together with God, we appeal to you, not to receive the grace of 621 00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:07,300 God, in vain for, he says, in a favorable time I listened to 622 00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:09,300 you. And in a day of salvation, I've 623 00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:10,600 helped you. This is referencing back in. 624 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,500 Isaiah, they're calling Israel to repentance says behold. 625 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:20,700 Now is the favorable time. Behold, now is the day of 626 00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:25,400 salvation. We put no obstacle in anyone's 627 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:29,100 way so that no fault may be found with our ministry. 628 00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:32,200 But as Servants of God, we commend ourselves in every way 629 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,500 by great endurance. In afflictions hardships 630 00:38:35,500 --> 00:38:38,800 calamities, beatings imprisonments riots, laborers, 631 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:43,000 sleepless nights, hunger by Purity knowledge, patience. 632 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,600 Kindness the Holy Spirit. Genuine Love by truthful speech 633 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,900 and the power of God with the weapons of righteousness for the 634 00:38:49,900 --> 00:38:54,200 right hand and for the left through honor and dishonor 635 00:38:54,300 --> 00:38:59,200 through slander and praise. We are treated as imposters and 636 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:04,300 yet are true. As unknown and yet, well known 637 00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:11,200 as dying and behold we live. As punished and yet not killed 638 00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:14,900 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing as poor yet. 639 00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:17,900 Making many rich as having nothing yet. 640 00:39:17,900 --> 00:39:23,500 Possessing, everything. We have spoken freely to you 641 00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:27,000 Corinthians. I can say, hopefully I've spoken 642 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,200 freely to you New Life Community Church. 643 00:39:30,500 --> 00:39:34,700 Our heart is wide open. You are not restricted by us. 644 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:42,600 But you are restricted in your own affections in return, widen 645 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:49,300 your hearts also. In return, widen your heart 646 00:39:49,300 --> 00:39:54,300 cells. So before we sing I want to say 647 00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:58,200 this that if you are a Believer, you have placed your faith in 648 00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,000 Christ. Know that your destiny is 649 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:09,200 secure, know that your future is secure with them because he 650 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:15,500 holds it, no one else holds it. Not restricted by anyone else. 651 00:40:17,100 --> 00:40:21,000 We are safe and secure in the hands of almighty. 652 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:31,200 God. and if you're not a believer, I don't believe the 653 00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:38,200 Bible teaches, your fate is determined Believe it teaches in 654 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:44,600 a god of Hope. That you may repent, and believe 655 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:51,300 the gospel that he is presented. God, that is righteous pure and 656 00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:54,800 holy God. That loves you very very, very 657 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:59,700 much. And God has made a way by grace 658 00:40:59,700 --> 00:41:04,000 through faith in Our Savior, Jesus Christ to be reconciled 659 00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:09,500 with him. So I want to try to Echo Paul 660 00:41:09,500 --> 00:41:12,900 this morning. And the psalmist. 661 00:41:14,700 --> 00:41:18,100 And say I implore you to trust and follow Christ. 662 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,300 If you're unsure, what the next steps are? 663 00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:24,900 You can talk with me or Jasper Kyle, or a multitude of people. 664 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:31,100 Thump Lauria beg of you. Trust and follow Jesus. 665 00:41:31,900 --> 00:41:36,100 And as the psalm says, let's praise the Lord together. 666 00:41:36,100 --> 00:41:38,400 Hallelujah, you here. Let's praise. 667 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,400 We're going to sing out that we can abide in him. 668 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:46,000 So I'm going to pray for us. If y'all will, please stand and 669 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:51,400 then we'll sing. Jesus, thank you for your 670 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:55,700 goodness. Thank you for your word. 671 00:41:58,500 --> 00:42:00,400 Lord. And I ask that you draw Us near 672 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:07,400 as that you draws near to you. We acknowledge we are reconciled 673 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,900 through you Christ. You are the only way. 674 00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:17,500 You are our rock or Foundation, The Horn of our salvation. 675 00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:24,200 And we praise you, as your creation, we praise the Creator. 676 00:42:30,100 --> 00:42:34,000 Help us abide in you, in Jesus name. 677 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:35,800 Amen. Let's sing together.