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Once again, the Lord has been 
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privilege to come to gather to 
worship him. 

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And to study together, a portion
of his inspired word, we're 

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going to study tonight about the
singing in the church. 

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And before we before, we look at
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Testament, I want to first talk 
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that happened in the old and we 
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possibly what it might have 
looked like if you had been on a

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Hilltop somewhere and you looked
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Israelites were camped. 
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you'll see this. 
You see this fire. 

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This Pillar of Fire. 
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they wanted the Tabernacle to be
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And when the time came for them 
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would go to the outside of the 
camp in the direction, they were

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to go and that was God's sign 
that it was time to pack 

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everything up. 
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this tent, no one could 
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But it except the priests and 
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priest could enter the second 
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holy of holies. 
He that is the high priest could

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enter once a year, but not 
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the sins of he and his family 
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So we have this Old Testament 
worship and we can learn some 

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things about Bible says, for 
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aforetime were written for our 
learning that we through 

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patience and comfort of the 
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Might have hope and we go back 
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1 and 2. 
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banana by you. 
The sons of Aaron, each took his

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censer and put fire in it. 
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and offered profane fire before 
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not, or commanded not, he had 
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So, fire went out from the Lord 
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before the Lord. 
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really understand what happened 
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Now, first of all, the Bible 
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consecrated fire. 
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of things, they might have 
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Like we do sometimes and might 
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What difference does it make 
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Fire. 
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whether it, it comes from from 
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It's fire, it burns the same, it
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course, accomplish the same 
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they used fire. 
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altar, the fire that God had not
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Now the Lord didn't tell them. 
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gave them the specific command 
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He gave him in. 
Instructions. 

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Now, remember this, anytime 
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time we're practicing something 
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Lord's, will it is necessary 
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God's word? 
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ideology that we base our work 
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the Bible says, so then faith 
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the word of God. 
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based upon the word of the Lord.
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where God specifies, then, of 
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specific command unless there is
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changes that within the scope of
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It's not up to me. 
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to God. 
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command and then he gives us 
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Let me illustrate that in 
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Jesus said, go Now you remember,
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may remember that when Paul 
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first time and later when Galen 
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went Brethren were opposed to 
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They were opposed to it because 
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And he couldn't read anywhere in
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food. 
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And all. 
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But they don't understand. 
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command. 
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specify a method and always 
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So the point is, he said go 
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particular way then, unless we 
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I'm going to be in trouble if I 
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Matthew chapter 21 wrote on a 
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I'm going to tell you right now,
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Jesus wrote him donkey, in the 
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wrote on a ship. 
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command. 
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when you don't have specific 
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specify that, but it's included 
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keep the fire burning on, that 
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sacrifice on the altar, he 
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the children of Israel were 
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gods fire. 
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people. 
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that fire go out. 
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night. 
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Brethren talk about this. 
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many sacrifices there were every
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Do you realize there were at 
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place? 
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to dear? 
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Terry? 
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deer in one day? 
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the blood? 
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that. 
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Every morning. 
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afternoon about 3:00, they made 
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There were literally thousands 
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In fact, on the, on the 
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Exodus 12, have you ever thought
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been sacrificed in Exodus? 
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There could have been as many as
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And one day, they had to be 
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somewhere between 3:00 and 5:00 
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Never could take away, seein, 
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never finish sin. 
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come and eradicate those 
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Well, this is the altar that God
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recommended. 
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A fire shall always be burning 
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his sons. 
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day and night 300 there was to 
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days a year. 
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chapter 16 verse 12 then he 
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fire pan. 
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from the altar, Right there. 
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and they were to take the coals 
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put it into their fire suit sir.
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that it was necessary for them 
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Full of burning coals of fire 
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with his hands full of sweet 
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it inside the veil. 
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evident by Hugh could perform 
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They were to get their fire from
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they would take the coals inside
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Now, I want to clarify his, 
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said There wasn't any roof on 
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fact, inside the Tabernacle the 
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place, there was no outside 
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That could come in, only the 
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the Candlestick and the holy 
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holies, but this illustration is
open so that we can see, this is

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for teaching purposes, only, it 
was a covered structure that you

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couldn't see inside. 
So these priests Nate Avenue by 

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Hugh were to take this function.
Are they were to go to this 

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altar, get the coals and go 
through this Veil, enter into 

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the holy of to the holy place 
and then offer incense and fire 

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upon the golden altar. 
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every day twice a day and God 
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done. 
According to his will. 

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Now the scripture says they 
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Now, I don't know where they got
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but they offered Strange Fire. 
And God, literally barbecued 

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those boys. 
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Don't you think about this? 
God is so angry because of what 

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they've done, he tells Moses 
their Uncle, he tells Moses or 

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are in their father, don't you 
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Like they ever existed, you 
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You don't have a funeral, you 
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forward as if they never 
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God's angry. 
Because you see, they did not 

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sanctify him in the eyes of the 
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will. 
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something. 
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When we do not follow, the 
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And I think that this is very 
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to talk about today because men 
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that you can do whatever you 
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You can worship, however, you 
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from this, if we learn nothing 
else that When God Says 

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something, he means it. 
And he expects us to obey it. 

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He expects us to follow. 
They offered Strange, Fire. 

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The Lord commanded not. 
Well, It is better for you to 

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enter the kingdom of God with 
one eye, rather than having two 

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eyes to be cast into Hell Fire, 
where their worm does not die 

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and the fire is not quenched. 
Now the fire and the torment 

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that we're going to face if we 
don't obey, the Lord is a whole 

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lot worse than what they have 
and about you endured its 

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Eternal fire. 
And so when we do, when we do 

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something, when we practice up 
and we better, be sure that what

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we're doing the Lord. 
Has commanded it. 

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Well what about the singing in 
the church if you search through

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the New Testament? 
What does the Bible say about 

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it? 
Let's look at all of the verses.

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Just take a couple of minutes to
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concerning singing. 
But before we begin, I asked the

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question. 
Where is our piano? 

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Why don't we have a piano 
tonight? 

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Can you explain intelligently? 
Why we don't Think about it. 

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Can you talk to your peers at 
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Why we do not have a piano, some
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told or one of our old preachers
that she felt sorry for the 

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church whom that she was going 
to donate a Pinnacles that he 

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knew the church couldn't afford 
it. 

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Well, is that why we don't have 
a piano? 

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Is that why we don't have one of
those and in the assembly 

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tonight? 
Where the drums, you know, 

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example, we have problem with 
drums, we have to teach against 

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that. 
We have a church of group not in

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our fellowship, but we have a 
group of Church of Christ that 

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has drums in their assemblies, 
they use choirs to sing for 

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them. 
We have that problem even in the

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religious world in America, 
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Where is the Clapping? 
Where is the dancing? 

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They even dance. 
We don't have that problem. 

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I guess that I know of in 
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But where is all this stuff? 
Why don't we have these things? 

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Why don't we practice these 
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Well, of course, what we need to
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something the Lord is not 
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We will reap Eternal fire in 
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Olives in Mark 14 verse 26. 
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Who acts 16:25. 
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were praying and singing hymns 
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listening to them. 
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and at the Gentiles might 
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is written. 
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to you among the Gentiles and 
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Then, I will pray with the 
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the understanding Standing, I 
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also sing with the 
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I want to put something out 
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This verse Ibis understood this 
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being said here. 
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person who's singing. 
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leading the song. 
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song in the first century 
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lie to him. 
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in an unknown tongue. and he 
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the context, he's talking about 
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with the understanding of the 
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pray In the spirit, I pray for 
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with the understanding, in other
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to use a tongue. 
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understand I'm going to pray so 
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applies to to our service. 
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large assembly and someone's 
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they prayed to the bench Now, I 
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lost a lot of my hearing. 
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you. 
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you're asked your appointed to 
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to pray clearly distinctly and 
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can hear so that we can all say 
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So, In this passage, when he 
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spirit and I will sing with the 
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He's not talking about singing. 
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mean in the song? 
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Now it's true. 
We have to worship God in spirit

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and Truth, John Chapter 4 verses
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And for him that means that you 
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word say, if you say throw out 
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throw out the fishing line, then
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If you say cast our count your 
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and then you complain about your
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all the time and don't count 
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Don't appreciate what you have. 
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song with the spirit and the 
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this passage, the word 
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other person and if you, if you 
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and study it. 
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the case. 
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that context. 
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Paul says, I will sing. 
I will sing again. 

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Ephesians 5:19 speaking to one 
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and spiritual songs singing and 
making melody in your heart to 

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the Lord. 
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Let the word of Christ dwell in 
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teaching and admonishing. 
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and spiritual songs singing with
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Lord. 
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Irvine tells us that this verse 
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this. 
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Now, I'm not a Greek scholar, so
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That's be puts a great question 
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Now, Frankie knows that brother 
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he didn't know, Spencer's and 
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Brotherhood that know some 
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But but the point is this when 
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your money started out two 
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says, teach and admonish one 
another Other. 

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And then he says, sing in Psalms
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singing and teaching are not the
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together now, it's true that we 
may learn some things when were 

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singing and we may edify build 
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singing, but that's not what 
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There are actually two distinct 
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The word of Christ dwell in its 
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another. 
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Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual
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your hearts. 
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I would have Claire your name to
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assembly. 
I will sing to you. 

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It's really that were to Simply 
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Let him pray. 
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Let him sing. 
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praising God, and having favor 
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added to the church daily. 
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included in Praise Is see, don't
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Hebrews. 13 verse 15, therefore 
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Let us continually offer the 
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That is the fruit of our lips 
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Giving thanks to his name song. 
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praise all these things are 
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place for instrumental music. 
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instrument is included. 
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the category of the Lord 
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It doesn't matter if you have a 
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get up and sing a solo, that's 
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doesn't teach us that in the 
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way. 
Now singing who is to say, How 

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do we know that when we sing? 
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Well, the Bible has the answer, 
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He's told us who is to sing and 
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are in Ephesus and faithful in 
Christ Jesus, he's not writing 

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to a group. 
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He's writing to everybody over 
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Therefore be imitators of God as
dear children and walk in love 

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as Christ. 
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himself for us. 
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God for a sweet-smelling savour.
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Jesus loved who did Jesus died 
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He died for everybody in the 
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He died for everybody in the 
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all his children. 
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writing this to everybody, let 
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words. 
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wrath of God comes upon the sons
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Therefore and or in view of this
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Therefore Or do you don't be 
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will of the Lord is and do not 
be drunk with wine and 

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incidentally that were drunk 
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inceptive verb. 
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I think about that. 
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It doesn't mean you've passed 
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drunk. 
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You're becoming drunk. 
That's what that word means. 

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It's a different word. 
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word in 1st Thessalonians. 
Chapter 5. 

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And then you'll find the second 
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that passage. 
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translated drunk but it's 
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And, and drunkenness in the 
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James, just a little different 
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But the point is one of those 
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verb and it means to grow drunk.
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dog drunk or your sot, Now. 
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We're commanded do not be drunk.
In other words, don't grow 

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drunk. 
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you're growing drunk, if you're 
the process of growing drunk 

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with wine this is dissipation or
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words. 
Even stayed California kills 

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you. 
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That the alcohol begins to 
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brain. 
You know, it's paradoxical these

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commercials. 
They had to drink responsibly 

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and yet the first part of your 
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by the alcohol. 
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That's reasonable. 
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How can you drink reasonably 
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That's what alcohol is the drug.
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softens your reasoning ability? 
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It's not just wrong to be dead 
dog, drunk. 

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It's a sin to drink alcohol as a
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It's a sin now. 
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and we use drugs for medical 
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If a doctor has prescribed to 
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in. 
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But if you're drinking that for 
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because drinking alcohol is 
wrong. 

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He says, do not be drunk with 
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but be filled with the spirit 
notice. 

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Now, he tells us that we need to
be filled with the spirit. 

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How can you feel yourself? 
The spirit don't fool yourself 

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with wine but feel yourself the 
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By speaking to one another in 
Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual

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songs singing and making melody 
in your heart, to the Lord. 

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Now, some Christians don't like 
to sing at all. 

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I never could figure that out. 
but the Bible says, if your 

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spiritual you like to say, 
sometimes I sit in the audience 

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or I get it to lead a song and I
see people not seeing you. now, 

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maybe you have the croup or you 
have a problem, if you didn't 

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sing tonight, But you know, 
what's sad is sometimes when I 

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live at a place, I see that 
happening every service. 

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You see your commanded to sing, 
you're commanded a seeing 

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whether you're leading the song 
or you're sitting in your seat. 

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You commanded a saying, whether 
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sometimes people say well it's a
it's a contradiction because the

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Bible tells the women to be 
silent. 

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But remember now singing his 
praise and the teaching is 

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instruction, The teaching is to 
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to God, there's a difference 
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And when he commands the woman 
to be silent, he's not talking 

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about seeing he's talking about,
instructing, he's talked about 

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the teaching in First 
Corinthians 14:34, five, they're

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not parallel. 
Now, if they were parallel, then

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we would have to sing solos. 
Because only one man at a time 

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contingency. 
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There's a contradiction if that 
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commanded as the church were 
commanded. 

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All the saints to sing doesn't 
matter if you sing like a canary

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or something, like a moose. 
You're supposed to see now if 

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you sound like a moose, you 
don't have to be the loudest 

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singer, but you still command to
save, we're all committed to 

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saying we're all committed to 
participate in the song service,

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all men, all women, every 
Christian where to sing and make

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melody in our hearts, every 
Christian is commanded to sing 

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in the New Testament. 
Christians are only found 

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singing and praising God with 
her. 

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It's now I want you to look at 
this passage. 

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We already read it, but I'm 
gonna read it again. 

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Speaking to one another in 
Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual

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songs singing and making melody 
in your heart, to the Lord. 

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Now, we know that singing is 
vocal nobody questions that but 

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notice now, the command is to 
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sing, then number two to make 
Melody. 

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Now, there's a lot of 
controversy among language 

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Scholars about the word making 
Melanie. 

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Some people think that the word 
making melody means too strong 

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or too twitch. 
Now, let's give people the 

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benefit of the doubt, maybe 
that's what it means. 

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Now, first of all, if that is 
what it means, just like 

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everybody has to sing. 
Everybody has to play See. 

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And it, isn't it interesting 
that the Lord solves the 

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problem. 
Because he tells us what we 

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play. 
He says, seeing with your voice 

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and then he says play, but he 
doesn't just say play, he tells 

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us what to play. 
He says, play in your heart. 

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He specified what the instrument
is. 

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It's our hearts. 
He's not only told us to sing 

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with our voices, but if that 
word making, Melody really does 

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mean to Twitch her to pluck. 
He's talking about plucking, our

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hearts And you see every one of 
us can do that. 

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Everyone. 
Now my sister could play the 

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piano. 
There's a few songs that she 

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learned to play When I was a lot
younger when she was a little 

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girl. 
And those are some of my 

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favorite classical songs and she
would play those very beautiful 

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in the piano. 
Great. 

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That's a good thing but we can't
bring that in the church. 

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It isn't that we don't like 
musical instruments and has 

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nothing to do with it. 
We're talking about what the 

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Lord Ants we're talking about 
what the Lord has commanded and 

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he's commanded us to sing and 
make melody in our hearts 

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knowing during the New Testament
age ever is found using an 

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instrument of Music. 
Jesus, Peter, Paul, and all the 

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rest saying with their voice in,
praise to God now, how or when 

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did this change? 
This is interesting. 

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We're going to talk a little bit
about history for several 

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hundred years. 
I'm going to read to you a few 

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quotes. 
Now, Justin Martyr was a 

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Christian far as I know and he 
lived in the second century 

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about 39 years after John died. 
I want you to listen what he 

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says. 
The use of instrumental music 

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was not received in the 
Christian churches. 

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Now this is after the Apostle's 
have died. 

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He says, we're not using 
instrumental music. 

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As it was among the Jew in their
input state, but only the use of

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plainsong, Simply singing is not
agreeable to Children. 

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The aforementioned mentioned 
Jews, but singing with lifeless 

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instruments and with dancing and
clapping is on this account. 

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The use of these kinds of 
instruments and have others 

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agreeable to Children. 
Is removed from the songs of the

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churches and there is left, 
remaining simple singing. 

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Now we read what happened in the
early church. 

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Now we've read what happened 
after the last Apostle died. 

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Now, let's look at somebody else
here. 

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Lipscomb. 
Wrong way here. 

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Tertullian he lived in the third
Century. 

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He said, musical concerts with 
vile and loot belong to Apollo. 

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No, he was a false god to the 
muses to Minerva and Mercury who

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invented them, ye who are 
Christians hate, and abhor these

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things, who's very author's, 
themselves must be the object of

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loathing and a version in 
amazing. 

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00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,200
Yet people want to bring these 
in to the worship of the church 

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00:30:02,300 --> 00:30:05,600
eusebius to Who lived in part of
the third Century into the 

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fourth Century of all at the 
time of those of the 

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circumcision, we're worshiping 
with symbols and types. 

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00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,300
It was not inappropriate to send
up, hymns to God with the 

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psaltery and the cathode area, 
but we in an inward manner, keep

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the part of the Jew. 
According to the saying of the 

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Apostle Romans, 2:28 we render 
our hymns with a living Salter 

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00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,400
and a living. 
Thorugh with spiritual songs. 

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The Unison of voices of 
Christians would be more 

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acceptable to God that any a 
musical instrument another 

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fella. 
Wrote. 

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And this man was a 
denominational man in 1987 in 

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Christianity. 
Today, his name was Paul 

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00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,100
Earnhardt. 
After studying their reformers 

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and the ancient histories he 
says, it is evident that the 

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post-apostolic churches did not 
worship with musical instruments

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00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:00,400
in an amazing. 
You'd think, by the way, people 

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act that it's always been the 
way it is today, but obviously 

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00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:08,800
it was not in 606 as we stay. 
He'd last evening, the Roman 

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00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,400
Catholic Church started with his
666. 

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00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,200
Pope the Italian, authorized the
use of his room music, but they 

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00:31:14,208 --> 00:31:17,400
were such a storm of protest to 
its introduction. 

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00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:20,500
It was thrown out of the 
Catholic church and it was, of 

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00:31:20,500 --> 00:31:23,800
course, gone for many years 
until Pope Gregory. 

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Reintroduced it in 1074. 
Or do I got that wrong? 

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00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,900
Pope Gregory abolished. 
If it didn't course, it was 

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00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:35,200
brought back in later. 
Now, I want to talk a little bit

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about this Reformation. 
And I mentioned last night. 

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00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,200
Martin Luther hero tree. 
Wrote this about it. 

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00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:47,500
The organ in the worship is the 
Insignia of Baal and then 

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00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:52,100
amazing. 
The organ of worship is the 

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00:31:52,108 --> 00:32:00,000
Insignia Bell. 
John Calvin says, Men who are 

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00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,100
found a fond of outward, pump 
May Delight in that noise. 

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00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:10,600
But the Simplicity, which God 
recommends to us is far more 

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pleasing to him. 
And he says here, he's, he was a

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00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:17,400
founder and the organizer of 
modern presbyterianism and he 

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00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,800
again states, that musical 
instruments should not be found 

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00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:26,600
in the Church of Our Lord. 
Again, John Wesley says who 

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00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:32,400
founded the Episcopal Church? 
I have no objection to the 

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00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,000
instruments in our chapels 
provided. 

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00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,100
They are neither heard nor seen.
I thought that was interesting. 

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00:32:38,900 --> 00:32:41,500
Adam Clark says, he was a 
Methodist commentator. 

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00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:44,900
I'm an old man and an old 
Minister and I hear declare that

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I never knew that him that his 
musical instruments productive. 

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00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:51,000
Any good in the worship of God 
and have had reason to believe 

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00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,700
that they were productive of 
much evil. 

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00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,800
Music as a science, I esteem and
admire but instruments of music 

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00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:03,100
and the house of God I abominate
and abhor, this is the abuse of 

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music. 
And here, I rest register my 

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00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:09,700
protest against all such 
Corruptions in the worship of 

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00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:17,100
the office e in the worship. 
Charles Spurgeon wrote, we do 

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00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:19,400
not need them. 
That is musical instruments. 

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00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,100
They would rather they would 
hinder rather than help our 

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00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:26,200
praise sing unto him. 
This is the sweetest and best 

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00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,800
music no instrument like the 
human voice, what a degradation 

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00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,100
to sub plant. 
The intelligent song of the 

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00:33:33,100 --> 00:33:35,700
whole congregation, by the 
theatrical, prettiness of a 

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00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:38,600
quartet. 
And refined niceties of a choir 

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00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:42,900
or the blowing off of wind from 
the inanimate Billows and pipes.

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00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:44,800
We might as well. 
We'll listen to this. 

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00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:49,200
We might as well pray with 
Machinery or by Machinery as to 

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Praise by it. 
Now, these fellows were 

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denominational been and yet, 
they recognized that in the 

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first century Church. 
There was not anything like 

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00:33:59,700 --> 00:34:01,900
instrumental music found in the 
services. 

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00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:06,700
The Lord commanded not God's 
people respected the Bible, they

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follow the teaching of the 
scripture, they realized that 

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they had to follow a. 
Thus saith the Lord and all of 

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those things that we've been 
talking about, we're not within 

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00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:18,800
the scope of the scripture, they
left out all those things that 

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sometimes people bring in to the
church. 

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The Lord wants congregational 
singing in praise to God. 

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00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,600
Where is the piano? 
Drums? 

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00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,900
Choir guitar? 
Dancing clapping. 

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00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,500
Well they're outside the truth. 
They're outside the truth and 

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00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:35,100
whatever the name is on the 
building. 

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If we offer strange music, then 
we're going to suffer the 

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consequences and we're going to 
face judgment for that. 

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00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,199
Now, there's a lot more that 
could be said about that, but 

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I'm going to stop right there. 
If you're here tonight. 

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I want to ask you are you on the
Lord's Side? 

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00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:58,700
Joshua said in the long goal, 
choose you, this day, whom you 

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00:34:58,700 --> 00:35:01,500
will serve. 
As for me and my house. 

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00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:03,700
We will serve the Lord. 
Are you ready to serve the Lord 

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00:35:03,700 --> 00:35:07,100
today? 
Are you ready to allow the blood

583
00:35:07,100 --> 00:35:09,500
of Jesus to forgive you of 
seein? 

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00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,900
The scripture tells us that we 
have to be washed in the blood 

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of Jesus. you know, and John the
20th, chapter is a beautiful 

586
00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:27,400
picture portrayed you remember 
that That Martha came or rather,

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00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:32,300
Mary came to the feet of Jesus. 
And Jesus said touch me. 

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00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:38,300
Not, ER, or He explained to her 
that he had a mission. 

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00:35:38,300 --> 00:35:40,500
He said, I have not yet ascended
to my father. 

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00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:45,600
He said, I've got to go to the 
father, but he said, I want you 

591
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:49,700
to hasten and go tell the 
disciples that I am going to 

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00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:54,600
present myself to them. 
And then he disappeared and Mary

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00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:59,000
went and carried out her task. 
Well, a lot of people believe 

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00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:03,400
that when Jesus left, he carried
his blood to Heaven, he went 

595
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,500
with his own blood. 
Not for his sins. 

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00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:09,700
He was Guiltless, you know the 
high priest went into the holy 

597
00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:14,300
of holies with the blood of 
bulls then he came back out and 

598
00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:17,300
made a sacrifice of a goat and 
then he went back in a second 

599
00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:21,100
time. 
But Jesus went once. 

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00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:29,400
With his own blood. 
For you, and you and me. 

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00:36:31,500 --> 00:36:37,400
And now, all we have to do is 
access that blood and Paul says,

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00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,800
no you not that. 
So many of us as were baptized 

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00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:45,000
into Jesus, Christ were baptized
into his death. 

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00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:48,900
It was in his death, he shed his
blood. 

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00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:51,800
So if you're here tonight and 
you believe with all of your 

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00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:56,300
heart that Jesus is the Christ, 
you're willing to repent of your

607
00:36:56,300 --> 00:36:58,200
sins. 
You're ready to confess his 

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00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,500
name. 
You're ready to be buried with 

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00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:02,900
him in baptism. 
Didn't do it. 

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00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:07,200
Don't let anything stop. 
You make up your mind that 

611
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,000
you're going to serve the Lord 
and you're going to follow him, 

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00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,900
whatever it takes, whatever it 
costs. 

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00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:17,600
And Jesus, please come unto me 
all ye that labor and are heavy 

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laden and he makes a promise he 
says I will give you rest. 

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