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Good morning church. 

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Feel like it's been a while. 
So I feel like we should start 

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with our usual proclamation. 
Does anyone remember it? 

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It's been a few weeks. 
The Kingdom of God is within us.

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Amen. 
This morning I wanted to talk a 

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little bit about worship and 
that's something that the Lord 

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has been placed on my heart 
recently and, and just how 

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that's modelled for us in the 
word of God. 

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And there's a lot of instances 
in the word where that's 

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modelled, but I really, really 
like and, and the Lord's been 

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speaking to me a lot through the
Book of Revelation lately. 

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And it starts with, I want to 
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verse 8, day and night. 
They never stop saying holy, 

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holy, holy is the Lord God 
Almighty who was and is and is 

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to come. 
And I think that's just so 

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beautiful. 
I love that's one of my favorite

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passages in the word because it 
is a constant day and night. 

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It is a constant song of, of, of
the living creatures in heaven. 

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They sing holy, holy, holy is 
the Lord God Almighty. 

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And then you have to ask 
yourself, what does holy 

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actually mean? 
Because these, these living 

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creatures, they sing this day 
and night 24/7 for all of 

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eternity. 
And it's pleasing to the Lord. 

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And, and I was talking with dad 
a few a few weeks ago and, and 

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he told me holy is the best word
in, in a human language to 

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encompass the characteristics of
God because God and all of his 

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goodness and his mercy and His 
Majesty. 

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He has eyes like fire. 
There's a sword that comes out 

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of his mouth. 
He walks among the seven golden 

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lampstands. 
There's so many attributes of 

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God. 
There's so many words that could

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be said to, to ascribe worth to 
this to, to our God, that a 

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lifetime could never be enough 
and eternity could never be 

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enough. 
English, any language, English, 

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Hindi, like no, no human 
language could be ever ever be 

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enough to ascribe worth to our 
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But through His word and through
example of the four living 

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creatures, the Holy Spirit God, 
He gives us this beautiful word,

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and it is holy. 
How beautiful must this word be?

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How much, how much meaning could
be in this word that the four 

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living creatures say it over and
over and over again for all of 

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eternity? 
How beautiful is this word that 

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every language on earth has a 
word for the word holy. 

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Then no matter what tribe, what 
tongue, whatever native language

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you speak, you can ascribe worth
and worship the Lord worthily by

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saying holy, holy, holy is the 
Lord God Almighty. 

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These are my favorite words to 
pray to the Lord. 

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These are my absolute favorite 
words to pray to the Lord and, 

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and in times in my personal 
worship I've I've spent just 

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like I can just repeat this over
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Lately I've come to a 
realization that these are the 

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best words that I could ever say
to the Father Holy, holy, holy. 

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Each time I repeat this word, a 
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in my head and it's a new reason
to worship him. 

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I mean, you can, you can, you 
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You can say it all you want, but
the prerequisite for worship is 

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reverence for the king. 
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our God, then you can say holy, 
holy, holy all you want, but the

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reverence for the king is what 
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Revelation for Chapter 9 says 
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give glory, honor and thanks to 
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who lives forever and ever. 
And I want to hone in on who 

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sits on the throne. 
Chapter verse 10 says the four, 

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the 24 elders fall down before 
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worship him who lives forever 
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I'm going to skip over to 
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Chapter 5, verse 13 says, then I
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and on earth and under the earth
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in them singing to him who sits 
on the throne and unto the Lamb.

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We sang that song this morning. 
Jesus, we enthrone you and that 

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is that's, that's so beautiful 
to me because when we, because 

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when we enthrone our king, when 
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when we build a throne for him 
to sit upon that his reference. 

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The elders, the living 
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holy 24/7 for all of eternity 
because they Revere this king so

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much. 
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creatures, they, they're in the 
presence of God, people, they're

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in the presence of God 24/7. 
They're in the throne room. 

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And what the Lord was saying to 
me is that as you increase your 

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reverence for God, your 
sensitivity to his presence also

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increases, right? 
Like some, some, like some 

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people might feel hot or some 
people might feel cold or some 

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people might get goosebumps or, 
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tingly sensation and that's all 
fine and good. 

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That's, that's not to say that's
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It absolutely is. 
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found, I've found that that can 
look so different. 

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There's some people will feel 
hot, some people will feel cold.

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My dad likes to say that he's 
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He doesn't feel anything like 
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But that's not to say that he 
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He's not, He's not in the 
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What the Lord has been saying to
me recently is that, and what 

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I've found is that I know I'm in
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that the presence of God is 
thick and tangible when I have 

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an undying urge to worship him. 
That is the litmus test. 

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It's not like a physical 
feeling, it's not like an 

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emotion, but it's an obligation 
to worship the King of kings. 

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When you're in the presence of a
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Revere him that much, the only 
appropriate response is worship.

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You could be sensitive to the 
presence or you could you in, or

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maybe you're not. 
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the presence in the physical or 
whether you're not, these two 

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people, one who is sensitive, 
one who is not, they're both 

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going to have that same 
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They're both going to have that 
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kings, the Lord of Lords, and 
they're going to want to worship

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him. 
The elders, the living 

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creatures, they're in the throne
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But what about us, right? 
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I want to flick to on a flip to 
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If you want to open up your 
Bibles, Luke chapter 10, verse 

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38 at the home of Martha and 
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As Jesus and his disciples were 
on their way, he came to a 

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village where a woman named 
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She had a sister called Mary who
sat at the Lord's feet listening

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to what he said, but Martha was 
distracted by all the 

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preparations that had to be 
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She came to him and asked, Lord,
don't you care that my sister 

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has left me to do all the work 
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Tell her to help me, the Lord 
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Martha, Martha, the Lord 
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upset about many things, but 
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Mary has chosen what is better 
and it will not be taken away 

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from her. 
Isn't that beautiful that Mary 

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has chosen what is better and it
will not be taken away from her.

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In the throne room of God, the 
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the elders that they see our 
king on the throne. 

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But when you look at the case of
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Mary, Mary has enthroned Jesus 
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And as a response to that, she 
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Isn't that beautiful? 
We sang that song this morning, 

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the King of my heart. 
Because when you enthrone our 

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King in your heart, you will 
have no you'll, you'll have an 

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obligation to to worship him, to
pour out your love on him. 

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Earlier in Luke, I'm not 
entirely sure what the exact 

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references, but there was a man 
who got who got set free from a 

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lesion of demons in him and 1 he
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He sat at the feet of Jesus 
because in that moment when he 

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was set free from a lesion of 
demons, when the demons had left

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him, he enthroned Jesus in his 
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That feeling of liberation, He, 
he looked at Jesus as the king 

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that he is and he enthroned him 
in his heart and what came out 

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of that, He sat at the feet of 
Jesus. 

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That reverence, that 
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enthronement of Jesus in your 
heart is where the heart of 

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worship comes from. 
Is, is Jesus enthroned in your 

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heart? 
Is Jesus enthroned in your 

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heart? 
Or in other words, if we flip 

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back to Revelation chapter 5, 
verse 13, it says then I heard 

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every creature in heaven and 
sorry, sorry, actually, I'm 

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going to go back to Luke. 
We're going back to Luke because

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Jesus says what he says. 
Only one thing is needed. 

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My Bible has these little cross 
references, and they're really 

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helpful for Bible studies 
because that cross references to

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a Psalm of David in Psalm 27 and
in Psalm 27 verse 1, he says one

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thing. 
He says, what one thing I ask of

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the Lord, this is what I seek, 
that I may dwell in the House of

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the Lord all the days of my 
life, to gaze upon the beauty of

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the Lord and to seek him in His 
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The one thing Mary chose that 
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it will it was not taken away 
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David is one of the characters 
in the Bible that I look up to a

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lot. 
He's probably my favorite, not 

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to pick favourites, but because 
he was a man after God's own 

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heart. 
He was a man who knew how to 

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worship, Revelation 513 says. 
Then I heard every creature in 

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heaven and on earth and under 
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That's not to say that the earth
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It just means that no creature 
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Every creature under the earth, 
on the sea, and all that is in 

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them, singing to him who sits on
the throne. 

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And unto the Lamb be praise and 
honour and glory and power 

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forever and ever, and all that 
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That sounds familiar, right? 
If we flip to Psalm 103, it's 

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another Psalm of David, and the 
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Lord, all my soul, all my inmost
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See, this is how I know. 
This is how I know that David 

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was a man who knew how to 
worship, who was a man after 

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God's own heart, who could 
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Because David and the apostle 
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Revelation, separated by 
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David who spoke Hebrew, and John
who wrote in Greek, received the

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same revelation of the Lord. 
Why? 

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Because creation song, heaven 
song never has ceased even for 

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one minute. 
That when David was writing 

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Psalm one O 3 he said, Let all 
my inmost being praise his holy 

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name, the same way that all of 
creation and all of their inmost

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being blesses the name of the 
Lamb. 

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The creation song has never 
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And hundreds of years later, 
when John was receiving 

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revelation from the Lord and 
writing down what he saw or what

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did he see, he saw the creatures
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blessing the name of the Lamb. 
Shouldn't that be our prayer? 

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Shouldn't that be our prayer? 
That all of that inmost being to

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bless the name of the Lord. 
Because of creation, song to 

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heaven. 
But if heaven, song to the Lamb 

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never ceases, even for a minute,
if it was singing to God our 

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Father when David was writing 
Psalm 103, and it was still 

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singing when the apostle John 
received revelation from the 

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Lord, if it never ceased, then 
why should we? 

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How am I looking for time? 
Oh, actually, I've got, I've got

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time. 
That reverence, that reverence 

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for the Lord is what I long for.
That reverence for the Lord is 

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what we should all long for, 
that we can sing holy, holy, 

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holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, 
holy, holy, holy, over and over 

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and over and over again. 
And it never gets old. 

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Because every time you say that 
word holy, every time it leaves 

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your lips, a new thought, a new 
characteristic of God comes into

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your mind. 
We can never understand how 

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incomprehensible God is in all 
of His Majesty and all of his 

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glory. 
It's winter right now in 

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Christchurch, right? 
And, and, and we're fortunate 

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enough that when we step out of 
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Southern Alps and they're capped
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It's beautiful. 

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God did that. 
God spoke and mountains rose 

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from the crown. 
God spoke the world into 

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existence. 
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majestic our God is. 
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how much I could never 
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God's majesty. 
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God, when your reverence for Him
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sing holy, holy, holy, and it 
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There are so many reasons to 
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One of my favorite, absolute 
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from Revelation 411. 
You are worthy, our Lord and God

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to receive glory and honour and 
power. 

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For you created all things, and 
by your will they were created 

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and have their being. 
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He is worthy. 
He is worthy. 

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We have so much to learn about 
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Revelation. 
The elders, they fall down, they

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cast their crowns, they lay 
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They, they, they lay on the 
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I encourage you guys as you, as 
you go into worship in, in your,

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in your own private, private 
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secret place, I urge you, I urge
you to get uncomfortable with 

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the Lord, to do something that 
you haven't haven't tried 

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before. 
If you haven't kneeled before, 

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before the Lord, kneel before 
the Lord, humble yourself before

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him. 
If you've never laid flat on the

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floor before the Lord, I urge 
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the Lord Lay flat on the floor. 
Because it's it's such a 

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beautiful act of worship, 
because what we do in the 

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physical is it corresponds to 
what happens in the spiritual, 

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right? 
That reverence for God is all 

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you need to enter the throne 
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That reverence for God is all 
you need to enter the throne 

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room. 
When I was younger, I would go 

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to India with my family and we 
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trips. 
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particular. 
We went to this remote village 

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out in the Whops on and we had a
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And at the time I didn't the 
weight of this didn't really 

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sink in, but it does now. 
And we they would just worship 

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this village would just worship 
the Lord with so much reverence 

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and so much like energy. 
It was in. 

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It was incredible to watch. 
They would just go for hours and

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hours. 
They would sing until their 

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throats like they they needed 
water. 

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They would have water breaks for
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Isn't that insane? 
I need water when I play like 30

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minutes of basketball or 
whatever and they need water 

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after they sing to the Lord. 
I just think that's so 

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beautiful. 
So if increasing our reverence 

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for the Lord increases our 
sensitivity to his presence, how

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do we increase our reverence? 
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reading the word of God. 
It is by meditating on his word,

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meditating on what he's done, 
meditating on, on him and all of

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His Majesty. 
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comprehend it. 
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we could never understand, 
that's that's where it is when 

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we can sing holy, holy, holy is 
the Lord God Almighty who was 

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and is and is to come. 
Oh my God, for time. 

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Good 
revelation talks about the Lamb 

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who was slain and the Lamb who 
was slain before the foundations

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of the world. 
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it was it was good. 
It was, it was great. 

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I was like, yeah, I know the 
Lamb was slain before the 

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foundations of the world because
it was all in the mind of God, 

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right? 
The Lamb was slain, but it only 

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dawned on me like last week why 
he had to be slain before the 

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foundation of the world. 
I understand how many of us know

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the Lamb had to be slain for 
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It might take me a little while 
to find the passage because I 

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didn't bookmark it, but we're 
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Sorry guys, I should have 
bookmarked this. 

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Here we go. 
Titus chapter one verse 2 says a

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faith and knowledge resting on 
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God who does not lie, promised 
before the beginning of time and

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at His appointed season. 
He brought His word to light 

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through the preaching and 
trusted to me by the command of 

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God our Saviour. 
I want to hone on that first 

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part of faith and knowledge 
resting on the hope of eternal 

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life. 
How many of us know that that 

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hope of eternal life is only 
brought to us because of the 

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work the Lamb has done for us on
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Amen. 
Which God who does not lie 

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promised before the beginning of
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When God spoke the world into 
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world was God who does not lie. 
God, who's speaking is His doing

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that when He speaks, He does so.
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beginning of time that we would 
have hope of eternal life, what 

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must have happened when He 
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The Lamb was slain. 
The Lamb had to be slain before 

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the foundation of the world, 
before the beginning of time, 

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because at that time, before the
beginning of time, God promised 

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us eternal life. 
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Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
to receive power and wealth and 

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wisdom and strength and glory 
and honour and praise, because 

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God is faithful that when he 
speaks, He does. 

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In chapter 5, whenever the Lamb 
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says praise. 
Worthy is the Lamb who was slain

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to receive power and wealth and 
wisdom and strength and glory 

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and honor and praise. 
Then I heard every creature in 

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heaven and on earth and under 
the earth and on the sea, and 

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all that is in them, singing to 
him who sits on the throne, and 

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to the Lamb be praise and honor 
and glory and power. 

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That word praise, I love it so 
much because it carries a joy 

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with it, the joy of the Lord 
when we praise the Lord, that we

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carry the joy of the Lord with 
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And in Luke chapter 10, it's 
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the passage again. 
Luke chapter 10, verse 18. 

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I saw Satan fall like lightning 
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I've given you authority to 
trample on snakes and scorpions 

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and to overcome all the power of
the enemy. 

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Nothing will harm you. 
However, do not rejoice if the 

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spirits submit to you, but 
rejoice that your names are 

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written in heaven. 
We have something to rejoice 

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about because our names are 
written in heaven, not because 

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of anything we've done, but 
because of what the Lamb has 

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done for us on the cross. 
That the majesty in heaven came 

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down to earth, emptied himself 
of all that is God, hung on a 

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cross that had our name written 
on it, and instead our names are

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written in heaven in the book of
life. 

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Isn't that something to rejoice 
about from the foundation of the

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world in the mind of God? 
Exactly before the foundation of

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the world, because we existed 
before the foundations of the 

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world in the mind of God. 
Thank you, Owen. 

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That was beautiful. 
That is why we ought to give 

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praise to the Lamb who was 
slain, because when we praise, 

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we rejoice in the work that he's
done. 

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We rejoice in the Lamb that was 
slain for our sins and that our 

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names are written in the book of
life. 

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And as a result of that, what 
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We are given authority to 
trample upon snakes and 

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scorpions and to overcome every 
power of the enemy. 

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Nothing will harm us. 
See, when you praise the Lamb, 

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you exalt the king, You build 
that throne, and simultaneously 

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you remind Satan of his place. 
And where is that? 

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It's beneath our feet. 
Worship is such a beautiful 

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thing, guys. 
Worship is such a beautiful 

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thing because our God is so, so 
holy and our God is so, so 

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worthy that a lifetime could 
never be enough, that words 

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could never be enough. 
I've still got a little bit of 

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time left, so I want to touch on
praying in tongues. 

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Because words can never be 
enough, right? 

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The English language could never
be enough. 

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No human made language could 
ever be enough to ascribe the 

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worth that Jesus is worthy of 
our minds. 

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No human mind can comprehend God
in all of His glory and His 

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Majesty. 
But there is someone who can, 

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and that is God Himself, or if 
you will, the Holy Spirit. 

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The Holy Spirit who is God, is 
able to comprehend all that is 

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God. 
And when the Holy Spirit gives 

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us words in that heavenly 
language, He gifts us that 

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opportunity to bless. 
He blesses our tongues and our 

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lips with the praise of the Most
High, which is so much more 

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beautiful. 
It's, it's, it's, it's so 

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beautiful. 
I love, I love praying in 

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tongues. 
I love worshipping God in 

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tongues because I know that the 
Spirit is blessing my tongue 

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with praise to the Most High, 
which I could never even 

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comprehend. 
If you've never prayed in 

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tongues before, I urge you, I 
urge you to seek out that gift. 

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In Ephesians, Paul says that 
every spiritual blessing in the 

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heavenly realms is given to us 
because we are united in Christ 

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Jesus. 
So take that and run. 

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If you've never prayed in 
tongues before, it will change 

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your life. 
There's a place. 

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There's a place for worshipping 
in in English or whatever your 

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native language is, but there's 
also a place for worshipping in 

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tongues because it is that gift 
to us from the Holy Spirit. 

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Heavenly Father, we praise you 
because you are holy. 

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You are holy, You are holy, You 
are holy. 

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We thank you for the revelation 
that you've given to us through 

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your holy Word. 
Thank you for the example that 

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you've given to us in the Book 
of Revelation, for the way that 

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the living creatures and the 
elders and the angels sing to 

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you 24/7. 
Lord, I pray that you would 

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increase in all of us a 
reverence for you. 

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Help us to understand how much 
we could never comprehend you in

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all of your majesty. 
God, incomprehensible, we give 

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you all the glory and we give 
you all the praise to him who 

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sits on the throne. 
And unto the Lamb be praise and 

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honour, and glory and power, 
forever and ever. 

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