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Now enjoyed this message, but we need to talk a little bit more
about praise because praise today isn't, there's just not a
lot of great praise out there. Just going to say it like that.
All right, and we're going to talk about that today because
again we coin something called praise and worship, right?
And so obviously mentally in the church, you know, across the
board praises, the fast songs worship is the slow songs.
Well, worship has to do with bending your knee.
Remember the in Luke and in Matthew's gospel, when Jesus was
tempted of the devil, in the wilderness, he said, showed him
all the kingdoms in a moment of Tommy said, now I'll give you
all this domain. If you'll just Bow Down and
Worship me, was he asking Jesus to sing him?
Slow songs. No.
So what he was asking him was to bow down and obey his word.
So Worship in the truest sense is obeying God at his word
that's worship. It has nothing to do with the
song. Now you can see and be
worshipping him. Meaning if he's saying seeing
this or praise me, And you don't then you're not worshipping him,
because you're not obeying, what he asks you to do?
Are you hear me when he talks about?
And we're not going to talk about this tonight, but he talks
about holy hands, lifted High. Well, we should be able to raise
our hands up. Amen.
We should be able to do this. If we cannot do this, then we
maybe are struggling in worshipping him.
Well, I don't have to raise my hand to work.
He said holding hands, lifted hot.
So are you telling everybody that you're not?
Holy, that's why you can't lift them just like we talked about
last week that death doesn't, praise God.
There is no praise and death. So when we start coming together
and singing with our musical, instruments is outlined in a lot
of Psalms, you know, if we find ourselves looking like this Then
what we're telling the rest of the congregation and they just
consider me dead. Because we should praise him all
the time. I mean, surely, there's
something he's done for you. That would get you to open your
mouth. Right?
Well, I don't sing well, we know there's a provision for you,
right? Because that Provisions For Me,
Make a Joyful Noise unto the Lord he didn't say.
Had to be on key, he didn't say it had to be perfect, right?
And here's the cool thing, we turn up the volume enough that
it can sometimes require ear plugs.
Which means we really don't hear your bad voice anyway.
So just scream away. Right.
Just scream away. All right you're not going to
distract anyone. I mean if you're really that bad
and it's like I mean we can hear it, I'll turn it up more We'll
just turn up a little bit more. I mean, because we saw that this
word praise means to be exuberant, right?
And it also carries this thought of going mad or insane.
So you understand why, you know, David?
When he was confronted by one of his wives that said to him, I
can't believe you acted like that when you were dancing
before the Lord, you know, he's dancing before the Ark of the
Covenant and worshipping and praying are praising the Lord
When he was dancing before the Lord, because he was praising
him and and she's like, you know, you embarrass yourself.
He said, I get an even more undignified in that.
Amen. Because again, sometimes, you
know, we think because I've been in denominational churches, I
was raising the denominational Church, you know?
And you kind of just set up grab the him, you know, when you sing
like this and then we would even like seeing sitting down.
You know I'm saying, like, you've stay in the seat During
certain songs, you know? And, and they'd be the first
second, third stanza or A first second fourth stanza, typically
is what you were going to sing and you know you could do it in
a seated position. Now again, I'm not saying that
those people, there are people who genuinely love God, you're
going to, you are going to praise Him based upon your
revelation. Okay, I'll give you a case in
point. Jesus goes to a man's house.
He's a religious guy, studier of the law.
Goes to his house the guys. Like invited him.
Come on in. We have you something to eat,
right? Jesus sits down with his
disciples, you know, the guys like, you know, Jesus in my
house, you know, this guy's been working miracles, trying to
figure out who this guy is, you know, he says some stuff, I
don't agree with but we're going to find out then all of a sudden
a woman bus through right woman bus through and she's like
crying all over him, you know, and wiping his feet.
And this religious, guys, like will manifest do was a prophet.
He know what kind of woman is like touching him right now.
I can't believe this is happening.
And then Jesus says, let me ask you this question while she's
cleaning this feet. She says, you know, if a guy had
a $100, I'm paraphrasing. Now you can look this up for
yourself, paraphrasing old $100 of somebody, but somebody owed a
million and they were forgiven by the debtor.
Who do you think would love that?
You know, the person who forgave he goes and the religious guy,
he's pretty quick, he was smart. He said I would suspect the one
who was forgiven more and he says you are correct this woman.
Who just came into this house. Although her sins are many, but
she has done more because you didn't even offer to wipe my
feet off. So again, people can be in a
position singing or praising. The Lord based upon a knowledge,
but when you really start reading the Bible and understand
all that God has done for you, I and that that spaz is always
messed me up because it did I really didn't like it honestly
because I was raised in church. So, you know, if you compare
tively looked at my life in sin, I mean I pale in comparison to
some somebody, some people's testimonies of sitting in this
room right now. I mean, it's like, As a master,
it's in. I mean, I I just checked all the
boxes, right? I ran hard in it.
Okay, I didn't run hard in it, you know, if you compare lives,
you wouldn't think I was a bad person, but I'll never forget.
The Lord said he said, Son, don't you know?
Disobeying, your parents just one time is enough for me to
eternally, separate you from me. So, son, everybody's desk the
same. Then I realized just that one
thing had Eternal damnation associated with it, and I sure
did disobey my parents that happened.
So I was like the worst. I said, I was like the worst.
I may not have done all this in that other things have done
based upon, you know, things that are wrong, but I've done
enough, I had done enough. So at the end of the day, I am
that individual, right? And when you think that you've
not really been forgiven of much, so, you know, God, you
kind of owe me. I'm not, I really, I mean, it
didn't take much for me to get him with you.
Well, those types of people don't really praise.
But you get around somebody that knows what they what the price
is, and I'm saying, you just may have disobeyed your parents, but
you realize the price, I mean, you're going to raise your
hands. You're going to shout, you're
going to run in front is necessary.
You're going to dance if dancing is necessary.
You can but I don't give a rip what you think about me.
I'm praising my Lord, he saved me from hell but not only, did
he save me from hell and eternal prison system of the kingdom of
God. He made me a son and then he put
his spirit in me. And you mean I'm not gonna I
mean I'm not going to Always smell.
I'm not gonna have a shout of Praise.
When I have the third person of the godhead on the inside of me,
did he gives me victory over all my circumstances?
I mean, seriously, I can't shout praise or something, I can't.
I mean, I've got a constant flow of, wow, look at God, and look
what he's doing in my life. I mean, it gets pretty easy
zubrin. We over here in the u.s.a., man,
you know, we've created churches that are so, you know, dead and
it's expression like we're digging.
Defied your not dignified. It's called laziness because
I've been in other countries man.
They'll dance. The roof tops off.
I mean, it's lioness the myth I'm not even told my women.
I'm talking about the men I mean most men in churches.
Are are the ones? Well, honey, you sing.
I mean, that's what you do. Why don't you lead, man?
Don't you just lead and praise and get up there and see, won't
you come to the front show your wife?
I'm not gonna stay here. I gotta go up here and serve my
king. I'm going to just go worship him
a little bit. Hallelujah.
Okay. The Lord's.
Good acts chapter 16. So we just full of it, right?
We full of praise. Right, were full of joy with on
my that on Sunday, are you? Or are you happy?
Just say, haha, does it not matter?
What's going on, you got the victory.
Amen. This is what overcomes the
world. Our faith and God's word works.
Okay? His word works but you need to
know his word. If you don't know his word, then
it's not going to work. What you think, you know about
the word doesn't work. What works is the word?
Alright. Alright.
So Acts chapter 16. We started with this verse
actually was verse 25. We started with last week but I
want to kind of set context a little bit so that we can dig a
little bit more about praise. Amen.
Alright says the crowd rose up together against them and the
chief magistrate tore their robes off them and proceeded to
order them to be beaten with rods.
This is a great opportunity here, right.
And when they had struck them with many blows.
Threw them into prison commanding the Jailer to guard
them securely and he having received such a command through
them through them into the inner prison.
Not not, you know, not only a house here.
We going to get him. We'll get it.
Wears very difficult for. You're not getting out, right?
The inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks but
about midnight. So who's been beaten with rods,
Paul, and Silas? Paul and Silas were what
praising? We are praying and singing.
Hymns of praise to God. And the prisoners were what
listening to them verse 26. And suddenly there came a great
earthquake. So that the foundations of the
prison house were shaken and immediately.
All the doors were open and everyone's chains were unfasten.
When the Jailer awoke and saw the prison doors open, he drew
his sword and was about to kill himself, right?
Supposing that the prisoners had escaped, but Paul cried out with
a loud voice saying do not harm yourself for.
We are all here and let me ask this question.
What kind of Praise will cause the sinner to remain with the
voice of the saved. Instead of fleeing with the
opportunity to go their own way presents itself.
I'll say that again. What kind of Praise will cause
The Sinner. Now we know why Paul and Silas
are in there. They're in there because they
cast The Devil out of a girl. Because she was making money for
some guys, and they've realized the money dried up.
And he's got some power and it upset him so much that he got
the whole city upset about it. Are you hearing me?
So this is why they are in jail because they cast a demon out.
Why do you think the rest of them are in prison?
For crimes. So we're not talking like he's
came in on a Bible study. Right.
That this is like China. They caught a church and Paul
just happened to show up with the rest of the congregation.
So, he's in prison with people who belong there.
For crimes that have been committed that deserve them to
be there yet. These boys get praising in such
a way that when the earthquake hits and all of the doors open.
And the chains fall awful. They don't run to
self-preservation. But anyway, for the next word,
coming out of Paul and Silas his mouth, could you learn to praise
God in a way that even The Sinner wouldn't want to try to
find a way out? Let me just tell you this.
There ain't a lot of that praise going on.
Because there's a lot of Sinners showing up at church and leaving
church the same. The showing up at church and lit
and and leaving the same. Leaving the same.
So there had to be something going on in their praise.
How would you like how many would like to know what they
were singing? Because scholars believe they
know what they were singing. Now, my wife and I had the
privilege to go to Israel and when we were going to Israel, I
remember on one particular day is probably the Sabbath, but it
may not have been. I mean, you know, it's a kind of
a whirlwind, you go so many places and see so many things,
but I remember we were in one particular hotel and in this
room, it was obviously they were religious Jewish people and they
were all in there with the Torah.
And they were reciting. They were reciting scripture.
So, you know, for the majority of the nation of Israel are
Jewish people, they are taught at a very young age to know very
specific scriptures and they have to memorize it, it's they
got it. I mean, it's they can pull up.
See, they don't need the that Bible or that law in front of
their eyes to know it. They know it will.
Do we know the word like that? If your Bible was gone, could
you still quote stuff? Now, when I say that I can't.
Okay, so I'm not trying to act like I'm a, you know quoter.
I know a few people who are, but I'm just saying that just gives
the attention traditionally, and they still do that today, where
they've got that thing down there saying it, they're saying
it there, it's in them, it's in their mind, they can pull that
thing up. Well, there's a couple of
Scholars by the name of Jameson faucet and then Ew Bollinger.
They believe that this is the same him or if the collection of
hymns that Jesus saying with the disciples in Matthew 26, the
Jesus saying some with his disciples and go over there.
Matthew 26. I think it's verse 30 said they
sing some hymns before you know, they went on to pass over and so
they believe what? Paul and Silas was singing was
Psalms 113. Is what they consider the.
Hallelujah songs. Psalms 113 to Psalms 118.
So I didn't give you these scriptures because I was going
to just read them. So let's pull up songs 113 and
we're just going to go how many you want to hear what they're
saying. Right?
Because it's important. It's not it it's it's not enough
to sing a song. Singing a song doesn't mean
you're praising. Because not every song.
Sung Praises God, even if it's using his name.
In fact, I would submit to you that the majority of the popular
stuff that is being played today.
The church has fallen back into how it was in the world.
And, you know, when you were in the world, we used to tell our
parents, I sure told my mama mama.
I don't listen to the words. It's the beat that I like.
Come on, having to use that. Oh yeah, I'm not listening.
But yet, you know, if that song came on the radio today, you
would quote that bad boy. You would be singing it.
I mean, I could just start some stuff and many of you could just
jump right in with me. Jump, write it.
You know what? I'm gonna be honest with you.
This is true statement. Most popular songs that are sung
today. As many times as I've sung them,
they still don't stay with me. In fact, I had no a very few
today songs that I can remember that.
When I start singing I always go further back.
Because the content of those. Where they're rooted in.
I'ma hit some sacred cows tonight.
So you know, That's okay, right because you understand if you
come to church so that you can just continue to stay with your
agreement level, well, then you're not actually in his
church because if you're in Jesus church, the one that he
is, you know, building then he's going to constantly have a flow
of growth, which is going to challenge what you think, you
know, right. And I thank God he challenges
what? I think.
I know I was cutting grass today.
I get some great sir. Is cotton grass today.
Yeah, I got a title of a book to unlock the power of God's love.
Yeah, it's amazing because I know the content.
But that's probably how we got to say it, right.
And then I got another thing too, but I'm not going to tell
you I'll preach it to you later. Amen.
Come on. You hear what I'm saying?
So let's see what he was saying, songs 113.
Go ahead and put it up. We're gonna do the whole
chapter, right? So I'll just go that.
So there this is their song. This is what they're saying
after they've been beaten. Thrown in jail, just for
performing a miracle by the spirit.
All right, they said praise the Lord, Praise all Servants of the
Lord. Praise the name of the Lord
blessed. Be the name of the Lord from
this time forth and forever from the rising of the sun to its
setting. The name of the Lord is to be
praised. I think we kind of heard that
line tonight. Okay, but not every line in that
song. Did we keep?
Because if you actually go find that song, our sounds different
because I changed it because not every line praised him.
Some lines brought doubt. Okay.
From the rising of the sun to its setting.
The name of the Lord is to be praised and the Lord has High
Above All Nations. His glory is above the heavens,
who is like The God, Who is the Lord, Our God, who is enthroned
on high, who humbles himself to behold the things that are in
heaven and in the earth. Now this and even sound like a
song, does it? I mean, the way we write songs a
day, we got to have the rhyming words, you got to have the
little pattern going. It's amazing how the psalmist
here is like forget that I'm just going this saw Miss wrote
what came up by the spirit. Wasn't there to try to get a
record deal. One trying to get a bunch of
followers. Oh, y'all don't want to hear
this one. Trying to get on a platform so
everybody can see them. But just came with what came by
the spirit and he came by the spirit so much that when God
decides. Okay.
When I'm putting this whole thing together so that from
Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:20, one that I want to clearly show
that the Bible is about a king, his kingdom, in his Royal
Offspring, I'm going to include this song that I want my people
to say, so that when Trouble Comes, they can pull it up.
I have no idea what this tune sounds like, you know what, I
love about the Psalms actually, and why I love that God publish
all of these songs without musical charts is because we
could actually make it any music we need to for Any Nation.
And it transcends time. All right, he raises the poor
from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash Heap to to
make them sit with prince's prince's man in this awesome
with the princes of his people he makes the bear more woman
abide in the house as a joyful mother of children.
Praise the Lord, man. In that great.
They're singing this, this is what they say.
But then they go on to the next one 114 and it says Us, when
Israel went forth from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people
of strange language Judah, which means praise became his
Sanctuary Israel. His Dominion, the sea looked and
fled, the Jordan turned back. That's The Parting of the Red
Sea sees recounting, he's going back, the psalmist.
And this is what Paul and Silas are doing.
They're saying, we're praising the Lord, because look what he's
done. Now, let's talk about these
exploits would just in our generation because I'm not gonna
sit here and cry. About that.
I got beat. I'm not going to see her cry
about woe is me. I'm not gonna cry about how bad
my situation is, but I hope God, you'll do something.
No, I'm going to put you in remembrance of what you already
did, because what he doing, he's changing his thinking from how I
feel right now and the circumstance.
Let's just go ahead and let's magnify the Lord.
I mean, because honestly, the audacity for me to give a
praise, like, you don't know what I'm in right now.
Not that you can't say, Lord you see what's happening because
there are songs that communicate that I have no problem with
that. But if you actually re specially
David's Psalms even in his Agony songs, even when he's singing
songs about, look what they're doing, look how they're coming,
but he always turns it to. But you you're this you're going
to do that and it's going to happen.
You're gonna turn it for my he never stays in his moment but
yeah, half the stuff. If we don't watch out especially
in our praise life, meaning when we're out and about we're not
praise him say Well praise the Lord he's gonna turn this around
so that all you know lose my job we just we're gonna lose her
job. I mean we take every piece of
information And instead of turning to the praise of God, we
begin to communicate our situation.
Are you hearing me? Okay.
All right. The sea looked and fled, the
Jordan turned back. The mount skip like, Rams, the
hills, like Lambs. What eles uoc that?
You flee. My mom, right?
Oh, Jordan, that you turn back a mountain that skip, like Rams,
like the Lambs, terrible or Earth before the Lord Trimble
Earth before the Lord. Before the god of Jacob who
turned the rock into a pool of water, the Flint into a fountain
of water. Now, I love that last line
because Paul and Silas are remembering when something
shouldn't even be happening in this situation.
Look what God did. I mean, God turned our a rock
into a pool of water. The Flint into a fountain of
water. I mean, we remember when we
didn't have any water and air are thirsty, but God just calls
the fountain to fly out. So it doesn't matter.
I'm chained today. The matter.
I've been beat the matter how impossible this looks God's got
a fly. I mean, they're tied into a
praise of God's ability. Not in their situation.
Let's go to the next one songs. 115 says, is not to us.
Oh, Lord, not to us but to your name give Glory because of your
loving kindness because the truth you know that you know,
half the psalmist today that are popular.
That ain't true. because they now, Whatever Church featuring.
All are featuring. Featuring.
Then they come out with their own albums.
So, who, who is this, who we doing this for?
Now, it can sound like that, I'm against anyone that's in this
most people get caught up and they don't even realize what
they're doing, okay? At the end of the day, I get it
and some are doing it with this Pure Heart.
Some probably are with a pure heart that they know based upon
what they know. I'm not finding fault with that.
That's not me to judge that. I'm just saying, Paul, we're
staying with scripture, you understand what I'm saying, and
when you stay with scripture, you realize that there is a way
that you're moving around. That looks a lot different.
Then what we currently are witnessing.
I remember one particular Minister I mentioned named
William McDowell he what was that one song?
He wrote Give Myself Away right? Give myself away real popular
right saying this I remember going to a little conference
that he had and he made this statement.
He said you know I really kind of regret.
I became famous He said because then I will go to churches. and
if I didn't sing the songs that they heard on the albums, They'd
be disappointed, even though I thought the Spear of the Lord,
all he wanted me to stay on two or three lines.
Which means in the church has turned into a concert and
entertainment. And we're calling it, praise.
And I'm just speaking direct quote from a signed artist that
said this I wouldn't sing anymore when I was invited.
I would just minister Because they're wanting to take it in a
direction that I knew God didn't want to and then they were upset
at me, well, where's the love hat?
I mean, we do we want God, or do we want a concert?
And most of them are like this anyway.
Now, don't get me wrong Clapton's, fine says, Clap the
your hand, you know, all you people, there's no problem with
clapping special you know when we're doing certain songs and
stay with rhythm I mean it's an instrument you can use but to
have a song sing and then we stopped back and we applauded
You're at a concert because we're not supposed to.
I mean we are not going to go to heaven and go Jesus.
Wow, you're not going to plunge Jesus.
Let me tell you what you're gonna do when you see him.
There ain't gonna be no man-made Accolade, you know, make you
feel better about yourself and most of the praise and worship
times that are happening. Most churches, that's what it's
like, they're not even there, not even singing fact.
Pastor Market was telling me about his father who had went to
a church and it'll very large congregate, very large
congregation. It's his dad experience that
they no one saying. While the band was playing. but
the men of the song was over, everyone clapped And they
consider that praise and they don't even know what they're
missing out on. But again, when we become
spiritually, illiterate meaning, we don't read the Bible.
Well, then we'll adopt anything. Someone is saying, is something
that's why I've said for years, do not believe anything that I
say, because I say it, you should search the scripture for
yourself to find that. It's so at the end of the day, I
have no problem if someone can literally, show me in scripture,
something I'm saying that's not correct.
No problem. I'll change because I don't have
a personal opinion about the matter but I very rarely come up
here with two scriptures, email story and you know some life
lesson and that's how we end this deal.
We're like line upon line precept, upon precept.
You know, we're going to read a few songs tonight.
Because I love the word, it's the word.
It changes our life, okay? Not us.
Oh Lord, not to us but to your name, give Glory because of your
loving kindness because of your truth.
Why should the nation say we're now is their God but our God is
in the heavens, he does whatever, he pleases that,
that's a loaded statement that needs explaining but I'm not
going to do it tonight. Their Idols are silver and gold
and the work of man's hands. They have mouths, but they
cannot speak. Okay, Lord, I'll do it.
Go back. He does whatever he pleases.
That doesn't mean God, does whatever he wants.
Number one, where in the Bible does it talk about what?
Pleases the Lord can he might tell me?
Hebrews 11:1 6 without faith. It's impossible to please God.
Does God have faith? Where do we know that Mark
chapter 11, right? When Jesus telling them about
the Fig Tree? He said have faith in God
literal translation, have the god-kind of Faith, right?
So God has Faith, how do we know?
God has Faith. He believes his own word.
What is faith? Faith is a firm persuasion of a
word spoken. Now, that's just general because
that can even be ungodly. Faith is firmly persuaded of a
word spoken. That's why.
Romans 10 qualifies our faith, faith comes by hearing faith
comes by hearing period. You can listen to CNN, Fox News,
political people, a doctor and produce faith.
I heard I have cancer. I'm going to die in six months.
Firmly be persuaded in 6 months tops.
That's Faith. But wants to wants.
What's Paul doing Roma's? The Holy Ghost says now you let
them know. Faith comes by hearing right.
Faith comes by hearing but Hearing in the word of God.
So you're hearing is to come from the word of God.
So faith comes to you cause you heard the word not because
you're hearing what's going on out here.
So where does our faith arrived from God?
His word? Well to please, God we are to
believe him at his word. Be in faith.
God? God.
Then, if he does whatever, he pleases, he's only doing what
creates Faith which in turn then produces because God's faith
always comes to pass. He said, I sent my word, right?
He says it, it will not return unto me void, but it shall want
accomplish that, which I sent it to do, so, whatever he pleases
is. He's very calculated and what he
says, God just doesn't do something because this line
here, makes people think, well God, do whatever he wants.
Well, if that's true, then why didn't he come down when Adam,
ate the fruit and say son, Let's just forget about it.
Because you do whatever. You please.
I'm seriously it would save a lot of problems, wasn't it?
I mean, it's to get this logically thought about before
we take a wrong are thought Well, he can do whatever he
pleases. That's what the psalmist says.
Well then he could have came down and says, Adam.
Didn't I tell you to eat fruit, you'll die.
You know what? I really don't want you to die.
So let's act like it. Don't happen.
We'll just forget about it. Let me kick this little devil
out because I already did this in heaven.
You obviously didn't do it down here.
You really don't get his Dominion.
You gotta go, is that what happened?
Why did it happen? Cuz he's bound to his word.
So the minute God spoke let us make man in our image, according
to our likeness and let him have the mini heat, literally gave
him the power of an Earthly rule.
That only Adam now can give away or keep.
So when he gave it to the Devil, by eating, the fruit by obeying
his word, Then God comes down and says, now you got what I
said you get? Which is you die, the minute you
eat. And the only way I can get
Redemption is I got to send another man.
Because I've given to mean a man.
So it now requires a man to take it back.
Now I'm going to put my seat in the woman so I can get a man in
the earth which actually be me the word in the flesh.
So he can destroy the works of the devil who now has the
Dominion. so he can't do whatever he pleases but he does
whatever his word says, But we read these statements and we say
it all the time, what God can do, whatever he wants to do.
God does not do whatever he wants to do.
God is very calculating what he says.
Because the mainly says it, Even he's Bound by.
Now that sounds tough, doesn't it people like no way?
See, because we don't understand real power.
We think power in natural terms. Well, power means, you know, I
can bully myself. I can just eliminate you.
What? God, just destroy God, can't say
something, and just destroy you, because he wants to, because
he's powerful. Because now he's not Justice and
since he's not Justice then he can't be God.
He's like the devil. Okay.
And we getting too deep here, I mean, I don't think we are but
maybe we are. Because a lot of times, we just
don't think these levels we make statements and we single this is
the problem. We sing them.
And they're not even scriptural, which means then even though
those words are two songs, they are not praised.
They're not praise because God's not listening to things that do
not actually come from his Source.
I'll show you here in a second. All right, let's go on verse 5,
they have bowels but they cannot speak.
These are all these other Idols, right?
So, what's Paul and them doing their just recounting, you know,
at the end of the day, our God, the only God, they have eyes.
That can I see? They have ears that can I hear,
they have knows, they can, I smell?
They have hands. They cannot feel they have feet.
They cannot walk. They cannot make a sound with
their throat. Those who make them will become
like them, everyone who trust in them.
O Israel trust in the Lord. He is their help and their
Shield Ohio's of Aaron trust in the Lord.
What are they doing? They're singing a praise.
They're saying listen, even though we're in this situation,
it looks like maybe God abandoned us but obviously, all
the other gods are the real false ones.
Let's just put ourselves in perspective here because even
though I'm in a challenging situation, for doing some for
the game, you're like, well I just only done something for
you. I helped liberate someone who
was demon possessed. And instead of at like you
failed me and now I got trouble because of only did your work.
I mean, how many Believers have we said done this?
I'm just going to church just doing it all of a sudden he'll
like, everything went went terrible.
Well, I mean there's an enemy out there that don't want you to
tap into your power. He wants to take your mouth
Paul's like, you're not gonna take my mouth, right?
I said, I'm gonna trust in the Lord.
He is their help. Their Shield who you, who
Revere, or fear the Lord. Trust in the Lord.
He is their help and their Shield.
The Lord has been mindful of us. He will bless us sees like he
ain't forgot us. We down here shock.
He's all we got it. We will be blessed.
We, he will bless the house of Israel.
He will bless the house of are he will bless those who Revere
or fear the lord. The small together with the
great may, the Lord, give you increase, you and your children,
may, you be blessed of the Lord maker of heaven and Earth.
Here We Go. The heavens are the heavens of
the Lord, but the Earth he has given to the sons of man, you've
given us that Dominion back. Lord, we're going to overcome
conquer the dead, do not praise. The Lord nor do any, who go down
into silence. But as for us, we will bless the
Lord for this time forth forever, praise the Lord 116.
Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, all the
nation's law on him, this is 117.
Got 116. Was that 116?
I just read Put 116 up there. I'll get over there.
This is what they're seeing in jail, y'all doing, all right?
Then we gotta love the word, he said, I love the Lord because he
hears my voice and my supplication, because he has
inclined his ear to me, therefore, I shall call upon
him. As long as I live the cords, a
death and Compass me. See he's like, man, we dabble
tough situation and the tears of s.h.i.e.l.d. came around me.
I found a stress and sorrow, then I called upon the name of
the Lord, meaning I realized what I Min, but I call on the
Lord, oh, Lord, I beseech you saved my life.
Gracious is the Lord and righteous?
Yes, our God is compassionate. That the Lord preserves the
simple. I was brought low and he saved
me return to my rest O, my soul for the Lord has dealt
bountifully with you for you have rescued, my soul from
Death, Mighty at my eyes from tears.
Now listen, obviously the psalmist when we see Soul,
there's a context between Soul and Spirit.
We get that, but in the New Testament, and Paul is a writer
of the New Testament. He understood Spirit soul and
body, and that his Spirit man has been made alive.
So, you understand for him to be at at make This statement for
you have rescued my soul from death and that's he's saying you
help me. Keep my mind from going down
there. Some of the greatest rescuing
you need is to keep your mind from going there because you lot
of you your mind goes there, your situation are taking you so
long of your mind, your emotions and start taking you there.
Be like man you got it you need a rescue.
My soul from Death, my eyes from tears.
Meaning I'm crying about what I see my feet from.
Stumbling mean it I'm going to decide how we gonna change this.
I mean I can't tell you how many people are doing this.
It's because they really don't know how to praise.
They don't know the source of Praise.
They think Praises in a song that we song.
I shall walk before the Lord, in the land of the living I
believe. When I said, I am greatly
Afflicted. I said in my alarm, all men are
liars. What shall I render?
The Lord for all his benefits towards me?
I shall lift up the cup of Salvation and call upon the name
of the Lord, I shall pay my vows to the Lord O.
May it be in the presence of all his?
People precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his
Godly ones. O Lord.
Surely I am your servant. I am your servant.
The son of your handmaid. You have loosed my bonds to you.
I shall offer a sacrifice of Thanksgiving and call upon the
name of the Lord. I shall pay my vows to the Lord.
Oh, may it be in the presence of all his people in the courts of
the Lord's House? In the midst of you old
Jerusalem, praise the Lord. 117, they'll do it.
All right? Praise the Lord, All Nations,
laud him. All people for his
loving-kindness prevails over whatever that is US.
Great towards us. This weird translation, the way
they give it on. This particular thing you'll
pull from the truth and the truth of the Lord has
Everlasting. Praise the Lord 118 last one.
This is what they saw what they believed scholars.
Believe this is what the hymns they tapped into from their
memory while in jail. In Philippi give thanks to the
Lord for he is good and his loving kindness is Everlasting,
all that is real. Say his loving kindness is
Everlasting old left the house of air and say his loving
kindness is Everlasting old, let those who Revere fear the lord
say his loving kindness is Everlasting from my distress, I
called upon the Lord, the Lord answered me and set me in a
large place. The Lord has for me, I will not
fear what can man do to me? You see what this guy's act?
He's not walking man, do to me. Yeah, they may have beat us,
they made chained us. They may have left this in here
and that like they gonna do horrible things tomorrow
morning. But at the end of the day, Well
we going to fear God's got us. The Lord is for me.
Among those who help me. I mean we got a scripture day if
God be who can be and we crying about people, Oh, you don't want
to hear it. The Lord is for me among those
who helped me therefore I will look with satisfaction on those,
who hate me. It is better to take refuge in
the Lord. Look at him.
He's like these guys have put me in are hated me.
I'm just gonna look in with satisfaction knowing ya.
The Lord's going to bring this to pass.
He gonna do it. He's for me, man.
I was just doing the Lord's business, I just cast.
I mean, I didn't cast her out the first day, I waited till he
said something. And you know, I cast her out for
those who don't know, the Lord does not take kindly when evil
spirits advertise for him. He doesn't take kindly to that.
The reason why the Lord, because you can see it in Jesus's life
because every time the demons came around and began, you're
the son of the most high, he say, shut up and come out.
The reason he does that because if he did not deal with that.
And and people said, well, that person said he was the son of
the most high under demonic influence, because demons know
who Jesus is. Then, after Jesus two parts,
then they can use that. Say, didn't we say that?
He was a son of most, didn't we prophesy?
Didn't we and bring the horse and he Two guys that they were
working. This print, this girl, with a
evil spirit to be able to tell familiar Spirit to tell you no
fortune telling and stuff. So, if she's going to walk
around and say your other, you know, you do the work of the
most high. Then the minute he leaves town
after he establishes that church, the whole congregation
is going to go over there. So fishing lures?
Like shut that up. Don't let them have her ties.
The work that I have you doing. Are you hearing me okay trust?
He said it is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust
in man, it is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust
in princes All Nations around me and the name of the Lord, I will
surely cut them off. They surround me.
Yes, they Surround Me In The Name Of The Lord.
I will surely cut them. All, they surround me like bees,
they are extinguished as they fire of thorns.
In the name of the Lord. I will surely cut them off.
You push me violently so that I was falling, but the Lord help
me. The Lord is my strength and my
aunt song and he has become my salvation, the sound of Joyful
shouting and salvation is in the tents of the righteous Boyle.
How do you think they sang that line?
The right hand? The Lord does violently.
The right hand of the Lord is exalted.
The right hand of the Lord does violently.
I will not die, but live. I will tell of the works of the
Lord, man. He says thee.
I don't think that's a rest verse 18.
We want to go on. Thank you.
The Lord has discipline me severely but he has not given me
over to death, open to the me to the gates of rice and I shall
enter through them. I will give thanks to the Lord.
This is the Gate of the Lord, the righteous will enter through
it. I shall give thanks to the Lord.
You Have, you have answered me, you have become my salvation,
the Lord, the stone, which the builders rejected has become the
Chief Cornerstone. This is the The Lord's, the
Lord's doing it is a marvelous, it is marvelous in our eyes.
This is the day which the Lord has made, let us.
And he's saying that in prison, let us rejoice and be glad in
it. So what excuse do you have
tonight in this air-conditioned environment?
To not rejoice. Rejoice Rejoice.
I mean that maybe we should be smiling and happy, happy people.
I mean, be like, wow, look what God's doing?
Oh my mama. Okay, this is day, the Lord has
made. I will rejoice and be glad in it
old. Not be mad innit, not be sad.
And it may be what glad and O Lord you save we beseech You O
Lord we beseech, you do send Prosperity that means help along
the way. That's not just money.
Although they have received money before blessed, is the one
who comes in the name of the Lord, we have blessed you from
the house of the Lord, the Lord is God.
And he has given us light bomb, the festival sacrifice with
cores to the Horn of the altar. You are my God, and I give
thanks to you. You are my God, I exalt you give
thanks to the Lord for he is good for his loving-kindness is
Everlasting. It's also the scholars, believe
that Paul and Silas were singing in prison.
And this Psalm Psalm when they sang, it had the capacity. then
when an event took place, they weren't asking for see, their
praise was not for deliverance of the jail.
They knew their situation was on founded and they weren't asking
a specific way for God to do something, just be on their side
and at the end of the day, what comes?
We're not going to fear man. Because we've Tom and Tom again,
seen our Lord deliver Israel. And I'm a part of that Covenant
and I'm just going to exhaust your loving-kindness is for a
mound, here we go but then the Lord decides I'll send an
earthquake. And when he does all the doors
open chains fall off of Everybody.
Not just the singers. So does your praise impact
everyone in the room or just you?
Do you praise in a way only so it impacts you.
Because a lot of people will praise for the tension, so that
people can see. Look at me.
Well, guess what?
That's why change. Don't come off.
You are them. If your praise is not inspiring
someone else to step out, it could be selfish.
I'm not going to say that people are watching because a lot of
people locked up in and of themselves.
But I'm just saying that when people are genuinely not looking
for manifestation, most people in most worship experiences,
that's what we call them worship experiences.
So great. I mean, it's like we got to tell
you what you're going to get. You don't hear that.
I mean, the church is peddling. Things by we're going to have a
worship experience and all you really experience has a soul
Realm. And not a spirit realm.
Because if you're not staying in line with the word, then you're
not praise any. Because they sang something in
Spa, this is what I don't understand.
It's amazing. Why are we not just going to the
150 Psalms and working with some of the I'm not saying there's no
can't be something original. I have no problem.
We have original stuff. We just make sure scripture when
we say it. But at the end of the day, do
you understand? We could just put music to the
word. But then the writer can't get
credit for writing it. Hmm.
Now, I understand that this can be kind of tough to hear and one
cents. But I'm telling you right now.
I refuse. For us to be mediocre In Praise.
And we're going to take it another level.
Because Paul and Silas were not praying for the prison doors to
open up because the minute, if they were, if that would have
been their prayer, the minute they open had been gone.
This tells you the prey Paul knew because he was Rome Roman,
he knew if we leave, the Jailer is going to be killed.
I sure don't want to put him at risk.
Because I didn't ask God to do this but yet his praise also had
the power to keep all of the other people who deserve to be
there for crimes committed and yet they didn't leave.
Did he leave? And when the Jailer was going to
bite to kill himself, there's no indication that he was within
the eyesight of Paul doesn't say he wasn't say, was it?
You could just easily believe that he got it by word of
knowledge that he was fixing to do this action.
Maybe he could hearing pull the sword out.
And he said to himself, don't do it.
We're all here, we're all here. And what does that man?
Do taste Paul and Silas out of jail.
Now, you know what he did? He shut the rest of the cells
and those guys stayed in Because here's the thing, salvation is
not another location. It's a heart because it won't
matter with these guys. If they get out, what matters is
have. They been freed here?
I can't tell you how many Believers jump from one Church
to the next church, trying to get out but they're in the same
prison every time they show up because they're there.
Cuz who they are hadn't changed. And he takes him and cleans
their wounds. And any like Paul's, like look,
man, he's just let us go. Maybe pause.
I mean Paul's big deal here this time out following the plan and
purpose of God. He got to understand.
Paul's assignments way bigger. It's why he's praising him.
I'm here because you asked me to start a church.
Of which I've started. And if I run in the Midnight
Hour right now, then that church will never survive the adversity
of the world. So you're going to take me back
to jail and we're going to see how this plays out because I've
already praised him. You've made a little more
comfortable now because you've helped Mend My Wounds and he got
this Jailer and his whole household saved, you know, how
to get Paul jacked. Because I just started a church
and you're going to need it in this church.
Are you hearing me? So then he skits in the jail
cell and you know how the report is they come and they're like
all you're going to be free to go to.
He says no no no. Hey how does going to work?
He bowed up to the government. The rulers of the day and said,
let me tell you what they did. And man he had him scared, they
Then followed and allow Paul to go back to the church and say
when you're doing God's assignment, don't you bow down
to anybody? Any empowered them, then of how
they would be able to resist in adversity.
And establish a stronger Church than just being self
preservationists in their praise.
I remember one false prophetess at came here once.
You know, they would come in late and sit in the back and
then they would leave early, right?
They did this for a month or two and all of a sudden, you know,
felt empowered to meet with me. So I met with them with Pastor,
Angie Pastor Andrew, would you stand up please?
So everybody who you are. She was in the meeting with me.
I will not meet with a woman without another female present.
Okay. And so she she can bear witness
to this. So the false prophet is came in
and began to tell me how great the word was.
How do you know she just loved the worship here and love the
word and all this stuff? You know, just a collates man.
Right? So I'm listening.
So then, you know, they began to tell me that they are
prophetess. And that, you know, because of,
you know, how great we are in the word and rightly divide the
word of Truth, and all this stuff that she feels, you know,
release. Now by the Lord that she's going
to come to service, tell me something.
She'll just stay in the back because she's humble, and then I
would deliver it to the people. And then told me never take up
another offering. She put a bucket in the back and
say nothing about money ever. although the Bible has a lot of
things to say about money, Jesus even talked about it.
Okay. So I said, well, first of all,
you're not the Holy Ghost. So I'm not going to do that.
I'm just I'm not going to do that.
It's not going to happen and I'm going to talk, I'm gonna I'm
gonna preach on anything that the Lord tells me to do so
that's just going to happen. well at that point then she's
like well then I'll just come, you know, to worship and leave
Really? I said, well, now, if you're
gonna come and just here come to the singing and I'll stay for
the preaching, then there's probably no reason for you to
come. Are you telling me I'm not
allowed here? I said I never said that.
What I said was if you're going to come just for the music and
not stay for the preaching of the word, then there's probably
no reason for you to be here. Are you saying I'm not invited
anymore? I did not say that.
I repeated myself a third time, right?
And they said well I just believe the Lord's release me.
I said I believe you're correct. And they didn't come back.
My point is is the audacity of someone number one to try to
hijack a church. But number two to think they
could praise. With that spirit.
They could praise without spirit.
That type of attitude and I've seen the person more than one
time in town. When I walk in I have no
problem. I'll go up to people and still
say hello. Because I don't have a problem.
I mean I am commanded to love people right at the end the day.
Now sometimes love is not what you think, love is and that's a
whole nother subject. We don't have time for Psalms
chapter, 40 verses 2 through 5. Look at this.
He said, he brought me out of the pit of Destruction out of
the Miry clay. He set my feet upon a rock
making my footsteps firm. He put a new song in my mouth.
A song of praise to my God, many will see.
And Year and will trust in him because of what he put in my
mouth. Others are going to be changed.
So our praise should cause those outside the kingdom to want to
get in the Kingdom. Now.
Real quick. Let's look at the passion
translation of this. Okay it says it just verse 3.
The passion translation says this, a new song for a new day
Rises up in me every time I think about how he breaks
through. For me.
It's static praise. Pours out of my mouth until
everyone. Here's our God has Set Me Free.
Many will see his miracles. They'll stand in awe of God and
fall in love with him now. I like the latter part because
they'll see his miracles. Why?
Because of Don't in my life and they'll stand in awe of God and
fall in love with him. But the other translation
actually communicates it better because it this one just says
ecstatic. Praise pours out of my mouth
until everyone hears. But where does it come from the
other translation tells us that it says he put a new song in my
mouth. Which means then praise
originates from the word and if it's not the word that you're
saying, meaning it must be scriptural than it's not praise.
Psalms 119 says this way seven times a day.
I praise you because of your righteous ordinances.
The reason why I have a praise is because I know his word and
the reason why his miracles are going to happen is because I'm
only praising. What his word says about me in
the situation. So Paul and Silas when they're
in jail, they're not just singing Kumbaya or anything that
pops up. They go back to the word that's
inspired by the Holy Ghost written by a true psalmist.
That had power associated with the words and an anointing.
And then they sang that song in that situation that it for
whatever reason I cannot answer. Because again, if you're trying
I just want to praise him till the walls.
Shake that mean that's stupid. I mean again your motive is
already off so your praise is not founded or pure.
We're just going to praise him. We realize there's a situation
you've sent us here. We've established his church.
Now this resistance has come and but we know you're for us was a
man going to do to us. We just read everything they
said. So they've tapped into the word
and they're praising it and that praise went so much that it when
the walls did shake and everything came out, it's
obvious. All these people like they are
serving the only God and there's no wonder why they went back to
that one, because all the Other guys that are in there that have
committed crimes, they were probably listening to the dumb
Idol. That did have the ears that
couldn't hear the mouth of couldn't speak the throat that
couldn't talk the, the hands that couldn't touch.
And so they're talking about all those gods in their praise song
saying, but I got the only God and then God says, yeah, I'll
show them. But if you get attacked it work
or somebody says something about you at work or sickness comes on
you and you speak like the rest of the world and then say well
Lord I'm gonna praise you anyway.
Well you're not pretty City. You're not praising him.
You can't put a tag on. I'm gonna praise you anyway but
yet sing in front of everybody, even though it's not to music.
This is what's going on in my life, almost had a heart.
That's how the world sings. What are you gonna do with
covid? What are we gonna do about, you
know, inflation? What are you going to do about
all the rising prices? That's the Song of the world?
Lord even though it may be the prices go, huh?
You're even higher. You sit on the throne, you ohm
Heaven and Earth Lord. Even though it may be that the
price of gas hits ten dollars. That's all right.
You've turned Water into wine. Right?
You calls the Israelites close to not wear out in 40 days.
You turn the widow woman's little bit of a flower to last
her through a hole famine. And if this is the last time I
fill up to take for the next month, so be it.
Praise the Lord. I'm just, Saying there's a
different praise that comes out of the mouth of the believer
that knows the word, but you can't see those praising.
When you don't know the exploits of God, you can't even tap into
certain things because you don't know the exploits of God and
just singing God and Heaven doesn't make you a praise song.
Just acknowledging, Jesus died on the cross and Rose from the
grave. Doesn't make it a praise song.
And maybe it's something, you know, but you're not singing it
because you're singing something else.
Could be some are Are you hearing me, Psalms 119, 1, and
171, Psalms 119? 171 says, let my lips utter
praise for you, teach me your statutes.
Psalms 119 175, let my soul live that it may praise you and let
your ordinances help me. Hallelujah.
Some songs have come from this platform and I listen to them.
And I'm like, hmmm, maybe that's still wanting the best word to
say maybe when he changed it again.
Because I don't want to leave it.
I thought of Doubt unbelief or dut magnify God most songs.
We sing today are really about our situation and how God gets
us out and never really about him anyway.
I don't really go to Magnify Him.
Right. So, what would it be?
Like if we just decided we won't play any songs outside US.
And you had to learn a new song every time you came in.
Would we be not relevant? Because we don't do the latest
stuff. What if I reach back in time?
The places where songs actually Touch Heaven.
Are they old now? Why is it at one time?
Anointing can be on a song but all of a sudden just because we
have a new style, we can't sing them.
Why aren't even why are we even looking at them?
Why don't we go back? Because, you know what, what I'm
reading you is thousands of years old.
It's called scripture. I mean, nothing news been
pinned. Since what some uh scholars in
here, 70 AD or a little bit past.
I mean what's the latest one? I mean no one even 100.
I mean, hit 100. And scripture is done the
canonization that we have finished.
We haven't even got a hundred years passed.
Jesus, you know, birth. The death burial and
Resurrection. And that's all we're talking
about and yet we're going to act like a songs old.
That sounds cheesy. Oh, so you really only want the
music and not the word. That's what you're telling me.
I know we went to 50th camp-meeting, Rhema, singers,
and band got up, and they were singing 80s songs.
But the power God fall it was fall are like, man.
Why in the world? Does it seem like the spirit
gets there? It's because they were
methodical about making sure what was said.
Lined up. And then I was the Most Blessed.
Has anybody ever heard of The Man by the name of David Ingles?
Yeah, a few not many. Some of y'all should look him
up. And you will be shocked at the.
Sound would be true, but a statement was made about him and
I thought we need a David Engel in this generation.
We really do. This guy.
Started hearing about faith. And went started going to a camp
meeting. and all of a sudden the words that came out of Kenneth E
Hagins mouth the revelation of God's word that he had never
heard before. And it was rightly divided,
scripture upon scripture, and the spirit of God was revealing
to him. See that's right.
And see that's right. And see that's right.
And all of a sudden, the gift of who he was as a Psalm of started
coming up and I'm one person said, it's so clear to, he says
if brother Hagin is considered our modern-day move of you know
the the message of faith. Then David Ingalls is the
soundtrack to that move. That he basically put his his
sermons to song and it's amazing people who came out of that
generation that move in the beginning, they could talk about
the authority of the believer and their authority over the
enemy and over sickness and disease.
Why? Because they are doing like we
do with our classical school, they learned it in song.
And they could sing it. Most of y'all sing and half of
the popular groups. Today couldn't get you healed,
couldn't get you delivered and can't keep a devil off of you.
The fact that it brings depression to your life.
Because some people are releasing stuff now, my pastor
Marcus showed me. One thing that was with one
popular group, just released something individually.
And when they showed me the lyrics, I thought my first
question would be are you saved? That would have been my first
question when I got that song. And then I'm asking who are
their pastors? Do they even have them?
And if they do is the pastor intimidated by their popularity.
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