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Before we pray I will make the correction from the bulletin It’s a singing and shouting church

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not a signing Although we do want signs and wonders and wherever the gospel goes forth there are signs and wonders So it was a fortuitous typo but it is a typo nonetheless

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So let’s go ahead and pray Lord we are just so excited

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that Jesus Christ is lord over all We’re so excited Lord God that you rule and reign over all things for the sake of your church And Lord you have invested in these jars of clay power from on high And I just pray Lord God as we get into your word that you would reveal yourself to us in such a manner Lord God that again rivers of living water will flow from us

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because Christ is enthroned in our hearts

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to this world that it would come into the obedience of Christ

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and that all men everywhere would bend the knee and confess Jesus Christ as Lord

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amen

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Let’s turn this down just a little more Thank you very much

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a singing and shouting church

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We’re gonna begin

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by talking about why I love scripture and it’s not going to be an exhaustive list because if it was an exhaustive list we would never get into the message

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But the goal I would say of scripture is to see and know Jesus

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we get to see and know him through the things that he says and does

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And I would challenge that everything he says and does reveals his heart and who he is

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Scriptures testify about Jesus

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And when we realize that it really does reveal Christ

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we have a very simple way

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I need to know God I need an encounter with God I feel like God is very far away Well if I want to get to know somebody I want to have a conversation with them

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their heart is imparted the greatest way A person’s heart is imparted is through language and communication And you can always hear from God because we’ve He’s been he’s given us his holy word And that to me is super exciting

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I would also say that the more we come to know Him

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the more beautiful and glorious he becomes in our perception

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There’s never a time when you read the Bible and you say wow I know it all I’ve seen it all I got it Check the boxes One of the most exciting things about scripture is it’s always getting deeper and richer and the the revelation of God is getting clearer and He becomes more precious to us as we come to know him more

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And as we grow to love him

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we be we desire to become more like him

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That really is a bib biblical principle As we see him we become like him

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It’s empowerment And we’ve been studying the new covenant and we read when Paul spoke to the Corinthians about this we behold his glory and we are transformed into that glory It says in the twinkling of an eye as the last trumpet sounds we will all be transformed So to the level that we see him is the level we become like him To me that is super exciting

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And when we become like him we bring his light to the world If anybody thinks that this world doesn’t need some lights turned on

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I don’t even know what to say I give up Now I’m just joking I don’t ever give up But the point is is that

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we bring light to this world to the extent to which we see him and the world definitely needs light And so many people are seeing so much darkness in the world and they think there’s no hope Well all the darkness completely loses in a fight with the light There is no room where the darkness wins when you turn on the light

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So really all this world needs is for the lights to be turned on and the darkness flees It happens in our life and it happens in our families It happens in our communities the light causes the darkness to flee The darkness cannot exist they cannot coexist There is no fellowship between darkness and light There is no such thing as it being able to coexist You want to destroy the darkness turn on the light That’s simple

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as we are enlightened through scripture Our world becomes enlightened and we begin to see the Lord more and more alive and active and moving

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in our midst and in the world

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that what I’m saying here is a very important part I say as we train ourselves to see the Lord through special revelation because that’s what I’m talking about The word of God is special revelation As we train ourselves to see the Lord through special revelation

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we develop the ability to see Him through general revelation Does that make sense

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Praise God it makes sense I don’t see every eye telling me It makes sense So one of the things that excites me when I was a new Christian it was this pattern of enlightenment through God’s word And a lot of times when you’re enlightened through God’s word sometimes it challenges you that you’re not in agreement with it Does that make sense And not And it’s not oh I feel condemned because I’m not in agreement What happens is I see something and I think wow I want to experience that

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And so like when I was a brand new Christian I grew up in the public schools grew up in a very liberal area and the world was a mechanistic machine God was far away He was not part of everyday life You just didn’t see him and then you’re stumbling upon scripture and you say it says the heavens declare the glory of God or it talks about his invisible attributes are clearly seen being understood through the things that are made even his eternal power in Godhead

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And when I read those types of scriptures I said wow

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but that’s not my experience but that’s what your word says But there’s this discrepancy between my experience and what your word says And so I said God your word says this So I ask you to open up my eyes to see your attributes and the things that you have made

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But it’s actually more interesting than that It’s not just when even as the years have gone by the opening up of my eyes has not just been in the world in the stars in the heavens and the skies and the rocks trees or it’s in all of creation including history

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Your eyes open up the Bible actually really trains you to see history correctly because a lot of the Bible is a history book And when you read it you start to discover that history is just an interaction and communication with God in the world

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Everything is dependent on this covenant relationship And so then you go back and you read history and you say oh my gosh God you’ve been at work among all peoples of all time throughout all ages And when righteousness has prevailed the people rejoice when sin prevails the people grown and it all has to do with our relationship with God whom do we worship Isn’t that interesting

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And I’ll get into this later later today But the best one of the best places we discover God in general revelation is in man

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because we’re his image bears

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interesting right So the point is is that as we get tuned to special revelation reading God’s word and starting to see Jesus our eyes become open to see him at work in the world to see his handiwork to see his glory his beauty and the things that is made that he has made and the things that he’s done

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And I pray Lord God that it would happen even more and more because this is not a world that is devoid of God

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but in Him we live and move and have our being

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wow Lord open our eyes to that one right

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So that being said that was the introduction to why we want to read scripture

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And I want to take a glimpse of the Lord through Zephaniah

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The context

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is Zeph and I 38 through 13

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And what we read in there is that out of God’s jealousy he brings judgment upon the earth

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Well jealousy that pro and I don’t really like that English translation of what’s going on But I can’t think of a better word because jealousy in the human realm

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is petty It’s sinful It’s not what the scripture is talking about when it says that God is a jealous God The picture is more like I care so much about people that I want them to experience my love and my goodness and my grace I’m so jealous to see people experience life as I created them for and to see them treated the way that I intended them to be treated Does that make sense

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When it says that He is jealous Because he’s jealous he brings judgment on the earth and judgment You know like again it’s a lot of times when people hear judgment they think oh God is just a big man angry God in heaven wanting to smack us down like whack a mole No judgment is

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you cleanse the world of unrighteousness When you break the yoke of oppression when you set at liberty the captive judgment is always against one party in favor of another where the righteous are vindicated in the wicked perish Every time judgment happens the wicked perish from the earth and people experience liberty and freedom But God doesn’t bring judgment all the time because He says that he’s not willing that any should perish but gives people time to repent

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And while He’s giving people time to repent

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we all have to suffer under the injustices and tyranny of sin

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So even his withholding of judgment is an act of love Everything he does is good and wonderful But because of his jealousy he brings judgment to the ends of the earth for a purpose

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39 for then I will restore to the people’s a pure language

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that they may call on the name of the Lord to serve him with one accord

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What an incredible picture isn’t it

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And we’ve been studying a lot of passages in scripture and asking where do you locate this in your worldview Do you locate it in you know such a distant future after you know Christ returns that it has no relevance to this life

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or are these promises of things he’s going to do in history

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We’ve studied so many of these passages and people can interpret them different ways But just think about the Lord’s prayer your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven If we don’t believe that these promises and these possibilities could be experienced in this life

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then we lose a lot of the fire and passion and boldness and faith to change the world

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So I think that’s what a great picture

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that they may all call on the name of the Lord all the nations and all the people

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and serve him with one accord

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And really when you get into the actual nuances of the passage you see that there’s also people not doing it in the world at the same time It’s really interesting but we’re not going to go into that because that’s not what I want to get to

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But he’s going to bring an incredible transformation on planet Earth

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And the strategy in that passage is so interesting

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He removes the proud and the arrogant from the church

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He he basically purifies the church He purifies his pride That is his strategy to transform the world seeing This is so important because it makes what we do here every Sunday It makes what we do here throughout the week It makes our walk with God throughout the week And our commitment to Jesus Christ of utmost importance Does it do we care about the world Do we care about the darkness in the world Do we care about what’s going on Do we care about people What’s happening in their lives

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purify the church transform the world

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revive the church transform the world turn on the light where by getting rid of all the darkness in the church the things that are not church that are not true and faithful to what Christ has instituted

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Interesting thoughts aren’t they

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And and and so we’ve been studying a lot of these passages about He’s coming back for a pure spotless bride without spot or wrinkle or these gifts are going to operate in the church until we all come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ as a per of a perfect man Zephaniah 3 13 That’s why these things connect He talks about the purified Church The remnant of Israel shall do no unrighteousness

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Do we really see I mean these things are said in scripture and they’re challenging the remnant The Purified Church shall do no unrighteousness

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and speak no lies nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth for they shall feed their flocks and lie down and no one shall make them afraid Isn’t it a beautiful picture of what Christ can do within the church of what he can do with his bride

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I think it’s really exciting and you see how that connects with he’s coming back for a pure spotless bride without spot or wrinkle or until they reach the the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ It’s all over scripture old and new testament That is exciting to me

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It shows God’s heart and purposes in the earth

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And one of the things that I that we’ve really been talking about if it’s really about purifying the bride and reviving the church and transforming the church

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I mean we just read there I mean I’ll read it again It’s so interesting There shall be no unr they shall do no unrighteousness we’re talking about purification aren’t we

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And one of the big questions is how does the church become purified

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Because a misunderstanding of purification takes words of life and makes them oppressive and makes them uh bring forth bondage rather than transformation doesn’t it How we expect purification is essential And I and and and these are things that we talk about regularly because when we understand how does the church purify itself and we break the spirit of legalism and condemnation and we break the spirit of criticism

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and we find power from on high to live a transformed life

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The darkness is gonna be broken the lights are gonna be turned on John 15 123 I am the vine and my father is the vine dresser Every branch in me that does not bear fruit He takes away That’s what we just read wasn’t it He’s gonna if you actually read that passage he’s purifying the church He takes away all of the vine that doesn’t bear fruit in every branch that bears fruit He prunes that it may bear more fruit

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Oh Lord prune us Oh Lord purifies Oh Lord let us bear fruit

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And then Jesus says this amazing word and that’s why I kind of tied it here I picked this verse this time because we talked earlier about the powerful transformative nature of God’s word That as we see Him we become like him

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a clue to purification because then Jesus says something So in this passage that is so unique and so strange If you don’t have other contacts he says you are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you

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What

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I’m cleaned by your word

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Your word that you spoke to me cleaned me That’s what it says

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I am the vine You are the branches If you abide in me and my word abides in you you will bear much fruit You are clean because of my word that I’ve spoken to you His word has the seed and the potential and the power to transform our whole lives That’s why we dig into scripture so much because it really has that kind of transformative power

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to change us from the inside out and to me that’s super exciting

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So now the passage that I really wanted to read and where we got you know the title of this message and what

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I believe the Lord has for us is Zephaniah 3 14 through 17 sing oh daughter of Zion Shout oh Israel Be glad and rejoice with all your heart O daughter of Jerusalem

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Hey man there’s a command of scripture

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It’s a command

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It’s a command Sing and shout

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Maybe I’m shouting a little bit but he just told me to right The Lord just told us to shout to the Lord with the voice of triumph Praise the Lord worship him Hold nothing back

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hold nothing back and give him the praise and glory and honor that he is due

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Do you realize that that command can actually be a burden and can be oppressive

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What what do you mean

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without context And without empowerment without more

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For a lot of people a command to shout and sing

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could just make them feel worse and make them feel wretched and make them feel guilty God has commanded me to sing and to shout and I just feel like crap

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I feel unworthy I feel wretched I feel How can I sing

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when I feel so low when I feel so bad

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Right

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I mean it’s a good question isn’t it

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a command like this That should be so life giving could bring death

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Now again we also have another type of Christian that I find really fun and refreshing because they are so straight in a way that it says God commanded me to sing and shout and I don’t care how I feel I’m going to do it He said to do it And and they’re actually that actually works too because you can’t when you’re singing and you’re shouting you can’t feel like crap

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I mean it’s just I don’t know why but it’s just true It was like when I talk to somebody and they’re like feeling like crap and they they’re saying they’re saying yeah I pray all the time And I said I bet I bet you I know how you pray You pray lying on your bed right Yeah How do you know I don’t know I just a good guess

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And I said next time you this was a person who never heard about the Holy spirit never heard about Pentecostal movement any of this stuff Um Just a real simple down to earth kind of blue collar person

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And I said the next time you go to pray stand up

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lift your hands up to heaven Both of them I have a microphone They can’t hear me online if I demonstrate it And I said start your prayer like this Lord I thank you that Jesus died for my sins and that you love me

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Next time I came to visit her she says Bill you don’t know Something happened to me I did what you said

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like she didn’t have to she didn’t theorize about it She just simply obeyed and I didn’t know it was going to happen either She said I did what you said and sun started bubbling in my stomach and I started talking in this funny language

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I was like have you ever heard of the gifts of the spirit No Well that’s what you experienced She didn’t talk she didn’t go to the life in the Spirit seminar She didn’t do any of that stuff It just was from darkness to light just by getting off her bed lifting up her hands and starting with God I thank you that Jesus died for my sins and you love me And then after that it’s like the the the well got unstuck and rivers of living water started to flow

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It’s pretty cool isn’t it But the other side of that is I really do want to take a time to think about the fact that so many people do not feel good enough to sing and to shout

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They don’t feel that God loves them They don’t feel worthy They know all their faults they know all their mistakes and they feel weighed down by the cares and concerns of this world Even though if you lift your hands and just go for it and sing and shout It would probably break that yoke

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But that’s why this passage has more It doesn’t just give you that command

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It says

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the Lord why grounded in a reason So scripture the very next breath says the Lord has taken away your judgments He has cast out your enemy the king of Israel the Lord is in your midst You shall see disaster no more

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in that day It shall be said to Jerusalem Do not fear Zion Let not your hands be weak The Lord your God is in your midst the mighty one He will save you

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He will rejoice over you with gladness He will quiet you with his love

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He will rejoice over you with singing

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Wow I mean that’s pretty wild isn’t it But it’s revealing the heart of God it’s revealing who He is But I love this If your soul ever been unquiet before ever have trouble sleeping he will quiet your soul when you have this revelation of who he is And what he does He’s a warrior who goes to a war for his people because he loves them

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He’s a warrior that goes over to war for you because he loves you and he fights so many battles for you that you don’t even know of because he loves you and he loves to bless you He loves to deliver you He loves to experience you

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It’s exciting isn’t it

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But it also says he rejoices over you

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Like I mean my kids I love my kids I rejoice over them and I sing stupid made up songs to them all the time

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You know like if I get them smiling it makes me happy I love to make them smile and I am crappy compared to God

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He loves to make us smile He loves to see us full of joy He loves us He literally looks into every one of our lives and celebrates our life

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and he sings to us

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This is what scripture says It’s a revelation of who he is

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And when we get that revelation into heart it changes us and we we go and do likewise singing over one another singing and making melody in our hearts unto God Do not be drunk on wine which is dissipation but be filled with the spirit singing to one another in psalms hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart unto God

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And that song could be so simple to try to quiet their souls and bring joy into their life

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It’s beautiful isn’t it It’s beautiful

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I mean this this passage is so glorious and it makes me think we love because he first loved us And when we see this kind of love we go and love others The same way

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singing is a part of God’s design and has its root in God I mean we don’t think about that often job 38 4 through seven Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth Tell me if you have understanding who determined its measurements surely you know or who stretched the line upon it

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to what were its foundations fastened or who laid its cornerstone laid the cornerstone of the earth How did you lay that cornerstone When the morning stars sang together

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and all the sons of God shouted for joy

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What a beautiful picture of creation itself

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and of the heart of God

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When this kind of spirit is normal in the church it will transform the world

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Think about it That’s what we we’re peering into and catching a vision of the atmosphere of heaven

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the heart of God And it’s beautiful isn’t it Even when he laid the cornerstone of creation the morning stars sang together

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and the sons of God shouted for joy What a beautiful picture Lord let it be represented in our life in our community and the way we live our daily life

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I was always intrigued in the early days of studying theology And I personally think it’s a import from Greek philosophy because God does not change

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So he doesn’t really feel emotion And so all of these scriptures are really anthropomorphism hogwash

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Oh gosh

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I would challenge Remember we were talking about general revelation and God’s invisible attributes are clearly seen by the things that he’s made even his eternal power in God head And that men and women are created in the image of God and are his unique image bearers

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And so you want to learn about God A lot of times you just have to look into human beings

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because you learn a lot about God by human beings We love to love we love fellowship we love community we love all kinds of things and they bring life to us

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It’s a reflection of God’s image in us I like to ask people all the time because it’s just a fun question And I love the answers We give the the biblically literate give me will give me bible answers But I asked even some little kids I said

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uh what did I Does God laugh

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Does God laugh

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And I’ve even had little kids sit and think about it and they said well we laugh and it makes us feel really good So it must be from God

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You’re getting general revelation Now

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you’re learning about God If laughter is life to the soul it has its root in God

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Isn’t that awesome

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singing When we sing with joy

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it touches our soul it can lift us up it can transform us It has its root in God and we just read the scriptures But other people could figure that out just by the fact of the power of singing in our own lives

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If you sing the right songs you cannot feel bad

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But I find it so interesting Like I love the whole idea of the Doctrine of the Spheres That’s something from philosophy that I did enjoy And this idea that and and really they I mean they’re right Everything gives off waves all matter gives off waves and waves and sound are intimately connected That’s why in the in the quadrivium it was um math and geometry music and astronomy because music is math and motion

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in astronomy is geometry and motion Isn’t that interesting And so the doctrine of the spheres is that all of creation is in harmony and it gives off sound or music There’s a song of creation

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all things give off music if we could hear it And that’s why I just love somebody like CS Lewis who takes that doctrine in the space trilogy And one of the books in the trilogy is out of The Silent Planet which just takes this idea that all of creation is singing a song of praise unto God

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But the earth the ruler of Earth has fallen out of the song and It’s The Silent Planet and redemption is bringing us back into that song Isn’t that beautiful It’s a beautiful picture

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God loves to sing

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and all of creation was made to praise him But those same Greek philosophers said that when the law when the modes of music change the laws of the state change

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And they said in a perfect society a philosopher would control the music which I don’t like the totalitarian tendencies there Plato thank you very much So that’s another story

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But they’re on to something they said there’s no quicker way to destroy a society than through its music

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right So one sense what is the you know like one of the things I loved about Lewis Lewis is just one of the one of the heroes right And you know like one of the one of the Narnia books when he was talking I think it was useless and he was confronted with a dragon He didn’t know what to do It said because he had read all the wrong books So he didn’t know what to do when confronted with a dragon And we could say maybe the problem in the world today is we’re singing all the wrong songs

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We’ve got the wrong music in our soul the wrong music in our heart But this whole thing I love about classical education I’m so far in a rabbit trail forgive me But everything is musical because like what happens a lot of times we restrict the ability to transform the world when we restrict it in a very legalistic fashion

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So like we say well the creative things are like painting and sculpture and music No everything is creative

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everything is creative You know we designed a pulpit and a microphone and a building in air conditioning and cars and planes and satellites and internet and computers It’s all people creating the image of God creating imagining and creating and it’s musical It’s a type of music It’s a type of song But when that song is corrupt it’s used for the wrong ends

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That’s why even speaking and preaching or writing can be musical that they use the term the muses right Inspired

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musical But the idea is that it has to reach past just the intellect and get into the heart to get transformation and the vehicle of music does that by nature

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But sometimes when somebody is in darkness and you bring a word of communication that encourages them and builds them up or breaks a yoke It’s like a song of praise or rus in their life It’s like they turn from singing one song to another song It’s pretty interesting isn’t it to think about

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But music is at at the very it’s just so interesting music was there from the beginning when the morning stars sang and the sons of God shouted for joy sing and shout

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It’s in the heart of God

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The big question though is how can God sing over us

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when we know how imperfect we are

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I mean that’s one of the big challenges that people have I hear what you’re saying God sings over me God rejoices over me but I don’t see how he can sing and rejoice over me when I know how bad I am

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I know how far short I fall all the time How is this even possible I think you’re full of crap

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I’m in a bad mood today and he said that we’re too many times in church You’re suspended Sorry But do you understand what I’m saying

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You know so many people feel that way At least Paul said it worse than me So I’m still keeping it clean

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sorry But it really is true How can God sing over us

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when we’re so crummy

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See I behaved

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He so loved the world he gave we were pretty crummy then while we were yet enemies he gave his son

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But this is the key to creating a transformed community that will change the world

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When we know the answer to that question it’s the key to creating a transformed community that will change the world

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So I put a point that says what God forgets

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So he can remember

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we have to forget

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We have to choose what to forget in life and we have to choose what to remember

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That’s the key to transform community what we choose to forget And what we choose to remember

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And that’s how God can sing over us

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how he can just celebrate us because of what He chooses to forget and what He chooses to remember about each and every one of us

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Jeremiah 31 33 to 34

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We’ve been reading this a lot and studying it a lot But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days says the Lord I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts and I will be their God and they will be my people no more Shall every man teach his neighbor and every man his brother

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saying know the Lord for they will all know me because that’s what I want I want to know you and I want you to know me I want us to know each other I want us to have fellowship I want us to have communion I want us to have a relationship

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for They will know me from the least to the greatest of them Says the Lord for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more

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How can God sing and rejoice over us I forgot your sins

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I choose to forget your faults I choose to forget your failures

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And I remember what is good true and beautiful

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love takes no account of what is wrong but rejoices in what is right I remember everything that’s wonderful every quirk every fun thing about how I created you every fun thing

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in your life Like when you watch your kids or you watch your friends and you just love the people that make your life beautiful And you remember the blessing and you remember the beauty and you remember the good and you have to forget their faults and their failures

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Because when you choose to remember their faults and their failures community is destroyed relationship is destroyed and everything falls apart

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But when you forget

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people’s faults and shortcomings and you remember

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how wonderful they are

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that’s the key to a transformed community And it has its heart in God

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What is truly satisfying in life

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is not keeping the rules

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but enjoying God in one another

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One element of the rules

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is that when we love one another we want to bless rather than harm others

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I mean because you know because once you start going down this road you’ve got to qualify it don’t you

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What I’m saying is best said by Paul what shall we say then Should we continue And sin that grace may abound Certainly not

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because we just you know one of the things I don’t want people to get the idea are we saying that sin doesn’t matter No sin matters

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because sin is what hurts others Sin is what harms others It’s not a checklist of things to make you feel like you’re right with God or not Right with God it’s what really hurts people

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And when you really love God you start to love others and when you love others you don’t want to cause them harm you want to bless them and build them up

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But the but the question is how do we create a context where people go from faith to faith and glory to glory where their sins are taken away

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It’s through forgiveness

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It’s through forgetting and remembering forgetting the fault and remembering the good So forgive

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forgive

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It’s the power of a transformed life Forgive

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but they didn’t repent Forgive

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You still have to forgive Do you have to forgive those that didn’t repent Yes you do If you don’t forgive it will kill you If you don’t forgive a root of bitterness will grow up And deo many if you don’t forgive I only have to forgive if they were you know like how many times do we have to forgive Seven times 70 times seven OK 4 90 great

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Just 4 90 a day You do that 4 91 we’re done

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But I would challenge you that anywhere you’re holding unforgiveness death

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is growing anywhere you’re holding unforgiveness darkness is growing You don’t only forgive those who have apologized You don’t only forgive those who have repented to you You don’t only forgive those after they’ve done public acts of humiliation

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Forgive It’s what you choose to forget and what you choose to remember

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That’s what transforms the world

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What we remember and what we forget is at the heart of building an authentic community that will transform the world

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It creates a culture

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when we do what we are saying that actually helps people become set free from sin

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It’s motivated by love and not fear

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It’s about manifesting the Kingdom of God his rule and reign made tangible It’s about a culture of life It’s about turning on the light in the world

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and it’s powerful

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I’m gonna read that Zephaniah 3 13 Again

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the remnant of Israel shall do no unrighteousness and speak no lies nor shall deceitful tongue be found in their mouth for they shall feed their flocks and lie down and no one will make them afraid

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The new covenant is about empowering that kind of reality

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to love God and love one another

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What we just read there is people keep the law

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right

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They do know unrighteousness

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means they’re keeping the law right

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The new covenant empowers us to do it

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The New Testament

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I will challenge because really these things are hard to talk about because it’s hard to figure out

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how do we transform the world How do we become purified How do we go from faith to faith and glory to glory How do we

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receive and experience He is the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world

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That’s the big question right

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We know that the law written on tablets of stone kills and destroys We know that unforgiveness kills and destroys We know remembering each other’s fault kills and destroys

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I would challenge like I I my my theory is that we had the 10 commandments of Mount Sinai

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and then the the attitudes the sermon on the Mount

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I would challenge are the laws that govern the Holy Spirit of God or the new covenant They are the laws of the new covenant I will challenge that A lot of the New Testament

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is about the commands that empower you through the Holy Spirit to be transformed I’ve made a new covenant Does it mean that the

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moral law or the code of the 10 commandments has changed Not at all It’s an expression of the character and nature of God

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You’re never free to steal you’re never free to murder You’re never free to commit adultery or idolatry or whatever because those things are death

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But the question is how do we become like Jesus how do we become loving How do we become righteous How do we become Holy How do we fulfill the law

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You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses they will know you are Christians by your love for one another It’s the power of the new covenant

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It’s about manifesting the kingdom So we so really that’s really what the gospel of the kingdom right Jesus went around everywhere teaching and preaching the gospel of the kingdom The king has come The kingdom of darkness the kingdom of bondage the kingdom of sin is broken The kingdom of the devil is broken What does the Kingdom of God look like Right We need to understand we want to manifest the Kingdom of God our father in heaven

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That your name be great that your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven We’ve been reading pictures of the singing and shouting That’s normal in the Kingdom of God There’s no songs in hell or at least there’s no songss of beauty and glory in hell Does that make sense when you’re in bondage and impression And when you’re way down when you’re depressed when you feel worthless when you feel hopeless there’s no songs of praise There’s no songs of adoration There’s no songs of celebration

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There might be woes me I feel like crap and the world stinks and there’s no hope for me songs Those are not songs in the sense of what God created They’re the wrong kind of songs I think the devil was some theories is that he may have been a worship minister

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Well he definitely has the wrong kind of songs because of the songs that kill steal and destroy and don’t bring life right

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But the but the Kingdom of God we need a simple definition to pursue don’t we

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a simple definition to pursue Romans 14 17 through 18 for the Kingdom of God is not in eating and drinking external roles You see it

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but righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Spirit and yet righteousness is still holiness

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You see it there

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It’s actually the manifestation of walking in love Don’t miss it Don’t don’t write off that first word righteousness but righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Spirit Without the Holy Spirit you can’t have any of it

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for He who serves Christ and these things is acceptable to God and approved by men

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the Holy Spirit folks the new covenant the New Testament That’s what it’s all about restoring new covenant Christianity without power from on high The church has no power to storm the gates of hell

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without power from on high It just becomes legalistic and dead

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It becomes an oppressive system rather than something that’s genuinely life giving

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But like I said before some people they focus on rules and it works out for them You know like I said if you like I told my friend try standing up and raising your hands and she just obeyed and didn’t ask why and did it and experienced power And like I said you could technically take that command sing and shout for joy And

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you know you actually did it and

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really hard to feel bad when you’re singing and shouting for joy right

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So if you prefer to have a rule to focus on here is the rule of life for today First Thessalonians 5 16 through 22 Rejoice always

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sounds like what we read earlier doesn’t it Rejoice Always pray without ceasing and everything Give thanks try giving thanks and rejoicing always and feeling bad

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Try not having joy you know peace righteousness peace and joy while you’re giving thanks and rejoicing It just

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it’s not possible right

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But this is a command

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So you want to command to obey Rejoice always pray without ceasing which means desire And it doesn’t mean literally go into the like the prayer closet and pray without ceasing It means constantly being communion and fellowship constantly desiring constantly worshiping constantly encountering walking in the presence of God in everything Give thanks for this is the will of God and Christ Jesus for you do not quench the spirit

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because everything we’ve been reading about sing and shout for joy has a spirit to it doesn’t it And the Holy Spirit working and moving and do not despise prophecies test all things Hold what is hold fast to what is good and abstain from every form of evil

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challenge that there is an intentional order in this passage

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And I can prove it even from what’s in the passage But we’re going to start we’re going to do a fun we’re going to do a little fun exercise and work this paths each backwards and see if it bears the same results Is it interchangeable or is there an order Right I don’t know why but it just seems like a fun thing to do

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So my my first command to you is abstain from every form of evil abstain from every form of evil

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Test all things and hold fast to what is good is this feeling as life giving right

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Do not despise prophecies

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do not quench the spirit

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for This is the will of Christ Jesus

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for you

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doesn’t work as good does it

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No And and the proof is right there in the middle of that passage is this is the will of God in Christ Jesus from you And then all the other things come after So what is the will of Christ Jesus for you was defined actually by this passage rejoice always pray without ceasing and everything Give thanks for this is the will of Christ Jesus from you

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And once that has been established then do not quench the spirit do not despise prophecies Test all things hold fast to what is good and abstain from every form of evil

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But only those first three get This is the will of Christ Jesus for you They’re all commands right But can you see how this passage puts such a massive emphasis on the first three

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So if you want something to really obey obey those first three and then the other then you can work on the other ones right

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Right But really by obeying those first three it will transform your life

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But I would say it seems like rejoicing is always a good description of the heart of God

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It naturally expresses itself in song right

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I and I’ll be honest I’m like I wanna be part of a church that storms the gates of hell I want to be part of a church that sits at liberty the captives I want to be part of the the the people that actually turn the light on in the world and don’t complain and don’t groan and get frustrated by the people who make a radical impact on planet earth And I really believe the Bible teaches us how to do it right

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So revelations 15 1 through four a just saving time

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Then I saw another sign in the heaven A great and it was great and marvelous seven angels having seven last plagues

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Ok I gotta just say their their his definition is so different than the way we think I saw a great and marvelous sign seven angels carrying plagues right For in them the wrath of God is complete And I saw something like a sea of glass mingle with fire and those who have the victory over the beast and over his image and over his mark and over his number of his name standing on the sea of glass

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I want to be part of those people that have victory over the beast and over his mark and over his name What do those people look like What are they doing What are they about What is the secret to being that kind of people

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They have harps

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maybe guitars I don’t know

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Pianos

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symbols

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tambourines

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They sing

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they sing the song of Moses

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the servant of God in the song of the lamb

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The people who overcome the beast the people who overcome his mark and his name The Over Commers the great army of over Commers they have harps in their singing

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Maybe you can’t overcome unless you’re singing the song of Moses and the song of the lamb Maybe that’s the old and new covenant combined But you see what I’m saying the song of Moses When you fall into captivity you’ve gotten so far away and you’ve totally lost a plot and you screwed up really bad

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You’ll remember the song

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and this song will remind you that this is the man whose sins are forgiven

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whose transgressions are covered

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It never loses its importance

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It never loses its importance

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We can’t have the Holy Spirit We can’t sing the song of the lamb If it wasn’t for Calvary

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we can’t sing the song of the lamb If our sins were not covered

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Remember what we read about the new covenant I will remember your sins no more

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You can never

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that never ends

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I am giving this whole new covenant because I first chose to forget

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your sins

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and remember my promises to you Remember my promises to your fathers I’ve chose to remember what’s good about you I’ve chosen to remember what I love and I delight in

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I’ve chosen I don’t know why to count every hair on your head

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I’ve chosen

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to observe you fully

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24 hours a day 365 days a year God like things about you God is watching you 365 days a year

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He’s watching you 24 7 How does that make you feel

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It says I watch you like that and I sing over you

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I rejoice over you God How can you do that I have forgotten

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your sins

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I have forgotten your sins I remember them no more And I remember what is good The song of Moses and now the song of the lamb receive the Holy Spirit receive power from on high Do not quench the Holy Spirit of God

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Wow it’s exciting isn’t it the great overcoming tribe

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So what we saw is that God’s word reveals the heart of God to us

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so that we can reveal it in the world

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It enlightens us so we can bring light to the world and destroy every form of darkness There is

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we got a belief

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not unbelievers God passionately loves us and sings to us

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because of what He chooses to remember and what he chooses to forget

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The transformation of the world begins by purifying the church

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The purification of the church comes through the power of the Holy Spirit through the atonement and then the power of the Holy Spirit transform lives

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what we remember and forget in the songs we sing rooted in our revelation of God will transform the world

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We need to be filled with the Holy Spirit

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singing to one another Psalms hymns and spiritual songs

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We need to rejoice Always pray without ceasing and everything Give thanks for This is the will of God in Christ Jesus it causes the atmosphere of heaven in your life in your family in your community in your workplace When you obey these commands you bring the atmosphere of heaven because you’re not way down the light is in the rivers of living water start flowing When you rejoice always pray without ceasing and give thanks in all circumstances

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At 3 14

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church sing

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oh Daughter of Zion Shout oh Israel

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Be glad

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and rejoice with all your heart Oh Daughter of Jerusalem

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We want to be a singing and shouting church because He’s commanded us to do it

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But he doesn’t command us Every command is rooted and founded in his character and nature We sing and shout

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because God first sang and shout shouted for joy

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He sings over you

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He rejoices over us

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We have to let that touch our hearts

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so that we can sing and shout unto the Lord Amen

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Amen

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Yeah