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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Wilderness-Forty-Majesty
Publishing Date: 2020-08-16T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/wilderness-forty-majesty/

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So guys, we'll continue with the series we started on two weeks ago.

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So we've been doing this series called Wilderness 40.

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Wilderness 40.

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And today we'll talk about majesty, because we said,

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we ended last week saying that the starting point for all confidence is

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majesty. And so we'll talk about that.

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So we continue with the series.

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So here's what we've been doing for those who don't remember.

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We are following the Holy Spirit into the wilderness,

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preparing for the soon coming post-COVID world.

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Most companies are, most nations are, most governments are, airlines are,

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everybody's preparing for the post-COVID world,

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because it'll be different.

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Perhaps the people that aren't preparing for the post-COVID world are the church.

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And so we've been following the Spirit into the wilderness,

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preparing for the soon coming post-COVID world.

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And so over the last few weeks, or at least over the last two weeks,

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the plan has been to draw a side.

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And in drawing a side, our intent is,

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in drawing a side, our intent is that we become Spirit dependent.

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In drawing a side, our intent is that we become Spirit dependent.

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And by drawing a side, it means different things to different people.

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Some of you, and I marvel at this, eh,

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that some of you are actually spiritually quarantining yourself.

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Some of you are fasting.

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Some of you are practicing spiritual disciplines

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that you had not paid much attention to in the past.

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So I marvel at how seriously you are drawing a side,

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locating the Holy Spirit, and being affected by Him.

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I didn't expect that.

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And so bless you for that.

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As I hear stories of what you're doing and how you're setting yourself aside,

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awesome, man.

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Because truth is learned through practice and repetition.

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Truth is learned through practice and repetition.

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Truth is not learned through hearing.

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Hearing is the first step,

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but thereafter it's learned through practice and repetition.

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And so the plan is to draw a side.

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Why draw a side?

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Because just like the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness,

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over the next six weeks we are following the Spirit of God into the wilderness

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so that we may draw a side.

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And once you do that, you will come back, spirit dependent,

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you'll come back with an overwhelming revelation of God,

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an overwhelming revelation of God.

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Because anyone who is led by the Spirit to go into a time

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where you draw a side, I go into the wilderness,

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they always return having encountered God

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in a way they've never encountered Him before, and we talked about that.

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And we are drawing a side so that we may return,

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so that we may return with power.

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To do what?

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To restore and to seed the earth

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that awaits us when COVID lifts.

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If corporate institutions and governments can prepare themselves

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for a time such as this, where they begin to think along the lines of,

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so once COVID lifts, how do we restore things?

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Or what does normalcy look like?

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How do we once again begin to seed our clientele in a way that will bring back returns?

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In the same way that God is thinking far ahead of it, eh?

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And so if we can begin to see what God wants us to do,

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the church can begin to position itself.

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Because there is, and we won't talk about this today,

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but there is something called a post-COVID landscape that awaits us.

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And the post-COVID landscape will only be taken by a church or by churches,

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and God wishes that every church do so, by churches who position themselves.

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Otherwise, the only thing that will come out of COVID for most churches

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will be a better live streaming system.

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That just sucks if that's all that comes out of it.

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Any questions?

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Any questions, guys?

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No?

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Okay.

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Guys, remember, there has never been a time like this.

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There has never been a time like this.

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I keep repeating that every time we meet this way.

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There has never been a time like this when the entire earth came to a standstill.

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It is not a God thing.

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God does not create Sabbaths for the earth by removing a few hundred thousand from the face of the earth.

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He does not create Sabbaths by sending diseases that affect 20 million.

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It is not God.

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That's not God's way of creating rest.

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I'm categorically stating it.

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Because that's the other thing that's happened with churches across the earth.

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We either have distorted views of what is happening,

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or we are echo chambers of the person that we listen to most.

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And yet we have to look at the nature of God to figure out what is really happening.

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And so if this is one of those world-stopping events,

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then trust me, man, when God goes to play,

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he'll play for big keeps now that it's his turn.

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And so a post-COVID world awaits.

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And if churches can position themselves well,

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they begin to reap dividends for the next 10 or 20 years.

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And over the next four or five weeks,

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we'll set ourselves up so that we are standing correctly in terms of what God wants to do with us.

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And when I say us, I'm talking about anybody who's listening

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and the other churches that we're connected with in different parts of the world.

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Because I'm having these conversations with India, with South Africa, with the UK,

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with different places right now.

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So today we start with this idea of governed by his majesty.

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As in, if one of the things we have to do as we get ready for whatever God plans,

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and it's not like whatever God plans, God has a plan.

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Our intent is to get a hang of it and then begin to work it out.

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So this is not kaisara-sara.

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God has a plan. We've already had glimpses of it.

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We know what awaits. Over the next few weeks, we lay it out so that it becomes plain.

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So this is very deliberate. It's very intentional.

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And so one of the things we want to look at today is how do we get to a place where we are governed by majesty?

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As in, can we get to a place where what controls our life is the majesty of God?

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You'll be surprised at how critical that is to our existence, to our walk, to the way we see things.

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To be governed by majesty, where we can say that we serve at the pleasure of the King

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and we speak and act on his behalf, that we do not take our cues from the world.

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We do not take our cues from the world, but we serve at the pleasure of the King and we act and speak on his behalf.

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Let me say that again because one of the things that's going to happen as we go further and further into the year

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is that the world will tell us what cues to follow.

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They'll tell us how things are going to happen, what we should do.

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And I'm saying to you, the point is not defiance.

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The point is to hear what the God of heaven says about things and then take our orders from him

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and speak and act on his behalf because God needs to speak and he speaks through a people.

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Show me one incident in the Bible, be it the flood, be it when they entered the promised land,

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be it when the Holy Spirit came, be it when Jesus ascended, be it before he died, be it after he died.

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Show me one place in the Bible where there was an event that was earth-changing, where God did not announce his intent.

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One place in the Bible, in the Old Testament or the New Testament, where God did not announce his intent.

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He always announces his intent and he announces it through his body.

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And it's not a mixed message. It's a very clear clarion call as in this is what I'm doing.

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Now, you want to join me?

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Any questions?

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Okay. So let's look at Psalm 8. We'll start at Psalm 8.

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Psalm 8.

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It starts with the opening line,

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And the first, O Lord, is actually Yahweh and the second Lord is Adonai.

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So what the Psalm writer is saying is, O Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name.

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He starts with this idea of majesty.

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And then as we go further down the Psalm, you'll begin to kind of grasp what majesty looks like.

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Psalm 8 starts with, O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.

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And the word used is Yahweh. And Yahweh basically means the self-existent one.

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The self-existent one. Unrivaled, undefeated, from whom all things source life.

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Everything that exists is sustained, is sourced, originates, has life.

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Everything, everywhere depends for life on him.

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This is how sovereign he is, eh?

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So it's very deliberately that the word Yahweh is used there.

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The self-existent one, who if he wants can think and cause existence to cease.

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He does not even need to speak.

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He can bring things into non-existence, sheerly by thinking it, leave alone speaking it.

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One of the songs that tries to capture it is Alpha and Omega.

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You are Alpha, as in you are the first, and Omega, as in the last, and everything in between.

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That comet we saw will come back 6,800 years from now.

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Because it has an orbit that is so large that it will take 6,800 years to come back.

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And the universe isn't even touched in terms of its outer expanse.

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This is a God who sits far above, far beyond, far more expansive than the universe we can think of.

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And then the writer says, oh Yahweh, self-existent one, unrivaled, undefeated,

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from whom everything, everywhere seeks and finds and depends for life on.

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That is who we are talking about.

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Because we don't necessarily think so, we miss out on majesty, guys.

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Just because our minds cannot comprehend majesty is not a good enough reason not to comprehend majesty.

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This is the problem with instruction manuals from IKEA, right?

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You look at it and you think, not even worth it.

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You can do that with IKEA, you can't do it with IAM.

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Right, Tuni?

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So what is majesty? What is majesty?

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It's so hard to explain.

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What is majesty?

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It's so hard to take a word or a line and say this is majesty.

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Let me give you an example.

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Some of the lines from the song, So Will I, give you an idea of majesty.

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I mean, sing along. We'll sing it along.

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Sing it twice and you'll get an idea what majesty is.

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Just one glimpse and we'll talk about a few other things.

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One of the things this song is able to capture is this idea of majesty.

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So, I'll just let us sing it and you can sing along.

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You can sing along.

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You might have to wing it on your own.

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God of creation, there at the start before the beginning of time

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With no point of reference, you spoke to the dark and fleshed out the wonder of light

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God of creation, there at the start before the beginning of time

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With no point of reference, you spoke to the dark and fleshed out the wonder of light

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And as you speak, a hundred billion galaxies are born

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In the vapor of your breath, the planets form

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If the stars are made to worship, so will I

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And as you speak, a hundred billion creatures catch your breath

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Evolving in pursuit of what you said

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If it reveals your nature, so will I

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And as you speak, a hundred billion failures disappear

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Where you lost your life so I could find it here

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If you left the grave behind, you so will I

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And as you speak, a hundred billion galaxies are born

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In the vapor of your breath, the planets form

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If the stars are made to worship, so will I

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And as you speak, a hundred billion creatures catch your breath

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Evolving in pursuit of what you said

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If it reveals your nature, so will I

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And as you speak, a hundred billion failures disappear

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Where you lost your life so I could find it here

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If you left the grave behind, you so will I

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And as you speak, a hundred billion galaxies are born

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In the vapor of your breath, the planets form

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If the stars are made to worship, so will I

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And as you speak, a hundred billion galaxies are born

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In the vapor of your breath, the planets form

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If the stars are made to worship, so will I

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If the stars are made to worship, so will I

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Mark 15, 16-20

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Here's what it says

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This is majesty

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The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace

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And called together the whole company of soldiers

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They put a purple robe on him

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Then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him

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And they began to call out to him, Hail, King of the Jews

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Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him

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Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him

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They mocked him, they took off the purple robe, put on his own clothes on him

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And then they led him out to be crucified

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This is what majesty looks like

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Majesty also looks like Isaiah 6

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In the year of King Uzziah, I saw heaven open

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And I saw the Lord seated on his throne

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The train of his robe filled the temple

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There were angels flying around

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And the place shook and was filled with smoke

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And I heard a voice saying, Holy, Holy, Holy

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The Lord God Almighty, heaven and earth are filled with his glory

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Oh, don't you for a second think that is not majesty either

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This is why you can't take a word, a phrase, a sentence

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And put it together and create this majesty

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It is so many things put together, man

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And the more you become aware of it, the more you recognize

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The length and breadth of what the King of Kings can do on the earth through you

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You look at Revelations 4.10

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And you begin to have an idea of what it really looks like now

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Revelations 4.10, it says

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They laid their crowns before the throne and they said, You are worthy

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It starts in verse 1

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After that I looked and there before me was a door standing open in heaven

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And the voice I first heard speaking to me said, Come up here and I'll show you

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At once I was in the spirit and there before me was a throne in heaven

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With someone sitting on it

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Then we go to verse 10 and it says

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They lay their crowns before the throne and they say, You are worthy our Lord and God

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To receive glory and honor and power for you created all things

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By you were they created and by you do they have their being

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Go to Revelations 5.10

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And in Revelations 5.10 you see again

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You

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Then I looked and I heard the voice of many angels

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Numbering thousands upon thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand

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They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders

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And in a loud voice they sang

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Worthy is the lamb who was slain to receive power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, praise

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Then I heard every creature in heaven and earth

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Under the earth and in the sea and that is in them

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Singing to him who sits on the throne

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And to the lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever

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How do you capture this majesty man?

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You got to put all this together before you begin to fathom majesty

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And this is a real place, there is a throne

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There is the majestic voice

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In Hebrews chapter 8 verse 1

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It says so in Hebrews in 2nd Peter 1 17 it says so in Hebrews 8 1

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Here's what it says

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That there is an actual place and Jesus went there

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Hebrews chapter 8 verse 1 it says

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The point of what we are saying is this

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We do have such a high priest who sat down at the right hand of the throne of majesty in heaven

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As in there is God the father

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He does dwell on a throne

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And there is the right hand of majesty

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You go to 2nd Peter 1 17

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This isn't some fiction 2nd Peter 1 17

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No 2nd Peter

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Yeah 2nd Peter 1 17 and here's what it says

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For he received honor and glory from God the father

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When the voice came to him from the majestic glory saying

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This is my son whom I have called Jesus

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When the voice came to him from the majestic glory saying

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This is my son whom I love with him I am well pleased

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There is this voice that comes from the place of majesty man

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That if you and I can listen

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It will give us the kind of courage that you and I cannot have in any other way

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Listen in

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It's not a thundering voice

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Sometimes it's a whisper but you can hear

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Sometimes you are so flippant with

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Yeah I think the Lord said to me

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No man this is the majestic voice from a place called the throne of God

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That sometimes speaks to you

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Yes he spoke this and people wrote it

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But if you think God has stopped speaking

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That's so sad we just dumbed God down

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He actually still does

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So when people tell you it's good to sing and spend time before God

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It's not because he wants a couple of songs before he speaks

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It is because when you enter this place of majesty

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It is natural to break out in spontaneous worship

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Catch a glimpse of him before you sing

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To sing before you catch a glimpse of him is like sawdust

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To catch a glimpse of him and then sing is like nightingale

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Or whatever fancy bird that sings

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Catch a glimpse of him before you sing

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Catch a glimpse of him before you speak

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And it changes everything

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Praise and worship in a church should never be a time where people come in

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And the worship leader gets them going

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So that they can catch a glimpse of God by the last song

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You should come here having caught a glimpse of him

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And come here saying why doesn't Jane begin

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Because I can't wait

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And it doesn't matter then whether the sound is ready or the piano is playing right or Jane singing well

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Hebrews 1-3

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It says that Jesus Christ is the radiance of the invisible God

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The exact image of the invisible God

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And that he having sustained the universe with his words

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And having made purification for our sins

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Sat down at the right hand of majesty

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Again there's this whole thing of sitting down at the right hand of majesty

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And then he says, I'm going to sing

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Again there's this whole thing of sitting down at the right hand of majesty

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But that's not the good news

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That's just where he dwells

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The good news is this

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That in Ephesians 2-6 it says

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And now Jacob you are seated with him in heavenly places

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This axis is real guys

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It's real

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It's real

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If you believe that there is a throne

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That the father sits on

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If you believe that there is at his right hand a place where Jesus sits

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Then you must also believe that

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That there's a place there for you

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And that people in the body of Christ must learn

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How to live heaven towards earth instead of earth towards heaven

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We're always looking up for crumbs

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When you can actually be sitting with him

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And seeing what he wants done

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These are the kinds of churches that will really thrive in a post-COVID landscape

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Any questions?

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So why be governed by majesty?

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Why be governed by majesty?

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Because if you want to function on earth

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You have to be like Christ himself

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And Christ was a king and he was a priest

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Why be governed by majesty?

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Because to function on earth

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The body must have the nature of the king priest

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The body must have the nature of the king priest

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Every person on earth has to have the nature of the king priest

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Everything we do is because Jesus did it

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On earth, everything we become

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Everything we do is because that is how Christ walked the earth

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And therefore that is now his expectation

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Of how his body will walk the earth

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I know it's hot guys but

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Try and listen and somehow survive

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And then you can go home and listen to it again

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But if you want to function

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Not if you want to function

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There's a demand on us to function as the body of Christ

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Just like the head, the Christ function

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How did he walk the earth?

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That is what God's expectation is of the body

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That listen, if Jesus walked the earth

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This is my expectation of you

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And Jesus walked the earth as a king priest

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So if you look at Psalm 110

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You'll find it in the Old Testament

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You'll find it in the New Testament

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Psalm 110, verse 2 and 4

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It's speaking of him

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And it says in Psalm 110, verse 2

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It says the Lord will extend

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And this is David talking about Jesus

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The Lord said to my Lord

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It's David talking about Jesus

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And so in verse 2 it says

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The Lord will extend your separate body

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And you will have a separate body

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And you will have a separate body

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And it says the Lord will extend your sector from Zion

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You will rule in the midst of your enemies

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Verse 4

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The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind

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You're a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek

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There is this need for us to grasp the fact

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That if the body of Christ is to function the way

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It's supposed to function on the earth

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Then it has to be both king and priest

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And we'll expand on that later

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But this is something we need to understand

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Because if we are not governed by majesty

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We do not know what it is

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Look at Hebrews 7, 1

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Hebrews 7, 1

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Talking about Jesus again

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Hebrews 7, 1

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This Melchizedek was the king of Salem

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And the priest of God most high

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He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings

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And blessed him

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And Abraham gave him a tenth of everything

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First his name means king of righteousness

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And the king of Salem

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Without father or mother, without genealogy

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Without beginning or end of life

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Like the son of God, he remains a priest forever

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God sent Jesus to walk the earth

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Both as a king and a priest

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In the likeness of Melchizedek

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Who was a king and a priest

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Let's look at Revelation 1, 6

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Because if Jesus is like that

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Does he demand that of us?

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Revelation 1, 6

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I know it's easier to listen to teaching

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When there's no scripture

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But unfortunately this one has a whole lot of scripture

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Revelation 1, 6

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Let's start at

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Yeah, 1, 6

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It says there

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To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins

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By his blood

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And he has made us to be kings and priests

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To serve his God and father

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To him be glory and power forever and ever

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So now we're talking about the body of Christ

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And it says, hey, I've made you kings and priests

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Let's go to Revelation 5, 11

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Revelation 5, 11

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5, 10

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Or 5, 9

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And they sang a new song

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You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals

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Because you were slain

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And with your blood you purchased men

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And this is talking about the body of Christ

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Men for God from every tribe, language, people and nation

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You have made them to be kings and priests

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To serve our God and they will reign on earth

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Let's look at one more

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Look at 1 Peter 2, 9

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1 Peter 2, 9

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Famous scripture

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1 Peter 2, 9

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But you are a chosen people

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A royal priesthood

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Priesthood, a holy nation

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I'm glad he's inviting us to step into this place, man

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And it's not a new idea

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It's not a New Testament idea

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It's an Old Testament idea

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Exodus 19, verse 5

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Exodus 19, verse 5

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Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant

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Then out of all the nations

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I love this

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He's saying this to Israel

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Israel didn't make it

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So now he turns to us and says

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Hey, you guys can make it because I live in your midst

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And he says

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Out of all the nations you will be my treasured possession

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Although the whole earth is mine

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You will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation

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He said that thousands of years ago, man

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This is what he's inviting us to step into

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By the way, when Adam was created

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Majesty is what God clothed Adam with

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It says that I gave him glory and honor

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The way the message puts it in Hebrews, chapter 2, verse 7 and 8

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Is that he clothed Adam with Eden's dawn light

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Clothed Adam with

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He clothed Adam bright with Eden's dawn light

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Hebrews, chapter 2, verse 6 to 8

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That was what he clothed Adam with

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Why? Because Adam was supposed to be his vice regent

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He was supposed to be his deputy here on earth

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He was supposed to steward the earth on God's behalf

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This isn't something he's holding on to himself for

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This was what Adam and Eve were clothed with

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With honor

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With glory

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With bright light

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With glory

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With bright Eden's dawn light

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How we've been robbed, man

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How we've been robbed

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I was watching on BBC

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I was watching this documentary on slums in Manila, Philippines

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How's...

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It was so painful to see

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It's not like I haven't seen slums

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I grew up in India

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But it was so painful again to see slums

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And the dignity of man reduced to nothing

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There was one woman who gave birth

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Or miscarried and gave birth to a six-month-old baby

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And now she wants the baby blessed before she can bury it

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And she's carrying the baby in a bag that we would probably go to TNT with

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Because she does not have a box

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She's scared to tell her parents because her parents may not like the fact that she was a teenager and got pregnant

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So she's carrying it in a bag

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You would think she went shopping

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She's going from place to place wanting to have the baby buried

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First prayed for, blessed before it's buried

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The questions that are being asked of her is

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Why didn't you put it in a box?

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Don't you have enough sense to put it in a box?

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She's bleeding

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She's just had this dead baby in her arms

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And they're asking her questions like that

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I'm watching it and I'm thinking

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Father, where is the dignity of man?

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And I've read the scripture which says that you clothed us with honor and with glory

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Oh my God, what have we lost?

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Eden's dawn light was what we were clothed with

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Which is why in Hebrews chapter 2, verse 6 to 8 it says

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For a while you have been made lower than angels

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And everything was put in your charge

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You were given dominion

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It's a Genesis charge

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And then it says Christ came and he lived right

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And a time is coming when we will once again

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Become like the one we behold

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1 John 3, 2, thank God it's coming

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1 John chapter 3, verse 1 and 2

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Or verse 2 and 3 says

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But a day is coming when we will be changed

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And we will possess the same glory that he has

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And anyone who thinks like this purifies himself

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That even thinking of what we were and what we will now become

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Purifies you

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Let's actually read it

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1 John 3

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2 and 3

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Or 1, 2 and 3

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How great is the love the Father has lavished on us

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That we should be called children of God

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And that is what we are

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The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him

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Dear friends, now we are children of God

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And we are called children of God

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Dear friends, now we are children of God

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But what we will be has not yet been made known

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But we know that when he appears

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We shall be like him

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How do you think Adam and Eve had the ability to walk with God

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In the cool of the garden?

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And why does it say that we cannot approach him

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Because he lives in unapproachable light?

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Because things changed

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But it's going to come back to where it used to be man

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And then it says in verse 3

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Everyone who has his hope in him

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Purifies himself just as he is pure

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Beautiful, eh?

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So how can I be governed by majesty this week?

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How can I be governed by majesty this week?

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Guys, if you want to be governed by anything

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Good or bad, eh? Doesn't matter

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Your pick

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Either good things or bad things

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If you want to be governed by majesty

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Or governed by evil

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Or governed by shame

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Or governed by confidence

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Whatever you want to be governed by

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First by beholding

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And then by being

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Both these proceed doing

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Most people go for the doing first

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They say, alright, I've got to become this

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I've got to go do

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No, you do not become anything till you behold

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And once you behold, you become

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And once you become, you do

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So how can I be governed by majesty this week?

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By beholding and being

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What does that look like?

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Colossians 3.1 is where we can start

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Colossians 3.1, and here's what Paul says to the church in Colossus

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He says, hey guys

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Set your mind and set your heart on things above

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Because that's where the action is

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That's how the message puts it

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The NIV puts it plainly

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And yet carries a whole lot of weight

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Colossians 3.1

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Since then you have been raised with Christ

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Set your hearts on things above

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Where Christ is seated at the right hand of God

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Set your mind on things above

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Not on earthly things

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So one of the first things we do guys

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If you want to go down this route

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Is you have to deliberately set your mind

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And your heart on things above

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How do you do that?

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By beginning to like what you are running after

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You cannot set your mind and heart on anything

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That you don't really want or you don't really like

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My heart and mind is set on 7.30 p.m. today

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Why?

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Because I want them to go up three zip

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So if you have a meeting with me at 7.30 today

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You can sit there but you won't have my heart and mind

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Because it's set somewhere else

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You set your heart and mind

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It's a very intentional, very deliberate action

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Do you want to be governed by majesty this week?

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Set your heart and mind on where the action is

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As the message says

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Set your heart and mind on things above

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As in oh God I want to begin to comprehend

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What majesty is this week

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Comprehend what majesty is this week

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Colossians 3.1 is where you start

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And then thereafter you go to 2 Peter 1.16-18

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2 Peter 1.16-18

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There's someone I'm supposed to meet at 7.00 p.m. today

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They must be watching and thinking

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Shucks, he's not going to be paying attention

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Don't worry, I'll finish the meeting in half an hour

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2 Peter 1.16-18

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Oh shucks, I got a text too

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I thought we were meeting, not watching hockey

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Yeah, 2 Peter 1.16-18

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Talks about how the disciples, Peter, John and James

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Were eyewitnesses of his majesty

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And they heard the voice of God

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They climbed the mountain with him

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They were eyewitnesses to his majesty

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And they heard the voice of God

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Climb the mountain this week, man

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Which mountain? Not Grouse

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Climb the mountain as in

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Go climbing up the word literally

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And say, Father, I want to both see you and hear you through the word

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One of the ways we can see Jesus this week

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Is read him in the Gospels

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Majesty is revealed through the Gospels

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Because majesty is revealed through Jesus

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Jesus is the invisible image of the invisible God

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This week, do one of two things

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Either begin to read different portions from all four Gospels

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Or decide that I am going to take the book of John

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And over the next seven days

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Finish reading it from chapter one to chapter 20

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21

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20, 21? 21

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Chapter one to chapter 21

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Three chapters a day

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Or 21 chapters a day

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Seven times over, it's up to you

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But begin to read it

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Because in the Gospels you will see Christ

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The anointed one, the Prince, the Majesty

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The King of Kings revealed

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And that is one way to catch who God is

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You and I can't go up the mountain of Transfiguration anymore

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But you and I can go up the mountain of Transfiguration

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With Peter, James and John

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And come back with a greater understanding

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That Peter, James and John did

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Because they wanted to build them tents

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Up on the mountain

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And say, do you, Elijah and Moses want to stay here?

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They were pretty dull, man

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The third way is in Colossians

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Sorry, 2 Corinthians 3, 18

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Again, it's the whole idea of beholding

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2 Corinthians 3, 18

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It says, And we with unveiled faces now behold him

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And as we behold him we are changed

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From one brightness to the other

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One glory to greater glory by the Spirit

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And we begin to reflect his majesty

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Guys, in your worship this week

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I know we're doing different homework every week

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This week's homework is

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Hey, let's catch a glimpse of his majesty

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Let's do it by beholding and becoming

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And let's do it through the Gospels

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And let us do it through going to him and saying

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Okay, as I wake up right now

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I want to behold your majesty

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Guys, whatever you behold you become

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Either to your restoration or to your ruin

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Whatever you behold you become

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Either to your restoration or to your ruin

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When you wake up in the morning

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What is the first thing that you behold?

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What is the first thing that you think of?

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It is what you become

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If you think of shame, if you think of fear

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If you think of your debt

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If you think of how difficult life is

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If you think of whatever is ailing you

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Then over the day you begin to be changed

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From shame to shame, pain to pain

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Not glory to glory but fear to fear

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Who do you behold?

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Learn the practice of beholding him

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In your pain, in your lack, in your confusion

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Learn to behold him

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Learn to behold him

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Because what you behold is what you become

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Which is why in Isaiah

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God keeps saying to Israel

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Hey, you keep beholding those idols that you have made

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You will become like them

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This is why one of the conditions of idolatry

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Is deafness, dumbness and dullness

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They have become dumb like their idols

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Nations that have idol worship

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Will always have a cloud of dullness, dumbness and deafness

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When it comes to things of God

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It is one of the hardest things to penetrate

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It's almost catatonic where people are not able to understand

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And break out of the dullness

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Because of years and years of idol worship

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Any questions?

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I still have time guys

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I hope that watch is right

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Hey, did he tell you this goes on forever?

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He didn't, eh?

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Evan, you should have told them

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It doesn't go on forever but it goes on for long

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The worship leader takes forever

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Any questions?

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Okay, what does it look like to live out majesty on earth?

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What does it look like to live out majesty on earth?

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What does it look like to live out majesty on earth?

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One of the best ways to look at what it looks like

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Is to look at Jesus

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When you look at Jesus you realize, ah shucks

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So this is what majesty looks like on earth

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It's strange

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Here is the one who lives in unapproachable light

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Here is the one they call Yahweh

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The self-existent one

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And yet in Isaiah 53 verse 2

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It says, He had no beauty or majesty in Him

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How odd man

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How does this

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How does He who is so majestic

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That He cannot be approached

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Come to the earth

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And when He comes to the earth

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They say of Him

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That He had no beauty or majesty in Him

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And there was nothing attractive about Him

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That's the first thing you need to know

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Majesty does not mean attractiveness

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It has nothing to do with the outer appearance

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Which is why the only people who saw Him in His brilliance

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Were Peter, James and John

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The ones closest to Him

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Because He knew He could trust them to keep it quiet

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And they did keep it quiet

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With God

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With God, majesty and meekness are inseparable

00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:18.000
There are two sides of this divine coin

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With God, majesty and meekness are inseparable

00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:24.000
There are two sides of the divine coin

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You cannot separate it

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Graham Kendrick

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Most of you don't know him

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Because he used to write brilliant songs

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Before you were born

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Like, Shine Jesus, shine

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That's exactly what I said

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That's exactly what I said

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You wouldn't know

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So he writes this song called

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Meekness and Majesty

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And I've just taken some lines out of it

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Listen to this, hey

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Meekness and Majesty in perfect harmony

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Kneels in humility and washes our feet

00:46:56.000 --> 00:47:00.000
Lord of infinity, stooping so tenderly

00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:04.000
Lifts our humanity to the heights of His throne

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I'll read it again

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Brilliant words, man

00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:10.000
Meekness and Majesty in perfect harmony

00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:14.000
Kneels in humility and washes our feet

00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:18.000
Lord of infinity, stooping so tenderly

00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:22.000
Lifts our humanity to the heights of His throne

00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:23.000
Graham Kendrick

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In Matthew 21 verse 5

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You see this happening, eh?

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I mean, the sad thing is

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Christians choose one or the other

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Christians either choose one or the other

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Christians either choose

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We are kings, we are sons of kings

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We are majestic

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Look at us, look at us

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And then there's the other group of Christians who say

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We are just meek, we are weak

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We are just made strong in our weakness

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And you have either one or the other

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And it's neither, it's both

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You can't have one or the other

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So you got this strength and weakness bunch of Christians

00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:04.000
And you got this strength and

00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:05.000
How majestic I am, Christians

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And it's neither, it's both

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One is completely poverty mentality

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One is completely prosperity mentality

00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:19.000
And both are extremes

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You see him in Matthew 21 verse 5

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Majesty comes riding in meekness on a donkey

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They're shouting

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The pilgrims are on their way

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Up the ascent to the temple in Jerusalem

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And they're taking off their outer garments

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And waving palm fronds and placing it before him

00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:42.000
And this majesty

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And he knows the moment

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He knows Zechariah 9, 9

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Majesty comes riding in meekness on a donkey

00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:52.000
That's how he begins this triumphal entry

00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:55.000
That's in 21 verse 5

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But then in 21, 13

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You see him exerting such authority and power

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When he begins to cleanse the temple

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Of extortionists and corrupt religious leaders

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That's one thing majesty does, say

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Majesty cannot stand corrupt religion

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You take all the prophets

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You take Jesus

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You take Paul

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They could never stand for religion

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Any trapping of religion

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They hated it and they paid a cost for it

00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:39.000
Ezekiel could have done well

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Jeremiah could have done well

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Jesus could have done brilliantly

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He wouldn't have had to be crucified

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Paul could have done well

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But none of them would keep quiet when it came to religion

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Any trapping of religion

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It doesn't matter if that religion had to do with Peter

00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:54.000
Paul would still call it out

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Have a hatred

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For the very thing that put Christ on the cross

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And so not only does Majesty now take a whip

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And cleanse the temple from extortionists

00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:10.000
And the corrupt religious leadership

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After that, guess what he does?

00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:14.000
After cleansing the temple

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He invites the blind and the laymen

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That's in verse 14

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Where the same Majesty now stoops

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Invites the blind and the crippled

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And he stoops to heal them

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And then in verse 15

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It is the young, the children

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That are running around

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Shouting Hosanna

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And they silence the opposition

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Let me end

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So why me? Why should I be involved in this?

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Why should I get involved in this whole Majesty thing?

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Because the all-powerful God

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Chooses words spoken by his children

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As the means of his majestic victories

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Let me say that again

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The all-powerful God

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Who could with a blast of his nostrils

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Or with a simple thought

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Do whatever he wants to on the earth

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That powerful God chooses

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The words of his children

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Words spoken by his children

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As the means of victory

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You can't underestimate this

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Guys, the thing is

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Out of the mouth of babes and infants

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You have established strength

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To silence the enemies

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We are back in Psalm 8

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Psalm 8 verse 1 says

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Oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth

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Psalm 8 verse 2 says

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Out of the mouth of babies and infants

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You have ordained or established strength

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To silence the enemy

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This God decides that the way

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I'm going to thrash the enemy

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Is through the words spoken by my children

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Regardless how grown up

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How mature or immature they are

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It is their words I will use to silence the enemy

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We talked about this last week

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Your spirit man is connected to your vocal chords

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Your spirit man is connected to your vocal chords

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Do not allow your culture

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Your denomination

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Your shyness

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Your introversion

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Your laziness

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Your spiritual sluggishness

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Prevent you from speaking out

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Things on behalf of God

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He goes on to verse 5 to 8 in Psalm 8

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Look at what he says there

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So the first thing is listen

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I'll bring an end to the enemy's works

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And silence him through the words spoken by babies and infants

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And this is a cool thing

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Jesus now has children running around

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The message in the passion version of the Bible

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Is that the word of God is the word of God

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And the word of God is the word of God

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And the word of God is the word of God

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And the word of God is the word of God

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The message in the passion version puts it

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That the children were running around Jesus

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Shouting hosannas and the leaders and the Pharisees

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And the scribes came and said

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Won't you stop them?

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And Jesus said

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Out of the mouth of babes and infants

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I have ordained strength that will silence the enemy

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And guess what happens

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The entire religious establishment goes silent

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Hey you young guys

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And when I say young guys

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I'm talking about anyone under 45

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You young guys

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You need to speak

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You need to speak

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Because this thing must be carried by you

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We older guys are discovering this very late in our lives

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You need to speak man

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You need to speak during times of worship

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You need to speak especially during not times of worship

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Because you only worship two hours a week

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Because this thing either succeeds or falls based on how we respond

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God does not break protocol

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When it comes to how we want to do something

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He doesn't say shats not working

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Let's forget this

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Let's go to plan B

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God has never had a plan B

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Can you imagine that?

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He's never had a plan B

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You know why he does not have a plan B?

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Because he knows what's going to happen

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Even before the earth was founded

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He knows everything

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He never has a plan B

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Eden is exactly where we will return to

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This earth will be made new and we will stay here

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Christ was slain before the foundations of the earth

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God does everything new but everything is old

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Tomorrow is a new day

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But he already knows everything about that day

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With regard to every incident

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He knows everything about that day

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With regard to every insect, every cockroach, every human being

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Every leaf, every earthworm, every bird

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He knows everything about everyone

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Doing everything tomorrow

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And tomorrow hasn't yet come

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And tomorrow will be a new day like never before

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But it is a day that has already existed before the foundation of time

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This is nuts man

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Speak, you guys have to speak

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Verse 5 to 8

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You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings

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And crowned him with glory and honor

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Talking about man

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You made him ruler with the works of your hands

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You put everything under his feet

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All flocks and herds, the beasts of the fields

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And the birds of the air and the fish of the seas

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All that swim in the paths of the seas

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Oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth

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There is this idea where in verse 6 it says

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You made him ruler over the works of your hands

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You put everything under his feet

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I want you to know that God Majestic will choose to rule the earth again

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Through his weak and foolish body of redeemed man

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God is not going to rule through the angels

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God is planning and he will succeed

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Let me assure you of this

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God is planning and he will succeed in ruling the earth

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Through weak, foolish people like you

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So when I wake up in the week that has gone by

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And hear God saying, Jacob, you're a life giver

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I write it down

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And you can ask anybody I prayed for this week

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In every prayer you would hear me say

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Oh God, you're a life giver and I speak light

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Why?

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Because if God has said it then I must speak it

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Because I must agree with heaven

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Because God wants to do something through the words that we speak

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And he rules on earth in every situation

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And tries to steward it, change it

00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:55.000
Bring it to his advantage and to your benefit

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Through his redeemed body

00:56:57.000 --> 00:56:59.000
Through you he does it

00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:01.000
This is not dominion

00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:03.000
This is not some kind of weird stewardship

00:57:03.000 --> 00:57:05.000
It is just a fact of life

00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:07.000
This is how God does it

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Who brought down powers during the time of Daniel?

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Duh, Daniel

00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:20.000
Who brought down powers and changed the track of nations

00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:22.000
During the time of the prophets?

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The prophets

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Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel

00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:29.000
Who brought the bones in the valley alive?

00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:31.000
It is God, but through whom?

00:57:31.000 --> 00:57:32.000
Through people

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Who brings Ephesus to a standstill?

00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:36.000
Paul

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Of whom did they say the troublers are here?

00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:40.000
They are changing the world around

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Christians

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They call them the people of the way

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Who are these things done through for ages?

00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:50.000
Who brought down the iron wall in Russia?

00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:56.000
Old grandmas and grandpas who nobody saw

00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:57.000
That prayed for 40 years

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Some of them include Gisela

00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:01.000
Chris' mother

00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:03.000
Who brought you into salvation?

00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:06.000
God, but through someone

00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:09.000
Almost nobody here received a straight vision from Jesus saying

00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:11.000
I am he, come now be saved

00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:13.000
So that happens too

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At the end of the day, the earth is ruled through ordinary people like Brandon, Prashanth

00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:22.000
And Rachel

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This is how he is ordained

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You see this unfold in Moses' life

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This is a pattern

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Please hold on to this pattern

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So Moses now has decided that

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I am going to read the Bible

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And I am going to read the Bible

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And I am going to read the Bible

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And I am going to read the Bible

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So Moses decided that I am going to retire at 40

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I am done with this Prince of Egypt thing

00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:56.000
And I am done

00:58:56.000 --> 00:58:58.000
So he is taking care of his sheep quite happy

00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:02.000
And then he has an encounter with majesty

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And this time it is a real encounter with majesty

00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:07.000
Because in the middle of a desert

00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:10.000
This bush suddenly bursts into flames

00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:12.000
And there is a voice that is coming out of the bush

00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:15.000
And he knows that he has now encountered majesty

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That is Exodus 3, verse 14

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The rest of the next chapter, Exodus 4

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Is spent haggling with God

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I am not the right guy, yes you are the right guy

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I am not the right guy, yes you are the right guy

00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:27.000
I said you are the right guy, okay I am the right guy

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And so Exodus 4 is just spent haggling with God

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Go through that

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Because sometimes the things that God says

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The moment God says something

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If you can accept it without any problem

00:59:39.000 --> 00:59:40.000
It perhaps is not God

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It is usually overwhelming

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And so Exodus 4 is spent that way

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Exodus 5, Moses decides well

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If God is saying so, I will go

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So guess what he does

00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:50.000
He goes back to Egypt

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The results are very discouraging

00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:54.000
He goes and speaks to Pharaoh

00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:56.000
Pharaoh says no way, Jose

00:59:56.000 --> 00:59:58.000
And then, no he says no way, Moses

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And then he goes and gives them more bricks to make

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And so now they are just making more bricks

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And they are very upset

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And they tell Moses don't come back here

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And so normally, Exodus 6 is spent with Moses

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Basically regretting what he has done

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And then Exodus 7 opens with such a cool line

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Exodus 7, 1

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It just is theology that will blow theology away

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Here is what God says to Moses

01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:26.000
Hey, I want you to know

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That you will be like God to Pharaoh

01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:33.000
And Aaron, you will be Moses' spade

01:00:33.000 --> 01:00:35.000
And then he goes and speaks to Pharaoh

01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:40.000
And Aaron, you will be Moses' prophet

01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:41.000
That's what God says to him

01:00:41.000 --> 01:00:46.000
You will be like God to Pharaoh

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Now you are talking about the king

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Of the most powerful empire in the world

01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:53.000
You are talking about a kingdom

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That has some of the most powerful gods

01:00:57.000 --> 01:01:02.000
And you are talking about a reluctant, stammering

01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:08.000
Retired shepherd who is now sent with words

01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:11.000
To dismantle the world's most powerful nation

01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:14.000
And the world's most powerful gods

01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:19.000
And one by one the plagues begin to unseat the gods of Egypt

01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:23.000
Done through a reluctant, stammering retired shepherd

01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:27.000
This is the nature of everything God does

01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:28.000
Why?

01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:31.000
So that 2 Corinthians 4, 7 may come to pass

01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:36.000
So that you may recognize that it is the incomparable power of God that is at work

01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:42.000
And that you may not be enamored by these jars of clay that are wearing away

01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:49.000
2 Corinthians 4, 7

01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:54.000
I said I was concluding and I had meant it

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This week, guys, discover his majesty

01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:07.000
You know, Israel had this cool way of encouraging themselves

01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:10.000
Whenever they went on a long journey

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Or whenever they went into battle

01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:15.000
They would carry the ark on their shoulders

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And the ark was a sign of God's glory and majesty

01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:22.000
The Philistines were so scared of it

01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:24.000
That in 1 Samuel 6 the Philistines say

01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:25.000
What are we going to do?

01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:28.000
Isn't this the same God that defeated the gods of Egypt?

01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:29.000
What are we going to do?

01:02:29.000 --> 01:02:30.000
And they begin to panic

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In Joshua chapter 6 verse 4

01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:35.000
Before Jericho falls, it's the ark that goes out ahead

01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:37.000
When the ark is taken by the Philistines

01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:38.000
Guess what?

01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:40.000
Eli does, he falls and dies

01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:44.000
And they name the baby that is born to his daughter-in-law

01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:48.000
Eqoboth, meaning the glory of majesty has disappeared, has gone

01:02:48.000 --> 01:02:51.000
They knew that the ark or the presence

01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:55.000
The presence of glory and majesty that they carried on the shoulder

01:02:55.000 --> 01:02:58.000
Was so encouraging during their journeys and during their battles

01:02:58.000 --> 01:03:05.000
You begin to grasp these large panoramic views of majesty this week

01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:07.000
And when you begin to get governed by it

01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:10.000
You will find that you have bread for the journey

01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:14.000
And you have a song in your heart during the battle, man

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Not a song in your heart, the shout of the king