Sermon
Super Power - Pastor Kipp Penrod
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Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church.
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Hey listen, turn to somebody, give them a high five and tell them Jesus is on the throne.
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Amen, come on.
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We're declaring it all morning, we've been speaking it, we've been singing it.
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He is good.
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Amen?
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All right, I only got about three amen's.
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Is he good?
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Amen, amen, he's good.
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Well listen, for the last several weeks I've been diving with you into God's Word and we've
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been digging into this core idea that once I realize the immense value of Jesus it will
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motivate me to worship God.
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Once my appraisal of God is accurate, His worth goes beyond calculation, right?
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I engage in worshiping God.
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That's really where it is.
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Once my head gets around that God is absolutely priceless in my life, that His value is immeasurable,
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you cannot measure it, that His worth is infinite, once I get to that place in my life I will
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worship Him.
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And once that realization hits me that exactly who God is, you know, once I get to that place
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where I spontaneously want to worship God because of who He is and what He's done and
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what He's going to do, once I get to that place I need to know what worship should look
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like, right?
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Once you get to that place that I want to speak out or I want to do something for God,
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I want to worship Him, what exactly should my worship entail?
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What should it entail and what should it not entail, right?
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How should I express my gratitude, my reverence, my love for God, what should that look like?
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Because there's more than one way to worship God.
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There's actually more than three ways to worship God.
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When we come into a worship setting like this and we come into a worship service, a lot
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of times, right, we sing songs and we lift our hands, I did this morning because we bow,
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sometimes we bow our heads, sometimes we bow our knee, right, and we kneel before God.
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Sometimes we're walking and talking and saying things and sometimes we just come, we sing,
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we hear the preaching, we pray, right, maybe lift our hand and we walked out the door and
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say nailed it, right, we worshiped God, it was awesome, right?
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But is there more than one way to do that?
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How do I get this right all the time?
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What's the different ways we can worship?
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So this morning I kind of really want to keep going along these lines of worshiping God
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and really talk about the ways that we can worship Him.
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When I worship God, we want to engage in the right gestures and the right expressions of
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worship.
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I want to do it the right way.
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God's an amazing God.
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He's incredible.
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He's all powerful.
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He's sovereign.
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When we worship God, I want to engage in the right gestures, say gestures, and expressions,
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say expressions, expressions of worship.
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I want to express my worship in some manner that's going to be right, my worship to manifest
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in some gesture that's going to move towards God and God's going to be pleased with that,
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right?
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I want to show my gratitude in some way that is visible and that honors Him.
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I don't know about you, but I want to get this right before a holy and a righteous and
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an all powerful God, the God who saved me from death, hell and the grave and saved my
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soul and kept me from all that.
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I want to express to Him, I want to do it in the right manner.
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I want it to be in a way that is pleasing.
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I want my gestures and I want my expressions to be right on cue with God.
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Because how many know gestures, some gestures are not always appropriate, right?
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There are gestures out there that are inappropriate gestures.
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I don't know if you've ever driven down the road and you've maybe accidentally cut somebody
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off in traffic and they give you a one finger gesture, okay?
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How many know that's inappropriate?
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And sometimes they don't do it with just one, they do it with two, you know, and it's an
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inappropriate gesture.
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There are gestures that are inappropriate, right?
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And listen, when they give you the single finger gesture, they're not telling you you're
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number one, right?
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That is not a thumbs up kind of thing.
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It's inappropriate, right?
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Some gestures or expressions to God might not be the best.
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They might not be all that worshipful.
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You know, sometimes we do these glib things with God, you know, we'll kind of just go
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by God and give him a thumbs up, right?
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Thumbs up, God, I really approve what you did today.
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It was awesome, God.
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Now if it's from a heart of worship and you really mean it, it could be one thing.
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But how many know that God's really not looking for my approval?
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I should be looking for His approval, right?
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I'm kind of more in this camp of like, I hope God gives me a thumbs up versus me giving
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him a thumbs up kind of thing, right?
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He's not really looking for my approval.
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I might not want to refer to God as the man upstairs.
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You might want to rethink that one just a little bit, right?
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First of all, He's not a man, OK?
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He's spirit.
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And second of all, He's the God of heaven, of the universe.
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And you know, sometimes we got to think about those expressions because He's not the guy
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living up in the attic just waiting for you to call on him, right?
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That's not who He is.
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He's not the guy.
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So it's a good thing to understand what's acceptable to God.
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What are the expressions and what are the gestures of worship that I want to give to
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God?
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And there's good news about this.
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There's many of them.
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There's lots because if you've been attending church very long, right, when someone says,
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let's go to a worship service, you're going to think of three, three or four things.
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You're going to think of preaching.
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You're going to think of singing.
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You're going to think of giving and you're going to think of prayer.
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By the way, all four of those are amazing and they're good.
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You should engage in all those.
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But some of you out there don't really like to sing.
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All right, I'm not going to ask you to raise your hand, but I know who you are because
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like when he's a singing part, you're like, how many?
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Some of you are just hummers.
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OK, you just hum for Jesus.
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You don't want to sing.
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You don't like sing.
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You don't go singing.
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How many are just humming for Jesus?
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I go by hummers all the time.
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There's going to be.
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They're just humming for Jesus.
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Right.
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They're just they're just kind of humming along.
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They don't really necessarily want to sing.
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And we want to know, like, you know, is it just to preach and is it just the singing?
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Is it just in giving?
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Is it just in prayer?
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What are the different ways we want to do that?
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Do we want to?
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You know, some of you some of you'd rather sing.
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Some of you don't want to sing.
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Some of you'd rather sing.
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Some of you like I could just skip the preaching.
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Please don't raise your hand or say amen to this.
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OK, but some of you like I could just skip the preaching.
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I could just praise Jesus all day long.
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Forget the preaching.
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All right.
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You know, you might be thinking what?
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How am I going to worship God?
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Some of you might get nervous about public prayers.
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Some of you like I am praying in front of nobody.
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I pray in my prayer closet.
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That's staying right there.
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All right.
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They don't want to pray in public.
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But what are the ways?
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What are the gestures?
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And it's not limited to just a few.
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It's not limited even to just what we do on Sunday mornings.
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That's part of it.
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It's part of the way we worship God.
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So if you got your Bible this morning, we're going to go in the Book of Psalms.
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We're going to jump around a little bit in scripture.
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But I want you to know the Book of Psalms.
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We're going to Psalms 150.
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And I'm going to start off with verse one Psalms 150 verse one.
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If you're listening online, we'll give you just a moment to get there in your Bibles.
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It's going to be on the screen for you as well as in the house this morning.
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But Psalms 150 in one.
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And it says this.
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Praise the Lord.
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Now, listen, if I was in a Jamaican church, I don't know if you've ever been in a Jamaican
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church.
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But when somebody says praise the Lord, do you know what everybody else does?
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Yeah, they say praise the Lord.
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So praise the Lord.
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Yeah, that was very Jamaican.
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OK, they do.
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They just do it.
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You say praise the Lord.
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They're going to they're going to echo right back.
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Praise the Lord.
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Praise God in his sanctuary.
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Praise him in his mighty firmament.
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Right to me that when I read that, that's like praise God in the house and praise God
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out of the house.
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Right.
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Praise him in a sanctuary and praise him out in the firmament, out in the open air.
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Praise him for his mighty acts.
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Praise him according to his excellent greatness.
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Praise him with the sound of the trumpet.
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Praise him with the lute and the harp.
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Praise him with the timbrel and the dance.
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Praise him with the stringed instruments and the flute command.
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We saw that all this morning.
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Praise him with the loud cymbals.
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Come on, all you drummers.
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Amen.
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Praise him with the loud cymbals.
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Praise him with the clashing cymbals.
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Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
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The writer of Psalms was saying that praising God is worship.
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If you praise God with an instrument, you're worshiping.
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If you praise him with the dance movement of some kind, it is worship.
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Praising God with singing, it's worship.
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Praising him with the stringed instruments.
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We heard the violin this morning.
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Ashley, where are you?
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Come on.
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She is playing the violin, right?
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With the loud cymbals, with the drummers.
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Jeremy was on the drums this morning.
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We had guitars going with the strings and the piano.
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Praise him.
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He is speaking out to God with adoration, with reverence in some kind of praise.
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Because praising God always equals worship.
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Know that.
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Speaking out to God in a way that declares His majesty is always worship.
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Speaking about His mighty works, it's worship.
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Speaking about His mighty power, it is worship.
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about his attributes that is worship bragging on who he is and what he has done it is worship
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declaring what the Bible says to somebody that is worship it is worship to God praising
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God you praise with your lips point your lips right now okay that's what you praise with
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right some of you do with your fingers too you're playing instruments sometimes you do
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with your body but your lips praise they speak adding music or dance to those declarations
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of praise equals worship anytime we open our mouths to declare God in a positive way to
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anyone or anything anytime my gestures or movements move towards God and honoring him
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praise equals what worship right because worship praise and worship how many do praise and
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worship go together like peanut butter and jelly come on they do it's like Kings and
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Queens it's like coffee and cream it's like Dunkin and Donuts I know they drop the donuts
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but I still like that okay it's Dunkin and Donuts right worship is our recognition of
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God's invaluable worth that's what we've been talking about that's what worship is praise
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is the verbal expression of that recognition whether it's through music or with our words
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or whatever it is it's making it's making noise for Jesus that's what it is in some
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way you're making noise you're making a movement you're doing something for Jesus we recognize
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who he is and we verbalize that recognition praise and worship or worship and praise we
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we praise him in the house we praise him out of the house we worship him in the house we
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praise him out of the house we verbalize God in any and all locations do you know that
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every single place that your feet try is an acceptable place to praise God no matter what
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the world's telling us right they might want to shut down that we preach to people or talk
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to people in some way but every place you go in public is a place to praise him you
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can't stop our worship at home in the store right you just praise him you speak the name
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of Jesus you heard it you sang it this morning and when you're in the store right and you're
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at the school you're at the university you're at a sporting event wherever your feet go
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it's the right place to praise God because praise equals what worship praise every time
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every time praise equals worship every time I highlight his amazing attributes every time
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praise equals worship we should even praise him about the little things in life do you
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know that that today you'll take approximately 23,000 breaths I want you to do it right now
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intentionally breathe in breathe out you'll do that about 23,000 times today we should
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praise God in those little things that process of inhaling oxygen into your body and carbon
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dioxide flowing out is a complicated respiratory task that requires physical physiological
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precision in your body we should praise him for that right we should praise him for one
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more breath you've got one more breath I remember many years ago Dixie and I weren't married
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very long we were married a few years I don't remember how long she's very better with dates
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than I am but I got I came down with this virus and it hit me all at once and and I
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went I remember going to this urgent care and I went in and what happened was I woke
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up and my glands were swollen almost like to like a golf ball they were super hard swollen
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up the glands under my arms were swollen up I couldn't even put my arms down the whole
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way and I thought man something's messed up something's wrong you know and I felt a little
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weird in my chest so I remember going to the to this urgent care kind of place and they
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went in and they do what they always do they listen to you they weigh you right they tell
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you how much I'm overweight and all that kind of stuff and then they listen to your chest
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and they say you need an antibiotic which they do for everything all right and I go
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home with this antibiotic and I can't put my arms out like there's something wrong this
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is not right I can't breathe my neck hurts so I just didn't I don't even know if I got
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the antibiotic but I remember looking in the phone book how many remember a phone book
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okay I looked in a phone book and I found the first ear nose and throat specialist I
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could find and I just called the number and I remember it was Dr. Wolf it was a lady doctor
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and she said meet me I described what was going she said meet me at the ER soon as we
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got to the ER she checked me out they they admitted me immediately they put me in a hospital
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wing that nobody else was in and they put me down at the end of the line I'm like oh
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you know and you know because they were isolating me and it turns out I had this undetermined
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virus and by that point by the time I got to the ER my my lungs had already diminished
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they were only at 60 percent at that point and they were failing they were going and
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I remember going to sleep that night thinking I don't know if I have another breath you
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know you get 23,000 in a day but I don't know if I'm gonna get the next 23,000 I don't know
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if I'm gonna wake up the next morning that's a sobering thought amen it really is I thank
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God for breath I thank God that he gave me I worshiped God give me one more God give
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me another day give me another year give me another 10 years praise equals worship it
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equals worship and you need to understand the enemy does not want us to engage in praising
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God because he knows it's worship to God he knows that if you start praising God you start
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lifting up the name of God he knows that it glorifies God he knows that it raises up God's
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name and he knows things are going to start happening right and you can tell that the
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devil is serious about shutting this down he's serious about shutting down our praise
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he's serious about shutting down our worship and here's one of the ways you can tell did
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you ever notice the people that don't follow Jesus that don't love Jesus that don't claim
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to Jesus in any way as Lord and Savior of their life did you ever notice that they still
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use his name you know they don't use it like we use it they use it in vain they'll use
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it as a way to curse they'll use it as a way of cussing they'll use it in some kind of
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derogatory manner some manner right in some way and you'll hear them call the name of
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Jesus Christ and they're not using it for the they're not praising God they're not
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lifting it up and somehow the enemy and these people who don't even believe in Jesus they
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don't believe that he's got somehow the enemy manipulates them into speaking about Jesus
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in a derogatory manner you know why because if they would start to praise him he knows
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what's going to start to happen he knows if they start to praise him if they start calling
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on the name of Jesus that the gates of hell begin to shutter just a bit right the demons
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begin to flee he knows that and you can watch it over and over and again in society I'll
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see it on TV I'll hear it out in the streets and they're using the name of Jesus Christ
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in a derogatory manner and it's the enemy it's the enemy organ because he doesn't want
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you praising he does not want you worshiping because when you begin to praise when you
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begin to worship when you begin to lift up the name of Jesus things begin to shake in
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the spiritual things begin to happen in the spiritual acceptable worship is a verbal expression
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of lifting up the name of Jesus Christ amen it's true Hebrews 13 15 says this therefore
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by him it says Jesus let us continually offer this sacrifice of praise to God that is the
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fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name fruit comes from your lips expressions and
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gestures towards God it prays comes out of our lips do you know that our mouth is either
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lifting him up or it's tearing him down or it's not doing anything at all it's kind of
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like your car all right you get in your car this morning if you put it in drive it's going
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to go for it right it's going to kind of lift you up to wherever you're going to go if you
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put it in reverse it's going to take you backwards if you put it in neutral what's it do nothing
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okay it does nothing you know if you praise if you start to praise God it's going to begin
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to lift him up and when he gets lifted up he'll lift you up and God will begin to work if
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you if you start to speak the name of Jesus in a vain manner it's going to move you backwards
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in the spiritual it's going to put you backwards in a place and if you don't do anything at
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all guess what's going to happen a bunch of nothing you're going to be in neutral our
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mouths our bodies those strings those instruments we engage in expressions and gestures of worship
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because worship praise equals worship all right how about another expression of worship
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how about I give you something else to look at his worship this morning James 1 16 says
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this he says do not be deceived be deceived my beloved brother let me say that again do
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not be deceived my beloved brother every good gift say good gift and every perfect gift
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is from above and comes down from the father of lights with whom there is no variation
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of shadow of turning of his own will he brought us forth by his word of truth that we might
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be a kind of first fruits of his creatures when I use what God has gifted me with for
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a godly purpose it is a spiritual act of worship this is one we might not think of very often
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we might not really you know you probably don't think about that when you're walking
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into church when I use what God has gifted me with for a godly purpose it is a spiritual
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act of worship it really is I've watched parents sometimes of children or teenagers and and
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I love these kind of proud moments I see with these parents when God starts to use their
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child and they start to use the gifts of God that God's put in their life and their and
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their children and all of a sudden you just see them begin to use this gift and it's for
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a godly purpose and it begins to glorify God and you see these parents they almost want
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to bust there's like that's so awesome right there's like yes you know they're there just
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because it is it's an amazing thing and that's how God that's worship to God I don't know
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if you know that or not but when you start using what God has gifted you with when you
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start using you know what he's given you do you know that that's your superpower I don't
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know if you know that or not that's your superpower God has gifted each one of you with something
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and when God's hand begins to get on that something that gift that he's put in your
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life and he begins to anoint that gift and the Holy Spirit begins to use that gift for
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godly purposes it all of a sudden becomes your superpower you're not the super in it
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right you're just kind of using the gift and all of a sudden the Holy Spirit uses it it
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is a superpower for his purpose and it is worship it is spiritual worship let me reread
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James 1 16 again do not be deceived my beloved brother for every good gift and every perfect
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gift is from above and comes down from the father of lights with whom there is no variation
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of shadow or of turning so the gifts come from God right it comes from the Lord now
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he begins in 18 of his own will he brought so he's talking about gifts and then he starts
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talking about you of his own gift he brought us forth by the word of truth that we might
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be kind of first fruits of his creatures you got to understand what the word say in there
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first fruits that goes back into the Old Testament that's a tithing principle that's a piece
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of the whole it's 10% that's what tithe means first fruits when we get first fruits we give
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our first and we give our best to God it's the first 10% that we give to God and it's
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a piece of the whole it's that 10% and we're kind of the word of God says that we're kind
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of his first fruits of creation us as people we're kind of his first fruits we're kind
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of a chip off the old block kind of thing right God create us and to understand where
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I'm going with this you got to go back into Genesis chapter 1 verse 27 and it says so
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God created man in his own image how many know an image is a reflection of right it's
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an image of something in the image of God he created them male and female he created
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them so we are an image we are a first fruit of creation we are kind of a chip off the
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old block of God right and how many know God's extremely gifted anybody figure that out and
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matter of fact he has them all right there is no gift that he doesn't he has gifts that
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we can't even dream up and he's got all these things and you were made in his image you
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were made as part of a first fruits of his creation a kind of first fruit first fruits
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the word of God says and in here and and what he does is he gives you a small fraction of
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something of who God is he places in you he puts it inside of you and when you begin to
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use that something whatever it is that God has placed in you and the word and the Holy
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Spirit comes upon it it becomes a superpower and when you begin to use that for godly purposes
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it is worship I think I think God stands I think Jesus smiles I think they lean back
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they kind of bust just a little bit when you start using whatever God's gifted you with
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for godly purposes and they see that unfold I love this illustration it's in Exodus chapter
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three and it really kind of describes what I'm talking about here Exodus 31 and one says
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this then the Lord spoke to Moses saying see I have called Basilio now Basilio we're going
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to hear about his gift right the son of Uri the son of her of the tribe of Judah and I
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have filled him with the Spirit of God now listen this is Old Testament you got to go
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into the New Testament the second book of Acts before the Holy Spirit falls and fills
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all the believers but back in the Old Testament this man Basilio is filled with the Spirit
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of God and in wisdom and in understanding and in knowledge and in all manners of workmanship
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to design artistic works to work in gold in silver in bronze in cutting jewels for setting
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in carving wood and to work in all manners of workmanship and I indeed I have appointed
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with him a whole lib the son of Ashma of the tribe of Dan and I have put wisdom in the
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hearts of all the gifted artisans that they may make all that I have commanded you the
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tabernacle of meeting listen Jesus or the father was instructing Moses on the tabernacle
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he was to build the tabernacle and he says I want you to get Basilio I have gifted him
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with something he can work with wood he can work with metal he can work he can work in
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all these different arts and I am going to put the Spirit of God upon him and it is going
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to be his gift and he is going to build the temple and the temple and its utensils and
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the pure gold lamp stand with all its utensils and the altar of incense and the altar of
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burnt offering and all the utensils and the laver and its base and the garments of ministry
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and the holy garments for Aaron the priest they had all kind of ornaments on those garments
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that were done in stone and it goes on and on it talks Basilio's superpower was God had
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gifted him with craftsmanship and he said I want you to use it for my purpose I want
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you to use it and when you use it for my purpose it is going to be your superpower people are
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going to notice what you do and it is going to bring glory to me not to yourself but to
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me it was his superpower it is worship when your gift and God has given every one of you
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gifts when you use that gift in some manner for God now that might get used out in the
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marketplace you might be out in the marketplace and you are going to use your gift do you
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know you should be the most diligent most impressive employee somebody has when you
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are doing your work the word of God says you should do it as unto the Lord and you know
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what happens the Holy Spirit comes upon your work the gifting that is in your life and
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all of a sudden somebody takes notice of what is going on they are like this isn't the same
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as anybody else I can't figure it out can't put my finger on it I don't really understand
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why but there is just something different here there is something about what they are
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doing there is something about the gift I know other people got that same kind of gift but
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it is not the same it is her superpower and it is worship to God amen nobody thought that
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this morning did that it is worship it is worship I am going to ask you to stand I am
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going to ask if the praise team would come I witnessed just a little bit of this this
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week at VBS as Pastor Andrew led his team to do VBS and minister to children here in
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the house I watched all the different team members and I watched as they used their gift
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and all kind of giftings took place anything from the crafts and the snack and ministering
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to the kids and all these different ways began to watch that take place and I could see their
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super powers I could see God's hand using the gifting in their lives as they ministered
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to somebody else and it is amazing I was a little bit like those parents I was just kind
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of busting a little bit I was like this is so cool to see what God is doing in their
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lives we speak praise but it is the gift of God that He has given you that you turn over
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to Him and figure out how you are going to use that for His purpose and for His plan
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amen it happens with business owners it happens with craftsmen it happens with nurses and
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doctors and wherever you are at stay at home moms wherever you are stationed at use your
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gift let God use that because it is worship how many enjoy when your child you give them
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a gift and they use the gift how many of you are pretty thrilled when you buy a gift especially
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if it is expensive alright you buy that expensive gift at Christmas and the kid just sets it
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aside and never uses the gift you use that thing right mom and dad are just like yeah
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that is awesome right the gift of God it is worship it is worship I am going to ask you
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to do something I am going to ask you to come forward this morning just step out we are
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just going to pray together up here you need to move a little stretch I have had you sitting
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a little bit just make your way up forward here as you walk forward I want you to first
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of all to understand praise this is something that comes out of our lips so we are going
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to give God praise we are going to sing together we are going to praise Him in song and if
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you do not like to sing hum Jesus is ok with that alright come on move up move up so everybody
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can get up here y'all just stopped about half way I do not know why I cannot figure it out
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I am going to put a red light or green light in or something I do not know move up just
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a little bit nobody wants to get too close I know this is a spin zone but if I start
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preaching again He has gifted every one of you you should praise Him for that some of
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you do not think you are gifted by the way and first thing you need to do is understand
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that He has gifted you He never leaves anybody out in that you just got to find what that
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gift is and you got to begin to use that for His purpose and His plan wherever you are
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at wherever God has planned to do wherever circles you are in with that but He wants
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to use that gift and we need to praise Him alright so we are going to sing first and
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then we are going to pray and I am not going to sing they shut my mic off with that
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I just want to speak the name of Jesus over every heart and every mind because I know
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there is peace within your presence I speak Jesus I just want to speak the name of Jesus
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till every dark addiction starts to break declaring there is hope and there is freedom
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I speak Jesus your name is power your name is healing your name is life break every strong
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hold shine through the shadows burn like a fire I just want to speak the name of Jesus
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over fear and all anxiety to every soul held captive by depression I speak Jesus
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shout Jesus from the mountains hold Jesus in the streets Jesus in the darkness over
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every enemy Jesus for my family I speak the holy name Jesus shout Jesus from the mountains
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hold Jesus in the streets hold Jesus in the darkness over every enemy Jesus for my family
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I speak the holy name Jesus your name is power your name is healing your name is life break
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every strong hold shine through the shadows burn like a fire I was just thinking maybe
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the next time you hear somebody say Jesus name the wrong way maybe you ought to just
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stop and tell them about him yeah yeah yeah just stop and say hey let me tell you a little
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bit about who you are talking about right there because you don't understand you don't
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understand right speak something speak something positive to his name speak something that
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will lift him up in that place but I want to pray for you this morning we're going to
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do two things I want to pray over you I want some of you look I want you to start thinking
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about that gift that God's given you those gifts it's probably plural by the way all
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right I want you to look for those gifts and I want you to engage those and see what God
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does all right turn them over to God give them to God ask the Holy Spirit to cover those
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gifts say I want you to come in I need you to anoint my gift when you talk about anointing
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in the Word of God the oil of anointing you're talking about the Holy Spirit it's kind of
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synonymous all right he's the one that anoints so ask for that anointing on that all right
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and then after that after we pray along those lines I feel really letting compelled to pray
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for people that need healing this morning I want to I want anybody that needs healing
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step forward all right they left a nice gap here for you you can just yeah I want you
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to step forward we're going to pray for you and I want the Saints to gather in behind
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them because we're going to pray for healing and that can be physical healing that can
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be financial healing that can be healing of any kind but I want I want to do that but
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I want to pray a prayer over you first about your gift all right I want you to bow your
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heads right now God's gifted you He's gifted you and your spiritual act of worship is using
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that gift for His glory for His purposes wherever you're at by the way come before you right
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now I thank you for each one that's in the house I think those are listening online God
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you've given gifts the Word of God declares that all through the New Testament Holy Spirit
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you give gifts some of those gifts are empowered by you and some of those are talents and abilities
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that are placed in our lives and God I pray right now Lord that you would just move and
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God that those giftings God would be used for the kingdom God I pray Lord that they
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would be birthed and Lord that we would hand them over to the Holy Spirit and His anointing
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power His presence and power would come upon it and God it would bring glory and honor
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to you and God that it would become a superpower in their lives not for not for our sake God
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not to lift up our name but God to lift up the name of Christ Lord that men might see
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your good works and they might glorify God that's what the Word says so Lord I pray that
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I speak that now Lord birth something in a heart Lord some some small thing that they
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thought was trivial and they thought was not a gift and Lord right now you're speaking
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in their lives and they're realizing that they have something that can be used for you
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it could be a small thing it could be a creative thing it could be an ability a heart to do
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something maybe they see things like nobody else sees things God whatever that gifting
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is God use it Lord let them turn it over to you right now God literally God I pray in
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their hearts and minds they literally physically see themselves turning over to Holy Spirit
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and say use this in my life for your kingdom and I give you glory and honor in Jesus name
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amen amen it could even be an interest you have do you know that God could use that very
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interest I've seen I've seen ministries birth out of crazy stuff like hunting and fishing
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just you name it and God uses it alright let him use it
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