The Vocabulary of Praise: Psalm 44

I don't know if you're paying attention

but some of those videos people had

their hands up in

worship uhoh might be a little sneak

preview what we getting ready to talk

about in the Baptist church today uh

look all right I have enjoyed well we've

only done one of these seven series and

I have in this series and I have enjoyed

the feedback thus far some love some

hate uh but you're talking about it and

that's great so we're going to keep

talking about it look uh last December

last December I was watching some

sermons by Levi lusco and he was talking

about worship music and I was so blown

away by the sermon series I text the

team I'm like look we have to talk about

this in our corporate worship service

and they're like cool I'm like let's do

the whole summer let's just talk about

worship all summer long they're like do

you think people will hang in for that

and I was like absolutely I think people

will hang in for that so thank you uh

for proving me right for hanging in um

so the purpose of this study by the way

it's called the vocabulary of Praise is

basically we're looking at the seven

Hebrew words for praise in the Old

Testament um to give us a more

well-rounded view of what praise and

worship actually is all seven of the

words that are in the Old Testament they

they read praise like when you see them

on the paper but they're they're

different words they're nuanced words

they have a little bit of uh fine-tuning

uh of what praise should actually be

when you go and study the actual words

uh the goal for us in this series is to

learn that we don't have to take like

one version of praise and Hammer it into

every worship situation there are

actually a lot of ways in worship music

that we can Praise Jesus and he's given

those to us in in his uh in his Bible uh

we only have one word in the English

language for praise and so what happens

is naturally if you're raised in a

church uh you you start to develop a

definition of what praise and worship

should be and so as you grow older you

have that one word and that one

definition and if anything else comes in

and threatens that one word and that one

definition then you begin to kind of

push back against it so the the goal of

this series is not to take away the

thing that you think is praise right if

you like West Coast bethl Music if you

like Hill song if you like Old School

southern gospel if you like hymns only

with the organ like whatever definition

of Praise You have that's great hold on

to that that's biblical and true all

we're trying to do here is we're trying

to add to that definition of Praise this

is an additive sermon series we're not

tearing anything down we're actually

building things up so um we're going to

say a little prayer here and then we'll

get into our study for

today God first of all thank you for

being Sovereign Lord thank you for your

blood thank you for sending your son

Jesus to that cross so that we could

have hope and purpose and joy and life

Lord I Thank you that that you've given

us everything that we need that we don't

have to earn it God we don't have to pay

for it we don't have to clean ourselves

up and then come to you we don't have to

follow all these rituals and religious

activities in order to earn your favor

Lord you just love us with your Amazing

Grace and you proved it when you sent

your son to the cross and allowed him to

raise from that that grave three days

later and I just pray that that would

impact all of us today Lord there's so

many that are going through so many

different seasons of life right now

there are some that are suffering and

hurting and some that are going through

great times and so Lord just meet us

where we're at today help us to to

understand what praise is so that we can

give back a little bit of what you've

given to us Lord speak from your word

not from me in Jesus name I pray

amen talked about this last week but the

Westminster catechism uh defined the

purpose of life as to glorify God and

enjoy him forever so basically like on

your on your Tombstone you have your

birth day and your death day and that

little Dash in between that little Dash

represents everything you've done with

your life right and so what they're

saying is that we should live a life

that that worships and glorifies God and

enjoys him forever so if that's true

shouldn't we try to get better at the

thing that God created us to do if we're

supposed to praise then perhaps we

should learn how to praise to the full

right so so last week we talked about

this word in Psalm 149 this definition

of Praise which was Halal and it means

to shine to make a show to boast to Rave

to give light to rage to be glamorously

foolish which is what happened to me at

the end of the worship service because

Johanna was not here to mute my mic my

worst nightmare for 12 years has always

been to stand here during that last song

and have my mic not muted so that

everybody watching online hears me

singing like leading the

choir it's okay when I know like I can

kind of fake it a little bit but when

you don't know and I'm just up here

mumbling like I don't want to sing

directly to Matt's face right so I'm

just kind of mumbling for three minutes

but you know what I thought about it and

I'm like hey that's exactly what I

preached on right Make a Joyful Noise be

clamorously foolish I love Jesus so I'm

going to sing even though I'm not a

singer right so there's a time in the

church worship service where it is

perfectly okay to celebrate what God has

done we talked about Seasons so there's

a season for that there's a season to

not do that there's a season for somber

introspection as well right so last week

though we focused on this this uh the

sense of celebratory worship and I

challenged you to to not save your best

worship for for the club don't save your

best worship for the ball game don't

save your best worship for the concert

but come to church and worship Jesus and

celebrate the fact that he gave you

salvation like even in a church of the

Frozen chosen where you're saved but

like nobody's told your face

yet okay even in that church it is okay

and it is biblical to take some time and

actually celebrate your salvation

Dr Martin Lloyd Jones the the great

commentator of scripture said that a

dislike of enthusiasm is one of the

greatest hindrances to

Revival we talked about that last week

remember Michelle which was David's wife

King Saul's daughter she shamed David

for being excited about the Ark of the

Covenant coming back to Jerusalem and

his dancing Behavior we talked about the

older brother and the story of The

Prodigal Son that that stayed outside

the house and didn't go into the party

because he was so he he was so upset

that his younger brother had received a

Salvation that he did not deserve right

and we said that the reason that we want

to focus on celebratory praise is

because when you have praise in your

heart you have a sword in your hand so

there are seasons where we need to

celebrate and today's word is y it's in

Psalm 44 if you want to join me there

I'll go ahead and get all your sefel

jokes out if you want whatever yada yada

yada I I get it so just go get that done

now so as I say that word I don't hear

any snickering okay that's the word

yada and yada

means to worship with extended hands

like you're throwing a stone or shooting

a bow yada worship with extended hands

now here at sa Creek we like to base

everything we do on scripture so what

I'm going to do is build an argument for

worshiping with extended hands based

from God's word not from my personal

experience or my personal opinion so

this one is probably for some of you

going to be way outside your comfort

zone and if that's the case good there's

nothing wrong with that this is baby

steps you don't have to jump in and just

be like okay every song I'm raising my

hands that's not the goal the goal is

simply to add something to your worship

experience right so if you need to start

with a little T-Rex arms all right it's

fine try it out today I know I know some

some people in here would pass out if a

few of you actually did that um but

whatever this is

additive but I will say this I grew up

in the Church of the Frozen chosen okay

and this stuff was very uncomfortable to

me when I was a youth pastor and we' go

to youth conferences and I would see

people with their arms up in worship it

was shocking it was as a 20-some year

old I'd never seen it before and it was

just shocking to me uh I didn't judge

them I just felt kind of odd but over

the years I've I've begun to kind of

experiment with some of the stuff that

God teaches us to do in worship and I

will tell you this it does unlock

something in your soul when you worship

God in the way that he intends you to do

it in the appropriate way at the

appropriate time so Psalm 44

1-8 God we have heard with our ears our

s ancestors have told told us the work

you accomplished in their days and days

long ago in order to plant them you

displaced the Nations by your hand in

order to settle them you brought

disaster on other people for they did

not take the land by their

sword their arm did not bring them

Victory but by your right hand your arm

and the light of your face because you

were favorable toward them you are my

king my God who ordains victories for

Jacob though you through you we drive

back our foes through your name we

trample our enemies for I do not trust

in my bow and my sword does not bring me

Victory but you give us victory over our

foes and let those who hate us be

disgraced we boast in God all day long

we will praise that's yada we will

praise your name forever so at the end

of the song that they wrote they used

that word with the Hands Extended ended

we will praise your name forever praise

welcomes Heaven's power into your

situation it draws God to your table you

ever been at the restaurant where you

had to wait outside for an hour just to

get a seat then you get in there and the

server completely ignores you like

they're over there in the corner talking

you're like so hangry you're going to

chew through the table what do you did

you just sit there some of you would

because you're very nice um but for most

of us we don't just sit there do we we

we want some food we're hungry what do

we do we wave hey waiter hey waitress

come to the table bring us what we need

that's yada that's worship when your

hands go up God comes near now this word

is not just used in Psalm 44 it's

actually used 111 times in your Bible

Psalm 63 3-4 it says this my lips will

glorify you because your faithful love

is better than life how much better that

it's better than life so what do we do I

will bless you as long as I live because

at your name I will lift up my hands

Psalm

141 may my prayer be set before you as

incense the raising of my hands as the

evening offering Psalm 28:2 listen to

Psalms 28:2

the sound of my pleading when I cry to

you for help I will do what I will lift

up my hands toward you where in your

holy

Sanctuary this is not something that

just charismatics do okay it's

not this is biblical and it's compared

to prayer the the same posture that we

take when we bow our head and and pray

is in the same verse where it tells us

to raise our hands and

praise Paul said this to Timothy in 1

1 Timothy 2:8

Timothy 2:8 says therefore I want the

men in every place to pray lifting up

holy hands without anger or argument

Paul's like hey Timothy you want your

church to you know flourish and and do

well well what you need to try to do is

get the men of the church to raise their

hands in prayer and praise instead of

raise them for

fighting why would God tell us to sing

worship songs in this manner well my

studies showed me that 93% of

communication is nonverbal you got 38%

is your tone and

55% of your communication is done

through

nonverbal communication like body

language so for

example thanks a

lot

or thanks a lot a little bit of change

of tone but the body language right it

told you exactly what I was trying to

communicate you can sing all of the

right words at the right time but it is

your body language your posture posture

according to scripture that communicates

where your heart is actually at 55% of

your praise is done through your

non-verbal communication through your

posture through your body and that's why

God has so much to say about how we

should pray and how we should

praise If You're Happy and You Know It

no no no no no I knew you were going to

do that don't stomp your feet Don't Clap

Your Hands how about we do the one I

remember in my church we used to do

raise your hands right if you're happy

and you know raise your hands that okay

there's some happy people in the front

row so all the all the choir members

love this everyone else wants to fire me

it's all good look the this is a

universal sign for celebration think

about Muhammad Ali when you knock

somebody out what do his hands do a me

boom right I was watching a golf for the

other day he he he made the putt on the

18th and won the tournament he threw his

club and then he just walked around like

this like all dignified normally you

know he just lost it right because when

you celebrate your hands just naturally

go into the air uh some of you at that

Vanilla Ice concert back in

1988 what are you doing you raising the

roof weren't you I yeah I your lucky

cell phones didn't exist cuz you can

deny this

man when when you score a touchdown what

is the symbol the referee does let me

see it thank

you right why because that's a natural

response to Celebration when you are

excited you go yes your hands go up in

the early church it was really cool um

that when they had a when they bury

someone um they would put symbols on

their their tombs and uh that would

represent their their faith in Christ

right so like if you went to the Roman

catacombs today you could take a tour

and you would be able to of the hundreds

of graves that you would see you would

be able to easily identify all of the

Christians because of the symbols on

their grave sometimes they would put

things on there like a shepherd's crook

uh which signified you know being

carried into eternity sometimes it would

be a uh peacock feathers which would

represent um they drag their feathers in

the dirt and then they were raised to

life kind of like baptism uh you would

see a thing called nicku the little fish

symbol which is just an acronym for

Jesus Christ God's son Our Savior and

the one I like the best um Bradley if

you can pull that picture up this is

called an

arante it's on their

tomb what is it it's a stick figure

looking thing with their arms raised and

their hands out Palms facing the heavens

and this would symbolize somebody saying

that I'm at peace and I'm at rest don't

weep for me I'm with Jesus so I just

picture like Joyce

grave right that woman loved some Jesus

we're going to celebrate her life today

and I just kind of picture this cuz she

loved to sing and celebrate and pray

right I just pictured this on her on her

tomb somewhere with the the arms held

high just praising Jesus saying look

don't weep for me I'm with Jesus praise

God you know look this is the first

church this is the early church here so

if you went back in time to the early

church some of you would be shocked

because you would see people singing

These praise songs and their arms would

go up in the air sometimes not always

but sometimes when you ride a roller

coaster and you want to take the

experience to the next level I got a

million illustration I'm sorry this a

lot today I'm gonna be tired at the end

tomorrow um what do you do yeah what do

you do Cameron you put your arms up

right like it's fun it's fun just riding

the normal coaster but if you want to go

next level you put your arms up even

though they tell you not to keep your

hands inside the ride at all time no

don't have fun with it right see what a

lot of people do though they pretend

that they're in control on the roller

coaster look your little hands holding M

bars that's not going to hold you in if

that thing wants to throw you out I'm

sorry you have no control over that

situation you are at the mercy of the

roller coaster so you might as well just

let loose and have fun because this

ain't doing nothing for you same with

your relationship with Jesus we got to

admit that this world is out of our

control things are crazy and they not

getting any better and you can pretend

that you're holding on and controlling

things but you're not but you know who

is Jesus is he's got you so you can put

your hands up in praise and enjoy the

experience because Jesus is in

control in First Kings chapter

8:22 we have Solomon who's been through

a lot trying to build this Temple these

people have been Nomads forever just

vagabonds Wanderers they never had a

permanent place to call home a permanent

place to go to church and now this

Temple was finally complete complete all

the ups and the Downs they finally got

to this point so what does King Solomon

do he stood before the altar of the Lord

in front of the entire Congregation of

Israel and he spread out his hands

toward

Heaven Nehemiah finished the Wall in

Jerusalem the this city had been

ransacked and they wanted to rebuild it

and and the first thing you have to do

is build the wall so that you can start

building the interior of the city to

keep your enemies out and so this long

uous process was finally complete and so

Nehemiah calls on the prophet Ezra says

give us a word man so Ezra goes up there

and he blessed the Lord the great God

and with their hands uplifted all of the

people said aen aen and they knelt low

and they worshiped the Lord with their

faces on the ground remember there's

season for everything if your hands go

up sometimes your face needs to go down

as well so so life is full of ups and

downs but God is in control and then

when you praise him like this you're

saying thank you God for being in

control all right so you're being robbed

the robber pulls out the gun what's he

say stick him up right stick him up you

know why because he's exercising his

control of the situation so your hands

go up you're you're in a submissive

posture you're saying you you sir are in

control but then the police show up they

pull out their guns and they say put

your

hands where I can see them and put him

in the air right yeah why because now

they're in control of the situation so

now the robber has to put his hands up

because now the police have taken

control of the situation what I'm saying

is that when your hands go up it means

that you are submitting to an

authority a lot of you won't worship God

because you won't submit you won't

submit to to his authority because you

want to be in

control Jesus teaches us to

pray Our Father which art in heaven

Hallowed be your name and then he says

we want your will to be done on Earth as

it is in heaven and I just picture that

part of the prayer hands up God we want

your will to be done right now the same

way it's being done up in heaven you go

to school you have a question in the

classroom what do you do

Cameron two

hands but you must have a lot of

questions you're a poor

teacher you you rais your hand why

because you're in a situation you don't

know the answer you need someone with a

little bit more experience a little bit

more perspective a little bit more

wisdom and so you raise your hand and

the teacher comes to your desk to help

you with that situation

so when you're raising your hand and

worship you're saying God I I have a

question I have a need in my life that I

cannot figure out on my own and I need

you and your wisdom and your expertise

and your power to come over to my life

and show me what I need to do Psalm 143

Psalms 143:5

verse 5 and

6 said I remember the days of old I

meditate on you and all that you have

done I reflect on the work of your hands

in verse six it says I spread out my

hands to you you see Psalms have little

tags you may notied in your Bible that

that tell you who wrote them or it tells

you the situation where these things

were written in the Psalm 44 the title

The Little tag there says this is an

Earnest appeal for

guidance this Psalm was written the one

that ends with your hands up it was

written asking God for guidance like I

heard about all the stuff you did before

God now I'm in a bad situation will you

please do this same things for me now I

I need to know what to do God bring me

some guidance it's like back in the day

you had the the rabbit ear ears you know

trying to watch the show your dad yells

at you tells you to go mess with the

rabbit ears uh kids are like what are

you talking about the dish the Satellite

Dish on the side is that even a thing

anymore I don't know I got YouTube TV

now so I don't have to mess with this

but basically you got to adjust the

antenna or adjust the satellite to get a

clearer picture that's what you're doing

when you praise when you praise you're

you're you're adjusting things I went to

the beach with my daughter Emery and a

storm blew up on us and it was like sand

blasting us like I looked 10 years

younger when I got off the beach man was

kind of nice but like we were trying to

get off the beach it just came out of

nowhere and so what did she do she grabs

her towel and wraps it around her face

I'm like how are you going to see where

to go and she just puts her arms up like

oh okay so I'm going to carry you off

the beach now I understand but that's

what you're saying to God you're like

look this this thing is out of my my

control I don't I don't know what I'm

being sand blasted by the world and I I

just need you to to lift me up and guide

me and show me what to

do

seada you you see your friend told you I

have a million of these I had so much

fun with this

one you see your friends and they're

they're way over there they they're over

there talking to somebody you hadn't

seen them forever you make eye contact

you're like oh it's Tom hey right like

how you doing come what are you saying

when you do this you're saying come come

over here like we've been apart for too

long there's too much distance between

us let's catch up let's let's rekindle

this relationship let's get to know each

other like come be a part of what I'm

doing here that's what you're doing when

you're waving your hands you're you're

stranded on a island and the

helicopter's going by just going to sit

there of course not Cameron's not he's

going to get saved good job buddy he's

going to wave his hands you know why

because he wants somebody to come and

rescue him from the

situation you're at the UNCC basketball

game and they bring out the T-shirt

cannons I love these bring out them

cannons right you don't just sit there

you want a t-shirt don't you you don't

just say I've seen y'all I go to these

games dignified men and women lose their

minds to get a a t-shirt with a big Bank

of America logo on the back of it it's

got like UNCC and like 12o font Bank of

America on the back but you will lose

your you will knock down children to get

I've seen it happen to get these stupid

t-shirts I I do the same thing um but

here's the thing when they bring the

cannon out and they look into your

section they're like who should I shoot

this toward what do you do you wave your

hands you're like me of course not this

little kid me send it to me that's what

you're saying to God when you're you're

waving your hands you're like I want to

bring God's power I want to bring Heaven

down to earth that's what I want blind

Bemus was trying to get Jesus attention

and the disciples were like will you

please be quiet you're being a fool

you're waving your hands you're shouting

the prophet Jesus does not have time for

you but did blind bardus stop of course

not he didn't stop he he continued

waving his hands because he wanted the

power of Jesus in his life when my son

was in ICU I car guarantee you I did not

stop waving my hands at God I'm like

look I know you got a lot going on but

this kid needs you and I'm not going to

stop waving my hands or bowing my face

to the ground until you show up and

bring Heaven's power down to my

situation think about it what's that

tangible act that you can do that will

make sure that you get God's attention

well 55% of your communication with him

is through nonverbals then perhaps

waving your arms saying here I am we'll

get his attention right and of course we

know God's always right there with you

but story after Story in the New

Testament shows people being persistent

in chasing after God sometimes he

doesn't answer you immediately sometimes

get this he'll put you on hold for your

own

good because he wants you to keep

knocking and keep asking and keep

knocking and keep asking and eventually

he'll give you what you need but that's

that that growth process of the knock

and asking that helps you build your

faith I remember the old commercial

raise your hands if you were that's

right some old folks in here with me

good that's like from the 80s I think um

worship it is is that it's most powerful

when you don't feel like doing it I hate

cleaning my bedroom not going to lie I

hate it it's my least favorite chore I

can't stand it I let it pile up and I'm

like oh I got to do it today and usually

I have to find a good podcast fast to

play while I'm cleaning or I just won't

even do it but after I'm done I I feel

kind of good about it because something

that was out of control has not been

brought under control you know I didn't

want to do it but I did it and now I'm

happy that I did it it's the same way

with your praise sometimes you you're

not getting that that that roller

coaster exhilaration from the worship

music I understand we we all have been

there we'll all be there again but but

sometimes when you don't feel like Jesus

has ever even came out of the Grave I've

had those days I'm like Jesus really

like are you really that did you really

come out of that grave because this day

is not going my way like bad things are

happen Jesus are you even there on those

days the Bible says that those are the

times that you should seek yada that you

should actually when you don't feel like

it you put up your hands in Praise so

Amy cudy probably one of the most famous

Ted Talks ever given um she it's called

your body language shapes Who You Are

she said that there's something that's

released into your biology when you

assume a powerful posture so she was

talking about like cell phones for

instance and she pointed out that like

there's nothing ever powerful about your

posture when you're looking at a cell

phone thought that was interesting then

she mentioned selfies though she was

like but when you're doing a selfie like

that's a powerful posture right shoot

the bow do the selfy you know that one

that one works but she so they did a

study they took a saliva sample of a

group of people people and then they had

one group get into a powerful pose for

two minutes and then another group get

into like a cowardly pose for another

two minutes and then afterwards they

gave another saliva sample and what they

found out is that there's a verifiable

impact on the levels of your stress

hormones with cortisol and such and your

testosterone when you either get into a

powerful position for two month two

minutes or a weak position for two

minutes and to prove their their

hypothesis they they did a study so they

had a group of people get in the

powerful position pose for two minutes

and another group of people get in the

weak position pose for two minutes then

they sent the people individually into a

room where they would do a simulated job

interview and after everything was over

the people that were conducting the

simulated job interview listed out the

people they thought would get the job

and the people that they said would not

get this job

overwhelmingly the people who took a

powerful posture for two minutes and

then went into that interview regardless

of it didn't matter what their skill set

was or their experience or anything like

that that posture alone those people

were the ones that were overwhelmingly

chosen to get the job and I think that's

why in the Bible you will not read one

command of God from God telling us to

curl up in a ball and sing praise songs

but 111 times you will read where God

says that we should raise our hands up

in Praise And what I love about C's work

is this is her final statement she said

don't fake it till you make fake it fake

it until you become

it even when you're not feeling powerful

worship like you are and you will

actually become powerful because God

will fill you with his

Blessing desperate times call for

desperate measures we're almost done

Psalm 44 remember how I had the little

little tags well this one was written by

the sons of

Kora in 2 Kings chapter 19 it was when

2 Kings 19 · chapter mention

the song was composed and it was a time

where the Assyrians were going to take

Jerusalem there was nothing anybody

could do about it Hezekiah had the

northern kingdom had already fallen the

syrians were coming they they had

186,000 soldiers they were going to

ransack the people of Israel so Hezekiah

knew this was a he was going to lose in

this situation so you know what he chose

to do to get all the swords out and

sharpen them to Run to the

Hills no he told the entire nation of

Israel to worship

and that's when Psalm 44 was written

they composed this song in this time

where they did not know if they were

going to be able to even see the next

day and then in verse eight I'm going to

read it to you with the Hebrew words

inerted two verse eight says we

boast we praise the word is halal by the

way we talked about it last week so we

celebrate all day long 186,000 troops

are getting ready to come kill them and

their families and destroy their city

and they're like hey let's write a song

and we'll talk about how much we

celebrate God all day long and then the

next part and we praise yada your name

forever do you get that do do you

understand like they didn't know if they

would see tomorrow but they were

celebrating all day long and they were

praising with their hands up they were

yada

Jesus people were facing extinction and

they weren't trusting in what their arms

could do that's the whole point of this

song remember verse three it says for

they did not take the land by their

sword their arm didn't bring them

Victory but by your right hand in your

arm and then they said well I don't

trust in my bow it's not my sword that

brings me victory in verse six and after

they wrote this song and after they sang

that song in celebration with their

hands up you know what happened God sent

one angel I think it's so cool I always

wonder how powerful angels really are I

can't wait to meet one this sound

amazing he sends one

Angel and that one Angel wipes out the

entire Assyrian army in one night

desperate times call for

yada Psalm 88 you have put me in the

lowest part of the pit in my darkest

days in my depths my eyes are worn out

from crying Lord I cry to you all day

long so what do I do I spread out my

hands to you even when I can't see it

you're

working Jeremiah who preached to a

congregation that didn't want to hear

anything he had to say eventually and I

hope you don't do this to me they threw

him in a pit and they stoned him to

death because they didn't like his

message it's what his church did to

him you want to know what he said right

before he died Lamentations chapter 3:

41 it's part of his sermon before they

killed him says

let's lift up our hearts and our hands

toward God in

heaven praise in the pit but I want to

end with this thought I heard Lev alesco

say this word I didn't really know what

it meant he defined it for me he said

Absolution which means God has formally

released me from all of my

guilt I heard that word and it kind of

hit me funny I was like Wow never really

thought of it like that way God has

formally released me from all of my goil

he has given me complete Absolution and

I was thinking in Hebrews 10:10 it says

Hebrews 10:10

by this will we have been Sanctified

through the offering of the body of

Jesus Christ once for all time and then

I started thinking about the Old

Testament Saints and how they had to

like they had this ritual sacrifice they

would have to do where they take the the

two goats and they would slay the one

goat and they would put the blood of the

the goat on the other goat and they

would send that goat away from the camp

which is where we get the term scapegoat

from and they'd have to do that like

every year the high priest would have to

go do all that stuff once every year and

so then this new year would arrive and

there'd be like new sin and they'd have

to get new animals there'd have to be a

new sacrifice and a new death and it was

just over and over and over and then we

read in the New Testament that wasn't

even good enough to get them forgiveness

right it was their faith in the future

Messiah that was saving them the other

stuff was just a picture of what Jesus

would eventually do for them and then in

verse 11 it says every priest stands day

after day ministering and offering the

same sacrifice is time after time which

can never take away sin but this man

Jesus after offering one sacrifice for

sins forever sit down at the right hand

of God and by one offering he has

perfected forever those who are

Sanctified that my friends is Absolution

and that is why I have learned to raise

my hands from time to time in worship I

raised my hands because when my sin was

placed on the head of Jesus Christ it

stayed there once and for all so guess

what no more guilt no more shame no more

condemnation so when I sing songs like

we just sang and it reminds me of that

beautiful fact that Absolution that I

experience simply because Jesus chose to

give his life for me and I chose to

place my faith in him when I have those

experiences through worship songs I

cannot help but yah