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Speaker 1 (00:05):
How do you live a life that declares to God,
hollow would be thy name, by living a life of
worship which will not only exalt him, it will change you.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Today.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
On turning point, doctor David Jeremiah reveals exactly how you
can expect to be changed by entering into God's presence through.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
A lifestyle of worship.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
To introduce the conclusion of his message, hollow would be
Thy Name.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Here's David. We are living in a period of time
in our country where worship is a very important subject.
Radio stations across this nation have been purchased and programmed
specifically for worship. Almost everything on the program every day
is one worship song after another, and the whole program
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is about worshiping the Lord. Our churches are filled with
worship of many different styles, and oftentimes it becomes a
battle ground for churches as to what style of worship
should be followed. But the Bible just teaches us one
main thing, and that is we're to worship God. We're
to hallow his name. The Father is to be the
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focus of our attention when we pray, when we worship
in church. I just said this to our people on
the Lord's Day. It's not about us. It's about Him,
and when we realize that, everything changes. So today we're
going to continue our discussion of the phrase that's found
at the front end of the Lord's Prayer, Hallowed be
Thy Name, what it means, and how we put it
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into operation in our lives. But before we do that,
let me remind you we want to help you develop
and strengthen your prayer life, and we have a book
that we think will do that. We've worked very hard
in preparing this book. It's called Everything to God in Prayer,
Guided prayers for your deepest needs and biggest dreams. If
there's something that you want to pray about, you're not
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sure how to do it, Where to start, Where to begin?
Is there a scripture to help you? Well, I want
you to know we have put these prayers together for you.
Here's just a few of the topics from the book.
When I want to grow in hospitality, when I'm battling shame,
when I need peace in my home, when my heart
is heavy, when I receive God's correction, when God feels
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far away. Those are just some of the things, and
there's a prayer for each one of them printed out
along with scripture. On each of the pages in this
wonderful book beautifully presented, and it's yours for the asking
when you encourage us and help us with the gift
of any size during the month of August. Your gift
is important because it helps us meet the needs that
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we have and the cost of programming and production. But
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the Kingdom, and I hope you'll take advantage of that.
This week here now is part two of Hallow to
be Thy Name. When the Lord said, when you pray,
pray like this our Father who in Heaven, hallowed be
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thy name. He wants us to not just know the
name God, but he wants us to know all we
can know about God, so that when we worship Him,
we can lift back up to Him praise for all
that the Word of God reveals him to be. When
you come to the New Testament, we discover that the
greatest of the names is Jesus the god Man. And
then a whole new list of names comes through, doesn't it.
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He is the Bread, he is the way of life,
he is the Truth, He's the Resurrection, the good Shepherd,
the branch, and all of the New Testament is filled
in the Gospels with names to help us know the
one we worship, our Father, who are in heaven. Hallowed
be thy name. And here are the things about God
that we know from the names that have been given us.
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I have on occasions selected just one little name of
God and tried to think about it for a whole week.
Jehovah Jirah, the Lord provides. How many of you know
that God provides that he does. Isn't that a wonderful thing?
And just for one week, just say, Lord, this week,
I'm going to hallow your name and I'm going to
consider for my own praise what you have done to
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provide for me. You are Jehovah Jirah, the Lord provides,
And every day focus on some time to reflect on
his provision. Not only do we hallow his name by
rehearsing their meanings, but we hallow his name by respecting
his greatness. God is uncommon, he's extraordinary, he's unearthly, he's
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separated from sinners. He's undefiled, and the Bible says he's holy.
And we are to speak of God in reverence. We
are to sanctify him. To hallow his name means to
hold his matchless being in reverence, so that you will
believe what he says, and you will obey him, and
you will honor his name. We are given here in
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this prayer a wonderful tension so that we don't go
off in some crazy direction. When we talk about our father,
who are in heaven, and remember, he's aba father. He is,
according to the New Testament language, the daddy. He's our daddy.
That is intimate. But in the same sentence we're told
our father, who are in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
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And God is not pleased when we forget that He
is the great and majestic one to whom we come.
He's the creative of the universe, and he deserves to
be treated with respect and honor. So whatever we may do,
whatever we may say, that what in any way diminishes greatness,
we ought not to do. We ought to hold him
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up with great reverence and respect. We hallow his name
by respecting his greatness. Thirdly, we hallow his name by
relinquishing control over our own lives. Martin Luther said, how
is God's name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine
and our living are truly Christian? We hallow the name
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of God by the way we live, when we give
ourselves totally to Him and allow him to control our lives.
When we say, hallowed be thy Name, we are praying
like this, May the whole of my life be a
source of delight to you, and may it be an
honor to the name which I bear, which is your name.
Hallowed be your Name. Psalm nineteen fourteen is a prayer
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that we sometimes pray in church. It goes like this,
let the words of my mouth and the meditation of
my heart be acceptable in thy sight, Oh Lord, my
Rock and my Redeemer. That ought to be the prayer
of each one of us. Every day, Lord, I hallow
your name by giving you the control of my life
and living in obedience to you. Fourthly, we hallow his
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name by recognizing his presence in all of our lives.
We hallow his name when we are constantly aware of
his presence. David said in Psalm sixteen eight, I have
set the Lord always before me. That's the key. We
live our lives in the presence of God, and we
honor and respect Him. And when we come into his presence,
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not flippantly quickly, just sort of with a Oh, by
the way Lord, we come into his presence, we prepare
our hearts to come and to pray and to honor
his name. And I want to say to you men
and women that if we learn to pray as Jesus
taught his disciples, it will make an incredible difference in
the way we live. That God does not wish us
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necessarily to always be rushing into his presence with our
grocery lists of things. God wants to be worshiped. The
Bible says he seeks those who will worship him in
spirit and in truth, and when we come to him,
we need to bring our gift of worship to him
first before we ask him to fill our hands with
other things. I am so confident that this is a
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critical part of where most of us are in our
spiritual walk with the Lord. But I'm still just learning.
I'm a student like the rest of you, and I
wrote down six things that entering into the presence of
God with worship changes in everyone's life. It will change
your life, just as it's changing mind all in the
growing process. We're not there yet, but hopefully we're on
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the road toward understanding more and more about who God
is and how He works in our lives every day.
And here are some of the things that I reflected upon.
Number One, when I worship, When I come into the
presence of God with hallowed be Thy name, worship enhances
my appreciation and my love for God. I am caused
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to see Him as he is. Is God's greatness changed
by my worship. Not in the least can I add
or subtract one wit to who he is. Not at all.
But when I reflect in my own heart upon His greatness.
When I come in my prayer, and maybe I've learned
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some of the attributes of God, some of the names
of God that tell me more and more about who is.
When I reflect those back to Him, something happens within me.
The greatness of God is impressed upon my spirit, so
that I see Him and I understand a little bit
more about who He is, and the greatness of God
is enhanced in my life. I remember preaching a servant
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some years ago talking about a lot of folks who
have a big God and some who have a little God.
And I got all kinds of male when that one
on the radio, because some people thought I'd gotten into idolatry.
I had to straighten that all out. And that's not
what I was talking about. I was talking about the
fact that sometimes the way people respond to God, their
God is very little. He is circumscribed by their own restrictions.
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They have never seen God as the scripture presents him,
and they have never worshiped that God. It's as if
God were out there waiting for us to come and
see him, and in the back of our mind we
have an image of who he is, and it's not
a very enhancing image. It's sort of a not a
very great image of who God is. And then the
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day comes and we're allowed to go into his presence
and for one moment we see Him as he really is.
All of a sudden, our whole expression and appreciation for
God changes. That's what worship does for me. Every time
I really understand what's going on in my own heart
as I worship the Lord, I began to see God,
and He is enlarged and enhanced in my own heart,
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not as he is, but in my heart. Number Two,
when I worship, worship expands my vision. You know, one
of the things we're prone to do is to look
at life in terms of our own limitations. That's the
way the average person does. When I worship God, I
begin to see life not in terms of what David
Jeremiah can do, but I begin to see life in
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terms of what God can do through David Jeremiah. There's
a big difference, my friend. I am a very limited,
flawed human being, and if it's just me doing my
thing for God, it's not going to accomplish very much.
But when I worship God, something happens within me. It
expands my vision to think about what God can do
through me, what He can do through you. I'm reminded
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often of one of my favorite stories in the Old
Testament about the spies who went into the land. You
remember that story. It's like a lot of things that happened.
The majority report came back and they all said, we
can't do it. That's the way a lot of majority
reports come back. You know, we've got the idea that
majority's always right, but a lot of times in the Bible,
majority was wrong. And the majority came back and they said,
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we've been into the Promised Land and we've checked it
all out, and we want you to know what our
appraisal is. Our appraisal is like this those are some
big people. Those giants were eight feet tall and taller
the Anakim they're called. And the majority report came back
and they said, we checked them out, and we checked
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them out, and you want to know what our appraisal is.
We are like grasshoppers before them, and we don't think
we should mess with them. We don't think we should
go in. God had told him to go in. They said, no,
we saw them, We saw us. We're like grasshoppers. Joshua
and Caleb. The minority report, they came back and they said,
you know, we were in the same land, walked down
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the same streets, saw the same giants, saw the same situation.
But what we want you to know is those are
some big people, but they are no match for God.
And the only difference in the majority report in the
minority report was the comparison. The majority compared themselves to
the problem and the minority compared the problem to God.
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The large group had a small God, the small group
had a large God. And what happens when you worship,
my friends, when you come into the presence of God
and you say, my Father, who's in heaven, hallowed be
your name, and you reflect upon his greatness. All of
a sudden, you begin to see things in a much
different perspective. Number Three, Worship not only enhances my appreciation
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and love for God and expands my vision, but thirdly,
worship eclipses my fears. I was in Cedarville to speak
at the college where I graduated in Ohio, and I
don't know how these things work, so I'm going to
show my ignorance. But in Cedarville, Ohio, there was a
full eclipse of the moon. And we went out to
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eat to some ice cream place that we go out
to eat, And afterwards we walked out and everybody was
standing in the parking lot looking up at the sky.
And nobody had told me this was happening, so I
didn't know what it was. And I walked down and
I looked up, and sure enough, up there you could
barely see the moon. You could just barely see the
little edges of white around. It was totally covered. When
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I worship God. That's what happens to my fears. Any
of you ever have any fears? Are you fearful people?
You know what? We're all fearful people to some degree,
aren't we. We can talk about our bravery, but we
have these fears in us. And I've said this to
you before, and I've discovered this in my own life.
And this is a very practice that sometimes if life
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kind of piles up on you during the day, you
don't really think about it too much, except you sort
of take it to bed with you at night and
it sort of works on your subconscious and then you
wake up in the morning and you wake up with
this spirit of fear about the day, the appointments, the sickness,
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the problems, the difficulties, the children, whatever. I'll tell you
the best anecdote I know to fear is worship. When
you worship God, when you see God in his holiness
and in his righteousness, when you reflect back to Him
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all that is innately true of Him, all of a sudden,
the cloud begins to cover your fears and they're eclipsed.
I speak to you biblically and therapeutically. It works. It's
the truth number four. When I worship, worship not only
answers my appreciation and love for God and expands my
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vision and enclipses my fears, but worship energizes my work.
When I hallow His name, my work gets done and
I'm not alone when I say that. I know that's true.
Now here's the struggle I have, and it's the struggle
you have. I'm a type A. Have you figured that out.
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I'm very energized and task oriented and project oriented and
want to see things get done. And around here I'm
not lacking for projects, believe it. And so every day
I know when I walk to my office to begin
to think through the process of it. Every day I
know there is a multitude, a myriad of things that
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need to be cared for, and there are all things
I like to do, and I struggle. And this is
the struggle. I'm busy today. My agenda is full today.
Maybe I shouldn't spend so much time alone in the
word in prayer. Maybe I better, Lord, I got a
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lot of things to do. And I remember reading one
time Andrew Murray said in one of his journals, he said, Lord,
I got so much to do today, I'm going to
have to spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
I think he had something there, because let me tell
you what I've discovered. When I worship God, when I
hallow his name, when I lift him up with my
heart and my spirit at the beginning of the day,
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my work gets done a lot better. Do you know
what God does? He tells people to call me that
I'm supposed to call. I mean, can you figure that out?
And somebody I got to talk to ends up at
the same restaurant where I go to eat, and all
of a sudden, I look back on a day that
looked overwhelmingly impossible to me, and I put God first
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and I hallowed His name, and all of a sudden,
my work is energized and my day goes better. I'm
not talking here about something that I don't know to
be true from experience. Let me tell you something, and friends,
I've tried it both ways, and I recommend that you
begin your day with God, and that you hallow his name.
When you hallow his name, you're energized in your work.
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Number five, when you hallow his name when you worship,
worship will encourage your spirit. The Bible says it like this.
You can trade in your spirit of heaviness for the
garment of praise. You can literally see your own spirit encouraged.
And then the last one is the one I love
the most because I know this is to be true
in my life. Worship exhausts my enemy. Did you know
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that the one thing that Satan doesn't like just about morning,
He don't like anything else. He doesn't like worship. I
used to be confused because when I started studying the
Book of Revelation, I thought it was one of the
greatest books. I don't think it was real hard to
understand because it's sort of self interpreting. But it's amazing
how many people don't read the Book of Revelation, and
they've been told that you can't understand it, and it's
a tough book, and they've kind of been mesmerized by
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And one day it suddenly dawned on me that the
enemy was behind all that, because you see, the Book
of Revelation gives the final record of what's going to
happen to Satan tells you about him, and so he
doesn't want you to read that. So he'll keep you
from reading it, and he'll sell you all kinds of
stuff about not reading it because it's the story of
his demise. I always loved what people said. You know,
if Satan's bugging you about your past, you tell him
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about his future. Isn't that a great thought? You know?
That's a great thing. One of the things Satan loves
to do is to harass God's people. But I want
to tell you something. He does not know what to
do when he sees one of God's children on their
knees in prayer and in praise. Amy Carmichael used to
say it this way, I sing the duxology and dismissed
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the devil. Satan is allergic to praise. So if you
want to do spiritual warfare, I can tell you about
the sort of the spirit, which is the Word of
God and the shield of faith and the armor and
all of that. But I don't hear very much about this,
but I know it's true. The Bible says that worship
is warfare, and when you worship God, you do battle
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with the enemy. And I love to think about it
this way. It just exhausts him. He has to work
ten times as hard to get anything done. Praise God.
Let's wear the old man out. One of the ways
you do that is with praise and worship our Father,
who are in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Do we
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not all of us agree that far too often we
rush into the presence of God without any preparation. We
hardly acknowledge for even a moment, who he is, and
then we wonder why our prayers seem so insipid to us,
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and we have lost our sense of worship and joy.
I grew up in a family that lived almost all
of my growing up days in a college environment. My
father was a college president, used to talk a lot
about all the Christian colleges in the United States. One
of the more famous ones, and probably one of the
leading ones at least for many years, was Wheaton College
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in Wheaton, Illinois. I don't know much about Wheaton College,
but I remembered reading some books that were written by
one of the presidents of that college, who was quite
a well known writer and was evidently a godly man.
His name was Raymond Edmund. He's written so many books
on discipline of life and worship and godliness. And I'd
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always heard that ray Edmund went to be with the
Lord during a chapel service at Wheaton College. I had
heard that, but I'd never seen the story. Until recently
I found the exact details of what happened to ray
Edmund when he went to the Lord. It was like this,
he was speaking at a very special chapel which had
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been called because he had not been able to speak
for some time. He had been quite ill, and he
had asked for this opportunity to speak to the student body.
It was his great passion as the president of that
college to teach his students to reverence God. He used
to say, over and over again, worship is a serious matter.
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And on this particular day in chapel, he was back
on that theme again of worshiping God, and he was
illustrating his point by telling of his recent visit to
Hali Selassie, who was then the Emperor of Ethiopia, and
he was saying in his sermon, how challenging it was
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to be prepared to meet this king, the preliminary briefings
and the protocol and all of the things he had
to follow, and how he walked into his presence and
had to bow with respect as he entered the presence
of the king. And he said, in the same way
we must prepare ourselves to meet God. We must enter
into his presence and hallow his name. And at that
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very moment, as he said that, he had been slumped
onto the pulpit, fell to the floor, and entered the
presence of the King of kings and the Lord of Lords.
For a few moments, said one of the students who
was there, We had come to life. The dividing line
between heaven and earth suddenly dissolved, and we were no
longer restless college students with textbooks on our laps, worried
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about exams the next hour and dates the next weekend.
We had joined angels and archangels around the throne, and
our president was ushered in to heaven. And you know
what they said about Raymond Edmund after that. They said
he probably had the easiest transition from heaven to earth
of anybody they'd ever met. There was no groaning and
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grunting to get out of this life and into that.
He had spent so much of his time in the
presence of God down here that he just changed venues
and went into his presence up there. And I suspect
that when Jesus taught his disciples how to pray and
he said, Hallowed be thy name, he was trying to
cut down on the transition time for men and women
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down here. We need to learn how to worship God,
because someday that will be our eternal occupation. Our father,
who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name. Let's hallow
his name in all that we do in this week,
as we walk and talk, as we live and move,
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as we witness, as we work, let us not forget
this important lesson from the lips of our Lord, that
we come into His presence first of all with praise
in our hearts. Amen. Hey, we're enjoying this time together.
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I can't see you, but I feel you, sort of
like when I teach, I kind of envision what you're
doing where you are, and many of you are listening
on the radio at your kitchen table, maybe just getting
ready for bed or getting up in the morning, and
wherever you are and whatever you're doing. This study on
prayer is good for all of us, for me and
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for all of you. It will help us, It will
motivate us, it will encourage us to pray, and prayer
then becomes an adventure in our life. This series was
built on a book that I wrote some years ago
called Prayer the Great Adventure. It's not the book that
we're offering this month, but you can get it from
David Jeremiah dot org, along with a study guide and
a set of CDs if you want to do that.
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And I hope you'll think about that carefully. If you
want to lead a small group or maybe a Sunday
school class, it will be helpful and we'll see you
right here next time on this good station. David Jeremiah,
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How do you live a life that declares to God,
hollow would be thy name, by living a life of
worship which will not only exalt him, it will change you.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Today.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
On turning point, doctor David Jeremiah reveals exactly how you
can expect to be changed by entering into God's presence through.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
A lifestyle of worship.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
To introduce the conclusion of his message, hollow would be
Thy Name.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Here's David. We are living in a period of time
in our country where worship is a very important subject.
Radio stations across this nation have been purchased and programmed
specifically for worship. Almost everything on the program every day
is one worship song after another, and the whole program
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is about worshiping the Lord. Our churches are filled with
worship of many different styles, and oftentimes it becomes a
battle ground for churches as to what style of worship
should be followed. But the Bible just teaches us one
main thing, and that is we're to worship God. We're
to hallow his name. The Father is to be the
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focus of our attention when we pray, when we worship
in church. I just said this to our people on
the Lord's Day. It's not about us. It's about Him,
and when we realize that, everything changes. So today we're
going to continue our discussion of the phrase that's found
at the front end of the Lord's Prayer, Hallowed be
Thy Name, what it means, and how we put it
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into operation in our lives. But before we do that,
let me remind you we want to help you develop
and strengthen your prayer life, and we have a book
that we think will do that. We've worked very hard
in preparing this book. It's called Everything to God in Prayer,
Guided prayers for your deepest needs and biggest dreams. If
there's something that you want to pray about, you're not
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sure how to do it, Where to start, Where to begin?
Is there a scripture to help you? Well, I want
you to know we have put these prayers together for you.
Here's just a few of the topics from the book.
When I want to grow in hospitality, when I'm battling shame,
when I need peace in my home, when my heart
is heavy, when I receive God's correction, when God feels
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far away. Those are just some of the things, and
there's a prayer for each one of them printed out
along with scripture. On each of the pages in this
wonderful book beautifully presented, and it's yours for the asking
when you encourage us and help us with the gift
of any size during the month of August. Your gift
is important because it helps us meet the needs that
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we have and the cost of programming and production. But
it also is a way for you to invest in
the Kingdom, and I hope you'll take advantage of that.
This week here now is part two of Hallow to
be Thy Name. When the Lord said, when you pray,
pray like this our Father who in Heaven, hallowed be
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thy name. He wants us to not just know the
name God, but he wants us to know all we
can know about God, so that when we worship Him,
we can lift back up to Him praise for all
that the Word of God reveals him to be. When
you come to the New Testament, we discover that the
greatest of the names is Jesus the god Man. And
then a whole new list of names comes through, doesn't it.
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He is the Bread, he is the way of life,
he is the Truth, He's the Resurrection, the good Shepherd,
the branch, and all of the New Testament is filled
in the Gospels with names to help us know the
one we worship, our Father, who are in heaven. Hallowed
be thy name. And here are the things about God
that we know from the names that have been given us.
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I have on occasions selected just one little name of
God and tried to think about it for a whole week.
Jehovah Jirah, the Lord provides. How many of you know
that God provides that he does. Isn't that a wonderful thing?
And just for one week, just say, Lord, this week,
I'm going to hallow your name and I'm going to
consider for my own praise what you have done to
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provide for me. You are Jehovah Jirah, the Lord provides,
And every day focus on some time to reflect on
his provision. Not only do we hallow his name by
rehearsing their meanings, but we hallow his name by respecting
his greatness. God is uncommon, he's extraordinary, he's unearthly, he's
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separated from sinners. He's undefiled, and the Bible says he's holy.
And we are to speak of God in reverence. We
are to sanctify him. To hallow his name means to
hold his matchless being in reverence, so that you will
believe what he says, and you will obey him, and
you will honor his name. We are given here in
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this prayer a wonderful tension so that we don't go
off in some crazy direction. When we talk about our father,
who are in heaven, and remember, he's aba father. He is,
according to the New Testament language, the daddy. He's our daddy.
That is intimate. But in the same sentence we're told
our father, who are in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
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And God is not pleased when we forget that He
is the great and majestic one to whom we come.
He's the creative of the universe, and he deserves to
be treated with respect and honor. So whatever we may do,
whatever we may say, that what in any way diminishes greatness,
we ought not to do. We ought to hold him
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up with great reverence and respect. We hallow his name
by respecting his greatness. Thirdly, we hallow his name by
relinquishing control over our own lives. Martin Luther said, how
is God's name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine
and our living are truly Christian? We hallow the name
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of God by the way we live, when we give
ourselves totally to Him and allow him to control our lives.
When we say, hallowed be thy Name, we are praying
like this, May the whole of my life be a
source of delight to you, and may it be an
honor to the name which I bear, which is your name.
Hallowed be your Name. Psalm nineteen fourteen is a prayer
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that we sometimes pray in church. It goes like this,
let the words of my mouth and the meditation of
my heart be acceptable in thy sight, Oh Lord, my
Rock and my Redeemer. That ought to be the prayer
of each one of us. Every day, Lord, I hallow
your name by giving you the control of my life
and living in obedience to you. Fourthly, we hallow his
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name by recognizing his presence in all of our lives.
We hallow his name when we are constantly aware of
his presence. David said in Psalm sixteen eight, I have
set the Lord always before me. That's the key. We
live our lives in the presence of God, and we
honor and respect Him. And when we come into his presence,
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not flippantly quickly, just sort of with a Oh, by
the way Lord, we come into his presence, we prepare
our hearts to come and to pray and to honor
his name. And I want to say to you men
and women that if we learn to pray as Jesus
taught his disciples, it will make an incredible difference in
the way we live. That God does not wish us
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necessarily to always be rushing into his presence with our
grocery lists of things. God wants to be worshiped. The
Bible says he seeks those who will worship him in
spirit and in truth, and when we come to him,
we need to bring our gift of worship to him
first before we ask him to fill our hands with
other things. I am so confident that this is a
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critical part of where most of us are in our
spiritual walk with the Lord. But I'm still just learning.
I'm a student like the rest of you, and I
wrote down six things that entering into the presence of
God with worship changes in everyone's life. It will change
your life, just as it's changing mind all in the
growing process. We're not there yet, but hopefully we're on
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the road toward understanding more and more about who God
is and how He works in our lives every day.
And here are some of the things that I reflected upon.
Number One, when I worship, When I come into the
presence of God with hallowed be Thy name, worship enhances
my appreciation and my love for God. I am caused
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to see Him as he is. Is God's greatness changed
by my worship. Not in the least can I add
or subtract one wit to who he is. Not at all.
But when I reflect in my own heart upon His greatness.
When I come in my prayer, and maybe I've learned
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some of the attributes of God, some of the names
of God that tell me more and more about who is.
When I reflect those back to Him, something happens within me.
The greatness of God is impressed upon my spirit, so
that I see Him and I understand a little bit
more about who He is, and the greatness of God
is enhanced in my life. I remember preaching a servant
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some years ago talking about a lot of folks who
have a big God and some who have a little God.
And I got all kinds of male when that one
on the radio, because some people thought I'd gotten into idolatry.
I had to straighten that all out. And that's not
what I was talking about. I was talking about the
fact that sometimes the way people respond to God, their
God is very little. He is circumscribed by their own restrictions.
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They have never seen God as the scripture presents him,
and they have never worshiped that God. It's as if
God were out there waiting for us to come and
see him, and in the back of our mind we
have an image of who he is, and it's not
a very enhancing image. It's sort of a not a
very great image of who God is. And then the
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day comes and we're allowed to go into his presence
and for one moment we see Him as he really is.
All of a sudden, our whole expression and appreciation for
God changes. That's what worship does for me. Every time
I really understand what's going on in my own heart
as I worship the Lord, I began to see God,
and He is enlarged and enhanced in my own heart,
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not as he is, but in my heart. Number Two,
when I worship, worship expands my vision. You know, one
of the things we're prone to do is to look
at life in terms of our own limitations. That's the
way the average person does. When I worship God, I
begin to see life not in terms of what David
Jeremiah can do, but I begin to see life in
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terms of what God can do through David Jeremiah. There's
a big difference, my friend. I am a very limited,
flawed human being, and if it's just me doing my
thing for God, it's not going to accomplish very much.
But when I worship God, something happens within me. It
expands my vision to think about what God can do
through me, what He can do through you. I'm reminded
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often of one of my favorite stories in the Old
Testament about the spies who went into the land. You
remember that story. It's like a lot of things that happened.
The majority report came back and they all said, we
can't do it. That's the way a lot of majority
reports come back. You know, we've got the idea that
majority's always right, but a lot of times in the Bible,
majority was wrong. And the majority came back and they said,
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we've been into the Promised Land and we've checked it
all out, and we want you to know what our
appraisal is. Our appraisal is like this those are some
big people. Those giants were eight feet tall and taller
the Anakim they're called. And the majority report came back
and they said, we checked them out, and we checked
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them out, and you want to know what our appraisal is.
We are like grasshoppers before them, and we don't think
we should mess with them. We don't think we should
go in. God had told him to go in. They said, no,
we saw them, We saw us. We're like grasshoppers. Joshua
and Caleb. The minority report, they came back and they said,
you know, we were in the same land, walked down
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the same streets, saw the same giants, saw the same situation.
But what we want you to know is those are
some big people, but they are no match for God.
And the only difference in the majority report in the
minority report was the comparison. The majority compared themselves to
the problem and the minority compared the problem to God.
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The large group had a small God, the small group
had a large God. And what happens when you worship,
my friends, when you come into the presence of God
and you say, my Father, who's in heaven, hallowed be
your name, and you reflect upon his greatness. All of
a sudden, you begin to see things in a much
different perspective. Number Three, Worship not only enhances my appreciation
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and love for God and expands my vision, but thirdly,
worship eclipses my fears. I was in Cedarville to speak
at the college where I graduated in Ohio, and I
don't know how these things work, so I'm going to
show my ignorance. But in Cedarville, Ohio, there was a
full eclipse of the moon. And we went out to
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eat to some ice cream place that we go out
to eat, And afterwards we walked out and everybody was
standing in the parking lot looking up at the sky.
And nobody had told me this was happening, so I
didn't know what it was. And I walked down and
I looked up, and sure enough, up there you could
barely see the moon. You could just barely see the
little edges of white around. It was totally covered. When
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I worship God. That's what happens to my fears. Any
of you ever have any fears? Are you fearful people?
You know what? We're all fearful people to some degree,
aren't we. We can talk about our bravery, but we
have these fears in us. And I've said this to
you before, and I've discovered this in my own life.
And this is a very practice that sometimes if life
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kind of piles up on you during the day, you
don't really think about it too much, except you sort
of take it to bed with you at night and
it sort of works on your subconscious and then you
wake up in the morning and you wake up with
this spirit of fear about the day, the appointments, the sickness,
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the problems, the difficulties, the children, whatever. I'll tell you
the best anecdote I know to fear is worship. When
you worship God, when you see God in his holiness
and in his righteousness, when you reflect back to Him
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all that is innately true of Him, all of a sudden,
the cloud begins to cover your fears and they're eclipsed.
I speak to you biblically and therapeutically. It works. It's
the truth number four. When I worship, worship not only
answers my appreciation and love for God and expands my
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vision and enclipses my fears, but worship energizes my work.
When I hallow His name, my work gets done and
I'm not alone when I say that. I know that's true.
Now here's the struggle I have, and it's the struggle
you have. I'm a type A. Have you figured that out.
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I'm very energized and task oriented and project oriented and
want to see things get done. And around here I'm
not lacking for projects, believe it. And so every day
I know when I walk to my office to begin
to think through the process of it. Every day I
know there is a multitude, a myriad of things that
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need to be cared for, and there are all things
I like to do, and I struggle. And this is
the struggle. I'm busy today. My agenda is full today.
Maybe I shouldn't spend so much time alone in the
word in prayer. Maybe I better, Lord, I got a
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lot of things to do. And I remember reading one
time Andrew Murray said in one of his journals, he said, Lord,
I got so much to do today, I'm going to
have to spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
I think he had something there, because let me tell
you what I've discovered. When I worship God, when I
hallow his name, when I lift him up with my
heart and my spirit at the beginning of the day,
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my work gets done a lot better. Do you know
what God does? He tells people to call me that
I'm supposed to call. I mean, can you figure that out?
And somebody I got to talk to ends up at
the same restaurant where I go to eat, and all
of a sudden, I look back on a day that
looked overwhelmingly impossible to me, and I put God first
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and I hallowed His name, and all of a sudden,
my work is energized and my day goes better. I'm
not talking here about something that I don't know to
be true from experience. Let me tell you something, and friends,
I've tried it both ways, and I recommend that you
begin your day with God, and that you hallow his name.
When you hallow his name, you're energized in your work.
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Number five, when you hallow his name when you worship,
worship will encourage your spirit. The Bible says it like this.
You can trade in your spirit of heaviness for the
garment of praise. You can literally see your own spirit encouraged.
And then the last one is the one I love
the most because I know this is to be true
in my life. Worship exhausts my enemy. Did you know
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that the one thing that Satan doesn't like just about morning,
He don't like anything else. He doesn't like worship. I
used to be confused because when I started studying the
Book of Revelation, I thought it was one of the
greatest books. I don't think it was real hard to
understand because it's sort of self interpreting. But it's amazing
how many people don't read the Book of Revelation, and
they've been told that you can't understand it, and it's
a tough book, and they've kind of been mesmerized by
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And one day it suddenly dawned on me that the
enemy was behind all that, because you see, the Book
of Revelation gives the final record of what's going to
happen to Satan tells you about him, and so he
doesn't want you to read that. So he'll keep you
from reading it, and he'll sell you all kinds of
stuff about not reading it because it's the story of
his demise. I always loved what people said. You know,
if Satan's bugging you about your past, you tell him
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about his future. Isn't that a great thought? You know?
That's a great thing. One of the things Satan loves
to do is to harass God's people. But I want
to tell you something. He does not know what to
do when he sees one of God's children on their
knees in prayer and in praise. Amy Carmichael used to
say it this way, I sing the duxology and dismissed
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the devil. Satan is allergic to praise. So if you
want to do spiritual warfare, I can tell you about
the sort of the spirit, which is the Word of
God and the shield of faith and the armor and
all of that. But I don't hear very much about this,
but I know it's true. The Bible says that worship
is warfare, and when you worship God, you do battle
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with the enemy. And I love to think about it
this way. It just exhausts him. He has to work
ten times as hard to get anything done. Praise God.
Let's wear the old man out. One of the ways
you do that is with praise and worship our Father,
who are in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Do we
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not all of us agree that far too often we
rush into the presence of God without any preparation. We
hardly acknowledge for even a moment, who he is, and
then we wonder why our prayers seem so insipid to us,
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and we have lost our sense of worship and joy.
I grew up in a family that lived almost all
of my growing up days in a college environment. My
father was a college president, used to talk a lot
about all the Christian colleges in the United States. One
of the more famous ones, and probably one of the
leading ones at least for many years, was Wheaton College
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in Wheaton, Illinois. I don't know much about Wheaton College,
but I remembered reading some books that were written by
one of the presidents of that college, who was quite
a well known writer and was evidently a godly man.
His name was Raymond Edmund. He's written so many books
on discipline of life and worship and godliness. And I'd
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always heard that ray Edmund went to be with the
Lord during a chapel service at Wheaton College. I had
heard that, but I'd never seen the story. Until recently
I found the exact details of what happened to ray
Edmund when he went to the Lord. It was like this,
he was speaking at a very special chapel which had
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been called because he had not been able to speak
for some time. He had been quite ill, and he
had asked for this opportunity to speak to the student body.
It was his great passion as the president of that
college to teach his students to reverence God. He used
to say, over and over again, worship is a serious matter.
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And on this particular day in chapel, he was back
on that theme again of worshiping God, and he was
illustrating his point by telling of his recent visit to
Hali Selassie, who was then the Emperor of Ethiopia, and
he was saying in his sermon, how challenging it was
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to be prepared to meet this king, the preliminary briefings
and the protocol and all of the things he had
to follow, and how he walked into his presence and
had to bow with respect as he entered the presence
of the king. And he said, in the same way
we must prepare ourselves to meet God. We must enter
into his presence and hallow his name. And at that
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very moment, as he said that, he had been slumped
onto the pulpit, fell to the floor, and entered the
presence of the King of kings and the Lord of Lords.
For a few moments, said one of the students who
was there, We had come to life. The dividing line
between heaven and earth suddenly dissolved, and we were no
longer restless college students with textbooks on our laps, worried
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about exams the next hour and dates the next weekend.
We had joined angels and archangels around the throne, and
our president was ushered in to heaven. And you know
what they said about Raymond Edmund after that. They said
he probably had the easiest transition from heaven to earth
of anybody they'd ever met. There was no groaning and
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grunting to get out of this life and into that.
He had spent so much of his time in the
presence of God down here that he just changed venues
and went into his presence up there. And I suspect
that when Jesus taught his disciples how to pray and
he said, Hallowed be thy name, he was trying to
cut down on the transition time for men and women
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down here. We need to learn how to worship God,
because someday that will be our eternal occupation. Our father,
who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name. Let's hallow
his name in all that we do in this week,
as we walk and talk, as we live and move,
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as we witness, as we work, let us not forget
this important lesson from the lips of our Lord, that
we come into His presence first of all with praise
in our hearts. Amen. Hey, we're enjoying this time together.
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I can't see you, but I feel you, sort of
like when I teach, I kind of envision what you're
doing where you are, and many of you are listening
on the radio at your kitchen table, maybe just getting
ready for bed or getting up in the morning, and
wherever you are and whatever you're doing. This study on
prayer is good for all of us, for me and
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for all of you. It will help us, It will
motivate us, it will encourage us to pray, and prayer
then becomes an adventure in our life. This series was
built on a book that I wrote some years ago
called Prayer the Great Adventure. It's not the book that
we're offering this month, but you can get it from
David Jeremiah dot org, along with a study guide and
a set of CDs if you want to do that.
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And I hope you'll think about that carefully. If you
want to lead a small group or maybe a Sunday
school class, it will be helpful and we'll see you
right here next time on this good station. David Jeremiah,
thank you.
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