The People of Praise

Pastor Lance illustrates from Scripture the practices of believers, the people of praise!

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Episode Transcript

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A number of weeks ago, 3 or 4 weeks ago, I, I told you that as
a church, our, our passion is topursue the Christ and that is to
be done in a way that, that honors the Lord.
And so that that pursuit is to be done aggressively, not

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passively. And because our, our passion is
to pursue him, our, our priorityis to portray him.
And that portrayal is to be doneauthentically, not
hypocritically. And then we, we told you that

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our, our purpose is to proclaim the Christ and that is to be
done authoritatively. But our practice is to praise
the Christ, and that is to be done automatically.
In other words, the Lord said Isaiah 23 or Isaiah 41 verse #23

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the people that I have formed for myself, they will declare my
praise. In other words, praise is that
which is automatically done by those whom Christ has formed for
Himself. It's not something that you have
to necessarily muster up. It's part of our spiritual DNA.

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And so we give praise and honor to God.
And you always have to wonder what, what is our praise life
like? This morning I want to talk to
you about the people of praise. We're on this pathway.
It's called the pathway of praise.
We began with the privilege of praise, then we move to the
prophet of praise. And today I want to talk to you

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about the people of praise. What are they like?
What do they praise the Lord for?
The expectation is in Hebrews 13verse #15 which says through
Him. Then let us continually OfferUp
a sacrifice of praise to God. That is the fruit of lips that

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give thanks to His name. Through Him Christ is in us and
we are in Christ. And yet through him, like we are
to rejoice in the Lord, we are to give thanks through him by
offering up a sacrifice of of praise, the fruit of our lips,

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which is giving thanks to God. And this is to be done
continually. The psalmist said it this way in
in Psalm Psalm 34. We said these words.
Psalm 34, verse #1 I will bless the Lord at all times.

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His praise shall continually be in my mouth continually.
Psalm 71, verse #6 He says by you I have been sustained from
my birth. You are He who took me from my

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mother's womb. My praise is continually of You.
I have become a marvel to many, for You are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with Your praise and with Your glory all

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day long. In other words, because He
continually praises the Lord, because his mouth is filled with
the glory of the Lord all day long, He has become a marvel to
all those who are around him. Because you see, for the most
part, people just don't do that.But the psalmist did.

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He understood it. That's who we are.
Listen to the words of Charles Spurgeon.
He says these words. We are to offer the sacrifice of
praise to God continually, because in so doing you will
answer the end of your being. Every creature is happiest when

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it is doing what it is made for.A bird that is made to fly
abroad Pines in a cage, an eaglewould die in the water, even as
a fish that is made to swim perishes on the river's bank.
Christians are made to glorify God, and we are never in our

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element till we are praising him.
The happiest moments you have ever spent were those in which
you lost sight of everything inferior and bowed before
Jehovah's throne of light with reverent joy and blissful
praise. When your whole soul is full of
praise, you have at last reachedthe goal that your heart is

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aiming at. Your ship is now in full sail,
your car is on the tram lines. Your life moves smoothly and
safely on. This is the groove along which
it was made to slide. Before you were trying to do
what you were not made to do, but now you are at home for the

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praise of God. Your new nature has fashioned
and it finds its rest there in Keep to this work and do not
degrade yourself by doing something less.
So true. Why would we degrade ourselves
by doing something less than praising God?

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Because that's what the people whom God has formed for himself
have been created to do. And so we offer up continually
praise to God. These Hebrew people in the book
of Hebrews would be wondering ifyou want me to embrace the new
covenant and forgo the old covenant.

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And then under the old covenant we are offering sacrifices day
and night always to God. What kind of sacrifices will we
offer under the new covenant? And so the writer of Hebrews
answers that question by saying you will offer a sacrifice of
praise to God. And it would be a great
sacrifice for them because they were Hebrew people.

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And in so doing, they would be ousted from their homes, they
would be ousted from the synagogue, they would be ousted
from their friends. They'd be all alone.
And when you give praise to God and give thanks to him for what
he has done, because the shadow now is gone, because it's filled
with the substance, all the ceremonies that you've engaged
in have all been fulfilled by the one who came, the Messiah,

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Christ, and now you're praising him.
It will be a great sacrifice foryou to do that because your
friends won't, your family won't, but you do.
And that's a sacrifice you offer.
You would go to the temple and you will offer sacrifices in the
morning. You would go to the temple, You

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would offer sacrifices at night.But guess what?
Your body now is the temple of the Holy Ghost of the Holy
Spirit. And now you are the sanctuary,
You are the holy place. And in that holy place you
OfferUp a sacrifice of praise toGod.
And you do it continually because you are now priests in

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His Kingdom. You're priests in that temple,
which is your body where you OfferUp sacrifices of praise and
giving thanks to your God, and Satan doesn't want you to do
that. The enemy will fight against
your your praise. He he wants you to complain.

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He wants you to grumble. He wants you angry and bitter.
He wants you to have an unforgiving spirit.
He wants you just to never lift a voice of praise and
Thanksgiving to God doesn't wantyou doing that.
Isn't it interesting that in theOld Testament that the the the

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psalmist was always raising his hands in praise?
The psalmist that this way in, in Psalm 63 verse #4 so I will
bless you as long as I live. I will lift up my hands in your

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name. I will lift up my hands in your
name. That is according to your
person, You're the Messiah, you're the king.
I will lift up my hands. And then the psalmist says these

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words in Psalm 119. He says, I shall lift up my
hands to your commandments. So not only does a psalmist lift
up his hands to the person of God, he lifts up his hands to
the precepts of God. And then over in in Psalm 134,

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he says, behold, bless the Lord,all servants of the Lord who
serve him by night in the House of the Lord, lift up your hands
to the sanctuary and bless the Lord.
So he lifts up his hands to the person of God.
He lifts up his hands to the place of God, and he lifts up

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his hands to the precepts of God, but he can't lift up dirty
hands. They have to be clean hands.
The psalmist says in Psalm 24, verse #3 Who may ascend into the
hill of the Lord, or who may stand in his holy place?

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He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted
up his soul to falsehood and is not sworn deceitfully.
In the Old Testament, the the the Hebrew people would lift
their hands and praise to God, but they would only lift clean

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hands because clean hands represented a pure heart.
And they would they would lift empty hands, not hands filled
with something else. Why?
Because their hands would be consecrated to God.
Not just clean hands, but consecrated hands.
Why? Because they're they're employed
to be used in the service of God.

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And if my hands are holding something else, then my
employment in the service of Godwill be hindered.
So the hands are, are open, they're clean, and they're
consecrated to God to be used byhim in any way possible.
And that's why they would, they would praise the place of God,
they would praise the person of God, they would praise the
precepts of God. Why?

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Because I'm here to be used by you, O Lord.
So the writer of Hebrews comes along and says through him,
through the Messiah, through theone who has fulfilled all the
the shadows that were portrayed in the Old Testament, the
substance has arrived. Let us OfferUp a a sacrifice of

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of praise to him. Let us offer thanks, the fruit
of our lips, giving thanks to God for all that he has done,
praising his glorious name. That's the people of praise.
In fact, it's illustrated in in the book of Acts and you could
read all throughout the book of Acts.

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But if you just go to Acts chapter chapter 2, it says these
words verse 46 day by day continue one mind in the temple
and breaking bread from house tohouse.
They were taking their meals together with gladness and
sincerity of heart, praising God, having favor with all the
people, and the Lord was adding to their number day by day,

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those who are being saved, that that's just a great testimony.
God was adding to their number because they were appraising
people. God was adding to their number
because they were doing what they were created to do that
they were filled with praise in spite of the fact that this
Jewish community in Jerusalem would be ousted because of the

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sacrifice of praise. But they didn't care.
That was irrelevant to them. They had recognized all that God
had done and they wanted to praise his glorious name.
And God says, I'm going to add to your number daily because of
your praise to me. Could it be that that we we
hinder our family coming to Christ because we're not

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praising God as we should continually?
They see in us a a downcast spirit.
They see in us a bitter spirit. They see in us an angry spirit.
They see in us a complaining, grumbling, mumbling spirit.
And they're like, wow, that's just that.
That's me. I do that.
And yet they say they they, theyworship the King.

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They say they're Christians, they say they love the Lord, but
they don't live like they love the Lord.
Because if you really love him, you'll praise him and honor him
and glorify his blessed name. His praise will be continually
on your lips all the day long, which would cause your family
then to marvel as they did the Psalmist.

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Does your unsafe family marvel at the fact that you continually
OfferUp a praise to God no matter what the situation, no
matter what the circumstance, because you want to give thanks
to his glorious name? Early church, they were a people
of praise. You go to Acts chapter 3 and

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you've got the physically disabled man.
He was disabled from birth from his mother's womb.
And when Peter healed him, verse8, with a leap, he stood upright
and began to walk. And he entered the temple with
them, walking and leaping and praising God.
And all the people saw him walking and praising God, and

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they were taking note of him as being the one who used to sit at
the beautiful gate of the templeto beg alms.
And they were filled with wonderand amazement at what had
happened to him. Of course he would praise the
Lord. He'd been lame from birth.
And Peter healed him and everything changed his life.

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They began to leap and to praiseand honor his God.
And people wondered were filled with awe because of what God had
done. But in Acts chapter 5 it says
these words in verse 40. They took his advice, and after

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calling the apostles in, they flogged them and ordered them
not to speak in the name of Jesus and then release them.
So they went on their way from the presence of the council,
rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer
shame for His name again. They, they would continually

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OfferUp a sacrifice of praise. They were told you can't speak
in the name of Jesus anymore. But they, they kept doing that.
So they flogged them. They flogged them.
That that's, that's 29 lashes onthe back and 10 on the front.
They, they were cut to the quickand they were bleeding, but yet

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they rejoiced. Why?
Because their praise was a sacrifice and they as priests in
the the Kingdom of God, wanted to OfferUp their continual
praise to God no matter what, because they had suffered for
his namesake. And then over in Acts chapter
16, you have Paul and Silas. They're in prison.

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It says in verse 22 these words.The crowd rose up together
against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off
of them, and proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods.
When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into
the prison, commanding the jailer to to guard them
securely, and he, having received such a command, threw

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them into the inner prison and fasten their feet and stalks.
But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing
hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to
them, and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the

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foundation of the prison house were shaking, and immediately
all the doors were open and everyone's chains were
unfastened. Instead of cursing God like
everybody else in prison did, because they were in chains and
were beaten with rods, instead of blaspheming the name of God

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and instead of complaining that that they were in prison, they
began to pray and then sing praises to God, giving thanks to
God, and everything changed fromthat standpoint.
Now you see that the point is this, that so many times we are
in the the chains of bitterness and the chains of stubbornness

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and the chains of selfishness and the chains of unforgiveness.
Why? Because we refuse to give praise
to God and we kept keep ourselves bound by those chains
because we're unwilling to praise God for what he has done
and what he's going to do. They had no idea that their
chains would fall off. They had no idea they'd be

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released from prison. They had no idea that the jailer
would be saved. They had no idea.
They just knew that they had to offer continually a sacrifice of
praise to their God. That's the people of praise.
Those are those on the on the pathway to praise who recognize
the fact that this is my sacrifice that I give to God
continually, day after day, no matter the hardship, no matter

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the pain, no matter the difficulty, no matter the
negative circumstances, I'm going to offer praise to God.
So what do you say? What do you do?
Let me give you 6 principles that will help you understand
what you want to say when you give praise to God.

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Here's the first one. You need to always recite His
wonderful works. You begin to praise him by
reciting His wonderful works. Listen to Psalm 145.
Let the let the Word of God speak for what it is.

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I would extol you, Oh my God, O King, I will bless your name
forever and ever. Every day I will bless you.
I will praise your name forever and ever.
Great is the Lord and highly to be praised.
His greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise your
works to another and shall declare your mighty acts.

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He's going to recite the the wonderful works of God.
On the glorious splendor of Yourmajesty, on on your wonderful
works, I will meditate. Men shall speak of the power of
Your awesome acts, and I will tell if Your greatness.
They will eagerly utter the memory of Your abundant
goodness, and will shout joyfully of Your righteousness.

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The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and
great in loving kindness. The Lord is good to all, and His
mercies are over all His works. All your work shall give thanks
to you, O Lord, and your godly ones will bless you.
They shall speak of the glory ofYour Kingdom and talk of your

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power to be known to the sons ofmen, Your mighty acts, and the
glory of the majesty of Your Kingdom.
Your Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and your dominion
endures throughout all generations.
He recites the wonderful works of God, He recites his
greatness, He recites his glory,he recites his goodness, he

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recites his grace, he recites his government, and then he
recites his generosity. He says this.
The Lord sustains all who fall, and raises up all who are bowed
down. The eyes of all look to you, and
you give them their food. In due time you open your hand

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and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
The Lord is righteous in all Hisways and kind in all his deeds.
The Lord is near to all who callupon Him, to all who call upon
Him in truth, He will fulfill the desire of those who fear
Him. He will also hear their cry and

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will save them. The Lord keeps all who love him,
but all the wicked. He will destroy.
My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord, and all flesh will
bless His holy name forever and ever.
What a great Psalm, He says. Let me recite the works of God.

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Let me recite not just His goodness and His greatness, not
just His government and His grace, but let me recite to you
His generosity. Because this is the God who
sustains the lowly. Here's, this is the God who
satisfies their longings. This is the God who who saves

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the lost. This is the God who secures his
loved ones. You.
You praise him by reciting his wonderful works.
That's why Psalm one O 6 is suchas a sad a sad Psalm because in

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Psalm one O 6, they are continually forgetting all that
God had said and all that God had done.
It says in in Psalm one O 6 these words, they did not
remember your abundant kindness.Verse 13, they quickly forgot

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your works. They did not wait for your
counsel. Verse 21, they forgot God their
Savior, who had done great things in Egypt so easily.
We forget all the great things that God has done that that's
why you spend time reading the Psalms, recognizing that the

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Psalms or the psalmist would recite the wonderful works of
God. And that's where our praise
begins. And once you recite the
wonderful works of God, then yourespond with thankful hearts.
You respond with thankful hearts.

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He was 1315. You give thanks to his name.
It says over in, in Psalm 63, Psalm 63, these beautiful words
with a psalmist said these words.

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Psalm 63 verse #4 in fact, I'll begin with verse #3 because of
your loving kindness is better than life.
My lips will praise you so I will bless you as long as I
live. I will lift up my hands in your
name. My soul is satisfied as with

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Morrow and fatness, and my mouthoffers praises with joyful lips.
When I remember you on my bed, Imeditate on you in the night
watches for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your
wings I sing for joy. My soul clings to you.

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Your right hand upholds me Over in Psalm 100, the psalmist said
these words in verse #1 Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the
earth. Serve the Lord with gladness.
Come before him with joyful singing.
Know that the Lord Himself is God.

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It is He who has made us and notwe ourselves.
We are His people in the sheep of His pasture.
Enter his gates with Thanksgiving, and his courts
with praise. Give thanks to Him.
Bless his name, for the Lord is good.
His loving kindness is everlasting and His faithfulness
to all generations. When you begin to recite the

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wonderful works of God, there's one response, and that's to
respond with thankful hearts, Thanking and praising God for
all that He's done #3 recognize His powerful hand.

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Recognize His powerful hand. Remember back in First Samuel
chapter 2 where Hannah would give praise to God because the
Lord had answered her prayer. The Lord had remembered her and
opened her womb and gave her a son.

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Son's name would would be used by God in a mighty way, young
Samuel. But she says in verse #1 She
prayed and said, My heart exaltsin the Lord.
My horn or my strength is exalted in the Lord.
My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, because I rejoice in

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your salvation. She said there is no one holy
like the Lord. Indeed there is no one beside
you, nor is there any rock like our God.
Then she says these words in verse 6.
The Lord kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and

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raises up. The Lord makes poor and rich.
He brings low. He also exalts.
He raises the poor from the dust.
He lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with
nobles and inherit a seat of honor.
For the pillars of the earth arethe Lords, and He set the world

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on them. He keeps the feet of his godly
ones, but the wicked ones are silenced in darkness, for not by
might shall a man prevail. Those who are contented with, or
those who contend with the Lord will be shattered against them.
He will Thunder in the heavens, and the Lord would judge the
ends of the earth, and He will give strength to his king, and

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would exalt the strength of his anointed.
Hannah recognized that God's hand was over everything, that
God. God kills and God saves.
God raises up and God puts down.God makes a man rich, God makes

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a man poor. She recognized the mighty hand
of God over everything. And so when you're praising God,
you're recognizing his powerful hand.
David did the exact same thing over in Second Samuel chapter 12
after the sin with Bathsheba andthe baby was born and, and, and

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the baby was going to die. God told him the baby was going
to die. And David began to pray and and
to fast. And it says in verse 18 it
happened on the 7th day that thechild died.
Verse 19. But when David saw that his
servants were whispering together, David perceived that

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the child was dead. So as David said to his
servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
So David arose from the ground, washed and anointed himself, and
changed his clothes. And he came into the House of
the Lord, and he worshipped, he offered a sacrifice of praise to

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his God. Then he came to his own house,
and when he requested they set food before him and he ate.
The servant said to him, What isthis thing that you have done
while the child was alive? You, you fasted and wept.
But when the child died, you arose and ate food.

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And he said, while the child wasstill alive, I, I fasted and
wept. For I said, Who knows, the Lord
may be gracious to me that the child may live, but now that he
has died, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again?
I will go to him, but he will not return to me.

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Here is David recognizing the mighty hand of God, the powerful
hand of God, and submitting to that that that strength of his
hand, knowing that God was in control of the life of his Son.
And when the Son died, he arose,He changed his clothes, and he

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worshipped You. Give praise to his God.
Why? Because he recognized the
powerful hand of God. And that's what the people of
praise do. They recite his wonderful works,
they respond with thankful hearts, and they recognize his
powerful hand #4 here's a good one.

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They radiate with cheerful giving.
They radiate with cheerful giving back.
In First Chronicles, First Chronicles chapter 29, David had

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collected from the people of Godand offering that would be used
in the building materials for the temple.
It says in verse #9 and First Chronicles 29 Then the people
rejoiced because they had offered so willingly, for they

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made their offering to the Lord with a whole heart.
And King David also rejoiced greatly.
So David, bless the Lord in the sight of all the assembly.
And David said, Blessed are you,O Lord God of Israel, our Father
forever and ever. Yours, O Lord, is the greatness

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and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty,
indeed everything that is in theheavens and the earth.
Yours is a dominion, O Lord, andyou exalt yourself as head over
all. Both riches and honor come from
you, and you rule over all. And in your hand is power and

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might, and it lies in your hand to make great and to strengthen
everyone. Now, therefore, our God, we
thank you and praise your glorious name.
David knew that the people of Israel would give willfully.
They would give liberally to thework of the Lord, and that would

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bring glory and honor to God. David, recite riches and honor
come from you. We have what we have because of
you, and therefore we give back to you that which you've already
given to us. And they they would radiate with
cheerful giving that that's whatpeople of praise do, that

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there's this certain cheerfulness about giving.
That's why in Second CorinthiansChapter 9, it says that the Lord
loves a a cheerful giver. Why?
Because the Lord wants you to give willingly and freely to
him, not grudgingly, not bitterly, but because you

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recognize that he is the giver of all things.
Listen, those who recognize thatwhat they have is from the Lord
are the ones who give the most back to the Lord.
Those who do not recognize that what they have is from the Lord.
They want to keep holding on to what they have as if they earned
it, as if they were the ones whoobtained it, as if they were the

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ones who worked hard for it. But it's God who makes 1 rich.
It's God who makes 1 poor. It's God who gives to man, and
therefore the people of God. They recognize that, and they
radiate with cheerful giving because they recognize His

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powerful hand, and they respond with thankful hearts because
they recite His wonderful works.Next, the people of praise
remember his purposeful sacrifice.
They remember His purposeful sacrifice.

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This morning we're going to partake of the Lord's table, and
the Lord said, do this in remembrance of me and the people
of praise. They remember the purpose behind
this sacrifice, that it was for their welfare, their welfare,

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their well-being, their salvation, and so they remember
Jesus Christ. 2nd 28 The Senate of David risen from the dead,
which is my gospel. Paul said they give thanks into
God for his indescribable gift. 2nd Corinthians 9 verse #15 They

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understand, as First Corinthians1557 says, thanks be to God who
gives us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord.
They remember His purposeful sacrifice, and #6 They rejoice

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in Worshipful Psalm. The people of praise rejoice in
Worshipful song. Psalm 69 verse #30 I will praise
the name of the Lord with Psalm.The Bible says in Psalm one O 4

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verse number 33, I will sing to the Lord as long as I live.
I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Let my meditation be pleasing tohim.
As for me, I shall be glad in the Lord on the eve of the

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crucifixion, after they had celebrated the last Passover
with the first Communion table, after our Lord had prayed His
High priestly prayer. The Bible says in Matthew

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chapter 26 verse #30 after singing a hymn they went out to
the mount of all of us. So they would gather together
that one. Last night Christ would wash the

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disciples feet. He would give them instruction
as to what was going to happen. He would pray with them for them
and before they left the upper room they would sing a hymn.
The question is which hymn did they sing?

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Well, the answer to that is thatbecause it was Passover, they
would sing the the six songs of the Hallel, which means to
praise, and more than likely they would sing the last of the
Psalms of Hallel. Psalm 118 and Psalm 118 begins

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this way. Give thanks to the Lord, for He
is good. So here was our Lord leading
them in a final hymn of praise before he's about to be
sacrificed on Calvary's mount. And they sing Give thanks to the

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Lord, for he is good. In fact, the last verse of that
same Psalm says Give thanks to the Lord for he is good.
But right in the middle of that,these are the words of the sixth
song of the halal, verse 21. The stone which the builders

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rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
They were singing the praise that the Messiah of the stone
would be rejected. And then it says this is the
Lord's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.

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What is the Lord's doing? The Lord's doing is that his Son
would be rejected. The Lord's doing is that his Son
would be crucified. For Isaiah 53 says it pleased
the Lord to crush his Son. And then that very familiar

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verse, Psalm 119, or excuse me, Psalm 118 verse #24 this is the
day which the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad.
What day is that? It's the day of the crucifixion.

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We use that verse quite readily in the everyday conversation.
Well, this is the day that the Lord has made, but particularly
significantly. It speaks of one day.
That was the day the the stone would be rejected.
That would be the day that was marvelous in our Lord's eyes.

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That would be the day that the Lord has made, the day in which
the Messiah would die. We will rejoice and be glad.
And the Lord LED them in that last song of praise, knowing
that he would make his way down the Kidron Valley, back up again

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and ascend unto the Mount of Olives.
He would go there to pray. And it would be that night that
he would be betrayed, be that night that the temple police,
the temple guards, the Sanhedrin, the Pharisees would
come to take him away to be beaten and crucified.

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That you and I might be saved. That's why we rejoice and be
glad. Why?
Because that's the day that the Lord made.
He made that day. He was delivered up by the
predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God.

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It was always the plan. And that's why, as our Lord LED
them in a a song of praise, He would sing along with them.
This day is marvelous in the Lord's eyes.
For this is the day that the Lord has made.
Let us rejoice and be glad. Why?

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Because the Lord is good and Hislong-suffering, His loving
kindness is everlasting from generation to generation in the
people of praise. Praise Him by rejoicing in

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worship for Saul. Let's pray together, Father.
We thank you, Lord, for this morning and the reminder of the
people of praise. This is who we are.
This is what we do. We don't forget your wonderful
works. We recite them, we remember
them. We respond with a thankful

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heart. We are the ones who who radiate
with cheerful giving. We are the ones who truly
remember your sacrifice and rejoice knowing that we have the
benefactors of Your great grace.As you partake at the Lord's

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table, help us never to forget what you did for us on Calvary's
tree, that we might obtain eternal life in Jesus name,
Amen.