November 10, 2025 • 46 mins
Pastor Lance shares 4 characteristics that a Christian must have, beginning in the heart, in order to be ready to praise and give thanks to the Lord.
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We as a church are on a journey.That journey we've entitled the
pathway to praise. It's a unique journey because
not everybody wants to be on that pathway.
Unbelievers do not. They refuse the pathway to
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praise, but the believer relishes the pathway to praise.
In fact, the Bible says in Isaiah 4321 that the people that
I have formed for myself, they will declare my praise.
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And so the believer is on this unique journey to praise and
honor his God. It's, it's like a, the, the
journey leads to a great grand crescendo in heaven because
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that's where we're going. And when we get there, the
praise will be enormous. But while we're here on earth,
we're, we're on this pathway to,to praise.
And while the unbeliever refusesthe pathway, we we truly relish
the pathway. We seek to live for the glory
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and honor of God, and we truly want to praise His name.
The Bible gives commands, and the most frequently repeated
command in the Bible is the command to praise the Lord or
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give thanks to the Lord. And yet, as often as it's
repeated, we so infrequently obey it.
And you would think that as often as the Lord says that we
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are to rejoice in the Lord, we are to give thanks to His name,
we are to praise his name, that we would be the people that
would want to do that all the time.
But we find ourselves at times reluctant to praise the name of
the Lord. The phrase Hallelujah is a great
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phrase, great word. It's from 2 Hebrew words hallel
which means to praise or to celebrate or to boast and Yah,
Yahweh, Yahweh, God. Hallelujah means we are to
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celebrate God, we are to boast in God, we are to praise God.
And that's why the the unbeliever refuses the pathway
to praise, because they refuse to to boast in the Lord.
They refuse to praise the Lord, but the believer relishes to do
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that. They've been created for that,
they've been formed for that, and therefore they engage in
praise to their God. That's why the the Bible says,
let not the rich man boast or praise or celebrate his riches.
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And neither let the the mighty man celebrate or boast in his
riches, or the wise man boast orglory or celebrate or praise his
wisdom. But let him who celebrates or
let him who boasts or let him who praises, praise this way
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that he boasts in the Lord who exercises loving kindness and
justice and mercy on the face ofthe earth.
The unbeliever doesn't want to do that.
They, they glory in their richesand their wisdom and their might
and they want to boast all aboutthose things.
But the believer know that they boast in the Lord.
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They, they give hallelujahs to the Lord.
They, they praise his name. And that's why the journey is so
unique. And at the same time it, it can
be perplexing, but it's a, it's a great journey.
And as we travel along this journey, we've looked at the
privilege of praise. We looked at the prophet of
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praise last week. It was the people of praise.
And yet it's true that we find ourselves, even though we're on
this pathway, at times reluctantto praise and to boast and to
celebrate the Christ. The question comes, why is that?
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Why is it if I'm formed by God, and those who are formed by God,
created by Him, they, they will declare my praise?
Why is it then then I have trouble doing that?
Why is it that sometimes as I journey along this pathway, I
find myself opposed to boasting in the Lord or celebrating His
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name? Well, that's why today's title
is called the Prerequisites to Praise.
There are certain prerequisites that, if not a part of your
life, will keep you from praising the Lord, boasting in
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the Lord, celebrating the Lord, giving thanks at His name,
rejoicing in who He is. And so I thought that we could
look at the prerequisites of praise today and in doing so,
help you understand why at timesI, I don't praise the Lord or
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celebrate his name when I should.
The Bible says in Psalm 33 verse#1 that that praise is, is
beautifying, fitting to the people of God.
It's it's, it's that what's, what's fits us the best praise
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is that which beautifies our life more than anything else.
But yet at times we we are reluctant to be that beautiful.
The question is why? Why does that happen in its
centers? I believe around the
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prerequisites to praise and the prerequisites fall into 4
categories. There there are four legs in
which you stand on the pathway to praise and as you journey
along this pathway, these these legs keep you moving in the
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right direction. 1 is the peace of Christ, second is the word of
Christ, third is the name of Christ, and 4th is the fear of
Christ. So if the If the peace of Christ
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does not rule in your heart, youwill not be thankful.
If the word of Christ does not reside in your heart, you will
not give thanks to the Lord. If the name of Christ does not
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radiate from your heart, you will not give praise and
celebrate the Christ. And if the fear of Christ does
not reign supreme in your heart,you won't rejoice with
trembling. There are your 4 principles.
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If you got your Bible, turn to Colossians chapter 3, Colossians
chapter 3 and we will show you how these all come together.
It reads this way verse 15. Let the peace of Christ rule in
your hearts, to which indeed youwere called in one body, and be
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thankful. Let the word of Christ richly
dwell within you with all wisdom, teaching and admonishing
one another, with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Then whatever you do in Word or deed, do all in the name of the
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Lord Jesus. Give me thanks through Him to
God the Father. Those are the first three, the
peace of Christ, the word of Christ, and the name of Christ.
The peace of Christ must rule inyour heart.
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That's what it says. Possibly let the peace of Christ
rule in your hearts, for you've been called into one body and be
thankful. So if the peace of Christ does
not rule in your heart, you willnot give thanks to the Lord.
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So what does that mean? Well, the word rule means means
to call the shots. It's the word where we get our
English word umpire and umpires.They call balls and strikes,
They call fair a foul, They callouter safe.
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They make the call. They're the determining factor
and whether or not you are safe or out, it's a strike or a ball
or whatever the case may be. They they call shots.
Unfortunately, now they they have instant replay to make sure
that the empire got it right. But when the peace of Christ
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rules in your heart, it means that the very fact that you're
on God's side, let him be the governing factor in every
decision that you make. In other words, the Bible says
in Romans 51, having been justified by faith, we have
peace with God. Before you were saved, you were
at war with God. You were the enemy of God.
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But now that you've been justified by faith, you're at
peace with God. So now that you're at peace with
God, let that very fact be that which determines every decision
that you make in life. Let the fact that you're on
God's side determine which decision that you make.
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How many times have you heard mesay over the years that the
decision you make today will determine your destiny tomorrow?
Make a bad decision today, it affects your tomorrow.
Make a good decision today, it affects your tomorrow.
Excuse me, but whatever decisionyou make today will determine
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your destiny tomorrow. So whatever decision you're
going to make today, let the very fact that you're at peace
with God determine every decision that you make.
Let the peace of Christ be the ruling factor in whatever
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decision you're going to make today.
When you do that, you'll be thankful.
And the reason you're not thankful is because you're
making the decisions and then you don't like your decision
because then you got to live with the consequences and you're
not thankful. But when you let the peace of
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Christ rule in your heart because you have, because you're
at peace with God and you have the peace of God in you, you let
him make that decision. So when you decide to to date
someone, you let the peace of Christ make that decision.
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In other words, you, you let thevery fact that you're on God's
side determine who it is you date or you don't date, what job
you take or what job you don't take, what clothes you wear
versus what clothes you don't wear this morning.
You let the peace of Christ makethe deciding factor and whether
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or not you came to church, you're here right there.
There are those who are not herebecause they didn't let the
peace of Christ rule in their heart.
They let something else rule in their heart and that's what made
their decision not to come to church.
And the decision they make todaywill determine their destiny
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tomorrow, just like your decision today determines your
destiny tomorrow. Isn't it interesting that when
you think of the armor of God inthe Ephesians chapter 6 and we
know about the armor of God, we we think about all those
different instruments that that are part of the armor.
We think of the helmet of salvation.
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We think of the sword of the spirit.
We think of the shield of faith,the breastplate of
righteousness, that the belt of truth, but very few people ever
think about the gospel of peace in which our our feet are
furnished with. Paul says that our feet are to
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be shod with the gospel of peace, or fitted with the gospel
of peace, or furnished with the gospel of peace.
That does not mean that your armor is about talking to people
about Jesus and the gospel of peace.
That's not what that means. It does mean that the very fact
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that you're at peace with God because the gospel that was
preached to you solidifies your stance as you go to war because
you're on God's side. And isn't it interesting that
those those feet that are fittedwith the gospel of peace
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determine how you engage in battle?
For instance, the Bible says flee your morality, flee
idolatry, flee the love of money, flee youthful lusts.
Well, how do you do that? You do it because you you have
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the right shoes on you. You have the gospel of of peace
that fits you perfectly so that when it's time to run, you can
run. When it's time to stand, you
stand, but you're at peace with God.
And because you're at peace withGod, the decision you make to
run rules in your heart. He moves you away from
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temptation. That's why Paul would say there
is no temptation taken you put such as coming to man.
But God always provides a way ofescape.
Well, how does he provide the way of skate?
Because he's fitted you with thegospel of peace.
That's the shoes you wear. You remember growing up when
you, when you used to buy new shoes, how excited you were
about new shoes. And your mom would say, OK, OK,
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just run down the aisle and see,see how fast you run.
And you take off running down the aisle of the, of the store.
And then, whoa, man, I, I, I runfaster now.
And you were convinced that you could run faster because you had
new shoes. Well, when you're born again,
you're at peace with God, and part of the armor you're fitted
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with is the gospel of peace. They're the shoes you wear that
are furnished specifically for you so that you can make the
decision to run when it's necessary to run and flee
immorality and idolatry and youthful lusts, or to stand firm
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against the Wiles of the devil and be armored with those things
that are fitted for you in Ephesians chapter 6.
But when you let the peace of Christ make the decision in your
life, you're always thankful. Always.
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But when you make the decision, not so much so when you're not
thankful. As you travel down the pathway
of praise, ask yourself, did thepeace of Christ decide what it
is I was supposed to do today, tomorrow, and forever?
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When the gospel of peace rules in your heart, you will be
thankful. Now the Bible says in Isaiah 26
three that God will keep you in perfect peace, whose mind is
stayed fixed, focused on thee. And the Bible says in Psalm one
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19165 that great peace have those who love your commandments
and nothing causes them to stumble.
Great peace. That's where the second point
comes in. And that is the word of Christ
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must reside in your heart. The word of Christ must reside
in your heart. This is how Paul says it.
He says, let the word of Christ richly dwell within you
abundantly dwell. The word dwell is the word that
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means to to be at home. Let the word of Christ be at
home abundantly in your heart. When, when the when the word of
Christ resides within you, is athome within you, you will teach,
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admonish one another and you will sing to one another in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs and you will give thanks.
That's the byproduct of the wordof Christ richly dwelling in
you. So if on your journey down the
pathway to praise and you are reluctant to giving thanks and
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praise and hallelujahs to God, you must ask yourself, is the
word of Christ. Residing within my heart.
Is it overwhelmingly at home in my heart or or is God's word a
stranger to you? You see, we, we like to, we like
to snack on the word of God instead of scarf the word of
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God. There's a big difference there.
You know, snacks are are great in between meals, but you need
to scarf on the word of God, devour the word of God every
opportunity you get to hear the word of God, to read the word of
God, to listen to the word of God, to be in the word of God
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must consume you because you want the word of Christ to be at
home in your heart. In other words, it's it's shed
all over your insides and when the word of Christ resides
within you, richly dwells withinyour heart, there'll be
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instruction, admonition, and expression.
You'll teach one another. That's instruction.
You'll admonish one another. That's admonition.
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And look what Paul says. He says with psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs singing withthankfulness.
Where in your church, in your hearts to the Lord, that there's
a certain song you sing in your heart to the Lord, that there is
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an expression of of praise to God, because the word of Christ
dwells in me richly, and that expression is I.
I sing to one another with psalms, which are the Old
Testament psalms, hymns, which simply are the expressions of
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praise to God. Spiritual songs are are personal
testimonial songs such as the new song or Mary's song in Luke
1 or Zachariah's song. Those are personal testimonies
of of songs in the scripture andit says singing with grace.
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In other words, the songs you sing are prompted by the grace
that's within you in your heartsto the Lord.
There's a certain expression of praise you give to the Lord in
your heart. In other words, your heart
matches the praise on your lips.Sometimes we, we come to church
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and, and we sing songs of praise, but they're not really
matching what's on the inside ofour heart, are they?
They're they're we're, we're doing all the outward motions,
but our hearts are really some place else in another direction,
affection for something else other than God.
We're to sing in our hearts to the Lord.
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And that's the expression of the, of the word of Christ that
resides within your heart. When the peace of Christ rules
in your heart, you give thanks. When the word of Christ resides
in your heart, you give thanks and you do it in song and praise
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to God. And then there's the name of
Christ says in verse 17, Whatever you do in Word or deed,
do all the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks through him
to God the Father. The name of Christ, the name of
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Christ simply is who he is. It's his character, it's his
nature and and the the name of Christ needs to radiate in our
hearts. So whatever you do in Word or
deed, whatever you say today, tomorrow, for the rest of your
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life, whatever you do today or tomorrow, the rest of your life,
whatever you do in Word or deed to all in line with the
attributes and character of God.In other words, what you say
today should reflect, should radiate that your heart is right
with God and you know God. What you do today should reflect
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that you know God and you honor God and serve God.
So whatever you do in Word or deed to all, not some all in the
name or in line with the character in nature of the Lord
Jesus, and you will be thankful.But if what you're doing in Word
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or deed is not in line with the character and attributes of God,
you will not be thankful, you'llbe miserable, you'll be
unthankful, you will not be delightful.
So you got to ask yourself, whatam I doing today?
What am I saying today that's inline with the character and
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nature of the Lord? I say I serve.
Are my words radiating the truththat I know Christ?
Are my words radiating the fact that I, my, my, the places I go
read the fact that I know Christ?
That is just so incredibly important.
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My kids will tell you that when,when they were growing up, I
used to always use this phrase with them.
Don't defame the name. Whatever you do when you leave
the house, don't defame the name.
So they always thought it was the name of Sparks.
No, it's not my name, it's God'sname.
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Don't defame, don't profane, don't bring a reproach upon the
name of Christ. And whatever you do in Word or
deed, do all in the name of Christ.
If you're a parent today, I would I would challenge you to
adopt that with your children. When they get ready to go to
school, they get ready to leave the door, say hey, remember,
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don't defame the name. See you?
That should be the last words they hear from you as they leave
their house. Don't defame the name.
Let those words ring in their ears all throughout the day.
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They go to school, they go to work, they go on a date.
Don't defame the name. Why?
Because whatever you do in Word or deed, do all in line with the
name of Jesus Christ our Lord and be thankful.
Give thanks through him. See, you can't give thanks to
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Him if you're opposed to Him andliving not in line with who He
is. Aren't you glad you came today?
This is just so basic, but yet so beneficial.
Such a blessing for all of us because we go through life and
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some days are just bad days and we don't give thanks to God.
We don't praise him. Things go bad, things go
haywire. Things don't go the way I want
them to go. Well, did you live according to
the peace of Christ? Was he ruling in your heart when
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you make that decision as to what you did that day?
And and is the word of Christ residing in your heart?
Is it all throughout you are Areyou richly indwelt with the word
of Christ because you you hear it, you hear it correctly, you
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heed it constantly, you honor itentirely, you hide it inwardly
because it's all about who you are, the word of Christ, and it
resides within your heart in thename of Christ.
Is it radiating all throughout your being each and every day,
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so that when you speak, you speak Christ's words?
When you go places, you go whereChrist's name is not defamed or
profaned, but glorified and honored #4 turn me to Psalm 2.
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Psalm 2 studies around the the fear of Christ.
If you want to live in peace, ifyou want to love His word, if
you want to lift his name, you must fear the Christ.
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So the Bible says in Psalm 2, worship the Lord verse 11 with
fear and rejoice with trembling.Rejoice with trembling.
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How do you do that? What does that mean?
Worship the Lord in fear? Maybe your text says reverence.
That's an OK word because you want to Revere the Lord.
Those who fear him do Revere him.
The unbeliever has No Fear of God before his eyes.
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The unbeliever does not fear God.
Only the believer fears him. Psalm 130 verse #4 There is
forgiveness with thee, that thoumayest be feared.
Why does God forgive you so you'll fear him?
Because the unbeliever doesn't fear God, only the believer
does. So God wants you to worship him
in fear. He wants you to rejoice your
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trembling, so he forgives you. So you will do that because the
unforgiven don't do that. That's important to understand,
but isn't it interesting? Psalm 100 verse 2 says worship
the Lord with gladness or serve the Lord with gladness.
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Psalm 2 says worship the Lord with fear, serve the Lord with
fear. So which is it?
Do I serve him with fear or withgladness?
But if there is No Fear, there is no gladness, because there is
no peace. Remember the the the Christmas
story, peace on earth with thosewith whom God is pleased.
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Peace does not come on earth to those with whom God is not
pleased, only with those with whom he is pleased.
So who is God pleased with? Psalm 14711 says God is pleased
with those who fear His name. See that So only those who fear
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his name please God. Those who fear His name receive
the peace of God. Therefore we are to worship the
Lord, fear the Lord, serve the Lord in fear, so that we can
rejoice with trembling. To this man will I look, Psalm
66, I mean Isaiah 66 verse #2 Tothis man will I look to him who
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is broken and of a contrite heart, and who trembles at my
word, who shakes uncontrollably under the authority of what I
say. They live in the fear of the
Lord all day long. We don't like to use that word
because we we want a candy coat and say, well, it just means to
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to reverence and be in awe of the Lord, which is good, but
that's not what it means. It means you fear the Lord.
What does that mean? Exactly what it says.
It means you fear the Lord because the unbeliever does not,
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not afraid of the Lord because they don't know Him.
But when you come to know Him, it strikes fear in your heart.
Not because you'll ever be condemned, because perfect love
casts out fear, right? The love of Christ casts out
fear. So there's not the fear of
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condemnation. It's not the fear of judgement.
We don't have that kind of fear.Why?
Because we know that the love ofChrist cast all that out.
I will never be judged or condemned by God because of what
he's done for me at Calvary. But I do fear.
Fear that I would displease him,dishonor his name, profane his
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name. So Psalmist says, fear the name
of Christ. Let it be that which reigns
supreme in your heart, so you can rejoice with trembling.
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It's interesting that the Christmas story is more about
fear than anything else. When the angels would have the
glory of the Lord shine all around the shepherds, they were
terrified. They were in fear.
So what did the Angel say? Fear not, fear not.
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Why? Because you bring your good news
with great joy. When the Angel appeared to to
Mary, he said don't be afraid Mary, because she was terrified.
Look at the people who encountered the Christ in the
Scriptures. Absolutely terrified.
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Why? Because he's a consuming fire.
It's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God. But yet the Lord, his grace and
mercy, reaches out to save the lost and those who are saved.
They understand him, they get him, and they fear him.
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That's why the Bible says these words Proverbs 2317 Live in the
fear of God always. That's what Solomon said as he
wrote to his son. He said in Proverbs 2814,
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Blessed is the man who fears allday long.
That's the blessed man. The Bible says in Proverbs 3130
that charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but the woman
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who fears the Lord, she shall bepraised.
The Bible says over in the book of Isaiah, the 8th chapter,
Isaiah chapter 8 verse #13 it isthe Lord of hosts whom you
should regard as holy, perfect, sinless, absolute perfection.
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It's the Lord of hosts, the Lordof army armies.
Yavay Savayoth is the one you should regard as holy.
When you do, He shall be your fear and He shall be your dread.
And then and only then will he become your sanctuary, your
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place of refuge, your place of safety.
The Bible says in Psalm 128, Blessed is everyone who fears
the Lord, who walk in his ways. When you shall eat of the fruit
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of your hands, you will be happy, and it will be well with
you. Your wife should be like a
fruitful vine within your house.Your children like olive plant
plants around your table. Behold, for thus shall the man
be blessed who fears the Lord. Do you fear the Lord?
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Just look at your wife. Does she climb like a vine all
over you? Maybe you don't fear the Lord.
Maybe you fear her more than youfear the Lord Could be.
How are your children? Like olive plants around your
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table? Similar great blessing and joy?
Are your children a heartache toyou?
Ask yourself, do you fear the Lord, or do you fear the
reaction of your children to your decisions?
When you fear the Lord, you fearno man, you fear no woman.
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You fear nothing else. You only fear the Lord.
If you fear something else or someone else, you do not fear
the Lord. It's just that simple.
In fact, listen to this Psalm 112.
How blessed is the man who fearsthe Lord, who greatly delights
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in His commandments. His descendants will be mighty
on the earth. Are your descendants mighty on
the earth? The generation of the upright
will be blessed. Wealth and riches are in his
house, and his righteousness endures forever.
Are there wealth and riches in your house?
It's not talking about money. It's not talking about diamonds
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and jewelry. It's talking about, as Solomon
said in Proverbs 24, that by wisdom a house is built, by
understanding it is established,and by knowledge all the rooms
are filled with precious and pleasant riches.
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In other words, it's the richestof character.
It's it's the richness of Christlikeness.
It's the beauty of Christianity and all that it entails.
He goes on to say in verse 6, this man who fears Lord will
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never be shaken, never never shaken.
The righteous will be rememberedforever.
He will not fear evil tidings, not fear of title, evil tidings,
because it's hard to steadfast trusting in the Lord.
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Do you think we fear the evil tidings that come through the
election process? Of course not.
We don't trust in politics, we don't trust in the election
process. We trust in the Lord.
That's where our trust is. And the man who fears God does
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not fear evil tidings, and his heart is upheld.
He will not fear. In other words, there is
stability, security and strengthin those who fear the Lord.
And those who fear the Christ have the Christ reigning supreme
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in their hearts, and they rejoice with trembling.
The four prerequisites to praisethe peace of Christ.
It must rule in your heart, and you'll be thankful.
The word of Christ, it must reside in your heart.
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And you will teach, admonish oneanother, and you will sing
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, and you'll sing in your
heart to the Lord, and you will give thanks the name of Christ.
It must radiate in your being, in your heart.
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So whatever you do, in Word or in deed, it's all done in
accordance with the character and nature of God.
And you will be thankful that when you fear the Christ, you
fear his name because of the great holiness that's within him
that makes him who he is. You are the person who has that
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fear, reigning supreme above allelse, so that you fear nothing
else or no one else, because youonly fear the Christ.
Those are the four legs, the four prerequisites to praise.
If you ever wonder why you've, why you've gone through a day or
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a week or a month, God forbid, without ever praising God,
singing Hallelujah to God, giving thanks to God, it's
because one of those four elements are not true in your
life. Because once they're true,
you'll be thankful. You'll be grateful.
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You'll sing the Hallelujah chorus.
You'll boast in the Lord. Let's pray.
Father, thank you for today. Thank you for the chance to look
into your word. Answer a question that many of
us have on why is it there are days I am reluctant to praise
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you instead of relish the opportunity to praise you.
Our prayer, Father, is that we would understand the, the peace
of Christ, the word of Christ, the name of Christ and the fear
of Christ. Basically, Lord, we just need to
understand the Christ who you are.
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That's the the basis for all we do because we give thanks
continually through your name, through you, based on who you
are. So I pray for everyone in the
room today. You'd encourage their hearts,
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strengthen their souls, help them to look at their lives in
light of those scriptures and ask themselves the question, am
I living a Hallelujah life, boasting in the Lord, praising,
celebrating His name? And then ask the question, If
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not, why not go back and look atthe text and Colossians and
Psalms and measure their life against what the Bible says?
God, go before the people of ourchurch, this church, Christ
community, use them to radiate the beauty of your name.
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Thank you in Jesus name, Amen.
We as a church are on a journey.That journey we've entitled the
pathway to praise. It's a unique journey because
not everybody wants to be on that pathway.
Unbelievers do not. They refuse the pathway to
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praise, but the believer relishes the pathway to praise.
In fact, the Bible says in Isaiah 4321 that the people that
I have formed for myself, they will declare my praise.
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And so the believer is on this unique journey to praise and
honor his God. It's, it's like a, the, the
journey leads to a great grand crescendo in heaven because
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that's where we're going. And when we get there, the
praise will be enormous. But while we're here on earth,
we're, we're on this pathway to,to praise.
And while the unbeliever refusesthe pathway, we we truly relish
the pathway. We seek to live for the glory
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and honor of God, and we truly want to praise His name.
The Bible gives commands, and the most frequently repeated
command in the Bible is the command to praise the Lord or
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give thanks to the Lord. And yet, as often as it's
repeated, we so infrequently obey it.
And you would think that as often as the Lord says that we
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are to rejoice in the Lord, we are to give thanks to His name,
we are to praise his name, that we would be the people that
would want to do that all the time.
But we find ourselves at times reluctant to praise the name of
the Lord. The phrase Hallelujah is a great
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phrase, great word. It's from 2 Hebrew words hallel
which means to praise or to celebrate or to boast and Yah,
Yahweh, Yahweh, God. Hallelujah means we are to
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celebrate God, we are to boast in God, we are to praise God.
And that's why the the unbeliever refuses the pathway
to praise, because they refuse to to boast in the Lord.
They refuse to praise the Lord, but the believer relishes to do
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that. They've been created for that,
they've been formed for that, and therefore they engage in
praise to their God. That's why the the Bible says,
let not the rich man boast or praise or celebrate his riches.
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And neither let the the mighty man celebrate or boast in his
riches, or the wise man boast orglory or celebrate or praise his
wisdom. But let him who celebrates or
let him who boasts or let him who praises, praise this way
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that he boasts in the Lord who exercises loving kindness and
justice and mercy on the face ofthe earth.
The unbeliever doesn't want to do that.
They, they glory in their richesand their wisdom and their might
and they want to boast all aboutthose things.
But the believer know that they boast in the Lord.
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They, they give hallelujahs to the Lord.
They, they praise his name. And that's why the journey is so
unique. And at the same time it, it can
be perplexing, but it's a, it's a great journey.
And as we travel along this journey, we've looked at the
privilege of praise. We looked at the prophet of
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praise last week. It was the people of praise.
And yet it's true that we find ourselves, even though we're on
this pathway, at times reluctantto praise and to boast and to
celebrate the Christ. The question comes, why is that?
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Why is it if I'm formed by God, and those who are formed by God,
created by Him, they, they will declare my praise?
Why is it then then I have trouble doing that?
Why is it that sometimes as I journey along this pathway, I
find myself opposed to boasting in the Lord or celebrating His
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name? Well, that's why today's title
is called the Prerequisites to Praise.
There are certain prerequisites that, if not a part of your
life, will keep you from praising the Lord, boasting in
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the Lord, celebrating the Lord, giving thanks at His name,
rejoicing in who He is. And so I thought that we could
look at the prerequisites of praise today and in doing so,
help you understand why at timesI, I don't praise the Lord or
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celebrate his name when I should.
The Bible says in Psalm 33 verse#1 that that praise is, is
beautifying, fitting to the people of God.
It's it's, it's that what's, what's fits us the best praise
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is that which beautifies our life more than anything else.
But yet at times we we are reluctant to be that beautiful.
The question is why? Why does that happen in its
centers? I believe around the
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prerequisites to praise and the prerequisites fall into 4
categories. There there are four legs in
which you stand on the pathway to praise and as you journey
along this pathway, these these legs keep you moving in the
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right direction. 1 is the peace of Christ, second is the word of
Christ, third is the name of Christ, and 4th is the fear of
Christ. So if the If the peace of Christ
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does not rule in your heart, youwill not be thankful.
If the word of Christ does not reside in your heart, you will
not give thanks to the Lord. If the name of Christ does not
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radiate from your heart, you will not give praise and
celebrate the Christ. And if the fear of Christ does
not reign supreme in your heart,you won't rejoice with
trembling. There are your 4 principles.
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If you got your Bible, turn to Colossians chapter 3, Colossians
chapter 3 and we will show you how these all come together.
It reads this way verse 15. Let the peace of Christ rule in
your hearts, to which indeed youwere called in one body, and be
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thankful. Let the word of Christ richly
dwell within you with all wisdom, teaching and admonishing
one another, with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Then whatever you do in Word or deed, do all in the name of the
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Lord Jesus. Give me thanks through Him to
God the Father. Those are the first three, the
peace of Christ, the word of Christ, and the name of Christ.
The peace of Christ must rule inyour heart.
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That's what it says. Possibly let the peace of Christ
rule in your hearts, for you've been called into one body and be
thankful. So if the peace of Christ does
not rule in your heart, you willnot give thanks to the Lord.
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So what does that mean? Well, the word rule means means
to call the shots. It's the word where we get our
English word umpire and umpires.They call balls and strikes,
They call fair a foul, They callouter safe.
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They make the call. They're the determining factor
and whether or not you are safe or out, it's a strike or a ball
or whatever the case may be. They they call shots.
Unfortunately, now they they have instant replay to make sure
that the empire got it right. But when the peace of Christ
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rules in your heart, it means that the very fact that you're
on God's side, let him be the governing factor in every
decision that you make. In other words, the Bible says
in Romans 51, having been justified by faith, we have
peace with God. Before you were saved, you were
at war with God. You were the enemy of God.
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But now that you've been justified by faith, you're at
peace with God. So now that you're at peace with
God, let that very fact be that which determines every decision
that you make in life. Let the fact that you're on
God's side determine which decision that you make.
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How many times have you heard mesay over the years that the
decision you make today will determine your destiny tomorrow?
Make a bad decision today, it affects your tomorrow.
Make a good decision today, it affects your tomorrow.
Excuse me, but whatever decisionyou make today will determine
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your destiny tomorrow. So whatever decision you're
going to make today, let the very fact that you're at peace
with God determine every decision that you make.
Let the peace of Christ be the ruling factor in whatever
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decision you're going to make today.
When you do that, you'll be thankful.
And the reason you're not thankful is because you're
making the decisions and then you don't like your decision
because then you got to live with the consequences and you're
not thankful. But when you let the peace of
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Christ rule in your heart because you have, because you're
at peace with God and you have the peace of God in you, you let
him make that decision. So when you decide to to date
someone, you let the peace of Christ make that decision.
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In other words, you, you let thevery fact that you're on God's
side determine who it is you date or you don't date, what job
you take or what job you don't take, what clothes you wear
versus what clothes you don't wear this morning.
You let the peace of Christ makethe deciding factor and whether
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or not you came to church, you're here right there.
There are those who are not herebecause they didn't let the
peace of Christ rule in their heart.
They let something else rule in their heart and that's what made
their decision not to come to church.
And the decision they make todaywill determine their destiny
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tomorrow, just like your decision today determines your
destiny tomorrow. Isn't it interesting that when
you think of the armor of God inthe Ephesians chapter 6 and we
know about the armor of God, we we think about all those
different instruments that that are part of the armor.
We think of the helmet of salvation.
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We think of the sword of the spirit.
We think of the shield of faith,the breastplate of
righteousness, that the belt of truth, but very few people ever
think about the gospel of peace in which our our feet are
furnished with. Paul says that our feet are to
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be shod with the gospel of peace, or fitted with the gospel
of peace, or furnished with the gospel of peace.
That does not mean that your armor is about talking to people
about Jesus and the gospel of peace.
That's not what that means. It does mean that the very fact
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that you're at peace with God because the gospel that was
preached to you solidifies your stance as you go to war because
you're on God's side. And isn't it interesting that
those those feet that are fittedwith the gospel of peace
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determine how you engage in battle?
For instance, the Bible says flee your morality, flee
idolatry, flee the love of money, flee youthful lusts.
Well, how do you do that? You do it because you you have
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the right shoes on you. You have the gospel of of peace
that fits you perfectly so that when it's time to run, you can
run. When it's time to stand, you
stand, but you're at peace with God.
And because you're at peace withGod, the decision you make to
run rules in your heart. He moves you away from
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temptation. That's why Paul would say there
is no temptation taken you put such as coming to man.
But God always provides a way ofescape.
Well, how does he provide the way of skate?
Because he's fitted you with thegospel of peace.
That's the shoes you wear. You remember growing up when
you, when you used to buy new shoes, how excited you were
about new shoes. And your mom would say, OK, OK,
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just run down the aisle and see,see how fast you run.
And you take off running down the aisle of the, of the store.
And then, whoa, man, I, I, I runfaster now.
And you were convinced that you could run faster because you had
new shoes. Well, when you're born again,
you're at peace with God, and part of the armor you're fitted
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with is the gospel of peace. They're the shoes you wear that
are furnished specifically for you so that you can make the
decision to run when it's necessary to run and flee
immorality and idolatry and youthful lusts, or to stand firm
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against the Wiles of the devil and be armored with those things
that are fitted for you in Ephesians chapter 6.
But when you let the peace of Christ make the decision in your
life, you're always thankful. Always.
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But when you make the decision, not so much so when you're not
thankful. As you travel down the pathway
of praise, ask yourself, did thepeace of Christ decide what it
is I was supposed to do today, tomorrow, and forever?
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When the gospel of peace rules in your heart, you will be
thankful. Now the Bible says in Isaiah 26
three that God will keep you in perfect peace, whose mind is
stayed fixed, focused on thee. And the Bible says in Psalm one
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19165 that great peace have those who love your commandments
and nothing causes them to stumble.
Great peace. That's where the second point
comes in. And that is the word of Christ
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must reside in your heart. The word of Christ must reside
in your heart. This is how Paul says it.
He says, let the word of Christ richly dwell within you
abundantly dwell. The word dwell is the word that
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means to to be at home. Let the word of Christ be at
home abundantly in your heart. When, when the when the word of
Christ resides within you, is athome within you, you will teach,
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admonish one another and you will sing to one another in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs and you will give thanks.
That's the byproduct of the wordof Christ richly dwelling in
you. So if on your journey down the
pathway to praise and you are reluctant to giving thanks and
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praise and hallelujahs to God, you must ask yourself, is the
word of Christ. Residing within my heart.
Is it overwhelmingly at home in my heart or or is God's word a
stranger to you? You see, we, we like to, we like
to snack on the word of God instead of scarf the word of
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God. There's a big difference there.
You know, snacks are are great in between meals, but you need
to scarf on the word of God, devour the word of God every
opportunity you get to hear the word of God, to read the word of
God, to listen to the word of God, to be in the word of God
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must consume you because you want the word of Christ to be at
home in your heart. In other words, it's it's shed
all over your insides and when the word of Christ resides
within you, richly dwells withinyour heart, there'll be
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instruction, admonition, and expression.
You'll teach one another. That's instruction.
You'll admonish one another. That's admonition.
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And look what Paul says. He says with psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs singing withthankfulness.
Where in your church, in your hearts to the Lord, that there's
a certain song you sing in your heart to the Lord, that there is
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an expression of of praise to God, because the word of Christ
dwells in me richly, and that expression is I.
I sing to one another with psalms, which are the Old
Testament psalms, hymns, which simply are the expressions of
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praise to God. Spiritual songs are are personal
testimonial songs such as the new song or Mary's song in Luke
1 or Zachariah's song. Those are personal testimonies
of of songs in the scripture andit says singing with grace.
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In other words, the songs you sing are prompted by the grace
that's within you in your heartsto the Lord.
There's a certain expression of praise you give to the Lord in
your heart. In other words, your heart
matches the praise on your lips.Sometimes we, we come to church
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and, and we sing songs of praise, but they're not really
matching what's on the inside ofour heart, are they?
They're they're we're, we're doing all the outward motions,
but our hearts are really some place else in another direction,
affection for something else other than God.
We're to sing in our hearts to the Lord.
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And that's the expression of the, of the word of Christ that
resides within your heart. When the peace of Christ rules
in your heart, you give thanks. When the word of Christ resides
in your heart, you give thanks and you do it in song and praise
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to God. And then there's the name of
Christ says in verse 17, Whatever you do in Word or deed,
do all the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks through him
to God the Father. The name of Christ, the name of
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Christ simply is who he is. It's his character, it's his
nature and and the the name of Christ needs to radiate in our
hearts. So whatever you do in Word or
deed, whatever you say today, tomorrow, for the rest of your
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life, whatever you do today or tomorrow, the rest of your life,
whatever you do in Word or deed to all in line with the
attributes and character of God.In other words, what you say
today should reflect, should radiate that your heart is right
with God and you know God. What you do today should reflect
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that you know God and you honor God and serve God.
So whatever you do in Word or deed to all, not some all in the
name or in line with the character in nature of the Lord
Jesus, and you will be thankful.But if what you're doing in Word
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or deed is not in line with the character and attributes of God,
you will not be thankful, you'llbe miserable, you'll be
unthankful, you will not be delightful.
So you got to ask yourself, whatam I doing today?
What am I saying today that's inline with the character and
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nature of the Lord? I say I serve.
Are my words radiating the truththat I know Christ?
Are my words radiating the fact that I, my, my, the places I go
read the fact that I know Christ?
That is just so incredibly important.
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My kids will tell you that when,when they were growing up, I
used to always use this phrase with them.
Don't defame the name. Whatever you do when you leave
the house, don't defame the name.
So they always thought it was the name of Sparks.
No, it's not my name, it's God'sname.
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Don't defame, don't profane, don't bring a reproach upon the
name of Christ. And whatever you do in Word or
deed, do all in the name of Christ.
If you're a parent today, I would I would challenge you to
adopt that with your children. When they get ready to go to
school, they get ready to leave the door, say hey, remember,
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don't defame the name. See you?
That should be the last words they hear from you as they leave
their house. Don't defame the name.
Let those words ring in their ears all throughout the day.
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They go to school, they go to work, they go on a date.
Don't defame the name. Why?
Because whatever you do in Word or deed, do all in line with the
name of Jesus Christ our Lord and be thankful.
Give thanks through him. See, you can't give thanks to
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Him if you're opposed to Him andliving not in line with who He
is. Aren't you glad you came today?
This is just so basic, but yet so beneficial.
Such a blessing for all of us because we go through life and
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some days are just bad days and we don't give thanks to God.
We don't praise him. Things go bad, things go
haywire. Things don't go the way I want
them to go. Well, did you live according to
the peace of Christ? Was he ruling in your heart when
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you make that decision as to what you did that day?
And and is the word of Christ residing in your heart?
Is it all throughout you are Areyou richly indwelt with the word
of Christ because you you hear it, you hear it correctly, you
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heed it constantly, you honor itentirely, you hide it inwardly
because it's all about who you are, the word of Christ, and it
resides within your heart in thename of Christ.
Is it radiating all throughout your being each and every day,
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so that when you speak, you speak Christ's words?
When you go places, you go whereChrist's name is not defamed or
profaned, but glorified and honored #4 turn me to Psalm 2.
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Psalm 2 studies around the the fear of Christ.
If you want to live in peace, ifyou want to love His word, if
you want to lift his name, you must fear the Christ.
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So the Bible says in Psalm 2, worship the Lord verse 11 with
fear and rejoice with trembling.Rejoice with trembling.
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How do you do that? What does that mean?
Worship the Lord in fear? Maybe your text says reverence.
That's an OK word because you want to Revere the Lord.
Those who fear him do Revere him.
The unbeliever has No Fear of God before his eyes.
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The unbeliever does not fear God.
Only the believer fears him. Psalm 130 verse #4 There is
forgiveness with thee, that thoumayest be feared.
Why does God forgive you so you'll fear him?
Because the unbeliever doesn't fear God, only the believer
does. So God wants you to worship him
in fear. He wants you to rejoice your
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trembling, so he forgives you. So you will do that because the
unforgiven don't do that. That's important to understand,
but isn't it interesting? Psalm 100 verse 2 says worship
the Lord with gladness or serve the Lord with gladness.
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Psalm 2 says worship the Lord with fear, serve the Lord with
fear. So which is it?
Do I serve him with fear or withgladness?
But if there is No Fear, there is no gladness, because there is
no peace. Remember the the the Christmas
story, peace on earth with thosewith whom God is pleased.
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Peace does not come on earth to those with whom God is not
pleased, only with those with whom he is pleased.
So who is God pleased with? Psalm 14711 says God is pleased
with those who fear His name. See that So only those who fear
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his name please God. Those who fear His name receive
the peace of God. Therefore we are to worship the
Lord, fear the Lord, serve the Lord in fear, so that we can
rejoice with trembling. To this man will I look, Psalm
66, I mean Isaiah 66 verse #2 Tothis man will I look to him who
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is broken and of a contrite heart, and who trembles at my
word, who shakes uncontrollably under the authority of what I
say. They live in the fear of the
Lord all day long. We don't like to use that word
because we we want a candy coat and say, well, it just means to
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to reverence and be in awe of the Lord, which is good, but
that's not what it means. It means you fear the Lord.
What does that mean? Exactly what it says.
It means you fear the Lord because the unbeliever does not,
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not afraid of the Lord because they don't know Him.
But when you come to know Him, it strikes fear in your heart.
Not because you'll ever be condemned, because perfect love
casts out fear, right? The love of Christ casts out
fear. So there's not the fear of
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condemnation. It's not the fear of judgement.
We don't have that kind of fear.Why?
Because we know that the love ofChrist cast all that out.
I will never be judged or condemned by God because of what
he's done for me at Calvary. But I do fear.
Fear that I would displease him,dishonor his name, profane his
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name. So Psalmist says, fear the name
of Christ. Let it be that which reigns
supreme in your heart, so you can rejoice with trembling.
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It's interesting that the Christmas story is more about
fear than anything else. When the angels would have the
glory of the Lord shine all around the shepherds, they were
terrified. They were in fear.
So what did the Angel say? Fear not, fear not.
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Why? Because you bring your good news
with great joy. When the Angel appeared to to
Mary, he said don't be afraid Mary, because she was terrified.
Look at the people who encountered the Christ in the
Scriptures. Absolutely terrified.
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Why? Because he's a consuming fire.
It's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God. But yet the Lord, his grace and
mercy, reaches out to save the lost and those who are saved.
They understand him, they get him, and they fear him.
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That's why the Bible says these words Proverbs 2317 Live in the
fear of God always. That's what Solomon said as he
wrote to his son. He said in Proverbs 2814,
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Blessed is the man who fears allday long.
That's the blessed man. The Bible says in Proverbs 3130
that charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but the woman
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who fears the Lord, she shall bepraised.
The Bible says over in the book of Isaiah, the 8th chapter,
Isaiah chapter 8 verse #13 it isthe Lord of hosts whom you
should regard as holy, perfect, sinless, absolute perfection.
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It's the Lord of hosts, the Lordof army armies.
Yavay Savayoth is the one you should regard as holy.
When you do, He shall be your fear and He shall be your dread.
And then and only then will he become your sanctuary, your
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place of refuge, your place of safety.
The Bible says in Psalm 128, Blessed is everyone who fears
the Lord, who walk in his ways. When you shall eat of the fruit
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of your hands, you will be happy, and it will be well with
you. Your wife should be like a
fruitful vine within your house.Your children like olive plant
plants around your table. Behold, for thus shall the man
be blessed who fears the Lord. Do you fear the Lord?
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Just look at your wife. Does she climb like a vine all
over you? Maybe you don't fear the Lord.
Maybe you fear her more than youfear the Lord Could be.
How are your children? Like olive plants around your
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table? Similar great blessing and joy?
Are your children a heartache toyou?
Ask yourself, do you fear the Lord, or do you fear the
reaction of your children to your decisions?
When you fear the Lord, you fearno man, you fear no woman.
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You fear nothing else. You only fear the Lord.
If you fear something else or someone else, you do not fear
the Lord. It's just that simple.
In fact, listen to this Psalm 112.
How blessed is the man who fearsthe Lord, who greatly delights
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in His commandments. His descendants will be mighty
on the earth. Are your descendants mighty on
the earth? The generation of the upright
will be blessed. Wealth and riches are in his
house, and his righteousness endures forever.
Are there wealth and riches in your house?
It's not talking about money. It's not talking about diamonds
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and jewelry. It's talking about, as Solomon
said in Proverbs 24, that by wisdom a house is built, by
understanding it is established,and by knowledge all the rooms
are filled with precious and pleasant riches.
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In other words, it's the richestof character.
It's it's the richness of Christlikeness.
It's the beauty of Christianity and all that it entails.
He goes on to say in verse 6, this man who fears Lord will
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never be shaken, never never shaken.
The righteous will be rememberedforever.
He will not fear evil tidings, not fear of title, evil tidings,
because it's hard to steadfast trusting in the Lord.
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Do you think we fear the evil tidings that come through the
election process? Of course not.
We don't trust in politics, we don't trust in the election
process. We trust in the Lord.
That's where our trust is. And the man who fears God does
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not fear evil tidings, and his heart is upheld.
He will not fear. In other words, there is
stability, security and strengthin those who fear the Lord.
And those who fear the Christ have the Christ reigning supreme
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in their hearts, and they rejoice with trembling.
The four prerequisites to praisethe peace of Christ.
It must rule in your heart, and you'll be thankful.
The word of Christ, it must reside in your heart.
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And you will teach, admonish oneanother, and you will sing
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, and you'll sing in your
heart to the Lord, and you will give thanks the name of Christ.
It must radiate in your being, in your heart.
(42:57):
So whatever you do, in Word or in deed, it's all done in
accordance with the character and nature of God.
And you will be thankful that when you fear the Christ, you
fear his name because of the great holiness that's within him
that makes him who he is. You are the person who has that
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fear, reigning supreme above allelse, so that you fear nothing
else or no one else, because youonly fear the Christ.
Those are the four legs, the four prerequisites to praise.
If you ever wonder why you've, why you've gone through a day or
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a week or a month, God forbid, without ever praising God,
singing Hallelujah to God, giving thanks to God, it's
because one of those four elements are not true in your
life. Because once they're true,
you'll be thankful. You'll be grateful.
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You'll sing the Hallelujah chorus.
You'll boast in the Lord. Let's pray.
Father, thank you for today. Thank you for the chance to look
into your word. Answer a question that many of
us have on why is it there are days I am reluctant to praise
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you instead of relish the opportunity to praise you.
Our prayer, Father, is that we would understand the, the peace
of Christ, the word of Christ, the name of Christ and the fear
of Christ. Basically, Lord, we just need to
understand the Christ who you are.
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That's the the basis for all we do because we give thanks
continually through your name, through you, based on who you
are. So I pray for everyone in the
room today. You'd encourage their hearts,
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strengthen their souls, help them to look at their lives in
light of those scriptures and ask themselves the question, am
I living a Hallelujah life, boasting in the Lord, praising,
celebrating His name? And then ask the question, If
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not, why not go back and look atthe text and Colossians and
Psalms and measure their life against what the Bible says?
God, go before the people of ourchurch, this church, Christ
community, use them to radiate the beauty of your name.
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Thank you in Jesus name, Amen.
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