October 27, 2025 • 43 mins
Pastor Lance explains from Scripture why it is good for us to give thanks, giving 10 reasons for us to praise.
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As we approach the holiday season, we are, we are on a
journey, journey along the pathway.
We've called the pathway to praise.
And over the next several weeks we are going to look at what the
Bible says concerning giving praise to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And how do we do that? What does it entail?
And last week we told you that we are, we are a Kingdom of
priests. That's Revelation chapter 1 as
well as first Peter chapter 2. In fact, Peter calls us a a
royal priesthood. And as priests, we are in the
process of offering sacrifices to our God because that's what
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priests do. And the church as a priesthood
of believers have specifically three different sacrifices that
they offer on a regular basis. If you're with us on Wednesday
night, you, you know what those sacrifices are because we talked
about how pleasing they are to the Lord.
The first sacrifice is the sacrifice of of self or my
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person. Romans 12 tells us that we are
to present our bodies a living sacrifice unto God, for that is
the only logical form of worshipthat we will ever have.
And so as priests we offer our ourselves up to God as living
sacrifices. But not only do we offer up the
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sacrifice of self, but we also offer up the sacrifice of
substance or our purse. The Bible says in Hebrews
chapter 13 verse #16 And do not neglect doing good and sharing,
for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
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And then there's the third sacrifice, and that's a
sacrifice of, of song. Whether it's a sacrifice of
self, substance or song, or person, purse or praise, it's
all costly. Hebrews 13 verse #15 Through
Him, then let us continually OfferUp a sacrifice of praise to
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God. That is the fruit of lips that
give thanks to His name. All three of those sacrifices
are costly, but they are compensated greatly by God.
And so as we begin to journey down this pathway of praise, we
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recognize that it is a sacrificethat truly pleases our God.
And so in our journey we began last week by looking at the
privilege of praise. What is the privilege behind
praising God? As we continue down this pathway
of praise, we move from the privilege of praise to the
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prophet of praise. There is great profit in
praising God. And so many times we we miss
this aspect of praise. For the Bible says in Psalm 92
verse #1 these words it is good to give thanks to the Lord, and
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to sing praises to your name almost high, to declare your
loving kindness in the morning and your faithfulness by night,
with the 10 stringed lute, and with the harp, with sounding
music upon the lyre. For you, O Lord, have made me
glad by what You have done. I will sing for joy at the works
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of your hands. The psalmist says it is good to
give thanks unto the Lord. He would also say in Psalm one,
O 7 these words verse #1 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is
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good, for his loving kindness iseverlasting.
Let the redeemed of the Lord sayso, whom he has redeemed from
the hand of the adversary. OO Give thanks to the Lord, for
he is good. Psalm 147 says it this way.
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Psalm 147 verse #1 Praise the Lord, for it is good to sing
praises to our God, for it is pleasing, and praise is
becoming. There's something about praise
that is good, and because it's good, it brings profit to those
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who give praise to God. This morning I want to show you
why it's good to give praise to God because the benefits are
insurmountable. It's good to give praise to God
#1 because the person of God is good, the person of God is good.
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Psalm 1/19/68 God is good. Whenever you give thanks to the
Lord, it is good because the person of God is good.
And so when you give thanks to the Lord, the prophet is, is
that you begin to understand themagnitude of the person of God
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himself. So the Bible says that God
himself is good. Listen to Psalm 118 verse #1
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, For his loving kindness
is everlasting. Oh, let Israel say his loving
kindness is everlasting. And let the House of Aaron say
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his loving kindness is everlasting.
Oh, let those who fear the Lord say his loving kindness is
everlasting. And then the psalmist concludes
Psalm 18 with these words, Give thanks to the Lord, for he is
good and his loving kindness is everlasting.
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The psalmist was saying Psalm 25verse #8 good and upright is the
Lord. In Psalm 145 verse #9 the Bible
says the Lord is good to all, and then it says in Psalm 32
verse #9 For I will wait on yourname, for it is good.
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Psalm 34 verse #8 those or excuse me, taste and see that
the Lord is good. The Bible says in Romans chapter
2 that it's the goodness of God that leads man to repentance.
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The goodness of God leads man torepentance.
Why? Because man is destined for
hell. But because of God's grace and
God's goodness, man can be saved.
So the Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads man
to repentance. As you recall, way back in the
book of Exodus, the 33rd chapter, Moses asked God to see
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his glory. I want to see your splendor.
I want to see your majesty. God says I can't let you see the
fullness of my majesty because Ihave to kill you if you do,
because you'll be incinerated. But I will let all my goodness
pass before you. In other words, the glory of the
Lord is defined by the goodness of God.
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It talks about his patience, hisloving kindness, his
forgiveness, His mercy, as he would hide Moses in the cleft of
the rock and pass by him, and hecould see the afterglow of the
glory of God, and God would proclaim to him all of his
goodness, and Moses would fall down and worship the Lord.
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It's good to give thanks to the Lord, because the person of God
is good. And when you realize how good he
is, the prophet that you receiveis insurmountable because you
begin to understand the character and nature of your God
#2 Not only is a person of God good, but the Providence of God
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is good. The Providence of God is good.
The Providence is that is defined by the hand of God
moving in and among his people. It's the hand of God that that
moves mountains, is the hand of God that moves kings.
It's the hand of God that that moves husbands and wives.
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It's it's the out working of Godin the daily aspect of everyone
of our lives. God's Providence is always at
work. God's Providence is never, never
not working. God is working in and among your
life, your marriage, your workplace, even as we speak
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today through the people and circumstances that you face to
bring about your greater good. That's what the Bible says.
We know that all things work together for good to those who
love God and are called according to His purpose.
That means even sinful things. The Bible didn't say all things
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except that which is sin works together for good.
It says that all things work together for good to those who
love God and are called according to His purposes.
Why? Because God is bigger than your
sin. Your sin is never so great that
it that it gets God by surprise.Your sin is never so big that
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God can't handle what's going onin your life.
So God will say all things were together for good to those who
love God in a called according to his purpose because God is at
work in the lives of his people.You know the story of Joseph,
you meant it for evil, but but God meant it for good.
Why? Because the Providence of God
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was working in my being sold to the Ishmaelites, being thrown
into a pit, being lied to by Potiphar's wife, being thrown
into jail. God used all those negative
circumstances to bring about good for Joseph that he might
save two nations, both Egypt andIsrael.
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But so many times we can't see the the working of God amidst
all of our conflict and affliction.
But God is working. God's Providence is always
sound. That's why the Bible says in
Psalm 1/19/68 God is good and doest good.
Only a good God can do that which is good.
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And that's why the psalmist was going to say it was good for me
to have been afflicted, that I might learn your decrees.
So in, in in the goodness of God, he allowed the affliction
to come my way that I might learn the decrees of God.
Why? Because in the Providence of
God, he is working all things out after the counsel of his
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will. That's why the Providence of God
is good, because the person of God is good.
And if I know that, OK, the prophet to me is that I know
that God is intricately involvedin every aspect of my life,
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through all the negative and allthe positive, through all the
evil and through all the good, God is involved in molding and
shaping my life that I might be just like him because God wants
me to be like him. He wants me to be Christ like.
So the Providence of God is goodbecause the person of God is
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good. And if both of those are good,
then #3 the proclamation about God then is good.
That's why the Angel said, we bring you good news of great
joy. The good news is the gospel.
And when you proclaim the good news about a good God and His
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Providence, it brings profit to your life because you're doing
what God's called you to do, to proclaim the message of the
Lord. Listen to the words of Isaiah
chapter 40 verse #9 get yourselfup on a high mountain.
Oh, Zion, bearer of good news here.
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Zion is representative of the people of Israel.
If you are reading through the Old Testament, Zion has
mentioned some 152 different times, it refers either to a
place Mount Zion, or to a peopleIsrael, or to the the property
that Israel has, Mount Zion itself.
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And it refers to very different aspects of the things relate to
Israel. But here it refers to the
people. Oh Zion, my people bear bearer
of good news, lift up your voicemightily.
Oh Jerusalem, bearer of good news, lift it up.
Do not fear, say to the cities of God or the cities of Judah,
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here is your God, you're a bearer of good news.
The Bible then says in Isaiah 52verse #7 which Paul quotes in
Romans chapter 10, How lovely. On the mountains are the feet of
him who brings good news, who announces peace and brings good
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news of happiness, who announcessalvation and says his eye on
your God reigns. How?
How beautiful are the feet of those who proclaim good news?
Listen, if you want beautiful feet, you don't need a pedicure.
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You just need to proclaim the gospel that makes your feet
beautiful. Save your money on your pedicure
and make sure you're that money is used to proclaim the gospel
because that's what makes the feet of those who bring good
news beautiful. Why?
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Because you're bringing the people that which they need to
hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So the person of God is good, The Providence of God is good.
The proclamation about God is good and the promises of God are
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good. Back in Joshua chapter 23,
listen to what Joshua says. Joshua chapter 23 as he
concludes his ministry of leading Israel to the promised
land. He says the verse #14 Now
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behold, today I'm going the way of all the earth, and you know
in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one word of
all the good words which the Lord your God spoke concerning
you has failed. All had been fulfilled for you.
Not one of them has failed. What a testimony here Joshua is
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going to weigh of all the earth he's about to depart into the
presence of the living God, and he wants to assure the people of
Israel that not one good word that God has spoken has failed
them. Earlier he would say in verse
#45 chapter 21, not one of the good promises which the Lord had
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made to the House of Israel failed.
All came to pass. That's just such a remarkable
statement that Israel would knowthat what God has said to you
has come to be. So we trust the promises of God
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because it's the good word of God.
The promises of God are good. If the person of God is good,
then the promises he make, he makes are good as well.
The promise of forgiveness, the promise of of his mercy, the
promise of his love, the promiseof His grace.
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All of God's promises are true, even the promises that are in
the negative, that if you don't do this, this will happen.
Why? Because God is faithful and true
to His word. And so God, when he makes a
promise, he fulfills that promise because he is true to
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His Word. Psalm 8411 says no good thing
will the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly.
Talk about the prophet of praise.
No good thing will the Lord withhold from those who walk
uprightly. That's very, very important.
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A lot of you know, know about mytestimony and, and the my, my
first wife died after after 4 1/2 years of marriage of cancer.
After she died, I, I, I went to the Lord and prayed.
Psalm 8411. Lord, the Bible says no good
thing will the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly.
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And the Bible also says that Godis good and he does good.
So Lord, you are good, you do good, and no good thing does the
Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly.
The Bible also says, if I present my body as a living
sacrifice, it is good and acceptable unto God.
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And the Bible also says that he who finds a wife finds a good
thing. So, Lord, because you withhold
no good thing from those who walk uprightly, and I desire to
present my body as a living sacrifice to you, which is good
and acceptable, and you are a good God who does good, I would
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ask that you bring a good thing to me.
And the Lord brought Lori to me.It was no longer than a week
after that that she knocked on my office door and she and her
boyfriend were at the door. Little did the boyfriend know,
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his days were short. You know what I'm saying?
But the Lord brought her to me because I believe that when you
wait on God, He will always bring to you that which you
need. We, we spend all of our energy
searching for that which we think is good.
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And if you're single, you searchfor a wife.
Why? You search for a husband, the
Bible says seek after God, then say seek a husband, search God,
seek after God, be consumed withGod and watch what God does.
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No good thing does the Lord withhold from those who walk
uprightly. Focus on your walk with the
Lord, focus on honoring him. Because those who honor me, God
says I will honor for Samuel 2:30 So honor the Lord and watch
and see how the Lord honors you.But we spend all of our energy
seeking that which we think we need instead of searching after
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the God we need to worship and adore.
And the promises of God are very, very good.
God always keeps His word. And so the person of God is
good, the Providence of God is good, the proclamation about God
is good, the promises of God aregood.
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Oh, by the way, the property of God is good.
Did you know that? If you're still in Joshua
chapter 23, it says this in verse #15 It should come about
that just as all the good words which the Lord your God spoke to
you have come upon you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the
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threats until He has destroyed you from off the good land which
the Lord your God has given you.Notice he calls it the good land
that God has given you. It says in verse 16, when you
transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which He
commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them,
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then the anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you will
perish quickly from off the goodland which He has given you.
Which land did God give Israel? He gave them His land.
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Leviticus 25 verse #23 The land God says is mine.
As he talks about the promised land, He says the land is mine.
OK, now we know that God owns the earth.
He created the earth. Everything about the earth is
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his right. But never does God say America
is mine, Canada is mine, China is mine, Russia is mine.
Never says that. But it does says say that the
promised land, the land of Israel, is mine.
That's why there are 38 different descriptions of that
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land in the Old Testament, to make sure there is no mistake.
Which land is God's in? The land he gave to Israel from
the river Nile to the great river, the Euphrates, God says
is my land. That's the good land that I've
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given to Israel. Why?
Because if the person of God is good, then his Providence is
good. When you proclaim Him, that's
good. His promises are good.
Therefore his property, that which he owns, is good.
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You see, everything about God isgood.
That's why. That's why the rabbi came to him
and called him good teacher that.
That's why in John 10 he's called the Good Shepherd,
because everything about God is good, and therefore we, we are
the benefactors of his goodness,because no good thing does the
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Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly.
So therefore we begin to understand the Providence of
God, the promises of God, the property of God, the person of
God, the proclamation about God.We begin to understand all those
things and say, wow, God's in charge, God's working.
Look what God has done. That's the prophet of praise.
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And as you journey down the pathway of praise, you begin to
recognize all the benefits that come your way when you praise
the name of God. How about this?
The precepts of God are good. The precepts of God are good.
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Book of Nehemiah 9th chapter in Chapter 9 is one of the three
national prayers recorded in theOld Testament.
Ezra 9, Daniel 9, and Nehemiah Chapter 9.
It's a prayer of praise to God. It's a prayer of praise about
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God and His creation, about God and His choice of Abraham, about
God and His care and compassion for His people, Israel.
In fact, it's a prayer about thecommandments he gave to Israel.
Listen to what is said. Nehemiah 913 Then you came down
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on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven.
You gave them just ordinances and two laws.
Good statutes and commandments, the precepts of God are good.
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The statutes of God, the commands of God, they're all
good. That's right.
John would say in first John 5 verse #3 that God's commands are
not burdensome. They can't be.
Why? Because a good God has given
good commands. In fact, in Psalm 111 verse #10
it says those who do them have agood understanding.
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So those who obey the commands of God have a good
understanding. Why?
Because the precepts he gave aregood.
And only a good God can give good precepts, good commands,
good statutes. And so when you obey the the
statutes of God, it's to your benefit because you gain good
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understanding. This is the prophet of praise.
To praise him for he is good. Give thanks to the Lord, for he
is good. And so the person of God is
good, the Providence of God is good, the proclamation about God
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is good, the promises of God aregood, the property of God is
good, the precepts of God are good, the power of God is good.
The Bible says in Psalm 62 verse#10 the power belongs to God.
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So if the person of God is good,then the power of God is good
because it comes from a good God.
The Bible says the Romans 116 that the gospel is the power of
God unto salvation. In First Corinthians one verse
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#18 the cross is the power of God to those who believe in
Psalm 62. Power belongs to God in Psalm
77. Psalm 77.
I shall remember the deeds of the Lord surely.
I remember your wonders of old. I will meditate on all your work
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and muse on your deeds. Your way, O God, is holy.
What God is great, like our God.You are the God who works
wonders. You have made known your
strength among the peoples. You have by your power redeemed
your people, the sons of Jacob, the sons of Joseph.
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Listen to the words of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel chapter
4 when he says this. At the end of the period, a very
specific time in which Nebuchadnezzar had been for
seven years crawling on his hands and knees, I,
Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my reason
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returned to me. And I blessed and praised the
Most High, and honored him who lives forever for his dominion
and his everlasting dominion. His Kingdom endures from
generation to generation. All the inhabitants of the earth
are Canada's nothing. But He does according to His
will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the
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earth, and no one can ward off his hand or say to him, What
have you done? Verse 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar
praise, exalt and honor the Kingof heaven, for all his works are
true in his ways just, and he isable to humble those who walk in
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pride because the person of God is good, then the power of God
is good and God always is demonstrating his power, whether
it's through the gospel that's preached or how he moves that
his Providence to orchestrate and rearrange all kinds of
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things in your life. God's in charge of all that.
That's why the power of God is good.
Next, the purposes of God are good.
Book of Numbers 23rd chapter verse #19 God is not a man that
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he should lie nor a son of man that he should repent.
Has he said and will he not do it, or has he spoken and will he
not make it good? No one can ward off the hand of
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God. God has a purpose.
He fulfills that purpose. Isaiah chapter 46 Remember the
former things long past, where Iam God and there is no other.
I am God and there is no one like me.
Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times
things which have not been done.Saying My purpose will be
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established and I will accomplish all my good pleasure
calling the bird of prey from the East, the man of my purpose
from a far country. Truly I've spoken, truly I will
bring it to pass. I've planned it.
Surely I will do it. That that just speaks loudly
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about about the purposes of God.God speaks to fulfill his
purpose. God does what he does because
the ultimate purpose is that he will be glorified and honored.
God has a purpose behind his providential working.
God has a purpose behind the power that he enacts.
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God has a purpose behind the proclamation that is given that
others might hear the gospel. God has a purpose behind all the
promises that he gives. And it's all about the glory of
God, that somehow he might be put on display, that he might be
seen through his people. God will receive the glory
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because His purpose is that he be magnified.
And that's why everything is moving to that great crescendo
toward the end where every knee will bow and every tongue will
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the
Father. The purposes of God are good.
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How about this? The provisions of God are good.
The provisions of God are good over in the the book of
Nehemiah. Nehemiah chapter 2.
By the way, Nehemiah chapter 1 begins with the prayer.
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Nehemiah ends with the prayer. There are 12 prayers in the book
of Nehemiah. The book of Nehemiah is about
leadership can't lead unless you're a prayer warrior.
Fathers can't lead their children or their wives unless
they're men of prayer. They can't lead in the
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workplace, in the church, on their team, no matter where
they're at, unless they're people of prayer.
That's why the these 12 prayers are recorded in the book of
Nehemiah, as Nehemiah exemplifies great leadership
among the people of Israel. In chapter 1, Nehemiah begins to
pray. He's concerned about the nation.
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He has heard about the destruction of Jerusalem and all
that's taking place, and he is burdened greatly.
So he prays for four months. Most of us can't pray for 4
minutes, but he prays for four months.
And in the Providence of God, ashe's before the King, his
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countenance is sad, which is nota good thing because if that's
the case, the king would take offense and recognize that you
were sad because you were in hispresence and you'd need to be
demoted or you'd be killed. But something unique happens in
chapter 2 of Nehemiah, because the queen appears with the king.
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Only time in the book of Nehemiah that the queen appears
with the king. She appears there with him in
the province of God. To soften the hardness of the
King's heart. God places people in certain
positions for his purposes. There are no accidents in your
life. They're just divine
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appointments. You don't have a car accident.
You have a car appointment, right?
No one dies by accident. They die because there's an
appointed time for man to die. Everything is about a divine
appointment. So the queen is with the king.
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God in his Providence allowed that to happen.
And the king begins to ask the question, Nehemiah, what is
wrong? Why are you so sad?
Why are you downcast? And Nehemiah begins to explain
to him all that's taken place. The king said to me, the queen
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sitting beside him. Chapter 2 verse #6 How?
How long will your journey be? And when you will return?
Because he says, I want to go back to, to Jerusalem.
So the king asked him, how long will it take you?
And it pleased the king to send me.
And I gave him a definite time. And I said to the king, If it
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pleases the king, that letters be given me for the governors of
the provinces beyond the river, but they may allow me to pass
through until I come to Judah. And the letter to Asaph, the
keeper of the King's forest, that he may give me timber to
make beams for the gates of the fortress which is by the temple,
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for the wall of the city, and for the house to which I will
go. And the king granted them to me
because think carefully. The good hand of my God was on
me. Nehemiah gives credit to the
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good hand of my God that was upon me.
God, God was going to provide, He provided a, a Commission for
me to go back. He provided letters so that I
could get through those who might be my enemies.
He provided wood so we can buildthe, the, the, the necessary
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elements around the city. God was good.
He provided everything, but he also provided an army to protect
him. Verse 9.
Then I came to the governors of the provinces beyond the river
and gave them the King's letters.
Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and
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horsemen. God provided everything Nehemiah
needed to go back to build the walls around the city of
Jerusalem. Why?
Because all the provisions of God are good.
God will provide all of your needs according to his riches in
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Christ Jesus. But God is the provider, and
when you when you begin to pray to him and seek his face and ask
the Lord to do a great and mighty work, which God did you
able to give him all the credit,because God in his good hand was
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upon you. The Bible says that in James
chapter one that every good thing given and every perfect
gift comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no
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variation or shifting shadow. Every good gift, every perfect
thing comes down from God above.God doesn't give bad gifts,
doesn't do that. He gives only good gifts.
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You'll embark on the Christmas season and you probably receive
a lot of bad gifts. Gifts that you don't want to
have, gifts that you don't need.God doesn't give you anything
you don't need. God only gives you good gifts.
Why? Because the provision of God is
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good. How about this?
The plan of God is good, is it not?
A verse specifically given to Israel, which by way of
secondary application we can apply to us, but it was
specifically given to Israel as God would reassure them?
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Of his plan for the life. And he said in Jeremiah 29, I
know the plans I have for you, plans for prosperity and not for
calamity, plans to give you a future.
And the hope that was specifically given to Israel so
that they would know that the plan of God that would take them
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through 70 years of captivity would end up being such a
perfect plan for them because itwould be for their prosperity.
The plan of God is always good. Sometimes we we find ourselves
in the midst of that plan and wewonder where God is and we ask
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him, what are you doing? But but God has a purpose behind
the plan, like he has a purpose behind us Providence, like he
has a purpose behind his promises, like he has a purpose
behind his proclamation. God has a purpose for
everything. And in his plan He is
orchestrating all things for hisglory.
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And lastly, the paradise of God is good.
That's where we're going. We're going to glory, Christ
said to the thief on the cross. Today you will be with me in
paradise. Paradise in, in the in in
paradise. Revelation 2 verse #7 is, is the
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tree of life in the tree of life?
Is that what you partake of throughout all eternity?
Because it's a life giving tree.It's the eternal tree, and
therefore paradise only comes from a good God whose presence
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dwells in that place. It is good to give thanks to the
Lord because the prophet that itbrings is insurmountable.
As you journey this week down the pathway of praise, don't
forget the privileges of praise,and certainly don't forget the
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prophet of praise. Let's pray together.
Lord, thank you for today. Thank you that we can spend a
brief moment in your word. So so many things to be said
about each of these principles. So many things to to meditate
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upon our prayer Father, is that we would be a people of praise
for the Bible says that the people I have formed for myself,
they will declare my praise. And those of us who know you as
Lord and Savior have been formedby you and you're still working
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in and through our lives. And one of the ways you work is
that we would declare your praises.
May we be those people this weekand for the rest of our lives
until you come again, as you know surely will in Jesus name,
Amen.
As we approach the holiday season, we are, we are on a
journey, journey along the pathway.
We've called the pathway to praise.
And over the next several weeks we are going to look at what the
Bible says concerning giving praise to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And how do we do that? What does it entail?
And last week we told you that we are, we are a Kingdom of
priests. That's Revelation chapter 1 as
well as first Peter chapter 2. In fact, Peter calls us a a
royal priesthood. And as priests, we are in the
process of offering sacrifices to our God because that's what
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priests do. And the church as a priesthood
of believers have specifically three different sacrifices that
they offer on a regular basis. If you're with us on Wednesday
night, you, you know what those sacrifices are because we talked
about how pleasing they are to the Lord.
The first sacrifice is the sacrifice of of self or my
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person. Romans 12 tells us that we are
to present our bodies a living sacrifice unto God, for that is
the only logical form of worshipthat we will ever have.
And so as priests we offer our ourselves up to God as living
sacrifices. But not only do we offer up the
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sacrifice of self, but we also offer up the sacrifice of
substance or our purse. The Bible says in Hebrews
chapter 13 verse #16 And do not neglect doing good and sharing,
for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
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And then there's the third sacrifice, and that's a
sacrifice of, of song. Whether it's a sacrifice of
self, substance or song, or person, purse or praise, it's
all costly. Hebrews 13 verse #15 Through
Him, then let us continually OfferUp a sacrifice of praise to
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God. That is the fruit of lips that
give thanks to His name. All three of those sacrifices
are costly, but they are compensated greatly by God.
And so as we begin to journey down this pathway of praise, we
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recognize that it is a sacrificethat truly pleases our God.
And so in our journey we began last week by looking at the
privilege of praise. What is the privilege behind
praising God? As we continue down this pathway
of praise, we move from the privilege of praise to the
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prophet of praise. There is great profit in
praising God. And so many times we we miss
this aspect of praise. For the Bible says in Psalm 92
verse #1 these words it is good to give thanks to the Lord, and
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to sing praises to your name almost high, to declare your
loving kindness in the morning and your faithfulness by night,
with the 10 stringed lute, and with the harp, with sounding
music upon the lyre. For you, O Lord, have made me
glad by what You have done. I will sing for joy at the works
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of your hands. The psalmist says it is good to
give thanks unto the Lord. He would also say in Psalm one,
O 7 these words verse #1 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is
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good, for his loving kindness iseverlasting.
Let the redeemed of the Lord sayso, whom he has redeemed from
the hand of the adversary. OO Give thanks to the Lord, for
he is good. Psalm 147 says it this way.
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Psalm 147 verse #1 Praise the Lord, for it is good to sing
praises to our God, for it is pleasing, and praise is
becoming. There's something about praise
that is good, and because it's good, it brings profit to those
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who give praise to God. This morning I want to show you
why it's good to give praise to God because the benefits are
insurmountable. It's good to give praise to God
#1 because the person of God is good, the person of God is good.
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Psalm 1/19/68 God is good. Whenever you give thanks to the
Lord, it is good because the person of God is good.
And so when you give thanks to the Lord, the prophet is, is
that you begin to understand themagnitude of the person of God
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himself. So the Bible says that God
himself is good. Listen to Psalm 118 verse #1
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, For his loving kindness
is everlasting. Oh, let Israel say his loving
kindness is everlasting. And let the House of Aaron say
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his loving kindness is everlasting.
Oh, let those who fear the Lord say his loving kindness is
everlasting. And then the psalmist concludes
Psalm 18 with these words, Give thanks to the Lord, for he is
good and his loving kindness is everlasting.
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The psalmist was saying Psalm 25verse #8 good and upright is the
Lord. In Psalm 145 verse #9 the Bible
says the Lord is good to all, and then it says in Psalm 32
verse #9 For I will wait on yourname, for it is good.
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Psalm 34 verse #8 those or excuse me, taste and see that
the Lord is good. The Bible says in Romans chapter
2 that it's the goodness of God that leads man to repentance.
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The goodness of God leads man torepentance.
Why? Because man is destined for
hell. But because of God's grace and
God's goodness, man can be saved.
So the Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads man
to repentance. As you recall, way back in the
book of Exodus, the 33rd chapter, Moses asked God to see
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his glory. I want to see your splendor.
I want to see your majesty. God says I can't let you see the
fullness of my majesty because Ihave to kill you if you do,
because you'll be incinerated. But I will let all my goodness
pass before you. In other words, the glory of the
Lord is defined by the goodness of God.
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It talks about his patience, hisloving kindness, his
forgiveness, His mercy, as he would hide Moses in the cleft of
the rock and pass by him, and hecould see the afterglow of the
glory of God, and God would proclaim to him all of his
goodness, and Moses would fall down and worship the Lord.
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It's good to give thanks to the Lord, because the person of God
is good. And when you realize how good he
is, the prophet that you receiveis insurmountable because you
begin to understand the character and nature of your God
#2 Not only is a person of God good, but the Providence of God
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is good. The Providence of God is good.
The Providence is that is defined by the hand of God
moving in and among his people. It's the hand of God that that
moves mountains, is the hand of God that moves kings.
It's the hand of God that that moves husbands and wives.
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It's it's the out working of Godin the daily aspect of everyone
of our lives. God's Providence is always at
work. God's Providence is never, never
not working. God is working in and among your
life, your marriage, your workplace, even as we speak
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today through the people and circumstances that you face to
bring about your greater good. That's what the Bible says.
We know that all things work together for good to those who
love God and are called according to His purpose.
That means even sinful things. The Bible didn't say all things
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except that which is sin works together for good.
It says that all things work together for good to those who
love God and are called according to His purposes.
Why? Because God is bigger than your
sin. Your sin is never so great that
it that it gets God by surprise.Your sin is never so big that
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God can't handle what's going onin your life.
So God will say all things were together for good to those who
love God in a called according to his purpose because God is at
work in the lives of his people.You know the story of Joseph,
you meant it for evil, but but God meant it for good.
Why? Because the Providence of God
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was working in my being sold to the Ishmaelites, being thrown
into a pit, being lied to by Potiphar's wife, being thrown
into jail. God used all those negative
circumstances to bring about good for Joseph that he might
save two nations, both Egypt andIsrael.
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But so many times we can't see the the working of God amidst
all of our conflict and affliction.
But God is working. God's Providence is always
sound. That's why the Bible says in
Psalm 1/19/68 God is good and doest good.
Only a good God can do that which is good.
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And that's why the psalmist was going to say it was good for me
to have been afflicted, that I might learn your decrees.
So in, in in the goodness of God, he allowed the affliction
to come my way that I might learn the decrees of God.
Why? Because in the Providence of
God, he is working all things out after the counsel of his
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will. That's why the Providence of God
is good, because the person of God is good.
And if I know that, OK, the prophet to me is that I know
that God is intricately involvedin every aspect of my life,
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through all the negative and allthe positive, through all the
evil and through all the good, God is involved in molding and
shaping my life that I might be just like him because God wants
me to be like him. He wants me to be Christ like.
So the Providence of God is goodbecause the person of God is
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good. And if both of those are good,
then #3 the proclamation about God then is good.
That's why the Angel said, we bring you good news of great
joy. The good news is the gospel.
And when you proclaim the good news about a good God and His
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Providence, it brings profit to your life because you're doing
what God's called you to do, to proclaim the message of the
Lord. Listen to the words of Isaiah
chapter 40 verse #9 get yourselfup on a high mountain.
Oh, Zion, bearer of good news here.
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Zion is representative of the people of Israel.
If you are reading through the Old Testament, Zion has
mentioned some 152 different times, it refers either to a
place Mount Zion, or to a peopleIsrael, or to the the property
that Israel has, Mount Zion itself.
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And it refers to very different aspects of the things relate to
Israel. But here it refers to the
people. Oh Zion, my people bear bearer
of good news, lift up your voicemightily.
Oh Jerusalem, bearer of good news, lift it up.
Do not fear, say to the cities of God or the cities of Judah,
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here is your God, you're a bearer of good news.
The Bible then says in Isaiah 52verse #7 which Paul quotes in
Romans chapter 10, How lovely. On the mountains are the feet of
him who brings good news, who announces peace and brings good
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news of happiness, who announcessalvation and says his eye on
your God reigns. How?
How beautiful are the feet of those who proclaim good news?
Listen, if you want beautiful feet, you don't need a pedicure.
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You just need to proclaim the gospel that makes your feet
beautiful. Save your money on your pedicure
and make sure you're that money is used to proclaim the gospel
because that's what makes the feet of those who bring good
news beautiful. Why?
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Because you're bringing the people that which they need to
hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So the person of God is good, The Providence of God is good.
The proclamation about God is good and the promises of God are
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good. Back in Joshua chapter 23,
listen to what Joshua says. Joshua chapter 23 as he
concludes his ministry of leading Israel to the promised
land. He says the verse #14 Now
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behold, today I'm going the way of all the earth, and you know
in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one word of
all the good words which the Lord your God spoke concerning
you has failed. All had been fulfilled for you.
Not one of them has failed. What a testimony here Joshua is
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going to weigh of all the earth he's about to depart into the
presence of the living God, and he wants to assure the people of
Israel that not one good word that God has spoken has failed
them. Earlier he would say in verse
#45 chapter 21, not one of the good promises which the Lord had
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made to the House of Israel failed.
All came to pass. That's just such a remarkable
statement that Israel would knowthat what God has said to you
has come to be. So we trust the promises of God
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because it's the good word of God.
The promises of God are good. If the person of God is good,
then the promises he make, he makes are good as well.
The promise of forgiveness, the promise of of his mercy, the
promise of his love, the promiseof His grace.
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All of God's promises are true, even the promises that are in
the negative, that if you don't do this, this will happen.
Why? Because God is faithful and true
to His word. And so God, when he makes a
promise, he fulfills that promise because he is true to
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His Word. Psalm 8411 says no good thing
will the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly.
Talk about the prophet of praise.
No good thing will the Lord withhold from those who walk
uprightly. That's very, very important.
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A lot of you know, know about mytestimony and, and the my, my
first wife died after after 4 1/2 years of marriage of cancer.
After she died, I, I, I went to the Lord and prayed.
Psalm 8411. Lord, the Bible says no good
thing will the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly.
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And the Bible also says that Godis good and he does good.
So Lord, you are good, you do good, and no good thing does the
Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly.
The Bible also says, if I present my body as a living
sacrifice, it is good and acceptable unto God.
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And the Bible also says that he who finds a wife finds a good
thing. So, Lord, because you withhold
no good thing from those who walk uprightly, and I desire to
present my body as a living sacrifice to you, which is good
and acceptable, and you are a good God who does good, I would
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ask that you bring a good thing to me.
And the Lord brought Lori to me.It was no longer than a week
after that that she knocked on my office door and she and her
boyfriend were at the door. Little did the boyfriend know,
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his days were short. You know what I'm saying?
But the Lord brought her to me because I believe that when you
wait on God, He will always bring to you that which you
need. We, we spend all of our energy
searching for that which we think is good.
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And if you're single, you searchfor a wife.
Why? You search for a husband, the
Bible says seek after God, then say seek a husband, search God,
seek after God, be consumed withGod and watch what God does.
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No good thing does the Lord withhold from those who walk
uprightly. Focus on your walk with the
Lord, focus on honoring him. Because those who honor me, God
says I will honor for Samuel 2:30 So honor the Lord and watch
and see how the Lord honors you.But we spend all of our energy
seeking that which we think we need instead of searching after
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the God we need to worship and adore.
And the promises of God are very, very good.
God always keeps His word. And so the person of God is
good, the Providence of God is good, the proclamation about God
is good, the promises of God aregood.
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Oh, by the way, the property of God is good.
Did you know that? If you're still in Joshua
chapter 23, it says this in verse #15 It should come about
that just as all the good words which the Lord your God spoke to
you have come upon you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the
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threats until He has destroyed you from off the good land which
the Lord your God has given you.Notice he calls it the good land
that God has given you. It says in verse 16, when you
transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which He
commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them,
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then the anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you will
perish quickly from off the goodland which He has given you.
Which land did God give Israel? He gave them His land.
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Leviticus 25 verse #23 The land God says is mine.
As he talks about the promised land, He says the land is mine.
OK, now we know that God owns the earth.
He created the earth. Everything about the earth is
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his right. But never does God say America
is mine, Canada is mine, China is mine, Russia is mine.
Never says that. But it does says say that the
promised land, the land of Israel, is mine.
That's why there are 38 different descriptions of that
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land in the Old Testament, to make sure there is no mistake.
Which land is God's in? The land he gave to Israel from
the river Nile to the great river, the Euphrates, God says
is my land. That's the good land that I've
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given to Israel. Why?
Because if the person of God is good, then his Providence is
good. When you proclaim Him, that's
good. His promises are good.
Therefore his property, that which he owns, is good.
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You see, everything about God isgood.
That's why. That's why the rabbi came to him
and called him good teacher that.
That's why in John 10 he's called the Good Shepherd,
because everything about God is good, and therefore we, we are
the benefactors of his goodness,because no good thing does the
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Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly.
So therefore we begin to understand the Providence of
God, the promises of God, the property of God, the person of
God, the proclamation about God.We begin to understand all those
things and say, wow, God's in charge, God's working.
Look what God has done. That's the prophet of praise.
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And as you journey down the pathway of praise, you begin to
recognize all the benefits that come your way when you praise
the name of God. How about this?
The precepts of God are good. The precepts of God are good.
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Book of Nehemiah 9th chapter in Chapter 9 is one of the three
national prayers recorded in theOld Testament.
Ezra 9, Daniel 9, and Nehemiah Chapter 9.
It's a prayer of praise to God. It's a prayer of praise about
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God and His creation, about God and His choice of Abraham, about
God and His care and compassion for His people, Israel.
In fact, it's a prayer about thecommandments he gave to Israel.
Listen to what is said. Nehemiah 913 Then you came down
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on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven.
You gave them just ordinances and two laws.
Good statutes and commandments, the precepts of God are good.
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The statutes of God, the commands of God, they're all
good. That's right.
John would say in first John 5 verse #3 that God's commands are
not burdensome. They can't be.
Why? Because a good God has given
good commands. In fact, in Psalm 111 verse #10
it says those who do them have agood understanding.
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So those who obey the commands of God have a good
understanding. Why?
Because the precepts he gave aregood.
And only a good God can give good precepts, good commands,
good statutes. And so when you obey the the
statutes of God, it's to your benefit because you gain good
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understanding. This is the prophet of praise.
To praise him for he is good. Give thanks to the Lord, for he
is good. And so the person of God is
good, the Providence of God is good, the proclamation about God
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is good, the promises of God aregood, the property of God is
good, the precepts of God are good, the power of God is good.
The Bible says in Psalm 62 verse#10 the power belongs to God.
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So if the person of God is good,then the power of God is good
because it comes from a good God.
The Bible says the Romans 116 that the gospel is the power of
God unto salvation. In First Corinthians one verse
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#18 the cross is the power of God to those who believe in
Psalm 62. Power belongs to God in Psalm
77. Psalm 77.
I shall remember the deeds of the Lord surely.
I remember your wonders of old. I will meditate on all your work
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and muse on your deeds. Your way, O God, is holy.
What God is great, like our God.You are the God who works
wonders. You have made known your
strength among the peoples. You have by your power redeemed
your people, the sons of Jacob, the sons of Joseph.
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Listen to the words of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel chapter
4 when he says this. At the end of the period, a very
specific time in which Nebuchadnezzar had been for
seven years crawling on his hands and knees, I,
Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my reason
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returned to me. And I blessed and praised the
Most High, and honored him who lives forever for his dominion
and his everlasting dominion. His Kingdom endures from
generation to generation. All the inhabitants of the earth
are Canada's nothing. But He does according to His
will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the
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earth, and no one can ward off his hand or say to him, What
have you done? Verse 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar
praise, exalt and honor the Kingof heaven, for all his works are
true in his ways just, and he isable to humble those who walk in
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pride because the person of God is good, then the power of God
is good and God always is demonstrating his power, whether
it's through the gospel that's preached or how he moves that
his Providence to orchestrate and rearrange all kinds of
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things in your life. God's in charge of all that.
That's why the power of God is good.
Next, the purposes of God are good.
Book of Numbers 23rd chapter verse #19 God is not a man that
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he should lie nor a son of man that he should repent.
Has he said and will he not do it, or has he spoken and will he
not make it good? No one can ward off the hand of
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God. God has a purpose.
He fulfills that purpose. Isaiah chapter 46 Remember the
former things long past, where Iam God and there is no other.
I am God and there is no one like me.
Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times
things which have not been done.Saying My purpose will be
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established and I will accomplish all my good pleasure
calling the bird of prey from the East, the man of my purpose
from a far country. Truly I've spoken, truly I will
bring it to pass. I've planned it.
Surely I will do it. That that just speaks loudly
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about about the purposes of God.God speaks to fulfill his
purpose. God does what he does because
the ultimate purpose is that he will be glorified and honored.
God has a purpose behind his providential working.
God has a purpose behind the power that he enacts.
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God has a purpose behind the proclamation that is given that
others might hear the gospel. God has a purpose behind all the
promises that he gives. And it's all about the glory of
God, that somehow he might be put on display, that he might be
seen through his people. God will receive the glory
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because His purpose is that he be magnified.
And that's why everything is moving to that great crescendo
toward the end where every knee will bow and every tongue will
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the
Father. The purposes of God are good.
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How about this? The provisions of God are good.
The provisions of God are good over in the the book of
Nehemiah. Nehemiah chapter 2.
By the way, Nehemiah chapter 1 begins with the prayer.
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Nehemiah ends with the prayer. There are 12 prayers in the book
of Nehemiah. The book of Nehemiah is about
leadership can't lead unless you're a prayer warrior.
Fathers can't lead their children or their wives unless
they're men of prayer. They can't lead in the
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workplace, in the church, on their team, no matter where
they're at, unless they're people of prayer.
That's why the these 12 prayers are recorded in the book of
Nehemiah, as Nehemiah exemplifies great leadership
among the people of Israel. In chapter 1, Nehemiah begins to
pray. He's concerned about the nation.
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He has heard about the destruction of Jerusalem and all
that's taking place, and he is burdened greatly.
So he prays for four months. Most of us can't pray for 4
minutes, but he prays for four months.
And in the Providence of God, ashe's before the King, his
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countenance is sad, which is nota good thing because if that's
the case, the king would take offense and recognize that you
were sad because you were in hispresence and you'd need to be
demoted or you'd be killed. But something unique happens in
chapter 2 of Nehemiah, because the queen appears with the king.
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Only time in the book of Nehemiah that the queen appears
with the king. She appears there with him in
the province of God. To soften the hardness of the
King's heart. God places people in certain
positions for his purposes. There are no accidents in your
life. They're just divine
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appointments. You don't have a car accident.
You have a car appointment, right?
No one dies by accident. They die because there's an
appointed time for man to die. Everything is about a divine
appointment. So the queen is with the king.
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God in his Providence allowed that to happen.
And the king begins to ask the question, Nehemiah, what is
wrong? Why are you so sad?
Why are you downcast? And Nehemiah begins to explain
to him all that's taken place. The king said to me, the queen
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sitting beside him. Chapter 2 verse #6 How?
How long will your journey be? And when you will return?
Because he says, I want to go back to, to Jerusalem.
So the king asked him, how long will it take you?
And it pleased the king to send me.
And I gave him a definite time. And I said to the king, If it
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pleases the king, that letters be given me for the governors of
the provinces beyond the river, but they may allow me to pass
through until I come to Judah. And the letter to Asaph, the
keeper of the King's forest, that he may give me timber to
make beams for the gates of the fortress which is by the temple,
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for the wall of the city, and for the house to which I will
go. And the king granted them to me
because think carefully. The good hand of my God was on
me. Nehemiah gives credit to the
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good hand of my God that was upon me.
God, God was going to provide, He provided a, a Commission for
me to go back. He provided letters so that I
could get through those who might be my enemies.
He provided wood so we can buildthe, the, the, the necessary
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elements around the city. God was good.
He provided everything, but he also provided an army to protect
him. Verse 9.
Then I came to the governors of the provinces beyond the river
and gave them the King's letters.
Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and
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horsemen. God provided everything Nehemiah
needed to go back to build the walls around the city of
Jerusalem. Why?
Because all the provisions of God are good.
God will provide all of your needs according to his riches in
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Christ Jesus. But God is the provider, and
when you when you begin to pray to him and seek his face and ask
the Lord to do a great and mighty work, which God did you
able to give him all the credit,because God in his good hand was
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upon you. The Bible says that in James
chapter one that every good thing given and every perfect
gift comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no
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variation or shifting shadow. Every good gift, every perfect
thing comes down from God above.God doesn't give bad gifts,
doesn't do that. He gives only good gifts.
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You'll embark on the Christmas season and you probably receive
a lot of bad gifts. Gifts that you don't want to
have, gifts that you don't need.God doesn't give you anything
you don't need. God only gives you good gifts.
Why? Because the provision of God is
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good. How about this?
The plan of God is good, is it not?
A verse specifically given to Israel, which by way of
secondary application we can apply to us, but it was
specifically given to Israel as God would reassure them?
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Of his plan for the life. And he said in Jeremiah 29, I
know the plans I have for you, plans for prosperity and not for
calamity, plans to give you a future.
And the hope that was specifically given to Israel so
that they would know that the plan of God that would take them
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through 70 years of captivity would end up being such a
perfect plan for them because itwould be for their prosperity.
The plan of God is always good. Sometimes we we find ourselves
in the midst of that plan and wewonder where God is and we ask
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him, what are you doing? But but God has a purpose behind
the plan, like he has a purpose behind us Providence, like he
has a purpose behind his promises, like he has a purpose
behind his proclamation. God has a purpose for
everything. And in his plan He is
orchestrating all things for hisglory.
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And lastly, the paradise of God is good.
That's where we're going. We're going to glory, Christ
said to the thief on the cross. Today you will be with me in
paradise. Paradise in, in the in in
paradise. Revelation 2 verse #7 is, is the
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tree of life in the tree of life?
Is that what you partake of throughout all eternity?
Because it's a life giving tree.It's the eternal tree, and
therefore paradise only comes from a good God whose presence
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dwells in that place. It is good to give thanks to the
Lord because the prophet that itbrings is insurmountable.
As you journey this week down the pathway of praise, don't
forget the privileges of praise,and certainly don't forget the
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prophet of praise. Let's pray together.
Lord, thank you for today. Thank you that we can spend a
brief moment in your word. So so many things to be said
about each of these principles. So many things to to meditate
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upon our prayer Father, is that we would be a people of praise
for the Bible says that the people I have formed for myself,
they will declare my praise. And those of us who know you as
Lord and Savior have been formedby you and you're still working
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in and through our lives. And one of the ways you work is
that we would declare your praises.
May we be those people this weekand for the rest of our lives
until you come again, as you know surely will in Jesus name,
Amen.
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