December 10, 2024 • 33 mins
Today we take a look at a familiar passage one I love in Psalm 100 & 150 from the topic How To Enter and What To Do In God’s Presence
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Sunday Word.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Today we will come out of Psalms one hundred the
Psalms one fifty.
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We will be speaking from a topic how to enter.
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God's Presence, what to do when.
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You're in its presence? Once again, how to enter God's presence.
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And what to do when you're in this presence that
is coming up on The Sunday World.
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With Minister Anthony Smith. Stay tuned, Do you go to Willwood?
Be right back?
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We welcome you into the Sunday World, Minister Anthony Smith.
It is on Tuesday that we're doing this on and
we want to say thank you for tuning in. As
I said at the beginning, the topic we're going to
topic we're going to be dealing with this how to
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enter God's presence and what to do when you're in
His presence? Coming from Psalms one hundred and Psalms one
point fifty. It's a passage or a couple of passages
I have explored on numerous times, whether it's been here
on the podcast or in the poor Pit. And the
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one thing about God's word, simply put, its refreshing. You
can read it and get this understanding, and then when
you go back to it, a little more is revealed
that you didn't get the first time. The words haven't
changed now, but the word is always refreshing. So let's
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go ahead with Psalms one hundred, and it reads dusty
Psalms one hundred, commencing that with the first verse reads
make a draw fund us and to the Lord, all
you lands serve the Lord with glad, and has come
before his presence was singing, know ye that the Lord
he is God. It is he that had made us,
and not we ourselves.
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We are his.
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People, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his
gates with thanksgiving and into his course with praise. Be
thankful unto him and bless his name.
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For the Lord is good, his mercy.
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Is everlasting, and his truth endure to all generations. And
what I want to go ahead and do so that
we can already be ahead. There also want to read
Psalms one fifty. It may seem like this is a
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lot of reading, but in reality it really isn't a
lot of reading. It's only a total of twelve verses
between the two books. So this will help us set
the table. Psalms and fifty. Commencing with that, first Versus says,
praise you the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary. Praise
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him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for
his mighty acts. Praise him according to his action of greatness.
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. Praise him
with the sadry and heart. Praise him with the tembril
and dance. Prais him with streamed instruments and organs. Praise
him upon the loud symbols. Praise him upon the highest
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sounding symbols. Let everything, and I have to put emphasis
on this. Let everything that hath breath, praise the Lord.
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Praise ye the Lord.
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The flower faded, there are of the grass with her,
but the word of our Lord shall.
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Remain.
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We're diving into the topic of how to enter God's
presence and what to do when you're in his presence.
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So worship and praise are the central are central to
a believer's relationship with God. Psalms one hundred teaches us
how to approach God, and Psalms on fifty instructions on
what to do once we are in His presence. So
the purpose is to inspire in God believers and cultivating
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a lifestyle of worship that honors God. So how to
enter God's presence. Psalms one hundred provides a step by
step guide to approaching God in worship. First of all,
come with joyful praise. Verses one and two says, make
a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth. Worship
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begins with joy, not obligation. Joyful noise reflects genuine enthusiasm
for God. Serve the Lord with gladness. Worship is a service.
Serving God should flow from gladness, not duty. In other words,
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I'm doing this because this is what I'm used to
I'm doing this because I feel like I'm clocking in
on a job. Now, you clocking on a job, that's
your duty to clock in.
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On your job.
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If you wanna get a paycheck, serve the law with gladness.
Let me put infests on that y you ever observe.
Sometimes when people walk in the church. It's as if
they're saying, I'm here. You ought to be glad. I
made it.
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No, you ought to be glad.
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You made it, and you ought to come with a
attitude to serve God.
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A old preacher said it like this.
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He said, you can't be happy and sad at the
same time, so you may as well serve the Lord
with gladness. Remember, worship is service. Serving God should flow
from gladness. And when you think about all that God
has done for you all the time, see He's brought
you out when you know how you are gonna make
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it out, when he provided, when you end know if
there was any provision. When you think about all that
He's done for you, you should just automatically and instantaneously
be glad. As bleak as things may have looked at
times in your life and seem like everything was falling
on your shoulder, God showed up and made away, you
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should be glad automatically come into His presence with singing.
Singing reflects gratitude and adoration. It prepares the heart for
communion with God. An and I just shared it with
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a church member just the other day. Sometimes songs are
no more than an interpretation. Uh see, I I fall
into the crossfire of also been a musician, and I
I sometimes even warm musicians. You have to be careful
in the worship service what you are playing because it
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can have a double edge effect. You may not mean
no harm and how you are interpreting that song at
the time when you are playing it might not be
the interpretation received in the audience. Whereas you may take
and Alisia Keys song with those lyrics. Some people want everything,
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some people want diamond rings, but everything is nothing if.
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I don't have you Lord.
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That may be how you are interpreting me at song
that time, but someone else may interpret it as the
R and B song that it is, but it doesn't
negate the fact come into His presence. With singing, everybody
should have a song and it shouldn't be that same
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old sad song somebody done did me wrong song. But
if you reflect on the songs that our ancestors sung
in slavery days out in the cotton fields, singing was
also with their form of communication as they were out
there singing so glad I've done the God over at last.
They out there being beating the old pres but talking
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about so glad I done got over at last, Or
go down, Moses, go down. In egypt Land, songs like
that they were. Those are songs that they can actually feel.
But they were also communicating through songs as well. So
coming to his present with singing. Singing reflects gratitude and adoration.
It prepares the heart for communion with God. Approach God
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with a heart full of joy and gratitude, eager to
celebrate his greatness. Recognize who God is Psalm one hundred
and three.
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Know ye that the Lord he is God.
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It acknowledge, acknowledge God's sovereignty and majesty. It is he
who made us. Let me put some emphasis on that. Uh,
you know, j just in case some of you who
listening at this right now and you have an eye mentality.
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You got the nicest house in the neighborhood. You got
the finest of automobiles. You got three four car garage
with four cars and you can only drive one of
them at a time.
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Uh, you got the nicest clothes. You you fairy.
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Sumptuously kind kind of like the rich man. I'm I'm
going somewhere with I'm going somewhere with this because there
are no self made people, That's where I'm going. I
I I had to bring it on you home, because
I know, as you're listening you weren't. Okay, where's he
going with this? It is he who made us, and
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as I read in that passage, and not we ourselves.
I don't care how big your bank roll is. I
don't care how many cars you have in your driveway.
I don't care how big your house is. I don't
care if you rare the finance or clothing with the
finance of anywhere the Bible said, as the about the
Richmond who wore gay clothing and fairy sumptuously, none of
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that matters, because, in the words of the late pastor J. Simmons,
who used to come to Richita run revivals at the
Shilotte Missionary Baptist Church, he said, the only thing you
taken in to Heaven with you is your button naked soul.
You can have it all the day, and by the
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time they signed the certificate and tagged the toe, somebody's
already fighting over what you left behind.
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So grasp this part right here.
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If it had not been for the Lord God on
my side, tell me where would I be? Where would
I have accomplished all that I've gained. Don't be like
that rich man, said, you who who ran out of space,
and said, you know what, I believe, I will build
bigger bonds. Or like the one who wouldn't even give
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Elazrath the crumbs, He'd rather prefer to give it to
the dogs. And in Hell he lifted up his eyes
and wanted Abraham to dip his finger in some water
to cool his tongue. You you get where I'm going
with this. It is He who made us, and we
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are his. Remember our identity as God's creation and possession.
We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
God's care and provision make him worthy of our worship.
True worship begins with the proper understanding of who God is.
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Then we need to enter with thanksgiving Verse four. Inter
his gates with thanksgiving, in his courts with praise.
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Giving.
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Thanksgiving acknowledges what God has done. Praise celebrates who God is.
Let me say it one more time. Thanksgiving acknowledges what
God has done. Praise celebrates who God is. Give thanks
to him, bless his name. Worship involves and this is
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the part I I know. Our ruffle feathers even at
my home church an And this doesn't apply to those
who is not afraid to open their mouths, but to
those who are looking like am You are looking at
a brand new gate, looking like a nod on a
log and wondering what's going on? Worship this is for you.
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Worship inv cause expressions. Worship involves vocal and get this right,
involves vocal expressions of gratitude and adoration. Cultivate the habit
of thanksgiving and praise in your day life. Trust in
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God's character verse five.
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The Lord is good.
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You can take that to the bank. God's goodness is
the foundation of our worship. His steadfast love endures forever.
Worship flows from the assurance of God's unfailing love, his
faithfulness to all generation. God's consistency inspires trust and devotion.
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So before we go into the next part, reflect on
God's character as you approach him and worship. Because now
we have set the stave on how to enter God's presence.
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Next we're going to dive into what to do in
God's presence, and we're going to do that on the
other side of this breaks, don't you go nowhere to
Sunday Word with Minister Anthony Smith.
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Welcome back to the Sunday Work with Minister Anthony Smith.
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As we get ready to moving to our next section
of the podcast.
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In podcast in terms of radio terms, our next segment,
as they say, try to be politically correct. Now we
shift from how to enter God's presence to what to
do in God's presence. And we've already given you the
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scriptures and Psalms one fifty. So Psalms one fifty is
a call to unrestrained, all encompassing praise once we are
in God's presence. Let me just say it like this,
those of you that have a job. Matter of fact,
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let me go back to the days of old, because
I heard it said like this, back when our parents
and grandparents was going through all the hell that they
went through to make it through the week. They couldn't
wait for Sunday. Yeah, yeah, let me let me be
honest with you, we've done lost that weight for Sunday
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mentality with today's Mardern technologies, and you know, Sundays just
another day.
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And if we go to church, we'd go just to
say our many church.
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But back when our parents and our grandparents was going,
it was a whole different ball game because they were
called everything but a child a God, looked at all sideways,
and wasn't no such thing as we have more equality
today than our parents and grandparents had back when they
was growing up. So when they got to church, it
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was a relief for them to get to church. It
wasn't just going to church just to say I went
to church, but they went because of the fact that
after being called everything but a child of God, being
called all kinds of boys and all kinds of girls
and all kinds of profane names, by the time they
got to church, there was a brother so and so on,
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sister so and so on. It was family. Do I
need to say that again? It was like going to
an extension of what was family, because now there was
brother Jones, brother Smith, brother Williams, brother, this brother, that sister,
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this sister that you know, someone that asked while come
in the Baptist Church, everybody has a title you brother, this, you.
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Brother, sister, this sister. That it just has a.
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Ring because in Christ we are brothers and sisters in Christ.
That's the simplest and most understanding way I can give
it to you. It doesn't take no theology or no
hermeneutics to explain that that is what it is. We
are brothers and sisters in Christ. So yes, I can
understand why they were excited to get the church, excited
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to open up their mouths, excited to pray God because
they felt at home away from home. I too can
kind of understand that because going through school myself and
I can say I did not have the.
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Best of grades. I passed barely.
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And some you know, I'm a musician at church as
well as the associate minister, but I flunt class piano.
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But I'm making a point.
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Though sometimes I didn't have the best weeks in school,
became Sunday, I felt like I was somebody because I
felt like I was amongst a whole bunch of brothers
and sisters. I felt in the place I belonged. That's
all I'm saying, which is all the more reason I
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couldn't wait to get to Sunday because it was a relief.
It was an outlet the way I can express myself
and give God some thanks because all the hell that
I had to go through Monday through Friday at school,
dealing with this and that at school, it was a
relief to get the church to be around something that
felt like home away from home. So we praise God
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for who he is Verses one and two. Praise God
in this sanctuary, Praise Him in his mighty heavens. Worship
God wherever He is present in the church, in creation,
in our hearts. And I know there are some people
right now that saying, you know, I don't have I
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don't feel like I have to go to church. I
want to share something with you, and I'm gonna get
back to this. Few weeks ago, I had the opportunity
to take my grandsons to church with me, and I
want y'all to keep praying because I believe God is
going to do something with them children that's going to
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have an effect on the parents.
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And I love my daughter. A matter of fact, well, I'm.
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Not gonna say too much because that's family business, and
I'm not gonna let you in my family business. I'm
not trying to be in y'all's family business. But keep
my daughter and her friend in prayer, because, like I said,
I believe God is going to do something with them
children that's going to have an effect on them, that's
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going to draw them. My oldest grandson we had a
conversation one on one. He said he didn't even like church,
and I stopped him. I said, how do you know
if you don't like something and you haven't been there,
And he's ten years old. Last time he was in
church in my presence, he was one, I believe, going
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on two. Anyway, his brother up under him, the one
that they always called me saying come get him. They
fighting again. He was the one that said, well, I
like church, So I ended up was supposed to only
have one, the number grew to two, end up growing
to three. Long story short. The one that said he
didn't like church, say he enjoyed church and enjoy the music.
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Don't tell me God can't work things out. So y'all
keep praying with me that I will continue to be
able to get my grandchildren, take them with me to church,
and eventually it will have an effect on the parents. See,
that's something for me to praise God for.
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Right there is.
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If you can't praise God for what I just shared,
I can praise God myself anyway. Praise Him in sanctuary.
Worship God wherever he is present in the church, in
the in creation, and in our hearts. Praise Him for
his mighty deeds. Praise Him according to his excellent greatness.
Focus on God's works and his nature. Worship should center
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on God's greatness.
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And his deeds.
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Praise God with all instruments Verses three through five. It's
getting to the instruments.
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This. This is for the musicians. Now.
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Praise him with trumpet sound, Praise him with luke and heart.
Worship with musical instruments reflects creativity and diversity in expressing praise.
Praise Him with tambourine and dance it. It is okay
to dance in church, but I wanna share something with you.
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Growing up in seeing people dance in church, all i'm'a
say is this. It wasn't rehearsed. As a matter of fact,
it kind of lined up with the song that went
like this. It says, you may be high, you may
be low, you may be rich, you may be poor.
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But when the Lord gets ready, you got to move.
That didn't take no practice. That was when the spirit moved.
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Up on you. You moved accordingly.
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And if the Spirit put a dance in you, you
danced accordingly. You didn't put it on uniform and practice. Yes,
I know some of y'all just heard Adam Irison right there.
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Practice.
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We're talking about practice. He y'all just figured I would
throw that, isn't there? When God moves on you, the
dances differently. Now, I'm not knocking those you who do
the interpretive dance that Hey, if that's your thing, that's
your thing. But there is another dance that needs no rehearsal,
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And that's when the spirit of God moves up on
you and you can't hold your peace. You have to
let our alloud shout. You can't stay in your seat,
you have to get up and move. That's and in
the beginning of this segment unrestrained. There's a difference between
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unrestrained and a practice.
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That's all I'm saying.
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I know this is not gonna go over popular with
too many people that listen there, But can I share
something with you? If Bible said you shall know the truth,
and the truth shall set you free. That being said,
I'm gonna be free because I'm speaking the truth, and
if you accept it, you can be free too. Praise
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him with tambourine and I and I love a good
tambourine player. I'm I'm I'm gonna give a shout out
to t to my to my girl. She's out there
in Georgia, not sister Marie and I. I also need
to stop and putting disclaiming right here. The reason you're
not hearing Domnstry moments with is because I'm recording it
on a different platform. It's the same company and everything
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is just a different outline. So right now this is made,
this particular setting is made for iPhone, So I'm yeah,
I hope Brother Stefane Day don't hear this because I
really haven't converted the iPhone. I just happened to have
an iPhone, so that's how I'm being able to do this.
And it's format differently, So I'm not sitting at my
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computer where I have everything plugged up. But I have
a another uh, sister Betty out there in Georgia. Since
the Betty of Men, I miss her so dearly. A
shallow from playing that tambourine because when the song got
good and the spirit was moving, and that she get
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there and w boy that Thursday in rehearsal, she shot
it from one side down to the other, still playing
on that tambourine. That was not practice. That was a
spirit moving. So praising with tambourine and dance. Physical expressions
of worship like dance are biblical and encourage. Physical expression
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of worship like dance are biblical and encouraged. Let me
emphasize that again. Physical expression of worship like dance and
dance are biblical and and courage to all those people.
You know, you may be sitting beside someone and they say,
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you know, they don't it. Don't take all of that, uh,
And you know, don't don't tell me nothing about David
dancing for the Lord and his clothes fell out there.
It don't take off. That's because they ain't been through nothing.
That's devil talk. That's snake talk. Don't don't listen to
that that talk. If the spirit moves on you, you move.
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If the spirit put a shout in your spirit, you shout.
If the spirit put a dance in your spirit, you dance.
If the spirit puts a wave your hand in the air.
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You wave your hands. Don't tell me what it takes.
How you know what it takes. You ain't been through
what I've been through.
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Praise him with strings and pipe, Praise him with sounding symbols.
All forms of music and instrument can glory. All forms
of music and instruments can glorify God. Praise him on
the pimp, Praise him on the artist, Praise him on
the drums. I love him, my little drummer. His name is,
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His name is Kayton. That's all you need to know.
He's uh nine ten years old, and you can see
the anointing up on him on those drums. Don't tell
me instruments aren't a loud in the church when I'm
reading it right here. And and Jesus, when he came
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on the scene, he didn't do away with a lot
of stuff. He didn't come to destroy the law. If
it was good in Psalms, it's good in the New Testament.
You tell that to them people that tell you music
ain't loud the church, and you tell them what I said,
according to the word. Use every available resource, your voice,
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instruments and even movement to magnify God's name. Then the
close out right here, let everything praise the Lord's Psalms
one fifty and six. Then everything that has in breath
praise the Lord. Worship is universal. Every living thing is
called to praise God. In other words, in the s
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words of the Mighty Clouds of Jordan, they said like this,
if a robin can say thank you, you can do
it too better. Yet the Bible said declares that if
you hold your peace, these rocks would cry out. And
I definitely don't want no rocks crying out for me.
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Praise the Lord a climatic call to worship that emphasize
God's worthiness. In other words, worship is not optional, but
essential for every believer. So as I get ready to close,
How to enter God's presence? Come with joy, gratitude, and
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an understanding of who God is. Prepare your heart with
thanksgiving and praise. What to do in his presence? Offer
unrestrained praise with your voice, instruments, and physical expression. Focus
on God's greatness, his mighty deeds, and his enduring love.
The challenge make worship a daily lifestyle, not just a
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Sunday activity. Enter God's presence with intentionality and awe and
remain there with whole hearted praise.
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Lord God.
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We close out to say thank you for allowing me
to be a vessel to be used by you, to
share your words, to share these insights, to share what
we should do when we come in your presence, and
when we're in your presence, what we.
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Are to do. The Lord.
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I pray that this podcast will bless somebody's soul, that
they will also share it with others. I'm not here
for no shape form of fashion, but I just want
to spread your word that others may be uplifted. Not
only others be uplifted, but I thank you for uplifting
me through your words, that I may be able to
uplift the others as well. Bless the sick, blessed the afflicted.
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Heal right now, in the name of Jesus. Somebody is
sick right now and they need to touch on me.
Someone is dealing with financial problem. Lord fix it for
them right now. And Lord, throughout this school year. Our
young kids back in school, Lord, they need your protection.
I pray that you protect them in the classroom. I
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pray that you will protect them on the basketball courts,
in their extra curricular activity. And Lord God, I pray
that you contentally look down on my grandchildren, that you
will be able to use them to win their parents
as well. Allow me to be a positive influence and
role model to my grandchildren and give them the word.
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As you give utance for me to speak it to them.
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There is another blessing we're asking Jesus lamb this as
far as say a man and a man once again,
it's been Sunday work with mister Anthony Smith. I pray
once again that this word has been a blessing to
you by all means.
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Share it
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And until the next time, God bless I love you,
Welcome to the Sunday Word.
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Today we will come out of Psalms one hundred the
Psalms one fifty.
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We will be speaking from a topic how to enter.
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God's Presence, what to do when.
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You're in its presence? Once again, how to enter God's presence.
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And what to do when you're in this presence that
is coming up on The Sunday World.
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With Minister Anthony Smith. Stay tuned, Do you go to Willwood?
Be right back?
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We welcome you into the Sunday World, Minister Anthony Smith.
It is on Tuesday that we're doing this on and
we want to say thank you for tuning in. As
I said at the beginning, the topic we're going to
topic we're going to be dealing with this how to
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enter God's presence and what to do when you're in
His presence? Coming from Psalms one hundred and Psalms one
point fifty. It's a passage or a couple of passages
I have explored on numerous times, whether it's been here
on the podcast or in the poor Pit. And the
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one thing about God's word, simply put, its refreshing. You
can read it and get this understanding, and then when
you go back to it, a little more is revealed
that you didn't get the first time. The words haven't
changed now, but the word is always refreshing. So let's
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go ahead with Psalms one hundred, and it reads dusty
Psalms one hundred, commencing that with the first verse reads
make a draw fund us and to the Lord, all
you lands serve the Lord with glad, and has come
before his presence was singing, know ye that the Lord
he is God. It is he that had made us,
and not we ourselves.
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We are his.
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People, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his
gates with thanksgiving and into his course with praise. Be
thankful unto him and bless his name.
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For the Lord is good, his mercy.
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Is everlasting, and his truth endure to all generations. And
what I want to go ahead and do so that
we can already be ahead. There also want to read
Psalms one fifty. It may seem like this is a
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lot of reading, but in reality it really isn't a
lot of reading. It's only a total of twelve verses
between the two books. So this will help us set
the table. Psalms and fifty. Commencing with that, first Versus says,
praise you the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary. Praise
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him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for
his mighty acts. Praise him according to his action of greatness.
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. Praise him
with the sadry and heart. Praise him with the tembril
and dance. Prais him with streamed instruments and organs. Praise
him upon the loud symbols. Praise him upon the highest
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sounding symbols. Let everything, and I have to put emphasis
on this. Let everything that hath breath, praise the Lord.
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Praise ye the Lord.
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The flower faded, there are of the grass with her,
but the word of our Lord shall.
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Remain.
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We're diving into the topic of how to enter God's
presence and what to do when you're in his presence.
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So worship and praise are the central are central to
a believer's relationship with God. Psalms one hundred teaches us
how to approach God, and Psalms on fifty instructions on
what to do once we are in His presence. So
the purpose is to inspire in God believers and cultivating
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a lifestyle of worship that honors God. So how to
enter God's presence. Psalms one hundred provides a step by
step guide to approaching God in worship. First of all,
come with joyful praise. Verses one and two says, make
a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth. Worship
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begins with joy, not obligation. Joyful noise reflects genuine enthusiasm
for God. Serve the Lord with gladness. Worship is a service.
Serving God should flow from gladness, not duty. In other words,
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I'm doing this because this is what I'm used to
I'm doing this because I feel like I'm clocking in
on a job. Now, you clocking on a job, that's
your duty to clock in.
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On your job.
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If you wanna get a paycheck, serve the law with gladness.
Let me put infests on that y you ever observe.
Sometimes when people walk in the church. It's as if
they're saying, I'm here. You ought to be glad. I
made it.
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No, you ought to be glad.
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You made it, and you ought to come with a
attitude to serve God.
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A old preacher said it like this.
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He said, you can't be happy and sad at the
same time, so you may as well serve the Lord
with gladness. Remember, worship is service. Serving God should flow
from gladness. And when you think about all that God
has done for you all the time, see He's brought
you out when you know how you are gonna make
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it out, when he provided, when you end know if
there was any provision. When you think about all that
He's done for you, you should just automatically and instantaneously
be glad. As bleak as things may have looked at
times in your life and seem like everything was falling
on your shoulder, God showed up and made away, you
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should be glad automatically come into His presence with singing.
Singing reflects gratitude and adoration. It prepares the heart for
communion with God. An and I just shared it with
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a church member just the other day. Sometimes songs are
no more than an interpretation. Uh see, I I fall
into the crossfire of also been a musician, and I
I sometimes even warm musicians. You have to be careful
in the worship service what you are playing because it
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can have a double edge effect. You may not mean
no harm and how you are interpreting that song at
the time when you are playing it might not be
the interpretation received in the audience. Whereas you may take
and Alisia Keys song with those lyrics. Some people want everything,
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some people want diamond rings, but everything is nothing if.
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I don't have you Lord.
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That may be how you are interpreting me at song
that time, but someone else may interpret it as the
R and B song that it is, but it doesn't
negate the fact come into His presence. With singing, everybody
should have a song and it shouldn't be that same
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old sad song somebody done did me wrong song. But
if you reflect on the songs that our ancestors sung
in slavery days out in the cotton fields, singing was
also with their form of communication as they were out
there singing so glad I've done the God over at last.
They out there being beating the old pres but talking
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about so glad I done got over at last, Or
go down, Moses, go down. In egypt Land, songs like
that they were. Those are songs that they can actually feel.
But they were also communicating through songs as well. So
coming to his present with singing. Singing reflects gratitude and adoration.
It prepares the heart for communion with God. Approach God
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with a heart full of joy and gratitude, eager to
celebrate his greatness. Recognize who God is Psalm one hundred
and three.
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Know ye that the Lord he is God.
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It acknowledge, acknowledge God's sovereignty and majesty. It is he
who made us. Let me put some emphasis on that. Uh,
you know, j just in case some of you who
listening at this right now and you have an eye mentality.
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You got the nicest house in the neighborhood. You got
the finest of automobiles. You got three four car garage
with four cars and you can only drive one of
them at a time.
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Uh, you got the nicest clothes. You you fairy.
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Sumptuously kind kind of like the rich man. I'm I'm
going somewhere with I'm going somewhere with this because there
are no self made people, That's where I'm going. I
I I had to bring it on you home, because
I know, as you're listening you weren't. Okay, where's he
going with this? It is he who made us, and
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as I read in that passage, and not we ourselves.
I don't care how big your bank roll is. I
don't care how many cars you have in your driveway.
I don't care how big your house is. I don't
care if you rare the finance or clothing with the
finance of anywhere the Bible said, as the about the
Richmond who wore gay clothing and fairy sumptuously, none of
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that matters, because, in the words of the late pastor J. Simmons,
who used to come to Richita run revivals at the
Shilotte Missionary Baptist Church, he said, the only thing you
taken in to Heaven with you is your button naked soul.
You can have it all the day, and by the
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time they signed the certificate and tagged the toe, somebody's
already fighting over what you left behind.
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So grasp this part right here.
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If it had not been for the Lord God on
my side, tell me where would I be? Where would
I have accomplished all that I've gained. Don't be like
that rich man, said, you who who ran out of space,
and said, you know what, I believe, I will build
bigger bonds. Or like the one who wouldn't even give
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Elazrath the crumbs, He'd rather prefer to give it to
the dogs. And in Hell he lifted up his eyes
and wanted Abraham to dip his finger in some water
to cool his tongue. You you get where I'm going
with this. It is He who made us, and we
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are his. Remember our identity as God's creation and possession.
We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
God's care and provision make him worthy of our worship.
True worship begins with the proper understanding of who God is.
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Then we need to enter with thanksgiving Verse four. Inter
his gates with thanksgiving, in his courts with praise.
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Giving.
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Thanksgiving acknowledges what God has done. Praise celebrates who God is.
Let me say it one more time. Thanksgiving acknowledges what
God has done. Praise celebrates who God is. Give thanks
to him, bless his name. Worship involves and this is
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the part I I know. Our ruffle feathers even at
my home church an And this doesn't apply to those
who is not afraid to open their mouths, but to
those who are looking like am You are looking at
a brand new gate, looking like a nod on a
log and wondering what's going on? Worship this is for you.
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Worship inv cause expressions. Worship involves vocal and get this right,
involves vocal expressions of gratitude and adoration. Cultivate the habit
of thanksgiving and praise in your day life. Trust in
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God's character verse five.
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The Lord is good.
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You can take that to the bank. God's goodness is
the foundation of our worship. His steadfast love endures forever.
Worship flows from the assurance of God's unfailing love, his
faithfulness to all generation. God's consistency inspires trust and devotion.
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So before we go into the next part, reflect on
God's character as you approach him and worship. Because now
we have set the stave on how to enter God's presence.
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Next we're going to dive into what to do in
God's presence, and we're going to do that on the
other side of this breaks, don't you go nowhere to
Sunday Word with Minister Anthony Smith.
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Welcome back to the Sunday Work with Minister Anthony Smith.
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As we get ready to moving to our next section
of the podcast.
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In podcast in terms of radio terms, our next segment,
as they say, try to be politically correct. Now we
shift from how to enter God's presence to what to
do in God's presence. And we've already given you the
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scriptures and Psalms one fifty. So Psalms one fifty is
a call to unrestrained, all encompassing praise once we are
in God's presence. Let me just say it like this,
those of you that have a job. Matter of fact,
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let me go back to the days of old, because
I heard it said like this, back when our parents
and grandparents was going through all the hell that they
went through to make it through the week. They couldn't
wait for Sunday. Yeah, yeah, let me let me be
honest with you, we've done lost that weight for Sunday
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mentality with today's Mardern technologies, and you know, Sundays just
another day.
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And if we go to church, we'd go just to
say our many church.
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But back when our parents and our grandparents was going,
it was a whole different ball game because they were
called everything but a child a God, looked at all sideways,
and wasn't no such thing as we have more equality
today than our parents and grandparents had back when they
was growing up. So when they got to church, it
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was a relief for them to get to church. It
wasn't just going to church just to say I went
to church, but they went because of the fact that
after being called everything but a child of God, being
called all kinds of boys and all kinds of girls
and all kinds of profane names, by the time they
got to church, there was a brother so and so on,
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sister so and so on. It was family. Do I
need to say that again? It was like going to
an extension of what was family, because now there was
brother Jones, brother Smith, brother Williams, brother, this brother, that sister,
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this sister that you know, someone that asked while come
in the Baptist Church, everybody has a title you brother, this, you.
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Brother, sister, this sister. That it just has a.
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Ring because in Christ we are brothers and sisters in Christ.
That's the simplest and most understanding way I can give
it to you. It doesn't take no theology or no
hermeneutics to explain that that is what it is. We
are brothers and sisters in Christ. So yes, I can
understand why they were excited to get the church, excited
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to open up their mouths, excited to pray God because
they felt at home away from home. I too can
kind of understand that because going through school myself and
I can say I did not have the.
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Best of grades. I passed barely.
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And some you know, I'm a musician at church as
well as the associate minister, but I flunt class piano.
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But I'm making a point.
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Though sometimes I didn't have the best weeks in school,
became Sunday, I felt like I was somebody because I
felt like I was amongst a whole bunch of brothers
and sisters. I felt in the place I belonged. That's
all I'm saying, which is all the more reason I
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couldn't wait to get to Sunday because it was a relief.
It was an outlet the way I can express myself
and give God some thanks because all the hell that
I had to go through Monday through Friday at school,
dealing with this and that at school, it was a
relief to get the church to be around something that
felt like home away from home. So we praise God
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for who he is Verses one and two. Praise God
in this sanctuary, Praise Him in his mighty heavens. Worship
God wherever He is present in the church, in creation,
in our hearts. And I know there are some people
right now that saying, you know, I don't have I
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don't feel like I have to go to church. I
want to share something with you, and I'm gonna get
back to this. Few weeks ago, I had the opportunity
to take my grandsons to church with me, and I
want y'all to keep praying because I believe God is
going to do something with them children that's going to
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have an effect on the parents.
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And I love my daughter. A matter of fact, well, I'm.
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Not gonna say too much because that's family business, and
I'm not gonna let you in my family business. I'm
not trying to be in y'all's family business. But keep
my daughter and her friend in prayer, because, like I said,
I believe God is going to do something with them
children that's going to have an effect on them, that's
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going to draw them. My oldest grandson we had a
conversation one on one. He said he didn't even like church,
and I stopped him. I said, how do you know
if you don't like something and you haven't been there,
And he's ten years old. Last time he was in
church in my presence, he was one, I believe, going
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on two. Anyway, his brother up under him, the one
that they always called me saying come get him. They
fighting again. He was the one that said, well, I
like church, So I ended up was supposed to only
have one, the number grew to two, end up growing
to three. Long story short. The one that said he
didn't like church, say he enjoyed church and enjoy the music.
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Don't tell me God can't work things out. So y'all
keep praying with me that I will continue to be
able to get my grandchildren, take them with me to church,
and eventually it will have an effect on the parents. See,
that's something for me to praise God for.
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Right there is.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
If you can't praise God for what I just shared,
I can praise God myself anyway. Praise Him in sanctuary.
Worship God wherever he is present in the church, in
the in creation, and in our hearts. Praise Him for
his mighty deeds. Praise Him according to his excellent greatness.
Focus on God's works and his nature. Worship should center
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on God's greatness.
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And his deeds.
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Praise God with all instruments Verses three through five. It's
getting to the instruments.
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This. This is for the musicians. Now.
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Praise him with trumpet sound, Praise him with luke and heart.
Worship with musical instruments reflects creativity and diversity in expressing praise.
Praise Him with tambourine and dance it. It is okay
to dance in church, but I wanna share something with you.
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Growing up in seeing people dance in church, all i'm'a
say is this. It wasn't rehearsed. As a matter of fact,
it kind of lined up with the song that went
like this. It says, you may be high, you may
be low, you may be rich, you may be poor.
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But when the Lord gets ready, you got to move.
That didn't take no practice. That was when the spirit moved.
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Up on you. You moved accordingly.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And if the Spirit put a dance in you, you
danced accordingly. You didn't put it on uniform and practice. Yes,
I know some of y'all just heard Adam Irison right there.
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Practice.
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We're talking about practice. He y'all just figured I would
throw that, isn't there? When God moves on you, the
dances differently. Now, I'm not knocking those you who do
the interpretive dance that Hey, if that's your thing, that's
your thing. But there is another dance that needs no rehearsal,
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And that's when the spirit of God moves up on
you and you can't hold your peace. You have to
let our alloud shout. You can't stay in your seat,
you have to get up and move. That's and in
the beginning of this segment unrestrained. There's a difference between
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unrestrained and a practice.
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That's all I'm saying.
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I know this is not gonna go over popular with
too many people that listen there, But can I share
something with you? If Bible said you shall know the truth,
and the truth shall set you free. That being said,
I'm gonna be free because I'm speaking the truth, and
if you accept it, you can be free too. Praise
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him with tambourine and I and I love a good
tambourine player. I'm I'm I'm gonna give a shout out
to t to my to my girl. She's out there
in Georgia, not sister Marie and I. I also need
to stop and putting disclaiming right here. The reason you're
not hearing Domnstry moments with is because I'm recording it
on a different platform. It's the same company and everything
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is just a different outline. So right now this is made,
this particular setting is made for iPhone, So I'm yeah,
I hope Brother Stefane Day don't hear this because I
really haven't converted the iPhone. I just happened to have
an iPhone, so that's how I'm being able to do this.
And it's format differently, So I'm not sitting at my
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computer where I have everything plugged up. But I have
a another uh, sister Betty out there in Georgia. Since
the Betty of Men, I miss her so dearly. A
shallow from playing that tambourine because when the song got
good and the spirit was moving, and that she get
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there and w boy that Thursday in rehearsal, she shot
it from one side down to the other, still playing
on that tambourine. That was not practice. That was a
spirit moving. So praising with tambourine and dance. Physical expressions
of worship like dance are biblical and encourage. Physical expression
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of worship like dance are biblical and encouraged. Let me
emphasize that again. Physical expression of worship like dance and
dance are biblical and and courage to all those people.
You know, you may be sitting beside someone and they say,
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you know, they don't it. Don't take all of that, uh,
And you know, don't don't tell me nothing about David
dancing for the Lord and his clothes fell out there.
It don't take off. That's because they ain't been through nothing.
That's devil talk. That's snake talk. Don't don't listen to
that that talk. If the spirit moves on you, you move.
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If the spirit put a shout in your spirit, you shout.
If the spirit put a dance in your spirit, you dance.
If the spirit puts a wave your hand in the air.
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You wave your hands. Don't tell me what it takes.
How you know what it takes. You ain't been through
what I've been through.
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Praise him with strings and pipe, Praise him with sounding symbols.
All forms of music and instrument can glory. All forms
of music and instruments can glorify God. Praise him on
the pimp, Praise him on the artist, Praise him on
the drums. I love him, my little drummer. His name is,
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His name is Kayton. That's all you need to know.
He's uh nine ten years old, and you can see
the anointing up on him on those drums. Don't tell
me instruments aren't a loud in the church when I'm
reading it right here. And and Jesus, when he came
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on the scene, he didn't do away with a lot
of stuff. He didn't come to destroy the law. If
it was good in Psalms, it's good in the New Testament.
You tell that to them people that tell you music
ain't loud the church, and you tell them what I said,
according to the word. Use every available resource, your voice,
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instruments and even movement to magnify God's name. Then the
close out right here, let everything praise the Lord's Psalms
one fifty and six. Then everything that has in breath
praise the Lord. Worship is universal. Every living thing is
called to praise God. In other words, in the s
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words of the Mighty Clouds of Jordan, they said like this,
if a robin can say thank you, you can do
it too better. Yet the Bible said declares that if
you hold your peace, these rocks would cry out. And
I definitely don't want no rocks crying out for me.
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Praise the Lord a climatic call to worship that emphasize
God's worthiness. In other words, worship is not optional, but
essential for every believer. So as I get ready to close,
How to enter God's presence? Come with joy, gratitude, and
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an understanding of who God is. Prepare your heart with
thanksgiving and praise. What to do in his presence? Offer
unrestrained praise with your voice, instruments, and physical expression. Focus
on God's greatness, his mighty deeds, and his enduring love.
The challenge make worship a daily lifestyle, not just a
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Sunday activity. Enter God's presence with intentionality and awe and
remain there with whole hearted praise.
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Lord God.
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We close out to say thank you for allowing me
to be a vessel to be used by you, to
share your words, to share these insights, to share what
we should do when we come in your presence, and
when we're in your presence, what we.
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Are to do. The Lord.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I pray that this podcast will bless somebody's soul, that
they will also share it with others. I'm not here
for no shape form of fashion, but I just want
to spread your word that others may be uplifted. Not
only others be uplifted, but I thank you for uplifting
me through your words, that I may be able to
uplift the others as well. Bless the sick, blessed the afflicted.
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Heal right now, in the name of Jesus. Somebody is
sick right now and they need to touch on me.
Someone is dealing with financial problem. Lord fix it for
them right now. And Lord, throughout this school year. Our
young kids back in school, Lord, they need your protection.
I pray that you protect them in the classroom. I
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pray that you will protect them on the basketball courts,
in their extra curricular activity. And Lord God, I pray
that you contentally look down on my grandchildren, that you
will be able to use them to win their parents
as well. Allow me to be a positive influence and
role model to my grandchildren and give them the word.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
As you give utance for me to speak it to them.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
There is another blessing we're asking Jesus lamb this as
far as say a man and a man once again,
it's been Sunday work with mister Anthony Smith. I pray
once again that this word has been a blessing to
you by all means.
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Share it
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And until the next time, God bless I love you,
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