WEBVTT 00:00:01.120 --> 00:00:02.879 Yeah, it's so great to be here today. 00:00:02.959 --> 00:00:05.839 We are gonna be in uh in Psalm chapter 100. 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:10.800 And last week we started a brand new series entitled Made to Worship. 00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:13.359 Made to Worship Fighting Purpose in the Monday. 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:17.920 And here's all we're doing: we are taking God's word because we are Jesus people. 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:27.519 So it's Jesus people, we take God's word, we open God's word up, we see what it says, we learn about God, and we are learning what scripture says about worship. 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:31.920 And because I'm your pastor and I love you so much, I'm gonna give you a pop quiz. 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:34.640 Pop quiz. 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:43.920 But here's the good news: if you have the right answer to this pop quiz, Pastor Edgar told me that he would give you a$20 bill. 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:45.840 You like that, Mike? 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:46.399 That's right. 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:46.799 Okay. 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:47.920 So here it is. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:50.719 Okay, last week we defined worship as this. 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:54.000 Do you remember? 00:00:54.479 --> 00:01:00.240 Worship is, I'm trying to give you time to think, ascribing worth to something. 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:01.920 Look at those notes. 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:04.719 And does anybody remember? 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:08.879 And loving. 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:10.480 Good job, Pastor Edgar. 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:12.000 You don't have to give anybody$20. 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:13.599 You're really good. 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:24.719 It's in valuing, and valuing that something above everything else, valuing that something above everything else. 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:31.680 And how many of you guys understand that when we value God above everything else, it's just gonna show up in our lives in a lot of different ways? 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:34.000 It's gonna show up in all kinds of different ways. 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:43.120 And one of the ways it's gonna show up in is how we sing songs like we just did a couple minutes ago. 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:47.200 Now, for many of us, we didn't grow up in the church. 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:54.239 And if you didn't grow up in the church, like you come in for the first time and you're like, man, it's it's kind of weird. 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:58.239 Like the first half of the service, people are like singing. 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:01.599 Like is like Christian karaoke? 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:03.599 Am I getting judged here? 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:04.959 Is there, you know, is there points? 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:07.040 Simon Cowell, is he up in the balcony? 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:07.519 Yeah. 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:14.560 And it's kind of be kind of awkward almost. 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:32.000 And then maybe, maybe you you come and you come regularly and you grow in your faith, you make a decision to turn from your sin and put your faith and trust in Jesus, and and and things start to change in you, and you're hearing the songs up here, and and then like you start feeling it a little bit. 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:37.360 So then you start to sing, but then you're like, oh, am I actually singing right now? 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:41.840 If I'm singing, then like somebody might hear me sing. 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:43.840 Now, I don't know if you guys are like me. 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:55.199 Um, but but when it comes to my singing ability, it's very similar to the people on American Idol in the opening rounds. 00:02:56.800 --> 00:02:57.599 You know what I'm saying? 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:00.159 I sing, ears bleed, right? 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:01.360 Bloody mess, right here. 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:02.560 Nobody's got time for that. 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:07.199 It could be it could be like, okay, singing. 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:08.400 Like, this is kind of weird. 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:18.400 Even if like, even if you've been in church for a while, you've been following Jesus for a while, it can still feel a little uncomfortable. 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:27.360 And you see somebody else in the auditorium and they're like hands extended, and you're like, that's I don't know about all that. 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:38.240 But if you can understand one thing, it'll unlock something powerful in your life. 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:52.240 Something that's a game changer to this is that your church experience will change when the songs go from music to worship. 00:03:55.599 --> 00:04:02.479 Your church experience will change when the songs go from music to worship. 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:12.879 When you truly start to worship and ascribe worth to God, you're gonna find yourself in a service less distracted and more engaged. 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:18.959 Less evaluing everything that's happening, like who's on the worship team today? 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:20.959 Wonder what kind of hat Mason's gonna have on. 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:22.639 Hopefully, not a Dodger's hat. 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:27.279 Well, I wonder who's doing communion today. 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:32.959 Like less evaluating and thinking, and more of thinking about God that we're worshiping. 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:35.120 That's right. 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:38.560 Now you think about the song we just sang. 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:46.160 The song we just sang, here were the lyrics to the one, this is Jesus, who gave his very life away. 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.639 He took upon himself all of our guilt and shame. 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:52.160 That's powerful. 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:58.240 You realize you can live your life in freedom without guilt or shame because of what Jesus did for you. 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:06.399 Hanging on a cross for the world he loved with this precious blood, he purchased men for God. 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:07.439 So, what do we do? 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:17.279 We crown you, we fall face down and we worship, we all cry out, You're worthy God, you're worthy God. 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:27.519 See, when when that's just music, we think about it, we're like, Yeah, yeah, it's a good song. 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:31.439 And we're like, what do I got to do this week? 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:41.279 And then the ADHD kicks in, we're like, Squirrel! Why are they wearing that? 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:53.360 But when it's worship, you gave your very life away for me. 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:58.879 You took all of my guilt and all of my shame, and I can live my life in freedom. 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:00.879 You gave your blood for me. 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:03.199 I just I crown you, Lord. 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:06.560 You are worthy, you are worthy. 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:07.839 Versus. 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:11.360 I wonder what's going on this week. 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:23.279 Same song, same lyrics, same worship team up here, different heart posture. 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:33.920 One has a heart posture of music, the other heart posture is one of worship. 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:45.360 I remember years ago, I wanted to like engage in corporate worship through song, but I felt like something was holding me back. 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:53.439 I never felt like this, and I'm like, I'll kind of sing, but I don't want to sing too loud because you know, the ear bleeding thing. 00:06:56.480 --> 00:07:06.000 And it was weird because I would even be in my car and I would be more expressive in my car by myself than I would in a corporate worship gathering. 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:08.879 And I would sing more then than here or wherever. 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:10.480 I was a different church. 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:14.000 And I was like, okay, okay, okay, okay. 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:15.519 Why is this? 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:18.240 Like, like, what's going on in my heart? 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:19.360 So I had to think about it. 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:19.920 I had to be honest. 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:21.040 I was like, okay, let me think. 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:27.839 I was like, well, one, I grew up in a church environment that during the worship singing was very uh very stoic. 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:32.480 Like if you raised your hand, it was like, you got a question, brother? 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:37.839 I also, and this was hard. 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:39.360 This was hard. 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:46.079 I had to come to this realization, and this is a realization that'll shock everybody. 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:49.920 I was prideful. 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:51.920 I know you're shocked. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:53.360 I know, I know you're prideful. 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:55.360 Do you know anybody that's prideful? 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:58.480 You sit next to anybody, just kidding. 00:07:58.639 --> 00:07:59.360 Just kidding. 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:01.519 We all got a little pride in us. 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:02.639 And here's what I thought. 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:04.160 I'm like, okay, I'm prideful. 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:08.639 So I I like really want to like look a certain way, and like I'm, you know, it's like I'm Nate. 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:09.600 So, yeah. 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:15.279 And if I sing, like I don't want people to um like think this about me. 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:22.240 And you know, like for me to sing, I'm really gonna have to like let my guard down, and you know, I'm I'm a dude, like I'm a bro, like I go to the gym, you know. 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:29.360 But then I came to this realization nobody's thinking about me, anyways. 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:37.919 Like, not one of y'all walked in this morning, and and none of you were like, wonder how Nate's vocals are gonna be today. 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:39.919 I hope he's got it. 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:56.399 No, and and so I'm thinking of this, I'm like, okay, okay, if God is great and God's powerful, and I love God, then shouldn't my singing and expressiveness be reflective of the greatness of God? 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:04.399 Self-awareness. 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:05.200 Boom. 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:07.440 And I'm like, oh. 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:17.200 Because down through the ages, what's happened is the people of God have gathered together to worship God through song. 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:21.519 And I want to show you one place in the book of Psalms where this happened. 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:23.679 It's Psalm 100, verse number one. 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:26.000 And if you're ready for it, would you say amen? 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:32.639 It says, Let the whole earth shall triumphantly to the Lord. 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:38.080 Serve the Lord with gladness. 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:43.360 Now, first of all, I got a bone to pick with Francesca because Francesca stole my text this morning, but you know. 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:45.919 Serve the Lord with gladness. 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:48.720 It doesn't say serve the Lord with sadness. 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:54.240 You know, some people serve the Lord like they just got a root canal. 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:58.639 It's like, I guess I gotta serve the Lord. 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:01.440 All these people. 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:04.720 People are weird, people are the problem. 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:08.000 I guess I gotta show up when I'm on Planning Center. 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:08.879 Actually, no, I'm not. 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:10.879 I'm declining it because I got the sniffles. 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:16.399 Sorry, that was that was a little too close to home on that one. 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:25.039 Um serve the Lord with gladness, come before him with joyful, joyful songs. 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:27.360 You say joyful songs? 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:27.759 Yes. 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:29.759 Think about what the gospel declares. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:44.639 The gospel, the death, the burial, the resurrection of Jesus, declares that we are set free from sin, declares that we are loved, declares that we are accepted, declares that no matter what happens to us, we have a God that's working all things for our good and his glory. 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:48.320 We have a God that's in control, no matter how hard situations are. 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.960 We have an unshakable hope because we serve a resurrected Savior. 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:57.679 That should produce joyful songs in our life. 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:04.159 The worst thing that can happen to you if you're a Jesus follower is you die and go to heaven. 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:06.080 Dang, that sucks, doesn't it? 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:08.399 This with joy. 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:11.600 Serve the Lord with joyful songs. 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:16.879 The gospel doesn't just save us, but it shapes us, it strengthens us and guides us. 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:21.360 We're to verse three, acknowledge that the Lord is good. 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:28.480 He made us, we're his, his people, the sheep of his pasture. 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:36.799 Now, in this psalm, what's happening is the people of God are coming together to sing and celebrate the goodness of God in their lives. 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:46.720 Verse four, enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise. 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:51.919 Give thanks to him and bless his name. 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:55.840 Now, corporally worshiping God through song is rich and powerful. 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:01.360 It's not like we're at our favorite concert, like we're going to a U2 concert. 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:03.039 U2. 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:05.279 You don't like them? 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:05.919 You two. 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.919 Some of y'all, I know some of y'all, you guys uh, you guys are more we have a YouTube fan here. 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:12.720 Some of you guys like your boy bands from the 90s. 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:15.120 He does, or she does. 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:16.080 She likes right, right? 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:18.399 A little backstreet boys in right, right? 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:19.279 It's just it. 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:25.840 We have so it's not we're going to our favorite concert and we're just like singing along two of the greatest hits. 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:26.799 No, no, no. 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:30.480 When we enter God's courts with praise, this is what's happening. 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:37.440 The people of God are offering praise to God in the presence of God. 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:42.159 The people of God are offering praise to God, the presence of God. 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:48.639 Here's what praise is praise is seeing God rightly and responding appropriately. 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:54.159 So it's not like, all right, we gotta, we gotta get some emotional thing going on here, like let's get hyped up. 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:54.720 No, no, no. 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:59.120 It's like I see God accurately and I respond appropriately. 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:10.240 And when the people of God, those of us that know Jesus, when we come to a worship service with this heart of faith and this heart of expectancy, and this heart of we get to praise God. 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:12.559 God's gonna do something in our midst. 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:18.960 What happens is the entire room takes on a spirit of praise and worship to God. 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:25.279 When we come with faith, when we come with expectancy, now this is different. 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:29.120 Then we come in and we're like, uh, well, I'm showing up for church this morning. 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:30.559 I hope nobody talks to me. 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:32.000 Let me sneak in here. 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:35.919 Let me try to dodge the welcome town. 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:37.120 Oh, gotcha. 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:48.240 But when we come in to service with saying, Man, I got faith because I know God's gonna do something in my life today. 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:52.480 I have expectancy because I know God's gonna meet with us today. 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:56.240 I'm gonna have an opportunity to pray with somebody because I want to pray with somebody. 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:57.279 I need some prayer. 00:13:57.519 --> 00:13:59.759 And we come in with expectancy. 00:13:59.919 --> 00:14:03.679 I'm telling you, it changes the atmosphere of an entire church service. 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:06.559 It changes the atmosphere of a church family. 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:14.080 It takes us from this dead religion to a living hope and a living faith. 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:16.399 Because we have a real savior, amen. 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:20.080 Now, here's the question: why should we even do this? 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:23.840 We love God, and you know why we love God? 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:28.399 Look what verse 5 says it says, For the Lord is good and his faithful love endures forever. 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:29.440 He loves us. 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:35.919 We are responding to him, his faithful love endures. 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:37.679 How long? 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:44.080 Not just not just as long as you keep your act together. 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:50.399 You you stop keeping your act together, he his faithful love is no no forever. 00:14:54.240 --> 00:15:03.679 Through through all generations, like there won't be a generation where God's like, uh, actually, nah. 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:09.039 Like, I don't know what's going on with this whole social media generation. 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:10.799 I'm holding my faithful, no, no. 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:12.960 God wasn't like everything was good. 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:16.879 I like Facebook, I like Instagram, Snapchat, uh-uh. 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:22.000 Through all generations, he's good. 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:27.039 Through all generations, he is faithful, his faithful love endures. 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:32.720 Here's something I want you guys to understand is God's people gather and sing? 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:36.559 God's people gather and sing. 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:38.399 Verse 2 of Psalm 100. 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:43.600 It said, Come before him with joyful songs. 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:47.120 Do we gather for teaching? 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:49.120 Yes, and we should. 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:52.480 Do we gather for community and fellowship? 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:54.320 Yes, and we should. 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:58.639 Do we gather to remember communion, what Christ did for us on the cross? 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:00.559 Yes, and we should. 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:03.600 But we also gather to sing. 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:07.120 Now, some of you are like, that's old testament, Pastor Nate. 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:09.200 Give me a New Testament place. 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:10.559 I got you. 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:11.840 I'm glad you asked. 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:17.519 Acts chapter 16, Paul and Silas, they were in prison, and at midnight, what were they doing? 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:19.039 That's it. 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:22.639 They were praying, they were singing praises and they were praying to God. 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:25.039 This is what they were doing. 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:27.279 They were singing praises and praising God. 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:29.200 So why do we worship Him through song? 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:30.159 Here's why. 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:33.919 Because God's people sang in Scripture. 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:36.799 This is what they did. 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:38.799 This was the example. 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:47.759 Worshiping through song allows us to connect with God in a way that can't be experienced by words alone. 00:16:52.639 --> 00:17:02.960 Worship songs are a way we ascribe worth and value to God, and it allows truth to move from our head to our heart. 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:05.359 And that's a really big 18 inches. 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:08.880 It's this emotional element to it. 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:17.680 No, what's fascinating is science is finally starting to catch up with the Bible, and it's taken them quite a while. 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:22.000 It's like there are all these scientific discoveries, and people are like, wow, that's amazing. 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:24.319 It's like, dude, that was in the Bible, man. 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:37.920 Here's one of them that when people sing together, it has positive emotional effects, psychological effects, and even physical effects when people come together and sing. 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:40.240 God's pretty smart. 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:44.480 To design a way that we worship him is for us to come together and sing. 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:48.000 And why do we do this? 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:50.240 Well, we do this in response number two. 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:53.440 Singing is a response to who God is. 00:17:54.000 --> 00:18:01.920 For the Lord is good, his faithful love endures forever, his faithfulness through all generations. 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:08.960 Singing and giving praise to God isn't about an emotion, but it's about response. 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:28.960 Now, when you look at the scripture, there are certain words, Old Testament is written in Hebrew, New Testament is written in Greek, there are certain words that are translated into the English language, but the English equivalent of the word doesn't give the full rich and depth of the word. 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:33.839 So it's hard for us to fully understand what this word means in the English language. 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:42.160 So for example, a word in our English language like this that we use all the time, we use it for everything, is the word love. 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:44.400 For everything. 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:44.640 Okay. 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:45.920 I'll give you an example. 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:49.759 How many of you would say, I love tacos? 00:18:53.039 --> 00:19:00.880 I think it's amazing, by the way, not in the sermon notes, that Cinco de Mayo this year falls on a taco Tuesday. 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:03.039 Like that's just a blessing of God, right? 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:04.000 I love tacos. 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:06.880 I'm glad I see how many of you in the room you don't love tacos? 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:08.319 I agree. 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:09.279 That's wonderful. 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:12.480 Because we were gonna have a moment of prayer right here. 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:16.160 I also, I also, I love my mom. 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:18.480 I do, I love my mom. 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:21.119 Mother's Day next week, guys. 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:22.079 Just a reminder. 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:25.839 Um also I love my wife. 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:27.599 Now you think about this. 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:36.319 I use the same word to describe my feelings towards tacos, my mom, and my wife. 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:46.000 Now, in the Greek language, though, there were different forms of love. 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:54.559 So I could use a form of love to describe my love for tacos, to describe my love for my wife, my mom, and then my wife. 00:19:54.720 --> 00:20:02.799 But in the English language, we only have one word, which is why we just like throw the word love around because it's really not a better word. 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:08.960 Now there's another word in Hebrew that's like this it is the word praise. 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:21.200 A lot of times the word we we read in Psalms, we read the word praise, sometimes the word bless, but it comes from some Hebrew words that have a lot of depth and have a lot of richness. 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:29.359 That if we can understand what these words are, it can unlock something and how we praise and worship God through psalm. 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:32.559 And this is what I want to show you this morning. 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:35.519 And we've gotten to this part of the message for this. 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:39.680 It's seven words that show you how to praise. 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:44.000 For my note takers in the room, this is what I want you to write down. 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:48.400 And by the way, for my note takers in the room, there's a special place in heaven for you, okay? 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:51.039 Seven words that will show you how to praise. 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:52.480 All right, here's the first word. 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:54.799 The first word is halal. 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:56.319 Halal. 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:00.079 I want to give you an example of this, and then we're gonna explain it, okay? 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:08.799 Psalm 150, it says this it says, Hallelujah, halal God in his sanctuary, halal him in his mighty expanse. 00:21:09.039 --> 00:21:09.839 No, no. 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:17.519 In our Bible, it says praise, because praise is the best word translated from halal into the English equivalent. 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:34.160 It says, halal him for his powerful axe, halal him for his abundant greatness, halal him with blast of a ram's horn, halal him with harp and lyri, halal him with tambourine and dance. 00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:36.720 Some of y'all like that. 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:42.000 Halal him with strings and flute. 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:50.240 Here's what this word means it means to celebrate, to boast in, to be foolish. 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:56.000 Here's the translation I don't care who's watching, joyful celebration. 00:21:58.079 --> 00:21:59.119 It's like this. 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:03.920 Let's say you're at a sporting event and your team wins the game. 00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:13.920 Your team wins the game, they they kick the winning goal, they score the winning run, they don't win the game, and you don't go. 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:17.200 Stoically that was amazing. 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:21.759 They did really good today. 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:26.799 Man, man, the way they were really running up and down the court, that was that was great. 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:29.920 That's awesome. 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:33.759 Um yeah, we got some hits today. 00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:35.200 We won the game. 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:37.039 I promise I'm happy inside. 00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:37.680 I really am. 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:40.960 No, you'd be a weirdo if you did that. 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:48.640 What do you do when you celebrate when your team wins the game? 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:50.960 You jump up and down. 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:52.559 You jump up and down. 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:54.160 You high five. 00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:55.359 Let's go, high five. 00:22:55.440 --> 00:22:56.559 What's something else you do? 00:22:57.920 --> 00:22:59.039 You give a woohoo. 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:00.559 How about something else? 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:02.480 You clap. 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:04.880 You excited. 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:07.119 People say all their phones are like recording everybody. 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:08.960 Yeah, we won the game, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:13.279 Why you you're celebrating, you're boasting, and we are victorious. 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:15.759 We did this, look at this. 00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:17.519 Now check this out. 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:22.640 The nation of Israel would celebrate God just like that. 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:28.880 They would praise God just like that. 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:35.279 They would celebrate. 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:43.759 That's who our God is. 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:44.640 Yes. 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:49.759 Now, to the outside looking in, it's like, what are those people doing? 00:23:50.799 --> 00:23:59.039 But here's the thing this type of praise only happens when you're more concerned with the greatness of God than you are about the opinions of other people. 00:23:59.920 --> 00:24:01.680 And when is the last time? 00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:05.839 When is the last time your praise look like halal? 00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:10.799 Next word. 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:12.000 Yadah. 00:24:12.400 --> 00:24:14.400 Yaddah, Psalm 67, verse 3. 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:18.400 It says, Let the people, Yadah, praise you, God. 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:20.799 Let all the peoples praise you. 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:28.799 Here's what this word means: it's giving thanks, it's acknowledge, it's confessing, often expressed through an extended hand. 00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:30.640 Application. 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:34.319 Thank God publicly with extended hands. 00:24:35.119 --> 00:24:36.640 Here's what this is. 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:42.160 God, thank you for what you've done in my life. 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:46.240 Thank you for answering that prayer that I prayed for for so long. 00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:49.759 Thank you for the blessings that you've given me. 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:53.200 Thank you for the salvation I have in Christ. 00:24:53.920 --> 00:24:55.759 Thank you for your faithfulness. 00:24:56.400 --> 00:24:57.599 This is you dah. 00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:01.359 Friends, when's the last time your praise looked like this? 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:05.680 Wasn't necessarily a celebration jumping up and down, clapping my hands. 00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:06.880 This is what it was. 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:08.319 Thank you, Lord. 00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:10.799 Thank you. 00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:14.480 Word number three. 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:17.200 Bay Rock. 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:19.519 Bay Rock. 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:24.319 Not to be confused with Barack as an Obama, okay? 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:25.920 Bayrack. 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:28.319 Psalm 103, verse 12. 00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:31.279 My soul bayrack the Lord and all that's in within me. 00:25:31.519 --> 00:25:33.519 Barack is holy name. 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:39.519 Bless my soul, Bayrack the Lord, and do not forget all of his benefits. 00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:42.160 Here's what this is: this is kneeling and adoring. 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:45.440 Application, I revere and surrender. 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:58.960 Sometimes people of God need to come before God and say, I surrender. 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:01.599 I revere you. 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:12.880 I surrender to you. 00:26:14.799 --> 00:26:19.119 When's the last time your praise in your personal life looked like this? 00:26:20.079 --> 00:26:24.720 When you woke up early and you went into the living room, you woke up before everybody else. 00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:28.160 You went into the closet, you went, and you just got on your knees. 00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:32.160 You said, I surrender. 00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:39.039 I know sometimes these floors are hard in here, but when's the last time in here our praise look like this? 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:42.480 I surrender. 00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:45.759 This is how people praised. 00:26:46.400 --> 00:26:48.720 Next word, word number four is Shabbat. 00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:50.160 Shabbat. 00:26:51.039 --> 00:26:56.880 It says in Psalm 117, pray, Shabbat, the Lord, all nations, glorify him, all peoples. 00:26:57.039 --> 00:26:58.079 This is what this is. 00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:02.240 This this means to commend loudly, to shout. 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:06.799 Bold, vocal praise through shouting. 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:10.240 It's like you're at the sporting event. 00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:17.359 And the kid you're going to cheer for, the teenager you're going to cheer for, they get a hit. 00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:19.440 Or they score a basket. 00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:24.240 Woo! I've seen some of the most dignified people. 00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:33.680 They're put together, they're dressed right, but their kid comes up to bat, and their kid gets a hit, and they lose their mind. 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:38.000 Whoa! Let's go! You get them, baby. 00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:40.319 They're shouting. 00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:46.240 They're like, Yes! Shout! Come up! You know what this looks like? 00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:47.359 Praising God. 00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:54.240 Hey man! Praise the Lord! Thank you, God! Thank you, Jesus. 00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:59.680 When's the last time you were singing a song and just I mean, just a Shabbat just came out of you? 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:02.480 Praise you! Thank you. 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:04.319 You're great. 00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:06.000 You say that's weird. 00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:08.799 No, that's a response to who God is. 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:10.559 Shabbok. 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:11.759 Next word. 00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:12.799 Zaymar. 00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:14.880 It says sing praise. 00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:16.480 Sing Zaymar to God. 00:28:16.559 --> 00:28:17.519 Sing praise. 00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:19.359 Sing Zaymar to our king. 00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:20.319 Sing Zaymar. 00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:21.279 What is this? 00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:24.000 This is making music with an instrument. 00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:27.039 It's singing along with stringed instruments. 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:28.079 This is what it is. 00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:30.240 Hey, worship teams up here. 00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:35.279 They're playing with the string instrument, and we are worshiping together by singing. 00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:36.640 That's what it is. 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:37.839