June 12, 2022 – Sunday Service Live Stream

Ascension Presbyterian Church Longwood

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Let us open the hymnal to number 381 381 brethren we are come to worship as We practice just before the service

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This has a a very lively tune to it and DJ.

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Will you start us off brother? Unless the spirit of the

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Lord comes down Brethren pray ye shall work all and see

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For sinners round you slumbering on the brink of woe

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Death is coming hell is moving Can you bear to let them go?

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See our fathers and our mothers And our children sinking down Brethren pray and holy manna

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Will be showered all around Sisters will you join and help us

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Moses sister aided him Will you help the trembling mourners

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Who are struggling hard with sin Tell them all about the

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Savior Tell them that he will be found

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Sisters pray and holy manna Will be showered all around Let us love our

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God supremely Let us love each other too

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Let us love and pray for sinners Till our

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God makes all things new Then he'll call us home to heaven

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At his table we'll sit down Christ will gird himself and serve us

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With sweet manna all around Please take the insert with the psalm of the week

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Labeled 123A I lift my eyes to you The tune may not be familiar to you

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But I think it's one to which we can easily pick up DJ if you would start us off I lift my eyes to the throne

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As slaves look to their masters

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And to you I lift my eyes

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As to her lady's hand A slave girl turns her face

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So we look to the Lord our God That he might show us grace

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Show us your grace oh Lord Let us your favor know

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For we are filled with their content And all the scorn they show

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Our souls have had their fill Of scoffing and contempt

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From those who live a life of ease And from the arrogant

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Please continue standing for the reading of the word. We'll be looking at Jeremiah chapter 17.

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Jeremiah 17. Jeremiah 17.

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The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron. With the point of a diamond it is engraved.

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On the tablet of their heart And on the horns of your altars

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While their children remember Their altars and their wooden images

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By the green trees on the high hills O my mountain in the field

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I will give as plunder your wealth All your treasures and your high places of sin

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Within all your borders And you, even yourself Shall let go of your heritage which

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I gave you And I will cause you to serve your enemies In the land which you do not know

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For you have kindled a fire in my anger Which will burn forever

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Thus says the Lord Cursed is the man who trusts in man

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And makes flesh his strength Whose heart departs from the

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Lord For he shall be like a shrub in the desert And shall not see when good comes

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But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness In a salt land which is not inhabited

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Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord And whose hope is the

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Lord For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters Which spreads out its roots by the river

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And will not fear when heat comes But its leaf will be green And will not be anxious in the year of drought

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Nor will cease from yielding fruit The heart is deceitful above all things

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And desperately wicked Who can know it? I the

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Lord search the heart I test the mind Even to give every man according to his ways

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According to the fruit of his doings As a partridge that broods but does not hatch

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So is he who gets riches But not by right It will leave him in the midst of his days

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And at his end he will be a fool A glorious high throne from the beginning

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Is the place of our sanctuary O Lord, the hope of Israel All who forsake you shall be ashamed

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Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth Because they have forsaken the

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Lord, the fountain of living waters Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed

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Save me, and I shall be saved For you are my praise Indeed, they say to me

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Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come now As for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd who follows you

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Nor have I desired the woeful day You know what came out of my lips

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It was right there before you Do not be a terror to me You are my hope in the day of doom

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Let them be ashamed who persecute me But do not let me be put to shame

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Let them be dismayed But do not let me be dismayed Bring on them the day of doom

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And destroy them with double destruction Thus the

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Lord said to me Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people

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By which the kings of Judah come in And by which they go out And in all the gates of Jerusalem And say to them

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Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah And all Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem Who enter by these gates

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Thus says the Lord Take heed to yourselves And bear no burden on the Sabbath day

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Nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem Nor carry a burden out of your houses on the

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Sabbath day Nor do any work but hallow the Sabbath day As I commanded your fathers But they did not obey

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Nor incline their ear But made their necks stiff That they might not hear

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Nor receive instruction And it shall be if you heed me carefully Says the

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Lord To bring no burden through the gates of this city On the Sabbath day But hallow the Sabbath day

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To do no work on it Then shall enter the gates of this city Kings and princes

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Sitting on the throne of David Riding in chariots and on horses They and their princes

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Accompanied by the men of Judah And the inhabitants of Jerusalem And this city shall remain forever

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And they shall come from the cities of Judah And from the places around Jerusalem From the land of Benjamin And from the lowland

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From the mountains And from the south Bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices Grain offerings and incense

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Bringing sacrifices of praise to the house of the Lord But if you will not heed me

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To hallow the Sabbath day Such as not carrying a burden When entering the gates of Jerusalem On the

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Sabbath day Then I will kindle a fire In its gates And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem And it shall not be quenched

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This is the word of the Lord Thanks be to God Please take up the bulletin

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And let us confess our common faith By the singing of the

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Apostles' Creed I believe in God the

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Father He maker of heaven

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And in Jesus Christ His only begotten Son, our Lord Who was conceived by the

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Holy Spirit Born of the Virgin Mary Suffered under Pontius Pilate Was crucified dead and buried

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He descended into hell The third day he rose again

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From the dead He ascended into heaven

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And is seated at the right hand Of God the

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Father almighty From there he will come

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To judge the living and the dead I believe in the

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Holy Spirit I believe the Holy Catholic Church The communion of saints

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The forgiveness of sins The resurrection of the body

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And the life everlasting Amen Let us take up once again the red hymnal

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And turn to hymn number two O worship the King Hymn number two

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Worship the

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King All glorious above O gratefully sing

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His power and His love Our shield and defender

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The ancient of days A million in splendor

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And girded with praise O tell of His might

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O sing of His grace Whose robe is the light

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Whose canopy space His chariots of wrath

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The deep thunderclouds form And dark is

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His path On the wings of the storm The earth with its store

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Of wonders untold Almighty Your power

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Has found it of old Established it fast

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By a changeless decree And round it has cast

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Like a mantle the sea Your bountiful care

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What tongue can recite It breathes in the air

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It shines in the light It streams from the hills

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It descends to the plain And sweetly dispels

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In the dew and the rain Frail children of dust

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And feeble as frail In you do we trust

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Nor find you to fail Your mercy's how tender

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How firm to the end Our maker, defender

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Redeemer and friend O measureless might

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Ineffable love While angels delight To lift you above For creation

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Though feeble their ways With true adoration

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Shall listen to your praise Amen Please prepare yourself

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For the prayers of the people After this manner therefore pray

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Our Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy name

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Thy kingdom come Thy will be done On earth as it is in heaven

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Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our debts

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As we forgive our debtors And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil

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For thine is the kingdom And the power and the glory forever Amen Pray that we may glorify

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God In all that we do As we live and work in the creation That displays his powers

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And be pleased to dispose All things to his glory Lord hear our prayers

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I'll be faithful in honoring you

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Though our work may be weak But God may through your spirit Through the work of your son

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Be made strong We pray that through all the days of our life We would seek to honor you

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Glorify you And with that we would do all things With great joy and thankfulness For the task that you have given us

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In your son's name we pray Amen Pray that Satan's kingdom may be destroyed

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And that the kingdom of grace may be advanced Ourselves and others brought into it And kept in it

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And the kingdom of glory hastened Lord hear our prayers Pray that God for Christ's sake

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Would freely pardon all our sins And we are encouraged to ask this

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Because by his grace We are able from the heart To forgive others Lord hear our prayers

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Father that on a daily basis

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We struggle And pray father that For us to live a life

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Where money is wicked And commit sin against us

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That just as you have forgiven us perfectly For our sins That we would readily

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Extend that same forgiveness To others who have sinned against us Help us to love one another

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And our neighbors Pray that God would either

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Keep us from being tempted to sin Or support and deliver us When we are tempted

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Lord hear our prayers Our father

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Taking encouragement and prayer From you alone In our prayers we praise you

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Ascribing kingdom, power, and glory to you And to testify of our desire

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And assurance to be heard We say together Amen Please stand and pick up the insert

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Plate listed as Psalm 3 For the Psalm of the month This is to the tune of Amazing Grace Psalm 3

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Bless them

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Cherish all

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My new smile With teeth

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Crank with Your blows Deliver Peace If you'll open your

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Bibles with me To Psalm number 2 The second Psalm Psalm number 2

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Why do the nations rage And the people plot a vain thing

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The kings of the earth set themselves And the rulers take counsel together Against the

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Lord and against his anointed Saying let us break their bonds in pieces

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And cast away their cords from us He who sits in the heavens

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Shall laugh The Lord shall hold them in derision Then he shall speak to them

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In his wrath And distress them In his deep displeasure Yet I have set my king

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On my holy hill of Zion I will declare the decree

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The Lord has said to me You are my son Today I have begotten you

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Ask of me And I will give you the nations For your inheritance And the ends of the earth

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For your possession You shall break them With a rod of iron

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You shall dash them to pieces Like a potter's vessel Now therefore be wise,

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O kings Be instructed, you judges of the earth Serve the

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Lord with fear And rejoice with trembling Kiss the son

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Lest he be angry And you perish in the way When his wrath is kindled but a little

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Blessed are all those Who put their trust In him

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We believe that the Bible is the Inspired and inerrant word Of the true and living

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God Our only infallible rule of faith And practice, let us pray O Lord, as we open now your word

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We pray that the eyes of our heart May be enlightened So that we may be able to comprehend

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With all the saints What is the breadth and length and depth And to know the love of Christ Which surpasses knowledge

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That we may be filled up With all the fullness of God Amen You may be seated

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Martin Lloyd -Jones The great Welsh preacher of the 20th century Often stated that the

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Bible Alone of all books Gives an accounting Of what really is

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Or what reality really is He says that this book answers

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All of the great questions of life Among them What is wrong with the world?

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How did it come to be this way? How can it be made right? How does this making things right

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Affect me? How did this world come to be? Where is the world going?

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How did life begin? And how does life begin? Or when did life begin?

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And yes, even a question That has stumped many in our days The Bible answers that question

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What is a woman? It also provides us answers To the events which we see

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Unfolding around us That have unfolded in history And what we see

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In the pages of scripture The Bible deals with facts

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And this psalm is no different It provides an accounting Of facts of how people react to God And how

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God reacts to them Although this psalm does not bear An author's name

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It has been historically and biblically Attributed to David This is a psalm of David It is about or points to The literal

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David But also more particularly David's greater son

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The Lord Jesus Christ We see the events surrounding The establishment of David on his throne

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The opposition he faced From Saul when Saul first learned Of David's anointing in favor with God And then the opposition of Ish -bosheth

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Saul's son in Abner We also see the events surrounding The true king of Israel The son of David, the

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Lord Jesus Christ The opposition of the devil The opposition of the religious Establishment in his day

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The opposition of the Jewish And Roman political order And the opposition of the spread

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Of Christianity throughout the world In the time of the apostles And down to this day

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However, this psalm points To the final triumph Of the Lord Jesus The psalm can be broken down Into four parts

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Verses one through three The nation's raging and rebelling Against God Verses four through six

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God's response to the nation's Verses seven through nine The king's decree

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Verses ten through twelve The king's command Let us take a look

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At verse one Why do the nation's rage And the people plot

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A vain thing This is nothing more And nothing less,

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I should say Than unbridled hatred Of Christ The hatred of human nature

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Against Christ The psalm opens with a question Why do the nation's rage

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And the people Plot a vain thing When we think of raging We think of two things

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Typically we think of anger Or somebody losing control In anger, or wrath has gotten

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So built up inside of somebody That they let fly But we also may be thinking

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Of an ocean, say When a great storm comes through I know we live particularly close

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To the ocean And many of you may have gone down To the seashore and seen the ocean

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Raging in storm Or seen it depicted in movies This is a picture

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Of a stormy ocean Of a raging, out of control Tossed to and fro

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The nation, that is The people have lost all control And they're raging

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The apostle Paul tells us In Colossians 3 .8 that with Anger and wrath is also

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Accompanied with malice Slander and obscene Talk, that anger

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And wrath produce bitterness Proverbs 15 .18 Says that a hot tempered

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Man stirs up Strife, all of these Things are bound together here

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The nations are raging And they're plotting in vain Have we not seen

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The nations raging in our own day Have we not seen it In our own lives perhaps

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An example of this may be A response to the pro -life movement That we've seen recently

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This raging of the pro -abortion Pro -death crowd is raging

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Against the very thought That a baby would be born This raging is

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Uncontrolling and uncontrolled Rather, venting of emotions But what are they

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Doing in their rage They are plotting A vain thing The Hebrew word that is translated plotting

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Is to murmur and ponder The old King James version called it

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Imagine In Acts 4 where this verse is quoted The Greek word that is translated

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Imagine means revolve around The mind or meditate Upon They're conjuring up in their minds

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They're thinking about in their imaginations Plotting vain things In their wrath

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Imagine an angry man Imagining how he might vent his anger On the object of his anger

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Running over in his mind many plans But they Are not alone

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If we turn to verse 2 we read this The kings of the earth Set themselves and the rulers

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Take counsel together Against the Lord and against His anointed Saying The people are not alone

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And it's not only the people that rage A man once said The many have done their part

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And now the mighty will join in With them It is rarely the people alone

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The leaders of the people are always involved When it is good That is the leadership of people

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When that is good the people rejoice Proverbs 29 2 tells us When the righteous are in authority

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The people rejoice But when the wicked are in charge The people are led astray

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The leaders will provide what the people want Paul warns us of this

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In 2 Timothy 4 3 -4 For the time will come When they will not endure sound doctrine

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But according to their own desires Because they have itching ears They will heap up for themselves

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Teachers And they will turn their ears Away from the truth The leaders of the people

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Always give them What they want Isn't it the case

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When the wicked turn their ears From the truth and focus On the lie

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But what are these leaders doing? They are setting themselves And they are taking counsel

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They are setting themselves The Hebrew word translated Set Means to position

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They are taking up a position It is like a military position

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They are standing fast This is not a fit of passion Sometimes we think of Anger or wrath or raging

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That somebody has lost control But not in this case This is something where They are doing it deliberately

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They are setting themselves Against with the intent To continue their opposition

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They are setting themselves For war And they are not only setting themselves

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They are taking counsel together All this is done deliberately The raging, the plotting

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The setting is all done On purpose They are planning for it

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It is not done in haste It is the outcome of careful planning We may think of Pharaoh And Annas When Pharaoh considered

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The fact that the Israelites Were growing and prospering He said let us deal

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Wisely with them He took counsel with his Wise men and leaders

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To destroy the Hebrew children Specifically the males And Annas who was related to the high priest

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And had been high priest himself Saw the situation with Jesus Getting out of hand And he

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Gathered together with his cronies And the religious Leaders and he said it is expedient

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That one should die For the nation They are taking counsel

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And with sinners All of their counsel Is wise to evil

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But what is the object Of their Setting themselves

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Of their taking counsel We read here it said It is against the Lord And against his anointed

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All of this raging All of this plotting All of this setting Is directed to the

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Lord And his anointed But why Why all this raging

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Why the plotting Why the purpose of setting themselves What has caused this unity

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Of the people With their leaders Well we have it given to us

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Right here in verse 3 They say let us break their bonds In pieces and cast

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Away their cords From us They are rebelling against the Lord They are saying

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We will not have this man Rule over us We will not submit We will not have

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God define for us What male or female is What young or old is

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Or what a marriage is Or who is righteous We will not have it

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They are saying it is up to us To make something of life We will have the right to define

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What happiness really is Or define what success is Or define what life itself is

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Notice that the verse Starts with let us Let us

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It seems How often it is That when men

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Rebel against God It starts with a simple thought Let us We see this in several places in scripture

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In the incident around the Tower of Babel recounted for us In Genesis 11 3 through 4

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They said Then they said to one another Come let us make

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Bricks and bake them Thoroughly They had brick for stone

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And they had asphalt for mortar And they said come let us build Ourselves a city and a tower

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Whose top is in the heavens Let us make a name for ourselves Lest we be scattered

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Abroad over the face of the earth Again we see it As mentioned

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With Pharaoh's plot against the Hebrew Children recounted for us In Exodus 1 10

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The children of Israel were getting to be too populous And the Egyptians were afraid

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That if they had gone to war The Hebrews may side with their enemies Come let us

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Deal wisely Let us kill the boys Lest they become our enemy

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And we see this again Even with the people of God In the

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Exodus When Moses had tarried On the mountaintop When he had spent this time with the

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Lord The people came together In the golden calf incident Said let us make gods

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For ourselves For this Moses we do not know What has become of him

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And by extension what has become of God They are saying we want

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Freedom to do all Our abominations We want no law over us

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No restraints on our behavior They're calling the perfect law of liberty As James said

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The law of God They're calling them cords And bonds of slavery

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They want to give full vent To their lusts Paraphrasing Ephesians 2

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They want to walk According to the course of this world According to the prince of the power of the air

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The spirit that now is working In the sons of disobedience They not only want to walk in these things

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They want to be sons of disobedience Fulfilling the desires of the flesh And of the mind

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And by nature make themselves Children of wrath They want to be their own gods

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They want to be rid Of all restraints In other words they want to be as God Has anything changed?

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Had we not seen this before? We may remember That we have this

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Constant A constant temptation To be as God And not only this

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Not only do they imagine Vanity Foolishness and folly

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Not only do they set themselves And make plans against God And his anointed But they think it will be easy to do

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They think they can easily break The bonds and the cords Of God And cast them away

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They imagine themselves as Samson's Being able to snap the cords And cast them aside

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So very easily Where there is much rage Proverbs tells us, there is much folly

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And where do we see this? Where do we see This behavior carried out?

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Well I mentioned the Tower of Babel Incident, I mentioned Pharaoh But we have seen it in the gospel accounts

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We've seen it leading up to The crucifixion When the religious leaders and the chief priests

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And the political leaders And the people all plotted Against Jesus In Luke 23 it says, even

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Herod And Pilate, who were enemies Became united Against Jesus This is summarized for us

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In Acts 4, 27 and 28 For truly Against your holy servant

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Jesus Whom you anointed Both Herod and Pontius Pilate With the

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Gentiles And the people of Israel Were gathered together To do whatever your hand

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And your purpose determined to be done But we also saw this behavior

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Against the apostles themselves In that same chapter 4 Where this psalm is quoted

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It is not only Pointing to the conspiracy And confederacy against Jesus But also against them

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In their preaching The same leaders Forbade the apostles to speak

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And preach in the name of the Lord Jesus And we've seen this Throughout history

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Not only in the Roman Empire In the early days of the Christian faith The Roman Empire attempted to extinguish

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The faith Only to be conquered by it We've seen this in our own day

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Perhaps in the last Hundred years plus Where communism tried to blot out

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The name of Christ They wanted to be His God They wanted to define good and evil

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Defining what history is And who man is Oh how the nations have raged

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And the people imagined a vain thing And we have seen The rebellion

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We have seen That people are

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Rebelling against God And against His anointed But how does God respond?

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In verse 4 we have this He who sits In the heavens

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Shall laugh The Lord shall hold them In derision

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So the scene Shifts here From the raging and the counsel

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Of the leaders and the wicked Against the Lord and against His anointed And the scene shifts to the throne room

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Of God And we see the Lord The King, the rightful ruler Of all things

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As He considers what's going on He laughs The Lord sees

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What fools they are Note the difference between the two scenes There's raging on the one hand

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And no activity On the other, just sitting The tempest of raging

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Is replaced with the quiet Of the throne room Think about the account of our

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Lord Calming the sea, one moment Raging, the next moment Complete calm

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There's no taking of Counsel, no setting No plotting, just Laughter Have you learned to laugh with God?

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Have you seen The raging of the people around you? The enemies of God, the rulers And leaders and proper authorities

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Are you scared Of what they may do? Do you have anxiety? Do you think that the rulers

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The kings of the earth, the enemies of God Will round us up and put us into Concentration camps And make all manner of sport with us?

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Or do you With God Laugh at their vain plotting Laugh at their impudent plans

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Matthew Henry The commentator noted Sinner's follies Are the just sport of God's Infinite wisdom and power

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And those attempts of the Kingdom of Satan Which in our eyes are formidable

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In his Are despicable The Lord does not take

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The trouble to rise up and do battle with them But rather He despises them

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He knows that they are absurd He knows that they are impotent He knows that they are irrational

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And that their efforts are futile He holds Them in contempt

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What shall man do to him? Can he frustrate his plans?

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Can man defeat His purposes? Can he injure his servants Completely?

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No No matter the confederations No matter the combinations, no matter how powerful

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They may appear They can do nothing To upset

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Or change God's sovereign plans Decisions And purposes

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But notice the repetition here We see laughter

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And derision This Hebrew word Comes from the same root

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And it is a repetition Of laughter And this repetition of this theme of laughter

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Should give us great hope God's laughter God's holding them in derision

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Is shown that despite All the planning, all the plotting All the scheming

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Will come to naught Many of you know that in Hebrew When something is repeated

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It is not just for importance But is a fact, a sure thing These plans

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Of the wicked will come to an end But let us now consider Verses 5 and 6 Then he shall speak to them in his wrath

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And distress them in his deep displeasure Yet I have set my king On my holy hill

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Of Zion After His laughter he shall speak

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He will answer then But he need not strike a blow The breath of his lips

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Are enough In 2 Thessalonians 2 .8 we have this When the lawless one will be revealed

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And make no mistake The people who were raging The leaders, they were lawless ones

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They did not want any law To bound them, they certainly did not want The law of God Whom the

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Lord will consume With the breath of his mouth And destroy with the brightness

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Of his coming We see this again in Job 4 .9 But by the blast of God They perish

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And by the breath of his anger They are consumed The breath of his lips

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Are enough Just when it appears That the enemies have the upper hand

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Then his word will go forth And destroy them But what is

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God's response to all this How does he answer the enemies How does he address their

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Raging and their imagining How does he speak to the ones who Set themselves against him

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And against his anointed He says this Yet I have set my king

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On my holy hill Of Zion The very thing

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That they were hoping to do With themselves God says I have done it

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I have set my king Isaiah 59 .19 says When the enemy comes in like a flood

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The spirit of God Will lift up a standard Against them And what is that standard

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The Lord Jesus Christ The king set upon Zion The very thing

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That the enemy wanted Is to take over The opportunity to set up shop for themselves

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To rule and make laws And decide right from wrong Good and evil They saw the opportunity

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To rule for themselves Yet God says I have set my king

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On my holy hill Of Zion When God's will is done Man frets

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In vain God has set his king The kings of the earth The presidents and prime ministers of the earth

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The potentates and dictators of the earth Are nothing Compared to our king

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I have set my king The nations of this world The rulers are accounted As nothing compared to Christ Isaiah 40 verse 15 says this

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Behold the nations are a drop In a bucket And are accounted as small dust

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On the scales They may look powerful to us But not to God Unlike the imaginations of the people

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And their leaders Who thought it would be an easy thing To break the bonds and cords of God God's will is an easy thing

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For him He has spoken it And it is done Now let us turn

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To verse 7 In verse 7 we read I will declare the decree

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The Lord has said to me You are my son Today I have

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Begotten you This is where the anointed speaks We have looked into the councils of the wicked

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We have looked into the throne room of God And now another Is speaking to us

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I declare the decree The Lord has said to me You are my son

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Today I have Begotten you This is the anointed of God This is the king of God Declaring his rights of sovereignty

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And warning against rebellion And their impending doom And not only does this refer to Christ's kingship

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Just a quick aside This particular verse is quoted

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In Hebrews 1 5 Establishing Christ as preeminent

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In all things as the king But in Hebrews 5 5 We also read this verse quoted So also

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Christ did not glorify himself To become high priest But it was he who said to him

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You are my son Today I have Begotten you It establishes

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Jesus as king and as priest This is further evidence That this psalm is talking about The Lord Jesus Christ The preeminence of Christ in all things

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As prophet, priest, and king Christ acts as a king Towards us

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And toward the father as a priest On our behalf God has laughed at the wicked

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Now Christ the anointed Who had been declared to be the son of God With power

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According to the spirit of holiness By the resurrection from the dead We read in Romans 1 4

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The Lord Jesus speaks And seems to say to the raving Their arrogant claims

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What we read in Psalm 46 10 Be still And know that I am

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God I will be exalted Among the nations I will be exalted

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On the earth The declaration was a direct conflict

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Of what sinful man wants Sinful man wants dominion Sinful man wants to be his

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God This has been true from the very beginning In Genesis 3 Verses 4 and 5

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We read of the original temptation Of our first parents And the devil said

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When we read here The serpent who is the devil said to the woman You will not surely die

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For God knows that in the day That you eat of it your eyes will be opened And you will be

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Like God That's the temptation To be like God But the one who is speaking

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To them is God The Lord said to me You are my son

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Today I have begotten you This is the heir, the Lord Jesus Christ This is as God says

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My son Hebrews 1 verses 1 through 3 God who at various times

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And in various ways spoke In time past to the fathers By prophets has in these last days

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Spoken to us by his son Whom he appointed Heir of all things

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Through him whom also He made the worlds Who being the brightness of his glory

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The express image of his person And upholding all things By the word of his power

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When he had by himself Purged our sins Sat down at the right hand

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Of the majesty on high This is Emmanuel God with us

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We may remember In Isaiah 9 For unto us a child is born

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Unto us a son is given And the government will be upon his shoulder And his name will be called

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Wonderful Counselor Mighty God Everlasting Father Prince of Peace This is clearly pointing

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To the Lord Jesus Christ But let us now turn our eyes To verse 8 Ask of me

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And this is still the anointed Quoting the father We'll go back to verse 7

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I will declare this decree The Lord said to me You are my son today

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I have begotten you Ask of me And I will give you The nations for your inheritance

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And the ends of the earth For your possession It was a common practice

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In times of old were great kings To ask favor of the ones That they wanted to bestow

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A favor upon We know this in several instances We can see this in Esther 5 3

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Where we read this And the king said to her What do you wish Queen Esther What is your request

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It will be given to you Up to have the kingdom And we know that This is something

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That was promised By an oath We think of even perverted

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Herod Would do this It was a common practice You remember when Herod was at this feast

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And he had the daughter of his brother's wife Dancing in front of him And then he promised her with an oath

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To give her whatever she wanted But this is a different kind of promise This is a promise from God Jesus had been asked

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And it will be given to him Note that his enemies Are even his inheritance

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Not only Does the Lord laugh at the wicked Not only will all The plans and plotting of the nations

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And kings come to nothing But they shall be subjects To the anointed

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Remember the temptation Of our Lord Recounted for us in Matthew 4 8 We read this

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Again the devil took him up On an exceeding high mountain And showed him all the kingdoms of the world

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And of their glory And he said to them all these things I will give to you If you will fall down And worship me

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We need not think that somehow Having all the kingdoms given to the Lord Jesus Christ Was the bad thing

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No It was an illegitimate giving They were not Satan's to give

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But here The anointed is asked What would he receive The kingdoms of the world

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And of their glory He was going to receive them in a different way By the crucifixion

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You may be saying to yourself Well when did this all happen We see it When did it happen

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I believe this happened After the ascension Daniel has a vision of this event for us

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Which is recounted in Daniel 7 13 and 14 I was watching in the night vision to behold

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One like the son of man Coming with the clouds of heaven He came to the ancient of days

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And they brought him near Before him Then to him was given dominion and glory

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And a kingdom that all Peoples nations and languages Should serve him

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His dominion As an everlasting dominion Which shall not pass away

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And his kingdom The one which shall not be destroyed Think of that other vision in Daniel The great statue of gold

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And silver And bronze and iron and clay And the stone not cut with hands

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Coming down and destroying the statue And filling the earth

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At the ascension of our lord There was a great victory parade Which I believe is recounted for us In Psalm 24

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Verses 7 and 8 we read this Lift up your heads O you gates

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And be lifted up you everlasting doors And the king of glory

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Shall come in Who is This king of glory The lord

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Strong and mighty The lord mighty in battle Excuse me Lift up the ancient gates

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And allow the king of glory To come in And what was the victory That was being celebrated

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The cross And it was an unexpected victory Was it not

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Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 2 Which none of the rulers

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Of this age knew What didn't they know That the cross would be their doom

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For had they known They would not have crucified The lord of glory

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Talk about the heathen raging Talk about people plotting in vain What didn't they know

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That I have set my king On my holy hill And I have given him

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The kingdoms of this world And remember This is not a future event

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Revelations 11 15 says this The kingdoms of this world Have become

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Past tense The kingdoms of our lord And of his Christ And he shall reign forever and ever

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And you should be hearing That refrain from Handel's Messiah Ringing in your ears

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And he shall reign Forever and ever But let us look on further

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In verse 9 We read this And you shall break them With the rod of iron

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And you will dash them To pieces Like a potter's vessel

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Verse 5 and 9 go together Then he shall speak to them In his wrath

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And distress them in his deep displeasure You shall break them With the rod of iron

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And you will dash them To pieces like a potter's vessel When he

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Shall become angry In his wrath He shall break them with the rod of iron

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Unlike what the heathen thought That it would be easy to break the cords This will be as easy as Breaking a clay pot

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With an iron rod And not only has God given him the right

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But the power to conquer The enemies of God May appear to be strong They may appear to have the upper hand

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They may appear to have the power But they will be easily defeated Like the breaking of a clay pot

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Those who will not bend the knee Will be broken The rod is a symbol of authority

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Like unto a scepter Remember the promise Or the prediction we might say

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Or the prophecy of Jacob Towards his death When he was talking to his son

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Judah The scepter shall not depart From Judah nor a lawgiver From between his feet

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The king is the lawgiver And this is the scepter Of righteousness which we read

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In Psalm 45 6 Your throne, O God Is forever and ever

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And the scepter of righteousness Is the scepter of your kingdom And this is the scepter of judgment

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On the nations And they shall not be able to stand Well let us consider

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The last section of this psalm Now therefore Be wise,

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O kings Be instructed, you judges of the earth Serve the Lord with fear

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And rejoice with trembling Kiss the son Lest he be angry

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And you perish in the way When his wrath is kindled but a little Blessed are all those

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Who put their trust In him This is the counsel of the Lord We've heard the counsel of the wicked

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This is the counsel of the Lord Now the decree has been said Now that the anointed has spoken

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Now that the counsel of the wicked Has been set aside Laughed at and told

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That it will amount to nothing Now the counsel of the Lord is given Now therefore be wise

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Be instructed, you judges of the earth Serve the Lord with fear And rejoice with trembling

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Be wise Always be wise And open to instruction Think of your own life

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Are you open to instruction? Are you open to counsel? Are you open to the words

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Of your brothers and sisters in Christ? Are you open to the instruction Of the Lord? Here he is saying to his enemies

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Be wise, you cannot win In your raging Be wise, your plotting will not come to nothing

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Be wise, you cannot win By your counsel Be wise, you cannot set yourself

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Against the Lord And his anointed and win Be wise

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Humble yourself Under the yoke of Christ Willingly Serve the

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Lord with fear Fear and wisdom Go together Job 28 .28

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tells us this And to the man he said Behold The fear of the

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Lord That is wisdom And to depart from evil is understanding In Psalm 111 verse 10

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We read this The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom A good understanding have all those

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Who do his commandments His praise endures forever But as fear

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And wisdom go together So do fear and service We should always serve the

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Lord With loving fear Mingled with our obedience What is loving fear?

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Have you ever thought of that? Well think of the honor That you show your earthly fathers

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There may be fear mixed into it Which we might call respect And the obedience We are not only talking about our heavenly father

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In this case But our king And we are his subjects Deuteronomy 6 .13

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says this You shall fear the Lord your God And serve him Deuteronomy 13 .4

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says You shall walk after the Lord your God And fear him And keep his commandments

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And obey his voice You shall serve him And hold fast to him

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Rejoice with trembling Not only are we commanded to serve the

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Lord with fear But also to rejoice With trembling Fear without joy would be torment

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Joy without fear Would be presumption On one hand is wickedness

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On the other hand Licentiousness We must always

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Have a holy fear Mixed with our Christian joy But then we read this

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Kiss the son Lest he be angry And you perish in the way

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A kiss A kiss Could be a sign of love amongst equals

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It could be a sign Of subjection to a king It could be a sign of adoration

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In worship Carnal men kiss Even treacherous men do

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Think of Judas Betraying his lord with a kiss But this is the kiss

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Of a subject to a king Willingly Earnestly Independence upon him

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As your sovereign As your elder brother And you perish in the way

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It is an awful thing To perish in the way of sin And rebellion It will cast you into hell

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Psalm 7, 9, 11, and 13 Says this O let the wickedness of the wicked

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Come to an end God is just judge And God is angry with the wicked every day

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If he does not turn back He will sharpen his sword He bends his bows and makes it ready

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He also Prepares for himself instruments of death He makes his arrows

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Into firing shaft That is what the lord Is doing for the wicked

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He is commanding them to kiss the sun And depart from their wickedness Lest they perish

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And when the lord is preparing his bow And sharpening his sword And making his instruments

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Of death ready They are coming for the wicked Remember Our god

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Is a consuming fire But the last words of the psalm are these

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Blessed are all Those who put their trust In him The psalm closes with a benediction

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Blessed Are all those Who put their trust in him You may remember the last time

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That we considered the psalms We looked at psalm number one And had opened with Blessed is the man

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I just want to add I think it's amazing how providentially The lord brings things together

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In our public reading from Jeremiah 17 Blessed Is the man

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In our call to worship Blessed is the man The more we trust in the lord

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The more we are obedient to him And the more we trust The more we are blessed

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But how do we have this trust How can we trust The lord It is by faith

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We know that the word tells us that the just Shall live by faith We might also paraphrase this and say

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That the blessed shall live By faith But how is your faith

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Is it weak Is it faint Do you have

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Difficulty in trusting In the lord May we join our voices

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Like the man Who came to the lord for healing of his son Where he said Lord I believe

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But help my unbelief We might want to now compare this

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First and second psalm real briefly They go together almost don't they They're like bookends

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And it's a great way to start Our consideration of the book of psalms Psalm one

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Opens with a Or rather provides a contrast of the Righteous man with the wicked Psalm two

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Contrasts the raging disobedience Of the ungodly And the sure exultation

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Of the righteous son of god Psalm one we see the wicked Driven away like chaff

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In psalm two We see the wicked dashed to pieces As a clay pot And psalm one gives us an image

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Of the righteousness of the tree that is planted By the rivers of water Psalm two

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Shows us the triumphant christ The covenant king who blesses Those who put their trust in him

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How excellent A way to begin Our study of the book of psalms

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But we will close with this What about us

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Let us take a look Back at verse twelve Kiss the son

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Lest he be angry And you perish in the way When his wrath

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Is kindled but a little Blessed are all those Who put their trust in him

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First we have the command Kiss the son Then we have the argument or the reason

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Lest he be angry When his wrath is kindled but a little Then we have

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The benediction Blessed are all those who put their trust in him Have you

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Kissed the son There are many who will rebel

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Even after this Admonition to be wise Some will say we will not have this man

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Rule over us God says kiss the son There are others who will say

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We will not serve him he is a hard master He reaps where he did not sow And gathers where he did not scatter

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God says Kiss the son Some will say We will not serve him

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He gives us burdens grievous to bear God says Kiss the son

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Some will also say Not quite as defiant I want to But I will

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Lose so much that I hold dear If I submit to him God says

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What is the profit Or what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world Yet loses his own soul

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Kiss the son Let us kiss the son

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Let us join with Isaiah who says this Greatly rejoice in the

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Lord my soul Shall be joyful in my God For he has clothed me with the

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Garments of salvation He has covered me with the robe of Righteousness as a bridegroom

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Decks himself with ornaments And as a bride Adorns herself

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With her jewels Brothers and sisters in Christ We are the bride of Christ We have been decked with the garments of Salvation Rejoice all of you who have kissed

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The son Let us pray O merciful father Who is pleased to condescend to speak

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To us through your word Grant us all grace That we may not be mere

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Hearers of your word But doers also Give us the grace of your

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Holy spirit that we may Believe what has been Proclaimed to us

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And that we may have the grace To kiss you Lord Jesus the son

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May we bring Glory and honor to your name And all that we do as you

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Conform us to the image Of you lord Jesus Our savior in whose name we pray

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Amen Now we'll transition to Our time of offering for Tithes and offerings

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And as the Young men make their way To the front of the room please stand

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Please stand

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And let us pray Gracious heavenly father We remember the words of your lord

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Jesus Christ that he himself said It is more blessed to give Than to receive

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You have commanded us not to lay up Treasures for ourselves upon earth Where moth and rust destroy

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Where thieves break in and steal But lay up for yourselves Treasures in heaven we are told

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And commanded where neither moth Nor rust destroys Where thieves do break in or steal

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And where the treasure is There will our hearts be also Heavenly father we pray

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That as we parted with these treasures Of earthly value To the work of your kingdom that you would bless them

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Greatly in that work And that by giving we too May be blessed

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And we pray this in Christ's name Amen Let us lift up our voices in singing the glory of Patri As it was in the beginning

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It is now and ever Shall be The lord be with you

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And also with you Lift up your hearts We lift them up to the lord

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Let us give thanks to the lord That it is good and right so to do It is a good

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It is good and right And a joyful thing That we should at all times and in all places

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Give thanks to you Oh holy lord father almighty Everlasting god

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Because you sent your beloved son To redeem us from sin and death

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And make us heirs in him Of everlasting life That when he shall come again

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In power and great triumph To judge the world We may without shame

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Or fear rejoice to behold His appearing Therefore with angels and archangels

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And with all the company of heaven We praise and magnify your glorious name Evermore praising you

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And singing Amen Amen Please be seated

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Let us pray Almighty god you are the creator And lord of all things

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You are the sovereign majesty Whom we have offended You are our most loving

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And merciful father Who has given your son To reconcile us to yourself

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Who has ratified The new testament And covenant of grace

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With his most precious blood And has instituted this holy sacrament To be celebrated

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In remembrance of him Until his coming Sanctify these creatures of bread and wine

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Which according to your institution And command We set apart to this holy use

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That they may be sacramentally The body and blood Of the son

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Jesus Christ Amen The apostle

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Paul Wrote for us In 1 Corinthians 11 23 26 These words

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For I received From the lord that which I also Delivered to you

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That the lord Jesus In the night in which he was Betrayed took bread

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And when he had given thanks He broke it And said this is my body

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Which is given for you Do this In remembrance of me

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After supper He took the cup And when he had given thanks

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He said this This is the cup of the new covenant In my blood

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Do this as often as you drink it In remembrance of me For as often as you eat this bread

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And drink the cup You proclaim the lord's death Until he comes again

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Therefore We proclaim the faith Until he comes again

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Let us pray together this prayer Of humble access We do not presume to come

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To this your table O merciful lord Trusting in our own righteousness

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But in your manifold And great mercies We are not worthy so much

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As to gather up the crumbs Under your table But you are the same lord Who always shows mercy

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Grant us therefore gracious lord So to eat the flesh Of your dear son

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Jesus Christ And to drink of his blood That our sinful bodies May be made clean by his body

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And our souls washed Through his most precious blood And that we may evermore

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Dwell in him and he in us Amen Christ our Passover Was sacrificed for us

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Therefore let us keep the feasts The gifts of God For the people of God Thanks be to the lord

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Sinners plunged beneath That flood Lose all their guilty

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Sins Lose all their Guilty sins

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Lose all Their guilty sins Guilty sins

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Rejoice you see That fountain In his name

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My sins away My sins away

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My sins away

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Until I shall

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Sing your song I'll sing your power To save My silent hymn

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My silent hymn My silent hymn

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My silent hymn My silent hymn My silent hymn

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My silent hymn

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My silent hymn My silent hymn My silent hymn so holy.

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In this day found we on earth a body broken.

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Drink of sinless healing grace unbounded.

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Risen in our blood, fill our soul with fresh strength.

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Sin is forgiven. Hope will prevail.

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Singers and pilgrims seeking home's eternal rest.

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each tree hath spring from the tree favor thy children and with tender mercy.

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God in three persons Father, Son, O Eternal Spirit Thine be the glory praise us sing new songs throughout the world shall ring

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Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia They sing

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Jesus His splendid majesty Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia This bold triumph day

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Alleluia so as ye today have seen

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Him go Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia Ascending up the sky

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Alleluia Now that we have been fed spiritually let us make this prayer of commitment together

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Almighty and ever living God we thank you for feeding us with the spiritual food of the most precious body and blood of your

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Son our Savior Jesus Christ and for assuring us of these holy mysteries that we are living members of the body of your

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Son and heirs of your eternal kingdom and O Lord grant us this other benefit that you will never allow us to forget these things but having them imprinted on our hearts may we grow and increase daily in the faith which is at work in every good deed and now

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Father send us out to do the work you have given us to do to love and serve you as faithful witnesses of Christ our

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Lord to Him, to you, and to the Holy Spirit the honor and glory now and forever.

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Amen. Please stand and join me in the singing of the doxology Praise God from whom all blessings flow

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Praise Him all creatures hear Thee.

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Receive now the blessing, the Aaronic blessing, the Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make

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His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.

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Amen. Amen. Now I've seen salvation's dawn

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This child, this is the

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Savior of the risen and reigning