WEBVTT - Have You Gone Public with Your Praise?, Part 2 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:05.520 Now it's not to impress, but to express. And so 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:09.479 basically what David is saying, that the degree of your 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.640 gratitude should equal the degree of the glory that you 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:16.880 give to God, not about us. It's all about him. 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.000 Welcome to Treasure Truth with pastor and author James Ford, 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.720 junior senior pastor of the Christ Bible Church in Chicago. 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:32.760 I'm Steve Hillard. Glad you're with us. As today we 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:37.919 continue our message. Have you gone public with your praise pastor? 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:41.839 You draw out, I think, a real important thing for 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:46.200 us to understand when we truly grasp what Christ has 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:50.920 done for us, and when we reflect on that, gratitude 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.640 is bound to come. And out of the overflow of that, 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:57.080 gratitude is praise. And so if we're not praising, if you're, 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:58.840 you know, going to church and you're sitting there like 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:00.720 a bump on the log, you know, it seems to 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.200 me as if we're not truly appreciating what Christ has 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:04.959 done for us. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:10.760 Right? And you always show appreciation with gratitude. Yeah. If 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.000 I were to give you a $100 bill right now. 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:16.000 I'd jump up from this chair and hug you. 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:20.000 But, you know, it'd just be an illustration. Yeah. All right. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:21.440 He's not laughing about it. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:22.000 I'm not laughing. 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:27.280 Anymore. No, but you would respond by saying thank you. Yes. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.120 And since it would be a surprise, you'd probably say, oh, 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.759 thank you. Yeah. You know, and so look what Christ 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:40.080 has done for us. Oh, wow, man. Even Sunday, you know, 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.400 at our 8:00 service. Man, I cried through the whole sermon, 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:47.800 preached a message about Jesus authentication, resurrection. And what does 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:51.000 the resurrection prove from Romans one one through four? I 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.600 cried through the whole sermon, man, because I kept thinking 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.480 about where I was and how he's brought me and 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.280 where I am now. And oh, all by the grace 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.640 of God. I told him, I just have to stop. 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.920 Excuse me. And I just threw my hands up and 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.440 I said, thank you, Jesus, I love you. I appreciate 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.520 all that you've done. I'm so grateful. Glory to your name. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.200 You know, just just had to do it. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:17.680 Yeah. Because exactly. You're understanding what Christ has done for you. Amen. Well, let's, uh, 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.600 look at this a little more deeply today from Psalm 34. 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.520 As we continue the message, have you gone public with 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:26.680 your praise? Here's Pastor Ford. 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:32.800 I focus on the actor. The one who's doing the blessing. Will. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:37.560 Is the attitude. Contrary to how I feel. Uh, bless 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.160 the Lord. Uh, is a focus on action. This is 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.880 the action. And of course, the Lord. Uh, the focus 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.160 is on the Almighty. So here I will bless the Lord. Uh, 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.680 is actor attitude, action. And almighty. That's what he's saying. 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.359 That's the focus now. It's personal. What do you mean 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:58.160 by that passport. I mean, it's emphatic. So what's emphatic? 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.600 Here's what he's saying. I don't care what everybody else 0:03:00.710 --> 0:03:03.390 around me came to do. I came to praise the Lord. 0:03:03.389 --> 0:03:05.950 I don't care if nobody else says Amen. I'm going 0:03:05.950 --> 0:03:08.950 to say Amen. I don't care what anybody else do me. 0:03:08.950 --> 0:03:10.710 Let me tell you. Let me tell you I don't 0:03:10.710 --> 0:03:13.030 know what you came to do. But I came to 0:03:13.070 --> 0:03:16.310 praise the Lord. I came to bless his name. I 0:03:16.350 --> 0:03:19.990 came to jump and shout. And that's exactly what he's saying. See, 0:03:19.990 --> 0:03:23.510 if you came to get something from God, then you 0:03:23.550 --> 0:03:26.150 came for the wrong reason. If you're one of the 0:03:26.150 --> 0:03:28.950 ones who only come for the sermon, then you came 0:03:28.950 --> 0:03:32.350 for the wrong reason. Uh, because it's not about a sermon. 0:03:32.350 --> 0:03:34.830 It's not about a band. It's not about a choir 0:03:34.870 --> 0:03:37.350 or praise team, or even the preaching of the Word 0:03:37.350 --> 0:03:40.230 of God, even though it should be central. But it's 0:03:40.230 --> 0:03:45.950 about coming together in a corporate expression and expressing to 0:03:45.990 --> 0:03:49.550 one another, and to God how grateful we are that 0:03:49.550 --> 0:03:55.230 he let us come back one more time. Yeah, here's 0:03:55.230 --> 0:03:58.630 what he's saying. Yeah, it ain't just about a sermon. 0:03:58.670 --> 0:04:02.950 Now notice he says it must be voluntary will. It 0:04:02.950 --> 0:04:05.670 must be voluntary. In other words, he's saying I got 0:04:05.670 --> 0:04:09.950 the Lord's praise on speed dial. That's what I have. See, 0:04:09.950 --> 0:04:13.070 he's teaching us that praise is not an option. Praise 0:04:13.070 --> 0:04:18.109 is an obligation. Oh, yeah, it's an obligation. Yeah. Okay. 0:04:18.550 --> 0:04:21.190 Get this. Uh, I like sports, but I like football. 0:04:21.190 --> 0:04:23.870 I'm not a baseball fan. Even though Pirates is my team, 0:04:23.870 --> 0:04:25.830 I just say Pirates. My team. I don't even watch 0:04:25.830 --> 0:04:28.750 the games. And I was wondering, what's the uproar? What 0:04:28.750 --> 0:04:33.310 are y'all hauling about? And, you know, all in the store. Yeah, yeah. 0:04:34.190 --> 0:04:39.909 High five slapping high fives. The Cubs are going to 0:04:39.950 --> 0:04:49.190 the World Series. I said really? Yes. Finally we're going to. Oh. Hey, bro, 0:04:49.230 --> 0:04:53.350 check this out. Yeah, you heard right. You heard. Now, 0:04:53.350 --> 0:04:57.310 it's not just because I'm not from Chicago. But let 0:04:57.310 --> 0:05:00.029 me tell you what I start thinking about. I start 0:05:00.029 --> 0:05:02.789 thinking about y'all. I said, how many of them right 0:05:02.790 --> 0:05:05.830 now who sit there all service. Don't open their mouth. 0:05:05.830 --> 0:05:08.590 Don't move. Don't say nothing. Don't stand. If you say, 0:05:08.589 --> 0:05:10.590 look at your neighbor, they're like, I don't want to 0:05:10.589 --> 0:05:15.190 see him. Look at my neighbor. I ain't high fiving nobody. 0:05:15.390 --> 0:05:17.350 I live in the suburbs. What are you talking about? 0:05:17.350 --> 0:05:23.150 High five. I said, I wonder how many of them 0:05:23.150 --> 0:05:25.030 was in the store talking about. Did you hear? Or 0:05:25.029 --> 0:05:28.630 at the job? The cup we in, we in. And 0:05:28.630 --> 0:05:31.390 then I begin to think the Cubs didn't go to 0:05:31.430 --> 0:05:34.150 Calvary and die for you. But you can holler for them. 0:05:34.150 --> 0:05:37.190 But you can't holler for Jesus. The cubs didn't cover 0:05:37.190 --> 0:05:39.589 you in their blood, but you can holler for the cubs, 0:05:39.589 --> 0:05:42.510 but you can't holler for Jesus. The cubs didn't write 0:05:42.510 --> 0:05:44.790 your name in the Lamb's Book of Life, but you 0:05:44.790 --> 0:05:46.790 can holler for the cubs. But you can't holler for 0:05:46.790 --> 0:05:50.110 Jesus that the Cubs ain't coming back to get you. 0:05:51.350 --> 0:05:53.349 But you can holler for the Cubs. But you can't 0:05:53.390 --> 0:05:56.510 holler for Jesus. The Cubs don't come in the middle 0:05:56.510 --> 0:05:59.030 of the night when your body is racked with pain. 0:05:59.150 --> 0:06:11.150 You don't say, oh, Cubs! Huh? Yeah. No one has 0:06:11.150 --> 0:06:14.070 to coerce you. No one has to prompt you. You 0:06:14.070 --> 0:06:18.589 ain't praying with me. I submit to you who tell me. Well, 0:06:18.589 --> 0:06:22.630 you see, when I worship, I'm a kind of person 0:06:23.510 --> 0:06:28.270 who doesn't get excited. Then there's something wrong with you 0:06:28.510 --> 0:06:34.229 and your worship and your relationship with your God. Because if, if, if, 0:06:34.270 --> 0:06:38.150 if Uptown Funk can make you move and a song 0:06:38.150 --> 0:06:41.349 about somebody who died for you can't make you move, 0:06:41.470 --> 0:06:49.110 then there's something wrong with your salvation. Amen. Amen. Oh, 0:06:49.110 --> 0:06:52.909 I'm in Bible territory. Oh, yeah, I'm in Bible territory. 0:06:52.910 --> 0:07:00.190 It's in the book. And so it has to be personal. Yes, personal. 0:07:00.670 --> 0:07:03.390 Now listen, listen. He's saying, I don't need a choir. 0:07:03.390 --> 0:07:04.990 I don't need a musician. I don't need a praise team. 0:07:04.990 --> 0:07:08.669 I don't need anything. Notice. Secondly, it's visible. Okay. I 0:07:08.670 --> 0:07:09.870 don't have time to go through all of it. Let 0:07:09.870 --> 0:07:12.390 me do this real quick. Here's the words that are 0:07:12.390 --> 0:07:17.550 in Psalm 34. I will bless Barack 330 times in 0:07:17.550 --> 0:07:20.550 the Old Testament, and it means to bow the knee. 0:07:20.710 --> 0:07:22.630 So tell me about that. If you bow the knee, 0:07:22.670 --> 0:07:27.030 can anybody see that? Yes. Then there is yada. It 0:07:27.030 --> 0:07:30.030 means to extend the hand, to give thanks. Can you 0:07:30.030 --> 0:07:33.590 see that? Yes you can. Okay. Toda. It means to 0:07:33.590 --> 0:07:36.470 extend the hand. Can you see that? In other words, 0:07:36.470 --> 0:07:42.630 praise can be seen. Don't tell me you praising God. 0:07:44.990 --> 0:07:47.470 Y'all heard about that? About the person that died in 0:07:47.470 --> 0:07:51.270 the worship service. They called the paramedics. They took out 0:07:51.310 --> 0:07:59.070 12 people before they found a dead person. Yeah. Now 0:07:59.070 --> 0:08:04.190 it's not to impress, but to express. And so basically 0:08:04.190 --> 0:08:06.590 what David is saying and all the Psalms will concur 0:08:06.590 --> 0:08:09.750 with me. I can preach on ad infinitum, ad nauseam, 0:08:10.190 --> 0:08:15.190 that the degree of your gratitude should equal the degree 0:08:15.190 --> 0:08:18.350 of the glory that you give to God, not about us. 0:08:18.350 --> 0:08:23.550 It's all about him. Why? Because. Listen, listen. If you 0:08:23.550 --> 0:08:30.150 gave somebody something they didn't deserve. And what would they 0:08:30.190 --> 0:08:32.670 say if I said I gave somebody $100 bill? What 0:08:32.670 --> 0:08:36.709 did they say? Thank you. Thank you. Uh, but if 0:08:36.710 --> 0:08:39.510 I said, oh, I have one. And they say, are 0:08:39.510 --> 0:08:41.750 you going to give it? Well, no, you can take it. 0:08:42.150 --> 0:08:44.150 They probably sit down. I don't I don't want it. 0:08:44.830 --> 0:08:46.470 I don't want it because you don't want me to 0:08:46.470 --> 0:08:50.750 have it. Now, why would you think that God would 0:08:50.750 --> 0:08:54.070 want you to be forced to praise him when he 0:08:54.070 --> 0:08:56.550 is willingly giving you? He's willing to give it to us. 0:08:56.550 --> 0:09:01.900 He wants us to say thank you. See. John 423 0:09:01.900 --> 0:09:05.460 says he desires that Psalm 106 111 says he demands it. 0:09:05.500 --> 0:09:08.620 117 one and two says he deserves it, and this 0:09:08.620 --> 0:09:10.980 text says he delights in it. He dwells in the 0:09:10.980 --> 0:09:14.500 midst of the praises of his people. The Bible says, 0:09:14.500 --> 0:09:17.500 let everything that have breath praise the Lord. Do you 0:09:17.500 --> 0:09:20.540 have breath? Yeah. So you have to praise the Lord. 0:09:20.540 --> 0:09:23.180 Here it is. Here it is. Thirdly. Thirdly, you have 0:09:23.179 --> 0:09:29.020 to do it persistently. He says, at all times. At 0:09:29.020 --> 0:09:31.500 all times. Uh, what do you mean by that, David? 0:09:31.500 --> 0:09:35.339 What do you mean, all times? All means all. That's all. 0:09:35.380 --> 0:09:38.980 All means. In other words, there's three kinds of praisers. Uh, 0:09:38.980 --> 0:09:42.140 according to me, there's a conditional praiser. And they praise 0:09:42.140 --> 0:09:45.700 because of the car. Uh, because they got healed. Because 0:09:45.740 --> 0:09:48.020 the loan came through. Because the children started acting. Right? 0:09:48.020 --> 0:09:52.260 Because the marriage started coming together. Uh, yeah. And, uh, 0:09:52.260 --> 0:09:54.260 you know, their their praise is modest. They don't want 0:09:54.260 --> 0:09:56.620 to wrinkle their suit, uh, mess up their hair and 0:09:56.620 --> 0:09:59.420 all that kind of stuff. They're strong in the Lord 0:09:59.420 --> 0:10:02.060 as long as they're not going through anything. Then there's 0:10:02.059 --> 0:10:05.700 the fair weather appraisers and and there's the individuals that 0:10:05.700 --> 0:10:08.980 it it's gotta be right. But then there's the appraiser. 0:10:08.980 --> 0:10:11.179 You say, who are those? In spite of the lost job, 0:10:11.179 --> 0:10:13.340 in spite of the credit report that looks like a 0:10:13.340 --> 0:10:16.620 rap sheet. In other words, they understand that that praise 0:10:16.620 --> 0:10:19.500 of God is not conditioned on your condition. So. So 0:10:19.500 --> 0:10:21.260 here's what David says. You praise him in the good time, 0:10:21.260 --> 0:10:23.260 but you praise him when it's bad times. You praise 0:10:23.260 --> 0:10:24.780 him in the bad times, but you praise him in 0:10:24.780 --> 0:10:27.380 the bad times. You praise him when the tender times, 0:10:27.380 --> 0:10:29.300 but you praise him in the tough times. You praise 0:10:29.300 --> 0:10:31.140 him in the smooth times, but you also praise him 0:10:31.140 --> 0:10:33.179 in the rough times. So in the rich time and 0:10:33.179 --> 0:10:35.339 the poor time, you praise the Lord when you got 0:10:35.340 --> 0:10:37.340 a new house or it goes into foreclosure, you should 0:10:37.340 --> 0:10:39.500 praise the Lord. Uh, when he when he's put your 0:10:39.500 --> 0:10:41.500 marriage back together or you're sitting in a divorce court, 0:10:41.500 --> 0:10:44.020 you ought to be praising the Lord. In other words, 0:10:44.020 --> 0:10:49.940 this psalm is for individuals who are crazy. Praisers. You know, uh, 0:10:49.940 --> 0:10:53.020 I'll never forget this. It happens to me all the time. But, uh, 0:10:53.020 --> 0:10:56.300 I was bumping, uh, some gospel music and it was, 0:10:56.340 --> 0:10:58.140 you know, music you could shout and rejoice to. I'm 0:10:58.140 --> 0:11:01.220 shouting and rejoicing, acting a fool. So I stop at 0:11:01.220 --> 0:11:03.699 the red light and I'm still acting a fool. And 0:11:03.700 --> 0:11:05.860 a sister pulls up in her car, looks up and 0:11:05.860 --> 0:11:09.100 gives me that. What is wrong with you? Like. Like 0:11:09.100 --> 0:11:13.020 I know she thought I was crazy and and so, 0:11:13.059 --> 0:11:15.620 you know, she kept looking and I kept looking. And 0:11:15.620 --> 0:11:18.860 so finally I said, okay. And I put my window down. 0:11:19.460 --> 0:11:22.020 She put her window down. She could hear the music 0:11:22.020 --> 0:11:25.179 and then she start bumping. Then we got blowed on 0:11:25.179 --> 0:11:29.100 because the light was turned green. We so busy praising 0:11:29.100 --> 0:11:31.700 the Lord. We done forgot you in a car. You 0:11:31.700 --> 0:11:34.579 better get moving. And I wrote it down. I said, man, 0:11:34.620 --> 0:11:38.740 that'll preach. Because she didn't understand why in the world 0:11:38.740 --> 0:11:41.580 I was acting like I was acting until she could 0:11:41.620 --> 0:11:46.820 hear what I could hear. Once she begin to experience 0:11:46.820 --> 0:11:50.140 what I experienced, then she began to do what I 0:11:50.140 --> 0:11:53.740 was doing. Isn't that church praise? Somebody gets up and 0:11:53.740 --> 0:11:57.100 gives a testimony. God heal me and I'm so grateful. 0:11:57.100 --> 0:12:00.260 And everybody that got healed. Amen. Praise the Lord I 0:12:00.260 --> 0:12:03.020 got healed to thank the Lord, everybody that God got 0:12:03.020 --> 0:12:05.780 a job. Yeah, I think I came to praise him for, 0:12:05.820 --> 0:12:08.140 you know, this morning my wife was in service. My 0:12:08.140 --> 0:12:11.380 wife's been sick the last three weeks. She's in emergency 0:12:11.380 --> 0:12:13.740 at least once a week for three weeks. I sit 0:12:13.780 --> 0:12:15.500 up here. I was talking about this message. I could 0:12:15.500 --> 0:12:17.540 hardly preach it because I looked at her. I got 0:12:17.580 --> 0:12:20.580 choked up and I said, thank you, Lord. Thank you Lord. 0:12:20.580 --> 0:12:26.300 She's back. She's able to worship. Amen. Yeah, I can 0:12:26.300 --> 0:12:28.500 get out the kitchen. Praise God. 0:12:31.580 --> 0:12:34.860 You're listening to Treasure Truth with Pastor Ford and a 0:12:34.860 --> 0:12:38.420 message called have you Gone Public with your praise? Really 0:12:38.420 --> 0:12:41.740 a great look at Psalm 34 today. You know, if 0:12:41.740 --> 0:12:44.460 you want to hear this message again, come to our website. 0:12:44.460 --> 0:12:47.660 It's Treasure Truth Radio org. There you can stream these 0:12:47.660 --> 0:12:50.699 programs through your computer or mobile device. 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And so sometimes the Lord calms the storm. 0:13:32.100 --> 0:13:34.740 Sometimes he let the storm rage and calms his child. 0:13:34.780 --> 0:13:36.100 Here it is. Let me give you these last two. 0:13:36.100 --> 0:13:39.219 Let me drop. I'm not going to push them perpetually. Uh. 0:13:39.220 --> 0:13:41.500 That is. I will praise the Lord at all times, 0:13:41.500 --> 0:13:43.220 and his praise shall continually be in my mouth. What 0:13:43.220 --> 0:13:45.660 do you mean, continually? You just said at all times. 0:13:45.660 --> 0:13:49.220 Doesn't that cover continually? No, it doesn't, because what he's saying, 0:13:49.220 --> 0:13:53.380 in essence, is in every situation now, it doesn't matter 0:13:53.380 --> 0:13:56.459 what the situation is. So, uh, if you're taking notes, 0:13:56.460 --> 0:14:02.620 Psalm 3527. Psalm 40, verse 16. Psalm 44, verse eight, 0:14:03.020 --> 0:14:08.500 Psalm 71, verse eight, Psalm 71, verse 14, Psalm 145, 0:14:08.500 --> 0:14:10.300 one and two. Let me say it again. Psalm 35, 0:14:10.300 --> 0:14:15.380 verse 27, Psalm 40, verse 16, Psalm 44, verse eight, 0:14:15.420 --> 0:14:20.100 Psalm 71, verse eight, Psalm 71, verse 14, and Psalm 145, 0:14:20.100 --> 0:14:24.460 verse 12. Here's, here's all he's saying. He's saying, listen, 0:14:24.900 --> 0:14:27.620 if you look at those passages, you'll see every one 0:14:27.620 --> 0:14:31.540 of those psalms. It was a different enemy. It was 0:14:31.540 --> 0:14:35.020 all kind of things coming after him. But in each psalm, 0:14:35.180 --> 0:14:38.540 what you'll see is I'm still going to praise the Lord. 0:14:38.540 --> 0:14:42.700 We just study Psalm 45 or 55 where enemy had 0:14:42.700 --> 0:14:45.580 been a friend had become an enemy. So a frenemy 0:14:45.780 --> 0:14:48.180 and and in verses one through 15, if you remember, 0:14:48.180 --> 0:14:49.980 he said, this is how I feel about it. Then 0:14:49.980 --> 0:14:53.260 he said, in 1516 through 24, this is what I'm 0:14:53.260 --> 0:14:55.420 going to do. In other words, I will not let 0:14:55.420 --> 0:14:59.740 my feelings control my actions because I start off with praise. 0:15:01.290 --> 0:15:04.130 Just try it the next time you feel tore up 0:15:04.130 --> 0:15:07.050 from the floor up, just start praising him. Just lift 0:15:07.050 --> 0:15:09.010 your hands and say, I don't like what's going on, 0:15:09.010 --> 0:15:12.250 but I'm giving you thanks in everything I'm giving thanks for. 0:15:12.250 --> 0:15:15.290 This is your will for me in Christ Jesus. I'll 0:15:15.290 --> 0:15:19.090 magnify you. I'll praise you, I glorify you. You're my rock, 0:15:19.090 --> 0:15:22.130 my sword, my shield, my will in the middle of 0:15:22.130 --> 0:15:25.770 the will. I mean, what you'll see is I'm telling you, 0:15:25.770 --> 0:15:31.850 praise will pull that schleprock cloud off of you. And 0:15:31.850 --> 0:15:34.410 it ought to be proclaimed. Uh, what do you mean, 0:15:34.410 --> 0:15:37.690 it's verbal? It's verbal. Let me let me just just 0:15:37.690 --> 0:15:39.570 shorten this. I'm. I'm ready to go home to. I'm 0:15:39.610 --> 0:15:41.130 tired of listening to me. Just like you're tired of 0:15:41.130 --> 0:15:46.530 listening to me. It says you gotta say something. His 0:15:46.530 --> 0:15:53.410 praise shall continually be in my mouth. The word is tehila. 0:15:53.450 --> 0:15:57.450 It means to exalt God by singing to him. Listen, 0:15:57.450 --> 0:16:02.530 God is like a woman. He's voice activated. He want 0:16:02.530 --> 0:16:06.170 us to talk to him. He really does. Okay, okay. 0:16:06.210 --> 0:16:08.210 I can make this point real quick and then end, 0:16:08.210 --> 0:16:10.930 and we can get out of here. You finish this 0:16:10.930 --> 0:16:14.210 for me. Let the redeemed of the Lord think so. 0:16:15.570 --> 0:16:18.970 Think so. Let the. Let the redeemed of the Lord 0:16:19.010 --> 0:16:25.930 act so. Let the redeemed of the Lord meditate. So. Yeah, yeah. 0:16:25.970 --> 0:16:32.730 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. In other words, 0:16:32.730 --> 0:16:35.490 it ought to be verbal. Do you know what the 0:16:35.490 --> 0:16:43.010 word Shabak means to address the Lord in a loud voice? See, 0:16:43.010 --> 0:16:44.690 I guarantee you, some of you are going to be 0:16:44.690 --> 0:16:49.130 very uncomfortable in heaven. Read through the book of revelation. 0:16:49.130 --> 0:16:53.130 Just read four and five. Read. Read 15. There are 0:16:53.130 --> 0:16:56.650 five worship scenes in revelation. And guess what words you 0:16:56.650 --> 0:17:02.370 will find in every one of them. Loud shout. Imma 0:17:02.370 --> 0:17:08.570 be very comfortable in heaven. And there it is that 0:17:08.570 --> 0:17:12.450 that we we need to understand. Hebrews 1315. It says, 0:17:12.450 --> 0:17:14.610 even when you don't feel like it, you ought to 0:17:14.609 --> 0:17:17.010 sacrifice and say something to the Lord, because let me 0:17:17.010 --> 0:17:19.330 read it and and then Imma give you the illustration 0:17:19.330 --> 0:17:22.170 and close. I'm I'm done. Listen to what he says. 0:17:22.170 --> 0:17:28.570 Hebrews 1315 by him that's Jesus Christ. Therefore let us 0:17:28.609 --> 0:17:31.129 offer the sacrifice of praise. Now earlier he told us 0:17:31.130 --> 0:17:32.970 the only way we can get into the presence of 0:17:32.970 --> 0:17:35.570 God is through Jesus Christ. Then he says by him, 0:17:35.570 --> 0:17:39.250 therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually. 0:17:39.250 --> 0:17:41.970 That is what is the sacrifice of praise, the fruit 0:17:41.970 --> 0:17:43.890 of our lips. We don't bring a lamb. We don't 0:17:43.890 --> 0:17:45.770 bring a dove. We don't bring a goat. What do 0:17:45.770 --> 0:17:48.770 we bring? The fruit of our lips? What should be 0:17:48.770 --> 0:17:52.290 coming out of our lips, giving thanks to his name. 0:17:52.290 --> 0:17:55.649 So he's saying, count your blessings. Name them one by one. 0:17:55.650 --> 0:17:57.450 And so what we ought to have is we ought 0:17:57.450 --> 0:17:59.649 to have a time, uh, in the service. Don't have 0:17:59.650 --> 0:18:01.810 to be long. It could be 30s. Now I'm going 0:18:01.810 --> 0:18:04.490 to give you 30s to stand on your feet and 0:18:04.490 --> 0:18:07.929 count your blessings. I want you to just out loud everybody. 0:18:07.930 --> 0:18:10.889 It sounds like the day of Pentecost, but thank God 0:18:10.890 --> 0:18:13.330 for the things that he's done for you. So I 0:18:13.330 --> 0:18:15.369 thank you for healing my wife. I thank you for 0:18:15.369 --> 0:18:18.010 bringing my sons back to you. I thank you that 0:18:18.010 --> 0:18:21.090 my daughter is becoming an evangelist. I thank you, I 0:18:21.130 --> 0:18:23.850 got food on my table, clothes on my back, that's all. 0:18:23.850 --> 0:18:31.010 That's all. We did it today. You can sit down. Yeah. 0:18:32.170 --> 0:18:36.450 That's it. Yeah, yeah. That's it. And so we ought 0:18:36.450 --> 0:18:39.090 to have a time where we're doing that. That's what 0:18:39.090 --> 0:18:41.330 we ought to have. A time where, where if we 0:18:41.330 --> 0:18:44.050 if we don't do anything, we're biblical in that we 0:18:44.050 --> 0:18:46.330 say God wants us to give him thanks. And so 0:18:46.330 --> 0:18:48.890 we come in at at least 30s where we have 0:18:48.930 --> 0:18:51.850 an opportunity just to thank God for everything he did 0:18:51.850 --> 0:18:54.330 from Sunday to Sunday. Now we won't have time to 0:18:54.330 --> 0:18:57.930 do it all but 30s of just saying thank you. 0:18:57.970 --> 0:19:02.010 Praise your name, bless your name. Now let me close. 0:19:02.970 --> 0:19:04.889 You've been so gracious. I know you feel like I've 0:19:04.930 --> 0:19:06.409 been fussing. I ain't been fussing. I'm telling you what 0:19:06.410 --> 0:19:08.730 the Bible say. Tell me one thing I said wasn't 0:19:08.730 --> 0:19:13.050 in that Bible. Because I know. Because I know. Some 0:19:13.050 --> 0:19:17.250 of you are saying. But wait a minute. The Bible 0:19:17.250 --> 0:19:23.210 also says, be still and know that I am God. Huh? 0:19:23.250 --> 0:19:24.810 What you going to do with that? Huh? That's what 0:19:24.810 --> 0:19:28.889 I'm doing. I'm being still. And so I'm being biblical too. 0:19:28.930 --> 0:19:31.650 So I don't know what you talking about. I'm being still. 0:19:33.090 --> 0:19:39.410 And Ecclesiastes says there is a time for that. Yeah, yeah. 0:19:39.410 --> 0:19:43.170 He says there's a time when we ought to be weeping. Yeah. 0:19:43.170 --> 0:19:46.970 There's a time when we ought to be rejoicing. Yes, sir. 0:19:47.050 --> 0:19:50.690 There's a time when we ought to be silent. And 0:19:50.690 --> 0:19:53.169 there's a time that we ought to tear the roof 0:19:53.210 --> 0:19:57.130 off of this place, giving God glory for what he 0:19:57.130 --> 0:20:01.850 has done. Now I'm getting ready to take my seat. 0:20:01.850 --> 0:20:05.330 But let me tell you this. I was watching the game. Uh, 0:20:05.330 --> 0:20:06.810 it was about two weeks ago or three weeks ago. 0:20:06.810 --> 0:20:09.650 I don't remember which one, uh, but. And I can't 0:20:09.650 --> 0:20:15.169 remember his name. You might remember he got fired because 0:20:15.170 --> 0:20:17.889 he went into the end zone, made a touchdown, and 0:20:17.890 --> 0:20:22.050 the touchdown was fantastic. Even the announcer said he broke 0:20:22.090 --> 0:20:23.810 a tackle. Wait a minute. Let's replay that. Look at 0:20:23.810 --> 0:20:27.730 that one tackle. He broke two. Tackle. He broke three tackles. 0:20:27.730 --> 0:20:29.650 He broke four. Some of the ladies are saying, what 0:20:29.650 --> 0:20:33.810 is he talking about. Football. And four. He broke four 0:20:34.170 --> 0:20:38.050 tackles to get into the end zone. And then he celebrated. 0:20:38.050 --> 0:20:40.210 He threw the ball up and they threw the flag 0:20:40.210 --> 0:20:45.770 on him the yellow flag. And they fined him $25,000 0:20:46.130 --> 0:20:49.410 because in the NFL now you are not allowed to 0:20:49.410 --> 0:20:55.570 have excessive celebration. So did he know that? Yes, but 0:20:55.570 --> 0:20:59.560 let me tell you what he said. I broke four 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:07.600 tackles to get across that touchdown line. I'm going to celebrate. 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:10.520 I don't care who like it or how much it 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:14.080 cost me. See, when I come into the house of 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:18.360 the Lord. I done fought too hard to get here. 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:21.520 I've been fighting the devil, the world and the flesh 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:26.000 all week. And when I cross over that finish line, 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:29.680 I don't care who like it. I'm going to go 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:35.720 into excessive celebration. Because I know if it were not 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:40.639 for the Lord on my side, where would I be? 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:44.920 If it wasn't for Jesus? I wouldn't have peace. If 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:48.560 it wasn't for Jesus, I wouldn't have joy. If it 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:52.360 wasn't for Jesus, I wouldn't have mercy. And so I 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:56.800 crossed the line. So give me my sign. Because I'm 0:21:56.800 --> 0:22:00.679 about to rejoice in him. 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:07.680 Well, what an energetic finish to that message from Pastor Ford. 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:10.640 It's called. Have you gone public with your praise? 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