Praise The Lord

[0:00] Welcome. Thank you for choosing to listen to another word-filled message by David Entry. Preaching is the means by which God manifests His word and nourishes our spirits. May the life of God enter into you and you as you listen to this message. Be blessed.

[0:19] The scripture says that God is great and greatly to be praised. When you are praising God, you don't have to praise Him lightly.

[0:32] You have to praise Him greatly. Praise God. Praise God.

[0:46] Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Let's not read that from the screen.

[0:58] Those who can see the screen, Psalm 143. 145, verse 3. Let's go. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise I am ready to be praised. And His greatness is from our search of Lord.

[1:11] Praise the Lord. Praise God. Praise God. Praise the Lord. Praise God. Praise the Lord.

[1:24] Praise the Lord. Praise God. Praise the Lord. you can't get your head around it.

[1:36] You can't understand how great he is. You just must know he's great. You can't try to do a research. I'm going on Google to search.

[1:48] Google will say, no, I can't give you the answer. You can't be able to research the greatness of the Lord. So when we gather, we can only praise him greatly.

[2:00] And even that, it doesn't match his greatness. We can only praise him greatly. And our great praising him does not match his actual greatness in any way.

[2:16] So it doesn't matter how greatly we praise him. So then what I'm trying to say is, you can't do too much praising God. Even if you lie on the floor, you roll.

[2:40] You haven't done much. If you rip the arms of your shirt or you haven't done much. If you put your head on the floor and be kicking your leg in the intention of just praising him, doing something well.

[2:56] See, does that make sense? When David said, I'll even be more undignified than this. Because God is so great and greatly to be praised that there's nothing and his greatness is unsatchable.

[3:11] So even what I consider great is no match to what he originally deserves. Now, that means that whatever I find out he deserves, he actually deserves much because you can't exhaust the comprehension of his greatness.

[3:31] So then what does that mean? When you come to church or when you be in the atmosphere of the saints, the best place for praise to rise is the company of the saints. That's the best place.

[3:44] You can live a praise filled life wherever your life is pouring in ceaseless praise. But that praise becomes a unique entity when you do it within the context of a congregation.

[4:02] Because Jesus said in the midst of the congregation, I will praise you. Hebrews chapter 2 verse 12 and 13. He said, in the midst of the assembly, I will declare your name and I'll praise you.

[4:15] Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the church. I will. Now, this is Jesus. After resurrection. Because before resurrection, we are not his brothers.

[4:26] But after resurrection, Christians became his brothers. And he says that, I will declare your name unto my brothers. And after he has resurrected, he said, the place I like to praise God is to come when there is church service.

[4:42] He likes to come when there is church service. Praising him. So, you actually don't have any business considering who thinks you are doing it too much. They don't deserve your consideration.

[4:55] No one who thinks that you are praising too much. You are shouting too much. You are dancing too much. You are singing too much. They don't deserve. Even if it's your wife.

[5:06] Debbie said, I will even do more. Because I will do more. Let alone a friend. Confident relationship.

[5:17] There's no human relationship that goes beyond marriage. I'm talking about a husband and wife. Anyway, that's marriage. There's no human relationship.

[5:30] The closest human beings can come together is between a man, a husband and a wife. That's the closest. So, every wedding, we said, is the most tender relationship any human being can get into.

[5:47] The most tender. And God knows that. God ordained that. Why? Because it is the only thing that reflects his eternal agenda for which he made the church.

[5:59] The only thing. The only thing on earth that can give an expression to God's ultimate. Ultimate. Say eternal. Eternal.

[6:10] The ultimate. The eternal. Final agenda for creation of humanity is marriage between man and God. Why do you think the church is the bride of Christ?

[6:26] The lamb's wife. Why do you think the church is the bride of Christ? Why do you think God created Adam in his image, right? Let us make man in our own image. Genesis 1.26.

[6:37] God created God's image. God created him. God created him. Male and female. Created he them. So, God created the male and female. Don't change it.

[6:47] God created the male and female in his image. Watch this. So, the woman is an image of God and the man is an image of God. If you change it, you have changed something.

[6:58] You have made something that does not look like God. Where would you put God? If you change it, where would you put God?

[7:10] Because who you are is not just how you look. It affects your bone, your blood, your DNA. Everything about you.

[7:22] Your organs. Certain major parts of organs. It's all. It's everything. So, when you look at a woman, there is a beautiful way and a reflective way a woman just depicts or epitomizes God.

[7:38] But not fully. When you look at a man, there is a wonderful way and a reflective way a man depicts God. So, if you remove, you take that manness away from the man, you have created, it's not even a hybrid.

[7:54] It's a caricature. Well, so, God created man in his image. I went off. Let me come back to what I was. God created man in his image.

[8:07] And then, after, I think after 18 verses. Genesis 28, man showed up. So, just after about 21 verses, chapter 22 verse.

[8:22] Chapter 2 verse 18. Chapter 1 verse 28, God created man in his image. Chapter 2, and the Lord said, it's not good. God said, it's not good for man to be.

[8:32] Ah, but you created him in your image now. He hasn't done anything. You just created him in your image. And he said, it's not good for him to be alone. So, what would you do? He said, I'll make an eve for him.

[8:46] So, Jesus Christ came only the reason. Husbands, love your wife. Ask Christ. Ephesians chapter 5 verse 25. Ask Christ's love. And what?

[8:58] So, Christ came for a bride. Because the way it wasn't good for Adam to be alone, it wasn't good for Christ to be alone. All right.

[9:10] That's just, that's just. That's just. Genesis 21, Bible said that they were together, verse 3. They will be together forever. The church, God is in the midst of his people forever.

[9:21] And it says that, sorry, Revelations 21. That's why. I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle of God is with men. Really? And he will dwell with them.

[9:32] Wow. And shall be their God. And he shall be, and God himself shall be with them. And it's like, that's forever. They stay together. That's the end of the story.

[9:44] So, anytime you temper with marriage, you temper with the agenda of God. Because there must always be marriage. So, people can see the picture of how it's going to be like.

[9:58] There's no human community where man don't marry a woman. Every human society, there is marriage.

[10:10] There is marriage. Many human, many decent human societies value marriage. There's more marriages than sex. All right.

[10:21] So, the first distraction God brought to humanity. Noah's flat. They tempered with marriage. So, when Jesus was making references, in the times of Noah, they were married.

[10:34] And being given to marriage. Now, in fact, the angels came and married human beings. They changed the order of marriage. Spirits came and married. They saw that girls were fine.

[10:44] Yeah. Even demons know that girls are fine. So, brother, there's nothing wrong with you. There's nothing wrong with you.

[10:59] Demons even couldn't survive. If you play with it, you won't survive. So, it's...

[11:09] So, the first problem that God had to wipe away humanity was because marriage has been tempered with.

[11:26] Yeah. Check the days of Noah. He wiped away humanity. And then Sodom and Gomorrah, they wiped away with the fire. Because those people were marrying anything.

[11:40] Yeah. They are marrying anything. God said, these people have tempered. So, the first time judgment came from heaven, which in 2 Peter reference was made to.

[11:50] The first time God brought judgment on man after the fall to wipe out a whole community, a whole people, was when marriage was tempered with. And then the second time he had to do that again to a certain community was when they were now marrying anything.

[12:05] To the same that angels came. They said, bring the... The men said, bring the angels so we can have a fair share of them. Hey! That's how polluted they become.

[12:18] The center of all those distractions was sexual misbehavior. You are in church and you don't have any plan to give up your sexual misbehavior. And yet, you want the blessing of God on top of...

[12:31] What wrong with you? Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. And see how God can bless you.

[12:43] Amen. Every judgment of God on humanity, most of the time, there is also a problem of sexual misbehavior that's attached to...

[13:00] That's provoking the judgment. He had to wipe out a lot of the Israelites because they went into strained flesh. As I said the other time, that Samson was the strongest man ever.

[13:19] Physically. The physically strongest man. And yet, he took the problem issue with sex to bring him down. Solomon, in his soul, emotionally, his soul, sorry, mind.

[13:33] He was the wisest man on earth. But it took the problem of sex with women to bring him down. David, spirit. Of the most spiritual person in the Old Testament.

[13:44] Very... It took issue of sex to bring him down. Soul, spirit, and body. You can't escape. Sex cuts everywhere. It doesn't fear anybody.

[13:55] That's why the Bible says that everybody must have his own wife. He said it, sir. Sometimes, when it comes to finding a wife, you have to get tired of fixing your eyes on things that you can't eat.

[14:11] When you are a man, and you are above a certain age, and you are still, you still can't find a wife.

[14:29] You are very lustful. Very, very lustful. Your problem is not a woman to marry.

[14:44] Your problem is how to deal with this lust. Yeah. So, brother. Kill the lust.

[14:57] Well, let's go back to what I was talking about. Closest relationship human beings can come into is marriage. And yet, God gave us an illustration that when it comes to praising him greatly, not even your husband or your wife should be able to stand in the way.

[15:21] So, David said, didn't you know it was before God who chose me instead of your father that I was praising?

[15:32] He said, I will yet be more, even more undignified than your description. That means that God deserves more than you can give. God deserves more than you can give to him.

[15:47] So then, because you are already under giving God. Some of you have not even started giving praise. And you are wondering, why am I not being raised?

[16:01] Check your praise level. Your praise level will always indicate the quality of your raise. So, because no human being can give God the commensurate or the most appropriate, the most deserving praise.

[16:25] Because whatever we, in fact, there's a song they sing, not in, but it says that, if I had 10,000 tongues, I would use all to praise you.

[16:37] But I don't have it. 10,000 tongues would not even be enough to praise you for just my life, one life. One life, 10,000 tongues is not enough to praise you.

[16:50] How much more? Five of us. So then, when you come to God and it's time to give him praise, he is great. And greatly to be praised. Go as far as you can without giving consideration to what anybody thinks.

[17:08] When you do that, God also blesses you so much that nobody can ignore that you have been blessed. The reason why he does that is that those you ignored, those whose opinions you ignored in your attempt to raise him, the same people he must raise you for them to see what raising and praising God can do for a man.

[17:39] So you make yourself an example of a genuine pure praiser. He will make you an example of what a pure praiser can do just for adverts.

[17:52] So others will be involved. Others will say, if this guy praise God and went that far, I will do more. There is already praise loaded in your spirit.

[18:05] Let it flow. Let it flow. Praise the Lord.

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