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 Good morning, everyone.

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 Why don't we bow our heads and pray together as we come to think about God's Word to us today.

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 Our gracious Father, we thank you for your Word.

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 And Lord, thank you that your Word teaches us that that Word is truth.

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 And even more than that, Father, your truth can set people like us free.

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 And so we pray now, Lord, that in this quiet hour you would send your Holy Spirit.

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 Lord, you would visit us that we might see your glory and be changed into your likeness.

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 And we pray these things in Jesus' name and to his glory. Amen.

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 Psalm 29 and verse 1.

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 Ascribe to the Lord, O mighty ones.

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 Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

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 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due to his name.

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 I mostly believe that there's a lot in a name, as Clive was saying at the beginning of the service.

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 Except that earlier this week I was in London, sitting on the tube, dropping off, praying the prayer of travelers who sleep.

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 Lord, don't let me drool.

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 When somebody approached me and said to me, are you Rupert Murdoch?

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 I'm like, oh, come on, man, he's 92, you know.

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 Mostly there is something in a name.

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 And today we're talking about the God of glory.

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 Strictly speaking, I guess it's not a name, it's more an adjective that describes who God is.

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 And it's when you start to think about that, you begin to see how the limitations of language affect that task.

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 All language has its limitations.

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 I think it's worth retelling the story of Michael Bourne, the former Bishop of Chester.

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 Who, with his wife Myrtle, was invited to South Korea to give some lectures.

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 And on his first lecture he stood up.

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 And of course his South Koreans, not quite up to snuff.

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 So he needed a simultaneous translator.

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 He stood up and without thinking said,

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 My wife and I are tickled to death to be here.

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 Translator looked at him a bit nonplussed.

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 Said something in South Korean and the whole assembly took in a huge inward gasp.

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 It was only at the end of his lecture he discovered that what the translator had actually said was,

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 I scratched my wife so hard she died.

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 Language does have its limitations.

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 And throughout this course of teaching,

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 which I hope you will agree with me, I can say this, as this is my first go I think,

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 has been very rewarding.

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 Does, however, face a fundamental problem.

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 How do you describe God?

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 Or to put it in more philosophical terms,

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 how can we, who are infinite,

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 try and articulate

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 he who is infinite?

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 How do we do that?

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 You find

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 those who were inspired by the Holy Spirit to write the Bible

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 struggling

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 to find words that would describe the holiness,

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 the awesomeness,

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 the mightiness of God.

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 In Ezekiel chapter 1,

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 we read this really strange stuff.

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 Ezekiel said,

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 I looked and I saw a wondrous windstorm coming out of the north,

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 an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant lights.

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 Incidentally,

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 it is interesting, isn't it?

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 How often God reveals himself through extreme weather events.

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 The center of the fire looked like glowing metal.

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 And in the fire was what looked like four living creatures.

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 In appearance, their form was that of a man.

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 But each of them had four faces and four wings.

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 Their legs were straight,

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 their feet were like those of a calf,

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 and gleamed with burnished bronze.

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 I mean, I could go on.

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 It goes on for a bit like this.

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 But I mean, my basic response to that is,

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 what?

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 What?

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 Is that really what God looks like?

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 Half man, half cattle?

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 Goes on to say that he travels on wheels?

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 Of course.

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 Of course.

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 It's symbolic.

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 It's trying to use language which is infinite to reach that which is infinite.

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 And it's a struggle.

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 And you begin to see the limitations of that.

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 Back in the 17th century,

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 were a group of people,

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 some of them clergy,

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 who became poets as well as ministers.

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 They were called the metaphysical poets.

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 And they were called that because they were trying to use poetry

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 to describe realities that are hard to get your head around.

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 People like John Donne and George Herbert.

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 And then I found this lovely poem by Henry Vaughan called The Retreat.

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 He may be saying,

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 sitting there feeling very nonpluss.

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 You know, what's all that about?

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 What it's about

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 is somebody reflecting on the innocence of youth

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 and how we lose that

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 and how we might get back to it.

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 And then there's another word.

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 A word that I imagine,

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 if you are a regular church girl,

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 you've heard that

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 is used to describe glory.

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 It's the word Shekinah.

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 And it means, basically,

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 it's applied to God's glory

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 in relation to the light

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 that seems to come from God

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 every time he reveals himself.

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 You get that,

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 and we'll get it when our readings,

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 when Christmas comes around,

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 in Luke chapter 4, I think it is,

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 or chapter 2, I beg your pardon,

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 where we're told that the angels

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 were sitting there,

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 binding their flocks,

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 minding their own business,

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 when the angel of the Lord appeared.

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 This is verse 9 of chapter 2.

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 An angel of the Lord appeared to them,

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 and the glory of the Lord shone around them,

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 and they were terrified.

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 The word Shekinah,

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 interestingly,

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 Hebrew word,

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 is never mentioned in the Bible.

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 But rabbis picked on it

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 to describe the glory of God.

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 Amazing, isn't it,

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 when God reveals himself,

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 an epiphany,

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 when God reveals himself,

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 how often two things happen.

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 Firstly, there seems to be bright light,

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 and secondly,

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 people tend to be knocked down,

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 or fall down in wonder,

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 at what they see.

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 Glory is a word that we use,

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 isn't it,

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 like we use lots of religious language,

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 but do we realize,

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 do we realize,

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 what the word actually might mean,

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 what it might look like?

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 Today, we're thinking about the glory of God,

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 and the opening verse of Psalm 29

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 crashes on the sand like a wave,

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 with a bold and triumphant call to praise

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 the God of strength and glory.

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 Verse 2,

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 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due to his name.

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 Ascribe to the Lord, almighty ones.

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 Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

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 The Hebrew word for glory is not Shekina,

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 it is kavod.

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 And it means,

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 at least it means in certain circumstances,

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 importance, weight,

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 deference, or heaviness.

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 But primarily kavod is translated as glory,

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 respect, honour, and majesty.

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 See, there is something about God

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 which is intrinsically glorious.

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 That's what the Bible is trying to describe

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 in certain occasions with that bizarre language.

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 If you wanted an example of some more bizarre language,

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 go to the back of the book

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 and start to read the book of Revelation.

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 But God is not only intrinsically glorious,

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 He is also somebody who seeks

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 that we would recognise that glory.

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 That's what the Psalm says to us, isn't it?

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 Ascribe to the Lord.

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 That's what we're being called to do.

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 Ascribe to the Lord glory.

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 There is something that's intrinsic about God's glory,

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 and there is also something which is extrinsic.

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 So this word glory,

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 what does it mean for us?

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 How will we ever

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 appropriate it

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 in our worship

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 and in our lives?

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 I want to say three things

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 about that to you right now.

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 The first thing is,

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 and I hope this is becoming clear already,

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 God is essentially glory.

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 It's a strange word for us

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 because we tended to use that word

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 in modern parlance

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 more to describe victory and warfare

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 and that kind of stuff.

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 But this is about the very nature of God.

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 God is glory.

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 The Psalm makes that very clear, doesn't it?

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 In echoes of the creation narrative

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 in Genesis chapter 1,

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 where it is God's voice

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 that calls order from chaos.

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 The voice of the Lord is over the waters.

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 The God of glory thunders.

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 The Lord thunders over the mighty waters.

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 The voice of the Lord is powerful.

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 The voice of the Lord is majestic.

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 The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars.

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 The Lord breaks in pieces

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 the cedars of Lebanon.

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 And so on.

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 One amazing idea that is.

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 That the glory of God

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 is in His nature

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 and we can see it in His nature.

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 I know most of us now, rightly so,

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 see extreme weather events

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 as threatening and difficult.

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 But the fundamental message of this

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 is that God's glory

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 is visible through the creation.

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 And the call is

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 not therefore to worship the creation,

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 which of a lot of environmental theories

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 today depends upon.

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 No, we're called to worship the Creator

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 who made the heavens and the earth

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 and all that therein is.

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 Someone say amen.

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 Amen.

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 God is glory.

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 Secondly,

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 our praise

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 is in part

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 our response

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 to God's glory.

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 glory.

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 I can't remember what music

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 Julian chose for us today,

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 but he could easily have chosen

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 that wonderful hymn,

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 To God be the glory.

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 Great things He hath done,

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 so loved He the world

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 that He gave us His Son,

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 who yielded His life,

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 our redemption to win,

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 and opened the life gate

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 that all may go in.

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 Listen,

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 if that verse

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 of that song

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 doesn't make your scalp prickle,

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 maybe you need just to take a step back

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 and ask yourself the question,

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 do I get it?

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 Have I ever had a glimpse

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 of the glory of God?

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 Our praise is in part

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 our response to God's glory.

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 God's glory.

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 Thankfully,

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 this is a bright church.

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 That's why it makes it difficult

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 to see the screen sometimes.

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 But the brightness of God,

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 were it to come here,

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 would be blinding.

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 It very lightly would knock us

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 to the floor.

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 It would be so amazing.

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 And so in this life,

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 most of us only capture

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 glimpses of that.

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 Don't shout out,

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 but have you seen the glory?

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 Do you know it?

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 Do you know that the God

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 whom we worship today

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 is glory?

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 Do you know that today

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 He will inhabit our praises

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 when our praises

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 recognize that glory

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 and give voice to it?

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 And the third thing

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 I want to say,

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 it is given to those

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 who trust Christ

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 one day

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 to share

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 in that glory.

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 In John's gospel,

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 one of the most amazing things

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 about that gospel is

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 that God's glory

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 is made manifest

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 in the suffering

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 of Jesus.

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 Let me say that again.

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 God's glory

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 is made manifest

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 in the sufferings

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 of Jesus.

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 In fact,

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 there is a verse

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 in 2 Corinthians

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 chapter 4

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 and verse 15

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 where Paul says,

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 look,

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 don't worry about

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 your momentary afflictions

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 because they won't

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 even rank

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 to the glory

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 which will be revealed

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 in you,

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 in which you will share.

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 Imagine that.

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 The book of Revelation says,

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 when John looks up

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 and he sees

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 there are people in heaven

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 whose robes are white

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 because they've been washed

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 in the blood of the Lamb.

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 Imagine that.

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 It won't just be Arabs.

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 We'll all wear a white robe

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 in heaven.

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 It will be yours

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 and you will share

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 in that glory of God.

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 One of the issues

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 with defining glory

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 is that what comes with it

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 is the promise

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 of God's presence.

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 Theologians talk about

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 the theophanies.

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 That's where God

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 reveals himself

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 in physical ways

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 to human beings.

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 I don't think

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 that's necessary

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 for all of us

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 but it is important

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 to some of us

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 and important

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 to the church

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 that God

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 has revealed himself

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 in such a way.

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 Theophanies are assurance

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 that God

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 is with us.

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 Remember,

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 according to Matthew,

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 Jesus' kind of

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 closing speech

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 at the end of the gospel,

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 Jesus says,

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 Lo,

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 I am

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 with you

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 always.

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 Not I'm going to be with you

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 when you're feeling good,

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 but I'm going to be with you

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 when life's not so good for you.

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 I'm not just going to be with you

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 when you're in church,

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 but I'm going to be with you

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 when you're at work.

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 I'm not just going to be with you

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 when you're well,

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 but I'm going to be with you

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 when you're sick.

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 I'm not just going to be with you

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 when you have a great marriage,

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 but he's with you

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 when you're bereaved.

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 oh my

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 imagine that blessed Lord

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 is with me

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 is with me

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 even with me

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 when I go into the dark places

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 that I know are not good for me

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 yea though I walk through the valley

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 of the shadow of death

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 wrote David in Psalm 23

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 I will fear no evil

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 why?

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 because said David

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 thou art with me

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 listen to me

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 I want you to get this message

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 can you repeat after me now

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 no matter what you're feeling right now

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 no matter what your life is like right now

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 say this

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 thou art with me

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 together

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 thou art with me

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 and pray for the grace to believe that friends

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 because it will

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 make a real difference to life

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 not just when it's good

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 but when it's bad

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 and John 15

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 Jesus says this

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 remain in me

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 abide in me

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 it says in the old translations

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 as I recall

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 as I abide in you

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 no branch can bear fruit by itself

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 it must remain in the vine

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 neither can you bear fruit

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 unless you abide in me

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 I am the vine

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 you are the branches

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 if you abide in me

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 and I in you

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 you will bear much fruit

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 apart from me

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 you can do nothing

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 you know one of the saddest realities

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 about the church in the 21st century

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 and maybe through all the centuries of the church

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 is that it's inhabited by fruitless Christians

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 wonder

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 you're a Christian

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 your family relationship with God

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 won't be called into question

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 on the day of judgment

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 but what will be called into question

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 is what did you do

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 with what I gave you

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 what will you say

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 you say well

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 Lord you know

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 I warmed the

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 not the pews

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 the business class seats of church

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 you know

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 I came quite a bit

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 and you know

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 I've tried to do my best

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 and

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 how good

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 will your best need to be

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 Jesus says

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 if we abide in him

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 if we recognize his presence within us

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 then that is the foundational building block

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 to being fruitful disciples

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 we need to practice

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 leaning

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 on his presence

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 second thing I just want to say about this

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 is what can

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 I want to ask this question

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 I always like people to go home from church

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 with something to take home with them

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 to think about

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 you up for that?

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 apparently not

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 just kidding

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 three things

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 one

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 mind the gap

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 as Russell

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 very articulately

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 told us last week

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 that when we come to worship God

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 when we come to praise him

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 when we come to celebrate his glory together

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 God's not looking at our outward appearance

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 he's looking at our inward appearance

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 what's going on

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 in your heart

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 just now

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 you see

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 there's a gap

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 isn't there

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 a gap between

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 the kind of things

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 we ascribe

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 in worship

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 and actually

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 what's going on

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 in our hearts

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 mind the gap

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 and maybe today

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 you need to seek repentance

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 you need to say

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 sorry to God

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 for that gap

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 the second thing is

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 I want you to look harder

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 for God

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 at work

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 in his world

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 which he loves so much

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 he sent his son to die

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 that we could be forgiven

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 keep your eyes open

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 there's something called

00:21:55.299 --> 00:21:56.459
 common grace

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 common grace

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 is not the kind of grace

00:21:58.639 --> 00:21:59.479
 that saves you

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 but it explains why

00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:03.559
 people who are not religious

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 not Christian

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 not Hindu

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 not Buddhist

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 not anything

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 it explains why

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 some of them

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 do good things

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 and you may have noticed this

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 but we Christians

00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:15.980
 don't have the monopoly

00:22:15.980 --> 00:22:17.319
 on doing good

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 there are plenty of other people

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 who do good

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 and sometimes

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 has it crossed your mind

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 it's crossed my mind

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 and I've slapped my own wrist

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 sometimes I think

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 I see people who have no

00:22:30.099 --> 00:22:31.359
 religious affiliation

00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:31.899
 whatsoever

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 doing more good

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 than the people who do

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 and that puzzles me

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 does it puzzle you

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 so we need to close that gap

00:22:40.859 --> 00:22:43.259
 and we need to look harder

00:22:43.259 --> 00:22:44.420
 for God at work

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 the more

00:22:46.339 --> 00:22:48.799
 you keep your eyes open

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 the more you will see

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 and the more you see

00:22:55.359 --> 00:22:56.759
 of that common grace

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 or indeed the grace exercised

00:22:58.660 --> 00:23:00.660
 by your Christian brothers and sisters

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 the more likely you are

00:23:03.540 --> 00:23:04.600
 to catch a glimpse

00:23:04.600 --> 00:23:06.500
 of his glory

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 and the last thing I want to say

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 is this

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 it's been implicit

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 in everything I've said

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 and that is

00:23:15.800 --> 00:23:18.180
 can you try and remember

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 a bit more

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 that phrase

00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:24.279
 encaptured by David

00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:25.519
 in Psalm 23

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 thou art with me

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 when I'm frightened

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 when I feel life

00:23:34.259 --> 00:23:35.100
 is hopeless

00:23:35.100 --> 00:23:40.019
 when I feel desperate

00:23:40.019 --> 00:23:43.779
 and when I feel good

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 thou art with me

00:23:48.019 --> 00:23:51.259
 listen to me

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 there's nothing more

00:23:54.380 --> 00:23:55.860
 that I could want for you

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 that today

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 maybe this week

00:24:00.579 --> 00:24:02.319
 in God's time

00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:05.759
 we catch a glimpse

00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:06.559
 of that glory

00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:09.759
 and it flattens us

00:24:09.759 --> 00:24:12.139
 so that we can stand up

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 and stand firm

00:24:14.859 --> 00:24:16.179
 for him

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 who as we recalled

00:24:18.719 --> 00:24:19.519
 in this service

00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:20.579
 of Holy Communion

00:24:20.579 --> 00:24:21.619
 loves you

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 loves you

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 enough

00:24:23.779 --> 00:24:26.880
 to send his son Jesus

00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:29.200
 to die on the cross

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 that your sin

00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:32.320
 may be forgiven

00:24:32.320 --> 00:24:36.140
 you may be completely

00:24:36.140 --> 00:24:37.799
 oblivious

00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:38.620
 to the wrong

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 in your life

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 you may be thinking

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 well hang on

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 you know what

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 if I read the Ten Commandments

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 I probably score

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 eight out of ten

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 and I'll settle for that

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 at university

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 no

00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:55.119
 sin is

00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:56.639
 when I choose

00:24:56.639 --> 00:24:57.679
 to go my way

00:24:57.679 --> 00:24:59.799
 rather than God's way

00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:03.159
 friends

00:25:03.159 --> 00:25:04.359
 open your eyes

00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:06.659
 open your ears

00:25:06.659 --> 00:25:08.899
 open your hearts

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 and you will see afresh

00:25:11.619 --> 00:25:13.659
 the God of glory

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 let's pray

00:25:14.940 --> 00:25:22.059
 our gracious Lord

00:25:22.059 --> 00:25:22.759
 we are

00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:24.960
 so grateful

00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:26.940
 that though

00:25:26.940 --> 00:25:28.519
 we find it very difficult

00:25:28.519 --> 00:25:29.620
 to find words

00:25:29.620 --> 00:25:30.559
 to express

00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:31.100
 your

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 quintessential

00:25:32.600 --> 00:25:33.200
 being

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 Lord we have

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 this word

00:25:36.460 --> 00:25:37.140
 glory

00:25:37.140 --> 00:25:39.080
 a word

00:25:39.080 --> 00:25:39.779
 which speaks

00:25:39.779 --> 00:25:40.100
 to us

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 of your might

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 of your mightiness

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 of your splendor

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 and majesty

00:25:45.819 --> 00:25:48.599
 and Lord

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 of your presence

00:25:50.679 --> 00:25:54.439
 and Lord

00:25:54.439 --> 00:25:55.679
 I pray for people

00:25:55.679 --> 00:25:56.859
 in church

00:25:56.859 --> 00:25:57.500
 this morning

00:25:57.500 --> 00:25:58.000
 who know

00:25:58.000 --> 00:25:58.939
 there's a credibility

00:25:58.939 --> 00:25:59.699
 gap

00:25:59.699 --> 00:26:01.719
 between the kind

00:26:01.719 --> 00:26:02.719
 of hymns we sing

00:26:02.719 --> 00:26:03.179
 and the way

00:26:03.179 --> 00:26:04.239
 we live our lives

00:26:04.239 --> 00:26:06.919
 Father I want to pray

00:26:06.919 --> 00:26:07.719
 for those people

00:26:07.719 --> 00:26:08.539
 who are frightened

00:26:08.539 --> 00:26:10.500
 people who feel

00:26:10.500 --> 00:26:11.000
 desperate

00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:11.740
 people who feel

00:26:11.740 --> 00:26:12.480
 without hope

00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:13.619
 Lord please

00:26:13.619 --> 00:26:14.339
 say to them

00:26:14.339 --> 00:26:14.839
 now

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 thou

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 art

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 with me

00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:27.099
 Lord

00:26:27.099 --> 00:26:29.019
 right now

00:26:29.019 --> 00:26:29.799
 we could cut

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 your presence

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 in this place

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 with a knife

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 but Lord

00:26:34.779 --> 00:26:35.160
 we don't want

00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:36.000
 to go home

00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:38.220
 thinking about

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 just what went

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 on here today

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 but we do

00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:41.220
 want to go

00:26:41.220 --> 00:26:41.880
 on thinking

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 about what

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 happened here

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 so Lord

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 I pray

00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:48.339
 come

00:26:48.339 --> 00:26:49.960
 Holy Spirit

00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:53.000
 Lord help us

00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:53.420
 now

00:26:53.420 --> 00:26:54.240
 this week

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 whenever

00:26:54.640 --> 00:26:55.599
 in your time

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 oh Lord

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 to catch a glimpse

00:26:57.380 --> 00:26:58.279
 of your glory

00:26:58.279 --> 00:27:01.460
 that we may

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 know who you

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 are

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 because you

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 know each

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 of us

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 personally

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 come down

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 oh love

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 divine

00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:14.220
 fill thou

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 this soul

00:27:14.940 --> 00:27:15.380
 of mine

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 and visit

00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:16.380
 it with

00:27:16.380 --> 00:27:17.099
 thine own

00:27:17.099 --> 00:27:17.500
 ardor

00:27:17.500 --> 00:27:18.059
 glowing

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 oh comfort

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 to draw

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 near

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 within

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 my heart

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 appear

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 and kindle

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 it thy

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 holy flame

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 bestowing

00:27:28.900 --> 00:27:33.300
 Lord

00:27:33.300 --> 00:27:33.940
 we pray

00:27:33.940 --> 00:27:35.480
 that right

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 now

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 you would

00:27:37.120 --> 00:27:37.540
 do your

00:27:37.540 --> 00:27:38.220
 work amongst

00:27:38.220 --> 00:27:38.500
 us

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 and we

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 pray it

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 in the name

00:27:40.519 --> 00:27:41.040
 of Jesus

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 and the

00:27:41.660 --> 00:27:42.200
 people who

00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:42.600
 agreed

00:27:42.600 --> 00:27:42.980
 and the

00:27:42.980 --> 00:27:43.420
 people who

00:27:43.420 --> 00:27:44.019
 wanted it

00:27:44.019 --> 00:27:44.980
 said together

00:27:44.980 --> 00:27:45.540
 in a loud

00:27:45.540 --> 00:27:46.060
 voice

00:27:46.060 --> 00:27:47.540
 Amen

00:27:47.539 --> 00:27:47.799
 Amen