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 So we're gonna spend a bit of time just now opening up this Sam and

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 You'll have noticed right at the start of the Sam it speaks about

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 the fact that David vowed not

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 To rest until a certain thing had come to pass

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 Okay, so the title if you like a sermon is no rest. We're gonna explore a little bit about that

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 But let me first say this I think it's true that we go out of our way

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 To seek comfort in the things that we love

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 We go out of our way to seek comfort in the things that we love

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 We're even prepared sometimes to deny ourselves rest or sleep to get the things that we love

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 So once upon a time three years ago

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 I was in New York City and I was there with a bunch of other

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 Christian ministers and we were kind of training in the whole church planting thing and learning how

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 to think through the process of church planting and many of my fellow

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 colleagues and ministers there were very fond of coffee and

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 so much so

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 That some of them we all stayed in a particular part of New York and we got all got up every morning and made the trek through

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 Across the train under the water crossing to Manhattan and all the way down into the office where we were studying

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 They made us get up early to hit the best coffee shops en route

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 Now you may be thinking that's completely ridiculous

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 What a waste of time what a waste of sleep I had to get up early and lose some rest to sample some of the best

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 finest coffee shops

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 So sleep was lost and routines were disrupted and trains were missed and all kinds of confusion ensued

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 So we could sample the finest of New York's coffee. Okay, that was a priority

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 I remembered another occasion when I had to get up very early for a particular experience when I was I don't know about

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 16 I had a best friend who I played football with all the time and his dad coached our football team

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 He was a great guy

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 Very active and he loved hill walking and climbing now. I'd never I didn't I walked around the hills around Perth

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 But nothing serious

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 And he was I'm gonna go with my friend to climb a couple of moon rows. So I said, I'll come

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 Having no clue what was in store for me. So the hills were away over the other side at a car somewhere like that

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 So he said, okay, I'll pick you up at four

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 in the morning, so I wasn't used to that that completely

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 Disrupted my entire equilibrium and made me feel

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 Very bad that day when I had to get up at four o'clock in the morning in the dark and

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 And drive for a couple of hours and then start climbing what felt like a vertical peak

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 To me and then we kind of came out above the clouds as it were and I realized why

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 And I realized how worth it it was because it was incredibly beautiful

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 And I was incredibly tired, but it was incredibly worth it

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 You see so we invest in things that we think are very important. We're even prepared to put ourselves out

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 For things that we think are very important. So I wonder what it is for you. What do you invest in?

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 What are you prepared to kind of?

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 Have your life disrupted around?

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 In verse one a king not David, but another king

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 Speaks about David saying to God. Oh God remember David

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 Because he loved you so much and he was so

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 so

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 keen for you to be worshiped and for the right

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 Appropriate sense of worship to be at the center of the community the covenant community of God's people

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 That he went without rest

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 He decided I'm gonna I'm gonna go to now. I don't know exactly

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 How long this has lasted for but it says here I will not enter my house or get into my bed

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 I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids until I find a place for the Lord a

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 Dwelling place for the mighty one of Jacob. So what's worth?

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 Expending yourself for what's worth disrupting your schedule for coffee a

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 View above the peaks across the land that you love a

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 Sense of the right worship of God is

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 Is what is at the heart of this Sam? So that's kind of the theme that really arises as we as we as we look at this

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 Sam, that's what I just want to lift up before you just as we start thinking about it

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 Now the problem with a sound like this sometimes you can read it and find it a little bit impenetrable if you like there isn't a way in

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 Okay, that okay. I can understand that it's talking about a guy who's not gonna go to bed until something's happened

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 And then other parts of the Sam seem a little bit dense. There's quite a lot going on really in many ways

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 So here's how I want to do this secondly first thing was just to kind of pick out this theme about David's

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 And the the Sam's desire for an appropriate sense of worship for God

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 second thing we're gonna do is just pick out

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 the core

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 Pillars of the Sam because there are some strands that are woven throughout these verses

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 That are integral to the kind of whole biblical picture if you like

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 And I want to do this by just showing you an example. I'm gonna show you a picture if this works

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 There you go. There's a picture

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 So this is a picture of a building in Portland called Portlandia

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 I'd never seen it before until a couple of days ago when I started trying to find this kind of building

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 The reason I was trying to find this kind of building is because the man who built it a man called mr. Graves is

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 one of the

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 most significant apparently

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 postmodern architects

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 Now I had to study a bit of architecture when I was at uni and I've forgotten everything about it except for one thing

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 And that is one of the most significant

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 Strings or sort of strands of architecture that run right through hundreds and hundreds of years back into classical tradition is

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 the kind of the Greek classic tradition

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 Now this isn't Greek. This is in Portland. It wasn't built that long ago

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 In fact, it's already needing a complete renovation because maybe it wasn't built very well

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 But here's the thing about this building and this kind of architecture

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 It you might look at that and think

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 It's sort of a bit pink. It's got orange bits on it and some blue

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 There are some windows and some straight lines

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 But actually a lot of postmodern

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 architecture is a kind of modern mishmash of

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 Early foundational principles. So what a lot of architects like mr. Graves

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 We're trying to do was say let's do a modern expression of the foundational principles of our architectural practice. So I

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 read this about it

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 Graves himself says this it's a symbolic gesture an attempt to reestablish a language of architecture and values

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 Okay, he's saying I want to give our fresh expression of what is really important

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 You know architectural people get really excited about these kind of things

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 And you're you're maybe thinking really

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 Here's why let me give you a bit of kind of architectural speak

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 Here's some examples of what they get excited about

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 The building attempts to create a continuum between past and future

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 past present and future

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 It's a symmetrical block with stucco covered rectangular facades. I see you nodding along

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 Recognizing all the architectural terms. I'm giving you here

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 Featuring reinterpreted classical elements such as overscaled keystones

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 pilasters and Belvedere's

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 The building is set on a two-story base

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 reminiscent of a Greek pedestal which divides it into the classical three-part partition base

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 body and top I

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 You know you know so you can go home happy because what we're seeing here is somebody saying I really value the foundational principles of my

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 Particular discipline why I've spent all my life studying and thinking about I'm gonna reinterpret it for my generation

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 Ironically apparently most Portland residents hate it. So that's kind of a shame, isn't it that he went to all that trouble

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 And nobody really likes it too much

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 Okay, I think we're done with the picture, but here's the point in this

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 Sam we have

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 elemental

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 foundational principles

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 From God that he wants us to understand thoroughly always

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 So this is an ancient

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 Text if you like given to us from God this old Sam and in it what I'm gonna do just now is pick out

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 for key pillars if you like

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 Amongst many that the Bible give us that if we get a good handle on if we get really familiar with then we get a real sense

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 We hopefully get a real sense of the enjoyment of these great strains of biblical

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 Principles and text okay, so the first one is when we look into the Sam

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 kingship

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 There's the first one that I want to just mention look at verse 10

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 Here's the speaker here's the person who's bringing us this Sam

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 For the sake of your servant David do not turn away the face of your anointed one kind of speaking about himself there

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 You're anointed one. This is about a king who's seeking the right appropriate worship of God

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 Referring to speaking about another king who was the anointed one David the second king of Israel

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 The if you like the king of the golden age of Israel the king that many look back to and said here was a great king a

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 Really wonderful king who came after Saul?

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 Brought about much good and much blessing for the people of God. So this theme of kingship is immediately

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 key now

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 the king what was the point of the king not just to wear a crown and be impressive and

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 Mighty and ride a great horse off the battle every so often the point of a king was to seek to lead the people

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 in the ways of God and and and to bring the people again and again under God's

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 overarching kingship that was what the kings were to do

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 That was what they so very often failed to do

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 So actually when we kind of when we open up this Sam a bit more what we find is a sense of trying to get back to

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 Leading the people having the worship of God at the center of things as it really should be

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 So kingship is a really important

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 Theme biblical theme

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 We read about other kings who really failed as I mentioned Saul already touched on the first king of Israel

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 If you read about him he ended up in a really terrible way really jealous and bitter

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 His relationship with God was really broken

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 Even Solomon David's son wonderful king wisest of kings went really badly astray

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 But here there's a renewed sense of the the rightness of the king

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 Leading the people under the overall lordship or kingship of God

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 Specifically here we see this in verse six and seven now

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 I'm gonna come back and talk about the ark as another principle in just a minute

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 But just to give you a sense of what's happening here? The ark was if you like the the furniture of

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 The worship place of God that God came down and descended upon

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 But for a time in Israel's history, it wasn't in the place. It should be it wasn't it wasn't in this the sort of central worship

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 Sanctuary if you like and so here in verse six we read

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 Behold we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the fields of jar. Let us go to his dwelling place

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 Let us worship at his footstool and then later on it speaks about the ark

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 Arise oh lord go to your resting place you and the ark of your might

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 So that's that's what the king's trying to do. He's trying to physically take a part of the the furniture

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 The aid did the worship of God and we'll come back to this and put it where it should be

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 Kingships an important theme and as we'll see

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 Kingship is something that the Bible comes back to time and time again until we meet the ultimate king

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 Second theme briefly covenant

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 Now you've probably heard this loads of times if you're regular at church covenants are really important theme in this Sam

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 Okay verse 11

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 Look at what is spoken about here

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 The king is trying to do something but he's not doing it just for the sake of it or because he thinks it's a good idea

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 Or because it's all in his own strength

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 Verse 11 the Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back

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 One of the sons of your body

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 I will set on your throne if your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them their sons also forever

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 Shall sit on your throne so he says there I

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 Have made a covenant with you

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 David at the start of the Sam is is praised because of what he

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 Endeavored to do but a really core thing for all of God's people right from if you like the genesis of

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 God revealing himself to people has been that God has said I

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 In my grace make a covenant a promise with you with Abraham with Moses with David and

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 The Covenant specifically here again

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 This would have made loads of sense to the people who are singing and reading this Sam using it in its original context

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 Was the promise of lineage

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 To the king I promise that if you follow me

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 I will set your son on the throne and establish your

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 Lineage if you like and that was good because if that happened then the Covenant worshiping community would carry on

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 So that was that was at the heart again of the worshiping community to have a sense of continuity and progression

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 So kingship covenant the promise of sonship which we're not exploring in great detail, but that's there

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 Thirdly, I want to return to the steam of the Ark

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 Okay, because you might this evening never really have thought about the Ark before you might not even know what I'm talking about

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 So again, it's said

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 In verse 8 arise. Oh Lord go to your resting place you and the Ark of your might

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 What you might be saying

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 The Ark when God

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 Progressively revealed himself to his people to the point where he said, okay

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 I want you even on your travels to have a kind of tent that you set up on your travels

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 This is the place where I will reveal myself to your leader

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 I want you to create a wooden structure called an Ark and on it

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 I want you to place a seat and on that seat I will come down and

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 And as it were in a in a in a amazing way and in a sort of temporary way

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 And I will be there at the center of your community to communicate with you to be

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 Present with you so that you can hear from me and learn from me. This was a really significant piece of

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 if you like sacred furniture for these people so

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 You can read about this if you go to Exodus chapter 25

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 We read in verse 21 you shall put the mercy seat

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 This is like that if on top of the Ark on top of this structure the mercy seat on the top of the Ark and in the

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 Ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you there

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 I will meet with you and from above the mercy seat from between the two cherubim that are on the Ark of the testimony

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 I will speak with you about all that I will give you in

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 In commandment for the people of Israel so you see how significant that is again to us

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 We may think oh that's I don't have much to do with that. That's very distant

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 It's very different to the way that we worship but in these days. This is the way God

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 communicated with his people

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 so in other words

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 It was really important that this piece of furniture

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 Was where it should be

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 What happened if it wasn't at the central worship space of the Israelites?

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 Well that indicated that something was going wrong. There was some kind of distance

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 There's a passage in first Samuel which speaks about a place called Kiryaf Jairim

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 Now Jairim is the plural of the singular jar which we meet in verse

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 6 the fields of jar

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 It's speaking about a time where the Ark

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 Was being transported around for different reasons and it was kept in this place in Kiryaf Jairim for a while

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 and it became

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 the pursuit of David

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 To get it to Jerusalem to the place of worship where it should be

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 So again, you can come not gonna spend a lot of time on this

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 You can go back and trace the history of this if you follow the references in your Bible

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 But it was key for the purposes of this worshiping community to have a right order of these things

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 And this is again at the heart of this of making sense of the principles of this psalm

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 so for these people having this

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 object in the right place indicated

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 The worship was being done as it should be and so that begs the question

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 God no longer requires

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 St. Columba's to have the Ark

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 Square and central but do you think about the worship of God?

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 What is them? What is the appropriate way to worship him?

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 Do you care about the way that you worship and that we worship?

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 Is it done as a matter of routine?

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 Is it done because you've always done it and does it just involve just coming here?

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 Does it involve your heart and your mind and the word of God?

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 It's God's word

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 Revealing to us how we're to worship. So just let me throw open that question just now. How do we worship?

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 Why do we worship?

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 It was really important for these people to have the Ark and that's because one more thing on this, okay? One more thing

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 What God said was that he will make he will make it his resting place when he came down to dwell amongst

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 The Israelites now if you were to go through this psalm again go home tonight and

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 When you've recovered from the heat and you've had a glass of lemonade or something read the psalm again and notice the amount of time

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 It speaks about resting place

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 Dwelling place for God think about that for a minute

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 How important would that be for a restless traveling community of people?

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 Hemden on all sides often by people who are out to crush them as a people

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 For God to make his dwelling with them

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 Think about how important that was think about how significant if they were a covenant community

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 To know that the Lord was with them and was present with them. We're gonna put up another reading

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 From Ezekiel because this theme of resting place the dwelling of God with his people again is all the way through the Bible

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 It's so significant think about

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 The Garden of Eden. What was that?

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 It was a place where God came down and walked with Adam and Eve

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 Think about as I've mentioned the tabernacle which became the temple

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 Think about the incarnation of Jesus where he himself came down and for that amazing time spent time with

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 humanity in that very physical way and also of course there's the great promises of revelation

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 Where it speaks about the fact that God will make his dwelling amongst his people

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 But let me just read you this passage from Ezekiel. Okay, so follow this through. It's a wonderful passage

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 Say to them thus stays the Lord God behold

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 I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone and will gather them from all around and bring them to their own land

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 And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel and one king

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 Shall be king over them all and they shall be no longer two nations and no longer divided into two kingdoms

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 They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their

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 Detestable things or with any of their transgressions, but I will save them

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 From all the backslidings in which they have sinned and will cleanse them

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 And they shall be my people and I will be their God my servant David shall be king over them

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 They shall all have one shepherd now. There are many echoes here biblical words and phrases and again strains

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 They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes

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 They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob where your father's left they and their children and their children's children

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 Shall dwell there forever and David my servant shall be their prince forever. I will make a covenant of peace with them

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 It shall be an everlasting covenant with them and I will set them in their land and multiply them and will set my

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 Sanctuary in their midst forever now again. Sorry my dwelling place shall be with them and I will be their God and they shall be my people

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 There are again those words those resonances those phrases the king the

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 Covenant that God has made the sense of taking his people

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 Gathering them together and there at the end making his dwelling with them expressed just in that passage in Ezekiel

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 Just to show you again the way that that theme runs throughout the whole biblical picture

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 It's so important for God's people to have a sense of him

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 Dwelling amongst them now, of course the great blessing that you and I have nowadays is that God Jesus said to his followers

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 I will send my spirit

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 Your body is now the temple in which the Spirit dwells again. That's all about the presence of God with us

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 So a great biblical theme here the Ark the resting place of God the place where God dwells with his people finally

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 Finally the last section of a Sam

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 speaks about

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 In verse 17 there I will make a horn to sprout for David now again. This is a

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 You may be surprised to hear a biblical pillar a foundation may sound a bit abstract at the moment

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 But what's this all about we get to the last section here?

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 Verse 17 I will make a horn to sprout for David

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 I have prepared a lamp for my anointed his enemies I will clothe with shame but on him his crown will shine

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 The horn speaking of the say the horn of an animal signifies strength

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 And what's being spoken of just in picture form here again

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 Just giving us hints theme biblical themes and resonances is of the ultimate fulfillment

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 That will show us the mightiness of God and the salvation of God

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 Okay, because this is a passage that really prefigures the ultimate King the

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 Fulfillment the Savior the God always knew he was going to send to be the true Savior the true rescuer for his people

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 And that is of course Jesus Christ himself

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 Now you may be thinking how on earth can you get from this to Jesus?

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 But let me just read these words from Luke one and we've already read this in the reading earlier Luke chapter 1 Zechariah

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 Say is these words speaking about the joy of hearing him of the coming of the Messiah Jesus

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 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he has visited and redeemed his people

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 So here's it. This is it. This is the news. He has redeemed his people and

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 Has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

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 So there's language from the New Testament echoing this Sam speaking about the strength of God

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 fulfilled

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 Finally and completely in Jesus Christ himself. And so what that means is that God reveals himself

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 through his word in promises in prophecies in pictures that are fulfilled when Jesus comes the great the great display of the strength of God

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 to conquer

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 What we couldn't sin to be the one who paid the price

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 through his weakness as

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 He determined to set his face toward the cross

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 For his people because of his covenant promise

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 And so he is again the great king the great one who is now at the right hand of the father

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 ascended on high

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 So again, we're just linking up here some of the pillars if you like the great the great

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 Stand points that run throughout this Sam and throughout the Old Testament and throughout the whole biblical narrative

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 the strength of God in Jesus is the goodness and the kindness of the

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 Self-sacrificial giving God who loves his people

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 Why is this good news

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 Why is this whole theme of the worship of God of

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 God himself of the appropriacy of worshiping him. Why is it so central to this king?

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 Why is it so central to David and why should it be?

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 At the center of your heart still tonight

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 Well, I want to show you a parallel and then we're done. Okay, look at what it looks like

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 When when God is honored and when worship is at the heart of the community look at this parallel

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 We're gonna read verse 9 and then we're gonna read from verse 14

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 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness and let your saints shout for joy

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 Okay, so that is the concern of the king who seeks the worship of God

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 Let the play that let the priests be clothed with righteousness. Let the saints shout for joy now go to verse 14

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 What do we read there?

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 Here we get if you like at the end of the psalm the promise of God

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 Responding to all that has been said this is my resting place forever here. I will dwell for I have desired it God says that I

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 Will abundantly bless her provisions. I will satisfy her poor with bread her priests

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 I will clothe with salvation and

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 Her saints will shout for joy

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 What does it look like when God is honored when worship is at the heart of the community of God's people?

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 Well, it looks like a place where salvation is proclaimed in

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 This context through the priests those who ministered before the people and between God and the people

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 Now we hear of the great one who gave of himself

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 Our king the great priest forever Jesus the one who gave himself as the sacrifice

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 So that salvation can be declared

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 You can know freedom from sin forgiveness and new life in Jesus

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 That is spoken of amongst us

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 That's good news

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 Secondly it's a place where the needy are cared for I

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 Will abundantly bless her provisions. I will satisfy her poor with bread

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 Is that the case?

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 Do we look up to God and do we ourselves as we are often told so often in the pages of the New Testament seek to be those

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 Who look out to the needy and give to them welcome in that if you like the alienated

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 Those who are oppressed those who are isolated who feel lonely who feel friendless who are poor and

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 Do we love them and do we share with them?

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 Do we do we give as we have received from the great grace of our Lord God?

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 And it's a place where the believers are filled with joy

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 Now that's a challenge, isn't it?

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 And it's a place where the believers are filled with joy because they've heard the news of the proclamation of the salvation that comes because of the great

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 King Jesus so again, are we a community?

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 which heralds amongst us

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 the news of the great king which seeks to give to others because we have been blessed and

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 That is filled with joy

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 Filled the joy because of the work that God has accomplished

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 But he always planned to accomplish that he worked out and we can read about through the pages of this book

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 Do you have a passion for that

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 Will you be prepared to expend yourself for that kind of community for that sense of worship?

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 I read one commentator described that the way he summarized this passage was as a

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 Passion for the church so the Sam is talking about the Old Testament Old Covenant community

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 But the principles are of honoring God seeking to have the worship of God at the core of who we are

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 a

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 Passion for the church of people who know the King and who joyfully rejoicing him

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 is that

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 your

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 hearts

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 passion

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 tonight

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 I'm gonna pray and we're finished

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 Lord we

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 Praise and honor your name

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 You're the one who's revealed yourself to so many people all over the world through many customs and cultures

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 But you always reveal yourself as the covenant making and keeping God the great Lord the great provider

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 The great Savior the Holy One who redeems his people

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 And though we read of these verses we read of

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 Something that often seems quite alien to us

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 please help us to understand it and help us to respond joyfully because

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 We can sing of your goodness to us

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 Because you have done a great thing

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 In the gospel amen