1 00:00:00,010 --> 00:00:02,570 As I was in prayer, I had one 2 00:00:02,570 --> 00:00:04,310 of those divine reversals this week. 3 00:00:04,590 --> 00:00:07,189 I had already intended on a different series, 4 00:00:07,550 --> 00:00:09,110 and the Lord really messed me up, you 5 00:00:09,110 --> 00:00:09,370 know. 6 00:00:10,090 --> 00:00:12,510 When you open your ears to Him and 7 00:00:12,510 --> 00:00:14,930 you get this, like, no, no, that's not 8 00:00:14,930 --> 00:00:15,710 where I was going to go. 9 00:00:16,310 --> 00:00:16,470 Yeah. 10 00:00:16,710 --> 00:00:18,890 And so I feel like, you know, when 11 00:00:18,890 --> 00:00:20,990 we're groping through these things, I don't have 12 00:00:20,990 --> 00:00:22,550 like a hotline to Heaven, right? 13 00:00:22,650 --> 00:00:23,390 None of us have that. 14 00:00:23,910 --> 00:00:25,910 But we can hear His voice and be 15 00:00:25,910 --> 00:00:26,830 led by His Spirit. 16 00:00:26,830 --> 00:00:29,930 And so He prompted me to move through 17 00:00:29,930 --> 00:00:32,530 the book of Psalms for the summer and 18 00:00:32,530 --> 00:00:35,490 to show how the New Testament church, the 19 00:00:35,490 --> 00:00:39,170 early Christians, used the book of Psalms. 20 00:00:40,150 --> 00:00:42,190 How they preached out of the book of 21 00:00:42,190 --> 00:00:42,690 Psalms. 22 00:00:43,050 --> 00:00:46,250 How they prayed the book of Psalms. 23 00:00:46,650 --> 00:00:47,950 Why are the Psalms important? 24 00:00:48,510 --> 00:00:50,190 And how did the early church, and how 25 00:00:50,190 --> 00:00:52,430 has the church, the historic church, continued to 26 00:00:52,430 --> 00:00:55,550 use the Psalms right up to our three 27 00:00:55,550 --> 00:00:58,190 mornings a week in morning prayer? 28 00:00:58,410 --> 00:01:01,430 You see, we don't really read the Psalms. 29 00:01:01,950 --> 00:01:03,269 We pray the Psalms. 30 00:01:03,890 --> 00:01:05,470 We sing the Psalms. 31 00:01:05,970 --> 00:01:09,390 The Psalms are songs, the songs of Israel 32 00:01:09,390 --> 00:01:13,490 and the Christological, the songs of Jesus being 33 00:01:13,490 --> 00:01:17,730 proclaimed, today I have begotten you, says the 34 00:01:17,730 --> 00:01:18,110 Father. 35 00:01:18,110 --> 00:01:22,450 And so the responsorial part allows us to 36 00:01:22,450 --> 00:01:24,590 participate where it's not just a reading. 37 00:01:24,870 --> 00:01:27,010 It is a prayer from the lectern. 38 00:01:27,450 --> 00:01:29,790 And then we respond with that prayer and 39 00:01:29,790 --> 00:01:32,410 we pray together that Psalm. 40 00:01:33,230 --> 00:01:34,270 OK, so that's the way we want to 41 00:01:34,270 --> 00:01:36,170 look at the responsorials, right? 42 00:01:36,610 --> 00:01:38,090 It's a part of our worship. 43 00:01:38,910 --> 00:01:40,150 If I were on a desert island, I 44 00:01:40,150 --> 00:01:41,910 was thinking this day, I said, what book 45 00:01:41,910 --> 00:01:43,290 of the Bible would I take? 46 00:01:43,930 --> 00:01:45,230 What book of the Bible would you take? 47 00:01:45,230 --> 00:01:47,250 Think about this, that I think I would 48 00:01:47,250 --> 00:01:49,770 take the book of Psalms with me if 49 00:01:49,770 --> 00:01:50,430 I could choose. 50 00:01:50,810 --> 00:01:52,050 You say, oh, Michael, why wouldn't you take 51 00:01:52,050 --> 00:01:52,630 the gospel? 52 00:01:52,810 --> 00:01:55,030 Why wouldn't you take John or something like 53 00:01:55,030 --> 00:01:55,350 that? 54 00:01:55,390 --> 00:01:58,810 It's because before John was ever written, which 55 00:01:58,810 --> 00:02:00,910 was around 90 AD, the church had been 56 00:02:00,910 --> 00:02:04,430 around preaching apostolic messages out of the Old 57 00:02:04,430 --> 00:02:04,770 Testament. 58 00:02:05,490 --> 00:02:07,590 And so like today, we're going to turn 59 00:02:07,590 --> 00:02:08,650 to Acts 2 and we're going to see 60 00:02:08,650 --> 00:02:10,890 the first sermon on the day of Pentecost 61 00:02:10,890 --> 00:02:15,590 was utilizing the prophet Joel, Psalm 16, Psalm 62 00:02:15,590 --> 00:02:16,370 110. 63 00:02:17,230 --> 00:02:19,130 And then they got in trouble because of 64 00:02:19,130 --> 00:02:20,850 the healings that were taking place. 65 00:02:21,350 --> 00:02:24,330 And then they came together and they prayed 66 00:02:24,330 --> 00:02:26,870 Psalm 2, which we heard today. 67 00:02:27,370 --> 00:02:30,850 So we could call this meeting with God 68 00:02:30,850 --> 00:02:32,370 and his people. 69 00:02:33,290 --> 00:02:39,580 With the Psalms, meeting with God and his 70 00:02:39,580 --> 00:02:42,120 people, with the Psalms. 71 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,640 This is not some pursuit of individual spirituality 72 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:51,000 where I go away on an island, even 73 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,340 though some of us want to do that 74 00:02:52,340 --> 00:02:52,920 right now. 75 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:57,140 Yeah, but I'm there, Robinson Crusoe, Christian, all 76 00:02:57,140 --> 00:02:58,440 alone with God. 77 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:03,360 The Psalms are the proclamation of the covenant 78 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,260 that God made with Israel and that God 79 00:03:06,260 --> 00:03:07,980 promised to all the earth. 80 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:10,900 Because in the Psalms, it's not just about 81 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:13,500 Israel, it's about all the earth and all 82 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:15,040 creation praising him. 83 00:03:15,420 --> 00:03:18,300 You see, David got what Israel never fulfilled. 84 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:21,400 And that's why Jesus, the new vine, the 85 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,540 new Israel came to fulfill it all and 86 00:03:23,540 --> 00:03:26,380 opened up the way for the Gentiles, all 87 00:03:26,380 --> 00:03:28,620 the nations to be saved through him. 88 00:03:29,380 --> 00:03:32,180 And so David is proclaiming that full impact 89 00:03:32,180 --> 00:03:34,340 of the gospel throughout the Psalms. 90 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,340 When we meet in morning prayer at the 91 00:03:37,340 --> 00:03:39,900 ministry center, we're not only meeting with God, 92 00:03:40,420 --> 00:03:43,600 but we're meeting with his people, praying the 93 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:44,120 Psalms. 94 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,860 And in praying those Psalms, we encounter God 95 00:03:47,860 --> 00:03:50,520 and we encounter communion with each other. 96 00:03:51,180 --> 00:03:52,960 And then we finish that up with the 97 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:53,740 eighth sacrament. 98 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:55,400 Everybody know what the eighth sacrament is? 99 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:57,580 Oh, yeah, it's the coffee. 100 00:03:57,860 --> 00:03:59,480 I mean, the church would not survive without 101 00:03:59,480 --> 00:03:59,920 coffee. 102 00:04:00,140 --> 00:04:00,500 Come on. 103 00:04:00,580 --> 00:04:02,200 It's the power of the holy being. 104 00:04:05,790 --> 00:04:07,230 After the power of the Holy Spirit, it 105 00:04:07,230 --> 00:04:08,530 must be the power of the holy being. 106 00:04:08,670 --> 00:04:09,510 OK, I'm sorry. 107 00:04:09,730 --> 00:04:09,930 Amen. 108 00:04:11,090 --> 00:04:12,310 Let's pray for those baristas. 109 00:04:12,530 --> 00:04:13,090 More power. 110 00:04:13,410 --> 00:04:13,590 Right. 111 00:04:14,990 --> 00:04:17,089 And so we hang out together and we've 112 00:04:17,089 --> 00:04:18,790 been doing this all year now where we're 113 00:04:18,790 --> 00:04:21,430 praying three times a week from seven to 114 00:04:21,430 --> 00:04:21,930 seven thirty. 115 00:04:22,050 --> 00:04:22,870 But then it's not over. 116 00:04:22,870 --> 00:04:25,210 People stay for an hour or however long 117 00:04:25,210 --> 00:04:26,710 they can stay, sometimes two hours. 118 00:04:27,270 --> 00:04:29,550 And it's like three small groups going on. 119 00:04:29,630 --> 00:04:32,670 It's centered around prayer, meeting with God and 120 00:04:32,670 --> 00:04:33,230 his people. 121 00:04:33,490 --> 00:04:35,490 Community is being developed and people from other 122 00:04:35,490 --> 00:04:36,190 churches are coming. 123 00:04:36,990 --> 00:04:39,610 It's an ecumenical reality where people from other 124 00:04:39,610 --> 00:04:40,370 churches are hungry. 125 00:04:40,570 --> 00:04:41,490 They get on our Web site. 126 00:04:41,570 --> 00:04:44,110 They see that we're meeting with God and 127 00:04:44,110 --> 00:04:44,750 they come to. 128 00:04:44,990 --> 00:04:45,850 It's a beautiful thing. 129 00:04:46,270 --> 00:04:48,630 I invite you all if you're around and 130 00:04:48,630 --> 00:04:49,830 you're within driving distance. 131 00:04:49,830 --> 00:04:52,150 I mean, there's people that do drive from 132 00:04:52,150 --> 00:04:54,570 the Northland three times a week to do 133 00:04:54,570 --> 00:04:54,810 that. 134 00:04:55,350 --> 00:04:58,630 There's people that drive from Overland Park three 135 00:04:58,630 --> 00:04:59,730 times a week that do that. 136 00:04:59,810 --> 00:05:01,750 So if you can do that, I just 137 00:05:01,750 --> 00:05:04,170 want to throw out that invitation because there's 138 00:05:04,170 --> 00:05:05,930 something very powerful happening. 139 00:05:06,430 --> 00:05:09,030 It's indescribable, really, about what's happening through the 140 00:05:09,030 --> 00:05:09,310 week. 141 00:05:09,890 --> 00:05:11,830 And it's all centered around prayer and people 142 00:05:11,830 --> 00:05:13,670 hungry for God and people from other churches 143 00:05:13,670 --> 00:05:15,130 coming wanting to pray liturgically. 144 00:05:15,370 --> 00:05:16,470 It's a really cool thing. 145 00:05:17,410 --> 00:05:20,650 Meeting with God and his people, those are 146 00:05:20,650 --> 00:05:23,110 corporate prayers that we're praying then, right? 147 00:05:23,170 --> 00:05:26,090 There's individual psalms, there's psalms of individual devotion, 148 00:05:26,430 --> 00:05:28,870 and then there's psalms for the corporate body 149 00:05:28,870 --> 00:05:31,750 in those hundred and fifty psalms, the largest 150 00:05:31,750 --> 00:05:32,590 book in the Bible. 151 00:05:32,810 --> 00:05:34,450 And it's right in the center of the 152 00:05:34,450 --> 00:05:34,790 Bible. 153 00:05:35,250 --> 00:05:37,150 It just proclaims the gospel. 154 00:05:38,110 --> 00:05:41,370 All of the prayer warriors have prayed these 155 00:05:41,370 --> 00:05:45,210 corporate prayers throughout the history of of the 156 00:05:45,210 --> 00:05:45,670 church. 157 00:05:45,670 --> 00:05:50,230 Liturgical poems, they are their liturgical poems that 158 00:05:50,230 --> 00:05:54,350 bridge the prayers in heaven and on earth, 159 00:05:54,350 --> 00:05:58,010 because all of those saints in heaven, which 160 00:05:58,010 --> 00:06:00,890 in Revelation 5 says the prayers of the 161 00:06:00,890 --> 00:06:03,710 saints in heaven are like sweet smelling incense. 162 00:06:04,330 --> 00:06:06,030 And so that's what's happening. 163 00:06:06,190 --> 00:06:09,210 These liturgical prayers bridge the prayers in heaven 164 00:06:09,210 --> 00:06:12,190 and on earth because they're the common liturgy 165 00:06:12,190 --> 00:06:15,210 that we have all prayed together as we 166 00:06:15,210 --> 00:06:16,990 rise up to be with the Lord. 167 00:06:17,610 --> 00:06:20,950 They formed us, they informed us, and they 168 00:06:20,950 --> 00:06:23,650 have formed us in our spiritual formation. 169 00:06:24,230 --> 00:06:26,670 So all the prayer warriors in heaven, the 170 00:06:26,670 --> 00:06:29,990 prayers of the saints were formed by praying 171 00:06:29,990 --> 00:06:33,350 the psalms individually and corporately. 172 00:06:34,230 --> 00:06:37,930 OK, so what would be our aim in 173 00:06:37,930 --> 00:06:40,870 going through the psalms and emphasizing the psalms? 174 00:06:41,890 --> 00:06:44,350 Number one, it would be to taste and 175 00:06:44,350 --> 00:06:48,790 see the beauty and awe of God in 176 00:06:48,790 --> 00:06:52,450 the depths of prayer, the heights of praise 177 00:06:52,450 --> 00:06:57,870 and the in-betweens of utter emotional disillusionment. 178 00:06:58,750 --> 00:07:00,290 It's all in the Psalter. 179 00:07:00,290 --> 00:07:04,850 And that was a lament, that was a 180 00:07:04,850 --> 00:07:08,410 psalm of sorts, a poem, a prophetic poem 181 00:07:08,410 --> 00:07:11,430 from Jeremiah that we heard this morning. 182 00:07:11,550 --> 00:07:14,290 It was a complaint, right? 183 00:07:16,030 --> 00:07:19,450 The psalms give us permission to go there 184 00:07:19,450 --> 00:07:22,610 with God, isn't it good that you don't 185 00:07:22,610 --> 00:07:25,290 have to, like, deny your feelings and the 186 00:07:25,290 --> 00:07:29,390 the view of reality that you're experiencing? 187 00:07:29,390 --> 00:07:32,470 It's not reality, ultimate reality, right? 188 00:07:32,870 --> 00:07:34,370 Pure spirit, that is. 189 00:07:35,430 --> 00:07:37,610 But when our eyes get, we see through 190 00:07:37,610 --> 00:07:39,930 a glass dimly at best. 191 00:07:41,090 --> 00:07:43,270 At our best, we see through a glass 192 00:07:43,270 --> 00:07:44,670 dimly, Paul says. 193 00:07:45,710 --> 00:07:48,490 We are still falling creatures in the midst 194 00:07:48,490 --> 00:07:51,850 of being restored and groping for God, and 195 00:07:51,850 --> 00:07:55,050 sometimes it's hard to pray, you find it 196 00:07:55,050 --> 00:07:55,870 hard to pray sometimes. 197 00:07:56,590 --> 00:07:57,530 I do. 198 00:07:58,250 --> 00:08:01,170 And the Psalms give us that every season 199 00:08:01,170 --> 00:08:05,090 of the soul variety of prayer where it 200 00:08:05,090 --> 00:08:07,550 lets us know that we're human and it's 201 00:08:07,550 --> 00:08:09,610 OK, it's good to be human. 202 00:08:10,690 --> 00:08:14,850 And, you know, sometimes we we exalt rationality 203 00:08:14,850 --> 00:08:16,010 over emotion. 204 00:08:17,130 --> 00:08:18,730 But both are just as fallen. 205 00:08:22,090 --> 00:08:22,730 Selah. 206 00:08:24,610 --> 00:08:26,710 Selah is a musical term in the Psalms. 207 00:08:26,710 --> 00:08:31,330 It means pause and provide some space in 208 00:08:31,330 --> 00:08:32,450 the improvisation. 209 00:08:33,669 --> 00:08:35,490 Now, when I thought about that this week, 210 00:08:35,510 --> 00:08:38,570 I thought that is significant how we exalt 211 00:08:38,570 --> 00:08:41,110 rationality over emotion when both are falling. 212 00:08:42,710 --> 00:08:45,570 And the Psalms levels all of that out, 213 00:08:46,130 --> 00:08:48,930 at least David does, because he's the guy, 214 00:08:49,110 --> 00:08:51,490 the king who dances naked before the ark. 215 00:08:52,310 --> 00:08:55,710 He's the guy that offends Michal, his wife, 216 00:08:55,890 --> 00:08:56,090 right? 217 00:08:57,310 --> 00:09:01,270 He's the guy he's just as thinking like, 218 00:09:01,590 --> 00:09:03,430 what a great vision statement for a church. 219 00:09:04,130 --> 00:09:05,950 We already have one, but man, it would 220 00:09:05,950 --> 00:09:09,750 be a church after God's own heart, because 221 00:09:09,750 --> 00:09:10,770 that's what David was. 222 00:09:11,190 --> 00:09:13,870 He was a man after God's own heart. 223 00:09:14,570 --> 00:09:15,530 And don't you want to be a church 224 00:09:15,530 --> 00:09:16,470 after God's own heart? 225 00:09:17,010 --> 00:09:20,110 It's praying the Psalms that will give us 226 00:09:20,110 --> 00:09:22,750 the tools, some of the tools to be 227 00:09:22,750 --> 00:09:23,010 there. 228 00:09:23,010 --> 00:09:25,990 But you see, the book of Psalms is 229 00:09:25,990 --> 00:09:32,910 everybody's prayer book that belongs to everybody doesn't 230 00:09:32,910 --> 00:09:34,570 have to have Anglican on it. 231 00:09:34,890 --> 00:09:37,090 We have our prayer book and our prayer 232 00:09:37,090 --> 00:09:37,310 book. 233 00:09:37,310 --> 00:09:39,170 It has the whole book of Psalms. 234 00:09:39,590 --> 00:09:44,600 But the book of Psalms is our second 235 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,540 aim would be to explore how the Psalms 236 00:09:47,540 --> 00:09:51,280 prophesy the redemptive mission of Jesus. 237 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:57,520 Crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, enthronement. 238 00:09:59,140 --> 00:10:01,260 And new creation. 239 00:10:02,420 --> 00:10:04,240 New creation in vivid detail. 240 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:09,640 Jesus quoted the Psalter in order to clarify 241 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,020 his redemptive mission. 242 00:10:12,020 --> 00:10:16,460 And in quoting Psalm 110, it was the 243 00:10:16,460 --> 00:10:18,960 last one of the last Psalms before his 244 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,280 crucifixion that he quoted that actually got him 245 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:24,000 there on the cross. 246 00:10:26,190 --> 00:10:30,370 And so the new is in the old 247 00:10:30,370 --> 00:10:31,630 concealed. 248 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:36,850 And the old is in the new revealed, 249 00:10:37,390 --> 00:10:37,950 Saint Augustine. 250 00:10:38,870 --> 00:10:41,290 The new is in the old concealed. 251 00:10:42,070 --> 00:10:44,310 The old is in the new revealed in 252 00:10:44,310 --> 00:10:44,730 this out. 253 00:10:44,930 --> 00:10:46,950 This is how the apostles preach the gospel. 254 00:10:47,530 --> 00:10:51,410 There was no New Testament except for this. 255 00:10:52,410 --> 00:10:55,770 This is this is the new covenant in 256 00:10:55,770 --> 00:10:56,890 his blood, Paul says. 257 00:10:57,290 --> 00:10:58,850 The new covenant is not a book. 258 00:10:59,690 --> 00:11:01,870 It's the body and blood of the Lord. 259 00:11:03,110 --> 00:11:06,270 You get that we're supposed to eat the 260 00:11:06,270 --> 00:11:08,150 new covenant and drink the new covenant. 261 00:11:09,230 --> 00:11:14,030 Number three, how the early church employed psalms 262 00:11:14,030 --> 00:11:17,050 as liturgical prayer, why do I say liturgical 263 00:11:17,050 --> 00:11:17,390 prayer? 264 00:11:17,430 --> 00:11:20,650 Because you read them, it's a liturgy, it 265 00:11:20,650 --> 00:11:25,270 provides banks, it provides a common prayer book, 266 00:11:25,330 --> 00:11:28,370 a book of common prayer, really, before the 267 00:11:28,370 --> 00:11:29,290 book of common prayer. 268 00:11:29,310 --> 00:11:31,570 There was the book of common prayer, the 269 00:11:31,570 --> 00:11:32,030 Psalter. 270 00:11:32,870 --> 00:11:35,390 Oh, and so it's how the early church 271 00:11:35,390 --> 00:11:38,130 employed psalms as liturgical prayer. 272 00:11:38,850 --> 00:11:42,530 Written prayers brought to life in proclaiming the 273 00:11:42,530 --> 00:11:42,970 gospel. 274 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:49,850 And making intercession, proclaiming the gospel, preaching Jesus, 275 00:11:50,030 --> 00:11:51,870 so what Peter was doing on the day 276 00:11:51,870 --> 00:11:53,390 of Pentecost out of Psalm 16. 277 00:11:54,570 --> 00:11:56,610 And then in Acts four that we heard 278 00:11:56,610 --> 00:12:01,030 read this morning, making intercession, preaching the gospel 279 00:12:01,030 --> 00:12:05,930 and making intercession common prayer. 280 00:12:07,430 --> 00:12:09,410 And you know what, when you pray the 281 00:12:09,410 --> 00:12:11,610 Psalms, you know, you're praying the inspired scriptures. 282 00:12:12,630 --> 00:12:16,270 Okay, Acts two, as you know, we're now 283 00:12:16,270 --> 00:12:17,850 coming out of Pentecost. 284 00:12:18,650 --> 00:12:21,830 We've celebrated the ascension of the Lord and 285 00:12:21,830 --> 00:12:24,230 then Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit. 286 00:12:25,010 --> 00:12:29,150 The Holy Spirit falls on a promised feast 287 00:12:29,150 --> 00:12:33,110 day in Jerusalem called the Feast of Pentecost, 288 00:12:33,230 --> 00:12:34,910 the Feast of First Fruits. 289 00:12:35,750 --> 00:12:39,130 And when the Holy Spirit fell, it enabled 290 00:12:39,130 --> 00:12:41,930 those waiting in the upper room to speak 291 00:12:41,930 --> 00:12:43,870 languages that they had not learned. 292 00:12:44,530 --> 00:12:47,010 And those languages, see, speaking in tongues, it 293 00:12:47,010 --> 00:12:48,990 said, but it's just speaking foreign languages in 294 00:12:48,990 --> 00:12:53,090 Acts two, because all the proselytes from all 295 00:12:53,090 --> 00:12:55,490 over the world were in Jerusalem for that 296 00:12:55,490 --> 00:12:56,030 feast. 297 00:12:56,370 --> 00:13:00,310 And they were hearing the proclamations of praise 298 00:13:00,310 --> 00:13:02,710 and the gospel preached in their own language. 299 00:13:02,710 --> 00:13:04,770 And they said, what does this mean? 300 00:13:05,190 --> 00:13:06,490 What is going on? 301 00:13:07,770 --> 00:13:11,050 And so Peter stands up and he begins 302 00:13:11,050 --> 00:13:12,230 to address the crowd. 303 00:13:12,370 --> 00:13:13,930 And I believe that this is what Jesus 304 00:13:13,930 --> 00:13:16,050 means when he says, I'll give you the 305 00:13:16,050 --> 00:13:17,790 keys to the kingdom. 306 00:13:18,930 --> 00:13:23,370 Because he preaches Jesus Christ, the king of 307 00:13:23,370 --> 00:13:26,490 the kingdom, and he takes it out of 308 00:13:26,490 --> 00:13:29,070 Joel and he takes it out of Psalm 309 00:13:29,070 --> 00:13:29,650 16. 310 00:13:32,100 --> 00:13:34,480 Then Peter stood up with the eleven in 311 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:35,180 verse 14. 312 00:13:36,820 --> 00:13:38,500 I like that he stood up with the 313 00:13:38,500 --> 00:13:40,220 eleven, they're all standing up, you know, and 314 00:13:40,220 --> 00:13:41,080 they're cheering him on. 315 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:41,940 It's like a team. 316 00:13:42,180 --> 00:13:43,400 Yeah, you go first, Peter. 317 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,940 You know, I'm sure they had relief preachers 318 00:13:46,940 --> 00:13:48,720 in that in that line there. 319 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:49,020 Right. 320 00:13:49,820 --> 00:13:52,600 He raised his voice and addressed the crowd, 321 00:13:52,820 --> 00:13:55,340 fellow Jews and all of you who live 322 00:13:55,340 --> 00:13:56,080 in Jerusalem. 323 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:59,140 Let me explain this to you. 324 00:14:00,380 --> 00:14:02,520 How would you like to explain the day 325 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:03,760 of Pentecost to somebody? 326 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:04,100 Right. 327 00:14:04,980 --> 00:14:06,300 Let me explain this to you. 328 00:14:06,420 --> 00:14:07,700 See, only Peter could do that. 329 00:14:08,140 --> 00:14:10,380 Only Peter is so bold and so brash 330 00:14:10,380 --> 00:14:11,500 to even try. 331 00:14:12,780 --> 00:14:13,360 All right. 332 00:14:15,180 --> 00:14:17,180 He's the one that Jesus said, get behind 333 00:14:17,180 --> 00:14:20,300 me, Satan, you know, let me explain this 334 00:14:20,300 --> 00:14:20,860 to you. 335 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:23,900 Listen carefully to what I say. 336 00:14:24,460 --> 00:14:27,180 These men are not drunk, as you suppose. 337 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:28,660 It's only nine o'clock in the morning. 338 00:14:29,140 --> 00:14:30,840 It is an hour of prayer, by the 339 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:31,160 way. 340 00:14:31,540 --> 00:14:33,500 It's when good Jewish people would be in 341 00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:35,900 the synagogue praying and at the temple praying 342 00:14:35,900 --> 00:14:37,940 nine o'clock in the morning. 343 00:14:38,860 --> 00:14:41,000 No, this is what was spoken by the 344 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:41,720 prophet Joel. 345 00:14:41,940 --> 00:14:42,800 And then he goes through. 346 00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:44,160 I'm not going to read all of that, 347 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:45,480 but, you know, I'll pour out my spirit 348 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:46,500 in the last days. 349 00:14:47,260 --> 00:14:50,740 And of course, Peter is telling us that 350 00:14:50,740 --> 00:14:53,800 Pentecost inaugurated the last days. 351 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:57,520 We're not waiting on the last days, we're 352 00:14:57,520 --> 00:14:58,780 in the last days. 353 00:15:00,650 --> 00:15:02,350 I will pour out my spirit on all 354 00:15:02,350 --> 00:15:05,490 people right in the last days. 355 00:15:06,510 --> 00:15:08,550 So he's saying, we're there. 356 00:15:10,010 --> 00:15:12,350 Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your men 357 00:15:12,350 --> 00:15:14,850 will see visions, your old men will dream 358 00:15:14,850 --> 00:15:15,370 dreams. 359 00:15:15,930 --> 00:15:16,650 He goes on down. 360 00:15:16,770 --> 00:15:18,030 Men of Israel, listen to this. 361 00:15:18,590 --> 00:15:21,230 Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by 362 00:15:21,230 --> 00:15:24,130 God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, 363 00:15:24,230 --> 00:15:27,050 which God did among you through him. 364 00:15:27,050 --> 00:15:29,870 As you yourselves know, this man was handed 365 00:15:29,870 --> 00:15:32,890 over to you by God's set purpose and 366 00:15:32,890 --> 00:15:33,650 foreknowledge. 367 00:15:34,050 --> 00:15:36,950 And you, with the help of wicked people, 368 00:15:37,410 --> 00:15:40,390 put him to death by nailing him to 369 00:15:40,390 --> 00:15:40,990 the cross. 370 00:15:43,110 --> 00:15:46,570 You see, there was no need to expound 371 00:15:46,570 --> 00:15:48,610 Psalm 22 at this point. 372 00:15:49,010 --> 00:15:50,130 They got it. 373 00:15:50,750 --> 00:15:53,450 Jesus was crucified and they did it. 374 00:15:53,450 --> 00:15:56,870 But the crucifixion is explained in Psalm 22 375 00:15:56,870 --> 00:15:59,210 with just uncanny details. 376 00:16:00,050 --> 00:16:02,010 But that's not the right song for the 377 00:16:02,010 --> 00:16:02,470 occasion. 378 00:16:02,850 --> 00:16:03,470 They got that. 379 00:16:03,970 --> 00:16:07,110 He's going, but God raised him from the 380 00:16:07,110 --> 00:16:10,630 dead, freeing him from the agony of death 381 00:16:10,630 --> 00:16:14,890 because it was impossible for death to keep 382 00:16:14,890 --> 00:16:15,970 its hold on him. 383 00:16:16,810 --> 00:16:18,670 David said about him, and here it is 384 00:16:18,670 --> 00:16:23,190 in Psalm 16, here is an apostle handling 385 00:16:23,190 --> 00:16:26,090 the book of Psalms, Psalm 16. 386 00:16:26,870 --> 00:16:30,430 I saw the Lord always before me because 387 00:16:30,430 --> 00:16:32,550 he is at my right hand. 388 00:16:33,050 --> 00:16:34,410 I will not be shaken. 389 00:16:35,310 --> 00:16:37,850 Therefore, my heart is glad and my tongue 390 00:16:37,850 --> 00:16:38,370 rejoices. 391 00:16:38,370 --> 00:16:41,390 My body also will live in hope because 392 00:16:41,390 --> 00:16:43,830 you will not abandon me to the grave, 393 00:16:43,850 --> 00:16:46,570 nor will you let your holy one see 394 00:16:46,570 --> 00:16:47,170 decay. 395 00:16:47,850 --> 00:16:50,270 You have made known to me the paths 396 00:16:50,270 --> 00:16:53,550 of life through death, by the way, unless 397 00:16:53,550 --> 00:16:55,290 a grain of wheat fall into the ground 398 00:16:55,290 --> 00:16:55,730 and die. 399 00:16:56,430 --> 00:16:58,210 You have made known to me the paths 400 00:16:58,210 --> 00:16:58,870 of life. 401 00:16:59,450 --> 00:17:01,890 You will fill me with joy in your 402 00:17:01,890 --> 00:17:02,530 presence. 403 00:17:03,130 --> 00:17:05,810 Brothers, I can tell you confidently that the 404 00:17:05,810 --> 00:17:09,109 patriarch David, the father David, died and was 405 00:17:09,109 --> 00:17:11,430 buried and his tomb is here to this 406 00:17:11,430 --> 00:17:11,730 day. 407 00:17:12,230 --> 00:17:13,089 But he was a prophet. 408 00:17:13,810 --> 00:17:16,770 The spirit of prophecy is on the Psalms. 409 00:17:17,430 --> 00:17:20,170 The spirit of prophecy, John tells us, is 410 00:17:20,170 --> 00:17:23,010 the testimony of Jesus. 411 00:17:23,990 --> 00:17:26,829 The spirit of prophecy is the testimony of 412 00:17:26,829 --> 00:17:27,230 Jesus. 413 00:17:28,790 --> 00:17:32,270 Peter is preaching prophetically the testimony of Jesus 414 00:17:32,270 --> 00:17:33,410 out of the Psalms. 415 00:17:33,830 --> 00:17:36,550 He was a prophet and knew that God 416 00:17:36,550 --> 00:17:38,710 had promised him on oath that he would 417 00:17:38,710 --> 00:17:41,110 place one of his descendants on his throne. 418 00:17:42,310 --> 00:17:44,770 Seeing what was ahead, he spoke of the 419 00:17:44,770 --> 00:17:49,350 resurrection of Jesus, that he was not abandoned 420 00:17:49,350 --> 00:17:51,770 to the grave, nor did his body see 421 00:17:51,770 --> 00:17:52,190 decay. 422 00:17:52,190 --> 00:17:56,010 God has raised this Jesus to life and 423 00:17:56,010 --> 00:17:59,070 we are all witnesses of the fact exalted 424 00:17:59,070 --> 00:18:01,650 to the right hand of God. 425 00:18:02,150 --> 00:18:06,410 There's the ascension he has received from the 426 00:18:06,410 --> 00:18:10,030 father, the promised Holy Spirit, which has poured 427 00:18:10,030 --> 00:18:12,690 out what you now see in here. 428 00:18:12,810 --> 00:18:14,670 For David did not ascend to heaven. 429 00:18:14,670 --> 00:18:19,190 And yet he said, Psalm 110, The Lord 430 00:18:19,190 --> 00:18:22,490 said to my Lord, sit at my right 431 00:18:22,490 --> 00:18:25,350 hand until I make your enemies a footstool 432 00:18:25,350 --> 00:18:26,110 for your feet. 433 00:18:27,210 --> 00:18:30,450 Therefore, let all Israel be assured of this. 434 00:18:30,990 --> 00:18:35,090 God has made this Jesus whom you crucified, 435 00:18:35,450 --> 00:18:38,790 both Lord and Christ. 436 00:18:39,930 --> 00:18:41,790 And so when the people heard this, they 437 00:18:41,790 --> 00:18:43,070 were cut and they got it and the 438 00:18:43,070 --> 00:18:44,710 Holy Spirit was convicting them and they said, 439 00:18:44,850 --> 00:18:45,610 what must we do? 440 00:18:46,390 --> 00:18:49,590 Three thousand coming to the kingdom by Peter, 441 00:18:49,710 --> 00:18:52,290 an apostle, preaching out of the book of 442 00:18:52,290 --> 00:18:53,330 Psalms. 443 00:18:53,690 --> 00:18:54,270 Beautiful thing. 444 00:18:54,990 --> 00:18:56,990 Turn with me to Acts 4 and we'll 445 00:18:56,990 --> 00:18:57,550 end here. 446 00:18:58,590 --> 00:19:00,310 By the healing of a man by the 447 00:19:00,310 --> 00:19:02,670 gate, beautiful, they get locked up. 448 00:19:02,730 --> 00:19:04,290 Peter and John get locked up for doing 449 00:19:04,290 --> 00:19:04,670 this. 450 00:19:05,390 --> 00:19:07,430 There's a whole lot of dialogue going on 451 00:19:07,430 --> 00:19:09,490 and Peter is talking to the council and 452 00:19:09,490 --> 00:19:11,310 he says salvation is found in no one 453 00:19:11,310 --> 00:19:13,850 else where there is no other name under 454 00:19:13,850 --> 00:19:15,930 heaven given to men by which we must 455 00:19:15,930 --> 00:19:16,590 be saved. 456 00:19:17,010 --> 00:19:19,910 And he goes on and he expounds and 457 00:19:19,910 --> 00:19:22,130 it says in verse 18, chapter four, then 458 00:19:22,130 --> 00:19:24,490 they called them in again and commanded them 459 00:19:24,490 --> 00:19:27,010 not to speak or teach at all in 460 00:19:27,010 --> 00:19:27,810 the name of Jesus. 461 00:19:27,810 --> 00:19:30,810 But Peter and John replied, judge for yourselves 462 00:19:30,810 --> 00:19:33,330 whether it is right in God's sight to 463 00:19:33,330 --> 00:19:34,990 obey you rather than God. 464 00:19:35,350 --> 00:19:37,710 But we cannot help speaking about what we 465 00:19:37,710 --> 00:19:39,390 have seen and heard. 466 00:19:39,730 --> 00:19:41,930 They punished them and they let them go. 467 00:19:42,110 --> 00:19:44,290 And then it says in verse 23, on 468 00:19:44,290 --> 00:19:47,670 their release, Peter and John went back to 469 00:19:47,670 --> 00:19:50,610 their own people and reported all that the 470 00:19:50,610 --> 00:19:52,610 chief priests and elders had said to them. 471 00:19:53,190 --> 00:19:56,050 And when they heard this, they raised their 472 00:19:56,050 --> 00:19:59,530 voices together in prayer. 473 00:19:59,930 --> 00:20:00,810 Take note of this. 474 00:20:01,190 --> 00:20:04,770 They raised their voices together. 475 00:20:07,250 --> 00:20:08,870 They raised their voices. 476 00:20:09,050 --> 00:20:10,750 They raised the word. 477 00:20:10,810 --> 00:20:14,730 There is homo thumed on, you know, where 478 00:20:14,730 --> 00:20:16,330 we get our word for thermometer. 479 00:20:17,730 --> 00:20:20,390 And so they are of one temperature. 480 00:20:20,390 --> 00:20:25,190 They raise their voices and they change the 481 00:20:25,190 --> 00:20:25,710 atmosphere. 482 00:20:26,930 --> 00:20:28,390 They have the thermometer. 483 00:20:28,910 --> 00:20:30,250 They have the thermostat. 484 00:20:31,010 --> 00:20:32,650 It's the thermostat of the kingdom. 485 00:20:32,930 --> 00:20:34,830 And the thermostat of the kingdom is raising 486 00:20:34,830 --> 00:20:36,310 your voice together in prayer. 487 00:20:37,310 --> 00:20:37,830 Amen. 488 00:20:39,330 --> 00:20:40,930 Prayer changes the atmosphere. 489 00:20:41,570 --> 00:20:44,170 Thy kingdom come on earth. 490 00:20:44,270 --> 00:20:45,170 I mean, that's the prayer. 491 00:20:45,970 --> 00:20:47,070 That's the prayer of Jesus. 492 00:20:47,430 --> 00:20:49,070 Pray that my kingdom would come on earth 493 00:20:49,070 --> 00:20:49,910 as it is in heaven. 494 00:20:49,910 --> 00:20:52,290 That is, change the atmosphere of the earth 495 00:20:52,290 --> 00:20:55,270 to make it the atmosphere of heaven where 496 00:20:55,270 --> 00:20:58,590 God reigns, where God reigns. 497 00:20:59,570 --> 00:21:02,350 How do we exercise our royal priesthood? 498 00:21:03,730 --> 00:21:07,350 What does a priest do that makes sacrifices? 499 00:21:08,230 --> 00:21:10,670 We call this the sacrifice of praise and 500 00:21:10,670 --> 00:21:13,430 thanksgiving because our Lord Jesus has made that 501 00:21:13,430 --> 00:21:15,190 one and final sacrifice for us. 502 00:21:16,390 --> 00:21:18,990 All we have to do now is sacrifice 503 00:21:18,990 --> 00:21:22,230 our time, money and energy and give praise 504 00:21:22,230 --> 00:21:24,290 and glory to Jesus because he's done it 505 00:21:24,290 --> 00:21:24,810 for us. 506 00:21:25,330 --> 00:21:26,850 And we can read about it in the 507 00:21:26,850 --> 00:21:27,150 Psalms. 508 00:21:27,270 --> 00:21:28,510 We can pray about it in the Psalms 509 00:21:28,510 --> 00:21:30,370 and we can preach about it in the 510 00:21:30,370 --> 00:21:32,030 Psalms and with the Psalms. 511 00:21:33,530 --> 00:21:36,490 It's like having something that you didn't realize 512 00:21:36,490 --> 00:21:38,990 what you had, you know, the power that 513 00:21:38,990 --> 00:21:41,690 was just sitting there in your living room 514 00:21:41,690 --> 00:21:43,090 until it gets unleashed. 515 00:21:43,090 --> 00:21:43,370 Right. 516 00:21:43,490 --> 00:21:45,310 You just open up the Psalter and you 517 00:21:45,310 --> 00:21:47,570 open up your heart to God and you 518 00:21:47,570 --> 00:21:48,510 say, I'm going to go. 519 00:21:48,630 --> 00:21:50,150 I was glad when they said to me, 520 00:21:50,190 --> 00:21:51,450 let us go to the house of the 521 00:21:51,450 --> 00:21:51,690 Lord. 522 00:21:51,990 --> 00:21:53,110 I'm not even going to try to do 523 00:21:53,110 --> 00:21:53,950 this on my own. 524 00:21:53,990 --> 00:21:56,170 I'm going to pray with the church and 525 00:21:56,170 --> 00:21:57,790 I'm going to raise my voice and I'm 526 00:21:57,790 --> 00:21:59,750 going to change the atmosphere of Kansas City. 527 00:22:01,190 --> 00:22:03,090 That's what we aim to do. 528 00:22:04,470 --> 00:22:05,530 And how are we going to do it 529 00:22:05,530 --> 00:22:07,290 through our weak and feeble prayers? 530 00:22:07,290 --> 00:22:07,690 Really? 531 00:22:09,330 --> 00:22:10,750 I mean, you know, when you're there at 532 00:22:10,750 --> 00:22:12,770 seven in the morning, it doesn't feel like 533 00:22:12,770 --> 00:22:13,630 the day of Pentecost. 534 00:22:15,190 --> 00:22:15,630 Right. 535 00:22:17,900 --> 00:22:20,240 When we walked out of Friday, everybody was 536 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,080 saying, we're just such a buzz in the 537 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:22,520 place. 538 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,060 You know, there's all these new people and 539 00:22:25,060 --> 00:22:25,860 meeting each other. 540 00:22:26,220 --> 00:22:28,280 And it's just incredible to see it. 541 00:22:28,460 --> 00:22:30,520 You know, it's just you hear that buzz, 542 00:22:30,620 --> 00:22:33,020 that life that's in the room. 543 00:22:33,740 --> 00:22:37,180 That's what happens when people come together around 544 00:22:37,180 --> 00:22:38,240 Jesus Christ. 545 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,280 And so they raise their voices together in 546 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:41,800 prayer. 547 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,840 That thermostat got shifted over to the kingdom 548 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:46,440 of God. 549 00:22:46,700 --> 00:22:47,620 And they said this. 550 00:22:48,260 --> 00:22:49,640 And I don't think this is the first 551 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:50,800 time they thought about this. 552 00:22:51,860 --> 00:22:54,460 I think they had been instructed by the 553 00:22:54,460 --> 00:22:56,320 apostles how to read Psalm 2. 554 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,380 They probably had memorized it because they're saying 555 00:23:00,380 --> 00:23:01,740 it and praying it together. 556 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,920 It says, Sovereign Lord, they're praying this. 557 00:23:05,740 --> 00:23:08,860 Sovereign Lord, they said, you made the heaven 558 00:23:08,860 --> 00:23:09,440 and the earth. 559 00:23:10,780 --> 00:23:14,020 And the sea and everything in them, you 560 00:23:14,020 --> 00:23:16,140 spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth 561 00:23:16,140 --> 00:23:19,000 of your servant, our father, David. 562 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,880 Why do the nations rage, Psalm 2? 563 00:23:23,580 --> 00:23:24,600 They're praying this together. 564 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,200 Why do the nations rage and the people's 565 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:29,080 plot in vain? 566 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,440 The kings of the earth take their stand 567 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:36,040 and the rulers together against the Lord and 568 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,200 against his anointed one. 569 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,580 They take that little piece out of Psalm 570 00:23:40,580 --> 00:23:40,700 2. 571 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:41,980 We heard the whole psalm today. 572 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,940 And then they began to interpret that passage, 573 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:45,740 those two verses. 574 00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:49,120 This is the interpretation in real time. 575 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:53,120 This is real time interpretation under persecution. 576 00:23:53,620 --> 00:23:56,660 So they're taking that psalm and they're personalizing 577 00:23:56,660 --> 00:23:58,420 it and they're going like, oh, this is 578 00:23:58,420 --> 00:23:58,660 it. 579 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,440 This is what the Lord was telling us. 580 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,040 This is the apostolic teaching. 581 00:24:05,180 --> 00:24:07,180 Indeed, Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with 582 00:24:07,180 --> 00:24:09,580 the Gentiles and the people of Israel in 583 00:24:09,580 --> 00:24:11,920 this city to conspire against your holy servant, 584 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,260 Jesus, your holy child, Jesus, whom you anointed. 585 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,000 They did what your power and will had 586 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,620 decided beforehand should happen. 587 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,020 Now, Lord, here it is, there's going to 588 00:24:23,020 --> 00:24:25,200 be three points of intercession. 589 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:29,040 Number one, now, Lord, consider their threats. 590 00:24:29,820 --> 00:24:32,500 Number one, think about what they're threatening us 591 00:24:32,500 --> 00:24:34,920 with death, imprisonment. 592 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:36,880 They're here to shut the church down. 593 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,600 OK, sound familiar? 594 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:45,100 Consider their threats and enable, number two, enable 595 00:24:45,100 --> 00:24:47,860 your servants to speak your word with great 596 00:24:47,860 --> 00:24:48,500 boldness. 597 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:52,140 Oh, how we need to pray this, that 598 00:24:52,140 --> 00:24:54,300 I could speak your word with great boldness. 599 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,160 In the midst of the secularization of the 600 00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:58,560 cosmos. 601 00:25:00,300 --> 00:25:03,700 Number two, enable your servants to speak your 602 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:06,880 word with great boldness, and number three, stretch 603 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,560 out your hands to heal and perform miraculous 604 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,360 signs and wonders through the name of your 605 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:13,920 holy servant, Jesus, your holy child. 606 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,260 Three answers come to those three requests after 607 00:25:18,260 --> 00:25:19,400 they prayed. 608 00:25:20,620 --> 00:25:23,580 The place where they were meeting was shaken. 609 00:25:23,580 --> 00:25:27,540 And I'm thinking that's relating to God considering 610 00:25:27,540 --> 00:25:32,220 their threats, he's just shaking up Jerusalem and 611 00:25:32,220 --> 00:25:35,000 he's shaking things, everything will be shaken. 612 00:25:36,020 --> 00:25:39,400 That which only will remain is that which 613 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:40,480 cannot be shaken. 614 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:42,600 So the place was shaken. 615 00:25:43,060 --> 00:25:43,640 Number one. 616 00:25:43,820 --> 00:25:46,660 Number two, they were all filled with the 617 00:25:46,660 --> 00:25:48,980 Holy Spirit, what they were asking for. 618 00:25:49,060 --> 00:25:50,700 Give me great boldness in the spirit to 619 00:25:50,700 --> 00:25:51,520 proclaim your word. 620 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,080 And number three, they spoke the word of 621 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:55,460 God boldly. 622 00:25:56,140 --> 00:25:58,460 They spoke the word of God boldly, the 623 00:25:58,460 --> 00:26:01,020 only way they could have done that was 624 00:26:01,020 --> 00:26:04,500 to submit themselves to corporate prayer and crying 625 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:05,360 out to God. 626 00:26:06,140 --> 00:26:08,360 God, consider their threats. 627 00:26:10,260 --> 00:26:15,440 Enable us to speak your word boldly and 628 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,100 fill us with the Holy Spirit so that 629 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:19,420 signs and wonders and great healing so that 630 00:26:19,420 --> 00:26:22,180 your compassions can be flowing through us, O 631 00:26:22,180 --> 00:26:24,220 Lord, that it all came through prayer. 632 00:26:24,340 --> 00:26:24,540 Right. 633 00:26:25,180 --> 00:26:27,660 God so desires to answer our prayer. 634 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,140 And he's given us such a beautiful tool 635 00:26:31,140 --> 00:26:34,540 called a Psalter to get familiar with and 636 00:26:34,540 --> 00:26:36,080 to pray corporately with. 637 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,480 And this is in the Anglican tradition, praise 638 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:38,900 God. 639 00:26:39,380 --> 00:26:41,240 It's just that let's pray the Psalms instead 640 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:42,060 of just reading. 641 00:26:42,980 --> 00:26:45,880 Let's pray them because they have great power 642 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,620 when we engage in faith with the Lord 643 00:26:48,620 --> 00:26:50,480 in the name of the Father and the 644 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:50,680 Son.