 Right. Welcome once again. Thank you all for joining in. We are successfully into the second month of our Bible College this semester. Yay to y'all. I hope it's been a good experience and learning experience for each and every one of you and I hope it's been worth your time. Before we get started on today's lecture, can I request, Anita, would you mind just leading us in a time of prayer, please? All right. Okay. Let's get started. Okay. So we've been looking at this on the topic of praise quite deeply. We've been learning about it, different postures of praise, different expressions. We will learn about different expressions of praise in this section today. But we've been learning quite a bit about the power of praise, the foundations of praise, and how it's just beautiful, how God is magnified in our praises, right? He is enthroned on our praises. There's something that I learned very recently, as recent as the day before, is that to dwell or to be enthroned in the Hebrew root word literally means to sit down. And that kind of blew my mind again. It just never ceases to amaze me the different perspectives of, as we learn on the subject of praises, when we say that God is enthroned on our praises, that means he literally sits down, he dwells, he sits down on our praises, on the throne of praise. That image just blew my mind. So we've been learning quite deeply about praise, the foundations and the power of praise and how closely it's related with warfare, right? And in the last chapter, I mean, chapter four, right? And if I'm not sorry, if I'm not mistaken, not chapter four, yeah, yeah, chapter four, yeah. We, from second chronicles chapter 20, we see the episode of Jehoshaphat and Judah as a nation going into warfare and how they fix their eyes on God and how they rely and put their trust and faith in his word. And even before they go into a battle, they bow down in worship. The previous day and the next day, they send the worshipers ahead of the army and how God gives them the victory. And another story we saw of was Paul and Silas, the very popular, famous undisclosed story that we always, all of us know about is how they were beaten, stripped, and embarrassed publicly and falsely accused. And through their pain, through their sorrow, and through their shame, they pour forth their praise. And as a result of their praise, every other prisoner is set free. They don't escape, but they are set free. Jailer and his entire family is saved as a result of their praise, right? And as I was, as I'm sharing this, I was reminded of this one story where a young person goes up to a mountain top to kill himself to commit suicide. And there, you know, got these two young people who are already up there in the mountain, they were praising and worshiping God. And this person who goes up there to throw himself off the cliff, here's these two people praising and worshiping, and then he gets saved and he decides not to kill himself. So, you know, similarly, I think your worship is so powerful, right? One of the points that we learned from Paul and Silas' worship was that your praise is not necessarily only for your deliverance, right? It's for the people around you. You just don't know who needs to be set free. And your praise, one of the things that can do is set the prisoners free around you as well, okay? So, we kind of stopped there. We looked into the connection between praise and warfare. By the way, I've shared the notes as a PDF in the stream section. I hope you were all able to download it and keep it for your record, right? Cool. So, today we just look at a couple of examples of... We are in the page 16 in your notes. We look at shouting in praise, how shouting is related in praise as a powerful expression of praise, okay? So, if you have your bibles with you, I hope you do, go to Joshua chapter 6, okay? Joshua chapter 6, okay? Joshua chapter 6, just the verse 20 in itself, it says, when the trumpets sounded, the people shouted. And at the sound of the trumpet, when the people gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed, okay? That's just a verse... There's just one verse, okay? But what I would like us to do is read that entire chapter till that verse. And actually, let's start from chapter 5, verse 13 onwards, because that's where... That's really where this whole section of the fall of Jericho kind of starts, okay? In Joshua chapter 5, verse 13 onwards, is everybody there? Give me a quick amen if you're there. Okay, all right. Awesome, okay, let's go. Joshua chapter 5, verse 13, I'll read it for us. I'm reading from the NIV. Now, when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drone sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, are you for us or for our enemies? Neither he replied, but as a commander of the armies of the Lord, I have now come. Okay, this is incredible right now. So what's happening there is what most scholars will call it as Christophany, or theophany, all right? It's pre-incarnate Christ manifesting himself, okay? So, and Joshua doesn't realize that until he says, neither he replied, verse 14, but as a commander of the armies of the Lord, that is no one else but Jesus. Then immediately after he says that, check out Joshua's response, then Joshua fell face down. Okay, he doesn't say Joshua went face down, goes face down, Joshua fell face down to the ground in reverence, okay? I want you to remember or underline all these words because it's going to come in connection with the next chapter when we learn about worship, okay? And you will understand why we get there. So, Joshua fell face down to the ground in reverence and asked him, what message does my Lord have for his servant? The commander of the Lord's army replied, take off your sandals for the place where you are standing is holy, and Joshua did so. Now chapter 6 begins. Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. Okay, talk about borders being closed, quarantining themselves. But in this case, they were in complete shutdown or lockdown because of the Israelites. They had heard what God had done to the armies that went up against this nation, this great nation. They had heard about how the army of Egypt were drowned in the sea. So, because of that, they had completely shut down. Okay, they know that the Israelites are coming for them. They're in complete shutdown. Then the Lord said to Joshua, verse 2, See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands along with its king and its fighting men. March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams horns in front of the army. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times with the priests blowing the trumpets. Okay, underline priests. Okay, it's important. With the priests blowing the trumpet, when you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have all the people give a loud shout. Okay, when you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have all the people give a loud shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all the people will go up and every man straight in. Okay, that kind of sets the context, isn't it? But another important part, which I just want to highlight here, it's not, I mean, it is significant in its way is that Joshua. So, if you read the chapters before this, right, it says that the army of Israel had camped or had pitched their tents far away from Jericho. Okay, so, and when you do a little bit of the study, it says they say the camp of Israel was at least 15 kilometers away from where Jericho is. And the spy nature of Joshua, remember, Joshua had already come into this land as a spy. And at this point, Joshua is by Jericho all by himself. He's alone, okay, 15 kilometers away from his actual army. And, you know, and he must be, if I were to put myself in the shoes of Joshua, he was bold. I mean, he's looking at this immense wall, you know, that's in front of him. You know, he's, I'm sure he's confronted, conflicted. It's like, it seems impossible, you know, but I know God is there for me. I know God is on our side because that's exactly what him and Caleb did, right? When the 10 spies goes, everybody else saw, came back with a kind of a negative report, although they were facts, right? They stated the facts, the eight other spies, but only Joshua and Caleb said, he's like, yeah, yeah, they are, but, you know, our God is bigger, isn't it? So he, I'm sure, you know, standing in front of the Jericho wall, he's saying, okay, you know, this looks big, it looks impossible, but nothing is impossible with God. And then he has this encounter, you know, with the commander of the armies of Lord's hosts. And then God gives him this promise. The Lord said, you know, in chapter six, verse two, says, the Lord said to Joshua, see, I have delivered Jericho into your hands. The waltz didn't come down yet, nothing has happened yet, but God has already given the promise. And Joshua just believes it, right? And he goes ahead and, you know, it says everything to the people of Israel, what the Lord has told him. Sorry. Okay. And then what we see in verse 20 is the result of this encounter, when the trumpets sounded, the people shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the people gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed. Okay. So let's look at another passage. Let's keep this in mind. Let's go to judges chapter seven. Okay. Please stand with me to judges chapter seven. Once again, a story of a very famous judge that we all know is Gideon. Okay. I hope you're all there, judge, judges chapter seven. Now a judge in those days really meant a deliverer, okay, or a leader. Okay. That's basically what the meaning of the word judge is. So Gideon was one of the judges that God raised. And in chapter seven, we see that early in the morning, Jerub Baal, that is Gideon, and all his men camped at the spring of Herod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Morah. The Lord said to Gideon, you have too many men for me to deliver Midian into their hands. In order, in order that Israel may not boast against me that her own strength has saved her, announced now to the people, anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead. Okay, I'm just kind of reading a few scriptures for us to get the context. Verse three says, announce now to the people, verse three, anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead. So 22,000 men left while 10,000 remained. Verse four, but the Lord said to Gideon, there are still too many men. Take them down to the water and I will lift them and I will swift them for you there. If I say this one shall go with you, he shall go. But if I say this one shall not go with you, he shall not go. Okay, God's like having like this incredible boss movement, right? Full boss moves here. I don't need so many people to deliver. I don't want you to boast in your strength. I want you to know that, you know, I delivered this. Now let's just go down to verse 20. Okay. Actually, wait, before we go there, let's read from verse 12. Okay, I hope that's okay, guys. All right. Judges chapter seven verse 12 onwards. All right. The Midianites, the Amelokites and all the other Eastern people had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could not could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore. Can you imagine that site as thick as locusts? Their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore. This is the army that Gideon is going up against. There must be in thousands and thousands, hundreds of thousands. Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. I had a dream, he was saying, a round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed. It's interesting a bread can do that. His friend responded, this can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon, son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands. It's amazing how the enemy can also interpret dreams. This is the enemy talking to each other. I had this dream, the bread came tumbling down and destroyed all our tents. Verse 15, when Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, check out his response. He worshipped God. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, get up. The Lord has given the Midianite camp into your hands. Dividing the 300 men into three companies, he placed trumpets and empty jars in the hands of all of them with torches inside. Verse 17, watch me, he told them, follow my lead. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do. When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, then from all around the camp blow yours and shout for the Lord and for Gideon. Gideon and the 100 men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the mid-watch. Just as they had changed the guard, they blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands. The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars, grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow. They shouted a sword for the Lord and for Gideon. Verse 21, while each man held his position around the camp, all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled. When verse 22, when the 300 trumpets sounded, the Lord caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. That's verse 22. When the 300 trumpets sounded, that's incredible. One of the things I wanted to do a study on, which I didn't really find the time to just go deeper, is what's the significance of the jars, just to understand their historical point. I mean, if and when I do, I let you all know the significance of them breaking their jars. I didn't do that. But if you can, please do it and let me know, more than happy to learn. But this pause then, look at verse 22, when the 300 trumpets sounded. Okay, now I'm sure we've seen a video of an orchestra, right, where there's a one person, a conductor standing in front and he's conducting an orchestra. Yeah, have you all seen, speak to me, respond to me just to know that I'm not alone. Right. So that's a biggest piece of orchestra is about 120 musicians or 140 piece that's, as big as they can go. Now, in that orchestra, you have the strings section, which is one of the biggest sections in the ensemble. You have the violins, the viola, the cellos, the double bass, they all come out of the string section. Then you have the percussion section. You have the timpani's and all the drums with the cymbals and whatnot. Then you have the other sections, the woodwind sections. You have the flutes, the oboe, clarinet, etc, etc. And another section is called the brass section, right? All these brass instruments like the trumpets and the trombones, the tuba, the big one that comes around where person goes and blows and the French horns, right? Now, the brass sections are one of the loudest sections in the entire orchestra. Like I said, 120 or 140 piece ensemble orchestra, they will be a maximum of four trumpets, just four trumpets. And those four guys can easily overpower the entire orchestra very easily because they are very loud. So you will always see the conductor controlling them, it's like control and play and whatnot. So just to give us a perspective and idea, that's just four trumpets in 140 piece ensemble. Verse 22 says here, there were 300 trumpets. Okay, I can't imagine but it scares me. It really does scare me. I mean, I cannot begin to imagine how loud that must have been. And it's just amazing guys. And it must have been really, really loud. And then every time you read the worship that happens in the tabernacle of David and in the temple that Solomon builds later, when you see that how the priests, all the priests were in charge of blowing the trumpets. I mean, a bunch of priests, not all the priests. It must have been a very loud occasion. It must have just been a very loud scene of worship, of extravagance. So this is another example of us shouting in praise. There is a moment, there is a time when God calls us as His people. Second Peter and also Revelation says, by through Jesus, we are now, not just priesthood, we are royal priesthood. Okay, that means you and I, like it or not, are priests. Okay, we are royal priesthood. And one of the responsibilities for us as priests, we are called to blow this loud trumpet. I mean, not literally maybe when you can, you can, but we are in charge of lifting up and shouting this loud praise and make His praise known and make His praise glorious like the psalm says, isn't it? It's your responsibility as a priest, right? And when you read about priests in the Bible, it was their job. It was their responsibility. It was their duty. It was not like they had a choice. It's like, okay, you know, this morning, if you feel like coming and blowing the trumpet, please come. If you don't feel it, leave it at home. You know, just chill. You know, no worries. We have you covered. There's another person who'll come and fill in for you. It's okay. But it doesn't sound like it. It seems like they had no choice. You know, and similarly, praise is again, you know, we'll keep repeat, you'll keep hearing me say this and I'm sure you've heard this is not really about how you feel. I'm going to praise God, depending on how I feel, you know, etc, etc. No, I don't think we have a choice. I'm sorry to say that, but I'm glad we don't have that choice. I mean, when we go to the next section, we'll also see it's, in a way, we still have a choice. And that's again a beauty of it, right? The Psalms says, the trees of the field, they clap their hands in praise. The deep sea creatures, you know, worship him. In Psalm 19, we see that the star and the heavenly hosts day and night, they pour forth speech. They don't stop. All of these other creations, they don't have a choice. And Jesus says in Luke 19, if we don't praise, the rocks will cry out. So it seems like every other creation don't really have a choice, but you and I do, right? You and I have a choice, an incredible choice. That's what makes your praise and my praise powerful, because it's birthed out of free will. And I say, I choose to praise you. The cherubimms in the seraphim, when you read the book of, you know, in Revelation 4, these mighty angels and in Ezekiel 1, which we'll read sometime, you read about these cherubimms, these super angels, you know, with one with the face of a lion and an ox and an eagle and man, you know, surrounding the throne of God. In Isaiah chapter 6, we read about the seraphim. It simply means the burning ones. That means these creatures are literally on fire before the throne of God, crying out, holy, holy, holy to one another. It's almost like they don't have a choice, but the beauty of our worship is that you and I, we have a choice. And I hope and I pray that we will not miss out on this amazing opportunity, you know, just to shout our praise, lift our praises before the King of Kings and the Lord of Heavens and that we will build a throne where he sits down on our praise. He sits on our shouts of praise. He sits on that, on our trumpet sounds. That's just amazing, right? There's a few scriptures that's mentioned for us in the Bible. I mean, your notes is one from Numbers chapter 10 verse 9. It says, Numbers chapter 10 verse 9, and when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. You shall sound an alarm. That means, I mean, there's another thing that I think, you know, that sounding of an alarm does, sounding of the trumpets does is it sends out an alarm to the enemy. As the moment you go down on your knees, you begin to lift up your hands and you start worship and praising God. It's like sending an alarm to the enemy. Okay. All right. He's going down on his knees. He's lifting up his hands. Some things about to happen now, you know, it's sending a message, it's sending a signal to the enemy. Okay. Numbers 10 9 says, when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. That you may be remembered before the Lord your God and you shall be saved from your enemies. Right. Another beautiful reminder. Every time the enemy tries to oppress us or come against us, you know, raises situations against us. Remember to sound an alarm with your praise. Amen. Another scripture is Psalm 8, Psalm 118. Psalm 118 verse 19 and 20. It says, open to me the gates of righteousness that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord. Okay. This is the gate of the Lord. The righteous shall enter through it. A gate of thanksgiving. Right. I will enter his gates with thanksgiving. I will enter his courts with praise. Amen. That's the Psalm 118 verse 19 and 20. Another scripture that's mentioned there is Isaiah chapter 60 verse 18 says, violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders. You shall call your walls salvation and your gates, what? Praise. Okay. You shall call your walls salvation and your gates praise. That's Isaiah chapter 60 verse 18. And let's just read one more scripture from that section. A Judges chapter one verse one and two. Judges chapter one verse one and two says, after the death of Joshua, the people of Israel, inquire of the Lord, who shall go up first for us against the canonites to fight against them? Okay. They're inquiring of the Lord. Who shall go up first for us against the canonites to fight against them? And check out God's response in verse two. The Lord said, Judah shall go up simply means the praise shall go forth first. Behold, I have given the land into his hand. I've given the land of the enemy to the praisers. Amen. Okay. We just shared the scripture. Isaiah 59 was 19. When the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord will raise up, will lift up a standard against him. Amen. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yes. Okay. So there's a couple of notes, just one note there. The key ingredient there in all these scriptures that we saw in Joshua chapter six and Judges chapter seven was faith. And what increased the faith, the stirred, the faith of the Israelites was a word from God, like we saw in Second Chronicles chapter 20, right? Right? Faith comes by hearing and hearing of the word, right? So a word from God in their troubled times increased and stirred their faith even before victory was given to them. So towards the end of this section, one us two, once again, remind all of us is that you and I have this incredible privilege of being God's priests. You and I have this incredible privilege to make that choice, to choose, to praise him, and as a gentle reminder that your praise is powerful. Okay. Don't ever think that your praise does not matter. Okay. All right, guys. Yeah. Your praise is powerful. Okay. All right. Now, let's move on to the next section. Section B in your notes is the expressions of praise. This section is almost like a summary of things that we've learned so far, the different postures of praise. We are in page 17 in your notes. Okay. We're in page 17 in your notes. The different expressions mentioned there are one of the first one is singing. All right. Psalm 47 verse 6. It says, sing praises to God. Sing praises. Sing praises to our king. Sing praises. Okay. I'll see if I can put that in the chat. Psalm 47 verse 6. It's one verse and it has sing praises four times. Sing praises to God. Sing praises. Sing praises to our king. Sing praises. Just one verse. I think that should be enough for us to understand that singing means is important. Okay. Another scripture, I mean, which again, very family scriptures. It's not mentioned in the notes, but you can read is Colossians chapter 3 verse 16. And once again, Easter for us in the chat section. Okay. Colossians 3 16. That's from the ESV version. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Okay. Let the word of Christ dwelling you richly. All right. And another scripture that's mentioned there is Luke chapter 19. Luke chapter 19 verse 38 40. But I'll read for us from 37. Okay. If you can turn just quick for a quick glance in Luke chapter 19 verse 37 onwards, it says, as he Jesus was drawing near already on the way down the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loved voice. It's again, loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen. Verse 38 says, saying, blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord, peace in heaven and glory in the highest. Verse 39. What happens? And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, teacher, rebuke your disciples. Right. It's amazing how sometimes it's the Christians who will stop us from praising him. I'll just leave that point right there and move on. Okay. This in this passage, it was the Pharisees in other passage, we see that the disciples telling the blind man to be quiet. Right. You remember that? It's like, hey, be quiet. You know, it was the disciples of Jesus who stopped some of the people from coming to Jesus. And it's amazing. Sometimes you don't need the enemy. I'll be Christians are enough for that. But the importance of singing, right? Just beautiful. So the next section, the second point is another expression of praise is shouting. Okay. Psalm 47 verse one, it says, clap your hands all peoples, shout to God with the loud songs of joy. That's Psalm 47 verse one. I clap your hands all peoples shout to God with loud songs of joy. Okay. There's just one verse. Let's wait. I want to read one more passage. Let's read. Okay. Can someone read Psalm 98 verse four, please? Psalm 98 verse four. Psalm 98 verse four, shout to the Lord all the air, break out in praise and sing for joy. Okay. Shout to the Lord all the earth, break out in praise and sing for joy. Okay. It's very intimidating, isn't it? To do exactly what sometimes God's word tells us to do. Yes? No. It's like, I like to read it. But Jeff, do you mind reading the verse again for us, please? Yes. Shout to the Lord all the air, break out in praise and sing for joy. Yeah. Thank you. The NIV says shout for joy to the Lord all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music. Yeah. So that's another reference for shouting as an expression in praise. Okay. The third expression we see is a clapping of hands. Psalm 47, which we just read, clap your hands all peoples can praise his name. And lifting of our hands, Psalm 134, wait for us, it says, lift up your hands to the holy places and bless the Lord. Psalm 134 verse two, lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the Lord. Ignore the little R16 and R17. It's just cross references that I've faced. Okay. In 1 Timothy chapter two verse eight, why don't we turn to 1 Timothy chapter two verse eight? Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without wrath and dissension. Thanks, John. Okay. So I desire that in every place the men should pray, how lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling with wrath or dissension. Thank you. So and we've read enough scriptures. If you go back to those two words, Yadda and Toda, as the two Hebrew words for praise, it's all about lifting up of our hands and praising. And Toda, if you remember, is lifting up your hands and giving thanks to the Lord before you've received something from him. In expectation, that's a hands of expectation, you praise him with the hands lifted up before God's given you the victory. So lifting up of our hands is a sign of surrender, reaching out to our Father for help. And 1 Timothy chapter two verse eight, Rosalind. It's, yeah, I think it's in the notes, you know? Yes, yeah, the fourth point there. 1 Timothy chapter two verse eight. Yeah, shout for joy. Thank you. Thanks for sharing that, Divya. The fifth point is playing of a musical instrument. We all know the significance of it from 2 Chronicles. When you read 2 Chronicles chapter five and chapter 16 and chapter 25 in 2 Chronicles, and you will learn that David actually created a lot of instruments. We're not going to go deep into that part. And then also, you know, we see that when Saul was troubled, he asks for a skilled musician and David comes plays the harp and he's delivered, right? We all know that David was a skilled musician. And actually David was skilled in everything he did, you know, as a side note, even as a shepherd, we know the story of David and Goliath, right? He, you know, he was used as a sling to throw a rock. Again, you know, historically speaking, the shepherds would regularly keep throwing stones, not at the sheep, but at the rocks. So every time a stone would hit a rock, you know, it will tell the sheep to go in which direction. If they were going off-stray, they would, you know, fling the stones. So they were very accurate, very skilled shepherds of those days. So David, that way, was skilled in everything he did, you know, being playing an instrument or throwing a stone and whatnot. So a note there is, we need to be careful not to become too dependent on those instruments. For us, for those who play an instrument and, you know, you can't say I cannot play, I cannot praise him without an instrument, I need my guitar, I need my keyboards or whatever it is. And also as a reminder, your voice is also an instrument, okay? But instruments are beautiful, instruments are amazing, but don't just become too dependent on it. Standing is another expression of praise. It's a sign of respect. You are acknowledging another person's presence and elderly person, you know, in the Indian culture and whatnot. I mean, every culture, I would assume that, you know, we stand up, you know, when someone superior walks in as a mark of respect, isn't it? We sometimes stand up for the reading of the Word of God. So that's an, the expression, singing in the spirit, very, very important, singing in the spirit. John 4, 23, 24 says, for the Father is seeking true worshipers who will worship him in spirit and in truth. Okay, the first thing comes there is in spirit. Okay, he's seeking true worshipers. That means there are false worshipers also. We will look at it at a later point. Okay, but singing in the spirit is very important. Let's quickly go to 1 Corinthians, chapter 14 and verse 15. 1 Corinthians, chapter 14, verse 15 says, what am I to do? Paul is saying, I will pray with my spirit, but I will also, I will pray with my mind also. I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also. Okay, so singing in the spirit, singing in tongues is another beautiful expression of praise. And the last two points is dancing. Let's quickly look at Zephaniah, chapter 3, verse 17. Zephaniah, chapter 3, verse 17 says, the Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with gladness. He will quiet you by his love. He will exalt over you with loud singing. He will exalt over you with loud singing. Now, the root word for rejoice, it simply means to jump and to spin like a top. Okay, the root meaning of rejoice simply means that to jump up and to spin like a top. Is this wonderful, right? And to see that the scripture says that the Lord dances over us, you know, He rejoices over you and me. It's beautiful, right? So dancing is another powerful, is this a beautiful expression of praise? And one of the points mentioned there is dancing has no inherent value in and of itself. The spiritual release it can bring is valuable, right? Anything that is used to point towards God, as used in worship towards Him, something significant happens. And it's not just with dancing, it could be playing music with singing, you know, singing in itself. You know, I could teach a parrot to sing, but that doesn't mean parrot is worshiping him with all spirit and truth. You know what I'm saying? So singing in itself has no value unless it is used, you know, when you when you connected with your heart with your mind and so on you worship him, it suddenly has a different take on a different perspective on it, right? And final expression has to be one of my favorite is kneeling, bowing and prostration. This is another posture, another Hebrew word we saw, we read, we studied about is Shaha and Barak is kneeling before the King of Kings in Psalm 95 verse 6, it says, O come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker. Okay, there is a recognition of who God is that's happening in that verse. O come, let us worship and bow down. Why? Let us kneel before the Lord our maker. There is a sense of acknowledgement that is happening that he is a creator, we are created. Right? So those are the nine expressions of praise. It's almost like a summary of what we've learned so far, you know, singing, shouting, clapping of our hands, lifting of our hands, playing musical instruments, standing, singing in the spirit, dancing, kneeling. And I hope all of this will help you, you know, push you to go to the next level in your journey as a worshipper and a person, you know, as you praise God. Amen. So that's the end of this session, we will pause here, stop the recording and we'll take a quick break and we'll join back in the next session. All right. See you guys.