 Okay, so the meeting is recording say hi to all your online friends, okay? Everybody here in person is saying hi to you. I think we Karen is saying hi to you guys Well, yeah cool, I hope everybody is doing well. Let's pray and we get started. Okay father We thank you for today. We thank you that your mercies are new every morning We thank you Lord that we get to wake up. We call you our father Have this privilege of coming into your presence just as we are so thank you Lord Thank you that for your wonderful mercies and for your faithfulness that sustains us Day after day and for this privilege that we have to learn from your word today Holy Spirit we welcome you. I pray that even as we learn from your word I pray that you would teach us because the words is you are our teacher and as you teach I pray that you would be sensitive to the leading of your voice. I Pray that you would pour out your wisdom your knowledge and your understanding over us In Jesus name I pray Amen Amen, okay Okay Okay, let me ask this question one more time. How is everyone doing? No, okay. Okay. How is everyone online doing? It's giving a thumbs up or it's so fine or whatever Rain or fine. Okay, so you're all good Your weather is not helping us down. How many of you wanted to stay in bed today? Liars the rest of all are liars liars. I know all of us wanted to be included. Okay Then I remember. Oh, I have a BC class So yeah, here I am Good. Good. Are you enjoying your BC classes so far? Yes Those of you online is enjoying other rest of your courses. I hope you are okay Well, so we've been This course is about praise and worship Last class two weeks ago. I think We just went through basic definitions of worship. What worship really is where we've went through some of the definitions by other people Who said worship is this worship is that and praises this praises that and From the previous class What can you share about what worship is? What do you remember from the last class? Uh, some of the things that we discussed on worship and if you online, please feel free to put it on the chat as well What are some of the things that you remember? Yell it out shout It's an action Okay, it's an action a verb. Yeah, it's you do things. Yeah, okay Declaration you say it you have to declare it. Okay. Just from the last does whatever you remember If it's a wrong answer, I'm going to shoot you. No, I'm not I'm going guys online What do you remember from the last class just feel free to share it on the chat and yeah Expressing hello. Okay to god. All right. What else? Acknowledging, okay. What but only two of them was there in class the last time? Yeah Taking you're taking a minute to say I love you father is also worship. It's as simple as that, right? We've somehow managed to complicate it Uh, oh guys come on online talk to me Krisha Ja Chen Shiv Kumar talk to me Okay We are not initiators of worship goddess. Yeah, thanks for sharing that That's a good point. Someone was listening What is fancy? What do you remember? I was not here in class And uh, nothing like that only What is this? He's on something inside and outside of me. Okay Thank you once again worship can be in any form that is thanksgiving gratitude Our love for him. Okay. Awesome. Thank you for sharing keep sharing on the chat section. I'm reading it What is what is Yes, sure Dedicating your time to god. Yeah Dedicating your time to god I one of my friends said One of the most expensive gift you can give someone is your time two things your words and your time Um, so yeah, what else else? What else anything else? surrender, yeah What about praise? Do you remember anything that we covered on praise and sacrifice? Sacrifice is giving up or It's in your notes So sacrifice is all giving up or also taking on something Okay, uh Judge him says submission celebration honoring exalting god to magnify him because he is worthy of our worship Yes, thanks. Uh, judging and uh Wait, okay Just hold on a second. Um, yeah, all right Surrender shiv kumar says surrender. Yeah, thank you Krishna says sacrifice is something we aren't obliged to give but we willing Uh, give it. Yeah taking on something giving up some so sacrifice when we use the word sacrifice It usually means we give up something right? I'm giving up. I'm giving this up. So, uh, yeah, I put it off and I put it on. Yeah, thanks Focus on me. Okay Okay Uh sacrifices you either give up something. Okay. I want to be uh, I'm gonna sacrifice being uh with my friends So I can be with my family or taking on something that means you don't have to but you do it anyways But you don't have to but you do it anyways because Uh, you want to help that person you want to do whatever right? So that is uh sacrifice So these are some of the things that we looked at in the last class Uh, we are still in the praise and worship course. Just if you want in case you're wondering which course you're in BC 105 Okay, but today we'll just As the weeks go by we'll start going a little deeper and deeper, right? Uh, so We'll look at uh postures of praise. Okay. Um, some of the Hebrew words for praise in this class. Okay um But before we start off with the Hebrew words for praise um I I wanted to talk to us about uh posture of worship Okay, this is something that's not in your notes, but I want to share very briefly about uh posture. Okay P-o-s-t-u-r-e Okay posture P-o-s-t-u-r-e posture of worship Okay, uh Does anybody know what a posture is? The way you stand the way you sit the way you present yourself posture. Okay Position okay, everybody say posture Okay, even those online say posture Yeah, I heard you okay Right, so now here in the in-person class all of you are your hands are on the desk Okay, you're listening intently. That's a posture Right is like I want to listen to sir today Okay, some of you online. I have no idea what your posture is. Okay So the your cameras are off and your leg must be on the table It is like this. Okay. Here's this dude. Okay saying something So yeah god knows what your posture is But Your body language or your posture communicates something Right, it it is communicating. What is communicating? You are telling something Isn't it right? So for example, I'm not sure if you can see but then here's a chair And if I just sit back like this when you're speaking Thanks What does it say? I don't care about what you're really sharing. Isn't it, uh, you know, your hands folded. I'm not just the same. Okay Uh, but everything has a posture right, um There is a good posture and there is a Bad posture. So if the if there is good there has to be a bad, right I wanted to talk about this very briefly because worship is a posture Okay, uh, the google definition, uh, defines posture as this And I'll probably I'll share this pdf with you guys. Okay, don't worry But if you want to make a note of it, no problem. It says the position Someone said position, right? Okay the position in which Someone holds their body When standing or sitting Okay, a position when someone holds their body while standing or sitting that's posture and it goes on to say A particular way of dealing with Or considering something or an approach or attitude Okay, so all of this is part of posture like have you approached something over your attitude is and you're when you're considering something Now why am I sharing about all of this is, um Now in sometime we'll talk about seven Hebrew words for praise Okay, uh, I also wanted to talk one Hebrew word for worship Okay My Hebrew words, uh, you know, blah blah blah and whatnot See in English, uh, English is a is a relatively simple language I'll go as far as saying English can be a little boring Uh language why am I saying that is? Let's take the word love Okay, everybody say love Everybody online type love L o v e. Yeah, there you go. Thank you. Thank you Okay now We use that word for I mean so frequently maybe, uh, it's like, uh, I love It's uh, I love. Okay, Indian. I I love Dosa. I love paal bhaji. I I love Bogey, okay continental I love dogs. I love cats And then you also say I love my wife and I love my husband. Um We use the word love for Everything Right, I mean it's I'm just using that as an example Um, but in ancient greek It had four words for love Okay, I'm not going to talk about all of that but just so you know in the modern greek There are six words for love And each of those words have a different definition and a meaning to what it relates to Um, and so that's why Somewhere along the word and we've translating, you know, the ancient Scriptures was written in hebrew and in greek, isn't it and so translators when they were translating the word They have it's not always that you can find the closest meaning And so they were just you know one word. Okay. This is what it is. Let's put a common word for everything And so when you dig deeper into the original language, you get to know Okay, there's more different words and meaning to this word called worship And this word called Praise. Okay, so that's why we're going to look extensively in in the next two hours so first thing worship Is a posture which is something that we've already learned Right and we all we spoke about what posture is good. There's a good posture. There is a bad posture Um, I remember this one time So I used to play the drums. I used to Um, you know the drummer has to sit so When you when you sit on the chair or what we call it as a throne The throne has to be a set according to your height You know, so your feet touches the ground naturally. It's not too high It looks like you're standing and playing the drums. It shouldn't be too low. The legs are so high, you know So what happened? The throne that I was sitting on wasn't It was a repair or it was broken And so I continued to play in a wrong posture for a whole month And for the next eight months or so I had a severe lower back Issue if eight months it took me eight months to just come out of the back pain all because of a bad posture life lesson Bad posture can hurt you Right, okay, so we're going to talk more about it If a guy wants to propose to a girl or a girl who wants to propose to a guy why only guy all the time, you know Whatever who's to propose to whoever Okay, normally a guy what we would do is he will take a rose or a ring or whatever and say he'll go down on one knee Like we see in most movies. Okay. He'll go down on one me that that's on posture if he's messed up really bad He'll go down on two knees Okay Uh, someone said amen. No, okay And so I never messed up because I don't have a girlfriend, you know Right, uh, okay Because I was raised as a christian. Okay Right, so that's a posture, isn't it Everything and you go to a cricket stadium or whichever of you know sports thing Or if you know if you watch cricket match or whichever food football match you you watched on tv and your your team wins What's your reaction? You know Yeah My team won Just, you know, full of the spirit of self control. So I'm just controlling myself. You know, what's the first reaction you throw your hands up and just jump is like Yes, and you know high fives and whatnot, right? That's an expression of what you're feeling on the inside. Isn't it and that is a posture Isn't it and so similarly Worship is a posture and I'll keep I will keep saying this because Originally, Hebrew was a pictorial language Okay, what do I mean by a pictorial language? It was they did not have signs. It was like symbols. They were they were draw Like, you know, what do you say? Carl Something okay, so the original image for worship was Something like a face down like, you know completely on the ground Uh, that was the image of worship or that was the posture Of worship. It was recognizing or acknowledging that you were in the presence of someone Where you cannot defend yourself And you're saying okay, I am in the presence Of this mighty god I can't you know, just lift my face up But the only response as a posture is I'm going to go face down Right, I mean you think of this there are so many times in the bible when you read Isaiah chapter six Which we will later and revelation chapter four. Are you see these? Super angels, okay crazy creatures, right? okay All right, sorry guys Their posture is what? For example, Isaiah chapter six, right? Do you know there are these angels called the seraphim Okay, seraphah there simply means the burning ones. Okay Seraphah means singular seraphim means plural Okay, so that's where they are so they are the burning ones What is their posture with the two wings? They're flying with the two they cover their faces with the two they cover their feet That's another posture of worship is they know that they are in the presence of this awesome god where you know even they acknowledge that He is holy. He is set apart and so the Hebrew people Recognize the same thing and said, okay, this Is the image of worship is face down Right. Are you guys with me? Right. So and then much later they came up with this word, uh, the Hebrew for worship Write it down. It's s h a c h a h s h a s h a c h a h Okay Okay, everybody say shaha Okay, are you ready for this? We're gonna try it like a middle eastern way a little bit We're gonna add a little bit of phlegm into it All right, suddenly we are all civilian Come let's try that again guys. Okay, even you guys online. Okay More phlegm Okay, one more time Everybody's trying to see rather think oh, I just let's leave me alone, you know It's fun, but Yeah, but that's the word shaha. Okay It means the same thing to bow down or to fall down flat Uh, you know, it means to put your face Where it belongs right to put your face in its place it's the picture of humility Okay it's the ultimate picture of humility and absolute surrender If you hear if you've been hearing the apc's declaration that we do a church. This is god's word. This is god speaking to me Right, uh, and there was a very end. It says I am an absolute surrender That means what you're really saying is your face down. I have no control over myself I give my all to you. I humble myself before you. You are my king. I am your servant You do whatever you want to do with me That is what absolute surrender simply means That is the posture of worship Right Are you guys with me? Yes, uh, any questions or thoughts? Because I'm cool to continue You guys following? Yeah, all okay? Yeah Okay Wait, so if a good posture of worship is humility What is a bad posture? It's not difficult. No, it's an easy answer pride. Everybody say pride Pride Okay, say it with a little proud in your heart. Okay, so say pride Really, no, no pastor. I'm very humble to be proud Okay, uh, let's go to uh, Isiah chapter 14 Everybody let's go to Isiah chapter 14 And this is a kind of a scripture that will probably come back in the future as well but the first one of the first worship leader had a had a huge problem with Absolute surrender and humility Okay Who do you think that is? Okay Okay, I just want to read it for as Isiah chapter 14. I'll read it from verse 12 Okay, as I have 14 12 onwards it says How you have fallen from heaven O morning star son of the dawn You have been cast down to the earth You who once laid low the nations you said in your heart I will ascend to heaven I will raise my throne above the stars of god I will sit in throne on the mount of assembly On the utmost heights of the sacred mountain I will ascend above the pops of the clouds. I will make myself like the most high But you are brought down to the grave to the depths of the pit Let's go to another book. Let's go to Really quickly let's go to Ezekiel 28 Ezekiel chapter 28 Okay, I'm going to read Ezekiel 28. I'm going to read verse 14 And 15 and verse 17. Okay, Ezekiel chapter 28. Everybody there? Yeah, okay Ezekiel chapter 28 was 14. It says you were anointed as a guardian cherub For so I ordained you You were on the holy mount of god. You walked among the fairy stones You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you Let's come down to verse 17 Your heart became proud on the account of your beauty And you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth. I made a spectacle of you before kings Okay Guys, uh those of you who are here and also on land Is anything that I want you to remember From this course Okay, you can forget everything You can forget the Hebrew words that you will be learning every definition what not But just these two things Okay, like the probes says let it be like a necklace around you. Okay Humility I'm pride Remember humility is the good posture. It's the only posture of worship that you should be focused on As soon as pride enters it's going to destroy your life. Okay. I'll say that again. It will destroy It will destroy you I'm not even talking about your ministry This pride enters you If you feel entitled about anything Saying it could be whatever. Oh, I've been coming to this church for 15 years. I've been playing every sunday Why should this fellow come and play suddenly? What's that? It's another posture of pride, isn't it? Whatever it could be so many pride can come in so many different ways and so many different forms I am better than this person Just as two things humility Will take you a long way pride will destroy you. You're calling your family everything It's more dangerous than you think because god absolutely How to say it in a very simple word. He hates it Okay, uh wrong proof sure James chapter four verse six James chapter four verse six. We know what it says right god resists the Humble Okay, you guys online all okay. Yeah Yeah, James chapter four verse six god resists They're proud but gives Grace to the humble Right. What does resist means? resistance resist everybody say resist resist Okay, r e s i s t Okay, what does it mean push back? push back Okay, that's what it means to resist means okay, so Um, well in world war, you know world war one world war two when an army was coming against you know say, okay When the german army was attacking a certain nation the english army resisted them That means they were pushing them back that they were holding them the other army back, right? That's what resistance is when you don't want a certain person to come too close to you They're invading your privacy. What do you do? You resist them you push them back like hey Stop okay Think about it here this verse says God resists the proud now Imagine so i'm the worship leader right i lead worship in the church I'm a worship leader The last thing that i want god to do is Resist my worship I'm supposed to be the worship leader but because of pride in my heart god is like He'll do to me what he did to came like Please No, thanks I don't care how good your music is I don't care how good your voice is. I don't care how good you look. I don't care because your heart stinks I'm going to resist you. So the last thing that you and I want is to god to resist you Right. I'm intentionally talking more about the bad posture because I think it's important right Approves chapter 3 verse 34 anybody Proverbs chapter 3 verse 34 Someone go to matthew chapter 23 verse 12 First one is proverbs chapter 3 verse 34 Surely he scorns the scornful So he marks the markers that gives grace to the humble. That means the markers are full of pride Right. He marks the markers but gives grace to the humble someone matthew 23 12 Okay, whoever exalts himself Who you know self promotion Anyone heard of self promotion Wherever you go, you know, you'll see, okay, this is my CV. This is my CV. This is my CV. This is my resume Okay, I've been this I've been to so many nations. I've done so many things. I've Respected so many people from the dead, you know, I've healed so many people's Self exaltation Right That's part of pride, but whoever humbles himself who gives god the glory who gives all the credit to him God will Exalt him that's matthew chapter 23 verse 12. Okay, uh, are you getting tired of the spiral verses? No, okay, just a couple more James chapter 4 verse 10 It says humble yourself Before the Lord and he will Exalt you right humble yourself before the Lord and he will exalt you I'm gonna I'll talk more about humility in the latter chapters to come Uh, right because like I said guys, this is two words. Remember when you graduate and go or whatnot Humility and pride Okay, it will keep you in check it will keep your heart in its place Okay Um, finally one last, uh passage of scripture Let's go to proverbs again I'm gonna read two different chapters first. You can make a note of it proverbs chapter 16 Verse 15 and just another verse on pride forward 16, sorry 18 apologies Pride goes before destruction A hotty spirit before a fall What is followed pride goes before Destruction, okay, can anybody else have another version? I have an IV um Yeah, nkjb message whichever That's 16 18 Proverbs chapter 16 verse 18 Yes, sir Thank you. Yes, sir Yes, sir. I got pride leads to destruction And arrogance too See the pride has the word pride itself is filled with so much of pride. It has so many different words words for arrogance hotty Entitled So what is it pride goes before Destruction I said it will destroy you That's what destruction is right demolish Like you never even existed Okay, it goes before destruction and a hotty spirit before a fall Um in school. I remember there was a subject called moral science Did anybody else have a moral science in their schools? Okay? Okay, and there was a lesson in that called pride has a fall I don't know which standard I wasn't but then I always remember that but Okay, one last scripture guys. Okay. I want us to read this Proverbs chapter 6 let's go to proverbs chapter 6 Let's read from 16 to 19 can anyone read proverbs chapter 6 verse 16 to 19 Thank you Right, so there are six things the lord hates If you haven't highlighted that You should Okay Yeah, make it very colorful The six things the lord hates. Okay. If he hates something We ought to know about it. Okay Um seven that are detestable to him first on the list What is the first thing on the list? Proud look another word for pride Hotty eyes Maybe translation hotty eyes Okay, a proud look Wow The first thing on the list of things that god absolutely hates And see the following. Okay. What all it leads to A proud look kind of leads to a lying tongue Hands that shed innocent blood a heart the devices wicked schemes Feet that are quick to rush into evil A false witness who pours out lies And a man who stirs up dissension among brothers I felt like taking a deep breath after reading all that it's I love teaching the subject because it keeps me in check Uh, it keeps reminding me that it is Not about me. Uh It's very easy When you've been teaching the subject, I don't know for almost two decades or whatnot, but And the last two decades at least 20 25 years This generation the previous generation Have spoken more about worship Than about prayer We've begun to worship worship Did it make sense Somewhere in this 20 25 years of a journey. We've Managed to worship worship. We've managed to celebrate the lights and the good sound equipment. All of that is good Necessary important, but we've made it all about the stage Okay, and that's me being brutally honest So coming back to the posture of worship Shaha That absolute surrender, right It's the ultimate posture of humility But when you come before him when you have a revelation of who this god is that you and I are called to worship Uh, this will be the default response, right Once again coming back to isaac chapter six when you see when isaac has this revelation of this god Right, he sees uh in the year the king uzair died I saw the lords lifted high and seated on high and throned and then the four seraphims Crying out to one another holy, holy, holy the lord god The whole earth is full of his glory and the temple the pillars of the temple shook And then he's seeing all of this And then what is isaac's response? Roe unto me for I am a man of unclean lips He realized that he is in the presence of the one where he cannot defend himself He falls face down Right, uh when moses comes into the presence of god for the first time, uh, what does god tell him? Remove your sandals for you are on you're standing on Holy ground right, um There's something beautiful about humility that god loves something beautiful about another word for humility is brokenness Right, um, everybody say brokenness and a very just I'm reminded of this woman This lady who comes to jesus and breaks the alabaster jar um, I'll talk about it extensively later, but It's one of my favorite acts of worship Uh, if she comes and she breaks the alabaster jar She fills the whole room with the fragrance. She breaks the jar So there is a fragrance of worship that arises in our brokenness Right humility brokenness is something that it's like Laws of physics like, you know gravity you throw something. Uh, it has to come down, right? I'm not gonna throw it but humility and Brokenness it's like a law that heaven cannot ignore You know what I'm saying heaven cannot look at a broken heart and ignore If it sees a heart that is hungry if it sees a heart if if god is looking at a heart that is broken He can't help but respond He has to come I'm using the words intentionally. He has to come And he has always responded like that Every time he's seen a desperate heart and a broken heart A heart of humility. He says yep I gotta go And what happened to haggar in the wilderness I can go on and on and on about every time god responded to a broken heart um, so I want to pause here for this session guys is, uh About the posture of worship just coming back to that Is the ultimate posture of worship is humility Okay, uh, you can forget about all the fancy definitions everything, uh, you know that we were learning which is all important and they are all great um There can be a good posture and a bad posture The good posture is humility. The bad posture is pride That is the key takeaway of this lesson. That is the model of the story session, I guess, um Right, uh, any thoughts any questions anything that you want to add goes online you guys, okay How's your posture in your room? Uh Yeah, any thoughts anything? Yes Yeah, so that's the thing is that's I mean, so okay The question here is if heaven is holy, uh, how did pride enter? Lucifer as we know, right? Okay, I'm reminded of this verse. Let's go to Joel 1515 um Heaven is not holy God is holy um That is job. I think it's job 1515 heaven. It's been a while. It better be job 1515 Is it okay Yeah, not bad. My memory is kind of good. Okay so Job chapter 15 was 15 Uh It says if God places no trust in his holy ones if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes Okay, so one of the alternate words what we think of for holy or holiness is pure Our righteousness Right. So when we say Ask someone to be holy. We immediately think okay. I'm not going to sin. I'm not going to lie I'm not going to do a certain things and whatnot, right And there's another psalm that I want us to read. Um, just give me a second guys You can turn to the book of psalms. I think psalms Where is that psalm? Okay, so here's psalm 89 psalm 18 9 Just in I see a question. Uh, I'll get to that in just a second. Okay. Just want to acknowledge your question. Yeah Okay, so psalm 18 9 Um I love the psalm Can I read from the top? Is that okay? Yeah Just follow along with me psalm 89 It says I will sing to I will sing off the Lord's great love forever with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations I will declare that your love stands firm That you established your faithfulness in heaven itself You said I have made a covenant with my chosen one. I have sworn to David my servant I will establish your line forever and make your throne firm through all generations Okay, cool. That's five The heavens praise your wonders. Oh lord your faithfulness too in the assembly of the holy ones For who in the skies above can compare with the lord who is like the lord among the heavenly beings Okay Like the lord among the heavenly beings That means the angels and whatever. Okay in the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared. He is more awesome than all who surround him Oh lord god almighty who is like you? It's a rhetorical question, right? You are mighty. Oh lord and your faithfulness surrounds you. Okay, so I want to read that whole passage there because Um, it says who and the heavenly beings are like the lord. So basically when we say god is holy It simply means that there is no one like him Okay, so that means he stands alone like he is Holy by himself. So everything else is uh, it's just a creation like a creature and whatnot. So I mean to answer your question God alone is holy. So that doesn't mean heaven in itself is like what joe 1515 says because in his eyes Even the heavens are not pure because there is no one like him and And that's a beautiful reminder of who we are like Isaiah says that right so now that I've seen your holiness I see how sinful I am I want to make for I am a man of unclean lips right, so Um, yeah, I hope that answered your question, but we can have a discussion A judgment question. He has a question from him. It says to have a humble and a broken spirit before god When circumstances are hard It's quite easy But how do we take a consistently humble Before god when things are going right for us? Because that's when we stumble. It's an amazing point judgment and a kind of question. Thank you for asking How do we stay humble when things are going right? When uh, when you've been blessed with everything you have everything all that you need. That's when you feel like, okay Why do I need god? Isn't it uh And that's when you need to realize that's when you need god more Right when he's blessed you with everything uh One of the reasons why david from the shepherd boy Even when he became a king One of my favorite psalms is psalm 23 Okay, psalm 23 Are we Constantly read in first kings And second half of the second kings And in the book of first chronicles and whatnot david will constantly go into a cave Uh and to just to worship right um psalm 23 starts with this line says what? The lord is my So the historians say he wrote this psalm somewhere Halfway through when he was a king Like in his latter years of a king So imagine this David has had all the success possible by then Yes, he's won many battles many wars. Uh, he you know, he's a king of a nation And then he reflects on himself It says The lord is my shepherd in other words I'm the king of nation. I have everything that I need. I have people to do And they will do whatever I tell them to do But then he just pauses and he reflects and he says the lord is my shepherd. So Just slowing down a little bit And acknowledging what god has done in your life Will keep you in the right track. So, uh, that's one of the ways jachan is, you know, reflecting back on god's faithfulness Uh Yep, uh worship is not limited to time we spend in praising him through a song or saying something verbally. It is a lifestyle Yes, nina. It is a lifestyle. Yeah Okay, so i'm gonna just pause the recording here. Uh, I will go for a break now I'll see you all in 10 minutes