 It's taking a while. Okay. Well, here we go. All right, guys. Welcome once again to the worship ministry class. Glad you could join. Well, let's get started. We'll pray and we'll get started. Yeah. Father, we submit this time with your hands. We thank you for another beautiful day. Thank you for your mercy. Thank you for your faithfulness that sustains us day after day. God, how beautiful are you? What a privilege it is to know you to learn about you to serve you, God and your church. I pray that you would lead us, guide us and help us to be sensitive, help me to be sensitive to your voice. Continue to pour out your wisdom over as I pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Okay. Well, glad you could all join. I hope you all are doing well and if you are in Bangalore, I hope you are okay and healthy because the weather is a little bit crazy, but otherwise all good. All good. Great. So let's do a quick recap of what we've covered in the previous class. We started off, remember, this chapter is all about learning worship ministry in the Bible, how people in the Old Testament organize themselves or approached this aspect of worship, right, that we are talking about. So we started off by talking about the altars of Abraham. How Abraham is known for a lot of, he's got a lot of other titles, you know, associated with his name. But then we also learned that how he was a man of altars. He was obedient, right? He walked by faith. So we saw about the four altars that he built and how his walk with every altar that he built progressed in his intimacy with God, right? With every altar that he built, he was saying yes to God and no to himself, so to say, right? And so we finally, we finished with this fourth altar, the altar of sacrifice and conclusion. We saw that God is not only asking us to build altars, but he's asking us to be on the altar as we concluded seeing in Romans chapter 12 verse one, offer ourselves up as living sacrifices, right? So we are called to be men and women of altars, but also to offer ourselves up as a living sacrifice, which is, which is also an act of worship, right? So that's where we stop. But let's continue from where we left off in the notes from page eight. I want to just go a little bit more deeper into how the worship ministry was organized in the Old Testament, right? So the note says the Old Testament does not give us an exact blueprint of the worship of ancient Israel, right? However, it contains some important principles that can help us in structuring our worship, right? So 5,000 years later, since 6,000 years later or whatever, the methods have changed. The methods have evolved, right? From the early church, from the time of Abraham to Moses to the New Testament and till now, the methods of how we express our worship has changed, but the principle remained the same. And that's what we're trying to get into our hearts. Right? So very briefly, after when the people of Israel, after they were freed from Egypt, God gave them a set of laws commandment. We all know that I started off with 10 and then it went all the way up to 613 with Moses' law and whatnot, right? So all of it is important, right? Deuteronomy 630 says, you shall fear only the Lord, your God, and you shall worship him and swear by his name. And so the Egyptians, sorry, the people of Israel, they were not set free for the sake of being set free. Okay? If you see Exodus chapter 8 verse 1, God tells Moses to go and tell Pharaoh to let my people go so they may come out and worship me, right? So it was very important in the Old Testament. It's always been important. It's not like we've, it's not like that it was never important, it's always been important to worship ministry in the Bible, right? So we will not study in detail about the tabernacle of Moses in this section. However, we will do that in the following sections to come as in just to understand just a little bit more. I'm sure you've already learned about all of this in the Old Testament survey in your first year. Okay, but so let's just briefly see how worship was organized in Solomon's temple in David's tabernacle as well and with, by reading a couple of scriptures. Is that, yeah? Is that okay? Can we read a few scriptures as we go on? Yep. Okay. All right, so after its construction by Solomon in 1000 BC, the temple in Jerusalem became the prominent focus of Jewish worship, right? God gives David the blueprint of how to build the temple. It is, it is the Solomon who ends up building it, right? It appears that the emphasis of worship in that temple was primarily on sacrificial offerings and praise to God through music. Okay, sacrificial offerings and praise to God through music. So these were the two key focus in the temple that was built by Solomon. Okay, let's, in your notes, if we can, we look at 2nd Samuel chapter 6 verse 5. 2nd Samuel chapter 6 verse 5. It says, as the Ark of the Covenant was being brought to Jerusalem, David and all the house of Israel was celebrating before the Lord with all kinds of instruments made of firwood and with liars, harps, tambourines, castanets and symbols. Okay, so just very quick pause here. Okay, so this is for the first time. They're bringing the Ark back, you know, the nation of Israel, in 1st Samuel chapter 4, when you read that, you see that the Philistines had taken the Ark away and we know what, we know the story of what happens. And for about 70 odd years, the Ark of the Covenant was not in Jerusalem and David becomes king. This is the first thing. The first thing what he does is he brings the Ark of the Covenant back into the nation of Israel. Right now from the time of Moses, when the tabernacle was erected. So after the book of Exodus, we have Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Joshua brings the people of Israel into the Promised Land and then we have the Book of Judges and whatnot. Now between the Book of Joshua and Judges somewhere people forgot about the tabernacle after they moved into the Promised Land. And so when you read the Book of Judges, you will see that people are going back into the ways of building altars again. Okay, so you would read about that. But one of the things what was very prominent of primary focus in the tabernacle of Moses was only sacrificial offerings, right? However, now in David time, when he begins, after he brings the Ark back and he erects his tabernacle, again, which we will learn about it in the later chapter, we see that he blends the mix of sacrificial offerings and musical instruments, singing praise and worship and whatnot because he was a worshiper, he was a musician, right? So that's what's happening here in 2 Samuel 6.5 is that they worshiped celebrating before the Lord. If you remember one of the Hebrew words was halal, right? It's all about celebrating, raving about this God. And that's exactly what was happening. And I can't even begin to imagine the party that must have been going on, right? Can you imagine just on the roads and the streets this kind of celebration that's happening before the Lord with all kinds of instruments made of firwoods and with liars, harps, tambourines, castanets and symbols. The next verse is from 1 Chronicles chapter 16 verse 4 and 6. 1 Chronicles chapter 16 verse 4 and 6. It says, just a quick question. Do you want me to share my screen so that you can see the period or are you following along with me in the notes? What do you prefer? Okay. Yes, Shri Kumar. Thank you, Pastor. I have a question. Can I ask now more? Yes, sure. Go ahead. Okay. Thank you. I just want to know that when, as you said right now, like the Moses when he built that the turbanical, it was mainly for the sacrifice and I think so that even nowhere in the, you know, according to Moses, there is no worship thing. I don't think so. Just mention there, but when David started, as you said, it was actually he mixed it with the worship. So I just want to know that even the Moses said that nothing should be added in the law. So when David added in this one thing, how we can accept it because it was not as per my understanding. I'm not saying, you know, as per Moses, it was only for the, it was a sacrificial thing. But when David came and he mixed with the worship and it was not prescribed in the, according to Moses. So how we can, you know, understand this thing. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you. Sure. Thanks, Shri Kumar. Yeah. I mean, so if you, if you start drawing a comparison and parallely between the Moses' tabernacle and David's tabernacle, the question would be, how is it possible what David did or anything what David did is possible, right? So one of the thing is the law was different from the instruction that was given to build the tabernacle and what was supposed to happen in the tabernacle, right? And so just to answer your question directly, David was not adding anything to the law, right? So he was just expressing, see priests were worshiping as well, but they were offering sacrifices and that is a form of worship. What David brought in was he added instruments and singing and songs. Now, in the time of Moses, there was singing him, but it just didn't happen in the tabernacle. So like, you know, when they came out of Egypt after crossing the Ritzi, we see that Miriam led them in the song, isn't it? So singing was always there during the time of Moses. It was just not actively, you know, followed in the tabernacle as part of the service, per se. But, but then again, you can study about this and just completely sidetrack about drawing a parallel between Moses' tabernacle and David's tabernacle because David's tabernacle did not have auto courts, inner courts, the holy place. It was just one place, a tent of meeting and people were all around it. There was no veil. The only explanation that I can give is David, although he was living in the Old Covenant, got a glimpse of God's grace of the New Covenant. We know David as a worshipper, as a king and whatnot, but we don't really, we should take time to learn about David as a, as a prophet as well because the prophetic on him was, was huge, right? Even you know that when you read Psalm 22 and whatnot, right? So that's my only explanation and understanding that living in the Old Covenant. He has this glimpse of God's grace of the New Covenant. Ultimately, what matters to him is, is obedience, right? Because time and time again, we say that obedience goes, obedience is what matters to God. Then the sacrifice in itself. And that seemed to have pleased God. And that's my only explanation that I can give Shri Kumar because I have asked the same question many times as an, how is it possible when God very clearly told Moses that there needs to be a veil and, and people have died when they have not followed that instruction. And then here, David is just doing everything. That's almost opposite, but then God is accepting that his offering. So I have asked that and I, this is a genuine question and, and, and I've, I've heard a lot of scholars, historians, preachers, teachers talk on the subject and they all seem to come to the same conclusion as David kind of foresaw the New Covenant and he lived in the Old Covenant as though he was living in the New Covenant. Thank you, Pastor. Thanks a lot. Thank you. So if we can just continue from the second verse that was mentioned in the notes and first chronicles chapter 16 verse four to six says of David, he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the Ark of the Lord, even to celebrate and to thank and praise God of Israel. So it's very important that he mentions that he appointed some of the Levites. Now, when he was being the Ark back in second Samuel six, verse five, and we know one tragic incident that happens, right? Is that they place the Ark of the Covenant on a cart while it was supposed to be carried by the Levites, isn't it? And somewhere it is, it is possible that David did not know about this thing because I forget which chapter in the book of Deuteronomy, if you can give me just one moment if I can find it. So, okay. I mean, maybe one of you can help me find it. But so what this verse says and I'm paraphrasing it, it says the Kings who in somewhere in the book of Deuteronomy says, you will ask for Kings and when you when you choose you're the, you know, a King for your to lead you, the King is supposed to be surrounded by the priests and learn from the word instruction. So and that was an instruction which was given to Moses and his people by God way before Israel was even going to ask for a King. And that's we see the for the first time in the book of Judges and the instruction is when they find a King when they choose a King, they're supposed to learn the word the instructions from the priests around them. And I paraphrase this whole thing and I show you it's in the Bible and somewhere David, I'm sure, you know, David missed that instruction and, you know, and that that tragic accident happens. And so what happens after that? He's, oh, yeah, thanks. Yay. Deuteronomy chapter 17. Okay, now that the reference is given, let's just quickly take a look at it. It's a beautiful chapter from verse 14 onwards. Can we read that? Is that okay? Deuteronomy chapter 17 verse 14. I just want to read it for us. When you enter the land, the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it. And you say, let us set a King over us like all the nations around us. This is God prophesying about what's going to happen. I don't know how many years though. He's telling about the people in the book of judges will are going to ask and that's what happens. Verse 15 says, be sure to appoint over you the King, the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your own brothers. Do not place a foreigner over you. One who is not or not a brother Israelite. The King moreover must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them. For the Lord has told you, you are not to go back to that way again verse 17. He must not take many wives or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold. Verse 18. When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law taken from the taken from that of the priests who are Levites. It is to be with him and he used to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revered the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees. Okay. So it was very important for the King who was going to become the King. To learn everything about God's word about God's law and this was given years before people of Israel would you could even ask for a King right and so after the tragic incident, David goes back to the basics. He learns about this. Okay. This was an instruction given by God Levites are to carry and so long story short after many chapters and we come to 1st Chronicles 16 we see that he appointed some of the Levites. That means he's learned from his mistakes and he's honoring God's word right. He appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the Ark of the Lord even to celebrate at the tank and praise the Lord God of Israel. Asaf the chief and the second to him Zachariah then Jail Shamir Amoth Jail Matanaya. Elia Ben Anaya Obed Edom and Jail with musical instruments harps liars also Asaf played loud sounding cymbals. And Ben Anaya and Jehazel the priest blue trumpets continually before the Ark of the Covenant of God. Right. It's amazing to read these passages and to just imagine the passion that these people had for God isn't it to worship him. I just reading them just does something to me on a side note you see the name called Obed Edom right. If anytime you're bored and you don't know what to do the Bible I would encourage you to do a character study on Obed Edom. He is what I call what I would call a minor character with the with a major impact. So Obed Edom is a good character study. Okay, let's move on. First Chronicles chapter 25 verse one says more over David and the commanders of the army set apart for the service some of the sons of Asaf and of He-Man and Jonathan who were to prophesy with liars harps and symbols. Remember this verse guys. We're going to do an in-depth study of first Chronicles chapter 25 itself on verse 1 to verse 7 in the in the later part of this of the course first Chronicles chapter 25 verse one. Okay, David and the commanders of the army set apart some of the service some set apart for the service some of the sons of Asaf and He-Man and Jonathan who were to prophesy with liars. So he set apart and they were all Levites. Okay, second Chronicles chapter 5 verse 12 and 14. Why don't someone else read this? Okay, from your notes, second Chronicles chapter 5 verse 12 to 14. Can I request one of us to read please? Shall I read first? Yes, please go ahead. Second Chronicles chapter 5 verse 12 to 14 speaks of all the levitical singers Asaf, He-Man, Jedutun and their sons and kinsmen clothed in fine linen with symbols harps and liars standing east of the altar and with them 120 priests blowing trumpets in unison with the trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to glorify the Lord. When they lifted up their voice accompanied by trumpets and symbols and instruments of music and when they praise the Lord saying he indeed is good for his loving kindness is everlasting. Then the house the house of the Lord was filled with a cloud so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God, He-Man. He-Man, awesome. Thank you. So very quickly when we just read that verse and I hope all of us followed along. What from that verse stands out to you? Or should I ask Avani to read it again? Avani, do you mind reading it again for us? Sure. All the levitical singers Asaf, He-Man, Jedutun and their sons and kinsmen clothed in fine linen with symbols harps and liars standing east of the altar and with them 120 priests blowing trumpets in unison when the trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to glorify the Lord. And when they lifted up their voice accompanied by trumpets and symbols and instruments of music and when they praise the Lord saying he indeed is good for his loving kindness is everlasting. Then the house, the house of the Lord was filled with a cloud so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God, He-Man. Man, man. Okay. So thank you so much. Being so kind and reading it again. So guys, yeah, share what what stands out to you. We see Alisha sharing it in the chat section. This is Charles. Yes, Charles. And when we worship God, His glory comes down. Yep. Thank you, Charles. What else? Yeah, dear pastor, for me, it's actually their unison. There are 120 people there, but they are worshipping in unison and there is a particular system in which they are doing, they are not doing according to their own will, but following the structure or kind of the system and they were doing it with their all hearts. They are not, you know, or what we can say they are lacking themselves or they are hiding themselves from doing the worship ministry, but they are doing it with their all their might and they're doing it for the presence of God and then the presence of God glorify them and filled so they couldn't able to stand. So that is the thing which stands out for me that they are doing it in unison and then they are doing it with all their might. Yeah. Thank you, Prabhakar. Thank you so much for sharing that. And yes, guys. Yeah, in one voice, although there is multiple voices and instrument. Yeah. Thanks, Christopher. Encountering God's glory. One voice. Yeah. Sure. Sure. Please. What stood out for me was they praised the God for who he is. They but together praising the Lord for who he is in one accord in unity and expressing their the revelation of who God is. As they praise the Lord for being a magnificent everlasting God, the glory in the house. Yeah, that's such a lovely point, isn't it? God responded to the worship. Yes, Maggie did and I just on the lines, you know, all they sang was he indeed is good for his loving kindness is everlasting. I've never come across a one line song. That's a hit and you know, but all they sang like like you said, they worshiped him for who he is. That's a lovely perspective, right? For they did not worship him for what they wanted so that they could have a miracle or a healing or something. All of that is good and we should reach out to him for all of that. Yes. But all they sang was that he is good and his loving kindness and yours forever. Right. And I love the progression of this verse. Right. The way it starts. I mean, the way the narrative is built. It says the Levitical Singers. It's very precise, right? Detailed Levitical. It's not just one any tribe Singers. It's Levitical Singers. The names mentioned. Asaf Heman, their family and their relatives, kinsmen, and then it goes on to say what they were wearing clothed in fine linen. And I, you know, when details like that are mentioned, I ask, why is details like that mentioned? You know, but must be very important, right? Clothed in fine linen. They present before God and then the instruments, right, that they were saying and standing east of the altar, standing east of the altar. When we read about when we study a little bit about the tabernacle of Moses, we see that the gate of the, for the tabernacle, right? The outer coat gate was facing east. And with them, 120 priests blowing trumpets in unison. Now, guys, I've had the privilege to study music. Okay. And also did a little bit of orchestration. If you've seen an orchestra, right? You've seen a guy with doing, you know, the conductor and then 140 piece orchestra, right? So 140 can go up to 150, 140 piece orchestra. So in that orchestra, you have the strings section right in the front. You have the violinist, you have the second violinist, you have the violas, and you have the cello section under the double bass. So that's the strings section of the orchestra. Then you have the percussion section at the back, like the drums and the timpani's and the triangles, all the percussive instruments, right? And the piano is also a part of it. And then there's the woodwind section with the flutes and all the different kinds of woodwinds to the oboe and clarinet and whatnot. And then there's the brass section. Okay. In the brass section, you have the trumpet. You have the trombones. You know, you've seen an instrument. They pull it like this in the front and blow into it. Yeah, trombone. They have the French horn, the one that's circle like a and, you know, French horn and the tuba, the big thing that put around inside them. And the brass section, in the brass section, they would maximum have only three of tops, four trumpets, just three out of 140 piece orchestra people. They would have a maximum of about say three or four trumpet because trumpets are very, very loud. Okay. You will see the conductor standing in front of the orchestra always, you know, controlling them is like, okay, you know, control your volume. Even though if you have to play loud, just watch yourself because it can easily overpower the entire orchestra. That's just three or four guys. How many do we have here? 120. I can't imagine. I don't think I can imagine one. I'm, it must have been loud. Must have been very loud. But it must have been great as well, right? An entire nation would have been able to hear these people praising him, right? It's just mind blowing. And if you're not overwhelmed by the thought, sorry, they were blowing in unison just to make it more. You know, when the trumpeters and singers were to make themselves heard with one voice, unity is so important in the kingdom of God, isn't it? Something about unity. When we read in Acts chapter one and two on the day of Pentecost, it says they were all gathered together in one heart, in one accord, in unity. And then he shows up, right? Something about unity, something about one voice coming before our God and lifting up praise and worship. And then as they did that, God shows up, right? He fills the temple with his cloud, with his manifest presence, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God. Our worship in our churches should be doing this as we are to encourage our teams, our congregations to come together in one accord, in unison in one heart and then worship him extravagantly like Elisha is saying, right? A very extravagant worship. What a beautiful word. Thanks, Elisha. I was just holding nothing back. No shifting gears slowly, gear one, gear two, gear three, you know, gear 10 from the beginning, from the word go. It doesn't, it doesn't look like they had a fast song to start and then go into a slow song and then, you know, get into the fields of it and whatnot. Now this guy is ascending it from just the word go, right? You guys with me? Okay. All right, let's, let's move on. Now we go to the next verse. It's 25 to 30. Again, I request another person to read it, please. Second chronicles 29, 25 to 30. It's in the notes. Okay. I'll read it for us. Second chronicles chapter 29 verse 25 to 30. It's in your notes page page nine. It speaks this section speaks of the worship to God instigated by Hezekiah, right? So this is what it says. He, Hezekiah, then stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with symbols, with harps and with lives according to the command of David and of Gad, the king's seer. Okay, so that means David had set a standard. He had set a set of instruction. He then stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with symbols, with harps and with liars according to the command of David and Gad, the king's seer and of Nathan, the prophet for the command was from the Lord through his prophets. The Levites stood with the musical instruments of David. Okay. Do you notice that the Levites stood with the musical instruments of David? That means David designed and built certain instruments. Amazing, isn't it? So the Levites stood with musical instruments of David and the priests with the trumpets. Then Hezekiah gave the order to offer the burnt offerings on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song to the Lord also began with the assembly, sorry, but began with the trumpets accompanied by the instruments of David, King of Israel. While the whole assembly worshipped, the singers also sang and the trumpets sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished. Now, at the completion of the burnt offerings, the King and all who were present with him bowed down and worshiped. Moreover, King Hezekiah and the officials ordered the Levites to sing praise to the Lord with the words of David and Asaph the Seer. So they sang praises with joy and bowed down and worshiped. Okay. So talk to me. What stands out to you in that verse, in that portion of scriptures? Yes, sure. Okay. What stands out to me is the boost of the worshippers. They were constantly bowing down. That is, they were humbling themselves before the King of Kains in their worship. Thank you. Thanks, Elijah. Anyone else feel free to unmute and share Charles Christopher. Yeah, Maggie, go ahead. First thing I see, it's his order. They didn't start worshipping now, making sacrifice until King Hezekiah gave order and then the musician played in order. So according to what they planned, so they didn't, there wasn't chaos. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. That's what it was going for. Okay. Thanks for sharing that. What else? Come on, speak to me. Can I say something also? Yeah, go ahead. You see, as they are worshipping, there is already a culture, there is already a culture that they are following. They are not doing their own things, but there is something that had been said, maybe in the oldie, oldie worship, then the devotees one, now they are bringing in everything is based on order and culture. I don't know what the right word to use, but I am using the word culture, like the order of service, like the order of worship, but they are following a certain system, a certain order. Thank you. Thanks Charles, yes. There was order, like as Mangi shared, order creates culture. Yeah, that means they already had, because there was order, a culture was created, and because there is culture, they are following the order, so it's complementing each other, isn't it? That's wonderful. Yeah. Obedience and leadership, yeah. Obedience and leadership, and obedience to leadership as well is another thing, isn't it? That's, yeah. Anything else? Yes, Pastor, I think I see that there is, there seems to be some link between the start of the burnt offering on the altar and the seeing, so I don't know whether that is a very sacred moment, a very, I mean a moment where people are in this, people in that group of musicians are filled with that level of worship that probably transcends everything else, so maybe there's that closeness also to God at that stage, so something that I just sort of got from this verse. Thanks Christopher, thank you for sharing. Avinik, please go ahead. Just thinking, Pastor, that these people were there, right there, not with any kind of practice, I believe, before and they're just worshiping in one accord with the power of the Holy Spirit and if there is unity, there is flow, there is rhythm, there is, you know, everything is perfect without any kind of practice. I don't think they were practicing before for that. Probably, yeah. Yeah, so when we go back to 1st Chronicles, 1st Chronicles 25, when we go through the first seven verses at least, it says, so they were skilled musicians and they also had lots like a roster as in who will be serving 24 hours around the clock because the Tabernacle of David was happening 24 hours a day, it was around the clock, we'll read more about that, so but that's the thing, so there was order and the culture was created and everybody were expected to be skilled in what they did and so yeah, that was happening. Okay, thank you. Prabhakar, please go ahead. Thank you, Pastor. For me, a few points have been stand out as I had been ready. First, as the Libyres were stationed in the House of God, which was the commandment of the God through his prophet, so they are following the commandment. Second thing stood out for me was the system, I mean the structure or the order we can say according to which they were stationed and everyone know what they have to do and they are doing it in order not according to their will or not according to their thought process, but they are following the instructions in order from the God and even from the prophets. Third thing stood out for me was like everyone was ready with their trumpets and all the instruments and then the King had to give the order to offer the burn offering and as soon as the burn offering process has begun, everyone started doing their work like the singers were singing, the musicians were playing the music instruments and the most important thing was the whole assembly worship. Even the people who were stood out there apart from the singers or musicians, the whole assembly involved in worshipping law with all their hearts until the offering was finished, until they didn't stop in the meanwhile or in the midst, but they have waited for the offering to finish and even after the offering was completed, everyone including the King, everyone bowed down and worshiped, thinking that the God has accepted the burn offering and even started praises with joy and bow down and worship. So this worship process started before the burn offering during the burn offering and even after the burn offering that believing that God has accepted their burn offering and they did all the joy and they didn't hold back their emotions. They did it with all joys, all might. So these are the few points that stood out for me, Pastor. Thank you. Thanks Prabhakar. Thank you for sharing that extensively. Yeah, so that's one of the things that stood out for me guys is yes, there is order and there's this culture and I can think of a lot of churches that have order in the present day, but just looking at the passion that these people had as in their zeal for God. I don't like the word passion, but their zeal for God right there and how much they were on fire for him that they were filled with love and adoration and affection that they worshiped him and like you mentioned right until the burnt offering was finished. Now we don't know for how long or how many hours that you know it took for the burnt offering to be completely burnt out. And even after that, they continued to worship. Isn't that amazing? And sometimes you know if we sing if you sing one song for more than five minutes, we start looking at our watches like, okay, hey, how many times are you seeing this chorus? Let's get a move on. Okay. 1230, ding, ding, ding. Okay, so it was time up. We got to move on. Have to go home, have lunch. Looks like these people just wanted to be in the house of God, right? So there was order, there was culture there was just zealous for more of God. So those are things that's kind of stood out and I hope that we can take something away from those from these verses. Okay, so we'll stop here this section and we'll take a quick break and we'll come back into the second section. Okay. Stop the recording now.