 Baiklah, mari kita officially start the class. Hai, Kiran. Semua orang kata, hai, Kiran. Kata-kata, hai, Kiran. Selamat datang. Selamat pagi, Ariella. Terima kasih. Semoga anda melakukannya dengan baik. Ada beberapa malam yang baik. Ya, tidak. Selamat tidur. Selamat tidur dan bangun awal. Selamat tidur dan bangun awal. Apa? Baiklah, jadi kami telah belajar sedikit tentang perjalanan dan perjalanan. Apa yang telah kami berdiri sejauh ini? Ia boleh menjadi lebih kuat. Dan anda duduk di depan dan saya boleh dengar anda. Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Bagaimana? Ya, saya sedang mencari kamu. Teruskan tangan dengan terima kasih. Jadi, bagaimana perbezaan yang berlaku antara Yadah dan Toda? Terima kasih dengan kejutan. Sebelum kamu menerima sesuatu yang kamu berikan terima kasih. Jadi, itu adalah Toda. Ia datang dari ruang yang sama. Dan kemudian, kemudian, Krishas berkata, halal untuk bergerak. Ia adalah halal. Apa lagi? Untuk bergerak, untuk bergerak. Okey? Bergerak, untuk bergerak. Semua itu betul, bukan? Itu semua di dalam ruangan kamu, bukan? Saya cuma yakin. Saya tidak yakin. Okey. Halal, terima kasih, Krishas. Apa lagi? Apa? Apa? Apa lagi? Apa lagi? Apa lagi? Kamu tahu kenapa saya minta itu lagi dan lagi, bukan? Saya perlu dengar lemahnya. Hehehehe. Hehehehe. Ya, ia bermaksud pembentangan, bukan? Pembentangan segera. Pembentangan segera. Pembentangan segera. Apa lagi? Pembentangan segera. Apa lagi? Tehila. Tehila adalah sebuah pembentangan yang baru, sebuah pembentangan yang spontan. Baik? Dan kemudian Barak. Apa itu? Pembentangan segera, kamu bawa ke bawah dan kamu bawa ke bawah. Jadi, perbezaan antara, apa yang Ibu bantangkan untuk pembentangan? Shacha. Ya, shacha. It's nice, isn't it? Hehehehe. So, that is falling face down. Completely with your face to the ground. But the difference between shacha and Barak is Barak is, like I mentioned, is more of a military kind of a posture. So, you're bowing down, you're taking your body down, but your face is up, beholding the king. So, you are looking at the king. Your eyes are always on the king, but your body is completely low. So, that's Barak. And the final, the seventh Hebrew word for praise. Everybody say Zamar. Zamar. Okay, now what is that? That's the music of praise. Thanks, Krisha. Posture of praise, music of praise. Yup, yup. Right? So, did any of you get time to go back and go through some of the scriptures that's mentioned there and some of those reflection questions? No, sir. We were too busy. We had too many assignments. Of course, we didn't make time for all of that. Of course, okay. Yeah, I would encourage you to do that when you can. It's just, I mean, that's there to just to build you up personally, okay? So, it's not there as an assignment. There's no grading and whatnot, but then if you just want to personally grow just to go a little bit deeper on the topic of praise, just to study, read the word of God, it's going to help you, okay? So, let's go to the next chapter, the foundation of praise. And we're just going to go a little bit deeper and deeper into the topic. And I hope that's okay. Alright. Foundation of praise. Once again, it starts off by saying praise in the dictionary means to commend, to applaud, to express approval or admiration of to commend or to applaud. Okay. So, we've covered all that. We have a basic understanding. And then it goes on to say that we praise God one, directly and two, indirectly, okay? So, directly is by extolling Him or expressing our admiration to Him. That is direct, okay? So, in praise and worship or in when you're all alone at home and whatnot. So, you are telling Him to Him is like, God, you are awesome. You are magnificent. I praise you for so and so, right? You are directly telling Him, that's praise. I mean, indirectly is when you testify about who He is and what He is in the congregation or to one another, right? It's like, hey, you know what God did to me this. All me this week He came through, right? He provided when I needed a financial breakthrough He did. And so, that's again like an indirect way of praising Him but you're still praising Him. Are you guys with me? Yes? Yes, if you're with me, say yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Right, awesome. So, let's just dive a little bit more deeper and just see the foundations of praise what it really has to say. Okay, let's turn in our Bibles to Genesis chapter 35. Let's go to Genesis chapter 35. Oh, wait, no, sorry. Genesis 29. Apologies. Genesis chapter 29. Okay. So, the scripture in your notes, it gives only 2935 versus 35 but I want to read from verse 30. Is that okay? Genesis 29 versus 30 onwards. Alright, here we go. Genesis chapter 29 versus 30 onwards. Then Jacob also went into Rachel and he also loved Rachel more than Leia and he served with Leibman still another 7 years. So, he interesting choice of words if you want to underline you can is he also loved Rachel more than Leia. Okay. It's building up guys. It's building up. When a guy likes another girl more than another girl, you know something is brewing. So, verse 31, here we go. When the Lord saw okay. When the Lord saw when the Lord saw that Leia was unloved he opened her womb but Rachel was baron. So, Leia conceived and bore a son and she called his name what Rubin for she said the Lord has looked on my affliction. Okay, now therefore my husband will love me. Verse 33 then she conceived again and bore a son and said because the Lord has heard that I am unloved he has therefore given me the son also and she called his name Simeon. Okay, so verse 33 she then she conceived again and bore a son. Here it says because the Lord has heard. So, the first one is seen second one is heard my cry. Okay, therefore giving me this son also she calls him Simeon verse 34 she conceived again and bore a son and now this time my husband will become attached to me because I have born him three sons therefore his name was called Levi. Okay, so let's pause before we go to the next verse before we go to the next verse so what is happening here we all know the story of Jacob it's not just a Sunday school story it's a beautiful story in its own way we all know what happened to it how Leban Leban whatever tricked him he originally wanted to marry Rachel but then didn't work out that way so he gets married to Lea he didn't like Lea he didn't want to get married to Lea but then happened like stuff happened and so it's very clear about what the Bible has to say so eventually he gets married to Rachel but tell me this any woman want to have a love of her husband yes or no sure no maybe I know guys most of you are single but we all understand what love is we understand relationships it's a basic thing it's a foundation of any relationship is to feel valued is to feel important etc so it's very obvious it's very evident Jacob loves Rachel and it's here the word says Lea knew but she was unloved almost borderline being hated or ignored when has anybody here felt unloved ok maybe not alright but the thing is it's not a pleasant it's not a nice feeling ok especially if you're in the house there's no escape ok I know I'm being hated I know everybody is ignoring me and to make it to make the matters worse my own husband is ignoring me he doesn't care because he likes another woman ya are you all with me it's quite intense it's very easy for us to just read and just love Rachel more and not care anything about what's happening to the actual text the people in the character and most often what I like to do is I like to put myself in their shoes and that's how you do a character study a character study is very important so you put yourself in Lea's shoes you all also ok and you being ignored you being unloved and what not it's not a very a nice place to be and she says ok what can I do to make to get the attention of my husband you see the tragedy in that story a wife has to do something to get the attention of her own husband it's just more tragic than you think it is but then she names the text starts off by saying the Lord saw ok the Lord saw so she names the first son Ruben which simply means seen ok now it means 2 things 1. the Lord has seen me in my misery and also saying hey Jacob see look I have born you a son will you not love me now look Jacob because Rachel didn't give it says Rachel was baron right ok ok so that's the first thing second thing goes on to say is nothing happened she bore him a son affection of Jacob didn't seem to change anything so she bore him another son and he names him simian simply means heard but it goes on to say the Lord has heard my cry and then she's also saying is like Jacob will you not hear my cry of love for you will you not love me now I have born you 2 sons will you not hear me out will you not hear how much I love you are you with me and I want to take just a little bit of time in this text because I want us to understand the magnitude of what is happening is not just a name on the board or a piece of paper it was actual people real human beings they're not mythical beings that just existed some years ago and what not so Jacob still no attention nothing simian ok nothing's happening she bore him another son the third son Levi means attached she's going before him once again and saying I have born you 3 sons will you now get attached to me will you love me now still no sign of Jacob's love for Lea a man is pretty strong and very focused on who he wants and who he wants to love and so can you imagine Lea's plight right how many times in life we don't have things go our way we don't always get things that we want right it's like there's something that you want you're so focused on that and you forget everything else that's happening around you yeah and that's what life is isn't it you don't always get what you want that's the reality of life maybe you'll get everything what you want but it doesn't happen so but that's the plight of Lea she's desperate to win her husband's love she's desperate she's not giving up she's born 3 sons ok it's not easy ok but then then something happens so we read verse 34 she conceived again and said now this time my husband will become attached to me because i have born him 3 sons therefore his name was called Levi verse 35 and she conceived again and bore son and said now i will praise the lord therefore she has called his name Judah then she stopped bearing so we've arrived ok after she stride everything in her hands everything in her ability everything what she can do and she stride to win her husband's love nothing has happened so something or someone has taken her focus for far too long and she's right she has a very genuine reason to feel the way she felt oh what is this bad feeling like i said she's his wife she had all the right to feel the way to win her husband's love but then when she realized ok you know what for far too long my focus has been misplaced my focus has been elsewhere i don't care anymore i'm going to pause now i'm going to praise him so what is the significance of all of this i mean to make again a long story short jacob and brings his family back and you know he is about to get attacked by isaw and what not but along the way in genesis chapter 35 verse 19 genesis 35 verse 19 if you read it says so Rachel died and was buried on the way to ifrata that is Bethlehem genesis 35 verse 19 it says Rachel died so they were going from one place to another and so she died on the way and she was buried somewhere in Bethlehem ok now let's go to genesis chapter 49 verse 31 genesis 49 verse 31 now this text doesn't tell when lea died but it says there they buried ibrahim and Sarah his wife there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife and there i buried lea so somewhere along the way after lea named her son fourth son Judah when she focus shifted we don't really get to know much about the story after right so the story just moves on it's just progressing and maybe somewhere along the way the feelings towards lea jacob's feelings towards lea must have changed right he must have become more affectionate along the way the reason i'm saying that it says here in genesis 29 that Rachel was buried somewhere like home ok but lea like for someone to be buried along with their ancestral you know in the cave or in the tomb it's a great deal in their culture you have to be there i mean Jews took their family tree very seriously right so the thing is the whole point is why am i talking about death then buried and stuff like that is when lea's focus changed from just this natural thing to just fixing her eyes on god god chooses to honor her in a way no man can right even when she is dead and buried and gone the story tells something without saying communicating verbally right and so that's what this is the origin of praise guys this is such a beautiful story of you know how praise actually just gets started in this story so a side note here is i think a life lesson for us is like i said we will not always get things that we want in life but praise is not a feeling right praise is not a feeling okay it's not not for you to say okay this morning i feel like praising god and so i'm gonna praise him but it's a choice that you make when all hell is breaking loose everything is coming crumbling down on you right and say okay now is when i'm going to choose to praise him right praise and worship is a choice that you make are you guys with me so far yeah right so when you read Psalm 114 it's a lovely piece of scripture Psalm 114 verse 2 let's say how are you guys doing online all good okay Psalm 114 verse 2 says Judah became his sanctuary and Israel his dominion right Judah became his sanctuary and Israel his dominion sanctuary is what that it comes from this Latin word called Sanctus means a holy place right Sanctus so sanctuary means a holy place right the house of god which was used interchangeably a dwelling place so this verse says Judah became his sanctuary means the praise became his dwelling place right so and that's what the bible losses is right he was chapter 22 verse 3 let's go to Psalm 22 verse 3 okay alright Psalm 22 verse 3 but you are holy enthroned in the praises of Israel can somebody else read another version of it or whichever Psalm 22 verse 3 anyone just feel free thank you somebody else please verse 3 so i particularly love this scripture this verse different version says yet you are enthroned on the praises of Israel you are in the midst of the praises of Israel right and then the previous Psalm that we just read Psalm 114 verse 2 it says you have made Judah or you have made raise your sanctuary okay if you want to find God his address is praise okay because where is he dwelling he has made Judah his sanctuary that means he is resting there and Psalm 22 verse 3 he is enthroned on the praises of his people another version says he inhabits the praises of his people and there is another translation that says he consumes the praises of his people right consume it is so powerful so he is not just he is enthroned on the praises of his people when he inhabits the praise he is not just inhabiting the praise that you are saying he comes and consumes all of us right he inhabits the praiser as well not just the praise but the praiser too you with me let's go on there are a bunch of scriptures as mentioned there in your notes you will see in page 13 in your pdf or the notes i hope it's page 13 it says it is good to praise the lord and make music to your name almost high everybody say it is good to praise the lord and make music to your name once again say it is a good thing right it's a if it's a good thing that means it's not a it's not a it's not a bad thing right so it's a good thing to praise him so praise him someone 47 verse 1 tells us that praise is beautiful and agreeable praise for his mighty acts some 150 verse 2 efficiency 1 & 2 we should be to the praise of god's glorious grace first Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 16 & 18 this is the will of god okay yeah everybody who is praying for god's will to happen in life what's your will what's your will kind of this is the will of god that we might everybody say praise him that we might it is a purpose in everything give thanks right Philippines chapter 4 verse 4 says Philippines chapter 4 verse 4 and the lord always and again I say rejoice rejoice rejoice no that's alright and again I say rejoice right some 118 verse 24 I'm not sure it says this is the day that the lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in it I think every day when we realize that praise is a good thing you will wake up and say okay instead of saying but you have two choices you can say oh man this is such a boring day this is or or you can choose to say this is the day that the lord has made regardless of how your situation looks like and I will choose to rejoice and be glad in him right naeha chapter 8 verse 10 I think it says the lord is my strength so praise when you praise him you don't feel like praising you don't praise him in your own strength you realize that it is his joy that fills you and you choose to praise him and then he begins to strengthen you to praise him more okay let's go he is full of glory we praise him because he is full of glory he is great we praise him naeha chapter 2 verse 20 he is wise and wonderful and powerful sorry saam 89 verse 1 he is merciful and faithful any time you will see the words that ending with full when we say he is merciful it simply means he is full of mercy when we say he is faithful he is full of faith when we say he is wonderful bible says he is the wonder of wonders such a beautiful thing he is the wonder of wonders our eyes cannot get enough of him he is the one who saves us saam 18 verse 46 keeps his promises to the kings pardons sin gives us our daily food and the list can go on i've just mentioned a few things there's another scripture let's go to aizayah chapter 60 verse 18 aizayah chapter 60 60 verse 18 anybody 18 you should call your walls salvation and your gates praise so again we need to understand just a little bit about the ancient times is the gates was like a stronghold like the panchayat system you have all these elders sit under a tree and all these mustaches this should happen today that should not happen today all of those things used to happen at the gates of a city so gates were a big deal if you can break through the gates that means you're conquering the city so it's saying here you shall call your gates and i'm immediately reminded of shout for joy Psalm 100 verse 4 i will enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise Psalm 118 verse 19 let's look at that quickly Psalm 118 verse 19 open for me the gates of righteousness i will enter and give thanks to the lord so we read all of these i mean like i said the list can go on i've just mentioned a few verses in the notes like i said in the earlier classes that we praise him for various reasons we praise him because he's a provider a protector, a guide shepherd etc he's powerful, he's merciful he's full of faith, he's faithful he's wonderful, he's beautiful he's awesome, he's mighty we praise him for his mighty acts, his deeds we praise him because he's been good in our lives and then now we shift our eyes towards the heavens and we see that i've mentioned before heaven has only one reason and that he is worthy amen i want us to go to the book of revelations now book of revelation chapter 4 just a beautiful beautiful chapter revelation chapter 4 i'm going to read it for us probably the whole chapter so it starts off by saying john's vision of god's throne it says after these things i looked and behold a door standing open in heaven and the first voice which i heard was like a trumpet speaking with me saying come up here and i will show you things which must take place after this immediately i was in the spirit and behold a throne set in heaven and one sat on the throne and he who sat there was like a jasper and a sardis stone in appearance pause what color is jasper? it's almost like a regal blue and sardis stone in appearance there was a rainbow around the throne in appearance like an emerald take time just absorb these words there was a rainbow guys like how cool is that okay in appearance like an emerald around the throne were 24 thrones and on the throne i saw 24 elders sitting clothed in white robes and they had crowns of gold on their heads and from the throne proceeding slow down roshan okay verse 5 and from the throne proceeded lightnings thunderings and voices seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne which are the seven spirits of god before the throne there was a sea of glass like crystal and in the midst of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and back let that sink in okay it's not this cute little angel with arrows you know the first living creature was like a lion the second living creature like a calf the third living creature face like a man and fourth living creature was like a flying eagle the four living creatures each having six wings were full of eyes around and within and they do not rest day or night saying holy holy holy lord god almighty who was and is and is to come whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne who lives forever and ever the 24 elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever and cast their crowns before the throne saying you are worthy o lord to receive glory and honor power for you created and by your will they exist and were created amen so one of the most beautiful gifts god has given us is the gift of imagination everybody say imagination okay the word imagination comes from the word imagine and the word imagine comes from the word image it's from the same word we get the word magic also the same word we get word magi three magi came from the east you with me a lot of things in one word guys magi magic image imagine imagination okay i love to imagine things i love that song i can only imagine have you heard of it i can only imagine what i would feel what it would look like to stand before him but only imagine isn't it why am i saying it so powerful okay how many of you have seen horror movies i'm not going to judge you yeah so what happens is and sometimes at least some of the people that i know or that night that they've seen i don't want to go in the room alone in the dark once more why because you're imagining something because you have the image of what you've seen in your head yes like a white nun or something i don't know that's the thing apparently now so right in this image of ghost or a monster with an upside down cross so you have that image in your head and you are hesitant to go into a dark room because you're imagining so that's imagination is so powerful for us and the images we haven't seen heavens open we have not seen all of that maybe you have but there's this library of images god has left for us you know what that is and he's painting this image as you read okay there's this throne that was set in in my feeble mind i can only imagine so much but i take that it's better than having no imagination and this is throne and he looked like jasper and sardius and i think what imagine a throne and this is a throne made in heaven have you seen some of the anybody here seen a palace or been into a palace i was very very young when i went to mysore palace but i've forgotten most of it but you've seen some of the earthly thrones i mean it looks pretty neat like did a good job like yeah you know imagine a throne in heaven and this painting a picture here john in the revelations and around the throne was a rainbow in appearance like an emerald i don't know how it would look like but it has to be the most coolest thing ever you with me i mean we say that he is wonderful the bible says he is wonder of wonders i don't doubt that you can just begin to see isn't it sometimes we just read these verses too fast and we just move okay you know but it's in god's throne room and all of this is happening and the 24 elders and this come down to those angels crazy angels okay the one with the face of a lion face of a man, face of an ox and with the face of an eagle without rest eternity holy holy holy is the lord god almighty pause we sing songs holy holy holy different songs yes or no yes okay let's imagine one more time imagine a lion a heavenly lion roaring holy katie jope singing holy holy imagine a lion roaring holy ya okay let's let's go to isaiya 6 let's get another picture of the throne room are you guys with me or sleepy if you are sleepy and if you are here it's okay i still understand i hope you guys on lion are doing well if you have any thoughts or questions please put it in the chat section okay we are four minutes to the break i'll just quickly finish this section because i feel like it's okay isaiya 6 in the year that king uzaya died i saw the lord sitting on the throne high and lifted up and the train of his robe filled the temple about it stood seraphim seraphim is a plural and serafa is singular and they mean burning ones that means angels are on fire okay each one had six wings with two he covered his face with two he covered his feet with two he flew another and said holy holy holy is the lord of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory and the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who carried out and the house was filled with smoke okay you see the choice of words here verse one itself in the year the king uzaya died i saw the lord seated high and lifted up and the train of his robe filled the temple there's another translation that says the train of his robe was filling was present continuous that means filling it's not filled so the way izaya is choosing these words is izaya back in the day was known as the prophet of prophets most of the prophets were known kave,waring,camelskin and eating wild honey they did not have great reputation the prophets but izaya was not like that he was related to the king uzaya that means so he also had he also had access to the throne room of the king okay so he was like one of the ministers right so so he could see all these ministers the royal thing and what not and he's saying the train of his robe the train of his robe every king wore a robe now the length of the robe was determined by how successful the king was how big his empire was,his kingdom was okay now we pause and we say izaya is saying the train of his robe was filling that means there was no end for the reign of his kingdom are you with me and so all of this is the throne and that's what's happening here and and that as a suspense we'll pause we'll go for the break and we'll resume the next session cool,have a good one i guess i'll see you all in 10 minutes have a 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