 Okay, welcome everyone. So we'll resume from where we left off for this session. We'll talk about the seven Hebrew words for praise, okay? Does anybody remember the definition for what praise is? Yeah, expression, adoration, express, to express approval, to commend, to applaud. It's in your notes, guys, by the way, okay, just in case if you're wondering, okay? So praise is a verbal declaration of adoration and thanksgiving for what God has done, for what he has promised to do, okay? And like I said in the previous session, we have very limited vocabulary in the language of English to express about praise and worship and whatnot. And I also said there are in ancient Greek, there are four different Greek words just for the word love, you know. But that's why this chapter is here is for just for us to understand this word, praise a little bit more better, a little bit more deeper. Yeah, are you guys ready? Yes, sir. No, sir. No, I'm just kidding. So the seven words, seven Hebrew words for praise, once again in your books, it's the yadah, everybody say yadah. Okay, toda. Okay, not toda. Okay, toda. Okay, halal. Shabbak. Okay. Say shabbak. Okay, let's put a little bit of phlegm into that and say shabbak. That's it. Shabbak. The hila. Okay, barak and zamar. Okay, so let's start off with yadah. Okay, yadah means hand, ah means cast out, yadah, yadah means hand, ah means cast out, okay, yadah. It's the root word where every other word for praise comes out of, okay. By now, I mean, I'm sure you've already guessed the word or the name judah comes from this root word, yadah, okay. Which simply means praise, right. So in different translations, it's mentioned about approximately 120 times, more or less depending on the versions of the English Bible that you would read, okay, yadah. So the definition is what it says, to give thanks to Lord praise, to reveal or worship with, is there a fill in the blanks, you know, or is, yeah, there is, okay. With extended hands, that's what it is, okay. With extended hands, okay. In the more ancient Hebrew, it also means to throw a stone or to cast a stone or throw an arrow or something. Okay, so that's metaphorically more figuratively used here, kind of like to cast, to throw our praises on our God, right, with extended hands. So that's the first thing. The first Hebrew word is yadah, okay. It simply means to worship Him with extended hands, okay. Let's read some scriptures. Someone read Psalm 138 verse 1. We're going to be reading a lot of scriptures. So bring up your fast hands. You're scrolling things clean, whichever is easier. Psalm 138 verse 1. Psalm 138 verse 1. Okay, and someone read Psalm 67 verse 3 and someone read Psalm 145 verse 10 and someone read Psalm 44 verse 8. Okay, Psalm 67 verse 3, Psalm 145 verse 10 and Psalm 44 verse 8. Psalm 67 verse 3. Thank you. Psalm 145 verse 10. Thank you. Psalm 44 verse 8. Let's read some more scriptures. scriptures. Let's go to Psalm 52 verse 9. Thank you. Did we already read? Oh, yeah, we already read Psalm 67 verse 3. Okay, let's read Psalm 107 verse 8. Okay, so basically, that's the simple Hebrew word. Okay, focus is Yadda, the first Hebrew word for praise is you worship Him with extended hands. Okay, and these are, by the way, all the different postures of praise. Okay, the next word is Tawda. Okay, one more thing is in your notes, you will find a lot of scriptures mentioned, you know, and I would encourage you and also at the bottom of every, after every Hebrew word, there are these personal questions, like a reflection questions for you. I want you to reflect on, okay, when you get the time, go back home in your quiet time, whenever go through all these scriptures, because of time, I won't be going through all of this. Yeah, is that okay? You know, some of the questions at the bottom of the PDF is based on the above verses, how common do you think the practice of lifting hands and worship was in the ancient world, simple things like that, so you can just for you to meditate on. Okay, did I mention that one of the definitions for this word was throwing storms, I did, right, like, we're like throwing stones or throwing arrows, and I love that imagery is like, you know, we cast our praise on him, like with our extended hands, like, you know, we praise him. And the next word is tauda, which is a derivative from the word yada. Okay, the definition is extension of hands. This time with thankfulness and thanksgiving. Okay, it is a confession, a sacrifice of praise, thanksgiving, here's the thing, thanksgiving for things not yet received. Okay, if you see a blank there, received is the word. So this posture of praise, tauda is the same derivative, but now you're raising hands, you're lifting up your hands in praise with thankfulness as thanksgiving, and also for the things not yet received. Okay, there's one quote, I forget who it is, it says, you can either worry or you can worship. I forget who whose quote that is, but it's a really cool quote. So it says tauda comes from the same principle root word as yada, but is used more specifically. Tauda literally means an extension of the hand in adoration, affirmation or acceptance. By way of application, it is apparent in the Psalms and elsewhere that it used to thank God for the things not yet received. Can someone read Psalm 56 verse 11 and 12? Psalm 56 verse 11 and 12. Are we in Psalm 56 verse 11 and 12? Sorry, if I wasn't clear. Thank you. So in God, I have put my trust. I will not be afraid. Okay, look at the progression of those words. In God, I have put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? Vows made to you are binding upon me. Oh God, I will render praises to you. Right? Now there will be seasons in life where we are waiting on so many things from God, like we're waiting on a breakthrough, we're waiting on a healing, for a miracle, what not. But tauda is an expression of praise where you say, I thank you God for the things that you have not yet received. That becomes an expression of faith. Right? You're with me? Yeah, let's read. Most scriptures, Psalm 141 verse 2. Someone read Psalm 95 verse 2. Can you read that one more time? I like that. Lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. Okay, so in the Old Testament, which you will learn more about in the Old Testament survey, there were sacrifices that would happen in the morning and in the evening. Okay, so that's what the Psalmist is referring to saying, may the lifting up of my hands be like an evening sacrifice. Isn't that wonderful? Right? Someone 95 verse 2. Psalm 95 verse 2, please. There are children, one of you. Okay, thank you. One more scripture. Let's read Psalm 88 verse 9. Psalm 88 verse 9. Right? So that's another posture of also a prayer here. My eyes are dimmed with grief. I call to you, O Lord, every day. I spread out my hands to you. I can't help but have this imagery of a child just reaching out, spreading his or her arms to its parent and whatnot. So that seems like a beautiful posture. So remember this. So I have labeled this as the expectation of praise. Okay, Toda is expectation of praise. As mentioned about 30 times, more or less in the Bible, these choice of words. Right? Let's come down to the third Hebrew word for praise. Okay, what's the first word for praise? Yeah. Okay, what's in the second one? Toda. Yeah, I know what's going to happen later. Okay, Toda, Toda. Okay, the next word, celebration of praise is Halal. This is mentioned about 160 times, more or less in the Bible. Right? The definition is to shine to boast. What is the meaning of boast? Bost. No, not boast. Bost. To uplift. Okay, show off. That is the act you didn't want to use. Like, is it the biblical word to use in the Bible? College? Yeah. Yeah. When you achieve something and you boast about yourself or it's not always where you boast about yourself. It can be boasting about somebody else or something else as well. Right? Something that you have or something what others have and whatnot. So yeah, Sean. Yeah. Yeah, thanks for sharing that. Yeah, Peter says I'd like to boast about God than myself. Yeah, thank you. So it's what it is. Praise. Halal means to shine, to boast. I love it. It gets better. To make a show, to rave, to rejoice, to be clamorously foolish, to celebrate. Okay? That's amazing. To make a show, to rave, to rejoice. Now, to be clamorously foolish doesn't mean to be out of control. Okay? What do you mean? Like, now, when you think of David, you have the song, I will dance, I will sing, to be mad for my king. Like, Nacho, no? In this song? Okay. So what was his wife's response is it looked what David was doing was like a foolish thing to do. Right? And so when an unbeliever walks in during a supernatural time or whatever, and when they look at us, just celebrating our God, worshipping our God, who are these who are these guys singing to? It looks foolish to them, isn't it? But that's what our praise is, you know, we are called to, is to just boast about our God. Do we boast enough? Do we celebrate him enough? We celebrate God's faithfulness only on our birthdays, no? Once a year? Oh, man. You're like, Lord, thank you for that. You know, that's when he's like, Oh, his faithfulness, yes. Or New Year's is like, I don't know how I made it through this year, based on faithfulness. But this is one of my favorite, personal favorite. Second favorite, not the first. Okay. To make a show, to rejoice, to be clamorously foolish, and I love this, to celebrate. We've always celebrated something in life, right? We've all celebrated birthdays or whatever, right? We've celebrated someone's victories. But celebrating God is just the most beautiful thing that you can do. And by now, you should know that I'm sure you already know that this is the root word from where we get the word, hallelujah. Right? There are three words that is the same in every language. Three words that's the same in every language. Okay. Chocolate, Coca-Cola, and hallelujah. Okay, now that everybody's awake. Okay, where was that? Let's read some scriptures. Okay. I will read it for us. I'm reading Psalm 149, verse three. It says, Let them praise, hallel, his name with dancing, and make music to him with timbers and harp. Let them praise his name with dancing, like celebrate, rejoice, to rave. Who says one of the world can have a rave party, huh? No, no, we are not Christians, no. Come on. Psalm 22, verse 22. I will praise God's name and song. Psalm 109, verse 30. It says, I will declare your name to my people. In the assembly, I will praise you. Like in the corporate setting in the middle of multiple people, I will raise you. I will boost you. Right? If I lose Psalm 150, verse six, let everything that has breath praise the Lord, right? And there are more scriptures for you, for you all to just read, go through. Okay, you are with me? Yeah, okay. So we have Yadda. Everybody say Yadda. Okay, look to the person next to you and say Yadda. Okay, come on girls, make eye contact. I say Yadda. Yeah, you on link and also type it out, okay? And then Halal. Cool, bro. It's good. The first evil of the praise, Shabbach. Okay, the shout of praise. Okay, the shout of praise, Shabbach. Like you. Okay, it's not me, okay? That's what the word. Shabbach, okay. Definition. Addition. Everybody say allowed adoration. Come on guys, okay. See like you mean it, allowed adoration. One more time, allowed adoration. Okay, keep it up. A shout of praise. Okay. All right, you can relax now. Okay. To commend, to adore, to triumph. Okay. And then it goes on to say Shabbach means to address in a loud tone. Okay, I think there's a blank there. To address in a loud tone. To commend, to triumph, glory and shout. Okay. Let's read Psalm 100. Let's quickly go to Psalm 100, I think. So this Psalm by the way was an inspiration for our song Shout for Joy or the Hindi version of it, this is from Psalm 100. It says shout for joy to the Lord. What do you say after that? All the lands, all the, okay, Nina. That's hilarious, Nina. That's awesome. That's the first that's happened. That's good. Okay, so Psalm 100, shout for joy to the Lord. All the earth or all the lands, what else? Okay, someone read Hindi, no? The last one. Another language, Tamil, Kannada, Gujarati, if you have anyone. That's all right, Nina. Okay, so that means the same thing, everybody. So, okay. Wait, let me just ask someone online, hey, does anybody have a, what language? Does anybody have Tamil or Kannada or anybody from another country? Okay, just the first line, anyone? Yeah, Tamil, go for it. There's a constant smile. It's like, why? One more time, one more time, go for it, please. Everyone, everyone, okay. Now, does it say only the extroverts, okay? Extrovert means, what is extrovert? Everybody who's always talking, you know, introverts are the ones like, I don't like friends, I like to be to myself. Does the Bible say extrovert? That means introverts also, no? Correct, no? Okay, thanks Prabhu. We had someone here read from. Okay, so shout for Jair, all the earth, worship the Lord with gladness, come before him with joyful songs, know that the Lord is God, it is he who made us, we are his, we are his people and the shape of his pasture. Okay, I'll stop there, let's read another verse. Let's go to Psalm 145 verse 4. Psalm 145 verse 4. Can someone read? Psalm 145 verse 4. Thank you. Any other language? Anybody? Yeah, in Hindi. Okay, so what does it mean? Anybody? Tamil? What do you want to read? Psalm 145 verse 4. I am waiting. Awesome, thank you. It's just so wonderful to read, just to hear from other languages, different translations. Anybody else? Any other, yeah, go for it. Okay, so let Francis finish his, yeah, Malayalam, okay. Okay, thank you. Yeah, Kannada? That's fine, Karen, you're doing good. Awesome, thank you. Yeah, so we just read different versions, different translations, different translations, different languages. Or Psalm 145 verse 4. I hope you were following along with me. So once again, the English says just coming back to that says, one generation shall praise, means Shabbah. Okay. One generation shall praise your works to another generation and shall declare your mighty acts. Okay, in the different languages that we read is one generation will shout a few praise to another generation of what you have done. Okay, when you read the book of Judges, okay, one of the sad lines that you will read is a generation came after this generation that did not know God. It says in general, in Judges chapter two or somewhere, this is there arose a generation that did not know God or what he had done right to the people of Israel. So your shouts of praise, when you shout and when you declare, it's also a prophetic act. You don't know what you are doing to the next generation. You're just praising God. Okay. It tells the other generation of who this God is, what he has done for you and me. You hear me? Yes. Okay, so that is the shouts of praise, the Shabbah of praise. Okay. This is my personal favorite. The song of praise. Everybody say Tehila. Okay, not Tehila guys. Okay. Not Tehila guys. Come on. Okay. Watch yourself now. Watch yourself. Okay. Tehila. Okay. How many of you try Tehila? It's not a tricky question. Okay. All right. Tehila, the definition means great praise, song of praise, love of praise, love of praise or h Complete News. All right. Even, you can say it in a deviated form here. Okay. So God's love potions or hymns with the spirit. I like this spontaneous song. A new song. Okay? Everybody says spontaneous song. A new song. Alright. use there is Tehila. You are enthroned on the songs of Israel. Psalm 40 verse 3 says, He put a new song in my mouth, a song of Tehila, a praise to our God. Many will see and fear and will trust in the Lord. I spoke on the trust on the Lord this morning, isn't it? When you get five reasons. How many of you remember that? Okay. So one of the things here I mentioned, so He put a new song in my mouth, a song of Tehila, a new song, a spontaneous song to our God. And the result of that is what? The result of God putting a song in my mouth is many will see and fear. That means everybody else will know who this God is, and then they will put their trust in the Lord. That means others will put their trust in God by looking at you, lifting up your song of praise. It's related to the previous song. Okay. Very quickly, let's go to Psalm 18. Let's go to Psalm 18. Someone read just the first two verses of Psalm 18, please. Let's add verse three also. Thanks. Somebody else, I want, yeah, same thing. Verse one to three, Psalm 18 verse one to three. Same language. You'll also find English. You'll also find whichever language. Let's go for it. Somebody else, please. Same reference. First verse. Come on, guys. Psalm 18. Thank you. One more person. No, no, somebody else. Same. Psalm 18 verse one to three. Yeah, Francis, go for it. Thanks, Francis. Okay. Thanks, everybody, for reading. Now remember the definition for the healer's rep, a spontaneous song, a new song. Okay. Another definition is that your heart becomes a library or a book of praise. Okay. That's another definition. Your heart becomes like a book of praise. Okay. Now, why did I make you all read this song so many times? Psalm 18. Now, before we read verse one, is there something above verse one in your bowels? Something is there? Okay. What does it say? Lovely. Thank you. Okay. I'll just read one more time what it says before Psalm one just above the title. It says for the director of music of David, the servant of the Lord, he sang to the Lord the words of this song when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. Now what was David running from? He was running from Saul for what? For his life? Because I wanted to kill him? Yes. Now, how many of you have been chased for your life? Anyone? Like your land? Like someone was wanted to kill you? Yes, no, maybe, no? Just take a second. Okay. Just watch me, watch me. David has been running for his life for at least a decade, at least 10 years or 12. He's been running for his life for at least that's what the historians say, right? Even if it's one year, it's a lot. Even if it's a day, it's a lot. Okay. He's been running for his life. Saul wanted to kill him. Let's say I wanted to kill you running for me and that's the position David has been in. And that's when the Psalm title says he sang to the Lord when the Lord delivered him from all his enemies. Now, one of the things we know about David is that David was a shepherd boy, all nice. You know, David was a worshiper. He played harp, you know, beautiful, heavenly. One of the things that we don't know enough about David is that David was a warrior. David was a warrior. Okay. He killed a lion and a bear with his bare hands. Now put yourself or just imagine David as a warrior erupting in the song, a spontaneous song. David would not as a weapon. I love you, Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock. My fortress and my deliverer. My God is my rock. Is it okay if I get a little violent? Is it okay if I get a little violent? Because those online you can remove your headphones a little bit if you want to. But I can't. Okay. Imagine David as a warrior erupting in the song of praise says, I love you, all my strength. The Lord is my rock. Some of you are like, please. But can you imagine David in open fields, in the forest, in the wilderness, he's erupting with his hands lifted high, seeing the spontaneous song of praise. That is the healer. Your heart has got to be filled like the songs of praise so that you can spontaneously lift up a song. I remember, so I used to worship in this house of prayer, and I had to lead worship. My time slot was for two hours. Two hours is a long time to lead worship. And so I could not just go up and say, okay, I'm going to do the five songs and be done. You can be done with five songs in 20 minutes or 30 minutes or so. But for two hours, what I would, I wouldn't know what to do after a song or two. But like I said, I invested in that 10 rupees amazing book called The Thousand Places. So I would just type it all and keep it in my phone, my iPad and whatnot. And so when I don't know which song to sing, I would just begin to declare like a spontaneous song whatever would come. And this was my go to thing, which I had written down. So who this verse? Okay, when I didn't know what to sing, what not, you know, how to where to go, I would just erupt in this spontaneous kind of declaration mode. It says, okay, his name is Jesus, my savior, the lover of my soul, my everlasting father, my righteousness, my delight, my king of kings, my lord of lords, my lion of the tribe of Judah, he's my glory and the lister up of my head, my sustainer, my light, he is my strength, my hope, my power, my strong tower, my hiding place, he is my shield, my mighty fortress, my stronghold, my prince of peace, my healer, my counselor, my refuge, my deliverer, my redeemer, my portion, my lily of the valley, my rose of Sharon, my fair one, my restorer, my Jehovah Jireh, Jehovah Nisi, my Al Shaddai, Adonai, my offering and the offerer, my sacrifice and my high priest, my inheritance, my rock, my bright and morning star, my cornerstone, he is the Alpha and the Omega, with the blast of his nostrils he split the Red Sea. By his will the heavens were made, the star he hosts by a breath of his mouth. Who can compare him? He alone is awesome, demons flare the sound of his name, heavens shake and the earth trembles, the mountains melt like rocks in the presence of the Lord, the CEO of the universe, my ancient of days, my song, my new song, my warrior, my right hand, my majesty, my unfailing love, my proof of the cloud by day and the period of fire by night, I stopped there. So this was easy for me to go and just erupt in song, just take two lines and go for two hours. Before I continue, does your heart have a song that you can erupt in? It's when you become a Christian, the question is, what if you can sing? The question is, does your heart have a song? David erupted. You know what eruption is? Have you seen like volcano erupting? That's what you said, volcano eruption. It's not very nice and gentle. It shakes everything that is around it. Everybody runs for their life. And I'm using that word very intentionally when I say, when David erupted, it must have scared everybody around him. Your praise ought to do that. And for that your heart needs to be ready to erupt in the song of praise. Are you guys looking? Yeah, okay, just a few more and it's two more. No, we're done. So the sixth word for praise is, this is the posture of praise called barach. Definition is to kneel or bow down. Very similar to shahar, which is the posture of worship, which is, you know, for face down, to kneel or bow down. This is in ancient days, this word was used in a more like a military sense. As in, the king is before you, and as a general, as a servant of the king, you will come here, bow down, you will kneel, you will take your body lower, but your head will always be fixed on the king. In a shahar, your face down and whatnot, but then barach is, you're getting a very low, but your face is fixed on the king. Wherever he is going, you're watching him. And, you know, in this sense, eyes are always fixed on his holiness, as we take our body lower, as we humble ourselves, we see how holy he is, how beautiful he is, how marvelous and how beautiful he is. Okay, so that's what barach is. For time's sake, I'm not going to read the scriptural references. Finally, the last Hebrew word for praise is zamar, the music of praise, zamar, the music of praise. It simply means to make music, sing praises. Okay, so six words have gone by. We've spoken very little about music. The last word, okay, Hebrew word talks about music and singing praise, to sing songs accompanied by musical instrument, to touch the strings or parts of a musical instrument, to celebrate and song and music. That's zamar. Psalm 144 verse nine, it says, I will sing a new song to you, oh God, on a harp of ten strings, I will sing praises to you. If you're under the story from Second Kings chapter three, Prophet Elisha, when he is called, you know, when he's called to release a prophetic word, the first thing that he does is he asks for a harpist, bring me a harpist. So if you are a musician, whatnot, there is power in what you are called to do. You're not just playing an instrument, but you're waging war, but getting into battle. And we see that even when David was called upon when Saul was troubled, right, with an evil spirit, as David played, Saul was set free, right? He felt better. So that's the last word. So what are the seven Hebrew words for praise? First one. Yadah. Okay, everybody, let's go, wake up. Yadah. Todah. Hallel. The rush. Shabach. Come on. Okay, and then five. Tehila. Six. Barach. And seven. Zamar. Okay, so those are the seven Hebrew words for praise. I hope you've learned something today. This is the, we've come to the end of our session. So we'll just quickly pray and give thanks and bring this to our close, all right? So Father, we submit ourselves, surrender ourselves before you. We thank you for today. We thank you, Holy Spirit. But even as we learned, I pray that our lives would resonate what we've learned, Father. I pray that we would celebrate you. We would love on you. We would just worship you like never before. Let these words bear fruit in our lives. I pray in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Thanks, guys. Thanks, everyone, online for joining for today's session. I'm going to stop the recording. See you next week.