 Right welcome everybody Welcome back. Hope you had a good break. I hope everyone's back All right, let's resume So, yeah in the previous lecture we we discovered the scripture references one of the first Old Old Testament references of the origins of praise from Genesis 29 and from the life of a layer And then in Psalm 114 verse 2 we see that how Judah or praise becomes God's sanctuary from a very physical thing in Exodus 25 and how it changes that In praise is where God dwells in other words Praise is the atmosphere of heaven praise is the sound of heaven Praise is God's address Right, you want to find where God is? Praise him or join a bunch of people who are praising him You'll find him right in Isaiah 60 verse 18 Just put it up there for us In Isaiah chapter 60 verse 18. He says you shall call your gates praise Sam 118 verse 19 says open for me the gates of righteousness Okay Another name for gates of praise is gates of righteousness. I will enter and give thanks to the Lord And another scripture that I'm reminded of is Isaiah 61 verse 3 The praise is referred to as a garment. Okay, Isaiah 61 Okay, put on a garment of praise, okay We when do we use a garment to cover ourselves right to you know, clothe yourself with a garment of praise insulate yourself, okay Let everything about you be praised praise to God. So So yeah, that's that's like the foundation we are laying brick by brick by brick by brick by layer by layer We see that praise first of all shifts our focus You know, and then when we do that God honors us in a way that only he can Okay, and then it goes on to say that he dwells in the praises of his people, right and some hundred and fourteen And all these verses that we just mentioned And another translation I like this Psalm 22 again verse 3 says He inhabits the praises of his people that means He Actually another translation says he consumes the praise Right. So when God does that when God consumes our praise He's not only consuming our praise, but he consumes the praise there as well, okay So there was a few scriptures that we saw and from the New Testament we see Jesus courting Psalm 8 verse 2 from the lips of children and infants. I have ordained praise and and and that Psalm goes on to say with my praise you have silenced my enemies I mean just look at that picture the God is painting isn't it? Children infants are helpless. They cannot defend themselves They cannot fight for themselves but in such weak people weak creatures should say that he has ordained praise And so again praise is in a way shown that it's it's a weapon of warfare right, so We stopped there and we saw that there are multiple reasons for us as human beings that we praise him for And which is all good. We praise him for his mighty acts mighty deeds wonderful deeds. We praise him because he saves us We praise him for you know that he's given us his grace He's he's his mercy and he is faithful towards us Etc. Etc. Isn't it and then we stopped That heaven has only one reason And that is they praise him because he's worthy that's it Okay, and that word worthy in the Christian circle Is very famous very popular. Is it there like a thousands of songs on Where we sing, you know, you are worthy. You are worthy. You are worthy, you know, et cetera, et cetera, but What if I were to ask, okay What comes to your mind when we say that Jesus is worthy if I were to ask why do you think he's worthy What would your answer be? Yeah, he's almighty. He bought the cross for us. Yeah, okay. Thank you He's a holy god. Yes. Thank you, Rosalind Okay, what else guys come on Why is he worthy? I hope you haven't seen the notes yet, but Worthy is the lamb Rosalind. If you have seen the verse, okay have notes No, I'm kidding. But yeah, thank you, Divya. Worthy is the lamb who was slain worthy worthy worthy. Yeah I'm just kidding. Yeah, it's okay There is none like him. Yeah, there is none like him Because like all of us, you know in class all every 22 of us besides me I want you to ponder on his worth when we sing or when we say that he is worthy It it should mean something, isn't it? It's Okay, so now without a mind, let's try and look at the notes that we have Now I thought that okay, it'll be it'll be good for us to kind of go deeper and do us just study On the topic of the worthiness of Jesus Um, yeah, it should it should help us in you know, just understanding a little bit about the subject Okay, I hope you all can see so The worthiness of Jesus we sing that he is worthy and we saw that heaven has only one reason and that he is worth right, um, the few scriptures that they mentioned that we go there in just a second, but But on a daily basis we use that word worthy every now and then isn't it some of the words that's mentioned, uh, the dark is Praise worthy Is that word is that person worthy of praise? Is that thing worthy of praise? A credit worthy Trust worthy. Hey again, is that person trustworthy or is that person worthy of my trust? Isn't it um, noteworthy Road worthy. Hey, is that car? Road worthy. I mean, can I take it and go on the road and I can Uh, and know that it won't break down Uh, it's seaworthy. I mean, uh, the navy's uh, see is they always use it Isn't it the army people the navy people say is that ship seaworthy? Is she seaworthy? Okay, that means Is is is that ship worthy enough to be taken into the into the high seas dangerous and stormy seas Um, so they asked that question. Uh, is that airplane air worthy? Uh, is that worth it? Is that worthwhile my time? Uh, is that movie worthwhile my time? Uh, is is that thing worth the price that I have to pay? Is that watch worth it? Is that computer worth it? Is that person worth my time et cetera, et cetera, et cetera And we use those words, isn't it? Uh, so often in our conversation, maybe not every day Maybe every day you never know Right, but those are some of the words just some it's not an exhaustive list But uh, just some of the words with word worthy in them and all of that You know defines something means something You know and all of those words can be pondered upon And and you know studied upon okay But let's dive in a little bit more deeper Uh, who he is it's all about jesus, okay The worthiness of jesus who is he and why is he worthy? Um, so just a brief summary of what is happening in the book of revelation from chapter four to chapter seven Is we see that there are seven hymns Okay, seven songs Basically, so hymn number one In revelation four and eight revelation chapter four verse eight. We see The four living creatures singing them, isn't it? So actually let's go to the book of revelation And I love it. I love it. Does anybody else love these hymns? Okay, I saw a raised hand Was that by mistake sorry sir by mistake. Oh, I know problem Okay, uh revelation chapter four verse eight Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around under his wings Day and night they never stopped saying Holy holy holy is the lord god almighty who was and is and is to come Okay, that's hymn number one and hymn two is just a couple of verses below now the 24 elders are singing Verse 10 to 11 says the 24 elders fall down before his who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever they lay their crowns before the throne and say you are worthy Oh lord and god to receive glory and honor and power Okay, you are worthy Oh lord and god to receive glory and honor and power For you created all things and by your will they were created and have their being Okay, and hymn number three in chapter five verse eight and nine Okay I hope all of you all are having a bible's handy and so you're following along with me. Okay Revelation chapter five was eight and nine. Thank you Where am I? Okay. Yeah there was eight and when he had taken it the four living creatures and 24 elders So now there's a combination of living creatures and elders singing this hymn Okay, each one had a harp Instrument and they were holding golden bones full of incense Which are the prayers of the saints That's why incense is related and symbolic of intercession Prayers right and they sang a new song you are worthy to take the scroll And open its seals Because you were slain And with your blood you purchased men for god from every tribe and language and people and nation Okay hymn number four same chapter. Let's come down to verse 11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels numbering thousands upon thousands and 10,000 times 10,000 They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders In a loud voice they sang worthy as the lamb Who was slain the angels are singing to receive the power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise Okay, so in the previous chapter Chapter four verse 11 The elders sang you are worthy to receive glory honor and power They stopped there but here the angels are singing you are received you're worthy worthy is the land of the slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength A couple of words that was not there in honor and glory and praise okay and in that same chapter verse Chapter five verse 13 and 14 Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea And all that is in them singing Okay, so I think we get an idea So far in hymn number one Hymn one we see only the living creatures crying out holy, holy, holy In hymn two we see the 24 elders crying out you are worthy to receive honor and glory and power In hymn three we see living creatures and the elders Join in and then we see the multitude of angels join In hymn five we see all of creation everything on earth below the earth in the sea everything in it And then in hymn six we see that the human multitude joined and in hymn seven Everybody joined in the angels the elders and the living creatures Okay, so in all of these hymns. There are five main ascriptions made to Jesus The worthy one blessing riches and Thanksgiving of wealth Honor glory wisdom and power And each of us is defined as this blessing riches and Thanksgiving is his personal wealth and the generosity with which he shares it His honor his exalted position due to the esteem in which he's deservedly held Glory his personal splendor in the unfolding of the perfections of his character Wisdom his infinite knowledge and his perfect application in every instance Power strength and might the authority he wields and the absolute right to use it So what we have there is every possible qualification For worthiness all of this Is that every possible qualification for worthiness in I'm just, you know in in revelation chapter five, right In the second, sorry the third hymn it says The living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before the lamb And they sang in verse nine you are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals Okay, and I thought it's very important for us to understand this imagery is now I think in the 70s. I'm not sure or 80s. They found one of the scrolls of Caesar Okay, I don't know which Caesar Augustus or Julius. I'm not sure Not sure No Only a person from the lineage or a descendant of Caesar Can open that scroll Because his inheritance would be written in the scroll Not anybody, you know couldn't Can open it That person would be worthy if they are from the if they are from that person's lineage Or descendant only they are found worthy and here we see that Because of what Jesus did for us on the cross because of the lamb that was slain That made him worthy to take the scroll and open its seals because now he has won the inheritance. He is worthy Okay Let's take a new I shared A separate pdf on In the stream section asking you all to download So this is yeah, these notes what you're seeing on the screen is not in the actual notes In the course notes, but it's something that's extra which I have shared in the stream section So I request you to kindly download the pdf Okay, but for now you can just follow along with the page that I'm there, but we can download it later on Is everybody okay with that case? I hope you Yes All right. Okay And Siggino, are you okay? Did you did I make it clear? Yes, pastor. I would just ask me in which page we are Yeah This is the very first page of the document that I shared on the stream section Okay. Okay. Thank you for here. Yeah, okay Okay, okay, so I hope you all are with me so far and you know There's five things that we see that that the angels and the elders sing Is the every possible qualification of worthiness And Matthew Henry he actually says in his commentary He is worthy of that office And that authority which require the greatest power and wisdom The greatest fund all excellency to discharge them a right And he is worthy of all honor and glory and blessing because he is sufficient For the office and faithful in it It's wonderful, isn't it? He is sufficient for that office and faithful in it. He is worthy. He is He is it. He is absolute That's it Right and um So let's move on and as we all know that english word worship Comes from this anglo-saxon word Means worth ship Which means ascribe to or give worth to And that's why worship is so so much related to you will give your worship to something or someone that you see Is worthy Okay, so uh worship is at the core of our being in in life all of us are worshipers by nature Because we've been ordained gods ordain praise in our mouths in our lips We look for something to give our life away Every human this is okay They just want to Find something or that someone to just give their life away to just throw their worship at their feet We typically determine what the thing will be based on our assessment of value Whatever we deem most valuable You will give yourself away to it in a form of worship Okay, uh because worship and worth ship is so related I wanted to do this word study on the worthiness of jesus and why why we Why we say that he is worthy Okay One of the keys of life is making the right thing the object of worship which relates back to value uh, and Like I said sometime ago, uh I like this scripture from luke chapter 19 was 39 to 40 Okay, luke chapter 19 was 39 to 40. Uh, just a con The context there is Jesus and his disciples are entering jerusalem That is the passion week that is the week that jesus is going to be crucified, right? Which is popularly famously known as the passion week And as they enter in the people and the crowd are praising him, but Pharisees are not happy With that Okay, they said like hey jesus stop the crowd from praising You know just tell them to stop And jesus very famously responds like hey if they don't cry out The rocks will cry out uh Okay, the and the idea is that praise must come forth To the object that is most worthy of this praise Okay, christ jesus is worthy of everything because of who he is And the rocks know it Okay, jesus is worthy of everything simply because of who he is And the rocks know it Right, um And secondly, he is worthy for what he has done The main thing the elders say that jesus has done to manifest his worthiness is that he was slain We read that in chapter five was seven to ten, isn't it? A redemption was the greatest act ever accomplished Now the greek word axios Carries with the idea of something that is weighed to evaluate its fitness or appropriateness Simply means it's worthiness. Okay. That's what the word axios means. Okay to weigh something and on the cross Jesus was weighed and found uniquely qualified to bear the sin debt of mankind And to pay it all once and for all And now in heaven he approaches the father and he is the only one who is worthy It's like that weighing thing right on one on one scale There was the sin of the world on the other there was jesus and his blood Which overweighs it and makes the sins of the world unworthy and makes him worthy Right You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals Because you were slain with your blood you purchased men for god Amen And I just want to kind of conclude this this topic here and not go too deep Is from john chapter 12 verse 1 to 12? I'm choosing john For this passage because john is the one who's writing the book of revelation And and there he writes about what mary does You know, mary breaks the alabaster jar and The other disciple says why this waste? Right and jesus says that she is preparing me for my burial That means Mary must have had this revelation That he is that innocent lamb That is going to be slain for my sin And so she brings forth her worship While the other disciples saw it was a waste She you know Can you imagine that it's It's like for example, I'm I'm I'm giving one of you a gift. I'm giving to get no a gift Right and the other person says Why are you wasting that gift? in other words The person who is saying why such a waste is actually saying That person is not worthy Are you all with me? and You know how insulting that can be And I don't know. I mean I'd like to imagine When We know judas made that comment. Can you imagine how insulting it must have been to jesus to say? Why are you wasting it? He's not worthy uh To see to know that my god was insulted To know that my king my savior Who gave his life away being insulted to be found not worthy or unworthy? This shatters shatters me breaks me But that's something beautiful about mary is that she saw and she must have had this revelation of jesus And she feels she brings us alabaster jar We will study about this in detail in another chapter, but i'm just saying she brings her her best gift And she pours it at the feet of jesus and she worships him because she finds him worth it Amen He's Worthy of the biggest step of faith you've ever taken and will ever take And the greatest sacrifice you've ever made He's more worthy than all of that Amen, so i'm just going to stop sharing The screen here so in brief that's Even this study is just two pages. Uh, it's just a very brief study Or insight into for us to understand The worthiness Of jesus Amen. Are you guys with me? Yep. Yes. No, maybe So So this is what's happening in heaven, right? This is the atmosphere in heaven All of them see that jesus is worthy The blood of jesus was not even for the angels Angels don't understand salvation because the blood of jesus was not for them Angels don't need salvation How much more? How much more? For us that blood which was shed How much more as we as his people? For whom salvation was necessary how much more should we understand and have the revelation Of his worthiness And i'm going to be bold enough and say that there can never be True worship Of spirit and truth unless we have that revelation of the worthiness of jesus And when we have that everything becomes everything changes, you know We use setting up the sound system in church From setting up the chairs from setting up the pews cleaning the pews cleaning the bathrooms everything Has a different meaning now because you don't you're not doing it for your senior pastor or you're because you're a volunteer You are doing it because you find jesus is worthy of that and that is worship Isn't it and that is the atmosphere of heaven that is the sound of heaven Everybody in heaven is resounding that jesus you are worthy And that is their worship Okay, so with that in mind let's now let's go to our notes In our notes we are in page 14 now Okay, we are in page 14 Once we see that heaven has only one reason and that he is worthy and we've just explored the worthiness of jesus And all of this is happening in revelation for As it says in the throne in heaven Right, that's the headline in chapter four before it starts is there's a throne that is set in heaven now A throne and the room where the throne is set is called the throne room Duh The room where the throne is set is called the what? Throne room isn't it that's where all of this worship this extravagant Loud and rich worship is going on The god is enthroned And then we see in Psalm 22 verse 3 It says In the notes I mentioned different translations of the same verse You are enthroned On israel's praises But you are holy Or you that inhabit the praises of israel You dwell You live in the holy places of the praises of israel You are in the midst Of the praises of israel Okay, uh, where are we going with this? We saw that praises god's address. That's the atmosphere of heaven. That is the sound of heaven, right? That's where he dwells he lives Right in the midst of praises And the room is called the throne room, isn't it? Now I wanted to show Let me let me see if I can quickly show an image of an earthly throne room, which is hilariously Not magnificent, but Yeah, okay. Can you see that? Yeah, okay There we go. Okay. I just googled for a throne room of the palaces And this kind of okay, so this is the throne room where the king and the queen resides. Okay, but come in so And again if you're looking at your notes, right I mentioned from biblical times to the present days kings have had a physical place Where they sit on a throne, okay That place that throne room will also be called as the presence chamber or the the chamber of the face because The presence of the king or the face of the king was in that room Okay, it was in that room where everything would be performed He would grant audience of of another country of another state of another minister It is in that room where you see you you'll find the ministers of the court of law present And all of them chanting, okay praises to the king and it is there where the king makes political decisions Uh, you know for good for the bad for that country and everywhere and and everything, right? And we see that in Psalm 22 was three that God is enthroned on our praises It simply means that when I praise him from this very room Okay, this my office room when I begin to praise him and say god you are awesome. You are magnificent You are holy. You are all powerful. You are worthy God is beginning to dwell in my praises here And all of a sudden this room just my workspace is now his throne room Because his presence is here Isn't that awesome wherever you are Whatever place you are in once you begin to praise him His throne is being established in your physical space Isn't that wonderful Right, um I wonder how god still thinks of each one of us and takes care of every small and big detail In the midst of such an extravagant non-stop worship. Yeah, I mean it's It it's mind boggling. Isn't it that You know with all these amazing worship that's going on he's surrounded by the best worship team and the best sound of Ever and then as soon as I start as soon I start praising him or we start praising him He's like he's like hey, you know my son my daughter is praising I need to go there now and establish My throne there When god shows up when his throne is established everybody knows that he is there Okay You don't have to worry about the enemy because he is running in the opposite direction because his throne is being established on your praise I mean just to think of that Like I said, it's it's it's just I'm not able to wrap my head around it. It's just too good too good. Okay But there's a couple of Important lines for us to just remember There is If god is enthroned on our praises Who is enthroned on your complaints? Okay, if one person if something or someone is enthroned Something else is being dethroned Right. So when you when you when god is being enthroned on your praises the devil is dethroned He's from your life. He's going he's he's nowhere to be seen But if god is enthroned on your praise, who do you think is enthroned on your complaints? And if you enter his gates with thanksgiving god's gates with thanksgiving Whose gates do you think you're entering when you complain? Important questions to ponder on you think Yes, um, I hope everyone is still with me. Um, right Alisha Aradhana. Are you okay? Okay, John Yeah, so, um, towards the bottom of page 14, uh, just to move on in the section It's just a few distinct tips of praise Okay, so Praise is extroverted in nature Okay, so you know these words like extrovert and introvert, right? Um, some of the character definitions, uh, you know, this is character tests that we can take Uh, you an extrovert. Are you an introvert? You know, extrovert is all outgoing. It's like I love people You know yada yada yada blah blah blah The introvert is like, no, I don't like people. I like I like myself I like the presence of myself, you know, and whatnot But here we see that, um Praise is extroverted in nature Okay, um Throughout Old Testament the Hebrew people were very vocal In their expression of praise and adoration before God. That means, um, the introverts did not have a choice Like some people think they have a choice these days, right? In church, it's like, oh, you know, lifting has like no brother, you know, I am actually an introvert I don't like to lift my hands because basically I'm an introvert What not, uh, you know, when when some 100 says shout for joy Shabbah for joy all the earth. It doesn't just say shout for joy all the extroverts Now All you introverts become extroverts Doesn't matter who you are It's not up to you. It's not like you have a choice Praise is extroverted in nature. It's an invitation for all of us to be to come and express verbally and vocally Right, uh, second point there. It praises to be declared or manifested. Okay. Let's quickly read Psalm 66 Verse 8 I know there's a lot of there's been a lot of scripture reading today, but uh, I hope you guys are okay Okay, Psalm 66 verse 8 it says Praise our god or peoples Let the sound of his praise Be heard Okay, let the sound of his praise be heard And Hebrews 13 15 is something that we saw is talking about the fruit of our lips It's a verb. It has to be declared or manifested um It's very different uh from From just worship as we saw in chapter one um And then the third point is praise is based on who god is not our feelings um, often we must Will and determine to praise god Even when we do not feel like it We can't stress enough on of that, isn't it? Yeah, because our situations our circumstances change for good for bad, but his worth never changes He is always sovereign He will always remain sovereign um, so he's worthy of our praise, isn't it so Some just to recap those points. They're distinctives of praise is that praise is Word in nature. Okay very it has to be seen and it has to be vocal Uh, it has to be declared or manifested And it does not depend on our feelings Okay, um and a couple of scriptures there mentioned for us to uh, you know for you to go back and read Especially Habakkuk 3 17 and 18, uh would encourage you to read it and you can Okay And just a few more points too for us to ponder on in page 15 the next page in the in your notes Is why should we praise? um Simply because we are commanded in his word to do so and God is enthroned on our praises another reminder There is power in praise We will learn more in detail about the power and praise in the next lecture Okay, and look at this, uh that passage from second chronicles 20 And it is a good thing to praise god point for And we see that god is worthy of our praise And we were created to praise him Okay, so the six points there Uh, again, it's not exhaustive. It's just uh for us to, uh, you know Understand a little bit Once again, we are commanded to praise in his word God is enthroned on our praises There is power in praise. It is a weapon It is a good thing to praise god and god is worthy of our praise and we were created to praise him right Uh, what's one more thing that I wanted to add for us Oh when god being enthroned on our praises is Uh, when we look at matthew chapter six verse nine right matthew chapter six Verse nine, it's i mean famous passage where jesus teaches his disciples to pray right, um The disciples come and ask him teaches how to pray and then jesus says Every time you pray to your father in heaven. This is how you ought to do so Our father in heaven hallowed be your name right now the The first section of that line is an address Okay, you're addressing your father your god in heaven our father in heaven Okay, you're you're addressing Uh hallowed be your name And this is where I think most of us kind of not misunderstand or Don't fully understand is that we still think it is a continuation of an address It's like okay our father in heaven hallowed be your name. It's like that one big line But there's a comma our father in heaven address comma hallowed be your name And what follows that? Your kingdom come Your will be done Okay His kingdom Or his throne room will not come Where his name is not hallowed Okay hallowed simply means exalted magnified praised. That's what it is His kingdom comes to the place where his name is praised where his name is hallowed Where his name is exalted where his name is magnified about every other name And he decides to show up Okay, um, so we um pause here Because I feel like there's been a lot that we've had to absorb today Right, so we stop here at the point In page 15 Why should we praise him? That's where we stopped. Okay, we'll continue looking at the other point is as we Uh In the in the next class in the next lecture to come. Okay Um, is everybody doing all right? Uh, any questions any thoughts? Insights that you would like to share Hope you'll learn something today Okay, if uh, yeah, there's nobody who wants to share anything. It's fine We'll pray and we'll bring the session to a close. All right. Let's pray Father, we thank you for your faithfulness. We thank you for your word I pray that this word will bear fruit in our lives But I pray that everything that we have learned so far from your word god I pray that we will be able to put it into practice I pray that in every difficult situation and circumstances. I pray Lord that we will fix our eyes on you And praise you because you are worthy of it all In every circumstance in every situation. Holy spirit help us to fix our gaze on you lord We thank you for what you're doing in our lives. We thank you for what you're doing What you're going to do through our lives We bless you father In jesus name, I pray amen Amen, and uh god bless you all Have a lovely day and the lovely rest of the week Stop the recording now Thank you pastor. Amen Thank you