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[Silence] [Bell tolls] [Silence] With what shall we come before the Lord our God to worship Him?

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[Murmuring] Let us bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. [audience mumbling] Let us pray. Lord, we thank you for the gift of this day.

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We pray that you will be with us, that your spirit will lead us, strengthen us, and revitalize us in such a way that we will go forth to do your will with greater vigor. In Jesus name, amen. Let us greet one another this morning. Good morning and welcome to the worship of God.

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[music] Let every one of us get a hymnal and turn to hymn number 34, This is My Father's World. All stanzas.

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(orchestral music) [ Music ] [MUSIC] ♪ The angels in the crown ♪

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♪ Revealed the face of the Spirit ♪ ♪ He said, "I know the Word" ♪ ♪ "I will sing in the ground" ♪ ♪ "The Word can be found" ♪

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♪ And sing to them the home of the brave ♪ ♪ This is my home, this is my home ♪ ♪ For there's one that will save ♪ ♪ The proudest of all living men ♪

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♪ In heaven and on high ♪ (singing in foreign language) ♪ This the King of England ♪ ♪ This the King of England ♪

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♪ Whose reigns to the end will end ♪ ♪ His hands that hold the throne ♪ ♪ Hold the King ever in the King's heart ♪ ♪ The proud and the home, ♪

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♪ 'Tis the home of the brave ♪ ♪ And the home of the brave ♪ ♪ 'Tis the land of the brave ♪ ♪ The land of the brave ♪

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♪ 'Tis the true home of the brave ♪ ♪ The true land of the brave ♪ [Bugle plays] You may be seated.

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O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, who has set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings

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has thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou might steal the enemy and the avenger? When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained,

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what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visited him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and has crowned him with glory and honor.

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Thou made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou has put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the fields, the fowls of the air, and the fish of the sea,

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and whatsoever patheth through the path of the seas. O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth. This is our time of prayer together.

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We invite you to come forth as we unite our hearts in the blessed fellowship of prayer. More things are wrought through prayer than this world dreams of.

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What a friend we have in Jesus. All our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry. everything, everything to God in prayer. Let us pray. Oh gracious God our eternal heavenly Father in whom we live, move, and have being, we praise your name for another manifestation of your amazing grace, grace which is new every morning. We thank you that you have led us,

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that you fed us, that you have nourished us with your love. We have not always been faithful to your commands. We have faltered, we've blundered, we've failed. But as we stand now in your presence, we ask your divine forgiveness. Those things that we have done wrong we pray that you will blot them out, that you will cast them into the sea of

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forgetfulness where they will never rise again to testify against us in the judgment. Lord we ask for your guidance and for your strength. As we have just witnessed a national election and a decision has been made determining our leadership for the next four years.

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And as we witness these changes, oh God, many times they are not according to our desires, but we trust in you, asking for the leadership of your spirit because we know that you rule not only over this nation but all of the nations of this world. And so we recommit ourselves to you, to follow you wherever you lead.

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us the grace, O God, to accept your will and your way. We ask that you will especially bless each person who's standing here. You know our needs. You know the concerns of our hearts, and we pray that you will grant them according to

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your spirit. And we pray, oh God, for those families that have lost loved ones. We pray for those who are sick, not only in body but in mind, and who suffer from a sickness of the spirit.

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Grant unto them your healing, we pray. And we remember, oh God, those suffering millions in Africa and other places who are starving today. We pray, oh God, that you will move with your spirit of compassion in the world that this

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need may be met to feed the hungry. not only our city and our state but this nation and the nations of the world and your people everywhere as we seek to fulfill your will and work with you toward the coming of the day when your kingdom shall come on earth as it is in

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heaven for it is in the name of Jesus Christ that we pray amen (footsteps) (eerie music) (eerie music)

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(ominous music) (ominous music) (ominous music) [music]

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♪ (ominous music) (footsteps) ♪ (sound of footsteps) ♪ (soft aboutquest music)

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(clears throat) (door opens) (soft aboutquest music) (feet shuffling)

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[MUSIC PLAYING] [music] (eerie music) (eerie music)

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♪ (ominous music) ♪ In the morning ♪ ♪ When I rise ♪ ♪ In the morning ♪

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♪ When I rise ♪ ♪ In the morning ♪ ♪ When I rise ♪ ♪ Heal me, Jesus ♪

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♪ Heal me, Jesus ♪ ♪ Heal me, Jesus ♪ ♪ No matter how ♪ ♪ It falls ♪

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♪ Here it is ♪ ♪ All ♪ ♪ Just about ♪ ♪ For ♪

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♪ The day ♪ ♪ Just about the break of day ♪ ♪ Just about the break of day ♪ ♪ Give me Jesus ♪

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♪ Give me Jesus ♪ ♪ Give me Jesus ♪ ♪ Fill me up, O praise God ♪ ♪ Give me Jesus ♪

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♪ Oh, when I come to die ♪ ♪ Oh, when I come to die ♪ ♪ Oh, when I come to die, my Lord ♪ ♪ Oh, to give you my life ♪

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♪ Oh, to give me Jesus ♪ ♪ 'Cause when I come to die ♪ ♪ Oh, when I come to die ♪ ♪ Oh, when I come to die, my Lord ♪

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Give me Jesus. Give me Jesus. Give me-- give me Jesus. Give me a holy child.

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[choir singing] We worship the Lord now in the dedication of our gifts. Let every one of us give according to how the Lord has prospered you. This is the last month in our church year, and we have requested every member to demonstrate

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the tithe during the month of November. This is not anything that we try to pressure anyone to do. This is something that one ought to be motivated by the Spirit of God to do. Certainly we expect the leadership of our church to lead in this.

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Every church with that practices the principles of stewardship must depend upon pastor to practice it himself, the deacons to practice it, trustees, teachers of Sunday school, leaders of circles and the like should certainly

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exert that sort of leadership in this particular effort. And we are calling upon leaders to lead and members to support as we urge you during this month

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to demonstrate the tithe, to give one-tenth of your income to the Lord through the church. Those of you who are regular tithers, we ask that you would follow the biblical admonition

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to give an offering as much as possible and It is hoped that we will catch up the slack. I think we're some $7,000 behind $7,038 and and 93 cents

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in this effort Now we have some tithing envelopes. I don't know whether they were passed out or not Have the envelopes been passed out at all? Now we have some tithing envelopes ushers that

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Available for this. So let me give them to you now. I thought you had them already last Sunday Those of who are demonstrating the tithe when we adopt a budget

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many times people have a great deal of concern about what comes out of the budget But we have to be sure we put enough in that budget and this is a part of that effort Let us pray

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Gracious God our Father You give us everything nothing is really ours. It's all yours And help us to realize that we are managers of your possessions. Oh Sometimes we manage it as if it were ours and ours alone

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And we become selfish and possessive to the point that we are possessed by our possessions Lord, we pray for your spirit to possess us so that we may not be possessed by our possessions, but that we may possess them and use them to the glory and honor of your name. We ask it all in In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.

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This past week Sister Cora Cathy was in the hospital at St. David's, she has gone home. Brother Graves is in the hospital at Bracken Ridge. He was in good spirits when I saw him

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and ask for our continued prayers. You see the room that he's in there. Sister Alice Jones is also in Bracken Ridge. She's critically ill and she asked for your prayers as I talked with her. She expressed her concern for the prayers of the church.

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Brother Barrow, Brother Lewis Barrow, who is, who's been in the hospital, is to go back to the hospital. His situation was not good and

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he also asked the continued prayers of the church. He and his wife, Sister Lydia Scales is in the hospital at Seton and underwent major surgery this past week.

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Let's remember her. You see the names of all of those persons who are sick and shut in that have been reported to us. You have before you what we

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consider as the most complete list and if there are persons that you know of that should be listed here and their names do not appear, we'd appreciate it if you call it to our attention because we won't know it unless you tell us. And it's very difficult to keep up with the list.

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I often find myself running around going to the hospital when the person who's been reported as being there is not there. They've just gone home. They went there for tests and sometimes we report it as if they're going to be there a long time when they just went there for an hour or two so

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to speak and it would be very helpful if the persons would call and report when you're going and report when you're leaving because we are concerned about you and this would help us in that connection. So please

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report and keep us informed regarding our sick and our shut-in. But the Hawkins called to tell me that his brother-in-law, who's around 90 years old in Chicago, was

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killed. He, they, someone came into the house and killed him and his wife. I think there was in a wheelchair or something like that, 90 years old, And this is what has occurred. Sister Jackson says her daddy has been moved to Bed B. He's in the same room 821 in Bracken Ridge.

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All right, Sister Scales went home yesterday, so I'm glad to get that information. All right. Thank you very much. We were in the meeting in Dallas a few weeks ago, about two weeks ago now, the

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General Baptist Convention of Texas. We had had a meeting a little before that where some of us who are black pastors in the convention had called the Convention's attention to attention to investments in South Africa and We found out that

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There was no policy regarding this and that we were still as a convention as far as the Baptist Foundation is concerned The Baptist Foundation has about three hundred million dollars that is invested for various institutions within the convention it without any policy as far as South Africa is concerned.

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But we were able to, we presented a resolution and we were expecting some opposition to it but to our amazement the resolution passed. This is but the first step in that regard. The resolution that was passed by our convention regarding South Africa.

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We hope that our churches will become more informed and that we will have even more done in trying to see what pressures we can bring to bear in alleviating some of the conditions that exist there.

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We trust that you will remember that the Church Training Council, the Sunday School Council, and all of these that are listed in the bulletin will be held this week and follow the bulletin. You will notice that

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the singles will be having a supper, those from 18 to 35 in our church, single, Friday, November the 16th in the Fellowship Hall. A family that wants to adopt there is available a seven month old

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beautiful black baby boy, that's what the letter said, and you may contact the Maywood Maternity and Adoption Services. They're listed here in our bulletin. And we will be observing this month National Adoption Week and

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we trust that you will keep that in mind. Now the annual food drive, help people to have year-round emergency food and the like,

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where you asked to bring canned and non-perishable foods to the church today and next Sunday. How many of you brought something today? Let me see. I see a number of hands and we need even more. Our church has led in the association in the past.

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Let's do no less this year. Let's keep up the good work. [ Pause ] [Music] [ Music ]

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♪ O Lord my God ♪ ♪ When I in wholesome wonder ♪ ♪ Consider all the worlds ♪ ♪ The hands have made ♪

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♪ I see the stars ♪ ♪ I hear the rolling thunder ♪ ♪ Thy power throughout ♪ ♪ The universe displayed ♪

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♪ Then sings my soul ♪ ♪ My Savior God to Thee ♪ ♪ How great Thou art ♪ ♪ How great Thou art ♪

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♪ Then sings my soul ♪ ♪ My Savior God to Thee ♪ ♪ How great Thou art ♪ ♪ How great Thou art ♪

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♪ When through the woods ♪ ♪ And forest glades I wander ♪ ♪ I hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees ♪ ♪ When I look down from the mountain ♪

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From lofty mountain grand, yo, and hear the brook, and feel the gentle breeze. And when I think that God his Son not sparing, ♪ Said Him to die ♪

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♪ I scarce can take it in ♪ ♪ Then on the cross ♪ ♪ My burden gladly bearing ♪ He bled and died to take my sin away.

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There stays my soul, my Savior God to thee. ♪ How great Thou art ♪ ♪ How great Thou art ♪ ♪ Then sings my soul ♪

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♪ My Savior God to Thee ♪ ♪ How great Thou art ♪ ♪ The way ♪ ♪ The Lord ♪

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- Amen. Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth. Thou hast set thy glory above the heavens.

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Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider the heavens the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars which thou hast ordained.

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What is man that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hath crowned him with glory and honor.

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Thou hast put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, the fowl of the air, the beasts of the field, the fish of the sea, and everything that passes through the paths of the seas. Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth. What on earth are you doing?

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This eighth number of the psalm may be called a meditation in the night. We may ask the question, "What on earth is the psalmist doing?" He is looking at the starry heavens. Immanuel Kant says that two things fill my soul with awe.

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The starry heavens above and the moral law within. So the psalmist is looking at the starry heavens, twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder you are up above the sky so high like a diamond in the sky. The psalmist envisions the vast universe and meditates upon the wonderful works of the Creator. His heart testifies concerning the

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greatness and the grandeur of God. God created the ground of being. He exclaims, "Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth." We all have our nocturnal musings, meditations in the night.

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The stars that twinkle in the heavens are not there by accident, happenstance. They are the handiwork of the Creator. They reveal the creative genius of the Heavenly Father, fashioned by the Divine Hand

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They have been flung in to celestial space to decorate the night by divine order. The silvery moon stays on course and

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stars remain in their socket. The psalmist looks at the heavens, but He does not look with natural eyes. He looks with the eyes of faith

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Through the eyes of faith he sees in the heavens the handiwork of the living Lord the strong sovereign of the universe That's why he sings a song of praise

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Oh Lord our Lord Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth. In such a vast universe the Thomas considers himself as but a tiny speck of cosmic dust. We look at ourselves, we occupy such a small place among so many. But he recognizes also that the Lord of heaven

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and earth is the creator of this universe. He does not confine his rule to the narrow limits of our activities. He rules over all. The psalmist is one among many. He sees that his existence is isolated and obscure. He belongs to a small nation. Israel is a tiny minority in in the family of nations. The psalmist sees that God is not only the God of the Jewish people,

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he is the God of all the Gentile nations. He is King of heaven and earth. Oh Lord, Our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth. Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hath thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and and the avenger. The psalmist here has a certainty of faith. He is certain about the fact that God

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rules. God is in charge. God controls not only the heavens but he controls the earth. And how important it is for us at this particular juncture in our lives as we consider the life not only that we live but in in relationship to our nation and the changes that we anticipate the things that happen and the things that

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don't happen when we put it all together and to sing a hymn of praise saying, "Oh Lord, Our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth. You see his strength is revealed in human weakness. Infants are channels of divine power.

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Helpless, weak they may appear, yet they are channels of divine power. the reality of the divine revelation is manifested even in children. Because God is in charge. A little child is seen as a courageous and victorious leader. David Allad defeats the Philistine giant Goliath. God is in charge. God

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demonstrates his power by the strange way he defeats his enemies. He can even use that which is regarded as small and insignificant to defeat his enemies. When I consider the heavens the work of thy fingers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained. What is man that thou art mindful of him? You see as the psalmist

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observes creation he meditates on the creator and then after having meditated upon the creator he is led to consider the creature. So we have creation, creator, creature. We'd like to reverse that and think of it in terms of creator, creation, and creature. The question, however, is raised here. What is man? What is man? To put it another way, who am I? Who am I?

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This is an existential question. It's a question about our existence. It's a question about your existence it's a question about my existence who am I it has to do with one's identity who am I it's a good question a critic said of a contemporary theologian that he was giving 20th century answers to 19th

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questions. Who am I? One of the problems we face sometimes is that we find ourselves answering questions that nobody is asking. But this is a good question. What is man? Who am I? Biologist says that I'm a bundle of blood, bones, sinews, impulses.

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Who am I? Chemistry says that I'm made of chemicals that if we were to put them all together today and sell them at the marketplace maybe most of us would be worth about a dollar and a half. Who am I?

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Darwin says that I am a descendant from the ape. And Freud says that I'm a bundle of sex drives, who am I? But the psalmist you see is to be commended for going to the right source for the answer to this question. Thou has made him God. He asks the source, the one from whom we have all come, "Lord, I want you to tell me who

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I am. If I am to receive an understanding, if I am really to become aware of who I am, it must be in relationship to the Creator. We can only understand ourselves as creature and our role as the creature in relationship

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to the creator. Who am I? I really would like to change this and now thinking not what is man but who is man. Because you see when you say what it suggests an it.

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no person should be treated as it, but as a thou. And I am the only creature that God addresses as thou. He doesn't address the fish, the animal, the fowl as thou. It's only man, the human being he addresses as thou. Thou has made him a little less than God, a little lower than the angels, translated a little less than God. In

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In other words, God has made us all a little less than himself, and thou hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou hast put all things under his feet. In other words, the answer is that I am a marvelous mixture of dust and divinity.

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Studded Kennedy wrote, I'm a man and a man's a mixture right down from his birth. Part of him comes from heaven and part comes from earth. Man is made

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by God and so he is kin to God on the one hand and he is from the clod on the other. Clay from the clod and yet he's kin to God. He made to rule God's creation. Get that.

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He's made to rule God's creation. That's what we are to do. We are to be good stewards. We are made to rule this creation that belongs to God.

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We are to be good stewards of God's creation, good stewards of the land, good stewards of the water, good stewards of all that God has made because he has made us to have dominion over the fowl of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fish of the sea. God has made us. We talk about the endangered species because we haven't been good stewards. Not only do we have certain

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species, certain parts of God's creation that are endangered because of the way we have behaved, but now man himself is endangered and we talk about the threat of the nuclear holocaust. God has made us and he has given us dominion over everything, everything he has put all things under his feet. The question is

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what kind of steward am I? What am I doing with God's creation? With God's life that he has invested in me and in you. What are we doing with God's creation and that which he has made for us to use and and to glorify and honor His name. How are we managing the affairs of God's estate?

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Well, the psalmist begins by saying, "O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name." And he concludes by saying, "O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name." in all the earth. I like to think of this as a sort of a symphony. Symphony. It begins with one theme and that theme sort of goes all the way through the symphony, but it ends with the same theme.

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Same movement. A symphony of praise. Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth. Well, it said that this particular psalm, the eighth psalm, was written to be sung

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during the time when people were at the wine press, celebrated in connection with the wine press. You know what the wine press is? When, when the, the great is being crushed,

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The wine press, the time of harvest. It's symbolic of the afflictions of life. The crushing of the great wine press trading. The prophet talks about the one who is trading the wine press alone.

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Symbolic of afflictions. Well, really when you look at the wine press and while it's a symbolic of afflictions and it also has to do with the catastrophes through which nations pass. The wine press.

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We're having our wine press experience right now as a nation. The wine press. The afflictions and catastrophes that seem to visit us one upon the other. We have them in our own lives. Wine press experience. Wine press.

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The wine press. But that which somehow looks like just affliction, that it is, that it is, it is, it is, we look at it, there is also a blessing because the pressure that is placed upon the grape is placed there in order that that which is inside the grape which is to produce happiness and pleasure as it is squeezed and it comes out in that whole process that it is seen as something that is good for the grape

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and for the enjoyment of humankind so that the afflictions and the catastrophes that God would permit to come to nations and to individuals, that somehow that is a blessing that in the midst of your wide-bred experience, that you can sing a song of praise and say,

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"Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, that although I have my afflictions and I'm going through catastrophes and I don't understand it all but I can look to you and I recognize that you have

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everything in control and I just submit to you oh lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth. God has control. God has control. I know, well somebody said the other day said well I I said did you vote? say oh no I didn't vote say I really didn't think my vote matters. That was that was a person who was highly trained you would think but some people feel like that I don't think I really matter so

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many people have that attitude but you matter. Everybody matters. Everybody is important with God and he has placed us here on this planet to be workers together with him and to remember that God rules the world. How excellent is thy name in all the earth. Well and if you look, now I'm not talking about with the natural eye, don't depend upon the political analysts, don't depend upon the philosophers of our day, many of them are secular and

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they don't even believe God exists. But somehow if you look through the eyes of faith and you can have some nocturnal musings and you can meditate in the night when things aren't going right. You can look up in the darkness and see the stars and cry out in the night, "Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth." And through the eyes of faith you can say,

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"Mine eyes, mine eyes, mine eyes have seen the glory, "that in the midst of all of the catastrophes "and the afflictions, mine eyes have seen the glory "of the coming of the Lord.

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"He is trapping out the vintage "where the grapes of wrath are stored. "He has loosed his fateful lightning "of his terrible swift sword.

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His truth is marching on. And you can cry out, glory, glory. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Glory, glory, hallelujah.

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His truth is marching on. Oh, Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth. And then you can sort of walk with him.

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You can walk with Him not only in the day, but you can walk with Him in the night. Thou, my everlasting potion, more than friend or life to me, all along this pilgrim journey, Savior, let me walk with Thee. We invite you to come, to hook up with the eternal.

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[MUSIC PLAYING] You have here as your eternal companion, your contemporary. Walk with me. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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[MUSIC] ♪ Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ ♪ O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪

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[music] ♪ Close to thee ♪ ♪ Close to thee ♪ ♪ Close to thee ♪

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♪ Ah ♪ ♪ My little birdie ♪ ♪ Say goodnight ♪ ♪ We hope and fear ♪

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♪ The great ♪ ♪ The working ♪ ♪ The great ♪ ♪ The working ♪

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♪ And in him ♪ ♪ I hope that the ♪ ♪ Holy man ♪ ♪ In your name ♪

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♪ Walks with me ♪ ♪ Walks with me ♪ ♪ Walks with me ♪ ♪ Oh, to thee ♪

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♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ I live and die ♪ ♪ Every breath ♪ ♪ Is all I need ♪

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♪ Oh, to thee ♪ ♪ Close to me ♪ ♪ Close to me ♪ ♪ Close to me ♪

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♪ When we meet ♪ ♪ I know I'm meant to love you ♪ ♪ To hold you tight ♪ ♪ Before ♪

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[ Music ] [ Music ] [music] ♪ In the days of life eternal ♪

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♪ When the years are over me ♪ ♪ What to live ♪ ♪ What to live ♪ ♪ What to live ♪

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