1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,320 Well, my name is Greg. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:03,800 If we've never met before, 3 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:04,960 I would love to meet you, 4 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,800 maybe grab a coffee with you sometime. 5 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:13,440 Even if it's just after service out in the lobby or at a place like Theo's, 6 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:18,260 we'd love to get to know you and hear your story. 7 00:00:18,260 --> 00:00:20,280 The first song that popped into my head was, 8 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:25,560 it's just another day for you and me in paradise. 9 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,920 I don't know why, that's just the first song that popped into my head. 10 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:30,560 I have what's called, 11 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:32,040 I call them default songs. 12 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:32,800 Do you guys have these? 13 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:34,600 Where they're not, 14 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:36,480 I don't think that they're an earworm. 15 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:38,080 An earworm is something different. 16 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:42,520 An earworm is a song that you do not want in your head and it gets stuck. 17 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:47,040 I think a default song is more like just when your brain doesn't know what else to do, 18 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,000 it starts singing this thing. 19 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,380 I have two primary default songs. 20 00:00:52,380 --> 00:00:54,520 One is Revelation song. 21 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:56,820 I've never led that song, 22 00:00:56,820 --> 00:01:00,280 I think a single time in my entire life and yet for some reason, 23 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,080 it is stuck in my head somewhere in the deep recesses of who I am. 24 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:05,560 The other one is, 25 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,040 I don't know the words to it, 26 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:12,040 but I will inevitably start singing the colors of the wind from Pocahontas. 27 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,800 I don't know. I don't know why. 28 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:22,380 I didn't even know what it was until I think it was Cindy or someone else was like, 29 00:01:22,380 --> 00:01:24,960 you know what you're whistling right now, right? 30 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:26,800 I was like, I have no idea. 31 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,400 It's just the thing that keeps, 32 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,320 I just always come back to that. 33 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:34,800 I just, and she's like, 34 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,120 yeah, that's colors of the wind from Pocahontas. 35 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:44,200 There's songs and music have this influence over us. 36 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:51,240 That is why, while the first week we said that worship is not the songs, 37 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:55,360 songs are also a powerful part of how we worship God. 38 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,760 We started that first week saying that worship is the everything that we have. 39 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:01,760 We can worship God with anything and everything. 40 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,040 We went to the Shema in Deuteronomy. 41 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,320 Worship the Lord your God with all your heart, your soul, your mind, 42 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,400 your strength because our God is one. 43 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,600 He's worthy of all of it. 44 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,000 Jesus reiterates that in the New Testament saying that if there is 45 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,320 a command that is most important, it is this one, 46 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:20,640 and then it leads us to then love our neighbors differently. 47 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:30,560 Last week, Scott drew our attention to looking at the Psalms as something that we can pray as a form of worship. 48 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:34,240 The Psalms, I don't know if you guys know this about the Psalms, 49 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,440 but the Psalms are what would be called the Songbook of the Jewish people. 50 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:45,000 And while it's common to think that King David wrote all the Psalms or even most of the Psalms, 51 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,040 it's actually a little less than half. 52 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:48,960 And that's being a little gracious. 53 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:55,120 There's a lot of Psalms that scholars would say this is attributed to King David, 54 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:57,480 whether he wrote it or not, but 73. 55 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:03,560 There's 150 Psalms, 73 of them were either written by or attributed to King David. 56 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:07,120 You'll see if you look at the top, it'll have the number, 57 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:16,040 and then I'll say a Psalm of David or a song from the chorus leader for King David, etc. 58 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:20,720 Now, that is an important little tidbit if you want to understand the Bible. 59 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:25,160 It's an important tidbit to understand that David didn't write all 150. 60 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:29,280 And the reason is because David only lived to be 70 years old. 61 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:38,680 He wrote 73 songs or had 73 attributed to him in 70 years, and he only... 62 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:43,280 The other 80 were written over the course of a thousand years. 63 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:47,600 It's important to realize that the same thing happens with the book of Acts. 64 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:49,680 You read the book of Acts and you go, wow, there's so many... 65 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,840 There's miracle after miracle after miracle after miracle after miracle after story after story after story. 66 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:59,000 And then you come to find out that the book of Acts actually describes a 50 to 70 year period. 67 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,560 It's describing, it's condensing all of this greatness that God did into a single book 68 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,080 where you can read one thing after another. 69 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:11,520 And when you read the Psalms, you might go, wow, like these guys were just popping out songs like every other day. 70 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:18,440 And the reality is is that it takes a long time to write a song that lasts. 71 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:25,360 Like there's 150 Psalms that and they've all lasted as part of the Jewish Songbook for thousands of years at this point. 72 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:30,080 But even now, there's ones that everybody knows or everyone is familiar with. 73 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,680 Psalm 23, right? 74 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,320 Yeh, though I walk through the valley of shadow of death. 75 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:40,240 Like we have songs that are based off Psalm 23. 76 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:50,800 There's some that just seem to resonate in a way that just seems to last no matter what. 77 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:55,280 And it seems like as you read through the Psalms that nothing was off limits. 78 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:57,600 Their successes, they could write songs about those. 79 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,160 Their failures, they wrote songs about those. 80 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,960 Their loneliness, they wrote songs about those. 81 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:07,680 Their celebrations, they wrote songs about those. 82 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:14,640 David and the other writers, they'd experience life and then they'd write a song about it. 83 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:21,680 It is my theory, my personal belief that much more than 150 Psalms were written. 84 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:33,720 It's just that it's these 150 that lasted, that made it into the book, that made it into, hey, these are the ones that we should all sing together. 85 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:38,440 When you read through them, you find out that they're actually singing their history. 86 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:39,840 A lot of it is they're singing their history. 87 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:44,080 It's broken up into different parts to tell different stories, to have different themes. 88 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:45,360 They're singing their covenants. 89 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,840 They're singing about the liturgy that they had. 90 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:52,840 There's actually songs, if you look at it, it says Song of Ascent. 91 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:58,760 Song of Ascent is describing the idea that this is a song that you can sing on your way to go worship God. 92 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:02,880 Because let us go to a high place and worship the Lord. 93 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,760 They would sing with wisdom and poetry. 94 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:07,160 They'd sing their joys. 95 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:22,000 They would sing their sorrows, anything that they experienced, anything that we experience, think or feel in this life can be shaped as a song of worship to God. 96 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:33,720 And the truth is, when you look through the Psalms, somewhere between 30 and 70%, depending on how you break down how many verses of the Psalm were lament, 97 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:40,320 between 30 and 70% of the Psalms are actually what's called laments, are called complaint songs. 98 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,920 That's the most literal translation, a complaint song. 99 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:56,520 And all but one of them, Psalm 88, all but one of them ends, even though it is a complaint, they all end by saying, and yet I will praise the Lord. 100 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,960 Think about that. 101 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,320 Think about all the things that you've been through. 102 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:05,760 Someone could write a song about the thing that you were going through. 103 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:14,840 And then the grand majority of the times that something got written about what you were going through, it still ended with, and yet I will praise the Lord, even though, even though all of this. 104 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:22,800 Today we actually sing two songs that I wrote for important reasons. 105 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:29,640 In the fall and winter of 2014, I wrote a song called U-Turn. 106 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:31,280 It was that second one. 107 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:38,400 It wasn't until later that I realized after naming it that people are going to think I'm talking about a car that's making a U-Turn. 108 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:43,480 But it's U-Turn, talking about God, U-Turn, over and over, all these things. 109 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:45,640 You can turn this into this. 110 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:47,360 You can turn this into this. 111 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,440 And I wrote that because my son was in the hospital. 112 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:56,400 We were basically living in a hospital going through the most difficult thing that we had ever gone through. 113 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:03,040 I needed to say to God, I think you can take this woundedness and turn it into something else. 114 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:07,120 I think you can take this fearfulness and turn it into something else. 115 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:08,800 This brokenness. 116 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,600 Maybe you can actually turn me into the likeness of your son. 117 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:20,720 Maybe I can still say that you are great, that you are mighty, that you are awesome in every way. 118 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:29,840 In the moment of our greatest sorrow, a song saying, I remember the moment. 119 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:39,080 I was sitting in his room in the hospital in Chicago, it's Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where he was still on Vents when we got there. 120 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:44,880 And he was doing therapy every day and they had a TV hanging from the ceiling, kind of like this. 121 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,440 Like some hotels or hospital rooms do. 122 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,440 It wasn't on the wall. It was kind of like hanging out in the middle of nowhere. 123 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:57,600 And I was sitting there and I was looking up at it and it just dawned on me like, 124 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:04,840 even now, my attention, things are trying to pull my attention to something else. 125 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:16,800 Even now, as we're going through this, the desire of the world around me was to pull my attention away from either my son or my family or from my Lord. 126 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:26,480 And so in that room, I started to go, all of my affection. 127 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:33,320 In the moments of our deepest sorrows, there are songs that can be born. 128 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:38,600 The song at your house, I started that in the summer of 2022. 129 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:45,800 It took probably nine months to finish it because when I started, I still have the voice memo on my phone. 130 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,280 I was in California. I was on sabbatical. 131 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:52,920 I was visiting one of my mentors, one of our overseers, Michael Ummenauer. 132 00:09:52,920 --> 00:10:02,680 He's at a church in Woodlands, California, about 45 minutes, maybe an hour from Sacramento, north of San Francisco. 133 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:09,640 And I was sitting in his sanctuary as he was doing other things between when we were going to get to hang out. 134 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:14,960 And I was in California. And so the border was on my mind a lot and immigration was on my mind a lot. 135 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:27,240 And I just sat and I just plucked you open every broken border because I know that the way that we look at borders in our countries, 136 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:32,880 in our world, in our modern day, with our eyes and with our solutions, are broken. 137 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:41,000 There's Andy has this joke. I think you're the one that told me is like, if you if you if you don't like our problems, wait till you see our solutions. 138 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,960 Right. That is so I'm sitting there. 139 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:56,000 You open every broken border, so every orphan daughter and son will come home again. 140 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,720 That's all I had. That's all I had. 141 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:05,440 Then I came home and I kept working on it, working on it by the end of this by the end of December. 142 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:14,200 I had kind of written that and I'd written the middle verse that said you're calling every hurting mother, every distant father. 143 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:19,560 But it was still it was melancholy. It was slow. 144 00:11:19,560 --> 00:11:27,400 It was finger picked. The sound guy hated it. Now, I was like this time I had to turn up the guitar so he could hear it. 145 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:40,000 And and it was it was yeah, it was just this melancholy kind of lament that even though the door is always open at your house. 146 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:48,400 And I remember. Adding a little rhythm to it. 147 00:11:48,400 --> 00:12:01,000 And then realizing that, wow, this this song that's speaking of different sorrows, that song that is that was originated in the idea that the way that we do things, 148 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,000 the way that we have borders in our country are so broken. 149 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,760 But there's something about God's house that is always open. 150 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:13,720 Suddenly, it turned into a song of celebration. 151 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:22,360 Just by changing the rhythm, it's the same exact songs, same exact melody, same exact words. 152 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:35,760 And yet changing the rhythm. Causes it to be something that like I want to go, hey, you want to clap. 153 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:39,960 Songs have this way of comforting, encouraging us. 154 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:51,480 And I think that new songs have this way of reminding us of and renewing our hopes. 155 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:57,760 They don't fix everything. They probably don't fix much of anything. 156 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:06,560 But they put word and melody and harmony and lyric to our feelings, to our experiences, to our emotions. 157 00:13:06,560 --> 00:13:16,080 It's as though it takes the coat off of our heart and it hangs it up so that you can stand back and look at it. 158 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:28,880 What a song does. It has a way of weaving together the things that you have felt and experienced and been through and turning it into something that is now suddenly external to you. 159 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,800 You can show it to somebody else. This is what I was talking about. 160 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:41,720 This is what I meant when I was in that hospital room. This is what I felt when I was in that sanctuary alone thinking about this. 161 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:52,000 This is what I felt it was like just wanting everyone to get to come home. 162 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:59,840 The hardest line to come up with was the last line, that last verse, because obviously you want things to follow the same patterns. 163 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:07,880 You want to follow some rhyme if you can. You want there to seem like there was some reason to where this song was going. 164 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:20,320 It took forever, nine months to get to the place where finally it was, you offer dignity and honor. 165 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:26,600 You strip my shame of its power. Why? Why? 166 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:32,560 Because so many of us don't come home because of what? Because of shame. 167 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:37,680 Because we're so sure that if we come home, the first thing we're going to be handed is a bucket full of shame. 168 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:42,520 Here you go. You should feel bad that you came home. 169 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:47,800 But Jesus strips the power from that. 170 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:56,760 And then he sets a table for you. 171 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:03,680 New songs don't fix everything, but they give language and melody and structure to what we felt. 172 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:13,760 And it may not fix anything or everything now, but it reminds us that everything will be fixed someday. 173 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:22,520 And so today, with a little bit of time that we have left, we'll see how this goes. We're going to work on a song together. 174 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:27,320 You can come up afterwards and tell me if you want your name on it. 175 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:33,520 I'm not going to take a mental picture of everyone that was here, but I want us to work on writing a song together today. 176 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:41,080 And we're going to use Psalm 96 as an example, as the structure, not necessarily the structure, 177 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,280 but as inspiration for what we're going to do. 178 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:46,040 And so what I've done is I've printed it out. 179 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:49,800 There's four different translations or versions around the room. 180 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:56,200 And that's because those different versions use different words for some of the key things throughout that scripture. 181 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:03,880 And what I want us to do is you're also welcome to open up your own Bible or to get to open up the app or go grab one from the bookshelf. 182 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,000 But the first thing that we're going to do is we're just going to read it. 183 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,440 We're going to sit with it. 184 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:14,920 We're going to look for the Lord to give us some inspiration of how to write this. 185 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:21,160 And then I'm going to need one volunteer that thinks they've got good penmanship. 186 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:23,040 Ready? Who is it? 187 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,840 Don't make me pick someone who's going to have to volunteer. 188 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,320 Oh, you got awesome. Yes. All right. 189 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,560 So I'll tell you when you come into the scheme. 190 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:37,040 OK, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to read this aloud and then I'm going to give you four minutes. 191 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:42,600 To sit with it, to take a pencil from the table, to circle words that you feel are important, 192 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:48,600 to underline the sentences that you think are the most important to you and what you're experiencing. 193 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:56,320 Now, this is not a lament. That does not mean that your lament cannot relate to what is being said. 194 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,560 Amen. All right. Here we go. 195 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:04,960 I'm going to read it and I'm going to give you a few minutes to just sit with it and don't give up. 196 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:11,800 Listen, do not phase out. Do not stare out into nowhere unless you're imagining the words above you in the sky. 197 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,720 Give your attention to this, all of your affection. 198 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,160 Let's turn it towards the Lord and see what God does with this passage. 199 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:22,080 It's Psalm 96. Sing a new song to the Lord. 200 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:25,720 Let the whole earth sing to the Lord, sing to the Lord, praise his name. 201 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:32,000 Each day, proclaim the good news that he saves. Publish his glorious deeds among the nations. 202 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:36,200 Tell everyone about the amazing things that he's done. Great is the Lord. 203 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:40,360 He is most worthy of praise. He is to be feared above all gods. 204 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:44,360 The gods of other nations are mere idols, but the Lord made the heavens. 205 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:49,400 Honor and majesty surround him. Strength and beauty fill his sanctuary. 206 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:54,920 O nations of the world, recognize the Lord. Recognize the Lord is glorious and strong. 207 00:17:54,920 --> 00:18:00,160 Give to the Lord the glory he deserves. Bring your offering and come into his courts. 208 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:04,400 Worship the Lord in all his holy splendor. Let all the earth tremble before him. 209 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:10,520 Tell all the nations, the Lord reigns. The world stands firm and cannot be shaken. 210 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:16,360 He will judge all peoples fairly. Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice. 211 00:18:16,360 --> 00:18:21,000 Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise. 212 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,760 Let the fields and their crops burst out with joy. 213 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:31,000 Let the trees of the forest sing for joy before the Lord, for he is coming. 214 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:38,080 He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with justice and the nations with his truth. 215 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:55,360 Alright, you got four minutes. Give it your attention. Let's see what happens. 216 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,360 Alright, 30 seconds. 217 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:20,160 Alright, what are we going to do? Remind me your name. 218 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:27,320 Gracie, Gracie, will you be the person that writes words on the whiteboard for me? 219 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,920 Alright, very cool. Come on up. 220 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:36,120 And this is the first thing we're going to do. Just so you know what we're aiming for. 221 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:43,120 We're going to aim for at least one verse in the chorus. 222 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:52,120 So first thing is, starting over here, a single word that stuck out to you. 223 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:55,120 Just shout it out, but wait to move across the room. 224 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:59,120 Okay, ready from over here? Sing. 225 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:09,120 You can kind of make a long list of the words. Sing. Equity. 226 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:31,120 Fields. Fields of equity. E-Q-U-I-T-Y. I-T-Y. And then fields. F-I-E-L-B-S. And what? Grand. Grand-ger. 227 00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:49,120 U-E-R. G-A-R-N-D-U-E-R. E-U-R. Grand-E-U-R. Grand. And then E-U-R. Grand-E-U-R. 228 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:55,120 Y'all just throwing, you're finding the hardest. Okay, moving across. True. 229 00:23:55,120 --> 00:24:05,120 True. That's an even more true. Gracie didn't realize that she's going to be tested this way today. 230 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:20,120 All right, moving this way. Jubilant. J-U-B-I-L-A-N-T. Jubilant. 231 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:29,120 I-L-A-N-T. Okay, over here. 232 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:40,120 Splendor. S-P-L-E-N-D-O-R. 233 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:52,120 Strength. Strength. S-T-R-E-N-G-T-H. Strength. Denise. Proclaim. 234 00:24:52,120 --> 00:25:09,120 And you can start in a row once. Okay, moving this way. Worthy. 235 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:18,120 Okay, on the back. Tremble. T-R-E-N-V-L-E. 236 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:46,120 Rejoice. R-E-J-O-I-C-E. And then over here. Anything? Radiates. R-A-D-I-A-T-E-S. Joy. 237 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:56,120 All right, so now, is there anybody in the room that had a sentence that you were like, 238 00:25:56,120 --> 00:26:03,120 this is a sentence that came to my mind as I was reading this? What do you got? 239 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:23,120 Yep. All right. Andy, will you come up and write that so that she doesn't have to? 240 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:33,120 Start to the right of the word worthy. You can move that eraser. 241 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:44,120 No, I don't care. So move that eraser so you got plenty of room up there at the top. 242 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:53,120 It's going to have to be big enough for me to read it. 243 00:26:53,120 --> 00:27:15,120 Don't go muddy in the waters. 244 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:33,120 He's like an 11th pawn. 245 00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:52,120 The songs of old no longer do justice to my heart. My song is added to your chorus and you delight in me. 246 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:58,120 Does anybody else have a sentence that came to your mind or that you wrote? 247 00:27:58,120 --> 00:28:09,120 Yes, you might have to come and write it. Africa. We can both. You can both, Africa, first. 248 00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:29,120 The trees of the forest sing for joy. Will you come write it? Yeah. 249 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:52,120 And then dad, what did you say? He treats everyone fair and square. 250 00:28:52,120 --> 00:29:03,120 You all want to see my dad's handwriting? Come on, Bob. Come on. 251 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:12,120 The trees of the forest sing for joy. 252 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:40,120 The trees of the forest sing for joy. 253 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:48,120 Oh, better than mine. 254 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:58,120 This is bad shoulder he says. He treats everyone fair and square. 255 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:22,120 All right, so I see the trees. 256 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:32,120 I see the trees. 257 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:43,120 Okay. 258 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:54,120 All right. 259 00:30:54,120 --> 00:31:02,120 Okay, I lift them and rejoice. 260 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:19,120 Okay. 261 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,120 This is the process. 262 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:29,120 The process. 263 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:36,120 Oh, I see the trees. They're singing out for joy. My heart, my song. 264 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:48,120 I lift them and rejoice. 265 00:31:48,120 --> 00:32:09,120 You are worthy. 266 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:18,120 You are worthy. 267 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:26,120 You are worthy. 268 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:50,120 You are worthy. 269 00:32:50,120 --> 00:33:08,120 I see the trees. They're singing out for joy. My heart, my song. I lift them and rejoice. 270 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:14,120 You are worthy. You are worthy. 271 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:31,120 You are worthy, Lord. 272 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:45,120 All right. So with good penmanship, I need your help. Let's write that out, what we have so far, and let's fill that last line, and then let's worship God with this, okay? All right, so who wants to help? 273 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,120 Marissa's got one? Okay. 274 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:48,120 You have a line? 275 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:49,120 No, no. 276 00:33:49,120 --> 00:34:04,120 Okay. 277 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:19,120 If Jen was here right now, she might go, Greg, that sounds a little bit like something you wrote back in 2003. 278 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:44,120 My heart, my song. I lift them and rejoice. 279 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:52,120 I think we can remember the you are worthy part, but let's think about that, what should come out. 280 00:34:52,120 --> 00:35:19,120 I see the trees. They're singing out for joy. My heart, my song. I lift them and rejoice. 281 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:25,120 What about, come sing along the splendor of the Lord or something like that. 282 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:38,120 Something that can be really important about a worship song is not to sing about ourselves but to turn it outward. There's a lot of the Psalms that he's inviting others to come sing this with him. 283 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:45,120 Come sing along the splendor of the Lord. 284 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:50,120 All right, so let's try that out. You got good knees, Marissa. Good for you. 285 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:51,120 I haven't stood up yet. 286 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:54,120 I was going to say, you need help? Because that would hurt. 287 00:35:54,120 --> 00:36:01,120 Here you go, ready? 288 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:19,120 All right, so let's try this. I see the trees. They're singing out for joy. My heart, my song. I lift them and rejoice. Come sing along the splendor of the Lord. 289 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:39,120 Let's sing that one more time. I see the trees. They're singing out for joy. My heart, my song. I lift them and rejoice. Come sing along the splendor of the Lord. 290 00:36:39,120 --> 00:37:00,120 Because you are worthy. You are worthy. You are worthy, Lord. You are worthy. You are worthy, Lord. 291 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:19,120 Let's turn our hearts to God now. I see the trees. They're singing out for joy. My heart, my song. I lift them and rejoice. Come sing along the splendor of the Lord. 292 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:45,120 Let's tell them together, he's worthy. You are worthy. You are worthy, Lord. You are worthy. You are worthy, Lord. 293 00:37:45,120 --> 00:38:04,120 All right, let me lead you. I encourage everybody just to close your eyes. Don't forget that we are with each other, but simultaneously center in. 294 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:21,120 I'm aware that the Spirit of God is in his place. That while there have been thousands upon thousands of words written about our God, there's still new things he wants to say to you. 295 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:37,120 There are old songs he wants to renew, to rewrite, to wrap around you like clothing that will warm your heart. 296 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:43,120 Let your imagination be involved here. 297 00:38:43,120 --> 00:39:00,120 I see the trees. They're singing out for joy. My heart, my song. I lift them and rejoice. Come sing along the splendor of the Lord. 298 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,120 Let's worship God together. 299 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:22,120 You are worthy. You are worthy, God. You are worthy. You are worthy, God. 300 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:36,120 All right, the half of the room that is closer to the door. I want you to sing with me. The half of the room that is to my left, further from the door. I want you to echo. 301 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:40,120 Follow Marissa. She's doing it. 302 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,120 All right, first half sing with me, the other half echo it. 303 00:39:43,120 --> 00:40:03,120 You are worthy. You are worthy, God. You are worthy. You are worthy, God. 304 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:23,120 Sing it to each other. You are worthy. Declare it to each other that God is worthy. You are worthy, God. You are worthy. You are worthy. 305 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,120 Now pick your part. 306 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:52,120 You are worthy. You are worthy, God. Sing it to the Lord. You are worthy. You are worthy, God. 307 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:56,120 Amen.