When They Sung A Hymn | Student Pastor Zach Hammond

If you'd open your Bibles to Matthew chapter number 26 and verse number 26. We will go to the word of the Lord. Just one more time. Want to say happy anniversary to Pastor and Sister Carpenter. And we are so thankful for them. One more time. Give them a big hand. We love them. Wonderful message from pastor this morning. And I'm always always fed and thankful for him. I think I got to counting it up today. I think he's preached eight, nine, I don't know, 37 days straight or something like that. I don't know. He's been preaching about every night this week. And so, um, he's letting down. He said he Oh, he he could have preached tonight. And he ain't no doubt about it. So, um we're thankful for the word of the Lord. I just want to say thank you to each and every one of you for um the text and the calls and the prayers for my wife. She is doing much better and I love her and give her honor tonight. Just going to preach uh simply tonight. Um and it this requires a little bit of participation and I'm not sure that I'll get finished tonight, but I just want to continue right into pray from praise and worship on into praise and worship. Is that okay? And I know that's one of them things we're like, man, we just did that for 45 minutes. Could you just preach to us and give us a word? But I think I I think I've got something for you tonight that I I and I say I think because it ultimately depends on you and whether or not you want to participate in it. And I think it it needs to happen in this place tonight because I believe someone is going to leave here much different than they came in. And I don't say that cliche. I don't say that because that's what you're supposed to say. I say that because if we can apply the word of God, anything is possible. If you can simply apply just a piece of the word of God, just do something maybe you never done before or you haven't done in a while. Let's say it that way. Then something can change in your life. Matthew 26 and verse number 26. And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it. And he broke it and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take, eat. this is my body. And he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them, saying, "Drink, drink ye all of it. For this is the blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it new with you in my father's kingdom." And when they had sung a hymn, when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives. I want to preach to you with this title tonight. When they sung a hymn. When they sung a hymn. Would you lay your Bibles down? Would you lift your hands to heaven? And let's ask the Lord to meet with us tonight. I believe the Lord is already here, but we need him just to move upon our hearts, to move upon our minds. God, we come before you tonight, Lord. As we open up the scriptures, I ask, God, that your glory would move in this room tonight. That freedom would move into this place. That there would be liberty in this room tonight. Lord, that somebody's going to break out of their situation. Someone's going to be set free, Lord. I believe somebody can be healed in this place tonight, Lord. I know that you're here and you want to do great works among us, Lord. And we're here with faith and expectation, believing, God, that you are more, God. You're more than able to do great and mighty things tonight. In Jesus' name we pray. Would you shout, "Amen." >> Amen. >> You can be seated. Christianity is known as a singing religion. >> It's a religion where um Martin Luther said, "Next after theology, I would give music the highest place and the greatest honor." You don't really get very far throughout the Bible and the word of God without noticing that there is a lot of songs, hymns, spiritual songs. They would even take the scripture. We talk about praying the scripture. They would sing the scripture. They would literally create a tune to the to the to the the scripture. And and you know, we we we've do we've kind of taken that a little bit with Sunday school. You know, we we remember a lot of uh different Sunday school songs. Sometimes they get a little misinterpreted and you know the whole old old story that the the young man asked. He said, "I didn't know God's name was Andy." They were singing Andy walked with me. Andy talked with me. So we took we took and we put it to a rhyme. You know, there was a we would teach the concepts of scripture to a lullabi or to a a song or to a hymn. And uh and they said one one young man was singing Genesis, Exodus, Ridiculous, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. you know, um, but we're we're at least making an effort because if you can put it in song form, a lot of times you can remember it and it'll stick with you. There there's some of you, you don't remember one sermon I've ever preached, but you remember every song Sister Hawkins sings, right? Well, that that that's too many of you agreed with that. Um, but it's easier to remember. God knows Sister Hawkins can sing better than I can preach, but if we put it to a tune, Amen. we put it to a tune, it will stick with you. And many times we we see this concept within scripture that we know here that it says that Jesus is constantly giving them hints that he's the Messiah. >> So this story in the Gospel of Matthew, he takes them and this is the latter days, the towards the end of the gospel, Jesus is being, you know, he he's preparing them for what's about to happen. He's saying things like destroy this temple. but in three days I'll raise it up. He's trying to tell them without telling them and they just don't get it. Anybody ever talk to anybody like that? Huh? You're trying to tell them but they just don't get it right. He he's he's dealing with quite the crew here and and uh you know, Brother Woodward helped us out by giving them a little bit of bit of the doubt that they were a younger group of people. And so maybe they didn't quite understand everything that he was saying. But we see here that Jesus sang a hymn. Says, "When they had sung a hymn, they then departed." this hymn uh we actually know because we're going to correlate the scripture and I'll explain to you how we know what Jesus sang. He's saying something called the hell and I believe I'm pronouncing that right tonight. It's the name of a section in the book of Psalms. Psalms chapter 113 through uh ver through chapters 118. And now I don't have time tonight to go through and read all of those chapters to you, but this was a song. We read it as scripture, but they would sing this. And this this this song, the name of this section of Psalms was sung at a certain festive or festival or a certain uh feast day or a certain uh time. And it began with hallelujah. That's why it's called the hell. simply in our terms today, hallelujah, which is Hebrew for praise ye Jehovah. Praise ye the Lord. So they would begin to give this cadence and this rh rhthm and traditionally the hell was written by Ezra even the scribes to com uh the scribe to commemorate the building of the second temple after the captivity in Psalms 118. It was the last thus most important part. They said they when they would begin to build temples and they would build monuments and they would have what we would consider perhaps the ribbon cutting ceremony, they wouldn't do it without singing. How great is Jehovah, the hell, the hallelujah. If you read through there, I see some of you already kind of pinning through the scriptures, kind of looking, open up your Bibles to to 113, you'll see that it begins to talk about a lot of things that the Lord has done that as they they look back through the that they brought them out of Egypt. They brought them out of some things and the tra the Jews traditionally sang this hell, but they sang it specifically tonight as I could kind of focus in at three special occasions. Everybody say three. >> Three special occasions. They sang it in their homes, which would be the portion of chapters 113 and 114 before the Passover. And they would sing chapters 115 through 118 after the Passover. So when the Passover day was there, they would they would experience these songs. They would sing a portion in their homes before and they would sing a portion in their homes after. And then the other time is in the temple of Passover while the evening around 300 p.m. You can read it in the the the the whole process of sacrifice. It would be the evening at 3 p.m. when they would sacrifice the animals in the temple. They would begin to sing the hallelujah. They would begin to sing the hell. They would begin to sing Psalms 113 and 114 and 115. And as they would sacrifice the animal and as it was complete, they would begin to sing Psalms 116 and 117 and 118. And so they see that this this this song went along with everything that was going on. And so they didn't want to forget it. They said, "We'll put a tune to it. We'll put a a lullabi to it to where it's not just something that you have to memorize." But these kids were able to sing along. The students were able to participate. The elders, they had it, they had it memorized by this time. But the third place was at Pentecost. >> And at Pentecost, your historians, right, that it was to be a festivity. It was a celebration. It was a party. And they would get out in the streets, Brother White, and they would begin to sing the same song that they sung at Passover. They'd be get out get out in the streets and they'd perhaps do a little dance. They'd get a little timberal that reminded them of the other side of the Red Sea where God had brought their people out. And they begin to sing and dance and shout and they would make some noise and they would be singing the same song, but Pentecost is a little more fun than Passover. So perhaps it had a little bit of a a beat to it, had a little bit more of excitement to it. But they would sing these same songs. And it says that it had a specific time. They would sing the song at 9:00 am in the morning, the morning after Pentecost. The sacrifices have been slain. And this is a party. God knows you've heard it preached if you've been around this church. It is a Pentecostal church. >> We believe in the demonstration. Lord, you've probably already seen that tonight if you're a guest. We believe in the demonstration of not only the presence of God, but the presence of God is in this place tonight because of the worship of God's people. We believe in being emotional about our God. Amen. We believe that he deserves all of our emotions. I'm not saving it for a ball field. I'm not saving it for I'm going to give him all of my emotions. I'm going to pour everything I've got out to him. I'm going to give him everything I've got. And so we as Pentecostals understand that many times perhaps our Sundays could look like a party, but you can't sing the hallelujah in the streets until you've sung it in the house. You can't sing it as a festivity until you've sung it in the house with some repentance, with some blood, with some with with some some some sacrifice. Amen. >> And and I know many of us and and I just just kind of just just kind of shake you up a little bit. But worship is not just a custom that you come do at church. All right. >> It's something that it's much more comfortable to do here when I've been doing it at home. >> One of the most life-changing quotes I ever read, I read it about 16 years old, and it says, "I don't come to church to worship. I come to church worshiping. >> I've been doing this all week long. I've not been tuned into the world all week and then come in and try to get on the frequency of God for just a few hours and hope that that'll hold me over." No, no, no, no, no. He said, "Pray, worship, do it without ceasing. My heart is set on him. I seek first the kingdom of God. I seek him diligently. I pursue him on Monday. I pursue him on Tuesday." So, we sing the songs when they've sung a hymn in the house than they can sing a hymn in the streets. Some of us would be much more effective on our jobs if we could sing the song at home first. But I want you to look at this with me. A lot of great preaching points and applications there. But let's move forward into in the year that Jesus died, the Jews seem to always be missing what is going on. The Jews missed the message of the song entirely. The Jewish disciples missed it at the Passover supper as we read in our opening text. The Jewish priests missed it during the Passover sacrifice and the Jewish leaders missed it during the Pentecostal or Pentecost celebration. I want to dive into these just a little bit just to take you through and let you see the scriptural crossover here and that it makes a little bit more sense to you of how powerful this song is. The Jews traditionally sang this hell at those three special occasions in the home 113 to 114 and and in 115 to 118 they sang this hallelujah this chorus in the homes and after the Passover this this this Jewish the disciples missed it at the Passover in our opening text he says take of this bread this is my body that'll be broken for you take of this wine this fruit of the vine it's to represent my blood he says I want you to do this. He says, "But I'm not going to drink of this till I drink with you in the Father's Kingdom." He's he's telling them everything and they they they don't they don't get it. So he says, "Maybe this will prick your mind of what's going on." So he sings a song. Sometimes the word This is why I'm so envious of people like Brother Ericson because you can preach and you can preach and you can preach and sometimes it don't work. Not necessarily here, but you ought to go some places. Sometimes it don't work. And I wish so many times I could just sing >> and I can't. >> And everybody wants me to till they can make fun of me, you know. But it's like Jesus gives them one more little hint. He just drops it in. He's like, "Maybe this song will jog your memory of something I did in the Old Testament. Maybe this song will fulfill you. You know, I'm fulfilling this prophecy right here as we speak. But he says, "And it ought, right? We're sitting here. Here's the bread. Here's the blood. There's no lamb." Because the lamb's sitting at the table. >> The lamb's right here. And so that they can't pick up anything. But he says, "Surely surely they'll remember this." Hallelujah. So maybe they'll remember Psalms 113 because they've sung that every Passover. Maybe they'll remember Psalms 114 because we've sung that all of our life. These pe these guys have have been around it enough that at least this would jog their memory. No. And the temple is a second place. And I want you just to picture this with me. This messed me up a few days ago. In the temple on Passover, while the evening around 300 p.m. is what it says, the sacrifices would be slain. Now look at this. This is what would happen on Passover. They would take the lambs into the temple. They would they would kill the lambs. There would be the sacrifice for sin around 3 p.m. And so what does it say in John 18:39? Jesus crucified at Passover. And Pilate said, "But ye have a custom that I should release unto you one at the Passover. Will you therefore that I release unto you the king of the Jews? So he lets us know that Jesus is about to be crucified on Passover. And then Paul, he took up the same theme in his letter to the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 5:7. Purge out therefore the old leaven that ye may be a new lump as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our pacif Passover is sacrificed for us. And then Mark 15, because there's no coincidence ever in the Bible. I want you to see this with me. Mark 15 verse 34 tells us that Jesus died at the 9inth hour. Jesus died at 3 p.m. And the 9inth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, Lama Sabati," which is being interpreted, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" And some of them stood by when they heard it, and behold, he called Elias, and one ran and filled with a sponge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let alone, let us see whether Elias will come and take him down." And Jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up the ghost. And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top and to the bottom. And God let me let me see this this earlier this week. And I I want you to see it with me. So if it's he tells us at the 9th hour that to let us know that 3 p.m. that the priest is in the temple >> doing what they're supposed to do. >> So the priest is standing there. You got to see this with me. If the priest is in there, he got the altar, he got this lamb strapped down, whatever. You know, however that happened, I still that there's a lot of questions I have. I don't know how that worked, you know, but the these were some pretty tough dudes. You know, perhaps a priest is standing there just watching the blood drain out of the neck of this animal as he's done many times on Passover. 3 p.m. songs to be sung. A hallelujah. A God who put the blood on the doorpost. >> We're going to sing about the God who brought us out of Egypt. >> We're going to sing about a God who delivered us. And as he begins to lift up a hallelujah. Can you imagine, brother Sullivan, that all of a sudden the veil just rent? >> There was a priest in the temple when it tore. Are you with me? >> I know some of you are thinking, I got to ask Grock if that's real or not. Check it out. Don't trust that thing. Look in the Bible. >> But it rent, it tore with the presence of a priest. >> And I love it because God always does things where people can see it. >> I still have a witness. But I I just can't have. But so the veil is torn while the sacrifice is being made. At the ninth hour, the reason he tells us at the ninth hour, I believe, is that we know that not only was there procedure being taken place on the Passover, but to let us know that there was being a there was a song being lifted up. >> There was a song being sung in the temple. So Jesus died. The veil was rent. The priests were offering many Passover sacrifices and singing the hell from Psalms 118 and 22. And the third time, if that doesn't do anything for you, in the streets of Pentecost after the morning, 9:00 a.m., sacrifices are slain. 50 days later, the people were in the streets just after the morning sacrifice, singing the hell and celebrating Pentecost. You say, "Why were all these people gathered and able to witness these drunk people?" They were there for Pentecost. They were in the streets singing because they had already done Passover 50 days before and they had no idea what was going on. In fact, many years after that, they still don't know what's going on. So they're there celebrating, doing their thing, and all of a sudden, here come 120 drunk folks staggering down >> out of an upper room. >> And I just can't help but think that while they were singing a song of rituals, >> that all of a sudden here come 120 people singing a song of reality. that there was people that showed up to church and this was just a thing that I do. But there was 120 people who came and they begin to sing a song that the angels cannot sing. They be these people looked out of their mind. These people looked like they had lost it. These people were out of control. Brother Landry, I I can't help but but look that there was that there's this contrast between these two groups. The Jewish leaders with their solemn faces merely singing the words of praise and this formal hal while the disciples are experiencing the hell. There's a song that needs to be sung in this place tonight. As the Pentecostals of today, the Jews missed the song. And God forbid we who know who Jesus is miss. I get so frustrated. And perhaps it's my spiritual soap box that I jump up on when people start saying we've come to the most important part of the service. Now understand that might used to have been a thing because we were having to sing the songs out of a hymn book that some Baptist wrote. >> Well, we got way too many songs. It's got scripture in them nowadays to be downplaying the time of worship because somebody don't want to be emotional. I've come just to hear a word. You better not skip the song service. You better not skip over the choir singing that I'll sing about Jesus. The one who brought me out, the one who's done something for me. We're not see not one of us is exempt from an opportunity to sing the song of hallelujah to lift up a shout of praise. >> God forbid we know who Jesus is. We know what he's done for us. We know what he's brought us out of. We know that we are lost without him. We know that that blood reaches. We know that the mercy of God is new. We know too much to not worship him. >> We can look at them and say, "Oh, they missed it. Oh, they they missed it. They missed it here. They missed it there." Well, we have no excuse. We're the people of the name. We're the one God people. We're the Jesus only people. We know who he is. We know what he's done and it demands a response from us. So I'm here to remind every person. I know we got a great worship in church. I know we got a bunch of young folks that know how to praise him. But we have to keep preaching it until there's a 100% of folks that say, "I'm going to participate in every aspect of worship. I'm not just going to check in when pastor starts preaching. I'm going to check in when they hit the first note." Why? Because he brought me out of this. He brought me out of some things. I used to be there. If it wasn't for the grace and the mercy of God, if it wasn't for the goodness of Jesus, if it wasn't for a cross. Oh, I wish somebody lift your hands up and worship the Lord right now. >> Oh, bless the Lord. >> Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Somebody shout hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Come on, somebody shout hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> The most powerful thing about the the hell is this from 113 to 118. We are introduced at this portion of the Psalms to forms of worship that are otherwise not introduced. I want you to go through just a few with me. I don't have time to go through them all, but Psalms 113 and1, praise ye the Lord. >> Praise, oh ye servants of the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord. That last part, halo, it means to make a show, >> to boast, to be glamorously foolish, >> or to rave. >> How long's it been? Since you were clamorously foolish >> in a church service, >> I'm here to tell somebody, there is a war for your worship tonight. >> If you won't give him worship, you automatically bow to something else. >> The moment he don't get your emotions, something else does. There is no in between. There is no lukewarm. It is either you give him what you It's either you give him all your emotions or you give him none of your You better believe tonight if you're not willing to worship the Lord that Baal, the God of the turning away, will give you something to worship. He'll give you something to be upset about. He'll give you something to be mad about. He'll give you a problem that you can't deal with without worship. Somebody shout hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Psalms 115 and 18 says, "But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and forever more. >> Praise the Lord." >> That's Barack. It means to kneel in adoration. >> Yes. >> Psalms 116 and2. because he hath inclined his ear unto me. Therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. That is korah. To call out, to preach, to proclaim, to cry unto. Stop giving me this thing where your preaching is supposed to be somebody sitting on a stool >> reciting scripture. No sire. Every time they came to Passover in the house, in the temple, in the streets, somebody got up and begin to preach with the power. They begin to get a little excited. They begin to lift their voice up. They got a little redfaced. They got a little pumped up. Why? Because God is too good to not get everything I got. Somebody shout hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Don't you fall prey to this thing that just it's it's comfortable. >> No, no, no, no, no. >> It's crazy. >> It's emotional. >> It's it's it's it's wild to proclaim, to yell That's what he says. Verse 17 says, "I will offer up thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving. I will call upon the name of the Lord." >> Now, get this. I'm going to mess with a lot of theologies in some of these churches. >> But God forbid, let me just put a declaring call out there tonight. I ain't shooting across the bow tonight to nobody that don't have choirs. But Psalms 116 and 17 said that the children of Israel, it means to a choir of worshippers with uplifted hands. It wasn't one person up here singing kumbaya and everybody else holding their palms out. It was a choir of people that says, "I'm going to be radical about my God. I'm going to lift him up." Why? Because he brought me up out of the muck and I Why? Because he deserves it. Psalms 117 and1. Oh, praise the Lord all the nations. Praise him all ye people. Shabbach to address in a loud tone >> triumph and glory. All right. >> Psalms 118 and1. Oh, give thanks unto the Lord for he is good because his mercy endureth forever. Yada yada camp yada. That's where they get that to worship with extended hands. >> I don't know if I can extend those things up. Get them up there. Reach for him. Huh? >> Huh? >> He's worthy. >> He's worthy. >> He's worthy. >> I got to give him everything I got. I got to give him everything I got. >> Verse 24 of 118 says, "This is the day which the Lord hath made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. >> We we >> we s we say it." >> But that's because we like to do things with just me and Jesus. It says, "We >> together >> in one accord, >> one place. >> We >> will rejoice and be glad in it." Brother Kenny, you'll love this. Guile to spin around under the influence of violent emotion. >> I know, brother Hammond. I don't know if we need to be doing that in church. Somebody might get a head taken off. Somebody might twist their ankle. Somebody might get hurt. We got to clear the kids out of the way. We might have a guest tonight. I don't think so, Brother Kenny. When the Holy Ghost hits you, you better when the spirit of God moves upon you. Whatever you feel to do, you better give God what he deserves. Why? Because if it wasn't for the Now I know I know some of you I don't know if I could get into this tonight. I don't know. He deserves it. He deserves it. >> Come on, somebody shout hallelujah. Somebody shout hallelujah. Violent emotion. >> Violent emotion. >> When's the last time you somebody could describe your worship as violent? >> Just give me to the preacher. Just give me just Here we go again. Brother Ericson, he's kicked his leg up that when it gets over this waist high, it's on. We know some of you are sitting here thinking, "Dear Lord, we could get out on time if you guys would chill out. Just want a word. pastor's going to preach to my situation. Some of us are missing who Jesus is >> because we've missed the song service. >> Some of you are missing revelations that everybody else in the room is getting because you skipped song service. Some of us are in seasons that we'll never get out of because we missing the song service. >> The complete hell is described in Psalms 136 and I feel to read it to you tonight. Oh, give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth forever. Now, while I'm reading this, if this applies to anybody, feel free to worship. Oh, give thanks unto God of gods, little G, for his mercy endureth forever. Oh, give thanks to the Lord of little Lords, for his mercy endureth forever. To him who alone doeth great wonders. Somebody needs a great wonder tonight. For his mercy endureth forever to him that by wisdom made the heavens. For his mercy endureth forever to him that stretched out the earth above the waters, his mercy endureth forever. To him that made great lights, for his mercy endureth forever. To the son that rules by day, for his mercy endureth forever. The moon and the stars to rule by night, his mercy endureth forever. Somebody shout forever. Now, here we go. >> Here we go. >> He starts attaching it to some things. >> To the God. To him >> that smokeote Egypt. >> To the God who smoked your past. >> To the God who was buried so that you could be buried. To the God who bore our shame, to the God who took it all. He says, "I smoke Egypt for you." He said, "I brought out Israel from among them his mercy and with a strong hand and a stretched out arm to him which divided the Red Sea into parts and made Israel pass through in the midst of it, but overthrew Phyu and a host in the Red Sea. To him which led his people through the wilderness, to him which smokeote the great kings, and slew famous kings, Sihon and the Amorites, and Og. He just starts listing them. Now, don't I'm saving you some time because there's that copy and paste of his mercy endureth forever. After every single thing, he's just singing a song. He says, "I need you to remember that if it wasn't and hath redeemed us from our enemies with who giveth food to all his blessings are upon us, we are some blessed people." First Apostolic Church. He says, "Oh, give thanks unto God of heaven for his mercy." Is there somebody in this house that would just give him thanks for a moment? Is there somebody in this house that would give him thanks for a moment? Hallelujah. Oh yes God. Yes God. Yes God. >> Somebody shout hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> I feel the presence of God in this place tonight. >> Musicians if you'll come help me. You can be seated. What this tells me, what this tells me in scripture, now again, I'm just giving you some concepts within the text. I have time to read all of it, but what it sounds like that they would sing, these are the songs of the people of God. These are the songs of people that don't even know what we know. >> These are the songs of people that haven't experienced what we've experienced. These are songs from people that haven't read the back of the book. >> These are songs from people that haven't experienced what we've experienced. But it tells me this. It tells me that there is a song for a season. That the timing of the song is important. I sing this song at this time and it it connects to this moment. That's why when we begin to sing the look what the Lord has done, >> we begin to sing songs that have to do with our redemption that it pricks the heart because it reminds us that if it wasn't for the goodness of Jesus, if it wasn't for the blood, if it wasn't for the mercy and the grace of God, it does something to us. There are seasonal songs. There's songs that should be sung at certain times. If you've ever preached and you're trying to give an altar call, you'll realize there's songs that should be sung at certain times. I try to tell musicians all the time, it's one thing to play, it's another thing to be led by the spirit. >> I'll never forget, I was preaching one time and it was somewhere between here and as pastors say, Vietnam. And I got done and it was this one of those solemn moves of God. People come and they're bowing down. I haven't been preaching very long. I didn't know what I was doing. I just was happy there was a few people around the altar. And I'm standing about two steps down and all of a sudden I hear the god awful thing. Somebody's on the organ going about 122 beats per minute is what's going on in my mind. I'm thinking this has this is going to destroy it. It's going to kill it. And I turned please please please. And as I opened my eyes, I realized it was the pastor's wife. And I thought, Brother Snitzer, lessons learned. You know, there's a song for specific times. He knew that when it was Passover time, we were to sing this chapter. When it was festive times, when it's time to celebrate, we're going to sing this chapter. We're going to do it at this time of the day. Now, it's no coincidence that one of our famous stories is Acts 16. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely. That was Paul and Silas, who having received such a charge, thrust them into inner prison, and made their feet fast with stocks. Got them tied up. And at midnight, they begin to sing. Now, you're going to have to give me a little liberty here, all of you scholars, but I think I know what they sung because they told us what time they sang it. At midnight, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard him. And suddenly, there was a great earthquake. So, the foundations of the prisons were shaken, and immediately all the doors open, and everyone's bands were loosed, everybody. Because when you participate in song service, you become sensitive to the Holy Ghost. And you not only know what to sing, but you know when to sing it. Exodus 12 and 27 and says this that ye shall say remember we sing the hell at Passover. It is sacrifice to the Lord's Passover who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt and he smoked the Egyptians and delivered our houses. That's where we sing it first, right? We sing it first in the house before we can sing it in the street. And the the people bowed their head and worshiped. And the children of Israel went away and did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. So did they. And it came to pass that at midnight. The Lord smokeote all the firstborn of the land of Egypt, just like Psalms 118 says. Just like Psalms 136 says, "And the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat in his throne under the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the cattle, the hallelujah at midnight at Passover, he Paul and Silas began to sing at midnight. So that's great. That's all well and good. I'm here to tell somebody tonight that God spoke to me in prayer. That he's just saying, "Would you sing a song that you know works? Would you sing a song tonight? Would you worship in a way that you know works?" Paul and Silas, there's not a doubt in my mind that they begin to sing a song that they knew worked. They begin to recite a song that they knew would bring you out. They begin to sing a song that brought them It was a jail cell when he parted some. What is a little bar in front of me when God parted a whole sea and brought through thousands on dry land? What is this situation when I look back over my There's some of you in this place tonight that you used to worship and you used to praise and God did something for you years ago. I'm just asking you to reach back in the old song book and grab a hold of something that you say, "I've been redeemed. I've been set free. Oh, come on. That's it. Lift up your voice right now. Lift up your voice right now. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I don't know what season you're in. I don't know what situation you're in. I don't know what thoughts you've got going through your head. I don't know what you're facing right now, but I'm telling you, there's a song that God can bring you. Sister Ericson, hold on one second. Here's what we're going to do. Like I said, many times, I have no clue what I'm going to do to get here, but this is where I start when I'm praying. I know what we're about to do and I know what God's about to do. Some of you look like Paul and Silas sitting up in there. You chained up, all shook up. You may not conceive it in your hands and your feet, but you got things going through your mind. It's a stronghold, and you don't know how you're going to get out of it. You don't know how you're going to get loose of it. You don't know what you're going to do this week. You don't know how you're going to get set free from this thing. But I want you to hear me. They made a mistake. They put them in the inner prison. They put their feet in bonds. They locked them up. They didn't put them in the outer prison. They put them in the inner prison. Put these jokers in here. We don't need them getting out. We done striped them up. We done whipped them up. But let me tell you this. The mistake is my grandpa used to say, "You fix everything with duct tape. You should should have took some duct tape >> and put it over their mouth >> because these two jokers can do a lot >> with their voice. >> Because the psalmist David said, "Let everything >> before we praise him on the string instruments and the organs, there's some folks that are bound tonight that need to lift up their voice. And if you'll lift up your voice right now and you'll obey God, all of a sudden some things are about to loose in your life. There's some things about to be shaken. The glory of God is about to shake this room. Would you lift up a hallelujah? Would you lift up a hallelujah? Come on, young man. Come on, young lady. Get free tonight. Come on. I'm asking you to push a little bit further. I'm asking you to push with your voice. Come on. That's it, Daddy. Let your young people hear you pray. Cry out, but sing that song that you brought me out. You brought me out. You brought me out. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Oh, hallelujah. Some of you are getting it. Some of you are getting it right now. Oh, hallelujah. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. There's a song for your situation tonight. There's a song for your situation tonight. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in this sanctuary. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on, clap your hands to him and shout, "Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. God's about to do something. I'm going to let him play. Let him sing. >> But we got a lot of folks jammed in here. And I think sometimes it becomes a thing of like, what do you want me to do? Like I can barely breathe. There's like thousand people right here. Like I hope I put on my deodorant. You know, we're all just like crammed in here. I know. I know. I know. So, what I'm going to do this is we can maybe break it up. Break it up by age groups tonight. Can we do this tonight? And and I want us just to all kind of slide back. All kind of slide back and open up some space here. Let's open up these side aisles in case anybody wants to be exuberant or loud or boisterous or participate in any of the songs tonight. But I I want our elderly, our trends setters tonight. Sometimes you may think, well, these young people people just get up here and they get in the way and they get all out. If you feel led to march around this place a few times, if you feel led to show those young folks how the songs really work, if you feel led to show us how he brought you out, if you feel led tonight, we want to make a little room for you. Is that all right? Is that all right? Is there anybody in this place tonight that just wants to show forth the praise of a God who's brought us out of dark? Oh, praise him on the string instruments. Praise him on Oh, he's about to bring somebody out. He's about to heal somebody tonight. He's about to Heat. me out of my morning. me out of my me. You brought me out of my worm. Oh. and a song. So I'll sing about Jesus. Jesus me. I'll sing about Jesus. I'll sing about Jesus. I'll sing about Jesus. Jesus. I'll sing about Jesus. >> Do I have any middle-aged folks say, "I hadn't converted over to the trendsetters yet, but you would worship tonight. Now that we've made a little room for you, huh? We made a little room for you." Say, "I don't know if that's me or not." Let's go ahead and claim it. Let's go ahead and Why don't you pick those feet up? those feet that used to have a little dance in it. I believe God can do something in your life tonight. I believe God can heal your body tonight. I believe God can touch your prodal tonight. I believe God about good. He's been too good. He's been too good. He's been too faithful to every good and I've got a reason. Oh, I've got a reason. Oh, I've got a reason. Oh, I've got a reason. Shout about. If you only knew what I'll be through, then you would be through. Heat. Heat. Heat. But I'll be >> Somebody's getting the breakthrough. Somebody's getting the breakthrough right now. Somebody's getting the breakthrough right now. I've got a reason. I can feel it in my head. I can feel it in my feet. I can feel it in my heart. I can feel it. I can feel it in my head. I can feel it in my feet. I can feel it in my heart. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Jesus cuz I'm the head. I'm not Jesus. Oh, I only knew what I've been through. Then you me and you and me. Heat. Heat. Heat. only you what I've been through and you would be dancing. All right, you can keep worshiping, but I need you to slide back just a little bit. Now, young folks, I'm going to give you just a few minutes. I'm going to give you just a few minutes. Are you with me? They say that young people should be the energy of the church. You better not let the trends setters out worship you. Are you hearing me tonight? Are you hearing me tonight? Cuz there's a song for your generation. I'm tired of hearing how this generation is being polluted by this and this generation is facing that and this generation's doing this and this generation's doing that. No, this generation's got a song that's never been sung before. This generation's got a song. They've got a fire. They got Come on, let's get crazy. Come on, mom and daddy. This ought to excite you. This ought to make you feel in my hands. I can feel it in my feet. And I can feel it in my heart. I can feel that. I can feel it in my head and I can feel it in my I can feel it in my heart. I can feel I can feel it in my head and I can feel it in my feet. I can feel it in my heart. I can feel I can feel it in my heart. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. He might give me freom. >> He gave me a song to sing. I see Jesus free. >> I'll sing about sing about Jesus day. >> Oh, I'll sing about sing about Jesus. >> I'll sing about Jesus. Oh, I'll sing about >> I'll sing about Jesus. >> Oh, I'll sing about >> I'll sing about Jesus. I'll sing about Jesus. I'll sing about >> I'll sing about I'll sing about me still. >> Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Oh hallelujah. Hallelujah. >> Oh hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now I know I know we can praise him with the string instruments and the organs but the second hallelujah came. First was at the blood on the doorpost, >> but they had they adopted the second one. When Miam came out, she grabbed that tambourine for the Nolan. I want you to come help me for a second. I'm about to give everybody one more opportunity. And this is pastor's mic. I'm done. But there's people who help create an atmosphere for the presence of God each and every service. These musicians, these singers, brother Asa, Sister Kayla, I've already saw Justin. He disappeared. He done gone running somewhere. Where you at, Justin? He he he he didn't stay in the booth. Thank God. Oh, everything lyrics for the Dale, brother Cooper, everybody that's making all this happen all the time. I know we got plenty of folks watching online and I know we want it to sound great and look great, but could we for a moment, Brother Nolan, could we shut it down? >> Could we give Brother Dakota a break? >> Could we give Brother Michael a break? Could we just get a little timber and a little dance? I wonder if you could grab the hand of somebody next to you. Somebody go grab the hand of brother Asa. Somebody go grab the hand. This is what got us here. This is what got us here. He brought me out. He Come on. That's it. Come on. That's it. Somebody's getting a breakthrough right now. Somebody God touch our musicians. God touch our singers. Revive them. Refresh them. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Come on, young man. Can you worship without the beat of a drum? Come on, young lady. If there's somebody next to you that needs to be healed, I wish you'd lay hands on them right now. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. >> Come on, pray with somebody right now. Pray with somebody right now. In the name of Jesus, he brought us out. Yeah, that's it. That's it. There's about to be a demonstration of the glory of God in the name of Jesus. I say y God. Yes, God. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Come on. That's it. This is a song of the redeemed. Hear the cry of your people. Hear the cry of your people tonight, oh God.