Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.
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… you a little extra appetizer. In ancient Jewish culture, children, when they were learning the scriptures, they would start by hearing a verse from Psalm 19. How sweet are your words unto my lips sweeter than honey to my mouth. And then they would literally put honey on their lips to associate the word of God with sweetness. So today we're going to do something a little similar. I know you when you walked in you got either your Jolly Rauncher or Werther's Original. Some people wondered if that was the age difference. Who got Werther's Originals? Who got Jolly Raunchers? No, I think it's mixed. Well, either way, I hope that you associate the word of God today with the sweetness of your candy. If you're watching online, I now encourage you to get a piece of candy or a little bit of honey. And may you taste and see that God is good. So at this point, please eat your candy and listen to the word of God as it comes from Matthew chapter 26, starting at verse 26. …
… the joy of the Lord this morning? Psalm 134.2 says, lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the Lord. 143.6, I spread my hands to you. I thirst for you like a parched land. 1 Timothy 2.8, therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing. See, I had to come correct on that one about lifting hands. I brought three verses because I know we got a lot of Reformed Catholics and Baptists in the room today. See, lifting your hands is in the Bible. It's not just some weird thing, you know, that crazy Christians do, you know, if you're charismatic or something like that. But it's just a sign of surrender and submission and putting something above you. admitting and humbling ourself that there is something up there higher than us and it is the God of the universe. And so I lift my hands to put God in his proper place and to put me in my proper place. …
… Here's another thing. Here's another something you can do with your hands. Psalm 134, verse 2. Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the Lord. Here's another way to bless the Lord, by lifting your hands. Somebody say, lift up your hands. Something about the lifting of hands that has value to God, that celebrates him, that blesses him. Look at Psalm 63, verse 4. Psalm 63, verse 4 says, thus will I bless thee while I live. I will lift up my hands in thy name. Amen. Listen, you got to learn that it's okay to lift your hands, to clap your hands, use your hands to give God praise. Amen. When I was in school, you know, the teacher would ask a question. And if we knew the answer, we would raise our hand to say we knew the answer and we wanted the teacher to call on us. But now, if the teacher was offering a prize to whoever got the right answer, and we had the answer, we'd say, and if you really wanted the prize, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, you made a noise and you lifted your hands. …