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Lost in the House
When King Josiah ordered repairs to the neglected temple, workers made a startling discovery beneath years of accumulated rubble and debris - the long-forgotten book of the law. This powerful biblical account from 2 Kings 22 serves as the foundation for a challenging message about how easily God's truth can become "lost in the house" - buried under religious activities while believers maintain all the outward appearances of faith.
Drawing parallels between ancient Israel and today's church landscape, this episode explores how Christianity faces danger not primarily from outside attacks, but from within - when fundamentals of faith become neglected, forgotten, or deliberately set aside. Just as Josiah's temple had all the trappings of worship while missing its essential core, many modern believers risk being surrounded by religious accoutrements while remaining spiritually adrift.
The message delves into Jude's urgent warning about false teachers who "crept in unawares," highlighting how deception rarely announces itself boldly but rather slips in alongside truth. From prosperity gospel to seeker-sensitive approaches, today's church faces an unprecedented array of teachings that subtly undermine the centrality of Christ and His finished work on the cross. Most dangerous is the increasingly popular notion that Jesus represents just one of many valid paths to God - a direct contradiction of His own words.
What's at stake isn't merely doctrinal precision but spiritual life itself. When fundamental truths about salvation, the Holy Spirit, and Christ's uniqueness become buried, believers find themselves defenseless against the enemy's strategies. Like Josiah who immediately recognized how far God's people had strayed when confronted with truth, we're called to earnestly contend for the faith, becoming guardians who protect both the message and those who might be deceived.
How might you be "lost in the house" while faithfully attending church? What fundamental truths have peripheral activities replaced in your spiritual life? This challenging message calls every believer to examine what might be buried under the rubble of their religious routines.
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Speaker 2:Let's get into the service recorded live at Valley Gospel Church.
Speaker 3:You know, I told Colette on Wednesday I was searching for notes from a sermon from 2009, a sermon from 2009, lost in the House, and I found them, and he expanded this whole thing. I don't even know that I can get through what he's given me for this morning and it may go to a part two next week or this afternoon, yeah, or tonight. Yeah, I like that, teddy, you used to do that. Yeah, but let's get straight to the scripture. This morning. It's a long reading, it's a difficult reading, chrissy, come on, come on. I don't think I've ever had a scripture reading this long either. So turn with Chrissy, please, to 2 Kings. 2 Kings, 22. 22,. Beginning with the first verse Wow, pray for Chrissy, she's got names. Yes, please, she's got names.
Speaker 4:You wouldn't believe 2 Kings, 22 and 1. Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign and he reigned 30 and one years in Jerusalem and his mother's name was Jedidiah and the daughter of Adiah of Boscath. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord and walked in all the way of David, his father, and turned not. And the scribe to the house of the Lord saying Go up to Hilkiah, the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people, and let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work that have the oversight of the house of the Lord and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the Lord to repair the breaches of the house excuse me, unto carpenters and builders and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house, howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand because they dealt faithfully. And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan and he read it. And Shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought the king word again and said your servants have gathered the money that was found in the house and have delivered it unto the hand of them who do the work, who have the oversight of the house of the Lord. And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book. And Shabhan read it before the Lord, before the king, sorry.
Speaker 4:And it came to pass when the king had heard the words of the book of the law that he rent his clothes. And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Achan, the son of Shaphan, and Achbor, the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah, the servant of the king, saying Go ye, inquire of the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah concerning the words of this book that has found. For great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book to do according unto all that which is written concerning us. So Hilkiah and the priest, and and Acham and Achbor and Shaphan and Azziah went unto Hoda and the prophetess, the wife of Shalom, the son of Tikva and the son of Horus, keeper of the wardrobe. Now she dwelt in Jerusalem, in the college, and they communed with her and she said unto them Thus saith the Lord, god of Israel, tell the man that sent you to me Thus saith the Lord, behold, I will bring evil upon this place and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of this book which the king of Judah has read, Because they have forsaken me, me and I have burned incense unto other gods that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands.
Speaker 4:Therefore, my wrath shall be kindled against this place and shall not be quenched, but to the king of Judah, which sent you to inquire of the Lord. Thus shall you say to him thus saith the Lord, god of Israel, as, touching the words which you have heard, because your heart was tender and you have humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I have spoke against this place and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have rent your clothes and wept before me, I have also heard you saith the Lord, behold, therefore, I will gather you unto your fathers and you shall be gathered unto your grave in peace and your eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
Speaker 3:Wow. Thank you, christy. I appreciate that you can be seated. Josiah became king at eight years old and even at that young age, the Bible tells us that he did what was right in God's sight, that as a young boy he sought truth, staying true to God's word where so many generations before him had failed. When he's 26 years old, josiah called on the temple leaders to use the money that they had collected over all the years to clean and repair and restore the house of God. It had fallen into disrepair. All those years they had collected money and neglected the house. And it wasn't only the physical building that was neglected or just the conditions of the temple, even though it was broken and dirty and unkept. But when they started the repairs, under the rubble in the house of God they found a dirty, dusty, torn book of the law. And what was so wrong became so evident in Israel by that lost book, because what should have been front and center, what should have been at the heart of worship, became lost. It was relegated to a back room, to a basement, and got covered up with junk. Not just lost, but lost in the house. Lost in the house, lost in the house.
Speaker 3:The law was the centerpiece of the Old Testament church. The law was God's message to his people. So what had they been hearing all those years? What had they been teaching for all those years? Josiah, a man with God's heart in his heart, amazing king of Israel. He knew what was wrong even at that very young age, that the book hadn't been read or followed for years, and he knew something had to happen, and happen quickly. Josiah acted, he called on the people to repent and he restored the practices of the temple, the prayer, the feast, the truth of the word. Think of this For the first time in decades, they celebrated Passover. The first time in decades, the Bible said that neither before Josiah or after Josiah was there a king who followed the Lord as he did. You know, when you think all the kings in Israel and David, a man after God's own heart, the Lord said nobody followed me like Josiah.
Speaker 3:In Christianity we can get lost because we neglect the fundamentals. We neglect the fundamentals of our faith. And you know, not only is it happening now, it's happened for years. A neglect of the word, a neglect of prayer, a neglect of the Holy Spirit. I am so excited that we're having these nights of prayer to bring that into a corporate place, the house of God. We've taken our eyes off of Jesus onto peripheral activities. We've become preoccupied with things that have little to do with the work and the will of God, especially in these times and I'll use for a subject you know lost in the house, heavenly Father, thank you, lord, thank you for this double anointing, lord, this double trip, not only into the Old Testament but utilizing your New Testament as well. Lord, I ask you to open our eyes, open our ears, that we might receive of you, lord, that we might know how, that if we are lost in the house, lord, how to get found. It's in the name of your beloved Son we pray. Amen and amen, amen.
Speaker 3:I have to say, sometimes it seems to me that most of the messages that the Holy Spirit gives me are corrective in nature and they call out heresy and those that are not dividing the word of truth correctly. And I make no apology for that, because I believe I'm bringing what God has given me to bring. The Bible prophesies in regard to the last days, the end times, that there would be a coming together of believers, an outpouring of God's Spirit and, at the same time, a falling away, an unprecedented attack on the gospel, on Jesus, on faith, on religion. It says the Bible will be attacked, the word of God will be attacked and minimized. It will be it will be ostracized and neglected that it would be perverted and lost, much like in Josiah's time. So, as you and I move forward, as we careen headlong toward the rapture, the Antichrist, the Holocaust, the tribulation and the return of Jesus and just so you know, it's not a distant event, it's not millennia away, but soon and very soon your only hope, my only hope, is Jesus Christ, is Jesus Christ, and the only way a true Christian should react and respond today is to be a contender of the faith, maybe better said, a contender for the faith, guardians of the church, contending for the faith that was given to us.
Speaker 3:I want to read from a New Testament book now, the book of Jude, all the way back to Revelation and one click forward, and I want to give you not only the synopsis of the message but where it came from, back in 2009. Jude, 1 through 5. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James. I love that he doesn't even identify himself as Jesus' brother. That's his Lord To them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.
Speaker 3:Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you and to exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints, for there are certain men, crept in unawares, who were, before the old, ordained to this condemnation. Ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness in denying the only Lord God and our Lord, jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance that, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterwards destroyed them that believed not, the Holy Spirit gave me a version of this message, lost in the house, back in 2009. And at the time I took some criticism from the house because I preached about deceptions in the church and that we should all just get along, and about the doctrines that are deceiving churches. Maybe I rose up with some indignation I'll say it that way and I remember this comment. I'll always remember the comment, but the comment was who made you high sheriff of the church?
Speaker 3:And my reply was sincere and simple, that I've been called as a guardian. I've been called as a guardian to help people find their way in the house. In truth, every true Christian, every Christian, is to be a guardian. Every Christian is to be a guardian Assigned by God, the Holy Ghost, to raise an alarm, to raise a flag, to blow a whistle whenever our brothers and sisters in Christ are being deceived by false doctrine, by false teachers that slip into the church. I'm not talking about a building that slip into the body of Christ, catching people unaware, thereby causing far too many of the body of Christ to be lost in the house. Go to church every week, value their attendance, value their brothers and sisters, but they're lost in the house, and about that I am not only offended, I react with defensiveness, I react with protectiveness. Look if you haven't figured out yet this morning what lost in the house is about. Being lost in the house is having all the accoutrements, having pews, having the flags, having a worship team, having the look, but denying the power of God, usurping his word. Now Jude's warning is about bringing he called them damnable heresies Into the house of God. And look if Jude contended with that, if that was something that happened In the first century, early in the first century, false teachers, false prophets, false teachers.
Speaker 3:Just think about, with all the technology and the wherewithal today, and even the population, how much more today, how much worse is it today regarding bringing damnable heresies into the house of God. There were only two main deceptions in Jude's time just two Judaizers that were trying to lead new Christians back into Judaism, telling them they had to keep the feast. You had to keep all that and still be a Jew. You had to be circumcised before you could become a Christian. All of that sort of thing. Keep the laws, the rules, the feasts. And the other deception was Gnostics, gnostic teachers, teachers who taught fresh revelation, who taught a deeper understanding, who taught and I'm saying that facetiously who taught new meaning to the word that facetiously, who taught new meaning to the word new wine, outside the teachings of this book, outside the teachings of Jesus Christ. And that has grown today, what we see from that time until now. It's grown today into doctrines like the prosperity gospel, the seeker-sensitive gospel, purpose-driven gospel. That all sprang from the early church. That's what Jude's warning was about. These false teachers not only cause people to be lost in the house and as serious as that is salvation at risk. They bring spiritual death to children of God, bring spiritual death to children of God.
Speaker 3:I really wrestled with the Lord about whether I would bring this up today and whether I would share it, because I don't know. It might bring up things because it was local. But how many of you remember a church that used to be in Plum it's now in New Kensington, I'll not say the name church that was really heavy on a military-based theology within the church went to a gym with rifles and killed three women, wounded many others. This was in, not Plum, just beyond Plum and that's. You know, people do some crazy things and I don't know the condition of this young man, but this was in just 2009.
Speaker 3:And here's the part I wanted to get to. Is that leaders from within the church, that leaders from within the church, the pastor kind of left he needed to take care of his dad in Florida. He had to go after the shooting, but one of the Leaders in the church said, absolutely, he's in Heaven. The shooter who, I'm sorry, he went on to kill himself After he had killed these three women and reasons that Don't need to go into. But One of the church leadersacon said that.
Speaker 3:Well, of course he's in heaven. He just doesn't get the pancakes on sunday my words, not his uh that he just doesn't get all the rewards that heaven offers. But he is still on streets of gold because that church had taught unconditional security that all we needed to do was repeat a prayer, all we needed to do was accept Jesus Christ. And how many times do we say Jesus Christ? And how many times do we say and certainly try to teach, doesn't matter what you say, it matters what happens inside. Confession is good, profession is good, but we need to follow that out, we need to actually follow Christ.
Speaker 3:And I wonder that had in any way in the guy's blog, the killer. In his blog he said that, based on the church's teaching that he was going to heaven anyway, that he could take out his wrath and still go and be with the Lord. And then I wonder what a false teaching like that. What could have been prevented had there been truth and understanding rather than it's all good, do whatever you want. You said the sinner's prayer and it seems to me and I could be wrong that unconditional security was presented as a license that once you did this, everything was good.
Speaker 3:And here's a little insight, and I believe that account was kind of an analogy of what happens when the truth is hidden or deception is preached False doctrine. Here's a little insight on that deceit. False doctrine. Deceit is seductive, it's very seductive. It's very seductive, it's sensual. It creeps in mixed with truth. That's what he meant by it creeps, creeps in mixed with truth. Do I believe that we are eternally saved in Christ once we truly accept him? Absolutely, absolutely. We're secure in his hand. But we need to be careful. We need to be careful. Professional alone isn't enough. It's the following that matters. It's becoming a Christ follower, following that matters, it's becoming a Christ follower. It plays on that whole idea, plays on man's selfish desires for acceptance, for gain, for power, for prosperity, for acclaim, for pleasure, for wealth. How do we know that?
Speaker 3:Paul said in first Timothy you all remember any teacher, pastor, priest that presents anything other than God's word, it's absolute truth, anyone who does that. He even went so far as to say I don't care if it's an angel from heaven who presents this untruth. What are some untruths? Well, and I'll try to be equally eating meat on certain days condemns a person to hell. Speaking in tongues equates equal to salvation. Women cannot be pastors or preach the word. There's one God and any way you choose to reach him priest, prophet, poet or king it's okay, everything's good.
Speaker 3:But anyone who preaches any of those things and many more those are just some examples are teaching doctrines of devils. Doctrines of devils Backed by Barry, seducing spirits. Seducing spirits If we face any spiritual darkness in this time and day. Seducing spirits If we face any spiritual darkness in this time and day. Seducing spirits are the worst because they get you to believe certain things and a church or a doctrine backs up those certain things. They're teaching doctrines of devils, condemning their people, if not to hell, then to a lost walk, lost in the house.
Speaker 3:Jude's warnings clear satan for the entirety of the church age. That means until the, until the rapture of the church is infiltrating the church and churches to deceive God's people and lead them astray. See, because we're content, we have that degree of godliness, we have the pin, we have the badge, we have our name on a roll somewhere. Remember this Satan isn't going to come into the church as a dark, sinister character all the time looking to upset everything all at once. He's clever, he's subtle. He won't upset the spiritual apple cart all at once. He's clever, he's subtle. He won't upset the spiritual apple cart all at once. He'll get people to help him. He'll draw them in. His focus is to get leadership, pastors, clergy, whose credentials we pass out like candy. Now All it takes is all it takes. Do this two weeks of work, you're in. We'll give you a badge brother, just enough truth to seduce the saints and very slyly, very slyly, bring in lies that lead the church away from Christ, thereby leading us away from his freedom. See, there's a cost, there's a consequence. It leads us away from the freedom that we have in Christ.
Speaker 3:I'd like to go back to what Jude wrote, if I can. I want to focus on a couple of words Before I close for today. One is diligence, diligence. Beloved, this third verse. Beloved when I gave all diligence, diligence. Beloved, this third verse. Beloved when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation. It was needful, all right For me to write to you and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. Powerful stuff. Focus on just a couple of words.
Speaker 3:Due diligence means that Jude wrote this. It was a compulsion. It was the Holy Spirit impressed on Jude that this direction from God, the word of God, carried divine weight, that it carried heavenly weight, it wasn't just a book and direction from God and the importance and how careful we should be to fight to defeat any opposition to God's word. And I'm not talking about in the world, but amongst the church, no opposition to God's word. Jude was exhorting Christians, not only then but today, to defend this straight line, Defend this ruler. Defend this straight line, defend this ruler, defend this level you always hear Jeff always says levels, don't lie, brother, they don't. Straight line, not just of Christianity but a doctrine of truth and salvation and power. And he said defend it with an overwhelming effort and intensity. The truth of the Bible must be defended, the false must be identified and exposed. And look, jude isn't speaking of individual issues, having faith for our individual issues, having faith in, for our individual purpose, what we need, what we seek from God, and that's fine. But what Jude is speaking of is a faith in Christianity, living salvation, sozo rescued, that's the faith he's talking about. You know, I'm often surprised maybe shocked is a better word by the number of believers who have been supposedly under God's word for quite some time and reasonably good doctrine and still embrace doctrines that have no rooting in the word of God whatsoever. The things I hear about. Well, I believe this is what we believe. This is what I do.
Speaker 3:Probably the biggest deception in my lifetime in my ministry is that God can be reached in a variety of ways and it doesn't matter the door that you choose. You can come to God through Jesus' mother Mary. You can come to God through nature. You can come to God through nature through a muskrat or a lake or a forest or a tree. And then the religious say you can come to God through water, baptism or communion or the Lord's Supper. And they say you choose, it's all good. And they say you choose, it's all good, come to God any way you like. It's not all God and it's not all good, it's a deception. Jesus said I am the way and the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father but through me. God the Father said this is my beloved Son, hear ye him Glory. And God the Holy Spirit said there is but one way into the sheepfold. That's through Jesus, the Sheep Gate. That's through Jesus, the sheep gate.
Speaker 3:Everything that emanates from God, whether it be power, deliverance, freedom, comes from Jesus Christ and him crucified. Everything you see, calvary isn't a church doctrine. It wasn't decided by our church fathers or declared at the Council of Trent or put in place by the catechism. Calvary Jesus and him crucified is the foundation from which all doctrine flows. That's why every error, every deception comes against the cross, comes against the cross, and we hear them. Jesus needed to be born again. That's why he had to go to hell and suffer some more and die a second time, and that you and I can perform certain rites or rituals or recitations to be saved, or we can come some other way. All of those things negate what Jesus did on the cross. They make that less than when it's everything.
Speaker 3:Hallelujah, jude said once and for all that's right, denise, once and for all. That's right, denise, once and for all. That being that, no other doctrine, no other faith, no other foundation will be given. No other Lord, no other Messiah, no other Savior. There will be no other way oh, I hope you're getting this. No other way, oh, I hope you're getting this. No other God's word will be the only true revelation the church will ever receive. It's already been delivered. It's already been given us as a power to use a resource, to maintain, to manage, most of all, to guard, to guard. That word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path.
Speaker 3:Look, I know in my teaching and preaching I can be a little blunt at times, and most often it's when someone's belief directly opposes the word of God. And I keep thinking of that. Two words crept in, crept in, and it's interesting and, I believe, powerful, because what it crept in implies that it enters in alongside, enters in alongside. I always say that heresy creeps into the church on the back of truth and we just I think we just talked about it Wednesday night or maybe last Sunday but the Holy Spirit's name Paraclete, one called alongside to help. You see, the devil mimics everything of the Godhead and it creeps in. The Holy Spirit is called alongside us to help, but these agents of deception slip in alongside In a sleeping church, a church that's asleep, a church that isn't hearing the truth. Sleeping Christians are caught unaware because the church looks the part, the pastor looks the part. They sound good, they look good, they know all the church terminology, but on close inspection, they either pervert or omit fundamental truth, fundamental truth of the gospel, so prevalent in today's intellectual church. We deny the baptism in the Holy Ghost, we deny the gifts of the Spirit, we deny demonic influence, we omit the cross, the blood.
Speaker 3:And I always think about you know, we've been hearing for years, sam, about how the government wants to take away Second Amendment rights and disarm the citizenry, all in an effort to render us defenseless. To render us defenseless. And the argument is, in regards to the Second Amendment, that they were writing about muskets and cap and ball and flintlock that took you 12 minutes to reload and the powder got wet and your flint would break. They weren't talking about high-capacity magazines or automatic weapons of today. That's the argument. And in an effort to remove our defense of tyranny and evil and here's the thing In today's church, russell, they want to remove the same things. They want to remove the Holy Ghost, they want to remove the blood. They want to remove the Bibles Amen, the word of God. They want to take the Bibles Amen, the word of God. They want to take down the crosses. Maybe you think I'm a little crazy that I'm saying this is actually happening, happening, do you know, at Notre Dame. Notre Dame, they took the crosses out of the chapels because they might be offensive. The cross is an offense this book says so, hallelujah and it leaves us defenseless in a wicked and lost world. One more, just.
Speaker 3:This is a revealing passage in 2 Corinthians, and I'll stop for today. Obviously, I will have to continue this next week. 2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, it all comes together with this passage, 2 Corinthians 11. Just a couple, verses 13 and 15. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.
Speaker 3:I want to focus just on one word to close today Transformed. Transformed Greek, metaskematizio is the word there for transformed, and it means a person changing themselves, changing themselves on the outside Not inwardly, nothing happened but outside. They transformed themselves. In other words, a mask, a disguise. Satan disguises himself as light, an angel of light, and those that he deceives and seduces do the same. In biblical truth, they are lost in the house.
Speaker 3:So who was Jude talking to John? Who's Jude talking to John? Who's Jude talking to? And the answer is in the last two words of verse 1. And called and called, called, called first to salvation. Those who were called then to defend which was responsible for our salvation, that which saved us.
Speaker 3:So the whole idea that it's all okay, that it doesn't matter how we come or what we believe as long as we I remember, before my mother was saved, that was her. She would say it doesn't matter what you believe, just so you believe in something I said how about a duck, mom? Can I believe in a duck? Sorry, mom, we are proponents of doctrine is relatively unimportant. You know Jesus spent more time talking about doctrine than he did about salvation, about anything else. He talked about doctrine. And do you know that saying that any doctrine's okay is actually opposing the word of God, okay is actually opposing the word of God. Martin Luther said there is no one who can properly love the Lord and not support and defend that which is his. Far too much in this message this morning. I'll finish next week. Thanks for listening.
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Speaker 1:Hallelujah. Yet a time is coming, and has now come, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
Speaker 4:Yes, lord, let's give Him all the praise this morning.
Speaker 1:Yes, lord, every praise is to our God. Every word of worship with one accord, every praise, every praise is to our God. Sing it again. Every praise is to our God. Every word of worship with one accord. Every praise, every praise is to our God. Sing hallelujah, sing hallelujah to our God. Glory, hallelujah to our god, glory, hallelujah to our god. Every praise, every praise is to our god, our God. Glory, hallelujah to our God. Every praise, every praise is to our God. Every praise, every praise is to our God. Every word of worship with one accord, every praise, every praise is to our God. Sing it again. Every praise is to our God. Every word of worship with one accord. Every praise, every praise is to our God. Yes, lord, hallelujah to the Lamb, on the authority of the Holy Word. I rise up, I take my stand. Rise up, I take my stand. I'm a blood-bought child of the living God who is the great I am. I'm an heir to all that heaven holds, and no principality will ever take away my royal crown, given on His authority. Every praise is to our God. Every word of worship With one accord, every praise, every praise Is to our God. Sing it again. Sing it again. Every praise is to our God. Every word of worship, with one accord. Every praise, every praise is to our God. Sing hallelujah, sing hallelujah to our God, sing hallelujah, sing hallelujah to our God. Glory hallelujah to our God. Every praise, every praise is to our God. Sing it again. Sing hallelujah to our God. Glory hallelujah to our God. Glory hallelujah to our God. Every praise, every praise is to our God.
Speaker 1:I love to sing your praise, lord.
Speaker 1:I love the sound of your praise, lord, hey, hey. I love the sound of your name. Yes, it fills me with peace, washes over me like a sweet, gentle rain. I love the sound of your praise, lord. It brings the victory. No matter what I face, through all of my days, I love to sing your praise, lord. I love to see your skies when you paint a glorious sunrise. I love the dew in the morning and hearing songbirds sing. But there's nothing sweeter to me Than the joy and the harmony, with all my brothers and sisters Singing praise to the King.
Speaker 1:I love to sing your praise, lord. I just love your name. Yes, it fills me with peace, washes over me like a sweet, gentle rain. I love to sing your praise, lord, hey, hey. It brings the victory, lord. It brings the victory. No matter what I face through all of my days, I love to sing your praise, because he picked me up, he turned me around, he placed my feet on solid ground. I thank the Master, I thank the Savior Because he healed my heart. He changed my name. I'm forever free. I'm not the same. I thank the Master. I thank the master, I thank the savior, I thank God.