God's Tabernacle - Psalm 84 (Orthodox Lenten Class)

0:00 [Music] Gody [Music] Mighty we're going to be I'm going to be going over Psalm 84 so first thing I would like to do is John can you can you read the psalm for us how loveely is how lovely is your Tabernacle oh lord of hosts my soul longs yes even um thanks for the counts of the Lord my heart and my flesh cry out for the Living God even the sparrow has found a home and the swallow a nest

0:46 for herself where she may lay her young even your altars O Lord of hosts my king and my God blessed are those who dwell in your house they will still be praised is in you SE blessed is the man who strength is in you whose heart is set on pilgrimage as they pass through the valley of baka they make it a spring the rain also covers it with pools they go from strength to strength catch one appears before God in Zion oh Lord God of hosts hear my prayer give

1:33 ear oh god of Jacob sa oh God behold your shield and look upon your face of your anointed for a day in your court is better than a thousand I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness for the Lord God is a son and shield the Lord will give Grace and Glory no good thing will he withhold from those who walk upright oh lord of hosts blessed is the man who trusts in you so but what does everybody think what does everybody hear when you

2:19 hear this song praise praise okay that's good what else does it move you does it move you in a certain way what do you hear a home somebody that's lost looking for a home okay yeah who else what anybody else then the person the writer seeing how you little compar okay good anybody else I know I mean I notic about the swallow

3:06 as found a nest for herself where she may uh lay her young even your altars oh lord of hosts Y and I well and that's what kind of made me think about the holy of holies where the high priest can only go there once a year right very good nobody so nobody could that was that's probably the holy of holies he's referring to because the other altars are used every day right and that one is not right good anybody else in the beginning where it's talking about my soul Longs you know we we we yearn you know we have that choice but we yearn for it even though some you know part of

3:56 us we may have turned away but part of us is yearning for something more and it's God good all right so just for a minute I would ask everybody close their eyes I know I always tell everybody not to have fantasy but I do want you to Envision something okay buto everybody close your eyes and I want you to listen to what I'm explaining to you okay Solomon's Temple was built by 30 ,000 laborers so imagine 30,000 people 7,000 burden bearers along with 80,000 Stone Cutters I mean think about

4:42 the num the sheer number of people that it took it was also a project that knew no bounds with finances okay the construction of this place right the temple took seven years from the second month of Solomon's fourth year of reigning over Israel to the e8th month of Solomon's 11th year the temple was 90 ft long 30 ft wide 45 ft high at one point when the temple was completed King Solomon gathered all the

5:27 congregation together and that's when the Ark of the Covenant was brought in remember the Ark of the Covenant since the time of pharaoh right when the Exodus happened had been dwelling in tents all the things that they had were intense all right now imagine that at one point the glory of the Lord the cloud filled the house of the Lord a cloud right from Heaven came down filled the house of the Lord and then Solomon gives a speech at the completion about how King David wanted to build it but Solomon is the one who did it right because King David

6:15 his father had had a personal right you got to understand that this was a personal thing that King David wanted to do he wanted because he was king of Israel to build the temple for God he wanted a place where God could be glorified but because David was a man of war god did not allow him to do it and Solomon did it in the first in the book of First Kings chapter 8 I'm going to read you a part of the prayer of dedication now again imagine for yourself all the people of Israel

7:00 standing before this place imagine yourself Solomon coming out before everybody in his robes with a crown and he begins to speak then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the Assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward Heaven the Lord and he said Lord Lord God of Israel there is no God in heaven above or on the earth below like you who keep your Covenant in Mercy with your servants who walk before you with all of their hearts you have

7:45 kept what you promised that your servant David my father you have both spoken with your mouth and fulfilled it with your hand as to this day therefore Lord of God of Israel now keep what you promised your servant David my father saying you shall not fail to have a man sit before me on the throne of Israel only if your sons take heed to their way that they walk before me as you have walked before me and now I pray oh god of Israel let your word come true which you have spoken to the your servant David my father but will God indeed dwell on the earth behold Heaven and the heaven of Heavens cannot contain you how much less this Temple which I have built

8:33 yet regard the prayer of your servants and his supplication oh Lord my God and listen to the cry and the prayer which your servants is pray your servant is praying before you today that your eyes may be opened toward this Temple Night and Day toward the place of which you said my name shall be there that you shall hear the prayer which your servant makes toward this place and May you hear the supplication of your servant and all of your People Israel when they pray toward this place here in heaven your dwelling place and when you hear forgive that is part of the dedication that he gives he goes on to talk about some of the things that

9:19 are happening about some of the things that will transpire if we listen to God we will get blessings again if we don't listen to God we will not receive the blessings and then God and then Solomon blesses his Temple all right and then at the end of this chapter Solomon dedicates right or right around that area I want you to imagine just for yourself just one second that Solomon dedicates the temple which he offered a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord with 22,000 bulls and 20,000 sheep that day were sacrificed to the

10:04 Lord the one thing you can open your eyes now the one thing that I struck me well I was thinking about this is I don't know about you but when I come into the narx I have noticed that the plans for our church have been on the ground I've left them there every single time I sense I come by and I sense those plans but not one person has picked them back up and put them back into place you got to understand Solomon here Solomon made it

10:49 personal the way that the temple was built is he made it personal he was personal with God David was personal with God all the people that were there all through the Old Testament made it personal with God and that's why we remember the Saints and those people because we need to take our church St nectarios as personal it's supposed to be something that we embrace it's not just that church it's supposed to be our church this Psalm 84 that John read to us just like normal I kind of figured it would happen what's actually the first

11:36 thing written right under Psalm 84 what's the thing written all right that's very important that's actually part of verse one that explanation is part of verse one did King David write this Psalm no no the psalm Psalm of the sons of koron the title of this Psalm is to the chief musician an instrument of goth and in other words GTH which in other translations that you will see you'll have the word the wine press it was believed that it was a musical instrument and this particular word is

12:22 also used in Psalm 8 Psalm 81 and here in Psalm 84 a psalm of the sons of Kora the sons of Kora were Levites who were the Levites priests the priests the order right the sons of Kora were Levites from the family of Kath by David's time it seemed they served in the musical aspect of the temple worship we read that in 2 Chronicles 20:9 and God judged Kora and his leaders and they all died but the sons of Kor remained we see that there was a remnants of Kora in the in in numbers 269 through 11 perhaps they were so grateful for the mercy that became

13:07 notable in Israel for praising God so back in the book in in the Old Testament we have a man named Kora from the tribe of levite like I said which were the Priestly class along with three other men Dayan auam and an and they came together to stand up against Moses and Aaron with 250 50 people who have said to been famous in the congregation for being men of renown so you got to understand they rose up these men were full of jealousy they plotted they got together they got together and they talked about this right Moses and Aaron were the ones that were set over the people Moses is the

13:53 one who went onto the mountain with Joshua to get the Covenant and now right and they're getting ready they're in the the they're in the desert they're in the wilderness right and at one point like I said these men rise up they're feeling slighted right we can kind of feel the same way sometimes because they're not being utilized for their potential and believing that all the people were holy they're saying all of us are holy which is true the Israelites were set aside right Moses then does something interesting he falls to his face and says to them that the next day would prove who belong to God for God judges

14:38 the hearts and the intents of people and who are not with him okay so the next day he gives them the day and he says to them tomorrow God's going to judge between us the test would be for Kora and the people that rose up against Moses and Aaron they would take censors to 250 sensors every one of these guys had sensors they would put fire in them and they would light them and place the incense in them now Moses reminds the people that they were already separated from the rest of the people because they were in the Priestly levitical class he reminds them that they're already separate they already served in the

15:23 Tabernacle but in their pride they wanted more they were not satisfied and dared to question not only Moses and God but also who else did they question they they're not only questioning Moses and Aaron who else are they questioning ultimately God God right they're questioning God so Kora Rebels not only against Moses but against God thinking that he can do better work than both of them not to mention Kora again reminding you is a descendant of Levi meaning that he would be set apart already for religious duties but he abuses the role and confronts Moses Moses and God he even gathered a band together to imit intimidate Moses and Aaron and to

16:10 form his own separate faction if needed Kora fails the test and even serves as a cautionary tale to the new testament which we see in the book of Jude chapter 1 that that those who follow false teachers and Prophets not appointed by God will lead themselves eles right into destruction Jude 111 says warning against apostates this is a warning against apostasy apostates priests that are out there pastors that are out there that are doing their own thing this can even translate to our time woe to them that have gone the way of Cain Jude says have run fre greedily an eror of balam for profit and perished in the rebellion of Kora this is

16:59 thousands of years later and judee's writing about this so the next day all the people gathered together before the Tabernacle and God allowed Moses to warn them and gave them every chance to choose to save themselves and repent and leave the 250 people that came forward again had each a sensor and Moses said to them if the men died a common death then was not from God he says if they die of natural causes this isn't from God right however he said that if they die by the earth swallowing them and then a sinkhole opens up right the Earth literally opens up a sinkhole opens up swallows Kora Dayan abriam his their

17:49 families and all their belongings into the Earth okay and then fire came out from the Lord and consumed all 250 of these guys they were incinerated and when they were incinerated what do you think happened to the the sensors they dropped to the ground right Aaron's son Eleazar was then commanded to go and gather all the sensors because they were still holy but they were repurposed and still used for service again now that the people saw this the people murmured what had happened so a plague broke out but Moses as any good leader would intercedes for his people and he stands between the

18:35 people and the plague between the living and the dead and he stops the plague we still in verse one okay how admirable right he goes on right we're talk we now we just talked about the chief musician on the instrument of goth a Psalm of the sons of Kora okay again cor's descendant some of K's family were either too young to be swept into this or some of their family members said I'm not standing with them and they walked away and they weren't consumed because later on like I said they're still alive so now the rest of the verse is how how

19:20 admirable the word admirable is the is also can be used the word lovely or beloved are thy Tabernacles their dwellings place right of the Lord of hosts we talked about this last night right the king of a Angel armies which Goes Forth the king of the sun and the moon and the stars okay how adorable are thy Tabernacles oh lord of hosts we see here the affection of the Tabernacle is quite clear the men who wrote this Psalm loved what they did and were thankful for the opportunity to serve in whatever capacity now on to verse vers two my soul remember that word Soul when we read it in the scriptures is the

20:06 appetite the mind the desire the emotion the passion my soul Longs it's a yearning desire yes even faints even to the death even to end I want my soul Longs and even faints for the courts of the Lord my heart again that word Inner Man the mind the will the understanding and my flesh cry out everything about me being overcome a ringing cry and joy and exaltation for the Living God the psalmist appreciation for the house of God wasn't simply because it was beautiful his song longed for God's house and even faints when he denied the privilege of meeting with God

20:52 Among the people the temple was a place that was dear and desired because it was a place where he could meet God God every part of him wanted God in his house the emphasis on the meeting the Living God prevents regarding the Tabernacle or temple in in the wrong way the temple as the place could be viewed incorrectly as we see in Acts 7 the psalmist considers it here to be the best sense the place to meet with a living God verse three even The Sparrows have found a home and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young even your altars oh lord of hosts my king and my God more than likely they probably

21:40 saw literally Birds probably coming in right it's a big building and the birds God didn't strike them down even in the holy of holies right they had full view right innocence right in the temple they knew that God allowed them to live there because of the belief of them to be blessed okay verse four blessed right we see hear this word many times blessed are the meek blessed are the merciful that word blessed remember means happy happy are those who dwell in your house blessed are those who dwell in your house they will still be praising you now that word CA right there that you often see at the end of some of these

22:27 verses it's a technical technical musical term probably showing accentuation pause And Eruption or to think or contemplate about what is said so at this point the person who wrote this the psalmist that wrote this he's saying blessed are those who are dwell in your house they will be praising you and he wants you to think about that the psalmist goes from everything the envying the birds to envying the priests to desire to be in the temple who actually had room in the temple they could live a life of constant praise so you got to remember the priests these guys are Desiring to be in the temple verse five bless is the man whose strength

23:15 right strength is Mater material physical personal social or political or also might is in you whose heart is set on pilgrimage the man who finds his strength in God is also the one whose heart is set on pilgrimage he does not rely on self or the world for strength but considers himself a visitor a traveler a pilgrim in this world his true strength and treasure are in the world to come this strength in the heart of a pilgrim are dismayed by the love are dis are displayed by the love for the house of God there he meets with God along with other pilgrims and they gain strength in God together as they meet where where else do we see something

24:00 similar to this who else writes about this right we are strangers we are aliens St Paul right he's talking about it St Paul is talking about this so verse six as they pass through the valley of baka this word Baka believe it means believing to man a believe to man weeping it means a weeping a valley in Palestine okay as they pass through the valley of baka weeping they make it a spring a well of Fountain of water a place of Refuge the rain also covers it right fills it up envelops oneself and its pools the pools now is a source of

24:47 blessing a treaty of Peace the heart for God's house provided wisdom and strength for the life lived away from God's house a diffic a difficult place such as the valley of baka was transformed into a spring complete with rain and pools of water so where there is dryness God can make whatever he wants to find a place of Refuge okay such like an oasis verse seven they go from strength to strength each one appears before God in Zion with a blessedness expressed by plenty of water in otherwise dry place the pill Pilgrim lives in strength and goes to even more strength where do we

25:32 find our strength where do we find our strength in the Holy Spirit right through Christ right and when we are weak what does Jesus say that we receive strength right the rich relationship with God is NeverEnding supply of strength for the journey even in difficult seasons on a normal Journey especially a different one a difficult one the usual pattern is to go from strength to weakness or fatigue but it's not so for those who rely on the strength of God for they go from strength to strength the devil convinces is otherwise When we struggle but the psalmist when he's

26:19 writing this he understands that it's from strength to strength and this destination by the way has a this journey has a thetion Zion the city of God the loving and longing for the house of God will bring each one to his destination appearing before God in Zion verse 8 the Lord God of hosts again the Angel armies here listen to me please right listen my prayer hear my prayer give ear twice he's repeating himself oh god of Jacob see law this song from the sons of Kora was more than a declaration it was also a prayer

27:05 it was a plea for the Plenty spoken of by the supply of water it was a supplication for the strength that continues and builds the psalmist grounded his plea and a long history of God's dealing with his Covenant people the same God who blessed and was faithful to Jacob will also be faithful to his people today this is worthy of meditation thus the insertion of the psalm 2 seaw verse 9 oh God Behold our Shield or behold God our Shield right the psalmist is now calling God his shield all right and look upon the face of your anointed who's God's

27:51 anointed Christ they're already projecting right oh God Behold our Shield oh God Behold our Shield or behold God our shield and look upon the face of your anointed we take the shield here as a reference to a literal Shield which was the main means of defense for Israel the psalmist also asked God to behold what Israel wisely did to defend itself we take your anointed as the reference to the king of Israel who is especially anointed for his office right it can also refer to King David right through the psalmist the first in mind David or possibly Solomon but it also again points towards the Messiah the ultimate anointed one verse

28:38 10 for a day in your courts is better than a thousand I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wickedness the psalmist begins with love and longing for the house of God and now he returns to the thought time spent at God's house was better and more valuable than time spent elsewhere he would rather be a doorkeeper a person in the doorway than to not be there at all right now these people are remembering their ancestors who had rebelled against God in the book of numbers and they were staying in the tents and the wicked were there now they are thankful that they are somewhere in the temple they were at a place where

29:24 they were first into the temple and last the leave right the doorkeepers are the people that are first there and the last to leave right so again he's they're hearkening back it's better to be a doorkeeper than to be the tents of Kora daythan and abriel verse 11 for the Lord God is a son and shield the Lord God will give Grace right now this is a word that means that this will give Grace is a also a now and future thing now in the future be given favor and acceptance and glory honor abundance reputation dignity no good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly those who are

30:11 complete whole of sound mind having Integrity what is complete and entirely in accord with truth and fact the psalmist explains the goodness and the blessing that come to those pilgrims who love and long for the house of God they enjoy God as a source of blessing the sun right and a defense their shield and they receive his generous Grace and Glory the connection between God's grace and the his glory was later on the mind of the Apostle Paul we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom also we have the access by faith into this grace into which we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God Romans 5

30:58 God gives that Grace freely right we've talked about this A promise is made to those who walk uprightly there's a promise now okay every no good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly they receive every good thing God has for them what do we say right you've heard me say it you've read in the scriptures seek first the kingdom of heaven and his righteousness and all good things will will be given unto you the nature of This Promise is appropriate under the old Covenant where God promised direct blessings for obedience and curses for Disobedience but under the New Covenant the believer receives God good things on the basis of Jesus's goodness and then goes on to

31:45 walk uprightly finally verse 12 oh lord of hosts blessed is the man who trusts in you God's greatness and goodness leads the psalmist to experience and declare the blessedness of trusting in God for us just like the people of the children of Israel even though we're in a Double Wide Trailer who dwells here God God you know I've seen right and I think what happens throughout some of the time for those of us who have been here with me anyway from the very beginning with

32:30 me we have seen many things transpire we've changed out cabinets we've replaced things we've fixed things we've painted but often times people who come in do not appreciate those things because they don't see the growth but the thing is is when you come in just like the sons of Kora right if you go in and make it personal when you come here you're encountering a personal God you're encountering somebody that is willing and was willing and has been willing to sacrifice everything to save you when you come here you must take it

33:18 seriously it's not a joke it's not a game it's somewhere that we come to encounter God as they said at the beginning when you closed your eyes now that you've heard right to the chief musish on the instrument of goth a Psalm of the sons of Kora how lovely is your Tabernacle oh lord of hosts my soul Longs yes even faints for the courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh cry out for the Living God even the sparrow has found a home and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young even your old Alters oh lord of hosts May King and my my king and my God blessed are those who dwell in your house they will still

34:05 be praising you sea blessed is the man whose strength is in you whose heart is set on pilgrimage as they pass through the valley of baka they make it a spring the rain also covers it with pools they go from strength to strength each one appears before God in Zion Oh Lord God of hosts hear my prayer give ear oh god of J Jacob sea oh God Behold our shield and look upon the face of your anointed for a day in your courts is better than a thousand places everywhere I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of the wicked for the Lord God is the sun and the shield the Lord will give Grace and Glory no good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly oh lord of

34:52 hosts blessed is the man who trusts in you now what do you hear come home come home what else do we hear I man IM Beauty andion inle I have had people come here and say oh I saw a double white trailer as they pulled in right but then when they come in they see the place right and by the way before you guys some of you all came all of our cabinets most of them had doors hanging

35:37 off they were de different colors falling apart broken right but yet if you take it seriously right when you come in again just like in the temple what did they smell incense they were lurgical God Came Upon the people but what did Jesus say what did Jesus say greater is someone than the temple is here I'm here you can dwell with me there's going to be a place and a time where you are going to be able to worship you don't

36:22 have to be in the temple it was destroyed but there's going to be a time where you'll be able to worship there's going to be a time where you're going to be able to have it and we got to take it seriously right because the thing is is there will be a time where we we we will be persecuted and if it's not us it will be our children and if we have to fight our ways to get into a catacomb or in a garage or somewhere and if we don't believe that God is there then you're going to get bogged down by a double wide trailer but when you come here just like the one Saint said if you knew how holy liturgy was you'd scoop the dust from the ground

37:09 and wipe your face with it I want to love God I want to desire to be with him I want to get rid of my sins so therefore I can glorify God with every part of my life and when we come here when we come for confession when we come to liturgy if it's some if it's not something personal then what is it when you have a spouse and you're fighting often times you take it personal when your spouse sins but you should take it personal in a different way when your spouse sins

37:55 you take it personal by car carrying their cross with them by helping them with their burden isn't that what God did he became man how much more personal could you get he became a man he became incarnate and he came down and carried every single person that has ever lived and ever will live with him in mind to the cross again that moment in time that crucifixion moment it spans all time it was it is and it is happening because Christ died for all of us what else do we hear anybody else want to share before we end for the

38:41 evening en huh Envy a good Envy or a bad Envy it's a good Envy it's a good Envy yeah right to be one of them do we agree he want to be one in this place what why uh subd Matthew why why did you desire to come into the altar I'm being honest I couldn't let you do it alone but was there a part of that wanted to be there too yeah no doubt right was there an Envy yeah Jordan being up at the chanter stand everybody that goes up right there's a part of them right it's an Envy I want to be in there it's a good Envy

39:27 it's a good desire right not every sin is black and white where it's one side or the other is God jealous God is a jealous God there shall be no other gods beside me I mean what else how else more plain can you say it what else do we read does anybody else want to share make it personal well yeah and also I think it's the

40:14 congregation we have you're you're with family you know because you could have a beautiful building but you don't feel like you're at home you feel at home and that's why all of you that now have gotten to know me I invest time in you I invest time in you because you're worthy to be invested in because one day you will be raising children you will be helping other people you know how many you know how many times now I've heard where people new people come in and people take up the mantle they're no longer lost

41:00 they're no longer out there twisting in the wind with the church I have help now and then a thousand places other way you have Bell ringers you have B have Bell ringers right we have chanters we have people that cook that's what we need to remember but who are you doing those things for are you doing it for me are you doing it for yourself no you're doing it for God you're doing it for God and when you forgive people are you doing it for yourself doing it for God when you love people and have mercy on people who you doing it for doing it for God so make sure when you're reading through the

41:45 Psalms you don't skip over that title because it's very important it explains a lot is there any questions or anybody else have any did it move anybody else you're the end of it you know say blessed the man who trust in you blessed is the man who trusts in you what does that mean but again what does that word blessed mean happy you want joy you want happiness trust God how many of you heard me say it pray and trust God pray and trust God I'm like a broken record I'm put on repeat over and over and over and over again pray and trust God

42:31 how about as they pass through the valley of baka the valley of weeping do we go through those times right blessed is the man right whose strength is in you whose heart is set on the pilgrimage as they pass through the valley of baka they make it a spring right God will F give you peace God will give you Refuge God will give you a time where you will find refuge in him blessed is God anybody else John well where talks toward the end about walking uprightly um I saw that that could Point toward baptism and

43:18 I was thinking in our church unlike a lot of other churches like say in the past year we've had a lot of people be baptized and we've had a lot of adul baptisms and we've been able to see people walked out of the baptismal font and that's you know you know that points to receiving everything that God has to offer yeah absolutely and is baptism is baptism the end beginning right that's the beginning the baptism is where you get initiated into the church and I always tell everybody the real war begins as soon as you come out the water right but again blessed is the person who wants to dwell here than a thousand

44:03 places otherwhere I've often told my wife I hope and I desire that I die in front of the altar I mean that's the place I want to be right that's where I want to die hopefully not during service I don't want to freak everybody out I hope hope my wife doesn't have to find me there either the opposite I want to die somewhere where I can cause a giant nuisance all right is there any other parting thoughts I just wanted to say that I like you know explained happy I've never heard that never heard that before and so it gave

44:50 me a new perspective on reading these verses and it makes it so beautiful well you everybody has a copy of this now read it every day during Lent make this part of your make this part of your prayer rule during Lent or even beond because it is a very beautiful Psalm and remember there's one it's one number off when you're reading it in the septu agent right okay I think the hardest task is is realizing that you know these things are that you can believe that these are real I mean no good thing will he withhold from those those who walk uprightly I mean if you live a life that believes that and truly embodies what what that sentence is saying I mean

45:35 that's a that's a powerful life and again making Christ personal to you right making Christ personal to you is the way that you will live a life that is worthy to be praised Brandon could you re explain verse they go from strength to strength each one will appear before Zion yeah with the blessedness expressed by the plenty of water and otherwise dry place right reflecting back on the pass through the valley of baka the pilgrim lives in strength and goes in more strength right as we progress and get closer to God as we start to find God's will right we gain strength finding God's will right the

46:22 martyrs that were going to their martyrdom what did they receive right turn me over I'm done on this side one of the Saints says right as they being cooked alive turn me over oh you missed the part right are they being arrogant no they're boasting in God right the rich relationship with God is never ending supply of strength for the journey even in difficult seasons on a normal Journey right especially a difficult one the usual pattern is to go from strength to weakness or fatigue but not so in the strength of God they go from strength to strength and what's our destination right for the destination for the psalmist right before Christ came was Zion but now our destination is

47:10 what kingdom of heaven right St John came he started it repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Jesus repeated it repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand he came right that make sense anybody else huh well I know I've had that as well right and some of the other churches have have uh have said about why women aren't allowed in the church but I'm going to point you to one thing argue with God God set it forth I didn't right God said the m man supposed to be the

47:58 priest right the man is supposed the one that was created first St Paul talks about it and the woman was created from man and the man is the one in our church that is the one that serves the lurgical function but the woman does something just as beautiful brings birth brings life into this world man can't do that we may be able to stand before the altar but we can't bring life into this world I mean often times we again we make it personal right we take a personal offense to the church saying only men right we take a personal offense that's why people leave the church right over calendars and

48:46 headscarves and different things and people talking because you take it personally but if you remember that everybody's a sinner right and everybody has a set place place not everybody gets to stand in front of the altar right all the nine guys 10 guys that are back in the altar none of them stand there except me right and if they desire to do something more but what what what do the women get to do they get to be singers in the temple right you get to be a singer you get to worship God you get to serve the people of God everybody is able to serve Ser the people of God in one way or another and you just have to be fine with where God puts you our servitude is

49:33 that what's that our servitude is elsewhere Serv ch right servitude of Elsewhere like God you pointed Aaron and son not Aon ands what's up see look another position for a woman anybody else hey speaking of that what you were just talking about who was who was creation and trusted first Adam but Adam didn't if he would have done his part so

50:20 maybe you know the way that we believe in Orthodoxy that we we marred the and lost the likeness maybe that's part of our Priestly function is to be back at the head that's right you know what I mean the restoration of that part of and and even within the even within the family right the man becomes the priest of the household there's one position for the priest of the household to guide your family to become a representative of God all right anybody else all right to the father and to the and to the ho

51:07 Andes ofes amen