Worship is
the result of a transparency and intimacy with God that comes as a result of
knowing who you are to Him and who He is to you.
Just like
any relationship, the quality of intimacy will depend on how much you are known
and really know that person.
The most
significant scripture on worship is when Jesus told the Samaritan woman at the
well in John
4:23-24: But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall
worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to
worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship
him in spirit and in truth.
We must worship Him in “Spirit and in truth” – a word
in the Greek which means we means genuine, real, not concealed.
So we want to be genuine. By His Spirit and with total transparency, by
helping you to realize how God sees you, the depth with which you can relate to
God and how you see Him changes. Only
then can you go to a more personal, more intimate, and more transparent worship
of God than you had when you came here tonight.
First,
let’s look at who you are to God.
You Are Greatly Loved
You are greatly loved by God. He sent His Son to pay the penalty for your
sins by dying on the cross so that He could have a relationship with you!
When you accept and
receive His sacrifice for sin personally and acknowledge Him as Lord, you
become his sons and daughters! (John 1.12) You are a special treasure to
God! He sets YOU apart! As HIS – HIS daughter!
You Are Set Apart
When God sets something apart, He sets you apart from the corruption of the
world. We are set
apart, sanctified, by God to be holy. Stop and think of some of the things God
calls holy. The burning bush was
“holy.” God called Sinai His “holy”
mountain. The bush or the mountain were
not more moral than other bushes or
mountains. Holiness means set apart from
the ordinary.
God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, set it apart, made it
holy. Calling the seventh day holy
didn’t mean that days one through six were worldly, bad or sinful. God said they were good, very good. But they were not
holy, they were just ordinary days. God
set the seventh day apart from the rest.
When God sets something apart, He
is insistent that it not be treated as ordinary.
You Are Special
My mom has two sets of dishes:
one for every day use, and one for special occasions. The dishes she uses every day become chipped
and cracked and must be replaced. But
her special dishes are only used for
very special occasions. Because she has
collected very pretty dishes, when we use her special dishes we treat them with
great care and put them back into a special cabinet. If I took one of her special dishes and put
it down for the dog with dog food in it, she would be very upset that I was
taking something special and treating it as ordinary! I would not be giving those special dishes
the honor they deserved. That’s a small
insight into the way God looks at you because He has set you apart to be holy!
You Are the Temple of God’s Holy Spirit!
The temple of God is His sanctuary, His holy place. You know that your body is a temple that
belongs to the Holy Spirit: the Holy Spirit lives in you. (1 Cor 6.19) Just as
the temple was holy because of God’s presence there, so are you when you invite
the Lord’s presence into your life! That
is why it is so important that you don’t allow anything to come between you and
the Lord because it will negate the power and presence of His holiness in you!
What makes you holy? The
Pharisees found out it wasn’t observing feasts, being educated and having
information, and memorizing the law: In
Matthew 23.1-36 Jesus calls them hypocrites, and John the Baptist calls them
vipers. Jesus even told them that when
someone was converted under them they became more of a child of hell than they
were!
The presence of God
is what makes you holy! His presence alone is the key to a
supernatural life! Where He is present, all His attributes are present with Him! When we treat as common or unclean something
God’s presence demands otherwise, we restrict the power of God in our lives.
What makes you holy? The presence of
God!
You Show the World Who God Is
God is very serious about the difference he puts
between the things His presence makes holy and things than man “profanes” or
makes “not holy; not consecrated.” When God
warns against profaning something He has made holy (such as His name, His
Sabbaths, His sanctuary, His altar, His ordinances, etc.), He uses forceful and
firm statements and strong judgments to convey His seriousness. Why is God
so concerned that His people be vigilantly careful with what He designates as
clean and unclean, holy and unholy, or appropriate and profane? Because these
designations define His nature, His character, and His way to the world.
Clearly, the issue of what is set apart and made
holy to God is not a minor one to God. He pronounces severe judgment on
profaning the Sabbath He called holy (Ex 31.14, Ez. 20.15-24, 22.6-16), for
offering profane fire in human effort (Lev 10.1-2), on profane prophets and
priests (Jer 23.11-2, 15-17, Ez. 22.26), and severely acted against Ananias and
Sapphira in the New Testament when they lied about something they said was set
apart! In Acts 10.15, the
Lord spoke to Peter: What God has cleansed and pronounced clean,
do not you defile and profane by regarding and calling common and unhallowed
or unclean.
God is concerned that His people be vigilantly
careful with what He designates as clean and unclean, holy and unholy, or
appropriate and profane, because these designations define His presence, His
nature, His character, and His way to the world.
Separated from God
Instead of
always trying to do things to make us
holy, we need to realize it is God’s presence that makes us holy. It isn’t what we do, it’s who we are. Once
we realize who we are it will affect everything
we do.
What stops
us from intimacy with God? Sin separates us. That’s why Jesus came to take the penalty for
that sin – a break in intimacy with God the Father – AWAY, and that is why the
Holy Spirit is here to help you stay free from sin! (John 16.8).
When we
have an intimate relationship with God and we become one with Him, we will live
out that relationship and that identity will dictate and direct the things we
do.
God knows
who you are and knows your heart! He understands you: knows your struggles, your weaknesses! He wants an intimate walk with you! By covering up or denying your sin, it is as if you are trying to have an intimate
relationship with your spouse but you are hiding the fact you are involved with
another person or hiding secret sins you are involved with. It LIMITS AND HINDERS intimacy—when not based
on TRUTH, there is not really intimacy but a separation from it.
That is why God sent Jesus to take away the penalty for sin and remove
those obstacles between us and the Father—He has already dealt with it so you
CAN have an intimate unhindered transparent and real relationship with Him!
Doesn’t
that help you to know, really know
what you mean to God?
Let’s now look at who God is to you:
He Wants
You to Know Him
God is
looking for those who worship Him in Spirit and in truth. (John 4.23)
He is seeking those to worship
Him in spirit and truth. If He is
seeking, it is obvious it is something difficult to find… He is looking for that worship that goes
beyond praise. Praise is giving thanks and glory to God, acknowledging who He
is or what He has done. Worship is
entering into the Holy of Holies where God’s presence dwells.
Sadly many
worship a “god they don’t know.” Paul said in
Acts 17:23, …as I was passing through and
considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this
inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without
knowing, Him I proclaim to you:… Many believe that God is Who they believe Him to be, choose Him to be, or prefer
Him to be– a smorgasbord of things they’ve gathered along the way mixed in with
the way they saw their own father, and what fits well with their lifestyle. Once I was talking to a doctor about a
problem my son Jesse was having. When I
wanted to verify the doctor knew who he was talking about, I asked, “Do you
remember Jesse?” to which he answered “Yes, I remember HER!” Of course, I knew he didn’t know who I was
talking about because Jesse is my SON!
In the same
way, we can worship a God of our own making—but He wants us to worship Him in
SPIRIT and TRUTH. That means we need to
know Him as He IS! How? We know Him as He IS
by reading HIS Word, spending time with Him, STUDYING, and knowing Who He says
He is!
You may say you know God. But
do you really 'know' him? You may know of him but not have a relationship with him. You can say you are
close to God, and you can know about
Him, yet not really know Him, His Spirit, or His ways! Somehow we could have
become an empty shell of robots performing ritual duties without a real
intimate relationship with God. Why?
Because we need to pursue the consecration He provided – be set apart.
We need to deal with that
sin that limits our authentic transparency and intimacy, since without holiness
no one will see the Lord (Hebrews 12.14).
Instead, we don’t want to talk about holiness or even the need for it – it’s depicted as too “out
there” – unattainable, unachievable. It’s being dropped from sermons and doctrines
for fear of offending. Yet, holiness is
the dividing line between true intimacy with God because holiness is how we see
and really know our God by access into His presence. The real,
and living way that Christ opened for
us to get us through the separation so
that we could have boldness to enter into
the Holy of Holies by the power and virtue in the blood of Christ (Hebrews
10.19-20).
What is
truth? Just prior Jesus defined it: John
3:21: But he that doeth truth [true;
not concealing] cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that
they are wrought in God. Jesus is truth
(John 14.6). Truth sanctifies [consecrates, purifies] is the Word of God (John
17.17). When we worship Him in truth, we
come to Him intimately and transparently, set apart, purified and forgiven!
He Wants An
Intimate Relationship With You!
Who is He
to you? What worth do you ascribe to
Him?
This is
clearly seen though the pattern of the tabernacle, which presents a clear word
picture that Christ came to fulfill. Through
the tabernacle God revealed to His people a pattern of worship consistent with His holy presence and
that made it possible for sinful man to have an intimate relationship with Him. It was the pattern of tabernacle worship that
God used to reveal what the blood sacrifice, atonement, the veil of separation,
the mercy seat and access into it, the Holy of Holies and priesthood means.
Let’s walk
through this pattern together and apply these principles to our worship
tonight!
1. You must draw near to God. The picture of this was evident in Old
Testament life. Even approaching the
tabernacle began with the awareness of sin in a person’s life. When the Israelites recognized that they had
sinned and that the sin separated him from God, if he wanted forgiveness he
made his way to God’s appointed place:
the tabernacle. Ran TO God and not AWAY from God, because He has made
provision and dealt with sin and its penalty so sin no longer separates you
from God!
I believe the “abomination that
causes desolation” has begun in the Church.
It began by the “daily sacrifice” being taken away because of
“transgression” [national, moral, religious sin]. What is the “daily sacrifice”? The daily sacrifice was the means by which we
are constantly reminded that sin has to be dealt with and burnt on the altar
of sacrifice before we can live in an intimate relationship with a Holy God.
Sometimes we are way too concerned
about being rejected by God. Like Adam
or Cain, we hide in the garden or try to cover up our sin feeling insufficient
for an intimate “let’s walk together” relationship with God. In knowing who we are, grace will not excuse
us from sin, but will expose it so we can bring it to the cross where it will
give us total and transparent access to our Father! Then we can enjoy unhindered intimacy with
God – not hiding our sin or covering
it up but accepting His forgiveness.
Sin
shouldn’t push KEEP US away from God:
He wants our weaknesses, our insufficiencies, and our failures to drive us TO
Him!
2. The Outer Court (where we begin – the praise that is part of our
worship – in close proximity to the marketplace and the hustle and bustle of
the streets with the passions and affairs of the world). Note that the although you have come nearer
to the Holy of Holies by entering in at the “gate,” there are things that must
be satisfied before you can bring the “outer court” experience to the “Holy of
Holies” experience. Any common Israelite could enter the courts, but only the
priests into the tabernacle, and only the high
priest could enter the Holy of Holies (and that only once a year, on the
Day of Atonement). Now we are all
priests… His chosen race, a royal priesthood, a
dedicated nation, [God’s] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth
the wonderful deeds and display
the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His
marvelous light. (1
Peter 2.9), and the veil of the temple has been rent so that we can all have a real relationship with our God!
3. The altar of sacrifice (bronze altar)
was within the court, facing the entrance.
Suffice it to say that the entire sacrificial system was placed at the
very center and heart of national life.
Studying the Old Testament sacrifices, what they meant to them and the
pattern and what they mean to us, is amazing.
The unceasing sacrifice of animals and the never-ending fire at the
altar of sacrifice shows that God was burning into the hearts of His people the
awareness of their sin and how it separated them from Him. Also burns into our awareness the
awesomeness that the sacrifice was paid by Christ and the only way to come to the Father is through the blood of Christ – by
His Spirit and in Truth—not concealing anything!
The altar of sacrifice,
interestingly enough, was also an altar of acceptance
– where you dealt with where you were in your life. Some could bring oxen but
others could only bring a bird. Worship includes laying down your idea of what your life should be,
laying down your pain, your sorrow, your expectations.
4. As you approach the Tabernacle you must
wash… and as you do you are looking into the bronze laver to wash, which was
made of polished bronze, or mirrors.
Reminds us of being pure of the washing of water by the Word (Ephesians
5.26), and the Word being the mirror we must constantly behold ourselves in if
we are doers of the Word and not only hearers. (James 1.22-25)
5. The Tabernacle itself was divided by a
veil into two chambers: Only priests
were allowed into these chambers. In the Holy of Holies, blood was sprinkled between the angels who were
looking down to testify that by the blood the wrath of God against sin was satisfied. A clear word picture that by His mercy
and through the sacrifice Jesus paid for our sins, God’s justice and judgment
toward sin was satisfied. It is
referred to almost 200 times in the Old Testament. It is a small, glorious room
(15’ x 15’) with no created nor artificial light, but God’s own “shekinah”
glory lights it up. No human voice is to be heard here; only the voice of
God.
In Daniel
8.11, when the daily sacrifice is done away with, the place of His sanctuary
was cast down, and by reason of transgression it cast down the truth to the
ground. What does that mean? The daily sacrifice—the reminder that the
blood of Christ has paid the price for us to have a personal relationship with
God is cast down and the truth of the gospel is done away with because we don’t
have the intimacy with God that He provided for us to have!
I believe
that Christians are substituting the Outer Court experience for entry into the
Holy of Holies, which Jesus died to give us.
Instead of our sin driving us to
the Lord, we are letting it keep us from
the Lord! The veil of the temple has
been rent, we are a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2.9), His desire is to put His
laws into our hearts and write them in our minds (Heb. 10.16). He wants us to remember, and have burned into
our hearts and souls, that the wages of sin has been paid in Christ’s sacrifice,
and we came come freely to Him without
guilt and without condemnation!
When we allow
sin to keep us from fellowship with the Lord, when we substitute vain
repetitious emotional praise that focuses on US as the subject, when our praise
and our worship is all focused on our needs and our position and does not lead
us to focus on who God is and what He wants, we have substituted the outer
court experience for true intimacy with God.
Because we don’t KNOW, really KNOW, how He feels about us, and we don’t REALLY
KNOW Him and His heart!
He is the One
that did not leave you in the outer court of praise. He became your sacrifice, where you could
leave your sin behind and come into the Holy of Holies freely with without fear. He paid the ultimate sacrifice for one
reason: so He could have fellowship with you unhindered by sin!
In World
War 2, Hitler let churches stay open as long as they did not speak about sin, the
unchanging truth of the Word of God, the cross, and the diety of Christ! We need to know the dangers of cults moving
in by ignoring sin and the payment for the penalty of it! We need to see sin as God sees it—something
that should show you the power of His love so much that He took the penalty of
it. Something that needs to be dealt
with (not ignored, not excused) so we can have a real relationship with Him!
If a couple
believes they have intimacy yet one person is hiding infidelity, wrong
associations, what they do and who they are, that is NOT true intimacy. The things that come against intimacy
need to be dealt with before true intimacy can happen!
How do we establish whether we are allowing the “outer court”
experience to substitute for entry into the Holy of Holies???
Differences:
*In the
Outer Court, the subject of our Praise is
many times ourselves; in Worship God
is the subject, not for what He has done, but for Who He is.
*In the
Outer Court experiences, we can dance and shout and sing; in the Holy of Holies
only God’s voice is heard, and we are silent before Him. In the Outer Court you can praise in many ways: declaring thanks (Heb. 13:15); clapping your
hands and shouting (Psalms 47:1); playing
musical instruments and dancing
(Psalm 150:4); singing praise songs (Psalms 9:11); psalms, hymns, &
spiritual songs (Eph. 5:19-20); making a joyful noise (Psalms 98:4);
lifting
our hands (Psalms 134:2); by being still (Psalms 4:3-5, 46:10); or by being loud
(Psalms 33:3, 95:1-6). In the Holy
of Holies you are silent before Him and only His voice is heard!
*Praise can
lead to worship, but many times you can praise the Lord and never enter
into true worship. Any one can praise in
the outer court, but only the priesthood can worship in the Holy of Holies.
*Worship
leads to brokenness and service: Every true
worshipper needs to know that when you draw near to God in worship your knee
will bow. Worship is #7812. shaw-khaw´;
a primitive root; to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage
to royalty or God):—bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech,
do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.
* Humility will be the result of true worship. You realize it’s all about
God and there is nothing you can do to bring God's presence. It’s all about God
and God alone. We tend to depend on our ability, skills and latest songs to
usher God’s presence, but it’s only when we let go off our pride and own
ability can we experience God’s presence. In Isaiah chapter 6 we read about
Isaiah, a strong man chosen to show God’s word to his generation and declare
God’s Word to them. When he sees God
high and lifted up in chapter 6, we see he is “undone” and realizes his true
identity.
Job, who in God’s own words was His servant, none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that
fears God and turns away from evil (Job 1.8), after God spoke directly to
him, said, [I now see] I have rashly
uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not
know… I had heard of You [only] by the
hearing of the ear, but now my [spiritual] eye sees You. Therefore I loathe [my words] and abhor
myself and repent in dust and ashes.
(Job 42.3, 5-6)
Are you daring enough to be exposed to your true identity and allow God
to break you in your time of worship? A true worshiper will be willing to lay
down himself in exchange for intimacy with God. He knows you anyways! And it’s OK with Him that you’re not perfect
– He knows that too!
*True worship will find us prostrate, or at the feet of God. The story of the woman who broke the
alabaster and poured it at the feet of Jesus demonstrates this type of worship.
This woman laid all she had at the feet of Jesus, considering it nothing next
to the worth of who He is. Paul
considered all but dung compared to the excellency of knowing Him. When true worship is present, there is no
lifting up of ones self, accomplishments, positions or pursuits: there is a humbling acknowledgement that bends or bows before your Lord.
*True worship brings “ALL within us.”
In the book of Psalms 103:1 it says, “Bless the Lord O my soul and all
that is within me bless His holy name.” It does not say worship Him when
you feel good but with everything that is within you. Even if it's your sorrow,
joy, doubt everything that is going on inside, you can use it and present it to
God as an act of true worship unto God.
*True worship will bring transformation. If there is genuine surrender
to God’s Lordship, we won’t just cry tears of emotion, but we will have genuine
surrender that leads to transformation because of the presence and Lordship of
Christ. We see many people with
superlative emotions in worship, but it isn’t about how we feel or what feelings we can work ourselves up to in emotional
music, but a true intimate insight into the Spirit, nature, character, and
power of God. When Paul was struck down
by God’s presence on the way to Tarsus, he was a changed man, and people saw
the change in him. How does God’s
presence change you?
* True worship is between you and the Lord. No one else would be there during the
intimate time you have with your husband:
it’s a secret place between you and him.
There is an intimate place where cymbals and dancing and loud music and
compliments or praises don’t belong. It
is a place where you don’t want to check your email on your cellphone or answer
the phone or watch television. It is a
place of union between you and God where His purpose becomes yours, and you
become one with Him, as Jesus prayed in John 17.21 and 23: The goal is for all of them to
become one heart and mind—Just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, So they
might be one heart and mind with us. Then the world might believe that you, in
fact, sent me. I in them and you in me. Then
they’ll be mature in this oneness, And give the godless world evidence That
you’ve sent me and loved them In the same way you’ve loved me.
*True worship brings an excitement about the things of God: When we worship before Him and are changed
and moved by His presence, others “take note” that we have been with Jesus
(Acts 4.13). Moses needed to cover his face with a veil. Being in the presence
of God helps us to know Him as He is, resulting in our testimony, our boldness,
and where our confidence is, being strong enough so it is not easily
shaken. Give me ten minutes with someone
and I can tell you what excites them, what moves them, and what they are
confident in. Do you delight in talking
about the things of the Lord? Do others
want more of Jesus after talking to you—are you the “salt” of the earth making
others thirsty for more of Christ, and preserving against decay like salt
does??? Or are you “good for nothing,” not
making any eternal difference? When
Jesus comes to your tree, does He find fruit on it, or is it just taking up
ground???
Living A Life
of Worship
1. Realize that God has set
you apart to be His; and that His presence in you makes you holy and consecrated and set apart for Him!
Rom
1.7 – You are a saint (“holy one”)
1
Cor 2.16 – You have been given the mind of Christ
Rom
8.9 – You are indwelt by God’s Spirit
2
Pet 1.4 – You are a partaker of God’s divine nature
Rom
8.11 – The power of resurrection is in you
Jer
29.11 – You have a purpose and a destiny
1
Cor 12 – You have been given supernatural abilities and are called to live as a supernatural
being!
Do not use what God has set apart for Himself for any lesser
purpose. Live a life consecrated and set apart as He made you to
be. (Leviticus 11:44, again in Lev. 19.2, 20.7, 20.26, I Peter 1:15, 2 Tim 2.19-2, Eph 4.24, 2 Cor 7.1).
2. Know
how to handle that sacrifice: I used to
quote regularly …bind the sacrifice with
cords… to the altar! (Psalms 118.27)
We all fall short of God’s glory – that’s why we need to accept Christ’s
sacrifice for our sin. We all face
failures and feel like Adam did in the garden when he hid from God: feeling
that if we reveal who we really are God will be disappointed or we will be
embarrassed. When you feel anything keeps you from intimacy with
God and His love for you, let all that is
within you bless His Name! RUN to
Jesus: His blood ripped the veil to give
you that fellowship with God. It cost
too huge a price for you not to worship God in the Holy of Holies in true
transparency and intimacy! Remember,
part of getting it “right” is knowing
our sin separated us from God! (1 John
1.8-10: If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is
not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make
him a liar, and his word is not in us.)
3. Live a life of worship
and praise and demonstrate the real power of God.
Worship is the giving of our entire self, our
thoughts and our emotions, to God’s use. It results in service. In fact one of the New Testament words for
worship means service. Our service to God is not centered on a time
or a temple, but is done whenever and wherever we are, because we are
the temple of God. The emphasis is taken away from ceremony, seasons, places
and rituals, and is shifted to what is happening in the inner person. Worship
should invade our entire lives. The test of worship is not only what happens when
the music is playing, but what happens at home, on the job and wherever we go.
God seeks people who will worship him. Worship is
something he wants. He knows it is good for us to worship him. Sincerely worship
Him. External things don’t matter if the heart isn’t right. It doesn’t do us
any good to worship at the right place or with the right songs or emotional
instruments in the background if our focus isn’t right. We can sing the right
songs and hold our hands in the right way, but if our heart isn’t in it, it
isn’t really worship.
Because it’s not just the things you say, but what is in your heart.
Jesus said: These people worship
me in vain; they honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. (Matthew
15.8). They were hypocrites, because
they said the right things, but they didn’t live them out. God doesn’t want
hypocritical worship—He wants you to worship Him in truth. We need to believe
the words we say in worship, and if we really believe them, our lives will show
it.
4. Worship the Lord and Let Him Rock Your
World!
The way you
worship God demonstrates to the world, and even to yourself, the quality of
worth that you ascribe to God. What is
He worth to you?
2 Chronicles 20:18-24 "18 Then King
Jehoshaphat bowed low with his face to the ground. And all the people of Judah
and Jerusalem did the same, worshiping the Lord. 19 Then the Levites from the
clans of Kohath and Korah stood to praise the Lord, the God of Israel, with a
very loud shout. 20 Early the next morning the army of Judah went out into the
wilderness of Tekoa. On the way Jehoshaphat stopped and said, “Listen to me,
all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Believe in the Lord your God, and you
will be able to stand firm. Believe in his prophets, and you will succeed.” 21
After consulting the people, the king appointed singers to walk ahead of the
army, singing to the Lord and praising him for his holy splendor. This is what
they sang: “Give thanks to the Lord; his faithful love endures forever!” 22 At
the very moment they began to sing and give praise, the Lord caused the armies
of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir to start fighting among themselves. 23 The
armies of Moab and Ammon turned against their allies from Mount Seir and killed
every one of them. After they had destroyed the army of Seir, they began
attacking each other. 24 So when the army of Judah arrived at the lookout point
in the wilderness, all they saw were dead bodies lying on the ground as far as
they could see. Not a single one of the enemy had escaped."
Acts
16:23-26 “And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into
prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
Who, having received such a
charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the
stocks.
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the
prisoners heard them.
And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the
foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were
opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.”
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