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I wonder if you feel any tension

between what's happening in this room and the vision for reaching the hardest

neighborhoods in Scotland that you heard about just before our intermission.

The gritty on the ground in your face, tough, hard, real problems of the world and a magnificent room and

and healthy bodies and people who seem to have it together and songs lifted with delightful music.

Do those worlds go together?

We read you something from Second Chronicles, Moab and Ammon, peoples of Mount Seer, a great army, had come up against

Jehosefat. What does he do? How does he go to war, the blood and guts kind of thing that destroy an army?

Here's what he does. This is 2 Chronicles chapter 20 verse 20. They rose early in the

morning and went out into the wilderness of Tacoa. And when they went out,

Jehoiphat stood and said, hear me, Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Believe in the Lord your God God and you will be established, believe

his prophets and you will succeed.

And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the Lord

and praise him in holy attire. And as they went out before the army, they get the picture. This is a vulnerable place to be

for the choir.

As they went out before the army

to say, give thanks to the Lord for his steadfast love endures forever.

They're shouting this truth about God, seeing this truth as a choir over Ammon, over the peoples of Mount Seer, and when they began to sing,

verse 22, when they began to sing and praise the Lord, the Lord set an ambush against the men of

Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seer who had come against Judah so that they were routed.

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