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  1. After His resurrection, when did Jesus come to the brothers and sing praises to the Father?
    1. Psalm 22:22a and Hebrews 2:12a were fulfilled in the upper room in John 20, but what about verses 22b and 12b?
    2. Where is the record that Christ sang praises to the Father?
    3. Where is the fulfillment of this prophecy?
    4. This prophecy is fulfilled continually in the church.
  2. As Jesus breathed into the disciples (John 20:22), He, as the Holy Spirit, the holy pneuma, came into them to indwell them.
    1. When Jesus breathed into them, He breathed Himself into them.
    2. Now Jesus as the indwelling Spirit sings praises to the Father through us—the church.
      1. Jesus in the midst of the church sings hymns of praise unto the Father—Heb. 2:12b.
      2. By this, Psalm 22:22b is fulfilled.
      3. This is the firstborn Son's praising of the Father within the Father's many sons in the church meetings.
        1. It is not that He praises the Father apart from us and alone, but rather within us and with us through our praising.
        2. Whenever Christ's brothers sing praises to the Father, He sings in their singing.
          1. 1) If then we do not sing, how can He sing?
          2. 2) For Jesus to sing praises to the Father we must sing.
    3. After we render our praises to Christ in the remembrance of Him, He will take us to the Father, and we will follow our indwelling elder Brother as He leads us in song.
  3. Matthew 26:30 says, "Having sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives."
    1. This was a praise to the Father by the Lord with His disciples after the Lord's table.
    2. After singing, He led them to the Mount of Olives to seek the face of the Father—John 17.
    3. It is based upon these verses that we sing praises to the Father at the end of the Lord's table as our worship to Him.
      1. We must have a definite time and definite action in the church to worship the Father.
      2. We have to believe the best time is immediately following the remembrance of the Lord at His table.
  4. The Father is seeking true worshippers, those who will worship Him in spirit and reality—John 4:23-24.
    1. We must worship the Father in His habitation, His dwelling place, which is our human spirit—Eph. 2:22.
      1. Our Father God is Spirit, so we must exercise our spirit to contact Him.
      2. Our spirit mingled with the divine Spirit is a spirit of sonship in which we cry, "Abba, Father"—Rom. 8:15.
      3. The Spirit witnesses with our spirit that we are the children of God, our Father—Rom. 8:16.
    2. We must worship the Father in reality, which is to worship Him through Christ as the reality of all the offerings—Lev. 1-6; Heb. 10:5-10.

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