Sabbath January 24th, 2026 | Singing The Lords Praises In Strange Places | Pastor Clinton Moriah

And so I've just stopped by here to ask somebody, has God been good to you? Well, if God is has been good to you, then you ought to praise him. Today, I just wanna remind us that when we sing praises to God, it reminds us of our identity and our destination. [01:00:16] (28 seconds)  #PraiseRemindsUs

And I know we are Adventists and and and and so as Adventists, we are sometimes muted in our praise. If we were in some other congregation people have been dancing down the aisle and some of us see that as as weird. But it's funny that that in in scripture there are different words used to worship and praise God and some of those words depict dancing and shouting and singing. [01:02:46] (29 seconds)  #WorshipFreely

I'm talking about the people of God, people of different races and ethnicity. Because for those of us who have had Caribbean and African American background. We know God has been good to us. We know in spite of the challenges our ancestors have experienced that God has kept us despite slavery and and colonization and and oppression and economic depression. God has kept us despite slavery in America and Jim Crow that was meant to relegate us and suffocate us and and alienate us, God has kept us. They used Christianity to to to subjugate us and humiliate us, but God used Christianity to liberate us. And so despite oppression, our ancestors sang the Lord's song. [01:05:27] (70 seconds)  #FaithThroughStruggle

And so the psalmist says, while in Babylon as captives, he said they sat by the riverside and they refused to play their harps even though their tormentors asked them, mocked them, They felt they were mocking them to sing them a song of Zion. [01:14:21] (38 seconds)  #SilenceInExile

Now songs of Zion are songs that reflect praises to God that that tells us of the salvation of the Lord and God's deliverance of his people. They refused to sing because they were in a strange place. [01:14:58] (24 seconds)  #SongsOfZion

They were deflated by Nebuchadnezzar's deportation plan to make Babylon great. They refused to sing because they felt they were just exiles. In America, we call it aliens, and it make people it it depicts people as if they're not from this world, as if they're dangerous, as if they're extraterrestrial beings waiting to destroy. America, they've characterized immigrants in in such a way. [01:16:09] (43 seconds)  #HumanizeImmigrants

In Babylon, mayhem and murder is the order. In Babylon, executive order supersedes law and order. In Babylon, state sponsored lies were apprandized and magnified. In Babylon, fake news was the order of the day and it was designed to deceive and confuse. In Babylon, I'm talking about Babylon not The United States. In Babylon free speech was curtailed. [01:17:57] (42 seconds)  #ExposeBabylon

In Babylon the land was governed by mood and not divine rules. And so the saints refused to sing to praise God in Babylon. I call that rational praise. [01:18:39] (26 seconds)  #RationalPraise