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Hey.

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Shane here, and Shane and you're listening to the Daily Blade. We've been here. Okay, we're three days in now.

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Three days in.

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Okay, Psalm 45 is today. We love this scripture. The wedding song, the wedding song. So we hope you guys enjoy. Do a little singing with us.

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Yeah, if you need the lyrics, they're there for you. Just sing this simple chorus 10,000 strong.

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You're the fairest of all. Here we go, of the children of men, you're the fairest of them, fairest in heaven and earth.

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Ten thousand strong, you're the fairest of all Fairest in heaven and earth Of the children of men.

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you're the fairest of them, fairest in heaven and earth, Heaven and earth.

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There was a time when my Lucy, who's now about to turn 15, she was like three, maybe two she came out like Rapunzel. She did Like a whole bunch of blonde hair that was just all of a sudden, you know, down to her knees and it seemed like it was just like boom, like a year, you know. So she was like maybe two and a half and these bright blue eyes and she was starting to get a couple freckles on the nose. I mean, it just was like you are the most perfect.

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And there was a season I'm talking a long season where every time I came home and when I mean when I come home, I'm not talking just like from the airport, you know, gone for two days, I mean every time I opened the back door, went to the gas station, came back, she had her ear tuned to that backdoor and I would open the backdoor and she would kind of sprint around you know, we had this little little kind of ghetto four-year thing and she would sprint around, her hair would go to the side and she would just form, tackle me, you know, and she would. I would bend down and she would grab my face and she would look at me and she would say you're a beautiful man and you came for me.

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And I'll never forget that. I mean, it was a good season of that of like. You are the most beautiful man and you came for me, and that's what I feel about when I sing. This song is there is a song that was written a long time ago to be a love song to the king. It's actually literally a wedding song to the king. That's what it says in the header and this, if you just read all of song, I'm gonna read a little bit of it, but if you read all of it, there's no human king that can measure up to this description, and so it's just so neat. And then E's gonna read some Spurgeon, which is going to be really good, and so let me just start by reading Psalm 45, the first two verses. My heart overflows with a pleasing theme. I address my verses to the king. My tongue is like a pen of a ready scribe. You are the most handsome of the sons of men. Grace is poured upon your lips. Therefore, god has blessed you forever.

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Oh man, oh man, all right, we're talking about wedding kind of stuff. So you got to go. And yesterday I was reading, I do a Charles Spurgeon thing, and yesterday we were in Song of Solomon and it says the verse is Song of Solomon 513. And it's his cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet as flowers. And then he just writes this thing. I'm just going to read it, yeah just read it, I'm just going to read it.

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You just read it and we were all kind of messed up. Yeah, I kind of started crying again.

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That's why you're reading it again, yeah, anyway. But we long for our hearts to be affectionate for the Lord in this way, so let this sink in. Oh Lord, jesus, I will find my dearest delight in praising thee. Those cheeks were furrowed by the plow of grief and crimsoned with red lines of blood from thy thorn-crowned temples. Such marks of love unbounded cannot but charm my soul, far more than pillars of perfume. If I may not see the whole of his face, I would behold his cheeks, for the least glimpse of him is exceedingly refreshing to my spiritual sense and yields a variety of delights.

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In Jesus I find not only fragrance but a bed of spices, not one flower but all manner of sweet flowers. He is to me my rose and my lily, my heart's ease and my cluster of camphor. When he is with me, it is May all year round, and my soul goes forth to wash her face in the morning dew of his grace and to solace herself with the singing of the birds of his promises. Precious Lord Jesus, let me, in very deed, know the blessedness which dwells in abiding, unbroken fellowship with thee. I am a poor, worthless one whose cheek thou hast designed to kiss.

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Oh, let me kiss you in return, with the kisses of my lips sing together. My heart bursts at its banks.

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My heart burst at its banks with beauty and goodness. I pour it out as a song to my King, shaping the rivers into words. What grace pours from your lips pours from your lips. The sound calls the midnight to morning. The melody turns my winter to spring. I echo it now in my words. I echo it now in my words Ten thousand strong, you're the fairest of all, fairest in heaven and earth.

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Of the children of men, you're the fairest of them, fairest in heaven and earth. Your heart bursts at the seams, flowing with blood and with water, a song of love pouring out from the tree, singing for the joy set before me. For the joy set before me, ten thousand strong, you're the fairest of all, fairest in heaven and earth. Of the children of men, you're the fairest of them, fairest in heaven and earth. You ransomed your bride On the day that you died, ascended to heaven in glory. She stands clothed in white, with her head lifted high. Come and return in your glory. You ransomed your bride on the day that you died, ascended to heaven in glory. We stand cold and white, with our voice lifted high, singing come and return in your glory. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh oh. Ten thousand strong, you're the fairest of all, fairest in heaven and earth. Of the children and men, you're the fairest of them. Fairest in heaven and earth.

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We say that you are worthy of all of our praise. You, oh most glorious one, king of heaven, king of earth, creator of all things, the one in whom all things were created, the one who loves us and gave himself for us. King Jesus, we sing a love song to you today for your worth. We sing a love song to you today for your worth, and I pray that your value would be known in our lives. Your worth, your worthiness would be felt and known in our lives. Use this time of singing when we come together to fan our affection for you. For all others, lord are a waste. For you, for all others, lord are a waste.

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And so I pray that you would pour water today on that seed of faith in our friends out and about today, our brothers and sisters, and that it would grow into a song of love for you. And we pray this in no ordinary name, but the name that's above every name. In Jesus' name, we pray Amen, amen, amen. Thanks for singing, guys, come on. Brother, sister, friend, thank you so much for joining us today. He came for you, the beautiful man came for you, and you can sing that beautiful song to him over and over again, maybe rewind it, maybe send it to somebody who needs to sing a song to Jesus today, but nonetheless, we just ask that you would bring that beautiful singing voice back tomorrow and we're going to see what God does in our hearts. Have an awesome day of worship.

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