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A Study in Psalms - Psalm 27 · CCC West Covina

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Good evening and welcome back to our second week of the Summer of
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Psalms. I'm Bruce McClain, if anybody
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doesn't know me. And one of the areas I'm
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responsible here is missions. So before we get into Psalms 27,
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if you want to turn there the next seven weeks, I want to take
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5 minutes to talk about the seven countries that Christ
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Community Church is currently doing some type of missions work
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in. So just a couple minutes.
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And the first one is, of course, Argentina.
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So if you don't have a prayer card of Pastor Eduardo and
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Gloria Bulladine, they are in the back.
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One of the three national pastors at Christ Community
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Church supports. We've been going to Argentina
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since 1997. I think we've gone 18 * / 200
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people have gone from Christ Community Church.
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And in just a little over two months, we have 20 more people
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going to Argentina. And that's so many that we're
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actually going to split the team when we get to Buenos Aires.
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And 12 people will work in Buenos Aires and eight people
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will go about 6 hour van ride to the north.
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So we're really going to have two campaigns going on
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simultaneously. Argentina is 90% Catholic.
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The Pope who just died was originally from Argentina.
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So we're going to go and work in Villa Maria in the north with a
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pastor that just planted a church about six months to a
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year ago and work with him and, and do door to door evangelism,
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whatever the church needs. And then the Buenos Aires will
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work with two or three churches strengthening them.
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So if you'll pray for us, it's just about two months away.
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There are about 10 people still raising funds and some of them
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have more than one member going. So that's a lot of money to go.
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And we want to buy tickets next week.
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But if you pray for Argentina and pray for Eduardo and Gloria
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Bulladine, our national pastor, if you have any questions about
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Argentina, and then we'll talk about the other countries next
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week. So a little bit of Bible trivia
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to start off tonight. I think everybody here knows
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that the Bible has 66 books, right?
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Everybody here knows that there are 1189 chapters in the Bible.
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So that's 39 books in the Old Testament with 929 chapters and
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27 books in the New Testament with 260 chapters.
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I won't go into the verses because different translations
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depend on the verses. But the shortest book in the Old
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Testament is Obadiah, which is 21 verses, and the shortest book
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in the New Testament is second John with 13 verses.
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So the question is tonight, what is the middle verse in the
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Bible? Because it has to do with our
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message tonight. Anybody know what the middle
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verse in the Bible is? There are different ways of
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looking at it, but Psalm 118 verse 8 is one way.
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Yeah, Psalm 118 is the middle chapter in the entire Bible.
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So Psalm 118 is preceded by Psalm 117, which is the shortest
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chapter in the Bible. And Psalm 118 is followed by
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Psalm 119, which is the longest chapter in the Bible.
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So Psalm 118 has 594 chapters before it and 594 chapters after
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it. So it's the middle chapter.
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So if you take 1188 Psalms 118 verse eight, that is one way of
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trying to determine the middle chapter in the Bible.
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And what is Psalm 118 eight say? I'm going to read from the new
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King James here. It says it is better to trust in
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the Lord than to put confidence in men.
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That kind of summarizes our Psalm tonight.
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It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in
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men. David was experiencing a time of
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crisis, but his trust and confidence in the Lord was
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strong. So he would write this wonderful
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Psalm 27. It's one of the best known
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psalms. It's one of the most comforting,
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encouraging Psalms. Stacy reminded me that when we
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had Lucy's celebration service that it was one of Lucy's
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favorite verses and they put Psalm 27 on it.
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So I know a lot of you love this Psalm and it's taken me about
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five years to to get the courage up to preach on it, but it's I
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don't know what you're going through tonight, but this Psalm
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has helped encouraged and strengthen many Christians for
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thousands of years. So if you turn into Bible, I'm
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going to do something a little different tonight.
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Now I have a English standard version I study out of, but I'm
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going to read the Psalm out of the legacy standard Bible, which
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is, in case you don't know, the new translation from the Masters
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Seminary. Some of you have it and I think
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you'll see why I'm going to read it.
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But as we're reading it, why don't you notate how many times
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it says I, I, I in my translation 11 times.
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Why don't you notice how many times it says me, me, me 18
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times? And then you have the adjective
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my, my, my another 17 times. So it's that's a very, very
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personal song. And then the other thing to look
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for is the name of God. And I'm going to read it in the
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legacy standard Bible because they they have taken Jehovah
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capital Lord and translated with the Hebrew name for God, Yahweh.
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And I think it's listed 13 times in the 14 verses that we will
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read Psalms 27 of David. Yahweh is my light and my
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salvation. Whom shall I fear?
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Yahweh is the strong defense of my life.
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Whom shall I dread when evil doers came upon me to devour my
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flesh, my adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.
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Though a host in camp against me, my heart will not fear the
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war arise against me. In this I trust.
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One thing I have asked from Yahweh is that I shall seek that
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I may dwell in the House of Yahweh all the days of my life,
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to behold the beauty of Yahweh and to inquire in His temple.
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For in the day of calamity He will conceal me in His shelter.
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In the secret place of His tent He will hide me.
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He will lift me up on a rock, and now my head will be lifted
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up above my enemies around me, and I will offer in His tent
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sacrifices with loud shouts of joy.
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I will sing and I will sing praises to Yahweh.
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Hear, O Yahweh, when I call with my voice and be gracious to me
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and answer me on Your behalf. My heart says seek my face, Your
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face, oh Yahweh, I shall seek. Do not hide your face from me.
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Do not turn your slave away in anger.
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You have been my help. Do not abandon me and do not
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forsake me, Oh God of my salvation, for my father and my
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mother have forsaken me, but Yahweh will take me up.
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Instruct me in your way, oh Yahweh, and leave me in a level
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path because of my foes. Do not give me over to the
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desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up
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against me and such as breathe out violence.
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I would have despised unless I had believed that I would see
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the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
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Hope in Yahweh, Be strong and let your heart take courage.
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Hope in Yahweh. Let's pray Father, I don't know
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what the people of Christ Community Church, the people
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have come out tonight are undergoing, but I pray tonight
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that you would erase our fears, our anxieties, our worries, our
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doubts, our uncertainties, our troubles.
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Psalms 27 is the prescription that you've given us and we need
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to follow it and obey it. So may we leave here tonight
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encouraged strengthen not showing any fear and walking in
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the Lord in Jesus name, Amen. There is a superscription in
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your Bible and it probably says of David.
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But if you get the the the Septuagint Bible Greek
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translation which was written 200 years before Christ was
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born, the Septuagint has extra words that say of David before
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he was anointed. So if that's true, remember the
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the the superscriptions are not inspired words of God, but they
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do teach us a lot about the Psalms.
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So if that's true, that means this Psalm was probably written
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when David was expelled from his home and haunted by Saul.
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We don't know exactly the crisis that David has in his Psalms,
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but it was probably written when Saul was pursuing him, perhaps
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as long as those 13 years. The type of Psalm.
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Tonight we listen. We had a lament Psalm last week.
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Psalm by Tonight's Psalm is called the Song of Trust, and
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that's why I've entitled it My Song of Trust.
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There are ten such as psalms like these.
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And then if you want to know these psalms because they may
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encourage you, Psalms 11, Psalm 16, Psalms 23, You all know that
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one. Psalms 27, of course, tonight,
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Psalm 62, Psalm 63, Psalm 91, which we call the Dial 911,
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Psalm, Psalm 121, Psalm 125, and Psalm 131.
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So there's at least ten of these Songs of Trust Psalms.
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I don't usually quote my father, but as some, most of you know,
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my father kept journals on many of the Psalms, not all of them,
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but about 50 of them. And I like what he said about
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Psalm 27 in his journal. And I have those journals and
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one of my tribe's possessions and he said about this, our
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psalmist is David. His life was one of trusting the
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Lord. As we look at the experience of
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David in this Psalm, we can learn how to face certain
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situations in life. He had been tried and tested by
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some experience in life. As the Psalm closes, David has
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confidence and rest. One of the most paralyzing
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problems of life is fear. We fear in so many ways.
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Fear of the unknown, fear of an accident, fear of sickness, fear
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of cancer, fear of death, fear of people, fear of losing our
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jobs, fear of the enemy attacks, fear of being misunderstood or
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rejected or criticized or mistreated.
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And many times these things happen and our fears are
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realized. Sometimes it is worse than we
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anticipated. Sometimes we can come to
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completely paralyzed with feelings of fear.
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And as fear gets a firm grip on us, we become its victim.
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So Psalms 27 is going to be the Psalm that will help us overcome
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that. Last week I said Psalms 5 was
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very difficult to outline the way the paragraphs went.
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One minute was prayer, one minute David's talking about his
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enemies. But tonight it's very easy.
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And if you have the outline, when you leave tonight, I hope
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you'll attach 4 words to Psalm 27.
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Confidence, communion, pry, and comfort, which is your outline,
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your 4 main points. So let's look at main point #1
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confidence in God. And there are three sub points
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there that you have in your outline.
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And first one is deliver. God will deliver my life is what
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David's going to say in verse one.
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Here we have a powerful and jubilant stands of praise of
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confidence in the Lord. Even though David was
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experiencing conflict, some type of crisis, he pens 3 pillars of
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truth in this first verse. God is light.
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God is my salvation and God is my strength or God is my
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stronghold, as maybe some of your translations have.
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So as we look at this point deliver, let's look at God is
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light. It says the Lord is my light.
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You know, when we think of God or we try to visualize him, the
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best we can do is to think of God as light.
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Here in Psalm 27 verse one is the only direct reference in
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which God is directly called light in the Old Testament.
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And it's the first time in the Bible that light is used as a
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metaphor for light. Job 3819 says heaven is the
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abode of light. Psalms 104 two says God wraps
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himself in light as a garment. But Psalms 27 one is the first
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and only Old Testament verse that God is directly called
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light. Now we have a New Testament that
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David doesn't have, didn't have, and first Timothy 616 says
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talking about God, who alone has immortality and dwells in
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unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see.
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God is often associated with light in the Bible, the meaning
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of light. Light gives life.
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Light means purity. Light means sinlessness.
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Light provides knowledge and understanding and dispels fear.
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John 19 says the true light which gives light to everyone
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was coming in the world. Jesus Christ is light first.
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John 15 says this is the message that we have heard from him and
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proclaim to you that God is light and in him there is no
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darkness. One verse that if you have Jesus
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Christ in your heart tonight that you can treasure is
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Colossians 113 to 14, which says he that's God or Jesus has
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delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us
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into the Kingdom of his beloved in whom we have redemption, the
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forgiveness of sins. So if you have the forgiveness
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of sins, Jesus Christ in your heart, you're in the light and
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you know God is the light. If you're a child of God,
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redeemed by the blood of Jesus, healed of your sins, restored to
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a right relationship with God and all your sins have been
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forgiven. The problem is most of our world
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has forgetting, forgotten about God or blocks them out.
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What we need to do is what David did immediately right here in
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verse 1. He says the Lord is my life.
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David uses the name Yahweh and we read it 13 times in the 14
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verses. There's only two other Psalms
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where it's mentioned more. Psalms 29 it's mentioned 18
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times. In Psalms 118 it's mentioned 22
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times. Yahweh or Jehovah was David's
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source of light. Light guides, light leads.
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Light is a symbol for God. Jesus came into the world and
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John 812 he said I am the light of the world.
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And 1st John 15 says God is light.
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The opposite of light is darkness, and darkness is a
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symbol of fear, distress, trouble, perplexity.
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Light is the complete opposite of those.
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God was David's light. God provided the light and the
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darkness disappeared when commentators said the psalmist
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is affirming that even in the darkest this of the terrible
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threat of war, David has No Fear for God is the light that can
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dispel such fearful darkness. And then God is my salvation.
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The second part in first one, the word for salvation here in
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the Old Testament means deliverance.
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OK, deliverance from some type of trouble.
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In Psalm 27 it's used twice, once here, once in verse 9 and
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once in verse one. Verse 9 says oh God, am I
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salvation. Psalm 60 verse 11 says, oh, give
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us help against the adversary, for salvation by man is
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worthless. So it's always used in a time of
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trouble for the God delivering. David was confident of God's
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salvation from from God, not from man.
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Now in the New Testament we use salvation, which means delivery
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from the penalty, the power, and the punishment and presence of
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sin. Romans 116 says I'm not ashamed
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of the gospel, for it's the power of God.
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Salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew 1st and to
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the Greek. So God was David's light.
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God was David's salvation. And #3 the last part of verse
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one. The Lord is the stronghold of my
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life. The legacy stranded Bible says
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strong defense. This is a theme that runs all
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through the Bible referring to the power of God.
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God is omnipotent. Life can have its troubles and
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sorrows, but as long as God is our source of strength, there is
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nothing to fear. Proverbs 1810 says the name of
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the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous man runs into it
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and is safe because God is light, because God is my
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salvation, because God is my stronghold.
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I do not need to be afraid of anything, including Satan
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himself. You know it says there whom
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shall I fear in verse one and of whom shall I be afraid or dread
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in verse 1? You know David didn't fear
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Goliath while Saul and the Israeli army were there for 42
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days. It says Goliath would March out.
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You know the story. Lance has preached on it
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extensively, but I wanted you to turn to First Samuel 17 and
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we'll look at verse 44. You all know what David did,
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right? He killed Goliath.
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But do you remember what David said?
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And when I read it, it's so amazing because this is just a
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teenage boy. This is a teenage boy who grew
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courage when he fought a lion, when he fought a bear, when he
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protected his sheep. But we all know what David did
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to Goliath. But in verse 44 of First Samuel
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17, the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will
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give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the
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field. Then David said to the
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Philistine, You come to me with a sword and a spear and with a
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javelin. But I come to you in the name of
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the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you
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have defied this day. The Lord will deliver you into
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my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head, and
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I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this
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day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth,
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that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
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And I just love verse 47 and that all this assembly, that
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would be the Philistines and that would be the unbelieving
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Israeli army, including Saul, that all this assembly may know
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that the Lord saves not with the sword and the spear for the
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battle is the Lord and he will give you into our hand.
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That's a teenager saying that. So you can see why I'm assuming
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much later in life, David would have written Psalm 27 where he
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gets his confidence, where he gets his courage, where he can
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say God is my light, God is my salvation, God is my strength.
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You've heard the same from Oswald Chambers many times from
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this pulpit. The remarkable thing about
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fearing God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else,
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whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
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Let's look at some point B defeat some point B and A .1
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defeat. God will defeat my enemies is
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what David says. He says when the evil doers
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assail me, they want to eat up my flesh, my adverts and my
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foes, they will stumble and fall.
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That phrase eat up my flesh. It's, it's a metaphor for some
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dangerous, ferocious animal that would try to eat you or kill
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you. But David's confidence is in God
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because David spoke often with the Lord.
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And I want to read another text about David, and that's in First
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Samuel 30. If you turn with me, the First
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Samuel 30, this is this is after first Samuel 17.
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And David is not quite king yet. He's king over Hebron, but Saul
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is still around. But in First Samuel 30, I'll
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just read verses 1 to 8. First it says Now when David and
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his men came to Ziglag on the third day, the Amalekites had
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made a raid against Nigreb and against Ziglag.
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They had overcome Ziglag and burned it with fire and taken
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captive the women and all who were in it, both small and
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great. They killed no one, but carried
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them off and went on their way. And when David and his men came
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to the city? Remember, if you go to the
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preceding chapters, David wanted to go fight Israel and the and
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the Philistine said, no, he's not going with us.
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So David and his men went back. And when he get back there, the
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Malachites have taken in zig lag but and when David and his men
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came to the city, they found it burned with fire, their wives,
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sons and daughters taken captive.
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And David and the people who were with him raised their
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voices and wept until they had no more strength to weep.
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David's two wives also have been taken captive, Hinanom, and of
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Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of naval of Carmel.
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And David was greatly distressed for the people.
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This is David's own men spoke of stoning him, because all the
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people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters.
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But notice the next few words. I have these underlined in my
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Bible. But David strengthened himself
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in the Lord his God. So we have this crisis here.
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How does David handle it? His men want to kill him.
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So when it says David strengthen himself in the Lord, what does
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that mean? Well, what, what do we do today?
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Today we call our friends and we tell them our troubles, right?
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We posted on social media and say, hey, I'm having a bad day,
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pray for me. Or we take a vacation day or
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something like that. But what does David do?
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Well, we can read into it that David remembers the Lord says he
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strengthened themselves in the Lord.
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David knows that God has helped him in the past and he's going
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to trust him in the present and in the future.
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I believe David remembers scripture and maybe one of those
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scriptures he remembered that he wrote as a young shepherd boy
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with Psalms 23 for that says, even though I walk through the
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valley of shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art
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with me. Your rod and staff comfort me.
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David is in the valley of the shadow of death here because his
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own men want to stone him. And I'll believe that David
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remembers I got to obey God. So he remembers the Lord.
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He remembers Scripture and remembers to obey.
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In Acts 13, the apostle Paul is preaching in Antioch, and he
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talks about David. And what Paul says about David,
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he says God says, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man
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after my heart who will do all my will.
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So no matter how bad the crisis was, David is going to remember
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to obey. And lastly David remembers to
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pray. So in verse 7 David said to
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Abathar the priest, the son of Amyloc, bring me the epod.
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So Abathar brought the epod to David.
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And verse 8 says, and David inquired of the Lord, shall I
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pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?
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God answered him, pursue, for you shall surely overtake and
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shall surely rescue. So we just read one of the nine
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times in first and Second Samuel where it says David inquired of
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the Lord. So I believe when David
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strengthened himself, it teaches us that we got to remember the
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Lord's promises. We got to remember Scripture.
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And that's why I'm going to tell everybody here tonight, you need
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to have Psalms 27, at least verses 1 to 6 memorized.
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And you got to remember to obey what the Scripture says.
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And then you've got to remember to pray.
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David had confidence in God to strengthen himself in God.
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And then he inquires in God. David could say in another
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Psalm, Psalm 20, which David wrote verse 7, some trust in
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Chariots and some trust in horses, but we trust in the name
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of the Lord our God. Psalm 3317 we don't know who
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wrote that but it says the War Horse is a false hope for
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salvation but by its great might it cannot rescue.
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So we looked at sub .1 God will deliver me sub point to God will
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defeat my enemies. Let's look at sub Point C defend
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God will defend my safety. Though it says an army in camp
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against me. My heart shall not fear the war
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arise against me. I will be confident.
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That's why I the point number one is confidence in God.
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Verse 2 says there are evil doers and adversaries and foes
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that are out for David. Verse 3 says there's an army and
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war out to get David. Verse 5 says it's a day of
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trouble. Verse 6 mentions enemies.
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It's obvious to say that David is in a crisis here and he's
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under attack. If the Septuagint version of the
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Bible and that superscription where it says of David before he
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was anointed is true, then we know that this Psalm was
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probably written while Saul was fleeting, while Saul was trying
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to chase David for those in 13 years.
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But it's absolutely incredible testimony of David's confidence
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in the Lord. Though an army is going to camp
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against me. Saul and one point had 3000 like
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a delta force chasing David. Other time he had 1020 thousand
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people out looking for David. But as David said in first
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Samuel 1747, the battle is the Lord.
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David would write in another Psalm, Psalm 25.
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Oh my God, in you I trust. If God is for us, he is able to
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protect us, and we have reason to trust in him.
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There's no better security against fear than the assurance
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that God is your friend. Now, many of you might be
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thinking David was a man of war. You know he won every battle he
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ever fought. David shed much bloodshed, and
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it's hard to relate to him at times.
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But I don't know what your problem is, but maybe you have
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an army, an army of cancer cells that has attacked your body, and
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then maybe chemo and radiation are attacking your body.
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Maybe you have a rebellion in your family, a wayward teenager
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or a loved one. That's what gone astray.
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Or maybe you have a war going on in the workplace.
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Being a Christian today in the workplace cannot be easy.
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Or maybe you're troubled by the conflict with our government
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passing laws against God's laws. I don't know what you're
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experiencing in your life, but Psalms 27 should be helpful for
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you. It's been described as my song
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of trust. That's why I gave it that title.
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And it's designed to take away pain, dread, and give you a new
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song to sing, the song of Deliverance.
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So maybe you're having some discouragement tonight.
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Depression, anxiety, worry, doubt and fear.
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And like a Doctor Who gives a prescription, one of the names
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of Jehovah is Jehovah Rapha, the God who heals God gives us a
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prescription in 20 Psalm 27. You have the prescription in
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your hand in your Bible, but you need to take that prescription
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and obey. It doesn't do any good if you
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get the subscription from the doctor and you don't take the
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medicine. But this Psalm gives us
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confidence that no matter what's going on in our life, that God,
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that God is our confidence. And as I said before, you need
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to have at least the 1st 6 verses memorized.
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If David can trust the Lord and not fear when an enemy army is
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surrounding him, cannot we say the same?
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If God is for us who can be against us?
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We can have confidence in our great God and Savior.
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In the New Testament, Second Timothy 17 says For God gave us
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a spirit not of fear, but of power and love and self-control.
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Hebrews 13-6, which is actually a quote from Psalms 118 six,
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says the Lord is my helper, I will not fear.
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What can man do to me? What was the source of David's
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great confidence? God was his light, God was his
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salvation, God was his strength. And God will deliver me, God
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will defeat my enemies, and God will defend me.
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Let's move on to point #2 communion with God, verses four
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to six. I'm not talking about Holy
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Communion when you partake of the bread and the cup.
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I'm talking about when you commune with God, when you have
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intimacy with God, when you spend time with the Lord.
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See, if you don't have confidence in the Lord, it's
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probably because .2 you're not communing with God.
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Last week's message was all about prayer and communing with
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God. David was always confident
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because he commune with God. I mentioned 9 times he inquired
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of God in First and Second Samuel.
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David learned to meditate upon God as a shepherd boy and that
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would give him strength and confidence to lead the nation of
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Israel. David here is living in the
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wilderness of Judea. He's away from the sanctuary,
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but he longed for two things. And here you probably have one
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of the most beautiful poetic verses in all of Psalms.
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He says two things, dwell and delight.
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I'm going to dwell in God's house and I'm going to delight
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in God's house. So First off, I'm going to dwell
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in God's house. One thing I have asked of the
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Lord, this is what I see, that I may dwell in the House of the
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Lord all the days of my life. Verse 4, You've heard from this
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pulpit many, many times as Lance has preached the last 30 years,
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and it was back in December 28th, 2003 when I got the
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cassette or the CDI, can't remember when I was in India,
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that Lance preached a message called One Thing.
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I brought this up before and you can get the tape, but Lance
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preached that message and of all the sermons I've heard over the
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past 30 years, this is probably the one sermon called One Thing
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that I never forgot. One of my favorite sermons, but
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the Bible says one thing five times and you can get that
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message if you want from December 28, 2003 called one
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thing from our tape library. But in Mark 10/21 Jesus looked
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at this would be the rich young ruler and he said you lack one
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thing, Go sell all that you have and give to the poor and you'll
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have treasure in heaven and come follow me.
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Then in Luke 1042, Jesus said to Martha, But one thing is
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necessary, Mary has chosen the good portion which shall not be
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taken away from her. And in John 925, the blind man
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who had been healed, he answered the Pharisees, saying, whether
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he is a Sinner or not, I do not know.
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One thing I know that I was blind, but now I see.
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And the apostle Paul would say in Philippians 413, Brothers, I
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do not consider that I have made it on my own.
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But one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind me and
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straining forward to what lies ahead.
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And #5 of course, is our Psalm 27.
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For one thing that I have asked of the Lord that I will seek
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after, that I may dwell in the House of the Lord all the days
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of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to
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inquire in His temple. That is just absolutely one of
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the most beautiful verses in the Bible.
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But what is the one thing? It's a preoccupation with God,
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with God's person, God's will. David is saying I have
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confidence in God because I commune with God.
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It's like Moses in Exodus 33 when he shouted out, please show
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me your glory, God. It's David in those days, one
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commentator said. David in those days was truly a
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man after God's own heart. But David wanted the impossible.
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He was a guy. He was God's man.
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He was a great leader of men. He was a warrior.
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He was courageous. He was a compassionate man.
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He was a Prince. He was a poet.
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He was a prophet. But what he was not was a
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priest. It was a tribe of Levi that had
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the privilege of serving in a Tabernacle.
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David long for a life like that of the Levites who spent their
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whole lives in constant service for God.
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David wanted to live for the glory of God.
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He desperately wanted to build God a temple later on in life,
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but God said, no, your son Solomon would.
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So he, he wanted you. And let's move on to #2 delight.
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I will delight in God's house. That's the last part of verse
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4B, To gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire his
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temple. Did you come excited tonight,
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the church to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord?
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David did. David couldn't wait to go to the
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temple. Now there's a little controversy
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here between liberal scholars because they say, well, there's
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no temple here. This is Psalms 27.
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There's no temple. It's a Tabernacle.
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So I'll just try to quickly tell you that in Psalms 26, verse 8,
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it says, oh Lord, I love the habitation of your house.
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In Psalms 27 here it says temple.
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If you go to Psalms 28 verse 2, it calls it the most holy
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sanctuary. So we have the word house,
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temple sanctuary. And these words are
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interchangeable. So just because the the temple
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has not been built, if you go to First Samuel 19, it calls the
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Tabernacle the temple. So I'm not going to get into
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that controversy. The words are interchangeable.
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So it's it's a Tabernacle, but you can call it a House of the
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Lord or the temple of the Lord. He says to gaze upon the beauty
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of the Lord. Doctor Martin Lloyd Jones says
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what he really means by this is that I belong to the household
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of God, that I'm ever in communion with God, in
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fellowship with God, in touch with God.
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In effect, what the psalmist is saying, what I want above
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everything else in the world is always to be in that close
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relationship with God so that whatever happens I am with him
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and he is with me. This is the one thing I want.
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The noun for beauty means the lightness, pleasantness.
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Tragically today there are many who come to church and they
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dwell in the House of Lord, but they fail to behold its beauty.
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The thoughts of having a close relationship with God continue.
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Sub point CI will deepen in the House of God, verses 5 and 6.
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So in verse 5, it's what will God do?
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And then verse 6 is what will David do?
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So First off, verse 5, what will God do?
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He's going to do three things. He says he will.
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He will, He will three times. In verse 5, he will hide me.
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Well, we know at least two times David hid in The Cave, right?
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He says he will conceal me. We know twice David avoided the
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spear. That's all through Adam.
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And thirdly, he says he will lift me up.
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Lift me up means victory. It means to raise you up
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spiritually, physically or emotionally from a difficult
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situation or state of despair. David's saying I have confidence
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in God. I communion with God and I trust
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him to do these three things. David believes in God.
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So in verse 6, what will I do? So David says two things I will
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do here. After the three things that he
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says God will do, He says, I will offer sacrifice with shouts
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of joy, and I will sing and make melody in my heart.
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Last week when we looked at Psalm 5, we saw at the end of
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Psalm 5 that when we finish praying, we should be filled
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with joy because we've given God our, our troubles, our sorrows,
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our petitions. Here in Psalms 27, David says
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that when God gives him the victories, he sings with joy.
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We saw the confidence of David and God in the first point, and
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that's because David had a special communion with God.
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And even if they're enemies all around him, David's confidence
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and communion with God are so special that despite having
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enemies wanting to attack him, it makes him sing for joy again.
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I don't know what troubles you're in today, what crisis
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you're going through, what's suffering you're experiencing,
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but Psalms 127 six may be the strongest, most powerful
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statement of trusted confidence in the Lord in the entire Bible.
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But you have to have confidence in God and you must be in
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communion with God. Psalms 27 verses 4 to 6 is the
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Old Testament equivalent of where it says in the New
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Testament abiding in Christ. You find that in John 15 in John
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15-1 to 1711 times it says abiding in Christ.
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So Psalms 27 is the Old Testament equivalent of abiding
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New Testament equivalent of abiding in Christ.
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Let's move on to point #3 cry to God.
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David here is going to cry out for five things and I'll go
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through them really quickly that only a loving, kind and
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compassionate God can give number one.
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And verse 7 he says, hear me, O Lord.
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Notice in this section what David is seeking from God is
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exactly what a child will seek from his parents.
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All five of these things a child seeks from his parent.
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And the first thing that a child seeks from his parents is to be
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heard. Our children can talk a lot and
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you know, sometimes as parents we get tired of listening
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because they can talk non-stop. But God is never tired of
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hearing. There's no crisis mode.
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There's no 911 for God. He's always there to hear us and
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we have confidence that God is never too busy to hear us.
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Matthew 77 says ask and it will be given to you.
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Seek and you will find knock. It will be open to you.
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Then we move on to help me in verses 8 to 10 and you notice
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he's going to say it depends on your translation.
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He's going to say 4. Do not, do not hide your face
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from me, do not turn your slave away.
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Do not abandon me and do not forsake me.
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David's crying out for help, saying you helped me in the
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past, help me now. So the second thing that a child
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seeks from his parents is help. David is in a crisis, seeking
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God's help. Now verse 10, we don't know what
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prompted David to say verse 10 for my father and my mother have
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forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.
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If you go to first Samuel 22, verse 3 to 4, David takes his
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parents to Moab, to the king of Moab and says I'm going to leave
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my parents with you. And we don't hear anything more
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about his parents. So the Bible is silent about it.
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So maybe they died, you know, maybe they did forsake him.
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We don't know. But the point here is that when
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all earthly pillars, all earthly supports everything you trusted
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in in the earth gives way, the Lord can still be depended upon.
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God cannot abandoned us like earthly sinful parents can or
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like your friends can. The Third Point here is teach me
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in verses 11/8 he says teach me your way.
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The third thing a child seeks from his parents is to be taught
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maybe something as simple as tying your shoes or we've been
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trying to teach my daughter how to hold a spoon for many years,
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things like that. I don't think David wrote Psalm
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119. Some people do think saved David
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wrote Psalm 119. Other people think Daniel did or
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Ezra did. But Psalm 119, it depends on
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your translations, but in the ESV that it in in all of Psalms
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in 150 Psalms 27 times it says teach me your statues, teach me
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your law. But in Psalms 119, the greatest
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Psalm with 176 verses, 11 times in 176 verses, it says in Psalms
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119 verse 12. Blessed are you, O Lord, teach
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me your statutes. In Psalms 1/19/26 when I was
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told of my ways, you answered me.
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Teach me your statutes. Psalms 1/19/29 Put false ways
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far from me and graciously teach me your law.
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Psalms 11933 Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes, and I
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will keep them to the end. Psalms 11964 The earth, O Lord,
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is full of your steadfast love. Teach me your statutes.
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Psalms 11966 Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I
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believe in your commandments. Psalms 1/19/68 You are good and
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do good. Teach me your statutes.
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Psalms 119 One O 8. Accept my free will offerings of
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praise, O Lord, and teach me your rules.
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Psalms 1/19/24 Deal with your servant according to your
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steadfast love, and teach me your statutes.
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Psalms One 19135 Make your face shine upon your servant and
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teach me your statutes. And lastly, Psalms 119, verse
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171, My lips will pour forth praise for you.
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Teach me your statutes. You know, if you truly love the
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Lord, there's going to be a constant desire to learn from
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the Lord. You never stop growing in the
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Lord. AW Tozer said that Satan's
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greatest weapon is man's ignorance of God's word.
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If you want to have confidence in God, you got to commune with
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God, and that means spending time in His Word.
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And I think most of you know Second Timothy 2:15 that says do
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your best, not your average, not your worst.
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Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved.
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A worker who has no need to be shamed, who correctly or rightly
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handles the word of truth #4 he says, lead me in the in the last
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part of verse 11, lead me on a level path because of my
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enemies. OK, He doesn't want to go to the
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right. You don't go to the left because
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he might run into his enemies. The fourth thing a child seeks
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from his parents is to be led on a smooth or straight path.
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David danger is lurking in every corner and we need to be LED.
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How are we to be LED? Well, David asked God to lead
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him. God's word guides us to keep us
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on a straight path. Psalms 119 one O 5 says God's
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word is a lamp into my feet and a light into my path and #5 or E
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protect me in verse 12. The fifth thing that a child
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seeks from his parents is protection.
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David says in verse 12 and here's the petition of the
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Psalm. Give me not up to the will of my
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adversaries for there's false witnesses have risen up against
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me and they breathe out violence.
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These are violent men. You know, Adobe Edomite
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slaughtered all the priests of of David.
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So these are some wicked men that are chasing David.
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David, as we mentioned earlier, he knows he's in danger and his
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children, children need their parents protection.
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David needed God's protection. Wicked men wanted to kill him as
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described by liars and violent men.
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So far we have seen that David had confidence in God.
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He had a special communion with God.
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He could cry out to God. And lastly, he would receive
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comfort from God. Point #4 and there's two points
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here, support and strength. Now this verse in verse 13 is a
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verse that has been translated in different ways.
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And so in my Bible, it's hard to understand.
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In my in the ESV, it says, I believe that I shall look upon
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the goodness of the Lord. It's hard to understand that.
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So the new King James and the legacy standard Bible, if you
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have that Bible out here tonight, you notice there's some
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words in italics. Anybody see that?
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So the translators have tried to make this first for us to
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understand. So those words are not in the
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original Greek. But the new King James says I
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would have lost heart unless I had believed that I would see
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the goodness of the Lord of the land of living.
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The legacy standard Bible says I would have despaired unless
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italics that I believe that I would see the goodness of Yahweh
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in the land of the living. So you can see that it's an
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easier translation. We see the confidence of God
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that David has in God time and time again.
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God rescued him from Saul's plots to kill him.
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And even though I may undergo some trial, we all know that
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God, we will see God someday. There's a verse that we turn to
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quite often. You don't have to turn there,
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but you probably turn to it many times.
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And it's Isaiah 43 verse 2. And you remember that it says
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when you pass through the waters, it does not say if you
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pass through the waters. It says, when you pass through
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the waters, I will be with you and through the rivers they
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shall not overwhelm you. And when you walk through the
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fire, you shall not be burned and the flames shall not consume
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you. For I am the Lord your God, the
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Holy One of Israel, your Savior. You know, we live in a very safe
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country to be a Christian, don't we?
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And there's a, there's a quote by someone that says God doesn't
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ask many of us to die for him, but he asks all of us to live
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for him. And you know, this week I read
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from the voice of the martyrs, sent me an e-mail and I lived in
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India for about 8 years. There's a state called Maya
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Pradesh. And this week or last week in
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Maya Pradesh in the Senate. Now understand in India, the
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states have more power than the federal government.
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The village leaders probably have more power than the, the
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president. But in this state, Maya Pradesh,
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they introduced a bill that if you convert from Hinduism to
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Christianity, you get the death penalty.
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OK, now I don't know if the law is going to pass, but that just
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shows you what's out there. You'd be a Christian in India,
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in Iran, maybe in China. You could die for the Lord.
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God doesn't ask me any of us to be a martyr for Him, but He does
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ask all of us to live for Him. So the second point is strength,
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and that's the last verse, verse 14.
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And this is a very familiar verse.
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Wait for the Lord, be strong, let your heart take courage and
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wait for the Lord. So God gives us strength is a
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very favorite combination of the Old Testament and we have looked
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at it before at Christ Community Church.
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It says in Deuteronomy 31, six be strong and courageous.
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Deuteronomy 2323 says in the Lord commissioned Joshua's son
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and nun and said be strong and courageous.
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In Joshua 1/6 and verse 7 it says be strong and courageous
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only be strong and very courageous.
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Joshua 118 says only be strong and courageous 3 times in
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chapter 1 of Joshua. Then in First Chronicles 2213
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the then it says then you will prosper if you're careful to
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obey the statutes and rules that the Lord commanded Moses for
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Israel. Be strong and courageous.
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First Chronicles 2820 David said to his son Solomon be strong and
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courageous and do it. And Psalms 31 verse 24 says be
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strong and let your heart take courage, all of you who wait for
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the Lord. So at least seven times there it
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says be strong and courageous in addition to to Psalms 27, verse
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14. And one of the most difficult
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aspects of being a a Christian life is waiting for the Lord,
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isn't it? It's especially difficult when
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you're in the middle of a trial. We're suffering, but understand
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that's when God strengthens you. That's when God builds upon your
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faith. When you wait upon the Lord,
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when you read your Bible, when you pray, when you meditate upon
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him. You don't stand one for in
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church you don't put the Bible away You you dig into it.
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David says we must be strong and courageous.
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There's a verse in Job 2310. If you were with us last year
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when Lance taught us, he said there were three great
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confession statements by Job in the book of Job 3.
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Great. And Job 2310 is the third of
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those great confessions. And I love this verse.
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Job 2310 says, But he knows the way that I take, and when he has
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tried me, I shall come out as gold.
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That's the goal of us today, that no matter what the trial
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is, no matter what's going on, we will pass that test and we
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will come out as gold. The thing David is praying for
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and for which we pray does not, does not always come to us at
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once. God has his timings, which are
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not ours, and therefore what we pray for and need some time is
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delayed. What then?
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Are we to despair of having answers, to lose confidence?
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Not at all. We simply need to wait.
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God wants us to be with him and we will someday be with Him, but
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sometimes we have to wait. So I don't know the situations
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you're in today, but we can have, we can have confidence in
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God in difficult times because we commune with God and because
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we can cry out to God, we will receive comfort from God.
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We live in an evil world. You all know the verse.
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First John 519 says we know that we are from God.
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That's us believers, and the whole world relies in the power
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of the evil 1. You all know that verse, right?
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The whole world lies in the power of evil one Satan.
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Do you know what the verse preceding that says before that
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in verse 18, it says that we know that everyone who is born
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of God does not keep on sinning, but He was born of God, protects
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him, and the evil 1 does not touch him.
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James 47 says submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the
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devil and he will flee from you. And Romans 831 says if God is
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for us, who can be against us? In closing, Dwight L Moody's
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favorite verse, you know what his favorite verse was from the
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Dwight L Moody who founded Moody Bible Institute.
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His favorite verse was Isaiah chapter 12 verse 2.
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Might want to just jot that down sometime because it kind of
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summarizes Psalms 27. But Dwight L Moody's favorite
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verse was Isaiah 12/2 which says behold, God is my salvation, I
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will trust and I will not be afraid for the Lord.
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God is my strength and my song and he has become my salvation.
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That's Dwight L Moody's favorite verse.
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What a beautiful verse. And Dwight L Moody used to say
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you can travel first class or you can travel second class to
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heaven. When I first read that, I said,
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wait a minute, there's only one way to heaven.
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Salvation is found in no one else.
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And Jesus is I am the way. There's only one way to heaven.
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But he's talking about the time that we're waiting to go to
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heaven. Now I don't know about you, but
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I have flown probably 2-3 hundred flights being a
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missionary for 18 years and done like 30 short term trips to one
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time Tom Mason took us you gone and we had six flights to get
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you gone and six flights back. So I've flown hundreds of
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flights, but only one time did I ever get bumped the first class.
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And it wasn't a long flight. It was from Bangkok to Calcutta
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and me and my wife and I was in it was in short pants and AT
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shirt didn't didn't deserve it. But they bumped us and it was
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really sweet, really sweet. You know, we had all the orange
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juice we could drink while everybody else is drinking the
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alcohol. We had steak for dinner and when
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they brought the desserts, it wasn't one dessert, it was 3
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desserts. And they gave you all these
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headphones and slippers and amenities, all these things.
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So I wish I could fly first class all the time.
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Fortunately in two months we'll be in cattle class when we go to
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Argentina. Call it cattle class, but but So
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there is only one way to go to heaven.
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But while we wait, there's a first class waiting and there's
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a second class waiting. And he says second class is what
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time I am afraid I will trust. It's a little confusing.
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What he's saying is that when I'm afraid I'm going to trust,
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that's second class. 1st class is I will trust and not be
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afraid. Second class is for Christians.
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They have their ticket to heaven.
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They have Jesus Christ in their heart, but they worry, they
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doubt, they're anxious, they're full of fear.
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And the Bible says in Matthew 625, don't be anxious.
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The Bible says in Luke 1229, don't worry.
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The Bible says in James 1/5 to six that we are not to doubt if
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we have faith. And the Bible says in Romans
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8:15 that we have not received a spirit of slavery to fall back
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into fear, but you have received a spirit as adoption of sons who
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by we cry, have a father. So that's second class, but
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first class is for Christians who will trust, who say I'm not
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going to fear, I will trust and not be afraid.
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So my prayer for you tonight as you leave here tonight is that
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Psalms 27 is a prescription from Jehovah Rafi that you will
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memorize it, that you will quote it.
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And I know many of you know it. Many of you know it, and it's
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one of your favorites. I know that's first class.
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You're going to experience some trials, some suffering, some
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tribulations, but No Fear. Psalms 27 is that and I'll close
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with a a man called Stuart Hamblin.
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I didn't know this man, but he wrote a hymns kind of a country
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Christian guy singer. But he wrote a hymn called known
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only to him. Now Google it and you can listen
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to it. Stuart HA MB Lin and the hymn is
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called known only to him now Elvis Presley saying it.
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So don't look at his one, but look for Stuart Hamlin's but the
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last verse says known only to him are the great hidden
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secrets. I fear not the darkness when my
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flames shall dim. I know not what the future
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holds, but I know who holds the future.
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It's a secret known only to him. And the words that I want to
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emphasize are those I know not what the future holds, but I
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know who holds the future. Our lives are in God's hands.
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May Psalm 27 be your song of trust.
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That it is my song of trust for all of us.
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Let's pray. Dear only Father, I don't know
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what is going on in the lives of our people tonight, but we know
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there are people here who are going to undergo operations.
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There are people here who are recovering from cancer and then
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they have to deal with the chemo and the side effects and all
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that. Father, I know there are people
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are struggling with family, people struggling with work,
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people struggling with our government, but Father, may we
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not fear. You are our source of salvation.
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You are our light. You are defense and we will
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trust you and not fear. Help us to to memorize this
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Psalm. Help us to read it.
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Help us Father to obey it so when those trials come, we will
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not fear. And Lord Jesus, we pray for your
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return that any day, anytime, today, tonight, we'll hear the
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loud command wheel, the voice of the Archangel.
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We're heal the trumpet call and you will take us home.
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But till that great day, till that time, help us to tarry with
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No Fear. Thank you for Psalm 27 in Jesus
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name, Amen.