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932. Bible Study: Psalm 18 (YHWH, El, Elohim, David praises God for saving him from Saul, but this seems prophetic too!) · Faith by annm2705

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  Psalm 18 from the book of Psalms.
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  This one's a longer one. I'm going to read through it.
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  And then do they study Bible questions and answers and then
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  get into all of the things that I saw with this one, because
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  again, there's a lot that I saw here also.
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  So let's get started with a prayer first.
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  Dear Lord, please be with us as we read through this.
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  Please open our minds, our hearts and our ears to what you
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  have to say through the Psalm. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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  So this is Psalm 18 for the director of music of David, the
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  servant of the Lord. He sang to the Lord the words of
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  the song. When the Lord delivered him from
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  the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul, he said,
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  OK, that's important to know because it does tell us when
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  this Psalm was written. And I believe it's also in
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  Second Samuel 22. So this also gives a history of
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  this. It matches up with this Psalm
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  18, and we know that Saul was pursuing David and David relied
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  on the Lord to protect him during this time.
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  And so we can see here that this is about that.
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  But there are some things in here that I don't think were
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  solely descriptive terms about Saul.
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  And here's why I'm going to say that because we know that all
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  Scripture is God breathed. It's inspired by the Holy
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  Spirit. And so even if somebody speaks
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  words that were written down, who was guiding that God was
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  right? So sometimes, oftentimes the
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  longer I study the Bible, the more that I see literal events
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  also have symbolic and often prophetic significance.
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  I've mentioned this before, like the Passover.
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  That was a literal event that happened and then it became and
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  it was symbolic of Jesus. And I won't go into all the
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  detail of that because this podcast will become really long
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  if I do that. But you can search that if you
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  haven't heard that already from me before or anyone else.
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  But there is a lot of symbolism. I also attended, there's been
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  times where I think maybe Rachel and Leah and Jacob's marriage
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  may also be symbolic of something future and prophetic.
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  It was literal. I mean, he worked for originally
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  it was intended for Rachel, but then he was given Leah, so he
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  had to work another seven years so he could get Rachel.
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  And I just think there may be some significance in that,
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  prophetically speaking, something that I've been kind of
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  just watching and contemplating on.
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  And then, oh gosh, there's just so many things, like even the
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  creation where the 7th day was a day of rest, the Sabbath.
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  And there's also Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath and Jesus
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  gives us rest. So these literal things had
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  symbolic significance. And again, this is there's also
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  a Psalm that we haven't come upon yet, but is in here and
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  I'll point it out when we get there, but that talks about or
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  describes the scene of the cross when Jesus was hung on the
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  cross. And David wrote that in the BC
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  time frame, so hundreds of years before Jesus was on the cross.
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  David is expressing that and David was never crucified.
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  David didn't experience a death like that.
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  So it really he probably didn't even know what he was saying,
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  but it was just something that came to him, you know, in the
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  Spirit and that he documented. So that's for those reasons.
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  That's why I believe that, yes, he was expressing this about
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  Saul, but I also see prophetic things in here and so I will
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  talk about that later. Now I'm just going to read
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  through it all. So you can think about that, I
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  guess as I read, and I will pause only because ever since I
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  discovered that Lord and God have different Hebrew words and
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  English, kind of the English translation does change very
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  detailed aspects of reading the Bible.
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  And so if you want to get the very detailed aspects of reading
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  the Bible, you can use blueletterbible.org, which is
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  great because if you are in the Old Testament, you can go to the
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  toolbars and then you can see the original Hebrew word and it
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  helps you study what that means, where it's used, and a lot more
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  information. So like I said before, every
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  time I see Lord or God now I check the Hebrew to see what
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  word was it really used, what would, what word was used
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  originally. And then, then it, it does help
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  explain. And I'm going to point those
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  things out 'cause those are really important to see here.
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  OK, so let's get started. He says I love you, Lord, my
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  strength. Well, here this is as the Blue
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  Letter Bible would say in an IV version.
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  Yehovah. And as I talked about in a prior
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  podcast, that is God's personal name that was identified when
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  Moses was at the burning Bush. That's when he he found out the
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  name of God was, was that was that name.
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  Now the, the challenging part of it is I don't know that any of
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  us have the correct pronunciation of that name
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  because it was given in four consonants, which we use in
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  English, it would be YHWH and so there aren't any vowels.
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  So if we put vowels in there, then we make it sound a certain
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  way. And that's what happened with
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  the word Yahweh. There was an A put in there and
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  an E put in there and it but that's not how it was given.
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  So if, if that maybe that was given just to make it easier to
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  say, but if you just took YH or yes, YH and then WH and you made
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  it, it was more like a sound than a name.
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  And and it does sound, someone pointed this out, not me, but it
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  does sound like a breath or breathing.
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  And it's interesting because that is, you know, often the way
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  God's names names people, they have significance.
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  And God is spirit. So if he is Spirit and he gives
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  us the breath of life, then wouldn't it be interesting that
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  his name would actually sound like breathing?
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  So it would be something like, you know, like, I don't know,
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  I'm even putting sounds in it, but just like, just like a
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  breath, Like, I mean, what if it just sounds like a breeze or
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  something? If that's the name of God.
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  So maybe we aren't saying the name properly.
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  And then what I also learned, and maybe you already know this,
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  but when I first was studying, I was listening to some Hebrew or
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  Jewish people and they were talking about God and, and, and,
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  you know, mentioning, I don't know, they were when they were
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  saying I was following along, but they kept saying Hashem.
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  And I'm like Hashem, Who's Hashem?
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  Who's Hashem? And so that was something that I
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  had to learn because I'm not Jewish so I had to figure out.
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  So Hebrew Hashem literally translates to in quotations the
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  name. It is the most common way Jewish
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  people refer to God in everyday speech, casual conversation and
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  non liturgical settings and the The term is used out of profound
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  respect and the desire to avoid misusing or taking God's name in
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  vain, which stems from the third commandment.
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  Because God's actual sacred name in the Torah, the four letter
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  Tetragrammaton or Grammaton, is considered too holy to be spoken
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  casually. Hashem is used as a respectful
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  stand in so ha, the Hebrew definite article meaning D and
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  shem, the Hebrew word for name. So where it would be the name of
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  God, it would be Hashem. So it might be easier to just
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  almost say Hashem when God's personal name is used.
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  So I might just substitute that for that.
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  It's it just means the name, God's personal name.
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  So here's what David said. I love you, Hashem, my strength.
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  Hashem is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer.
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  And then it says L, which is or ale.
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  It's El Ale, which is the name, the singular name.
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  For God is my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield and the
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  horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
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  I called to Hashem, who is worthy of praise, and I have
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  been saved from my enemies. The cords of death entangled me.
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  The torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
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  The cords of the grave coiled around me.
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  The snares of death confronted me.
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  In my distress, I called to Hashem, I cried to Elohim.
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  OK, so this is which I cried to my God for help.
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  And my God in, in Hebrew at this sentence is Elohim.
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  That's the plural for gods. And you find that even in the in
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  the book of Genesis at the creation.
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  So there's the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and the three are
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  one. And I will talk a little bit
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  about that. I think that's a great mystery
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  that as much as we want to think we understand it, we probably
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  don't fully understand it, but there is scripture that supports
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  that and it actually it involves us too.
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  I might just pause here for a moment because just in context,
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  it would be really good to to talk about that right now
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  because I'm I have to just look. OK, So if you go to John 17
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  verses 11 and also verse 22, this is what Jesus said I will
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  remain in the world no longer. He's he's talking to the Father.
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  OK, he's talking to God the Father.
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  I will remain in the world no longer.
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  But they his referring to his disciples are still in the world
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  and I am coming to you. So Jesus knew about his upcoming
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  death that was going to happen. Holy Father protects them by the
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  power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one
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  as we are 1. Isn't that interesting?
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  The only way that I can think about this is like one in
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  spirit. They are three persons, but they
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  are one. They share the same spirit
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  because Jesus even said that I say nothing on my own.
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  It's the Father who speaks through me and then he tells his
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  disciples too, don't worry about what you're going to say if
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  somebody challenges you because it will be the Holy Spirit
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  speaking to you. And so when we, and he also
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  tells Jesus tells us that we cannot enter the Kingdom unless
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  we are born again, born of the Spirit.
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  So when we were born of the Spirit, then I believe we have
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  that communication with God, that God is that he speaks
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  through US. You can, I mean, I think I can
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  kind of tell now when people are really, they have the Holy
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  Spirit dwelling in them. There's just there's something
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  different that you can tell about a person and you
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  definitely would see their behavior would be different than
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  normal people. When I say normal, I mean there
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  is a change in somebody's life when they have the Holy Spirit,
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  they do begin to live differently.
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  So anyway, I think that is that's and there's evidence of
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  it. There is the fruit of the Spirit
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  is evidence and then they're also gifts from the Spirit.
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  So those are different ways that it's known if somebody has the
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  Holy Spirit. But what I was thinking about
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  here was also in John chapter 17 verse 22, it said Jesus said, I
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  have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be
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  one as we are one. So isn't that wonderful?
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  Like just to think that Jesus was praying to the Father before
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  his death and he was talking about his disciples, those who
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  believe in him. And let's see, yes, he was
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  praying for his disciples. And this is, I'll read a little
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  bit more just so you can see like who this was spoken about,
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  He says, and now, Father, glorify me in your presence with
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  the glory I had with you before the world began.
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  So this is another part, this is verse 5 that puts Jesus at the
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  creation. I'll read it again.
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  And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I
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  had with You before the world began.
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  So this is where Elohim. That's how we got here from
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  Psalm 18, because Elohim is used in verse 6 of Psalm 18I cried to
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  Elohim for help. Dave is saying that.
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  So going back to what Jesus was saying to his disciples, he said
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  and pray. He's praying to the Father.
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  He says I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of
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  the world. They were yours.
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  You gave them to me and they have obeyed your word.
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  Now they know that everything you have given me comes from
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  You. Everything comes from the
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  Father. For I gave them the words you
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  gave me, and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I
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  came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
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  I pray for them. I'm not praying for the world,
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  but for those you have given me, for they are yours.
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  All I have is yours, and all you have is mine, and glory has come
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  to me through them. And then he says, I will remain
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  in the world no longer. But they are still in the world,
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  and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the
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  power of Your name, the name You gave me, so that they may be one
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  as we are one, while while I was with them, I protected them and
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  kept them safe. By that name you gave me, none
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  has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that
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  Scripture would be fulfilled. I am coming to you now, but I
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  say these things while I am still in the world, so that they
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  may have the full measure of my joy within them.
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  I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them, for
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  they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
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  My prayer is not that you take them out of the world, but that
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  you protect them from the evil One.
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  They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.
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  Sanctify them by the truth. Your Word is the truth.
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  Listen to that. So reading Scripture is really
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  important because this is how we become sanctified.
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  Sanctify them by the truth. Your Word is the truth.
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  As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world
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  for them. I sanctify myself that they too
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  may be truly sanctified. Then he says my prayer is not
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  for them alone. I pray also for those who will
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  believe in me through their message, that all of them may be
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  one. Father, just as you are in me
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  and I am in You, may they also be in us, so that the world may
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  believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that
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  you gave me, that they may be one as we are one, I in them and
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  You and Me, so that they may be brought to complete unity.
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  Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them
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  even as You have loved me. Father, I want those you have
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  given me to be with me where I am and to see my glory, the
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  glory you have given me, because you loved me before the creation
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  of the world. Righteous Father, though the
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  world does not know You, I know You and they know that you have
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  sent me. I have made you known to them
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  and will continue to make you known in order that the love you
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  have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.
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  So this is something that, like I said, I don't know that we can
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  fully comprehend, but it is something that applies to all of
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  us. And, and it, I don't know, I
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  love that part where just how much Jesus was thinking about
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  others even right before his death on the cross.
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  Like he was praying for other people and he was getting ready
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  to sacrifice himself on the cross so that it would be
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  possible for us to be in God's Kingdom.
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  When you think about that, there is definitely a reason to be
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  praising Jesus and thanking the Lord.
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  So going back to Psalm 18, it says from his temple, this is
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  David speaking. He's talking about God.
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  From his temple. He heard my voice, my cry came,
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  came before him into his ears. The earth trembled and quaked,
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  and the fountains of the mountains shook.
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  They trembled because he was angry.
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  This, I think, is a foreshadowing, and I'll talk a
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  little bit more about that. Also, I also mentioned like, and
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  I didn't mention this, but I meant to in my distress, verse
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  6, going back in my distress, I called to you.
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  And then he says the name of the Lord.
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  And it's interesting because again, a foreshadowing because
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  Jesus says that he will not return again or he will not
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  return or see them again until they call out, till they say
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  blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord until you know,
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  it's basically giving Jesus a blessing, blessing, you know,
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  when he comes like Jesus said in in your name, the name you gave
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  me when he was talking to the Father.
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  So this all ties together. This is Old Testament and New
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  Testament, tying together what Jesus had said.
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  But again, when I talked about the earth trembling, the
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  mountains shaking, and there was anger there, The smoke rose from
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  his nostrils, consuming fire came from his mouth.
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  Burning coals blazed out of it. He parted the heavens and came
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  down. Dark clouds were under his feet.
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  He mounted the cherubim. We know from Ezekiel.
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  Those are a lot in in the presence of God, I guess the
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  throne of God. He mounted the cherubim and
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  flew. He soared on the wings of the
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  wind. He made darkness his, covering
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  his canopy around him, the dark rain clouds of the sky.
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  Out of the brightness of His presence, clouds advanced with
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  hailstone and bolts of lightning.
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  We're going to see another Scripture, how this description
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  often accompanies God's presence.
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  Bolts of lightning, hailstones are and God sends those, but
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  God's in control. We'll see.
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  We're going to look at lightning and God is in control of that.
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  And also, you know, it's, it's a descriptive way of saying it,
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  but ultimately in truth, God is in, he controls the lightning,
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  He controls everything that happened.
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  He designed this earth, he made, he created everything.
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  And we'll see that emphasized in Scripture.
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  So it's used as you know it. Sometimes it'll say like
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  lightning. So it's used as a, a, a simile,
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  I guess, or a metaphor. And then other times it, I mean,
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  it's, it's more of an maybe a descriptive word and it's not,
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  it doesn't necessarily mean literally, but then in other
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  times it does mean literally. When God actually uses
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  lightning, we'll we'll see that in more depth, but I'll keep
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  going here. The Lord thundered and the Lord
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  here is God's personal name. The Lord thundered from heaven.
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  The his the voice of the most High resounded.
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  He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy with great bolt of
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  lightning. He routed them.
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  The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of
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  the earth laid bare. Now the valleys of the sea and
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  the foundations of the earth. I mean, this is kind of like
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  widespread. It's not talking about when you
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  when you describe it like that, it's, it's pretty significant.
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  The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of
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  the earth laid bare at your rebuke, Lord.
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  And He uses His personal name, God's personal name at the blast
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  of your breath from your nostrils.
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  When the final battle happens, there is really no battle.
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  It's God, you know, consumes them by his consuming presence.
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  And that's kind of what this is talking about.
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  That's why I say this is like a foreshadowing of the very end
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  before the the reign of Christ and let's see.
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  Or before eternity perhaps. He reached down from on high and
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  took hold of me. He drew me out of deep waters.
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  Now deep waters is very interesting because I didn't
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  know if there was some symbology there or what was the actual
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  word. So I looked that word up and
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  that word sounds like my and it's, it's spelled MAYIM and the
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  definition of it is like piss water.
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  So that gives it a different meaning.
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  It's not this like refreshing water.
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  It's like described as piss urine or something like that.
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  I think it even said semen in it too.
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  So it's like not something that you would want to be swimming
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  in. He drew me out of deep waters.
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  He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes who were too
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  strong for me. They confronted me in the day of
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  my disaster, but the Lord was my support.
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  Again, this is God's personal name that was used, and this is
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  also going to be very similar in future prophecy that God is, you
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  know, is the rescuer in the day of disaster.
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  He brought me out into a spacious place.
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  He rescued me because he delighted in me.
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  I think that's just something to ponder on for a minute.
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  He brought me out into a spacious place.
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  Could that be referring to his Kingdom?
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  I mean, in a in a future sense, he brought me out like out of
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  this piss water. And it's, you know, you think
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  about like this. Let's see, this was obviously
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  written after the flood, Noah's flood.
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  But, you know, think about the symbolism of that.
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  And that was God's rescue with Noah.
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  And then there is another rescue where Jesus will come and rescue
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  out of a world that has become very dark and evil.
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  And so this is, and he brought me out into a spacious place.
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  Is this, you know, like, you know, perhaps he brought him out
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  into some Meadow or something. He said he rescued me because he
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  delighted in me because God loves him.
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  That's why he was rescued. And that's why God will rescue
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  those who I mean, he loves. He loves those who love him back
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  is really what it turns out to be those who are obedient to him
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  because that's how we show God that we love him just like
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  Jesus. You know, Jesus took up a cross
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  and we need to take up a cross that shows love to God and there
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  are also rewards in what we for what we do well that David gets
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  into some of that a little bit later too.
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  So verse 20, the the Lord, which is the personal name of God has
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  dealt with me according to my righteousness, according to the
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  cleanness of my hands. He has rewarded me.
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  I did a search on reward. So I want to talk about that in
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  the New Testament. It's kind of like sowing and
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  reaping and that you kind of get what you you do get a payback
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  and often double payback in a good for the good things that
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  that's the way God is historically.
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  We see that in the Bible for I have kept the ways of the Lord
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  and that's using his personal name.
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  I am not guilty of turning from Elohim.
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  That's the plural, the plural sense, the father, son and Holy
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  Spirit. Did David know what he was
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  saying? I mean, why would he use that it
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  you know, there's a lot of questions that we really won't
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  have answers to, but it's very interesting that Holy Spirit
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  inspired words and it was, you know, Yahweh was for I have kept
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  the ways of I, I just don't, you know, Hashem.
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  And I am not guilty of turning from Elohim, the plural for God.
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  All his laws are before me. I have not turned away from his
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  decrees. I have been blameless before him
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  and have kept myself from sin. Sin separates us from God.
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  So David is saying, you know, I'm keeping myself from it.
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  And then 24 the Lord has rewarded me according to my
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  righteousness, according to the cleanness, the cleanness of my
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  hands in his sight. So this is twice that David
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  mentions this. To the faithful you show
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  yourself faithful. To the blameless you show
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  yourself blameless. To the pure, you show yourself
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  pure. But to the devious you show
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  yourself shrewd or sharp and able to make decisions using
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  practical judgement. And then it says you save the
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  humble, but bring lo those whose eyes are haughty or proud.
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  This is interesting what he says, you Lord, and that's the
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  personal name of God. Oh, well, this is interesting
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  too. Not only does it say, it says
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  you Lord, keep my lamp burning. There's lots just in that one
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  statement, verse 28, You Lord, keep my lamp burning.
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  So you Lord is actually Yahweh, Elohim, the plural version of
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  God. So he's speaking the personal
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  name of God and then connecting him with Elohim, Father, son,
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  and spirit. Like a part like you by name,
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  part of the God, keep my lamp burning.
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  We'll talk a little bit more about that because there's the
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  parable of the 10 virgins that might be significant,
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  significant to that. Like you keep my lamp burning.
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  So God is the oil, the anointing of the Holy Spirit that keeps
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  our lamp burning. So right here it says, you,
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  Lord, keep my lamp burning. My God turns.
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  Let's see. I don't know if I looked that
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  one up. My God turns my darkness into
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  light. Maybe that was where it was
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  Elohim with, with your help, I can advance against a troop with
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  and then here he says Elohim, I can scale a wall.
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  So he's and sometimes he's talking about the singular
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  person and sometimes he's talking about the plurality of
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  the one God. It's very interesting.
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  I mean, this is really mind opening to read this.
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  This is in the Old Testament. This is Hebrew and it's talking
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  about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the plural version.
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  So very interesting. And I just don't know like how
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  this could be so hidden from some.
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  But and then he says with my God or Elohim, I can scale a wall.
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  And this reminded me of when Jesus, you know, said that
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  things are possible with God. It's impossible for man, but
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  possible with God. Like the things that happen in
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  the world, things that we think are impossible are possible for
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  God. Now this is again interesting.
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  As for God, his way is perfect. The word is LEL.
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  As for God, his way is perfect. That's singular, not Elohim.
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  That's the singular version of Elohim.
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  And it says the Lord's word is flawless.
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  And so that's and then it's like talking about the personal name.
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  His word is flawless. Now that could mean Scripture,
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  but it could also mean the word of God is Jesus.
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  So if we go, and I think it's in the Gospel of Matthew where it's
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  like, and the word became flesh talking about Jesus, so often
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  God's word is Jesus, Jesus is the word of God.
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  So I think it's just really kind of interesting that, you know,
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  it could just mean spoken word or it could mean Jesus because
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  it says the Lord's word is flawless.
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  He Shields all who take refuge in him for who is God?
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  Now this is a different one that I had to look up and it's
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  Elohah, which is can be God or it can be a false God.
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  So it says for who is God besides the Lord?
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  And that's Yahweh or Yahweh. So and who is the rock except
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  our God? And it says like and who is the
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  rock except Elohim? So that's plural again.
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  So here's another place where I see Jesus is God.
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  Jesus is the rock. And I'm going to talk more about
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  the rock and how it's used in Scripture and how it refers to
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  Jesus. So here it says, you know, and
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  who is the rock except our God? And God is in the plural sense,
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  Elohim. So here in Psalm 18, Jesus,
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  we'll see. We see Jesus right here.
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  It is God, and that's L or ale, but spelled Eli.
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  Keep saying L. It is God who arms me so
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  singularly, who arms me with strength and keeps my way
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  secure. He makes my feet like the feet
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  of a deer. He causes me to stand on the
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  heights. He trains my hands for battle.
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  My arms can bend a bow of bronze.
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  You make your saving help my shield, and your right hand
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  sustains me. Your help has made me great.
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  You provide a broad path for my feet so that my ankles do not
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  give way. All of those verses he's saying
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  it's you, it's you. You do this, you do this.
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  You train me. You 'cause me.
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  You're saving. Help your right hand, your help
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  you provide. That's what Dave is saying in
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  all these. Then in verse 37, I pursued my
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  enemies and overtook them. I did not turn back till they
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  were destroyed. I crushed them so they could not
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  rise. They fell beneath my feet.
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  You armed me with strength for battle.
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  You humbled my adversaries before me.
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  You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed
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  my foes. They cried for help, but there
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  was no one to save them. See, when people turn their
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  backs on God, he's not there either.
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  To the let's see. To the oh, let's see.
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  They cried for help, but there was no one to save them.
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  To the Lord, but he did not answer and he used God's
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  personal name. So when someone's going against
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  his protected one, they may be calling for help after things
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  don't turn out the way they want.
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  But God's not responding to that.
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  He's he's responding to his child.
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  And David is here is, you know, David's the one that is
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  receiving the benefit of this, but not his enemies.
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  And even then, his enemies are calling on someone to save them.
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  But they don't. They don't know God, and he
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  doesn't answer to that. I beat them as fine as windblown
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  dust. I trampled them like mud in the
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  streets. You have delivered me from the
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  attacks of the people. You have made me the head of
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  nations. People I did not know now serve
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  me. Foreigners cower before me.
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  As soon as they hear of me, they obey me.
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  They all lose heart. They come trembling from their
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  strongholds. The Lord lives.
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  He is the personal name of God. There Praise be to my rock.
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  Exalted be God, my Savior. Now exalted be God.
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  That's Elohah. And then my savior is Yesha and
• 37:25
  it's interesting that Jesus name in Hebrew would be Yeshua, which
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  means Savior. Isn't that interesting too?
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  Yeshua, Yesha, He is the God, and this is singular.
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  Who LL who Avengers me, who subdues the nations under me,
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  who saves me from my enemies? You exalted me above my foes.
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  From a violent man, You rescued me.
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  Well, he's talking about Saul in this this sense.
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  But you could see this in the future, how it could be
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  applicable to another, well, not another, but a the final lawless
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  man that God rescues Israel from.
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  Therefore, I will praise you Lord, which is the personal name
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  of God, Yahweh among the nations.
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  I will sing the praises of your name.
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  I kind of think that God's name is very important and and that
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  when we use a, I know the pronunciation has not been
• 38:35
  recorded, so it would only be transferred verbally and then
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  written down. And then people don't say it.
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  So then you don't know how it's said.
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  But God searches the heart. And so there is power in the
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  name, and we know there's power in the name of Jesus.
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  Therefore I will praise you, Lord among the nations.
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  I will sing the praises of your name.
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  He gives his King great victories.
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  He shows unfailing love to his anointed, to David, and to his
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  descendants forever. And that's the end of Psalm 18.
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  So I will read the questions and answers from the Study Bible and
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  then I'll get into the additional scripture that my
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  thoughts went to as I was reading through this, if you
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  want to stick around for that. So let's see.
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  The title of David, Psalm 18 is also recorded with some
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  variations in Second Samuel 22. The writer of Second Samuel may
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  have used the Annals of King David as a source, and the
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  inscription in the title of the Psalms 18 also may have come
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  from those annals. How is God a rock?
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  God is firm, solid, impregnable, and immovable, which is exactly
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  the stable presence an emotional man like David needed.
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  I would put a little asteroid by that.
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  I think all people need, but it's kind of funny how they said
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  he's an emotional man. He does express himself.
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  David described a rock large enough for him to hide on top of
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  from his enemies below. During ancient times, a few
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  soldiers could defend a high rock bluff against a much larger
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  army. Perhaps David was recalling the
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  rocks and caves that kept him safe from Saul, and that's found
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  in First Samuel 23. Where was God's temple in
• 40:28
  David's day? The temple in Jerusalem was not
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  built until after David's death, with which leads to several
• 40:36
  possible interpretations of this verse #1 the Tabernacle may have
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  been called a temple. 2A later author wrote this Psalm. 3A
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  Later editor changed Tabernacle to temple for the Word is a more
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  general reference to creation as God's temple.
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  David saw God's dwelling place in the heavens as a temple.
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  I think it does talk about that. And David wanted to build a
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  temple. And I think David actually drew
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  the plans for the temple when we read the history.
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  But God said, you're not going to do that.
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  You have too much blood on your hands.
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  It'll be your son who does that, but David did the plans for it.
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  So I think David had it in his mind about the temple and, and
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  when he heard about like his knowing God personally, he knew
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  God's personal name, then he probably, there's, there's
• 41:36
  probably more revelation that he had about the what's in God,
• 41:41
  what's not what's in God. I mean, what's in the heavenly
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  realms, Because even in the Book of Revelation, it talks about
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  them coming out of the temple with the angels coming out of
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  the temple. So it's, you know, maybe the
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  temple is just like the description that is used for
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  God's place, where he, you know, his place, his holy place.
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  Why did God appeared in appear in such frightening ways?
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  Because God, by his very nature, so far, so far transcends mere
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  human experience that those who encounter His glory, majesty and
• 42:20
  power are overwhelmed. Furthermore, the limitations of
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  human language and knowledge, even with poetic figures of
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  speech, do not do justice to such an awesome holy God.
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  What were these valleys and foundations?
• 42:36
  These terms are possible references to canyons, scarred
• 42:39
  desert, or Judah are perhaps God's parting of the Red Sea.
• 42:43
  This image is meant to convey God's awesome power.
• 42:47
  What is God? What is good about a spacious
• 42:51
  place? A spacious place is a figure of
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  speech, meaning a place of comfort and ease.
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  Today we use a contrasting figure of speech when we say
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  someone is in a tight spot or backed into a corner.
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  Does God deal with us according to our level of righteousness?
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  In this life? God does not always deal with us
• 43:12
  according to our righteousness. The message of the Bible, made
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  particularly clear by the New Testament, is that God will
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  reward the righteous as they deserve and punish the wicked as
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  they deserve. Christians also recognize that
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  no one is perfectly righteous. All are sinners.
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  Romans 39 through 20. The good news of the gospel is
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  that Jesus, the perfectly righteous, 1 suffered and died
• 43:40
  for our sins so that we may be forgiven and we receive the Holy
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  Spirit. And that's how we can become
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  sanctified and get rid of a lot of that sin, not by our own
• 43:52
  power, but by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  How could David have claimed to be blameless?
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  David was speaking poetically. He considered himself innocent
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  of wrongdoing, at least when he compared his actions to the
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  violence and wickedness of those around him.
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  Another possibility is that David knew his motives and
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  intentions were right. On other occasions, however,
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  when he saw himself in the light of God's holiness, he confessed
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  his sins before God. And it could just mean like
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  David was expressing at that moment in time.
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  He had, he has cleaned up his act.
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  He had he was good at that moment when he wrote this.
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  Why is God sometimes shrewd? Nobody can outsmart God.
• 44:38
  He is always in control, even when he deals with con artists
• 44:43
  and schemers, though God's righteous character are through
• 44:47
  wait, though God's righteous character means he is not
• 44:50
  deceptive or crooked. He can still deal with people in
• 44:54
  ways that relate to the way they deal with Him.
• 44:58
  He can turn things around on them, and that's what I think
• 45:02
  that word actually is. It's twist or to turn so the
• 45:06
  stuff that they meant to do actually comes back on them.
• 45:09
  That's the way God deals with that.
• 45:13
  Let's see, how could David be so certain of his own righteousness
• 45:18
  in the Old Testament? Israel could know God's moral
• 45:21
  will for His people through the laws set forth in the covenant
• 45:25
  made at Mount Sinai. If David lived in a manner
• 45:29
  consistent with those covenant stipulations, he could
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  legitimately speak of his righteousness.
• 45:35
  David was not a perfect perfect by any means, a fact he readily
• 45:39
  acknowledged in Psalm 51. But while it is a great sin to
• 45:44
  violate God's law, the covenant provided a means by which
• 45:49
  confession, Repentance, restitution, and restoration to
• 45:53
  God and the community could take place.
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  The sacrificial system outlined in Leviticus chapter 1 verses
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  one through 7, or I guess Leviticus one through 7,
• 46:06
  provided the Israelites with a process by which they could make
• 46:10
  amends to God and their neighbors when they when they
• 46:13
  sinned. But more important than
• 46:16
  sacrifice is a humble and penitent heart that casts itself
• 46:21
  entirely on the mercy of God. Psalm 51.
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  When we do this, God imputes righteousness to us.
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  That is, he credits the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ to
• 46:34
  us, 2nd Corinthians 5 so that that righteousness of Christ
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  comes to us through the Holy Spirit.
• 46:45
  How is God a rock? The picture here is of a huge
• 46:49
  rock, so hard and strong that no one can damage it.
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  It has been in its spot since creation and will always remain
• 46:57
  there. This is the kind of God we have.
• 46:59
  Strong, enduring, trustworthy. He will always be there when we
• 47:03
  need Him. Do we Christians today
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  experience God's help in battle? Like David, Christians today are
• 47:10
  engaged in warfare against evil. It is still God who trains us
• 47:15
  and provides the weapons for the battle.
• 47:18
  Ephesians 610 through 18 describes the full armor of God
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  as consisting of truth, righteousness, the gospel of
• 47:28
  peace, faith, salvation, and the Spirit, which is the Word of
• 47:35
  God. Why did God answer?
• 47:39
  Why did God answer David's cries but not those of David's
• 47:44
  enemies? David's foes deserved their
• 47:47
  punishment for wrongfully attacking, attacking God's
• 47:51
  anointed king, the man in whom God delighted.
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  Consequently, God turned a deft ear to hear their prayers
• 48:00
  because they appealed to God too late and out of desperation
• 48:04
  rather than faith. Was David being boastful here?
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  Not really. Though David acknowledged the
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  victories he had gained and the people who had submitted to him,
• 48:15
  he gave credit to the Lord for all his sacrifice, all his
• 48:19
  success. You have delivered me.
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  You have made me the head of the nations.
• 48:25
  Praise be to my rock. An honest appraisal of
• 48:28
  accomplishments is not bragging, especially when God is honored
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  as the source of those achievements.
• 48:36
  And that's the end of what the Study Bible says.
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  Now I will get into the things about the rock.
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  I just thought there was, let's see the rock because Jesus is
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  the rock. And if you want to search this,
• 48:53
  I, I don't even know where, how there's 52 different verses that
• 48:58
  talk about the rock and it even starts in Genesis 4924.
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  This is very interesting. Listen to this.
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  This is in when Jacob, I mean Isaac, wait, no, Jacob, when
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  Jacob is on his deathbed and he is giving his blessings.
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  Yes, this is when Jacob, Jacob on blesses his sons.
• 49:30
  And he says, but his bow remained steady, his strong arm
• 49:35
  stayed limber, because of the hand of the mighty one, of
• 49:41
  Jacob, because of the shepherd. That's what we prefer to Jesus
• 49:46
  as the rock of Israel. Because of your Father's God who
• 49:51
  helps you, because of the Almighty, who blesses you with
• 49:56
  blessings of the sky above, blessings of the deep springs
• 49:59
  below, blessings of the breast and womb.
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  So he is talking to Joseph at this point, and he is saying,
• 50:08
  you know, but his bow remains steady.
• 50:10
  So Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring
• 50:14
  whose branches climb over a wall.
• 50:16
  There's a lot of symbolism in this, but again, he credits it.
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  I thought it was interesting that because of the shepherd,
• 50:24
  the Lord is my Good Shepherd, the rock of Israel, the mighty
• 50:29
  one of Jacob. This is, you know, connecting
• 50:33
  Jesus to God, you know, like as part of Elohim.
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  And let's see, there's, there's I thought it was very
• 50:46
  interesting in Numbers 20, verse 8, when God said to Moses, take
• 50:53
  the staff and you and your brother Aaron, gather the
• 50:56
  assembly, speak to that rock before their eyes and it will
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  pour out its water. You will bring water out of the
• 51:05
  rock for the community so they and their live livestock can
• 51:09
  drink. This was literal and God said to
• 51:14
  speak, but then Moses strikes it.
• 51:17
  I don't know if he was just thinking, well, I can't just
• 51:20
  speak to it. I have to like hit it and then
• 51:22
  crack it open. And then, you know, their water
• 51:24
  will come through And, you know, just being like human, thinking
• 51:28
  about things human, like if I just talk to it, it's not going
• 51:31
  to just like pour out water, but think about this symbolism in
• 51:37
  this. And I never thought about it
• 51:39
  until just now, but God said, speak to that rock.
• 51:45
  Do you think God could have been, you know, in a symbolic
• 51:49
  way that knowing we will read this later in life that speak to
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  that rock, speak to Jesus and he will pour out his water.
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  Remember Jesus at the well with the woman by the well.
• 52:04
  And he said, I give living water and if you ever have my water,
• 52:08
  you will never be thirsty again. And here God is telling them,
• 52:13
  telling him speak to that rock before their eyes and it will
• 52:18
  pour out its water. And this is like a symbol of
• 52:22
  Jesus because Jesus is the rock and he's telling Moses to to
• 52:32
  speak to the rock, not hit it, speak to it, speak to the rock
• 52:36
  and water will come out. You will bring water out of the
• 52:39
  rock for the community so that they and their livestock can
• 52:43
  drink. I just thought that was really
• 52:45
  interesting. And again, like I said, these
• 52:47
  are literal events that I think often have prophetic
• 52:51
  significance sometimes. And kind of interesting too,
• 52:57
  because then when he struck the wreck twice with his staff,
• 53:00
  water gushed out in the community and their livestock
• 53:03
  drank. It's almost like then when Jesus
• 53:05
  actually got struck on the cross and then water gushed out like
• 53:11
  his, the living water gushed out, and that's how He saved us.
• 53:15
  I mean, that's also symbolic. It refers to God as the rock.
• 53:20
  He is the rock. His works are perfect.
• 53:22
  And Deuteronomy 32 verse 4, and in Deuteronomy 32 verse 18, it
• 53:30
  says you deserted the rock. Who fathered you?
• 53:34
  You forgot the God who gave you birth.
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  So again, here God is connected to the rock.
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  So I'll just maybe find, I don't know, maybe I'll just find one
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  more or so from the Old Testament and then we'll go into
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  like Second Samuel. I think this is probably a
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  restating some of these Psalms, but who is Yeah, for who is God
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  besides the Lord and who is the rock except our God?
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  We talked about that, but this is from second Samuel 22.
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  Second Samuel 23 verse 3, The God of Israel spoke.
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  The rock of Israel said to me when 1 rules over people in
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  righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God comma and
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  there's more to it, but I just wanted to point out the rock.
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  Let's see. And there's just a lot
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  throughout Psalms and Isaiah, Isaiah 17 verse 10, you have
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  forgotten God your Savior. You have not remembered the
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  rock, your fortress, and then it goes on Isaiah 26 verse four.
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  Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord Himself is
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  the rock eternal. Then Daniel, when
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  Nebuchadnezzar, I think it was, had this dream about this statue
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  and Daniel described this is very interesting.
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  I'm going to read Daniel 235 and Daniel 2:45.
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  Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold
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  were all broken to pieces. Those were all the different
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  layers of the statue. They were all broken to pieces
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  and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer.
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  The wind swept them away without leaving a trace, but the rock
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  that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the the
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  whole earth. Now this is a dream that
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  Nebuchadnezzar had, but the rock is Jesus, and he's going to
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  strike all these kingdoms that have formed before him and he's
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  going to become a huge mountain. Obviously that's a, you know,
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  symbolic thing, but a huge mountain is a like huge majestic
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  source of power greatness. I mean, that is what Jesus will
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  become and filled the whole earth.
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  Like that's eventually what will happen when Jesus reigns from
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  here on earth. In verse 45, he says this is the
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  meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain.
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  The mountains probably like God the Father, but not by human
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  hands. So that's by God.
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  And this is where it's Jesus, a rock that broke the iron, the
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  bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold pieces.
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  The great God has shown the King what will take place in the
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  future. The dream is true, and its
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  interpretation is trustworthy. So then some of the things that
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  Jesus said are very interesting. Matthew 724 So now we're in the
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  New Testament, and Jesus said this.
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  Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts
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  them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on
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  the rock. There's a lot of meetings there,
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  like if you know about building anything, if you putting on
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  something stable foundation, it should last and much more so
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  than you put it on sand or it gets washed away or something
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  like that. But if you have it on a high
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  rock, it's going to be stable. And Jesus is that high rock,
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  that mountain, he says in verse 25, the rain came down, the
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  streams rose and the winds blew and beat against that house.
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  Yet it did not fall because it had its foundation on the rock.
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  So there's so many things here. There's like that that's, you
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  know, you can understand it from a builder's perspective.
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  But then you look at the symbolism there that when we
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  build something on Jesus is going to stand when our
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  foundation is Jesus and Jesus is the rock.
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  Let's see what other parts there are to trying to in the New
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  Testament. A few things are these are
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  actually, I'm just trying to find.
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  I think I, I don't know, I feel like I went backwards instead of
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  forwards here. OK, there's still some of the
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  Old Testament. Let's see if there's another
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  one. 1st Corinthians 10, chapter 4, Paul says and drank the same
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  spiritual drink, for they drank from the spiritual rock that
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  accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
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  Isn't that interesting? Well, we were talking about, you
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  know, Moses and the rock and getting water from the rock.
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  And here Paul is making that connection too.
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  And then first Peter 2 verse 8 says and quote a stone that
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  causes people to stumble. Oh, this is not really relevant.
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  Well, a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes
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  them fall. They stumble because they
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  disobey the message, which is also what they were destined
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  for. So yes, this is about Jesus too.
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  So let me just read this to you as you come to him, the living
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  stone Jesus, rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious
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  to him. You also like living stones are
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  being built into a spiritual house.
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  To be a holy priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable
• 1:00:20
  to God through Jesus Christ. For in scripture it says, see I
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  lay a stone in Zion a a chosen and precious cornerstone, and
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  the one who trusts in him and Jesus will never be put to
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  shame. Now to you who believe the
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  stone, this stone is precious, but to those who do not believe,
• 1:00:46
  the stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
• 1:00:53
  And it says and a stone that causes people to stumble in a
• 1:00:56
  rock that makes them fall. They stumble because they
• 1:00:59
  disobey the message, which is also what they were destined
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  for. But you are a chosen people, a
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  royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that
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  you may declare the praises of him who called you out of the
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  darkness into his wonderful light.
• 1:01:17
  Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God.
• 1:01:21
  Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
• 1:01:27
  So this is talking about that transformation of people that
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  happens when they receive the Holy Spirit.
• 1:01:35
  Let's see what else I blessed is he who comes in the name of the
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  Lord. In Psalm 118 it talks about that
• 1:01:46
  and when Jesus rode through the to Jerusalem.
• 1:01:53
  This was very interesting. In Matthew chapter 21 verse 9,
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  the crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed
• 1:02:01
  shouted Hosanna to the Son of David.
• 1:02:06
  Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the
• 1:02:11
  highest heaven. And then Matthew 23 he Jesus
• 1:02:18
  says, for I tell you, you will not see me again until you say,
• 1:02:25
  blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
• 1:02:31
  And that's documented in Luke chapter 13 verse 35, the same
• 1:02:35
  thing. Look, your house is left to you
• 1:02:39
  desolate. I tell you, you will not see me
• 1:02:42
  again until you say blessed is he who comes in the name of the
• 1:02:46
  Lord. Don't you think that when Jesus
• 1:02:49
  comes to rescue, people will be saying blessed is he who comes
• 1:02:53
  in the name of the Lord? And then John also recorded it
• 1:03:00
  about how when he wrote into Jerusalem they took palm
• 1:03:03
  branches. This was that what we call Palm
• 1:03:05
  Sunday and went out to meet him shouting Hosanna blessed is he
• 1:03:10
  who comes in the name of the Lord.
• 1:03:12
  Blessed is the king of Israel. So and how I got to that from
• 1:03:20
  Psalm 18 was when it said in my distress I called you.
• 1:03:24
  I cried to my God for help. We know that Jesus will return
• 1:03:28
  rescue and I, you know, he did say that.
• 1:03:34
  And when I return, it'll be when you say blessed is he who comes
• 1:03:37
  in the name of the Lord. And then some of these other
• 1:03:40
  things in verses, oh gosh, 789101112 of chapter 18, it
• 1:03:50
  talks about the earth trembling, it talks about darkness coming
• 1:03:55
  and it talks about lightning and hail.
• 1:03:59
  And all of these things happen when Jesus returns and the earth
• 1:04:04
  shaking. And so I just, and it's just
• 1:04:07
  like throughout prophecy, it talks about the trembling of the
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  earth. And, and I did look those up and
• 1:04:14
  I don't know that I'm going to read every single one of those,
• 1:04:17
  but I did want to just maybe you can look that up because it just
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  made me, it was just kind of a parallel to the when Jesus
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  returns. And also some of the things
• 1:04:30
  about fire coming out of the mouth, where fire is also given
• 1:04:38
  a symbolism of the word of God. And it's interesting that the
• 1:04:43
  two witnesses from the Book of Revelation, if anyone tries to
• 1:04:47
  harm them, fire comes from their mouth and devours their enemies.
• 1:04:52
  This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.
• 1:04:56
  And they, they are empowered by God.
• 1:04:59
  And then I did look up lightning and there's 45 different times
• 1:05:06
  where you might just want to do this, where lightning, just
• 1:05:09
  search the word lightning. And you'll come up with like
• 1:05:12
  40-5 different times if you search the NIV version.
• 1:05:16
  And you'll see that almost every single time that lightning is
• 1:05:19
  discussed, this is like God's presence is there.
• 1:05:23
  So this is often how it's described, like the voice of the
• 1:05:26
  Lord strikes with flashes of lightning.
• 1:05:30
  Your Thunder was heard in the world.
• 1:05:31
  When your lightning lit up the world, the earth trembled and
• 1:05:34
  quaked. And a lot of those are in
• 1:05:37
  Psalms. But then I did want to read, Oh
• 1:05:40
  yeah, the Book of Job, because it talks a lot about the
• 1:05:43
  lightning. See how he scatters his
• 1:05:45
  lightning about him, bathing the depths of the sea?
• 1:05:50
  He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to
• 1:05:53
  strike its mark. He unleashes his lightning
• 1:05:56
  beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the earth.
• 1:05:59
  He loads the clouds with moisture.
• 1:06:01
  He scatters his lightning through them.
• 1:06:04
  Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning
• 1:06:08
  flash? What is the way?
• 1:06:11
  What is the way to the place where lightning is dispersed or
• 1:06:14
  the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
• 1:06:17
  This is, I think, when God is actually talking to or
• 1:06:20
  responding to Job. Do you send the lightning bolts
• 1:06:24
  on their way? Do they report to you?
• 1:06:26
  Here we are. So this is just, you know,
• 1:06:28
  talking about like God is in control of all this stuff that
• 1:06:31
  happens in the and the earth, the things that we see.
• 1:06:35
  And often, you know, he does send hail as judgement and an
• 1:06:39
  earthquake, often with the presence of the Lord.
• 1:06:42
  When he appeared on Mount Sinai, that was also the earth shook
• 1:06:47
  and there was lightning and there were dark clouds and then
• 1:06:50
  there was light. And so just you'll see a lot of
• 1:06:54
  it when you search lightning and just see that this will be some
• 1:07:00
  things that are interesting to look into.
• 1:07:03
  And let's see, Oh, the rewards. I wanted to talk about the
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  rewards in Matthew Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 and chapter 10 and
• 1:07:17
  chapter 16 and Mark Chapter 9 and Luke 6 and Luke 635.
• 1:07:24
  And then Paul talks about it in First Corinthians and then it
• 1:07:28
  goes all the way to the Book of Revelation.
• 1:07:30
  But I'm just going to read what Jesus says about rewards, so I'm
• 1:07:35
  just not going to reference. But if you want to go to
• 1:07:37
  blueletterbible.org and search reward, you can find this
• 1:07:43
  yourself because there's a lot of verses, but I'll just read
• 1:07:46
  the words that Jesus said, starting with Matthew chapter 5.
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  Rejoice and be glad because great is your reward in heaven.
• 1:07:55
  For in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were
• 1:07:59
  before you. What Jesus was referring to here
• 1:08:02
  was that he said before this, blessed are you when people
• 1:08:06
  insult you, persecute your persecute you and and falsely
• 1:08:11
  say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
• 1:08:16
  So if there's ever persecution for being a follower of Jesus or
• 1:08:21
  a believer of Jesus, he says great is your reward in heaven.
• 1:08:26
  And he says if you love those who love you, what reward will
• 1:08:31
  you get? Are not even the tax collectors
• 1:08:34
  doing that? So Jesus is emphasizing that we
• 1:08:37
  need to love others maybe who don't love us.
• 1:08:42
  That's where you'll be rewarded for that.
• 1:08:45
  And then he says be careful not to practice your righteousness
• 1:08:48
  in front of others to be seen by them.
• 1:08:51
  If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in
• 1:08:54
  heaven. So if you're doing it just to be
• 1:08:56
  seen and to be recognized or to get your reward or applause from
• 1:09:00
  people, God sees that and there's not really a reward for
• 1:09:04
  that. But if you're doing it out of
• 1:09:06
  your heart, there is a reward for that.
• 1:09:10
  So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets
• 1:09:14
  as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets to
• 1:09:18
  be honored by others. If you're looking for other
• 1:09:20
  people to honor you. Guess we lose our reward if we
• 1:09:24
  do that. Truly, I tell you, they have
• 1:09:26
  received the reward in full. So when they get all the glory
• 1:09:31
  here on earth, that's the reward.
• 1:09:33
  But if they just do it and don't try to get known for it, God has
• 1:09:39
  a reward for them. That's what Jesus is saying
• 1:09:42
  here. And then he says so that you're
• 1:09:45
  giving may be in secret. Then your Father who sees what
• 1:09:49
  is done in secret will reward you.
• 1:09:54
  And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they
• 1:09:57
  love to pray, standing in the synagogues and on the street
• 1:09:59
  corners to be seen by others. Truly, I tell you, they have
• 1:10:04
  received the reward in full. But when you pray, go into your
• 1:10:10
  room, close your door and pray to your Father who is unseen.
• 1:10:16
  Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward
• 1:10:21
  you when you fast. Do not look sombre as the
• 1:10:26
  hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show
• 1:10:30
  others they are fasting. Truly, I tell you, they have
• 1:10:33
  received their reward in full, so that it will be not in the
• 1:10:37
  next another verse, so that it will not be obvious to others
• 1:10:41
  that you are fasting, but only to your Father who is unseen.
• 1:10:45
  And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward
• 1:10:49
  you. Whoever welcomes a prophet as a
• 1:10:53
  prophet will as a prophet. Whoever welcomes a prophet as a
• 1:10:57
  prophet will receive a prophet's reward, whatever that is.
• 1:11:03
  And whoever welcomes A righteous person as a righteous person
• 1:11:07
  will receive a righteous person's reward.
• 1:11:11
  See, God has these rewards that we don't really know what they
• 1:11:13
  are. And if anyone gives even a cup
• 1:11:17
  of cold water to one of these little ones, who is my disciple?
• 1:11:23
  So little ones, the children, those are disciples of Christ.
• 1:11:28
  Truly, I tell you that person will certainly not lose their
• 1:11:33
  reward for the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's
• 1:11:39
  glory with his angels and then he will reward each person
• 1:11:46
  according to what they have done.
• 1:11:48
  This is that reaping and sowing truly I well, one of the aspects
• 1:11:54
  of it another reaping and sowing is more about the gospel
• 1:11:56
  message. But you know, like you're going
• 1:11:59
  to be rewarded based on what you do.
• 1:12:03
  And this is what Jesus is saying.
• 1:12:08
  Rejoice in that day and leap for joy because great is your reward
• 1:12:13
  in heaven for that is the is that is how their ancestors
• 1:12:18
  treated the prophets. So I can't seem to go back to
• 1:12:23
  that verse. I wanted to see it in context.
• 1:12:26
  It may be the similar one about being persecuted and then it
• 1:12:31
  says, but love your enemies, do good to them and lend lend to
• 1:12:36
  them without expecting to get anything back.
• 1:12:39
  Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the
• 1:12:43
  Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked to
• 1:12:50
  both of them. And just now my Internet
• 1:12:55
  glitched and I lost my page. So this is another really
• 1:12:59
  important one though, and it's about lamp.
• 1:13:05
  I really wanted like you, Lord, keep my lamp burning in verse
• 1:13:09
  28. And then it's, well, it's
• 1:13:12
  repeated in second Samuel 22, but that is reminded me of the
• 1:13:18
  parable of the ten virgins where God is the one who keeps the
• 1:13:24
  lamp burning through the Holy Spirit.
• 1:13:26
  And I don't know how long my podcast is right now.
• 1:13:28
  It's an hour and 15 minutes already.
• 1:13:31
  So I don't know, oh gosh, if I should read this.
• 1:13:35
  OK, I'll read this. And maybe that'll be the last
• 1:13:38
  part that I freed will be the 10 virgins because this I think is
• 1:13:44
  really important for us to get in.
• 1:13:46
  And then I'll wrap up this podcast, the parable of the 10
• 1:13:48
  virgins. At that time, the Kingdom of
• 1:13:50
  heaven will be like 10 virgins who took their lamps and went
• 1:13:55
  out to meet the bridegroom. So we know God is the one who
• 1:13:59
  keeps our lamps full from David's Psalm, and the
• 1:14:03
  bridegroom is Jesus. So they took their lamps and
• 1:14:07
  they went out to meet the bridegroom. 5 of them were
• 1:14:09
  foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones took their
• 1:14:12
  lamps, but they didn't take any oil with them.
• 1:14:15
  So they had the light, but they don't have anything to keep it
• 1:14:18
  going. They don't have God.
• 1:14:20
  They aren't in Christ. I guess they aren't.
• 1:14:22
  They don't have the Holy Spirit, they're not connected to God.
• 1:14:25
  They're not in the Word. The wise ones, however, took oil
• 1:14:28
  in jars along with their lamps. The bridegroom was a long time
• 1:14:33
  in coming, like Jesus takes a long time to come back.
• 1:14:36
  And they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
• 1:14:40
  Everybody's like tired of waiting.
• 1:14:43
  At midnight, the cry rang out. Here's the bridegroom come out
• 1:14:46
  to meet him. Then all the virgins woke up and
• 1:14:50
  trimmed their lamps. So when Jesus does return,
• 1:14:54
  everybody's going to be like, oh, gosh, wake up, He's here,
• 1:14:56
  he's here. The foolish one said to the
• 1:14:59
  wise, give us some of your oil. Our lamps are going out.
• 1:15:03
  They didn't, you know, prepare. They didn't prepare.
• 1:15:06
  They didn't stay in the word, they didn't have the Holy
• 1:15:09
  Spirit. And then they said no, they they
• 1:15:13
  replied, there may not be enough for both us and you.
• 1:15:16
  Instead go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.
• 1:15:22
  But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom
• 1:15:26
  arrived. The virgins who were ready went
• 1:15:30
  in with him to the wedding banquet and the door was shut.
• 1:15:35
  Later the others also came. Lord, Lord, they said, open the
• 1:15:39
  door for us. But he replied, truly I tell
• 1:15:43
  you, I do not, I, I don't know you.
• 1:15:45
  Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the
• 1:15:50
  hour. Now that was what Jesus told
• 1:15:55
  about his own return. And so it's something that's
• 1:16:00
  really important that all of us should be prepared and staying
• 1:16:04
  in the word. I mean, that's the word changes
• 1:16:08
  us. I think hopefully this podcast
• 1:16:11
  today was helpful and open your, I know it opened my own eyes to
• 1:16:14
  things as I research things. So hopefully it was something
• 1:16:17
  good for you too. And if you felt like it was,
• 1:16:20
  share this with someone. And if you haven't subscribed
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  but want to stay in the word, please subscribe.
• 1:16:25
  Thank you. Bye.