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2 Samuel 7 (Part 2) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Can we show our appreciation to the praise team for blessing us
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  week after week especially tonight for the worship and just
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  applaud and and I applaud you for singing Because as we know
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  that was we come to sing. It's not a performance that
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  we're witnessing. Its It's an effort that we all
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  contribute to, you know, singing is a command in scripture, it's
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  not a suggestion and so when we come to sing and when we do sing
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  with fervent Hearts were actually obeying, the Lord
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  Jesus. And so I'm glad that tonight.
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  I felt like I was in a room with five six hundred people.
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  I don't know if you felt the same way, but I was just
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  overwhelmed by your voices and I was ministered to well.
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  Now we worship in the word so meet me in the book of second.
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  Samuel and we are still in Chapter 7.
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  But we are at the halfway, mark. Tonight, we're continuing to
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  examine one of the most important chapters in all of the
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  Old Testament and perhaps the most crucial, and vital, and
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  most pivotal chapter in both first.
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  And second Samuel, you heard of it last week.
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  If you were here last week that what we're dealing with in this
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  tax is essentially a covenant that God makes with a man by the
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  name of David and that Covenant is still in effect today that
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  Covenant is still yet to know it's complete fulfillment.
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  And in that Covenant touches so many aspects of the New Covenant
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  that you and I are enjoying because of the Lord Jesus
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  Christ. If you really think about it,
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  when you read the prophets, what you'll see is that they often
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  refer back to this chapter, this Covenant that God makes with
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  this King as a source of Hope, and as a reminder to who they
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  are called to be, and what God is planning to do through them,
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  and it was an encouragement for Holiness, and when you open the
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  first, Book of the New Testament.
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  In Matthew chapter 1 there, we see the genealogy of Jesus,
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  pointing his back to David, yes, and back to Abraham, but proving
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  that he is from this Royal line that has great significance, not
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  just for Israel, but for all of history, and, and even when you
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  go to the last book of the cannon, even when you come to,
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  the concluding verses of holy writ, you and I, we saw this
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  last week in conclusion and Revelation 22:16, the Lord
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  Jesus. Where is that?
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  He is the root and what the descendant of David.
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  I mean, this is this is how he chooses to identify himself in
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  the final moments of Us closing, the entire library of sacred
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  scripture and I believe in part why Jesus did that was so that
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  as we come to the end of the book, which tells us of the
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  future, the Lord makes that statement to tell all
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  generations, All Nations, All Peoples, I kept my promise to
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  David. I kept my promise to David all
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  the way until the end. And so this Covenant which is
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  really unconditional is more about God proving his
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  faithfulness than anything else. It's not so much about Israel
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  though. God selected and elected Israel
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  to be the display case of his faithfulness but it is
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  ultimately about God's character proving himself.
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  To all of us that he is a promise keeper last week, you
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  and I saw God's response to David's passionate desire to
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  build him a house. And this week we're going to
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  see, David's reaction to God's answer to his initial request.
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  And we're going to read these verses in a moment and as I do
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  as we've been doing week after week, you're going to lean in
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  and pay attention as you follow in your Bibles and what we do as
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  a drill so that we can practice the the skill in our own lives
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  to look at the scriptures and ask questions, you're going to
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  see certain things that stand out and then you're going to
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  make some observations and I edifies me.
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  It had advised me to see what you're able to see.
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  Because I saw those things, many of those things during the week,
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  and then for you to see it in one reading one, Is just like,
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  wow. Wonderful.
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  So pay attention, as we now come to verse 18 and follow until the
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  it's a lot of versus. So we have to really pay
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  attention. Don't let your mind get
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  distracted. But, here's what the text reads.
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  Then, King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, who am
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  I O? Lord God.
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  And what is my house? That you have brought me this
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  far? And yet this was a small thing
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  in your eyes. O Lord God, you have spoken also
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  of your Servants house for a great while to come.
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  And this is instruction for mankind.
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  O, Lord God your version might say did something different in
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  the Raise their verse 20 and what more can David say to you
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  for you know your servant O Lord God because of your promise and
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  according to your own heart you have brought about all this
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  greatness to make your servant know it.
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  Therefore you are great O Lord. God for there is none like you
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  and there is no God besides you. According to all that we have
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  heard with our ears and who is like your People Israel.
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  The One Nation on Earth who Oh God.
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  Went to redeem to be his people making himself a name and doing
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  for them. Great and awesome things.
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  By driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for
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  yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods.
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  And you establish for yourself, your People Israel, to be your
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  people forever, and You O Lord, became their God.
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  And now O Lord God confirmed forever.
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  The word that you've spoken concerning your servant and
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  concerning his house and do as you have spoken And your name
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  will be magnified forever saying the Lord of hosts has got over
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  Israel and the house of your servant, David will be
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  established Before You For You. O.
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  Lord of hosts, the god of Israel have made this Revelation to
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  your servants saying I will build you a house.
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  Therefore, your servant has found courage to pray this
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  prayer to you and now O Lord God you are God and your words are
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  true and you have promised this good thing to your servant.
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  Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your
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  servant so It may continue forever Before You For You O.
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  Lord, God have spoken and with your blessing shall the house of
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  your servant be blessed forever. What a prayer, what a prayer.
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  Keep in mind that this is David's response to the Lord.
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  Telling him you're not going to build me a house.
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  I'm going to build you a house. And what he means by that is not
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  a physical house but a dynasty a royal line that would usher in
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  the Messiah. This is David's reaction.
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  So as we read that, as you heard that, as you followed along,
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  anything stand out to you in this and this prayer.
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  Yes. Very good observation.
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  Your servant, your servant, your servant, your servant?
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  He refers to himself as your servant, very important,
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  anything else? Yes.
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  Ryan He sat before the Lord. Did you see that?
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  In verse 18, he went in and sat before the Lord.
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  We will touch on that, very good.
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  Yes. Hmm.
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  Sure. It is a very humble response,
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  right? From right.
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  From the gate. Who Am I, who am I?
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  Yes, beautiful heaven. Not so much.
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  Did you see that Evan pointing out that the motivation?
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  The the stirring factor of God establishing this davidic.
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  Covenant is a his name would be magnified.
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  Oh lord. Your name is going to be so
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  magnified through this. I can't wait to see how it's
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  going to be done. What a man?
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  What a man? Yes.
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  Great Point. Anything else?
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  Very good observations. Yes, we're geese.
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  Yes. Yes.
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  So God's election of Israel is on display here.
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  It's very clear, he chose them and do you remember in our study
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  of Deuteronomy why he chose Israel?
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  What's that? They were the leash or but
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  there's another reason right? You had your hand up.
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  Yeah, they were the least. That is one thing.
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  But remember when the Lord says I loved you and does he explain
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  why he loved them? Yeah, he made a covenant with
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  Abram, but why do you even choose Abraham if you go to
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  Deuteronomy chapter 7 and read the first several verses you'll
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  see that? The Lord says you not to turn,
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  there he goes. I loved you.
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  And then you're ready for the explanation.
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  He goes because I loved you. Lord.
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  Can you expound a little bit more on?
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  Why it is that you love Israel and he doesn't really give a
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  reason for that. We can pick out some
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  characteristics of why God would choose Israel in order to
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  magnify himself. But when God explains he goes, I
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  loved you because I loved you. Interesting.
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  Maybe a couple more, yes. Hmm.
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  Yes. Absolutely.
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  Last week we touched on how suffering is not.
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  The only thing that reveals who we are.
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  Success has that same effect and David here is only being
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  promoted more and the more he seems to be promoted the lower
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  he seems to go That doesn't tend to have the same effect on a
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  majority of people. But for this man he does.
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  And there's an important reason why which will touch on at the
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  end of this study. One more, maybe Yes.
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  Yes, Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this
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  prayer to you. In other words, there is a
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  motivation that something from his heart sprung up for him to
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  be able to come before the Lord in this way.
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  And we're going to see what was that touched?
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  His heart, and gave him the courage to come before the Lord,
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  in this way. Are you ready Verse 18?
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  And by the way, before we start, we're not going to deal with
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  this text the way we usually do. We're not going to go line by
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  line. We're not going to go verse by
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  verse instead. We're gonna we're gonna hover
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  over the text and have a bird's-eye view over all of it.
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  And as we go through this text will really Going to pluck at
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  different verses and we're going to try to survey the scene to
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  try to identify dominant themes. So we're not going to go over
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  every single verse here. We're just going to just fly
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  over. And we're going to just touch
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  this verse touch, that verse, kind of like what we just did.
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  Now looking at observations and trying to connect all of them as
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  we go through. But let's start with Verse 18,
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  then, King David went in. Where did he go?
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  We can only speculate some would believe in some would say, he
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  came as close as possible to the Ark of the Covenant.
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  Eminent he went in. Now, here's what's what's
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  touching to me in our sister brought up in the beginning.
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  King David, that's how the narrator identifies David.
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  But how does David choose to refer to himself throughout his
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  prayer? Are you certain?
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  In this short prayer, a total of ten times.
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  He says, your servant your servant, yours, the Lord's.
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  Servant, the Lord's servant, seen eyes of men.
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  David was a king because David lived in the light of God's
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  presence. He saw himself as nothing, more
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  than a servant. Regardless of the occupation
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  regardless of any role that he had in this world.
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  He ultimately saw himself as a servant who's been called to
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  serve in a particular way. and what ministers to me about this
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  is because David as a king Psalm self no greater than anybody
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  else by identifying himself this way.
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  Does anybody know anything about David's mother?
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  According to the word of God. We know something about the
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  father more than the mother, right?
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  I mean, you have kind of there's questionable things about the
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  relationship between David and his father, Jesse, he didn't
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  even include him when Samuel asked for all the sons to come
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  before him. So, that's there's a question
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  mark there, but David's mother, does anybody have any clue from
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  the scripture of what we know about David's mother?
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  There is a first verse that reveals something about her.
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  Psalm 86 verse 16 tells us something about David's mom.
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  And in Psalm 86 16, we read David in another prayer looking
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  to the Lord saying turn to me and be gracious to me.
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  Give strength to your servant, the son of your maid servant.
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  The son of your maidservant from that we can make this strong
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  conclusion that David's mom. Was a genuine servant of God.
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  How did she serve God? And what capacity?
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  We can only assume perhaps it was solely in the confines of
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  her home? And if she had any influence on
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  David, that's enough for us to realize, what kind of his
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  servants. She was, but, David is not just
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  speaking here by the spirit. He speaking by way of testimony,
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  his own eyes have have seen his mother over the years.
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  She's a servant of God, she loves the Lord, she fears the
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  Lord in such a way that she can penned this in a prayer and say,
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  oh God. Would you remember where I came
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  from? Would you remember your servant,
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  my mom? Your maidservant.
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  And I thought about that when I read, how he refers to himself
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  as a servant, because his mom has an unknown vessel hidden
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  loving the Lord behind the scenes.
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  We don't even know her name. We don't know what she did in
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  detail. And she's a servant of God
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  nonetheless and yet in contrast David, our son, our renowned
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  King. A popular psalmist.
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  A warrior. And yet, when he says your
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  servant in essence, he's saying I'm no better.
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  Then my mom who nobody knew about, who nobody praised, but
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  nobody promoted who nobody applauded, I'm a servant.
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  Just like my mom was a servant. And in essence, you and I do we
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  exercise different gifts that we exercise different positions.
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  We all share the same status before God, we are all servants
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  and our own respective ways. We are all Servants of God.
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  We all stand on the same level before the cross.
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  In fact, jesus takes it to another level when he when he
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  seeks to teach us how we should view ourselves.
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  He goes even further than how David says it. in Luke 17, 10,
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  if you want a verse 2, you can choose whatever you want, but
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  this is one of those verses that I tried to live under as a
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  banner And Luke 17:10 Jesus says to his disciples.
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  So you also When you have done all that, you were commended.
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  Say, what are you supposed to say?
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  When you are faithful, is it up there already?
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  Okay. What are you supposed to say?
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  When you, when you fulfill your ministry?
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  What are you supposed to say? When people, thank you.
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  What are you supposed to say? Not necessarily?
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  Say it out loud. But I think say to yourself, we
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  are unworthy servants. Not just servants unworthy
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  servants. We've only done what was our
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  duty. So the Lord says don't even see
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  yourself as a servant. I want you to see yourself as
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  unworthy servant, you know what that means?
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  You're not doing me a favor by serving me.
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  Now what a terrible thing that is to think that we come to the
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  house of God or to think that we serve God outside of his his
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  church and Lord, I'm doing you a favor just put it on my point
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  sheet and I'll come back to refer to that when I want to
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  redeem something, huh? You are not even worthy to serve
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  God. I'm not even worthy to serve him
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  to wait on him, to die for him to live for him.
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  That's a. Holy is it's an honor to serve
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  God, no matter what it demands of me.
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  So even in the act of service, I'm supposed to realize and
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  rehearse over myself, I'm not even worthy to do this.
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  I can't believe I get to do this.
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  That's how the Lord wants us to feel about how we serve him not
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  to compare. And I think compete to try to
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  elevate ourselves in position and title.
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  No, you're unworthy. Regardless of what you do.
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  And we come back to this text, then, King David went in and our
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  brother, I'd mention it and he sat before the Lord.
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  I'm not going to sit because it might take me a while to get
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  back up. He sat before the law I want you
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  to visualize that. Here's this king who sits on a
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  throne, but in the presence of God, he sits on the floor.
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  He's so humbled by the Majesty of God that he can't.
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  He would not even dare. To sit on anything that would
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  try to compete with the Majesty of God.
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  Now, here's the thing, that's interesting sitting is not a
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  common posture of Prayer in the Bible.
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  It's not kneeling is laying, prostrate is, but sitting is not
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  so common and we don't want to read too much into this but if I
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  were to, let's say, let's say you you came over to my house,
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  right? And you're standing at the door.
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  And I say, sit down here. Why are you standing sit down?
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  What am I asking you to do? I'm asking you to remain longer.
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  I am asking you to linger. I'm asking you to park so to
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  speak. And I believe there's something
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  here with David sitting in the presence of God sitting before
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  the Lord. He was essentially choosing to
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  remain in God's presence. He was essentially saying I'm
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  here to extend my stay before the face of God, right?
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  So he's not entering in and out to pay his dues.
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  He's not in thoughtless transition, trying to just come
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  in and out. He is essentially saying Lord
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  with this posture. I'm coming before you because I
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  enjoy you. I enjoy sitting at the feet of
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  Jesus. It was a deep Delight for David
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  to know that he can come with a swollen heart.
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  Not always like we heard, not just because of Brokenness, but
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  because of the goodness of God and to spill his soul before the
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  Lord, knowing with full trust that this God, this Almighty
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  being, here's everything that he's saying and takes into
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  consideration this like this was like, I can't believe this is
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  possible. So he sits before the Lord,
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  essentially saying I'm not going anywhere to Quick your lord.
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  I want to give you my undivided attention.
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  And I want to give you focused affection, that's what that
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  posture communicates. Can I ask you just a simple
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  question and in this busy life, in this transient culture that
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  we live in when was the last time you have genuinely not
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  necessarily physically, but in your heart, Paused and placed
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  yourself before God in a way. Were you saying, Lord, I'm going
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  to consecrate this select time to simply adore you And I know
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  it's different for all of us. How that looks.
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  But is this something? We even crave?
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  I think that's an important question.
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  Is this something we long for right?
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  Lord, I just want to sit before you.
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  I really in private just come before you and I just want to as
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  a response to the goodness that you have shown me to declare how
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  good you are. That is something that you and I
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  have a privilege of doing as Believers in Jesus Christ and we
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  don't have to pack our bags. Remember, going to the airport
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  once and I think this group of young Muslims and they were
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  going to fulfill their their pilgrimage, right?
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  They have to go all the way to Mecca and do a bunch of stuff.
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  And I thought to myself my God allows me to come wherever and
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  whenever And that's what you and I have in Jesus Christ, and it
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  is there that you find rest. It is there that you find peace.
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  It is, there you find instruction.
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  It is there where you find Jew, true, genuine fellowship with
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  almighty. God, believe that, right?
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  But sitting here also, symbolizes something else.
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  So at the end of the service, sometimes depending on what
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  shoes I'm wearing, sometimes I'm talking to people say, can I sit
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  down for a little bit? Not because I'm lazy, but
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  because my feet sometimes do weird things, so I got to sit
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  down, right? So what does that symbolize?
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  I heard somebody Whispering it rest.
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  Rest, right? So I'm looking at this, I'm
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  trying to think in my mind. Also have different different
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  characters in the Bible who have sat before the Lord.
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  Can you think of some Who said, I saw your mouth Mary of Bethany
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  who sat before the Lord. While her sister, was running
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  around, right trying to bake and cook and put things together and
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  and sub criticizing Mary. That's a whole different sermon
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  on its own. Yes, she sat before the Lord and
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  Jesus, this is the good portion. This is what she's choosing to
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  do. It won't be taken from her, and
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  this is a good thing. Absolutely.
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  There's other places as well, who else sits before the Lord?
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  He's not a main character, but it's an important picture.
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  Yeah, they sat before the Lord, Jesus sat, when he taught at
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  times, there's a particular character in Jesus ministry that
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  I am that I am thinking of that was highlighted for sitting
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  before him after something occurred in his life.
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  All this would be good then. Do you remember in the country
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  of the gadarenes? The Click yet.
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  Here, is this wild man? Change can't subdue him.
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  They try to do everything to lock him up, and he keeps
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  breaking those chains and he keeps running around,
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  terrorizing the towns and the neighborhood's, Jesus steps on
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  the scene, delivers him from a legion of demons.
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  And then the, the city hears about it and they're terrified
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  because their business, some of their businesses was just
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  crashed. And so they approached the scene
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  and they find this man who had the reputation of being
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  Unstoppable. His craziness.
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  Clothed in his right mind and Luke tells us in his version
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  sitting before the feet of Jesus.
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  And what's what's so comforting? What's so powerful about that
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  picture? Is that beforehand?
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  We're told that the demons in him would drive him into the
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  desert. He was Restless, he was wild.
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  He was uncontrollable, he was constantly on the move, but one
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  encounter with Jesus Christ. Kept them in one place.
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  And that rest that you see this meant, I don't know why I
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  picture him. Just like, his legs are folded
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  with brand new clothes sitting at Jesus feet.
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  And what that teaches is that when the Lord truly encounters,
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  you and saves you and delivers you, he satisfies you.
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  And now unlike what you were like before you're not running
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  around, trying to find some kind of solution to the torment of
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  your soul. Like we just heard there is no
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  peace for the wicked. Now, you can sit.
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  And here's the thing by sitting here saying, I don't want to go
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  anywhere. And so that man.
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  What he teaches us, I'm not looking for anything else
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  anymore. I found it right here, right
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  here. You know, sometimes I look at
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  people. Throughout the years throughout
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  the past 10 years, especially young people and they are
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  restless. Many of them restless and they
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  feel like they have to travel everywhere just to keep their
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  minds busy. Tried to find some experience
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  that will calm their nerves or they go from relationship to
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  relationship where they go from job, that you can just see how
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  Restless they are. And I often think if you only
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  have tasted his goodness, if you've only allowed the genuine
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  power of God to win your heart, you can stay in one place and
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  not saying that, the physical movements there is always
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  alluding to that, but sometimes it does, sometimes it does.
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  And so we see here that that David's it's before the Lord, he
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  satisfied and he just wants to pour out his heart and this is
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  what he's about to do. We read it, right?
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  So now we come to this text and I want us to again, we're bird's
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  eye view. We're not going verse by verse.
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  Can I draw something to your attention?
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  We mentioned a lot of things that we do.
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  See in David's prayer. What's a key thing that's
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  missing in his prayer, and it's not a negative thing.
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  What is missing in David's prayer?
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  Now, here's how we can hone in and we can we can because
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  there's a lot of things. Missing right, technically
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  there's a lot of things missing but in light of God's response
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  to his desire to build him a house.
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  What would you expect David to do if he was in the flesh?
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  There, I'll say that much. Complain.
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  Murmur sulk grumble. So David doesn't come before the
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  presence of the Lord. And you know what?
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  Lord, I'm just trying to help you out.
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  I want to do this for your namesake.
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  You don't want me to do it. He's just somebody better than
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  me. And what I've done for you, none
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  of that. He responded to God's know with
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  gratitude, not grumbling gratitude.
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  And there was no evidence of irritation.
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  There is no sign of resentment. There is no, there is nothing
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  else. But a, submissive spirit that
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  could genuinely accept the Fate that God had ordained for his
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  days. David, you're not going to do
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  this. There's somebody else I have in
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  mind and this man could accept that.
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  He could Embrace that in a worshipful Spirit.
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  That's significant. Listen the willingness to
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  worship, God pay. To do this the willingness to
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  worship God and his sovereignty. In the face of his denials is
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  one of the truest marks of a mature man or woman of God.
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  The ability to worship God in the face of his denials is one
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  of the truest marks of a true man or woman of God.
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  Do you know why David could accept the no from God?
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  Because David as we heard was a servant of God and he believed
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  that about himself. I'm your servant.
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  Do you know why? It is that some Christians get
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  upset with God? Bitter against God?
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  Complain to God? It's because they believe God is
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  their servant. We wouldn't want a mint that But
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  that's why that's why some people become so sour in their
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  souls is because they have adopted this idea as much as
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  they go to a conservative bible-believing church, if
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  they've adopted this concept that, if I ask God, he better
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  give it to me and if he doesn't that he's not worthy of my total
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  devotion. Well, my sister, my brother
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  since when did God owe you anything?
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  Just be real with that since. When does God?
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  Oh, you and I are a thing. Anything that we have, even the
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  clothes on your back, right? The ability to see through these
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  eyes is a gift in itself. God doesn't owe us a thing.
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  Not one thing. And David understood from the
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  position of a servant. I can take a No.
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  In fact, look how look how he addresses the Lord in verse 22
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  of their chapter. Second Samuel 722.
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  Therefore you are great O Lord. God for there is none like you
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  and there is no God besides you. According to all that we have
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  heard with our ears. Okay.
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  Now, let's be honest, how many of us can say, in light of a
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  know, like a closed door, or something happening, or us
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  feeling that we are being guided into a direction of life that we
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  did not intend to move. Towards can say, you're great.
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  Lord, You're great, I can genuinely say, you are great.
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  You and I should be able to say that every time, not just great,
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  he's greatly to be praised because he is a great God.
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  Who is infinitely? Kind infinitely wise to us, who
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  are infinitely, unworthy? And I get it.
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  You and I are wrapped with this flesh, that doesn't like
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  rejection isn't like the client doesn't like refusals, right?
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  So there's a discipline that we need to have to be able to avoid
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  that ugly face before God and its really found in David's
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  prayer here. Do you know how David can do
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  this? Not just because he's so soft as
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  a servant. But there's a second thing here.
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  David in his prayer is focusing on what God gave him, not what
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  God didn't give him. Look at Verse 18, then.
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  King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, who am
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  I Lord God. And what is my house that you
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  have brought me this far? This man is not bothered At All.
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  By the fact that he was not handed, the sole responsibility
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  of constructing a house for God. He's not.
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  He's that stirred at all because he's captivated by something
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  else, he's captivated by the realization of God's
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  providential. Dealings up to this point in his
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  life and the excitement of what God has for them in the future.
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  This is what consumes him this is, what gets him going.
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  This is what brings them before, the presence of the Lord.
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  With a mouthful of Raise. And look, it's obvious here that
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  he was overwhelmed by the past, mercies of God, he's overwhelmed
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  by what he's going to do and as much as this chapter is about a
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  unique Covenant between God. And one man that's not to be
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  repeated, there's a Code there's a code here in this context and
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  this code in this context, reveals a characteristic of God
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  that applies to each of us here on this Friday night.
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  And here's here it is ready. Our days, our days, each of our
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  days. Are divinely planned.
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  Even when plans, don't go according to our plans.
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  Confusing. Our days are divinely planned,
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  even though things don't go according to plan, let me put it
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  this way for the true servant of God.
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  When anything seems to fall through it in actuality Falls
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  right into place. When anything seems to fall
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  through. And in reality, if your hand is
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  in the hand, of God Falls, exactly where God intended it to
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  be. And the Lord could have told
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  David after. David said, I want to build you
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  a house. He could have told David, you're
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  not going to build me a house somebody else and kept it at
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  that but he doesn't do that. He tells David you wanted to
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  build me a house. I'm actually going to build you
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  a dynasty and in this process I'm going to have a temple built
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  for my name. In other words, David, you have
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  this one desire. I have a greater desire.
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  You have this one idea how this bigger plan, and he communicates
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  that to David. Now, here's the thing.
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  The davidic Covenant that we benefit from it, it's not Not
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  about us. You're right you're not gonna
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  have Royal lines right? That's not happening.
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  That's already established and it's working now but you have
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  promises as a Christian You really have promises cater
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  towards you, because you're in Christ because Christ is the
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  firstborn among many brethren. We are co-heirs with Christ.
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  You and I have certain promises for us.
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  How many of those promises do you truly rehearse and believe
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  for yourself? He you ready for this?
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  I want to ask you personally how much the promises of God filter,
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  your view of the future of your future.
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  And here's one way to test that. It might sting you a little bit
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  but it's good. Its healthy.
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  All right. How many promises do you know
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  from God's word that you actually hold onto for your
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  life? Anything running through your
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  mind. I'm not asking I'm not asking if
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  you believe that God has made promises to his children.
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  Every Christian would say, yes, I'm asking very specific
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  question. Which promises in God's word?
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  Do you actually hold onto and believe applies to your life?
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  Fill in the blank? Your name.
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  I'm curious to know actually, because I'm about to give you a
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  homework. Tell me some promises that you
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  believe in God's word. Amen.
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  Ephesians 2:8. Beautiful.
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  Yes. I will never leave you nor
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  forsake you. Now, again, my question is not
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  which, what promises do you know, in the Bible?
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  Which ones do you hold on to that?
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  Come to your mind? That that that visit you in a
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  specific moment or circumstance? Those promises I'm asking about
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  Isn't that interesting? Isn't that interesting?
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  This book is pregnant with promises pregnant.
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  And not in a way of condemnation.
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  But even if for myself when I when I looked at this I thought
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  look how much of God's promise to David just stimulated him and
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  I pause I step back I said Lord teaching the Bible quoting the
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  Bible but what promises really can bring me to my knees and
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  worship. I can tell you some promises
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  about eternity about salvation of all that but which promises
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  do I really believe Here's your homework.
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  All right? You're going to go to God's word
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  this week and you're going to look for a promise, not just a
• 35:46
  random promise but a promise that you know, will will bless
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  you and that you can look to and that you can memorize next week
• 35:56
  I'm going to ask what promises you learn for your life and I
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  hope to see as many hands as possible.
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  That's your assignment. That's your assignment.
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  Can I give you one of mine? one of the ones that I often
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  think about, and come to me in times of need and in times of
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  persecution, this is a promise in Hebrews 13:5, and it says
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  this, Keep your life free from the Love of Money.
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  And be content with what you have for.
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  He has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you But second
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  to that, so we can confidently, say the Lord is my helper.
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  I will not fear. What can man do to me?
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  That's a promise in the New Covenant and what's beautiful is
• 36:45
  both of those quotations. I will never leave you nor
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  forsake you and what can man do to me?
• 36:51
  The Lord is my helper. I will not fear what you meant
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  to me. Are both the first one,
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  arguably. The second one.
• 36:56
  Definitely from the Psalms, from the Psalms, And the New
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  Testament authors pulls it out of the book of Psalms and throws
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  it at the New Covenant Christian she's that's for you that's for
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  you. And so, I've known moments.
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  We're Lord, you need to step in here.
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  Well, I told you I'll never leave you nor forsake.
• 37:19
  You watch me, pull through. And I've known moments where men
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  have reared, their ugly heads. And if threatened And I told
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  myself and others, if the Lord is truly with us, man, can't do
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  anything to us. You see we need to know the
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  promises of God. We can't be illiterate with
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  this, we can be It's affecting God's glory to a degree and it's
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  affecting something of our joy in the Lord.
• 37:45
  Okay. So we see here that David David
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  understood something clear, which brings me to my next
• 37:51
  Point. Look here to verse 27 of second
• 37:53
  Samuel 7. This is, this is wonderful.
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  David says for you, oh, lord of hosts.
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  The god of Israel have made this Revelation to your servant
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  saying, I will build you a house.
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  Therefore, your servant has found courage to pray this
• 38:13
  prayer to you. So David is telling the Lord and
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  telling us, there is a reason that I'm able to come so freely,
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  so boldly before the Lord. And what's that reason?
• 38:32
  What does he say in verse 27? What gave him the courage, what
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  invited him to come, so close to the Lord and to speak in the way
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  that he speaks. Revelation.
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  You have made this revelation. so, You and I cannot mature in
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  our praying until we first mature in our understanding of
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  the word of God. It was revelation.
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  That pumped in him. The courage to pray in the way
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  that he prayed. Appraised filled prayer, right?
• 39:16
  Heart-stirring prayer, passionate prayer, God
• 39:19
  glorifying prayer that all stemmed from revelation.
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  Something that God had made known to him his word.
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  Yes, in his life but also the word that we have before us that
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  is the very thing that caused him to be able to praise.
• 39:35
  And to be able to pray, can I tell you why many Christians
• 39:38
  don't praise and why many Christians struggle to pray?
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  They lack Insight concerning God's revelation.
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  That's one. Major reason why?
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  When you come to this word, you have to understand.
• 39:56
  That it is the source of many of the things that you, and I tried
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  to do in our spiritual journey with the Lord before I get
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  there. Have you noticed that David in
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  this prayer? Expresses Wonder.
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  And amazement in the form of questions.
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  Anybody noticed that. So, look at Verse 18, we saw,
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  right? Who am I?
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  What is my house that you've brought me this far?
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  Now, if you have the King James of the new King, James, who is
• 40:23
  the King James? I know that you do, who has new
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  King, James new King James, this verse 19 spell out as a question
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  because I know the King James does, right?
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  So if you have the new King James of the King, James verse
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  19 is another question. Any other translation come to
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  verse 20 and what more can David say to you?
• 40:42
  That's another question for, you know, you're serving the lord
• 40:45
  God. Now scroll down to verse 23,
• 40:46
  it's a longer question, who is like your People Israel when
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  nation on Earth? Whom God went to redeem to be as
• 40:53
  people. We scroll down, whom you redeem
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  for yourself from Egypt and nation and its gods.
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  This man this man based on his personal history with God and
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  the history of the nation of Israel comes before.
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  The Lord in Wonder wrapped in questions.
• 41:12
  Stunned by the goodness of God. Where he goes.
• 41:14
  God! Who am I God?
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  Who's this? Nation God.
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  I can't believe that these things are true.
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  But it all comes from what God has done who God says he is what
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  God has promised us that is the very thing that got him going.
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  And I want you to see that. As I said earlier, communion
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  with God and so many aspects of our spirituality is dependent
• 41:41
  upon your engagement with the Bible, okay?
• 41:45
  There's a reason why the, the leaders of this church when we
• 41:49
  preach and we exhort there's a reason why much of our
• 41:52
  application is. Know your Bible get into the
• 41:56
  Bible, read your Bible study, your Bible.
• 41:59
  Know your why? Because we understand that the
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  Bible itself, testifies about itself.
• 42:05
  That's so much that we want to master or know the maturity and
• 42:09
  comes from first, a foundation that is what you're holding in
• 42:12
  your hand tonight. Okay.
• 42:14
  I'm going to prove it to you Colossians 3:16, let the word of
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  Christ. Do what?
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  Oh, you have the word in you? Yes, dwell in you richly richly.
• 42:26
  Every time I read that verse every time I'm in Colossians, I
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  ask Lord and I do an inventory. Is your word in me?
• 42:33
  Not just in me. Is it in me richly?
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  That's what I'ma is the tank on, on the letter, f.
• 42:40
  Is it abundant is it isn't? There is an overflowing.
• 42:46
  Is it on my tongue? Is it in my thoughts?
• 42:49
  Is it something? I sing.
• 42:52
  Or is it just in a corner of my heart?
• 42:54
  That's not what the Holy Spirit saying the holy spirit.
• 42:55
  Let it dwell richly. Let it be a spring that bubbles
• 42:58
  up. Let the word have that kind of
• 43:00
  abiding force in your life. And when you go to Colossians
• 43:05
  3:16, you see the results of the word of Christ.
• 43:10
  Dwelling in US richly. There's two main things.
• 43:12
  The first is what teaching? And admonishing, one another and
• 43:16
  all wisdom, okay? When the word of Christ was in a
• 43:20
  person richly, they now reach to an ability where they can, they
• 43:25
  can be a source of great, wisdom, guidance, exhortation
• 43:29
  and warning to others, and others can recognize that.
• 43:33
  So, then you become some source Of a well where they can draw
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  from not because of anything who you are, but what lives in you,
• 43:41
  right? So now, because Christ's words
• 43:44
  in you, it comes out of you and it touches those around you.
• 43:48
  That's what happens when the word of Christ dwell in you
• 43:50
  richly. I can guarantee you somebody who
• 43:52
  has the word of Christ dwell in, you richly, can't keep the word
• 43:54
  of Christ dwelling in them silently.
• 43:56
  Does this doesn't happen? I know those people brother.
• 43:59
  I just saw this in the word of God.
• 44:01
  Do you believe this is? I've just been studying this
• 44:02
  order and they just can't stop. Or when you get up when you ask
• 44:05
  for advice, it always points to Something in the Bible.
• 44:09
  Right, it's not like every scenario and I know a few
• 44:12
  people. Like there's any scenario in
• 44:14
  life, you ask them for advice like well, you know, most this
• 44:17
  will happen to Moses, you remember that you remember,
• 44:19
  whether everything is a reference, to a text, a
• 44:22
  reference to a story reference, to a promise of reference to a
• 44:24
  warning and I'm blessed by it because it's God's word, it's
• 44:29
  God's word for, and many of those times it's something that
• 44:32
  I, maybe forgot something that I missed, but I'm so blessed.
• 44:36
  When somebody has the word of Christ in them rich.
• 44:40
  But the word of Christ dwelling in Us in such a degree is not
• 44:44
  just intellectual. It's emotional because he goes
• 44:46
  on to say singing, Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with
• 44:52
  thankfulness in your hearts, to God.
• 44:56
  The more you study, the more you learn, the more you will
• 44:58
  discover in the sacred book, wonderful things, the more
• 45:01
  Sparks will flicker in your soul and will Electrify worship.
• 45:09
  So the words in you and just something happens, right?
• 45:11
  There's just these Embers and then you're being blown on by
• 45:15
  the word of God, in a flame starts and then it begins to
• 45:18
  start and cause you to sing, not mechanically, not routinely with
• 45:24
  your mouth. Hims, not that Paul says, with
• 45:27
  thankfulness in your heart, Your heart is engaged, your heart
• 45:33
  comes to life, and something happens to you.
• 45:35
  And to the point where you're unashamedly singing to the Lord,
• 45:40
  as a result of what a talented worship band, a new kind of song
• 45:46
  with new tricks in a very clever Bridge or no, because the word
• 45:51
  of Christ dwelling in you richly.
• 45:54
  The word of Christ being poured into you richly through deep
• 45:58
  theological music. Something happens, it begins to
• 46:01
  affect you, even emotionally. And it's Thanksgiving, right?
• 46:07
  Thankfulness in your heart that you learned that you read
• 46:10
  anything in the word and you realize oh he is worthy of my
• 46:13
  gratitude and it comes from a genuine place of pleasure.
• 46:19
  Here's the thing. you have some people have this weird
• 46:24
  misconception in Christendom, I don't know and it circulates
• 46:29
  That. Coming to the Bible studying,
• 46:32
  the Bible reading. The Bible is intellectual
• 46:35
  gymnastics, it's heady. And if you're, if you're
• 46:39
  well-versed if you're educated, you're probably dry.
• 46:43
  You probably stuffy, you probably don't have an intimate
• 46:46
  walk with the Lord, and I get it because those people exist
• 46:50
  because it's not an automatic promise.
• 46:52
  That the more you study, the more you will be blessed the way
• 46:54
  clashes talks about. It depends on your attitude and
• 46:57
  approach to the word of God. IE the Pharisees okay.
• 47:01
  So that's true, there is protocol.
• 47:03
  And very limited protocol. Just really humility and longing
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  to know, God, on a personal level and obey the word.
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  But there's this weird idea that if you, if you learn, if you
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  compare, if you get deep, if you do, all these things with words
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  on a page, its intellectual it's academic, but it's not
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  spiritual. It's one of the most spiritual
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  exercises you can be doing Can you think of another passage in
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  one of the Epistles where the reality is that?
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  I just read to you from Colossians, 3:16 are very
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  similar. I think addressing one another
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  in Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs can be thanks in your
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  heart. Thank you.
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  Did you hear that? In the very same place where
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  Paul tells the Ephesians to not be drunk with wine but be filled
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  with the Holy Spirit, okay? I want you to see this and
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  Ephesians, 5:18 turn there very quickly.
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  Here's what I'm about to show you.
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  The results of the word of Christ.
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  Dwelling in US, richly are identical to the results that
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  come from being filled with the Holy Spirit.
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  Have you ever noticed that when you compare those two texts?
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  Look. Ephesians 818 is only an
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  expansion of what Colossians 3:16 Says, and do not get drunk
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  with wine for that is debauchery.
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  But be filled with the spirit addressing one.
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  Another in Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs singing, and
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  making Melody to the Lord, with your heart giving.
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  Thanks always and for everything to God, the father, in the name
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  of our Lord, Jesus Christ. So look what the holy spirit is
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  trying to show us. Having the word in you.
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  Is synonymous inseparable. To being filled with the Holy
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  Spirit. So if there's this idea of
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  ignoring or neglecting the Bible, but hopefully wanting to
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  be filled with the Holy Spirit is a delusion, it's a delusion.
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  It doesn't exist and people and I've seen many Christians like
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  this who claimed to be Spirit-filled people, right?
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  But have little respect For the proclamation of the word of God,
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  studying the word of God, expounding the word of God.
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  Such people have a false sense of spirituality.
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  No matter how much emotion they show demonstrate, I'll tell you
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  this. Many of the people that I've
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  known in my own life that we're, that seemed to be the most
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  excited about God, but we're very shallow with the word of
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  God. That it was a vacuum cleaner.
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  Just collected dust in the house, more than anything else.
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  Are in dangerous places today, and sin, serious sin, ugly sin.
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  Because they were chasing spirituality without being
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  anchored, in the word of God and that will eventually lead you
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  into heresy, eventually. It's going to lead you into
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  weird practices. Weird Doctrine or, all right.
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  All out sin in the end but the holy spirit says, if you want to
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  be filled with the Holy Spirit, guess what?
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  You need to be filled with the word of God.
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  That's what he's trying to say by this.
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  They have the paralleling effects.
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  So eat this word suck. The honey out of this were
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  dispersion would say just in, just indulge in this word and
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  realize that if you come with the posture of obedience of
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  humility of worship, then the spirits power will flow into
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  your heart. as you bring this word, into that heart, And so,
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  David could come in this powerful prayer before God's
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  presence because of verse 27, which tells us of a revelation
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  that was the thrust that brought him into this intimacy.
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  With the Lord God's word itself to him in his life, believe that
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  Frieza, I hope that revolutionizes our lives
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  Revolutionizes Our Lives. If you want your prayer life to
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  be blessed, if you want your singing, to be blessed, if you
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  want your attitude, to be blessed.
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  If you want your emotional state to be blessed.
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  Hug this word embrace it. No, it growing, it talk about
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  it, love it and watch what will happen to you.
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  I won't go too much further. Let's come back to our prayer
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  here you with one final thought. Many of you brought up all of
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  these points. Here's one.
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  Last one before we close. David's praying was motivated by
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  God's glory. Our brother read earlier in
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  verse 25 and 26, and I will Lord God, confirmed forever.
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  The word that you've spoken concerning your servant and
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  concerning his house and do, as you have spoken, pause for what
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  For what? Lord, because I yeah.
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  I did do pretty good. Didn't I?
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  As a Shepherd? I was faithful when I was
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  unknown. Yeah, I stood up the Goliath
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  when nobody else would. I could have killed Saul but I
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  didn't. I'm so humble, think I'm gonna
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  write a book about me? Humility.
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  No, first 26, and your name will be magnified forever.
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  David's longing for God to confirm his promise to him and
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  his descendants was so that for Generations.
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  God's name would be exalted. That was what moved his heart to
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  the core and I want to tell you this live like that pray like
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  that. Make decisions with that in mind
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  for many reasons, right? Or else we will we will be
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  indicted for the crime of using God as a means for our own
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  Glory. That's a that's a very ugly.
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  But for other reasons I don't think people are aware of the
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  wonderful security and joy that is reserved for those who are
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  completely convinced that they want God's glory to be known at
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  any cost, there is something so protective and pleasurable
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  living that way. A heart that's in golf to this
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  degree. Literally when your heart is
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  just coated with that, it leaves no room for jealousy for Envy
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  for Pride to penetrate and make a home in that heart.
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  It just like, living for God's. Glory, is like a bulletproof
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  vest for your soul. It's very difficult to infect
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  that person with something as hideous as what we see in Saul.
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  So because David was so in love with the glory of God when God
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  said David I love what's in your heart but you're not going to be
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  the guy that's going to build me this house.
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  David can say, who Am I, who am I Spurgeon said, be willing o
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  vessel in the house of the Lord. To be hung up on a nail in the
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  wall. Or to be late aside in a corner.
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  If so God would be glorified for, thus, was it with David
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  seemed to say they're be pleased to be hung on a wall by now, or
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  be pleased to be stuffed in a corner.
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  If in doing so God would be glorified.
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  So David could receive the no because if the gnomon God's
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  glory then let it be no you see more than that David.
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  When he saw God using somebody else blessing.
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  Somebody else promoting somebody was not was not Okay, you're in
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  the way even if it was his son Solomon, right?
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  And you might say, well, of course, he's happy, it's his son
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  who wouldn't be happy. He would have feel some kind of
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  Pride if their son was being used by God in such a way.
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  Are we actually under the persuasion that sin cannot so
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  Kill us that we can actually look at a relative even our own
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  offspring and despised them. Do we forget so easily about
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  Saul who with his own son, Jonathan, when he seemed to be a
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  threat to receiving praise, he did something about it.
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  That's how ugly sin can make us. And yet this man David was not
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  shifted in any direction because he was so grounded in this glory
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  of God, really. And so, when it came to Solomon
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  being elevated, being promoted, you know what David could do.
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  He can encourage him. So David David had the door
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  closed of not being able to build the temple, but what did
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  David do we know this? What did he end up doing about
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  the temple? He prepared all the material.
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  He's okay. Fine.
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  If I can't have that position then let me do whatever I can to
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  make sure that God is glorified. I have all these resources I
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  have all these connections. We're going to get all the
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  material yes we gathers all the material prepares for his son
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  and more than that in first Chronicles 28.
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  He looks at his own son, you don't have to turn there but
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  listen to these words, this man who was told no you're not going
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  to build, your son is going to build can look at this son of
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  his and say to him in verse twenty first car. 28.
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  Then David said to Solomon his son, be strong and courageous be
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  strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid and do not be
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  dismayed for the Lord. God even my God is with you, he
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  will not leave you or forsake you until all the work of the
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  service of the house of the Lord is finished.
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  David was able to energetically encourage Solomon.
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  Do you know why? Because of the glory of God, and
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  if we don't live for the glory of God, you know, what can
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  happen. We are in danger of envying, the
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  very ones that were supposed to be encouraging.
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  Hi. We're in danger of looking at a
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  brother a sister who has been anointed by the Holy Spirit, who
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  has been, who has been given greater expansion of influence
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  and to feel as though they are competitor instead of a partner
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  for the glory of God. But because of the glory of God,
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  here's how powerful this to live with this motivation, whether
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  you are the means or Not, by which God's goal is accomplished
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  because you're all about that goal, regardless of the vessel.
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  Even if it's not, you you can Rejoice.
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  Yes, God is being glorified through him.
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  God is being glorified through her.
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  God's name is being praised in this way, even though you're not
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  involved. Even though you're not the
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  direct agent because you were so enthralled by the glory of God.
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  Wherever it is coming from you can rejoice.
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  And listen, this is a genuine struggle for genuine Disciples
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  of Jesus Christ. Even, even the closest
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  disciples, remember, one of the disciples came up to Jesus.
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  Hey Jesus. They're trying to cast out
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  demons in your name, but then with us.
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  She's like, what are you talking about?
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  They are for us. And so there's always that that
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  temptation. To struggle with our identity in
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  God. And I think the solution is
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  really Living For the Glory of God.
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  How do we get there though? Can live for the glory of God
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  live for the glory of God? Look, how do I get there?
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  I believe the answer is here. The answer is in this text.
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  Some might say, well, have a big view of God, have an awesome
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  view of God. Yes, that's that's in part, but
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  I know many people who love the word of God at least information
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  in the word of God who can soar in their explanation of the word
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  of God and they are eaten up by self Glory.
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  So it's that's that's just part of the solution.
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  Can I tell you what? I think is the the biggest
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  ingredient missing for people to be perpetually in that state of
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  living for the glory of God. It's because they don't have an
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  accurate view of themselves. That's why.
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  How did David start? Who am I?
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  That's where you need to be. That's where I need to be.
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  Who am I Have a big view of God and have an honest perception of
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  yourself, and I think sometimes we focus so much here.
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  That we think that we're just like a little bit under Jesus.
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  He's just a little bit better. Just like how we think of him.
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  We think Heaven is just like a little bit better than America.
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  That's why we struggling and I don't know if I want to go back.
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  I don't know if I want to go to Glory, you have no idea what
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  you're talking about, okay? And so, There needs to be
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  something of our application of the word we say.
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  Lord show me who I really am. Show me who I would be without
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  you show me. How dependent upon I am by your
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  microsecond Mercies in my life. Tell me realize that if you call
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  me for the rest of my life to tie the shoes of those who serve
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  you that even in that, I would be seen as an unworthy servant.
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  May God help us in that. There is so much protection.
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  So much pleasure, so much promise.
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  In living with those three words in mind.
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  Who Am I? Who am I Lori?
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  Thank you. For this Bible study.
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  Four. Being able to share with one
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  another what we've seen in this text.
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  And Lord tonight we take it to heart and we say, who are we,
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  who are we to be saved by your grace?
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  And who are we to be used for your glory?
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  And who are we to be able to meet in this place freely to
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  worship you who are we? What are we?
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  We are but dust and Ash. But the very fact that we can
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  sit, the very fact that we can move, the very fact that we can
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  breathe. The very fact that we can we can
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  learn is because you have allowed us to Lord tonight, we
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  just pray that there would be revived campaign in each of Our
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  Lives, to master the word of God.
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  The Lord may be said of every person here whether this is
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  their home church or not. That the word of Christ dwells
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  in US richly. Lord protect us from a vain
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  pursuit of the word of God and help us Lord know the full
• 1:01:51
  potential as we come to this word day by day.
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  Floor with this one life that we have.
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  May we be a spectacle to an unbelieving world and to a host
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  of angels, who are watching the wisdom of God being unfolded
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  through the church. We ask Lord Jesus.
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  That you would Infusing us a humility.
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  That you would teach us how to sit at the feet of Jesus that
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  that would not be a duty that would be a deep Delight to know
• 1:02:25
  how we can just pause on everything saying, oh I just
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  want to sit with him and speak to him and tell him how
• 1:02:32
  wonderful he is and tell him my needs and pour out my my mom
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  wants to him Lord. Revive revive, that Pursuit.
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  Lord, in this place. We sing to you because we have
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  been receiving the word of God. Me, that overflow, as we respond
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  and worship, Jesus name, we pray.
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  Amen.