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Psalm 91_ The Hebrew Secret of God_s Refuge _ Why Faith Still Wins · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: What if the most quoted psalm of comfort in the
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  Speaker 1: Bible was never written for comfortable people. What if the
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  Speaker 1: prayer millions recite in hospital rooms in war zones, before surgeries,
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  Speaker 1: before flights, was actually written for a moment of absolute collapse.
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  Speaker 1: And what if embedded inside its final word, the very
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  Speaker 1: last word of Psalm ninety one, there is a name,
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  Speaker 1: a name. Most translations never show you a name hidden
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  Speaker 1: in plain sight for thousands of years. Here is what
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  Speaker 1: almost no one talks about. The enemy knew this psalm
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  Speaker 1: better than most preachers do. He memorized it, he quoted it,
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  Speaker 1: he used it as a weapon, and when he did,
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  Speaker 1: he accidentally confirmed the greatest secret the text was hiding.
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  Speaker 1: The question is not whether Psalm ninety one protects you.
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  Speaker 1: The real question is who was it written about? And
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  Speaker 1: what does that answer mean? For every person watching this
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  Speaker 1: right now, in the middle of fear, grief, uncertainty, or
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  Speaker 1: the kind of exhaustion that has no easy name. Stay
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  Speaker 1: with me, because what you are about to discover will
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  Speaker 1: change how you read every psalm you have ever loved.
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  Speaker 1: Most people approach Psalm ninety one the same way. They
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  Speaker 1: read it as a personal promise, a contract with God,
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual guarantee that if you believe hard enough, nothing
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  Speaker 1: bad will touch you. And honestly that reading is understandable.
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  Speaker 1: The language is stunning. He will cover you with his feathers.
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  Speaker 1: Under his wings you will find refuge. A thousand may
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  Speaker 1: fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand,
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  Speaker 1: but it will not come near you. It sounds absolute,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like immunity. But here is where the problem
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  Speaker 1: begins and why this psalm has caused more theological confusion
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  Speaker 1: than almost any other passage in the Old Testament. I
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  Speaker 1: Psalm ninety one is a blanket promise of physical protection
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  Speaker 1: for every believer. Then why did the apostle Paul, one
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest men of faith in history, get shipwrecked, beaten, imprisoned,
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  Speaker 1: and eventually executed. Why did the prophet Jeremiah, a man
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  Speaker 1: who lived inside the covenant promises of God, spend years
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom of a cistern, abandoned, weeping, nearly destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: Why did Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, get stoned
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  Speaker 1: to death while quoting scripture. None of this means the
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  Speaker 1: psalm is wrong. It means we have been reading it
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  Speaker 1: through the wrong lens. And here is the detail that
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  Speaker 1: changes everything. The original Hebrew of verse one does not
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  Speaker 1: say whoever runs to God in a moment of crisis.
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  Speaker 1: It says something far more radical than that. The opening
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  Speaker 1: word in the Hebrew text describes not a visitor, but
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  Speaker 1: an inhabitant, not someone who knocks on the door during
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  Speaker 1: a storm, but someone who has built their life inside
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  Speaker 1: the presence of God permanently. The word carries the image
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  Speaker 1: of a person who has settled there, who has planted
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  Speaker 1: roots in the secret place, who does not run to
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  Speaker 1: God only when everything falls apart, but who lives there,
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  Speaker 1: breathes there, stays there as a way of life. That
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  Speaker 1: one distinction rewrites the entire psalm, because the promise is
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  Speaker 1: not given to the one who occasionally seeks shelter. The
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  Speaker 1: promise is given to the one who has chosen to dwell.
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  Speaker 1: But that raises a deeper question. If that is the standard,
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  Speaker 1: this kind of total, permanent, unbroken dwelling in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of God, then who in all of human history has
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  Speaker 1: ever truly fulfilled it? Think about that every human being,
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  Speaker 1: every saint, every prophet, every apostle, has experienced moments of doubt,
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  Speaker 1: moments of spiritual distance, moments where the connection felt broken
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  Speaker 1: by sin, by fear, by failure. No one dwells perfectly,
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  Speaker 1: No one stays without interruption except one. And that is
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  Speaker 1: where this Psalm stops being a general comfort passage and
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  Speaker 1: starts being something far more specific, far more precise, far
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  Speaker 1: more powerful than most sermons ever reveal. If you are
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  Speaker 1: hungry for the kind of biblical truth that most people overlook,
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  Speaker 1: subscribe to this channel because what we are about to
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  Speaker 1: unpack in the next few minutes is the kind of
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  Speaker 1: thing that will permanently change how you read your Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go deeper, because the Hebrew text of Psalm ninety
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  Speaker 1: one is not just poetry. It is a prophetic architecture.
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  Speaker 1: And the deeper you go into the original language, the
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  Speaker 1: more you realize that this Psalm was designed with a
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  Speaker 1: precision that no human author could have planned alone. Let's
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  Speaker 1: begin with the names of God. In the very first
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  Speaker 1: two verses, the Hebrew text uses four distinct names for
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  Speaker 1: God in rapid succession. This is not accidental. In the
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  Speaker 1: ancient Hebrew mindset, names were not labels. They were revelations
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  Speaker 1: of character. Each name disclosed something specific about who God
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  Speaker 1: is and how he acts. The first name the highest one,
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  Speaker 1: the most high, describes God's absence slute sovereignty, his supremacy
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  Speaker 1: over every power, every nation, every force, visible or invisible.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing exists above him. The second name, the all sufficient one,
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  Speaker 1: the Almighty, carries a route that ancient Hebrew scholars connect
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  Speaker 1: to the concept of sustaining, nurturing, being more than enough.
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  Speaker 1: This is not just raw power. This is the power
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  Speaker 1: that provides, the strength that does not run out. The
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  Speaker 1: third name is the covenant name, the personal, intimate name
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  Speaker 1: of God, the name that Israel understood as the name
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  Speaker 1: of the God who keeps promises, who entered into relationship,
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  Speaker 1: who bound himself by oath to his people. And the
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  Speaker 1: fourth name in verse two is the most personal of all,
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  Speaker 1: My God, not God in general, not a divine force,
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  Speaker 1: God first person, singular, possessive. In two verses, the Hebrew
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  Speaker 1: text moves from absolute sovereignty to sustaining power, to covenant faithfulness,
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  Speaker 1: to intimate personal relationship. This is not a random sequence.
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  Speaker 1: This is a theological journey compressed into an opening statement,
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  Speaker 1: as if the Psalm is saying, before you hear these promises,
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  Speaker 1: understand who is making them. Now, let's go to something
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  Speaker 1: that almost every English translation misses. In verse one, the
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  Speaker 1: word translated as secret place or shelter in English, carries
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  Speaker 1: in the Hebrew original the idea of a hidden, intimate place,
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  Speaker 1: not a public space, not a shelter. Anyone can stumble
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  Speaker 1: into a place of restricted access, a place reserved for
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  Speaker 1: those who have chosen to dwell, not just visit. And
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  Speaker 1: inverse four, the image of being covered with feathers, sheltered
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  Speaker 1: under wings. This is not imagery of military strength. This
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  Speaker 1: is imagery of tender care. This is the image of
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  Speaker 1: a bird spreading its wings over its young. Warmth, protection, closeness,
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  Speaker 1: vulnerability met with covering. The Hebrew poet chose this image
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  Speaker 1: deliberately because the Psalm is not only about divine power
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  Speaker 1: over enemies. It is about divine tenderness toward the beloved.
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  Speaker 1: But here is where the mini climax arrives. Verse four
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  Speaker 1: also contains a word translated as shield or buckler, a
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  Speaker 1: term so rare in the entire Old Testament that it
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  Speaker 1: appears essentially only here. Scholars who study the root of
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  Speaker 1: this word point to a meaning that goes beyond a
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  Speaker 1: simple handheld shield. The root carries the idea of surrounding encircling,
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  Speaker 1: covering completely, not just blocking from one direction, but wrapping
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  Speaker 1: around from all sides. God's faithfulness is not a shield
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  Speaker 1: you hold up in front of you. It is a
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  Speaker 1: covering that surrounds you completely, that changes the image entirely.
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  Speaker 1: You are not standing vulnerable while holding a shield. You
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  Speaker 1: are enclosed, enveloped, protected from every angle by the reliability
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  Speaker 1: of God's own character. Now look at verses five and six.
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  Speaker 1: The Psalm describes dangers moving through a complete cycle. Terror
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  Speaker 1: in the night, threats in the daytime, pestilence that walks
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  Speaker 1: in darkness, destruction at noon, every hour, every direction. And
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  Speaker 1: the Hebrew text makes a progression between two words for
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  Speaker 1: destruction that most translations flatten into the same English word.
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  Speaker 1: The first term used for pestilence is the same word
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  Speaker 1: that appears in the Plagues of Egypt, a word carrying
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  Speaker 1: the weight of divine judgment and collective catastrophe. The second
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  Speaker 1: term used for destruction at noon is one of the
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  Speaker 1: rarest words in the entire Hebrew Bible. It describes a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: devastating blow, an abrupt and complete destruction, not a slow
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  Speaker 1: decline a catastrophic strike. The progression is intentional hidden dangers
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  Speaker 1: in the night, sudden catastrophic destruction in broad daylight. No
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  Speaker 1: time of day is excluded, no type of threat is forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: The psalm covers everything, and the message embedded in that
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  Speaker 1: structure is this, There is no moment in the life
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  Speaker 1: of the one who dwells in God's presence that falls
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  Speaker 1: outside of his protection. Not the slow, invisible threats, not
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  Speaker 1: the sudden public collapses. All of it covered. But who
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  Speaker 1: was the enemy quoting this psalm to and what did
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  Speaker 1: that reveal? Have you ever noticed that the enemy knew
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  Speaker 1: this psalm by heart. We will come back to that,
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  Speaker 1: because the answer will shake the foundations of everything you
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  Speaker 1: thought you understood about this text. Before we get to
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  Speaker 1: the moment when the enemy quoted this psalm and everything
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  Speaker 1: it reveals. I want to pause here because I think
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  Speaker 1: many people watching this right now are not watching out
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  Speaker 1: of casual academic interest. You are watching because something in
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  Speaker 1: your life right now feels unstable. Maybe it is your health,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it is your finances, Maybe it is a relationship
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  Speaker 1: that is fracturing. Maybe it is the quiet erosion of
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  Speaker 1: your faith, the slow, painful feeling that God is either
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  Speaker 1: not listening or not moving or simply not there. And
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  Speaker 1: you have probably quoted Psalm ninety one, or someone has
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  Speaker 1: quoted it to you. He will command his angels concerning you,
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  Speaker 1: no evil will befall you. I will be with him
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  Speaker 1: in trouble. And then the trouble came anyway, and it
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  Speaker 1: raised the most honest question faith ever produces. Does this
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  Speaker 1: psalm actually mean what it says? Here is where the
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew original gives us an answer that is both harder
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  Speaker 1: and more beautiful than the popular reading. Go back to
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  Speaker 1: verse fourteen. This is the verse where something shifts dramatically.
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  Speaker 1: For the first thirteen verses, a human voice is speaking,
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  Speaker 1: describing the blessings of the one who dwells in God's presence.
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  Speaker 1: But in verse fourteen something changes. God himself begins to speak,
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  Speaker 1: and the first word out of his mouth is a
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew verb that does not describe ordinary love. The word,
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  Speaker 1: translated simply as love in most English versions, carries in
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  Speaker 1: the original a meaning that is almost violent in its intensity.
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  Speaker 1: It describes a love that clings, a love that fastens,
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  Speaker 1: a passionate, ardent devotion that refuses to let go. This
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  Speaker 1: is not casual affection. This is not the polite religious
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  Speaker 1: commitment of someone who attends services and tries to be
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  Speaker 1: a good person. This is the kind of love that
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  Speaker 1: grabs hold and does not release, an obsessive, consuming dedication
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  Speaker 1: to God that shapes the entire orientation of a person's life,
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  Speaker 1: and the entire final section of Psalm ninety one, The
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  Speaker 1: promises of deliverance, of honor, of long life, of salvation
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  Speaker 1: is spoken by God directly to the one who loves
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  Speaker 1: him this way, not to the occasional seeker, not to
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  Speaker 1: the person who prays when things get bad, but to
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  Speaker 1: the one who clings. Now Here is where this becomes
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  Speaker 1: deeply personal, because this is the mirror the Psalm holds
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  Speaker 1: up to every one of us, not to condemn, but
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  Speaker 1: to clarify, where is your clinging going. Most people in
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  Speaker 1: the modern world cling to something. We cling to security, financial, relational, physical,
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  Speaker 1: We cling to plans. We cling to our own understanding
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  Speaker 1: of how our lives are supposed to go, And when
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  Speaker 1: those things are threatened, the anxiety becomes unbearable because the
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  Speaker 1: thing we built our life around is shaking. Psalm ninety
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  Speaker 1: one does not promise that the shaking will stop. It
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  Speaker 1: promises that the one who has built their life inside
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  Speaker 1: the presence of God, the one whose clinging is directed
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  Speaker 1: toward him will not be destroyed by the shaking. There
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  Speaker 1: is a massive difference between those two things. The psalm
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  Speaker 1: does not promise immunity from hardship. It promises indestructibility of
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  Speaker 1: soul within hardship. I will be with him in trouble,
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  Speaker 1: not I will remove all trouble from him. And then
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  Speaker 1: verse fourteen says something else that almost no one preaches on,
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  Speaker 1: because he knows my name. In the ancient Hebrew world,
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  Speaker 1: knowing someone's name was not simply knowing what to call them.
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  Speaker 1: It meant knowing their character, their reputation, their history of faithfulness,
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  Speaker 1: their track record. To know God's name was to have
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  Speaker 1: experienced him, to have walked with him long enough to
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  Speaker 1: say with confidence, I know what this God does. I
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  Speaker 1: know how he acts. I know he does not abandon
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  Speaker 1: what he has started. That kind of knowledge does not
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  Speaker 1: come from crisis moments. It comes from year years of dwelling,
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  Speaker 1: years of staying in the secret place when nothing dramatic
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  Speaker 1: is happening. Years of trust that builds a foundation so
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  Speaker 1: deep that when the terror of the night arrives and
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  Speaker 1: the destruction at noon strikes without warning. The soul does
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  Speaker 1: not collapse because it knows who it is standing in.
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  Speaker 1: Now we come to the moment that changes everything, the
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  Speaker 1: moment that reveals who this Psalm was ultimately written about.
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  Speaker 1: Because the enemy of your soul read this psalm, studied it,
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  Speaker 1: memorized it, and then took it to the wilderness and
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  Speaker 1: quoted it to a man standing in the desert after
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  Speaker 1: forty days without food. He took it to Jesus. And
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  Speaker 1: what happened in that moment is the final key that
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  Speaker 1: unlocks the entire psalm. Because the enemy's quotation was not
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  Speaker 1: just a temptation, it was an unintentional testimony. It was
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  Speaker 1: the most powerful confirmation in all of scripture that Psalm
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  Speaker 1: ninety one was never primarily about you or me, It
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  Speaker 1: was about him. Stay with me, because the next few
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  Speaker 1: minutes will bring everything together. In the Gospel accounts both
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Chapter four and Luke Chapter four, the enemy takes
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  Speaker 1: Jesus to the highest point of the temple in Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: and he opens his mouth and quotes Psalm ninety one,
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  Speaker 1: verse eleven, verse twelve. He will command his angels concerning you,
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  Speaker 1: and they will lift you up in their hands, so
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  Speaker 1: that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
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  Speaker 1: Think about what just happened. The enemy of all creation,
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  Speaker 1: the great accuser, the one who has opposed God since
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  Speaker 1: before human history began, looked at a man standing on
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  Speaker 1: the pinnacle of the temple and recognize that the promises
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  Speaker 1: of Psalm ninety one belonged to him. He did not
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  Speaker 1: quote this Psalm to a random human being. He did
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  Speaker 1: not use it on Peter or John or Paul or
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  Speaker 1: any prophet. He used it on Jesus, because, in his
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  Speaker 1: twisted attempt to weaponize scripture, he revealed what he actually knew.
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  Speaker 1: The one who perfectly dwells in the secret place of
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  Speaker 1: the Most High, the one who lives in unbroken, uninterrupted
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  Speaker 1: communion with the Father, the one about whom God could
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  Speaker 1: say in complete and literal truth. Because he clings to
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  Speaker 1: me with that consuming love. I will deliver him, I
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  Speaker 1: will honor him, I will satisfy him with long life.
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  Speaker 1: Was standing right in front of him. But notice what
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  Speaker 1: the enemy did when he quoted the psalm. He left
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  Speaker 1: something out. The original text in Verse eleven says God
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  Speaker 1: will command his angels to protect the dwelling one in
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  Speaker 1: all your ways. The enemy omitted that phrase. He cut
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  Speaker 1: it out because the full sentence means God's protection operates
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  Speaker 1: within the path of obedience, within the ways God has ordained,
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  Speaker 1: not as a blank check to be cashed in acts
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  Speaker 1: of spiritual arrogance or presumption. Jesus caught it immediately, and
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  Speaker 1: he responded with another passage from the Hebrew scriptures, you
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  Speaker 1: shall not put the Lord your God to the test.
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  Speaker 1: In one sentence, Jesus defended the integrity of the entire Psalm.
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  Speaker 1: He refused to extract the promise from its context of
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  Speaker 1: relationship and obedience, and in doing so, he showed us
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  Speaker 1: exactly how Psalm ninety one works, and exactly how it
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  Speaker 1: was always meant to be read, not as a magic formula,
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  Speaker 1: not as a spiritual insurance policy, but as a guarantee
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  Speaker 1: that the one who believes hard enough will never suffer,
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  Speaker 1: but as a description of the one who dwells completely, permanently,
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  Speaker 1: passionately in the presence of God. And here is where
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  Speaker 1: the architecture of the entire Psalm converges. Go to the
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  Speaker 1: very last verse, verse sixteen, with long life, I will
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  Speaker 1: satisfy him and show him my salvation. In the original
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew that final word salvation is built on a route
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  Speaker 1: that is also a proper name. The name embedded in
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  Speaker 1: the final promise of Psalm ninety one is the same
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  Speaker 1: name the Angel announced to Mary before Jesus was born.
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  Speaker 1: You shall call his name Yeshua, which means the Lord saves.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord is salvation. The Psalm begins with the dwelling
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  Speaker 1: one seeking refuge in God and ends with God God
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  Speaker 1: promising to reveal his salvation Yeshua to that person. From
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  Speaker 1: verse one to verse sixteen. The entire arc of the
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  Speaker 1: Psalm is a journey toward Christ. The one who inhabits
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  Speaker 1: the secret place, the one whom angels guard, the one
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  Speaker 1: who treads on the serpent, the one who is given
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  Speaker 1: long life and honor and deliverance is Jesus. And the
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  Speaker 1: enemy knew it. That is why he quoted the Psalm
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  Speaker 1: to him in the desert, not to prove it wrong,
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  Speaker 1: but because he recognized who was standing there. Now Here
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  Speaker 1: is where this becomes the most personal thing you will
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  Speaker 1: hear today. The New Testament teaches something breath taking about
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  Speaker 1: what happened when Jesus went to the cross. He voluntarily
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  Speaker 1: stepped outside the protection of Psalm ninety one. He told
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  Speaker 1: his disciples in the garden, do you think I cannot
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  Speaker 1: ask my Father? And he will at once put at
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  Speaker 1: my disposal more than twelve legions of angels. He could
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  Speaker 1: have invoked the Psalm, he chose not to. He walked
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  Speaker 1: into the darkness, the terror of the night, the destruction
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  Speaker 1: at noon, without the protection he alone was worthy to claim.
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  Speaker 1: Why so that the promises of Psalm ninety one could
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  Speaker 1: be transferred to every person who would be found in him.
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  Speaker 1: The apostle Paul says it plainly. Every promise of God
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  Speaker 1: finds its yes in Christ. Psalm ninety one belongs primarily
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus, and because it belongs to him, it belongs
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  Speaker 1: to everyone who is united to him by faith. You
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  Speaker 1: do not access these promises because you are strong enough,
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  Speaker 1: faithful enough, disciplined enough to dwell perfectly. You access them
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  Speaker 1: because you are in the one who dwelt perfectly. This
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  Speaker 1: is the grace hidden in the Psalm. The dwelling is his,
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  Speaker 1: and he shares it with those who cling to him.
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  Speaker 1: That is why faith wins, not because faith is a
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  Speaker 1: force that bends reality to your preferences, but because faith
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  Speaker 1: connects you to the one who fulfilled every condition the
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  Speaker 1: Psalm requires, and then opened the secret Place to every broken, frightened,
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  Speaker 1: struggling person who comes to him. So let's bring this
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  Speaker 1: home practically today. You are living in a world of
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  Speaker 1: real terrors, real uncertainties, real darkness, some of it visible,
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  Speaker 1: some of it invisible, real collapses that arrive without warning
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  Speaker 1: at noon. Psalm ninety one does not promise you that
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  Speaker 1: none of that will touch you. It promises you something
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  Speaker 1: far more durable. That the God who commanded his angels
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  Speaker 1: concerning his son now commands those same angels concerning you,
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  Speaker 1: because you are in his life son. That the God
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  Speaker 1: who said I will be with him in trouble is
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  Speaker 1: now saying that to you, not because of your track record,
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  Speaker 1: but because of his That the consuming, clinging love described
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  Speaker 1: in verse fourteen, the love that earns the promises, was
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  Speaker 1: demonstrated perfectly by Jesus at every moment of his life,
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  Speaker 1: and at its most intense at the cross. And now
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  Speaker 1: that love is credited to your account. This is not
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  Speaker 1: religious sentiment. This is the logic of the covenant sealed
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  Speaker 1: in his blood. The question the Psalm leaves you with
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  Speaker 1: is not am I good enough to deserve these promises.
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  Speaker 1: The question is, are you in him? Are you building
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  Speaker 1: your life inside his presence, not as a desperate sprint
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  Speaker 1: into the shelter when the storm hits, but as a settled, permanent,
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  Speaker 1: daily habitation. Are you learning to know his name not
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  Speaker 1: just as a fact, but as a history of faithfulness
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  Speaker 1: that your own life is adding to year by year.
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  Speaker 1: Because that kind of faith is not built in a crisis.
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  Speaker 1: It is built in the ordinary moments, the quiet mornings,
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  Speaker 1: the small choices, the days when you choose to stay
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  Speaker 1: in the secret place even when nothing dramatic is happening.
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  Speaker 1: And then when the terror comes, when the destruction arrives
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  Speaker 1: at noon without warning, when the thing you feared most
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  Speaker 1: becomes real, you are not starting from zero. You are
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  Speaker 1: standing in a place you have already inhabited, And the
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  Speaker 1: one who fulfilled every promise of Psalm ninety one is
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  Speaker 1: standing there with you. Not promising that the stone will
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  Speaker 1: not hurt, but promising that the angels are there, not
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  Speaker 1: promising that the darkness will not come, but promising that
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  Speaker 1: he is already in it. Not promising long life in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the number of years, but promising a life,
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  Speaker 1: however long or short, that is full of him. That
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  Speaker 1: is what Psalm ninety one means when it ends with
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  Speaker 1: the word for salvation. It does not end with a strategy.
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  Speaker 1: It does not end with a formula, It does not
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  Speaker 1: end with a list of conditions. It ends with a person.
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  Speaker 1: The God of the Secret Place looks at the one
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  Speaker 1: who dwells and says, I will show you my salvation.
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  Speaker 1: And the name of that salvation is the same name
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  Speaker 1: the enemy confirmed in the wilderness, the same name the
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  Speaker 1: Angel announced before the birth, the same name that holds
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  Speaker 1: every promise together. Faith wins not because faith is powerful.
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  Speaker 1: Faith wins because faith is connected to the one who is.
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  Speaker 1: If this changed the way you read scripture, share it.
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  Speaker 1: Some one in your life right now is in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the terror of the night or the destruction
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  Speaker 1: at noon, and they need to know that the Psalm
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  Speaker 1: is not about immunity. It is about a person, and
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  Speaker 1: that person is still standing in the Secret Place waiting
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  Speaker 1: for them to come and dwell. Subscribe to this channel
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  Speaker 1: if you want to keep going deeper into the Hebrew
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  Speaker 1: roots of your faith, because there is so much more
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  Speaker 1: hidden in the text than most people ever discover, and
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  Speaker 1: the deeper you go, the more clearly you will see
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  Speaker 1: the whole Bible was always pointing to him.