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R u a happy person? Book of Psalms # 2 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: To having the gracious God. As we come before your
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  Speaker 1: holy presence, we thank you for who you are and
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  Speaker 1: who you continue to be in each of our lives.
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  Speaker 1: But give us for each and every known sins, be
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  Speaker 1: it words, thoughts, or deeds. And we thank you for
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus Christ did at the Cross of Calgary for
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  Speaker 1: each one of us. As we enter your word, your word,
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  Speaker 1: your word, well I should allow your Holy Spirit to
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  Speaker 1: take it and make it real, make it real into
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  Speaker 1: each of us as listeners. May we continue to understand
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  Speaker 1: our eyes be open. May we understand the spiritual warfare
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  Speaker 1: that surrounds us. May we know to your word where
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  Speaker 1: you are in each of our lives. As we enter
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  Speaker 1: the book of Psalms, make it real, make it real,
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  Speaker 1: make it real. And Jesus name, yes you. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: all man, Welcome back to Challenges of Faith Radio program.
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  Speaker 1: I am carry McCants. Thank you for joining. Have the
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  Speaker 1: Psalms an important book to and for your life. As
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  Speaker 1: a young Jewish boy, our Savior would have memorized the Psalms.
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  Speaker 1: And the question is are you ready to begin? You sure?
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  Speaker 1: You're sure? All right? Have a question for you don't mind?
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  Speaker 1: Do you? How does a blessed person live? How do
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  Speaker 1: you live? Go ahead and ask the question. Take your time.
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  Speaker 1: You finished, all right? So now open the Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: Open your bible to Psalm chapter one. You have it,
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  Speaker 1: I know you do. Do you notice as you begin
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  Speaker 1: to look at it, it tells us that this first Psalms
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  Speaker 1: opens the Genesis section and begins with people instead of
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  Speaker 1: the material university. You notice that? Do you notice it
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  Speaker 1: talks about the blessed man, or the happy man that's
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  Speaker 1: contrasted with the ungodly man or woman. Is this Adam
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  Speaker 1: in the garden? Is it? Come on now, you reading
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  Speaker 1: what I'm reading? It's a likely picture of our savior,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, the last Adam living
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  Speaker 1: among those who don't know him who died for them.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the ungodly sinners who are needed a savior.
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  Speaker 1: You know? And when you really have read the Word,
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  Speaker 1: and I know you have, do you sometimes think of
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  Speaker 1: our Lord as a man of sorrows that was acquainted
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  Speaker 1: with grief. You see a lot of pictures, but you
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  Speaker 1: see painted of what individuals think our Savior looked like.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know, but the pictures that they painted always
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  Speaker 1: m make him look to be sad. You know, Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: says that our savior Jesus is the man of sorrows
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  Speaker 1: over in Isaiah Chapter fifty three, verse four. But do
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  Speaker 1: you notice it was our grief, not his own, that
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  Speaker 1: he carried. Our Savior is the happy Christ, blessed beyond
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  Speaker 1: all men. And so when you look at someone, do
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  Speaker 1: you notice it focuses first on the negative then the positive?
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  Speaker 1: Do you notice that first the blessed person doesn't listen
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  Speaker 1: to the advice of wicked people? Really ponder that you
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  Speaker 1: don't mind? Do you? In your own life you're surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by individuals as always a negative. You're surrounded by individuals
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  Speaker 1: as always positive. The advice you're listening to, irrespective who
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  Speaker 1: the advice is coming from, every respective of the person
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  Speaker 1: you name the person. Are they wicked? You know they
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  Speaker 1: don't mean anybody any good, including you? But you notice
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  Speaker 1: how Psalms want to let you know, don't go. They
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  Speaker 1: don't go where sinners go, and they don't do what
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  Speaker 1: negative people do bad people do. Do you notice how
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  Speaker 1: it begins? Do you notice because I know you read
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  Speaker 1: Psalms Want have you read Psalms to as well? You
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  Speaker 1: know you got to keep reading but before you start reading,
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  Speaker 1: did you start with prayer? Do you notice that I
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  Speaker 1: asked God to help through his son by the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of God, because it's his word, and you remember
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  Speaker 1: his word does not go back to him void. What
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  Speaker 1: you and I talk about that's apart from his word
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  Speaker 1: don't mean nothing. But you know how the Psalm gives
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  Speaker 1: us a happy person's posture that they don't walk with
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  Speaker 1: the world. They don't stand with the sinners openly committing sin,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't sit with the people who have no
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  Speaker 1: use for God. And if you leave him out you
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  Speaker 1: in your life, you're wondering why you're miserable when you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be miserable because you've left our Savior out
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  Speaker 1: of your life. And this is what the happy person
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  Speaker 1: doesn't do. But you see what the Necturus says that
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  Speaker 1: the happy person does do. And I know it's you.
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  Speaker 1: A happy person loves God's words. Can you really say
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  Speaker 1: that's you? Can you really say from the lips that's
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  Speaker 1: coming from the heart that you can't wait to say
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  Speaker 1: the Bible and get your insight into your life and
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  Speaker 1: wisdom about who you are and who God is? Can
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  Speaker 1: you say it? Can you really say it? Because if
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  Speaker 1: you can, then you know you don't have to guess
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  Speaker 1: what it means to delight. But if you hesitate it
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  Speaker 1: good too. You're in your way because the hesitation, hopefully
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  Speaker 1: from your heart, is saying through your lips, which translates
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  Speaker 1: to your shoes, your feet, shoe leather that you want
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  Speaker 1: to if you love God's word, guess what you're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna find yourself thinking about it later after you've
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  Speaker 1: read it. That's the word meditate. It's a figurative word,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like they talk about, you know, a cow
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  Speaker 1: chewing the cut, and if you talk to the individuals
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  Speaker 1: who tend the cows, they'll tell you that the cows
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  Speaker 1: have multiple stomachs and they'll reach you their breakfast throughout
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  Speaker 1: the day. And so the same thing is when we
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  Speaker 1: meditate on the Word, the Word of God, we do
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. You don't see nowhere in the Word
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  Speaker 1: of God where God tells you to every empty your
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  Speaker 1: mind like Yoda. But we meditate on the Word, we
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  Speaker 1: go over and over and over what we've read, you know,
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  Speaker 1: over in James chapter one, verse twenty four. I know
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  Speaker 1: you wrote it down. Do you see how it speaks
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  Speaker 1: of an individual of a person who looked at their
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  Speaker 1: face and a mirror. You hear me say, look at
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  Speaker 1: their face in the mirror, and stay there all day long,
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  Speaker 1: just looking at yourself. But it speaks of a person
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  Speaker 1: who looked at his face in the mirror, then goes
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  Speaker 1: away and forget what he looks like. When we meditate
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  Speaker 1: on the word of God, it shows us. God shows
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  Speaker 1: us who we really are. When you come in contact
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  Speaker 1: with people, as a believer of the household of faith,
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  Speaker 1: before you go out the door, do you ask God
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  Speaker 1: to reveal the motives of the people you're coming in
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  Speaker 1: contact with, whether they're there to harm you or to
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  Speaker 1: build you up, not your ego ego? Are you asking
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  Speaker 1: God to reveal who they really really are? Perform their
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  Speaker 1: lips are perfem that our appearance. When we meditate on
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  Speaker 1: His word, do we invite Him to shape our lives?
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  Speaker 1: Because this is how we grow in spiritual think of it.
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  Speaker 1: You can go to your place of worship and you
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  Speaker 1: can be busy, busy, busy, busy, but you're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: grow just by doing good things. You'll grow by meditating
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  Speaker 1: on God's word. Ponder it until it becomes a part
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  Speaker 1: of your life, because that's the practice of the person
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  Speaker 1: who is at peace and happy, and the question you
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  Speaker 1: got to ask and answer in your life. Quit looking
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  Speaker 1: at everybody else's life. Are you at peace? Are you happy?
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  Speaker 1: Are you really I remember I was on the college
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  Speaker 1: campus today. I would pass this individual, and this individual
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  Speaker 1: happened to be of a different community, different culture, different religion.
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  Speaker 1: Remember now, Christianity is not a religion, it's a person christ.
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  Speaker 1: But each day would passed and I would always ask them,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing? And they would always have a smile,
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  Speaker 1: and they would smile, they would say back they were fine.
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  Speaker 1: And so one day inside it, I felt like I
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  Speaker 1: was prompted to ask, and I glad I obeyed. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have it going on. But I was prompted to
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  Speaker 1: ask them an additional question, and I did. If you
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  Speaker 1: know anything about me, I did when I asked them
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  Speaker 1: on that particular day, how you doing, and they responded
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  Speaker 1: the same. I stopped and I called out to them
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  Speaker 1: and I said, I asked them, are you really? Are
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  Speaker 1: you really fine? Do you know? If their response was no,
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  Speaker 1: not really, And I took the time to listen to
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the story, Are you really at peace?
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  Speaker 1: Are you really happy? The next time, we look at
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  Speaker 1: where that person obtained their power to be at peace,
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  Speaker 1: to be happy,