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Psalm 119:73-80 - Yod · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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  Welcome to Tabernacle Talk. Tabernacle Talk is a Bible study
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  podcast brought from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Essex, MD.
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  I'm your host, Brian Self. We hope this podcast encourages
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  you to know Christ, grow in his Word, and show his love to
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  others. Let's dive right in.
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  Welcome back to Tabernacle Talk. Today we are in Psalm 119 and we
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  are in the Yad section. Yad.
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  And this is verses 73 through 8073 through 80.
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  And Psalm 119 is all about the Word of God working letter by
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  letter through each section. And all of those sections, all
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  of the verses within those sections begin with one letter
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  of the Hebrew alphabet all the way from A-Z through the Word of
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  God. So let's read in verse #73 today
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  and see what the Lord has for us.
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  Your hands made me, informed me. Give me understanding so that I
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  can learn Your commands. Those who fear you will see me
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  and rejoice, for I put my hope in Your Word.
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  I know, Yahweh, that Your judgments are just and that You
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  have afflicted me fairly. May your faithful love comfort
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  me as you promised Your servant. May Your compassion come to me
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  so that I may live, for Your instruction is my delight.
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  Let the arrogant be put to shame for slandering me with lies.
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  I will meditate on your precepts.
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  Let those who fear you, those who know your decrees, turn to
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  me. May my heart be blameless
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  regarding your statutes, so that I will not be put to shame.
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  Man, this is a great section. Verse 73 I love I love this
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  thought that he gives. He begins saying your hands made
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  me inform you. So God you're my creator.
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  You're the one who made me and so I need you to make me have
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  understanding. He says God you made me, you
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  formed me. You're the one that's in charge
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  of me. You're the one who's put me
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  together. I need you to put one thing more
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  in. I am a 90 nine piece or I'm 100
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  piece puzzle with 99 pieces. I need you to fill in
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  understanding. And this is the same prayer
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  request that Solomon prayed to the Lord.
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  He said, God give me an understanding heart so that I
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  can rule your people Israel. And so here the prayer is give
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  me understanding so that I can learn your commands.
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  So God's the one that made us, and if we're going to be
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  complete and whole, it is going to be as a result of Him
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  teaching us through His Word. Verse 74 Those who fear you will
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  see me and rejoice, for I put my hope in your Word.
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  I can so echo this. People that love the Lord and
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  people that love God's word. Those are the best people in the
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  world to be around. They're people that love church.
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  There are people that love religion and those are not
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  always the most fun to be around.
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  Those aren't always like rejoicing that I see those
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  people, but people that love the word, those are those are my
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  people. I can hang out around those guys
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  all the time. And when I see people like that,
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  when I see people in my church, there's there's one gal that
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  began our attending our church few weeks after I became the
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  pastor here and she had recently accepted the Lord.
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  She followed the Lord in believers baptism, confessing
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  him as her Lord to to others back in June of 24.
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  And it has been so cool seeing her just desire for the word of
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  God. She's met with my wife most
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  every week for the past two years and being able to see her
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  love the Lord. I echo verse 74 because I fear
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  God. I see people learning and
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  excited about the word and I am rejoicing.
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  I'm like, yes, yeah, I this is the best life.
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  Some of my favorite people to listen to in the world, whether
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  it's via, you know, podcast sermon, are people that have
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  dedicated themselves to the word of God, Tim Mackie and John
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  Collins over the At the Bible Project.
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  They love the word of God, and so I love listening to them.
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  There's just nothing better. I want to encourage you be
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  someone that loves the word that has put your hope in the word of
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  God. Be someone that other people are
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  delighted to be around because they're like, oh man, I know I'm
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  going to hear a word from God when I talked to that person
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  today because they they spend time in the word.
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  And so when they talk to me, something about the words going
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  to come out, something that they've learned or something
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  that encouraged them or something that challenged them
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  or something that they read and they thought of me is going to
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  happen. And so I'm going to get a word
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  from God as I interact with this person.
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  Let's plan on that's the kind of person that I am going to be.
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  I'm going to be someone the word of God can't help but spell out
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  of over and over and over again, verse 75, I know Yahweh that
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  your judgments are just and that you have afflicted me fairly.
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  He says, God, sometimes you got to bring the hammer down.
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  Sometimes you need to discipline me, but God, I know that when
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  you do so, it's just, it's right.
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  It's proportionate to what I have done.
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  And it was not to, like harm me. It was to bring me back to you.
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  Is that the mindset that you have when God disciplines you?
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  When some bad thing happens in your life, to you go, God.
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  How could you allow anything less than idyllic perfection to
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  happen to me? Or do you go, God?
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  Thanks. I didn't realize how much faith
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  I was putting in my bank account before you had me have to pay
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  this giant amount out of my bank account.
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  Yeah. God, Thank you.
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  I I needed that. Or.
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  God, I I didn't realize how proud I was until that person
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  said something about me. And then I realized.
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  Oh, you know that like, oh, no, I am great.
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  I am this. How could they say something
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  about me? It showed I had pride in my
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  heart. God, thank you.
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  Your afflictions of me, they were fair, they were good, and
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  they were to bless me, not to harm me.
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  That's a really important place that we all need to get to.
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  Very rarely, especially in America, we would much rather
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  only have smooth sailing. But walking with the Lord is
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  never smooth sailing. If we are going to walk with
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  Jesus, if we're going to live godly lives, Paul tells us in
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  Second Timothy 2 that all those that will choose to live godly
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  in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
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  We're going to go through hard times.
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  We're going to experience afflictions.
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  We're going to be like Job walking with the Lord, faithful
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  that God himself says there's no one like this dude in all of the
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  earth. A complete a mature man who
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  loves me and follows me with all of his heart.
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  And Satan wanted to try and get a piece of him.
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  And the same is true for us. May we rejoice in the
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  afflictions that we have, or as James tells us, and James one,
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  my brothers and sisters, count it all joy when you fall into
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  various temptations. Knowing this, that the trying of
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  your faith produces endurance. But let endurance have it's
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  perfect, it's completing, it's maturing work so that you may be
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  perfect and complete needing nothing again.
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  That's just that's, that's something worthy to meditate on
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  for a hot minute. I'm, I'm pretty sure I'll be
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  carrying that with me for the rest of the day.
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  Verse #76 May your faithful love comfort me as you promised your
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  servant. God's love is meant to comfort
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  us. God's love isn't a scare tactic.
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  It's not. I will not love you unless it
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  is. I've loved you with an
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  everlasting love. Receive it, embrace it, and it
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  is always there for us. We can find love or we can find
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  comfort from the love of God, and it is promised to us in
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  Christ Jesus, and it's promised to the whole world.
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  John 316 For God loved the world in this way, that he gave his
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  one and only Son, so that whoever believes in Him will not
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  perish, but will have eternal life.
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  Verse 77 here, may your compassion come to me so that I
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  may live for your instruction is my delight.
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  God, I need you to care about me, to have sympathy, empathy,
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  compassion towards me. I compassion isn't a virtue for
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  some aspects of our culture anymore.
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  There's a couple people that frankly, they're, they're, I'm,
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  I'm going to say misguided because I don't know, their
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  heart could be nefarious. But I, I think it's misguided
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  that they have been writing books over the past couple of
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  years about the sin of empathy and how you can't really care
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  about other people because that's a quote UN quote liberal
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  thing to do. And that's how they get you as
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  they get you to have compassion and empathy and then they do
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  whatever they want. Jesus Christ looked out on
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  sinful, evil people and Scripture says He had compassion
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  on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd.
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  And if that was the mindset of our Savior, our mindset should
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  be no different, that we look out on the world and we have
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  compassion. We have compassion for the
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  hurting. We have compassion for the poor,
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  We have compassion for the broken and the needy because
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  they are in need of the salvation and the love and the
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  provision of God. And may we do our part to tell
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  them about Jesus. May we do our part to care for
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  them. However God blesses us to be
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  able to. And don't, don't run from
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  compassion. It's characteristic of God
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  himself. So don't listen to don't listen
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  to the people that are like empathy is a sin.
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  Don't listen to those guys over 78.
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  Let the arrogant be put to shame for slandering me with lies.
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  I will meditate on your precepts, he says.
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  God, other people, they're talking about me like let let
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  them be put to shame. Let the way that I'm living the,
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  the, the life that I'm leading, let it show that they're
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  completely in the wrong and God, I'm going to spend my time not
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  talking about them, not slandering them, not spreading
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  lies about them. I'm going to spend my time on
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  your word. Someone's talking about you.
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  Let your life be the proof that they're wrong.
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  Spend your time in the word of God.
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  As you think about God's ways and how God deals with
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  situations, let that be the truth.
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  I think about how Jesus responded in first Peter 2.
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  When Jesus was reviled, insulted, he did not insult
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  back. When he was threatened, he
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  didn't threaten them back, but instead he committed himself to
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  him who judges righteously. May that be our response when
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  people come against US. Verse 79 Let those who fear you,
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  those who know your decrees, turn to me.
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  Are you a safe haven for other Christians hear those that
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  feared so the the parallel verse earlier that we looked at was
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  those who fear you they see me and rejoice and here let those
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  who fear you may they turn to me.
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  Are you someone that can give biblical advice?
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  You don't have to have a, you know, a counseling degree in
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  order to give scriptural advice. Now, there's certainly a time in
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  place for counselors. Our, our sin has twisted our
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  world and it, it sometimes twists our minds in really
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  messed up ways that we need to kind of like re rewire the way
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  that we're thinking and re route some of those paths.
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  And certainly good, good counseling can help in that,
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  that we think rightly that we have some good categories that
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  we think in, but but not every problem goes to the level of
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  needing counseling. Many problems are people just
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  need good advice. When someone's like man, my, you
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  know, whatever relation is doing this and I just really want to
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  whatever their solution is, well, we're able to respond, OK,
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  you might need to take some steps as a result of this, but
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  operate in love, operate in the kindness and the forgiveness of
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  Jesus that you're not bearing ill will towards them, that the
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  anger and animosity and a lack of forgiveness, that that's not
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  ruling how you're interacting with the other person.
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  Instead, the way of Jesus, his precepts, his decrees, his
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  instruction, that's the way that you're living.
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  Be someone that gives Bible advice.
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  Don't just give religious advice.
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  Don't just give some pastor's advice.
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  Don't just give my advice. Give advice from the word of
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  God. And that means you've got to be
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  in it personally. But be someone like here, this
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  psalmist, let those who fear you, those who know your
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  decrees, turn to me. And then verse 80.
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  This is the heart at the end of all of it.
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  May my heart be blameless regarding your statutes so that
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  I will not be put to shame. God, I want to walk with you so
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  that I don't have to be ashamed for not being like my Savior.
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  That I can say I'm a Christian and people go, yeah, that that
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  makes sense. That's how that person lives.
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  Instead of going that hypocrite, he says he follows Jesus, but
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  look at what he says. Look at what he does.
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  Look at what he spends his money on.
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  That's nothing like Jesus. I don't want that to be the way
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  that I live my life. I want to live blameless before
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  my God. Well, thanks for tuning in this
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  this particular section in someone 119 just had so many
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  great little thoughts, and so I hope it was an encouragement to
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  you today and that there was something that you were able to
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  walk away with even for your week.
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  Thanks for tuning in. See you next episode.