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Psalm 143 - Unrighteous and Depressed Servants of God · 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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  Hello and welcome back to Tabernacle Talk.
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  Today we are in Psalm 143. We're actually in our last full
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  week of Book 5 of Psalms and I am so excited, man.
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  It just feels like it's been so long that we've been in Psalms
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  and that's both like literally it's been maybe four or five
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  months now because we started in Book 5 of Psalms, I think in
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  September or October right after we finished Ephesians.
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  And so it's been literally a long time there.
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  But then going through the other four books of Psalms, man, we've
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  been doing that since I believe March of 2024.
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  And so now about two years later, we are wrapping up all of
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  Psalms and certainly many other books as well in the meantime.
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  But I am just so excited to be diving into the passage for
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  today and looking forward to hopefully how the Lord will use
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  a Tabernacle talk even going forward.
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  And looking forward to a couple of things that we have even next
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  week as we conclude Book 5 of Psalms, things that I'm really
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  looking forward to. But let's read beginning in
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  verse #1 of Psalm 143. The inscription for this Psalm
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  reads a Psalm of David. He says, Yahweh, hear my prayer.
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  In your faithfulness listen to my plea, and in your
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  righteousness answer me. Do not bring your servant into
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  judgement, for no one alive is righteous in your sight.
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  For the enemy has pursued me, crushing me to the ground,
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  making me live in darkness like those long dead.
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  My spirit is weak within me. My heart is overcome with
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  dismay. I remember the days of old.
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  I meditate on all you have done. I reflect on the work of your
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  hands. I spread out my hands to you.
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  I am like parched land before you, sailor.
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  Answer me quickly, Yahweh, my spirit fails.
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  Don't hide your face from me or I will be like those going down
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  to the pit. Let me experience Your faithful
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  love in the morning, for I trust in You.
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  Reveal to me the way I should go, because I appeal to You.
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  Rescue me from my enemies. Yahweh, I come to You for
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  protection. Teach me to do Your will, for
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  You are my God. May Your gracious Spirit lead me
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  on level ground for Your name's sake.
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  Yahweh, let me live in Your righteousness, deliver me from
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  trouble, and in your faithful love, destroy my enemies, wipe
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  out all those who attack me, for I am your servant, while this is
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  another one of those psalms of David where he's going.
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  God, I am in big trouble and I am in desperate need of your
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  assistance, and I don't know what your day is like today.
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  But as I've mentioned before, whether you have physical human
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  enemies like here David did, or whether you don't have human
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  enemies right now, all of us have our spiritual enemy, Satan
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  and his demons. And so as we walk through this
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  passage, I think there's some things that we can be encouraged
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  about even for our spiritual battleground and about our
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  relationship with God, about prayers and unanswered prayers
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  and times of great loneliness and soul tension.
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  All of that we can see from this passage today.
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  Let's begin looking at verses 1 and 2.
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  He says Yahweh, hear my prayer. In your faithfulness, listen to
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  my plea and in your righteousness, answer me here.
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  David's asking for God to. It's not just like listen to his
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  prayer. We realize that God always in
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  one sense hears our prayers, but he's wanting God to act as a
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  result of what he hears in the prayer of David.
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  And again, I've mentioned this to you guys before.
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  This feels so affronting to me unless I think about it like my
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  kids asking me something where when my kids go, dad, like pay
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  attention, dad, listen to me. I no longer think of it like
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  someone going up to a great king or ruler or politician and
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  insisting that they do something for the one that's asking.
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  When you think about it that way, you can go, man, David
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  seems like he's being kind of rude to God.
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  But when we recognize that God is our heavenly Father, He is
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  the one who cares most about us. He's the one that loves us.
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  He's the one that seeks not just our worship, but he seeks a
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  relationship of love and care with us.
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  Man. We can be encouraged, as we
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  heard in Hebrews chapter 4, to come boldly to the throne of
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  grace so that we may find grace to help in time of need.
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  So David says, God, I want you to hear, to listen, to act on
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  this prayer that I'm bringing to you.
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  And he gives 2 reasons why God should listen to him.
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  He says, God, because of your faithfulness, because of the
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  fact that you are consistent in what you do.
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  You are the same yesterday and today and forever.
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  And I'm thankful that that's the kind of God that we serve.
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  And so here David says, God, because you're consistent, be
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  consistent here in rescuing me because I'm in danger.
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  God, you've rescued me before. Would you rescue me again?
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  And the longer that I live, the more and more I'm able to even
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  draw not just on the histories and testimonies of other people
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  and how they've seen God work in their lives.
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  I've been able to go, God, I remember when you were here for
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  me in college. And God, I remember when you
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  intervened in Washington in a big way.
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  And God, I remember two years ago when you did this at
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  Tabernacle, and God, last year when you did this.
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  And so God, for the thing that I'm facing today, would you be
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  faithful and consistent in your interactions with me?
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  So David says, because of your faithfulness, listen to my plea,
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  he says. And in your righteousness answer
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  me, God, because you do what is right all day, every day,
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  because you never choose to do what is wrong, because you
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  choose to live in a right relationship with your created
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  beings. Now, we don't always see things
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  the way that God does. So if you're like, man, this
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  thing happened in my life and I don't really see how God could
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  be right in dealing with me that way.
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  My friend, look at the book of Job.
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  At some point we're going to be going through that together.
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  I actually, I'll throw this in. If you're listening, you can
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  accept this. My wife has been going through
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  the book of Job with a gal that she's discipling and the
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  insights, the the joys that are there are just so incredible.
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  And I would actually love to have Samantha on the podcast
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  with me. I'd have to figure out a few
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  things, Mike wise to see if I could make it work.
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  But if I can make it work, I think it would be a tremendous
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  joy to go through the Book of Job with her.
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  I just think it'd be a blast. Anyways, so look at the book of
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  Job. God does what is right by His
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  creation, by His people. And so David says, God, because
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  you will do what is right. I'm asking that you would do
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  what is right in protecting and saving me in this environment.
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  And then he gives in verse #2A very, very interesting verse.
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  He says do not bring your servant into judgment for no one
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  alive is righteous in your sight.
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  He says, God, I understand that I am imperfect and so it very
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  well could be that this hardship that I'm going through is as a
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  result of my sin. So you can think many times in
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  David's life where this would apply.
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  He could be praying this as his men want to kill him as a result
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  of their wives and children being kidnapped and taken away
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  from the city of Ziklag by the Amalekites when David was like,
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  oh, yeah, we'll go out and we'll do some missions for this
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  Philistine king. And really, like, we're we're
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  acting on behalf of Israel. We're not acting on behalf of
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  the city, the Philistine city of Gaffe.
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  But he doesn't know about that because we're telling him, Oh,
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  yeah, you know, everything went great and we did this and that.
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  And so there's just a lot of, like, lies and decedent stuff
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  that are going on. And it ends up David and the men
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  are going to go with the Philistines to attack King Saul
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  and his army. But the rest of the Philistine
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  kings tell Akish, King of Gath, they're like, no, there is no
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  way. We are letting David, the guy
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  that they used to sing Saul has killed his thousands, but David,
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  his 10s of thousands, they said, we're not letting him go into
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  battle with us because how in the world could he more endear
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  himself to Saul than going into battle with us and then turning
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  against us and we all get destroyed.
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  And Akash is like, oh, but I love David.
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  He's so great. All right, fine, David, you go
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  back with the guys. They they won't let, they won't
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  let me include you in our army. So David and his men go back to
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  their kind of home base of Ziklag.
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  And when they get there, it's been burned to the ground.
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  All their wives and kids are gone.
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  And so then the men are like, oh, come on, David.
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  Like, what in the world did you do?
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  We're going to kill you. And so, David, there could be
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  praying like, oh, Lord, you see everything that's going on.
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  You know that. Like, I've made some mistakes.
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  I've seen in some ways, but God don't, don't bring me into
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  judgment, like don't condemn and punish me in this moment because
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  God, no one's righteous, like no one deserves the goodness of God
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  based on their perfect rule keeping and their perfect
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  morality. He says none of us have that.
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  He says so God don't bring me into judgment.
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  Could be, you know, as he's on the run from his son Absalom,
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  who was trying to take over the Kingdom.
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  And the whole reason that Absalom wanted to do that was
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  because of David's neglect of executing justice on his son
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  that had raped a daughter of David, who was the sister of
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  Absalom. So it could be that that he goes
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  like God, you know, the ways that I failed don't treat me
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  according to what my morality and what my choices in life have
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  earned me says because God, no one is right enough.
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  No one is as opposed to the God who is righteous.
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  He says, God, there is no one alive who is righteous in your
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  sight. And of course, the New Testament
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  authors pick up on this thread that David writes many times and
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  Paul would echo the same exact thought where he says all have
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  sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, which is why Jesus
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  came. So this can be a prayer that we
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  pray as well. God, I understand that I've done
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  some things. I said some things maybe within
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  my family, within my job, within my friend group.
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  And it very well could be that I am experiencing some of the
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  consequences of my actions right now.
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  God, don't bring me into judgment.
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  God, forgive me for my Sid, but I'm asking for you to work in a
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  supernatural way. I'm asking for you to heal this
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  relationship that is broken. God, I'm asking for financial
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  provision in this moment, even though like I might be in this
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  financial mess because of bad choices I've made.
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  But God, because you are faithful, because you are good
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  to me, would you not punish me, but instead would you have mercy
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  on me? And hear this is what David is
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  praying, he says in verses 3 and 4.
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  For the enemy has pursued me, crushing me to the ground,
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  making me live in darkness like those long dead.
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  And so he says God like I just feel thrushed.
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  I feel like no one really cares or knows that I am alive.
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  I feel totally alone and forgotten, like I'm as good as
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  dead right now. Verse four, he says my spirit is
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  weak within me. The word for spirit in Hebrew is
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  ruach in the New Testament in Greek, it's pneuma.
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  In both cases. It's like your breath.
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  It's my life breath. It's my very essence of my
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  animated spirit and existence in life.
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  So you can think about drawing your final breath where you is
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  like your spirit, your life is gone out of you.
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  It's the immaterial part of you. And he says my spirit is weak
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  within me. I'm just totally at the mercy of
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  those that are seeking to harm me.
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  I don't have strength right now, he says.
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  My heart is overcome with dismay that the seat of my mind and
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  will and emotions is just like depressed and sad.
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  And you might be saying, well, I don't have people like coming
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  after me right now like David did literal physical enemies.
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  But I've been there too. I felt just weak, downtrodden,
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  depressed in in spirit and an attitude and I I've been there.
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  Well, I'm thankful that God gives us this language in
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  Scripture so that when we experience those kinds of
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  things, we can pray the prayers that David did.
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  And we know God brought David out of all of his troubles and
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  saved him despite his wickedness and despite his evil, that God
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  had a merciful love for him. And God's not going to treat
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  David in that way and then go to you and go, no, I forgave David,
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  I had mercy for David, I love David, but really, you've done
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  too much wrong. And so I'm not going to treat
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  you that way. No, God is faithful.
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  He's righteous. And so the way that he treated
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  David is the way that he will treat you.
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  Now, that doesn't mean you're going to be king over all
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  Israel. It doesn't mean the literal
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  physical Messiah is going to come from your lineage.
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  He won't do everything for you that he did for David.
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  But the way that He will treat you is the way that he treated
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  David versus 5 and 6. I remember the days of old.
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  I meditate on all you have done. I reflect on the work of your
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  hands. That's what we do.
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  Every time that we look at Tabernacle talk, every time we
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  open Scripture, we remember what God has done.
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  We think about it over and over and over again and we go, man,
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  God, you are good, you are powerful, you work miracles and
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  wonders, you save, you forgive, you do all of these good things.
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  And so that influences the way that I think about my situation
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  right now, because the God who worked back then is the same God
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  now. He is not a lesser God.
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  He has not become less powerful over time.
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  No, I can trust that this God that I read about in Psalm 143,
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  I can trust that the God I read about who on the cross said,
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  Father, forgive them. I can read about this God that
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  parted the Red Sea, this God that was there encouraging and
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  helping Elijah when he was despairing to death.
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  That God is the same God that I worship today.
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  And so I can remember, I can meditate, I can reflect here the
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  remembering. This is calling back to mind
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  that sometimes we forget to think about God.
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  But he says I remember the days of old and what God, Dad, he
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  says, I meditate on all you have done.
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  It's I'm thinking about it over and over and over and over
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  again. I'm not just choosing that for,
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  you know, 1520 minutes in the morning.
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  I'm thinking about God. But all throughout the rest of
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  the day, I'm thinking about what I read or what I listen to or
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  what I, you know, journaled or whatever about what God has
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  done. I meditate on it.
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  I think about it over and over and over again.
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  And then he says, I reflect on the work of your hands.
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  I'm going to choose to not just have the stories or the passages
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  in the Bible be something that's like, great, you know, that
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  happened 3000 years ago. Wonderful.
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  No, instead I'm going to say this has an impact on the way
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  that I live my life. I might not be going through
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  everything that David was going through, but I felt some of
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  these emotions. I have some of these same
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  recognitions of my imperfection in the sight of a holy God, of
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  consequences for my actions and a desire for mercy from God.
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  I just love that little trifecta there.
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  I remember, I meditate, I reflect.
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  Verse 6, he says. I spread out my hands to you.
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  You know, I've got my toddlers right now, technically as the
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  toddler bees, just a small kid at this point.
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  And as they spread out their hands to me to pick them up
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  every single time, I think there will come a day when I can no
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  longer, either due to their weight or my lack of muscle.
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  There's going to come a day when I can no longer pick up my kids
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  or all have picked them up for the very last time.
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  And I'm so glad that my God isn't like that.
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  There's never going to come a day where he goes.
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  No, I, I reject you, Brian, I will not comfort you.
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  I will not bring you joy. I will not work wonders or work
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  miracles out of these situations that you're agonizing over and
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  praying over that when I spread my hands out to God, he is
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  always able to work and maybe he'll change the situation,
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  maybe he'll change me, but he's going to do something and I'm so
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  thankful for that. He says, I spread out my hands
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  to you. I'm like parched land before
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  you. He goes, God, I'm a desert and I
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  maybe not even a desert and he goes, God, I am land that needs
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  to bring out like fruit in my life.
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  You can think agricultural setting here.
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  You need the rains to come so that then you can plant the
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  seeds so that the seeds get watered so that the plants come
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  up that they don't, you know, wither and die.
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  You need the water and David says God, I need you like this
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  land needs water. And we need to recognize that
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  that we don't just need God in small instances.
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  You would have to have the water at every single moment of the
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  process. When he says I'm like parched
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  land before you got, I need you so that the word of God can take
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  root in my heart. I need you so that the word of
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  God that has come into my heart because the ground was soft
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  enough to receive it. It wasn't Stony ground or thorny
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  ground. God, I need that same water of
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  the Spirit to bring forth its character, the character of God
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  within my life. And then God, I need you to keep
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  on cultivating that so that it grows more and more and more.
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  You have kind of the Psalm one, It's like a tree planted by the
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  rivers of water that brings forth its fruit and its season.
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  God, I want to not just have a tree of faith in my life, but I
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  want that tree to have repercussions for all of those
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  around me. Whether it's that I am bringing
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  other people into faith with Christ, whether it's I'm
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  discipling other people in their walk with the Lord.
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  But God, I need you because you are the water, you are the rain
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  that I need for every single moment and instance of my life.
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  I love. I love that word picture there,
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  verses 7 through 10. Answer me quickly, Yahweh, my
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  spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me or
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  I will be like those going down to the pit that is the grave.
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  He says, let me experience your faithful love in the morning
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  fright just in you like God, get me through the night.
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  And I don't know about you guys. I've been there at points in my
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  life where I'm like, all right, God, you know, maybe it's 11:00
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  at night or maybe it's 3:00 in the morning and I'm just going,
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  God, would you just get me to the morning that I would be able
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  to experience your consistent, loyal, covenant, steadfast,
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  faithful love. God, just get me to the morning
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  and he says for I trust in you that I believe you will come
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  through for me time and time and time again and you can pray.
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  God just get me to tomorrow morning and he will and he's
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  faithful says reveal to me the way I should go because I appeal
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  to you when you don't know what you should do, when you don't
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  know what you should say, look to God and don't just go our
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  God. I want to know what your will is
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  for this situation. I want to know what the right
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  thing to do is and then just be like waiting and expecting, you
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  know, an audible something in your ear.
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  No turn to the Word because God will show you through the
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  interactions, through the mindsets, through the principles
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  of the Word of God. The Holy Spirit will use the
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  Word of God to make the child of God more like the Son of God.
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  When you need answers, rely on the Holy Spirit and then use
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  what the Holy Spirit has already given you in His Word so that
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  you can know what His will is. Verse 9 says rescue me from my
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  enemies. Yahweh, I come to you for
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  protection. If you have been suffering
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  through temptations and trials, turn to the Lord and ask for His
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  rescue. That just as Satan wanted to
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  destroy Job, just as Satan wanted to use Peter to derail
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  Christ from the direction that he needed to go.
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  Even as we would read and see the First or Second Chronicles,
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  I assume First Chronicles that David or sorry that Satan
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  tempted David to number the people, something that was
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  forbidden from the Law of Moses because they weren't supposed to
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  rely on their numbers, they were supposed to rely on their God.
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  That Satan wants to destroy you in your life.
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  And we see from the gospels over and over and over again what
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  defeats the devil. Well it is the word of God and
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  by that I mean specifically the Son of God.
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  But then all of those that follow in Jesus pattern and
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  utilize scripture that utilize the word of God, that comes from
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  the word of God, if you will, by the Bible scripture that comes
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  from Jesus who is himself the Incarnate Lagos, the word that
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  we are able to defeat Satan through reliance on God and his
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  word. And so you can ask the Lord for
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  rescue from your temptations and your trials.
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  He is the one that can protect you.
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  Verse 10 teach me to do your will for you are my God.
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  Notice he doesn't say help me to do my will, He says teach me to
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  do your will. What you want to do in your life
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  is not necessarily what God wants you to do with your life.
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  Ask the Lord not to help you be successful at everything you
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  want to do. Ask God to help you be
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  successful in everything that He wants you to do.
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  I think of Joshua 1/8. This book of the law shall not
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  depart out of your mouth, but you will meditate on it day and
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  night, for then you will make your way prosperous, and then
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  you will have good success. Then verses 11 and 12 as He
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  ends, for your name's sake, Yahweh, let me live in your
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  righteousness, deliver me from trouble, and in your faithful
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  love, destroy my enemies, wipe out all those who attacked me,
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  for I am your servant. He says, God, you know I just
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  want to follow you. Would you rescue me from these
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  people literally and trying to kill me?
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  Hopefully you don't have anyone looking to kill you today.
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  But I am thankful that the one who is the enemy of our souls,
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  Satan, that old dragon, the serpent from Genesis 3, he is
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  the one that will be forever destroyed from the presence of
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  the Father. And what a joy that that is.
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  If you want some encouragement today, read Revelation 20.
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  Read about Satan and his end result.
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  And then don't listen to him today.
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  Don't listen to his temptations. Don't fall away from the Lord in
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  your trials, instead rely on the Lord and know what the end
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  result is for the one that brings those difficulties into
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  your life. God does not tempt or or try any
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  man with evil. That's what we read in James
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  one, but instead Satan is this one that wants to destroy us.
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  He is walking around like a roaring lion, seeking who he may
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  devour, but his end is death and destruction.
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  And I'm looking forward to that day when sin is no more and when
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  I am forever reconciled with my Savior.
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  What a great God that we serve and man from this Psalm.
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  What an encouragement to rely on God's Spirit and to have a
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  genuine confidence and reliance on the Word of God to shape how
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  I think about my life and how I pursue God's will in my everyday
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  life as I go to Him in prayer and ask for Him to use what I
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  have read to help guide me through the day.
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  Thanks for tuning in today. Hope you have a great one man.
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  It was a longer episode today, but thank you for tuning in.
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  See you next episode.