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The Sickness of Sinfulness Part 2 - 9/27/26 - Meadows Baptist Church - Pastor Charlie Branch · Meadows Baptist Church Podcast

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  Welcome to [music] the podcast of
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  Meadows Baptist Church of Walnut Cove,
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  North Carolina. We're so glad [music]
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  you joined us today. If you enjoy
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  today's message, be sure to subscribe,
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  [music] follow, and share with your
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  friends. Now, let's join Pastor [music]
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  Charlie Branch with a word from God.
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  Psalm division number six tonight. if
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  you have a Bible and going to finish the
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  thought we dealt with there on Wednesday
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  evening and just felt compelled to the
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  Lord to be here uh tonight. Maybe we'll
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  be back with Abraham on Wednesday
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  evening and I've been looking forward to
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  finishing this out and we talked uh
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  Wednesday night um pretty about the I
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  guess really would be the darker side of
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  this text. I'll say this um sometimes it
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  takes the darkness to bring out the
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  light. Amen. and we really need God's
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  help in this this text tonight. So, I
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  wish you'd pray for me. When you find
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  your place, if you would stand in honor,
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  reverence to the reading of God's word.
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  Again, I do appreciate everything that's
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  been done tonight. And the sweet
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  presence of God's been on everything
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  that has been done from the first
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  congregational. Uh I've just felt the
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  Lord here. Amen. And I appreciate it
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  very very much and thank the Lord for
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  it. And I, brother Todd, I appreciate
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  that song. I mean that. That's good. I
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  bless his name for it. Psalm division
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  number six. Let's look in verse number
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  one. If you found your place, would you
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  say amen?
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Verse number one, David says, "Oh Lord,
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  rebuke me not in thine anger, neither
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  chasen me in thy hot displeasure. Have
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  mercy upon me, oh Lord, for I am weak,
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  oh Lord, heal me, for my bones are
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  vexed. My soul is also sore vexed, but
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  thou, oh Lord, how long? Return, O Lord,
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  deliver my soul. Oh, save me for thy
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  mercy's sake. For in death there's no
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  remembrance of thee. In the grave, who
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  shall give thee thanks? I am weary with
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  my groaning. All the night make I my bed
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  to swim. I water my couch with my tears.
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  Mine eyes consumed because of grief. It
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  waxeth, oh, because of all mine enemies.
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  Depart from me, all ye workers of
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  iniquity. For the Lord hath heard the
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  voice of my weeping. The Lord hath he
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  hurt my supplication. Notice this
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  phrase. I love this. Listen to what he
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  says. The Lord will receive my prayer.
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  But aren't you thankful for the times in
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  your life when you prayed and you
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  thought, "Man, there ain't no way. I'm
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  in too dark a place. I've done too much
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  wrong." But the Holy Ghost comes by and
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  says, "Child, it's going to be all
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  right."
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  >> Amen. That'll help you if you let it.
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  Amen. He said, "The Lord will receive my
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  prayer." Then David said in verse 10,
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  "Let all mine enemies be ashamed and
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  sore vexed. let them return and be
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  ashamed suddenly. Father, I ask you,
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  God, tonight please for your help as we
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  look at this text. God, I pray uh Lord
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  that you would not allow us to uh let
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  familiarity uh hinder us from receiving,
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  God, what you have for us out of these
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  scriptures tonight. And Lord, I really
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  believe this where you'd have us to be.
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  And so, God, I pray you'd speak to our
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  hearts tonight and give us wisdom. Lord,
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  I pray, you know, we ask you for your
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  help. Lord, we know, God, that we're
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  nothing without you. And God, I pray
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  you'd strengthen us, hide us behind the
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  cross, get all glory to yourself. And
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  Lord, I pray you'd remove the flesh far
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  from us. Speak to us and through us,
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  Lord, for what you do, we'll give you
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  thanks because you alone are worthy. And
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  we ask it all in Jesus name. God's
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  children said,
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  >> "Amen, you can be seated this evening."
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  I don't want to review long this
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  evening, but I know as many of you
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  wasn't here uh on Wednesday night. I
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  don't say this tonight. We look
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  Wednesday evening uh really at the first
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  two points of this text. I've got five
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  that I want to share with you tonight
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  just just for sake of review tonight. We
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  considered David's condition that he was
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  fearful because of his sin in verse
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  number one and he was frail because of
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  his sickness in verse number two. But
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  he's flustered because of silence. And
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  we talked about that silence, the fact
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  that God seemingly could not be found in
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  David's life. And I want to say this, if
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  you ever get to a place where you're
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  better off when God is silent, there's
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  something wrong. You say, "What do you
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  mean?" I want to say this. You may not
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  ever heard his voice cuz let me say
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  this. A child of God will never get to a
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  place in their life when they're okay in
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  his silence. That's right.
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  >> You need to hear his voice. I need to
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  hear his voice. Can I get an amen
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  tonight? And so we considered tonight
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  David's condition. We mentioned David's
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  cry that he cried out for the calming of
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  the Lord. He said in verse one, "Rebuke
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  me not in thine anger." And he asked for
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  a cure. In verse number two, he said,
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  "Heal me." Notice that he said, "Oh
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  Lord, heal me for my bones are vexed."
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  And then he asked for closeness. And
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  this is where we ended up on last time.
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  And I want to finish the message
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  tonight, but I want to overview the
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  chapter before I continue in this text.
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  And I want to say this tonight, it's a
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  dire strait that David is in. And when I
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  look back at this chapter, and I guess I
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  took the helicopter view of this text, I
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  noticed some things here in this chapter
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  that really caught my eye. Now, if
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  you've ever been in this place, you'll
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  know what David is feeling. We see in
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  this text, the enemy has condemned
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  David. Say, "What do you mean?" Well,
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  notice verse number seven. He says,
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  "Mine eye is consumed because of grief."
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  Look at this. It waxeth old because of
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  what? Because of all mine enemies. Now,
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  I want to tell you this. You may have
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  enemies in this life, but we know what
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  the Bible teaches about that we wrestle
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  not against what? Flesh and blood. Amen.
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  And so, your enemy is not that other
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  person. And I'll tell you, more than
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  often than not, the enemy you're facing
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  is you.
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  >> Amen. And the enemy is the devil in your
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  life. And so this enemy has condemned
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  David in this text. He says, "My my eyes
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  are waxing old because of mine enemies."
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  But we also notice not only the enemy
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  has condemned David, but there's evident
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  conviction in this text because of what
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  David said in verse number one. Oh Lord,
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  rebuke me not in thine anger, neither
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  chasten me in thy hot displeasure. And
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  so if you've ever been in that place
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  where you're being condemned by an
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  outward oppression, but you're also
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  being convicted on the inside by the
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  Lord, that's a miserable place to be.
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  >> But I want to tell you this tonight.
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  When you get in that place, God's
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  wanting to teach you something.
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  >> You say, "What do you mean?" Well, David
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  in this text, though he has been
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  condemned by the enemy, and evidently
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  because of his statement in verse one,
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  he is under conviction. I want to say
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  this. There is essential correction that
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  David is going to receive in this text.
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  And when you get in a mess in your life
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  and the enemy is condemning you and at
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  the very same time the uh the Lord is
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  convicting you, you need to realize and
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  understand, hey, I need to stop and take
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  a step back for a minute. You say, "What
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  do you mean, preacher? I'm saying you
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  need to take a step back and do some
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  inventory. God's trying to teach you
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  something."
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  >> Because if you got the enemy working
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  against you and God trying to help you,
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  he's going to take you somewhere you've
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  never been before. And I want to say
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  this, David's failure in this text has
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  brought him to a low place. But somebody
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  said it the other day, the good thing
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  about rock bottom is there's only one
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  way left to go, and that's up. Amen. And
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  David is going to find out that the
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  sickness of sinfulness in his life, the
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  title of the message, part number two
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  tonight, he's going to find out that
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  sickness does pass. And I want to say
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  this tonight, aren't you thankful that
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  the sickness, amen, of sin in our life,
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  it does pass. Amen. Sin will not be
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  dealt with forever. You may spend the
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  rest of your life dealing with
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  consequences of sin. But let me say this
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  tonight. One of these days those
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  consequences will be over. Amen. And one
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  day there will come deliverance from
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  sin. But I notice in this David is
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  desiring closeness. We see that here in
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  the text in David's cry. But I notice
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  this. Thirdly, we've considered his his
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  condition and his cry. But notice his
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  consideration in verse number five.
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  David has asked the Lord to return
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  because silence, God's absence, Spurgeon
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  says, was the main cause of his misery.
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  And there's nothing more miserable than
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  God being silent. And so God here in the
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  text, he says in verse four, "Return, O
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  Lord." He's asking the Lord to be
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  present in his life once again. And
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  notice what David considers in verse 5.
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  He says, "For in death there is no
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  remembrance of thee." You say, "What do
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  you mean?" Well, David's thinking about
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  what's shortly going to come to him
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  because he's afraid he's going to die.
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  He's afraid his sin through his sickness
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  is going to be the summary of his life.
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  And you know what? There's been a lot of
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  people, amen, that their sin brought
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  them a sickness. And you know what
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  happened to them? Their life was over
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  because of it.
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  >> You say, "Preacher, I I don't understand
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  what you're saying." Well, I'll just
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  illustrate it for you again. There's
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  been a lot of days that drunks have got
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  behind the wheel of an automobile and
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  because of their drunken stuper state,
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  they end up taking their own life. And
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  sadly, many times the lives of others
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  because of the sickness of their sin
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  brought them their summary. And you know
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  what they WERE REMEMBERED FOR? THEY WERE
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  REMEMBERED for the sickness that was on
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  them for the rest of their life. I'm
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  saying it's a serious matter. Your sin
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  is.
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  >> Amen. You say, "Preacher, well, I'm not
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  sick because of it." Well, here's what
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  you find. and you hang around long
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  enough in it, you'll be that way.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> Amen. And so David here in this text, he
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  is saying, "Death is near." But notice
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  what he says about death. For in death,
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  there's no remembrance of these. So what
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  does he said? Number one, David's
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  consideration is that in death there's
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  no thoughts.
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  Not only this, there's no thoughts of
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  God. You say, "What do you mean?" Well,
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  the physical consciousness, what David
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  is expressing, you got to understand
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  something. I know that there's a
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  hereafter. I know Luke 16 is there but
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  what David is expressing is that when
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  this body dies this body cannot
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  physically think anymore
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  >> do you realize you get one chance to
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  live life in this body
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  >> right
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  >> and in death the Bible says God he says
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  under the inspiration of the spirit of
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  God there's no remembrance of thee you
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  know what that word remembrance means it
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  means commemoration it means David says
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  I cannot honor you if I die
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  says I'll have no chance to rever you
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  for what you truly deserve if you take
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  my life. He is pleading for the mercy of
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  God. But he not only considers the fact
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  that there will be no thoughts, there
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  will be no remembrance and death. But
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  notice what he says in verse 5. He says
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  also in the grave, who shall give thee
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  things. David is saying, not only is
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  there no thoughts in the grave, I don't
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  I won't have a mental capacity to to
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  think about you, but I also will not be
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  able to voice my things. You say,
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  preacher, what do you mean? Well, the
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  Bible tells us in Hebrews that we are by
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  him, that is Christ. We are to offer the
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  sacrifice of thanksgiving to him
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  continually. And what did he say that
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  was? That is the fruit of our lips,
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  giving thanks unto his name. You know
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  what you'll do tonight? If you walk out
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  there in that graveyard and you stand
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  there long enough, you know what you're
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  going to hear? Silence.
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  >> Nothing. Those those those bodies, those
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  lips, Spurgeon said it this way. He
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  said, "Those lips in that grave," he
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  said, "they're dumb." And there is deaf
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  silence there. The lips that are in the
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  grave cannot speak. The ears that are in
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  the grave cannot hear. The body that's
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  in the grave cannot be obedient. David
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  is asking for another chance to get this
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  THING RIGHT. AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE
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  you're at tonight. I believe this. God
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  sent this message for a reason. I don't
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  know how close you are to it. But the
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  truth is, you don't know how close you
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  are to it.
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  >> WHAT CHANCE? WHAT OPPORTUNITY YOU HAVE?
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  I WISH SOMEBODY COULD HEAR ME PREACH
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  TONIGHT. DAVID is considering. WHY?
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  BECAUSE HIS SIN HAS BECOME SO GRIEVIOUS
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  TO HIM. He thinks that it's just that
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  near. He thinks that this might be the
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  last chance.
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  David is considering here the afterlife.
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  I notice not only David's consideration,
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  I notice David's complaint. I'm going to
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  be done quick tonight, but that's all
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  right. David's consideration in verse 5.
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  Notice David's complain in verse six. He
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  says, "I'm weary with my groaning all
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  the night. Make I my bed to swim." In
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  other words, number one, David's
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  complaint is that he's sick of sighing.
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  That word groan there literally means to
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  sigh. It literally almost translates to
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  the same word in the Greek in the New
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  Testament when Jesus went to Lazarus's
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  grave. You remember what they were? They
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  were talking to him, "Lord, if you'd
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  been here, you know, four days ago, my
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  brother had not died." And the Bible
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  says that Jesus groaned in his spirit.
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  It's the same implication. He sighed.
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  You know what David's saying? I'm sick
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  of this. I'm sick of every day of my
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  life, every moment of sighing and
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  sorrow. Some of you are living there.
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  I'm I'm not naive to that. We live
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  there. Okay, I'll tell you this. As a
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  pastor, I've found many days that I'm in
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  that place. I'm sick of sighing. Why is
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  that? It's because sin.
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  >> Let me ask you, when's the last time
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  your sin greed you so much that you got
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  sick of sighing over it? When's the last
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  time your children sin and your family
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  sin, your friends sin, those around you
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  just sin in GENERAL MADE YOU SO SICK YOU
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  WERE SIGHING CONSTANTLY AND YOU BECAME
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  sick of even groaning over it. Man, I
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  wish that this could pass for me. David
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  is at this point. He's sick of sighing.
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  In verse six, I am weary with my
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  groaning. Not only is he sick of sigh,
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  but he's swimming in sorrow. Verse six,
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  all the night make my bed to swim. David
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  said, "My tears have filled up my bed
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  till it's no longer a place to sleep,
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  but it's a place to swim."
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  And the sad thing is tonight, there's
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  some of you that's living there right
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  now.
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  This the service has been great tonight.
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  It's been encouraging. It's going to get
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  that way here in just a minute, but I
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  you've got to come to grips for where
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  you're at.
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  You've cried more tears than you can
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  count
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  over that situation. I don't know who
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  this is for tonight. It's just what God
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  put on my heart. You've cried more tears
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  than you can count. You've prayed more
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  prayers than you can number. You do not
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  know what to do. And here's what you
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  come back to at the end of it all. You
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  feel like it's your own fault.
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  And David in this text, he was at fault.
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  But let me say this. You in your heart
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  know whether or not this situation is
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  something you caused.
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  Here's what you got to decide how you're
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  going to go forward from this.
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  >> Because you know what? Regardless of
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  whether it was your fault or wasn't, you
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  have a choice going forward how you're
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  going to handle it. That's right.
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  >> Whether you are in a situation that you
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  made, let's put it this way in terms
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  that we understand. Whether you're in a
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  storm that you produced or a storm
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  that's the effects of somebody else's
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  sin, you have one option. That's either
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  to stand still or to go forward.
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  >> And look what happens in this text.
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  David is pouring out his heart. He is
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  sick. The tears he has shed. He's sick
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  of sighing. He's swimming in sorrows.
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  Notice what he said in verse 7. My eye
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  is consumed because of grief. His very
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  sight is is ruined because of the night
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  sleepless and the night soaking in
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  tears. You know what it is when you've
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  wept and wept and wept? You know what
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  your eyes do? They dry up and they turn
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  red and your sight becomes blurry. David
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  says, "I'VE WEPT SO MUCH I CANNOT EVEN
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  WEEP ANYMORE UNTIL THE POINT THAT I
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  CAN'T EVEN see physically."
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  I've never been there before, but I can
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  tell you this. I know that grief in this
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  life gets heavy. And I want you to
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  listen to what David says. It waxeth old
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  because of my enemies. You see, David is
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  brokenhearted. But I'm thankful that's
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  not where this ends. You see, verse
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  number eight, the psalm takes a shift.
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  You say, "Why is that?" Well, notice
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  everything that David is saying. This is
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  what I love about David. David's honest,
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  isn't he? All this stuff he's saying,
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  man, we could look at that and be like,
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  man, David's being a little bit of a
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  crybaby. I mean, couldn't we say that,
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  man? David, David, you're really getting
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  in a low place. You're acting real
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  pitiful. And my wife's laughing at me
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  cuz she tells me this all the time.
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  You're acting real pitiful, David.
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  David, why don't you just get up and go
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  on? But I'm thankful God's never looked
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  at nobody and said that.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> You know what, God? You don't see a
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  response in this text, but you do see an
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  answer by David.
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  >> David's pouring his heart out to God.
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  Let me say this. If you pour out your
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  heart to God and you tell him the truth,
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  it ain't matter, it don't matter what
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  you say.
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  Are you listening to me? God knows what
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  you're going to say anyway. He knows how
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  you feel on the inside. And all he's
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  asking you to do is bring it to him.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> Notice what happens. David has brought
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  his complaint. David has pointed out in
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  this text. HE HAS CRIED OUT TO GOD. HE
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  HAS CONSIDERED WHAT WOULD BE AFTER DEBT.
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  He has his complaint IS ALL THE PAIN AND
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  AGONY HE FEELS PRESENTLY. BUT IN VERSE
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  number eight, David's mindset shifts.
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  Look what he says. Depart from me all ye
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  workers of iniquity. Listen to this. For
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  the Lord hath heard the voice of my
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  weeping. I want to give you this and I'm
• 16:47
  done tonight on this thought. The
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  sickness of sinfulness. You see David's
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  confidence in this text. You say, "What
• 16:54
  is David's confidence?" Well, I would
• 16:55
  say his confidence number one is in the
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  listening ear of the father. Look what
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  the Bible says. Verse eight. For the
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  Lord hath heard. Amen. Aren't you
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  thankful now? David said it this way in
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  Psalm 66:18. He said, "If I regard
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  iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not
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  hear me." Now, we quote that verse all
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  the time. All right? We believe that,
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  don't we? If we got sin in our life,
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  God's not going to hear our prayer. But
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  you know what he says in verse 19? You I
• 17:22
  I bet nobody in here knows that verse.
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  Somebody tell me, what's verse 19 say?
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  Verse 19 says, David says this, "But
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  we read that verse all the time and we
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  think, man, that's so negative." Amen.
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  If I regard iniquity, man, if I got sin
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  in my life, God's not going to listen.
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  But David says in verse 19, somebody
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  turn there and look at it. He says, but
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  verily God hath heard me.
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  He hath attended unto the voice of my
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  prayer. And then he says in verse 20,
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  BUT THANKS BE UNTO GOD, he who have not
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  turned away his mercy. He's not turned
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  away my prayer, nor his mercy FROM ME.
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  I'M SAYING DAVID IN A TIME OF SIN, he
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  recognized that if he could confess IN
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  THE SPLIT SECOND THAT THAT CONFESSION
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  COMES OFF HIS LIPS IMMEDIATELY IN A
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  MOMENT, HIS CONFIDENCE COULD BE
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  RESTORED. WHY IS THAT? BECAUSE HIS
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  CONFIDENCE IS NOT IN HIMSELF. HIS
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  CONFIDENCE IS NOT IN HIS SITUATION. HE'S
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  NOT SEEING A WAY OUT. HE'S NOT SEEING
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  VICTORY ON THE HORIZON, BUT HE IS SEEING
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  THE LORD.
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  >> HALLELUJAH. AMEN. AND WHAT YOU'LL FIND
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  IS IS YOU MAY NOT SEE AN EXIT ROUND. YOU
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  MAY NOT SEE A PLACE TO GET OFF THE
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  TRAIN. I'M SAYING, FRIEND, BUT YOU CAN
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  LOOK ABOVE ALL OF THAT. YOU CAN LOOK
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  BEYOND ALL OF THAT AND SEE THE GOD WHO
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  NEVER CHANGES. SEE THE GOD WHO LOVES
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  YOU. AND THE FACT THAT HE PROMISED YOU,
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  I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU.
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  HE LIVES ON THE INSIDE. AND HE IS ALWAYS
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  THERE. [screaming]
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  OH, MY CONFIDENCE IS NOT IN MYSELF. MY
• 18:50
  CONFIDENCE IS NOT IN THIS CHURCH. IT'S
• 18:52
  NOT IN ANYBODY. BUT MY CONFIDENCE IS IN
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  HIM TONIGHT. AMEN. He has heard my
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  prayer. Thank God.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> He has heard my prayer. He's confident
• 19:02
  in the listening ear of God. He's
• 19:04
  confident in the loving heart of God.
• 19:06
  Look what he says. For the Lord hath
• 19:08
  heard the voice of my weeping. Verse 9.
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  The Lord hath heard my supplication.
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  He has heard my strong crying. I see
• 19:17
  this in this text. You see, David points
• 19:19
  out the sound of his tears. Look at
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  this. For the Lord hath heard the voice
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  of my weeping. Now, you know what that
• 19:25
  word weeping means? Don't miss this. Are
• 19:27
  you with me tonight? Say, "Amen."
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  >> You know what that word weeping means?
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  It means dripping.
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  David says, "He's heard the voice of my
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  weeping." You know what he's talking
• 19:38
  about? He's talking about the sound of
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  those tears.
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  >> God sees the tears that shed on this
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  altar.
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  >> God sees the tears. You see, David said,
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  "My bed's I'm swimming in it." The tears
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  have become so great that it ain't a
• 19:56
  place to sleep, but it's a place to
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  swim. But you know what David says? He
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  hears the voice.
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  Every one of those tears is telling God
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  >> where he's at.
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  >> I want to say this.
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  There's people that have written songs
• 20:12
  about this and I really don't think they
• 20:14
  understand to the full extent of all
• 20:16
  that it means that God bottles up the
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  tears we cry. I understand that. But I
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  want you to realize something. Every one
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  of those tears, God knows what every one
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  of them's for.
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  He knows what every one of them's about.
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  David says he's heard the voice of my
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  weeping, but then he says, not only he
• 20:34
  hears the sound of his tears, but he
• 20:35
  hears his sorrowful plea. The Lord hath
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  heard my supplication. That supplication
• 20:40
  is a deep groaning within, a weeping, a
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  pleading, an urgent request of God for
• 20:46
  his mercy. What has David cried for in
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  this text? He said in verse number two,
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  "Have mercy upon me, Lord, for I'm weak,
• 20:54
  for my bones are vexed. My soul is also
• 20:56
  sore vexed, but thou, Lord, how long?
• 20:58
  Return, oh Lord." David is pleading for
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  something he does not deserve. Because
• 21:02
  the truth is, God should have never
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  graced him with his presence. God should
• 21:06
  have never called him out of the sheep
• 21:07
  coat and made him a king. God should
• 21:09
  have never done any of that for David.
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  And now David on the backside of that's
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  looking back and saying, "God, you've
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  did all of this for me. And I'm just
• 21:15
  asking one more time that you would have
• 21:17
  mercy on me. God, I've failed you. I've
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  messed up. And Lord, I'm pleading. I'm
• 21:21
  throwing myself upon your mercy and
• 21:23
  asking that you would cleanse me of my
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  sin because I know that you know the
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  sound of my tears. And I know that you
• 21:29
  know my sorrowful plea. But I love this
• 21:31
  part in verse 9. The Lord hath heard my
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  supplication. But I love this. The Lord
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  will receive my prayer.
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  David does not say in this text that the
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  Lord has received my prayer. Notice
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  that. But David knows this.
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  David knows that his prayer is being
• 21:51
  sent up and he knows that God will. You
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  say, "What does that mean, preacher?"
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  Well,
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  David is saying that his life basically,
• 21:59
  and I want to try to get this out like
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  it's in my heart and mind. David is
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  saying that his life, this is a
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  continual request that he's making unto
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  God. This prayer is being made over and
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  over and over again. And you know what?
• 22:13
  There's some of you been praying for
• 22:14
  things for 20, 30, 40, some of you even
• 22:17
  50 years. You've been praying for
• 22:19
  something and you say, "What does that
• 22:21
  mean, preacher?" Well, I'm saying David
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  says, "The Lord will receive my prayer."
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  He says, "God has heard it." But when he
• 22:27
  says, "The Lord will receive it." He's
• 22:29
  saying that one of these days, God's
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  going to take it.
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  >> You know what that means? He's going to
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  take it and do with it what he will.
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  >> You realize them prayers you've been
• 22:39
  praying for, God's heard.
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  If they none of the rest of this helps
• 22:44
  you tonight, this should help you. God's
• 22:46
  heard him. He's aware. Maybe he's maybe
• 22:50
  it's just not time for him to
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  >> take hold of you. Say, "What is that,
• 22:54
  preacher?" Well, he's the sovereign one.
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  Ain't that right? What does that mean?
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  He's in control.
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  >> And so, when he so chooses, oh, I love
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  this. When he so chooses, Brother Shane,
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  you know what he's going to do? He's
• 23:05
  going to take hold of that thing that
• 23:06
  you've took your hands off of and placed
• 23:08
  it at his feet every day of your life.
• 23:10
  He's going to pick that thing up. Says,
• 23:12
  "I think it's time for that to be
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  fixed."
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  >> Amen.
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  >> And you know what? For some of you in
• 23:16
  here tonight, he may just be He may just
• 23:18
  be leaving that thing laying there on
• 23:20
  the altar just so you'll keep coming to
• 23:21
  him.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> He may just be leaving it there just so
• 23:26
  you'll continue to wait on him. He said,
• 23:28
  "Wait on the Lord." He said, "They that
• 23:29
  wait UPON THE LORD SHALL RENEW THEIR
• 23:31
  STRENGTH." He said, "They shall mount up
• 23:33
  with wings AS EAGLES." I'M SAYING,
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  FRIEND, IF YOU JUST KEEP COMING TO HIM,
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  ONE OF THESE DAYS, HE'S LISTENING. HE
• 23:39
  HEARS IT ALL. IT MAY NOT SEEM LIKE HE'S
• 23:41
  PICKED IT UP YET, BUT LET ME SAY THIS,
• 23:44
  FRIEND. ONE OF THESE DAYS, OH, BLESS HIS
• 23:46
  NAME, HE WILL PICK IT UP AND TAKE IT
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  UNDER HIMSELF. AND WHAT YOU COULD NOT
• 23:50
  FIX FOR ALL THOSE YEARS OF YOUR PRAYERS,
• 23:53
  GOD, IN A MOMENT OF TIME, HE'LL FIX IT.
• 23:55
  AMEN. THAT WAS WHERE DAVID'S CONFIDENCE
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  IS IN. IN THE CHARACTER OF A GOD THAT
• 24:00
  DOES NOT CHANGE IN A CHARACTER OF A GOD
• 24:04
  WHO CARES ABOUT THE SMALLEST OF PROBLEMS
• 24:06
  in our life. Amen.
• 24:08
  >> His confidence was that God one day in
• 24:11
  his life would receive his prayer. He
• 24:14
  would take hold of it.
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  >> Don't be weary and welloing cuz I'll
• 24:18
  tell you something. Those seeds of
• 24:19
  prayer that you planted one of these
• 24:21
  days will grow up as plants of praise.
• 24:23
  He has an answer for your problem. But
• 24:25
  maybe he's just taking his time. You've
• 24:28
  got to trust the process. And David
• 24:30
  says, "The Lord hath heard my
• 24:32
  supplication." And the Lord will. You
• 24:35
  may not h you may not be able to see the
• 24:37
  answer, but you can have confidence in
• 24:39
  the answer given God. Amen.
• 24:42
  >> Don't you rejoice in that?
• 24:44
  >> You may not see the answer, but I'm
• 24:46
  telling you, friend, you can have
• 24:47
  confidence that he knows the answer.
• 24:50
  >> And you know what? You say, "Preacher,
• 24:53
  what man, I'm telling you, I I've got to
• 24:56
  spend some time last couple weeks,
• 24:59
  Brother Steve." And uh I love him so
• 25:02
  much. I love Brother Steve. her such a
• 25:04
  blessing, him and Vicki. And he was
• 25:06
  telling me about his mom. And I was
• 25:07
  thinking about her when I studied this
• 25:08
  sermon. Some of y'all don't even know
• 25:10
  them. Miss Modina probably prayed for
• 25:12
  him for 30 years, 40 years. And you know
• 25:16
  what? She died never seeing it take
• 25:17
  place. She died never seen him step foot
• 25:20
  in this church. But you know what? She
• 25:22
  went to heaven and it was literally the
• 25:23
  act of her going to heaven that brought
• 25:25
  him and his wife in this place. And her
• 25:27
  prayer was answered. She never even saw
• 25:29
  it.
• 25:30
  >> I'm saying you say, "Preacher, what are
• 25:32
  you pointing out?" I'm saying David knew
• 25:34
  that God would receive his prayer. He
• 25:36
  would answer it in his time, in his way,
• 25:38
  and on his terms.
• 25:40
  >> She believed that
• 25:42
  >> the only way you may ever see your
• 25:43
  prayer answered is if you take it that
• 25:45
  way.
• 25:46
  >> I'm saying David was confident. He was
• 25:49
  confident in the looking eye of God. He
• 25:52
  was confident in the loving heart of
• 25:54
  God. I want to say this. He was
• 25:56
  confident in the listening ear and the
• 25:58
  loving heart, but he was confident in
• 25:59
  the looking eye of God. Notice verse
• 26:03
  nine, the Lord will receive my prayer.
• 26:06
  And then he says in verse 10, you see
• 26:08
  the same term that he uses, the Lord
• 26:10
  will receive my prayer. Is that
• 26:12
  prophetic implication? He's looking out
• 26:14
  in the future that the Lord is going to
• 26:16
  take hold of this. He says this in verse
• 26:19
  10, "Let my enemies be ashamed and sore
• 26:23
  vexed. let them return and be ashamed
• 26:27
  suddenly. You know what? David had a lot
• 26:29
  of people that were condemning him for
• 26:32
  his actions. And we talked about this on
• 26:34
  Wednesday night that it was evidently
• 26:36
  some of David's sin with Ba Sheba on
• 26:38
  through that period there when he
• 26:40
  sinned. He sent Amnan. He he messed up
• 26:42
  with Amnan, messed up with Abselum,
• 26:44
  messed up over and over and over again
• 26:45
  through those chapters. And you know
• 26:47
  what? The enemies of God were
• 26:48
  blaspheming because of what David had
• 26:51
  done. And David had the condemnation of
• 26:54
  his own people against him. Joab was a
• 26:56
  thorn in his side. And I and there's a
• 26:57
  lot of things that we could talk about
• 26:58
  about this. But you know what David is
• 27:01
  saying? David in this text, he's saying,
• 27:03
  "Lord, I'm trusting that you're going to
• 27:04
  take hold of this." He said, "You're
• 27:06
  going to take hold of my problem." He
• 27:08
  said, "But you're also going to take
• 27:09
  hold of those that's pushing on me."
• 27:11
  >> Amen.
• 27:11
  >> I want to say this.
• 27:14
  The enemy that you are facing right now
• 27:16
  in your life may be there for your
• 27:18
  growth.
• 27:19
  Yes.
• 27:20
  >> God may not be dealing with that problem
• 27:22
  in the way that you think he ought to
• 27:24
  be.
• 27:25
  >> Yes.
• 27:25
  >> Because it's the only thing that's
• 27:27
  keeping you close to him.
• 27:28
  >> Amen.
• 27:29
  >> Now, I was thinking about this. You
• 27:32
  know, we we we pray for answers. We pray
• 27:34
  that God would would give us, you know,
• 27:36
  an answer or strength to just wait for
• 27:38
  his answer. I'll say this. Many times
• 27:40
  around that situation, there's a bigger
• 27:42
  circumstance, isn't there? there there's
• 27:45
  there's more people involved and there's
• 27:47
  more pressure involved more than just
• 27:48
  the one thing you're praying for. But
• 27:50
  you know what? Sometimes it's that
• 27:52
  pressure on the outside that keeps your
• 27:54
  focus on that prayer that God's wanting
• 27:55
  you to keep praying.
• 27:57
  >> And what you need to understand is is
• 27:59
  that one of these days God's going to
• 28:00
  fix the problem. He's going to fix what
• 28:02
  you're praying about. But he's also
• 28:04
  going to deal with the enemy
• 28:06
  >> on the outside. You say, "Preacher, I
• 28:08
  don't understand that." Well, if you've
• 28:10
  ever been there, you do.
• 28:12
  Because that pressure on the outside,
• 28:14
  what it'll do is it'll drive you insane.
• 28:16
  The problem's bad enough, but then you
• 28:19
  got those people on the outside that's
• 28:20
  poking at you.
• 28:24
  [sighs]
• 28:25
  >> So many instances I could think of, one
• 28:27
  comes to my mind. You say, "Preacher,
• 28:28
  illustrate that." You remember Jacob had
• 28:30
  two wives, Rachel and Leah. Remember
• 28:34
  Leah was praying for a child and uh
• 28:38
  Bible says that Rachel constantly she
• 28:41
  was Leah Lee would have children and and
• 28:43
  it was a constant struggle. Rachel was
• 28:45
  constantly burdened because Leah would
• 28:48
  have a child, Rachel would have none.
• 28:49
  Leah would have another child, Rachel
• 28:51
  would have none. There was a constant
• 28:52
  fight there. You remember Hannah in the
• 28:55
  book of 1 Samuel, the Bible says, it
• 28:57
  literally describes her this way in the
• 28:59
  same manner. It says literally in the
• 29:01
  text that her adversary, that was her
• 29:03
  husband, Elcana's other wife, provoked
• 29:05
  her sore. The problem was she couldn't
• 29:08
  have a child. But you know what? His
• 29:09
  other wife made it worse. Some of you
• 29:12
  got a problem. The problem's bad enough,
• 29:15
  but you got the enemy on the outside,
• 29:17
  and what he's doing is he's just
• 29:20
  steady every day pushing on you. You
• 29:23
  know what you need to do? The same way
• 29:25
  you've turned that problem over to the
• 29:27
  Lord, you need to turn that punishment
• 29:28
  over. and say, "God, I'm going to commit
• 29:31
  this to you
• 29:32
  >> because Lord, I sure can't fix the
• 29:34
  problem. And Lord, if I put my hands on
• 29:36
  that punishment, it might make the
• 29:37
  problem worse."
• 29:39
  >> Look what David says in the text. David
• 29:42
  does not say, "I'm going to take my
• 29:44
  enemies out." Now, what do we know about
• 29:46
  David? David was a man of war, wasn't
• 29:48
  he?
• 29:49
  >> David could have took them out. David
• 29:51
  had three mighty men that kill anybody
• 29:52
  he wanted to at any point in time. But
• 29:55
  you know what? Sometimes when you do
• 29:56
  that, you just make problems worse.
• 29:58
  Amen.
• 29:59
  >> And so, you know what David does? He
• 30:01
  does the only thing that he can do is
• 30:03
  the one that his confidence is in for
• 30:05
  that problem, he's going to give them
• 30:06
  people around him to him, too. That's
• 30:08
  right.
• 30:09
  >> Some of you need to do that very same
• 30:10
  thing.
• 30:12
  Say, "What do you mean?" Well, I could
• 30:16
  illustrate this tonight, but I'm not
• 30:17
  going to do that. There's some people
• 30:21
  I know that have got a very big problem.
• 30:24
  Their their home, different things got
• 30:26
  big problems. But here's what they get
• 30:28
  upset about. Not about the problem, but
• 30:32
  about the people around the problem. And
• 30:35
  you know what they do? They end up
• 30:36
  breaking off relationships
• 30:38
  all around them
• 30:40
  because
• 30:42
  they've forgotten to pray about the
• 30:44
  problem
• 30:45
  >> because they too worried about fighting
• 30:47
  with the people.
• 30:49
  Here's what here's what you need to
• 30:50
  remember. What you need to realize,
• 30:51
  okay? Until you turn it all over, David
• 30:55
  said this. You remember what he said? He
• 30:56
  said, "God will receive." Notice that
• 30:59
  he's going to take hold of it. But
• 31:01
  sometimes it's going to take a while.
• 31:04
  And so, you know what he does? He
• 31:07
  doesn't speak to his enemies, but he
• 31:08
  speaks before God and he says, "Let all
• 31:10
  my enemies be ashamed. Lord, when you
• 31:12
  get ready, would you deal with them?"
• 31:15
  >> That's what you need to do.
• 31:17
  >> You need to turn it over to him.
• 31:19
  >> You will not have victory. You say,
• 31:20
  "Preacher, what is it?" Well, it's the
• 31:22
  sickness of sinfulness that brought
• 31:23
  these enemies into his life. You realize
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  that? Yeah,
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  >> it's your sinfulness that makes you
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  think you have an enemy.
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  >> The only enemy we have is the devil.
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  >> David should not have had any enemies at
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  this point in time in his life because
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  he had won all the battles. But you know
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  what? He won all he defeated the
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  Philistines, defeated all the armies, he
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  was king, man. Everything was glorious.
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  And what does he do? He sends with Ba
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  Sheba. And then they just begins a
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  domino effect. David should have had no
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  enemy. Should have had no enemies that
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  even bothered him. But because of his
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  sin, that sickness came in and he had to
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  wait on God to deal with it. The man of
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  war could not fight this battle. Every
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  head bowed and every eye closed tonight.
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  Many of you got help on this truth
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  tonight that I've told you about your
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  problem.
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  But could it be that God's not dealing
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  with your problem
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  because
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  of those punishers around that problem
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  that you're angry at?
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  that you're fighting with, that you're
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  trying to grab by the neck and deal with
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  yourself.
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  Maybe it's time for you to let those
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  people
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  around the problem.
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  Maybe it's time for you to turn them
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  over to God just like you've turned the
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  problem over. I hear people all the
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  time, "Preacher, I'm just giving it to
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  God. Would you help me pray about it?"
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  But you but you see the bitterness.
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  You see the struggle in their eyes, in
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  their heart because the the situation
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  surrounding the big problem, they are so
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  focused on that
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  when really we just need to be praying
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  about the issue in the middle.
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  I'm going to say this tonight and I'll
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  be done.
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  Sin is truly a sickness.
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  And the best thing you and I can do
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  tonight is be honest before God about
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  where we're at. David is honest. You
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  say, "Preacher, I I don't see the enemy
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  in this text." Well, I want to remind
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  you of what he said. I think it's
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  important we see this.
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  David says his tears in this text. Look
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  what he says. Psalm number six. He says
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  his tears in this text. He said, "My
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  eyes consume because of grief. It waxeth
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  old because of all mine enemies."
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  His eyes are dried up from crying
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  not because of his problem,
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  but because of the people around his
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  problem. You see, David started this
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  psalm because of his sin. But you know
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  what? Part of the way through this
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  psalm, it revealed where his heart
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  really was.
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  He was struggling because of the people
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  around him.
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  But I tell you where it changed for
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  David is when he got his eyes off the
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  people and when he got his eyes off the
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  problem and he got his heart in a focus
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  of prayer and look toward the only
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  person that could do anything about any
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  of it. And he said this.
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  He said he hears the voice of my tears.
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  He hear he's heard every tear you've
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  cried.
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  Listen to me child of God. He has heard
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  every tear. He knows where all of them
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  landed. He knows why they come out of
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  your eyes. He knows the sleepless
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  nights. He knows the sorrow. And he's
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  heard your supplication. He's heard your
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  heavy heart. You can trust that. But let
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  me remind you tonight. David said he
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  will receive my prayer.
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  It could be you turning it over to him
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  tonight. Not just the problem, but the
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  enemy as well that gets God to really
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  take hold of your problem.
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  Father, I pray in Jesus name. The altars
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  are open tonight. Many have come more
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  than others need to come.
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  Lord, I realize this is where we're
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  living at.
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  And God, I'm thankful that Lord, from
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  what I see in our church, we have great
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  people, godly people, and Lord, the sin,
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  the sickness of sinfulness in their life
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  they're experiencing is because of other
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  people's failures.
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  And Lord, I realize God that that's
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  painful
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  because Lord, we feel like we've been
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  treated unfairly. God, we feel like we
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  deserve better. We feel like that we
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  could have been done differently.
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  But God, the truth is still the same,
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  Lord, until we get past the problem and
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  get past the people around that problem,
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  Lord, and make our prayer unto thee,
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  Lord, and only thee, and turn it over to
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  your will, God. You may never produce
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  the answer in our life.
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  But Lord, I know this. David was
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  confident,
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  Lord, that you are a prayer answering
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  God. And Lord, if there's anything we
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  know tonight, God, that's that you've
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  heard us.
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  Lord, I pray that each heart that comes
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  to this altar, Lord, would have the
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  divine confidence tonight that David
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  possessed,
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  God, that you have heard them. and Lord
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  that they can trust God that though Lord
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  you've heard them maybe tonight not
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  won't be the night God that you take it
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  maybe maybe it's going to be a while
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  Lord some of them's waited years God we
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  ask Lord humbly from our heart God that
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  you would you would you would speedy it
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  father we we pray you'd speed it up Lord
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  I I know there's many burdens God but
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  I'm I'm thinking Lord of some hearts
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  tonight that's heavy because of lost
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  loved ones and it seems as though they
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  lived their whole life in rejection of
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  the gospel And now they're getting close
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  to death's door.
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  And Lord, they're not turning to you.
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  LORD, WE ASK GOD, WHY?
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  LORD, we know that you'll never force
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  your will on anyone.
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  But God, we pray from our heart,
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  Lord, with a burden, Lord, that you
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  would take hold of them. [crying]
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  God, if it's hanging them out over hell,
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  God, whatever it takes, Lord, I pray,
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  God, you'd reach into their heart. Lord,
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  we know many that have broken homes and
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  families, GOD, THAT ARE DESIRING an
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  answer, but Lord, it seems as though
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  THERE IS NONE. GOD, I PRAY THAT YOU
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  WOULD HELP US ALL, LORD, TO FIND
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  CONFIDENCE and peace KNOWING THAT YOU'RE
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  LISTENING, THAT YOU love us, that you're
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  LOOKING GET WHAT'S BEST FOR US, BUT GOD,
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  we know that you may not handle it in
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  our time.
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  God, we may have to leave this world
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  before we ever see some prayers
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  answered.
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  God, I pray that you would help us to
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  trust, Lord, not just to trust the
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  process,
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  but God, to trust your presence,
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  Lord, as the songwriter said, when we
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  cannot trace your hand,
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  we can trust your heart.
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  And Lord, I pray you'd help us to do
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  just that. [music]
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  God, I pray for those that's been here
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  that's lost. God, it breaks my heart as
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  a pastor to see them enter this building
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  and walk out the same way. Lord, the
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  devil sold them a lie, a false bill of
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  goods,
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  told them that they're all right.
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  Told them that
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  they're okay. They don't need what that
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  preacher's offering. They don't need
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  that gospel.
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  Lord, I pray, Father, Lord, that you
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  would please open their eyes.
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  God, you told us in your word, the
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  Apostle Paul said, "If our gospel be
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  hid, it's hid to them that are lost."
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  God, in whom the God of this world hath
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  blinded the minds of them that believe
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  not, lest the light of the glorious
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  gospel of Christ should shine unto them.
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  Lord, I pray, Father, you would help us,
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  Lord, not to quit shining the light in
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  these days. I pray for every prayer
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  request that was made on this altar for
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  every burden. I pray, God, there was
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  help received tonight. Lord, I thank you
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  for the time together and we ask all of
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  this in Jesus name. And God's children
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  say it.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Thank you for joining [music] our
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  service today. We'd love it if you join
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  us in person the next time you are
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  [music] able at Meadows Baptist Church.
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  Our physical address is 2988
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  Stewart [music] Road in Walnut Cove,
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  North Carolina. Our service times are
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  Sunday school at 10:00 a.m., Sunday
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  morning worship at [music] 11:00 a.m.,
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  Sunday evening worship at 6:00 p.m., and
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  Wednesday evening Bible study at 700
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  p.m. [music]
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  For more information, visit us at
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  meadowsbaptisturch.com.
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  Thanks again for [music] tuning in.