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What did God promise Israel? # 7: In Psalm · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: There having a gracious God. As you're coming from the
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  Speaker 1: Elder presents, we thank you for who you are and
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  Speaker 1: who you continue to be in each of our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Well give us for each and never known sin, did words, thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: or deeds, and we thank you for what Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: did it across the calgarry for me. As we enter
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  Speaker 1: the word, we ask you a lot of your holy
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  Speaker 1: spirit to take the message, make it real, continue to
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  Speaker 1: make it real for each of our lives and Jesus'.
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  Speaker 2: Name, we ask you and thank you all man, welcome
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  Speaker 2: back to Challenging the pay radio program and Garry McCann's
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  Speaker 2: thank you for joining in and so o good time
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  Speaker 2: about Israel's confidence in God and most important that God's
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  Speaker 2: promised us to.
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  Speaker 1: Them and their prayers for deliverance. Remember how we saw
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  Speaker 1: in Psalm one, chapter one as relates to walking and
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  Speaker 1: said and standing, and how that it gave us an
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  Speaker 1: idea of a happy person and how that happy person is,
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  Speaker 1: and that that person in Psalm chapter one, that they
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  Speaker 1: don't walk with the worldly, and they don't stand with
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  Speaker 1: those who are openly practicing sin in their lives, and
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  Speaker 1: they don't sit with individuals We have no use for God.
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  Speaker 1: And if you leave you out that you're gonna be miserable.
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  Speaker 1: And the question you got asked and answer in your
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  Speaker 1: own individual life, those of you who don't know Him
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  Speaker 1: will die for you. Are you miserable? And as we
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  Speaker 1: were looking at Psalm one, do you notice how it
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  Speaker 1: characterized a person who delights in God's work? And the
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  Speaker 1: question you got to ask and answer the believer of
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  Speaker 1: the House of the Faith in your own life? Can
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  Speaker 1: you really say you love God's word? Can you really
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  Speaker 1: say and for real mosen and true? Because only you
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  Speaker 1: really know when it comes time to studying and reading
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  Speaker 1: and applying the Word of God, tell your life that
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  Speaker 1: you can't wait to study it. You can't wait while
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  Speaker 1: I'm studying to see how it applies to your life
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  Speaker 1: and who you are and who God is? And have bed?
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  Speaker 1: Can you really say that? Can you really say that
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  Speaker 1: you know what it means to the light? And if
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  Speaker 1: you hesitate, think about it? Why are you hesitating? What
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  Speaker 1: do you love about studying God's word? What insight have
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  Speaker 1: you got about yourself and who God is? While studying
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  Speaker 1: is work? And when you're meditating and you can hear
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  Speaker 1: me say anything about transcendental or yoda, because the Word
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  Speaker 1: of God never tell believer to empty their minds. But
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  Speaker 1: when we meditate, we go over and over and over
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  Speaker 1: what we remember what James chapter one, verse twenty four says,
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  Speaker 1: you know how to speak of an individual who looks
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  Speaker 1: at his face or her face in the mirror that
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  Speaker 1: goes away and forget what they look like. And when
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  Speaker 1: we meditate on the Word of God, it shows us
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  Speaker 1: through God, who we really are, especially when we meditate
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  Speaker 1: on this word, because we're letting God shape our lives.
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  Speaker 1: We're asking Him to, through the Holy Spirit of God,
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  Speaker 1: to make everything real through and for our lives. And
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  Speaker 1: this is time we grow in spiritual maturation. Think about it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so you've gone to your place of worship, irrespect of
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  Speaker 1: where you're having to be at, and you just walking
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  Speaker 1: around doing everything, everything, everything. You're busy as a beef.
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  Speaker 1: But are you growing? Are you growing just because you're
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  Speaker 1: doing all these good things? You'll grow by meditating on
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  Speaker 1: God's word. Think about it, ponder it, unt those it
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  Speaker 1: comes a part of your life. And that's the practice
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  Speaker 1: of that happy man or woman. A happy woman or
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  Speaker 1: man I said in Christ. And then we looked at
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  Speaker 1: some too. Do you notice when we were looking at
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  Speaker 1: it hot you know how the question was posed? Why
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  Speaker 1: do the nation's rage? Do you notice when you're looking
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  Speaker 1: around globally what's been going on? Where's all this going?
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  Speaker 1: The question you've got to ask and answer, what hope
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  Speaker 1: do you have in Christ? What has he promised about
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  Speaker 1: this evil and rebellion in the world that's forgotten him?
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  Speaker 1: Think about the individuals you're surrounding yourself with. Do you
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  Speaker 1: ever hear them talking about Jesus Christ? Ponder the positive
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  Speaker 1: and negative exact ample was that we've seen in Psalm
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  Speaker 1: one and Psalm two, because you notice it describes what
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  Speaker 1: it means to be blessed. Do you notice that? And
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  Speaker 1: you hear me say anything about money materialism? Because in
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  Speaker 1: Psalm one, remember now we focused on the blessed person
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  Speaker 1: and Psalm two with somehow almighty God brings an ind
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  Speaker 1: to rebellious men and women, women and men by Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ's second coming to the earth. And you know you're
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  Speaker 1: waiting for him where you're not you're sure you're not
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  Speaker 1: the rapture. And when we looked at Psalm two, do
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  Speaker 1: you notice how it was the first Messianic psalm. And
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  Speaker 1: the next time you see that, it's in Psalmn eight,
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  Speaker 1: which models Jesus Christ all some other victory as a man.
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  Speaker 1: And in between these two psalms, Chapter three, verse seven,
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  Speaker 1: do you notice how it forms a bridge or stairaway
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  Speaker 1: connected the two psalms that describe the Messiah. Do you
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  Speaker 1: notice that? And when you put these five psalms, you
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  Speaker 1: know it's how they linked these two Messianic psalms together.
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  Speaker 1: You see how we read about Israel's trials, the sorrows
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  Speaker 1: are confusing their promise and their sins, but we also
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  Speaker 1: see Israel's confidence in God. And it leads to today
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  Speaker 1: how God's promises to them and their prayers asking God
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  Speaker 1: to deliver it. My brother, household of faith, when was
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  Speaker 1: the last time you looked at God's promises? Remember now,
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  Speaker 1: all scriptures not to you, but it's for you. It
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  Speaker 1: can be afflictable to your life that which applies. But
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  Speaker 1: when was the last time you ask God to deliver you?
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  Speaker 1: When was the last time? Irrespect of where you live
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  Speaker 1: at God's people know all about the trials, the challenging
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  Speaker 1: troughs in their life. But do you notice when you
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  Speaker 1: read the Psalms, how that they comfort as children I
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  Speaker 1: respect of what generation comes and go? Do you notice that?
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  Speaker 1: And why do you noticeing that? Did you begin with
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  Speaker 1: prayer when you started to read the song, especially as
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  Speaker 1: we head towards songs chapter three through seven? And do
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  Speaker 1: you notice when you looking at Psalms three, four and
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  Speaker 1: songs fire through seven? Do you not the songs? They
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  Speaker 1: were first written by David King? David do you notice
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  Speaker 1: they were written about his personal heartaches as trials and
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  Speaker 1: his life? Do you notice that? Do you notice how
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  Speaker 1: they also applied directly to Israel during a great trivilation?
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  Speaker 1: And do you notice how they encourage as God's people
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  Speaker 1: everywhere at any time in the history of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Do you notice that? And if you look at the
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  Speaker 1: songs from this point of view, guess what? Guess what
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna say? Well, I don't know, because have you
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  Speaker 1: started looking on yet? You sure?
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  Speaker 2: You?
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  Speaker 1: Sure? Now? Well, let's take him moment today he started
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  Speaker 1: looking at him for those of you who have not.
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  Speaker 1: But when you start looking at him, do you notice
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  Speaker 1: how they're gonna be real for your life? How you
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  Speaker 1: can take it and apply that which is applicable to
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  Speaker 1: your life? And when you go into song three, I
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  Speaker 1: know you're there. Do you notice it's about when David
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  Speaker 1: had to run from his son Abs. Do you notice that?
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  Speaker 1: Do you notice how his heart has been broken? Because
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  Speaker 1: the question got asked and answer is why was he
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  Speaker 1: running from his own song? Think about it, his own son.
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  Speaker 1: He's sharing what's coming out of his personal experience. And
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  Speaker 1: you can read the totality in the second sent fifteen verse,
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  Speaker 1: chapter fifteen through eighteen. Here you got apps David's son
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  Speaker 1: trying to usurp his father's throne and wanted to kill him.
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  Speaker 1: Think about that his son wanted to kill him. Here
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  Speaker 1: you got David becoming an outcast and running like a
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  Speaker 1: fugitive from his own city, Jerusalem, which remember that was
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  Speaker 1: called the City of David. And here he's driven from
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  Speaker 1: the people that he loved and that he had leadership over.
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  Speaker 1: You can't deny that your heart doesn't go out to
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  Speaker 1: David during this challenging trial, this heartbreaking experience. And those
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  Speaker 1: of you who are loving parents, you know who you are,
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  Speaker 1: you know what you've been and who you've been. Can
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  Speaker 1: you identified it? Think about how challenging is is. David
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  Speaker 1: has been warned that something like this was coming. Remember
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  Speaker 1: years before, David had sinned against God. Remember when Nathan
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  Speaker 1: the Prophet confronted him about it. Remember he told David, behold,
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  Speaker 1: I would raise up adversity against you from your own house.
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  Speaker 1: And you can see that in the Second Champion, chapter twelve,
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  Speaker 1: verse eleven. David was forgiving of his sin, but noticed
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  Speaker 1: he would endure consequences in his own family. And so
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  Speaker 1: when Abson raised his rebellious hurting, and that's what it
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  Speaker 1: was in that hand against his father, David reaped those
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  Speaker 1: challenging trials, those challenging, heartbreaking consequences. Think about it. David's
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  Speaker 1: enemies also increased on all sides. You know, it must
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  Speaker 1: have felt like a bitter portrayal for the portrayal for
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  Speaker 1: the soldiers of Visible to follow Abslo and think about that.
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  Speaker 1: Here you got a Abslon. I'm sure that he was
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  Speaker 1: a nice looking, overt young man and a slick politician
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  Speaker 1: who promised people many good things. You know him, you
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  Speaker 1: see him today. Politicians all they they nicely dressed, overtly
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  Speaker 1: looked nice, they talk nice, They promise everything under the sun,
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  Speaker 1: but they never delivered. Like have some. But you notice
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  Speaker 1: it looks like no help was coming for David from anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: And so when you look at song three, you notice
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  Speaker 1: how it traces his steps as he passed over the
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  Speaker 1: Kidren Valley on his way out of Jerusalem. Think about
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  Speaker 1: a barefooted and probably weeping into the sackcloth and ashes.
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  Speaker 1: You know David was grieving. You know, it felt like
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  Speaker 1: God had forsaken him. Do you feel like that in
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  Speaker 1: your own life? Of brother than how I sort of faith?
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  Speaker 1: But you also know God did not forsake David. We
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  Speaker 1: know God was with David then, like you know God
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  Speaker 1: is in your own life. David had that small and
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  Speaker 1: quiet word, so love remember and you can see that
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  Speaker 1: didn't sound probably more than seventy times. But the question
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  Speaker 1: is what does it mean? What does it mean even
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  Speaker 1: in your own life? Well, if you know anything about musicians,
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  Speaker 1: and I know you do because you know some of them,
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  Speaker 1: but they can tell you because you gotta remember now,
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  Speaker 1: all the Psalms is once set to music, think about it,
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  Speaker 1: songboy choir, Think about that Salah was a signal to
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  Speaker 1: the musical conductor to rest. Pause. That comes to means stop,
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  Speaker 1: look and listen. And so when we come to the
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  Speaker 1: Word of God, do you notice we should be doing
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  Speaker 1: the same thing as a enter the word. You've had prayer.
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  Speaker 1: I know you have. You've asked God, don't all I
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  Speaker 1: will hold the spirit of God to make us work
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  Speaker 1: real to and for your life. And now you've entered
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  Speaker 1: the word, you stop your look and you listen. And
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  Speaker 1: when you look at Psalm three, as we're looking at it,
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  Speaker 1: the morning palm you just started today, are think about
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  Speaker 1: those challenging days for David that maybe your own life,
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  Speaker 1: but in respect of my challenging has been David still
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  Speaker 1: put his trust in the Lord. David still pilled his
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  Speaker 1: head on the promises of God and went to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: Cause David could say in the morning, maybe that's how
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  Speaker 1: you can say, I know I can I woke up
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  Speaker 1: because the Lord sustained me. I didn't wake up because
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  Speaker 1: you sustain me, Ir, respect of who you happen to be,
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  Speaker 1: who I respect of who you think you are. David
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  Speaker 1: made it clear, and I'm making it clear. How about
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  Speaker 1: in your own life. David made it clear in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: I woke up because the Lord sustained me. And when
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  Speaker 1: the fellas if the whole world was against him, guess
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  Speaker 1: what David determined that he would trust the Lord and
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  Speaker 1: not be afraid. And the question you got to ask
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  Speaker 1: an answer in your own life, believer of house of faith,
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  Speaker 1: as you begin to enter twenty twenty five, if the
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  Speaker 1: Lord says so, not your doctor, not your working girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend and boyfriend, that's your husband, your wife, your wife,
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  Speaker 1: your husband, not your parents, not your your siblings, not
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  Speaker 1: your children, not your relatives, not your friends, not your
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  Speaker 1: so called friends, not your enemy, iry respect who comes
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  Speaker 1: to your heart and mind. David made it clear that
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  Speaker 1: he would fear of God and then not feared anyone else.
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  Speaker 1: Even made it clear that even if there's ten thousand
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  Speaker 1: against me, I'm not afraid of them. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: why cause David knew that salvation belonged to the Lord?
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  Speaker 1: Or by my household of faith? Do you know the
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  Speaker 1: salvation belongs to the Lord? Have you sold just sold
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  Speaker 1: to somebody for a dollar, for a title or temporary
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  Speaker 1: power for materialism only you can answer that question. But
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  Speaker 1: David made it clear salvation belonged to the Lord. Your
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  Speaker 1: blessings upon your people's love, and you can see that
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  Speaker 1: in the Psalm chapter three verse say. Notice that David
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  Speaker 1: declared the Lord as the author of salvation. It was
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  Speaker 1: a gift from him. I've been to the household of faith.
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  Speaker 1: Do you recognize that even in your own life where
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  Speaker 1: salvation came from? You know what else David has to
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  Speaker 1: say about God in Psalm iie, the Lord is a
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  Speaker 1: hill for me. Thinking about it as a warrior, David
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  Speaker 1: knew something about how a hill guards and protect. He
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  Speaker 1: knew he needed one. He knew he knew he d
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  Speaker 1: needed God's cover of his own. The question in your
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  Speaker 1: own life do you recognize you need God's cover for
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  Speaker 1: your life? But David also made it clear that the
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  Speaker 1: Lord is my glory and the question you gonna ask
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  Speaker 1: and answer even in your own life, do you know
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  Speaker 1: if the Lord is your glory for your own life?
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  Speaker 1: You see how David describes God's presence over him like
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  Speaker 1: a cloud of glory covering on Israel in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: Remember how when they were in the wilderness, how God
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  Speaker 1: protected them. Thinking about walking around forty years in the
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  Speaker 1: same place. But every respective of how they were walking,
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  Speaker 1: do you know this, how it was the visible sign
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  Speaker 1: that God was with his people. And today today, today
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  Speaker 1: my brother and my house of the faith, you and
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  Speaker 1: I walk by faith and we believe the glory of
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  Speaker 1: God is with us, because He's gonna make himself real
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  Speaker 1: to those who are his own. And the question you
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  Speaker 1: gotta ask, in your own life, not in anybody else's life,
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  Speaker 1: do you belong to him? And if you belong to him,
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  Speaker 1: then you know, like David, that the Lord is the
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  Speaker 1: uplifter of my head, like David may clear in Psalm
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  Speaker 1: chapter three, verse three. And the question is how did
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  Speaker 1: David say?
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  Speaker 2: This?
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  Speaker 1: Is because because because God promised to build David a
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  Speaker 1: house and bless him and give him glory, not only
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  Speaker 1: in the kingdom. And even though he's down today, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's where you are today, down today, But do
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  Speaker 1: you know what David believed? The Lord would lift up
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  Speaker 1: his head?
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  Speaker 3: And guess what, He'll do the same for you as
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  Speaker 3: he's done for me the next time, the next time,
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  Speaker 3: the next time, we're gonna look at Psalm four, but
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna look at that conflict between the seas of
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  Speaker 3: the woman and the serpent. But in the meantime, I
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  Speaker 3: know you're reading Psalm chapter three. I know you're meditating
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  Speaker 3: on it. I know your pondered, not transferred, inn not transcendent,
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  Speaker 3: not envying your mind, but allowing God's work
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  Speaker 1: To become real too, and for your life