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920. Bible Study: Psalm 6 (David's Prayer: deep sadness because of those opposing him) · Faith by annm2705

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  Psalm 6 from the book of Psalms. Dear Lord, please open our eyes
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  to what you want us to learn from reading these or what you
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  want us to experience and know about the relationship with you.
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  We ask this in Jesus name Amen. So this Psalm it says from for
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  the director of music with stringed instruments according
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  to Shemaneth, a Psalm of David and it this Shemaneth shaman
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  myth, it says it's probably a musical term.
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  So that's what the headline underneath Psalm 6 says.
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  So here's what David says. Lord, do not rebuke me in your
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  anger or discipline me in your wrath.
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  Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am faint.
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  Heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony, my soul is in deep
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  anguish. How long, Lord?
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  How long? Turn, Lord, and deliver me.
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  Save me because of your unfailing love among the dead.
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  No one proclaims your name who praises you from the grave.
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  I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed
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  with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
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  My eyes grow weak with sorrow. They fail because of all my foes
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  away from me, all you who do evil.
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  For the Lord has heard my weeping.
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  The Lord has heard my cry. The Lord accepts my prayer.
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  All my enemies will be overwhelmed with shame and
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  anguish. They will turn back and suddenly
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  beep to shame. Now that ends Psalm 6.
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  So this will probably not be very long.
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  But going back to the first section of this Psalm, it's
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  David is asking God to be gentle with him because everything else
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  that's going on in his life and, and he's recognizing that there
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  are things that he does wrong. But in the midst of everything
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  else that's happening and what's bringing him tears, which he
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  doesn't say what it is, but he's saying just Lord, have mercy on
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  me. Do not rebuke me, discipline me,
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  have mercy and then heal me. And he says, I am faint like he
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  is so weak. He, he just needs and he needs
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  encouragement right now. He needs support.
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  He's not in a place of being rebuked or disciplined for
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  things that he's done. And then he's asking the Lord to
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  deliver him and to save him because of his love.
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  So again, David realized that it's not what he was able to do
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  to accomplish anything, but it's because of God's love, which is
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  true for all of us, that it's God's love that ultimately saved
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  saves us. If we think about it, there is
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  no greater love than to lay one's life down for another.
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  And that's exactly what Jesus did for us on that cross.
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  So that's the greatest love of all, was that he himself gave
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  his life for us so that we could inherit the Kingdom as his
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  brothers and sisters. So while David, I don't know how
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  much David knew or if it was revealed to him, but he
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  certainly had insight, prophetic insight with some of these
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  psalms, as we learn with David, with David's words that were
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  repeated by Jesus when he was on the cross.
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  My, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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  And, and other things that David wrote about in the Psalms that
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  we'll get to where he talks about, you know, them dividing
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  up his clothes and not a brown bone was broken on the cross,
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  but the jeering mockers that were at his feet and, and all
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  the different descriptions that David said that really
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  ultimately reflected Jesus. So there was some probably
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  supernatural connection through the spirit that was maybe
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  revealing these things, and that's how they were written
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  down so that future generations like us get to read those things
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  and learn from them. But I have Oh, and then when he
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  says among the dead, no one proclaims your name, who praises
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  you from the grave. I read the study Bible's
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  question and answer, but I had a different like when I was
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  reading through it. That's why I like to wait to
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  read the questions and answers to read it first and then, you
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  know, think about it and then maybe look at the questions and
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  answers because and it's not that one is right or the other
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  is wrong. Neither one of those, but it's
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  just that I guess from our perspectives and what we've
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  learned, we may have a God may speak to us in a different way.
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  So reading this, it says among the dead, no one proclaims your
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  name who praises you from the grave.
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  The study Bible thought of it one way and I thought of it a
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  different way. So I'll read you what the study
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  Bible says about that. It says didn't David believe in
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  life after death? David believed in life after
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  death. We see that in Psalm 23 verses
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  one through 6, but he seemed somewhat uncertain about
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  specifics. As was common among people in
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  Old Testament times, the Psalms primarily emphasize reward and
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  punishment in this life rather than in the next.
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  So that's the study Bibles answer.
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  But when I read this among the dead, no one proclaims your name
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  who praises you from the grave. My thoughts went to you know, if
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  some among the dead, the dead are the ones like there's
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  there's life and there's death. And if someone is dead, they are
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  dead to Christ. They are only dead because they
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  don't have the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit within them.
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  And if they are dead, they will not be proclaiming your name
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  like anyone who goes to hell. It's because of a choice, like
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  it's because of a rejection of God is ultimately what it is
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  because God did this for all nations.
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  And so the only ones who are going to be eternally separated
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  for God from God are the ones who rejected Jesus or just
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  wanted to stay in their rebellion and never, you know,
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  become a reflection of Christ. So but the dead, no one
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  proclaims your name. Now they will be probably
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  cursing God's name in the place that they are put.
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  I mean, it just, it doesn't even say that there's really words.
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  It says there's weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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  So there's going to be great. I don't know if it's going to be
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  remorse just like unhappiness about being separated from God.
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  But throughout Scripture we are warned about that.
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  And so we have the time until we die to, to get, you know, to
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  reconcile. That's the way I look at it, to
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  reconcile with God. God made us out of love.
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  So there was that. There was that love that started
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  our life. But we somehow get far from God.
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  And God wants to draw us back closely to him.
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  And sin separates us from God. So we need that removed from our
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  life. We can't do it on our own, but
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  the Holy Spirit can get it out of our life and God will put us
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  through testing so that we have the opportunity to make that
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  choice and to, I guess like humble or submit.
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  That's the word. I wanted to submit to the Holy
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  Spirit's prompting. So when we, it's like when we
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  feel something, I, I, you know, I used to hate guilt and I
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  guess, you know, like you feel guilty.
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  So OK, I'm going to do this because I feel guilty if I don't
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  do this kind of a thing. I used to hate that feeling, but
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  I actually am glad for that because if it's something good,
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  like, you know what you should do and don't do it, that's kind
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  of that's rebellion. And so it it's when we learn to
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  submit to that feeling and we do things because they are the
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  right things to do. And that's something that the
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  Holy Spirit will show us and will guide us.
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  But then it's still up to us whether we want to do that.
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  So how much are we hanging on to our our sin nature and how much
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  are we pushing God away when we don't submit to what we know God
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  wants us to do? We are in a rebellious state and
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  we are fighting against God and we haven't reconciled with him.
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  And until we reconcile and get rid of that, that, that feeling
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  about it again, it's, it's like you don't clean up before you go
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  to God. You go to God as you are.
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  He wants you as you are. He will do the cleaning up.
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  But once you have the Holy Spirit impacting your life, then
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  you're going to kind of go through testing and it's going
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  to be like, do you really mean this?
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  Are you sincere about this? If you mean this, like Jesus
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  said, if you love me, you will obey my commands.
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  So that's the test for us. We can, we can just say, Oh, I
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  want the inheritance. You know, like everybody wants
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  the inheritance, the riches of God and everything.
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  But do you just want it? Are you being selfish about it?
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  Or are you willing to let Jesus be Lord over your life?
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  Let God guide you and submit to him.
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  That's the question that people need to respond to is, I don't
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  know, not need to respond, but that's our question.
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  That shows whether we are being truthful about our desires to
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  reconcile with God. If we just want to reconcile
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  with God so that we can have the inheritance, that's pretty evil
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  just to want the inheritance. There's a lot of people that
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  would do that, that would say, oh, I'll be friends with him,
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  I'll say his name, you know, like just so I can get the stuff
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  he has promised. I mean, that's horrible, but
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  there are people in life like that.
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  Look at that, you all of the ugliness kind of comes out in
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  somebodies passing about inheritance and not always, but
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  that's when you see someone's true colors, when all of a
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  sudden you think somebody is one way and all of a sudden they
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  just all become about the money, about the things or, you know,
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  where their God is really. And and their true, I guess
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  their true feelings about do they really love the person or
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  were they after the stuff? You know, you see that in
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  marriages and divorces and everybody gets focused on the
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  stuff. And that's not that's not the
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  real thing. It's it's the person.
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  Where is the relationship with the person?
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  Are you after the stuff? Are you after the person?
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  Or do you want God? Do you truly want to know God?
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  Do you truly want to be reconciled with him?
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  Do you truly want to be made one with him as our creator?
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  That's what Jesus prayed for before he died on the cross.
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  He said, Father, make them. I hope I'm paraphrasing.
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  I hope that or I pray that they become one with us as we are one
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  so that they can, so we can experience the same thing that
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  Jesus experiences the relationship with the Father.
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  Because it's so wonderful. And I don't know if we ever will
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  receive the fullness of that relationship while we're here on
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  earth because of our sinful state and because sin separately
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  US. And until Jesus returns, we
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  won't be perfected. And so until we get perfected, I
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  don't know that we can necessarily feel that.
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  But the more and more we get the impurities out of our life and
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  the sin out of our life, the more the deeper I think our
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  relationship with God is and the stronger that it is because we
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  get rid of that stuff that shows up.
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  And it's an ongoing process while we're here on earth.
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  I mean, there's just going to be constant temptations,
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  distractions, and other things. Those are things we have to say
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  no to so that we can keep it out of our life.
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  We need to build up a wall against sin and just not allow
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  it in. It says resist the devil and he
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  will flee. We need to resist sin because
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  sin separates us from God. And that's the that's the
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  devil's weapon against us is to lure us into sin so that we
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  become separated. And anyway, we'll go back to his
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  prayer. So he's asking.
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  So anyway, it was about among the dead.
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  No one proclaims your name. So if someone is dead and if
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  they are separated from God, they are not going to be
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  proclaiming his name because they made that choice and that's
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  how they got there. They may regret that choice that
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  they made because of their surroundings, because of what it
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  feels like once they're there, but it's not because of their
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  longing for God. They completely reject God.
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  So we have to really think about think about eternity and not I
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  mean, that's more important than our life here today.
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  That's of greater importance. It's a longer period of time
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  than what we have here on earth. And we become so short sighted
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  about this time here on earth when it's only, I guess it, I
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  don't know, it's James maybe who said that life is but a vapor
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  that it's or a mist. Life is but a mist.
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  It's here and then it's gone and but not eternal life, Eternal.
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  That's forever. And there's eternal torment too
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  in the other direction. There's two places that will go,
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  one or the one or the other. Not both places, but we'll
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  either be with in God's presence or we will be eternally
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  separated. But both places are eternal.
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  So going back to David Psalm, he's he's in deep remorse about
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  something or I don't know if it's remorse, but he's in deep
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  sadness. He's crying in bed and he's
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  drenching his couch. So it's kind of like when he is
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  weeping at night and then he's on his couch in the daytime or
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  wherever he is all night long. I mean, or he's restless
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  throughout the night and he goes from his bed to his couch.
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  I don't know. But he's multiple locations and
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  he's weeping and he's he has tears.
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  So he has deep sadness that he's dealing with.
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  And then he says his eyes grow weak with sorrow.
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  So it's sadness and they fail because of all his foes.
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  So it sounds like his, his sadness is coming from all the
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  people who are against him and it's really making him
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  distraught. I mean, that's my understanding
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  of what's written. And then but he's also saying
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  away from me all you who do evil.
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  For the Lord has heard my weeping.
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  The Lord has heard my cry. The Lord accepts my prayer all,
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  and then here's his confidence in God.
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  All my enemies will be overwhelmed with shame and
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  anguish. They will turn back and suddenly
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  be put to shame. So these people who are coming
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  against him probably do not have a rightful reason for coming
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  against him. And the Lord hears him and the
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  Lord hears his prayers and the Lord will respond.
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  He has faith and trust in, in God that God is going to
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  respond. And you know, it says God, the
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  Lord says the vengeance is mine. I mean, and, and God, what we
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  reap, we will, are what we sow we will reap.
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  So we always have to remember that as well.
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  So I'll read the remaining questions and answers and then
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  we'll wrap this up. So how does God discipline
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  people? God is like a good father who
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  punishes his disobedient child. Neither God nor a good human
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  father enjoys disciplining in his child.
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  Sometimes God uses physical suffering to discipline people.
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  For example, David wanted healing because his bones were
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  quote in agony. Other times, God causes
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  emotional distress to make His point.
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  David's soul was in deep anguish.
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  But God also teaches us by His Word, the counsel of other
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  believers, and through specific circumstances.
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  Was David physically sick? He experienced physical
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  symptoms. David's severe sorrow was
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  accompanied by faintness and agony, anguish, groaning and
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  weeping. He was speaking with poetic
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  flair, probably exaggerating his emotional state, producing
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  enough tears to drench. A couch is a figure of speech.
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  What does soul mean? David refers referred to his
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  soul as his very self, a living, conscious, personal being.
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  Soul was not, as it is in contemporary thinking, equated
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  with the spiritual or inner being as distinct from the
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  physical body. Soul and body were two ways of
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  referring to the same reality to the whole person.
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  And then does God hear our prayers better when we are
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  emotional? God hears our prayers regardless
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  of our emotional intensity. David was an emotional person,
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  so his prayers reflected that passion.
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  He was honest with God and opened his heart to God.
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  It's that type of intimacy, not necessarily emotional outburst,
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  that God desires from us. Can prayer 'cause God to change
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  someone's circumstances? Prayer nurtures, nurtures our
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  relationship with God. God always responds to our
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  cries, whispers and expressions of prayer.
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  He promises to guard our lives and change our circumstances as
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  He deems necessary and appropriate.
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  But as in any good relationship, we must not use God's resources
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  merely for our own ends. We must trust Him to act in our
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  best interest. And that concludes Psalm 5.
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  Tomorrow we will talk about Psalm 7.