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Through the hills I

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set me free.

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Truth set me free.

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Oh. Truth

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Welcome to Tell the Truth, a weekly podcast

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about faith, current events, and life in general,

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brought to you from Mountain View Baptist Church

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live every Monday night at 6

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PM CST.

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Thank you for joining us tonight.

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Each night this week, we will be live

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streaming our revival service here at Mountain View

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Baptist Church.

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The message each night will be brought by

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brother Alan Carr, senior pastor of Calvary Baptist

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Church in Lenoir, North Carolina.

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Pastor Carr is also an instructor at West

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Lenoir School of Ministry,

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teaching homiletics,

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life of Christ, and manuscript evidence. We appreciate

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brother Carr for traveling to Sylvania, Alabama to

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bring us our revival messages this week. Here's

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brother Carr.

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Oh, I appreciate you singing tonight, don't you?

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Bam Bam.

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And I've been paying attention to it

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I've heard a lot of references

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to

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what God says about us

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and how we feel about ourselves in the

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process.

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That has a lot of bearing on what

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I feel like ought to preach tonight,

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kind of feel like the Lord may wind

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it up. You may not get much out

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of it, but I'm gonna have fun preaching

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it.

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I told someone last night that preaching, really,

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I don't know how to preach

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and I don't know how to choose what

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to preach.

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Typically, I just preach what I need.

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I figure if I need it somebody else

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needs it, so welcome to therapy.

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My name's Alan, I have a lot of

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problems.

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This is group therapy for me and it's

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a whole lot cheaper than a psychiatrist,

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I promise you. So I preach what I

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need and I really do. I'm not lying

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to you. That's not just preacher dog, that's

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a fact. But I did enjoy all the

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singing. And I want you to be turning

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in your Bible to Psalm 56.

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Psalm 56,

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David has something to say

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about this matter

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of what God says about us

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and how we perceive what God says.

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And I'm going to broach a subject tonight

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that you may have never

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considered before, though you may have.

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If you have, you're ahead of the game.

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You can leave if you need to.

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The rest of you hang around because it

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might help us.

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I know I need to hear this.

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Psalm 56.

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Psalm 56.

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We're going to read all 13 verses

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and I'm going to cut some out of

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both ends and some out of the middle

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and hopefully get this done

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in a relatively decent amount of time.

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But you'll notice in this Psalm it has

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13 verses, plus there is

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a superscription,

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at least in my Bible.

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And I want to begin with a superscription,

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because it helps us understand something about

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what's happening in this text.

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So let's begin there, Psalm 56,

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to the chief musician

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upon Jonath elamriochim,

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Micham of David,

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when the Philistines

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took him in Gath.

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Verse 1,

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be merciful unto me, oh God,

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for man would swallow me up.

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He fighting daily oppresseth me.

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Mine enemies would daily swallow me up

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for they be me that fight against me,

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oh thou most high.

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What time I am afraid,

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I will trust in thee.

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In God, I will praise his word. In

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God, have I put my trust.

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I will not fear what flesh

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Every day they rest my words. All their

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are against me for evil. They gather themselves

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They hide themselves, they mark my steps

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when they wait for my soul.

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Shall they escape by iniquity?

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In thine anger cast down the people, oh

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Thou tellest my wanderings.

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Put thou my tears into thy bottle.

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Are they not in thy book?

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When I cry unto thee, then shall mine

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enemies turn back.

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This I know for God is for me.

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In God I will praise his word. In

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the Lord will I praise his word. In

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God have I put my trust. I will

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not be afraid

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what man can do unto me.

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Thy vows are upon me, oh God. I

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will render praises unto thee for thou hast

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delivered my soul from death.

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Wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling,

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that I may walk before God

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in the light of the living.

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this psalm like many others was written during

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a difficult time

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in David's life. It references how

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he was taken by the Philistines

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in Gath.

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This psalm is a companion to Psalm

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34, which was also written during this same

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period of time.

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is on the run from

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King Saul.

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David made a decision that brought great trouble

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into his life.

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you get home, you can. In 1st Samuel

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chapter 21, you'll find it there.

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And when David fled to Gath, he found

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alone and

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on the run. And we know all this

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as I said

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from that superscription.

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Gath was the capital

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city of the Philistines,

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and the Philistines

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as you know were the persistent enemies

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of the nation of Israel.

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something which I think is rather absurd,

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but he took with him the sword he

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had taken off Goliath.

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I mean everybody's gonna recognize that.

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Why do you walk into the enemy's stronghold

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with that sword

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in your possession? It's gonna make you a

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target right out of the gate. But that's

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what he did.

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While David was there his identity was discovered.

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He was detained by King Achish and he

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was imprisoned

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down in Gath.

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debated what to do with David,

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his advisor said put him to death. After

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he is the one who killed our champion

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Goliath

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king of Israel. We'll be killing 2 birds

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the great danger he was in,

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David pretended to be a raving lunatic

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and Achish decided to have David

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banished from his sight.

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David found himself in that position for a

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very simple reason.

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He ran ahead of God in his life.

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Have you ever done that?

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Oh my, my, my.

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It's a whole lot better to be in

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than to try and be ahead of him.

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Well during this challenging time David wrote this

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and while he worked through his problems,

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what David's doing in Psalm 56

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is preaching to himself

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the truth he knew about God,

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and I want to say tonight that the

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most excellent sermons you will ever hear

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are those you preach to yourself,

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and that's a fact.

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And as I said David began this psalm

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with a superscription. Let's talk about that for

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a minute.

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The superscription says that this is

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A miktam refers to a golden psalm, and

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there are a few of those in the

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psalter.

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But that word miktam refers to something that

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is profound,

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something that is weighty, something

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that is worthy of being inscribed in stone.

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So David says to the chief musician,

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do not lose this song.

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Engrave it in stone and make sure it

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And I'm glad it was and has been,

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I need what it says.

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do this upon Jonath elim rechokim.

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That's a 50 cent word right there. Isn't

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it? It's a Hebrew word that literally means

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to the silent dove

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in distant oaks.

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song, a tune to which this particular psalm

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would have been sung.

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But that name to the silent dove in

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distant oaks,

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it makes a difference in how we understand

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this.

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This word describes David as that silent dove.

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He is perched in a distant oak far

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from the land of Israel.

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to be silent

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in the midst

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of his pain.

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David found a place

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of rest.

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He was not yet back in Israel.

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He was still far far away,

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but David is at peace

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and David is at rest.

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Isn't that a blessing

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to have peace in your heart

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and rest in your soul

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and quiet in your mind

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even though you're still in the vortex of

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all of your suffering

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and yet God has given you

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a peace that passeth

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all understanding.

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to do today,

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because the greatest sermons you will ever hear

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are the sermons you preach to yourself

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as you remind yourself

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of the great truths

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from the word of God.

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Now don't misunderstand

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me.

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I'm not minimizing

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the place or the power

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of the pulpit in spiritual matters.

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Your pastor is a great preacher

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and you love to hear him preach

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the word of God and no doubt you've

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heard many of great sermon from this pulpit.

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But the greatest

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sermons you will ever hear

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are the ones you preach to yourself.

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And again I'm not minimizing

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the pulpit.

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My goodness I've made my living doing this

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for 40 years. I believe

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in preaching.

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And if nobody needed me to preach I'd

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be hurting. You know what I'm saying? So

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I'm glad they still come and listen to

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me. But here's the thing, all of my

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time,

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24 hours a day, 7 days a week,

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all of my time

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is spent with me.

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And all of your time is spent with

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you.

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And there's a whole lot of voices coming

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in and out of my life,

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but there's one constant voice and it's the

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voice inside my head. If I can get

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the others to be quiet I can hear

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that one. But we spend a whole lot

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of time

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listening to ourselves, don't we?

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Well I guess it's because I need good

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advice, how about you?

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So I listen to me. But therein lies

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our problem.

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Because we spend so much time listening to

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ourselves,

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when really we should be preaching

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to ourselves.

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Because here's the problem,

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when we listen to ourselves

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we are listening to the

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reasonings

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of our sinful nature

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as it tries to work through issues

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from a fallen

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human perspective.

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That's the problem.

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And you better be careful about listening to

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your flesh,

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because regardless of what you may believe this

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evening

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your flesh is not saved.

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Your flesh is wicked.

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It's still trapped in sin

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and it still bases its thinking upon faulty

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sinful reasoning.

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So when we

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listen to ourselves

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all we get back in return from that

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is a litany of lies.

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Our hearts cannot

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be trusted

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to teach ourselves

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the truth.

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That's why Jeremiah said

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the heart is deceitful, it's a liar,

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and it's wicked above all things and desperately

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wicked.

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Who can know it?

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A Scottish preacher by the name of Robert

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Murray M'Cheyne,

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he said the seed of every sin known

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to man

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is in my heart

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and how true that is.

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The seed of every sin is right there.

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It's in you

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and it's in me.

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No matter how baptisty we look, no matter

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how good we dress up the outside,

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that old man is there and he is

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wicked.

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We have to stop listening to ourselves

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and we must learn to preach to ourselves.

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Because when we listen to ourselves

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we will get ourselves

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into trouble. Let me let me illustrate this.

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When we are offended

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self will say to us

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your rights have been violated.

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You should get revenge.

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You should get your pound of flesh.

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Because self will always focus on what it

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wants.

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It will always react

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in danger,

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or rather in anger and self will always

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be caught up

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in itself.

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When we sin

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self will try to rationalize

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that sin.

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Self will tell us that you weren't so

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wrong in what you did. In fact, other

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folk would have done worse than you did.

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And self will tell us that you're justified

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in making the decision

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you made.

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Or how about this one, when problems arise

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in our lives

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self will tell us that we should fret

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and worry because our needs aren't being met

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to our expectation.

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And self will try to solve the problems

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and fix the issue

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through human focus and human needs.

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And self will cause us to

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focus on the issue at hand

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rather than focusing

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upon the Lord's hand.

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Self will cause us to see the problem

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and not the problem solver.

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So instead of listening to ourselves,

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I think a better plan

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is to listen to God.

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I think a better plan is to do

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what David did

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and tell our self

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what it needs to hear

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even though it may not like it.

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What myself needs to hear

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is the truth.

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What myself needs to hear

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is the word of God.

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Myself

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needs to be silenced

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and made to listen to God centered truth

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and not self

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centered

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lies.

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David vows his allegiance

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to the word of God in this psalm

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at least three times,

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And I think it should be our resolve

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to hear what God

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has to say to his people.

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So I wanna take up this psalm tonight

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and preach about the greatest sermon you'll ever

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hear.

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And I don't say that with any pride,

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because it's not

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my sermon.

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It's what God has put in his book.

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And I want to talk to you about

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drowning out the voice of self

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with the voice of God.

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You see the efforts of the mind

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did not construct

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David's place of rest.

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He did not think his way

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into a place of peace.

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He preached his way there.

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And throughout this psalm David preached sermon after

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sermon to himself. He preached to himself the

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the eternal

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infallible truth of the word of God, then

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the right kind of preaching overcame his thinking

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and gave him peace, rest, and hope.

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Things he desperately

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needed.

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So stay with me for a little bit

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and I I want to encourage you out

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of the gate. My sermon only

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has 2 points,

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and one of them's kind of short and

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one of them's kind of long, but

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it all equals out in the end to

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about an hour. So hang on. Alright?

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I'm just saying. I'm giving you fair warning.

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So if you need to get home and

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stir the beans you better head out.

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That's all I'm gonna say to you.

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But I want you to notice the points

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of David's sermon and see how it applies

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to you. Now let's talk first about the

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sorrows David discovered. Now David tells us he

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faced some problems in verse number 1. He

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did face problems. Look what he said. He

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said there, he said be merciful unto me

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oh God for man would swallow me up.

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Swallow.

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That word means to inhale

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or

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to devour.

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David is in danger from the Philistines.

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David is in danger from King Saul

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and his army. He has all of these

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problems

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heaped upon him and he feels as though

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those problems will

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devour him. They will consume him alive.

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My question to you is have you ever

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felt like David?

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I think there are times when we all

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have

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as the burdens and problems of life grow

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to be more than we thought we could

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bear.

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And it's a horrible feeling when it seems

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there's no escape from our enemies and from

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the issues entering into our life to overwhelm

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and consume us.

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David had problems.

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But notice again in verse 1 David faced

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pressure.

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He said he fighting daily

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oppresseth me.

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That word oppresseth,

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it refers to a crushing force.

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It speaks of a weight too heavy to

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be carried.

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David felt as though he had reached the

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end of his strength

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and that all the pressures of life were

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threatening to crush him under their weight.

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And despite what you may have heard

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in an old gospel song or maybe

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what some preacher told you from the pulpit,

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God is not afraid

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to give you more than you can bear

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and I can prove that.

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2nd Corinthians chapter 1 verses 8 through 10,

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Paul talks about it.

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He said basically

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he had more than he could handle. The

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weight of his ministry and the weight of

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the burdens

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were pressing down upon him so much that

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he felt as though he were pushed beyond

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his natural boundaries and the weight was impossible

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for him to carry.

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Have you ever been there?

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And David

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described the efforts of his enemies

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as fighting in verse 1.

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That means to feed on,

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to devour, to overcome.

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And David believes

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the troubles he's facing in life would destroy

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him bite by

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agonizing

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bite.

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Every day he felt as if he were

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being eaten alive by the pressures

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he had in his life.

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I wonder if you ever felt like David

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did.

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Have you ever felt like your burdens and

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your pressures are gonna crush you under their

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weight?

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Have you ever felt as if all of

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the issues in your life are like a

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horde of hungry rats nibbling away at you,

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consuming you so much that it seemed like

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there was less of you each day than

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there was

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the day before.

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Something else David faced,

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he faced plots. Look at verses 5 and

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6.

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He said, every day they rest my words.

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All their thoughts against me

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are against me for evil. They gather themselves

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together. They hide themselves.

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They mark my steps when they wait for

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my soul.

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David said they twist his words.

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Rest them. They twist them.

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They listen to every syllable coming out of

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his mouth

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looking for some way

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to ensnare him with his words.

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Preacher, have you ever felt that way?

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Sometimes you preach the word of God

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in sincerity

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and in truth, but there's somebody who's a

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little sideways with you. And they'll jump on

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some statement you made and pull it out

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of context and use it to attack you.

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When that happens

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it hurts.

570
00:23:54,625 --> 00:23:56,164
I know you've been there.

571
00:23:57,105 --> 00:23:58,244
I've been there.

572
00:23:58,704 --> 00:23:59,605
But I suspect

573
00:23:59,904 --> 00:24:02,724
everyone in here at one time or another

574
00:24:03,424 --> 00:24:04,805
has been there.

575
00:24:05,700 --> 00:24:09,059
Verse 5 he said they're constantly looking for

576
00:24:09,059 --> 00:24:09,559
ways

577
00:24:09,940 --> 00:24:11,000
to hurt him.

578
00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:13,559
His enemies want David

579
00:24:14,179 --> 00:24:14,919
to suffer.

580
00:24:15,700 --> 00:24:18,200
They conspire together in verse 6

581
00:24:18,825 --> 00:24:20,365
And they look for ways

582
00:24:20,825 --> 00:24:22,825
to bring him down. In verse 6 as

583
00:24:22,825 --> 00:24:26,265
well they they set ambushes for him. Verse

584
00:24:26,265 --> 00:24:28,744
6 they try to trap him as if

585
00:24:28,744 --> 00:24:31,065
he were in a tangle of thorns. They

586
00:24:31,065 --> 00:24:33,964
watch every move looking for a way

587
00:24:35,039 --> 00:24:35,779
to destroy

588
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:37,380
his life.

589
00:24:38,319 --> 00:24:39,940
David had some perilous

590
00:24:40,639 --> 00:24:43,940
and determined enemies who would stop at nothing

591
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,779
to destroy him and

592
00:24:46,079 --> 00:24:46,579
devastate

593
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,339
his life. Have you

594
00:24:49,705 --> 00:24:51,005
ever been there?

595
00:24:53,305 --> 00:24:55,384
If you haven't you ought to thank God

596
00:24:55,384 --> 00:24:56,365
for that tonight.

597
00:24:57,545 --> 00:24:59,965
But if you've been in that place where

598
00:25:00,424 --> 00:25:02,525
people have tried to ruin you,

599
00:25:03,450 --> 00:25:05,470
tried to destroy you,

600
00:25:06,169 --> 00:25:08,589
tried to wreck your reputation

601
00:25:09,210 --> 00:25:11,769
and take your ministry and all of those

602
00:25:11,769 --> 00:25:12,269
things.

603
00:25:12,650 --> 00:25:14,890
But we've all been in those times, haven't

604
00:25:14,890 --> 00:25:18,025
we? When it appears that everyone and everything

605
00:25:18,565 --> 00:25:20,965
in the world is against us and it

606
00:25:20,965 --> 00:25:23,924
looks like the enemies rise up and they

607
00:25:23,924 --> 00:25:26,825
do all they can to destroy reputation,

608
00:25:27,285 --> 00:25:27,785
family,

609
00:25:28,325 --> 00:25:29,144
and testimony.

610
00:25:30,109 --> 00:25:32,109
It can even feel like they're trying to

611
00:25:32,109 --> 00:25:32,930
kill you.

612
00:25:34,190 --> 00:25:35,570
And maybe they are.

613
00:25:36,430 --> 00:25:38,590
I won't take time to go into it

614
00:25:38,590 --> 00:25:39,090
tonight,

615
00:25:39,869 --> 00:25:41,650
all of it, but I've been there.

616
00:25:42,269 --> 00:25:43,809
I know how that feels.

617
00:25:44,904 --> 00:25:45,644
Back in 2009

618
00:25:46,505 --> 00:25:47,964
I preached at our church

619
00:25:49,305 --> 00:25:51,625
a series of sermons and there were some

620
00:25:51,625 --> 00:25:54,505
folk who got a little bit sideways over

621
00:25:54,505 --> 00:25:57,224
that when I preached them, but nothing much

622
00:25:57,224 --> 00:25:57,724
happened.

623
00:25:58,609 --> 00:26:01,109
But about 6 months later when those

624
00:26:01,570 --> 00:26:04,609
same sermons went out on the radio and

625
00:26:04,609 --> 00:26:06,309
then when they played on television,

626
00:26:07,090 --> 00:26:08,930
not only was it our people but it

627
00:26:08,930 --> 00:26:10,390
was others in the community

628
00:26:10,849 --> 00:26:11,830
who were attacking.

629
00:26:13,025 --> 00:26:15,585
And people tried their best to get me

630
00:26:15,585 --> 00:26:17,044
run off from the church.

631
00:26:17,744 --> 00:26:19,424
But they found out that I don't know

632
00:26:19,424 --> 00:26:20,944
how to run, I'm too fat to run

633
00:26:20,944 --> 00:26:22,565
and so I just stayed.

634
00:26:23,825 --> 00:26:26,144
And then they decided I wasn't gonna go

635
00:26:26,144 --> 00:26:28,440
so they said they would have to go.

636
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,279
We probably lost about 65 or 70 people

637
00:26:32,279 --> 00:26:33,899
in that and that hurts.

638
00:26:34,759 --> 00:26:36,539
Preachers all around the country

639
00:26:36,839 --> 00:26:38,379
who were my friends,

640
00:26:38,839 --> 00:26:40,379
quote unquote they say,

641
00:26:41,159 --> 00:26:42,539
they turned on me.

642
00:26:43,214 --> 00:26:45,615
And now they will not have anything to

643
00:26:45,615 --> 00:26:46,515
do with me.

644
00:26:47,375 --> 00:26:50,194
Not because I preached something that was unbiblical,

645
00:26:51,375 --> 00:26:54,015
but because I preached the bible in a

646
00:26:54,015 --> 00:26:56,494
way that tore up their tran their their

647
00:26:56,494 --> 00:26:56,974
their

648
00:26:57,295 --> 00:26:57,795
traditions

649
00:26:59,029 --> 00:27:01,509
and left them no ground upon which to

650
00:27:01,509 --> 00:27:02,009
stand.

651
00:27:02,789 --> 00:27:04,089
I know how that is.

652
00:27:04,950 --> 00:27:06,250
It causes us

653
00:27:06,710 --> 00:27:07,210
stress.

654
00:27:08,710 --> 00:27:11,130
And that spring when that happened, I developed

655
00:27:11,190 --> 00:27:11,690
insomnia.

656
00:27:13,384 --> 00:27:15,704
And it's been 14 years and I still

657
00:27:15,704 --> 00:27:17,085
don't sleep well

658
00:27:17,944 --> 00:27:19,325
because of the stress.

659
00:27:20,345 --> 00:27:21,724
That's long past.

660
00:27:22,744 --> 00:27:25,384
Our church is far better off than it's

661
00:27:25,384 --> 00:27:26,204
ever been.

662
00:27:26,940 --> 00:27:28,559
And God keeps blessing

663
00:27:29,019 --> 00:27:31,339
and I still get to go places and

664
00:27:31,339 --> 00:27:33,679
preach and so all is good,

665
00:27:34,619 --> 00:27:35,679
but the stress

666
00:27:36,059 --> 00:27:37,119
and the doubt

667
00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:38,640
and the insecurity.

668
00:27:40,615 --> 00:27:42,534
And I remember during that time and I'm

669
00:27:42,534 --> 00:27:43,815
gonna hurry and get through this because I

670
00:27:43,815 --> 00:27:45,515
don't wanna say too much about it.

671
00:27:46,934 --> 00:27:48,154
During that time

672
00:27:49,095 --> 00:27:50,474
I made up my mind

673
00:27:51,174 --> 00:27:52,875
that when I went to church

674
00:27:53,654 --> 00:27:55,835
I was not gonna bring it up.

675
00:27:56,549 --> 00:27:59,430
I certainly wasn't gonna apologize for preaching the

676
00:27:59,430 --> 00:28:00,250
word of God.

677
00:28:00,710 --> 00:28:02,570
And I wasn't gonna back down,

678
00:28:03,110 --> 00:28:05,509
but I decided to go in and put

679
00:28:05,509 --> 00:28:07,750
a smile on my face if it broke

680
00:28:07,750 --> 00:28:10,150
every muscle in my in my body to

681
00:28:10,150 --> 00:28:12,965
do it. And I was gonna preach Christ

682
00:28:13,184 --> 00:28:14,404
and him crucified

683
00:28:15,025 --> 00:28:17,924
and do it over and over and over

684
00:28:17,984 --> 00:28:21,025
and over and over and over again. And

685
00:28:21,025 --> 00:28:22,085
that's what I did.

686
00:28:22,785 --> 00:28:24,085
We weathered the storm.

687
00:28:25,190 --> 00:28:26,410
We carried on.

688
00:28:27,509 --> 00:28:29,289
Now set all that to say this,

689
00:28:30,150 --> 00:28:31,910
there was a man in my church at

690
00:28:31,910 --> 00:28:33,670
that time who was one of our deacons,

691
00:28:33,670 --> 00:28:35,289
he was then, is now.

692
00:28:36,069 --> 00:28:38,250
He had a son who was a pastor

693
00:28:39,134 --> 00:28:41,934
and his son's wife ran around on him

694
00:28:41,934 --> 00:28:43,075
with several men,

695
00:28:43,695 --> 00:28:45,615
and one was a 17 year old boy

696
00:28:45,615 --> 00:28:46,515
in their church.

697
00:28:48,255 --> 00:28:49,715
All that came out

698
00:28:52,220 --> 00:28:53,200
and the father,

699
00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:54,799
the man in our church,

700
00:28:55,740 --> 00:28:56,879
he was angry.

701
00:28:57,819 --> 00:28:58,879
Understand that.

702
00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:00,960
Ruined his son's family,

703
00:29:02,059 --> 00:29:03,279
ruined his ministry

704
00:29:03,819 --> 00:29:05,759
because of what his wife did.

705
00:29:06,605 --> 00:29:08,684
Now this guy in my church, he's an

706
00:29:08,684 --> 00:29:09,904
avid deer hunter,

707
00:29:10,924 --> 00:29:11,904
bear hunter,

708
00:29:12,525 --> 00:29:14,384
hunter of anything that moves.

709
00:29:16,445 --> 00:29:18,224
He told me one day,

710
00:29:19,484 --> 00:29:20,705
he said I went

711
00:29:21,789 --> 00:29:23,789
to a particular man who was involved in

712
00:29:23,789 --> 00:29:25,809
that. I went to his house one morning

713
00:29:26,910 --> 00:29:28,829
because I knew where he lived and what

714
00:29:28,829 --> 00:29:30,450
time he left for work.

715
00:29:31,630 --> 00:29:33,710
And he said I had my rifle on

716
00:29:33,710 --> 00:29:34,930
the hood of my truck,

717
00:29:36,045 --> 00:29:37,485
And he said, I had it on the

718
00:29:37,485 --> 00:29:39,744
tripod. And he said, I had the crosshairs

719
00:29:40,365 --> 00:29:41,585
on his face

720
00:29:42,205 --> 00:29:43,424
when he came outside.

721
00:29:44,365 --> 00:29:45,985
He said, I went to kill him.

722
00:29:47,164 --> 00:29:48,705
I said, why didn't you?

723
00:29:49,279 --> 00:29:52,099
He said, because when your enemies attacked you,

724
00:29:53,519 --> 00:29:54,980
you didn't attack back.

725
00:29:55,919 --> 00:29:57,380
I thought, thank you Jesus.

726
00:29:58,159 --> 00:30:00,019
Because everything in me

727
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,259
was screaming for retaliation.

728
00:30:03,184 --> 00:30:06,065
I need to stand up and justify my

729
00:30:06,065 --> 00:30:06,565
position.

730
00:30:06,865 --> 00:30:08,944
I need to take a stand and make

731
00:30:08,944 --> 00:30:09,444
everybody

732
00:30:09,744 --> 00:30:10,244
see

733
00:30:11,424 --> 00:30:13,125
the truth of what I said,

734
00:30:14,384 --> 00:30:15,285
but I didn't.

735
00:30:15,679 --> 00:30:17,299
I am so glad today

736
00:30:17,839 --> 00:30:19,359
or one of my best men will be

737
00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:20,660
in prison right now

738
00:30:21,359 --> 00:30:22,179
or worse.

739
00:30:23,359 --> 00:30:25,380
I'm just saying that's how we feel.

740
00:30:26,319 --> 00:30:27,539
We want to attack.

741
00:30:28,555 --> 00:30:31,214
And we all face these situations. Right?

742
00:30:32,714 --> 00:30:34,335
Problems come to us.

743
00:30:35,115 --> 00:30:36,494
They come from sin.

744
00:30:37,035 --> 00:30:38,955
They come from the world, the devil, the

745
00:30:38,955 --> 00:30:40,974
flesh, and all other kinds of places.

746
00:30:41,990 --> 00:30:44,329
And these problems and these

747
00:30:44,710 --> 00:30:46,809
pains and sorrows and burdens

748
00:30:48,230 --> 00:30:50,869
they make hard the path we have to

749
00:30:50,869 --> 00:30:52,649
walk in this life.

750
00:30:53,524 --> 00:30:56,005
But that is the unfortunate truth of living

751
00:30:56,005 --> 00:30:56,505
here.

752
00:30:57,365 --> 00:30:59,704
Jesus said in John 16:11,

753
00:31:00,325 --> 00:31:01,464
in this world

754
00:31:02,325 --> 00:31:03,944
you might have tribulation.

755
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:06,380
Is that what he

756
00:31:08,119 --> 00:31:09,720
said? He didn't even say that in the

757
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:10,619
living bible.

758
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:13,660
He said in this world

759
00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:15,180
ye shall

760
00:31:15,559 --> 00:31:16,460
have tribulation.

761
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,634
Job said man that is born of woman

762
00:31:20,035 --> 00:31:21,974
is a few days and full

763
00:31:22,275 --> 00:31:25,494
of trouble. And the problems and the pressures

764
00:31:25,954 --> 00:31:29,015
and the plots of life can leave us

765
00:31:29,154 --> 00:31:32,195
weak and useless to God. And when those

766
00:31:32,195 --> 00:31:34,454
times comes we have a choice.

767
00:31:34,890 --> 00:31:37,210
We can either give into our feelings, we

768
00:31:37,210 --> 00:31:39,710
can listen to the mind, we can listen

769
00:31:39,849 --> 00:31:42,250
to the old man, the flesh, and we

770
00:31:42,250 --> 00:31:43,150
can retaliate

771
00:31:43,450 --> 00:31:45,950
and we can lash out. Or

772
00:31:46,330 --> 00:31:48,750
we can do what David did.

773
00:31:49,664 --> 00:31:51,904
We can turn down the volume on the

774
00:31:51,904 --> 00:31:52,404
inside

775
00:31:53,505 --> 00:31:55,904
and turn up the volume on the voice

776
00:31:55,904 --> 00:31:56,644
of God.

777
00:31:57,585 --> 00:32:00,005
And if we do that, we'll be far

778
00:32:00,865 --> 00:32:02,325
far better off.

779
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,799
And what we do during those times of

780
00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:06,299
pressure

781
00:32:07,319 --> 00:32:10,599
will determine whether we weather the storms of

782
00:32:10,599 --> 00:32:11,419
life faithfully

783
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,059
or give in to the desires

784
00:32:14,359 --> 00:32:15,259
of the flesh

785
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:17,660
and of the mind.

786
00:32:18,845 --> 00:32:20,865
David chose the latter option

787
00:32:21,484 --> 00:32:22,625
and he thrived.

788
00:32:23,325 --> 00:32:24,865
And what David did

789
00:32:25,965 --> 00:32:27,505
is what we need to do.

790
00:32:28,205 --> 00:32:30,144
And now I finally get down

791
00:32:30,525 --> 00:32:32,305
to where I really want to be.

792
00:32:33,590 --> 00:32:35,610
As we will see our hope,

793
00:32:36,789 --> 00:32:37,289
David's

794
00:32:37,590 --> 00:32:38,090
sorrows

795
00:32:39,430 --> 00:32:39,930
produced

796
00:32:40,630 --> 00:32:42,410
sermons in his life.

797
00:32:43,190 --> 00:32:44,090
His worries

798
00:32:45,350 --> 00:32:46,650
prompted worship

799
00:32:47,704 --> 00:32:48,765
and his pain

800
00:32:50,105 --> 00:32:50,605
elicited

801
00:32:50,904 --> 00:32:51,404
praise

802
00:32:52,424 --> 00:32:54,825
out of David's heart. So having seen the

803
00:32:54,825 --> 00:32:55,325
sorrows,

804
00:32:56,265 --> 00:32:57,325
David discovered,

805
00:32:58,184 --> 00:32:59,964
we're already the second point,

806
00:33:00,940 --> 00:33:01,440
Notice

807
00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:02,799
the sermons

808
00:33:03,740 --> 00:33:04,240
David

809
00:33:04,860 --> 00:33:05,360
delivered.

810
00:33:06,220 --> 00:33:07,759
In verses 3 and 4,

811
00:33:08,220 --> 00:33:09,740
I want you to see one of these

812
00:33:09,740 --> 00:33:13,200
sermons, and here David preached about his reliance

813
00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:16,164
upon God. He says, what time I am

814
00:33:16,164 --> 00:33:16,664
afraid

815
00:33:17,284 --> 00:33:19,845
I will trust in thee. In God I

816
00:33:19,845 --> 00:33:22,325
will praise his word. In God I have

817
00:33:22,325 --> 00:33:24,964
put my trust. I will not fear what

818
00:33:24,964 --> 00:33:27,444
flesh can do unto me. So David speaks

819
00:33:27,444 --> 00:33:28,105
to himself

820
00:33:28,420 --> 00:33:30,099
about his trust in the Lord. It's like

821
00:33:30,099 --> 00:33:32,180
the young lady sang a moment ago, she

822
00:33:32,180 --> 00:33:34,259
says all these things that God says to

823
00:33:34,259 --> 00:33:36,099
her, but she doesn't feel it and she

824
00:33:36,099 --> 00:33:38,740
doesn't sense it and sometimes it feels like

825
00:33:38,740 --> 00:33:41,160
it's a foreign language that God is speaking.

826
00:33:41,299 --> 00:33:44,234
And yet she says, yet I believe.

827
00:33:45,095 --> 00:33:47,734
That's the key right there. Because it doesn't

828
00:33:47,734 --> 00:33:49,355
matter how you feel.

829
00:33:49,654 --> 00:33:52,855
It doesn't matter what you think. It doesn't

830
00:33:52,855 --> 00:33:54,075
matter what anybody

831
00:33:54,375 --> 00:33:57,529
tells you. What matters is who God is

832
00:33:57,670 --> 00:34:00,789
and what God has said. And David has

833
00:34:00,789 --> 00:34:03,529
vowed here to praise God in his troubles

834
00:34:03,750 --> 00:34:05,130
and to trust God,

835
00:34:05,589 --> 00:34:06,089
irregardless

836
00:34:06,470 --> 00:34:08,744
of what others might do to him. And

837
00:34:08,825 --> 00:34:09,644
by the way,

838
00:34:09,945 --> 00:34:12,845
don't miss the contrast in these verses

839
00:34:13,465 --> 00:34:14,845
between the word God

840
00:34:15,305 --> 00:34:17,785
and the word flesh. We'll come back in

841
00:34:17,785 --> 00:34:18,365
a minute.

842
00:34:19,785 --> 00:34:20,285
David

843
00:34:20,585 --> 00:34:23,405
chooses not to give in to fear.

844
00:34:24,369 --> 00:34:27,349
Rather he chooses to walk in faith.

845
00:34:28,609 --> 00:34:30,550
David could trust God

846
00:34:31,409 --> 00:34:33,989
when his world was falling apart,

847
00:34:35,090 --> 00:34:36,309
because he understood

848
00:34:37,010 --> 00:34:38,789
significant about something significant

849
00:34:39,434 --> 00:34:40,175
about God.

850
00:34:41,275 --> 00:34:42,094
He understood

851
00:34:43,035 --> 00:34:44,574
that God was eternal,

852
00:34:46,235 --> 00:34:47,375
while the flesh

853
00:34:48,635 --> 00:34:49,454
is mortal.

854
00:34:50,155 --> 00:34:51,215
Think about that.

855
00:34:52,079 --> 00:34:54,719
Verse 1, David said man would swallow me

856
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:55,219
up.

857
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,260
The word man refers to a

858
00:34:58,559 --> 00:34:59,539
mortal being.

859
00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:02,260
It speaks of one who is temporary,

860
00:35:03,039 --> 00:35:03,539
passing,

861
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:04,660
dying.

862
00:35:05,235 --> 00:35:08,055
All of those people who may attack you.

863
00:35:08,515 --> 00:35:11,715
All of those those folk who may plot

864
00:35:11,715 --> 00:35:14,375
against you. All of those who may

865
00:35:14,675 --> 00:35:17,575
rise up in your face. They're all immortals

866
00:35:18,410 --> 00:35:20,730
and every one of them is going to

867
00:35:20,730 --> 00:35:23,550
die. They will not live forever.

868
00:35:23,930 --> 00:35:27,130
And even your flesh, which is brought so

869
00:35:27,130 --> 00:35:29,849
low by all of these things, it is

870
00:35:29,849 --> 00:35:32,410
in the process of dying. And one day

871
00:35:32,410 --> 00:35:34,804
it will drop away and it will not

872
00:35:34,804 --> 00:35:36,025
trouble you anymore.

873
00:35:36,324 --> 00:35:37,464
But on the contrary,

874
00:35:38,005 --> 00:35:40,585
you have God. That's the word elohim,

875
00:35:41,045 --> 00:35:43,944
which refers to God as the supreme

876
00:35:44,244 --> 00:35:47,144
God. It refers to one who is eternal,

877
00:35:47,764 --> 00:35:48,264
undying,

878
00:35:48,929 --> 00:35:50,630
and in supreme control.

879
00:35:51,010 --> 00:35:53,329
Let man do what he will. Let the

880
00:35:53,329 --> 00:35:56,389
flesh think what he will, but God alone

881
00:35:56,449 --> 00:35:57,589
stands eternal

882
00:35:58,050 --> 00:35:58,869
and unmoving.

883
00:35:59,569 --> 00:36:01,109
Our God is a lofty,

884
00:36:01,764 --> 00:36:02,264
exalted,

885
00:36:02,885 --> 00:36:03,385
transcended

886
00:36:03,684 --> 00:36:06,885
god and he is the one who is

887
00:36:06,885 --> 00:36:07,704
in control.

888
00:36:09,525 --> 00:36:10,744
Not my flesh,

889
00:36:12,005 --> 00:36:13,144
not my enemies,

890
00:36:14,519 --> 00:36:15,019
My

891
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:16,380
God.

892
00:36:17,559 --> 00:36:20,119
David reminded himself that one day all of

893
00:36:20,119 --> 00:36:22,140
those who attacked him would die,

894
00:36:23,079 --> 00:36:24,539
but God was eternal.

895
00:36:26,039 --> 00:36:27,019
All powerful

896
00:36:27,614 --> 00:36:30,514
and alone worthy of faith and trust.

897
00:36:31,695 --> 00:36:32,594
My soul,

898
00:36:33,534 --> 00:36:35,394
we need to preach that to ourselves

899
00:36:36,815 --> 00:36:37,635
every day.

900
00:36:39,710 --> 00:36:42,269
I've been pastoring for 40 years. For several

901
00:36:42,269 --> 00:36:43,329
years of that time

902
00:36:44,269 --> 00:36:46,049
by 10 I was bi vocational.

903
00:36:46,989 --> 00:36:49,569
And here lately, given the good old economy

904
00:36:49,710 --> 00:36:50,690
we've got,

905
00:36:51,469 --> 00:36:53,789
I've been looking for a side gig, you

906
00:36:53,789 --> 00:36:54,289
know.

907
00:36:54,905 --> 00:36:57,324
And I was doing DoorDash for a while.

908
00:36:58,264 --> 00:36:59,164
That's alright.

909
00:37:00,105 --> 00:37:01,484
I made good money,

910
00:37:02,344 --> 00:37:04,105
but it cost me about a third of

911
00:37:04,105 --> 00:37:05,804
everything I made in gas,

912
00:37:06,184 --> 00:37:08,820
plus wear and tear on my car, plus

913
00:37:08,820 --> 00:37:10,660
if I wanted to make any money, I

914
00:37:10,660 --> 00:37:12,440
had to go up to Boone, North Carolina,

915
00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:13,000
Appalachian

916
00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:15,800
State University is, and all those 30,000

917
00:37:16,099 --> 00:37:17,940
students. And I'd go up there and deliver

918
00:37:17,940 --> 00:37:20,180
food to them on daddy's credit card, but

919
00:37:20,180 --> 00:37:21,780
every one of them lived on the 4th

920
00:37:21,780 --> 00:37:24,085
floor or the 5th floor and none of

921
00:37:24,085 --> 00:37:26,085
them had an elevator. And so I was

922
00:37:26,085 --> 00:37:26,825
up and downstairs

923
00:37:27,204 --> 00:37:29,765
every day all day long and I said

924
00:37:29,765 --> 00:37:31,305
I'm too old for this.

925
00:37:34,420 --> 00:37:35,639
Finally got smart.

926
00:37:36,739 --> 00:37:38,519
So now I'm substitute teaching.

927
00:37:40,260 --> 00:37:41,320
What have I done?

928
00:37:43,460 --> 00:37:45,380
I stepped out of the frying pan right

929
00:37:45,380 --> 00:37:46,360
into the fire.

930
00:37:48,595 --> 00:37:50,355
But it's got to be right now, it's

931
00:37:50,355 --> 00:37:52,775
just the way things are. Right?

932
00:37:53,795 --> 00:37:56,115
And so I wish if I had my

933
00:37:56,115 --> 00:37:56,615
wish,

934
00:37:57,474 --> 00:37:59,394
I'm praying God would let me win the

935
00:37:59,394 --> 00:37:59,894
lottery.

936
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:03,980
Y'all are too, ain't you?

937
00:38:05,559 --> 00:38:07,659
My problem with this I never played it.

938
00:38:08,679 --> 00:38:10,199
And I figured out a while ago if

939
00:38:10,199 --> 00:38:11,980
I don't play it I can't win it.

940
00:38:12,199 --> 00:38:14,360
So I'm praying now I'll find the winning

941
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:15,340
lottery card

942
00:38:16,255 --> 00:38:18,175
that's got the right things on it and

943
00:38:18,175 --> 00:38:19,394
I'll get that $200,000,000

944
00:38:20,335 --> 00:38:21,074
or whatever.

945
00:38:23,054 --> 00:38:24,034
Here's the thing,

946
00:38:25,454 --> 00:38:25,954
sometimes

947
00:38:27,135 --> 00:38:30,480
I'm teaching in class, substitute teaching, putting up

948
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,099
with other people's kids.

949
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:36,960
It ain't like it was when I went

950
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:37,619
to school.

951
00:38:38,559 --> 00:38:40,980
I've been out of high school 44 years

952
00:38:42,255 --> 00:38:45,054
and it's different. I'm young and cuss man

953
00:38:45,054 --> 00:38:47,875
all the time. I mean bad language.

954
00:38:48,734 --> 00:38:51,375
I asked one teacher, I said listen, this

955
00:38:51,375 --> 00:38:53,614
profanity is getting under my skin. What do

956
00:38:53,614 --> 00:38:55,214
you do about it? She said, we don't

957
00:38:55,214 --> 00:38:56,940
do nothing about it. I said, what?

958
00:38:57,900 --> 00:38:59,659
She said, as long as I'm not directing

959
00:38:59,659 --> 00:39:01,659
it as an insult at somebody else, we

960
00:39:01,659 --> 00:39:02,559
leave them alone.

961
00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:05,039
I said, are you kidding me?

962
00:39:06,059 --> 00:39:07,119
I don't do that.

963
00:39:07,659 --> 00:39:09,019
I tell them to shut up, but hear

964
00:39:09,019 --> 00:39:10,559
it again, you're going to the office.

965
00:39:11,344 --> 00:39:13,045
You ain't talking like that in my class.

966
00:39:14,224 --> 00:39:16,224
There you go. I have to be there.

967
00:39:16,224 --> 00:39:17,764
I don't like being there.

968
00:39:18,304 --> 00:39:21,025
It's another pain and problem I gotta bear

969
00:39:21,025 --> 00:39:23,264
with. But even the midst of it, I

970
00:39:23,264 --> 00:39:24,164
get the opportunity

971
00:39:24,639 --> 00:39:27,840
to witness and share Jesus and bring the

972
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:28,340
conversation

973
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:29,780
in the classroom

974
00:39:30,079 --> 00:39:32,480
back to God. Yes they may fire me

975
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,719
but until they do I'm going to preach

976
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,260
Jesus while I'm there.

977
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,699
And sometimes the pain of it,

978
00:39:40,055 --> 00:39:42,775
the the wear and tear of it, it

979
00:39:42,775 --> 00:39:43,994
overwhelms me.

980
00:39:44,855 --> 00:39:47,675
But it does not overwhelm my God.

981
00:39:48,775 --> 00:39:49,515
Oh no.

982
00:39:50,215 --> 00:39:51,994
Some of you have financial

983
00:39:52,295 --> 00:39:52,795
difficulty.

984
00:39:53,175 --> 00:39:56,340
Listen God knows all about it. It's got

985
00:39:56,340 --> 00:39:59,539
you on your last nerve. But God says,

986
00:39:59,539 --> 00:40:02,500
hey hang on it's okay. I got some

987
00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:04,820
ravens lined up who will fly in at

988
00:40:04,820 --> 00:40:07,300
the right time. I've already got your check

989
00:40:07,300 --> 00:40:09,655
written and when you get there it'll be

990
00:40:09,655 --> 00:40:11,974
just what you need. Hang on a little

991
00:40:11,974 --> 00:40:12,474
longer.

992
00:40:13,255 --> 00:40:15,335
Some of you think your life is falling

993
00:40:15,335 --> 00:40:18,855
apart, but it's not. Almighty God is holding

994
00:40:18,855 --> 00:40:21,734
it together. Don't let it overwhelm you because

995
00:40:21,734 --> 00:40:23,960
it does not over whelm

996
00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:27,000
him. Our God keeps us,

997
00:40:27,380 --> 00:40:31,400
he supplies us, he helps us, he demonstrates

998
00:40:31,940 --> 00:40:34,039
control over all things,

999
00:40:35,539 --> 00:40:38,280
even those appearing to be out of control.

1000
00:40:39,035 --> 00:40:40,655
But you know what David does here?

1001
00:40:41,675 --> 00:40:43,195
I mean if you look at these verses

1002
00:40:43,195 --> 00:40:45,375
he just told us how bad things are.

1003
00:40:45,675 --> 00:40:47,835
And then in verse 4 he says, I'm

1004
00:40:47,835 --> 00:40:49,135
gonna praise his word.

1005
00:40:49,994 --> 00:40:51,215
You know what he's doing?

1006
00:40:52,859 --> 00:40:55,119
David is shouting on credit.

1007
00:40:57,500 --> 00:40:58,780
I don't know if you ever done that

1008
00:40:58,780 --> 00:40:59,760
before or not.

1009
00:41:00,859 --> 00:41:02,780
David a few times I ain't felt like

1010
00:41:02,780 --> 00:41:03,839
praising God,

1011
00:41:04,805 --> 00:41:06,485
but I went ahead and did it anyway

1012
00:41:06,485 --> 00:41:07,545
because he's worthy

1013
00:41:08,565 --> 00:41:10,325
and I find out that's a pretty good

1014
00:41:10,325 --> 00:41:11,144
thing to do.

1015
00:41:11,605 --> 00:41:14,644
Because if I start worshiping and exalting that

1016
00:41:14,644 --> 00:41:17,125
God, he just shows up. I mean listen,

1017
00:41:17,125 --> 00:41:19,429
David does this. Right? He's getting ready to

1018
00:41:19,429 --> 00:41:20,809
go out and fight Goliath.

1019
00:41:21,909 --> 00:41:23,609
Everybody thinks he gonna die,

1020
00:41:24,469 --> 00:41:26,549
but he goes out there and before he

1021
00:41:26,549 --> 00:41:29,210
goes he tells king Saul, he says listen,

1022
00:41:29,349 --> 00:41:31,574
I done whipped a bear and I done

1023
00:41:31,574 --> 00:41:33,734
whipped a lion and I'm gonna whip this

1024
00:41:33,734 --> 00:41:37,094
giant too. What's David doing? He's shouting on

1025
00:41:37,094 --> 00:41:39,255
credit and he went out there and swiped

1026
00:41:39,255 --> 00:41:41,894
the cosmic credit card and he said God

1027
00:41:41,894 --> 00:41:45,594
has this and sure enough God gave him

1028
00:41:46,210 --> 00:41:46,789
the victory.

1029
00:41:48,050 --> 00:41:49,730
And you and I can praise him too

1030
00:41:49,730 --> 00:41:51,269
when we're trusting him,

1031
00:41:51,890 --> 00:41:53,269
but we cannot correctly

1032
00:41:53,969 --> 00:41:56,449
praise and worship God when we're leaning on

1033
00:41:56,449 --> 00:41:56,949
ourselves.

1034
00:41:59,574 --> 00:42:00,474
Isn't that true?

1035
00:42:01,414 --> 00:42:03,815
I mean Paul and Silas, they're in Acts

1036
00:42:03,815 --> 00:42:06,614
16 trapped in that dungeon down there in

1037
00:42:06,614 --> 00:42:09,035
Philippi, and the bible says they

1038
00:42:09,414 --> 00:42:10,635
sang at midnight.

1039
00:42:13,070 --> 00:42:14,449
What do you think they sang?

1040
00:42:15,789 --> 00:42:16,289
Gloom,

1041
00:42:16,750 --> 00:42:17,250
despair,

1042
00:42:17,550 --> 00:42:19,409
and agony on me.

1043
00:42:20,190 --> 00:42:21,570
Deep dark depression,

1044
00:42:22,190 --> 00:42:22,690
excessive

1045
00:42:22,989 --> 00:42:23,489
misery.

1046
00:42:24,664 --> 00:42:27,224
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have

1047
00:42:27,224 --> 00:42:28,445
no luck at all.

1048
00:42:29,144 --> 00:42:29,644
Gloom,

1049
00:42:30,025 --> 00:42:30,525
despair,

1050
00:42:31,224 --> 00:42:33,545
and misery on me. I have no idea

1051
00:42:33,545 --> 00:42:35,644
what they're saying, but it wasn't that.

1052
00:42:36,984 --> 00:42:39,085
Whatever it was, God liked it.

1053
00:42:40,179 --> 00:42:42,519
Whatever it was God shook the prison.

1054
00:42:43,219 --> 00:42:45,559
Whatever it was God set them free.

1055
00:42:45,940 --> 00:42:48,920
Whatever it was God set all the prisoners

1056
00:42:48,980 --> 00:42:51,699
free. And God used it to bring about

1057
00:42:51,699 --> 00:42:52,199
salvation.

1058
00:42:52,739 --> 00:42:54,360
Oh some folk in Philippi,

1059
00:42:54,744 --> 00:42:56,664
I don't know what they're saying, but they

1060
00:42:56,664 --> 00:42:58,045
were praising God

1061
00:42:58,344 --> 00:42:59,244
on credits,

1062
00:43:00,905 --> 00:43:03,324
worshiping God. Why could they do that?

1063
00:43:04,105 --> 00:43:06,525
Because they'd been preaching to themselves,

1064
00:43:08,184 --> 00:43:09,565
been preaching to themselves

1065
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:12,739
about their reliance upon God.

1066
00:43:13,599 --> 00:43:15,380
They didn't know what God would do,

1067
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,619
but they knew he'd do something.

1068
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:19,940
That's good enough.

1069
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:22,559
Don't know what he gonna do, but he

1070
00:43:22,559 --> 00:43:23,380
got a plan.

1071
00:43:23,974 --> 00:43:25,034
Good enough for me.

1072
00:43:25,735 --> 00:43:28,135
There's Christians all over America right now biting

1073
00:43:28,135 --> 00:43:29,894
their nails worried about who's gonna win the

1074
00:43:29,894 --> 00:43:32,074
election. I ain't a bit worried about it.

1075
00:43:33,255 --> 00:43:34,934
No matter who they say won it, I'm

1076
00:43:34,934 --> 00:43:36,695
gonna wake up in the morning. My God's

1077
00:43:36,695 --> 00:43:38,454
still gonna be on the throne, and he

1078
00:43:38,454 --> 00:43:39,594
still got a plan.

1079
00:43:40,430 --> 00:43:42,269
And I'm gonna shout on credit either way.

1080
00:43:42,269 --> 00:43:43,170
How about you?

1081
00:43:43,550 --> 00:43:45,309
Well verse 7, I gotta hurry. That's my

1082
00:43:45,309 --> 00:43:47,170
problem. I get tied up. Watch this.

1083
00:43:48,510 --> 00:43:51,309
David preached about the righteousness of God. This

1084
00:43:51,309 --> 00:43:52,664
is another sermon he preached.

1085
00:43:53,224 --> 00:43:55,565
He said shall they escape by iniquity?

1086
00:43:55,864 --> 00:43:58,505
In thine anger cast down the people, oh

1087
00:43:58,505 --> 00:44:01,885
God. So David preached about the ultimate justice

1088
00:44:02,344 --> 00:44:05,010
awaiting his enemies. He knew that one day

1089
00:44:05,170 --> 00:44:07,570
all of those who attacked him, those who

1090
00:44:07,570 --> 00:44:10,710
oppressed him, those who harmed him, he knew

1091
00:44:10,849 --> 00:44:13,489
they would answer to God. Their self will

1092
00:44:13,489 --> 00:44:16,449
would not protect them from God's wrath. But

1093
00:44:16,449 --> 00:44:19,110
the very sin they thought was their power,

1094
00:44:19,425 --> 00:44:22,065
was their ultimate weakness as it brought them

1095
00:44:22,065 --> 00:44:22,885
ever closer

1096
00:44:23,184 --> 00:44:25,925
day by day to a time of divine

1097
00:44:26,065 --> 00:44:28,864
reckoning. And we need to preach that same

1098
00:44:28,864 --> 00:44:30,085
message to ourselves.

1099
00:44:32,090 --> 00:44:34,110
Now what David's doing here is called imprecatory

1100
00:44:34,409 --> 00:44:34,909
prayer.

1101
00:44:36,570 --> 00:44:39,130
That's like praying that God I'm gonna pray

1102
00:44:39,130 --> 00:44:40,349
you destroy my enemies,

1103
00:44:41,050 --> 00:44:43,050
so I'm gonna pour kerosene on them and

1104
00:44:43,050 --> 00:44:44,429
you send a lightning bolt.

1105
00:44:45,094 --> 00:44:45,594
Right?

1106
00:44:46,135 --> 00:44:47,734
That ain't the way we're supposed to pray

1107
00:44:47,734 --> 00:44:48,714
now, is it?

1108
00:44:49,815 --> 00:44:50,554
Is it?

1109
00:44:51,734 --> 00:44:52,714
Jesus said,

1110
00:44:53,255 --> 00:44:54,714
love your enemies.

1111
00:44:56,135 --> 00:44:57,674
Pray for them.

1112
00:44:59,780 --> 00:45:02,820
That's old testament praying. You ain't allowed to

1113
00:45:02,820 --> 00:45:03,559
do it today.

1114
00:45:04,099 --> 00:45:06,739
You can't do it. Jesus gave us a

1115
00:45:06,739 --> 00:45:08,980
better way. We should never want to see

1116
00:45:08,980 --> 00:45:10,039
our enemy suffer,

1117
00:45:11,034 --> 00:45:11,534
Ever.

1118
00:45:12,235 --> 00:45:12,735
Ever.

1119
00:45:13,434 --> 00:45:15,434
I remember going through that time I mentioned

1120
00:45:15,434 --> 00:45:17,195
a little earlier, and as I was going

1121
00:45:17,195 --> 00:45:19,514
through that I prayed for my enemies every

1122
00:45:19,514 --> 00:45:22,474
single day. All these preachers and all these

1123
00:45:22,474 --> 00:45:25,170
people who were up in arms over me,

1124
00:45:25,170 --> 00:45:27,269
and I prayed for them on a daily

1125
00:45:27,329 --> 00:45:27,829
basis.

1126
00:45:28,769 --> 00:45:30,929
And my prayer every day was God show

1127
00:45:30,929 --> 00:45:31,829
them your love.

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00:45:32,610 --> 00:45:33,989
Father bless them.

1129
00:45:34,369 --> 00:45:36,610
Take care of them. Help me to love

1130
00:45:36,610 --> 00:45:38,070
them like you love them.

1131
00:45:40,054 --> 00:45:42,135
So much so that when I meet them

1132
00:45:42,135 --> 00:45:43,974
I can shake their hand and hug their

1133
00:45:43,974 --> 00:45:45,815
neck and look them in the eye and

1134
00:45:45,815 --> 00:45:47,194
say I love you.

1135
00:45:50,454 --> 00:45:51,194
That's right.

1136
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:53,719
Talk about heaping coals of fire on their

1137
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:54,219
head.

1138
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:57,500
But you just need to remember this,

1139
00:45:58,280 --> 00:45:59,980
when you're going through it

1140
00:46:00,359 --> 00:46:03,239
there is coming a day when God will

1141
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,340
balance the scales of life.

1142
00:46:06,724 --> 00:46:09,304
On that day all of those who oppose

1143
00:46:09,605 --> 00:46:12,344
oppose the truth of God and the genuine

1144
00:46:12,405 --> 00:46:15,525
people of God, they will face God in

1145
00:46:15,525 --> 00:46:16,744
divine judgment.

1146
00:46:17,204 --> 00:46:18,425
Thus we should

1147
00:46:18,724 --> 00:46:19,945
pray for them

1148
00:46:20,710 --> 00:46:23,369
and not seek vengeance upon them.

1149
00:46:24,390 --> 00:46:25,769
So preach to yourself

1150
00:46:26,789 --> 00:46:29,910
and remind yourself that you are to love

1151
00:46:29,910 --> 00:46:30,890
your enemies.

1152
00:46:32,309 --> 00:46:34,090
It's like Paul said in Romans

1153
00:46:34,469 --> 00:46:34,969
12:9,

1154
00:46:35,465 --> 00:46:37,724
he said, give place to wrath.

1155
00:46:39,385 --> 00:46:40,764
Vengeance is mine.

1156
00:46:41,545 --> 00:46:42,684
I will repay,

1157
00:46:43,304 --> 00:46:44,445
saith the Lord.

1158
00:46:45,144 --> 00:46:47,085
The word place in that verse,

1159
00:46:47,625 --> 00:46:49,244
it refers to a scabbard.

1160
00:46:50,059 --> 00:46:51,519
What do you put in a scabbard?

1161
00:46:52,699 --> 00:46:54,719
Put your knife, your sword. Right?

1162
00:46:55,659 --> 00:46:57,440
God said put your sword away

1163
00:46:58,139 --> 00:46:59,359
and love your enemies.

1164
00:47:00,219 --> 00:47:01,599
I'll take care of them.

1165
00:47:03,045 --> 00:47:05,385
And those who repent, God will save.

1166
00:47:06,085 --> 00:47:08,804
And those who refuse to bow will fall

1167
00:47:08,804 --> 00:47:09,784
to his wrath.

1168
00:47:10,804 --> 00:47:12,744
Paul said put away your swords

1169
00:47:13,525 --> 00:47:15,625
and don't go through life fighting, folk.

1170
00:47:16,250 --> 00:47:17,949
Go through life loving, folk.

1171
00:47:18,409 --> 00:47:19,949
That's a lot better way. Isn't

1172
00:47:20,489 --> 00:47:22,409
it? Well, I might have lost y'all right

1173
00:47:22,409 --> 00:47:22,909
there.

1174
00:47:23,449 --> 00:47:24,349
Verse 8,

1175
00:47:25,369 --> 00:47:28,250
David preached about the regard of God. Look

1176
00:47:28,250 --> 00:47:30,375
what he says. I love this sermon. He

1177
00:47:30,375 --> 00:47:32,934
said thou tellest my wanderings, put thou my

1178
00:47:32,934 --> 00:47:35,494
tears into thy bottle, are they not in

1179
00:47:35,494 --> 00:47:38,235
thy book? So David preaches to his heart

1180
00:47:38,375 --> 00:47:41,175
about the omniscience of God. He knows that

1181
00:47:41,175 --> 00:47:44,829
his God knows everything and he reminds himself

1182
00:47:45,210 --> 00:47:48,170
of that truth. You see our God sees

1183
00:47:48,170 --> 00:47:51,050
our sorrows and he keeps a record of

1184
00:47:51,050 --> 00:47:52,829
our troubles. He records

1185
00:47:53,130 --> 00:47:53,864
our steps.

1186
00:47:54,184 --> 00:47:54,844
He bottles

1187
00:47:55,224 --> 00:47:58,425
our tears, and he keeps perfect record of

1188
00:47:58,425 --> 00:48:00,184
our life. That word telus there in that

1189
00:48:00,184 --> 00:48:03,144
verse, it means to inscribe, to tally, to

1190
00:48:03,144 --> 00:48:03,644
record.

1191
00:48:04,105 --> 00:48:04,605
God

1192
00:48:04,905 --> 00:48:06,364
sees it all.

1193
00:48:07,170 --> 00:48:09,190
And we need to remind ourselves of that.

1194
00:48:09,569 --> 00:48:11,889
I think sometimes we forget. Right? It's almost

1195
00:48:11,889 --> 00:48:13,650
like we go to God with a news

1196
00:48:13,650 --> 00:48:15,489
flash. Lord, you won't believe what happened to

1197
00:48:15,489 --> 00:48:17,030
me today? And he's like, duh.

1198
00:48:18,690 --> 00:48:20,609
I saw the whole thing. What are you

1199
00:48:20,609 --> 00:48:21,589
talking about?

1200
00:48:23,135 --> 00:48:24,275
If we're not careful,

1201
00:48:26,335 --> 00:48:28,434
when all these things fall upon us,

1202
00:48:29,855 --> 00:48:31,635
we will listen to our flesh

1203
00:48:32,734 --> 00:48:34,734
and it'll say that no one has ever

1204
00:48:34,734 --> 00:48:36,275
suffered like you have.

1205
00:48:37,610 --> 00:48:38,969
You ever heard you ever heard of yourself

1206
00:48:38,969 --> 00:48:40,429
say that to you? Ain't nobody

1207
00:48:40,730 --> 00:48:42,829
been through this like you've been through it.

1208
00:48:44,489 --> 00:48:45,390
It'll say

1209
00:48:45,929 --> 00:48:47,230
you should be angry

1210
00:48:47,849 --> 00:48:50,010
and you should be hurt over all these

1211
00:48:50,010 --> 00:48:50,510
tribulations,

1212
00:48:51,144 --> 00:48:53,305
And in fact, you've got a right to

1213
00:48:53,305 --> 00:48:56,265
be upset because things have not gone your

1214
00:48:56,265 --> 00:48:56,765
way.

1215
00:48:57,864 --> 00:49:00,985
You should probably stand up and demand your

1216
00:49:00,985 --> 00:49:01,485
rights,

1217
00:49:01,945 --> 00:49:04,664
because self will be selfish because self can't

1218
00:49:04,664 --> 00:49:05,820
be anything but

1219
00:49:06,300 --> 00:49:06,800
selfish.

1220
00:49:08,219 --> 00:49:09,980
We need to remind ourselves of this. You

1221
00:49:09,980 --> 00:49:10,480
ready?

1222
00:49:11,099 --> 00:49:12,239
Here it is. Revelation.

1223
00:49:12,619 --> 00:49:15,340
Massive insight right here. Y'all ready? You better

1224
00:49:15,340 --> 00:49:16,320
write this down.

1225
00:49:17,180 --> 00:49:19,760
You better get this. Don't miss it.

1226
00:49:21,505 --> 00:49:22,885
Life is hard.

1227
00:49:25,425 --> 00:49:27,284
Sometimes it hurts bad.

1228
00:49:28,704 --> 00:49:31,585
Sometimes believe it or not you don't get

1229
00:49:31,585 --> 00:49:32,405
your way.

1230
00:49:33,989 --> 00:49:35,050
Someday somebody

1231
00:49:35,670 --> 00:49:37,530
is gonna step on you.

1232
00:49:39,349 --> 00:49:41,690
Someday life will crush you to powder

1233
00:49:42,710 --> 00:49:43,849
under its feet.

1234
00:49:44,869 --> 00:49:47,130
Yet regardless of what comes your way,

1235
00:49:47,590 --> 00:49:48,855
God sees it all.

1236
00:49:49,815 --> 00:49:51,195
God records it all.

1237
00:49:52,295 --> 00:49:53,675
He keeps your tears,

1238
00:49:54,695 --> 00:49:55,994
because God knows.

1239
00:49:57,335 --> 00:49:58,554
God loves you

1240
00:49:59,734 --> 00:50:00,954
and God cares.

1241
00:50:02,510 --> 00:50:05,469
I was reading over in Proverbs 17 verse

1242
00:50:05,469 --> 00:50:05,969
8,

1243
00:50:07,150 --> 00:50:09,569
and that verse there says that we

1244
00:50:11,469 --> 00:50:14,289
are the apple of his eye.

1245
00:50:14,909 --> 00:50:16,130
You ever read that verse?

1246
00:50:17,105 --> 00:50:18,724
You ever wonder what that is?

1247
00:50:19,424 --> 00:50:22,085
What is the apple of the eye?

1248
00:50:22,784 --> 00:50:24,244
Let me pick on a volunteer.

1249
00:50:24,625 --> 00:50:26,885
Not really volunteer because I'm gonna choose somebody.

1250
00:50:27,904 --> 00:50:29,984
So I'm gonna preacher's busy. I'll let him

1251
00:50:29,984 --> 00:50:31,824
do his thing. He's looking up scripture right

1252
00:50:31,824 --> 00:50:34,389
there. I'm gonna get you. Alright?

1253
00:50:34,690 --> 00:50:36,289
Now I know this is gonna be hard,

1254
00:50:36,289 --> 00:50:37,250
but I want you to look me right

1255
00:50:37,250 --> 00:50:39,210
in the eye. I'm gonna look you right

1256
00:50:39,210 --> 00:50:39,989
in the eye.

1257
00:50:40,529 --> 00:50:42,529
Oh, you know what I see looking at

1258
00:50:42,529 --> 00:50:43,650
you in your eye? You know what I

1259
00:50:43,650 --> 00:50:45,009
see? What do you see in my eye?

1260
00:50:45,009 --> 00:50:45,909
Do you see anything?

1261
00:50:47,835 --> 00:50:50,414
Pupils. Yeah. What else you see? Look close.

1262
00:50:51,195 --> 00:50:52,175
Look real close.

1263
00:50:54,875 --> 00:50:56,094
Look in there real close.

1264
00:50:56,715 --> 00:50:59,054
I don't think you're too close to me.

1265
00:50:59,835 --> 00:51:00,809
You don't bar at ease.

1266
00:51:02,010 --> 00:51:03,449
Yeah. Let me get my glasses. When I

1267
00:51:03,449 --> 00:51:04,890
look in your eye, you know what I

1268
00:51:04,890 --> 00:51:05,390
see?

1269
00:51:06,170 --> 00:51:07,230
I see myself.

1270
00:51:09,130 --> 00:51:11,050
And you know why I see myself looking

1271
00:51:11,050 --> 00:51:11,869
back at me?

1272
00:51:12,250 --> 00:51:13,994
Because your eye is on me.

1273
00:51:14,555 --> 00:51:16,494
The apple of the eye is the reflection

1274
00:51:16,715 --> 00:51:18,655
of what the eye rests upon.

1275
00:51:19,275 --> 00:51:21,055
Guess what God's eyes on?

1276
00:51:21,434 --> 00:51:23,595
You and you and you and you and

1277
00:51:23,595 --> 00:51:25,755
you and you and you and you are

1278
00:51:25,755 --> 00:51:27,690
the apple of his eye.

1279
00:51:27,989 --> 00:51:29,429
And if you could get close enough to

1280
00:51:29,429 --> 00:51:30,949
him tonight and look him right in the

1281
00:51:30,949 --> 00:51:33,289
eye, you'd see yourself looking back because

1282
00:51:33,670 --> 00:51:35,289
I see myself. Hello.

1283
00:51:37,349 --> 00:51:39,210
Because you're precious to him,

1284
00:51:39,829 --> 00:51:42,329
and he cares about what you're going through,

1285
00:51:42,764 --> 00:51:44,924
And your flesh will tell you that God

1286
00:51:44,924 --> 00:51:48,045
doesn't hear and God doesn't care and God's

1287
00:51:48,045 --> 00:51:49,184
not paying attention,

1288
00:51:49,484 --> 00:51:51,424
but God hasn't missed anything.

1289
00:51:51,885 --> 00:51:54,125
He's got a plan in it and it's

1290
00:51:54,125 --> 00:51:55,184
gonna be okay.

1291
00:51:55,724 --> 00:51:58,730
And one day he'll wipe all the tears

1292
00:51:58,789 --> 00:51:59,929
from your eyes.

1293
00:52:00,230 --> 00:52:02,730
One day he'll welcome you home.

1294
00:52:03,030 --> 00:52:06,070
And one day it'll all be over, but

1295
00:52:06,070 --> 00:52:06,889
until then

1296
00:52:07,269 --> 00:52:08,409
shout on credit,

1297
00:52:08,789 --> 00:52:12,164
believe what God said, and preach to yourself

1298
00:52:12,304 --> 00:52:14,724
that God cares about you.

1299
00:52:15,344 --> 00:52:16,244
Verse 9,

1300
00:52:17,424 --> 00:52:19,045
he preaches about the reliability

1301
00:52:19,424 --> 00:52:20,085
of God.

1302
00:52:20,625 --> 00:52:22,304
He says when I cry unto thee then

1303
00:52:22,304 --> 00:52:24,304
shall all mine enemies turn back? This I

1304
00:52:24,304 --> 00:52:25,605
know for God

1305
00:52:26,409 --> 00:52:26,909
is

1306
00:52:27,289 --> 00:52:28,110
with me.

1307
00:52:29,210 --> 00:52:31,369
That's a great truth there. David preached this

1308
00:52:31,369 --> 00:52:33,530
to himself and he preached to himself that

1309
00:52:33,530 --> 00:52:36,030
God had his back. He wasn't alone

1310
00:52:36,489 --> 00:52:39,130
as the flesh said he was. The lord

1311
00:52:39,130 --> 00:52:41,864
was there and the Lord was faithful and

1312
00:52:41,864 --> 00:52:44,265
he told himself that one day God would

1313
00:52:44,265 --> 00:52:48,025
come and scatter his enemies because God was

1314
00:52:48,025 --> 00:52:49,785
on his side. And my goodness, don't we

1315
00:52:49,785 --> 00:52:51,005
need to preach that to ourselves?

1316
00:52:52,105 --> 00:52:54,285
Don't we need to preach? I mean sometimes,

1317
00:52:54,344 --> 00:52:56,039
listen, and don't don't lie,

1318
00:52:56,659 --> 00:52:57,940
because they ain't gonna ask you to say

1319
00:52:57,940 --> 00:52:58,760
it out loud.

1320
00:52:59,460 --> 00:53:01,239
But even in your heart don't lie.

1321
00:53:01,859 --> 00:53:03,559
Haven't you felt like God

1322
00:53:04,019 --> 00:53:05,559
has forsaken you?

1323
00:53:07,835 --> 00:53:09,934
That God somehow gone away

1324
00:53:11,355 --> 00:53:13,514
and he's not paying you any attention. Well

1325
00:53:13,514 --> 00:53:15,614
guess what? He can't do that.

1326
00:53:16,954 --> 00:53:18,014
Jesus said,

1327
00:53:18,554 --> 00:53:21,034
lo I'm with you always even to the

1328
00:53:21,034 --> 00:53:22,174
end of the world.

1329
00:53:22,829 --> 00:53:24,530
The writer of Hebrews said,

1330
00:53:25,150 --> 00:53:26,610
what? He'll never

1331
00:53:27,150 --> 00:53:27,650
leave

1332
00:53:28,750 --> 00:53:29,329
you nor

1333
00:53:29,789 --> 00:53:31,010
forsake you.

1334
00:53:32,110 --> 00:53:34,269
Sometimes the flesh will say, man, this world

1335
00:53:34,269 --> 00:53:37,385
we're living in is bad. Evil's controlling everything.

1336
00:53:37,445 --> 00:53:40,184
The devil's winning everything. The truth is

1337
00:53:40,485 --> 00:53:44,085
God has made an eternal investment in his

1338
00:53:44,085 --> 00:53:44,585
people

1339
00:53:44,885 --> 00:53:46,805
and my friend he gave his son to

1340
00:53:46,805 --> 00:53:49,219
die for us and the blood of Jesus

1341
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:52,260
has purchased us under almighty God.

1342
00:53:52,559 --> 00:53:56,019
God will not walk away from his investment.

1343
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:58,820
And you my friend, you

1344
00:53:59,119 --> 00:54:01,920
are part of God's plan. You're part of

1345
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,114
his eternal plan. You were on his mind

1346
00:54:05,174 --> 00:54:05,674
before

1347
00:54:05,974 --> 00:54:08,214
he ever laid the mud seals of this

1348
00:54:08,214 --> 00:54:11,255
world, and he's arranged all the details of

1349
00:54:11,255 --> 00:54:12,474
your life and mine.

1350
00:54:13,335 --> 00:54:15,894
He knows where we are, and he has

1351
00:54:15,894 --> 00:54:16,714
our back.

1352
00:54:17,420 --> 00:54:19,820
And we gotta preach that to ourselves every

1353
00:54:19,820 --> 00:54:20,320
day,

1354
00:54:21,820 --> 00:54:22,320
especially

1355
00:54:22,860 --> 00:54:24,719
in the world we live in now.

1356
00:54:25,660 --> 00:54:27,579
For what shall we then say to these

1357
00:54:27,579 --> 00:54:28,079
things?

1358
00:54:29,625 --> 00:54:31,485
If God be for us,

1359
00:54:32,985 --> 00:54:33,485
who

1360
00:54:34,425 --> 00:54:35,885
can be against us?

1361
00:54:37,224 --> 00:54:39,385
Did you know that's a rhetorical question? It

1362
00:54:39,385 --> 00:54:42,525
does not require an answer. The answer's obvious.

1363
00:54:43,420 --> 00:54:45,980
If God is for us, nobody can be

1364
00:54:45,980 --> 00:54:46,960
against us.

1365
00:54:47,340 --> 00:54:48,880
Oh, but wait a minute now.

1366
00:54:49,739 --> 00:54:53,500
The political system's against us, the economic system's

1367
00:54:53,500 --> 00:54:55,820
against us, the religious systems of the world

1368
00:54:55,820 --> 00:54:57,945
are against us, I mean it seem like

1369
00:54:57,945 --> 00:55:01,005
everybody's against us, but it says there nobody

1370
00:55:01,065 --> 00:55:03,625
can be against us. But the devil's surely

1371
00:55:03,625 --> 00:55:05,244
against us. No.

1372
00:55:07,625 --> 00:55:09,405
They think they're against us,

1373
00:55:10,809 --> 00:55:12,409
but every one of them you better hold

1374
00:55:12,409 --> 00:55:13,949
on to your bonnet right here,

1375
00:55:14,489 --> 00:55:16,889
because every one of them is only doing

1376
00:55:16,889 --> 00:55:17,710
what God

1377
00:55:19,849 --> 00:55:21,309
destined them to do.

1378
00:55:24,244 --> 00:55:25,144
That's hard to

1379
00:55:25,844 --> 00:55:26,344
swallow.

1380
00:55:27,045 --> 00:55:29,525
But they're doing what they do in order

1381
00:55:29,525 --> 00:55:32,425
that God's eternal purposes might be completed.

1382
00:55:33,605 --> 00:55:35,445
So don't get upset when the devil runs

1383
00:55:35,445 --> 00:55:37,525
like crazy. Don't get upset when evil runs

1384
00:55:37,525 --> 00:55:39,704
around like everywhere. Just live for Jesus.

1385
00:55:40,359 --> 00:55:42,519
God's in control of everything and I won't

1386
00:55:42,519 --> 00:55:44,519
give you this. You better write this down

1387
00:55:44,519 --> 00:55:45,019
too.

1388
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:47,159
We talk about the devil a lot don't

1389
00:55:47,159 --> 00:55:47,659
we?

1390
00:55:48,119 --> 00:55:50,039
I'm gonna remind you something about him. He's

1391
00:55:50,039 --> 00:55:50,940
God's devil.

1392
00:55:53,079 --> 00:55:53,579
He's

1393
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:55,019
God's devil.

1394
00:55:55,805 --> 00:55:57,025
And he does nothing

1395
00:55:57,724 --> 00:55:58,945
apart from the permission

1396
00:55:59,724 --> 00:56:01,265
of our heavenly father.

1397
00:56:02,445 --> 00:56:04,144
God protects his people

1398
00:56:05,005 --> 00:56:06,785
in body and in mind

1399
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:10,400
as you and I depend upon him in

1400
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:11,219
all things.

1401
00:56:11,839 --> 00:56:13,039
I can say a whole lot more about

1402
00:56:13,039 --> 00:56:14,400
all of this, but I know time is

1403
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:15,460
precious and I gotta

1404
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:18,880
hurry. But notice in verse 10 through 12,

1405
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:20,639
this is almost the next to the last

1406
00:56:20,639 --> 00:56:21,139
point

1407
00:56:21,714 --> 00:56:22,934
in David's preaching.

1408
00:56:23,714 --> 00:56:26,275
David preached about his rest in God. Look

1409
00:56:26,275 --> 00:56:28,214
at verse number 10. Here he goes again.

1410
00:56:28,434 --> 00:56:30,275
In God will I praise his word, in

1411
00:56:30,275 --> 00:56:32,034
the Lord will I praise his word, in

1412
00:56:32,034 --> 00:56:34,289
God have I put my trust, I will

1413
00:56:34,289 --> 00:56:36,449
not be afraid what man can do unto

1414
00:56:36,449 --> 00:56:39,090
me, second time he said that, thy vows

1415
00:56:39,090 --> 00:56:41,989
are upon me, oh God, I will render

1416
00:56:42,050 --> 00:56:42,550
praises

1417
00:56:43,730 --> 00:56:44,550
unto thee.

1418
00:56:45,489 --> 00:56:46,949
Despite all he faces,

1419
00:56:48,054 --> 00:56:50,394
David preaches a message of hope

1420
00:56:50,695 --> 00:56:51,434
to himself.

1421
00:56:52,295 --> 00:56:54,875
He reminds himself of who God is.

1422
00:56:55,574 --> 00:56:56,875
Our God is true.

1423
00:56:57,815 --> 00:56:59,195
Our God is faithful.

1424
00:56:59,974 --> 00:57:01,994
Our God is worthy of praise,

1425
00:57:03,659 --> 00:57:04,159
regardless

1426
00:57:05,179 --> 00:57:06,319
of the circumstances.

1427
00:57:07,819 --> 00:57:09,280
David reminds himself

1428
00:57:10,859 --> 00:57:13,280
about his vow to trust the Lord.

1429
00:57:13,739 --> 00:57:15,760
He will rest in his commitment

1430
00:57:16,425 --> 00:57:18,664
and he will praise God despite all of

1431
00:57:18,664 --> 00:57:20,364
his trials and enemies.

1432
00:57:21,704 --> 00:57:23,785
How you and I should be preaching that

1433
00:57:23,785 --> 00:57:24,525
to ourselves

1434
00:57:25,144 --> 00:57:26,204
and here's why.

1435
00:57:26,985 --> 00:57:27,965
Life changes

1436
00:57:29,144 --> 00:57:29,644
sometimes

1437
00:57:31,019 --> 00:57:31,760
in a day,

1438
00:57:32,699 --> 00:57:34,159
sometimes in an hour,

1439
00:57:34,699 --> 00:57:36,079
sometimes in a second.

1440
00:57:37,019 --> 00:57:38,079
Life can change,

1441
00:57:39,420 --> 00:57:40,239
but god

1442
00:57:40,780 --> 00:57:42,000
never changes.

1443
00:57:43,335 --> 00:57:45,655
Malachi 3:6 the lord said, I am the

1444
00:57:45,655 --> 00:57:47,514
lord, I change not.

1445
00:57:48,054 --> 00:57:50,454
Begin the writer of Hebrews said about him,

1446
00:57:50,454 --> 00:57:52,234
the same yesterday, today,

1447
00:57:52,534 --> 00:57:55,594
and forever. He does not change.

1448
00:57:56,054 --> 00:57:58,394
He is still the same god he was

1449
00:57:58,829 --> 00:58:01,309
who saved us when we cried out to

1450
00:58:01,309 --> 00:58:04,910
him with little immature faith and believed in

1451
00:58:04,910 --> 00:58:07,789
Jesus and God saved us. And if he

1452
00:58:07,789 --> 00:58:09,570
can do something that monumental,

1453
00:58:09,869 --> 00:58:13,005
that eternal, that colossal with that little bit

1454
00:58:13,005 --> 00:58:15,565
of faith, what can God do in all

1455
00:58:15,565 --> 00:58:18,385
the other matters of our lives?

1456
00:58:19,565 --> 00:58:21,005
And if God can do that, why don't

1457
00:58:21,005 --> 00:58:22,945
we just learn to rest in him?

1458
00:58:24,989 --> 00:58:26,349
I'm a tell you something. My wife gets

1459
00:58:26,349 --> 00:58:28,989
upset with me sometimes. I know everybody every

1460
00:58:28,989 --> 00:58:29,809
wife does.

1461
00:58:30,750 --> 00:58:32,349
I mean, that's why god gave you all

1462
00:58:32,349 --> 00:58:33,250
men. Right?

1463
00:58:34,909 --> 00:58:35,890
Keep you humble.

1464
00:58:37,164 --> 00:58:37,904
That's right.

1465
00:58:38,525 --> 00:58:40,224
Give you something to be upset about.

1466
00:58:41,324 --> 00:58:43,344
My wife does get upset with me

1467
00:58:43,724 --> 00:58:45,984
because I refuse to worry about things.

1468
00:58:46,684 --> 00:58:47,424
I refuse.

1469
00:58:48,525 --> 00:58:50,464
And she'll say stuff to me like,

1470
00:58:51,590 --> 00:58:52,969
doesn't that bother you?

1471
00:58:53,989 --> 00:58:55,289
And I'm like no,

1472
00:58:55,750 --> 00:58:57,849
it doesn't bother me why should it?

1473
00:58:58,309 --> 00:58:59,989
Well we don't know what's gonna happen. No,

1474
00:58:59,989 --> 00:59:01,349
I don't know and I don't need to

1475
00:59:01,349 --> 00:59:03,429
know but God knows and it's gonna be

1476
00:59:03,429 --> 00:59:04,869
okay because he said it would I'm not

1477
00:59:04,869 --> 00:59:06,090
gonna worry about it.

1478
00:59:06,585 --> 00:59:08,344
She says, but you gotta think about it.

1479
00:59:08,344 --> 00:59:09,244
I said, why?

1480
00:59:10,344 --> 00:59:10,844
Why?

1481
00:59:11,224 --> 00:59:12,744
I've already prayed about it, why I gotta

1482
00:59:12,744 --> 00:59:14,045
think any more about it?

1483
00:59:14,585 --> 00:59:15,704
She said, well that ain't the way it

1484
00:59:15,704 --> 00:59:16,905
works. I said, well that's the way it

1485
00:59:16,905 --> 00:59:18,045
works in my life.

1486
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:20,480
I said, now you can sit over here

1487
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:22,400
and fret all you want to, I'm gonna

1488
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:24,099
sit over here and be happy in Jesus.

1489
00:59:25,039 --> 00:59:26,500
That always makes her mad.

1490
00:59:27,679 --> 00:59:30,739
I try to be pastoral and loving, but

1491
00:59:32,675 --> 00:59:34,454
sometimes you just gotta tell the truth.

1492
00:59:35,235 --> 00:59:37,155
And there's some of you folk, I guarantee

1493
00:59:37,155 --> 00:59:38,594
you, there's some in this church, if you

1494
00:59:38,594 --> 00:59:40,195
if you couldn't worry you wouldn't have nothing

1495
00:59:40,195 --> 00:59:41,094
else to do.

1496
00:59:41,875 --> 00:59:43,014
And that's a fact.

1497
00:59:43,875 --> 00:59:46,469
And you worry worry worry worry, and your

1498
00:59:46,469 --> 00:59:48,650
worry has never changed anything.

1499
00:59:49,349 --> 00:59:51,769
Why not just learn to rest in Jesus

1500
00:59:51,829 --> 00:59:53,989
and learn to do that by preaching to

1501
00:59:53,989 --> 00:59:54,489
yourself

1502
00:59:54,789 --> 00:59:57,690
about what God has already promised you?

1503
00:59:59,835 --> 01:00:02,875
Where's the attitude like Job, that when his

1504
01:00:02,875 --> 01:00:05,755
10 children died and all of his wealth

1505
01:00:05,755 --> 01:00:08,795
was destroyed, he bowed down and worshiped and

1506
01:00:08,795 --> 01:00:10,414
he praised God.

1507
01:00:11,434 --> 01:00:12,574
Where is that attitude?

1508
01:00:13,839 --> 01:00:15,859
Yeah, but you don't know what might happen.

1509
01:00:16,719 --> 01:00:18,719
I mean, if that Harris lady gets in,

1510
01:00:18,719 --> 01:00:20,559
preacher, it's gonna be bad. I'm telling you,

1511
01:00:20,559 --> 01:00:21,059
man.

1512
01:00:21,359 --> 01:00:23,119
Next thing you know dogs will be marrying

1513
01:00:23,119 --> 01:00:24,639
cats and the whole world will be going

1514
01:00:24,639 --> 01:00:25,139
crazy.

1515
01:00:26,864 --> 01:00:27,525
Could be.

1516
01:00:28,465 --> 01:00:30,164
I ain't gonna worry about it though.

1517
01:00:31,025 --> 01:00:33,824
God still got it. Amen. Yeah. But if

1518
01:00:33,824 --> 01:00:35,505
Trump gets here and you you don't know

1519
01:00:35,505 --> 01:00:37,184
what he's gonna do, that man's he's a

1520
01:00:37,184 --> 01:00:38,644
little off his rocker.

1521
01:00:40,559 --> 01:00:41,700
Aren't they all?

1522
01:00:43,599 --> 01:00:45,119
But I'm not gonna worry about I had

1523
01:00:45,119 --> 01:00:46,400
to throw him in because I said something

1524
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:47,519
about the other. You know how it is.

1525
01:00:47,519 --> 01:00:48,900
It's gotta be fair. Right?

1526
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:51,840
This church probably does have a tax exempt

1527
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:53,539
status you won't hang on to.

1528
01:00:54,815 --> 01:00:56,655
And so I'm trying to be I'm trying

1529
01:00:56,655 --> 01:00:58,675
to be very PC here.

1530
01:00:59,375 --> 01:01:00,595
They all crazy

1531
01:01:01,055 --> 01:01:03,295
and ain't none of them worth killing and

1532
01:01:03,295 --> 01:01:05,235
they all gonna mess it up.

1533
01:01:05,775 --> 01:01:08,195
But guess what? God's still on the throne.

1534
01:01:08,980 --> 01:01:10,980
Why not just rest in him and trust

1535
01:01:10,980 --> 01:01:11,480
him

1536
01:01:11,780 --> 01:01:13,400
and don't worry about it?

1537
01:01:14,660 --> 01:01:15,160
Don't

1538
01:01:15,700 --> 01:01:16,200
worry

1539
01:01:17,700 --> 01:01:18,360
about it.

1540
01:01:19,380 --> 01:01:21,079
Sometimes that's not easy,

1541
01:01:22,385 --> 01:01:23,925
but it's always possible

1542
01:01:24,464 --> 01:01:24,964
if

1543
01:01:26,065 --> 01:01:28,005
you've been preaching to yourself

1544
01:01:29,105 --> 01:01:30,244
the right sermons.

1545
01:01:31,344 --> 01:01:33,284
If you haven't, if you haven't,

1546
01:01:34,130 --> 01:01:36,289
you may have reason to doubt because you

1547
01:01:36,289 --> 01:01:37,349
don't know the truth.

1548
01:01:38,130 --> 01:01:39,190
But the truth,

1549
01:01:40,130 --> 01:01:42,050
well Jesus said it set you free and

1550
01:01:42,050 --> 01:01:42,869
I believe that.

1551
01:01:43,570 --> 01:01:45,410
Sets me free from worry. What's it ever

1552
01:01:45,410 --> 01:01:46,309
done for you?

1553
01:01:48,394 --> 01:01:49,675
I mean, really when you get down to

1554
01:01:49,675 --> 01:01:51,114
it, if you're worried about stuff, who are

1555
01:01:51,114 --> 01:01:52,655
you trusting? God or you?

1556
01:01:54,074 --> 01:01:56,014
You're trusting yourself. That's the problem.

1557
01:01:57,275 --> 01:01:59,214
That ain't no point in it. Just rest.

1558
01:01:59,755 --> 01:02:01,355
Go home, go to sleep. It'll be all

1559
01:02:01,355 --> 01:02:01,855
right.

1560
01:02:02,219 --> 01:02:03,659
If you wake up in the morning, praise

1561
01:02:03,659 --> 01:02:05,199
God. If you don't, praise God.

1562
01:02:06,059 --> 01:02:07,420
If you wake up and the world's still

1563
01:02:07,420 --> 01:02:09,500
together, hallelujah. If it's not, praise the Lord.

1564
01:02:09,500 --> 01:02:10,400
It doesn't matter.

1565
01:02:11,019 --> 01:02:13,519
It doesn't matter what happens. It's okay.

1566
01:02:14,539 --> 01:02:15,599
That's my point.

1567
01:02:16,619 --> 01:02:17,760
Did I make it?

1568
01:02:20,244 --> 01:02:20,985
Thank you.

1569
01:02:22,804 --> 01:02:23,465
Don't worry,

1570
01:02:25,125 --> 01:02:25,625
rest.

1571
01:02:26,085 --> 01:02:26,985
Verse 13,

1572
01:02:28,644 --> 01:02:31,285
David praised God praise God and preached rather

1573
01:02:31,285 --> 01:02:33,285
about his relationship to God. Look what he

1574
01:02:33,285 --> 01:02:35,380
said. He said, thou hast delivered my soul

1575
01:02:35,380 --> 01:02:37,940
from death. That's salvation, right? Will thou not

1576
01:02:37,940 --> 01:02:39,780
deliver my feet from falling that I may

1577
01:02:39,780 --> 01:02:42,019
walk before God in the light of the

1578
01:02:42,019 --> 01:02:42,519
living?

1579
01:02:42,980 --> 01:02:45,300
So he preached himself about God's saving grace.

1580
01:02:45,300 --> 01:02:47,474
He remembered back to a time when the

1581
01:02:47,474 --> 01:02:50,215
Lord had delivered him from his sins.

1582
01:02:51,315 --> 01:02:52,755
And I go back to what I said,

1583
01:02:52,755 --> 01:02:54,055
if God can do that,

1584
01:02:54,914 --> 01:02:56,855
there is nothing he can't do.

1585
01:02:57,715 --> 01:02:59,474
But we act like that's the least thing

1586
01:02:59,474 --> 01:03:00,454
God can do.

1587
01:03:01,650 --> 01:03:04,309
That's the biggest things God's ever done

1588
01:03:04,929 --> 01:03:06,869
is to save his enemies

1589
01:03:07,409 --> 01:03:08,469
out of death

1590
01:03:08,769 --> 01:03:10,469
and hell and sin

1591
01:03:10,929 --> 01:03:13,909
and bring them into living faith in Christ.

1592
01:03:14,210 --> 01:03:16,309
That is a big move of God.

1593
01:03:17,994 --> 01:03:19,994
Every time we see sinners saved at church,

1594
01:03:19,994 --> 01:03:21,375
well, tear the church down

1595
01:03:21,835 --> 01:03:24,094
praising God because that's a big miracle.

1596
01:03:25,355 --> 01:03:27,454
God playing your papa, that ain't nothing.

1597
01:03:28,715 --> 01:03:30,875
God helping you meet your car payment, that

1598
01:03:30,875 --> 01:03:31,695
ain't nothing.

1599
01:03:32,630 --> 01:03:35,289
God helping you through surgery, that ain't nothing.

1600
01:03:36,469 --> 01:03:37,930
God saving your soul,

1601
01:03:38,309 --> 01:03:39,610
that's big stuff.

1602
01:03:40,309 --> 01:03:41,510
And by the way, if he ever did

1603
01:03:41,510 --> 01:03:43,510
that for you, there ain't nothing else he

1604
01:03:43,510 --> 01:03:44,650
can't do for you.

1605
01:03:45,525 --> 01:03:47,364
I'm just telling you, God's not gonna forsake

1606
01:03:47,364 --> 01:03:47,864
you.

1607
01:03:48,885 --> 01:03:50,565
And if God can save you, he can

1608
01:03:50,565 --> 01:03:51,464
handle anything.

1609
01:03:52,484 --> 01:03:53,704
And one of these days,

1610
01:03:54,804 --> 01:03:57,045
he's gonna deliver us from this flesh that

1611
01:03:57,045 --> 01:03:58,105
torments us

1612
01:03:58,809 --> 01:04:00,569
and from this world in which we are

1613
01:04:00,569 --> 01:04:01,069
tormented.

1614
01:04:02,969 --> 01:04:05,210
And all these things that dog our steps

1615
01:04:05,210 --> 01:04:06,569
here, I've read the end of the book.

1616
01:04:06,569 --> 01:04:08,329
Guess what? None of them can follow you

1617
01:04:08,329 --> 01:04:08,829
home.

1618
01:04:10,329 --> 01:04:12,349
None of them can follow you home.

1619
01:04:13,514 --> 01:04:15,355
Told y'all a sudden I'd had my dog

1620
01:04:15,355 --> 01:04:16,255
with me, right?

1621
01:04:17,594 --> 01:04:19,434
I let her outside the day to do

1622
01:04:19,434 --> 01:04:20,894
her thing, you know.

1623
01:04:22,474 --> 01:04:23,775
And she's got a problem.

1624
01:04:25,275 --> 01:04:26,335
She's a schnauzer.

1625
01:04:27,289 --> 01:04:29,369
And if you know anything about schnauzers, they're

1626
01:04:29,369 --> 01:04:29,869
stubborn.

1627
01:04:30,730 --> 01:04:32,510
They're more stubborn than Baptists.

1628
01:04:33,449 --> 01:04:34,589
Lord have mercy.

1629
01:04:35,210 --> 01:04:36,889
A mule ain't got nothing on her, a

1630
01:04:36,889 --> 01:04:40,349
mule is calm and complacent compared to her.

1631
01:04:40,565 --> 01:04:41,385
She don't listen.

1632
01:04:42,085 --> 01:04:43,364
So I let her out and she runs

1633
01:04:43,364 --> 01:04:45,045
up the yard and goes over the neighborhood,

1634
01:04:45,045 --> 01:04:46,565
heading toward the neighbor's yard. I tell her

1635
01:04:46,565 --> 01:04:48,184
to stop and she looks at me,

1636
01:04:49,125 --> 01:04:50,664
turns around and keeps her running.

1637
01:04:51,204 --> 01:04:53,144
I said I'm gonna get my stick.

1638
01:04:54,359 --> 01:04:56,059
She stopped and looked at me again.

1639
01:04:56,679 --> 01:04:58,219
She saw I didn't have one

1640
01:04:58,920 --> 01:05:00,460
and so she kept on running.

1641
01:05:01,639 --> 01:05:02,859
Saab went up there.

1642
01:05:03,719 --> 01:05:05,159
When I went up there, I walked around

1643
01:05:05,159 --> 01:05:06,759
the neighbor's car. He was over there in

1644
01:05:06,759 --> 01:05:08,619
the yard holding a great old big dog,

1645
01:05:09,255 --> 01:05:10,855
But I see the even bigger dog coming

1646
01:05:10,855 --> 01:05:12,135
around the side of the house and I

1647
01:05:12,135 --> 01:05:13,194
thought, oh no.

1648
01:05:13,654 --> 01:05:15,194
They're gonna kill this dog

1649
01:05:15,494 --> 01:05:17,494
and my wife and my grandchildren are gonna

1650
01:05:17,494 --> 01:05:18,315
kill me.

1651
01:05:19,494 --> 01:05:21,494
But my dog saw that dog about the

1652
01:05:21,494 --> 01:05:22,554
time I did.

1653
01:05:23,420 --> 01:05:24,860
She didn't need me to tell her nothing.

1654
01:05:24,860 --> 01:05:25,920
You know what she did?

1655
01:05:26,460 --> 01:05:28,860
She turned and ran as hard as she

1656
01:05:28,860 --> 01:05:29,599
could run,

1657
01:05:30,059 --> 01:05:31,980
and that pit bull was right on her

1658
01:05:31,980 --> 01:05:33,599
heels all the way back.

1659
01:05:34,460 --> 01:05:36,960
I thought, yep, one gulp and she gone.

1660
01:05:37,974 --> 01:05:39,414
Get down there and find out he's a

1661
01:05:39,414 --> 01:05:41,675
big old baby. He just wanted a friend

1662
01:05:42,454 --> 01:05:43,835
and everything is okay.

1663
01:05:44,934 --> 01:05:46,614
There's a lot of things that chase us

1664
01:05:46,614 --> 01:05:47,835
through life, aren't they?

1665
01:05:48,614 --> 01:05:50,375
A lot of things we fret about, worry

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01:05:50,375 --> 01:05:51,974
about, and wonder how it's going to turn

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01:05:51,974 --> 01:05:54,079
out. One of these days you're gonna go

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01:05:54,079 --> 01:05:54,980
to sleep here

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01:05:55,680 --> 01:05:57,440
and you're gonna wake up over there. Not

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01:05:57,440 --> 01:05:58,420
a single thing

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01:05:59,039 --> 01:06:00,960
that's tracked you down here is gonna track

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01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:01,699
you home.

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None of it.

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01:06:05,204 --> 01:06:06,184
None of it.

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01:06:07,045 --> 01:06:09,285
So if God can save you, can't God

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01:06:09,285 --> 01:06:10,965
take care of all that stuff along the

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01:06:10,965 --> 01:06:12,505
way that bothers you?

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01:06:13,285 --> 01:06:15,065
That horrible boss you got,

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01:06:16,085 --> 01:06:17,704
God gives grace for that.

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01:06:18,719 --> 01:06:20,420
That dead end job you're in,

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01:06:20,719 --> 01:06:22,420
does it put food on your table?

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01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:24,260
Praise God for it.

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01:06:24,559 --> 01:06:26,480
Ask God to open another door somewhere, maybe

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01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:27,139
he will.

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01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:30,239
That preacher you got and you wish you'd

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01:06:30,239 --> 01:06:31,300
just move on,

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01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:34,019
but does he feed you?

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01:06:35,105 --> 01:06:36,484
Praise God for him.

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01:06:37,184 --> 01:06:38,244
Pray for him.

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01:06:38,784 --> 01:06:40,625
Right. That's the best way you can get

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01:06:40,625 --> 01:06:41,824
rid of a preacher anyway. Did you know

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01:06:41,824 --> 01:06:43,744
that? Pray for him. If you pray for

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01:06:43,744 --> 01:06:45,184
him, who gets to get somebody to take

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01:06:45,184 --> 01:06:47,425
him off your hands? That's right. It's a

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01:06:47,425 --> 01:06:48,804
better church will take him.

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01:06:50,130 --> 01:06:51,969
You better pray for him. God's given you

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01:06:51,969 --> 01:06:53,650
a good man. I'm just trying to tell

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01:06:53,650 --> 01:06:54,150
you

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01:06:54,609 --> 01:06:56,849
all that stuff that bothers you here, it

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01:06:56,849 --> 01:06:58,929
ain't gonna go home with you. You got

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01:06:58,929 --> 01:06:59,429
that?

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01:07:00,130 --> 01:07:00,869
Now listen,

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01:07:02,694 --> 01:07:04,614
I preach way too long as I always

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01:07:04,614 --> 01:07:05,114
do.

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01:07:07,255 --> 01:07:09,434
I would say I'm sorry, but I'm not.

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01:07:12,214 --> 01:07:14,474
Are you watching a 4 Alabama game?

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01:07:19,639 --> 01:07:21,880
Me neither, but you can. Some of you

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01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:22,380
can.

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01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:26,219
Let me close by reminding you

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01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,320
that the greatest sermon you'll ever hear is

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01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:30,940
the one you preach to yourself.

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01:07:31,894 --> 01:07:34,135
When you confront yourself with the truth of

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01:07:34,135 --> 01:07:34,954
God's word

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01:07:35,734 --> 01:07:38,054
and you silence your own heart in the

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01:07:38,054 --> 01:07:39,034
midst of it

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01:07:39,335 --> 01:07:41,434
and you let God speak into you,

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01:07:41,894 --> 01:07:44,950
it'll change your life. So every day remind

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01:07:44,950 --> 01:07:47,849
yourself of your positional standing in Christ.

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01:07:48,390 --> 01:07:49,610
You have been justified.

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01:07:50,789 --> 01:07:53,210
Remind yourself how much God loves you.

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01:07:53,590 --> 01:07:55,849
He loves you with an everlasting love,

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01:07:56,150 --> 01:07:57,829
which means there never was a time when

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01:07:57,829 --> 01:07:59,369
God started loving you,

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01:07:59,885 --> 01:08:01,644
there never will be a time when God

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01:08:01,644 --> 01:08:04,464
stopped loving you. He's loved you forever,

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01:08:04,844 --> 01:08:06,385
and he always will.

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01:08:06,764 --> 01:08:09,184
Remind yourself that all of your transgressions

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01:08:09,565 --> 01:08:11,724
have been removed from you as far as

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01:08:11,724 --> 01:08:13,744
the east is from the west.

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01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:17,779
Remind yourself that if you're his, you are

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01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:20,399
his eternally, that he has given unto you

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01:08:20,399 --> 01:08:23,060
everlasting life and you should not perish.

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01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:26,899
Remind yourself that he feeds the sparrows.

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01:08:28,114 --> 01:08:30,595
He puts clothing on the lilies. He's gonna

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01:08:30,595 --> 01:08:31,655
take care of you.

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01:08:32,275 --> 01:08:34,835
Preach to yourself about how he's coming to

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01:08:34,835 --> 01:08:37,395
get you. Walk with him every day because

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01:08:37,395 --> 01:08:40,755
he is walking with you. Remind yourself that

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01:08:40,755 --> 01:08:42,435
one of these days we're going to a

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01:08:42,435 --> 01:08:45,590
place that is far better, where we will

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01:08:45,590 --> 01:08:48,729
be changed and Satan will be judged.

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01:08:49,829 --> 01:08:52,310
But while you're here, God's grace is always

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01:08:52,310 --> 01:08:52,810
sufficient

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01:08:53,829 --> 01:08:56,250
and all of his promises are true

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01:08:57,515 --> 01:09:00,494
and you already have peace that passeth understanding.

1746
01:09:01,515 --> 01:09:03,774
You already have joy, right,

1747
01:09:04,234 --> 01:09:06,574
that's full, Peter said, of glory.

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01:09:07,354 --> 01:09:10,574
God's always been faithful and he always will.

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01:09:11,510 --> 01:09:14,630
So I'm really am just almost I'm about

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01:09:14,630 --> 01:09:16,489
that far from being done.

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01:09:17,909 --> 01:09:19,430
But I gotta give you 2 verses of

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01:09:19,430 --> 01:09:19,930
scripture

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01:09:20,949 --> 01:09:22,090
before I quit.

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01:09:25,314 --> 01:09:26,614
One of them is Proverbs

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01:09:26,914 --> 01:09:28,854
chapter 23 verse 7.

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The Bible says for as a man thinketh

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01:09:32,594 --> 01:09:33,654
in his heart,

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01:09:34,755 --> 01:09:35,895
so is he.

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01:09:36,514 --> 01:09:37,335
Very important.

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01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:39,340
What you think

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01:09:40,119 --> 01:09:40,619
matters.

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01:09:41,719 --> 01:09:43,739
And if you listen to what you think,

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01:09:44,199 --> 01:09:45,579
that's what you'll be.

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01:09:46,199 --> 01:09:47,719
But if you let the word of God

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01:09:47,719 --> 01:09:49,179
inform what you think,

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01:09:50,199 --> 01:09:52,359
then you're thinking will be different and you'll

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01:09:52,359 --> 01:09:53,099
be elevated.

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01:09:53,914 --> 01:09:55,854
And the second one is Romans 12:2,

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For the Bible says, and be not conformed

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01:09:59,274 --> 01:10:00,175
to this world,

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01:10:01,274 --> 01:10:02,335
but be transformed.

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01:10:03,515 --> 01:10:04,015
How?

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01:10:04,875 --> 01:10:05,854
By the renewing

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01:10:06,715 --> 01:10:08,175
of the mind.

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01:10:09,350 --> 01:10:11,609
That you may prove what is that good

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01:10:11,750 --> 01:10:14,569
and acceptable and perfect will of

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01:10:14,869 --> 01:10:15,369
God.

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01:10:16,789 --> 01:10:18,550
A lot of our problem today comes down

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01:10:18,550 --> 01:10:19,609
to stinking thinking.

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01:10:20,470 --> 01:10:21,289
That's right.

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01:10:21,885 --> 01:10:24,465
And Paul said in 2nd Corinthians chapter,

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01:10:24,844 --> 01:10:27,404
number number 10 verse 5 that we are

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01:10:27,404 --> 01:10:29,085
to we are to take hold of our

1784
01:10:29,085 --> 01:10:31,484
thoughts and we are to bring them captive

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01:10:31,484 --> 01:10:33,744
to Christ, and we are to say lord,

1786
01:10:33,885 --> 01:10:36,524
here's what sales said to me. What do

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01:10:36,524 --> 01:10:38,180
you have to say about this?

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01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:40,739
And let him straighten it out.

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01:10:41,119 --> 01:10:42,180
So I'm done.

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01:10:43,840 --> 01:10:44,899
I'm done preaching

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01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:47,460
and now it's preaching time.

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01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:50,020
It's time for you

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01:10:51,025 --> 01:10:52,005
to start preaching

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01:10:52,385 --> 01:10:53,204
to yourself

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01:10:54,465 --> 01:10:55,284
right now

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01:10:55,985 --> 01:10:57,985
all the way through until the moment you

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01:10:57,985 --> 01:10:58,485
leave.

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01:10:58,945 --> 01:11:00,225
And if you need to ask God to

1799
01:11:00,225 --> 01:11:02,545
help you start preaching suitable sermons to your

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01:11:02,545 --> 01:11:04,405
heart, you ought to come do that.

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01:11:04,770 --> 01:11:05,969
If you need to talk to him about

1802
01:11:05,969 --> 01:11:08,130
all these issues that you're dealing with, come

1803
01:11:08,130 --> 01:11:09,969
and talk to him about it. Get some

1804
01:11:09,969 --> 01:11:12,609
heavenly direction. And if you've been living your

1805
01:11:12,609 --> 01:11:14,929
life without him, listen you need to come

1806
01:11:14,929 --> 01:11:16,630
to Christ and be saved.

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01:11:17,809 --> 01:11:19,270
I don't know what you need,

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01:11:19,895 --> 01:11:21,675
but I know he's the need meter.

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01:11:22,854 --> 01:11:23,835
So I'm done.

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01:11:24,454 --> 01:11:26,774
Let's pray. Father, thank you for the word

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01:11:26,774 --> 01:11:28,694
of God. Thank you for what it teaches

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01:11:28,694 --> 01:11:31,574
us about you and about ourselves. Thank you

1813
01:11:31,574 --> 01:11:33,494
for the help it provides, the hope it

1814
01:11:33,494 --> 01:11:36,020
gives, and for the learning it imparts.

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01:11:36,399 --> 01:11:38,239
And I beg you this evening that you

1816
01:11:38,239 --> 01:11:40,399
would bless your word in the hearts and

1817
01:11:40,399 --> 01:11:42,739
lives of these people. They've been so patient

1818
01:11:43,039 --> 01:11:44,960
and so kind to listen to me rant

1819
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:46,880
and rave. And God, I pray that you'd

1820
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:48,560
direct them to a place where they can

1821
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:49,939
begin to preach to themselves

1822
01:11:50,614 --> 01:11:52,314
everything they know to be true.

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01:11:52,695 --> 01:11:54,155
Have your way right now

1824
01:11:54,614 --> 01:11:56,215
as we wait for folk to do business

1825
01:11:56,215 --> 01:11:56,875
with God.

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01:11:57,175 --> 01:11:58,935
Again, thank you for this church. Thank you

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01:11:58,935 --> 01:12:01,015
for the pastor. Thank you for how you've

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01:12:01,015 --> 01:12:02,534
blessed them and what you're gonna do in

1829
01:12:02,534 --> 01:12:03,195
the future.

1830
01:12:03,510 --> 01:12:05,849
We give you praise already for this week.

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01:12:06,069 --> 01:12:08,329
Thank you, Lord. In your name. Amen.

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01:12:08,789 --> 01:12:11,849
Special thank you to Carter Pridemore, Brian Harris,

1833
01:12:12,069 --> 01:12:13,050
Waverly Henderson,

1834
01:12:13,429 --> 01:12:16,550
Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Bartain for our

1835
01:12:16,550 --> 01:12:18,534
theme song, truth Set Me Free.

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01:12:18,835 --> 01:12:21,255
I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio.

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01:12:21,635 --> 01:12:23,635
We hope you can join us live next

1838
01:12:23,635 --> 01:12:26,114
Monday at 6 PM CST. Thank you for

1839
01:12:26,114 --> 01:12:28,774
listening. But truth found me there.

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01:12:29,635 --> 01:12:31,814
It was in my darkest eye.

1841
01:12:32,354 --> 01:12:33,479
I traded my black

1842
01:12:49,944 --> 01:12:51,164
set me free.

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01:12:52,104 --> 01:12:52,604
Oh,

1844
01:12:53,305 --> 01:12:53,805
oh,

1845
01:12:54,824 --> 01:12:55,324
truth

1846
01:12:55,625 --> 01:12:57,085
set me free.

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01:12:58,024 --> 01:12:58,524
Oh,

1848
01:12:59,305 --> 01:12:59,805
oh,

1849
01:13:00,744 --> 01:13:01,244
truth

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01:13:01,625 --> 01:13:02,880
set me free.