00:00 Intro

00:11 A Day in Downtown McKinney

01:45 Heading to Mount Lebanon

02:30 Please Pray for the Retreat

02:46 Exploring the Psalms

02:59 Psalm 3: Trust in the Lord

07:16 Psalm 4: Avoiding Sinful Anger

08:52 Psalm 12: The Power of Words

10:17 Psalm 13: Trusting in God's Timing

13:17 Psalm 28: Corporate Prayer and Trust

14:13 Psalm 55: Betrayal and Trust

17:24 Conclusion and Prayer

18:12 Closing Remarks

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hey.

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It is Friday of Med's Retreat,

so be praying for us as we

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head up to Mount Lebanon.

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Up the mountain, all

the way up the mountain.

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Yeah.

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Hey, I was in downtown

McKinney the other day.

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Hey.

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With my wife.

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We went out on Monday, we

had lunch there or whatever.

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Walked around to the Great Goose.

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No.

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We had, we ate at this

place called Spoons.

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It was okay, but that's besides the point.

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We also went antiquing in that antique

shop that is in downtown McKinney.

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The one Oh yeah, the one I told you about.

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That one's haunted and

it gives me weird vibes.

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I told you a hundred percent.

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Told you it's also, I walked

in the guy behind the counter.

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I'm pretty sure he, all that

stuff was his, at one point, I

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think like 18 hundreds marbles.

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I think they belonged to him.

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You just gave that vibe

if you catch my drift.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, we were walking

around the streets.

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There's a place there

called mountain cookies.

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Like mountain cookies.

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I've not been there.

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And also where the mountains,

they're not anywhere here.

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And then Doug and Linda, I don't know

who Doug and Linda are, but they've got

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a ski shop, winter ski, like snow ski

shop in downtown McKinney, Texas that's

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closed from April through September.

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How do they pull that off?

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I don't know.

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They've, and they've got a

massive parking lot behind it.

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That's clo, that's reserved parking

for Doug and Linda Ski shop only.

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Like you guys aren't even bummer.

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Even here from April to September.

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I think I'd park there anyway.

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I just am.

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I'm flower gased.

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My, my gabber was flad

or whatever that is.

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I just, I'm scratching

my head going mountains.

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Where?

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Where are the mountains?

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I've never seen that place.

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Is that in the same square?

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It is, yeah.

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Doug and Linda Ski show.

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I must have just totally missed it.

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It's down by the Collin County Museum.

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The, okay.

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Collin County History Museum.

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It's like across the street

from that, which, that place

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is only open on Saturdays.

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I went to go try to find out

strange hours about the history.

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Strange hours, Saturdays only.

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And it's not too on, unlike Salina,

they have everything closed on Monday.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Like we're just gonna choose Monday.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I mean in quaint area.

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Fun.

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But all that to say, we're going

up to the Mountain Mount Lebanon.

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Mount Lebanon Center.

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I don't know how mountainous it is.

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Yeah.

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In fact, I'd be willing to guess

that the elevation is probably

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pretty similar to our elevation here.

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It's got some hills because you can

look down over Lake Ray Hubbard or

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whatever that is, that's out there.

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One of those hikes that the

men are gonna be able to go

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on, I think looks out over the.

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The lake, and so either the lake goes way

down or it's a little bit of a rise, but

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certainly not a mountain that was bold.

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For them to call it that.

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Yeah, I'm looking at the

topography right here.

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It looks pretty flat.

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That's all I'm saying.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Lewis and Clark, I didn't

realize you were gonna go

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topographical maps on me and stuff.

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I'm just Google thing here.

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Just a little bit.

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Little bit.

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It's out.

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Again, hard pressed to call it a mountain.

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Yeah.

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But there's at least

something going on there.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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There you go.

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We're gonna be there.

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Pray for us, pray for a great weekend.

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Pray for we, what we talked about

on Sunday, that this is gonna be a

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short amount of time and we want the

impact to be as maximal as possible.

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So just pray that these messages will

go well, that relationships will be

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deepened, and that we will make it

back safely there, and back safely.

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We would appreciate hers on both ends.

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That'd be great.

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Alright, let's get in

Psalm three through four.

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Psalm 12 through 13, Psalm 28 in Psalm 55.

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We got a lot.

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Not a lot of 'em are long.

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In fact, I think 55 is the longest

one of the bunch, but yeah.

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Psalm three.

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We've got David when he's

on the run from Absalom.

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So we just talked about that yesterday,

that Absalom came in, took the throne.

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David's running.

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Here's a title in Psalm three.

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In fact, this is the first title

of any of the Psalms given.

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We don't find one in

Psalm one or Psalm two.

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So the first titled Psalm

is written by David.

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In the wake of what we just

were looking at yesterday.

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And this is a great model of a

lament psalm that demonstrates an

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honesty balanced with a robust faith.

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And I think it's appropriate for

us to have this, to pray this

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when we find ourselves in the

midst of valleys and trials.

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You get the it's the Old Testament, but

God in verse three, but you oh Lord.

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So he's talking about a situation,

those that are against him.

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Verse three.

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But you, it's that moment of faith

pivoting here to say, I'm gonna

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trust in the Lord no matter what.

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The circumstances are around me.

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Yeah.

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I think it's amazing

that he slept that night.

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Verse five, I laid down and slept.

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I woke again for the Lord sustained me.

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This is the kind of trust, and this

is what makes David so endearing.

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Even though I had lots of harsh words to

say about him in the yesterday's podcast

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I, we had to bleep out some of them.

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I did the editing.

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There was no bleeping to my knowledge.

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But it, I.

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This is what makes him so lovable

and so endearing is that he

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really does have a genuine love

for the Lord and a care for him.

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And this goes to show how woefully

broken we can be apart from

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the Lord and even in the Lord.

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Now and now with all that said

we have something dramatically

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better than what David had.

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We have the indwelling spirit within us.

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He had the spirit for the

function of his kingship.

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We have the spirit because of our

connectedness to and through Christ.

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So we have the spirit in a different way.

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It's like level 10.

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If David had a level one understanding,

we have a level 10 understanding.

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With that said, then.

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We can have a kind of trust in him

that allows us to sleep, even though

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we're going through a really severe

trial or situation, we can trust him.

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So somebody talk to the

person that's in the audience.

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Audience.

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Is that what that's listening?

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Who struggles with that?

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Who struggles with sleep?

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When, maybe even right now, maybe

they've got marital strife going on.

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Maybe they've got a diagnosis that's out

there, maybe they've got a wayward kid.

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Maybe it's one of the kiddos that

listens to us, I know kids that have

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had difficulty sleeping that's a hard

spot to be to struggle to fall asleep.

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That's not a good place because

the brain doesn't do well.

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When it's tired late at night, it's worse.

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It's a vicious cycle and I think the

way that we begin a virtuous cycle.

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And break that pattern is to

do what David's doing here.

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I wanna point out, look at this.

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He takes his troubles to the Lord.

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And he acknowledges the things that he,

that people are even saying about him.

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So he's doing a lot less

talking to himself, and he's

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talking a lot to the Lord.

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So verse three, he's talking to the Lord,

you are a Lord, are a shield about me.

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So he's rehearsing and declaring things

that he knows are true about God to God.

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And so this is something

that we should do.

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This is Philippians four applied and.

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Psalm chapter three, we're

taking truths about God.

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We're declaring them.

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We're stating them to God

out loud for ourselves.

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Verse four, he's crying to the Lord.

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That crying can be an actual weeping

or just a crying out to him for help.

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Whatever it is, David's taking all of

his issues and taking them to the Lord.

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Peter tells us to cast your cares upon

the Lord because he cares for you.

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So all of that leads up to verse five.

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I laid down and slept.

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David isn't just going

about his day and then when.

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Nine 30 comes, he's

it's time to go to bed.

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David is working out his issue with the

Lord, and consequently, because he's able

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to do that when bedtime comes, he's able

to lay down asleep because it's the Lord.

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He says here, who does it?

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He's a, it's the Lord who sustains him.

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The whole process is one long, drawn

out act of faith, and that's where

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I think we have a lot to learn.

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Sometimes we just sit with it

and we're just thinking about

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it and really spiraling on it.

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We're not really doing a lot of good.

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We're just.

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Really spending time turning our wheels

ruminating on it and really not meditating

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upon the Lord who oversees it all.

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Yeah.

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And there are times when.

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The pain, the difficulty, the sorrow

is gonna be so great that sleep

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is gonna be fleeting from you.

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David went through that in Psalm six.

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In Psalm six, six.

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He says, I'm weary from my moaning.

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Every night I flood my bed with my tears.

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I drench my couch with my weeping.

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And so there are gonna be those times.

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And in those times that the call is still

the same as what you're talking about.

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In the midst of the tears,

go back to the Lord.

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Recount the things that

are true about God.

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It doesn't mean the pain is gonna go away.

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Or that you're gonna be able

to sleep like a baby, right?

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But it is the right thing to do.

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And if we go back to Philippians chapter

four, that's what is gonna bring the

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peace that surpasses understanding.

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And sometimes that peace is

felt as we're still crying.

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And yet it's the better peace than

anything the world can hope to offer us.

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Amen.

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Alright, Psalm four then is a

companion Psalm to Psalm three.

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Some think they were

written together either way.

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This is some similar themes here.

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Here.

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David is gonna ask the Lord to

deliver him as he had done previously

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so many times, instructs the

afflicted to avoid sinful anger.

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When they are afflicted, this is when

he says, be angry, but do not sin.

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Instead, he says, ponder in your own

hearts and on your beds and be silent.

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Ponder what?

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Ponder God's justice.

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God's character.

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God's sovereignty.

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And that's why he says in verse

five, offer right sacrifices

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and put your trust in the Lord.

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If you feel like you've been wronged

and in your initial response, and then

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I'm angry and I desire vindication.

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I desire revenge.

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And remember, David running from Olem

would've had some of those feelings.

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The right thing to do is to

take your anger to the Lord.

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Then to worship him and to trust him.

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That's David's model here.

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And that's so hard to do sometimes.

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'cause we just want to vent our anger.

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We want to let loose.

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And that's what feels better to us

than dealing with it biblically, which

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is to turn it over, roll it over to

the Lord, Psalm 55, 22, we're gonna

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get there at the end of this podcast.

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Cast your burdens on the Lord.

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He will sustain you.

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And that's hard to do.

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We don't want to do that.

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We don't want to cast our

burden, our anger to the Lord.

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We wanna hold onto it

because it feels better.

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Even though in the end it's better not to

feel it, it feels better for us to stew

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and to think about, man, what a jerk.

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I can't believe this

person did this to me.

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And man, what if I had said this in

response to what they said to me?

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That would've been great.

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'cause then they would've

been put in their place.

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Or I hope they, get a flat tire and

three flat tires on the drive home

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and they don't have spare tires and

AAA's busy, and then they're just

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stuck on the road the whole night.

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I hope that happens, bro, you spent

a lot of time thinking about this.

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It's really specific.

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Is there someone that

we need to talk about?

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No but that's our response.

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But David's response is,

Hey, don't sin in your anger.

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Consider God, worship him and trust him.

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And that's such a good equation here.

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I.

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Psalm 12.

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Then this Psalm contrasts the

flattering person in the wicked lips

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with the pure, reliable words of God.

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It's a psalm expressing hope and

confidence in the Lord's words to prevail.

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So this one's all about the

way that we use our mouths.

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And whose words are we listening to here?

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Are we gonna listen to the words

of the world, or are we gonna

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listen to the words of God?

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Are we gonna listen to the words of

the evil one, or are we gonna trust.

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Verse six, the words of the Lord,

which are pure words like silver,

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refined in a furnace on the ground.

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And this is so important for

us because so many times the

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world's words are gonna seem true.

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Where God's words are gonna, are

going to feel like they're not true.

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And we're gonna have to remember

God's timing's not our timing.

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His ways are not our ways, and

we're gonna choose to trust him

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or over the world that we live in.

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Yeah.

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I wanna point out to you

again, verse five and seven.

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Because the poor are plundered,

because the needy grown, I

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will now arise as the Lord.

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Verse seven recalls those people

again, the poor and needy.

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You oh Lord, will keep them.

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You will guard us from

this generation forever.

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Now, just remember, you

are the poor and the needy.

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Even if you're relatively strong and

healthy, you have a sizable bank account.

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Whatever it is that you might

physically possess, you are

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always an ever poor and needy.

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Before the Lord, we have nothing to offer.

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He's the one who graciously

generously bestows the riches upon us.

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So your posture of humility is,

I am poor, needy, and without

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the Lord, I have nothing.

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Now, this is the right posture.

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This, these are the kind of

people that God loves to bless.

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He opposes the proud, but scripture

says He gives grace to the humble.

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The humble are the kind of

people who recognize I'm poor

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in needy without the Lord.

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Psalm 13 is a great example of something

that we've talked about multiple times,

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and that is that David is willing to

be honest with the Lord and yet also

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willing in himself to remind himself of

the things that he needs to remember.

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And Psalm 13 does this.

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The first two verses he's

questioning if God has left him.

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If God has forgotten him, if God

has abandoned him, and this is

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hyperbolic language obviously,

as God never forgets anyone.

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He's omniscient.

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It's impossible for God to

forget anyone or anything.

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And so here this is metaphorical language

that he's using to express how he feels.

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And again, if this is.

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Contextually when he's been running

from his son Absalom he may sit

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there and think, wait a minute,

God, where are all the promises?

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Where are all the promises

of the Davidic covenant?

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This doesn't feel like this is

how this is supposed to work out.

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And then he calls on the Lord to

answer him in verse three, he says,

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Lord, answer me light up my eyes

lest I sleep the sleep of death.

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But.

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Comes in again though in verse

five, but I've trusted in your

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steadfast love, my heart, shoulder,

joice, and your salvation.

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I will sing to the Lord because

he has dealt bountifully with me.

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David is not giving up all hope, but

this is a great example of how we can

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be honest with the Lord and how we're

feeling and what's going on in our heart

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so long as we don't leave it there.

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And that goes back to what you were

talking about earlier, that we needed to.

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Think right thoughts about God,

say right things about God.

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Go back and rehearse these truths

about God while we're feeling

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the angst and the turmoil.

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Yeah.

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And that period of time

may be a long time.

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I just look at verse one and two.

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How long?

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How long?

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I wonder if David is.

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Impatient about the situation he's in.

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Oh, for sure.

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Just think about this.

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We're gonna, we're gonna be done with

David's scenario in a couple days.

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For us, it lasts a couple days for David.

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David build a bridge, man, I get over it.

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Come on.

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This is two weeks already.

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He's gonna be here for a long time.

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Yeah.

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And the ramifications of his

sin are gonna continue to fall

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out for decades ahead of him.

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We need to take a lesson from scripture to

recognize that God's timeline is often not

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ours, and it just takes much longer from

our perspective than it does from God's.

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God is not so concerned

with our convenience.

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He's not concerned about

our microwave Christianity.

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He's far more the crockpot God.

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He lets things simmer and stew for

a long period of time because that's

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what's gonna be most good for us.

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And what, of course, what's

gonna bring him most glory.

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Take refuge in the fact that

David's asking the same questions

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that you and I ask How long Lord?

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And even though God doesn't answer

him, his affirmation should be ours.

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I will sing to the Lord because

he has dealt built, he has

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dealt bountifully with me.

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Yeah, my I remember my mom telling me

when I was growing up, God's always

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on time, but he is, he's never early

and a lot of times we want him to

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be early and he's always on time

because it's his timeline, right?

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He's sovereign and he knows exactly

when everything needs to happen.

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For us, we're going, okay, gun,

can you move it up a little bit?

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Can you totally, can you move faster?

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And we train in patients too.

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We've got rapid delivery for this

and instant downloading of that.

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I re we don't have to go to

Blockbuster anymore to even

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rent a movie, which is sad.

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I, it is pretty sad.

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But all that we're training

ourselves toward impatience

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and I don't think we realize it

because this is how everything is.

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And so when God doesn't do this,

we're especially frustrated.

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Yeah Psalm 28 this is more corporate

David praying here for God to deliver

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his people and declaring his trust in

the Lord as his strength and his shield.

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Here David is again the

editors of this planet.

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At least think this is the same scenario

that he's still on the run from his son.

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And he's, we see that there's still

despair in petitioning here verses

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one through six and then the, this

confident trust that he has in the

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Lord in verses seven through nine.

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And yet I think it's about verse eight.

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The Lord is the strength of his people.

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He's the saving refuge of his anointed.

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So it's interesting because even

though David runs from Absalom I

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think in his heart, he knows this

is not what's right for not only

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me, but also for the people of God.

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I think he's mindful of the fact

that, man, this is not what God has.

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For his people.

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This is not the right thing

that's going on right now.

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And so in this, in, in 28, he's

corporately setting the example for

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the people, not just for himself,

but for everyone to trust in the

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Lord and and in his goodness and

his ability to deliver there.

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Psalm 55.

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Content of this psalm tells us that

it was written when David had been

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betrayed by someone close to him.

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Again, we don't know exactly, it doesn't

say like it, it did in Psalm three that

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this was when Absalom had betrayed him.

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But there's a lot in here that seems to

suggest that it fits that, that situation.

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But notice David's.

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Situation.

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Notice David's circumstances.

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Verse two, how he's feeling.

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He says, I'm restless.

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Verse four, my heart is in anguish.

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The terrors of death have fallen upon me.

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Verse five, fear and

trembling have come upon me.

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Horror overwhelms me.

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Okay?

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That's where David's at.

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David is not sitting here,

in, in his sober minded right?

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Spirit of his heart saying,

okay, everything's gonna be fine.

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Everything's gonna work out

because I know my theology.

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David's saying I'm

restless, I'm in anguish.

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I'm afraid I have horror, overwhelming me.

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That's not the picture of David that

I often have, and yet it's in that

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spirit that he works through it in

this psalm and that this is so good.

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This process and it, this was

not on purpose, but this kind of.

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It seems to be the theme of this episode

here, this process of working through

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how we feel about our circumstances

by rehearsing the things we know to

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be true about God and trusting in him.

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But some of the things that lead

us to think, this is Absalom, verse

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13 when he says, but it's you.

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It's a man.

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It's my equal, my companion, my.

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Familiar friend.

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We used to take sweet counsel together.

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This seems like it could be

Absalom that he's talking about

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there, even in these verses.

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And yet this is the one that betrayed him.

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And so he laments this.

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He groans, he talks about this

betrayal in verses 21 or 20 and 21.

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And then he concludes with this

great statement of verse 22.

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Whatever it is, whatever's making him

afraid and terrified, and fearful and

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burdened and overwhelmed and restless.

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Verse 22, he's gonna cast all

that, cast your burden on the

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Lord, and he will sustain you.

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He will never permit the

righteous to be moved.

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What a great promise that is

one that we can hold onto today.

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It doesn't say that the

righteous aren't gonna be killed.

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They may be killed but the

righteous aren't gonna be moved.

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They're not gonna be moved out of

God's favor, out of God's presence.

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God is going to sustain

them no matter what.

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Even if that means sustaining them by

bringing them into his presence in death.

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Yeah.

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I feel like David feels sometimes

in that I wanna fly away.

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Verse six.

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If I had wings like a dove, I just.

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I'm bounce.

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Yeah.

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And I go and find a nice nest.

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Sometimes I pay attention to animals.

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I'm like, man, what a cool life that is.

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You just sit there and get taken care

of and people feed you and walk you

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and then clean up your mess after

you go and do your business outside.

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A cat just wanders the

neighborhood, like it owns a place.

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It just does whatever it wants.

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I know sometimes we can look at.

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Other animal life or creatures

and say they must have it so

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good, they don't do anything.

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But man, we have such a good

life, such a blessing and benefit

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to experience life as we do.

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And the temptation for all of us is, man,

I just wanna fly away from these things.

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I just wanna be something else

somewhere else, anywhere else.

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But God rarely wants us to do that.

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Fleeing from a situation is

often not his plan for us.

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It's seeing us through the

situation that is his plan.

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And that takes a lot

more sticktuitiveness.

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It takes a lot more

effort, a lot more energy.

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But at the end of that.

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There's also a lot more sanctification.

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And if we're honest, this

is what God wants for us.

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His will is that we be sanctified.

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And so we shouldn't be surprised if God

says, no, I don't want you to leave.

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Stay in it, work through it, and trust

that I've got a better plan than you do.

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Alright, let's pray.

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God that's a hard thing for us to do to

sit in it and to trust that you've got

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a better plan than what our plan is.

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Our plan says, God, we don't wanna suffer,

we don't wanna hurt, we don't wanna be

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in pain or need or anything like that.

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Get us out of it.

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And yet.

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Lord, so often you bring us into

those places to be dependent upon you.

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So help us to trust you in and

through that and not to miss what

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you're trying to develop in us.

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Not to short circuit the process by

looking for the quickest way out of

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pain because we can find ourselves in

trouble so often when we take matters

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into our own hands instead of casting

our burden upon you and trusting

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that you will sustain us through it.

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And God, we pray that you'd be kind

to those in the church right now that

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are going through seasons like that.

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Those of us who will go seasons

like through seasons like that.

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Lord, help us to develop a robust

faith in you that can weather

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the storms knowing that you are

at work in and through them all.

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So we pray this all in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep your new Bibles.

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Tune in and get tomorrow for another

edition, the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you folks.

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Bye.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said