00:00 Celebrating Mothers: A Heartfelt Tribute

00:45 The Unseen Heroes: Appreciating Moms in Ministry

01:26 A Call to Honor: Encouraging Gratitude and Praise

05:56 Navigating Relationships: Engaging with Neighbors and Community

07:34 Discerning the True Voice: Guidance for the Flock

07:49 Diving Deep into Psalms: A Journey of Praise and Prayer

17:06 Concluding Thoughts: A Reminder of Gratitude and Celebration

Good morning and happy mother's day to all the mothers listening out there.

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Thank you very much on

behalf of all of the mothers.

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Well, you're welcome on

behalf of all the dads and

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Rod (2): husbands and sons.

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PJ: And grandfather.

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Rod (2): All of society

benefits from a mother.

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They really are, you know, they really do.

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There's no qualification, every strata of

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PJ: society benefits from mumps.

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Yep.

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We do.

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And, uh, yeah, such a good thing,

such a caring thing, loving thing.

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I know my mom played a huge role in

my life and I'm grateful for her.

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It say she did do.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I wouldn't.

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You could say, I wouldn't

even be here without her.

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Rod (2): Not even be here without mom.

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PJ: Yeah.

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That's for sure.

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Yeah, I could say the same.

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Yeah.

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But I know you and I are

thankful for our wives.

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In our kids are thankful for

our wives and they better be.

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Yeah.

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Especially at man in ministry

and every mom works hard.

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I don't want to undersell that.

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I'm just saying from, from personal

experience, man, in ministry.

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Our wives.

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They do some heavy lifting.

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Rod (2): Yeah.

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A lie though, the unseen heroes.

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Cause we can do it.

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We can do because of what they do.

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Right.

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They hold down the Fort when we're

not holding it down, they mean.

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They pray for us.

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And they just, all the behind the scenes,

things that I'm sure most people could see

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if they just pay attention long enough.

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But often, you know, they're just laboring

quietly with a gentle and quiet spirit.

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Yeah.

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As scripture calls it.

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And they just do it.

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So faithfully, man, I love my

wife and I know you love yours.

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These, these moms are something to

be praised, which is exactly what

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PJ: Proverbs 31 says.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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And her children rise

and call her blessed.

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So Hey, young people out

there listening to this.

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If you have not honored

your mom today, then.

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Get after it, it's time to honor.

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It's time to, to.

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Be thankful for, and,

and to, to praise her.

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Which is interesting, right?

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Because some, sometimes we

think, well, it's wrong to, to

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praise a person or a human being.

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We can fall.

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Pray to the mindset of like

only God is worthy of worship.

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And yes, that's, that's true.

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He's the ultimate object of worship.

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He's worthy of worship.

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But Proverbs 31 says her children

rise and call her blessed.

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Yup.

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And that's a, that's an honorable thing.

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That's a good thing.

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And so there's a, an

appropriate time for that.

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I'm not normally a big hallmark

holiday, kind of a guy.

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And I know that's shocking to you.

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Why it's you.

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You past your peak?

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You're so

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Rod (2): sentimental.

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PJ: I'm just so

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Rod (2): surprised.

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PJ: I know, I know it

doesn't fit my character.

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It

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Rod (2): does not.

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PJ: Yeah, but mother's day

is one that I can stand by.

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Um, I'm thankful for

just the moms out there.

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There are so important to

so many different facets.

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Um, It's a moms'.

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Thank you.

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Good job.

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Keep doing well, Excel still more.

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We might even say, as being gathered moms

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Rod (2): indeed.

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And it says her husband also.

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So please husbands do feel

the encouragement on our part.

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To praise your wife and, and the

word for praise is the Hillel.

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It's the, it's the same

word that we use for Yeah.

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Uh, her husband praises

her praise, your wife.

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I mean, that's a good thing.

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And really in, in the praise of your

wife, when you're, when you're adorning

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the attributes of her goodness,

We know that people are good in so

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far as they reflect God's goodness.

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And so when your wife is displaying good

fruit, Because God's producing it in her.

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So you are praising God when you praise

the good works that your wife does.

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So thank you.

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My love.

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I am so grateful for your life, your,

your, your service, your ministry.

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Um, you deserve all the praise and

adulation that I could give and more.

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PJ: Yeah.

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That's how you sneak in that,

that goodness from your, your MBS.

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It's

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Rod (2): fresh on the mind.

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What can I say?

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I'm still thinking about it.

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Yeah.

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Well, It was, it was good.

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And helpful.

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PJ: Oh man.

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Rod (2): Yeah.

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Compounding it.

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It was doubly doubly.

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Good and help.

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Well, thank you.

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No, it was fun.

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I was glad to be able to do that.

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It's it's sharpens me when I get

to go deep in scripture like that.

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So it was, I was benefited by

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PJ: myself and our men love it.

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Our men love being there and

being a part of that and, and

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being a part of the church I'm

ready for another men's retreat.

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Let's let's do a second one

before the ladies do their first.

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I think the laser would kill us.

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Well, why are you guys going off again?

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Yeah, I haven't had one yet.

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Well then, all right, before we do it,

then I'll preach on Ephesians five.

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Oh, and we'll.

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah, I think that'll go over really well.

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Yeah.

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Especially on mother's day.

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Happy mother's day.

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Here you go.

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Ladies are

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Rod (2): going on another retreat.

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PJ: All right.

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Well, let's get into our Bible reading

for the day, Psalm 65, by the way.

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It's Sunday as well.

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On top of that.

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So happy church day for.

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Child dedication day child.

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Child dedication day.

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That's right.

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Lots of things happening.

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Yeah, we got 10 kiddos.

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I believe, man.

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Yeah.

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It's going to be great.

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We're going to grow one way or another.

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Yeah, we are.

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Yeah.

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We.

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Yeah, we're.

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Uh, speaking of which we've got

these invite cards at church.

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And there they're not there just

to make our table look nice.

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I mean, they do that.

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It makes us look like

we've got things going on.

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Yeah.

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But we actually have them so that

you'll grab them and take them

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with you and, and invite people to

come and be a part of the church.

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That's right.

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And.

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You might think, okay, well,

do I need an invite card?

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No, you don't.

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But man, an invite

cards, a great reminder.

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If you keep a stack in your car

or you keep a stack by your front

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door, it's, it's helpful to have

them there so that you'll see them.

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And it's a visual cue to go, oh yeah.

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You know what?

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I need to invite so-and-so to church.

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I need to invite this person

that I'm having a conversation

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with at Starbucks to church.

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I need to be active in this.

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So we want those to be a resource for you.

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We've got them as, as.

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I think business card size.

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So they're, they're not overly obtrusive.

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They don't take up a ton of space.

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You can keep some with you.

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And hand them out to people and say,

we'd love for you to join us the church.

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Here's our information.

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Yeah.

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We.

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That would be a great thing one a week.

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Even if you just set yourself

a small goal, that would be

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a good goal to have, right.

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Yeah, because yeah.

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That would be amazing.

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We.

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We were talking with somebody recently

and, and just, you know, we, we love

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the fact that, that people come to our

church because they are looking for,

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for being fed and, and looking to grow.

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And.

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And that's a good thing.

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There's nothing wrong with that.

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Uh, but we also want to see people come

that are coming because maybe they have

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never stepped foot in a church before.

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And they need to find out about

Jesus and they need to grow.

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Now let's be clear.

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Sunday morning is for believers.

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That's that's its primary

purpose is to feed the church.

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And that is what the pulpit is for.

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That is what our, our time is for.

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That is what the preaching is

for, but it's not a place where

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unbelievers are not welcome.

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I mean, we should expect them, right.

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We should a hundred percent.

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And I know that every time I preach

on a Sunday morning, but there

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are unbelievers in our midst.

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Uh, and so I'm mindful of

that even with some of my

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application and things like that.

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So.

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We want you to invite people.

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We want you to be sharing

the gospel with people.

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We want you to be engaging

with your neighbors.

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Um, I know my wife and I have been

working on getting our neighbors

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across the street over for dinner.

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I think pastor rod, you just had a family

and your neighborhood over for dinner.

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And moodily and Bindu.

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They

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Rod (2): were lovely.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah, and, and different

beliefs and very much so.

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And sometimes that's scary, right?

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Sometimes we, we think,

man, am I going to be.

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Corrupted by that.

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Is that going to rub off on me?

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Like, so talk through what

that experience was like.

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Rod (2): Yeah.

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I've erected an altar in my office now.

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Okay.

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We're done.

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He's no longer with us anymore.

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No.

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Yeah.

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It's it's, uh, I don't know.

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There is always a danger.

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Uh, whoever walks with the wise

becomes wise, the companion

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of fools will suffer harm.

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That's definitely true.

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That's the Proverbs.

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And yeah, it's the, uh, I think the, the

qualification for every Christian in terms

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of examining your relationships is saying.

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Which direction is the influence going.

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And if you can be confident ensure

that the influence is going to

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come from your part to theirs.

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I think that's a good place to be.

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I want to be salt and light.

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You can't be salt and light if you're

hiding it under a bushel and putting it

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in your room and only, you know, hurting

yourself with other light and salt people.

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Uh, so we're, we're trying

to be deliberate about that.

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And definitely, definitely wise to

ask yourself the question, is this

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relationship corrupting or is it helping.

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And we endeavor to be a salty

and light lit up witness.

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And so far, I think we've

done an okay job at that.

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We definitely keep tabs on it.

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We don't want to allow ourselves

to be overcome by, by bad teaching

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or by a false ideology, which

certainly we do believe that.

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We love these neighbors.

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And I think.

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I think they know that

at least to some degree.

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Um, And they know that we're Christians.

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We're very bold about that.

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So we're trying to be as clear as

we can and, and demonstrate love.

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Well at the same time, making sure that

we don't allow any corrupting influence.

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We're always aware

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PJ: which we're actually talking about

at church this morning with discerning

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the true voice of the shepherd.

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And making sure that that's

our leading influence in life.

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That's going to be a helpful sermon.

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Very helpful.

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Hope.

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So.

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I hope so.

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I hope it'll be good.

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It'll be good and helpful.

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Hey, let's jump in Psalm 65.

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You mentioned the word Hillel

or praise in the, and that's

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how we open up in Psalm 65.

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Praise is, do you.

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And so we just talked about

praising the moms in our life

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and, and that's not a bad thing.

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That's a permissible thing, but ultimately

that's a, a way we're praising them

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because of their obedience to the Lord.

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And so, in, in, in essence, God

is the one receiving the price.

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So praises, do you, oh God.

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In the Psalm here in

Psalm 65 is some of David.

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There's no complaints.

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There's no lament.

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It's.

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It's really just instead an

expression of confident praise in

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response to the goodness of God.

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Uh, it's possible.

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This was another Psalm sung

in association, even with

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the feast of Tabernacles.

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Uh, in verses one through five, you get

praised for God's care for his people.

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And then in verses six through

13, you get, uh, David.

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Uh, admonishing and encouraging

praise for and from creation.

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Uh, itself.

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So, uh, we see that time

and time again in Psalm 19.

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In, in others where a creation is brought

in and focused on as, as reflecting

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the glory of God and present God, we

see similar themes here in Psalm 65.

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Rod (2): Yeah.

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Repeated theme to about verse

seven, who steals the roaring

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of the seas, the roaring of the

waves, the tumult of the peoples.

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Uh, obviously that's pointing to God.

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God is the one who steals the season.

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Of course, his pastor PG mentioned in

one of our prior episodes that alludes

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to, and ultimately points to Jesus

who stills the waves and the seas.

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One other thing in verse 11 here, man,

I could not help, but be moved by this.

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Imagery.

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Uh, you crown the year with

your bounty, your wagon tracks,

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overflow with abundance.

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I just imagine a wagon going down a

trail and just stuff falling off the

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wagon because it's, you know, it's

packed with all sorts of good things in

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this case, the abundance, the bounty.

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The harvest of the year.

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God is not a stingy.

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God.

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He is abundant.

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He has a bountiful and he

gives good gifts to his kids.

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And one of those good gifts

is of course our wives.

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So not to bring it back to mother's

day, but man, I am thankful for the good

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gift of my wife and the good gift of

this church are so many things that we

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could be thankful for at any given day.

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Let us not wait for

the holiday to do that.

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Thankful everyday, man.

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PJ: True.

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Yeah, I agree.

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All right.

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So I'm 66 then is, uh, uh, some reflecting

on and praising God again for his

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goodness to the people of Israel in.

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So in verses one through four, you

get a call for everyone to worship

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God, all people to worship him.

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And then five through seven.

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Uh, a reflection on his past faithfulness.

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Uh, verses eight through 12, then.

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Praise for ongoing protection and

provision that he is continuing

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to provide and continue to

prevent, protect his people.

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And then verses 13 through 15,

a resolve that David makes here.

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This almost makes here to individual

worship saying I will worship God.

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Uh, I'm going to do this personally.

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And then finally in verses 16 through

20 praise for answered prayer, then

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I'm going to, I'm going to worship

him because he responds and answers.

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Uh, prayer, but, uh, one thing

to point out in note here.

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Is look at verse 18.

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If I had a cherished iniquity in my

heart, the Lord would not have listened.

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Uh, this is something that we

will talk about quite often in

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counseling situations that sin can

actually hinder our prayer life.

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If you think about first Peter three,

seven husbands are commanded there

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to love their wives and live with

them in an understanding manner lest

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their prayers should be hindered.

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And it's not just about how a

husband interacts with a wife.

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I think the under guiding principle.

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That we see here as well in Psalm 66 18.

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Is that when we are.

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When we were harboring sin when

we are cultivating sin in our

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life, and then coming before the

course of the Lord and praying.

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That there is a hindrance that, that

the Lord will oftentimes choose not to

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respond to our prayers because of that

sin that we're harboring in our life.

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There's not a separation and a severing

of the relationship completely.

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But man, there's an interruption

of fellowship that has.

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Significantly negative

consequences for us.

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Indeed in this,

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Rod (2): it reminds us as Christians

to keep a clean conscience, to

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keep short accounts with the Lord.

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Yeah, because none of us, I'm sure

if you're reading this, you're like,

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man, I've cherished into my heart.

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I've committed sin.

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I've thought sinful thoughts.

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And I've had this, this, you

know, irritation and aggravation.

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We all know what it's like to

struggle with sin and to bear the

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marks of iniquity still in our flesh.

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Uh, this doesn't mean that we have to

be perfect before God, certainly not.

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None of us would, would succeed at that.

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But as new Testament, Christians,

those who are regenerate, we can

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have a clean and pure conscience

before the Lord by keeping short

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accounts, not cherishing inequity,

but confessing iniquity, and allowing

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them for there to be clear channels of

communication between us and the Lord.

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PJ: Psalm 67 then is a prayer

for the universal worship of God.

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Uh, there's some thought that it's

connected potentially back to Genesis

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12, one through three, which is the

Abrahamic covenant as a reflection

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of God's promises made to Abraham

there that through you will all the

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families of the earth be blessed.

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Uh, so this is a Psalm that is

focused on a call to acknowledge

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God, let the peoples praise you.

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Let the peoples, let the nations

be glad and sing for joy.

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Again, going back to the

nations will be blessed.

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Verse five, the repetition there,

let the peoples praise you.

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And so this is a, a simple song calling

for the universal worship of God.

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Something that won't be realized really

until, uh, the millennial kingdom.

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I mean, there will be an, an aspect

of that during the millennial kingdom,

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then not everyone in the millennial

kingdom is going to be saved.

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Not everybody born in the millennial

kingdom will be believers.

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Um, but there will be that first

time of Christ ruling here on earth.

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And there's going to be a sense in

which everyone is worshiping God.

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Right.

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In part in that during that season.

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As you pray

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Rod (2): for your church.

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I mean, I would love for you

to take the bare bones of

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this Psalm and pray it for us.

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Uh, you could pray it like this God

bless compass Bible church so that we can

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bless the world so that we can bless our

communities so that we can bless north

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Texas with the gospel, make us fruitful so

that fruit may have bound to your glory.

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And honor, I mean, that's really

the heartbeat of this song, and

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that would be a great thing for

you to pray for your church, even

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if it's not compass north, Texas.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yes.

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And amen to that.

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Psalm 69 then is a Psalm of David

when he was in a position of being

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desperate in suffering greatly.

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Uh, verses one through three,

you get the plight of David.

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He is describing his situation.

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I sink in deep mire.

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There's no foothold.

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In other words, the idea there

is he is continually sinking.

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There's nothing for him to

reach out and stop himself.

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All right.

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So it's, it's a desperation

there of what's going on.

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Then in verses four through 12, we get the

cause of his suffering and he says here.

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Essentially that he's

bearing the reproach of God.

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Um, verse nine.

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Uh, some 69, 9 we read for zeal for your

house has consumed me the reproaches of

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those who approach you have fallen on me.

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And so that's that idea,

the approach of God.

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And that's quoted in John

chapter two, verse 17, where

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Jesus goes in and cleanses.

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Uh, the temple and you've

got that situation there.

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And the disciples remembers is

you'll for your house has consumed

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me, but David is St meant.

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My, my relationship with God

has led to, uh, suffering has

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led to persecution, has led to.

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Uh, where I find myself right now.

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And we, again, we don't know, like so

many of the songs, we don't know the exact

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context here, but we do know that David

was often suffering, running for his life.

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Uh, verses 13 through 18, then we get the

hope of David is, as he's hoping in the

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Lord, he's hoping that this will work out

for his deliverance, answering your Lord

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verse 16 for your steadfast love is good.

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And so God's.

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Uh, steadfast love being his confidence,

his hope his, his, his faithfulness,

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or his, his, uh, his trust in this.

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And then in 19 through 21, Uh,

again, this concept of reproach.

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The suffering of David,

the mockery of David.

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Uh, verse 21 for, they

gave me sour wine to drink.

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This is pointing to and

alluding to the crossword.

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Jesus was also given sour wine.

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While on the cross and suffering there.

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Uh, some 20 69, 22

through 28, David, please.

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And ask God for revenge

against his enemies.

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There.

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And then the Psalm ends in verses

29 through 36 with a confidence

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in that future deliverance.

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So David runs the gamut here.

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I mean, he is in a tough spot, tight spot.

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Uh, but ultimately he's trusting God.

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And that's the theme of this song

so much as it is in so many of the

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other songs where we find even in a

similar situation, You'll probably

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notice too, that there's a lot of

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Rod (2): cross-references from

this Psalm to the new Testament.

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You.

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You identified several of them.

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One of the things that you should know

is that, I mean, this is their Bible.

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The old Testament was the Bible

of the new Testament saints until

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the new Testament was written.

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That's how important this is.

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This is why it's important

for even new Testament.

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Christians, not to just spend time

on the books that are natural and

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easy for us to understand like

Galatians or Ephesians or yeah.

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You know, one of the, the epistles.

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These things are so important.

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And so many Christians don't spend

time here because they're going to be

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harder to understand, and you have to

do a little more digging to get some

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application for new for, for your

life today, but this is worth it.

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The new Testament saints relied upon

these passages to inform their new

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Testament theology, and even to have them.

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Uh, as a spirit would have it to

write the new Testament so that

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their theology would fit this.

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So keep this in mind.

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These are, this is good for

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PJ: you.

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This is so good.

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I'm glad you're in it.

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Yep.

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Yeah, well, some 70 then our

final, some of the day, this is

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a Psalm of David and again, and

it was a prayer for deliverance.

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Um, and it's almost an exact repetition

of Psalm 40 verses 13 through 17.

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And so there's a lot of

parallels here, uh, which David's

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allowed to plagiarize himself.

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That that was permissible.

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So.

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Um, yeah, so he's revisiting

a lot of the stuff cancel.

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Is there?

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Yeah.

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Don't don't throw them out.

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First one though, prayer for deliverance

verses two through three per that

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God would defeat David's enemies.

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A verse for hope and salvation

of the Lord in verse five.

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Uh, just a confession of his need for God.

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So a short Psalm, again, repetition

of Psalm 40 verses 13 through 17.

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But a good focus on the

need for DOD to deliver.

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And man, thank

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Rod (2): you God for

delivering us with great moms.

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We are grateful to have those moms

and grateful that we get to be

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part of a church with those moms.

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My mom's.

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We love you guys.

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And we are thankful for each of, you

know, we hope that you can have a great

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mother's day and a great day at church,

but a great way to celebrate mom's day.

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By going to church and don't miss that.

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Amen.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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So happy mother's day.

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And we will be back again tomorrow

with another episode of the daily Bible

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PJ: podcast.

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We'll see you then.

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Bye.