00:00 Introduction and Podcast Setup

00:54 Acknowledging the Setup Team

01:48 Encouraging Words and Church Updates

03:58 Discussing the Psalms

05:18 Psalm 38: A Psalm of Lament

08:26 Psalm 41: Seeking God's Grace

09:31 Psalm 42: Longing for God

14:12 Closing Remarks and Prayer

14:46 Podcast Outro

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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It's it's Tuesday.

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It's not Tuesday right now.

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Right now it's actually Thursday,

May 15th, believe it or not, as we're

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recording this is episode number four

in a row that we're knocking out today.

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You don't need to know that, but it's

because we love you that we're doing

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this because we're gonna be gone at this

men's retreat and normally we record

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on Saturdays, so we recorded extra the

week before so that these would roll

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out on time, and our hope is that you

can't even tell that these are so good.

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And so seamless and so energetically

captivating that you can't

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even tell that we're recording

the umpteenth episode today.

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We each had seven bangs before we started

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That's it.

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And yeah.

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So that's sustaining

us all the way through.

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I think that's a lethal dose probably.

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It is.

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I'm sure I'm, yeah.

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That talk about tachycardia, that

would, the Apple watch would be buzzing.

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Hey, you need to go to the

emergency room right now.

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You're dead.

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You're dying.

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Yeah, you're dead.

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It's over.

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Yeah.

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No, and it's it's a good week.

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It's the week leading into our final

week at the school here in Frisco.

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Just a shout out to our setup and

tear down team that you guys have

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been doing such a great job over

the last two years here especially.

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I just wanna recognize our trailer

drivers, they get up earlier before

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even our regular setup team does

to get to our storage facility to

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hook up the trailers to tow them all

the way down to Frisco from Salina.

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And then they also tow them back.

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And not all of them live up there.

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Some of them live out in Little

Elm and other places too.

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Good job.

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Thank you.

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Trailer drivers.

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You guys have done such an excellent

job that has facilitated us being able

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to do what we do, and we're excited

to be able to keep our trailers on

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site from here on out Lord willing.

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And then eventually, hopefully

get a permanent facility

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where we won't have trailers.

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We'll just sell those things.

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Oh man, someday.

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Yeah.

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Lord, come quickly.

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Or give us a building quickly either way.

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That, that would be excellent.

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Yeah.

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But man, our trailer drivers are

so good and so important to us,

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but the whole teams, you guys

have been doing such a great job.

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In fact, just to encourage you, I wanna

build you up team and let you know,

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church at a large that I had somebody

come two weeks ago now, and they

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were there and sat in on our service

and sat in for setup, and Saturn was

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there for tear down too, and he's.

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Planting a church himself.

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And so he's there to watch

and see what we're doing.

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And he just was saying, you

guys are doing such a great job.

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It looks like a well-oiled machine.

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He said, it just seems like you

guys have such a good thing going.

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I wanna bring my team here to be able

to see what you guys do and how you

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do it so they can see this in action.

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So I just, it was a, it was

like a proud dad moment.

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That's a compliment.

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Yeah.

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Of just going, Hey, thank you so much.

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We are so grateful for that.

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And did say the grace of God.

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Did you recite the phrase that you

taught us the last Sunday about when

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someone says, thank you only God?

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Yeah.

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It's only God's grace

and mercy in my life.

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You said it was much longer.

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It took you like three minutes to say it.

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Whatever good that you have in me and

what other good that you've seen in me

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is only there by the Lord of heaven.

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May God understand.

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Let the reader understand and I hope you

understand something like that, right?

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Yes.

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That's what it was.

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Yeah.

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And forever and for always may you

understand yes, that I am, but a

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humble recipient of the grace of God.

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Yes.

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Hence fourth may the world see and know is

something like this, if I recall, be done.

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No anyways.

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No, it was it was super encouraging.

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So great moments.

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I wanted to pass that on to you

guys because you guys are really

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the recipients of that praise.

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You guys have done a great job and

it's noticeable and so good job church.

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We are grateful and hey, we want to

excel still more and do well at this

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new facility that God is gonna give us.

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And so I trust that we will, but

one more week here in Frisco.

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Can't wait to be with everybody on Sunday.

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Yeah.

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And this Friday is the end of school

for I think a lot of our students.

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Yep.

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I guess it's the

unofficial start of summer.

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That's exciting.

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That is exciting.

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So it's coming and thank God we're

gonna be able to do a whole lot less

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setup, I think with this new location.

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I hope so.

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We just hit our first a hundred

degree day a couple days ago.

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Yeah.

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It's summertime already, man.

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It feels like it.

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Yeah.

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But may is supposed to be

the month of severe storms.

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Yeah.

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So we're not out of the woods yet.

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We're not starting summer yet, but we

are, in fact, some of the warmer weather

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honestly creates those conditions where.

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You have that really violent stuff.

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Yep.

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Because it's not quite that.

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You'll get the cold

weather that comes back in.

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Yeah.

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And then the warm weather and Yeah.

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And that's when you get the tornadoes.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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Let's jump into our text, Psalm five.

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We've got some more psalms today.

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I think just four today though.

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Psalm five, Davidic Psalm here.

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And this was another morning psalm, so it

was meant to be recited in the morning.

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It alternates in the psalm between

the focus on God's character

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and the character of the wicked.

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So you've got the first eight

verses where David's focus is more

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theological, where the last four verses

take on a more imprecatory psalm.

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And so God is, David is

reciting truth about God.

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And these are notice not it's

not worthless, but it's not.

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Overly deep.

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And I say that because sometimes you

may think there, sit there and think,

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okay, can I get theological in my Psalms?

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I feel like I don't have a robust

knowledge of, systematic theology and I

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don't know Hebrew and I don't know Greek.

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And so what should I do here, David

is praying pretty simple things.

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Verse four, you're not a God

who delights in wickedness.

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Evil cannot dwell in your presence.

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That's a pretty simple concept.

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That God is a holy God and

does not delight an evil.

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And so we don't have to have our prayers

or our Psalms or whatever we bring before

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the Lord marched by all kinds of flowery

language and deep theological terms.

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There's a place for that.

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And that's appropriate at times to time.

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But if you're coming in simplicity

before the Lord, there's nothing

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to be ashamed of with that.

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David is just saying he's

attributing to God, who God is.

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He's reciting things

about God to God that are.

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Simple truths about God and

and that's good for us to do.

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That's part of our worship.

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Psalm 38 then is our second

Psalm of today Psalm 38.

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This Psalm, it takes on a different tone.

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It's a psalm of David.

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It says, for the memorial offering.

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It's a psalm of lament, and it's

written there for the remembrance,

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either to remind God or more likely

to remind himself in Israel of what

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to do in the midst of suffering.

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And that's why it's for

the memorial offering.

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The memory is the concept here.

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And he's reminding God of

their need for his mercy and

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his his patience towards them.

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He does talk about David's suffering

verses three through 10, his

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internal suffering the state of

turmoil even because of his sin.

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As we've talked about before and

what's the effects of unconfessed

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sin does in verse three?

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There's no health in my

bones because of my sin.

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My iniquities have gone over my head.

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The external suffering then verses

11 through 20, how God had brought

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judgment against him for his sin

and just the plea that God would

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remember his mercy in response.

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So Psalm 30, eights Psalm of lament.

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And it's an honest Psalm and it's

a good Psalm because David here

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is saying, God, please remember

your mercy because we need that.

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Habakkuk's got a famous line in wrath.

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Remember mercy.

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And I think that's similar to what

David's praying for here in Psalm 38.

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I keep on hitting these verse three

and its connection to what we read

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in, I think we hit Psalm 32 recently

when I kept silent, my bones wasted

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away through my groaning all day.

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I.

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I, I am fascinated by the spiritual

connection to our physical bodies in

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that when we're living in sinner, when

there's unconfessed sin I, you see it

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in the New Testament, Paul says to the

Corinthian Church, this is why some of

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you're weak and Ill and died because you

took this, the Lord Supper in an unworthy

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fashion, which suggests to us that one

of God's disciplinary measures is death.

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That if we live in a persistent

way of sin, God loves us

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enough to not let us do that.

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To, it's one of the ways that we

as reformed Christians, we think

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God preserves Christians all the

way to the very end, to the point

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that if he must, he would rather

kill us than let us apostatize.

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That's a scary thought.

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I'd rather God not have to do

that, which means we have to

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keep short accounts with him.

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But think about Anani and Sari.

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Their sin was public enough and

egregious enough that God said, I'm

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just gonna take you out right here.

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Some people think maybe

they weren't Christians.

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I think there's a chance at least, because

this is how God treats his own kids.

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He's willing to take 'em out if that's

gonna preserve their soul with him.

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And that's a little bit of what we were

talking about I guess it's two weeks

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ago now on that Sunday of the idea

that our the mercy of God is something

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that the Christians still needs.

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On an ongoing daily basis, you experience

God's mercy still today, the fact that

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you are still alive and breathing and

he's given you more time with your spouse

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or more time with your kids, right?

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Or more time.

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That, that's his mercy towards you.

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Because yeah, there are examples.

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I think you're right in scripture where

we see him take out Christians Yep.

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Because of their sin and.

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You might say yeah, but

they get to go be with him.

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Which is better.

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And in one sense, yes, that is true.

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That is better.

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But on the other hand, he's taking them

away from those relationships and those

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memories and those times that they're,

they would otherwise be able to spend

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here, as well as he's taking them away

from more reward that they could have

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served, stored up for themselves in

heaven by serving him here on Earth.

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Yep.

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So that mercy is something

that we do continually need.

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That is a good reminder.

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Psalm 41.

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Then the title is taken from verse 10

where in verse 10, he, David prays,

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but you oh Lord, be gracious to me

and raise me up that I may repay them.

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This is a psalm, that

is another lament psalm.

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And so David is referring to his

circumstances, his suffering, his

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need for deliverance, his need for

protection, and at the same time,

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balancing that by recognizing that.

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That's found in God.

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Like we talked about maybe, I guess

two episodes ago, that idea that

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in God alone is our deliverance.

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And I think here David is expressing

that in a different way by just

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saying, God is the one that does this.

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The things that I'm asking

for can only come from God.

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And that's the idea of grace.

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Grace is getting what we don't deserve.

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And so David is saying, look, I may

not deserve God's grace because of my

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sin and what we were just, some of the

things we were just talking about, and

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yet again, I'm gonna ask you to be.

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To act towards me in a

way that I don't deserve.

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And that is by delivering me, by

being compassionate, by being patient

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towards me, by removing my suffering.

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I may not deserve those things,

but you're a gracious God.

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And so that's what I'm gonna call on.

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I'm gonna call on your characters a

gracious God to act towards me in a

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way that I don't necessarily deserve.

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And that's Psalm 41 here, Psalm

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but this time by the Sons of Cora

pastor Rob, can you give us a quick.

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Refresh on the Sons of Cora and

who we're talking about there.

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The Sons of Cora are one of the, one

of the people from the tribe of Levi.

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They had a specific role.

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In fact the fact that you're reading

one of their psalms, it showcases one

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of the roles that they were known for,

which is that they were musicians.

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They were men of the sons of

Cora, the they were sons who.

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Came from the tribe of Cora, for the

line of Cora Rather, who were responsible

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for creating music for the temple.

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This is something that David did.

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This is one of the great things that David

did because he himself was a musician

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and he valued this particular thing.

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He instituted musicians for the

temple to create music like this.

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And so these guys were responsible to

write the hymns that Israel were to sing.

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In fact, most of them.

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We suspect anyway, many of them

were preserved in scripture.

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You have them today because David

cared about God's worship in the

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temple and musically specifically.

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So when we come to church we do

what the sons of core intended.

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We sing to God and God endorses

their desire by saying, yes, this

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is exactly what you should be doing.

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I'm gonna preserve this in my Bible such

that there's 150 chapters of scripture.

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I'm dedicated to the singing of God

because of what these guys have done.

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And David, of course, David is who

brought them to the fore to do this,

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but these guys are responsible for

a lot of the songs that we now sing.

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This is another lament song, but I do

wanna point out specifically verse one and

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two as the Dear Pants for Flowing Stream.

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So My Soul Pants for You, God, my soul,

thirsts for God, for the Living God,

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when shall I come and appear before God?

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That cultivating a craving for

God is something that we as

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Christians have to work at.

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To desire God to this level, to

desire God and to be in his presence.

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It's an acquired taste.

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Just like the first time you drank

coffee, you probably didn't like it.

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I remember.

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I didn't like it.

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I love it now.

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And so it's an acquired taste

to desire to be in the presence

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of God, to desire to pray.

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Sometimes we talk about that when

it's if you're not praying at all.

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Don't sit back and go, okay,

I need to go from zero to 60

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minutes of prayer straight.

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You're gonna have to

start with five minutes.

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You're gonna have to start with, to

go from five minutes to 10 minutes and

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ratchet it up along the way until you

get to the place where you feel like

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you are truly communing with the Lord,

and you're de you're desiring that

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and Lord willing, you get to a place

where you're never gonna be satisfied.

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You're gonna always wanna

say, Lord, I want more.

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I want more.

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That's a, an acquired taste.

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And so that's why you'll often

hear me say, make the place where

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you read your Bible, a place that

you want to be in the morning.

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Connect spending time with God

with other things that you desire,

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because that's gonna help make your

affections for the Lord increase.

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We will often, we all, I think

everyone loves sleep, right?

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I think that's a universal thing.

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We love good sleep.

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And hopefully you've got a comfortable

bed at home and a comfortable pillow,

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and maybe you say, man, I love my pillow.

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My pillow is so great.

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You love your pillow because your

pillow is associated with sleep.

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And really what you love is

you love sleep, you love rest.

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And so in the morning when

you get up in the morning, I.

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And you think, man, I love my

time with God in the morning.

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Because I, I love the, to grab

the cup of coffee and I love

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to sit down with the Lord.

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It's connecting things that

facilitate your communion with God

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and making you love that time more.

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And that's gonna help you be like David

or like the sons of Corey here saying, as

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the Dear pants, so I long for the Lord.

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Maybe you're there going,

how do I get there?

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You have to work at it.

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It's an acquired taste,

but it's worth the pursuit.

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Yeah.

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One thing to keep in mind too

is that the deer's panting not

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because he is having a good day.

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He's being pursued, right?

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It might be that you need to be

pursued by some evil situation

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in order to run to the Lord.

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We don't wanna have to rely on that,

but this is one of the reasons God

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allows evil to afflict us because what

it does is draw us to him such that.

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We know, like David, I, I need the

Lord more than I even recognize.

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I thirst for him because he's my

refreshment, he's my protection.

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He's my safe haven.

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Psalm 23, he's my shepherd.

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He's the one who leads me to still waters.

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He's the one who refreshes my soul.

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This is in the context of

David, or not David, rather.

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The sons of core writing about a situation

where there's affliction, there's some

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kind of pursuit, there's some kind of evil

that's chasing after them, and they're

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saying, help me find my rest in God.

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If you feel like you're in a

dry season pray through that.

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Because you don't wanna have to have

God say, all right, Lord, I guess bring

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the worst so I can come near to you.

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Now you wanna be able to thirst

after him for the right reasons,

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and in verse five, to hope in him.

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Recognizing at some point I'm gonna,

I'm gonna, I'm gonna praise him again.

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I like this verse because this is what

Martin Lloyd Jones built his whole book

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about in terms of spiritual depression.

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That's the name of the book.

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Yep.

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Whole book is good.

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But really it revolves around

this one idea, which is that we

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spend most of our trouble resting.

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The fact that we spend too much time, I.

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Listening to ourselves rather

than talking to ourselves.

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And he highlights Psalm 42 verses five,

and the other one that corresponds to it.

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Verse 11.

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Verse 11.

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Yeah.

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He says, we need to talk to ourselves and

tell ourselves the truth about who God is.

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And this is what we see here, that

the sons of core right for us.

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Yep.

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Preach to yourself, right?

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Yep.

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That's exactly right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hey, let me lemme pray for us and

then we'll be done with this episode.

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God, we we want to be

like the sons of Cora.

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We want to long for you.

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We want to pant after you.

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We want to desire fellowship with you,

intimacy with you to be close to you.

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And God, we do know that is a,

an acquired taste, so to speak,

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and that we have to work at that.

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And so we pray that we would do just

that and that you would make us a church

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that is faithful towards that end.

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And so make us a church that loves

spending time with you, quick to preach

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to ourself when we need to do that.

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And so we thank you

for that in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said