00:00 Introduction and Storm Aftermath

00:24 Personal Stories and Community Impact

00:55 Weather Reflections and Humor

04:42 Neighborhood Anecdotes and Ring App

06:51 Bible Reading: First Kings

10:00 David's Leadership and Solomon's Charge

11:11 Solomon's Reign and Dealing with Rebellion

13:15 Psalm 37: Trusting in the Lord

18:14 Psalm 71: Confidence in Old Age

21:32 Psalm 94: A Prayer for Vengeance

22:35 Conclusion and Preview of Next Episode

Hey, Hey, welcome to what Wednesday's

edition to the daily Bible podcast.

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That's right.

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We're a bit disoriented after all

these storms have passed through.

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So please forgive us.

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Yeah, we had more, I mean, we showed

up on Sunday, wondering if some of

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our people got, uh, You know, taken

out by a tornado and thankfully.

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The way they didn't, they did not think.

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Thank God.

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Those are some not.

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The wind.

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I mean, it was really cool to watch.

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Yeah.

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Uh, and also a bit terrifying.

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Yeah, we did have one of our people

that, uh, took shelter in the gas station

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that got hit by one of the tornadoes.

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Yeah.

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And he ended up, okay.

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His car is famous though.

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Yes.

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His cars and all the pictures.

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It's in all the pictures.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Not with him though, because

he doesn't have it right now.

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That's right.

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I still don't know if

he's gotten it back yet.

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I don't think it needs it.

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Well, it's got a lot of his stuff in it.

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Well, yeah, I guess, you

know what you're right.

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I, I, I think the windows were still up,

so I think he might, there still, there

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still might be stuff in the car could

be, yeah, could still be worthwhile.

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Even just the wins last night.

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What was that?

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Monday night we're as we

record this on Tuesday.

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Th they were so bad.

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All the covers on my, my grills and

my backyard got just ripped off.

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Wow.

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It was crazy this morning too.

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Yeah.

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This morning was gnarly.

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Yeah.

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Tuesday.

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The majority of it hit.

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Yeah, it was a, yeah.

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So we, our roofs are

leaking and that's not good.

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We sat and gotten that ticket, taken

a look at it yet, but we're going

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to, we're going to do that soon.

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We w we had so much hail.

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It was by far by far, the worst

storm I've ever been in to date.

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Yeah.

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Which.

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Last year we, we had, uh,

uh, Pretty bad one as well.

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Yeah, sideways, wind, hail,

you know, coming up at windows

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and stuff, but this one.

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Did the hail on this one though?

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I was like, oh no, I stay

away from the windows guys.

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You know?

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It's going to come through any minute.

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Oh, it was.

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I was nervous because I'm thinking,

how do I seal up a window in the storm?

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What am I supposed to do right now?

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No.

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What I was supposed to do, right.

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Right.

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Well, and then all the, yeah.

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All the flash flood warnings.

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Come on afterwards.

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Yeah.

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I didn't really pay attention to that.

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I drove anyway.

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Yeah.

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And clearly you didn't

pay attention either.

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You were here right in,

early at the office.

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That is.

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Alright.

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Yes.

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Yep.

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And it is your, is your

vehicle a four by four?

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It is not.

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It is not.

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So just two, two wheel

drive only just two wheels.

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Yeah.

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But got here.

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Okay.

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There were some down

trees and there were no.

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Bodies of water that were.

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There they were pretty high.

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Yeah, I saw that.

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And, uh, down to 89.

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So Preston, as you, as you head north.

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To north of north Texas.

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Uh, you can still see a lot of the

damage from the Saturday night tornado.

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Which is that, which is pretty

extensive, is more than I realized.

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I saw pictures on the news, but

it's a whole other, when you're,

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when you're actually looking at it.

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In fact, I took the kids.

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We drove by some of the,

some of the wreckage.

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Because I wanted him to see it.

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I wanted them to see like, man,

look at how blessed we are.

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The Cal, how crazy this

is, how sad this is.

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We pray for them.

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Uh, it was good for us to see it.

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Um, Um, hard to see it too though.

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And I didn't realize, I mean,

I know we're at the very tip of

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tornado alley, but didn't think

we'd see a whole lot of action.

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More than I more than I expected.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And it, it, it is still somewhat rare.

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Um, you know, As far as the tornadoes

go, uh, you know, especially the

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closer to cities that you get, you

don't typically get tornado activity.

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There.

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There was one that hit downtown

Fort worth when I was growing up.

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And it was news all over the globe

because they're so rare to rip

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through like a major city like that.

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Right.

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Um, but, uh, yeah, yeah.

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Storms are, are not rare.

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Those we get a lot of, yes.

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Which I'm grateful for.

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I remember when we were living

in California, the droughts that

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were just no storms, continual.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, we got a storm.

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You'd sit at the window,

but this is amazing.

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Water's falling from the sky guys.

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There's water.

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Yeah, those were good.

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This.

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Yeah.

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And then K and then California

Soquel that the news.

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The new shows Stormwatch

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And there's like a puddle, a

trickle going down the sidewalk.

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The storm is crazy.

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Guys.

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Take shelter.

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Don't leave your homes.

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Mageddon.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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I was doing news conferences.

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We're looking at this storm.

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I stay sheltered.

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Don't go anywhere, mask up.

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Right.

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And if you have a house on

the side of a hill, it's just

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going to fall into the ocean.

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Now, man.

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Yeah.

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I think for the weather too.

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This is kind of it's

exciting, even though it's.

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It could be quite devastating

and we don't have to water our

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backyard for a few days now.

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So that's not.

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Yeah, my, my sprinklers

went on this morning.

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Well, that's not helpful.

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What are you doing?

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I had to forcefully stop it.

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Yeah.

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As the hail was beating down our home.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Gnarly stuff, man.

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I still have yet to turn my

sprinklers back on for the summer.

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Oh, I did.

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Um, in part, because I'm trying to see

if I can make my lawn pretty and yeah.

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So far so good.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's great.

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Except for the dogs.

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Well, that's an ongoing issue.

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Yeah.

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I sent you.

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I sent you a picture.

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You did.

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Of so.

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I'll let you know what else

everyone else in on this.

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I said, pastor PG a picture of one

of our There's posts all over our

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little community here with please

clean up after your dog and there's

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little baggies there for you to

show you exactly what the sign says.

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Yep.

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And not 20 feet from the

sign from said, sign.

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Is a package, a deposit.

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Yeah.

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Somebody decided to leave

there and clearly not use the

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baggies for the set occasion.

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Yeah.

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Aye.

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Here's my, my theory, my theory is this.

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I think there's a road coyote

somewhere in your neighborhood.

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That's like.

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Just having a ball.

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I'm just, I'm framing all these dogs,

all these animals, and really, it's

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just a wild, a wild feral coyote.

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Yeah, I just, with all the rain cams,

everyone's got the doorbell ring things.

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I just feel like we

would've caught it by now.

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someone would be like, Hey, there's

a, there's a coyote running around.

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FYI.

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Watch your kids.

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Watch your cats.

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And that's not been the case.

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Dude.

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The neighborhood ring thing makes

me laugh because we get these

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alerts in these notes and things.

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And a lot of times it's like Bobcat

sighting and things like that.

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Yeah.

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But yesterday there was one that

somebody posted that was like,

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how do I make my lawn greener?

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Any tips are appreciated.

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Oh, okay.

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Well, I guess some people

really need the community.

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There's a, there's a person

that should go to church.

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Yeah.

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That's, that's where I'm like,

I'm just here for the comments.

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Like, I just want to see

what everybody has to say.

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Somebody, the first comment

on there was called nine 11.

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Because they were like, how

do I make my lawn greener?

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My lawn is brown and I

don't know what to do.

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And I noted.

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That's bad advice.

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Well, it is, but.

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But a little bit deserved.

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Yeah.

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You think so?

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Uh, people can't ask for quick, you

don't like people asking questions.

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On the ring chat.

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Gordon, why?

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I guess.

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I think there are settings that say,

Hey, you don't want to be part of

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those communiques or what have you.

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But they're entertaining also.

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So I leave them on.

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You can't have it both ways.

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You can't have the cake and eat it at

the same time, but I feel like that.

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I don't have it.

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I don't think that's the purpose.

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I don't think it's, it's meant for

me to like jump on and be like,

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Hey, what restaurant should I

take my wife to this Friday night?

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Cause I'm looking to go out to eat

well, if it doesn't violate community

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standards, I think it's fair games.

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I would guess so.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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It's funny though.

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Yes.

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I agree.

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Yeah.

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Don't call 9 1 1.

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If you've got a brown lawn.

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Yeah.

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Hey, let's jump into our

Bible reading for the day.

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We've got some Kings action

and then three Psalms.

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All right.

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First Kings chapter one, we're

starting this, a new book here.

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And I don't remember

what book we're on now.

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I was giving updates for a while,

but then we started reading in

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the Psalms and the Chronicles and.

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So I've lost track.

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We're doing it chronologically.

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We're in the old Testament.

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That's true.

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I I'm confident on that one.

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Yeah.

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First Kings one, uh, as David is

nearing the end of his life, his son

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at a Nijah, uh, not Solomon, but out

of Nijah makes a plan for the throne

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or a play for the throne rather.

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Declaring himself to be the new king.

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So he assumes that he's going to

be the one, wants to be the one.

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And he gains the support of two key

figures, Joe AB and Abiathar, uh,

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and they are emboldened perhaps by,

by David's pacivity, um, in, in this

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whole thing, but it eventually takes an

intervention from Nathan and Beth Sheba.

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You remember, Nathan is the one

that confronted David and said, Hey.

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Um, man, you're the man.

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Yeah, you're the one in a good way though.

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Yeah, no.

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And then Beth Sheba being Solomon's mom.

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And so upon a hearing of, uh,

hearing what, uh, out of Nigeria

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had done, David arranged to have

Solomon, uh, no one in king of

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a Z doc, the, uh, the priest.

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And so, uh, there was ultimate

coordination would come later.

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Uh, this was the transfer of power

that signified David's true successor.

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First Kings 1 46.

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Solomon is going to be the one

that sits on the Royal throne.

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So things are, are made.

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Right.

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But whereas in Chronicles, we

don't get this information.

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We just get this quick.

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Hey, Solomon became king here in

first Kings chapter one, we get a

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little bit of the backstory where

Solomon's brother, uh, tried to make

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a play for the throne and did seize

the throne, I guess, in, in part.

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With the support of Joe and Abiathar,

who was another one of the priests.

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Uh, but David ready the

wrongs after Nathan and.

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And Bathsheba showed up.

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Dude at a Niger, this cat out of nowhere,

just like, you know, I'm going to be king.

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I'm just going to be I'm.

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I'm going to declare myself to be king.

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Now one line stood out to

me above the rest here.

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And it's a verse six, his father David

had never at any time, displeased

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him by asking why have you done thus?

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And so.

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David.

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Come on, man.

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Yeah, pacivity against tap it up, buddy.

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Come.

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Come on what happened?

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Yeah.

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This is this again, this is the guy who

is called a man after God's own heart.

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And yet he struggles in some of these

and this, maybe this is part of the

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consequence of his fallout with Bathsheba

or the fallout of his time with Bathsheba.

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And this is.

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His pacivity on display, man.

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This is just so disheartening because

this could have all been avoided.

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Yeah.

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I avoided all this.

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I agree.

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And yet Russia's defense.

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Uh, I think it seems because Adam

Nigel was the fourth born of David.

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Um, two of David's other ones we know

are out of the picture at this point,

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Amnon and Absalom are both gone.

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Uh, but then there's one

other, uh, qilib or Chilean.

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Um, It's not mentioned.

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He's not mentioned.

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We don't, we don't know this guy.

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At some point probably, probably.

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So I.

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Nigel was really the next one in line.

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As far as the birth order goes.

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And it was common in other nations.

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Uh, for the oldest son

to succeed the father.

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And so that's probably what's going

on in advisor's mind is he's thinking,

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well, clearly I'm the next one in

line because I I'm the oldest here.

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So I'm going to take the throne.

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And lead the nation, but to seize it.

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Like to seize that money.

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So David's.

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Don't get me wrong.

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Jumps on and.

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Says I'm the guy.

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Yeah.

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And David was wrong, not to say

anything back unless David assumed,

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well, no, he wouldn't have.

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Yeah, David should have known better.

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Yeah, he did no better.

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He did.

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He did know better.

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He chose not to act upon that.

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I guess you can read verse six as

being true about that situation or

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as being more or less true is in the

way that David governed his own son.

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Yeah, his father had never at any time

displeased him, that could be never at any

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time during this debacle or it could be

never at any time period as he raised him.

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Yeah, I'm inclined to think that this

is a indicative of David's leadership

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over his son over the course of time.

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Well, it certainly fits his

persona, at least towards

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the latter years of his life.

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Yeah.

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First Kings to, uh, David, then he gives

his parting instructions to Solomon.

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After writing the wrongs here, he, uh, he

gives his charge to Solomon and in really,

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it comes down to these two charges.

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Number one, that it would.

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Uh, go well with him and that he

might prosper in his reign if he walks

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in a manner pleasing to the Lord.

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And then number two, that if he

walks in Amanda pleasing to the

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Lord, that the promises of the

Davidic covenant would continue.

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And so David is, is really trying

to, to urge Solomon to do well by

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the Lord and to obey the Lord and

in, so doing reap the rewards and

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benefits that would come with that.

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Uh, David's death is then recorded

for us in first Kings chapter

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two, verses 10 through 12.

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Uh, Solomon then officially takes over

as king and in 13 through 34 Solomon

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deals with the leaders of the rebellion,

uh, out of nausea and the others.

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Uh, by having benign kill at a night

at a Nijah, uh, after his outrageous

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request for Abishag who was the, the

Shulamite who lay with David to keep

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him warm during David's latter years,

probably not in a, in an intimate

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fashion, but more in, in trying to

keep him warm, keep his body yet.

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But it suggested that that if it went

there, that would have been fine.

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At least sure.

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And in some sense, sure.

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But he was never able to do that.

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Right.

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And that was just showing

that he was going weak.

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Yeah.

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It was time for him to finish his course.

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And so when at an Azure asked for her.

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Uh, that that's, uh, That's a bold move.

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That's a UN UN.

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Inappropriate move.

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If, if nothing else.

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And, and Solomon goes after him.

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And since Maniah, I like benign, but as a

good dude, We don't know a whole lot about

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benign, but I just like, I like Maniah.

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Um, but he goes after, uh, out of

magic, it takes out a Nigel out.

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And, uh, and JoEM, um, and banishing

Abiathar then from serving as priest.

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And so finally in first Kings 2 35, 3

46, Solomon obeys, David's charged to

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repay shimmy I for his cursing of the

king and had him executed as well after

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he broke the rule established by the

king that he shouldn't leave Jerusalem.

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And a PG way.

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What made it.

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What, what was wrong with Adena?

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Just saying, I want to have a shag.

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Number one, it was inheriting the, the,

the King's harem at we're a member of

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the King's harem to put it that way.

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It was similar to when Absalom

slept with David's concubines.

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The wrong fee.

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When he drove David out, it

was bringing shame upon David.

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It was bringing shame upon Solomon

as well, and it was a power play.

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Uh, and so I think that's the gist of it.

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It's kind of a bold move

for, at a Niger given he just

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escaped the clutches of death.

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And Tom is like, Hey, I'll spare you.

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If you show yourself to be

a worthy person and yet.

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Like, what, what are you thinking?

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What are you thinking?

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Right.

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How does this help you?

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Right.

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Anyway.

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Yeah.

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He's not going to be a worthy person.

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Clearly not.

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Some 37 then.

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As we flip it over to.

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Our three Psalms.

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For the day.

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Some 37 is a Psalm of David, uh,

more proverbial than any of the

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others that we've looked at so far

deals with the question of why the

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wicked seem to prosper while the

godly seemed to struggle so much.

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And there's a lot of similarities in

this Psalm to some of the Proverbs

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that we're going to find shortly

here written by king Solomon.

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So we see a lot of David's

influence in Solomon.

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When we notice that some of

what David wrote shows up in

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Solomon's writings as well.

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Uh, and so we, we see these

things, uh, parallel here, um,

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Psalm 37, 3 trust in the Lord.

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Do good dwell in the land.

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Befriend faithfulness,

delight yourself in the Lord.

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He will give you the

desires of your heart.

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Ah, that's an interesting

phrase right there.

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Right?

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That's not something that we preach very

often, but it's because if you're truly

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just delighting yourself in the Lord.

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Then the desires of your heart are going

to be in keeping with the Lord's will.

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And the awards Lamborghini.

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Yeah.

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I want a house on the other beach.

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That's not so much in.

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Think so.

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Oh for, for hosting, obviously

to drive kids to church.

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But, but on that note for

somebody, it might be.

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It might be that that's God's will,

that this person does have that house on

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the beach and drives a nice car and in

God's put them in a position and there.

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Making, you know, A lot of money

and they're able to support

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missionaries and support churches.

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And do all kinds of stuff like that.

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Um, and then they're driving a

Lamborghini, but that Lamborghini

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is worth maybe a fifth of, of our.

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50th of everything that they're there,

they own, and they give so much more

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to the church than that car is worth.

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So it's not an idol for them.

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Whereas for somebody else.

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Yeah.

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That desire might be, I need that

because that's going to make me happy.

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Yeah.

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And then those are different things.

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Yeah.

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There's a, there's something

to be said about the, the

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relative expenditures, like.

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Like for us, if you're, if you're

spending a thousand dollars a month

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on a car right now, which is, I guess

in line with what's being offered.

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That's a, you know, that's a substantial

amount of your take-home pay.

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Yeah.

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There for a guy like that, whoever

this hypothetical person is that

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we're imagining, you know, that's

a drop in the bucket right.

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Of a very large bucket

that God is busting with.

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And he's faithful and he's

engaged with his church.

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He's not.

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Flaunting it, which.

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You know, I guess that's going to be

subjective as well, in some sense, but

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yeah, it's a matter of being faithful.

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It's not a matter of

the number necessarily.

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It's a matter of your faithfulness.

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And I think that's an important

feature here, but you're right.

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It is about delighting

yourself in the Lord.

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If you delight yourself in what he

wants, you're going to want what

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he wants and that's going to look

different for a lot of people.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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The, the question in before

him in the Psalm is the, why

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do the wicked seem to be.

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B, um, Be thriving in the good or him

even seem to be suffering so much.

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And I think one of the keys to

answering this question and it was

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true for David true for Solomon.

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And it's true for us today, as well

as found in verse seven, be still

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before the Lord and wait patiently.

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For him fret, not yourself over the

one who prospers in his way for the

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man who carries out evil devices.

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And so the key in, in answering this

for us is that patients it's, it's

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realizing, okay, God is going to

ultimately be the final one to, to

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determine what is right and what is wrong.

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He's going to write the wrongs.

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He's going to bring the justice.

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Uh, and so as we wait here and it

seems like the evil person is getting

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everything they want and living

the high life, and they're fine.

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And, and here we are, and we're

struggling to make ends meet or whatever

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it may be for you wherever you're at.

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It's it's the key is I'm going to, I'm

going to choose to be patient again.

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We walk by faith, not by sight, and then

those times of going, okay, God, I don't

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fully understand what you're doing here,

but I'm gonna trust that you're going to

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ultimately bring what is is just about and

bring what is is right about in the end.

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It kinda reminds me, I think Peter

is addressing a similar audience

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in second, Peter chapter three,

where he says the Lord is not

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slow to fulfill his promise folks.

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His day is coming.

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Uh, one day.

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What the Lord is like a thousand years

and a thousand years is as a day.

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He's not slow to fulfill that.

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So fulfill his promises, some count

slowness, but is patient toward you

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not wishing that any should perish,

but that all should reach repentance.

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You've caught this before

pastor PG, even recently.

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I think, um, since all these things

are that's to be dissolved with sort

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of people like you to be in lives of

holiness and godliness waiting for and

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hastening the coming of the day of God.

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So there is a day coming.

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And that day is on the calendar.

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It's a day that God knows it's a

day that's it has urgency behind it.

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And because of that, we can be

patient in the meantime, even if we're

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suffering unjustly and just say, okay,

God, God knows what he's going to do.

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And God's giving time for the unrepentant

center to be repentant and to turn to

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him in faith, we can wait that out.

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I mean, if, if our patients means

someone else gets saved, I think

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it would be happy with that.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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Good trade.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Some of the parallels then in here

with some of the proverbial writings,

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look at verse 23 of 37, that the steps

of man are established by the Lord.

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Psalm 16, verse nine, I believe

says something very similar to that.

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The plant, the heart of man Plains is

waved, but the Lord establishes his

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Proverbs 16 verse nine is what you meant.

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Yes.

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Thank you.

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What did I say?

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So, okay.

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Yeah.

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Proverbs 16, nine.

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Uh, and then verse 25, I've been young,

I'm old, I've not seen the righteous

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forsaken or his children begging for

bread verse 27, turn away from evil duke.

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It that's going to be a common

theme in the book of Proverbs.

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So you shall dwell forever in the

promise of, of reward coming from how we.

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Uh, do that.

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In fact, that's kind of, the key

theme of Proverbs is, is the fear

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of the Lord turning away from evil.

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Doing good is a key component of that.

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So there's a lot of parallels there

between some 37 in the Proverbs.

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Psalm 71.

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Uh, some somebody, one is a

Psalm about growing old in the

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concerns that accompany old age.

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And so here you have, I feel it.

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Yeah, come on.

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And we're not sure if this is David.

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Uh, it.

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I guess it would fit, but it could

have been anyone else in that regard,

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but it's not a attributed wrote this.

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In the title.

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That's right.

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This is pastor rod wrote

this good or done it.

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Um, verses one through eight, uh, his

confidence as he grew, as old is going

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to still remain in God, upon you.

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I've leaned before my birth verse six, you

are, he who took me from my mother's room.

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My praise is continuing to have you.

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In other words, I'm not going

to go anywhere else because

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I've been trusting you.

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From the very beginning here verses

nine through 13, then his prayer.

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Uh, to God to continue

to show himself faithful.

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He's asking God in the time of old age,

verse nine, don't forsake me when my

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strength is spent, as he approaches

the end of his life, he's praying

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that God would continue to be faithful

to him as he's always been faithful.

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And again, this is not.

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Uh, suggesting that God is somehow

going to stop being faithful.

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But this is just asking God to be who

God is to, to remain faithful to his, his

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chosen, to remain faithful to his people.

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And then finally verses 14 through

24, he resolves, I'm going to

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praise God and tell him his

faithfulness to younger generations.

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I'm not going to be done.

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I'm going to realize man, as long as I'm

alive, there's something for me to do.

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And God has worked for me to do,

especially with the younger generations.

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And the local church people stay there.

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Yes.

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They add it, please.

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I do not leave the church.

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Come on.

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How many times I've got to tell this?

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I feel like someone

has to hear this again.

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People.

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If as you get older, stay

in the church, don't leave.

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Don't leave the young people.

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We need you.

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We need you a hundred

percent, have a role to play.

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You have purpose.

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You have.

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You have so much to offer

us and the entire church.

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So please don't go anywhere.

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Are.

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You're saying we and us

pretty liberally there.

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We as in the whole church.

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Yeah, no, we all need.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I have no one else in mind.

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Yeah.

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I turned 40 this in, uh, in, in next

month I said, Less than a month away.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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I remember 40 lessons for 40 years is I'm.

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Looking forward.

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Well, I told my wife, I said, I'm not

sure what I haven't decided what I'm

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gonna do for my midlife crisis yet.

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Oh, the, the motorcycle.

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I did see a Harley Davidson dealer.

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Not too far away from him.

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I'm not a Miata guy.

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That's for sure.

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Harley Davidson.

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Uh, I don't know about

the motorcycle on a hog.

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Yeah.

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I could see it

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coming with a headband jacked up pickup

truck four by four that's that's my

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midlife crisis leather vest with.

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Definitely not with a

heart that says mom on it.

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Yeah, no, probably not.

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Now no new biker name,

but yes, I agree with you.

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Uh, we, as a church corporately still

need the older saints and we do too.

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I mean, we, we need the, the, the

generation that's gone before us.

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That's raised teenagers that

come alongside us as we're

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trying to raise teenagers now.

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And.

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All of the such.

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So, yeah, please stay.

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I love this song.

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This is a precious song.

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I'm going to keep this

on for years to come.

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I'm sure.

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And, and keep, keep it at the forefront

of my heart, because this is so powerful.

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Yeah.

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All of us are getting older.

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None of us is getting younger.

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There's.

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There's no Benjamin button in

our church to my knowledge.

653

Right?

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All of us are going to get old

and gray and wrinkly and ugly.

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Actually some people age really nice.

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So that's not true for all of us.

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We're all going to get wrinkly.

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We're all going to look different.

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It's just the way life goes.

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Yeah.

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Contrary to the facts

to mark Twain's desire.

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Contrary, even to what the

popular media shows you like.

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Oh, you can stay young forever as

you were talking about on Sunday.

664

Yeah.

665

Cryogenics, not for us.

666

Right.

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But man, what a cool thing to age

gracefully, knowing that the God of

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grace is sustaining you through every

season of life, including your death.

669

Yep.

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Yeah, Psalm 94 then is a prayer of God.

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Or per to God.

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Uh, to exact vengeance upon the wicked,

who'd been oppressing the righteous again,

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a situation where the Psalmus describes

his plight, affirms his trust in God to

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provide the deliverance that he needs.

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And so this is similar

if there's not a lot of.

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Uh, new themes here, themes that

we've seen before over and over again.

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Again, why does the Bible repeat themes?

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Because it's important.

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It's, it's important for us to remember.

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Uh, that the brokenness of this world.

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The God is still in control.

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He still sovereign over these things

and he still worth worthy of our trust

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in our reliance, upon him as well.

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Amen.

685

We need that reminder.

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We're first of all, people, yes, we do.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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Verse 14.

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The Lord will not forsake his people.

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He will not abandon his heritage.

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An important promise for Israel.

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But it also holds true

for us at the church too.

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I like verse 12.

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Bless it.

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As a man whom you discipline a Lord.

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That's not going to be on

anyone's favorite verses list.

698

Nope.

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But that person is truly

blessed as what scripture says.

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If you're being disciplined by God, you're

a blessed person because he's teaching.

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Uh, he's training as a father, the

son, and as a father disciplines,

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his son in whom he delights.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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Well, Hey, guess what?

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Tomorrow we're only covering

one chapter tomorrow, guys.

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That's it.

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So, oh, relief.

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Yeah.

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So tune in tomorrow and get

ready for just one chapter.

711

It's going to be a break tomorrow.

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I feel it in the daily Bible

podcast, I'm going to get my

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non-alcoholic margarita out.

714

It's someone 19 though.

715

So.

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All of it.

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I'm gonna get my Gatorade

instead, but yeah.