00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:22 Memorial Day Reflections

00:46 Personal Military Stories

03:05 Theological Discussion on War and Sin

04:29 Exploring Views on Hell

09:17 Introduction to the Hillel Psalms

11:27 Trusting in the Lord Amidst Bad News

11:58 The Hallel Psalms: An Introduction

12:33 God's Transcendence and Immanence

12:56 The Exodus and God's Deliverance

14:47 Worship and Idolatry

16:04 The Process of Transformation Through Worship

17:00 God's Response to Our Prayers

18:27 The Simplicity of Worship

19:30 The Rejection and Exaltation of Christ

21:15 Trusting in the Lord Over Man

22:18 Conclusion and Daily Bible Reading

It's Tuesday.

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And welcome back to another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's Tuesday.

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What's going on on Tuesday.

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We're back in the office.

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We are back in the day off

everybody's out of school, everybody.

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Yeah.

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Everyone's at a Scorre now.

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That was kind of cool.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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So, oh, and yesterday,

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Was it holiday?

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Yesterday was a holiday is Memorial

Memorial day happy Memorial day.

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The Memorial day.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, we apologize for not

recognizing that yesterday.

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We recorded this on Friday, actually

Friday, May 24th is our date of recording.

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Yes.

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Yeah, but we apologize.

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We are certainly grateful for

everything that Memorial data stand for.

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Um, Including our ability to

do what we're doing right now.

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I tried to enlist in the

Marines and I got really close.

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Yeah, I went through processing.

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I went through processing and

I got all the way to then.

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T to the near end.

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I went through the physical

thing that they do at MEPS.

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In a, in LA.

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Uh, which is very uncomfortable.

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I never want to do that again.

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And I'm thankful that I don't.

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Uh, but anyway, I almost got processed

and I think I can't exactly remember the

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specific situation, but I knew it had

something to do with marrying my bread.

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And so I ended up not doing it.

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Cause it was either become a Marine

or Mary, Kristen, something like that.

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Yeah.

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my memory is foggy because it

was so long ago at this point.

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But I do remember being

a bit disappointed.

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I've always kind of had

that itch in my, my bones.

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Like, ah, I'd love to do that.

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Clearly, not in this life,

not in this lifetime.

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Not that I think we'll have an

opportunity in the next lifetime either.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, I almost, almost.

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Yeah, I grown up.

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I wanted to be, I used to

say, I want to be an army man.

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Army man.

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And then I want it to be a police man.

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Um, Mostly because I just

wanted to carry again, but.

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Since then I, now, as a pastor,

you can carry a gun without

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having to do any of that stuff.

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True.

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I carry two guns, one on

either side of my torso.

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Anyway.

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Yeah, no, after that, I

never really had caliber.

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Hey, Hey.

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Shots fired.

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Speaking of shots, fire.

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Wow.

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That's why that's why I

keep buying bigger Bibles.

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Cause I'm just trying to get.

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Stronger and stronger, man, did you

stay on the setup team and the next

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year, your biceps will be twice as big.

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We had a couple of guys

set up for the setup team.

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We still need more.

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We do.

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Thank you, men who did

sign up, we'll take you.

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I'll take you on that.

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Everybody keep signing

up for the setup team.

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Please do.

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If you're a male.

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But we'd like to, we'd like to relieve

you of that opportunity, right?

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Unlike the military, unlike the military,

they'll put you on the front lines.

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If you want.

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They will, we won't, we will not.

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Yep.

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Um, yeah, but happy Memorial day,

we know we have some veterans in,

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uh, in our midst, which I know is

not veteran's day it's Memorial day,

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but, uh, I know it's a day that is.

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The hits home, particularly for those

men and in women that have fought

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and have put their lives on the line.

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Uh, as others have lost their lives

and lost in defense of our country.

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So we are grateful for that sacrifice.

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Yes.

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If that's your family, if

your family has lost somebody.

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Uh, we're grateful for you for

your sacrifice in that as well.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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It's such an important thing.

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That's a.

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We can't overlook.

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Yeah, it's, uh, it's hard.

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The fallen broken world that we

live in war is necessitated by sin.

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And it's, it's hard because

there's never, you know, the

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whole concept of just war theory.

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Is there ever a such thing as

a just war where all of our

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motives are pure and right.

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And going to war for

whatever the occasion may be.

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Um, I think we get close in, in

situations, but I don't know that

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we can ever say, yeah, this is

a just war that's being fought.

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A hundred percent across the board

because we don't have God saying

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to the United States of America.

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Go on attack and drive out.

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These people are going attack and

redeem these people or anything

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else like that, the way that

Israel did in the old Testament.

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Yeah, sin creates a lot of

complication and messiness.

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That's really hard to untangle.

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And part of that is it takes some

sanctified, common sense and some biblical

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wisdom to say, okay, what do we do with a

situation like this, all that to say, I do

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think there are situations where in war is

the most wise and sensical step forward.

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Although no one says that

with glee or joy, right.

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It's still a very bad situation.

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And I know that the phrase is

war is hew hockey sticks that

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one's kind of thrown out there.

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And that, that, that does

speak to its intensity and

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ferocity and the loss of lives.

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Now that make no mistake.

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Hell is still worse.

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Yeah.

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And we should honor that even as we

seek to honor the service men and

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women who gave their lives for this.

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Yeah.

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I've been thinking a lot about

how recently, because I'm

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getting ready to teach on that.

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The national circuit.

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That in creationism, right?

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Yeah, creationism.

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Yep.

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Hell.

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Yeah, something like that.

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Those two things are closely related.

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Yeah.

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Um, yeah, and, and really

they're the three main views

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of hell that exists out there.

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You've got the eternal conscious torment,

which is the most common view of hell

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that you think of when you think of hell.

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That it is a place of eternal punishment

of the lost, and that is the view that

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we embrace here at compass Bible church.

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That's the view that we believe is.

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Most clearly taught in scripture.

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Uh, the next view would

be annihilationism.

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That is, that hell is a place

that is, is, has a Terminus to it.

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Uh, that a person is either punished

for a period of time in hell.

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And then they are destroyed once.

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And for all, once their sins have been,

uh, punished or that, that simply there

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are destroyed as soon as they die that.

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Uh, eternal death means that eternal

non-existence, um, death is non-existence

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and so they're totally non-existent again.

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There's some biblical support that some of

the proponents of that we'll put forward.

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I don't think it's as strong

as the biblical support for

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eternal conscious torment.

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So that's why I still landed there.

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And then the third

option is what we would.

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What I have been calling in, in this,

uh, uh, purification universalism

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that, uh, that hell is a place where

a sinner is purified B until they

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bow the knee and choose to accept

the grace that God offers them to end

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their torment and to, to go to heaven.

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Uh, this is similar to Rob bell.

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Love wins.

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This is origin was actually the first

one to, to come up with this concept.

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Um, and so he was one of the early church

theologians and he was the first one

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to propose that, Hey, hell is, is not

eternal, but, but men in their free will,

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can choose God in eternal punishment.

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The doc, the Catholic

doctrine of purgatory.

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Uh, it comes from this, which is,

uh, is something that is, is not

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a biblically supported doctrine.

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Uh, they'll they'll point their

first Corinthians 15 three.

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Sorry, I'm wrong.

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Am I my reference there, but

the whole, maybe it's three 15.

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The idea that some will be

saved, but only as through fire.

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And they'll say, well, there's

purgatory, but that the problem

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is that's the Bema seat.

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That's not the great white throne.

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And so there's, there's really

no biblical support for the

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doctrine of purgatory at all.

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It comes from the inner testimonial

period books, the books of Maccabees

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and in others that we don't hold us as.

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Authoritative scripture.

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You didn't ask about any of that,

but I've been doing a lot of thinking

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about hell recently, and those are the

three main views that exist out there.

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And what's interesting is the last two

views primarily exist because of how

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uncomfortable the concept of hell is.

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You mentioned hell is, is worse than war.

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And in that it is worse than warden.

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When we read about this and think

about eternal, conscious torment.

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I mean.

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It's no wonder that people are sitting

there trying to come up with any other

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reason or any other explanation for hell.

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Uh, other than that, because the

problem is we don't want to justify

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or reconcile a God who is loving with

a God who is perfectly just as well.

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We think that those two things

compete with one another.

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When.

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The Bible holds them attention and

tells us that, that, that don't.

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Well, I think so we will

actually challenge God's justice.

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When we talk about hell.

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Why does it make sense that God would.

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Punish somebody.

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For all of eternity for

sins that were done in time.

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And I think one of the most

powerful thoughts about that is.

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There's nothing in scripture

that would suggest that a center

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stop sending after he dies.

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Right.

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There's nothing.

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And if that's the case, the wages of sin

is death and they continue to sin while

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the continued punishment of sin is death.

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And.

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Debt then would continue for as long

as they continue sending and living.

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Which is forever.

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Yeah, because there is a resurrection

of the dead, the just are the righteous

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and the wicked and the righteous end.

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We could live forever.

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Um, that of course then causing the

question, well then why would God do that?

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Why wouldn't it be more merciful

for him to do this or to do that?

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Wouldn't it be better for God to do this

and that, and that kind of speculation.

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While it might feel sanctified.

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Um, ultimately it undermines

what God says about himself.

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He is wise.

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He is just he's good.

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He's perfect.

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So when we say, would it be

better for God to do ABC or D?

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The answer is, well, no,

because here's what he said.

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And here's what he's doing.

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And he is the very definition

of righteousness, goodness,

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justice, et cetera.

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And in fact, that's, it's, it's in the.

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The neighborhood of when Paul says

in Romans nine, when he's talking

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about vessels of wrath and vessels

of mercy, it's in the neighborhood.

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Over in Romans 11 is he's leaned

in the plane on this whole argument

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where he says what we talked about

in one of our most recent podcasts.

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Oh, the depth of the riches and the

wisdom and the knowledge of God.

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How unsearchable are his judgments?

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How inscrutable his ways.

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Uh, he's, he's not ever, w we're

not to put God in the docket

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and say, answer for yourself.

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Um, even on the things that

make us uncomfortable about it.

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And, and there's, uh, there are a lot of

things that will make you uncomfortable.

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If you read the Bible and understand

the Bible and you walk away going.

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Yeah.

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I'm completely comfortable

with everything there in.

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I don't think that

you've quite understood.

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Yeah.

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You clearly did not.

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Yeah.

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This is why this is so important, what

we're doing here, because we're able to

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go through all these texts and talk about

some of the things that come up from it.

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And I mean, the songs are rich with

those themes to the righteousness

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and the justice of God and

the destruction of the wicked.

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Even the way that God

feels about the wicked.

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We talked about, not about that.

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Not too long ago.

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This is why going through your

Bible is so important because you're

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going to encounter themes and ideas

that you would never encounter.

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Otherwise, if you were just going through

your favorite devotional 31 days or, or

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this or that, Sure kind of Bible study.

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True.

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We'll speak into the Psalms.

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Let's jump in.

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We've got a lot of them to cover.

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Yes, these are the Hillel Psalms Hillel.

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Uh, if you think of the word, hallelujah.

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Uh, so the first part of Holly, Lou, yeah.

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Hillel is a, it means praise.

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Hallelujah means praise the Lord.

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And so that's how each of these

Psalms, most of them, I believe

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start praise the Lord verse.

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Uh, some 1 11 1 is

literally in the Hebrew.

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Hallelujah.

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Um, it is the word that we transliterate

into English and it's a, an expression

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of praise, expression of worship.

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So that's why these are the Hillel songs.

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They all mark are, or are marked by a.

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A, an opening that ascribes praise to God.

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And that's what the

content is really about.

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Like in Psalm one 11 verses two through

nine we're praising God's works.

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His creative activity is.

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The things that he's done.

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He's he's, um, he's

activity amongst mankind.

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And then it concludes

in verse 10 by fearing.

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Uh, God, and in fear, and God

is the beginning of wisdom.

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We're about to get into that big

time in the book of Proverbs.

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That is going to be a massive theme,

if not the theme of the book of

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Proverbs, but I'm praising God for

his works in, in the right conclusion.

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And when we consider the Granger of his

works is to create a fear of God in us.

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That is.

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Uh, going to be an expression of

our worship and in praise of him

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greater, the works of the Lord

studied by all who delight in them.

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That's what you're doing, man.

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You gotta be proud of that

and continue to go deeper.

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This podcast is just one additional tool

in your tool belt that is intended to

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help you dig into the depths of scripture.

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And it continue on.

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We're just scratching the

surface on all of these Psalms.

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And we wish we could spend more

time, but man, this is hopefully.

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An appetizer, a Costco size appetizer.

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Yep.

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That's meant to help you dig deeper.

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When you go back to your, your Bible

study opened up your log house or

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whatever you're using and get to it.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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Psalm one 12 again.

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Hallelujah.

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Praise the Lord opens

up there in verse one.

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Another song that begins with that.

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Uh, verses one through nine, here

are the blessings of obedience, the

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blessings of obedience, and then

verse 10, the fate of the wicked.

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Uh, bless it is the man who here's our

concept again, who fears the Lord and

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greatly delights in his commandments.

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There's the parallelism there.

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A lot of times we talk

about fear, the load.

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What is fear of the Lord?

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Well, one aspect of it.

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In verse one that we see

from the parallelism is

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delighting in his commandments.

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Uh, that's what it means to fear the Lord.

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We're going to see that in Proverbs

again, that it's, it's part of

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fearing Don to turn away from

evil and to despise evil too.

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To choose to obey God.

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Um, The one who fears the Lord.

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Look at verse seven is

not afraid of bad news.

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His heart is firm trusting in the Lord.

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What a great place that is to

be, to say, okay, God, bring it.

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Whatever it is.

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It's it's not the bad news.

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Won't hurt it.

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Doesn't say that.

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It says I'm not afraid of it.

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I'm not going to lose sleep over it.

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I'm not going to have anxiety over.

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Well, what if this goes wrong?

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Or what if this happens to me?

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Because my trust, my confidence,

my fear is in the Lord.

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Air.

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Reminds me of yesterday, Psalm,

he gives to his beloved sleep.

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I don't have to worry tossing

and turning about what could

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or might or should happen.

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We're going to trust that the Lord's

going to do what the Lord is going

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to do, and it's going to be good.

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It's going to be for his

glory and our good, yup.

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So I'm one 13, again, hallelujah

opens up in verse one.

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There.

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Uh, this is the first, I guess,

of the official Hillel song.

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Although one 11 and one 12 also begin

the same way, but the Hallel Psalms

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officially are Psalms one 13 to one 18.

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So, uh, you got two extra thrown in there.

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Uh, Bonus that's free.

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Uh, verses one through three

command to praise the Lord and

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then 49 reasons to praise the Lord.

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I love this one.

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There was a worship song that

we used to sing at masters that

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was built around this Psalm.

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And that was one of my favorite

songs that we sang there.

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Uh, but sh.

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Uh, asking the question in verse five,

who is like the Lord, our God, who

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is seated on high, who looks down.

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Over the heavens and the earth

and raises the poor from the desk.

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What a, what a contrast there.

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You've got the transcendence of

God's seated on high, and yet the

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intimacy of God, the imminence of God,

reaching down to raise the poor from

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the dust, such a cool concept there

about our God, certainly praiseworthy.

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First one forth or verse one

14, chapter one 14, then again.

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Uh, is a Psalm of praise to the Lord.

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It doesn't start out.

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Hallelujah though.

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It starts out when Israel

went out from Egypt.

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And so we get some

context provided for us.

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This Hillel song focuses on the Exodus.

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Uh, versus one through 10, 10.

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One through two.

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Uh, God's presence with his people verses

three through six, the, uh, the call for

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the earth than to fear the Lord creation.

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If you're the Lord and then verses

seven through eight, an invitation

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for all mankind to fear the Lord.

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That's a scope of our advantages.

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And by the way, the whole world, we want

everybody, the more people that come to

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the Lord, the better it is going to be.

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The more glory he gets, which is why,

again, I love the composition of our

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church, but we ought to continue to spread

out our wings into, to find ourselves.

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As often as we have opportunity to

open up the doors of conversation.

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Uh, you might notice that all of

the old Testament circle kind of

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circles around the airport of God's

deliverance of Israel from Egypt.

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Uh, and the new Testament we

circle around the airport.

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God has done for us to do

Christ and the resurrection.

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Um, and the, and the crucifixion

and the resurrection.

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So notice those themes and let that be

just through the regular part of your

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conversation, what God has done, man.

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That's okay.

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Talk about that.

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Let that be one of the first things

you talk about with your neighbors, and

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then it's no longer going to be awkward.

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You put your, put your

cards on the line or put.

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Put your cards down as a, as a kid,

say on the table, on the table.

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That's what else?

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Yeah, I guess I don't

do a lot of gambling.

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So.

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Yeah.

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Uh, uh, although you do have the

gambling shirt, um, Yeah, you have that.

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Okay.

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Well, whatever.

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Uh, I should wear my gambling shirt.

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And then you wear your pina colada shirt.

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It's not a premium class.

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It's blue.

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It's water.

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I don't think it's water, buddy water.

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It's clearly not water.

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It's water.

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It's the same water that

Jesus turned into wine.

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Well, Yeah.

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Maybe.

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Uh, no.

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You saying that reminded me of

the, uh, the casting crowns song.

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Um, until the whole world

hears seeing until right.

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That's probably my favorite.

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Isn't that song.

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I thought that was Jeremy camp.

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Nope.

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Let's get some crowns.

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Okay.

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Yep.

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It was also Josh Hamilton's walkup song

back when he played for the Rangers.

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Oh, yeah.

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Anyways, someone 15.

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This Psalm is a again, a

pre som shocker, right?

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Uh, and it focuses on the Lord.

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And in contrast the worship of

God with the false worship of

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the idols love the way it starts.

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Not to us a Lord, but to your name, give

glory for the sake of your steadfast,

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steadfast, love and faithfulness.

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Just frames the heart of

worship in the right place.

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It's not about us.

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It's about the Lord.

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It's about.

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Uh, worshiping him and then it

really just mocks the idols.

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Th th they're silver and

gold work of human hands.

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They have mouths, but

they can't speak eyes.

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Can't see ears.

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Can't hear.

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Uh, which seems so.

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Simple.

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It's like, how could anyone worship this?

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And yet when we consider some of the idols

that we worship in our life, and if we

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were to say, man, would you worship fame?

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Would you worship success?

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Would you worship?

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You know, wealth.

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Uh, or would you worship God?

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Can any of those things really do

anything for you in any eternity when.

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We're in the right state of mind.

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The answer to that is obviously no, uh,

but in the day in and day out, that's

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why it's so important that we fear the

Lord as we've been talking about in

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some of these earlier Psalms, so that

we can maintain that rate state of mind

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and avoid our own idol worship, because

we may not be bound down to works

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of human hands, but we're bound down

to other things in our life as well.

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And there, there are other things

that are stealing art of ocean.

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Uh, that really belongs

to God and God alone.

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Uh, the punchline verse eight,

those who make them, those who

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make those idols become like them.

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So do all who trust in them?

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There's something about our idols, the

things that our heart gravitate toward.

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Where our lives are shaped by

the things that we worship you

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become what you worship at.

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Someone wants said, we see

this also in the new Testament.

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Second Corinthians three 18.

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Uh, Paul says something like this too.

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To the, to the church at

Corinth where he says.

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We all with unveiled face beholding,

the glory of the Lord are being

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transformed into the same image.

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We become like what we worship

and we're becoming like the Lord

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as we behold his glory through

the scriptures, by the spirit.

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And Paul says, we do this from

one degree of glory to another.

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This comes from the Lord who is a spirit.

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So this process of transformation

happens when we worship something and

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all of us are worshiping something.

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None of us are not.

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It's just a matter of what we're

worshiping and what we become like.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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There's a super helpful book.

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Um, That defined a worship.

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And it was basically said

we're born worshiping that.

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There's never a point in time in

our life when we're not worshiping.

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The question is what.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, some one 16 then is a, a,

another pretty song for the Lord's

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hearing and acting to deliver the

Psalmus from death verses one through

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11, God has heard and responded to

the Lords are to the Psalmist please.

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And prayers.

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And then verses 12 through 19, the

Psalmist praises God for delivering him.

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So common themes that we find in the song,

but right away, I love the Lord because he

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has heard my voice in my pleas for mercy.

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And so it's not saying that's

the only reason why he loves God.

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He's saying.

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I do love him because of this.

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It's it's expressing the response,

the appropriate response to when God.

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Uh, does act in response to our

prayers should be that our affection

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should be increased in Sturt for him.

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Uh, verse nine, the confidence I will walk

before the Lord in the land of the living.

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That's our hope right now.

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Because we're walking before the

Lord in the land of the dead.

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And it was Sunday.

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We'll walk before the Lord

in the land of the living.

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So we're looking forward to that.

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And that will be a great day.

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Indeed.

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I really like verse 15 precious

in the sight of the Lord

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is the death of his saints.

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Um, I appreciate that.

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I just, God cares, even though

he knows, and he's appointed our

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days and our they're numbered.

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It's still meaningful to him.

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There's still a sense in

which God feels something.

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And it's hard to talk about that

because God doesn't feel the

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same way we do, but there is.

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A sense of which God

has moved by our debt.

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That's precious in his sight.

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He, he he's, he cares about

it, that matters to him.

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And so it should also matter to us.

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It's kind of fits nicely on the heels of

what you were talking about on Sunday.

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Uh, about, about the nature of death and

what it represents and why it's heavy

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and that there's a somberness to it.

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But man of God, God cares about

the death of his believers.

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Yeah, indeed.

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Indeed someone 17, even

shorter than our opening.

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Some, uh, this one is just two verses

praise, the Lord, all nations, extol

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him, all people for great is his

steadfast love toward us and the

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faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.

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Praise the Lord.

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Uh, simple and, and yet just a

good reminder for us as well.

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We've been talking about new worship

songs versus old worship song.

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How about just the simplicity

sometimes of worship.

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It doesn't always need to

be the most profound things.

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Um, sometimes it's, it's good.

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Just to.

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To let it be simple.

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Lord.

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Yes, Lord.

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Yes.

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Maybe not that simple, but, uh, yes.

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Yes, Lord.

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All right.

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Someone 18.

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Um, yeah, so I'm one 18

is a, is a longer one.

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Okay enough.

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I could sing of your love forever.

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You don't have to go.

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You don't sing it forever.

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Yes.

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Yeah, we did so many.

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The chorus.

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We went through that course.

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I don't know how many times,

because I came from an ag

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church to assemblies of God.

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Like we do those songs and we,

when we do them, we do them.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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There's.

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Like long musical interlude in between.

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And they're like, yeah.

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And we're.

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We're trying to lean in.

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Yeah, well, We're not so, all

right, so I'm wanting teen,

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uh, This is a familiar one.

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It's got the repeated refrain, his

steadfast love endures forever.

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In fact, a lot of times, uh, maybe

you've been in churches that have

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done the responsive reading and that's

been your response and everything.

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And that's, that's the theme of this.

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It's praising God for his steadfast,

love his mercy, his covenant love.

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Uh, towards the nation of Israel and

he's inviting people to, uh, to, to

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recognize that and to worship him.

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And he's talking also about God's

deliverance and what got it done.

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Uh, notice verse 22 though is significant

for us because the stone that the builders

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rejected, which has become the cornerstone

is picked up and applied to Jesus.

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Uh, in the book of acts

and answer that is.

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Significant for us to realize

that that's who that is.

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Jesus is the cornerstone.

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And the builders rejected it.

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Israel rejected it.

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In the Greek stumble over

it in, in that is Christ.

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That is Jesus verse 24.

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This is the day the Lord has made.

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Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

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What a simple, but yet good thing for

us to remind ourselves of every single

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day that there's a reason to worship it

and to worship God, because liquid, you

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said we're always worshiping something.

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So just to note here, verse 24, this

is the day that the Lord has made.

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Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

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Again, this is, this

is not a pleasant day.

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And this is not a happy day, right?

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They they've rejected

Christ their cornerstone.

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And their rejection is the Lord's

doing, and it's marvelous in our eyes.

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Why?

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Because he's ultimately going

to overturn the tables and he's

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going to do this topsy-turvy

thing where he, he exalts Christ.

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This reversal, this, uh, this

turning this, uh, this rejection

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rather is the Lord's doing this

is the day that the Lord has made.

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And then he, ultimately, he will reverse

that and it will, it will be a happy day.

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But before that, this is not a good thing.

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They rejected their Messiah.

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That's that's ultimately heart rent

heart-wrenching and that should

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not have been the case, although

that's exactly what God decreed.

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I like verses eight and nine, we

kind of skipped over, but I just

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want to point this out to you.

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It's better to take refuge in

the Lord than to trust in man.

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It's better to take refuge in

the Lord than a trust in princes.

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You know, it gets complicated because

I think there is a sense of what you

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should trust your leaders is to trust

people that God has put in your life.

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But that trust is never unqualified and

is never absolute and total at the end

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of the day, our trust is in Christ, man.

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I remember.

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Hearing about one of my favorite

preachers and pastors who fell

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because of some egregious sin.

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And it hurt.

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Cause I'm like, how do you do that, man?

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I trusted you.

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I felt betrayed.

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And I ain't even, I didn't know the

guy, he was just one of my internet

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preachers that I would listen to you and

I cared a lot about, but when he fell,

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I felt personally offended by that.

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And it was a, it was a wake-up call, like.

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My trust needs to be planted in Christ.

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And even if my favorite

preacher is my favorite.

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My favorite people.

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I, I, I don't expect them to be

perfect and not to say that I'm

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giving anyone an excuse to be sinful,

but at the end of the day, my trust

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needs to be planted firmly in Christ.

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And that's going to spare

me a lot of heart feelings.

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It doesn't mean I'm not going to be

hurt when people make mistakes and sin.

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But it's better to trust in

the Lord than to trust in man.

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Better take refuge in him.

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True.

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True.

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It's also good to read your Bibles.

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Every day, every day.

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So.

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The exercise of trust

Cooper in your Bibles.

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And you want us again tomorrow for another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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See you then.

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But.