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01:02 Church Update: Moving to FCA Prosper

01:35 Deep Dive: Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Heaven

07:09 Exploring Psalms: Integrity and Patience

11:32 Imprecatory Psalms: Understanding David's Prayers

18:25 Spiritual Warfare and God's Protection

20:03 Closing Prayer and Final Thoughts

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Hey, it's Sunday and by the way,

this is the second to last Sunday

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that we are gonna be at FCA Frisco

before our move up to FCA Prosper.

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We're excited about that if

you can't tell, and just.

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Super thankful.

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I was meeting with somebody this

week just talking about God's

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provision in this and opening doors

for us that weren't even expected.

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I went to a lunch expecting to, to

talk about the contract for Frisco

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and they said, Hey, what would

you consider moving up to Prosper?

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So it is just it's an awesome

situation for our church.

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Can't wait to be there.

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And yeah, second to last week

here at Frisco for church.

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And then we will be in starting

in June up at FCA Prosper.

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But hey, let's get to part two of

the question that we addressed part

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one yesterday about forgiveness.

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Can we forgive others on behalf of God?

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The answer there is no, but the

second part of this question is this.

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It's when we get to heaven, will we

have the opportunity provided that the

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offended party is in heaven with us to

tell that person we're sorry for any

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egregious acts that we have may have

committed against them and vice versa.

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It says, the person says I know

that sin can't enter heaven,

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so would we forget the wrongs?

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Committed against others.

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And would we forget the ones that

have been committed against us?

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That's a great question.

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Yeah.

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So that's kinda the question there.

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Oh, are you gonna answer?

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You seem like

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Rod: you were ready to jump in.

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You said great question.

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I just acknowledged that

it was a great question.

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I can say something, but I'd love

to hear you talk about it first.

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I think everybody as a rule Yeah.

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Wants to hear you talk about,

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PJ: I don't know about that.

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Here's what I'll say.

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I think when you think.

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A picture, and hopefully

you've experienced this.

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Just good true biblical

reconciliation take taking place.

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There is something that

is, is sweet about that.

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There is something that when genuine

forgiveness is offered and received and

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the reconciliation is accomplished, and

there's the warmth of the embrace or maybe

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between guys the fist bump whatever it is.

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There, there's a warmth that fills you.

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There's a, a Thanksgiving

that fills us for.

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How God does these things.

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And I think God is glorified through

the mending of relationships.

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So in, in a sense, I think that

yes, there will be reconciliation

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that does take place in heaven.

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I think there will be times when people

who were opposed to one another are

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in heaven and realize, man, we can be

we're brothers and sisters in Christ.

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I I hope so for.

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Just for the Christian blogosphere in, in

social media world for that matter, right?

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How many times we use the social

media world and everything else

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to blow up other people for their

beliefs that are secondary, tertiary.

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I don't like people do that, but Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Secondary or tertiary issues.

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And it's like we're questioning whether

this person is saved just because

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they disagree with us on sign gifts

or disagree with us on eschatology.

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And I think there's gonna be time

in heaven for us to be together

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and be like, man we were super

foolish and it's so good that.

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That we are one in Christ, that we have

this peace and unity in Christ now being

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here and that all that stuff is behind us.

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So I do think there's gonna be that

measure of reconciliation there.

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We won't carry, I don't believe,

guilt and shame in heaven still.

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So when we think about will

we carry sin into heaven?

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I don't believe we'll have the guilt

and the shame of our sin, but I do

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think we'll have an awareness of the

offense and I think what's that's gonna

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drive us to, rather than guilt and

shame is just an appreciation for the

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grace and mercy of God in Jesus Christ.

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Even that scenario where somebody has

offended you and coming up and saying,

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look, I'm so sorry about what I, I.

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What I tweeted about you, what I posted

about you, what I said about you.

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I think the response is

gonna be, man, you know what?

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How great is the mercy?

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And Gracie, how Mercy and Gracie, yeah,

the mercy and grace of God, like the fact

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that we're here and we have been forgiven

our offenses against the holy God.

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I 100% we are our reconciled

together and let's just be in odd

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together of how amazing God is

with with how he's forgiven us.

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So that's my take on it.

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I would agree with most of that.

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Rod: I think all of it, actually, the

only thing I would add to that would be.

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When Christians think about our

translation into heaven, I think

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we often say there must not be any

knowledge of sin or any remnant of what

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used to be because there's no crying,

there's no there's no shame or guilt.

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And I agree with those things, but let's

just think about this for a second.

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God sees everything.

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He knows about all sin.

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He knows about the bad

things that are happening.

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Even right now in this very

moment that this podcast is taking

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place, something evil is taking

place, you can guarantee that.

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And yet God is not sullied

or stained by that happening.

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He sees it.

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He's aware of it, he's omnipresence,

and yet no part of him is

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compromised because of that.

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I think something's gonna be very

similar about us in our glorified state.

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I think we're gonna have full

access to our life's history.

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I can't see it otherwise.

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If we're gonna have continuity between

this life and the next life, and we

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believe that, it's not like you suddenly

go to heaven and you forget everything.

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Oh, who is my wife?

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Oh, who, what kind of kids did I have?

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Who were they?

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Did I have a dog?

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I think we're gonna remember everything.

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Or at least, I don't know.

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I think everything because we'll

have a glorified body, but glorified

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mind, which then will have access.

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It won't be godlike.

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It won't be godlike in the sense

that we'll have recall of things that

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are, and are not, but that we'll be

able to think about everything past,

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present, and future in a sinless way.

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Which will include the fact that our

sins, which characterized us on this

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planet will be framed in such a way

that I could think about them without

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feeling guilt, shame, and sorrow.

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Because I'll have a perfected mind

with a forgiven soul that will

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forever be united with Christ.

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And therefore, I do agree that I think

there can be reconciliation in heaven.

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That was never able to take place

on earth for all the reasons

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that we just talked about.

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One of those things,

of course being death.

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But imagine a persecutor

like Paul who killed Steven.

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I wonder when Paul died, if he

was able to go to Steven and say,

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bro, thank you for your witness.

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Thank you for doing what you did.

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And they hug and they they do the

things that brothers do when there's

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a full and genuine reconciliation.

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I could not think that there

would be anything otherwise.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Because ultimately.

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In a sense, it's all going to

be a picture of the greater

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reconciliation between us and Jesus.

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'cause our sin killed Jesus.

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So the only reason we're gonna

be in heaven is because he

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went to the cross for our sin.

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So you, your illustration of Paul

and Steven is great there because

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at first you think, man, how could

you do that with somebody who you

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were, had a hand in murdering?

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Hello?

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That's us and Jesus.

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And when we get to heaven.

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And we are with him and we will be like

him 'cause we will see him and all that

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John says about, yeah, I think it's gonna

be such a good and sweet time there.

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Let's jump into our reading for today.

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Psalm 26 is gonna kick us off.

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Psalm 26 is a Davidic psalm here.

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And the keys here in Psalm 26 are

the key subject, I should say, is

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the subject of integrity, which we

just are finishing a men's retreat.

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On integrity.

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And David says in Psalm 26, 1

vindicate me, oh Lord, for I

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have walked in my integrity.

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Integrity is the foundation of David's

pleas for deliverance in, in this chapter.

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And he asks God to act on his behalf based

on how faithfully he had served the Lord.

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And there's parallels here with

Psalm one in some of the languages.

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He's saying, look, I haven't walked

with the wicked or sat in their

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council or done these things.

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And so we see some of the overlap

there between Psalm one and this, but.

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This is something that, that I want

to live this kind of a life to be able

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to say, God, when I'm in a tight spot,

I can pray that you will deliver me

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and appeal to my integrity for that.

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And that's, it's a tough.

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Balance line for us to walk because

ultimately we're asking God to deliver us

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not for our righteousness sake, but for

the Christ, the righteousness of Christ.

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We, we are acceptable.

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He hears our prayers because

of Christ's merit, not ours.

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And yet there's something to this.

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We've talked before when Peter

says that husbands should love

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their wives and otherwise their

prayers are gonna be hindered.

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That meant if we're not

walking in integrity, then our

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prayers are gonna be hindered.

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God's not gonna listen to our

please for help and for deliverance.

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He may still choose to deliver you

based on his mercy and his plan, but

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we don't have that confidence the

way we do when we are walking with

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uprightness and integrity in this life.

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Absolutely.

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Rod: And here's something

interesting too that I always

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struggle with as a Christian.

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I think I understand it, but verse five,

there's verse, there's verses like it.

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David says, I hate the assembly of evil

doers and I won't sit with the wicked.

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Psalm five, the boastful shall

not stand before your eyes.

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You hate all evil doers.

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This is what he says about how God feels.

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And there's a tension there for us.

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Isn't there one that says We

recognize that God does hate evil.

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And he hates the personification of evil.

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When it finds itself in human

people, when people do evil things,

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there is a real antagonism between

man and God that is genuine.

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God hates evil.

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Now, on the same token, we could

say John three 16, but God does love

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the world such that he's willing

to give his son to die for us.

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In fact, he couldn't save good

people because there were none.

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All he could save were sinners.

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And that's what makes the gospel

so beautiful and so amazing, is

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that Christ dies for his enemies.

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People that hate him and people that he in

some way, shape or form he hates as well.

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Now there's poetic devices happening

here, so it's not like there's a

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genuine, I don't know, a hatred,

like a malice and animus that's that

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would characterize a human hatred.

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This is holy hatred and it's a real thing.

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You see it here.

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And as a Christian grows in his

or her maturity, I think there's a

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kind of holiness that says, I hate.

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Evil.

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I just despise it because I want Jesus

to rule and to reign in the hearts

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of man and throughout all creation.

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So there is something there about that.

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It's a difficult subject to wrap

your mind around but it is here.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah, Psalm 40 Psalm 40 opens with

a statement that is, is hard for us.

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It's again, of David here and David

says, I waited patiently for the Lord.

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And David models this he's modeled this

already in, in past situations, even

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initially when he was running for his

life from Saul, waiting patiently on

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God's fulfillment of his plans and what.

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Samuel had told him God was gonna do

through him as he's running from his son.

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Other situations, David knew what it

was to wait patiently for the Lord.

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And I just think that's so hard for us

to do when we're praying and the prayers

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that we're praying are being heard by the

Lord, but we're not getting a clear answer

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in the timeline that we want from him.

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We're instead the answer

from God is not now.

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Maybe not.

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That he's saying never, but

he's saying not now in response

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to what we're asking for.

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And so David is saying I

waited patiently for the Lord.

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And then in the rest of the

psalm recounts how God had been

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faithful to him in the past.

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I.

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Time and time again.

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There were other times

that he had delivered him.

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And so he was confident that

the Lord would deliver him and

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praise that he would do it again.

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And he's asking God, please do this again.

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But I think the key here, the thing

that jumped out to me this time,

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reading Psalm 40, was just that opening.

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I waited patiently for the Lord.

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That's so hard for us to do to

just say, okay, Lord I don't

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know what the future holds.

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And even talking with someone

today about this the idea is.

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We have this moment in time.

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We don't know what the future's

gonna hold, but today we know

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that what God is calling us to do.

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And really, that's not gonna change based

on what he's gonna do in the future.

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He, we know what we're

supposed to do today.

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So we can say, God, I, I waited

patiently for you and yet in the

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meantime, while I'm patient, I'm gonna

do what I know you're calling me to do.

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Psalm 58.

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Then this is a tough one.

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You, you talk about an appreciatory

psalm, this one is pretty intense.

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It takes the request to another level

when he, I don't mean to laugh, although

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I think it is rather humorous when he

prays that they would melt like a snail

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that it would dissolve at first eight.

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Let them be like the snail

that dissolves into slime.

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Oof.

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Have you ever prayed

that for your enemies?

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Let them be like a snail

that dissolves into slime?

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Yeah.

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He's just praying against his

enemies, asking God's ju perfect

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justice to be executed against them.

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And this is, again, we can do

this when it's connected to our

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concern for God's righteousness.

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Not the offense against us, but our

concern against God's righteousness.

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We can say, God, this is wicked.

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This is evil.

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I want it to be completely destroyed.

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You think of something like Planned

Parenthood and you'd pray, God,

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I pray that you would close.

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Every single door planer,

planned Parenthood.

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I pray that every single doctor that works

for Planned Parenthood would lose their

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job, would lose their medical license.

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These are in preparatory psalms

and prayers that we might offer

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that are praying for bad things

to happen to these people.

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No doubt about it, to lose

their source of income.

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But we're praying that because what

they're doing to earn this income is

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wicked, and it's an offense against God.

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And we would say, God, this is

wrong, and we want this to end

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no matter the cost to the people

involved in perpetuating the evil.

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Rod: Yeah.

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Don't forget, as you read these

imprecatory, to try to understand

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what the imagery is conveying.

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So in verse six when David is

praying break, break the teeth in

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their mouths he, he's not literally

asking God for that to happen.

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He's not saying, Hey, take out their

molars and their wisdom teeth, and.

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Whatever those other teeth are called.

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Canines.

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The canines and incisors.

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Yeah, all those.

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He's not talking about the technical

tech, technical teeth in their mouth.

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He's talking about their their

violence and their ability to do

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damage, which is why he says tear

out the fangs of the young lions.

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It's what makes them especially.

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Vicious and able to create great

damage because of their teeth.

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And so the teeth represent their, his

enemy's ability to do violence to people.

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And so when he prays for breaking their

teeth it sounds like, oh, this is awful.

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And it is awful.

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We're not trying to truncate

this or take away the impact.

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What we are saying is just

make sure that you're trying to

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understand the poetic terminology.

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He's not just saying break their teeth.

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He's not just saying, make them like.

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Slimy slimy snails.

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Or slimy snails, but he is

saying something poetic into it.

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So do your homework and try to

understand what he's saying.

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That

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PJ: would be an interesting shirt to,

to have that one about the dissolving

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like the, a snail into its slime.

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Rod: So let me just take a

quick stab at that, by the way.

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Yeah, go for it.

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Snail that dissolves into a slime.

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A snail is defenseless.

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It's weak.

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It's pathetic even.

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Yeah.

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And so when it dissolves is because

it's being destroyed by the sun.

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The sun is melting.

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It.

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There's no, there's nothing to protect it.

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Nothing to stop it.

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The pathetic and pitiable nature,

I think is what he's going for.

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Yeah.

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Dissolve them.

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Take, show how weak they

really are, I think is

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PJ: what David is trying to say.

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Which fits with the parallel in verse

eight, which is like the stillborn

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child who never sees the son.

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Rod: Right.

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PJ: Yeah, stillborn child.

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Same concept there.

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By the way, that's probably worth

noting as you're reading the Psalm.

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It's just a quick, there's something

called parallelism where a lot of

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times, not every single time, but a lot

of times you'll see a statement, and

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then the next statement is a parallel.

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It's communicating the same truth

in a different way of what you just

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read, and so situations either by

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Rod: contrast or by, it's either

addition, subtraction, or it's

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meant to restate it in a new way.

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Hebrew parallelism.

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All over your

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PJ: Bible.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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And there's some good books

out there, resources out there.

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I think Mark Fudo has an intro to the

Psalms that is somebody was asking

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us, they sent an email to us or a

text about some good resources for

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the Psalms, and we recommended some.

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But I know Futos book on the Psalms is

good and helpful to give some framework on

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understanding some of that stuff if you're

interested in diving a little deeper.

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Psalm 61.

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Again, here we go of David

and David's praying forward.

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Deliverance this is a simple

expression, asking God to be his rock.

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The rock that is higher

than him, his refuge.

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A strong tower against the enemy.

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He wants to dwell on the

tent of the Lord forever.

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This is just a prayer for David to be

in that state of security with the Lord.

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There's times so we gather every Sunday

morning before service to pray for the

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service, and there are times, many times

in fact that I'll find myself sitting

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in that circle with the men that are

praying for the service and just thinking

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to myself, God it's good to be here.

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It's good to be with you.

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It's good to be in your presence.

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It's good to be with your people.

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And I think about the week that I've

come off of and the hecticness of the

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schedule and the busyness of everything

else, and going, God I just wanna be here.

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I wanna be with you.

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And and that, that's a little bit of

what I imagine here, although David

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is praying for physical deliverance.

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He's afraid for his life, but he's

saying, man it's good to be with the Lord.

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I just want to be with the Lord.

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That's where security and

peace is truly gonna be found.

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Psalm 62 then is expressing complete

confidence in God in in, in God alone.

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In fact, that's what I

highlighted time and time again

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in this Psalm for God alone.

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Verse one, verse two, he alone.

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Verse five, for God alone, verse six,

he only, trust in him at all times.

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O people, verse eight,

God is a refuge for us.

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And so you hear the psalmist, David

is saying, look, the only one worthy

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of your confidence in your trust

right now is God in God alone.

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Now you might say, okay, we've talked

about this before, but I lock my doors.

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I set my alarm.

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I have trust in my security system.

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I have trust in the police force.

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I have trust in the military.

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I have trust in our government.

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And so can we say in God alone?

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And the answer to that is yes.

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Because what this Psalm serves

to remind us is that God is

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the one behind all of that.

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He's the one enabling all of those

things to, to be what they are

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and to operate the way they do.

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And so your hope is not ultimately

in Brinks as your security system.

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Your hope is in God

and his sovereign plan.

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And if he sovereignly chooses to

let your security system do its job,

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if someone tries to break into your

house and the police show up and stop

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it your deliver is not the police.

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Your deliver is God.

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And our hope can truly be only in him,

even though that is expressed in the.

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The servants of him in

these different ways.

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Rod: Yeah.

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I love the way that he talks about the

opposition people that would oppose you

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enemies of the cross and the gospel.

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Verse nine, these people are of lowest

state and they are but of breath.

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Those of high estate are a delusion.

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That is they think that

they're high and mighty.

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They think that they have power.

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They think that they have the ability

to stop the gospel, but if they're

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weighed in the balances, they go up.

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They're together, all together.

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You put all their power,

all their force together.

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They're lighter than a breath, he says.

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And sometimes we need that reminder.

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We think that the people of power

in the world are actually powerful.

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We look at them because of their

bank accounts and their prestige and

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their jets and all the nice clothes

that they have and their platforms

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or their talking in front of the news

all the time and all these things.

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And we think that in our minds, because

we're human, we look at that and say, man.

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If they don't want us to preach the

gospel or if they're changing our

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ability to speak openly about Christ and

certainly what's, what are we gonna do?

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Christians can freak out so quickly and

so easily, but we need to be reminded.

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Those of lowest state are but of

breath, and those of high state are

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a delusion that is all humankind

from the smallest of the greatest.

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We're.

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Really nothing in the

grand scheme of things.

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God's the one who makes decisions.

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So we don't put trust in

this life or in these people.

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We put our trust in the Lord who

has all the power in the world.

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Yeah.

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PJ: Psalm 64 what came to mind

here is spiritual warfare.

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As it applies to us as you're reading

this he's starting in the first.

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It's six verses talking about the

enemies and talking about how they

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are secretive in their plots and how

they wet their tongues like a sword.

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And they plan ambushes at the blameless

and they hold fast to their evil

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purpose and they lay snares secretly.

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And so what came to mind for us, because

we don't have people laying snares

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for us, at least, I hope you don't

in your life if you do find another

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job or another house to live in.

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But what came to mind

is spiritual warfare.

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That, that we do have an enemy that is.

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Cunning and shrewd and and

deceitful in trying to attack us as

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believers in our hope, David's in.

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This one needs to be at the Lord.

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Look at verse seven, but the

Lord shoots his arrows at them.

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They think they're hiding.

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They think they're gonna

get away with this.

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They think they've got a snare

laid and that they're gonna win.

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But in the end, God wins.

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God shoots his arrows at them and they're

wounded, suddenly brought to ruin.

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Then it says in verse nine,

all mankind fears and tells us

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that what God has brought about

and ponders what he has done.

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And so we rejoice verse 10 in the Lord.

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So spiritual warfare is just kinda

what came to mind as I was reading

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Psalm 64 is how we can understand this,

that God supports us and helps us in

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the battle against the enemy like.

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Paul says, our battle is not against flesh

and blood, but against these spiritual

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forces that work in this present darkness.

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And and we serve the God

who wins that battle.

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Rod: Yeah, I love, in verse one, he says,

preserve my life from dread of the enemy.

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So not protect me from the

enemy, although he's prayed

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that before, but here he prays.

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Please protect me against fear and what

a good prayer that is for all of us.

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Protect me against things

that I should not fear.

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Cause me to be strong and bold and entrust

you to fight our faith or to fight our

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fear with faith, to know that God's the

one who ultimately holds all the guard.

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Yep.

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PJ: Let's pray.

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God anchor our confidence in you, even

as these last two Psalms, only in you

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will we trust only you are our deliver.

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You are the response and the

answer to the fear that we have,

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the anxieties that we possess.

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God, be that for us.

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I pray that we would have such a robust

confidence in who you are because we

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know you, because we spend time with you

Lord, that we would not fear whatever

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this world brings and that we would

not fear the enemy who p prowls like a

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roaring lion seeking someone to devour.

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But we would know that we are.

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Safe and secure in Christ.

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Help us to take up the, along those lines,

the armor of God on a daily basis Lord,

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to be able to stand against the schemes of

the enemy, one and to pick up the shield

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of faith, to extinguish his flaming darts.

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Lord, the sword of the Spirit

to go to war and go to battle

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offensively, even against the enemy.

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We need to have that on a daily

basis, and I pray that we would.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said