00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:18 Recap of Sunday's Family Fun Day

01:11 Importance of Church Community

02:50 Encouragement to Join Community Groups

04:32 Introduction to Psalm 119

04:43 Exploring the Structure of Psalm 119

06:34 Deep Dive into Psalm 119 Sections

13:39 Memorizing Psalm 119

14:45 From Hate to Tate: Embracing God's Discipline

14:58 The Value of God's Word Over Wealth

15:57 Prayer and Petition: Seeking Mercy and Vindication

16:35 Commitment to God's Word Amidst Trials

17:07 God's Eternal and Trustworthy Word

17:55 Wisdom in the Word: Superior to All

18:48 Guidance Through God's Word

20:14 Love for the Lord and His Word

20:55 Plea for Deliverance and Obedience

23:45 Reliability and Righteousness of God's Promises

24:42 Deliverance and the Truth of God's Word

25:41 Peace in Loving and Keeping the Word

27:09 Final Plea for Salvation and Preservation

Hey, welcome to Thursday's edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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And have we got an episode for you today?

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Yes, we do.

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Psalm 119.

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Wow.

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All of it.

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But before we get there, Hey, we

didn't talk about it yesterday.

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And.

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Before then we hadn't yet known

how it was going to go cause

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we recording early, but right.

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We did it.

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Sunday's family fun day.

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That was fun.

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It was great.

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It was a day.

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The only day of the week.

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So far that has not had any rain.

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I know, I know God was kind

to us in that for sure.

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And it was a calm cool.

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98 99 degrees.

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It was warm.

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With the heat index, it

was only like one 20.

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So besides that.

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Yeah.

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Wonderful under that overhang

that I was like, I'm good here.

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So you were wearing a black, a

black color to what's up with that.

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Well, it was, it was lightweight.

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The lightweight shirts.

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I knew I was going to be

out of the sun though.

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If you're out of the sun.

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Dark colors don't matter.

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Well, yeah.

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Yeah, that's true.

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But I thought you were

going to apply the rule.

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Sun's out guns out.

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And you say that during the sermon.

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That's not, no, I didn't.

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Uh, no, I will never be

caught in a tank top.

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It's just not my it's not my bag.

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Not your bag.

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Okay.

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Well go.

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It was a great event though.

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Yeah.

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I thought it was really, I mean, we

had hundreds of people don't know

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how many, but there was hundreds.

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Yeah.

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And it was fun.

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Yeah, it was fun.

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And we saw people serving, getting

connected, getting plugged in.

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It was great.

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It was awesome.

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And, uh, One thing that just to commend

you church, as you're listening to this,

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you guys do a great job of reaching

out to new people and meeting visitors.

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That's something that I continue to hear.

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Uh, from our visitors is, is

that they've met, you know, these

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different people and they've,

they've, uh, connected with people

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and, and so good job keep doing that.

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Don't, don't let up on that.

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That's such an important part.

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Of, uh, just seeing people come to

our church and stay at our church.

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I was looking at something

recently today by this guy, his

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name is Tom run near, and he's a.

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Uh, church growth com Rainer,

Thom, Rainer that Raniere Renier.

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Grenier Rainer's, he's pronounced it over.

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So I used to listen to his podcast.

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That's how I know.

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Fine flex.

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Flexing.

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I just listened to his podcast.

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Well, me and Tom are.

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I texted him the other day.

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It was telling about her journey ways.

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He asked the question.

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He said, how much does preaching impact

people staying or leaving a church?

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And he said, it does, it does impact it.

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There's no doubt it does impact it.

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But he said, it's not the only thing,

basically that impacts there's so

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much more, that goes into a person's

decision to stay or leave a church

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than just the preaching in, in I,

for one I'm very grateful for that.

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Uh, and, and you guys have

so much to do with that.

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And it being a friendly and warm

and welcoming, uh, church is, is

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going to be so imperative for us.

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And should the Lord continue to

grow us, which we pray that he

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will, we got to keep doing that.

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We can't ever get to the place of going

well, you know, Eh, there's just one

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more nose coming through the door.

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Who cares if they stay or go, we've got

to always think, man, this is a visitor

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and we want to make them feel welcome.

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We want to get them

connected and plugged in.

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And so keep going at that.

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It's, it's such an encouraging

thing as pastors to know that

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we've got a church body that is

doing that really well, keep it up.

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Yeah.

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Increase.

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Yeah.

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Continue abound.

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Yup.

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Also, if you're listening to this and

you're not yet connected to one of

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our community groups, uh, let me just

encourage you to take that next step.

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Uh, part of being a highly committed

participant here at compass Bible

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church, which is the language that

we use to, to kind of equate what so

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many people talk about of belonging

to a church or church membership.

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We, we talked about being highly

committed participants and.

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To be a highly committed

participant here at our church

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is to attend, connect, and serve.

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And so.

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Attending, you may be

saying, okay, I'm doing that.

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I'm there on the weekends.

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I'm showing up and.

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Consistent in that.

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And, and that's great that next

step is where we want to see

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you get to, which is connecting.

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And that really takes

place in community groups.

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That's what our, our model

is here at our church.

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Some other churches do different

modes and methods of connecting.

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We've landed on community groups.

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We feel like these are the.

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The places for people to really grow in

their relationship with other believers.

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Most effectively, you're going to have

a group of, you know, uh, 15 to anywhere

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from 15 to some of the larger groups,

close to 20 other people in, in this

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smaller group where you're going to have

a chance to discuss the sermon and talk

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about how it should apply to your life.

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And.

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Pray together, encourage each other,

build relationships with each other.

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It's a, it's really kind of

the first line of defense and

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support for the church family.

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And that's one of the things that people

are often most lacking is that community

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support aspect in a smaller group setting

where you're going to study the Bible,

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or you're going to read, you're going

to discuss the sermon, apply the sermon.

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Think about the sermon and

hopefully help your fellow brothers

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and sisters put it to work.

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Right.

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Right.

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And, and if something happens like

your house gets dinged by a tornado,

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your community, group's going to

be one of the first groups there.

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They will rebuild it.

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They're going to rebuild

it like the Amish.

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Yep.

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With toothpicks.

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Hopefully not do things.

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Gum and duct tape.

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Hey, well, we've got quite

the chapter to take today so

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we should get into the Bible.

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All right.

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Psalm one 19.

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What are these weird words above

my, above my little paradise here.

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Get there.

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Tell me now.

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I must know.

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Yes.

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Uh, No, this is the longest Psalm

in the longest chapter in the

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Bible coming in at 176 verses.

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Uh, the author is not named, but tradition

has suggested it belongs to David.

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Uh, other suggestions have been

Daniel and Ezra actually, but.

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I'm comfortable with David.

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Uh, I've, I've preached it that way.

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I've referenced it that way.

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I think it's, it's likely David.

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Uh, it's an acrostic consisting of,

and here it is, you asked about this

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funny looking words above each of them.

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Uh, these are Hebrew.

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Uh, letters.

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So one for each letter of the

Hebrew alphabet 22 in all.

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And so each section is

named or headed by a UN.

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Alphabetical letter from

the Hebrew alphabet.

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Cool.

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So you can teach your kids Hebrew by

reading through Psalm one 19 with them.

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How do you say this?

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All.

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Olive.

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Okay bait.

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Chemo Dalet.

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Hey.

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Now we disagree on this because we've

talked about this before, but I say VAV.

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And I say, wow.

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Yeah, because that's what it says.

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Yeah, but the w has a V

sound or can have a V sound?

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Well, I, heaters professor told

me that the original pronunciation

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was more of the, the wall sound.

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So like for David's name

though, that we'd yeah.

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Is how he would pronounce it.

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That weed versus Daveed.

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Which sounds more.

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Today.

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Yeah.

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I guess I had more of a today Hebrew prof.

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Uh, anyways VAV or wow.

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Zion.

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Uh, hate Tate yoed, cough.

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maim noon.

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I say Somac.

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Yeah, close enough.

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I N.

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PEI, not P but pay satay.

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COF race, sin, shin.

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That's one letter that can

be pronounced two ways.

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And then finally Tav or tau.

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Putting on how you pronounce that.

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That was fun.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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19 is all done.

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I hope you appreciate it.

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Now let's talk through

some of these sections.

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Uh, just to give a high level, high

level summary of 30,000 foot yeah.

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Of the section pass route.

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If there's anything you want to

comment on that section with.

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And we'll go through.

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So olive verses one through eight.

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Basically here, blessings for the

one who walks in integrity by obeying

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the word with a full heart is.

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Uh, is what these first eight

verses are consisting of.

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Bait then verses nine through 16 here

that the key to integrity is a fully

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devoted commitment to the word, which

cultivates a joyful delight in the word.

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So I'm going to devote myself to the word

and that in turn is going to produce.

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A taste for the word, a hunger for

the word, a delight in the word.

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Those verses nine to 11 minutes.

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So important worth memorizing.

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Have your kids memorize it.

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You memorize it.

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They're good.

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They're great.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, they don't just

apply to a young man.

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I mean, this is written if this is David

and it takes on a proverbial tone here,

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maybe written to Solomon or written.

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You know, to his offspring, but

this is important for all of us.

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How can anyone keep their

wipe here by guarding it?

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According to your word?

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That's so helpful.

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Uh, in verses 17 through 24 in spite

of difficult circumstances here,

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the Psalmist is committed to the

Lord seeking wisdom from the word.

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As he prayed for deliverance,

even appealing to his faithfulness

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has grounds for his deliverance.

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I was struck this time,

reading through some one 19 of.

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Uh, the circumstances

of the Psalmus to more.

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And I think because I read it

all in one fell swoop, rather

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than breaking it up, right.

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That.

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There is a lot of the parallels that

we've read about in Psalms in the

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past where this got this almost.

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If it's struggling.

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He's struggling.

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And you don't always get that

when you break up this song.

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No, I appreciate it.

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Reading through it all at one time you

get the same effect when you read through

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a whole book of the Bible at once.

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Yeah.

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Oh, it strikes different because I

now get the context a little better.

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Yep.

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Yeah, for sure.

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For sure.

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So that was That, uh, verses 17

through $24, then verses 25 through 32.

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Uh, in a time of desperation,

again, he struggling here.

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He prays that God would give

him a life through the word.

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Still teaching him and strengthening

him through the scriptures.

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And so there's 25 through 32.

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Give me life, according to your word,

Pesaro talk, talk about that for a second.

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What, what life?

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Because I think in the new Testament,

we can quickly run to eternal life.

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When we read of statements like

that, and yes, I think we can see

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that, but is that all it's in viewer?

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Is he talking about physical life as well?

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Man.

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I think that verses like this are

so cool because they, they, I think

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they're completed in the new Testament

where Jesus says, I've come to give

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you life and have it abundantly.

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I come to give you joy.

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Uh, the devil comes to steal, kill,

and destroy, but I've come that you may

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have life and have it to the fullest.

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Versus like this really helped compliment

that concept and complete it because now

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we understand what Jesus meant by it.

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There is eternal life that's included,

but it's a full and rich and good life.

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It's not always an easy life, not

always a happy life in the terms, uh,

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in terms of having all that we want

the Lamborghini's or a house without

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a roof that leaks during a storm.

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Uh, it means that your, your

life is in Christ and therefore

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it is safe and is secure.

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It's a kind of joy that

can endure no matter what's

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happening in your life itself.

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So when he says, give me the

life, according to your word.

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The more, we invest time

and attention into the word.

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The more we have the mind of

Christ, the mind of God, the more

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we're close to the heart of God.

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And the more color in, and the more

beauty that shows up in life itself,

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it's like putting on glasses that

crystallize your vision all around you.

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It makes everything change, color.

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Because you can see it for what

it really is and not the dour sour

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view that sin brings into the world.

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Yeah.

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Hey.

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Versus 33 through 40, this almost here,

praise that the Lord would increase

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his taste and affection for the word.

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And make the things of this world that

appealed to his flesh, less desirable,

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incline my heart to your testimonies.

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And not to selfish gain, turn my eyes

from looking at worthless things.

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And give me again, that concept

you were just talking about.

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Give me the life in your ways.

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VAV.

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41 through 48 or?

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Wow.

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If you're wrong.

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41 through 48.

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Uh, this is the Psalmist confidence that

deliverance would come as he fatefully

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sought and obeyed the law of gun.

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Yeah.

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Verse 45.

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Yeah.

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I shall walk in a wide place

for, I have sought your precepts.

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I made a note here at

the law brings Liberty.

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When applied by faith.

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Uh, law as a, as a schoolmaster

is meant to lead us to Christ.

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And of course, when we do that, The

law delivers us not to a dungeon of, of

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constriction, but to freedom in Christ.

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Now this is, this is the

ultimate intention of the law.

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So even though they didn't understand

that, and it's fullest, whoever wrote

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the song, I think had a taste of that.

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And so wrote that here.

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It's really cool.

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Yeah.

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In, in the concept of a wide

place, you may think, okay.

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Like, I don't necessarily want to go walk

in a field that doesn't sound fun to me.

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It is fun.

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But come to north Texas.

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Right.

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Even ascending.

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Uh, think of the parable of the

good Samaritan, the, the journeys

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were often dangerous in to walk

through and to ascend up to.

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Uh, Mount Zion to ascend up to Jerusalem.

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Uh, to go to the temple to worship.

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To leave the temple from worship

and going back to your home,

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if you were walking through.

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The Rocky terrain and, and the,

uh, the mountainous terrain.

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It was a dangerous place, not just from

the geography, but also from, uh, the, the

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fact that there could be people lurking

hiding, laying in wait, that could jump

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out and in harm, a person sort of walking

a wide place was, uh, a mark of security.

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You were confident, you weren't afraid

that anything was going to happen to you.

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And so their safety and their

security in that as well.

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I think this is where the Dixie chicks

got the song, the wide open spaces.

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No, no, I don't think so.

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I don't think they got.

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Straight from the Bible reading

people, but maybe they did.

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They just, maybe they read it once.

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Maybe they did.

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Maybe they did.

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Alright.

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Zion.

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Zion again, in the midst of

affliction, the word provides hope

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and comfort for the Psalmist here.

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This is my comfort in

affliction that your promise.

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It gives me life on verse

50 there and that's it.

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Sometimes that's where we have to get my

comfort in affliction is not I'm going

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to be delivered from this affliction.

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Tomorrow.

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My comfort in affliction is not,

I feel the pain dissipating.

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My comfort in affliction is not this

person that I've been praying would

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come to faith is finally coming around.

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No, there's so often in life.

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Our comfort in affliction is simply.

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Uh, trust in God's promise.

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I'm going to walk again by faith,

not by sight, and I'm going to trust

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even when it doesn't feel that way,

I'm going to trust because it's the

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promise that gives us that hope.

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It's the promise.

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It gives us that light go off king.

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There's one kid with

the kids say one king.

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Well, lowercase.

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K.

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Yeah, there we go.

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Alright, hate hate not to H a

T E at H E T H uh, 57, 360 4.

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The Salmas here is intentional and serious

about the word, not the laying to a bay.

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Uh, and, and not delaying to a bay

when he knew what to do, but seeking

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the company of those who share a

similar love for the scriptures.

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Uh, which is.

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Super helpful versus 59 through 60.

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When I think on my ways, I turned

my feet to your testimonies,

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I hasten and do not delay.

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To keep your commandments.

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It's so important.

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We talk to our kids a lot as they're

growing up, listen and obey that's

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was a repeated refrain from us.

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In fact, if you found my kid and you

said, you know, finish the sentence,

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listen to, and they would say, Obey.

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Um, and so that's kind of

what the point is here.

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It's it's not just a here.

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It's not just to take the word

in audibly, but it's it's order.

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To to read it, but it's also to

then apply it's to opiate and to

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make haste to do that as well.

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We tell our kids.

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Oh, obey.

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Right away.

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With a happy heart.

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Obey right away with happiness.

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So ours is a little different,

a little more sing-songy but.

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Yeah, same idea.

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Do you know, did you, did you know William

Wilberforce memorized Psalm one 18?

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Wow.

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Not, he would.

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He would recite it.

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Um, on the, on his way to parliament.

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So maybe you want to be like William

Wilberforce and memorize this whole song.

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I'm glad you said, pardon?

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Parliament.

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Because for a second there, I was

thinking the guy that said freedom.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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Uh, Mel Gibson also.

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Reportedly memorize this.

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I am William Wallace.

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I am William Wallace.

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Yeah.

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Uh, William Wilberforce,

the guy who slave trade.

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Much different.

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Very different, but also William,

but maybe you should do it too.

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Maybe memorizing this song would be a

really cool summer activity for you guys.

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Suddenly you high school

students, maybe this would be a

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good thing for you to do well.

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That seems like a

challenge, like a challenge.

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And, and if you do it, maybe passer,

PJ will take you out for a barbecue.

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I will gladly do that.

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If you memorize some one 19.

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Is this applied anybody?

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Like sh yes.

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If mark.

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Cogan wanted to do this.

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Yes.

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Kelly Smith.

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Yes.

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Uh, pastor rod Gomez.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Well now we're talking.

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Yeah, it's really whatever.

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I was, he was trying to get out.

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We'll just have a staff lunch there.

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All right.

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So we go from hate to Tate.

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Tate and 65 through 72, the Psalmist

here recognizes God's discipline in his

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life is for his good as its instructive.

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And helps them to learn the word better.

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Yeah.

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We just talked about that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's good for me that I was afflicted

that I might learn your statutes.

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The law of your mouth is

better to me than thousands.

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Of gold and silver pieces.

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Yeah.

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That's always convicting.

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Cause that's one of those ones.

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That's, it's easy to read that and

say, oh yeah, God's word is more

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valuable than silver and gold.

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But, um, I, a different way to, to,

to ponder that is how much money would

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it take for you to give somebody up?

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Give somebody your Bible.

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If somebody sat there with a blank

check and said, I will write you a

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check, you name the price, but you

can never open your Bible again.

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Is there a number.

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If I already had it memorized, would

you look down on me for saying.

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A billion trillion dollars if you

had the whole Bible memorized.

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Yeah.

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And I'm like, yeah, I'll never open

it again, but I get it up here, buddy.

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Right?

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No, I wouldn't.

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I wouldn't.

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Uh, especially if you then

use that for ministry.

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Ty the off of the $10 trillion.

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There you go.

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That's a trillion dollars

to the church right there.

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That's right.

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If it's only 10%.

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Well, I don't do you really need 10%?

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Probably not.

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There's not a command

that doesn't have to.

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No.

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That's true.

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All right, yoed.

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Not Yoda yoed 73 through 80.

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This section is a, a section

of prayer and petition.

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As the Psalm is pleased that God

would show a mercy, that he would be

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vindicated, and then he might remain

blameless as he obeys the word.

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So.

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The word is, and we didn't hit this

at the very beginning, but, but

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some, one 19 is about the Bible.

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It's about the word of God, the

commandments of God, the laws of God that.

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Uh, the teachings of God.

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And so here.

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It's all gonna come back to that.

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So even here as he's praying

for deliverance, As he's,

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uh, lamenting his situation.

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He's still gonna come back here and

say, In order that I might remain

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blameless as I obey the Lord.

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Uh, helped me board in order that

I might continue to pursue your

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word and be obedient to your word.

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Um, cough 81.

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Thank you.

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Uh, 81 through 88.

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Uh, the Somas finds himself

in dire circumstances here

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and pleads for help while re.

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Resolving to remain

committed to the word of God.

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So similar theme in, uh,

in this section as well.

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It is a bit repetitive as you go

through these letters here and these

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at mnemonics, but they're still, I

mean, they're just, it's like, yeah,

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I can read that multiple times and not

feel like I've exhausted that truth.

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Yep.

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Knowing it and living it are

two different experiences, which

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is why having this repetition.

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Repetition is so helpful for us.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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Yeah, versus 89 through 96.

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God's eternal word here is

trustworthy and reliable.

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As we face trials for it transcends

the wicked who seek our lives or

516

seek the psalmist's life here.

517

Uh, verse 89 forever.

518

Oh Lord.

519

Your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.

520

It is unchangeable because

our God is unchanging as well.

521

So, uh, just a reminder of the

trustworthiness of God's word

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throughout the generations.

523

Versus 96, I've seen a

limit to all perfection.

524

Creation.

525

There's a limit to their, their

beauty and their goodness.

526

But your commandment is exceedingly broad.

527

I liked that because it tells us then that

the word of God doesn't have an end point.

528

Uh, you can read the Bible over and over

and over and over and over again, and

529

still come up, come out with new truths,

deeper and more profound insights.

530

Never give up reading this thing.

531

It will always pay off.

532

Yup.

533

Yup.

534

Mame.

535

97 3, 1 to four there's wisdom in the

word, which is not found anywhere else.

536

Your commitment makes me

wiser than my enemies.

537

More understanding.

538

Does it get me than all my teachers?

539

Uh, I understand more than the aged

for, I keep your precepts again.

540

It's not about the, the superior

superiority of the Psalmist, but the

541

superiority of the psalmists instruct

instructions, which are from the

542

word of God, from the scriptures.

543

So that's why he's able to say I

am wiser than anyone else, because

544

I'm wise in the wisdom of the word.

545

I remember he never said a long time

ago when I was just a young lad.

546

I thought that's cool.

547

I want to be wiser than my teachers.

548

It motivated me.

549

Yeah.

550

Well, that's good motivation, I guess.

551

Well, yeah.

552

Yeah.

553

That's what they, scripture

offers as a benefit.

554

I asked for it.

555

Right.

556

But it's not like so that

you can flex on your teacher.

557

No more than they wanted wisdom.

558

That's I was like, oh, that

sounds really interesting.

559

I'd like to have that.

560

Yes.

561

Yeah, fair.

562

Alright, noon.

563

One to five to one 12, the Somas

commits to following the word as

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his guide, trusting the Lord with

his life navigating difficulties.

565

He encountered from the wicked.

566

Your word is a lamp unto my

feet and a light into my path.

567

Probably the most famous

of the some one 19 verses.

568

I was a couple of songs.

569

Yeah.

570

Your word is a lamp unto my feet.

571

And alive.

572

I'm not singing the melody.

573

Right.

574

But you, you know the song, right?

575

Yep.

576

Yep.

577

Well, and it's even old school.

578

It's the I word is.

579

Where it is a lamp.

580

Yeah.

581

See, that's it clicked.

582

After you said it you're right.

583

Yeah.

584

Yeah.

585

So, and that's, that's true.

586

Scripture is that for us, it

helps us navigate this life.

587

It helps us know how we

go about day-to-day life.

588

I don't love when people.

589

Refer to the Bible is God's instruction

manual because it's more than that.

590

But it is that.

591

It is helpful for us in that.

592

And that's why.

593

We believe that God's word is useful

for training and for teaching and

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for correcting and for rebuke.

595

And as Paul says, training and

righteousness that the man or

596

woman of God may be competent

and equipped for every good work.

597

Second Timothy three 17.

598

Um, so someone 19 1 0 5, your

word is a lamp unto my feet

599

and a light into my path.

600

Amy Grant.

601

Amy Grant.

602

Yep.

603

Written by Steven Curtis Chapman, I think.

604

Is it.

605

I think so.

606

I'm a fan.

607

Not so much of Amy Grant.

608

But Steve.

609

She deals.

610

She invents Gale.

611

They decided to have an affair.

612

Yeah.

613

Uh, Vince Gill sings

really high by the way.

614

Samak um, One 13 to one 20 here.

615

This is my son.

616

Sam's favorite Hebrew letter,

by the way, because of salmon,

617

as we were going through this

earlier this past year, he was.

618

He was a big fan.

619

He always called this one out.

620

Here's a is love for the Lord.

621

The Psalmist loved the Lord and the

word is reaffirmed as he petitions the

622

Lord to sustain him and deliver him.

623

And so he's affirming that,

that love for the scriptures.

624

I N then we had Zion earlier.

625

Now we've got iron.

626

In, uh, in, uh, it's a guttural.

627

Yeah.

628

That's the way we're supposed

to pronounce it, by the way.

629

Yeah.

630

Uh, all right.

631

I'll trust you.

632

It's a guttural.

633

Yeah.

634

I'm not denying.

635

I have not said no single time.

636

I said, all right, I'll trust you.

637

All right.

638

1 21 through 1 28, the Psalmist

calls on y'all way to act.

639

Citing his faithfulness to the word

and asking for response from the Lord.

640

So again, Themes that we've seen

already, but helpful reminders.

641

Hopefully reminders.

642

And pay any pronunciation

corrections today.

643

No that's federal.

644

Okay.

645

Yes.

646

So every Hebrew letter needs a lot more.

647

now that everybody will hate this.

648

Turn it off.

649

I don't want it anymore.

650

Podcast get no ratings versus

1 29 through 1 36 here.

651

The Psalm is praise.

652

That has loved the word might

grow and continue, and that the

653

Lord would keep him from any sin

that might gain mastery over him.

654

I love this section.

655

I mean, that's.

656

That's such a good thing that we would

pray that God would continue to increase

657

our affection from the word, and then

protect us from any sin that anything

658

lust of the flesh that would grab

hold of us and gain mastery over us.

659

This phrase, my eyes, shed

streams of tears, because

660

people do not keep your life.

661

I think that's a really

interesting phrase because.

662

I don't know that many

Christians feel that.

663

Yeah.

664

I know that a lot of people feel that

I think that's a really good thing

665

for us to pursue and to aspire to

that I want, I want to really care.

666

So much that I could be.

667

I could shed tears when people

violate your, your good law.

668

It's easy when there's bad

things that happened to us.

669

You know, someone breaks

a law steals from us.

670

Some, some.

671

Terrible tragic accident.

672

But.

673

To care about the world abroad.

674

Maybe locally or a

little further than that.

675

And this way would be a

tremendous market maturity.

676

I think.

677

Well, we're going to talk

about that on Sunday.

678

Oh, Talking about timely with the

encounter of Jesus in Lazarus's tomb.

679

I mean, The Jesus taking on death here.

680

And I don't want to go too far in and

preach my legs out from under me, but.

681

Yeah, that's a big part of it is we're

looking squarely at the greatest impact

682

of sin in the world, which is death.

683

And that's why it's the

last enemy to be defeated.

684

But, um, it should cause us to mourn and

grieve and we shouldn't be comfortable.

685

It's easy for us to be comfortable.

686

Right.

687

As we live in kind of our

bubble here in north Texas.

688

And when there's not a tornado,

that's coming through our backyard.

689

It's pretty comfortable here.

690

But there.

691

To your point.

692

We should care.

693

We should.

694

We should care about seen

in this world and it should.

695

Move us to, to morning and that's hard.

696

That's what Jesus calls us to pray.

697

I think this is why I think

he front load this on.

698

What wait, what we call the Lord's prayer.

699

Although his prayer is the one in John.

700

Uh, latter half of genres

praying the high priestly prayer.

701

He says thy kingdom come.

702

Right?

703

That's the verbiage that

most of us are familiar with.

704

It's it's.

705

It's saying.

706

Let me not think about myself first.

707

I'm thinking about the

Lord's kingdom first.

708

And I think that mentality spills

through in stuff like this.

709

Yeah.

710

Yeah.

711

one.

712

That sounds like a pop star.

713

Doesn't it.

714

Facade.

715

So it sounds like that's,

like I said, it wasn't.

716

That day, I say C E yeah.

717

Yeah.

718

I think that was her.

719

Yeah.

720

I don't know.

721

Bald-headed lady.

722

Yeah.

723

Maybe.

724

Anyways, 1 37 to 1 34, the

Psalmist praises, the reliability

725

and righteousness of the word.

726

Your promise is well tried verse

one 40 and your servant loves it.

727

I love that your, your,

your promises well tried.

728

Uh, that's a reminder to us that

nothing's ever going to undermine

729

or defeat the word of God.

730

You don't have to wake up tomorrow.

731

Wonder is the word still in Aira

is the word still authoritative?

732

Yeah, the answer is yes.

733

Your promise is well tried.

734

It's well, tested people have

come at it and tried to break it.

735

It's not going to happen.

736

It's not going to happen.

737

We can rely on it.

738

We can trust it.

739

It's trustworthy.

740

Cove.

741

Uh, 1 45 to 1 52 in this section, the

Selma pleads for the Lord to save him

742

from his enemies on the basis of his

love for an obedience to the word again.

743

Common themes we've

seen, uh, on this before.

744

I rise before Dawn and cry for help.

745

I hope in your words.

746

I like that.

747

I'm a morning person.

748

So this really resonates with me, but by

the morning evening, you get the idea.

749

But I think that's really cool.

750

Yeah.

751

Maya's.

752

Our wait before the watches of the night.

753

Same thing, right?

754

Yeah.

755

Yeah.

756

Ratio.

757

1 53 to one 60 deliverance in

the reliability of the word

758

or the themes of this section.

759

Uh, again, the trustworthiness.

760

Verse one 60 year.

761

The sum of your word is truth.

762

And every one of your righteous

rules endures forever.

763

Some of your word is truth.

764

Love that.

765

Uh, what is ultimately the

standard of truth it's gotten and

766

in God's word for us, because we

have his word revealed from him.

767

You'll notice that much of scripture

has a very high view of itself.

768

So it's almost like the scriptures, like

reinforcing this idea that you ought to

769

really value what it says and what it

means that when we become, when we come

770

to the scriptures with this, and we say

that we aim to have a high view of God.

771

We preach the scriptures.

772

It's because scripture

has a high view of itself.

773

Um, this, this is why we maintain

the position that we do because

774

scripture calls us to it.

775

Yup.

776

Yep.

777

Syn shin.

778

So sin is not the English word sin.

779

So don't think that they are.

780

Equal there.

781

Um, but seen was the Hebrew

letter and then sheen.

782

Maybe more of a scene than a sin.

783

Yeah.

784

Am I doing that?

785

Okay.

786

Yeah, that was better.

787

Okay.

788

Good.

789

Good.

790

Uh, theme of this section, their security

and loving and keeping the word there.

791

There's peace there.

792

As he puts in verse 1 65.

793

Great peace have those who love your law.

794

Um, and, and, and yet we are not health,

wealth and prosperity theologians.

795

So pass around.

796

How do we balance that?

797

How do we understand a peace that comes

from the word when we're not sitting here

798

saying your life is going to be great?

799

If you love the lockdown?

800

Man.

801

There's so much to say about that.

802

And if you want to hear more, come

to my breakout session at NEC.

803

I was like a 10, a couple weeks.

804

We're going to talk about the problem

with the prosperity gospel and nailing it.

805

That's that's a title I was given the

problem with the prosperity gospel.

806

But then how I narrow it knew

it had to just one thing.

807

Yep.

808

Nevertheless, short story here.

809

Uh, these are not promises.

810

Now, these promises in the way of

saying promises, as we understand them.

811

My Lamborghini and my house, my

kids, my wife, my dog, my whatever.

812

Um, looking at what God says

and understanding what he,

813

when he says things like this.

814

It does not mean that it's a blank

check, but it does mean there is a

815

life that's beyond life, a life that's

beyond the material goods that you

816

enjoy and saying like you could, you

could rejoice in the middle that.

817

As David said, Psalm 23.

818

I'm walking through the

valley of the shadow of death.

819

I mean, if David wrote

this, he understands it.

820

This is still a blessed time because

in the discipline of God and the

821

instruction of God, this is still

for your good and for his glory.

822

So even in times of sorrow and hardship

and great loss and tragedy, even.

823

God is still good.

824

And you can rejoice in him much like Joe.

825

The Lord gives and the Lord takes

away blessed, be the name of the Lord.

826

Uh, so that that's a short story,

but man, there's so much more

827

we could say join me there.

828

And at NEC yup.

829

Finally Tav or towel.

830

Uh, 1 69 to 1 76.

831

This is a closing plea for salvation

and preservation from the Psalmist here.

832

Let my cry come before you Lord, give me

understanding, according to your word.

833

And so he is he's closing by again,

pleading for the Lord to deliver him from

834

the circumstance that he finds himself in.

835

So I'm one 19 in the books.

836

It only took us 27 minutes.

837

Right.

838

Oh mercy.

839

Okay.

840

We need to finish up this pocket.

841

Thank you guys for listening.

842

They have that was law.

843

Keeping your Bibles and join us

tomorrow for another episode.

844

Not as long.

845

We'll see you then.

846

Bye.