00:00 Welcome to the Daily Bible Podcast

00:08 Exploring Feelings Through Psalms

00:34 Navigating Christian Feelings and Emotions

01:23 David's Approach to Processing Feelings Biblically

02:11 The Role of Feelings in Communication and Relationships

03:45 Evaluating Feelings: Validity and Processing

05:11 Cultural Perspectives on Feelings and Rational Thinking

07:25 Building Emotional Resilience with a Biblical Foundation

09:53 Diving Into Psalm 26: David's Integrity and Prayer for Protection

12:47 Exploring the Power of Testimony

13:29 Confronting Unjust Rulers Through Psalm 58

16:11 David's Plea and Trust in God Amidst Adversity

17:39 The Significance of Silence and Solitude in Faith

20:29 Nostalgic Journey Through Mobile Technology

22:45 Returning to Faith Amidst Trials in Psalm 64

23:56 Closing Thoughts and Farewell

Hey, welcome

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Rod: to

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PJ: Saturday's addition to

the daily Bible podcast.

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The

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Rod: Ling's.

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Whoa fee.

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Feelings

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PJ: feelings.

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Rod: Yeah, that's what we're talking

about the day on all these Psalms.

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David's feelings.

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Yeah, I guess so.

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So I've been thinking a little bit lately.

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I've been working through a book

that has been challenging the

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way that I think about, uh, It's

a modern therapeutic methods.

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So I'd love for you to

talk about something.

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I know how to prepare you for

this, but this is on purpose.

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This is on the fly off the cuff.

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Faster.

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PJ's unadulterated.

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Raw and unfiltered thoughts.

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Um, talk to Christians.

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About dealing with their feelings.

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Sometimes in our camp, we can.

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We can come across as

a K, just suck it up.

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Buttercup.

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You know, as you, as you say all the

time, Build your bridge and get over it.

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And every time I'm crying, you

say this to me, cry your river,

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build your bridge and get over it.

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That's the one.

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Uh, and perhaps there's times when,

uh, in our camp, we can come across as

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uncaring about people that are sensitive.

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And, and perhaps a little more

tender toward this or that.

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Um, Help us to navigate this.

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Cause I mean, we're talking about

songs that are largely like,

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Lord, this is what it feels like.

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There's the reality of my life.

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It feels like you've, you know, you've

abandoned me, but please defend me.

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I'm I'm.

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I need you.

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Please meet me.

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Help us develop.

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A biblical place for feelings and the

role they play in a Christian's life.

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PJ: Yeah, here's what, what I think

is important about David is David is

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in his feelings, always working to.

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Process them biblically.

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David is never, here's a, uh, a phrase

that we find often thrown around circles.

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David has never just feeling his feelings.

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I just need to feel my

feelings for a little bit.

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David has never just sitting

here saying just let me be angry.

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Just let me be upset.

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Just let me be.

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Um, let me be depressed.

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Let me be sad.

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Let me be this.

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Let me be that.

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Let me talk to my therapist, right.

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He's working through his feelings.

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Theologically he's taking his, his

feelings to the Lord saying, Lord.

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This is where I'm at.

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This is what I feel.

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And what am I to do with this?

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I'm going to ask my questions.

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Have you got, and then I'm

going to preach to my feelings.

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And that's something that I

think is important for us.

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It's not wrong to have feelings.

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In fact, I was just doing premarital

counseling with somebody recently, and we

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were talking about communication and being

able to communicate as a husband and wife.

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Hey, you know what you said?

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That, that made me feel this way

or that, you know what, I, I feel

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like this, about that situation.

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Th that that's healthy.

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That's helpful.

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Uh, what's not helpful is in.

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I just want to stay where I'm at in this.

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When we have feelings that are discordant,

when we have feelings of sadness, anger.

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You know, fear, whatever it may be.

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Um, Uh, with a lot of those, we

want to process through them.

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We don't want to stay in them, but

sometimes the flesh wants to hold onto.

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Uh, those feelings of, of

discord because there's, there's

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some self gratification there.

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If you've made me mad and

I want to punish you by.

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Holding onto my anger.

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That's not a biblical place to be.

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We need to work through that.

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We need to be able to process through

that feeling of anger and, and get to the

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place of forgiveness and reconciliation.

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Or, you know, if I'm sad and I

want to just kind of wallow in

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my pity for a period of time.

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Like th th that's not, again, that's

not a biblical place to find ourselves.

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We need to preach to ourselves and preach

to our feelings, to be able to process

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our feelings with the truth of God's word.

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And that's what we see with David.

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David is a guy that, that

felt a lot, but David didn't.

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He wasn't a slave to his feelings

and his feelings didn't preach

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Rod: to him.

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He preached to his Phoenix.

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So, but that.

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And mind then when, when we have a

feeling, sometimes it feels like.

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It feels like sometimes it just seems

to be that feelings happen to us.

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Like I didn't choose

the feeling that I have.

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Here's what I got are all

feelings valid or should we, is.

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Obviously you said we need to

process them theologically,

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but if I have a feeling then.

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Is it something that I should

say, well, this is, this is

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what I'm feel I should own this.

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This is, this is where I'm at.

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Um, should I fight my feelings?

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Should I eat them at some point?

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Tell me how to try to work

through some of those concepts.

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PJ: Yes, we are.

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Feelings can happen to us.

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Um, But then we were, we've

got a choice in that moment.

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Yeah, whether we validate

them or reject them.

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So.

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And I think there are times that

we do need to be able to think

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logically about where we're at in

our feelings and, and say, okay, is.

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Is this something that I do

need to feel angry about?

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Is this something that I do need

to feel hurt by love, covers a

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multitude of offenses, right?

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If that verse is true, then

they're going to be times where

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we are offended many times.

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Yeah.

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We're going to be offended and

we're going to feel offended.

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And we're going to have that initial

reaction in our flesh of man.

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I feel a desire for vindication

or I feel angry or feel hurt.

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And yet if Love's going to cover over

that offense, that means I'm not going to

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go to that person and allow that feeling

to interrupt my relationship with them.

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Right.

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I'm going to.

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I say, okay.

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I feel this, but I'm going to think.

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About what's true.

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I'm going to take my,

my request to the Lord.

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I'm going to cast my burdens on him.

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I'm going to trust him in this,

and I'm going to, I'm going

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to move on because this is not

something that I'm gonna entertain.

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This is not something that I'm

gonna allow to bring this unity.

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Into my relationship

with this other person.

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Rod: In our culture.

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Do you think we're to feelings

based or too head-based are we

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more in our heads or in our hearts?

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Our culture, meaning like, well, I

guess broadly speaking, whether you

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want to take that locally as in north

Texas, or do you want to take that more?

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Broadly as an evangelical culture,

do you think we, as a people.

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Um, take that how you will.

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Are too focused on our feelings.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I mean, I think the younger

generations especially have been

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coddled into, to making life

decisions based on their feelings.

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And we're now in a position where.

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You know, feelings rule the day,

and if you hurt somebody's feelings,

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then you are persona non grata.

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You're canceled.

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You're out.

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Rod: Toxic.

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PJ: Uh, right, exactly.

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And we are left with a generation who

has no clue how to use the thing that's

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between their ears, above their eyes.

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I mean, This is a, yeah, we need

to get back to the intellect.

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We needed to get back to having the

ability to rationally think through

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and logically process our feelings

and dealing with our emotions.

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And we've done a great disservice

to the current generation that finds

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themselves in college and just after

college, because nobody ever taught

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them how to, to process through those

things and to deal with those things.

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And now you've got nonsense out

there, like better help.com where

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you can go and find a therapist.

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And their tagline is literally,

if you don't like the one you

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get, you can go find another one.

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Like a new one, find the one

that tells you the things

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Rod: that you want to hear.

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PJ: Yeah.

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That's going to validate exactly

where you're at and you don't

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have to do any work with it.

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So.

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Yeah.

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As a, as a broad culture, I think

we are way too feelings based.

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No.

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Our Stripe of.

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Evangelical Christianity.

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I think there's probably room

for us to lean into feeling

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a little bit more than we do.

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Um, you know, I'm sitting

here, went through seminary

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degree, got a master's degree.

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You got a doctorate.

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You know, my, my comfort zone is

doctrine, theology, intellect.

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That's where I feel most comfortable.

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Um, but I need to, as a pastor, I be

able to sit down with somebody who's.

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Walking through a dark place in their

marriage and weep with those who weep.

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Right.

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And I think that we struggle with that.

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Uh, probably more than some

other theological camps do.

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And that's not to say we need

to jettison the intellect.

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I think it's, we need to, to, to

find, not to use an overused phrase,

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Rod: but the balanced.

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It seems like what you're saying is that.

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Uh, the next generation

struggling with resilience.

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Even some of us today, we struggle

with the Brazilian sea being

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emotionally robust and strong.

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Um, Maybe tie this in with a bow,

starting with some of the things

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we talked about, let's finish it.

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And as we enter into the text, How do

we build emotional resilience so that

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we acknowledge the emotions that we

feel, but we don't let them dictate.

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What we do or don't do.

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Um, how do we do that?

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PJ: I think.

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You know, Zooming.

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Out a lot of times, our feelings can

dictate when we zoom in too much on

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a given circumstance or situation

or, or something that happened to us.

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I think zooming out and asking

ourselves, the question is, what

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does God expect of me today?

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Like, what does, what do, what

do I need to be doing today?

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What.

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What does God want from me today?

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Um, in the midst of my hurt in the midst

of my pain, in the midst of my sorrow,

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how do I, how do I put one foot in front

of the other and in get done today,

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what God has to get done for me today.

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And to remember our mission,

to remember our purpose, to

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remember what's going on because.

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Our feelings don't take

us away from any of that.

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Um, and so I think remembering

what God has created us for and

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the mission that he's given us to.

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To accomplish and that'll ultimately, he's

created us for his glory, I think is, is.

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Going to be helpful.

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Uh, for us to, to say, okay,

Um, I feel hurt by this.

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I feel.

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Angry by this anchored by this, but I've

got a God who knows that I've got a God.

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Who's created me to feel

those things as well.

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And I got a God who

loves me in, in who is.

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You know, sovereign

over my life right now.

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And what I'm going to do today is I'm

going to get up and I'm going to read

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my Bible and I'm going to love my wife.

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Well, my kids, well, I'm going to go

do my job well, and I'm going to come

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back at the end of the day and, and,

and trust that the Lord, if I cast

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my burden on him and he's going to

sustain me and not allow me to fall.

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Many people would

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Rod: call what you just said.

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Helpful.

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I'm going to say it was needful.

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There you go.

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PJ: All right.

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Let's jump into the tech

today, hits you in the fields.

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Rod: And the fields.

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The vibe check.

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Yeah, not

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PJ: that we do vibes here.

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No, we don't do vibes.

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But it does monitor.

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As best of object, you Hindu.

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Buddhist.

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Vibes, maybe my neighbors

are influencing me.

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Yeah, those vibes coming from

that loud party the other night.

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Rod: And it was still there in

your name, your name, your name.

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Dude.

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I was, I was about to get my, uh, what do

you call that dancing style by Bollywood?

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I don't know if I know there's different.

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I probably just offended people.

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Everybody.

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'cause there's different camps.

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Like, like when someone

says, are you a Christian?

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And they don't know Christianity.

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You're going to say

yes, but you know, that.

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Like there's there's Presbyterian

there's Baptist, there's evangelicals.

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And then there's there's Catholics.

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It's complicated and the

same happens there too.

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But

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PJ: anyway, let's jump into the text.

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All right, so I'm 26.

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Uh, some 26 is a Psalm of David

and this is David praying for

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protection based on his integrity.

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Uh, which is interesting because

we've been focused a lot on David

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David's lack of integrity recently.

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Uh, but we have to remember David

is a man after God's own heart.

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And even when we get into, uh, the

book of first Kings, we're going to

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read in the opening chapters where

God is going to tell Solomon that,

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Hey, look, if you love me and follow

after me and keep my commandments

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the way David, your father did.

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And so David was by and large, a man

who was a, uh, a godly man, a man of

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integrity, a man after God's own heart.

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And so that in Psalm 26 is what

David is appealing to here.

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As he prays that God would protect,

protect him and, and would vindicate him.

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In verse one, vindicate me.

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Oh, Lord.

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Right.

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The wrongs done against me.

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Uh, verses two through eight and

appeal to again, David's faithfulness.

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Uh, in how he had obeyed the Lord

verses four through five, even

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contain elements of Psalm one.

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I don't sit with men of faults.

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I don't consort with hypocrites.

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I hate the assembly of evildoers.

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Remember Psalm one.

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How blessed is the man who does,

does not take counsel with the wicked

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and sit in the seat of scoffers

and stand in the way of sinners.

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Um, and so David's.

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Appealing back to that, his lifestyle

there verses nine through 10, he's

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got this prayer for preservation

that God would protect him.

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Then as a result of this and

then a resolve to steadfast

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integrity in verses 11 and 12.

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So I'm 40.

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Then if you are a fan of the band

U2, then you may recognize this one.

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Cause Bano sampled some of

Psalm 40 in, uh, his song.

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Psalm 40.

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Rod: Is it, is that

what the song is called

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PJ: that, or, or just 40?

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I can't remember exactly, but

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Rod: I don't know this song.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I don't, but you can find it on

Spotify, if you like such things.

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Yeah.

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You too sampled Psalm 40 and

one of their, their songs.

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But this all.

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Again, David here, uh, reflecting back

on God's mercy in a past situation,

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as he offers prayers for similar

preservation in his current one.

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Uh, he reflects in verses one through

10 on God's past mercy in his life.

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Um, and then in, in verses 11

through 17, he prays for numeracy.

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But as he's looking back, he's praising

God in that first half for delivering him

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and declares how he had responded to that,

through telling the congregation about

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it, saying, look, I told others about how

you had freed me, how you delivered me.

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Uh, we're going to talk about

that on Sunday, actually, that.

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That the works of God and our lives

are a fodder for us to go in and be

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his ambassadors to tell her the people

look what God has done in my life.

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David had done that with, uh,

with the people of Israel there.

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And then in verses 11 through 17,

as he's asking for numerous, these.

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Um, he's praying that thick.

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I would deliver him as he had before.

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And then in verse 12,

acknowledges that men.

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You know what even.

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Aware of, of an asking for mercy, he's

aware that his sin had played some

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role in his current circumstances.

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And so David understands the concept

of the Lord's discipline and is praying

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that God would be merciful, which is,

uh, not getting what we do deserve.

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Uh, and he's asking for God's

mercies in that situation.

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I was encouraged by

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Rod: verse nine.

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I have told the glad news of

deliverance in the great congregation.

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I have not restrained my

lips as you know, oh Lord.

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Ah, I love this idea.

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It's not one of.

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I don't know, not when I feel

like we hear about often.

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Um, and this is concept w we ought

to give God glory for the good

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things that we have in our lives.

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And if God has done good things to you,

if he's delivered, you delivered you from

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some malady or preserved in some way, we

ought to tell people about those things.

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David's not hiding it.

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We ought not to hide it either.

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We ought to be okay with.

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Uh, not even, okay.

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We got to encourage ourselves to share

about the good things God is doing.

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So I, I was convicted by that and I

think that's a, that's a good posture

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for us to have to be ready to tell

people here's what God has done.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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So I'm 58 then is a Psalm

written in response to the

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wickedness of unjust rulers.

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So that's not anything that we

know anything about as a nation.

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So we can just probably

skip over this one,

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Rod: especially California.

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We have all the best rulers.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Uh, Psalm 58, 1 through five.

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These are the charges

against these rulers.

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Uh, in verse three, you find the

wicked are strange from the wound.

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They go straight from birth speaking lies.

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You remember.

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Uh, back last week.

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Um, I think it was last

week, two weeks ago.

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Two weeks ago, Psalm chapter, uh,

or som John chapter nine, ELO.

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Uh, with the man born blind who

sinned this man or his parents in,

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again, the rabbinical tradition

drew on Psalm 58, 3 right here.

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Uh, to, to point to the idea that

somebody could sin from the womb, the

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wicked are estranged from the womb.

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They go sh.

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Uh, straight from birth speaking lies now.

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This is not implying that a

baby in utero is committing sin.

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What this is referring to is the concept

that we've talked about before of

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total depravity, that we are born with.

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Adam's sin nature.

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We are born corrupt, we're born guilty.

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And so the wicked, those that are.

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Are the vessels of wrath as Paul

refers to them in Romans chapter

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nine, they're wicked from the womb.

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They're a strange from the womb.

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They are alienated from

the very beginning.

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Uh, not again, because they're committing

sin in utero, but because of their

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wickedness is something that they don't.

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Uh, come upon or stumble

upon later in life.

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It's part of what they've inherited

from Adam from the very outset.

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So that's verse three there.

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So the charges in verses one through

five against these unjust rulers,

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and then in verses six through

11, the plea for judgment, God

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break the teeth in their mouth.

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That one is a, uh, That was a salty.

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Yeah, that sends a shiver down the back.

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That is not pleasant.

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Do you ever been biting wrong

and in bit down on your teeth?

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And that just that

feeling is on your tongue.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that's painful.

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I also appreciate verse eight, let them be

like the snail that dissolves into slime.

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Rod: I wonder what David

was doing when he was a boy.

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Yeah.

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PJ: Sprinkling salt on snails

and just watching them.

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Yeah, but, but, uh, Yeah, just David's.

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And we've talked about this, we

talked about this recently that the

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imprecatory please here and again, that.

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The focus is what they're doing is wrong.

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Uh, not so much.

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From from David's perspective though, it

was wrong and David, but more so David is

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jealous for God's name and God's glory.

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And so that's, what's leading him to

pray these, these, these prayers of,

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of imprintation of judgment here.

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Rod: Yeah.

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We want justice and that's, that's

always going to be the cry of our hearts.

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We want justice and we

just have to know that.

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And we ask God to come this.

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This is what we talk about.

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This is part of it.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, the righteous will bathe his

feet in the blood of the wicked.

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That is a, another one of those.

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Difficult.

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Difficult ones for sure.

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Indeed.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 61 then is a, another Psalm of

David, which fits the context of when

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he fled from Absalom, that we don't have

those details given for us in the title.

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It seems like it fits.

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Uh, and so here, David in

verses one through two is asking

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for help, pleading for help.

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Hear my prayer, listen to my prayer.

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Um, lead me to the rock that is higher

than I, as David is, is pleading

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for God to deliver him as only God

is going to be able to deliver him.

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And the language here is fitting.

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If David is truly on the run

and hiding in caves and hiding

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in rocks and everything else.

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It fits his descriptive language here fits

the situation verses three through seven.

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Then his confidence had

petition for God to act.

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And then in verse eight, his

resolve to worship God's still.

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So I will ever sing praises to your

name as I perform my vows day after day.

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So.

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Uh, David.

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As he pled, as he asked, as he

pleaded that the load would,

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would act on his behalf.

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His worship of God, wasn't contingent

upon God doing what David asked

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him to do his worship of God.

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What's going to happen no matter

what still I will, no matter

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what, I'm still going to praise

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Rod: you.

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I'm still going to worship you.

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I think this speaks well to what we were

just talking about a few minutes ago,

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about how to develop emotional resilience.

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And it's this concept of

resolving to do the right thing.

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Even when you're not feeling it

when you're not your heart's down

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in it, because you're suffering

physically or there's some kind

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of malady that that's costing you.

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Uh, Christian and mature

Christian is going to say, I'm

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going to do the right thing.

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I'm going to, I'm going

to do what's right.

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Even if it costs me more.

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Because I know it's the right thing.

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I'm not going to let my feelings be

the determining factor of whether

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or not I will give praise to God.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 62 then is a,

another Psalm of David.

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Possibly written again during

the situation with Absalom.

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It focuses on God's care for his people in

situations of desperation or oppression.

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Uh, verses one through two, and then

also down in verses four through

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five, as it split up here by another

couplet there, but here's a repeated,

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refrain, expressing confidence in

the Lord that they trust the Lord.

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He only is my rock and my salvation,

my fortress, I shall not be shaken.

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So that's repeated there in verse two

and then repeated in verses five and

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six, that David is going to be patient

on the Lord because in the middle

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there verses three and four there's,

there's an enemy who's attacking.

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Um, and he's he's coming against him.

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And so again, maybe that's Absalom,

maybe this is hearkening back

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to solve, whatever it may be.

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David is saying I'm S I'm

going to trust the Lord.

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I'm going to trust the Lord verses seven

through 10, because God is sovereign.

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Th this passage.

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Uh, these verses here focused on

God's sovereign, uh, rule over,

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uh, all mankind and over time.

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And that he's the refuge.

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He's the one that provides safety for us.

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And then finally in verses 11 through

12, his sovereign mercy that he

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provides, uh, not what we deserve,

but that what, which we don't deserve,

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which is the flip side of mercy.

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And that is his grace that we

receive that from him as well.

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Rod: At verses one and five.

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I think you have the chorus,

if you can call it that.

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But he, David says twice

for God alone, my soul.

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Weight's in silence now, I think, I

think what's happening here is that

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David is saying, look, it kind of like

a in first Peter chapter three for.

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Um, that the woman has to have

a gentle and quiet spirit.

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It doesn't mean that she

doesn't say anything.

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It just means that she's calm, cool,

collected, confident in who God is, and

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therefore she can follow her husband.

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Well, in a similar way here in Psalm 62.

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I think this is, I think a key you could

say, Hey, David was practicing silence

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and solitude, and this might be a good

practice and a good application of that.

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But I think this is more along

the lines of David X experienced,

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not an inner turmoil, but peace.

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Uh, transcendent piece because he

was waiting for the Lord to act.

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I think that's closer to

what I'm seeing there.

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Pastor Peter, what are

your thoughts on that?

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Is this a, is this a call for Christians?

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Because I know, and one of my

textbooks that we've used before.

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It's a compass Bible Institute.

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Um, this was one of the proofs hex for

a suggestion that you spend time in

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silence and solitude with the Lord.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I guess what's the,

what's the alternative.

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Rod: So I was suggesting

that to wait and silence.

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It doesn't literally mean that there's a.

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What he's doing here is

practicing silence and solitude.

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It's a gentle, quiet spirit.

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It's a transcendent peace

because God's for him, God's

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going to deliver him, et cetera.

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So.

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Do you think it's more poetic device?

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That's meant to say.

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I'm experiencing peace in the storm,

or do you think that he actually meant

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like, Hey, I'm spending time in silence.

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Um, I'm allowing my soul to rest and who

got his, and it was a literal silence.

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PJ: I could see both.

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And in this situation, yeah.

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Rod: I do see both.

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I tend to lean on the, the, the emotional

respite, but perhaps it it's both.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that's silence is one of

those hard things for us these days.

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Yeah.

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Does your phone even go silent?

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Is there a silent mode on that?

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I was just thinking about the other

day, how we always used to be so

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Anthon and hyped on the new ringtones.

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And now it's, I can't remember the

last time my phone actually rang.

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Cause that just keep it on silent.

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Rod: Yeah.

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I, I guess you're right.

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I wonder why that's a strange.

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Strange development.

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Yeah.

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Cause.

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Yeah, you want people to call so they can

hear your cool ringtone and then like for

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your, your girl, you had her ring phone.

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Totally.

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Yeah.

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What was your favorite

ringtone that you had?

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Ah, man, I don't even remember.

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Do you remember any of them?

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Do you remember what

your smallest phone was?

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PJ: Uh, had the razor.

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And razor then one little compact.

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Yeah.

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At the Nokia, like the brick phone

that everybody had for awhile.

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Oh yeah.

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That was my first phone,

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Rod: I think.

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Oh, wow.

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Yeah.

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I had a, I had, I forget who even made

it, but it was, uh, it was like, I

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know you can't see this as great audio.

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Yep.

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It's like that big.

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Yeah, that's super small.

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Like you had to use.

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Like your pinky to make phone calls.

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That's great.

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I had a Blackberry once and

then I repented and that.

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I never went back to where

you and you had a Blackberry.

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PJ: I was in college, man.

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I

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Rod: was like, I'm

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PJ: gonna get a Blackberry.

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It's

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Rod: very business like of you.

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Yeah, but

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PJ: I

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Rod: hated it.

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I had a Palm tree.

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You okay?

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I loved that.

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That's what started me on this whole

journey of, I got a schedule my life.

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I want to start organizing everything.

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I loved it.

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I, and I reluctantly gave it away.

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In fact, I think I moved

from the Palm Palm devices.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Rod: I think, I think into the iPhone,

maybe it was the Andrew couldn't know

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I had an Android phone first, so I

think I went Android and then iPhone.

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PJ: Well, I remember growing

up, my mom was a doctor and

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so she would often be on call.

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She had a pager and everything.

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I had one too.

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Yeah.

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And then in middle school,

when the, the car phones first

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came out, so not cell phones.

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And a drug

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Rod: dealer by the way.

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PJ: Just

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Rod: to be

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PJ: clear.

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She, uh, she got a car phone

put into, to one of our cars,

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which I thought was super cool.

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And it was the one that

didn't come out of the car.

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In fact, it had a cool.

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The state in the state, in the car,

but she could call the hospital.

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She needed to get there.

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That's clash.

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Yeah.

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I always thought that.

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When

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Rod: you went, when you drove by a

school, did you show it to your friends?

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Like, look at this guys.

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PJ: Yeah, look at this.

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Look how cool.

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Yeah.

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And then my dad had a CB

radio for youth retreats.

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Oh yeah.

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That's awesome.

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So we.

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Pile on the IU fans.

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And I get with tag along

and we'd be on the roads.

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That's fine.

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But it would have there.

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They're handling everything.

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That's cool.

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Yeah.

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We're not done yet.

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Some 64.

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Sorry.

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I got us off track.

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No, that's all right.

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That's all right.

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Another, uh, David Psalms here describing

trying circumstances, but balanced

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by faith in the Lord to deliver.

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Verses one through six, the wickedness

of the wicked is described here.

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Uh, the secret plots of the wicked

David says, hide me from those from the

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throng of evil doers, the massive crowd.

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They're the ones that wet their

tongue is not wet, wet, but w H I T.

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Th they sharpen their tongues, like swords

in aim, bitter words like arrows, the

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ones that are attacking his character.

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And, uh, in, in, in seeing evil,

wicked things, lying about him, he's

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identifying the wickedness of the wicked.

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And then he's establishing in verses seven

through 10 confidence in the justice of

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God that God was going to vindicate him.

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God was ultimately going

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Rod: to deliver him.

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First one, the second half of verse

one says preserve my life from

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dread, from dread of the enemy.

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David's not praying for deliverance

from the enemies, praying from

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deliverance, from fear of the enemy.

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I think that's an important

factor in praying for yourself.

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As you pray about the things that

God puts in your life, it's often

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not going to be that he's going to

deliver you from the experience.

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Do you want you to pray through

it and pray for, uh, for.

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Pray for faith and not, uh, not to.

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Not to be fearful.

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So notice David prays for

protection against fear.

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PJ: Y, thanks for joining

in again for another episode

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of the daily Bible podcast.

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And we will catch you guys

tomorrow for another one and

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we'll see you tomorrow at church.

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I hope so.

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Bye-bye bye.