00:00 Memorial Day Reflections

01:01 Honoring Sacrifice and History

01:46 Christian Perspective on Memorial Day

03:24 Road Trip Plans and Car Troubles

05:29 Discussion on Nostradamus and Predictions

07:00 Daily Bible Reading: Psalms

07:04 Psalm 131: Humility and Worship

09:01 Psalm 138: Wholehearted Worship

13:06 Psalm 139: God's Omniscience and Creation

15:46 Psalm 143: David's Plea for Mercy

18:09 Psalm 144: Humility and God's Love

19:09 Psalm 145: Praise and God's Character

21:18 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's up?

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The sky, the ceiling, the roof,

all those things that, are you

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one of those kids you said?

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Hey, what's up man?

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I'm sky guilty.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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I'm gonna go talk to your friends now.

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Guilty as charged.

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Yeah.

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Get outta here with that.

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Hey, it's Monday.

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It's Memorial Day.

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And so we are celebrating

Memorial Day with everybody else.

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Our church offices are closed today and

I'm sure a lot of you're off work today.

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And so we are celebrating this

and really it's an odd thing to

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say Happy Memorial Day because

Memorial Day is a somber event.

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It's a somber occasion to

remember those that gave their

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lives in service of our country.

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And so Veterans' Day is different.

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Veterans Day.

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We remember those that simply served

and whether they gave their lives

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or not, they served, they sacrificed

something to protect our country.

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But Memorial Day is specifically

for those that lost their lives.

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Yeah if if that's you, if you've been

impacted, if somebody that you know

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in your family or somebody that maybe

one of your grandparents or somebody

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like that fought and lost their

life in service of our country, this

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is a day that we are setting aside

to be grateful for that sacrifice.

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And it's a big sacrifice.

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I'll plug a channel.

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That I've talked about before, I think

on the podcast, but it's on YouTube.

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It's called The History Underground.

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And it, I think it connects it well with

this because this guy does a great job.

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He's a believer.

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The history underground it's

on YouTube, you can find it.

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He does a great job of just going

around to different battle sites

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and telling stories of what took

place at these different sites.

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And so he does a lot with World War ii.

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He's done a lot with.

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The Civil War as well.

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And it's just, it's, they're

interesting videos, usually about

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20 to 30 minutes in length and

you learn something along the way.

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And like I said, he's a believer

the content's clean and it's a

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good way to, to be thankful for the

history of the country that we have.

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And today's the day that we set

aside to remember that, that

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history was not without a cost.

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It costs lives, it cost

families and and we're certainly

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grateful for that sacrifice.

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Yeah.

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One of the things that's

important for us to see is the.

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Christian connection to this?

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I know that not everything that

our nation does is Christian.

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It's it's avertly.

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It's not that they're

trying to say that it's not.

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However, there are always connections

that we can draw, even if it's

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not explicit on their part.

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But on our part, we could say it's a

good thing for us to have Memorial Day.

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And then bare minimum, we could say

the very practice of communion tells

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us that memorializing those who gave

their life for us is a good thing.

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Of course, we do this for Jesus.

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He's the only one who gave his

life for us in a way that's far

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beyond the temporal nature of this

life and extends into the next I.

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Different category altogether, but

that shows us that the principle

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itself is a good thing that God

approves of us reminding ourselves

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of those who died on our behalf.

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And of course, again, Jesus is

the epitome of that sacrifice.

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But that means when we look at veterans or

those who died for us, not just veterans,

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but those who gave their lives for us

in a, in an ultimate sense, it is right

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and good for our families to practice

awareness of those who are fallen.

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On our behalf, even if we don't know who

they are, specifically in the case of

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Christ, we know who he is, we know what

he's done, and we know why it matters

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more than any of these other deaths.

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But that tells us that the practice

of memorializing those who die

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for us is a good and godly thing.

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So I'd encourage you, if you have the

opportunity to go to a memorial event

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this morning, you should probably

take advantage of that and show

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your kids why it's good and how it

connects to the gospel explicitly.

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But why it's good that people do this.

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Jesus says there's no

greater love than that.

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Someone lays life down for his friends,

and that's what he does for them.

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And that's what these people do for us.

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They're not our friends in the

proximate sense, but they're our

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friends in a true sense, in that they

die for our sake, for our freedom.

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So that's a good thing to

celebrate and memorialize us today.

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And you might be doing that this week as

you travel down to the the Alamo, huh?

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Yeah, maybe.

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We'll see.

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Maybe it was on, it was certainly

on the agenda as this is on

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the table of a potentiality.

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But I'm not looking forward to that drive.

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We just got some work done on the van and

that was that made me cry a little bit.

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Actually, it made me

cry a lot on the inside.

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Tears were actually, not she, but

on the inside I felt the travail.

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It's okay, you don't have to lie.

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You were fetal position in your office.

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It's okay.

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Rocking back and forth.

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And yeah, it, that was painful.

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But now that we did it and I'm

like, oh, let's just protect

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the car guys, let's not drive.

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If you go down there, I want you to

come back with a Kon skin cap like Dan

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Davey Crockett wore, and Daniel Boone.

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I can't promise you that I will.

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Okay.

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Come back with a, maybe someone

in my family will come back

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with a Bowie knife then.

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A Bowie knife.

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It's a Bowie knife.

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Like a David Bowie?

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No, Jim Buoy.

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Jimy.

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It's a massively large knife and it

was named for him and he was one of the

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ones that died in the Alamo as well.

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See, I have knives and I try to

wear them and I just feel like

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they're having in my pocket.

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I feel like the David Bowie knife,

this one you wouldn't be able to wear.

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That's my point.

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I don't know if I need one

then unless I hang it in your

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office, if you're okay with that.

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Sure.

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Why not?

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Yeah.

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Office people would

stop you out in public.

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They'd be like sir, that's

a David Bowie knife.

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Yeah, that's a You're

open carrying right now.

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Oh, is that what that is?

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Can you, is it carrying a knife like that?

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Open carrying, oh, I don't know.

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It's sizable though.

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It's like a machete.

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Wow.

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Like you, people would look

at you very oddly if you were

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carrying a knife of that size.

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He was one though that was ill, was sick

during the Battle of the Alamo, and as the

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famous story goes, the line was drawn in

the sand and they said, if you're for us.

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Come on this side if you wanna run, 'cause

you're afraid for your life, you can.

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You can go.

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Wow.

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And everybody crossed the line.

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He was bedridden and he asked people

to pick up his bed with him sick in

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it and carry it across the line, man.

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'cause he was that committed to the cause.

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My man, David Bowie.

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Bowie.

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Yeah.

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I like that guy.

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Jim.

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Jim Bowie.

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It's ground control.

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The major time.

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Did he write that song

he did at the Alamo?

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He did.

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It was, yes.

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That's amazing.

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Yeah, I know He didn't even know

what ground control was, did it?

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But he still, that's prophetic

songwriting right there.

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The Psalms woo.

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Might have to add that.

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And then NASA in Houston, which is not.

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San Antonio, but it's crazy.

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Near San Antonio ish.

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Yeah.

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So maybe the connection is there.

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That is some Nostradamus

kind of thing right there.

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Is it?

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What do you do with Nostradamus?

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Lots of people quoted him, but

back when I was in middle school

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people would be like, oh, not nos.

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Nostradamus is how they pronounce it.

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I think it's Nostradamus.

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But either way do you put

any, so let's suppose.

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Nostradamus or someone like him Yes.

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Has predictive prophecy.

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That's accurate.

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Yeah.

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What do you do with that?

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Blind squirrel finds a nut, right?

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There's, listen, there's different

things that can happen and people

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can predict things, and number one,

it could be, hey, they get lucky.

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Number two, it could be their

perceptive and discerning.

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And they draw conclusions based on their

observations of things which are likely

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to happen, and then those things happen.

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Third thing that it could be in

some instances is there could

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be demonic demon activity.

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Demon.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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For sure.

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So if it's cultic, and if the, this

is somebody wanting to amass religious

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followers because of their predictions,

and those predictions are coming true

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then I'm gonna say this is demonic.

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Outside of that.

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People talk about that with

The Simpsons, the TV show.

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Oh yeah.

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They predicted everything that

they've predicted so many different

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things and it's whoa, this is crazy.

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I don't know if that's demonic.

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Maybe it is, but maybe I, we don't know.

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Yeah, but that's likely.

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Yep.

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Yeah, his stuff wasn't

all that great anyway.

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Maybe there was some things that

you say maybe, if you it's one

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of those things where if you

squint and look sideways, right?

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I think I do see a horse now

that you say it, one of those.

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So I don't think there's anything

that behind that, except, whatever.

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Jollies, he got out of doing that stuff.

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But I think there are people that

do possess some kind of insight and

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knowledge, but I think most of it, if

it's legit, it's gonna be exactly that.

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It's pagan, it's ritualistic, and there's

some kind of power behind the power.

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Sure.

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That's utilizing them for those purposes.

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Yeah.

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Totally beware.

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Totally.

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Let's jump into our Psalms.

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We have plenty day.

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We've got quite a few of 'em.

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Yep.

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Psalm 1 31, only three

verses right off the bat.

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So here we'll do our daily

Bible reading together.

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Oh Lord, my heart is not lifted up.

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My eyes are not raised too high.

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I do not occupy myself with things

too great and too marvelous for me.

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But I have calmed and quieted my soul

like a weed child with its mother,

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like a weed child is my soul within me.

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Oh, Israel, hope in the Lord from

this time forth and forevermore.

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This one it just struck me the

humility of David in this one.

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Just asking that God would.

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Keep him in his place as, and

notice it's a psalm of a sense.

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And so as he's going up to worship

the Lord, he's praying on that journey

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that God would not allow him to or

not, that God would enable him to not

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go up with his heart lifted too high.

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In other words, not go up hotty, not go

up too proud but to understand his place

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before the Lord and to have a calm and

quiet soul even as he comes into worship.

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So this tells us that there's

something to the posture, that we

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approach the Lord in worship, and

that's something that we need to be.

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Mindful of, even as we're on our way

into church, even as we're preparing

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to go, how are we approaching the Lord?

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What is our mindset?

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What is our mentality and how

are we approaching and pleading

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for the Lord to help us in that?

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Yeah.

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One of the things I wanna point out

to you in this particular psalm is

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the idea that God weans his kids.

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You are going to be at some point drawn

away from the things that are comfortable.

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That are fitting for your

current stage of development.

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God constantly wants his people to grow

and so I think David here is noticing,

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look, I've calmed and quieted my soul like

a weaned child with it, with its mother,

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like a weaned child is my soul within me.

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That is God's taking something

comfortable away from David so that

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he can grow, so that he can stray

further from mom's purse strings or

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her apron strings as the saying goes.

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And this is what God does.

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God is constantly pushing us to

greater and greater maturity in Christ.

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And this is what Paul says in

one Corinthians 13, right when

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I was a child, I spoke like a

child, thought like a child.

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But when I became a man,

I gave up childish ways.

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And this is what it is to grow up in love

and this is what God's gonna do to you.

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You should expect that God's gonna wean

you from the things that are comfortable

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for you according to your season.

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You can't stay there indefinitely,

and this is certainly God's.

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Progress and growth

within the church for us.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 1 38 as we get into

this next one, this is one of

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the last Psalms David wrote.

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It is there's a lot of parallels

between this one and Psalm one 18

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and people think that this is perhaps

a response to the Davidic Covenant.

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Probably be.

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'cause of the effusive praise that

marks the majority of this psalm here.

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But something that stood out to me

in verse one is I give you thanks,

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oh Lord, with my whole heart, we

just came off of a retreat where

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we focused on being uncompromised

men that are men of integrity.

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In Psalm 86, he talks about

having an undivided heart.

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That's a theme that came out.

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Our theme verse in fact, had

that as its key feature there.

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Psalm 86 11.

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And so here again, we see this idea that

when we approach the Lord to worship

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him or when we're giving him gratitude,

that it's important for us to come with

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an undivided heart to come, with a whole

heart to come as much as we can without

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distractions to be able to focus on him.

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And so again, that, that

comes back to our approach.

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How are we setting ourselves

up for our worship?

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Are we.

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Coming distracted.

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Are we coming with our phone in our hand?

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Are we coming wanting to check our email?

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Are we coming worried about a score?

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Are we coming or are we coming saying,

Lord, you have my full attention right

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now and I'm gonna give it all to you.

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And that's how David

opens, at least this Psalm.

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Yeah, I like verse six here for the

thought for though rather the Lord

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is high, he regards the lowly, but

the haughty he knows from afar.

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I love this because it constantly reminds

me of what James and others have quoted.

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The Lord opposes the proud, but

he gives grace to the humble.

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And this is a good reminder for us,

even as you're talking about Pastor pj.

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I think it takes a great intentionality

in our part to come with the whole heart.

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And coming with the whole

heart is I think first or.

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There to remind us that we are often

distracted, our hearts are fractured, and

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we need to often calibrate before we even

make our way into the service itself.

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I know that I do and I lead it like

one of the leaders of the services.

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I need to make sure that my

heart's ready to approach the Lord.

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And that's part of what it is to be

lowly, part of what it is to be humble.

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So before you get to church, maybe

the next time that happens, maybe this

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is a good time for you to pause and

say, Lord, help me search my heart.

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Know me and let me be humble before you

so that I don't give you a divided heart.

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How about verse two when he says in the

second half there for you have exalted

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above all things your name and your word.

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Now, David didn't have the Bible

the way that we have the Bible.

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He knew the rah.

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He probably had some scrolls, a around,

but can we take that and apply that?

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To the fullness of the canon.

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Should we take this and be able

to point to this and say, this is

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pointing to the authority and the

significance of the word of God, pastor.

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Your thoughts on that?

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Is there a disconnect

there or can we say Yeah.

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Even though he didn't have the

full Bible, we can take that

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and apply it to the full Bible?

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Absolutely.

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I, and I guess there are a couple

reasons why number one scripture is

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meant to be interpreted within scripture.

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We let scripture define

and interpret scripture.

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And even though David didn't know what

we now know today, that doesn't mean

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that he didn't, God didn't intend that

through his, through his messenger

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of David at this point in time.

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So I would say yes, it applies

certainly to that and it's consistent

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with the rest of scripture.

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If we take an Old Testament passage and

we try to apply it to everything else

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in scripture and it's ah, it doesn't

quite fit, that's a good indication,

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we probably shouldn't do that.

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But in this particular case, this is

consistent with scripture all across

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the Old Testament and New Testament.

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So I would say absolutely this

is something we could apply.

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What would you say to that?

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Yeah I agree.

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I think, I've heard the challenge

or the accusation thrown at the

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Evangelical church before you

guys are, they'll call us biblios.

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In other words, that we have somehow

made the Bible an i an idol in our life

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and we're missing God for the word of

God, which I've always struggled with.

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And if our approach to the Bible

is, what the Bible calls us to do.

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I don't know how you can do that.

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I don't know how the Bible does

anything but lead us to the Lord.

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Certainly there are those self-deceived

that know a lot of the Bible that

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don't have a relationship with

God, but in general, I think verses

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like this and others would say,

we need to revere the scriptures.

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We need to.

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Honor the scriptures.

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We need to look to the scriptures for

our guidance and not fall into the

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trap of the Roman Catholic Church,

which is put forward, the three-legged

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stool of man's reason and church

tradition on par with scripture.

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As we can consult all of these things.

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We don't have to just look to one and

we would say no scripture sits above

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all and we sit under it and it's in

part because of verses like this that

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say, God has exalted his word above

all things, and we're going to subject

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ourselves to it and learn to trust it.

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Anything else on, on 1 38 there?

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Okay.

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1 39.

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One of the more familiar psalms if

you've been in the church for long.

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This is one of my favorite Psalms.

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Just that the intimacy of God's knowledge

of us that is conveyed in this psalm.

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And David is the author here.

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And you'll just note,

especially in the first.

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Five verses or thereabout, how many

times he talks about his knowledge of us,

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that God's knowledge of us is deep, that

God knows us better than anyone else.

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He knows our goings, he knows our

comings, he knows all of our ways.

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He knows the words that we're gonna

speak before even one is on our tongue.

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That's shocking.

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God's omniscient is.

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Is just in incredible as we consider

how deeply he knows us, there is

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no limit to what he knows about us.

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Even verse seven, David says,

where can I go from your spirit?

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Where can I flee from your presence?

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Is there anywhere that I can get

away from your knowledge of me?

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And the answer he concludes

is essentially no.

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He says, even if I.

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Go to heaven.

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God, you're there.

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If I go to the grave, you're there.

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If I were able to take

the wings of the morning.

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Now the imagery there in the Hebrew

is that the first rays of dawn as

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the sun is breaking and the light

is sending out its first raise.

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If I was able to catch one of those rays

and ride it out as far as it would go.

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Could I escape you?

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And his conclusion is no, even

there, your hand is with me.

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Your right hand is gonna hold me there.

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And then he gets to the foundation

of that knowledge of the why.

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And it's because God is our creator and

he's our sustainer, and he's the one

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who's sovereign even over the number

of days that we're going to live.

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Verse 16 in your book, we written every

one of 'em the number of days formed for

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me when as yet there was none of them.

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So God knows us because God created us

and he's ordained the number of days

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even that we're gonna live on this earth.

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And so our conclusion along with

David in verses 23 through 24

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then is, okay, God, if you know

me to this level, search me then.

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And if there's any sin in me, any

grievous way in, me, know my thoughts,

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Lord, if there's anything, help me

to correct these things and lead

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me in the way of outlasting, lead

me in the path that I should go.

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Yeah.

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And if you pray that God

will certainly answer it.

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This is again, just to reiterate

what we were talking about earlier.

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God desires to improve us and to grow us

into the image and likeness of Christ.

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So this is a great prayer for you to jot

down in your prayer journal, maybe to

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make reference to this and ponder it.

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But as you pray this knowing, know

that this is a dangerous prayer to

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pray because God wants to answer it.

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And it isn't often in his grace that

he chooses not to reveal everything

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that he could say to us at any one

time because it would crush us.

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So pray with caution,

but you should pray this.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 1 39 is such a good one.

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Also one that we point to for

the sanctity of human life.

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This is a great text for us to go to,

to say this is one of the reasons why

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it matters for us to fight for that and

to value that as believers because of

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the fact that this tells us that God is

in intimately involved and intricately

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involved in the formation of a human

being from the time of conception.

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Psalm 1 39 is a good text for us on that.

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Psalm 1 43 then is again of David,

and this one finds David in a time

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of distress asking, pleading for

praying for God's mercy while still

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recalling his faithfulness and asking

him to teach him and preserve him,

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ultimately for not only David's

sake, but ultimately for God's sake.

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And so that, that's what

David is doing here.

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He's saying in asking that gout

would deliver him not just.

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For David's comfort.

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And that's always challenging because I

think so often when I'm praying that God

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would bring me out of a value or deliver

me from a tight spot it's in my flesh.

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Most often.

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For me it's because of my own discomfort.

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And yet I love that David here is

saying Lord I want you to do this

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so that your name's sake, verse

11 would be exalted and not mine.

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Yeah.

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Verse five says, I

remember the days of old.

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I meditate on all that you have done.

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I ponder the work of your hands.

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This for David probably was very personal

in that he was thinking about the ways

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that God has operated in his life.

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He, man, he tick took care of me

when I was fighting against Goliath.

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He protected me when my son tried

to create a coup against me.

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He's probably thinking about his own

personal life, but as you read this verse.

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Remind yourself that man, you have

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chapters of scripture where you can

look back on the ways that God has

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operated throughout human history.

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So when you remember the days of old,

it actually probably isn't your life.

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Although there's a place for that.

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As I told you, tell you all

the time, journaling is a great

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practice 'cause it does remind you

of what God has done in your life.

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But I think here.

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The application is to say,

okay, what has God done?

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Look at his scriptures.

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Meditate on all that he has done

in the past, what he promises to

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do in the future, and that's gonna

help you calibrate when you're

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going through a challenging time.

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It gets your mind focused

on what's the right thing?

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That is God's leadership, his sovereignty,

his purposes, that gets your head off

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of your own troubles and tribulations.

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Although you might have real ones,

he wants you to think about them

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by looking at him like David.

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Remember the days of old meditate

on all that he's done, and in that

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way, he'll satisfy your thirst.

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Yeah I also like verse 10, teach

me to do your will Lord, for.

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You are, my God.

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And that's such a, that

foundational statement.

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There you are, my God.

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In other words, because God is God.

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Because he is God.

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And by definition of what all that

means, our appropriate response

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is, so teach me to do your will.

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I wanna do what your will is

because you're God and I'm not.

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We sing that line in that

song, undivided heart, right?

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You are God and I'm not.

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The implications of that

has gotten, here's my life.

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You get to make the calls on

this, so teach me to do your

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will and and you are, my God.

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And I will follow it because that's

who you are and that's what I wanna do.

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Psalm 1 44.

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Then here David praises God

in the psalm and petitions him

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again, please, asks him to act, to

bring judgment and faithfulness.

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I mentioned that there was parallels to

Psalm one 18 and one of the earlier ones.

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This is the one I meant.

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There's parallels to Psalm one 18

and this Psalm not the other one.

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And so you're gonna see a lot

of the similarities there.

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And again, why?

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Because it's the same

author David here, and so.

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The humility there.

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Verse three call back

to verse to Psalm eight.

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Even in this one when he says, oh,

Lord, what is man that you regard

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him, the son of man that you think

of him, man, is like a breath.

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His days are a passing shadow,

the frailty of mankind.

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That, that, again, this mentality of

God, you're God you are the eternal one.

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We are, but a transient passing breath

or like the grass that withers and fades.

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And yet.

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David knows that God loves him enough

in spite of that, that he can say,

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Lord, verse 11, rescue me and deliver

me from the hand of foreigners.

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So this it's a humility to, to know

that there's an insignificance.

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There's a weightlessness about us

when it comes to eternity, and yet

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there's so much of a love of God

that he's gonna care about us, even

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though we are such transient beings.

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Verse 1 45, Psalm 1 45.

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That is is David's final psalm in the

Salter, and he goes out with a bang.

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This one is an amazing Psalm of praise.

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Great is the Lord greatly to be praised.

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His greatness is unsearchable.

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One generation will commend

your works or another.

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Shane and Shane have a version of this

Psalm 1 45 that's in on one of their.

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Earliest Psalms album, so you're

gonna have to go way back to find it.

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But it's a great one to listen to.

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Meditating on the glorious

wonders of his works.

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One generation committing

his works to another.

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We talked about that earlier.

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I think it was in this episode or

maybe, I guess yesterday's episode.

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We were talking about David

and how David set up p Solomon.

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So there again, one generation

committing the works of God to the other.

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Verse eight, the Lord is gracious

and merciful, slow to anger and

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abounding and steadfast love.

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I was thinking about that this past

weekend as we were studying Hosea.

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God is merciful because he is.

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It's who he is.

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He acts in mercy because it's part of his

character, and so he can't help but be

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merciful because it is part of who he is.

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It emanates from him because

that's part of his identity.

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We think of God's mercy and sometimes

we just think God is merciful.

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He acts in acts of mercy, and we

don't connect that to the fact that

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as he reveals himself, even here or

to Moses in Exodus 34, he says, I am.

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A God who is merciful.

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That's part of his

character, part of who he is.

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And he's gracious just like

that as well in verse eight.

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That's part of his character.

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It's part of who he is.

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So he acts out of the very identity,

the very character of who he is.

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He doesn't do anything that's surface.

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He doesn't do anything that's fraudulent.

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He doesn't put up a facade.

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He is an.

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Integral, if we can put it that way.

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He's a god of integrity.

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He acts in accordance with

who he is and his character.

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And his character is a God

who is gracious and merciful.

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Yeah, for sure.

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This is one of my favorite psalms.

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I love that line.

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I think probably Shane and Shane

helped me to love this song

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more because their harmonies are

just so beautiful on this song.

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But yeah.

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Just to reiterate what

you said, maybe you.

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Missed it.

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But this is quoting Exodus

34 verses six and seven.

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So many of our Psalms quote that, you

might forget that, but Exodus 34, this

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particular section is quoted ad nauseum

so many times in the Old Testament that

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it's worth you memorizing and saying,

okay, I know where this comes from.

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This is where the Lord passes before

Moses and proclaims the Lord of

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God, merciful and gracious, slow to

anger up outing and steadfast love

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and faithfulness, and on it goes.

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So that's worth ear tagging in your Bible.

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Just to know comes from Exodus 34.

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Hey, let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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Unless you got more to add.

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I'm good.

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All good?

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Okay.

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God, we thank you for your word.

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We thank you for who you are

as God and the way that you've

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revealed yourself to us.

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Not just your name but also who

you are, what the type of God you

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are, the character that you are.

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And so we are grateful for that

and we are thankful that you are

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a God who is gracious and merciful

and not just a God who is just

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and holy and you are those things.

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And yet you are those things and.

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A God who's patient with us, and

we're so grateful for that and

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we need that every single day.

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And so we praise you and

thank you in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said