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We thank you for tuning in as we

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learn from God's Word together. 
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Amen. 
Isn't it always wonderful? 

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Too afresh and a new behold the 
wondrous mystery of Christ for 

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hundreds upon hundreds of years.
They only longed to see what we 

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have seen in him in our day. 
What a joy that is. 

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If you have your Bibles, if you 
would, and if you've been here 

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any amount of time, you know 
we're going to the 119th Psalm 

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this morning as we continue our 
series entitled Living Life in 

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the Light of God's Word. 
I pray that over the last few 

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weeks as we have been diving 
into the 119th Psalm, I pray 

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that you have been challenged. 
I pray that you have found 

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yourself hungry for the Word of 
God. 

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I pray that you have found 
yourself diving into the Word of

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God, studying the Word of God, 
meditating on the Word of God, 

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allowing yourselves to be 
consumed by God's very word 

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through the Scriptures. 
As we continue this journey this

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morning, if I were to ask you a 
question, that question were to 

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be this are you truly depending 
upon God in your life? 

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What would the answer be? 
Many would say very quickly, 

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yes, I am depending upon the 
Lord, but upon further analysis,

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many would have to say I am 
depending upon the Lord. 

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Sometimes partially, kind of a 
little for salvation. 

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But what I want us to see today,
as we look at a true dependence 

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upon God, the psalmist is going 
to give us a great example of 

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what that looks like. 
Because sadly, in the world and 

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even in the church these days, 
many unfortunately would rather 

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depend on their own sinful minds
and intellect, their own human 

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strength or might, their own 
worldly riches. 

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They would rather. 
Depend upon these things than to

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depend upon an all knowing, all 
powerful, all sovereign God in 

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all things. 
When we talk about dependence 

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upon God, we are talking about 
full and total dependence upon 

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God, and it's something that to 
be quite. 

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Honest is not frequently 
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Frequently even pointed to as 
important because generally what

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we've we do is we depend on 
ourselves until things. 

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Get out of our control. 
We depend upon ourselves as long

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as we have the strength, and 
then when all of our earthly 

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human resources run out or fall 
short as they will. 

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Unfortunately, then, and only 
then, does a person really step 

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to the point where they are 
depending upon God. 

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Fully, and in today's message, 
we're going to see the psalmist 

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who was depending upon God 
fully. 

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He's depending upon God and He's
depending upon His word, and He 

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is trusting Him in every single 
area of his life, as we will see

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in everything. 
As we look at this passage 

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today, it's going to serve as a 
guide for us to really answer 

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the question as to whether or 
not we are really depending upon

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God. 
Because unfortunately, many 

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depend upon God for forgiveness 
of sin and eternal life, and 

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they never continually depend 
upon Him again. 

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Oh, and He will be faithful to 
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He has promised. 
But oh, the blessing and all the

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joy that you're missing out on 
by not walking in dependence on 

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God in every situation, in every
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So as we look at Psalm 119, let 
us see this as our example in 

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this next 8 verses, as you were 
familiar with the 3rd letter of 

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the Hebrew alphabet, gamille. 
Gamille will be situated just as

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the first 2 letters of the 
Hebrew alphabet were in eight 

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verses. 
And we're going to look at all 

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eight of those verses today 
because all of those verses 

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belong together. 
Therefore, we're going to study 

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them together and we're going to
learn them together. 

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And we're going to see the heart
of the psalmist here who is 

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depending upon God and 
everything. 

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Verse 17, he says this, Do good 
to your servant, and I will 

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live. 
I will obey your word. 

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Open my eyes that I may see 
wonderful things in Your law. 

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I am a stranger on earth. 
Do not hide your commands from 

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me. 
My soul is consumed with longing

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for your laws at all times. 
You rebuke the arrogant who are 

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cursed and who stray from your 
commands. 

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Remove from me scorn and 
contempt, for I keep your 

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statutes. 23 says. 
Though rulers sit together and 

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slander me, your servant will 
meditate on your decrees. 

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Your statutes are my delight. 
They are my counselors. 

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Let's pray together. 
Father, in the name of Jesus, we

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come to you, thanking you for 
your word that you have given 

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us. 
Lord, may we not fall into the 

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error of depending on ourselves 
or depending upon worldly 

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resources? 
And we see the. 

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Example of the psalmist here who
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depend upon You and Your Word. 
As we uncover these truths 

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today, may You use them to 
change our lives for Your glory.

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God, I pray for the person who's
here, who is lost, who is never 

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truly depended upon you for 
salvation. 

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God, I pray today that you open 
their eyes to see the fact that 

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they must depend upon Christ to 
save them from their sin, to 

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wash them and cleanse them from 
their wickedness, and to grant 

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to them eternal life or they 
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God. 
I pray that you make that known 

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to them today, that they would 
depend upon You for salvation. 

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What I pray for those who have 
already depended upon you for 

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salvation. 
I pray that that not be the 

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extent of their dependence. 
That they would today, by Your 

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word be challenged, and that by 
Your Spirit they would be 

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empowered to live a life of true
dependence upon You, and that 

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you would receive all glory and 
honor and praise for their 

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lives. 
And we pray all these things in 

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the mighty name of Jesus. 
And all God's people said, Amen.

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We see very quickly here as we 
jump into this text, an example 

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of a true dependence upon God 
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And there's some identifying 
marks that I want you to pay 

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close attention to here. 
Now, I don't believe for one 

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second that this was the 
psalmist intent to to describe 

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or to prescribe for you. 
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God, but what He does do in His 
statements is He reveals to us a

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person who is truly and fully 
depending upon God and upon the 

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Word of God. 
And so from that we can learn a 

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great lesson. 
Let us learn that lesson 

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together today. 
So if there's true dependence on

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God in a person's life, if you 
were to examine your life today 

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and ask this question, and I 
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Am I truly depending upon God as
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There will be some evidence and 
the first thing that we see is 

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this. 
If there is true dependence on 

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God, there will be dependence 
upon God's grace. 

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Verse 17. 
The psalmist makes it very 

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clear. 
Concerning his dependence upon 

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God's grace, he says this in 
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Do good to your servant. 
Oh, without the goodness and the

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grace of God, where would all of
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He says Do good to your servant 
and I will live. 

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And he says I will obey your 
word. 

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The Psalm is here depending on 
God's grace, Do good to your 

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servant. 
He's understanding this. 

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Without the goodness of God we 
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He's understanding it even 
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Without the goodness of God. 
None. 

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Of us would live, none of us 
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None of us would breathe. 
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on that same. 
Goodness. 

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Matthew Henry in reference to 
the Psalm, once said, all grace 

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grows as love to the word of God
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Matthew Henry simply saying this
the more we love the Word, the 

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more amazing and magnificent 
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We see the extent of that grace 
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grace, and as we see that, that 
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Was that true When we open the 
pages of Scripture and we began 

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to love the Word of God and we 
began to see the goodness of God

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coming off the pages of 
Scripture in reference to how we

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live our lives and how God has 
been good to us in our lives as 

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believers and followers of 
Christ, the more that we love 

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the Word and the more that we 
delve into the Word, the more 

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Amazing Grace becomes. 
I'm a firm believer that when 

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the church stopped loving the 
word of God, grace stopped being

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amazing to the church. 
Because when you turn the pages 

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of scripture, you can't help but
see statements like the psalmist

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makes here. 
Do good to your servant and I 

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will live. 
Do good to your servant and I 

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will live. 
What is he saying here that were

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it not for God's grace, he 
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Yes, he is. 
First talking about physical 

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life depending upon God's grace.
First to live thanking God for 

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his physical life. 
I'll please know this if you're 

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under the sound of my voice this
morning, whether that's in this 

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auditorium, whether that's 
through some social media 

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outlet, if you were listening to
this, your very existence, the 

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fact that your heart is beating,
the fact that your lungs are 

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breathing, the fact that you are
alive this morning is only by 

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God's grace. 
This is true both for the saved 

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and for the lost. 
Even the lost man who is living 

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is under the common grace of God
that has allowed him the gift of

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life every little baby. 
In our infant classrooms down 

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the hall, every single one of 
them, a gracious gift of life 

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from the father. 
Every mother who is here 

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expecting a child with a little 
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I know that's not what the 
Liberals call them, but they are

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there's. 
Babies in a mother's womb alive 

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because God has breathed life 
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The psalmist understands this, 
his dependence upon God's grace 

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to live. 
He understands what Job said in 

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Job chapter 12 verse 10, where 
it proclaims about God in His 

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hand is the life of every 
creature in the breath of all 

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mankind. 
He's not a person who has ever 

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lived. 
Who did not live because of the 

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grace of God? 
What would happen if we really 

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understood that we'd wake up 
each morning with a song of 

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Thanksgiving in our heart, a 
shout of praise, a prayer of 

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thankfulness for the fact that 
we've been given another day to 

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live for the glory of God. 
We would get on our knees and 

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thank the Lord for those who 
live alongside of us, for our 

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wives, for our husbands, for our
children, those who has given 

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life to enjoy with us and to 
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The psalmist understands this. 
It's important that we depend 

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upon God's grace to live. 
In Acts 17, Paul speaking there 

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to a group of pagans, he says, 
For in him we live and move and 

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have our being. 
Oh, what a gracious God who 

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allows us to be, who allows us 
to live, who willed us into this

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world only by his grace. 
And so the psalmist begins 

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there, depending upon God's 
grace because of life, not just 

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physical life, but spiritual 
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May I insert this? 
The only reason that any of you 

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are spiritually alive this 
morning is because God 

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graciously regenerated you to 
new life spiritually. 

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You were not born into this 
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In fact, Jesus himself said you 
must be born again or you cannot

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see the Kingdom of God. 
That regeneration, and that is 

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an act of God's grace and a work
of God's grace must occur 

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spiritually so that you can live
spiritually. 

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So the Psalm is here, of course,
looking at physical. 

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Life but also a spiritual life 
that we've all in Christ been 

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graciously given his word 
reveals that to us. 

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Ephesians chapter 2 verse one 
when the apostle Paul says this 

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As for you, you were dead in 
your transgressions and sins. 

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What were you sick? 
Nope. 

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Feeling a little ill? 
Not at all. 

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Limping around? 
No. 

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Having a spiritual medical 
condition? 

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No. 
You were beyond all those 

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things. 
You were dead spiritually 

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because of sin. 
We must understand that that 

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apart from God's grace, none of 
us will live again spiritually. 

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He says, As for you, you were 
dead in your transgressions and 

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sins in which you used to live 
when you followed the ways of 

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this world and of the ruler of 
the Kingdom of the air, the 

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spirit who is now at work and 
those who are disobedient. 

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You know what he's saying, 
You're spiritually dead. 

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You're following Satan, the 
system of this world. 

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He says in verse 3, all of us 
also lived among them at one 

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time. 
This is the Apostle Paul saying 

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that that I also lived among 
them at one time the same. 

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Spiritually. 
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He's just gratifying the 
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When we talk about where we once
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changes. 
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love for us, God. 
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for us, God. 
Who is rich in mercy, made us 

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alive with Christ even when we 
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It is by grace you have been 
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Paul, understanding that 
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grace. 
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that, he says. 
It's by grace you've been saved,

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he says. 
And God raised us up with Christ

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and seated us with him in the 
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In order that in the coming ages
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riches of His grace expressed in
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Jesus, He. 
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8 For it is by grace you have 
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this is not from yourselves. 
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words. 
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So that no one can boast. 
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in Christ Jesus to do good works
which God prepared in advance 

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for us to do. 
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Paul spent those 10 verses to 
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psalmist is saying here. 
We must depend upon God's grace 

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for spiritual life. 
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are spiritually dead. 
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We are under the wrath of a holy
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That is exactly what he just 
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Thing that there are many in the
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against that Please take your 
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Scripture has spoken. 
We were dead spiritually, and by

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His grace God has made us alive 
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The end of the discussion the. 
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importance of dependence upon 
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live physically and to live 
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neither. 
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may you thank God for His grace 
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If you are alive today and you 
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forgiven in Christ Jesus. 
Thank Him for the spiritual life

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that you have received in Christ
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And then? 
In your life, depend upon His 

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grace for everything He says. 
Do good to your servant and I 

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will live. 
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grace in the area of life, 
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But he doesn't stop there. 
He says I will obey your word. 

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this verse is probably better 
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Let me live so that I can obey 
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Well, what a thought that the 
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I I need your Grace to live both
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So that I can live to obey your 
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His word. 
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our existence. 
It is the whole reason that we 

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have been born again, that we 
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It is for that whole reason. 
So that we can glorify God with 

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our obedience. 
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Ephesians the 10th verse there 
in the in the 2nd chapter that 

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we read. 
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That he prepared good works in 
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works. 
All of his grace. 

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We get to be obedient to the 
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our lives. 
To be obedient in what an honor 

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and what a privilege that is. 
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these things. 
The whole reason that we live is

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to obey. 
That's what the psalmist is 

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saying about himself. 
He lived to obey. 

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He did not obey to live. 
He lived to obey. 

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Oh, I want you to see the 
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That's not just to play on 
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Many people think that if I obey
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will see that I'm doing good, 
and He will grant to me eternal 

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life, that's not grace. 
That's. 

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Works. 
But the psalmist understands 

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this, that I must depend upon 
God's grace. 

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I must depend upon God's grace 
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And I must depend upon God's 
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has in Christ crafted me to do, 
because it's He who's doing this

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good work in us. 
What a lesson for all of us to 

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learn, to learn to obey God out 
of the appreciation for His 

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grace, to know that He has 
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for the glory of God the Father 
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Not so that we can just abuse 
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Isn't that what many people 
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Many people think, well, I have 
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little because of grace. 
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in the modern church, that's how
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permission, I'll just ask God 
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Instead of looking at the word 
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already forbidden such things, I
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obey such things. 
That's what the psalmist is 

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doing here, different than we 
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our minds and in our day. 
He was simply living out of 

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appreciation for the grace that 
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He wasn't doing like those who 
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What shall we say then? 
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grace may increase? 
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we died to sin. 
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longer? 
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Grace is not something that 
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Grace is something that ought to
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measure how much. 
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obedience that comes out of our 
lives because if you truly 

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trusted God's grace and saving 
you and giving you life, you 

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will then truly trust God's 
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obediently live that life. 
You will be living a life, an 

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obedient life toward God because
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Why? 
Because he first loved you. 

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Well, I'm so thankful that in 
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understand that principle. 
We don't do things that we do so

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that God will look at us and 
say, I love them because they do

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good things. 
No, the good that they do is 

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because of the grace of God, 
because he's loved them and they

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love Him. 
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their obedience. 
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continually depending upon God's
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beyond initial salvation. 
They live obedient lives because

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they love God. 
It's not not what Jesus said in 

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John chapter 14 verse 15. 
It's very familiar to you, I 

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know, but I'll read it again. 
If you love me, you will obey 

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what I command. 
Doesn't get any simpler than 

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that, does it? 
And so many times we're afraid 

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to to reverse that and give the 
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If you don't obey what I 
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Love me when we say it like 
that, that becomes quite 

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offensive, doesn't it? 
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said. 
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we're going to have to trust in 
His grace to do and to live 

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according to His will for our 
life. 

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Not just trusting grace and 
salvation, but every day, Lord, 

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grace me with the strength from 
Your Spirit. 

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Grace me with the promises from 
Your word. 

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Grace me with whatever I need to
live in obedience to You. 

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Why would you even pray that? 
Because I love you so much. 

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Because You first love me. 
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not shame and reproach to You. 
I want to bring glory to your 

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name. 
I don't want someone saying and 

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you call yourself a Christian 
because you do bear his name if 

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you're in Christ. 
I want people to take note that 

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there's something different, and
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God, the grace of God that gives
me life. 

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Physically. 
Spiritually. 

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The grace of God that allows me 
to obey Him in every area of my 

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life, showing my appreciation 
for the fact that He loved me 

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when I was unlovable and 
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So Psalmist gets that. 
Do good to your servant and I 

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will. 
Live, I will obey your word. 

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Do good, your servant. 
Be gracious to me now. 

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Live, and I'll live to obey your
word. 

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Oh, what a message that could 
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But he doesn't stop. 
This is just the first part of 

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this eight verse stanza. 
He goes to the next thing after 

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seeing that if we're truly 
depending upon God, we will be 

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be depending upon His grace both
to live and to obey. 

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He moves into what's next there,
that if there is true dependence

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on God, there will be dependence
upon God's direction, His 

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direction in our life. 
Watch what he says verse. 18 He 

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says, Open my eyes, that I may 
see wonderful things in your 

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law. 
Again, using one of those 

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synonyms for the word of God, he
says that I may see wonderful 

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things in your law. 
He says I'm a stranger on earth 

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and do not hide your commands 
from me. 

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What is he talking about here? 
He is talking about dependence 

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upon God for direction in our 
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First in the form of revelation.
Look at this illumination that 

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we see here. 
He says open my eyes that I may 

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see wonderful things in your 
law, leading us to know this, 

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that the psalmist knows unless 
God opens his eyes to see these 

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wonderful things, he cannot see 
them. 

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That's why it's so important 
that when we approach the word 

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of God, Lord, open my eyes. 
Give me eyes to see. 

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Give me eyes to see your truth. 
Illuminate your word for me. 

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Give me the revelation that you 
desire to reveal to me from 

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Scripture and into my life. 
Show me those wonderful thing. 

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Isn't it sad that so many people
approach the word of God as if 

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it's not wonderful? 
It's just this book of rules 

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governs my life, tells me what 
to do and how I have to do it, 

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and I don't want anybody telling
me what to do. 

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The psalmist says don't let me 
have that attitude. 

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Open my eyes so that I can see 
how wonderful Your law is, so 

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that I can value your every 
statute, your every precept, 

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your every command, to know that
there is a reason higher than me

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as to which I have received 
this, and to trust in you and to

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obey you in all manner. 
He's depending upon God's 

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direction in the form of 
revelation. 

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Where would we be had God not 
revealed things to us? 

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He's trusting God for the 
quickening of the once dead 

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eyes. 
Oh, you remember when you 

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couldn't see Christ, you 
couldn't see your need for 

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Christ, you couldn't see your 
need for forgiveness and eternal

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life, But then God opened your 
eyes and how did he do that? 

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Someone preached or someone 
spoke to you the word of God, 

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because it's impossible for you 
to be saved without the word of 

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God. 
So many people going around 

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sharing their testimony. 
I'm giving my story. 

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Stop giving your story. 
Teach the Word of God. 

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You only talk about your story 
when it's applicable to whatever

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it is that you're teaching in 
the Word of God. 

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Because when you teach the Word 
of God, what happens? 

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Eyes are opened. 
Centers are drawn to Christ. 

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Faith and repentance happens. 
Dead souls are quickened to new 

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life. 
Dead eyes begin to see things 

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that they've never seen before. 
Oh, what wonderful things that 

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we see now that we once did not 
see prior to God opening our 

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eyes to see them. 
Look at the psalmist's 

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dependence upon that. 
Lord. 

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Open my eyes. 
I'm like a little puppy who 

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can't see. 
I need You to open my eyes so 

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that I can see. 
He's trusting in the power of 

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God to reveal Himself and His 
instructions to Him. 

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And again, he says they're 
wonderful things. 

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They're not burdensome, they're 
not difficult, they're not 

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impossible. 
Everything that God has 

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commanded of us in Christ Jesus,
those things are possible for us

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to live out under the power of 
the Holy Spirit by the guidance 

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and revelation and illumination 
of the Word of God. 

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He's not put a burden on you. 
He's lifting a burden off of 

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you. 
The psalmist gets this. 

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He's depending upon God's 
direction in the form of 

454
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:02,120
revelation, not only that, in 
the form of wisdom or insight. 

455
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,880
So we have illumination, that 
revelation, but we also have 

456
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,520
that insight, that wisdom. 
Watch what he says. 

457
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,600
Do not hide your commands from 
me. 

458
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,680
Why? 
Because I'm a stranger on the 

459
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,800
earth. 
What does that have to do with 

460
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:18,880
anything? 
That's what we would say in our 

461
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,760
modern church culture, right? 
The reason that we would say 

462
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,160
this is because we're not really
strangers on this earth most of 

463
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,280
the time. 
In fact, departing from this 

464
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:33,120
earth is our greatest fear. 
It should not be so in the 

465
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:37,800
church because as the believer 
who has confessed Christ as Lord

466
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:42,360
and Savior as he thinks about 
eternity, it ought to excite 

467
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,120
him. 
It ought to excite her. 

468
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:49,160
You ought to say, when I leave 
this world, I am finally going 

469
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:55,120
home to a familiar country with 
a familiar king and familiar 

470
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,280
people. 
That ought to be our desire. 

471
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:00,560
That was the desire of the 
psalmist. 

472
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,880
He said I'm a stranger on earth,
and we know this. 

473
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:08,840
He wasn't always a stranger, and
one time he probably felt quite 

474
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:13,960
at home here on the earth, just 
as I once did, living a life of 

475
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,800
sin. 
But he says I'm a stranger on 

476
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,840
earth, do not hide your commands
from me. 

477
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,200
So he says, open my eyes, give 
me illumination, give me 

478
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,920
revelation into truth. 
And then he says, give me 

479
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,760
insight and wisdom from that 
truth. 

480
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:34,080
Proverbs 26 that's for the Lord 
gives wisdom, and from his mouth

481
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,000
come knowledge and 
understanding. 

482
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,440
Proverbs 910 it says to fear the
Lord or the fear of the Lord, 

483
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,200
excuse me, is the beginning of 
wisdom and knowledge of the Holy

484
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,720
one is understanding well, 
they're in Proverbs we see some 

485
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:52,160
understanding into God's wisdom 
and insight that he gives that 

486
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,200
we ought to depend upon for 
direction in our lives. 

487
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:02,680
It's sad to think that so many 
people even in the church aren't

488
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:07,520
depending upon God for wisdom 
and insight and direction in 

489
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,320
their life. 
They only run to God when their 

490
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:10,360
plans fall. 
Through. 

491
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:12,760
Haven't we all been guilty of 
that? 

492
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:17,760
We had it all mapped out nice 
and neatly and it just didn't 

493
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:24,760
work out the way we planned. 
And so then and only then do we 

494
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,920
run to God and depend upon Him 
for direction. 

495
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:28,920
And you deal with all the 
heartache and all the pain of 

496
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,360
trying to do things on your own.
All those years. 

497
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,960
And some of us, we live the 
consequence of that forever in 

498
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:41,720
this life. 
The psalmist understanding God's

499
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:46,320
wisdom, his insight and the 
importance of that. 

500
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:51,120
Even Peter understood the 
importance of the insight that 

501
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:56,280
you receive from God's Word. 
John chapter 6. 

502
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,240
Even John gives Peter credit, 
which is interesting because you

503
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:01,560
you remember the race to the 
tomb. 

504
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:07,640
John wanted everybody to know. 
About that race, not the 

505
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,719
competition that was going on 
between the two. 

506
00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:18,880
But he records Peter here in 
John chapter 6 verse 67, when 

507
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,520
many were departing from Christ 
and abandoning Christ. 

508
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:23,560
Christ asked this question, he 
said. 

509
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,199
You do not want to leave too, do
you, Jesus? 

510
00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:29,760
Asked the 12. 
Then Simon Peter jumped up with 

511
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,560
the right answer. 
He's Lord, he said. 

512
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,320
Lord to him. 
Shall we go? 

513
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,520
You have. 
The words of eternal. 

514
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,040
Life. 
What was Peter doing? 

515
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,800
He was valuing the wisdom from 
the word of God, because Christ 

516
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:51,719
was the word made of flesh 
living among them, and he valued

517
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,520
this. 
He depended upon. 

518
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:57,160
He said, where else can we go? 
We have to. 

519
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,840
Depend upon you, you're the only
one who has the words of life 

520
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,920
and life eternal. 
What did he understand? 

521
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,040
We need God's wisdom. 
We need God's wisdom. 

522
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,480
Navigate through this dark and 
evil and wicked world and the 

523
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:15,640
culture that we live in. 
It's why in Proverbs you see 

524
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,840
that nugget of wisdom there in 
chapter 3, verse 5. 

525
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,080
Some of you have memorized this 
since you were children, but it 

526
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:22,640
says trust in the Lord with all 
your heart. 

527
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,720
Lean not on your own 
understanding. 

528
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,960
He goes on to say, in all your 
ways, acknowledge Him and He 

529
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:35,600
will make your paths straight. 
Do not be wise in your own eyes.

530
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:41,040
Fear the Lord and shun evil. 
Well, that's the one that we 

531
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,800
often times leave out of our 
memorization of that particular 

532
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,160
passage of scripture. 
Don't be wise in your own eyes. 

533
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,920
Well, how many times have we 
suffered heartache and pain 

534
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,840
simply because we used our own 
wisdom, thinking that we had it 

535
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:01,560
all figured out, only to realize
we had nothing figured out at 

536
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:09,920
all? 
Let us depend on God's 

537
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:16,120
direction, His wisdom, and lean 
not on onto our own 

538
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,680
understanding. 
Spurgeon. 

539
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,240
Said this, he said. 
While we wander here, we can 

540
00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:25,960
endure all the ills of this 
foreign land with patience, if 

541
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,360
the Word of God is applied to 
our hearts by the Spirit of God.

542
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,960
But if the heavenly things which
make for our peace were hid from

543
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:39,080
our eyes, we should be in an 
evil case. 

544
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,920
In fact, we should be at sea 
without a compass. 

545
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,960
Now pay attention to what 
Spurgeon is. 

546
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,520
Saying or he's using, he's using
illustrations from his day. 

547
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,840
For a sea captain to go out upon
the seas without a compass would

548
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,560
be foolish because eventually 
he's going to get so far out 

549
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,240
into the ocean that all he sees 
is ocean. 

550
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,400
There is no shoreline, there is 
no mountain peak, there is 

551
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:03,960
nothing. 
There is no lighthouse. 

552
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,560
There is nothing for him to 
receive direction. 

553
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:13,200
Spurgeon says that that if we 
were to have the wisdom in the 

554
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,200
direction of God's word removed 
from us, we would be like that 

555
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,400
sea captain without a compass 
out on the sea. 

556
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,680
He goes on and he says in a 
desert without a guide. 

557
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:23,400
Well the same goes for the 
desert. 

558
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,800
When you eventually get to the 
heart of the desert, all you see

559
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,440
is dunes and all you see is sand
and it all looks the same. 

560
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,840
And unless you have a trained 
guide to get you through that, 

561
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,480
the person who knows where all 
of the the Oasis are, where you 

562
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,280
can receive a drink of water and
the correct path to get to your 

563
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,760
destination, you will face 
death. 

564
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:47,880
Spurgeon goes on to say not only
on the sea without a compass or 

565
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,680
in a desert without a guide, he 
says in an enemy's country 

566
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,640
without a friend. 
What is he saying? 

567
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,400
He's saying we need God's wisdom
and insight to navigate this 

568
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:06,600
crazy world. 
So many times we're not leaning 

569
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:12,120
on the wisdom and insight. 
From the Lord and from His word 

570
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:17,200
to navigate this crazy world. 
We lean on the thought wisdom 

571
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:21,640
and thought insight of this 
world to learn how to navigate 

572
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,920
this world. 
It's the blind leading the 

573
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,560
blind. 
But the psalmist here says, no, 

574
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,000
I'm a stranger on earth. 
What is he saying? 

575
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,480
I need you, Lord. 
This is not my home. 

576
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,680
I do not know my way around this
wicked place any longer and so 

577
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,160
please do not hide your commands
from me. 

578
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,400
Why we we learned this in the 
intro message. 

579
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,880
His word is a lamp unto our feet
and a light unto our path. 

580
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:50,360
The psalmist is simply saying I 
have no direction if I don't 

581
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:55,160
have your wisdom and insight. 
Oh, I would to God that the 

582
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:59,720
church understood that, that you
would stop listening to the 

583
00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:02,640
foolishness of the world, That 
you would stop listening to the 

584
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:08,440
foolishness, foolishness of the 
psychology of man, and you would

585
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:12,520
trust in the Word of God and the
Word of God alone for all wisdom

586
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:17,520
and all direction in your life. 
You say that's impossible. 

587
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,240
No, you've already given up. 
It's not impossible. 

588
00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:24,840
The Word contains for us all 
things that we need for life and

589
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:30,120
godliness. 
God is not hiding these things 

590
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:35,520
from us. 
We are simply ignoring them, 

591
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:47,160
refusing to allow the Word to be
our compass on the high seas and

592
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:51,840
our guide in the desert and our 
stranger in a foreign land. 

593
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,680
But we need it. 
We need to learn to depend upon 

594
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,560
direction from God's Word in the
form of His wisdom and His 

595
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:03,040
insight that He gives us. 
God is faithful to give us the 

596
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,400
wisdom that we need. 
Is that not what James says 

597
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,520
about our Lord? 
He says this in verse 5 of 

598
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,000
chapter 1 in James epistle. 
He says if any of you lacks 

599
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:16,520
wisdom he should ask God who 
gives generously to all without 

600
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,200
finding fault and it will be 
given to him. 

601
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:26,600
So we ask God for wisdom. 
Where do we find that answer? 

602
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,560
We find it in the pages of 
Scripture Church. 

603
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,760
Please understand that He has 
spoken to us. 

604
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,920
His Word is canonized. 
It is final. 

605
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,720
And in here we have all of the 
instructions, all of the wisdom 

606
00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:45,760
and the insight that we need. 
And James says the first step is

607
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,880
admitting that you need wisdom 
if you have it all figured out 

608
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,840
and you know everything. 
And we know that there's plenty 

609
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,520
of those people. 
You have it all figured out and 

610
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,160
you know everything. 
And you, you are all. 

611
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,680
Wise in your own mind, you are 
not depending upon wisdom that 

612
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:09,880
comes from the Lord. 
Isn't it interesting how so many

613
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:16,120
quote educated people are 
atheists because they simply 

614
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,640
claim to be wiser or smarter 
than God? 

615
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:23,840
They've got it all figured out. 
And God says about them that a 

616
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:28,280
fool has said in his heart that 
there is no God, the man with 

617
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:32,240
all the intellect in the world, 
who's done all the research and 

618
00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:35,480
come to the conclusion through 
all of his years of research 

619
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,960
that there is no God. 
God says that man is a fool. 

620
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,720
Because he knows nothing about 
true wisdom. 

621
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,360
True wisdom comes from the Word 
of God. 

622
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:54,400
When God speaks, it is an all 
wise God speaking nothing but 

623
00:41:54,400 --> 00:42:00,120
pure wisdom, the purest of gold.
So are you depending upon that? 

624
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,520
Are you or do you seek your 
answers elsewhere? 

625
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,880
Church, please listen to me when
you go through crisis. 

626
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:12,480
If your first instinct is not to
go to the Scriptures to seek 

627
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:17,120
God's thoughts on this 
particular subject, you are not 

628
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:22,000
depending upon God. 
Many times we don't go to God's 

629
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,520
Word until after we've gotten 
everybody else's opinion. 

630
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:30,400
And here's the thing, everybody 
else's opinion really doesn't 

631
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,360
matter. 
The psalmist gets this. 

632
00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:36,480
I'm a stranger on earth. 
Do not hide your commands for 

633
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,080
me, he says. 
If you hid your commands for me,

634
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:39,480
I would have no direction in 
this life. 

635
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,480
What would happen if the 
believers in our time lived like

636
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,720
that? 
The only direction that I have 

637
00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:49,880
and the only direction that I 
need is found in the words of 

638
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,560
God. 
Oh, wouldn't we value the 

639
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,400
Scriptures a little bit more 
each day? 

640
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,720
We value the Scriptures a little
bit more in our lives as we are 

641
00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:03,680
sanctified and we become more 
like Christ depending on them, 

642
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,080
depending on God's direction 
that is revealed in them. 

643
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,200
We see the psalmist here giving 
us encouragement to do that. 

644
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,240
Thirdly, there's true dependence
on God. 

645
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,160
There will be, as we have seen, 
dependence upon God's grace, 

646
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:20,200
dependence upon God's direction,
and thirdly, dependence upon God

647
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,680
constantly. 
I love that this is included in 

648
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:28,360
here because it helps me, 
because I, like you, am an 

649
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:34,720
inconsistent human. 
But we can all pray as David 

650
00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:38,560
once prayed. 
Create a steadfast spirit in me,

651
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:42,320
oh Lord, make me constant. 
Make me consistent. 

652
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,920
If there's true dependence on 
God, there will be dependence 

653
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,800
upon God constantly. 
Look what he says verse 20. 

654
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:54,000
My soul is consumed with longing
for your laws. 

655
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:59,080
At all times? 
At all times? 

656
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:10,440
What kind of dependence is this 
where you would depend upon God 

657
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:15,400
and His Word constantly? 
Well, first I want you to see 

658
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,640
what the psalmist says about it.
It's a soul dependence. 

659
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,680
It's deeper than the 
inconsistencies of your mind or 

660
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:25,000
your human habits. 
It is a dependence that comes 

661
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,680
from your soul, he said. 
My soul is consumed with longing

662
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:32,600
for your laws. 
And a believer's soul should 

663
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:38,000
crave God's Word like a newborn 
baby craves his or her mother's 

664
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,120
milk. 
In fact, Peter makes this 

665
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,760
illustration in first Peter too,
where he says this in verse 2 

666
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:47,840
like newborn babies crave pure 
spiritual milk so that buy it. 

667
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,320
You may grow up in your 
salvation now that you have 

668
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:56,120
tasted that the Lord is good. 
The sad thing is, is so many. 

669
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,240
Of us just stop on that first 
taste that salvation. 

670
00:44:59,240 --> 00:45:01,200
God is good and he's good 
because he saved me. 

671
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:13,400
Then we don't crave him from our
soul like that baby craves its 

672
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,880
mother's milk. 
Church, listen to me. 

673
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,800
Just as that baby must be fed, 
just as we as adults must be 

674
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:23,480
fed. 
I'm I'm sure some of you already

675
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:25,440
here in your stomach growl 
saying when is this going to be 

676
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:29,360
over so I can eat? 
None of you look like you're on 

677
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:33,280
the brink of starvation. 
So I think you can handle the 

678
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:44,320
next two hours until I'm done. 
But here we see a soul depending

679
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:49,520
and longing upon the Word of God
all the time, like a baby 

680
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:56,200
depends upon his mother for his 
nourishment, for his food. 

681
00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:02,360
Your soul needs to be fed. 
It must be nourished. 

682
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,200
You know what? 
All the problems that people 

683
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,720
like to talk about in the 
church, the church has this 

684
00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:08,720
problem and the church has that 
problem. 

685
00:46:08,720 --> 00:46:11,240
And we all could be guilty of 
pointing out those things. 

686
00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:14,480
But let me. 
Just tell you this as a whole, 

687
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:15,880
you know what the church's 
problem is? 

688
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:21,600
They're malnourished. 
They're malnourished at best. 

689
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,720
On a Sunday morning, a church 
might get a little snack. 

690
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,960
Never to be fed into their 
souls, never to be challenged in

691
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,520
the depth of their very being by
the Word of God. 

692
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,680
The psalmist says that my soul 
is consumed with longing for 

693
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,600
your laws, that that, that is 
what my soul is all about. 

694
00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:43,600
Feasting from your table, from 
your truth, from your Word. 

695
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:49,400
There ought to be that deep 
yearning for God's people to be 

696
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:56,600
filled with His Word. 
Is that true in your life? 

697
00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:03,280
Is that true in your deepest and
inmost part of your being? 

698
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:04,600
Because that's really what you 
are. 

699
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:08,280
You are what you are and your 
deepest. 

700
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:13,800
And inmost being well, I'm 
thankful that God has raised up 

701
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,320
people who that's true and is 
raising up more people to who 

702
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:21,520
that's true who longed to have 
their souls fed. 

703
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:24,600
I'm thankful to be able to 
preach to a congregation that 

704
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,280
most of the time I see the tops 
of your head as you were looking

705
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,920
along in Scripture, as you were 
taking notes. 

706
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,520
I'm thankful that there's not 
someone in the back tapping 

707
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:39,280
their watch saying we got to go 
leave when you have to leave. 

708
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,760
But you wouldn't leave halfway 
through lunch if you were still 

709
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:46,840
hungry. 
And your soul is hungry and you 

710
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,440
need to realize that. 
And your soul is for is hungry 

711
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,200
for nothing other than the truth
that comes from the Word of God,

712
00:47:52,360 --> 00:48:02,920
and it must be fed. 
There's so many times church 

713
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:09,560
remains malnourished, not hungry
for the word of God, not 

714
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:10,880
feasting on the word of God, or 
if. 

715
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:15,600
They do receive them that food, 
they become anorexic. 

716
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:23,120
They walk out the door bulimic 
or spiritually, they walk out 

717
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:29,400
the door and then they vomit up 
what they just in took, never to

718
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:30,680
bring in the nourishment of 
their soul. 

719
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:33,560
They forget about it before they
leave this parking lot, never 

720
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,440
one time meditating on it ever, 
ever again. 

721
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,680
It's not feasting on it, it's 
just snacking on it. 

722
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:47,160
I pray that you see your soul 
needs the Word of God and that 

723
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:52,240
your dependence upon God's Word 
in the depths of your being 

724
00:48:52,240 --> 00:48:53,920
would grow even this very 
moment. 

725
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,120
The psalmist here had a soul 
dependence, but also a steadfast

726
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:04,120
dependence. 
He said at all times, Oh, what a

727
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:09,920
heart. 
Shouldn't that be our heart at 

728
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:17,160
all times? 
A longing for the Word of God, 

729
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,080
and a longing for God through 
His Word. 

730
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:23,440
Can't be a seasonal thing well, 
you know what I'm talking about 

731
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:28,600
and most of you live a cyclical 
Christian life you have to go to

732
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:33,360
the next cool thing to get fired
up now we've trained kids 

733
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:36,640
unfortunately this way in many 
church circles we take them to 

734
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:38,520
some hype camp they. 
Get hyped up about something. 

735
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:40,080
They think it's Jesus, but they 
really don't know. 

736
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,080
But they call it Jesus because 
they don't have anything else to

737
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:44,400
call it. 
And they did sing a song, I 

738
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,160
think, about Jesus and said 
something about the Bible. 

739
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:51,560
But anyway, so they get hyped up
for a minute, but it doesn't 

740
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:54,920
last. 
But the ladies go to retreat, or

741
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:59,720
the men's go men go to retreat. 
And there's really no steadfast 

742
00:49:59,720 --> 00:50:02,520
dependence upon the word of God 
at all times. 

743
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:04,400
And So what happens? 
They have to go from thing to 

744
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:05,880
thing. 
Oh, let's go to the next cool 

745
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:07,960
thing. 
Let's go to the next hype thing.

746
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:09,360
Let's go to the next exciting 
thing. 

747
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:11,200
That's why we have a lot of 
church hoppers as well. 

748
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,320
That's why the seeker sensitive 
movement is is so prevalent in 

749
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:17,320
America. 
Is there? 

750
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:19,640
They're experts at giving you 
the next cool thing, right? 

751
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:21,280
You want a roller coaster? 
We'll roll a roller coaster 

752
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:23,400
coaster across the stage. 
You want flames and fire? 

753
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:24,680
We'll do that. 
You want a guy to jump out of a 

754
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:26,680
parachute? 
Yeah, anything but preaching the

755
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:29,120
word of God. 
Give us anything but true 

756
00:50:29,240 --> 00:50:35,320
sustenance for our soul. 
We wonder why they don't have a 

757
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:39,600
steadfast dependence. 
They're getting filled with junk

758
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,520
food all the time. 
Isn't it true? 

759
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:44,520
You can fill your kids up with 
junk food, but it gives them no 

760
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:49,200
nourishment. 
The psalmist here says, I, I, I,

761
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:54,480
I want to be steadfast in my 
dependence upon your laws. 

762
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:58,320
I'm longing in my soul for them 
at all times. 

763
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,960
He's not settling for a partial 
longing and a partial feeling. 

764
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:10,400
He's depending upon God and 
depending upon God's Word truly 

765
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:17,080
and constantly in his life. 
I know it's easy to depend upon 

766
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:18,800
God in certain situations, isn't
it? 

767
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:25,960
When the bottom falls out, 
there's no other answer. 

768
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:28,640
It's not what the psalmist is 
saying. 

769
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:33,320
He said at all times, his 
church, let me tell you this, 

770
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:36,760
when you don't think you need 
God, that's when you need him 

771
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:41,920
the most. 
When you think you got it all 

772
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:45,960
figured out and all everything's
come together, that's when you 

773
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:49,800
need him the most, Salma said. 
At all times. 

774
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,560
At all times with consistency 
and steadfastness. 

775
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:04,080
Not some seasonal spell or some 
seasonal longing or trend. 

776
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:12,280
That would be like a little baby
who only nurses at its mother's 

777
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:16,520
breast once a week. 
With no desire or longing for 

778
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,160
anything more. 
I know this. 

779
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:21,280
I don't know every mother in the
room, but I know this. 

780
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:23,240
Every mother in the room would 
be wanting to go to the doctor 

781
00:52:23,240 --> 00:52:24,760
as soon as possible to get their
baby checked out. 

782
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:26,000
They would go there and they 
said something's wrong. 

783
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:31,600
My baby's not taking to my milk.
My baby is not nursing properly.

784
00:52:31,720 --> 00:52:33,200
Why? 
Because the mother knows how 

785
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:34,800
urgent that is. 
If they don't get the 

786
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:36,960
nourishment that they need, they
will not thrive. 

787
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:39,040
And if they do not thrive, they 
will die. 

788
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:44,280
Church, listen to me. 
We look at that and common sense

789
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,600
tells us, man, then that would 
be a problem. 

790
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:52,760
Being in the church so many 
times, we don't have a steadfast

791
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:56,280
dependence upon God and upon His
word in our lives. 

792
00:52:56,600 --> 00:53:02,760
We come once a week. 
We come once a week to suckle 

793
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:07,360
from the supply and then don't 
think it's a problem that we 

794
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:11,400
don't have a deep longing in our
soul the rest of the week. 

795
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:20,880
Christian It ought not be so. 
It's what causes malnourishment 

796
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:24,640
in churches. 
The church is full of 

797
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:30,720
malnourished babies with no real
or constant appetite for the 

798
00:53:30,720 --> 00:53:33,200
things of God and for the Word 
of God. 

799
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,800
Unfortunately, many of them 
don't even seem to think that 

800
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:42,080
there is a problem. 
There's a problem. 

801
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:43,920
Why? 
Because Jesus said there was a 

802
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:45,840
problem. 
Matthew chapter 4, verse four. 

803
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:50,120
Man shall not live on bread 
alone, but on every word that 

804
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:56,520
proceeds from the mouth of God. 
Christian, are you feeding your 

805
00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:00,200
soul? 
Are you steadfastly depending 

806
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:04,720
upon the nourishment from the 
Word of God that we receive as 

807
00:54:04,720 --> 00:54:14,240
His children because we need it?
You need a steadfast dependence 

808
00:54:14,240 --> 00:54:17,440
upon God's Word. 
So we see the psalmist here in 

809
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:22,960
this Third Point point and his 
dependence upon God constantly. 

810
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:27,520
My soul is consumed with longing
for your laws at all times. 

811
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,840
Not on a Sunday morning, Not on 
a Thursday night men's Bible 

812
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:35,400
study, Not during your D group 
during the week, ladies. 

813
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:39,760
Not during the student ministry 
on Sunday nights, not the 

814
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,760
children's ministry at all 
times. 

815
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,160
Maybe we have a dependence 
that's constant. 

816
00:54:49,720 --> 00:54:55,240
Next, and finally, we see this. 
If there's true dependence on 

817
00:54:55,240 --> 00:55:00,880
God, there will be dependence 
upon God's refining, his 

818
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:04,280
refining work in our lives. 
Look what the psalmist says in 

819
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:09,840
the last few verses. 
He says in verse 21, you rebuke 

820
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:11,240
the arrogant. 
How does he know this? 

821
00:55:11,240 --> 00:55:13,480
He was once arrogant. 
He knows how it goes. 

822
00:55:14,240 --> 00:55:17,200
He said you rebuke the arrogant 
who are cursed and who's strayed

823
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:18,600
from your commands. 
How does he know this? 

824
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:23,720
He's strayed from his commands, 
removed from his scorn and 

825
00:55:23,720 --> 00:55:27,760
contempt. 
For I keep your statutes, since 

826
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,200
others have their opinions about
me, but the truth is I keep your

827
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,840
statutes. 
He's calling himself to account 

828
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,320
here. 
He says in 23, though rulers sit

829
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:39,520
together and slander me, your 
servant will meditate on your 

830
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:43,320
decrees. 
Your statues are my delight. 

831
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:49,640
They are my counselors. 
We see here one who is truly 

832
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:51,840
depending upon God does not. 
Let. 

833
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:56,640
That dependence end with 
salvation. 

834
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:04,720
They trust God for continual 
refining in their lives as they 

835
00:56:04,720 --> 00:56:09,720
are being sanctified. 
He approaches the work of that 

836
00:56:09,720 --> 00:56:14,080
refinement, that sanctification,
from two places here, one God's 

837
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:16,880
work and changing us. 
Anyone here thankful that God 

838
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:19,680
does change us, that we are new 
creations in Christ? 

839
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,440
And we are. 
Truly transformed, He depends 

840
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:27,520
first on God's work in changing 
us and then God's work in 

841
00:56:27,720 --> 00:56:30,200
counseling us. 
Because we need both, don't we? 

842
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:35,680
I need the changing power of 
God, and I need His constant 

843
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:39,440
counsel in my life. 
The psalmist here showing his 

844
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:44,480
dependence upon that refining. 
Let's look at the first one, 

845
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:49,960
refining through that change, 
through God's transformation. 

846
00:56:50,720 --> 00:56:54,320
In fact, we know that Romans 829
says for those God foreknew, He 

847
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:58,040
also predestined to be conformed
to the likeness of His Son. 

848
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,680
He might be the first born among
many brothers. 

849
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:02,920
What? 
What is that saying? 

850
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:07,160
It's saying this, that God is 
transforming and conforming us 

851
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:11,840
into the image and the likeness 
of Christ, and that is God's 

852
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:16,080
will for our lives. 
There is a refining that is 

853
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:18,800
going on. 
If there is not a refining that 

854
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:21,680
is going on, you are not yet 
born again. 

855
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:25,640
Because the moment that you were
born again, that refining in 

856
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:28,800
your life begins, the 
sanctification process is 

857
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:32,720
already in motion. 
You were becoming more like. 

858
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:36,320
Christ, you're being 
transformed. 

859
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:42,520
It speaks of that that Paul 
speaks of in Philippians chapter

860
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:47,000
1. 
This good work that he'll carry 

861
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:51,200
to completion. 
So He is doing this good work in

862
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:54,200
US, refining us, transforming 
us. 

863
00:57:55,800 --> 00:58:02,000
We must depend upon God to do 
this, trusting in that 

864
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:03,280
constantly. 
Why? 

865
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:06,320
Philippians 213 says. 
For it is God who works in you 

866
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:09,480
to will and to act according to 
His good purpose. 

867
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:16,040
God is doing this work. 
We must depend upon Him to do 

868
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:20,520
the work that He has sought to 
do, and that is to refined you, 

869
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:25,560
to make you what He desires for 
you to be. 

870
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:31,040
To trust God, as the Psalmist is
doing here, to move us from 

871
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:36,560
arrogant and rebellious to 
humble and obedient in our 

872
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:39,640
lives. 
Oh, just as I've already said, I

873
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:42,800
guarantee the Psalmist knew the 
danger of arrogance. 

874
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:47,160
He knew that the danger that it 
would bring upon the life of 

875
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:51,680
anyone who walked in arrogance. 
And he knew that he must trust 

876
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:56,280
in God to change him and to 
transform him from what he once 

877
00:58:56,280 --> 00:59:00,240
was into what God desires him to
be. 

878
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:06,200
What does God desire him to be 
obedient to his commands, to not

879
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:10,240
stray from them, to walk in 
consistency with the Word of 

880
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:13,720
God. 
So he's trusting God for this. 

881
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,720
He's not only trusting God for 
that, he's trusting God to keep 

882
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:21,160
him firm and focused on his 
word. 

883
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,680
Look at 23, he says. 
Remove from me scorn and 

884
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:25,360
contempt, for I keep your 
statutes, he said. 

885
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:30,960
There are people saying ugly 
things about me, he says, but I 

886
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:33,000
keep your statues. 
Look, keep me firm. 

887
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:34,720
Don't let me get focused on 
these things. 

888
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:37,760
Verse 23, same thing. 
The rulers sit together and 

889
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:40,520
slander me. 
Your servant will meditate on 

890
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:41,920
your decrees. 
You know what his answer is? 

891
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:44,040
It's not to seek revenge on his 
critics. 

892
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:48,960
His answer is to plant himself 
in the word of God and to be 

893
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:52,240
focused on that and to be firm 
in that and that to be his hope.

894
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:58,640
So many times the critics have 
just just totally derailed many 

895
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:02,400
people, haven't they? 
Many pastors quit ministry 

896
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:05,760
because the critics became too 
much for them to handle. 

897
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:09,280
They did not meditate in the 
Word of God. 

898
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:11,000
They did not focus on the Word 
of God. 

899
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,840
They did not trust in God's 
power through the Word to just 

900
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:17,280
refine them and to carry them 
through this process and to 

901
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:22,280
deliver them and to defend them.
Not only does that. 

902
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:25,440
Happen to pastors, it happens to
husbands, and it happens to 

903
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:27,280
wives. 
When marriage gets difficult, 

904
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,760
why bother? 
No one cares anyway. 

905
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:42,320
You can't listen to the negative
critics, even if they belong to 

906
01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:46,760
the home that you live in. 
You answer to a holy God. 

907
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:50,320
You were being refined by and 
through His Word. 

908
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:55,000
Stay firmly focused in His Word.
Look at your life, husbands, are

909
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:58,160
you doing what the Word of God 
says for you to do as a husband,

910
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:01,200
to love your wives as Christ 
loved the church, and are you 

911
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:03,360
giving yourself for her? 
Then keep doing that. 

912
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:06,200
Wives, are you submitting to 
your husband in everything? 

913
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:08,080
Yes. 
Then keep doing that so that you

914
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:11,280
can say, as the psalmist says 
here, I've kept your statutes in

915
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:15,680
regard to this and let God do 
everything else. 

916
01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:18,000
Just stop. 
Don't get in His way. 

917
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:24,760
Just continue to keep trusting 
in him to keep you firm and 

918
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:29,160
focused to continue to transform
you. 

919
01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:32,920
I wish I had a dollar for every 
time I had a wife come to me 

920
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:36,800
burdened for her husband, 
wanting to change him because 

921
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:39,800
he's not the godly husband that 
she wants him to. 

922
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:44,520
Be he's not the godly husband 
that God wants him to be. 

923
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:49,000
That ought to be your chief 
concern, and you want to go to 

924
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:53,960
God on your knees and say, God, 
let me pray for him like I 

925
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:57,680
should, and let me do what 
Scripture says and win him 

926
01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:01,680
without words through my godly 
example and through my prayer 

927
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:05,200
husband. 
Same for you. 

928
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:09,640
Trust in the Word of God to do 
what the Word of God does. 

929
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:12,240
The Word of God refines and it 
transforms. 

930
01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:19,600
The psalmist understanding this 
completely, the transformative 

931
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:25,040
power of God's Word, he's 
depending upon it so that this 

932
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:27,880
process of refinement continues 
in his life. 

933
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:33,720
With the trust in that in our 
lives, with the trust in that in

934
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:37,720
the lives of others. 
For example, that husband that 

935
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:41,280
you want to fix, or that wife 
that you want to fix. 

936
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:46,040
God is the only one who has the 
power to transform lives. 

937
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:50,600
Trust him, hold on to the 
promises of scripture and pray 

938
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:55,000
through this and God will show 
you just how faithful he is. 

939
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:01,040
Psalmist here. 
Not looking at the negative side

940
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:05,280
of things, but focusing only on 
God and his word. 

941
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:10,520
His mind being constantly 
renewed through the scriptures. 

942
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:13,120
Paul talked about this in Romans
12, doesn't he? 

943
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:16,440
Do not conform any longer to the
pattern of this world, but be 

944
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:18,480
transformed by the renewing of 
your mind. 

945
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:21,040
Then you will be able to test 
and improve what God's will is, 

946
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:22,360
is good, pleasing and perfect 
will. 

947
01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:24,320
How's your mind going to be 
transformed? 

948
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:30,600
Your grandma nailed it and she 
said garbage in, garbage out 

949
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:33,880
right? 
You didn't know how proverbial 

950
01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:38,360
she really was. 
Instead of putting the things of

951
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:45,960
this world into your mind 
constantly, again to put the 

952
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:50,800
things of the word into your 
mind constantly and watch and 

953
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:55,240
trust in God's refining power as
He transforms you by that very 

954
01:03:55,240 --> 01:04:00,960
word that he has spoken. 
So we see there is psalmist here

955
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:04,880
depending upon God's refining, 
refining through God's 

956
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:08,960
transformation within refining 
through God's counsel. 

957
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:14,160
He says there in that last verse
24, your statutes are my 

958
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:17,120
delight. 
They are my counselors. 

959
01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:21,560
What's he doing here? 
He's valuing the word of God. 

960
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:26,360
He's valuing the opinion of God.
He's valuing sound counsel that 

961
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:31,320
comes from the. 
Scriptures Again, Christian, 

962
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:34,720
listen to me. 
Don't let the last place that 

963
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:37,080
you look for advice be your 
Bible. 

964
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:42,720
It ought to be the first place, 
Husbands, it ought to be before 

965
01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:44,480
you talk to your wives. 
Wives, it ought to be before you

966
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:49,120
talk to your husband. 
You ought to go to the Word of 

967
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:54,600
God, seek your answers there, 
then share them with one another

968
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:58,960
at the treasure that you have 
found in His Word and the wisdom

969
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:01,240
and the counsel that you need 
for that situation. 

970
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:05,160
You're going to have to value 
God's opinion more than you 

971
01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:11,640
value man's opinion. 
This is we saw in our scripture 

972
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:15,920
reading in verse 5 of Psalm 146.
Blessed are those whose help is 

973
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:19,520
the God of Jacob, whose hope is 
in the Lord their God. 

974
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:21,080
Where do you get your help? 
From Where? 

975
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:26,800
Do you get your counsel from 
Again, you're you're foolish to 

976
01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:30,120
get your counsel from the world.
If you claim to be a Christian, 

977
01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:35,320
your counsel should come from 
the Word, not from this. 

978
01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:38,360
Wicked world. 
They're just most of the time 

979
01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:40,880
going to tell you what you want 
to hear. 

980
01:05:42,080 --> 01:05:44,960
Anyone here thankful when the 
Word of God tells you opposite 

981
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:48,680
of what you wanted to hear? 
But it's what you needed to hear

982
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:54,040
and it's what your life needed 
so that you would continue to be

983
01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:56,600
conformed to the image of 
Christ, that refining would 

984
01:05:56,600 --> 01:06:01,280
continue to happen in your life.
You heard it, it hurt, but isn't

985
01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:06,880
He so faithful that when it even
when it does hurt, He comes and 

986
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:10,360
He heals you. 
He heals you from your hurt and 

987
01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:12,640
He gives you the strength and 
the direction that you need 

988
01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:15,320
because His Word is that double 
edged sword. 

989
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:18,760
It does cut and it serves its 
purpose. 

990
01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:21,600
But God is always faithful to 
heal you and to strengthen you 

991
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:26,400
and to raise you up in obedience
to that which you have received.

992
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:29,600
Are you valuing God's Word as 
sound counsel? 

993
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:32,520
The psalmist did. 
Are you receiving God's Word as 

994
01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:37,120
sound counsel? 
What many people like to do 

995
01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:42,080
today is they like the world's 
ideology. 

996
01:06:44,680 --> 01:06:49,800
They like to follow the world's 
psychology and their philosophy.

997
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:56,480
We as Christians are called to a
different place. 

998
01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:01,480
We're called to receive God's 
Word as sound counsel and then 

999
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:03,960
to rest in God's Word as sound 
counsel. 

1000
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:05,320
He's spoken on it. 
It's done. 

1001
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:07,720
There's no need to look anywhere
else. 

1002
01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:10,760
You don't have to go to Doctor 
Phil, to Doctor Oz, to Oprah, to

1003
01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:12,840
whatever doctor's coming down 
the pipe. 

1004
01:07:12,840 --> 01:07:16,640
He's going to tell you some kind
of secular, worldly thinking. 

1005
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:25,640
No, God Himself, the sovereign 
God over all, has spoken. 

1006
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:29,360
But are we listening? 
Are we what? 

1007
01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:34,120
Resting in that to which he said
Psalm 16, seven. 

1008
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:37,080
It says, I will praise the Lord 
who counsels me even at night. 

1009
01:07:37,080 --> 01:07:39,960
My heart instructs me. 
What is He saying at night? 

1010
01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:43,600
I'm afraid when I don't know 
what tomorrow holds. 

1011
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:47,200
I'm trusting in God's Word. 
I'm not trusting in my feelings.

1012
01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:50,000
I'm not trusting in my 
circumstance or my situation. 

1013
01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:55,320
I am trusting and resting in the
counsel of God's Word. 

1014
01:07:57,560 --> 01:07:59,440
I don't know how a person goes 
to sleep at night without the 

1015
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:03,120
promises of God. 
That could be a very scary 

1016
01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:05,160
thing, couldn't it, if you 
didn't know the promises of God.

1017
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:08,400
What. 
What happens if I don't wake up?

1018
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:11,440
Here's the thing. 
I know exactly what happens if I

1019
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:15,920
don't wake up. 
What happens if I leave here 

1020
01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:17,760
today and this is the last day 
that I. 

1021
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:19,680
Spend on Earth. 
I know exactly what happens. 

1022
01:08:21,439 --> 01:08:24,880
How do I know that? 
Not because someone in this 

1023
01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:27,520
world revealed it to me, Because
the Word of God reveals it to 

1024
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:29,120
me. 
The Word of God is my counselor.

1025
01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:37,120
I hope because of His Word. 
His Word defines us. 

1026
01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:38,760
Wasn't it true? 
The more that we go to His Word 

1027
01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:41,359
for counsel, the more refined we
become, the more sanctified we 

1028
01:08:41,359 --> 01:08:42,960
become. 
Just as Jesus pray, sanctify 

1029
01:08:42,960 --> 01:08:44,520
them by truth. 
Your Word is truth. 

1030
01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:46,800
Then before you know it, you've 
learned to trust in the Word of 

1031
01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:52,040
God and nothing else. 
May we be those kind of people, 

1032
01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:55,640
the Psalmist here, not trusting 
in the opinions and the 

1033
01:08:55,640 --> 01:09:01,359
philosophies of man, but in the 
very words of an all wise, all 

1034
01:09:01,359 --> 01:09:04,319
knowing God. 
So true dependence upon God will

1035
01:09:04,319 --> 01:09:10,160
depend upon His power and Word 
to refine us and to sanctify us 

1036
01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:14,200
in our lives. 
So we ask that. 

1037
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:16,880
Question Are you depending upon 
God? 

1038
01:09:18,040 --> 01:09:21,319
Is it marked by dependence upon 
God's grace, dependence upon 

1039
01:09:21,319 --> 01:09:26,000
God's direction, dependence upon
God constantly, and dependence 

1040
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:30,319
upon God's refining continually 
in your life? 

1041
01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:35,319
Are you trusting and depending 
upon Him? 

1042
01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:40,680
Believer, are you? 
For everything, Everything is 

1043
01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:44,120
the psalmist displayed here. 
From life to salvation to 

1044
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:48,760
sanctification to daily 
direction and wisdom in your 

1045
01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:49,359
life. 
Are you? 

1046
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:57,320
I would ask that you not answer 
that question quickly or 

1047
01:09:57,320 --> 01:10:01,200
hastily. 
Now you really look at your life

1048
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:05,880
in light of what we've seen 
today in the Word, and you come 

1049
01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:10,120
up with that answer truthfully 
to the unbeliever who is here 

1050
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:16,200
today, who crept in. 
You've not yet depended upon God

1051
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:21,440
at square 1. 
You've not yet depended upon God

1052
01:10:21,440 --> 01:10:24,200
to save your soul through the 
Lord Jesus Christ. 

1053
01:10:26,280 --> 01:10:29,040
Therefore, I know that you're 
not depending upon God truly in 

1054
01:10:29,040 --> 01:10:32,520
any other area of your life, 
because you must first depend 

1055
01:10:32,520 --> 01:10:36,920
upon Christ, the One who God 
sent, His only begotten Son, who

1056
01:10:36,920 --> 01:10:39,920
died in the place of all sinners
who will believe and trust in 

1057
01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:43,760
Him as Lord and Savior who? 
Depend upon him. 

1058
01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:49,200
More than they depend upon water
and more than they depend upon 

1059
01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:54,600
air, they depend upon Him for 
eternal life, eternal salvation.

1060
01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:58,640
And so I ask those who don't 
know Christ, have you ever 

1061
01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:02,600
depended upon Him? 
If you have not, your journey 

1062
01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:04,760
depending upon God has not yet 
begun. 

1063
01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:06,360
But let me give you some good 
news. 

1064
01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:10,640
It can begin today. 
It can begin today as He opens 

1065
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:13,240
your eyes to the truth that you 
are a Sinner and you are in need

1066
01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:17,800
of a Savior, that Christ is that
only Savior and you must depend 

1067
01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:20,760
upon Him. 
There is no other name given 

1068
01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:24,240
under heaven whereby men must be
saved other than the name of 

1069
01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:27,840
Jesus. 
Would you call on Him today? 

1070
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:30,120
Would you depend on Jesus to 
forgive you and to cleanse you 

1071
01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:35,480
of all of your sin, to give you 
eternal life that He and He 

1072
01:11:35,480 --> 01:11:38,200
alone can give because He is the
resurrection and the life, just 

1073
01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:41,680
as John Chapter 11 tells us? 
And would you today begin to 

1074
01:11:41,680 --> 01:11:46,840
depend on God, not only for 
salvation, but everything in 

1075
01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:48,960
your life? 
Let's pray together. 

1076
01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:50,880
Father, in the name of Jesus, we
come to you, thanking you for 

1077
01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:52,880
your word, thanking you that it 
is true. 

1078
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:57,880
Lord, I pray as we have been 
challenged today by your spirit 

1079
01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:00,720
through the preaching and the 
teaching of your Word. 

1080
01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:05,560
God, I pray that your will would
be done now in the lives of 

1081
01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:10,000
those who have heard the message
today, and that we would examine

1082
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:13,120
our lives and we would ask 
ourselves a difficult question. 

1083
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:18,840
Are we truly depending upon God?
I pray for the one who has not 

1084
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:21,800
yet depended upon Jesus to save 
them from sin and the wrath that

1085
01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:25,760
is to come. 
I pray that today they would 

1086
01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:30,000
call upon your name, Lord Jesus,
to save them, and that you would

1087
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:32,240
give them the mercy and the 
grace that only you can give, 

1088
01:12:32,240 --> 01:12:37,080
and we'll give you all the glory
for it in Jesus name, Amen. 

1089
01:12:38,680 --> 01:12:42,000
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1090
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:44,600
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1091
01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:47,600
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1092
01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:50,520
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1093
01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:54,680
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01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:55,040
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