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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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You. 
Have your Bibles, if you would 

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turn to Psalm 119. 
I know that's not a shocker to 

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anyone who's been here any 
amount of time as we have been 

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walking through this longest 
chapter in Scripture, the 119th 

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Psalm, as we have been on this 
journey about learning to live 

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life in the light of God's Word.
And I pray that we are doing 

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just that. 
Today we come to the 73rd verse 

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and we'll be looking at verses 
at verses 73 all the way to 

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verse 80. 
It's going to begin as each 

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section has begun with a letter 
from the Hebrew alphabet. 

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And this one today is the letter
yot. 

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And that letter yot is 
interesting because in Matthew 

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chapter 5 verse 18, Jesus 
himself said this, that not one 

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yot jot in English or title 
shall be removed from the law. 

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And so this is the letter that 
Jesus was talking about yot. 

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And we know that's after this 
letter Yot is mentioned, there 

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will be, as we have seen, this 
entire but 8 verses under that 

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particular letter of the 
alphabet. 

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And so we come to Yot today and 
we come here to learn and we 

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come here to learn about a 
biblical view of God. 

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And we need to learn this 
because we know that we live in 

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a world full of relative truth, 
where God is defined by 

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philosophy, intellect, God is 
defined by the world views of 

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man, whatever those world views 
may be. 

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God is defined by relative 
truth. 

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And it's easy that way because 
if if God is defined by relative

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truth and not the absolute truth
of scripture, well, God can now 

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be perceived as anything that 
the perverted and sinful mind of

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man desires him to be. 
It stands to reason that in a 

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culture where men can choose to 
be women, if they so choose to 

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be, and others are then demanded
to respect that choice, it 

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stands to reason that this type 
of wickedness would be actually 

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looking for a new or unbiblical 
view of God. 

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A God of relative truth. 
One who we can simply choose to 

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accept whichever way that we 
want to accept him, to make him 

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into whatever it is that we want
him to be. 

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Or as many have done, the 
atheist who just completely 

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denies his existence at all. 
That's the easiest way, isn't 

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it, to just completely deny his 
existence. 

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And truth to you is that there 
is no God at all, which is false

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and it's just relative to you. 
But we're going to see today 

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that God has revealed in 
Scripture exactly who he is. 

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He's revealed exactly how he 
works, how He loves, how he 

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afflicts, as we talked about 
last week and we'll mention 

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again this week how he judges, 
how he shows compassion, how he 

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interacts with mankind. 
Aren't you thankful that we get 

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to interact with our Creator and
commune with Him? 

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God's Word is expressly clear on
these things. 

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And so if we're going to have 
the right view of God, the right

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view of God can't come from 
relative truth. 

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It can't come from your own 
intellect, your own philosophy, 

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your own ideology. 
It can't come from whatever 

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indoctrination you received as 
you came up through school and 

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then into higher learning that 
God is just whatever, whoever 

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you want him or her to be. 
If we're going to have the 

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correct view of God, a correct 
view of God comes from the truth

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of Scripture. 
That is the only place that 

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we're going to find a correct 
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And we are going to see today 
that the psalmist understood 

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that. 
He understood a biblical view of

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God, and in looking at what he 
writes today, we're going to see

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that. 
But the psalmist recognized the 

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one true and living God, the 
eternal Creator, the sustainer 

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of life, the wise counselor, the
compassionate Redeemer of 

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sinners, and the mighty 
conqueror of the hearts of man. 

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He recognized him for who he is 
biblically. 

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He's going to teach us how to do
the same and I pray that you 

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would adhere to what he is going
to teach us today. 

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Psalm 119, the 73rd verse. 
He says this under again the 

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title Yoat. 
He says your hands made me 

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informed me give me 
understanding to learn your 

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commands. 
May those. 

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Who fear you, rejoice when they 
see me, for I have put my hope 

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in your word. 
I know, O Lord, that your laws 

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are righteous. 
And in faithfulness you have 

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afflicted me. 
May your unfailing love be my 

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comfort, according to your 
promise to Your servant. 

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Let your compassion come to me 
that I may live, for Your law is

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my delight. 
May the arrogant be put to shame

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for wronging me without cause. 
But I will meditate on your 

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precepts. 
May those who fear you turn to 

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me, those who understand your 
statutes. 

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May my heart be blameless toward
your decrees, that I may not be 

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put to shame. 
Let's pray together. 

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Father, we thank you for your 
word. 

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We thank You that Your word does
truly reveal who you are to us. 

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Lord, we thank You that You have
preserved Your Word so that we 

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cannot be bound by relative 
truth and humanistic ideology, 

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but that we can see the one true
and living God for exactly who 

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You say that you are in Your 
Word. 

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God, I pray that you would use 
the Psalmist today who was 

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inspired by the Spirit to write 
these things to point us to a 

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proper and biblical view of God 
so that our worship would be 

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what it is supposed to be. 
So that our lives will be what 

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they are supposed to be. 
So that our eternity will be 

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everlasting life with You 
according to Your Word. 

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God, I pray that we would yield 
to Your Spirit as You change our

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views because what we may be 
skewed and we may be off in our 

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wicked hearts. 
God, I pray that You would use 

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Your word today to bring us back
to the center. 

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Show us exactly who You are and 
that we would worship You 

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according to Your word for 
exactly who You are. 

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That we would follow You and 
obey Your commands because You 

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are the true God. 
But I pray for the soul who's 

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here who does not know Christ, 
Lord, They do not have a 

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biblical view of God. 
And I know this because they 

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have not bowed the knee to 
Christ. 

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They have not surrendered to Him
as Lord and Savior. 

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They have not repented of their 
sin as Your word has commanded 

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God. 
I pray today that by Your mercy 

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and Your compassion, you would 
open their eyes, change their 

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view, awaken them spiritually to
new life, that they would trust 

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in Christ as Lord and Savior, 
seeing you for who you truly 

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are. 
Lord, we'll be careful to give 

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you all the glory and all the 
praise for it. 

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Teach us now as we look at Your 
Word. 

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Holy Spirit, we ask that You 
give us enlightenment. 

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You teach us what it is that You
would have us to know. 

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And we pray these things in 
Christ's name. 

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Amen. 
We see here the Psalmist giving 

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us an example of someone who has
a biblical view of God, and he 

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begins illustrating this for us 
and what he says in verse 73, in

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the very first part of this 
verse, he says your hands made 

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me and formed me. 
If you're going to have a 

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biblical view of God, a biblical
view of God recognizes God as 

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sovereign creator. 
You can't have a biblical view 

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of God without first recognizing
this. 

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And the psalmist. 
Psalmist rightly acknowledged 

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God as sovereign creator right 
out of the gate, the one who has

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formed him by his hands. 
Horatius Vonner said this. 

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He said it is nearness, not 
distance that the name Creator 

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implies and the simple fact of 
having made us in the assurance 

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of his desire to bless us and to
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Bonner is saying this, that it's
God as our Creator that actually

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brings us near to God. 
It's not as if he's creator than

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causing us to think that he's 
far from us, but that he was 

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intimately involved in our 
creation. 

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The psalmist understanding this 
when he makes the statement, 

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your hands again, as Bonner 
says, assuring the fact that 

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having made us is assurance of 
His desire to bless us and to 

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hold intercourse with us, His 
desire to commune with us. 

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It is by His hands that He has 
created man, giving evidence 

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that from creation He desired to
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If you'll go back into creation,
you know that He spoke many 

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things into existence, but not 
man. 

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For man, he reached down into 
the dirt, and he molded and he 

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crafted man, and he formed him 
into his own image with that 

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special creation. 
We must recognize him as the 

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sole creator and that is the 
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That is the first step in being 
restored to an intimate 

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relationship. 
A communion with him is to 

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recognize him as the sovereign 
creator that he is, Stephen 

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Sharnick said this. 
He said we must first believe 

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that He is and that He is what 
He declares Himself to be, and 

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over and over again in Scripture
He declares Himself to be 

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sovereign Creator. 
He says we must do this before 

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we can seek Him, adore Him, and 
devote our affections to Him. 

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Charnick says we must believe 
that He is who and what he says 

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that He is. 
Is that not what the author of 

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Hebrews says in Hebrews Chapter 
11 verse 6 when he says without 

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faith it is impossible to please
God because anyone who comes to 

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Him must believe that He exists 
and that He rewards those who 

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earnestly seek Him. 
First base is this believing in 

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the existence of a sovereign 
Creator. 

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The atheist in his foolish heart
attempting over and over and 

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over again to deny God is 
sovereign Creator, not the 

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psalmist. 
The psalmist right in the 

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beginning says it's he who by 
his hands made me informed me. 

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Oh, it is the psalmist here 
recognizing God as sovereign 

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Creator. 
If you truly recognize God as 

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sovereign creator, you can write
this down. 

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You will recognize him as author
of a creation. 

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Again, the Psalm is saying your 
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Now why is that important? 
It's important because in 

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acknowledging that we are 
agreeing with what happened in 

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Genesis chapter 2 verse 7 and 
we're agreeing that this is 

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absolute truth and what does it 
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The Lord God formed the man from
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breathe into his nostrils the 
breath of life, and the man 

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became a living being. 
It is God who authored the 

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creation not of only all things,
but especially of man, and He is

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the author of that creation. 
Now we all know this to be true 

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in a worldly sense. 
If we were to invent something, 

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whatever that invention may be, 
we are the creator of that 

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something. 
We would then file for a patent.

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We would have this invention 
patented and we would have this 

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patented. 
Why? 

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Because we are the creator of 
that thing. 

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We don't want anyone else coming
in and and trying to state claim

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that they created what it was 
that we invented. 

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God the same in His Word has 
made it very clear. 

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He's laid down the patent over 
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that He is the author of 
creation. 

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We need to recognize that. 
We need to recognize him as that

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author of creation according to 
the truth of the word of God. 

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Not only do we need to recognize
that, we need to Revere God as 

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Creator. 
David in the 33rd Psalm says 

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this. 
And verse 6, by the word of the 

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Lord, where the heavens made the
story host, by the breath of his

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mouth, He gathers the waters of 
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He puts the deep in the 
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Let all the earth fear the Lord.
Let all the people of the world 

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Revere him. 
Why? 

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Because He is sovereign Creator 
over all. 

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He is worthy to be revered. 
He is worthy to be praised. 

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In fact, Jonah, that rebellious 
preacher there on his way to 

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Nineveh and he decides, you know
what, I'm not going to go to 

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Nineveh. 
I'm going to go to Tarsus. 

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And we know how the story goes, 
but Jonah understood this. 

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In Jonah chapter one verse 9, 
even in all of his 

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misunderstandings, it says this.
He answered speaking to those 

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men aboard aboard the ship that 
he was on, rebelling against 

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God. 
I am a Hebrew and I worship the 

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Lord, the God of heaven who made
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Even in his waywardness, Jonah 
could not deny the fact that God

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is sovereign Creator over all. 
He is the author of creation, 

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for all things were created by 
him and for him and through Him.

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And there is nothing that has 
been created that he did not 

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create. 
It's God. 

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We must recognize God rightfully
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In fact, in Isaiah, our 
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chapter 41, particular verse 
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The Lord is the everlasting God,
the creator of the ends of the 

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earth. 
He's created everything, things 

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you see and things you will 
never see. 

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The depths of the ocean, the 
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heaven. 
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mastermind over all creation. 
He is the author of creation and

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must be recognized as such, even
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Creator. 
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Because he knows that the 
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from whatever it is that He has 
created the creation and he is 

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do this as the Creator. 
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Psalm 14 that you're obviously a
fool when you deny the existence

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of God, right? 
Because a fool has said in his 

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heart there is no God. 
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atheist who's an absolute 
glittering fool. 

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Perhaps you're here today and 
you wandered in under the radar 

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and you're still an atheist. 
You are a fool and I am not 

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telling you that. 
God is telling you that, and you

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are a fool because obviously 
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the splendor of all that He has 
created, including ourselves as 

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humans, when we look at that, it
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creator and there is an author 
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And who does Scripture say that 
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It is the one true and living 
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Testament. 
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creation, but we also need to 
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God as sovereign creator. 
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creation. 
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ago, that person who gets that 
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what else that creator has? 
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invention, whether to mass 
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sell it to someone else so that 
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He has complete authority over 
that which he has created. 

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The psalmist understanding this,
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of all creation has authority 
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recognizes that. 
If you remember with me, in 

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Psalm 24, verse 1, he says the 
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everything in it, the world and 
all who live in it, where He 

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founded it upon the seas and 
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What is the psalmist saying 
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That the One who created 
everything is the authority over

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everything. 
Now let me just help all of you 

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out. 
You don't have to acknowledge 

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His sovereign authority for Him 
to be in sovereign authority. 

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He is in sovereign authority 
whether you know it or not. 

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He is in sovereign authority 
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accept that or not. 
He's made that very clear in his

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Word. 
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biblical view of God will 
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creator, that he is the author 
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authority over that creation. 
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Creator, the authority that he 
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This is wicked reasoning, isn't 
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This is the reasoning of the 
unbelieving, to say, well, maybe

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God is Creator, but that doesn't
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in my life. 
No, He doesn't have to be an 

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authority in your life. 
Let me make it very clear for 

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you. 
He is an authority in your life.

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And one day every knee will bow 
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Confess that He is Lord and 
there's nothing that you were 

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going to do to change that. 
He is sovereign over all. 

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The person who refuses the right
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creation. 
Just simply rebels and refuses 

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to submit to him in governing 
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He rightfully deserves that 
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To govern our lives, to be our 
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Why? 
Because He's our Creator, and if

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He created us, that we would 
commune with Him and He did 

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whatever He had to do, even the 
unthinkable, in sending His only

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Son to the cross to die to 
reconcile mankind unto Himself, 

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so that He could again commune 
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He has. 
Created who wandered away into 

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sin. 
It stands to reason that if He 

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is the author of creation and He
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and He has gone to the extent 
that He has gone to that we 

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ought to bow to Him as the 
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So if we're going to have a 
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recognize him beginning with the
fact that he is sovereign 

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creator. 
The psalmist then quickly moves 

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on verse 73, the second part, 
not only does he recognize God 

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as sovereign creator. 
Secondly, he recognizes God as 

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wise counselor. 
Pay attention to what he says 

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here. 
He says give me understanding to

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learn your commands. 
May those who fear you rejoice 

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when they see me, for I have put
my hope in your word. 

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The psalmist here now gives 
another mark of those who have a

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biblical view of God. 
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recognizes God not only as 
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creation and the authority over 
creation, but this biblical view

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of God recognizes God as an all 
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Paul expresses this in first 
Timothy chapter one verse 17, as

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he gives a doxology unto the 
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Now to the king, eternal, 
immortal, invisible, the only 

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God. 
Many of your transcripts say the

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only wise God because he is 
where wisdom comes from. 

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He says be honor and glory 
forever and ever, Amen. 

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And we know this to be true, 
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It's from God that we receive 
wisdom. 

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It's from God that we receive 
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We have to trust in this wisdom.
We have to trust in the wisdom 

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from the Scriptures. 
This is where we find wisdom 

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from God. 
People come to me and they ask 

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me, I need wisdom for this 
situation and I point them to 

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scripture over and over and over
again. 

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Why? 
Because I don't want them ever 

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accusing me of being wise. 
God is wise and any wisdom that 

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I give to someone comes from His
wisdom. 

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And any true wisdom that we 
gain, we gain it from God. 

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Everything else, it's just man's
ideology. 

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It's the wisdom of man. 
It's fleeting. 

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We can trust in the wisdom from 
the Scriptures that the psalmist

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is doing here. 
He says, give me understanding 

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to learn your commands. 
He said, Lord, I want to learn 

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your truths. 
I want wisdom from you. 

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I want to know what you think 
about things. 

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Isn't it interesting that we ask
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except God's on most issues? 
What is your opinion on blank? 

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We hear these discussions all 
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Now I want to say in every one 
of those discussions, why does 

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your opinion matter or why do 
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Because your opinion, my 
opinion, our opinion as a whole 

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does not matter. 
What is God's opinion on things?

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Lord, give us understanding in 
into your wisdom and into your 

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knowledge. 
That's what the psalmist is 

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saying here. 
Give me understanding to learn 

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your commands. 
I recognize that you are an all 

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wise counselor and I don't want 
to get my advice from just 

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anyone on the street. 
I want to get wisdom and I want 

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to get direction. 
I want to get advice from the 

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truth, from the Word of God. 
That's where the psalmist is 

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turning here, trusting in the 
wisdom that is received only 

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from the Scriptures and knowing 
that true wisdom comes from the 

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truth of God's Word. 
Deuteronomy 4 verse 5, Moses 

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says this. 
He says, See, I have taught you 

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decrees and laws, as the Lord my
God commanded me, so that you 

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may follow them in the land you 
were entering to take possession

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of it. 
Observe them carefully, for this

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will show your wisdom and 
understanding to the nations. 

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Now where were the people of God
going to get wisdom and 

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understanding from the word of 
God that was given unto Moses 

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that he's now giving unto them? 
And he says, then they will hear

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about all these decrees and say,
this is what the lost world 

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should be saying. 
Surely this great nation is wise

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and understanding people. 
They are wise and understanding 

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people. 
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Because they don't see human 
reasoning. 

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They see the wisdom of God. 
They see the understanding that 

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has come through His word. 
The reason that they're not 

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saying that about us today. 
Is because many of us only pick 

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up his word in our Lord's Day 
services on Sunday morning, 

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never gleaning from his word as 
the psalmist was desiring here. 

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Give me understanding to learn 
your commands. 

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Let me open your word and give 
me the wisdom and the 

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understanding to know what it is
saying to me. 

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He's trusting and he's gleaning 
from the wisdom of God, desiring

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wisdom for his life. 
Are you desiring that same 

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wisdom from your for your life, 
from the word of God? 

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You have it at your fingertips. 
You have access to it. 

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Many of you hold it in your 
hand. 

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What are you doing as the 
psalmist is doing here? 

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Recognizing God is wise 
counselor saying, Lord, I need 

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direction from you. 
I need direction from your word.

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He's doing what must be done to 
acquire wisdom here. 

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Is that what James says? 
If you lack wisdom, you should 

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ask God. 
That's what the psalmist is 

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doing here. 
He's asking God for wisdom. 

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And we know that James tells us 
this. 

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God's going to give us that 
wisdom. 

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He's going to give us that 
wisdom graciously. 

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But are you asking God to give 
you wisdom and never returning 

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to His Word to see the wisdom 
that it is that He has given 

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you? 
His true wisdom is going to come

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from His commands, from His 
Word, just as the psalmist says.

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And so one who recognizes God as
wise counselor will be trusting 

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in the wisdom from Scriptures 
again, not just one day a week, 

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meditating on scriptures every 
moment of their life. 

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So the psalmist recognizing God 
as wise counselor, trusting in 

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the wisdom from the Scriptures, 
but also encouraging others to 

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do the same. 
See the next part of this in 74 

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May. 
Those who fear you rejoice when 

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they see me, for I've put my 
hope in your word. 

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He's not saying that they can 
see me and it draws attention to

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myself. 
He's saying that they can see me

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and they can see the wisdom and 
the understanding that I have 

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from the Word of God, and it 
draws attention unto the Lord 

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and to His Word. 
This is what we ought to be 

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doing. 
We ought to be encouraging 

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others to do the same as the 
psalmist has done here. 

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He said, give me understanding 
to learn your commands. 

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We ought to be encouraging 
others. 

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Go to the Lord and ask Him for 
wisdom to understand His 

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commands. 
Go to the Word, Spend time in 

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the Word. 
Find the answers to your 

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questions, Probably the number 
one most asked question that I 

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receive. 
How can I know God's will for my

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life? 
You know what they're asking 

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for? 
Supernatural wisdom. 

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You know where you find that? 
Not for me. 

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Go to the Word of God and there 
you will see the will of God 

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unfold in your life as you spend
time studying and meditating on 

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the Word of God. 
And so we see the psalmist doing

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just that, studying, meditating 
on the Word of God, learning his

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commands, seeking God's wisdom 
and doing that and then 

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encouraging others to do the 
same by giving them that godly 

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example that we all need. 
We need to be that example of 

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one who trusts in God's word, 
who trust in God's word for 

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wisdom, who trust in God's Word 
for understanding, who trusts in

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God's Word when something in the
world happens, right? 

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We wake up and all of a sudden, 
man, we're, we're bombing Iran. 

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Just rest. 
Trust in the Word of God. 

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Those people have been the 
enemies of God forever. 

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They're going to continue to be 
the enemies of God until Christ 

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comes and sets the record 
straight. 

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Just chill. 
Where did I gain that from? 

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Well, I didn't get it from 
reading Time magazine. 

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I didn't even get it from 
watching Cnni got it from the 

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scriptures. 
And in that I have peace and I 

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have a hope in God's sovereign 
plan. 

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And I want to encourage you to 
do the same thing when it when 

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all chaos seems to be breaking 
out in the world. 

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Let me just ask you this 
question. 

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Do you believe the Scripture? 
God is sovereign, Jesus is 

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merciful, and he wins in the 
end. 

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Let's not complicate this. 
And so we see that all to be 

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true when we go back to the 
Scripture and we do as the 

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psalmist is doing here, 
receiving that understanding 

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from the Lord and then being an 
example of someone who trusts in

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the Word of God. 
Are you being that in your life?

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Are you being that in the lives 
of your children or not? 

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A question that we ought to ask.
Are you teaching your children 

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to trust in and to appropriate 
the Word of God? 

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00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000
Or are you worrying about things
all the time? 

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Are you fearful all the time? 
Is your anxiety out of the roof?

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00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,000
And we have to teach the word of
God by our example. 

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That's what the psalmist is 
saying. 

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May those who fear you rejoice 
when they see me, when they look

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at me and they say, you know 
what? 

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Not only does he know the 
Scriptures, that man lives the 

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Scriptures. 
He says, right, put my hope in 

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your word. 
They say this, He hopes in the 

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word of God. 
Isn't that what the psalmist is 

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encouraging us to do today, to 
encourage others by living a 

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life of hope, by living a life 
of obedience unto the Word of 

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God, encouraging other believers
to do the same. 

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We ought to be encouraging one 
another, as we're doing in this 

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series, to live a life in light 
of the Word of God, to walk in 

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it, allowing it to be a lamp 
unto our feet and a light unto 

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our path, and encouraging others
to do the same. 

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00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,320
The psalmist here giving us the 
second point, that a biblical 

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view of God will recognize him 
as wise counselor. 

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Thirdly, verse 75, he says, I 
know, oh Lord, that your laws 

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are righteous and in 
faithfulness you have afflicted 

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me. 
Oh, no affliction again. 

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00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:07,560
We had a whole message about 
that last week. 

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We're not going to stay there 
long, long, so don't worry. 

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I think we covered most of it 
last week. 

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But he says, I know, oh Lord, 
that your laws are righteous and

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in faithfulness you have 
afflicted me. 

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May your unfailing love be my 
comfort, according to Your 

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promise to your servant. 
The psalmist here, yes, is going

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to revisit Affliction for just a
moment. 

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He's going to do this so that we
can learn a little bit more 

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about this. 
We can learn about putting our 

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trust in God as our loving 
comforter. 

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A person who has a biblical view
of God will recognize God as 

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loving comforter. 
He says, may your unfailing love

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00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,680
be my comfort according to your 
promise to your servant. 

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00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,880
Why is he saying this? 
He's saying it in the context 

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and on the heels of mentioning 
again the fact that God has 

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allowed affliction into his 
life. 

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00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:05,920
So the Psalmist here teaching us
that a true biblical view of God

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will recognize God as loving 
comforter. 

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Watch this despite the 
situation. 

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No matter what it is that you're
facing. 

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00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,280
We're all good with saying God 
is our comforter when we're 

502
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:22,520
comfortable, but saying that God
is our comfort is not the same 

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00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:26,560
as we are comfortable. 
Does everybody understand that? 

504
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,160
Because the American Church 
thinks that being comfortable is

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00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,320
comfort. 
Now I can tell you this, I have 

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00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,720
received comfort from the Lord 
in the most uncomfortable 

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00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,840
situations that I have faced in 
life, and comfort as far as the 

508
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,000
world it defines being 
comfortable was nowhere to be 

509
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,680
found, but it was God with a 
supernatural comfort that He 

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00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,760
gives me from His love 
internally. 

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00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,760
This is what the psalmist is 
understanding. 

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00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,640
This is what he knows. 
This is what he knows, that God 

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00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,600
truly is who He is in regard to 
His loving comfort. 

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00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,480
He comforts us despite the 
situation. 

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00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,560
Even in affliction, in times of 
trouble, He comforts us. 

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00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,600
In fact, Isaiah 49 verse 13 says
this. 

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00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,640
Shout for joy, O heavens, 
rejoice, O earth, burst into 

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00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,680
song, O mountains. 
For the Lord comforts his feeble

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00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,920
and will have compassion on his 
afflicted ones. 

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00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,600
What does that mean? 
No matter what you're going 

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00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:23,520
through, you can rest in His 
loving comfort. 

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00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:28,840
Isn't it good to have a loving 
comforter, one who constantly 

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00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,960
comforts us by his unfailing 
love? 

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00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,600
That's what the psalmist says. 
It's his unfailing love. 

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00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,720
It brings me comfort. 
It brings me comfort according 

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00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,080
to the promise that you've made 
to your servant. 

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00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:43,680
And where do you think that he 
found this? 

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00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,760
He found it in Scriptures. 
I will never leave you. 

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00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,120
I will never forsake you. 
And he rested on that, and he 

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00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,800
stood on that, and he knew that 
God's going to comfort him in 

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00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:53,920
any affliction. 
In. 

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00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:58,800
Fact, Second Corinthians Chapter
7 verse 6, it says, but God who 

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00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,720
comforts the downcast comforted 
us. 

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00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:05,320
This is Paul talking there to 
the Corinthians about the 

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00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,200
comfort that he and Titus 
received from the Lord. 

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00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,400
And it's God who comforts us 
even when we're downcast. 

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00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,360
What is those moments that we 
feel his love the most? 

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00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,920
Many times, isn't it? 
And we go through the darkest 

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00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,640
hour. 
And His Spirit and the promises 

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00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:29,080
of His word embrace us with the 
unfailing love of God despite 

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00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:33,400
any situation that we face. 
He comforts us in our affliction

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00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,200
and He covers us with His 
affection. 

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00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:40,240
Isaiah 54 verse 10 says though 
the mountains be shaken and the 

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00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:44,240
hills be removed, yet my 
unfailing love for you will not 

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00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:48,120
be shaken, nor my covenant of 
peace be removed, says the Lord,

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00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,760
who has compassion on you. 
Oh. 

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00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:55,440
What great promises that we can 
claim in Christ that he made 

548
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,640
through the prophets so long 
ago, that we can rest, that 

549
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:05,240
though the mountains be shaken 
and all the hills dissolve, we 

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00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:10,480
can rest in his compassion 
because of the covenant that 

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00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,800
he's made with us through the 
precious blood of the Lord Jesus

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00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,920
Christ. 
We see that the psalmist is 

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00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:24,360
recognizing God as his loving 
comforter no matter what 

554
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,480
situation he's in, no matter 
what he faces, despite the 

555
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,640
situation, but also because it's
declared by His Word. 

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00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:36,360
The Word has declared it, and 
it's time we, as professing 

557
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:40,480
believers in Christ, claim the 
things that the Word of God 

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00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,040
proclaims. 
Stop acting as if God hasn't 

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00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,400
said these things. 
God is our loving comforter. 

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00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,080
Second Corinthians chapter one 
one of my favorite passages on 

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00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,680
God's comfort. 
It says this in verse 3. 

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00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,480
Praise be to the God and Father 
of our Lord Jesus Christ, the 

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00:32:55,480 --> 00:33:01,000
Father of compassion and the God
of all comfort who comforts us 

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00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,880
in all our troubles. 
Don't you think We didn't say 

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00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,360
some of our troubles, a few of 
our troubles when things get 

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00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,440
really, really bad. 
No, He comforts us in all of our

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00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:09,160
troubles. 
Why? 

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00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,160
So that we can comfort those in 
any trouble with the comfort we 

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00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:13,440
ourselves have received from 
God. 

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00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,080
Isn't that what the church is 
supposed to do? 

571
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,040
We've received comfort from the 
Word of God. 

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00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,200
That, that, that comfort, those 
promises that he gives us bring 

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00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,040
comfort into our lives. 
And then what are we to do? 

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00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:23,760
We're to turn around. 
We're to share that with someone

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00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,320
else who's going through a 
similar time of trial or 

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00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,760
affliction, affliction or sorrow
or suffering. 

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00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,880
That's how the body of Christ is
designed to work. 

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00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,320
A group of people recognizing 
God as loving comforter and 

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00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,960
reminding one another of that 
all the time. 

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00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,680
Yes, brother, Yes, sister, I 
know that you're going through a

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00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,400
difficult time. 
In fact, I went through that 

582
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,480
same thing. 
I got that same diagnosis. 

583
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:50,440
I got that same phone call. 
I went through that same trial. 

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00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,560
And let me tell you something, 
what I learned from the word of 

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00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,640
God. 
He is a loving God who comforts 

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00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,960
us in all of our troubles 
because He is the God of all 

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00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:01,480
comfort. 
Aren't you thankful that He's 

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00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,560
the God of all comfort? 
This morning the psalmist saying

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00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:09,239
that a biblical view of God will
recognize him as that loving 

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00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:15,000
comforter. 
Fourthly, we move on verse 77. 

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00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,280
The psalmist says, let your 
compassion come to me, that I 

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00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:24,280
may live, for your law is my 
delight. 

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00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,159
Fourthly, I want you to see this
that a biblical view of God 

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recognizes him as merciful 
Christ. 

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00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:33,639
Now when I say. 
Christ. 

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00:34:33,639 --> 00:34:36,280
I'm not talking about the last 
name of Jesus, as many of you 

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00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:37,880
think that that's just his last 
name. 

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00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,679
It's not his last name. 
It is the title of who he is. 

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00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:43,080
He is the Christ. 
He is the Savior. 

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00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:49,480
And when we talk about God being
a merciful Christ, we are 

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00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,320
talking about Him being a 
merciful Savior. 

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00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,120
And the psalmist here is going 
to turn our attention to the 

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00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,960
only hope that any of us have. 
And what is that? 

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00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,680
God's compassion and His mercy. 
If God did not let His 

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00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,600
compassion come to us, and see 
how He worded that, please let 

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00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,880
it come to me. 
If God had not let His 

607
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:12,360
compassion come to us, we would 
all be dreadfully lost and bound

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00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,240
for hell. 
But the psalmist here pleading 

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00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:19,040
with God, let your compassion 
come to me. 

610
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:23,640
I'm dependent upon you and your 
mercy and compassion toward this

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00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:28,000
Sinner. 
God brought his compassion to 

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00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:32,560
us, didn't He? 
He brought his compassion to us 

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00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:36,960
Himself. 
It is through God Incarnate, the

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00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:42,720
Lord Jesus Christ. 
Who came in flesh bringing mercy

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00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:45,080
to sinners. 
This is why the deity of the 

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00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,760
Lord Jesus Christ is so 
essential to having true 

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00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,920
biblical theology. 
That is God Himself, who 

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00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,600
condescended and came to this 
earth to die in the place of 

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wicked sinners, to redeem them, 
and to cleanse them from all of 

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00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:04,520
their sin. 
Matthew chapter 1 we see this 

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00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:05,960
promise being given and what is 
it? 

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00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,800
The promise that was taken from 
the prophet Isaiah and it says 

623
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,040
this in verse 21 of Matthew 1. 
She will give birth to a son, 

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00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaking of the Virgin Mary, and
you are to give him the name 

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00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,840
Jesus because he will save his 
people from their sins. 

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00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,200
Give him the name Jesus, which 
is Jehovah saves because he will

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00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,680
save his people from their sins.
It says in 22. 

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00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,520
All this took place to fulfill 
what the Lord had said through 

629
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,640
the prophet. 
The Virgin will be with child 

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00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:36,680
and will give birth to his Son, 
and they will call him Emmanuel,

631
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:42,800
which means God with us. 
The psalmist here saying, let 

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00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,920
your compassion come to me, that
I may live. 

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00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:53,480
And God in the appointed time, 
honoring this, coming to this 

634
00:36:53,520 --> 00:37:00,280
earth fully God and fully man, 
offering himself as a 

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00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,600
substitutionary sacrifice on a 
cross, so that all who believe 

636
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:09,560
in Him would be saved from their
sin and live. 

637
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,520
He says, let your compassion 
come to me that I may live. 

638
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,960
I'm dependent upon this Lord. 
I need your grace. 

639
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:19,600
I need your mercy. 
Because a biblical view of God 

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00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:25,200
will recognize God is merciful 
Christ, knowing that it's he who

641
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,960
brings forgiveness and pardon. 
And without His compassion, 

642
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,000
there is no chance for 
forgiveness and pardon for our 

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00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,120
sin. 
O may you all hear that this 

644
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,200
morning. 
May that be the cry of your 

645
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,200
heart. 
Lord, let your compassion come 

646
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,640
to me, because without His 
compassion you will never be 

647
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,120
forgiven of your sin. 
Without His compassion, you will

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00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,120
never be cleansed. 
Without His compassion, you will

649
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:55,520
never inherit eternal life. 
But it is in His compassion and 

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00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,560
a proper understanding of that 
that we see he brings 

651
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,680
forgiveness and pardon even to 
the most wicked and vile. 

652
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:06,720
Center the psalmist again using 
the word let, let, please, just.

653
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,240
He's pleading with the Lord, let
it, let it happen. 

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00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,200
I'm hopeless without your 
compassion. 

655
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:18,160
Let it come to me. 
God did not first will this. 

656
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,520
The psalmist knew he did not 
deserve it. 

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00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:27,600
Aren't you thankful that God has
let his mercy and His compassion

658
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:32,080
come to you? 
Because I want you all to know 

659
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,440
this. 
He was under no obligation to do

660
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,920
any such of a thing. 
You were not entitled to His 

661
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,160
compassion. 
You were not entitled to his 

662
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,440
mercy. 
In fact, truth be told, you 

663
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:47,880
deserve justice and wrath and 
his indignation for all eternity

664
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:52,360
and hell. 
But yet He has let his 

665
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:57,440
compassion come to you. 
Why? 

666
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:00,160
Because He's a God of 
compassion. 

667
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:05,200
And if He had not first loved 
you, you would never have loved 

668
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,040
him. 
Oh, let us be thankful that He 

669
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,120
is a God of compassion and let 
us see Him as such. 

670
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,480
Lamentations chapter 3, verse 22
says because of the Lord's great

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00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,440
love, we are not consumed, for 
His compassions never fail. 

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00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:23,520
They're new every morning. 
Great is your faith on this 

673
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:27,960
Jeremiah there placing faith and
a biblical God, a biblical God 

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00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,880
who is a God of compassion, 
bringing forgiveness and 

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00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:37,000
pardoning sin, showing his love.
Ephesians chapter 2, Paul says 

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00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,240
this. 
But because of his great love 

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00:39:38,240 --> 00:39:42,760
for us, God who is rich in mercy
made us alive with Christ even 

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00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:44,360
when we were dead in 
transgressions. 

679
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,080
It is by grace you have been 
saved. 

680
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,200
So, a Curt are we really going 
to talk about grace again? 

681
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:55,400
Yes. 
If you haven't noticed, every 

682
00:39:55,400 --> 00:40:00,760
week we're going to talk about 
grace to some degree because if 

683
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:04,320
God does not grace you with His 
mercy and His forgiveness, you 

684
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,480
will never be. 
Forgiven. 

685
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:12,480
So we honor Him for that, and we
know that it is His grace and 

686
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:17,640
His compassion shown by that 
grace that allows us to live His

687
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:23,120
great love for us. 
Because of that great love, He's

688
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,600
made us alive with Christ even 
when we were dead, all according

689
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,440
to His grace. 
So biblical view of God will 

690
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:33,680
recognize God as the merciful 
Christ, the merciful Savior. 

691
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:35,360
Who brings forgiveness and 
pardon? 

692
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:36,760
But not only that, who brings 
new life? 

693
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:38,480
Anyone. 
You're thankful for the new life

694
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,760
that you have in Christ. 
Because I can tell you this, My 

695
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:46,400
old life was a pile of trash. 
My old life was detestable to 

696
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,000
the nostrils of God. 
My old life was blasphemous. 

697
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,480
I'm thankful that God has 
rescued me from that old life 

698
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:54,840
and that He has given me new 
life. 

699
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,720
That's what the psalmist says. 
Let your compassion come to me 

700
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:58,880
that I may live. 
God, I need you to 

701
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:05,880
compassionately spare me. 
Oh, and He has compassionately 

702
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:11,840
spared so many of us, bringing 
us to a place of new life, life 

703
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:15,080
that, as we've already said, was
provided by God's grace. 

704
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,480
We know Ephesians 28 and 9. 
If we if we finish out Ephesians

705
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,960
chapter 2, for it is by grace 
you've been saved through faith.

706
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,920
And this is not from yourself. 
It's the gift of God, not by 

707
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,600
work, so that no man can boast. 
There's nothing for us to boast 

708
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,000
and we have new life not because
we woke up one day and say, you 

709
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:31,320
know what? 
I want to have a better life. 

710
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,640
I want to have a new life. 
I want to have a good life. 

711
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,120
Now you would have said any of 
that in that you would have 

712
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,040
woken up just like you did the 
day before and said, what kind 

713
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:42,120
of sin can I find that will 
bring pleasure to my flesh? 

714
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:49,480
But God, in his kindness and in 
his mercy, through his grace, he

715
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:53,960
saved us by his work and his 
work that he did on a cross 

716
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,280
through faith. 
And that work and that work 

717
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,680
alone, the death, the burial, 
the resurrection of Jesus 

718
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:00,720
Christ, it's in him that we find
life. 

719
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:02,080
That's what the psalmist is 
getting at. 

720
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,080
He says, let your compassion 
come to me, that I may live. 

721
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,040
I don't even know life. 
Isn't it true? 

722
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,760
The lost man's a dead man. 
He just doesn't know it. 

723
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,920
His true life is found only in 
Christ. 

724
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,360
In fact, John says this in his 
first epistle, chapter 5. 

725
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,000
He said He who has the Son has 
life. 

726
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,680
He who does not have the Son of 
God does not have life. 

727
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:29,920
First, John 512 Those who don't 
have Christ have no life at all,

728
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:33,040
because it is the compassion of 
God, it is the mercy of God. 

729
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,280
It is that which Christ does for
us by His grace. 

730
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:43,440
That makes us alive again. 
We don't just wake up one day 

731
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:48,120
dead and decide to be alive. 
Dead people don't wake up, they 

732
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:53,000
stay dead. 
It is God, through his mercy and

733
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:57,440
His compassion, who quickens us 
to life and grants us the gift 

734
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,720
of faith to believe in Jesus 
Christ, the only begotten Son of

735
00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:03,200
God who died. 
On a cross 2000 years ago, who 

736
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:06,120
was buried and who rose 
victoriously over the grave? 

737
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,800
He gives us the faith to trust 
in Him, to believe that He truly

738
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,840
is the Savior that the 
Scriptures have described all 

739
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:16,240
the way from Genesis all the way
to Revelation, To know that He 

740
00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:20,440
is the only hope for man to be 
saved from their sin and. 

741
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:26,040
But in that we receive new life,
this new life provided strictly 

742
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:29,800
by God's grace. 
Many would ask, well, how do I 

743
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,160
know if I have it? 
Your life will prove it. 

744
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,040
New life will be proven by new 
desires. 

745
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:39,400
We see this in the psalmist 
here. 

746
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,080
He says, let your compassion 
come to me, that I may live, for

747
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,520
your law is my delight. 
What has just happened? 

748
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:49,080
Won't I need your mercy? 
And I know it's dependent upon 

749
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:52,440
your grace. 
And in that he's changed. 

750
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,160
And now the Word of God becomes 
his delight. 

751
00:43:56,080 --> 00:44:00,400
His desire has changed, a desire
that desired only himself to a 

752
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,640
desire that now desires the will
of God. 

753
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,920
According to the Word of God. 
Your law is my delight. 

754
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:09,000
I don't see your law as a 
burden. 

755
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:14,480
I see it as a delight. 
Oh, it's proof that He is truly 

756
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:19,640
received in new life. 
Because those who once delighted

757
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:23,760
in sin and in the things of this
world, and they receive the 

758
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:27,760
mercy of God through the Lord 
Jesus Christ, they'll no longer 

759
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:32,680
delight in the world, but 
they'll begin to delight in the 

760
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:33,320
Word. 
Why? 

761
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,480
Because they're a new creation. 
Just a second Corinthians 

762
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,920
chapter 5 or 17 says they're a 
new creation. 

763
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,280
They'll delight in the Word 
instead of delighting in the 

764
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:43,680
world. 
Now you have to ask yourself 

765
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:49,040
this question at this juncture. 
Are you delighting in the Word? 

766
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,560
Because that's evidence of new 
life here. 

767
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:53,600
That's evidence that you have 
received mercy and you have 

768
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,280
received the compassion of the 
Lord, that you have truly been 

769
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,840
saved. 
And if you have truly been 

770
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,840
saved, you will desire the Word 
of God. 

771
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,120
Let me help all of you out. 
If you're sitting here this 

772
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,000
morning and you're saying, I 
wish this guy would just stop 

773
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:10,880
teaching from this old relic, 
you have a spiritual issue. 

774
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,040
You're not yet born again. 
Because those who have truly 

775
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,880
been born again, they hunger 
after the word of God. 

776
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:22,600
It is food for their soul. 
Because they understand what the

777
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:25,200
word of God testifies, that man 
cannot live on bread alone, but 

778
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,520
every word that proceeds out of 
the mouth of God. 

779
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,960
So if you don't enjoy learning 
from the Word of God, studying 

780
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,440
the Word of God, being preached 
to from the Word of God, you 

781
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,560
have a spiritual problem. 
It's one of two things. 

782
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,720
You're either lost and not yet 
born again, or you are starving 

783
00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:46,520
as a believer. 
There's no excuse for you to 

784
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:50,000
starve around here. 
There's no excuse for you to 

785
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,960
starve around here where you 
have every opportunity to. 

786
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,120
Feast from the Word of God, 
where you at every opportunity 

787
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,240
are encouraged to study the Word
of God. 

788
00:45:57,720 --> 00:46:00,040
Some of you you haven't opened 
your Bible since the last Sunday

789
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,480
service that you came to. 
You're not delighting in the 

790
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,560
Word of God. 
You're delighting in the Word of

791
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,760
God only on a Sunday morning. 
That's not delighting in the 

792
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:12,080
Word of God. 
To delight in the Word of God 

793
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:14,280
means that you delight in the 
Word of God constantly, that you

794
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:18,360
meditate on His commands, His 
precepts, His law, His promises,

795
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:22,320
over and over and over and over 
again to the day that the Lord 

796
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,280
calls you home. 
Why? 

797
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,520
Because that's evidence of a 
changed life. 

798
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,400
You used to not do that. 
All you thought about was the 

799
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,200
world and how you can succeed in
the world's eyes and how you can

800
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,400
fulfill whatever fleshly desires
that you had. 

801
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,840
But now, because you have truly 
been born again, you desire the 

802
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:40,880
Word of God. 
You crave it like that pure 

803
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:42,960
spiritual milk that the 
Scripture talks about. 

804
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:45,760
Then after you feast from that 
milk, that's not enough. 

805
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:47,240
Why? 
Because when you taste and see 

806
00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:49,360
that the Lord is good, you want 
more of Him. 

807
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,240
And now you want meat. 
And I'm so thankful for a 

808
00:46:52,240 --> 00:46:55,320
congregation who can eat the 
meat from the Word of God 

809
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,680
because I've been in so many 
places where if you preach for 

810
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,960
over 15 minutes, they were done 
because it was just way too much

811
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:07,320
for them to handle. 
And I say this to them as kindly

812
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:11,320
and as lovingly as I know how. 
You're either lost or you're OK 

813
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,920
with being malnourished 
spiritually, and either one of 

814
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,240
them is a major spiritual 
problem, and you need to turn to

815
00:47:16,240 --> 00:47:16,960
Christ. 
Today. 

816
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:23,080
You see the psalmist recognizing
God is merciful Christ bringing 

817
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:25,880
forgiveness and pardon, bringing
new life, and that new life 

818
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:29,920
being evidenced by a new desire 
for the Word of God. 

819
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:35,480
Your law is my delight because 
one, when they received mercy 

820
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:38,400
from God, they received new 
life. 

821
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:44,560
They value the word of God, they
value scriptures. 

822
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,920
So biblical view of God will 
recognize God as merciful Christ

823
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:52,520
biblically moves to the fifth 
point this morning. 

824
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:58,280
Verse 78 says, May the arrogant 
be put to shame for wronging me 

825
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,920
without cause, but I will 
meditate on your precepts. 

826
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,800
May those who fear you turn to 
me, those who understand your 

827
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:09,320
statutes, may my heart be 
blameless toward your decrees 

828
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:14,680
that I may not be put to shame. 
A biblical view of God 

829
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,640
recognizes God as mighty 
conqueror and the psalmist here 

830
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:23,360
is doing nothing wrong. 
But I want to make very clearly 

831
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:27,600
what is going on here because 
many people in in our mamby 

832
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,280
pamby weak society would say, 
wow, can you really even do 

833
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:34,640
this? 
The psalmist is praying to God 

834
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,800
against his enemies. 
Make no mistake about that. 

835
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,480
He is turning them over to the 
Lord. 

836
00:48:41,240 --> 00:48:44,920
He is praying against them. 
And he's doing this instead of 

837
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:48,000
taking matters into his own 
hands and seeking vengeance by 

838
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,000
the sword. 
And let me just assure you this,

839
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,400
the psalmist knew how to wield 
the sword. 

840
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,360
History proves it. 
Scripture proves it. 

841
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:58,440
But here he's not because he has
been changed. 

842
00:48:58,440 --> 00:48:59,800
He's not considering those 
things. 

843
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:04,080
What he is doing is he's 
trusting God to conquer his 

844
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,360
enemies, just as God has 
promised to do. 

845
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,160
Isn't it true that God in 
Scripture has promised to defend

846
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:13,240
the righteous? 
And this man of God was counting

847
00:49:13,240 --> 00:49:16,120
on that. 
In fact, Thomas Manton says 

848
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,360
this. 
He said malicious enemies may be

849
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:23,480
expressly prayed against. 
Many of us have faced that in 

850
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,000
our Christian life, and maybe 
you haven't. 

851
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,760
But if you've ever pastored a 
church, you have there are 

852
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:31,440
people who just are mean and 
malicious toward the pastor. 

853
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:35,920
Let me remind all of you, I am 
just as the delivery boy. 

854
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,880
I'm the mailman. 
Don't get mad at me because God 

855
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,760
has delivered something unto you
that you needed to hear. 

856
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,840
But yet we know there are those 
people who are malicious and 

857
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:48,880
they, they bring accusations and
they say false things. 

858
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:50,920
And again, I know what we 
covered last week. 

859
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:54,040
Blessed are you when men say all
kinds of evil against you. 

860
00:49:54,720 --> 00:50:00,200
I understand that, but there's a
reality to it that it hurts. 

861
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:02,880
And when it hurts, you know what
we can't do? 

862
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,760
And I had to learn this. 
And I am so thankful that I 

863
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:11,000
learned this because I have seen
God work in this over and over 

864
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:12,920
and over again since I have 
learned it. 

865
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,200
In my younger years. 
I thought it was my 

866
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:24,000
responsibility when someone was 
maligning me to go and verbally 

867
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,520
assault them right back, because
that's the thing to do, right? 

868
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:31,360
No, absolutely not. 
Every time that I ever attempted

869
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,560
to do anything like that, I was 
so convicted and so broken that 

870
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:37,080
it led me to a place of 
repentance and confession. 

871
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:39,760
But. 
Now on the flip side of that, 

872
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:44,960
God has taught me what the 
psalmist understands here, and 

873
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:50,600
that is when people are 
malicious against you, you pray 

874
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:54,840
for him. 
And you turn them over to God. 

875
00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:02,600
You trust God to defend you, and
you stop trying to defend 

876
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:03,480
yourself. 
You know why? 

877
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:06,000
Because every time I've ever 
tried to defend myself, I did it

878
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:09,200
in the flesh. 
Because when I tried to defend 

879
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,800
myself, you know what I am 
thinking for a second? 

880
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:13,680
That I have rights. 
I don't have rights. 

881
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:18,600
I died with Christ. 
I laid my rights down at the 

882
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,800
feet of Jesus Christ when I 
surrendered to Him as my Lord 

883
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:25,560
and Savior. 
Now He has the right to defend 

884
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:30,080
me anytime He wants to, because 
when he's defending me when I'm 

885
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:33,960
right, he's defending himself. 
Because I'm standing in His 

886
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,760
righteousness, Not in the 
righteousness of Kirk Hall, 

887
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:40,400
because I have none. 
And so I've learned when those 

888
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:43,280
enemies pop up their head, those
people who talk behind the 

889
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:45,680
scenes, that you, you're not 
fooling anyone. 

890
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:47,040
Someone rats on you. 
When? 

891
00:51:51,720 --> 00:51:53,360
Those enemies talk behind the 
scenes. 

892
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,360
You know what I do? 
I just simply get on my knees 

893
00:51:56,360 --> 00:52:00,240
and I turn them over to the 
Lord, and I say, Lord, if 

894
00:52:00,240 --> 00:52:03,600
they're bashing me, rightfully 
so, I deserve it. 

895
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:07,200
And I could give them a thousand
other reasons to blast me. 

896
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:13,880
But Lord, if they're blasting me
as I'm standing in you, Lord, 

897
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:18,000
defend your name, Defend your 
glory. 

898
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:23,000
In fact, during the time of the 
16th century, John Knox, one of 

899
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:27,200
the Scottish reformers, 
encountered a woman by the name 

900
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:30,920
of Mary, Queen of Scots. 
She was a devout enemy to 

901
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:34,720
Protestantism, and she once said
this about Knox. 

902
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:38,160
She said, I fear the prayers of 
John Knox more than all the 

903
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:41,960
assembled armies of Europe. 
Why? 

904
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:43,640
Because Knox would pray for his 
enemies. 

905
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:48,040
God would work on his behalf, 
and God would work for his own 

906
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,120
glory. 
Through Knox, through his 

907
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:53,280
powerful preaching, and through 
his prayer ministry on this 

908
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:58,280
earth, God used him in a mighty 
way, but he also defended him 

909
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:00,440
against all enemies that came 
against them. 

910
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,080
It's what was Knox doing? 
He was simply recognizing, 

911
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:07,560
trusting in God and his promise 
to conquer the enemies who come 

912
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:10,600
against us. 
Why would Scripture give us so 

913
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:14,280
much wisdom and insight into 
trusting God with our enemies 

914
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,800
and praying for them and turning
them over to Him? 

915
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,160
And then we're not to do that. 
We are to do that. 

916
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:25,640
And in doing that, God will do 
what God is going to do, and 

917
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:30,080
that is to conquer our enemies. 
It's the one who biblically 

918
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,560
recognizes God, recognizes God 
is mighty. 

919
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:35,040
Conquer and conquer over our 
enemies. 

920
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:38,360
Psalmist calling on God in 
prayer to conquer the enemies 

921
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,560
who are coming against them, 
those who are afflicting him, 

922
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:44,080
those who are harming him. 
Those who are doing all this 

923
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:47,160
without calls simply because 
he's following God. 

924
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:49,720
Psalm 3417 the psalmist says 
this. 

925
00:53:49,720 --> 00:53:51,520
The righteous cry out and the 
Lord hears them. 

926
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:54,640
He delivers them from all their 
troubles. 

927
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,600
The Lord is close to the broken 
hearted and save those who are 

928
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,120
crushed in. 
Spirit, a righteous man may have

929
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,680
many troubles, but the Lord 
delivers them from them all. 

930
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,400
Oh, would we cling to that? 
Would we hold on that? 

931
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:11,560
Would we just shut our mouths? 
It's not getting involved in 

932
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:13,040
things that we don't need to get
involved in. 

933
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,480
God is going to take care of us.
He protects all his bones. 

934
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:19,320
Not one of them will be broken. 
Evil will slay the wicked. 

935
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,000
The foes of the righteous will 
be condemned. 

936
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:25,080
The Lord redeems his servants. 
No one will be condemned who 

937
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,480
takes refuge in Him. 
No one. 

938
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,160
So I encourage you to do this. 
When your enemies come against 

939
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:34,240
you, they're blasting you on 
social media, they're blasting 

940
00:54:34,240 --> 00:54:35,680
you in whatever crowd that they 
run in. 

941
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:39,400
See them for what they are. 
They're arrogant and they're 

942
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,560
proud and they're wicked, and 
all those are synonymous in 

943
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:44,640
Scripture. 
There are those arrogant 

944
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:47,200
enemies, just as a psalmist is 
facing those arrogant enemies. 

945
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:50,280
What is he saying? 
That they would be put to shame,

946
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:51,440
that they would be put in their 
place? 

947
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:54,560
And would you just trust God to 
put them in their place? 

948
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:56,280
You don't have to do it. 
He doesn't need your help. 

949
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:58,240
That's one thing I've learned. 
I God doesn't need my help for 

950
00:54:58,240 --> 00:55:01,320
anything. 
I can simply just take Him at 

951
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:03,120
His word and trust that He's 
going to do what He says. 

952
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:04,960
And you know what? 
The truth always comes out. 

953
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:07,120
It doesn't always come out when 
I want it to come out, but it 

954
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:11,640
always comes out, doesn't it? 
He's always going to defend 

955
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:13,800
those who take refuge in Him. 
So in those situations, you know

956
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:15,200
what you need to do. 
You need to examine your life 

957
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:16,880
and you need to ask this 
question by taking refuge in 

958
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:19,040
God. 
Am I trusting in His word? 

959
00:55:19,240 --> 00:55:20,560
OK, I am. 
OK, I am. 

960
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:25,920
And Lord, I know you're going to
defend me and I know you're 

961
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:27,080
going to take care of every bit 
of this. 

962
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,680
And I can tell you this, He does
every single time. 

963
00:55:30,720 --> 00:55:33,920
Every single time. 
He is the Conqueror of our 

964
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:37,800
enemies. 
The psalmist calling on God to 

965
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:40,240
do this. 
People would say it was he's 

966
00:55:40,240 --> 00:55:42,720
seeking vengeance. 
Not for his name, He's not. 

967
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,000
He's turning them over to the 
Lord. 

968
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,560
And the Lord has said this, 
Leave room for my vengeance. 

969
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:50,320
Don't take matters into your own
hands. 

970
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:56,400
He's simply just trusting in God
to do what God and God alone can

971
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:59,600
do. 
He's applying what we see Paul 

972
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:02,480
teach in Romans chapter 12. 
Do not repay anyone evil for 

973
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:04,200
evil. 
Be careful to do what is right 

974
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:08,560
in the eyes of everybody. 
Chapter 12 verse 18 says if it 

975
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:10,040
is. 
Possible as far as it depends on

976
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:11,200
you. 
Live at peace with everyone. 

977
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:13,960
I do not take revenge, my 
friends, but leave room for 

978
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:16,800
God's wrath, for it is written, 
it is mine to avenge. 

979
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:20,800
I will repay, says the Lord. 
On the contrary, if your enemy 

980
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:22,680
is hungry, feed him. 
If he is thirsty, give him 

981
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:25,640
something to drink, and doing 
this you will heap burning coals

982
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:28,280
on his head. 
Do not be overcome by evil, but 

983
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:31,160
overcome evil with good. 
David simply turning to a good 

984
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:33,960
God and saying, Take care of 
this situation for me. 

985
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:36,320
Take care of it however you see 
fit. 

986
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:40,800
God knows how to do it best. 
Sometimes he removes those 

987
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,200
people from your life. 
Sometimes he removes their 

988
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:44,960
influence. 
Sometimes he changes their 

989
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:46,640
heart. 
Sometimes he takes their life. 

990
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,640
That's. 
All dependent upon God's will 

991
00:56:49,720 --> 00:56:53,320
for that specific situation. 
But what you must do is you must

992
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:57,800
trust God and not yourself in 
conquering your own enemies. 

993
00:56:57,800 --> 00:56:59,320
That's what the psalmist is 
doing here. 

994
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,960
One who has a proper biblical 
understanding of God. 

995
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:07,120
We'll do just that, knowing that
God has promised to defend US 

996
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:12,520
against our enemies. 
So we see one who recognizes God

997
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:16,840
as mighty counselor will know 
that he's conqueror of their 

998
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:20,040
enemies, but he's also conqueror
of hearts. 

999
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:21,880
We can't leave this out, he 
says. 

1000
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:24,560
May the arrogant be put to shame
for wronging me without cause. 

1001
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:26,560
But I will meditate on your 
precepts. 

1002
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:30,680
May those who fear, who fear you
turn to me, those who understand

1003
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:33,320
your statutes saying and those 
who are in that group, or maybe 

1004
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:35,640
they're saying the wrong things,
but yet they are God fearing 

1005
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:37,000
people and they've just been LED
astray. 

1006
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,520
Would you cause them to repent 
and to turn to me and to see 

1007
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:44,240
that I am righteous and that I 
am noble and that I am not doing

1008
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:46,080
the things that others are 
accusing me to do and. 

1009
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:51,040
Then he says in verse 80, May my
heart be blameless toward your 

1010
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:54,000
decrees, that I may not be put 
to shame. 

1011
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:59,280
Look at David here saying this. 
He's saying conquer hearts, 

1012
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:03,800
conquer the hearts of others. 
He's praying. 

1013
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:07,240
That those who had had a wrong 
heart and wrong view toward him,

1014
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:10,840
that they would be changed. 
Isn't that what we ought to do? 

1015
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,680
To pray for those who have a 
wrong heart, that they should be

1016
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:18,400
and would be changed? 
Luke 627 But I tell you, hear 

1017
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:21,760
me, love your enemies, do good 
to those who hate you, bless 

1018
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:25,760
those who curse you, and pray 
for those who mistreat you. 

1019
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:29,960
David, praying for those who are
mistreating him. 

1020
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:31,760
And what is he saying? 
Lord, change their heart. 

1021
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:35,640
If it is that they're God 
fearing people, turn them toward

1022
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:40,040
me and let them see the truth. 
Let them see that I am righteous

1023
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:42,800
because of you, and I'm standing
in that righteousness and 

1024
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:47,040
nothing else, but also His own 
heart. 

1025
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:52,800
God is not only the Conqueror of
the hearts of our enemies, those

1026
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:56,320
who may come against us, He's a 
conqueror of our own hearts. 

1027
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:59,960
And boy, don't we need that. 
Why is that so needed? 

1028
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:05,840
Well, we know this, that our 
heart is desperately wicked, 

1029
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:09,120
right? 
Jeremiah chapter 17, verse 9. 

1030
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:11,280
The heart is. 
Deceitful above all things and 

1031
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:13,680
beyond cure. 
Who can understand it? 

1032
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:18,120
Our heart is wicked and we are 
in need constantly of God 

1033
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:23,240
conquering our wicked heart. 
Christians so often forget that.

1034
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,720
They'll say stupid things like 
just follow your own heart. 

1035
00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:30,800
Please don't take the plaque off
your wall. 

1036
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,000
Take it back to Kirkland's. 
Whatever you have to do. 

1037
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:36,840
Don't let anyone in your home 
adopt that false teaching. 

1038
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:41,400
Don't follow your heart. 
Your heart will trick you so 

1039
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:44,880
fast you'll think you're right 
when you're wrong. 

1040
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:47,720
Don't follow after the heart of 
God. 

1041
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:50,200
Trust in God to conquer your 
wicked heart. 

1042
00:59:52,560 --> 01:00:01,520
Luke chapter 6 Lord reminds us 
how wicked our heart is. 

1043
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:09,040
We need to remember that. 
Sorry, that's Mark Chapter 7. 

1044
01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:11,040
If you're taking notes, you're 
in Luke 6 going What in the 

1045
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:15,880
world? 
Mark, Mark 7, verse 21. 

1046
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:19,760
He says for for from within, out
of men's hearts come evil 

1047
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:23,200
thoughts, sexual immorality, 
theft, murder, adultery, greed, 

1048
01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:27,200
malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, 
slander, arrogance and folly. 

1049
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:28,760
You don't want to trust your 
heart. 

1050
01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:33,960
In fact, you want that heart to 
be conquered. 

1051
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:37,640
In fact, more than that, you 
ought to desire a new heart, 

1052
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:42,920
that heart, a flesh that 
replaces your heart, a stone, as

1053
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:44,920
Ezekiel promised the people of 
God. 

1054
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:48,640
You ought to pray that God would
conquer your wicked heart. 

1055
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:52,320
He. 
Would conquer your wicked heart,

1056
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:56,760
just as he conquers the wicked 
hearts of your enemies, and that

1057
01:00:56,760 --> 01:01:00,120
he would move you to follow his 
decrees. 

1058
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:03,840
Luke 645 The good man brings 
good things out of the good 

1059
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:07,280
stored up in his heart, and the 
evil man brings evil things out 

1060
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:08,680
of the evil stored up in his 
heart. 

1061
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:12,840
For out of the overflow of his 
heart his mouth will speak. 

1062
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:17,960
O may our prayer for ourselves, 
just as a psalmist prayed for 

1063
01:01:17,960 --> 01:01:20,960
himself, that God would be our 
mighty conqueror even in our own

1064
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:24,160
hearts. 
Oh, it's easy to turn and to 

1065
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:26,240
pray for the hearts of the 
wicked who mistreat him. 

1066
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:29,920
But will we? 
Be honest about our heart. 

1067
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:33,720
Will we be honest in prayer? 
The Lord have turned my heart. 

1068
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:37,320
Make my heart blameless toward 
Your decrees. 

1069
01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:41,360
Let me walk in obedience to Your
word that I may not be put to 

1070
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:43,360
shame. 
Let me walk in such a way that 

1071
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:46,400
even if they want to accuse me 
of doing wrong, there is so much

1072
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:48,560
right that they cannot find an 
accusation. 

1073
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:52,480
I wish that was the heart of 
Christians in our culture. 

1074
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:58,560
Lord, let us live such righteous
lives that no one can bring any 

1075
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:03,600
blame against us, that even if 
they were to accuse us of doing 

1076
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:07,320
wrong, they have to be ashamed 
of that because they know that 

1077
01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:10,200
deep down there's nothing wrong 
in our lives. 

1078
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:14,920
We are living our lives honoring
the one who has conquered our 

1079
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:19,120
wicked hearts so the biblical 
view of God will recognize God 

1080
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:22,800
as our mighty conqueror. 
So we wrap this up and we 

1081
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:25,360
prepare to close as we've been 
challenged this morning. 

1082
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:31,120
That a true biblical view of God
recognizes God as sovereign 

1083
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:32,400
creator. 
Don't forget it. 

1084
01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:36,480
That's where it begins, Seeing 
Him for who he is, the author of

1085
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:39,000
creation, the authority over His
creation. 

1086
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:42,240
Then it recognizes God as wise 
counselor. 

1087
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:45,880
We need His wise counsel. 
We need His wisdom constantly. 

1088
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:48,720
We need His understanding. 
From His word, every single 

1089
01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:50,480
moment of every single day of 
our life. 

1090
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:55,880
Then a true biblical view of God
recognizes God as loving 

1091
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:58,440
comforter. 
We need His love and we need His

1092
01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:02,280
comfort, and thankfully, He 
brings us His love in the form 

1093
01:03:02,560 --> 01:03:06,400
of that comfort, comforting us, 
leading us, and guiding us, 

1094
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:10,040
shepherding our soul as that 
great shepherd that He is. 

1095
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:16,920
We can agree with the psalmist 
in Psalm 23 that the Lord is my 

1096
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,520
shepherd. 
I shall not be in one. 

1097
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:26,840
I'll recognize God is loving 
comforter, and fourthly, 

1098
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:29,280
recognize God as merciful 
Christ. 

1099
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:33,880
Where would we be without the 
mercy of Christ had He not let 

1100
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:39,840
His compassion come unto me? 
I would spend an eternity in 

1101
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:42,600
hell under the wrath and the 
judgment of God, and rightfully 

1102
01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:46,880
so, because I would deserve 
every single ounce of it. 

1103
01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:50,120
Or recognize God as merciful 
Christ. 

1104
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:53,560
If you have not surrendered to 
Christ yet in your life, 

1105
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:55,720
recognize Him and surrender to 
Him today. 

1106
01:03:56,560 --> 01:04:00,400
And then lastly, recognize God 
as mighty conqueror. 

1107
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:03,040
Stop taking matters into your 
own hands, shut your mouth and 

1108
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:05,000
just trust God to defend the 
righteous. 

1109
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:07,240
He always does and He always 
will. 

1110
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:11,960
So did the believer. 
I asked you the simple question,

1111
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:13,280
do you have a biblical view of 
God? 

1112
01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:16,880
I told the man before we met, 
before we began the service, 

1113
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:19,440
when we met out in the foyer. 
I actually told them, Some of 

1114
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:21,640
you are going to realize that 
you have some ideas about God 

1115
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:25,240
that aren't correct. 
I pray that God would correct 

1116
01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:27,800
those ideas and you can actually
leave. 

1117
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:30,040
You're saying, yes, I do have a 
biblical view of God. 

1118
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:33,960
I no longer adhere to an 
unbiblical view of God. 

1119
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:36,800
No, I no longer desire to have 
an unbiblical view of God. 

1120
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:39,440
Everything that I want to know 
about God I know I can find in 

1121
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:44,240
Scripture and there's where I'm 
going to find my answers for the

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01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:47,400
unbeliever. 
You're still in an unbelieving 

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and sinful state. 
And you're proving. 

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That every single moment of your
life. 

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And you're proving that by that 
you don't have a biblical view 

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of God. 
Because if you did, if you had a

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biblical view of God, you would 
repent of your sin. 

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Why? 
Because Christ has commanded 

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that we repent. 
If you had a biblical view of 

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God, you would repent of your 
sin, and you would turn by faith

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to Jesus as your Lord and 
Savior. 

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Why? 
Because God commands that we do 

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so, and a biblical view of God 
was surrender to Christ as Lord 

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and Savior. 
You don't have a biblical view 

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of God because you don't value 
His word. 

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You don't value his commands. 
You don't have a biblical view 

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of God, therefore you're not 
reconciled with God. 

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You have not been forgiven of 
your sin. 

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You do not have eternal life, 
and unless you repent and turn 

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to Christ, you will never have 
either. 

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My prayer today is this, that 
you would cry out to God in 

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desperation, asking Him to let 
His mercy and His compassion 

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flow upon you today. 
That He would wash you and that 

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He would cleanse you of all of 
your sin and all of your 

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defilement. 
All the things that you've done 

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in your life and said in your 
life that are offensive to His 

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Holiness, and that today you 
would be restored and reconciled

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to your Creator. 
Would you see God for who He is 

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today? 
Would you a God who loved 

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sinners in such a way that He 
sent His only begotten Son to 

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this earth to rescue all who 
would believe and trust in Him? 

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Would you believe and would you 
trust in Him today? 

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The trust in a Savior who went 
to a cross and who died to 

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display the compassion and the 
love that the Lord has for His 

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own. 
Would you surrender to that love

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01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:49,920
today by surrendering to Christ,
the lover of your soul, receive 

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His mercy and his forgiveness 
and the eternal life that he and

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he alone as promised. 
Let's pray together. 

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Father, in the name of Jesus, we
thank you now for your word. 

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We thank you. 
Thank you for this group of 

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people who have endured the 
entirety of this. 

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But I know that it will 
accomplish everything that you 

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have set out in your sovereign 
plan for it to accomplish. 

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Lord, I ask that you would draw 
sinners unto yourself for 

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forgiveness and eternal life in 
Christ, that you would quicken 

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01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:26,680
them to new life and to faith 
that they would believe and 

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trust in Jesus as Lord and 
Savior today by that faith that 

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you've given them. 
God, I pray for the Saint who's 

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here who's let all the 
indoctrination of the world skew

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their view of you. 
God, I pray that they no longer 

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accept that, but they would 
wholeheartedly turn to Your 

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Word, just as the psalmist has 
shown us today. 

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They would turn to Your Word and
gain wisdom and understanding 

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01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:55,680
into who You really are, and 
they would worship You properly.

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01:07:57,240 --> 01:08:01,480
Holy Spirit, we invite you now 
to do what only you can do. 

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Convict the hearts of men, 
transform them into what it is 

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that you desire for them. 
And we pray and we ask all these

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things in the mighty name of 
Jesus. 

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Amen. 
You have been listening to Key 

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Life Fellowships Pulpit Ministry
podcast. 

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01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:25,640
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01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:28,479
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