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Want to see him someday and 
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now to see him in the 
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It's like a like a bride in her 
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that, that processional down the
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Amen. 
To meet the groom. 

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Amen. 
What a day that will be. 

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I'm going to be turning to 
Psalms chapter #1 Good to see 

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each of you this morning. 
A man in the House of the Lord 

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and I'm piggybacking off of 
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I told you last week I just gave
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kind of piggybacking off that. 
Continuing with Psalm chapter #1

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this morning. 
Glad to see each of you our 

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guest today. 
We welcome you. 

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Thank you for being here. 
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be here. 
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the House of the Lord today. 
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entire Psalm. 
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So don't don't get nervous here 
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The Bible says, Blessed is the 
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counsel of the ungodly, nor 
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nor sitteth in the seat of the 
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the law of the Lord, and in his 
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night, and he shall be like a 
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water that bringeth forth his 
fruit in his season. 

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His leaf also shall not wither, 
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prosper. 
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like the chaff which the wind 
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Therefore the ungodly shall not 
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sinners in the congregation of 
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For the Lord knoweth the way of 
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the ungodly shall perish. 
I didn't really have anything 

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better to call this than what I 
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Part 2. 
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50 week series, though. 
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it today. 
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continuation two ways, no middle
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essentially what the psalmist 
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chapter one among all these 150 
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It's presented what is presented
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It just reiterates it. 
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are there are two ways. 
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There's the way of the righteous
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ungodly. 
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Help us to pray today, Father. 
I thank you Lord, for your 

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spirit. 
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for meeting us here, God, for 
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lives. 
Lord already this morning, God 

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through our song service today, 
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to help us now open our hearts 
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and will not Lord Jesus fail to 
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God for it to do unto your name 
with the lovely name of Jesus 

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Christ that I pray Hallelujah in
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Amen, Amen. 
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in Jesus name without totally 
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I do just want to mention that 
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exclusivity of God and I know 
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maybe modern day society to 
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quite exclusive. 
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one door that leads into the 
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He speaks of himself be in that 
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Anybody that comes up or 
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ways, the same as a thief and a 
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He speaks in the book of 
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faith and 1 Lord and 1 baptism 
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above all and through all and in
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I closed out last week. 
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was even 1 and he was 1 Lord and
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So there's exclusivity to God 
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Psalm 1 picks up on yet again 
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It confronts us with that same 
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It presents only two ways in 
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echo of the ways that is 
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And in these two ways, the way 
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the ungodly, they are two vastly
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As a matter of fact, we can know
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destination, the end place, does
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not the same. 
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says that one of the ways leads 
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leads to perishing. 
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middle ground, no Gray area, no 
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And in our world today, living 
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last week of, of the idea and 
the concept of participation 

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trophies, where a world that 
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loses, every path leads to 
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candy, peak elephant type of, 
you know, idea and idea that the

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Scripture refuses though to 
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The apostle Paul wrote in 
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#14 he said very explicitly Paul
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really Olympics, even all the 
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said, I press toward the mark 
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And that WordPress that he uses,
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It's a word that it's not 
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of his time. 
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that is straining forward with 
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order to meet the finish line. 
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He wasn't saying I'm in a casual
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well, I got the I showed up 
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So, you know, pin, pin something
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type of scenario. 
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pursuit. 
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It was urgent. 
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Apostle Paul, what he was 
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this is that he was refusing to 
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finish line, refusing from 
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finish line. 
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Scripture relayed, that there 
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I know we just came through the 
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the ancient Olympic Games, there
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that person's name was recorded 
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And so Paul is illustrating to 
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way that I'm living life. 
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prize. 
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competition, though, in this 
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Christianity, that his 
competition was not another 

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runner. 
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Brother Reese and I'm not in 
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will try to pull me off the 
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I'm in competition with anything
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that. 
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against according to Scripture, 
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I'm in competition with my 
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I'm in competition with my past.
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constant pool, even in today's 
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quote, alternative ways of life 
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I go this way, go this path. 
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necessarily runners or people, 
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would attempt to divert him, 
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Because from the very beginning 
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with one another, going all the 
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from the very beginning, the 
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trying to offer humanity another
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From the very beginning, another
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All of these trees Adam and Eve 
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the tree of knowledge of good 
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and Eve. 
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Amen. 
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adversary. 
There's two ways, one that leads

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to destruction, one that that 
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And the enemy of our soul is 
always trying to give us an 

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alternative. 
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But the psalmist declares that 
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And to just boil it down really 
to what they are, it's the way 

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of the word or the way of the 
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the way of the world. 
And here's here's what is 

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absolutely true today, each and 
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And the sound of my voice this 
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these two ways, every single one
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There's no qualms about it. 
It's not accidental that in 

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Psalms chapter #1 that it stands
at the very entrance of the book

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of Psalms. 
There's 149 other psalms found 

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in this book of Psalms. 
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it strategically placed as the 
first chapter of these 150 

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Psalms. 
This Psalm, according to 

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history, this Psalm wasn't the 
first written Psalm of the 150 

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Psalms, but it was chosen to be 
placed first out of the 150 

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Psalms because of its importance
of describing to us how there 

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are only two ways. 
When you read through the 

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Psalms, how many just love 
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know when your soul was 
overwhelmed or when you're 

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discouraged and you're reading 
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There's a lot of praise that's 
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There's, there's a lot of Psalms
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It's just really David offering 
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It's almost like a recorded the 
prayer of David that's within 

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the Psalm. 
There's other places in Psalms 

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that the Bible records. 
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someone else that they're 
pouring out their complaint 

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before the Lord. 
We have these different things 

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throughout the Psalms. 
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Let everything that have breath,
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Lord. 
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takes place, the Lord is an 
inviting us as the first place 

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Psalm chapter #1 He invites us 
that before we ever utter that 

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prayer, or before we're ever 
invited in, in one of the other 

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Psalms to a place of worship, or
before we're even invited to 

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pour out our complaint to the 
Lord, He's really confronting us

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with a question. 
Which way are you on? 

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Which way are you on? 
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becoming a lens through which we
view all the other Psalms, Amen,

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that that is a truth not just 
for the Psalms, but it's a truth

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for our own lives. 
Then we must understand this 

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because every prayer that I pray
and every praise that Ioffer and

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all these things, every struggle
that I endure, it will all be 

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shaped about what path you're 
on. 

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That's the truth. 
By what path you're on, Amen. 

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And so there's only two ways, 
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And so Psalm one almost stands 
as a gatekeeper for the rest of 

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the Psalm. 
It says blessed is the man. 

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it can be for male or female, 
all humanity. 

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It doesn't matter their age or 
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But nonetheless, it arrests our 
attention because the psalmist 

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is telling us this is what this 
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What a blessed life looks like. 
This is what a blessed life. 

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It grabs our attention and 
bless. 

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Being blessed still grabs the 
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We have all the terminology out 
there, right? 

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We hear it everywhere. 
I'm blessed. 

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I'm blessed and highly favored. 
Hashtag blessed. 

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Blessed life. 
Hashtag so blessed, huh? 

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If I'm not the only one that 
sees it, surely you see it as 

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well. 
But we have all of that 

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terminology out there. 
But somewhere along the way, 

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society has redefined what 
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We put hashtag blessed day. 
I'm blessed. 

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That's what we hashtag blessed 
when everything's going well on 

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our life. 
Hashtag so blessed because the 

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bills are paid, highly favored 
and blessed before the Lord 

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because the promotion came 
through at our job. 

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Listen, I'm just saying what I 
see being blessed then is all 

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about just being being favored 
or feeling that we have been 

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favored. 
And sometimes people use that 

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little terminology, blessed just
as a way to give a little humble

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brag about some achievements 
they've made and they're still 

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trying to be modest about. 
Well, OK. 

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But Psalms is not describing the
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because of what he has. 
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because of how he lives. 
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Psalms chapter #1 when you begin
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the blessed man is the man that 
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possessions. 
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is the man who got the promotion
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going just oh peachy in his 
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It's the blessed man. 
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the achievements, if you will, 
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the blessed man is a man that is
headed in the direction that God

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wants him to be going. 
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direction. 
A blessed man is about going the

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right way. 
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what the Bible describes as the 
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which it describes the blessed 
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First you look in Psalms. 
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described by what he avoids, and
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he embraces. 
Someone say man. 

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to Psalm one, he'll refuse to 
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And there are some other things 
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to live without. 
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according to Scripture, from 
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as ungodly, and he draws himself
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Amen. 
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Amen. 
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that the blessed man walketh not
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The blessed man walketh not in 
the counsel, if you will, of 

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just the carnal world, because 
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all need to come to terms with 
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You cannot walk in the counsel 
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God at the same time. 
Years ago, they called that type

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of scenario trying to straddle 
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It's impossible according to 
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understand that true blessedness
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It's not like you just stumble 
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happenstance. 
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intentional and the Bible tells 
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exclusive for the person who 
makes a decision that I'm not 

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going to build my life. 
What's on that's what's on 

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temporary. 
But what is rooted a man in the 

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eternal things? 
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again modern day terminology, 
the blessed life is all about 

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just a life of comfort. 
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According to the Word, a blessed
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aligned with God's Word. 
And you know what there are, you

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can still have some 
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be blessed because again, it's 
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It's about direction, not 
necessarily about things and 

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accumulation and achievements 
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And so, so let's look at the 
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Before the Bible tells us what 
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tells us what he refuses to do. 
Blesses the men that walketh not

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in the counsel of the godly, nor
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nor sitteth in the seat of the 
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Do you see the progression of 
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Blesses the men walketh not, 
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Notice it starts with walking 
and then just with standing, and

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then was sitting. 
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this man is getting more 
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things. 
He's not going to allow himself 

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to be snapped food by becoming 
comfortable where he would used 

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to walk alongside counsel of the
ungodly and then get to a 

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certain comfort level where he 
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way of sinners to a degree then 
that he got comfortable enough 

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to sit down in the seat of the 
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Said a blessed man doesn't take 
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He doesn't follow the downward 
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Can I say it like this, real 
today, No one makes plans to sit

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with the scornful. 
No one makes plans to sit with 

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the scornful. 
The Bible describes the 

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scornful. 
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scornful here in this this 
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those that reject and disdain 
both the wisdom and the 

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correction of God. 
Both the wisdom and the 

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correction of God. 
Nobody just just wakes one more.

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And you know what? 
I'm just going to go sit in the 

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seat of the scornful. 
I'm just going to reject. 

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I'm just going to disdain God 
and his correction, his wisdom. 

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No, no, no. 
You know how a person gets to 

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sitting in the seat of the 
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They start by walking with wrong
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They start by walking with wrong
counsel and they start listening

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to voices among that council 
that are not favorable toward 

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the Lord. 
And so when you start to allow 

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of walking in the counsel of the
ungodly, and you allow that 

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influence to start shaping your 
thinking, when you allow that to

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start shaping your thinking, 
you'll walk among that long 

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enough. 
Before long, you'll find 

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yourself pausing and standing in
the way or the conduct in the 

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behavior of the Sinner. 
And when you stand, I see it 

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sometimes even even even as a 
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whenever a person is maybe comes
around, a group of people that 

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they're real not sure of yet. 
Sometimes you see they're a 

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little anxious, right? 
And so they, they might, they're

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those people might be sitting 
down and stuff, but they're not 

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sitting down. 
They're they're kind of, you 

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know, on the peripheral and 
they're just kind of there and 

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they're checking everything out.
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grows, you can see it even 
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and teenagers. 
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rather than just doing the 
little pace something they kind 

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of there a little bit and if 
they're real comfortable, 

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they're going to sit down right 
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But usually. 
If if there's a certain level of

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disconnect or comfort to begin 
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that. 
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comfortable, they'll. 
Just sit right? 

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Among the group. 
And So what happens, though, 

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when we walk long enough in the 
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we'll stand, And when we have 
stood long enough in the way of 

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sinners, then we'll find 
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And see, we think, well, how in 
the world did I get from here to

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here? 
Because there's people who look 

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over their shoulders and they 
say, well, I would never disdain

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the Lord to reject the 
correction of God or the wisdom 

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of God. 
And then somewhere in their life

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they find themselves. 
They're like, how did I get 

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here? 
Well, you didn't just arrive 

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there. 
You've done some standing and 

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walking before you did any 
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Amen. 
Because the enemy never invites 

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you to the table just to sit 
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He wants you just to walk nearby
1st and the blessed man, 

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according to the scripture, he 
refuses the entire progression. 

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It's not that he just refuses 
the sitting, he refuses The 

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Walking. 
He refuses the. 

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Walking in the council, a man of
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I'm not going to. 
I'm not going to walk somewhere.

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I'm not going to walk somewhere 
I wouldn't stand and I'm not 

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going to stand somewhere I 
wouldn't sit. 

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Huh. 
No, no, no, no, no, He 

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understands that his walk and 
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The Bible says, you know, that 
it describes our walk and our 

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walk is our manner of life. 
It's our behavior, it's our 

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conduct. 
It's the way that it's the way 

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that we conduct ourselves and 
direct ourselves. 

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And so he understands this. 
This blessed man understands 

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that his walk is his way of 
life. 

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So I can't even compromise on 
the walk level. 

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Amen. 
Among the council of the ungodly

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because this is the way of my 
life. 

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Look what the Bible says in 
Psalms chapter #10 and verse #4 

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It says the wicked. 
This is the exact same Hebrew 

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word that is translated ungodly 
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So the wicked or ungodly through
the pride of his countenance 

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will not seek after God. 
God is not in all his thoughts. 

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This is the type. 
Of people that counsel walking 

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among the council. 
This is the type of people that 

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we're talking about. 
Those that seek not after God, 

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those that not even maintain God
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Look at Psalms 50 again, the 
word wicked here absolutely 

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interchangeable with ungodly. 
That's in our Psalm chapter #1 

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Psalm 50 and verse 16. 
But unto the wicked or ungodly 

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saith God, what has thou to do 
to declare my statutes, or that 

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thou should just take my 
covenant in thy mouth? 

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Look at verse 17. 
See thou hatest instruction and 

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casteth my words behind me. 
This, this is the, this is the 

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mentality, this is the 
characterization of the wicked 

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or the ungodly. 
They don't want anything to do 

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with God. 
They don't want to seek after 

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God. 
They don't want to entertain the

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thoughts of God. 
They hate God's instruction and 

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anything God has to say, they're
just going to castaway. 

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The blessed man says I don't 
want to walk in that council. 

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The blessed man says. 
I'm not walking among that 

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council because what does the 
blessed man understand? 

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He understands that if they have
cast God's words behind them, 

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then they're not going to be any
benefit to me in helping me walk

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according to God's will because 
God makes His will known through

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His words. 
So I can't I can't I can't be in

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that council because that's not 
going to be beneficial to me. 

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So I refuse. 
He will not walk in their 

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counsel. 
And you see the words there in 

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Scripture that he that walketh 
not standeth not sitteth not 

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what that tells you and I is 
this that wasn't just a solitary

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one time decision that the 
blessed man made. 

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What it means is this is that he
did not walk in the council that

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got ungodly. 
He, he is not walking in the 

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counsel of the ungodly and he 
will not walk on the counsel of 

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the ungodly. 
He will not stand. 

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He will not stand, Amen, In the 
way of sinners, He did not 

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stand. 
In the way of sinners, He is not

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standing. 
It's saying that past, present 

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and future, he's not going to be
involved in that. 

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He's not going to be involved in
that, Amen. 

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And so Scripture warns us. 
It warns us concerning what we 

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rub shoulders with the Bible 
says in the New Testament, First

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Corinthians 15 and verse 33, and
to borrow the three words that 

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we kind of leaned on a little 
bit last week with the false 

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prophets that just want to tell 
you what you want to hear rather

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than what you need to hear. 
Here we hear again, be not 

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deceived. 
The apostle says to the church 

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at Corinth, evil communications 
corrupt good manners. 

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Now the word communication there
is beyond just talking about 

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conversation. 
The word communication there is 

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talking about evil association 
or evil influence, evil being in

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proximity or near close to evil.
It's about being together or in 

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contact or companionship with 
evil. 

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In other words, Paul's telling 
the church at Corinth, he says 

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don't be deceived. 
He says the the company, if we 

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can say it like that, the 
company that you keep will have 

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an impact on your manners. 
Let's break it down as they used

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to say Gerber style, right? 
We won't you be able to swallow 

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this the company you keep. 
Whether that company? 

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Is people. 
Whether that company? 

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Is the literature you read, 
whether that company is the 

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music and the podcast you listen
to, whether that company is the 

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entertainment you fancy yourself
with, whether that company has 

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any inkling of evil? 
He says it can corrupt. 

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That word corrupt is strong that
it can shrivel, it can wither, 

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it can spoil, it can ruin your 
good manners by the company you 

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keep. 
You know what the blessed man 

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says? 
I'm not walking among the 

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council. 
I'm not sitting there because 

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the company I keep has a direct 
influence on how I live my life.

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Oh yeah. 
It does, and so the Scripture 

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tells us, the ungodly as they 
are listed here in Psalm 1. 

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The ungodly was one that may 
commit a sin occasionally, but 

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the sinners are more defined as 
one who have made sin the 

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practice of life. 
And then when we get to the 

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scornful again, they've even 
moved beyond just just the 

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practice of a daily living like 
that, but they've taken pride in

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it. 
They no longer struggle with 

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sin. 
They defend sin, they reject 

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00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,120
correction, they despise 
instruction. 

452
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:58,200
And so the blessed man refuses 
to sit in that seat because 

453
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:03,560
again, he knows I cannot walk 
with the world and remain rooted

454
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:08,800
in the Word. 
I know anybody. 

455
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,320
That tries to accomplish that is
only fooling themselves. 

456
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,240
James told us. 
And it seems like we've 

457
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,280
mentioned the Scripture here 
recently on a Sunday morning of 

458
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:21,520
James four and four, and the 
Bible says whosoever is will be 

459
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:27,960
the friend of the world is the 
enemy of God. 

460
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,640
There's no two ways about it, 
all right? 

461
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,440
There's no two ways about it. 
But notice the contrast. 

462
00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:40,360
The blessed man, he does not 
walk in the counsel of the 

463
00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:42,160
godly. 
He does not stand in the way of 

464
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,720
sinners. 
He does not sit in the seat of 

465
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,880
the scornful. 
Yet there is something. 

466
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,360
That's the things that he 
avoids. 

467
00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:50,080
Those are the things that he 
doesn't do. 

468
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,360
Yet the Bible says there is 
something that he does do, 

469
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:59,120
something that he takes pleasure
in, even something that the 

470
00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:03,640
Bible says he even delights in. 
Above everything else the Bible 

471
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:09,680
says, but his delight is in the 
law of the Lord above. 

472
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,360
In other words, that is his 
chief desire. 

473
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:17,920
That is his chief joy. 
He meditates upon it day and 

474
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:22,800
night, just meaning all the time
he is meditating upon the word 

475
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,880
of the Lord. 
Look what the Bible says 

476
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,200
concerning the Word of God in 
Scripture. 

477
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,120
In Second Timothy three and 
verse 16. 

478
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,560
The Bible says all, everyone say
all. 

479
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:37,560
All Scripture is given by 
inspiration of God, which is 

480
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:43,240
literally all Scripture is God 
breathed and is profitable for 

481
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:48,080
doctrine, for reproof, for 
correction, for instruction and 

482
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,400
righteousness, That the man of 
God may be perfect, thoroughly 

483
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:57,120
furnished unto all good works. 
The blessed man is all about 

484
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,200
delighting in the word of the 
Lord, and look what the word of 

485
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,600
the Lord can do. 
It can correct you, it can 

486
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,880
rebuke you, it can, if you will 
instruct you. 

487
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:11,160
That's why you're not going to 
find someone ungodly or a 

488
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,760
Sinner, Amen, or the wicked, 
Amen. 

489
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,920
That's going to have the same 
type of mind frame as those that

490
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,040
are associated with the Word, 
because the scornful is going to

491
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,800
reject any correction. 
Hear me. 

492
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,280
That's the reason why this, 
this, this is an impossibility 

493
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,640
to walk in both ways. 
Amen. 

494
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,520
Because the word is going to 
hold us accountable and the 

495
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,520
blessed man is meditating upon 
that word. 

496
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,840
He's not just glancing down at 
just a verse. 

497
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,080
He's meditating upon that word. 
He's continuously. 

498
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:47,680
He has an ongoing, never ending 
reflection upon the word of God.

499
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,640
When you talk about the word 
meditate, that word is really 

500
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,440
derived from a modern word that 
we use today, particularly in 

501
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,040
farming. 
It's all about rumination. 

502
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,760
That's what cows do. 
They ruminate out there in the 

503
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,320
field. 
They got multiple stomachs out 

504
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,000
there eating what chew in their 
cud. 

505
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,960
They swallow that. 
Somewhere along the way, they 

506
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,760
regurgitate that back in their 
mouth where they do it. 

507
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:20,320
They're chewing on it again. 
They're deriving as much as they

508
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,840
can from that food. 
Swallow it, bring it back up, 

509
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:26,240
swallow it. 
I'm not trying to make anybody 

510
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,880
say, all right, swallow it, 
bring it back up, choose some 

511
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,000
more, Drive all the nutrients we
can, extract everything that 

512
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,480
that has out of it. 
That's the picture that we 

513
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:37,520
should get about the blessed man
meditating on the word of the 

514
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:38,440
Lord. 
Amen. 

515
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,320
He's heard it before, but he's 
going to bring it back to his 

516
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:41,440
mind. 
He's going to think about it 

517
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,160
again. 
He's going to ponder on that 

518
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,360
again. 
He's going to swallow it and 

519
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,960
he's going to bring it back up. 
He's going to derive everything 

520
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,600
he can out of the word of God. 
That's what the blessed man does

521
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,920
with it. 
He chews in the day, he chews on

522
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,520
it at night, He chews on it when
things are going well. 

523
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,480
He chews on it when things are 
going bad. 

524
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,480
He chews on it when he has a 
terminal illness and he chews up

525
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,200
on it when he gets his new 
promotion. 

526
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,280
He chews, huh? 
He just chews and choose and 

527
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,000
choose. 
If I'd say it like this, he 

528
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,320
doesn't. 
When he's walking, when he's 

529
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,000
standing, Amen. 
Anytime, all the time, He's 

530
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,040
doing it. 
Amen. 

531
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,120
The Bible says in Deuteronomy 
chapter #6 and this, this is the

532
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,080
Lord. 
And he's admonishing Moses to 

533
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,960
tell the children of Israel what
they need to do and how they 

534
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,720
need to teach and instruct their
children in the ways of the word

535
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,880
and in the ways of the law. 
And he says in Deuteronomy 6 and

536
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:33,280
verse 6, And these words which I
commanded thee, this day shall 

537
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,080
be in thy heart. 
Look at this in reflection on 

538
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,160
Psalms. 
One look at this, and thou shall

539
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:42,080
teach them diligently unto thy 
children, and shall talk to them

540
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,640
when thy sit us in thine house, 
and when thou walkest by the 

541
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:50,320
way, and when thy lie us down, 
and when thy risest up. 

542
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:54,760
It's interesting to me because 
Moses was instructed the Lord to

543
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,600
tell the parents of Israel, 
whenever you're walking, 

544
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,240
whenever you're standing, 
whenever you're sitting, 

545
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,400
whenever you rise up, be 
implementing the Word of God and

546
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,360
sharing it with your children. 
Tell them about it and what it 

547
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,600
is. 
In all of those modes where a 

548
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:17,240
person could walk in wrong 
counsel, stand in the wrong way,

549
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,160
sit with the scornful. 
God's telling Moses. 

550
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,200
Tell them as they walk. 
Talk about the Word as they sit.

551
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,240
Talk about the Word as they 
stand. 

552
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,840
You know what our best combat 
is? 

553
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,800
To be refraining from walking in
the council is to walk in His 

554
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,960
council. 
The best, The best, if you will 

555
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:39,080
force against standing in the 
way of sinners is as we go and 

556
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,560
stand about the way. 
Talk about the way, you hear me?

557
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,920
There is a counter. 
Action Amen. 

558
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:50,360
That takes place here. 
And so the blessed man refuses 

559
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,760
all of that. 
But while it's not a refusal 

560
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,440
without a replacement, he 
refuses that with the 

561
00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:01,120
replacement, with the 
instruction of God's Word, this 

562
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,640
way of life, this way of 
blessing, now that he adopts for

563
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,400
himself. 
And so when we look at the 

564
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:11,040
Scriptures of the few verses 
here of The Walking in the 

565
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,240
standing of the sitting, and his
delight in his meditation of 

566
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:19,120
chewing the cut of God's Word, 
the Bible says it gives us a 

567
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,160
metaphor. 
Here. 

568
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,320
We didn't get the picture yet in
the 1st 2 verses he gives us a 

569
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,240
metaphor. 
He says such a man, such a 

570
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,960
blessed man that avoids these 
things and embraces these other 

571
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:33,200
things. 
Such a man shall be like a tree 

572
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:38,320
planted by the rivers of water. 
Notice the. 

573
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:45,040
Wording and this man shall be. 
It becomes a future reality for 

574
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:49,440
this man. 
He shall be as a tree that's 

575
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,480
planted by the rivers of water. 
Let me back it up and say this 

576
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:59,000
in order for the man to shall be
in order for the man to have 

577
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:04,160
that future reality, he has to 
have a word meditation reality 

578
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:09,719
today. 
In order for that to be his 

579
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:15,760
future reality, he has to be a 
diligently delighting in the law

580
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:20,679
of the Lord man today. 
The reality of a future planted 

581
00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:26,159
tree is all based upon a 
engrossed man in the word today.

582
00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:29,960
And so for that for that tree to
take root, it's got to be a man 

583
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,440
that is meditating upon God's 
law and rooted in the word. 

584
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,199
And so that planted man or that 
planted woman, again, regardless

585
00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:40,960
of of age or dynamics, he's 
delight in the word of the Lord.

586
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,400
He's not casual about it, but 
he's continue about it and the 

587
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:48,000
Bible then begins to describe 
him being like this tree 

588
00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:51,480
planted, landed by the rivers of
water and it gives some other 

589
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:56,239
descriptions concerning him. 
This tree bears its fruit in its

590
00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:00,520
season and also its leaf does 
not wither. 

591
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,160
Now that is. 
Quite. 

592
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,880
That is tremendous. 
It's going to bear it's fruit 

593
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,120
when it's time to bear fruit and
it's leaf is not going to 

594
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,120
wither. 
Why is all this happening to 

595
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:12,960
this tree that's being 
described? 

596
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:17,880
Because this is a tree that is 
picturing a life that's grounded

597
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,680
in the word of God. 
And again, it's a tree planted 

598
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,880
by the rivers, plural of water, 
which in the Hebrew 2 brother 

599
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,520
Mason is plural. 
This tree has more resources 

600
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:34,720
than it will ever use. 
I like that because it is 

601
00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:38,080
planted in such a way in such a 
position, but there's more 

602
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,080
resources around it than it will
ever use. 

603
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,760
It has all that it needs where 
it's planted. 

604
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,280
Hey man, all that it needs. 
The Bible says in Ezekiel 19 and

605
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,920
verse 10, and it reminds us, it 
says she and it's Speaking of 

606
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,840
Jerusalem, but it says she was a
was fruitful and full of 

607
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,280
branches by reason of the many 
waters. 

608
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,840
Hey man, it's planted there. 
It's established there by the 

609
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,560
river. 
It should be no surprise that 

610
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,600
there's fruit on its branches 
and that its leaves are not 

611
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:12,240
withering A solitary tree by 
many channels of water. 

612
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:16,920
What more could a tree need? 
What more could a person need? 

613
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,720
That tells me that droughts not 
going to overtake that tree 

614
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,520
because it has a source that is 
abundant, it has a source that 

615
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,160
is steady, it has a source that 
is sustaining. 

616
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,920
And look to it says the tree 
shall be planted. 

617
00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:38,760
So this is not accidental that 
the tree ends where it is at. 

618
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,960
This is not like a wild tree 
just growing up somewhere. 

619
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,400
The word for planted is actually
even more correctly that this 

620
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:54,000
tree shall be transplanted. 
That means that tree was 

621
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:59,120
purposely placed there when 
anything arbitrary about this. 

622
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:04,000
This tree had an establishment 
somewhere, but it was uprooted 

623
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,840
from there and it was 
transplanted right here. 

624
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,720
Now my good news. 
For you with that today is this.

625
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:16,520
You might not be on the path of 
the way of the righteous today, 

626
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:23,240
but if you engorge yourself in 
the Word and obedient to the 

627
00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:28,280
Word, we can have a 
transplanting session where God 

628
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:32,520
will uproot you from where you 
are and place you where He think

629
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:39,000
that you'll flourish the most by
rivers and channels of water 

630
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,080
where you can have a great 
resource. 

631
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:45,040
And the Bible says whatsoever he
doeth now this tree shall 

632
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,320
prosper. 
The things that he touches, it 

633
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,160
seems the things that he 
undertakes, the things things 

634
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,680
are are are flourishing. 
It's not by chance. 

635
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:57,280
It's because he's rooted in the 
word and he's not left to wither

636
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,320
and he's not left to not have 
any fruit. 

637
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:03,840
It's just on going the Bible. 
We see this tree terminology and

638
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:07,320
imagery and other places, the 
Scripture, the prophet Jeremiah 

639
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,680
picked up on it as well. 
And Jeremiah 17 and seven. 

640
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,320
The Bible says blessed is the 
man that trusteth in the Lord, 

641
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:19,520
and whose hope the Lord is. 
For he shall be as a tree 

642
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:23,520
planted by the waters, that 
spreadeth out her roots by the 

643
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,680
river, and shall not see when he
cometh, but her leaf shall be 

644
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,880
green. 
It's not going to wither, and 

645
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,360
shall not be careful in the year
of drought, neither shall cease 

646
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,320
from yielding fruit. 
Amen. 

647
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:39,640
Again, it's talking about the 
prospering Amen of a tree that 

648
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,400
is planted by waters. 
For that matter, folks, when we 

649
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,280
talk about all this walking and 
sitting and trees and water 

650
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,120
stuff, does your mind go 
anywhere? 

651
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,680
Because my mind goes all the way
back to the beginning. 

652
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,640
Amen all. 
The way back to the beginning 

653
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:58,400
where there were people walking 
with God, there were a river 

654
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:03,080
that flowed out of that Eden, 
there was fruit upon the tree, 

655
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,120
there was all these different 
concepts that were taking place.

656
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:09,840
And so a real blessed life is a 
life that's planted in the word.

657
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,760
And so everything that we said 
up to this point about the the 

658
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:17,160
blessed man and the way that he 
walks and the way that he stands

659
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:21,080
and sits and meditates and 
delights and how he is planted, 

660
00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:23,520
the Bible is quite emphatic in 
verse 4. 

661
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:30,200
The ungodly are not so for a 
grand contrast, for a grand 

662
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:34,640
difference. 
The ungodly are not so. 

663
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,840
They're the exact opposite, the 
exact opposite of the blessed 

664
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:43,360
man. 
The ungodly walk in the counsel 

665
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,920
of the ungodly. 
The ungodly stand in the way of 

666
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,560
sinners. 
They sit in the seat of the 

667
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,880
scornful. 
They could care less about the 

668
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,680
laws of God. 
They refuse the laws of God. 

669
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,760
They cast aside the laws of God.
They don't delight in them, 

670
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,920
quite frankly, they ignore them,
hate them, don't meditate upon 

671
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,400
them. 
And then the result of them, the

672
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,520
metaphor, the simile is used. 
The result of them. 

673
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,960
Then they are not like a tree 
planted. 

674
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,640
They are like chaff that's 
blown. 

675
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:23,720
No roots, no stability, no 
connection. 

676
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,360
The image is quite. 
Different. 

677
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:31,040
You got a productive tree, 
fruitful tree, and then you have

678
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,160
chaff that's just swirling 
around in the wind, 

679
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:39,040
directionless, powerless, blown 
by whatever comes by. 

680
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,040
Warren Wears me said it well, he
said the chaff, and this is 

681
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,600
true. 
The chaff is so near the grain, 

682
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,240
but in the end the two are 
separated. 

683
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:52,360
The chaff is really the husk 
that's around the grain so 

684
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:57,760
close, but in the end, they're 
separated because that old 

685
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:01,120
farmer would take that grain 
with that husk, that chaff 

686
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,480
around it, and take it up to a 
high mountain where they had a 

687
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,480
threshing floor. 
And they get a old pitchfork or 

688
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,760
what was known as a winnowing 
tool tool. 

689
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:11,400
And he'd scoop up some of that 
grain. 

690
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,880
And guess what he does? 
He throws it in the air and the 

691
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,000
wind that's blowing on top of 
that mountain takes the chaff 

692
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,680
that's around that grain and 
blows it and separates it from 

693
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,600
the grain that that that it is 
around. 

694
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,280
And the Bible tells us though, 
even this, that if the chap 

695
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,720
isn't blown away, if there's any
chap that even remains on the 

696
00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:33,680
threshing floor, this is what 
your New Testament scripture 

697
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:37,520
says in Matthew 321. 
If any chap remains, it's 

698
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:41,120
describing again this whole 
process, Amen, of the separation

699
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:42,760
up on a hill where the wind's 
blowing. 

700
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,040
It says whose fan is in his 
hand, and he will thoroughly 

701
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,520
purge his floor, Speaking of 
Christ, and gather his wheat 

702
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,840
into the garner. 
Notice this last phrase. 

703
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,120
And it's quite poignant. 
But he will burn up the chap 

704
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:59,360
with unquenchable fire. 
No one wants to talk. 

705
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,520
About this today, do they? 
Right? 

706
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:05,320
And nobody church across America
that wants to talk about a 

707
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,640
heaven to gain and a real hell 
to shun? 

708
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,000
No. 
One wants to talk about that. 

709
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,040
Because that that like brings 
the whole level of the 

710
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:13,720
atmosphere down. 
You know, we don't want to talk 

711
00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:16,280
about that, but but we need to 
talk about that. 

712
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:20,560
We need to talk about. 
That. 

713
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:28,760
Because we got. 
Two ways, two ways, No middle 

714
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,840
ground, he says. 
If there's any chat that remains

715
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,960
that was likened unto the 
ungodly. 

716
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,320
That are walking among. 
The ungodly sitting among the 

717
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:44,360
way of sinners, or the scornful 
standing in the way of sinners, 

718
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:49,320
rejecting God's Word. 
I don't. 

719
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:51,360
I don't expect a hand clap right
here. 

720
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,040
OK, that's fine, you know, I 
understand. 

721
00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:55,880
But what I'm saying is, he said 
that champ, if there's any that 

722
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:59,600
remains, it will be given over 
to unquenchable fire. 

723
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:06,000
The Bible speaks. 
Up in the Book of Revelation of 

724
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:12,960
even the doom for Satan himself 
for the false prophet, Huh. 

725
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:17,880
A lake of fire. 
It talks about an everlasting 

726
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,360
fire. 
The Gospels talk. 

727
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:24,640
About where the worm dieth not 
and the fire is not quenched. 

728
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:28,680
Remember, you don't talk about 
that. 

729
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:30,480
You just brought this. 
You just brought this hope, 

730
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:31,880
gloom and doom down. 
Listen. 

731
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,240
I'm doing this all a. 
Favor talking about this. 

732
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:41,200
I said there's two. 
Ways you know, you remember when

733
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,120
using scorn, it's like, oh bless
God, Hallelujah. 

734
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,400
It's multiple choice. 
And why are you saying that? 

735
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:52,200
Because I got a 5050% chance. 
I'm either right or wrong. 

736
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:57,080
Everybody. 
Hear me. 

737
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:01,200
Today, there's two ways. 
This is not ABCDE at No, no no. 

738
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:05,000
There's two ways we. 
Huh. 

739
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,520
We got 2A's and, and good enough
for us. 

740
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:12,920
We got instruction in God's word
about which way leads to life 

741
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,080
and which way leads to 
destruction. 

742
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:19,000
And so it would behoove me to be
introspective about my life. 

743
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:20,280
Amen. 
Right. 

744
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:24,480
And, and see and understand, oh,
that way leads to destruction. 

745
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:28,080
That way leads to life. 
And so I'm going to allow these 

746
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,720
things that lead to life be a 
part of my life because I don't 

747
00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:34,440
want the destiny of unquenchable
fire. 

748
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,880
I don't want the destiny of 
burning up. 

749
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,520
I don't want the destiny of 
eternal agony. 

750
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:47,200
But here we doing all right. 
So we need to talk about this. 

751
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,040
The church needs to be talking 
about this. 

752
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:56,400
Hear me if the Bible. 
Declares that hell hath enlarged

753
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,280
herself. 
You hear me? 

754
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:06,880
If the Bible talks about hell 
hath enlarged herself, we are 

755
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:11,720
doing a injustice to society. 
Hear me? 

756
00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:13,600
And I'm going to get a little 
straight here for a moment. 

757
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:17,400
Standing at every casket and 
preaching people in the heaven. 

758
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,040
We're doing a. 
Injustice. 

759
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:27,520
There's two ways we talked about
last week. 

760
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:33,200
There's the broad, the narrow, 
the broad, the narrow, there's 

761
00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:36,680
the straight, the wide, there's 
the destruction, the life. 

762
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,840
There's the few there be that 
find it, and the many there be 

763
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,720
that find it. 
Hell's enlarged in herself. 

764
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:46,000
Yet in the Book of Revelation, 
the Bible describes heaven as a 

765
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:50,520
1500, a 1500 mile cube. 
What? 

766
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:58,520
Are you? 
What are you saying? 

767
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,440
I'm saying there's two ways, and
we're given here in the book of 

768
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,800
Psalms as we are in other places
of Scripture. 

769
00:46:05,240 --> 00:46:09,560
Amen, the the characterization 
of these ways. 

770
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:14,120
And so the result is clear here.
The blessed man, Look at it, 

771
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:18,760
you'd see it in verse #5. 
Therefore the ungodly shall not 

772
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,040
stand in the judgment, nor 
sinners in the congregation of 

773
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,920
the righteous. 
It's interesting because the 

774
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,240
blessed man's not standing in 
the way of sinners. 

775
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:32,040
What this is telling me is this,
it's clear you will not find the

776
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:33,840
blessed man, the Sinner and the 
ungodly. 

777
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,160
They do not stand in each 
other's way. 

778
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:38,160
And I'm not talking about being 
an obstruction. 

779
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:47,360
I'm saying they're not standing 
in each other's path because 

780
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:53,040
they are two different and two 
characteristically different to 

781
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:56,480
mix. 
And I'm not saying that you do 

782
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,520
not witness. 
And no, no, you, you missing the

783
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,320
picture on that one. 
All right. 

784
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,120
I'm not saying we don't have a 
world that we're trying to. 

785
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:06,280
Yes, until Rapture Day comes, 
that is our objective. 

786
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:11,560
But I cannot fall in love with 
the world that I'm living in. 

787
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:19,320
I'm in it according to John 17, 
but I am not of it. 2nd 

788
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,520
Corinthians 6 and verse 14 state
some of these things plainly. 

789
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:27,000
The apostle Paul to the church, 
to the church at Corinth, he 

790
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,640
says be not unequally yoked 
together with unbelievers for 

791
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:32,920
what fellowship have 
righteousness with 

792
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:35,200
unrighteousness? 
He's asking some rhetorical 

793
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,640
questions that they're they're 
mulling over in their mind. 

794
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,160
What what fellowship have 
righteousness with 

795
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,600
unrighteousness? 
What communion have light with 

796
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,840
darkness? 
What concord hath Christ with 

797
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:51,560
Belial, Or what part hath he 
that believeth with a infidel, 

798
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,800
which is with a unbeliever? 
And verse 16, What agreement 

799
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:58,080
hath the temple of God, which 
these bodies he told us, is 

800
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:00,640
ours, the temple of God with 
idols? 

801
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:04,400
For ye are the temple, the 
living God, as God hath said, I 

802
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:06,240
will dwell in them and walk in 
them. 

803
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,840
I will be their God, and they 
shall be my people. 

804
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:10,840
What is he saying? 
It's plain there's two. 

805
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,640
They're too different to mix. 
You. 

806
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:19,040
Can't have light and darkness 
because light dispels darkness. 

807
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:25,840
So there's a judgment. 
Day coming. 

808
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:31,160
Verse 5 tells us. 
The ungodly shall not stand in 

809
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,240
the day of judgment. 
The ungodly will not stand. 

810
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:38,000
In other words, the ungodly will
not be in the word is there in 

811
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,040
the word judgment. 
The ungodly will not be approved

812
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:49,080
in that day affirmed for the way
and manner of life. 

813
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:52,240
They will not be affirmed in 
that day. 

814
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:57,840
But you have the tree like you 
have the tree like God rooted 

815
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,480
person prospering according to 
Psalms. 

816
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:07,040
Then you have the chaff like 
ungodly person perishing in the 

817
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:12,040
book of Psalms. 
And again, that's not like a 

818
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:17,360
temporal. 
They perish and continue to 

819
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,360
perish because it's an 
unquenchable fire. 

820
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:25,400
And they'll have a body that can
endure whenever rapture day 

821
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:30,960
comes, huh. 
Whenever rapture day comes, all 

822
00:49:32,240 --> 00:49:36,160
godly ungodly will resurrect. 
All will. 

823
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,240
All will someday, all will 
resurrect. 

824
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,800
Yes, the church will first by 
virtue of the rapture, but 

825
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:45,000
whenever it comes, Judgment Day,
whenever that day comes, all 

826
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,920
will resurrect. 
Whether ungodly or godly, 

827
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:52,480
they're all going to resurrect 
and we'll all have different 

828
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,040
bodies. 
According to First Corinthians 

829
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:57,280
chapter 15, that which is 
planted is not that which is 

830
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,720
which comes up. 
That's the scripture. 

831
00:49:59,960 --> 00:50:02,840
You put acorn in the ground, you
don't you get something 

832
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,160
different that comes from the 
soul than what what it looked 

833
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,760
like the wet in the ground. 
And so whenever you come for 

834
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:11,640
from the ground, Amen, There's 
going to be a different you'll 

835
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:17,000
have a different body and that 
body is going to be able to go 

836
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,600
through eternity with 
unquenchable fire or live for 

837
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:25,840
eternity in heaven. 
Amen. 

838
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:29,920
Bible says. 
Again in Mark 9. 

839
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:32,760
It says where the worm die, if 
not the fire is not quenched. 

840
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:35,520
There will be a separate 
separation at that moment. 

841
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:41,360
Two ways, no middle ground. 
Absolutely. 

842
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,160
You'll stand with me today and 
I'm coming too close. 

843
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,280
So, Brother McGee, you said all 
this and then again then? 

844
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,880
Sometimes we have to be. 
Sorry and somber, Amen. 

845
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:56,480
Just to have a reality check in 
our own lives, what I'm asking 

846
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,240
us today. 
And you close your eyes and you 

847
00:50:58,240 --> 00:51:02,200
don't have to raise a hand, but 
just for, for, for meditating 

848
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:04,480
upon yourself. 
The question that I asked us 

849
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:07,120
today is this Which way are we 
walking? 

850
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:12,760
Which way are we? 
Walking I asked us today, what 

851
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:18,000
counsel are we following? 
What counsel are we following? 

852
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,920
I asked us this morning. 
Are we the tree planted by the 

853
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,920
rivers of water? 
Are we the chaff being driven by

854
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:28,880
the wind? 
Are we drifting with every wind 

855
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,600
that just blows? 
Whatever, whatever way that that

856
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,840
society, whatever the mentality 
it is of the majority taking 

857
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:37,680
place right now that I'm just 
being blowing this way and that 

858
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:39,840
way. 
Or are you taking root? 

859
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,360
You taking root? 
Are you, are you stable? 

860
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:44,640
Are you steadfast? 
Are you unmovable? 

861
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,280
I would implore you this morning
that you make a decision. 

862
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:52,400
Make a decision that your life 
will be delighted in and rooted 

863
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:57,240
in God and His word, that you 
would meditate upon that word. 

864
00:51:57,240 --> 00:51:59,880
You would live in that word. 
You would delight in that word. 

865
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:04,760
You do as the psalmist said when
he prayed, Lord, order my steps 

866
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:08,040
in by word. 
Why? 

867
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:12,560
Because I want this word to 
shape every way I take. 

868
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:14,880
Why do you want to do that? 
But I mean, that's just, you 

869
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:18,080
know, it's a Bible and there's 
66 books in it and blah, blah, 

870
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:19,600
blah, blah. 
Again, this is God. 

871
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:21,720
This is God breathed. 
We talked about that. 

872
00:52:22,240 --> 00:52:24,360
This is God breathed. 
Not only that, when the Bible 

873
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:28,160
says that the books were open on
judgment, the book. 

874
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,160
Of the Lamb's Book of. 
Life where names are written and

875
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:35,880
the books, the very ones that 
you could hold in your hand and 

876
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:38,600
read. 
Those 66 books of instruction 

877
00:52:38,720 --> 00:52:41,400
that we have right now will be 
opened. 

878
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:45,840
I think that's a good enough 
reason to want to delight and 

879
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:52,480
shape my steps by the books that
will be opened then. 

880
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:58,160
Said it for years, some comic or
cute, but we really do have an 

881
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:01,480
open book test here. 
We really do have an. 

882
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,320
Open book test here every choice
that we make. 

883
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:07,240
Sir, ma'am, I'm. 
I'm I'm. 

884
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:11,520
I'm. 
I'm want to encourage you today 

885
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:15,280
that you need to stand firm in 
God, in His Word. 

886
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:20,280
You need to walk according to 
the counsel of the Lord. 

887
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:24,720
Stand in the way of the 
righteous path that he is laid 

888
00:53:24,720 --> 00:53:26,840
before us. 
Sit if you will. 

889
00:53:27,240 --> 00:53:30,120
Sit with the wise, sit with the 
wise. 

890
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:32,320
Be rooted in that. 
Be fruitful with that. 

891
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:34,880
Your leaf will not wither in 
that. 

892
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:39,600
And then not because of your 
promotion or your achievement or

893
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:43,080
because you know someone gave 
you $1000. 

894
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:46,360
Hashtag blessed life. 
Then because of the direction of

895
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:51,080
your life, maybe you can 
correctly put there blessed. 

896
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:56,280
Because the blessed. 
Man does not do this, but he 

897
00:53:56,280 --> 00:54:00,800
delights in that and he's like a
tree and there's no middle 

898
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,120
ground. 
And here's the awesome thing 

899
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:06,760
about your God today. 
I can't make you do. 

900
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:11,760
Anything I can't Nope I. 
Can't make you do. 

901
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:14,520
Anything. 
I can't make you obey the word 

902
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:18,120
I, I can't make you, you know, 
surrender yourself to the Lord. 

903
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:21,160
I can't make you do anything. 
God is such a gentleman that 

904
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:24,120
he's given humanity from the 
very beginning until now. 

905
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:27,160
He's given them a choice and you
have a choice as well. 

906
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:31,120
He presents all the. 
Evidence. 

907
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,400
He presents all the information 
and then he leaves the choice up

908
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:37,680
to you. 
And so you have a choice, so 

909
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:41,520
that someday when we stand 
before God, we can't blame our 

910
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:44,360
neighbor, we can't blame the 
pastor. 

911
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:49,880
We can't blame. 
Society, we only have one place 

912
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:56,000
to point blame ourselves. 
You have a choice, you have a 

913
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:57,720
choice. 
You have a choice today. 

914
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:03,760
The way of the righteous, the 
way of the you have a choice 

915
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:08,600
today and those are the choices 
you say, well, I got a 50% 

916
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,160
chance. 
Listen folks, I don't want to be

917
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:15,080
leaning on a hope so I. 
Don't want to be leaning on. 

918
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:20,000
A hope so I want to go to the 
word and find a know soul. 

919
00:55:21,240 --> 00:55:23,360
And it's there for you. 
Sir, it's there for you. 

920
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,400
Ma'am, can we talk to the Lord 
right now? 

921
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:28,120
Can can we ask the Lord just to 
help us? 

922
00:55:28,720 --> 00:55:30,360
Search me. 
Oh God, I know my heart. 

923
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:31,480
Try me. 
Know my thoughts. 

924
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:33,200
If there be any wicked way in 
me, help me. 

925
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,800
Oh Lord. 
God, I know, Lord, you died for 

926
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,400
me and you shed blood for me and
I'm appreciative of that. 

927
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:44,080
God I know, Lord I. 
Can be accounted as yours, but 

928
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:47,840
God, you also brought us out of 
darkness, the apostle said New 

929
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:49,280
Testament. 
You brought us out of darkness 

930
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:52,960
into this marvelous light, and 
you set our feet on a street 

931
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:56,360
called Straight. 
You set our feet. 

932
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:59,560
On a street called straight, 
that's a way of the righteous 

933
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:02,920
Lord, there's a path to walk. 
There's a place to stand. 

934
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:06,440
There's a place to sit, God. 
There is a place to delight in 

935
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:08,640
the things of the Lord. 
This is going to instruct us. 

936
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,520
This is going to help us. 
It's going to be a manual, Lord,

937
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:14,600
a manual of guidance, Lord, for 
us in our lives and how we live.

938
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:18,000
I pray, Oh Lord, today I don't 
want to be driven by the wind 

939
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:20,600
like chaff. 
I don't want, Lord God just to 

940
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:24,040
just just just go on with the 
flow of whatever comes by and 

941
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:26,720
whatever, whatever is the new 
fad and whatever is the new 

942
00:56:26,720 --> 00:56:28,240
thing to believe. 
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 

943
00:56:28,240 --> 00:56:31,000
I want to go back to your word. 
I want to go back to your word. 

944
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,680
The truth of Your word 
sanctifies through Thy word, 

945
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:36,160
John 17 said, For thy word is 
truth. 

946
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:38,480
Hallelujah. 
There is no compromise in that. 

947
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:40,920
There's no bending in that and 
it'll be truth whether you 

948
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:42,600
believe in it or not. 
Truth is truth. 

949
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:46,040
God sanctify me by thy word. 
What sanctify mean? 

950
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:49,560
Set me apart, set me apart by 
thy word, Hallelujah. 

951
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:51,600
Order my steps today. 
Come on, can you pray to the 

952
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,560
Lord Hallelujah, you can open 
your mouth right where you are 

953
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:56,560
today, wherever you're standing.
Amen. 

954
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:59,640
Begin to talk to God. 
Order my steps, Lord, order my 

955
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:01,280
steps. 
I know God, there is a way that 

956
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:04,000
seemeth right to man, but the 
end there ever the ways of 

957
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:05,720
destruction. 
God, I don't need that. 

958
00:57:05,720 --> 00:57:08,040
I don't want to lean on my my 
own understanding, but in all of

959
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:10,400
my ways to acknowledge you and 
you'll direct my paths. 

960
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:13,760
God, that's what I need today. 
That's what I need today. 

961
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:16,640
That's what I need today. 
Help me Lord, to be conscious of

962
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:19,800
what I keep company with, 
conscious of what I invite and 

963
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:23,360
be in close proximity to me. 
God, I pray, oh Lord, I cannot 

964
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:25,640
walk both paths. 
I must decide. 

965
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,000
I must decide. 
I must decide. 

966
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:30,600
If you need transplanted today, 
the Spirit of the Lord is 

967
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:34,200
capable of transplanting you. 
It's capable of uprooting where 

968
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:37,280
you are and putting you by 
rivers of water channels. 

969
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:40,040
A resource, Amen. 
That will be more than what you 

970
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:43,640
can ever consume. 
Hallelujah, Jesus. 

971
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:47,000
Hallelujah, let's talk to him. 
This altar is open the day of 

972
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,240
someone wishes or desires to 
come and pray. 

973
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:51,360
Hallelujah, Jesus.