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The pathway to praise is the the
most joyful journey you can ever

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travel and we have had the 
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pathway to praise. 
Your journey began the day you 

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confess Jesus Christ as as Lord 
and Savior on that day when you 

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gave your your life to Christ. 
The Bible tells us that in 

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Isaiah 4321 that the Lord was 
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that the people that He's formed
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his praise. 
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pathway of praise began when you
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Later Isaiah would say in Isaiah
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come, He would clothe you with a
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He would clothe you with the 
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called the the robes of 
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So because our Lord has wrapped 
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can't help but praise His 
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So Isaiah would go on to say in 
Isaiah chapter 61 that he would 

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praise the name of the Lord, and
that his soul would exult in God

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simply because He was clothed 
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And so we have several months 
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components of the pathway to 
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We began looking at the 
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you move from there to look at 
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And then we looked at the 
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along with the prerequisites of 
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praise. 
And we even looked at a portrait

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of praise in the Scriptures. 
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we have looked at what we've 
called the perpetuity of praise,

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that is the state or quality 
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Because praise is that which 
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For once you leave this life and
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will be perfect and your praise 
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But until that day, we we 
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It's a pathway that's marked by 
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praise, continual praise. 
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are to rejoice always. 
Philippians 4. 

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First Thessalonians chapter 5 
the Bible says we're to give 

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thanks in everything. 
First Thessalonians chapter 5 

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we're to give thanks for 
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That's Ephesians chapter 5. 
The Bible says in Psalm 119 that

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seven times a day I will praise 
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The Bible also says in Psalm 113
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to its setting, I will praise 
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In Psalm 63 the psalmist says I 
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all day long. 
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says I will sing to the Lord all
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tells us these words. 
I will bless the Lord at all 

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times, and His praise shall 
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So over and over again the Bible
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giving thanks to God and 
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happen all day long, 
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on this planet, until of course,
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praise then will be perfected. 
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it that I can perpetually praise
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constantly go through trials and
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How can I continue to give 
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I missed all of my pain and all 
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can rejoice always when I find 
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difficulties and all kinds of 
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And so we have sought to answer 
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And so by looking at the 
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asking the question, how is it I
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praise no matter what happens in
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issues come to me, no matter how
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day-to-day, whether it's hard 
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work or hard at school or just 
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How is it I can live a life of 
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And so three weeks ago we began 
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because God's power is always 
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Power belongs to God. 
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the Holy Spirit comes upon you, 
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And God has not given us a 
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of power. 
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And that power that God has is 
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unparalleled power that's always
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So I can live a life of 
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power of God. 
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promises of God are undeniable. 
All the promises of God are, are

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yes, in Christ Jesus. 2nd 
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that God gives is yes, in a son,
in other in other words, his Son

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So whether it's the promise of 
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whether it's the promise of of 
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whether it's the promise of his 
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They're undeniable. 
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available, His promises are 
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In other words, even though you 
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shadow of death, you fear no 
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For thou art with me, thy rod. 
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comfort me. 
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So no matter where you go, the 
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matter where I am, you are 
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So our Lord says, I am with you 
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unavoidable, I am able to live a
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And then we said #4 His 
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The details in which God works 
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Things are happening in you, 
around you all the time that God

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has orchestrated everything. 
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it's unsearchable. 
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unfathomable. 
You, you can't wrap your arms 

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around it. 
So it causes you to trust Him 

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amidst the pathway of praise. 
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each day. 
And Paul said in Romans 1136 

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that everything is from God. 
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everything comes through God. 
To Him be the glory forever and 

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ever. 
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So we can say, as Paul said in 
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will work together for good to 
those who are called according 

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to his purpose, to those who 
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will all come together for good.
I might not be able to piece 

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them all together, but that's 
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God does all that, so His 
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I just trust Him to work out all
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for my good. 
And then #5 we said his pardon 

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is invaluable. 
Because inevitably as you 

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journey along the pathway of 
praise, you, you find yourself 

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doubting God. 
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God. 
You find yourself sinning 

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But his pardon is invaluable. 
Bless the Lord, O my soul and 

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all that is within me. 
Bless His holy name and forget 

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none of his benefits. 
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mentions is he pardons all your 
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And because God is so willing to
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help but praise His glorious 
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Because my sin is perpetual and 
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always invaluable. 
I praise His name because I know

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that when I go to Him, he 
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And then we said that is 
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Second Corinthians 915 thanks 
being to God for his 

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indescribable gift and the gift 
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Jesus Christ our Lord. 
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It's inexhaustible, it's 
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eternal life, the life that God 
gives, and because that's His 

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provision for you and me, we 
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We can't help but praise them 
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So because His, his provision is
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that's the next point, is 
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worthy of praise. 
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Because he's the God of life, 
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He is the God who is Lord of 
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Lamb, who is everything. 
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perpetually praise his name. 
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That's the number of perfection,
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But I'm not done yet. 
So I'm going to give you 3 more 

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today, three more principles 
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pathway of praise, to be able to
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God. 
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His precepts are desirable. 
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So when the psalmist says in 
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#164 he says 7 times a day, I 
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Why? 
Because of your righteous 

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ordinances. 
The psalmist says I praise you 7

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times a day and we talked about 
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It it's not that there are 7 
schedules throughout the day in 

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which you praise the Lord. 
It just speaks of the perfection

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and completion of 1's praise to 
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But his praise is around God's 
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I'm going to praise you because 
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statutes, your law, your 
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They're perfect and I will 
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Put me in your Bible to Psalm 
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Psalm 19, a very familiar Psalm,
but because of its familiarity, 

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so many times we we miss the the
the impact of the Psalm 

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specifically in our lives. 
So in Psalm 19, the psalmist 

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says this in verse #7 the law of
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the soul. 
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It converts the soul, soul. 
It restores the soul, it saves 

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the soul. 
The testimony of the Lord is 

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sure making wise the simple then
verse 8 the precepts of the Lord

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are right rejoicing the heart 
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God's precepts. 
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In fact, he goes on to say these
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He says the commandment of the 
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eyes, the fear of the Lord is 
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judgments of the Lord are true. 
They are righteous altogether. 

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They are more desirable than 
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so sweeter also than honey and 
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Moreover, by then your servant 
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And keeping them there is great 
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The precepts of God are are 
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Why? 
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rejoice. 
And David says they are more 

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desirable than gold. 
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Sweeter also than the honey and 
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And when I keep them, I'm warned
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for. 
And in keeping them, there is 

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great reward. 
Not not just a reward, but great

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reward. 
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what the psalmist says about why
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desirable, and this becomes 
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if you are going to perpetually 
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He says this in verse 14. 
I have rejoiced in the way of 

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your testimonies as much as in 
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I have rejoiced in your 
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your commandments as much as in 
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And then he says this. 
I will meditate in your precepts

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in regard to ways. 
I shall delight in your 

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statutes. 
I shall not forget your word. 

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Verse 24, your testimonies also 
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They're my counselors. 
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God because they counsel me. 
They give me wisdom, they make 

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wise the simple. 
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He says in, in verse #35 make me
walk in the path of your 

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commandments, for I delight in 
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Verse 47, I shall delight in 
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and I shall lift up my hands to 
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I'm going to lift up my hands. 
I, I'm going to praise your 

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name. 
I'm going to honor you because I

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love your commandments, simply 
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delight. 
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of Psalm 119. 
The law of your mouth is better 

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to me than thousands of gold and
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Wow, how many, how many of us 
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He says in verse #92 If your law
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have perished in my affliction. 
Verse 111 I've inherited your 

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testimonies forever, for they 
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Then look at verse #127 
Therefore I love your 

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commandments above gold. 
Yes, above fine gold. 

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Verse 143. 
Trouble and anguish have come 

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upon me yet. 
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delight. 
Verse 162 I rejoice at your word

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as one who finds great spoil 
verse #174 I long for your 

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salvation, O Lord, and your law 
is my delight. 

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Let my soul live that it may 
praise you. 

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Wow, how many of us can actually
say what the psalmist said, that

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the law of God is more precious 
to me, more valuable to me, more

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treasurable to me than thousands
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pieces? 
Isaiah and Isaiah chapter 42, 

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verse #21 said this. 
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righteousness sake to make the 
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Because of the righteousness of 
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He made his law glorious. 
So the psalmist says, I have 

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treasured your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against 

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Thee. 
I rejoice in the way of your 

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commandments because they 
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Everything about what the 
psalmist is saying is that God's

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word is more valuable to him 
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So Proverbs Solomon comes along 
the Proverbs and says in 

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Proverbs 2323, buy truth and 
never sell it. 

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In other words, purchase that, 
use all that you have, give all 

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that you have to to purchase 
that which is the most valuable 

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thing on the planet and never 
compromise it. 

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Never sell it, never get rid of 
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It's the most valuable thing 
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Buy truth, never sell it, 
because truth is everything. 

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But for the most part we can't 
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something or someone more 
valuable to us than the truth of

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the Word of God. 
And if there is, there is no way

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on God's green earth you can 
continue in perpetual praise 

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because that's something or 
someone will disappoint you 

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somewhere along the line. 
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His commandments will not. 
In fact, it was Job, the most 

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righteous man on the planet, the
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man who lost everything. 
Literally. 

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He lost everything. 
Except for two things, his wife 

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and his life. 
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Nothing left. 
Nothing was left. 

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His business gone. 
His home gone. 

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His livestock gone. 
His children, gone. 

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Everything. 
His health worse than anything 

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you can ever imagine, all gone, 
sitting in a garbage dump in 

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ashes with no encouragement from
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She only speaks once and her 
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and die. 
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No support from his wife, no 
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they are continually condemning 
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in his life for him to be in 
such turmoil. 

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No prayer group to come around 
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amidst his hardship and pain. 
He has nothing. 

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And when I say nothing, I mean 
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He says his words. 
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commandments of his lips, for 
I've treasured the words of his 

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mouth more than my necessary 
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That's what Job says. 
I've treasured the words of his 

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mouth more than his necessary 
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There. 
There is nothing I value more 

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than what God has already said. 
And remember, Job didn't have a 

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Bible to read. 
You do. 

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But he treasured the word of God
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Meaning that God's Word was 
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Amidst all the pain he 
experienced, amidst all the 

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tragedy that he faced, amidst 
all the emotional turmoil of a 

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wife that will not support him, 
he had the word of the living 

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God and he treasured that more 
than His necessary food. 

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How about you? 
What do you treasure more than 

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the word of God? 
What do you value more than the 

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truth of God? 
You see, as you travel the 

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pathway to praise, there is all 
kinds of obstacles that you will

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face. 
Unless God's precepts are 

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desirable to you, you will throw
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You will begin to moan and groan
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bellyache in search for 
something or someone else to 

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fill the void in your life. 
What's the word of God that does

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that? 
Moses had told the nation of 

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Israel toward the end of his 
life as he gave the last words 

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in Deuteronomy 32, he says, what
I'm saying to you are are are 

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not empty words, They're not 
vain words, they're not idle 

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words. 
The words I'm giving to you, 

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they actually are your very 
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They're your life. 
So Christ says in Matthew 4, man

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shall not live by bread alone, 
but by every word that proceeds 

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from the mouth of God. 
We can quote that, but I'm not 

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sure we believe that. 
You see, if something is more 

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desirable to you or someone is 
more desirable to you, then then

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the truth of God's Word, you 
will not praise the name of the 

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Lord. 
But when God's word is 

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everything valuable, so 
valuable, you can't wait to 

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meditate upon it. 
You can't wait to read it. 

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You can't wait to study it. 
You can't wait to sit under the 

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teaching of it. 
It's like the psalmist says, I 

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run the way of your 
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I am actually running all the 
way of your commandments that I 

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might hear them, see them, 
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I am running that way. 
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don't even walk that way, let 
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Yet we wonder why, why I go 
through life and, and I can't 

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muster up the power to praise 
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It's simply because, and it's 
just this simple. 

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It's not rocket science. 
There's something more desirable

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to you than the Word of God. 
It's someone else or something 

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else. 
But it is something other than 

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the truth of the Word of God. 
His precepts are desirable. 

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When we recognize that 
everything changes, my 

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perspective changes, my attitude
changes, and my circumstances 

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will will not change. 
But they don't need to change. 

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My situation is not going to 
change, but it doesn't need to 

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change. 
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Because at the psalmist said, if
your commandments had not been 

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the delight of my soul, I would 
have perished in my affliction. 

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We read it earlier when you are 
perishing under your affliction,

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when you were able to, unable to
hold your head above water, when

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the anxieties of life are 
weighing you down so much that 

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you can't handle the 
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It's because there is something 
or someone else that's more 

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desirable to you than the 
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It's just that simple. 
Just look at Joe. 

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Compare your life to Joe. 
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Why can't you do that? 
Because you will never suffer 

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what Job suffer never will. 
But He recognized the value of 

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the Word that came from the lips
of His God, and He had nothing 

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compared to what you and I have.
By holding in our hands the 

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living and abiding truth of God,
which leads to point #9 and that

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is, His peace is attainable. 
His peace is attainable. 

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Now listen carefully, because it
falls right on the heel of the 

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previous one. 
Psalm 119, 165 says it this way.

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Those who love your law have 
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them to stumble. 
You see that those who love your

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law have great peace. 
It falls right on the heels of 

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verse 164. 
Seven times a day I will praise 

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you because of your righteous 
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And those who love your law, 
they have great peace. 

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Listen, amidst all of your 
anxiety, if you're not at peace,

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there is a simple solution. 
You do not love the law of God 

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like you think you do because 
the Bible says those who love 

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the law of God have great peace 
and nothing causes them to 

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stumble. 
You can say whatever you want to

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say. 
You can give whatever excuse you

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want to give. 
It does not hold water when it 

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comes to the truth of the living
God. 

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God's word is true and He says 
that those who love the law of 

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God have great peace. 
Not just peace, they have great 

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peace. 
And amidst all your anxiety, 

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amidst all your difficulty, 
amidst all the issues you go 

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through day after day after day,
peace is attainable. 

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That's why you praise His name, 
because it's His peace. 

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My peace I give unto you, not as
the world gives. 

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So whatever the world has, they,
they can't duplicate this, they 

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can't imitate this. 
They, they can't, they, they 

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can't do anything to give you 
the peace that I can give you, 

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because I'm going to give you my
peace. 

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My peace I'm going to give you. 
And so the Kingdom of God is 

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what righteousness, peace and 
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It's not eating and drinking. 
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God is not centered around your 
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It's all centered around your 
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What's happening on the inside 
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righteousness. 
And those who are righteous have

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peace, and those who have peace 
have joy. 

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See that. 
And so those who love thy law 

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have great peace. 
Let me ask you a question. 

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Do you have that? 
Do you have great peace in your 

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soul? 
The Bible says these words in 

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the book of Isaiah. 
Isaiah is speaking to a nation 

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just about to go into captivity,
and he gives prophecy concerning

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the future and what the future 
has for them. 

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And Isaiah 26 verse #1 he says 
in that day. 

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And that is a phrase that 
describes the the day of the 

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Lord, the time of tribulation, 
the time in which God is going 

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to destroy Israel's enemies and 
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In that day. 
This song will be sung in the 

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land of Judah. 
We have a strong city. 

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He sets up walls and ramparts 
for security. 

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We have a strong city. 
He's protected us. 

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He's put up the walls and 
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Song that will be sung. 
Open the gates the righteous 

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nation may enter. 
The one that remains faithful. 

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The steadfast of mind. 
You will keep in perfect peace 

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those whose mind is fixed on 
you, those whose mind is 

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completely focused on you, you 
will keep in perfect peace, 

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peace, peace. 
In the Hebrew, it's the 

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constancy of God's peace. 
It cannot be imitated. 

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It cannot be copied. 
The world cannot give it. 

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No amount of money will suffice.
No amount of relationships will 

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suffice. 
Only the God of peace, the 

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steadfast of mine, you will keep
in perfect peace. 

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Because He trusts in you. 
His peace is attainable, but you

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most completely focus upon Him 
so that you will only trust Him 

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and no one else, and nothing 
else. 

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For in God the Lord, we have an 
everlasting rock. 

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Let me ask you a question today.
Do you have peace in your soul? 

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You have peace because you're no
longer an enemy of God, but 

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you're now a friend of God 
because you've been reconciled 

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to God, that you are now a child
of the Kingdom of God. 

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Is that you? 
Do you have that kind of peace? 

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You have the kind of peace that 
allows you to live in situations

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and circumstances that even 
though they're they're filled 

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with turmoil and filled with all
kinds of difficulty. 

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Your soul is at rest because it 
trusts in the Lord. 

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It waits upon the Lord. 
It's at peace, inner peace. 

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The Bible says in the book of 
Romans. 

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I'm sorry, the book of Second 
Thessalonians. 

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My bad. 
Second Thessalonians 3 verse 

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number #16 Now may the Lord of 
peace himself continually grant 

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you peace in every circumstance.
What a prayer. 

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Now may the the Lord of peace 
grant you peace in every 

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circumstance, in every 
situation. 

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May you be at peace in your 
soul. 

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May you be at rest in your soul 
because you trust in the Lord 

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who is your rock. 
His peace is attainable. 

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The steadfast mind will be kept 
in in perfect peace, will be 

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kept in the kind of peace that 
God himself experienced while he

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went through trials in this 
life. 

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Because God's peace is 
attainable. 

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I can't help but praise Him. 
I can't help but thank Him. 

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I can't help but rejoice in the 
name of God. 

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Perpetual praise happens because
because His precepts are 

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desirable. 
More desirable than than fine 

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gold, Yes, then the drippings of
the honeycomb, more valuable to 

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me than thousands of gold and 
pieces of silver than all the 

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spoils in the world. 
Because his precepts are 

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desirable. 
His peace, then, is attainable 

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because great peace have those 
who love. 

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Thy law. 
If you do not have peace, it's 

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because you love something more 
than you love the law of God. 

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If if you have something more 
desirable to you than the 

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presets of God, you will not 
praise His name. 

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You just won't. 
But if they are, then praise is 

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given 7 times a day. 
From the rising of the sun to 

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the to it's setting. 
The name of the Lord will be 

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praised and #10 this will be our
last one. 

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I have many, many more, but I 
don't want to have a the 

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perpetuity of sermons on the 
same subject, so I'm going to 

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give you the last one. 
OK, listen carefully. 

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It has to be AP word because all
the other ones begin with P, 

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right? 
So here it goes. 

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Listen carefully. 
His parocia is inescapable. 

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His parocia? 
What is that? 

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It's just coming. 
It's the word in the Greek that 

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describes the coming of God and 
the subsequent presence. 

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So you can actually say his, his
second coming is inescapable. 

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But to maintain the 
alliteration, his parousia is 

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inescapable. 
His, his coming again is without

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a doubt our our Lord is coming 
again. 

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And if this doesn't help you 
learn to praise the name of the 

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Lord perpetually, then I have no
hope for you because everything 

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centers on the future in the 
coming Kingdom of God. 

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That one day we will see Him 
face to face and we'll be like 

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him, for we'll see Him as He is.
And every, every New Testament 

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writer had this hope in him. 
This was the anticipation that 

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motivated them to live for the 
glory of God, to keep their 

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lives pure before God, knowing 
that Jesus could come at any 

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moment. 
They they live in anticipation 

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of that. 
It is the, the glorious 

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appearing of our great God and 
Savior, Jesus Christ our Lord. 

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So many times you, you talk 
about the coming of Jesus and 

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you talk about his return and, 
and, and people, people can 

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become numb to that. 
I don't understand that because 

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the crown of righteousness is 
available to all those who long 

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for his appearing. 
There should be this longing in 

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your in your heart, this line in
your soul to to lead this life 

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and enter into God's glorious 
presence should motivate us. 

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And Paul would say these words 
very familiar to us. 

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First Thessalonians 4 verse #16 
For the Lord himself will 

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descend from heaven with a 
shout, with the voice of the 

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Archangel, and with the trumpet 
of God. 

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And the dead in Christ will rise
first. 

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Then we who are alive and remain
will be caught up together with 

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them in the clouds to meet the 
Lord in the air. 

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So shall we always be with the 
Lord. 

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Therefore comfort one another 
with these words. 

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With what words? 
The words of the arrival of the 

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Messiah. 
He's going to come. 

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And those who have already died 
in Christ, those of you who've 

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had husbands or wives, who have 
already gone to the presence of 

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the Lord, they're bodies of rise
first. 

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And we who are alive remain, 
shall be caught up together with

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him in the clouds, in the air. 
And so shall we ever be with the

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Lord. 
That great reunion and glory. 

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His parousia is inescapable. 
It's coming, it could be at any 

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moment. 
And for those who do not live in

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light of his return, those who 
do not love His return, those 

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who do not long for His return, 
will have a hard time living a 

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life of perpetual praise. 
But those who do, they wake 

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every morning from the rising of
the sun to its setting. 

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Today could be the day Jesus 
could come at any moment, and 

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we're always living in 
anticipation of that. 

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We praise the fact that because 
we're his children, that one day

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we will be with Him for all 
eternity. 

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May God give us the grace to 
understand these principles so 

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that as we travel the pathway to
praise, our praise for Him will 

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be perpetual. 
Let's pray together. 

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Lord God, we thank you for 
today. 

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We thank you, Lord, that we've 
had this opportunity to be 

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together and to be reminded once
again of how it is we are to 

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rejoice. 
Always give thanks in everything

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and for everything to sing all 
day the praises of His name, to 

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magnify the name of the Lord 
continually. 

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We thank you, Lord, that as we 
open your word, you're able to 

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help us move along the life of 
perpetual praise. 

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00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:22,600
My prayer, Lord, for all of us, 
myself included, that Lord, our 

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lives would be marked by 
exulting in our God and that 

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those who see us and watch us, 
they would see a joy and 

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00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:47,000
excitement, a life filled with 
praise to our God, that they 

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00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:53,840
might wonder what is it that 
causes you to live that way in 

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such joy and excitement for your
God. 

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And we would have the 
opportunity to explain to them, 

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we are at peace with God. 
We understand the person of God,

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His provision indescribable. 
But let me try to describe it 

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for you. 
For the gift of God's eternal 

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00:48:19,720 --> 00:48:22,200
life through Jesus Christ our 
Lord. 

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Pray this in the name of our 
soon coming King, Jesus Christ 

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our Lord, Amen.