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All right, my Bible in 365, 
brothers and sisters, we have 

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arrived at your third book of 
the year. 

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Well, I think it's a third book.
I don't remember the order, but 

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it is the first of three or the 
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three. 
And that is the book of Psalms. 

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Now, I have to tell you, I love 
this book. 

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Don't mind my silliness. 
That's what a little bit of 

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sleep deprivation will do. 
And by the way, I got to tell 

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you this, I'm recording these on
Sunday afternoon after doing 3 

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services. 
Not that I'm a justifying my, my

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looniness, but to give you a 
little bit of an understanding 

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of how crazy of a day it's been.
But I love this stuff. 

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I hope you love this stuff. 
The word of God is powerful and 

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it's important. 
Now a quick reminder, I am going

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over five of the most common 
difficult questions that I have 

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been given regarding each of 
these books that we're going 

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over. 
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that you will be able to pick up
on the nuances that come from 

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the questions and those answers 
and grow from it. 

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Now, I will also give you a 
couple of verses or chapters to 

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focus on as kind of a homework 
assignment. 

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And also at the same time, if 
you would like to know more 

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about the background or the 
foundation or the historicity or

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any of those other things, I 
have many summaries that I have 

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already done with Bible in 365 
that you can go back to the 

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library in and look up and you 
will get all of those answers. 

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And if you want to dig deeper, 
you can go to jamescadice.com. 

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It's completely free. 
You can download my Bible 

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studies and you will learn so 
much about what you are reading.

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So without further adieu, let's 
jump into some of these 

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questions because I think they 
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they're asked by a whole lot 
more people than the average 

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person might possibly think. 
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How can the Psalms be inspired 
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emotions like anger, despair, 
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This is such a great question. 
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Psalms record honest human 
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divine inspiration. 
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psalmist to speak their emotions
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duress, difficulty, pain, 
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Inspiration does not ever remove
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It preserves oftentimes what I 
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So you can be inspired by God 
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emotion, and God will totally 
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Again, it's about glorifying God
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those emotions. 
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of that work. 
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their concerns and their 
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As a matter of fact, a prayer 
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prayer if you're not raw and 
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Now don't get me wrong, I'm not 
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charge him unfaithfully and say,
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why? 
That's ridiculous. 

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But you can say God. 
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You can't say God, I'm angry. 
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can say I'm hurt. 
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him. 
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When you lament before God, it 
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It's not a form of unbelief. 
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greatest vulnerability, just 
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You're lamenting and it's a form
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Know that God's purposes will be
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continue to walk in obedience. 
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most prominent forms of lament 
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might be found in the 22nd Psalm
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By the way, this is a prophetic 
fulfillment by Jesus saying this

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later on, He says, and that's 
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starts. 
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Psalm. 
I'm speaking off the top of my 

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head. 
I just want to make sure I'm 

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going to look this up right now 
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something wrong it. 
I believe it's a 22nd Psalm or 

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the 21st Psalm, but I'm going to
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myself right now. 
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No, that's right. 
I said that's see, why am I 

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doubting myself? 
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God, my God, why hast thou 
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It's funny because when Jesus 
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musab actini, every single 
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him that has an understanding of
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quoting the raw emotion in Psalm
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associated him with being the 
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So this is really important a a 
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because the Psalms teach 
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without abandoning trust in God.
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are so important. 
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Psalms that we see, they move 
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modeling with spiritual maturity
actually looks like and that's a

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really important thing to 
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Now here's the thing, another 
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relate to imprecatory Psalms. 
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before because I got questions 
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which I believe is an 
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prophecy concerning what's going
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that surround Israel. 
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passages that do deal with that,
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Now understand what it even 
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Psalms basically express a 
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it really is not a reflection of
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initially, but when the psalmist
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him in essence, they're not 
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vengeance for themselves. 
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So they're putting it in God's 
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bring that vengeance. 
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Lord and saying God this is the 
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RIP his face off OK? 
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God in his perfect justice will 
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do anything at all because he 
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perfectly. 
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something and let God take and 
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the right thing then rather me 
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it be the wrong thing right? 
So that's why God wants us to go

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to him raw and openly. 
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loyalty that's developed to the 
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really is a reflection of moral 
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It's very, very common. 
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the fact that they acknowledge 
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righteous judge of all the word,
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So I said worth all the earth so
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being made aren't unbiblical. 
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for judgment to God and they 
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These people, when they write 
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ultimate justice being fulfilled
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redemption, which is why the 
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ones to read. 
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that I get a lot and that's 
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Are the messianic Psalms really 
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reading him into the text? 
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like Psalm 2 or Psalm 22, or 
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Here's the thing you have to 
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Some psalms speak beyond the 
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written by the writer or the 
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The New Testament specifically, 
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identifies specific Psalms as 
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OK, Jesus himself applied the 
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action and motion, but also to 
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And the Psalms present a very 
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was later exalted, which makes 
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about Jesus here. 
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the best tool that we have to 
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points to the Psalms often times
as being messianic and spoken of

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concerning Christ on the 4th 
question that I get, and this 

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one is a kind of a mouthful. 
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sometimes seem to contradict 
each other about the prosperity 

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of the wicked? 
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pretty spoken about. 
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you'll read that will say, well,
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In other Psalms, it'll say, 
well, the wicked always get away

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with everything kind of a a 
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But understand that these 
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different moments of perspective
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different moments of struggle 
that the author is going 

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through. 
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record confusion over why the 
wicked prosper temporarily, and 

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other psalms will just simply 
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that he's going to bring upon 
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So people conflate these 
questions about the wicked 

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prospering with the fact that 
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prospering of the wicked, which 
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The tension here reflects a 
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who's writing these things, not 
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error. 
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And by the way, it's interesting
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show this very effectively, OK, 
Psalm 73 is a great example. 

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It shows a very distinct shift 
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confusion, to clarity while 
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presence of God. 
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it this way. 
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confusion that we experience and
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Lord and worshipping him. 
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question that I often get. 
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is this, this is the question. 
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or how should the Psalms be used
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how to worship God, not just 
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staged question by me because 
it's a statement that I want to 

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give you in you understanding 
the fact that the Psalms define 

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worship to us as a whole life 
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It's not just something that you
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It's not just something that you
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emotionally. 
It speaks of the way that you 

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should live your life. 
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which is what we do when we go 
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confession or lamenting or 
Thanksgiving or physically being

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in a place of trust. 
Worship involved false truth and

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involves, I almost said 
humility, humility, obedience 

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and, and, and even reverence for
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And so it's a, it's a, it's not 
just some ritual that you live 

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out, it's a lifestyle that you 
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And that's really important. 
And keep this in mind, guys. 

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The Psalms are going to always 
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it's going to emphasize any type
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So your, your obedience is going
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contingencies are placed upon, 
not how you feel in the current 

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moment. 
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be directed towards who God is 
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regard him instead of how we 
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And that's kind of an important 
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Our emotions should have nothing
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It's our obedience. 
So the Psalms sort of form the 

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theology behind what worship 
really should be, which is why I

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have such a hard time with so 
many worship leaders who are so 

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doctrinally incorrect. 
And we've seen a lot of them. 

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We've seen a lot of them write 
crazy songs that really do not 

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reflect appropriate biblical 
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And we've seen a lot of them do 
really evil things because they 

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do not pursue the foundation of 
what God calls worship. 

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And that's the very theology of 
it that I'm describing. 

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Psalms does an amazing job 
showing that. 

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Now, with that said, where I 
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book of Psalms and there are a 
couple of really amazing places.

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Psalm 2 is an important one. 
Psalm 1 is even more important 

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because it speaks about the 
picture that must be created 

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through a person who seeks out 
the word of God, and it is a 

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very important one. 
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on the 23rd Psalm. 
I would want you to focus on 

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Psalm 139 because that's really,
really, really, really, really 

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important. 
And guys, I'm telling you this 

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right now, there are so many 
other Psalms that are out there 

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that you could spend time with. 
Psalm 37 is one of my favorite 

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ones. 
Psalm 53, believe it or not, is 

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an interesting one. 
And of course, you could look at

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an example of my favorite in 
preparatory prayer, which 

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happens to be Psalm 83. 
There's some good places to go 

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to where you can learn a lot 
from. 

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And I would just tell you this 
right now, spend time focusing 

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on those things, meditating, and
you will grow immensely in your 

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faith with the Lord. 
Now with that said, this is good

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stuff. 
I hope you will dig deeply, that

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you will use the tools we've 
made available to you. 

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We have all those resources 
available to you. 

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You can dig in, and you will 
grow immensely from all of it. 

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With that said, I'm so proud of 
you. 

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You are doing an amazing job. 
Keep on seeking the Lord. 

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You guys are amazing. 
I love you, I'm proud of you and

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keep fighting the good fight.