034: Max Wickum – Exhortation: Psalm 119

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Well that I remember hearing in
person and really enjoyed his

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approach this exhortation.
He’s taken as excitation from

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Psalm 119, which is the longest
book in the Bible and he even

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makes a joke at the beginning
that he was going to go verse by

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verse For his entire to tation
and to buckling who’s going to

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be a little bit of a longer top,
but he ends up deciding not to

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do that and rather than going
and looking at one specific

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section in Psalm. 119 is broken
up into little stanzas as it’s

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written brother Max instead sort
of looks at the entire Psalm as

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a whole picking out little
themes throughout it and uses

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that to build a really
interesting look at the way that

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the chapter works and some
lessons that Pulls out for us.

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He had a really neat point when
it came to talk about spiritual

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food versus physical food near
the end.

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If you’re anything like me you
enjoy really good food, but

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eventually unfortunately no
matter how long you take

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eventually you get full and you
can no longer eat the good food

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that you’re sitting down to eat
for the Mac.

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Thanks a really good point that
the opposite happens when you’ve

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been with spiritual food that
when you’re doing a personal

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study now the state is driven by
a by a talk or by class, but

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just digging into the word just
to edify yourself.

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At the opposite happens you end
up becoming more hungry you end

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up becoming hungrier to dig into
the word as you learn.

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to our brother Max for his extra
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Action on Psalm 119.
The excitation is going to be

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out of Psalm 119 and There’s a
number of ways that I’m sure

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that that could be approached
one way might be just spend, you

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know, start in verse 1 and go
through a verse at a time maybe

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spend a minute or two on each.
So, let’s see how many verses

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are there.
So we decided not to do that.

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And actually when I first saw
this great reading I thought I’m

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going to do the whole excitation
from these 40 verses.

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But then as I read through the
psalm several times, I thought

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man there’s there’s some great
verses 1 through 40. and then

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much later I thought Can I
really stay out of the last half

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totally?
But it’s not going to be verse

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by verse.
And mostly it will be from the

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first 80 verses of this chapter
picking and choosing according

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to subject.
This study like any Bible study

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I’ve ever done.
There’s the early days early

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Impressions and then later on.
And when I first started going

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through this the first thing I
noticed was that it does not

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state.
Who wrote these words who the

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psalmist was but when I was
reading it and rereading it, I

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thought it really sounds like
David.

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And later when I was looking at
some commentaries, it seems most

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people believe it was David.
The other thing that we can’t

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miss in this is the alpha
layout. in little groups of

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verses letters of the Hebrew
alphabet very unusual and hard

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to miss But if there’s one thing
you can’t miss about Psalm 119,

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what would that be?
the word of God it is said that

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the word of God is mentioned one
way or another and every single

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verse and that maybe course the
verses were added much later,

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but that shows you how prominent
It is and it’s also got a great

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variety of terms for the word of
God.

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These are out of just the first
eight verses the law the

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testimony the precepts the
statues the Commandments and the

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judgments there are others later
on, but that’s just the first

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eight verses.
As I continued looking through

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this Psalm.
I realized that this is an

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intensely personal Psalm accept
the first four verses we’re

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going to read the first four.
Blessed are the undefiled in the

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way who walk in the law of the
Lord blessed are they that keep

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his testimonies that seek him
with the whole heart?

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They also do noren no iniquity.
They walk in his ways thou Hast

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commanded us to keep thy
precepts diligently.

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So what do we have?
We had blessed are they?

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They do no iniquity.
They walk in his ways you have

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commanded us not personal at
all.

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But from the beginning of verse
5 through 176, the rest of the

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psalm is entirely personal how
personal is it?

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well When you look at me my I
and mine in the first 80 versus

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I counted a hundred and
thirty-three.

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That’s pretty personal.
That’s that’s amazing.

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And you know, we might have the
feeling that.

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That’s a self centers sort of
Saul but it isn’t it is standard

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on the word of God and upon the
Lord because when you count up

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on the other hand.
When you count up also.

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How many times the Lord and his
word come up?

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It’s even more prominent.
I counted up about the same

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except that many times.
The word of the Lord is implied

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like in verse 17 deal
bountifully with thy servant.

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the Lord deal bountifully verse
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understand the way verse 29
implied his Lord remove from me

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the way of lying.
It’s kind of like when my mom.

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Would say to me take out the
trash now.

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I understood that there was a
you imply.

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Even though it wasn’t stated.
I look at the first four verses

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as being the ideal because the
first four verses talk about

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those who are undefiled who walk
in the way they keep his

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testimonies with the whole
heart.

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They do no sin.
And they are diligent.

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So I say that is the ideal. but
then the psalmist when he gets

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personal the first thing that he
says is oh that verse 5 o that

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my ways were like that.
If they were verse 6 then I

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wouldn’t be a shame.
And I will praise you verse 7

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when I have learned.
And verse 8 and I will keep your

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statutes, but forsake me not
literally.

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And so the psalmist he starts
with the ideal and we would all

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agree with that ideal.
We would agree we ought to walk

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in the ways of the Lord.
We ought to not sin.

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We ought to be 100% All In
wholehearted.

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But we would also say with the
psalmist.

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Oh that oh that that was always
the case though that that show

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that those words represented my
life.

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But we would also say with him
and that’s one of the reasons

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we’re here this morning.
We would say don’t forsake me

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there with me forget.
Teach me. so much of this Psalm

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is about the psalmist saying
improved me help me.

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I need it.
I know I know I lack in fast.

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In fact the last verse of the
song.

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Says I have gone astray like a
lost sheep.

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Seek your servant for I do not
forget your Commandments.

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And I believe that’s us this
morning.

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We have all one way or another
wander astray one extent or

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another but we haven’t forgotten
him.

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We haven’t forgotten his word if
we had we wouldn’t be here.

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But we are looking for mercy and
Grace as our presiding brother

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was saying brother Christian.
The feeling I get about the

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psalmist attitude towards the
word is that he is hungry for

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more.
He has a close relationship with

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God.
He wants more.

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He walks with God he wants
better.

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He wants less sent less
distraction.

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He talks about God turning his
feet because they’re not always

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walking in the way, but he would
like to.

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And I think that that is the way
we are.

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We would like to be and I think
the psalmist indicates the way

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we get there is through his word
and through the Lord God himself

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who will help us.
You know in my experience what

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what has given me that kind of
hunger for the word of God.

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It’s typically when I’m doing a
personal study one of the

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brothers down our home Ecclesia
last Thanksgiving.

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We were just chatting and he
said to me what kind of a

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personal study are you doing
right now now and I said, none

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and Course I have in the past
and I just realized you know

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here I am retired.
I have the time.

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And within a day or two, I
started a personal study, which

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I’ve now concluded and I’m on am
on another one, but my

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experience is when I’m in a
study like that, which is not

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for a class not for a lecture
not to present just to absorb.

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Just to enjoy just to Devour the
word of God like the psalmist

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is.
It makes me hungry for more.

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It’s just the opposite of food.
Now the more we eat natural food

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than the less we want unless
it’s a chips or chocolate. but

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with the word of God the more we
get the more we want don’t you

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find that?
and if we drift away from

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reading the word doesn’t
naturally make us hungry for it.

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Because the spiritual things
just don’t come naturally to it.

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And when I read of the psalmist.
maybe David the number one

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impression I get of him is that
he understands he is very much a

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work in progress.
He’s an unfinished piece.

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God is working with him God’s
word is working upon him, but

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he’s far from finish.
I won’t read these verses but

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I’ll just read you some verses
and what he says Verse 18 He

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says open my eyes verse 27 make
me understand verse 33 teach me.

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Verse 36 inclined my heart verse
80 give me a sound heart and so

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many more but then he comes back
and says if you do that for me,

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if you help me in those ways
verse 42, then I will know how

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to answer verse 46 then I will
speak of your word.

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Verse 62 I will rise in the
night and thank you verse 44.

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I will keep your law forever.
So that’s very much as I see it

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the pattern of this song.
The psalmist is saying help me

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teach me and prove me and when
you do I will be a better man.

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I will be more like you want me
and more like I want me.

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Brother Christian emphasized
God’s mercy and the psalmist is

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very aware of that and its
availability.

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He says in verse 64 the Earth O.
Lord is full of thy mercy.

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Is full of thy mercy teach me
thy statutes and verse 76 and

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77.
Let I pray thee thy merciful

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kindness be for my comfort.
According to Thy word verse 77

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let thy Tender Mercies come unto
me that I may live for.

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Thy law is my delight so he
totally understands that.

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The very last thing that is said
is very similar to what he says

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in verse 5.
We read that but I’m going to

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read it again 176.
I have gone astray like a lost

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sheep.
What does that remind you of I

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mean it reminds me of the Lord
Jesus.

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He says I’m the Good Shepherd.
And he tells Parables about lost

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sheep, doesn’t he?
And what does he do?

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Well, he goes out and he looks
for them.

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He finds them and he brings them
back and that’s exactly what the

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psalmist is praying will happen.
He says multiple times do not

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forsake me. and in the New
Testament the Lord says I will

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never or say or Leave You Never
And this is the assurance that I

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think the psalmist realize it he
has not forgotten God and God is

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not going to forget him.
He is going to contain to work

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with him.
And he is going to Grant him

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Mercy.
What is it that the psalmist saw

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in the law and in the precepts
and in the testimonies that he

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wrote all of these words about
it?

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I think he must have seen what
the Lord Jesus says that the law

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is essentially about and I know
you know this he says two

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things, right?
number one to love the Lord your

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God with all your heart and all
your soul and all your mind and

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the second one to love your
neighbor as yourself.

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So David sees if it’s David or
whatever whatever psalmist it

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is.
Sees that it’s not just a group

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of you cannot dues.
It is a law pointing us to God

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and pointing us toward others.
Well this morning.

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We come now to the table.
And I love that him.

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That we play just before about
helping each other walking

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together.
And letting others help us which

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can be hard for some of us.
This morning we could have

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stayed home.
We could have broken bread at

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home.
I’ve done it especially when I’m

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sick.
But we’ve come together because

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we are companions.
I love this verse 63. of this

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psalm He says I am a companion
of all them that fear thee of

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them that keep thy precepts.
So we share many things don’t we

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brother?
And one of them is we are

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companions on the way.
We are brothers and sisters.

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We love the Lord’s word.
We don’t always keep it.

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We would like to and we say with
the psalmist don’t give up on

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me.
And we know as the Lord said I

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would never leave or forsake
you.

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And so that’s our hope and our
understanding this morning.

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And as much as the psalmist
understood and loved the word of

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God.
He didn’t have all the

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advantages that we do.
That is brought home by what

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John says.
John says The word was made

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flesh.
Well 19 is all about the word

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but John says the word was made
flesh and dwelt among us and we

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beheld his glory the glory as
the only begotten of the father

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