190: Dan Knowles – God Knows

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Welcome to good for selfie and
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stock is an excitation by
brother Dan Knowles again at the

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teat regally, Ecclesia earlier
this year, the title is, God

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knows very much enjoyed Station
found very instructive and

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uplifting and inspiring I guess.
Recognizing that our heavenly

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father does have empathy.
And anytime that we felt alone

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or overwhelmed or confused about
our, you know, what’s happening,

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our lives, God knows and doesn’t
oppress us beyond what we can

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bear.
This was a suggestion, very

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thankful to the sister that sent
this in.

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He’s do, send us any talks to
you here that are that are

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beneficial and we will likely
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Thank you again.
So, here is God Knows by Well,

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thank you Mark.
And thanks for those hoping

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thoughts as well.
And that there’s some that you

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quoted to us earlier which is
very relevant to our theme this

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morning and good morning.
Brothers and sisters.

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It’s lovely to be with you all
again here.

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To share a morning together
where we can reflect on the word

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of our god, what he’s given us
and what he’s offered to us in

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our Lord.
Well there are times in life

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aren’t their brothers and
sisters.

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When we Face trials or
challenges or maybe just

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situations that have come upon
us, whether brought Upon Us by

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our own mistakes and poor
choices or just by the

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circumstances of life. and there
are times times when we can feel

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quite alone, In the sense that
no one understands what we face.

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Sometimes we say that to
ourselves, don’t we?

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if only someone else, understood
We can feel perhaps at times,

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that everything is against us.
All everyone is against us,

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whether that’s reality or just
our perception, our frame of

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mind.
Sometimes we feel we have these

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situations in our life that
either.

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No one else understands or no
one else knows or even if they

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did know, they wouldn’t
understand but the reassurance

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for us brothers and sisters is
that Your experience is not

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alone.
People in scripture felt this to

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and poured out their hearts.
they poured out their emotions,

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sometimes despair, sometimes
frustration, even anger their

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circumstances that they found
themselves facing Yet, the hope

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is that they work through this.
They came to a realization.

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A realization that became a
calming influence in their minds

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even changed their perspective
and this realization I think can

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be summed up in those two words
which is our theme this morning.

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God knows, God knows.
And that might seem overly

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simplistic.
I mean, that’s something we

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teach our children, isn’t it?
God knows everything that you

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do.
Be careful what you say.

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Be careful what you do.
Be careful where you go.

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God knows.
But it doesn’t hurt us to

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reflect on that, and to revisit
that does it as adults. as

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grown-ups even fact, we have
grown up and to think about

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whether we remember that.
We also like a children are in

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the presence of God.
He knows what we’re thinking.

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That’s the challenge for us.
I think as disciples is we, we

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look at last issues, big issues
or small issues.

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The small interactions we have
within our family and our

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friends through the bigger
issues that we might work

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through in a collegial life.
And what I find brothers and

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sisters is that we, you know, we
can easily give or we can easily

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hear talks on the concept of God
in our lives and all these

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lovely ideas.
And yet, they can be a huge

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disconnect sometimes in our
lives.

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Between that theory between that
thought and that ideal, that we

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are all very happy to talk
about.

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And how we actually deal with
the situations that we come

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across in life.
And I think subconsciously, we

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may never think this thought,
but subconsciously, we can act

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as, though well.
That doesn’t apply to this

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particular situation or this
aspect of my life.

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Not sorry.
That the spirit of Christ can’t

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be applied here.
I just have to deal with it in

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my own way.
I don’t think any of us would

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ever consciously think, or say
that necessarily That our

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actions, not words thoughts,
even might belie that.

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We might be striving for an
outcome.

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We see is Right, a cause we
believe is the best.

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But if we stopped and examined
the way we get there, the way we

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get there does matter as well.
Do we think about how God looks

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at the way we travel?
Not just where we’re going.

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The thoughts going through our
heads of times, our personal

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responses, to what he’s bought
in our lives.

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Does he see in us a
consciousness of his being of

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his presence?
I say this because this is

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something I’ve struggled with.
So I assume that there are

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others, that also struggle with
this.

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The possible disconnect between
what we profess and how we

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actually act and respond.
What are some examples in

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scripture just to name a few
quickly, people who experienced

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Injustice, we misunderstood
discredited.

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How it impacted them how they
responded.

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Well, I’m sure you could some
examples would start to run

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through your heads, but some of
that spring to mind straight

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away, think of Joseph
misunderstood, you know,

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considered by his brothers
egotistical self-centered when

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he was in fact there.
To seek his Brethren’s, welfare.

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But had to suffer in silence for
all those years without

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objection.
They’re complaining without

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lashing out knowing that it was
God’s will.

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Moses, you take too much upon
yourself, Moses.

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The people said to him as Moses
struggled there through the

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desert, trying to care for them
all like a father to a million

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people.
Jobe.

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Jobe just accepted you’ve sinned
job.

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In fact, job the consequences
you have less than you deserve

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job.
Enjoy the new that he hadn’t

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done any particular thing wrong
that he was in general a

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righteous man, he struggled with
that clearly.

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And we get to see all the
thoughts going through his head.

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As he struggled through that
concept, couldn’t even

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understand why God was putting
him in that situation.

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But he had to learn to trust,
didn’t he?

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To trust that?
God had it in hand and would

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judge fairly in the end.
And it throughout his term oil

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on his struggles, he had these
little moments of clarity these

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truths, which came through in
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There’s one I particularly,
like, in Job, chapter 23, and we

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might just turn there for a
moment beekeeping Mark, when the

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sun will come back there later.
But joke, 23 some favorite words

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of mind and in the struggle of
jobs life, Starting from this

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base 8 of Job, chapter 9, at Joe
chapter 23.

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Sorry.
As Joe reflects on the struggles

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in his life, he says, behold I
go forward but he that is God is

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not there and backward but I
cannot perceive him on the left

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hand.
Where does he work?

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Not the right, he hideth himself
on the right hand.

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I cannot see him, but he says in
verse 10.

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One thing is for sure.
He knoweth the way that I take

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And when he is tried me, I shall
come forth as gold.

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My foot hath held his steps.
His way have I kept and have not

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declined and although I think
job is still struggling with the

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concept of how God is treating
him.

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You might say in the situation,
the struggles he’s putting him

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through.
He accepts, he cannot reject.

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This one fact that God knows he
knows the way I take.

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He sees beyond what I see.
And he can bring me forth as

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gold of the end. we have, of
course then people like Nehemiah

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who labored amongst the nation?
What about reforms rebuilt?

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The city.
And then went away for a few

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years and came back and found
all his reforms uprooted.

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What was the purpose?
What did he even achieved in his

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whole life?
At the end of that book?

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As he found people turning his
back on the things he’d set up.

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And yet, it wasn’t a wasted
life.

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Why?
Because God knew God, saw and so

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his classic phrase To God is
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Oh my God for good.
Jeremiah imagine a man with a

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mission to prophesy doom and
destruction on your own City.

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And all these people saw him him
as was a doomsayer, a traitor,

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to the cause of Israel, when he
was completely the opposite,

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imagine being in that situation.
And of course, we have David who

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we’re going to consider today.
Imagine a man who we know was

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spiritual at heart, but imagine
being written off being labeled

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in the mind of the nation as an
adulterer, and a murderer.

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Yes, God had forgiven him as
Nathan said, but who else knew

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that in the nation except for
Nathan?

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The prophet, As far as the rest
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David was still labeled with
those names.

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No longer a spiritual man.
Certainly in the eyes of people

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like a hit, the fell when his
followers.

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David was like a dog to them one
cursed by God and yet David knew

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that his own relationship was
God With God restored. but he

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couldn’t change what people
think thought of him hoodie, and

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he didn’t try to He just trusted
in God.

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And it’s only that we have the
full record and able to look

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back in hindsight that we know
that he was a changed in a

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spiritual man.
Of course, we have our Lord

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Jesus Christ, the ultimate
example.

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Yet in his day, in the moment,
the most misunderstood and

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unappreciated, man, in the
world, his enemies throwing slow

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on his birth in this
credentials, his motives

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twisting, his teaching, and his
friends and followers, not

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malicious, but completely
failing to understand what he

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was going through to comprehend,
what he had to do in his real

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purpose in life.
And so we’re going to come back

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of course, to our Lord Jesus
Christ.

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As when we conclude by what I’d
like to do.

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Now is just to take a small
sample from David’s life in the

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summer brother.
Mark read for a some water 142

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because this is just one I think
of many Psalms that Where David

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reflects on his situation in
God’s eyes?

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There are many Psalms, and many
deep reflections of David,

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brother, Mark Credit, another
one relevant, one this morning

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as well, where he reflect on the
way God knew all his thoughts.

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But we’re just going to take
this example. which is as, as it

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describes, a masculine David, a
prayer when he was in the cave,

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some 142 before we get into the
summer itself, notice that a

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mask.
You actually means a

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contemplative song.
So that means that David has

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taken a moment to pause and to
contemplate his situation.

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But not simply to contemplate it
from a human point of view, but

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to reflect on it.
With God in mind.

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With God’s view on his life.
You might say, He stands back

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for a moment and looks at his
life, through God’s eyes. in our

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Busy World, in our busy life,
when we are often dealing with

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problems by doing and acting,
Often on our own so-called

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wisdom.
Meditation is almost a lost art,

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isn’t it?
It’s something that’s not so

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much done or if it’s spoken of
in this world its context, it’s

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much of it, more of a mind
emptying thing than a

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god-centered thing.
And with we have this challenge,

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don’t lie, especially when we’re
in the thick of fast or fast

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moving or significant events.
Do we force ourselves to pause

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and to reflect deeply on our
situation from God’s

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perspective?
Considering for considering for

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a moment that it’s just you and
God leaving for a moment, other

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parties out of the equation.
Shedding those layers, those

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protection.
Those barriers that we put

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around our self and our motives,
The barriers, we might have

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between us and other people that
we hired someone out in

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ourselves and stopping to just
open that.

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She’ll Delay.
Our hearts open to God.

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It’s probably a struggle with
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that we don’t do this, as well
as perhaps we caught and people

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in times past did our culture,
where it’s stiff, upper lip, you

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try not to show emotion, you
keep things bottled up.

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But we can’t be like that
without God brothers and sisters

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even if we might be with each
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What’s the situation David’s in
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Well, it says a prayer when he
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Now, clearly there’s two cave
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There’s, there’s the cave of a
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Mm, where David first gathered
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the cave of engedi, but the cave
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Mm, seems to lend itself to this
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If that’s the case, it’s that
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inverse of Samuel 22 and it
might be helpful just to turn

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back back there for a moment.
Just to remind ourselves of that

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context.
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So, just for the context on
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before chapter 22, you’ll see,
this is, this is the time when

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David has first fled from.
So, he’s first gone to him, like

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the priests obtain some items.
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And in verse 10 of chapter 21, a
rose and fled that day for fear

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of Saul and gone to a Koosh, the
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and it’s not stable.
He feels initially that there is

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no safety for him.
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amongst the nation, no one’s
going to Harbor him and he was

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right in the sense that everyone
was was afraid of salt 1 and

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he’s his fear was justified in
the next chapter when dog.

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And and still come through and
wipe out that whole city of

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priests families and children
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David and so feeling so
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what’s my next option gas?
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this shows the frame of mind and
that the state that David was

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in.
And so now saying he jumped out

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of the frying pan Into the Fire.
And we know how things went for

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him and gath, and he ends up to
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a dribbling mess on the ground,
doesn’t he?

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Absolutely humiliated pretending
to be a Madman just so that he

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can escape from this situation.
And we know from other Psalms

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that he was at this point.
Pouring out prayers to God as he

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did.
So, And indeed, it wasn’t his

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own Ploy of being a Madman, that
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And so now he returns back to
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A dejected man.
He’s gone everywhere.

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He’s tried all human help.
The nation of Israel.

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Let him down.
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Either Human Resources, human
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And hence we have the thoughts
and the prayer that he pours out

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in this some it’s a realization
that there was no human health

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that he could rely on as you’ll
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For example, if you flip back to
the psalm 142, There was I

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looked on my right hand but
there was no man, that would

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know me my refuge failed me.
Whether I tried it in Israel or

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tried it in gath.
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You get this emphasis, don’t you
know, man, no man but I Cried

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unto thee o.
Yahweh So that’s sitting.

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That’s the setting for these
words.

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David.
Now, in this cave, About to cry

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out to God.
It’s interesting that the word

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cave itself means a cavern or a
dark place, and that’s fitting

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for David state of mind isn’t at
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He is in a dark place in his
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And so this arm seems to have a
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It changes tense partway
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You’ll notice in the first few
verses he’s talking in the past

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tense.
And he’s talking about God in in

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the third person as as him.
So I cried past tense unto

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Yahweh.
This verse 2, I showed before

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him my trouble, so, this sum
must have been written after

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David, had his cry and his, his,
his pouring out of emotion to

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God in the cave.
And the interesting thing is

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that he’s now at some later
point taken, the time to stop

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and to look back on that moment
in time and reflect, this is

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what happened and this is what I
did.

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God, I I stopped in that cave
and and I cried to you.

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It’s Wasabi speaking actually to
another audience.

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Perhaps it’s even his four
hundred followers because he

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says it’s to him.
He’s not speaking to God and

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those first two verses, he
speaking to some third party

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audience, whether it’s his men
all the readers of this.

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Some that’s what happened.
I, I was in this moment and I

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poured out my complained to God
and the next section he changes

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tents again, he starts talking
about You or thee.

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So God verse 5 I Cried unto
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Second person, o Yahweh.
So he’s now changed the address

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of his some rather than
addressing these audience in

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these readers is now addressing
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And speaking with God about what
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just shows the value of
reflection isn’t it?

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That he didn’t just go through
the moment and move on.

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He paused and thought, back on
it.

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And then wrote this, some so,
the first section Is a

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reflection which begins with
quite some distress, you can get

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the sense of it.
In verse 1, I Cried unto Yahweh

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with my voice with my voice unto
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Did I make my supplication?
There’s a, there’s a

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parallelism, there’s a structure
in the Hebrew isn’t there, which

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is repeating for emphasis my
voice.

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And the only thing that changes
in both those sentences, some

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translations, put it with my
voice.

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I Cried unto Yahweh with my
voice to do, make supplication.

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It’s just the last part of the
phrase that changes.

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I cried, I made supplication for
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There’s a there’s a lesson in
that itself brothers and sisters

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when we were alone and we’re
praying to God.

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We often probably just pray in
our heads as we say that

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speaking out loud and there’s no
one else there to pray for not

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doing a prayer for a group or a
family, but it doesn’t hurt.

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Actually as David does to, to
say, his prayer out loud to make

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his cry out loud.
I’ve done this a couple of times

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and you’ll find if, if you
haven’t tried this before, It

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does make you think a bit more
about your words bit more deeply

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and to make a more realistic
connection between you and God

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as though, you are speaking to a
real person, not just having

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some random thoughts flow
through your head. so David

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says, no, I had to voice this
and it’s it’s also Those times

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when you can’t help.
But cry out to God.

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It’s almost a first that the
word cry means to shriek.

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It reminds us of those, those
groanings.

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That cannot be uttered.
In Romans 8 where someone, I

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can’t at first as David put
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So first, I just cried, I made
this noise like a, you know, a

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child that needs its father or
mother, I just had to tell you

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God that I was in trouble.
And then gradually, I could

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actually articulate that into
words. it says, in verse 2, that

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I poured out my complaints
before him now.

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The complaint is not a negative
word as we have it in English,

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it’s probably better.
Rob rendered, my troubled

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thoughts, the any new English
translation says, I poured out

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my lament before him.
I tell him about my troubles so

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it wasn’t complaining against
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Necessarily it was an openness
David’s obviously feeling deep

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in the issue in the moment. we
just imagine, after all the

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excess that he enjoyed after the
defeat of Goliath moving up

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promotions through the ranks of
cells courts to Leading the

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Army, being a general and that a
very fast descent into the depth

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where he was no longer a
national hero – People either

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freighting to associate with him
or snubbing him because of his

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status as a runaway.
Servant, no one stood by him.

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And yes, you might say, people
joined him in the cave. 400

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people, but we’re these people
coming to support David.

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Now, what sort of people were
they everyone in distress,

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everyone in debt, everyone in
trouble. they weren’t, they were

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there to get support from David
and it’s interesting that God

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does that to us at times when we
think I need help God from

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someone else.
Will God send someone else to us

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for us to help.
Sometimes, that’s the best thing

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for us to help us out of our own
misery, our own focus on our own

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needs.
It’s one commented on my notes,

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trouble and lack of human
sympathy or help have done their

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best work on David since they
have driven him to God.

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He wasn’t brought to that point
of having no human help.

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He wouldn’t have poured out his
thoughts in this way.

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When it says, in verse 3, my
spirit was overwhelmed Within

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Me.
Then thou knewest my path in the

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way wherein I have walked have
they privily laid a snare for

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me?
But one just says of that word,

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overwhelmed that in the Hebrew,
it means was darkened.

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My spirit was darkened within
me, and you can imagine it’s as

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though the dark storm clouds of
his situation of come over him,

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the sky has darkened for David
and the ESV, he says, mice, when

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my spirit faints within me, you
know, my way, Down newest my

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path or you know my way and
that’s our theme this morning,

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isn’t it?
So what is that actually saying,

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it’s a rather peculiar phrase if
you look at it when my spirit

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was overwhelmed with in me, Then
God knew what my path was.

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Let’s seems a bit strange.
Didn’t God know what his path

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was regardless of David’s
feelings.

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Well, there’s two possible
explanations for this.

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I can see that one David
reflects on the fact that even

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though he was overwhelmed and
couldn’t see his path forward

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that God could, The other
explanation, which I think fits

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better, is that, it wasn’t until
David was overwhelmed, and saw

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that, there was no human way out
that he realized only God knows

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my path.
And we have to be brought to

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that point.
Sometimes, don’t we to brought

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to exhaust Human Resources until
we realized that it’s only God.

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That knows our path forward.
He says, in verse 4, I looked on

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my right hand and the held and
there was no man.

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That would know me Refuge failed
me.

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No man cared for my soul.
Well, the Amplified says, no man

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cares for my life or my welfare,
whether it’s his physical life

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or his spiritual life.
No one wanted to know him.

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If you know, David of you
associate, if you even appear to

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associate with him, you could
have Saul on your back with his

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army and do egg.
So either they were afraid or

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they just didn’t have time for
David or people like neighbor

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who just rejected him in school
and him out, right?

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Either way, no man cared for my
soul and so his response.

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Seeing no human help.
In verse 5 is I Cried unto thee.

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O, Yahweh.
I said Thou Art my refuge and my

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portion in the land of the
living attend unto my cry for.

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I am brought very low deliver me
from my persecutors for.

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They are stronger than I He made
this statement of confidence in

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God.
Thou Art my refuge in the land

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of the living.
Let’s let’s work through that

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phrase and see what it contains
his Refuge.

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So he’s the one he turns to you
for protection as though he has

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before.
He has no physical force does.

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He doesn’t have a castle with
walls that he can take around to

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defend him from school.
God is like he might say he’s

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his mobile protection.
He’s portion.

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He had no prospects have been
held in city.

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I mean, what, in what land or
what position is, is a fugitive

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man, who’s been disgraced and
kicked out of the court of the

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king?
What sort of portion is he going

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to get in the land and let alone
actually possessing some land as

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the other other Israelites would
actually have stability.

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There actually have a place that
he could call home and safely

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attend just the basics of Life
David had no place to call home

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at this point.
It’s like, oh, what God had for

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him was a portion and
inheritance and it’s in the land

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of the living.
In other words, if you turned

434
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that around the other way, David
saying, well, there’s nothing

435
00:28:12,700 –> 00:28:15,700
else in life.
In this life, the land of the

436
00:28:15,708 –> 00:28:19,000
living, if it wasn’t for God,
there would be nothing worth

437
00:28:19,000 –> 00:28:22,500
living for Well, that’s actually
the reality for all of our

438
00:28:22,500 –> 00:28:25,000
Lives, isn’t it?
But how often do we think that?

439
00:28:25,700 –> 00:28:28,900
How often do we remember that?
We can easily find other things

440
00:28:28,900 –> 00:28:31,000
to occupy ourselves with ought
to live for.

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00:28:31,000 –> 00:28:35,000
We might say, but when we come
to David’s point of realize,

442
00:28:35,000 –> 00:28:38,800
actually, when everything else
fails, there is nothing else,

443
00:28:38,800 –> 00:28:46,800
but God to live for so, David
says, In verse 7, he drink makes

444
00:28:46,800 –> 00:28:49,000
this appeal.
Bring my soul out of the prison

445
00:28:49,300 –> 00:28:53,500
that I may praise thy name.
The righteous shall Compass me

446
00:28:53,500 –> 00:28:56,500
about for Thou.
Shalt deal bountifully with me

447
00:28:56,500 –> 00:29:00,100
with me.
So what is David’s appeal?

448
00:29:01,200 –> 00:29:03,600
People have clearly been unjust
to him.

449
00:29:05,000 –> 00:29:08,500
So, his followers others who
should have been faithful and

450
00:29:08,500 –> 00:29:12,100
stood up to him, but stood up to
us all, but deserted David.

451
00:29:14,100 –> 00:29:17,000
What does he want?
Does he want justification for

452
00:29:17,000 –> 00:29:20,000
himself?
Does he want Vindication for

453
00:29:20,008 –> 00:29:22,100
someone to stand up?
Say look, this is all unfair.

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00:29:22,100 –> 00:29:24,200
So I was wrong.
David was right.

455
00:29:24,200 –> 00:29:26,300
David was doing the right thing.
Listen, everyone.

456
00:29:27,300 –> 00:29:30,300
Is that what he asks for?
No.

457
00:29:33,200 –> 00:29:35,900
It simply says bring my soul out
of the prison.

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00:29:36,900 –> 00:29:40,200
Release me from the prison that
that we’re all in the presence

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of sin and to death.
You see David steps back and

460
00:29:44,000 –> 00:29:45,700
realizes.
There are bigger issues at play

461
00:29:45,700 –> 00:29:49,700
here.
It’s so easy for us when we have

462
00:29:49,700 –> 00:29:52,700
a trouble or a problem that’s
come on us in life to either

463
00:29:53,200 –> 00:29:56,500
blame something or something
else in life as the cause of

464
00:29:56,500 –> 00:29:59,000
that problem.
Have we ever reflected on the

465
00:29:59,000 –> 00:30:01,900
fact that something, that
perhaps frustrates us the most

466
00:30:01,900 –> 00:30:05,500
or gets us affects us
negatively, can’t be an

467
00:30:05,500 –> 00:30:08,500
accident.
It’s probably being purposefully

468
00:30:08,500 –> 00:30:12,800
Allowed by God. is that personal
that thing or whatever it is

469
00:30:12,800 –> 00:30:17,300
that Upsets us, always causing
us trouble.

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00:30:18,900 –> 00:30:21,100
We turn that around and think.
Well, God has purposefully

471
00:30:21,100 –> 00:30:25,000
allowed that and actually
probably the real root cause for

472
00:30:25,000 –> 00:30:28,600
it is not a particular
individual group, or whatever it

473
00:30:28,600 –> 00:30:34,700
might be, but human nature and
the sin that is I’m guilty of,

474
00:30:34,700 –> 00:30:38,000
as well as everyone else.
Just us to change our

475
00:30:38,000 –> 00:30:39,600
perspective, it a bit, doesn’t
it?

476
00:30:42,300 –> 00:30:45,800
And we’re not so ready to kick
against the Pricks, if it may.

477
00:30:45,800 –> 00:30:54,600
Well, we got a ministering them.
There is none of those selfish

478
00:30:54,900 –> 00:30:58,600
self-defensive sentiments here,
rather David just appeals for

479
00:30:58,600 –> 00:31:02,500
release so that he can walk free
in the land and enjoy all the

480
00:31:02,508 –> 00:31:04,800
Privileges other did.
No, that’s not.

481
00:31:04,800 –> 00:31:07,200
The really is.
He’s looking for not just so

482
00:31:07,200 –> 00:31:09,200
that he can have physical
freedom to walk about without

483
00:31:09,200 –> 00:31:14,100
being chased by a spear.
That all my Priceline Name.

484
00:31:15,300 –> 00:31:17,900
bring my soul out of the prison
that I might praise thy name and

485
00:31:17,900 –> 00:31:21,600
you might think of another song
where David says In are

486
00:31:21,600 –> 00:31:25,200
summarized in today’s language.
Please don’t let me die God,

487
00:31:25,400 –> 00:31:28,700
because if I die, I can’t Praise
You In the soul.

488
00:31:28,800 –> 00:31:30,700
In the grave, who shall give
thee prize?

489
00:31:31,900 –> 00:31:33,700
And that was David’s, genuine
view.

490
00:31:34,200 –> 00:31:36,300
It wasn’t just old saved me
because I’d really like to have

491
00:31:36,300 –> 00:31:39,800
a nice life living in this land.
As king I’m persecuted by Saul.

492
00:31:40,800 –> 00:31:44,100
No David thinks broader minded
than that.

493
00:31:46,800 –> 00:31:49,700
Now he says the righteous will
surround me for you will deal

494
00:31:49,700 –> 00:31:52,400
bountifully with me.
So David’s got this vision of

495
00:31:52,400 –> 00:31:55,300
other people joining him not
just to support him and Pat him

496
00:31:55,300 –> 00:31:57,700
on the back and say, yes, David
you’re great, but to join him in

497
00:31:57,700 –> 00:32:00,400
praising God.
For what God had achieved in

498
00:32:00,400 –> 00:32:03,200
David’s life, that they’ll see
that you’ve dealt bountifully.

499
00:32:03,200 –> 00:32:06,800
So God would deal generously
with him.

500
00:32:06,800 –> 00:32:09,300
And we know that because we have
the hindsight of his life.

501
00:32:09,400 –> 00:32:11,700
He didn’t know what was coming
up after this point.

502
00:32:11,800 –> 00:32:14,100
He didn’t know that, he would
become king and all things would

503
00:32:14,200 –> 00:32:20,800
go well for a while.
And so he didn’t take an

504
00:32:20,800 –> 00:32:25,000
approach of anger, requesting
destruction, but rather.

505
00:32:25,000 –> 00:32:27,400
He said that what will impress
people when they look at my

506
00:32:27,400 –> 00:32:29,800
story?
My life is God’s positive work

507
00:32:29,800 –> 00:32:33,700
with me.
The work that I have submitted

508
00:32:33,700 –> 00:32:37,400
to.
That’s what turns the tables and

509
00:32:37,400 –> 00:32:40,600
that’s what people see is.
David’s positive response to

510
00:32:40,600 –> 00:32:42,900
God.
That’s what turned the tables in

511
00:32:42,908 –> 00:32:44,800
his life.
Not because he was so good with

512
00:32:44,800 –> 00:32:47,600
the salt and with fighting that
he got up and won the issue

513
00:32:48,600 –> 00:32:50,100
defeated.
The people who are arguing is

514
00:32:50,100 –> 00:32:52,300
cause made his point and
everyone agreed.

515
00:32:52,300 –> 00:32:56,900
Yes, David, you’re right?
No, It was because he was

516
00:32:56,900 –> 00:33:00,400
probably in their eyes week.
Humbled himself and submitted

517
00:33:00,400 –> 00:33:02,700
himself to what God had in
store.

518
00:33:05,600 –> 00:33:08,800
Compare his words in Psalm 31,
just turned back there for a

519
00:33:08,808 –> 00:33:26,400
moment.
It’s on. 31e reflects again.

520
00:33:28,600 –> 00:33:31,000
At a different but probably
similar 20 in his life.

521
00:33:33,200 –> 00:33:38,100
On his need for God facing when
facing other challenges, says,

522
00:33:38,100 –> 00:33:43,200
in verse 1 of some 31.
In thee o Yahweh, do I put my

523
00:33:43,200 –> 00:33:47,000
trust?
Let me never be ashamed, deliver

524
00:33:47,000 –> 00:33:50,800
me in my righteousness.
That’s that’s how he starts his

525
00:33:50,800 –> 00:33:52,100
thoughts.
Now, see what he has to deal

526
00:33:52,100 –> 00:33:55,000
with.
In verse 13, come down to verse

527
00:33:55,000 –> 00:33:58,700
13, for I have heard the slander
of many fear was on every side

528
00:33:58,700 –> 00:34:02,000
while they took counsel together
against me, they devised to take

529
00:34:02,000 –> 00:34:05,100
away my life.
I mean, I’m probably I’m sure

530
00:34:05,100 –> 00:34:08,400
all of us have had personal
attacks at times. that if we

531
00:34:08,400 –> 00:34:15,800
really had that much as David
has, but I trusted in thee away.

532
00:34:15,900 –> 00:34:21,500
I said, thou my God, my times
are in my control.

533
00:34:21,500 –> 00:34:26,400
Know, my times are in thy hand.
Deliver me from the hand of mine

534
00:34:26,400 –> 00:34:28,400
enemies.
And from them, that persecute me

535
00:34:29,199 –> 00:34:32,900
make thy face to shine upon thy
servant, save me for thy Mercy’s

536
00:34:32,900 –> 00:34:37,600
sake Can you get the sense of
David when he’s got slander

537
00:34:38,800 –> 00:34:42,600
fearing raising its him.
People counseling like doing

538
00:34:42,600 –> 00:34:45,199
really hard work and and putting
their brains together as to how

539
00:34:45,199 –> 00:34:48,100
they can take him down.
And what’s his response?

540
00:34:48,100 –> 00:34:49,600
Well, I’m going to build a couch
and plan.

541
00:34:50,100 –> 00:34:51,699
I’m going to sabotage what
they’re doing.

542
00:34:52,000 –> 00:34:54,400
Going to infiltrate them.
No.

543
00:34:56,800 –> 00:35:00,400
All I just said was Thou Art my
God and that’s all that matters.

544
00:35:01,600 –> 00:35:06,100
I’ll leave it in your hands God
and if Aunt, I didn’t presume

545
00:35:06,100 –> 00:35:11,200
that he was right either.
He would accept the possibility

546
00:35:11,200 –> 00:35:15,700
that he was wrong and he would
say, whatever is right in your

547
00:35:15,700 –> 00:35:17,900
eyes.
God that’s what should be done.

548
00:35:20,900 –> 00:35:23,300
So just consider that example
with salt, right?

549
00:35:23,500 –> 00:35:27,000
A consider for a moment.
If it was us, what’s all in the

550
00:35:27,000 –> 00:35:29,000
wrong?
Absolutely.

551
00:35:29,400 –> 00:35:32,400
He first hit attempt murder of
David murder of his son.

552
00:35:32,400 –> 00:35:35,500
Jonathan and shortly after this
he’s going to mass murder, a

553
00:35:35,700 –> 00:35:40,000
whole city of priests was David
on right grounds to object.

554
00:35:40,900 –> 00:35:45,100
And it to round up support for
him for his cause against Saul

555
00:35:45,100 –> 00:35:48,000
among the nation to even leaves
an upright lead an uprising.

556
00:35:48,000 –> 00:35:51,000
I mean he had people singing,
David is saying is that his ten

557
00:35:51,000 –> 00:35:53,600
thousands and so lonely is
Thousands do not think David

558
00:35:53,600 –> 00:35:54,700
could have gained popular
support.

559
00:35:54,700 –> 00:35:57,800
If he did a bit of campaigning,
for sure, he could have.

560
00:35:58,900 –> 00:36:01,900
Did he do this?
Not For a Moment.

561
00:36:05,000 –> 00:36:06,200
You could have said he was
justified.

562
00:36:06,200 –> 00:36:08,800
He had Divine appointment that
he’d already been anointed to be

563
00:36:08,800 –> 00:36:10,700
king.
I mean, what more can you want?

564
00:36:10,700 –> 00:36:14,100
What more endorsement do?
You want justification to stand

565
00:36:14,100 –> 00:36:16,500
up to soil?
If it’s bad for the nation, it’s

566
00:36:16,500 –> 00:36:18,600
bad for them.
Spiritually sources, taking them

567
00:36:18,600 –> 00:36:20,600
down, hill.
The right thing for me to do is

568
00:36:20,600 –> 00:36:25,900
to step in take control.
It’s God’s will No, did I would

569
00:36:25,900 –> 00:36:28,400
go around just just then
bad-mouthing sort of people

570
00:36:28,400 –> 00:36:30,000
world.
Look, you know, you can see, saw

571
00:36:30,000 –> 00:36:32,300
wasn’t as much control.
I think things are pretty bad,

572
00:36:32,400 –> 00:36:36,800
but he’s doing a pretty bad job.
Look, he’s not good for the

573
00:36:36,800 –> 00:36:40,500
nation turned to me.
No, he fact he makes that point

574
00:36:40,500 –> 00:36:45,800
to solve it in the cave and
Getti when First thing he says

575
00:36:45,800 –> 00:36:47,400
to him is.
So why do you listen to men?

576
00:36:47,400 –> 00:36:52,200
Who say, David seeks your hurt
or David’s trying to pull you

577
00:36:52,200 –> 00:36:54,800
down and drag you down?
I’m not running.

578
00:36:54,800 –> 00:36:57,000
Rumors about you, I’m not
sabotaging you behind your back

579
00:36:57,000 –> 00:36:57,400
here.
I am.

580
00:36:57,400 –> 00:37:00,200
I’m honest with you, if I wanted
to damage you, I would have done

581
00:37:00,200 –> 00:37:05,300
it here and now David was
straightforward of Integrity.

582
00:37:05,300 –> 00:37:11,200
What you see is what you get?
Why did he endure this?

583
00:37:11,200 –> 00:37:15,100
All the David Cedars Source
fault and poor all his troubles

584
00:37:15,100 –> 00:37:17,800
on Soul.
No, he doesn’t have have you

585
00:37:17,808 –> 00:37:20,900
don’t find Psalms rant against
Soul saying, it’s all cells

586
00:37:20,900 –> 00:37:21,900
fault.
He’s so bad.

587
00:37:22,100 –> 00:37:24,500
He accepted that God brought
this trouble on this trial on

588
00:37:24,500 –> 00:37:28,400
him.
It wasn’t about the individual

589
00:37:28,400 –> 00:37:30,600
attacking him.
They were really just an example

590
00:37:30,600 –> 00:37:34,600
of human nature.
And in this case, they were

591
00:37:34,600 –> 00:37:37,100
God’s chosen instrument of
trial.

592
00:37:39,300 –> 00:37:42,200
We know that his response of
trust.

593
00:37:44,900 –> 00:37:46,500
To his men.
He wouldn’t.

594
00:37:46,800 –> 00:37:48,600
He said he tells them.
I won’t turn my hand against

595
00:37:48,600 –> 00:37:51,100
God’s Anointed.
God has the situation in

596
00:37:51,100 –> 00:37:54,500
control.
God puts all in the role and God

597
00:37:54,500 –> 00:37:57,300
will take him away when he’s
ready for it, if that’s what he

598
00:37:57,300 –> 00:38:01,400
chooses.
David did not in Jesus words,

599
00:38:01,600 –> 00:38:05,900
kick against the pricks.
And think about it too, would

600
00:38:05,900 –> 00:38:10,100
David have become the merciful
the understanding King that he

601
00:38:10,100 –> 00:38:12,900
was that really benefitted the
nature and spiritually.

602
00:38:13,300 –> 00:38:17,000
If we did not go through this
situation for years to.

603
00:38:17,100 –> 00:38:19,800
It wasn’t just a quick trial and
then it’s all over.

604
00:38:21,200 –> 00:38:23,400
So that’s all very well.
But how do we make sense of

605
00:38:23,400 –> 00:38:25,600
David situation in in our
day-to-day?

606
00:38:25,600 –> 00:38:30,500
How is that relevant to us?
Well, let’s take the test, let’s

607
00:38:30,500 –> 00:38:32,500
question ourselves.
How do we respond?

608
00:38:32,500 –> 00:38:34,500
When issues arise?
Whether it’s in our individual

609
00:38:34,500 –> 00:38:40,400
life, our family life or our
Ecclesia, Because actually

610
00:38:40,400 –> 00:38:43,300
brothers and sisters wherever
they are humans, there will be

611
00:38:43,300 –> 00:38:47,500
issues.
Well, the first challenge for us

612
00:38:47,500 –> 00:38:50,300
is to see these things.
There’s not necessarily done to

613
00:38:50,300 –> 00:38:54,700
us or done to someone by someone
else or something else, but

614
00:38:54,700 –> 00:39:00,700
mostly As Allowed by God, for
our development, but I can hear

615
00:39:00,700 –> 00:39:04,100
you saying Daniel, the negative
things that are happening around

616
00:39:04,100 –> 00:39:07,800
me, can’t possibly be part of
God’s work with me or this

617
00:39:07,800 –> 00:39:11,400
Ecclesia, they’re so bad.
How can any good come of them?

618
00:39:12,600 –> 00:39:17,200
Rockin C is negative.
I say this because I thought

619
00:39:17,200 –> 00:39:20,800
this same thought at certain
points in my life. and I’ve

620
00:39:20,800 –> 00:39:23,400
learned the falseness of that
statement later on, but perhaps

621
00:39:23,400 –> 00:39:28,400
not, for some years later, Look
at scripture, brothers and

622
00:39:28,400 –> 00:39:31,700
sisters, the good, the bad.
The ugly is there in the lives

623
00:39:31,700 –> 00:39:35,700
of people that we know God
worked with And while God was

624
00:39:35,700 –> 00:39:39,400
by, no means the author of evil.
The author of wickedness and

625
00:39:39,400 –> 00:39:43,200
sin.
It’s not prevent negative things

626
00:39:43,200 –> 00:39:46,500
happening on occasions.
I mean, why on Earth would he

627
00:39:46,500 –> 00:39:50,800
allow the David and Bathsheba to
Bathsheba situation to occur the

628
00:39:50,800 –> 00:39:54,500
murder of Uriah, an innocent man
a bystander to occur?

629
00:39:55,000 –> 00:39:59,200
And then the the ongoing family
upheavals that followed David

630
00:39:59,200 –> 00:40:03,700
and his sons in their life.
The uprisings, the revolts the

631
00:40:03,700 –> 00:40:07,200
assassinations, how can the
purpose of God works through a

632
00:40:07,200 –> 00:40:10,400
mess like that?
Yet it did.

633
00:40:11,500 –> 00:40:14,300
And this event was part of the
journey that led to Messiah.

634
00:40:15,300 –> 00:40:18,600
It’s almost incomprehensible to
us but God can work through

635
00:40:18,600 –> 00:40:22,700
that. maybe he could even say
God chooses to work through that

636
00:40:23,000 –> 00:40:28,700
bizarre, as that may seem So
let’s not limit god let’s not

637
00:40:28,700 –> 00:40:31,700
consider that and let’s consider
that anything that is of

638
00:40:31,700 –> 00:40:33,900
significance.
In our lives that is really

639
00:40:33,900 –> 00:40:38,600
impacting us may well be his
hand. because it taught David at

640
00:40:38,600 –> 00:40:42,400
taught those around him, some
critical lessons, and let that

641
00:40:42,400 –> 00:40:47,700
be our first response when
issues come and then, perhaps it

642
00:40:47,700 –> 00:40:52,700
won’t be such a reactive or to
self-defensive, even angry

643
00:40:52,700 –> 00:40:56,000
response, when we consider the
patient submission that we see

644
00:40:56,500 –> 00:41:01,800
in David, but secondly, as we
spoke about earlier, let’s pause

645
00:41:01,800 –> 00:41:06,100
and deeply reflect On the
response that’s Brewing us.

646
00:41:07,000 –> 00:41:10,700
It’s a useful skill to practice
to stand back and look at

647
00:41:10,700 –> 00:41:15,300
yourself from the corner of the
room. to picture how you are

648
00:41:15,300 –> 00:41:18,000
reacting to a situation, take
yourself out of the moment if

649
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you like, Helps us to generate a
response, that’s born of the

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spirit of Christ, rather than
one that’s born with that.

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00:41:28,000 –> 00:41:32,000
Instant natural selfish
reaction, which we all have

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00:41:33,300 –> 00:41:36,900
Gives the chance at the mind of
Christ, a chance, a moment to

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work.
So then, how with that, in mind,

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how do we react to others based
around us based on what’s

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happened to us?
So, the first thing is, how do

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00:41:47,900 –> 00:41:50,200
we wrapped within ourselves when
things happen, the second is,

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how do we react to others around
us?

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00:41:53,100 –> 00:41:54,600
How do they do they see us as
that person?

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That’s arcing up.
Resisting what’s happening to

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00:41:58,500 –> 00:42:00,300
around us?
Trying to drive our own agenda.

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If a trial, is that we feel
we’ve been wronged whether by

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00:42:05,600 –> 00:42:09,300
our family, by individuals by
our Ecclesia, how do we react?

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Do we go about garnering support
for our cause telling people how

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Terrible Things Are For Us?
Because it goes without saying,

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doesn’t it that?
As, as humans our view in our

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00:42:22,100 –> 00:42:23,700
cause is always the right one,
isn’t it?

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00:42:23,700 –> 00:42:27,600
How could it be anything else?
We have to just for a moment.

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00:42:27,600 –> 00:42:33,100
Abandon that thought.
What did David do when he was?

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00:42:33,400 –> 00:42:37,200
You might say wrongfully.
Deposed, as King, when he was

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00:42:37,200 –> 00:42:39,700
kicked out of the nation.
Kicked out of the Ecclesia.

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His response was this and second
Samuel, 15 is, as he trudged up

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00:42:46,200 –> 00:42:47,800
that hill on the other side of
Kidron.

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And told them to take the art
back home.

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He said, if I shall find favor
in the eyes of Yahweh, he will

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00:42:55,500 –> 00:43:01,500
bring me again and show me both
it and his habitation. but on

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the other hand, he said, if he
say thus, I have no Delight in

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00:43:06,100 –> 00:43:10,900
the behold here I am.
I let him do to me as seemeth,

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00:43:10,900 –> 00:43:14,700
good to him, and it’s good for
us, brothers and sisters to have

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00:43:14,700 –> 00:43:18,400
more of that, in our lives.
Of that thought, David didn’t,

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00:43:18,400 –> 00:43:20,200
rip, up, turn around, and rip
into Absalom.

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00:43:20,400 –> 00:43:23,700
Do you hear that Phil to the
nation to the Ecclesia?

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00:43:25,000 –> 00:43:27,300
He saw it as God’s hand and he
submitted to it.

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00:43:28,800 –> 00:43:31,300
And what about us?
If we’re not in an issue,

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brothers and sisters but it’s
happening around us.

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People.
Come to us.

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And share their issues or
whatever it may be, how should

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00:43:42,400 –> 00:43:44,000
we react?
How should we respond?

688
00:43:46,700 –> 00:43:50,200
Should we put fuel on the fire?
Should we all take up?

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00:43:50,500 –> 00:43:52,800
Take our arms and join one
particular side or another.

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00:43:54,500 –> 00:43:57,000
What does that do?
As we all know, it just adds

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00:43:57,000 –> 00:43:58,800
fuel to the fire.
Doesn’t it bother them sisters?

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00:44:00,400 –> 00:44:03,000
Creates the division sites.
Pull saw in the Corinthian a

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00:44:03,008 –> 00:44:07,000
closure.
No, that wasn’t the approach of

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David.
It wasn’t approach of pool was

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the approach of Our Lord.
Do you notice that whenever our

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00:44:14,100 –> 00:44:17,900
Lord?
Was trying to be pulled into

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00:44:17,900 –> 00:44:21,200
arguments or sides by the
different factions within

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00:44:21,200 –> 00:44:24,200
Judaism.
He never took one side or the

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00:44:24,200 –> 00:44:27,000
other.
He took a Higher Ground.

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00:44:27,500 –> 00:44:29,000
He took a broader minded
approach.

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00:44:29,500 –> 00:44:32,700
He stepped back further and said
what is God really trying to

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00:44:32,700 –> 00:44:36,200
achieve here?
What’s the purpose of God that

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00:44:36,200 –> 00:44:39,000
we’re trying to achieve?
No it’s not about giving tribute

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00:44:39,000 –> 00:44:41,000
to Caesar or not giving tribute
to Caesar.

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00:44:41,800 –> 00:44:45,900
It’s about rendering to God.
What is God’s showing the

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00:44:45,900 –> 00:44:52,900
qualities of Christ?
Let’s think then as individuals.

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00:44:54,300 –> 00:44:59,200
How we react to a situation and
the impacts of that, on our

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00:44:59,200 –> 00:45:02,200
Ecclesia, the spirit of our
pleasure and the future of our

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00:45:02,200 –> 00:45:05,600
pleasure.
And let our responses brothers

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00:45:05,600 –> 00:45:10,100
and sisters, be the level.
Thoughtful mind of Christ.

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00:45:12,400 –> 00:45:14,000
Pause and examine ourselves and
us.

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00:45:14,400 –> 00:45:19,600
What is our real motivation?
Is it to fight our cause or is

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00:45:19,600 –> 00:45:22,600
it too?
See, God’s will done.

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00:45:25,000 –> 00:45:28,200
And let us not be like those
around David in his life, who

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00:45:28,200 –> 00:45:30,700
wanted to have their voice,
heard to make their opinion, on

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00:45:30,700 –> 00:45:34,000
the situation, do this, do that.
David kill Saul.

717
00:45:34,300 –> 00:45:38,000
Did this other thing take
control Let’s not be one of

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00:45:38,000 –> 00:45:41,500
those but we’re on the
bystanders of an issue, like

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00:45:41,500 –> 00:45:44,500
David’s.
Let’s not have the sense of

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00:45:44,500 –> 00:45:48,100
Pride that says, my opinion on
the situation needs to be heard.

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00:45:48,500 –> 00:45:50,300
This is my view when it’s
important.

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00:45:51,300 –> 00:45:53,500
Let’s have some trust that God
is also at work.

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00:45:53,500 –> 00:45:58,700
Not just us if we really do
believe in Providence, At a

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00:45:58,707 –> 00:46:01,100
certain point brother and
sisters that particular issue.

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00:46:01,100 –> 00:46:06,300
We work through itself, becomes
irrelevant What God really cares

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00:46:06,300 –> 00:46:08,100
about is how we’re all reacting
to it.

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00:46:09,200 –> 00:46:13,200
Are we fighting for our own
cause for our own views was our

728
00:46:13,200 –> 00:46:18,000
focus on feeding his sheep?
We need to think deeply brothers

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00:46:18,000 –> 00:46:19,600
and sisters, our search, our
hearts.

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To consider how God views our
hearts like you to turn to this

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00:46:24,000 –> 00:46:25,600
quote in first of John chapter
3.

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00:46:26,800 –> 00:46:29,100
It’s a very telling and very
searching quote.

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00:46:49,200 –> 00:46:52,700
First John, chapter 3 and let’s
start from Verse 18, my little

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00:46:52,700 –> 00:46:58,700
children, let us not love in
word, neither in tongue but in

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00:46:58,700 –> 00:47:03,100
deed, and in truth.
It is don’t think your

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00:47:03,100 –> 00:47:07,700
platitudes they just say cliches
be real about it for.

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00:47:07,700 –> 00:47:11,900
He says if our if our heart
condemn us God is greater than

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00:47:11,900 –> 00:47:16,900
our heart and knoweth, all
things considered our own

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00:47:16,900 –> 00:47:19,400
hearts.
Think about the fact that God

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00:47:19,400 –> 00:47:23,500
knows our hearts.
And if we can step back and see

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00:47:23,500 –> 00:47:26,100
an issue, then he definitely can
see issues.

742
00:47:26,100 –> 00:47:31,600
Can’t he beloved, if our heart
condemn us, not when’s weave

743
00:47:31,600 –> 00:47:36,900
openly and honestly, assess it
Then we have confidence towards

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00:47:36,900 –> 00:47:38,500
God.
We have that openness, don’t we?

745
00:47:38,700 –> 00:47:43,100
Not not confidence that we write
in ourselves but openness, we

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00:47:43,100 –> 00:47:44,900
have nothing to hide before him.
Do we?

747
00:47:48,500 –> 00:47:51,000
so let’s conclude Now by looking
at Christ is the ultimate

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00:47:51,000 –> 00:48:19,000
example in Hebrews chapter 5,
so, the crossed Was he unjustly

749
00:48:19,000 –> 00:48:22,700
treated absolutely was he
self-defensive?

750
00:48:23,300 –> 00:48:29,300
Never was he God conscious
always Was he proud and

751
00:48:29,300 –> 00:48:34,200
resistant to others far from it?
That we read in Hebrews, chapter

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00:48:34,200 –> 00:48:38,300
5, verse 7.
Who in the days of his flesh,

753
00:48:38,500 –> 00:48:41,600
when he had offered up prayers
and supplications with strong

754
00:48:41,600 –> 00:48:44,700
crying and tears under him, that
was able to save him from death

755
00:48:45,500 –> 00:48:49,300
and was heard in that.
He feared though he were a son

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00:48:49,700 –> 00:48:52,500
yet learned.
He obedience by the things that

757
00:48:52,500 –> 00:48:56,300
he suffered.
Isn’t that incredible?

758
00:48:56,300 –> 00:49:00,500
A man who was perfect?
We might say, but for our views

759
00:49:00,500 –> 00:49:03,800
did no wrong.
And yet had the most wrong done

760
00:49:03,800 –> 00:49:06,900
to him, as done to any human
That Ever Walked the Earth.

761
00:49:08,300 –> 00:49:10,900
And how did he react?
We offer our prayers and

762
00:49:10,900 –> 00:49:13,500
supplications.
He cried out like David Strong,

763
00:49:13,500 –> 00:49:18,800
crying and tears. so he could
save himself know that so that

764
00:49:18,800 –> 00:49:22,800
he could express his trust and
his submission to him that was

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00:49:22,800 –> 00:49:27,600
able to save him and was heard
not because he was confident in

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00:49:27,600 –> 00:49:33,600
his own righteousness in that he
feared And even though he was a

767
00:49:33,607 –> 00:49:37,400
son, he even because he was the
son of God.

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00:49:37,900 –> 00:49:41,600
He two brothers and sisters had
to learn obedience by the things

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00:49:41,600 –> 00:49:44,300
which he suffered well, brothers
and sisters.

770
00:49:44,500 –> 00:49:47,600
If Jesus had to learn obedience
by the things that he suffered,

771
00:49:48,500 –> 00:49:51,800
why would we complain about the
things that we suffer if it’s to

772
00:49:51,800 –> 00:49:57,000
learn obedience to God?
He did not object and he had

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00:49:57,000 –> 00:50:01,500
every grounds for objecting what
submitted himself to him, that

774
00:50:01,500 –> 00:50:06,200
worketh righteousness.
And so brothers and sisters, may

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00:50:06,200 –> 00:50:11,100
God bless us all as we Endeavor
to be like his son to Humble

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00:50:11,100 –> 00:50:15,000
ourselves to follow the path,
which our author said that is

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00:50:15,300 –> 00:50:18,700
the only way.
And may God help us as we

778
00:50:18,700 –> 00:50:22,800
Endeavor to open our hearts to
him to place our trust in him

779
00:50:23,300 –> 00:50:25,600
securely in the understanding
that whatever we go through in

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00:50:25,600 –> 00:50:28,000
life, whatever challenge we
face.

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00:50:28,900 –> 00:50:44,800
God knows,
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00:50:49,700 –> 00:50:52,100
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