268: Brian Luke – Exhortation: Psalm 61

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Welcome to Good Chris Selfie and
talks.

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I’m Levi.
And I’m Chris.

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And I’m Brian.
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week on this podcast.
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We post a new episode at the
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With the short intro beforehand
to kind of set the stage for the

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talk you’re about to listen to.
And now, let’s talk more about

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this week’s talk.
So as Levi mentioned in his

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introduction last week.
I have been working through some

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old tapes that I have collected,
mostly from my grandfather, some

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old talks and have been
converting them into digital to

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be able to share.
This talk that we’re listening

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to this week is an exhortation
by Brother Brian Luke that was

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given at the Ottawa Bible School
back in 1997.

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Is one of those tapes what I
really appreciate about this?

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And Brother Luke is taking an
exhortation looking at Psalm 61.

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Psalm 61 is one of the psalms of
David talking about some of the

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challenges that David had over
the stages of his life.

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And I know sometimes when we do
talks on the podcast, they can

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sometimes be tailored to one
stage of life or one age group

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more than the other.
That’s just kind of the nature

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of whether it’s how the speaker
is presenting, what age they’re

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in or what phase of life they’re
in, or even just the topic that

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they’re focusing on.
What I really appreciated about

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Brother Brian’s talk and what he
took out of this expectation and

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from just the 8 verses that are
in Psalm 61, is he found calls

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to actions and lessons for every
stage of life, whether you’re

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young, middle-aged, older and
sort of a call to action to each

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of them.
And also a reminder to those of

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us that are in different stages
than the stage he’s talking to

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of what to appreciate about.
Those that are in that stage.

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So whether you are in the early
stages of your life or you’re

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more in the middle age stage or
you’re in the later stages of

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your life.
To appreciate the stage that

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you’re in now.
But also appreciate those that

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are in other stages and how that
should all work together to make

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a cohesive group.
And what our ecclesial life

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should be and where the
strengths are for all of those

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stages and how we form together
to be this unified body of

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Christ.
I really enjoyed this

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exhortation.
There’s a lot of fun Nuggets.

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He does some really neat little
Bible Nuggets, which at this

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point many of you may know I
enjoy.

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Where he pulls little Nuggets of
bits of stories out of the story

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of David and connects it to the
time frame when this song was

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likely written.
And pulls really interesting

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details That goes one level
deeper than sort of the surface

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level reading that we often get,
especially with a story like

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David’s where we’ve potentially
studied it.

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Hundreds of times in our
lifetimes and still to be able

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to find some new nugget about
it, I found to be really, really

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powerful.
So I hope that you enjoy this

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and we have other suggestions,
recommendations coming down the

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Pike.
But this was one that I listened

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to and felt it was really
special and wanted to share it

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and sort of resurface it from
back in the annals of history.

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Even though 1997 doesn’t feel
like it was that long ago, but

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at this point it is so.
Which makes me feel like I’m

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closer to the middle to end
stages of my life than the early

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stages of my life.
But there we are.

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So I hope that you enjoyed this
exhortation by Brother Brian

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Luke that he gave at Iowa back
in 1997.

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Again, his exhortation is taken
from Psalms Chapter 61.

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In that Psalm, or the first of
the two psalms that we read this

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morning, Psalm 61, we have these
very beautiful words.

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Hear my cry, O God, attend unto
my prayer.

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From the end of the.
Earth will I cry unto thee 1

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extremity or another when my
heart is overwhelmed?

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Lead me to the Rock.
That is higher than I.

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It’s quite remarkable statement,
isn’t it?

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God is visualized as a rock, a
zur an elevated.

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Rock.
That has.

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Nothing that can be brought.
Against it, by man when he’s in

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faraway places.
When he’s in the midst.

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Of overwhelming problems lead.
Me to the Rock.

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That is higher than I.
Beautiful words, but that’s not

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what we always do, isn’t.
It.

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The Apostle Paul has a little.
Comment in Hebrews 12 when he

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talks about matters that are too
high for us, too great, and he

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says.
That in the midst.

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Of our trials.
We are to be exercised.

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Thereby.
It’s a realm.

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Is the.
Key phrase of that little

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section in Hebrews 12.
Because sometimes in life we do.

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Have our.
Trials that come and sometimes

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thick and fast one upon another.
And there’s two ways to.

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Try and meet that.
Isn’t there one way is that we?

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We.
Fight it out.

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Ourselves, we say we’ve got all
these problems here, these

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difficulties, and we’ve got only
a certain amount of time and so

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we.
We put our concentration upon

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that, and we bring our our
powers to be upon that.

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And we work our way through all
those problems.

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And there’s no question that.
There needs to be some

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resilience of our own mind and
spirit and the things that we’re

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doing.
But the Apostle Paul says that

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in the midst of our difficulties
we are to be exercised.

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Thereby what does that mean?
Exercise thereby.

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He says there is something in
the midst of our.

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Difficulties that we.
Need to be thinking upon we’re

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going to come out of this with
benefit.

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They can be a value.
They can be a tremendous value

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if we are exercised in the midst
of.

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Them.
Some people don’t do that.

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A lot of.
Us don’t do that.

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In time of difficulty.
We might rely upon our.

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Purse we might rely upon our
mind, we might.

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Rely upon our memory, we might.
Rely upon.

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Our natural charisma with
people, or whatever it might be

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to work our way.
A perception of circumstances.

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Weave through when he speaks.
About being exercised by.

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The chastening of the Lord.
He’s talking about people who

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truly take it to God.
They take it to God and the.

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The prayer of their bedroom or
the prayer of their study on

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their finding God in a place
like this high up on the

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mountain, finding quiet little
spots to.

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Overcome the.
Difficulties that all of us

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bring to our Sunday morning.
When I was younger, I wasn’t so

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sure that that was the case.
I don’t think probably a lot of

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our young men and women this
morning would sort of be touched

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by the concept of of afflictions
and trials.

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But as life moves on, you began
to realize how true that is.

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There are many people every
Sunday morning, aren’t there,

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who bring their different
concerns to the table of

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remembrance, something problems
of weariness.

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Constantly tired, constantly
weary, others of of sickness,

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others of pain.
There’ll be some people in this

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audience this morning.
That are never.

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Free from pain.
Whilst the most of us, if we’ve

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got the slightest.
Touch of pain.

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We run to get the Aspro, don’t
we?

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Give us a coating.
Give us a Aspro whatever,

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because we don’t like putting up
with pain, but some of us will

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have pain all day, tops.
Makes us stop and think, doesn’t

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it?
Some of us come.

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With our problems, because we
are concerned about of our

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family, we can see the marks.
That the world is putting upon

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our children and grieves,
doesn’t it?

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There’s not that lovely rapport
that there should be, so we

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grieve.
About that we wonder if.

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If this child is going.
To come to the truth or not, are

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they for God, or are they going
to be swept?

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Away in the world, some have
made decisions.

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To grieve our hearts, They’re
not here this morning.

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I’d love them to be here.
There’s somewhere else out

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playing golf, baseball and
forgotten what their Sunday

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school taught.
Others.

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Being problems of their own
relationship to each other, but

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many of us this morning.
That would know people that are

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in those circumstances.
Perhaps they’re not here this

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morning but to this Sunday
morning meeting in different

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parts of the earth and here this
morning.

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There are all kinds of.
Things that come, aren’t they?

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You’re a real issue.
Something that they.

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Are no longer loved in their
ecclesial environment.

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Some are concerned because their
job is.

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Hanging by a slender.
Thread.

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What would they do then?
So may be in ruin of business

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concerns occupying your minds
from the end of the earth will I

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cry unto thee when my heart is
overwhelmed.

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And you can’t fight it any
longer.

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Lead me to the rock that is
higher than I.

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Beautiful words, aren’t they?
What do you think?

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David sketched these words
because it is David’s Psalm.

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Psalm 61.
It says that in the

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superscription, doesn’t it?
Well, let’s just.

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Piece out the little evidences.
Of the circumstances of David

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when he wrote it, obviously
verses one and two mean that he

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was in a time of desperation.
You know, most of the Psalms are

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written at that time.
They’re not written when

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somebody was in armchair.
Comfort.

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With the air.
Conditioner going carpet on the.

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Floor and everything pretty
right.

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None of the psalms are written
like that.

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If we don’t therefore have some
circumstances that.

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Really put.
The pressure on us?

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We may never know.
What the Psalms are about, eh?

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It’s really only in desperation
that almost all of the Psalms

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are written.
You take 63 Oh God, Thou art my

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God, early will I seek thee.
My soul festeth for thee.

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That’s not armchair comfort, is
it?

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That’s a person under pressure.
Truly my soul waiteth upon God.

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From him cometh my salvation.
He only is my rock and my

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salvation my defence.
I shall not be greatly moved.

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It’s not a man out on a golf
course, isn’t it?

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It’s a person whose relationship
with God is real.

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And tangible.
That’s his life.

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He wants to find God in the
midst of the circumstances in

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which he’s learned.
These are tremendous.

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Inspirations.
These Psalms, aren’t they?

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How many times in David’s life
did he have circumstances that

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evoke thoughts like that?
How many times in our lives, my

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dear friends?
Have we had circumstances like

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that?
Yeah, then perhaps.

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But this man had much of it in
his life.

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But because of that, we had this
rich.

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Treasure of the.
Psalms to help us to find our

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God.
So it’s a time of desperation.

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Verse 6 indicates that it was a.
Time in his reign.

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It was not in his earlier days
when, in a desperation, for

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example, he fled from Seoul.
It’s in the.

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Time of his.
Reign or prolong the King’s

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life.
It seems verse 5 to be after the

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conquest of the land.
Thou hast given me the.

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Heritage.
Of those that fear thy name,

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David’s in great occupation.
Verse 6 implies that his his

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years are getting on.
They’ll prolong the King’s life

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that his years as many
generations.

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Verse 2 implies that in fact he
is far off from where he

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normally might be.
He’s not in Jerusalem from the

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end of the earth.
Will I cry unto thee.

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We put those little bits and
pieces together.

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It falls out to Absalom’s
period, time of desperation

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outside of Jerusalem, the time
of his reign enemies against

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him.
In his older years, after he’s

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been in occupation.
Of the Kingdom.

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Now let’s look at the Psalm 6262
verse two.

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He only is my rock and my
salvation.

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He is my.
Defense I shall not be.

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Greatly moved.
That’s the same as verse 7 of

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62.
In God.

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Is my salvation and my glory the
rock of my strength and my

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refuge.
Is in God or verse?

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Six.
He only is my rock’s very.

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Words and my.
Salvation.

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He is my defense.
I shall not be moved.

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But look again at verses 6 and
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And are they not in fact
fashioned upon verse two and

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three of 61?
It’s the same theme, the same

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words in the Hebrew.
They’re being used over and over

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again.
And so we can see.

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That why these?
Two psalms have been put.

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Together, because they are
intimately.

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Related, it’s the same.
Period of David’s life is the

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logical conclusion from that,
and as we saw in 63 in the

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superscription, that was a
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When he was in the.
Wilderness of Judah.

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And so we can see what the
psalmist has done.

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Or what the psalter has done.
He has put these together

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because they belong together.
And as we build up that little

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picture together, we are
therefore able to walk into

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David’s life and the
circumstances of that rebellion

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of Absalom.
And we can see that is where

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David is in his mind.
Verse 3 of 62 was another key

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point.
How long will you imagine

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mischief against a man?
He shall be slain all of you, or

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as the RSV says, remember the
changed translation critical.

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Change it says.
Instead of ye shall be.

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Slain all of you, it says How?
Long will you imagine mischief

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against a man to shatter him,
all of you.

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To shatter him.
As a bowing wall shall he be,

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and as a tottering fence,
they’re going to push over the

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old fence.
That was termed you’d used of

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David when he was in the midst
of his of his alacrity.

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And skill and and quickness of
mind and body is it?

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This is an old man.
You feel as though you could

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just push him over.
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cast him down from His Eminence
as the.

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Revised Standard Version puts
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But his eminence he’s in.
He’s in a high state of.

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Of his.
His.

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Reign and of his Kingdom.
These men are consulting to cast

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him down from that.
So the time period of David’s

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life is clear when you put those
factors all.

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Together, it comes out to the
time that we’ve been able to

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look at today.
There in the record.

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Of second Samuel is the the
outward story, and in these

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Psalms we have the heart of the
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Isn’t that a treasure?
What a wonderful thing the Bible

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is that it tells us the mind and
heart.

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What an amazing thing, this.
Morning that we are here

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rejoicing in that Americans and
Australians and others that have

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come from.
Sophisticated countries in the

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late 1990s, with all the things
that we’ve got too many, too

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many altogether, but we can come
and look right.

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In and.
And enthuse and wonder.

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At the mind of one of one of the
servants of God so many years,

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3000 years ago.
God has just opened it up for us

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all it needs, all it’s waiting
for us.

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Is to sit still and come and
think about to enter into that

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marvelous security from the end.
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Will I cry unto thee when my
heart is overwhelmed?

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Lead me to the rock that is
higher than I, for thou has been

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a shelter for me and a strong
tower.

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From the enemy, look at the
collection of terms that are

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involved there.
I will.

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Abide in thy Tabernacle.
Forever I will trust in the

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covet of thy wings.
Is he crossing Jordan when those

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thoughts came to him?
Is he asleep in the Bush before

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he crossed Jordan?
Is somebody?

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Helping him into the boat to go
over.

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Is he?
Coming up on the other side when

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my heart is overwhelmed, is he?
Is he passing by the grave of

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Uriah?
In Raba and that.

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Bringing back to him all the
past and why these things have

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come upon him?
Is that what he says in Psalm

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4041, as he goes Psalm 40?
As he goes past that place,

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perhaps my sins.
Are overcoming me, are swelling

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over me.
They are numerable.

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Is there that cogitation in his
mind as he brings together all

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the circumstances of his life?
Has he come to May?

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Her name sees the fortress of
the city, and can see and feel

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far higher than that.
The host of heaven.

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May her name 2 hosts cemented,
May her name.

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He had a host.
Absalom had a host that was.

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May her name in Division wasn’t
it, But there was.

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Another may her name.
That came from the original.

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Sense of the word.
Where the angels of God met

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Jacob, there was Jacob’s host.
On the ground there was God’s

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host.
Above May her name.

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That’s the May her name that he
had to concentrate upon, isn’t

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it?
And my heart is overwhelmed.

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Lead me to the rock that is
higher than I required.

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An act of faith, though.
Didn’t the angels went shining

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out in the sky that night.
He had to see it, just like you

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and I did.
In the midst of our.

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Life in Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Adelaide, wherever.

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Cars going past and picturized
roads and people with all kinds

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of gadgets.
And in that kind of life, my

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dear and sisters, the angels are
still working.

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They don’t stop because men have
put up big things, big buildings

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and evidences of their
greatness.

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Angels are not persuaded by
those things.

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They’re still operative, still
with us, in the same way.

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But as David had to see that out
there, trudging along barefoot

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head, covered the gashes of the
shimmy eyes, stone still in his

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face.
In those circumstances, he had

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to see the living God and feel
his presence when everything was

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against him, it might seem.
There’s his mind.

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Wonderful, isn’t it?
Absolutely wonderful, you.

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Measure our own tribulations
against that.

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Begin to think my word, We
should be thankful, whatever our

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circumstances, how we ought to
think about our garden, and take

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him with us for all the
blessings that he daily loads

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upon us.
Imagine David sending up the

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harsh slopes of Gilead.
He’s crossed Jordan and he’s

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coming up.
You know, that’s tough country.

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It’s tall country.
It’s rough country.

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It’s tough.
And it was a reverse where

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Jacob.
Came he crossed the river Jabak.

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As he went after Rabak, he would
have crossed Jabak.

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He would have thought to
himself.

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That’s where Mahanein got its
name, wasn’t it?

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He would have thought, I’m going
the opposite direction of Jacob.

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Jacob came into the land, and
I’m going up out of the land.

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Thou hast given me the heritage.
Those above me, and he was

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leaving it, but this is what he
was saying inwardly when my

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heart is overwhelmed.
Lead me to the rock that is

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higher than I.
We practice this.

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Different stages of our life.
And it becomes easier, my dear

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and sisters, if there is history
to fall back upon.

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David had history to fall back
upon.

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Look at his thoughts in Psalm
27.

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This wasn’t his first.
Time in the wilderness,

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remember, he all would have been
coming.

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Back to him.
The Lord is the is my light and

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my salvation.
Whom shall I fear?

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The Lord is the strength of my
life.

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Of whom shall I be afraid?
That’s not armchair comfort, is

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it?
That’s a man who really knows

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his God and loves.
His God and God is to him a a

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ready presence, a reality in his
life.

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He’s not always talking with
people.

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He’s not always about things.
He’s not always seeing the

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things that are in the roads and
seeing the things in the cities

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and all the activities of men.
He’s seeing his God as though he

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could touch him and feel him.
The Lord is my light and my

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salvation, the strength of my
life.

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But isn’t it doing even the
readings, is it?

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He’s left the readings and and
the God is in in that is with

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him.
He’s taken the readings with

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him.
He’s in his heart and in his

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mind.
He’s shrubbing with his

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delighting God.
What a challenge to us, my dear

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friend and sisters, on the last.
Morning of our Bible school.

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Look at all the blessings we’ve
had.

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Do we take that with us?
Is that spirit with us?

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Pack our, pack our goods, put
our children’s things in, pack

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up all the blankets and so on.
And it can be all be a matter of

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fact.
And some of us can live like

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that.
We’re always happy if there’s

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something to do, to do, to do.
But there’s something much

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greater than that isn’t.
It That’s Bible school’s all

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about, it’s to be living with
God.

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Things.
Things.

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So what?
What God wants is our heart.

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With him, that we could say with
David Yahweh is the strength of

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my life.
There’s a motivated man.

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He’s going to go back into
Brighton and he’s going to go

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back.
Into Los Angeles, wheresoever

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driven, because he’s come to
love his God and he’ll make some

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sacrifices.
He and she little notes have

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been made in the mind.
Now I’ve got to give away this.

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Got to cancel that, got to throw
that out of my home.

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I’ve got to put away those
magazines that are No.

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Good.
I’ve got to put some of those

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hobbies and other things I’m
interested in that are not

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helping me in the way of life.
I’ve got to draw near to my

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child.
That’s what I’ve got to do.

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I see the marks of the world
upon him.

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I’ve got to get in there and
draw near to him.

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I’ve got to open my heart.
My Sunday school class where

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I’ve got some children that need
extra care.

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I’ve got to have to think about
that draw near to them.

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There’s older people in the
meeting that I haven’t spoken to

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for a month.
I’ve.

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Got yet to know them all kinds
of resolutions that.

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Can make our our ecclesia
sparkle with the fact that we

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know God.
Lives though a host of us three

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should encamp against me.
My heart shall not fear, though

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war should rise up against me.
In this will I be confident.

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The man that strides up the
hills of Gilboa is just the same

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man, isn’t he?
He’s been through it all before.

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There was a time when he was he
was at rest here with his little

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camp of 600 men, and on the
other side of the crag of the

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mountain there was saw with his
3000 men, and he lived like that

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for years, just a niche away
from death.

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He had learnt to depend upon God
and he was again a long way away

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from Jerusalem.
He was in exile from the land

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that is far away called unto his
God.

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One thing have I desired of the
Lord this.

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For isn’t this our David, our
David in Mayhenae, now David in

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in Gilead?
One thing have I desired of the

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Lord that will I seek after that
I may dwell in the House of the

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Lord all the days of my life to
behold.

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The beauty of Yahweh and to
inquire in his temple.

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There’s a man of God, my dear
Princess.

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There are any more beautiful
words in the Bible than that.

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They’re David’s words.
They’re our David, David after

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sin.
After that sheep, that’s exactly

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how he still.
Thinks though?

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Isn’t he trained in youth?
Cycles of life came around and

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it’s picking it all up again.
It’s as though he’s gone back

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there, but because he’s left
tracks, mental tracks, he’s able

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to go back to those mental
tracks and pick them up again

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and go along the same path.
The virtue of teaching our

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children, my dear friends, is to
serve with us this.

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00:27:14,080 –> 00:27:16,280
There’s a lot of things that
have been done for this Bible

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00:27:16,280 –> 00:27:20,720
school and it’s been lovely.
To see lost occasions, your

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00:27:20,720 –> 00:27:22,480
children.
Hurrying around, doing things.

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00:27:22,480 –> 00:27:24,560
It’s a lovely thing.
Highly convenient.

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00:27:26,080 –> 00:27:29,000
We have those children coming to
our tables, happy to serve with

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00:27:29,000 –> 00:27:30,520
that.
All of them lovely.

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00:27:30,520 –> 00:27:35,480
Children, any little 1, salt,
pepper, whatever, run to back

446
00:27:35,480 –> 00:27:37,000
and get it somewhat.
That’s excellent.

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00:27:37,120 –> 00:27:40,240
Keep it up.
Incorporate them in the work, in

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00:27:40,240 –> 00:27:44,320
the service, in your ecclesias.
Do that chairs to be shifted.

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00:27:44,320 –> 00:27:45,800
Come on children, let’s get on
with this.

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00:27:46,160 –> 00:27:48,880
Teach them to serve.
Teaching them to have their

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00:27:48,880 –> 00:27:51,760
bedrooms clean and tidy, because
it’s in all these little

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00:27:51,760 –> 00:27:55,160
services and greater things that
they come to, to make their

453
00:27:55,160 –> 00:27:59,160
tracks.
Service is so critical to it

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00:27:59,160 –> 00:28:00,280
cleats your life.
That’s what it’s.

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00:28:00,280 –> 00:28:03,240
About isn’t it he that will come
out after me?

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00:28:03,240 –> 00:28:05,400
Says Jesus, let him take up his
crosshair.

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00:28:05,400 –> 00:28:08,920
Children who’ve got to feel that
in early life, they don’t get

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00:28:08,920 –> 00:28:10,640
later on in life and think that
everything’s for them.

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00:28:10,640 –> 00:28:13,080
They’re going to have this, that
and the other laid on because

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00:28:13,080 –> 00:28:15,640
we’ve made them to get up early
and to do what they need to do

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00:28:16,200 –> 00:28:19,120
to help us.
David had been like that.

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00:28:19,560 –> 00:28:23,160
Where did God take him in his
early years into exile and have

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00:28:23,160 –> 00:28:25,520
to hunt through the the?
Wilderness of Judah, while an

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00:28:25,520 –> 00:28:27,600
unworthy king sought him from
day-to-day.

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00:28:27,760 –> 00:28:32,320
Why did he do that?
Surely deserved more than that.

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00:28:33,120 –> 00:28:35,640
This was a faithful man right
from the start, almost.

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00:28:36,920 –> 00:28:39,520
God called him separately with
Samuel and the Lamb, but he came

468
00:28:39,520 –> 00:28:42,080
separately, as though Rob was
saying.

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00:28:42,240 –> 00:28:44,960
I have found him as a special.
Person and he was.

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00:28:46,000 –> 00:28:48,800
But why did God then take him
through all those?

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00:28:48,800 –> 00:28:53,640
Circumstances because he will
take him from the sheep coat,

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00:28:54,240 –> 00:28:59,960
from following the sheep great
with young and caring for all

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00:28:59,960 –> 00:29:02,560
their weaknesses and
vicissitudes.

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00:29:03,400 –> 00:29:07,120
You take him from there to be
king over my people Israel, to

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00:29:07,120 –> 00:29:10,520
sit upon the throne.
That’s exactly what we are doing

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00:29:10,520 –> 00:29:14,160
with our children.
Don’t take service from the My

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00:29:14,160 –> 00:29:16,800
dear brothers look at this
service here that he learned

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00:29:16,800 –> 00:29:20,960
here drew him to his God.
Don’t be happy that your

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00:29:20,960 –> 00:29:23,520
children.
Or mine are in their room by

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00:29:23,520 –> 00:29:25,400
themselves.
Living their own little life

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00:29:25,400 –> 00:29:27,000
with their own TV set or
something.

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00:29:27,840 –> 00:29:32,280
What a disaster, unrelated to
the interests of the family.

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00:29:32,760 –> 00:29:35,280
It happens.
I know it happens in a in these

484
00:29:35,280 –> 00:29:37,760
days, because that’s what
everybody thinks ought to have

485
00:29:38,960 –> 00:29:42,680
got their own plugs in their
ear, listening to their music as

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00:29:42,680 –> 00:29:46,280
though it’s some different life
to to the life of of yours and

487
00:29:46,280 –> 00:29:51,240
of the truth.
The living God got to assess

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00:29:51,240 –> 00:29:53,360
these things, don’t we?
Carefully together, as we’re

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00:29:53,360 –> 00:29:57,200
going away from Bible school, so
that our children might learn in

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00:29:57,200 –> 00:30:03,040
early life a track of faith.
One thing have I desire, that

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00:30:03,040 –> 00:30:05,800
will I seek after that I may
dwell in the House of the Lord,

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00:30:06,480 –> 00:30:10,320
or the days of my life, to
behold the beauty of the Lord,

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00:30:10,320 –> 00:30:14,280
and to inquire in his temple, Is
that any different from?

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00:30:16,760 –> 00:30:19,480
There has been a shorter for me
and a strong tower from the

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00:30:19,480 –> 00:30:23,320
enemy.
I will abide in thy Tabernacle

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00:30:23,320 –> 00:30:27,680
forever, said a man in exile.
I will trust in the covet of thy

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00:30:27,680 –> 00:30:31,520
wings.
It’s exactly the same thing,

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00:30:31,520 –> 00:30:33,200
isn’t it?
He’s away from the Tabernacle,

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00:30:33,600 –> 00:30:35,520
but he can see that God is with
him out there.

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00:30:36,200 –> 00:30:39,080
The Tabernacle is, as it were,
still still move on.

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00:30:39,080 –> 00:30:42,080
Always is.
Voila.

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00:30:42,400 –> 00:30:46,120
It’s in California.
It’s it’s here at Idlewa, the

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00:30:46,120 –> 00:30:48,200
covered of God’s.
Wings is a pulse.

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00:30:49,040 –> 00:30:53,520
He’s protecting and interested.
The concern for his people is

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00:30:53,520 –> 00:30:58,400
wherever his people.
Are it’s the same man that was

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00:30:58,440 –> 00:31:01,840
once in exile?
That is there again an unchanged

507
00:31:01,840 –> 00:31:04,880
being?
What about the middle years?

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00:31:07,080 –> 00:31:10,640
What about Bathsheba, Uriah and
so on?

509
00:31:10,640 –> 00:31:14,080
How did that ever happen?
It was in his middle years,

510
00:31:14,080 –> 00:31:18,760
wasn’t it?
An old brother once probably

511
00:31:18,760 –> 00:31:22,200
never said a word on the
platform, had morning tea with

512
00:31:22,200 –> 00:31:24,680
us once at our place of work, my
my brother and I.

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00:31:25,960 –> 00:31:31,840
And he was a wise old person as
he was just enjoying our time

514
00:31:31,840 –> 00:31:35,960
together.
He said, you know Jim and Brian,

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00:31:35,960 –> 00:31:41,840
he said God has been very good
to you, He said You’re now in

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00:31:41,840 –> 00:31:44,640
your middle years and you’ve got
family.

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00:31:45,520 –> 00:31:49,720
So on and so on, he said.
A lot of people, when they get

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00:31:49,720 –> 00:31:52,080
to their middle years, ruin
their lives.

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00:31:54,560 –> 00:31:58,400
He said be careful that God has
blessed you.

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00:31:58,560 –> 00:32:02,280
Be careful not to ruin your
middle years.

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00:32:03,440 –> 00:32:05,280
He’s never ever said anything
about that before.

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00:32:05,960 –> 00:32:10,280
He was just an old sagacious
brother who perceived things,

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00:32:10,680 –> 00:32:13,000
and wisely.
Had a word to say.

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00:32:13,160 –> 00:32:17,040
Not a lovely thing.
Treasure those words, because we

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00:32:17,040 –> 00:32:19,200
do get over the.
Over the hill, don’t we?

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00:32:20,000 –> 00:32:22,000
I see you out there working with
the little children.

527
00:32:22,000 –> 00:32:24,680
I remember it all.
It’s different to be at Bible

528
00:32:24,680 –> 00:32:28,760
school with little children than
to be just a couple here isn’t

529
00:32:28,760 –> 00:32:32,080
much more difficult, much more
different.

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00:32:33,240 –> 00:32:36,800
But you’ve paid off the loan.
The house is yours.

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00:32:37,080 –> 00:32:38,960
You can choose What Car you
might like to have.

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00:32:40,640 –> 00:32:44,800
Job security has been there for
many years, and it doesn’t mean,

533
00:32:44,800 –> 00:32:47,360
does it, that that necessarily
draws us back to God.

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00:32:47,360 –> 00:32:49,040
It could mean that therefore we
want something else.

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00:32:49,040 –> 00:32:53,920
And else and else and else.
And there’s more frontiers to to

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00:32:53,920 –> 00:32:57,040
conquer.
And in that temptation to rise.

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00:32:57,240 –> 00:32:59,520
That’s undoubtedly what happened
to David, isn’t it?

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00:32:59,840 –> 00:33:03,600
In the middle years, brethren.
Of our middle ears.

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00:33:04,480 –> 00:33:08,640
That’s when a court David, when
he had achieved so much and life

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00:33:08,640 –> 00:33:11,520
was not quite so much uphill,
but was now.

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00:33:12,040 –> 00:33:15,560
Coming to the plateau, as it
were for the prime years of

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00:33:15,560 –> 00:33:21,040
life.
But this Psalm that we have

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00:33:22,360 –> 00:33:25,720
shows that even after the.
Consequences of tragedy.

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00:33:27,240 –> 00:33:32,560
God is able to be found.
In this Psalm, David has come up

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00:33:32,600 –> 00:33:36,160
out of that, and he’s still
exactly the same mind mentally

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00:33:36,520 –> 00:33:41,720
as he was when he was in exile
as a younger man in earlier

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00:33:41,760 –> 00:33:47,280
years.
Yahweh prepares verse 7, mercy

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00:33:47,400 –> 00:33:50,360
and truth, which may preserve
him.

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00:33:52,680 –> 00:33:55,720
And there was a particularly
touching matter, Wasn’t there

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00:33:56,080 –> 00:33:59,040
just at the end of that story,
back in our story that we’ve had

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00:33:59,040 –> 00:34:09,760
this week?
He prepares mercy and truth if

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00:34:09,760 –> 00:34:12,639
that was said just before this
event and how?

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00:34:12,639 –> 00:34:15,159
Wonderfully, David would have
seen a fulfillment.

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00:34:15,159 –> 00:34:22,400
Of those words in this event,
Second Samuel. 17 Second Samuel

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00:34:22,400 –> 00:34:32,239
17.
It came to pass as 26, so Israel

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00:34:32,239 –> 00:34:34,560
and Absalom pitched in the land
of Gilead.

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00:34:38,520 –> 00:34:43,280
What a terrible thing.
Father and son out of Israel

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00:34:43,280 –> 00:34:49,040
together two different armies.
So Israel and Absalom.

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00:34:50,560 –> 00:34:52,600
David didn’t even have his
nation.

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00:34:54,000 –> 00:34:56,320
His treacherous and wicked son
had that.

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00:34:57,040 –> 00:35:02,560
So Israel and Absalom pitched in
the land of Gilead, a harsh

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00:35:02,560 –> 00:35:05,840
land.
It came to pass.

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00:35:07,880 –> 00:35:10,800
Could there be a greater note of
tragedy than verse 26?

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00:35:10,800 –> 00:35:14,640
It’s like a summary of the
tragedy and the next verse, the

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00:35:14,640 –> 00:35:21,680
next verse.
It came to pass when David was

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00:35:21,680 –> 00:35:29,160
come to my name, when he was
overcome, when the consequences

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00:35:29,160 –> 00:35:31,920
of all that he had done were at
their height.

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00:35:32,840 –> 00:35:35,400
That came to pass when David was
come to May.

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00:35:35,400 –> 00:35:44,200
Her name that Shobi the son of
Naheshab Rabar, the place of his

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00:35:44,200 –> 00:35:52,680
shame, and Maker the son of Emil
of Lodibar, and Bazilaya the

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00:35:52,680 –> 00:35:54,040
Gileadite of.
Rogalin.

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00:35:55,200 –> 00:35:57,360
They brought everything they
could possibly think of.

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00:35:58,480 –> 00:36:01,840
They brought beds and the record
just goes on to talk about it.

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00:36:02,240 –> 00:36:05,520
Two whole vessels are used to
describe the multitude of stuff

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00:36:05,520 –> 00:36:08,200
that came.
They brought beds and never had

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00:36:08,200 –> 00:36:12,000
them before.
I slept under the Bush, basins

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00:36:12,000 –> 00:36:16,680
and urban vessels, wheat,
parley, flour, parched, corn,

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00:36:16,960 –> 00:36:23,680
beans and lentils, and parched.
Pulse, Mercy and truth I hast

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00:36:23,680 –> 00:36:30,680
prepared for me honey, butter,
sheep, cheese of kind.

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00:36:31,800 –> 00:36:36,960
Like you’d have on a King’s
table a David and for the people

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00:36:36,960 –> 00:36:41,800
that were with him to eat all
they said in their sympathy and

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00:36:41,800 –> 00:36:45,480
their love.
The people is hungry and weary

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00:36:45,600 –> 00:36:49,680
and thirsty in the wilderness.
Bring tear to your eye, my dear

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00:36:49,680 –> 00:36:51,560
and sisters.
Beautiful thing, isn’t it?

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00:36:52,480 –> 00:36:56,600
The greatest tragedy?
Verse 26 Mercy and Truth met him

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00:36:56,600 –> 00:37:01,480
in verse 2729.
Do you know who those?

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00:37:01,480 –> 00:37:09,400
Three men were Shobi, it says.
The son of Nahash of Rabar Shobi

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00:37:09,400 –> 00:37:14,880
was a Prince of the Ammonites.
Can you imagine anything more

589
00:37:15,000 –> 00:37:17,760
unlikely than that?
Do you remember that?

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00:37:18,000 –> 00:37:22,360
David sent a messenger to to to
Nahan.

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00:37:23,360 –> 00:37:26,440
Who was Shobi’s brother?
The other Prince, and now king,

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00:37:26,560 –> 00:37:28,320
he sent a messenger messengers
to them.

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00:37:28,840 –> 00:37:31,280
To show kindness, he said.
Because of Hanan.

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00:37:31,720 –> 00:37:33,720
Because of Nahesh, their fathers
say.

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00:37:35,080 –> 00:37:37,760
And you remember how Nahin?
Railed against David’s

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00:37:37,760 –> 00:37:41,160
messengers, and he sent them
back with half their beard.

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00:37:41,160 –> 00:37:47,040
Cut this.
Shobi is that King’s brother.

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00:37:47,920 –> 00:37:51,960
He’s the second most important.
Person, perhaps among the

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00:37:51,960 –> 00:37:55,960
children of Ammon.
The children of Ammon, would you

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00:37:55,960 –> 00:37:58,960
have thought that?
Anything could come out of Ammon

601
00:37:59,240 –> 00:38:01,360
that could be favorable to David
at this?

602
00:38:01,640 –> 00:38:05,320
Circumstance.
That was the place of his sin.

603
00:38:06,360 –> 00:38:08,360
It was the place where Uriah was
buried.

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00:38:09,720 –> 00:38:13,400
It was the place where he’d
showed, it seems exceptional.

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00:38:13,400 –> 00:38:17,320
Cruelty.
And at this time, when you might

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00:38:17,320 –> 00:38:19,840
have thought those people would
join with Absalom, with a

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00:38:19,840 –> 00:38:24,760
relish, the Prince of the
Ammonites comes out, the brother

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00:38:24,760 –> 00:38:29,200
to the king, and he comes with
all these things, joining in

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00:38:30,120 –> 00:38:32,120
with these other men.
How do they think of it?

610
00:38:32,240 –> 00:38:33,960
How do they get it together so
quickly?

611
00:38:34,360 –> 00:38:38,760
There was response in his heart.
You know, it says when David

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00:38:38,760 –> 00:38:41,880
sent those messengers that his
mind was to the God’s.

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00:38:42,080 –> 00:38:46,400
Nahum, it was to show him
kindness, and that word is?

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00:38:46,600 –> 00:38:51,160
Kiss head, Prepare mercy care
said and.

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00:38:51,160 –> 00:38:54,760
Truth, says the Psalm God will
prepare mercy and truth.

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00:38:55,040 –> 00:38:58,080
David had thought to get send
mercy to the king of Ammon, to

617
00:38:58,120 –> 00:39:01,200
to make a decent arrangement
with him because of the kindness

618
00:39:01,200 –> 00:39:03,400
of his father.
In time cast it was a loving

619
00:39:03,400 –> 00:39:06,840
gesture, an extended generous
gesture.

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00:39:07,600 –> 00:39:12,080
This show becomes at David’s
greatest extremity, and with

621
00:39:12,080 –> 00:39:15,040
great danger, no doubt to
himself, and the disparagement

622
00:39:15,040 –> 00:39:19,320
of his of his of his partisans.
But he comes despite all of

623
00:39:19,320 –> 00:39:22,400
that, in his own reputation, and
he loads David with all that the

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00:39:22,400 –> 00:39:25,760
Kingdom of Ammon could load.
What an incredible thing, my

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00:39:25,760 –> 00:39:29,600
dear brethren.
Sisters, do you think God was in

626
00:39:29,600 –> 00:39:35,200
that?
The God of Israel, despite

627
00:39:35,200 –> 00:39:40,760
Uriah, despite David’s sin?
Why?

628
00:39:40,760 –> 00:39:47,640
Because David was a man of Kesed
and with the merciful.

629
00:39:49,000 –> 00:39:54,440
God will show himself merciful.
As a man meets, so will it be

630
00:39:54,440 –> 00:39:58,000
measured to him again.
Don’t forget mercy, my dear and

631
00:39:58,000 –> 00:40:01,560
sisters.
In our ecclesial judgments.

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00:40:03,200 –> 00:40:08,400
There may be a time our hand is
out for mercy, and it will come

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00:40:08,400 –> 00:40:10,520
to us according as we’ve given
it to us.

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00:40:11,160 –> 00:40:15,160
Stand by the principles, indeed,
but don’t forget mercy.

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00:40:18,040 –> 00:40:19,640
Maker.
He’s there.

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00:40:19,880 –> 00:40:23,640
Who’s this Maker?
The son of Amiel of Lodibar.

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00:40:24,240 –> 00:40:27,520
Come back to Chapter 9.
He’s actually mentioned before

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00:40:27,520 –> 00:40:34,400
in the record The second of
Samuel 9, when David was

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00:40:34,400 –> 00:40:37,960
inquiring.
Is there any left of the House

640
00:40:37,960 –> 00:40:43,440
of Saul?
That I might show him Kesed.

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00:40:43,680 –> 00:40:47,680
Oh, it’s the word of David’s
life. 9 verse one.

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00:40:48,440 –> 00:40:50,840
Is there yet any that is left of
the House of Saul?

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00:40:50,840 –> 00:40:55,560
That I may show him him
kindness, Kesed.

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00:40:56,600 –> 00:40:58,800
The loving kindness.
The steadfast love.

645
00:40:58,800 –> 00:41:01,520
That’s the that’s.
The whole meaning of the word

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00:41:01,920 –> 00:41:05,480
unchanging love that I may show
him.

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00:41:06,120 –> 00:41:09,080
Kesed for Jonathan’s sake.
He loved Jonathan’s name.

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00:41:10,160 –> 00:41:13,200
Now is it the peak of his of his
power?

649
00:41:15,640 –> 00:41:17,840
Is absolute power going to
corrupt?

650
00:41:17,840 –> 00:41:21,720
Absolutely.
In the peak of his power on

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00:41:21,720 –> 00:41:23,360
either.
Side of this chapter are all of

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00:41:23,360 –> 00:41:26,440
his war achievements.
In the peak of that

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00:41:26,440 –> 00:41:29,600
circumstance, he thinks of the
covenant he made with his

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00:41:29,600 –> 00:41:33,360
beloved friend.
That’s been so long decaying in

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00:41:33,360 –> 00:41:36,560
the grave that I may show him,
kiss it.

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00:41:38,600 –> 00:41:42,200
And it was told him, wasn’t it
by Zeba, that there was a one

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00:41:42,200 –> 00:41:45,120
called Mephibosheth and he he
was alive the.

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00:41:45,120 –> 00:41:49,920
King said unto him, Where is he?
Verse 4, Ziva said unto the

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00:41:49,920 –> 00:41:52,480
king.
Well, he’s way off in exile.

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00:41:52,480 –> 00:41:55,720
Behold.
He’s in the House of Maker, the

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00:41:55,720 –> 00:41:58,760
son of Amil in Logovar.
That’s the man.

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00:42:01,040 –> 00:42:03,200
It’s the same man.
Chapter 17.

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00:42:04,440 –> 00:42:07,680
This man must have been on the
side of Saul.

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00:42:07,680 –> 00:42:10,760
He must have been.
Because he was prepared to build

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00:42:10,760 –> 00:42:15,440
it into his house, this remnant
of the previous dynasty.

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00:42:15,880 –> 00:42:18,200
Pretty useless sort of man.
In terms of what he could do

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00:42:18,200 –> 00:42:22,080
around the house, but he he took
compassion upon him and brought

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00:42:22,080 –> 00:42:25,280
him into the house and the
messengers of sort of David came

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00:42:25,280 –> 00:42:27,640
at verse five.
Then King David sent and fetched

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00:42:27,640 –> 00:42:30,720
him out of the House of Maker,
the son of Amy or from Lodibar.

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00:42:30,880 –> 00:42:33,160
And you can imagine that when
Maker saw him going out the

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00:42:33,160 –> 00:42:35,240
front gate and going down the
road, he would have thought

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00:42:35,240 –> 00:42:36,880
that’s the last I’ll ever see
him a fibbish in.

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00:42:38,000 –> 00:42:40,880
David is making sure there is no
Remnant that could ever rise up

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00:42:40,880 –> 00:42:42,880
against him from the previous
dynasty.

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00:42:43,000 –> 00:42:45,480
But he was so wrong, wasn’t he?
Yeah, My what?

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00:42:45,480 –> 00:42:47,720
The messenger said.
Maker must have thought that’s

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00:42:47,720 –> 00:42:50,480
what would happen.
In fact, David took him and he

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00:42:50,480 –> 00:42:53,040
put him among his sons at his
table.

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00:42:53,640 –> 00:42:55,440
David’s sons.
Jonathan’s sons.

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00:42:55,440 –> 00:42:56,920
My sons right in the middle of
them.

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00:42:58,360 –> 00:43:01,560
And eventually that story would
have come back, wouldn’t coming

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00:43:01,560 –> 00:43:04,360
back over Jordan.
Did you hear what happened to

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00:43:04,360 –> 00:43:08,040
Mephibosheth Maker?
No, I just suppose that he’s

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00:43:08,040 –> 00:43:09,840
dead now.
No, he isn’t.

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00:43:10,680 –> 00:43:13,560
I visited Jerusalem to the
Tabernacle and.

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00:43:13,560 –> 00:43:15,760
Mephibosheth is sitting at the
King’s table.

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00:43:17,080 –> 00:43:18,680
What would David want to have
Maken?

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00:43:19,080 –> 00:43:21,520
To have Mephibosheth?
That he’s stable for he was a

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00:43:21,520 –> 00:43:24,360
lame man.
How does he fit in with all the

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00:43:24,360 –> 00:43:26,320
celebration of the of the Royal
house?

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00:43:27,560 –> 00:43:29,560
David’s got him there, among his
sons.

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00:43:31,120 –> 00:43:32,640
A maker would have gone back to
his house.

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00:43:32,640 –> 00:43:34,640
He would have.
Surely seen in that.

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00:43:35,200 –> 00:43:39,240
But there was a man of God.
He knew The story about Jonathan

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00:43:39,240 –> 00:43:42,080
Mephibosheth no doubt knew that
told him he got back somehow.

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00:43:43,000 –> 00:43:50,040
If it were a wonderful man, a
man of steadfast love, and now

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00:43:50,200 –> 00:43:56,080
when the wheel of fortune was
turned and maker, he is that.

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00:43:56,080 –> 00:43:59,400
David has come to his exile
country, as it were.

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00:43:59,560 –> 00:44:04,280
Overjoyed, he gathers up all the
things of his considerable home.

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00:44:05,520 –> 00:44:09,520
He rushes to the scene to show
him the cassette of the Lord

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00:44:10,720 –> 00:44:13,800
Mercy and Truth Men.
And of course there was

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00:44:13,800 –> 00:44:17,360
Barzilayer beginning after
Problem 3, Great Men.

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00:44:18,160 –> 00:44:22,080
So God remembers my dear and
sisters, doesn’t he?

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00:44:22,080 –> 00:44:25,720
The cycles of life.
Can turn cast thy bread upon the

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00:44:25,720 –> 00:44:28,920
waters.
After many days it shall return

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00:44:29,600 –> 00:44:32,360
unto thee.
It’s coming back to our son.

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00:44:36,360 –> 00:44:38,600
You know, David had the best
years ahead of him.

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00:44:39,600 –> 00:44:40,600
Are we older?
In years?

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00:44:40,600 –> 00:44:43,040
We’ve spoken of the young.
We’ve spoken of the middle age.

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00:44:43,480 –> 00:44:47,000
Are we older in years?
It’s the final thought.

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00:44:47,320 –> 00:44:49,080
We’re really a family together,
aren’t we?

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00:44:50,160 –> 00:45:00,120
He says in verse 6.
Thou wilt prolong the King’s

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00:45:00,120 –> 00:45:04,080
life in his years as many
generations.

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00:45:05,640 –> 00:45:07,360
Well, you know, he did prolong
David’s life.

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00:45:08,120 –> 00:45:11,080
He looked as sick as though he
was He was about to go.

717
00:45:11,640 –> 00:45:14,400
Later in the time of Idona just
reign, he looked like he was so.

718
00:45:14,400 –> 00:45:16,960
Cold that his metabolism had
slowed down.

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00:45:16,960 –> 00:45:20,000
They couldn’t keep him warm.
There’s nothing a good thing.

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00:45:20,000 –> 00:45:21,720
To do, to keep the old king
warm.

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00:45:22,440 –> 00:45:27,440
And yet after that, he had the.
Greatest years of his life are

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00:45:27,440 –> 00:45:28,640
the legs.
A little frail.

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00:45:28,880 –> 00:45:31,160
Dear brother, dear sister, is
the mind.

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00:45:31,160 –> 00:45:34,600
Not as strong, perhaps.
Remember David in his older

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00:45:34,640 –> 00:45:38,400
years, when he cried unto God
and said, Now that I’m old and

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00:45:38,400 –> 00:45:40,960
Gray headed, forsake me not, and
he wasn’t forsaken.

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00:45:43,480 –> 00:45:47,080
Old age in the truth is not to
let the rains go.

728
00:45:47,760 –> 00:45:50,600
We need you.
We need your consistency.

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00:45:50,600 –> 00:45:53,480
We need your inspiration.
You know, the old sisters or

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00:45:53,480 –> 00:45:56,840
brothers that come to the the
Bible class despite rain or

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00:45:56,840 –> 00:45:59,080
shine, despite weariness or
pain.

732
00:45:59,480 –> 00:46:02,080
And sit along the row are an
inspiration to us, aren’t they?

733
00:46:02,600 –> 00:46:06,040
All of us feel that way.
To have our our older ones here

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00:46:06,200 –> 00:46:09,640
climbing up the mountain to be.
With us to celebrate in the

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00:46:09,640 –> 00:46:12,280
things of God together.
What an inspiration that is.

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00:46:12,280 –> 00:46:13,880
We’ve felt it this week many
times.

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00:46:14,160 –> 00:46:19,360
All of us have felt that as we
go into older years, don’t look

738
00:46:19,360 –> 00:46:23,120
for easing off some little spot
down, you know on the coast

739
00:46:23,120 –> 00:46:25,960
that’s far away from reality.
We need you.

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00:46:26,640 –> 00:46:28,040
We need you.
An hour clears your life.

741
00:46:28,960 –> 00:46:31,080
We’d love to have him David’s
best years.

742
00:46:31,200 –> 00:46:33,520
He said.
In his later years, I set my

743
00:46:33,520 –> 00:46:38,240
affection for the House of my
God just as true for us today.

744
00:46:39,320 –> 00:46:41,360
Think to build older breathers
and sisters.

745
00:46:41,360 –> 00:46:44,120
We need your steadfast example.
We need the.

746
00:46:44,120 –> 00:46:48,280
Constancy of your mind, your
prolonged example among us.

747
00:46:48,800 –> 00:46:51,640
But there’s more here, isn’t it?
This is more than just an

748
00:46:51,640 –> 00:46:56,400
extension of present life, His
years as many generations.

749
00:46:57,400 –> 00:47:00,120
This for I will.
Abide in thy Tabernacle forever

750
00:47:00,840 –> 00:47:04,200
he shall abide verse seven
before God, forever before God.

751
00:47:05,120 –> 00:47:09,480
Verse 8 So will I sing praise
unto thy name forever, but I

752
00:47:09,480 –> 00:47:13,920
might daily perform my vows.
This is a man who daily in the

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00:47:14,120 –> 00:47:18,200
in the small unit of of life.
Presently he’s daily performing

754
00:47:18,200 –> 00:47:20,480
his vows.
But that life is going to go on

755
00:47:20,480 –> 00:47:23,600
forever.
It’s in the little things,

756
00:47:23,720 –> 00:47:27,000
brilliant in the basics.
That take us on to eternal life.

757
00:47:27,240 –> 00:47:30,840
This Psalm is not limited spirit
of God that that moved David to

758
00:47:30,840 –> 00:47:33,680
say this is.
Projecting the scene for all of

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00:47:33,680 –> 00:47:36,280
us coming right through to our
times.

760
00:47:36,440 –> 00:47:39,840
Motivating every day of our
lives to daily perform our lives

761
00:47:39,960 –> 00:47:42,640
not just on Sunday morning, but
but every day of our life.

762
00:47:42,640 –> 00:47:47,280
Filling it with the things of
God that we might go on unto the

763
00:47:47,280 –> 00:47:49,840
eternal life that is to come.
Why is that so?

764
00:47:51,320 –> 00:47:55,400
Because as we read this morning,
the keepers did quake.

765
00:47:57,520 –> 00:48:02,640
The keepers, the keepers of the
grave, tried to lock the Lord

766
00:48:02,640 –> 00:48:07,960
Jesus Christ into death.
They shook because the Angel of

767
00:48:07,960 –> 00:48:11,880
life, he came and he unblocked
that stone.

768
00:48:13,000 –> 00:48:16,480
He pushed it back.
He brought forth our Lord Jesus

769
00:48:16,480 –> 00:48:19,800
Christ, and he gave him life
forevermore.

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00:48:21,560 –> 00:48:23,720
So we push on with our daily
bowels, my dear brother,

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00:48:23,720 –> 00:48:26,760
sisters, and love of each other,
and love of the truth and love

772
00:48:26,760 –> 00:48:29,560
of our God that we too.
Whatever.

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00:48:29,560 –> 00:48:34,080
Stage of life we might be may be
able to share with him that

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00:48:34,080 –> 00:48:51,760
eternal life for which we long.
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00:48:51,760 –> 00:48:53,400
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00:48:54,200 –> 00:48:56,640
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