{"id":501,"date":"2022-05-09T02:25:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T02:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/190-dan-knowles-god-knows\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T04:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:09:31","slug":"190-dan-knowles-god-knows","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/190-dan-knowles-god-knows\/","title":{"rendered":"190: Dan Knowles – God Knows"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we are listening to an exhortation by Brother Dan Knowles given at the Tea Tree Gully Ecclesia in 2022. We hope this strengthens your Faith and brightens your day!<\/p>\n

Thank you for listening, God bless, and talk to you next week.<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to good for selfie and
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\nintro.
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\nfor the talk.
\nYou’re about to listen to and <\/p>\n

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\nnow let’s talk more about this
\nweek’s talk <\/p>\n

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\nstock is an excitation by
\nbrother Dan Knowles again at the<\/p>\n

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\nteat regally, Ecclesia earlier
\nthis year, the title is, God <\/p>\n

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\nknows very much enjoyed Station
\nfound very instructive and <\/p>\n

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\nuplifting and inspiring I guess.
\nRecognizing that our heavenly <\/p>\n

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\nfather does have empathy.
\nAnd anytime that we felt alone <\/p>\n

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\nor overwhelmed or confused about
\nour, you know, what’s happening,<\/p>\n

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\nour lives, God knows and doesn’t
\noppress us beyond what we can <\/p>\n

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\nbear.
\nThis was a suggestion, very <\/p>\n

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\nthankful to the sister that sent
\nthis in. <\/p>\n

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\nHe’s do, send us any talks to
\nyou here that are that are <\/p>\n

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\nbeneficial and we will likely
\nshare them. <\/p>\n

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\nThank you again.
\nSo, here is God Knows by Well, <\/p>\n

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\nthank you Mark.
\nAnd thanks for those hoping <\/p>\n

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\nthoughts as well.
\nAnd that there’s some that you <\/p>\n

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\nquoted to us earlier which is
\nvery relevant to our theme this <\/p>\n

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\nmorning and good morning.
\nBrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s lovely to be with you all
\nagain here. <\/p>\n

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\nTo share a morning together
\nwhere we can reflect on the word<\/p>\n

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\nof our god, what he’s given us
\nand what he’s offered to us in <\/p>\n

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\nour Lord.
\nWell there are times in life <\/p>\n

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\naren’t their brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n

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\nWhen we Face trials or
\nchallenges or maybe just <\/p>\n

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\nsituations that have come upon
\nus, whether brought Upon Us by <\/p>\n

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\nour own mistakes and poor
\nchoices or just by the <\/p>\n

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\ncircumstances of life. and there
\nare times times when we can feel<\/p>\n

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\nquite alone, In the sense that
\nno one understands what we face.<\/p>\n

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\nSometimes we say that to
\nourselves, don’t we? <\/p>\n

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\nif only someone else, understood
\nWe can feel perhaps at times, <\/p>\n

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\nthat everything is against us.
\nAll everyone is against us, <\/p>\n

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\nwhether that’s reality or just
\nour perception, our frame of <\/p>\n

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\nmind.
\nSometimes we feel we have these <\/p>\n

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\nsituations in our life that
\neither. <\/p>\n

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\nNo one else understands or no
\none else knows or even if they <\/p>\n

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\ndid know, they wouldn’t
\nunderstand but the reassurance <\/p>\n

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\nfor us brothers and sisters is
\nthat Your experience is not <\/p>\n

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\nalone.
\nPeople in scripture felt this to<\/p>\n

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\nand poured out their hearts.
\nthey poured out their emotions, <\/p>\n

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\nsometimes despair, sometimes
\nfrustration, even anger their <\/p>\n

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\ncircumstances that they found
\nthemselves facing Yet, the hope <\/p>\n

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\nis that they work through this.
\nThey came to a realization. <\/p>\n

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\nA realization that became a
\ncalming influence in their minds<\/p>\n

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\neven changed their perspective
\nand this realization I think can<\/p>\n

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\nbe summed up in those two words
\nwhich is our theme this morning.<\/p>\n

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\nGod knows, God knows.
\nAnd that might seem overly <\/p>\n

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\nsimplistic.
\nI mean, that’s something we <\/p>\n

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\nteach our children, isn’t it?
\nGod knows everything that you <\/p>\n

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\ndo.
\nBe careful what you say. <\/p>\n

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\nBe careful what you do.
\nBe careful where you go. <\/p>\n

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\nGod knows.
\nBut it doesn’t hurt us to <\/p>\n

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\nreflect on that, and to revisit
\nthat does it as adults. as <\/p>\n

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\ngrown-ups even fact, we have
\ngrown up and to think about <\/p>\n

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\nwhether we remember that.
\nWe also like a children are in <\/p>\n

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\nthe presence of God.
\nHe knows what we’re thinking. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s the challenge for us.
\nI think as disciples is we, we <\/p>\n

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\nlook at last issues, big issues
\nor small issues. <\/p>\n

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\nThe small interactions we have
\nwithin our family and our <\/p>\n

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\nfriends through the bigger
\nissues that we might work <\/p>\n

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\nthrough in a collegial life.
\nAnd what I find brothers and <\/p>\n

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\nsisters is that we, you know, we
\ncan easily give or we can easily<\/p>\n

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\nhear talks on the concept of God
\nin our lives and all these <\/p>\n

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\nlovely ideas.
\nAnd yet, they can be a huge <\/p>\n

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\ndisconnect sometimes in our
\nlives. <\/p>\n

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\nBetween that theory between that
\nthought and that ideal, that we <\/p>\n

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\nare all very happy to talk
\nabout. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd how we actually deal with
\nthe situations that we come <\/p>\n

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\nacross in life.
\nAnd I think subconsciously, we <\/p>\n

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\nmay never think this thought,
\nbut subconsciously, we can act <\/p>\n

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\nas, though well.
\nThat doesn’t apply to this <\/p>\n

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\nparticular situation or this
\naspect of my life. <\/p>\n

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\nNot sorry.
\nThat the spirit of Christ can’t <\/p>\n

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\nbe applied here.
\nI just have to deal with it in <\/p>\n

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\nmy own way.
\nI don’t think any of us would <\/p>\n

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\never consciously think, or say
\nthat necessarily That our <\/p>\n

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\nactions, not words thoughts,
\neven might belie that. <\/p>\n

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\nWe might be striving for an
\noutcome. <\/p>\n

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\nWe see is Right, a cause we
\nbelieve is the best. <\/p>\n

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\nBut if we stopped and examined
\nthe way we get there, the way we<\/p>\n

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\nget there does matter as well.
\nDo we think about how God looks <\/p>\n

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\nat the way we travel?
\nNot just where we’re going. <\/p>\n

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\nThe thoughts going through our
\nheads of times, our personal <\/p>\n

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\nresponses, to what he’s bought
\nin our lives. <\/p>\n

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\nDoes he see in us a
\nconsciousness of his being of <\/p>\n

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\nhis presence?
\nI say this because this is <\/p>\n

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\nsomething I’ve struggled with.
\nSo I assume that there are <\/p>\n

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\nothers, that also struggle with
\nthis. <\/p>\n

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\nThe possible disconnect between
\nwhat we profess and how we <\/p>\n

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\nactually act and respond.
\nWhat are some examples in <\/p>\n

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\nscripture just to name a few
\nquickly, people who experienced <\/p>\n

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\nInjustice, we misunderstood
\ndiscredited. <\/p>\n

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\nHow it impacted them how they
\nresponded. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, I’m sure you could some
\nexamples would start to run <\/p>\n

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\nthrough your heads, but some of
\nthat spring to mind straight <\/p>\n

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\naway, think of Joseph
\nmisunderstood, you know, <\/p>\n

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\nconsidered by his brothers
\negotistical self-centered when <\/p>\n

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\nhe was in fact there.
\nTo seek his Brethren’s, welfare.<\/p>\n

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\nBut had to suffer in silence for
\nall those years without <\/p>\n

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\nobjection.
\nThey’re complaining without <\/p>\n

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\nlashing out knowing that it was
\nGod’s will. <\/p>\n

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\nMoses, you take too much upon
\nyourself, Moses. <\/p>\n

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\nThe people said to him as Moses
\nstruggled there through the <\/p>\n

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\ndesert, trying to care for them
\nall like a father to a million <\/p>\n

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\npeople.
\nJobe. <\/p>\n

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\nJobe just accepted you’ve sinned
\njob. <\/p>\n

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\nIn fact, job the consequences
\nyou have less than you deserve <\/p>\n

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\njob.
\nEnjoy the new that he hadn’t <\/p>\n

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\ndone any particular thing wrong
\nthat he was in general a <\/p>\n

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\nrighteous man, he struggled with
\nthat clearly. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we get to see all the
\nthoughts going through his head.<\/p>\n

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\nAs he struggled through that
\nconcept, couldn’t even <\/p>\n

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\nunderstand why God was putting
\nhim in that situation. <\/p>\n

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\nBut he had to learn to trust,
\ndidn’t he? <\/p>\n

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\nTo trust that?
\nGod had it in hand and would <\/p>\n

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\njudge fairly in the end.
\nAnd it throughout his term oil <\/p>\n

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\non his struggles, he had these
\nlittle moments of clarity these <\/p>\n

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\ntruths, which came through in
\nhis words. <\/p>\n

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\nThere’s one I particularly,
\nlike, in Job, chapter 23, and we<\/p>\n

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\nmight just turn there for a
\nmoment beekeeping Mark, when the<\/p>\n

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\nsun will come back there later.
\nBut joke, 23 some favorite words<\/p>\n

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\nof mind and in the struggle of
\njobs life, Starting from this <\/p>\n

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\nbase 8 of Job, chapter 9, at Joe
\nchapter 23. <\/p>\n

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\nSorry.
\nAs Joe reflects on the struggles<\/p>\n

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\nin his life, he says, behold I
\ngo forward but he that is God is<\/p>\n

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\nnot there and backward but I
\ncannot perceive him on the left <\/p>\n

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\nhand.
\nWhere does he work? <\/p>\n

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\nNot the right, he hideth himself
\non the right hand. <\/p>\n

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\nI cannot see him, but he says in
\nverse 10. <\/p>\n

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\nOne thing is for sure.
\nHe knoweth the way that I take <\/p>\n

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\nAnd when he is tried me, I shall
\ncome forth as gold. <\/p>\n

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\nMy foot hath held his steps.
\nHis way have I kept and have not<\/p>\n

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\ndeclined and although I think
\njob is still struggling with the<\/p>\n

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\nconcept of how God is treating
\nhim. <\/p>\n

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\nYou might say in the situation,
\nthe struggles he’s putting him <\/p>\n

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\nthrough.
\nHe accepts, he cannot reject. <\/p>\n

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\nThis one fact that God knows he
\nknows the way I take. <\/p>\n

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\nHe sees beyond what I see.
\nAnd he can bring me forth as <\/p>\n

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\ngold of the end. we have, of
\ncourse then people like Nehemiah<\/p>\n

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\nwho labored amongst the nation?
\nWhat about reforms rebuilt? <\/p>\n

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\nThe city.
\nAnd then went away for a few <\/p>\n

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\nyears and came back and found
\nall his reforms uprooted. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat was the purpose?
\nWhat did he even achieved in his<\/p>\n

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\nwhole life?
\nAt the end of that book? <\/p>\n

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\nAs he found people turning his
\nback on the things he’d set up. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd yet, it wasn’t a wasted
\nlife. <\/p>\n

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\nWhy?
\nBecause God knew God, saw and so<\/p>\n

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\nhis classic phrase To God is
\nremember me. <\/p>\n

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\nOh my God for good.
\nJeremiah imagine a man with a <\/p>\n

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\nmission to prophesy doom and
\ndestruction on your own City. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd all these people saw him him
\nas was a doomsayer, a traitor, <\/p>\n

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\nto the cause of Israel, when he
\nwas completely the opposite, <\/p>\n

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\nimagine being in that situation.
\nAnd of course, we have David who<\/p>\n

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\nwe’re going to consider today.
\nImagine a man who we know was <\/p>\n

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\nspiritual at heart, but imagine
\nbeing written off being labeled <\/p>\n

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\nin the mind of the nation as an
\nadulterer, and a murderer. <\/p>\n

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\nYes, God had forgiven him as
\nNathan said, but who else knew <\/p>\n

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\nthat in the nation except for
\nNathan? <\/p>\n

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\nThe prophet, As far as the rest
\nof the nation was concerned, <\/p>\n

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\nDavid was still labeled with
\nthose names. <\/p>\n

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\nNo longer a spiritual man.
\nCertainly in the eyes of people <\/p>\n

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\nlike a hit, the fell when his
\nfollowers. <\/p>\n

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\nDavid was like a dog to them one
\ncursed by God and yet David knew<\/p>\n

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\nthat his own relationship was
\nGod With God restored. but he <\/p>\n

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\ncouldn’t change what people
\nthink thought of him hoodie, and<\/p>\n

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\nhe didn’t try to He just trusted
\nin God. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it’s only that we have the
\nfull record and able to look <\/p>\n

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\nback in hindsight that we know
\nthat he was a changed in a <\/p>\n

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\nspiritual man.
\nOf course, we have our Lord <\/p>\n

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\nJesus Christ, the ultimate
\nexample. <\/p>\n

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\nYet in his day, in the moment,
\nthe most misunderstood and <\/p>\n

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\nunappreciated, man, in the
\nworld, his enemies throwing slow<\/p>\n

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\non his birth in this
\ncredentials, his motives <\/p>\n

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\ntwisting, his teaching, and his
\nfriends and followers, not <\/p>\n

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\nmalicious, but completely
\nfailing to understand what he <\/p>\n

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\nwas going through to comprehend,
\nwhat he had to do in his real <\/p>\n

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\npurpose in life.
\nAnd so we’re going to come back <\/p>\n

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\nof course, to our Lord Jesus
\nChrist. <\/p>\n

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\nAs when we conclude by what I’d
\nlike to do. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:11,600 –> 00:12:15,000
\nNow is just to take a small
\nsample from David’s life in the <\/p>\n

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\nsummer brother.
\nMark read for a some water 142 <\/p>\n

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\nbecause this is just one I think
\nof many Psalms that Where David <\/p>\n

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\nreflects on his situation in
\nGod’s eyes? <\/p>\n

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\nThere are many Psalms, and many
\ndeep reflections of David, <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:33,900 –> 00:12:36,800
\nbrother, Mark Credit, another
\none relevant, one this morning <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:36,800 –> 00:12:39,800
\nas well, where he reflect on the
\nway God knew all his thoughts. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:42,600 –> 00:12:46,800
\nBut we’re just going to take
\nthis example. which is as, as it<\/p>\n

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\n00:12:46,800 –> 00:12:50,600
\ndescribes, a masculine David, a
\nprayer when he was in the cave, <\/p>\n

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\nsome 142 before we get into the
\nsummer itself, notice that a <\/p>\n

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\nmask.
\nYou actually means a <\/p>\n

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\ncontemplative song.
\nSo that means that David has <\/p>\n

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\ntaken a moment to pause and to
\ncontemplate his situation. <\/p>\n

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\nBut not simply to contemplate it
\nfrom a human point of view, but <\/p>\n

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\nto reflect on it.
\nWith God in mind. <\/p>\n

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\nWith God’s view on his life.
\nYou might say, He stands back <\/p>\n

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\nfor a moment and looks at his
\nlife, through God’s eyes. in our<\/p>\n

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\nBusy World, in our busy life,
\nwhen we are often dealing with <\/p>\n

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\nproblems by doing and acting,
\nOften on our own so-called <\/p>\n

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\nwisdom.
\nMeditation is almost a lost art,<\/p>\n

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\nisn’t it?
\nIt’s something that’s not so <\/p>\n

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\nmuch done or if it’s spoken of
\nin this world its context, it’s <\/p>\n

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\nmuch of it, more of a mind
\nemptying thing than a <\/p>\n

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\ngod-centered thing.
\nAnd with we have this challenge,<\/p>\n

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\ndon’t lie, especially when we’re
\nin the thick of fast or fast <\/p>\n

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\nmoving or significant events.
\nDo we force ourselves to pause <\/p>\n

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\nand to reflect deeply on our
\nsituation from God’s <\/p>\n

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\nperspective?
\nConsidering for considering for <\/p>\n

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\na moment that it’s just you and
\nGod leaving for a moment, other <\/p>\n

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\nparties out of the equation.
\nShedding those layers, those <\/p>\n

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\nprotection.
\nThose barriers that we put <\/p>\n

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\naround our self and our motives,
\nThe barriers, we might have <\/p>\n

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\nbetween us and other people that
\nwe hired someone out in <\/p>\n

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\nourselves and stopping to just
\nopen that. <\/p>\n

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\nShe’ll Delay.
\nOur hearts open to God. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:34,900 –> 00:14:37,400
\nIt’s probably a struggle with
\nour Western culture as well, <\/p>\n

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\nthat we don’t do this, as well
\nas perhaps we caught and people <\/p>\n

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\nin times past did our culture,
\nwhere it’s stiff, upper lip, you<\/p>\n

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\ntry not to show emotion, you
\nkeep things bottled up. <\/p>\n

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\nBut we can’t be like that
\nwithout God brothers and sisters<\/p>\n

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\n00:14:51,800 –> 00:14:53,300
\neven if we might be with each
\nother. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:55,400 –> 00:14:56,900
\nWhat’s the situation David’s in
\nhere? <\/p>\n

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\nWell, it says a prayer when he
\nwas in the cave. <\/p>\n

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\nNow, clearly there’s two cave
\nincidents. <\/p>\n

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\nThere’s, there’s the cave of a
\ndull. <\/p>\n

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\nMm, where David first gathered
\nwith his 400 men, and there’s <\/p>\n

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\nthe cave of engedi, but the cave
\nof a dull. <\/p>\n

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\nMm, seems to lend itself to this
\nsituation, better. <\/p>\n

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\nIf that’s the case, it’s that
\nincident which is described in <\/p>\n

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\ninverse of Samuel 22 and it
\nmight be helpful just to turn <\/p>\n

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\nback back there for a moment.
\nJust to remind ourselves of that<\/p>\n

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\ncontext.
\nFirst of Samuel chapter 22. <\/p>\n

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\nSo, just for the context on
\nthis, if you look back just <\/p>\n

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\nbefore chapter 22, you’ll see,
\nthis is, this is the time when <\/p>\n

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\nDavid has first fled from.
\nSo, he’s first gone to him, like<\/p>\n

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\nthe priests obtain some items.
\nThen gone on, not felt safe. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd in verse 10 of chapter 21, a
\nrose and fled that day for fear <\/p>\n

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\nof Saul and gone to a Koosh, the
\nking of gath. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so, you can get a sense of
\nDavid’s mindset at the moment, <\/p>\n

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\nand it’s not stable.
\nHe feels initially that there is<\/p>\n

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\nno safety for him.
\nIn the land of Israel itself <\/p>\n

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\namongst the nation, no one’s
\ngoing to Harbor him and he was <\/p>\n

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\nright in the sense that everyone
\nwas was afraid of salt 1 and <\/p>\n

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\nhe’s his fear was justified in
\nthe next chapter when dog. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd and still come through and
\nwipe out that whole city of <\/p>\n

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\npriests families and children
\nand all just because they help <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:30,800 –> 00:16:35,000
\nDavid and so feeling so
\nisolated, he thinks we’ll know <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:35,000 –> 00:16:39,200
\nwhat’s my next option gas?
\nAchish clearly not a Choice but <\/p>\n

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\nthis shows the frame of mind and
\nthat the state that David was <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:41,900 –> 00:16:44,800
\nin.
\nAnd so now saying he jumped out <\/p>\n

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\nof the frying pan Into the Fire.
\nAnd we know how things went for <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:50,000 –> 00:16:54,200
\nhim and gath, and he ends up to
\nescape from a Koosh in verse 13,<\/p>\n

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\na dribbling mess on the ground,
\ndoesn’t he? <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:56,700 –> 00:17:00,800
\nAbsolutely humiliated pretending
\nto be a Madman just so that he <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:00,800 –> 00:17:04,400
\ncan escape from this situation.
\nAnd we know from other Psalms <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:04,400 –> 00:17:07,400
\nthat he was at this point.
\nPouring out prayers to God as he<\/p>\n

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\n00:17:07,400 –> 00:17:10,099
\ndid.
\nSo, And indeed, it wasn’t his <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:10,099 –> 00:17:14,000
\nown Ploy of being a Madman, that
\nsaved him, but God’s Providence.<\/p>\n

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\n00:17:14,800 –> 00:17:19,200
\nAnd so now he returns back to
\nthis cave dull, mmm. <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:20,599 –> 00:17:22,599
\nA dejected man.
\nHe’s gone everywhere. <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:22,599 –> 00:17:24,500
\nHe’s tried all human help.
\nThe nation of Israel. <\/p>\n

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\nLet him down.
\nGentiles are no help. <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:26,400 –> 00:17:30,000
\nEither Human Resources, human
\nprotection is exhausted. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd hence we have the thoughts
\nand the prayer that he pours out<\/p>\n

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\nin this some it’s a realization
\nthat there was no human health <\/p>\n

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\nthat he could rely on as you’ll
\nsee in verse 4. <\/p>\n

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\nFor example, if you flip back to
\nthe psalm 142, There was I <\/p>\n

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\nlooked on my right hand but
\nthere was no man, that would <\/p>\n

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\nknow me my refuge failed me.
\nWhether I tried it in Israel or <\/p>\n

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\ntried it in gath.
\nNo man cared for my soul. <\/p>\n

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\nYou get this emphasis, don’t you
\nknow, man, no man but I Cried <\/p>\n

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\nunto thee o.
\nYahweh So that’s sitting. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s the setting for these
\nwords. <\/p>\n

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\nDavid.
\nNow, in this cave, About to cry <\/p>\n

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\nout to God.
\nIt’s interesting that the word <\/p>\n

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\ncave itself means a cavern or a
\ndark place, and that’s fitting <\/p>\n

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\nfor David state of mind isn’t at
\nthe moment. <\/p>\n

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\nHe is in a dark place in his
\nlife. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:29,900 –> 00:18:33,200
\nAnd so this arm seems to have a
\ncouple of sections in that. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:33,200 –> 00:18:35,000
\nIt changes tense partway
\nthrough. <\/p>\n

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\nYou’ll notice in the first few
\nverses he’s talking in the past <\/p>\n

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\ntense.
\nAnd he’s talking about God in in<\/p>\n

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\nthe third person as as him.
\nSo I cried past tense unto <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:47,900 –> 00:18:51,200
\nYahweh.
\nThis verse 2, I showed before <\/p>\n

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\nhim my trouble, so, this sum
\nmust have been written after <\/p>\n

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\nDavid, had his cry and his, his,
\nhis pouring out of emotion to <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:59,100 –> 00:19:01,800
\nGod in the cave.
\nAnd the interesting thing is <\/p>\n

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\nthat he’s now at some later
\npoint taken, the time to stop <\/p>\n

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\nand to look back on that moment
\nin time and reflect, this is <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:08,000 –> 00:19:09,600
\nwhat happened and this is what I
\ndid. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:09,600 –> 00:19:13,400
\nGod, I I stopped in that cave
\nand and I cried to you. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:16,100 –> 00:19:18,300
\nIt’s Wasabi speaking actually to
\nanother audience. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:18,800 –> 00:19:22,100
\nPerhaps it’s even his four
\nhundred followers because he <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:22,108 –> 00:19:23,900
\nsays it’s to him.
\nHe’s not speaking to God and <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:23,908 –> 00:19:26,900
\nthose first two verses, he
\nspeaking to some third party <\/p>\n

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\naudience, whether it’s his men
\nall the readers of this. <\/p>\n

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\nSome that’s what happened.
\nI, I was in this moment and I <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:33,500 –> 00:19:37,300
\npoured out my complained to God
\nand the next section he changes <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:38,100 –> 00:19:45,400
\ntents again, he starts talking
\nabout You or thee. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:45,400 –> 00:19:48,500
\nSo God verse 5 I Cried unto
\nthee. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:49,300 –> 00:19:53,300
\nSecond person, o Yahweh.
\nSo he’s now changed the address <\/p>\n

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\nof his some rather than
\naddressing these audience in <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:55,308 –> 00:19:57,200
\nthese readers is now addressing
\nGod. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:57,200 –> 00:20:03,000
\nAnd speaking with God about what
\nhappened in that scenario, I <\/p>\n

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\njust shows the value of
\nreflection isn’t it? <\/p>\n

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\nThat he didn’t just go through
\nthe moment and move on. <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:06,800 –> 00:20:08,800
\nHe paused and thought, back on
\nit. <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:08,800 –> 00:20:15,500
\nAnd then wrote this, some so,
\nthe first section Is a <\/p>\n

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\nreflection which begins with
\nquite some distress, you can get<\/p>\n

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\n00:20:19,400 –> 00:20:22,900
\nthe sense of it.
\nIn verse 1, I Cried unto Yahweh <\/p>\n

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\nwith my voice with my voice unto
\nYahweh. <\/p>\n

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\nDid I make my supplication?
\nThere’s a, there’s a <\/p>\n

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\nparallelism, there’s a structure
\nin the Hebrew isn’t there, which<\/p>\n

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\nis repeating for emphasis my
\nvoice. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd the only thing that changes
\nin both those sentences, some <\/p>\n

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\ntranslations, put it with my
\nvoice. <\/p>\n

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\nI Cried unto Yahweh with my
\nvoice to do, make supplication. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s just the last part of the
\nphrase that changes. <\/p>\n

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\nI cried, I made supplication for
\nboth are used my voice. <\/p>\n

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\nThere’s a there’s a lesson in
\nthat itself brothers and sisters<\/p>\n

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\n00:20:55,200 –> 00:20:57,800
\nwhen we were alone and we’re
\npraying to God. <\/p>\n

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\nWe often probably just pray in
\nour heads as we say that <\/p>\n

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\nspeaking out loud and there’s no
\none else there to pray for not <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:05,700 –> 00:21:09,900
\ndoing a prayer for a group or a
\nfamily, but it doesn’t hurt. <\/p>\n

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\nActually as David does to, to
\nsay, his prayer out loud to make<\/p>\n

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\n00:21:14,200 –> 00:21:17,500
\nhis cry out loud.
\nI’ve done this a couple of times<\/p>\n

331
\n00:21:17,500 –> 00:21:22,400
\nand you’ll find if, if you
\nhaven’t tried this before, It <\/p>\n

332
\n00:21:22,400 –> 00:21:26,100
\ndoes make you think a bit more
\nabout your words bit more deeply<\/p>\n

333
\n00:21:26,900 –> 00:21:30,100
\nand to make a more realistic
\nconnection between you and God <\/p>\n

334
\n00:21:30,100 –> 00:21:33,100
\nas though, you are speaking to a
\nreal person, not just having <\/p>\n

335
\n00:21:33,100 –> 00:21:37,200
\nsome random thoughts flow
\nthrough your head. so David <\/p>\n

336
\n00:21:37,200 –> 00:21:42,400
\nsays, no, I had to voice this
\nand it’s it’s also Those times <\/p>\n

337
\n00:21:42,400 –> 00:21:45,900
\nwhen you can’t help.
\nBut cry out to God. <\/p>\n

338
\n00:21:47,700 –> 00:21:50,500
\nIt’s almost a first that the
\nword cry means to shriek. <\/p>\n

339
\n00:21:51,600 –> 00:21:53,600
\nIt reminds us of those, those
\ngroanings. <\/p>\n

340
\n00:21:53,600 –> 00:21:56,600
\nThat cannot be uttered.
\nIn Romans 8 where someone, I <\/p>\n

341
\n00:21:56,600 –> 00:21:58,400
\ncan’t at first as David put
\nwords to it. <\/p>\n

342
\n00:21:58,400 –> 00:22:01,600
\nSo first, I just cried, I made
\nthis noise like a, you know, a <\/p>\n

343
\n00:22:01,600 –> 00:22:05,400
\nchild that needs its father or
\nmother, I just had to tell you <\/p>\n

344
\n00:22:05,400 –> 00:22:08,000
\nGod that I was in trouble.
\nAnd then gradually, I could <\/p>\n

345
\n00:22:08,000 –> 00:22:14,200
\nactually articulate that into
\nwords. it says, in verse 2, that<\/p>\n

346
\n00:22:16,200 –> 00:22:18,400
\nI poured out my complaints
\nbefore him now. <\/p>\n

347
\n00:22:20,300 –> 00:22:23,200
\nThe complaint is not a negative
\nword as we have it in English, <\/p>\n

348
\n00:22:23,200 –> 00:22:26,100
\nit’s probably better.
\nRob rendered, my troubled <\/p>\n

349
\n00:22:26,100 –> 00:22:28,700
\nthoughts, the any new English
\ntranslation says, I poured out <\/p>\n

350
\n00:22:28,700 –> 00:22:32,700
\nmy lament before him.
\nI tell him about my troubles so <\/p>\n

351
\n00:22:32,700 –> 00:22:34,900
\nit wasn’t complaining against
\nGod in that Nest sense. <\/p>\n

352
\n00:22:34,900 –> 00:22:41,600
\nNecessarily it was an openness
\nDavid’s obviously feeling deep <\/p>\n

353
\n00:22:41,600 –> 00:22:45,600
\nin the issue in the moment. we
\njust imagine, after all the <\/p>\n

354
\n00:22:45,608 –> 00:22:51,100
\nexcess that he enjoyed after the
\ndefeat of Goliath moving up <\/p>\n

355
\n00:22:51,200 –> 00:22:54,300
\npromotions through the ranks of
\ncells courts to Leading the <\/p>\n

356
\n00:22:54,300 –> 00:22:59,900
\nArmy, being a general and that a
\nvery fast descent into the depth<\/p>\n

357
\n00:22:59,900 –> 00:23:06,100
\nwhere he was no longer a
\nnational hero – People either <\/p>\n

358
\n00:23:06,100 –> 00:23:09,900
\nfreighting to associate with him
\nor snubbing him because of his <\/p>\n

359
\n00:23:09,900 –> 00:23:13,400
\nstatus as a runaway.
\nServant, no one stood by him. <\/p>\n

360
\n00:23:15,600 –> 00:23:21,000
\nAnd yes, you might say, people
\njoined him in the cave. 400 <\/p>\n

361
\n00:23:21,000 –> 00:23:23,600
\npeople, but we’re these people
\ncoming to support David. <\/p>\n

362
\n00:23:24,100 –> 00:23:26,500
\nNow, what sort of people were
\nthey everyone in distress, <\/p>\n

363
\n00:23:26,700 –> 00:23:31,300
\neveryone in debt, everyone in
\ntrouble. they weren’t, they were<\/p>\n

364
\n00:23:31,300 –> 00:23:34,700
\nthere to get support from David
\nand it’s interesting that God <\/p>\n

365
\n00:23:34,700 –> 00:23:38,900
\ndoes that to us at times when we
\nthink I need help God from <\/p>\n

366
\n00:23:38,900 –> 00:23:42,200
\nsomeone else.
\nWill God send someone else to us<\/p>\n

367
\n00:23:42,300 –> 00:23:45,400
\nfor us to help.
\nSometimes, that’s the best thing<\/p>\n

368
\n00:23:45,400 –> 00:23:50,700
\nfor us to help us out of our own
\nmisery, our own focus on our own<\/p>\n

369
\n00:23:50,700 –> 00:23:56,100
\nneeds.
\nIt’s one commented on my notes, <\/p>\n

370
\n00:23:56,100 –> 00:23:58,500
\ntrouble and lack of human
\nsympathy or help have done their<\/p>\n

371
\n00:23:58,500 –> 00:24:02,000
\nbest work on David since they
\nhave driven him to God. <\/p>\n

372
\n00:24:04,000 –> 00:24:06,700
\nHe wasn’t brought to that point
\nof having no human help. <\/p>\n

373
\n00:24:06,800 –> 00:24:08,800
\nHe wouldn’t have poured out his
\nthoughts in this way. <\/p>\n

374
\n00:24:10,800 –> 00:24:14,700
\nWhen it says, in verse 3, my
\nspirit was overwhelmed Within <\/p>\n

375
\n00:24:14,700 –> 00:24:20,500
\nMe.
\nThen thou knewest my path in the<\/p>\n

376
\n00:24:20,500 –> 00:24:24,400
\nway wherein I have walked have
\nthey privily laid a snare for <\/p>\n

377
\n00:24:24,400 –> 00:24:28,000
\nme?
\nBut one just says of that word, <\/p>\n

378
\n00:24:28,000 –> 00:24:31,700
\noverwhelmed that in the Hebrew,
\nit means was darkened. <\/p>\n

379
\n00:24:32,600 –> 00:24:35,800
\nMy spirit was darkened within
\nme, and you can imagine it’s as <\/p>\n

380
\n00:24:35,800 –> 00:24:39,400
\nthough the dark storm clouds of
\nhis situation of come over him, <\/p>\n

381
\n00:24:39,600 –> 00:24:43,800
\nthe sky has darkened for David
\nand the ESV, he says, mice, when<\/p>\n

382
\n00:24:43,800 –> 00:24:50,500
\nmy spirit faints within me, you
\nknow, my way, Down newest my <\/p>\n

383
\n00:24:50,500 –> 00:24:54,700
\npath or you know my way and
\nthat’s our theme this morning, <\/p>\n

384
\n00:24:54,700 –> 00:24:57,400
\nisn’t it?
\nSo what is that actually saying,<\/p>\n

385
\n00:24:58,100 –> 00:25:01,500
\nit’s a rather peculiar phrase if
\nyou look at it when my spirit <\/p>\n

386
\n00:25:01,500 –> 00:25:05,500
\nwas overwhelmed with in me, Then
\nGod knew what my path was. <\/p>\n

387
\n00:25:06,700 –> 00:25:08,700
\nLet’s seems a bit strange.
\nDidn’t God know what his path <\/p>\n

388
\n00:25:08,700 –> 00:25:10,800
\nwas regardless of David’s
\nfeelings. <\/p>\n

389
\n00:25:12,100 –> 00:25:13,700
\nWell, there’s two possible
\nexplanations for this. <\/p>\n

390
\n00:25:13,700 –> 00:25:19,200
\nI can see that one David
\nreflects on the fact that even <\/p>\n

391
\n00:25:19,200 –> 00:25:21,800
\nthough he was overwhelmed and
\ncouldn’t see his path forward <\/p>\n

392
\n00:25:22,500 –> 00:25:27,300
\nthat God could, The other
\nexplanation, which I think fits <\/p>\n

393
\n00:25:27,300 –> 00:25:31,800
\nbetter, is that, it wasn’t until
\nDavid was overwhelmed, and saw <\/p>\n

394
\n00:25:31,800 –> 00:25:36,700
\nthat, there was no human way out
\nthat he realized only God knows <\/p>\n

395
\n00:25:36,700 –> 00:25:39,400
\nmy path.
\nAnd we have to be brought to <\/p>\n

396
\n00:25:39,400 –> 00:25:42,000
\nthat point.
\nSometimes, don’t we to brought <\/p>\n

397
\n00:25:42,000 –> 00:25:47,400
\nto exhaust Human Resources until
\nwe realized that it’s only God. <\/p>\n

398
\n00:25:47,400 –> 00:25:53,100
\nThat knows our path forward.
\nHe says, in verse 4, I looked on<\/p>\n

399
\n00:25:53,100 –> 00:25:55,900
\nmy right hand and the held and
\nthere was no man. <\/p>\n

400
\n00:25:55,900 –> 00:25:58,200
\nThat would know me Refuge failed
\nme. <\/p>\n

401
\n00:25:58,400 –> 00:26:04,600
\nNo man cared for my soul.
\nWell, the Amplified says, no man<\/p>\n

402
\n00:26:04,600 –> 00:26:08,300
\ncares for my life or my welfare,
\nwhether it’s his physical life <\/p>\n

403
\n00:26:08,700 –> 00:26:12,300
\nor his spiritual life.
\nNo one wanted to know him. <\/p>\n

404
\n00:26:13,900 –> 00:26:16,500
\nIf you know, David of you
\nassociate, if you even appear to<\/p>\n

405
\n00:26:16,500 –> 00:26:19,200
\nassociate with him, you could
\nhave Saul on your back with his <\/p>\n

406
\n00:26:19,200 –> 00:26:24,000
\narmy and do egg.
\nSo either they were afraid or <\/p>\n

407
\n00:26:24,000 –> 00:26:27,300
\nthey just didn’t have time for
\nDavid or people like neighbor <\/p>\n

408
\n00:26:27,300 –> 00:26:30,000
\nwho just rejected him in school
\nand him out, right? <\/p>\n

409
\n00:26:32,200 –> 00:26:39,000
\nEither way, no man cared for my
\nsoul and so his response. <\/p>\n

410
\n00:26:39,000 –> 00:26:42,800
\nSeeing no human help.
\nIn verse 5 is I Cried unto thee.<\/p>\n

411
\n00:26:42,800 –> 00:26:45,800
\nO, Yahweh.
\nI said Thou Art my refuge and my<\/p>\n

412
\n00:26:45,800 –> 00:26:49,900
\nportion in the land of the
\nliving attend unto my cry for. <\/p>\n

413
\n00:26:50,600 –> 00:26:54,700
\nI am brought very low deliver me
\nfrom my persecutors for. <\/p>\n

414
\n00:26:54,700 –> 00:26:59,100
\nThey are stronger than I He made
\nthis statement of confidence in <\/p>\n

415
\n00:26:59,100 –> 00:27:04,100
\nGod.
\nThou Art my refuge in the land <\/p>\n

416
\n00:27:04,100 –> 00:27:07,700
\nof the living.
\nLet’s let’s work through that <\/p>\n

417
\n00:27:07,700 –> 00:27:10,100
\nphrase and see what it contains
\nhis Refuge. <\/p>\n

418
\n00:27:10,100 –> 00:27:14,800
\nSo he’s the one he turns to you
\nfor protection as though he has <\/p>\n

419
\n00:27:14,800 –> 00:27:16,500
\nbefore.
\nHe has no physical force does. <\/p>\n

420
\n00:27:16,500 –> 00:27:19,100
\nHe doesn’t have a castle with
\nwalls that he can take around to<\/p>\n

421
\n00:27:19,108 –> 00:27:25,400
\ndefend him from school.
\nGod is like he might say he’s <\/p>\n

422
\n00:27:25,700 –> 00:27:29,200
\nhis mobile protection.
\nHe’s portion. <\/p>\n

423
\n00:27:31,000 –> 00:27:32,600
\nHe had no prospects have been
\nheld in city. <\/p>\n

424
\n00:27:32,700 –> 00:27:36,200
\nI mean, what, in what land or
\nwhat position is, is a fugitive <\/p>\n

425
\n00:27:36,200 –> 00:27:38,700
\nman, who’s been disgraced and
\nkicked out of the court of the <\/p>\n

426
\n00:27:38,708 –> 00:27:40,600
\nking?
\nWhat sort of portion is he going<\/p>\n

427
\n00:27:40,600 –> 00:27:45,100
\nto get in the land and let alone
\nactually possessing some land as<\/p>\n

428
\n00:27:45,100 –> 00:27:48,600
\nthe other other Israelites would
\nactually have stability. <\/p>\n

429
\n00:27:48,600 –> 00:27:52,000
\nThere actually have a place that
\nhe could call home and safely <\/p>\n

430
\n00:27:52,000 –> 00:27:56,600
\nattend just the basics of Life
\nDavid had no place to call home <\/p>\n

431
\n00:27:56,600 –> 00:28:01,400
\nat this point.
\nIt’s like, oh, what God had for <\/p>\n

432
\n00:28:01,400 –> 00:28:06,300
\nhim was a portion and
\ninheritance and it’s in the land<\/p>\n

433
\n00:28:06,300 –> 00:28:10,000
\nof the living.
\nIn other words, if you turned <\/p>\n

434
\n00:28:10,000 –> 00:28:12,700
\nthat around the other way, David
\nsaying, well, there’s nothing <\/p>\n

435
\n00:28:12,700 –> 00:28:15,700
\nelse in life.
\nIn this life, the land of the <\/p>\n

436
\n00:28:15,708 –> 00:28:19,000
\nliving, if it wasn’t for God,
\nthere would be nothing worth <\/p>\n

437
\n00:28:19,000 –> 00:28:22,500
\nliving for Well, that’s actually
\nthe reality for all of our <\/p>\n

438
\n00:28:22,500 –> 00:28:25,000
\nLives, isn’t it?
\nBut how often do we think that? <\/p>\n

439
\n00:28:25,700 –> 00:28:28,900
\nHow often do we remember that?
\nWe can easily find other things <\/p>\n

440
\n00:28:28,900 –> 00:28:31,000
\nto occupy ourselves with ought
\nto live for. <\/p>\n

441
\n00:28:31,000 –> 00:28:35,000
\nWe might say, but when we come
\nto David’s point of realize, <\/p>\n

442
\n00:28:35,000 –> 00:28:38,800
\nactually, when everything else
\nfails, there is nothing else, <\/p>\n

443
\n00:28:38,800 –> 00:28:46,800
\nbut God to live for so, David
\nsays, In verse 7, he drink makes<\/p>\n

444
\n00:28:46,800 –> 00:28:49,000
\nthis appeal.
\nBring my soul out of the prison <\/p>\n

445
\n00:28:49,300 –> 00:28:53,500
\nthat I may praise thy name.
\nThe righteous shall Compass me <\/p>\n

446
\n00:28:53,500 –> 00:28:56,500
\nabout for Thou.
\nShalt deal bountifully with me <\/p>\n

447
\n00:28:56,500 –> 00:29:00,100
\nwith me.
\nSo what is David’s appeal? <\/p>\n

448
\n00:29:01,200 –> 00:29:03,600
\nPeople have clearly been unjust
\nto him. <\/p>\n

449
\n00:29:05,000 –> 00:29:08,500
\nSo, his followers others who
\nshould have been faithful and <\/p>\n

450
\n00:29:08,500 –> 00:29:12,100
\nstood up to him, but stood up to
\nus all, but deserted David. <\/p>\n

451
\n00:29:14,100 –> 00:29:17,000
\nWhat does he want?
\nDoes he want justification for <\/p>\n

452
\n00:29:17,000 –> 00:29:20,000
\nhimself?
\nDoes he want Vindication for <\/p>\n

453
\n00:29:20,008 –> 00:29:22,100
\nsomeone to stand up?
\nSay look, this is all unfair. <\/p>\n

454
\n00:29:22,100 –> 00:29:24,200
\nSo I was wrong.
\nDavid was right. <\/p>\n

455
\n00:29:24,200 –> 00:29:26,300
\nDavid was doing the right thing.
\nListen, everyone. <\/p>\n

456
\n00:29:27,300 –> 00:29:30,300
\nIs that what he asks for?
\nNo. <\/p>\n

457
\n00:29:33,200 –> 00:29:35,900
\nIt simply says bring my soul out
\nof the prison. <\/p>\n

458
\n00:29:36,900 –> 00:29:40,200
\nRelease me from the prison that
\nthat we’re all in the presence <\/p>\n

459
\n00:29:40,200 –> 00:29:44,000
\nof sin and to death.
\nYou see David steps back and <\/p>\n

460
\n00:29:44,000 –> 00:29:45,700
\nrealizes.
\nThere are bigger issues at play <\/p>\n

461
\n00:29:45,700 –> 00:29:49,700
\nhere.
\nIt’s so easy for us when we have<\/p>\n

462
\n00:29:49,700 –> 00:29:52,700
\na trouble or a problem that’s
\ncome on us in life to either <\/p>\n

463
\n00:29:53,200 –> 00:29:56,500
\nblame something or something
\nelse in life as the cause of <\/p>\n

464
\n00:29:56,500 –> 00:29:59,000
\nthat problem.
\nHave we ever reflected on the <\/p>\n

465
\n00:29:59,000 –> 00:30:01,900
\nfact that something, that
\nperhaps frustrates us the most <\/p>\n

466
\n00:30:01,900 –> 00:30:05,500
\nor gets us affects us
\nnegatively, can’t be an <\/p>\n

467
\n00:30:05,500 –> 00:30:08,500
\naccident.
\nIt’s probably being purposefully<\/p>\n

468
\n00:30:08,500 –> 00:30:12,800
\nAllowed by God. is that personal
\nthat thing or whatever it is <\/p>\n

469
\n00:30:12,800 –> 00:30:17,300
\nthat Upsets us, always causing
\nus trouble. <\/p>\n

470
\n00:30:18,900 –> 00:30:21,100
\nWe turn that around and think.
\nWell, God has purposefully <\/p>\n

471
\n00:30:21,100 –> 00:30:25,000
\nallowed that and actually
\nprobably the real root cause for<\/p>\n

472
\n00:30:25,000 –> 00:30:28,600
\nit is not a particular
\nindividual group, or whatever it<\/p>\n

473
\n00:30:28,600 –> 00:30:34,700
\nmight be, but human nature and
\nthe sin that is I’m guilty of, <\/p>\n

474
\n00:30:34,700 –> 00:30:38,000
\nas well as everyone else.
\nJust us to change our <\/p>\n

475
\n00:30:38,000 –> 00:30:39,600
\nperspective, it a bit, doesn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n

476
\n00:30:42,300 –> 00:30:45,800
\nAnd we’re not so ready to kick
\nagainst the Pricks, if it may. <\/p>\n

477
\n00:30:45,800 –> 00:30:54,600
\nWell, we got a ministering them.
\nThere is none of those selfish <\/p>\n

478
\n00:30:54,900 –> 00:30:58,600
\nself-defensive sentiments here,
\nrather David just appeals for <\/p>\n

479
\n00:30:58,600 –> 00:31:02,500
\nrelease so that he can walk free
\nin the land and enjoy all the <\/p>\n

480
\n00:31:02,508 –> 00:31:04,800
\nPrivileges other did.
\nNo, that’s not. <\/p>\n

481
\n00:31:04,800 –> 00:31:07,200
\nThe really is.
\nHe’s looking for not just so <\/p>\n

482
\n00:31:07,200 –> 00:31:09,200
\nthat he can have physical
\nfreedom to walk about without <\/p>\n

483
\n00:31:09,200 –> 00:31:14,100
\nbeing chased by a spear.
\nThat all my Priceline Name. <\/p>\n

484
\n00:31:15,300 –> 00:31:17,900
\nbring my soul out of the prison
\nthat I might praise thy name and<\/p>\n

485
\n00:31:17,900 –> 00:31:21,600
\nyou might think of another song
\nwhere David says In are <\/p>\n

486
\n00:31:21,600 –> 00:31:25,200
\nsummarized in today’s language.
\nPlease don’t let me die God, <\/p>\n

487
\n00:31:25,400 –> 00:31:28,700
\nbecause if I die, I can’t Praise
\nYou In the soul. <\/p>\n

488
\n00:31:28,800 –> 00:31:30,700
\nIn the grave, who shall give
\nthee prize? <\/p>\n

489
\n00:31:31,900 –> 00:31:33,700
\nAnd that was David’s, genuine
\nview. <\/p>\n

490
\n00:31:34,200 –> 00:31:36,300
\nIt wasn’t just old saved me
\nbecause I’d really like to have <\/p>\n

491
\n00:31:36,300 –> 00:31:39,800
\na nice life living in this land.
\nAs king I’m persecuted by Saul. <\/p>\n

492
\n00:31:40,800 –> 00:31:44,100
\nNo David thinks broader minded
\nthan that. <\/p>\n

493
\n00:31:46,800 –> 00:31:49,700
\nNow he says the righteous will
\nsurround me for you will deal <\/p>\n

494
\n00:31:49,700 –> 00:31:52,400
\nbountifully with me.
\nSo David’s got this vision of <\/p>\n

495
\n00:31:52,400 –> 00:31:55,300
\nother people joining him not
\njust to support him and Pat him <\/p>\n

496
\n00:31:55,300 –> 00:31:57,700
\non the back and say, yes, David
\nyou’re great, but to join him in<\/p>\n

497
\n00:31:57,700 –> 00:32:00,400
\npraising God.
\nFor what God had achieved in <\/p>\n

498
\n00:32:00,400 –> 00:32:03,200
\nDavid’s life, that they’ll see
\nthat you’ve dealt bountifully. <\/p>\n

499
\n00:32:03,200 –> 00:32:06,800
\nSo God would deal generously
\nwith him. <\/p>\n

500
\n00:32:06,800 –> 00:32:09,300
\nAnd we know that because we have
\nthe hindsight of his life. <\/p>\n

501
\n00:32:09,400 –> 00:32:11,700
\nHe didn’t know what was coming
\nup after this point. <\/p>\n

502
\n00:32:11,800 –> 00:32:14,100
\nHe didn’t know that, he would
\nbecome king and all things would<\/p>\n

503
\n00:32:14,200 –> 00:32:20,800
\ngo well for a while.
\nAnd so he didn’t take an <\/p>\n

504
\n00:32:20,800 –> 00:32:25,000
\napproach of anger, requesting
\ndestruction, but rather. <\/p>\n

505
\n00:32:25,000 –> 00:32:27,400
\nHe said that what will impress
\npeople when they look at my <\/p>\n

506
\n00:32:27,400 –> 00:32:29,800
\nstory?
\nMy life is God’s positive work <\/p>\n

507
\n00:32:29,800 –> 00:32:33,700
\nwith me.
\nThe work that I have submitted <\/p>\n

508
\n00:32:33,700 –> 00:32:37,400
\nto.
\nThat’s what turns the tables and<\/p>\n

509
\n00:32:37,400 –> 00:32:40,600
\nthat’s what people see is.
\nDavid’s positive response to <\/p>\n

510
\n00:32:40,600 –> 00:32:42,900
\nGod.
\nThat’s what turned the tables in<\/p>\n

511
\n00:32:42,908 –> 00:32:44,800
\nhis life.
\nNot because he was so good with <\/p>\n

512
\n00:32:44,800 –> 00:32:47,600
\nthe salt and with fighting that
\nhe got up and won the issue <\/p>\n

513
\n00:32:48,600 –> 00:32:50,100
\ndefeated.
\nThe people who are arguing is <\/p>\n

514
\n00:32:50,100 –> 00:32:52,300
\ncause made his point and
\neveryone agreed. <\/p>\n

515
\n00:32:52,300 –> 00:32:56,900
\nYes, David, you’re right?
\nNo, It was because he was <\/p>\n

516
\n00:32:56,900 –> 00:33:00,400
\nprobably in their eyes week.
\nHumbled himself and submitted <\/p>\n

517
\n00:33:00,400 –> 00:33:02,700
\nhimself to what God had in
\nstore. <\/p>\n

518
\n00:33:05,600 –> 00:33:08,800
\nCompare his words in Psalm 31,
\njust turned back there for a <\/p>\n

519
\n00:33:08,808 –> 00:33:26,400
\nmoment.
\nIt’s on. 31e reflects again. <\/p>\n

520
\n00:33:28,600 –> 00:33:31,000
\nAt a different but probably
\nsimilar 20 in his life. <\/p>\n

521
\n00:33:33,200 –> 00:33:38,100
\nOn his need for God facing when
\nfacing other challenges, says, <\/p>\n

522
\n00:33:38,100 –> 00:33:43,200
\nin verse 1 of some 31.
\nIn thee o Yahweh, do I put my <\/p>\n

523
\n00:33:43,200 –> 00:33:47,000
\ntrust?
\nLet me never be ashamed, deliver<\/p>\n

524
\n00:33:47,000 –> 00:33:50,800
\nme in my righteousness.
\nThat’s that’s how he starts his <\/p>\n

525
\n00:33:50,800 –> 00:33:52,100
\nthoughts.
\nNow, see what he has to deal <\/p>\n

526
\n00:33:52,100 –> 00:33:55,000
\nwith.
\nIn verse 13, come down to verse <\/p>\n

527
\n00:33:55,000 –> 00:33:58,700
\n13, for I have heard the slander
\nof many fear was on every side <\/p>\n

528
\n00:33:58,700 –> 00:34:02,000
\nwhile they took counsel together
\nagainst me, they devised to take<\/p>\n

529
\n00:34:02,000 –> 00:34:05,100
\naway my life.
\nI mean, I’m probably I’m sure <\/p>\n

530
\n00:34:05,100 –> 00:34:08,400
\nall of us have had personal
\nattacks at times. that if we <\/p>\n

531
\n00:34:08,400 –> 00:34:15,800
\nreally had that much as David
\nhas, but I trusted in thee away.<\/p>\n

532
\n00:34:15,900 –> 00:34:21,500
\nI said, thou my God, my times
\nare in my control. <\/p>\n

533
\n00:34:21,500 –> 00:34:26,400
\nKnow, my times are in thy hand.
\nDeliver me from the hand of mine<\/p>\n

534
\n00:34:26,400 –> 00:34:28,400
\nenemies.
\nAnd from them, that persecute me<\/p>\n

535
\n00:34:29,199 –> 00:34:32,900
\nmake thy face to shine upon thy
\nservant, save me for thy Mercy’s<\/p>\n

536
\n00:34:32,900 –> 00:34:37,600
\nsake Can you get the sense of
\nDavid when he’s got slander <\/p>\n

537
\n00:34:38,800 –> 00:34:42,600
\nfearing raising its him.
\nPeople counseling like doing <\/p>\n

538
\n00:34:42,600 –> 00:34:45,199
\nreally hard work and and putting
\ntheir brains together as to how <\/p>\n

539
\n00:34:45,199 –> 00:34:48,100
\nthey can take him down.
\nAnd what’s his response? <\/p>\n

540
\n00:34:48,100 –> 00:34:49,600
\nWell, I’m going to build a couch
\nand plan. <\/p>\n

541
\n00:34:50,100 –> 00:34:51,699
\nI’m going to sabotage what
\nthey’re doing. <\/p>\n

542
\n00:34:52,000 –> 00:34:54,400
\nGoing to infiltrate them.
\nNo. <\/p>\n

543
\n00:34:56,800 –> 00:35:00,400
\nAll I just said was Thou Art my
\nGod and that’s all that matters.<\/p>\n

544
\n00:35:01,600 –> 00:35:06,100
\nI’ll leave it in your hands God
\nand if Aunt, I didn’t presume <\/p>\n

545
\n00:35:06,100 –> 00:35:11,200
\nthat he was right either.
\nHe would accept the possibility <\/p>\n

546
\n00:35:11,200 –> 00:35:15,700
\nthat he was wrong and he would
\nsay, whatever is right in your <\/p>\n

547
\n00:35:15,700 –> 00:35:17,900
\neyes.
\nGod that’s what should be done. <\/p>\n

548
\n00:35:20,900 –> 00:35:23,300
\nSo just consider that example
\nwith salt, right? <\/p>\n

549
\n00:35:23,500 –> 00:35:27,000
\nA consider for a moment.
\nIf it was us, what’s all in the <\/p>\n

550
\n00:35:27,000 –> 00:35:29,000
\nwrong?
\nAbsolutely. <\/p>\n

551
\n00:35:29,400 –> 00:35:32,400
\nHe first hit attempt murder of
\nDavid murder of his son. <\/p>\n

552
\n00:35:32,400 –> 00:35:35,500
\nJonathan and shortly after this
\nhe’s going to mass murder, a <\/p>\n

553
\n00:35:35,700 –> 00:35:40,000
\nwhole city of priests was David
\non right grounds to object. <\/p>\n

554
\n00:35:40,900 –> 00:35:45,100
\nAnd it to round up support for
\nhim for his cause against Saul <\/p>\n

555
\n00:35:45,100 –> 00:35:48,000
\namong the nation to even leaves
\nan upright lead an uprising. <\/p>\n

556
\n00:35:48,000 –> 00:35:51,000
\nI mean he had people singing,
\nDavid is saying is that his ten <\/p>\n

557
\n00:35:51,000 –> 00:35:53,600
\nthousands and so lonely is
\nThousands do not think David <\/p>\n

558
\n00:35:53,600 –> 00:35:54,700
\ncould have gained popular
\nsupport. <\/p>\n

559
\n00:35:54,700 –> 00:35:57,800
\nIf he did a bit of campaigning,
\nfor sure, he could have. <\/p>\n

560
\n00:35:58,900 –> 00:36:01,900
\nDid he do this?
\nNot For a Moment. <\/p>\n

561
\n00:36:05,000 –> 00:36:06,200
\nYou could have said he was
\njustified. <\/p>\n

562
\n00:36:06,200 –> 00:36:08,800
\nHe had Divine appointment that
\nhe’d already been anointed to be<\/p>\n

563
\n00:36:08,800 –> 00:36:10,700
\nking.
\nI mean, what more can you want? <\/p>\n

564
\n00:36:10,700 –> 00:36:14,100
\nWhat more endorsement do?
\nYou want justification to stand <\/p>\n

565
\n00:36:14,100 –> 00:36:16,500
\nup to soil?
\nIf it’s bad for the nation, it’s<\/p>\n

566
\n00:36:16,500 –> 00:36:18,600
\nbad for them.
\nSpiritually sources, taking them<\/p>\n

567
\n00:36:18,600 –> 00:36:20,600
\ndown, hill.
\nThe right thing for me to do is <\/p>\n

568
\n00:36:20,600 –> 00:36:25,900
\nto step in take control.
\nIt’s God’s will No, did I would <\/p>\n

569
\n00:36:25,900 –> 00:36:28,400
\ngo around just just then
\nbad-mouthing sort of people <\/p>\n

570
\n00:36:28,400 –> 00:36:30,000
\nworld.
\nLook, you know, you can see, saw<\/p>\n

571
\n00:36:30,000 –> 00:36:32,300
\nwasn’t as much control.
\nI think things are pretty bad, <\/p>\n

572
\n00:36:32,400 –> 00:36:36,800
\nbut he’s doing a pretty bad job.
\nLook, he’s not good for the <\/p>\n

573
\n00:36:36,800 –> 00:36:40,500
\nnation turned to me.
\nNo, he fact he makes that point <\/p>\n

574
\n00:36:40,500 –> 00:36:45,800
\nto solve it in the cave and
\nGetti when First thing he says <\/p>\n

575
\n00:36:45,800 –> 00:36:47,400
\nto him is.
\nSo why do you listen to men? <\/p>\n

576
\n00:36:47,400 –> 00:36:52,200
\nWho say, David seeks your hurt
\nor David’s trying to pull you <\/p>\n

577
\n00:36:52,200 –> 00:36:54,800
\ndown and drag you down?
\nI’m not running. <\/p>\n

578
\n00:36:54,800 –> 00:36:57,000
\nRumors about you, I’m not
\nsabotaging you behind your back <\/p>\n

579
\n00:36:57,000 –> 00:36:57,400
\nhere.
\nI am. <\/p>\n

580
\n00:36:57,400 –> 00:37:00,200
\nI’m honest with you, if I wanted
\nto damage you, I would have done<\/p>\n

581
\n00:37:00,200 –> 00:37:05,300
\nit here and now David was
\nstraightforward of Integrity. <\/p>\n

582
\n00:37:05,300 –> 00:37:11,200
\nWhat you see is what you get?
\nWhy did he endure this? <\/p>\n

583
\n00:37:11,200 –> 00:37:15,100
\nAll the David Cedars Source
\nfault and poor all his troubles <\/p>\n

584
\n00:37:15,100 –> 00:37:17,800
\non Soul.
\nNo, he doesn’t have have you <\/p>\n

585
\n00:37:17,808 –> 00:37:20,900
\ndon’t find Psalms rant against
\nSoul saying, it’s all cells <\/p>\n

586
\n00:37:20,900 –> 00:37:21,900
\nfault.
\nHe’s so bad. <\/p>\n

587
\n00:37:22,100 –> 00:37:24,500
\nHe accepted that God brought
\nthis trouble on this trial on <\/p>\n

588
\n00:37:24,500 –> 00:37:28,400
\nhim.
\nIt wasn’t about the individual <\/p>\n

589
\n00:37:28,400 –> 00:37:30,600
\nattacking him.
\nThey were really just an example<\/p>\n

590
\n00:37:30,600 –> 00:37:34,600
\nof human nature.
\nAnd in this case, they were <\/p>\n

591
\n00:37:34,600 –> 00:37:37,100
\nGod’s chosen instrument of
\ntrial. <\/p>\n

592
\n00:37:39,300 –> 00:37:42,200
\nWe know that his response of
\ntrust. <\/p>\n

593
\n00:37:44,900 –> 00:37:46,500
\nTo his men.
\nHe wouldn’t. <\/p>\n

594
\n00:37:46,800 –> 00:37:48,600
\nHe said he tells them.
\nI won’t turn my hand against <\/p>\n

595
\n00:37:48,600 –> 00:37:51,100
\nGod’s Anointed.
\nGod has the situation in <\/p>\n

596
\n00:37:51,100 –> 00:37:54,500
\ncontrol.
\nGod puts all in the role and God<\/p>\n

597
\n00:37:54,500 –> 00:37:57,300
\nwill take him away when he’s
\nready for it, if that’s what he <\/p>\n

598
\n00:37:57,300 –> 00:38:01,400
\nchooses.
\nDavid did not in Jesus words, <\/p>\n

599
\n00:38:01,600 –> 00:38:05,900
\nkick against the pricks.
\nAnd think about it too, would <\/p>\n

600
\n00:38:05,900 –> 00:38:10,100
\nDavid have become the merciful
\nthe understanding King that he <\/p>\n

601
\n00:38:10,100 –> 00:38:12,900
\nwas that really benefitted the
\nnature and spiritually. <\/p>\n

602
\n00:38:13,300 –> 00:38:17,000
\nIf we did not go through this
\nsituation for years to. <\/p>\n

603
\n00:38:17,100 –> 00:38:19,800
\nIt wasn’t just a quick trial and
\nthen it’s all over. <\/p>\n

604
\n00:38:21,200 –> 00:38:23,400
\nSo that’s all very well.
\nBut how do we make sense of <\/p>\n

605
\n00:38:23,400 –> 00:38:25,600
\nDavid situation in in our
\nday-to-day? <\/p>\n

606
\n00:38:25,600 –> 00:38:30,500
\nHow is that relevant to us?
\nWell, let’s take the test, let’s<\/p>\n

607
\n00:38:30,500 –> 00:38:32,500
\nquestion ourselves.
\nHow do we respond? <\/p>\n

608
\n00:38:32,500 –> 00:38:34,500
\nWhen issues arise?
\nWhether it’s in our individual <\/p>\n

609
\n00:38:34,500 –> 00:38:40,400
\nlife, our family life or our
\nEcclesia, Because actually <\/p>\n

610
\n00:38:40,400 –> 00:38:43,300
\nbrothers and sisters wherever
\nthey are humans, there will be <\/p>\n

611
\n00:38:43,300 –> 00:38:47,500
\nissues.
\nWell, the first challenge for us<\/p>\n

612
\n00:38:47,500 –> 00:38:50,300
\nis to see these things.
\nThere’s not necessarily done to <\/p>\n

613
\n00:38:50,300 –> 00:38:54,700
\nus or done to someone by someone
\nelse or something else, but <\/p>\n

614
\n00:38:54,700 –> 00:39:00,700
\nmostly As Allowed by God, for
\nour development, but I can hear <\/p>\n

615
\n00:39:00,700 –> 00:39:04,100
\nyou saying Daniel, the negative
\nthings that are happening around<\/p>\n

616
\n00:39:04,100 –> 00:39:07,800
\nme, can’t possibly be part of
\nGod’s work with me or this <\/p>\n

617
\n00:39:07,800 –> 00:39:11,400
\nEcclesia, they’re so bad.
\nHow can any good come of them? <\/p>\n

618
\n00:39:12,600 –> 00:39:17,200
\nRockin C is negative.
\nI say this because I thought <\/p>\n

619
\n00:39:17,200 –> 00:39:20,800
\nthis same thought at certain
\npoints in my life. and I’ve <\/p>\n

620
\n00:39:20,800 –> 00:39:23,400
\nlearned the falseness of that
\nstatement later on, but perhaps <\/p>\n

621
\n00:39:23,400 –> 00:39:28,400
\nnot, for some years later, Look
\nat scripture, brothers and <\/p>\n

622
\n00:39:28,400 –> 00:39:31,700
\nsisters, the good, the bad.
\nThe ugly is there in the lives <\/p>\n

623
\n00:39:31,700 –> 00:39:35,700
\nof people that we know God
\nworked with And while God was <\/p>\n

624
\n00:39:35,700 –> 00:39:39,400
\nby, no means the author of evil.
\nThe author of wickedness and <\/p>\n

625
\n00:39:39,400 –> 00:39:43,200
\nsin.
\nIt’s not prevent negative things<\/p>\n

626
\n00:39:43,200 –> 00:39:46,500
\nhappening on occasions.
\nI mean, why on Earth would he <\/p>\n

627
\n00:39:46,500 –> 00:39:50,800
\nallow the David and Bathsheba to
\nBathsheba situation to occur the<\/p>\n

628
\n00:39:50,800 –> 00:39:54,500
\nmurder of Uriah, an innocent man
\na bystander to occur? <\/p>\n

629
\n00:39:55,000 –> 00:39:59,200
\nAnd then the the ongoing family
\nupheavals that followed David <\/p>\n

630
\n00:39:59,200 –> 00:40:03,700
\nand his sons in their life.
\nThe uprisings, the revolts the <\/p>\n

631
\n00:40:03,700 –> 00:40:07,200
\nassassinations, how can the
\npurpose of God works through a <\/p>\n

632
\n00:40:07,200 –> 00:40:10,400
\nmess like that?
\nYet it did. <\/p>\n

633
\n00:40:11,500 –> 00:40:14,300
\nAnd this event was part of the
\njourney that led to Messiah. <\/p>\n

634
\n00:40:15,300 –> 00:40:18,600
\nIt’s almost incomprehensible to
\nus but God can work through <\/p>\n

635
\n00:40:18,600 –> 00:40:22,700
\nthat. maybe he could even say
\nGod chooses to work through that<\/p>\n

636
\n00:40:23,000 –> 00:40:28,700
\nbizarre, as that may seem So
\nlet’s not limit god let’s not <\/p>\n

637
\n00:40:28,700 –> 00:40:31,700
\nconsider that and let’s consider
\nthat anything that is of <\/p>\n

638
\n00:40:31,700 –> 00:40:33,900
\nsignificance.
\nIn our lives that is really <\/p>\n

639
\n00:40:33,900 –> 00:40:38,600
\nimpacting us may well be his
\nhand. because it taught David at<\/p>\n

640
\n00:40:38,600 –> 00:40:42,400
\ntaught those around him, some
\ncritical lessons, and let that <\/p>\n

641
\n00:40:42,400 –> 00:40:47,700
\nbe our first response when
\nissues come and then, perhaps it<\/p>\n

642
\n00:40:47,700 –> 00:40:52,700
\nwon’t be such a reactive or to
\nself-defensive, even angry <\/p>\n

643
\n00:40:52,700 –> 00:40:56,000
\nresponse, when we consider the
\npatient submission that we see <\/p>\n

644
\n00:40:56,500 –> 00:41:01,800
\nin David, but secondly, as we
\nspoke about earlier, let’s pause<\/p>\n

645
\n00:41:01,800 –> 00:41:06,100
\nand deeply reflect On the
\nresponse that’s Brewing us. <\/p>\n

646
\n00:41:07,000 –> 00:41:10,700
\nIt’s a useful skill to practice
\nto stand back and look at <\/p>\n

647
\n00:41:10,700 –> 00:41:15,300
\nyourself from the corner of the
\nroom. to picture how you are <\/p>\n

648
\n00:41:15,300 –> 00:41:18,000
\nreacting to a situation, take
\nyourself out of the moment if <\/p>\n

649
\n00:41:18,000 –> 00:41:25,300
\nyou like, Helps us to generate a
\nresponse, that’s born of the <\/p>\n

650
\n00:41:25,300 –> 00:41:28,000
\nspirit of Christ, rather than
\none that’s born with that. <\/p>\n

651
\n00:41:28,000 –> 00:41:32,000
\nInstant natural selfish
\nreaction, which we all have <\/p>\n

652
\n00:41:33,300 –> 00:41:36,900
\nGives the chance at the mind of
\nChrist, a chance, a moment to <\/p>\n

653
\n00:41:36,900 –> 00:41:42,400
\nwork.
\nSo then, how with that, in mind,<\/p>\n

654
\n00:41:42,400 –> 00:41:46,000
\nhow do we react to others based
\naround us based on what’s <\/p>\n

655
\n00:41:46,000 –> 00:41:47,900
\nhappened to us?
\nSo, the first thing is, how do <\/p>\n

656
\n00:41:47,900 –> 00:41:50,200
\nwe wrapped within ourselves when
\nthings happen, the second is, <\/p>\n

657
\n00:41:50,600 –> 00:41:52,300
\nhow do we react to others around
\nus? <\/p>\n

658
\n00:41:53,100 –> 00:41:54,600
\nHow do they do they see us as
\nthat person? <\/p>\n

659
\n00:41:54,600 –> 00:41:58,500
\nThat’s arcing up.
\nResisting what’s happening to <\/p>\n

660
\n00:41:58,500 –> 00:42:00,300
\naround us?
\nTrying to drive our own agenda. <\/p>\n

661
\n00:42:03,100 –> 00:42:05,600
\nIf a trial, is that we feel
\nwe’ve been wronged whether by <\/p>\n

662
\n00:42:05,600 –> 00:42:09,300
\nour family, by individuals by
\nour Ecclesia, how do we react? <\/p>\n

663
\n00:42:10,700 –> 00:42:14,900
\nDo we go about garnering support
\nfor our cause telling people how<\/p>\n

664
\n00:42:14,900 –> 00:42:18,700
\nTerrible Things Are For Us?
\nBecause it goes without saying, <\/p>\n

665
\n00:42:18,700 –> 00:42:22,100
\ndoesn’t it that?
\nAs, as humans our view in our <\/p>\n

666
\n00:42:22,100 –> 00:42:23,700
\ncause is always the right one,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n

667
\n00:42:23,700 –> 00:42:27,600
\nHow could it be anything else?
\nWe have to just for a moment. <\/p>\n

668
\n00:42:27,600 –> 00:42:33,100
\nAbandon that thought.
\nWhat did David do when he was? <\/p>\n

669
\n00:42:33,400 –> 00:42:37,200
\nYou might say wrongfully.
\nDeposed, as King, when he was <\/p>\n

670
\n00:42:37,200 –> 00:42:39,700
\nkicked out of the nation.
\nKicked out of the Ecclesia. <\/p>\n

671
\n00:42:41,000 –> 00:42:45,500
\nHis response was this and second
\nSamuel, 15 is, as he trudged up <\/p>\n

672
\n00:42:46,200 –> 00:42:47,800
\nthat hill on the other side of
\nKidron. <\/p>\n

673
\n00:42:49,400 –> 00:42:51,000
\nAnd told them to take the art
\nback home. <\/p>\n

674
\n00:42:51,900 –> 00:42:55,500
\nHe said, if I shall find favor
\nin the eyes of Yahweh, he will <\/p>\n

675
\n00:42:55,500 –> 00:43:01,500
\nbring me again and show me both
\nit and his habitation. but on <\/p>\n

676
\n00:43:01,500 –> 00:43:06,100
\nthe other hand, he said, if he
\nsay thus, I have no Delight in <\/p>\n

677
\n00:43:06,100 –> 00:43:10,900
\nthe behold here I am.
\nI let him do to me as seemeth, <\/p>\n

678
\n00:43:10,900 –> 00:43:14,700
\ngood to him, and it’s good for
\nus, brothers and sisters to have<\/p>\n

679
\n00:43:14,700 –> 00:43:18,400
\nmore of that, in our lives.
\nOf that thought, David didn’t, <\/p>\n

680
\n00:43:18,400 –> 00:43:20,200
\nrip, up, turn around, and rip
\ninto Absalom. <\/p>\n

681
\n00:43:20,400 –> 00:43:23,700
\nDo you hear that Phil to the
\nnation to the Ecclesia? <\/p>\n

682
\n00:43:25,000 –> 00:43:27,300
\nHe saw it as God’s hand and he
\nsubmitted to it. <\/p>\n

683
\n00:43:28,800 –> 00:43:31,300
\nAnd what about us?
\nIf we’re not in an issue, <\/p>\n

684
\n00:43:31,300 –> 00:43:33,700
\nbrothers and sisters but it’s
\nhappening around us. <\/p>\n

685
\n00:43:34,800 –> 00:43:38,300
\nPeople.
\nCome to us. <\/p>\n

686
\n00:43:39,400 –> 00:43:42,400
\nAnd share their issues or
\nwhatever it may be, how should <\/p>\n

687
\n00:43:42,400 –> 00:43:44,000
\nwe react?
\nHow should we respond? <\/p>\n

688
\n00:43:46,700 –> 00:43:50,200
\nShould we put fuel on the fire?
\nShould we all take up? <\/p>\n

689
\n00:43:50,500 –> 00:43:52,800
\nTake our arms and join one
\nparticular side or another. <\/p>\n

690
\n00:43:54,500 –> 00:43:57,000
\nWhat does that do?
\nAs we all know, it just adds <\/p>\n

691
\n00:43:57,000 –> 00:43:58,800
\nfuel to the fire.
\nDoesn’t it bother them sisters? <\/p>\n

692
\n00:44:00,400 –> 00:44:03,000
\nCreates the division sites.
\nPull saw in the Corinthian a <\/p>\n

693
\n00:44:03,008 –> 00:44:07,000
\nclosure.
\nNo, that wasn’t the approach of <\/p>\n

694
\n00:44:07,000 –> 00:44:10,000
\nDavid.
\nIt wasn’t approach of pool was <\/p>\n

695
\n00:44:10,000 –> 00:44:14,100
\nthe approach of Our Lord.
\nDo you notice that whenever our <\/p>\n

696
\n00:44:14,100 –> 00:44:17,900
\nLord?
\nWas trying to be pulled into <\/p>\n

697
\n00:44:17,900 –> 00:44:21,200
\narguments or sides by the
\ndifferent factions within <\/p>\n

698
\n00:44:21,200 –> 00:44:24,200
\nJudaism.
\nHe never took one side or the <\/p>\n

699
\n00:44:24,200 –> 00:44:27,000
\nother.
\nHe took a Higher Ground. <\/p>\n

700
\n00:44:27,500 –> 00:44:29,000
\nHe took a broader minded
\napproach. <\/p>\n

701
\n00:44:29,500 –> 00:44:32,700
\nHe stepped back further and said
\nwhat is God really trying to <\/p>\n

702
\n00:44:32,700 –> 00:44:36,200
\nachieve here?
\nWhat’s the purpose of God that <\/p>\n

703
\n00:44:36,200 –> 00:44:39,000
\nwe’re trying to achieve?
\nNo it’s not about giving tribute<\/p>\n

704
\n00:44:39,000 –> 00:44:41,000
\nto Caesar or not giving tribute
\nto Caesar. <\/p>\n

705
\n00:44:41,800 –> 00:44:45,900
\nIt’s about rendering to God.
\nWhat is God’s showing the <\/p>\n

706
\n00:44:45,900 –> 00:44:52,900
\nqualities of Christ?
\nLet’s think then as individuals.<\/p>\n

707
\n00:44:54,300 –> 00:44:59,200
\nHow we react to a situation and
\nthe impacts of that, on our <\/p>\n

708
\n00:44:59,200 –> 00:45:02,200
\nEcclesia, the spirit of our
\npleasure and the future of our <\/p>\n

709
\n00:45:02,200 –> 00:45:05,600
\npleasure.
\nAnd let our responses brothers <\/p>\n

710
\n00:45:05,600 –> 00:45:10,100
\nand sisters, be the level.
\nThoughtful mind of Christ. <\/p>\n

711
\n00:45:12,400 –> 00:45:14,000
\nPause and examine ourselves and
\nus. <\/p>\n

712
\n00:45:14,400 –> 00:45:19,600
\nWhat is our real motivation?
\nIs it to fight our cause or is <\/p>\n

713
\n00:45:19,600 –> 00:45:22,600
\nit too?
\nSee, God’s will done. <\/p>\n

714
\n00:45:25,000 –> 00:45:28,200
\nAnd let us not be like those
\naround David in his life, who <\/p>\n

715
\n00:45:28,200 –> 00:45:30,700
\nwanted to have their voice,
\nheard to make their opinion, on <\/p>\n

716
\n00:45:30,700 –> 00:45:34,000
\nthe situation, do this, do that.
\nDavid kill Saul. <\/p>\n

717
\n00:45:34,300 –> 00:45:38,000
\nDid this other thing take
\ncontrol Let’s not be one of <\/p>\n

718
\n00:45:38,000 –> 00:45:41,500
\nthose but we’re on the
\nbystanders of an issue, like <\/p>\n

719
\n00:45:41,500 –> 00:45:44,500
\nDavid’s.
\nLet’s not have the sense of <\/p>\n

720
\n00:45:44,500 –> 00:45:48,100
\nPride that says, my opinion on
\nthe situation needs to be heard.<\/p>\n

721
\n00:45:48,500 –> 00:45:50,300
\nThis is my view when it’s
\nimportant. <\/p>\n

722
\n00:45:51,300 –> 00:45:53,500
\nLet’s have some trust that God
\nis also at work. <\/p>\n

723
\n00:45:53,500 –> 00:45:58,700
\nNot just us if we really do
\nbelieve in Providence, At a <\/p>\n

724
\n00:45:58,707 –> 00:46:01,100
\ncertain point brother and
\nsisters that particular issue. <\/p>\n

725
\n00:46:01,100 –> 00:46:06,300
\nWe work through itself, becomes
\nirrelevant What God really cares<\/p>\n

726
\n00:46:06,300 –> 00:46:08,100
\nabout is how we’re all reacting
\nto it. <\/p>\n

727
\n00:46:09,200 –> 00:46:13,200
\nAre we fighting for our own
\ncause for our own views was our <\/p>\n

728
\n00:46:13,200 –> 00:46:18,000
\nfocus on feeding his sheep?
\nWe need to think deeply brothers<\/p>\n

729
\n00:46:18,000 –> 00:46:19,600
\nand sisters, our search, our
\nhearts. <\/p>\n

730
\n00:46:20,900 –> 00:46:24,000
\nTo consider how God views our
\nhearts like you to turn to this <\/p>\n

731
\n00:46:24,000 –> 00:46:25,600
\nquote in first of John chapter
\n3. <\/p>\n

732
\n00:46:26,800 –> 00:46:29,100
\nIt’s a very telling and very
\nsearching quote. <\/p>\n

733
\n00:46:49,200 –> 00:46:52,700
\nFirst John, chapter 3 and let’s
\nstart from Verse 18, my little <\/p>\n

734
\n00:46:52,700 –> 00:46:58,700
\nchildren, let us not love in
\nword, neither in tongue but in <\/p>\n

735
\n00:46:58,700 –> 00:47:03,100
\ndeed, and in truth.
\nIt is don’t think your <\/p>\n

736
\n00:47:03,100 –> 00:47:07,700
\nplatitudes they just say cliches
\nbe real about it for. <\/p>\n

737
\n00:47:07,700 –> 00:47:11,900
\nHe says if our if our heart
\ncondemn us God is greater than <\/p>\n

738
\n00:47:11,900 –> 00:47:16,900
\nour heart and knoweth, all
\nthings considered our own <\/p>\n

739
\n00:47:16,900 –> 00:47:19,400
\nhearts.
\nThink about the fact that God <\/p>\n

740
\n00:47:19,400 –> 00:47:23,500
\nknows our hearts.
\nAnd if we can step back and see <\/p>\n

741
\n00:47:23,500 –> 00:47:26,100
\nan issue, then he definitely can
\nsee issues. <\/p>\n

742
\n00:47:26,100 –> 00:47:31,600
\nCan’t he beloved, if our heart
\ncondemn us, not when’s weave <\/p>\n

743
\n00:47:31,600 –> 00:47:36,900
\nopenly and honestly, assess it
\nThen we have confidence towards <\/p>\n

744
\n00:47:36,900 –> 00:47:38,500
\nGod.
\nWe have that openness, don’t we?<\/p>\n

745
\n00:47:38,700 –> 00:47:43,100
\nNot not confidence that we write
\nin ourselves but openness, we <\/p>\n

746
\n00:47:43,100 –> 00:47:44,900
\nhave nothing to hide before him.
\nDo we? <\/p>\n

747
\n00:47:48,500 –> 00:47:51,000
\nso let’s conclude Now by looking
\nat Christ is the ultimate <\/p>\n

748
\n00:47:51,000 –> 00:48:19,000
\nexample in Hebrews chapter 5,
\nso, the crossed Was he unjustly <\/p>\n

749
\n00:48:19,000 –> 00:48:22,700
\ntreated absolutely was he
\nself-defensive? <\/p>\n

750
\n00:48:23,300 –> 00:48:29,300
\nNever was he God conscious
\nalways Was he proud and <\/p>\n

751
\n00:48:29,300 –> 00:48:34,200
\nresistant to others far from it?
\nThat we read in Hebrews, chapter<\/p>\n

752
\n00:48:34,200 –> 00:48:38,300
\n5, verse 7.
\nWho in the days of his flesh, <\/p>\n

753
\n00:48:38,500 –> 00:48:41,600
\nwhen he had offered up prayers
\nand supplications with strong <\/p>\n

754
\n00:48:41,600 –> 00:48:44,700
\ncrying and tears under him, that
\nwas able to save him from death <\/p>\n

755
\n00:48:45,500 –> 00:48:49,300
\nand was heard in that.
\nHe feared though he were a son <\/p>\n

756
\n00:48:49,700 –> 00:48:52,500
\nyet learned.
\nHe obedience by the things that <\/p>\n

757
\n00:48:52,500 –> 00:48:56,300
\nhe suffered.
\nIsn’t that incredible? <\/p>\n

758
\n00:48:56,300 –> 00:49:00,500
\nA man who was perfect?
\nWe might say, but for our views <\/p>\n

759
\n00:49:00,500 –> 00:49:03,800
\ndid no wrong.
\nAnd yet had the most wrong done <\/p>\n

760
\n00:49:03,800 –> 00:49:06,900
\nto him, as done to any human
\nThat Ever Walked the Earth. <\/p>\n

761
\n00:49:08,300 –> 00:49:10,900
\nAnd how did he react?
\nWe offer our prayers and <\/p>\n

762
\n00:49:10,900 –> 00:49:13,500
\nsupplications.
\nHe cried out like David Strong, <\/p>\n

763
\n00:49:13,500 –> 00:49:18,800
\ncrying and tears. so he could
\nsave himself know that so that <\/p>\n

764
\n00:49:18,800 –> 00:49:22,800
\nhe could express his trust and
\nhis submission to him that was <\/p>\n

765
\n00:49:22,800 –> 00:49:27,600
\nable to save him and was heard
\nnot because he was confident in <\/p>\n

766
\n00:49:27,600 –> 00:49:33,600
\nhis own righteousness in that he
\nfeared And even though he was a <\/p>\n

767
\n00:49:33,607 –> 00:49:37,400
\nson, he even because he was the
\nson of God. <\/p>\n

768
\n00:49:37,900 –> 00:49:41,600
\nHe two brothers and sisters had
\nto learn obedience by the things<\/p>\n

769
\n00:49:41,600 –> 00:49:44,300
\nwhich he suffered well, brothers
\nand sisters. <\/p>\n

770
\n00:49:44,500 –> 00:49:47,600
\nIf Jesus had to learn obedience
\nby the things that he suffered, <\/p>\n

771
\n00:49:48,500 –> 00:49:51,800
\nwhy would we complain about the
\nthings that we suffer if it’s to<\/p>\n

772
\n00:49:51,800 –> 00:49:57,000
\nlearn obedience to God?
\nHe did not object and he had <\/p>\n

773
\n00:49:57,000 –> 00:50:01,500
\nevery grounds for objecting what
\nsubmitted himself to him, that <\/p>\n

774
\n00:50:01,500 –> 00:50:06,200
\nworketh righteousness.
\nAnd so brothers and sisters, may<\/p>\n

775
\n00:50:06,200 –> 00:50:11,100
\nGod bless us all as we Endeavor
\nto be like his son to Humble <\/p>\n

776
\n00:50:11,100 –> 00:50:15,000
\nourselves to follow the path,
\nwhich our author said that is <\/p>\n

777
\n00:50:15,300 –> 00:50:18,700
\nthe only way.
\nAnd may God help us as we <\/p>\n

778
\n00:50:18,700 –> 00:50:22,800
\nEndeavor to open our hearts to
\nhim to place our trust in him <\/p>\n

779
\n00:50:23,300 –> 00:50:25,600
\nsecurely in the understanding
\nthat whatever we go through in <\/p>\n

780
\n00:50:25,600 –> 00:50:28,000
\nlife, whatever challenge we
\nface. <\/p>\n

781
\n00:50:28,900 –> 00:50:44,800
\nGod knows,
\nthank you for listening to the <\/p>\n

782
\n00:50:44,800 –> 00:50:46,600
\ngood christadelphians talks
\npodcast. <\/p>\n

783
\n00:50:47,300 –> 00:50:49,300
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\nyour walk. <\/p>\n

784
\n00:50:49,700 –> 00:50:52,100
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785
\n00:50:52,100 –> 00:50:54,900
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786
\n00:50:54,900 –> 00:50:57,600
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787
\n00:50:57,600 –> 00:51:00,300
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788
\n00:51:00,300 –> 00:51:02,900
\ntalk, please share it with
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789
\n00:51:02,900 –> 00:51:05,500
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790
\n00:51:05,500 –> 00:51:08,900
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\n00:51:13,700 –> 00:51:16,000
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801
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