WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.020
 We are in Psalms 42 and 43 today, so if you would open your Bibles there.

00:00:06.040 --> 00:00:09.919
 I will be preaching from both Psalm 42 and 43,

00:00:10.380 --> 00:00:14.519
 since they were most likely in their original composition a single psalm.

00:00:15.120 --> 00:00:20.580
 And we know that because many of the surviving Hebrew manuscripts present them together as one psalm,

00:00:20.580 --> 00:00:25.400
 and because they share the same theme and refrain, as you will see as we read through them.

00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:33.579
 And so far in this series in the Psalms of Lament, we have talked about focusing on turning to God rather than withdrawing from Him.

00:00:34.019 --> 00:00:39.239
 And then we also talked about groaning to Him in lament and appealing to Him to act on the basis of His character.

00:00:39.820 --> 00:00:46.780
 And today we are going to talk about the fourth step of lament, of remembering who God is and what He has done.

00:00:49.619 --> 00:00:51.879
 Let me pray for the reading and preaching of God's Word.

00:00:55.399 --> 00:01:03.780
 Father, we long for You.

00:01:06.679 --> 00:01:09.439
 We do pant for You.

00:01:12.219 --> 00:01:16.599
 But we need You even more desperately than we ourselves know.

00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:23.319
 So won't You press us this morning with that need?

00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:35.100
 So that we leave this place as people who desperately fling themselves onto Your arms, into Your care.

00:01:40.780 --> 00:01:45.640
 People who trust You and praise You.

00:01:47.460 --> 00:01:49.180
 Even when we don't feel like it.

00:01:50.140 --> 00:01:52.240
 Even when our souls are downcast.

00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:57.539
 So form us now in the preaching of Your Word.

00:01:59.199 --> 00:02:00.419
 To be such people.

00:02:01.780 --> 00:02:02.719
 For Your glory.

00:02:03.699 --> 00:02:05.479
 In Jesus' name we pray.

00:02:06.659 --> 00:02:06.939
 Amen.

00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:14.599
 If you are willing and able, please join me and stand for the reading of God's Word.

00:02:15.019 --> 00:02:16.719
 From Psalms 42 and 43.

00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:21.859
 To the choir master.

00:02:22.500 --> 00:02:24.539
 A maskil of the sons of Korah.

00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:31.319
 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for You, O God.

00:02:32.060 --> 00:02:35.280
 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:37.879
 When shall I come and appear before God?

00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:41.819
 My tears have been my food day and night.

00:02:41.819 --> 00:02:45.859
 While they say to me all the day long, where is Your God?

00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:48.939
 These things I remember.

00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:51.000
 As I pour out my soul.

00:02:51.519 --> 00:02:55.659
 How I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God.

00:02:55.739 --> 00:02:58.120
 With glad shouts and songs of praise.

00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:00.219
 A multitude keeping festival.

00:03:00.219 --> 00:03:04.060
 Why are You cast down, O my soul?

00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:07.379
 And why are You in turmoil within me?

00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:09.079
 Hope in God.

00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:11.879
 For I shall again praise Him.

00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:14.120
 My salvation and my God.

00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.360
 My soul is cast down within me.

00:03:17.460 --> 00:03:20.099
 Therefore, I remember You.

00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.579
 From the land of Jordan and of Hermon from Mount Mizar.

00:03:25.020 --> 00:03:28.300
 Deep calls to deep at the roar of Your waterfalls.

00:03:28.300 --> 00:03:31.740
 All Your breakers and Your waves have gone over me.

00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:35.700
 By day, the Lord commands His steadfast love.

00:03:36.160 --> 00:03:38.180
 And at night, His song is with me.

00:03:38.340 --> 00:03:40.680
 A prayer to the God of my life.

00:03:41.620 --> 00:03:43.080
 I say to God, my rock,

00:03:43.460 --> 00:03:45.200
 Why have You forgotten me?

00:03:46.040 --> 00:03:49.380
 Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

00:03:50.780 --> 00:03:54.560
 As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me.

00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:56.680
 While they say to me all the day long,

00:03:56.680 --> 00:03:58.100
 Where is Your God?

00:03:59.300 --> 00:04:02.320
 Why are You cast down, O my soul?

00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:04.760
 And why are You in turmoil within me?

00:04:05.100 --> 00:04:06.300
 Hope in God.

00:04:06.600 --> 00:04:08.400
 For I shall again praise Him.

00:04:08.660 --> 00:04:10.800
 My salvation and my God.

00:04:12.740 --> 00:04:14.140
 Vindicate me, O God.

00:04:14.480 --> 00:04:17.319
 And defend my cause against an ungodly people.

00:04:17.740 --> 00:04:20.740
 From the deceitful and unjust man deliver me.

00:04:21.379 --> 00:04:24.120
 For You are the God in whom I take refuge.

00:04:24.699 --> 00:04:26.699
 Why have You rejected me?

00:04:26.699 --> 00:04:31.180
 Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

00:04:32.459 --> 00:04:34.360
 Send out Your light and Your truth.

00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:36.159
 Let them lead me.

00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:40.879
 Let them bring me to Your holy hill and to Your dwelling.

00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:43.980
 Then I will go to the altar of God,

00:04:44.100 --> 00:04:45.779
 To God my exceeding joy,

00:04:45.980 --> 00:04:49.180
 And I will praise You with the lyre, O God, my God.

00:04:49.980 --> 00:04:52.719
 Why are You cast down, O my soul?

00:04:53.139 --> 00:04:55.620
 And why are You in turmoil within me?

00:04:56.259 --> 00:04:57.480
 Hope in God.

00:04:57.839 --> 00:04:59.500
 For I shall again praise Him,

00:04:59.920 --> 00:05:02.459
 My salvation and my God.

00:05:02.459 --> 00:05:05.039
 God's holy and authoritative word.

00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:05.620
 You may be seated.

00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:21.799
 Psalms 42 and 43 deal with a common human experience of despondency, despair, or depression.

00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:26.800
 According to a Gallup poll conducted in February 2023,

00:05:27.280 --> 00:05:31.439
 The percentage of U.S. adults who report having been diagnosed with depression

00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:34.580
 At some point of their lives is 29%.

00:05:34.580 --> 00:05:37.020
 Up 10% from 2015.

00:05:38.280 --> 00:05:42.080
 And 17.8% of Americans say that they are currently depressed.

00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:43.639
 That's almost one in five.

00:05:45.259 --> 00:05:48.139
 Maybe you feel down on most days.

00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:52.740
 Maybe you have diminished interest or pleasure in most of your activities.

00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:56.360
 Maybe you feel tired, fatigued all the time.

00:05:56.479 --> 00:05:59.479
 Or feel worthless and overwhelmed by guilt.

00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:04.079
 Maybe you're having trouble concentrating or making decisions.

00:06:05.599 --> 00:06:08.180
 Or maybe you just don't feel like getting up in the morning.

00:06:08.180 --> 00:06:13.019
 Of course, this has spiritual implications.

00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:17.500
 When you feel this way, you feel like God is absent.

00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:21.040
 You don't feel His personal care for you.

00:06:21.540 --> 00:06:24.840
 You don't feel like worshiping, let alone serving God.

00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:28.579
 When we feel this way, is there anything we can do?

00:06:29.860 --> 00:06:33.780
 Psalms 42 to 43 teach us that when our souls are cast down

00:06:33.780 --> 00:06:35.720
 And we feel forgotten by God,

00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:38.200
 We should remember God.

00:06:38.900 --> 00:06:41.440
 And so we're going to first talk about feeling forgotten by God.

00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:43.520
 And then we'll talk about remembering God.

00:06:45.860 --> 00:06:47.760
 Chapter 42, verses 1 to 2,

00:06:47.880 --> 00:06:50.520
 Express how the psalmist feels spiritually.

00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:53.960
 He feels parched, longs for communion with God.

00:06:54.440 --> 00:06:57.000
 As a deer pants for flowing streams,

00:06:57.000 --> 00:06:59.540
 So pants my soul for you, O God.

00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:03.120
 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:06.019
 When shall I come and appear before God?

00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:11.379
 I didn't know this about deers until I looked it up this week.

00:07:11.500 --> 00:07:13.939
 But deers apparently don't drink a lot of water

00:07:13.939 --> 00:07:18.180
 Because they get most of their water from the food that they eat,

00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:19.720
 Like plants and nuts.

00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:22.040
 But when there's a drought,

00:07:22.840 --> 00:07:26.220
 Or in desert climates like Palestine or Israel,

00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:30.160
 With occasional prolonged seasons without rain,

00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:32.660
 Deer get desperate for water.

00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:36.260
 And because either there's not enough food,

00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:38.320
 Or the food is dry,

00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:40.320
 They don't get enough water

00:07:40.320 --> 00:07:43.500
 To replenish their water need in their body

00:07:43.500 --> 00:07:44.680
 From the food that they eat.

00:07:45.060 --> 00:07:47.140
 And that's when they start to wander around

00:07:47.140 --> 00:07:49.420
 In search of flowing streams.

00:07:50.280 --> 00:07:51.160
 Bodies of water.

00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:52.300
 And as they do that,

00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:52.939
 They pant.

00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:57.200
 Because that's how animals get rid of heat from their bodies.

00:07:57.380 --> 00:07:59.160
 Expel heat by breathing really fast

00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:00.820
 And then inhaling cool air.

00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:04.400
 And so imagine a parched deer

00:08:04.400 --> 00:08:05.840
 In the middle of a drought,

00:08:06.460 --> 00:08:09.240
 Desperately longing for and looking for water.

00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:13.280
 So pants my soul for you, O God.

00:08:13.820 --> 00:08:14.580
 It says in verse 1.

00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:16.240
 And then verse 2 continues,

00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:25.900
 And here we see the nature of the psalmist's inner turmoil.

00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:29.400
 His main problem is that he is far away from God.

00:08:30.259 --> 00:08:31.460
 But he's surrounded.

00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:33.000
 His enemies are nearby.

00:08:33.860 --> 00:08:35.580
 This is in the old covenant days,

00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:36.299
 We have to remember,

00:08:36.620 --> 00:08:38.899
 When meeting with God was usually limited

00:08:38.899 --> 00:08:40.180
 To a physical location,

00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:42.019
 The temple in Jerusalem.

00:08:42.620 --> 00:08:44.039
 It's different for us now,

00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:45.339
 Because we are the church,

00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:46.279
 The people of God,

00:08:46.339 --> 00:08:47.860
 And we are God's temple.

00:08:48.179 --> 00:08:50.659
 And the spirit of God is present with us,

00:08:50.719 --> 00:08:52.699
 To meet with us in a special way

00:08:52.699 --> 00:08:54.339
 Whenever two or three of us are gathered

00:08:54.339 --> 00:08:55.319
 In the name of Jesus.

00:08:55.719 --> 00:08:56.819
 The spirit of God is present.

00:08:57.879 --> 00:08:59.559
 And so no matter where we are physically.

00:09:00.219 --> 00:09:01.980
 But this is the old covenant days,

00:09:02.079 --> 00:09:03.860
 And the psalmist feels effectively

00:09:03.860 --> 00:09:05.519
 Caught off from God's presence

00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:07.319
 Because he cannot worship God

00:09:07.319 --> 00:09:09.159
 With God's people in the temple

00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:10.240
 In Jerusalem.

00:09:11.179 --> 00:09:12.120
 In verse 6,

00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:14.039
 He tells us that he is in the land of Jordan

00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:16.120
 And of Hermon from Mount Mizar.

00:09:16.259 --> 00:09:17.980
 That's the northern extremities

00:09:17.980 --> 00:09:19.519
 Of the country of Israel,

00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:20.259
 The land of Israel,

00:09:20.460 --> 00:09:22.639
 Where the mountain ranges meet the seas.

00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:25.419
 He longs to appear before God,

00:09:25.659 --> 00:09:27.860
 But his circumstances prevent him

00:09:27.860 --> 00:09:28.600
 From doing that.

00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:31.460
 And so his enemies taunt him,

00:09:32.060 --> 00:09:34.039
 Seeing that he looks like

00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:35.220
 He's been abandoned by God.

00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:36.720
 The enemies taunt him in verse 3,

00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:37.960
 All the day long,

00:09:38.100 --> 00:09:39.419
 Where is your God?

00:09:39.419 --> 00:09:42.659
 This is the nagging question

00:09:42.659 --> 00:09:44.259
 That is at the center

00:09:44.259 --> 00:09:45.679
 Of the psalmist's turmoil.

00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:48.159
 It says again in verse 10,

00:09:48.259 --> 00:09:49.579
 As with the deadly wound

00:09:49.579 --> 00:09:50.899
 In my bones,

00:09:50.979 --> 00:09:52.519
 My adversaries taunt me

00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:53.299
 While they say to me

00:09:53.299 --> 00:09:54.139
 All the day long,

00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:56.219
 Where is your God?

00:09:57.599 --> 00:09:58.659
 This taunt, he says,

00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:00.000
 Is like a deadly wound

00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:00.799
 In his bones.

00:10:00.979 --> 00:10:02.360
 The word deadly wound

00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:04.179
 Is a translation of a noun

00:10:04.179 --> 00:10:05.379
 That can mean shattering.

00:10:05.899 --> 00:10:07.120
 The Christian Standard Bible

00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:08.719
 Translates that verse this way,

00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:10.279
 My adversaries taunt me

00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:12.019
 As if crushing my bones.

00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:14.460
 A sprained muscle

00:10:14.460 --> 00:10:16.460
 Will give you discomfort and pain.

00:10:17.060 --> 00:10:18.500
 But a crushed bone

00:10:18.500 --> 00:10:19.660
 Cripples you.

00:10:20.940 --> 00:10:23.300
 And that's the kind of emotional agony

00:10:23.300 --> 00:10:25.220
 That the psalmist is in.

00:10:25.860 --> 00:10:26.820
 While he is down,

00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:28.879
 His enemies are using

00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:30.840
 The crushing weight of that question

00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:32.300
 To push him down even further.

00:10:32.660 --> 00:10:33.840
 Where is your God?

00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.519
 If your God cares so much about you,

00:10:38.139 --> 00:10:39.600
 Why did you lose your job?

00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:43.540
 If your God really loves you,

00:10:44.060 --> 00:10:45.680
 Then why do you have this chronic

00:10:45.680 --> 00:10:46.960
 Or terminal illness?

00:10:48.160 --> 00:10:49.840
 If your God is so powerful,

00:10:49.980 --> 00:10:51.820
 Then why did he not answer your prayers?

00:10:53.259 --> 00:10:54.800
 If your God is so good,

00:10:55.300 --> 00:10:57.080
 Why is there so much evil in this world?

00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:00.820
 All of these taunts can be summed up

00:11:00.820 --> 00:11:02.320
 In this one haunting question.

00:11:03.020 --> 00:11:04.639
 Where is your God?

00:11:06.040 --> 00:11:07.460
 And the psalmist feels like

00:11:07.460 --> 00:11:10.080
 He hears this from his enemies around him,

00:11:10.259 --> 00:11:11.220
 Not once in a while,

00:11:11.300 --> 00:11:12.980
 But all the day long.

00:11:13.940 --> 00:11:15.800
 And remember the psalmist said in verse 1,

00:11:16.139 --> 00:11:17.700
 That his soul pants for,

00:11:17.860 --> 00:11:19.200
 And thirsts for God,

00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:22.000
 As a deer pants for flowing streams.

00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:25.100
 But there is a notable contrast

00:11:25.100 --> 00:11:25.820
 In metaphors here,

00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:27.139
 Because that flowing stream

00:11:27.139 --> 00:11:28.399
 Is nowhere to be found.

00:11:28.500 --> 00:11:29.220
 The flowing stream,

00:11:29.320 --> 00:11:31.279
 Which represents God's life-giving presence,

00:11:31.539 --> 00:11:32.799
 Is nowhere to be found.

00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:34.259
 Instead, in verse 3,

00:11:34.340 --> 00:11:34.580
 He says,

00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:37.259
 My tears have been my food

00:11:37.259 --> 00:11:38.500
 Day and night.

00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:40.659
 It's a sad contrast.

00:11:41.299 --> 00:11:42.159
 Instead of drinking

00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:43.820
 From the vigorous,

00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:46.539
 Life-giving streams of God,

00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:48.360
 The psalmist has to settle

00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:50.840
 For eating his own dripping tears.

00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:55.220
 When a person is dying of thirst,

00:11:55.500 --> 00:11:56.720
 I forget who told me this,

00:11:56.799 --> 00:11:57.779
 One of you guys told me this,

00:11:57.860 --> 00:12:00.440
 That if you're dying of thirst,

00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:02.379
 Apparently our body is so efficient

00:12:02.379 --> 00:12:04.340
 At sanitizing or cleaning

00:12:04.340 --> 00:12:05.860
 The liquid in our system,

00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:07.519
 That you can actually drink your urine

00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:08.740
 Several times

00:12:08.740 --> 00:12:10.299
 Before it will start,

00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:10.799
 You know,

00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:11.980
 I guess hurting you.

00:12:12.460 --> 00:12:13.759
 And that's how people survive.

00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:15.340
 So when there's buildings crumble

00:12:15.340 --> 00:12:16.240
 And they're stuck underneath

00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:17.480
 And they don't rescue for days,

00:12:17.740 --> 00:12:19.080
 That's how people survive.

00:12:19.179 --> 00:12:19.960
 They drink your urine.

00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:22.259
 And that's almost the kind of

00:12:22.259 --> 00:12:23.860
 Forlorn picture that you see here

00:12:23.860 --> 00:12:25.960
 Because there's no flowing streams

00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:27.740
 And he's eating his own tears

00:12:27.740 --> 00:12:28.639
 As food

00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.200
 While his enemies attack him

00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:32.220
 All the day long.

00:12:35.019 --> 00:12:36.639
 Then in verses 7 to 8,

00:12:36.900 --> 00:12:39.580
 The psalmist turns these water metaphors

00:12:39.580 --> 00:12:40.240
 On their heads.

00:12:40.400 --> 00:12:40.780
 He writes,

00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:42.180
 Deep calls the deep

00:12:42.180 --> 00:12:44.060
 At the roar of your waterfalls,

00:12:44.059 --> 00:12:46.279
 All your breakers and your waves

00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:47.639
 Have gone over me.

00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:50.519
 He's comparing his plight

00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:52.759
 To being swallowed up by the waves.

00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:54.879
 The word waterfalls,

00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:58.239
 It doesn't necessarily refer to waterfalls.

00:12:58.539 --> 00:13:00.359
 It's referring to any kind of

00:13:00.359 --> 00:13:02.359
 Large body of water,

00:13:02.479 --> 00:13:03.339
 Flood waters.

00:13:03.979 --> 00:13:04.899
 And the phrase,

00:13:05.059 --> 00:13:05.979
 Deep calls to deep,

00:13:06.059 --> 00:13:08.559
 Recalls the cosmic scale of God's creation

00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:10.479
 And flood judgment in Genesis

00:13:10.479 --> 00:13:11.500
 During the days of Noah.

00:13:11.500 --> 00:13:12.960
 So for example,

00:13:13.100 --> 00:13:14.460
 The waters of the formless void

00:13:14.460 --> 00:13:16.500
 Before God filled it with creation

00:13:16.500 --> 00:13:18.080
 Was called the deep

00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:19.259
 In Genesis 1-2

00:13:19.259 --> 00:13:21.460
 And when the flood waters

00:13:21.460 --> 00:13:22.960
 Of God's judgment

00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:25.340
 Descend during Noah's days

00:13:25.340 --> 00:13:26.539
 In Genesis 7-11

00:13:26.539 --> 00:13:27.620
 He says that the fountains

00:13:27.620 --> 00:13:28.860
 Of the great deep

00:13:28.860 --> 00:13:30.000
 Burst forth

00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:32.379
 And the windows of heavens

00:13:32.379 --> 00:13:33.220
 Were opened.

00:13:34.139 --> 00:13:34.500
 Similarly,

00:13:34.620 --> 00:13:35.600
 Exodus 15-5

00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:36.980
 Describes the Red Sea

00:13:36.980 --> 00:13:38.639
 Swallowing up the Egyptian army

00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:39.100
 This way,

00:13:39.100 --> 00:13:39.899
 The floods,

00:13:40.100 --> 00:13:40.659
 Or literally,

00:13:40.659 --> 00:13:41.740
 The deeps

00:13:41.740 --> 00:13:42.759
 Cover them

00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:43.579
 They went down

00:13:43.579 --> 00:13:44.519
 Into the depths

00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:45.480
 Like a stone

00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:47.439
 So deep calls to deep

00:13:47.439 --> 00:13:48.819
 It refers to

00:13:48.819 --> 00:13:50.579
 Deeps above

00:13:50.579 --> 00:13:51.939
 Falling down

00:13:51.939 --> 00:13:52.980
 And crashing upon

00:13:52.980 --> 00:13:54.459
 The deeps below

00:13:54.459 --> 00:13:56.959
 So the deeps of God's rain

00:13:56.959 --> 00:13:57.959
 And the waters above

00:13:57.959 --> 00:13:59.339
 Meeting the waters below

00:13:59.339 --> 00:14:00.100
 Of the ocean

00:14:00.100 --> 00:14:02.000
 So imagine

00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:04.939
 Howling rains

00:14:04.940 --> 00:14:07.140
 And rolling seas

00:14:07.140 --> 00:14:07.160
 And rolling seas

00:14:07.160 --> 00:14:09.220
 Meeting each other

00:14:09.220 --> 00:14:11.180
 And that's how the psalmist feels

00:14:11.180 --> 00:14:12.360
 He feels so overwhelmed

00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:13.120
 By the taunting

00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:14.020
 Of the wicked

00:14:14.020 --> 00:14:15.400
 He says

00:14:15.400 --> 00:14:16.840
 All your breakers

00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:18.100
 And your waves

00:14:18.100 --> 00:14:19.160
 Have gone over me

00:14:19.160 --> 00:14:21.040
 Here is an

00:14:21.040 --> 00:14:23.020
 Unflinching affirmation

00:14:23.020 --> 00:14:24.540
 Of God's sovereignty

00:14:24.540 --> 00:14:26.460
 Even in the midst

00:14:26.460 --> 00:14:27.220
 Of our deepest

00:14:27.220 --> 00:14:29.080
 And most mysterious sufferings

00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:30.660
 Look at what he says

00:14:30.659 --> 00:14:31.219
 The psalmist says

00:14:31.219 --> 00:14:32.699
 God has allowed

00:14:32.699 --> 00:14:34.139
 These things to happen to him

00:14:34.139 --> 00:14:36.659
 All your breakers

00:14:36.659 --> 00:14:38.319
 And your waves

00:14:38.319 --> 00:14:39.219
 Have gone over me

00:14:39.219 --> 00:14:41.559
 Not the adversary's

00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:42.679
 Breakers and waves

00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:44.659
 Not Satan's

00:14:44.659 --> 00:14:45.500
 Breakers and waves

00:14:45.500 --> 00:14:47.539
 Your breakers and waves

00:14:47.539 --> 00:14:48.219
 Oh God

00:14:48.219 --> 00:14:48.959
 Have come over me

00:14:48.959 --> 00:14:49.819
 Because he recognizes

00:14:49.820 --> 00:14:50.720
 That God is still

00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:51.340
 On his throne

00:14:51.340 --> 00:14:52.080
 And God is still

00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:53.060
 Ruling and reigning

00:14:53.060 --> 00:14:54.480
 And so he sees

00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:55.480
 That his hand

00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:56.580
 Is somehow involved

00:14:56.580 --> 00:14:57.820
 Even in his suffering

00:14:57.820 --> 00:14:58.980
 God's allowed it

00:14:58.980 --> 00:15:02.520
 But the struggle is real

00:15:02.520 --> 00:15:04.780
 Because the waves

00:15:04.780 --> 00:15:05.400
 And the breakers

00:15:05.400 --> 00:15:05.900
 Are relentless

00:15:05.900 --> 00:15:06.520
 So imagine

00:15:06.520 --> 00:15:08.220
 In a stormy sea

00:15:08.220 --> 00:15:09.080
 Trying to stay

00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:09.920
 Above water

00:15:09.920 --> 00:15:11.660
 He's gasping for air

00:15:11.660 --> 00:15:13.040
 And just sputtering water

00:15:13.040 --> 00:15:13.800
 And comes up

00:15:13.800 --> 00:15:14.480
 Above the surface

00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:16.040
 And then the waves

00:15:16.040 --> 00:15:16.860
 And the breakers

00:15:16.860 --> 00:15:17.780
 Come over him again

00:15:17.780 --> 00:15:19.000
 And then he's washed down

00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:19.720
 And pushed underneath

00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:21.440
 That's how he feels

00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:24.580
 He's so cast down

00:15:24.580 --> 00:15:28.460
 So what does the psalmist do?

00:15:29.860 --> 00:15:31.580
 He says he pours out

00:15:31.580 --> 00:15:32.379
 His soul to God

00:15:32.379 --> 00:15:33.740
 In verse 4

00:15:33.740 --> 00:15:36.500
 Notice the water metaphor again

00:15:36.500 --> 00:15:37.440
 Pour out

00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:39.300
 The psalmist does not

00:15:39.300 --> 00:15:40.720
 Bottle up his emotions

00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:43.300
 Or try to sanitize

00:15:43.300 --> 00:15:43.860
 His feelings

00:15:43.860 --> 00:15:46.639
 He just pours out

00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:48.139
 His soul to God

00:15:48.139 --> 00:15:50.080
 And that's how we

00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:51.460
 Must respond to

00:15:51.460 --> 00:15:52.539
 When we are cast down

00:15:52.539 --> 00:15:54.439
 When the floodwaters of life

00:15:54.439 --> 00:15:55.419
 Overwhelm you

00:15:55.419 --> 00:15:57.480
 Pour out your soul to God

00:15:57.480 --> 00:15:59.620
 Here's yet another

00:15:59.620 --> 00:16:01.100
 Possible secondary meaning

00:16:01.100 --> 00:16:01.759
 To the phrase

00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:03.120
 Deep calls to deep

00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:05.500
 As the waters of God

00:16:05.500 --> 00:16:06.340
 The floodwaters of God

00:16:06.340 --> 00:16:08.879
 Descend upon you

00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:10.980
 You call out

00:16:10.980 --> 00:16:12.480
 From your own deep

00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:13.559
 Down below

00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:14.919
 To the one

00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:16.539
 Who has sent

00:16:16.539 --> 00:16:17.519
 His breakers and waves

00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:18.019
 Over you

00:16:18.019 --> 00:16:18.919
 So your deep

00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:20.200
 Calls out to the deep

00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:20.700
 Of God

00:16:20.700 --> 00:16:22.279
 And so don't try to

00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:23.320
 Stuff your feelings

00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:23.980
 Stoically

00:16:23.980 --> 00:16:25.439
 Or act like

00:16:25.439 --> 00:16:26.159
 You're not affected

00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:27.039
 By what's going on

00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:27.559
 Around you

00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:28.860
 Be honest with God

00:16:28.860 --> 00:16:29.860
 And share your feelings

00:16:29.860 --> 00:16:30.399
 With God

00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:31.700
 Pour out your heart

00:16:31.700 --> 00:16:32.100
 To him

00:16:32.100 --> 00:16:35.639
 The psalmist is having

00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:36.759
 An ugly cry session

00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:37.840
 Right

00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:39.700
 My tears have been

00:16:39.700 --> 00:16:40.320
 My food

00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:41.580
 Day and night

00:16:41.580 --> 00:16:45.019
 We get to eavesdrop

00:16:45.019 --> 00:16:45.519
 A little bit

00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:46.279
 On the outpouring

00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:47.560
 Of the psalmist's soul

00:16:47.560 --> 00:16:48.460
 In chapter 42

00:16:48.460 --> 00:16:49.040
 Verse 9

00:16:49.040 --> 00:16:50.320
 I say to God

00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:50.860
 My rock

00:16:50.860 --> 00:16:52.440
 Why have you forgotten me?

00:16:52.980 --> 00:16:54.220
 Why do I go mourning

00:16:54.220 --> 00:16:55.420
 Because of the oppression

00:16:55.420 --> 00:16:56.019
 Of the enemy?

00:16:56.899 --> 00:16:57.420
 God

00:16:57.420 --> 00:16:59.100
 You're supposed to be

00:16:59.100 --> 00:17:00.040
 My rock

00:17:00.040 --> 00:17:01.580
 My bedrock

00:17:01.580 --> 00:17:02.639
 My foundation

00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:03.600
 The immovable

00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:05.380
 Unshakeable ground

00:17:05.380 --> 00:17:06.720
 Upon which I stand

00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:08.579
 So that I don't sink

00:17:08.579 --> 00:17:09.160
 In the mire

00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:11.380
 So where are you God?

00:17:11.940 --> 00:17:13.120
 Why have you forgotten me?

00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:15.759
 Why do I go mourning

00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:16.680
 Because of the oppression

00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:17.220
 Of the enemy?

00:17:17.819 --> 00:17:18.500
 And he repeats

00:17:18.500 --> 00:17:19.680
 That exact same question

00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:20.600
 In verses 43

00:17:20.600 --> 00:17:21.440
 Verse

00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:22.180
 Chapter 43

00:17:22.180 --> 00:17:22.740
 Verse 2

00:17:22.740 --> 00:17:24.579
 For you are the God

00:17:24.579 --> 00:17:25.900
 In whom I take refuge

00:17:25.900 --> 00:17:28.400
 Why have you rejected me?

00:17:28.980 --> 00:17:30.579
 Why do I go about mourning

00:17:30.579 --> 00:17:31.799
 Because of the oppression

00:17:31.799 --> 00:17:32.480
 Of the enemy?

00:17:33.779 --> 00:17:35.220
 As we see in chapter 43

00:17:35.220 --> 00:17:35.599
 Verse 1

00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:36.359
 He's being attacked

00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:37.579
 By ungodly people

00:17:37.579 --> 00:17:39.240
 Deceitful and unjust men

00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:40.720
 And he wants to be delivered

00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:41.480
 But God

00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:42.519
 You're supposed to be

00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:43.339
 My refuge

00:17:43.339 --> 00:17:44.659
 My fortress

00:17:44.659 --> 00:17:45.480
 To protect me

00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:46.139
 From the arrows

00:17:46.139 --> 00:17:46.659
 Of the enemy

00:17:46.659 --> 00:17:48.119
 My shelter

00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:49.039
 From the storm

00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:50.139
 So where are you

00:17:50.139 --> 00:17:51.119
 When I need you

00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:51.759
 Most?

00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:56.019
 He thinks that God's

00:17:56.019 --> 00:17:56.960
 Not there for him

00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:57.859
 And of course

00:17:57.859 --> 00:17:59.180
 That's theologically

00:17:59.180 --> 00:18:00.859
 Incorrect

00:18:00.859 --> 00:18:04.339
 But we don't need

00:18:04.339 --> 00:18:05.500
 To trip over the words

00:18:05.500 --> 00:18:08.119
 This is not an expression

00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:08.859
 Of what the psalmist

00:18:08.859 --> 00:18:10.359
 Believes objectively

00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:11.979
 Rather it's an expression

00:18:11.979 --> 00:18:13.119
 Of what he feels

00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:14.500
 Subjectively

00:18:14.500 --> 00:18:17.559
 In Job 6.26

00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:18.459
 I've heard this

00:18:18.459 --> 00:18:19.919
 John Piper

00:18:19.919 --> 00:18:20.759
 Comment on this

00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:21.179
 In the past

00:18:21.179 --> 00:18:22.799
 Job 6.26

00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:24.439
 When his three friends

00:18:24.439 --> 00:18:25.959
 Who are miserable comforters

00:18:25.959 --> 00:18:27.000
 And worthless physicians

00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:28.859
 Are trying to correct

00:18:28.859 --> 00:18:30.039
 Job's theology

00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:30.959
 When he is only

00:18:30.959 --> 00:18:32.159
 Expressing his pain

00:18:32.159 --> 00:18:34.019
 Job responds this way

00:18:34.019 --> 00:18:34.179
 He says

00:18:34.179 --> 00:18:34.779
 Do you think

00:18:34.779 --> 00:18:36.359
 That you can reprove words

00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:37.439
 When the speech

00:18:37.439 --> 00:18:38.639
 Of a despairing man

00:18:38.639 --> 00:18:39.579
 Is wind?

00:18:41.099 --> 00:18:42.599
 When people are speaking

00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:44.159
 Out of their deep pain

00:18:44.159 --> 00:18:45.059
 And suffering

00:18:45.059 --> 00:18:46.399
 Their words are just

00:18:46.399 --> 00:18:47.439
 Fleeting winds

00:18:47.439 --> 00:18:49.000
 Passing by

00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:50.000
 And just like

00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:51.399
 You can't catch wind

00:18:51.399 --> 00:18:52.879
 You can't try to

00:18:52.879 --> 00:18:53.679
 Fix

00:18:53.679 --> 00:18:55.119
 Their theology

00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:56.419
 Or correct their words

00:18:56.419 --> 00:18:57.599
 In the middle of that

00:18:57.599 --> 00:18:59.719
 They will come to their senses

00:18:59.719 --> 00:19:00.579
 Soon enough

00:19:00.579 --> 00:19:03.240
 God didn't correct

00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:04.159
 Job's theology

00:19:04.159 --> 00:19:05.479
 When he was calling out

00:19:05.479 --> 00:19:05.759
 To him

00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:06.559
 And crying out to him

00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:06.979
 In pain

00:19:06.979 --> 00:19:08.699
 And nor do we need to

00:19:08.699 --> 00:19:09.859
 When our friends

00:19:09.859 --> 00:19:12.019
 Are struggling

00:19:12.019 --> 00:19:13.099
 And crying out

00:19:13.099 --> 00:19:13.719
 In pain either

00:19:13.719 --> 00:19:15.919
 There's a time for that

00:19:15.919 --> 00:19:16.419
 But it's not

00:19:16.419 --> 00:19:17.559
 In the middle of that

00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:20.199
 So what next?

00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:21.639
 Is that all we can do?

00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:23.299
 Cry?

00:19:24.379 --> 00:19:25.639
 Pour out our souls to God?

00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:27.479
 Eat our tears as food?

00:19:29.179 --> 00:19:30.319
 There's still more

00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:31.119
 We can do

00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:33.000
 And there's a very

00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:33.859
 Important word

00:19:33.859 --> 00:19:35.219
 In these psalms

00:19:35.220 --> 00:19:36.519
 That's repeated twice

00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:37.440
 At key junctures

00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:38.759
 Remember

00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:41.860
 When tears are his food

00:19:41.860 --> 00:19:42.420
 And his enemies

00:19:42.420 --> 00:19:43.240
 Are taunting him

00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:43.900
 All the day long

00:19:43.900 --> 00:19:45.000
 Where is your God?

00:19:45.059 --> 00:19:45.480
 The psalmist

00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:47.240
 Remembers God

00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:47.839
 In verse 4

00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:49.000
 These things

00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:50.160
 I remember

00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:52.079
 As I pour out my soul

00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:52.880
 How I would go

00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:53.440
 With the throng

00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:54.059
 And lead them

00:19:54.059 --> 00:19:54.680
 In procession

00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:55.640
 To the house of God

00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:56.860
 With glad shouts

00:19:56.860 --> 00:19:57.900
 And songs of praise

00:19:57.900 --> 00:19:58.799
 A multitude

00:19:58.799 --> 00:19:59.880
 Keeping festival

00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:01.540
 The psalmist

00:20:01.540 --> 00:20:03.040
 Cannot now

00:20:03.040 --> 00:20:03.820
 Gather with

00:20:03.820 --> 00:20:04.500
 God's people

00:20:04.500 --> 00:20:05.560
 And in the house of God

00:20:05.560 --> 00:20:06.400
 And lead them in worship

00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:07.400
 As he desires to

00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:08.800
 He cannot now

00:20:08.800 --> 00:20:10.100
 Keep the festivals of God

00:20:10.100 --> 00:20:11.360
 To celebrate his provision

00:20:11.360 --> 00:20:12.140
 And deliverance

00:20:12.140 --> 00:20:13.980
 But he remembers them

00:20:13.980 --> 00:20:15.660
 He thinks on them

00:20:15.660 --> 00:20:17.420
 He meditates on them

00:20:17.420 --> 00:20:18.680
 And reminds himself

00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:19.300
 Of them

00:20:19.300 --> 00:20:22.200
 And we see that same pattern

00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:22.840
 In verse 6

00:20:22.840 --> 00:20:24.300
 My soul is cast down

00:20:24.300 --> 00:20:24.960
 Within me

00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:26.520
 Therefore

00:20:26.520 --> 00:20:28.540
 I remember you

00:20:28.539 --> 00:20:30.180
 Even when he feels

00:20:30.180 --> 00:20:30.940
 Overwhelmed

00:20:30.940 --> 00:20:31.819
 By the breakers

00:20:31.819 --> 00:20:32.339
 And the waves

00:20:32.339 --> 00:20:32.779
 The psalmist

00:20:32.779 --> 00:20:34.079
 Brings God's character

00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:35.059
 To remembrance

00:20:35.059 --> 00:20:35.839
 In verse 8

00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:37.119
 By day

00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:38.440
 The Lord commands

00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:39.819
 His steadfast love

00:20:39.819 --> 00:20:41.379
 And at night

00:20:41.379 --> 00:20:42.839
 His song is with me

00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:44.639
 A prayer to the God

00:20:44.639 --> 00:20:45.220
 Of my life

00:20:45.220 --> 00:20:47.139
 So here's the answer

00:20:47.139 --> 00:20:48.759
 To the enemy's taunts

00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:49.839
 All the day long

00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:51.279
 By day

00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:52.339
 And by night

00:20:52.339 --> 00:20:53.519
 Remembering

00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:54.339
 The Lord's

00:20:54.339 --> 00:20:55.079
 Steadfast love

00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:56.559
 Remembering

00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:57.079
 His love

00:20:57.079 --> 00:20:57.700
 And singing

00:20:57.700 --> 00:20:58.379
 Of His love

00:20:58.380 --> 00:20:58.980
 And praying

00:20:58.980 --> 00:20:59.300
 To Him

00:20:59.300 --> 00:20:59.920
 On the basis

00:20:59.920 --> 00:21:00.520
 Of His

00:21:00.520 --> 00:21:02.140
 Steadfast love

00:21:02.140 --> 00:21:04.220
 It's a special

00:21:04.220 --> 00:21:05.880
 Sweet word to us

00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:06.980
 Steadfast love

00:21:06.980 --> 00:21:08.160
 God's

00:21:08.160 --> 00:21:08.760
 God's

00:21:08.760 --> 00:21:09.220
 Hesed

00:21:09.220 --> 00:21:10.680
 His loyal love

00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:12.800
 His covenantal love

00:21:12.800 --> 00:21:14.560
 That's what we remember

00:21:14.560 --> 00:21:15.840
 When the realities

00:21:15.840 --> 00:21:17.060
 Of our lives

00:21:17.060 --> 00:21:17.980
 Seem to contradict

00:21:17.980 --> 00:21:18.900
 The reality

00:21:18.900 --> 00:21:20.000
 Of who God is

00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:21.280
 We remember

00:21:21.280 --> 00:21:22.140
 That God has

00:21:22.140 --> 00:21:22.760
 Bound Himself

00:21:22.760 --> 00:21:23.500
 To us

00:21:23.500 --> 00:21:24.980
 In irreversible

00:21:24.980 --> 00:21:25.940
 And unbreakable

00:21:25.940 --> 00:21:26.420
 Covenant

00:21:26.420 --> 00:21:27.759
 And that He

00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:28.259
 Will keep

00:21:28.259 --> 00:21:29.080
 His loyal love

00:21:29.080 --> 00:21:29.660
 To us

00:21:29.660 --> 00:21:30.300
 Forever

00:21:30.300 --> 00:21:32.560
 So when our

00:21:32.560 --> 00:21:33.000
 Souls are

00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:33.759
 Cast down

00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:35.160
 And we feel

00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:36.360
 Forgotten by God

00:21:36.360 --> 00:21:38.500
 We remember God

00:21:38.500 --> 00:21:41.480
 This is a remarkable

00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:42.539
 Central insight

00:21:42.539 --> 00:21:43.519
 Of these two

00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:43.859
 Psalms

00:21:43.859 --> 00:21:44.359
 You probably

00:21:44.359 --> 00:21:45.339
 Notice the refrain

00:21:45.339 --> 00:21:45.960
 That occurs

00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:46.940
 Three times

00:21:46.940 --> 00:21:48.319
 Chapter 42

00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:49.160
 Verse 4

00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:49.779
 11

00:21:49.779 --> 00:21:50.619
 Verse 11

00:21:50.619 --> 00:21:51.460
 Chapter 43

00:21:51.460 --> 00:21:52.140
 Verse 5

00:21:52.140 --> 00:21:53.500
 Why are you

00:21:53.500 --> 00:21:54.620
 Cast down

00:21:54.620 --> 00:21:55.800
 Oh my soul

00:21:55.800 --> 00:21:57.080
 Why are you

00:21:57.080 --> 00:21:57.960
 In turmoil

00:21:57.960 --> 00:21:58.700
 Within me

00:21:58.700 --> 00:21:59.940
 Hope in God

00:21:59.940 --> 00:22:01.300
 For I shall

00:22:01.300 --> 00:22:02.000
 Again

00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:03.140
 Praise Him

00:22:03.140 --> 00:22:05.540
 My salvation

00:22:05.540 --> 00:22:06.700
 And my God

00:22:06.700 --> 00:22:08.259
 If you struggle

00:22:08.259 --> 00:22:09.560
 With depression

00:22:09.560 --> 00:22:10.020
 Often

00:22:10.020 --> 00:22:11.320
 Commit that verse

00:22:11.320 --> 00:22:11.800
 To memory

00:22:11.800 --> 00:22:12.820
 And repeat

00:22:12.820 --> 00:22:13.700
 That to yourself

00:22:13.700 --> 00:22:14.780
 And speak to yourself

00:22:14.780 --> 00:22:16.280
 Because who is

00:22:16.280 --> 00:22:16.800
 The psalmist

00:22:16.800 --> 00:22:17.680
 Here talking to

00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:20.100
 He's not

00:22:20.100 --> 00:22:21.000
 Talking to us

00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:22.819
 The audience

00:22:22.819 --> 00:22:23.319
 As he is

00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:23.799
 In other parts

00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:24.220
 Of the psalm

00:22:24.220 --> 00:22:24.819
 And he's not

00:22:24.819 --> 00:22:25.900
 Talking to God

00:22:25.900 --> 00:22:27.119
 As he does

00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:27.779
 In other parts

00:22:27.779 --> 00:22:28.480
 Of the psalm

00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:29.819
 He's talking

00:22:29.819 --> 00:22:30.740
 To himself

00:22:30.740 --> 00:22:33.799
 Why are you

00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:34.480
 Cast down

00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:35.859
 Oh my soul

00:22:35.859 --> 00:22:38.400
 This is the art

00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:39.400
 Of speaking

00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:40.539
 To ourselves

00:22:40.539 --> 00:22:41.980
 Or preaching

00:22:41.980 --> 00:22:43.039
 To ourselves

00:22:43.039 --> 00:22:43.619
 When we

00:22:43.619 --> 00:22:44.680
 Are cast down

00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:45.319
 Or depressed

00:22:45.319 --> 00:22:47.079
 The

00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:48.000
 Martyn Lloyd-Jones

00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:48.700
 One of my

00:22:48.700 --> 00:22:49.920
 Favorite pastors

00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:50.599
 From the 1900s

00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:51.859
 He's a Welsh

00:22:51.859 --> 00:22:52.240
 Pastor

00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:52.599
 And he

00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:53.240
 Comments

00:22:53.240 --> 00:22:53.960
 On this psalm

00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:54.359
 In this way

00:22:54.359 --> 00:22:54.859
 In his famous

00:22:54.859 --> 00:22:55.180
 Book

00:22:55.180 --> 00:22:56.599
 Spiritual Depression

00:22:56.599 --> 00:22:58.619
 Quote

00:22:58.619 --> 00:22:59.579
 The main trouble

00:22:59.579 --> 00:23:00.119
 In this whole

00:23:00.119 --> 00:23:00.539
 Matter of

00:23:00.539 --> 00:23:01.279
 Spiritual Depression

00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:02.140
 In a sense

00:23:02.140 --> 00:23:02.759
 Is this

00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:04.039
 That we allow

00:23:04.039 --> 00:23:04.859
 Ourself

00:23:04.859 --> 00:23:06.140
 To talk to us

00:23:06.140 --> 00:23:07.220
 Instead of

00:23:07.220 --> 00:23:08.140
 Talking to

00:23:08.140 --> 00:23:08.799
 Ourself

00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:10.740
 Am I just

00:23:10.740 --> 00:23:11.180
 Trying to be

00:23:11.180 --> 00:23:11.700
 Deliberately

00:23:11.700 --> 00:23:12.460
 Paradoxical

00:23:12.460 --> 00:23:13.940
 Far from it

00:23:13.940 --> 00:23:15.319
 This is the

00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:16.000
 Very essence

00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:16.539
 Of wisdom

00:23:16.539 --> 00:23:17.220
 In this matter

00:23:17.220 --> 00:23:18.180
 Have you

00:23:18.180 --> 00:23:18.940
 Realized that

00:23:18.940 --> 00:23:19.680
 Most of your

00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:20.420
 Unhappiness

00:23:20.420 --> 00:23:20.920
 In life

00:23:20.920 --> 00:23:21.640
 Is due

00:23:21.640 --> 00:23:22.140
 To the fact

00:23:22.140 --> 00:23:22.460
 That you

00:23:22.460 --> 00:23:23.140
 Are listening

00:23:23.140 --> 00:23:23.820
 To yourself

00:23:23.820 --> 00:23:24.440
 Instead of

00:23:24.440 --> 00:23:25.100
 Talking to

00:23:25.100 --> 00:23:25.580
 Yourself

00:23:25.580 --> 00:23:27.400
 Take those

00:23:27.400 --> 00:23:27.920
 Thoughts that

00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:28.380
 Come to you

00:23:28.380 --> 00:23:28.740
 The moment

00:23:28.740 --> 00:23:29.300
 You wake up

00:23:29.300 --> 00:23:29.720
 In the morning

00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:30.880
 You have not

00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:31.740
 Originated them

00:23:31.740 --> 00:23:32.259
 But they

00:23:32.259 --> 00:23:32.880
 Start talking

00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:33.320
 To you

00:23:33.320 --> 00:23:34.240
 They bring

00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:34.779
 Back the

00:23:34.779 --> 00:23:35.360
 Problem of

00:23:35.360 --> 00:23:35.779
 Yesterday

00:23:35.779 --> 00:23:36.279
 Etc

00:23:36.279 --> 00:23:37.180
 Somebody

00:23:37.180 --> 00:23:38.300
 Is talking

00:23:38.300 --> 00:23:39.700
 Who is

00:23:39.700 --> 00:23:40.279
 Talking to

00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:40.519
 You

00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:41.759
 Yourself

00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:42.220
 Is talking

00:23:42.220 --> 00:23:42.660
 To you

00:23:42.660 --> 00:23:44.039
 Now this

00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:44.380
 Man

00:23:44.380 --> 00:23:45.000
 The psalmist

00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:45.700
 Treatment

00:23:45.700 --> 00:23:46.200
 Was this

00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:46.819
 Instead of

00:23:46.819 --> 00:23:47.339
 Allowing

00:23:47.339 --> 00:23:47.960
 This self

00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:48.440
 To talk

00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:48.960
 To him

00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:49.779
 He starts

00:23:49.779 --> 00:23:50.619
 Talking to

00:23:50.619 --> 00:23:51.220
 Himself

00:23:51.220 --> 00:23:52.640
 Why art thou

00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:53.539
 Cast down

00:23:53.539 --> 00:23:54.240
 Oh my soul

00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:54.759
 He asks

00:23:54.759 --> 00:23:56.059
 His soul

00:23:56.059 --> 00:23:56.420
 Had been

00:23:56.420 --> 00:23:57.140
 Depressing him

00:23:57.140 --> 00:23:57.940
 Crushing him

00:23:57.940 --> 00:23:58.740
 So he stands

00:23:58.740 --> 00:23:59.400
 Up and says

00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:00.000
 Self

00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:01.380
 Listen for a

00:24:01.380 --> 00:24:01.660
 Moment

00:24:01.660 --> 00:24:03.019
 I will speak

00:24:03.019 --> 00:24:03.420
 To you

00:24:03.420 --> 00:24:05.099
 You have to

00:24:05.099 --> 00:24:05.759
 Take yourself

00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:06.339
 In hand

00:24:06.339 --> 00:24:07.200
 You have to

00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:08.200
 Address yourself

00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:08.940
 Preach to

00:24:08.940 --> 00:24:09.400
 Yourself

00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:10.680
 Question yourself

00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:11.460
 You must

00:24:11.460 --> 00:24:11.880
 Say to

00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:12.500
 Your soul

00:24:12.500 --> 00:24:13.500
 Why art thou

00:24:13.500 --> 00:24:14.279
 Cast down

00:24:14.279 --> 00:24:15.539
 What business

00:24:15.539 --> 00:24:16.000
 Have you

00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:16.299
 To be

00:24:16.299 --> 00:24:17.160
 Disquieted

00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:17.880
 You must

00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:18.580
 Turn on

00:24:18.580 --> 00:24:19.060
 Yourself

00:24:19.060 --> 00:24:19.799
 Upbraid

00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:20.380
 Yourself

00:24:20.380 --> 00:24:21.200
 Condemn

00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:21.640
 Yourself

00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:22.240
 Exhort

00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:22.779
 Yourself

00:24:22.779 --> 00:24:23.560
 And say

00:24:23.560 --> 00:24:24.180
 To yourself

00:24:24.180 --> 00:24:25.500
 Hope thou

00:24:25.500 --> 00:24:26.240
 In God

00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:27.120
 Instead of

00:24:27.120 --> 00:24:27.720
 Muttering in

00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:28.320
 This depressed

00:24:28.320 --> 00:24:29.180
 Unhappy way

00:24:29.180 --> 00:24:30.500
 And then

00:24:30.500 --> 00:24:30.980
 You must

00:24:30.980 --> 00:24:31.360
 Go on

00:24:31.360 --> 00:24:31.840
 To remind

00:24:31.840 --> 00:24:32.259
 Yourself

00:24:32.259 --> 00:24:32.740
 Of God

00:24:32.740 --> 00:24:33.620
 Who God

00:24:33.620 --> 00:24:33.920
 Is

00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:34.560
 And what

00:24:34.560 --> 00:24:35.080
 God is

00:24:35.080 --> 00:24:35.519
 And what

00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:35.960
 God has

00:24:35.960 --> 00:24:36.240
 Done

00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:37.019
 And what

00:24:37.019 --> 00:24:37.400
 God has

00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:37.799
 Pledged

00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:38.160
 Himself

00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:38.820
 To do

00:24:38.820 --> 00:24:40.460
 Then having

00:24:40.460 --> 00:24:41.059
 Done that

00:24:41.059 --> 00:24:41.980
 And on

00:24:41.980 --> 00:24:42.559
 This great

00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:42.900
 Note

00:24:42.900 --> 00:24:44.180
 Defy

00:24:44.180 --> 00:24:44.819
 Yourself

00:24:44.819 --> 00:24:46.039
 And defy

00:24:46.039 --> 00:24:46.720
 Other people

00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:47.720
 And defy

00:24:47.720 --> 00:24:48.180
 The devil

00:24:48.180 --> 00:24:48.680
 And the whole

00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:49.140
 World

00:24:49.140 --> 00:24:50.100
 And say

00:24:50.100 --> 00:24:50.640
 With the

00:24:50.640 --> 00:24:51.140
 Psalmist

00:24:51.140 --> 00:24:52.180
 I shall

00:24:52.180 --> 00:24:53.480
 Yet praise

00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:53.860
 Him

00:24:53.860 --> 00:24:54.860
 For the

00:24:54.860 --> 00:24:55.200
 Help of

00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:55.340
 His

00:24:55.340 --> 00:24:55.940
 Countenance

00:24:55.940 --> 00:24:56.559
 Who is

00:24:56.559 --> 00:24:57.220
 Also the

00:24:57.220 --> 00:24:57.740
 Health of

00:24:57.740 --> 00:24:58.000
 My

00:24:58.000 --> 00:24:58.660
 Countenance

00:24:58.660 --> 00:24:59.579
 And my

00:24:59.579 --> 00:25:00.019
 God

00:25:00.019 --> 00:25:01.279
 End quote

00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:04.420
 Don't

00:25:04.420 --> 00:25:05.259
 Just

00:25:05.259 --> 00:25:06.180
 Listen

00:25:06.180 --> 00:25:06.880
 To your

00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:07.380
 Doubts

00:25:07.380 --> 00:25:08.400
 And fears

00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:10.299
 Tell yourself

00:25:10.299 --> 00:25:11.059
 That God

00:25:11.059 --> 00:25:11.639
 Is sovereign

00:25:11.639 --> 00:25:12.720
 And good

00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:13.940
 And faithful

00:25:13.940 --> 00:25:15.099
 And true

00:25:15.099 --> 00:25:18.039
 Don't just

00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:18.480
 Listen

00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:19.059
 To your

00:25:19.059 --> 00:25:19.500
 Guilt

00:25:19.500 --> 00:25:20.559
 And self

00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:21.339
 Condemnation

00:25:21.339 --> 00:25:22.319
 Tell yourself

00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:22.720
 That where

00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:23.519
 Sin abounds

00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:24.680
 God's grace

00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:25.099
 Abounds

00:25:25.099 --> 00:25:25.879
 All the

00:25:25.879 --> 00:25:26.220
 More

00:25:26.220 --> 00:25:27.779
 Tell yourself

00:25:27.779 --> 00:25:28.299
 That Jesus

00:25:28.299 --> 00:25:29.039
 Died

00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:29.559
 On the

00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:29.759
 Cross

00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:30.500
 To justify

00:25:30.500 --> 00:25:31.460
 The unrighteous

00:25:31.460 --> 00:25:32.960
 Don't just

00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:33.440
 Listen

00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:34.019
 To your

00:25:34.019 --> 00:25:34.579
 Feeling

00:25:34.579 --> 00:25:35.579
 Of abandonment

00:25:35.579 --> 00:25:36.960
 And forsakenness

00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:38.680
 Tell yourself

00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:39.180
 That God

00:25:39.180 --> 00:25:39.900
 Has adopted

00:25:39.900 --> 00:25:40.360
 You

00:25:40.360 --> 00:25:40.819
 As his

00:25:40.819 --> 00:25:41.240
 Child

00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:42.059
 And that

00:25:42.059 --> 00:25:42.680
 He loves

00:25:42.680 --> 00:25:42.880
 You

00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:43.220
 With an

00:25:43.220 --> 00:25:43.840
 Everlasting

00:25:43.840 --> 00:25:44.240
 Love

00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:48.400
 Ever since

00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:49.160
 Alec

00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:50.000
 Coppin

00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:50.600
 Published

00:25:50.600 --> 00:25:51.180
 His article

00:25:51.180 --> 00:25:51.980
 The biochemistry

00:25:51.980 --> 00:25:52.600
 Of affective

00:25:52.600 --> 00:25:53.019
 Disorders

00:25:53.019 --> 00:25:53.400
 In the

00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:53.759
 Journal of

00:25:53.759 --> 00:25:54.299
 Psychiatry

00:25:54.299 --> 00:25:55.059
 In 1967

00:25:55.059 --> 00:25:57.019
 Many of

00:25:57.019 --> 00:25:57.360
 Us have

00:25:57.360 --> 00:25:57.860
 Been told

00:25:57.860 --> 00:25:58.519
 That depression

00:25:58.519 --> 00:26:00.079
 Is caused

00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:00.700
 By a chemical

00:26:00.700 --> 00:26:01.279
 Imbalance

00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:01.759
 In the brain

00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:03.120
 Particularly

00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:03.919
 Due to

00:26:03.919 --> 00:26:04.419
 Lowered

00:26:04.419 --> 00:26:05.000
 Serotonin

00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:05.500
 Levels

00:26:05.500 --> 00:26:07.199
 This idea

00:26:07.199 --> 00:26:08.259
 Was popularized

00:26:08.259 --> 00:26:09.219
 And publicized

00:26:09.219 --> 00:26:09.419
 In the

00:26:09.419 --> 00:26:09.919
 90s

00:26:09.919 --> 00:26:10.239
 With the

00:26:10.239 --> 00:26:10.619
 Advent

00:26:10.619 --> 00:26:10.979
 Of

00:26:10.979 --> 00:26:12.419
 Antidepressants

00:26:12.419 --> 00:26:12.899
 That increased

00:26:12.899 --> 00:26:13.479
 Levels of

00:26:13.479 --> 00:26:13.919
 Serotonin

00:26:13.919 --> 00:26:14.319
 In the brain

00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:15.039
 And it

00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:15.579
 Was pushed

00:26:15.579 --> 00:26:16.079
 Out

00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:17.119
 With a lot

00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:17.619
 Of money

00:26:17.619 --> 00:26:18.139
 Behind it

00:26:18.139 --> 00:26:18.919
 By the

00:26:18.919 --> 00:26:19.359
 Pharmaceutical

00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:19.939
 Companies

00:26:19.939 --> 00:26:21.219
 And it

00:26:21.219 --> 00:26:21.879
 Became the

00:26:21.879 --> 00:26:22.299
 Standard

00:26:22.299 --> 00:26:22.939
 Explanation

00:26:22.939 --> 00:26:23.379
 In English

00:26:23.379 --> 00:26:23.959
 Textbooks

00:26:23.959 --> 00:26:24.719
 And then

00:26:24.719 --> 00:26:25.159
 Surveys

00:26:25.159 --> 00:26:25.500
 Suggest

00:26:25.500 --> 00:26:26.339
 That 80%

00:26:26.339 --> 00:26:26.959
 Or more

00:26:26.959 --> 00:26:27.319
 Of the

00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:27.559
 General

00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:27.919
 Public

00:26:27.919 --> 00:26:28.279
 Still

00:26:28.279 --> 00:26:28.859
 Believes

00:26:28.859 --> 00:26:29.719
 That

00:26:29.719 --> 00:26:30.799
 The primary

00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:31.339
 Explanation

00:26:31.339 --> 00:26:31.879
 For depression

00:26:31.879 --> 00:26:32.639
 Is chemical

00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:33.259
 Imbalance

00:26:33.259 --> 00:26:33.940
 In the

00:26:33.940 --> 00:26:34.200
 Brain

00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:35.820
 However

00:26:35.820 --> 00:26:36.200
 This

00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:36.900
 Has been

00:26:36.900 --> 00:26:37.680
 Debunked

00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:38.240
 By more

00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:38.520
 Recent

00:26:38.520 --> 00:26:39.000
 Studies

00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:40.320
 For example

00:26:40.320 --> 00:26:40.780
 The article

00:26:40.780 --> 00:26:41.280
 Entitled

00:26:41.280 --> 00:26:41.980
 The serotonin

00:26:41.980 --> 00:26:42.420
 Theory of

00:26:42.420 --> 00:26:42.820
 Depression

00:26:42.820 --> 00:26:43.620
 A systematic

00:26:43.620 --> 00:26:44.340
 Umbrella

00:26:44.340 --> 00:26:44.700
 Review

00:26:44.700 --> 00:26:45.000
 Of the

00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:45.360
 Evidence

00:26:45.360 --> 00:26:45.640
 In the

00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:45.820
 Journal

00:26:45.820 --> 00:26:46.259
 Molecular

00:26:46.259 --> 00:26:46.900
 Psychiatry

00:26:46.900 --> 00:26:47.220
 Published

00:26:47.220 --> 00:26:47.920
 In 2022

00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:49.140
 Concludes

00:26:49.140 --> 00:26:49.400
 That there

00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:50.140
 Is no

00:26:50.140 --> 00:26:51.000
 Correlation

00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:52.320
 Let alone

00:26:52.320 --> 00:26:52.980
 Proof of

00:26:52.980 --> 00:26:53.640
 Causation

00:26:53.640 --> 00:26:54.259
 Between

00:26:54.259 --> 00:26:54.880
 Serotonin

00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:55.280
 Levels

00:26:55.280 --> 00:26:55.520
 And

00:26:55.520 --> 00:26:55.980
 Depression

00:26:55.980 --> 00:26:58.520
 This is

00:26:58.520 --> 00:26:59.100
 Not to

00:26:59.100 --> 00:26:59.800
 Say that

00:26:59.800 --> 00:27:00.620
 There cannot

00:27:00.620 --> 00:27:01.500
 Be physical

00:27:01.500 --> 00:27:02.060
 Causes

00:27:02.059 --> 00:27:02.799
 Of depressive

00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:03.359
 Symptoms

00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:04.679
 If you

00:27:04.679 --> 00:27:05.079
 Have

00:27:05.079 --> 00:27:05.579
 Food

00:27:05.579 --> 00:27:06.259
 Intolerance

00:27:06.259 --> 00:27:06.480
 Or

00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:07.220
 Thyroid

00:27:07.220 --> 00:27:07.759
 Problems

00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:07.940
 Or

00:27:07.940 --> 00:27:08.980
 You got

00:27:08.980 --> 00:27:09.379
 Infected

00:27:09.379 --> 00:27:09.879
 With mono

00:27:09.879 --> 00:27:10.559
 Or

00:27:10.559 --> 00:27:11.059
 You have

00:27:11.059 --> 00:27:11.419
 Chronic

00:27:11.419 --> 00:27:11.839
 Fatigue

00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:12.259
 Syndrome

00:27:12.259 --> 00:27:14.399
 Or if

00:27:14.399 --> 00:27:14.659
 You have

00:27:14.659 --> 00:27:15.440
 Postpartum

00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:15.700
 Or

00:27:15.700 --> 00:27:16.500
 Menopausal

00:27:16.500 --> 00:27:17.319
 Problems

00:27:17.319 --> 00:27:18.440
 These

00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:18.879
 Things

00:27:18.879 --> 00:27:20.200
 May very

00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:20.480
 Well

00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:21.099
 Contribute

00:27:21.099 --> 00:27:21.500
 To your

00:27:21.500 --> 00:27:22.000
 Feeling

00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:22.559
 Depressed

00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:23.299
 Depressed

00:27:23.299 --> 00:27:24.619
 But

00:27:24.619 --> 00:27:24.879
 These

00:27:24.879 --> 00:27:25.419
 Physical

00:27:25.419 --> 00:27:25.819
 Issues

00:27:25.819 --> 00:27:26.440
 Alone

00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:27.359
 Cannot

00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:27.919
 Wholly

00:27:27.919 --> 00:27:28.500
 Account

00:27:28.500 --> 00:27:28.819
 For

00:27:28.819 --> 00:27:29.240
 Depression

00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:29.980
 It's

00:27:29.980 --> 00:27:30.339
 Far

00:27:30.339 --> 00:27:30.559
 More

00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:31.019
 Complex

00:27:31.019 --> 00:27:31.220
 Than

00:27:31.220 --> 00:27:31.500
 That

00:27:31.500 --> 00:27:33.339
 And

00:27:33.339 --> 00:27:34.700
 The vast

00:27:34.700 --> 00:27:35.099
 Majority

00:27:35.099 --> 00:27:35.200
 Of

00:27:35.200 --> 00:27:35.500
 Cases

00:27:35.500 --> 00:27:36.200
 Always

00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:37.039
 Involve

00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:37.799
 How

00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:38.039
 We

00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:38.659
 Respond

00:27:38.659 --> 00:27:39.000
 To

00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:39.779
 And

00:27:39.779 --> 00:27:41.059
 Process

00:27:41.059 --> 00:27:42.099
 The

00:27:42.099 --> 00:27:42.639
 Losses

00:27:42.639 --> 00:27:42.759
 And

00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:42.899
 The

00:27:42.899 --> 00:27:43.259
 Stresses

00:27:43.259 --> 00:27:43.359
 Of

00:27:43.359 --> 00:27:43.480
 Our

00:27:43.480 --> 00:27:43.839
 Lives

00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:46.740
 What

00:27:46.740 --> 00:27:47.079
 Has

00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:47.259
 Been

00:27:47.259 --> 00:27:47.579
 Proven

00:27:47.579 --> 00:27:47.720
 To

00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:47.839
 Be

00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:48.359
 Effective

00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:48.679
 In

00:27:48.679 --> 00:27:49.339
 Helping

00:27:49.339 --> 00:27:49.659
 People

00:27:49.659 --> 00:27:49.799
 Who

00:27:49.799 --> 00:27:49.859
 Are

00:27:49.859 --> 00:27:50.220
 Depressed

00:27:50.220 --> 00:27:50.399
 Is

00:27:50.399 --> 00:27:50.659
 Actually

00:27:50.659 --> 00:27:50.819
 A

00:27:50.819 --> 00:27:51.000
 Form

00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:51.139
 Of

00:27:51.139 --> 00:27:51.460
 Talk

00:27:51.460 --> 00:27:51.899
 Therapy

00:27:51.899 --> 00:27:52.200
 Called

00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:52.899
 Cognitive

00:27:52.899 --> 00:27:53.519
 Behavioral

00:27:53.519 --> 00:27:53.960
 Therapy

00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:54.700
 Which

00:27:54.700 --> 00:27:55.179
 Focuses

00:27:55.179 --> 00:27:55.539
 On

00:27:55.539 --> 00:27:56.339
 Challenging

00:27:56.339 --> 00:27:56.919
 And

00:27:56.919 --> 00:27:57.240
 Thereby

00:27:57.240 --> 00:27:58.039
 Changing

00:27:58.039 --> 00:27:59.179
 Distorted

00:27:59.179 --> 00:27:59.559
 Thought

00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:00.039
 Patterns

00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:00.220
 And

00:28:00.220 --> 00:28:00.639
 Beliefs

00:28:00.639 --> 00:28:00.759
 In

00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:00.879
 Order

00:28:00.879 --> 00:28:01.019
 To

00:28:01.019 --> 00:28:01.399
 Improve

00:28:01.399 --> 00:28:01.960
 Emotional

00:28:01.960 --> 00:28:02.559
 Regulation

00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:02.919
 And

00:28:02.919 --> 00:28:03.279
 Reduce

00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:03.899
 Problematic

00:28:03.899 --> 00:28:04.480
 Behaviors

00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:05.859
 So

00:28:05.859 --> 00:28:06.460
 CBT

00:28:06.460 --> 00:28:06.879
 Nowadays

00:28:06.879 --> 00:28:07.099
 Is

00:28:07.099 --> 00:28:07.639
 Touted

00:28:07.639 --> 00:28:07.899
 By

00:28:07.899 --> 00:28:08.119
 A

00:28:08.119 --> 00:28:08.440
 Chorus

00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:08.700
 Of

00:28:08.700 --> 00:28:08.899
 Mental

00:28:11.059 --> 00:28:11.220
 Depression

00:28:11.220 --> 00:28:12.200
 Anxiety

00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:12.799
 Substance

00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:13.879
 Abuse

00:28:13.879 --> 00:28:14.299
 ADHD

00:28:14.299 --> 00:28:14.879
 OCD

00:28:14.879 --> 00:28:15.159
 And

00:28:15.159 --> 00:28:15.399
 Even

00:28:15.399 --> 00:28:15.659
 Eating

00:28:15.659 --> 00:28:16.119
 Disorders

00:28:16.119 --> 00:28:17.819
 But

00:28:17.819 --> 00:28:18.039
 This

00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:18.220
 Is

00:28:18.220 --> 00:28:18.519
 No

00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:19.139
 20th

00:28:19.139 --> 00:28:19.519
 Century

00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:20.720
 Invention

00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:22.879
 This

00:28:22.879 --> 00:28:23.039
 Is

00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:23.220
 What

00:28:23.220 --> 00:28:23.379
 The

00:28:23.379 --> 00:28:23.659
 Bible

00:28:23.659 --> 00:28:23.859
 Has

00:28:23.859 --> 00:28:23.980
 Been

00:28:23.980 --> 00:28:24.259
 Teaching

00:28:24.259 --> 00:28:24.500
 For

00:28:24.500 --> 00:28:25.960
 3,000

00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:26.740
 Years

00:28:26.740 --> 00:28:30.440
 So

00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:30.539
 I

00:28:30.539 --> 00:28:30.639
 Don't

00:28:30.639 --> 00:28:30.779
 Want

00:28:30.779 --> 00:28:30.859
 You

00:28:30.859 --> 00:28:30.980
 To

00:28:30.980 --> 00:28:31.220
 Believe

00:28:31.220 --> 00:28:31.419
 This

00:28:31.419 --> 00:28:31.799
 Because

00:28:31.799 --> 00:28:32.639
 CBT

00:28:32.639 --> 00:28:32.940
 Says

00:28:32.940 --> 00:28:33.079
 So

00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:33.259
 But

00:28:33.259 --> 00:28:33.659
 Because

00:28:33.659 --> 00:28:34.059
 The

00:28:34.059 --> 00:28:34.319
 Bible

00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:34.619
 Says

00:28:34.619 --> 00:28:34.899
 So

00:28:34.899 --> 00:28:36.299
 Cognitive

00:28:36.299 --> 00:28:36.679
 Behavioral

00:28:36.679 --> 00:28:37.000
 Therapy

00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:37.099
 Is

00:28:37.099 --> 00:28:37.259
 Just

00:28:37.259 --> 00:28:37.419
 A

00:28:37.419 --> 00:28:37.700
 Fancy

00:28:37.700 --> 00:28:38.000
 Name

00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:38.179
 For

00:28:38.179 --> 00:28:38.679
 Reminding

00:28:38.679 --> 00:28:39.240
 Yourself

00:28:39.240 --> 00:28:39.579
 Of

00:28:39.579 --> 00:28:39.700
 The

00:28:39.700 --> 00:28:40.159
 Truth

00:28:40.159 --> 00:28:41.039
 Of

00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:41.720
 Replacing

00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:42.339
 Lies

00:28:42.339 --> 00:28:42.680
 With

00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:42.859
 The

00:28:42.859 --> 00:28:43.259
 Truth

00:28:43.259 --> 00:28:43.680
 And

00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:43.799
 We'll

00:28:43.799 --> 00:28:43.940
 Put

00:28:43.940 --> 00:28:44.039
 It

00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:44.119
 To

00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:44.359
 Another

00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:44.559
 Way

00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:45.000
 Speaking

00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:45.279
 To

00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:45.859
 Yourself

00:28:45.859 --> 00:28:46.539
 Rather

00:28:46.539 --> 00:28:46.740
 Than

00:28:46.740 --> 00:28:47.059
 Listening

00:28:47.059 --> 00:28:47.259
 To

00:28:47.259 --> 00:28:47.720
 Yourself

00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:50.680
 To

00:28:50.680 --> 00:28:50.940
 Frame

00:28:50.940 --> 00:28:51.159
 It

00:28:51.159 --> 00:28:52.000
 Biblically

00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:52.460
 It's

00:28:52.460 --> 00:28:53.240
 Not

00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:53.480
 Being

00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:54.079
 Conformed

00:28:54.079 --> 00:28:54.240
 To

00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:54.420
 This

00:28:54.420 --> 00:28:54.639
 World

00:28:54.639 --> 00:28:54.819
 But

00:28:54.819 --> 00:28:55.039
 Being

00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:55.940
 Transformed

00:28:55.940 --> 00:28:56.460
 By

00:28:56.460 --> 00:28:56.619
 The

00:28:56.619 --> 00:28:57.319
 Renewal

00:28:57.319 --> 00:28:58.019
 Of

00:28:58.019 --> 00:28:58.599
 Our

00:28:58.599 --> 00:28:59.180
 Minds

00:28:59.180 --> 00:28:59.379
 As

00:28:59.379 --> 00:28:59.480
 It

00:28:59.480 --> 00:28:59.599
 Says

00:28:59.599 --> 00:28:59.740
 In

00:28:59.740 --> 00:28:59.980
 Romans

00:28:59.980 --> 00:29:00.379
 12

00:29:00.379 --> 00:29:00.720
 2

00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:02.579
 This

00:29:02.579 --> 00:29:02.720
 Is

00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:02.899
 Really

00:29:02.899 --> 00:29:03.259
 Important

00:29:03.259 --> 00:29:03.440
 I

00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:03.579
 Hope

00:29:03.579 --> 00:29:03.740
 You're

00:29:03.740 --> 00:29:04.000
 With

00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:04.200
 Me

00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:05.159
 Our

00:29:05.159 --> 00:29:05.899
 Feelings

00:29:05.899 --> 00:29:06.579
 Are

00:29:06.579 --> 00:29:06.980
 Not

00:29:06.980 --> 00:29:07.460
 An

00:29:07.460 --> 00:29:08.099
 Automatic

00:29:08.099 --> 00:29:09.139
 Inevitable

00:29:09.139 --> 00:29:09.700
 Result

00:29:09.700 --> 00:29:10.720
 Of

00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:10.920
 What

00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:11.440
 Happened

00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:11.620
 To

00:29:11.620 --> 00:29:11.960
 Us

00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:14.720
 Rather

00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:15.380
 Our

00:29:15.380 --> 00:29:15.880
 Feelings

00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:16.059
 Are

00:29:16.059 --> 00:29:16.100
 A

00:29:16.100 --> 00:29:16.720
 Result

00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:16.980
 Of

00:29:16.980 --> 00:29:17.200
 What

00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:17.440
 We

00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:17.940
 Tell

00:29:17.940 --> 00:29:18.160
 Our

00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:18.920
 Selves

00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:19.259
 About

00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:19.500
 What

00:29:19.500 --> 00:29:19.880
 Happened

00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:20.039
 To

00:29:20.039 --> 00:29:20.380
 Us

00:29:20.380 --> 00:29:23.039
 Our

00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:23.420
 Feelings

00:29:23.420 --> 00:29:23.539
 Are

00:29:23.539 --> 00:29:23.720
 Not

00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:24.039
 Merely

00:29:24.039 --> 00:29:24.180
 A

00:29:24.180 --> 00:29:24.640
 Response

00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:24.860
 To

00:29:24.860 --> 00:29:25.480
 Events

00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:27.640
 To

00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:28.480
 Our

00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:29.720
 Interpretation

00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:29.980
 Of

00:29:29.980 --> 00:29:30.380
 Events

00:29:30.380 --> 00:29:33.320
 This

00:29:33.320 --> 00:29:33.460
 Is

00:29:33.460 --> 00:29:33.680
 Why

00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:33.860
 Our

00:29:33.860 --> 00:29:34.180
 Mind

00:29:34.180 --> 00:29:34.340
 Is

00:29:34.340 --> 00:29:34.440
 A

00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:34.660
 Battle

00:29:34.660 --> 00:29:35.000
 Ground

00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:36.600
 So

00:29:36.600 --> 00:29:36.820
 Are

00:29:36.820 --> 00:29:36.980
 You

00:29:36.980 --> 00:29:37.380
 Giving

00:29:37.380 --> 00:29:37.660
 Your

00:29:37.660 --> 00:29:38.080
 Mind

00:29:38.080 --> 00:29:38.560
 Free

00:29:38.560 --> 00:29:39.020
 Rain

00:29:39.020 --> 00:29:39.440
 And

00:29:39.440 --> 00:29:39.800
 Listening

00:29:39.800 --> 00:29:40.040
 To

00:29:40.040 --> 00:29:40.160
 It

00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:40.640
 Idly

00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:42.520
 Or

00:29:42.520 --> 00:29:42.680
 Are

00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:42.840
 You

00:29:42.840 --> 00:29:43.380
 Speaking

00:29:43.380 --> 00:29:43.700
 To

00:29:43.700 --> 00:29:43.940
 It

00:29:43.940 --> 00:29:45.520
 When

00:29:45.520 --> 00:29:45.660
 The

00:29:45.660 --> 00:29:45.900
 World

00:29:45.900 --> 00:29:46.259
 Around

00:29:46.259 --> 00:29:46.540
 Us

00:29:46.540 --> 00:29:47.120
 Taunts

00:29:47.120 --> 00:29:47.820
 At

00:29:47.820 --> 00:29:48.040
 Us

00:29:48.040 --> 00:29:48.480
 Where

00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:48.820
 Is

00:29:48.820 --> 00:29:49.000
 Your

00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:49.240
 God

00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:49.500
 Yes

00:29:49.500 --> 00:29:49.660
 We

00:29:49.660 --> 00:29:49.800
 Need

00:29:49.800 --> 00:29:49.940
 To

00:29:49.940 --> 00:29:50.180
 Turn

00:29:50.180 --> 00:29:50.340
 To

00:29:50.340 --> 00:29:50.520
 God

00:29:50.520 --> 00:29:50.680
 And

00:29:50.680 --> 00:29:50.940
 Go

00:29:50.940 --> 00:29:51.200
 To

00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:51.420
 Him

00:29:51.420 --> 00:29:51.800
 And

00:29:51.800 --> 00:29:52.280
 Appeal

00:29:52.280 --> 00:29:52.440
 To

00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:52.640
 Him

00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:53.000
 Boldly

00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:53.340
 Why

00:29:53.340 --> 00:29:53.560
 Have

00:29:53.560 --> 00:29:53.660
 You

00:29:53.660 --> 00:29:54.060
 Forgotten

00:29:54.060 --> 00:29:54.280
 Me

00:29:54.279 --> 00:29:54.819
 Why

00:29:54.819 --> 00:29:55.119
 Have

00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:55.259
 You

00:29:55.259 --> 00:29:55.799
 Rejected

00:29:55.799 --> 00:29:55.980
 Me

00:29:55.980 --> 00:29:56.440
 But

00:29:56.440 --> 00:29:56.539
 We

00:29:56.539 --> 00:29:56.720
 Don't

00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:57.299
 Stop

00:29:57.299 --> 00:29:57.720
 At

00:29:57.720 --> 00:29:58.000
 Giving

00:29:58.000 --> 00:29:58.399
 Voice

00:29:58.399 --> 00:29:58.559
 To

00:29:58.559 --> 00:29:58.779
 Those

00:29:58.779 --> 00:29:59.059
 Raw

00:29:59.059 --> 00:29:59.639
 Feelings

00:29:59.639 --> 00:30:00.639
 We

00:30:00.639 --> 00:30:00.920
 Need

00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:01.039
 To

00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:01.379
 Continue

00:30:01.379 --> 00:30:01.619
 To

00:30:01.619 --> 00:30:02.139
 Process

00:30:02.139 --> 00:30:02.480
 Those

00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:02.960
 Feelings

00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:03.339
 And

00:30:03.339 --> 00:30:03.480
 We

00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:03.619
 Need

00:30:03.619 --> 00:30:03.759
 To

00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:04.240
 Speak

00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:04.440
 To

00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:05.000
 Ourselves

00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:07.420
 Why

00:30:07.420 --> 00:30:07.759
 Are

00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:07.960
 You

00:30:07.960 --> 00:30:08.460
 Cast

00:30:08.460 --> 00:30:08.940
 Down

00:30:08.940 --> 00:30:09.180
 Oh

00:30:09.180 --> 00:30:09.339
 My

00:30:09.339 --> 00:30:09.720
 Soul

00:30:09.720 --> 00:30:11.139
 Why

00:30:11.139 --> 00:30:11.339
 Are

00:30:11.339 --> 00:30:11.460
 You

00:30:11.460 --> 00:30:11.660
 In

00:30:11.660 --> 00:30:12.220
 Turmoil

00:30:12.220 --> 00:30:42.220


00:30:42.220 --> 00:30:51.940
 mercies new every morning? And isn't God's faithfulness great? Why do you catastrophize

00:30:51.940 --> 00:30:57.460
 and believe that your life is a disaster and that you can never get anything done or amount

00:30:57.460 --> 00:31:03.480
 to anything? Why do you believe that you can never overcome your besetting sins? Did not

00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:08.519
 God say that it is He who works in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure?

00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:16.480
 Did not God say in Jude 24 that He is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you

00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:22.619
 blameless before the presence of His glory with great joy? Why do you think that you are

00:31:22.619 --> 00:31:31.480
 ugly and unworthy of love? Did not God, your Creator, knit you in your mother's womb fearfully

00:31:31.480 --> 00:31:38.440
 and wonderfully? Why do you feel like you need to rearrange and reorder your

00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:44.519
 room compulsively or wash your clothes and bedsheets compulsively as if you have control over

00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:52.360
 everything in your life? Is not Christ the sovereign Lord in whom all things hold together even in

00:31:52.360 --> 00:32:00.120
 the midst of your disordered room and germ-infested world? Does God not say in Isaiah 45, 7-9,

00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:07.080
 I form light and create darkness. I make well-being and create calamity. I am the Lord who does all

00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:13.419
 these things. Woe to Him who strives with Him who formed Him, a pot among earth and pots. Does the

00:32:13.419 --> 00:32:21.000
 clay say to Him who forms it, what are you making? Or your work has no handles? Why do you think that

00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:29.839
 alcohol or THC or pornography will bring you happiness? Why do you think that you can manipulate

00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:37.059
 these idols for your own pleasure without coming under their power and rule? Does not Psalm 106, 36

00:32:37.059 --> 00:32:44.119
 teaches that idols become a snare to us? Does not Psalm 16, 11 teach us that fullness of joy is found

00:32:44.119 --> 00:32:53.519
 not in these substances or pleasures but in God's presence that at His right hand are pleasures forevermore?

00:32:53.519 --> 00:33:03.180
 Please don't hear what I'm not saying. I'm not saying that once you master this technique that you will

00:33:03.180 --> 00:33:11.079
 never be depressed again in your life. The Bible never offers false promises and that's not what we see in

00:33:11.079 --> 00:33:18.420
 Psalms 42, 43. Once again, there is this dialectic back and forth that we've seen in other Psalms of lament

00:33:18.420 --> 00:33:28.660
 between despair and hope, between what we feel and what we know, between what we see around us and

00:33:28.660 --> 00:33:37.440
 around my life and what we believe. The psalmist speaks to himself in chapter 42, verse 5,

00:33:37.560 --> 00:33:42.380
 why are you cast down, O my soul? Why are you in turmoil with me and within me? Hope in God,

00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:47.720
 for I shall again praise Him, my salvation in my God. But then shortly afterwards in verse 9,

00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:55.400
 he's back to saying, God, why have you forgotten me? Why do I go about mourning because of the

00:33:55.400 --> 00:34:04.420
 oppression of the enemy? So he has to speak to himself again in verse 11. Why are you cast down,

00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:10.639
 O my soul? Why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him,

00:34:10.980 --> 00:34:17.539
 my salvation in my God. But then you keep reading in Psalm 42, verse 2, Psalmist is,

00:34:17.539 --> 00:34:26.380
 back to saying, God, why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression

00:34:26.380 --> 00:34:35.920
 of the enemy? So the psalmist has to speak to himself yet again. So he repeats this three times

00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:42.920
 in the course of this psalm. Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you in turmoil within me?

00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:50.119
 Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him, my salvation and my God. And that's how the psalm ends.

00:34:51.559 --> 00:35:00.740
 There's no happy ending or resolution in that sense, but he keeps speaking to himself.

00:35:00.739 --> 00:35:11.639
 These psalms helpful remind us that even when we remind ourselves of God by speaking to ourselves,

00:35:11.779 --> 00:35:18.539
 the battle for our mind will continue throughout life. But if you don't speak to yourself with God's

00:35:18.539 --> 00:35:27.239
 truth, the lies that incubate your anxieties and addictions and self-hatred, etc., will consume you.

00:35:27.239 --> 00:35:35.779
 So when your soul is downcast within you, remember what 1 Corinthians 10, 13 says,

00:35:36.299 --> 00:35:43.779
 no temptation has overtaken you. That is not common to man. God is faithful and He will not let you be

00:35:43.779 --> 00:35:50.179
 tempted beyond your ability. But with the temptation, He will also provide a way of escape that you may be

00:35:50.179 --> 00:35:59.259
 able to endure it. First, when you are downcast, remember this is common to men. That's comforting

00:35:59.259 --> 00:36:04.179
 because it shows that you're not alone. So you can reach out to your brothers and sisters in Christ.

00:36:05.859 --> 00:36:13.299
 And second, when you are downcast, remember that God is faithful. He will help you. And He will not let you

00:36:13.300 --> 00:36:19.240
 be tempted beyond your ability. With every temptation, He promises to provide the way of escape.

00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:29.400
 And what is this escape? A pain-free, temptation-free, sinless life? No.

00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:41.820
 The escape is this. That you may be able to endure it. God provides the way of escape by providing you the

00:36:41.820 --> 00:36:49.119
 strength to endure. God will help you to endure through your grief. And God will help you to endure

00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:55.579
 through your fears. And God will help you to endure through your depression. So persist in remembering God

00:36:55.579 --> 00:37:00.380
 and persist and speak to yourself, why are you cast down, O my soul?

00:37:03.279 --> 00:37:07.039
 And as Christians, we have even better reason than the psalmist to hope in God.

00:37:07.779 --> 00:37:11.539
 To again praise Him, my salvation and my God.

00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:16.960
 When I was searching through the Old Testament, trying to figure out the meaning of the phrase

00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:25.319
 deep calls to deep, I came across an amazing parallel between Psalm 42 and Jonah's prayer in Jonah 2, 3-6.

00:37:25.579 --> 00:37:29.239
 From inside the belly of the fish, Jonah prays,

00:37:29.500 --> 00:37:35.860
 For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods surrounded me.

00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:40.179
 All your waves and your billows passed over me.

00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:44.019
 And that last phrase, all your waves and the billows passed over me,

00:37:44.099 --> 00:37:47.480
 in Hebrew is identical to Psalm 42, verse 7.

00:37:47.779 --> 00:37:51.219
 All your breakers and your waves have gone over me.

00:37:51.219 --> 00:37:54.739
 But that's not all. The parallels continue.

00:37:54.739 --> 00:37:56.099
 Jonah 2, 4-6 say,

00:37:56.519 --> 00:38:01.559
 Then I said, I am driven away from your sight, yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.

00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:05.179
 The waters closed in over me to take my life.

00:38:05.259 --> 00:38:06.659
 The deep surrounded me.

00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:09.579
 Weeds were wrapped about my head at the roots of the mountains.

00:38:09.799 --> 00:38:12.979
 I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever.

00:38:13.279 --> 00:38:16.399
 Yet you brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.

00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:23.139
 It seems like Prophet Jonah is deliberately echoing the words of Psalm 42 to describe his situation.

00:38:23.940 --> 00:38:29.260
 Just like the psalmist, he feels that he is driven away from God's sight and longs for the holy temple.

00:38:29.820 --> 00:38:35.220
 Just like the psalmist who feels like the floodwaters are swallowing him up at the roots of Mount Hermon and Mizar,

00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:39.260
 Jonah feels the waters closing in over him at the root of the mountains.

00:38:39.260 --> 00:38:44.720
 And just like the psalmist, Jonah prays with faith that God will bring up his life from the pit.

00:38:46.660 --> 00:38:51.460
 The psalms 42 and 43 then were ultimately fulfilled by Jesus.

00:38:52.120 --> 00:38:56.660
 Because Jesus said in Matthew 12, 40 that he himself is the sign of Jonah.

00:38:57.780 --> 00:38:58.180
 He said,

00:38:58.300 --> 00:39:02.140
 For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish,

00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:06.440
 so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:10.079
 Jesus went down to the deep.

00:39:11.579 --> 00:39:15.119
 When he died on the cross for our sins and was buried in the grave.

00:39:15.380 --> 00:39:21.220
 But he rose again on the third day having defeated sin and death so that we might receive salvation.

00:39:23.340 --> 00:39:30.760
 Jesus went down to the deep in our place so that we sinners do not have to.

00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:37.620
 And that means no matter how deeply painful our suffering,

00:39:38.120 --> 00:39:46.480
 we will never ever descend to that deep where Jesus had to go.

00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:54.260
 And in this way, Jesus is the ultimate answer to the psalmist's abiding hope in the Lord in Psalms 42 and 43.

00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:59.559
 Jesus is the reason why we can speak to our souls no matter what suffering comes our way.

00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:01.179
 Hope in God.

00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:03.480
 For I shall again praise him.

00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:04.699
 My salvation.

00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:06.500
 And my God.

00:40:06.500 --> 00:40:11.820
 The psalmist's prayer in verses 3 to 4 of chapter 43 were answered.

00:40:11.980 --> 00:40:14.239
 Send out your light and your truth.

00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:15.239
 Let them lead me.

00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:18.039
 Let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling.

00:40:18.579 --> 00:40:20.460
 Then I will go to the altar of God.

00:40:20.619 --> 00:40:22.119
 To God my exceeding joy.

00:40:22.380 --> 00:40:23.980
 And I will praise you with the lyre.

00:40:24.059 --> 00:40:25.440
 Oh God my God.

00:40:27.059 --> 00:40:28.119
 Who is the light?

00:40:28.340 --> 00:40:29.260
 Jesus said,

00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:30.360
 I am the light of the world.

00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:31.940
 Who is the truth?

00:40:31.940 --> 00:40:32.679
 Jesus said,

00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:34.420
 I am the truth.

00:40:34.420 --> 00:40:42.159
 God answered the psalmist's prayer by sending Jesus as the light and the truth to lead us into this age

00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:48.380
 when we ourselves as God's people have become the holy hill and the dwelling place of the spirit.

00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:54.119
 And so when our souls are cast down and we feel forgotten by God,

00:40:54.659 --> 00:40:57.480
 let's remember God and speak to our souls.

00:40:58.460 --> 00:41:00.059
 Why are you cast down?

00:41:00.539 --> 00:41:01.720
 Oh my soul.

00:41:02.220 --> 00:41:04.280
 Why are you in turmoil within me?

00:41:04.420 --> 00:41:06.780
 Hope in God.

00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:10.340
 For I shall again praise him.

00:41:11.079 --> 00:41:14.480
 My salvation and my God.

00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:16.360
 Let's pray together.

00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:16.400
 Let's pray together.

00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:30.579
 God,

00:41:31.340 --> 00:41:34.840
 breathe fresh faith and hope

00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:40.519
 into the hearts and souls of every single brother and sister in Christ here.

00:41:40.519 --> 00:41:52.659
 So that as they take on the difficult circumstances of their own lives,

00:41:53.259 --> 00:41:57.460
 of which only you know fully,

00:41:58.179 --> 00:42:03.019
 that they might be able to persevere,

00:42:04.099 --> 00:42:04.599
 endure,

00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:06.420
 in faith,

00:42:06.420 --> 00:42:06.440
 in faith,

00:42:07.539 --> 00:42:11.199
 preaching this gospel to themselves,

00:42:12.579 --> 00:42:13.839
 addressing their souls,

00:42:14.839 --> 00:42:19.000
 crying out to you in pain,

00:42:19.539 --> 00:42:30.139
 that we may know you are near,

00:42:30.139 --> 00:42:38.319
 and that we may bring you glory even in those circumstances.

00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:48.059
 Thank you for the gift of these psalms to us.

00:42:48.059 --> 00:42:50.980
 And for the saints who have gone before us,

00:42:51.019 --> 00:42:52.980
 they will endure tremendous suffering,

00:42:53.360 --> 00:42:55.739
 so that we can derive encouragement

00:42:55.739 --> 00:43:00.599
 from what they have written down for us.

00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:06.440
 what you have inspired them to write down for us.

00:43:09.759 --> 00:43:10.480
 Thank you, God.

00:43:11.079 --> 00:43:12.239
 In Jesus' name we pray.

00:43:12.860 --> 00:43:13.139
 Amen.