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 Psalm 119, verses 113 to 120.

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 I hate the double-minded, but I love your law.

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 You are my hiding place and my shield.

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 I hope in your word.

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 Depart from me, you evildoers,

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 that I might keep the commandments of my God.

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 Uphold me according to your promise,

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 that I may live,

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 and let me not be put to shame in my hope.

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 Hold me up that I may be safe

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 and have regard for your statutes continually.

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 You spurn all who go aside from your statutes,

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 for their cunning is in vain.

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 All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross,

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 therefore I love your testimonies.

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 My flesh trembles for fear of you,

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 and I am afraid of your judgments.

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 So this stanza is about how we should love God's word

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 because God upholds those who keep his word.

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 And so it opens in verse 113 with an affirmation of God's love,

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 I mean, our love for God's word, his law.

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 It says,

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 I hate the double-minded,

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 but I love your law.

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 So you can see the contrast there between hating the double-minded,

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 but loving God's law.

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 This is not,

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 this doesn't contradict Jesus' teaching in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5,

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 for example,

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 when he says,

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 love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

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 Because it's possible to hate evil for the evil that they do

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 and the evil that they represent,

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 but at the same time sincerely desire that they repent

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 and are forgiven and are restored, right?

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 And so what it's talking about here is in order to,

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 if you love God's law truly,

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 and if you desire to see God's law upheld

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 and see it fulfilled in practice,

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 then you, by necessary consequence,

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 hate the people who break God's law

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 and don't abide by God's law.

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 And evil doors are described in an interesting way here.

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 They're called double-minded,

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 which can also be translated half-hearted or divided.

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 So, and they're also described later in verse 118

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 as people who go astray from God's statutes

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 and for having cunning, right?

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 So these are,

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 these are all words that characterize evil doors

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 because sinners are, by definition,

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 people who are divided.

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 They are accountable to God

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 because they are created by God.

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 But they have other things

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 that they pledge allegiance to.

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 Their allegiances are divided.

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 They're half-hearted.

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 They're double-minded.

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 They're devious in their ways.

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 And they're cunning.

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 They practice deception.

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 They're duplicitous.

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 And this is contrasted throughout the stanza

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 with the singular devotion

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 that the psalmist has for God's word.

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 And he twice says that he hopes in God's word.

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 And it says in 116,

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 let me not be put to shame in my hope.

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 And it says, again, verse 114,

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 I hope in your word.

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 And that leads us to ask,

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 what is hope, right?

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 Because the word hope is used nowadays in,

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 you know,

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 in a way that's similar to kind of just wishing for something,

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 right?

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 I really hope I, you know,

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 get that job.

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 But I'm not sure.

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 It's like I wish I can get it, right?

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 I wish I can get that job.

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 It's like we use hope in the same way

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 I like wishful thinking

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 because it's something that's uncertain.

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 We say we hope for something that's not certain.

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 That's not the way the Bible uses hope.

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 The Christian hope is not something that's uncertain.

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 It's actually something that is certain

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 because God has promised it.

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 God has guaranteed it.

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 And so it's going to happen.

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 The difference is that it hasn't yet happened, right?

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 So that's what Romans 8, 24 to 25 talks about.

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 It says, for in this hope,

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 he's talking about the redemption of our bodies,

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 the full redemption of ourselves.

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 This is Romans 8, 24 to 25.

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 For in this hope, we were saved.

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 Now hope that is seen is not hope.

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 For who hopes for what he sees?

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 But if we hope for what we do not see,

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 we wait for it with patience.

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 So it refers to kind of patient waiting for something

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 that is definitely going to come.

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 Because we're still waiting for the return of the King

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 and for the consummation of the kingdom of God.

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 Not because our full redemption is uncertain,

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 but because our full redemption isn't here yet.

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 Right?

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 So that's what hope is.

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 And Christian hope looks like this.

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 We can see it in this stanza.

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 Verse 114.

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 You are my hiding place and my shield.

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 And it says in verse 117,

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 hold me up that I may be safe

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 and have regard for your statutes continually.

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 So a lot of words of protection and safety, right?

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 Hiding place, shield, and safe.

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 To hope in God is to make his word and God's promises

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 the things that we bank on and trust in.

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 It takes shelter.

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 And it means to make God's word our refuge.

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 So instead of resorting to devious ways like evildoers,

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 instead of resorting to sin, manipulation,

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 to take things into our own hands,

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 instead of trying to preserve ourselves,

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 protect ourselves,

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 it means to turn to God and his word for protection,

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 for safety, for refuge,

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 to wait on God's deliverance and vindication.

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 That's what Christian hope looks like.

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 And the psalmist here hopes because even though he knows this will happen,

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 but because it hasn't happened yet.

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 His deliverance hasn't come yet.

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 His vindication hasn't come yet.

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 And so he waits patiently and he prays to God,

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 uphold me according to your promise that I may live.

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 Hold me up that I may be safe

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 and have regard for your statutes continually.

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 He waits on God knowing that God's going to spurn,

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 as it says in verse 118,

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 all who go astray from your statutes.

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 And God's going to, it says in verse 119,

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 discard like dross all the wicked of the earth.

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 This is a metaphor from metallurgy.

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 So dross is like when you're melting precious metal, right?

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 It's the kind of mass of waste material

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 that just floats on the top.

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 It looks kind of like useless rocks,

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 in contrast to the melted precious metal.

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 So of course, you just discard that.

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 There's no use for that.

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 The whole point of the melting process

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 is used to burn off the dross so you can pour it out.

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 And so it's a really graphic image

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 that that's what God's going to do with the wicked.

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 There's going to be justice.

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 There's going to be judgment.

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 There's going to be started like dross.

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 And knowing that that vindication is coming,

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 the psalmist says,

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 I love your testimonies.

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 I love your law.

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 And so again,

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 I mentioned earlier that the psalmist began

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 with love for God's law.

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 Verse 113,

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 I love your law.

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 And now he concludes with his affirmation of love.

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 Again, verse 119,

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 therefore I love your testimonies.

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 He loves,

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 just as he loves God,

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 he loves God's word.

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 But that's not the final note.

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 He does add one further emotion

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 in his description of God's word.

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 Verse 120,

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 it says,

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 My flesh trembles for fear of you,

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 and I am afraid of your judgments.

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 It's easy to misunderstand this.

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 So it's,

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 the fear that is in view here

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 is not terror before a threat, right?

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 So there is fear that you feel,

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 like let's say there's a,

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 you know,

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 psychotic murderer in the school right now

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 that we're meeting at

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 and carrying,

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 you know,

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 these guns.

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 And like,

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 so there's this terror that you feel

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 from a threat,

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 right?

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 And that's not the kind of fear

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 that's in view here.

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 It's,

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 it's a fear that you might feel,

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 for example,

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 in the presence of

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 someone really authoritative

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 and powerful.

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 Maybe someone like the president,

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 right?

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 When you're in the presence

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 of such people,

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 you might feel nervous,

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 right?

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 You might shake even,

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 right?

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 Maybe it's this celebrity

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 that you really look up to,

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 or,

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 or it's like you might,

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 it,

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 you,

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 you,

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 you might tremble

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 in your presence.

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 And,

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 and God's holiness

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 is,

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 is such that you,

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 is that you

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 feel

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 fear.

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 In that sense,

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 you feel that reverence,

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 that awe before God.

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 And,

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 and that's kind of what this is talking about.

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 And this is not something that,

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 you know,

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 people that can't stomach the idea

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 of fearing God,

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 you know,

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 arbitrarily made up,

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 you know,

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 this distinction between fear

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 and reverence.

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 You guys?

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 Hmm.

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 It's actually a distinction

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 that scripture itself makes

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 in Exodus 20,

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 Exodus 20,

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 20,

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 for example.

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 It says,

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 do not fear.

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 This is when God appears

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 to the Israelites

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 and,

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 and he speaks to them

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 and,

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 and Moses reassures God's people

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 by saying this in Exodus 20,

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 20.

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 And it says,

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 do not fear,

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 for God has come to test you

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 that the fear of him

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 may be before you

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 that you may not sin.

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 Did you guys catch

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 the two instances of fear there?

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 Right.

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 So he's basically saying,

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 don't be fearful

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 because God has come

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 to make you fearful.

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 So he's using the,

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 the same word fear

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 in two different sense,

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 senses.

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 It says,

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 it's,

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 he means don't be afraid

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 because I'm not going to kill you.

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 You're not going to die

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 right now in my presence.

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 But remember this experience

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 so that you revere me

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 and stand in awe of me

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 for the rest of your life.

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 And that fear of me

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 keeps you from sinning.

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 So it's two different

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 types of fear.

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 So that,

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 this,

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 that second kind of fear

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 is what's in view here

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 when he says,

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 my flesh trembles

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 for fear of you

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 and I am afraid

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 of your judgments.

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 And the word judgment

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 here is the word

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 that's elsewhere

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 translated in this Psalm

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 as rule,

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 God's rule.

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 It's one of eight words

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 that the Psalmist,

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 the author of Psalm 119

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 uses for God's word,

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 for scripture.

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 So here,

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 it's not talking about

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 being afraid of being judged

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 by God.

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 He's saying that God's word

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 is his judgment.

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 It is his,

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 his rule.

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 It's his decision.

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 And,

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 and so he,

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 in the same way,

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 he reveres God's word

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 and fears God

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 and trembles before his presence.

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 He does the same

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 with God's word.

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 He says,

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 I fear,

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 I am afraid

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 of your judgment

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 because it's a holy book,

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 a book that is unlike

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 any other book

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 in which God himself speaks.

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 And so this word

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 that it speaks of here

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 is fulfilled by Jesus

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 because he's the,

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 he's the incarnate word.

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 He's the word,

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 the word of God

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 taken on flesh

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 and blood,

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 flesh and bone

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 of,

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 of humankind.

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 And,

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 and,

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 and scripture

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 is God's recorded,

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 record,

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 it's a record

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 of divine revelation

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 and,

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 and Jesus is God's

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 ultimate revelation.

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 So everything in scripture

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 points to him

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 and it's fulfilled

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 in him.

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 And so that's how

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 we can apply

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 the psalm to ourselves

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 is that,

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 because in truth,

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 we have all

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 gone astray

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 as this psalm

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 is talking about.

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 It's,

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 we have all

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 departed

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 from God's way,

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 gone astray

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 from God.

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 We're evildoers.

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 We have spurned,

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 we've been spurned

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 by God.

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 We are wicked

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 that should be

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 discarded like dross.

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 And that's the amazing

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 thing about the gospel

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 is you melt the metal,

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 right,

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 to pour out the dross.

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 But Father,

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 in his mysterious

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 providence,

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 decides to pour out

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 the precious metal

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 instead to save

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 the dross.

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 And,

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 and he pours out

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 Jesus on the cross.

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 He dies for us.

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 And in doing that,

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 we are declared

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 precious to him

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 and we are refined

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 like fine gold.

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 And so it is

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 in hoping in Jesus

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 as the same way

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 the psalmist talks

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 about hoping

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 in God's word

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 that we can rest

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 assured of God's promises,

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 rest assured of his

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 ultimate vindication

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 and judgment

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 and,

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 and live with

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 steadfast devotion

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 as the psalmist does.