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 Psalm 3, verses 1 to 8, I'll read it out loud for us.

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 O Lord, how many are my foes?

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 Many are rising against me.

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 Many are saying of my soul,

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 there is no salvation for him in God.

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 Selah.

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 But you, O Lord, are a shield about me,

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 my glory and the lifter of my head.

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 I cried aloud to the Lord,

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 and he answered me from his holy hill.

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 Selah.

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 I lay down and slept.

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 I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.

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 I will not be afraid of many thousands of people

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 who have set themselves against me all around.

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 Arise, O Lord, save me, O my God,

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 for you strike all my enemies on the cheek.

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 You break the teeth of the wicked.

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 Salvation belongs to the Lord.

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 Your blessing be on your people.

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 Selah.

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 So this psalm has what we call a superscription.

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 It has kind of a context for when this psalm was composed.

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 So it says at the top there, before verse 1,

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 a psalm of David when he fled from Absalom, his son.

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 So that could mean that David actually wrote the psalm

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 when he was fleeing from his son Absalom,

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 or it could be that it's a psalm that was written in the style of David,

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 reflecting on the time when he fled from Absalom.

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 But regardless of what the actual story is,

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 the psalm closely mirrors the events in 2 Samuel 16-19

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 when he's fleeing from his son Absalom.

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 And that's the very lowest point of David's life

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 and his reign as king.

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 So if you look at 2 Samuel in verses 11-12,

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 he had just committed adultery with Bathsheba.

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 That was kind of his spiritual fall.

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 And in the subsequent chapter, he's rebuked by prophet Nathan.

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 He's punished by God.

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 But then in the following chapter, 2 Samuel 13,

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 his son Amnon rapes his daughter,

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 who was basically Amnon's half-sister, Tamar.

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 So his son rapes his daughter.

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 And then Tamar's full brother Absalom is infuriated.

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 So he murders Amnon.

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 And so after that, because of his murder,

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 Absalom is alienated from his father.

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 So he's kind of exiled.

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 And later David brings him back.

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 And after he brings him back,

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 Absalom conspires against David

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 and basically overthrows him and takes over Jerusalem.

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 So I mean, this is really, really bad, right?

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 So he's committed adultery.

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 He's fallen spiritually.

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 His son's raping his own daughter.

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 His son is killing his other son.

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 And then now he's losing his kingdom.

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 And so as he's departing from Jerusalem,

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 crestfallen and covering his head in shame,

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 fleeing from Absalom,

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 a worthless man named Shimei comes to him to curse him.

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 And then he says, he throws stones at him.

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 And then this is what he says.

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 Actually, a servant of David's offers

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 to just go and cut his head off

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 to make him stop cursing David.

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 And then David says, no, this is what,

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 he says, behold, my own son seeks my life.

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 How much more now may this Benjaminite leave him alone

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 and let him curse, for the Lord has told him to.

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 So this is the absolute, like the lowest point, really,

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 of David's life that we see in the Bible.

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 And it is in that place this psalm comes to life.

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 Psalm comes to be composed.

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 And so even though many of us probably

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 are not in that kind of a place,

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 that kind of desperation,

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 it offers us a lot of encouragement and hope.

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 And it first points us to this desperate situation,

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 David's desperation,

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 and then it talks to us about the salvation

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 that comes from the Lord after that.

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 So if you look with me in verses 1 to 2,

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 it begins by saying,

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 O Lord, how many are my foes?

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 Many are rising against me.

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 Many are saying of my soul,

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 there is no salvation for him in God.

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 So there's a threefold repetition of the word many

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 to emphasize how many things and people are against David.

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 He's feeling overwhelmed,

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 and he's being tempted to despair,

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 and his enemies are taunting him,

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 saying there is no salvation for him in God.

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 And this is typical of the era in the Near East,

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 when they had warfare in the Near Eastern context.

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 Nations taunted one another,

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 saying your God or your gods have left you,

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 because they believed that gods

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 had a very significant role in warfare and the victory.

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 And so that was a standard way of taunting their enemies

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 at the onset of the battle,

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 saying your God has left you.

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 So that's basically what they're doing here.

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 There is no salvation for him in God.

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 And it's even with us,

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 when we have a difficult situation

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 or when we're opposed by people or enemies,

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 when we look at,

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 when we stare at the problems and the enemies,

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 and we fixate on them,

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 the problems seem to bloom larger,

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 and we become more desperate,

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 and we despair.

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 It's kind of like when the Israelites

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 spite out the promised land that God had promised them.

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 They come back and say,

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 oh, these people are huge.

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 They have huge walls up,

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 and the people of the Anakim are there.

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 But then Moses has to remind them,

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 but the Lord is going to fight for you.

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 Because when we look at the problem,

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 we lose hope.

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 But when we look at the Lord and what he has done,

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 then we gain hope.

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 That's precisely what David does next,

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 if you look at verses 4 to 5.

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 He says,

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 I cried aloud to the Lord,

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 and he answered me from his holy hill, Selah.

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 I lay down and slept.

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 I woke again,

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 for the Lord sustained me.

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 So, the two verses.

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 In verse 4,

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 at night,

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 David is crying out to God for help.

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 And he hears the Lord's answer.

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 And the answer comes from his holy hill,

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 which is the place where the Israelite kings were enthroned.

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 I mean, they were crowned king from the holy hill.

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 So, it's a place that reminds them of God's faithfulness

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 and promise of the kingdom.

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 So, I mean, if we think about people trying to kill us,

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 I mean, that's a very natural,

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 naturally, you know, insomnia-inducing circumstance.

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 I mean, you can't sleep when you think

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 that people are trying to kill you,

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 people are after you.

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 But even in that context,

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 David, after crying out to him,

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 he's able to sleep

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 because he's placing his trust in him.

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 So, he sleeps,

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 and he wakes again,

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 knowing that the Lord sustained me.

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 And if you look at the psalm,

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 there's a beautiful symmetry here

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 where it's a chiastic structure.

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 So, that verses 1 to 2

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 correspond with verses 7 to 8,

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 3 with 6,

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 and then 4 with 5.

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 And you can see this.

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 So, for example, verses 1 to 2,

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 it says,

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 many foes rise.

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 It says they rise up.

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 And it says there's no salvation.

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 And then if you look at the corresponding verses

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 at the end,

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 verse 7 and 8,

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 it says,

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 the one Lord rises,

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 right?

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 And then salvation belongs to him.

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 So, same language,

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 same word rise,

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 same word salvation.

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 And then,

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 verse 3,

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 it says,

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 the Lord is the shield about him.

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 And then for that reason,

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 in verse 6,

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 it says,

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 he's not afraid

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 when enemies are arrayed around him.

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 And the reason why he doesn't fear

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 when the enemies surround him

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 is because the Lord is the shield about him.

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 And then verses 4 and 5,

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 he cries out to the Lord

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 in verse 4,

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 and because of that,

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 because of God's answer in verse 5,

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 he's able to sleep and awake.

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 So, there's a beautiful symmetry here

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 of the desperation of David

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 crying out to God

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 and the answer that comes from the Lord.

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 He's the one

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 that is able to deliver him,

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 save him,

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 rise on his behalf

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 to fight off

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 the many foes that he has.

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 And no matter how many they may be,

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 the one Lord that he has,

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 the one Lord that rises on his behalf,

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 is able to take care of him.

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 There is no deficiency

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 in the Lord's help.

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 And this phrase, too,

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 in verse 7 and 9,

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 when he says,

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 arise, O Lord,

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 that's also warfare.

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 It's a war cry.

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 Because when Israelites

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 went to battle

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 against the nations,

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 they took the ark of the Lord

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 with them,

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 and the ark of the Lord

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 represented the presence of God,

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 and so the ark would go before them,

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 and then they would say,

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 rise up, O Lord,

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 and let your enemies be scattered.

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 Let them that hate you

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 flee before you.

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 So, that was a typical war cry

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 that Israelites had.

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 So, this language

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 of calling on the Lord

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 to rise up,

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 to go before him,

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 again,

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 is that warfare language.

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 And the Lord does deliver.

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 He comes,

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 and it says,

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 it says in verses 7 and 8,

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 that he will strike

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 all my enemies

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 on the cheek.

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 You break the teeth

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 of the wicked.

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 It's pretty graphic, right?

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 But the word cheek

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 is also the same word

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 for jaw.

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 In other parts,

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 for example,

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 Book of Judges,

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 it's translated jaw,

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 the same word.

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 And so,

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 what it's really referring to

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 is it's just a graphic way,

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 a metaphorical way

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 of talking about

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 God silencing his enemies.

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 because you break their teeth,

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 you hit their jaw,

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 they're not able

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 to speak anymore.

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 The mouth,

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 where their taunting came,

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 the mouth from which

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 they mocked and scorned

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 God's king

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 and God himself,

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 they're going to be silenced.

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 They're going to be

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 unable to speak anymore.

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 It's the Lord

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 delivering David.

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 And then,

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 the final verse,

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 salvation belongs

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 to the Lord.

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 The enemies

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 have taunted them,

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 saying,

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 there is no salvation

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 for him in God,

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 but God is,

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 but he's able

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 to declare in faith

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 again at verse 8.

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 Salvation belongs

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 to the Lord,

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 your blessing be

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 on your people.

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 And,

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 of course,

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 most of us

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 are not dealing

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 with physical enemies

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 at this point,

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 people who are after us.

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 But,

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 all of us

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 are dealing

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 with spiritual enemies.

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 And,

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 the New Testament

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 consistently transforms

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 the warfare language

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 in the Old Testament

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 to refer to

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 spiritual warfare.

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 And,

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 not only in the New Testament,

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 but even in the Old Testament

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 itself,

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 this psalm

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 was adopted

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 for the spiritual,

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 the daily spiritual

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 needs of the people.

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 And,

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 that's why

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 it's a psalm.

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 It's called a psalm,

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 right?

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 That means it was

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 accompanied by music.

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 It was used

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 in the worship

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 of Israel.

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 And,

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 not only that,

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 you also see

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 the kind of

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 the Selah.

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 You've seen that

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 three times.

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 Most,

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 we don't know

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 exactly what that means,

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 but most people agree

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 that it's some kind

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 of a musical notation,

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 referring to an interlude

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 or great.

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 Or,

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 it could come from

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 a Hebrew word

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 that says

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 Salah,

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 which means

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 to raise up.

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 So,

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 it could mean

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 something like

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 raise up the volume

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 or sing louder

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 or something like that.

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 So,

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 that again

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 shows the fact

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 that it's not

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 just a psalm

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 that David himself

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 used for his

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 personal purposes

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 when he was

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 fleeing from Absalom,

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 but Israel,

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 the people of God

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 adopted it for themselves,

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 adapted it for their worship,

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 remembering that

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 in their daily battles,

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 in their spiritual life,

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 that the Lord

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 fights for them,

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 that salvation

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 comes from him.

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 And so,

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 maybe some of you

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 feel grieved

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 by the sins

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 that you see

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 in your own life,

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 maybe the sins

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 of others around you,

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 maybe you're overwhelmed

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 by the temptations

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 you face,

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 maybe a besetting sin

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 that you've been

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 dealing with

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 for a long time,

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 or maybe you're

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 just weighed down

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 with guilt,

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 the accusations

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 of the devil,

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 saying that you

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 are not good enough,

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 you are,

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 the Lord does not

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 love you,

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 you do not have

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 his favor

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 because of what

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 you have done.

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 But when

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 these doubts come,

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 these accusations come,

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 when the taunting

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 of the enemy,

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 our enemy of our soul

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 never comes,

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 saying there is

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 no salvation for us,

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 remember the verse,

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 there is,

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 the salvation

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 belongs to the Lord.

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 And salvation

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 is the word,

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 it's Yeshua,

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 it's the word

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 that we get

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 the name Joshua

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 and Jesus from.

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 And of course,

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 the ultimate salvation

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 that we have,

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 it's far more

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 than a military deliverance,

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 it's redemption,

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 salvation that comes

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 through Jesus Christ.

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 Because he decisively

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 and finally

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 crushes our enemy,

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 the enemies of our soul,

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 the world of flesh,

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 and the devil.

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 So he rescues us

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 from our guilt,

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 he delivers us

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 from death,

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 he reassures us

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 by his spirit

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 when we are accused

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 and weighed down

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 with guilt.

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 And so salvation

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 belongs to the Lord

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 and I hope

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 that you guys

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 all remember this.

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 And remember this truth

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 and rest in God

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 when you feel

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 that you're being assailed

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 by the enemy,

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 knowing that salvation

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 belongs ultimately

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 to our God.

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 So with that,

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 let's pray.

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 Let's pray.

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 Let's pray.

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 Let's pray.