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 Psalm 123, a song of ascents.

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 To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens.

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 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,

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 as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress,

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 so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he has mercy on us.

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 Have mercy upon us, O Lord. Have mercy upon us.

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 For we have had more than enough of contempt.

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 Our soul has had more than enough of the scorn of those who are at ease,

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 of the contempt of the proud.

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 God, we pray that you would give us understanding,

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 that you would speak to us from your word.

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 Give us the humility to cry out for your mercy,

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 to look to your hand for provision, guidance.

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 In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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 So this psalm begins, it's a short psalm that packs a punch.

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 It begins in verse 1 with an individual profession of dependence on God.

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 To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens.

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 The word enthroned, of course, communicates God's security and authority.

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 When the nations rage, when the kingdoms totter, when earth shakes,

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 when pandemics strike, when the church is persecuted,

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 there is one thing that doesn't change,

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 and it's that God is enthroned in the heavens.

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 He has not been overthrown from his throne.

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 He has not lost his control over the universe.

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 He is ruling from heaven above.

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 And that truth alone, if we really grasp it and live according to it,

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 has so much power to provide peace and comfort to those who look to him.

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 But all we need to do, we do need to lift up our eyes, as it says here,

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 lift up our eyes, our eyes of faith to the king.

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 And this personal profession in verse 1 becomes a corporate profession

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 for the body of God's people.

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 In verse 2, you can see the pronouns change from I to we, from me to,

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 or from I to me, I and me to we and are.

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 And it says,

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 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,

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 as the eyes of a mate servant to the hand of her mistress,

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 so our eyes look to the Lord our God till he has mercy upon us.

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 Verses 1 to 2 have this mirroring A, B, B, A structure.

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 So you can see it says,

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 I lift up my eyes.

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 And then it says,

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 Eyes of servants look to the hand of their master.

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 And then eyes of a mate servant look to the hand of her mistress.

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 And then again, it says,

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 Our eyes look to the Lord.

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 You can see the structure.

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 And that structure highlights the repetition of the word eyes,

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 looking to the Lord.

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 And it emphasizes the relationship between our eyes and God's hands.

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 It's teaching us that we should lift up our eyes in faith

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 to the merciful hand of God, our king.

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 And it's the image that's being drawn here is of a household servant,

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 a domestic slave,

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 that is completely disposed to the provision of his or her master.

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 Because food comes from his master.

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 Compensation comes from his master.

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 Lodging comes from the hand of his master.

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 So similarly,

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 our eyes look to the merciful hand of God, our king.

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 I was thinking about,

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 I mean,

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 it's obviously not a perfect comparison,

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 but I think about dogs,

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 the way they look to their owners.

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 I mean,

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 they're like,

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 you bring a treat.

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 It's like,

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 it's pretty amazing.

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 It's like,

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 it has a spellbinding effect on the dog,

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 right?

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 It's like,

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 you can like,

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 and the dog's just looking to the hand of its owner to provide.

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 It knows that it is completely disposed to the will of its master.

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 And that's the kind of picture that's painting here of how we should be dependent on God and look to him to guide us and provide for us.

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 In his book,

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 Slave of Christ,

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 Marie Harris writes that a slave,

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 biblically speaking,

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 and the slave of Christ is,

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 is slave is someone who,

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 whose person and service belong wholly to another person.

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 And he says,

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 as Christ's purchased possession,

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 the Christian is wholly devoted to the person of the master.

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 As Christ's,

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 quote,

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 movable property,

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 the Christian is totally available for the master's use.

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 And,

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 and,

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 and that,

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 and he says,

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 kind of surveying kind of the biblical use of this image of the slave of God,

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 servant of God.

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 He argues that complete devotion to Christ includes three elements.

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 And first is humble submission to the person of Christ,

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 submission to God as Supreme Lord,

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 that he has absolute and exclusive right to our affection and energy now and forever.

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 Um,

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 and second is unquestioning obedience to the master's will.

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 Uh,

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 and it's,

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 it's a subjection of our will to God's,

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 uh,

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 uh,

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 and,

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 uh,

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 and we are to be obedient in the same way.

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 The first requirement,

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 uh,

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 of,

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 of a soldier that is enlisted is compliance with commands,

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 right?

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 It's,

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 it's the,

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 for the Christian,

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 uh,

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 there's absolute obedience,

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 unquestioning obedience to the master's will.

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 Uh,

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 third,

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 uh,

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 third element of being a slave of Christ is that it's an exclusionary,

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 inclusive preoccupation with pleasing Christ,

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 uh,

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 that we,

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 uh,

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 give satisfaction to our master,

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 not only by obeying him,

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 but also,

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 uh,

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 by,

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 uh,

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 I guess,

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 seeking to and devising creative ways to please him.

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 Uh,

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 we make it our ambition to be constantly pleasing him as this is in second Corinthians five,

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 verse nine.

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 Um,

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 and,

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 uh,

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 and that's the kind of picture that's being painted here of our eyes of the servants looking to the hands of their masters.

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 And so if I were to ask you,

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 in which direction are your eyes looking right now?

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 Uh,

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 are your eyes looking around at the circumstances and what's going on?

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 Are your eyes mostly looking inward at yourself?

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 Are you absorbed with yourself,

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 your own life?

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 Or are you looking up at your master's hand,

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 asking him to provide?

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 Do you see that God is enthroned above?

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 Uh,

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 and do you know what it's like to be completely dependent and completely disposed to the will of God,

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 our king,

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 our master?

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 And,

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 uh,

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 do you believe him enough to abandon yourself,

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 to throw yourself with abandon at his feet into his hands,

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 his care?

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 So that's the first part.

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 The first two verses talk about the mercy,

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 uh,

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 mercy of God.

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 Uh,

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 and the second half talks about the contempt of the proud,

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 verses three and four.

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 Um,

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 this is,

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 this is why our looking to God's mercy,

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 his provision through his hand is all the more necessary because we live in the midst of difficult circumstances.

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 It says in verses three to four,

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 have mercy upon us,

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 O Lord,

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 have mercy upon us,

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 for we have had more than enough of contempt.

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 Our soul has had more than enough of the scorn of those who are at ease,

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 of the contempt of the proud.

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 So verses three to four have this kind of terrace like AABB structure.

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 So it says,

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 have mercy on us,

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 repeats that,

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 have mercy on us.

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 And it says,

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 we have had more than enough contempt,

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 and repeats that again,

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 we have had more than enough scorn and contempt in verse four.

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 And so the repetition of the word contempt,

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 as well as the phrase more than enough,

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 kind of convey how kind of the people of God had their fill of scorn and content from their enemies,

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 from the enemies of God.

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 They,

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 they've had it.

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 They've had it up to their nose.

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 They've,

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 it's,

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 they're full.

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 They've,

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 they're,

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 can't stand it anymore because they've been so battered.

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 Uh,

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 they've been derided for their faith in God.

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 They've been persecuted for their good works.

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 They've been ridiculed for their righteousness.

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 And they're often the objects of scorn and contempt.

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 And so they're desperately crying out to God,

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 have mercy upon us,

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 Oh Lord,

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 have mercy upon us.

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 Um,

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 and that's the,

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 uh,

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 and this beautiful Psalm,

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 of course,

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 points to,

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 uh,

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 the great fulfillment of,

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 of all of scripture by Jesus.

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 And it speaks of the mercy of God,

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 mercy,

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 uh,

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 that is undeserved,

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 pardon,

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 forgiveness,

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 that is undeserved.

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 Uh,

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 and,

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 uh,

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 reminding of Ephesians 2,

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 where it says in verses 4 and following,

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 but God being rich in mercy,

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 because of the great love with which he loved us,

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 even when we were dead in our trespasses,

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 made us alive together with Christ,

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 by grace,

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 you have been saved,

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 and raised us up with him,

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 and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

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 Um,

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 it was God's mercy,

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 it was not,

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 God's justice.

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 That saves,

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 uh,

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 because,

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 uh,

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 it,

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 because if it were God's justice,

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 uh,

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 uh,

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 by which he dealt with us,

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 we would perish,

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 uh,

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 but he dealt us in his mercy,

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 uh,

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 in his grace,

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 uh,

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 and,

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 and,

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 and because he loved us,

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 he sent his son Jesus Christ to die for our sins,

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 and,

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 and all those who have the posture that's in the psalm of recognizing our absolute need and dependence on the hand of the master,

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 saying,

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 have mercy on us,

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 uh,

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 provide God.

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 Look,

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 we look to you.

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 People who have that humility,

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 people who have that faith,

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 those are the people that are saved,

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 uh,

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 by Jesus,

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 and,

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 and that's what it means to be a Christian.

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 Uh,

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 and as people who have done that,

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 uh,

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 uh,

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 we are to continue to live with this sense of,

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 uh,

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 uh,

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 constant devotion and dependence on God,

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 and,

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 uh,

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 and looking to him,

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 and to,

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 to protect us,

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 and guide us,

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 and provide for us,

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 uh,

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 and this was also exemplified by Christ in his life.

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 Uh,

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 1 Peter 2,

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 21 to 25 say this,

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 for to this you have been called,

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 because Christ also suffered for you,

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 leaving you an example,

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 so that you might follow in his steps.

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 He committed no sin,

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 neither was deceit found in his mouth.

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 When he was reviled,

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 he did not revile in return.

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 When he suffered,

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 he did not threaten,

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 but continued entrusting himself,

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 to him who judges justly.

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 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree,

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 that we might die to sin,

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 and live to righteousness.

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 By his wounds you have been healed,

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 for you were straying like sheep,

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 but have now returned to the shepherd,

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 and overseer of your souls.

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 Jesus didn't,

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 uh,

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 uh,

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 Jesus didn't fight for himself,

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 uh,

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 he was meek,

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 he was humble,

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 he entrusted himself to God,

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 uh,

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 he looked to the hand of his father,

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 um,

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 in faith,

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 uh,

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 and that's the posture we are to have as we live,

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 and,

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 and of course there's always a number of things in our own lives

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 that we can,

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 uh,

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 entrust ourselves to God for,

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 and,

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 uh,

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 whether it's,

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 um,

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 whether it's health,

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 whether it's your family situation,

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 whether it's your work,

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 or any difficulty you might face,

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 um,

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 let's try to cultivate that posture of humility and dependence on God

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 as this passage,

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 uh,

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 calls us to do,

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 as servants looking to the hand of our master for provision.

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