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 This morning, we're taking a one week break from our exposition of the book of Hebrews to begin what we purpose to make a periodically presented series on the gospel and counseling.

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 We have much opportunity as a church of the living God to make him known in the world through the careful application of the gospel to the daily struggles of this life.

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 Beloved, we have chance to walk through the world differently than others, that we might be able to speak to them of the hope that we have.

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 This, of course, does not preclude gospel proclamation, but it should accompany it.

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 It should give us a platform from which to speak the gospel truth.

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 So today's sermon, as I very rarely do, but is entitled The Gospel and Your Sorrow.

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 Each of us have and will experience sorrow in some measure in this life.

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 Some of us have a greater propensity toward it than others, but it is inevitable that fallen people living in a fallen world will, from time to time,

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 feel the weightiness of the reality in which we live.

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 I hope two things for our time together this morning.

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 First, that you will have a clear understanding of your personal sorrow and be better equipped to battle for your joy.

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 I recognize that some of you might be feeling sorrowful even this morning.

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 Some of you may not.

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 If you are feeling sorrowful this morning, I hope this will be an aid to you.

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 If you're not, I hope it will be a future aid to you.

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 Secondly, that you will have a clear understanding of another's sorrow and be better equipped to battle for their joy.

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 This is why the title of the gospel and your sorrow is applicable in either case, whether you're experiencing sorrow or someone else is experiencing sorrow.

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 Beloved, we are instructed to love one another.

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 And Paul tells us in Galatians chapter six and verse two, that if we love one another, we will bear one another's burdens.

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 And in Romans chapter 12 and verse 15, we're instructed to rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep.

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 Now, I know that I could fake rejoicing.

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 I think it's possible that I could put on the outward expression of rejoicing, although I don't think this is what Paul is instructing us to.

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 But I can tell you this, that for me to weep with someone who is weeping means that I am going to experience their sorrow.

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 I'm going to make their sorrow my sorrow because we are members of one another.

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 We are to take on the joy of others and we are to take on the sorrow of others.

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 If you are in relationship with other people and you are in any way modeling Christ likeness, you are going to be asked to give advice.

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 People are going to ask you for help.

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 They're asking you for counsel.

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 You should aim to give biblical answers to spiritual problems.

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 As a culture, we are a psychologized culture.

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 We have lots of influence around us telling us the way that we should go.

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 And too often when confronted with spiritual problems, we are quick to give the world's answers.

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 Out of a genuine desire to be helpful, we are quick to give answers that are not ultimately and finally helpful at all.

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 So we need to know how to give good counsel.

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 Whether you consider yourself a counselor or not, you will give counsel in your life.

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 So we are going to look this morning at Psalm 77.

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 This is a psalm of Asaph, a songwriter.

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 Some of my favorite psalms are psalms of Asaph.

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 You will find within this psalm the Hebrew phrase, Salah.

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 And we don't know exactly what this means.

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 It's widely understood to be some kind of musical direction.

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 Most agree it's probably meant to be a pause, an interlude.

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 So imagine the lyre and the harp playing for a bit in that gap.

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 And I'm telling you this simply to say I'm going to pause for a moment when you see that word.

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 Before I begin reading in verse 1, let me remind you, beloved, that this is God's word to us.

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 It was written for his glory and our good.

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 We would all do well to listen to it in order to believe its promises and obey its commands.

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 I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, and he will hear me.

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 In the day of my trouble, I seek the Lord.

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 In the night, my hand is stretched out without wearying.

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 My soul refuses to be comforted.

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 When I remember God, I moan.

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 When I meditate, my spirit faints.

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 You hold my eyelids open.

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 I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

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 I consider the days of old, the years long ago.

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 I said, let me remember my song in the night.

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 Let me meditate in my heart.

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 Then my spirit made a diligent search.

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 Will the Lord spurn forever and never again be favorable?

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 Has his steadfast love forever ceased?

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 Are his promises at an end for all time?

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 Has God forgotten to be gracious?

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 Has he in anger shut up his compassion?

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 Then I said, I will appeal to this, to the years of the right hand of the Most High.

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 I will remember the deeds of the Lord.

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 Yes, I will remember your wonders of old.

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 I will ponder all your work and meditate on your mighty deeds.

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 Your way, O God, is holy.

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 What God is great like our God?

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 You are the God who works wonders.

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 You have made known your might among the peoples.

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 You, with your arm, redeemed your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph.

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 When the waters saw you, O God.

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 When the waters saw you, they were afraid.

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 Indeed, the deep trembled.

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 The clouds poured out water.

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 The skies gave forth thunder.

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 Your arrows flashed on every side.

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 The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind.

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 Your lightnings lighted up the world.

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 The earth trembled and shook.

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 Your way was through the sea.

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 Your path through the great waters.

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 Yet your footprints were unseen.

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 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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 I would like to begin our study this morning

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 by helping you see the commonality of sorrow

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 in the life of our culture and of our church.

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 I will tell you this morning,

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 I personally struggle most with sorrow.

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 This is the emotion I struggle most with.

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 For some, they may be inclined to struggles with anxiety

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 or struggles with anger.

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 But for me, my greatest emotional struggle

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 is with sorrow or depression.

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 I emotionally find myself very often fighting for joy.

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 Sorrow just seems to creep up on me.

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 And I suddenly find myself feeling bummed out

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 for no particular reason whatsoever.

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 And I have to fight for joy.

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 I think because of my great desire

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 to see the proverbial glass filled to the very brim.

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 I think I have a glass.

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 Yep, I do have a glass.

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 Unplanned illustration, right?

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 I so want to see the glass filled to the brim,

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 overflowing,

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 that I focus far too much on the empty space.

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 This glass is not half empty,

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 but you get the point.

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 And I neglect altogether

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 all of the liquid in the glass.

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 Just ignore the filled portion altogether.

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 I'm very concerned about the space

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 that exists in that spot.

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 I think as I desire to see the kingdom of God

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 come to pass in the world,

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 I particularly feel the tensions

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 of why we're not in that place.

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 The weight of sin bears on me heavy.

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 I am not alone in this.

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 Depression is the single topic

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 I give the most counsel for.

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 Sometimes people don't know

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 that's what they're coming to me for counsel for,

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 but we find that they're finding themselves

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 in a particular place of sorrow.

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 Antidepressants, as a category of medication,

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 are the number one prescribed medication in America.

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 And I'm not currently commenting on the medication itself.

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 I may not have time to this morning,

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 but merely the rampancy of sorrow in our country.

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 So many people who are seeking help

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 because they are sad.

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 Many of our church heroes struggled

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 with what they most often called melancholy.

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 As you read around,

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 it's a deep sorrow.

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 It's a besetting sorrow.

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 It's what we would commonly call depression in our day.

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 From Luther to Calvin to Spurgeon.

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 Spurgeon once wrote,

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 the mind can descend far lower than the body,

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 for in it there are bottomless pits.

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 The flesh can bear only a certain number of wounds

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 and no more.

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 But the soul can bleed in 10,000 ways

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 and die over and over again each hour.

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 And he was a man that experienced great anguish

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 for reasons explained and for unexplained reasons.

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 Sorrow is more common than I think

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 that we would like to admit.

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 We've become very accustomed

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 to put on our Sunday best

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 and deal with each other

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 in a way that I like to call plastic.

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 Fake.

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 Because we feel a pressure to do so.

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 I'm really grateful that many of you now

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 on a Sunday morning,

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 when I say,

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 how are you doing?

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 You'll say,

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 not that great.

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 And of course my impulse

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 is that I want to help you.

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 And so in the past,

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 I haven't felt convenienced by that

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 because I don't have time

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 in that moment to help you.

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 But I'm so glad for the honesty.

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 And now if you ever say that to me,

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 I'll say,

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 well I am really glad you're here.

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 Good place for you to be

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 when you're not doing that great.

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 And I'll be sure to follow up with you

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 later.

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 As a church maturing,

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 right,

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 growing up as a church,

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 we noticed across time

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 that our gatherings

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 did not leave much space

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 for sorrow.

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 I particularly noted this

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 when some members of our church

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 lost an in utero baby,

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 still born.

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 And I preached the funeral

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 of that baby.

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 And I thought,

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 how do I give comfort

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 the following day?

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 That Sunday morning.

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 Will they come

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 and will they join us?

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 And will everything

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 just be cheery and happy?

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 Or will they feel like

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 they've got a spot

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 that we could grieve together

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 through that process?

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 And I think in many ways

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 we've been working

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 to rectify that.

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 Some of that is expressed

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 in the way we pray.

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 Much of it is expressed

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 in the songs

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 that we sing.

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 We should be very thankful

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 for old saints

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 who wrote

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 five verse hymns.

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 If you only ever sing

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 the first,

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 the second,

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 and the fifth,

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 you miss the couple of verses

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 that are about this life.

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 And the trouble

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 of this life.

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 You begin to pay attention

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 to many of the songs

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 we sing.

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 I know they begin

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 to feel long,

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 but it's expressing

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 the totality

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 of the Christian experience.

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 Right?

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 Being both called

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 and justified

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 and then sanctified

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 growing up in Christ-likeness

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 in this world

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 and then finally

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 fully glorified.

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 But we still have work

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 to do

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 in this area.

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 We will not be able

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 to answer

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 all of the possible

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 questions

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 that will arise

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 this morning.

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 There's just not enough

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 time for it.

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 But as we consider

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 how to love each other

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 well through sorrow,

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 I hope

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 that our study

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 will at least

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 get us started.

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 We'll skip a stone

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 off the surface

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 that we might continue

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 to study

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 and learn

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 together

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 about what it means

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 for us as a church

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 to weep

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 with those who weep.

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 So my outline

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 this morning

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 is simple.

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 It has three points.

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 I'm going to give them

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 to you before I begin

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 speaking about the first one.

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 Number one,

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 the Bible

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 affirms

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 sorrow

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 as normative.

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 The Bible

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 affirms

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 sorrow

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 as normative.

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 Second,

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 the Bible

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 gives us

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 language

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 for our sorrow.

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 The Bible

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 gives us

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 language

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 for our sorrow.

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 The glass

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 is less full

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 now.

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 number three,

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 the Bible

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 gives us

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 relief

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 from our sorrow.

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 Number one,

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 the Bible

00:16:01.820 --> 00:16:02.419
 affirms

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 sorrow

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 as normative.

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 This morning

00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:06.139
 we have

00:16:06.139 --> 00:16:07.080
 opened before us

00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:08.379
 a song

00:16:08.379 --> 00:16:09.139
 of

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 lament.

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 In fact,

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 over a third

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 of the Bible's

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 inspired songbook

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 is made up

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 of such psalms.

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 Over a third

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 of the psalms

00:16:21.819 --> 00:16:22.759
 are psalms

00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:23.500
 of

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 lament.

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 And,

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 there's an entire book

00:16:27.259 --> 00:16:27.959
 called the book

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 of

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 lamentations.

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 In a new book

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 I will come in to you

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 by Mark

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 Vrogop,

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 I think I'm pronouncing

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 that correct,

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 entitled

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 Dark Clouds

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 Deep Mercy.

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 He defines

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 lament

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 this way.

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 Lament

00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:42.480
 is the

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 honest cry

00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:44.939
 of a hurting

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 heart

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 wrestling

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 with the

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 paradox

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 of pain

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 and the

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 promise

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 of God's

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 goodness.

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 Lament

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 is what

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 we do

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 with

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 this gap

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 that's

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 experienced

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 between

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 what's going

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 on in our

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 lives when

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 we're hurting

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 and in the

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 full and

00:17:07.420 --> 00:17:08.339
 final promises

00:17:08.339 --> 00:17:08.960
 of God

00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:09.900
 to be good

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 to his

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 people.

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 It's that

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 stretching,

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 it's that

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 pulling

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 in between.

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 The

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 biblical

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 authors

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 felt

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 that

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 gap

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 between

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 the

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 way

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 things

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 were

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 for

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 them

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 and

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 the

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 way

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 they

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 thought

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 they

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 ought

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 to

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 be.

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 Our

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 Lord

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 and

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 Savior

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 is said

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 to be

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 a man

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 of

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 suffering

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 and

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 acquainted

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 with

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 grief,

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 sorrow.

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 In

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 Isaiah

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 chapter 53

00:17:39.460 --> 00:17:39.960
 in verse

00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:41.080
 3.

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 When

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 Jesus

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 sees

00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:44.540
 the sorrow

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 of

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 Lazarus'

00:17:45.540 --> 00:17:46.000
 sister

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 at his

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 passing,

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 John

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 11

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 35

00:17:48.860 --> 00:17:49.840
 tells us

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 Jesus

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 wept.

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 He was

00:17:54.019 --> 00:17:54.240
 not

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 disconnected

00:17:54.940 --> 00:17:55.480
 from

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 that

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 gap.

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 If there

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 was ever

00:17:58.860 --> 00:17:59.400
 a man

00:17:59.400 --> 00:17:59.780
 who could

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 realize

00:18:00.820 --> 00:18:01.860
 the good

00:18:01.860 --> 00:18:02.280
 promises

00:18:02.280 --> 00:18:02.980
 of God

00:18:02.980 --> 00:18:03.700
 as he

00:18:03.700 --> 00:18:04.240
 was the

00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:04.820
 fulfillment

00:18:04.820 --> 00:18:05.660
 of God's

00:18:05.660 --> 00:18:06.460
 promises,

00:18:07.100 --> 00:18:07.600
 it was

00:18:07.600 --> 00:18:07.960
 Jesus.

00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:09.259
 In the

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 case of

00:18:09.580 --> 00:18:10.240
 Lazarus,

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 he knew

00:18:10.900 --> 00:18:11.420
 full well

00:18:11.420 --> 00:18:11.640
 that he

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 was about

00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:12.360
 to raise

00:18:12.360 --> 00:18:12.640
 him

00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:13.100
 from

00:18:13.100 --> 00:18:13.259
 the

00:18:13.259 --> 00:18:13.600
 dead,

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 but he

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 felt

00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:15.980
 the pain

00:18:15.980 --> 00:18:16.900
 of a

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 world

00:18:17.360 --> 00:18:17.680
 that is

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 not

00:18:18.180 --> 00:18:19.220
 as it

00:18:19.220 --> 00:18:20.120
 should

00:18:20.120 --> 00:18:20.460
 be.

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 A world

00:18:21.420 --> 00:18:22.180
 being

00:18:22.180 --> 00:18:22.820
 restored,

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 but not

00:18:23.539 --> 00:18:24.560
 yet

00:18:24.560 --> 00:18:26.460
 restored.

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 Now we

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 must be

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 careful at

00:18:29.740 --> 00:18:30.220
 this point

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 because just

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 because sorrow

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 is shown

00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:34.180
 as normative

00:18:34.180 --> 00:18:34.480
 in the

00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:34.779
 scripture

00:18:34.779 --> 00:18:35.920
 does not

00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:36.799
 make all

00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:37.360
 sorrow

00:18:37.360 --> 00:18:38.420
 okay.

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 Some

00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:40.440
 sorrow

00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:41.059
 is

00:18:41.059 --> 00:18:42.400
 sinful

00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:43.360
 sorrow.

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 Not all

00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:45.200
 sorrow is

00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:45.480
 sin,

00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:46.519
 but it

00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:47.000
 can be

00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:47.380
 caused

00:18:47.380 --> 00:18:48.059
 by sin,

00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:49.240
 it can

00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:49.960
 produce

00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:50.400
 sin,

00:18:50.740 --> 00:18:51.360
 and it

00:18:51.360 --> 00:18:52.180
 itself

00:18:52.180 --> 00:18:53.299
 can be

00:18:53.299 --> 00:18:54.000
 sinful.

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 It can

00:18:54.420 --> 00:18:55.200
 be entirely

00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:55.759
 devoid

00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:57.019
 of faith.

00:18:59.140 --> 00:18:59.940
 Sorrow

00:18:59.940 --> 00:19:00.440
 can be

00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:01.140
 caused

00:19:01.140 --> 00:19:02.160
 by

00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:03.119
 physical

00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:03.900
 ailment.

00:19:04.539 --> 00:19:05.420
 You may

00:19:05.420 --> 00:19:05.759
 be

00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:06.500
 hurt,

00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:07.839
 being

00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:08.279
 hurt

00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:09.460
 is

00:19:09.460 --> 00:19:09.879
 painful,

00:19:10.779 --> 00:19:11.440
 and pain

00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:11.900
 typically

00:19:11.900 --> 00:19:12.279
 causes

00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:12.700
 people to

00:19:12.700 --> 00:19:13.599
 be sad.

00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:14.619
 I don't

00:19:14.619 --> 00:19:15.019
 know a lot

00:19:15.019 --> 00:19:15.359
 of people

00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:16.000
 with serious

00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:16.539
 injury that

00:19:16.539 --> 00:19:17.180
 are joyful

00:19:17.180 --> 00:19:18.599
 over the

00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:18.980
 injury

00:19:18.980 --> 00:19:20.059
 itself.

00:19:21.019 --> 00:19:21.460
 Some

00:19:21.460 --> 00:19:21.839
 of you

00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:22.440
 may deal

00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:23.400
 with chronic

00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:24.379
 and ongoing

00:19:24.379 --> 00:19:25.140
 physical

00:19:25.140 --> 00:19:26.100
 pain.

00:19:26.700 --> 00:19:27.400
 You

00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:28.520
 hurt in

00:19:28.520 --> 00:19:29.420
 really deep

00:19:29.420 --> 00:19:29.800
 ways,

00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:30.140
 and it

00:19:30.140 --> 00:19:30.940
 causes

00:19:30.940 --> 00:19:32.300
 a sadness

00:19:32.300 --> 00:19:33.100
 as a

00:19:33.100 --> 00:19:33.520
 result.

00:19:35.220 --> 00:19:35.400
 Sorrow

00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:35.740
 can be

00:19:35.740 --> 00:19:36.200
 caused

00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:36.780
 by

00:19:36.780 --> 00:19:37.800
 physical

00:19:37.800 --> 00:19:38.280
 ailment

00:19:38.280 --> 00:19:38.759
 of

00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:39.600
 the

00:19:39.600 --> 00:19:40.020
 mind.

00:19:41.040 --> 00:19:41.360
 It would

00:19:41.360 --> 00:19:41.740
 be silly

00:19:41.740 --> 00:19:42.080
 for us

00:19:42.080 --> 00:19:42.460
 to think

00:19:42.460 --> 00:19:43.140
 that while

00:19:43.140 --> 00:19:43.940
 our bodies

00:19:43.940 --> 00:19:45.680
 are affected

00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:46.160
 by

00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:48.660
 the fall,

00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:49.500
 that sin

00:19:49.500 --> 00:19:50.360
 runs rampant

00:19:50.360 --> 00:19:51.020
 in our

00:19:51.020 --> 00:19:51.800
 flesh,

00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:52.259
 I have

00:19:52.259 --> 00:19:52.620
 type 1

00:19:52.619 --> 00:19:53.139
 diabetes

00:19:53.139 --> 00:19:53.799
 because

00:19:53.799 --> 00:19:54.179
 of the

00:19:54.179 --> 00:19:54.479
 fall

00:19:54.479 --> 00:19:55.119
 of man,

00:19:55.879 --> 00:19:56.519
 but that

00:19:56.519 --> 00:19:56.979
 the gray

00:19:56.979 --> 00:19:57.439
 matter

00:19:57.439 --> 00:19:58.099
 encased

00:19:58.099 --> 00:19:58.599
 in bone

00:19:58.599 --> 00:19:58.839
 in our

00:19:58.839 --> 00:19:59.019
 head

00:19:59.019 --> 00:19:59.339
 wouldn't

00:19:59.339 --> 00:19:59.899
 also be

00:19:59.899 --> 00:20:00.319
 affected

00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:01.179
 in some

00:20:01.179 --> 00:20:01.599
 way

00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:02.539
 by the

00:20:02.539 --> 00:20:02.799
 fall.

00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:04.019
 It's

00:20:04.019 --> 00:20:04.179
 very

00:20:04.179 --> 00:20:04.479
 difficult

00:20:04.479 --> 00:20:04.679
 to

00:20:04.679 --> 00:20:05.119
 understand

00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:05.379
 these

00:20:05.379 --> 00:20:05.659
 things

00:20:05.659 --> 00:20:06.099
 because

00:20:06.099 --> 00:20:07.099
 the mind

00:20:07.099 --> 00:20:07.919
 is encased

00:20:07.919 --> 00:20:08.299
 in bone.

00:20:08.439 --> 00:20:08.519
 It's

00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:08.799
 difficult

00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:09.439
 to study

00:20:09.439 --> 00:20:10.459
 the way

00:20:10.459 --> 00:20:10.879
 other

00:20:10.879 --> 00:20:11.539
 organs

00:20:11.539 --> 00:20:12.339
 have been

00:20:12.339 --> 00:20:13.399
 studied.

00:20:14.239 --> 00:20:14.639
 But it's

00:20:14.639 --> 00:20:15.299
 very possible

00:20:15.299 --> 00:20:16.459
 for someone,

00:20:17.699 --> 00:20:18.399
 probably this

00:20:18.399 --> 00:20:18.859
 is over

00:20:18.859 --> 00:20:19.319
 diagnosed,

00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:20.399
 but to

00:20:20.399 --> 00:20:21.299
 experience

00:20:21.299 --> 00:20:22.079
 a physical

00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:22.779
 ailment

00:20:22.779 --> 00:20:23.299
 that

00:20:23.299 --> 00:20:23.819
 tends

00:20:23.819 --> 00:20:24.119
 them

00:20:24.119 --> 00:20:24.740
 toward

00:20:24.740 --> 00:20:26.480
 sadness.

00:20:28.099 --> 00:20:28.279
 Sorrow

00:20:28.279 --> 00:20:28.720
 can also

00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:29.299
 be

00:20:29.299 --> 00:20:30.419
 circumstantial.

00:20:31.539 --> 00:20:32.599
 The loss

00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:32.839
 of a

00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:33.059
 loved

00:20:33.059 --> 00:20:33.379
 one,

00:20:33.740 --> 00:20:34.480
 diagnosis,

00:20:34.779 --> 00:20:35.039
 the loss

00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:35.539
 of a

00:20:35.539 --> 00:20:36.319
 job,

00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:37.839
 relationships

00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:38.460
 that are

00:20:38.460 --> 00:20:39.079
 severed,

00:20:39.399 --> 00:20:40.279
 all kinds

00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:40.819
 of reasons

00:20:40.819 --> 00:20:41.379
 that in

00:20:41.379 --> 00:20:41.919
 this world

00:20:41.919 --> 00:20:42.619
 we will

00:20:42.619 --> 00:20:43.599
 look out

00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:44.559
 and feel

00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:45.700
 sorrowful,

00:20:46.099 --> 00:20:47.079
 look out

00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:48.139
 at injustices

00:20:48.140 --> 00:20:49.340
 in the

00:20:49.340 --> 00:20:49.660
 world.

00:20:49.980 --> 00:20:50.360
 Some of

00:20:50.360 --> 00:20:50.720
 the psalms

00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:51.140
 of lament,

00:20:51.280 --> 00:20:51.660
 many of

00:20:51.660 --> 00:20:51.960
 them are

00:20:51.960 --> 00:20:52.740
 about that.

00:20:53.660 --> 00:20:54.140
 Look at

00:20:54.140 --> 00:20:55.060
 how others

00:20:55.060 --> 00:20:55.780
 are doing.

00:20:56.180 --> 00:20:57.500
 Psalm 73

00:20:57.500 --> 00:20:58.180
 Asaph

00:20:58.180 --> 00:20:58.900
 writes,

00:20:59.040 --> 00:20:59.820
 how well

00:20:59.820 --> 00:21:00.300
 the wicked

00:21:00.300 --> 00:21:00.960
 are doing

00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:01.780
 and look

00:21:01.780 --> 00:21:02.460
 how poorly

00:21:02.460 --> 00:21:03.560
 I'm doing.

00:21:03.940 --> 00:21:04.700
 This seems

00:21:04.700 --> 00:21:05.780
 unfair.

00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:07.600
 And it

00:21:07.600 --> 00:21:08.140
 causes him

00:21:08.140 --> 00:21:09.140
 grief until

00:21:09.140 --> 00:21:09.740
 he goes

00:21:09.740 --> 00:21:11.100
 to the

00:21:11.100 --> 00:21:11.380
 Lord.

00:21:12.020 --> 00:21:12.340
 Sorrow

00:21:12.340 --> 00:21:13.300
 can be

00:21:13.300 --> 00:21:14.920
 circumstantial.

00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:16.600
 Sorrow

00:21:16.600 --> 00:21:17.200
 can be

00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:18.559
 spiritual.

00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:19.700
 Have that

00:21:19.700 --> 00:21:20.759
 emotional

00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:21.319
 root

00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:22.799
 within us.

00:21:23.539 --> 00:21:24.220
 Sadness

00:21:24.220 --> 00:21:24.640
 that we

00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:25.519
 can't quite

00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:26.080
 put our

00:21:26.080 --> 00:21:27.019
 finger

00:21:27.019 --> 00:21:27.940
 on.

00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:29.180
 And sorrow

00:21:29.180 --> 00:21:29.840
 can and

00:21:29.840 --> 00:21:31.059
 likely is

00:21:31.059 --> 00:21:32.120
 a mixture

00:21:32.120 --> 00:21:33.779
 of all

00:21:33.779 --> 00:21:34.080
 three.

00:21:35.299 --> 00:21:35.620
 And so as

00:21:35.620 --> 00:21:35.940
 you're trying

00:21:35.940 --> 00:21:36.279
 to sort

00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:36.620
 out your

00:21:36.620 --> 00:21:37.519
 own sadness

00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:37.980
 or trying

00:21:37.980 --> 00:21:38.400
 to help

00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:39.220
 somebody else

00:21:39.220 --> 00:21:39.960
 sort out

00:21:39.960 --> 00:21:40.480
 theirs,

00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:41.880
 it is one

00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:42.200
 of the

00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:42.900
 most

00:21:42.900 --> 00:21:44.240
 complicated

00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:45.100
 works

00:21:45.099 --> 00:21:46.119
 to do.

00:21:47.059 --> 00:21:47.339
 And if

00:21:47.339 --> 00:21:47.480
 you've

00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:47.939
 ever sat

00:21:47.939 --> 00:21:48.519
 with somebody

00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:49.219
 who is

00:21:49.219 --> 00:21:49.759
 sorrowful,

00:21:50.359 --> 00:21:51.459
 they don't

00:21:51.459 --> 00:21:52.119
 tend to

00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:52.500
 want to

00:21:52.500 --> 00:21:53.839
 talk very

00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:54.240
 much.

00:21:54.959 --> 00:21:55.539
 It's a

00:21:55.539 --> 00:21:55.759
 great

00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:56.759
 challenge to

00:21:56.759 --> 00:21:57.379
 help sort

00:21:57.379 --> 00:21:57.980
 through the

00:21:57.980 --> 00:21:58.559
 complexities

00:21:58.559 --> 00:22:00.619
 of besetting

00:22:00.619 --> 00:22:02.099
 sadness.

00:22:02.099 --> 00:22:02.219
 sadness.

00:22:03.379 --> 00:22:04.219
 Now because

00:22:04.219 --> 00:22:04.759
 we tend

00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:05.099
 to use

00:22:05.099 --> 00:22:05.519
 the word

00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:05.939
 depression

00:22:05.939 --> 00:22:06.539
 and we

00:22:06.539 --> 00:22:07.019
 use it

00:22:07.019 --> 00:22:07.879
 fairly often

00:22:07.879 --> 00:22:08.339
 in our

00:22:08.339 --> 00:22:08.619
 day,

00:22:09.219 --> 00:22:10.019
 I want to

00:22:10.019 --> 00:22:10.399
 define

00:22:10.399 --> 00:22:10.839
 depression

00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:11.159
 and this

00:22:11.159 --> 00:22:11.599
 is my

00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:12.039
 definition

00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:12.839
 of

00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:13.699
 depression.

00:22:14.419 --> 00:22:15.399
 I like to

00:22:15.399 --> 00:22:15.719
 speak of

00:22:15.719 --> 00:22:16.379
 depression in

00:22:16.379 --> 00:22:17.019
 this way

00:22:17.019 --> 00:22:17.559
 as

00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:19.819
 disproportionate

00:22:19.819 --> 00:22:20.559
 sorrow.

00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:20.599
 sorrow.

00:22:21.599 --> 00:22:22.319
 So if

00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:22.579
 you were

00:22:22.579 --> 00:22:23.339
 to lose

00:22:23.339 --> 00:22:23.759
 a loved

00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:24.079
 one,

00:22:24.639 --> 00:22:25.019
 it is

00:22:25.019 --> 00:22:25.980
 good for

00:22:25.980 --> 00:22:26.200
 you to

00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:26.659
 grieve that

00:22:26.659 --> 00:22:27.099
 loss.

00:22:27.339 --> 00:22:27.639
 It's

00:22:27.639 --> 00:22:28.619
 proper for

00:22:28.619 --> 00:22:28.859
 you to

00:22:28.859 --> 00:22:29.240
 go through

00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:30.339
 a process

00:22:30.339 --> 00:22:31.740
 of being

00:22:31.740 --> 00:22:33.000
 sad about

00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:33.679
 someone you

00:22:33.679 --> 00:22:34.179
 cared about

00:22:34.179 --> 00:22:34.859
 being taken

00:22:34.859 --> 00:22:35.399
 out of

00:22:35.399 --> 00:22:36.839
 your life.

00:22:37.399 --> 00:22:38.019
 But there's

00:22:38.019 --> 00:22:38.819
 a point at

00:22:38.819 --> 00:22:39.519
 which it's

00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:40.879
 reasonable to

00:22:40.879 --> 00:22:41.519
 be recovering

00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:42.319
 from that

00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:42.859
 sadness,

00:22:43.059 --> 00:22:43.679
 to be moving

00:22:43.679 --> 00:22:44.480
 on from

00:22:44.480 --> 00:22:45.899
 that sadness.

00:22:46.679 --> 00:22:47.159
 We enter

00:22:47.159 --> 00:22:47.440
 into a

00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:48.319
 depression when

00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:49.000
 it becomes

00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:49.879
 disproportionate.

00:22:50.559 --> 00:22:51.119
 It's not

00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:51.919
 in proper

00:22:51.919 --> 00:22:53.679
 measure to

00:22:53.679 --> 00:22:54.179
 the thing

00:22:54.179 --> 00:22:54.500
 that has

00:22:54.500 --> 00:22:54.859
 happened.

00:22:55.019 --> 00:22:55.819
 It's

00:22:55.819 --> 00:22:56.740
 irrational

00:22:56.740 --> 00:22:58.039
 sorrow.

00:22:59.119 --> 00:22:59.519
 And this

00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:00.159
 is another

00:23:00.159 --> 00:23:01.000
 great challenge

00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:01.679
 of helping

00:23:01.679 --> 00:23:02.279
 yourself and

00:23:02.279 --> 00:23:03.279
 helping others.

00:23:04.019 --> 00:23:04.500
 You don't

00:23:04.500 --> 00:23:05.700
 really quite

00:23:05.700 --> 00:23:07.059
 know why.

00:23:07.539 --> 00:23:08.119
 It's hard

00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:08.599
 to put my

00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:09.659
 finger on

00:23:09.659 --> 00:23:11.119
 why.

00:23:12.059 --> 00:23:12.559
 Sam has

00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:12.960
 learned how

00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:13.279
 to very

00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:14.220
 graciously love

00:23:14.220 --> 00:23:15.220
 me as I'm

00:23:15.220 --> 00:23:16.440
 sad at

00:23:16.440 --> 00:23:16.940
 times.

00:23:18.019 --> 00:23:19.200
 And more

00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:20.099
 than I like

00:23:20.099 --> 00:23:20.679
 to admit,

00:23:21.099 --> 00:23:21.539
 I'll come

00:23:21.539 --> 00:23:22.159
 home and

00:23:22.159 --> 00:23:22.779
 I'm just

00:23:22.779 --> 00:23:23.659
 sad.

00:23:23.899 --> 00:23:24.559
 I have no

00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:25.159
 real reason

00:23:25.159 --> 00:23:25.519
 to be.

00:23:25.639 --> 00:23:26.039
 I like

00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:26.659
 coming home.

00:23:27.139 --> 00:23:27.619
 I really

00:23:27.619 --> 00:23:28.279
 enjoy my

00:23:28.279 --> 00:23:28.699
 family.

00:23:29.199 --> 00:23:29.679
 The weight

00:23:29.679 --> 00:23:30.359
 of the day

00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:31.939
 carries with

00:23:31.939 --> 00:23:32.240
 me.

00:23:32.939 --> 00:23:33.339
 I just

00:23:33.339 --> 00:23:33.480
 say,

00:23:33.539 --> 00:23:33.759
 are you

00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:34.179
 okay?

00:23:34.819 --> 00:23:35.079
 And I

00:23:35.079 --> 00:23:35.299
 go,

00:23:35.959 --> 00:23:36.339
 no,

00:23:36.819 --> 00:23:37.139
 but I

00:23:37.139 --> 00:23:37.500
 don't know

00:23:37.500 --> 00:23:37.819
 why.

00:23:38.779 --> 00:23:39.139
 And she's

00:23:39.139 --> 00:23:39.399
 learned to

00:23:39.399 --> 00:23:39.699
 give me a

00:23:39.699 --> 00:23:39.939
 little bit

00:23:39.939 --> 00:23:40.419
 of space

00:23:40.419 --> 00:23:40.719
 because

00:23:40.719 --> 00:23:41.359
 typically I

00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:41.879
 can reason

00:23:41.879 --> 00:23:43.779
 myself to

00:23:43.779 --> 00:23:44.299
 why.

00:23:44.459 --> 00:23:44.740
 Oh,

00:23:44.819 --> 00:23:45.039
 I know

00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:45.319
 why.

00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:46.039
 I know

00:23:46.039 --> 00:23:46.299
 why.

00:23:46.379 --> 00:23:46.519
 And I

00:23:46.519 --> 00:23:47.319
 know the

00:23:47.319 --> 00:23:47.879
 promises of

00:23:47.879 --> 00:23:48.299
 God that

00:23:48.299 --> 00:23:49.579
 combat this

00:23:49.579 --> 00:23:50.419
 sadness in

00:23:50.419 --> 00:23:50.659
 me.

00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:51.319
 And I

00:23:51.319 --> 00:23:51.720
 can turn

00:23:51.720 --> 00:23:52.339
 that sadness

00:23:52.339 --> 00:23:52.960
 then by

00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:53.599
 God's grace

00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:55.279
 into joy.

00:23:56.220 --> 00:23:56.720
 So,

00:23:56.939 --> 00:23:57.619
 but again,

00:23:58.700 --> 00:23:59.139
 not all

00:23:59.139 --> 00:23:59.579
 sorrow is

00:23:59.579 --> 00:23:59.819
 sin,

00:24:00.139 --> 00:24:00.500
 but it

00:24:00.500 --> 00:24:00.819
 can be

00:24:00.819 --> 00:24:01.460
 caused by

00:24:01.460 --> 00:24:01.619
 it,

00:24:01.679 --> 00:24:02.000
 it can

00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:02.639
 produce it,

00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:03.000
 and it

00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:04.179
 can be

00:24:04.179 --> 00:24:05.399
 itself

00:24:05.399 --> 00:24:06.519
 sinful,

00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:07.899
 faithless,

00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:10.079
 unwilling to

00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:10.659
 think about

00:24:10.659 --> 00:24:11.200
 the promises

00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:11.939
 and believe

00:24:11.939 --> 00:24:12.799
 the promises

00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:13.339
 of God

00:24:13.339 --> 00:24:13.980
 for us.

00:24:14.459 --> 00:24:15.019
 Let me

00:24:15.019 --> 00:24:15.599
 show you

00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:16.059
 an example

00:24:16.059 --> 00:24:16.519
 of what I

00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:16.879
 mean by

00:24:16.879 --> 00:24:18.419
 sinful sorrow

00:24:18.419 --> 00:24:18.980
 before we

00:24:18.980 --> 00:24:19.639
 proceed.

00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:19.939
 So turn

00:24:19.939 --> 00:24:20.159
 with me

00:24:20.159 --> 00:24:20.619
 to Mark

00:24:20.619 --> 00:24:22.279
 Psalm 77,

00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:22.720
 turn with

00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:23.019
 me to

00:24:23.019 --> 00:24:23.500
 Genesis

00:24:23.500 --> 00:24:24.480
 chapter 4.

00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:39.000
 This is a

00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:39.359
 story you're

00:24:39.359 --> 00:24:40.019
 probably familiar

00:24:40.019 --> 00:24:40.279
 with,

00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:40.899
 Cain and

00:24:40.899 --> 00:24:41.319
 Abel,

00:24:41.919 --> 00:24:42.679
 but likely

00:24:42.679 --> 00:24:43.039
 have not

00:24:43.039 --> 00:24:43.500
 seen it

00:24:43.500 --> 00:24:45.139
 in this

00:24:45.139 --> 00:24:45.480
 light.

00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:48.200
 Beginning

00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:48.659
 number 1,

00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:49.180
 now Adam

00:24:49.180 --> 00:24:50.039
 knew Eve

00:24:50.039 --> 00:24:50.539
 his wife,

00:24:51.259 --> 00:24:51.579
 and she

00:24:51.579 --> 00:24:52.039
 conceived

00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:52.480
 and bore

00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:52.960
 Cain,

00:24:53.059 --> 00:24:53.480
 saying,

00:24:53.619 --> 00:24:53.879
 I have

00:24:53.879 --> 00:24:54.339
 gotten a

00:24:54.339 --> 00:24:54.839
 man with

00:24:54.839 --> 00:24:55.240
 the help

00:24:55.240 --> 00:24:55.599
 of the

00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:55.839
 Lord.

00:24:56.480 --> 00:24:57.000
 And again

00:24:57.000 --> 00:24:57.399
 she bore

00:24:57.399 --> 00:24:57.899
 his brother

00:24:57.899 --> 00:24:58.399
 Abel.

00:24:58.799 --> 00:24:59.420
 Now Abel

00:24:59.420 --> 00:24:59.700
 was a

00:24:59.700 --> 00:25:00.059
 keeper of

00:25:00.059 --> 00:25:00.259
 sheep,

00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:00.799
 and Cain

00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:01.379
 a worker

00:25:01.379 --> 00:25:02.079
 of the

00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:02.420
 ground.

00:25:03.420 --> 00:25:03.720
 In the

00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:04.099
 course of

00:25:04.099 --> 00:25:04.440
 time,

00:25:04.920 --> 00:25:05.119
 Cain

00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:05.519
 brought to

00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:05.799
 the Lord

00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:06.339
 an offering

00:25:06.339 --> 00:25:06.659
 of the

00:25:06.659 --> 00:25:06.920
 fruit of

00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:07.299
 the ground.

00:25:08.019 --> 00:25:08.659
 And Abel

00:25:08.659 --> 00:25:09.579
 also brought

00:25:09.579 --> 00:25:10.039
 of the

00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:10.879
 firstborn

00:25:10.879 --> 00:25:11.299
 of his

00:25:11.299 --> 00:25:11.779
 flock,

00:25:11.779 --> 00:25:12.599
 and of

00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:13.200
 their fat

00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:13.799
 portions.

00:25:14.660 --> 00:25:15.059
 And the

00:25:15.059 --> 00:25:15.480
 Lord had

00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:16.160
 regard for

00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:16.740
 Abel and

00:25:16.740 --> 00:25:17.359
 his offering,

00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:18.200
 but for

00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:18.779
 Cain and

00:25:18.779 --> 00:25:19.399
 his offering,

00:25:20.019 --> 00:25:20.379
 he had

00:25:20.379 --> 00:25:21.579
 no regard.

00:25:22.599 --> 00:25:22.940
 Now listen,

00:25:23.019 --> 00:25:23.440
 this is not

00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:23.799
 just an

00:25:23.799 --> 00:25:24.559
 unfair judgment

00:25:24.559 --> 00:25:25.799
 on God's

00:25:25.799 --> 00:25:26.160
 part.

00:25:26.460 --> 00:25:26.920
 Notice the

00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:27.460
 text gives

00:25:27.460 --> 00:25:27.720
 us some

00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:28.379
 very specifics

00:25:28.379 --> 00:25:28.960
 about what

00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:29.720
 Abel did.

00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:30.779
 He brought

00:25:30.779 --> 00:25:31.920
 the firstborn

00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:33.240
 and he brought

00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:33.839
 the fat

00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:34.420
 portions.

00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:35.639
 It was a

00:25:35.639 --> 00:25:36.500
 sacrificial

00:25:36.500 --> 00:25:38.099
 sacrifice.

00:25:38.099 --> 00:25:39.459
 He understood

00:25:39.459 --> 00:25:40.500
 the way

00:25:40.500 --> 00:25:40.740
 in which

00:25:40.740 --> 00:25:41.019
 he was

00:25:41.019 --> 00:25:41.619
 meant to

00:25:41.619 --> 00:25:42.259
 devote

00:25:42.259 --> 00:25:43.019
 his

00:25:43.019 --> 00:25:43.939
 trade

00:25:43.939 --> 00:25:44.559
 to

00:25:44.559 --> 00:25:44.799
 the

00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:45.079
 worship

00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:46.159
 of

00:25:46.159 --> 00:25:46.559
 God.

00:25:46.839 --> 00:25:47.179
 Notice

00:25:47.179 --> 00:25:47.879
 that Cain

00:25:47.879 --> 00:25:48.859
 just brought

00:25:48.859 --> 00:25:49.179
 to the

00:25:49.179 --> 00:25:49.480
 Lord

00:25:49.480 --> 00:25:50.980
 an offering

00:25:50.980 --> 00:25:51.939
 of the

00:25:51.939 --> 00:25:52.159
 fruit of

00:25:52.159 --> 00:25:52.519
 the ground.

00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:53.459
 It's just

00:25:53.459 --> 00:25:53.919
 an offering.

00:25:54.279 --> 00:25:54.559
 It's not

00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:55.359
 the firstborn

00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:55.839
 and the

00:25:55.839 --> 00:25:56.139
 fat

00:25:56.139 --> 00:25:57.259
 portions

00:25:57.259 --> 00:25:58.119
 as Abel's

00:25:58.119 --> 00:25:59.419
 won.

00:25:59.959 --> 00:26:00.279
 And we

00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:00.919
 know God

00:26:00.919 --> 00:26:01.879
 is good

00:26:01.879 --> 00:26:02.539
 and righteous

00:26:02.539 --> 00:26:03.379
 in his

00:26:03.379 --> 00:26:04.000
 judgment.

00:26:04.219 --> 00:26:04.559
 He has

00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:05.519
 no regard

00:26:05.519 --> 00:26:06.299
 for Cain's

00:26:06.299 --> 00:26:07.240
 offering.

00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:07.740
 It was

00:26:07.740 --> 00:26:08.119
 an

00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:09.079
 unacceptable

00:26:09.079 --> 00:26:10.259
 offering.

00:26:10.700 --> 00:26:11.319
 It wasn't

00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:12.039
 an appropriate

00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:13.379
 offering.

00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:14.299
 Cain had

00:26:14.299 --> 00:26:14.879
 not done

00:26:14.879 --> 00:26:15.740
 well in

00:26:15.740 --> 00:26:16.099
 regard to

00:26:16.099 --> 00:26:16.460
 his worship

00:26:16.460 --> 00:26:16.879
 to God.

00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:17.920
 And then

00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:18.480
 it says

00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:19.119
 what was

00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:20.000
 his response?

00:26:20.759 --> 00:26:21.240
 God not

00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:21.799
 regarding it,

00:26:21.940 --> 00:26:22.879
 not Lord,

00:26:23.220 --> 00:26:23.900
 how then

00:26:23.900 --> 00:26:24.420
 will you

00:26:24.420 --> 00:26:24.900
 regard my

00:26:24.900 --> 00:26:25.240
 offering?

00:26:25.740 --> 00:26:26.180
 I would

00:26:26.180 --> 00:26:26.619
 like to

00:26:26.619 --> 00:26:27.339
 please you

00:26:27.339 --> 00:26:28.019
 with my

00:26:28.019 --> 00:26:28.440
 offering.

00:26:28.599 --> 00:26:28.839
 Can you

00:26:28.839 --> 00:26:29.400
 help me?

00:26:29.660 --> 00:26:30.519
 Correct me

00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:31.319
 that I might

00:26:31.319 --> 00:26:31.740
 please you.

00:26:31.819 --> 00:26:32.119
 Instead,

00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:32.579
 what does

00:26:32.579 --> 00:26:32.980
 Cain do?

00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:33.920
 He was

00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:34.940
 very angry.

00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:36.940
 And his

00:26:36.940 --> 00:26:38.559
 face fell.

00:26:39.559 --> 00:26:40.019
 Which is a

00:26:40.019 --> 00:26:40.700
 common Hebrew

00:26:40.700 --> 00:26:41.700
 expression for

00:26:41.700 --> 00:26:42.279
 he was

00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:43.000
 deeply

00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:44.680
 saddened.

00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:45.799
 His face

00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:47.299
 fell.

00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:48.740
 So all of

00:26:48.740 --> 00:26:49.400
 that was

00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:50.879
 an unacceptable

00:26:50.879 --> 00:26:52.220
 emotional

00:26:52.220 --> 00:26:53.039
 response.

00:26:53.879 --> 00:26:54.539
 He did

00:26:54.539 --> 00:26:55.359
 not respond

00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:55.879
 righteously.

00:26:56.059 --> 00:26:56.759
 He responded

00:26:56.759 --> 00:26:58.819
 in sin.

00:26:59.720 --> 00:27:00.440
 Verse 6,

00:27:00.980 --> 00:27:01.279
 the Lord

00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:01.819
 said to

00:27:01.819 --> 00:27:02.240
 Cain,

00:27:02.460 --> 00:27:03.339
 God's

00:27:03.339 --> 00:27:04.440
 great kindness

00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:05.240
 to Cain,

00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:06.900
 Cain

00:27:06.900 --> 00:27:07.940
 angrily

00:27:07.940 --> 00:27:08.400
 shook his

00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:08.819
 fist at

00:27:08.819 --> 00:27:09.200
 the Lord

00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:10.139
 for not

00:27:10.139 --> 00:27:10.839
 accepting his

00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:11.379
 unacceptable

00:27:11.379 --> 00:27:12.079
 sacrifice.

00:27:12.859 --> 00:27:13.039
 The Lord

00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:13.420
 says to

00:27:13.420 --> 00:27:13.660
 Cain,

00:27:13.740 --> 00:27:14.119
 why are

00:27:14.119 --> 00:27:14.799
 you angry?

00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:16.339
 And why

00:27:16.339 --> 00:27:16.779
 has your

00:27:16.779 --> 00:27:17.259
 face

00:27:17.259 --> 00:27:18.259
 fallen?

00:27:19.059 --> 00:27:19.660
 If you

00:27:19.660 --> 00:27:20.619
 do well,

00:27:21.259 --> 00:27:21.680
 will you

00:27:21.680 --> 00:27:22.200
 not be

00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:22.660
 accepted?

00:27:23.859 --> 00:27:24.539
 If you

00:27:24.539 --> 00:27:25.240
 do well,

00:27:25.339 --> 00:27:25.559
 will you

00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:26.099
 not be

00:27:26.099 --> 00:27:26.500
 accepted?

00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:27.579
 And if

00:27:27.579 --> 00:27:27.900
 you do

00:27:27.900 --> 00:27:28.440
 not do

00:27:28.440 --> 00:27:28.920
 well,

00:27:29.740 --> 00:27:30.279
 sin is

00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:30.900
 crouching at

00:27:30.900 --> 00:27:31.279
 the door.

00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:32.220
 Its desire

00:27:32.220 --> 00:27:33.039
 is contrary

00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:33.700
 to you,

00:27:33.700 --> 00:27:34.519
 but you

00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:35.080
 must rule

00:27:35.080 --> 00:27:36.240
 over it.

00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:38.200
 So it

00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:38.500
 gives him

00:27:38.500 --> 00:27:39.059
 correction,

00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:39.660
 loving

00:27:39.660 --> 00:27:40.180
 correction.

00:27:41.340 --> 00:27:42.160
 What does

00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:42.600
 Cain do?

00:27:43.620 --> 00:27:44.259
 Cain spoke

00:27:44.259 --> 00:27:44.620
 to Abel,

00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:45.080
 his brother,

00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:46.460
 and when

00:27:46.460 --> 00:27:46.680
 they were

00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:46.980
 in the

00:27:46.980 --> 00:27:47.279
 field,

00:27:47.460 --> 00:27:48.120
 Cain rose

00:27:48.120 --> 00:27:48.860
 up against

00:27:48.860 --> 00:27:49.940
 his brother

00:27:49.940 --> 00:27:51.380
 Abel and

00:27:51.380 --> 00:27:51.860
 killed him.

00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:53.039
 An

00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:53.660
 unacceptable

00:27:53.660 --> 00:27:55.120
 physical

00:27:55.120 --> 00:27:56.220
 response.

00:27:56.279 --> 00:27:56.460
 You see

00:27:56.460 --> 00:27:57.000
 the downward

00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:58.420
 spiral that's

00:27:58.420 --> 00:27:59.140
 happening in

00:27:59.140 --> 00:27:59.640
 Cain's

00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:00.580
 life,

00:28:00.740 --> 00:28:00.960
 right?

00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:01.559
 Presents an

00:28:01.559 --> 00:28:01.920
 unacceptable

00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:02.460
 offering.

00:28:02.980 --> 00:28:03.259
 He has

00:28:03.259 --> 00:28:03.400
 an

00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:03.980
 unacceptable

00:28:03.980 --> 00:28:04.680
 emotional

00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:05.620
 response to

00:28:05.620 --> 00:28:06.100
 God not

00:28:06.100 --> 00:28:07.080
 receiving it.

00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:08.080
 God corrects

00:28:08.080 --> 00:28:08.320
 him,

00:28:08.580 --> 00:28:08.840
 and what

00:28:08.840 --> 00:28:09.000
 does he

00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:09.259
 do?

00:28:09.779 --> 00:28:10.380
 He goes

00:28:10.380 --> 00:28:11.060
 and commits

00:28:11.060 --> 00:28:11.920
 an unacceptable

00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:13.019
 physical

00:28:13.019 --> 00:28:14.779
 crime against

00:28:14.779 --> 00:28:15.259
 his brother.

00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:16.060
 Then the

00:28:16.060 --> 00:28:16.940
 Lord said

00:28:16.940 --> 00:28:17.759
 to Cain,

00:28:18.300 --> 00:28:19.140
 where is

00:28:19.140 --> 00:28:19.759
 Abel,

00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:20.940
 your brother?

00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:22.019
 And Cain

00:28:22.019 --> 00:28:22.420
 said,

00:28:22.840 --> 00:28:23.400
 I do not

00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:23.860
 know.

00:28:24.220 --> 00:28:24.779
 Am I

00:28:24.779 --> 00:28:25.920
 my brother's

00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:26.920
 keeper?

00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:27.920
 And the

00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:28.480
 spiral goes

00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:28.840
 deeper,

00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:29.500
 as now

00:28:29.500 --> 00:28:29.799
 he

00:28:29.799 --> 00:28:31.220
 unacceptably

00:28:31.220 --> 00:28:32.799
 responds to

00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:33.500
 God verbally

00:28:33.500 --> 00:28:35.379
 with a

00:28:35.379 --> 00:28:35.659
 lie.

00:28:36.059 --> 00:28:36.359
 And if you

00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:36.799
 read on in

00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:37.220
 the text,

00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:38.859
 he's judged

00:28:38.859 --> 00:28:39.419
 for this.

00:28:40.959 --> 00:28:41.859
 So this is

00:28:41.859 --> 00:28:42.379
 an example

00:28:42.379 --> 00:28:43.079
 of sorrow.

00:28:43.159 --> 00:28:43.619
 His face

00:28:43.619 --> 00:28:44.039
 falls.

00:28:44.179 --> 00:28:44.539
 Things didn't

00:28:44.539 --> 00:28:45.000
 go the way

00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:45.519
 he wanted

00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:45.819
 them to

00:28:45.819 --> 00:28:46.099
 go.

00:28:46.879 --> 00:28:47.439
 His face

00:28:47.439 --> 00:28:47.859
 falls,

00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:48.240
 and it

00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:48.779
 leads him

00:28:48.779 --> 00:28:48.980
 into

00:28:48.980 --> 00:28:49.799
 furthering

00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:50.759
 and furthering

00:28:50.759 --> 00:28:52.399
 sin.

00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:52.540
 sorrow.

00:28:53.360 --> 00:28:54.200
 Now in

00:28:54.200 --> 00:28:54.900
 our text,

00:28:55.380 --> 00:28:56.420
 we can

00:28:56.420 --> 00:28:56.880
 see

00:28:56.880 --> 00:28:58.080
 faithful

00:28:58.080 --> 00:28:59.180
 sorrow.

00:29:00.140 --> 00:29:00.860
 And catch

00:29:00.860 --> 00:29:01.200
 this very

00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:01.440
 carefully.

00:29:01.740 --> 00:29:02.340
 There is a

00:29:02.340 --> 00:29:02.880
 complaint.

00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:04.280
 I get

00:29:04.280 --> 00:29:04.820
 uncomfortable

00:29:04.820 --> 00:29:05.240
 when I

00:29:05.240 --> 00:29:05.900
 read Psalms

00:29:05.900 --> 00:29:06.240
 of Lament.

00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:08.180
 I think

00:29:08.180 --> 00:29:08.660
 you should

00:29:08.660 --> 00:29:08.960
 go,

00:29:09.460 --> 00:29:09.820
 whoa,

00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:10.620
 you're asking

00:29:10.620 --> 00:29:11.460
 these kinds

00:29:11.460 --> 00:29:11.980
 of questions?

00:29:12.820 --> 00:29:13.560
 But it's

00:29:13.560 --> 00:29:14.120
 really important

00:29:14.120 --> 00:29:14.560
 for us to

00:29:14.560 --> 00:29:15.240
 note that

00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:15.960
 Asaph

00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:18.000
 goes to

00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:18.460
 God.

00:29:19.140 --> 00:29:19.800
 He has a

00:29:19.800 --> 00:29:20.640
 complaint against

00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:21.100
 God.

00:29:21.099 --> 00:29:22.139
 He feels

00:29:22.139 --> 00:29:22.699
 as if

00:29:22.699 --> 00:29:23.199
 God is

00:29:23.199 --> 00:29:23.899
 not there,

00:29:24.139 --> 00:29:24.719
 but he

00:29:24.719 --> 00:29:25.319
 goes to

00:29:25.319 --> 00:29:26.219
 God in

00:29:26.219 --> 00:29:27.159
 faith.

00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:27.699
 That's what

00:29:27.699 --> 00:29:27.899
 he's going

00:29:27.899 --> 00:29:28.159
 to say.

00:29:28.279 --> 00:29:28.859
 I cry

00:29:28.859 --> 00:29:29.379
 aloud to

00:29:29.379 --> 00:29:29.659
 God,

00:29:29.740 --> 00:29:30.480
 aloud to

00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:30.919
 God,

00:29:30.959 --> 00:29:31.599
 and he

00:29:31.599 --> 00:29:32.839
 will hear

00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:33.139
 me.

00:29:34.139 --> 00:29:34.619
 He has

00:29:34.619 --> 00:29:35.039
 faith in

00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:35.299
 the fact

00:29:35.299 --> 00:29:35.619
 that God

00:29:35.619 --> 00:29:36.119
 will in

00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:36.659
 fact hear

00:29:36.659 --> 00:29:36.959
 his

00:29:36.959 --> 00:29:37.539
 complaint

00:29:37.539 --> 00:29:39.199
 against

00:29:39.199 --> 00:29:39.519
 him.

00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:41.179
 In the

00:29:41.179 --> 00:29:41.859
 day of

00:29:41.859 --> 00:29:42.539
 my trouble,

00:29:42.699 --> 00:29:43.500
 I seek

00:29:43.500 --> 00:29:44.699
 the Lord.

00:29:46.339 --> 00:29:47.079
 In the

00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:47.379
 night,

00:29:47.459 --> 00:29:47.959
 my hand

00:29:47.959 --> 00:29:48.639
 is stretched

00:29:48.639 --> 00:29:49.359
 out without

00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:49.919
 wearying.

00:29:49.980 --> 00:29:50.179
 What he's

00:29:50.179 --> 00:29:50.759
 saying is I'm

00:29:50.759 --> 00:29:51.379
 constantly,

00:29:51.379 --> 00:29:52.339
 I'm constantly

00:29:52.339 --> 00:29:53.079
 reaching out.

00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:54.220
 I'm constantly

00:29:54.220 --> 00:29:55.579
 trying to have

00:29:55.579 --> 00:29:56.140
 my complaint

00:29:56.140 --> 00:29:56.740
 heard by

00:29:56.740 --> 00:29:57.140
 God,

00:29:57.740 --> 00:29:59.000
 but my

00:29:59.000 --> 00:29:59.660
 soul

00:29:59.660 --> 00:30:00.799
 refuses

00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:02.400
 to be

00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:02.900
 comforted.

00:30:03.619 --> 00:30:04.359
 When I

00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:05.279
 remember God,

00:30:05.359 --> 00:30:06.420
 I moan.

00:30:06.500 --> 00:30:06.759
 When I

00:30:06.759 --> 00:30:07.259
 meditate,

00:30:07.420 --> 00:30:07.640
 he's talking

00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:07.980
 about on the

00:30:07.980 --> 00:30:08.440
 truth of

00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:08.680
 God,

00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:09.519
 my spirit

00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:11.480
 faints.

00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:13.259
 We do

00:30:13.259 --> 00:30:13.799
 not know

00:30:13.799 --> 00:30:14.440
 the circumstance

00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:15.900
 of Asaph's

00:30:15.900 --> 00:30:16.960
 sorrow,

00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:18.519
 but we

00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:19.259
 do know

00:30:19.259 --> 00:30:20.360
 that it

00:30:20.360 --> 00:30:20.720
 goes to

00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:21.019
 God.

00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:22.660
 It takes

00:30:22.660 --> 00:30:24.380
 faith to

00:30:24.380 --> 00:30:24.940
 turn to

00:30:24.940 --> 00:30:26.140
 God in

00:30:26.140 --> 00:30:26.840
 our anguish.

00:30:27.420 --> 00:30:28.019
 It's the

00:30:28.019 --> 00:30:28.880
 place we

00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:30.000
 most need

00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:31.100
 to be

00:30:31.100 --> 00:30:32.019
 when we

00:30:32.019 --> 00:30:33.100
 feel this

00:30:33.100 --> 00:30:33.940
 gap in

00:30:33.940 --> 00:30:34.240
 which we

00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:35.100
 live in

00:30:35.100 --> 00:30:35.420
 the world.

00:30:35.420 --> 00:30:36.220
 So the

00:30:36.220 --> 00:30:36.519
 Bible

00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:37.279
 affirms

00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:38.240
 sorrow

00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:39.799
 as normative.

00:30:40.259 --> 00:30:40.840
 We're going

00:30:40.839 --> 00:30:41.599
 to experience

00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:42.619
 this in

00:30:42.619 --> 00:30:43.720
 our life.

00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:44.720
 There is

00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:45.339
 an unhealthy

00:30:45.339 --> 00:30:45.879
 way to

00:30:45.879 --> 00:30:46.220
 deal with

00:30:46.220 --> 00:30:46.339
 it,

00:30:46.399 --> 00:30:46.639
 and there

00:30:46.639 --> 00:30:47.299
 is a

00:30:47.299 --> 00:30:47.579
 healthy

00:30:47.579 --> 00:30:48.879
 way to

00:30:48.879 --> 00:30:49.259
 deal with

00:30:49.259 --> 00:30:49.480
 it.

00:30:49.779 --> 00:30:50.139
 And that

00:30:50.139 --> 00:30:50.659
 starts with

00:30:50.659 --> 00:30:51.179
 language.

00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:51.740
 So secondly,

00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:52.139
 the Bible

00:30:52.139 --> 00:30:52.779
 gives us

00:30:52.779 --> 00:30:54.659
 language for

00:30:54.659 --> 00:30:56.019
 our sorrow.

00:30:57.220 --> 00:30:58.059
 The Bible

00:30:58.059 --> 00:30:58.659
 teaches us

00:30:58.659 --> 00:30:58.959
 how to

00:30:58.959 --> 00:30:59.539
 properly

00:30:59.539 --> 00:31:00.539
 issue a

00:31:00.539 --> 00:31:01.079
 faithful

00:31:01.079 --> 00:31:01.679
 complaint

00:31:01.679 --> 00:31:02.699
 to God.

00:31:03.939 --> 00:31:04.759
 We do

00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:05.319
 not have

00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:06.039
 to learn

00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:07.220
 how to

00:31:07.220 --> 00:31:07.659
 complain.

00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:09.039
 We're all

00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:09.799
 pretty naturally

00:31:09.799 --> 00:31:10.819
 good at

00:31:10.819 --> 00:31:12.220
 complaining.

00:31:12.500 --> 00:31:12.819
 Again,

00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:13.579
 some of us

00:31:13.579 --> 00:31:14.639
 better than

00:31:14.639 --> 00:31:14.980
 others.

00:31:16.519 --> 00:31:16.960
 It's

00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:17.599
 hardwired

00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:18.179
 into us.

00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:18.839
 We know

00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:20.319
 how to

00:31:20.319 --> 00:31:20.740
 complain.

00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:22.579
 Babies

00:31:22.579 --> 00:31:23.659
 know how

00:31:23.659 --> 00:31:24.099
 to cry.

00:31:24.859 --> 00:31:25.439
 It doesn't

00:31:25.439 --> 00:31:25.759
 take them

00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:26.079
 long.

00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:26.799
 If all

00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:27.539
 is well

00:31:27.539 --> 00:31:28.299
 in the

00:31:28.299 --> 00:31:28.599
 delivery

00:31:28.599 --> 00:31:29.019
 room,

00:31:29.220 --> 00:31:29.879
 they start

00:31:29.879 --> 00:31:30.399
 complaining

00:31:30.399 --> 00:31:31.319
 right away.

00:31:31.740 --> 00:31:32.319
 They say,

00:31:32.539 --> 00:31:33.139
 what have

00:31:33.139 --> 00:31:33.679
 you done

00:31:33.679 --> 00:31:34.139
 to me?

00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:36.879
 And they're

00:31:36.879 --> 00:31:37.200
 right to

00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:37.679
 do so.

00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:39.439
 It's

00:31:39.439 --> 00:31:39.819
 traumatic.

00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:40.419
 They don't

00:31:40.420 --> 00:31:41.460
 have to

00:31:41.460 --> 00:31:42.980
 learn how

00:31:42.980 --> 00:31:43.480
 to cry.

00:31:44.080 --> 00:31:44.360
 Toddlers

00:31:44.360 --> 00:31:44.820
 do not

00:31:44.820 --> 00:31:45.140
 have to

00:31:45.140 --> 00:31:45.580
 learn how

00:31:45.580 --> 00:31:45.840
 to be

00:31:45.840 --> 00:31:46.320
 whiny.

00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:48.680
 Later in

00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:48.900
 the book

00:31:48.900 --> 00:31:49.259
 I mentioned

00:31:49.259 --> 00:31:49.580
 earlier,

00:31:49.660 --> 00:31:50.160
 Dark Clouds,

00:31:50.180 --> 00:31:50.620
 Deep Mercy,

00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:51.759
 Mark Rogop

00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:52.160
 writes,

00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:53.320
 to cry

00:31:53.320 --> 00:31:53.920
 is human,

00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:55.640
 to lament

00:31:55.640 --> 00:31:56.980
 is Christian.

00:31:59.039 --> 00:31:59.600
 God

00:31:59.600 --> 00:32:00.220
 teaches us

00:32:00.220 --> 00:32:00.700
 how to

00:32:00.700 --> 00:32:01.300
 faithfully

00:32:01.300 --> 00:32:02.240
 complain in

00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:02.820
 the midst

00:32:02.820 --> 00:32:03.519
 of our

00:32:03.519 --> 00:32:03.800
 sorrow.

00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:04.320
 He gives

00:32:04.320 --> 00:32:05.600
 us a

00:32:05.600 --> 00:32:06.100
 language

00:32:06.100 --> 00:32:07.360
 for it.

00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:08.119
 He

00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:09.039
 models it

00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:09.599
 out for

00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:09.859
 us

00:32:09.859 --> 00:32:10.179
 through the

00:32:10.179 --> 00:32:10.699
 inspired

00:32:10.699 --> 00:32:11.919
 word of

00:32:11.919 --> 00:32:12.240
 God.

00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:13.000
 Various

00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:13.819
 circumstances,

00:32:14.139 --> 00:32:14.639
 various

00:32:14.639 --> 00:32:15.279
 writers

00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:15.979
 issuing

00:32:15.979 --> 00:32:16.719
 faithful

00:32:16.719 --> 00:32:17.359
 complaints

00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:18.819
 to him.

00:32:20.399 --> 00:32:21.240
 Have these

00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:21.799
 psalms ever

00:32:21.799 --> 00:32:22.240
 made you

00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:22.719
 uncomfortable?

00:32:22.879 --> 00:32:23.159
 Have you ever

00:32:23.159 --> 00:32:23.500
 wondered,

00:32:23.639 --> 00:32:23.699
 like,

00:32:23.779 --> 00:32:24.279
 what in the

00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:24.899
 world do I

00:32:24.899 --> 00:32:25.259
 do with

00:32:25.259 --> 00:32:25.659
 this?

00:32:26.959 --> 00:32:27.359
 This

00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:28.079
 seems so

00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:29.019
 against,

00:32:29.199 --> 00:32:29.799
 so set

00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:30.359
 against

00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:31.919
 God.

00:32:32.399 --> 00:32:32.979
 What we

00:32:32.979 --> 00:32:33.419
 need to do

00:32:33.419 --> 00:32:33.859
 with them

00:32:33.859 --> 00:32:35.699
 is learn

00:32:35.699 --> 00:32:36.259
 from them.

00:32:37.299 --> 00:32:37.799
 We need

00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:38.319
 to recognize

00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:39.379
 that God

00:32:39.379 --> 00:32:40.479
 is capable

00:32:40.479 --> 00:32:41.799
 of handling

00:32:41.799 --> 00:32:43.199
 your hard

00:32:43.199 --> 00:32:43.799
 questions.

00:32:45.479 --> 00:32:46.159
 If you

00:32:46.159 --> 00:32:46.539
 ask me

00:32:46.539 --> 00:32:47.000
 these kinds

00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:47.479
 of questions,

00:32:47.579 --> 00:32:47.959
 I might

00:32:47.959 --> 00:32:48.599
 crumble

00:32:48.599 --> 00:32:49.039
 into a

00:32:49.039 --> 00:32:49.359
 ball.

00:32:50.439 --> 00:32:50.819
 God

00:32:50.819 --> 00:32:51.759
 can handle

00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:53.099
 difficult

00:32:53.099 --> 00:32:54.379
 questions.

00:32:55.679 --> 00:32:56.199
 And Asaph

00:32:56.199 --> 00:32:57.019
 asks some

00:32:57.019 --> 00:32:57.740
 difficult

00:32:57.740 --> 00:32:58.819
 questions.

00:32:59.479 --> 00:33:00.240
 I don't

00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:00.959
 think he's

00:33:00.959 --> 00:33:02.039
 being rhetorical.

00:33:03.159 --> 00:33:03.759
 I try

00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:04.079
 to read

00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:04.279
 it in

00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:04.759
 that way.

00:33:04.859 --> 00:33:04.920
 You

00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:05.119
 might be

00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:05.240
 going,

00:33:05.339 --> 00:33:05.579
 wait a

00:33:05.579 --> 00:33:05.799
 second.

00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:06.240
 These

00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:06.579
 are all

00:33:06.579 --> 00:33:07.079
 rhetorical

00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:07.539
 questions.

00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:08.279
 I don't

00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:08.680
 think so

00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:09.119
 because in

00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:09.640
 verse 10

00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:10.140
 he says,

00:33:10.740 --> 00:33:11.339
 then I

00:33:11.339 --> 00:33:12.039
 said,

00:33:12.940 --> 00:33:13.160
 right?

00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:13.700
 If we

00:33:13.700 --> 00:33:14.299
 understand the

00:33:14.299 --> 00:33:14.759
 Hebrew word

00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:15.299
 salah,

00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:15.920
 right,

00:33:16.059 --> 00:33:16.420
 there's this

00:33:16.420 --> 00:33:17.259
 break there

00:33:17.259 --> 00:33:18.359
 and then

00:33:18.359 --> 00:33:18.700
 there's a

00:33:18.700 --> 00:33:19.799
 turn in

00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:20.119
 verse 10

00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:20.279
 when he

00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:20.440
 says,

00:33:20.619 --> 00:33:21.900
 then I

00:33:21.900 --> 00:33:23.700
 said,

00:33:24.339 --> 00:33:24.480
 right?

00:33:24.500 --> 00:33:24.819
 And this

00:33:24.819 --> 00:33:25.059
 is the

00:33:25.059 --> 00:33:25.440
 pattern

00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:25.740
 throughout

00:33:25.740 --> 00:33:26.019
 these

00:33:26.019 --> 00:33:26.680
 psalms of

00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:27.039
 lament,

00:33:27.259 --> 00:33:27.440
 right?

00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:28.400
 Difficult

00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:29.420
 questions asked,

00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:30.400
 complaints

00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:31.059
 issued,

00:33:31.059 --> 00:33:32.259
 and then

00:33:32.259 --> 00:33:33.700
 remembering

00:33:33.700 --> 00:33:34.279
 then

00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:35.080
 responses

00:33:35.080 --> 00:33:35.640
 to

00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:37.180
 those

00:33:37.180 --> 00:33:38.340
 complaints.

00:33:38.980 --> 00:33:39.480
 So listen

00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:39.880
 again to

00:33:39.880 --> 00:33:40.100
 what he

00:33:40.100 --> 00:33:40.460
 says,

00:33:40.539 --> 00:33:41.279
 verse 4

00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:41.960
 and following.

00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:43.519
 You hold

00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:44.480
 my eyelids

00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:44.960
 open.

00:33:45.100 --> 00:33:45.620
 I am so

00:33:45.620 --> 00:33:46.200
 troubled that

00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:46.700
 I cannot

00:33:46.700 --> 00:33:47.279
 speak,

00:33:47.380 --> 00:33:47.500
 right?

00:33:47.539 --> 00:33:47.940
 He cannot

00:33:47.940 --> 00:33:49.080
 sleep and

00:33:49.080 --> 00:33:49.559
 he cannot

00:33:49.559 --> 00:33:50.299
 speak.

00:33:50.299 --> 00:33:50.359
 speak.

00:33:51.259 --> 00:33:51.859
 I consider

00:33:51.859 --> 00:33:52.399
 the days

00:33:52.399 --> 00:33:52.940
 of old,

00:33:53.019 --> 00:33:53.659
 the years

00:33:53.659 --> 00:33:54.899
 long ago.

00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:55.619
 I said,

00:33:55.819 --> 00:33:56.180
 let me

00:33:56.180 --> 00:33:56.919
 remember my

00:33:56.919 --> 00:33:57.539
 song in

00:33:57.539 --> 00:33:57.899
 the night.

00:33:58.019 --> 00:33:58.319
 Let me

00:33:58.319 --> 00:33:59.259
 meditate in

00:33:59.259 --> 00:34:01.079
 my heart.

00:34:01.980 --> 00:34:02.299
 Then my

00:34:02.299 --> 00:34:02.839
 spirit made

00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:03.279
 a diligent

00:34:03.279 --> 00:34:03.859
 search,

00:34:04.099 --> 00:34:04.279
 right?

00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:05.159
 Read this,

00:34:05.220 --> 00:34:06.039
 he's troubled,

00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:06.819
 right?

00:34:06.940 --> 00:34:07.659
 He wants

00:34:07.659 --> 00:34:08.599
 the restored

00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:10.099
 song,

00:34:10.739 --> 00:34:10.900
 right?

00:34:11.099 --> 00:34:11.340
 And so

00:34:11.340 --> 00:34:11.980
 he's searching

00:34:11.980 --> 00:34:12.519
 for it.

00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:13.420
 He's trying

00:34:13.420 --> 00:34:13.900
 to sort

00:34:13.900 --> 00:34:14.380
 out this

00:34:14.380 --> 00:34:15.320
 emotion that

00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:15.880
 he's feeling

00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:16.800
 so deeply.

00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:18.340
 And he

00:34:18.340 --> 00:34:18.660
 asked the

00:34:18.660 --> 00:34:19.160
 questions,

00:34:19.300 --> 00:34:19.539
 will the

00:34:19.539 --> 00:34:20.519
 Lord spurn

00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:21.220
 forever and

00:34:21.220 --> 00:34:22.420
 never again

00:34:22.420 --> 00:34:23.980
 be favorable?

00:34:24.119 --> 00:34:24.460
 That's how he

00:34:24.460 --> 00:34:25.119
 feels in that

00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:25.500
 moment.

00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:26.700
 God has

00:34:26.700 --> 00:34:27.440
 just left

00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:27.619
 him,

00:34:27.680 --> 00:34:27.880
 he has

00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:28.579
 abandoned

00:34:28.579 --> 00:34:29.059
 him,

00:34:29.539 --> 00:34:29.840
 is the

00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:30.400
 emotion he's

00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:30.860
 expressing.

00:34:31.539 --> 00:34:31.960
 Has his

00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:32.780
 steadfast

00:34:32.780 --> 00:34:33.360
 love

00:34:33.360 --> 00:34:34.280
 forever

00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:35.660
 ceased?

00:34:35.940 --> 00:34:36.340
 This would

00:34:36.340 --> 00:34:36.579
 be your

00:34:36.579 --> 00:34:36.920
 strongest

00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:37.500
 argument that

00:34:37.500 --> 00:34:37.840
 he's being

00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:38.519
 rhetorical,

00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:39.079
 right?

00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:40.160
 The language

00:34:40.160 --> 00:34:41.019
 steadfast

00:34:41.019 --> 00:34:41.559
 love

00:34:41.559 --> 00:34:42.039
 ceased.

00:34:42.140 --> 00:34:42.480
 Has his

00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:43.619
 steadfast

00:34:43.619 --> 00:34:44.460
 love

00:34:44.460 --> 00:34:45.740
 ceased?

00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:47.340
 Are his

00:34:47.340 --> 00:34:48.360
 promises at

00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:48.980
 an end

00:34:48.980 --> 00:34:49.900
 for all

00:34:49.900 --> 00:34:50.760
 time?

00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:51.920
 Has God

00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:52.599
 forgotten

00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:53.320
 to be

00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:53.920
 gracious?

00:34:55.019 --> 00:34:55.460
 Has he

00:34:55.460 --> 00:34:56.140
 in anger

00:34:56.140 --> 00:34:57.059
 shut up

00:34:57.059 --> 00:34:57.900
 his

00:34:57.900 --> 00:34:58.460
 compassion?

00:35:01.260 --> 00:35:01.680
 Beloved,

00:35:01.740 --> 00:35:02.619
 it's okay

00:35:02.619 --> 00:35:04.740
 to ask

00:35:04.740 --> 00:35:04.960
 hard

00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:05.539
 questions.

00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:06.840
 It's okay

00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:07.700
 in faith

00:35:07.700 --> 00:35:08.260
 to cry

00:35:08.260 --> 00:35:08.880
 out to

00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:09.360
 God,

00:35:09.680 --> 00:35:10.900
 where are

00:35:10.900 --> 00:35:11.260
 you?

00:35:11.780 --> 00:35:12.240
 What is

00:35:12.240 --> 00:35:13.260
 going on?

00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:14.300
 This isn't

00:35:14.300 --> 00:35:14.820
 how things

00:35:14.820 --> 00:35:15.300
 are supposed

00:35:15.300 --> 00:35:16.160
 to be.

00:35:18.980 --> 00:35:19.800
 The Bible

00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:20.700
 affirms

00:35:20.700 --> 00:35:21.420
 sorrow

00:35:21.420 --> 00:35:21.980
 is normative.

00:35:22.340 --> 00:35:22.620
 The Bible

00:35:22.620 --> 00:35:23.280
 gives us

00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:23.920
 language

00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:25.680
 for our

00:35:25.680 --> 00:35:26.019
 sorrow.

00:35:26.200 --> 00:35:27.080
 It invites

00:35:27.080 --> 00:35:27.560
 us

00:35:27.560 --> 00:35:29.380
 to hurt,

00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:30.240
 but to

00:35:30.240 --> 00:35:30.760
 hurt in

00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:31.400
 God's

00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:32.680
 presence.

00:35:34.080 --> 00:35:34.640
 And thirdly,

00:35:34.680 --> 00:35:34.980
 the Bible

00:35:34.980 --> 00:35:35.480
 gives us

00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:36.080
 relief

00:35:36.080 --> 00:35:37.300
 from our

00:35:37.300 --> 00:35:37.600
 sorrow.

00:35:38.260 --> 00:35:38.900
 The Bible

00:35:38.900 --> 00:35:39.300
 gives us

00:35:39.300 --> 00:35:39.820
 relief

00:35:39.820 --> 00:35:41.120
 from our

00:35:41.120 --> 00:35:41.400
 sorrow.

00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:41.440
 sorrow.

00:35:43.500 --> 00:35:44.039
 There's

00:35:44.039 --> 00:35:44.599
 some sub

00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:45.039
 points here.

00:35:45.139 --> 00:35:45.579
 Number one,

00:35:45.820 --> 00:35:46.160
 through

00:35:46.160 --> 00:35:47.000
 remembering

00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:48.039
 what God

00:35:48.039 --> 00:35:48.720
 has done.

00:35:49.680 --> 00:35:50.119
 The Bible

00:35:50.119 --> 00:35:50.420
 gives us

00:35:50.420 --> 00:35:51.059
 relief from

00:35:51.059 --> 00:35:51.480
 our sorrow

00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:51.760
 through

00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:52.300
 remembering

00:35:52.300 --> 00:35:53.480
 what God

00:35:53.480 --> 00:35:54.059
 has done.

00:35:54.460 --> 00:35:54.820
 There's a

00:35:54.820 --> 00:35:55.420
 turn now,

00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:55.660
 right?

00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:56.460
 Verse 10,

00:35:56.559 --> 00:35:57.139
 Asaph says,

00:35:57.139 --> 00:35:58.139
 then I

00:35:58.139 --> 00:35:58.779
 said,

00:35:59.699 --> 00:36:00.259
 I will

00:36:00.259 --> 00:36:01.159
 appeal to

00:36:01.159 --> 00:36:01.579
 this,

00:36:01.579 --> 00:36:02.239
 to the

00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:03.179
 years of

00:36:03.179 --> 00:36:03.779
 the right

00:36:03.779 --> 00:36:04.659
 hand of

00:36:04.659 --> 00:36:05.420
 the Most

00:36:05.420 --> 00:36:06.460
 High.

00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:07.539
 He's going

00:36:07.539 --> 00:36:08.259
 to remember

00:36:08.259 --> 00:36:09.179
 God's

00:36:09.179 --> 00:36:10.099
 powerful

00:36:10.099 --> 00:36:11.219
 work.

00:36:11.460 --> 00:36:11.859
 His right

00:36:11.859 --> 00:36:12.819
 hand represents

00:36:12.819 --> 00:36:14.219
 his sovereignty.

00:36:15.359 --> 00:36:15.559
 He says,

00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:16.139
 verse 11,

00:36:16.139 --> 00:36:16.480
 I will

00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:16.839
 remember

00:36:16.839 --> 00:36:17.440
 the deeds

00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:17.739
 of the

00:36:17.739 --> 00:36:18.000
 Lord.

00:36:18.199 --> 00:36:18.460
 Yes,

00:36:18.539 --> 00:36:18.920
 I will

00:36:18.920 --> 00:36:19.460
 remember

00:36:19.460 --> 00:36:20.039
 your

00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:20.719
 wonders

00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:21.199
 of

00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:21.759
 old.

00:36:22.059 --> 00:36:22.400
 He's

00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:22.799
 speaking

00:36:22.799 --> 00:36:23.019
 very

00:36:23.019 --> 00:36:23.500
 generally

00:36:23.500 --> 00:36:23.719
 and

00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:24.099
 generically.

00:36:24.219 --> 00:36:24.279
 He's

00:36:24.279 --> 00:36:24.559
 remembering

00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:25.279
 all of

00:36:25.279 --> 00:36:25.400
 the

00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:25.679
 things

00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:25.859
 that

00:36:25.859 --> 00:36:26.239
 God

00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:26.480
 has

00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:26.900
 done

00:36:26.900 --> 00:36:27.719
 for

00:36:27.719 --> 00:36:27.900
 his

00:36:27.900 --> 00:36:28.359
 people

00:36:28.359 --> 00:36:28.619
 and

00:36:28.619 --> 00:36:28.839
 for

00:36:28.839 --> 00:36:29.319
 him.

00:36:30.359 --> 00:36:30.819
 Verse 12,

00:36:30.940 --> 00:36:31.179
 I will

00:36:31.179 --> 00:36:31.719
 ponder

00:36:31.719 --> 00:36:32.139
 all your

00:36:32.139 --> 00:36:32.480
 work

00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:33.119
 and

00:36:33.119 --> 00:36:33.699
 meditate

00:36:33.699 --> 00:36:34.619
 on

00:36:34.619 --> 00:36:34.759
 your

00:36:34.759 --> 00:36:35.000
 mighty

00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:35.460
 deeds.

00:36:35.739 --> 00:36:35.859
 Right?

00:36:36.500 --> 00:36:36.739
 Not

00:36:36.739 --> 00:36:37.519
 just have

00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:38.019
 them told

00:36:38.019 --> 00:36:38.599
 to me,

00:36:38.900 --> 00:36:39.159
 but I'm

00:36:39.159 --> 00:36:39.319
 going to

00:36:39.319 --> 00:36:39.739
 roll

00:36:39.739 --> 00:36:39.980
 them

00:36:39.980 --> 00:36:40.500
 around.

00:36:40.779 --> 00:36:40.940
 Right?

00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:41.119
 I'm

00:36:41.119 --> 00:36:41.179
 going to

00:36:41.179 --> 00:36:41.440
 let them

00:36:41.440 --> 00:36:41.940
 sink

00:36:41.940 --> 00:36:42.500
 deep

00:36:42.500 --> 00:36:43.279
 within

00:36:43.279 --> 00:36:43.659
 me.

00:36:44.259 --> 00:36:44.480
 And

00:36:46.139 --> 00:36:46.679
 your

00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:47.139
 way,

00:36:47.319 --> 00:36:47.440
 O

00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:47.879
 God,

00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:48.279
 is

00:36:48.279 --> 00:36:49.299
 holy,

00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:50.420
 perfect,

00:36:50.900 --> 00:36:51.079
 set

00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:51.539
 apart.

00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:52.259
 What

00:36:52.259 --> 00:36:52.759
 God

00:36:52.759 --> 00:36:52.960
 is

00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:53.420
 great

00:36:53.420 --> 00:36:53.679
 like

00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:54.279
 our

00:36:54.279 --> 00:36:55.279
 God?

00:36:56.559 --> 00:36:57.099
 You

00:36:57.099 --> 00:36:57.379
 are the

00:36:57.379 --> 00:36:57.699
 God

00:36:57.699 --> 00:36:57.859
 who

00:36:57.859 --> 00:36:58.079
 works

00:36:58.079 --> 00:36:58.719
 wonders.

00:36:59.359 --> 00:36:59.519
 You

00:36:59.519 --> 00:36:59.659
 have

00:36:59.659 --> 00:36:59.839
 made

00:36:59.839 --> 00:37:00.259
 known

00:37:00.259 --> 00:37:00.480
 your

00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:00.839
 might

00:37:00.839 --> 00:37:01.159
 among

00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:01.400
 the

00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:01.920
 peoples.

00:37:02.859 --> 00:37:03.039
 You

00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:03.339
 with

00:37:03.339 --> 00:37:03.519
 your

00:37:03.519 --> 00:37:04.000
 arm

00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:04.940
 redeemed

00:37:04.940 --> 00:37:05.460
 your

00:37:05.460 --> 00:37:05.960
 people,

00:37:06.359 --> 00:37:06.480
 the

00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:06.819
 children

00:37:06.819 --> 00:37:07.739
 of

00:37:07.739 --> 00:37:08.059
 Jacob

00:37:08.059 --> 00:37:08.859
 and

00:37:08.859 --> 00:37:09.199
 Joseph.

00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:10.480
 He

00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:11.039
 turns

00:37:11.039 --> 00:37:11.539
 now

00:37:11.539 --> 00:37:12.639
 to

00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:13.559
 praise

00:37:13.559 --> 00:37:14.319
 for

00:37:14.319 --> 00:37:14.579
 who

00:37:14.579 --> 00:37:14.879
 God

00:37:14.879 --> 00:37:15.420
 is

00:37:15.420 --> 00:37:15.759
 because

00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:15.980
 of

00:37:15.980 --> 00:37:16.180
 what

00:37:16.180 --> 00:37:16.660
 God

00:37:16.660 --> 00:37:17.820
 has

00:37:17.820 --> 00:37:18.120
 done.

00:37:19.240 --> 00:37:19.640
 And

00:37:19.640 --> 00:37:19.780
 I

00:37:19.780 --> 00:37:19.920
 don't

00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:20.160
 think

00:37:20.160 --> 00:37:20.460
 when we

00:37:20.460 --> 00:37:20.860
 read

00:37:20.860 --> 00:37:21.300
 these

00:37:21.300 --> 00:37:21.760
 Psalms

00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:21.900
 of

00:37:21.900 --> 00:37:22.220
 lament

00:37:22.220 --> 00:37:23.140
 that

00:37:23.140 --> 00:37:23.280
 we

00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:23.440
 should

00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:23.580
 be

00:37:23.580 --> 00:37:23.840
 reading

00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:24.040
 them

00:37:24.040 --> 00:37:24.160
 in

00:37:24.160 --> 00:37:24.400
 real

00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:24.840
 time.

00:37:25.620 --> 00:37:26.160
 I

00:37:26.160 --> 00:37:26.280
 don't

00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:26.440
 think

00:37:26.440 --> 00:37:26.540
 that

00:37:26.540 --> 00:37:26.620
 we

00:37:26.620 --> 00:37:26.780
 should

00:37:26.780 --> 00:37:26.980
 read

00:37:26.980 --> 00:37:27.120
 them

00:37:27.120 --> 00:37:27.280
 and

00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:27.500
 feel

00:37:27.500 --> 00:37:28.200
 like

00:37:28.200 --> 00:37:28.980
 Asaph

00:37:28.980 --> 00:37:29.280
 went

00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:29.620
 through

00:37:29.620 --> 00:37:29.940
 an

00:37:29.940 --> 00:37:30.380
 emotional

00:37:30.380 --> 00:37:30.960
 process

00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:31.480
 that

00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:31.760
 took

00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:32.120
 all

00:37:32.120 --> 00:37:32.520
 of

00:37:32.520 --> 00:37:33.760
 40

00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:34.340
 seconds.

00:37:36.060 --> 00:37:36.780
 These

00:37:36.780 --> 00:37:36.920
 are

00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:37.420
 songs

00:37:37.420 --> 00:37:37.800
 written

00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:38.160
 in

00:37:38.160 --> 00:37:38.920
 retrospect

00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:40.180
 of a

00:37:40.180 --> 00:37:40.600
 time

00:37:40.600 --> 00:37:40.780
 in

00:37:40.780 --> 00:37:40.960
 his

00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:41.300
 life.

00:37:41.640 --> 00:37:42.040
 Was

00:37:42.040 --> 00:37:42.180
 it

00:37:42.180 --> 00:37:42.720
 days?

00:37:43.140 --> 00:37:43.340
 Was

00:37:43.340 --> 00:37:43.480
 it

00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:44.080
 weeks?

00:37:44.420 --> 00:37:44.680
 I

00:37:44.680 --> 00:37:44.900
 don't

00:37:44.900 --> 00:37:45.360
 know.

00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:46.780
 But

00:37:46.780 --> 00:37:46.900
 there

00:37:46.900 --> 00:37:47.300
 seems

00:37:47.300 --> 00:37:47.720
 to be

00:37:47.720 --> 00:37:47.900
 a

00:37:47.900 --> 00:37:48.480
 deep

00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:49.200
 anguish

00:37:49.200 --> 00:37:49.599
 when we

00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:49.880
 read

00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:50.059
 the

00:37:50.059 --> 00:37:50.539
 Psalms

00:37:50.539 --> 00:37:51.220
 of

00:37:51.220 --> 00:37:51.500
 lament.

00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:52.860
 Not

00:37:52.860 --> 00:37:53.280
 a

00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:54.559
 I'm

00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:54.720
 feeling

00:37:54.720 --> 00:37:55.059
 bummed

00:37:55.059 --> 00:37:55.280
 about

00:37:55.280 --> 00:37:55.579
 that.

00:37:55.780 --> 00:37:55.940
 Well,

00:37:56.039 --> 00:37:56.320
 God's

00:37:56.320 --> 00:37:56.660
 promises

00:37:56.660 --> 00:37:56.860
 are

00:37:56.860 --> 00:37:57.280
 good.

00:37:57.280 --> 00:37:58.920
 There are

00:37:58.920 --> 00:37:59.780
 nights

00:37:59.780 --> 00:38:00.360
 spent

00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:01.019
 awake.

00:38:01.019 --> 00:38:02.380
 there

00:38:02.380 --> 00:38:02.619
 there is

00:38:02.619 --> 00:38:03.079
 a

00:38:03.079 --> 00:38:03.820
 pouring

00:38:03.820 --> 00:38:04.380
 out

00:38:04.380 --> 00:38:04.900
 that

00:38:04.900 --> 00:38:05.440
 seems

00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:05.699
 to be

00:38:05.699 --> 00:38:06.300
 expressed

00:38:06.300 --> 00:38:06.599
 in

00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:06.800
 these

00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:07.239
 psalms

00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:08.440
 of

00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:08.820
 lament.

00:38:10.259 --> 00:38:10.780
 Sometimes

00:38:10.780 --> 00:38:13.800
 finding

00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:14.440
 yourself

00:38:14.440 --> 00:38:15.280
 turning in

00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:15.759
 faith to

00:38:15.759 --> 00:38:16.259
 God and

00:38:16.259 --> 00:38:16.500
 coming

00:38:16.500 --> 00:38:17.099
 through

00:38:17.099 --> 00:38:17.739
 times of

00:38:17.739 --> 00:38:18.079
 sorrow

00:38:18.079 --> 00:38:19.019
 takes

00:38:19.019 --> 00:38:19.380
 great

00:38:19.380 --> 00:38:20.119
 patience

00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:20.940
 and it

00:38:20.940 --> 00:38:21.119
 takes

00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:21.940
 repetition

00:38:21.940 --> 00:38:23.719
 meditating

00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:24.420
 on

00:38:24.420 --> 00:38:25.320
 and being

00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:26.099
 reminded of

00:38:26.099 --> 00:38:27.179
 over and

00:38:27.179 --> 00:38:28.119
 over and

00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:29.219
 over again

00:38:29.219 --> 00:38:30.119
 of God's

00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:30.959
 goodness

00:38:30.959 --> 00:38:32.339
 to you.

00:38:32.739 --> 00:38:32.879
 The

00:38:32.879 --> 00:38:33.939
 surety of

00:38:33.939 --> 00:38:34.339
 his

00:38:34.339 --> 00:38:35.299
 promises.

00:38:36.899 --> 00:38:37.179
 Beloved,

00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:37.679
 this is at

00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:38.279
 least a

00:38:38.279 --> 00:38:39.119
 reason you

00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:39.939
 should come

00:38:39.939 --> 00:38:40.559
 and fellowship

00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:40.839
 with the

00:38:40.839 --> 00:38:41.859
 church each

00:38:41.859 --> 00:38:42.099
 and every

00:38:42.099 --> 00:38:42.419
 Lord's

00:38:42.419 --> 00:38:42.619
 day.

00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:43.719
 You're

00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:44.079
 slow

00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:44.419
 learners

00:38:44.419 --> 00:38:44.980
 and quick

00:38:44.980 --> 00:38:46.199
 to forget

00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:46.819
 to be

00:38:46.819 --> 00:38:47.399
 reminded

00:38:47.399 --> 00:38:48.019
 again

00:38:48.019 --> 00:38:49.279
 and again

00:38:49.279 --> 00:38:50.879
 and again.

00:38:51.739 --> 00:38:51.980
 An

00:38:51.980 --> 00:38:52.439
 expression

00:38:52.439 --> 00:38:52.899
 of this

00:38:52.899 --> 00:38:53.799
 is Psalm

00:38:53.799 --> 00:38:54.819
 88.

00:38:56.099 --> 00:38:56.819
 And I

00:38:56.819 --> 00:38:57.139
 don't really

00:38:57.139 --> 00:38:57.719
 like Psalm

00:38:57.719 --> 00:38:58.139
 88.

00:38:58.419 --> 00:38:58.679
 I'll be

00:38:58.679 --> 00:38:59.019
 honest.

00:38:59.019 --> 00:39:00.400
 I think

00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:01.420
 I like

00:39:01.420 --> 00:39:01.800
 the lesson

00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:02.280
 it teaches

00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:02.559
 me.

00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:03.300
 It makes

00:39:03.300 --> 00:39:03.840
 me so

00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:04.420
 uncomfortable.

00:39:07.420 --> 00:39:08.159
 The other

00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:08.639
 Psalms of

00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:09.380
 lament end

00:39:09.380 --> 00:39:09.619
 on a

00:39:09.619 --> 00:39:09.940
 positive

00:39:09.940 --> 00:39:10.219
 note.

00:39:10.340 --> 00:39:10.679
 This one

00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:11.400
 does not.

00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:13.940
 I'm going

00:39:13.940 --> 00:39:14.320
 to read

00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:15.300
 the first

00:39:15.300 --> 00:39:16.019
 six verses

00:39:16.019 --> 00:39:16.320
 and then

00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:16.659
 I'll jump

00:39:16.659 --> 00:39:17.159
 down and

00:39:17.159 --> 00:39:17.559
 I'll tell

00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:17.780
 you where

00:39:17.780 --> 00:39:17.980
 it would

00:39:17.980 --> 00:39:19.039
 go if

00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:19.280
 you'd like

00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:19.579
 to follow

00:39:19.579 --> 00:39:20.019
 along.

00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:22.599
 The

00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:22.960
 psalmist

00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:23.440
 here writes,

00:39:23.460 --> 00:39:23.759
 I think it's

00:39:23.759 --> 00:39:24.239
 the son of

00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:24.800
 Korah if I

00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:25.000
 remember

00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:25.440
 correctly.

00:39:26.340 --> 00:39:26.940
 Oh Lord

00:39:26.940 --> 00:39:27.619
 God of my

00:39:27.619 --> 00:39:28.199
 salvation,

00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:29.000
 I cry

00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:29.859
 out day

00:39:29.859 --> 00:39:30.619
 and night

00:39:30.619 --> 00:39:31.159
 before you.

00:39:31.219 --> 00:39:31.519
 So here we

00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:31.699
 are.

00:39:31.779 --> 00:39:31.980
 There's

00:39:31.980 --> 00:39:32.859
 days going

00:39:32.859 --> 00:39:33.179
 by.

00:39:33.899 --> 00:39:34.319
 Let my

00:39:34.319 --> 00:39:35.039
 prayer come

00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:35.619
 before you

00:39:35.619 --> 00:39:36.679
 incline your

00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:37.500
 ear to my

00:39:37.500 --> 00:39:39.059
 cry for my

00:39:39.059 --> 00:39:40.019
 soul is full

00:39:40.019 --> 00:39:40.539
 of troubles

00:39:40.539 --> 00:39:41.419
 and my life

00:39:41.419 --> 00:39:42.299
 draws near

00:39:42.299 --> 00:39:43.199
 to shield.

00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:44.819
 I am counted

00:39:44.819 --> 00:39:45.439
 among those

00:39:45.439 --> 00:39:46.179
 who go down

00:39:46.179 --> 00:39:46.919
 to the pit.

00:39:47.579 --> 00:39:48.319
 I am a

00:39:48.319 --> 00:39:48.679
 man who

00:39:48.679 --> 00:39:49.279
 has no

00:39:49.279 --> 00:39:50.359
 strength like

00:39:50.359 --> 00:39:51.039
 one set

00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:52.000
 loose among

00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:52.539
 the dead,

00:39:52.739 --> 00:39:53.419
 like the

00:39:53.419 --> 00:39:54.299
 slain that

00:39:54.299 --> 00:39:55.079
 lie in the

00:39:55.079 --> 00:39:55.480
 grave,

00:39:55.679 --> 00:39:56.579
 like those

00:39:56.579 --> 00:39:57.159
 whom you

00:39:57.159 --> 00:39:58.319
 remember no

00:39:58.319 --> 00:39:59.199
 more for

00:39:59.199 --> 00:39:59.759
 they are cut

00:39:59.759 --> 00:40:00.960
 off from

00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:01.579
 your hand.

00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:03.019
 You have

00:40:03.019 --> 00:40:03.919
 put me in

00:40:03.919 --> 00:40:04.599
 the depths

00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:05.599
 of the pit

00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:06.500
 in the

00:40:06.500 --> 00:40:07.919
 regions dark

00:40:07.919 --> 00:40:09.319
 and deep.

00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:11.100
 Oh, what an

00:40:11.100 --> 00:40:12.800
 expression of

00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:14.780
 anguish this

00:40:14.780 --> 00:40:15.180
 man is

00:40:15.180 --> 00:40:15.539
 feeling.

00:40:16.500 --> 00:40:17.480
 And if this

00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:18.000
 was following

00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:18.559
 the normal

00:40:18.559 --> 00:40:19.620
 pattern, at

00:40:19.620 --> 00:40:20.340
 some place in

00:40:20.340 --> 00:40:20.800
 here he would

00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:21.440
 say, but

00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:22.100
 you, oh

00:40:22.100 --> 00:40:23.980
 Lord, then

00:40:23.980 --> 00:40:25.539
 I recalled.

00:40:26.580 --> 00:40:27.059
 But he never

00:40:27.059 --> 00:40:28.100
 does that in

00:40:28.100 --> 00:40:29.320
 this psalm.

00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:29.640
 And you'll

00:40:29.640 --> 00:40:30.620
 see how it

00:40:30.620 --> 00:40:31.480
 ends beginning

00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:32.900
 in verse 14

00:40:32.900 --> 00:40:33.920
 to the end.

00:40:33.920 --> 00:40:35.220
 Oh, Lord,

00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:36.099
 why do you

00:40:36.099 --> 00:40:36.800
 cast my

00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:37.440
 soul away?

00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:38.400
 Why do you

00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:38.980
 hide your

00:40:38.980 --> 00:40:39.480
 face from

00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:39.760
 me?

00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:40.880
 Afflicted

00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:41.659
 and close to

00:40:41.659 --> 00:40:42.260
 death from

00:40:42.260 --> 00:40:43.380
 my youth up,

00:40:43.680 --> 00:40:44.579
 I suffer your

00:40:44.579 --> 00:40:44.980
 tears.

00:40:45.200 --> 00:40:46.240
 I am helpless.

00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:47.940
 Your wrath

00:40:47.940 --> 00:40:48.599
 has swept over

00:40:48.599 --> 00:40:48.780
 me.

00:40:48.820 --> 00:40:49.639
 Your dreadful

00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:51.079
 assaults destroy

00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:51.360
 me.

00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:52.360
 They surround

00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:53.119
 me like a

00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:54.260
 flood all day

00:40:54.260 --> 00:40:54.599
 long.

00:40:54.680 --> 00:40:55.559
 They close in

00:40:55.559 --> 00:40:56.599
 on me together.

00:40:57.480 --> 00:40:57.860
 You have

00:40:57.860 --> 00:40:59.079
 caused my

00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:00.280
 beloved and

00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:01.760
 my friend to

00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:02.400
 shun me.

00:41:03.059 --> 00:41:03.900
 My companion

00:41:03.900 --> 00:41:05.579
 have become

00:41:05.579 --> 00:41:07.019
 darkness or

00:41:07.019 --> 00:41:09.059
 darkness is

00:41:09.059 --> 00:41:09.920
 my only

00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:11.519
 companion.

00:41:12.720 --> 00:41:13.440
 And it

00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:13.800
 ends.

00:41:15.340 --> 00:41:16.200
 And I

00:41:16.200 --> 00:41:17.160
 want the

00:41:17.160 --> 00:41:17.820
 textual critics

00:41:17.820 --> 00:41:18.360
 to find the

00:41:18.360 --> 00:41:18.780
 text that

00:41:18.780 --> 00:41:20.500
 goes, we

00:41:20.500 --> 00:41:20.880
 found the

00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:21.260
 last three

00:41:21.260 --> 00:41:21.740
 verses of

00:41:21.740 --> 00:41:23.619
 Psalm 88.

00:41:25.500 --> 00:41:26.240
 But it

00:41:26.240 --> 00:41:27.800
 ends at

00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:28.460
 that point.

00:41:29.740 --> 00:41:30.500
 And that

00:41:30.500 --> 00:41:30.800
 does not

00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:31.119
 mean that

00:41:31.119 --> 00:41:31.460
 there's not

00:41:31.460 --> 00:41:32.019
 relief for

00:41:32.019 --> 00:41:32.599
 our sorrow,

00:41:32.720 --> 00:41:32.940
 but it

00:41:32.940 --> 00:41:33.599
 does mean

00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:34.839
 this is the

00:41:34.839 --> 00:41:35.299
 lesson that

00:41:35.299 --> 00:41:35.940
 I hope

00:41:35.940 --> 00:41:37.119
 to learn

00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:39.380
 that we

00:41:39.380 --> 00:41:39.759
 need to be

00:41:39.759 --> 00:41:41.500
 patient and

00:41:41.500 --> 00:41:41.819
 we need to

00:41:41.819 --> 00:41:42.619
 rely upon

00:41:42.619 --> 00:41:43.159
 the Lord

00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:43.779
 that he

00:41:43.779 --> 00:41:44.880
 will deliver

00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:46.339
 us from

00:41:46.339 --> 00:41:46.699
 sorrow.

00:41:48.759 --> 00:41:49.460
 Second, the

00:41:49.460 --> 00:41:49.980
 Bible gives us

00:41:49.980 --> 00:41:50.480
 relief from our

00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:51.480
 sorrow through

00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:52.599
 being reminded of

00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:53.679
 what God has

00:41:53.679 --> 00:41:54.000
 done.

00:41:54.539 --> 00:41:55.659
 So we're

00:41:55.659 --> 00:41:56.019
 meant to

00:41:56.019 --> 00:41:56.779
 remember, but

00:41:56.779 --> 00:41:57.480
 sometimes we

00:41:57.480 --> 00:41:58.339
 need to be

00:41:58.339 --> 00:41:58.940
 reminded.

00:41:59.759 --> 00:42:00.219
 The great

00:42:00.219 --> 00:42:01.119
 preacher, Dr.

00:42:01.119 --> 00:42:01.719
 Martin Lloyd-Jones

00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:02.420
 once said, we

00:42:02.420 --> 00:42:02.819
 need to stop

00:42:02.819 --> 00:42:03.699
 listening to

00:42:03.699 --> 00:42:04.380
 ourselves and

00:42:04.380 --> 00:42:05.119
 start talking

00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:06.019
 to ourselves,

00:42:06.619 --> 00:42:07.359
 reminding ourselves

00:42:07.359 --> 00:42:08.139
 of great truths.

00:42:08.139 --> 00:42:08.799
 And I would

00:42:08.799 --> 00:42:09.299
 like to add to

00:42:09.299 --> 00:42:09.839
 that, and we

00:42:09.839 --> 00:42:10.859
 need others to

00:42:10.859 --> 00:42:12.119
 talk to us,

00:42:12.799 --> 00:42:14.099
 to tell us

00:42:14.099 --> 00:42:16.440
 important truths

00:42:16.440 --> 00:42:17.619
 that will draw

00:42:17.619 --> 00:42:18.440
 us from a

00:42:18.440 --> 00:42:19.199
 place of sorrow

00:42:19.199 --> 00:42:20.859
 to a place of

00:42:20.859 --> 00:42:21.199
 hope.

00:42:21.900 --> 00:42:23.339
 We often, and I

00:42:23.339 --> 00:42:24.019
 would say more

00:42:24.019 --> 00:42:25.179
 often than not,

00:42:25.900 --> 00:42:26.599
 need others'

00:42:26.759 --> 00:42:28.139
 help in the

00:42:28.139 --> 00:42:28.420
 work of

00:42:28.420 --> 00:42:28.820
 remembering.

00:42:29.720 --> 00:42:31.280
 So come

00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:31.860
 to church.

00:42:32.900 --> 00:42:33.480
 We are

00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:34.340
 working this

00:42:34.340 --> 00:42:34.680
 into the

00:42:34.680 --> 00:42:35.240
 fabric of

00:42:35.240 --> 00:42:35.639
 what we

00:42:35.639 --> 00:42:37.579
 do together.

00:42:38.380 --> 00:42:39.519
 The pattern

00:42:39.519 --> 00:42:40.260
 of being with

00:42:40.260 --> 00:42:40.820
 God's people

00:42:40.820 --> 00:42:41.680
 and participating

00:42:41.680 --> 00:42:42.139
 in God's

00:42:42.139 --> 00:42:42.700
 graces to

00:42:42.700 --> 00:42:43.700
 you in being

00:42:43.700 --> 00:42:44.159
 with God's

00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:44.639
 people will

00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:46.059
 help you in

00:42:46.059 --> 00:42:46.700
 these times,

00:42:46.700 --> 00:42:47.360
 and it will

00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:48.240
 prepare you

00:42:48.240 --> 00:42:49.619
 for them.

00:42:50.659 --> 00:42:51.380
 Look for

00:42:51.380 --> 00:42:52.400
 wise counsel

00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:53.980
 within the

00:42:53.980 --> 00:42:54.340
 church.

00:42:55.019 --> 00:42:55.700
 Look for

00:42:55.700 --> 00:42:56.159
 people who

00:42:56.159 --> 00:42:56.720
 have walked

00:42:56.720 --> 00:42:57.500
 through sorrow

00:42:57.500 --> 00:42:58.220
 and can show

00:42:58.219 --> 00:42:59.619
 you how the

00:42:59.619 --> 00:43:00.980
 scripture speaks

00:43:00.980 --> 00:43:01.919
 to that

00:43:01.919 --> 00:43:02.459
 sorrow.

00:43:03.099 --> 00:43:04.239
 And be

00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:06.239
 willing to

00:43:06.239 --> 00:43:06.679
 listen.

00:43:07.859 --> 00:43:08.719
 Be willing to

00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:09.419
 take up and

00:43:09.419 --> 00:43:10.899
 hear good

00:43:10.899 --> 00:43:11.199
 truth.

00:43:11.279 --> 00:43:11.699
 And sometimes

00:43:11.699 --> 00:43:12.559
 that is so

00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:14.199
 difficult to

00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:15.439
 do, particularly

00:43:15.439 --> 00:43:16.480
 when you're

00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:17.419
 experiencing an

00:43:17.419 --> 00:43:18.159
 irrational,

00:43:18.679 --> 00:43:20.059
 disproportionate

00:43:20.059 --> 00:43:20.939
 sorrow.

00:43:21.980 --> 00:43:23.480
 Everything is

00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:24.799
 gray when

00:43:24.799 --> 00:43:25.179
 you're feeling

00:43:25.179 --> 00:43:26.099
 sad like that.

00:43:26.359 --> 00:43:26.939
 Let other

00:43:26.940 --> 00:43:28.059
 people try to

00:43:28.059 --> 00:43:28.360
 paint the

00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:29.320
 picture for

00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:29.539
 you.

00:43:30.200 --> 00:43:31.099
 Try to

00:43:31.099 --> 00:43:31.940
 hear the

00:43:31.940 --> 00:43:32.619
 good truths

00:43:32.619 --> 00:43:33.619
 they're speaking

00:43:33.619 --> 00:43:34.539
 into your

00:43:34.539 --> 00:43:34.960
 life.

00:43:35.860 --> 00:43:36.460
 Proverbs

00:43:36.460 --> 00:43:37.139
 chapter 18

00:43:37.139 --> 00:43:37.480
 and verse

00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:38.880
 1 says,

00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:39.700
 whoever isolates

00:43:39.700 --> 00:43:40.179
 himself,

00:43:40.900 --> 00:43:41.659
 seeks his

00:43:41.659 --> 00:43:42.579
 own desire.

00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:43.960
 He breaks

00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:44.639
 out against

00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:46.240
 all sound

00:43:46.240 --> 00:43:47.260
 judgment.

00:43:48.260 --> 00:43:49.139
 It's so

00:43:49.139 --> 00:43:49.920
 often that

00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:50.220
 when we're

00:43:50.220 --> 00:43:51.740
 feeling sad,

00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:53.019
 we don't want

00:43:53.019 --> 00:43:53.599
 to be around

00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:54.259
 other people

00:43:54.259 --> 00:43:55.299
 because we

00:43:55.299 --> 00:43:55.940
 don't want

00:43:55.940 --> 00:43:58.119
 to show

00:43:58.119 --> 00:43:58.599
 people that

00:43:58.599 --> 00:43:58.880
 we're not

00:43:58.880 --> 00:43:59.519
 doing well.

00:43:59.779 --> 00:44:00.420
 We feel a

00:44:00.420 --> 00:44:00.960
 pressure to

00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:01.400
 be doing

00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:02.099
 well all

00:44:02.099 --> 00:44:03.279
 the time.

00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:03.799
 We may

00:44:03.799 --> 00:44:04.219
 not want

00:44:04.219 --> 00:44:04.860
 to repeat

00:44:04.860 --> 00:44:05.559
 the reason

00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:06.360
 for our

00:44:06.360 --> 00:44:07.719
 sorrow again

00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:08.339
 and again,

00:44:08.339 --> 00:44:08.920
 but it's the

00:44:08.920 --> 00:44:10.179
 thing most

00:44:10.179 --> 00:44:11.319
 needful for

00:44:11.319 --> 00:44:12.679
 us, that we

00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:13.139
 would come

00:44:13.139 --> 00:44:14.000
 together, that

00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:15.239
 we would press

00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:15.900
 at one

00:44:15.900 --> 00:44:16.679
 another.

00:44:17.299 --> 00:44:18.099
 Proverbs 18

00:44:18.099 --> 00:44:18.880
 verse 1 says

00:44:18.880 --> 00:44:19.539
 that we would

00:44:19.539 --> 00:44:20.699
 not break out

00:44:20.699 --> 00:44:21.139
 against, but

00:44:21.139 --> 00:44:21.379
 that we

00:44:21.379 --> 00:44:22.099
 would seek

00:44:22.099 --> 00:44:25.079
 sound judgment.

00:44:26.460 --> 00:44:26.980
 And if you

00:44:26.980 --> 00:44:27.299
 are in the

00:44:27.299 --> 00:44:28.079
 process of

00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:28.759
 helping someone

00:44:28.759 --> 00:44:30.400
 else, reminding

00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:31.759
 someone else of

00:44:31.759 --> 00:44:33.259
 what God has

00:44:33.259 --> 00:44:34.920
 done, this

00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:36.539
 also often

00:44:36.539 --> 00:44:38.339
 takes great

00:44:38.339 --> 00:44:40.239
 patience and

00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:40.679
 repetition.

00:44:41.319 --> 00:44:43.259
 It takes time

00:44:43.259 --> 00:44:44.539
 to sit with

00:44:44.539 --> 00:44:45.799
 somebody and

00:44:45.799 --> 00:44:46.359
 to hear what

00:44:46.359 --> 00:44:47.099
 they're experiencing

00:44:47.099 --> 00:44:47.879
 and help them

00:44:47.879 --> 00:44:48.960
 to sort through

00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:50.039
 the complexity

00:44:50.039 --> 00:44:50.539
 of it.

00:44:50.539 --> 00:44:51.759
 you may

00:44:51.759 --> 00:44:52.579
 speak truth

00:44:52.579 --> 00:44:53.259
 to someone

00:44:53.259 --> 00:44:54.380
 and they

00:44:54.380 --> 00:44:54.940
 say they

00:44:54.940 --> 00:44:55.480
 get it and

00:44:55.480 --> 00:44:56.039
 they go live

00:44:56.039 --> 00:44:56.840
 in absolute

00:44:56.840 --> 00:44:57.440
 contradiction

00:44:57.440 --> 00:44:58.800
 to it.

00:44:59.360 --> 00:44:59.920
 In counseling

00:44:59.920 --> 00:45:01.019
 people who

00:45:01.019 --> 00:45:01.480
 are experiencing

00:45:01.480 --> 00:45:03.539
 depression, I

00:45:03.539 --> 00:45:04.599
 so desperately

00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:05.400
 want at the

00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:06.000
 end of that

00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:06.639
 counseling session

00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:07.320
 the person to

00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:07.940
 go, I feel

00:45:07.940 --> 00:45:08.579
 great now.

00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:09.940
 Thank you so

00:45:09.940 --> 00:45:10.440
 much.

00:45:11.719 --> 00:45:12.460
 And very

00:45:12.460 --> 00:45:13.800
 rarely they

00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:14.159
 do.

00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:15.800
 It takes

00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:16.579
 time for

00:45:16.579 --> 00:45:17.079
 truth to

00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:17.619
 settle into

00:45:17.619 --> 00:45:18.279
 our hearts,

00:45:18.380 --> 00:45:18.519
 right?

00:45:18.559 --> 00:45:19.279
 To take root

00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:19.620
 and to

00:45:19.620 --> 00:45:20.900
 bring forth

00:45:20.900 --> 00:45:21.420
 fruit.

00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:22.500
 And especially

00:45:22.500 --> 00:45:23.180
 when people are

00:45:23.180 --> 00:45:23.940
 dealing with an

00:45:23.940 --> 00:45:25.880
 irrational sorrow,

00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:26.680
 it's just so

00:45:26.680 --> 00:45:27.560
 difficult for them

00:45:27.560 --> 00:45:28.220
 to pick them

00:45:28.220 --> 00:45:29.460
 up and to

00:45:29.460 --> 00:45:29.780
 carry them

00:45:29.780 --> 00:45:30.760
 around as

00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:31.420
 they should.

00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:32.840
 So be patient

00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:34.300
 with your church

00:45:34.300 --> 00:45:35.560
 members, your

00:45:35.560 --> 00:45:36.240
 friends and your

00:45:36.240 --> 00:45:37.060
 family that are

00:45:37.060 --> 00:45:38.200
 experiencing this

00:45:38.200 --> 00:45:39.500
 kind of sadness.

00:45:40.019 --> 00:45:41.420
 Continue to sit

00:45:41.420 --> 00:45:42.240
 alongside them.

00:45:43.040 --> 00:45:43.960
 Sometimes they need

00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:44.740
 you to be quiet

00:45:44.739 --> 00:45:46.139
 and just let

00:45:46.139 --> 00:45:46.879
 them speak.

00:45:47.500 --> 00:45:48.279
 Proverbs 25

00:45:48.279 --> 00:45:48.899
 and verse 20

00:45:48.899 --> 00:45:49.799
 says, whoever

00:45:49.799 --> 00:45:51.239
 sings songs to

00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:52.039
 a heavy heart

00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:53.379
 is like one

00:45:53.379 --> 00:45:54.099
 who takes off

00:45:54.099 --> 00:45:55.359
 a garment on

00:45:55.359 --> 00:45:56.179
 a cold day.

00:45:57.879 --> 00:45:58.699
 They're saying

00:45:58.699 --> 00:45:59.559
 you're foolish.

00:46:00.919 --> 00:46:01.719
 Don't sing

00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:03.500
 songs to a

00:46:03.500 --> 00:46:03.979
 heavy heart.

00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:04.459
 This is not

00:46:04.459 --> 00:46:05.059
 what they need

00:46:05.059 --> 00:46:05.679
 right now.

00:46:06.299 --> 00:46:07.279
 And then the

00:46:07.279 --> 00:46:07.699
 verse goes on

00:46:07.699 --> 00:46:08.259
 to say, and

00:46:08.259 --> 00:46:08.959
 like vinegar

00:46:08.959 --> 00:46:10.479
 on soda.

00:46:11.299 --> 00:46:11.979
 Because of all

00:46:11.979 --> 00:46:13.899
 major volcano

00:46:13.900 --> 00:46:14.940
 erupt at some

00:46:14.940 --> 00:46:15.280
 point.

00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:17.000
 It's agitating.

00:46:18.340 --> 00:46:19.059
 Come around a

00:46:19.059 --> 00:46:19.760
 person who's sad

00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:20.280
 and just be

00:46:20.280 --> 00:46:20.920
 cheery and think

00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:21.420
 that's the

00:46:21.420 --> 00:46:22.300
 resolution for

00:46:22.300 --> 00:46:23.780
 their sadness.

00:46:24.380 --> 00:46:25.420
 So often it's

00:46:25.420 --> 00:46:26.320
 a listening ear,

00:46:26.880 --> 00:46:28.000
 a kind word,

00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:29.519
 a prayer,

00:46:30.059 --> 00:46:30.720
 and a hug.

00:46:31.019 --> 00:46:31.619
 And that's what

00:46:31.619 --> 00:46:32.220
 you can do for

00:46:32.220 --> 00:46:34.220
 the person in

00:46:34.220 --> 00:46:35.000
 that moment.

00:46:36.260 --> 00:46:37.160
 Proverbs 20

00:46:37.160 --> 00:46:38.300
 verse 5 says,

00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:38.960
 the purpose in

00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:39.579
 a man's heart

00:46:39.579 --> 00:46:40.500
 is like deep

00:46:40.500 --> 00:46:41.380
 water.

00:46:42.380 --> 00:46:43.119
 But a man of

00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:43.820
 understanding,

00:46:43.900 --> 00:46:45.519
 will draw it

00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:45.840
 out.

00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:47.260
 It's a patient

00:46:47.260 --> 00:46:47.740
 work.

00:46:48.160 --> 00:46:48.960
 It takes time

00:46:48.960 --> 00:46:49.519
 to help

00:46:49.519 --> 00:46:51.119
 somebody work

00:46:51.119 --> 00:46:51.579
 through that.

00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:53.079
 I know I'm

00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:53.639
 running a bit

00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:54.220
 short on time,

00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:54.599
 but I'm going

00:46:54.599 --> 00:46:54.880
 to read a

00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:55.320
 children's book

00:46:55.320 --> 00:46:55.660
 to you.

00:46:56.340 --> 00:46:56.900
 And I hope

00:46:56.900 --> 00:46:57.260
 you'll forgive

00:46:57.260 --> 00:46:57.840
 me the time.

00:46:58.860 --> 00:46:59.200
 That's why I've

00:46:59.200 --> 00:46:59.619
 done a foolish

00:46:59.619 --> 00:46:59.980
 thing with a

00:46:59.980 --> 00:47:00.300
 shirt this

00:47:00.300 --> 00:47:00.619
 morning, and

00:47:00.619 --> 00:47:00.800
 now I'm

00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:01.119
 going to read

00:47:01.119 --> 00:47:01.480
 a book,

00:47:01.740 --> 00:47:02.160
 a children's

00:47:02.160 --> 00:47:02.700
 book, on

00:47:02.700 --> 00:47:02.860
 Sunday

00:47:02.860 --> 00:47:03.099
 morning.

00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:05.539
 This book

00:47:05.539 --> 00:47:06.059
 is phenomenal.

00:47:06.300 --> 00:47:06.840
 As a person

00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:07.240
 who deals

00:47:07.240 --> 00:47:08.360
 with sadness,

00:47:08.920 --> 00:47:09.579
 I cried the

00:47:09.579 --> 00:47:10.039
 first time I

00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:10.380
 read it.

00:47:10.380 --> 00:47:13.860
 my mother-in-law

00:47:13.860 --> 00:47:14.599
 got it for

00:47:14.599 --> 00:47:15.960
 Silas, because

00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:16.660
 Silas is

00:47:16.660 --> 00:47:17.380
 sometimes grumpy,

00:47:17.820 --> 00:47:18.220
 and the book

00:47:18.220 --> 00:47:18.599
 is entitled

00:47:18.599 --> 00:47:19.220
 Grumpy Monkey.

00:47:20.820 --> 00:47:21.300
 And I don't

00:47:21.300 --> 00:47:21.579
 think she

00:47:21.579 --> 00:47:22.079
 realized that

00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:22.400
 it's a book

00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:23.019
 about depression.

00:47:24.640 --> 00:47:25.220
 So I said,

00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:25.500
 hey buddy,

00:47:25.539 --> 00:47:25.800
 let's read

00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:26.019
 your new

00:47:26.019 --> 00:47:26.300
 book.

00:47:27.079 --> 00:47:28.519
 And it

00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:28.800
 brought me

00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:29.240
 to tears.

00:47:29.700 --> 00:47:30.260
 Now, this

00:47:30.260 --> 00:47:30.780
 is not a

00:47:30.780 --> 00:47:33.220
 complete prescription

00:47:33.220 --> 00:47:33.860
 for how to help

00:47:33.860 --> 00:47:34.480
 somebody with

00:47:34.480 --> 00:47:34.700
 sorrow.

00:47:34.900 --> 00:47:35.220
 That's not the

00:47:35.220 --> 00:47:35.480
 point I'm

00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:35.920
 trying to make.

00:47:36.140 --> 00:47:36.500
 But I think

00:47:36.500 --> 00:47:37.000
 you'll appreciate it,

00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:37.300
 and I'll try to

00:47:37.300 --> 00:47:37.539
 show you the

00:47:37.539 --> 00:47:38.420
 pictures as best

00:47:38.420 --> 00:47:38.700
 I can.

00:47:39.300 --> 00:47:39.780
 Sorry if I

00:47:39.780 --> 00:47:40.039
 don't pan

00:47:40.039 --> 00:47:40.420
 them around

00:47:40.420 --> 00:47:41.039
 for the sake

00:47:41.039 --> 00:47:41.260
 of time.

00:47:43.079 --> 00:47:43.300
 Okay.

00:47:44.180 --> 00:47:44.880
 One wonderful

00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:45.220
 day,

00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:46.260
 Jim Pansy

00:47:46.260 --> 00:47:46.920
 woke to

00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:47.820
 discover that

00:47:47.820 --> 00:47:49.280
 nothing was

00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:49.619
 right.

00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:51.220
 The sun was

00:47:51.220 --> 00:47:51.639
 too bright,

00:47:51.720 --> 00:47:52.460
 the sky was

00:47:52.460 --> 00:47:53.460
 too blue,

00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:54.440
 and the

00:47:54.440 --> 00:47:55.460
 bananas were

00:47:55.460 --> 00:47:56.079
 too sweet.

00:47:57.760 --> 00:47:58.240
 Disproportionate,

00:47:58.300 --> 00:47:58.460
 right?

00:47:58.780 --> 00:47:59.300
 None of that

00:47:59.300 --> 00:47:59.659
 makes any

00:47:59.659 --> 00:47:59.960
 sense.

00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:04.019
 Jim was

00:48:04.019 --> 00:48:04.559
 confused.

00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:05.079
 Jim was

00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:05.400
 the gorilla.

00:48:06.460 --> 00:48:07.099
 What's going

00:48:07.099 --> 00:48:07.460
 on?

00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:09.940
 Maybe you're

00:48:09.940 --> 00:48:14.860
 grumpy,

00:48:14.980 --> 00:48:15.320
 suggested

00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:16.059
 Norman from

00:48:16.059 --> 00:48:16.559
 next door.

00:48:17.420 --> 00:48:18.180
 I'm not

00:48:18.180 --> 00:48:18.680
 grumpy,

00:48:19.119 --> 00:48:19.700
 Jim insisted.

00:48:23.780 --> 00:48:24.480
 On his

00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:25.000
 walk, he

00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:25.280
 met

00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:25.980
 Marabou.

00:48:26.820 --> 00:48:27.340
 Jim's

00:48:27.340 --> 00:48:27.680
 grumpy,

00:48:28.019 --> 00:48:28.360
 Norman told

00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:28.800
 Marabou.

00:48:29.500 --> 00:48:29.920
 Why are you

00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:30.159
 grumpy,

00:48:30.260 --> 00:48:30.680
 Jim, asked

00:48:30.680 --> 00:48:31.099
 Marabou.

00:48:31.380 --> 00:48:32.139
 It's such a

00:48:32.139 --> 00:48:32.840
 wonderful day.

00:48:33.639 --> 00:48:34.180
 They're singing

00:48:34.180 --> 00:48:35.039
 songs to the

00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:35.420
 person who's

00:48:35.420 --> 00:48:35.820
 heavy-hearted.

00:48:36.639 --> 00:48:37.380
 What's wrong

00:48:37.380 --> 00:48:37.720
 with you?

00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:38.539
 It's such a

00:48:38.539 --> 00:48:39.159
 wonderful day.

00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:41.000
 Grumpy?

00:48:41.359 --> 00:48:41.559
 Me?

00:48:41.980 --> 00:48:42.419
 I'm not

00:48:42.419 --> 00:48:42.799
 grumpy,

00:48:43.219 --> 00:48:43.699
 said Jim.

00:48:44.299 --> 00:48:45.099
 But look at

00:48:45.099 --> 00:48:45.379
 how you're

00:48:45.379 --> 00:48:45.819
 standing,

00:48:45.980 --> 00:48:46.539
 Marabou said.

00:48:47.099 --> 00:48:47.919
 It's true,

00:48:48.039 --> 00:48:48.459
 said Norman.

00:48:48.799 --> 00:48:49.439
 You're all

00:48:49.439 --> 00:48:50.139
 hunched.

00:48:50.899 --> 00:48:51.399
 So Jim

00:48:51.399 --> 00:48:52.099
 loosened up.

00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:52.419
 I don't know if

00:48:52.419 --> 00:48:52.719
 you can see that

00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:53.139
 picture, but he

00:48:53.139 --> 00:48:53.679
 goes like this.

00:48:58.059 --> 00:48:58.859
 Then he ran

00:48:58.859 --> 00:48:59.179
 into the

00:48:59.179 --> 00:48:59.439
 lemur.

00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:00.619
 Jim's

00:49:00.619 --> 00:49:00.939
 grumpy,

00:49:01.299 --> 00:49:01.659
 Norman told

00:49:01.659 --> 00:49:01.899
 the lemur.

00:49:01.900 --> 00:49:03.000
 Why are you

00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:03.220
 grumpy,

00:49:03.300 --> 00:49:03.680
 Jim, asked

00:49:03.680 --> 00:49:03.940
 lemur.

00:49:04.180 --> 00:49:04.820
 It's such a

00:49:04.820 --> 00:49:05.539
 wonderful day.

00:49:06.460 --> 00:49:06.820
 Grumpy?

00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:07.360
 Me?

00:49:07.900 --> 00:49:08.380
 I'm not

00:49:08.380 --> 00:49:08.800
 grumpy,

00:49:09.220 --> 00:49:09.700
 said Jim.

00:49:10.519 --> 00:49:11.400
 Your eyebrows

00:49:11.400 --> 00:49:11.940
 look grumpy,

00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:12.700
 said lemur.

00:49:13.200 --> 00:49:13.820
 It's true,

00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:14.440
 said Norman.

00:49:14.720 --> 00:49:15.180
 They're all

00:49:15.180 --> 00:49:15.860
 bunched up.

00:49:16.579 --> 00:49:17.059
 So Jim

00:49:17.059 --> 00:49:17.820
 raised his

00:49:17.820 --> 00:49:18.180
 brow.

00:49:18.280 --> 00:49:18.519
 He's going

00:49:18.519 --> 00:49:18.840
 like this,

00:49:18.940 --> 00:49:19.260
 pulling his

00:49:19.260 --> 00:49:19.700
 eyelids up.

00:49:23.300 --> 00:49:23.880
 Then he

00:49:23.880 --> 00:49:24.559
 tripped over

00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:24.940
 snake.

00:49:25.720 --> 00:49:26.400
 Oh no,

00:49:26.559 --> 00:49:26.920
 said Norman.

00:49:27.180 --> 00:49:27.840
 That's the last

00:49:27.840 --> 00:49:28.200
 thing you need

00:49:28.200 --> 00:49:28.440
 when you're

00:49:28.440 --> 00:49:28.860
 feeling so

00:49:28.860 --> 00:49:29.180
 grumpy.

00:49:29.980 --> 00:49:30.379
 Grumpy?

00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:30.839
 Me?

00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:31.500
 I'm not

00:49:31.500 --> 00:49:31.799
 grumpy,

00:49:31.919 --> 00:49:32.319
 said Jim.

00:49:33.159 --> 00:49:33.779
 Then why

00:49:33.779 --> 00:49:34.440
 that frown,

00:49:34.579 --> 00:49:35.119
 said snake.

00:49:35.579 --> 00:49:36.279
 I think it's

00:49:36.279 --> 00:49:36.659
 because he

00:49:36.659 --> 00:49:37.059
 tripped over

00:49:37.059 --> 00:49:37.639
 you, Norman

00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:38.359
 whispered snake.

00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:39.799
 So Jim

00:49:39.799 --> 00:49:40.359
 put on a

00:49:40.359 --> 00:49:40.739
 smile.

00:49:44.199 --> 00:49:44.599
 Finally,

00:49:45.139 --> 00:49:45.619
 Jim looked

00:49:45.619 --> 00:49:46.019
 happy.

00:49:46.179 --> 00:49:46.419
 I hope you

00:49:46.419 --> 00:49:46.659
 can see

00:49:46.659 --> 00:49:46.980
 this.

00:49:48.579 --> 00:49:50.239
 But people

00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:50.480
 who are

00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:50.859
 dealing with

00:49:50.859 --> 00:49:51.480
 deep sorrow,

00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:52.199
 with depression,

00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:53.699
 this is how

00:49:53.699 --> 00:49:54.419
 they feel like

00:49:54.419 --> 00:49:54.819
 they have to

00:49:54.819 --> 00:49:55.159
 act.

00:49:56.899 --> 00:49:57.559
 This is why

00:49:57.559 --> 00:49:58.819
 sometimes they

00:49:58.820 --> 00:49:59.220
 don't come

00:49:59.220 --> 00:49:59.680
 together.

00:50:00.200 --> 00:50:00.640
 Because they

00:50:00.640 --> 00:50:01.100
 just can't

00:50:01.100 --> 00:50:01.460
 do it.

00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:01.820
 They're just

00:50:01.820 --> 00:50:02.500
 exhausted.

00:50:03.059 --> 00:50:03.440
 They can't

00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:03.860
 put this

00:50:03.860 --> 00:50:05.260
 face on.

00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:06.320
 I really

00:50:06.320 --> 00:50:06.640
 hope one

00:50:06.640 --> 00:50:06.820
 of you

00:50:06.820 --> 00:50:07.300
 comes in

00:50:07.300 --> 00:50:07.840
 doing that

00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:08.240
 some Sunday

00:50:08.240 --> 00:50:08.480
 morning.

00:50:09.640 --> 00:50:10.160
 I'll know

00:50:10.160 --> 00:50:10.440
 how you

00:50:10.440 --> 00:50:10.660
 feel.

00:50:12.380 --> 00:50:13.500
 But he

00:50:13.500 --> 00:50:13.980
 didn't feel

00:50:13.980 --> 00:50:14.700
 happy inside.

00:50:17.019 --> 00:50:17.460
 Everyone

00:50:17.460 --> 00:50:17.960
 wanted Jim

00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:18.500
 to enjoy

00:50:18.500 --> 00:50:19.100
 this wonderful

00:50:19.100 --> 00:50:19.480
 day.

00:50:20.100 --> 00:50:20.480
 You should

00:50:20.480 --> 00:50:21.000
 sing with

00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:21.180
 us,

00:50:21.260 --> 00:50:21.460
 said the

00:50:21.460 --> 00:50:21.780
 birds.

00:50:22.500 --> 00:50:22.640
 Jim

00:50:22.640 --> 00:50:23.039
 didn't feel

00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:23.480
 like singing.

00:50:24.240 --> 00:50:24.700
 You should

00:50:24.700 --> 00:50:25.260
 swing with

00:50:25.260 --> 00:50:25.460
 us,

00:50:25.519 --> 00:50:25.700
 said the

00:50:25.700 --> 00:50:26.019
 monkeys.

00:50:26.780 --> 00:50:26.940
 Jim

00:50:26.940 --> 00:50:27.320
 didn't feel

00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:27.780
 like swinging.

00:50:28.820 --> 00:50:30.059
 You should

00:50:30.059 --> 00:50:30.580
 roll with

00:50:30.580 --> 00:50:30.760
 us,

00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:31.039
 said the

00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:31.320
 zebras.

00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:32.140
 Jim

00:50:32.140 --> 00:50:32.500
 didn't feel

00:50:32.500 --> 00:50:32.960
 like rolling.

00:50:33.660 --> 00:50:34.220
 You should

00:50:34.220 --> 00:50:34.860
 stroll with

00:50:34.860 --> 00:50:35.059
 us,

00:50:35.220 --> 00:50:35.400
 said the

00:50:35.400 --> 00:50:35.900
 peacocks.

00:50:36.380 --> 00:50:36.559
 Jim

00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:36.980
 didn't feel

00:50:36.980 --> 00:50:37.600
 like strolling.

00:50:38.380 --> 00:50:38.960
 You should

00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:39.720
 lie in the

00:50:39.720 --> 00:50:40.160
 grass.

00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:41.200
 You should

00:50:41.200 --> 00:50:41.760
 stomp

00:50:41.760 --> 00:50:42.519
 your feet.

00:50:43.780 --> 00:50:44.500
 You should

00:50:44.500 --> 00:50:45.180
 take a bath

00:50:45.180 --> 00:50:45.800
 and make a

00:50:45.800 --> 00:50:46.320
 splash.

00:50:47.039 --> 00:50:47.420
 You should

00:50:47.420 --> 00:50:48.120
 hug someone.

00:50:48.780 --> 00:50:49.160
 You should

00:50:49.160 --> 00:50:49.660
 laugh.

00:50:50.240 --> 00:50:50.559
 You should

00:50:50.559 --> 00:50:51.260
 take a nap.

00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:52.280
 You should

00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:52.980
 eat old

00:50:52.980 --> 00:50:54.500
 meat or

00:50:54.500 --> 00:50:55.059
 some honey.

00:50:56.160 --> 00:50:56.539
 You should

00:50:56.539 --> 00:50:57.039
 jump up and

00:50:57.039 --> 00:50:57.360
 down.

00:50:57.360 --> 00:50:58.480
 You should

00:50:58.480 --> 00:50:59.120
 sit in the

00:50:59.120 --> 00:50:59.440
 sun.

00:50:59.640 --> 00:50:59.940
 I love

00:50:59.940 --> 00:51:00.280
 all these

00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:00.820
 animals are

00:51:00.820 --> 00:51:01.559
 doing things

00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:01.760
 that are

00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:02.900
 characteristic of

00:51:02.900 --> 00:51:03.300
 their animal.

00:51:03.539 --> 00:51:03.800
 And then the

00:51:03.800 --> 00:51:04.480
 porcupine says,

00:51:04.700 --> 00:51:05.340
 you should

00:51:05.340 --> 00:51:05.760
 dance.

00:51:09.160 --> 00:51:10.059
 So everyone's

00:51:10.059 --> 00:51:10.640
 got a solution.

00:51:11.140 --> 00:51:11.800
 Everyone's got

00:51:11.800 --> 00:51:12.280
 an offering,

00:51:12.420 --> 00:51:13.480
 some piece of

00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:14.720
 advice for

00:51:14.720 --> 00:51:15.440
 Jim and his

00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:15.900
 grumpiness.

00:51:16.599 --> 00:51:17.320
 But Jim didn't

00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:18.039
 feel like doing

00:51:18.039 --> 00:51:18.880
 any of that.

00:51:19.640 --> 00:51:20.240
 Why are you

00:51:20.240 --> 00:51:20.559
 grumpy,

00:51:20.700 --> 00:51:20.900
 Jim?

00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:21.400
 Asked the

00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:21.700
 others.

00:51:21.800 --> 00:51:22.760
 It's such a

00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:23.860
 wonderful day.

00:51:25.539 --> 00:51:26.140
 Jim yells,

00:51:26.139 --> 00:51:27.460
 I'm not

00:51:27.460 --> 00:51:28.500
 grumpy,

00:51:28.739 --> 00:51:29.239
 shouted Jim

00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:29.859
 as he beat

00:51:29.859 --> 00:51:30.460
 his chest.

00:51:33.500 --> 00:51:34.159
 And he

00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:34.799
 stormed off.

00:51:39.299 --> 00:51:40.079
 Jim felt

00:51:40.079 --> 00:51:40.500
 sorry.

00:51:41.159 --> 00:51:41.539
 A little

00:51:41.539 --> 00:51:42.000
 sorry for

00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:42.460
 shouting at

00:51:42.460 --> 00:51:42.699
 everyone,

00:51:42.839 --> 00:51:43.500
 but mostly

00:51:43.500 --> 00:51:44.259
 sorry for

00:51:44.259 --> 00:51:44.739
 himself.

00:51:45.759 --> 00:51:46.359
 I guess I

00:51:46.359 --> 00:51:46.879
 am grumpy,

00:51:47.179 --> 00:51:47.699
 Jim sighed.

00:51:48.179 --> 00:51:48.980
 And just as

00:51:48.980 --> 00:51:49.500
 he was starting

00:51:49.500 --> 00:51:50.539
 to feel really

00:51:50.539 --> 00:51:51.119
 sad,

00:51:51.799 --> 00:51:52.480
 he came

00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:53.699
 upon Norman.

00:51:53.699 --> 00:51:55.500
 Norman was

00:51:55.500 --> 00:51:55.980
 slumped,

00:51:56.460 --> 00:51:57.099
 his eyebrows

00:51:57.099 --> 00:51:57.659
 were bunched

00:51:57.659 --> 00:51:57.939
 up,

00:51:58.339 --> 00:51:58.899
 and he was

00:51:58.899 --> 00:51:59.399
 frowning.

00:52:00.279 --> 00:52:00.719
 What's the

00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:00.980
 matter?

00:52:01.480 --> 00:52:01.879
 Are you

00:52:01.879 --> 00:52:02.259
 grumpy?

00:52:02.699 --> 00:52:03.259
 Asked Jim.

00:52:05.059 --> 00:52:05.599
 No,

00:52:06.119 --> 00:52:06.819
 I dance with

00:52:06.819 --> 00:52:07.399
 porcupine,

00:52:07.619 --> 00:52:08.139
 said Norman.

00:52:13.139 --> 00:52:13.699
 Circumstantial

00:52:13.699 --> 00:52:14.500
 sorrow,

00:52:14.839 --> 00:52:15.039
 right?

00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:15.619
 Something

00:52:15.619 --> 00:52:16.079
 happened,

00:52:16.500 --> 00:52:16.939
 he's feeling

00:52:16.939 --> 00:52:17.419
 pain,

00:52:18.219 --> 00:52:19.299
 a little grumpy

00:52:19.299 --> 00:52:19.759
 about that.

00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:23.380
 Are you

00:52:23.380 --> 00:52:23.740
 okay?

00:52:23.980 --> 00:52:24.520
 Asked Jim.

00:52:25.080 --> 00:52:25.920
 It hurts,

00:52:26.200 --> 00:52:26.440
 but I'll

00:52:26.440 --> 00:52:26.900
 probably feel

00:52:26.900 --> 00:52:27.420
 better soon

00:52:27.420 --> 00:52:27.760
 enough,

00:52:27.900 --> 00:52:28.320
 said Norman.

00:52:28.860 --> 00:52:29.280
 Are you

00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:29.760
 still grumpy?

00:52:30.720 --> 00:52:31.000
 Yes,

00:52:31.080 --> 00:52:31.440
 said Jim,

00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:32.200
 but I'll

00:52:32.200 --> 00:52:32.620
 probably feel

00:52:32.620 --> 00:52:33.320
 better soon

00:52:33.320 --> 00:52:33.900
 enough too.

00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:35.100
 For now,

00:52:35.580 --> 00:52:36.200
 I need to

00:52:36.200 --> 00:52:36.620
 be grumpy.

00:52:37.380 --> 00:52:37.980
 It's a

00:52:37.980 --> 00:52:38.440
 wonderful day

00:52:38.440 --> 00:52:38.960
 to be grumpy,

00:52:39.340 --> 00:52:39.860
 said Norman.

00:52:40.780 --> 00:52:41.820
 Jim agreed.

00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:44.380
 And he

00:52:44.380 --> 00:52:45.180
 already felt

00:52:45.180 --> 00:52:46.420
 a little bit

00:52:46.420 --> 00:52:46.720
 better.

00:52:46.719 --> 00:52:50.279
 So,

00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:51.779
 I've read

00:52:51.779 --> 00:52:52.099
 this to a

00:52:52.099 --> 00:52:52.259
 lot of

00:52:52.259 --> 00:52:52.619
 people in

00:52:52.619 --> 00:52:53.059
 my study.

00:52:57.019 --> 00:52:57.659
 People who

00:52:57.659 --> 00:52:58.000
 are feeling

00:52:58.000 --> 00:52:58.679
 sorrowful

00:52:58.679 --> 00:53:00.579
 need

00:53:00.579 --> 00:53:02.000
 fewer

00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:02.719
 porcupines

00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:03.759
 and more

00:53:03.759 --> 00:53:04.919
 Normans.

00:53:05.500 --> 00:53:06.179
 Someone who's

00:53:06.179 --> 00:53:06.639
 willing to

00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:08.000
 sit and

00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:08.519
 willing to

00:53:08.519 --> 00:53:09.799
 listen and

00:53:09.799 --> 00:53:10.859
 be patient

00:53:10.859 --> 00:53:11.399
 through the

00:53:11.399 --> 00:53:11.819
 process.

00:53:11.919 --> 00:53:12.019
 Now,

00:53:12.079 --> 00:53:12.279
 the book

00:53:12.279 --> 00:53:12.699
 falls apart

00:53:12.699 --> 00:53:13.019
 because,

00:53:13.199 --> 00:53:13.639
 of course,

00:53:14.059 --> 00:53:14.259
 Norman

00:53:14.259 --> 00:53:14.839
 doesn't offer

00:53:14.839 --> 00:53:15.199
 him any

00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:15.480
 biblical

00:53:15.480 --> 00:53:15.859
 wisdom.

00:53:15.860 --> 00:53:18.380
 I would

00:53:18.380 --> 00:53:18.660
 like to

00:53:18.660 --> 00:53:18.840
 write

00:53:18.840 --> 00:53:19.160
 Grumpy

00:53:19.160 --> 00:53:19.760
 Monkey 2

00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:20.420
 where Norman

00:53:20.420 --> 00:53:20.920
 helps

00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:23.480
 Jim see

00:53:23.480 --> 00:53:24.700
 that his

00:53:24.700 --> 00:53:25.140
 countenance

00:53:25.140 --> 00:53:25.440
 should be

00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:26.059
 lifted because

00:53:26.059 --> 00:53:26.480
 of what the

00:53:26.480 --> 00:53:26.800
 Lord has

00:53:26.800 --> 00:53:27.160
 done

00:53:27.160 --> 00:53:30.000
 for a

00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:30.200
 monkey.

00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:30.559
 Okay.

00:53:33.140 --> 00:53:33.660
 Finally,

00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:35.640
 the Bible

00:53:35.640 --> 00:53:35.900
 gives us

00:53:35.900 --> 00:53:36.519
 release from

00:53:36.519 --> 00:53:37.160
 our sorrow

00:53:37.160 --> 00:53:38.380
 lastly,

00:53:39.160 --> 00:53:39.440
 through

00:53:39.440 --> 00:53:39.920
 remembering

00:53:39.920 --> 00:53:40.240
 and being

00:53:40.240 --> 00:53:40.780
 reminded of

00:53:40.780 --> 00:53:41.160
 what God

00:53:41.160 --> 00:53:41.599
 is doing

00:53:41.599 --> 00:53:41.980
 and what

00:53:41.980 --> 00:53:42.300
 he has

00:53:42.300 --> 00:53:42.720
 promised

00:53:42.720 --> 00:53:44.460
 to do.

00:53:44.460 --> 00:53:45.559
 what he

00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:45.880
 is doing

00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:46.380
 and what

00:53:46.380 --> 00:53:46.539
 he's

00:53:46.539 --> 00:53:46.800
 promised

00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:47.019
 to do.

00:53:47.079 --> 00:53:47.360
 What he's

00:53:47.360 --> 00:53:47.820
 done

00:53:47.820 --> 00:53:49.300
 roots for

00:53:49.300 --> 00:53:50.099
 us what

00:53:50.099 --> 00:53:50.360
 he is

00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:50.820
 doing and

00:53:50.820 --> 00:53:51.059
 what he's

00:53:51.059 --> 00:53:51.440
 promised

00:53:51.440 --> 00:53:52.320
 to do.

00:53:52.619 --> 00:53:52.940
 He's

00:53:52.940 --> 00:53:53.679
 done good

00:53:53.679 --> 00:53:54.340
 things.

00:53:54.820 --> 00:53:55.139
 Meditating

00:53:55.139 --> 00:53:55.960
 on that

00:53:55.960 --> 00:53:57.159
 helps us

00:53:57.159 --> 00:53:57.780
 to believe

00:53:57.780 --> 00:53:58.300
 that he's

00:53:58.300 --> 00:53:59.059
 doing good

00:53:59.059 --> 00:53:59.639
 things and

00:53:59.639 --> 00:54:00.780
 will finally

00:54:00.780 --> 00:54:02.500
 do good

00:54:02.500 --> 00:54:03.059
 things.

00:54:03.760 --> 00:54:04.760
 Verse 16,

00:54:04.900 --> 00:54:05.599
 Psalm 77,

00:54:05.599 --> 00:54:35.579
 verse 16,

00:54:35.579 --> 00:54:35.739
 where does

00:54:35.739 --> 00:54:36.779
 Asaph's mind

00:54:36.779 --> 00:54:37.599
 specifically

00:54:37.599 --> 00:54:38.259
 go to

00:54:38.259 --> 00:54:39.340
 relieve his

00:54:39.340 --> 00:54:39.699
 sorrow?

00:54:40.019 --> 00:54:40.299
 In the

00:54:40.299 --> 00:54:40.619
 previous

00:54:40.619 --> 00:54:41.019
 stanza,

00:54:41.139 --> 00:54:41.400
 it was

00:54:41.400 --> 00:54:41.980
 general,

00:54:42.779 --> 00:54:43.099
 but now

00:54:43.099 --> 00:54:43.980
 specifically,

00:54:44.420 --> 00:54:45.679
 it goes to

00:54:45.679 --> 00:54:46.519
 the Exodus

00:54:46.519 --> 00:54:47.559
 story.

00:54:48.739 --> 00:54:49.099
 Asaph

00:54:49.099 --> 00:54:49.739
 remembers

00:54:49.739 --> 00:54:51.400
 that God

00:54:51.400 --> 00:54:52.179
 delivered his

00:54:52.179 --> 00:54:53.259
 people from

00:54:53.259 --> 00:54:53.860
 the shackles

00:54:53.860 --> 00:54:54.480
 of slavery.

00:54:55.440 --> 00:54:56.259
 We know

00:54:56.259 --> 00:54:56.599
 that this

00:54:56.599 --> 00:54:57.159
 Exodus was

00:54:57.159 --> 00:54:57.679
 a shadow

00:54:57.679 --> 00:54:58.059
 of a

00:54:58.059 --> 00:54:58.480
 greater

00:54:58.480 --> 00:54:59.519
 delivery.

00:55:00.139 --> 00:55:00.860
 It was

00:55:00.860 --> 00:55:01.679
 with this

00:55:01.679 --> 00:55:02.400
 in mind,

00:55:02.539 --> 00:55:02.880
 as Paul

00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:03.380
 writes in

00:55:03.380 --> 00:55:03.940
 Romans 8,

00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:04.500
 about living

00:55:04.500 --> 00:55:04.800
 in the

00:55:04.800 --> 00:55:05.460
 spirit that

00:55:05.460 --> 00:55:06.179
 he says,

00:55:06.420 --> 00:55:06.760
 in verse

00:55:06.760 --> 00:55:07.260
 15,

00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:08.019
 for you

00:55:08.019 --> 00:55:08.239
 do not

00:55:08.239 --> 00:55:08.820
 receive the

00:55:08.820 --> 00:55:09.239
 spirit of

00:55:09.239 --> 00:55:10.039
 slavery to

00:55:10.039 --> 00:55:10.579
 fall back

00:55:10.579 --> 00:55:11.239
 into fear,

00:55:11.800 --> 00:55:12.239
 but you

00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:12.739
 have received

00:55:12.739 --> 00:55:13.300
 the spirit

00:55:13.300 --> 00:55:14.099
 of adoption

00:55:14.099 --> 00:55:15.599
 as sons,

00:55:15.860 --> 00:55:16.639
 by whom

00:55:16.639 --> 00:55:17.320
 we cry,

00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:17.920
 Abba,

00:55:18.079 --> 00:55:18.480
 Father.

00:55:19.559 --> 00:55:20.099
 The spirit

00:55:20.099 --> 00:55:20.940
 himself bears

00:55:20.940 --> 00:55:21.420
 witness with

00:55:21.420 --> 00:55:22.039
 our spirit

00:55:22.039 --> 00:55:22.539
 that we are

00:55:22.539 --> 00:55:23.300
 children of

00:55:23.300 --> 00:55:23.659
 God,

00:55:23.739 --> 00:55:23.980
 and if

00:55:23.980 --> 00:55:24.380
 children,

00:55:24.519 --> 00:55:25.079
 then heirs,

00:55:25.460 --> 00:55:25.880
 heirs of

00:55:25.880 --> 00:55:26.280
 God and

00:55:26.280 --> 00:55:26.780
 fellow heirs

00:55:26.780 --> 00:55:27.440
 with Christ,

00:55:28.320 --> 00:55:29.860
 provided we

00:55:29.860 --> 00:55:30.740
 suffer with

00:55:30.740 --> 00:55:31.940
 him in

00:55:31.940 --> 00:55:33.019
 order that

00:55:33.019 --> 00:55:33.380
 we may

00:55:33.380 --> 00:55:34.120
 also be

00:55:34.120 --> 00:55:35.640
 glorified with

00:55:35.640 --> 00:55:35.920
 him.

00:55:36.500 --> 00:55:36.940
 So in the

00:55:36.940 --> 00:55:37.420
 midst of this

00:55:37.420 --> 00:55:38.019
 train of

00:55:38.019 --> 00:55:38.400
 thought,

00:55:38.519 --> 00:55:39.160
 life by

00:55:39.160 --> 00:55:39.980
 the spirit,

00:55:40.400 --> 00:55:40.760
 a spirit

00:55:40.760 --> 00:55:41.480
 not for

00:55:41.480 --> 00:55:42.400
 slavery,

00:55:43.059 --> 00:55:43.599
 but a spirit

00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:45.280
 for sonship,

00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:47.000
 freedom as

00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:48.519
 children and

00:55:48.519 --> 00:55:49.400
 heirs,

00:55:50.079 --> 00:55:50.900
 Paul recognized

00:55:50.900 --> 00:55:51.980
 that we will

00:55:51.980 --> 00:55:53.180
 suffer,

00:55:53.680 --> 00:55:54.420
 we'll share

00:55:54.420 --> 00:55:55.360
 and experience

00:55:55.360 --> 00:55:56.620
 the suffering

00:55:56.620 --> 00:55:57.200
 of Christ.

00:55:57.199 --> 00:55:58.059
 we're united

00:55:58.059 --> 00:55:59.379
 to the man

00:55:59.379 --> 00:56:00.859
 of sorrows.

00:56:01.759 --> 00:56:02.339
 Then he

00:56:02.339 --> 00:56:02.699
 says,

00:56:02.859 --> 00:56:03.679
 verse 18,

00:56:03.839 --> 00:56:04.119
 for I

00:56:04.119 --> 00:56:05.519
 consider that

00:56:05.519 --> 00:56:06.159
 the sufferings

00:56:06.159 --> 00:56:06.460
 of this

00:56:06.460 --> 00:56:07.099
 present time

00:56:07.099 --> 00:56:07.699
 are not

00:56:07.699 --> 00:56:09.079
 worth comparing

00:56:09.079 --> 00:56:10.259
 with the

00:56:10.259 --> 00:56:11.099
 glory that

00:56:11.099 --> 00:56:11.500
 is to be

00:56:11.500 --> 00:56:12.759
 revealed to

00:56:12.759 --> 00:56:13.219
 us.

00:56:13.579 --> 00:56:14.599
 Because of

00:56:14.599 --> 00:56:15.079
 who we

00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:15.819
 are in

00:56:15.819 --> 00:56:16.279
 Jesus,

00:56:16.819 --> 00:56:17.579
 we have

00:56:17.579 --> 00:56:18.419
 this greater

00:56:18.419 --> 00:56:19.299
 hope,

00:56:19.439 --> 00:56:19.579
 right?

00:56:19.619 --> 00:56:20.119
 It pulls

00:56:20.119 --> 00:56:20.659
 us through

00:56:20.659 --> 00:56:21.359
 the gap.

00:56:22.359 --> 00:56:23.199
 And then

00:56:23.199 --> 00:56:23.879
 down into

00:56:23.879 --> 00:56:24.359
 Romans

00:56:24.359 --> 00:56:25.480
 chapter 8.

00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:27.000
 used so

00:56:27.000 --> 00:56:27.579
 tritely,

00:56:27.860 --> 00:56:28.240
 like beloved,

00:56:28.360 --> 00:56:29.300
 don't miss

00:56:29.300 --> 00:56:30.199
 what Paul is

00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:30.699
 saying in

00:56:30.699 --> 00:56:31.340
 Romans chapter

00:56:31.340 --> 00:56:31.900
 8 and

00:56:31.900 --> 00:56:33.219
 verse 28.

00:56:34.139 --> 00:56:34.420
 And we

00:56:34.420 --> 00:56:34.820
 know that

00:56:34.820 --> 00:56:35.219
 for those

00:56:35.219 --> 00:56:35.559
 who love

00:56:35.559 --> 00:56:35.840
 God,

00:56:35.980 --> 00:56:36.900
 all things

00:56:36.900 --> 00:56:37.980
 work together

00:56:37.980 --> 00:56:39.639
 for good

00:56:39.639 --> 00:56:40.559
 for those

00:56:40.559 --> 00:56:40.780
 who are

00:56:40.780 --> 00:56:41.199
 called

00:56:41.199 --> 00:56:42.519
 according to

00:56:42.519 --> 00:56:43.139
 his purpose.

00:56:44.159 --> 00:56:44.920
 And what's

00:56:44.920 --> 00:56:45.900
 the foundation

00:56:45.900 --> 00:56:46.800
 of that?

00:56:47.300 --> 00:56:47.460
 Right?

00:56:47.559 --> 00:56:48.079
 He goes on

00:56:48.079 --> 00:56:48.380
 to say,

00:56:48.500 --> 00:56:48.760
 for those

00:56:48.760 --> 00:56:49.240
 he foreknew,

00:56:49.320 --> 00:56:49.740
 he also

00:56:49.740 --> 00:56:50.240
 predestined

00:56:50.240 --> 00:56:50.400
 to be

00:56:50.400 --> 00:56:51.039
 conformed

00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:51.699
 to the

00:56:51.699 --> 00:56:52.119
 image

00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:53.000
 of his

00:56:53.000 --> 00:56:53.360
 son.

00:56:53.599 --> 00:56:54.019
 The good

00:56:54.019 --> 00:56:54.519
 he's working

00:56:54.519 --> 00:56:55.019
 in us is

00:56:55.019 --> 00:56:55.239
 that we

00:56:55.239 --> 00:56:55.659
 would be

00:56:55.659 --> 00:56:56.340
 like

00:56:56.340 --> 00:56:57.139
 Jesus

00:56:57.139 --> 00:56:57.940
 in order

00:56:57.940 --> 00:56:58.440
 that he

00:56:58.440 --> 00:56:58.860
 might be

00:56:58.860 --> 00:56:59.400
 the first

00:56:59.400 --> 00:57:00.099
 born among

00:57:00.099 --> 00:57:00.440
 many

00:57:00.440 --> 00:57:00.900
 brothers.

00:57:01.639 --> 00:57:01.980
 And those

00:57:01.980 --> 00:57:02.259
 whom he

00:57:02.259 --> 00:57:02.880
 predestined,

00:57:03.019 --> 00:57:03.539
 he also

00:57:03.539 --> 00:57:03.960
 called.

00:57:04.259 --> 00:57:04.519
 And those

00:57:04.519 --> 00:57:04.800
 whom he

00:57:04.800 --> 00:57:05.159
 called,

00:57:05.440 --> 00:57:05.980
 he also

00:57:05.980 --> 00:57:06.759
 justified.

00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:07.400
 And those

00:57:07.400 --> 00:57:07.659
 whom he

00:57:07.659 --> 00:57:08.300
 justifies,

00:57:08.619 --> 00:57:09.259
 he also

00:57:09.259 --> 00:57:10.599
 glorified.

00:57:12.599 --> 00:57:13.159
 Justification

00:57:13.159 --> 00:57:14.380
 by faith

00:57:14.380 --> 00:57:15.519
 alone is

00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:16.519
 the foundation

00:57:16.519 --> 00:57:17.139
 on which

00:57:17.139 --> 00:57:17.820
 to build

00:57:17.820 --> 00:57:18.780
 sorrow

00:57:18.780 --> 00:57:20.179
 into joy.

00:57:21.519 --> 00:57:22.079
 For the

00:57:22.079 --> 00:57:22.340
 fact,

00:57:22.460 --> 00:57:22.619
 beloved,

00:57:22.619 --> 00:57:22.940
 that we

00:57:22.940 --> 00:57:23.279
 could do

00:57:23.279 --> 00:57:23.940
 nothing

00:57:23.940 --> 00:57:24.940
 to save

00:57:24.940 --> 00:57:25.460
 ourselves.

00:57:25.799 --> 00:57:26.019
 We were

00:57:26.019 --> 00:57:26.599
 set in

00:57:26.599 --> 00:57:27.339
 every way

00:57:27.339 --> 00:57:27.719
 against

00:57:27.719 --> 00:57:28.179
 God

00:57:28.179 --> 00:57:29.199
 as his

00:57:29.199 --> 00:57:29.960
 enemy.

00:57:30.839 --> 00:57:31.480
 But because

00:57:31.480 --> 00:57:32.799
 of Christ's

00:57:32.799 --> 00:57:33.359
 sacrificial

00:57:33.359 --> 00:57:34.000
 death,

00:57:34.199 --> 00:57:35.259
 he takes

00:57:35.259 --> 00:57:36.239
 on our

00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:36.759
 sin,

00:57:37.299 --> 00:57:37.739
 his great

00:57:37.739 --> 00:57:38.559
 exchange as

00:57:38.559 --> 00:57:39.179
 Luther calls

00:57:39.179 --> 00:57:39.319
 it,

00:57:39.400 --> 00:57:39.819
 he takes

00:57:39.819 --> 00:57:40.199
 on our

00:57:40.199 --> 00:57:40.440
 sin,

00:57:40.759 --> 00:57:41.659
 he suffers

00:57:41.659 --> 00:57:42.900
 the wrath

00:57:42.900 --> 00:57:43.319
 of God

00:57:43.319 --> 00:57:43.900
 on our

00:57:43.900 --> 00:57:44.460
 behalf,

00:57:44.779 --> 00:57:45.559
 and he

00:57:45.559 --> 00:57:46.259
 grants to

00:57:46.259 --> 00:57:47.219
 us his

00:57:47.219 --> 00:57:47.739
 righteousness,

00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:48.259
 his

00:57:48.260 --> 00:57:49.200
 perfect

00:57:49.200 --> 00:57:50.460
 living.

00:57:51.860 --> 00:57:52.900
 And God

00:57:52.900 --> 00:57:53.240
 in the

00:57:53.240 --> 00:57:53.620
 great

00:57:53.620 --> 00:57:54.660
 courtroom

00:57:54.660 --> 00:57:56.160
 declares

00:57:56.160 --> 00:57:57.160
 us

00:57:57.160 --> 00:57:58.860
 righteous,

00:57:59.800 --> 00:58:00.720
 justified,

00:58:01.240 --> 00:58:01.440
 right?

00:58:01.680 --> 00:58:02.520
 Not only

00:58:02.520 --> 00:58:03.060
 having our

00:58:03.060 --> 00:58:03.920
 sin forgiven,

00:58:04.160 --> 00:58:04.680
 but being

00:58:04.680 --> 00:58:06.000
 found perfect

00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:07.340
 in Jesus.

00:58:08.620 --> 00:58:09.380
 Justification

00:58:09.380 --> 00:58:10.060
 by faith

00:58:10.060 --> 00:58:10.780
 alone in

00:58:10.780 --> 00:58:11.800
 Christ alone

00:58:11.800 --> 00:58:12.780
 is this

00:58:12.780 --> 00:58:14.200
 foundation on

00:58:14.200 --> 00:58:14.660
 which we

00:58:14.659 --> 00:58:16.039
 can build

00:58:16.039 --> 00:58:17.460
 sorrow

00:58:17.460 --> 00:58:19.039
 into joy.

00:58:19.679 --> 00:58:20.159
 We can

00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:20.519
 do that

00:58:20.519 --> 00:58:21.139
 in this

00:58:21.139 --> 00:58:21.639
 life,

00:58:21.940 --> 00:58:22.839
 and we

00:58:22.839 --> 00:58:23.699
 are promised

00:58:23.699 --> 00:58:25.440
 final relief

00:58:25.440 --> 00:58:26.379
 from sorrow

00:58:26.379 --> 00:58:28.379
 forevermore.

00:58:29.539 --> 00:58:29.960
 John

00:58:29.960 --> 00:58:30.699
 chapter 16,

00:58:30.799 --> 00:58:31.259
 verse 20

00:58:31.259 --> 00:58:31.859
 and following,

00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:32.539
 Jesus says,

00:58:32.639 --> 00:58:32.779
 truly,

00:58:32.899 --> 00:58:33.000
 truly,

00:58:33.079 --> 00:58:33.460
 I say to

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 you,

00:58:34.399 --> 00:58:34.759
 you will

00:58:34.759 --> 00:58:35.119
 weep

00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:35.659
 and lament,

00:58:36.319 --> 00:58:36.839
 but the

00:58:36.839 --> 00:58:37.279
 world will

00:58:37.279 --> 00:58:37.739
 rejoice.

00:58:38.239 --> 00:58:38.579
 You will

00:58:38.579 --> 00:58:39.460
 be sorrowful,

00:58:39.960 --> 00:58:40.679
 but your

00:58:40.679 --> 00:58:42.159
 sorrow will

00:58:42.159 --> 00:58:43.940
 turn into

00:58:43.940 --> 00:58:44.359
 joy.

00:58:45.319 --> 00:58:46.299
 Your sorrow,

00:58:46.420 --> 00:58:46.819
 he's saying,

00:58:46.879 --> 00:58:47.359
 is going to

00:58:47.359 --> 00:58:48.159
 become

00:58:48.159 --> 00:58:49.779
 joy.

00:58:50.259 --> 00:58:50.839
 Not that it's

00:58:50.839 --> 00:58:51.379
 going to just

00:58:51.379 --> 00:58:52.319
 simply go

00:58:52.319 --> 00:58:53.460
 away and

00:58:53.460 --> 00:58:54.079
 be replaced

00:58:54.079 --> 00:58:54.579
 with joy.

00:58:54.679 --> 00:58:54.980
 It's going

00:58:54.980 --> 00:58:55.960
 to become

00:58:55.960 --> 00:58:57.079
 joy,

00:58:57.199 --> 00:58:58.179
 turned into

00:58:58.179 --> 00:58:58.739
 joy,

00:58:59.179 --> 00:58:59.619
 and catch

00:58:59.619 --> 00:59:00.239
 his explanation.

00:59:00.839 --> 00:59:01.399
 He says,

00:59:01.519 --> 00:59:02.000
 verse 21,

00:59:02.579 --> 00:59:03.219
 when a woman

00:59:03.219 --> 00:59:03.599
 is giving

00:59:03.599 --> 00:59:04.119
 birth,

00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:05.119
 she has

00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:05.980
 sorrow because

00:59:05.980 --> 00:59:06.559
 her hour

00:59:06.559 --> 00:59:07.219
 has come.

00:59:07.940 --> 00:59:08.339
 Pain,

00:59:08.339 --> 00:59:08.980
 I'm told.

00:59:11.460 --> 00:59:12.319
 But when

00:59:12.319 --> 00:59:12.899
 she has

00:59:12.899 --> 00:59:13.920
 delivered the

00:59:13.920 --> 00:59:14.339
 baby,

00:59:14.659 --> 00:59:15.559
 she no

00:59:15.559 --> 00:59:16.139
 longer

00:59:16.139 --> 00:59:16.719
 remembers

00:59:16.719 --> 00:59:17.359
 the anguish

00:59:17.359 --> 00:59:18.000
 for joy

00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:18.379
 that a

00:59:18.379 --> 00:59:19.279
 human being

00:59:19.279 --> 00:59:20.179
 has been

00:59:20.179 --> 00:59:21.539
 born into

00:59:21.539 --> 00:59:22.219
 the world.

00:59:22.779 --> 00:59:23.559
 All of that

00:59:23.559 --> 00:59:24.239
 suffering

00:59:24.239 --> 00:59:25.799
 suddenly becomes,

00:59:25.839 --> 00:59:26.879
 it's transformed

00:59:26.879 --> 00:59:28.960
 into joy.

00:59:29.099 --> 00:59:29.879
 It was so

00:59:29.879 --> 00:59:30.839
 worth it.

00:59:31.239 --> 00:59:31.359
 Men,

00:59:31.399 --> 00:59:31.699
 have you heard

00:59:31.699 --> 00:59:32.119
 your wives

00:59:32.119 --> 00:59:33.579
 say this?

00:59:34.279 --> 00:59:35.420
 The day that

00:59:35.420 --> 00:59:36.239
 Cade was born,

00:59:36.819 --> 00:59:37.239
 Sam said she

00:59:37.239 --> 00:59:37.599
 wanted to be

00:59:37.599 --> 00:59:38.199
 pregnant again,

00:59:38.259 --> 00:59:38.619
 and I went,

00:59:39.039 --> 00:59:39.579
 what?

00:59:39.579 --> 00:59:41.239
 Do you

00:59:41.239 --> 00:59:41.559
 remember

00:59:41.559 --> 00:59:42.259
 anything that

00:59:42.259 --> 00:59:42.799
 just happened?

00:59:43.960 --> 00:59:44.639
 All the

00:59:44.639 --> 00:59:45.259
 sorrow had

00:59:45.259 --> 00:59:45.579
 been turned

00:59:45.579 --> 00:59:45.940
 into joy

00:59:45.940 --> 00:59:46.340
 for her.

00:59:47.799 --> 00:59:48.779
 She suffered.

00:59:49.659 --> 00:59:50.619
 It hurt,

00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:51.539
 I'm told.

00:59:53.819 --> 00:59:54.480
 But she

00:59:54.480 --> 00:59:55.739
 was rapturous

00:59:55.739 --> 00:59:56.779
 to now hold

00:59:56.779 --> 00:59:58.039
 our firstborn

00:59:58.039 --> 00:59:59.819
 in her arms.

01:00:01.480 --> 01:00:01.920
 Incredible

01:00:01.920 --> 01:00:03.000
 reality that

01:00:03.000 --> 01:00:03.460
 God's going to

01:00:03.460 --> 01:00:04.139
 make everything

01:00:04.139 --> 01:00:04.699
 we experience,

01:00:04.799 --> 01:00:05.380
 all the sadness

01:00:05.380 --> 01:00:05.940
 we experience

01:00:05.940 --> 01:00:06.619
 in this world,

01:00:06.619 --> 01:00:07.920
 work for our

01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:08.259
 good,

01:00:08.380 --> 01:00:09.159
 Christlikeness

01:00:09.159 --> 01:00:10.019
 which is to

01:00:10.019 --> 01:00:11.420
 his praise.

01:00:12.900 --> 01:00:13.440
 Charles Spurgeon

01:00:13.440 --> 01:00:13.920
 once said,

01:00:13.980 --> 01:00:14.519
 this is on your

01:00:14.519 --> 01:00:15.239
 bulletin if you

01:00:15.239 --> 01:00:15.799
 care to look at

01:00:15.799 --> 01:00:15.940
 it,

01:00:16.299 --> 01:00:16.859
 your sorrow

01:00:16.859 --> 01:00:17.699
 itself shall be

01:00:17.699 --> 01:00:18.239
 turned into

01:00:18.239 --> 01:00:18.579
 joy.

01:00:18.659 --> 01:00:19.139
 Speaking of

01:00:19.139 --> 01:00:19.759
 this text in

01:00:19.759 --> 01:00:20.139
 John,

01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:21.759
 not the sorrow

01:00:21.759 --> 01:00:22.239
 to be taken

01:00:22.239 --> 01:00:23.559
 away and joy

01:00:23.559 --> 01:00:24.059
 to be put in

01:00:24.059 --> 01:00:24.679
 its place,

01:00:24.719 --> 01:00:25.400
 but the very

01:00:25.400 --> 01:00:26.039
 sorrow which

01:00:26.039 --> 01:00:26.659
 now grieves

01:00:26.659 --> 01:00:27.159
 you shall be

01:00:27.159 --> 01:00:28.480
 turned into

01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:28.859
 joy.

01:00:29.619 --> 01:00:30.219
 God not only

01:00:30.219 --> 01:00:31.099
 takes away the

01:00:31.099 --> 01:00:32.239
 bitterness and

01:00:32.239 --> 01:00:32.859
 gives sweetness

01:00:32.859 --> 01:00:33.679
 in its place,

01:00:33.920 --> 01:00:35.299
 but turns the

01:00:35.299 --> 01:00:36.440
 bitterness into

01:00:36.440 --> 01:00:38.300
 sweetness itself.

01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:40.840
 So the Bible

01:00:40.840 --> 01:00:42.159
 affirms sorrow

01:00:42.159 --> 01:00:43.619
 as normative.

01:00:44.139 --> 01:00:45.119
 The Bible gives

01:00:45.119 --> 01:00:46.019
 us language for

01:00:46.019 --> 01:00:46.619
 our sorrow,

01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:47.960
 and the Bible

01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:48.920
 gives us relief

01:00:48.920 --> 01:00:50.860
 from our sorrow

01:00:50.860 --> 01:00:52.599
 in Christ.

01:00:53.860 --> 01:00:54.440
 May we be

01:00:54.440 --> 01:00:55.039
 helped by the

01:00:55.039 --> 01:00:55.800
 grace of God

01:00:55.800 --> 01:00:56.480
 as we struggle

01:00:56.480 --> 01:00:57.059
 with sorrow in

01:00:57.059 --> 01:00:58.340
 this world and

01:00:58.340 --> 01:00:59.220
 set our eager

01:00:59.220 --> 01:01:00.840
 hope on the

01:01:00.840 --> 01:01:01.440
 world to come,

01:01:01.980 --> 01:01:02.400
 and may we

01:01:02.400 --> 01:01:03.780
 help each

01:01:03.780 --> 01:01:05.000
 other in that

01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:05.320
 struggle.

01:01:05.900 --> 01:01:06.280
 Let's pray

01:01:06.280 --> 01:01:06.420
 together.

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