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 I'm going to read Psalm 18. It's the whole psalm. It's quite long. Please don't get sick of my voice.

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 For the director of music of David, the servant of the Lord, he sang to the Lord the words of this song when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies.

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 And from the hand of Saul, he said, I love you, Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer.

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 My God is my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

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 I call to the Lord who is worthy of praise and I have been saved from my enemies.

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 The cords of death entangled me. The torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.

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 The cords of the grave coiled around me. The snares of death confronted me.

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 In my distress, I called to the Lord. I cried to my God for help.

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 From his temple, he heard my voice. My cry came before him into his ears.

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 The earth trembled and quaked and the foundations of the mountains shook.

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 They trembled because he was angry. Smoke rose from his nostrils, consuming fire from his mouth.

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 Burning coals blazed out of it. He parted the heavens and came down.

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 Dark clouds were under his feet. He mounted the cherubim and flew.

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 He soared on the wings of the wind. He made darknesses covering his canopy around him.

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 The dark rain clouds of the sky.

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 Out of the brightness of his presence, clouds advanced with hailstones and bolts of lightning.

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 The Lord thundered from heaven. The voice of the Most High resounded.

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 He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy. With great bolts of lightning, he rooted them.

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 The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at your rebuke, Lord.

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 At the blast of breath from your nostrils.

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 He reached down from on high and took hold of me.

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 He drew me out of deep waters.

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 He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes who were too strong for me.

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 They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support.

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 He brought me out into a spacious place.

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 He rescued me because he delighted in me.

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 The Lord has dealt with me according to my righteousness.

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 According to the cleanliness of my hands, he has rewarded me.

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 For I have kept the ways of the Lord.

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 I am not guilty of turning from my God.

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 All his laws are before me.

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 I have not turned away from his decrees.

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 I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin.

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 The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,

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 according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

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 To the faithful you show yourself faithful.

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 To the blameless you show yourself blameless.

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 To the pure you show yourself pure.

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 But to the devious you show yourself true.

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 You save the humble and bring low those whose eyes are haughty.

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 You, Lord, keep my lamp burning.

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 My God turns my darkness into light.

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 With your help I can advance against the truth.

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 With my God I can scale a wall.

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 As for God, his way is perfect.

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 The Lord's word is flawless.

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 He shields all who take refuge in him.

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 For who is God besides the Lord?

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 And who is the rock except our God?

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 It is God who arms me with strength and keeps my way secure.

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 He makes my feet like the feet of a deer.

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 He causes me to stand on the heights.

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 He trains my hands for battle.

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 My arms can bend a bow of bronze.

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 You make your saving help my shield.

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 And your right hand sustains me.

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 Your help has made me great.

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 You provide a broad path for my feet so that my ankles do not give way.

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 I pursued my enemies and overtook them.

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 I did not turn back till they were destroyed.

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 I crushed them so that they could not rise.

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 They fall beneath my feet.

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 You armed me with strength for battle.

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 You humbled my adversaries before me.

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 You made my enemies turn their backs in flight.

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 And I destroyed my foes.

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 They cried for help but there was no one to save them.

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 To the Lord.

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 But he did not answer.

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 I beat them as fine as windblown dust.

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 I trampled them like mud in the streets.

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 You have delivered me from the attacks of the people.

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 You have made me the head of nations.

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 People I did not know now serve me.

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 Foreigners cower before me.

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 As soon as they hear of me, they obey me.

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 They all lose heart.

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 They come trembling from their strongholds.

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 The Lord lives.

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 Praise be to my rock.

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 Exalted be God my saviour.

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 He is the God who avenges me.

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 Who subdues nations under me.

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 Who saves me from my enemies.

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 You exalted me above my foes.

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 From a violent man you rescued me.

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 Therefore I will praise you Lord.

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 Among the nations I will sing the praises of your name.

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 He gives his king great victories.

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 He shows unfailing love to his anointed.

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 To David and to his descendants forever.

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 May the word of God speak to us.

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 Thanks neither.

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 What a marathon eh?

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 Well done.

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 I think if anyone deserves a bag of sweets it's you this morning.

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 Let's come to God and ask him for his help shall we as we look at this psalm together.

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 Father thank you for your word.

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 Thank you for our Lord Jesus who is the perfect fulfilment of this psalm.

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 And Father we pray that as I speak and as we all listen.

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 That you would speak to us.

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 That your spirit would do his work.

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 That you would show us what we need to see.

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 And that you would glorify Jesus in his name.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Elton John wrote a song in 1973 called Candle in the Wind.

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 Telling the key points about Marilyn Monroe's life.

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 Then he adapted it for Princess Diana in 1997.

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 John Newton wrote an autobiographically about himself in the hymn Amazing Grace.

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 With the words Amazing Grace.

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 How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.

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 The song we're looking at this morning.

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 Psalm 18.

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 Has been described as the narrative or the autobiography of David's life.

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 So why was it written?

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 What can we learn from it?

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 Well I'd like to help us to answer those questions.

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 To look at three other questions.

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 Oh great.

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 Somebody's ahead of me.

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 Is somebody clicking for me?

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 Great.

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 Thank you Steve.

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 Right.

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 Good.

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 So how did we're going to look at how did the Israelites sing Psalm 18?

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 How did Jesus sing Psalm 18?

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 And then how can I, how can we sing Psalm 18?

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 So first of all, how did the Israelites sing Psalm 18?

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 Psalm 18 was recorded in Israel's songbook.

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 And it was for God's people to sing because as Steve explained to us earlier with that wonderful bag of sweets.

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 Their well-being, Israel's well-being was tied to the king and his offspring.

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 David's victory was their victory.

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 David's victory was their blessing.

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 So they sing because of David.

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 They sing rejoicing in David's story.

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 Great.

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 Thank you.

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 We're going to move very quickly, you'll be glad to know, through the psalm.

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 Not looking at every verse.

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 But we're going to divide it up just so that we can get a flavour.

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 We're going to spend a little bit more on the first couple of verses.

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 And then we're going to whip round through it quite quickly because there's 50 verses in it.

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 So first of all, realise that David's predicament was that he was trapped.

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 We read in verses 4 and 5, and if you can keep your Bibles open, it's going to help you to follow the theme of it.

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 We read,

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 So here's David.

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 David's predicament is he's staring death in the face.

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 He's completely overwhelmed and he feels completely trapped.

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 He describes himself, if you look there in verse 16, as being in deep waters.

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 In verse 17, he says he feels his foes are too strong for him.

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 In verse 18, he describes it as a day of disaster.

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 This was his position.

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 Now moving quickly now through the other verses.

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 David called on God in verse 6, and he called on God from his distress.

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 Verses 7 to 15, the Lord hears him, and the Lord displays his awesome power and authority.

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 I don't know what you thought as Neva was reading that list to you about how God is described.

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 Here's God's power and authority described as verse 7, a mountain shaker.

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 Verse 6, fire breathing.

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 Verses 9 and 10, traveling on clouds and flying on angelic beings.

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 Verse 11, radiant.

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 Verse 13, a thunder speaker.

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 Verse 14, a lightning thrower.

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 And verse 15, an exposer of the earth.

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 This is, of course, picture language, but because it's a picture, it's no less true of the power of God.

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 So there in verses 32 to 42, we see that the Lord gave David victory.

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 Verses 32 to 36, we see God enabled him for the battle.

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 God equipped him.

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 Verses 37 to 42, the battle itself, God gave him victory over those battles.

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 And the outcome, we're told in verses 46 to 49, is David is exalted above the nations.

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 And more than that, God is praised because of that.

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 So why were they encouraged to sing this?

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 Why were the Israelites encouraged to sing Psalm 18?

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 Well, firstly, to realize that the king's victory means their blessing, means their security.

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 When God saves the king, he saves the nation.

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 He saves the nation from their enemies.

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 This one is a little bit harder to get, so stay with me on this one.

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 Bear with me.

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 They were also encouraged to sing this because they were being reminded of their covenant relationship with God.

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 Verses 20 to 27, again, I don't know what you thought when Neva read that to you,

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 but to my ears, they are quite strange with what David is saying there.

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 But bear in mind, what he is doing is not bigging himself up.

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 He is actually expressing his covenant relationship with his God.

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 What's a covenant?

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 Well, simply put, it's an agreement between two or more parties.

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 Have different covenants in life.

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 Marriage is a covenant relationship.

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 And the couple there promise to give themselves to each other.

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 They express to making promises to each other in a lifelong agreement.

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 God required this of the Israelites in his covenant, that they obey him and follow his rules.

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 And this is the sense of what David is saying in verses 20 to 24.

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 David, in verse 20, is not claiming perfection.

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 It's very important to realise this.

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 He's not claiming sinlessness.

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 In fact, how could he?

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 His sins are clear to us from the pages of scripture.

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 The sense of what David is saying in verses 20 to 24,

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 is that he has tried to walk honestly and humbly with his God.

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 He also says in verse 20 and 23, that he's kept the Lord's laws and decrees.

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 Now, part of this, you may know if you know your Old Testament,

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 was the sacrificial system of when a person sinned,

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 they bought a sacrifice to the priest.

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 The priest would offer this sacrifice.

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 The person was forgiven.

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 Not by the priest, but by God.

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 So, those laws taught that sins could be forgiven with repentance, first of all,

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 and then with an appropriate sacrifice.

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 Therefore, his confidence was not in how well he had done,

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 but in that God forgives those who come to him by the prescribed means he has set out.

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 Blamelessness here does not mean sinlessness,

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 but rather a cleansed conscience after repentance and the sacrifice.

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 So, the third reason they were encouraged to sing this was this.

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 To see that the correct response to God's salvation is this.

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 Gratitude, trust, praise, and love.

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 Gratitude to God for the salvation for the nation.

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 Gratitude to God for the salvation.

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 Trust, because the language of verses 2 and 3 talks about trusting in the Lord.

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 It's one of security.

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 It says, God is a rock, a fortress, a deliverer, a refuge, a shield, a stronghold.

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 Therefore, we can trust him.

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 And, of course, it was to teach him that the correct response was praise.

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 He deserves praise for who he is

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 and for the great rescue that he did for them through David.

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 And notice there in verse 49, if you skip to the end there,

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 this praise was not just to be sung in the temple.

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 This wasn't just for God's people to hear.

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 It was to be sung and declared among the nations in verse 49.

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 A bit more of that maybe later on.

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 The other thing that they were told to,

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 a correct response to God's salvation,

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 is to love God.

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 David says there in verse 1,

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 which is very unusual in the Psalms, actually.

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 It only happens in Psalm 116,

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 that the Psalm opens in this way.

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 He says, I love you, Lord.

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 To reflect on God's goodness,

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 the goodness of God in rescuing his people

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 when they deserved none of it.

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 It was not just to inform their minds, this song.

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 It was also to fill their hearts

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 and to move their hearts to overflow in love to God.

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 Now, I'm hoping that we're seeing some of the things

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 that God has done for us

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 and our correct response for him.

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 But we're not the Israelites

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 and we will sing the song in a slightly different way

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 to how they do.

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 But how did Jesus sing this Psalm?

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 He sung it to his father,

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 knowing that he was the fulfilment of the song.

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 He sung it to his father,

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 knowing he was the fulfilment of the song.

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 Now, Jesus would have heard, read,

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 and sung this Psalm in the temple

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 as part of corporate worship.

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 It was part, after all, of the Israelites' songbook.

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 He would have memorised part, or perhaps all of it.

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 He was very, very familiar with it.

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 But there are two things about this song

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 which Jesus could not sing.

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 Or rather, when he sang it,

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 it was a bitter irony for him.

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 And that's,

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 David could call on God for rescue from his enemies,

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 but Jesus could not call on God for rescue

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 from his greatest trial of the cross.

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 It's described there in verse four,

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 the cords of death and the torrents of destruction

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 that David experienced.

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 They were necessary, too, for Jesus to endure.

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 But he endured it to the end,

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 not calling on God for rescue,

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 as he could have done.

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 He stayed on the cross

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 to win your salvation,

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 my salvation.

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 The other irony that Jesus sang here

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 is that the Lord did not deal with him

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 according to his righteousness,

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 as David had asked in verse 20.

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 Rather, God dealt with him on the cross

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 according to our sinfulness.

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 He was, in fact,

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 the only completely righteous person,

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 but was punished for our sin

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 so that we could have his righteousness.

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 Let me read to you 2 Corinthians 5, verse 21.

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 God made him who had no sin

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 to be sin for us

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 so that in him we might become

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 the righteousness of God.

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 But in other ways,

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 this psalm is true of Jesus

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 in an even more amazing way

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 than it was true of David.

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 And to help us with this,

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 we're going to be dipping into

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 some New Testament verses

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 to help us to understand this.

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 It was more marvellous for Jesus

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 because death could not hold him.

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 Though he gave himself up to death

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 on the cross

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 and he definitely died

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 and he was definitely in the grave

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 for three days,

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 God raised him from death.

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 In his sermon at Pentecost,

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 Peter said this,

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 but God raised him from the dead,

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 freeing him from the agony of death

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 because it was impossible for death

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 to keep its hold on him.

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 David experienced this for a short time,

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 not in resurrection,

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 but in being rescued from death.

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 But he eventually died.

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 Jesus lives forever,

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 never to die.

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 He is the true victor over death.

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 David also describes God

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 in verse 2 of chapter 8 of Psalm 18

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 as the horn of salvation.

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 The exact same words

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 that Zachariah says about Jesus

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 in Luke chapter 1 verse 69.

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 Zachariah says that Jesus is

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 the horn of salvation for us.

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 But it's a little strange language

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 this is, isn't it?

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 But to what is a horn?

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 Well, let me give you it.

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 Let me give you

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 a little bit of an inkling

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 if I can here.

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 It's a symbol of strength,

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 power and authority.

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 Whenever we see the word horn

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 in the Bible,

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 it's generally to do

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 with strength, power and authority.

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 To help us understand this,

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 picture a bull, right?

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 Big horns, a big bull,

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 standing in a field,

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 charging at you.

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 Head down.

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 What are you worried about?

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 The horns, yeah?

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 The horns are his power and strength

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 and can do you much damage.

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 But the salvation that Jesus brings

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 is his strength and his power

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 and authority.

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 The horn of salvation is Jesus.

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 Lastly in this section,

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 we see here that Jesus can sing this psalm

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 because he is the one

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 who truly wins the nations.

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 In Romans 15, verse 8 and 9,

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 Paul quotes verse 49

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 of Psalm 18 directly

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 and he tells us that

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 Jesus is the direct fulfillment

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 of this verse in this way.

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 Paul says,

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 so that the Gentiles might glorify God

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 for his mercy.

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 So Christ's death and resurrection

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 mean life for all who believe.

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 Romans is telling us

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 whether they are Jew

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 or whether they are Gentile.

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 It's not to do with nationhood anymore.

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 It's to do with whether we believe.

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 Believe in Jesus.

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 So how did Jesus sing this psalm?

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 With love,

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 with obedience

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 and with praise.

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 With love for us,

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 seeing our need

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 and giving himself

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 for us.

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 With obedience to his father.

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 Obedient to death,

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 even though he was the innocent one.

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 And with praise and love

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 for his father.

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 I don't know if you thought about this,

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 but the beautiful relationship

00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:49.059
 that Christ had with the father

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 from the beginning of time,

00:22:51.299 --> 00:22:52.119
 from eternity,

00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:54.039
 Jesus had

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 when he walked

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 with his father

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 here on earth.

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 So when Jesus was singing

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 this song in the temple,

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 he was expressing

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 this beautiful relationship

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 that he had

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 with the father.

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 But for those three dark hours

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 on the cross,

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 that had to change.

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 His father had to turn

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 his back on him

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 as he bore our sin.

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 So finally,

00:23:19.419 --> 00:23:20.879
 how can I sing?

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 How can you sing

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 Psalm 18?

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 Well, we sing it

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 not because of David,

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 but because of Jesus.

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 We sing it

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 rejoicing

00:23:31.720 --> 00:23:33.279
 in Jesus' story.

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 So in this psalm,

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 we see not David as the king,

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 but Christ as the king,

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 David's greater son.

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 And our well-being,

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 your well-being,

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 is tied to him.

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 Let me tell you

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 three things quickly

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 that you have

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 because,

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 if you're a Christian,

00:23:55.619 --> 00:23:56.899
 because your well-being

00:23:56.899 --> 00:23:58.019
 is tied to him.

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 Because he refused

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 to be rescued

00:24:01.980 --> 00:24:02.599
 from death

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 on the cross,

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 but he endured

00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:05.619
 to the end

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 bearing my sin,

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 I can rejoice

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 that I am rescued.

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 I am rescued

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 because of him.

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 Rescued from sin,

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 rescued from myself,

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 rescued from death,

00:24:18.859 --> 00:24:19.759
 rescued from hell.

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 Sin because I need forgiveness,

00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:23.779
 self because

00:24:23.779 --> 00:24:25.220
 I need him to change me,

00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:26.599
 death because

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 there's a resurrection,

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 and hell because

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 that's what I deserve

00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:32.339
 for living without him.

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 The other thing

00:24:34.259 --> 00:24:35.279
 Christ gives me

00:24:35.279 --> 00:24:39.359
 and is in this song

00:24:39.359 --> 00:24:40.439
 is his righteousness

00:24:40.439 --> 00:24:42.059
 becomes mine.

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 It's been described

00:24:44.179 --> 00:24:46.559
 as the great swap

00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:48.179
 that when Jesus

00:24:48.179 --> 00:24:49.199
 was on the cross,

00:24:49.779 --> 00:24:50.839
 God put on him

00:24:50.839 --> 00:24:51.980
 my sin

00:24:51.980 --> 00:24:54.480
 and transferred to me

00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:56.480
 his righteousness.

00:24:57.079 --> 00:24:58.599
 The greatest swap

00:24:58.599 --> 00:24:59.659
 in history.

00:24:59.660 --> 00:25:01.759
 so that when God

00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:02.380
 looks at me,

00:25:02.440 --> 00:25:03.160
 he doesn't see

00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:04.220
 my vileness,

00:25:05.019 --> 00:25:05.560
 but he sees

00:25:05.560 --> 00:25:06.820
 perfect purity.

00:25:07.940 --> 00:25:08.880
 His righteousness

00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:10.620
 became mine.

00:25:12.500 --> 00:25:13.500
 And lastly,

00:25:13.660 --> 00:25:14.460
 his resurrection

00:25:14.460 --> 00:25:15.519
 becomes mine.

00:25:16.080 --> 00:25:17.420
 When God raised Jesus,

00:25:17.540 --> 00:25:18.180
 it was proof

00:25:18.180 --> 00:25:19.120
 that his sacrifice

00:25:19.120 --> 00:25:19.880
 was accepted,

00:25:20.940 --> 00:25:22.420
 but not only that,

00:25:22.460 --> 00:25:23.460
 it's a guarantee

00:25:23.460 --> 00:25:25.940
 of my acceptance

00:25:25.940 --> 00:25:27.400
 and therefore

00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:28.420
 one day

00:25:28.420 --> 00:25:29.880
 my resurrection,

00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:31.660
 your resurrection

00:25:31.660 --> 00:25:32.319
 if you believe

00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:32.819
 in Jesus.

00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:34.480
 So,

00:25:34.840 --> 00:25:36.340
 let me close

00:25:36.340 --> 00:25:37.220
 by just saying

00:25:37.220 --> 00:25:38.720
 how should I,

00:25:38.860 --> 00:25:39.640
 how should you

00:25:39.640 --> 00:25:41.039
 sing this psalm?

00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:42.400
 But firstly,

00:25:42.680 --> 00:25:43.880
 there's a question

00:25:43.880 --> 00:25:46.440
 and it's

00:25:46.440 --> 00:25:47.440
 are you singing?

00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:48.600
 And if you're singing,

00:25:49.220 --> 00:25:50.700
 what are you singing?

00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:53.000
 Are you singing

00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:54.559
 as the Israelites

00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:55.259
 sang

00:25:55.259 --> 00:25:56.660
 when you're

00:25:56.660 --> 00:25:57.620
 relying on

00:25:57.620 --> 00:25:58.400
 your best,

00:25:59.779 --> 00:26:00.340
 relying on

00:26:00.340 --> 00:26:01.420
 living your best

00:26:01.420 --> 00:26:02.740
 and when you

00:26:02.740 --> 00:26:03.320
 slip up,

00:26:03.420 --> 00:26:03.539
 well,

00:26:03.620 --> 00:26:04.299
 you make a few

00:26:04.299 --> 00:26:05.380
 sacrifices here

00:26:05.380 --> 00:26:05.820
 and there

00:26:05.820 --> 00:26:06.660
 and you hope

00:26:06.660 --> 00:26:07.440
 God is pleased

00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:07.900
 with that?

00:26:09.519 --> 00:26:10.440
 Or are you

00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:11.519
 singing the song

00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:12.440
 about Jesus?

00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:12.640
 Jesus?

00:26:15.299 --> 00:26:16.180
 What I mean

00:26:16.180 --> 00:26:16.920
 by that is,

00:26:17.120 --> 00:26:17.920
 do you believe

00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:18.759
 Jesus died

00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:19.559
 in your place?

00:26:19.660 --> 00:26:20.100
 Do you know

00:26:20.100 --> 00:26:20.740
 his forgiveness?

00:26:22.259 --> 00:26:23.080
 And has this

00:26:23.080 --> 00:26:24.059
 great swap

00:26:24.059 --> 00:26:24.620
 that we just

00:26:24.620 --> 00:26:25.120
 looked at,

00:26:25.180 --> 00:26:25.779
 has that happened

00:26:25.779 --> 00:26:26.340
 for you?

00:26:28.880 --> 00:26:29.779
 If not,

00:26:29.860 --> 00:26:30.880
 then stop there

00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:32.660
 because you need

00:26:32.660 --> 00:26:33.400
 to experience

00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:34.039
 this,

00:26:34.580 --> 00:26:35.080
 you need to

00:26:35.080 --> 00:26:35.720
 experience

00:26:35.720 --> 00:26:36.360
 his forgiveness

00:26:36.360 --> 00:26:38.100
 before you can

00:26:38.100 --> 00:26:38.940
 truly sing

00:26:38.940 --> 00:26:39.519
 this song,

00:26:39.700 --> 00:26:40.200
 experience

00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:40.920
 this song.

00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:42.300
 But if you

00:26:42.300 --> 00:26:42.860
 are singing

00:26:42.860 --> 00:26:43.420
 this song

00:26:43.420 --> 00:26:44.140
 about Jesus,

00:26:44.900 --> 00:26:45.340
 then let me

00:26:45.340 --> 00:26:45.980
 tell you three

00:26:45.980 --> 00:26:46.539
 things.

00:26:47.140 --> 00:26:47.840
 How should you

00:26:47.840 --> 00:26:48.140
 sing?

00:26:49.180 --> 00:26:49.759
 You should

00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:50.600
 sing in

00:26:50.600 --> 00:26:51.480
 amazement.

00:26:52.820 --> 00:26:53.620
 You should

00:26:53.620 --> 00:26:54.380
 sing in

00:26:54.380 --> 00:26:54.860
 worship

00:26:54.860 --> 00:26:56.200
 because of

00:26:56.200 --> 00:26:56.580
 what he has

00:26:56.580 --> 00:26:57.320
 done for you.

00:26:59.120 --> 00:26:59.880
 You should

00:26:59.880 --> 00:27:00.420
 sing it

00:27:00.420 --> 00:27:00.860
 with your

00:27:00.860 --> 00:27:01.400
 life,

00:27:01.940 --> 00:27:02.860
 with Jesus

00:27:02.860 --> 00:27:04.160
 as your

00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:05.460
 first love.

00:27:06.039 --> 00:27:06.800
 Psalm opened

00:27:06.800 --> 00:27:07.039
 with,

00:27:07.120 --> 00:27:07.620
 I love you

00:27:07.620 --> 00:27:07.980
 Lord.

00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:11.940
 Jesus

00:27:11.940 --> 00:27:12.440
 should be

00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:13.120
 our first

00:27:13.120 --> 00:27:13.600
 love

00:27:13.600 --> 00:27:16.800
 for who

00:27:16.800 --> 00:27:17.440
 he is

00:27:17.440 --> 00:27:18.160
 and for

00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:18.480
 what he's

00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:19.039
 done for

00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:19.400
 us.

00:27:20.100 --> 00:27:20.380
 And you

00:27:20.380 --> 00:27:20.960
 should praise

00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:21.240
 him.

00:27:21.680 --> 00:27:21.960
 In other

00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:22.220
 words,

00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:22.580
 you should

00:27:22.580 --> 00:27:23.100
 make his

00:27:23.100 --> 00:27:23.900
 name great.

00:27:24.380 --> 00:27:24.960
 As we

00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:25.400
 read at the

00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:25.840
 end of the

00:27:25.840 --> 00:27:26.340
 psalm there,

00:27:26.420 --> 00:27:26.779
 make his

00:27:26.779 --> 00:27:27.380
 name great

00:27:27.380 --> 00:27:27.840
 among the

00:27:27.840 --> 00:27:28.259
 nations

00:27:28.259 --> 00:27:30.300
 and start

00:27:30.300 --> 00:27:30.860
 with those

00:27:30.860 --> 00:27:31.440
 around you,

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 with your

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 neighbours.

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 So if

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 you're

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 singing,

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 if I'm

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 singing,

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 this is how

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 we should

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 sing.

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 Let me

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 pray and

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 I'll hand

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 back.

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 Thank you.

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 Father,

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 thank you

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 for the

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 great salvation

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 that Jesus

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 brought for

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 us at

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 such a

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 cost.

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 Thank you

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 that now

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 we do not

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 need to

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 trust in

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 our good

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 works and

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 in our

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 sacrifices.

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 hope that

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 you will

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 be pleased

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 with them.

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 But we

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 can trust

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 in what

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 Jesus has

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 finished,

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 has

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 accomplished.

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 And as

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 he stands

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 at your

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 side now,

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 Father,

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 pleading for

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 us,

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 pleading his

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 blood for

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 us,

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 we thank

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 you that we

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 are accepted

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 because of

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 him.

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 Father,

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 until that

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 day of

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 resurrection

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 when we

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 raised

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 with Jesus

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 to meet

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 you,

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 we pray

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 that you

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 would help

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 us to

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 love him,

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 to live

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 our lives

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 for him

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 and for

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 tell others

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 of his

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 great victory.

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 In Jesus'

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 name.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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