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 Let me pray for us.

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 Heavenly Father, we have gathered to hear from you and to cry out to you in prayer.

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 And we don't want this to be just a checkbox of things to do here,

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 but we want this to be an opportunity for us to commune with you, to relate to you,

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 to grow in our love for you,

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 to increasingly conform all of our values, our thoughts, our attitudes to that of Christ.

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 And so we pray that you would do that work in our midst this evening.

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 In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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 Psalm 64, verses 1 to 10.

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 The title of it says,

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 To the Choir Master, a Psalm of David.

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 I'll read it out loud for us.

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 It says,

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 Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint.

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 Preserve my life from dread of the enemy.

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 Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,

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 from the throng of evildoers,

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 who wet their tongues like swords,

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 who aim bitter words like arrows,

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 shooting from ambush at the blameless,

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 shooting at him suddenly and without fear.

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 They hold fast to their evil purpose.

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 They talk of laying snares secretly,

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 thinking,

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 Who can see them?

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 They search out injustice,

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 saying,

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 We have accomplished a diligent search,

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 for the inward mind and heart of a man are deep.

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 But God shoots his arrow at them.

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 They are wounded suddenly.

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 They are brought to ruin,

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 with their own tongues turned against them.

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 All who see them will wag their heads.

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 Then all mankind fears.

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 They tell what God has brought about,

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 and ponder what he has done.

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 Let the righteous one rejoice in the Lord,

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 and take refuge in him.

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 Let all the upright in heart exult.

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 The main point of this psalm is that we can take refuge in God,

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 who fights for us.

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 We can take refuge in God because he fights for us.

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 Verses 1-6 is about the sudden assault of the wicked.

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 And then verses 7-10 is about the sudden retribution of God.

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 And I don't know if you guys have ever gone laser tagging or paintballing.

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 Yeah.

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 Right?

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 But when you go,

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 you kind of get paranoid and a little skittish

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 because you're kind of getting hit or shot from places you don't expect.

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 It's because people are ambushed.

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 Right?

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 And that's, of course, just a game.

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 But here, in Psalm 64, David's talking about how in real life,

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 he feels like evil people, wicked people are kind of sitting in ambush,

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 leveling their arrows at him, shooting their arrows and attacking him.

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 And so he cries out to God for deliverance,

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 and he writes about that in verses 2-6.

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 It says,

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 Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,

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 from the throng of evildoers who wet their tongues like swords,

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 weighing bitter words like arrows,

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 shooting from ambush at the blameless,

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 shooting at him suddenly and without fear.

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 They hold fast to their evil purpose.

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 They talk of laying snares secretly,

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 thinking,

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 Who can see them?

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 Right?

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 The words used to describe their attacks,

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 and it's like secret plots, ambush.

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 They snares secretly, right?

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 So they all suggest the type of assault that cannot be anticipated, right?

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 So it's coming from places he doesn't expect,

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 when he's not expecting them.

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 And these attacks, because it's a plot,

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 it's done in secret, it's coordinated,

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 it's not like a,

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 it's not a mindless or reactionary,

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 heat of the moment kind of assault,

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 but something that has been meticulously planned,

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 like a military operation.

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 And their secret plots are not known to David,

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 who is the presumed author here.

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 And so he observes in verse 4,

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 that the attack comes to him suddenly,

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 because he's not anticipating.

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 And the mode of these wicked people's attack is verbal.

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 So if you look at verse 3,

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 it says,

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 The evildoers wet their tongues like sword,

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 and aim bitter words like arrows.

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 So their tongue is their sword,

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 and their words are their arrows.

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 And they have staged,

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 basically then,

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 a carefully planned smear campaign

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 against David,

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 and the psalmist,

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 and then with choice gossip,

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 whispered in strategic places,

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 and hard-hitting slander,

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 uttered behind his back.

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 And their evil plans are such

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 that it fills the psalmist with dread.

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 Right?

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 So that's the situation.

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 And that,

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 but just as,

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 so,

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 and then in 7 to 10,

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 he tells us about

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 the sudden retribution of God.

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 He says,

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 But just as they shot their arrows

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 of bitter words to the psalmist,

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 verse 7 tells us that

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 now God shoots his arrows at them.

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 Right?

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 And then just as they attack the psalmist suddenly,

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 in verse 4,

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 verse 7 now tells us that

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 they are wounded suddenly.

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 Right?

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 So God's justice,

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 you can see how reciprocal it is.

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 Right?

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 The way they attack the psalmist,

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 God is going to bring retribution.

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 And so even though they use their tongues

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 like swords in verse 8,

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 well,

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 verse 8 promises that

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 they will be brought to ruin

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 with their own tongues

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 turned against them.

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 God will turn their slander

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 and gossip against them

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 so that all who see them

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 will wag their heads.

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 Right?

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 So this image of God

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 shooting his arrows,

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 right,

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 is a picture of him

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 as a divine warrior

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 who fights for his people.

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 And that's why we can take refuge in God

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 because he fights for us.

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 And Charles Spurgeon

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 puts it very memorably.

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 He says,

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 They shoot

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 and shall be shot.

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 A greater archer than they

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 shall take sure aim

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 at their heart.

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 One of his arrows

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 shall be enough

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 for he never misses his aim.

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 Right?

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 So that's,

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 that God fights for us

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 in that way.

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 That he is,

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 and that's why we can take refuge in him.

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 Those who take aim

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 at God's people,

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 God himself

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 will take aim

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 at them.

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 Right?

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 This kind of reminds me

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 of 1 Corinthians 3,

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 17,

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 which we talked about

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 recently in our church.

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 If anyone destroys God's temple,

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 God will destroy him.

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 For God's temple is holy

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 and you are that temple.

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 And these wicked people

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 took their shot

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 at the psalm

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 without fear.

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 It said in verse 4,

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 but after God's judgment

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 and retribution,

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 it says in verse 9,

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 all mankind fears.

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 Right?

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 So God's just judgment

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 upon the wicked

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 will instill a proper fear

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 of God in people's lives

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 and in the heart of man.

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 And that's why he says,

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 and that's why those

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 who have the fear of God

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 no longer need to have

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 the dread of the enemy

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 that verse 1 speaks of.

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 And this will ultimately result

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 in rejoicing for the righteous.

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 Psalm 64.

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 Yeah.

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 And it says in verse 10,

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 let the righteous one

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 rejoice in the Lord

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 and take refuge in him.

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 Let all the upright in heart exalt.

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 So, I don't know if you noticed already,

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 but there's a contrast here

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 between the upright in heart

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 in verse 10

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 and the wicked

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 who are described

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 as heart of a man

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 are deep, right?

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 In verse 6.

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 So the wicked

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 were described in this way

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 in verses 5 to 6.

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 They hold fast

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 to their evil purpose.

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 They talk of laying snares secretly

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 thinking,

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 who can see them?

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 They search out injustice

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 saying,

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 we have accomplished

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 a diligent search

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 for the inward mind

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 and heart of a man

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 are deep.

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 So this is a description

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 of the wicked.

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 So that description

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 of their heart,

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 which is deep, right,

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 is contrasted

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 with the upright in heart

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 which exalts in God.

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 And I think Jeremiah the prophet

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 probably had these two verses,

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 verses 5 to 6,

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 in mind when he wrote

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 in chapter 17, verse 9.

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 It says,

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 the heart is deceitful

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 above all things

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 and desperately sick.

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 Who can understand it?

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 Right?

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 So it says,

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 no one can understand,

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 so no one,

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 it's basically that verse

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 that talks about

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 how no one can understand

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 the depth of depravity

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 that resides

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 within a man's heart.

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 But the following verse

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 in Jeremiah 17, 10

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 also says,

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 but I, the Lord,

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 search the heart

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 and test the mind

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 to give every man

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 according to his ways,

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 according to the fruit

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 of his deeds.

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 So this psalm

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 is speaking of how

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 the wicked believe

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 that their wicked deeds

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 are unsearchable,

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 right,

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 that they will not be found out,

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 right,

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 their hearts are deep

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 with wickedness.

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 And no one can understand

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 the profundity

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 of their,

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 the depth of their complexity,

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 the depth and complexity

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 of the evil

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 that resides in their heart.

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 But God tells us

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 in Jeremiah 17, 10

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 that he searches the heart

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 and tests the mind

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 to give every man

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 according to his ways,

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 according to the fruit

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 of his deeds.

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 So that means

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 he will find out

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 their wickedness

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 and execute his justice.

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 So this is good news,

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 obviously,

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 for people who are

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 upright in heart

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 and who take refuge in him

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 and trust in his judgment.

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 But of course,

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 that's with the condition

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 that our hearts

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 are indeed upright.

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 And unfortunately,

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 the problem is that

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 God's people

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 throughout history

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 have repeatedly failed

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 to be faithful to God

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 and failed to keep

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 their covenant with God.

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 And so their hearts,

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 too,

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 like these wicked people,

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 are full of wickedness.

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 It's deep with depravity.

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 And so then,

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 what recourse do we have

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 as God's people?

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 And that's the promise

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 that prophesied about Jesus

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 in Ezekiel 36, 25 to 27.

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 God promised,

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 I will sprinkle

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 clean water on you

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 and you shall be clean

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 from all your uncleanness.

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 And from all your idols,

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 I will cleanse you

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 and I will give you

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 a new heart

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 and a new spirit

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 I will put within you.

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 And I will remove

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 the heart of stone

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 from your flesh

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 and give you

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 a heart of flesh.

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 And I will put

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 my spirit within you

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 and cause you

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 to walk in my statutes

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 and be careful

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 to obey my rules.

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 Right?

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 So it's only when

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 we have a new heart

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 that God,

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 new heart from God

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 that we can be upright

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 in heart

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 as the psalm speaks of.

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 And we receive

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 that new heart

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 only by receiving

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 Jesus Christ

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 into our lives

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 and by repenting

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 of our sins

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 and believing in Him

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 and so then being renewed

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 in the Holy Spirit.

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 And so that's really

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 the promise,

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 the ultimate promise

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 that this psalm

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 points to.

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 That's the promise

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 in which this psalm

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 is fulfilled

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 is that so that

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 we can be upright

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 in heart

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 and take refuge

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 in Him

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 in the God

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 who fights for us.

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 So with that in mind,

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 maybe we can sing

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 a song to Him

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 and let's pray.