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 Psalm 144.

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 Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle.

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! He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he

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! in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. O Lord, what is man that you regard

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 him? Or the son of man that you think of him? Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing

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 shadow. Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down. Touch the mountains so that they smoke.

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 Flash forth the lightning and scatter them. Send out your arrows and rout them. Stretch out your

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 hand from on high. Rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hands of foreigners

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 whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. I will sing a new song

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 to you, O God, upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you. Who gives victory to kings? Who rescues

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 David, his servant, from the cruel sword? Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners whose

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 mouth speaks lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. May our sons in their youth be

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 like plants full-grown. Our daughters like corner pillars cut from the structure of a palace. May our

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 granaries be full, providing all kinds of produce. May our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands

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 in our fields. May our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing. May there

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 be no cry of distress in our streets. Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall, and blessed

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 are the people whose God is the Lord. So what makes a good leader of a country? Are they meant to do and

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 please whatever the culture demands? Are they meant to run a country with a good fiscal mindset? Are they

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 meant to appease both sides of the political spectrum? Are they meant to appear strong and stand up to

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 tyrants? Are they meant to see a weaker country that has something they want? Precious minerals, oil, lumber, water,

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 land, and then take it? Are they meant to perform their job for the betterment of the people in the country

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 they represent? We are continuing our series, our summer series through the book of Psalms, or through

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 the last book, chapter, book five of the Psalms. And now we come to this Psalm. And the Psalm we're looking

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 at this morning, we are given a glimpse into the heart of what a king should look like. In our context,

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 we will call him either a prime minister or a president. So turn with me to Psalm 144. If you don't have a Bible,

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 it's very helpful to have one, because you can see if we're actually reading what I'm saying up here is

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 actually what's in the Bible. It's very important to have your Bible with you or on your phone or

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 whatever means you have to access scripture. But we're going to look at this Psalm in three ways.

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 We're breaking it down. And we're going to look at it as point one, the strong and the fragile.

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 And then we'll move in to the second point, and it'll be the pattern of rescue. And then the last point

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 will be a people of peace. So the strong and the fragile, pattern of rescue, a people of peace.

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 So point one. So let's look at the first two verses. Let's look together.

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 Blessed be the Lord, my rock who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle. He is my steadfast

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 love and my fortress, my strong hand and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge,

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 who subdues peoples under me. Now it says right at the top of this Psalm that David is the author.

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 And he is the second king of Israel, just to have a bit of background. He is considered the best

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 king of Israel, the best king they ever had. One quick read of the history of the kings that

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 follow him of Israel, and you'd be hard pressed to disagree with this. He is the one who leads the

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 people of Israel into many battles. This is the one, this is the main reason why when you read this

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 portion of scripture in the Old Testament, that God does not allow him to make the new temple,

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 to make the temple, because his hands are covered in blood, in a sense, because he's been to war so many

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 times. So Solomon, his son, is tasked in the history of building it. David was a powerful king. No nation

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 could stand before him. But the words he uses here in these first two verses, then following in this

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 psalm, then in most of his psalms, does not sound like the words of a powerful king at all. He attributes his

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 success not to himself. He says, blessed be the Lord, my rock, my steadfast love, my fortress, my stronghold,

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 my deliverer, my shield, and my refuge. How are you in the sense of this? Because when we look around,

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 we look at leaders and they seem strong, or you read about the kings of old and they seem strong and

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 mighty. Blessed be the Lord, the one who makes covenant with his people. When you hear this,

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 blessed be the Lord. David is praising the God who seeks his people. Not a distant God who only demands

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 for you to be a servant, but one who promises to protect, to care and prosper his people. Not out

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 of demand, but of love for the people he has chosen. When you read in Exodus, you read of the people of

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 Israel coming out of Egypt, of slavery. God subdues the most powerful king of that land, of that era,

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 and brings the people out, not because they did something to deem it, but because of a promise God

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 made hundreds of years before in a covenant. This is what you think of when you hear, blessed be the

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 Lord. The Lord is the one who makes covenant with his people. No other God of the world religions can do

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 this. You cannot say to any of them that you are my rock, my steadfast love, my fortress, my stronghold,

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 my deliverer, my shield, and refuge. Now, if you've heard me speak before, I do a lot of illustrations

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 using outdoor analogies. I love being out in nature. And the thing I've done a bit of is whitewater

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 canoeing or kayaking or rafting. And the thing about this, there are many dangers within the current,

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 within the rapids that can hurt you as you navigate them. If you do it poorly, you can seriously hurt

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 yourself. And one of the most dangerous hazards is called the keeper. And what a keeper is, is fast

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 moving water moving under a submerged rock. And as it comes over the rock, it creates this spinning thing,

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 this, I'm sorry, this spinning cycle within it. So if you go over that rock or are pulled into it,

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 it keeps you underwater, it spins you, and you lose all sensation of which way is up and which way is

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 down. And the same can happen in waterfalls. If you go over a waterfall, it creates the same motion that

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 keeps you under it, it keeps you, pins you underwater. But also in the chaos of the rapids and in the chaos

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 of the current as it pulls you down, there's these things called eddies. And what an eddy is, is a protruding

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 rock or a bend within the river as you continue on. And what this happens in this is that it creates a

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 break in the current and in the chaos in the rapids. And it creates this slow swirling sensation within

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 the water. And if you get into this eddy, it's like you're in a place of peace. Chaos is around you. But

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 when you're within it, you can regroup and look at the next set of rapids as you go in and navigate

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 them as you go down. See, everything David calls the Lord here can be summed up in a place of refuge.

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 Like an eddy within a rapid, in a situation that is dangerous all around you, you can be in this

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 place that gives you a sense of refuge. This is what David is referring to the Lord when he says all

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 these things. My rock, my steadfast love, my fortress, my stronghold, my deliverer, my shield, and refuge.

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 And then he continues on within these two verses. He attributes to the Lord as the one who trains

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 his hands and his fingers for battle. His entire strength is what he's referring to here. It's not

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 his skill that he has acquired over many battles, but the Lord working through him. The Lord is the

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 one who gives him the strength. And at the end of verse two, he even attributes to the Lord that he is

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 the one who has made him king above the people that he is king above. He has subdued the people under him.

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 Everything about his kingship he attributes to the Lord. There's no world leader we can think of that I

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 actually tried to think about this. Liberal, conservative, or king, or queen in our time.

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 I can think of who's ever said this, who's ever given all the credit to the Lord. Or if they've even

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 alluded to this in some capacity, their actions have not shown it. We begin to see the heart of David

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 as king here. We're given a glimpse into what a heart of the king should be. But where does he get

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 this perspective from? Where does it come from? Well, in the next two verses, verses three and four,

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 we see it. Look with me in verses three and four.

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 O Lord, what is man that you regard him? Or the son of man that you think of him? Man is like a breath.

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 His days are like a passing shadow.

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 Now, the Odyssey, I'm sure many of us here know what the Odyssey is. It was just redone in a movie.

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 And it's got the movie culture abuzz with it. I haven't had a chance to see it yet. And I've

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 heard mixed reviews on it. I look forward to seeing it. But I'll wait until it comes out on

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 Netflix or something like that. But this is a famous Greek story. It's one of the famous,

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 most famous ones. And it takes place, it was written thousands of years ago.

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 But it's interesting what movies can do, how they can bring these stories back to life.

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 They can make them seem like it only happened yesterday. Or if it's a myth and legend,

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 that it actually happened in real life. Things that seem so ancient to us are a mere breath to the

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 Lord. Just like in winter when you breathe and you see your breath and then it's gone in seconds.

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 This is what time is like to the Lord. This is what, when he looks, when we look on history,

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 it seems so long. It seems like it goes on and on and you can look back and you can never find the

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 beginning of it. But to God, history is a mere breath. The span of a man's life is mere seconds.

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 David reflects on this and looks to his kingship in a similar way. He's at the height of success.

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 Yet he could be killed or die at any time. And he is just, he'll just be another name in history.

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 Maybe he thinks to himself one day there will be a Netflix show about him.

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 The strong king is humbled by how fragile he actually is.

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 So he turns to the Lord as the one who makes him strong.

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 Because he knows his life is a mere breath.

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 So in this moment,

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 David is finding in the Lord a place of refuge

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 during a season of war and chaos.

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 Personally,

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 if I was being pressed in on all sides

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 about people who wanted to kill me,

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 I don't think I would have David's perspective here at all.

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 And I'm sure many of us can think the same thing

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 as well. If we're being hard pressed

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 by something in our lives,

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 so chaotic

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 and so dangerous as that,

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 we would not,

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 I'd be really hard pressed

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 to think of that we would have David's perspective.

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 It's quite profound,

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 his confidence,

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 you see here in his words.

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 But at the same time,

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 it's easy for things to be said

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 and then the complete opposite happens.

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 So we look into the next verses

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 to see how his heart

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 continues on in this prayer.

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 And point two,

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 pattern of rescue.

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 See, David now looks

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 at the ways the Lord could rescue him.

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 So let's look at the next verses.

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 Verses six to eight.

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 I'm sorry, five to eight.

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 Bow your heavens, O Lord,

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 and come down.

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 Touch the mountains

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 so that they smoke.

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 Flash forth the lightning

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 and scatter them.

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 Send out your arrows

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 and rout them.

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 Stretch out your hand

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 from on high.

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 Rescue me and deliver me

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 from the many waters.

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 From the hand of foreigners

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 whose mouths speak lies

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 and whose right hand

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 is the right hand of falsehood.

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 Last week,

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 or on Friday,

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 I had the privilege

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 of going to the art gallery.

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 And I haven't been

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 to the art gallery

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 like, I don't know,

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 since like in grade five.

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 And we spent most of our time

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 in the Canadian section

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 and mainly the group of seven

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 because they dominate

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 the Canadian section.

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 And the thing about

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 the group of seven

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 was a group of seven painters

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 who spent much of their time

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 in the Canadian wilderness

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 in the north of Ontario mainly

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 and then also a bit in BC.

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 And they would paint landscapes

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 of the Canadian wilderness.

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 And they would spend

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 most of their time there

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 painting these scenes

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 that very few would see

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 of that era.

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 Their goal was to elicit

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 the energy and feeling

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 you would get

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 by being in these places.

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 And many of their paintings

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 are during storms

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 or during high winds

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 and you see it

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 within the paintings.

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 You see the energy,

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 you get the feeling

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 of what they're experiencing

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 and what they're painting.

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 David, here in this psalm,

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 with his words,

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 is painting a picture for us

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 of a battle scene.

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 But the battle scene

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 is of the Lord

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 fighting for him.

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 You can feel the energy

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 and the power

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 when he says this.

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 Bow your heavens,

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 O Lord, and come down.

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 Touch the mountains

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 so that they smoke.

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 Flash forth the lightning

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 and scatter them.

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 Send out your arrows

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 and rout them

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 stretch out your hand

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 from on high.

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 Rescue me and deliver me

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 from many waters.

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 He's painting a picture

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 of his words

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 as poetry does.

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 You can feel the energy of it

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 as you read these.

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 See the king,

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 this king, David,

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 the powerful king,

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 the one who is

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 in the highest seat,

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 he subjugates himself

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 and says it in his first line

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 that he looks up.

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 He bows.

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 He looks up

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 as a child in a crib

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 wanting to be picked up

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 by the parent.

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 And then the Lord

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 comes down.

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 It's never the other way.

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 He looks up

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 and the Lord comes down.

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 This shows us something.

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 The Lord

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 that David is praying

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 to for help

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 is the Lord

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 who comes down

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 for his people.

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 As I mentioned earlier,

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 no other God

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 does this

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 or can do this.

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 There's no other God.

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 this is the only Lord

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 that protects

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 the people.

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 But who are these people

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 that David needs protection from?

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 You see,

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 it says foreigners here.

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 Some would take this

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 in our modern age

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 as an anti-immigration text.

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 But that's not

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 what David

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 is getting at here.

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 Look again

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 with me

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 at the verses.

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 I'll just read

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 the one verse

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 where it says foreigner.

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 Stretch out your hand

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 from on high.

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 Rescue me

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 and deliver me

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 from many waters

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 from the hand

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 of foreigners

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 whose mouths speak lies

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 and whose right hand

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 is the right hand

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 of falsehood.

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 See,

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 in this moment,

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 foreigners is another way

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 of saying

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 a person from another culture.

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 David isn't asking

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 for protection

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 because they're culturally

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 different from him.

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 He's asking for protection

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 because they're attacking him

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 and spreading lies

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 about him

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 and about the Lord,

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 about the covenant Lord.

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 this psalm

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 is a pre-exile psalm.

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 The people of Israel

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 have not yet been conquered

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 and they have not yet

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 been brought into exile.

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 Jeremiah,

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 who was a prophet

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 during the exile,

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 tells the people of Israel

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 to settle down

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 in Babylon,

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 to build homes,

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 plant gardens,

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 seek the peace

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 of the city.

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 The Bible is not

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 anti-foreigner.

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 The Bible is

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 anti-anything

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 that tries to take

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 your eyes

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 and heart

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 off

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 the covenant God,

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 off the Lord,

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 the one who is blessed.

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 These people

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 are seeking

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 to eradicate

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 the people of Israel,

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 to tear down

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 their God

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 and to lift up

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 their gods

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 they have made

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 with their hands.

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 David cries out

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 to the only one

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 who can protect him.

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 Look what he does next

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 in the next verses,

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 9 to 11.

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 I will sing a new song

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 to you,

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 O God.

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 Upon a ten-string harp

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 I will play to you.

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 Who gives victory

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 to kings?

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 Who rescues David,

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 his servant,

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 from the cruel sword?

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 Rescue me and deliver me

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 from the hand of foreigners

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 whose mouths speak lies

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 and whose right hand

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 is the right hand

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 of falsehood.

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 David is remembering

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 a time before

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 in a moment

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 when the Lord

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 has rescued him

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 and his people

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 and he holds on

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 to this memory

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 and gives him confidence.

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 He is so confident

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 he thinks of the ways

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 that he'll sing

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 worship to the Lord

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 after the Lord

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 has conquered

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 the people

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 who are pressing in

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 on him.

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 It's the Lord

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 who will deliver him

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 and I've mentioned

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 I believe two weeks ago

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 about a prayer journal.

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 I highly recommend these

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 because it allows you

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 to see the prayers

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 that you've written

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 and how the Lord

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 has protected you

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 and worked in your lives.

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 It allows you

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 to be focused

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 on the Lord

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 and to lift praises up

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 as you come to church

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 every week

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 and on every day

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 in your own devotions.

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 It gives you

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 a heart of praise.

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 It allows you

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 to look up

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 instead of looking down.

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 So he repeats

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 here again

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 in verse 8

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 sorry in verse 11

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 what he says

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 in verse 8.

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 He says this

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 Rescue me

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 and deliver me

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 from the hand

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 of foreigners

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 whose mouths speak lies

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 and whose right hand

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 is falsehood.

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 What's going on here

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 is that he's repeating

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 this

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 that this moment

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 that he's in

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 is present.

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 It hasn't been

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 accomplished yet.

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 It hasn't been

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 resolved yet.

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 A problem

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 that has arisen

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 within evangelicalism

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 we call ourselves

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 evangelicals

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 reformed Christians

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 is Christian nationalism.

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 And there's a trickle

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 of this in Canada

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 but obviously

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 you see it more prevalent

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 within the states

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 because it's a part

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 of their culture.

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 Now I'm not trying

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 to get political here

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 but because this is

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 a human problem

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 not a political problem

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 we're going to look

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 at it very briefly.

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 See most presidents

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 of the states

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 have had a spiritual advisor.

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 Billy Graham

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 who's a famous evangelist

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 was a spiritual advisor

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 to many presidents.

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 But he did it

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 in a way

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 that he never lifted

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 the president above God.

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 The current president

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 Trump

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 has a spiritual advisor

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 and she has compared

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 him to Jesus.

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 He is the one

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 she says

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 who will save

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 the Christian people.

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 This was said

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 near the beginning

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 of the U.S.

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 and Iran war.

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 And many Christians

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 bought into this.

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 This is a problem

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 that runs through

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 evangelicalism.

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 But we have to say

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 to ourselves

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 and think this

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 when any thought

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 similar of this

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 enters our minds

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 where someone

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 or something

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 is lifted above Jesus

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 we need to pray

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 rescue me

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 and deliver me

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 from the hand

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 of foreigners

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 whose mouths

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 speak lies

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 and whose right hand

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 is a right hand

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 of falsehood.

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 Now it's easy

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 to point a finger

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 at Trump.

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 He's always in the news.

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 It's easy to do it.

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 But I'm not doing it

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 in a sense

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 just to point

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 at a political party.

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 This is a human problem

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 of trying to lift

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 world leaders

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 above the God

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 of covenant.

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 Above the Lord.

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 It's gone on

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 for thousands of years

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 and will continue on

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 until Jesus returns.

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 This is a human problem

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 no matter what side

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 of the line

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 you fall on.

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 So now we move

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 into the last part

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 of this psalm.

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 Point three.

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 A people of peace.

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 Look with me

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 at verses 12 to 15.

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 May our sons

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 in their youth

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 be like plants

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 full grown

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 our daughters

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 like corner pillars

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 cut for the structure

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 of a palace.

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 May our granaries

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 be full

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 providing all kinds

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 of produce.

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 may our sheep

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 bring four thousands

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 and ten thousands

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 in our fields.

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 May our cattle

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 be heavy with young

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 suffering

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 no mishap

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 or failure

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 in bearing.

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 And may there

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 be no cry

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 of distress

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 in our streets.

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 Blessed be the people

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 to whom such

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 blessings fall.

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 Blessed be the people

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 whose God

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 is the Lord.

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 Again we see

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 the heart

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 of a king

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 of a true king

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 and it's for the people.

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 the prayer focus

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 is on family

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 and the next

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 rising generation

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 not on dreams

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 of empire.

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 He prays for the sons

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 to be healthy

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 and strong.

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 He prays for the daughters

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 to be the very picture

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 of statuesque elegance

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 and strength.

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 And after he moves

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 into this prayer

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 this section

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 of peace

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 after focusing

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 on the people's families

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 the people he is above

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 he looks at material wealth.

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 but as a blessing

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 from the Lord

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 not one that is earned

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 but one that is given.

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 And it's wealth

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 that benefits

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 the community

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 not just the individual

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 storehouse

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 of those

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 the Lord blesses.

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 It's the one that

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 if you read about

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 it's talking about

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 granaries

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 and fields

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 and cattle

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 many of them.

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 This blesses

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 the community

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 because it provides food

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 in this context.

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 He prays for a healthy

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 kingdom

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 not one of defeat

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 or cruelty

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 and ends with

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 those

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 who call the Lord

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 their God

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 be blessed.

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 This is the heart

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 of a true king.

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 But David is human

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 and you read

00:22:31.039 --> 00:22:32.059
 the story of David

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 and he fails

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 at this

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 quite well.

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 He fails miserably

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 at this.

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 He is far from perfect.

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 But David

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 points

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 to the true king

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 continuing down

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 his line of succession

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 the true king

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 is prophesied

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 to come

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 and this king

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 has come.

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 It's come

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 in the form

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 of a baby

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 and lived

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 a perfect life

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 and that is Christ.

00:22:56.400 --> 00:22:57.319
 In Philippians

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 chapter 2

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 Paul is writing

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 in jail

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 and he says this

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 have this mind

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 among yourselves

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 which is yours

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 in Christ Jesus

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 who

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 though he was

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 in the form

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 of God

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 did not count

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 equality with God

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 a thing to be grasped

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 but emptied himself

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 by taking the form

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 of a servant

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 being born

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 in the likeness

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 of men

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 and being found

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 in human form

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 he humbled

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 himself

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 by becoming

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 obedient

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 to the point

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 of death

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 even death

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 on a cross

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 therefore

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 God

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 has highly

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 exalted him

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 and bestowed

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 on him

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 the name

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 that is above

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 every name

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 so that the name

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 of Jesus

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 every knee

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 should bow

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 in heaven

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 and on earth

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 and under the earth

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 and every tongue

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 confess

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 that Jesus Christ

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 is the Lord

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 to the glory

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 of God

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 the Father.

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 Jesus

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 after becoming

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 a servant

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 lowers himself

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 from his status

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 of God

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 and becomes

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 a servant

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 God makes him

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 the king

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 of the universe

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 after he is risen

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 and ascended

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 into heaven

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 he is the one

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 who points

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 to the future hope

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 the hope

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 of when people

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 and things

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 the war

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 against people

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 will be no more

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 if you are here

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 and Jesus is your

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 Lord and Savior

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 have hope

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 and sing praises

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 sing blessed

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 be the Lord

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 because there is a time

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 when no longer

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 things will war

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 against you

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 to take your eyes

00:24:25.700 --> 00:24:26.660
 off of the Lord

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 but if you are here

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 and you don't know

00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:29.820
 Jesus

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 know that he

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 had died for you

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 that he rose for you

00:24:34.120 --> 00:24:34.660
 and ascended

00:24:34.660 --> 00:24:35.600
 into heaven for you

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 he is the king

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 the true king

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 and he is the king

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 that will return

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 and care

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 for the people

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 who are under him