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 Psalm 119 verses 41 to 48 today.

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 I'll read it out loud for us.

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 It says,

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 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules.

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 I will keep your law continually forever and ever, and I shall walk in a white place, for I have sought your precepts.

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 I will also speak of your testimonies before kings, and shall not be put to shame, for I find my delight in your commandments, which I love.

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 I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love.

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 And I will meditate on your statutes.

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 So this strophe or stanza, this unit of poetry kind of begins with prayer for deliverance.

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 Really, this whole section is about how those who delight in God's rules, God's law, those who trust in God's word, bear faithful witness to it.

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 And the first part, the first three verses, verse 41 to 43, is a prayer.

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 It's a prayer of a faithful witness.

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 And then verses 44 to 48 is a pledge of a faithful witness.

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 And so it begins with the prayer in verse 41.

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 Let your steadfast love come to me, O Lord, your salvation according to your promise.

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 And it seems that he's in a situation, kind of a bad situation that he needs God to save him from.

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 And it seems that there's some enemies that are taunting him.

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 So they're taunting him, saying, where is your God?

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 God, if your God is all that you say he is, then why are all these things happening to you?

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 And where is the God that you put so much hope in?

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 But the psalmist hasn't abandoned his hope.

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 He has held on.

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 And so he asks God for deliverance.

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 Lord, let your steadfast love, your unchanging love come to me.

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 Your salvation according to the promises you have given me.

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 And only then shall I have an answer for these people who are taunting me.

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 So that's what he's holding on.

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 This is a great picture of faith seeking understanding.

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 I don't know if that's a phrase you guys have heard.

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 Often when people, bad things happen to Christians,

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 sometimes they get doubt which leads them to despair.

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 This is happening to me.

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 I don't know if God's really with me.

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 I don't know if God really loves me.

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 I don't know if God really is in control.

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 It's a doubt that leads to despair.

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 In contrast, faith seeking understanding says,

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 you know, my experience is contrary to God's promise.

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 What I know about God.

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 But instead of saying, therefore God must not love me or God must not exist,

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 faith seeking understanding says,

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 this is what I believe and Lord, please help me to understand.

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 I know this might.

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 So instead of letting our experience dictate our faith,

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 this person,

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 this psalmist is letting his faith dictate his experience,

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 make sense of what he's going through.

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 Lord, I believe.

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 Lord, I believe.

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 But help me.

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 Deliver me.

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 Show me.

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 That prove to me that your word is true,

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 which, because I believe it, I hold on to it.

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 And so he says,

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 then he will be able to answer those who taunt him.

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 And he will not take,

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 and he prays, continues that prayer in verse 43.

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 Take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth,

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 for my hope is in your rules.

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 He's still hoping in God's word.

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 And so he doesn't want God to take away his testimony.

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 He wants him to preserve him,

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 so that he can continue to bear witness to God's truth.

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 And that's the prayer of a faithful witness.

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 And then in the latter half of the psalm,

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 we see the pledge,

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 pledge of a faithful witness.

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 It says in verse 44 and 45,

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 I will keep your law continually forever and ever,

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 and I shall walk in a wide place,

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 for I have sought your precepts.

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 So the word continually suggests without pause,

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 without ceasing.

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 And then forever and ever suggests without an end,

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 without a terminus.

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 So he's saying without ceasing,

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 without pause and without end,

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 I will continue to keep your law.

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 I will keep your law.

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 And so it shows to us

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 what life of obedience should look like.

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 Obedience is not just a part-time commitment,

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 but rather it's an entire life,

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 without break,

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 lived toward the glory of God.

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 And I love the following image in verse 45.

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 And I shall, when he's doing this,

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 I shall walk in a wide place,

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 for I have sought your precepts.

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 I love that image because,

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 like sometimes when,

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 as Christians,

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 we think about the word precepts,

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 God's law,

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 God's rule,

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 we can think of it as a restrictive thing,

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 you know,

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 a narrow thing.

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 It's restrictive.

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 It's something that limits us, right?

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 Constrains us.

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 But the psalmist describes it as,

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 when he seeks the precepts of God,

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 he says,

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 I shall walk in a wide place.

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 This is the spaciousness of obedience.

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 There's a sense of spaciousness,

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 of freedom,

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 liberty that comes with obedience.

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 It's in the same way,

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 you know,

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 it's only the musician that disciplines him or herself

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 to do these tedious finger-strengthening exercises,

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 or scales,

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 that can later play these difficult,

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 you know,

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 exquisite pieces of music,

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 with freedom and joy,

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 right?

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 It's that,

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 it's that,

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 and in the same way,

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 it's the,

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 I mean,

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 if you think of a writer,

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 right,

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 an author,

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 it's,

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 it's those who have disciplined themselves

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 with learning the conventions of grammar

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 and diction,

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 and,

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 and,

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 and really these literary principles

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 that can later really experiment

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 and write freely and,

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 and joyfully,

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 and,

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 and with flourish.

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 And so it's the discipline,

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 and that reminds me of the,

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 of a quote that I've used before

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 from G.K. Chesterton

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 in his book,

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 Orthodoxy.

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 He comments on this paradoxical aspect

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 of God's law.

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 He says,

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 the more I considered Christianity,

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 the more I found that while it had established

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 a rule and order,

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 the chief aim of that order

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 was to give room for good things

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 to run wild.

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 It's the,

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 the,

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 the freedom to obey.

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 It,

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 it gives us protection,

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 boundaries,

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 in order,

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 in which we can run wild.

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 There's a spaciousness.

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 God makes it wide.

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 I shall walk in a wide place,

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 for I have sought your precepts.

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 And,

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 and then he,

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 and he continues his pledge

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 in verse 46,

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 I will also speak of your testimonies

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 before kings

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 and shall not be put to shame.

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 And that's,

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 and it's,

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 there's an emphasis on giving testimony

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 earlier in verse,

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 right,

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 42 and 43.

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 He spoke of bearing witness,

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 giving testimony to his enemies

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 who taunt him.

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 And now here,

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 he's saying,

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 even before kings,

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 he will bear testimony,

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 he will bear witness to God's word

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 and he will not be ashamed.

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 And,

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 and this is,

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 it's a good question to ask,

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 do we have this kind of confidence

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 as a psalmist

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 that we will not be put to shame

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 when we share,

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 bear witness to God's word.

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 That even

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 when we're before

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 the wisest of people in the world,

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 do we have faith

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 that God's word

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 will prove still wiser?

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 Even before the best philosophers

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 of this age,

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 do we have confidence

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 that God's word

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 will prove truer?

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 Right?

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 And,

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 and even,

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 even among the,

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 you know,

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 the most noble

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 or moral people in the world,

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 do we have confidence

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 that God's word

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 will be still more noble

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 and more,

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 more beautiful

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 and moral

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 and better

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 in every way.

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 And,

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 and,

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 and the psalmist

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 has that confidence

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 where he says,

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 even before kings,

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 I know I will not be ashamed

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 and he puts,

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 he,

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 he bears witness

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 to God's word

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 and he pledges

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 to continue to do that.

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 And the reason

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 is amazing.

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 Verse 47,

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 for I find my delight

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 in your commandments

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 which I love.

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 I will lift up my hands

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 toward your commandments

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 which I love

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 and I will meditate

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 on your statutes.

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 The phrase lifting up my hands,

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 it's,

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 it's usually,

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 it's a kind of a gesture

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 of prayer

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 and when it's used

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 in scripture,

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 it's usually referring

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 to God.

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 I lift up my hands to God.

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 It's a way of stretching

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 your hands out to God.

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 But here,

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 interestingly,

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 that it,

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 that's,

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 that the state of God,

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 it says,

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 I will lift up my hands

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 toward your commandments.

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 commandments.

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 So,

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 because the commandments

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 of God

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 speak of God,

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 reveal God,

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 stand for God.

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 And,

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 and here,

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 and,

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 and,

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 and,

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 and it's hard to miss

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 kind of the relational

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 and almost even romantic,

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 right,

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 overtones,

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 right,

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 which I love,

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 right?

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 it's,

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 it reminds me of the word,

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 the English word we have,

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 like a bibliophile,

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 right?

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 Someone who loves books,

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 right?

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 Lovers of books.

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 And,

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 and there's a,

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 there's a sense which,

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 right?

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 I mean,

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 Kim's,

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 Kim's one of them,

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 right?

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 Yeah,

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 yeah.

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 And,

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 there's a sense in which

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 you can really fall in love

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 with the book,

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 right?

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 Like,

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 I mean,

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 it's,

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 it engages,

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 unlike,

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 I don't know,

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 TV shows or movies

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 that imagine things for you.

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 When you read a book,

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 you have to use your own imagination.

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 It engages you in a different way.

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 You kind of really get immersed

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 in the world

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 and you get really,

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 you can get really enamored

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 with the characters

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 and so there's a sense

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 which you can really fall in love

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 with a book

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 and you feel like it's a relationship.

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 You get to know someone.

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 But,

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 this is true in a much profound,

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 much more profound way

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 with scripture

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 because God presently

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 speaks

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 from his word.

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 It's a way in which

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 we relate to God,

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 hear from him

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 and we could even pray

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 back scripture to him.

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 and,

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 and so,

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 and so,

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 it's not inappropriate

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 for the psalmist to say,

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 I love God's commandments.

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 I delight in God's commandments.

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 I love him

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 and,

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 and that's the love

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 that we should cultivate

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 and it's those who love God's word

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 that bear faithful witness to it.

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 and,

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 and this is,

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 it's,

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 and that's why

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 because he loves it,

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 it says,

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 he,

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 he,

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 and he was going to bear

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 a faithful witness to it

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 and we know that in the end

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 his faith

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 and his hope

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 will not be disappointed

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 because God always delivers

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 on his promises

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 and his deliverance

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 ultimately

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 is seen in,

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 he's seen the fulfillment

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 of God's promises

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 in Jesus Christ.

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 Jesus is the,

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 is the,

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 is what the promise,

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 all the promises

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 of the Old Testament

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 point to

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 and in his life,

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 death and resurrection,

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 he,

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 he brings the salvation

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 that is promised

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 and,

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 and by,

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 and delivering us

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 from our sins,

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 dying for our sins,

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 being raised from the dead

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 to give us new eternal

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 resurrection life

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 and,

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 and now,

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 and as people

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 who are on that other side

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 of,

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 of,

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 of,

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 the salvation history,

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 as people who have

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 experienced this,

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 have seen the fulfillment

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 of God's promises

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 which this psalmist

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 was only holding out

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 for and hoping in,

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 we all the more

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 should love God's word

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 and bear witness to it.

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 That's really the main point

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 of this psalm.