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 Heavenly Father, though our days and our weeks change and our mood, our sense of well-being

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 changes, Lord, you are unchanging, Lord, you are always faithful, you are constant, and

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 you are eager, as always, to listen to us, to speak to us, to minister to us, Lord, and

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 so we are here, Lord, that we come from different states of mind, Lord, we come from different

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 weeks and days, Lord, we have gathered in the same place to seek the one true God,

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 Lord, to seek you, Lord.

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 So we pray, God, that you would address us from your word, that you would lead us as

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 we pray, that you would empower us in our prayers.

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 In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

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 So we're in Psalm 55.

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 The title of the psalm is, To the Choir Master with Stringed Instruments, A Maskile of David.

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 I will read it out loud.

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 Psalm 55.

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 Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy.

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 Attend to me and answer me.

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 I am restless in my complaint, and I moan because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression

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 of the wicked, for they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.

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 My heart is in anguish within me.

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 The terrors of death have fallen upon me.

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 Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.

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 And I say, O that I had wings like a dove.

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 I would fly away and be at rest.

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 Yes, I would wander far away.

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 I would lodge in the wilderness.

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 I would hurry to find a shelter from the raging wind and tempest.

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 Destroy, O Lord.

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 Divide their tongues.

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 For I see violence and strife in the city.

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 Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it.

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 Ruin is in its midst.

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 Oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.

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 For it is not an enemy who taunts me.

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 Then I could bear it.

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 It is not an adversary who deals insolently with me.

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 Then I could hide from him.

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 But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.

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 We used to take sweet counsel together.

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 Within God's house we walked in the throng.

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 Let death steal over them.

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 Let them go down to Sheol alive.

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 For evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.

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 But I call to God, and the Lord will save me.

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 Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.

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 He redeems my soul in safety from the battle that I wage.

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 For many are arrayed against me.

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 God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old.

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 Because they do not change and do not fear God.

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 My companion stretched out his hand against his friends.

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 He violated his covenant.

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 His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart.

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 His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

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 Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you.

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 He will never permit the righteous to be moved.

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 But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction.

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 Men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days.

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 But I will trust in you.

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 I guess end of the school year and end of the week, right, all of us are carrying some kind of burdens, right?

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 And as we are carrying those burdens, I want you to think today about what it is that's weighing your heart down.

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 What's burning your heart, right?

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 Maybe it's a difficult relationship, or maybe it's a difficult situation at work.

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 Maybe it's a problem you're facing.

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 But there's much comfort that's offered in this psalm about the burdens of the heart.

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 And David was a man who was familiar with these struggles and these heavy burdens of the heart.

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 And so he teaches us in this psalm that those who cast their burdens on the Lord will be sustained by him.

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 And in verses 1 to 8, we see his plea.

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 And in verses 9 to 15, we find his plight.

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 And then in verses 16 to 23, we see his profession, his profession of faith.

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 So first we see David's plea in verses 1 to 8.

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 In verses 1 to 3, David cries out to God,

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 Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy.

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 Attend to me and answer me.

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 I am restless in my complaint, and I moan because of the noise of the enemy,

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 because of the oppression of the wicked, for they drop trouble upon me,

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 and in anger they bear a grudge against me.

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 You could kind of sense the desperation of David's plea in the fourfold verbs in succession.

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 So he says, Give ear to me.

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 Hide not yourself from me.

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 Attend to me.

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 Answer me.

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 So whatever he's facing, David's feeling quite at the end of himself and isolated.

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 So he turns to God in that situation.

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 And then in verses 4 to 5, he describes in greater detail what he's actually feeling.

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 He says, My heart is in anguish within me.

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 The terrors of death have fallen upon me.

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 Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.

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 So we can relate to this to a degree, right?

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 There's again, there's a fourfold plea in verses 1 to 3.

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 Here there's a fourfold description of his anguish.

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 So the words he uses, anguish, terror, fear, trembling, and horror.

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 And David's so overwhelmed by his circumstances that he actually just wants to get away.

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 He wants to escape.

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 And we see his escapist fantasy in verses 6 to 8.

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 And I say, Oh, that I had wings like a dove.

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 I would fly away and be at rest.

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 And I say, Oh, that I had wings like a dove.

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 I would fly away and be at rest.

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 Yes, I would wander far away.

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 I would lodge in the wilderness, Selah.

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 I would hurry to find a shelter from the raging wind and tempest.

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 This desire to escape our present plight manifests itself in different ways, in different people, right?

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 Some people really look forward to, all they look forward to is a vacation, or they live for vacations.

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 Other people retreat and get away into an imaginary fantasy world of books and sports and games and pornography and movies.

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 Others entertain suicidal thoughts even as a way of escaping everything, putting an end to everything, right?

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 And we see an example of that here in David.

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 He wants to escape it all because it's so painful to him.

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 And so after his desperate plea, we turn to the second phase of Psalm, the plight, verse 9 to 15.

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 And in verses 9 to 11, he describes the damage that the enemies are doing to him, what's causing this plight.

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 Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues, for I see violence and strife in the city.

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 Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it.

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 Ruin is in its midst.

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 Oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.

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 So David's enemies are doing damage with physical as well as verbal violence.

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 And so that's why David asks God to destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues, right?

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 So the word translated destroy here also means to confuse.

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 That's the way it's used in Isaiah 3.12, 19.3 and 28.7.

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 And that's how the NASB and the NIV translates it.

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 So confuse instead of destroy.

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 I think that's a better translation because it parallels the next verb, which is divide.

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 And divide is a rare word in the Bible, but there's one notable occurrence of it in Genesis 10.25,

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 where one of the descendants of Shem is named Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided.

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 That's a reference most likely to the Tower of Babel incident,

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 when God divided and scattered the peoples by giving them, confusing their language or confusing their tongues.

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 And he scattered the people in that way.

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 So really here David is asking God to do, act in judgment the same way he acted once at the Tower of Babel.

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 He's saying, confuse, O Lord, divide their tongues.

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 And the reason why he prays this is because the violence of the wicked, the violence of his enemies seems to know no bound.

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 Because in verse 10 he tells us that they work their evil day and night, which means all day long, right?

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 And not only that, they go around this entire city and then they sow trouble in its midst.

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 They go around it and they go in its midst.

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 So they're encircling the city and infiltrating the city with their evil deeds.

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 And that's not even the worst of it, right?

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 Because we find out exactly who is among David's enemies in verses 12 to 14.

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 For it is not an enemy who taunts me, then I could bear it.

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 It is not an adversary who deals insolently with me, then I could hide from him.

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 But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.

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 We used to take sweet counsel together.

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 Within God's house we walked in the throng.

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 So David's pain here is multiplied by the fact that the enemy that is so fiercely and thoroughly opposing him is not just typical adversary,

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 but someone that was once his trusted companion, a familiar friend.

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 I'm personally fortunate to have loyal family and friends, right?

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 So I have not experienced this, but I can only imagine the pain, how painful it must be to be stabbed in the back by someone that you trusted enough to reveal your back, right?

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 And because this enemy came from David's own ranks, he can't bear it, he says.

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 He can't hide from him.

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 And as he recounts David's plight, he seems to be overwhelmed again.

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 So he calls for God's swift judgment in verse 15.

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 Let death steal over them.

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 Let them go down to Sheol alive.

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 For evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.

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 So this is David calling for a judgment similar to the judgment that fell on Korah and his followers in Numbers 16.

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 So in Numbers 16, Korah basically gathers 250 chiefs of the congregation and challenges Moses' authority.

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 And because of that, God intervenes decisively on Moses' behalf.

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 And this is what happens.

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 This is in Numbers 16, 32 to 33.

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 And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods.

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 So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol.

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 And the earth closed over them and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

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 So just like Korah was someone who was among Moses' followers, among Israel, that rebelled against him.

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 So similarly, David's familiar friend and companion has risen up against him.

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 And David now prays for a similar judgment as that fell on Korah.

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 Sheol is just a reference to the realm of the dead.

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 So he's calling for them to go down into Sheol alive.

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 So to be swallowed up by the earth with that kind of a decisive judgment.

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 And here, of course, David's not calling for personal vengeance.

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 But he's because these are people who do not fear God.

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 These are people who oppose God.

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 So he's really calling for God's judgment on him.

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 And so that's the plight that David is in.

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 So we see his plea and we see his plight.

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 And then finally we see his profession in verses 16 to 23.

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 And deliverance hasn't come for David yet.

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 But nevertheless, he professes his faith in God's coming deliverance in verses 16 to 19.

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 But I call to God and the Lord will save me.

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 Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan.

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 And he hears my voice.

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 He redeems my soul in safety from the battle that I wage.

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 For many are arrayed against me.

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 God will give ear and humble them.

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 He who is enthroned from of old.

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 Selah.

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 Because they do not change and do not fear God.

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 So in contrast to the enemies who are doing evil deeds day and night,

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 David here says he prays to God evening and morning and at noon.

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 So it seems like he's praying three times a day at set times.

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 Much like Prophet Daniel did.

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 As we see in Daniel 6.10.

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 And so this is helpful for us.

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 Because as much as his enemies are burning his heart, weighing him down,

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 David in equal measure is casting all his burdens on God.

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 And that's why he's able to be sustained through the situation.

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 And David's assured that God can redeem his soul and save him.

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 And the reason for that is because he says God is the one who is enthroned from of old.

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 God has always been king over the entire cosmos.

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 And he never abdicated his throne.

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 So he still sits enthroned.

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 And that's why David can trust him.

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 And so this is helpful for us to remember.

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 No matter what we're going through.

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 No matter what we are, what's burdening our hearts, weighing us down.

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 Whatever we might fear or worry about.

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 To remember that the Lord is the one who is enthroned from of old.

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 And he can save us.

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 And because God's people are on his side.

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 But that doesn't mean that David isn't bothered anymore by the betrayal or the pain that he's going through.

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 He still feels the pain.

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 And we see that again in verses 20 to 21.

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 So he returns again to his bitter musings about his former friend.

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 So my companion stretched out his hand against his friend.

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 He violated his covenant.

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 His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart.

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 His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn soared.

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 It seems as though, as David says, the wounds are still fresh, right?

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 There's a tone of disbelief and indignation in his words.

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 And this is actually one of the unique features of this psalm.

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 Usually the psalms follow a very clear, logical flow.

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 But here it's kind of uneven.

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 The psalm is uneven.

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 There's abrupt changes in thought.

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 And it's almost as if it's intended to convey this kind of emotional roller coaster that David himself is on.

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 But nevertheless, even though he is deeply pained by his friend's betrayal,

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 he is, in the end, returns to a profession of faith.

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 And in verses 22 to 23, he exhorts the whole people of God to similarly cast their burdens on the Lord.

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 He says,

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 So the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament, which the New Testament authors used,

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 translates this verse as,

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 Cast your anxieties on the Lord.

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 So 1 Peter 5, 7 may very well be alluding to this verse of the psalm.

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 Because it says,

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 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God,

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 so that at the proper time he may exalt you.

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 Casting all your anxieties on him,

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 because he cares for you.

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 So Peter had written to believers who are facing persecution for their faith,

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 and had exhorted them to cast all their anxieties on him.

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 And that's what we are to do as believers.

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 And there's only one stout and steady shoulder upon which we could lay all the burdens of the heart,

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 and that's, of course, the shoulders of Jesus Christ,

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 who said in Matthew 11, 28,

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 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden,

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 and I will give you rest.

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 Because God's once and for all,

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 and unreservedly demonstrated his steadfast love and faithfulness toward us in Jesus,

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 and because Jesus lived and died and rose again for our salvation and vindication,

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 and because Christ is our advocate,

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 who is enthroned at the right hand of the Father,

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 and because he is sovereign and in full control,

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 that's why we don't have to be burdened with fear and anxiety.

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 And because Christ is our mediator in the presence of God the Father,

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 because of him, there is, for those who trust in him,

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 full remission of sin.

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 All our debts are paid and our sins are forgiven.

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 And because of that, we don't need to be burdened by guilt,

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 weighed down by guilt.

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 And so whatever situation you're in then,

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 whatever burden of the heart that you have been carrying this week,

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 or this day, or this year,

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 the exhortation is to cast your burden on the Lord.

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 And he will sustain you.

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 He will never permit the righteous to be moved.

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 And that's really the main point of the psalm,

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 and it's really a wonderful picture,

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 the idea of casting our burden on the Lord, right?

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 It's literally throwing our burdens onto him,

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 so that we do not have to carry it,

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 but that he would carry it for us.

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 And we could fling it to him, throw it to him,

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 cast it aside to him,

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 and have no more cares and anxieties,

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 because Jesus is a sufficient burden bearer on our behalf.

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 So those who cast their burdens on the Lord

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 will be sustained by him.

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 So let's turn to him in prayer and cast our burdens on him.

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 And that's a great dei,

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 to give a mentions estava every thing for him.

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 Let me know a little bit,

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 I'll continue to think of the Pallel.

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 And I've been recording it book.

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 Now you can see I'm going to turn the Pallel tour

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 So the road feet are left off