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 Stay awesome.

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 We're going to look at Psalm 31 tonight.

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 So we're going to read it through.

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! It's quite a long psalm.

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 And I don't know how you'll find it as we read it through.

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 Statements, prayers, reflections.

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 So let me read to you Psalm 31.

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 For the director of music, a psalm of David.

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 In you, Lord, I have taken refuge.

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 Let me never be put to shame.

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 Deliver me in your righteousness.

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 Turn your ear to me.

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 Come quickly to my rescue.

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 Be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me.

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 Since you are my rock and my fortress,

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 for the sake of your name, lead and guide me.

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 Keep me free from the trap that is set for me.

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 For you are my refuge.

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 Into your hands I commit my spirit.

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 Deliver me, Lord, my faithful God.

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 I hate those who cling to worthless idols.

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 As for me, I trust in the Lord.

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 I will be glad and rejoice in your love,

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 for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul.

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 You have not given me into the hands of the enemy,

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 but have set my feet in a spacious place.

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 Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress.

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 My eyes grow weak with sorrow.

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 My soul and body with grief.

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 My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning.

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 My strength fails because of my affliction

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 and my bones grow weak.

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 Because of all my enemies,

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 I am the utter contempt of my neighbours

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 and an object of dread to my closest friends.

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 Those who see me in the street flee from me.

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 I am forgotten as though I were dead.

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 I've become like broken pottery.

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 Another reference to the jar there.

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 For I hear many whispering, terror on every side.

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 They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

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 But I trust in you, Lord.

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 I say you are my God.

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 My times are in your hands.

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 Deliver me from the hands of my enemies,

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 from those who pursue me.

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 Let your face shine on your servant.

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 Save me in your unfailing love.

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 Let me not be put to shame, Lord,

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 for I've cried out to you.

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 But let the wicked be put to shame

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 and be silent in the realm of the dead.

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 Let their lying lips be silenced,

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 for with pride and contempt,

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 they speak arrogantly against the righteous.

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 How abundant are the good things

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 that you have stored up for those who fear you,

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 that you bestow in the sight of all,

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 on those who take refuge in you.

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 In the shelter of your presence,

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 you hide them.

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 From all human intrigues,

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 you keep them safe in your dwelling

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 from accusing tongues.

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 Praise be to the Lord,

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 for he showed me the wonders of his love

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 when I was in a city under siege.

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 In my alarm, I said,

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 I am cut off from your sight.

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 You heard my cry for mercy

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 when I called to you for help.

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 Love the Lord, all his faithful people.

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 The Lord preserves those who are true to him.

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 By the proud he pays back in full.

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 Be strong and take heart,

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 all you who hope in the Lord.

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 Let's pray.

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 Father, thank you for your word.

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 And as we look at it together on this hot evening,

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 I pray that you would give us clarity and attention.

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 And that Lord, most of all,

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 you would give us your spirit to teach us.

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 You show us what we need to hear from you this evening.

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 Amen.

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 I pray in Jesus' name.

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 Amen.

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 What do you do when people treat you badly?

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 How do you respond when you find yourself facing problems?

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 This morning, we had a lovely glimpse of what we do

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 when we're hitting walls,

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 when we're hitting a Red Sea.

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 How do we respond?

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 Well, our response this morning was to be still and trust God.

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 So it's similar, but slightly different tonight.

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 In Psalm 31, we see how David responds to those questions.

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 And it's a psalm which has been repeated,

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 and you might pick up the, as we've read through it,

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 you might have picked up where other times in Scripture

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 some of these words are repeated.

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 This is a prayer of David,

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 and he's expressing his trust in God.

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 But Jesus, let's just wait for this.

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 But Jesus, on the cross,

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 prayed these very words.

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 You would have been very familiar as we read them.

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 He trusted himself to God his Father.

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 Jonah is also referenced in this.

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 And Jeremiah, particularly,

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 if you read through Jeremiah,

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 broken pottery,

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 and that phrase that comes on,

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 that comes again and again.

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 See if I can find it here.

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 Oh, I'm on the wrong page.

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 What people are saying about him.

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 Sorry, I haven't got the reference here,

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 and I can't find it immediately.

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 We'll come to it as we come along.

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 Let me tell you quickly the flow of the passage,

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 because it might help us to begin to get it into our heads.

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 Because as I say, there's a lot in it.

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 The psalm opens with David in verse 1,

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 giving a one-sentence overview of the whole psalm.

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 Verse 1,

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 In you, Lord, I have taken refuge.

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 Let me never be put to shame.

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 Deliver me in your righteousness.

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 So the good news is,

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 if you've understood that verse,

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 then you've got an understanding of what's to come.

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 And if you fall asleep,

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 you've just got to remind yourself of that verse, all right?

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 Because that is essentially what the psalm is about.

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 Then David goes through then,

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 and in verses,

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 he makes a journey twice.

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 Verses 1 to 8,

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 David calls out to God for help,

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 and finds God as his refuge.

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 Verses 9 to 22,

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 he does the same thing.

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 He again calls out to God,

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 and finds God to be his refuge again.

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 But this second journey is even more helpful than the first journey,

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 because he goes into a lot more detail,

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 and starts to unpack what his problems were,

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 and what the solution is.

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 And we begin to really feel,

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 not just here,

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 but we begin to really feel,

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 his predicament,

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 the trouble he's in,

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 but then the joy he knows in finding the Lord his refuge.

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 The psalm then ends with Psalm 23 and 24,

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 with David exhorting us to love and trust the Lord,

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 to be strong and take heart.

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 I'm not going to read these chunks again.

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 That was my plan,

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 but as we've read it through already,

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 I'm just going to refer you to various sections,

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 and you can read them through as I'm speaking.

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 So first of all,

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 we see David's distress in verses 9 to 13.

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 If you read through that,

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 you see that he's calling to God to be his refuge.

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 Why does he need refuge?

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 From who does he need deliverance?

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 Well, he describes there in verses 8, 11, and 15,

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 that he needs refuge from his enemies.

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 So David's enemies are what is causing all of the problems he is facing in Psalm 31.

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 You see in verse 4,

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 they're setting a trap for him.

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 Verse 13,

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 they're plotting to take his life.

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 Verse 15,

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 they're pursuing him.

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 Verse 18,

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 they're lying and speaking arrogantly against him.

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 So how does he feel facing these plots,

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 these lies,

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 these troubles from his enemies?

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 We see there in verses 9 and 10,

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 read those through again to yourself,

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 as I'm just explaining this bit.

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 We see his emotionally and physically,

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 he's a wreck.

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 It's strong,

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 strong language.

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 He's in distress.

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 He says his eyes grow weak as he weeps with grief.

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 He's consumed by anguish.

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 That word comes up there a couple of times.

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 Anguish,

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 a big word.

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 His life with sighing,

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 his strength fails,

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 and his bones feel weak.

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 Emotionally and physically,

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 he's a complete wreck.

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 He's also in verses 11 to 13,

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 he's the contempt of his neighbours.

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 Even his closest friends see him

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 and are horrified when they see him.

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 Passers by in the street,

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 we're told run from him.

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 He's become like a smashed vase

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 or a broken plate.

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 Broken and useless.

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 Many whisper against him

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 and are even plotting to take his life.

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 Extreme language, isn't it?

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 But it is extreme

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 so that it makes the point

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 of David's complete distress

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 and anguish.

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 This wasn't a walk in the park for David,

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 this psalm.

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 It wasn't a happy days, happy days.

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 He was going through the mill.

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 But why did he write these things?

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 He went through those things,

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 but why has he bothered to record them?

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 Why has God caused this portion

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 of scripture to be written down

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 for us to read tonight?

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 Well, one thing,

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 one thing is that we have to see,

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 first of all,

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 the depth of despair and anguish

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 that David was experiencing

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 to see the greatness of God

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 in restoring him

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 and rescuing him.

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 The greater the disaster,

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 the greater the display

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 of power and glory

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 of the rescuer.

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 We had that tonight,

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 didn't we,

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 in the Corinthians reading?

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 And we had that this morning as well

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 with facing the Red Sea.

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 When you're facing a big problem,

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 the rescue is even greater.

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 But it's also perhaps

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 to show us tonight

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 that a Christian

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 and even a godly Christian

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 can experience similar trauma.

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 And if you're undergoing

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 some form of distress

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 or trouble at present,

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 it doesn't mean

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 you are failing as a Christian.

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 David's trouble from his enemies

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 was usually because

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 he was seeking to follow the Lord.

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 So distress, anguish, hard times

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 don't mean that you're not

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 following the Lord.

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 We see here, though,

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 that David finds God

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 to be his refuge

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 in all these troubles.

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 And whatever situation

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 you're finding yourself in

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 at present,

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 physical or emotional weakness,

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 perhaps,

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 or perhaps even being

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 misunderstood or rejected

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 by others,

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 these things David was facing,

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 for you too,

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 God can be a refuge

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 if you trust him

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 as David did.

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 So we're going to look at how,

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 very quickly,

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 at how God was

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 David's rescue.

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 And here we'd be looking

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 at verses 19 to 22.

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 So again,

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 flick through those

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 as you're hearing me.

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 It's interesting

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 that although

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 he was deeply distressed

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 and the psalm

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 is filled with

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 these problems he had,

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 it's filled

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 in an even greater way

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 with confidence

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 and hope in God.

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 You can do this maths

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 yourself later,

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 but you'll have to

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 trust me for this.

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 You know,

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 psalms are written

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 in kind of lines,

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 it's poetry.

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 With 17 lines

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 of Psalm 31

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 dwell on David's problems

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 and 54 lines

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 express his trust

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 and deliverance

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 by the Lord.

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 So that's encouragement

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 to us this evening.

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 How did David

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 find refuge in God?

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 I've got

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 four things quickly

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 to say on that.

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 The first one's

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 really obvious.

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 he called out to God.

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 He asked God

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 for help in verse 2.

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 Verse 2,

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 be my rock of refuge,

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 a strong fortress

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 to save me.

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 And verse 1,

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 verse 5,

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 verse 15,

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 he's again calling

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 for deliverance.

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 It seems obvious,

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 doesn't it,

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 that if you want

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 to find refuge

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 in God,

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 you have to call out

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 to God

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 to help you.

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 Although it's obvious,

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 it's what we fail

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 to do very often,

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 isn't it?

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 We hit a red sea,

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 we're feeling like

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 broken pottery,

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 and what do we do?

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 We try and muddle through

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 and we try and

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 be the strong man,

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 strong woman,

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 when God just wants us

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 first of all

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 to call out to him.

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 But also,

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 we see here

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 in this psalm

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 that he trusted

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 God's faithful character

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 completely.

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 So God's character

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 comes out big

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 in this psalm.

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 He speaks in verse 7

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 of God's love.

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 He speaks in verse 19

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 of abundance

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 of blessings.

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 And in verse 3,

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 he says,

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 for the sake

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 of your name,

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 lead and guide me.

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 In other words,

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 because of who you are,

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 because you are faithful

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 and because you can be trusted,

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 because you are

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 completely faithful,

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 I can trust you

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 completely.

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 For the sake

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 of your name,

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 to show your glory

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 in who you are,

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 rescue me

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 from this situation.

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 We see also,

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 thirdly,

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 he committed himself

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 to that God

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 he completely trusted.

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 Verses 5 and 15

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 say this,

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 these words we know

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 the Lord said on the cross,

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 into your hands

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 I commit my spirit,

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 that's what Jesus said.

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 David also added,

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 deliver me,

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 Lord,

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 my faithful God.

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 Verse 15,

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 David says,

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 my times are in your hands,

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 deliver me from the hands

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 of my enemies.

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 So it's interesting,

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 isn't it,

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 we've got God's hands

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 coming up here.

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 How can God,

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 I was thinking about this,

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 how can God have hands?

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 God is a spirit.

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 But of course,

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 it's a picture language,

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 isn't it?

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 And the hands of God

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 here are repeated

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 to show the

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 securest place to be

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 in your deepest distress

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 is in God's hands.

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 So David had complete trust

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 that he would be delivered.

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 It didn't mean for him

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 that he wouldn't go

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 through problems,

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 and it doesn't mean

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 that for us either.

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 But God will be with us

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 to take us through them.

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 We are in his hands.

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 And lastly there,

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 he found shelter

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 in God's presence.

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 Verse 15,

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 no, verse 16,

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 sorry,

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 in verse 20.

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 Verse 16,

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 let your face shine

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 on your servant.

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 Save me in your unfailing love.

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 Verse 20,

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 in the shelter

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 of your presence,

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 you hide them

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 from all human intrigues.

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 You keep them safe

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 in your dwelling.

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 So David says

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 that those who take refuge

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 in the Lord

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 are kept safe,

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 because they are sheltered

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 in his presence.

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 We have a God

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 who doesn't act remotely

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 in fixing our problems,

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 but one who walks with us,

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 whether it be

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 through the Red Sea,

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 whatever our issues are,

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 whatever our problems are,

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 he walks with us

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 through those problems.

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 He's a personal God.

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 We can't look at this psalm

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 and not see, though,

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 how we see Jesus in it.

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 Christ,

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 the fulfillment

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 of this psalm.

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 How do we see Jesus?

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 Jesus,

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 God's anointed king.

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 Strong hint,

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 particularly in the early psalms,

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 David,

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 God's anointed king,

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 reflects,

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 albeit poorly,

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 but he reflects Jesus,

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 God's super-appointed king.

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 God's anointed king.

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 God's anointed king.

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 How does he,

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 how does David reflect Jesus?

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 We can see here

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 from the grief and anguish

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 in verses 9 to 13,

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 that in Christ's human experience,

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 particularly in the cross,

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 he suffered these very things,

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 the emotional and physical suffering

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 of verses 9 and 10,

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 the rejection of those around him

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 in verses 11 and 12.

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 And note this,

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 they conspire against me

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 and plot to take my life

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 in verse 13.

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 The cross of Jesus,

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 isn't it?

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 Yet Jesus,

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 even on the cross,

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 trusted his father,

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 placed himself

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 in the father's hands,

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 and committed his spirit

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 to the father.

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 So how did Jesus reflect

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 David's trust of the father

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 in a fuller way?

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 Well,

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 we take those,

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 two of those same headings

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 we were looking at for David.

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 He committed himself

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 to God,

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 to the God he completely trusted.

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 And he took,

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 and about the shelter

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 in God's presence.

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 Those two things.

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 So first of all,

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 he committed himself

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 to the God he completely trusted.

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 In the Garden of Gethsemane,

00:18:47.779 --> 00:18:49.440
 Luke 22,

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 we see Jesus in anguish

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 as he faces the cross.

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 He prayed,

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 Father,

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 if you're willing,

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 take this cup from me,

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 yet not my will,

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 but yours be done.

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 And from the cross,

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 when all was finished,

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 in Luke 23,

00:19:07.740 --> 00:19:08.599
 verse 46,

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 we're told,

00:19:10.460 --> 00:19:11.200
 Jesus called out

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 with a loud voice,

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 Father,

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 into your hands,

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 I commit my spirit.

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 So can you see here

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 from those references

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 in Luke

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 how Jesus

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 perfectly submitted

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 to his father

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 who he loved

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 and trusted

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 completely.

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 Jesus,

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 the perfect king,

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 trusting his father

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 perfectly.

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 Now this next one

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 is a bit more tricky.

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 David found

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 sheltering God's presence

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 in verse 15 and 20.

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 But on the cross,

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 Jesus,

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 of course,

00:19:47.340 --> 00:19:48.220
 did not find

00:19:48.220 --> 00:19:49.720
 shelter in God's presence,

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 but rather God's anger

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 when he was bearing

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 our sin.

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 But

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 so that you and I

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 may find shelter

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 from God's wrath

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 and find shelter

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 in God's presence.

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 because of Jesus,

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 we can run to God

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 and find that shelter

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 we need

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 from everything

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 that comes

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 against us.

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 We experience it

00:20:18.619 --> 00:20:19.639
 when we turn to the Lord,

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 don't we?

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 First of all,

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 he forgives our sin.

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 We have shelter

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 from the consequences

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 of our sin.

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 But as we

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 turn to him

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 throughout our Christian life

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 with our problems,

00:20:34.439 --> 00:20:35.539
 we find shelter

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 in his presence.

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 if we take time

00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:39.539
 to be

00:20:39.539 --> 00:20:40.659
 in his presence.

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 So because of Jesus,

00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:48.539
 we can run to God

00:20:48.539 --> 00:20:49.439
 and find shelter

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 from whatever

00:20:50.539 --> 00:20:51.740
 comes against us.

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 I played a little trick

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 on you earlier.

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 You thought it was

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 coming to an end,

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 didn't you?

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 I am coming to the end now.

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 Our response.

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 What do you think

00:21:03.940 --> 00:21:05.259
 our response should be

00:21:05.259 --> 00:21:07.059
 from hearing about

00:21:07.059 --> 00:21:09.160
 God being our refuge

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 and how he walks with us

00:21:13.019 --> 00:21:14.039
 through our problems

00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:16.799
 and how he is our loving

00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:17.779
 and powerful God?

00:21:20.059 --> 00:21:21.279
 What should our response

00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:22.279
 be when we see

00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:23.579
 what Jesus did for us

00:21:23.579 --> 00:21:24.240
 on the cross?

00:21:26.139 --> 00:21:26.539
 Thankfulness.

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 Thankfulness to God,

00:21:28.500 --> 00:21:29.059
 the Father,

00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:30.500
 for his love for us.

00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:32.259
 Thankfulness to Jesus

00:21:32.259 --> 00:21:33.339
 for his love for us,

00:21:33.379 --> 00:21:34.579
 his death in our place.

00:21:36.139 --> 00:21:37.460
 Thankfulness for Jesus

00:21:37.460 --> 00:21:38.880
 for his faithfulness

00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:39.680
 to his Father

00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:41.700
 in going right through

00:21:41.700 --> 00:21:42.299
 for us.

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 But David's application

00:21:45.700 --> 00:21:46.460
 in the psalm

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 to the reader today

00:21:47.600 --> 00:21:48.579
 is at the end

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 and I love this

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 in a passage

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 where you get the application

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 at the end.

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 All right?

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 And it's in verse 23

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 and 24.

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 I'm going to read

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 that to you.

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 Love the Lord,

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 all his faithful people.

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 The Lord preserves those

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 who are true to him

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 but the proud he pays back

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 in full.

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 Be strong and take heart,

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 all you who hope

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 in the Lord.

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 Because of Jesus,

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 we can take to heart

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 this exhortation

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 and we can experience

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 the refuge of God

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 as it is explained

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 through the whole psalm.

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 So the application

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 is two things.

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 Love the Lord,

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 the faithful God

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 has rescued us

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 and will continue

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 to be our refuge.

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 Consider what he's done

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 for you.

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 How can we not love him?

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 The call here

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 is to be faithful

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 and constant

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 in our love for him

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 as it has been for us.

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 How do we do that?

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 We remind ourselves

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 daily of who God is

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 and what he has done

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 for us.

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 Just what David

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 was doing in this psalm.

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 And we remind ourselves

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 of the refuge

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 we have in Jesus.

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 Be strong

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 and take heart.

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 So when our problems

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 loom large,

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 whether they be

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 the Red Sea

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 or something else,

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 we hope in the Lord

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 who delivers those

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 who trust

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 and wait for him.

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 So

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 we wait for him.

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 We stand still

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 but we call on the Lord

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 and stand still.

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 Okay,

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 let me just pray

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 and then back to Nathan.

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 Oh,

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 then we're finishing.

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 Okay,

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 let me just pray

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 to finish.

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 Father,

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 thank you for this psalm.

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 Thank you for

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 what you've shown us

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 even on this hot evening.

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 Thank you that

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 our confidence

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 is not in ourselves.

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 Our hope is not

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 in ourselves

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 but our refuge

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 is in you.

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 Thank you for Jesus

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 that took

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 your wrath

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 in our place

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 so that we could

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 find shelter

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 in your presence.

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 Lord,

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 help us this week

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 as we spend time

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 with you

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 as we read our Bibles

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 as we pray

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 to take shelter

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 in you

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 and to draw

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 our strength

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 from you

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 to find you

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 as our refuge.

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 Go with us now

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 in Jesus' name.

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 Amen.

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