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Speaker 1: Remind me to embrace the difficulty and abstain from taking

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Speaker 1: in my relentless pursuit of peace. Amen, thank you for

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Speaker 1: listening to to day's daily prayer for more inspiration and

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Speaker 1: an incredible message from our feature pastor stay tuned to

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Speaker 2: Well. Thank you so much for choosing to worship with

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Speaker 2: us this morning here on Father's Day. It may not

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Speaker 2: be our testimony, may His praise ever be on our lips.

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Speaker 2: We have ten thousand plus reasons to bless the Lord.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to preach today. I'm always excited to preach.

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Speaker 2: I love our background by the way, don't you. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I really feel like I'm coming out to give a

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Speaker 2: message on behalf of the King today, Okay, And this

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Speaker 2: is for High five, which begins tomorrow about two hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty kids, yes, who praise God for them. So

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Speaker 2: if you enjoin me and in keeping our students and

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Speaker 2: those investing them in prayer, and if you're an adult

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Speaker 2: and you're not part of it, you may want to

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Speaker 2: swing by sometime during the week to see what we're

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Speaker 2: talking about. Pray for the salvation of young kids, Pray

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Speaker 2: for Jesus and take them deeper. It is going to

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Speaker 2: be an awesome week. And there's just so much and

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Speaker 2: trusting God for an incredible week. And then we'll have

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Speaker 2: our Savior is. Amen, let's praise. We prepare our hearts

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Speaker 2: to hear the word of the Lord this morning. Jesus,

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Speaker 2: we give you all the glory, all the honor, and

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Speaker 2: we just pray today that we would have our hearts

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Speaker 2: ready to hear from you, so that we could express

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Speaker 2: to you who we are in You. And Lord, we

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Speaker 2: just ask right now that our hearts would be receptive,

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Speaker 2: that our minds would be alert to hear and receive

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Speaker 2: what you have, that we could put into practice the

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Speaker 2: very things that you have for us and for all

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Speaker 2: you're going to do in advance. We give you all

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Speaker 2: give you all the praise in Jesus Christ's name, Amen

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Speaker 2: and Amen. As we continue our series summer in the Psalms,

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Speaker 2: we're going to look at a familiar psalm, Psalm chapter

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Speaker 2: thirty four this morning, Psalm chapter thirty four. And while

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Speaker 2: may His Praise ever be on my lips. And in

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Speaker 2: many churches we think of worship as like a warm

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Speaker 2: the real thing, which is hearing the word of the Lord.

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Speaker 2: But the fact of the matter is that one thing

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Speaker 2: we can be sure of that we're going to do

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Speaker 2: for all eternity is worship the Lord Jesus Christ. That

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Speaker 2: worship is not a warm up for preaching. Worship is

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Speaker 2: the endgame of preaching. Worship is the endgame of evangelism.

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Speaker 2: Why do we want to lead people to Christ so

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Speaker 2: that we'll have more worshippers of the Lord. Worship is

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Speaker 2: God wants us to worship him in spirit and in truth,

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Speaker 2: it's not supposed to be emotionalism and all this kind

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Speaker 2: as David writes his Psalm and Psalm thirty four, as

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Speaker 2: But my hope and prayer as we look into this

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Speaker 2: And David begins his Psalm by telling us how to

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Speaker 2: for he is good. Praise God and seek him for

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Speaker 2: he is good. When we talk about bless we're talking

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Speaker 2: adoration to this God. And how often should we do it? Continually?

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Speaker 2: which we are. That's one of the reasons why we

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Speaker 2: gather on the weekend is to come together to worship

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Speaker 2: the Lord and bless his name. Right, But David writes,

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Speaker 2: lives are marked by lives that bless the Lord. Now

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Speaker 2: here's the truth about a blessing. You know, a song

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Speaker 2: isn't a bell until you ring it. And the blessing

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Speaker 2: just I'm blessing the Lord from within and me and

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Speaker 2: Jesus have this private relationship. Blessing is I am verbally

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Speaker 2: expressing my blessing for who the Lord is in my life.

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Speaker 2: And David does this all the time, doesn't he. I

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Speaker 2: why he was dubbed the man after God's own heart.

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Speaker 2: It could have been because he knew the Lord so

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Speaker 2: that his heart was always going after God. But one

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Speaker 2: thing we know about David is David verbally and oftentimes

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Speaker 2: what did David do. He was basically dancing in his epod,

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Speaker 2: shouldn't act like that. He says, listen, I'll become even

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Speaker 2: more undignified than this. In other words, my expression for

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Speaker 2: the Lord trumps everything else that I do. And I

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Speaker 2: don't care who sees, and I don't care who hears.

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Speaker 2: continually be in my mouth. And then he says this,

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Speaker 2: my soul makes its boast in the Lord. Let the

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Speaker 2: God does. Don't hide your blessings. Well, I don't want

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Speaker 2: I see it in church a lot, like somebody gets pregnant,

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Speaker 2: He's the one that gave you this. Well, you know,

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Speaker 2: to hide my blessings. Not According to David, let the

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Speaker 2: in the Lord. Every good thing I have is from

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Speaker 2: the Lord. No good thing does he withhold from those

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Speaker 2: who walk up Rightly, God's a good God. It's okay

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Speaker 2: the Book of James, it says why because God opposes

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Speaker 2: sinners who are humble come before the Lord and say, Lord,

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Speaker 2: I need you, I need your forgiveness. God grants forgiveness

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Speaker 2: to who the humble. When believers come before the Lord

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Speaker 2: be glad. Make your boasts in him, because that's who

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Speaker 2: And then the verse three. I love this verse. There's

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Speaker 2: just oh, come and let's celebrate. I mean, it's like, hey,

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Speaker 2: It's an invitation to celebrate what God is doing in

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Speaker 2: good things happen in your life, you want to tell

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Speaker 2: other people. I was in Chicago this week, and yesterday

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Speaker 2: cost about two hundred and fifty dollars through a place,

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Speaker 2: is people in Chicago know how to eat, and they

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Speaker 2: know how to eat really well, and there's really really

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Speaker 2: good food. So when I'm going back there, I start

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Speaker 2: marking my calendar based upon the timeframes that we have

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Speaker 2: of the different restaurants that I want to hit. And

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Speaker 2: so when we landed, first thing we did we went

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Speaker 2: to Portillo's for lunch. If you don't if you're not

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Speaker 2: from the mid West, you don't even know what I'm

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Speaker 2: talking about, and that's okay. But if I took you there,

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Speaker 2: I would tell you, Oh, taste and see that Portillo's

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Speaker 2: is good. And the person's people that we met up

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Speaker 2: with later in the week, we took them because you know,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't good enough to just go once. We had

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Speaker 2: to go again, right, And then we were downtown on

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Speaker 2: Friday night, we had to go for deep dish peacha

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Speaker 2: the Genos East because that's the best pizza in the world, right,

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Speaker 2: And if you were there with us, I would have said, oh,

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Speaker 2: come taste and see that Geno's East is good. And

446
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Speaker 2: it is. I don't tell you about the Lord Jesus Christ.

447
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Speaker 2: He's really good. He's delivered my life out of so

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Speaker 2: much sin and shame and guilt and fear. And you

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Speaker 2: know what, he continues to work in me. And every

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Speaker 2: time I see him work in other people, he fires

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Speaker 2: me up. And when I see these women that have

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Speaker 2: been in the pall, and they're telling stories about how

453
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Speaker 2: God's working through them to share the Gospel with other

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Speaker 2: people all the way around the world. And for those

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Speaker 2: of you that don't know your geography, I mean, if

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Speaker 2: you drilled the hole through the earth, you'd hit in

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Speaker 2: the pall. I mean, it's way on the other side

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Speaker 2: of the world. Okay, this is what's going on. And

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Speaker 2: every time I hear what God is doing, great tasts

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Speaker 2: and see that He's good. Every time I hear testimonies

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Speaker 2: from our church of what God is doing to re

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Speaker 2: center people's identity in Christ. And seeing that God is

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Speaker 2: alive and he's good, and he's putting marriages back together,

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Speaker 2: and he's healing hearts of people that have been broken.

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Speaker 2: I mean, fires me up. That's what David's saying. Taste

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Speaker 2: and see it for yourself. Says that Bible passage in

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Speaker 2: Philippians too, at the name of Jesus, where every need

468
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Speaker 2: will bow in heaven and on the earth and under

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Speaker 2: the earth, that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory

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Speaker 2: of God the Father. Years ago, I would have said, well,

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Speaker 2: that means when Jesus comes back those sinners man, they're

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Speaker 2: going to know they're going to get down on their

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Speaker 2: face and boy it, they're gonna feel bad. But the

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Speaker 2: longer I read the Word and know of God's love,

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Speaker 2: even when the most hostile sinner sees the beauty of

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Speaker 2: the Lord and how awesome he is, they will fall

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Speaker 2: at their knees and call him Lord. The reason people

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Speaker 2: don't worship the Lord is they still have a true

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Speaker 2: picture as to who he is. Anybody that had a

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Speaker 2: true picture of who God is would fall on their

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Speaker 2: face and worship him. He's that good. Oh taste and

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Speaker 2: see check it out. If you're here at Harvest this

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Speaker 2: week and you're like, I'm not so sure I believe

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Speaker 2: in this Jesus thing, here's what I'd say. Taste and

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Speaker 2: see it for yourself. Read his word, check it out,

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Speaker 2: Listen to others who are being touched by him. He's

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Speaker 2: that awesome. He's way better than deep dish pizza and

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Speaker 2: beef sandwiches. I want to tell you that right now,

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Speaker 2: he's awesome. Taste and see that he's good. And he says, Oh,

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Speaker 2: fear the Lord, you as saints. For those who fear

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Speaker 2: him have no lack. You will lack no good thing.

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Speaker 2: The young Lions suffer want in hunger, and those who

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Speaker 2: seek the Lord. But those who seek the Lord lack

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Speaker 2: no good thing. Listen, most of us, the reason we

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Speaker 2: think that we lack is because we bring God our

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Speaker 2: worldwide plan. We have an agenda for what we think

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Speaker 2: goodness is, and we've marked it all out. We think

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Speaker 2: we know who we need to marry, when we need

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Speaker 2: to marry them, how many kids we need to have,

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Speaker 2: where we need to live, how much money we need

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Speaker 2: to make, the kind of home we need to have,

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Speaker 2: the city we need to live in when we need

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Speaker 2: to live. They're the type of friends we need to have,

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Speaker 2: what we need to have access to, and all of

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Speaker 2: this is what we want God to do. And God,

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Speaker 2: if you'll do just all of that, then I'll know

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Speaker 2: that I'm not lacking anything. Doesn't work that way. But

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Speaker 2: those who center their hearts on the Lord and say

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Speaker 2: I know you have my best and I trust you

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Speaker 2: for what I need always have everything that fills them up.

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Speaker 2: It's just a fact, he says, Even young lions, you know,

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Speaker 2: lion is the king of the jungle. A lion can

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Speaker 2: get food whenever a lion wants. Even the kids of

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Speaker 2: the lion, the cubs of the lions sometimes don't get

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Speaker 2: enough to eat, but not God's kids. God's kids always

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Speaker 2: have what they need, because God takes delight in giving

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Speaker 2: things to his kids. If you flip over to Psalm

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Speaker 2: chapter thirty seven, in verse twenty five, as the psalmist

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Speaker 2: reflects upon his younger years, he says, I have been young,

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Speaker 2: and now I'm old. Yet I have not seen the

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Speaker 2: righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread. It means

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Speaker 2: God will supply all of his needs according to your

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Speaker 2: glorious riches in Christ, Jesus. That's who our God is.

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Speaker 2: God loves you, God cares for you, So praise him,

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Speaker 2: Bless him, Let his praise always be on your lips.

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Speaker 2: Seek him. Here's why he's good. He's really good. He's

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Speaker 2: really good. If you got into his presence, you would

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Speaker 2: want to spend time with him. He wouldn't shun you,

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Speaker 2: he wouldn't push you away. He wouldn't say, oh you're coming,

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Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? No, if he saw you, he'd

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Speaker 2: be like, thanks. He loves you. Now, As the Psalm

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Speaker 2: switches here, we start seeing about how we're supposed to live.

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Speaker 2: If this is how God is good, then how are

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Speaker 2: we supposed to live. And here's what the Psalma says,

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Speaker 2: Fear God and live righteous, for he shows favor, he

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Speaker 2: shows blessing, so fear him and live righteous. He shows favor.

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Speaker 2: Notice what he says, Come, o, children, listen to me.

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Speaker 2: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Now

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Speaker 2: we've seen this fear of the Lord throughout this passage

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Speaker 2: in verse nine and then verse verse seven. I mean

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Speaker 2: he's been talking about fearing the Lord. What does it

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Speaker 2: mean to fear the Lord? To fear the Lord means

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Speaker 2: to shun evil. To fear the Lord means to have

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Speaker 2: a reverence for the Lord. It doesn't mean I'm afraid

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Speaker 2: of him. It means I revere him. Yeah, I be

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Speaker 2: fearful if he unleashed everything on me. But he's a

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Speaker 2: powerful being. But I'm in reverence to him because of

548
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Speaker 2: who he is. I want to align my life because

549
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Speaker 2: he's so good and he's so awesome. I want to

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Speaker 2: center my life and do the very things he would

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Speaker 2: want me to do. So this is what this almost

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Speaker 2: is saying. This almost is not just saying, Hey, God's

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Speaker 2: so good, He'll forgive all your sins, so go sin

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Speaker 2: all you want. And then keep asking for forgiveness. This

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Speaker 2: almost is saying, our God is so good and he's

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Speaker 2: such a provide, and he's so loving, and he's so awesome.

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Speaker 2: Taste and see how good he is. And if you do,

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Speaker 2: I will teach you how to live righteous. God will

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Speaker 2: teach you how to live the way you need to live.

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Speaker 2: And what you'll want to do is live the way

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Speaker 2: God wants you to live. That's called maturity. That means

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Speaker 2: you know, you're growing in the Lord. He says in

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Speaker 2: verse twelve. What man is there who desires life and

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Speaker 2: loves many days that he may see good? It means, hey,

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Speaker 2: do you really want to live? Do you really want

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Speaker 2: to live a happy life? Do you really want to

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Speaker 2: live a blessed life? Do you really want to live

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Speaker 2: the full to your life? And say I'm living the life?

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Speaker 2: He says, here's how you do it. Notice the first

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Speaker 2: place he goes in verse thirteen, keep your tongue from

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Speaker 2: evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Now, it's really

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Speaker 2: interesting to me that David would write this because if

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Speaker 2: you think about it, if we as Christians we're writing

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Speaker 2: the Psalms and we said, hey, you want to grow

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Speaker 2: a maturity. What would be the behavior you would tell

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Speaker 2: people to shun away from. What would be the things

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Speaker 2: you would tell me, don't do that? Okay. The first

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Speaker 2: place David goes the tongue, the tongue, we probably wouldn't

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Speaker 2: go there. We might go to sexual sin, we might

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Speaker 2: go to drug use, we might go to murder, we

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Speaker 2: might go to all sorts of David says, watch your tongue,

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Speaker 2: Watch your tongue. Why. Now, I don't know if you

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Speaker 2: studied anatomy, but spiritual anatomy. Anatomically your tongue is not

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Speaker 2: connected to your heart, but spiritually it is. Spiritually your

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Speaker 2: tongue is connected right to your heart. So what comes

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Speaker 2: out of your mouth is the overflow of what's right here.

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Speaker 2: David says, guard your tongue from evil. Guard your tongue

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Speaker 2: from evil. Why, Because there is power, there is life

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Speaker 2: and death in the tongue. Now, I can tell you

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Speaker 2: after being a pastor for five and a half years,

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Speaker 2: I would totally agree with David, because well, there's no sin.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna sit here and justify and say, oh, that

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Speaker 2: sins better than this sin, or this sins better than

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Speaker 2: that sin. Those of you who are living sexually moral

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Speaker 2: you're hurting yourselves than you're hurting other people. You really are.

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Speaker 2: It's not good, it's a sin, it's wrong. But I

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Speaker 2: can tell you this. Nothing's more hurtful in a church

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Speaker 2: than a deceptive tongue. Nothing's more hurtful than gossip. Nothing

599
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Speaker 2: has wounded my heart more than people talking about me. Nothing.

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Speaker 2: We had a lot of people that come to Harvest

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Speaker 2: that have lived sexually a moral and while I hurt

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Speaker 2: for them, you haven't hurt me. But your gossipy tongue.

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Speaker 2: It does, Your slander, it does, your malicious talk. It does.

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Speaker 2: And the same is true of you if you know

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Speaker 2: people are talking about you. Nothing cuts quite like a tongue.

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Speaker 2: Why Because it's connected to the heart. And when it's

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Speaker 2: connected to the heart, it hurts. Right. So here's what

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Speaker 2: David says. David says, watch your tongue. God is totally

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Speaker 2: in my own heart over the last six and a

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Speaker 2: half years, Like there's things I'll speak out about, Like

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Speaker 2: there's things philosophically in this election I would speak out

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Speaker 2: about and have no problem. But I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: attack one person. I'm not going to attack one pastor.

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Speaker 2: May I may say that what they're teaching is not true.

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Speaker 2: But I'm not going to attack them as a person.

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Speaker 2: You know why, because God made them and I'm not

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Speaker 2: going to my tongue be a weapon of evil or deceit.

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Speaker 2: Then he says, this, turn away from evil and do good.

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Speaker 2: It means if you're aligned with the Lord, you want

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Speaker 2: to do what God wants you to do. So he says,

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Speaker 2: seek peace and pursue it. Pursue peace. Now, when we

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Speaker 2: think about peace, most of us think like, ah, peace,

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Speaker 2: seek peace. Okay. The Bible says in Romans five to one,

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Speaker 2: we now have peace with God. We've been justified with God.

625
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Speaker 2: We now have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 2: But peace and the Hebrew and it was more than

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Speaker 2: just a feeling of peace. It was the shalom of God.

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Speaker 2: It was peace, It was completeness, It was safeness, health, satisfaction, prosperity, success.

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Speaker 2: It meant every good thing in my life is aligned

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Speaker 2: around the shalom of God. Seek peace. How do you

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Speaker 2: know you have peace when it doesn't matter what your

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Speaker 2: circumstances are, and you're not rattled by your circumstances because

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Speaker 2: you're centered on who the Lord is in your life

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Speaker 2: that's his peace. Seek that, seek his peace, seek his presence,

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Speaker 2: pursue him. Pursue that. That's what he says, Turn away

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Speaker 2: from evil, turn to the Lord. That's when your heart's

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Speaker 2: going to be right. Because the truth is, you can

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Speaker 2: live your life going for things or relationships or people,

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Speaker 2: or money or all things, and you'll never ever, never

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Speaker 2: ever be satisfied. But no matter who you are, no

641
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Speaker 2: matter what age you are, you can be satisfied and

642
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Speaker 2: content right now when the peace of God consumes your life,

643
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Speaker 2: he says, So pursue that. Pursue the peace of God.

644
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Speaker 2: Fear God, live righteous. He shows, He shows favor to that.

645
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Speaker 2: Why verse fifteen, he begins to tell us how God

646
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Speaker 2: looks at all this as he sees the world. He says,

647
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Speaker 2: the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and

648
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Speaker 2: his ears toward their cry. The face of the Lord

649
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Speaker 2: is against those who do evil to cut off their

650
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Speaker 2: memory from the earth. When the righteous cry for help,

651
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 2: the Lord hears and delivers them out of their trouble.

652
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Speaker 2: And he says, the Lord is near to the broken

653
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Speaker 2: hearted and saves those rustan spirit. It's the idea that

654
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Speaker 2: the Lord is looking around the earth. Everyone God created

655
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Speaker 2: he loves. For sinners, he's looking around the world to

656
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Speaker 2: forgive them. But for those of us who already believe

657
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 2: in him. It says in the Bible that the eyes

658
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Speaker 2: of the Lord realme to and fro throughout the earth

659
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 2: to see who he can strengthen whose heart is completely his.

660
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 2: God wants to give strong support for those who want

661
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Speaker 2: to live a righteous life. Some of us today are

662
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 2: struggling with a sin that's been going on and on

663
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Speaker 2: and I'll never get that. I'm just going to keep

664
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Speaker 2: doing it. And God's like, Okay, keep doing it. But

665
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Speaker 2: for some of us who are like Lord, I want

666
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Speaker 2: to change, I just don't know how to change. Lord,

667
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 2: I need to change, but I just don't know how

668
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Speaker 2: to do it. But when you seek righteousness, like Lord,

669
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Speaker 2: I want to do that. The Lord looks throughout the

670
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Speaker 2: world for those that are saying, I want to live

671
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Speaker 2: your way, God, I want to do it your way,

672
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Speaker 2: and he comes in and gives strong support and strength

673
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 2: to those who want to live his way. That's what

674
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 2: he does and what you see all throughout the Old Testament.

675
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 2: He sees comparison between the righteous and the wicked. You

676
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about, Like someone plused is the

677
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 2: man who does not standing in the way of sinners

678
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,239
Speaker 2: or sitting the seat of mockers. But his delight is

679
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Speaker 2: on the law of the Lord, and on his law

680
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 2: he meditates day and night. He's like a stream planet.

681
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 2: Besides stream, he's like a tree planet beside streams of

682
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 2: water that yields its fruit in season. Not so the wicked.

683
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 2: They're like chaff that the wind drives away. And it

684
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Speaker 2: ends by saying, the Lord knows the way the righteous,

685
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Speaker 2: but the way the wicked will perish. And there's this contrast,

686
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Speaker 2: and we compare like righteous is like I'm doing good,

687
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 2: I never sin, and wicked is like I'm bad, I

688
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 2: always sin. And that's not really how the Bible talks

689
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Speaker 2: about it. Wickedness really means poorly made, bad quality ugly.

690
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Speaker 2: Wicked are people that are doing things on their own

691
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Speaker 2: that can never experience the fullness of God. Righteous are

692
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Speaker 2: those who are living in the peace of God who

693
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Speaker 2: want to do things God's way. And when you want

694
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Speaker 2: to do things God's way, what does he do? The

695
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 2: eyes of the Lord are towards those who want to

696
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Speaker 2: live God's way. What about those who don't want to

697
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 2: live God's way, Well, he wants to cut their memory

698
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Speaker 2: off from the face of the earth. Now you say, well,

699
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Speaker 2: what does that mean. I still know wholer is. His

700
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 2: memory's not gone. Oh it will be someday. It will

701
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 2: be when Jesus comes to reign and rule on this planet.

702
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 2: Nobody's gonna be talking about Adolf Hitler, nobody's gonna be

703
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 2: talking about Stalin. Nobody's gonna be talking about all sorts

704
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 2: of big sinners that lived in the history of the world.

705
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Speaker 2: They're gonna talking about who let me talking about Jesus Christ.

706
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 2: And who's going to be doing all the talking. Those

707
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 2: who are righteous, those of us who are in His kingdom. Why,

708
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,359
Speaker 2: because see, you're not just living for this world. We're

709
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,479
Speaker 2: living for the world to come. And the righteous will

710
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 2: inherit the next world. How do we inherit it through

711
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 2: the blood of Christ, through what Jesus Christ has done

712
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 2: for us. Not because any of us is righteous on

713
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Speaker 2: our own, but we are righteous because of the grace

714
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Speaker 2: of God. Now notice verse eighteen, Because for some of you,

715
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 2: that's the reason you came to church today. Because for

716
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 2: some of you come in and you hear all this,

717
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 2: Blessed the Lord, bless the Lord, Praise the Lord, Praise

718
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Speaker 2: the Lord. And you're thinking to yourself, Pastor Jeff, you

719
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Speaker 2: have no idea what I've been through this week, this month,

720
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Speaker 2: this year, these past fifteen years. You have no idea

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Speaker 2: how could I even open my mouth and utter a

722
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Speaker 2: blessing to the Lord, Because my life's been a living hell.

723
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 2: You don't even know how bad it's been. That's why

724
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 2: I love verse eighteen. Notice what it says. The Lord

725
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Speaker 2: is near to the broken hearted and saves those crushed

726
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,320
Speaker 2: in spirit. Where's the Lord? Many of us as Christians,

727
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 2: when we pray, here's what we think. God's up there

728
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 2: or out there. He's not. God's everywhere. And for us

729
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 2: as believers, he's in us. And guess who he's near.

730
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Speaker 2: Guess where his presence is? Right by the broken hearted?

731
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 2: He had a broken heart. You've been wounded by somebody.

732
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 2: You've been hurt, you've been kicked in the gut where

733
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 2: you've lost your breath. You've had somebody very close to

734
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 2: you deceive you. Where's the Lord? Oh, he's right near you.

735
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 2: He's near to the broken hearted. And what does he do?

736
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Speaker 2: He saves those, He delivers those who are crushed in spirit.

737
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Speaker 2: You know who the Lord is in business of doing,

738
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Speaker 2: is taking those when you feel like your life has

739
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 2: a boulder that's just fallen on it, and you're like,

740
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Speaker 2: I never expected this to happen. I didn't want this

741
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 2: to happen. I wish I'd never done that, or hey,

742
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 2: I had no control over that. This's just happened to me.

743
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 2: Where are you? And God would say, I'm right here.

744
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 2: It's for this very purpose that I've come. I can

745
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 2: bring you the shalom, the peace right in the middle

746
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 2: of your discomfort. I can bring you my joy, my hope.

747
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 2: Your face can be radiant right now. Bless me, Seek me,

748
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 2: fear me, live for me. You love that. See some

749
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 2: of us think that the Lord is for those who

750
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 2: are living right. If the Lord is for those living right,

751
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 2: the Lord would be for nobody on this earth. Who

752
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 2: would he be for? Who's he four? He's for the

753
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 2: broken hearted, He's for those who've gotten hurt. He's for

754
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 2: those who are crushed in spirit. One of my favorite

755
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,919
Speaker 2: things to do when I come home from a trip

756
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 2: is see my kids. And my kids at the ages

757
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 2: of nine, seven and three, they love to come and

758
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 2: jump on me and hug me. You know, I mean

759
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 2: they want to get close. And one of my kids,

760
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 2: in particular, my son, like he doesn't just like getting close.

761
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:01,879
Speaker 2: He likes to nuzzle, like snuggle in, like Dad, miss

762
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 2: your man. You know, we just hug right. He wants

763
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 2: to get up close and personal. See, that's the picture

764
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 2: of how near the Lord is. Like some of us

765
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 2: feel like, Okay, he's near, but I can't feel him,

766
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 2: I can't touch. No, the Lord wants you to get

767
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 2: as close as you want, draw near to the Lord.

768
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 2: He'll draw near to you. The picture is you and

769
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 2: the Lord having this moment together where you know, in

770
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,720
Speaker 2: the midst of all your despair, trial, hurt, and pain,

771
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 2: there he is. He's right there, and he loves you.

772
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 2: And I can tell you regardless of your trial, regardless

773
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 2: of your circumstances. And I'm not standing up here saying

774
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 2: I get it, and I'm not saying up here I've

775
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 2: experienced even a drop of the pain that you've experienced,

776
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 2: and I'm not. But I can tell you this. I

777
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 2: know how good our Lord is, and he's greater than

778
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 2: whatever pain you've experienced. He's near to you. He saves

779
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 2: those who are Christian spirit. That's our God. Fear Him,

780
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 2: Live righteous. He'll show favor to you. Because the verse

781
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Speaker 2: nineteen tells you why. I mean, I love the Bible

782
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,919
Speaker 2: because it's so honest. Many I don't know how many,

783
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 2: but many, Many's a lot. Many are the afflictions of

784
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 2: the righteous. That's a great place for an amen. Many

785
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 2: are the afflictions of the righteous. That means, if I

786
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 2: live for the Lord, it can be hard sometimes sometimes

787
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 2: because I'm living for the Lord, it's harder than if

788
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 2: I didn't. Sometimes at work, if I didn't live for

789
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 2: the Lord, my life would be easier. Sometimes in my family,

790
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 2: if I didn't live for the Lord, my life would

791
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 2: be easier. I mean, living for the Lord and doing

792
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 2: things God's way make it harder. Many are the afflictions

793
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 2: of the righteous. But what the Lord delivers them out

794
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 2: of them all? I mean, we see the Word delivers

795
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 2: and saves all this time. You know what God gets it.

796
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 2: You're going to go through hard things, but he's near

797
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 2: to you. He's present with you. Fear him, Live righteous.

798
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 2: He shows favor and knows how he showed favor. Verse

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Speaker 2: twenty says he keeps all of his bones, not one

800
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Speaker 2: of them as broken. It's an idea that God protects

801
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 2: those who are his. But even more so, it shows

802
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 2: the prophetic nature of the Bible, because if you flip

803
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 2: over to John chapter nineteen, after Jesus is crucified, if

804
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 2: you'll remember, the soldiers were going to come. They broke

805
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 2: the legs of the other criminals. They were going to

806
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 2: break Jesus' legs, and they put a spear into his side,

807
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 2: and blood and water flowed, so he didn't end up

808
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 2: breaking his legs. And in John nineteen thirty six it says,

809
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 2: for these things took place to fulfill the scripture that

810
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 2: might be fulfilled that one of his bones would be broken.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if we understood the unity of the Bible,

812
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 2: if we would have been at the cross that day

813
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 2: and the soldiers were gonna go getting ready to break

814
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 2: Jesus's legs, would have been like, oh, they're not gonna

815
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 2: break his legs. It says all the way back in

816
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,479
Speaker 2: So I'm thirty four to twenty. He keeps all his bones,

817
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 2: not one of them will be broken, not gonna break

818
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 2: his legs. God wouldn't allow that. See how awesome our

819
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 2: God is, say much unity the Bible has, See how

820
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 2: true it is He says this affliction will slay the

821
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Speaker 2: wicked and those who hate righteous. Those who hate the

822
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,879
Speaker 2: righteous will be condemned or they'll be punished. Another way

823
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 2: of saying that is evil people will self destruct. Evil

824
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 2: people always self destruct. People that live for themselves always

825
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 2: self destruct. Did you know that if you don't believe

826
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 2: me and you're living for yourself, you will self destruct.

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00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:00,959
Speaker 2: If you live your life in a way that says,

828
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Speaker 2: I know what God wants me to do, but I'm

829
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,359
Speaker 2: gonna do just the opposite, and I don't care. Your

830
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 2: life will self destruct. It's a promise. But look at this,

831
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 2: but the Lord redeems the life of his servants. None

832
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 2: of those who take refuge in him or are protected

833
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 2: by him will be condemned. They'll all escape punishment. I mean,

834
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Speaker 2: the good news that we have in the Gospel of

835
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ is no matter who we are, when we

836
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 2: put our hope and trust in the Lord, he's our protector,

837
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 2: he's our shield, he's our defense, not only in this

838
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 2: life but in the life to come. As Christians, as

839
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 2: we've said many times, you may fear how you're gonna die,

840
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 2: but you don't need to fear dying because if you

841
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 2: have the Lord as your shield, as your protection, as

842
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 2: your hope, as your refuge, you will be delivered from

843
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 2: death to life in a moment, and it will be

844
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 2: the most glorious moment that you've ever experienced. Why because

845
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 2: the Lord looks after his people. The Lord watches over

846
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 2: the way of the righteous. The Lord has you in

847
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 2: the palm of your hand. The Lord is near to

848
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,720
Speaker 2: the broken hearted, and he delivers those who are crushed

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Speaker 2: in spirit. I love this word because it tells me

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Speaker 2: that my life may be perfect. It tells me I'm

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Speaker 2: an experience affliction. It tells me I'm an experienced trial.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't promise me a bet of roses. But what

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Speaker 2: the Bible does promise is that if I pursue the Lord,

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Speaker 2: if I seek him, I can know that he's good.

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Speaker 2: And so I'm supposed to fear him and live righteous,

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Speaker 2: because he'll show favor to me now, and he'll show

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Speaker 2: favor to me for all eternity. That's our good God.

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Speaker 2: He's worthy of our worship, he's worthy of our praise,

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Speaker 2: he's worthy of our blessings. For ten thousands upon ten

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Speaker 2: thousands upon ten thousands of reasons. And if you sat

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Speaker 2: down and begin to write out, well, what's God done

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Speaker 2: for me lately? And begin to make a list. Your

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Speaker 2: notebook would fill up fast. It's not like your page

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Speaker 2: would get full or the back of the page would

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Speaker 2: get full, but pages upon pages upon pages would be full,

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Speaker 2: and you still wouldn't be done blessing the Lord. But

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Speaker 2: here's the truth. When I used to coach football, just

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Speaker 2: to tell you how the mind works, there was one

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Speaker 2: season I coached the freshman football team. We were eight

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Speaker 2: our team, thirty eight were awesome, awesome kids. Their parents

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Speaker 2: were awesome, awesome parents. I had two kids on that

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Speaker 2: team drove me up a wall. Couldn't stand them. They

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Speaker 2: were jerks and their parents were even worse. And you

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Speaker 2: know what I went home thinking about after we won

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Speaker 2: our eighth game. We're eight and oh, thirty eight great

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Speaker 2: kids having an awesome season. Who'd I go home thinking

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Speaker 2: about the two jerks of kids and their families. That's

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Speaker 2: what I thought about, even though the blessings were everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Do you know we do the same thing in life.

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Speaker 2: You have so many blessings that are going on in

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Speaker 2: your life, and you know what, we tend to dwell

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Speaker 2: on the one, two, three, or four things that are

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Speaker 2: like the real negative things, and then we make all

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Speaker 2: those big things of God. Where are you? Here's a

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Speaker 2: great way to make those things smaller. Number One, recognize

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Speaker 2: God's bigger than those little things that you're thinking about.

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Speaker 2: Number two, is He's really good. And number three, if

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Speaker 2: you'll start writing down all the good that God's done,

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Speaker 2: you'll recognize very quickly that He's done a lot more

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Speaker 2: in your life. He's done a lot more in your

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Speaker 2: life than the problems that you have. That you really

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Speaker 2: do have, reason upon reason upon reason, upon reason, upon

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Speaker 2: multiple reason to bless the Lord? Amen? Can we bless

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Speaker 2: the Lord today? Can his praise be on our limbs?

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Speaker 2: Can we end by telling the Lord that we love him,

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Speaker 2: that we want to give more praise. Would you stand

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Speaker 2: with me this morning, Lord Jesus, as we come into

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Speaker 2: your presence with singing. Right now, as we just sing

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Speaker 2: a couple choruses, Lord, we honor you, we give you praise. Lord.

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Speaker 2: We're dwelling on the things that you are blessing us

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Speaker 2: with that we can offer back to you verbally. Lord,

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Speaker 2: we want you to know we love you, we praise you,

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Speaker 2: and we bless your holy name, the Mighty and the

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Speaker 2: matchless Name of Jesus.

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