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hello again my name is dawn Carson
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you are watching the sixth in a series
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of fourteen addresses designed to
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introduce you to the God who is there in
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this talk I try to get across to
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depictions of God in the Bible first the
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God who makes his people sing and second
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the God who is unfathomably wise these
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two topics reflect certain kinds of
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writing in the Old Testament certain
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literary zhang's first the many Psalms
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and other poems often meant to be sung
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and second a short collection of
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documents in the Bible often called the
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wisdom literature but these two themes
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singing and wisdom are much more than a
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mere reflection of certain kinds of
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writing in the Bible the singing erupts
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because God has given his people so much
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to sing about and wisdom is pursued that
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is knowing how to live under God in this
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God's world wisdom is pursued because we
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are to recognize how unfathomably wise
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God Himself is we come now to two
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further topics that I'm putting together
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the God who makes his people sing and
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the God who is unfathomably wise we come
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to two types of literature in the Old
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Testament Scriptures in the parts of the
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Bible that belong to the Old Testament
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one is the Book of Psalms and the other
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is an array of books that are really
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quite different from one another called
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wisdom literature neither of these books
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brings the story forward a whole lot
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they're not part of the narrative
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sequence of books that tell us what
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happens next to the Jews or what's going
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on in the world history of the time or
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something like that but they
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nevertheless reflect
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the experiences the insight the
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revelation of God that is given to
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people living in these times so it's not
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the narrative that goes forward and yet
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there's such a big part of the Old
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Testament that they really can t be
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ignored we we must say something about
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these books to understand what they
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contribute to our grasp of God as he's
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disclosed himself in the Bible
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so first the God who makes his people
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sing some wag has said let me write the
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songs of a nation and I care not who
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makes its laws now granted some of the
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things that are being sung today that's
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a pretty scary thought and yet you can
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understand it if people are walking
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around with iPods and music all the time
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whatever they decide in Washington what
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I really think is what I'm listening to
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in my iPod in the Old Testament the book
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that incorporates most of this song like
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him like material is the Book of Psalms
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virtually in the middle of the Bible 150
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of them it was written over a period of
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about 1200 years it wasn't somebody
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sitting down to make it their writing
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project in a particular year for example
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one of the Psalms is a psalm of Moses
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taking you all the way back to the first
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part of the Bible then there are many
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Psalms by David himself who was a
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musician and in due course helped to
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organize the choirs and so on that were
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connected with the ancient tabernacle
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and then improved again by his son David
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under the new temple that he solemnly
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under the new temple that Solomon
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oversaw and then there are Psalms that
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depict the experiences of the people of
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God as they're going off into exile and
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then there are
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Psalms that depict the people of God as
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they come back from exile which brings
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you down to about 400 BC they really
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cover a very broad period of time do you
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see obviously there's no way we can
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serve 850 Psalms what I would like to do
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is drop in on a few of them so that you
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can overhear what they were singing
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they're very very diverse for those of
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you who have been Christians for some
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time and have got to know some elderly
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believers you've probably discovered
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that often it's the elderly Christians
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who love the Book of Psalms there aren't
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a lot of people at 25 who know the Book
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of Psalms well I'll tell you why it's
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because the Book of Psalms resonates
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with people who have had a lot of
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experiences you have to have quite a lot
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of different experiences under your belt
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before you resonate easily with a lot of
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the things that are said in the Book of
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Psalms lament loss shame death triumph
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the exaltation of informed and godly God
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centered praise the Biblical prophecy
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anticipating what is still to come did
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you see if instead you have a very
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limited experience most of these things
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just sound a bit over the top or a bit
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extravagant or even alien to you but
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I've been by the beds of enough people
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who are dying who have been Christians
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for a long time and if I ask what would
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you like me to read to you Oh some of
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them might say the resurrection chapter
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first Corinthians 15 or something like
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that but many will say Psalm 23 the Lord
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is my shepherd or psalm 42 or psalm 40
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about how he lifts me out of the miry
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bog and sets my feet on a safe stable
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place
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but until you've been through
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experiences where you feel as if you are
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wallowing in a mire e bog that Psalm
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isn't going to speak so powerfully to
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you do you see so let me drop in on a
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few Psalms quickly and show you the
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kinds of things they say about God and
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His people we'll begin at the beginning
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Psalm 1 Psalm 1 blessed are those who do
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not walk in step with the wicked or
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stand in the way that sinners take or
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sit in the company of mockers but who
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delight in the law of the Lord and
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meditate on his law day and night
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they're like a tree planted by streams
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of water which yields its fruit in
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season and whose leaf does not wither
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whatever they do prospers not so the
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wicked they are like chaff that the wind
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blows away therefore the wicked will not
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stand in the judgment nor sinners in the
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Assembly of the righteous for the Lord
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watches over the way of the righteous
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but the way of the wicked will be
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destroyed now if you just look at the
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psalm closely if you have your Bibles in
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front of you you discover that it's
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broken into three unequal parts verses
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one two and three describe the righteous
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verses four and five describe the
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unrighteous and verse six is a final
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summarizing contrast now if you go back
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to verses one two and three describing
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the righteous they're described
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negatively in verse one what they're not
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like what they don't do blessed are
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those who do not walk in step with the
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wicked that is they're walking along and
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they are marching beside them they are
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coordinated with them they're picking up
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advice and counsel from them if you do
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that long enough you might stand in the
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way that sinners take stand in the way
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of people is not an easy translation
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almost all our English translations say
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something like that the trouble is that
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in Hebrew to stand in someone's way does
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not mean in English what we mean when we
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say stand in someone's way to stand in
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someone's way in English means to impede
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them
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to block their path Robin Hood and
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Little John on the bridge each standing
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in the others way one of the men's in
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the stream do you say but in Hebrew to
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stand in someone's way means to have
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your feet in their moccasins
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to do what they do to be in
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differentiable from them you're not
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blocking them you're you're where they
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are do you see you stand in their way
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which is why this version has it
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somewhat periphrastic aliy to stand in
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the way that sinners take your now where
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they are and if you do that long enough
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you might sit in the company of mockers
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now you're in your easy boy chair you
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pull the lever and look down your long
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self-righteous nose of those ignorant
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stupid ignorant right-wing bigoted
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Christians on the very first verse of
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the very first Psalm says blessed are
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those who don't do these things it's
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describing him negatively then verse 2
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describes them positively positively
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they delight in the law of the Lord and
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meditate on his law day and night that
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is this is what they think about it
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changes them when I first started treat
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teaching a Trinity Evangelical Divinity
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School we had a lecturer there an old
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man already at the time who had any
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number of one-liners out of about 50
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years of ministry and some of them were
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really good one of his best was you're
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not what you think you are but what you
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think you are
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isn't that what the Book of Proverbs
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says as a man thinks in his heart so is
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he
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you're not just what you say or what you
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do because we can say and do things to
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cover up what's really going on inside
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but what you think you are so this text
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says that the righteous person learns to
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think God's thoughts after him he
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delights in the law of the Lord he
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meditates on God's Word day and night
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it's not just a question of a verse a
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day keeps the devil away make sure that
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you read in a corner somewhere and have
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a Bible verse handy or make sure you
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have your devotions it's it's it's such
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a love affair with all that God says
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that it feeds your mind you you go for a
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lunch break or the light turns red ahead
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of you and you sit in your car and your
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mind just in in the blank moments
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naturally gravitates toward thinking
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through what God says it's it's there
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all the time you meditate on a day in
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life because you see that means that
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you're now not listening to the advice
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of the wicked or developing paths that
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are in differentiable from theirs or
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slinking down into a sneaky mockery and
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then the same people are described
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metaphorically in verse three we're told
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they are like a tree planted by streams
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of water which yields its fruit in
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season and whose leaf does not wither
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whatever they do prospers the land of
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Palestine the land of Israel is a
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semi-arid land a bit like the American
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Southwest so that you can have seasons
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of the year when there's no rain at all
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and the dry arroyos in the southwest
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just look like death warmed over and
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then suddenly you can have some rains
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and then gullies can be washed oh they
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can be really quite dangerous flash
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floods they call them wha T's in Israel
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but that means that land it seems like
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death suddenly blooms it comes to life
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and you have all of these desert flowers
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but it's only where there is a
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confluence of streams
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intermittent water but a confluence of
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streams with a guaranteed water supply
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that you have trees whose leaf never
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withers and that brings forth its fruit
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in its season in that sense you see it
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always prospers this is not talking
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about a prosperity gospel follow Jesus
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and get filthy rich it's still in the
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metaphor of this tree this tree
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prosperous even when there's heat and
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blight and the like because it's well
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watered it it is always evergreen it's
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showing signs of life and in due course
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it produces fruit that's language that
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you find not uncommonly in the Bible you
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understand why if you're brought up in
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that sort of country you you you you see
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these cycles of things every year hence
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Jeremiah 17 a prophet writing about 600
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or a little later cursed are those who
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trust in mortals who depend on flesh for
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their strength and whose hearts turn
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away from the Lord they will be like a
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bush in the wastelands they will not see
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prosperity when it comes that is the
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prosperity of life and growth and
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fruitfulness again they will dwell in
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the parched places of the desert in a
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salt land where no one lives but blessed
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are those who trust in the Lord whose
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confidence is in him they will be like a
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tree planted by the water that sends out
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its roots by the stream it does not fear
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when heat comes its leaves are always
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green it has no worries in a year of
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drought and never fails to bear fruit so
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here's the righteous person described
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negatively positively metaphorically
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then in verses 4 & 5 the unrighteous are
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described it's a very strong negative
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not so the wicked not so as if
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everything of significance that you want
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to predicate of the righteous you have
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to negate of the unrighteous are the
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righteous those who avoid the counsel
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and the patterns of life of rebels and
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ungodly people not so the wicked not so
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are the righteous those who delight in
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the law of the Lord and think about it
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day and night not so the wicked not so
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are the righteous those who can be
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likened to a tree planted by streams of
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water which yields its fruit in its
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season
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whose leaf never withers not so the
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wicked not so but what do they like
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they're like chaff that the wind blows
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away that is the images of the ancient
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grain harvest where someone would take
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the heads of grain that have come in and
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with a winnowing shovel throw them up in
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the ground in the air and beat them
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throw them up in the air and beat them
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the chaff falls off and the wind blows
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it away and the grains fall to the
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ground when the grains become the basis
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for your flour and your bread all the
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rest the chaff goes rootless lifeless
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fruitless useless until there's a final
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summarizing contrast which is strictly
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speaking not even between the righteous
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and the wicked but between the way of
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the righteous in the way of the wicked
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the Lord watches over the righteous that
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is he owns it as his he protects it the
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way of the wicked will be destroyed like
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tracks made on the seashore when the
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tide is out then the tide rolls in the
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tide rolls out and you don't see the
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tracks
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50 billion years from now if I may dare
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speak of eternity in the categories of
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time no one will be talking about the
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significance of Stalin or Pol Pot but
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every cup of cold water given in the
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name of Jesus will still be remembered
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because the Lord watches over the way of
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the righteous the way of the wicked will
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perish that's the first song two ways
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and there is no third
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now there are a lot of Psalms like that
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they're sometimes called wisdom Psalms
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the Psalms and the wisdom literature get
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tied together because in wisdom
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literally the way of wisdom is cast
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against the way of falling we'll see
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shortly that wisdom literature regularly
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offers you a choice between two ways
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that's why this is sometimes called a
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wisdom Psalm in the New Testament you
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know who the most remarkable wisdom
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preacher is Jesus now Jesus isn't in
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fact an astonishingly flexible preacher
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he preaches using apocalyptic imagery he
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preaches using one-liners he preaches
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telling parables he's an astonishingly
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flexible preacher but in not a few of
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his addresses he uses these sorts of
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wisdom categories two ways you come for
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example to the end of Matthew five six
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and seven the Sermon on the Mount and he
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offers a number of vignettes that are
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exactly along this line he says picture
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two people one builds a house on rock
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the other builds a house on sand on sand
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it's not stable the storms come in the
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water rises the winds lash the place it
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collapses the house that is strongly
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built on rock it endures they're just
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two houses it rather misses the point to
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say Jesus supposing a try hard pan clay
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you can't do that it's it's it's wisdom
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preaching it's this way or that way in
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the same context he says of wide is the
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gate and broad is the path that leads to
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destruction and many go there but the
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gate is narrow and the way constraint
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that leads to eternal life and only a
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few go in there Jesus that one's a bit
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destructive this one's a bit sort of
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narrow fundamentalist how about a
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medium-sized gate I I couldn't make do
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with that you can't do that do you see
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it's wisdom literature it's
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I'm preaching its this way or that way
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they're only two ways and you know
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what's scary about wisdom literature you
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know what's scary about this Psalm it's
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that if you're really really honest you
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never quite fit the good way oh there
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are times I delight in the law of the
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Lord and meditate on a day and night
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they're quite there are other times
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quite frankly where it's a real struggle
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to really delight in the law of the Lord
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don't you find that and where you find
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yourself parched not nourished at all by
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the Word of God as streams of water
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flooding through your whole system so
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that although these wisdom psalms show
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two ways they clarify our thinking and
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show us that there are some differences
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out there that must not be fudged over
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even though most of us most of us find
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ourselves in the middle sometimes acting
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this way sometimes acting that way like
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King David himself King David who's
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responsible for some of these Psalms
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King David who is rightly described as a
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man after God's own heart who can also
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commit adultery and even arrange for a
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murder one wonders what he would have
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done if he hadn't been a man after God's
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own heart so that once again as
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important as these Psalms are as
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important as wisdom literature is to
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teach us that there is a difference
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between holiness and unholiness between
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righteousness and unrighteousness and
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you can't keep fetching yet at the end
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of the day that information by itself
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doesn't save you all by itself it
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clarifies but it could drive you to
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despair
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but that's not all there is in the Bible
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let me mention some other Psalms Psalm 8
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not only praises God for his power in
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creation you have set your glory above
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the heavens but also marbles at the fact
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that God has a peculiar relation with
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human beings mortals human beings verse
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4 you're mindful of them you care for
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them you have actually set them above
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the rest of the created order
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you made them rulers over the works of
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your heads you put everything under
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their feet all flocks and herds at the
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animals of the while the birds and the
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sea the fish and let's see all that swim
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the paths of the Seas Lord our Lord how
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majestic is your name in all the earth
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do you hear what this is this is a hymn
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that has been composed as a reflection
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on Genesis 1 and 2 you find quite a lot
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of Psalms like that that are meditative
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reflections for the corporate worship of
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the people of God based on earlier
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scriptures people reflecting on them and
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singing these truths not just reciting
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them and reading them but singing them
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or Psalm 19 another one that is a
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reflection on how the created order does
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reflect who God is the heavens declare
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the glory of God the skies proclaim the
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work of his hands day after day they
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pour forth speech night after night they
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display knowledge they have no speech
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they use no words no sound is heard from
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them yet their voice goes out into all
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the earth their words to the ends of the
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world in the heavens he is pitched a
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tent for the Sun which is like a
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bridegroom coming out of his chamber
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like a champion rejoicing to run his
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course it rises at one end of the
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heavens and makes it circuit to the
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other nothing is deprived of its warmth
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and then after talking about how the
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Lord has disclosed himself in this
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created order he talks about how the
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Lord has disclosed himself in Scripture
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or to change the pace entirely take a
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look at the opening line of psalm 14
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fool say in their hearts there is no God
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I have a friend in Australia who has a
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bit of a reputation for engaging in
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talking about Christ a bit like a bull
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in a china shop he once gave an address
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called atheists are fools and agnostics
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are cowards now by and large that's not
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a great way to win friends and influence
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people but there is a sense in which
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that's what this psalm begins with it's
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the fool who says in his heart there is
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no God that is so out of line with
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contemporary perceptions the fool is the
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idiot who believes there is a God but
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look at it from God's perspective just
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grab for a moment just just just grab
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for a moment that the God of the Bible
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is real he is there he's the God who is
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there and what the Bible is said so far
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is entirely true
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who's the fool
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you see this is not written from the
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point of view of someone who sets
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himself up in the heritage of Hyundai
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decoctions sort of Cartesian
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independence saying I think I am in the
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place where I can evaluate whether God
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exists in which God it will be this is
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the God who was there who has named
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himself disclosed himself in forbearance
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he's come back again and again to save
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his people and he keeps promising an
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even greater deliverance to come and he
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insists that the reason people don't see
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this is because this side of the fall
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there's already a moral contagion such
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that we are blind to the obvious it's
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the fool who says in his heart there is
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no God which does not mean that no
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Christian is a fool what it means is
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that everyone who has become a Christian
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started off a fool and if in this
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respect we are no longer foolish that -
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in the Bible story line is a mark of
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singular grace Christians never ever
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have the right to say I'm smarter than
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you are
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because Christians deep down know that
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they're never more than fools who have
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been shown forgiveness and grace they're
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never more than poor beggars telling
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other poor beggars where there's bread
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let's try another song a different
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approach again psalm 40 this is a psalm
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of personal experience that develops
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into something more i don't have time to
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go through all of it but here were told
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by the superscription that this is one
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of the ones written by david himself i
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waited patiently for the Lord he turned
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to me and heard my cry he lifted me out
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of the slimy pit out of the mud and mire
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he set my feet on a rock and gave me a
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firm place to stand he put a new song in
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my mouth a hymn of praise to our God
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many will see and fear the Lord and put
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their trust in him we don't know what
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this miry bog is what this slimy pit is
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it was obviously something so awful in
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his experience that he felt the way you
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do in a mire e bog in a slimy pit that
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is desperate unable to get out sliding
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into oblivion sucked down and God pulled
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him out and much of the rest of the
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Psalm talks about how he he will respond
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to that by devoting himself to the
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Living God how he must give testimony to
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this in the community of God's people
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and then in the last part of the psalm
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he openly acknowledges that just because
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he's been through this sort of
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experience doesn't mean that he won't be
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through other bleak experiences and just
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because you've been through a divorce
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doesn't mean that you're therefore going
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to be spared cancer just because you've
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had cancer doesn't mean that you won't
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lose your spouse just because you've had
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a kid go off the rails doesn't mean that
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you won't be in a car accident life in
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this fallen and broken world brings all
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kinds of heartaches and defeats and
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discouragements and he gives thanks to
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God for God's help and release on this
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one and then he looks to the future and
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says there's so many other things Lord
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God where I'm gonna need your help false
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friends for example do not withhold your
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mercy from me Lord verse 11 may your
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love and faithfulness always protect me
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for troubles without numbers surround me
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my
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since for a start they have overtaken me
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and I cannot see there are more than the
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hairs of my head and my heart fails
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within me be pleased to save me Lord
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come quickly Lord to help me the worst
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thing that I face is not just this slimy
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pit experience through which I passed
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but my own sins which crippled me and
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crush me and take me down because I look
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at my own heart and I cannot even fit
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someone but there are other troubles
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those who mock him and give him
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difficulties verses 14 and 15 may those
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who say to me a-ha a-ha be appalled at
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their own shame so here's a psalm of
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huge intensity as as a believer looks at
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how God has helped him and looks to the
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way he's going to need to God's help in
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the future another Psalm Psalm 51 and
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here it is very important to read the
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superscription it's a psalm of David
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when the prophet Nathan came to him
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after David had committed adultery with
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Bathsheba this is the account where he
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seduces a young woman next door who is
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the wife of one of David's own troops
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fighting on the front in one of David's
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Wars how callous is that the war goes on
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and it transpires that Bathsheba's
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become pregnant she lets the King know
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so he arranges to have her husband Uriah
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shipped back from the front he sends a
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message your eye is supposed to bring
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back a message to the king ostensibly to
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communicate between the officers in the
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field and the commander-in-chief in fact
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it's David's way of getting the bloke
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home and he thinks then that he'll go
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home and he'll sleep with his wife but
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in fact he's so concerned for his mates
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at the front he can't even bring himself
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to do that so he sleeps in the open
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courtyard of the palace prepared to go
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back the next day
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and King David nosey snookered so he
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sends back a message by this young man's
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hand a sealed message for the unit
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commanders on the front there to arrange
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00:32:04,730 --> 00:32:08,870
a skirmish and everybody else in the
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platoon is supposed to have some sort of
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code to know when to fall back
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everyone except this young man you daya
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00:32:16,570 --> 00:32:19,790
there in the skirmish the code is given
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everybody falls back except you daya and
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he's killed and David thinks he's got
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away with it
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and that's when the Prophet Nathan
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confronts him
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David in the steps of public humiliation
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and shame and public repentance and so
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on it's all out in the open it's a mess
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nevertheless he is a broken man out of
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it all and in the midst of this he
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writes Psalm 51 that's what is meant by
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this new prescription it's written when
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the prophet Nathan came to him after
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David had committed adultery with
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Bathsheba have mercy on me O God
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according to your great compassion blot
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out my transgressions wash away all my
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iniquity and cleanse me from my sin for
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I know my transgressions and my sin is
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always before me have you not had
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feelings like that when you've woken up
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in the middle of the night and
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remembered some insanely evil thing that
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00:33:33,430 --> 00:33:35,230
you've done some really stupid thing and
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00:33:35,230 --> 00:33:37,960
you you break out into a cold sweat and
665
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,020
squirm and wish you couldn't do it but
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00:33:41,020 --> 00:33:52,540
can't my sin is always before me against
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00:33:52,540 --> 00:33:54,430
you you only have I sinned and done this
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00:33:54,430 --> 00:33:58,420
evil in your sight now isn't that a
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00:33:58,420 --> 00:34:04,780
stunning comment at one level you want
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00:34:04,780 --> 00:34:08,199
to say it's not true he sinned against
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Bathsheba he seduced her sinned against
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00:34:11,530 --> 00:34:12,940
Bathsheba's husband he had him bumped
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00:34:12,940 --> 00:34:16,418
off after Cooke holding him sinned
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against his own family he betrayed them
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00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,199
sinned against the military High Command
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00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:22,870
he corrupted them sinned against the
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people he's not acting as a righteous
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00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:25,690
King it's hard to think of anybody that
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00:34:25,690 --> 00:34:29,020
he didn't sin against yet he has the
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00:34:29,020 --> 00:34:30,969
cheek to say against you only have I
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sinned and done this evil in your sight
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00:34:35,580 --> 00:34:40,030
because you see at the deepest level it
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00:34:40,030 --> 00:34:44,429
is exactly the truth
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00:34:45,540 --> 00:34:49,020
what makes sin so heinous
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00:34:49,020 --> 00:34:55,880
what makes in so sinful is precisely
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00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,370
that it defies God I mean it's awful
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00:34:59,370 --> 00:35:01,710
that we hurt our friends it's awful that
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00:35:01,710 --> 00:35:03,630
we wound one another and when we wake up
689
00:35:03,630 --> 00:35:04,830
in the middle of the night with those
690
00:35:04,830 --> 00:35:07,590
feelings of huge shame often it's
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00:35:07,590 --> 00:35:10,590
because we're embarrassed that what our
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00:35:10,590 --> 00:35:12,180
friends will think of us now because we
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00:35:12,180 --> 00:35:13,650
said something so stupid or been so
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00:35:13,650 --> 00:35:17,850
insensitive or or so cruel but beyond
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00:35:17,850 --> 00:35:21,570
all of the shame before them is a much
696
00:35:21,570 --> 00:35:26,490
bigger guilt then we're rarely even
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00:35:26,490 --> 00:35:32,120
aware of and do not often squirm over
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00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,350
but that's what David is doing here he's
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00:35:34,350 --> 00:35:35,760
squirming over it because he sees what
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00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:41,220
it is in God's sight against you you
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00:35:41,220 --> 00:35:48,380
only have I sinned what gives it its
702
00:35:48,380 --> 00:35:53,270
most horrendous odor it's most heinous
703
00:35:53,270 --> 00:35:56,160
aspect is precisely that it is defiance
704
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,670
of the God who made us and who judges us
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00:35:59,670 --> 00:36:02,820
on the last day and David understands
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00:36:02,820 --> 00:36:08,100
that because you see he understands the
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00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:11,240
opening chapters of Genesis
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00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,280
the heart of Eve's problem or of Adam's
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00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,920
problem is not that they've just broken
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00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,109
a rule or betrayed each other's trust or
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00:36:21,109 --> 00:36:23,660
the like it's they've de God of God in
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00:36:23,660 --> 00:36:27,980
any sin that we commit whether it's
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00:36:27,980 --> 00:36:31,540
genocide or cheating on your income tax
714
00:36:31,540 --> 00:36:39,069
the most offended party is always God
715
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,270
against you only have I sinned and done
716
00:36:47,270 --> 00:36:49,819
this evil in your sight and that's why
717
00:36:49,819 --> 00:36:51,950
as we've seen from the beginning what we
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00:36:51,950 --> 00:36:53,930
must have whatever else we have what we
719
00:36:53,930 --> 00:36:59,390
must have is his forgiveness or we have
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00:36:59,390 --> 00:37:09,859
nothing oh there are other Psalms Psalm
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00:37:09,859 --> 00:37:15,079
110 Psalm 110 looks to a coming Redeemer
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00:37:15,079 --> 00:37:17,510
who was simultaneously the king and a
723
00:37:17,510 --> 00:37:19,210
priest it's the most frequently quoted
724
00:37:19,210 --> 00:37:22,700
chapter in the New Testament there psalm
725
00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:25,670
119 the longest chapter in the Old
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00:37:25,670 --> 00:37:29,150
Testament a chapter which which is full
727
00:37:29,150 --> 00:37:30,980
of Thanksgiving to God in a meditation
728
00:37:30,980 --> 00:37:33,049
on the very nature of God's words of
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00:37:33,049 --> 00:37:35,420
God's self-disclosure in words of his
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00:37:35,420 --> 00:37:37,579
law of his decrees of his judgments of
731
00:37:37,579 --> 00:37:39,230
his teaching of his instruction it's
732
00:37:39,230 --> 00:37:41,000
it's all about what we would call the
733
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,740
Bible it's all about how to think about
734
00:37:42,740 --> 00:37:45,230
the fact that God is a talking God a God
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00:37:45,230 --> 00:37:48,410
who speaks and gives us his words Psalm
736
00:37:48,410 --> 00:37:51,200
139 says something of the same in one
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00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,390
verse verse 17 how precious are your
738
00:37:53,390 --> 00:37:53,990
thoughts
739
00:37:53,990 --> 00:37:58,369
o God how vast is the sum of them this
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00:37:58,369 --> 00:38:02,380
is the God who makes his people sing in
741
00:38:02,890 --> 00:38:07,160
Thanksgiving in contrition and petition
742
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:11,049
in lament in reflection
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00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:18,220
but he's also the wise God the book of
744
00:38:18,220 --> 00:38:19,300
Proverbs
745
00:38:19,300 --> 00:38:22,060
has one kind of wisdom literature a lot
746
00:38:22,060 --> 00:38:26,650
of Proverbs that in the book of Proverbs
747
00:38:26,650 --> 00:38:30,520
you find two metaphorical women wisdom
748
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,680
itself is regularly pictured as a woman
749
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:36,760
lady wisdom and over against her is Dain
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00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,120
folly and the whole book is structured
751
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,540
in many of its sections as a course laid
752
00:38:43,540 --> 00:38:46,000
out either by lady wisdom or game
753
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,250
falling one or the other you're
754
00:38:48,250 --> 00:38:51,580
following one of these ladies wisdom
755
00:38:51,580 --> 00:38:53,230
literature likes to present either this
756
00:38:53,230 --> 00:38:55,600
path or that path it will compare two
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00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,370
things and say this is the way of wisdom
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00:38:57,370 --> 00:38:59,140
and this is the way of falling make sure
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00:38:59,140 --> 00:39:00,280
that what you follow is the way of
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00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:05,230
wisdom and right toward the beginning of
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00:39:05,230 --> 00:39:07,930
the book a proverb that recurs in a
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00:39:07,930 --> 00:39:10,150
variety of ways chapter one verse seven
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00:39:10,150 --> 00:39:13,060
the fear of the Lord is the beginning of
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00:39:13,060 --> 00:39:16,570
knowledge but fools despise wisdom and
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00:39:16,570 --> 00:39:20,110
instruction a little later the fear of
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00:39:20,110 --> 00:39:24,730
the Lord is the beginning of wisdom this
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00:39:24,730 --> 00:39:27,460
does not mean the kind of cringing fear
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00:39:27,460 --> 00:39:30,370
that a whipped cur has when you pick up
769
00:39:30,370 --> 00:39:32,590
a newspaper knowing that you're an
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00:39:32,590 --> 00:39:35,260
arbitrary and cruel master who gets some
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00:39:35,260 --> 00:39:37,480
sort of cheat Clee out of scaring the
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00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,570
poor little thing to death this is the
773
00:39:40,570 --> 00:39:43,900
fear of God that recognizes he is
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00:39:43,900 --> 00:39:46,930
matchless Lee holy and righteous and
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00:39:46,930 --> 00:39:51,700
just and he is our judge as well as our
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00:39:51,700 --> 00:39:57,940
only hope there lies the beginning of
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00:39:57,940 --> 00:40:01,150
wisdom you see this as the Proverbs
778
00:40:01,150 --> 00:40:04,570
equivalent of Psalm 14 it's the fool who
779
00:40:04,570 --> 00:40:06,690
says in his heart there is no God to
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00:40:06,690 --> 00:40:10,720
have a right sense of how to live under
781
00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:14,890
the Sun must begin with God and his
782
00:40:14,890 --> 00:40:16,660
self-disclosure there is the beginning
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00:40:16,660 --> 00:40:19,620
of wisdom
784
00:40:21,770 --> 00:40:24,170
then there are other books that are
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00:40:24,170 --> 00:40:26,240
called wisdom literature one that's very
786
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:29,510
remarkable this is the book of Job we
787
00:40:29,510 --> 00:40:32,350
really don't know when it was written
788
00:40:32,350 --> 00:40:36,920
it's probably very old and it depicts a
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00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:37,940
man who
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00:40:37,940 --> 00:40:40,310
oh he's not perfect but he's an
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00:40:40,310 --> 00:40:44,990
astonishingly good man filthy rich but
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00:40:44,990 --> 00:40:49,760
generous caring loving he even praised
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00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,070
preemptively for his own ten children he
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00:40:52,070 --> 00:40:53,630
prays preemptively lest they should
795
00:40:53,630 --> 00:40:56,650
commit any sins and do something bad
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00:40:56,650 --> 00:40:59,690
he's generous with the poor he could
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00:40:59,690 --> 00:41:01,460
testify I made a covenant with my own
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00:41:01,460 --> 00:41:03,830
heart that I would not look on on women
799
00:41:03,830 --> 00:41:05,750
in order to lust after them he's an
800
00:41:05,750 --> 00:41:12,050
astonishingly pious men but he doesn't
801
00:41:12,050 --> 00:41:14,570
know the behind the scenes the devil our
802
00:41:14,570 --> 00:41:19,420
dear friend from Genesis 3 returns Satan
803
00:41:19,420 --> 00:41:22,369
he returns and makes a wager with God
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00:41:22,369 --> 00:41:24,619
the only reason why Joel likes you is
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00:41:24,619 --> 00:41:26,210
because he's filthy rich and you protect
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him you you you take away all the good
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things that he's got and he'll turn out
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and curse you to your face and God says
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go ahead just don't hurt him
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and in successive waves of marauding
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riffs his cattle are stolen his herds
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are decimated a windstorm comes along
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the house where his children are having
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a party blows down and all ten of his
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kids are killed and the man says naked I
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came out of my mother's womb naked I
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will return the Lord gives the Lord
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takes away blessed be the name of the
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Lord
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Satan says to God you know I skin for
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skin just take away this chaps health
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and he'll curse you to your face and God
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says go ahead but spare his life and
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pretty soon you find him on an ash pit
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using pieces of broken pottery picking
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away at his scabs when three friends
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come in to visit him they sit down and
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for a week they do nothing but simply
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keep quiet the wisest thing they could
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do and then the rest of the book is set
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out as a drama
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these friends think they've got the
833
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theology all under control
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they say Joe do you believe that God is
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sovereign yes do you believe that God is
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just yes so if he's sovereign and he's
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just and you're suffering then the
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implication is Jobe says I know that God
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is sovereign I know that he's just but
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quite frankly I don't deserve this I I'm
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I'm an innocent stuff right I shouldn't
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be suffering this joke do you hear what
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you're saying
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are you saying that God is making a
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mistake or that God is unjust to you oh
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no no I'm not saying that I know that
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God is sovereign I know that he's just
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but but I still have to say that this
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isn't fair what I'm going through and
850
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then the discussion gets hotter and
851
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hotter until eventually the friends
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begin to say job you don't understand
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you've got more sins behind you that you
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don't even recognize sins since that
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you've committed you don't even know
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about that then you can possibly imagine
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otherwise you're really saying that God
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is unjust and if that's the case then
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what you really ought to do is confess
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them in any case even if you can't name
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any specific ones just sort of confess
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generally to God and God will forgive
863
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you and everything will get better and
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Jobe says how can I possibly do that how
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can I repent of something I don't know
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what I've done wrong
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how can I possibly repent and claim that
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I'm asking for God's mercy and
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forgiveness when I don't think that I
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deserve this that wouldn't be making me
871
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a liar that would be action
872
00:44:22,599 --> 00:44:25,299
be sitting against God what I really
873
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need is a lawyer I wish I had somebody
874
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who would go between God and me that's
875
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what I need and the tension mounts and
876
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mounts and mounts I won't go through all
877
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of the levels of argumentation but
878
00:44:36,039 --> 00:44:42,220
eventually God speaks you know what he
879
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says job
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have you ever designed a snowflake hmm
881
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where were you when I made the first
882
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hippopotamus did you give me any wisdom
883
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on how to cast the constellation Orion
884
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into the heavens hmm Joe two or three
885
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chapters of these rhetorical questions
886
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and at the end Jobe says I'm sorry I
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spoke foolishly claiming that I know
888
00:45:25,569 --> 00:45:29,499
more than I do I repent and you know
889
00:45:29,499 --> 00:45:31,779
what God says stand up on your feet I'm
890
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not finished yet and has two more
891
00:45:33,069 --> 00:45:40,710
chapters of questions it's stunning
892
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because at the end of the day there is
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no systematic answer that's provided to
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00:45:46,390 --> 00:45:48,700
sort out the entire problem of innocent
895
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suffering all of the rhetorical
896
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questions combined to mean one thing
897
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we're not always going to get the
898
00:46:00,069 --> 00:46:04,509
explanations but God is bigger than we
899
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are and sometimes you just have to trust
900
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him
901
00:46:23,510 --> 00:46:26,900
and then God says that nevertheless Joe
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00:46:26,900 --> 00:46:29,270
basically got the account right he was
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pushing on the arrogance front a bit by
904
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the end but it's the three friends whom
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Joe Joe whom God can condemns it's the
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three friends whom God condemns because
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00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:42,160
they think they've got God tacked
908
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,300
they've got him all figured out
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00:46:44,300 --> 00:46:54,530
he's nicely boxed he's done and at the
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00:46:54,530 --> 00:46:59,410
end God restores the fortunes of Joe
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00:46:59,410 --> 00:47:01,910
because after all in the Bible in the
912
00:47:01,910 --> 00:47:04,790
end not only is justice done but it
913
00:47:04,790 --> 00:47:07,340
seemed to be done that too is a book of
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wisdom there's one other book of wisdom
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that's worth a brief mention here now -
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it's the book of Ecclesiastes where
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00:47:18,890 --> 00:47:22,700
Solomon sets out - to find meaning in
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00:47:22,700 --> 00:47:26,270
life he thinks of public works and he
919
00:47:26,270 --> 00:47:28,280
devotes himself to public works and
920
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,860
discovers that that is meaningless - and
921
00:47:30,860 --> 00:47:34,100
then he devotes himself to the wisdom
922
00:47:34,100 --> 00:47:36,140
and and literature and writing and
923
00:47:36,140 --> 00:47:38,240
meditation and he discovers that after a
924
00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:40,100
while that isn't satisfying and then he
925
00:47:40,100 --> 00:47:41,960
devotes himself to generosity then he
926
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,030
devotes himself to asceticism and then
927
00:47:44,030 --> 00:47:45,290
he devotes himself to something else is
928
00:47:45,290 --> 00:47:46,610
something else and at the end of the day
929
00:47:46,610 --> 00:47:47,510
nothing
930
00:47:47,510 --> 00:47:51,650
finally satisfies and his conclusion at
931
00:47:51,650 --> 00:47:57,370
the end of it all you come to chapter 12
932
00:47:57,370 --> 00:48:01,670
and he looks back over his life and the
933
00:48:01,670 --> 00:48:03,500
various things that he's attempted to do
934
00:48:03,500 --> 00:48:09,290
in his effort to seek pleasure
935
00:48:09,290 --> 00:48:14,620
meaning fulfillment and he writes
936
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,120
remember your Creator in the days of
937
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:20,150
your youth before the days of trouble
938
00:48:20,150 --> 00:48:21,680
come in the years approach when you will
939
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:26,900
say I find no pleasure in them now all
940
00:48:26,900 --> 00:48:28,700
has been heard here is the conclusion of
941
00:48:28,700 --> 00:48:31,970
the matter fear God and keep his
942
00:48:31,970 --> 00:48:34,340
Commandments for this is the duty of
943
00:48:34,340 --> 00:48:35,910
every human being
944
00:48:35,910 --> 00:48:37,440
God will bring every deed into judgment
945
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,690
including every hidden thing whether it
946
00:48:39,690 --> 00:48:41,640
is good or evil that is to say what he
947
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,730
finally comes up with is a teleological
948
00:48:44,730 --> 00:48:47,070
vision a vision of what happens at the
949
00:48:47,070 --> 00:48:48,360
end you have to live in the light of the
950
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:51,870
end that is wisdom because we will give
951
00:48:51,870 --> 00:49:02,550
an account to this God when we feel in
952
00:49:02,550 --> 00:49:06,150
our hearts and minds as we grow older
953
00:49:06,150 --> 00:49:07,920
that there has to be something more
954
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:10,350
there has to be something more satisfied
955
00:49:10,350 --> 00:49:15,630
there has to be something bigger we are
956
00:49:15,630 --> 00:49:19,460
right to listen to that brooding voice
957
00:49:20,150 --> 00:49:25,230
because we were made for God and our
958
00:49:25,230 --> 00:49:29,180
souls will be restless until we know him
959
00:49:30,350 --> 00:49:32,580
those are the kinds of things the wisdom
960
00:49:32,580 --> 00:49:36,120
books teach us as the Old Testament
961
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,460
barrels along in its anticipation of the
962
00:49:38,460 --> 00:49:45,810
day when wisdom incarnate will come when
963
00:49:45,810 --> 00:49:47,550
there is some final resolution between
964
00:49:47,550 --> 00:49:49,820
the perfections that God demands in
965
00:49:49,820 --> 00:49:54,600
Psalm 1 and the compromise misconduct of
966
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:58,680
our own lives when there is a David who
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00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:00,780
acknowledges that he sins before God and
968
00:50:00,780 --> 00:50:02,580
that he must have God's mercy but his
969
00:50:02,580 --> 00:50:04,110
sins are always before him and there is
970
00:50:04,110 --> 00:50:09,090
no hope before him there is a resolution
971
00:50:09,090 --> 00:50:15,320
still coming and his name is Jesus
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you
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