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Psalm 42 is gonna be our text today.

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Read that now.

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Psalm 42

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to the choir master,

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a mask of the sons of Ko.

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As a dear pants for flowing streams,

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soul pants

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my soul for you. Oh god.

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My soul first

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for god

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for the living God.

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When shall they come and appear before God?

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My tears have been my food day and

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night

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All they say to me all the day

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long, where is your god?

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These things I remember is I pour out

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my soul how I would go with a

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t and lead them into procession to the

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house of God with glad shouts and songs

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of praise and multitude keeping festival.

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Why are you cast down oh my soul?

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And why are you in turmoil within me?

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Hope God for I shall, again, praise in

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my salvation and my god.

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My soul is cast down within me. Therefore,

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I remember you from the land of Jordan

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and of Herman from Mount M,

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deep calls to deep

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at the roar of your waterfalls.

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All your breakers in your ways have gone

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over me By day, the Lord commands his

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steadfast love, and at night, his song is

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with me a prayer to the god of

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my life.

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I say to God my rock. Why have

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you forgotten me?

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Why do I go morning because of the

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oppression of the enemy

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As with a deadly wound in my bones,

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my adversaries haunt me.

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While they say to me all the day

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long, where is your God?

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Why are you cast down oh my soul?

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And why are you in turmoil within me?

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Open God, fry shall, again praise him,

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my salvation and my god.

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This is the word of lord.

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Father, I ask now as we continue

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in our worship here this morning,

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It's we return now to your written word

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given to us

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for all times sake.

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I asked that your word would do its

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intended effect that it would penetrate our hearts.

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That you would settle our anxious thoughts now,

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the murmur, the to dos, the things that

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we have going on after service maybe,

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wherever minds might be, may you just give

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us a sense of stillness now,

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and I ask that you would stir in

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us our affection of faith

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that we make come to know you

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even more. You have something for us here

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today. I'm convinced of that.

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So lead us, open our hearts

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Remove the distractions help us to hear

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what it is you want us to hear.

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For your glory, ask these things. Amen.

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My name is Dan Sp. I'm 1 of

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the pastors on staff here. And as you

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just heard Red Psalm 42

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as our text today as we continue in

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our summer series, looking at various psalms.

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And because of the song that we're in

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today,

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I wanna do just a really quick

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overview,

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very brief kind of introduction here before we

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get into the text

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and my heart as a pastor for you

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all is that when you leave here and

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you read your bible and you and you

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see things, you have a understanding of what

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these things are. So you don't just gloss

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over things Mean the, that doesn't matter. It's

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there. It matters.

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So just a quick over quick, really quick

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overview, probably unjust in some ways.

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First, just a quick note about to structure

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the book of psalms.

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There's 5 books, kind of like sub books

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that make up the whole collection of the

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book of psalms.

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And I won't get into all that today.

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I just wanted to call it out because

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when you come to Psalm 42, If you

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look in your bible just above it, it

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says book 2. And you might be wondering

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that's weird. Why does it say that? Well,

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there's 5 books in the book of Psalms.

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That's how when they put them together, that's

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kind of like the breakdown that they did,

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the... When they pile, compiled this collection of

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poetry.

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In psalm 42 is a start of book

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too. At at the end of each of

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the book, there's actually a do

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that comes right before you know, the the

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next book. So in in Psalm 41, at

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the end of the psalm, we read gillespie

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be the Lord, the God of Israel from

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ever last to ever lasting amen and amen.

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Now this is just 1 example at the

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end of each book There's other docs.

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He'll say a about the same thing. This

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is probably 1 of the shorter of them,

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but but that's how each book ends. So

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there you go, 5 books. And

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And also by way of structure too you,

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this the song kicks off kind of like

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as some scholars, they look at different collections

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within the within the book of psalms, so

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that's another way kinda break the psalms down.

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This is the el he psa,

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psalms 42 to 83. And you're like, what

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did you just say?

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I actually was like, can I say this

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word?

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El is where the root of that word.

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It... It's translated God and are in bible.

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That's the divine name. So this kind of

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collection uses that word a lot. So that's

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why they say like, oh, that's interesting. This

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word this this hebrew word keeps repeating. There's

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different ways we can refer to God and

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this is the word that they use. Now,

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I I take a moment to explain that

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because in our bible today. I'm sorry. In

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our in our psalm today,

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the author not only uses this el word,

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God, you know, several times throughout. But but

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on 1 occurrence,

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He actually pivot and he uses the word

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y.

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And you know you'll note that in your

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bible. It says the Lord, small caps,

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Y, that's the covenant name of God.

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When you hear that name, it's it's reminder

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of the covenant,

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and when you're reading, and you see things

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like that. I wanna just encourage you, always,

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like, slow down and just pause for a

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moment like that's interesting.

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I wonder why he just did that.

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And we're gonna look into that in a

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in a few minutes.

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The second thing to note by way of

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introduction, is that according to first chronicles, the

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Sons of Quo, who he he just heard

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in that title. The Sons of Ko, we're

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were temple keepers and and temple singers.

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During the rains of David and solomon.

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So if you're wondering, like, oh, that's interesting.

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Said sons of cor who are they. That's

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who there. They're in the temple with David,

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and solomon.

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Numbers 26 has them listed as 1 of

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the 5 major levi families,

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the core heights, and 1 comment adds that

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they were the door keepers and singers and

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performed more men chores.

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But they're they're serving in the temple as

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as the invites in the time of David

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and Solomon.

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still in that same title area is a...

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This is a a term that you'll see

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some of the different psalms also have this

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as well. This isn't the only 1. And

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scholars believe that that map that mask was

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meant to be an artistic or teaching song.

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a lit word,

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that's what Mask is. So as we come

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to these psalms, as note that

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that's what the scholars belief. That is the...

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Again, really quick overview, but these are words

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that you're seeing in your bible, and I

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want to inform you as you read your

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bible.

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And lastly, and and the most important thing,

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by way of overview and introduction, it's important

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to note that Psalms

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are incredibly

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artistic

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and use different literary devices to communicate.

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to be sung. They're they're actually their poetry.

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use of a parallel structure, for example, as

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we work through the text. There's this lament

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that happens in versus 1 through 4 and

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then we get the refrain. And then this

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lament that happens in versus 6 through 10.

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if you connect psalm 42 and 43, some

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scholars do that in some ancient manuscripts, they

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kind of appear as 1 full lament, other

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places. They're they're different. So we'll treat them

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differently here today. But if you were to

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connect them, that pattern continues. There's a lament,

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and then the same refrain. So lament reframe,

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reframe. Like... So there's there's a pattern. There's

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a reason why

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the author of the Psalm would do that.

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It invites us in.

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Psalm 42 also uses

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emotional language

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to help us draw truth and to make

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its point.

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That might make you uncomfortable. That's my home.

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I love it. I'm very thankful for emotion

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language. I'm very thankful for the psalms.

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In 1 place in verse 2, it uses

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gapping in, like, this repetition technique, which is

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which is meant to slow us down and

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and kinda of the fill in the blank.

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There's a gaps, Like what's what's missing in

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this gap? What do we do here? We

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see this in verse 2.

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It says my soul thirst for God for

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the living God. Now we would, you know,

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if we were to kind of dissect it,

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we would say, my soul thirst for God

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kind of my soul thirst for the living

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God. You see that There's like, a repetition.

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There's a we're meant to fill in that

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blank. And notice it goes from God to

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the living God. Like, there's as there's this

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heighten, like, they're

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intensifying that's taking place.

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This technique is intentional and draws out deeper

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meaning and feeling from the text and and

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by the way, it's okay

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to feel these texts.

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I want you to know that. These this

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is emotional. These these are psalms to enter

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into with a sense of

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emotion. In fact, they're intended to to do

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just that. Psalm speak to every range of

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human emotion and experience and And I said

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they're they're they're like, a form of poetry.

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They're they're meant to, like, evo something inside

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of you. When you see them, you're not

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just meant to just read them flat,

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And if you if you take a look

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at our Psalms artwork, Jeremy, if you could

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put that back up again, the the psalms

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where it says Psalms and and the artwork.

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You could look at it, and you could

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be like, oh, wow.

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That's just like, a real, like, a bunch

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of colors isn't that neat and move on,

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or you can maybe sit with it for

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a little while and be like, wow, that's

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that's really interesting.

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Look at the look at the movement

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that I see in there. Look at the...

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Are those colors coming together are those colors

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kind of coming apart.

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Like, there's depth there. Like, what... Like, what's...

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There's something that is invoking something inside of

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us? Like, stirring us inside of us, and

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that's what psalms do.

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And the aim of the psalms is to

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stir a sense of wonder and odd who

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god is.

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As the author's pen these words as the

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collectors put these psalms together. That's what it

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was. It was all about going back to

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the covenant that we have with our heavenly

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father.

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To quote my per my seminary professor, you

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can approach psalms like an engineer, you have

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to be an artist.

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There's beauty

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in these words and in this structure that's

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meant to stir and en live in a

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sense of awe and wonder.

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This is what the psalms do. And my

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hope is for all of us today, wherever

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you are in your spiritual journey,

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My hope is that this particular psalm does

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just that stir this sense of awe and

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wonder of god.

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What we see in this psalm and psalm

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is to follow Jesus is to have our

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souls san

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daily.

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Let me repeat that. To follow Jesus is

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to have our souls

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daily

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to have the holy spirit chipping away at

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you every moment of everyday,

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drawing you into this holy,

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relationship with our heavenly father, making you more

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like him,

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nothing is neutral. Every moment forms you from

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1 glory, or to another,

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and we see in our text that this

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is what the Psalm is dealing with on

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a real level.

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Start to trade off.

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Verse 1.

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Says as a dear pants for flowing streams

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of water, so pants my soul for you

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oh god,

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as a deer pants. So when does a

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deer pants?

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Well, a deer pants when he's par desperate

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for water,

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maybe at the end of the day or

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during, like, the hot moments of the day

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during the heat, the deer might be pant

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for water

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or

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a dear pants when he's being chased. When

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the hunters are coming after him minute and

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he's on a run. He's he's running for

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its life,

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and he's tired.

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Both

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are relevant in this psalm.

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This is a psalm, a lament

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of a dry parts soul 1 who has

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for 1 reason or another allowed his soul

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to run dry on the lord.

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And

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this psalm also speaks to the troubles of

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the world pricing in on the psalm is

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causing the worthiness of the soul. Both are

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true.

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So we have to do some work here.

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If our souls are being san being made

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new every day as we walk with the

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Lord, then we have to ask there's 3

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questions. What is the soul and why do

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we care?

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To? How is it being san

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and 3, how do we quench the thirst

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of our soul?

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So let's jump right in. What is the

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soul and why do we care?

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The soul is the intimate part of your

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person hood that is knit together with the

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lord.

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It's not separate from your body,

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you are 1 continuous person, body and soul.

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1.

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When it comes to Understanding the soul and

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caring for our soul, Dallas Willard is is

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1 of the leading scholars here, though, he's

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not he's not the only 1.

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Richard Foster and is another 1 that comes

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in my mind.

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But I've... But I have 2 quotes from

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Willard to help us.

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He nuances a little differently in both of

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So in the first quote, this is what

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Willard said. He says soul

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is here to find as the hidden

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or

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spiritual side of the person.

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It includes an individual's thoughts and feelings, along

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with heart or will. With its intents and

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choices.

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It also includes an individual's body, bodily life

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and social relations, which and their inner meaning

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in nature are just as hidden

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as the thoughts and feelings.

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Now that might be a bit much to

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take in. And and his second quote, maybe

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just a shorter summary, Nuance a little differently

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though.

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He says in renovation of the heart, he

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says,

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the soul is that aspect of your whole

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being that correlates,

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integrates and en live,

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everything going on in the various dimensions of

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the self.

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That's what your soul is.

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In that same place, I didn't add it

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in the quote here. The the very next

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words

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in his... In this book he said the

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soul is the life center of the human

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being.

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For believers,

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the soul is that hidden

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deep Wells spring of ourself that is ultimately

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united with Christ.

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It's where we are bound up and caught

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up in our life with Christ. Where we

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become 1 with Christ. We say it become

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1 with Jesus. That happens at the soul

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level.

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And it's an act of the father's calling,

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the son redeeming and reconciling us to the

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father and the holy spirit live our faith

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response.

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But it's incredibly important to note that our

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body is connected with our soul. As Willard

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highlights.

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This is where we can get to the

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dangerous grounds, and I wanna tread cautiously here.

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You're not just a soul

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and separate body in your body doesn't matter.

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Right? If you've seen Disney's or a Pixar

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movie called soul, it's a very dangerous movie.

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It's not good theology.

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We're not just a bunch of souls kind

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of roaming about looking for containers to fill.

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Like, that's not what we are.

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Though, to be fair to Disney, we probably

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shouldn't go to Disney for our theology.

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I know some of you probably seen that

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movie, and you might be wanting to call,

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that's interesting. No. It's not. Stop.

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I wanna start with an understanding of our

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soul because of the implications for this psalm

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and for your own

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spiritual formation.

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In your life. What goes on in and

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to our body

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has an impact on our soul,

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and thus, our spiritual health

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and this is true by the way, for

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believers or un believers. This isn't just a,

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you know, Christian moment here.

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The health of your soul will have an

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impact on your body.

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Our physical abilities, our emotions, how we live

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the choices we make and so on

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And this is what it at stake here

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in this song. There's a disruption

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in this psalm is soul. Mean, he uses

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the word many times throughout this song.

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That's causing a disruption in his relationship with

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God? Why are you cast down oh my

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soul,

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and why are you in turmoil within me?

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And he pens these words as a as

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a personal lament himself. This is a lament.

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This is unlike other lament in the altar.

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This is this is a little different. This

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is like a personal lament. He's coaching himself

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as he calls out to God and notice

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God never responds.

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There's never a... And the Lord said,

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or there's never any quotes like, you know,

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in God, you know, kind of giving God

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an attribution to these words, nothing.

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As as if we're entering someone's personal journal

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and honestly,

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we're better off for it.

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We see in in in the versus 1

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through 4, we get a we get a

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portrait of his soul. Right? It says, his

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soul, his core sense of self is thirst

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for god and what's worse is that instead

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of having God to quench thirst, his tears

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had been his thirst quench, day and night.

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He feels far from God. When shall I

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come and appear before God?

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When will you reveal yourself to me in

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a way that I can comprehend in, like,

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a deep way

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People are questioning and challenging my faith. Where

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is your god? You hear that twice in

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the song being haunted.

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Where is your god?

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He remembers when he used to lead people

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to worship. He used to lead people and

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like the worship, the the different

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times of year that we go to the

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jerusalem in worship. I was 1 of those

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leaders, but not anymore.

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I'm not able to worship anymore.

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And later, he extends his description, he feels

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forgotten by God. He asked why do I

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go on morning because of the oppression of

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the enemy and he says that he's being

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tormented as if my bones have a

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wound in them.

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It's amazing rounds, we can cover in this

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poet poetic language that would take

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pages to write in other words. My bones

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have a deadly wound in them.

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From within his soul is parts, void of

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God from without his soul is tormented by

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his environment.

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You see our bodies, and our souls are

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connected. They're not separate. What we do with

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our bodies and forms our soul care and

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soul health, and our soul health influences our

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body, as well. A par

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tired

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dry sole will find something to soak up.

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It's like a dry bunch

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just looking for something to kind of fill

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it.

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The psalm speaks to himself here. Why

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Are you cast down oh my soul? It's

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a self evaluation? It's a it's a self

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diagnosis. It's like, why are you cast down

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all my soul?

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Perhaps all of us should do some self

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diagnosis as well.

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You see, as I keep saying, all of

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life is

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transformational You can't just watch a Tv show

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and not be formed in some way.

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All of life is transformational from 1 degree

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or to another. Everything matters. Our spiritual lives

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are constantly being formed in shaped by the

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circumstances we're in. Your physical reality

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matters, working out, sleeping, taking care of your

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body.

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The Tv shows you watch are the Youtube

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channels that maybe you just mindless stream nonstop

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and and they quantity of these things that

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you're taking in, your relationship with others and

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and the way that you are in

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relationship with others.

542
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Do you cross the line with your boyfriend

543
00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:34,969
or girlfriend or even your fiance,

544
00:20:36,213 --> 00:20:38,195
Fiance, not wife for or husband. You're not

545
00:20:38,195 --> 00:20:38,591
there yet.

546
00:20:39,638 --> 00:20:41,544
Or even what we allow ourselves to take

547
00:20:41,544 --> 00:20:44,244
part in to consume to to drink to

548
00:20:44,244 --> 00:20:46,785
eat to ingest in any form at all.

549
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That matters.

550
00:20:48,547 --> 00:20:51,570
Your emotional reality matters, what boundaries we put

551
00:20:51,570 --> 00:20:52,445
on our emotions.

552
00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:55,880
Do you have healthy boundaries and patience of

553
00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:56,119
people?

554
00:20:57,312 --> 00:21:00,198
Do we stunt our emotions? Do we over

555
00:21:00,334 --> 00:21:01,447
express our emotions?

556
00:21:02,163 --> 00:21:03,538
Do we grieve well

557
00:21:04,245 --> 00:21:06,470
and do we grieve with others well?

558
00:21:08,059 --> 00:21:09,728
When is the last time you allowed yourself

559
00:21:09,728 --> 00:21:10,761
to have a good cry?

560
00:21:12,999 --> 00:21:15,698
Your mental reality matters, the lies we tell

561
00:21:15,698 --> 00:21:18,159
ourselves, the the books we consume, our media

562
00:21:18,159 --> 00:21:20,558
feeds, we allowed to shape our thoughts What

563
00:21:20,558 --> 00:21:22,714
is your thought life like? Do you check

564
00:21:22,714 --> 00:21:24,230
your thoughts or challenge your thoughts?

565
00:21:25,028 --> 00:21:28,141
Your your spiritual reality matters, tending to your

566
00:21:28,141 --> 00:21:28,780
relationship with God,

567
00:21:29,673 --> 00:21:31,290
participating in Christ centered

568
00:21:31,667 --> 00:21:32,465
relationships with others,

569
00:21:33,183 --> 00:21:36,215
allowing yourselves space to to wander and wonder

570
00:21:36,215 --> 00:21:38,787
with God. And do you ever just allow

571
00:21:38,787 --> 00:21:41,104
yourself to approach God in general with a

572
00:21:41,104 --> 00:21:42,942
sense of, like, wonder and awe.

573
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It's beautiful.

574
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All of these are formative moments, nothing is

575
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neutral.

576
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We see this clear the galatians 5. The

577
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works of the flesh and the fruit of

578
00:21:54,521 --> 00:21:56,349
the spirit, both are at work us. Both

579
00:21:56,349 --> 00:21:57,938
are at work on us, both are pulling

580
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us

581
00:21:59,383 --> 00:22:01,364
both are informing the health of our soul

582
00:22:01,364 --> 00:22:02,632
and our relationship with God.

583
00:22:03,980 --> 00:22:05,882
And this is where we find our psalm,

584
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:07,348
doing this self

585
00:22:07,721 --> 00:22:08,539
evaluation, lament

586
00:22:08,991 --> 00:22:10,023
the state he's in.

587
00:22:11,373 --> 00:22:13,302
He's in a real hard place

588
00:22:13,755 --> 00:22:15,065
and his all

589
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is

590
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unsettled.

591
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But notice,

592
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god,

593
00:22:21,125 --> 00:22:22,184
who not speaking

594
00:22:22,484 --> 00:22:23,775
is still at work?

595
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So then our second point,

596
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how is your soul san?

597
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As you press in the psalm 42, what

598
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you'll find that it's actually a portrait

599
00:22:36,106 --> 00:22:38,016
of Christian life at large.

600
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Something we can all relate to.

601
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As there's mowing my lawn a few weeks

602
00:22:43,630 --> 00:22:45,470
back by about 2 weeks ago now.

603
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After another stressful point, something happened.

604
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In the midst of life, stress just in

605
00:22:54,383 --> 00:22:57,105
general with 0 margin. I mean, there's, like,

606
00:22:57,264 --> 00:22:58,381
no breathing room right now.

607
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There's no time for stressful things to happen,

608
00:23:01,730 --> 00:23:04,282
which led to a minor breakdown from a

609
00:23:04,282 --> 00:23:05,055
depleted soul

610
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a aka, I was angry.

611
00:23:09,313 --> 00:23:10,507
As I'm mowing my lawn,

612
00:23:11,064 --> 00:23:12,815
I'm reflecting on Psalm 42,

613
00:23:13,372 --> 00:23:14,827
and I had this, like, massive

614
00:23:15,298 --> 00:23:16,096
Aha moment.

615
00:23:17,212 --> 00:23:19,605
This psalm is a portrait of the Christian

616
00:23:19,605 --> 00:23:19,845
life.

617
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As you walk through the psalm, you'll notice

618
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that there's is, like, up and down movement

619
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throughout the somme. He he pivot from low

620
00:23:27,112 --> 00:23:29,100
points in life to these high points of

621
00:23:29,100 --> 00:23:31,009
faith and then back down again and then

622
00:23:31,009 --> 00:23:33,420
back up again. And honestly, the more that

623
00:23:33,500 --> 00:23:35,179
I talk to others, the more that I

624
00:23:35,179 --> 00:23:37,019
see that this is true of life for

625
00:23:37,019 --> 00:23:38,460
many of us or for all of us,

626
00:23:38,539 --> 00:23:39,039
honestly,

627
00:23:40,473 --> 00:23:42,306
And the faster you come to that realization,

628
00:23:42,466 --> 00:23:44,538
the better off you will be. It doesn't

629
00:23:44,538 --> 00:23:46,452
go away, but it's a good thing to

630
00:23:46,452 --> 00:23:48,205
just kind of come into recognition of.

631
00:23:50,135 --> 00:23:51,730
Take a look at the pattern throughout this

632
00:23:51,730 --> 00:23:52,049
psalm.

633
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Low. My my soul thirst for God. My

634
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:56,914
tears have been my food. They say to

635
00:23:56,914 --> 00:23:58,484
me where is your god. And then this

636
00:23:58,605 --> 00:24:00,204
high point. I remember when I used to

637
00:24:00,204 --> 00:24:02,045
lead people to come in worship God with

638
00:24:02,045 --> 00:24:04,125
shouts madness and joy, and then we get

639
00:24:04,125 --> 00:24:06,204
this refrain. Why are you cast down,

640
00:24:06,765 --> 00:24:09,570
Hope God, my savior. And then low. My

641
00:24:09,570 --> 00:24:12,508
soul is cast down. And then hi. I

642
00:24:12,508 --> 00:24:14,810
remember you across all my wandering and then

643
00:24:14,810 --> 00:24:17,193
low. All your breakers have crashed over me

644
00:24:17,193 --> 00:24:20,401
and then I remember your steadfast love, and

645
00:24:20,401 --> 00:24:22,718
your song is with me and then low,

646
00:24:23,198 --> 00:24:25,195
why have you forgotten me? Why do I

647
00:24:25,195 --> 00:24:25,755
go on morning?

648
00:24:26,488 --> 00:24:28,564
And then even lower deadly wound in my

649
00:24:28,564 --> 00:24:30,958
bones, My avi adversaries are taunting me, and

650
00:24:30,958 --> 00:24:32,794
then we get this refrain again. Why are

651
00:24:32,794 --> 00:24:33,513
you cast down?

652
00:24:34,231 --> 00:24:36,797
Hoping God? If you do connect 42 and

653
00:24:36,797 --> 00:24:38,789
43 together, as I said, some scholars do,

654
00:24:38,948 --> 00:24:40,940
this pattern continues. It goes right back to

655
00:24:40,940 --> 00:24:42,693
high vin neo o God, the defending me,

656
00:24:42,852 --> 00:24:44,366
you're to God and who I take refuge.

657
00:24:44,858 --> 00:24:47,317
Low, why you've rejected me, High. Send out

658
00:24:47,317 --> 00:24:49,380
your lights. You're you're at my God, my

659
00:24:49,380 --> 00:24:50,253
exceeding joy,

660
00:24:50,808 --> 00:24:52,078
and then the refrain again.

661
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,831
You see this is a picture of god

662
00:24:55,831 --> 00:24:56,968
at work in

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00:24:57,583 --> 00:24:58,697
and on us.

664
00:25:00,130 --> 00:25:01,006
San us.

665
00:25:02,456 --> 00:25:03,971
This is what it means to live and

666
00:25:03,971 --> 00:25:05,966
breathe as a accretion. And I wish I

667
00:25:05,966 --> 00:25:08,278
was here to tell you, don't worry. It

668
00:25:08,278 --> 00:25:10,533
gets better. It's gonna go away

669
00:25:11,644 --> 00:25:13,399
just... I can't do that. The more people

670
00:25:13,558 --> 00:25:14,994
I talk to that are older and wiser

671
00:25:14,994 --> 00:25:16,670
me, the the more that they confirm that,

672
00:25:16,829 --> 00:25:18,265
yes, this is this is life.

673
00:25:19,875 --> 00:25:21,072
And we need it. Frankly,

674
00:25:22,986 --> 00:25:24,741
If you've accepted Jesus at your Lord and

675
00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:26,894
Savior, you will walk this life. There will

676
00:25:26,894 --> 00:25:29,621
be this battle that goes on between your

677
00:25:29,621 --> 00:25:32,833
body and your soul between truth and lies

678
00:25:32,971 --> 00:25:36,102
between sin and wholeness is between external circumstances

679
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,608
and internal realities between temporal and and what

680
00:25:39,608 --> 00:25:42,245
is seen and eternal and what is not

681
00:25:42,245 --> 00:25:44,482
seen. There's always gonna be this tension to

682
00:25:44,482 --> 00:25:47,140
walk as a christian is to live

683
00:25:47,532 --> 00:25:48,325
and that tension.

684
00:25:49,198 --> 00:25:51,023
This is why Paul said that the law

685
00:25:51,023 --> 00:25:52,927
didn't set him free. The minute that he

686
00:25:52,927 --> 00:25:54,751
was made aware of the law is like

687
00:25:54,831 --> 00:25:56,355
Sin came a lot I've inside of him,

688
00:25:56,434 --> 00:25:57,865
like, look at all these rules I can

689
00:25:57,865 --> 00:25:58,183
break.

690
00:25:59,772 --> 00:26:00,965
He felt this tension.

691
00:26:02,157 --> 00:26:05,352
This psalm is a psalm of salvation. Or

692
00:26:05,352 --> 00:26:05,852
better

693
00:26:06,227 --> 00:26:07,501
of san vacation.

694
00:26:09,332 --> 00:26:11,799
Now the hope is that you're actually being

695
00:26:11,799 --> 00:26:12,299
san

696
00:26:13,248 --> 00:26:14,762
as you live and as you walk with

697
00:26:14,762 --> 00:26:15,160
jesus,

698
00:26:15,718 --> 00:26:18,586
that you do heed god's work in your

699
00:26:18,586 --> 00:26:19,861
life and on your life.

700
00:26:21,153 --> 00:26:23,311
Making you more and more like him that

701
00:26:23,311 --> 00:26:25,309
you pay attention to how God is at

702
00:26:25,309 --> 00:26:25,809
work

703
00:26:26,668 --> 00:26:29,465
because you will face enemies of all kinds.

704
00:26:29,878 --> 00:26:31,552
Tangible and intangible.

705
00:26:32,429 --> 00:26:34,979
You will feel that god has abandoned you

706
00:26:34,979 --> 00:26:35,616
at times.

707
00:26:36,254 --> 00:26:39,222
You will have these deep moments of intimacy

708
00:26:39,222 --> 00:26:41,779
with God at times. You will know truth

709
00:26:41,779 --> 00:26:43,777
about God. You will forget truth about God.

710
00:26:44,096 --> 00:26:45,788
You will have ups and downs you will

711
00:26:45,788 --> 00:26:48,015
have seasons in life some shorter and some

712
00:26:48,015 --> 00:26:49,685
longer. And let me just emphasize that. When

713
00:26:49,765 --> 00:26:51,515
I say times, I'm not saying, like, 5

714
00:26:51,515 --> 00:26:54,477
minutes. Like, Joseph was 17 when his brother

715
00:26:54,477 --> 00:26:56,309
sold them into say its slavery, and he

716
00:26:56,309 --> 00:26:58,780
was 30 when they came back. That's 13

717
00:26:58,780 --> 00:26:59,019
years.

718
00:27:03,017 --> 00:27:04,131
But over time,

719
00:27:04,928 --> 00:27:07,555
the tumultuous line of your souls response will

720
00:27:07,555 --> 00:27:08,724
start to flatten out

721
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,489
and you'll start to approach a type of

722
00:27:11,942 --> 00:27:13,293
steadfast with god.

723
00:27:14,088 --> 00:27:16,948
You'll find the s and integral living that

724
00:27:16,948 --> 00:27:18,791
comes from living a life of faith in

725
00:27:18,791 --> 00:27:21,017
a long direction. And I know some of

726
00:27:21,017 --> 00:27:22,447
you are there. I had the joy of

727
00:27:22,447 --> 00:27:24,673
getting to hear some of your stories. I'm

728
00:27:24,673 --> 00:27:27,234
amazed at the stories of faith, in light

729
00:27:27,234 --> 00:27:29,894
of some of the hardest situations, cancer diagnoses.

730
00:27:30,835 --> 00:27:32,755
And yet the way that people just continue

731
00:27:32,755 --> 00:27:34,694
forward and other just hardships

732
00:27:36,605 --> 00:27:38,200
What I'm not saying is that there are

733
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:39,875
people in here that that don't have any

734
00:27:39,875 --> 00:27:41,710
problems or cares in a world. Nobody has

735
00:27:41,710 --> 00:27:43,464
this kind of, like, fake, like, perfect life,

736
00:27:43,624 --> 00:27:44,820
whatever you think that might be.

737
00:27:45,554 --> 00:27:48,431
All of our souls are constantly being formed

738
00:27:48,431 --> 00:27:50,509
to 1 degree or to another.

739
00:27:51,468 --> 00:27:54,425
God is that work on us, san us,

740
00:27:55,159 --> 00:27:56,059
all of us

741
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:57,000
every day.

742
00:27:58,919 --> 00:28:00,779
And let me just add, we

743
00:28:01,559 --> 00:28:03,662
sin full and perfect people

744
00:28:04,589 --> 00:28:05,381
want that.

745
00:28:06,570 --> 00:28:08,338
In fact, we need

746
00:28:08,789 --> 00:28:09,027
that.

747
00:28:12,153 --> 00:28:13,430
Let me show you what this looks like

748
00:28:13,430 --> 00:28:14,249
in the psalm

749
00:28:14,946 --> 00:28:17,361
versus 6 through 8 are some incredibly

750
00:28:18,712 --> 00:28:20,469
profound versus in the psalm.

751
00:28:21,267 --> 00:28:22,624
I won't say in the whole Bible of

752
00:28:22,624 --> 00:28:24,300
maybe in the Bible. They're they're they're deep.

753
00:28:24,540 --> 00:28:26,615
These are some deep words his brother pens

754
00:28:26,615 --> 00:28:26,855
here.

755
00:28:28,699 --> 00:28:29,970
They can lead to a lack of clarity.

756
00:28:30,129 --> 00:28:31,559
I'm not sure Have a full graphs on

757
00:28:31,559 --> 00:28:34,102
them. I mean, this poetry. Right? So I

758
00:28:34,102 --> 00:28:35,974
wanna give you my best guess

759
00:28:36,355 --> 00:28:38,115
as to what the Psalm is saying here.

760
00:28:39,234 --> 00:28:41,714
We see in verse 6 after talking about

761
00:28:41,714 --> 00:28:43,734
having a soul that is cast down

762
00:28:44,369 --> 00:28:46,119
or a soul that is depressed. You can

763
00:28:46,119 --> 00:28:48,664
use that word here. My soul is depressed.

764
00:28:49,380 --> 00:28:52,183
The psalm calls upon his memory of god

765
00:28:52,183 --> 00:28:55,240
immediately. Says, my soul is cast down within

766
00:28:55,619 --> 00:28:57,776
within me. Therefore, I remember you.

767
00:28:58,815 --> 00:29:02,257
First 6. Verse 7, he says, deep calls

768
00:29:02,257 --> 00:29:04,350
to deep at the roar of your waterfalls,

769
00:29:04,965 --> 00:29:07,514
all your breakers and your waves have gone

770
00:29:07,514 --> 00:29:07,992
over me.

771
00:29:09,755 --> 00:29:12,712
Immediately after this, he then uses this covenant

772
00:29:12,847 --> 00:29:14,670
language. Right? What I called you to in

773
00:29:14,670 --> 00:29:18,201
the beginning, pay attention to. Calling upon y,

774
00:29:19,132 --> 00:29:19,847
the Lord.

775
00:29:20,642 --> 00:29:22,231
He uses a different word for God here.

776
00:29:22,391 --> 00:29:24,775
The small caps, the Lord, not God or

777
00:29:24,775 --> 00:29:25,275
el,

778
00:29:25,903 --> 00:29:28,952
and he also calls upon God's he. His

779
00:29:29,090 --> 00:29:31,400
steadfast love, another covenant term.

780
00:29:33,888 --> 00:29:37,504
So between this depressed soul that remembers God

781
00:29:38,443 --> 00:29:42,873
and this soul that is remembers god's un

782
00:29:43,332 --> 00:29:43,832
covenant

783
00:29:45,009 --> 00:29:47,028
between these 2. Remembrance is

784
00:29:47,406 --> 00:29:48,205
stands verse 7.

785
00:29:50,218 --> 00:29:52,056
Deep calls to deep.

786
00:29:54,053 --> 00:29:55,651
All of your breakers in your waves have

787
00:29:55,651 --> 00:29:56,290
gone over me.

788
00:29:58,371 --> 00:29:59,720
I've been sitting with these for a while.

789
00:29:59,878 --> 00:30:00,830
These versus for a while,

790
00:30:01,862 --> 00:30:03,052
and here's the best that I got.

791
00:30:04,083 --> 00:30:06,719
When he says deep, calls to deep and

792
00:30:06,719 --> 00:30:08,307
light of the context of this song,

793
00:30:09,261 --> 00:30:11,429
I think he's continuing this remembrance

794
00:30:11,962 --> 00:30:14,122
idea with his relationship with God.

795
00:30:15,394 --> 00:30:16,189
So deep,

796
00:30:17,143 --> 00:30:18,279
y God

797
00:30:19,449 --> 00:30:20,824
calls to deep

798
00:30:21,357 --> 00:30:21,675
my soul.

799
00:30:23,910 --> 00:30:25,891
So we can say you lord,

800
00:30:26,684 --> 00:30:27,952
call to my soul.

801
00:30:29,061 --> 00:30:31,223
And in a relationship with God, the inverse

802
00:30:31,223 --> 00:30:33,290
is true, my soul calls to you god,

803
00:30:33,609 --> 00:30:35,040
deep calls to deep.

804
00:30:36,710 --> 00:30:39,440
My soul is permanently knit to you God

805
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,759
in the hidden deepest parts.

806
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,059
In the place where no 1 can ultimately

807
00:30:45,119 --> 00:30:47,134
touch our harm It is where you and

808
00:30:47,214 --> 00:30:50,194
I are knit together in a covenant of,

809
00:30:50,974 --> 00:30:51,775
steadfast, love,

810
00:30:52,335 --> 00:30:56,263
persistent, love, continual love, steady un shaking,

811
00:30:56,818 --> 00:30:58,325
unwavering love from the father.

812
00:30:59,436 --> 00:31:01,736
It's where I call out to you and

813
00:31:01,736 --> 00:31:04,693
you answer me. It's where you speak to

814
00:31:04,693 --> 00:31:05,193
me

815
00:31:06,052 --> 00:31:06,872
in a covenant

816
00:31:07,251 --> 00:31:08,450
with the God of my life.

817
00:31:11,966 --> 00:31:13,165
And this is where it gets hard.

818
00:31:14,055 --> 00:31:16,440
Because it says, in that same place,

819
00:31:17,791 --> 00:31:19,062
your waves,

820
00:31:19,857 --> 00:31:22,742
and your breakers go over me.

821
00:31:24,260 --> 00:31:25,059
But for my good,

822
00:31:26,337 --> 00:31:28,036
they hit me externally

823
00:31:28,509 --> 00:31:31,470
but they have this internal and in internal

824
00:31:31,470 --> 00:31:31,970
consequence.

825
00:31:34,110 --> 00:31:35,630
It's the san defined process.

826
00:31:36,362 --> 00:31:38,907
These are god's waves and breakers wave after

827
00:31:38,907 --> 00:31:41,635
wave. I'm hit, and it is suffocating.

828
00:31:43,538 --> 00:31:45,212
And my enemies are taunting me as well,

829
00:31:45,372 --> 00:31:47,285
my enemies are causing even more turmoil to

830
00:31:47,285 --> 00:31:51,113
my soul and yet, your steadfast love. Your

831
00:31:51,113 --> 00:31:54,477
covenant love. Your he is over me by

832
00:31:54,477 --> 00:31:57,347
day and your song is with me by

833
00:31:57,347 --> 00:31:57,586
night.

834
00:31:59,899 --> 00:32:00,957
These 2 verses

835
00:32:01,587 --> 00:32:02,622
go hand in hands.

836
00:32:03,179 --> 00:32:05,089
God's breakers are crashing over me.

837
00:32:06,044 --> 00:32:08,510
They're called they're called breakers. That's what they

838
00:32:08,510 --> 00:32:10,363
do. They they break things

839
00:32:11,387 --> 00:32:11,942
and yet,

840
00:32:12,813 --> 00:32:14,502
god's steadfast love

841
00:32:14,874 --> 00:32:15,429
surrounds me.

842
00:32:17,172 --> 00:32:20,044
In love, God's breakers go over me,

843
00:32:21,075 --> 00:32:22,742
and it's for my good.

844
00:32:25,759 --> 00:32:28,082
This is 1 of those like Christian kind

845
00:32:28,082 --> 00:32:30,157
of moments. We can all be like, yeah.

846
00:32:31,035 --> 00:32:32,631
Right. I've heard this maybe before.

847
00:32:34,866 --> 00:32:35,319
God's

848
00:32:35,677 --> 00:32:36,177
breakers,

849
00:32:37,267 --> 00:32:38,141
they break you.

850
00:32:41,797 --> 00:32:43,864
This is not a isolated idea we find

851
00:32:43,864 --> 00:32:45,868
in scripture We could look at Psalm 50

852
00:32:45,868 --> 00:32:48,495
ones you, the lyric of a broken and

853
00:32:48,495 --> 00:32:50,803
con heart is what god desires.

854
00:32:51,599 --> 00:32:52,395
That's not easy.

855
00:32:53,207 --> 00:32:55,359
You can look at Psalm 23. You god

856
00:32:55,359 --> 00:32:57,772
leave me on paths of righteousness for your

857
00:32:58,228 --> 00:32:58,467
namesake.

858
00:32:59,264 --> 00:33:01,193
We can look at Joe 1, The Lord

859
00:33:01,193 --> 00:33:03,667
gives and the Lord has taken away, blessed

860
00:33:03,667 --> 00:33:05,024
be the name of the Lord. This what

861
00:33:05,104 --> 00:33:06,860
Job says written chapter 1 of job there

862
00:33:06,860 --> 00:33:08,776
by the way. There's still, like 41 more

863
00:33:08,776 --> 00:33:09,095
to go.

864
00:33:11,018 --> 00:33:13,324
For Hebrews 12 and the discipline of a

865
00:33:13,324 --> 00:33:13,721
father,

866
00:33:14,198 --> 00:33:16,106
or we could look at first Peter, the

867
00:33:16,106 --> 00:33:18,411
book of James, Paul's life story,

868
00:33:19,941 --> 00:33:22,255
This is a constant theme throughout all of

869
00:33:22,255 --> 00:33:24,649
scripture, and this almost is describing it well

870
00:33:24,649 --> 00:33:26,266
for all of us putting it to words

871
00:33:26,498 --> 00:33:27,791
what many of us feel

872
00:33:28,163 --> 00:33:31,040
drawing us to the attention needed for our

873
00:33:31,174 --> 00:33:32,997
relationship with our heavenly father.

874
00:33:35,323 --> 00:33:38,140
And he concludes verse 8 with a prayer

875
00:33:38,519 --> 00:33:40,037
to the God of my life. In other

876
00:33:40,037 --> 00:33:41,635
words, make it so, God.

877
00:33:43,245 --> 00:33:45,317
Make me to know your love and to

878
00:33:45,317 --> 00:33:47,571
sing your song no matter what the circumstance.

879
00:33:48,028 --> 00:33:50,101
Help me to grow in my relationship with

880
00:33:50,101 --> 00:33:52,895
you as your waves and your breakers crash

881
00:33:52,895 --> 00:33:53,292
on me.

882
00:33:56,229 --> 00:33:57,737
I asked a few people to read the

883
00:33:57,737 --> 00:33:59,299
song and to give me their thoughts and

884
00:33:59,819 --> 00:34:01,816
1 was a student heading into eleventh grade,

885
00:34:02,136 --> 00:34:03,094
and I was like, what do you think

886
00:34:03,094 --> 00:34:05,411
of this? And he said, well, it's really

887
00:34:05,411 --> 00:34:06,585
confusing, which

888
00:34:07,341 --> 00:34:09,332
I'm asking a student on summer break to

889
00:34:09,332 --> 00:34:11,323
dive into ancient hebrew poetry,

890
00:34:11,801 --> 00:34:13,394
probably a natural answer we should have all

891
00:34:13,394 --> 00:34:13,713
expected.

892
00:34:15,877 --> 00:34:17,941
Well then this young man after god's own

893
00:34:17,941 --> 00:34:18,259
heart,

894
00:34:18,893 --> 00:34:19,926
and this is true of him,

895
00:34:20,799 --> 00:34:22,784
said that which stood out to him was

896
00:34:22,784 --> 00:34:23,895
the test of faith.

897
00:34:25,024 --> 00:34:26,942
It's easy to have faith when things are

898
00:34:26,942 --> 00:34:27,661
going well,

899
00:34:28,540 --> 00:34:29,819
but when life gets hard,

900
00:34:30,378 --> 00:34:32,616
if you abandon faith, it makes you wonder

901
00:34:32,616 --> 00:34:33,494
if you have real faith.

902
00:34:36,382 --> 00:34:39,653
He's describing the san san simplification processing seen

903
00:34:39,653 --> 00:34:40,212
in this song.

904
00:34:41,264 --> 00:34:43,896
You see the life of god with contentment

905
00:34:43,896 --> 00:34:46,289
that Paul talks about. That's that's not easy.

906
00:34:47,644 --> 00:34:50,059
God's breakers and wage crash over us

907
00:34:51,328 --> 00:34:52,599
But are we paying attention?

908
00:34:53,712 --> 00:34:55,960
Are we doing the the soul check

909
00:34:56,572 --> 00:34:56,890
desired?

910
00:34:58,574 --> 00:35:00,747
Now for some of you, god's breakers

911
00:35:01,442 --> 00:35:03,115
are probably like this video that we have

912
00:35:03,115 --> 00:35:03,434
for you.

913
00:35:17,561 --> 00:35:19,389
You may not have even noticed them if

914
00:35:19,389 --> 00:35:21,139
you fell asleep there, wake up, come back.

915
00:35:23,763 --> 00:35:24,899
Those are still breakers

916
00:35:26,162 --> 00:35:28,067
They're still doing their intended purpose.

917
00:35:28,702 --> 00:35:29,734
Are you paying attention?

918
00:35:31,243 --> 00:35:33,244
Maybe you're choosing to ignore them and and

919
00:35:33,324 --> 00:35:36,673
God's san work is being lost on you.

920
00:35:38,268 --> 00:35:38,985
It's not good.

921
00:35:40,660 --> 00:35:42,277
You're heading to Dangerous territory

922
00:35:44,103 --> 00:35:45,059
For many of us,

923
00:35:46,096 --> 00:35:48,986
god's breakers have been or maybe are currently

924
00:35:49,363 --> 00:35:50,001
more like this.

925
00:36:02,119 --> 00:36:02,859
You see

926
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:04,139
those breakers

927
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:05,800
lead to this.

928
00:36:09,255 --> 00:36:12,215
That's just a a piece of niagara falls.

929
00:36:12,934 --> 00:36:16,068
That's the tumultuous niagara or river that that

930
00:36:16,068 --> 00:36:18,540
feeds into Niagara falls. It's a nearby an

931
00:36:18,540 --> 00:36:19,417
area where I grew up.

932
00:36:20,134 --> 00:36:21,410
I've spent a lot of time there.

933
00:36:22,367 --> 00:36:23,802
There's a boat you can ride called the

934
00:36:23,802 --> 00:36:25,492
maid of the mist if anybody is from

935
00:36:25,492 --> 00:36:27,328
that area. You've been on it at least

936
00:36:27,328 --> 00:36:29,721
once. It's like a mandatory field trip and

937
00:36:29,721 --> 00:36:30,120
elementary school.

938
00:36:31,157 --> 00:36:32,115
Everybody gets to go on it.

939
00:36:32,925 --> 00:36:34,116
If you get a chance to go, Let

940
00:36:34,116 --> 00:36:36,180
me encourage you do that, it's it's a

941
00:36:36,180 --> 00:36:39,356
really fascinating, just talking about staying an on

942
00:36:39,356 --> 00:36:39,911
wonder of God.

943
00:36:40,878 --> 00:36:41,751
That's a separate note.

944
00:36:43,338 --> 00:36:44,925
But the force of the falls. Like, as

945
00:36:44,925 --> 00:36:46,433
the as the boat is kind of pushing

946
00:36:46,433 --> 00:36:48,418
in, like, it takes your rate kind of

947
00:36:48,418 --> 00:36:50,190
into the falls. So ones that you can't

948
00:36:50,190 --> 00:36:52,110
see, like, oh, the far back the back

949
00:36:52,110 --> 00:36:52,829
there, the big ones.

950
00:36:53,550 --> 00:36:55,469
You kinda get into the into this... This

951
00:36:55,469 --> 00:36:57,150
area, Now you don't obviously enter into the

952
00:36:57,150 --> 00:36:58,565
falls, but the force of the fall are

953
00:36:58,764 --> 00:36:59,803
pushing the boat back.

954
00:37:00,522 --> 00:37:02,520
And there's like, so much mist that is

955
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,397
just rising up from these falls crashing down

956
00:37:05,397 --> 00:37:06,915
it. Like, you get soaked. They give you

957
00:37:06,915 --> 00:37:09,327
these plastic poncho that you get to wear

958
00:37:09,327 --> 00:37:11,723
and you get to keep, it's wonderful. To

959
00:37:11,723 --> 00:37:14,335
keep you dry. And the volume is just

960
00:37:14,534 --> 00:37:16,292
ant. I mean, like, you heard just a

961
00:37:16,292 --> 00:37:17,811
little bit of that river, like, if you're

962
00:37:17,811 --> 00:37:19,329
standing at that river, like, it is so

963
00:37:19,329 --> 00:37:20,527
much louder and then when you get to

964
00:37:20,527 --> 00:37:22,605
the falls here. If you've never been, it

965
00:37:22,605 --> 00:37:23,997
is just so

966
00:37:24,372 --> 00:37:25,645
profoundly loud.

967
00:37:27,156 --> 00:37:30,043
And when god's breakers are at that level

968
00:37:30,353 --> 00:37:33,213
in your life, he's trying to catch your

969
00:37:33,213 --> 00:37:33,452
attention.

970
00:37:34,803 --> 00:37:38,958
He's calling to you. He's refining you

971
00:37:39,509 --> 00:37:41,767
his breakers are breaking

972
00:37:42,146 --> 00:37:42,465
you.

973
00:37:44,463 --> 00:37:45,102
And yet,

974
00:37:46,301 --> 00:37:47,315
he's still

975
00:37:47,673 --> 00:37:48,311
with you.

976
00:37:50,223 --> 00:37:51,360
He loves you

977
00:37:51,817 --> 00:37:53,968
is covenant with you. He's promise that.

978
00:37:56,539 --> 00:37:58,799
What's extraordinary that when John

979
00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:01,900
gives us his description of seeing Jesus in

980
00:38:02,299 --> 00:38:02,994
Revelation 1

981
00:38:03,672 --> 00:38:05,346
In verse 15, we're kinda, like, jumping in

982
00:38:05,346 --> 00:38:07,179
the middle of this description. In verse 15,

983
00:38:07,338 --> 00:38:09,889
he pens these words. He says, his feet

984
00:38:09,889 --> 00:38:12,853
jesus his feet were like burn bronze refined

985
00:38:12,853 --> 00:38:14,867
in a furnace and his voice

986
00:38:15,402 --> 00:38:16,779
was like the roar

987
00:38:17,235 --> 00:38:18,271
of many waters.

988
00:38:22,110 --> 00:38:22,610
Deep

989
00:38:23,146 --> 00:38:25,557
calls to deep at the roar

990
00:38:26,588 --> 00:38:27,487
of your waterfalls.

991
00:38:30,818 --> 00:38:33,054
Perhaps the roar these waterfalls as Psalm is

992
00:38:33,054 --> 00:38:34,570
referring to here is a voice of our

993
00:38:34,570 --> 00:38:35,070
savior

994
00:38:35,382 --> 00:38:36,255
calling to you,

995
00:38:37,444 --> 00:38:37,944
san

996
00:38:38,396 --> 00:38:38,633
you,

997
00:38:39,664 --> 00:38:42,598
making you holy and right before a heavenly

998
00:38:42,598 --> 00:38:45,740
father, breaking whatever never needs to be broken

999
00:38:46,196 --> 00:38:47,949
to draw you back to him.

1000
00:38:50,274 --> 00:38:52,666
My wife last night a conversation. She said

1001
00:38:52,666 --> 00:38:54,021
it's good that we we come to the

1002
00:38:54,101 --> 00:38:54,920
Lord broken

1003
00:38:55,376 --> 00:38:58,485
because that just strengthens our dependence upon him.

1004
00:39:00,811 --> 00:39:02,723
We want that. We'd need him. We learn

1005
00:39:02,723 --> 00:39:04,476
need to learn to depend upon him,

1006
00:39:05,591 --> 00:39:07,753
and he's always with you. He's covenant with

1007
00:39:07,753 --> 00:39:09,024
you through his blood.

1008
00:39:09,978 --> 00:39:11,010
He loves you.

1009
00:39:12,838 --> 00:39:14,586
He's doing this for your good.

1010
00:39:16,978 --> 00:39:18,192
In this cleansing

1011
00:39:18,642 --> 00:39:21,653
work of our soul leaves your soul par.

1012
00:39:23,335 --> 00:39:23,812
Thirsty.

1013
00:39:25,243 --> 00:39:27,309
So third then, how do we quench the

1014
00:39:27,309 --> 00:39:28,262
thirst of a soul?

1015
00:39:29,548 --> 00:39:31,059
Well, sadly, many of us,

1016
00:39:31,934 --> 00:39:32,649
myself included,

1017
00:39:33,842 --> 00:39:36,624
answer this question incorrectly. Our soul, my soul

1018
00:39:36,624 --> 00:39:38,611
is thirsty for God, but I feel it

1019
00:39:38,611 --> 00:39:41,184
with so much other stuff. I just... I

1020
00:39:41,184 --> 00:39:41,505
numb it.

1021
00:39:42,625 --> 00:39:43,505
Maybe you do too.

1022
00:39:44,144 --> 00:39:45,985
Your soul wants water and you give it

1023
00:39:45,985 --> 00:39:46,945
your your iphone,

1024
00:39:47,824 --> 00:39:48,304
your job.

1025
00:39:49,277 --> 00:39:50,553
Your relationship with others.

1026
00:39:51,750 --> 00:39:54,222
Your idol, whatever they may be. Your selfish

1027
00:39:54,222 --> 00:39:57,253
is, your self ambition, Your busy schedule, Your

1028
00:39:57,253 --> 00:40:00,130
career success. You're your kids sports schedule.

1029
00:40:00,684 --> 00:40:02,905
You can fill in the blank many different

1030
00:40:02,905 --> 00:40:03,222
ways.

1031
00:40:04,729 --> 00:40:06,260
We run our souls ragged

1032
00:40:06,569 --> 00:40:09,286
pant like a deer that's been chased, only

1033
00:40:09,286 --> 00:40:11,203
worth ones that are doing the chasing.

1034
00:40:12,961 --> 00:40:14,889
This type of life is wearing to the

1035
00:40:14,889 --> 00:40:17,592
soul. It it drains the soul. It makes

1036
00:40:17,592 --> 00:40:20,534
you so tired at a soul level. It's

1037
00:40:20,534 --> 00:40:21,329
soul rot.

1038
00:40:22,203 --> 00:40:23,578
There's never enough

1039
00:40:24,285 --> 00:40:26,508
So we just keep trying. We keep doing.

1040
00:40:27,302 --> 00:40:29,843
Yet, we're never satisfied in our deepest longing,

1041
00:40:30,478 --> 00:40:32,884
our souls remain par

1042
00:40:35,029 --> 00:40:37,125
And we should stop right here

1043
00:40:37,582 --> 00:40:39,896
right now and repent from this.

1044
00:40:42,216 --> 00:40:44,601
See, this is idol tree at its core,

1045
00:40:45,872 --> 00:40:49,777
and yet oftentimes, it's actually socially acceptable and

1046
00:40:49,777 --> 00:40:50,807
and even encouraged.

1047
00:40:52,076 --> 00:40:54,058
And like a virus, it's spread to all

1048
00:40:54,058 --> 00:40:54,375
of us.

1049
00:40:57,256 --> 00:40:59,752
Other times, we we trick our sole satisfaction

1050
00:40:59,970 --> 00:41:02,365
with what we think are good things that

1051
00:41:02,365 --> 00:41:04,760
that don't actually quench our soul.

1052
00:41:05,974 --> 00:41:07,974
Like, I live a good life. I come

1053
00:41:07,974 --> 00:41:08,375
to church.

1054
00:41:08,934 --> 00:41:11,175
I tie. I volunteer. I'm in a life

1055
00:41:11,175 --> 00:41:13,114
group. I'm a good student

1056
00:41:15,503 --> 00:41:17,519
What are you feeding your soul

1057
00:41:17,897 --> 00:41:19,275
instead of having it satisfied

1058
00:41:20,051 --> 00:41:20,530
with god?

1059
00:41:22,770 --> 00:41:25,075
Because some of us are just flat out

1060
00:41:25,075 --> 00:41:25,710
soul tired.

1061
00:41:26,585 --> 00:41:28,748
There's this wear to the soul and it

1062
00:41:28,748 --> 00:41:31,063
seems like life demands don't allow any rest.

1063
00:41:31,541 --> 00:41:34,095
You just gotta keep going. There's there's there's

1064
00:41:34,095 --> 00:41:36,330
this tiring sense of living.

1065
00:41:37,061 --> 00:41:38,811
And you probably feel like God has abandoned

1066
00:41:38,811 --> 00:41:41,039
you when when actually, you've abandoned him.

1067
00:41:43,598 --> 00:41:45,976
These things don't satisfy the longing of the

1068
00:41:45,976 --> 00:41:48,299
soul. These are these are more like tears

1069
00:41:48,512 --> 00:41:49,780
that's a Psalm reference.

1070
00:41:52,021 --> 00:41:52,819
So what then?

1071
00:41:54,414 --> 00:41:56,727
We have to ask ourselves what is it?

1072
00:41:57,286 --> 00:41:58,344
What is it

1073
00:41:58,801 --> 00:42:01,449
that I truly thirst for in that deep,

1074
00:42:01,769 --> 00:42:04,730
like, that deep part inside of me. What

1075
00:42:04,730 --> 00:42:06,969
is it that I'm longing for?

1076
00:42:08,409 --> 00:42:09,938
That I'm thirsty 4.

1077
00:42:12,167 --> 00:42:14,714
In this psalm, there's this repeated refrain. Why

1078
00:42:14,714 --> 00:42:16,465
are you cast down all my soul and

1079
00:42:16,465 --> 00:42:18,590
why are you're in turmoil within me? Hope

1080
00:42:18,869 --> 00:42:19,748
in God.

1081
00:42:20,627 --> 00:42:24,541
For Shall again praise, my salvation and my

1082
00:42:24,541 --> 00:42:25,041
god

1083
00:42:27,186 --> 00:42:29,730
It's it's probably over simplistic, Maybe just a

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little too easy, but there's only 1 ultimate

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quench for a par tired soul

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put your hope, your dependence,

1087
00:42:38,799 --> 00:42:40,704
everything in God, your salvation.

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00:42:42,625 --> 00:42:44,864
Psalm says it best. My soul, thirst for

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00:42:45,025 --> 00:42:46,565
God for the living

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00:42:46,945 --> 00:42:47,344
God.

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00:42:48,945 --> 00:42:50,785
And ultimately, this is true for all of

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us.

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Regardless of where you are on this journey,

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00:42:53,516 --> 00:42:55,514
your spiritual journey. This is true for everybody.

1095
00:42:55,913 --> 00:42:56,872
We are wired.

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God designed us and innate inside of us

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00:42:59,994 --> 00:43:02,931
He has wired us for relationship with him.

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00:43:06,757 --> 00:43:08,348
What you need to know, we all here

1099
00:43:08,348 --> 00:43:10,200
need to know is that this living god

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offers us living water

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00:43:14,092 --> 00:43:16,726
that will satisfy your soul like nothing else.

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John 4, we read these words

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Jesus having exchanged with a woman at the

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well.

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It's picking up in verse 10.

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00:43:26,683 --> 00:43:29,162
And says Jesus answered her If you knew

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00:43:29,162 --> 00:43:30,916
the gift of God and who it is

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that is saying to you, give me a

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drink,

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00:43:33,867 --> 00:43:35,164
you would have asked him

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00:43:35,621 --> 00:43:37,455
and he would have given you living water.

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00:43:39,467 --> 00:43:40,825
The woman said to him, sir,

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00:43:41,864 --> 00:43:44,260
you have nothing to draw water with.

1114
00:43:45,074 --> 00:43:47,072
And the well is deep. Where do you

1115
00:43:47,072 --> 00:43:49,949
get that living water from? Are are you

1116
00:43:49,949 --> 00:43:52,666
greater than our father Jacob? He gave us

1117
00:43:52,666 --> 00:43:54,998
the well and drink from it himself as

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00:43:54,998 --> 00:43:56,853
did his sons and his livestock.

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00:43:57,390 --> 00:43:59,064
Is this if she's saying the Jesus? She's

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staying their face to face with Jesus? Is

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00:44:00,818 --> 00:44:02,913
this she's saying, are you greater than my

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00:44:02,971 --> 00:44:03,130
religion?

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Maybe we do this.

1124
00:44:06,005 --> 00:44:08,150
Are you greater than my self ambitions? Are

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00:44:08,150 --> 00:44:10,532
you are you greater than my progress? Are

1126
00:44:10,532 --> 00:44:13,249
you greater than my social media feeds? Are

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00:44:13,249 --> 00:44:14,128
you greater than?

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00:44:16,844 --> 00:44:20,014
And in his mercy and kindness Jesus replies

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00:44:20,213 --> 00:44:22,197
her and to us today. He says,

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everyone who drinks of this water.

1131
00:44:25,292 --> 00:44:27,776
Everyone who's filling their soul with all these

1132
00:44:27,831 --> 00:44:28,331
things

1133
00:44:30,231 --> 00:44:31,265
We'll be Thirsty again.

1134
00:44:32,776 --> 00:44:35,003
But whoever drinks of the water that I

1135
00:44:35,003 --> 00:44:37,324
will give him will never be thirsty again.

1136
00:44:38,277 --> 00:44:39,945
The water that I will give him will

1137
00:44:39,945 --> 00:44:42,273
become to in him a spring of water

1138
00:44:42,409 --> 00:44:44,157
well up to eternal life.

1139
00:44:47,114 --> 00:44:49,523
Jesus is the living water that can satisfy

1140
00:44:49,579 --> 00:44:52,204
your soul that that deep hidden place inside

1141
00:44:52,204 --> 00:44:52,682
all of us.

1142
00:44:54,049 --> 00:44:56,379
And and he's more than just a thirst

1143
00:44:56,436 --> 00:44:56,833
quench.

1144
00:44:57,788 --> 00:44:59,322
He offers rest

1145
00:44:59,936 --> 00:45:02,018
for your tired soul Matthew 11 come to

1146
00:45:02,018 --> 00:45:03,845
me and you will find rest for your

1147
00:45:03,845 --> 00:45:04,162
soul.

1148
00:45:05,433 --> 00:45:08,532
And a secure eternal relationship with your heavenly

1149
00:45:08,532 --> 00:45:08,690
father.

1150
00:45:09,820 --> 00:45:12,390
He is the final answer to the tired

1151
00:45:12,687 --> 00:45:13,802
parts soul.

1152
00:45:15,155 --> 00:45:16,509
And after you taste him,

1153
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,519
you will want more of what he offers.

1154
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,039
As George read for us taste and see

1155
00:45:24,039 --> 00:45:25,000
that the Lord is good.

1156
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:26,599
And hopefully then,

1157
00:45:27,173 --> 00:45:29,087
you will have a soul that thirst for

1158
00:45:29,087 --> 00:45:31,478
god that hunger after God in a right

1159
00:45:31,478 --> 00:45:32,515
and healthy way,

1160
00:45:33,392 --> 00:45:35,306
so that you will experience even more of

1161
00:45:35,306 --> 00:45:35,465
him.

1162
00:45:37,870 --> 00:45:39,703
He's doing this work on you and in

1163
00:45:39,703 --> 00:45:41,137
you. He's drawing you to him,

1164
00:45:42,332 --> 00:45:44,324
but it all starts with a self examination

1165
00:45:44,324 --> 00:45:46,733
like the Psalm What is the thing that

1166
00:45:46,733 --> 00:45:48,032
you are giving your soul

1167
00:45:48,490 --> 00:45:50,807
instead of the water offered by Jesus?

1168
00:45:52,245 --> 00:45:52,885
What is it?

1169
00:45:53,933 --> 00:45:56,395
There's something. I'm sure if it challenge yourself.

1170
00:45:57,507 --> 00:45:59,016
We're not yet in heaven, so we don't

1171
00:45:59,016 --> 00:46:00,286
have a perfect life yet.

1172
00:46:02,525 --> 00:46:04,987
Write something down, now. What is it? What

1173
00:46:04,987 --> 00:46:06,757
is it that is just that you're just

1174
00:46:06,813 --> 00:46:09,275
distracting your soul with? Even if you think

1175
00:46:09,275 --> 00:46:10,466
it's a really good thing.

1176
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:13,679
And repent even now.

1177
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:17,859
Your soul is thirsty.

1178
00:46:19,292 --> 00:46:21,123
How are you satisfying it?

1179
00:46:24,706 --> 00:46:26,718
I understand clinging to Jesus

1180
00:46:27,188 --> 00:46:29,811
is not always easy in life's hard seasons.

1181
00:46:30,368 --> 00:46:32,992
When when his waves are breaking over you

1182
00:46:32,992 --> 00:46:35,629
and crashing you and breaking you, your your

1183
00:46:35,629 --> 00:46:37,932
natural inclination probably is not like Jesus. I

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00:46:38,090 --> 00:46:38,646
I want you.

1185
00:46:39,361 --> 00:46:40,711
We have to train ourselves though.

1186
00:46:42,537 --> 00:46:44,046
He's trying to catch your attention.

1187
00:46:46,843 --> 00:46:49,864
Sometimes you yourself are putting yourself in harms

1188
00:46:49,864 --> 00:46:50,103
way.

1189
00:46:51,295 --> 00:46:53,203
But through it all, our sovereign god is

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00:46:53,203 --> 00:46:56,081
at work chipping away drawing us to him.

1191
00:46:57,036 --> 00:46:59,263
Look at the psalm again. Every low, every

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00:46:59,263 --> 00:47:00,559
trial, every breaker

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00:47:01,267 --> 00:47:03,599
It's met with the psalm recalling how faithful

1194
00:47:03,657 --> 00:47:05,012
god has been in the past,

1195
00:47:06,684 --> 00:47:07,561
meeting his thirst.

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00:47:09,414 --> 00:47:10,855
A friend of mine who's no longer with

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00:47:10,855 --> 00:47:12,534
us. Used to always say, it's good to

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00:47:12,534 --> 00:47:13,014
look back.

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00:47:13,815 --> 00:47:15,494
Look back and see god at work in

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00:47:15,494 --> 00:47:17,150
your life. And remember those times

1201
00:47:17,588 --> 00:47:20,060
recall them and see God at work then

1202
00:47:20,060 --> 00:47:21,735
and how he is at work now.

1203
00:47:22,931 --> 00:47:26,462
Because God is always at work. Each moment

1204
00:47:27,015 --> 00:47:29,655
has spiritual significant on us and to us.

1205
00:47:29,815 --> 00:47:31,034
Every moment is

1206
00:47:31,335 --> 00:47:31,655
transformational.

1207
00:47:33,335 --> 00:47:35,529
He's at work wrong you to him san

1208
00:47:35,828 --> 00:47:39,025
you. For those in Christ, the father's steadfast

1209
00:47:39,025 --> 00:47:40,623
love is with you every day,

1210
00:47:41,342 --> 00:47:43,100
and as song is over you every night,

1211
00:47:43,340 --> 00:47:45,904
so put your hope in him.

1212
00:47:46,541 --> 00:47:48,769
Put your hope in Jesus and draw near

1213
00:47:48,769 --> 00:47:49,167
to him.

1214
00:47:50,759 --> 00:47:52,748
And if you're not yet a follower of

1215
00:47:52,908 --> 00:47:53,226
Christ.

1216
00:47:54,516 --> 00:47:56,189
Perhaps it's time for you to to do

1217
00:47:56,189 --> 00:47:57,385
a soul evaluation.

1218
00:47:58,739 --> 00:47:59,638
Your soul

1219
00:48:00,413 --> 00:48:01,130
also thirst.

1220
00:48:02,337 --> 00:48:05,378
And you're trying to satisfy it with something

1221
00:48:05,672 --> 00:48:07,657
that will never quench that thirst.

1222
00:48:08,293 --> 00:48:09,960
You're have to keep going back to whatever

1223
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,128
that is over. And over and over and

1224
00:48:12,128 --> 00:48:12,687
over again.

1225
00:48:13,567 --> 00:48:15,564
It feels like progress but it's actually reg

1226
00:48:15,564 --> 00:48:15,804
egress.

1227
00:48:17,402 --> 00:48:19,934
What's stopping you from tasting this living water

1228
00:48:20,133 --> 00:48:21,962
from the living God right now.

1229
00:48:23,472 --> 00:48:24,983
The choice is yours.

1230
00:48:26,255 --> 00:48:27,820
So put your hope in God

1231
00:48:28,258 --> 00:48:29,614
and draw near to him.

1232
00:48:31,210 --> 00:48:32,166
Let me pray for us.

1233
00:48:33,363 --> 00:48:34,661
Father, I thank you

1234
00:48:35,277 --> 00:48:36,394
I thank you for your word.

1235
00:48:37,351 --> 00:48:38,721
I thank you for your promises.

1236
00:48:39,677 --> 00:48:41,850
I thank you for your your covenant

1237
00:48:42,226 --> 00:48:44,240
with us, the way that you love us

1238
00:48:46,221 --> 00:48:47,514
and I thank you

1239
00:48:47,887 --> 00:48:49,498
for the way that you relentlessly

1240
00:48:50,267 --> 00:48:50,664
pursue us.

1241
00:48:52,251 --> 00:48:54,177
And as I prayed during first service. I'm

1242
00:48:54,177 --> 00:48:56,408
gonna pray again here that my my guess

1243
00:48:56,408 --> 00:48:58,639
is were surrounded by a bunch of brothers

1244
00:48:58,639 --> 00:49:01,188
and sisters that somebody or maybe several of

1245
00:49:01,188 --> 00:49:02,087
us in here

1246
00:49:02,398 --> 00:49:04,485
are in the midst of just being broken

1247
00:49:04,541 --> 00:49:07,002
right now, that you are just breaking us.

1248
00:49:08,669 --> 00:49:11,233
And while my tender heart wants to say,

1249
00:49:11,632 --> 00:49:12,831
stop, you know, rescue them.

1250
00:49:14,029 --> 00:49:16,346
My pastor heart says, finish your job,

1251
00:49:17,065 --> 00:49:18,116
draw them back to you.

1252
00:49:20,180 --> 00:49:22,165
If you're in that place, may you receive

1253
00:49:22,165 --> 00:49:24,308
what God has for you, may you return

1254
00:49:24,308 --> 00:49:26,387
to him, may you be drawn into a

1255
00:49:26,387 --> 00:49:29,165
deeper relationship with him. He loves you. He

1256
00:49:29,165 --> 00:49:32,339
loves you. He's pursuing you, and it's 4

1257
00:49:32,339 --> 00:49:32,815
our good.

1258
00:49:33,450 --> 00:49:34,920
Help us to grow

1259
00:49:35,219 --> 00:49:37,380
and our san notification as you work in,

1260
00:49:38,339 --> 00:49:40,739
that you might become more glorified in our

1261
00:49:40,739 --> 00:49:40,980
lives.

1262
00:49:42,346 --> 00:49:43,538
We asked this in your name,

1263
00:49:44,731 --> 00:49:44,969
Amen.