Ed Young - Depression

September 3, 2025 | S25 E3603 | 29:0

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Depression | September 3, 2025

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Ed young: now i want us to read this together.
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Would you do that? listen to it.
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Read it with me.
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Why are you down in the dumps--
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Timeout.
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All 12 of you, read it with me.
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Here we go. (congregation laughs)
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"why are you down in the dumps, dear soul?
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Why are you crying the blues?
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Fix my eyes on god, soon i'll be praising again.
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He puts a smile on my face.
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He's my god."
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Now, let's say it like this.
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"he puts a smile on my face. he's my god."
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Say it like that, here we go.
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"he puts a smile on my face.
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He's my god."
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That is the chorus that liberates the psalmist,
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And we'll see, it liberates you and me
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Out of the moments of deep, deep despair and depression.
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A psychologist was addressing a class
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Of would-be psychologists.
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His topic was manic depression.
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And when he got through the message, he said,
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"i'm gonna give you a little test."
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He said, "here is a man who's walking and shouting
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And screaming to the top of his voice,
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And the next minute he is sitting down,
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Crying uncontrollably.
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Tell me about this person."
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Young guy lifted his hand, he said, "yes."
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He said, "he's a basketball coach."
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(congregation laughs)
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So we talk about depression.
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Depression, according to the world health association
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Is the number two leading disabler
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Of people in the western world.
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Did you get that?
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Cardiovascular disease is the number one problem,
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Medically, in the western world.
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Depression is the number two problem.
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There are about 312 or 313 million people
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In the united states, and at any given time,
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There are between 30 and 40 million of them are depressed.
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The estimates are that 15% of the population of america
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Takes anti-depressants.
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Depression costs corporate america, listen carefully,
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Over $70 billion a year,
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As they seek to medically help their employees.
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You're four to one more likely to have a heart attack
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If you're depressed than someone who is not depressed.
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It is a staggering medical problem.
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In fact, it is a number one medical problem
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Of people in the western world
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Who are under 44 years of age.
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See, i barely get under that. (congregation laughs)
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And all of us deal with it in different forms,
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All the way from being down in the dumps or being blue,
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All the way to clinical depression.
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Some of you remember the cartoon "peanuts,"
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And you remember when lucy would go and set up her booth.
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Remember?
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She'd set up her booth and she'd get behind the booth
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And charlie brown would come up
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And she would answer all of his problems.
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And on that booth it would say, sometimes,
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"the psychiatrist is in, five cents," remember?
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Let me say to you upfront, the psychiatrist is not in.
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I'm not gonna pretend to stand here and tell you
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That i can give you three points and a poem
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And quote a couple of scriptures and (exhales) shazam,
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You'll be healed of depression.
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It doesn't work like that for many people
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Because it is complex, it is circumstantial,
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It involves people, it involves our past history,
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But my purpose is to get you and me to think critically
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And biblically when we deal with depression.
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That's my purpose, to think biblically and critically
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When we deal with depression.
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Now, let's try to define it.
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Someone said that it's taking a lot of diseases
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And mixing them together and putting them in a waste basket.
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What does it mean to be depressed?
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It is unique sadness.
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It is a overwhelming feeling of hopelessness
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And helplessness.
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It is being bottomed out.
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It is running out of bullets.
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It is a battle of fatigue and exhaustion,
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Exhaustion for no real physical reason.
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Depression, i think, is you take a life
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And you stick a pin in it and (exhales)
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All the air comes out,
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All the passion, all the zest comes out,
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And that's the reason depression can be called
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A crushed spirit,
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A crushed spirit.
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Now, you see the cause of depression
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Is found in several verses.
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Look at verse three, the latter part of psalm 42.
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He says, "while they say to me, all day long,
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Where is your god," that will lead you in depression?
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If there are people around you
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That all day long, day after day, a problem comes up
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And they say, "well, where is your god?"
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Or a situation comes up and they say,
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"well, are you a christian?"
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And all day long they're questioning,
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They're belittling, they're challenging.
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Day after day after day, "where is god?
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Well, if there is a god--"
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And you have people that surround us,
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And if you're surrounded by individuals like that,
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Let me tell you something, they will beat you up
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And you'll have to battle with the,
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As winston churchill called it, the black dog.
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Churchill would say, "the black dog of depression
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Is coming to my house."
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He was talking about darkness,
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Being into a pit where there is no light.
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And by the way, let me say up front, people say,
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"well, if you are a christian, you can't be depressed."
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Not so!
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Many great saints in history battled with depression,
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With despondency, with negativity,
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With problems that absolutely overwhelmed them.
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Charles haddon spurgeon, arguably
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One of the great communicators of the gospel
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In the last century,
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Always had to face, almost every week, depression.
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So don't let anybody out-pious you.
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Look at another aspect of depression.
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Look at the middle of verse, same chapter,
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Of verse number nine.
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It says, "why do i go mourning
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Because of the oppression of the enemy?"
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In other words, every time there's somebody there
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Who is opposing you, you know, whatever it is,
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They're there as the opposition, they're there to confront,
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That will lead you in depression.
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Look what else you see in verse 10.
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"as a shattering of my bones,
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My adversaries revile me.
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While they say to me all day long, where's your god?"
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They laugh. (laughs)
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"i mean, you still believe the bible is true.
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I mean, where have you been?
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Did you ever go, oh, go to school?
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I mean, what, oh."
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They revile, they laugh, they criticize all day long.
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They question.
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That will just beat any believer up, any individual up.
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It'll throw us in a depression.
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And what kind of people are these
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That are around the psalmist?
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People like we know, look at the second part of verse one,
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In chapter 43, he says, "oh, deliver me
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From the deceitful and unjust person."
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They're deceitful.
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They're conniving and they're unjust by that,
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They don't know the difference in right and wrong.
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They don't know the difference in that which is just,
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And that which is unjust.
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Just surround anybody here with folks like this.
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Well, where is your god,
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With folks that are always opposing you
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And questioning you.
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Look what it says, "all day long, all day long."
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Read that twice.
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And they revile, they laugh.
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The worst thing to do is laugh at us.
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We don't like to be laughed at.
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Oh man, (laughing) look at you.
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I'm just, oh my goodness.
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See, they revile, undercut,
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And they're deceitful people, empty people,
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And they don't know justice.
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The difference in right and wrong
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And what is honorable, what is dishonorable,
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What is profane and what is of god, see?
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Surround us like that folks, ladies and gentlemen,
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And it will beat you down and you will be depressed.
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Now, we see here the causes of depression
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And we see now the symptoms of depression
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In the life of the psalmist.
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Stay with me.
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He confesses, he lays the symptoms out clearly.
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I want you to see them here.
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His first symptom is one of dryness.
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We can identify with that in our depression.
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Look what he says, verse 1, chapter 42.
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"as the deer pants for the water brooks,
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So my soul pants for you, oh god.
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My soul thirsts for god, for the living god.
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When shall i come and appear before god?"
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It is like a deer that is looking for water
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And runs to a brook, and the brook is dry
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And there's no moisture in the sand.
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You see it?
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And therefore, he is panting.
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There's a feeling of dryness.
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When we're oppressed, sometimes we're dry, right?
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We're not interested in anything.
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We don't care about anything.
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We bottomed out.
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I use the expression, "i'm outta bullets."
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I'm empty, i'm dry.
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This is what the psalmist is saying.
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That's how oppression and depression manifested itself.
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He said, "i'm dry." also, he says, "i'm drowning."
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Look at it in the same chapter.
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Look at verse 7, "deep calls to deep
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At the sound of your waterfalls.
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All the breakers and your waters have rolled over me."
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There is a dryness that comes from depression,
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And there is the waters that have rolled over me.
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In other words, we're depressed,
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We feel like we're drowning.
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You ever feel like that? i'm just drowning.
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There is so much, there's so much conflict,
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There's so many barriers, there's so much heartache,
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There's so much brokenness, i'm so sick,
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And so we feel like all the world is on top of us.
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We're drowning, another sign of depression.
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And then the other sign of depression is we lose heart.
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By the way, you find dryness
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In the first stanza of this hymn.
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You found drowning in the second stanza.
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In the third stanza, beginning with the 43rd chapter,
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You find you lose heart, you're disheartened.
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And we see that all the way through.
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Verse 2, "for you are the god of my strength.
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Why have you rejected me?
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Why do i go mourning?
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Because the oppression of my enemies."
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See, you lose heart.
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You lose your passion.
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You lose a real desire to get up in the morning
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And you're disheartened.
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So the psalmist says, "hey,
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We see what caused his depression."
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Did you get that?
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And then we see what happens, and kind of depression,
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He had dryness, he felt like he was drowning,
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And he lost his heart.
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Now, what is the cure for depression?
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What is the answer for depression?
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The psalmist has it built in.
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Has it built in.
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I want you to see it here, very clearly.
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All of this is a prayer.
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Chapter 43, he says, "vindicate me, oh god,
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And plead my case against an ungodly nation."
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Verse 2, "for you are my god.
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You are the god of my strength,
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And you have--why have you rejected me?"
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And then he goes here in verse number 3,
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"oh send your light, and your truth, and then lead me.
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Let them bring me to your holy hill
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And to your dwelling place.
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Then i will go to the altar of god.
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To god, my exceeding joy, and upon the lyre,"
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That's the harp, "i shall sing praise to you,
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Oh god, my god."
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What do we do?
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We're depressed.
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Number one, the psalmist, he just would let go.
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When you read this,
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Do you have any problem knowing he's depressed?
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Do you see the words there, you can't miss it.
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He's depressed.
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We have to start and let go and say,
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"i'm gonna take all my depression
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And let it come out in the light."
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See, depression speaks of darkness,
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And coming out of depression, we walk in the light.
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The psalmist says, "i'm gonna let go, i'm depressed,
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I'm down, i don't have the joy of god,
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The joy of worship, the joy of people, i'm down."
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That's the first thing we do, we just let go.
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We let go, that is very, very important.
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We have to just get honest.
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A lot of people come and say, "you know i'm depressed,
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I don't know why."
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I say, "really?" yeah.
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I say, "well, guess at it."
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You know, they guess it almost the first time.
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(congregation laughs)
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And a lot of times we just don't face,
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We just don't face up to this.
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And that is so very important that we face up to it.
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You see it?
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That's another thing, depression,
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Look here in the scripture.
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It's clear and it's plain to us.
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Then he says the sixth thing, remember, look at verse 4,
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"these things i remember."
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Look at verse 6, "therefore i remember you."
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When we're depressed, we have to go back and remember,
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Remember the time you felt close to god.
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Remember that joy.
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Listen, if you are blessed, you can't be depressed!
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You gotta remember where we are.
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Remember who we are in christ, remember his grace,
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Remember his second chance, remember the joy of the lord.
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We have to remember god's given us a memory
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So we can look back in dark moments and say,
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"yes, i remember that hallelujah time.
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Yes, i remember that glorious time."
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Then the third thing you have to do,
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First of all, you let go, right?
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You let go, you bring it all out in the light,
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Your depression.
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Next thing you do, you remember greater,
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Better days when god was there.
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That's what the psalmist did all the way through this hymn.
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And then finally, what do you do?
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You talk to yourself.
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Boy, when you wake up in the morning,
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Is anybody talking to you?
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Yeah, they are, yourself is talking to you.
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I wake up every morning, myself is saying something to me.
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Yours is too.
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Now, the psalmist says, "look, don't listen to yourself.
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Talk to yourself."
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If you just listen to all your human,
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Rational kind of thinking, when you wake up,
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You talk to yourself and say, "god, let me explain this.
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Remember who you are, what you're about."
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You talk to yourself. see, we listen to ourselves,
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We don't deal with our oppression.
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I listen to myself, i say, "
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Well, i'm depressed because i've made some mistakes."
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No, usually we're depressed
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Because we made some poor choices.
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You know the difference between a mistake and a choice?
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Radically different.
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Here's someone who is walking in the forest.
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Beautiful day.
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They need to go through the forest in order to get home,
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And they walk through the forest
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And it's just a magnificent walk,
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And they suddenly look away and they don't notice
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And they trip and fall over a cliff and break their neck.
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That's a mistake, right?
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A choice would be, here's someone, it is night,
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He does not have to walk through the forest,
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But he decides to walk through the forest
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And there is a bright sign there saying, "no trespassing."
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He goes farther in the forest and it says, "danger ahead."
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He moves on in the forest,
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And there's a big sign that says, "turn around and go back."
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And then he trips and falls over the cliff
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And breaks his neck.
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He can't say, "i made a mistake," he made a choice!
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Therefore, when we find ourselves depressed--
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See, a mistake, if i say something i didn't mean to say,
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And i can go to you and say, "you know,
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I want you to forgive me, i just didn't speak properly."
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"sure, i'll forgive you, everybody makes mistakes."
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But if i purposely decide to put you down and to slander you
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And to misinterpret you and abuse you,
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And i do it over a period of time, i've made a choice.
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So a lot of times, in order to let go of depression,
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We have to realize we haven't made a mistake.
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Oh, it's just a mistake, we made a choice,
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And with choices, we have to confess,
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We have to seek to make restitution.
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There has to be, probably, some tears of remorse.
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There has to be repentance, and there has to be a humbling
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And a asking for forgiveness.
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You see the difference?
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We haven't really dealt with the basic problem
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That was pushing us down under the water.
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Now, we have to make different choices,
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And i want you to see the choices,
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The change that the psalmist began to make.
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Look at here, he say, right here, chapter 43,
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Verse number 3, "oh, send your light."
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Other words, he chose the presence of god.
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That's light, god's light, isn't it?
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"and send your truth."
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He chose the person of god, that's truth.
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"and then lead me and let them bring me to your holy hill
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And to your dwelling place."
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He chose the precepts of god, that's the word of god.
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Verse 4, "then i will go to the altar of god."
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He chose the people of god.
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He hadn't been worshiping,
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He hadn't been going to church with other people.
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He chose the people of god.
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Then he says, "and to god, my exceeding joy,
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And i will, upon the lyre, upon the harp,
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I shall praise you, oh god, my god."
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He chose the praise of god.
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See what i'm saying?
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If we're going to come outta depression,
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We've gotta do like the psalmist did,
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We've gotta change our choices.
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You gotta choose the person of god.
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You gotta choose the presence of god.
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You've gotta choose to live by the precepts of god.
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He'll put you on the path.
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You have to choose the people of god,
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That is the corporate worship together.
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And then finally, you have to choose to praise god.
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You can't be depressed when you're always being blessed.
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And we come out of it.
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Now, you remember jesus,
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When he sent out those apostles the first time,
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He got all the apostles, he sent 'em out in twos
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To heal and to preach and to do his work.
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Can you remember that?
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That's an event in the story of his life.
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And when all the apostles went out,
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When they came back to jesus, what do you think he did?
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Did he say, "oh, let's bow and pray
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And ask god to help us as we've touched all these lives?"
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No.
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Did he say, "let's get a new strategy of evangelism
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So we can go out and touch more people
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For the kingdom of god?"
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Did he tell his apostles, they came back,
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And that what he said?
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No.
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What did he say?
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He said, "come apart and rest."
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Hmm.
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That's not pious enough for some of us, is it?
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They were exhausted, down.
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They'd been beaten up by people.
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They'd been out in ministry, they'd been doing their thing,
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Fulfilling their vocational call, and they came to jesus,
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He said, "come apart and rest."
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Vance havner, an old evangelist said,
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"if you don't rest, you'll come apart." (chuckles)
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See, one sign of depression is you wanna sleep all the time.
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You don't wanna be with people.
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You'd wanna sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep.
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If that's the symptom of your depression,
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You need to listen to ezekiel.
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The theme of the book of ezekiel is found in two verses,
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And they say the same thing.
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"the spirit of the lord came upon me
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And stood me on my feet."
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And if you wanna sleep all the time in your depression,
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Let me tell you, the spirit of the lord,
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If you'll invite him in your life,
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Will come upon you and stand you on your feet.
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So you need to wake up.
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Now, by the same token,
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If your depression is one of hyperactivity,
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"man, i don't wanna face all this.
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I'm going to have more recreation,
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I'm gonna travel, i'm gonna read,
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I'm gonna have television blaring,
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I'm gonna have something in my ear,
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I'm gonna be computing and faxing,
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And whatever we do, telegraphing,
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Whatever you're doing, man, i'm just gonna be because
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I don't wanna face the depths of my despair."
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If that's you, your problem's not sleeping too much,
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You're trying to cover over the malady
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And the darkness in your life by activity.
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If that's you, come apart and rest.
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Elijah, the classic illustration
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Of a depressed person in the bible.
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He had a mountaintop experience and now he's depressed
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And he runs from jezebel
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And he's out there in the wilderness
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And the angel comes to him and says,
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"here, i prepared you some food.
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Now go to sleep."
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Elijah, wakes up, he said,
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"here, eat some more, go back to sleep."
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Some of us need to rest or we'll come apart.
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That'll help your depression.
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Others of us need to understand the spirit of god
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Will come in us and set us on our feet,
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And we need to wake up.
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Some need to go to sleep, some need to wake up.
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(congregation laughs)
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And the bottom line, then you know what we can sing.
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Look at your screen again, this great, great chorus.
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Look at it, look at it.
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"fix my eyes on god."
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That's the first thing we do.
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"and soon i'll be praising again.
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He puts a smile on my face because,
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Say it with me, he's my god.
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All right.
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He puts a smile on my face, say that.
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Congregation: he puts a smile on my face.
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Ed: all 15 of you, say that. (congregation laughs)
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Congregation: he puts a smile on my face.
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Ed: because he's my god.
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Ed: there's never been a better time than right
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Now to make god a priority in your life.
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That's why we've created this 90 day devotional, "putting god
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First," number one.
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And when you and i do that, he is faithful to give the
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Direction of guidance you and i need every day to walk
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Through life.
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It is my prayer that this devotional will help you to
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Become all that god has designed you to become.
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Male announcer: call today or go online at winningwalk.org to get
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Ed: are you stressed?
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Is the weight the world crashing down
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And you are the only one who feels it?
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Well, i have a secret for you.
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You're not alone.
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There are many things out there that the world says
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Can help to lessen your anxiety, but they're only band-aids.
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They're panaceas, they're temporary.
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The bible gives us the way out of stress.
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When the savior of the world, listen,
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When the savior of the world is living in you,
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Then anxiety should never reign in your life.
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There's no room.
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You are full of christ, you are full of his spirit.
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There's no room for all that
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That causes us to be on edge and lose our temper
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And be in a stressful kind of life.
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The bible says, "be anxious about nothing,
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But to pray about everything."
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Do you want to know more about how to become a christian,
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Genuinely a real christian?
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You can have a personal relationship with god right now
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And cast all of your anxiety and stress on him.
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He's plenty strong enough to handle it.
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Call the number on your screen.
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We have people standing by, waiting to talk with you,
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And to pray with you personally.
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And let me personally thank you for watching today.
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Tune in next time right here, same time, same place,
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Same station on "the winning walk."
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Ed Young - Depression

September 3, 2025 | S25 E3603 | 29:0

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