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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Good Morning Lord | September 28, 2025
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- Pastor ed: we've been studying the book of psalms.
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- We've already looked at psalm 1 and psalm 2.
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- They are the introductory psalms.
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- Really, they, in the original, were just one psalm.
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- And then you move on into psalm 3 that we have looked at, and
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- We've looked at psalm 4.
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- And now we're going to study psalm 5.
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- We put these three psalms in a context.
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- Absalom revolted against his father, turned the people of
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- Israel, over half of them, against david's righteous reign.
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- And now david ran in the middle of the night with his little
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- Group and they went down across the kidron valley and they spent
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- The night until, finally, they crossed jordan and they marched
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- And ran until they went all the way up and crossed the jabbok
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- River, which is a tributary of the jordan, about 25 miles from
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- The dead sea.
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- And now, you have these three psalms, written evidently by
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- David as he was fleeing.
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- And psalm 3 is called a morning psalm.
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- Remember, he awakened in all probability and began to write
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- In his devotional word, this fabulous hymn.
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- That's a morning song.
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- And then chapter 4 is an evening psalm, that which he
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- Would have prayed and written in the evening.
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- And then chapter number 5, that we're going to look at today, it
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- Is another morning psalm, and it was written in the morning, in
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- The most difficult period in the life of david.
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- Surrounded by thousands, a revolution by his own favorite
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- Son, way in the back side of nowhere, trying to go and get a
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- Mountain people to come and be a part of his defensive now army,
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- And he writes this magnificent psalm.
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- In psalm 5 you have god's name given in two different forms.
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- Five times in the psalm, you see the word "yahweh."
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- When you see a name for god in the bible, always that name
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- Describes something about god.
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- Yahweh was the covenant god.
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- Yahweh, when he used that word right up front for god in
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- Hebrew, it would mean that david understood he was in the
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- Covenant, and that name comes all the way back to moses, when
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- Moses at the burning bush recognized that god was there, a
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- Bush was burning and not being consumed.
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- And he said, "what is your name? god, you're here.
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- Which god are you?"
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- The answer came, "i am that i am," literally the answer was,
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- "i am [exhaling]
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- I am [exhaling]
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- I am life."
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- That's the covenant name for god.
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- And that is used five times in this one chapter.
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- Then there's the name "yahweh."
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- And you see it as, "my god."
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- I'm not only under the covenant that god has made with us as
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- God's special people, as his called out ones.
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- But also you are my god.
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- You are elohim.
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- You are personal.
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- And then i did something, and this is so simple, i'm ashamed
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- To tell you, really.
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- I looked at the book of psalms and i just sort of thumbed
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- Through it, and i bumped into something that everybody knows.
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- I knew it.
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- I'd never really thought about it.
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- All these psalms began, with a few exceptions, with god,
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- With lord.
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- Psalm 1, psalm 150, god, god, god, lord, lord, lord, over and
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- Over, king, king, king.
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- Because, you know, if somebody would pick up psalms and they
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- Were agnostic, "wait, i don't know if there's a god or not.
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- I'm wise, i'm gonna wait and get all the returns," or they were
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- Atheistic and they'd say, "oh, there's no god.
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- I mean, this whole god business is, you know, it hasn't
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- Been proven.
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- It's myth."
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- So they wouldn't be thrilled by the music and the majesty
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- And the praise and the prophecy they find in psalms because god
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- Is a great big question mark.
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- At the same time, i was reading eric metaxas' book, "is
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- Atheism dead?"
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- By the way, whatever book you might read, take time,
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- Order it, buy it,
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- "is atheism dead?"
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- By eric metaxas will change your
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- View of science and, if you have
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- Any doubt about god, or you're supposedly some kind of
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- Pseudo-intellectual that, "you know, i'm an agnostic.
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- I don't know whether there's a god or not.
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- I'm gonna wait some more evidence who would come in."
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- Read this book.
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- Get back with me, because it is the counter book to that which
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- Was on the front page of "time" magazine in 1966.
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- And the front page said, "is god dead?"
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- And i remember clearly some reporter asked billy graham
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- About this front page article, which really was not so much
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- That god was once here and god died, but was an atheistic
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- Position that there is no god.
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- They asked billy graham about it.
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- He said, "god has died?"
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- He said, "you know, that's strange to me.
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- I talked to him this morning."
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- But when you talk about, is there a god or is there no god,
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- You've sort of got two extreme views.
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- There's one view by a lot of scholars and a lot of people,
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- And some of them have expressed this boldly, that they do not
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- Want there to be a god.
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- Yep, friedrich nietzsche said this, and he was quite honest.
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- He said, "you know, i don't believe there's a god.
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- I don't want there to be a god because it will mess up my
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- Sex life."
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- Yeah, and a lot of people don't want there to be a god because
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- The hedonistic lifestyle in which so many people live, "i,
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- Me, my, mine, pleasure.
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- What i wanna do. i've worked out my own deal.
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- I'm satisfied with this and i can handle this," they don't
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- Want there to be a god.
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- If there is a god, he needs to be way, way up there.
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- And if i need you, i'll call you.
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- A lot of people do not want there to be a true and
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- Living god.
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- And there's another group that wants there to be a god, hopes
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- There to be a god, and thinks, "well, maybe there is a god and
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- I kind of think there's a god."
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- I'm gonna tell you something, folks, an amazing thing has
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- Happened since 1966.
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- The high water mark, i think of accepted atheism, agnosticism.
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- And if you have not stayed up to date, i've got a surprise
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- For you.
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- Science has now conclusively proven--be careful, this is not
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- An overstatement, that there is indeed a god.
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- Science--now stay with me.
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- Lot of people who are in the intellectual category still are
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- Back there in 1966, and they think that science continually
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- Has proved there's no creator, there's no ultimate personality,
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- And the truth is the opposite has taken place.
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- And as we look at praise to god, prayer to god, singing to god,
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- Insights about god, learning the character of god, as we go
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- Through psalms, we're going to bump into this all the way
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- Through and i'm gonna begin with just one simple statement:
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- Science has proven there is a god going back to a relatively
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- Recent affirmation, and that's the big bang.
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- You say, "the big bang theory."
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- The big bang is no longer a theory.
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- It is established science.
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- Well, what is the big bang?
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- It simply says that there was a moment in which out of nothing
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- Came the creation.
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- Theologians call it creation ex nihilo.
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- You see, up before the big bang was affirmed by the scientists,
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- Up till that time, the argument was, "well, you know, as you
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- Move through and there's infinite time, anything can
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- Happen through evolution," right?
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- That's the argument.
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- That's the evolutionists.
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- Given enough time,
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- You can take some scum out of a primeval swamp and that scum
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- Will develop into a cell and then into life and life of all
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- Forms by chance, random observation, events, because
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- Time is infinite, right?
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- That's the argument you run into all the time when you talk about
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- Design and evidence of god.
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- But once the big bang was established by, i guess,
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- Einstein was beginning of it and others even prior to him.
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- And then the hubble telescope, and then we move today to a
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- Telescope infinitely more powerful than hubble.
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- And all of a sudden, science--and i won't get into
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- This too deeply because i can't go very deep myself--but science
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- Starts and moves toward the big bang, and you have an effect--
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- You always have a cause, right?
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- Anybody want to make that, bang, an effect, slap my
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- Hands together.
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- What's the cause?
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- Took my muscles, slapped it together.
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- The effect is that noise and the reddening of my hands, right?
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- There's a cause and effect behind everything.
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- But scientists so many times work in the other way.
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- They look at an effect and they ask, "what is the cause?"
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- Follow me?
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- Here's something, where did it come from?
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- How did it get there?
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- And through this looking at effect and going to the cause,
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- And looking at the effect and going to a cause, oppenheimer,
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- So many scientists, they came to the position that there was a
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- Moment in which there was a big
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- Bang, and this big bang exploded
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- The cosmos, and therefore, through observation, scientists
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- Have empirically proven that that explosion is still going on
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- And the universe is not contracting; it is
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- Continually expanding.
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- Hello.
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- And therefore a wall has been built, and on this side of the
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- Wall, there are the scientists, there's the astrophysicists, and
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- There's all of those who use the scientific method.
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- Proof is revealed by experiment.
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- That's the basic simple definition of design.
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- You experiment something, it is proven.
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- But you can't do this with creation because it is
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- A singularity.
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- Stay with me.
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- It means it happens once in a while, you can't
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- Repeat creation.
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- And therefore proof revealed by experiment has verified as the
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- Scientists have looked at the universe and said there was a
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- Moment in which there was an explosion in which all this came
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- Into being.
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- And the other side, here's this wall, here's this wall here.
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- On this side is everything we know and see and observe.
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- Here is physics, here is all of our disciplines.
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- But on the other side of the wall, there is nothing.
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- Science cannot say a thing.
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- The big bang established a moment in time that the world
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- Came into being 13.8 billion years ago, bang, big bang.
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- And therefore there's not infinite time in which all these
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- So-called movements can take.
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- So there comes a wall and the other side of the big bang,
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- Science has nothing to say because all of a sudden there is
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- Not space, there is not time, there is not matter.
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- That's all on this side of the wall, you got it?
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- I mean, it's--trying to say it as simply as i can.
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- But on the other side of the wall, you know what
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- Scientists say?
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- They have no place there.
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- They have nothing to say.
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- And some of them have reluctantly been honest to say,
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- The only thing on the other side of the wall is the first chapter
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- Of genesis: "in the beginning, god created."
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- That's giant, folks.
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- Science now has proven, has proven for us, there is that
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- God, that force, that creator, that is independent where they
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- Have no voice and all the physicists and all the
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- Sociologists and all of those have no space.
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- Because on the other side of this, there is nothing
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- Except god.
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- Science, through their own discipline, has proven there is
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- A god, and most honest scientists who really value
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- Logic, intelligence, they can't escape this.
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- There's no dodging room.
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- So therefore, if you're caught back in 1966, as many of our
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- Pseudo-scholars and universities and schools are, they're not up
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- To speed because their own discipline has proven the
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- Reality of almighty god.
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- Now, we are going to be dealing with this, and it goes on the
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- Basis of the big bang, also evidence there.
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- How did life come into being?
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- Also the fine-tuned universe, the anthropic principle we'll
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- Run into.
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- And so therefore, as we study the book of psalms, we talk
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- About god and the different aspects of god, we're talking
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- About a eternity and we're talking about a supernatural
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- Entity that has absolutely been verified and proven by science.
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- When most people still think science is still disproving god,
- 00:17:29.094 --> 00:17:33.632
- No, science says there is absolutely a creator god.
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- Gigantic.
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- So, we go to psalm chapter 5, and we're going to be bumping
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- Into this all the way through.
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- Let me tell you again.
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- If you want to read something, now, eric metaxas, he's been
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- Here, as you know, many times.
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- Eric metaxas has written a seminal book on this area.
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- Bill dempsey has written, a lot of people have written on this
- 00:18:03.228 --> 00:18:05.697
- Area, but it's nailed down.
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- There's no argument anymore.
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- There's no place for a genuine scientist to argue about this.
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- You can't go there.
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- I talked to jim tour yesterday, and he is one of the four or
- 00:18:14.606 --> 00:18:18.744
- Five top scientists in the world who happens to teach at rice.
- 00:18:18.744 --> 00:18:22.748
- And he said, "there's no wiggling room anymore.
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- There's nowhere to try to get yourself out of this.
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- There is an almighty god."
- 00:18:28.887 --> 00:18:31.557
- And therefore when we study psalms, david wasn't saying,
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- "well, i'm praying to somebody.
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- I hope he's there.
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- You know, it would be good that--" no, he's praying to god
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- Then, as we can today, to a creator, not only of this
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- Universe, but the creator of life.
- 00:18:48.707 --> 00:18:52.344
- So now we read psalm chapter 5 in a little bit of different
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- Light, i think.
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- "give ear to my words, o lord."
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- There is that covenant relationship.
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- "the lord."
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- "consider my meditating."
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- That word in hebrew means perk up your ears.
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- It's like a dog: when they hear things we can't hear, their ears
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- Perk up.
- 00:19:15.968 --> 00:19:17.603
- And so he's saying to the lord, he's saying, "god, i want you
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- To hear.
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- I want you to perk up your ears."
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- David is saying, "this is--i want you to know where i am.
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- He can consider my meditation," verse 2, "give heed to the voice
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- Of my cry, my king and my god."
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- My, the word "elohim."
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- That's a personal relationship.
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- He's not praying to, like the unitarians, "to whom it
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- May concern."
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- No, no, no.
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- He's praying to a god he is in covenant with.
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- He is praying to a personal god.
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- "for to you i will pray.
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- My voice you shall hear in the morning, o lord."
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- He starts the day, the toughest, most challenging day of
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- His life.
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- He starts off like this: "in the morning i will direct it to you
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- And i will look up."
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- That's the way to start a day, ladies and gentlemen.
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- In the morning, look up to him.
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- It'll change everything about your day and the most
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- Challenging difficult day in the life of this king, he started
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- With this morning song.
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- Then he says, "for you are not a god who takes pleasure in
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- Wickedness, nor shall evil dwell with you.
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- The boastful shall not stand in your sight; you hate all workers
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- Of iniquity.
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- You shall destroy those who speak lies."
- 00:20:38.483 --> 00:20:42.521
- David was a liar. did you know that?
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- He lied to two kings and because of one of his lies, when he was
- 00:20:45.424 --> 00:20:50.162
- Running from saul, saul went and killed 58 different priests.
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- David lied about bathsheba.
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- David lied about uriah.
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- David was a liar. but what happened?
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- David went to god with total, complete forgiveness and he was
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- Changed again and god eliminated his sin.
- 00:21:09.047 --> 00:21:13.185
- Let me tell you something.
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- Years ago in cambridge, a bunch of scholars were gathered and
- 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:18.256
- They were talking about--theologians.
- 00:21:18.256 --> 00:21:21.226
- What is the uniqueness of christianity?
- 00:21:21.226 --> 00:21:24.963
- And they were talking about all the religions of the world.
- 00:21:24.963 --> 00:21:27.265
- "this is--this is different.
- 00:21:27.265 --> 00:21:29.167
- Christianity believes this.
- 00:21:29.167 --> 00:21:30.702
- No, there's a little bit of that here."
- 00:21:30.702 --> 00:21:32.571
- And c.s. lewis walks in the room.
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- So they're debating about the uniqueness of christianity.
- 00:21:35.407 --> 00:21:38.176
- And they said, dr. lewis, "what do you think is the uniqueness
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- Of christianity?"
- 00:21:41.313 --> 00:21:42.647
- He said, "one thing.
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- For all the major religions of the world, one thing."
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- They said, "what is it?"
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- "forgiveness."
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- Forgiveness.
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- David had been forgiven.
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- And then we see he wakes up with the lord and he says, simply,
- 00:21:56.762 --> 00:22:00.265
- "lord, listen to me.
- 00:22:00.265 --> 00:22:03.034
- The lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
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- For as for me," he says, "into your house in the multitude of
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- Your mercy."
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- David, you had been forgiven.
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- "the fear of you," that's worship.
- 00:22:15.714 --> 00:22:17.549
- "you i will worship toward your holy temple."
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- David was in covenant with god.
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- God was personal to him and he said, "lord, listen to me in
- 00:22:24.489 --> 00:22:28.460
- This moment, this morning of my extremity."
- 00:22:28.460 --> 00:22:32.264
- Next thing he says, "lead me, o lord, in your righteousness
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- Because of my enemies; make your way straight before my face."
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- Isn't that it? you see where he is?
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- You see where we are? he wakes in the morning.
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- He said, "lord, i'm in covenant with you.
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- I have relationship with you and, lord, i want you to listen.
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- I know you won't listen to those who are out of fellowship
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- With you.
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- You can't hear them, their wickedness, their lying, but
- 00:22:56.521 --> 00:22:59.124
- I've been through that and you have forgiven me.
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- And therefore," he says, "now lead me.
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- Lead me, direct me."
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- Man, he had enemies all around.
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- He had his troops being marshaled.
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- He needed god to lead him.
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- He said, "i want you to lead me, so with my face, i'll make the
- 00:23:13.071 --> 00:23:17.275
- Right decision in life."
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- Isn't that what all of us want?
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- Every day, lord, lead us.
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- Lord, help us make wise godly decisions, help us to be
- 00:23:22.180 --> 00:23:26.284
- Accurate, to know where we're going, what we're saying, what
- 00:23:26.284 --> 00:23:28.620
- We're doing.
- 00:23:28.620 --> 00:23:29.955
- He's saying, "lead me." and then look what he says.
- 00:23:29.955 --> 00:23:32.224
- He said, "legislate those who are out of relationship with you
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- For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part
- 00:23:36.561 --> 00:23:41.233
- Is destruction; their throat is an open tomb; they flatter with
- 00:23:41.233 --> 00:23:47.372
- Their tongue.
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- Pronounce them guilty, o god!
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- Let them fall on their own counsels; cast them out in the
- 00:23:50.242 --> 00:23:54.379
- Multitude of their transgressions, for they have
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- Rebelled against you.
- 00:23:58.383 --> 00:24:00.018
- But let all who rejoice who put their trust," remember that
- 00:24:00.018 --> 00:24:04.823
- Word, "in you; let them ever shout for joy, because you
- 00:24:04.823 --> 00:24:08.727
- Defend on them for those who love your name be joyful in you.
- 00:24:08.727 --> 00:24:15.100
- For you, o lord, will bless the righteousness; with favor you
- 00:24:15.100 --> 00:24:19.437
- Will surround him with a shield."
- 00:24:19.437 --> 00:24:24.209
- What's david saying?
- 00:24:24.209 --> 00:24:26.511
- He's saying, "lord, listen.
- 00:24:26.511 --> 00:24:29.648
- Lord, lead.
- 00:24:29.648 --> 00:24:31.983
- Lord, legislate against evil," which is what we're saying.
- 00:24:31.983 --> 00:24:36.488
- Are we not?
- 00:24:36.488 --> 00:24:38.156
- And then he says how he would respond, how we should respond,
- 00:24:38.156 --> 00:24:42.661
- Is to trust and to love and to love and to trust.
- 00:24:42.661 --> 00:24:49.801
- And he says he'll put a shield around us.
- 00:24:49.801 --> 00:24:53.939
- That's what god does for his people, folks.
- 00:24:53.939 --> 00:24:56.374
- And we're to be a part of the shielding and the protecting in
- 00:24:56.374 --> 00:24:59.844
- The culture in which we live.
- 00:24:59.844 --> 00:25:01.846
- And therefore we have to speak out in love.
- 00:25:01.846 --> 00:25:04.883
- So the bottom line is, as we understand more and more of god,
- 00:25:04.883 --> 00:25:11.756
- As we throw away any possible ground for doubting or holding
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- In our minds, ladies and gentlemen, all the returns are
- 00:25:18.830 --> 00:25:23.602
- In from every scientific discipline.
- 00:25:23.602 --> 00:25:26.938
- There is a creator god, and we know him as he revealed himself
- 00:25:26.938 --> 00:25:34.980
- Totally in jesus christ.
- 00:25:34.980 --> 00:25:37.148
- And in jesus christ, he forgives us, he replenishes us.
- 00:25:37.148 --> 00:25:43.388
- And when we love him in response, he puts a shield
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- Around us.
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- Pastor ed: this month, we're studying one of the most
- 00:26:23.561 --> 00:26:25.530
- Fascinating and spiritual enriching books of the entire
- 00:26:25.530 --> 00:26:28.933
- Bible, the book of psalms.
- 00:26:28.933 --> 00:26:31.436
- Psalms is the most quoted book in the new testament.
- 00:26:31.436 --> 00:26:34.406
- It's a book of praise. it's a hymn book of prayer.
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- It's a history book, and it's even a book of prophecy.
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- Did you know all that?
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- As we spend time together in psalms, we'll discover that even
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- In our darkest moments, when all looks to be lost and gloomy, god
- 00:26:46.017 --> 00:26:51.623
- Offers his mercy and forgiveness, when we cry out to
- 00:26:51.623 --> 00:26:54.759
- Him in true repentance.
- 00:26:54.759 --> 00:26:57.262
- No matter what you and i may be going through, we have
- 00:26:57.262 --> 00:27:00.498
- Confidence that god hears and answers our petitions,
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- Our prayers.
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- So whether you find yourself in the depths of despair and
- 00:27:05.437 --> 00:27:08.306
- Depression, or you're experiencing great heights of
- 00:27:08.306 --> 00:27:10.975
- Joy and happiness and celebration, the book of psalms
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- Has a message for you and for me.
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- And i'm always thrilled to see what god has to say to all of us
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- As we study and apply his word, his truth, to our lives.
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