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Ed Young - Good Morning Lord

October 16, 2025 | 29:0

Ed Young - Good Morning Lord
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Good Morning Lord | October 16, 2025
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  • Ed young: 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.
  • 00:15:49.328 --> 00:15:54.166
  • There's no dodging room.
  • 00:15:54.166 --> 00:15:56.568
  • So therefore, if you're caught back in 1966, as many of our
  • 00:15:56.568 --> 00:16:01.807
  • Pseudo-scholars and universities and schools are, they're not up
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  • To speed because their own discipline has proven the
  • 00:16:05.544 --> 00:16:09.681
  • Reality of almighty god.
  • 00:16:09.681 --> 00:16:13.285
  • Now, we are going to be dealing with this, and it goes on the
  • 00:16:13.285 --> 00:16:19.058
  • Basis of the big bang, also evidence there.
  • 00:16:19.058 --> 00:16:23.095
  • How did life come into being?
  • 00:16:23.095 --> 00:16:25.831
  • Also the fine-tuned universe, the anthropic principle we'll
  • 00:16:25.831 --> 00:16:31.804
  • Run into.
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  • And so therefore, as we study the book of psalms, we talk
  • 00:16:33.672 --> 00:16:37.843
  • About god and the different aspects of god, we're talking
  • 00:16:37.843 --> 00:16:42.748
  • About a eternity and we're talking about a supernatural
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  • Entity that has absolutely been verified and proven by science.
  • 00:16:49.822 --> 00:16:56.695
  • When most people still think science is still disproving god,
  • 00:16:56.695 --> 00:17:01.233
  • 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
  • 00:17:17.616 --> 00:17:22.087
  • Here, as you know, many times.
  • 00:17:22.087 --> 00:17:24.923
  • 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
  • 00:17:30.829 --> 00:17:33.298
  • 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
  • 00:17:42.207 --> 00:17:46.345
  • Five top scientists in the world who happens to teach at rice.
  • 00:17:46.345 --> 00:17:50.349
  • And he said, "there's no wiggling room anymore.
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  • There's nowhere to try to get yourself out of this.
  • 00:17:52.885 --> 00:17:56.488
  • There is an almighty god."
  • 00:17:56.488 --> 00:17:59.158
  • And therefore when we study psalms, david wasn't saying,
  • 00:17:59.158 --> 00:18:03.195
  • "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
  • 00:18:06.632 --> 00:18:09.268
  • Then, as we can today, to a creator, not only of this
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  • Universe, but the creator of life.
  • 00:18:16.308 --> 00:18:19.945
  • 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."
  • 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:36.528
  • That word in hebrew means perk up your ears.
  • 00:18:36.528 --> 00:18:38.964
  • It's like a dog: when they hear things we can't hear, their ears
  • 00:18:38.964 --> 00:18:43.569
  • Perk up.
  • 00:18:43.569 --> 00:18:45.204
  • And so he's saying to the lord, he's saying, "god, i want you
  • 00:18:45.204 --> 00:18:48.507
  • To hear.
  • 00:18:48.507 --> 00:18:50.142
  • I want you to perk up your ears."
  • 00:18:50.142 --> 00:18:51.610
  • 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."
  • 00:19:02.454 --> 00:19:04.389
  • That's a personal relationship.
  • 00:19:04.389 --> 00:19:06.258
  • He's not praying to, like the unitarians, "to whom it
  • 00:19:06.258 --> 00:19:09.695
  • 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
  • 00:19:42.594 --> 00:19:45.897
  • Challenging difficult day in the life of this king, he started
  • 00:19:45.897 --> 00:19:50.569
  • With this morning song.
  • 00:19:50.569 --> 00:19:53.038
  • Then he says, "for you are not a god who takes pleasure in
  • 00:19:53.038 --> 00:19:56.141
  • 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."
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  • 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
  • 00:20:13.025 --> 00:20:17.763
  • Running from saul, saul went and killed 58 different priests.
  • 00:20:17.763 --> 00:20:23.135
  • David lied about bathsheba.
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  • David lied about uriah.
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  • David was a liar. but what happened?
  • 00:20:28.373 --> 00:20:30.942
  • David went to god with total, complete forgiveness and he was
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  • Changed again and god eliminated his sin.
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  • Let me tell you something.
  • 00:20:40.786 --> 00:20:42.120
  • Years ago in cambridge, a bunch of scholars were gathered and
  • 00:20:42.120 --> 00:20:45.857
  • They were talking about--theologians.
  • 00:20:45.857 --> 00:20:48.827
  • What is the uniqueness of christianity?
  • 00:20:48.827 --> 00:20:52.564
  • And they were talking about all the religions of the world.
  • 00:20:52.564 --> 00:20:54.866
  • "this is--this is different.
  • 00:20:54.866 --> 00:20:56.768
  • Christianity believes this.
  • 00:20:56.768 --> 00:20:58.303
  • No, there's a little bit of that here."
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  • And c.s. lewis walks in the room.
  • 00:21:00.172 --> 00:21:03.008
  • So they're debating about the uniqueness of christianity.
  • 00:21:03.008 --> 00:21:05.777
  • And they said, dr. lewis, "what do you think is the uniqueness
  • 00:21:05.777 --> 00:21:08.914
  • Of christianity?"
  • 00:21:08.914 --> 00:21:10.248
  • 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.
  • 00:21:21.827 --> 00:21:24.363
  • And then we see he wakes up with the lord and he says, simply,
  • 00:21:24.363 --> 00:21:27.866
  • "lord, listen to me.
  • 00:21:27.866 --> 00:21:30.635
  • 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
  • 00:21:34.773 --> 00:21:39.845
  • Your mercy."
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  • David, you had been forgiven.
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  • "the fear of you," that's worship.
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  • "you i will worship toward your holy temple."
  • 00:21:45.150 --> 00:21:49.488
  • David was in covenant with god.
  • 00:21:49.488 --> 00:21:52.090
  • God was personal to him and he said, "lord, listen to me in
  • 00:21:52.090 --> 00:21:56.061
  • This moment, this morning of my extremity."
  • 00:21:56.061 --> 00:21:59.865
  • Next thing he says, "lead me, o lord, in your righteousness
  • 00:21:59.865 --> 00:22:04.770
  • Because of my enemies; make your way straight before my face."
  • 00:22:04.770 --> 00:22:09.608
  • Isn't that it? you see where he is?
  • 00:22:09.608 --> 00:22:11.877
  • 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
  • 00:22:24.122 --> 00:22:26.725
  • I've been through that and you have forgiven me.
  • 00:22:26.725 --> 00:22:29.094
  • And therefore," he says, "now lead me.
  • 00:22:29.094 --> 00:22:32.697
  • Lead me, direct me."
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  • Man, he had enemies all around.
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  • He had his troops being marshaled.
  • 00:22:35.901 --> 00:22:37.903
  • He needed god to lead him.
  • 00:22:37.903 --> 00:22:40.672
  • He said, "i want you to lead me, so with my face, i'll make the
  • 00:22:40.672 --> 00:22:44.876
  • Right decision in life."
  • 00:22:44.876 --> 00:22:46.812
  • Isn't that what all of us want?
  • 00:22:46.812 --> 00:22:48.146
  • Every day, lord, lead us.
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  • Lord, help us make wise godly decisions, help us to be
  • 00:22:49.781 --> 00:22:53.885
  • Accurate, to know where we're going, what we're saying, what
  • 00:22:53.885 --> 00:22:56.221
  • We're doing.
  • 00:22:56.221 --> 00:22:57.556
  • He's saying, "lead me." and then look what he says.
  • 00:22:57.556 --> 00:22:59.825
  • He said, "legislate those who are out of relationship with you
  • 00:22:59.825 --> 00:23:04.162
  • For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part
  • 00:23:04.162 --> 00:23:08.834
  • Is destruction; their throat is an open tomb; they flatter with
  • 00:23:08.834 --> 00:23:14.973
  • Their tongue.
  • 00:23:14.973 --> 00:23:16.308
  • Pronounce them guilty, o god!
  • 00:23:16.308 --> 00:23:17.843
  • Let them fall on their own counsels; cast them out in the
  • 00:23:17.843 --> 00:23:21.980
  • Multitude of their transgressions, for they have
  • 00:23:21.980 --> 00:23:25.984
  • Rebelled against you.
  • 00:23:25.984 --> 00:23:27.619
  • But let all who rejoice who put their trust," remember that
  • 00:23:27.619 --> 00:23:32.424
  • Word, "in you; let them ever shout for joy, because you
  • 00:23:32.424 --> 00:23:36.328
  • Defend on them for those who love your name be joyful in you.
  • 00:23:36.328 --> 00:23:42.701
  • For you, o lord, will bless the righteousness; with favor you
  • 00:23:42.701 --> 00:23:47.038
  • Will surround him with a shield."
  • 00:23:47.038 --> 00:23:51.810
  • What's david saying?
  • 00:23:51.810 --> 00:23:54.112
  • He's saying, "lord, listen.
  • 00:23:54.112 --> 00:23:57.249
  • Lord, lead.
  • 00:23:57.249 --> 00:23:59.584
  • Lord, legislate against evil," which is what we're saying.
  • 00:23:59.584 --> 00:24:04.089
  • Are we not?
  • 00:24:04.089 --> 00:24:05.757
  • And then he says how he would respond, how we should respond,
  • 00:24:05.757 --> 00:24:10.262
  • Is to trust and to love and to love and to trust.
  • 00:24:10.262 --> 00:24:17.402
  • And he says he'll put a shield around us.
  • 00:24:17.402 --> 00:24:21.540
  • That's what god does for his people, folks.
  • 00:24:21.540 --> 00:24:23.975
  • And we're to be a part of the shielding and the protecting in
  • 00:24:23.975 --> 00:24:27.445
  • The culture in which we live.
  • 00:24:27.445 --> 00:24:29.447
  • And therefore we have to speak out in love.
  • 00:24:29.447 --> 00:24:32.484
  • So the bottom line is, as we understand more and more of god,
  • 00:24:32.484 --> 00:24:39.357
  • As we throw away any possible ground for doubting or holding
  • 00:24:39.357 --> 00:24:46.431
  • In our minds, ladies and gentlemen, all the returns are
  • 00:24:46.431 --> 00:24:51.202
  • In from every scientific discipline.
  • 00:24:51.202 --> 00:24:54.539
  • There is a creator god, and we know him as he revealed himself
  • 00:24:54.539 --> 00:25:02.581
  • Totally in jesus christ.
  • 00:25:02.581 --> 00:25:04.749
  • And in jesus christ, he forgives us, he replenishes us.
  • 00:25:04.749 --> 00:25:10.989
  • And when we love him in response, he puts a shield
  • 00:25:10.989 --> 00:25:16.828
  • Around us.
  • 00:25:16.828 --> 00:25:19.230
  • Male announcer: in the middle of life's darkest storm, there's
  • 00:25:19.297 --> 00:25:21.099
  • Always the quiet promises of god that lie just beyond
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  • The turbulence.
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  • You can discover how to claim these promises in dr. young's
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  • Book "living under the rainbow."
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  • It's our gift to you with your support of the ministry
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  • This month.
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  • Ed: the rainbow is a comforting reminder of
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  • God's promises.
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  • Under the rainbow, our lives, families, and careers can become
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  • What god designed them to be.
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  • In my book "living under the rainbow," you will learn about
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  • The key promises god has made to us in his word, the bible, and
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  • We'll discover how we can claim them in our daily lives.
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  • Applying these promises leads not only to daily victory but
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  • Puts you and me on the path of a truly life with significance.
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  • Ed: this month, we're studying one of the most
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  • Fascinating and spiritual enriching books of the entire
  • 00:26:21.393 --> 00:26:24.796
  • Bible, the book of psalms.
  • 00:26:24.796 --> 00:26:27.298
  • Psalms is the most quoted book in the new testament.
  • 00:26:27.298 --> 00:26:30.268
  • It's a book of praise. it's a hymn book of prayer.
  • 00:26:30.268 --> 00:26:33.438
  • It's a history book, and it's even a book of prophecy.
  • 00:26:33.438 --> 00:26:37.509
  • Did you know all that?
  • 00:26:37.509 --> 00:26:39.277
  • As we spend time together in psalms, we'll discover that even
  • 00:26:39.277 --> 00:26:41.880
  • In our darkest moments, when all looks to be lost and gloomy, god
  • 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:47.485
  • Offers his mercy and forgiveness, when we cry out to
  • 00:26:47.485 --> 00:26:50.622
  • Him in true repentance.
  • 00:26:50.622 --> 00:26:53.124
  • No matter what you and i may be going through, we have
  • 00:26:53.124 --> 00:26:56.361
  • Confidence that god hears and answers our petitions,
  • 00:26:56.361 --> 00:26:59.731
  • Our prayers.
  • 00:26:59.731 --> 00:27:01.299
  • So whether you find yourself in the depths of despair and
  • 00:27:01.299 --> 00:27:04.169
  • Depression, or you're experiencing great heights of
  • 00:27:04.169 --> 00:27:06.838
  • Joy and happiness and celebration, the book of psalms
  • 00:27:06.838 --> 00:27:10.975
  • Has a message for you and for me.
  • 00:27:10.975 --> 00:27:13.845
  • And i'm always thrilled to see what god has to say to all of us
  • 00:27:13.845 --> 00:27:17.749
  • As we study and apply his word, his truth, to our lives.
  • 00:27:17.749 --> 00:27:17.749