Ed Young - Looking Up From The Bottom

October 14, 2025 | 29:0

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Looking Up From The Bottom | October 14, 2025

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Dr. ed young: david was a man after god's own heart.
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He wrote 72 of these psalms.
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He was a harpist, a singer, a composer, a leader, a genius.
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Any way you look at it, from a shepherd boy to taking care of
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Goliath, how he handled saul when he was seeking to kill him
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For years, his whole manner in which he got to the kingdom.
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Sometimes, sit down and read 2 chronicles chapter number 1
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Through chapter number 19.
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First of all, you'll be astounded at the culture, the
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Polygamy, the immorality, and it went on, but in and through
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This, you have david trying to be a little remnant, hopefully
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For god, but in the process, when he should have been out
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Fighting the war, he looked over the balcony and the window shade
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Was up, right?
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Then the scandal with bathsheba, then the cover up, and leading
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To her husband, uriah, being virtually murdered as he
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Commanded he go to the front of the line in the attack that
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They--he would command, then the long, long time in which he
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Buried all this in his heart until nathan went there and
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Said--he didn't say, "thou art the man, david, you're the one
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Who sinned."
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He said with tears in his eye, he looked at his king and
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Courageous said, "david, you're the one who's in trouble
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With god."
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And that led to wonderful repentance, public and private,
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We'll deal with that psalm later on, david penned it.
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But then, after all of this, we have to look and see what kind
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Of father was david.
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With all the giftedness, what kind of father was david?
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Now mind you, he was forgiven of his sin, but when we are
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Forgiven of our sin it doesn't mean that we have sown and we
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Have reaped and we're forgiven of that evil seed that we did
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Sow, but that doesn't mean there's not consequences.
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I could get into a fight which i started and i was wrong in the
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Fight and in the fight i would get an eye put out.
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I'd go to god, i'd ask those i fought to forgive me, i would
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Clean up everything, but i still would live the rest of my life
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With one eye, right, because of what i did.
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This is david.
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Nathan said, "david, you're forgiven by god, but the sword
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Will never leave your family."
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Nathan said, "you're gonna have problems with your kids from
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This day forward," and this is what we see here, exactly what
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Was going on.
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Quickly, i'll tell you this story.
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Some of us know it.
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It's all built around absalom.
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Absalom was perhaps the one who would illogically have followed
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David as king.
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His mother was royalty.
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David was royalty.
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Absalom was handsome.
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He had hair, beautiful hair, a great physique, charisma,
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A leader of people, but--we won't go there, but his hair got
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Him in trouble.
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You know, three or four people who read that part of the bible.
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But absalom got in trouble because he was the son of
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A father, david, who was passive.
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What happened?
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Long story made short, amnon, son of david, raped his
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Sister, tamar.
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Absalom thought his dad, the king, would do something about
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It, said david was angry but he didn't do anything.
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Time went on until absalom himself killed his brother.
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Oh, not directly, he got somebody else to do it.
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Now, you ask the question, where did amnon, the one who
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Killed--who raped his sister get all the lust?
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It's in the family, isn't it?
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From his dad.
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Where in the world did absalom get the idea he could kill his
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Brother--oh, not directly, through somebody else?
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Through david.
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He took care of uriah, not directly, but commanded it.
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You see how this passes through?
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And then, when absalom went into exile, he wanted to come home,
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David finally let him come home, but he went two years, david
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Would not even look at his son, his wayward son, who was trying
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To come back.
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And when finally he looked into his face he sort of pushed him
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To one side and absalom began to start a revolution against
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His dad.
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A lot of bitterness happens in conflicts, but there can be no
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Deeper bitterness when your son or daughter revokes and vows to
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Overthrow the dad and, therefore, the kingdom.
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You know what absalom did.
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He did what a lot of people do.
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David made a lot of decision.
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He decide for one team and absalom would show up and say,
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"you know, if i'd been king, i'd have decided for you.
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I wouldn't have gone the way daddy did."
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And he did this all over the kingdom.
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And, absalom, when he went back, he rode in a chariot.
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He had soldiers walking along with him.
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He acted like a king, he performed like a king.
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And david, he did nothing.
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He did nothing with rape, he did nothing with murder with his
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Kids, he did nothing when the egomaniac of absalom began to
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Explain itself until, finally, absalom had gone all around to
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All the tribes in all of israel and now he had his army, his
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Group, and they were ready.
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Most of the young people to throw away david who still had,
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I'm sure, in the eyes of the modern youth of that day, as is
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Today, "what's this god and synagogue all about anyway?
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What a way to rule a nation.
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If i were king, if i were king, if i were king."
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And now the revolution took place and david was stunned.
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He was in his house made out of cedar, luxurious, larger than
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Even the temple, which was yet to be, would be incidentally.
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Ain't that news?
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Solomon built it, but the house of david somehow was bigger
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Than the church that they built.
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What about that?
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The synagogue that they built.
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And so, now the clarion call hebron 25 miles to jerusalem.
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Here's absalom with now armies gathered from all over israel.
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It was a coup d'état, a coup d'état is a sudden, violent
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Overthrow of, generally, the king, or the president, or
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The prime minister.
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It's not a typical revolution.
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It can breed into a revolution, but get the king out and, hey,
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You've got him, so.
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Absalom and all of his armies went after david and david,
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Stunned, took his group and fled, fled from his house, went
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Down from jerusalem down to the kidron valley up over the mount
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Of beatitudes and he was running for his life, and the bible said
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He was barefooted.
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I've walked that very path.
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I tell you, it's not a good place to go barefooted.
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And he covered his face.
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He was crying, broken, unbelief.
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He was stunned.
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This king who was so active in his family, he responded to
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A crisis by nothing, nothing, nothing, and nothing.
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And here he is.
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Finally, he looks around and some of his people are bringing
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Along the ark of the covenant.
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It's kind of a little presence of god in their eyes and
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That's what they did.
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When they went to battle, they bring the ark, they take god out
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With them right out in front.
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David, with great wisdom in the middle of all of his family's
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Stupidity and complacency, he said, "take the ark back up
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To zion.
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Put it there in the synagogue where it belongs.
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It doesn't go with me.
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God may not be with them, i don't know, put the ark back
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Up there."
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And now here are thousands marshaled to kill the king, to
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Destroy all of his followers, and everybody's turned against
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David, you read it there--
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Was there, a family that was loyal to him.
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They were--he was cursing david, saying, "you a man of blood.
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Man, you don't have any chance."
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Mephibosheth, who was the son of saul that david had reinstated
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His table, he and his family all turned against him.
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Family, friends, soldiers, enemy people, those he'd honored, they
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All now turned on david and david is running with a little
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Bit of his family and his faithful men and they go down
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And down and down for their life and now they are bedded down,
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Perhaps 48 hours later.
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David finally goes through a restless sleep.
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And then joab, i think he was there.
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Oh, joab's loyal.
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Commander-in-chief, general of the army, what a guy.
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Joab wakes up and looks over there at david who'd gone to
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Sleep under the stars.
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Maybe he hadn't done that since he was a shepherd or he was
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Running from saul or--he'd gone to sleep under the stars,
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Barefooted, crying, broken.
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He sees david picking up and writing something.
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Writing something and david sort of smile.
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Now, they're surrounded by thousand--thousands of people
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Doing everything they can to kill and end david's life.
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And david is writing something and let me show you what he
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Has written.
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Look on the screen, look on the screen.
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I'm gonna read the first verse, and the dark areas, if you'd
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Read, in a responsive way.
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I'll read it first.
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"lord, how are they increased
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That trouble me!
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Many are they that
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Rise up against me."
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Congregation: "many there be
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Which say of my soul, there is
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No help for him in god."
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Pastor ed: "but thou, o lord,
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Art a shield for me; my glory,
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And the lifting up--
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Lifter up of my head."
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Congregation: "i cried unto the
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Lord with my voice, and he heard
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Out of his holy hill."
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Pastor ed: "i laid me down
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And slept; i awaked; for
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The lord sustained me."
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Congregation: "i will not be
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Afraid of ten thousands of
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People, that have set themselves
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Against me round about."
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Pastor ed: "arise, o lord; and save me, my god: for thou hast
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Smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken
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The teeth of the ungodly."
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Congregation: "salvation belongeth unto the lord;
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Thy blessing is upon thy people."
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Pastor ed: let me outline that for you.
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Verse 1 and verse 2 is a cry of hopelessness.
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Remember the situation.
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Verse 3 and verse 4 are a cry of faith.
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Verse 5 and verse 6 are a cry of confidence.
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Verse 7 and verse 8 is a battle cry.
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Let's look at it exegeted and see how relevant that is for you
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And for me.
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If we're under any kind of wave, and in your family, in your
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Business, in your health, in relationship with your children,
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In relationship with the world and all the wokeism we're
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Living under.
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Let's see if this gives us any answers.
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The first.
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"lord, how they are increased
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That trouble me!"
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Is that true where david was
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When he penned these words?
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"many they are be which say of
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My soul, there is no help for
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Him in god.
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Selah."
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By the way, selah, remember, it
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Says something about music.
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It says probably there is a crescendo when this is sung
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There in the tabernacle.
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Also, it means, "what do you think of that?
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Isn't that good?"
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Here we are, bottoms fall out, he feels hopeless, helpless, and
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They say, "david, you're such an immoral, rascal, adulterer,
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Murderer, a crook, sorry leader.
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Let me tell you something.
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Even god is not interested in helping you.
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You have had it."
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Verse 1 and verse 2.
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Verse 3: "but thou, o lord."
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Wherever we are as a nation, wherever we are individually,
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Wherever we are as a family, that's the whole thing, "but
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Thou, o lord."
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You see the word "lord" there.
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Yahweh or jehovah, it means a covenant.
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It means that in all of this mistakes, the mountains and
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The valleys that david had experienced, he still had
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A relationship with god.
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"but thou, o lord, i'm bottomed out.
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There's no hope.
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Even they say god can't help me.
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Oh, but i know better.
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But thou, o lord."
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A relationship with god and jesus christ, folks.
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You know how you can tell when somebody is really a christian?
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Is when the bottom falls out of their life because of mistakes,
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Because of sin, because of poor choices.
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If they just run and excuse and stay in the far country and go
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On and on and on and on and on and they sort of tip god, but
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They don't get broken and come back in shame and repentance.
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If they do that, they know they still have a relationship with
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Thou, o lord.
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That's how you can tell.
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That's how you can tell.
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I just read, i don't know if it's accurate or not, i can't
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Imagine it, that 88% of the senate and house of the united
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States are christians.
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If that were microscopically true, wow, what a beautiful
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Position we'd be in in america, would we not?
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But you see, somehow, it's easy to have the name and go through
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The motions and not have thou, o lord.
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Who run my--lord, run my life.
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Thou you're in charge.
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I make my life, my decision, on basis of biblical truth.
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And david, even with the wave coming thousands all around him,
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He's lost virtually everything, he says, "thou, o lord."
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He turns back home to god.
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Then the rest of it,
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"thou, o
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Lord, art a shield for me," and
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The word shield there in hebrew
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Means a shield that went all the
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Way around him.
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In other words, "i've not only got your front," the lord says,
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"david knows i've also got your back."
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Man, he needed that because he'd been tricked and people had
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Turned on him.
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"you are a shield for me; my
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Glory," you know what my
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Glory is?
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That's david.
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David say his righteousness.
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"well, he didn't have a lot of
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Righteousness."
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Oh yes, he did.
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He'd repented,
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He'd got it right.
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He said, "my righteousness,
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My glory, and the lifter up
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My head."
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You can look in a lot of
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Directions when you're down, but
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If you lift up your head,
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That's toward god.
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And he said, "i cried unto the
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Lord with my voice, and he heard
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Me out of his holy hill.
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Selah."
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What do you think about that?
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The ark was taken back on zion, now he looked up to god and he
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Looked beyond the ark all the way to heaven.
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And he said, "god heard me."
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First two verses, hopeless; three and four, words of faith.
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"but thou, o lord."
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Do you have "but thou," whatever's going on in
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Your life?
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But thou, o lord. but thou, o lord.
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Is that operative with you?
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Is it--and when we're just bottomed out, there's no light
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And we seem confused.
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Listen, you keep all your eyes on that which is wrong, that
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Which is broken, all you have to do is look up to god and you see
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He's still running this world and he wants to run your life
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And my life 24/7.
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"but thou, o lord."
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And then look at 5 and 6.
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Here we have confidence.
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It's a cry of--"i laid me down
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And slept; i awaked; the lord
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Sustain me."
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Can you imagine, there are 5 or
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6 or 7 or 10,000 people two
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Hills away waiting to come and kill you and eliminate
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Everything you have in your life, and you went down and took
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A nap.
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You slept all night long.
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That's called trust, isn't it?
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Boy, i've had to rely on that many times.
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When i forget, i have to go back to it.
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"i laid me down and slept; i
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Awaked; the lord sustained me,"
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Because of thou, o lord.
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He said, "i will not be afraid
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Of ten thousands people, who
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Have set themselves against
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Me round about."
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The shield covered him round
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About, all around him, to those
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Who would take his life.
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"but thou, o lord, are a shield for me," and he lay down and
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Slept and the lord sustained him.
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And then we read a battle cry.
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"arise, o lord," do you see the battle is here, the shield?
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We go to see the brokenness here.
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"arise, o lord; save me, o my god: for thou hast smitten all
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Mine enemies with the cheek bone; and thou hast broken the
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Teeth of the ungodly."
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In other words, he knew that the victory belonged to god, not
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From him.
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He had bottomed out, he'd been the nothing, nothing man with
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His family and now he is going to be something with this family
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Of god.
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And he said, "salvation belongeth unto the lord," and
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Then he turned away for himself, he said, "thy blessing is upon
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Thy people."
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Not just those who are still pro-david, but also those who
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Are pro-absalom.
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What a psalm for you and for me, for our nation, for this time.
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And we are in a battle, ladies and gentlemen, for the heart and
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Soul and minds of our nation and of our families.
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The number one problem in america today is passive
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Fathers, a-w-o-l fathers.
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Look at it throughout history.
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Almost every major crisis we face would beginning to be
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Healed and solved if we would have dads, fathers, who be godly
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Men and would not be passive, passive, when challenges and
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Crisis come to the family.
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You know the story, david's army, the people rallied
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Around him.
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They defeated absalom's revolution, his coup d'état.
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Absalom was fleeing and he caught his long hair on
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The branches.
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I guess he had one of those super cuts like we see now,
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I don't know.
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He caught his hair and he was dangling there and david had
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Told everybody, "don't kill my boy.
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Save absalom, i wanna--don't kill him."
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But when joab saw him there, he went over and they
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Killed absalom.
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When the news went back to david, david was back in
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Jerusalem, everything had been reestablished.
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They told david, he went in the morning, and the classic words
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He said, "o my son, my son, my son absalom!
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O my son absalom.
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Would that god i had died for thee in your place, o my
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Son absalom!"
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And he was broken and empty and defeated.
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The secret sins of a father and mother, our own father,
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Tragically are so many times become shameful sins in their
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Sons and in their daughters.
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Nothing can take the place in a child's life,
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But a dad, but a dad.
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Dad, make sure in your life, right now, you have a,
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"thou, o lord."
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The key promises god has made to us in his word, the bible, and
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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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Dr. young: just think.
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If you and i know jesus christ, we have an entree to god 24/7.
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That's amazing. that's a gift to you and to me.
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Somebody said, "well, oh, we can just pray, you know."
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That's the first thing we do.
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We seek the mind and will and purpose of god and we turn our
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Lives over to him, we listen to him, we let him speak to us.
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Then, we make our petitions to him, first of all, confession,
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And then we do a moment of praise, and then we just sit
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Back and say, "lord, help me to understand this, this,
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This and this."
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And he gives us his wisdom and he gives us his healing.
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Let me tell you how i begin each day and end every day.
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I've done it for many, many years.
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When i roll out of bed, the first thing i do, i hit
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My knees.
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I call it "knee to knee" or i call it a "self" prayer because
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You know my biggest problem?
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It's the same problem you have.
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It's spelled s-e-l-f.
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Isn't that the person you have the most difficulty with?
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It's my number one problem, therefore, when i begin my day,
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I'm on my knees, my wife comes and kneels with me, and i put my
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Hand on the bed and i pray a little prayer revolving
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Around self.
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It's an acrostic and i just spell s-e-l-f.
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I start off and say, "lord, i surrender this day to you," and
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I talk about surrendering everything in my life to him.
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And then i talk about e, e.
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I surrender and then that e comes up and i empty myself.
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Whatever i'm full of, self or selfishness, i start off by
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Emptying so i will be fresh.
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Then, i turned my hands up as i'm on my knees by my bed and i
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Say, "o lord, fill me with your spirit.
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I surrender, i empty, and i love you, and now fill me with
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Your spirit."
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Self.
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That's where we start and as we express our love to him and he
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Fills us with our spirit, then i'll have a personal prayer that
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Fits me and fits my wife, or she prays.
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And then we say, "in jesus's name, amen."
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I do that every morning, i do it every night.
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I pray the "self" prayer, the "knee to knee" prayer.
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First thing in the morning, i hit my knees.
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The last thing at night, i am on my knees and, i don't know how
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It works for anybody else, but that "self" prayer, that "knee
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To knee" prayer, is a good way to begin every day because it
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Gets self out of the way, it does.
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Surrender, empty, i love you, fill me with your spirit.
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Just a little ritual that i think will help your day to
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Start off with wings and end your day with praise.
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - Looking Up From The Bottom

October 14, 2025 | 29:0

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