Psalm 25

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Good morning. For those of you who don't know me,

my name is Austin Darnell. I'm a member here.

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My wife Erica, we've been here for about 10 years,

which is really crazy to consider at this point.

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We've served in a lot of different

roles here at BC. We were MC

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leaders, or Missional Community leaders

for the past four or five years.

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We just transitioned out of that role and into

having a jumpstart in BC's college ministry.

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So we're kind of getting that going, but

we've been super blessed by our

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time here on the section of fourth time

preaching at BC, or in general.

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And over the past couple of weeks, kind of preparing

for this sermon, preaching over a Psalm today,

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I've noticed that picking a Psalm

is really, really difficult.

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So back in October, I preached on Ecclesiastes 10,

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and Dan gave me the option of

chapter 9 or chapter 10.

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So I picked 10, even though it was super weird, and

Ecclesiastes in general is kind of like, this is

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daunting. At least I knew this

is the chapter I picked.

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I could really dig into your play.

With Psalms, there's not a

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weird, there's a lot of them. There's

a hundred big things out there.

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So when Dan asked me a couple of weeks ago to pick

one, I kind of had stuck in the paralysis by

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analysis. It's like, "Oh, there's

so many options. Where do

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I go? I'm not being Psalm 119. I'm

going to be here all day."

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So you're going to think of some different things that

you can pick and choose from. But eventually,

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kind of as I prayed through it, read a few options,

I'll kind of do the direction I want to end.

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But I'm going to be on Psalm 25 for

this morning. And thankfully,

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my loving wife, Erica reminded me

on Saturday that there's no kids connect.

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So I have to think of any kids sermon as well. So kids,

where are your hands? Where do you guys see?

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So I've got a couple of questions for you. Who is

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someone that you kind of look up to

and you know a lot about?

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Could be an athlete, could be an actor, a friend.

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Who would be someone that you kind

of know a lot about?

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Anyone? Ready?

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(inaudible)

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Yeah. So what would be something

that you know about them?

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(inaudible)

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Yeah. So yeah, you can think of other

things that you like to do.

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You can play with them, have fun. So

that's a really good answer.

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And when you can learn from them, you can make

popular games. Anyone else? Marshall?

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Pets.

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Pets? Okay. So you know a lot about your pets? Can

your pets teach you things? Maybe some stuff.

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(inaudible)

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Because he's one of my favorite soccer

players. So I know a

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bunch of facts about him. But does that

make me friends with him?

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Probably not. Yes. Yes.

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So I can't call him and ask him to teach me more

about him because we're not actually friends.

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But in this song that we're going to go through,

David is friends with the Lord. He has that

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relationship. He can play and ask the Lord

to teach him more about him.

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So kids, after church today, kind of as you're going

through the days, ask your parents how you can

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learn more about the Lord and

what ways that you can

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do that and the relationship that

you can have with him.

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So I'm going to read our song and then I will

pray for the kid to kind of get started.

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So this is Psalm 25.

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(inaudible)

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Okay. So Psalm 25 is a Davidic song, but it doesn't

give us the exact time or circumstance for when

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David liked this song. But there is

a context through in verse 2.

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So in verse 2, David is calling out

to the Lord and has asked

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him to preserve him from his enemies

so they don't insult over him.

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His office shows that David wrote this

at some point while he was

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alive because he's always being afflicted

by enemies or citizens.

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So we know that David is continuing to

trust the Lord and that he is

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once again in a circumstance where he

knows that he needs the Lord.

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So all that time, there's Psalm is a prayer

that David has written. He's

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leading to the Lord to teaching his ways

to help him feel more like him.

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And not only is it a very open prayer, it's actually

a Pentecostal poem in the original Hebrew.

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So that basically means in Hebrew, every line

above this line is alphabetical.

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So the first line starts with

the first letter of the

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Hebrew alphabet and so on and so

forth through the song.

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And we're working through it by kind

of timing which verses

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are in that section so those pop

up behind as we get there.

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And then we're going to move through the song and

at the very end we're going to talk about it in

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different ways, what we can do

to be taught by the Lord.

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So the first part, maybe on the

slide, is verses 1-5.

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It's just the initial plea. This

is where David is kind

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of laying out his initial request

to God. There it is.

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So like I mentioned, he is in the midst of a difficult

time, his enemies are seeing him and he's

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calling out to God knowing that the Lord is with

him and knowing who he is calling out to him.

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Versus 1 and 3 specifically, David has declared

that he is continuing to trust in the Lord.

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Even in his circumstances, he knows that the Lord is

good and that he hasn't been abandoned, the Lord

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is still pregnant with him, even when

it may not seem that way.

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We get to verse 4 which actually contains the kind

of title of the song, "Teach in your past."

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David is asking him to teach in his

place. David knows that

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the ways of the Lord are good and

steadfast and not changing.

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So he can trust in those and knows that the Lord

has kept his promises, David falls into those

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promises, and that the Lord is going to continue

to keep promises moving forward.

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So David is now looking back to all the ways that God

has blessed God's people in the past, has not

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changed, even though the people are fickle and moving

and kind of evident for God's remaining state.

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So David knows even if his life went to

end in his circumstance, God is

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still good, he's trusting in him knowing that

the path that he is on is good.

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So we can look at Isaiah 55.9 for the context

of where God is in comparison to us.

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That says, "For as the heavens are higher than the

earth, so are my wings, higher than your little

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wings, and my thoughts are higher than your minds."

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So David is God's morning to king, who's a man after

God's own heart, but he knows that his ways are so

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much lower than God's, and he wants to learn more

about who God is and what he can be taught.

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So as I was kind of reading through the song and setting

up the sermon, I kept coming back to the

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pretty recent "Citizens" album called

"I Can't Find the Edges of Me."

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And that's just like, was a really good

picture for me, that we have this

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beautiful thought of who God is and all the

things that we know about the Lord.

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But there's so much more beyond

that we don't know. And

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we can pray for the Lord to reveal

those things to us.

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We can give a bigger and broader picture

of the Lord. And even then,

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there's still more to be more that we don't

know and that can be revealed to us.

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So David is coming to his heavenly

father like a child, asking

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him to learn. He wants to be more like

him. He wants to be taught.

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And God is loving me and patient and

willing to do that for David.

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And this insight into my life is one

way that the Lord has been

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really teaching me more about him as I've

kind of prepped for this sermon.

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About that, David, who we know is making mistakes and

is sinning and is always falling, continues to

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trust in the Lord, but he's showing love

and he's showing patience by God.

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And that is so the opposite of

how I repair my kids.

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So I have two daughters, a four-year-old and a two-year-old,

and I'm loving with them and really

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patient with them for about 15 minutes or

50 questions, whichever comes first.

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So to give some context that a couple months ago,

I was getting the girls ready for the day.

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On behalf of meeting up at college,

so we made breakfast, I got

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dressed, things were cruising along,

we're getting our shoes on.

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And Amelia has asked me no less than 60 questions

about finding the new one.

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So I'm going to do some minor

spoilers for finding me.

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That's 23 years old, so here we go.

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She was asking me, "Why did the sharks take them to

a party? Why did the bear accumulate coral?"

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"Do bears have shark teeth?"

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And why was Marlin sad that his

bike was eaten by a shark?

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So I finally, at that point, at first, I was like,

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"Stop asking questions. I'm talking

about finding me."

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And also, kind of even more context, it reminds me

of a meeting that I have safe on my phone.

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This is my inner story, which is

for impingish-dregs-fat.

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You're more into the picture of Yoda laying as the

nine on dang a lot, and it says, "Once I became a

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parent, I finally understood the

scene where Yoda gets

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so tired of answering those questions,

he just dies."

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But, praise God that we can't approach

him, and we can ask

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him to teach us more and reveal

more about himself to us.

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He's always patient with us and wants

to give us those answers, even

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when we mess up or continue to ask the same

questions over and over again.

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He is still there answering those

questions and isn't

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getting fed up, and he's not just

dying to think Yoda.

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So we're going to move into the

next section, which is

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verses 6 through 15, and this is

kind of my make-up title.

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It is "Remembering Truths About God and Ourselves."

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So David is continuing to pray and petition over to

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remember who he is and to continue to

do the same moving forward.

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Obviously, God has not changed.

He hasn't forgotten that

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he's merciful. He hasn't forgotten

about his steadfast love.

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But David is probably doing this to remind himself

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of those truths and the ways that

he knows about God.

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He's revealed these things to David in the past. David

can look back at history, how God is continuing

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to be merciful to his people and continue

to keep David in those promises.

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We, on the other hand, are very

quick to forget the true

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nature of God, and we tend to bring

him down to our levels.

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So our steadfast love is not so steadfast.

It kind of ends and flows with you.

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If you're angry with someone like the bat or the grace

that we're shown by God like, "Well, this person

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did this to me last week. I'm going to be a little

less gracious with David today."

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We need to remind ourselves that God is all

of those things. He's not changing.

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So in the midst of when we're struggling, God

is not. He's solid and he's firm.

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So we'll jump into this. In verse

6, David is pleading for the

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word to be merciful and that the word

"steadfast" meant women.

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Like I said, "steadfast" means it's continuing. It's

not joining up. It's not having any flow. It's

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being poured out constantly, even

in this circumstance.

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In verse 7, David is acknowledging that because of

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that level, God has for his people.

Sins are forbidden.

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David can leave it, but we're willing to remember the

sins that David has committed in the past and is

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continuing to commit in the present and the

stuff that he can do in the future.

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He knows that out of God's goodness, sins are forbidden

that we trust in the Lord. If we can repent and

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come to him, we can have hope that

that's going to be the case.

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Verses 8 and 9, Joseph brings in what's in the New York,

David actually says, he's being humble. He's

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coming to the Lord as a humble acknowledgement

of sin before the Lord.

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He's coming on his hands and knees knowing that he

has nothing in his own power that would save him,

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but he can come to the Lord admitting that

he is a sinner in the end of grace.

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But he also states that the Lord instructs sinners

in his ways when they humbly approach him.

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David is connecting that back to verses 3 and 4. He's

saying that he's humbly-maning to be a sinner,

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but he keeps trusting that the Lord, because

of that, is going to teach the Lord.

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That trust is easy to know that

the Lord is going to

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show us how to move past sin,

how to be more like him.

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We're never going to completely re-barrise

him, but the Lord

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is teaching us more and being able

to do that for that public.

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Moving through this section of verse 10, Joseph's David's

acknowledgement of God's sovereignty. David

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is attempting that all of the paths of the

Lord are steadfast like he was.

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He's not saying that this is some

paths, just the good

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ones or the kinky ones, but all

of the paths are great.

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Step-fasting the Lord is faithful in those. It's really

important to recognize that, because sometimes

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in the midst of life and our circumstances,

things are going to be difficult.

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But that doesn't mean that the Lord is moving away from

us. It just means that we are through that and

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we do not trust any Lord, even knowing

through those hard things.

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I was trying to think of a first that I could

use. Here's an example of that.

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I know how Lord, and I'm going to direct you to the

entire book of Job and see that even in harm and

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afflicting times, the Lord is still good,

even if it doesn't seem that way.

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We can trust that he is sovereign.

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And then David continues to hear about hunting,

and he has a large amount of sin.

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He's not saying that, "Well, I was angry with this

person last week," or like, "There was a hunting

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with fashion, but I've got a couple

sins here and there."

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He is acknowledging that there is a multitude of sins.

He has great sin and great guilt, but he is

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asking the Lord to pardon him, not

because of what he's done.

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We do know that David was a man after Ronson Hart who

was a great king, but he recognizes that nothing

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he can do in his world or in his life

is going to forgive those sins.

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So he's asking the Lord for your

name's sake because of who

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you are for giving those sins, even

though there's a lot of them.

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And to kind of wrap this section up,

as I was interpreting and

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reading different articles, I have a

quote from John and William.

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He's one of the co-founders of Desire and Gone. I

think it's going to be on the slide today.

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But it's a really good kind of encapsulation of

this section of the psalm. Maybe I'll slide.

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[inaudible]

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There it is. So what's missing in these lines, kind

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of 6 through 15, are any mention

of David's candidates.

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Those are the earlier first couple

lines of the psalm. In the

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psalm, David is not obsessed with

the source of his problem.

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He's fixated all the sources of his solution. David

is reminding himself of the realities of his own

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being, his own sin, and the values

of God while he's praying.

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So in this last section, verses

16 through 21, this is

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David acknowledging and believing in

his and our desperate need.

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David concludes this prayer psalm

psalm by really being

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honest about where he currently is,

what his circumstances are.

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He mentions what his team is and he forgot to be

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gracious to him because he's feeling

isolated and afflicted.

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David is a king. He's got people at his beck and

call. He's got friends. He's got advisors.

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But none of these people are going to fix what

David's currently going through.

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And he recognizes that even though he's surrounded

by people, he can make plans and ask for things.

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None of that is going to help him.

He needs the Lord for that.

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And it's only through the Lord's graciousness

can we find that help.

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Because he understands that God is steadfast

and he's always with him.

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In verse 17, by declaring to the

Lord that his troubles are

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growing and calls to the Lord for deliverance

out of his distress,

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once again, really nervous now where we're

talking about David's life.

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He knows that his sin is growing,

whether that's enemies

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from the outside or his own sin,

it's becoming burdensome.

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And he knows that the Lord is the only

thing to alleviate that burden,

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that weight in his heart, whether it's

relationships or his own mind,

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or the actual physical enemies, like the Lord is the

one who's going to gain through those times.

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And then finally, these next two verses,

David is asking God to consider

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his circumstances, which I just over-concidered

him, who's making the chapel.

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So he's specifically asking the Lord to consider his

afflictions, his troubles, and all of his enemies.

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David then follows up his thoughtful request

for consideration by asking

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the Lord to forgive his sin and deliver

him out of those circumstances.

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David is reaffirming the trust that he has in God to

protect them, knowing once again that all of the

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weight and all of the burden that he's feeling is

only going to be alleviated from the Lord.

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And because of those promises that we have, that can

happen. And David is putting his faith in that.

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He's reminding God that he is keeping his

covenant with the Lord, so that

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covenant is putting his hope and trust in

him and being part of God's people.

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He's waiting patiently for the Lord to deliver him from

those circumstances and that sin, and knowing,

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like I said in a little bit ago, whether that day is

a deliverance out of it, which we know was the

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case, or David's life was to end, like the Lord is softly,

he's good, even if that were the end result.

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So the last couple of verses here, David is just

concluding this song by extending that plea for

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redemption to all of Israel. David understands his

plea for that, but he's also asking the Lord to

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remember his people and to do

that for them as well.

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And as the king, he's wanting all of his people, all

of his subjects, but more importantly, the Lord's

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people to be redeemed for their sins to be forgiven

and to come back to the Lord.

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So after he wrote him down the song, how exactly are

we taught God's path? Because one of the things I

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was wrestling with a little bit at the

very end of this was 21 verses in

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it, talks about teaching your ways in two

verses at the very beginning.

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So there's a lot of options about

four of those that

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appear, and you can hit on a couple

of points in each one.

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The first one would be that we pray. Like David, we

can ask a petition to teach us more about himself.

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He is a good father and who wants

what's best for his

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children, and the best thing for

his children is himself.

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So it's really nice that we can now pray this exact

song. David has given us a cheat sheet, kind of a

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how-to guide of how to ask the Lord

for more knowledge of him.

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It's something that I've been doing

with the Bridges' close. My

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drive to work is a little bit more extended,

heading up to Quincy.

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So the last week or so, I've just been praying through

this song specifically, asking the Lord to teach

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me more, and I think that's been happening, and

that's been really fruitful in my life.

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The next one is that we have good community.

Surrounding yourself in a

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good, genuine community is going to reveal

more of the work that we're doing.

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And that's like where MCs here at BC have really

come into play. Just having these really strong

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connections with people that you can be very vulnerable

with and ask, "How have you even seen God's

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grace? Where has he been moving in your life?

How have most people asked you?"

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And praying for one another. You're going to start

to see how the Lord is moving into other people's

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lives, and you're going to start to

notice that in your own life.

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You get to be encouraged by seeing that God is fulfilling

answers to promises in their lives and yours.

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So if you are not plugged into MC, you

should be. It's really good.

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Thirdly, we read his word. The Bible

is literally the spoken

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word of God. Things he wants us to know

about him can be found here.

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And I'll be the first to admit that

I can become pretty lax in

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days of rule. He was almost apathetic

to getting into the word.

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He really, really did it for like a few weeks, a month,

and then it'll be a couple days where I'm busy,

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I'm running around, I'm going to work early,

and I was like totally full out of it.

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But it's pretty mind-wearing that we have free access

to God's word. So we get to commune with him to

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prove the word. We use the word

"work" on him, and it's

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literally probably just sitting

on a table at a party.

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So it's important to get into his word

so you can be taught more.

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And then the last moment is obviously

we look to Jesus,

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which kind of goes into the hand

with getting into the word.

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He is the perfect blueprint of who

God is, God's character,

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and of things like a "we" that he's

learned from the Lord.

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We should be looking to Christ for all of

those things, all of the mercy,

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the grace, steadfast love for him as a faithfulness

that David's mentioning.

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In Psalm 25, and he's acknowledging and trusting him,

is fully known to display in Jesus, where David

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looks back at the promises that God had

done, saying, "I'm going to

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sustain you, these are how I am, I'm

going to send you to deliver."

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We now need to look at that fulfillment

of our promise of Jesus.

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And if you need to be really convinced that that's the

case, we can look at Hebrews 1.3, which is, "He

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is the radiance of the glory of God

and the exact imprint of

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his nature, and he upholds the universe

by the word of his power.

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After making purification for

sins, he sat down at the

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right hand and managed to be the

Father of the mighty."

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In this psalm, David is praying that God was showing

his ways, his truths, his past. David has faith

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that God will do and keep those promises, and those

petitions are not falling on our left fingers.

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He is keeping his promises, he is putting

his faith and his trust in him.

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We now have the privilege of being able to see God's

ways and all of that fluid on display through

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Jesus and through the Spirit in us that is constantly

reminding us of the character of God.

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So that's all I have for today.

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Shawn is going to come up and introduce me to

someone, but I'm going to try your way.

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We just thank you again for thanking

you that you are always

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the same, and that for you have never

changed and never will.

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We thank you that your love is steadfast and

you are thankful to your people.

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We thank you that you have given us Jesus as

the perfect blueprint of who you are.

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We thank you that we can see how he interacts with

people and sinners and know that that is me.

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We would not be apathetic to that

at the beginning of the

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word, but that you would continue

to draw us close to you.

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I pray that you would help us to remember

your promises, help us to

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remember who you are, or teach us more through

your word, through community.

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And most of all, through Jesus's life and ministry

and finished work on the cross.

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We thank you for your love and

thank you for your mercy.

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It's in Your name I pray, Amen.