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Get everything that I have thought.

I won't take the long route getting there.

I'll start this way when I was there.

I think 7th grade.

It's snowed in a town.

Where did it usually snow Olympia Washington and me and my buddy were throwing snowballs and we had this, not very bright idea.

I wonder if we could hit a car because there was this 30 mile-an-hour road that we were standing by.

So yeah, we wound up and we each let one fling and Snowball, get scar.

Then screeching tires.

Door opens up big dude, jumps out, and he's running for us.

You don't know how fast you can run until somebody is chasing you who's angry at you.

So we ran and we were in pretty good shape and we got away.

This is an illustration of a kind of a flaw in John's personality which is a bit of ACT first and figure it out later which I'm still working on all these years later.

So, but that's not what I'm wanting to illustrate to you.

What I'm wanting to evoke in you is your experience of being chased.

Have you ever been chased Buy a dog.

Buy a person.

How about a bill collector?

I've been chased by bill collector.

How about a overly aggressive salesperson?

How about in especially eager homeless person.

How about an assailant, an attacker?

Have you ever have you ever literally been chased by someone who intended to do you harm and had waited for you and who is now pursuing you usually, if you're being chased, it's a bad thing.

And what I want to talk about for a few minutes inspired by Bob and his story and this baptism.

Today I'm going to talk to you about the fact that there's the kind of being chased that is beautiful and will change your life forever.

And the place I want to go to explore that is in this very familiar, little poem from the Bible.

It's in the book of Psalms Psalm 23.

Here's how it goes.

The Lord is my shepherd.

I lack nothing.

He makes me lie down in Green Pastures, he leads me, he leads me beside Quiet Waters.

He refreshes my soul.

He guides me along the right paths for his namesake.

Even though I walk through the darkest Valley, I will fear.

No evil for you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

You anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows.

Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

We're just going to let that sit up there on the screen for a little bit.

I want to focus on that last verse.

Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life and I will do my Hustler forever except I want to get even narrower to this.

Surely your goodness and love will follow me.

I want to tell you this story of that little word follow The story starts in the fact that the Old Testament of the Bible is not originally written in English.

It's originally written in Hebrew.

It was written by the of Ryder different people from among the people of Israel, they spoke Hebrew they Hebrew, they wrote in Hebrew.

So the Old Testament of the Bible, which is the part written up through about five hundred years or so, before Jesus, that's all written in Hebrew.

Just in time, talking about it, the New Testament of the Bible, which is about Jesus.

The story of Jesus, the son of God, who was spoken of in the Old Testament, the story, the New Testament, the story of Jesus, and everything that follows from him.

It's written in Greek because Greek was the worldwide language of the New Testament era, B Old Testament Hebrew, which means the word follow on our screen.

Isn't in the original Psalm 23.

It's somebody's translation of the original sound 2300.

What's the original word that's transmitted as follow here?

It's robbed off.

If you were going to use English letters you would spell it r a d, a f rod.

The thing for you to know about Rod off is it's the wrong word to put with goodness and love.

It's not supposed to go with words, like goodness and love it occurs 133 times in the Old Testament.

And there's only one of those times when it gets paired up with these words.

So, it's a verb right off as a verb, and goodness and love are nouns.

This is little English class time.

They're the subjects of the noun.

Surely goodness and Love Will Follow Me.

Robbed off which also can be translated Chase or pursue usually goes with the experience of enemies.

Somebody bad chasing you because that's usually what's happening.

If we're getting chased, we're getting chased by somebody who intends to do us harm, that's how this word is.

Usually you just let me give you two examples.

The first one is Exodus 14 verse 23, the Egyptians pursued them and I'll pharaohs horses and chariots, and Horsemen, follow them into the sea, the Egyptians pursued them, that's that same word.

Rod off used, as it normally gets used, the Egyptians are the enemy, and they were pursuing the Israelites wanting to kill them.

Here's another example.

2nd Kings 20:5 verse 5, but the Babylonian Army, pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho.

All its soldiers were separated from him and scattered.

This is the story of the overthrow of the city of Jerusalem by the Babylonians.

The Babylonians are the enemy and the king of Jerusalem is captured in the story and what follows after it is some pretty gruesome details about how the the Babylonian Empire treated this King whom they had captured That's how chasing occurs in the Old Testament of the Bible, that's how that verb rubbed off is used.

So it's the wrong word.

To pair with goodness and love.

Surely goodness and love will chase me all the days of my life and why would you intentionally use the wrong word in a poem?

Like Psalm 23.

The answer is it's called irony.

So now.

Okay, English English class time to learn a couple things irony.

This is a dictionary definition of the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite typically for humorous or in phatic effect Someone Psalm 23, it's for emphasis, it's for, it's it's for emphatic effect.

But another example of irony would be, let's say, I'll because I like my sibling.

I got in a really bad bicycle crash and I'm in the hospital.

And I got a big fat lip, and I got scratches all over my face, and I got a broken arm and I look really bad.

But you come to visit me.

And you look at me and you say, You look great.

That's not the right word.

It's an intentional use of the opposite word.

Or humor maybe for it's it's kind.

It's a kind use of irony.

You might be familiar with another word.

Sarcasm, what sarcasm sarcasm is irony, but it's the use of irony to mock or to convey contempt.

So let's think of a different example, you're a foreman and you have a team and one of your team members shows up a half hour, late for work, the fifth time in a row and you say thanks for being on time Jones.

That's irony, it's the wrong word, right?

He's not playing again, but that's your point.

It's just that sarcasm is intended to have a sting.

Irony is a more neutral about whether it stinks or not.

You can use irony as like in Courage meant sort of thing.

So let's go back to, I think the next slide is back to verse 6 in my right yet.

Surely your goodness and love will pursue me all the days of my life.

It's ironic use of the wrong word to make a point that God chases you But not for your harm, rather for your good.