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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Take Your Rightful Place 3 – Psalm 23
Publishing Date: 2024-01-21T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/take-your-rightful-place-3-psalm-23/

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about, can we go live stream now?

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Yeah.

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We've been talking about take your rightful place

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and we'll take part three now.

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Take your rightful place, part three.

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And the reason I'm so stuck with Psalm 23 today

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is because David knew his rightful place.

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He knew how to locate himself in the right place

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regardless of what was happening around him

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and that's the intent of this series we're doing

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in the beginning of the year,

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which is take your rightful place.

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How do you occupy that place with God

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in the midst of everything that is happening?

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And David knew how to quickly locate his rightful place.

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It doesn't matter whether he was in a war,

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whether he was in defeat, whether he was in sin,

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whether he was in victory, whether he was being blessed,

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whether he was being chased by Saul or by Absalom.

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This man had the ability to quickly come

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into his rightful place.

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And from that rightful place, he would once again rise.

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And so take your rightful place.

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Today we wanna look at some aspects of David.

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I don't think we'll get through more than one verse

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because Diana wants to go home early.

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So.

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Okay.

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So Psalm 23, and look at the places he was in.

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Psalm 23, when you read it, you realize he was in a place

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where he probably had need.

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And so he talks about taking his rightful place.

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And what's that rightful place?

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A place where he lacks nothing.

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He must have been pretty weary.

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So he takes a rightful place.

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What's a rightful place?

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A place of rest.

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He knows he's going through the valley

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of the shadow of death, which he did multiple times

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when he was running from Absalom and from Saul.

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Now what does he do?

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He knows how to find his rightful place

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where he's defiant of his enemies

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with a six-course banquet that God provides

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for him in their face.

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He knows how to be protected from harm,

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be the lion, the bear, a pagan king, or Goliath.

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He knew how, in the midst of everything,

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to have this amazing anointing, where his cup ran over.

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His head was anointed with oil.

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I mean, when you read 150 Psalms out of which

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he must have written at least 80 or 90,

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you realize that this man always had the ability

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in all kinds of situations to find his rightful place.

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There is no other man in the Bible

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who went through things that he went through.

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Every psalm is a response to a situation or a circumstance.

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And out of it, he always, at the end of the psalm,

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finds himself in the rightful place.

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And from that rightful place, he begins to go forward.

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You can see why God would call him a man

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after his own heart.

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Because if there is one rightful place

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that one should occupy throughout the day,

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it's in Psalm 91.

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He that finds, he that dwells in the secret place

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of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

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David knew how to do that.

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Psalm 91, by the way, was not written by David.

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It was written by Moses.

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But he knew how to be at home.

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I love the last line.

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If you read the Good News Bible, it says,

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and your home, your house will be my home as long as I live.

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David knew how.

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Your house will be my home.

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Your goodness and your mercy follow me all the days

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of my life, and your house will be my home as long as I live.

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He knew his rightful place.

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And so all we'll do is perhaps take the first verse today.

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The Lord is my shepherd.

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And depending on the version you read,

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you have different options.

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The Lord is my shepherd.

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The Lord is my shepherd.

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Then it can say, I lack nothing, or I have everything I need.

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I have everything I need.

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Or in some versions, I shall not be in want.

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Any of these could be used by us.

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But they all mean the same thing.

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One of the more accurate ways of saying it is, I lack nothing.

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The Lord is my shepherd.

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I lack nothing.

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And so want to know, as a church, as individuals,

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how do we take this rightful place where you can say,

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I lack nothing?

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That's perhaps as far as we'll get.

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I don't think we'll get to, he leads me.

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He gives me rest.

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I don't think we'll get there.

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Unless you want to stay late.

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No.

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So first look at the shepherd.

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This shepherd is outstanding in his daily care.

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This is Jesus Christ.

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This is God himself.

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He is outstanding in his daily care because of one reason.

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Because of his fondness for his sheep.

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He has a fondness for Mike and Karen.

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He has a fondness for Nick.

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It's out of that fondness that he is so brilliant, so

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outstanding in his care.

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And this is every day, every hour, every minute.

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These are inviolable truths.

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There's no bending this.

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There is no but.

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These are inviolable truths that are hard for us to wrestle

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with and embrace and embed in our hearts as a lifestyle.

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But these are inviolable.

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That he is outstanding in his daily care because of his

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fondness for the sheep.

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Outstanding or brilliant in his daily care, in his daily

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care, because of his fondness for me.

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His sheep, you.

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In taking care of his sheep, he takes personal

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delight and pleasure.

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Personal delight and pleasure.

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Personal delight and pleasure.

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That's the word pleasure.

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Personal delight and pleasure.

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How often?

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24-7.

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Doing what?

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Providing.

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Providing what?

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Every detail.

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These are inviolable truths.

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Now you see why Matthew 6, 26, Jesus, talking about his

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father, and in a sense about himself, says, look at the

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birds of the field.

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They neither sow nor reap.

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But there's nothing about them that I don't take care of.

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Not a single detail is left out.

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Multiply that by thousands and thousands and millions and

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millions and billions of birds.

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And not a single detail is left out.

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If that is the way I take care of birds, surely, Jacob, can

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you begin to embed in your heart and embrace with your

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whole being the fact that I am your shepherd?

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And can you say, I lack nothing?

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Very difficult.

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But these are inviolable truths.

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He provides a good shepherd.

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Jesus compared himself to a good shepherd.

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But if you take a good shepherd in general, a good

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shepherd provides the richest pasture.

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You know, when I was writing down the word

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richest pasture, I actually wrote down rich pasture.

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The reason I wrote down rich pasture is because while I'm

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writing, I'm unsure that God actually

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provides the richest pasture.

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I went for rich pasture.

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Because to say richest means he's giving me the best every

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day, every minute, every second.

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And I find that I don't always see it, and therefore I don't

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always believe it.

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And so I changed the word richest

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pasture to rich pasture.

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That is our condition.

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We don't believe that he gives you the best.

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So even to go from rich to richest is a problem.

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A good shepherd goes out of his way to provide his sheep

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the richest pasture.

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He provides them winter feed, meaning he looks into the

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future and provides them winter feed.

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He provides them clean water.

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He provides them shelter from the storm, and he sees the

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storm coming before the sheep can even sense it.

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He provides them protection from predators.

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This is something he does 24-7.

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And he does it not because he's hired.

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He does it not because this is his business.

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He does it not because he wants to shear the sheep and

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sell the wool.

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He does it not because he wants to slaughter them for

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meat.

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He does them because of his amazing fondness for you.

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Taking care of every detail, every detail.

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Some of you are students.

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Every detail.

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Some of us are messed up.

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Every detail.

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Some of us don't know how.

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Every detail.

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These are inviolable truths.

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They cannot have an if for a but added to them because they

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are inviolable.

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You can add a but to it because you are finding it

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difficult, and I'm finding it difficult.

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But these are inviolable truths.

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You can add but before gravity.

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But these are inviolable truths.

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He is jealous for his name.

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He is jealous for his name.

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He is jealous about his title as the Good Shepherd.

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He called himself that.

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He's jealous.

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It's not someone else who gave him that name.

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He is jealous of his name and his high reputation as the

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Good Shepherd.

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He's jealous about it.

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Moses knew this.

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Numbers 14, when God is really upset with Israel being so

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stubborn that he's saying, let me remove these guys, Moses.

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I'll start afresh with you.

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And Moses, in Numbers 14, verse 15 or thereabouts, says, oh,

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God, the lands around, the nations around know that you

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are the one who brought them out of Egypt.

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And if you don't take them through to the promised land,

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they will say that the God who brought them out of Egypt was

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not able to take them through.

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Moses knew how highly God thinks of his reputation.

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Why?

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Because his reputation, again, is inviolable.

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He doesn't mind giving away his temple.

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He doesn't mind having it desecrated.

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He doesn't mind the vessels being taken.

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He doesn't mind an idol being set up in the temple.

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He doesn't mind all that.

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But the one thing that he says about himself is, I am jealous.

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He doesn't even say, I am a jealous God.

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Jealous is not an attribute of God.

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Jealousy is not an attribute of God.

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It is who he is.

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I am jealous.

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As in, there are certain things about me that are inviolable,

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and I will not give them up.

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His name is jealous.

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And so his reputation as a good shepherd matters to him.

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That's another reason why he has no greater reward.

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Surprising.

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The good shepherd has no greater reward.

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I mean, I've seen guys who grow six foot carrots and 10 feet

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turnips, stand over their turnips proud, like look at this,

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how massive it is.

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You're talking about a blooming turnip.

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This shepherd, there's no greater reward he has than seeing his sheep,

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than seeing his sheep.

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Content?

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Well fed?

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Content?

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Well fed?

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When he looks at me, he feels quite happy.

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Safe, flourishing under his care, and leading.

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He loves it.

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He loves doing this.

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There's no greater reward he has than seeing his sheep content,

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well fed, safe, flourishing under his care and leading.

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It gives him great pleasure.

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That's why I like that picture that we saw of a shepherd who's happy,

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who enjoys his sheep.

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Any questions?

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Any questions?

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This is his nature.

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He likes it.

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Go ahead.

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We'll talk about that.

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Any questions?

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You really have to wrestle with this for it to embed.

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These are not words from our lips.

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These are not occasional ons and offs.

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This is embedded.

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I have everything I need and we have to figure out what does that mean?

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I lack nothing.

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What does that mean?

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What does that mean?

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I'll answer it just like his question.

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We'll come to that because it has to be answered.

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We can't say I have everything I need, I lack nothing,

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and then not deal with the nitty-gritty physical part of it.

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We'll talk about that.

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Let's define lack nothing.

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What does lack nothing mean?

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Lack nothing.

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Lack nothing is to be not deficient.

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Not deficient.

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Not deficient.

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In care, provision, management.

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When I say I lack nothing, it means I am not deficient in the care given me,

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in the provision I have.

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In the provision I have and in how God is managing my life.

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I have no deficiency.

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If I have no deficiency, then it means that I'm utterly content.

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If I'm utterly content, it means that consequently I have no craving or desires.

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I'm not craving or desiring more.

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So to lack nothing is to say that I'm not deficient in the care given me,

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in the provision that has been given me, in the management of God in my life.

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And then it goes on to say if that is the case,

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then I'm completely content and you will never see discontent.

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And consequently, there will not be times where I'm not content.

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I'm not content.

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I'm not content.

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And consequently, there will not be times where I'm desiring more

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or where I'm wanting more because everything is provided for.

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The more we talk about this, the more we realize this is not the rightful place that we occupy.

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The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not lack.

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I shall not lack what?

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I shall not lack what?

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Do God's shepherds, do God's sheep ever lack anything?

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The answer is yes.

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Take your rightful places to say this is the condition of the world.

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Yes, there is lack.

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Look at Psalm 23 itself.

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In the valley of the shadow of death, there is no light.

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There is lack.

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He takes me to green grass and lets me rest.

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Why?

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Because there is a lack of rest.

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Jesus, in Matthew 17, 27, Peter comes to him and he says,

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Jesus, we need to pay the temple tax.

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I don't have any money.

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What does Jesus say?

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I want you to pay for both you and I.

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But they didn't have the money.

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Jesus, in his instructions to Peter, when he tells Peter,

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go fish, cast the first fish, open its mouth and there'll be a coin in it.

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What are we presupposing?

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That the taxes need to be paid but Jesus did not have.

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There was a lack.

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So it's not that the children or the sheep of the shepherd do not have lack.

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The intent of Take Your Rightful Places,

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how do we in the face of lack get to a place

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where we still have the ability to say,

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I lack nothing and then see the reality of it?

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It can't be a faith statement with empty pockets.

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It can't be a faith statement with no food on the table.

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But the fact remains that there is lack.

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And sometimes, we'll come to that, there is lack.

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There was no light in the valley.

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They needed green grass.

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Sheep needed quiet water.

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Jesus didn't have what it took to pay taxes.

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So there was lack.

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So before we go any further, one of the first things we have to establish

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is that when we say the Lord is my shepherd,

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I lack nothing,

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we have to start with the premise that it is not

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about having.

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It is not about having but it is about being utterly confident

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of God in providing according to your daily needs

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and be supplying more than enough.

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More than enough.

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This is not a contradiction.

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When we say the Lord is my shepherd and I lack nothing,

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it is not necessarily about having,

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as in I have all that is required for this.

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No, it is about being utterly confident that whether I have it or not have it,

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I am utterly confident and I'll keep using this word confident

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because that's the one thing we lack.

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I'm utterly confident of God doing two things,

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providing according to my daily needs,

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and supplying more than enough.

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Beautifully, on one hand, providing according to my daily needs

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and on the other hand, supplying more than enough.

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It's both.

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It's not one or the other.

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There's a reason Jesus taught Matthew 11.

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Givens this day are daily bread.

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He actually used to live like that.

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Yes, he is the one who said that the ant works diligently to store up for the winter.

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He's the one who said that.

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But when he comes down to the earth,

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what he presents to the earth is the way he lived.

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Why?

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He even tells you why.

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He says that you have a father.

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Because you have a father,

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ask according to your daily needs.

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Such a bad idea to live like Jesus said.

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Why don't you say so actually?

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It's not necessarily having but being utterly confident of God

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and providing according to your daily needs and wants.

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Oh, by the way, please don't separate these.

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No father does.

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No father does.

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No father.

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Matt doesn't turn to Shiloh and say,

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listen son, all your life I'll provide your needs,

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but your wants, whims and fancies don't come within six feet of that.

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That ain't how father does.

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That's how fathers work.

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That's how we have constructed theology to get away with it.

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When theology is constructed to distort the nature of the father, spit it out.

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It is being certain.

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It is, when I say I lack nothing, it is being certain.

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These words are so important.

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Confident, utterly confident.

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It is being certain that

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it is being certain that you will never,

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that you will never lack anything,

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anything that the shepherd thinks

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is good for you.

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You will never lack anything that the shepherd thinks is good for you.

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And the shepherd is a good shepherd,

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so don't immediately go to the thought,

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ah, well, that's a catch.

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He has to think it's good for me and maybe he doesn't think I deserve this.

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Maybe he doesn't think.

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We go immediately there, eh?

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That, we always diminish his goodness.

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We always diminish his goodness.

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He's the, he's the goodest person in the universe.

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The word good applies only to one.

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And even that he shirked off when the rich man came and spoke to him.

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Why do you call me good?

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He's the only good one.

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But you can be absolutely confident and it'll take time to embed this.

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I mean, you have to first hear it as in hear it.

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You have to embrace it as in hold it tightly.

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And then it has to become flesh where it embeds in your heart.

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Once it embeds in your heart, it becomes flesh.

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And it does not happen overnight and it doesn't happen through repeating scripture.

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It happens to scripture wrestling you.

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It's like when you make bread, never made it, but I've seen it.

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They take the flour and then they start doing that thing.

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They knead it.

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Strangely enough, it is being certain that you will never, I will never,

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I will never lack anything that the shepherd thinks is good for me for the rest of my days here on earth.

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I will never lack.

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Strangely enough, what is good?

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What he's a good God to begin with, but what is good for me?

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When you read Psalm 23, the Lord is my shepherd.

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I lack nothing.

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He, the Lord is my shepherd, I have everything.

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He lets me rest in fields of green grass.

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He leads me to quiet pools of fresh water.

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He takes me down paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

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So, strangely enough, the good things, what is good for me, what is good for me,

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lies on the paths of righteousness.

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What is good for me lies on the paths of righteousness that wind through dangerous valleys sometimes,

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that winds through dangerous valleys sometimes, that he leads me through so that he can,

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so that he can get me to a better place with richer pasture.

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There is nothing in my life that I will lack in terms of what the shepherd thinks is good for me.

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But what is good for me will be found on the paths of righteousness.

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With the world, you do not have to be godly to make money.

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But the moment you become a citizen of the kingdom, righteousness matters.

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As long as you are a citizen of Babylon, it's okay.

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But the moment you become a citizen of the kingdom, righteousness matters.

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And so everything good, I will be provided for, I'll never have any lack of it,

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but everything good is found on the paths of righteousness.

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What do you mean found on the paths of righteousness?

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It's just happily following this God, stumbling around, making mistakes, getting up and following him again.

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Please understand, paths of righteousness, not paths of perfection.

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Paths of righteousness, not paths of perfection.

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Paths of righteousness, not paths that are super clean and there's no poo anywhere.

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Sheep poo.

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It's paths of righteousness meaning you will make mistakes, you will go off the path,

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you will poo, you will make things messy, you will not be perfect,

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you will get buttered occasionally, you will butt occasionally.

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But at the end of the day, there is that happy shepherd and you follow him.

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And these paths of righteousness will sometimes wind through the valley of the shadow of death.

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But this is not because you are straying, this is because he is leading.

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Now where is he leading?

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Why does a shepherd take his sheep through dangerous valleys?

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Not because he wants to prove how good he is with his staff and rod.

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Not because he wants to feed a poor hungry cougar.

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He's leading people through, he's leading his sheep through dangerous valleys for one reason alone,

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because there is a pasture across the valley and that pasture has grass you have never eaten.

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And in that pasture, you will give birth.

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That's why animals migrate.

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Animals migrate because they know that in this area, everything has turned brown and there is no more life.

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And so they begin to migrate and they migrate and they get to another place.

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But to get to that place, sometimes, sometimes, not always, sometimes,

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you have to go through the valley of the shadow of death and it is not you who are going, you're being led.

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Who did this? Jesus did this.

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Where? In the wilderness.

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He was led by the spirit.

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He was led by the spirit and he goes into the wilderness and he comes out into a rich valley of souls

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and people get saved by minutes.

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People get delivered by minutes.

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And he was provided everything he needed.

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There was never a day when Jesus could say,

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in the 33 years he lived,

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doesn't matter if it was through the wise men,

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doesn't matter if it was through a woman called Susanna,

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doesn't matter whether it was Levi's banquet, doesn't matter whether it was a fish.

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Every day that he lived on the earth, he could say without any hesitation,

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the Lord is my shepherd. I lack nothing.

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This is who he is.

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But embrace it and then embed it

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because then it becomes flesh and the world will see that your God is different.

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So,

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I may lack things as I follow the shepherd, but I will never lack anything that the shepherd thinks is good for me.

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I may lack things as I follow the shepherd.

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There will be darkness in the valley.

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There will be

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turbulence in my soul sometimes when I don't find rest.

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There will be nasal flies that try to go up my nose and ticks that bite me as I go through some of the brambles.

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But while that happens and the restlessness begins to take over, there is one called the shepherd.

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And so I may lack while I am following the shepherd, but I will never lack anything that the shepherd thinks is good for me.

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Psalm 84 verse 11,

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the Lord God is my son.

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The Lord God is my shield. Listen to the next words.

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No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly

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the paths of righteousness.

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This is why to answer your question and your question, it's very simple.

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Rejoice for the steps of a righteous man are ordered by God when I begin to walk like that. I don't even need to hear God.

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I'm shouting because I've won this so badly in my life.

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And then I'm shouting because I'm shouting.

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Any questions?

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To have the hand of the shepherd lead you like this is so critical because there was a rich man in Mach Mark 10.

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Verse 21 that comes to him.

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And he had everything that we would say should allow him to say I lack nothing. And look at the dialogue that follows.

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He comes to Jesus and Jesus says you lack one thing.

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Go sell everything you have.

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You lack one thing. He was a man who should say I am not in want. And Jesus says to him you lack nothing.

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You lack one thing. There was another church in Revelation 3.

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Where they come and they say

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they did this and they did that and Jesus says I want you to know that you think you have no lack.

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But I want you to know that you need to come to me and buy gold from me.

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Because you're naked, pitiful and wretched. You think you are rich. You think you've got garments.

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You think you have this and you think you have that. But I want you to know that you do not. Why?

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Because the hand of the shepherd upon your head is what makes providence work for you.

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What is providence? The guardianship of God.

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The guardianship of God.

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For us who work at jobs and are scared of what may happen tomorrow. For us who think what is my future?

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What is my career? I want to say to you.

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Begin to recognize the guardianship of God over your life.

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We have no trouble saying yeah, yeah, God blesses my work. God protects my work. I'm doing well at

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because God is taking care of my work. I don't have a problem if I don't have a job God would provide.

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All that is true and is worthy of praise.

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But I'm talking about acknowledging the guardianship of God.

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As in when I don't have work, when I am fired, when I'm this and when I'm that. The guardianship of God just takes care of me.

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Just as a child is taken care of.

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Just as a child is taken care of.

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The fondness that he has come from his pleasure over his children.

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As the onslaught of your circumstance comes in like a dark cloud, hold your hands up and begin to push it back.

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Do not allow it to settle because it kills you.

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Not kills you, it chokes the God life in you.

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Guys, this isn't even standing in faith.

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This is resting in love.

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This is not standing in faith.

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This is resting.

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A child is not...

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When a father carries a child, the child is not holding on in faith.

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The father is holding on in faith because the child is constantly wriggling but the child is resting.

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Any questions?

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Any questions?

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Like an a injured...

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omutable

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You made a wrong decision when you heard God.

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As long as you walk the path of righteousness,

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know that He is leading you.

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And it doesn't matter which valley He is leading you through,

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there will be plenty in the valley.

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And as you walk through it, you will change the valley of Baka

00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:10.840
into pools of refreshing.

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And you come out on the other side.

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Today is the day that gram-stained sons were burnt alive,

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January 22nd,

00:38:18.120 --> 00:38:21.160
burnt alive in a city in India.

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That was persecution.

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And out of that has come hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of souls.

00:38:31.120 --> 00:38:32.320
Today is the day.

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The cool thing is,

00:38:39.520 --> 00:38:41.800
we don't even know what persecution is.

00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:46.840
When it comes, you'll be surprised at how well we'll do.

00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:48.400
I mean that in all honesty.

00:38:49.720 --> 00:38:52.080
We don't know what it is, but when it comes,

00:38:52.080 --> 00:38:54.320
you'll be surprised at how you will take a stance.

00:38:56.280 --> 00:38:57.600
But we don't know what it is.

00:38:59.160 --> 00:39:01.960
Someone rebuking you for talking about Christ,

00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:03.840
ain't persecution.

00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:06.480
It's trying to silence you, yes, but that ain't persecution.

00:39:08.560 --> 00:39:10.520
It still stings,

00:39:10.520 --> 00:39:11.880
and it's still rejection.

00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:14.280
So does that simplify it?

00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:15.120
Okay.

00:39:18.720 --> 00:39:22.720
Recognize that why we struggle with this

00:39:22.720 --> 00:39:26.840
is because of something called the spirit of lack.

00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:30.880
Now I don't know whether it's a spirit as in a foul spirit

00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:32.400
or a spirit as in...

00:39:36.640 --> 00:39:38.720
Like when you say spirit,

00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:43.920
just like when you say spirit of poverty or a spirit of lack,

00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:46.680
sometimes I don't even know whether there's a real spirit

00:39:46.680 --> 00:39:49.080
like that or it's just a condition.

00:39:49.080 --> 00:39:50.000
Regardless,

00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:55.040
lack drives most everybody.

00:39:56.640 --> 00:39:59.320
Lack drives most everybody.

00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:03.680
And so when it comes to lack,

00:40:03.680 --> 00:40:06.200
recognize that the spirit of lack drives you,

00:40:06.200 --> 00:40:11.200
controls and affects decisions you make,

00:40:18.520 --> 00:40:20.600
affects your choices,

00:40:20.600 --> 00:40:24.960
sometimes has you manipulate situations and people

00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:28.840
because you want to meet the lack.

00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:33.760
Sometimes it fires up ambition

00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:38.200
because you want to overcome and get rid of the lack

00:40:38.200 --> 00:40:39.560
you had growing up sometimes.

00:40:39.560 --> 00:40:43.800
Sometimes it makes you seek and love riches.

00:40:46.240 --> 00:40:48.960
Sometimes it consumes your time

00:40:48.960 --> 00:40:53.960
where you have very little time for Malachi chapter two.

00:40:54.640 --> 00:40:57.560
The Malachi chapter one, consider your ways,

00:40:57.560 --> 00:41:00.640
go up the mountains, cut wood and bring it back

00:41:00.640 --> 00:41:02.480
so that my house may be built.

00:41:02.520 --> 00:41:06.160
Instead of first building your own paneled houses.

00:41:06.160 --> 00:41:07.840
What is he saying there?

00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:09.040
He's saying that, listen,

00:41:09.040 --> 00:41:13.080
can you now find time to begin to build my house,

00:41:13.080 --> 00:41:14.760
as in build the kingdom?

00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:16.440
Can you find time to build my house

00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:18.400
instead of building your own paneled houses?

00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:19.720
And if you continue doing this,

00:41:19.720 --> 00:41:21.520
here's what's gonna happen.

00:41:21.520 --> 00:41:24.520
Everything you bring will be struck with blight and mildew

00:41:24.520 --> 00:41:25.960
and your pockets will have holes.

00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:28.800
What you put in your pockets, it'll drain through.

00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:30.800
And then he goes on to say in Malachi chapter three,

00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:33.160
from this day forth, is it Malachi or Haggai?

00:41:33.160 --> 00:41:34.800
Haggai, could be Haggai.

00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:35.800
It's Haggai I think.

00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:37.680
And then he goes on to say in Haggai chapter two,

00:41:37.680 --> 00:41:39.680
from this day forth, I will bless you.

00:41:39.680 --> 00:41:40.520
Why?

00:41:40.520 --> 00:41:41.920
Because people began to turn around.

00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:45.600
Sometimes it consumes time

00:41:45.600 --> 00:41:48.720
where your time is devoted to...

00:41:50.720 --> 00:41:53.360
Remember, if Kronos doesn't get you,

00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:56.160
Mammon tries to get you.

00:41:57.600 --> 00:41:58.960
Mammon doesn't get you.

00:41:59.960 --> 00:42:02.320
Hubris tries to get you.

00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:03.840
If Hubris doesn't get you,

00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:07.760
there are two more, but we'll just stop with that.

00:42:09.200 --> 00:42:14.200
Sometimes it colors the soul, lack colors the soul,

00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:19.400
as in colors the soul.

00:42:21.240 --> 00:42:23.200
I sound like a stuck record when I say it,

00:42:23.200 --> 00:42:28.200
but I remember going up to the Burger King window

00:42:29.120 --> 00:42:34.120
30 years ago, and I'd come to a place where I had no money.

00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:37.160
I go up to the Burger King window

00:42:37.160 --> 00:42:40.400
and I asked for a Junior Whopper, which was 99 cents.

00:42:42.080 --> 00:42:44.280
And I forgot that there's tax on top of it.

00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:48.640
And it was $1.07, and I didn't have seven cents.

00:42:50.040 --> 00:42:52.200
And I pretended that I forgot my wallet at home

00:42:52.200 --> 00:42:53.120
and I drove away.

00:42:55.400 --> 00:42:58.440
And I drove away, I realized there's no fuel in the car.

00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:02.920
I had to borrow $3 to fill my car.

00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:06.320
And after filling my car, somehow get home

00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:07.360
and not drive the car again

00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:09.320
because I couldn't afford the insurance.

00:43:10.240 --> 00:43:13.720
And I know how lack colored my soul,

00:43:13.720 --> 00:43:15.480
and it distorted the face of God.

00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:22.760
Lack colors the soul.

00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:26.880
And please don't think you have to go to Burger King

00:43:26.880 --> 00:43:27.880
before it hits you.

00:43:29.120 --> 00:43:32.040
That is the, for me that was,

00:43:33.280 --> 00:43:36.160
whatever, what's it called?

00:43:36.160 --> 00:43:37.080
Rock bottom, yeah.

00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:39.640
For me that was rock bottom.

00:43:39.640 --> 00:43:42.960
But before that itself, there was this coloring of soul.

00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:45.760
And why am I sharing this with you?

00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:47.080
Because in this room,

00:43:47.080 --> 00:43:49.280
there is a coloring of soul in areas.

00:43:53.400 --> 00:43:55.440
There is a distorting of the face of God.

00:43:56.440 --> 00:43:59.640
Because we so struggle with this idea of Him being,

00:43:59.640 --> 00:44:00.960
the Lord is my shepherd,

00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:03.680
and that He is fond of taking care,

00:44:03.680 --> 00:44:06.120
of providing and of managing my life,

00:44:06.120 --> 00:44:08.480
because He thinks of me as His own.

00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:09.800
Very hard.

00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:12.960
Because every day we face a barrage of situations

00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:14.600
that are otherwise, right?

00:44:14.600 --> 00:44:16.600
And I constantly have to secure the future.

00:44:21.600 --> 00:44:22.680
It distorts.

00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:23.960
It distorts.

00:44:26.040 --> 00:44:27.440
Lack is like this, eh?

00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:31.760
It disadvantages others sometimes

00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:33.800
because you want to get out of your lack.

00:44:35.160 --> 00:44:37.000
It disadvantages others.

00:44:38.440 --> 00:44:40.800
It cripples giving.

00:44:41.960 --> 00:44:44.400
Because how can you give when you have lack?

00:44:44.400 --> 00:44:45.920
You can, but it cripples giving

00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:48.120
because you can't think of doing it.

00:44:48.120 --> 00:44:49.560
It deepens unbelief.

00:44:50.560 --> 00:44:53.000
Philippians 4.19 is good, O God.

00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:54.960
You supply riches according to,

00:44:54.960 --> 00:44:57.800
you supply all our needs according to your riches

00:44:57.800 --> 00:44:58.880
and glory in Christ Jesus,

00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:02.400
but there's a gap between what you say and what you believe.

00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:06.160
Sometimes it forces you to secure the future.

00:45:06.160 --> 00:45:09.360
You begin to hoard or keep away for the future

00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:11.920
because you think that is a wise way to live,

00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:13.080
and there is wisdom in it,

00:45:13.080 --> 00:45:15.640
but it is coming out of a place of lack.

00:45:15.640 --> 00:45:19.000
I would suggest to you also that the prosperity gospel

00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:23.000
is fueled by the spiritual lack.

00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:25.720
The prosperity gospel is fueled

00:45:28.240 --> 00:45:29.640
by the spiritual lack

00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:38.760
and the condition of orphanhood.

00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:46.600
Any questions?

00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:52.440
The prosperity gospel would not succeed

00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:56.760
if it wasn't for the fact that it is so lack driven,

00:45:58.560 --> 00:46:03.560
that it can be used to seduce you

00:46:03.560 --> 00:46:06.760
into giving and doing things so that you may prosper.

00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:12.720
Any questions?

00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:19.840
Okay.

00:46:26.240 --> 00:46:27.080
Okay.

00:46:29.720 --> 00:46:30.560
Let's conclude.

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I shall not want

00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:38.000
or I shall not be in want

00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:43.560
doesn't mean an absence of, does not,

00:46:43.560 --> 00:46:48.560
does not mean an absence of

00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:51.080
of expectations.

00:46:55.240 --> 00:46:59.120
An absence of expectations or resigned

00:47:00.680 --> 00:47:02.280
kaisara, sara, whatever will be,

00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:04.280
will be kind of a contentment,

00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:06.960
resigned kaisara contentment.

00:47:10.080 --> 00:47:14.120
Because that's one way this scripture has been interpreted.

00:47:14.120 --> 00:47:16.640
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

00:47:16.680 --> 00:47:19.440
And so people say, because the Lord is your shepherd,

00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:22.680
don't have any desires.

00:47:22.680 --> 00:47:24.640
Don't have, it's almost like Buddhism.

00:47:24.640 --> 00:47:29.320
Nirvana, just let go of everything.

00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:32.280
Have no desires, have no expectations.

00:47:32.280 --> 00:47:33.200
That's terrible.

00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:36.840
A child who does not have expectations of his parents,

00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:39.040
does not have a relationship with his parent.

00:47:41.160 --> 00:47:42.760
Never forget that he's a father.

00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:46.520
Have expectations, take them to him,

00:47:46.520 --> 00:47:49.600
ask him to shape them, give it back to you,

00:47:49.600 --> 00:47:50.600
and then ask again.

00:47:52.160 --> 00:47:54.320
James chapter four talks about this.

00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:56.760
Why do you have fights?

00:47:56.760 --> 00:47:57.600
Why do you have quarrels?

00:47:57.600 --> 00:47:59.000
Why do you have inner turmoil?

00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:01.200
Because you ask, but you ask amiss.

00:48:02.920 --> 00:48:05.440
Learn how not to ask amiss, Jacob.

00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:07.160
Take your expectations to him.

00:48:07.160 --> 00:48:08.760
After you take your expectations to him,

00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:10.960
tell him to shape them and give it back to you.

00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:13.960
Chip away a little here, say it's too less,

00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:16.560
add a little here, and now he gives it back to you.

00:48:16.560 --> 00:48:19.200
You take it, you look at it, and you ask again.

00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:27.320
Dad, could I have a flying saucer,

00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:29.640
like take a saucer and fly it?

00:48:29.640 --> 00:48:31.560
No, I got a better idea, son.

00:48:31.560 --> 00:48:33.240
There are things called drones now.

00:48:34.600 --> 00:48:36.880
Mom won't be very happy if you throw saucers

00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:37.720
around the place.

00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:40.360
And so God then shapes it, gives it to you,

00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:41.800
and then you give it back to him,

00:48:41.800 --> 00:48:43.440
and then see what happens.

00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:48.440
Remember, with God, it is always, always about relationship.

00:48:49.160 --> 00:48:51.720
And therefore, anything you ask,

00:48:51.720 --> 00:48:54.440
he would like to engage you in conversation,

00:48:54.440 --> 00:48:57.520
because relationships happen through conversations.

00:48:57.520 --> 00:49:01.320
Sometimes things are held back for a little while,

00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:04.360
just so my dad and I can have a conversation.

00:49:04.640 --> 00:49:07.880
It's not punishment, it's not delay, it's not the devil,

00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:11.040
it's yes, you asked for something, but can we talk?

00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:14.320
Engage in conversation.

00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:16.880
All relationship is built on time and conversation.

00:49:25.120 --> 00:49:29.160
So have expectations, do not go into resigned contentment

00:49:29.160 --> 00:49:31.200
and say, I don't want to talk about this,

00:49:31.200 --> 00:49:32.680
I don't want to talk about this.

00:49:32.680 --> 00:49:34.760
Do not go into resigned contentment.

00:49:34.760 --> 00:49:37.520
Resigned contentment is spiting your father.

00:49:46.520 --> 00:49:48.560
The actual sense of I shall not want,

00:49:48.560 --> 00:49:51.960
really, that's why I lack nothing is a better translation.

00:49:51.960 --> 00:49:53.560
I shall not want should actually read,

00:49:53.560 --> 00:49:54.800
I shall not be in want.

00:49:56.440 --> 00:49:59.320
It's not I shall not want as in, I shall not want.

00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:01.520
It is I shall not be in want.

00:50:03.160 --> 00:50:06.960
That's why the actual sense of the Lord is my shepherd

00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:08.480
is I lack nothing.

00:50:13.320 --> 00:50:16.640
Or the other version say, I have everything I need.

00:50:18.800 --> 00:50:21.240
It's not I shall not want as in, I don't want.

00:50:33.120 --> 00:50:38.120
Yeah, so on one hand, if you know you have everything in God,

00:50:38.120 --> 00:50:40.480
because he's planet and because he's father,

00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:42.560
then you have your expectations,

00:50:42.560 --> 00:50:44.080
take those expectations and say,

00:50:44.080 --> 00:50:46.680
father, here's what I've been dreaming of.

00:50:46.680 --> 00:50:48.880
Can you shape these dreams and give it back to me

00:50:48.880 --> 00:50:50.080
so that I may ask you?

00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:56.080
And he'll engage you in conversation.

00:50:56.080 --> 00:50:57.760
He'll engage you in conversation.

00:50:57.760 --> 00:50:59.200
He'll engage you in conversation.

00:50:59.200 --> 00:51:00.800
He'll engage you in conversation.

00:51:01.720 --> 00:51:03.200
And he'll engage you in it.

00:51:03.200 --> 00:51:06.720
To begin with, even the germ of the dream that you have

00:51:06.720 --> 00:51:08.880
was planted there by him.

00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:15.080
How come some of you wanna do business?

00:51:15.080 --> 00:51:16.840
How come some of you wanna sing?

00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:20.960
How come some of you want to do things that,

00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:24.720
I mean, May wants to hike and bike.

00:51:24.720 --> 00:51:26.080
Where does that come from?

00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:28.640
Divinely appointed.

00:51:28.640 --> 00:51:31.160
Divinely appointed, not to me, praise the Lord.

00:51:31.960 --> 00:51:35.360
So God puts the germ of the dream

00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:37.800
and then we may add our imagination

00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:40.120
and sometimes covetousness comes in.

00:51:40.120 --> 00:51:44.720
Sometimes a desire to be great comes in.

00:51:44.720 --> 00:51:48.720
Sometimes wanting to number what you have comes in.

00:51:48.720 --> 00:51:52.040
Sometimes comparing comes in where you want to be.

00:51:52.040 --> 00:51:53.320
And now when all that comes in,

00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:54.920
it begins to kinda distort the dream

00:51:54.920 --> 00:51:55.760
and take it back to him and say,

00:51:55.760 --> 00:51:57.480
can you shape it and give it back to me?

00:51:59.920 --> 00:52:01.120
He's a father.

00:52:01.120 --> 00:52:02.320
He crafts dreams.

00:52:08.480 --> 00:52:09.680
So what is our attitude?

00:52:09.680 --> 00:52:11.920
One, I shall not want, does not mean

00:52:11.920 --> 00:52:15.640
an absence of expectation or a resigned contentment.

00:52:15.640 --> 00:52:17.040
Please don't go there, eh?

00:52:17.040 --> 00:52:18.400
It's a terrible place to live.

00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:20.840
It's an affront to the father.

00:52:20.840 --> 00:52:21.680
It's a terrible place to live.

00:52:21.720 --> 00:52:23.200
It's an affront to the father.

00:52:23.200 --> 00:52:24.520
It offends the father,

00:52:25.440 --> 00:52:28.760
as it would offend any dad or mom.

00:52:28.760 --> 00:52:33.240
Second, I must be like,

00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:36.120
this is not a word children would use,

00:52:36.120 --> 00:52:41.120
but I must be like a proactive child.

00:52:43.120 --> 00:52:45.480
I must be like a proactive child.

00:52:46.600 --> 00:52:49.200
I must be proact, sorry.

00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:54.800
I must engage in proactive childlike surrender,

00:52:58.720 --> 00:53:03.720
proactive childlike surrender to a loving father

00:53:07.080 --> 00:53:12.080
who will give me my daily bread.

00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:18.760
Let me add one more sentence and then we'll talk about it.

00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:23.800
Third one, I must know the bread I need for tomorrow

00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:39.760
and have the confidence

00:53:42.640 --> 00:53:47.640
that it will be on the table

00:53:49.600 --> 00:53:54.600
when tomorrow becomes this day.

00:54:00.200 --> 00:54:01.120
Just think of that.

00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:04.760
I'm sorry, I'm gonna go off camera

00:54:04.760 --> 00:54:05.960
because I'm coming down.

00:54:07.120 --> 00:54:10.920
I must engage in a proactive childlike surrender,

00:54:10.920 --> 00:54:13.760
like proactive as in, this is not passive.

00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:16.520
This is everyday surrender.

00:54:16.520 --> 00:54:17.800
What kind of surrender?

00:54:17.840 --> 00:54:20.080
Childlike surrender.

00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:22.880
Childlike surrender to what?

00:54:22.880 --> 00:54:25.720
Not to what, to whom?

00:54:25.720 --> 00:54:26.680
To the father.

00:54:28.040 --> 00:54:29.640
And what's the intent here?

00:54:29.640 --> 00:54:34.440
That Jesus, his son, taught me a prayer

00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:38.480
which says, give us this day our daily bread.

00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:41.520
He taught that prayer in response to a question

00:54:41.520 --> 00:54:44.680
that the disciples asked, teach us how to pray.

00:54:44.720 --> 00:54:47.800
He taught a prayer that would be answered

00:54:47.800 --> 00:54:51.560
because every prayer that Jesus prayed was answered.

00:54:52.560 --> 00:54:55.120
He taught a prayer that was supposed to be answered

00:54:55.120 --> 00:54:56.800
and his prayer is, Emmanuel,

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and you can choose which Emmanuel I'm talking to.

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Emmanuel, will you pray every day

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that give us this day our daily bread?

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I must engage in proactive childlike surrender

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to a loving father who will give me my daily bread.

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And then I must also know the bread I need for tomorrow

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because tomorrow maybe Betty is coming to my place

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and Nick is coming to my place.

00:55:21.160 --> 00:55:26.160
Tomorrow maybe I need to go to Kelowna to do something.

00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:32.400
Tomorrow I may need to pay a debt that I have

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because tomorrow is the day that the debt is paid.

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I must know, I must know the bread I need for tomorrow.

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And having known it, I must have the confidence

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that when I wake up tomorrow,

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because he said give us this day our daily bread,

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I must have the confidence that tomorrow will become

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this day, give us this day.

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But I must know what I need for tomorrow.

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I must present it before the Lord.

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Not as in please, I hope you do it tomorrow.

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Now it becomes a conversation.

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Father, I know that you know.

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And I'm looking forward to it.

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One of the guys who practiced this was George Muller.

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I've seen his orphanage in Bristol.

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He has a massive building that's now being used

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by different organizations.

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He built it without a single cent.

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Why?

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Because he absolutely firmly believed

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that it is give us this day our daily bread.

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And he would promise the orphans around the table,

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it will come.

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And day after day after day after day,

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he proved again and again that daily bread

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is the provision of a father to his children.

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And it wasn't soup and more water in the soup.

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That song, those two lines in that song must become

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something we wanna display.

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Because sons display the nature of their father.

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I can feel the love of God in this place.

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I receive his mercy, receive his grace.

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I delight myself at your table of God.

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You have done all things well.

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Just look at my life.

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Any questions on this before we go to the last two points?

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Proverbs, what does it say?

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Yeah, so many promises like that, man.

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Again, look at the word that he's throws in there.

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The Lord will not let the righteous go hungry.

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There is this thing called the paths of righteousness.

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That he will keep us on because look at the,

00:57:52.520 --> 00:57:54.640
look at what's at the end of the path of righteousness.

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He will lead me in paths of righteousness, why?

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For his name sake, he has a vested interest in God.

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For his name sake, he has a vested interest in this.

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I have placed you here to glorify myself.

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Can you walk in the paths of righteousness?

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Because if you do, then Diana, where are you going?

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Okay, I just saw 6.30 and I wanted to ask.

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So, paths of righteousness for his name sake.

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Okay, last two points, which has eight points in each.

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Not eight, four.

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It is the factual grasp.

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You know, I have this odd habit, eh?

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I keep shortening words so that it fits within a page.

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Because when I'm preparing notes,

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I feel like if it fits within a page, it's short.

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So, THRU, THROUGH becomes THRU.

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THOUGH becomes THO.

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And I feel like now I'm doing you justice

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because it's just one page.

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That took another minute.

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Okay, it is a factual grasp.

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See, it's a factual grasp, meaning it's a fact.

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I must factually grasp that he's extravagantly generous

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in nature.

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That he supplies seed and increases it.

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That he supplies food.

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Is this from scripture?

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Yep, second verse.

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Okay, so, THROUGH becomes THROUGH.

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THROUGH becomes THROUGH.

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THROUGH becomes THROUGH.

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Is this from scripture?

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Yep, second Corinthians six.

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Second Corinthians six.

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Second Corinthians nine, six to 10.

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You'll see it there.

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For those who have been here for a while,

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you know this line very well.

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Extravagantly generous God.

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Doesn't compute.

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We can go as far as generous God.

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Extravagantly generous God?

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Nah.

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Extravagantly generous God, that's his nature.

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Second Corinthians nine, six to 10 talks about it.

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He supplies seed, as in, he supplies toony away.

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He supplies me away.

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To take seed and multiply and increase it

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because seed produces bread.

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And he also supplies bread.

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So that while you have things to eat,

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you're also learning how to increase.

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He supplies seed and bread.

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This applies to every student here,

01:00:46.560 --> 01:00:48.720
every retired person here,

01:00:49.360 --> 01:00:50.320
every working person here,

01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:52.160
every person who's looking for a job

01:00:52.160 --> 01:00:53.520
and doesn't like their job,

01:00:53.520 --> 01:00:55.040
and those who like their job.

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Any questions on that?

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Hear it, embrace it, embed it.

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It is being immediately and happily obedient.

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It is being immediately,

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immediately and happily obedient.

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Immediately and happily obedient

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to his command.

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So what does that mean?

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He says, you give them something to eat.

01:01:44.320 --> 01:01:46.160
Philip goes and says, there's a boy here

01:01:46.160 --> 01:01:49.560
who has some fish and some bread.

01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:55.280
Then he says to Peter, go fish

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and you'll find taxes there.

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So he goes and does that.

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He says to the disciples in John 21,

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cast your net on the other side.

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They do.

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He says to Peter early in Luke,

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throw your nets in again.

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Peter says, I have fished all day,

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but because you say so, I'll do it.

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There's this need to immediately

01:02:16.240 --> 01:02:18.320
and happily respond to his command.

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And when we begin to do that,

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a strange thing happens.

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All grace abounds to you.

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All grace abounds to you

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so that you will have an all sufficiency

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in all things.

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So that you may abound in all good works.

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I know that you desire to do good works

01:03:02.200 --> 01:03:04.520
and good works is not evangelizing.

01:03:04.520 --> 01:03:05.440
Could be evangelizing.

01:03:05.440 --> 01:03:09.320
Good works is not bringing people into the church.

01:03:09.320 --> 01:03:10.240
It could be that.

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Good works is wherever you are

01:03:12.280 --> 01:03:14.640
to be able to do three things.

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Make the Father known.

01:03:17.160 --> 01:03:19.160
Draw people into being disciples.

01:03:19.160 --> 01:03:20.200
Multiply churches.

01:03:20.200 --> 01:03:22.400
That was Jesus' way of functioning.

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And in the process, you let them know the good news.

01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:27.680
You show them, it doesn't matter who you are.

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It could be mowing a neighbor's lawn.

01:03:29.560 --> 01:03:32.480
It could be driving someone home.

01:03:32.480 --> 01:03:34.480
It could be calling someone for a meal.

01:03:34.480 --> 01:03:35.920
It could be creating a community

01:03:35.920 --> 01:03:37.920
that you want to at work.

01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:40.960
Getting students to meet together.

01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:44.400
Remi buying a bus so that he can bring people from TWU.

01:03:44.400 --> 01:03:45.600
Any of these things.

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Good works.

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But it says that when we follow these rules,

01:03:52.600 --> 01:03:54.160
a strange thing happens.

01:03:54.160 --> 01:03:58.120
All grace, as in God opening his life and saying,

01:03:58.120 --> 01:03:59.440
all grace.

01:03:59.440 --> 01:04:00.880
Because he's full of truth and grace.

01:04:00.880 --> 01:04:03.080
So when he says all grace, he's not saying,

01:04:03.080 --> 01:04:05.040
let me give you a grace called cookie.

01:04:05.040 --> 01:04:07.560
No, a cookie called grace.

01:04:07.560 --> 01:04:10.160
He's saying all grace as in he opens himself

01:04:10.200 --> 01:04:12.720
and he says, all grace shall abound to you.

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Danny, all grace shall abound to you.

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So that in all things, at all times,

01:04:18.560 --> 01:04:23.000
having all sufficiency, you will abound in every good work.

01:04:23.000 --> 01:04:24.240
What a promise.

01:04:25.320 --> 01:04:26.720
All grace abound to you.

01:04:27.640 --> 01:04:29.560
At all times.

01:04:29.560 --> 01:04:34.560
So that you have all sufficiency in every good work.

01:04:40.680 --> 01:04:43.240
Nick, we'll do communion next time.

01:04:47.520 --> 01:04:48.760
Unless you've prepared it.

01:04:49.880 --> 01:04:50.920
You have prepared it.

01:04:52.480 --> 01:04:54.280
If you have prepared it, we'll do it now.

01:04:55.560 --> 01:04:57.560
Okay, if you have prepared it, we'll do it now.

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Remember this line, please say it with me.

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I hardly make you say things after me.

01:05:03.640 --> 01:05:05.560
Please say this with me.

01:05:05.560 --> 01:05:08.480
A son lacks nothing.

01:05:08.480 --> 01:05:10.600
A son lacks nothing.

01:05:10.600 --> 01:05:15.600
A servant owns nothing.

01:05:18.720 --> 01:05:19.560
Just remember that.

01:05:21.240 --> 01:05:22.200
We won't talk about it today,

01:05:22.200 --> 01:05:25.040
but there's this thing called son-servant duality

01:05:25.040 --> 01:05:26.520
where once we begin to live like that,

01:05:26.520 --> 01:05:27.840
a strange thing happens.

01:05:27.840 --> 01:05:29.680
A son should never lack anything.

01:05:30.840 --> 01:05:32.840
And a servant never owns anything.

01:05:32.840 --> 01:05:35.960
Jesus lived in this sweet spot.

01:05:35.960 --> 01:05:38.120
A son lacks nothing.

01:05:38.760 --> 01:05:40.080
A servant owns nothing.

01:05:43.080 --> 01:05:47.160
So it comes easily and it goes easily.

01:05:51.560 --> 01:05:54.640
Can you put the shepherd thing back on the thingy?

01:05:56.040 --> 01:05:56.960
I'll disconnect.

01:06:02.200 --> 01:06:04.200
How this guy in the Old Testament knew all this, huh?

01:06:04.200 --> 01:06:05.040
David?

01:06:08.120 --> 01:06:09.120
Let's just pray.

01:06:22.320 --> 01:06:23.160
Let's just pray.

01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:36.760
Jesus, the reason I was trying to skip communion

01:06:36.960 --> 01:06:40.440
was because it's one of those things

01:06:40.440 --> 01:06:41.680
that shouldn't be rushed.

01:06:46.640 --> 01:06:49.280
So now that we've decided to go ahead with it,

01:06:49.280 --> 01:06:50.240
don't wanna rush it.

01:06:52.040 --> 01:06:53.600
So Holy Spirit, could you show us

01:06:53.600 --> 01:06:55.960
how you want us to go about it?

01:06:55.960 --> 01:06:56.800
Let's just pray.

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What from today do you want us to take

01:07:08.240 --> 01:07:10.640
and use in our partaking of communion?

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Father, we'll go to exodus

01:07:22.400 --> 01:07:24.880
and the Red Sea crossing and the Passover.

01:07:25.960 --> 01:07:37.840
that you will provide escape, you will provide protection, that you will provide us a meal,

01:07:37.840 --> 01:07:46.120
that you will lead us through deep waters.

01:07:46.120 --> 01:07:50.680
So we're going to read that about and then partake.

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As we see you with fresh eyes, Jesus, I don't know who this Pakistani shepherd is.

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I believe it's from the Swat Valley in Pakistan.

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But one of the things we as a church do right now is really a claim to his life.

01:08:08.800 --> 01:08:12.440
You know him, you know his name, you made him.

01:08:12.440 --> 01:08:15.560
We ask for his salvation.

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As a church father with great joy, we thank you that even though it's just a picture,

01:08:20.960 --> 01:08:24.440
it just represents something, we ask for his salvation.

01:08:24.440 --> 01:08:31.000
And we ask for the salvation of his family, that this man will get to know Jesus Christ

01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:33.840
as his Lord and Savior.

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That he and his household be saved in a valley far away because someone took a picture and

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the church prayed according to the will of God.

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So we thank you that we will meet this man about.

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Let me read from Exodus.

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Thanks.

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Thank you.

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If you haven't received it, just let folks know.

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Exodus 12.

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I'm reading from the NIV.

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I read from the NIV.

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I read from the NIV.

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I read from the NIV.

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I am the Lord.

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Can you all go to Psalm 91?

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Psalm 91.

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Let's read it together.

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Psalm 91.

01:12:07.680 --> 01:12:11.680
I'm reading from the NIV.

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You can choose your version.

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Psalm 91.

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Claim this as a promise as we eat and drink.

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This is God's desire and pleasure for the sheep of his flock.

01:12:26.680 --> 01:12:31.680
It's amazing how in this Psalm, both in Psalm 23 and Psalm 91,

01:12:31.680 --> 01:12:35.680
you'll see the tense change from you to I.

01:12:35.680 --> 01:12:37.680
But we'll look at that another time.

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Psalm 91, starting at verse 1.

01:12:39.680 --> 01:12:41.680
Everybody together.

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His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

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You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

01:13:14.680 --> 01:13:20.680
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.

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A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand,

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but it will not come near you.

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You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.

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If you say, the Lord is my refuge, and you make the most high your dwelling,

01:13:34.680 --> 01:13:38.680
no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.

01:13:38.680 --> 01:13:43.680
For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.

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They will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

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You will tread on the lion and the cobra.

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You will trample the great lion and the serpent.

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Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him.

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I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.

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He will call on me, and I will answer him.

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I will be with him in trouble.

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I will deliver him and honor him.

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With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.

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Let's eat.

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On the day he was betrayed, Jesus took bread.

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He broke it, and he said, this is my body which is broken for you.

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Eat this in remembrance of me.

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In the same manner after supper, he took the cup, and he said,

01:14:48.680 --> 01:14:54.680
this is the blood, this is my blood, with which I sign with you a new agreement.

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We thank you, great shepherd.

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We thank you, good shepherd.

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We bless you now as we drink in Jesus' name. Amen.

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May Psalm 91 be with you as you leave.

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Bless you guys. I'll see you when I see you.

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Monday is pursuit. Tuesday is quest.

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Thursday is Revive 24. Friday is Wally. Sunday is church.

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Yeah, if you need prayer, Sue and whoever she has with her will be praying.

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So feel free to come up and they'll pray for you.

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Otherwise, thank you.