Jan. 25, 2025

Christianity and Times of Trouble

Christianity and Times of Trouble

A discussion about Christianity and any help it offers in times of trouble

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A discussion about Christianity and any help it offers in times of trouble

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Well, have you

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ever made any bad decisions? Have you ever made just

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a really bad decision and then you kind of lived

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with the consequences. I don't know about you. My life

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is filled with bad decisions and the consequences. And what

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you are about to hear is another one of my

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bad decisions. Because I probably should not be broadcasting right now,

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I should not be doing this episode right now, but

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here I am. I'm going to do it even though

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I shouldn't. And the reason I'm going to do this

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broadcast even though I shouldn't be broadcasting right now, is

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because I think it fits perfectly with what we're going

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to talk about. I think this would be I could

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talk about this at any time, but I think it

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is more important to talk about it right now because

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it really connects there. There's going to be a sense

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of it's going to be more real, it's going to

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be more relevant to what is happening right now, And

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I'm going to explain everything after I say good afternoon everyone.

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It is Saturday, January the twenty fifth, twenty twenty five.

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It is currently two thirty two pm Central time, and

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I'm coming to you live from the Theology Central Studio

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located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, in your life,

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and now I've asked you questions. I asked you a

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question about bad decisions. But in your life, I think

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you would acknowledge that you have experienced times of trouble

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in your life, right, times of difficulty. And those troubles

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could be a number of things. They could be physical,

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they could be financial, they could be relational, they could

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be emotional, they could be mental, They they could be

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it could be a lot of different things. But you,

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I think we can all say we've all encountered troubles

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in our life. We've all encountered them right to some level.

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Sometimes the troubles are severe, they're almost tragic. Sometimes they

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may be one small trouble added to another small trouble

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to another small trouble until they really start, you know,

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they basically start compounding and they're becoming worse and worse

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and worse, and and you you have great difficulty. Now

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here's the real question. I'm asking a lot of other questions,

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but here's the real question. When it comes down to it,

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when you find yourself in times of trouble, no matter

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how great, no matter how small, do you feel in

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a real, tangible way, that Christianity offers you any real answer,

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any real comfort and your time of trouble? And if so,

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what is that comfort? What is that help? If it's

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real and tangible? And now it's okay to just you know, oh,

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you have a theory, you have an idea, and you

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just throw out kind of a vague thing that, well,

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this or this, but you don't really have anything tangible.

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You may try to claim you feel something that helps

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you in a time of trouble, but that's just a

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claim about a feeling, that's a claim about an emotion.

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Now you can tell yourself you're supposed to have this

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feeling or emotion when you actually don't. But in times

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of trouble, do you feel Christianity offers any real hope? Now?

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Sunday after Sunday Bible studies all around the country, every

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day every week, in America and around the world. It's

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common for hey, in times of trouble and times of difficulty,

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Christianity offers you hope, It offers you, you know, comfort,

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it offers you peace, and we make a lot of claims.

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I just don't know if it ever tangibly really amounts

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to anything other than a lot of claiming that it

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does and a lot of people claiming they receive it.

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But I don't know if it's tangible. Is it even

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supposed to be tangible? Now, why am I asking all

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of these questions about bad decisions? And why am I

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asking all these questions about trouble, because well, right now,

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first the bad decision, I shouldn't be broadcasting right now.

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And the reason I shouldn't be broadcasting right now is

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I haven't slept or many of you know, I'll just

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go ahead and add the fuller context. Many of you know.

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I have a seizure disorder and neurological issues that all

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comes from the fact of what happened to me when

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I was in the military. And there are some times,

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there's periods of time, there's sometimes a day, a night

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where everything just goes wrong. And right now, no sleep

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and my head feels like I think I can accurately

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say this may be the worst headache, the worst I

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have ever felt in regards to my neurological issues, other

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than I haven't had seizures yet. I'm waiting to have

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about thirty seven seizures and die in the next thirty minutes. Okay,

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maybe that's a little bit of hyperaboli, but yeah, it's

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it's not a good day. Now. I know what you're saying.

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Why are you broadcasting? Why? Why? I'll let me explain. Now,

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you know that I was I'm almost to the point

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of death because I literally laid down. I don't know

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about two hours ago, three hours ago, I don't even

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know anymore. It all runs together. I literally laid down.

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So that's in the middle of the day, and I

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slipped into a full blown coma. Okay, I didn't think

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I was ever going to awaken from it that. You

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know that that's like something is if I lay down,

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you know something is horribly wrong. So I shouldn't be broadcasting.

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Everything says I shouldn't be broadcasting, right, But why am

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I broadcasting? Well, that's that's a good question. Right while

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I'm trying to broadcast because I'm trying to help myself

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in this period of trouble. We'll call it a period

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of trouble, right, It's a time of trouble. It's a

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time of physical trouble, mental trouble, emotional trouble, because it

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all starts compiling, right, It all starts building, right because

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you've got the physical, the seizure, neurological issue, the headache,

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which then causes you not to be able to do

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this or do this, messes up your routine, which then

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leads to frustration and emotional and then mentally. Okay, it

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just starts all compounding, compiling. Whatever the correct word. I

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don't even know if I'm going to use any correct

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words in this episode. You're just going to have to spare.

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You're going to have to just, you know, stay with

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me and give me a little bit of grace here.

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I mean, because again I should not be broadcasting, probably

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should be laying down and not moving, but here I

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am sitting up trying to talk. But it's a time

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of trouble. I think that's an accurate way to describe it, right,

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at least for this episode, to let me describe it

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that way, right, I mean, Man, my head hurt so bad,

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so but what do I do? Right? Do I just

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allow my neurological issue and my head pain to stop

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me from doing anything. I just go the whole day

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not being productive. Can't do anything I just sit and

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do nothing, We'll see that will drive me to the

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point of total insanity. I'll lose it, right, So this

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is really my attempt to say, you got to do something.

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So get up there, sit down in front of that microphone,

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and you've got to do something or you're just gonna spiral.

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It's just gonna get worse, and it's gonna get worse,

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and you're gonna get frustrated, and that's gonna lead to

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more irritation You've got. So it's almost like I've got

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to do something to make myself feel better. So it's

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me trying to say, in a time of trouble, I've

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got to do something. All right, So I'm like, what

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do I do? Well? The bottom of the stairs of

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the studio was a stack of sort of The Lord newspapers. Now,

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many of you know I subscribe to the sort of

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the Lord newspaper, the actual physical paper. I do so

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more kind of like I just liked the idea of

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getting an actual paper, right, It's just kind of cool

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from a historical perspective and sort of The Lord. I

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always can find something in a sort of The Lord

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that turns into a podcast episode sometimes it turns into

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multiple ones. Whether I agree or disagree, it's always there.

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So I went down and what it happened is our

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our mailbox here in the neighborhood. It's kind of like

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a I guess you call it a community mailbox. There's like,

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you know, it's one big box with like I don't know,

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ten individual mailboxes within it, and everyone has their own key.

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You walk about half a block, you know, down to

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to it. Well, someone broke into it, brought stole all

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the mail, broke the box, and then the post office

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says it wasn't their responsibility. Nobody knew how to get

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it fixed, so no mail was being delivered. So finally

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they got the mailbox fixed. I don't know who fixed it,

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but it finally got fixed. And once it got fixed,

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while all of our mail started showing up, and that

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stack was like, I don't know, four months five months

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of sort of the lord newspapers. So they're at the

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bottom of the stairs. So I was kind of going downstairs,

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coming back upstairs, just trying to like, what am I

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going to do? What am I going to do? And

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I saw them, so I picked them up, and I'm like, hm,

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I don't know what to do. Sort of the Lord

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always allows me something to broadcast about. So I picked

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one up, and I picked up the January the third

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twenty twenty five edition of the sort of the Lord newspaper.

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All Right, the first article kind of to the left

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if you're looking at the paper, is yes, there is

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a hell, like okay, now, if I'm just being truly

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honest with you, okay, and I know this is not

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a correct way of understanding, and I'm like, yeah, there is,

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and I think it's all inside my head right now

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because I am in great pain. Okay, I know that

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hell's far worse than my headache. But if I'm just

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being honest, that's how I was thinking at the moment.

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Then the next one was the dangers, the danger of forgetting.

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I'm like, okay, well right now I can't remember anything.

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I've forgotten everything because my head hurts so bad. So

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I'm just kind of like, I'm just kind of like,

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this is the way my thinking is. I'm just kind

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of being you know, a smart alec about everything I see,

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just kind of being a jerk in my head because

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I'm just my I'm in pain, I'm tired, I'm ugh,

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you know, nothing is great, So I'm like, okay, whatever.

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Then I see right underneath that, what do you do

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when trouble troubles you? What do you do when trouble

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troubles you? And I'm like, oh yeah, let's talk about

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what I do when trouble troubles me. What do I

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have a tendency to do when trouble troubles me? Well,

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I get frustrated about the troubles. I don't like the troubles.

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I want them to go away. I don't like any

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trouble to mess up my schedule, mess up my routine.

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I don't like troubles to stap me from doing the

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things I want to do, the things I need to do,

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the things I like to do. I don't like when

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troubles hit me on a Saturday and I know that

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I've got to prepare for tomorrow and I've got to

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teach for two hours. I don't like it. I get irritated,

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I grumble, I complain, I get mad, I get bitter,

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I get frustrated. You know what do I do when

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trouble troubles me? I typically don't handle it in a

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way that a Christian should handle it. And I look

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and if you can look down upon me and say, man,

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what a what a piece of trash that person is.

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But I've said it before and I'll say it again.

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I'm just a sinner with a microphone. So I'm being

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honest with you. Now, what do you do when trouble

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troubles you? So I looked at the headline, I'm like, okay,

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and then all of a sudden I thought, wait a minute,

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Wait a minute. This is an article on the sort

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of the Lord newspaper, what do you do when trouble

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troubles you? This is going to be obviously a sermon

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slash article and the sort of the Lord newspaper that's

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going to tell me, as a Christian what I should

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do when trouble troubles me. This is going to give

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me the Christian solution to what to do when trouble

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troubles you. Well, I feel troubled today because my head

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is pounding and all of the neurological issues. So what

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do I do? So what is the biblical answer? And

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is it going to be a good Biblical answer? So

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I'm like, you know what, I'm not even going to

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read the article. I'm going to take the article, turn

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on the microphone, and we're just going to find out

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in real time what do we do when trouble troubles us?

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What do you do now? If again, I would want

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you to just answer that what do you do when

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trouble troubles you? And be honest with yourself? What do

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you do? Right? And my I guess in my case,

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what do I do when trouble troubles me? I turn

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on a microphone and talk about it? Right? Is that

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a good thing? I don't know. Maybe it is, Maybe

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it is, and maybe it helps someone else. I don't know.

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So I saw that. Now I did do this. I

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to the fact we all have troubles, what is most

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likely the definition of troubles being used? Because I was

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just when you see the word troubles, how do people

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understand it? Ay? I said, when someone refers to the

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fact that we all have troubles, the word troubles is

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most likely being used in a broad general sense to

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mean challenges. Difficulties are problems in life. It was a

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challenge to have neurological issues and seizures it is difficult,

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and it is a problem. These can include emotional, physical, financial,

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or relational struggles, as well as other hardship setbacks that

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are common part of the human experience. The definition often

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depends on context, but usually implies personal or situational adversities

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that causes discomfort or distress. All right, that's so everyone

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has this, Everyone can relate. Everyone has troubles. So it's

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not if trouble troubles you, what do you do? It's

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when troubled rubbles you, what do you do? Well, let's

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find out what this has to say. Are you ready?

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Here we go from the January the third, twenty twenty

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five sort of the Lord paper. This is really and

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I want you to understand the way I'm setting this up.

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Some of you've already caught on. I'm the person currently now.

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You probably have your own troubles, but I'm someone broadcasting

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with a present trouble, right, my neurological, physical issues, sleep deprivation,

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everything else that's going on. Okay, so that's a real

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time like I'm currently experiencing it. You can probably hear

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it in my voice and probably how poorly I'm going

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to communicate during the rest of this okay. So, now

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imagine someone going through a trouble, something even far more

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serious than just physical, something maybe really emotional tragedy in

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their life. Well, what does care Ristianity offer them? So

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what does Christianity offer me and my time of trouble? Well,

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let's see how the article begins, first paragraph. Since we

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all have troubles? What is the solution? Oh no, that's

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all right, We're getting right to it. The article doesn't

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waste any time. You and I have troubles. What is

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the solution? What is the solution to our troubles? What

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does God teach about how to get out of trouble?

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And what do we do with our troubles? Now? Does

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God always teach us how to get out of our troubles?

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I can't get out of my trouble, ladies and gentlemen,

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I can't. What happened to me in the military had

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was not my fault, all right, So I can't do

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anything about my neurological problems. I can't do anything about

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my seizure disorder. I can't do anything. I can't. It's

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so can I get out of my trouble? I mean,

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that's a real question. Does God teach you. What does

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God teach you about how to get out of trouble? Well,

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I think, if I can speak correctly, on one hand,

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we're never going to get out of our trouble because

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we live in this world, and this world is filled

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with trouble, So you're always gonna You may get out

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of one trouble, but another trouble will be ready to

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knock on the door and say, hey, I'm here to

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replace the last trouble left. Well, I'm here to replace it.

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So I guess maybe you have periods of time we

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have less trouble, but even in times of less trouble,

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there's usually something there. Correct, So does God actually teach

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us how to get out of trouble? Maybe he teaches

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us how to get out of a specific trouble. What

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do we do with our troubles? What do we do

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with them? Sometimes we had best find out what to

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do by first knowing what not to do. So the

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approach of this article is like, sometimes what we need

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to do is find out what we shouldn't do. Before

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we can find out what we should do in our trouble,

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we have to find out what we shouldn't do. There

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are things we shouldn't do in our trouble. Now, that

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may be a better way to approach it, right, Hey,

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I don't know if we're going to have any positive

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answers with our troubles. I don't. I mean, we could

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come up with some vague things. Cast all of your

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care upon God, you know, pray. I mean those are

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the typical things. What does that actually do? I don't know.

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Everyone said, well, I felt something. I mean, that's such.

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We could get into the placebo effect. Are you just

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convincing yourself you felt better? Did your trouble actually go away?

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I mean, we could get into a whole conversation about

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it there, right, But I think it is easier to say,

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here are the four things you should not do in

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times of trouble. That may be a more interesting approach,

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right because because then at least you know, hey, I

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don't know. Positively, I don't know, but negatively I know,

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don't do this. Right, So we'll see how they go

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with this next paragraph. Unfaithful men will fell us all right?

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That that's an interesting next line. Okay, Hey, hey, we

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all have troubles. Sometimes in your trouble, before we can

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figure out what we should do, we got to figure

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out what we shouldn't do. And then the very next paragraph,

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unfaithful men will fell us. So it goes on to say,

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before we share our troubles with men, we had better

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be absolutely sure they are qualified to help. Now, sometimes

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in our trouble, you're right, going to people sometimes the

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worst thing to do. Oh. I think most of the

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time it's the absolute worst thing to do, right, I mean,

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what happens when you take your troubles to people? In

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many cases there's nothing they can do anyway. Right, So

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all right, let let's see where it goes with here,

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The article continues, a bankrupt man is hardly the one

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to give financial advice. Well, maybe I don't know what

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to see now, I don't know if that fits, because

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the whole point of the article is to find out

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what not. Before we can find out what to do,

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we got to find out what not to do. I

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think going to a bankrupt man is probably the one

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who can tell us what not to do, right, So

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I think the article kind of is contradicting itself. Hey,

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before you can know what to do, you got to

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find out what not to do. Hey, don't go to

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a bankrupt man for financial advice. Well, wait, if I'm

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supposed to find out what not to do before I

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find out what to do, going to the bankrupt man

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first would be in line with the whole hypothesis of

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this article, right, because they could tell me, don't do this.

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It led to my bankruptcy. So I think sometimes going

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I don't always agree that going to people who have

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failed is the wrong approach, especially if we have to

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learn what not to do first. If we want to

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learn what not to do, go what are the people

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who have I think that's where sometimes it's this idea

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that if anyone has failed, they have nothing to offer.

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Sometimes the people who have failed have the most to

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offer because they can tell you, well, this is how

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I felt, this is how I got there, this is

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what happened, this is what happened, this is what happened.

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So I don't like that. I mean, that seems to

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go against the hypotheses of this entire article. But okay,

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God put it this way, right, So now they're gonna,

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they're gonna they're quoting from scripture here. Confidence and an

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unfaithful man in times of trouble is like a broken

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tooth and a foot out of joint Proverbs twenty five nineteen,

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Proverbs twenty five nineteen. I'm gonna actually open up my

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Bible and look at it. Proverbs twenty five nineteen, Proverbs

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twenty five nineteen. Confidence and an unfaithful man. Now say,

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I don't think Proverbs twenty five nineteen is a not

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going to I don't think that is anything to say

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about going to a bankruptman for financial advice, because you're

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going to the bankruptman to find out what not to do.

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This is the idea putting confidence in an unfaithful man.

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You put your confidence in someone who's unfaithful. You're not

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putting your confidence in someone So I don't know if

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this all fits the overall idea. But the idea here

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is confidence and an unfaithful man, and time of trouble

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is like a broken tooth and a foot out of joint.

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If you put your confidence and someone who's unfaithful, well,

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it's probably not going to go well for you. Okay,

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I think I can agree that. Now the issue is, well,

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who among us is faithful? Is there any person we

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can go to? Then? All right, that leads to a

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whole different question. All right, But the article goes on

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to say, hang on, I got to open this up.

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We will hardly be helped with our burden by nursing

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a bad tooth or by hobbling through our calamity on

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a bold foot. So, hey, you're not going to be

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helped out with your burden if you end up with

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a broken tooth or a foot out of joint. So

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how to avoid I guess what the what he is

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saying is? So, then what do you do? You don't

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put your confidence in an unfaithful man when you are

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a time of trouble. Don't put your confidence in an

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unfaithful man, or you're just going to end up with

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a broken tooth and a foot out of joint. So

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therefore it's not going to help you in your times

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of trouble. So in your time of trouble, or when

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when trouble is troubling you, what do you not do?

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You don't go to an unfaithful man. I guess that's

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that's kind of the approach here, all right? Next paragraph. Neighbors,

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fellow workers, friends, and even family members may be quick

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to offer a solution, but often they are themselves unfaithful

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comforters who have more sympathy than sense. Now, there is

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a lot of true truth to that. A lot of time,

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people are quick to offer information, and they have more

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they have more sympathy than they do since and when

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you start listening to some of the things people say,

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sometimes you're like, what are you talking about? And I

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could go through stories of things people said to me,

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ridiculous things people said to my sister when our mother

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died when we were young, and it was typically all

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of the horrible things said were typically by professing Christians

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who said some of the most ridiculous and sane things

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I've ever heard in my entire life, right, I mean,

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just absolutely messed up stuff. It was the atheist and

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agnostics who never said anything ridiculous. It was Christians who

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offered just ridiculous comments, right, I mean, Oh, man, I

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don't even I don't ever want to go back and

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ever hear a Christian offer me any form of comfort. Right. So,

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and why is that? I think Christians fill the need

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to offer comfort. And they think because they've memorized a

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couple of Bible verses in Sunday School that they're now

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qualified to offer comfort. Just because you memorize a couple

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of scriptures, you rip them out of context and you

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throw them at somebody. Sometimes you would be better to

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be like Job's friends and just not speak. Okay, but

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that's a whole different subject. All right, So this first,

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this is kind of the introduction. The introduction acknowledges we

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all have trouble. We agree that it acknowledges that sometimes

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before we can figure out what to do, we got

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to figure out what not to do. One of the

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first things offered is what not to do is you

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don't go to an unfaithful man. Are you going to

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end up with a broken tooth and a foot out

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of joint? And that Neighbors, fellow workers, friends, and even

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family members may be quick to offer a solution, but

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they often are themselves unfaithful. Comforters who are who have

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more sympathy than since all right, so, so far, so good.

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I don't I don't have any so far. The only

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thing I've been told to do so far is don't

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go to an unfaithful person. Okay, I'm not feeling Are

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you filling any comfort in your time of trouble? I'm

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not filling any comfort right now. I'm not. I'm not.

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I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Right now,

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it would make more sense to yeah, find some drugs. Okay,

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that would make more sense right now. But okay, all right,

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let's let's let's open this up now. It says go

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to page twenty, says to go to page twenty. All right,

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here we go. I'm gonna flip this over. I know

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it feels like I'm I feel like I'm in the

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eighteen hundreds or the nineteen hundreds or something, right, turning

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an actual physical paper? What kind what strange device is this? Right?

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Wouldn't it be interesting? Like you gotta you go from

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page one to page twenty? What is that? Why wouldn't

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you just put it all together? Like? What is this? Like?

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Who came up with this concept? Right? But all right,

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I digress. Here we go. What to do? What? What

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do you do when trouble's trouble? You continued from page one.

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I'm pausing here because the next words make absolutely no

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sense to me. Okay, all right, maybe may okay, let's see.

460
00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:18.400
Let's just I'm just gonna read them to you. This

461
00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:21.960
seems completely confusing. Here are you ready? Here we go.

462
00:26:22.359 --> 00:26:30.039
The next words are satanic sources can be a tragic risk.

463
00:26:31.400 --> 00:26:34.480
All right, So I'm assuming it doesn't start like, it

464
00:26:34.519 --> 00:26:37.440
doesn't offer a trend. There's no transition here. Hey, hey,

465
00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:41.720
many times your friends and family they have more sympathy

466
00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:46.240
than they do since period next. Satanic sources can be

467
00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:48.480
tragic risk. Are you saying, my friends and family or

468
00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:52.079
satanic sources? What is happening? There's no transition. It doesn't

469
00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:55.160
say so. I think, what's what's supposed to be happening here?

470
00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:58.079
Now I'm doing trying to clean this up. I think

471
00:26:58.119 --> 00:27:00.640
it's like, Okay, what I'm going to do now is

472
00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:03.559
give you the things you should not do. Right, So,

473
00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:06.119
I guess what it's going to say is we don't

474
00:27:06.359 --> 00:27:10.559
in times of trouble, I don't go to a Satanic source.

475
00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:12.920
I think that's what is being said here. Let's read

476
00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:18.480
what happened. Satanic sources can be a tragic risk. King

477
00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:21.960
Saul got so far away from God that he consulted

478
00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:25.799
the Witch of Endor. He was full of fear and jealousy.

479
00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:29.839
Sensing that David would soon be king. To his servants,

480
00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:33.519
he gave the command, seek me a woman that hath

481
00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:37.039
a familiar spirit, that I may go to her and

482
00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:43.039
inquire of her. On Samuel twenty eight seven. All right,

483
00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:45.759
So I guess what we're being told here. If we

484
00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:48.240
were to break this down in outline form, I'm the

485
00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:50.599
one creating the outline. Is the first thing you do,

486
00:27:50.880 --> 00:27:53.160
the first thing you don't do in times of trouble.

487
00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:55.599
You don't go to an unfaithful person. You're gonna end

488
00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:57.319
up with a broken tooth and a foot out of

489
00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:01.319
joint metaphorically speaking, that's not going to help. You. Don't

490
00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:03.640
go to an unfaithful person. That's number one. Number two,

491
00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:08.680
don't consult the witch from indoor. Don't consult a witch.

492
00:28:09.079 --> 00:28:12.000
So I guess in times of trouble, all right, So

493
00:28:12.279 --> 00:28:15.839
I live here in Abilene, Texas. I think it's still there. Okay,

494
00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:18.400
I live here in Abilene, Texas. If I was to

495
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:24.680
drive out of my neighborhood, take a left, go through

496
00:28:24.680 --> 00:28:29.200
the traffic light, under the underpass, take another left, go down.

497
00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:32.920
Just keep driving straight on the highway. It kind of

498
00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:36.279
veers off. Keep going straight. You end up on Treadway Street.

499
00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:39.960
Just keep going. It's going to veer off onto Butternut Street.

500
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:42.759
Go down Butternut Street, and I don't know how far

501
00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:46.519
down on Butternut, but there's a house on the right

502
00:28:46.599 --> 00:28:52.880
hand side. That's a psychic, all right. Now. I know

503
00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:55.759
I don't know the psychic personally, but I know that

504
00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:58.279
house has been there. They have a big thing in front,

505
00:28:58.279 --> 00:29:00.480
and I guess you call them make an appointment, and

506
00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:03.440
it's she does it from inside her house and you

507
00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:05.400
go in. I'd guess she has a room setup and

508
00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:07.799
you go in and you can get a psychic reading.

509
00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:11.519
Right now, I'm very familiar with the house because the

510
00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:17.680
story goes here's the story that my father at some

511
00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:23.039
point in his life went to that psychic on Butternut

512
00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:27.720
Street and was told that his wife was going to

513
00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:31.880
die young. And well, my mother died before she reached

514
00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:34.640
the age of forty. Now that's the story. I can't

515
00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:36.960
verify it because all my parents are dead and there's

516
00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:39.079
there's no one, you know, there's no one around to

517
00:29:39.079 --> 00:29:41.279
confirm or deny the story. But that's the story I

518
00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:43.680
was told. So I guess what you could say is

519
00:29:43.720 --> 00:29:45.920
in times of trouble, why did he go to the psychic?

520
00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:49.039
I don't know. Were they having problems? I mean, there

521
00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:51.720
was all kinds of problems in our family. There was

522
00:29:51.880 --> 00:29:55.160
a host of issues. There were problems in drama and craziness,

523
00:29:55.160 --> 00:29:56.880
and I won't go through all the stories? Did he go?

524
00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:00.160
Because there was times of trouble, so he consulted a psychic. No,

525
00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:05.200
I don't know who knows, but so I guess what

526
00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:07.799
was being told? Hey, when times of trouble, and I guess.

527
00:30:07.960 --> 00:30:09.839
I mean, I think it's fair to say that sometimes

528
00:30:09.839 --> 00:30:13.160
people can be so just distraught, depending on their trouble,

529
00:30:13.359 --> 00:30:16.440
not knowing what to do, they may consult a psychic

530
00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:21.359
or the witch of Endoor. Now the next paragraph says,

531
00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:24.000
Saul knew better than to do this. He had formally

532
00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:26.440
given the order to cut off from the land wizards

533
00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:30.000
and fortune tellers. Now he gives in and goes to

534
00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:40.640
one himself. Now that's interesting. That's interesting. See where is

535
00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:48.799
it recorded that Saul hang on, that King Saul. I'm

536
00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:54.559
gonna look this up if I can spell right, that

537
00:30:54.759 --> 00:31:01.279
King Saul had given an order that that King Saul

538
00:31:01.319 --> 00:31:04.119
okay hang on, if I can spell correctly here that

539
00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:11.319
King Saul gave an order to have all what does

540
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:28.240
it list here wizards and fortune tellers to be cut off? Alright,

541
00:31:28.279 --> 00:31:32.920
let's see here, I'm gonna look this up. Looks like

542
00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:36.200
first Samuel twenty eight three. Let's go to first Samuel

543
00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:40.960
twenty three. This is interesting. I don't know how this

544
00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:42.880
is gonna help me with my trouble, but all right,

545
00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:46.440
this is interesting. First Samuel twenty eight All right, Verse

546
00:31:46.519 --> 00:31:51.000
three for Samuel twenty eight to three. Now Samuel was dead,

547
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:56.279
and all Israel had lamented him on yeah, for Samuel

548
00:31:56.279 --> 00:31:58.519
twenty eight three. Okay, I make sure I'm reading it right. Okay,

549
00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:02.559
and all Israel him and buried him in Rama, even

550
00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:04.759
in his own city. And Saul had put away those

551
00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:08.839
that had familiar spirits and wizards out of the land.

552
00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:13.920
So he puts them all out. He puts them all

553
00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:19.279
out of the land. And then and God, I'm going

554
00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:22.480
back to this and first that's for Samuel twenty eight

555
00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:27.759
to three. This is crazy. Hang on, this happens pretty quick.

556
00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:31.279
So in three, that's twenty eight three, he has them

557
00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:32.880
all put out of the land. Verse four, And the

558
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:37.400
Philistines gathered themselves together and came and pitched right, and

559
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:42.000
Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gabboah.

560
00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:44.519
And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he

561
00:32:44.680 --> 00:32:48.640
was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled. So he get

562
00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:52.599
rid of all these people. Now he's facing trouble, he's

563
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:56.559
facing difficulty. And what happens with this difficulty? His trouble,

564
00:32:56.720 --> 00:33:00.319
He's afraid, and his heart trembles, and Saul and ward

565
00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:03.680
of the Lord. The Lord answered him, not neither by dreams,

566
00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:08.200
nor the rum nor by prophets, then said Saul onto

567
00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:11.480
his servants, seek me a woman that hath the familiar spirit,

568
00:33:11.720 --> 00:33:14.799
that I may go to her and inquire of her.

569
00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:18.680
So this is a good example of someone. Hey, they

570
00:33:18.759 --> 00:33:20.559
know the right thing to do. They even did the

571
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:23.279
right thing. Get rid of the wizards, get rid of

572
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:26.440
the fortune tellers, get rid of anybody with a familiar spirit,

573
00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:29.359
get rid of them. Oh wait, times of trouble. God

574
00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:32.000
doesn't seem to be answering. God doesn't appear to be helping.

575
00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:34.240
So what do I do. I'm gonna go seek the

576
00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:36.200
very thing I knew I was supposed to get rid of,

577
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:43.039
because I need help. Okay, that makes sult appear to

578
00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:45.440
be very, very real. I think we can all relate

579
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:50.640
in some way to that. So Saul knew better to

580
00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:52.799
do this. He had formally given the order to cut

581
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:55.359
off from the land wizards and fortune tellers. Now he

582
00:33:55.440 --> 00:33:59.400
gives in and goes to one himself. Now, the text

583
00:33:59.400 --> 00:34:02.400
doesn't explain why he doesn't. He doesn't because he's facing

584
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:05.559
a military I mean he's facing trouble, trouble with a

585
00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:08.280
capital T, because I mean about a war, and he

586
00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:10.159
doesn't know what to do, and well, you don't want

587
00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:13.159
everyone to be wiped out, So he's seeking advice. You

588
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:16.199
can understand the motivation here. So I guess what we've

589
00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:19.039
been given so far is in times of trouble, what

590
00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:21.480
are we not to do? Don't seek an unfaithful person.

591
00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:23.960
You end up with a broken tooth and a foot

592
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.280
out of joint number two. You don't go find a

593
00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:30.119
fortune teller, a wizard, a witch, a psychic. You don't

594
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:36.519
do that. Deuteronomy eighteen warns us about witches, astrologers and chanters, charmers,

595
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:40.400
necromancers and such, and chapter thirteen of the same book,

596
00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:43.119
God again speaks of prophets and dreamers, of dreams who

597
00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:46.360
gave signs and wonders. Those fascinated by the New Age

598
00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:48.960
movement thus need to be aware it is the old

599
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:52.079
satanic trickery come back in a new dress. And Galatians

600
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:54.519
five twenty witchcraft is listed as a work of the flesh,

601
00:34:54.559 --> 00:34:58.360
right along with adult tree, fornication and cleanliness, idolatry, hatred, murder,

602
00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:03.800
and drunkenness. No solutions to our problems and our own hearts.

603
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.679
Solomon wrote, he that trust trusteth in his own heart

604
00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:10.239
is a full Okay, I guess that's a third point.

605
00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:13.159
This is outlined horribly. Okay, this is one of the

606
00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:16.519
worst developed outlines I've ever seen in the history of outlining.

607
00:35:16.599 --> 00:35:19.400
All right, so let's go through this. Let's write these down, right,

608
00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:21.320
I got a piece of paper. So number one, what's

609
00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:25.679
the first thing we don't do. We don't don't go

610
00:35:26.880 --> 00:35:35.159
to a un faithful person. The first thing we do

611
00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:37.280
is we don't go to an unfaithful person. And that

612
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:40.280
is based off of let me go back to the

613
00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:45.480
front page. That's based on Proverbs twenty five nineteen. Proverbs

614
00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:49.400
twenty five nineteen. All right, so let's write that down

615
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:55.119
Proverbs twenty five nineteen. The second thing we don't do

616
00:35:55.360 --> 00:36:03.639
is don't go to We'll just put a which that's

617
00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:15.039
for Samuel twenty eight seven. Right. Number three. Third thing

618
00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:20.079
we don't do is we don't look to our own hearts.

619
00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:33.599
Don't look two your own heart. That is Proverbs twenty

620
00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:40.440
eight twenty six, twenty eight twenty six. I'm gonna look

621
00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:43.599
that up, Proverbs twenty eight twenty six. You may want

622
00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:47.000
to make this list down. Okay. I don't know how

623
00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:49.000
any of this is gonna help me with my trouble today,

624
00:36:49.079 --> 00:36:52.599
all right, but that's okay, Proverbs twenty eight twenty six.

625
00:36:54.239 --> 00:36:57.280
Proverbs twenty eight twenty six. Here that trusts stiff, and

626
00:36:57.360 --> 00:37:00.760
his own heart is a full But who's whoso walketh

627
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:04.679
wisely he shall be delivered. Don't trust in your own heart,

628
00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:06.920
so you can't go with your own feelings. Now, this

629
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:09.440
is where he gets a little complicated, right, because when

630
00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:13.440
people talk about, hey, you know God is helping me,

631
00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:16.360
they're just they're relying on a feeling and emotion. You

632
00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:18.880
can't trust on feelings and emotions because you don't know.

633
00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:21.039
They could be misleading. You don't know what's going on.

634
00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:22.679
But don't trust in your own heart. I think the

635
00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:25.679
main concept here is in times of trouble, don't trust

636
00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:29.800
in maybe your own feelings, your own because you can

637
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:32.519
start coming up with solutions. I think in a roundabout way,

638
00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:35.440
that's what Saul did, right. He started trusting his own heart,

639
00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:40.039
his own concepts. The article goes on to say Jeremiah

640
00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:43.199
seventeen nine, the heart is deceitful, deceitful above all things,

641
00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:47.000
and desperately wicked. So the heart is an untrustworthy guide.

642
00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:51.119
I agree there, So we don't trust it. So we

643
00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:53.239
don't go to witches. We don't trust our own heart,

644
00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:55.519
and we don't go to an unfaithful person. This is

645
00:37:55.559 --> 00:37:57.480
what not to do in times of trouble. I still

646
00:37:57.480 --> 00:38:00.239
don't know what to do in times of trouble. But okay,

647
00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:03.400
all right, what does it say next? The article goes

648
00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:06.239
on to say, many times we have heard someone say

649
00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:08.159
I just feel in my heart that it is the

650
00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:12.360
right thing, even though discussing something the Bible expressly forbids

651
00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:15.480
the heart is not a reliable guide. I completely agree

652
00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:18.119
with this. The heart is not a reliable guide in

653
00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:21.400
times of trouble. You do not rely on your own heart.

654
00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:24.400
Your own feelings are your own emotions. They are not

655
00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:27.239
a reliable guide. In fact, they are they are. They

656
00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:32.159
are a flawed guy. They're faulty. Your software, you're you're

657
00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:35.760
your hardware. You can forget software. Your hardware is all

658
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:39.519
messed up. You were born messed up. You're born with

659
00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:46.079
a faulty GPS system. You can't trust it now. Next,

660
00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:50.960
neither is money the panacea for all our troubles. And

661
00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:54.480
this present money mad society. It is believed that by many.

662
00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:57.000
It is believed by many that if you can just

663
00:38:57.039 --> 00:39:00.800
get their hands on enough money, everything will work out fine. However,

664
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:03.360
money can fail, as the people found out in Egypt

665
00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:06.360
during the Great Famine described in the Days of Joseph,

666
00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:08.719
when money felled and the land of Canaan, and they

667
00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:11.480
came to Joseph and said, give us bread for why

668
00:39:11.559 --> 00:39:15.000
should we die in thy presence for the money felleth.

669
00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:20.599
That's Genesis forty seven fifteen. Genesis forty seven to fifteen.

670
00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:22.960
So don't turn to money. The next thing you do

671
00:39:23.079 --> 00:39:32.519
is don't turn to money. Okay, don't turn to money,

672
00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:37.440
Genesis forty seven fifteen. I find that kind of funny

673
00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:42.119
to read in a Christian publication. Hey, money is not

674
00:39:42.199 --> 00:39:48.679
the answer, and then well everything. Ministries constantly asked for

675
00:39:49.639 --> 00:39:53.719
money because you need churches constantly asked for money. Okay,

676
00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:56.039
But I understand there's a difference. I guess needing it

677
00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:59.400
versus trusting in it. But the idea is hey, money

678
00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:02.679
is not the end. They go on to say, movie stars,

679
00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:06.480
TV personalities, and rock stars are among the wealthiest of

680
00:40:06.519 --> 00:40:09.920
all people, yet the rate of suicide, drunken debachs, and

681
00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:14.920
drug overdoses is among the very highest among these people. Now, okay,

682
00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:18.159
is the rate of suicide highest among movie stars, TV

683
00:40:18.239 --> 00:40:27.119
personalities and rock stars? Is that even factual? Right? Would

684
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:45.000
it be factual to say movie stars, TV stars and

685
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:56.119
rock stars have a higher rate of if I can

686
00:40:56.159 --> 00:41:03.519
spell right, higher rate of Let's just fact check this

687
00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:12.559
of suicide if I can spell right, And the answer

688
00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:19.239
is The claim that movie stars, TV stars, and rock

689
00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:21.679
stars have a higher rate of suicide is commonly assumed,

690
00:41:21.679 --> 00:41:24.800
but not entirely straightforward. While there is evidence suggesting that

691
00:41:24.840 --> 00:41:27.840
people in the entertainment industry face unique stressors that may

692
00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:31.559
increase their vulnerability to mental health challenges, the actual suicide

693
00:41:31.599 --> 00:41:34.599
rates among celebrities compared to the general population are not

694
00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:39.079
definitively higher in all cases. Here's what we know, all right.

695
00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:41.760
They talk about some of the things that could contribute

696
00:41:41.760 --> 00:41:46.159
to problems amongst celebrities, pressures and public scrutiny. They have

697
00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:50.719
pressure to perform, everyone's criticizing every move, they make everything

698
00:41:50.800 --> 00:41:58.199
they do, substance abuse, all right, mental health struggles, loss

699
00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:00.960
of fame, irrelevance. Sometimes it's when you lose everything that

700
00:42:01.519 --> 00:42:11.440
leads to it. So yeah, there's some studies that have

701
00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:14.360
been done, but there's no specific breakdown between celebrities and

702
00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:20.599
non celebrities. Right, There are some high profile suicides which

703
00:42:20.599 --> 00:42:24.239
then gets all the attention. While specific indust industries like

704
00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:27.440
arts and entertainment do show elevated risks, these rates may

705
00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:30.760
not always exceed those seen in other high stress occupations

706
00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:35.960
first responders, medical professionals, military, et cetera, et cetera. So

707
00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:40.199
there's no factual statement saying that. He's just kind of

708
00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:42.719
making an argument that, hey, these people are rich, but

709
00:42:42.760 --> 00:42:45.960
they commit suicide at a higher rate. There's no proof

710
00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:48.920
of that. And not only that, just because they commit

711
00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:51.039
suicide and they were a rock star, they were a

712
00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:53.760
movie star, they may have lost everything and they're no

713
00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:56.159
longer rich. So then that would kind of defeat purpose

714
00:42:56.280 --> 00:43:01.800
your argument anyway, So that that's not really helpful. That's

715
00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:04.559
not really helpful. Over and over, money fails to bring

716
00:43:04.559 --> 00:43:08.199
the happiness and satisfaction it promises. Okay, well, all right,

717
00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:12.039
I always make the joke. Well, I'm willing to try

718
00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:14.760
it right, So you know, send me a million dollars

719
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:16.960
and I'll tell you how happy or satisfied I am

720
00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:20.039
or not. Okay, but all right, we cannot count all right,

721
00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:29.280
next page here, we cannot count on it to keep

722
00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:31.199
us out of trouble, to get us out of trouble.

723
00:43:31.480 --> 00:43:34.840
So we can't count on money, all right, So what

724
00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:37.119
are the things we're not to do. We don't want

725
00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:39.159
to go to an unfaithful person, we don't want to

726
00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:40.800
go to a witch, we don't want to look to

727
00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:43.039
our own hearts, and we don't want to trust in money.

728
00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:45.880
So when you're in trouble, don't go to those things.

729
00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:49.760
That's what we are not to do. All right. Forty

730
00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:52.599
three minutes in, we've been given some things we're not

731
00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:55.360
to do. Okay, I still would like to try the

732
00:43:55.400 --> 00:43:56.920
money win, right, I still would like to try the

733
00:43:56.960 --> 00:44:00.000
money went. I still would I'm still willing to try it. Right.

734
00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:04.280
If you want me to do a social experiment right

735
00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:06.960
where I can once and for all test this theory,

736
00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:10.440
then by all means, send me a million dollars and

737
00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:15.079
I will do a daily audio update of how things

738
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:17.960
are going with my million dollars and we'll find out

739
00:44:18.239 --> 00:44:22.039
if it worked or didn't work. Okay, all right, Yeah,

740
00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:24.239
a little bit of joking there, but a little bit serious.

741
00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:28.400
It's I mean, I mean, I do understand money may

742
00:44:28.440 --> 00:44:30.679
not bring true happiness, but you know all the things

743
00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:33.360
money can do. So I don't know. I struggle with that,

744
00:44:33.480 --> 00:44:35.559
but I understand that, you know, it can also lead

745
00:44:35.599 --> 00:44:38.440
to other problems. So then finally we get to this,

746
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:45.719
So what do we do with our troubles? Well, here

747
00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:50.679
we go. Give us help from trouble, for vain is

748
00:44:50.719 --> 00:44:59.880
the help of man. Psalm sixty eleven. Psalm sixty eleven

749
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:03.239
appears to be what we are to do with our troubles.

750
00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:10.760
Psalm sixty eleven. All right, give us help from trouble,

751
00:45:11.199 --> 00:45:19.000
for vain is the help of man. Now, I'm a

752
00:45:19.039 --> 00:45:22.519
little concerned that this is versus ripped out of complete

753
00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:27.599
context here, all right, So I'm gonna once again do

754
00:45:27.639 --> 00:45:34.960
a little I'm using AI right here, does some sixty

755
00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:47.880
eleven tell us what we are to do with our trouble? Okay,

756
00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:53.400
so let's look here, all right. At first, it gives

757
00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:56.760
me too, It gives me the King James gives us,

758
00:45:56.800 --> 00:46:00.440
give us help, give us help from trouble. For vain

759
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:03.039
is the help of man. The sv Oh grant us

760
00:46:03.119 --> 00:46:06.280
help against the foe. For vain is the salvation of Man.

761
00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:09.679
Psalm sixty is attributed to David and reflects the time

762
00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:13.599
of military struggle. David acknowledges God's sovereignty and pleads for

763
00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:17.639
his intervention, recognizing that human efforts are insufficient without divine aid.

764
00:46:18.119 --> 00:46:21.440
This verse emphasizes reliance on God God rather than trusting

765
00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:26.800
in human strength or resources. Now again, if you apply this, hey,

766
00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:31.440
don't you don't need to trust in human strength or resources. Well,

767
00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:34.199
if I don't need to trust in human strength or resources, well,

768
00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:36.639
then no ministry should ever be asking for money in

769
00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:40.800
any way. We should just trust and we should not

770
00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:43.760
be trusting in human strength are human resources? Well, just

771
00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:46.159
trust in God. We will. All the ministry say they're

772
00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:47.880
trusting in God, but that they have to ask people

773
00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:49.800
in order to give money. And they say, well, God

774
00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:52.960
actually helps me through you giving me your money. And interesting,

775
00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:58.280
God helps me by you giving me your money. Now,

776
00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:01.440
some people think that that's perfec Okay, but then I've

777
00:47:01.480 --> 00:47:04.119
got to rely on people, So how does that work? Okay? Well,

778
00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:10.519
this is what AI says. Does it tell us what

779
00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:13.440
to do with our trouble? It says yes. Psalm sixty

780
00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:16.760
eleven instructs us to turn to God in trouble, specifically,

781
00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:21.480
acknowledge the limitation of human help. Depend on God's help,

782
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:26.000
all right, it says. Application for today. Psalm sixty eleven

783
00:47:26.079 --> 00:47:29.960
encourages believers to recognize that while human means can assist,

784
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:33.039
they are inadequate on their own. Place your ultimate trust

785
00:47:33.079 --> 00:47:35.800
in God seeking his guidance. The verse reminds us that

786
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:38.639
God's power is sufficient to handle troubles beyond our control,

787
00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:41.280
and calls us to respond with dependence on Him rather

788
00:47:41.320 --> 00:47:46.320
than relying solely on ourselves or others. So AI seems

789
00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:51.280
to like this idea. I have struggle. I have some

790
00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:56.679
struggle with this all right, because look at verse six.

791
00:47:57.400 --> 00:48:00.760
Psalms sixty Verse six, God has spoken, and his holiness

792
00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:04.199
I will rejoice. I will divide Shechem meet out the

793
00:48:04.280 --> 00:48:09.480
valley of suckoff. Gilead is mine, Manassa is mine. Ephriam

794
00:48:09.599 --> 00:48:13.079
also is the strength of mine head. Judah is my lawgiver.

795
00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:16.440
Moab is my washpot over eat them? Will I cast

796
00:48:16.519 --> 00:48:24.400
my shoe? Philistia Philista Felistia, triumph, Trump, triumph, Thou because

797
00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:27.639
of me, who will bring me into the strong city,

798
00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:31.480
who will lead me into eaedom? Will thou not owe

799
00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:34.239
God which had has cast us off? And thou o God,

800
00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:40.800
which didest not go out with our armies? I don't

801
00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:42.960
know about that, And all of a sudden saw him

802
00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:45.599
sixty eleven in the midst of that is about us

803
00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:49.079
and that we can bring our troubles to God. Now, remember,

804
00:48:49.159 --> 00:48:52.519
David is in a unique situation because of the Dividic covenant,

805
00:48:55.360 --> 00:48:57.440
so he can go to God for specific things because

806
00:48:57.480 --> 00:49:05.920
God has given him specific promises that are not for us. Okay,

807
00:49:05.960 --> 00:49:08.960
I'm gonna isn't Psalm I'm gonna ask I'm gonna struggle

808
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:10.519
with Ai here for I mean, I'm gonna have a

809
00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:29.639
fight here. Isn't Psalm sixty eleven specifically about David and

810
00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:41.480
what God has done? And isn't it all connected to

811
00:49:41.760 --> 00:49:50.880
the davidict if I can spell right to the davidic. Oh,

812
00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:57.440
come on, DAVIDIC. I'm going to just go with that

813
00:50:01.320 --> 00:50:05.280
covenant all right, Let's see see if we can get

814
00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:17.239
some answers here. Okay, yeah, Now, Chad GPT says yes,

815
00:50:17.719 --> 00:50:20.719
Psalm sixty eleven is specifically about David and must be

816
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:23.519
understood in its context, which is tied to David's leadership,

817
00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:26.639
Israel's national struggles on God's promises within the framework of

818
00:50:26.719 --> 00:50:31.719
the Davidic Covenant. The historical setting Psalm sixty has written

819
00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:36.639
during a period of military conflict. The superscription connects it

820
00:50:36.719 --> 00:50:43.679
to the battles against the Edamides and the Aramians Second

821
00:50:43.719 --> 00:50:46.679
Samuel eight of one through fourteen, First Chronicles eighteen one

822
00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:49.920
through thirteen. David reflects on Israel's struggles and calls on

823
00:50:49.960 --> 00:50:53.519
God to deliverance, acknowledging that ultimately victory belongs to God.

824
00:50:54.119 --> 00:50:57.679
Connection to the Davidic Covenant, the Davidic Covenant Second Samuel

825
00:50:57.719 --> 00:51:01.480
seven promised David an eternal dynasty that his throne would

826
00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:04.960
be established forever. Psalm sixty reflects David's reliance on God

827
00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:07.559
as the one who secures victory for his anointed king

828
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:11.480
and fulfills his covenant promises. David's military victories and leadership

829
00:51:11.519 --> 00:51:14.360
were not simply personal achievements. There were acts of God's

830
00:51:14.360 --> 00:51:18.119
faithfulness to his covenant while with David and his overarching

831
00:51:18.159 --> 00:51:23.000
plan for Israel. God's role in Israel's trouble and deliverance.

832
00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:25.880
Earlier in the Psalm, David acknowledges that God has allowed

833
00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:29.639
Israel to experience defeat. This is likely seen as God's

834
00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:33.239
discipline or testing, consistent with his covenant relationship with Israel.

835
00:51:33.519 --> 00:51:36.559
Verse eleven highlights the futility of human effort vain is

836
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:38.800
the help of man and reinforces that God alone is

837
00:51:38.840 --> 00:51:41.239
the one who grants deliverance and fulfills his purpose for

838
00:51:41.360 --> 00:51:47.440
his covenant people. Psalm sixty reflects David's understanding that God helps.

839
00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:51.880
God's help is covenant based. The victory belongs to God,

840
00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:56.719
David as the covenant representative representative, Is it about us?

841
00:51:56.920 --> 00:52:00.360
Psalm sixty eleven is directly about David's situation and God's

842
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:04.840
action and fulfilling his covenant promises to Israel through David. However,

843
00:52:05.679 --> 00:52:10.079
Ai continues to argue it's theological principles can be applied

844
00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:15.559
indirectly provided we respect the covenantal and historical context. So

845
00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:18.360
it still tries to argue for an application, I'm still

846
00:52:18.360 --> 00:52:20.320
going to struggle here. Hey what do I do with

847
00:52:20.360 --> 00:52:23.000
my trouble? Well, I go and I act like David,

848
00:52:23.039 --> 00:52:26.440
and I say give us help from our trouble for

849
00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:30.639
vain is the help of man. Hey, God, no one

850
00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:32.960
else can help me, but you can help me. But

851
00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:36.000
the only problem is David can cry this out. Based

852
00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:38.639
off the Davidic covenant, based off the covenant God had

853
00:52:38.639 --> 00:52:42.519
made with Israel, there's specific promises tied there. If I

854
00:52:42.639 --> 00:52:44.960
take that and apply it to me, there's a high

855
00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:50.079
probability I'm going to end up very disappointed, disillusioned, and

856
00:52:50.199 --> 00:52:53.760
confused because God is not acting in a way that

857
00:52:53.800 --> 00:52:56.159
he did with David, and no one can can. If

858
00:52:56.159 --> 00:52:58.119
you try to convince yourself of that, you're out of

859
00:52:58.159 --> 00:53:07.880
your mind. So I'm going to struggle with applying Psalm

860
00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:12.400
sixty eleven directly to us. I am going to Now

861
00:53:12.519 --> 00:53:14.239
you can say I can give my trouble to God.

862
00:53:14.280 --> 00:53:16.519
I can a God. Here's all of my troubles that

863
00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:19.760
doesn't have There is no promise that he's going to

864
00:53:19.800 --> 00:53:23.320
do anything in this life. And an eternity, yes, but

865
00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:31.480
not now. So how do we get out of trouble?

866
00:53:31.480 --> 00:53:33.159
So what do we do with our So what do

867
00:53:33.199 --> 00:53:36.239
we not do with our trouble? Well, we don't. We

868
00:53:36.239 --> 00:53:38.079
don't go to an unfaithful man. We don't go to

869
00:53:38.119 --> 00:53:40.119
a witch. We don't look to our own heart, and

870
00:53:40.159 --> 00:53:43.280
we don't turn the money. What do we do? We

871
00:53:43.320 --> 00:53:47.079
cry out to God? Okay, I think I would use

872
00:53:47.119 --> 00:53:48.559
some other verses. If you're going to go with that

873
00:53:48.599 --> 00:53:52.480
basic concept, right, I think you can go to Philippians. Right,

874
00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:58.719
that would be more applicable. Psalm sixty eleven. I'm just no, no, no, no, no,

875
00:53:58.760 --> 00:54:01.320
all right, So how to get out of trouble? Well,

876
00:54:01.400 --> 00:54:04.719
we know that God is most anxious to help. And

877
00:54:04.719 --> 00:54:08.360
Psalm ninety one fourteen, God speaks of the one who

878
00:54:08.440 --> 00:54:11.960
has set his love upon the Lord, and his promises

879
00:54:11.559 --> 00:54:15.960
his name. Okay, let me read this again. Let me

880
00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:19.639
read this again. And Psalm ninety one fourteen. God speaks

881
00:54:19.639 --> 00:54:21.800
of the one who has set his love upon the

882
00:54:21.880 --> 00:54:26.119
Lord and has known his name. Immediately he promises, he

883
00:54:26.159 --> 00:54:28.960
shall call upon me, and I will answer him. I

884
00:54:29.000 --> 00:54:31.960
will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him

885
00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:35.880
and honor him. Here God precisely declares that he will

886
00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:39.840
here deliver and honor the believer. God will hear and deliver.

887
00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:42.440
Say they're making this as an absolute promise. God is

888
00:54:42.480 --> 00:54:44.960
going to deliver me. So if I go to God today,

889
00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:46.960
So so basically what this is telling me, this is

890
00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:50.519
the typical Christian answers. Right, Okay, today I'm having all

891
00:54:50.519 --> 00:54:53.440
of these neurological issues. The worst. My head feels like

892
00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:55.079
it's going to explode and he may. I feel like

893
00:54:55.079 --> 00:54:57.239
I'm going to fall down, have fifteen seizures and die.

894
00:54:57.280 --> 00:54:58.840
But I'll just go to God and He's going to

895
00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:02.280
deliver me. So if so, if I go to God today,

896
00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:04.519
all of my seizure disorder is going to disappear. I

897
00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:06.480
know it's not gonna happen. You know it's not gonna happen.

898
00:55:06.599 --> 00:55:08.760
So what And you can say, oh you don't believe,

899
00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:11.880
Oh trust me. I think I've talked to God about

900
00:55:11.920 --> 00:55:15.000
my seizure disorder far more than you have ever talked

901
00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:17.880
about God about my seizure disorder. So I don't think

902
00:55:17.880 --> 00:55:27.320
you should speak for me. I don't. Can you even

903
00:55:27.320 --> 00:55:36.679
apply that I have major problems? If we go to

904
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:44.679
Psalm ninety one, do we have any clearly Psalm sixty one,

905
00:55:44.920 --> 00:55:47.039
I mean the whole context, there is nothing about us.

906
00:55:47.079 --> 00:55:52.039
I mean, come on, some ninety one. I don't know

907
00:55:52.039 --> 00:56:09.320
if we have the clear Oh yeah, yeah, some ninety

908
00:56:09.320 --> 00:56:17.480
one fourteen Okay, can we apply and claim the promises

909
00:56:17.920 --> 00:56:26.440
of Some ninety one fourteen. I think it's more messianic

910
00:56:26.519 --> 00:56:32.599
if you ask me. But okay, let's see p. Ninety

911
00:56:32.599 --> 00:56:34.760
one fourteen. Because he loves me, says the Lord, I

912
00:56:34.760 --> 00:56:38.639
will rescue him. I will protect him, for he acknowledges

913
00:56:38.679 --> 00:56:40.599
my name. The question of whether we can apply and

914
00:56:40.639 --> 00:56:42.880
claim the promises depends on how we interpret it in

915
00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:45.719
light of the context it's original audience in place within

916
00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:48.840
the broader biblical narrative. The context Some ninety one is

917
00:56:48.840 --> 00:56:51.360
a sum of trust and assurance, focusing on God's protection

918
00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:53.840
for those who seek refuge in him. It is filled

919
00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:56.719
with vivid imagery about God's care for his people, particularly

920
00:56:56.800 --> 00:56:59.920
in the face of danger, pestilence, war, and spiritual attacks.

921
00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:03.599
The psalm was originally addressed to Israel a notice again,

922
00:57:04.440 --> 00:57:07.239
particularly those who faithfully trusted God. It assures them of

923
00:57:07.239 --> 00:57:10.719
God's protection under his covenant relationship with him. I say

924
00:57:10.760 --> 00:57:13.239
this all the time. This is the problem with so

925
00:57:13.360 --> 00:57:16.559
much preaching. We love to take promises that are directed

926
00:57:16.559 --> 00:57:19.599
to a specific people, based on a specific covenant, and

927
00:57:19.599 --> 00:57:21.800
then we go in and say, I'm sorry, get we

928
00:57:21.880 --> 00:57:24.639
slapped their hand, Let go, Let go we slap it,

929
00:57:24.719 --> 00:57:27.360
let go of that promise, that promise is mine, and

930
00:57:27.400 --> 00:57:29.159
then we take it and then we stand behind a bull.

931
00:57:29.199 --> 00:57:31.639
But we give everyone this promise. Hey, you trust in

932
00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:34.239
you do this and God's gonna deliver you. God's gonna

933
00:57:34.280 --> 00:57:36.199
do this. God's gonna do this. God's gonna do this.

934
00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:38.840
And then people go and believe it. They give them,

935
00:57:38.960 --> 00:57:42.079
They convince themselves to have the placebo effect that God's

936
00:57:42.119 --> 00:57:44.079
doing this. But if you look at their lives, you're like, well,

937
00:57:44.119 --> 00:57:45.800
I thought God was gonna deliver you. I thought God

938
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:49.159
was gonna do this. Yeah, you've been fed lies. You've

939
00:57:49.199 --> 00:57:52.000
been fed promises that were never for you, and they

940
00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:54.239
ripped them away from Israel and applied them to you.

941
00:57:54.320 --> 00:58:01.119
And they should not have done that, all right. The

942
00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:05.000
verse specifically speaks of God's response to someone who loves

943
00:58:05.039 --> 00:58:07.519
him and acknowledges his name. The focus is on an

944
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:10.400
intimate relationship with God and faithfulness to him. The promise

945
00:58:10.440 --> 00:58:13.840
of rescue and protection are conditioned on the love and trust. Well,

946
00:58:13.920 --> 00:58:18.320
that's really problematic. It's not just Hey, God's gonna do this,

947
00:58:18.679 --> 00:58:20.679
You've got to love him. Well, how much do I

948
00:58:20.719 --> 00:58:22.679
have to love him? Because you're never gonna love him perfectly.

949
00:58:22.719 --> 00:58:25.559
All that this becomes all kinds of problems all right?

950
00:58:27.840 --> 00:58:31.880
Oh now see AI plays this weird game. Can we

951
00:58:31.960 --> 00:58:37.719
claim the promises? Yes, but not as an absolute guarantee.

952
00:58:40.719 --> 00:58:43.719
What is that God's love, protection and care for those

953
00:58:43.760 --> 00:58:47.599
who trust him are consistent with his character revealed throughout scripture.

954
00:58:47.639 --> 00:58:50.599
For example, Jesus assures his followers of God's care and

955
00:58:50.679 --> 00:58:54.159
ultimate security. For Christians, the promise in Psalm ninety one

956
00:58:55.119 --> 00:58:58.760
find their ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ. God provides ultimate

957
00:58:58.760 --> 00:59:02.519
deliverance through salvation Christ even if earthly circumstances involve suffering

958
00:59:02.559 --> 00:59:05.480
and trial. While God may protect us physically, the New

959
00:59:05.519 --> 00:59:09.559
Testament emphasizes spiritual protection and eternal security more than guarantees

960
00:59:09.599 --> 00:59:12.599
of physical safety. Yeah, there is no guarantee of physical safety.

961
00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:14.440
If you're going to claim that God's going to deliver you,

962
00:59:14.480 --> 00:59:16.920
God's going to protect you, then why the churches are

963
00:59:16.960 --> 00:59:19.039
so Why are Christians so wrapped up in having a

964
00:59:19.039 --> 00:59:22.920
gun for protection? You just trust in God? See, Christians

965
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:24.800
deep down know God's not going to protect them. That's

966
00:59:24.800 --> 00:59:27.360
why they're typically so very pro gun and that they

967
00:59:27.400 --> 00:59:29.400
need a gun to protect their family and they need

968
00:59:29.880 --> 00:59:32.239
armed people in their churches because they know God's not

969
00:59:32.280 --> 00:59:33.800
going to show up to help them out if they

970
00:59:33.880 --> 00:59:41.559
if they really believe that, they wouldn't need thats Ai

971
00:59:41.639 --> 00:59:44.039
does say. Psalm ninety one is not a blanket promise

972
00:59:44.119 --> 00:59:47.719
that believers will never face trouble, harm or suffering. In scripture,

973
00:59:47.760 --> 00:59:51.639
faithful believers Job Paul and the Early Martyrs experience hardship

974
00:59:51.679 --> 00:59:54.239
despite their love for God. The psalm is best understood

975
00:59:54.239 --> 00:59:57.280
as a poetic expression of God's faithfulness to those who

976
00:59:57.320 --> 01:00:05.800
trust in him. I don't know if we're getting we're

977
01:00:05.800 --> 01:00:10.639
getting any help here, They go on to say, furthermore,

978
01:00:10.679 --> 01:00:13.039
I am convinced that God takes no delight in the

979
01:00:13.119 --> 01:00:16.880
troubles of See furthermore, I am convinced that God takes

980
01:00:16.920 --> 01:00:20.280
no delight in the trouble of the ungodly. For they

981
01:00:20.440 --> 01:00:23.679
will For why will ye die? He cries in Ezekiel

982
01:00:23.719 --> 01:00:26.760
thirty three. And in Jeremiah too, the Lord says, for

983
01:00:26.920 --> 01:00:30.119
they have turned their back onto me and not their face.

984
01:00:30.159 --> 01:00:31.840
But in the time of their trouble, they will say,

985
01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:35.199
arise and save us. Thus we see that God longs

986
01:00:35.239 --> 01:00:38.920
for troubled souls to turn to him, for help, find

987
01:00:39.199 --> 01:00:43.920
and claim his promises. The article goes on, it is

988
01:00:43.960 --> 01:00:46.159
not enough to know that God can help and that

989
01:00:46.239 --> 01:00:49.199
we can refresh ourselves with his promises. We must learn

990
01:00:49.280 --> 01:00:52.480
to wait upon him. And Psalm twenty seven fourteen he says,

991
01:00:52.519 --> 01:00:54.679
wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he

992
01:00:54.760 --> 01:00:58.079
shall strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say on the Lord.

993
01:00:58.119 --> 01:00:59.920
But who is Psalm twenty We would have to go

994
01:01:00.079 --> 01:01:04.400
find the context. Naom one seven tells us what tells

995
01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:06.880
us that our God is a stronghold in the day

996
01:01:06.920 --> 01:01:09.360
of trouble, and he knoweth them that trust in him.

997
01:01:09.480 --> 01:01:11.559
But that's in the book of nam Is there not

998
01:01:11.679 --> 01:01:14.559
any context to any of these verses. The discernment is

999
01:01:14.599 --> 01:01:19.760
not offering any context. Renew your vows to the Lord.

1000
01:01:19.960 --> 01:01:23.599
Make sure nothing is between your soul and your savior

1001
01:01:23.639 --> 01:01:25.440
in a time of trial. David cried, I will go

1002
01:01:25.480 --> 01:01:27.960
into the house with burnt offerings. I will pay thee

1003
01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:30.840
my vows which my lips have uttered and my mouth

1004
01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:33.719
has spoken when I was in trouble Psal I'm sixty

1005
01:01:33.800 --> 01:01:39.440
six thirteen through fourteen. Again, there's no there's no context

1006
01:01:39.480 --> 01:01:43.039
to any of this. All of these require great care

1007
01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:47.239
to go wait who's being spoken to. So the article

1008
01:01:47.280 --> 01:01:50.000
then turns into basically what you're supposed to do. You

1009
01:01:50.039 --> 01:01:52.320
need to make a comeback. You need to rededicate your

1010
01:01:52.360 --> 01:01:54.320
life and get back in the place of blessing if

1011
01:01:54.360 --> 01:01:56.960
God puts his finger on some sore spot in your life.

1012
01:01:57.000 --> 01:01:59.800
So the issue is, Hey, if you really want God

1013
01:01:59.840 --> 01:02:01.400
to help you in your time of trouble, what you

1014
01:02:01.440 --> 01:02:02.960
need to do is you got to get right. You

1015
01:02:03.599 --> 01:02:06.280
gotta come back, You got to rededicate, you gotta get

1016
01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:08.360
you gotta get back in a place of blessing. Say,

1017
01:02:08.400 --> 01:02:10.719
you can't be blessed if you're over here. So this

1018
01:02:10.920 --> 01:02:14.480
becomes now, maybe the reason you're in trouble and God's

1019
01:02:14.519 --> 01:02:16.199
not helping you in your trouble is you're not in

1020
01:02:16.239 --> 01:02:17.880
a place of blessing. And the way you get your

1021
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:20.239
place of blessing is you've got to do something. Well,

1022
01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:23.000
that's great, that's great when people are, you know, in

1023
01:02:23.159 --> 01:02:25.840
great times of trouble, to tell them that basically they

1024
01:02:25.920 --> 01:02:29.519
got to do more, They got to get right with God. Supposedly,

1025
01:02:30.280 --> 01:02:33.119
God must sometimes do something in us before he can

1026
01:02:33.199 --> 01:02:36.519
do something for us. Knowing that your troubles will cease,

1027
01:02:36.679 --> 01:02:40.159
know that your troubles will cease. Are not most of

1028
01:02:40.199 --> 01:02:43.679
your troubles you're worried about last year over and done with.

1029
01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:47.559
In fact, I can hardly remember at all what trouble

1030
01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:51.440
troubled me a month ago, much less a year ago. Well,

1031
01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:54.679
I guess that's a good thing. Hey, your trouble's not

1032
01:02:54.719 --> 01:02:59.719
going to last. But it is in the sense that

1033
01:02:59.719 --> 01:03:02.239
there's to be a new trouble that's just waiting for me.

1034
01:03:04.920 --> 01:03:09.039
All right. Then they quote two Corinthians four eight. Paul declared,

1035
01:03:09.119 --> 01:03:12.559
and he was troubled on every side, yet not distressed, perplexed,

1036
01:03:12.599 --> 01:03:15.639
but not despair. There's no context, there's nothing offered here,

1037
01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:17.920
So we just said to cast our troubles upon the Lord.

1038
01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:21.880
There's no explanation of what we're supposed to do. Our

1039
01:03:21.960 --> 01:03:24.639
attitude and reaction to trouble have much to do with

1040
01:03:26.760 --> 01:03:29.280
Our attitude and reaction to trouble have much to do

1041
01:03:29.360 --> 01:03:33.360
with the outcome. So many times these distresses are nothing

1042
01:03:33.519 --> 01:03:37.360
disastrous or fatal, just bothersome. So I get all stressed

1043
01:03:37.400 --> 01:03:41.519
over incidentals. Even with bigger troubles, we are prone to

1044
01:03:41.559 --> 01:03:43.840
push the panic button and go to pieces instead of

1045
01:03:43.840 --> 01:03:46.920
facing the problem and getting on, getting on to the

1046
01:03:46.960 --> 01:03:50.440
sometimes simple solution. So hey, now it just gets to

1047
01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:55.000
practical self help. Hey, just don't get all upset about it.

1048
01:03:55.079 --> 01:03:58.519
Just keep your head and just move forward. I mean,

1049
01:03:58.559 --> 01:04:02.519
there's nothing, there's nothing inherent Christian about that, right, Hey, guys, look,

1050
01:04:02.800 --> 01:04:06.039
your troubles don't always last. They're going to end, and hey,

1051
01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:09.599
just don't get all upset and lose your mind over it. Right,

1052
01:04:09.639 --> 01:04:13.280
just don't panic. That's just basic. This has nothing to

1053
01:04:13.320 --> 01:04:16.599
do with Christianity in any way, shape or form. All Right,

1054
01:04:18.199 --> 01:04:20.039
when we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he

1055
01:04:20.079 --> 01:04:23.159
frequently will reply, not with some earthshaking miracle, but with

1056
01:04:23.199 --> 01:04:25.519
a very simple reminder of what we can do to

1057
01:04:25.679 --> 01:04:30.599
unravel the matter ourselves. So sometimes the way this works

1058
01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:32.360
is God's not going to actually do anything. He's just

1059
01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:38.760
going to remind you of what you can do for yourself. Okay,

1060
01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:41.679
that's good, And I guess God is going to speak

1061
01:04:41.679 --> 01:04:43.719
to you outside of the Bible. Okay, now we're getting

1062
01:04:43.760 --> 01:04:46.880
into all kinds of issues here. They cried into the

1063
01:04:46.920 --> 01:04:49.119
Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of

1064
01:04:49.159 --> 01:04:51.559
their distresses. We read in Psalm one oh seven six

1065
01:04:51.880 --> 01:04:54.880
the trouble is not always immediately gone. But the distress

1066
01:04:54.920 --> 01:04:57.039
of it can be removed, and as peace can flood

1067
01:04:57.079 --> 01:05:03.800
our hearts, we go on, cass, I'm almost done. Cast

1068
01:05:03.840 --> 01:05:06.000
I burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.

1069
01:05:06.079 --> 01:05:08.760
He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved Psal,

1070
01:05:08.760 --> 01:05:11.559
I'm fifty five twenty two. Again, none of these passages

1071
01:05:11.599 --> 01:05:14.400
are giving any We don't have any context here. We

1072
01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:17.039
don't have any These are almost being given as blanket

1073
01:05:17.159 --> 01:05:20.159
statements that you that I'm telling you if you just

1074
01:05:20.239 --> 01:05:23.280
take as a blanket statement, even AI's like, you can't

1075
01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:26.519
take this as a blanket statement because it doesn't work

1076
01:05:26.559 --> 01:05:34.960
that way. The wise King Solomon advises in all thy ways,

1077
01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:38.239
acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths. So God

1078
01:05:38.280 --> 01:05:41.760
often so so God often delights to direct us to

1079
01:05:41.800 --> 01:05:44.760
the exact remedy when we just acknowledge him. About does

1080
01:05:44.800 --> 01:05:47.840
God direct you to the exact remedies? And now this

1081
01:05:47.920 --> 01:05:50.880
is getting into Oh, God speaks to me on inside

1082
01:05:50.960 --> 01:05:53.400
voice and he gives me a feeling, and this all

1083
01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:56.280
becomes subjective. And now you God is going to lead

1084
01:05:56.360 --> 01:05:58.199
you to the solution. Well is he going to lead

1085
01:05:58.239 --> 01:06:02.519
you to the solution? Ah? And then you've got to

1086
01:06:02.519 --> 01:06:04.480
figure it out. So now this just puts more pressure

1087
01:06:04.519 --> 01:06:07.199
on you to figure it out. When we do cast

1088
01:06:07.199 --> 01:06:10.639
our trouble upon him, it is the most it is

1089
01:06:10.719 --> 01:06:13.400
most expedient that we leave it there and let him

1090
01:06:13.480 --> 01:06:16.079
either solve it or show us precisely how it to

1091
01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:18.199
be done and his own way and his own good timing.

1092
01:06:18.280 --> 01:06:20.559
Remember the beautiful hymns that go, take your burden to

1093
01:06:20.559 --> 01:06:22.239
the Lord and leave it there. What a friend we

1094
01:06:22.280 --> 01:06:25.159
have in Jesus, are sins and griefs to bear? Where

1095
01:06:25.199 --> 01:06:27.880
could I go but to the Lord? He is able.

1096
01:06:28.039 --> 01:06:33.719
He has never broken any promise spoken, And that is

1097
01:06:33.719 --> 01:06:39.320
what I'm supposed to do in my times of trouble.

1098
01:06:42.159 --> 01:06:47.840
Now sixty six minutes, massive worst headache I've ever had

1099
01:06:47.880 --> 01:06:51.960
in my life, having trouble even talking, and I don't

1100
01:06:52.039 --> 01:06:54.320
think I got much. I don't think I got very

1101
01:06:54.320 --> 01:06:56.199
many answers. I don't think I got much answers. I

1102
01:06:56.239 --> 01:06:59.039
don't think I got very many answers. But I got

1103
01:06:59.039 --> 01:07:02.800
the typical Christian now now being told what not to do.

1104
01:07:03.039 --> 01:07:07.079
Those were very specific, and we can say, okay, all

1105
01:07:07.079 --> 01:07:11.159
those other things. It's just very questionable. Verses just ripped

1106
01:07:11.159 --> 01:07:13.480
out of context. Just remember when you see verses in

1107
01:07:13.559 --> 01:07:17.039
the Old Testament about God doing this or this, or

1108
01:07:17.039 --> 01:07:19.159
God will do this or this or this or this

1109
01:07:19.800 --> 01:07:23.719
almost in every situation, probably I would probably say ninety

1110
01:07:23.760 --> 01:07:26.360
five to ninety eight, maybe even higher, maybe ninety eight

1111
01:07:26.440 --> 01:07:30.119
to ninety nine. Almost in every situation, those are verses

1112
01:07:30.199 --> 01:07:34.599
being specifically given to Israel. What is the basis covenant

1113
01:07:34.679 --> 01:07:37.360
promises given to the nation that God promises to do

1114
01:07:37.400 --> 01:07:39.079
this or to do this, or to deliver or to

1115
01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:42.440
protect or to provide. Those are You can't just slap

1116
01:07:42.519 --> 01:07:45.039
those things out of their hands and then give this

1117
01:07:45.079 --> 01:07:47.280
to everyone else, saying in times of trouble trust in

1118
01:07:47.320 --> 01:07:50.079
God based off these promises that God was given to

1119
01:07:50.119 --> 01:07:52.800
a covenant nation, based off the covenant he gave to

1120
01:07:52.840 --> 01:07:57.400
that nation, you don't have those promises. Now if you

1121
01:07:57.400 --> 01:07:59.679
want to quote New Testament verses, and we can consider

1122
01:07:59.719 --> 01:08:02.960
each and again we have to determine the context what

1123
01:08:03.119 --> 01:08:05.760
is going on, and then we have to understand are

1124
01:08:05.800 --> 01:08:11.679
the promises about tangible material, physical deliverance, provision and protection

1125
01:08:12.159 --> 01:08:15.280
or is about spiritual All of these things have to

1126
01:08:15.320 --> 01:08:18.840
be addressed, But typical sermons we don't want to address

1127
01:08:18.880 --> 01:08:21.800
all of that. We just want to promise everyone everything's

1128
01:08:21.880 --> 01:08:25.319
going to work out, everything's going to be great. But

1129
01:08:25.399 --> 01:08:33.680
let me tell you, doesn't always work that way. Did

1130
01:08:33.680 --> 01:08:36.720
I get any comfort here? No? Do I get any

1131
01:08:36.720 --> 01:08:45.880
solutions here? No? Not. Am I frustrated by it? Not really,

1132
01:08:45.960 --> 01:08:48.279
because I kind of expected it when I saw it,

1133
01:08:49.279 --> 01:08:51.159
But I wanted it to be a good reminder to

1134
01:08:51.199 --> 01:08:53.680
you that when you and I hate to say this,

1135
01:08:53.800 --> 01:08:57.640
but this is really the reality of it, when you

1136
01:08:57.920 --> 01:09:00.479
are in trouble, in times of trouble, but you will

1137
01:09:00.520 --> 01:09:02.880
be if you're not one now it's coming. I don't

1138
01:09:02.880 --> 01:09:06.119
know what your trouble is. I don't know, physical, mental, financial,

1139
01:09:06.159 --> 01:09:10.000
whatever it is. If you look to Christianity for solutions,

1140
01:09:11.479 --> 01:09:13.680
you're going to be handed all kinds of promises that

1141
01:09:13.760 --> 01:09:16.239
in many cases are not for you. If you apply

1142
01:09:16.319 --> 01:09:18.439
them to you, you will either have to convince yourself

1143
01:09:18.439 --> 01:09:21.479
that somehow it's doing something that's not actually doing. But

1144
01:09:21.560 --> 01:09:24.039
one day, maybe it's late at night, maybe it's early

1145
01:09:24.039 --> 01:09:25.760
in the morning, you're going to kind of go, I

1146
01:09:25.800 --> 01:09:28.439
don't think any of this is happening, and you're going

1147
01:09:28.479 --> 01:09:34.840
to have a crisis of faith. And a lot of

1148
01:09:34.880 --> 01:09:37.960
the crisis of faith is because you've been fed promises

1149
01:09:39.079 --> 01:09:41.600
and comfort that was never meant for you in the

1150
01:09:41.640 --> 01:09:45.119
first place. Sometimes the worst place to look for comfort

1151
01:09:45.159 --> 01:10:00.800
and help in trouble is anything related to Christianity. I

1152
01:10:00.840 --> 01:10:07.960
don't have any any easy answers there for you. Now.

1153
01:10:08.119 --> 01:10:10.960
I could compile a list of all of these verses

1154
01:10:11.039 --> 01:10:15.920
given in this sermon slash article, and I think what

1155
01:10:15.960 --> 01:10:20.520
we're gonna find is that most I think we could

1156
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probably go through most of those and call into question

1157
01:10:22.720 --> 01:10:26.319
the application of those verses to anybody. I mean, and

1158
01:10:26.399 --> 01:10:28.720
all these I mean, did you notice most of them

1159
01:10:28.760 --> 01:10:31.600
came from the Psalms over and over and over. Those

1160
01:10:31.640 --> 01:10:35.199
have history, Those those are specifically almost and I mean

1161
01:10:35.319 --> 01:10:38.920
one hundred percent directed towards Israel and and the Bay.

1162
01:10:38.960 --> 01:10:41.920
And there's a there's a there's a philological basis for

1163
01:10:42.079 --> 01:10:45.880
the words being utilized, and it goes to covenants, covenants

1164
01:10:45.920 --> 01:11:01.119
made with them. There's very physical, tangible material promises. All right,

1165
01:11:01.399 --> 01:11:04.359
I'll stop there, Thank you for listening. I don't know

1166
01:11:04.359 --> 01:11:09.439
if this was any good, but seventy one minutes, when

1167
01:11:09.479 --> 01:11:13.399
I feel like I'm five seconds away from death, even

1168
01:11:13.439 --> 01:11:17.640
if I didn't do anything, the value, it's pretty big accomplishment.

1169
01:11:17.760 --> 01:11:24.159
Right on my tombstone, it will read. His last podcast

1170
01:11:24.279 --> 01:11:27.159
was seventy one minutes long, and everybody can just go yeah,

1171
01:11:27.159 --> 01:11:32.680
he did a podcast that was seventy one minutes long

1172
01:11:32.840 --> 01:11:35.920
right as he died. What a great accomplishment. People will

1173
01:11:35.960 --> 01:11:39.079
be like, what an idiot, and you would probably be

1174
01:11:39.159 --> 01:11:41.399
right all right, Thanks for listening everyone, have a great day.

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God bless