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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Would you like to be delivered from evil? Well, today
is your day. Here's Pastor Jeff Shrieve.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Job said, this man who is born of woman is
short lived and full of trouble. Trouble is one of
those things and storms in life. There's just a thing
that we're either coming into a storm in the middle
of a storm, a problem, a trouble, a trial, or
we're just coming out of a storm. And when you
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just come out, you think, man, I'm done with that,
but then you go back in. Well, now I'm coming
into another storm. That's just the way life is. David
was a man after God's own heart, but he experienced
lots of downs in life, lots of troubles and trials
in life. And he tells us in Psalm thirty four
(00:51):
how to handle the problems in life. We storm with real.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
From no matter who you are or what stage of
life that you're in, trouble is coming. It's all around
you and me. It's unrelenting. That really is reality. Well,
how do we cope with the many troubles in our
lives and in the lives of those we love and
(01:25):
work with every day? This is from his heart with
Pastor Jeff Shreeve and thank you for joining us today.
The message is entitled deliver Us from Evil from Pastor
Jeff's eight message series roller Coaster, facing the ups and
downs of life and Pastor, as you surely know, everybody
wants to be delivered from evil, but that seems to
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always be just around the corner, ready to pounce. So
in this life, is it really possible to be delivered
from evil?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, David in Psalm thirty four was facing some really
different cult times. He was fleeing from Saul and he
had gone to the Philistines. He thought, Shirley, Saul won't
look for me there. He went to Gath, which is
the hometown of Goliath. But he had to act like
a crazy man because the people recognized him. And he
went before the King of Gath, and David thought that
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guy might kill me, so he acted like a madman
and the king said take this man away, and so
David was spared. He was delivered from potential evil and
Psalm thirty four is his thank you to God for
delivering him. And he says in that psalm that the
Lord will redeem us and deliver us from evil. He'll
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take care of us. No matter what is happening in life.
So this message deliver us from Evil from Psalm thirty
four is really designed to encourage people who are going
through a very dark and difficult time. What do you
do when you're going through those hard times, David tells
us in Psalm thirty four.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Well, thank you, Pastor, and it is in encouragement that
is needed for all of us. So listen today to
our lesson and be sure to go to promisheart dot
org to listen to the other timely messages from this
series that have already aired. The series is called roller
Coaster Facing the Ups and Downs of life. If you
can now though, open your Bible to the Book of
(03:19):
Psalms and turn to chapter thirty four. Here's Pastor Jeff
to help us understand how God can and will deliver
us from evil.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Job said, this man who is born of woman is
short lived and full of trouble, full of trouble. Anybody
say amen to full of trouble. Have you experienced some trouble,
maybe in the last week or two, maybe in the
last day. You just trouble is one of those things,
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and storms in life are one of There's just a
thing that we're either coming into a storm, in the
middle of a storm, a problem, a trouble, a trial,
or we're just coming out of a storm. And when
you just come out, you think, man, I'm done with that.
But then you go back in line and you're back
in Well, now I'm coming into another storm. That's just
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the way life is. David was a man after God's
own heart, but he experienced lots of downs in life,
lots of hurts in life, lots of troubles and trials
in life. And he tells us in Psalm thirty four
(04:30):
how to handle the difficulties in life, how to handle
the problems in life. And Psalm thirty four is a
really cool song because it tells us the occasion upon
which David wrote this psalm, and the occasion was this
he was fleeing from King Saul. Remember we've talked about
the story of the life of David. God anointed him
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king through the prophet Samuel when he was just a kid,
and David was going to be the next king of Israel.
Saul was the first king of it Israel. But the
Lord rejected Saul because Saul wasn't doing what God wanted
him to do. And if you're gonna be the king
of God's people, you better listen to God. Well, Saul
wasn't listening to God. And so the Lord says, I'm
done with Saul and Samuel. You annoint a new king.
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I'm gonna choose for me a king, a man after
my own heart. And he chose David from the sheep folds,
and David, the little shepherd boy was anointed king. And
then we read about David. He kills Goliath and wow.
And then Saul puts David in his army because this
guy has got faith and he's got courage, and he's
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a warrior, and so he puts him into his army.
And it wasn't long before the people began singing the
song Saul has slain his thousands, but David has slain
his tens of thousands. Saul didn't like that song at all.
And Saul said, what is this son of Jesse going
to want except my kingdom? And so he was jealous
of David and he wanted to kill David, and David
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just wanted to serve Saul. He was just in God
for God's timing for him to be king. But Saul
went out of his way to try and kill David
and try and destroy David. So David is on the run,
and David is thinking where do I go? Where can
I flee? And he thinks to himself, I'll go to
the Philistines. Saul won't look at look for me there
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in the land of the Philistines. And so he goes
to a place called Gath. There's a famous giant from
the town of Gath. His name's Goliath. David killed Goliath
of Gath. Well, he flees to Gath. We don't only
know why he went there, other than he was thinking
where else can I go? I'll just go there. And
he goes there, and the king of Gath, Akish is
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his name. He's told by his servants, Hey, this guy
coming to town. That's David. That's the guy that killed Goliath.
That's big news. When you're the guy that kills the
champion of the Philistines from the hometown of Gath. That's
the guy that did that. That's the guy that they
sing about. Saul has slain his thousands, but David his
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tens of thousands, and David heard and David greatly feared
King Akesh because he thought what is he going to
do to me? How am I going to get out
of this jam? I'm in trouble. I thought I was
in trouble with Saul coming to kill me. And now
I ran to Gaff and now this king is probably
going to kill me? What do I do? And no
doubt he cried out to God. God gave him some wisdom.
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And what David did was he pretended to be a
nut job. He pretended to be a crazy man, and
he let the saliva run down into his beard, and
he began to scribble on the gates and on the doors,
and just acted like a nut And Aikish saw him,
and he said, Hey, do I lack madmen in my kingdom?
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Why do you bring this nut job in here? Send
him away? And they sent David away, and David escaped
about ten miles to a place in the valley of
e to a cave called the Cave of Adullam. And
it's from the cave of a Dullum that he writes
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Psalm thirty four. And in Psalm thirty four he says
this verse nineteen, many are the afflictions, the evils, the miseries,
the distresses, the troubles of the righteous, but the Lord
delivers him out of them all. Psalm thirty four is
praise to the Deliverer. Jesus told us to pray deliver
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us from evil. Deliver us from evil, Lord, because God
is a deliverer. Here's the question, how are we to
handle the many troubles of life? Because life is filled
with many troubles. How do you handle the many troubles
of life by trusting in the deliverer, the God who
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saves and rescues and delivers from trouble. Bible says in
Psalm sixty eight, verse twenty, God is to us a
god of deliverances, and to God, the Lord belong escapes
from death. So in ps I'm thirty four, David is
going to give us a threefold action plan of what
to do when you're going down, when you're experiencing the valley,
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the trouble, the tragedy, the misery, the evil, and it's
all around you. Threefold action plan. Action number one. In
your trouble, take time to praise the Lord Psalm thirty four,
Verse one, David said, I will bless the Lord at
all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
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My soul shall make its boast in the Lord. The
humble shall hear it and rejoice. Oh magnify the Lord
with me, and let us exalt his name together. Notice,
he says, I will bless the Lord. His praise shall
continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make its
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boast in the Lord. Oh magnify the Lord with me,
and let us exalt his name together. Those words are
all synonyms. They're all talking about the same thing. To
bless means to kneel before the Lord, and to exalt him,
and to thank him, and to congratulate him, and to
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salute him. To praise means to give him glory, to
celebrate him, to boast in him. He says, I'll boast
in the Lord. That's bragging on God and praising him.
And I'll magnify him. That's to increase him and enlarge
him and promote him and lift him up. I'll exalt him.
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That's to exul the Lord and raise him up on high.
And David was saying all those things of how he
wanted to kneel before the Lord and bless the Lord
and exalt the Lord because the Lord was worthy of
his praise. Now it would have been easy for David
to say, you know, I escaped by the hair of
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my chinny chin chin here, Lord, and where were you?
I had to do. I had to come up with
the plan of being a nut job, letting the saliva
run down in my beard and winning that guy overthinking,
you know, my acting skills delivered me their Lord and man,
I had to hotfoot it down here to the cave
of Adullum and now I'm all alone in the cave,
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and God, what's going on here? David didn't do that.
David Praise the Lord, Bless the Lord, Exalted the Lord.
He realized that his deliverance came from God. Praise is
always appropriate in any and every situation. I will bless
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the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be
in my mouth. Well just think if we did that.
Just think if we said that one verse. I'm going
to make that my life verse. And I'm going to
bless the Lord how many times, at what time, at
all times, and I'm gonna constantly praise him. And every
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time you listen to the words coming out of my mouth,
they're coming out in terms of praise. Now, oftentimes when
life hasn't gone so well, the things coming out of
our mouth can be grumbles and gripes and complaints and
mutterings and murmurings. Well, that's not pleasing to the Lord,
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that's fingernails on a chalkboard. To God, he tells us,
do all things without grumbling or arguing. Praise me and
bless me. Why well, because God is worthy of it,
the Scripture says in Hebrews chapter thirteen, verse fifteen. Through him,
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then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise
to God. That is the fruit of lips that give
thanks to His name. God loves it when we thank him.
God loves it when we praise him and sometimes thanks
him praise. It's a sacrifice to do that, because life
isn't going good. And the Bible says in Psalm fifty,
verse twenty three, he who offers a sacrifice of praise,
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God says, honors me. It's an honor when God in
the valley in the hard times, in the tough times,
when life has just knocked you down, and you're sitting
alone in the cave of Adullum, and God hears you
thank him, and God hears you bless him, and God
hears you magnify him, and God hears you extol him.
That honors God, because that's a sacrifice, because it's hard
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to do. I mean, anybody can praise God when they
win the lottery and say, whoa, I got fifty million
dollars coming to me, Thank you God. That's not hard
to do. How about when you lose your job, how
about when you find out you have cancer. You can
still thank the Lord, and you can still praise the Lord.
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You can still bless the Lord. Hey, praise is always
appropriate because circumstances change, they go up and down. Circumstances
can change on a dime, but the Lord never changes,
and he's always worthy. And the thing that praise does,
praise changes our outlook by providing an uplook. That's why
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praise is so important. Praise blesses God. But praise does
something to us because the tendency is and grumbling and
griping and muttering and murmuring. And you know, the Greek
word that I like so much is goguzmos. That means
the to grumble, goguzmos. It's an automatipia. It sounds like
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what it is, goguz mo. Lose. You're just grumbling, you're muttering.
You're you're just whining about things, and God says, don't
do that, because when you do that, and then you're
focused all on the circumstances that are so bad that
you don't like. But if you will start to praise me,
it gets your eyes off of your problems and gets
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your eyes on the problem solver. It was Ralph Waldo
Emerson who said this, sorrow looks back, worry looks around,
but faith looks up. And when you look up, you
praise God because he's the same yesterday, today and forever,
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and he's worthy, worthy, worthy of all your praise and
of all my praise, no matter what's going on. It
says in verse five, they look to him and were radiant,
and their faces shall never be ashamed. The word for
radiant means to shine. It's a countenance change that takes
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place when you look to God. Somebody described it this way.
Radiance is the joyful countenance of a mother welcoming home
her children. She's just so excited to see them. They've
been distant from her and separated from her for a time,
and she's welcoming them home, and she's so excited. They
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looked to him and were radiant, and their faces shall
never be ashamed. Hey, when trouble comes, you trust the deliverer.
God is the God who rescues. God is the God
who saves. God is the God who delivers. God is
to us a God of deliverances. And to God, the
Lord belong escapes from death. So in your trouble, as
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hard as it might be, take time to praise him.
I will bless the Lord at all times, and his
praise shall continually be in my mouth. Second action, not
only to praise him, but in your trouble, take time
to pray to him. To pray to him. Verse four.
I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered
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me from all my fears. This poor man cried, and
the Lord heard him and saved him out of all
his troubles. The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous,
and his ears are open to their cry, to their
cry for help. I sought the Lord, David said, and
he answered me and delivered me from what from my fears?
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From my fears? Isn't that wonderful? It's wonderful to know
that David, who was a guy who could stand up
to the giant when everyone else was afraid of him
who stood up before nine foot nine inches Goliath. He
still got afraid. David says in Some fifty six verse three,
when I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.
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He didn't say if I am afraid, if I'm ever afraid,
because you know, I'm David, and I'm different than everybody else.
I'm a man after God's own heart, So you guys
might get afraid. I never get afraid. So if I
ever get afraid, I'm gonna put my trust in God. No,
he says when I am afraid, because he got afraid.
And it says very clearly in the account and First
Samuel chapter twenty one that when David heard them say
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to King Akish, this is David, the one whom they sang,
this is the guy that killed Goliath, he greatly feared Akish,
king of goth His heart was filled with fear, and
he sought the Lord, and he cried out to the Lord.
And the Lord heard this poor man, and the Lord
heard his prayer, and the Lord delivered him from all
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his fears. You know, when we talk about going back
to school, going back to school can be a fearful thing.
I remember when I was going from eighth grade to
ninth grade. It was one of those things that the
Cyphair School district where I was going to school, they
were building a new school. All the students used to
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have to go from Blile Junior High where I went
to Cyphir Senior High. But then they decided we're going
to build a new school, and they drew the lines
of where the new school was going to go. And
I was on the other side of the creek, and
so all my friends pretty much were going to the
new school and I was going to the old school
to Cyfair High School. Bobcat Fight never dies, and so
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I was a little nervous about going to Syfair because
it's a new school. It's a bigger school, and you
have all these kids older than you. And I had
heard stories about what happened at Syfair High School in
the bathrooms. You know how guys will talk and they'll
tell you all these outland a story scary you to death.
It's like, well, you don't ever want to go to
the bathroom in high school. It's like, you, you don't
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because I know I'm going to be there for four years.
I may have to go. Sometimes you know, No, you
don't want to go there because there's things that happen.
They're there're fights that take place in the bathroom. Oh gosh,
I don't want to go there and get beat up.
Then you've got to be careful when you go to
the lunch room because some of the older students, some
of the juniors and seniors, they'll steal your lunch money,
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like good night, stealed my lunch money. Yeah, they look
for the week anyway. I'm a little nervous, you know.
I'm thinking, I got I'm gonna get beat up, go
into the bathroom, and then I don't have any lunch money,
and and it's just so this big place. I'm gonna
find my way around, and there's fear there. It's normal,
natural to have fear. It's natural for teachers to have
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some fear first teaching job. I'm a little nervous. I
don't know what to expect. Man, little kids can be tough.
They put the whoop on Arnold Schwarzenegger in kindergarten cop.
I'm he is scared of death. Yeah. That puts that
pushing me around, you know. Uh, it's hard. We have
lots of fears in life. Start a new job. There's fear,
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all sorts of fears. The Lord says, I'll deliver you
from your fears if you'll call upon me, If you'll
call upon me, his ear is open to your cry. Now,
God is listening for your voice in prayer. He's listening
for you to cry out to him. David calls himself
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this poor man, This poor man cried, and the Lord
heard him. He heard a poor man, just like in
the New Testament, when poor blind Bartimaeus cried out, Jesus,
son of David, have mercy on me. And the Lord
Jesus Christ, the King of Glory, stopped for a poor
blind beggar, because he heard that poor man cried. God
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is waiting to hear your voice. And you know what
the sad reality is for some in this room. This
is what God hears, just white noise. It's like turning
on a TV station and there, oh, there's no station there.
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It's out and on your station. God's tuned into your station,
and there's nothing coming to him. It's just white noise.
Because you're not calling on him, you're not praising him,
you're not praying to him. The Lord says, I'm listening
to your voice, Psalm one sixteen. This almost says this,
I love the Lord because he hears my voice, yes,
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and my supplications, because he has inclined his ear to me.
Therefore I shall call upon him as long as I live.
He's inclined his ear. He's listening for your voice. God
forbid that he should hear white noise from you or
from me, or we need to call upon him. Because
God is listening.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
We are reminded today that God is there and he
is listening. But that means that we have to listen
to him. He is the Way, the Truth, and the
life which is found in John chapter fourteen, verse six,
and the phrase light can in practical terms mean he
gives us enlightenment and guidance in this evil world in
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Part one of the lesson today, Deliver Me from Evil
from Pastor Jeff Shreeve's series roller Coaster facing the ups
and downs of life. But we trust that you'll be
here tomorrow. As Pastor Jeff Shreve continues this impactful message
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Would you like to be delivered from evil? Well, today
is your day. Here's Pastor Jeff Shrieve.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Job said, this man who is born of woman is
short lived and full of trouble. Trouble is one of
those things and storms in life. There's just a thing
that we're either coming into a storm in the middle
of a storm, a problem, a trouble, a trial, or
we're just coming out of a storm. And when you
(00:27):
just come out, you think, man, I'm done with that,
but then you go back in. Well, now I'm coming
into another storm. That's just the way life is. David
was a man after God's own heart, but he experienced
lots of downs in life, lots of troubles and trials
in life. And he tells us in Psalm thirty four
(00:51):
how to handle the problems in life. We storm with real.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
From no matter who you are or what stage of
life that you're in, trouble is coming. It's all around
you and me. It's unrelenting. That really is reality. Well,
how do we cope with the many troubles in our
lives and in the lives of those we love and
(01:25):
work with every day? This is from his heart with
Pastor Jeff Shreeve and thank you for joining us today.
The message is entitled deliver Us from Evil from Pastor
Jeff's eight message series roller Coaster, facing the ups and
downs of life and Pastor, as you surely know, everybody
wants to be delivered from evil, but that seems to
(01:47):
always be just around the corner, ready to pounce. So
in this life, is it really possible to be delivered
from evil?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, David in Psalm thirty four was facing some really
different cult times. He was fleeing from Saul and he
had gone to the Philistines. He thought, Shirley, Saul won't
look for me there. He went to Gath, which is
the hometown of Goliath. But he had to act like
a crazy man because the people recognized him. And he
went before the King of Gath, and David thought that
(02:17):
guy might kill me, so he acted like a madman
and the king said take this man away, and so
David was spared. He was delivered from potential evil and
Psalm thirty four is his thank you to God for
delivering him. And he says in that psalm that the
Lord will redeem us and deliver us from evil. He'll
(02:39):
take care of us. No matter what is happening in life.
So this message deliver us from Evil from Psalm thirty
four is really designed to encourage people who are going
through a very dark and difficult time. What do you
do when you're going through those hard times, David tells
us in Psalm thirty four.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Well, thank you, Pastor, and it is in encouragement that
is needed for all of us. So listen today to
our lesson and be sure to go to promisheart dot
org to listen to the other timely messages from this
series that have already aired. The series is called roller
Coaster Facing the Ups and Downs of life. If you
can now though, open your Bible to the Book of
(03:19):
Psalms and turn to chapter thirty four. Here's Pastor Jeff
to help us understand how God can and will deliver
us from evil.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Job said, this man who is born of woman is
short lived and full of trouble, full of trouble. Anybody
say amen to full of trouble. Have you experienced some trouble,
maybe in the last week or two, maybe in the
last day. You just trouble is one of those things,
(03:50):
and storms in life are one of There's just a
thing that we're either coming into a storm, in the
middle of a storm, a problem, a trouble, a trial,
or we're just coming out of a storm. And when
you just come out, you think, man, I'm done with that.
But then you go back in line and you're back
in Well, now I'm coming into another storm. That's just
(04:10):
the way life is. David was a man after God's
own heart, but he experienced lots of downs in life,
lots of hurts in life, lots of troubles and trials
in life. And he tells us in Psalm thirty four
(04:30):
how to handle the difficulties in life, how to handle
the problems in life. And Psalm thirty four is a
really cool song because it tells us the occasion upon
which David wrote this psalm, and the occasion was this
he was fleeing from King Saul. Remember we've talked about
the story of the life of David. God anointed him
(04:52):
king through the prophet Samuel when he was just a kid,
and David was going to be the next king of Israel.
Saul was the first king of it Israel. But the
Lord rejected Saul because Saul wasn't doing what God wanted
him to do. And if you're gonna be the king
of God's people, you better listen to God. Well, Saul
wasn't listening to God. And so the Lord says, I'm
done with Saul and Samuel. You annoint a new king.
(05:14):
I'm gonna choose for me a king, a man after
my own heart. And he chose David from the sheep folds,
and David, the little shepherd boy was anointed king. And
then we read about David. He kills Goliath and wow.
And then Saul puts David in his army because this
guy has got faith and he's got courage, and he's
(05:35):
a warrior, and so he puts him into his army.
And it wasn't long before the people began singing the
song Saul has slain his thousands, but David has slain
his tens of thousands. Saul didn't like that song at all.
And Saul said, what is this son of Jesse going
to want except my kingdom? And so he was jealous
of David and he wanted to kill David, and David
(05:58):
just wanted to serve Saul. He was just in God
for God's timing for him to be king. But Saul
went out of his way to try and kill David
and try and destroy David. So David is on the run,
and David is thinking where do I go? Where can
I flee? And he thinks to himself, I'll go to
the Philistines. Saul won't look at look for me there
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in the land of the Philistines. And so he goes
to a place called Gath. There's a famous giant from
the town of Gath. His name's Goliath. David killed Goliath
of Gath. Well, he flees to Gath. We don't only
know why he went there, other than he was thinking
where else can I go? I'll just go there. And
he goes there, and the king of Gath, Akish is
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his name. He's told by his servants, Hey, this guy
coming to town. That's David. That's the guy that killed Goliath.
That's big news. When you're the guy that kills the
champion of the Philistines from the hometown of Gath. That's
the guy that did that. That's the guy that they
sing about. Saul has slain his thousands, but David his
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tens of thousands, and David heard and David greatly feared
King Akesh because he thought what is he going to
do to me? How am I going to get out
of this jam? I'm in trouble. I thought I was
in trouble with Saul coming to kill me. And now
I ran to Gaff and now this king is probably
going to kill me? What do I do? And no
doubt he cried out to God. God gave him some wisdom.
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And what David did was he pretended to be a
nut job. He pretended to be a crazy man, and
he let the saliva run down into his beard, and
he began to scribble on the gates and on the doors,
and just acted like a nut And Aikish saw him,
and he said, Hey, do I lack madmen in my kingdom?
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Why do you bring this nut job in here? Send
him away? And they sent David away, and David escaped
about ten miles to a place in the valley of
e to a cave called the Cave of Adullam. And
it's from the cave of a Dullum that he writes
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Psalm thirty four. And in Psalm thirty four he says
this verse nineteen, many are the afflictions, the evils, the miseries,
the distresses, the troubles of the righteous, but the Lord
delivers him out of them all. Psalm thirty four is
praise to the Deliverer. Jesus told us to pray deliver
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us from evil. Deliver us from evil, Lord, because God
is a deliverer. Here's the question, how are we to
handle the many troubles of life? Because life is filled
with many troubles. How do you handle the many troubles
of life by trusting in the deliverer, the God who
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saves and rescues and delivers from trouble. Bible says in
Psalm sixty eight, verse twenty, God is to us a
god of deliverances, and to God, the Lord belong escapes
from death. So in ps I'm thirty four, David is
going to give us a threefold action plan of what
to do when you're going down, when you're experiencing the valley,
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the trouble, the tragedy, the misery, the evil, and it's
all around you. Threefold action plan. Action number one. In
your trouble, take time to praise the Lord Psalm thirty four,
Verse one, David said, I will bless the Lord at
all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
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My soul shall make its boast in the Lord. The
humble shall hear it and rejoice. Oh magnify the Lord
with me, and let us exalt his name together. Notice,
he says, I will bless the Lord. His praise shall
continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make its
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boast in the Lord. Oh magnify the Lord with me,
and let us exalt his name together. Those words are
all synonyms. They're all talking about the same thing. To
bless means to kneel before the Lord, and to exalt him,
and to thank him, and to congratulate him, and to
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salute him. To praise means to give him glory, to
celebrate him, to boast in him. He says, I'll boast
in the Lord. That's bragging on God and praising him.
And I'll magnify him. That's to increase him and enlarge
him and promote him and lift him up. I'll exalt him.
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That's to exul the Lord and raise him up on high.
And David was saying all those things of how he
wanted to kneel before the Lord and bless the Lord
and exalt the Lord because the Lord was worthy of
his praise. Now it would have been easy for David
to say, you know, I escaped by the hair of
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my chinny chin chin here, Lord, and where were you?
I had to do. I had to come up with
the plan of being a nut job, letting the saliva
run down in my beard and winning that guy overthinking,
you know, my acting skills delivered me their Lord and man,
I had to hotfoot it down here to the cave
of Adullum and now I'm all alone in the cave,
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and God, what's going on here? David didn't do that.
David Praise the Lord, Bless the Lord, Exalted the Lord.
He realized that his deliverance came from God. Praise is
always appropriate in any and every situation. I will bless
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the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be
in my mouth. Well just think if we did that.
Just think if we said that one verse. I'm going
to make that my life verse. And I'm going to
bless the Lord how many times, at what time, at
all times, and I'm gonna constantly praise him. And every
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time you listen to the words coming out of my mouth,
they're coming out in terms of praise. Now, oftentimes when
life hasn't gone so well, the things coming out of
our mouth can be grumbles and gripes and complaints and
mutterings and murmurings. Well, that's not pleasing to the Lord,
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that's fingernails on a chalkboard. To God, he tells us,
do all things without grumbling or arguing. Praise me and
bless me. Why well, because God is worthy of it,
the Scripture says in Hebrews chapter thirteen, verse fifteen. Through him,
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then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise
to God. That is the fruit of lips that give
thanks to His name. God loves it when we thank him.
God loves it when we praise him and sometimes thanks
him praise. It's a sacrifice to do that, because life
isn't going good. And the Bible says in Psalm fifty,
verse twenty three, he who offers a sacrifice of praise,
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God says, honors me. It's an honor when God in
the valley in the hard times, in the tough times,
when life has just knocked you down, and you're sitting
alone in the cave of Adullum, and God hears you
thank him, and God hears you bless him, and God
hears you magnify him, and God hears you extol him.
That honors God, because that's a sacrifice, because it's hard
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to do. I mean, anybody can praise God when they
win the lottery and say, whoa, I got fifty million
dollars coming to me, Thank you God. That's not hard
to do. How about when you lose your job, how
about when you find out you have cancer. You can
still thank the Lord, and you can still praise the Lord.
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You can still bless the Lord. Hey, praise is always
appropriate because circumstances change, they go up and down. Circumstances
can change on a dime, but the Lord never changes,
and he's always worthy. And the thing that praise does,
praise changes our outlook by providing an uplook. That's why
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praise is so important. Praise blesses God. But praise does
something to us because the tendency is and grumbling and
griping and muttering and murmuring. And you know, the Greek
word that I like so much is goguzmos. That means
the to grumble, goguzmos. It's an automatipia. It sounds like
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what it is, goguz mo. Lose. You're just grumbling, you're muttering.
You're you're just whining about things, and God says, don't
do that, because when you do that, and then you're
focused all on the circumstances that are so bad that
you don't like. But if you will start to praise me,
it gets your eyes off of your problems and gets
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your eyes on the problem solver. It was Ralph Waldo
Emerson who said this, sorrow looks back, worry looks around,
but faith looks up. And when you look up, you
praise God because he's the same yesterday, today and forever,
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and he's worthy, worthy, worthy of all your praise and
of all my praise, no matter what's going on. It
says in verse five, they look to him and were radiant,
and their faces shall never be ashamed. The word for
radiant means to shine. It's a countenance change that takes
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place when you look to God. Somebody described it this way.
Radiance is the joyful countenance of a mother welcoming home
her children. She's just so excited to see them. They've
been distant from her and separated from her for a time,
and she's welcoming them home, and she's so excited. They
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looked to him and were radiant, and their faces shall
never be ashamed. Hey, when trouble comes, you trust the deliverer.
God is the God who rescues. God is the God
who saves. God is the God who delivers. God is
to us a God of deliverances. And to God, the
Lord belong escapes from death. So in your trouble, as
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hard as it might be, take time to praise him.
I will bless the Lord at all times, and his
praise shall continually be in my mouth. Second action, not
only to praise him, but in your trouble, take time
to pray to him. To pray to him. Verse four.
I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered
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me from all my fears. This poor man cried, and
the Lord heard him and saved him out of all
his troubles. The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous,
and his ears are open to their cry, to their
cry for help. I sought the Lord, David said, and
he answered me and delivered me from what from my fears?
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From my fears? Isn't that wonderful? It's wonderful to know
that David, who was a guy who could stand up
to the giant when everyone else was afraid of him
who stood up before nine foot nine inches Goliath. He
still got afraid. David says in Some fifty six verse three,
when I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.
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He didn't say if I am afraid, if I'm ever afraid,
because you know, I'm David, and I'm different than everybody else.
I'm a man after God's own heart, So you guys
might get afraid. I never get afraid. So if I
ever get afraid, I'm gonna put my trust in God. No,
he says when I am afraid, because he got afraid.
And it says very clearly in the account and First
Samuel chapter twenty one that when David heard them say
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to King Akish, this is David, the one whom they sang,
this is the guy that killed Goliath, he greatly feared Akish,
king of goth His heart was filled with fear, and
he sought the Lord, and he cried out to the Lord.
And the Lord heard this poor man, and the Lord
heard his prayer, and the Lord delivered him from all
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his fears. You know, when we talk about going back
to school, going back to school can be a fearful thing.
I remember when I was going from eighth grade to
ninth grade. It was one of those things that the
Cyphair School district where I was going to school, they
were building a new school. All the students used to
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have to go from Blile Junior High where I went
to Cyphir Senior High. But then they decided we're going
to build a new school, and they drew the lines
of where the new school was going to go. And
I was on the other side of the creek, and
so all my friends pretty much were going to the
new school and I was going to the old school
to Cyfair High School. Bobcat Fight never dies, and so
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I was a little nervous about going to Syfair because
it's a new school. It's a bigger school, and you
have all these kids older than you. And I had
heard stories about what happened at Syfair High School in
the bathrooms. You know how guys will talk and they'll
tell you all these outland a story scary you to death.
It's like, well, you don't ever want to go to
the bathroom in high school. It's like, you, you don't
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because I know I'm going to be there for four years.
I may have to go. Sometimes you know, No, you
don't want to go there because there's things that happen.
They're there're fights that take place in the bathroom. Oh gosh,
I don't want to go there and get beat up.
Then you've got to be careful when you go to
the lunch room because some of the older students, some
of the juniors and seniors, they'll steal your lunch money,
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like good night, stealed my lunch money. Yeah, they look
for the week anyway. I'm a little nervous, you know.
I'm thinking, I got I'm gonna get beat up, go
into the bathroom, and then I don't have any lunch money,
and and it's just so this big place. I'm gonna
find my way around, and there's fear there. It's normal,
natural to have fear. It's natural for teachers to have
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some fear first teaching job. I'm a little nervous. I
don't know what to expect. Man, little kids can be tough.
They put the whoop on Arnold Schwarzenegger in kindergarten cop.
I'm he is scared of death. Yeah. That puts that
pushing me around, you know. Uh, it's hard. We have
lots of fears in life. Start a new job. There's fear,
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all sorts of fears. The Lord says, I'll deliver you
from your fears if you'll call upon me, If you'll
call upon me, his ear is open to your cry. Now,
God is listening for your voice in prayer. He's listening
for you to cry out to him. David calls himself
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this poor man, This poor man cried, and the Lord
heard him. He heard a poor man, just like in
the New Testament, when poor blind Bartimaeus cried out, Jesus,
son of David, have mercy on me. And the Lord
Jesus Christ, the King of Glory, stopped for a poor
blind beggar, because he heard that poor man cried. God
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is waiting to hear your voice. And you know what
the sad reality is for some in this room. This
is what God hears, just white noise. It's like turning
on a TV station and there, oh, there's no station there.
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It's out and on your station. God's tuned into your station,
and there's nothing coming to him. It's just white noise.
Because you're not calling on him, you're not praising him,
you're not praying to him. The Lord says, I'm listening
to your voice, Psalm one sixteen. This almost says this,
I love the Lord because he hears my voice, yes,
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and my supplications, because he has inclined his ear to me.
Therefore I shall call upon him as long as I live.
He's inclined his ear. He's listening for your voice. God
forbid that he should hear white noise from you or
from me, or we need to call upon him. Because
God is listening.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
We are reminded today that God is there and he
is listening. But that means that we have to listen
to him. He is the Way, the Truth, and the
life which is found in John chapter fourteen, verse six,
and the phrase light can in practical terms mean he
gives us enlightenment and guidance in this evil world in
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which we live. Are you listening to God? Are you
hearing the truth? Are you obeying the truth that will
deliver you from evil and give you the purpose and
power to help others and bring glory to God. We
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