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A single sentence from Scripture can redefine lives and break the chains of deceit. Today we explore Psalm 18, where David's deep love and gratitude for God's deliverance reveal a powerful testimony of faith. This episode uncovers the  story of mutual affection between David and the Lord, illustrating how God's unwavering love can form a foundation of trust and deliverance in our lives. By examining David's journey, we witness the unchanging nature of divine love and its ability to set individuals free.

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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Greetings, hello and welcome to the Redeeming Love
Bible Broadcast.
My name is Phil Duddy,evangelist with Grace Baptist
Tabernacle of King, northCarolina, very glad to be back
behind the microphone recordingonce again, and I'm glad you're
with me on this program.
Please do reach out to us atredeemingthelostedicloudcom.
We look forward to hearing fromyou, as always.
Psalm 18 today on the program.

(00:37):
Please go ahead and turn withme to Psalm 18, and we are going
to see something that is sofundamental and so simple and so
profound and so precious fromthe Lord, just in the first
sentence of this psalm.
It's funny how the Word of Godis like that.

(00:59):
One sentence of the Word of Godwill change your life.
One sentence of the Word of Godwill change your life.
One sentence of the Word of Godwill overthrow lies and
deception.
One sentence from the Word ofGod.
As we know, the truth makes usfree.
One sentence from the Word ofGod will set you free today.

(01:19):
And blessed be the name of theLord who gave this Word to us.
He is good, he is holy.
Word to us.
He is good, he is holy, he istrue, he is just and he wants to
express himself to you today.
Bless God, and so Psalm 18,verse 1, I will love thee, o
Lord, my strength.

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And if you look at thebackground of this psalm, this
psalm came from David in aseason in which the Lord
delivered him in a really,really profound, physical way.
He delivered him.
If your Bible has a little noteat the beginning of the psalm,
mine says to the chief musician,a psalm of David, the servant
of the Lord, who spoke unto theLord, the words of deliverance
in the life of David.
And David opens this psalm withthis declaration.

(02:21):
He says With this declaration,he says I will love thee, o Lord
, my strength.
And the word for love here is aparticular word and this is
where it gets really powerful.
The word used here is typicallyused to describe the love of

(02:42):
the Lord toward people, thetender affections of the Lord
toward people, the tenderaffections of the Lord toward
people, the Lord's attitudetowards people, the love of the
Lord towards us.
And this psalm is beginningwith David using that same word
toward the Lord, that same wordtoward the Lord.

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The Lord loves David and theLord showed affection to David
and the Lord showed compassionto David and the Lord delivered
David because of his affection.
The love of the Lord wasmanifested in some actions of
deliverance in David's life.
Hallelujah, glory and amen.
David takes that love and hereturns it.

(03:30):
He takes that love and he says,lord, you've loved me.
Lord, you do love me, lord, Iknow you love me, lord, I've
experienced your love toward me.
Lord, I thank you for your lovetoward me.
I will love you in return.
You've got a tender affectionfor me, lord.

(03:52):
Well, lord, I have a tenderaffection toward you and I will
love you.
This is settled.
This is not going to change.
This is a love and a tenderaffection that's going to go on
in my life, me towards you, youtowards me.
We're in this relationshiptogether.

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Blessed be the name of the Lord.
And this is a profound thing,my friend, because the Lord's
love toward us is not inquestion whatsoever.
And you'll notice here in thepsalm I will love thee, o Lord,
my strength.
He goes on in verse 2, and thenhe talks about all these
blessings.
The Lord is my rock, the Lordis my fortress, my deliverer, my

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God, my strength, in whom Iwill trust my buckler, the horn
of my salvation, my high tower.
I will trust my buckler, thehorn of my salvation, my high
tower, all of the blessings ofthe Lord.
But the psalm started with thelove, and then out of that love

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flowed all of these blessings,everything that the Lord is.
The Lord is a rock, a fortress,a deliverer to David.
He's David's God, his strength,all of that.
But it flowed fundamentally, myfriend, it flowed in its
foundation.
Out of that love, out of thatlove that the Lord's got toward

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David and the Lord, who is love,started showing that love.
He made a deliverance, he madea tremendous deliverance in
David's life.
And, my friend, it's no accidentthat this is one of the songs
of redemption in the Bible, andso we need to talk about this
today, because, hallelujah andamen, the Old Testament's

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inspired, it's complete, it'sholy and it's good At the same
time.
You and I, my friend born againpeople, today we are not living
in the Old Testament, we areliving in the new, and the
Lord's love toward us is not inquestion.
While we were yet sinners,christ died for us.
That is some tender affection,my friend, that is some strong

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affection, that is some goodaffection, that is some holy
affection, that is the heart ofthe Lord being expressed Because
, my friend, jesus is the Word,he's the Word with a capital W.
You look in 1 John.
You look in1 John hallelujah.
You look in the Gospel of John,you look in the writings of
John in the New Testament andfrom time to time he will call

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Jesus the Word.
Jesus is the Word and he ismade flesh.
Jesus is the highest expressionof the heart and the will and
the love of God, and Jesusexpressed the heart and the will
of the love of God.
He expressed it in his words.
He also expressed it in thethings that he did and he

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expressed it to people who arein sin.
He expressed the love of Godand you got to stop and get that
.
He expressed the heart of Godtoward men and women and
children who were in their sinand who needed a Savior.

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So these people didn't cleanthemselves up.
These people didn't, you know,deal with their sin on their own
, somehow to be able to makethemselves worthy of God.
No, they didn't do any of that.
The Lord came here and the Lordcame to us, and the Lord came to
you and the Lord came to me andhe started expressing who he is

(07:35):
.
He started expressing hisholiness.
He started expressing hisgoodness.
He started expressing who he is.
He started expressing hisholiness, he started expressing
his goodness.
He started expressing his love.
He started expressing mercy.
He started expressing justiceand judgment and grace and truth
.
He started expressing himself.
He expressed his heart and heexpressed his love.

(07:58):
He expressed his heart and heexpressed his love.
And the highest expression ofthat, my friend, is that he went
to a cross to lay down his lifeand to shed his blood and to
die, and to die in our place,and to lay down his life in our
place and to shed his blood, sothat your sin and my sin and

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everybody else's sin could allbe dealt with, could all be
washed away, so that sin couldbe forgiven, so that people
could be forgiven, so thatrelationship could be
established, so thatrelationship could be restored
between people and God, becausesin broke it.
Sin broke that relationship.
But the heart of God is torestore that relationship.

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The heart of God for the sinner, the heart of God for the liar,
for the fornicator, for thethief, for the whoremonger, for
the murderer, for the drunkard,for the blasphemer, for the idol
worshiper.
The heart of God, my friend,it's not a stretch to say that
that sin is already dealt with.
The idolatry it's dealt with,the lying it's dealt with.

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The fornicating it's dealt withthe adultery.
It's dealt with All the youknow the prostitution.
It's dealt with.
The drunkenness it's dealt with.
You know all of the drug highsthey're dealt with.
All of the theft it's dealtwith.
All of the expressions of sinthat come out of the fallen

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human heart it's all dealt with.
It's all dealt with right now,whether you believe in Jesus or
not.
Why is that not a stretch?
Whether you believe in Jesus ornot, why is that not a stretch?
Why is that not a stretch?

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Because Jesus Christ went tothe cross already and the Lord
laid all of your sin, all of mysin, all of the sin of creation.
The Lord laid it down on Jesusof creation.
The lord laid it down on jesus,imputed it to jesus, made jesus
to be the sin.
Jesus said it's finished.
Jesus died and jesus is risenagain.
So the sin is dealt with.

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What the lord is looking for youfor today is do you believe me?
Is there faith?
Is there faith and is therelove?
Is there faith, my friend?
Because salvation is by graceand through faith in Jesus
Christ, our Lord.

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He's already dealt with yoursin and so what he's doing today
to the lost.
What he's doing today?
He's drawing you, he's speakingto you.
He's saying all that sin thatyou're all stuck up in I've
dealt with that already sayingall that sin that you're all
stuck up in I've dealt with thatalready All that sin that's
bringing all this destruction,all this death, all this hurt,

(10:52):
all this pain, all this sinthat's ripping you apart.
It's ripping your family apart.
It's ripping your town apart.
It's ripping the communityapart.
It's ripping your householdapart.
It's ripping your nation apart.
I have dealt with that.
That's what the Lord's saying toyou.
I went to the cross and I dealtwith that and I'm drawing you

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to myself.
Are you going to believe me?
Are you going to come with me?
Because I love you, I haveloved you and I do love you.
Do you even believe me?
Is there faith in you toward me?

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And hallelujah and amen.
If that answer is yes, if thatanswer is yes, lord's shown you
that you're a lost, dying,hell-bound sinner and he's
drawing you to salvation.
Don't wait another second, butyou just talk to him and you
call upon him and you cry out tohim and you let that faith come
up into some words, let thatfaith out of you into words to

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Jesus and ask him to be bornagain right now, and hallelujah
and amen.
There is grace and there isfaith, and the Lord does
miracles.
And the Lord delights in savingpeople.
He delights in saving you, andso ask him to save you right now
.
Amen and hallelujah andChristian.
Today, my friend, you know, theLord's love toward us is not in

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question.
The Lord's love toward the lostyou've just heard that, my
friend that's not in question.
Jesus went to a cross and Jesusdied and Jesus rose again while
we were yet sinners.
And so, my friend, the Lord'slove for the lost is not in
question, and the Lord's lovefor the church is not in

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question one bit.
And so the question is do youlove him today?
Do you love him?
Because, my friend, as I said,you know, we in the Old
Testament, back in Psalm 18,david, a man after God's own
heart, david, a type and form ofJesus Christ himself, he's up
here, he's saying I will lovethee, I have a tender affection

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towards you, lord.
And again, it's the same wordthat's used in different places
in the Old Testament to describethe love of God toward people.
And David, he's using that wordto describe his love for God
and my friends, my born-againbrother, my born-again sister.

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Whatever you're going through onthe outside, your situation,
your circumstances regardless ofyour circumstances and
situations in this life, they'regoing to change.
You walk through one season,next season, next season, next
season, one after the other.
The seasons change and thesituations change, but what the

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Lord's looking to talk to youabout today, do you love him?
Do you love him?
He loves you in every day, inevery way, even on your worst
days of Christian, my friend,even when you take your eyes off

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of him, even when you startlistening to the enemy, you
start listening to this and youget all turned around and you
get all deceived.
I've been there and you know, Ibet if you've been saved any

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appreciable amount of time, thenyou have been there as well.
But I'll tell you, the Lordloves the church.
On its most dead, lukewarm day,he still loves the church,
church.
Do you love him?
Do you love him?
And, my friend, thatfoundational love between you
and the Lord, that's all thetime.

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And, my friend, that changesyou, and I can speak to
testimony on this.
That changes you.
I can speak through testimonyon this.
That changes you in the middleof whatever situation you're in
that sets you free, in whateversituation that you're in,
because you love the Lord and myfriend, that love comes out

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into some affection.
That love comes out into someworship that comes out into some
song, that comes out into sometestimony.
That comes out into someworship that comes out into some
song that comes out into sometestimony.
That comes out into someministry.
That comes out into somepractical obedience on your part
, on your part in whatever youknow, in the middle of whatever
situation is, and that situationthat can get pretty difficult,

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that can get pretty humanlychallenging, but you know, no
matter what it is your lovetoward the Lord.
You walk through it and youwalk through it in peace.
You walk through it and youwalk through it in joy.
You walk through it and youwalk through it in life and in
love and in joy.
And that's a precious thingthat comes from you know the
Lord loves you absolutely andyou love him in return and

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that's a precious thing and maythe Lord stir that up.
If that needs to be stirred upin you today, may the Lord stir
that up in you and may you juststop in whatever the middle of
your situation is and you justtalk to the Lord and you sing to
the Lord and you weep beforethe Lord and you laugh before
the Lord and you rejoice beforethe Lord, and whatever your

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situation is, and it's aprecious, precious thing to be
able to say freely and to beable to say honestly and to be
able to say, without reservationof any type I love the Lord.
And I want to thank you so muchfor being here with this
broadcast, this podcast.
It's the first time in a littlewhile I've been behind the

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microphone.
I'm really glad to be back andI'm looking forward to recording
on a more regular schedule.
Once again, and thank you forlistening, thank you for
supporting this, thank you forsharing this and again, let us
know how we can pray for you,whatever your situation is, how

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we can be a ministry to you.
Redeeming the Lost.
At iCloudcom is our address.
We are a ministry of GraceBaptist Tabernacle.
We're located in King, northCarolina GBTministriescom.
You can learn more about usthere.
You can find service times, youcan find service locations and
we would love to see you inperson at all of those services.

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So please feel welcome andplease feel expected to come and
meet us in person, worship withus and hear a word from the
Lord in person in one of ourservices, and we look forward to
meeting you and I want to thankyou again for being a part of
the broadcast here.
Glad to be back and may theLord continue to richly bless us

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.
Amen.
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