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This is your daily reminder. God has not run

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out of mercy, not for you, not today. Welcome

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to the New Mercies Podcast. Welcome back today,

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Saturday, the... 14th of March. And as we begin

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in the episode description. So all that to say,

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let's jump in today. It's Psalm 22. This is Saturday,

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so it's our bonus day in our reading culture.

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And so we want to share a little bit out of Psalm

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22. If you are a big fan of the Psalms, or if

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you're not, hopefully what I'm trying to do every

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time we look at a Psalm together is help explain

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a little bit about the full context or maybe

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a little bit of background so when you read it,

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it jumps off the page a little bit easier or

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a little bit more naturally to you. So Psalm

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22. is one of the Psalms of David, and it is

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interesting. If you know much about this Psalm,

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you will see and hear, okay, this sounds a little

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bit like something Jesus said. This sounds a

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little bit like something that I hear Jesus quoting

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or something that may fall in line with that.

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This Psalm is one that David wrote. And again,

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the horrors that he explains in this Psalm, nowhere

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in the scriptures can we find David actually

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dealing with this type of suffering. Now, there

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was a time he was running from Saul out in the

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wilderness, and there's a time he was kind of

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pinned down, and there was a time where the enemy

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was around him. We can kind of... Maybe assign

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this to that time. I don't know for sure, so

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I don't want to give too much speculation. I

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do want to say, though, that this psalm has something

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really beautiful about it. It's got some prophetic

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pieces, maybe some inspiration that happens really

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much later on in the time of Jesus. This is a

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31 -verse psalm. The first 21 verses are devastating.

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They're very difficult. In fact, you read it,

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and it's just sorrow upon sorrow. It's brokenness

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upon brokenness. It's fear and trembling, and

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it just seems bad all the way around. It begins

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with the phrase in Psalm 22, beginning at verse

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number 1. I want to read this verse to us. My

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God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are

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you so far from saving me from the words of my

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groaning? Now, again, David is writing this,

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and that seems like very— and part of the reason

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I like the Psalms is because they're very raw,

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right? If you ever want to know how to communicate

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with God whenever you're happy or when you're

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sad or when you're broken or when you're mad

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or when you're angry or when you're happy or

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whatever, you can just go to the Psalms. There's

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one in there for all the different emotions that

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you go through in life. This is one of those

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that it just seems—he says, I'm groaning. There's

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been this groaning, and you've forsaken me. God,

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why have you forsaken me? And if you read those

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next 20 verses, so from verses 1 to— 21, you

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will just see it just seems to perpetuate, just

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seems to get worse and worse and worse, and it's

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awful and it's bad. But then verse 22 is a new,

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the psalm almost regenerates itself. And I want

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to read that verse of scripture to you out of

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Psalm 22, down in verse 22. The Bible says this,

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I will tell of your name to my brothers. In the

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midst of the congregation, I will praise you.

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What has happened? Well, the psalm has shifted.

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Now, if we look at this Psalm today in the light

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of Jesus and what he did on the cross, one of

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the most amazing things we will see take place.

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Now, I hope and pray you read every word, every

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verse, read it all. It's worth it. It's awesome.

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It's amazing. You'll see a shift from verse number

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22 down to verse 31. And it ends with this wonderful

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phrase. The phrase that it ends with in Psalm

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22 is found in verse 31. I want to read. just

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verse 31 with you today. They shall come and

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proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn

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that he has done it. Now, depending on the English

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translation you are using, that last phrase says,

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mine says he has done it. Maybe it says he hath

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done this thing or whatever it is. It's a phrase

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for us, right? Well, in the Hebrew, it's one

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word. It's one word. It's asah. It's this one

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word that means it's finished. It is finished.

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Do you know, as we look at this psalm, it begins

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with, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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And it ends with, it's finished. If you go and

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read the moments Jesus was on the cross, what

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you will hear Jesus say is, my God, my God, why

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have you forsaken me? And then you will hear

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at the end when he says tetelestai, which means

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it's finished. With one word, Jesus says it's

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finished. You know, I was encouraged today as

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I was reading through this text and all the texts

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we've been reading this week. And I just want

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to. I want you to be able to find encouragement

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and hope today to know that I'm sharing this

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on Easter in a couple of weeks, but our salvation

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is granted by works, just not our works. Our

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salvation is by His works, by Jesus' work, and

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what He did on the cross, what He did for us,

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it is not based on anything we've done. It's

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based on everything He's done. He's the one that

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put in the work for us. He's the one that was

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separated from God when he says, my God, my God,

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why are you forsaking me? Why have you forsaken

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me? Why have you walked away from me? What's

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going on? You love me. And the moment that Jesus

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said that was the moment that he looked like

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us on the cross. He looked like sin. It was Jesus's

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work that saved us, that saved me. I hope and

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pray today your faith is found in Christ. And

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I hope and pray today that Psalm 22 will bring

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you so much joy, so much refreshment to hear

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how difficult Jesus experienced the work of the

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cross and then how great the reward that he finished

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it. He completed the mission. He completed all

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of it so that we could be in his family. I hope

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you have so much encouragement today. I hope

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you can't wipe the smile off your face. It doesn't

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matter how goofy you look. You know a truth that

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is unbelievable and unthinkable how much our

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God loves us. I encourage you today, read Psalm

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22, fresh ears, fresh eyes, and allow the Lord

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to speak to you and let him reveal to you who

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he is truly.