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If you have your Bibles with you, I'd invite you to open them up.

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The first Bible reading is from Deuteronomy chapter 6 and we're looking at verses 20 to

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25.

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That's Deuteronomy chapter 6 verses 20 to 25.

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Are we all there?

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In the future when your sons ask you what is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees

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and laws the Lord our God has commanded you, tell him we were slaves of fear in Egypt but

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the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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Before our eyes the Lord sent signs and wonders, great and terrible, on Egypt and Pharaoh and

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his whole household, but he brought us out from there to bring us and give us the land

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he promised, an oath to our ancestors.

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The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord our God so that we might

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always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today.

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And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God as he has commanded

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us, that will be our righteousness.

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Our second Bible reading is from Psalm 77, the whole chapter, so please if you have your

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Bibles, open them up at Psalm 77.

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This is a lament Psalm.

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I cried out to God for help.

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I cried out to God to hear me.

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When I was in distress I sought the Lord.

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At night I stretched out untiring hands and I would not be comforted.

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I remembered you God and I groaned.

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I meditated and my spirit grew faint.

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You kept my eyes from closing.

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I was too troubled to speak.

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I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.

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I remembered my songs in the night.

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My heart meditated and my spirit asked, will he never show his favor again?

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Has his unfailing love vanished forever?

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Has his promise failed for all time?

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Has God forgotten to be merciful?

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Has he in anger withheld his compassion?

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Then I thought, to this I will appeal.

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The years when the most high stretched out his right hand, I will remember the deeds

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of the Lord.

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Yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago.

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I will consider all your works and meditate on all your mighty deeds.

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Your ways God are holy.

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What God is as great as our God.

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You are the God who performs miracles.

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You display your power amongst the peoples.

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With your mighty arm you redeem your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.

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The waters saw you God.

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The waters saw you and rivered and reaved.

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The very depths were convulsed.

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The clouds poured down water.

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The heavens resounded with thunder.

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Your arrows flashed back and forth.

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Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind.

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Your lighting lit up the world.

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The earth trembled and quaked.

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Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints

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were not seen.

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You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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This is the word of the Lord.

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I'll now ask Scott to come up and give us God's message.

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But before I do that, let me pray for you Scott.

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Heavenly Father, we thank you for Scott and we thank you that he will be giving us your

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words today.

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Not his words but your words.

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We pray, Heavenly Father, that we are loved hears to hear and hearts to receive your word.

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Not only just be hearers of the word but doers of the word, Heavenly Father.

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So we pray you'll be with Scott now.

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Lift him up by your Holy Spirit and help him to be clear and for us to receive your words.

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In Jesus' mighty name we pray.

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Amen.

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Good morning.

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It's great to be with you again.

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I was here back in December if you remember.

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If not, that's okay.

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In Australia, there's culturally one right answer to how are you going?

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And that is, or like how was your week?

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What's the correct answer?

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It's good.

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The answer is good.

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It was good.

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Or if you're feeling honest, oh I'm just a bit tired.

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I would say that that's anything but healthy.

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That's why the government has implemented plans like, are you okay?

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To at least force us to think about the facts that maybe we might not be.

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Because culturally if we're honest, yeah, we're not.

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Often we're not going okay.

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Not everything is all good.

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But I know that if I'm honest, I hate to impose and take up too much of people's time.

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I hate to put the spotlight on myself when even I am suffering.

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And most of the time that's actually exactly what I need.

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I need help.

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Because everyone seems to be going okay and because everyone's fine, we get surprised

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and even shocked when people break.

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When things snap, when people suffer, when our friendships fall apart, when marriages

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break down, when jobs are lost, we kind of end up being confused.

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Because I thought everything was okay.

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We say to ourselves and to each other, they said everything was good.

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And so Christians, are we any better off?

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How comfortable are you with sharing your pain with others?

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Is this church a safe place where you can voice actually how you're going?

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Or have we also bought into the lie that seems to equate godliness or being Australian with

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being stoic?

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That expressing emotions, pain and suffering isn't a place for church.

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Well this morning we're going to be guided by Psalm 77.

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And the psalmist seems to be going through some rather significant suffering.

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In our psalm, it's a song, it's a prayer kind of put together.

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The psalmist calls out to God.

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Rise out to God from his heart.

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And we get a glimpse today into that prayer.

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We're going to follow the progression through it.

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The progression through pain and sorrow.

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And we're going to do so because it's here to teach us.

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The psalm is going to give us words to sing, words to pray when we suffer.

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These words, they're going to help you, they're going to guard you and carry you.

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Words that you can sing and pray when everything else really feels like ash in your mouth.

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When nothing else fits.

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It's the anthem for those who are descending and working through suffering.

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To do the logistics of this sermon, how we're going to work, we're going to work our way

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through kind of, you know, verses all the way through.

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We're looking at kind of the raw nature of the psalm.

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Kind of the pain and the sorrow.

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And when I kind of need to take a breath from that, we're going to step out, we're going

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to see the logic and the structure of this psalm, this lament.

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Trying to balance the fact that this psalm has true beauty to it, but at the same time

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I'm really not all that arty.

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So laments are expressing deep sorrow.

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Deep pain and grief.

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The psalmist doesn't try and control them.

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He doesn't bury them deep down, but he gives them to God.

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And so today our passage is going to teach us how we can rightly come to God in the midst

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of horrific pain, sorrow and grief, while not minimising how we're feeling.

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But I should say that if you're suffering now, this psalm might feel like it's too much.

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Your pain may still be super raw, still really fresh, you still feel like you're bleeding.

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And the psalmist gets to the end rather quickly when you feel like you're just beginning.

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If that's you today, let this psalm help you to think through that process of lamenting.

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Let it faintly and gently point us to how we can and should proceed, even though we're

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not there yet.

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May it point you to the path ahead and give you the hope that you need.

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But maybe you're on the other side.

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Maybe this psalm actually seems irrelevant to you, because actually everything is great.

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You've yet to suffer.

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Maybe you're young and spring in your step.

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But we will suffer.

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It's the guarantee of life.

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And people need to be taught to swim before they find themselves in trouble in the water.

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So please come and allow this psalm to prepare you for when you do.

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God's word is here to teach us, equip us, how to live rightly and to pray rightly.

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This is a lament psalm.

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Lament's kind of follow a good pattern, so it's worth pointing that out now.

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They kind of form a V-shape or a valley, like whoo.

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They slope down, all the way down to the bottom.

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And then there's the slope up.

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They often fit into this kind of pattern.

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There's at first the crying out to God, then followed by the asking for help.

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And then the upside is responding in trust and praise.

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That's most lament.

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Our one is a slight twist on that.

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We're going to run verses 1 to 6.

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These are our three points.

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Crying to God.

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Then verses 7 to 9, right at the bottom.

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There are questions to God.

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And then verses 10 through to 20, we're going to remember God and trust in Him.

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So three points.

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Crying to God.

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Questions to God.

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Remembering God and trusting Him.

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So let us begin.

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It's worth noting that as a psalm, it's known as wisdom literature.

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There are questions that our psalm raises, statements that are said, where the answer

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to all those questions comes through slowly thinking through this passage.

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Spending a lot of time just sitting and thinking it through.

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Trusting in God.

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Because it's a message and a pattern that's given to us that is helpful for life.

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Which draw you in to help you to trust in God in the real world.

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And so our psalm is going to show us the transition through lament.

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Kind of progress through pain.

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It doesn't give you the fix.

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Doesn't give you all the answers about suffering.

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But it is a help on your journey.

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This is what God has given us for moments of intense suffering.

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Expressing our pain and suffering and resting in Him.

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Let's begin with our first point.

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We must and we should cry to God.

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See that with me, verses 1 through 6.

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Let me read that for us.

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I cried out to God for help.

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I cried out to God to hear me.

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When I was in distress, I sought the Lord.

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At night I stretched out untiring hands and I would not be comforted.

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I remembered you God and I groaned.

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I meditated and my spirit grew faint.

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You kept my eyes from closing and I was too troubled to speak.

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I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.

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I remembered my songs in the night.

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My heart meditated and my spirit asked.

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It keeps going from there.

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It begins with this address to God, verses 1 to 6.

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The images of someone in their bed, besides their bed, calling on God, seeking the Lord,

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stretching out his hands up, refusing to be comforted.

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There's a sleeplessness which gripped him, which seems to come through his pain.

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But he also attributes it to God Himself.

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He's unable to speak, unable to get through this pain and sorrow.

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The psalm doesn't tell us what the problem is.

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It's like it leaves that blank for you so that you can put in your suffering.

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Then the psalmist turns to God.

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Does that solve the problem?

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See verse 3.

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I remembered you God and I groaned.

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I meditated and my spirit grew faint.

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Just remembering God leads to groaning.

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Be that prayer or thinking about God's Word just doesn't have the strength.

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He's just so tired.

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We can't disconnect our mind and our body.

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When your body is unwell, that affects your prayer.

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It affects your spirit and it gets harder.

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Everything is more tiring.

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Even when he looks back to the past.

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He looks back to the former days.

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Maybe he's hoping, maybe he can remember, maybe find joy there.

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But no, that only seems to emphasize his current sorrow.

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Everything was so good but now I'm in so much pain.

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Do you pray like this?

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Do you even think like this?

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Do you allow yourself to go through this?

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Because it's messy and it's raw and it feels uncomfortable.

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We can often be so caught up in presenting ourselves as good clean people, all the boxes

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ticked, have it all under control that we think that this isn't appropriate.

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Again we pretend that being stoic and hard in times of pain is godliness.

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But that's not true at all.

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First let's again consider that God has given his word to teach us.

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Teach us acceptable ways to grieve, acceptable ways to lament, to cry out to him, cry out

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with each other and to pray.

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God can handle how you're going.

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He already knows and he desires for you to be honest with him.

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Like a parent with teenagers who scream and in moments of confusion or rage tell their

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parents that they hate them or cry all over them.

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Is that not always more preferable to them just leaving, to being just quiet and bottling

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it all in?

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An honest messiness.

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Even error in your thinking is preferred to silent treatment.

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Tell God how you're going.

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But again the other side of the coin, you may feel disconnected from the prayer.

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Again because you've either not suffered or even if you are suffering, this seems a bit

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much.

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The language here is so intense.

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And so our second consideration is something that helps us and I can't take full credit

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for this so this comes from Christopher Ash.

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That this psalm as wisdom literature reflects absolute truths but they require thoughtfulness

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and wisdom in applying them.

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There are some psalms whose prayers solve such immense suffering but there are others

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of such joyous occasions and in both of them I feel inadequate.

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How can I pray them?

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I know my heart is all over the place even at the best of times.

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How can I sing the songs of a truly crushed person or the songs of a truly righteous person?

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Because I know that my life I flick from loving God and seeking his glory to then at the next

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moment wanting praise for myself or just some selfish me time.

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But wisdom literature, the psalms are perfect prayers.

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It's often as if Jesus himself praised them for us in perfect joy or in his passion and

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suffering.

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And as Christ's prayers then they're also our prayers, the prayers of the church together.

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As we live and follow Jesus we may not be suffering to this extent.

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But around the world there are certainly those who are crying out and to a lesser extent

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don't we live that out.

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As in every church there are those who are suffering as they wrestle with sin, grief

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and sorrow.

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Maybe it's family that don't know the gospel.

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Maybe churches that we know that have failed, congregations that have been split or sadness

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from sickness and death.

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There are so many ways that we can feel sadness that's reflected in this psalm.

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God wants us to cry out together to him.

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So even if you think that you don't match the extent of this suffering we can pray these

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prayers.

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We can learn from them, be shaped by them.

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We need to learn from them so that when we're drowning in grief we have learnt and taught

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ourselves how to respond.

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So that's our first point, we need to cry to God.

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But our psalm moves on to questions.

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That's our second point, remember if you remember the V shape this is right down at the bottom.

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Questions to God.

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Say it with me verses 7 through to 9.

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Will the Lord reject forever?

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Will he never show his favour again?

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Has his unfailing love vanished forever?

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Has his promises failed for all to him?

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Has God forgotten to be merciful?

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Has he in anger withheld his compassion?

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Has the Lord rejected me?

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Does he no longer love me?

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Potentially the psalmist answers with yes because that's what it feels like right at

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the bottom.

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Right now it's hard.

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I can't see your favour.

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I can't feel your love, your promises.

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All these questions seem to be questioning God and his character.

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But as I said before how can this then be the prayer for Christians, of Christians?

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Don't these questions sound and feel like someone who doesn't have faith?

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No, because these are questions of one who does believe, has deep knowledge about God

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and right now their faith is under pressure.

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The psalmist knows God is loving, that God never rejects his people as a covenant-keeping

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God, one who is merciful and compassionate.

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That's where those questions are coming from.

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But right now he can't see it.

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All there is, is distress and pain.

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It isn't a lack of faith.

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These are the signs of faith in hard circumstances.

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Lack of faith would be not praying at all.

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So again God can handle our pain, all of our feelings.

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Did you not give them to us?

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Need to call out to him.

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It's just like my children in the night.

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If they fall out of bed, they can't find their way back in the darkness.

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God wants us to call on him in a spring.

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Call out to him with your questions and your complaints.

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Because we can say, God you're over all things, but we suffer.

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Lord help us, save us.

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Where is your love?

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Where is your help?

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As God abandoned us, are we to stumble in the darkness of our pain and misery forever?

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Will God do nothing?

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While there is calling out in pain and even complaints behind those, all behind those

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questions is the faith and knowledge.

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And that the answer to those questions is eventually no.

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God will not reject us forever.

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In our lamenting, in our calling out to God, in our complaint, though it takes time and

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though it will be painful to work through pain and sorrow, we can't stay there.

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We return to our knowledge of God, knowledge of his love and his mercy towards us.

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And that's where the last part of our psalm is going to take us.

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The outwood slope.

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But before we get there, it's in our suffering that that's when we need a solid knowledge

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of God and what he has done for us.

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All of the psalmist's questions, they come from a place of pain, but also an actual knowledge

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of God.

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He knows God, he's heard about God and what he's like.

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And it is when the pain and the suffering is upon him that what he's already been taught,

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what he's been grounded in, helps and supports him.

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It catches him at the bottom.

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I've kind of already begun slightly with this, but when one falls in the water, their instincts

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kick in.

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What they've been taught, what they've practiced will help and support them.

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And so too for the Christian, when we fall into our pain and suffering, when we're overwhelmed,

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the psalmist, he is questioning, he's bringing his pain to God, whom he knows so well, whom

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he spent so much time with in prayer and whom he knows loves him.

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And so may I encourage you now, while we can, before suffering, even now during suffering,

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we need to build a strong foundation.

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We need to dive deep into God's Word.

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Dwell, spend so much time with what he's already done for you in Jesus.

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And see how that must shape our thinking.

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And we need to do that if you can before you suffer.

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So you have a strong foundation, a strong trust for when that comes under pressure.

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It's our second point, questions to God.

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But we can't stay there.

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We can't stay at the bottom.

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And our third point, last half of our psalm, we remember God and trust him.

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Let me read that, verses 10 through to the end.

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Then I thought to this I will appeal, the years in the most high stretched out his right

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hand.

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I will remember the deeds of the Lord.

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Yes, I remember your miracles of long ago.

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I will consider all your works and meditate on all your mighty deeds.

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Always God or holy, what God is as great as our God.

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You are the God who performs miracles.

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You display your power among the peoples.

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With your mighty arm you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.

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The water saw you God, the water saw you and writhed.

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The very depths were convulsed.

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The clouds poured down water, the heavens resounded with thunder.

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Your arrows flashed back and forth.

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Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind.

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Your lightning lit up the world.

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The earth trembled and quaked.

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Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints

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were not seen.

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You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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Let's begin by looking at verses 10 through 12.

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At first this seems weird.

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Why is the psalmist relating to God through who he is and what he has done?

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And most likely that's not even for him, but for his forefathers.

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It's because that's how you judge someone's character.

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It's either who they are or what they have done.

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We do this all the time.

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Your friends and relationships, they're generally not focused right really on the here and now.

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Actually we give time to those and are friendly with those who we've already met, those who've

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already spent time with, those who've already shown themselves and proven themselves.

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But negatively also those who have hurt you in the past, you remember and you're wary

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of.

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It's all those past actions weighing how you're going to relate now.

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Even family friends that go way back generations, you remember.

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And so our psalmist here remembers the past actions of God and he remembers.

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And particularly here it's the image of the Exodus.

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The Exodus takes him to rest in God and worship him.

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That's verses 13 through the end.

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Got it again written here but I've already read it.

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The Exodus recap here is so important.

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Firstly because it clarifies our suffering.

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This is the psalmist, he's remembering God's act of salvation for his people.

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God's saving strong arm, the arm that quite literally smashed Egypt.

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And it's that God who in power saved his people before when they cried out to him in Egypt

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that he has in view.

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But in the midst of that rescue, after Egypt has already been decimated by the plagues,

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if you were one of those people leaving Egypt, heading towards the promised land at the edge

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of the sea, you look back and there's the armies of Pharaoh coming to you.

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And God's people are terrified.

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In front of them is the sea, what appears to be a wall of water that they can't get

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through.

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There's the cloud and pillar of fire and as someone there it would have been absolutely

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terrifying to watch.

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And the people wailed, they cried out so distraught, why has God let us here?

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God the son answers that the waters rise before God.

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All of nature moved out of the way to God saving his people.

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And that the salvation of God was through the sea.

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It would have been so hard to have been there.

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So that specifically verse 19, the path led through the sea, your way through the mighty

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waters though your footprints were not seen.

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And that was the way that God rescued his people, leading them like a flock by the hand

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of Moses and Aaron.

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That waters looked like death, but God's people went through it.

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God led them in through and out the other side.

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The psalmist looks back and he remembers the Exodus.

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He points to God's rescuing act and so trusts and rests in him now in his present suffering.

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There may be suffering and pain and grief now, but God rescues and guides us.

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Guides us even through waters of judgment, even through death.

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Because the psalmist he looks back and he remembers that it was that path, the hard

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path through the waters, through that time of terror that God saved his people.

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That's the path of salvation through there.

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That God led them to the promised land.

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And so the psalmist calls to us in our suffering to also join him in trusting, join him in

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worship and praising the one who likewise will get us through.

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The God who is strong enough and has proved himself in the past.

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Will we not do likewise?

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Is that not also what we just celebrated with Easter?

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We remember God's salvation plan.

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We remember that Jesus our Lord, he came and died and suffered for us, but was raised again.

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The suffering that he went through gave way to glory.

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And Jesus himself also didn't miss any of the struggles and suffering of this life.

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He went before us and we are to follow him.

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We should know what is before us.

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Yes there is suffering, but through that, because of what Jesus has done, that path

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is clear.

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Because we follow a suffering Saviour, there is, and we know for certainty that there is

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salvation on the other side.

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A salvation that we know for sure is ours.

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Already purchased, already acquired.

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And so we can follow and trust him, rest in him in our suffering.

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We can trust him because he has already saved us.

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And so the psalmist ends.

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He calls us to worship.

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He calls us to trust in God.

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But it's worth saying I think to end, that the psalmist has gotten to this point of trust

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probably still while he is in the midst of his suffering.

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There's no indication in our psalm that it's disappeared or dissipated.

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That there's been any relief.

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But even in the midst of his suffering, though he doesn't know how long it's going to be,

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how long it's going to go on for, he knows that that's part of God's plan of salvation

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for him.

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He trusts in his God.

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He calls us to sing this, to pray this, to join him in our suffering, in our pain.

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As you walk alongside others and pray for others who are also suffering, again and again,

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we must be pointed to God's act of salvation.

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For the psalmist it's the Exodus, but for us what's even bigger is the cross and the

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empty tomb.

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Our suffering can scream at us all the questions that the psalmist raised earlier.

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Has God's love ceased?

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Has he forgotten to be merciful?

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But the good news of Jesus and having that at the centre of our suffering means that

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we know that God hasn't forgotten us, but rather has already given us everything to

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save us, to take our sin, to bring us salvation.

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We can know that our pain is temporary.

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We can be sure that sin and death don't ultimately have the victory.

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What I need each day is to come anew and follow Christ, our good shepherd, through the path

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that he has for us, knowing that he leads us to salvation that he already has won for

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us, even if I can't see that now.

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And so will we do that for each other?

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As a church we need to be always calling and pointing one another to remember God's saving

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acts, to remember what Jesus has already done for you.

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We never get to the point in your Christian life where we no longer need to be centred

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and focused around the cross of Jesus.

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Every day what I need, on my best day, on the day when the world is crushing me, what

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I need to be reminded most is of what Jesus has accomplished.

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Let us in our suffering cry to God, knowing that he hears us.

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Let us honestly bring our questions to him with the foundation that's built on knowing

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God.

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Let us remember and trust him because he's already shown us his love in Jesus.

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Let me pray now.

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Lord we come to you in desperate need of your help.

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Lord there are many of us that are suffering, many of us that have suffered, many of those,

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many of us that will suffer.

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Lord help us learn from your word that you are a loving father that desires to always

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have us come to you, to bring our sorrows and sadness to you but also to each other.

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Lord may we do so, ever pointing each other again to your cross where your son took our

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heart, forgave us.

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Oh Lord help us each day to again come there, to not try and do anything by ourselves but

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to delight in what you have accomplished.

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Help us Lord as we help each other, resting again on your son.

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Lord we need your, we so need your help so we ask it in your son's name.

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Amen.