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Hi, and welcome to the. We are science, oven podcast.

We are a local church based here in Chennai, India, we are so

glad you are with us and hope that this will encourage

Inspire. And in still, fresh faith in

you, we begin a new series on the book of Psalms where we look

closer at this book and Dean from it.

It invaluable treasure. We believe that through the

series. Our worship of God will go

deeper and our love for him will grow stronger.

Let's listen in and see what God has in store for us.

However, one it is good to be back as always.

I'm so we are kicking off a new series where we're looking at

the book of sounds for the next couple weeks, so long or more.

And so we'll be looking at some 22 today.

So that's the script. Operators will be looking into,

but before we get into that, let me go ahead and start with the

word of prayer and then we'll get into what we have referred

to by Heavenly Father. We thank you so much for today.

We thank you for giving us the grace for today.

Lord, we thank you that we can walk in that Grace and we can

rest in it. And the day we can find peace

and comfort and it as always remember the people, Around in

this world that do not have the freedom and the Comfort together

in your name. As we do, thank you for the

safety in which we gather, and we ask that for those who are

not able to gather in your name, we ask that you would provide

them with safety where they are and that you would change things

like that. The, your kingdom would be

established things are changed that they will be able to gather

in any future that they will be able to gather as a community.

And And We Worship You Lord and we ask that you would always

give us the words to say. And as we talked about some 22

that you would have something for us here today, and what you

have for us would sink deep into our hearts, it will penetrate

our part. So I kinda didn't take root and

produce fruit so hard. Best this time that we have, let

it change. Yes, and let your word be spoken

today. In Jesus name we pray.

Amen. So, yes, so we are starting on a

new series for the book of songs.

So for the next couple weeks or more will be looking into the

book of sounds, the sound, we're going to focus on today is some

22, but before we get right into scripture, I just want to talk

about a little background on the book of Psalms.

So the book of Psalms is made up of 150 songs, it's a book A

collection of 150. Psalms.

So some was mostly used for some kind of corporate Worship in the

temple. So, Psalms were sung as worship

as praise to God, similar to praise and worship that we have

in our corporate sitting, like, in a church in this corporate

setting in the temple, these sounds were used as praise.

They were used as a form of worship, so it is very common

old corporate thing, right? So if it is, if that was the

purpose for it, you may be wondering what is it?

Doing in scripture because there is no Temple.

So what why is there a scripture now?

So thank you for asking great question the reason we have this

book is few things in history, so When.

So, the temple was the central point in the Kingdom of Israel,

it is where God resided. It is.

Where all their worship focused on it, is where the sacrifices

will operate, so it with Central and core to their identities.

But in 586 BC, the Babylonians invaded Israel pretty much

destroy the Kingdom of Israel along with that destroyed.

The temple stole the artifacts. And then LED most of the people

of Israel back to Babylon as captives.

So this thing that they found entirely in the thing that was

the focal point of their worship.

The one true God was taking every was destroyed, and they

were LED away as captives to Babylon, so, in Babylon, The

there was a shift in focus in the sums because there was no

Temple to go and sing songs as part of corporate worship and

they start looking at the songs as a more personal devotional

prayer. Type of scripture and they start

looking to it as what is God want you to speak to us through

the sound? So here a shift happened in the

way that people approach this towns and they started

transitioning from only you, what would have been used for

corporate worship setting to more of a personal reflection

and prayer? Usage.

So that's how that shift in the sounds that scripture happen and

this is when the book of Psalms started being compiled as well.

So as they were wanting to save sounds with future.

This is where the beginning stage of it being compiled in

the book started. So that's how they kind of

transition from corporate worship to what we have right

now where it is a personal prayer book almost that we have

The Book of Psalms is a book of 150 Psalms there have been

several more Psalms you attend, but it is in but that's been

intentionally compiled in these chat.

These sounds have been intentionally intentionally

chosen to be a part of this book.

So if you look at sums, you see a lot of structure that's done

it. It's 150.

Psalms the entire world can also be further.

Studied, 25 additional books. All these five books sometimes

have bookends that separate them from the rest.

There is a lot of structure, a lot of talk that is gone it.

So and the literature in the Book of Psalms spans over 800

years because if many times when we look at Psalms King David

comes to mind and we might attribute all of the sums to

him. However, King David is a bit The

tribute close to around 70 or a few more than 70 songs, which is

just about half the Psalms there have been many other authors

ASAP as an author came in. And the and eaten is an author,

the sons of Korah or authors and even a Solomon and Moses listed

at awesome as partners and there are a group of Psalms that are

also Anonymous. Boom, we don't know.

We don't know who the author is so If you look at this there's

over 800 years of literature and history.

In the Psalms biggest if Moses is attributable to one and then

later on to King David and Solomon, it spans a long

history. So there's eight hundred years

worth of literature and history in here.

Just try and imagine compiling an English book that has over

800 years. Years of history or 800 years of

lobster right now. But English, the chaplain the

beginning will not look like the chapter in the end if you think

of English and Shakespeare and places sound different from what

the English we speak. Now, if you go further back, you

may have read something called The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey

Chaucer in high school or college and few see the English

and that is so different from the English.

We speak. Even though it's still English

though. Imagine how interesting and

unique that is that there's so much literature and history and

here in the Book of Psalms and as the book of Psalms was

compiled and its nature, turned from corporate worship doing

more internal personal thing, it really did become, like, look of

prayer and so you could call the book of Psalms, the book of

prayer that in our Bible and they've been used as prayer

since the beginning as well. So when you read a sum or you,

You're some something profound this happen.

You are joining in this cloud of witnesses that have trade, these

sounds for over 3,000 years. You're joining Moses, whose

period of time you joining King, David and Solomon, who prayed

these exams, joining, Jesus, and Peter.

And Paul, you joining the members of the early church,

joining the church fathers you joining All of Christianity,

because everyone has at some point.

Read the psalm of, praise the Sun.

So imagine how profound it is that when we pray Assam and read

us a joining in something that's been happening for 3,000 years

and we're part of those carbon witnesses that use this for

prayer and use it for praising God and reflection.

So now that's just a quick background.

We're going to move onto some 22.

So for some of you who are familiar with something to do

the moment, you hear the sound 22 of the moment, you hear the

first? Phrase of Psalm 22.

Just my God. My God.

Why have you forsaken me? Your mind goes to Jesus.

Jesus may be the only context with which you have read this.

Some so this these are the words spoken by Jesus on the cross

where he says, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

He is referring to this song. So it is one of those sounds

that looks forward to what would happen to Jesus during the

crucifixion and do During his death.

So that might be the only context with, which you have

seen or you have read this or you have started to sound, but I

want to touch on that but I want to do it at the end.

So when you're thinking about it, let's put it on the back

burner. We will come back to it.

Now, as we read through it, I want us to focus on what this

some is for us. We will touch on Jesus at the

end but our primary focus as we start reading through.

It is, what does this sound have for us?

So the way I plan on doing this is I might be two or three

verses of time and we will talk through it and we will do that

from the beginning till the end of this out.

Okay, so one thing before we go on, I forgot to mention earlier,

the book of sounds can be divided to two large categories,

Psalms of lament, and sounds of phrase.

It so something to do here, Is a sum of lament, at least, it

starts that way. It may not neatly fit in that

category, based on the transitions, it makes, but it is

the sum of limit. And when I say lament, I'm

talking about biblical Christian lamenting, I'm not talking about

wallowing in one's situation and Staying there, I am talking

about. When we feel the weight of a

situation lamenting is going to God.

With a complaint is, the complaint starts with God.

Why have you forsaken me? I think that is a good way to

start a limit. His many times when we lament,

it's this feeling that nothing is going our way or that we've

been Forsaken and we go to God asking him or telling him how we

are feeling. It but lamenting doesn't end

there. If you look at lamenting

holistically, it is going to guard with the complaint.

And then we petitioned him to act on our behalf.

We request them to act on our behalf.

And then ask me make that request.

We continue to trust and place our hope.

And in biggest, he's the only one that can change our

situation. So, when I say lament, I'm not

talking about wallowing in this place of your situation and just

wallow what I'm talking. but is when those Feelings and emotions

of the fact that maybe we feel forsaken orb.

And when they come up, we go to God with those feelings and we

lay it out of speed and then we petitioned him to intervene and

we turn towards. So that is what I mean by

lamenting it and we will see that in the some.

So we'll get into some 22. Psalm 22 verse 1.

Psalms 22:1

I will be reading from the ESV because I like couple of the

word choices, the years, we chose for this sound.

So I'm going to be reading from the ESV for the duration of this

message. Psalm 22.

My God. My God.

Why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving

me from the words of my groaning.

Oh my God, I Cry by day, but you do not answer and by night, but

I find no rest. So we start with these words.

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

Why are you so far? This feeling of Agony at being

almost a feeling of Agony and being abandoned by God.

He looks ominous feels the agony because he feels as though, God

has forsaken him, he feels that God is far away.

He feels that God is not answering, and if you look it

says, but you do not answer, it is not a, you cannot answer it.

It is a you do not as in an intentional choosing not to

answer when you could. So it is really this picture we

get of Abandonment. Picture of the agony that comes

from feeling forsaken, the agony that comes from feeling that the

God and who you trust is far away and not answering your

call. So as we read through it, I want

you to love yourself too. You the emotions of the sound is

this feeling? Try and put yourself in the

shoes. Think about moments where you

and our lead probably or where we haven't already.

Probably felt this way. I have certainly had moments in

my life where these words that have been so appropriate where

it feels as though, I was forsake nor abandon or The God

was Far. So and remember, we're talking

about these feelings that we have.

Have right? So remember that, these are

feelings that we talking about. We are not saying that God

totally abandoned him. What we are saying is that, that

is how he is feeling and many times that is how we feel based

on the circumstances in our life.

So he's in agony Agony at the thought that he's been abandoned

Agony at the thought that he's been forsaken Agony at the

thought that God is delaying. Deliverance that God is

intentionally not speaking even though he can, and then we go

on. So, pay attention to the first

two letters. Letters of worse 3 it says yet

you so he uses again in verse nine.

So when he says yet you these contrasting, what he just said

that with something different. So he has given us his present

situation. So he's going to contrast that

with something else. As we read verses 32 fire.

He says yet. You Are Holy enthroned on the

Praises of Israel. He knew our fathers trusted,

they trusted, and you delivered them to you.

They cried and were rescued in you, they trusted and were not

put to shame. So, you talk about his present

condition of feeling abandoned. And now, he talks about how God

is on the throne, so God is still in power.

Nothing's Dethrone God. So he is still in control, so it

re-emphasizes that but you do not answer, meaning he could, if

he wanted to, but he's choosing not to.

So he recognizes that. God is still in control.

He talks about the father's the Patriarchs of Israel.

The people of Israel, trusted God, and he has delivered them.

So, So in we have seen this fortitude, there have been so

many moments that God has intervened and delivered Israel

to you. They card until they were

rescued. You knew they trusted, we're not

put to shame. So we see a contrast of the way

he's feeling right now in his present circumstance and

compared to the idea that in the past or that God has delivered,

that God has not put people to shame that God has rescued.

So, Big difference from what God has done and his current present

situation, they are seem to be are two ends of the spectrum.

So now he moves on verse 6, he says, but I am aware.

I am not a man scorned by mankind and despised by the

people all who see me mock me. They make mouths at me, they wag

their heads, he trusts in the Lord, let him deliver him.

Let him rescue him for, he Delights in him.

So again, he's coming back to his present conditioner.

So we saw a first contrast present condition what God has

done, and he comes back to his present condition.

Again, he said, but I am a worm, not a man, can the situation.

He's in the way. He's feeling he's feeling

dehumanized. He is relating to himself as a

worm. A lowly worm worms are not.

It is not a positive image here. So this is an agrarian society,

right? Worms that the things that eat

and kill. Crops word, worms are meant to

be trampled on. So if you think about the worm

and Jonah that came and destroyed that tree, that Jonah

was Finding shade under so It is, he is identifying, with this

lowly thing, that's how though. He might be feeling.

He doesn't even feel the event and he is scorned and mocked by

those around them, right? They, and you hear a tone of

sarcasm from the people around them.

In verse 8, he trusts in the Lord so he are some stressed in

the Lord. So let God delivered him.

God Delights in him. So let God deliver him almost as

almost as if. If people around, you can see

his point, see his desperate situation and mock him by being

sarcastic. Since he has put his trust in

the Lord, led by Lord, come and delivered.

So, rubbing salt in the wound. That's what it feels like when

you hear the people around him, speak those words.

So again, he's in this place where God is Not intervening

where he is smart. Those around them.

He feels so low to the point that he identifies being a worm.

So again this idea of being forsaken, his idea of being

abandoned. And again, this just seems like

this language of Agony that he's experienced case coming through

in this in Poetic form because this is a poem, right?

And we see that face again chapter as, all right, in verse

9 yet you. So you're going to contrast is

present Ian, with something else.

Says yet. You are he who took me from the

wings? You made me trust you.

At my mother's dress on, you was I cast from my birth and from my

mother's womb, you have been my God.

We get in this yet. You as a contrast we get this.

Very sweet image of intimacy that God was present at his

birth. The image we get here is that

almost as in God was the Midwife very he was being born.

God was the Midwife that delivered him.

From his mother's womb, this phrase on you was I cast from my

birth. It's almost as if that he fell

into God's laps as he was coming out of his mother's womb.

So we get this picture of closeness right and When he says

you made me trust you at my mother's breast he made me trust

you as in he's talented he's been faithful to God from the

very beginning. He's been faithful to the one

true God Yahweh from childbirth and so contrasting God, being at

his great and being intimate with them to what he is feeling

earlier being scorned by those around him and being Dehumanized

to the point. He thinks of what we're right.

So, he's present situation contrasted with what God has

done and verse 11. He says, be not far from me for

trouble is near and there is none to help again, going back

to earlier in verse 2, where he talks about God being far away,

Yusuf are your farm work from my groanings so that theme of God

being far as reiterated. And here, it almost comes with

an extra punch because he had just got done talking about how

close God was, God was close to him like a mother and a baby,

right? So, it's almost so as close as a

baby is due as a mother, that's how far the feels goddess in

this moment. So that contrast is there as

well. So This first section so versus

due to 11 is like the first stanza of this poem, and this

poem has three. Stanzas will get in the other

tube, but if you can see the teams in this first one is been

abandoned. He is full of Agony from the

situation of being abandoned by God being forsaken, God is far.

God is choosing not to speak to him.

God is withholding or delaying Deliverance.

Right. So and the g contrast that With

all the things that God has done.

But that don't reflect his present situation.

So now we move on to the next stanza, where the focus kind of

turns to his enemies and what that means to him.

So verse 12, 13 and 14 many bulls and Compass Lee Strong

Bulls of Bashan, surround me They open why their mouths at

me, like a ravening and roaring lion.

I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint.

My heart is like Wax. It is melted within my breast,

my strength is dried up like a potsherd and my tongue sticks to

my jaws. You leave me in the dust of

death. So he compares the images you

use as far as enemies of the images of animals and there's

the bull and the lion here, but Sean was a very fertile area.

And so the cattle, there were well, fed and strong.

So these are strong renowned rules of this place.

So strong Bulls ravening Lions. Imagery gravity as in like how

they attack prey or two on their prey so it is To fearsome

animals and that's how he is depicted his enemies.

So, as enemies are Encompass, they're surrounded him, right?

And as enemies of surrounding, he feels like I am poured out

like water. My bones are out of joint.

So his physical body is broken. He feels like there's nothing

left. I am poured out like water, all

my bones are out of joint so he is physically spent.

He's physically broken, he's drained.

And then, so he talks about his physical body, then he talks

about how his heart is. Melted like Wax the heart.

The what he means is all his courage as left and he no longer

has any courage because it's part has melted.

So and he also mentions that my strength is dried up and my

tongue sticks to my jaws. Many of you may have experienced

this. When you have anxiety or fear,

when your body gets into the fight or flee response, it kind

of shuts down. Down functions in your body that

are not important to conserve energy for fighting or fleeing,

right? So one of those things that it

shuts down is shuts down productions for the saliva in

your mouth. So your mouth turns dry.

So, when your actions of fearful, you may have

experienced, how your mouth turns, right?

And your tongue kind of sticks to the roof of your patent roof

of your mouth of the palette. So he's talking about this fear

that has overtaken him to. So his body is broken here.

Has no courage left and he is full of fear to the point where

the next thing is dead. So he is at such a low point

where the only thing lower is death.

And he goes on to say, he goes and talk further about his

enemies. For dogs and Compass me company

of evildoers and circles me. They have pierced, my hands and

feet. I can count all my bones, they

stare and gloat over me. They divided my garments among

them. And for my clothing, they cast

lots. So occurred animals years,

introduce dogs. So, again, where he is I mean

that's the images giving us for his enemies and now he has been

attacked and he he is pretty much emaciated.

His body is emaciated, he is so thin and fragile and broken that

you can see the bones through its skin.

To the point where you can count all of his bones through his

skin, that's the present state of his body, and he is so

defenseless that. Don't even wait until he is

dead. Do a raffle off his float.

They do it. While he's alive the raffle, his

clothes off even before while he is alive.

So he is in this defenseless Place he is in a place, that is

just only slightly better than that.

And his enemies have attacked in their encircled them.

And it kind of parallels that feeling of Abandonment, that God

has not acting that God is delaying Deliverance.

This again in the context of his enemies, it's rehashing.

Those teams that we saw in the first stanza.

So if you look at the next couple verses, it's a little

different to how the end of stanza.

One came to a conclusion here it goes on but You O Lord do not be

far off. Oh you might help come quickly

to my Aid deliver my soul from The Sword, my precious life in

the power of the dog. Save me from the mouth of the

lion. You have rescued me from the

organs of the wild oxen, if you're interested in poetry, One

thing I just want to point out is earlier in the stanza, we saw

that the border of the animals was oxen lion and dogs here,

when he's recording them, he goes back.

So it goes goes backwards, dogs lions and awesome says something

interesting. But here he petitions guide to

help at the end of stanza one. It kind of rehashes of far gone.

As he does not make a request. He starts out at how far God was

in verse two ends of how far God is in verse 11.

But he, Here, we started out with his enemies, encircling him

and the state of his body. His emotions, his heart and his

and the fear that is overtaking them, but he Tallman he doesn't

come back to the same thing. You started with he ends the

second stanza with this petition.

He asked God to come and help him come quickly to my age.

My pressure to deliver my precious life from the power of

the dog. So this slight change, right?

He talks about his enemies with the ends, asking God to come and

intervene. So, we see a slight changer

again, stanza. One stands it, dude.

He is talking about a situation about how he's feeling and it,

The only imagine how difficult and desperate you must be to be

voicing this to God. Now, as in, go to stands at

three, we see a very sudden shift in.

Almost this point of view. We've been talking about his

present condition as Consul one and stanza to the team's of

Abandonment. Themes of being forsaken themes.

That God is far away, things that guard is withholding,

deliverance and justice. And not speaking, and all of a

sudden in verse 22, it's almost like it's a difference.

Some we switch to this theme of Praise.

Just I don't know where 180° return and he starts talking

about Grace. So, and we'll try and talk

through that as we go through the last stanza.

So this is versus 22, 23 and 24. So, I will tell of your name to

my brothers. In the midst of the

congregation. I will praise you.

You who fear the Lord praise him?

All you offspring of Jacob? Glorify him and stand in all of

them. All you offspring of Israel for

he has not despised or abhorred, the Affliction of The Afflicted.

It's, he has not hidden his face from him, but as bird when he

tried to him. So this sounds so different from

how the first two-thirds of the sound.

Sounded. There's nothing about his

present condition here. This all focusing on praising,

Yahweh praising, the one true God.

So I will tell if your name to my brother's is talking about

sharing why God is so crazy with you to people around them and in

the midst of the congregation, I will.

Raise you. So remember how it sounds we

used as a form of. They used to worship and praise

God in the temple. So that is what he's talking

about here. The midst of the congregation,

meaning in the, in the midst of people in the temple, I will

praise you and verse 24. He says that for he has not

forgive me for he hasn't forgotten has not despised or

abhorred, the Affliction of The Afflicted.

He has not hidden his face from him.

But as Married when he cried to him, this is this verse has both

hope and joy as well as paying here because hopeful and joyful

because he's talking about God, who does not hide his face.

God who hears when people cry out to him, but also a little

bit painful because in stanza one and two, he is The Afflicted

one, he is the one that is crying out.

But the repeated theme as that God is far away.

God is not speaking and God is Not intervening or God as where

he feels forsaken by God. So there's these are hopeful

words for him but also probably there's some pain because in

these are the words I'm speaking.

But my situation does not seem to match up.

Now. This last answer kind of serves

as a model, you could say / how we approach the situations in

our life that are reflected in stanza, one at stanza dude and

these situations where we feel abandoned we feel forsaken, we

feel like God is withholding his deliverance.

We feel like he may not be speaking when he can.

So the first way to approach the situations that we see here is

Crazed but more importantly in the midst of the congregation,

so finding support in the congregation, in our case,

finding support in the church, finding support in this

community here. So we find support when we're

going through these troubled times in the community, we

praise in the congregation but you might be wondering.

How can I possibly praise when this is my situation?

When these are the feelings, I'm experiencing.

Being in community helps but more.

So we're going to read verse 25. It says from you comes my praise

in the great congregation. So again, great congregation as

in the community in the temple but where does the praise come

from the praise to God comes from God and ourselves.

God is the one that is strengthening you to praise and

that is giving you the words to praise that is enabling you.

Impressed. So from God comes Our Praise.

So God will give us the strength to praise him in hopefulness,

despite the situation here and he will supply us with the words

from him will come the strength, the support, the sustenance to

praise him back without knowing that he is God that he is still

in control despite what our circumstances.

Just answer that. So that is kind of first kind of

model on how to approach these difficult circumstances in life

that are reflected in stanza, one in stanza to so that is

praise praising in a community finding support in the community

and acknowledging that even the strength to praise comes from

God himself. Then he verse 26, The Afflicted,

she'll even be satisfied. Those who seek Him, shall praise

the Lord. Art's live forever.

So again reiterating the steam of praising.

God, now, verses 27, to 31, we see another small little shift

in the sense. That if we look at is the model,

the first model is, how you approach the situation is

praised in the congregation, praise and Community.

This gives us another model approach it.

So verse 27 starts with all the ends of the Earth shall remember

and turn, To the Lord and all the families of the Nations

shall worship before you for kingship Belongs to the Lord,

and He rules over the nation's. When this phrase, all the ends

of the Earth comes in its use in portrait, the Old Testament,

almost always points to the end points to God making everything

right at the end. The word we're looking for this.

It's eschatological as it is looking to towards the end where

things culminate looking to the end with hope because in the end

God restores all things God sets all things right?

So the second model on how we approach difficult situations.

Like the ones mentioned in the sound is we look forward and

hope we look towards the end with hope because we know at the

end things will be set right? And he talks about the end here.

All the families of the Nations shall worship before you or

kingship Belongs to the Lord. He rules over the nation's all

the prosperous of the earth, you don't worship before him shall

bow. All who go down to the dust,

even the one who could not keep himself alive, posterity Shall

Serve him, it shall be told of the Lord, the coming generation.

They shall come and Proclaim his righteousness.

Do a people yet unborn and that he has done.

So we see this end where everyone is worshiping God where

everyone is together and everyone is Ben Almost as

everyone has been provided for, and we are talking of God's

righteousness to the generations to come.

So we're looking towards the end.

We're looking towards the end where God restores and makes

everything, right, and even ends that when it says, at the end,

it says he has done it as in. He has provided the Deliverance

that we were hoping for. He has provided the Salvation

that we were hoping for and This sound ends with that.

Hope so stands in three gives us two models to, to not different.

But go hand-in-hand to approach, when life can be difficult, one

is support and praising your community.

That will give you the strength to praise and you will find

support in the community and to is to focus our attention on the

hope that we have in the one true God.

The hope that it It will be right, God will set things,

right? And so we focus on those two

dots on two of those things. Now, now, I want to come back to

Jesus. So we talked about how this some

talks clearly about Jesus. We know that because Jesus

mentioned the title of this song.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me while he was on the

cross? And There are many things that

seem to depict the crucifixion, right pierced his nails in his

hands. His clothes were cast for Lots.

So, it is definitely a picture of Jesus.

Now. You.

May tell yourself that God does not know what I'm going through

because how could he possibly feel the way I'm feeling?

How could I feel about it? How could he possibly feel that

I feel forsaken? How could he possibly feel that?

I feel like he is not moving or delivering are speaking to me.

How could he possibly feel them? Oh, you might think he knows

these things just because he's got whatever vote you're on.

You may say he's all-knowing so he sees the emotions experienced

and so he knows what I'm going through but I think there's

something just a little bit deeper than that.

She knows what we are going to because he himself experienced

it. If you feel abandoned, you have

a God that knows what that means.

Because that is how he felt, he felt these things to the point

that when he On the cross. He cried out my God, my God.

Why have you forsaken me? So your God knows what you are

feeling and what you're going through because he has

experienced not. He has some knowledge of seeing

just what's happening in your heart or your mind, but he has

first-hand experience of these difficult moments.

So difficult that these are the words of a call to his mind

while he was on the cross. Now.

He felt abandoned right? He took the weight of this,

broken World, broken creation item.

And at that moment he felt abandoned.

Now remember we're talking about him feeling abandoned, right?

The son, the Father, the Holy Spirit of part of the Triune God

the Trinity. I am not saying that he was

abandoned by the father and the Holy Spirit and separate from

them. No I'm not saying that I'm

saying the wait. Was such that he felt that way

and therefore he experienced it and he knows what you are going

through. The truth is even though Jesus

felt that he was never abandon, I mean, we serve a Triune God,

they are one. How could he be, right?

So he was never just like that. We feel about it, we feel

forsaken, what we truly never are abandoned, we truly never

are mistaken. Although the cell, Circumstances

around us cause us to feel angry and it is totally okay to feel

that way, because that is exactly how it feels.

He is never far. He has not abandoned us, he is

not a god, that is mean and withholding things for no

reason, right? Even think about Jesus is

experience and feeling like use about it.

But there was a greater purpose to that because At the end of

that, we Jesus ends it is finished.

It is done what he accomplished, what he set out to do, as he was

accomplishing. What he set out to do was there

this feeling where he felt abandoned, and forsaken was the

experiencing? What the psalmist says in Sumter

to certainly. But it wasn't because God was

mean, it was because God was working out his good and

ultimate good purpose for all. Creation and that is very much

in our lives as well. We go through these difficult

moments where we certainly feel this way and it is good that we

share our feelings. We got and we voice our

feelings. But we also should keep in mind

that it is not just mean God, that is withholding good things

from you. Everything he does is good,

everything he does. Saves his serves, his good

purpose in creation, so and even and when we feel this way, we

are still not abandoned, we are still not without hope, he is

close by and He will Deliver Us in the end.

It says he has done it. Jesus talked about how it is

finished on the cross. So God does in Devine these

moments were We feel like we're dwelling in agony.

We are in anguish because God has abandoned us, that God has

forsaken us, you do come to an end.

But while we are in the midst, we praise God, we find comfort

in the community, besides supporting the community, and we

keep our eyes steadfast on, hope, hope that God will deliver

hope that despite our circumstance, in the end, he

wins. In the end, he said everything

right in the end. Case.

Perfect world will be accomplished and everything will

be restored. So I invite you to pray this

song in pray, this time all the time, but if you find yourself

in moments where you, maybe you feel about it right now, maybe

you feel like that could deliver you but is holding it back.

The truth is it is okay to feel that way you go.

Him with those feelings. And he has not abandoned you.

He has not forsaken, you he is there, and his good and perfect

will is being worked out and he will sustain you through this

difficult time and he will deliberate.

So, thank you so much for joining us for this.

Thank you so much for listening. So as you go out, keep this up.

I'm in my and and also as you go out, pray, the sounds right?

This is a book of prayer so copies, and we can get into his

reading the Psalms and reciting them have squares.

And let's see how that changes the way.

We view these difficult things in our life, go out in the power

of the gospel and go out knowing that God has not abandoned you

and God will deliver you. Thank you for joining us.

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