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>>Eric Flickinger:
Welcome to "Sabbath School,"
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brought to you by It Is Written.
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Well, we are here.
This is the 13th study,
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the 13th lesson on
the book of Psalms,
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and today we're going to
bring everything together.
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The title is
"Waiting on the Lord."
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How do we wait on the Lord,
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and why is that
the very final lesson
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in our study of
the book of Psalms?
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We're about to find
out. Let's begin with prayer.
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Father, thank
You for being with us
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on this quarter-long
journey, this 13-week journey.
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We've been on a bit of
an odyssey and learned much
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about You through
the book of Psalms.
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We ask now that as we bring
our study to a close right now,
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You would bless us with a deeper
understanding and send us off
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into the future the
better for our time with You.
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We thank You in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Well, we're glad that you are
back, and we're also glad that
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we have our special guest,
the author of this quarter's
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"Sabbath School" lesson
back with us once again,
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Dr. Dragoslava Santrac.
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You have a PhD in Old Testament,
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and we are grateful for
you sharing so much with us
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because your passion
for the book of Psalms
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has been very clearly
evident through this quarter.
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Thank you once
again for being here.
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>>Dragoslava
Santrac: Praise God, yes.
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>>Eric: So, let's
take a look at this:
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"Wait on the Lord." It's
perhaps an interesting note
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to end our study of
the book of Psalms on:
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Wait on the Lord.
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What is the significance
of waiting on the Lord?
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Why end our study
of the book of Psalms
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on waiting on the Lord,
and what is that all about?
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>>Dragoslava: Well, Eric,
don't we all wish to finish
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our study with lesson number
12, the worship that never ends?
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And not just to end the study
with that lesson but to end up
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in that worship that never ends.
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But as we all know,
once we accept the Lord,
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once we are redeemed
by the blood of the Lamb
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and become part of
His covenantal people,
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we are not automatically
transferred from this earth
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into God's heavenly kingdom.
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Our journey on
this earth continues.
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And hence the message to wait
on the Lord is a crucial message
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from the Psalms
to finish our study.
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And I would like to say
if there is a final word
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that the Psalms want to impose
on our hearts is--and minds--
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is wait on the Lord.
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Waiting on the Lord
becomes this spiritual context
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in which we wait,
live, and work while awaiting
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the eschatological fulfillment
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of all the
Lord's glorious promises
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and Jesus's second coming.
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>>Eric: So that is something
that we are most certainly
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looking forward to
with great anticipation.
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We wish it would come a
little sooner rather than later,
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but yet here we are.
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So how does that help
us in our spiritual life?
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We want to be
there now. We're not.
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How does a correct
understanding of how waiting
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fits into this process, how does
that help us today spiritually?
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>>Dragoslava: Yeah, so,
well, I believe that waiting
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is one of the
greatest stresses in life,
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and especially in these
modern times when we have
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everything at the fingertip.
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And sometimes when our,
let's say, internet connection
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is slow, we're like,
"Oh, when? Come on, hurry up."
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We are impatient in waiting.
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That's a difficult, difficult
task for us, for many of us.
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However, when we read the Psalms
and the rest of the Bible,
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we realize that the waiting
on the Lord is different.
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It's not an idle and desperate
bidding over one's time.
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Quite contrary,
waiting on the Lord is filled
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with hope and filled
with faith in action.
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So there are
things that we need to do.
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There is a work on this
earth that remains to be done,
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and we are called
to participate in it.
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And by doing that, it is
a time for self-reflection
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and time for drawing
near to God our Lord.
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And maybe,
Eric, if we have time,
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we can read some texts
from the Psalms, which tell us
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about waiting on the Lord.
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And first one I
would like to share
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is Psalm 39, verses 4 and 7.
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And maybe, Eric, if
you would like to read.
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>>Eric: Sure.
Psalm 39, verse 4 says,
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"Lord, make me to know my end,
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"and what is the
measure of my days,
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that I may know how frail I am."
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And verse 7 says, "And
now, Lord, what do I wait for?
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My hope is in You."
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>>Dragoslava: So the
first aspect of this waiting
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is drawing near to
God in self-reflection.
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The psalmist says,
"Make me know my end."
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Let me understand my life.
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And what I wait
for is my hope in You,
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is the hope of righteousness,
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of renewal, and
closer relationship with God.
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Another text in 37, verse 34.
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>>Eric: It says,
"Wait on the Lord,
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"and keep His way, and He shall
exalt you to inherit the land;
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when the wicked are
cut off, you shall see it."
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>>Dragoslava: So another
aspect of waiting of the Lord
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is when, while we
wait, we keep His way.
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And we will remember
from couple weeks ago
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we spoke about the way.
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The way in the Psalms is
the way of the Lord's law,
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of His righteous revelation,
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of His righteous
will for our daily living.
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So while we wait, we walk
in the path of righteousness,
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keeping the Lord's
righteous precepts and laws.
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Then chapter 40, verse 1
tells us about another thing
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we do while we wait on the Lord.
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>>Eric: "I waited
patiently for the Lord;
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and He inclined to
me, and heard my cry."
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>>Dragoslava: "He heard
my cry." He heard my prayer.
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So while we wait on the
Lord, we pray for ourselves,
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for the Lord's kingdom, for
the Lord's work on this world.
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So we pray. Waiting
time is filled with prayer.
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Then another one,
and in 37, verse 7.
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>>Eric: "Rest in the Lord,
and wait patiently for Him."
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>>Dragoslava: Ha, so
while we wait on the Lord,
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we are called to
rest in the Lord.
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So it means that we have
this peace and reassurance
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that the Lord is coming.
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We are not to fret and worry
but instead rest in the Lord.
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And maybe one final
text in Psalm 126, verse 6.
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So yes, we work for the Lord,
but we also rest in the Lord.
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>>Eric: "He who
continually goes forth weeping,
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"bearing seed for sowing,
shall doubtless come again
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with rejoicing,
bringing his sheaves with him."
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>>Dragoslava: Yes, so
while we wait on the Lord,
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we bear this wonderful
news of bringing in the sheaves
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of the plentiful mission fields
of the Lord's mission. Yes.
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>>Eric: So this
waiting is not a sitting by,
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twiddling one's
thumbs, and saying,
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"I sure do hope
Jesus comes soon,"
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but this is a
very active waiting.
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It's a very engaged waiting
rather than just kind of hoping
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for the best in the near future.
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Can you think of any
other benefits of waiting?
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What would--what else could
we be doing while we're waiting,
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instead of just
wishing He would come?
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>>Dragoslava: Yes.
>>Eric: Anything else we can do?
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>>Dragoslava: Yes.
Waiting is an act of faith.
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We can recall Jesus's
parable of the 10 virgins,
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five that were wise
and those that were unwise.
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The wise one had their
lamps filled with the oil,
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the precious oil that
represents the Holy Spirit,
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and the unwise
ones, well, they thought,
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"Well, we don't need
that much preparation.
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"Everything is going to
go smoothly and according
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to our plan."
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But the
bridegroom was a bit late--
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from their
perspective, all right?
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And when the time
of his arrival came,
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those who were prepared,
therefore those who were
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waiting in the Holy Spirit,
in faith, they were ready
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to come in. And waiting,
as I said, is an act of faith.
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When you wait on something, you
know and you confess this trust
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that it is coming.
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Eric, when I was coming
to Collegedale on Sunday,
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I waited on my
airplane for almost 13 hours.
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It was delayed and delayed
and delayed for 13 hours,
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but I sat there because
I knew I had to be here.
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I felt that the Lord
wanted me to be here.
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So I knew that the plane,
that the transportation somehow
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will come, and I waited.
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And I could--I can tell
you many people just gave up,
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bought a ticket for another
day, but I waited for my place.
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So when we wait in
faith, we confess to the world
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that we trust that
the Lord is coming.
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>>Eric: And the good news
is God is even more reliable
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than the airlines are.
>>Dragoslava: Absolutely.
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>>Eric: So we can be absolutely
certain that when He promises
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He's going to come,
He will indeed come.
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And I think we've
kind of touched on this,
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but maybe we can elaborate
a little bit more on it,
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the--about how
it's done in the Psalms.
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We looked at
several different things.
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What's the ultimate
goal in our waiting?
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What's the ultimate
hope in our waiting?
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It's, I think you just--you
said it to some extent--
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it's in Jesus' return.
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It's in Him
fulfilling His promises.
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Any other thoughts on that?
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>>Dragoslava:
Yes. It's exactly that.
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It is meeting our
Lord face to face.
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Now we meet Him in faith.
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Now we see in faith many things
that are promised in the Bible,
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in the Scripture, but we
are waiting for this grand
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fulfillment of all His
promises, but it doesn't mean
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that we do not have things
fulfilled even in this life.
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And they give us
strength to continue waiting.
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And waiting
encourages us to become humble,
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to become patient; and
these are great qualities
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in the Lord's side,
especially being humble because
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when we wait, we acknowledge
that God has His own time
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and that He is
wise in His doings.
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And our waiting becomes
a testimony to other people
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as well.
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>>Eric: I think
you're absolutely right.
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And speaking of waiting,
if you have waited to pick up
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the companion
book to this quarter's
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"Sabbath School"
lesson, don't wait any longer.
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You want to pick
that one up because
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it won't be around forever.
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You can find it
at itiswritten.shop.
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Again, that's itiswritten.shop.
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And why should you get it now
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when the quarter
is well-nigh over?
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Well, because we hope that
your study of the book of Psalms
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will not end with this quarter,
with this week in the quarter.
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We hope that your
study of the book of Psalms
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will continue and that you
will grow in your relationship
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with Jesus and that His--
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your love for Him
will grow as you continue
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to spend time in the Psalms.
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As we're waiting for Jesus,
one of the greatest things
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that we can do is
learn more about Him,
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and one of the best ways to
do that is to learn more about
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what the book of
Psalms has to say about Him.
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So you can find that book
very easily at itiswritten.shop.
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Again, itiswritten.shop.
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The author is
Dr. Martin Klingbeil.
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And you will gain a
deeper understanding
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and incredible depth
of the book of Psalms
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as you read that companion book.
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We're going to be back
in just a moment or two
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as we have our final
segment in the final episode
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of the book of Psalms
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here on "Sabbath
School" with It Is Written.
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We'll be right back.
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>>Eric: Welcome
back to "Sabbath School,"
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brought to you by It Is Written.
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We are in the very tail
end of this quarter's study
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on the book of Psalms.
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Slava, the Sabbath, it is
a part of our weekly journey
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all around the world.
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Unfortunately, many
Christians are missing out
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on that blessing, but
for those who have found it,
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it is indeed a blessing.
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When it comes to
waiting on the Lord,
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what role does the
Sabbath play in an appropriate
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type of waiting?
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>>Dragoslava: Yes,
well, we mentioned earlier
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Psalm 37, verse 7:
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"Rest in the Lord, and
wait patiently for Him."
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So there is this connection
between waiting on the Lord
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and resting in the Lord.
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And what a wonderful rest
we have in the Sabbath rest
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that the Lord has creating
at the creation of the world
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and granted this gift of rest to
us as His loving, caring gift.
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The Sabbath rest is
crucial as we wait on the Lord
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because no amount of
human enthusiasm will help us
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against the
strain of this endurance
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and the waiting
that will pause on us.
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And that's why this call to
rest in the Lord while we wait
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is so important, and
here comes Sabbath rest.
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And Psalm 95 is a
psalm for the Sabbath day.
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It is
traditionally read on Sabbath,
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and well, because the
topics mentioned in these psalms
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are the Sabbath topics.
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The psalm speaks about creation,
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about praising the Lord for
His wonderful works of creation,
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and also praising the
Lord for His work of redemption
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as our covenantal Lord.
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And when we read
the Ten Commandments
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in Exodus and Deuteronomy
20 and Deuteronomy 5,
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Exodus 20, we see these two
aspects of the Sabbath rest:
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creation in Exodus
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and redemption in Deuteronomy.
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And this is exactly
what this psalm has.
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So as we wait on the Lord, we
don't wait in our own strength
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because we don't have enough
strength to endure this waiting,
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but we wait in the Lord's rest.
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However, I would like to--
us to come to verse 8 and 9
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because there is a warning
in this psalm that speaks
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about Sabbath rest.
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So while we rest
and wait on the Lord,
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there is a warning.
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And, Eric, I don't know if I can
ask you to maybe read verses,
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maybe the last line of verse 7
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and then verses 8 and 9.
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>>Eric: "Today, if
you will hear His voice:
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"'Do not harden your
hearts, as in the rebellion,
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"'as in the day of
trial in the wilderness,
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"'when your fathers tested me;
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they tried me,
though they saw my work.'"
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>>Dragoslava: Yes, so while we
wait on the Lord, we are tempted
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and we can be tempted
to rebel against the Lord.
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When we go back and
read this event in Numbers,
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we realize that the
people rebelled against the Lord
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because the 40-year
journey in the wilderness
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was too long for them.
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And in the course of
that journey they rebelled
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against the Lord; they couldn't
patiently wait for the Lord
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to bring them to
the Promised Land.
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And verse 10 says,
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"For forty years I was
grieved with that generation,
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"and [I] said, 'It is a people
who go astray in their hearts,
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and they do not know my ways.'"
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So we can stray
away from the Lord
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in our heart by
becoming impatient and giving up
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on everything,
giving up on the Lord.
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And because of that,
the Lord says in verse 11,
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"So I swore in my wrath,
'They shall not enter my rest.'"
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And this is a solemn
and serious warning for us,
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that we may miss the Lord's
rest as we become impatient
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and give up on this
faith while we are waiting.
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And the book of
Hebrews also cites this psalm
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and has something
important to tell us.
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>>Eric: So let's go
take a look at that,
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and that's over in
Hebrews, chapter 4,
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Hebrews, chapter
4. And let's see,
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looks like we got it in
several different verses here.
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Verse 3, Hebrews,
chapter 4, verse 3 says,
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"For we who have
believed do enter that rest,
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"as He has said:
'So I swore in my wrath,
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"[that] "They shall not enter
my rest,"' although the works
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"were finished from the
foundation of the world.
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"For He has spoken in a
certain place of the seventh day
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"in this way: 'And God
rested on the seventh day
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"from all His works';
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and again in this place:
'They shall not enter my rest.'"
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>>Dragoslava: This
is very interesting.
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The author of
the book of Hebrews
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mentions in verse
4 the Sabbath day;
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"And God rested on the
seventh day from all His works."
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In the book of Genesis, we read
that that's the Sabbath day,
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Saturday, His holy day of rest.
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But then although God gave
that as a gift to His people,
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the reality very often
is, as mentioned in verse 5,
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"They shall not enter my rest."
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So here are several things
important for us to notice here.
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Number one,
whose rest is Sabbath?
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It is God's rest.
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Sometimes we may
forget that and we may think
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that Sabbath rest is something
that we create for ourselves.
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We don't work on
Sabbath, we go to church,
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maybe plan some nice
outings with friends in nature,
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maybe we take a long
nap after a nice lunch.
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And these are
all nice activities,
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I don't want anyone
to misunderstand me,
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but in doing that, in
trying to create this nice rest
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for ourselves and our families,
we must not forget that
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the Sabbath rest is a
bit different type of rest.
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It is connected to
this physical, mental,
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but it is a
different type of rest.
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It is--the Lord says, "It
is my rest." It is God's rest,
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that only He can create for us
and give it to us as His gift.
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And for that reason,
we see that some people--
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and we see, for example,
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in Hebrews, chapter 3, verse 19,
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"So we see that
they could not enter in
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because of unbelief."
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Through
unbelief, through the lack
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of our wholehearted
commitment to the Lord,
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we may miss
receiving His Sabbath rest.
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And though we cease
from our usual work,
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we can miss on His Sabbath gift.
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And so the question is, how
do we miss the Sabbath, Lord?
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Hebrews says through unbelief.
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Psalm 95 says, verse 8,
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"Do not harden your
hearts, as in...rebellion,"
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through hardening of our heart.
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If the Holy Spirit is
speaking to us throughout
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the week and we
neglect and we keep repressing
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that voice, we allow our heart
to become hardened and hardened.
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And isn't it awful and so
tragic to miss this Sabbath rest
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of the Lord that empowers us
to wait on the Lord in faith?
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>>Eric: So a gift that He gave
us all the way back at creation
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that helps us to be ready
for Him to return--powerful.
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There is a lot of
symbolism in the book of Psalms,
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and it talks a
lot about the morning.
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What's--what is the
morning in the book of Psalms?
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How does that help us?
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>>Dragoslava: Yes, many
psalms will tell us that
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the "joy comes in the morning."
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"I have waited on the
Lord, and in the morning
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He has reached out to me."
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There is a nice symbolism here.
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Just as the sunshine,
the light of the morning,
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reverses the
darkness of the night,
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so the deliverance,
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the redemption of the Lord
will reverse whatever darkness
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we are going through,
and ultimately the darkness
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of sin and death in this world.
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It points us to the
morning of resurrection of Jesus
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that we read--in the morning,
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that early in the
morning, the stone was removed,
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and our resurrected Lord
exited the grave gloriously
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to give a victory to
all those who trust in Him.
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>>Eric: So that's something
that we can look forward to
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with great anticipation as we
see the morning being referenced
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through the book of Psalms.
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Slava, we've been
on quite a journey here
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for the last 13
weeks, and we've had
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quite a few people
join us in the journey.
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Any final thoughts or
words that you'd like to share
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as we draw this to a close?
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>>Dragoslava: Yes, my dear
co-journeyers and co-pilgrims
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to the heavenly Zion,
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for the very end
of our 13-week journey
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through the book of Psalms,
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I would like to share
several verses with you
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from Psalm 37 to serve as
an encouragement to all of us,
00:25:11.27\00:25:17.85
Psalm 37: "Trust in
the Lord, and do good;
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"dwell in the land, and
feed on His faithfulness.
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"Delight
yourself also in the Lord,
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"and He shall give...
the desires of your heart.
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"Commit your way to the Lord,
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"trust also in Him, and
He shall bring it to pass....
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Rest in the Lord, and
wait patiently for Him."
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Our desire and
prayer is that your journey
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with the book of
Psalms does not stop here
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but continues on a daily basis.
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I promise you you
will find encouragement,
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an entirely new world of
faith will be opened up to you,
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and you will see that you
get matured and strengthened
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in the Lord's Word
and in His prayers.
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Also, we hope that as
we meet with our God daily,
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heart-to-heart in the
Psalms, that one day soon
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we will meet with our
Lord Jesus face to face.
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This is our
prayer. This is our desire.
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And may God bless us all as
we continue praying and singing
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the psalms in the
strange land. Thank you.
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>>Eric: Slava, thank you so much
for spending this time with us
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and guiding us through this
journey of an incredible book,
00:26:50.61\00:26:54.41
a much-loved book,
a much-quoted book,
00:26:54.44\00:26:58.11
and a book that has brought
a great deal of encouragement
00:26:58.15\00:27:01.12
and comfort to many
people over the years.
00:27:01.15\00:27:03.62
We appreciate the time that you
have spent in studying this book
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and the time that you have
spent with us to share with us
00:27:06.82\00:27:09.82
some of the wonderful beauty
of the book over the course
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of the last 13 weeks.
00:27:13.03\00:27:14.63
And we want to thank you also
for joining us on this journey.
00:27:14.66\00:27:18.50
We trust and pray that it
has been a blessing to you.
00:27:18.53\00:27:22.34
And please do not keep
this blessing to yourself.
00:27:22.37\00:27:25.27
Share what you have
learned with others so that they
00:27:25.31\00:27:28.94
may be encouraged on
their journey as well.
00:27:28.98\00:27:32.58
May God bless you and keep you.
00:27:32.61\00:27:35.35
May His face shine upon you.
00:27:35.38\00:27:37.02
And we look forward to
seeing you again next time
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for a brand-new study
here on "Sabbath School,"
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