Psalm 1 (02/29/2004)

Park Meadows Church

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Open your Bibles to the first psalm and the first psalm says

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Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly

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Nor standeth in the way of sinners Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful

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This word blessed It was written in Hebrew and the

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Hebrew for that is Assure the

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English pronunciation of the translated word blessed is ashrae and Ashrae means a person that is a blessing to himself and others

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Now Greg Did you ever consider yourself

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No, did you ever consider? That Yourself was receiving a blessing from God Well, it says he is a blessing to himself and others

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It's good to live next door to an ashram and Because he receives a blessing from God Now Ashrae is different than we normally think of a blessing because this man

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Receives it for himself and that in turn passes it on to others

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Then we have the walking standing and sitting What do you see in those three words in that order joy?

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All right All right,

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John, what's the first thing you would do? is as you

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Go through this life and you meet somebody That is

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Well, you just meet somebody what would you do would you walk stand or sit with them?

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No, it isn't This walking I Think of Peter when

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I read this you remember when Our Lord was being

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Accused before they arrested him and Some Young girl told

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Peter you're one of them What was he doing at that time Greg? well

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He was in a way He was just keeping him in sight

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But Yes he He walked with these people

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Then we find him standing with these people and Finally, we find him sitting down in the midst of them

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This is a normal procedure of someone that is not serving God Do you see the progress

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Walking standing sitting It's a downward process

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When a man has once given place to evil or evil counsel

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Or to his own sin nature He begins to forget himself

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In His sin and so falls into contempt of God, which is called the seed of scorners now of Those three

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Tell me which is the worst the counsel of the ungodly Standing in the way of sinners or sitting in the scornful

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All right. That's the worst of the lot It sounds like the ungodly would be the worst

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But John what is an ungodly man Well, he doesn't even devote that much time to it

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He doesn't think about God He just he just goes on his way never crosses his mind at all that there is a

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God Then the next group is sinners

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Joy what is a sinner is what all right?

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Greg we have to get a little bit more meaning than Then the ungodly what would the next meaning be of sinners?

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All right John you want to try Yes All right

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Well, they may know that if they stop and think about it

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But first we got those that have no time for God second We have those that know there is a

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God know that they are sinning, but still he does nothing about it Then we come to the scornful

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What would that be joy All right the scornful the worst of the lot

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Is a person that pokes fun at you for going to church makes light of God He knows there is a

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God but he doesn't mean anything Psalms 2 1 2 but his delight but his delight

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Is in the law of the Lord and in his law does he meditate day and night?

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now Greg you take that verse and Teach the truth out of it to me

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All right John Describe that verse to me

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All right, what does the word delight mean joy all right

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Debbie what does delight mean to you? but Brings to what joy

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Is KK with you KK Move over where I can see you

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What does it mean when when you delight in something?

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Do you know? You don't know

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Well, you know so many words I thought maybe you'd know what delight meant it means

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That he is joyful That he likes to read the word to study the word to meditate on the word and He is happy when he is in delight of the word.

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Yes You're right there

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That's right, it's all good Now and In his law does he meditate?

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day and night Debbie described for me this word meditate

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That's exactly what it means to chew the cud and you have to understand that term

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Joy what does a cow do? All right, he'll drink water in between there or she will

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So to chew the cud is to recall that which you have digested

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That that you have heard That that you have read That that you have studied you recall it and you think it over and over Greg Until you begin to get all of the good out of it

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But we don't ever get all of the good Because that's the reason that we can teach this first Psalm this morning

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As many times as it has been taught looks like we'd have all of the good out of it

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John that brings up a question The Bible does not change it's been the same for a thousand years

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Yet we can find new things in it Things that I'd never seen before.

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I Want you to explain to me why that is? All right

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All right, Debbie, why is it that we can find new things?

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Well, that's all true Greg why is it that we can learn new things?

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All right, but what is it that changes the Bible doesn't change it's the same forever our situation changes

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Never before has there been a situation exactly like this one right now

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So while we're in this situation, let's learn something new In his law does he meditate?

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how often That means all the time that that you spoke of in the beginning meditate meditation

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Choose the good gets the sweetness and nourishment the best of the word into the heart and life

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This is a way God brings forth much fruit He brings it forth we

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Well John do we own the fruit Yes, this fruit that we're producing

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Is that true Greg? Joy so y 'all are saying it

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That we do not own the fruit. That's right

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Proverbs 23 7 turn over to that John will you read it, please?

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For as he thinketh in his heart So is he? What's that mean joy?

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Greg as you're thinking in your heart, what's that mean in your heart? All right, as you think in the real me

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I Can see that because that's what you present

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John I can see what you're thinking by watching you Supreme devotion to God is the way not only of duty

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But of safety prosperity and happiness But his will of the

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Lord The will is here signified is that delight of the heart and That certain pleasure in the law three and He shall be like a tree

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Planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season

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His leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever. He doeth shall prosper

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Now John tell me. How do you plant a tree and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water?

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Joy how do you plant a tree? Or Well, that's all true, but you don't plant a tree

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You cannot plant a tree. I heard the word

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Transplant so in the

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Hebrew It alludes to the transplanting an olive tree

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And he shall be like an olive tree transplanted by the rivers of water

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Rivers of water is canal Debbie what does canal mean?

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Well, that's one kind of canal Greg tell me what is a canal?

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that's that's exactly right a Man -made waterway to bring the water from where it is to where it's needed

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That's the canal Now who is that canal?

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Great, that's right.

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That's right Jesus the Christ is the canal

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That brings the mind of God to the mind of man. It cannot get there except in Christ Jesus Christ So and he shall be like an olive tree transplanted by the canal of water

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Now if you are here, the olive tree has the deepest root of any tree alive in the world

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It goes down and down and down until it finds water and it lives forever and it's always green

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It will produce its food fruit in due season and It cannot use that fruit but The tree has no need of the fruit

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Except to bear it Bring us forth his fruit in his season now

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You cannot produce They cannot harvest from us fruit all of the time

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It's in his season in your season in my season. That means that There comes a time in the day or a week or months or years when you are producing the fruit that you can't use and His leaf shall not wither.

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It's always green and Whatsoever he doeth

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Shall prosper That would be better translated whatever is produced shall come to maturity

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Tree is transplanted. You don't plant a tree You plant a seed.

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I think we discussed that This is like a Christian in that he is transplanted into Christ Romans 6 and 3

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Taken from where he grew and placed where he should be There are no natural

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Good olive trees, they're all transplanted they're all grafted into a stump of a

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Good tree You take the wild tree that's growing wherever and you bring it and graft it into the good tree

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He is removed from the world of sin put into Christ and this occurred on the cross you remember and The rivers of water is a canal

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Jesus Christ is the word. He is the canal a man -made waterway that speaks of Jesus Christ so vividly and we move to verse 4

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The ungodly now we know who they are Are not so But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away the ungodly

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These are people that have no time for God They're like the chaff that the wind blows away what is chaff

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John Well, not exactly.

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What is chaff Greg? All right

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That's right. It has a use to protect the grain while it's growing But when it's thrashed

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You have just the grain and the chaff just blows away and that's what the ungodly are like They have no time for God They have no choice in the matter now from God's viewpoint they're chaff and chaff only

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They are doomed from the beginning unknown to them. They're headed for hell

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Yet they serve the purpose of What shall we say clothing the grain as it grew five therefore

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The ungodly shall not stand in the judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous

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Turn over to Psalms 5 5 Joy read that Who's that talking about?

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It's not just his spiritual belief Well, I'm I'm after the fact that he hates all the workers

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He hates those people not

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He hates what they stand for what they do, but he hates the person that is in the world

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Because they do only iniquity and what is iniquity great All right, turn over to Psalms 11 5

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John read that So again, we have a reference that he hates the workers of iniquity.

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Is that right? Yes Psalms 5 5 and 11 5

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Know where these verses are Because you will in your lifetime

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Face many people that disagree with you Folks where we are facing a very very hard time

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It's brought on by sin and the workers of sin

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On the news this morning was a clip about the

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Student paper of Baylor University They endorsed homosexual sin marriages

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Baylor University now Baylor will try to tell you that they have nothing to do with that paper

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If they don't they should have John did you ever in your wildest dreams?

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think that Baylor or A church wouldn't permit the use of a

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Bible. Did you ever think that would come to pass? It's awful

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Yes, we know that it's coming that doesn't make it any easier to bear

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Six For the Lord and north the way of the righteous But the way of the ungodly shall perish

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What is the little word shall joy? Could we say it's imperative

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Is it perfect or imperfect? perfect Shall perish the ungodly

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Now if the ungodly shall perish think about where the sinner and the scornful are

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They're below the ungodly For the

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Lord knoweth the way of the righteous Debbie The way of the righteous what group is that?

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The believers So he doesn't know them as a group how is it that he knows them

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Greg individually as his

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He knows What does the word and no mean

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Greg as it's used here well, does he know you as Someone that comes to church drives a long ways to be here

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All right to know means completely totally

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Absolutely, there's nothing about you that he does not know There there are things that you don't know about you that he does the

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Lord knoweth the way of the Righteous and What does righteous mean?

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John All right in Matthew 7 23

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Turn to that and John you read it

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Yes, I Think that's the most awful

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Statement the Lord ever made or will make to a person is

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I never knew you You're not of my blood. You're not of my people.

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I never knew you There's nothing worse than to never be known of the

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Lord The word known is your dog And it means to know fully

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The Lord God has known us from when there was no time and To quote a brilliant little child

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We just came with it We just appeared on this earth and we were already saved we didn't know it

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But we just can't it just came with us All right.

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Is there anything you'd like to go back to or? Exponents bound on a little bit different Or more fully in the first Psalm Yes That's right, the olive tree is a fantastic picture of a

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Christian He never dies he's always Green he always produces fruit

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He's grafted in What? Yes, the deepest root of any tree alive in the world the olive tree

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Yet that that appears above ground is all twisted gnarled

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Bent out of shape What causes that John? The world but it's one of the strongest trees the tree

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Yes The trees that were alive when Jesus prayed in the garden against them and sent me

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They're still alive Unless they've been cut down But they're still alive today

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Lives forever the olive tree

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Christian. Is there anything you'd like to Say Yes Be still and know that there is a