What satisfies you? I mean, really? I mean, things that are fun, things that make me temporarily happy.

But at the end of the day, what truly satisfies you? Today, we're going to learn what satisfied David. Listen.

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Hey, friends. Welcome back. We are in the studio, obviously, but we're in Psalm 17, is what I meant to say.

And we are going to finish this Psalm today. Yesterday, we ended with such a precious thought that we can be the apple of God's

eye, his focus, the object of his protection, and why? Because in this life, we face very real

enemies. David, of course, is writing, and David faced his share of enemies

in his life. We know that as a boy, he faced the enemies of the sheep, and therefore his own

enemies, the bear, the lion. But throughout his life, he faced enemies in a number of different

ways, people that were going after him, trying to kill him,

like Saul, betrayal that he suffered from people like Ahithelphel or his own son, Absalom, the battlefield,

the Goliaths, the Philistines, and others. And so David knew all about enemies, both in an overt way, the enemies

that are clearly enemies, and then also in a subtle way, people that were after David, that

wanted to sneak up and wanted to kill him in quiet places.

And so David was aware that he was constantly under the attack of the evil one.

And I think that's an awareness that modern Christians lack, that we too are in a spiritual warfare, right?

Not be as obvious as perhaps the warfare that David faced,

but you and I both have real enemies. And the Bible identifies at least three. The devil himself

is our enemy. He lies and he steals and he destroys and he's a great deceiver and we're not ignorant of his devices

Paul said and we know that the devil likes to gain foothold a foothold in our life

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