Perhaps there is no greater pain than the pain of betrayal.

I'm of course talking about betrayal by those who are near and dear to us, a betrayal of a spouse,

a betrayal of a trusted friend, a betrayal of a business partner, a betrayal of a child or a parent.

For when we suffer physical pain, there's always a painkiller.

But there is no pill or injection that you can take for the pain of betrayal.

However, if that pain is not dealt with biblically, it's not dealt with spiritually,

it's not built with the right way, it can lead to a greater depression.

And that is where we find the psalmist here in Psalm 42 and 43.

As a matter of fact, some of the ancient scripts have both Psalms as one Psalm.

Through the years, somehow they got split into two Psalms, Psalm 42 and Psalm 43.

In the last message from Psalm 42, we saw how David, who was on the run from his palace,

from his home, from the temple, from the praising of God, to a hiding place because of the betrayal

by his son, Absalom, who was trying to conduct a coup d'utat against his father and was advised by a man called

Ahedophil to kill his father, and yet that man was his father's friend.

And when Absalom would not receive and accomplish the advice that this wicked man gave him, he went

out and killed himself.

So David, in this kind of a terrible predicament,

and the terrible situation he was in, we saw in Psalm 42 that he began to lift up his spirits

by challenging his soul. And that's exactly what you and I must do. We have to challenge our soul, literally. We have to challenge

your emotions here. You have to challenge your depression. And the way you do that is by reminding

yourself of the promises of God in the Word of God. And so we move from that part where David was lifting up

his spirit by challenging his soul to Psalm 43, where he begins by crying to God for vindication.

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