What Does Normal Look Like?

Enjoying the Journey

Scott Pauley

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🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Psalm 144. What does normal look like? Normal to God is strange to the world and normal to the world is strange to God! This study will help us to identify what God expects from His children and what we must teach our children. Join Scott Pauley's study through Scripture this year. Find resources for every book of the Bible by Dr. Pauley and Enjoying the Journey at enjoyingthejourney.org/journey-through-scripture/.Whether you're a new believer or have walked with the Lord for years, you'll find thousands of free devotionals, Bible studies, audio series, and Scripture tools designed to strengthen your faith, deepen your understanding of the Bible, and help you stay rooted in the Word of God. Explore now at EnjoyingTheJourney.org.Extend the Work Enjoying the Journey provides every resource for free worldwide. If you would like to help extend this Bible teaching, you may give at enjoyingthejourney.org/donations/

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0:00.0	We all would like to think that we know where we are going and how to get there.
0:12.0	But at every stage in life, we need divine direction. God has promised to guide us if we simply follow.
0:19.0	The fifth and final section of Psalms are referred to as Deuteronomy Psalms
0:23.6	because they remind us to keep returning to the truth of God's Word.
0:28.6	Join us as we study them with Scott Pauli today.
0:35.0	What does normal look like?
0:37.3	That's a good question in our world today, isn't it? What is normal? By
0:41.1	whose standard and by what measurement? We've come in our study of the songs to Psalm 144. It is a
0:48.7	beautiful Psalm of 15 verses long. The opening verses concentrate on who God is in relationship to man. In fact, a famous
0:58.4	verse, verse 3, Lord, what is man that thou take his knowledge of him, or the son of man that
1:02.9	thou makeest account of him? So the idea is that God is so big and we are so small. God is so
1:10.2	great and we are so needy.
1:13.5	That's really the way the Psalm begins. But when you come to verse 7, down through the end of the Psalm, there is a shift that really comes to a certain point of application.
1:23.6	He says in verse 7, send thine hand from above, rid me and deliver me out of great waters from the hand of strange children.
1:32.7	Listen to that expression, strange children.
1:35.0	He repeats it.
1:35.7	Verse 11, rid me and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speak of vanity and the right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
1:45.8	What is this expression, strange children?
1:48.3	Does it mean they look weird?
1:50.2	They may, but not necessarily.
1:52.8	In Scripture, the word strange refers to something that is different from the way God intended.
1:58.6	It is different than the way it ought to be. For example,
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