Church, welcome to a heavy one. Grab your Bible, Psalm 42. Even if you normally don't play along with me,

grab the Bible that is in front of you and open to the page that has Psalm 42 on it,

because I need you to see the words of God right there in your

face. If you don't have your own Bible or the Bible that you have, looks like King James wrote

it. It's all these and thous except after thine. Then feel free to take this one home, okay?

The one that you have there in front of you. As we study the Psalms, man, the title of this one, according to the Bible, is this,

Why are you cast down, O my soul?

You see, I think that the point of the Psalms are to wean us off of the temporary things of this world

that we would cling only to Jesus Christ, to wean us off money, to wean us off comfort,

to win us off of our just own temporary desires, so that we would know that the only hope that we have is the person and work

of Jesus Christ.

And if your life is just awesome right now, man, praise God for you and your life.

Honestly, my life's going real good.

I mean, it really is.

And so if everything's kind of up and to the right,

just had a great week.

I got asked to preach at this organization called One Hope,

and their headquarters is in Fort Lauderdale.

And Gretchen looks at my calendar.

She looks at my itinerary.

And like when my friend, J.D. Greer invites me to come preach in Raleigh,

she's like, God bless your ministry in Rale. But when I get invited to Fort Lauderdale, then we go in three days early to pray

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