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This church we focus and I focus a lot when I preach on exposing sin a lot and preaching on sin and hard preaching and things that that are designed to hopefully help you to get right with God and to stay away from sin and that we would have the proper respect and and fear of Lord and have this right attitude but at the same time we don't want to get a lopsided view to where it's like we're just walking around in fear all the time and look I don't mean the you know the righteous fear of the Lord but where the type of fear where like you don't even have any joy you're not happy you're not you know it's just kind of like you know you're not you don't have to walk on eggshells we need to uh to have the proper respect and reverence for the Lord but at the same time understand and you know all that we can be joyful for and there's so much to be joyful for and if you don't have that joy then you are missing something very very serious in your Christian life if you don't have joy from God from the Bible from his word from his direction and from all these things we're going to get into in just a minute here that that are listed then you seriously are missing something you're not understanding what it's all about and and you know hopefully it's not a result of someone like me preaching too lopsided on things and and you're getting a not the right view of the whole picture but we need we need all of it and and we get that in psalms when you just over and over and over again the joy the extolling the praising the all the great things that God does because God's not just some big mean jerk in heaven right that's just looking to hurt people and harm like that that's not God at all while he does uh while God is not mocked and while God does punish and chasten and and have wrath and anger and fury he has all of those things we cannot ignore that we need to understand those and we need to remember those things we can't just think that that is God and it's just like today we you know to the exact opposite extreme too many people i think have the opposite extreme of well God doesn't have any anger in any wrath and is just all just just completely loving with no consequences for action and things like that that is an improper view which is why we fight against that and try to pre no no no you know God's serious about his sin you know you you got to watch out for his judgment you got to fear the Lord but we can't take that too far either so we don't have you know another imbalanced view of God and who he is so that we could have the you know where he wants us to be and understand all this so i just kind of want to bring up we're going to go into that a little bit later in the sermon as well but um let's keep reading here he says i will extol thee oh Lord and he's going to say why here and one of the things that i see that seems a little bit different from here maybe it's not just kind of stood out to me is that he says thou hast thou hast thou hast not made thou hast lifted me thou hast healed me thou hast brought me up thou hast kept me alive like you've already done these things for me you know you've already shown yourself you've already uh is there thou hast lifted me up you've already lifted me up it's already done you've lifted me up thou has not made my foes rejoice over me you haven't made me lose to my enemy you know you're there for me you're lifting me up you're not giving them uh a victory over me Oh Lord, my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me." You know, I was in need. You've already been there for me. You've done it. Oh Lord, my God, verse three, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave. I mean, you saved me from death. God, thank you. And that's what he's saying. You know, I'm going to extol thee for all these reasons. You've been there for me. You lifted me up. You've healed me. You brought me up from the grave. Thou hast kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit. So many great reasons to be happy and to sing joy and praises unto the Lord. And sometimes I think people may miss all that God has done for them because they're focused on the wrong things in their life. And when you focus on the things that you don't have, when you focus on the areas where you have problems and that's all your mind is focusing on, you could lose sight of all that God actually has done for you and how quickly we can turn. Just as the children of Egypt, the children of Israel did when they came out of Egypt. It's like, what a glorious event and God showing his might and protecting and having that pillar of fire by night and the pillar of cloud by day and blocking the Egyptians from getting them and saving them at every turn and to the point of parting the waters and having them go through safely and their enemies being destroyed and all these great victories and all this deliverance and so many things to be happy for just for them to turn around when they get a little bit hungrier when they don't quite have all of the little spices and all the herbs and all the food and all this other stuff that's really just icing on the cake as opposed to what you really need and the things you really ought to be thankful for. How quick we can turn and just have this really poor attitude. We need to be, yes, focused on God's judgment. Yes, focus on God and give healthy respect and fear unto the Lord. Absolutely, but also look to our lives, the areas where God has helped us, the areas where he has been delivering us when you might not have even been paying attention. And if you have, maybe you notice it for a fleeting second and then it's gone. No, you know, these songs are great. These Psalms are great because maybe they'll help you to remember all the things that God's already done for you and that there's lots of reason to be praising the Lord.