{"id":12767,"date":"2024-04-10T19:42:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T01:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nwbaptistks.org\/staging\/6703\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=12767"},"modified":"2024-04-10T19:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T01:42:43","slug":"is-god-far-off","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.nwbaptistks.org\/staging\/6703\/sermons\/is-god-far-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Is God Far Off?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>April 10, 2024 Wed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Psalm 10 (KJB)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10&nbsp;<\/strong>Why standest thou afar off, O&nbsp;Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>2&nbsp;<\/sup>The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>3&nbsp;<\/sup>For the wicked boasteth of his heart&#8217;s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;abhorreth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>4&nbsp;<\/sup>The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>5&nbsp;<\/sup>His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>6&nbsp;<\/sup>He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>7&nbsp;<\/sup>His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>8&nbsp;<\/sup>He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>9&nbsp;<\/sup>He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>10&nbsp;<\/sup>He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>11&nbsp;<\/sup>He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>12&nbsp;<\/sup>Arise, O&nbsp;Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>13&nbsp;<\/sup>Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>14&nbsp;<\/sup>Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>15&nbsp;<\/sup>Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>16&nbsp;<\/sup>The&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>17&nbsp;<\/sup>Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>18&nbsp;<\/sup>To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 10, 2024 Wed. 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