Psalms 46:1-3

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Psalms 461-3

• God is our refuge and strength, A very present
  help in trouble.
• 2 Therefore we will not fear,
• Even though the earth be removed,
• And though the mountains be carried into the
  midst of the sea
• 3 Though its waters roar and be troubled,
• Though the mountains shake with its swelling.

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Psalms 464-6

• There is a river whose streams shall make glad
  the city of God,
• The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most
  High.
• 5 God is in the midst of her, she shall not be
  moved
• God shall help her, just at the break of dawn.
• 6The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved
• He uttered His voice, the earth melted.

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Psalms 467-9

• The Lord of hosts is with us
• The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah
• 8 Come, behold the works of the Lord,
• Who has made desolations in the earth.
• 9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth
• He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two
• He burns the chariot in the fire.

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Psalms 4610-11

• Be still, and know that I am God
• I will be exalted among the nations,
• I will be exalted in the earth!
• 11 The Lord of hosts is with us
• The God of Jacob is our refuge.

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God Our Refuge and Strength
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• God Our Refuge and Strength

• We live in a world that is beset with conflict,
  wars, calamities, and despair.
• The battles that we face are not only physical,
  but also sociological, financial, psychological,
  geographical, ideological, and spiritual!

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• God Our Refuge and Strength

• What we are seeing in this present day is not
  unparalleled, but these things can make our lives
  more stressful if we have nowhere to turn!
• To whom do you turn when things get difficult?
• Where do you go when you need to get away?

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• God Our Refuge and Strength

• Do you seek support from
• Family or friends?
• Neighbors or co-workers?
• Brethren from church?
• Do you turn to
• Food or drink?
• Television or entertainment?
• The Bible or God in prayer?

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• God Our Refuge and Strength

• To truly understand the meaning of Psalm
  46consider the authors.
• Inspired by God and commissioned by David as
  poets and musicians, the sons of Korah wrote
  about 25 of the Psalms.
• Do you know who they were?
• Numbers 16

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Numbers 161-2

• Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath,
  the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram the sons
  of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of
  Reuben, took men 2 and they rose up before Moses
  with some of the children of Israel, two hundred
  and fifty leaders of the congregation,
  representatives of the congregation, men of
  renown.

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Numbers 163-4

• They gathered together against Moses and Aaron,
  and said to them, You take too much upon
  yourselves, for all the congregation is holy,
  every one of them, and the Lord is among them.
  Why then do you exalt yourselves above the
  assembly of the Lord?
• 4 So when Moses heard it, he fell on his face

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Acts 2029-30

• For I know this, that after my departure savage
  wolves will come in among you, not sparing the
  flock. 30 Also from among yourselves men will
  rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away
  the disciples after themselves.

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Numbers 165-7

• and he spoke to Korah and all his company,
  saying, Tomorrow morning the Lord will show who
  is His and who is holy, and will cause him to
  come near to Him. That one whom He chooses He
  will cause to come near to Him. 6 Do this Take
  censers, Korah and all your company 7 put fire
  in them and put incense in them before the Lord
  tomorrow, and it shall be that the man whom the
  Lord chooses is the holy one.

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Numbers 1623-26

• So the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 24 Speak to
  the congregation, saying, Get away from the
  tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
• 25 Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram,
  and the elders of Israel followed him. 26 And he
  spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart now
  from the tents of these wicked men! Touch nothing
  of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their
  sins.

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Numbers 1627-29

• So they got away from around the tents of Korah,
  Dathan, and Abiram and Dathan and Abiram came
  out and stood at the door of their tents, with
  their wives, their sons, and their little
  children.
• 28 And Moses said By this you shall know that
  the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I
  have not done them of my own will. 29 If these
  men die naturally like all men, or if they are
  visited by the common fate of all men, then the
  Lord has not sent me.

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Numbers 1630-32

• But if the Lord creates a new thing, and the
  earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with
  all that belongs to them, and they go down alive
  into the pit, then you will understand that these
  men have rejected the Lord.
• 31 Now it came to pass, as he finished speaking
  all these words, that the ground split apart
  under them, 32 and the earth opened its mouth and
  swallowed them up, with their households and all
  the men with Korah, with all their goods.

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Numbers 1633-35

• So they and all those with them went down alive
  into the pit the earth closed over them, and
  they perished from among the assembly. 34 Then
  all Israel who were around them fled at their
  cry, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up
  also!
• 35 And a fire came out from the Lord and consumed
  the two hundred and fifty men who were offering
  incense.

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Numbers 269-11

• The sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and
  Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram,
  representatives of the congregation, who
  contended against Moses and Aaron in the company
  of Korah, when they contended against the Lord
  10 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed
  them up together with Korah when that company
  died, when the fire devoured two hundred and
  fifty men and they became a sign. 11
  Nevertheless the children of Korah did not die.

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• God Our Refuge and Strength

• What would be your attitude toward God if you
  knew that He had dealt with your family the same
  way that He dealt with Korah?
• The children of Israel blamed Moses and Aaron for
  the death of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!

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Numbers 1641-42

• On the next day all the congregation of the
  children of Israel complained against Moses and
  Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of the
  Lord. 42 Now it happened, when the congregation
  had gathered against Moses and Aaron, that they
  turned toward the tabernacle of meeting and
  suddenly the cloud covered it, and the glory of
  the Lord appeared.

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• God Our Refuge and Strength

• Yetthe sons of Korah expressed gratitude and
  showed humility toward God in what they wrote and
  how they worshipped!
• Psalm 421 As the deer pants for the water
  brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God.

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• God Our Refuge and Strength

• Yetthe sons of Korah expressed gratitude and
  showed humility toward God in what they wrote and
  how they worshipped!
• Psalm 841 How lovely is Your tabernacle, O
  Lord of Hosts!

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Psalms 461-3

• God is our refuge and strength, A very present
  help in trouble.
• 2 Therefore we will not fear,
• Even though the earth be removed,
• And though the mountains be carried into the
  midst of the sea
• 3 Though its waters roar and be troubled,
• Though the mountains shake with its swelling.

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• God Our Refuge and Strength

• Is God your refuge and strength today and every
  day?
• The way to God is through Christ, our Rock and
  Redeemer.
• Romans 831-35

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Romans 831-33

• If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He
  who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him
  up for us all, how shall He not with Him also
  freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a
  charge against Gods elect? It is God who
  justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns?

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Romans 834-35

• It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also
  risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who
  also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall
  separate us from the love of Christ? Shall
  tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
  famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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God Our Refuge and Strength