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Father, you are so.

Good and gracious.

And, you know, every last thing about every last one of us here in this room you know, our whole histories, You know everything that's been going on even today before we came.

And you know, what's going to go on the rest of this afternoon and the rest of our lives.

We trust you because of it because you're a good.

Powerful.

Loving.

Caring.

You care for us today?

To care for us with your word.

We need you to care for a sword.

Moving ways to help us.

Trees from your word.

We say this in Jesus name,

Oh God.

Values your life.

and as your pastor, I also found you.

Your life.

Now we spent The month of July, considering the dignity and sanctity of human life in the womb.

But you see human dignity and value from a Biblical worldview extends to each of our entire lives outside of the womb as well.

God values, you

And it's a big deal to God.

And therefore, So important to me, as well as your pastor and should be important to all of us here when lines are devastated and hurt because of tragedy.

We've experienced.

Did you have experience that?

Maybe you are experiencing that right now?

I know what's going on.

God knows what's going on.

He knows what's going on, when there's deep and dark, depression, or anxiety, and even despair itself.

With life, doesn't seem possible to even live anymore.

He knows what's going on and God values.

You

the Bible has a lot to say about our experiences in a fallen world that we live in.

And for those of us, all of us here, who also live in that Fallen World ourselves.

We know it, we see if we go through, we experience with ourselves, we know what it's like to be in a fallen world.

If we were still in the Garden of Eden and there have been no fault and no consequences of sin, we would not be going through the whole ristic experiences.

An issues of life.

We would not be going through sickness inner turmoil and hardships.

Indef.

Those things just don't happen.

Enough Garden in perfection in an idealized, flourishing environment they don't happen.

But we are not in that environment, are we?

At least, not yet.

But there's hope for the Christian for a future Day When sin will be no longer.

It was no longer plagued Us in the effects of the Fall will no longer hunt us.

Praise God, for that.

but for now,

Right now.

We experienced both the physical and inner problems in a fallen world.

Don't we?

People get sick.

Maybe you're sick.

People get hurt in a variety of ways, maybe you're hurting.

People died people struggle and people even become down trap downhearted and even downright just discouraged.

Don't they I did not you.

Downcast is a Biblical world word that describes many in our day and it's the title of our month-long series that we're going to be looking at in August.

We will be dealing with these hard shift, starting today with this topic of depression that you see on the screen.

the song that says, in Psalm 42:5 a, why are you Cast down.

Oh my soul.

And why are you in turmoil within me?

This passage right here was the foundational theme of Martyn Lloyd.

Jones is sermon series and which was later turned into a book title, spiritual depression.

The former medical doctor turned preacher addressed which he deemed as a common to man problem of depression that people face.

Even many Christians, boy, Jones concludes that he says, this interesting to notice the frequency with which this particular theme is dealt with in the scriptures.

And the only conclusion to be drawn from this is that it is a very common condition.

So then if it's common in the Bible, just read the songs, read the historical narratives throughout the scriptures.

You see the common theme of depression and downcast.

And downhearted has come in, the Bible's will see going forward and it was, did Martin Lord Jones's day.

I'd say it's going to be ramped up and become increasingly prevalent in our day is well with new technologies and social media, putting our lives on display like never before.

This is an issue for our day.

Is wow.

Read statistics, that put the numbers of the clinically depressed Americans anywhere from between 5 to 10 %.

So, potentially one out of every ten people in the US alone are bearing an extremely heavy, internal burden of depression.

Then there are numbers of over 25% total for those who have experienced.

Severe depression at some point in their lives, even if it's not a recurring theme for them right now or regularly in their lives.

But but that they've experienced it at some point of the pastor will experience in the future.

And so that Dynamic a really deep and dark and hurting moments internally brings us to one in four who will experience bouts of depression of some kind of time of kind in their lifetime.

Not to mention all those who know and love and care for those hurting people and their minds.

What exactly is depression?

Is it just sinus?

No because everyone experiences that has to one degree or another.

That is a common shared Human Experience that all people in a fallen World Experience, right?

We've all felt sadness, even very intense sadness.

The Bible describes, what?

We're getting at here and in this way using words like downcast brokenhearted Afflicted even hopeless,

In the Bible, like I said before, describes many people who were depressed even the point of Despair as we'll see in the future sermons.

Diagnostic statistic, manual for mental disorders, of the DSM-5, put it like, this is a good definition for depression, otherwise known as a major depressive disorder or clinical depression is common is a common and serious mood disorder those who suffer from depression, experience persistent feelings of sadness, and hopelessness, and lose interest in activities.

They once enjoyed aside from the emotional problems, caused by depression, individuals can also present with physical symptoms such as chronic pain, or digestive issues to be diagnosed with depression symptoms.

Must Present for at least two weeks and then the DSM goes on and lists pervasive inner symptoms associated with debilitating.

Internal struggles of people face Almost a quarter of Americans will face this at some point in their lives.

A lot with hurting people and downcast people all around us, maybe even you yourself.

And then even the potential for any of us here who may have never been hurting in this way to becoming the future depressed in this way because of your own live unknown future and circumstances in the Fallen world.

We live in It's Christians.

And as a church, we better have a well-thought-out plan and approach to provide help for this very serious problem.

Both for ourselves and for others that are hurting around us.

And if the church is not providing this, how I asked, what is it, then that we're doing What are we doing?

If not, this leads us to our first point.

For us to see that we need to have a number one, compassionate understanding.

Look with me at 2nd Corinthians 8, verse 1 or chapter 1, verses 3 and 4. It says this blessed, be the God and father of our Lord Christ Jesus.

The father of mercies and God of All Comfort who comforts Us in all our Affliction, so that we may be able to comfort.