1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,520 Hello and welcome to the Middletown Baptist Church podcast, 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,480 where we are proclaiming the truth to the world. 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,720 My name is Pastor Josh, and I want to thank you for listening to 4 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:10,480 this podcast. 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,680 I hope that this podcast can be a blessing to you and strengthen 6 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:16,080 you in the word of God. 7 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:17,560 Now, come along. 8 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:21,440 Let's look into the Bible and see what God has for us here today. 9 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,280 Well, we're going to go ahead and transition to our. 10 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:29,040 Our study here this evening. 11 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:29,880 Thank you, Micah. 12 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:35,880 And unfortunately, this kind of ties together with what we're 13 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:39,160 going to be talking about here this evening is, is we're talking 14 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:41,000 about worship, and we're talking about biblically speaking 15 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:42,760 to worship. 16 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,480 Well, well, for me, it's difficult to worship when things 17 00:00:45,480 --> 00:00:48,680 aren't going the way that I expect, when I don't have all of 18 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,760 the answers, when I am going through pain, or when someone that 19 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:52,920 I love is going through pain. 20 00:00:53,420 --> 00:00:56,380 It's a lot more difficult to come in and worship in those times. 21 00:00:57,260 --> 00:00:59,940 It's hard to worship when we're not living with a spirit of 22 00:00:59,940 --> 00:01:00,540 gratitude. 23 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:04,580 Sometimes I might be upset with what God's allowed in my life, 24 00:01:04,580 --> 00:01:06,380 and I'm not thankful for what he's given me. 25 00:01:06,460 --> 00:01:09,499 Therefore, I'm not in a spirit of worship. 26 00:01:10,380 --> 00:01:14,580 Maybe there's some times in our lives that we feel that maybe 27 00:01:14,580 --> 00:01:16,660 we're just distracted with the busyness of life. 28 00:01:16,660 --> 00:01:21,460 Sometimes busyness and distractions will pull us away from 29 00:01:21,460 --> 00:01:22,820 having a worshipful spirit. 30 00:01:23,300 --> 00:01:27,420 And so really, Psalm 145 allows us to realign ourselves with 31 00:01:27,420 --> 00:01:30,900 a worshipful spirit, to understand the greatness of God and 32 00:01:30,980 --> 00:01:34,380 give us many reasons, not all the reasons, but many reasons why 33 00:01:34,380 --> 00:01:37,420 we should worship the Lord and really what proper worship actually 34 00:01:37,420 --> 00:01:37,900 looks like. 35 00:01:37,900 --> 00:01:39,380 Because we talked about this last week. 36 00:01:39,380 --> 00:01:40,740 Worship is not about us. 37 00:01:41,380 --> 00:01:44,540 By definition, worship is about the one who we are giving praise 38 00:01:44,540 --> 00:01:44,820 to. 39 00:01:45,270 --> 00:01:48,110 And ultimately, as a believer, our prayers should be to God and 40 00:01:48,110 --> 00:01:48,790 God alone. 41 00:01:49,350 --> 00:01:52,550 So worship's not about people noticing me, people's. 42 00:01:52,710 --> 00:01:54,550 People's opinions of me. 43 00:01:54,870 --> 00:01:58,750 Worship should be ultimately to lift up and exalt the name of 44 00:01:58,750 --> 00:01:59,750 God in every way. 45 00:02:00,870 --> 00:02:01,189 The. 46 00:02:01,189 --> 00:02:01,950 The Book of Job. 47 00:02:01,950 --> 00:02:02,270 We. 48 00:02:02,270 --> 00:02:05,550 We wouldn't often think about the Book of Job being a book of worship, 49 00:02:05,550 --> 00:02:08,710 but we actually do see meaningful worship inside of the 50 00:02:08,710 --> 00:02:09,350 Book of Job. 51 00:02:10,390 --> 00:02:12,230 You remember, Job has a statement. 52 00:02:12,230 --> 00:02:15,080 Essentially, he says, the Lord gives and the Lord takes away. 53 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:16,280 Blessed be the name of the Lord. 54 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:17,040 That's worship. 55 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:21,520 As much as there's pain in those words coming out, that's still 56 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:22,000 worship. 57 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,880 And I want you to understand here this evening, biblically speaking, 58 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,120 that we can worship when there is pain. 59 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:29,280 As hard as it is. 60 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:33,440 Pain is not an hindrance or shouldn't be, biblically speaking, 61 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:34,720 a hindrance to worship. 62 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:36,640 It's a different perspective of worship. 63 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,160 But ultimately we have to understand, as Marina mentioned here 64 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,310 this evening in testimonies, that God is with us not just in the 65 00:02:42,310 --> 00:02:43,670 good, but he's with us in the difficult. 66 00:02:44,390 --> 00:02:47,830 And he never promises us the exemption from the storms of light. 67 00:02:48,390 --> 00:02:50,310 Remember the, the, the disciples. 68 00:02:50,310 --> 00:02:52,390 He says, you know, we're going to go across the other side. 69 00:02:52,790 --> 00:02:54,590 But he didn't say it's going to be smooth sailing. 70 00:02:54,590 --> 00:02:56,150 He says, we're going to go to the other side. 71 00:02:56,470 --> 00:02:59,310 So the promise was, hey, we're going to get there. 72 00:02:59,310 --> 00:03:01,350 But there might be some difficulties along the way. 73 00:03:01,350 --> 00:03:04,070 So when the difficulties came, they weren't worshiping, they were 74 00:03:04,070 --> 00:03:06,790 questioning, they weren't worshiping, they were worrying. 75 00:03:07,430 --> 00:03:10,070 And a lot of times that's what happens in our life is we're, we're 76 00:03:10,070 --> 00:03:12,590 worshiping God when everything's going well and the, 77 00:03:12,590 --> 00:03:17,430 the, the seas are smooth, but when the storms come, we're not worshiping, 78 00:03:17,430 --> 00:03:18,150 we're worrying. 79 00:03:18,150 --> 00:03:19,910 And worrying is focusing on ourselves. 80 00:03:19,910 --> 00:03:23,149 We're worrying is trusting in our own strength and not in the strength 81 00:03:23,149 --> 00:03:23,670 of God. 82 00:03:23,990 --> 00:03:27,310 And so we get here and, and so we're seeing what biblical worship 83 00:03:27,310 --> 00:03:27,470 is. 84 00:03:27,470 --> 00:03:30,470 And biblical worship is always, it starts always vertically. 85 00:03:31,270 --> 00:03:34,510 Now, eventually there will be a horizontal aspect to our worship 86 00:03:34,510 --> 00:03:35,990 because people will see our worship. 87 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,520 They will witness the authentic belief that we have in 88 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,360 God and that should impact others for the cause of the gospel. 89 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,200 But ultimately, worship is a vertical relationship with God, a 90 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,920 personal relationship with God, praising him for the good in 91 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,359 our life and then understanding when we would consider 92 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:54,840 something to be bad, that he's with us through that. 93 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:56,680 So we're in verse number 10. 94 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:01,000 He says, all thy work shall praise Thee, O Lord, and thy saints 95 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:01,960 shall bless thee. 96 00:04:02,620 --> 00:04:04,180 And so what is David saying here? 97 00:04:04,180 --> 00:04:07,820 The psalmist is saying that even God's creation itself praises 98 00:04:07,820 --> 00:04:08,220 God. 99 00:04:09,260 --> 00:04:12,860 All the more reason why we, as just one aspect of his creation, 100 00:04:12,860 --> 00:04:14,060 should be praising God. 101 00:04:14,620 --> 00:04:18,460 And so we should be gratefully praising him and blessing him for 102 00:04:19,020 --> 00:04:22,700 just the simple fact that he created us, just the simple fact 103 00:04:22,700 --> 00:04:24,860 that we are in his image. 104 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:29,060 You know, a lot of times we talk about, hey, we're all just sinners 105 00:04:29,060 --> 00:04:29,660 here at church. 106 00:04:29,660 --> 00:04:33,530 And though that is technically a true statement, I think a better 107 00:04:33,530 --> 00:04:36,730 statement should be, hey, we're all image bearers of the Lord, 108 00:04:37,050 --> 00:04:40,450 even though we're flawed image bearers, all of us are image bearers 109 00:04:40,450 --> 00:04:44,250 because when we start to think about my brother and my sister not 110 00:04:44,250 --> 00:04:47,410 being my enemy, but another image, bearer of the Lord, we will 111 00:04:47,410 --> 00:04:48,730 treat them in a different manner. 112 00:04:49,530 --> 00:04:52,850 And so we see here he says, all creation will exalt the name 113 00:04:52,850 --> 00:04:53,450 of God. 114 00:04:54,090 --> 00:04:54,730 Verse 11. 115 00:04:54,730 --> 00:04:59,880 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power. 116 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:03,520 Again, this is going back to the understanding of the responsibility 117 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,840 of God's people to proclaim the greatness of God and proclaim 118 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:13,080 his kingdom, proclaim the future, proclaim the gospel, proclaim 119 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:14,960 the truth of God in our lives. 120 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,560 There was this song that we sang when we were little kids, and 121 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:20,400 I'm sure the little kids sing it today. 122 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:23,280 It's talking about hiding our light under a bushel, right? 123 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:24,800 We don't, we don't want to do that. 124 00:05:25,250 --> 00:05:28,450 And the truth is, is that the, the book of John, John 1 says that 125 00:05:28,450 --> 00:05:30,890 the light was given to us as believers. 126 00:05:30,890 --> 00:05:35,210 We are not the light, but as believers, we know who has given 127 00:05:35,210 --> 00:05:35,850 us the light. 128 00:05:35,850 --> 00:05:38,530 And therefore we're to shine that light to a dark world. 129 00:05:39,330 --> 00:05:41,890 And so the way that we shine that light to the dark world is by 130 00:05:41,890 --> 00:05:46,770 proclaiming God's greatness, by proclaiming the kingdom, by proclaiming 131 00:05:46,770 --> 00:05:49,970 the future, by proclaiming the truth of the word of God. 132 00:05:50,210 --> 00:05:53,700 And so we see in verse 12, he says we are to proclaim the mighty 133 00:05:53,700 --> 00:05:54,020 Acts. 134 00:05:54,020 --> 00:05:59,020 And he says here to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts 135 00:05:59,260 --> 00:06:01,980 and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. 136 00:06:03,100 --> 00:06:06,820 And so the idea here is just to reiterate the fact that he had 137 00:06:06,820 --> 00:06:09,900 mentioned all the way back in verse 4, remember what verse 4 said? 138 00:06:10,060 --> 00:06:13,820 One generation shall praise thy works to another and shall declare 139 00:06:13,820 --> 00:06:14,820 thy mighty acts. 140 00:06:14,820 --> 00:06:19,930 He's reiterating the fact that we as believers, we as children of 141 00:06:19,930 --> 00:06:24,170 God, should make known to others the truth of his mighty acts 142 00:06:24,170 --> 00:06:25,570 and his glorious majesty. 143 00:06:26,210 --> 00:06:28,770 This is proclaiming, testifying. 144 00:06:28,850 --> 00:06:30,810 And this is done through many different ways. 145 00:06:30,810 --> 00:06:32,930 We could do this by how we speak. 146 00:06:32,930 --> 00:06:34,650 We can do this by how we worship. 147 00:06:34,650 --> 00:06:38,730 We can do this by how we react, how we respond, how we serve, 148 00:06:38,730 --> 00:06:39,490 how we love. 149 00:06:39,650 --> 00:06:42,690 But we are to proclaim the message of Jesus Christ. 150 00:06:42,690 --> 00:06:47,610 And so one reason why we praise God is as we're going to see, 151 00:06:47,770 --> 00:06:52,610 just as verse 2 said and verse 12, the majesty of his kingdom, verse 152 00:06:52,610 --> 00:06:52,850 13. 153 00:06:52,850 --> 00:06:55,210 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. 154 00:06:56,010 --> 00:06:59,010 One of the beautiful things that we have in Christ is that our 155 00:06:59,010 --> 00:07:02,290 relationship with him provides not only hope for the here and now, 156 00:07:02,290 --> 00:07:03,850 but hope for eternity. 157 00:07:04,570 --> 00:07:07,690 What other investment can bring eternal dividends? 158 00:07:08,170 --> 00:07:11,090 And what we can see here is again, David does something that 159 00:07:11,090 --> 00:07:12,890 is very familiar in Hebrew literature. 160 00:07:12,890 --> 00:07:13,930 It's called parallelism. 161 00:07:14,750 --> 00:07:17,790 He speaks one aspect here, then talks a little bit more about 162 00:07:17,790 --> 00:07:19,470 things, and then he brings back the same thing. 163 00:07:19,470 --> 00:07:22,110 So he's, he's repeating himself, essentially. 164 00:07:22,190 --> 00:07:24,630 And so verse two, he says, every day will I bless thee, and 165 00:07:24,630 --> 00:07:26,430 I will praise thy name forever and ever. 166 00:07:26,430 --> 00:07:29,430 And then we go to verse 13, he says, Thy kingdom is an everlasting 167 00:07:29,430 --> 00:07:29,950 kingdom. 168 00:07:30,109 --> 00:07:33,230 Thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. 169 00:07:34,110 --> 00:07:37,110 And so he's essentially explaining the. 170 00:07:37,110 --> 00:07:40,150 One of the many reasons why he worships is the eternal hope that 171 00:07:40,150 --> 00:07:40,990 he has in God. 172 00:07:42,060 --> 00:07:45,460 One of the reasons we can worship in the midst of difficulty 173 00:07:45,460 --> 00:07:48,140 is our eternal hope in a relationship with God. 174 00:07:49,580 --> 00:07:52,500 So if someone came to me tonight and they said, how can I 175 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:56,780 worship God in the midst of this devastating event in my life? 176 00:07:57,179 --> 00:08:03,100 Maybe it's a devastating loss or a devastating diagnosis of a sickness. 177 00:08:04,780 --> 00:08:08,180 If we're seeing it from the perspective of the here and now and 178 00:08:08,180 --> 00:08:11,710 that the end of life is the end, we don't have any hope. 179 00:08:12,350 --> 00:08:14,510 Like, like if you came up to me and said, you know what? 180 00:08:15,150 --> 00:08:18,710 I, I've got a diagnosis of I'm only going to live for six months, 181 00:08:18,710 --> 00:08:22,030 that's it, that's over, you know, and if I look at you and say, 182 00:08:22,030 --> 00:08:24,910 well, when you, when you're gone, you're gone, so you better, 183 00:08:25,150 --> 00:08:27,150 you got six months, that's hopelessness. 184 00:08:27,470 --> 00:08:29,070 That's what the world sees, really. 185 00:08:29,470 --> 00:08:31,870 Ultimately, the reason why there's hopelessness in the world 186 00:08:31,870 --> 00:08:33,550 is because there's no hope after death. 187 00:08:33,550 --> 00:08:35,950 And so that's why everyone's trying to live for the here and now. 188 00:08:35,950 --> 00:08:37,310 So what do we bring to the table? 189 00:08:37,630 --> 00:08:41,030 We say, no matter what happens in the here and now, as devastating, 190 00:08:41,030 --> 00:08:43,950 as painful as it might be because of the sin in this world, 191 00:08:44,110 --> 00:08:45,710 we have a hope that is greater. 192 00:08:45,710 --> 00:08:48,110 That's how we can worship in the midst of pain. 193 00:08:49,390 --> 00:08:53,070 That's easier said than done, but ultimately it's the eternal hope 194 00:08:53,070 --> 00:08:54,150 that we have in him. 195 00:08:54,150 --> 00:08:57,790 And so verse 13, he says he's reminding himself. 196 00:08:57,790 --> 00:08:59,470 And sometimes in worship, that's what it is. 197 00:08:59,470 --> 00:09:02,710 I mean, ultimately we're praising God, but sometimes as we're 198 00:09:02,710 --> 00:09:05,470 worshiping him, we're being reminded of the truth that we're 199 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:06,600 were proclaiming. 200 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:08,440 It's preaching to yourself. 201 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,880 I, I have a spiritual mentor and I'll go to him for advice and 202 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,240 I'll say, hey, hey, what would you do in this scenario? 203 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,200 And he would always say, well, if someone was to come up to you 204 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,360 with that same situation, what would you tell them? 205 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:21,879 What would you preach to them. 206 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:23,600 I would say, well, that's easy. 207 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:24,320 Do this, this, and this. 208 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:25,960 He goes, well, then preach that to yourself. 209 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,000 It's a biblical thing to preach the truths of God to yourself 210 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,040 just as you were proclaiming to other people around you. 211 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,690 Sometimes we think that we're exempt from the, the biblical knowledge. 212 00:09:34,690 --> 00:09:37,970 But what we can see here as Christians is that when we're proclaiming 213 00:09:37,970 --> 00:09:41,730 that we have everlasting, hopefully we're believing that same 214 00:09:41,730 --> 00:09:43,930 thing, and we're trusting in that as believers. 215 00:09:43,930 --> 00:09:48,650 And so ultimately, he's giving another reason to praise, and that 216 00:09:48,650 --> 00:09:50,290 is everlasting hope in Christ. 217 00:09:50,530 --> 00:09:51,170 Verse 14. 218 00:09:51,810 --> 00:09:54,210 The Lord upholdeth all that fall. 219 00:09:55,730 --> 00:09:59,500 It's a beautiful picture of God lifting us up in the midst of 220 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:00,500 our stumbles, our. 221 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:00,740 Our. 222 00:10:00,740 --> 00:10:01,620 Our failures. 223 00:10:02,740 --> 00:10:05,620 There's another psalm that says, though he fall, he shall not 224 00:10:05,620 --> 00:10:08,820 be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholds him with his hand. 225 00:10:09,700 --> 00:10:10,220 The, the. 226 00:10:10,220 --> 00:10:12,980 The idea that we would see in that case is that there's going to 227 00:10:12,980 --> 00:10:17,980 be times in our life as believers that we will stumble, that 228 00:10:17,980 --> 00:10:18,500 we will. 229 00:10:18,580 --> 00:10:19,620 That we will fall. 230 00:10:20,260 --> 00:10:23,060 Now, sometimes we use that word fall as, like completely falling 231 00:10:23,060 --> 00:10:23,660 away from God. 232 00:10:23,660 --> 00:10:24,740 That's not what that's saying. 233 00:10:25,150 --> 00:10:28,990 It says those that stumble or fall can be lifted up not by their 234 00:10:28,990 --> 00:10:30,550 own strength, but by the power of God. 235 00:10:30,550 --> 00:10:32,350 And that's what he's saying there in verse number 14. 236 00:10:32,510 --> 00:10:35,710 It's the Lord upholdeth all that fall or stumble. 237 00:10:36,270 --> 00:10:38,990 And if we're honest with ourselves, all of us have stumbled 238 00:10:38,990 --> 00:10:39,510 in our life. 239 00:10:39,510 --> 00:10:40,670 All of us have fallen. 240 00:10:40,670 --> 00:10:44,070 And so the true test of a person who is following God is not 241 00:10:44,070 --> 00:10:47,230 if you ever fall, it's a matter of what you do when you stumble, 242 00:10:47,230 --> 00:10:49,190 and that's trusting in God to lift you back up. 243 00:10:49,190 --> 00:10:50,990 Think about Peter as he's walking on the water. 244 00:10:52,220 --> 00:10:56,380 As long as his eyes were on Jesus, he was okay. 245 00:10:57,580 --> 00:11:00,420 It was the moment that he took his eyes off of Jesus and started 246 00:11:00,420 --> 00:11:02,660 looking at the storms is when he sank. 247 00:11:02,660 --> 00:11:03,460 But what happens? 248 00:11:03,460 --> 00:11:04,500 He says, lord, help me. 249 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:05,500 And immediately he's there. 250 00:11:06,140 --> 00:11:10,140 Jesus is there, lifts him up, pulls him out, and that's what the 251 00:11:10,140 --> 00:11:10,580 picture is. 252 00:11:10,580 --> 00:11:14,580 In our life as believers, we always must be keeping our eyes on 253 00:11:14,580 --> 00:11:19,160 the Lord in every good situation, every bad situation, every 254 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:20,120 difficult situation. 255 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,480 But the moment we look away, the truth is, is that we will drift. 256 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:25,440 But there's always that hope to come back. 257 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:26,480 And the Lord holds us up. 258 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:30,680 And so it's God's compassion and his presence in our life that 259 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,280 we can see, evidently, when we stumble. 260 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:36,560 So the, the truth is, is that though we don't want to stumble just 261 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:37,640 to see God's hand. 262 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,520 The beauty of our Christian life is that when we do stumble, 263 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:42,520 we see God's hand. 264 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,760 Because if it, if it was a man made situation, like for me, when 265 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:49,040 someone fails me, you know what my natural response is? 266 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:51,800 Forget them, cut them off, send them away. 267 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,440 But the biblical model, the Christ like model, the, the model 268 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,080 that shows God's love and his compassion is that he's there for 269 00:11:58,080 --> 00:11:59,480 us in the midst of our failures. 270 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,560 He doesn't despise us, he doesn't reject his children. 271 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:05,960 He actually holds them up. 272 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:07,960 He holds those up that are falling. 273 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,720 I think that's one of, one of the amazing verses that we can see 274 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:12,360 in this chapter. 275 00:12:13,070 --> 00:12:13,630 Verse 14. 276 00:12:13,630 --> 00:12:16,190 He says, so he doesn't just hold you up when you're falling, 277 00:12:16,190 --> 00:12:20,110 it says, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. 278 00:12:20,910 --> 00:12:23,910 So he doesn't just catch us when we're falling, but he also lifts 279 00:12:23,910 --> 00:12:27,710 us up and brings us back to a place of stability in our life. 280 00:12:27,710 --> 00:12:30,990 There's so many other passages that speak to that, but one of those 281 00:12:30,990 --> 00:12:33,870 passages that I really appreciate can be found in Psalm 282 00:12:33,870 --> 00:12:36,070 40, Psalm 40. 283 00:12:36,070 --> 00:12:39,470 We see the psalmist talking about his difficulties in his life 284 00:12:39,980 --> 00:12:41,500 and his reliance on himself. 285 00:12:41,500 --> 00:12:44,620 And then when he relies on God, what is the difference? 286 00:12:45,260 --> 00:12:47,620 And so you go, go to Psalm 40 with me. 287 00:12:47,620 --> 00:12:51,380 I want you to cross reference Psalm 145, because this is a picture 288 00:12:51,380 --> 00:12:53,660 of what happens when a believer stumbles. 289 00:12:54,380 --> 00:12:57,380 And for all of us as Christians, one of the major reasons 290 00:12:57,380 --> 00:12:59,820 why we should worship is because God has not cast us out. 291 00:12:59,980 --> 00:13:01,580 He has not forgotten about us. 292 00:13:03,020 --> 00:13:04,460 Our past doesn't define us. 293 00:13:04,460 --> 00:13:09,130 And so when we do stumble, we have that restoration, we have that 294 00:13:09,290 --> 00:13:10,090 repentance. 295 00:13:10,250 --> 00:13:13,050 So in Psalm 40, the, the Psalmist here. 296 00:13:13,050 --> 00:13:15,690 Most consider David to be the psalmist here as well. 297 00:13:15,770 --> 00:13:18,970 He says, I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto 298 00:13:18,970 --> 00:13:20,570 me and heard my cry. 299 00:13:20,890 --> 00:13:23,530 So David's calling out to God, God's hearing him. 300 00:13:23,690 --> 00:13:27,610 It says, he brought me up also out of the horrible pit. 301 00:13:28,650 --> 00:13:32,740 Some of us can identify with that horrible pit of sin that can 302 00:13:32,740 --> 00:13:33,740 have a grip on us. 303 00:13:33,740 --> 00:13:36,620 He says, he's brought me out of that horrible pit, out of the 304 00:13:36,620 --> 00:13:37,540 miry clay. 305 00:13:37,540 --> 00:13:40,500 The idea here would be like quicksand, like something that we 306 00:13:40,500 --> 00:13:41,940 can't get out of in our own strength. 307 00:13:41,940 --> 00:13:45,060 And the more we fight, I don't know if you've ever been in quicksand 308 00:13:45,060 --> 00:13:46,060 or some type of mud. 309 00:13:46,140 --> 00:13:48,900 The more you fight, sometimes it feels like the more you're pulled 310 00:13:48,900 --> 00:13:52,820 in, He Says God's pulled me out of the miry clay and then this 311 00:13:52,820 --> 00:13:53,660 is, this is what I love. 312 00:13:53,660 --> 00:13:59,180 And he says, and set my feet upon a rock and establish my goings. 313 00:14:00,190 --> 00:14:04,470 So it's not only that God saves us when we're falling and pulls 314 00:14:04,470 --> 00:14:08,910 us out of the difficulty, but then he sets us on a sure foundation. 315 00:14:09,550 --> 00:14:12,750 He allows us to get out of that and get on the right path. 316 00:14:12,830 --> 00:14:16,030 It reminds me of the verse in 2nd Timothy, chapter 3, verse 16. 317 00:14:16,510 --> 00:14:19,590 All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable 318 00:14:19,590 --> 00:14:22,870 for doctrine, for approved, for correction, for instruction in 319 00:14:22,870 --> 00:14:23,470 righteousness. 320 00:14:24,110 --> 00:14:26,510 Meaning that God doesn't just leave us with, hey, you're wrong, 321 00:14:26,510 --> 00:14:28,920 or, or hey, stop doing these bad things. 322 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,080 But he says here, this is how you can stay on the sure foundation 323 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,480 and walk on that, that path of righteousness. 324 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,680 So another reason to worship is God's forgiveness. 325 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,040 And not just forgiveness and salvation, but daily forgiveness 326 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,760 and giving us an opportunity to have a second chance and a third 327 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:49,920 chance and a thousand thousands chance and, you know, millionth 328 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:50,160 chance. 329 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:52,440 Like, it seems like God's grace is abundant because it is. 330 00:14:53,150 --> 00:14:56,630 And so that's another reason why we worship God, is because I'm 331 00:14:56,630 --> 00:14:59,230 still here, I'm still serving, I'm still in church. 332 00:14:59,550 --> 00:15:03,390 That is a beautiful blessing of God's preservation in our life. 333 00:15:04,510 --> 00:15:08,989 One of the beauties of what I believe, one of the, one of the strongest 334 00:15:09,390 --> 00:15:13,150 aspects of the reason why I worship is what we would call eternal 335 00:15:13,150 --> 00:15:13,470 security. 336 00:15:14,030 --> 00:15:16,950 And it's, and it's a hot button issue because not every Christian 337 00:15:16,950 --> 00:15:18,510 believes in eternal security. 338 00:15:18,590 --> 00:15:22,320 A lot of Christians believe in the fact that I have to do something 339 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,040 to hold on to my salvation. 340 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:29,280 But the truth is, is that if, if I had to hold on, I would eventually 341 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:29,880 let go. 342 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,480 And so The Bible, Romans 8 is a passage of scripture that speaks 343 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:34,200 to eternal security. 344 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,080 You could look at the book of Philippians about being sealed until 345 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:38,120 the day of redemption. 346 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:39,960 And so what we need to see here is this. 347 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:45,400 One of the beautiful things is knowing the doctrinal truth of eternal 348 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:49,000 security and then resting in that, in what we call assurance of 349 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,960 salvation, to know without a shadow of a doubt that God has saved 350 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:53,120 me. 351 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:55,120 And there's nothing that anybody can do. 352 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,320 There's nothing that even something that I can do if I'm truly 353 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:00,840 a believer in Jesus Christ that can take me out of his hand, 354 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:04,040 that says no man can pluck me out of God's hand. 355 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,280 And so the beauty, I think that we all worship God about when 356 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:12,690 it comes to that is just the consistency of His Word. 357 00:16:12,850 --> 00:16:16,770 The faithfulness of his word and the power to sustain us and provide 358 00:16:16,770 --> 00:16:19,290 for us that salvation all the way to the end. 359 00:16:19,290 --> 00:16:20,290 He preserves us. 360 00:16:21,330 --> 00:16:24,770 The Bible says that he is the author and finisher of our faith. 361 00:16:24,770 --> 00:16:27,210 Hebrews tells us that he's the author and finisher. 362 00:16:27,210 --> 00:16:29,090 Another way that you could phrase that is he's the. 363 00:16:29,250 --> 00:16:32,850 He's the creator and the sustainer of my faith. 364 00:16:33,490 --> 00:16:34,690 He sustains us. 365 00:16:35,890 --> 00:16:36,770 So we go further. 366 00:16:36,850 --> 00:16:40,240 Another reason to worship would be his faithfulness to us. 367 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:42,880 Look at Psalm 145 with me and go. 368 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:50,200 Go to verse number 15 says, the eyes of all wait upon thee and 369 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,240 thou givest them meat in due season. 370 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,240 This is, this is speaking of God's provisions. 371 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,840 Those that humble themselves before God, looking and expecting 372 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,240 him to keep his word, will understand what it means for God 373 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:07,159 to give them, as we see in Matthew chapter six, give us this 374 00:17:07,159 --> 00:17:10,959 day our daily bread, the needs that we have in our life. 375 00:17:10,959 --> 00:17:12,359 God is a provider. 376 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:16,399 God is one, as it says in, in the Old Testament, Jehovah Jireh, 377 00:17:16,399 --> 00:17:17,319 the one who will provide. 378 00:17:17,879 --> 00:17:20,479 Now we know that he provides for us salvation, but biblically 379 00:17:20,479 --> 00:17:22,039 speaking, he provides for us our needs. 380 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:26,079 Not always our greeds, not our wants, not the things that we think 381 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:26,639 we deserve. 382 00:17:26,639 --> 00:17:28,199 But he provides for us our needs. 383 00:17:28,199 --> 00:17:31,519 And so this speaks to this idea that God takes care of his children 384 00:17:31,519 --> 00:17:34,780 by providing for them, providing for them what they need. 385 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:37,740 So one of the reasons to worship is God's provision. 386 00:17:38,140 --> 00:17:40,940 We've talked about his protection, we talked about his power. 387 00:17:41,500 --> 00:17:44,820 Here we see God's provision, Him giving those things to us that 388 00:17:44,820 --> 00:17:45,500 we need. 389 00:17:45,580 --> 00:17:48,140 And really the truth of the matter is, is that he gives us beyond 390 00:17:48,140 --> 00:17:48,780 what we need. 391 00:17:49,180 --> 00:17:52,380 If we were honest with ourselves, God gives us beyond our 392 00:17:52,380 --> 00:17:52,700 needs. 393 00:17:53,420 --> 00:17:54,740 Just look at us in America. 394 00:17:54,740 --> 00:17:59,110 I mean, I know that America is not a perfect country, I realize 395 00:17:59,110 --> 00:17:59,430 that. 396 00:17:59,670 --> 00:18:02,750 But the truth is, is that look at the blessings that we have. 397 00:18:02,750 --> 00:18:03,430 All of you. 398 00:18:04,230 --> 00:18:07,590 If you wanted to, not everyone chose to tonight, but all of you 399 00:18:07,590 --> 00:18:09,430 could have probably ridden a vehicle in here. 400 00:18:10,550 --> 00:18:12,390 Most of us had food today to eat. 401 00:18:12,470 --> 00:18:14,550 If you don't have food to eat, come talk to me. 402 00:18:14,550 --> 00:18:15,310 We'll take care of you. 403 00:18:15,310 --> 00:18:19,150 That's the beauty of God's provision, is that, hey, there might 404 00:18:19,150 --> 00:18:21,070 be someone who doesn't have enough to eat. 405 00:18:21,070 --> 00:18:25,010 But God has blessed the fellowship, the believers, the opportunity 406 00:18:25,010 --> 00:18:27,290 to show love and grace to those so that we don't have to get 407 00:18:27,290 --> 00:18:27,570 without. 408 00:18:27,810 --> 00:18:30,890 Because if you think about biblically speaking, God says what 409 00:18:30,890 --> 00:18:33,490 we need sometimes is a lot less than what we think we need. 410 00:18:33,970 --> 00:18:37,970 He actually says Food and rayment is our needs, food and clothes. 411 00:18:38,770 --> 00:18:41,810 But again, he blesses us with way more than that. 412 00:18:42,210 --> 00:18:47,330 So we can see here God's provisions, I would say also in. 413 00:18:47,410 --> 00:18:50,060 And, and I think that's important to notice as that he's 414 00:18:50,060 --> 00:18:53,380 going to give us meat in due season sometimes. 415 00:18:53,380 --> 00:18:55,980 What that means is that God's provisions don't come when we expect 416 00:18:55,980 --> 00:18:56,700 them to come. 417 00:18:57,100 --> 00:18:59,020 Like God, I need it tomorrow. 418 00:18:59,020 --> 00:19:01,780 And, and I, and I think that a lot of times our testimonies that 419 00:19:01,780 --> 00:19:04,060 we really, that really resonate with us is, hey, you know 420 00:19:04,060 --> 00:19:04,300 what? 421 00:19:04,380 --> 00:19:07,580 The bill was due today and that check came in this morning and 422 00:19:07,580 --> 00:19:08,140 it was perfect. 423 00:19:08,140 --> 00:19:09,940 And that's sometimes how it goes. 424 00:19:09,940 --> 00:19:13,740 But sometimes God's timing is different than our expectations and 425 00:19:13,740 --> 00:19:16,930 we can't demand from him that he is on a, a time crunch, right? 426 00:19:17,090 --> 00:19:20,690 So God is going to do things in due season when it is his will. 427 00:19:21,410 --> 00:19:22,010 Verse 16. 428 00:19:22,010 --> 00:19:27,170 Thou openest thy hand and satisfies the desire of every living 429 00:19:27,170 --> 00:19:27,570 thing. 430 00:19:28,370 --> 00:19:31,410 This speaks to this idea that God is sufficient. 431 00:19:32,130 --> 00:19:33,570 God satisfies. 432 00:19:33,890 --> 00:19:39,570 God's care for his creation goes beyond just providing for us 433 00:19:39,570 --> 00:19:41,810 in, in like maybe food or clothing. 434 00:19:42,170 --> 00:19:45,290 But we even know that God's care is, is for the animals, right? 435 00:19:45,290 --> 00:19:48,370 We, we even say that his eyes upon the sparrow, we sing that song. 436 00:19:48,370 --> 00:19:52,650 And so we know that God's hand is enough for everyone, for everything. 437 00:19:53,290 --> 00:19:56,730 This shows his amazing power, his amazing greatness. 438 00:19:57,770 --> 00:19:58,489 Verse 17. 439 00:19:58,490 --> 00:20:02,210 The Lord is righteous in all of his ways and holy in his works. 440 00:20:02,210 --> 00:20:03,610 This speaks to God's perfection. 441 00:20:04,810 --> 00:20:07,490 One of the many reasons why we should worship God is because of 442 00:20:07,490 --> 00:20:08,850 his holiness and his perfection. 443 00:20:08,850 --> 00:20:11,090 Often we don't think about that completely. 444 00:20:11,090 --> 00:20:15,370 What that means, that means that God is right in every single 445 00:20:15,370 --> 00:20:15,610 way. 446 00:20:15,610 --> 00:20:17,130 He's completely righteous. 447 00:20:17,690 --> 00:20:19,330 His way is always righteous. 448 00:20:19,330 --> 00:20:21,290 His will is always perfect. 449 00:20:22,090 --> 00:20:23,610 He makes no mistake. 450 00:20:24,490 --> 00:20:29,050 I don't know about you, but the greatest of people in whatever 451 00:20:29,050 --> 00:20:31,450 field they're in, they're still not perfect. 452 00:20:33,130 --> 00:20:35,530 And I think that sometimes we're tempted to think that, hey, 453 00:20:35,530 --> 00:20:36,010 you know what? 454 00:20:36,090 --> 00:20:38,930 Being really excellent in something is almost being perfect. 455 00:20:38,930 --> 00:20:40,410 And maybe it is almost perfect. 456 00:20:41,620 --> 00:20:44,260 I know like for baseball, some of you follow baseball, some of you 457 00:20:44,260 --> 00:20:44,580 don't. 458 00:20:45,060 --> 00:20:48,540 To be really, really good in baseball, to be the best in baseball, 459 00:20:48,540 --> 00:20:52,180 you get on, you get a hit three times out of 10, the average. 460 00:20:52,340 --> 00:20:54,540 So baseball is a game of failure, right? 461 00:20:54,540 --> 00:20:57,340 But we look at someone who gets three hits out of 10 and go, 462 00:20:57,340 --> 00:20:58,020 they're amazing. 463 00:20:58,020 --> 00:21:00,700 And you guys could make parallels in pretty much any other 464 00:21:00,700 --> 00:21:01,060 field. 465 00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:05,260 God, dare I say he doesn't go 3 for 10. 466 00:21:05,260 --> 00:21:06,060 He goes 10 for 10. 467 00:21:06,060 --> 00:21:07,140 He goes a thousand for a thousand. 468 00:21:07,140 --> 00:21:08,180 He goes a million for a million. 469 00:21:08,180 --> 00:21:09,300 God never misses. 470 00:21:09,740 --> 00:21:11,180 God never makes a mistake. 471 00:21:11,420 --> 00:21:14,580 And that's what we're seeing here in this case is that sometimes 472 00:21:14,580 --> 00:21:18,300 we're not willing to worship his plan or his will or His. 473 00:21:18,540 --> 00:21:21,180 His perfection because we doubt that God. 474 00:21:21,660 --> 00:21:22,700 God's way's best. 475 00:21:23,420 --> 00:21:27,340 Maybe we wouldn't utter that, but in the deepest, darkest place 476 00:21:27,340 --> 00:21:29,940 in our mind, we start to question God, do you really have 477 00:21:29,940 --> 00:21:30,700 what's best for me? 478 00:21:31,340 --> 00:21:33,260 God, I don't know if this is right. 479 00:21:33,260 --> 00:21:35,580 I don't know if this change is what I need to do. 480 00:21:35,580 --> 00:21:38,380 I don't know if this is the right place to go or the right thing 481 00:21:38,380 --> 00:21:38,860 to say. 482 00:21:39,220 --> 00:21:42,020 But the Bible says that trusting in God completely brings 483 00:21:42,020 --> 00:21:45,420 us to a place of trusting in the only one who is righteous in 484 00:21:45,420 --> 00:21:48,820 all of his ways and holy in all of his works. 485 00:21:50,500 --> 00:21:55,259 God is not like the false gods of Greek and Roman mythology who 486 00:21:55,259 --> 00:21:56,820 have a lot of the human flaws. 487 00:21:57,700 --> 00:22:01,300 God isn't driven by his flesh. 488 00:22:01,380 --> 00:22:05,140 God is not in a place where he's going to do anything that is 489 00:22:05,140 --> 00:22:07,300 contrary to righteousness and holiness. 490 00:22:08,020 --> 00:22:09,660 And so that's one of the reasons why we praise him. 491 00:22:09,660 --> 00:22:12,260 We praise him for who he is and what he has done. 492 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:14,980 We praise him for the fact that he is completely righteous. 493 00:22:14,980 --> 00:22:17,660 And we praise him for the fact that he has never done any wrong. 494 00:22:17,660 --> 00:22:20,500 And then we go further here, verse 18. 495 00:22:21,460 --> 00:22:26,940 The Lord is nigh or near unto all them that call upon him, to all 496 00:22:26,940 --> 00:22:28,180 that call upon him. 497 00:22:28,180 --> 00:22:32,580 In truth, this echoes what we see in James, chapter 4, verse 8. 498 00:22:32,580 --> 00:22:35,310 That draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to you. 499 00:22:35,310 --> 00:22:40,430 This speaks of God's personal nature, his imminence that God isn't 500 00:22:40,430 --> 00:22:43,310 just sitting up in heaven as the Great Clock Maker, as a deist 501 00:22:43,310 --> 00:22:45,390 would teach that, hey, there's a God up there. 502 00:22:45,390 --> 00:22:47,430 We believe that, but he doesn't really want to have anything 503 00:22:47,430 --> 00:22:48,190 to do with our lives. 504 00:22:48,190 --> 00:22:50,030 He doesn't really care what you do with your life. 505 00:22:50,030 --> 00:22:52,670 It's basically, hey, it's just all set in motion and you do what 506 00:22:52,670 --> 00:22:53,310 you want to do. 507 00:22:53,390 --> 00:22:56,790 No, the Bible says that God draws close to those who pursue a 508 00:22:56,790 --> 00:22:57,790 relationship with Him. 509 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,000 The Lord is nigh. 510 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,360 He is close unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon 511 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:07,160 him in truth, the right way. 512 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,560 Because there's a lot of people calling out to God, but they're 513 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:10,840 calling out to God in the wrong ways. 514 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:12,960 They're calling out to God in a selfish way. 515 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,680 Maybe they're trying to make a deal with God. 516 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,560 Maybe they said, God, if you do this for me, I'll do this for 517 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:17,880 you. 518 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,040 Or maybe God, I expect you to do this. 519 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:21,320 And I've actually heard this recently. 520 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,080 A preacher got up and was like, you know what? 521 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:25,640 You can demand this from God. 522 00:23:26,540 --> 00:23:28,940 Now that's a very dangerous place to get up and start demanding 523 00:23:28,940 --> 00:23:29,660 things from God. 524 00:23:29,740 --> 00:23:33,540 Now you can trust in what he said as a promise, but to get up 525 00:23:33,540 --> 00:23:36,500 there and demand something from God is. 526 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:39,420 Is putting God in a box that he should not be put in. 527 00:23:39,420 --> 00:23:43,020 That's essentially idolatry, blasphemy, and, and we would say 528 00:23:43,020 --> 00:23:45,860 would lead us to a place of great destruction if we follow that 529 00:23:45,860 --> 00:23:46,140 path. 530 00:23:46,140 --> 00:23:47,220 So what does he say here? 531 00:23:47,220 --> 00:23:50,140 He says, the Lord will draw close to those who call upon him 532 00:23:50,300 --> 00:23:51,100 in truth. 533 00:23:53,350 --> 00:23:56,390 What an amazing thing that is, that God is never too far for us. 534 00:23:57,990 --> 00:24:01,150 I was watching this video recently, had nothing to do with 535 00:24:01,150 --> 00:24:06,310 spirituality, but they said, if I was to promise you a million 536 00:24:06,310 --> 00:24:09,270 dollars, if the per. 537 00:24:09,270 --> 00:24:11,870 The first person that you called would answer the phone, who 538 00:24:11,870 --> 00:24:12,470 would you call? 539 00:24:12,630 --> 00:24:14,110 So basically the premise was this. 540 00:24:14,110 --> 00:24:18,950 I'll give you a million dollars if the first person you call 541 00:24:18,950 --> 00:24:19,830 answers the phone. 542 00:24:20,310 --> 00:24:22,470 Okay, now for me, I know who that is. 543 00:24:22,710 --> 00:24:23,510 That's my dad. 544 00:24:23,510 --> 00:24:25,030 My dad will answer his phone. 545 00:24:25,430 --> 00:24:26,230 It's crazy. 546 00:24:26,310 --> 00:24:28,550 I could call him at 3 o' clock in the morning, he would answer on 547 00:24:28,550 --> 00:24:29,230 the second ring. 548 00:24:29,230 --> 00:24:29,630 Okay. 549 00:24:29,630 --> 00:24:30,030 He's just. 550 00:24:30,030 --> 00:24:31,030 He's built that way. 551 00:24:31,110 --> 00:24:33,229 I. I always call my dad and the answers is fun. 552 00:24:33,229 --> 00:24:36,990 Micah asked me recently, he's like, dad, why is every time you 553 00:24:36,990 --> 00:24:38,470 call, he calls him Poppy? 554 00:24:38,470 --> 00:24:40,750 Why is every time you call Poppy, whether it's morning or night, 555 00:24:40,750 --> 00:24:41,710 he answers it right away. 556 00:24:41,710 --> 00:24:43,140 I'm like, well, because he loves me. 557 00:24:43,140 --> 00:24:44,060 And he's always by his phone. 558 00:24:44,060 --> 00:24:44,900 His phone's really loud. 559 00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:45,980 Okay, he has it on loud. 560 00:24:45,980 --> 00:24:46,860 It goes really loud. 561 00:24:47,340 --> 00:24:51,460 So even though I know that my dad answers the phone, and if I had 562 00:24:51,460 --> 00:24:53,180 that bet, I would say, okay, I'm gonna call him. 563 00:24:53,180 --> 00:24:55,020 He's gonna answer and be a million dollars richer. 564 00:24:55,580 --> 00:24:57,740 But even then, there's limitations to that, right? 565 00:24:58,619 --> 00:25:02,500 We can call out to God at any point in our life, at any time in 566 00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:05,940 the day, and any part of brokenness, and he is there for us. 567 00:25:05,940 --> 00:25:06,980 That's what the Bible says. 568 00:25:06,980 --> 00:25:09,180 Here, call upon God and he'll be there. 569 00:25:11,110 --> 00:25:12,310 Now, what I would say is this. 570 00:25:12,310 --> 00:25:14,150 It says, call out in truth. 571 00:25:14,950 --> 00:25:19,190 Now, a person who is in unrepentant sin, then that calls 572 00:25:19,190 --> 00:25:23,430 out to God for his help, but yet does not Humble his or her heart 573 00:25:23,430 --> 00:25:25,429 is not going to hear an answer to prayer. 574 00:25:25,429 --> 00:25:25,750 Why? 575 00:25:25,750 --> 00:25:28,990 Because the Bible says the Lord does not regard the prayers 576 00:25:28,990 --> 00:25:31,350 of those that are harboring iniquity in their hearts. 577 00:25:32,710 --> 00:25:35,830 So it goes back to seeking him in truth and in humility. 578 00:25:36,970 --> 00:25:37,930 So, so yes, the. 579 00:25:38,010 --> 00:25:41,450 The repentant sinner, God always hears the unrepentant sinner. 580 00:25:41,450 --> 00:25:44,290 It doesn't mean that God can't hear them, but it means that they 581 00:25:44,290 --> 00:25:47,530 have not humbled themselves to have that commitment to follow Christ. 582 00:25:49,850 --> 00:25:52,610 And so what we need to see here is the importance of seeing. 583 00:25:52,610 --> 00:25:55,410 The end of verse 18 is that it says, in truth, call out to him in 584 00:25:55,410 --> 00:25:55,850 truth. 585 00:25:56,250 --> 00:25:57,850 So here's the reason to worship. 586 00:25:58,490 --> 00:26:00,650 That God is there for me when I call out to him. 587 00:26:01,130 --> 00:26:03,080 That he's close to me, that he. 588 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,440 That He's a friend that sticks closer than a brother, that he loves 589 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:07,760 me as Abba Father. 590 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,680 What an amazing thing that is like that, that I can call out to 591 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,240 him and call him in a personal way. 592 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,120 Moving forward, let's look at verse 19. 593 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,240 Does he will fulfill the desire of them that fear Him. 594 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,360 Again, he fulfills our desires. 595 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,200 Our desires are aligned with his desires, but those that fear 596 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:24,440 Him. 597 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:24,800 Right. 598 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:27,160 It goes back to this idea that you can't just be living your life 599 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,620 the way that you want to live it and say, God, I. I desire this. 600 00:26:29,620 --> 00:26:30,260 Give this to me. 601 00:26:30,260 --> 00:26:33,820 No, it's those who fear him who truly fear him in his way. 602 00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:37,820 He also will hear their cry and will save them. 603 00:26:38,220 --> 00:26:41,700 This speaks of those who call out to God to call out to him and 604 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:42,140 fear Him. 605 00:26:42,140 --> 00:26:44,540 Now, fearing this is an interesting word because sometimes 606 00:26:44,540 --> 00:26:47,660 you'll hear it explained a lot of different ways. 607 00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:51,140 This is not a fear of punishment as much as it is an awe 608 00:26:51,140 --> 00:26:54,300 and fear of his power enacted in our life. 609 00:26:55,090 --> 00:27:00,050 Some people call it a respect, which I think is a fair conclusion. 610 00:27:00,210 --> 00:27:02,970 But at the same time, I do know that it's a little bit more 611 00:27:02,970 --> 00:27:04,610 than just, hey, I respect this person. 612 00:27:05,010 --> 00:27:08,050 There's a great fear in the power of God. 613 00:27:08,210 --> 00:27:09,810 Now, it's not an unhealthy fear. 614 00:27:10,210 --> 00:27:13,770 It's not an unhealthy fear like, God's gonna punish me in, in 615 00:27:13,770 --> 00:27:15,330 a wrong way or a sinful way. 616 00:27:15,330 --> 00:27:17,010 That's the kind of fear we have in this world. 617 00:27:17,090 --> 00:27:21,570 But it's a fear of knowing how big and infinite God is and how small 618 00:27:21,570 --> 00:27:24,970 we are and how great it is that he would actually love us and 619 00:27:24,970 --> 00:27:25,650 care for us. 620 00:27:26,290 --> 00:27:29,010 And so that's really what he's talking about here, is recognizing 621 00:27:29,410 --> 00:27:30,850 our position before Him. 622 00:27:31,250 --> 00:27:34,170 And when we do that, when we come into his presence with that 623 00:27:34,170 --> 00:27:35,890 type of humility, what does it say will happen? 624 00:27:36,050 --> 00:27:37,170 That he will save us. 625 00:27:37,410 --> 00:27:37,970 Verse 20. 626 00:27:37,970 --> 00:27:42,730 The Lord preserve with all them that love him, but all the wicked 627 00:27:42,730 --> 00:27:43,570 will he destroy. 628 00:27:45,010 --> 00:27:47,970 This speaks of God's preservation to those that are his 629 00:27:47,970 --> 00:27:48,290 children. 630 00:27:49,330 --> 00:27:51,410 All those in rebellion will face judgment. 631 00:27:52,370 --> 00:27:54,890 Now you would say, is that something that we should worship? 632 00:27:54,890 --> 00:27:56,130 Well, we should worship the fact. 633 00:27:56,130 --> 00:27:59,370 We should worship God for the fact that he will preserve us, that 634 00:27:59,370 --> 00:28:00,530 he takes care of his children. 635 00:28:00,850 --> 00:28:03,450 And we should worship him for making things right one day. 636 00:28:03,450 --> 00:28:06,050 You know, there's a lot of people that won't believe God because 637 00:28:06,050 --> 00:28:08,890 they think, they think like, well, God's allowing people to get 638 00:28:08,890 --> 00:28:11,170 away with these terrible evil things in this world. 639 00:28:11,410 --> 00:28:14,170 Let me tell you, God is not going to allow anyone who is living 640 00:28:14,170 --> 00:28:16,130 in evil and rebelling to him to get away with it. 641 00:28:16,650 --> 00:28:18,090 There will be a final judgment. 642 00:28:18,810 --> 00:28:21,610 Something that we can take solace in is that God will make all 643 00:28:21,610 --> 00:28:22,170 things right. 644 00:28:22,330 --> 00:28:26,810 Even if it doesn't in our eyes on this side of heaven get made right. 645 00:28:26,810 --> 00:28:28,650 God will make all things right. 646 00:28:28,650 --> 00:28:31,850 We must trust that he is the righteous and holy judge. 647 00:28:32,089 --> 00:28:34,090 We are not the righteous and holy judges. 648 00:28:34,650 --> 00:28:37,850 We can't be the final word or authority over someone's life. 649 00:28:38,010 --> 00:28:39,610 The Bible says vengeance is mine. 650 00:28:39,610 --> 00:28:41,130 I will repay, say the Lord. 651 00:28:42,260 --> 00:28:42,780 God will. 652 00:28:42,780 --> 00:28:44,660 We've got to believe that God will make it right. 653 00:28:44,660 --> 00:28:46,340 That's why we can sing praises to him. 654 00:28:46,340 --> 00:28:47,940 Because he will make it right one day. 655 00:28:48,740 --> 00:28:50,140 He's making it right right now. 656 00:28:50,140 --> 00:28:53,020 But ultimately it'll be culminated in that righteous judgment 657 00:28:53,020 --> 00:28:54,820 upon all those that are in rebellion to him. 658 00:28:55,460 --> 00:28:56,340 Verse 21. 659 00:28:56,500 --> 00:29:00,580 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord and let all flesh 660 00:29:00,580 --> 00:29:03,060 bless his holy name forever and ever. 661 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:06,980 And so we get the understanding here that David is 662 00:29:06,980 --> 00:29:09,750 making this, this Dec declaration, this what we would call 663 00:29:09,750 --> 00:29:13,550 his thesis statement, his final declaration that, that he is 664 00:29:13,630 --> 00:29:18,510 writing this as a testimony and his desire to praise God with 665 00:29:18,510 --> 00:29:20,350 everything in him for the rest of his life. 666 00:29:21,070 --> 00:29:24,030 Now we've said this and every time David is talked about, we always 667 00:29:24,030 --> 00:29:24,870 have to make a preference. 668 00:29:24,870 --> 00:29:25,790 Was David perfect? 669 00:29:25,790 --> 00:29:26,830 Well, of course he wasn't. 670 00:29:27,070 --> 00:29:29,230 No one in the Bible is perfect other than Jesus. 671 00:29:29,870 --> 00:29:33,070 But we can know what God tells us about David. 672 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,600 And the Bible says that David was a man after God's own heart. 673 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:41,880 If, if, if we would want to worship in the most biblical God 674 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,040 honoring manner, we should worship like David. 675 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,920 We should worship him with what we say, but also by what we 676 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:48,080 do. 677 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:55,360 And so the last verse Here in Psalm 145 is an amazing bookend to 678 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:56,120 David's life. 679 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,880 He basically says, I'm going to worship you because of all of 680 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,120 these things forever and ever. 681 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,960 And from what we understand in scripture, David stayed faithful 682 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:03,360 to the end. 683 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:03,960 We know that. 684 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,440 And we know that David definitely went through difficulties 685 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,640 though in his life because you can't just live your. 686 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,840 Like think about it from this perspective was what was David's 687 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:12,080 heart? 688 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:13,680 David wanted to build the temple. 689 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:14,960 You guys remember that, right? 690 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,160 But because of David's, some of David's decisions where he had 691 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,120 blood on his hands, God says, well, no, David, you don't get to 692 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,240 build the temple, your son will. 693 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,920 But there are certain things in our life that we might miss out 694 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,840 on because of our decisions, but we'll never miss out on having 695 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:30,840 that fellowship with God. 696 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,490 We know also David did have to pay earthly consequences for the 697 00:30:34,490 --> 00:30:36,210 sins that he committed with Bathsheba. 698 00:30:37,490 --> 00:30:40,610 So it doesn't mean that we're scot free from punishment of bad 699 00:30:40,610 --> 00:30:41,690 decisions that we make. 700 00:30:41,690 --> 00:30:44,370 But what we do know is that David could come back even after 701 00:30:44,690 --> 00:30:48,690 losing his son, his child, after the sin with Bathsheba. 702 00:30:48,690 --> 00:30:51,450 In his brokenness and his repentance, did he mourn? 703 00:30:51,450 --> 00:30:53,490 Yes, he mourned for the proper amount of time. 704 00:30:54,130 --> 00:30:57,290 He was broken, but at the same time he was able to come back and 705 00:30:57,290 --> 00:30:58,050 worship God. 706 00:30:59,660 --> 00:31:03,580 And David, again, not the greatest model of being a parent, 707 00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:07,300 but again, at the same time he loved God and he worshiped God. 708 00:31:07,300 --> 00:31:09,020 So we should be those that worship God. 709 00:31:09,020 --> 00:31:10,060 So worship is important. 710 00:31:10,060 --> 00:31:11,580 That's why we have a Sunday morning service. 711 00:31:13,340 --> 00:31:16,540 There are many reasons why we have a Sunday morning service, but 712 00:31:16,540 --> 00:31:17,980 we call it a worship service. 713 00:31:17,980 --> 00:31:22,500 It's so that we can come together corporately as a family 714 00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:23,420 to worship God. 715 00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:25,820 That is not the only time that we should be worshiping. 716 00:31:26,370 --> 00:31:29,170 The Bible says that we should live lives of worship, Monday, Tuesday, 717 00:31:29,170 --> 00:31:30,610 Wednesday, all the way through the week. 718 00:31:30,850 --> 00:31:33,650 So the reason why we come together on a Sunday morning is not 719 00:31:33,970 --> 00:31:37,170 only for fellowship, even though fellowship would be a side 720 00:31:37,170 --> 00:31:38,050 piece to that. 721 00:31:38,290 --> 00:31:41,210 But we can fellowship on Monday, we can worship on Monday. 722 00:31:41,210 --> 00:31:43,490 So the reason why we meet on Sunday, one of the major reasons 723 00:31:43,490 --> 00:31:45,290 is that was the day that Jesus resurrected. 724 00:31:45,290 --> 00:31:47,850 We pick one day of the week and we get together and we worship 725 00:31:47,850 --> 00:31:48,210 God. 726 00:31:49,250 --> 00:31:54,100 But how many times, and I'm speaking to myself as I'm speaking 727 00:31:54,100 --> 00:31:57,700 to you, how many times have we come into a church service, what 728 00:31:57,700 --> 00:32:00,620 we would call a worship service, but our heart is not in 729 00:32:00,620 --> 00:32:01,660 a worshipful spirit. 730 00:32:02,860 --> 00:32:06,820 We're coming in with our baggage and we're not leaving our 731 00:32:06,820 --> 00:32:08,780 baggage at the door and bringing that to Christ. 732 00:32:09,180 --> 00:32:12,540 But we come in with maybe bitterness in our hearts or anger 733 00:32:12,620 --> 00:32:14,860 in our hearts or doubts in our hearts. 734 00:32:15,020 --> 00:32:17,020 And we come in and we go through the motions. 735 00:32:17,020 --> 00:32:21,630 Maybe no one knows that we are struggling with this, but we come 736 00:32:21,630 --> 00:32:23,990 in and we don't have a worshipful spirit when we sing the 737 00:32:23,990 --> 00:32:24,270 songs. 738 00:32:24,270 --> 00:32:25,430 We're not worshiping God. 739 00:32:25,910 --> 00:32:28,430 Well, essentially what we're doing is we're living in disobedience 740 00:32:28,430 --> 00:32:29,750 to him, whether we know it or not. 741 00:32:30,950 --> 00:32:32,150 I. I will say this. 742 00:32:32,790 --> 00:32:33,150 There. 743 00:32:33,150 --> 00:32:35,430 There have been times in my life where I've come into church 744 00:32:35,430 --> 00:32:39,550 and I've had my mind on so much that I forget about why I'm 745 00:32:39,550 --> 00:32:40,230 even here. 746 00:32:40,550 --> 00:32:42,590 You say you can do that even as a pastor. 747 00:32:42,590 --> 00:32:43,830 I can do that as a pastor. 748 00:32:43,830 --> 00:32:45,270 You can do that as a church member. 749 00:32:45,620 --> 00:32:46,980 We can do that in any capacity. 750 00:32:46,980 --> 00:32:49,900 When we forget about the reason why we're doing what we're 751 00:32:49,900 --> 00:32:53,460 doing, why are we worshiping for who he is and what he has done. 752 00:32:53,860 --> 00:32:54,860 And we worship together. 753 00:32:54,860 --> 00:32:57,660 Not so that someone will notice me, because that's sometimes 754 00:32:57,660 --> 00:32:58,140 what happens. 755 00:32:58,140 --> 00:33:00,900 Like, I better get to church or someone's going to notice I'm 756 00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:02,020 not here and I'm going to get in trouble. 757 00:33:02,020 --> 00:33:04,780 No, we come to church to fellowship. 758 00:33:04,780 --> 00:33:06,220 We come to church to worship. 759 00:33:06,220 --> 00:33:07,940 We come to church for exhortation. 760 00:33:08,020 --> 00:33:09,700 We come to church for edification. 761 00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:14,230 And so we worship together on Sunday mornings or Sunday nights 762 00:33:14,390 --> 00:33:15,590 or Wednesday nights. 763 00:33:16,070 --> 00:33:20,270 But I would encourage you to pray about and ask God to guide you 764 00:33:20,270 --> 00:33:23,430 and challenge you of how you can live a life of worship. 765 00:33:24,390 --> 00:33:26,150 And I'm not just saying, well, you know, I. 766 00:33:26,390 --> 00:33:28,230 When I'm in the car, I turn worship music on. 767 00:33:28,230 --> 00:33:28,710 That's great. 768 00:33:29,270 --> 00:33:31,030 Again, another aspect of worship. 769 00:33:31,190 --> 00:33:33,710 But we all know that you could have worship music on but not be 770 00:33:33,710 --> 00:33:34,710 in the spirit of worship. 771 00:33:35,030 --> 00:33:41,930 Worship is always starts inwardly and comes out externally. 772 00:33:42,170 --> 00:33:44,410 We can have the externals without the internals. 773 00:33:44,890 --> 00:33:46,330 And so what I would tell you is this. 774 00:33:46,330 --> 00:33:47,130 Where does it. 775 00:33:47,130 --> 00:33:49,610 What does it mean for you to have a heart of worship? 776 00:33:49,610 --> 00:33:53,730 What do you need to go back to in your belief and in your life and 777 00:33:53,730 --> 00:33:56,570 in your experiences to say, lord, I have a reason to worship 778 00:33:56,570 --> 00:33:56,890 you. 779 00:33:57,290 --> 00:34:00,290 Now, if we had all those other blessings stripped away and all we 780 00:34:00,290 --> 00:34:03,450 had was our salvation, we would still have a reason to worship. 781 00:34:05,300 --> 00:34:10,060 But God, even more so, gives us a plethora of reasons to worship 782 00:34:10,060 --> 00:34:10,740 in our lives. 783 00:34:10,980 --> 00:34:13,260 And so that's what we're doing here in the rest of this summer. 784 00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:14,820 We're just going to go through some of these psalms. 785 00:34:14,980 --> 00:34:17,620 And we're going to try to look at what it really means to biblically 786 00:34:17,620 --> 00:34:18,500 worship God. 787 00:34:18,580 --> 00:34:20,420 Biblically worship God. 788 00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:23,380 And sometimes biblical worship is silence. 789 00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:28,100 Sometimes biblical worship is singing with all of our lungs. 790 00:34:28,660 --> 00:34:34,590 Some, some biblical worship is joyful with laughter and excitement. 791 00:34:34,830 --> 00:34:37,630 Some biblical worship is in tears with a broken heart. 792 00:34:38,110 --> 00:34:40,990 Some biblical worship is alone where no one else can see me. 793 00:34:40,990 --> 00:34:43,750 Some worship is in front of others so that there's corporate 794 00:34:43,750 --> 00:34:44,910 worship and edification. 795 00:34:45,630 --> 00:34:49,950 But the, the, the similarity between all that worship is we're, 796 00:34:49,950 --> 00:34:53,670 we're praising and lifting up God for who he is and what he has 797 00:34:53,670 --> 00:34:53,950 done. 798 00:34:54,030 --> 00:34:55,590 You go back to verse number one. 799 00:34:55,590 --> 00:34:58,710 That's essentially what David is saying here in Psalm 145. 800 00:34:59,190 --> 00:35:00,310 I will extol. 801 00:35:00,310 --> 00:35:05,110 The extol means to lift up to the highest point to nothing, to 802 00:35:05,110 --> 00:35:08,390 be on the parallel, to raise above all else. 803 00:35:08,550 --> 00:35:11,430 He says, I will extoll Thee, my God. 804 00:35:12,390 --> 00:35:16,510 He's personal, but then at the same time, he's above him. 805 00:35:16,510 --> 00:35:19,750 Oh King, I will bless Thy name forever and ever. 806 00:35:21,510 --> 00:35:22,230 So you, you. 807 00:35:22,230 --> 00:35:25,110 I would encourage you to have a theology behind your worship. 808 00:35:26,210 --> 00:35:30,210 Summarize it, have a vision statement, a mission statement. 809 00:35:31,410 --> 00:35:33,290 My worship mission statement is this. 810 00:35:33,290 --> 00:35:38,610 I praise God and proclaim him for who he is and what he has done. 811 00:35:38,850 --> 00:35:39,890 It's very simple. 812 00:35:40,450 --> 00:35:41,170 Praise Him. 813 00:35:42,290 --> 00:35:44,570 I'll add another one here because actually you got to have 814 00:35:44,570 --> 00:35:45,090 three points. 815 00:35:45,250 --> 00:35:48,210 Praise him, proclaim him and please Him. 816 00:35:48,770 --> 00:35:52,010 Praise him, proclaim him and please him for who he is and what 817 00:35:52,010 --> 00:35:52,930 he has done for us. 818 00:35:53,660 --> 00:35:55,820 I encourage you to think about it from that perspective because 819 00:35:55,820 --> 00:36:00,020 the way that we praise him is by lifting him up by, by, by proclaiming 820 00:36:00,020 --> 00:36:04,860 him, by, by proclaiming him to those around us in the gospel message. 821 00:36:04,860 --> 00:36:06,620 By pleasing him through obedience. 822 00:36:07,260 --> 00:36:11,380 One of the things that we're trying to do as a family, so, so 823 00:36:11,380 --> 00:36:13,020 we're trying to do family worship. 824 00:36:13,420 --> 00:36:16,420 One of the things that we can do with family worship is make it 825 00:36:16,420 --> 00:36:17,580 like a checkbox thing. 826 00:36:18,380 --> 00:36:21,090 Like, okay, we did family worship tonight. 827 00:36:21,090 --> 00:36:24,330 We read our paragraph, we said our prayer, we sang our song, and 828 00:36:24,330 --> 00:36:25,770 now we're going to bed. 829 00:36:25,770 --> 00:36:29,170 Okay, but, but the problem with that would be is if, again, 830 00:36:29,170 --> 00:36:30,850 if the heart's not in the right place, what are we doing? 831 00:36:30,850 --> 00:36:32,090 We're just doing another ritual. 832 00:36:32,570 --> 00:36:36,050 So one of the things that, that again, you got to know me in 833 00:36:36,050 --> 00:36:36,810 the way that I think. 834 00:36:36,890 --> 00:36:37,850 I said, okay, family. 835 00:36:37,850 --> 00:36:39,930 We're going to come up with a family mission statement. 836 00:36:40,650 --> 00:36:42,170 We're going to have a family vision. 837 00:36:42,170 --> 00:36:45,490 And, and, and so of course, again, you got to Know me. 838 00:36:45,490 --> 00:36:48,410 I wrote down a whole outline paragraph and summarize it with a 839 00:36:48,410 --> 00:36:48,730 sentence. 840 00:36:48,730 --> 00:36:49,390 And so we're going to. 841 00:36:49,460 --> 00:36:51,740 One of the things that we're going to try to do in our homes is 842 00:36:51,740 --> 00:36:54,060 we're going to try to align ourselves with whatever our family 843 00:36:54,060 --> 00:36:54,540 vision is. 844 00:36:54,540 --> 00:36:57,700 I can tell you it's to honor, proclaim Jesus Christ, to be, to 845 00:36:57,700 --> 00:37:00,900 be a joy and to be an encouragement to each other, and 846 00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:02,940 then ultimately to proclaim Jesus Christ to the world. 847 00:37:02,940 --> 00:37:06,340 So I would encourage you, whether you're single, whether you're 848 00:37:06,340 --> 00:37:08,380 a married couple, where you have children in the home, you have 849 00:37:08,380 --> 00:37:11,100 grandchildren, I don't think you have to be as formal as putting 850 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:11,780 it on paper. 851 00:37:12,020 --> 00:37:15,900 But know your why behind your worship, know your why behind your 852 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:16,260 service. 853 00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:21,040 Because you know, if, if again, my children or, or my church 854 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:26,080 family sees me as only doing things because I have to do it, there's, 855 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:27,400 there's a missing link there. 856 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,840 The missing link would be, I get to do this. 857 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,000 This is a privilege to be a part of this. 858 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:35,960 I can't wait to be around the family of God. 859 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:36,200 Okay? 860 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:40,200 I can tell you that's why I, I long for Sundays, okay? 861 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:41,640 I, I wish every day was a Sunday. 862 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:42,880 There's a book, right? 863 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:43,720 Every day is a Friday. 864 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,580 I think someone wrote, I wish I should write a book. 865 00:37:47,580 --> 00:37:48,860 Every Day is a Sunday, right? 866 00:37:49,660 --> 00:37:50,940 You guys can buy it for me. 867 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:54,980 Buy it, get the market up being New York Times bestseller. 868 00:37:54,980 --> 00:37:57,420 But the idea would be this. 869 00:37:58,780 --> 00:38:03,220 We should long to be with others, but most importantly, we 870 00:38:03,220 --> 00:38:05,260 should long to be with our Savior. 871 00:38:05,580 --> 00:38:09,260 And, and so, you know, I know theologically God's always with me, 872 00:38:10,140 --> 00:38:13,100 but there are times in my life that even though I know he is with 873 00:38:13,100 --> 00:38:15,580 me, I'm not present in that relationship. 874 00:38:16,990 --> 00:38:19,710 Some of you men out there, you might know what I'm talking about. 875 00:38:19,870 --> 00:38:23,190 You can be sitting next to your wives and you could be hearing 876 00:38:23,190 --> 00:38:27,950 audible noise, but maybe, just maybe you're not retaining because 877 00:38:27,950 --> 00:38:29,630 you're distracted with something else. 878 00:38:29,790 --> 00:38:32,230 Especially if it's like Sunday at 1 o' clock and you got a game 879 00:38:32,230 --> 00:38:34,830 up and you're going, oh, yeah, I'll get that done this week. 880 00:38:36,190 --> 00:38:40,670 You know how it can be that though I'm there in a real relationship 881 00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,080 and I hear it, I know that there is presence there. 882 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:47,000 I'm not engaged. 883 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,720 It's the same relationship that we have with God. 884 00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:52,400 God is there and we can theologically know that he's there 885 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,160 and we can see the effects of him being there. 886 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,520 But if we are not engaged with him, we're not properly in Alignment 887 00:38:58,520 --> 00:38:59,800 with him with a worshipful heart. 888 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,680 So it's an intentional thing that we have to do to say, lord, 889 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:07,160 this is, this is something that I want, I want to meet you. 890 00:39:08,330 --> 00:39:11,490 I would encourage you, and I think we have biblical precedent 891 00:39:11,490 --> 00:39:14,170 by doing this in a time of prayer and worship, to find a place 892 00:39:14,410 --> 00:39:15,770 where you can meet God. 893 00:39:16,490 --> 00:39:20,730 Find a place where your distractions are gone, find a place 894 00:39:20,730 --> 00:39:24,330 where you can get alone with him and find that personal worship. 895 00:39:24,330 --> 00:39:28,290 Because just as much as a corporate worship is vital for the 896 00:39:28,290 --> 00:39:32,330 Christian's life, I would venture to say that too, it is very 897 00:39:32,570 --> 00:39:32,830 important. 898 00:39:32,980 --> 00:39:35,500 Important for us to have that personal relationship, that personal 899 00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:36,580 worship time with him. 900 00:39:37,300 --> 00:39:40,060 And so I want you to think about that, pray about that as we 901 00:39:40,060 --> 00:39:41,060 get through this summertime. 902 00:39:41,060 --> 00:39:42,980 How can I find a time to worship God? 903 00:39:42,980 --> 00:39:44,660 And it'll be strange if you don't do something. 904 00:39:44,660 --> 00:39:46,460 If you're not normally doing something. 905 00:39:46,460 --> 00:39:48,020 It's always strange when you first started. 906 00:39:48,980 --> 00:39:52,820 But the more you do it and the more normal it becomes, the more 907 00:39:52,820 --> 00:39:55,260 blessing that it will be to you if you just say, this is what 908 00:39:55,260 --> 00:39:55,700 I do. 909 00:39:55,860 --> 00:39:58,500 I, I, I, I meet God before I do anything else. 910 00:39:59,100 --> 00:40:00,500 I find Him, I find His Word. 911 00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:02,540 Because if we love him, we'll worship Him. 912 00:40:02,540 --> 00:40:04,860 And this is, you want to know the fuel for our worship? 913 00:40:04,940 --> 00:40:05,860 It's the word of God. 914 00:40:05,860 --> 00:40:08,460 The more you know this, the more you have reasons to praise Him. 915 00:40:09,900 --> 00:40:11,700 And so start with the promises. 916 00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:14,860 I would encourage you, you know, with the Internet today there, 917 00:40:14,860 --> 00:40:18,620 there are many good resources for finding the promises of God. 918 00:40:18,780 --> 00:40:22,180 Just go back to those, the things that God has promised me as 919 00:40:22,180 --> 00:40:26,300 his child, and thank him for that, worship him for that, and then 920 00:40:26,300 --> 00:40:28,180 it'll build, it'll build from there. 921 00:40:28,420 --> 00:40:31,060 And so I encourage you to think about that here as we move 922 00:40:31,060 --> 00:40:32,980 forward this summer in the Psalms. 923 00:40:34,660 --> 00:40:38,020 Well, let's go ahead and close in a word of prayer. 924 00:40:38,260 --> 00:40:40,140 And then after that, I'll have a few announcements and then we'll 925 00:40:40,140 --> 00:40:40,740 be dismissed. 926 00:40:40,740 --> 00:40:42,660 Lord, I thank you for this time that you've given us, and thank 927 00:40:42,660 --> 00:40:47,620 you for this opportunity to come together here tonight and lift 928 00:40:47,620 --> 00:40:50,420 up our request to you to fellowship one with another. 929 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,000 And we just thank you for your grace and your mercy. 930 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,840 And we have so many reasons to worship. 931 00:40:55,840 --> 00:41:00,760 Lord, help us to be worshipful in not only what we say, but what 932 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,720 we believe and by what we do and how we obey. 933 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:08,560 And I pray that we can be ultimately those that are worshiping 934 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:09,880 in spirit and in truth. 935 00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,000 And so, Lord, I just thank you for all that you do. 936 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,440 Keep us safe as we go our separate ways be with our fellowship 937 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:18,200 to follow in our birthdays and we ask all these things in Jesus 938 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:18,520 name. 939 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:19,160 Amen. 940 00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:23,800 Thank you again for listening to the Middletown Baptist Church 941 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:24,360 podcast. 942 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,000 I hope that this sermon has been a blessing for you. 943 00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,920 If you would like to find out more information about our church 944 00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,400 or this sermon, you can find us at middletownbaptistchurch.org 945 00:41:33,720 --> 00:41:36,280 or find us on Facebook or YouTube. 946 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,960 You can also email me directly at Josh Massaro Middletown BaptistChurch.com 947 00:41:42,590 --> 00:41:44,110 if you've enjoyed this podcast. 948 00:41:44,270 --> 00:41:48,750 Please subscribe and follow along for future podcast and updates. 949 00:41:49,390 --> 00:41:50,270 Thank you so much. 950 00:41:50,590 --> 00:41:51,310 God Bless. 951 00:41:51,550 --> 00:41:52,830 Have a wonderful day.