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 --> 00:00:20,160 Now come along, let's look into the Bible and see what God has 8 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:21,440 for us here today. 9 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:26,320 The reason why I wanted to focus on that is because sometimes 10 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:31,520 in our life as Christians, as believers, as the family of God, 11 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,920 we're tempted to feel as if we don't have a reason to worship. 12 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,200 Or maybe we intellectually know that we have a reason to worship, 13 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,160 but sometimes we just don't feel like worshiping. 14 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:48,120 And I wanted to for the rest of the summer until we hit our fall 15 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:48,400 time. 16 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:52,360 And when we get into our book study that's coming up next, I wanted 17 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,770 just to pick out a few psalms because I felt like, where should 18 00:00:55,770 --> 00:00:57,170 we go when we study worship? 19 00:00:57,330 --> 00:01:01,250 And the Lord kept drawing me back to the psalms. 20 00:01:01,730 --> 00:01:04,770 And I have been going through a couple psalms recently, but one 21 00:01:04,770 --> 00:01:08,490 psalm that I have been going through a lot recently is Psalm 145. 22 00:01:08,490 --> 00:01:11,810 And so we're going to start looking at Psalm 145. 23 00:01:11,810 --> 00:01:15,090 But as you're turning to Psalm 145 and you can. 24 00:01:15,090 --> 00:01:16,730 You have a Bible that has a bookmark. 25 00:01:16,730 --> 00:01:17,970 You can make a bookmark there. 26 00:01:18,370 --> 00:01:21,130 I want us to go to another passage in the New Testament that 27 00:01:21,130 --> 00:01:23,760 speaks to worship, because sometimes we. 28 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,680 We lose sight of why we worship. 29 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:31,880 We lose sight of how we should worship, and really, we lose sight 30 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:33,400 of the focus in our worship. 31 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:39,160 And, and so many times I, I've even heard people saying this in, 32 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,800 in a good context, trying to be beneficial. 33 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,000 Hey, any type of worship is good worship, but that's not what 34 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:45,720 the Bible says. 35 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,320 The Bible says that there is a proper way to worship the Lord. 36 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,120 There's a proper method to worshiping God. 37 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:56,840 And I was thinking about, you know, where would we go when we talk 38 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:57,480 about worship? 39 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,920 Well, I think that we should look at profiles in Scripture of 40 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:04,000 individuals who were known for their worship. 41 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,920 And if you could think of anybody who was a worshipful individual, 42 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:09,200 you could think of a lot of people. 43 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,680 But I went to the person that the Bible says is a man after God's 44 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:14,760 own heart, and that's David. 45 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:16,080 Now, was David perfect? 46 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:16,880 Certainly not. 47 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,780 We know that, but we also do know that David was a man of worship. 48 00:02:21,260 --> 00:02:24,220 The Bible indicates that David was a man of worship. 49 00:02:24,220 --> 00:02:28,020 But in the New Testament, in John chapter four, some of you know 50 00:02:28,020 --> 00:02:33,819 the story of Jesus ministering to the woman at the well, the Samaritan 51 00:02:33,819 --> 00:02:34,140 woman. 52 00:02:34,540 --> 00:02:37,220 And just to give you some context, he's talking to her about 53 00:02:37,220 --> 00:02:38,020 the living water. 54 00:02:38,020 --> 00:02:40,780 And she's basically saying, well, you know what? 55 00:02:40,780 --> 00:02:41,860 You guys don't worship, right? 56 00:02:41,860 --> 00:02:43,900 And Jesus is talking to her about worship. 57 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:46,680 And they get to verse number 23. 58 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,280 Well, actually in verse number 22, he says, you, you, you don't 59 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,000 know what you're worshiping is basically what he says. 60 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,960 He says, you worship, you know, not what we know. 61 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,800 What we worship for salvation is of the Jews. 62 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,120 And Jesus says, you know, we, we know we're worshiping. 63 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,040 There's a lot of people in this world that don't even know what 64 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:04,640 they're worshiping. 65 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:06,120 They don't even know what this is all about. 66 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:10,440 They're just in religion or, or they're just in some kind of tradition 67 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,640 or, or they're in some kind of routine and they feel like this is 68 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:14,400 going to be enough. 69 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,800 But then Jesus says in verse 23, but the hour cometh, and now 70 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,240 is when the true worshipers. 71 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:23,840 And I don't know about you, but I want to be categorized by, 72 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:25,760 by being a true worshiper. 73 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:28,880 And it says, the true worshipers shall worship the Father 74 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,440 in spirit and in truth. 75 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,560 And, and there's some individuals that we, we see in this 76 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,610 world today that definitely are willing to worship God in spirit, 77 00:03:38,610 --> 00:03:40,690 but maybe not in truth, right? 78 00:03:40,690 --> 00:03:43,210 It's just all about emotions, it's all about feelings, but maybe 79 00:03:43,210 --> 00:03:44,250 it's not grounded in truth. 80 00:03:44,250 --> 00:03:46,810 And then there are some people that say, you know, I'm all about 81 00:03:46,810 --> 00:03:50,370 truth, but God's power doesn't stir me at all. 82 00:03:50,770 --> 00:03:53,650 And what we're seeing here is that the perfect way, the biblical 83 00:03:53,650 --> 00:03:58,770 way to worship God is number one, based in the truth, but manifested 84 00:03:58,770 --> 00:04:01,810 through how God is working in our life with joy, with excitement, 85 00:04:02,500 --> 00:04:06,820 says, worship the Spirit in truth, and for the Father seeketh 86 00:04:06,820 --> 00:04:07,940 such to worship him. 87 00:04:08,020 --> 00:04:12,940 God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit 88 00:04:12,940 --> 00:04:13,940 and in truth. 89 00:04:15,220 --> 00:04:17,980 So the Bible calls us to worship a certain way, to worship 90 00:04:17,980 --> 00:04:19,060 in spirit and in truth. 91 00:04:19,460 --> 00:04:22,660 A lot of the New Testament speaks of true worship being based 92 00:04:22,740 --> 00:04:24,820 in love, right? 93 00:04:24,980 --> 00:04:28,740 We know that if we are to worship God, we are to love him. 94 00:04:29,110 --> 00:04:31,350 And Jesus says, if you are my disciples. 95 00:04:31,750 --> 00:04:35,910 John chapter 8, verse 31, he says, if you want to be my disciples, 96 00:04:36,310 --> 00:04:37,830 continue in my word. 97 00:04:38,390 --> 00:04:41,790 Other passages of scripture, like John 14, 15 and many others. 98 00:04:41,790 --> 00:04:45,710 Jesus says, if you love me, you will obey me, you will keep my 99 00:04:45,710 --> 00:04:46,310 commandments. 100 00:04:47,030 --> 00:04:51,590 And so tied together with worship is always going to be not 101 00:04:51,590 --> 00:04:55,060 just an outward action, but an inward action, meaning this. 102 00:04:55,210 --> 00:04:58,450 This we're thinking, we're believing, we're trusting in a truth 103 00:04:58,450 --> 00:05:01,210 that is going to manifest itself in what we would call worship. 104 00:05:01,930 --> 00:05:03,690 So we can worship God a lot of different ways. 105 00:05:03,690 --> 00:05:07,010 Even the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 10:31, whether, therefore, 106 00:05:07,010 --> 00:05:09,770 you eat or drink or whatsoever you do, do, all to the glory of God, 107 00:05:09,770 --> 00:05:13,770 meaning we can worship God outside of the worship service. 108 00:05:15,290 --> 00:05:17,490 Certainly singing is an act of worship. 109 00:05:17,490 --> 00:05:18,930 We know that through the book of Colossians. 110 00:05:18,930 --> 00:05:21,970 Colossians 3:16 says that we lift up our praises to. 111 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:22,520 To God. 112 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,280 And so that's one amazing way to worship God. 113 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:28,000 It's one of the major things that we see, obviously, in the book 114 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,320 of Psalms, is the idea of praising God through song. 115 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,160 But we know that we can praise God in. 116 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:34,560 In all places we. 117 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,120 We know that we praise God and honor God and worship God through 118 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,480 the way that we obey him, through the way that we serve him, 119 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:41,880 by the way that we reject the things of this world. 120 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,040 And so I wanted you to think about that in context when we come 121 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,400 to these Psalms, because I want you to understand what we're 122 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:47,800 talking about. 123 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:52,720 We're not just talking about outward displays that we have within 124 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,000 the church, even though those are completely fine. 125 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,520 And we actually embrace people worshiping within the church. 126 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:03,120 But we all know maybe you've even been guilty of this at some 127 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,280 point of worshiping externally, but inside of our hearts 128 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:07,640 not being where we need to be. 129 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:13,000 It's similar to when our children obey us, maybe on the exterior, 130 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,240 but on the inside they're in rebellion. 131 00:06:15,740 --> 00:06:17,100 And that's not true obedience. 132 00:06:17,500 --> 00:06:19,940 True obedience will be completely obeying with the heart 133 00:06:19,940 --> 00:06:21,020 and with the action. 134 00:06:21,580 --> 00:06:23,020 It's the same thing with worship. 135 00:06:23,180 --> 00:06:25,740 Worshiping God with a worshipful heart with worshipful 136 00:06:25,740 --> 00:06:26,380 actions. 137 00:06:27,260 --> 00:06:33,140 Today in our society, people see worship as a fabricated or at 138 00:06:33,140 --> 00:06:38,500 least some sort of production like music, lights, activity, and 139 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:41,300 certainly at some degree that can be worshiped. 140 00:06:41,300 --> 00:06:44,110 But what I want you to see here this evening is that worship 141 00:06:44,110 --> 00:06:48,030 is not just in a box that we define in our culture today. 142 00:06:48,030 --> 00:06:51,870 Worship is a worship of worship of heart, worship of action, 143 00:06:51,870 --> 00:06:54,150 worship of thought, worship of obedience. 144 00:06:54,150 --> 00:06:57,470 And so we come to Psalm 145, and we're going to go through as 145 00:06:57,470 --> 00:06:58,870 much as we can here this evening. 146 00:06:59,030 --> 00:07:02,510 I don't anticipate finishing the whole psalm tonight, but I would 147 00:07:02,510 --> 00:07:02,990 like to do is. 148 00:07:02,990 --> 00:07:06,150 I'd like to just go through this and call this a profile of worship 149 00:07:06,390 --> 00:07:10,840 and look at the heart of the man who was A man after God's own 150 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:14,160 heart and see what it was like for him to worship and see how we 151 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:17,920 as believers could come alongside like David and worship 152 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,120 God with all our heart. 153 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:24,400 The Bible says in Romans chapter 12 that we present our bodies, 154 00:07:24,959 --> 00:07:28,200 a living sacrifice wholly acceptable unto God, which is our 155 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:29,040 reasonable service. 156 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:31,960 And so God wants us. 157 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:32,960 He wants all of us. 158 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,400 He doesn't just want our Sunday mornings, He doesn't just 159 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:39,320 want our song time, he doesn't just want a Wednesday night here 160 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:39,640 and there. 161 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:40,800 He wants our lives. 162 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,120 And so we're going to look at what David has to say here, and he 163 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:48,400 has so many reasons to praise God and think about how much of a 164 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:50,920 contradiction it really is, is that if a Christian says, well, God 165 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,600 is good, but I really don't have a reason to praise him today. 166 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,280 God has been super faithful to me, but I, I can't worship him today. 167 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,560 Do you see the contradiction in what we're saying and how we're 168 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:02,000 acting? 169 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,440 Because if we say that God is good, we have a reason to praise. 170 00:08:06,810 --> 00:08:10,650 Even if our lives are going in a very difficult direction. 171 00:08:10,890 --> 00:08:15,130 If we are believers, we can always go back to God has saved us 172 00:08:15,130 --> 00:08:15,770 from our sins. 173 00:08:15,850 --> 00:08:17,810 He's extended everlasting life to us. 174 00:08:17,810 --> 00:08:19,850 And I have a reason to worship today. 175 00:08:20,090 --> 00:08:22,410 And so let's look at David's reasons for worship. 176 00:08:22,410 --> 00:08:26,810 And really, Psalm 145 specifically deals with God's greatness, 177 00:08:27,370 --> 00:08:29,610 his majesty, his power. 178 00:08:30,410 --> 00:08:35,180 And in verse number one, he says in Psalm 145, I will extol thee. 179 00:08:35,820 --> 00:08:38,660 Now, I had to double check what that word extol means because 180 00:08:38,660 --> 00:08:41,260 it's not a word that we use frequently in our language. 181 00:08:41,340 --> 00:08:47,980 But extol means to lift up, to, to be excited in our praise, 182 00:08:48,380 --> 00:08:49,500 fervently praise. 183 00:08:49,980 --> 00:08:51,820 It's not just saying, hey, you know what? 184 00:08:51,820 --> 00:08:53,220 I'm going to praise him when I can. 185 00:08:53,220 --> 00:08:56,700 No, it means I'm going to lift God up as high as I possibly can. 186 00:08:57,020 --> 00:08:59,340 He says, I will extol thee. 187 00:08:59,820 --> 00:09:00,380 It means this. 188 00:09:00,380 --> 00:09:03,980 He's going to exalt God and honor him and promote the name of 189 00:09:03,980 --> 00:09:06,460 God in every way that he possibly can. 190 00:09:07,660 --> 00:09:08,780 To the glory of God. 191 00:09:09,260 --> 00:09:11,620 Everything good in my life is to the glory of God. 192 00:09:11,620 --> 00:09:15,020 Every good thing that I have ever had in my life is to the glory 193 00:09:15,020 --> 00:09:15,739 of God. 194 00:09:16,060 --> 00:09:19,500 Every success that I have, every accomplishment that I have, 195 00:09:19,820 --> 00:09:22,820 every good thing that people notice about me is to the glory of 196 00:09:22,820 --> 00:09:23,060 God. 197 00:09:23,060 --> 00:09:23,340 Why? 198 00:09:23,420 --> 00:09:24,700 It's because he's given it to me. 199 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:27,710 The Bible says in the book of James that every good gift comes 200 00:09:27,710 --> 00:09:28,270 from God. 201 00:09:28,350 --> 00:09:31,230 That's James 1:17, that every good gift comes from God. 202 00:09:31,390 --> 00:09:36,950 And so in my life, if I take credit for anything, I am misappropriating 203 00:09:36,950 --> 00:09:38,390 where that worship needs to go. 204 00:09:38,390 --> 00:09:40,030 I misappropriating praise. 205 00:09:40,590 --> 00:09:44,230 If someone comes and praises me for my talent, say, well, praise 206 00:09:44,230 --> 00:09:44,670 God. 207 00:09:44,830 --> 00:09:47,150 It's only by God's grace that I'm able to do this. 208 00:09:47,470 --> 00:09:49,590 It's only by God's grace that I can have this business. 209 00:09:49,590 --> 00:09:52,070 It's only by God's grace that I'm able to have this talent. 210 00:09:52,070 --> 00:09:54,770 It's only by God's grace that I was able to teach this person. 211 00:09:54,850 --> 00:09:59,010 The Bible clearly teaches that everything, everything in our mouths, 212 00:09:59,010 --> 00:10:01,890 everything in our lives, everything must be lifting up Christ 213 00:10:02,050 --> 00:10:03,690 and lifting up the Lord in every way. 214 00:10:03,690 --> 00:10:06,090 So he says, here, I will extol thee, my God. 215 00:10:06,090 --> 00:10:09,170 It speaks here to his personal relationship with God. 216 00:10:09,810 --> 00:10:13,130 True worship will never come unless we understand that we have 217 00:10:13,130 --> 00:10:15,210 a personal relationship with God. 218 00:10:15,210 --> 00:10:18,700 He doesn't say our God or their God because the God of Israel, 219 00:10:18,700 --> 00:10:22,380 David, recognizes here that he is his God, my God. 220 00:10:23,100 --> 00:10:25,540 And I think it's important for us to understand as Christians that 221 00:10:25,540 --> 00:10:29,340 we have a personal relationship with God, an intimate 222 00:10:29,340 --> 00:10:30,780 relationship with God. 223 00:10:31,260 --> 00:10:34,900 And if we don't recognize that personal relationship with God, everything 224 00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:37,900 that we do will be what we would see is somewhat superficial 225 00:10:37,900 --> 00:10:40,700 because we think of God as someone else's God. 226 00:10:41,180 --> 00:10:44,460 I remember sitting in a Christian environment and hearing 227 00:10:44,460 --> 00:10:45,900 testimonies like we heard tonight. 228 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:50,200 And just by way of honesty, I would hear other people getting excited 229 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,000 about God and I would have a hard time doing it. 230 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:53,920 I would say, well, how can they say that? 231 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:55,480 Or how can they have that much joy? 232 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:56,080 I don't understand. 233 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:57,520 It doesn't make sense to me. 234 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,360 And you know, what was missing from my life, what was missing from 235 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:02,560 my life was that personal walk with God. 236 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:06,880 And I think if we're tempted in our lives to drift away from seeing 237 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:10,240 that personal walk with God, we'll miss the reason to praise Him. 238 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,440 We can, we can talk over and over and over again about the love 239 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,960 and the personality of God when it comes to our. 240 00:11:17,110 --> 00:11:17,430 Our lives. 241 00:11:17,430 --> 00:11:20,030 And I'm going to say to you, one of the best passages of scripture 242 00:11:20,030 --> 00:11:23,030 that I've ever read that gives me comfort and peace is Hebrews, 243 00:11:23,030 --> 00:11:26,950 chapter four, when he says that we can come boldly with confidence 244 00:11:26,950 --> 00:11:28,310 before the throne of grace. 245 00:11:28,950 --> 00:11:30,230 It's an exciting thing. 246 00:11:30,470 --> 00:11:33,149 It's an exciting thing to know that God doesn't have to have us 247 00:11:33,149 --> 00:11:37,110 jump through hoops and, and do all these outstanding, extraordinary 248 00:11:37,110 --> 00:11:37,350 things. 249 00:11:37,350 --> 00:11:40,870 No, we can come to him as children in obedience, and he will 250 00:11:40,870 --> 00:11:41,430 answer us. 251 00:11:41,430 --> 00:11:43,670 He will help us and meet us in time of need. 252 00:11:43,670 --> 00:11:47,910 So he says, I will praise you or I will extol thee, my God personally. 253 00:11:48,230 --> 00:11:49,750 This is a personal address. 254 00:11:50,470 --> 00:11:51,750 But then he goes a little bit further. 255 00:11:51,750 --> 00:11:55,990 He says, oh, King, now you got to remember who is writing this. 256 00:11:56,950 --> 00:11:57,750 David King. 257 00:11:57,750 --> 00:11:58,230 David. 258 00:11:58,870 --> 00:11:59,270 Right. 259 00:11:59,750 --> 00:12:02,710 The temptation would be for David is that I answer to no man. 260 00:12:02,950 --> 00:12:04,070 No one else is the king. 261 00:12:04,070 --> 00:12:04,870 I am the king. 262 00:12:05,190 --> 00:12:08,350 But we see even a man that holds great authority here on this 263 00:12:08,350 --> 00:12:11,430 earth has an opportunity to say, you know what? 264 00:12:11,430 --> 00:12:12,670 No, I am not the top. 265 00:12:12,670 --> 00:12:13,390 God is the top. 266 00:12:13,390 --> 00:12:14,270 He is my king. 267 00:12:14,510 --> 00:12:15,350 He is my Lord. 268 00:12:15,350 --> 00:12:16,430 He is my master. 269 00:12:16,590 --> 00:12:21,070 And so here we see in worship a surrendered heart, a completely 270 00:12:21,070 --> 00:12:23,550 surrendered heart to the guidance and the will of God. 271 00:12:23,630 --> 00:12:25,110 Now, again, was David perfect? 272 00:12:25,110 --> 00:12:25,470 No. 273 00:12:25,790 --> 00:12:27,070 None of us will be perfect. 274 00:12:27,070 --> 00:12:29,590 But what we must do in our worship is say, you know what? 275 00:12:29,590 --> 00:12:32,390 If I'm going to worship you, Lord, I'm going to first recognize 276 00:12:32,390 --> 00:12:34,430 that I have that personal relationship with you. 277 00:12:34,590 --> 00:12:38,240 But secondarily, I. I am going to come to you and submit to you 278 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:42,520 and allow you to guide my life and be my king, to give me the marching 279 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:43,080 orders. 280 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:44,560 So many times we. 281 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:46,320 We create our own marching orders. 282 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:50,000 We try to move forward with our plans, and then we expect God 283 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,360 to bless it, or maybe even sometimes demand God to bless what 284 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:53,880 we're doing. 285 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:55,800 All right, God, I'm going to do this. 286 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:57,720 This is the path that I think I'm going to take. 287 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,880 And hopefully you'll bless me because I'm your child. 288 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:03,400 But the truth of the matter is, is that before we make any move, 289 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,760 we must go to him and see if God wants this for our life. 290 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:08,920 If he does, he give us peace. 291 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,360 And oftentimes, if we go to him and we're patient, we're going 292 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,200 to see that God has different plans than we have. 293 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,760 And so I'm going to say here this evening that, number one, we 294 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:18,640 need to praise God. 295 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:21,520 We need to praise him because of that personal relationship with 296 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:21,680 him. 297 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:23,640 We need to praise him because he is our guide. 298 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:28,040 And then he says here, and I will bless thy name forever and ever. 299 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:30,120 So what this means is this. 300 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:31,360 This is not a one time thing. 301 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,660 Worship is not just one time a year when we have our annual revival. 302 00:13:35,660 --> 00:13:37,860 Even though we want to have revival in our church. 303 00:13:37,860 --> 00:13:40,780 Revival is not an event that a church puts on. 304 00:13:40,780 --> 00:13:43,260 Revival is something that happens in the heart and something 305 00:13:43,260 --> 00:13:47,420 that needs to happen over and over and over again in our lives. 306 00:13:48,140 --> 00:13:50,700 What do we see here at the end of verse one, he says, I will do 307 00:13:50,700 --> 00:13:50,980 this. 308 00:13:50,980 --> 00:13:53,180 I will bless thy name forever and ever. 309 00:13:53,580 --> 00:13:56,500 Sometimes we're tempted to look at a period in our life that 310 00:13:56,500 --> 00:14:00,140 was a high point for our spirituality, a high point for our 311 00:14:00,140 --> 00:14:02,880 relationship with God, and look at that as the time that we 312 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:04,280 just keep looking back to as well. 313 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:06,880 I'm not as close as I was back then, and I don't know if I ever 314 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:07,560 will be that close. 315 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:07,760 No. 316 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:11,000 The Bible says that we have to constantly come back in repentance. 317 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,000 We have to constantly come back in humility. 318 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,080 We have to constantly come back and say, lord, I'm going to 319 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,240 bless you over and over and over again. 320 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,360 And so David recognizes that God is his king. 321 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:26,360 David recognizes that God is a personal savior to him and he recognizes 322 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,100 the need for consistent praise upon his lips. 323 00:14:30,900 --> 00:14:32,420 And I think that's important to note. 324 00:14:32,500 --> 00:14:35,140 And, and he goes on to say in verse number two, he says, every 325 00:14:35,220 --> 00:14:36,900 day will I bless thee. 326 00:14:37,780 --> 00:14:41,620 I think a point to note here would be our worship must be a daily 327 00:14:41,620 --> 00:14:41,940 thing. 328 00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:45,340 We should not save our worship for Sunday mornings. 329 00:14:45,340 --> 00:14:46,660 That's corporate worship. 330 00:14:46,980 --> 00:14:51,740 And so many times I think that we, we liken corporate worship to 331 00:14:51,740 --> 00:14:53,660 the worship that we're supposed to have in our life every 332 00:14:53,660 --> 00:14:56,730 single day were to live a life of worship. 333 00:14:57,210 --> 00:14:59,410 Sunday morning is just when we come together and do it together 334 00:14:59,410 --> 00:15:00,090 as a family. 335 00:15:00,650 --> 00:15:06,010 But Monday morning, Friday night, Wednesday afternoon, we are 336 00:15:06,010 --> 00:15:08,250 called to worship God in every aspect of our life. 337 00:15:08,570 --> 00:15:11,370 So we don't save worship for, you know, once a week. 338 00:15:11,370 --> 00:15:14,250 We're worshiping God every day, since every day will I bless 339 00:15:14,250 --> 00:15:17,050 thee and I will praise thy name forever and ever. 340 00:15:17,210 --> 00:15:20,050 A lot of times with Hebrew literature there is repetition and 341 00:15:20,050 --> 00:15:20,850 that's what David's doing. 342 00:15:20,850 --> 00:15:21,770 He's repeating things. 343 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:26,240 They show emphasis of the consistency of a life of worship. 344 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:28,720 And so he says, I'm going to bless God daily. 345 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,080 I'm going to lift him up daily. 346 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:36,640 Verse 3, he says, Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. 347 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,080 He speaks of God's greatness and this idea of greatness. 348 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,440 He says it's the unsearchable greatness. 349 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:43,040 God is bigger than us. 350 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,640 There are going to be things that God does in our life that we 351 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:47,360 cannot understand. 352 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:47,840 Why? 353 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:48,960 Because he's bigger than us. 354 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:53,000 There's going to be elements of God in his nature that we will 355 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:53,920 not be able to understand. 356 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:54,320 Why? 357 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:55,440 Because he's bigger than us. 358 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:57,360 Say, I don't understand what you mean by that. 359 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,920 Well, let's talk about the Trinity right now. 360 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:00,440 Okay. 361 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:02,840 How many of you can formulate how the Trinity works. 362 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:03,440 None of us can. 363 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:03,640 Why? 364 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:04,720 Because it's bigger than us. 365 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:06,000 He's greater than us. 366 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,480 His thoughts are above our thoughts. 367 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:08,840 His ways are above our ways. 368 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,200 That doesn't mean that we give up and say, lord, I can't understand 369 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:11,480 you. 370 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:12,240 So I walk away. 371 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,880 No, we say, lord, I trust in what you say. 372 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:17,090 I understand what I can and, and everything else. 373 00:16:17,090 --> 00:16:19,610 I trust in faith that you are who you say you are. 374 00:16:20,250 --> 00:16:21,290 That's what David's saying there. 375 00:16:21,290 --> 00:16:22,410 He's God, you are great. 376 00:16:23,450 --> 00:16:24,970 All the more reason to praise. 377 00:16:25,690 --> 00:16:27,930 We have to praise God for his infinite nature. 378 00:16:28,730 --> 00:16:30,410 Praise God for his eternality. 379 00:16:30,410 --> 00:16:34,170 Praise God for his all powerful nature, his all knowing 380 00:16:34,170 --> 00:16:34,570 nature. 381 00:16:34,970 --> 00:16:36,890 There's so many reasons to praise God. 382 00:16:36,890 --> 00:16:38,490 And he says it's because of your greatness. 383 00:16:38,490 --> 00:16:41,130 And he says, and his greatness is unsearchable. 384 00:16:42,340 --> 00:16:46,660 It's okay to recognize that God is beyond us, that he's bigger 385 00:16:46,660 --> 00:16:47,060 than us. 386 00:16:47,700 --> 00:16:52,860 We could sit here for hours every single day and we still would 387 00:16:52,860 --> 00:16:55,300 not be able to mine the depths of God's greatness. 388 00:16:55,380 --> 00:16:57,380 We would never be able to catch everything. 389 00:16:58,180 --> 00:17:00,780 And so that's the beauty of being in a relationship with God, 390 00:17:00,780 --> 00:17:02,460 is that every day is a new day. 391 00:17:02,460 --> 00:17:05,940 Every day is new blessings, every day is new mercies. 392 00:17:06,660 --> 00:17:10,300 And so he says, this is what it means to understand the greatness 393 00:17:10,300 --> 00:17:10,820 of God. 394 00:17:10,820 --> 00:17:15,339 David is just gonna pile praise upon go declaring his greatness, 395 00:17:15,339 --> 00:17:16,499 declaring his power. 396 00:17:16,739 --> 00:17:18,339 He says, you are worthy. 397 00:17:18,339 --> 00:17:19,859 That's really what worship's all about. 398 00:17:20,259 --> 00:17:24,619 Worth ship, meaning this God has worth, ultimate worth and giving 399 00:17:24,619 --> 00:17:25,139 him praise. 400 00:17:25,139 --> 00:17:26,819 No one else deserves our worship. 401 00:17:27,459 --> 00:17:29,859 And really we get the understanding that David. 402 00:17:30,179 --> 00:17:34,139 Not only did David say that we should praise him, but that he would 403 00:17:34,139 --> 00:17:35,339 almost be dishonorable. 404 00:17:35,339 --> 00:17:39,939 To withhold praise from God, like to give God half hearted praise 405 00:17:39,939 --> 00:17:40,819 would be wrong, right? 406 00:17:41,030 --> 00:17:42,550 Oh, I'm going to check my box today. 407 00:17:42,550 --> 00:17:43,150 I'm going to check. 408 00:17:43,150 --> 00:17:44,390 I'm going to do my devotions. 409 00:17:45,350 --> 00:17:47,070 By the way, there's nothing wrong with doing devotions. 410 00:17:47,070 --> 00:17:48,630 Actually you should do devotions. 411 00:17:48,950 --> 00:17:51,870 But so often we can check boxes and just say, well, I read 412 00:17:51,870 --> 00:17:55,710 my paragraph today, I prayed my prayer and now I just go back 413 00:17:55,710 --> 00:17:57,309 to living the life that I want to live. 414 00:17:57,309 --> 00:18:00,870 No, our lifestyle should be a lifestyle of worship. 415 00:18:01,830 --> 00:18:03,990 You know, I used to think, well, you know, I went to Sunday 416 00:18:04,230 --> 00:18:07,480 church, I'm good now, I can just relax. 417 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:09,320 But that's not what the Bible says. 418 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,280 The Bible says that our whole life should be reaching and trying 419 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,440 to understand God in a more personal way and worship him through 420 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:15,720 that. 421 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,120 Then we get to Verse four, which I find is so interesting. 422 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:25,080 David basically gives the call to not only worship God, but then 423 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:27,440 show other people what it means to worship God and to know 424 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:27,720 Him. 425 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,320 He says in verse 4, One generation shall praise thy works. 426 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:32,850 12 Another. 427 00:18:34,770 --> 00:18:38,370 I think this is often one of the things that we forget about. 428 00:18:38,370 --> 00:18:41,650 We, we might worship God on Sunday morning, but are we willing 429 00:18:41,650 --> 00:18:46,130 to explain and demonstrate to the next generation what it means 430 00:18:46,690 --> 00:18:50,690 to love God and to worship God and to praise him and give him thanks? 431 00:18:50,690 --> 00:18:52,290 That's why testimony time is so important. 432 00:18:53,170 --> 00:18:57,450 People are, the children need to hear that God is working in the 433 00:18:57,450 --> 00:19:01,940 lives of, of their parents and the lives of their friends and the 434 00:19:01,940 --> 00:19:03,180 life of their church members. 435 00:19:03,580 --> 00:19:06,660 I, I love the church that I was growing up in, but there was 436 00:19:06,660 --> 00:19:10,020 a lot of like, you know, I don't even know if that person loves 437 00:19:10,020 --> 00:19:10,260 God. 438 00:19:10,260 --> 00:19:13,180 I mean, they're sitting in their pew, they go home, folks, the 439 00:19:13,180 --> 00:19:17,620 children and the teenagers and the young adults are looking at the 440 00:19:17,620 --> 00:19:20,700 next generation saying, is it going to be worth it for me to worship? 441 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:24,180 If all these people are miserable and at each other's throats 442 00:19:24,180 --> 00:19:27,740 and angry all the time and not thankful for God, why would I want 443 00:19:27,740 --> 00:19:28,340 what they have? 444 00:19:28,340 --> 00:19:30,920 I'm going to go search for that kind of stu somewhere else. 445 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:34,720 And we see people leaving churches because there, there, there 446 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,760 isn't this opportunity for people to see that God is still at 447 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:38,040 work. 448 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:42,200 He says one generation shall praise thy works to another and shall 449 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:43,640 declare thy mighty acts. 450 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:47,520 We should never hold back from sharing with everybody, young or 451 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:48,920 old, what God is doing. 452 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:51,400 God is still a God of salvation. 453 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:53,160 God is still a God of miracles. 454 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,920 We want our children to know that this isn't just a fairy tale. 455 00:19:57,360 --> 00:20:00,120 This isn't just a story that we tell them so that they are good 456 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:00,560 kids. 457 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,200 We're telling them this because it's real to us. 458 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,760 The question would be, is that is the church in America today, is 459 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,720 the modern church really believe that God is the God of the 460 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:10,080 Bible? 461 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,079 If we believe that God is the God of the Bible, we believe he can 462 00:20:13,079 --> 00:20:13,920 still do miracles. 463 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,760 And I was really challenged by this recently because I was tempted 464 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:22,720 to say, you know what, I don't know if this is actually could happen. 465 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:27,600 And it was a situation that looked beyond the, what we would 466 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,920 call the likelihood of something happening with a person, 467 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:33,040 like they're too far gone, they're too much into sin. 468 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,080 But then I was really challenged by the fact that, you 469 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:38,720 know what the same God that we said this morning, part of the Red 470 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,520 Sea, the same God that did all these miraculous Things. 471 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,600 Is the same God working in this world today? 472 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,160 Who are we to say that that person's too far gone? 473 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,880 Who are we to say that that person can't be healed? 474 00:20:49,850 --> 00:20:53,650 We so often lack in faith because we look at the world and 475 00:20:53,650 --> 00:20:55,930 we look at the Lord from our human perspective. 476 00:20:56,090 --> 00:20:59,210 But what we see is that we're worshiping the God of the universe. 477 00:20:59,530 --> 00:21:01,130 We're worshiping the Creator. 478 00:21:01,210 --> 00:21:03,570 We're worshiping the One who is eternal. 479 00:21:03,570 --> 00:21:04,650 He had no beginning. 480 00:21:04,650 --> 00:21:05,770 He has no end. 481 00:21:06,170 --> 00:21:09,290 And so what he says here is, he says, proclaim that to the next 482 00:21:09,290 --> 00:21:09,930 generation. 483 00:21:10,570 --> 00:21:12,730 We need to be authentically proclaiming it. 484 00:21:13,450 --> 00:21:16,540 If I tell my kids, you know, you need to be good, because God's 485 00:21:16,540 --> 00:21:17,860 going to strike you down if you're not good. 486 00:21:17,860 --> 00:21:20,660 That's not a good thing for me to teach them because that's not 487 00:21:20,660 --> 00:21:20,860 what. 488 00:21:20,860 --> 00:21:21,820 That's not how God acts. 489 00:21:21,820 --> 00:21:24,900 I'm teaching them a God that I have created to try to put them in 490 00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:25,700 a place of fear. 491 00:21:25,700 --> 00:21:28,620 But if I show my children that God is real to me, that. 492 00:21:28,620 --> 00:21:31,660 That we're going to pray to him, we're going to worship him, 493 00:21:31,979 --> 00:21:33,740 we're going to sacrifice for Him. 494 00:21:35,420 --> 00:21:39,180 Our young people see when there's real authenticity. 495 00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:42,180 They see if someone's real about what they say. 496 00:21:42,180 --> 00:21:42,780 You know what? 497 00:21:43,490 --> 00:21:47,370 I think it's harder to trick a teenager with someone who's a hypocrite 498 00:21:47,370 --> 00:21:48,050 than an adult. 499 00:21:48,050 --> 00:21:50,170 I think sometimes you can trick adults more than you can trick 500 00:21:50,170 --> 00:21:50,410 teens. 501 00:21:50,410 --> 00:21:53,730 They can see right through it sometimes, and young people see right 502 00:21:53,730 --> 00:21:56,850 through authenticity or disingenuous people. 503 00:21:57,090 --> 00:21:59,970 So what I see here, what David is saying, he says the worship is, 504 00:21:59,970 --> 00:22:03,210 yes, ultimately, God is the center of our worship. 505 00:22:03,210 --> 00:22:07,090 And by the way, our world today has removed God as the center 506 00:22:07,090 --> 00:22:09,330 of worship and put themselves in the center of worship. 507 00:22:10,070 --> 00:22:15,670 Okay, I'm going to speak to an aspect of modern worship that I just 508 00:22:15,670 --> 00:22:16,790 need to caution you on. 509 00:22:17,110 --> 00:22:17,830 Okay? 510 00:22:17,990 --> 00:22:23,230 If modern worship, specifically music, is focused on 511 00:22:23,230 --> 00:22:26,070 the person who is singing the song, it's not worship. 512 00:22:26,710 --> 00:22:27,270 Okay? 513 00:22:27,270 --> 00:22:29,790 There's certainly some songs that talk about how God's worked 514 00:22:29,790 --> 00:22:30,270 in my life. 515 00:22:30,270 --> 00:22:33,150 There's songs about, hey, you know, there's a lot of songs that 516 00:22:33,150 --> 00:22:35,910 talk about just, hey, my actions in my life. 517 00:22:35,910 --> 00:22:38,800 And how maybe this is a beautiful picture. 518 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:42,480 But if a song is not praising God, it is not worship. 519 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:46,160 Because in, by definition, if a song is not worshiping God, it's 520 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:47,200 not a worship song. 521 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,240 And what's happened is, is that we've taken a section of songs, 522 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:55,000 whether they be modern or contemporary or whatever, and we 523 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,680 Put the focus of the song on the person who is singing, and it's 524 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:58,560 no longer worship. 525 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:00,560 It's actually worshiping self and not God. 526 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:02,400 We look at churches today. 527 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:03,840 If the focus is. 528 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:04,480 I. I just. 529 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,240 I don't know if you guys saw this, but there was like, a. 530 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,240 A pastor who, again, I don't know what he was about to preach, 531 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:13,040 but he came in, like, on a zip line and, like, it was like this 532 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:13,640 whole ordeal. 533 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,040 There was like fireworks coming in. 534 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:16,280 He came in in a smoke machine. 535 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:22,040 He came in, like, if the focus of the service is a person, if the 536 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,720 person is the star of the show, it's no longer worship anymore. 537 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:25,560 What is worship? 538 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:26,480 It's man worship. 539 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:27,680 It's idol worship. 540 00:23:28,330 --> 00:23:32,130 So I want to tell you here this evening is that Jesus must be 541 00:23:32,130 --> 00:23:33,050 the centerpiece. 542 00:23:33,450 --> 00:23:36,650 Jesus must be the main focus in our worship. 543 00:23:36,810 --> 00:23:39,130 And that's what, that's what the psalmist is saying. 544 00:23:39,610 --> 00:23:44,970 The next generation must see Jesus being the focus. 545 00:23:45,690 --> 00:23:46,890 Not, not, not a. 546 00:23:46,970 --> 00:23:53,770 A program, not, not, not a person outside of Jesus, not a list 547 00:23:53,770 --> 00:23:57,100 of rules, but the focus must be Jesus. 548 00:23:57,100 --> 00:24:00,820 And if we worship Jesus that way, it's not to say that everyone 549 00:24:00,820 --> 00:24:03,180 will stay in the church, that everyone will get saved. 550 00:24:03,180 --> 00:24:07,860 But biblical principles mean this, that there's a lot more likelihood 551 00:24:07,860 --> 00:24:11,540 for a person to come to Christ when the generation above them teaches 552 00:24:11,540 --> 00:24:12,140 them the truth. 553 00:24:12,140 --> 00:24:14,900 We see this in Second Timothy, chapter two, verse two. 554 00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:19,980 Paul tells Timothy, what I've taught you, teach others so that 555 00:24:19,980 --> 00:24:22,140 they will teach others, so that they will teach others. 556 00:24:22,140 --> 00:24:23,860 And so that line will go on and on. 557 00:24:24,190 --> 00:24:25,150 That's true worship. 558 00:24:25,150 --> 00:24:26,670 That's generational worship. 559 00:24:26,990 --> 00:24:28,990 That's why we want to do more things together. 560 00:24:30,430 --> 00:24:33,470 That's why we come together and we give testimonies on Sunday 561 00:24:33,470 --> 00:24:34,030 nights. 562 00:24:34,910 --> 00:24:35,310 That's. 563 00:24:35,310 --> 00:24:37,710 That's why we want to have more of those worship nights. 564 00:24:37,710 --> 00:24:38,470 Pastor Carlos. 565 00:24:38,470 --> 00:24:38,630 Right. 566 00:24:38,630 --> 00:24:40,510 We want to come together and just have time together. 567 00:24:41,230 --> 00:24:44,790 I was reading a book recently, and the way that this guy framed 568 00:24:44,790 --> 00:24:48,510 it was church should not just be a place that we congregate once 569 00:24:48,510 --> 00:24:48,830 a week. 570 00:24:48,830 --> 00:24:53,400 It should be a place where we do life together, do worship together. 571 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:55,840 And so that's what he's saying here. 572 00:24:55,840 --> 00:25:00,320 He says one generation will praise thy works to another and shall 573 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:01,720 declare thy mighty acts. 574 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,960 And so David looks for God's people to encourage others to praise. 575 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,400 And so, yes, worship is about lifting up God and God alone, but 576 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,840 our proper worship to God will affect others around us. 577 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:17,360 It will affect others around us. 578 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:18,240 And that's what he's saying here. 579 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,800 He says an older generation can inspire A younger generation 580 00:25:22,300 --> 00:25:23,340 to praise God. 581 00:25:23,820 --> 00:25:24,180 How? 582 00:25:24,180 --> 00:25:27,180 By remembering those mighty acts of God from the past. 583 00:25:28,860 --> 00:25:31,180 But for the other side of things, a young generation might. 584 00:25:31,180 --> 00:25:33,420 Might stir the older generation. 585 00:25:34,140 --> 00:25:35,780 And so it's not just a one way thing. 586 00:25:35,780 --> 00:25:38,100 I mean, but what we can see here is, he says, the older generation 587 00:25:38,100 --> 00:25:41,620 needs to pass that down and needs to work together in worshiping 588 00:25:41,620 --> 00:25:43,660 God in a unified way. 589 00:25:44,540 --> 00:25:46,900 One of the things that I appreciate about Middletown Baptist 590 00:25:46,900 --> 00:25:50,430 Church and many other churches for that matter, we are not the only 591 00:25:50,430 --> 00:25:52,790 church that has this uniqueness. 592 00:25:53,590 --> 00:25:56,230 But I like the fact that Middletown Baptist Church is not 593 00:25:56,230 --> 00:25:57,110 one dimensional. 594 00:25:57,510 --> 00:25:59,110 It's not just one age group. 595 00:25:59,910 --> 00:26:01,830 It's not focused on just one age group. 596 00:26:01,910 --> 00:26:05,270 It's not focused on just one group of people from one culture. 597 00:26:05,510 --> 00:26:05,910 It's. 598 00:26:05,910 --> 00:26:08,070 It's for everyone to come to Christ. 599 00:26:08,470 --> 00:26:09,590 That's the beauty of this. 600 00:26:09,830 --> 00:26:11,990 I. I want older people in the church. 601 00:26:11,990 --> 00:26:13,590 I want younger people in the church. 602 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,360 I want middle aged people in the church. 603 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:17,080 I want people that speak different languages. 604 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:17,680 Why? 605 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:19,680 Because that's a snapshot of where we live now. 606 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,520 If we lived in a place where there was one demographic, that's 607 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:23,480 the way it's going to look. 608 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:29,000 But we live in a diverse place, and so we don't actively try 609 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,039 to be more diverse. 610 00:26:30,039 --> 00:26:31,560 All we do is preach the gospel. 611 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,840 I got to tell you, really, some of you were here yesterday for 612 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,720 this at the peach festival tent, but it was just a testimony 613 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,440 of our church, and I'm so thankful for it. 614 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,160 So there's this lady comes up and we. 615 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:44,520 Ms. Mary Lou was there. 616 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,760 And so this lady, we were trying to like give her a track. 617 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,800 And she goes, no English, no English. 618 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:54,640 And so obviously the assumption might be that she was 619 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:55,760 going to speak Spanish. 620 00:26:56,399 --> 00:26:58,520 So Mary Louise was on the ready, but she was like, no, no, 621 00:26:58,520 --> 00:26:59,000 no Spanish. 622 00:26:59,000 --> 00:26:59,480 I'm from Europe. 623 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:00,160 I'm from Europe. 624 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,400 And so Ms. Mary Lou said something in French. 625 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,440 I don't know how she knew it, but she knew us a little bit of French. 626 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:07,480 And she said, do you speak French? 627 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:08,840 And the lady goes, oh yeah, French. 628 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,590 Well, well, then Stephane was there. 629 00:27:10,590 --> 00:27:12,310 So Stephane spoke a little French to her. 630 00:27:12,310 --> 00:27:12,830 Got her. 631 00:27:12,830 --> 00:27:14,790 We got her all the information, was able to talk to 632 00:27:14,790 --> 00:27:14,950 her. 633 00:27:14,950 --> 00:27:16,630 And I was just like, that is an amazing thing. 634 00:27:16,630 --> 00:27:18,590 Just to see the body of Christ there. 635 00:27:18,590 --> 00:27:19,110 It was a little. 636 00:27:19,110 --> 00:27:23,790 It was a little microcosm of the bigger picture of the church, 637 00:27:23,790 --> 00:27:24,150 Right? 638 00:27:24,150 --> 00:27:25,030 There's different people. 639 00:27:25,190 --> 00:27:27,910 And it just so happened that Stefan was there and there was a 640 00:27:27,910 --> 00:27:28,750 little French spoken. 641 00:27:28,750 --> 00:27:31,230 She took the track and she took it with her. 642 00:27:31,230 --> 00:27:33,870 And ultimately I Just was sitting there, sitting back, just 643 00:27:33,870 --> 00:27:36,310 watching that, and I was just like, wow, that's amazing to see. 644 00:27:37,130 --> 00:27:39,810 And, and I'm not saying that every church is called to do that, 645 00:27:39,810 --> 00:27:42,290 but what we see here in this case is that the Bible says that 646 00:27:42,290 --> 00:27:46,170 there, there is an opportunity for us to reach more people in authenticity. 647 00:27:46,810 --> 00:27:49,530 And so he says that we can reach different generations. 648 00:27:49,610 --> 00:27:52,889 I, I've heard of some churches that say, we don't want this group, 649 00:27:53,290 --> 00:27:54,730 right, because they're going to change us. 650 00:27:54,730 --> 00:27:55,850 We don't want the younger people. 651 00:27:55,850 --> 00:27:58,090 We want it to be our identity here. 652 00:27:58,170 --> 00:28:00,690 And I understand that because we want to keep things a certain 653 00:28:00,690 --> 00:28:03,290 way, and sometimes different generations confuse us. 654 00:28:04,060 --> 00:28:04,300 Right? 655 00:28:04,540 --> 00:28:08,060 I know I'm getting older when I look at people that I used to, 656 00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:09,100 like, understand. 657 00:28:09,180 --> 00:28:10,860 Like, I used to understand teenagers. 658 00:28:10,860 --> 00:28:15,900 I came right out of college and I started teaching senior, senior 659 00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:17,260 kids when I came out of college. 660 00:28:17,580 --> 00:28:20,460 So I was like 22, 23, and they were like 18. 661 00:28:21,020 --> 00:28:22,780 I, I went to school with some of them. 662 00:28:22,780 --> 00:28:23,900 So, like, I'm like, I get it. 663 00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:25,260 I know what you guys are like. 664 00:28:25,500 --> 00:28:28,260 And each year I would just start losing more and more of the 665 00:28:28,260 --> 00:28:28,860 relevance. 666 00:28:29,270 --> 00:28:31,390 And now I look back at teenagers and I'm like, man, I do 667 00:28:31,390 --> 00:28:31,990 not get it. 668 00:28:32,150 --> 00:28:33,590 And that just shows that I'm getting old. 669 00:28:33,590 --> 00:28:36,510 But that means, it doesn't mean that that next generation has 670 00:28:36,510 --> 00:28:37,750 nothing to bring to the table. 671 00:28:38,950 --> 00:28:41,310 But I know churches that will say, no, we don't want any older 672 00:28:41,310 --> 00:28:41,470 people. 673 00:28:41,470 --> 00:28:42,790 We want to bring everything in young. 674 00:28:42,790 --> 00:28:44,310 We only want to cater to young people. 675 00:28:44,310 --> 00:28:46,830 That's also a problem too, because we're missing the dynamic 676 00:28:46,830 --> 00:28:46,990 there. 677 00:28:46,990 --> 00:28:49,350 And that's what David's saying is we need to pass it on. 678 00:28:49,430 --> 00:28:53,550 We don't need to be afraid of the next generation or an older generation 679 00:28:53,550 --> 00:28:54,710 or a different culture. 680 00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:58,220 We just tell them about what Jesus Christ has done for us. 681 00:28:58,860 --> 00:29:00,300 That's the power of the gospel. 682 00:29:01,180 --> 00:29:03,420 So let's go to verse number five. 683 00:29:03,580 --> 00:29:09,020 He says, I will speak of the glorious honor of thy majesty. 684 00:29:09,100 --> 00:29:12,220 So he says, this is what I'm going to tell the next generation. 685 00:29:12,380 --> 00:29:14,780 This is what I'm going to tell people in my life. 686 00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:21,790 The glory and the honor of God's majesty and of thy wondrous 687 00:29:21,790 --> 00:29:22,310 works. 688 00:29:23,510 --> 00:29:26,710 Where you could say that is, is in our, our language today. 689 00:29:27,270 --> 00:29:31,430 I want to tell people about who God is and what he has done and 690 00:29:31,430 --> 00:29:32,710 what he continues to do. 691 00:29:34,230 --> 00:29:39,230 Really, folks, the message of the gospel is just who God is and 692 00:29:39,230 --> 00:29:39,990 what he has done. 693 00:29:40,710 --> 00:29:41,190 God? 694 00:29:41,270 --> 00:29:42,070 Who is God? 695 00:29:42,070 --> 00:29:45,110 Well, God's not just, again, talking about people at the Peach 696 00:29:45,110 --> 00:29:45,590 Festival. 697 00:29:45,590 --> 00:29:48,740 God came up and he goes, well, you know, I. I know about the man. 698 00:29:48,820 --> 00:29:49,660 Man up there. 699 00:29:49,660 --> 00:29:53,260 And, you know, everyone basically is worshiping him if they're 700 00:29:53,260 --> 00:29:53,660 genuine. 701 00:29:53,660 --> 00:29:55,860 I'm like, well, that's not entirely true. 702 00:29:55,860 --> 00:29:57,380 But, you know, we. 703 00:29:57,540 --> 00:29:57,860 And. 704 00:29:57,860 --> 00:29:58,420 And it was. 705 00:29:58,420 --> 00:30:02,660 So he had a wrong view of who God is in his character. 706 00:30:02,740 --> 00:30:05,060 God's not just a man sitting up in the clouds. 707 00:30:05,140 --> 00:30:07,660 God is a spirit, and we must worship him. 708 00:30:07,660 --> 00:30:08,140 A spirit. 709 00:30:08,140 --> 00:30:10,580 In truth, God is beyond our comprehension. 710 00:30:11,460 --> 00:30:11,820 But. 711 00:30:11,820 --> 00:30:15,800 But we first must have to have people understand what it means to 712 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,080 understand who God is in his character and his attributes and 713 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:19,600 his deity. 714 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,400 But then we need to tell them, because there's a lot of people that 715 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,720 are willing to believe that God exists. 716 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,080 And there's even people that are unsaved that are willing to worship 717 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,440 the power of God whether they know it or not. 718 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:31,840 Look, well, I believe there's a God. 719 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:33,120 There has to be a God up there. 720 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,520 But I hope that all of you understand that just recognizing 721 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:40,320 that there is a higher being up there that is powerful does not 722 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:41,280 mean that we're saved. 723 00:30:41,910 --> 00:30:44,870 Because Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. 724 00:30:45,190 --> 00:30:47,870 And so if there isn't a recognition of Jesus's deity, if 725 00:30:47,870 --> 00:30:50,710 there isn't a recognition of what Jesus Christ did on the cross, 726 00:30:50,710 --> 00:30:54,310 that person might be religious, that person might be honest 727 00:30:54,310 --> 00:30:56,750 with what they see around them and say, well, there must be something 728 00:30:56,750 --> 00:30:57,510 bigger than me. 729 00:30:57,670 --> 00:30:59,150 But that does not mean that they're saved. 730 00:30:59,150 --> 00:31:01,950 And we have a lot of people in this world today that will recognize 731 00:31:01,950 --> 00:31:06,150 that there is a God, but they will not recognize that Jesus is 732 00:31:06,150 --> 00:31:08,390 God and that Jesus will save them from their sins. 733 00:31:08,390 --> 00:31:10,990 So we have to tell them the complete story of God's wondrous 734 00:31:10,990 --> 00:31:11,270 work. 735 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,040 And the complete story of God's wondrous work is that Jesus 736 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:15,440 Christ is the. 737 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:16,880 Is God in the flesh. 738 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:18,000 John, chapter one. 739 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,240 And dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory. 740 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,840 And so we have to teach the whole scope of Scripture. 741 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:28,240 Verse six, he says, and men shall speak of the might of thy terrible 742 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:28,520 acts. 743 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,920 That word terrible doesn't necessarily mean terrible as in bad, 744 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,600 just means full of power, awesome. 745 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,680 And I will declare thy greatness. 746 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,840 And so this idea that he brings about in this case is he said, 747 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,880 there's going to be people talking about your work. 748 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,080 And what I will do is point them to you. 749 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:45,000 I. I will sing. 750 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,320 I will praise you for your greatness. 751 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,800 He says, they shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness 752 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,840 and shall sing of thy righteousness. 753 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,720 The Lord is gracious and full of compassion. 754 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:57,880 Now what is he going to do? 755 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,720 He's going to get into this idea of, of recalling the character 756 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,220 of God, recalling how God has been good to him. 757 00:32:05,460 --> 00:32:07,860 And he says here the Lord is gracious. 758 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:09,980 He recognizes the grace of God. 759 00:32:09,980 --> 00:32:13,900 He recognizes that everything that he has is given to him by God. 760 00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:16,100 And I think that we have to recognize that as well when we're 761 00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:20,059 worshiping God, when we recognize the power of his grace, 762 00:32:20,059 --> 00:32:23,620 the love that is found in his grace, we're able to worship him, 763 00:32:24,100 --> 00:32:25,260 go back to his grace. 764 00:32:25,260 --> 00:32:26,340 And then what does he say more? 765 00:32:26,340 --> 00:32:26,820 He says. 766 00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:29,940 He says he's full of compassion, to meditate upon his 767 00:32:29,940 --> 00:32:30,580 compassion. 768 00:32:31,740 --> 00:32:31,900 So. 769 00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:33,460 So how can we worship him properly? 770 00:32:33,460 --> 00:32:36,540 Meditate upon his grace, Meditate upon his compassion. 771 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:39,100 Slow to anger. 772 00:32:39,180 --> 00:32:39,620 He's. 773 00:32:39,620 --> 00:32:40,780 He's patient with us. 774 00:32:41,580 --> 00:32:44,460 That's one aspect we should be thankful for, is God's patience with 775 00:32:44,460 --> 00:32:44,780 us. 776 00:32:46,220 --> 00:32:51,980 God has every right to strike us down in our first mistake. 777 00:32:52,700 --> 00:32:54,140 But he's slow to anger. 778 00:32:54,220 --> 00:32:59,430 He's patience says more here and of great mercy. 779 00:32:59,910 --> 00:33:03,510 So just as God is great in his graciousness, he's great in his merciful 780 00:33:03,670 --> 00:33:04,150 nature. 781 00:33:04,870 --> 00:33:07,590 Mercy is withholding something that we deserve. 782 00:33:08,070 --> 00:33:11,590 So just as much as God extends things to us that we don't deserve, 783 00:33:11,590 --> 00:33:13,990 he withholds from us things that we do deserve. 784 00:33:14,470 --> 00:33:17,590 And so he recounts these aspects of God in His worship. 785 00:33:17,750 --> 00:33:22,930 And that is why my personal preference, and actually I would 786 00:33:22,930 --> 00:33:27,650 venture to say my conviction in worship music would be music that 787 00:33:27,650 --> 00:33:30,250 is densely rich in doctrine. 788 00:33:30,730 --> 00:33:31,090 Why? 789 00:33:31,090 --> 00:33:34,090 Because it reminds us why we're singing what we're singing. 790 00:33:34,890 --> 00:33:39,010 There's a time and a place for simple songs to recount choruses 791 00:33:39,010 --> 00:33:40,810 and sing about the goodness of God. 792 00:33:41,050 --> 00:33:44,850 But what I will say is that when we worship in a shallow way, 793 00:33:44,850 --> 00:33:46,490 we believe in a shallow way. 794 00:33:46,810 --> 00:33:49,290 And I think we need to get deeper in what we sing about. 795 00:33:49,290 --> 00:33:51,210 We need to get deeper in what we read. 796 00:33:51,970 --> 00:33:54,530 There's nothing to shy away from when it comes to doctrine. 797 00:33:54,770 --> 00:33:55,210 Okay? 798 00:33:55,210 --> 00:33:56,330 Doctrine's not a scary thing. 799 00:33:56,330 --> 00:34:02,290 You don't have to be a PhD level theologian to understand theology 800 00:34:02,290 --> 00:34:03,890 and doctrine in the word of God. 801 00:34:04,690 --> 00:34:07,689 Because the deeper you get with understanding the greatness 802 00:34:07,689 --> 00:34:09,650 of God, the deeper you get with your trust. 803 00:34:09,970 --> 00:34:10,290 Right? 804 00:34:10,290 --> 00:34:12,970 The deeper you understand him, the deeper you say, you know what? 805 00:34:12,970 --> 00:34:15,410 No, he isn't going to forget about me. 806 00:34:16,130 --> 00:34:17,770 He is with me through this. 807 00:34:17,770 --> 00:34:18,810 No, God is good. 808 00:34:18,810 --> 00:34:19,690 And so what does he say here? 809 00:34:19,690 --> 00:34:23,510 He says we need to recount these things as we're praising God, 810 00:34:23,590 --> 00:34:28,030 praise Him for specific things in greatness, in His Mercy in his 811 00:34:28,030 --> 00:34:31,590 forgiveness, in his patience, in his compassion, in his mercy, 812 00:34:31,830 --> 00:34:32,670 in his goodness. 813 00:34:32,670 --> 00:34:33,310 Verse 9. 814 00:34:33,310 --> 00:34:39,550 The Lord is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all of 815 00:34:39,550 --> 00:34:40,310 his works. 816 00:34:40,790 --> 00:34:42,550 This speaks to the love of God. 817 00:34:43,190 --> 00:34:46,150 I mean, we could sit here all night and recount these things, but 818 00:34:46,150 --> 00:34:46,990 that's what David's doing. 819 00:34:46,990 --> 00:34:51,000 David is just recounting God's goodness and his love and his patience 820 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:51,720 and his grace. 821 00:34:51,720 --> 00:34:53,560 And that's what we should be praising him for. 822 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,400 We have every reason to praise. 823 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:58,040 Verse 10. 824 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:02,720 All thy work shall praise thee, O Lord, and thy saints shall 825 00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:03,480 bless thee. 826 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:08,000 And so he kind of concludes the thought with, you know what? 827 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,320 I'm going to remember what you have done for me. 828 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,160 And as I remember what you have done for me, I'm going to rest 829 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:16,480 in what you've done for me. 830 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,710 And then I'm going to trust in what you will do for me because of 831 00:35:20,710 --> 00:35:21,590 your faithfulness. 832 00:35:21,910 --> 00:35:26,110 And so David is echoing this description of God and his faithfulness 833 00:35:26,110 --> 00:35:27,910 and his love and his grace. 834 00:35:27,910 --> 00:35:31,230 He says, the Lord is good, the Lord is patient, the Lord is kind, 835 00:35:31,230 --> 00:35:32,870 the Lord is full of tender mercies. 836 00:35:33,030 --> 00:35:36,710 And so David sees God's care in his life. 837 00:35:36,710 --> 00:35:39,550 David sees God's presence, and he says, you know what? 838 00:35:39,550 --> 00:35:41,190 We have all the reason to praise. 839 00:35:41,190 --> 00:35:43,950 And so we're going to go down just a few more verses here this 840 00:35:43,950 --> 00:35:44,310 evening. 841 00:35:44,850 --> 00:35:45,410 Verse 10. 842 00:35:45,650 --> 00:35:46,050 He. 843 00:35:46,050 --> 00:35:52,090 He recognizes that all thy works shall praise him, O Lord, Thy 844 00:35:52,090 --> 00:35:53,810 saints shall bless thee. 845 00:35:55,410 --> 00:36:01,290 What he's saying here is that all creation points to God, as brother 846 00:36:01,290 --> 00:36:01,930 Dan mentioned. 847 00:36:01,930 --> 00:36:07,650 You know, being in a place of beauty helps us understand the power 848 00:36:07,650 --> 00:36:08,090 of God. 849 00:36:08,090 --> 00:36:09,290 I remember just. 850 00:36:09,290 --> 00:36:12,570 Just seeing certain places when, when I haven't traveled the 851 00:36:12,570 --> 00:36:15,700 world, but sometimes I have traveled just seeing uniqueness and 852 00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:16,140 difference. 853 00:36:16,380 --> 00:36:20,100 How you can go to one place out west in the Rockies and see huge 854 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:23,180 mountains, and then go down to Florida and see the swamps and see 855 00:36:23,180 --> 00:36:23,980 all these different. 856 00:36:23,980 --> 00:36:27,060 The complete, different places, but God's handiwork and his 857 00:36:27,060 --> 00:36:28,780 creativity across the whole world. 858 00:36:29,180 --> 00:36:30,220 And so what is he saying here? 859 00:36:30,220 --> 00:36:32,540 He says, creation is going to praise God, the. 860 00:36:32,540 --> 00:36:34,140 The creation itself and the people. 861 00:36:34,940 --> 00:36:38,540 And yet what he goes on to say is this even more so. 862 00:36:38,540 --> 00:36:39,060 Verse 11. 863 00:36:39,060 --> 00:36:43,670 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power 864 00:36:44,070 --> 00:36:47,750 to make known the sons of men, his mighty acts, the glorious majesty 865 00:36:47,750 --> 00:36:48,310 of his kingdom. 866 00:36:48,310 --> 00:36:50,790 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. 867 00:36:50,870 --> 00:36:55,590 So he speaks of the eternality of God's kingdom. 868 00:36:56,069 --> 00:36:58,030 And this is not just going to be a limited time. 869 00:36:58,030 --> 00:37:02,950 And so we would say one reason to praise God is that one Reason 870 00:37:02,950 --> 00:37:06,470 why we should continuously praise God is because God is eternal. 871 00:37:06,470 --> 00:37:07,630 His kingdom is eternal. 872 00:37:07,630 --> 00:37:10,880 And we, his believers also have eternal life with Him. 873 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:12,240 His. 874 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:15,680 His dominion, his power, his majesty will be forever. 875 00:37:16,720 --> 00:37:17,040 And. 876 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,600 And I know that so many times we're tempted to think, well, this 877 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:23,640 world has gotten so bad, maybe God has taken his hand off of this 878 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:24,000 world. 879 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:29,600 Yes, to a sense, God does give people over to the reprobate minds. 880 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:30,680 Yes, they're so. 881 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,080 So God does give people what they want in their sin. 882 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:34,800 But at the same time, God is not left. 883 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,800 God is not taking a break. 884 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:40,400 He's still on his throne. 885 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:41,840 He's still in control. 886 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,080 There's still thousands of people getting saved. 887 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,920 There's still people seeing the mighty hand of God. 888 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:49,200 And so there's all. 889 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:50,560 There's reason to praise. 890 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:51,920 There's reason to praise. 891 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:58,560 Now when worship becomes a display of notice me, we've lost 892 00:37:58,560 --> 00:37:59,040 the focus. 893 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:00,720 It's always so. 894 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,080 So what I would say is, because some people say, what's the 895 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:04,280 proper way to worship? 896 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,800 The proper way to worship, if you could summarize it, is God first 897 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,120 following His Word? 898 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,920 So God's not going to ask us to do anything outside of his word 899 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:15,240 when it comes to his worship. 900 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,640 I'll give you guys a very stripped down, clean version of what 901 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:20,520 I mean by this. 902 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,080 Some of you know where I might go where this. 903 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:23,360 There. 904 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,640 There were people in a place called Corinth. 905 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:30,050 Okay, Corinth was a very evil city with many of the things that 906 00:38:30,050 --> 00:38:31,490 they did with the Goddess Diana. 907 00:38:32,370 --> 00:38:35,330 But when they got the church there, there were Christians. 908 00:38:35,570 --> 00:38:37,650 What happened was, is they said, well, you know what? 909 00:38:37,650 --> 00:38:41,490 We're going to try to merge some of the things that the pagans 910 00:38:41,490 --> 00:38:43,330 are doing and bring that into the church. 911 00:38:43,730 --> 00:38:46,130 And I don't need to list to you what they were doing. 912 00:38:46,370 --> 00:38:49,370 But what I will say is for people back at that time frame in 913 00:38:49,370 --> 00:38:52,290 Corinth and outside of Corinth, for. 914 00:38:52,290 --> 00:38:54,890 For someone to be evil and sinful, they would say, they're being 915 00:38:54,890 --> 00:38:55,810 like a Corinthian. 916 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,120 So the Corinthians were the worst of the worst when it came to 917 00:38:58,120 --> 00:38:58,400 that. 918 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:02,800 So they brought a lot of that evil pagan stuff into their churches, 919 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,480 thinking that, well, this is our way to worship. 920 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,040 We're going to worship God the way that we think is best, the way 921 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:09,600 that our culture thinks is best. 922 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,360 But there's a lot to be said in First Corinthians about the wrong 923 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:14,040 way to worship. 924 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,960 And they were worshiping the wrong way because they were worshiping 925 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:17,440 in sin. 926 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,480 They were worshiping in the flesh, even Though it made complete 927 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:24,180 sense to them to worship that way in that culture, it was still 928 00:39:24,180 --> 00:39:25,060 wrong worship. 929 00:39:25,300 --> 00:39:27,860 And so there's things that we might do today that would make complete 930 00:39:27,860 --> 00:39:31,980 sense in our culture to do, but it isn't what God has called 931 00:39:31,980 --> 00:39:34,100 us to do because it's feeding the flesh. 932 00:39:35,300 --> 00:39:38,580 So again, I'm not saying that there's one specific church as one 933 00:39:38,580 --> 00:39:41,260 specific type of worship because that's the easy way. 934 00:39:41,260 --> 00:39:43,980 The easy way to look at anything in the spiritual realm is 935 00:39:43,980 --> 00:39:44,740 to make a list. 936 00:39:44,980 --> 00:39:46,780 Well, these types of churches are evil. 937 00:39:46,780 --> 00:39:49,230 These types of churches are not good. 938 00:39:49,470 --> 00:39:50,830 These type of churches are right. 939 00:39:51,070 --> 00:39:53,710 What I'm saying is that we have to look deeper at the motivation. 940 00:39:54,110 --> 00:39:57,990 Yes, but we also have to look at the method and we have to look 941 00:39:57,990 --> 00:39:58,750 at the message. 942 00:39:58,750 --> 00:40:00,950 Those three things we need to really think about when we're coming 943 00:40:00,950 --> 00:40:03,870 down in the area of worship, really every aspect of our life. 944 00:40:04,270 --> 00:40:06,670 So, so we need to look at motivation when we're worshiping 945 00:40:06,670 --> 00:40:07,750 is my motivation. 946 00:40:07,750 --> 00:40:10,230 People noticing me is my motivation. 947 00:40:10,230 --> 00:40:15,120 Someone noticing how great of a singer I am or how much know I've 948 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,720 lifted my hands or how much I've fallen to the ground or how 949 00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:18,880 many times I've come forward. 950 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:22,680 If our motivation is someone else noticing my worship, it's the 951 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:23,280 wrong motivation. 952 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,000 In worship, the correct motivation is lifting up Christ, 953 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:27,360 exalting him. 954 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:27,680 Right? 955 00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:31,440 What we saw in verse one, extolling him, lifting up Christ. 956 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,120 Okay, so then secondly, the method is my method. 957 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:36,480 Biblical is my method. 958 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:38,560 Righteous is my method. 959 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:39,840 Holy is my method. 960 00:40:40,570 --> 00:40:44,970 Not filled in the flesh is my method appropriate to the setting 961 00:40:44,970 --> 00:40:47,610 that I'm in, then that's proper worship. 962 00:40:49,850 --> 00:40:55,050 And then we see lastly, the message is the message that God loves 963 00:40:55,050 --> 00:40:59,090 everybody is the message that, hey, he embraces your sins, so worship. 964 00:40:59,090 --> 00:41:02,490 No, our message should be always pointing back to the truth 965 00:41:02,490 --> 00:41:04,970 where we started John 4:24. 966 00:41:05,290 --> 00:41:08,750 We must worship him in spirit and in truth. 967 00:41:09,230 --> 00:41:11,750 And so there's this idea that as Christians, we need to worship 968 00:41:11,750 --> 00:41:12,590 him with our spirit. 969 00:41:13,150 --> 00:41:17,910 I, I, I'm completely fine with us verbally and physically worshiping 970 00:41:17,910 --> 00:41:20,310 God because by the way, it says that we should worship him with 971 00:41:20,310 --> 00:41:21,710 our complete bodies. 972 00:41:22,670 --> 00:41:24,910 Bible says in First Corinthians that our body is the 973 00:41:24,910 --> 00:41:25,950 temple of the Holy Ghost. 974 00:41:26,590 --> 00:41:28,590 So what we do with our bodies does matter. 975 00:41:28,990 --> 00:41:32,750 But at the same time, we need to liken that to the truth of God 976 00:41:33,020 --> 00:41:35,420 because if we get any of those out of whack, we'll miss the point. 977 00:41:35,420 --> 00:41:38,500 And so what I, what I want to emphasize as we close here tonight 978 00:41:38,500 --> 00:41:41,020 is that proper worship is Based with the right motivation, 979 00:41:41,420 --> 00:41:43,940 it's based with the right methodology, and it's based with 980 00:41:43,940 --> 00:41:44,860 the right message. 981 00:41:45,100 --> 00:41:48,620 And when we do that, hey, then we have freedom in our worship. 982 00:41:49,020 --> 00:41:52,380 But we have to be very cautious about the way that we worship, 983 00:41:52,380 --> 00:41:54,380 because all worship is not good worship. 984 00:41:54,780 --> 00:41:57,420 We know that through the Bible, he says there's the true worshipers. 985 00:41:58,630 --> 00:42:01,590 And so again, there's stylistic choices within worship. 986 00:42:02,150 --> 00:42:05,110 But what we have to see is like, what about this? 987 00:42:05,110 --> 00:42:06,230 That makes me uncomfortable. 988 00:42:06,230 --> 00:42:10,470 Is this a preferential issue or is this an issue of the word of 989 00:42:10,470 --> 00:42:10,790 God? 990 00:42:12,150 --> 00:42:15,830 And so, yeah, I mean, the church that I grew up in is very 991 00:42:15,830 --> 00:42:18,470 similar to Middletown Baptist. 992 00:42:18,870 --> 00:42:22,390 But there's certain things at my church in Providence that would 993 00:42:22,390 --> 00:42:23,910 be different than this church here. 994 00:42:24,380 --> 00:42:26,740 But at the same time, doesn't make one church better than the other 995 00:42:26,740 --> 00:42:27,900 or worse than the other. 996 00:42:27,900 --> 00:42:29,180 Just means that there's differences. 997 00:42:29,260 --> 00:42:31,780 But if the worship's proper worship, it's okay. 998 00:42:31,780 --> 00:42:34,660 And so what we're seeing here is David is saying, hey, there is 999 00:42:34,660 --> 00:42:34,940 a. 1000 00:42:34,940 --> 00:42:37,020 There's something deeper in our worship. 1001 00:42:38,460 --> 00:42:40,420 But, but I would say to you that at. 1002 00:42:40,420 --> 00:42:44,340 Just as there was thousands of years ago, right, with the prophets 1003 00:42:44,340 --> 00:42:46,020 of baal, what did the prophets of BAAL do? 1004 00:42:46,020 --> 00:42:47,660 Remember the way they worship themselves? 1005 00:42:48,220 --> 00:42:50,390 Some of you know the story with Elijah when they, when, when. 1006 00:42:50,390 --> 00:42:53,150 When they were trying to call down fire from baal, it didn't work. 1007 00:42:53,150 --> 00:42:54,390 They're jumping around. 1008 00:42:54,390 --> 00:42:55,870 They're cutting each theirselves. 1009 00:42:55,870 --> 00:42:59,070 They were calling out to baal, BAAL wasn't listening. 1010 00:42:59,150 --> 00:42:59,550 Right. 1011 00:42:59,870 --> 00:43:00,190 And. 1012 00:43:00,190 --> 00:43:04,630 And so it doesn't necessarily mean that all worship is good worship, 1013 00:43:04,630 --> 00:43:06,390 because we could be worshiping the wrong things. 1014 00:43:06,390 --> 00:43:07,950 We could be worshiping the wrong way. 1015 00:43:08,110 --> 00:43:09,510 There could be the wrong message there. 1016 00:43:09,510 --> 00:43:12,670 So we're going to come back next week and we're going to conclude 1017 00:43:12,670 --> 00:43:15,830 Psalm 145 because he speaks more about some of the ways that 1018 00:43:15,830 --> 00:43:16,750 we can worship God. 1019 00:43:17,110 --> 00:43:18,350 But I think it's important to. 1020 00:43:18,350 --> 00:43:20,990 As we get into the study, it's not going to be a long study. 1021 00:43:20,990 --> 00:43:23,830 We're probably just going to go up through probably like early 1022 00:43:23,830 --> 00:43:24,470 September. 1023 00:43:25,110 --> 00:43:27,590 But what we're going to do is just take probably the next month 1024 00:43:27,590 --> 00:43:31,030 or so to go through some of the psalms that speak specifically 1025 00:43:31,030 --> 00:43:34,550 to aspects of worship that can help us live a life of worship. 1026 00:43:34,550 --> 00:43:38,390 Now, there's a lot more that we could talk about with this. 1027 00:43:40,550 --> 00:43:41,990 But what I would say is this. 1028 00:43:41,990 --> 00:43:45,440 If you want to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, he very clearly 1029 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,760 gives us the job description of a disciple. 1030 00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:54,480 He says, to be my disciple, you must obey my word. 1031 00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:55,160 He says, continue. 1032 00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:55,960 In my word. 1033 00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,600 There's a lot of people that say, well, you know, I. I am a disciple, 1034 00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:00,920 folks. 1035 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:04,040 I don't believe that you are by default a disciple if you believe 1036 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:04,920 in Jesus Christ. 1037 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:08,600 The Bible says that there's a secondary step of commitment to him. 1038 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,920 And many of us will say, you know, I'm pretty content with just 1039 00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:15,470 coming in on a Sunday morning and singing the songs, listening 1040 00:44:15,470 --> 00:44:16,630 to the preaching and going home. 1041 00:44:17,430 --> 00:44:20,950 And that's like, frankly, that's better than nothing. 1042 00:44:21,190 --> 00:44:25,590 But what I would say is that God's ultimate plan in for the church 1043 00:44:25,750 --> 00:44:29,750 in Matthew chapter 28 is to make disciples. 1044 00:44:30,310 --> 00:44:32,550 He doesn't say, have church members. 1045 00:44:33,270 --> 00:44:35,270 He doesn't say have followers. 1046 00:44:35,430 --> 00:44:37,590 When it comes to following the pastor. 1047 00:44:37,670 --> 00:44:38,590 Fill out buildings. 1048 00:44:38,590 --> 00:44:40,150 No, he says, make disciples. 1049 00:44:40,930 --> 00:44:44,130 So our job as a church is to be a disciple factory. 1050 00:44:44,450 --> 00:44:46,770 Now, ultimately, it's through the power of God. 1051 00:44:46,850 --> 00:44:49,010 We're just the machinery to do it. 1052 00:44:49,010 --> 00:44:51,650 God is working through us to make disciples. 1053 00:44:51,970 --> 00:44:53,170 How do we make disciples? 1054 00:44:53,170 --> 00:44:56,530 We teach them how to worship, we teach them how to obey, we teach 1055 00:44:56,530 --> 00:45:00,290 them how to study, we teach them how to serve, we teach them 1056 00:45:00,290 --> 00:45:01,410 how to make disciples. 1057 00:45:01,490 --> 00:45:02,930 And that's really the goal. 1058 00:45:02,930 --> 00:45:04,290 That's got to be the goal. 1059 00:45:05,010 --> 00:45:09,970 And so what that means is that all of us must be ready and willing 1060 00:45:09,970 --> 00:45:12,810 to take that mantle of being a disciple. 1061 00:45:12,810 --> 00:45:13,210 Why? 1062 00:45:13,450 --> 00:45:17,450 Because you cannot make disciples unless you are a disciple. 1063 00:45:18,090 --> 00:45:21,530 I can't say, hey, new member of the church, we want you to be 1064 00:45:21,530 --> 00:45:22,490 a great disciple. 1065 00:45:22,490 --> 00:45:24,890 But no one in the church or disciples, they're not going to see 1066 00:45:24,890 --> 00:45:26,570 anything as an example. 1067 00:45:27,370 --> 00:45:30,770 So again, how do we pass it on to the next generation or just the 1068 00:45:30,770 --> 00:45:32,090 next generation of Christians? 1069 00:45:33,220 --> 00:45:38,820 We pass it along by example and by declaring so, by being a disciple. 1070 00:45:39,540 --> 00:45:40,820 So I would take a challenge. 1071 00:45:41,860 --> 00:45:43,940 I'm going to take a challenge for myself and I'm going to challenge 1072 00:45:43,940 --> 00:45:44,500 you with this. 1073 00:45:44,740 --> 00:45:48,220 Are you willing and ready to say, okay, Lord, I want to know what 1074 00:45:48,220 --> 00:45:50,260 for me, what does it mean to be a disciple? 1075 00:45:51,380 --> 00:45:54,180 What do I need to get rid of in my life? 1076 00:45:55,300 --> 00:45:59,030 What do I need to add to my life to be a disciple, to worship 1077 00:45:59,030 --> 00:45:59,310 Him? 1078 00:46:00,350 --> 00:46:03,790 One of those things might be, I need to get into proper worship. 1079 00:46:04,510 --> 00:46:06,030 I need to worship him properly. 1080 00:46:07,150 --> 00:46:08,190 That's a great step. 1081 00:46:08,750 --> 00:46:10,950 Because you cannot be a disciple without worshiping him. 1082 00:46:10,950 --> 00:46:11,470 It would be. 1083 00:46:11,470 --> 00:46:13,310 It would be impossible. 1084 00:46:13,630 --> 00:46:16,350 So I encourage you to do that, encourage you to think about that. 1085 00:46:16,350 --> 00:46:20,630 And if you want to get ahead, read the rest of Psalm 145, come 1086 00:46:20,630 --> 00:46:21,270 back next week. 1087 00:46:21,270 --> 00:46:24,430 And as we talk about it, make this Something that in your own life 1088 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,920 that you're understanding more and more what it means to worship 1089 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:28,080 God and man. 1090 00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:29,160 There's so many great Psalms. 1091 00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:30,880 I wish I could go through all of them. 1092 00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,960 But if, if we were to go through all the Psalms, some of, 1093 00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:38,760 you know, there's 150 of them and there's some long ones, too. 1094 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:40,759 Psalm 119 is pretty long, right? 1095 00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,800 So we won't go through the whole book, but we. 1096 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,680 I do want to point out a few of them to you, but if you would 1097 00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,160 like to take it on as your own personal study, that would be a great 1098 00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:52,420 study to go through all the psalms and just go through and break 1099 00:46:52,420 --> 00:46:55,460 them down and see, because not all of them are written by David. 1100 00:46:55,460 --> 00:46:56,460 A lot of them are through the. 1101 00:46:56,460 --> 00:46:59,420 The lens of David, but some of them are written through the lenses 1102 00:46:59,420 --> 00:46:59,940 of other people. 1103 00:46:59,940 --> 00:47:03,020 And so you can get a lot of, you know, intake with that, and I 1104 00:47:03,020 --> 00:47:04,300 think it'll help you out greatly. 1105 00:47:05,180 --> 00:47:07,100 Well, we're going to go ahead and close in a word of prayer. 1106 00:47:07,100 --> 00:47:08,540 Lord, I thank you for this time that you've given us. 1107 00:47:08,540 --> 00:47:10,620 Thank you for this opportunity to come together to study your word 1108 00:47:10,620 --> 00:47:11,340 here this evening. 1109 00:47:11,420 --> 00:47:13,980 We thank you for our reasons to worship. 1110 00:47:13,980 --> 00:47:14,420 Lord, we. 1111 00:47:14,420 --> 00:47:17,620 We could sit here and give you reason after reason why we worship 1112 00:47:17,620 --> 00:47:21,510 you, Lord, but help us to rest in those, live in those, and to be 1113 00:47:21,510 --> 00:47:26,270 thankful for your goodness and for your grace and for your patience 1114 00:47:26,270 --> 00:47:28,110 and for your compassion for. 1115 00:47:28,110 --> 00:47:31,390 For all of these things that were listed here this evening and 1116 00:47:31,390 --> 00:47:31,870 many others. 1117 00:47:31,870 --> 00:47:33,990 Lord, thank you for the testimonies this evening. 1118 00:47:33,990 --> 00:47:35,070 Lord, you are a great God. 1119 00:47:35,070 --> 00:47:39,270 You are doing an amazing work in the life of people, not only here, 1120 00:47:39,270 --> 00:47:40,350 but around the world. 1121 00:47:40,670 --> 00:47:42,110 Lord, we recognize that. 1122 00:47:42,270 --> 00:47:43,390 We're ready for it. 1123 00:47:43,630 --> 00:47:47,710 Lord, I pray that you can move us to a place of change in our life 1124 00:47:47,710 --> 00:47:48,430 if need be. 1125 00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:55,000 Lord, help us to be willing to worship you properly or with the 1126 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,560 right hearts, with the right actions, with the right spirit, or 1127 00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:00,480 help us to worship you in spirit and in truth. 1128 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:05,920 Lord, I thank you for even testimony in my life of many folks 1129 00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:10,080 that have impacted me for the cause of the gospel. 1130 00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:14,080 And Lord, I pray that we can all recount those that impacted us 1131 00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:17,700 and think about the implication of that as we impact 1132 00:48:17,700 --> 00:48:18,660 others around us. 1133 00:48:19,300 --> 00:48:21,660 Lord, help us to affect as many people for the cause of the 1134 00:48:21,660 --> 00:48:23,940 gospel in the time that you've given us. 1135 00:48:24,020 --> 00:48:25,620 We ask all these things in Jesus name. 1136 00:48:25,620 --> 00:48:26,260 Amen. 1137 00:48:26,980 --> 00:48:27,540 Amen. 1138 00:48:28,340 --> 00:48:30,980 Thank you again for listening to the Middletown Baptist Church 1139 00:48:30,980 --> 00:48:31,540 podcast. 1140 00:48:31,780 --> 00:48:34,180 I hope that this sermon has been a blessing for you. 1141 00:48:34,900 --> 00:48:37,100 You would like to find out more information about our church 1142 00:48:37,100 --> 00:48:40,500 or this sermon, you can find us at middletownbaptistchurch.org 1143 00:48:41,050 --> 00:48:43,450 or find us on Facebook or YouTube. 1144 00:48:44,170 --> 00:48:49,130 You can also email me directly at Josh Massaro@middletownbaptistchurch.com 1145 00:48:49,530 --> 00:48:53,090 if you've enjoyed this podcast, please subscribe and follow 1146 00:48:53,090 --> 00:48:55,850 along for future podcast and updates. 1147 00:48:56,570 --> 00:48:57,450 Thank you so much. 1148 00:48:57,690 --> 00:48:58,410 God Bless. 1149 00:48:58,730 --> 00:49:00,010 Have a wonderful day.