1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:05,040 Good morning everyone. My name is Dirk and it's been a 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,960 hot minute since I've been able to preach. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 But it's good to be with you. This morning in the summer 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,560 season this August. It'll be three years. 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:20,760 Since we've moved to Des Moines and doing friends here, so 6 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:23,600 that's gone by. Really, really quickly. 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,680 I also lead a. Community group alongside my 8 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,800 wife Emily and they both do worship so probably see me in 9 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:35,080 some capacity. And yeah, one thing to know. 10 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:37,640 About Cool sabbatical I. I really want to give the 11 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,560 pastoral team just a really word of encouragement. 12 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:43,440 Just how? I don't know. 13 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:44,800 Just. Historically, you guys have. 14 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,280 Given him rest when it's needed. Or even proactively. 15 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:51,400 And so thank you to the team to to. 16 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,960 Lead. While he's gone and. 17 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,680 Lead well while he's. In the pulpit and here working 18 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,200 during the week so So we're doing psalms for the. 19 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:06,080 Next few weeks. And Cole just really tossed it 20 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,800 out to Will and Carlos and myself. 21 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,600 As far as what? You what we wanted to do and. 22 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:13,560 Basically what I did. I took my. 23 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,480 Bible that I've had. Since really through my 20s and 24 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:21,680 you can kind of tell. And I looked up. 25 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,600 Basically all the psalms that had the most highlights and. 26 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:30,480 And it's not superficial, it's. You know those these are Psalms. 27 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,040 That have. The gods used to minister to me 28 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,640 through my 20s, now into my. 30s and they've always. 29 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,320 Been. Deep wells where? 30 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:48,240 I'm able to to find comfort and enjoy anytime I I read through 31 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,840 them. So we're going to be in Psalm 34 32 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,560 this morning. So we're just going to stand and 33 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:59,360 read it and jump right in. So stand if you're able. 34 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:00,960 We'll have it on the screen and I'll. 35 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:03,480 Read it here if you have your Bible that's. 36 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:13,120 Awesome too. Psalm 30. 4 I will bless the 37 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,000 Lord at all. Times His praise shall 38 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,840 continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the 39 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,480 Lord. Let the humble, the humble hear 40 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:27,400 and be glad, O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his 41 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,840 name. Together I sought the. 42 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,760 Lord, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. 43 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,840 Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall 44 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,280 never be ashamed. This poor man cried, and the 45 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,760 Lord heard him and saved him out. 46 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,480 Of all his troubles. The Angel of the Lord encamps 47 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,720 around those who fear Him and delivers. 48 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,520 Them. Oh, taste and see. 49 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,840 That the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who takes 50 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,680 refuge in him. O fear the Lord. 51 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,200 You, his Saints, for those who fear him, have no lack. 52 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,200 The Young Lions suffer want and hunger. 53 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,400 But those who seek the Lord. Lack no good thing. 54 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:13,960 Come O children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the 55 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:15,600 Lord. What man is? 56 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,280 There, who desires? Life and loves many days that he 57 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,440 may see good. Keep your tongue from evil and 58 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:25,360 your lips from speaking deceit. Turn away from evil and do. 59 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,000 Good. Seek peace. 60 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,320 And pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are toward 61 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:31,720 the righteous. And his. 62 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,560 Ears toward their cry, the face of the Lord. 63 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:36,200 Is against. Those who do evil. 64 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,520 To cut off the memory of them from the earth when the 65 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,200 righteous cry. For help the Lord. 66 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,840 Hears and delivers them out. Of all their troubles. 67 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:48,120 The Lord is near to the broken hearted and saves the crushed in 68 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,280 spirit. Many are the afflictions of the 69 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:53,520 righteous. But the Lord delivers. 70 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,760 Him out of them all he keeps all his bones. 71 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:00,680 Not one of them is broken. Affliction will slay the wicked 72 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:02,640 and those who. Hate the righteous. 73 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,160 Will be condemned. The Lord redeems the. 74 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,480 Life of his. Servants, none of those who take 75 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,880 refuge in him will be condemned. This is the word of the Lord. 76 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:22,520 And have a seat. So there's a lot of good. 77 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,360 Stuff in this Psalm I'm not going to go. 78 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:29,200 Verse by verse going to really be. 79 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,720 Hitting on a theme. You can spend a lot of time in 80 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,800 this Psalm hitting every verse. There's a lot. 81 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,320 Of really good things, but don't have time for that. 82 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:41,240 So what I'm going to do is basically. 83 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,000 Just provide. Context. 84 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,400 Dig in and wrap up. So. 85 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,480 It's like most of the Psalms. You have David as the author. 86 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,440 This is no exception. And David's writing these Psalms 87 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,600 through different, you know, different chapters of his own 88 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,800 life. Through good. 89 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,680 Moments, bad moments and and everything in between. 90 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:11,280 And this Psalm was written in the earlier half of his. 91 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:17,360 Life so for his. Kind of a nutshell story, David, 92 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,600 as most of us knows, but if we're kind of unfamiliar with 93 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:24,320 him back in the Old Testament in First Samuel chapter 16. 94 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,040 God calls David to be the future. 95 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:34,520 King anoints him to be king. Now before that, in Genesis, you 96 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:35,640 had the. Patriarchs you had. 97 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:40,800 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. You then have the judges, and 98 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,920 then the time of the kings. And so Saul was the first king, 99 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:51,120 did some good things and then messed up some things and was 100 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,040 eventually. Rejected by God, although He 101 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,760 still kept that. Title and kept the throne. 102 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:00,080 Then God called David, Samuel anointed him, and then right. 103 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:01,680 After that you have the Goliath story. 104 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:07,040 And then what you see right after that is this turn of 105 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:08,800 events where. Saul grows. 106 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:12,440 Jealous of David because here you have this young guy coming 107 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:17,320 up and people are saying so much more about David than Saul and 108 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:18,520 so he. Grows jealous. 109 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:24,360 So jealous that. He wants David murdered now, 110 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,400 what we often overlook when we read through. 111 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,840 Scripture, especially the old. Testament and New Testament to 112 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,200 to some degree. Is we we lose. 113 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,000 Kind of the the length of time that happens unless. 114 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 It straight up says. This amount of time. 115 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,520 Passed SO. Saul is pursuing David to kill 116 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,080 him and David is on the run for what some people estimate 117 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:53,720 upwards of 10 to 15 years. It's not a couple months, years 118 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:58,280 and he's he's living in caves. He's. 119 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:03,920 Fearing for his life, he's on the run and I think this sets an 120 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:05,640 example for us. I don't know about you, but I 121 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:07,360 know for me. It's it's a level. 122 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:11,280 Of stress and anxiety that we can't comprehend or or maybe not 123 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:15,600 even familiar with. Like my my level of extreme 124 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:17,960 stress during a day is when my kids are talking to me at the 125 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,560 same time and I can't understand what anyone's saying. 126 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:24,560 David's waking up. Every day. 127 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:27,280 Knowing people are trying to murder me. 128 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:34,240 Today for. Thousands of days and his 129 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:37,840 response to God in this Psalm is not. 130 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:44,040 Where are you God that that's? Definitely in other psalms. 131 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:46,400 Don't, don't, don't get him wrong. 132 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,400 He definitely expresses that. But in this Psalm it's 133 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,160 different, and I and I think in this Psalm he has. 134 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,280 A clear perspective, like God has. 135 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,840 Given him. Unobstructed view over his. 136 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:10,330 Life and his situation. He says in verse one no knowing 137 00:08:10,330 --> 00:08:14,120 what he is going through. He says, I will bless the Lord. 138 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:20,480 At all times he's worthy of my praise. 139 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:25,400 While I'm being hunted, he's worthy of my praise. 140 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:32,000 I will not stop praising him. Let the humble. 141 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:36,600 Hear it, let those who are aware of their. 142 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,320 Brokenness and aware of their their needs. 143 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,840 Hear it? Verse 3. 144 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,680 And it overflows, not. Just to I will do this but he. 145 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,680 Then says to everyone. Or the reader. 146 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,800 O magnify the Lord with me, join me in this. 147 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:01,040 Praise and what he's. Doing here, he's going now 148 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:05,520 through his experience. He's not just giving these 149 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:08,680 platitudes. He's not just saying, oh, this 150 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:11,640 is a good magnet, It's a. It's a good tattoo. 151 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:15,080 Idea. He's saying this is my life. 152 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:21,520 Verse 4I sought. Him and he answered me, and he 153 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:27,960 delivered me. Verse 5 Those who look to. 154 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:33,360 Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. 155 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:34,680 And so. That that's really. 156 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:37,520 A kind of a connecting thread to Moses. 157 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,240 Where? God allows him to see his 158 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,520 backside when he walks by Moses, and Moses comes down from the 159 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:47,520 mountain with his face glowing and he has to have a. 160 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:51,800 Veil over his face because he saw God's glory. 161 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,400 And it was too much. For people to take. 162 00:09:54,400 --> 00:10:00,240 In but he's saying the same way for himself and for God's. 163 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,600 People. To look to Him, you will become 164 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:06,200 radiant, you will never be ashamed because you have beheld 165 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:12,160 the best thing, God Himself. I cried out to him. 166 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:16,320 And he heard me. He saves me out of my troubles. 167 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,600 He his. Presence encamps around me. 168 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:22,720 He will. Deliver me. 169 00:10:28,270 --> 00:10:33,430 Those who fear him have no lack. And are well satisfied. 170 00:10:34,830 --> 00:10:40,070 Now see he he unpacks. This first bit. 171 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,240 This is who God is. This is my story. 172 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:46,440 He has answered me. And we can think in our 173 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,200 situation, seems like a bit of a disconnect, like I'm going 174 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:51,640 through some stuff. I know you went through some 175 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:53,840 stuff, David, but I'm going through some stuff right now. 176 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:59,320 And I don't feel that he's not omitting brokenness. 177 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:01,600 He's not omitting grief and struggles. 178 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:11,600 Go to verse 18. The Lord is near. 179 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:16,520 To the broken hearted, he saves the crushed. 180 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:20,480 In spirit, he's saying that because. 181 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:24,240 He has lived that. Many are the. 182 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:30,960 Afflictions of the righteous. But the Lord delivers him out of 183 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:35,680 them all, so he's not saying that drawing near to God means. 184 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:37,880 It gets rid. Of tough seasons it gets rid of. 185 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:39,920 Grief because those. Things are still going to 186 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,600 happen. Grief will still happen. 187 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:44,480 Tragedies will still. Happen. 188 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:46,920 But the Lord. Will redeem it. 189 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,600 The Lord will be. Present in it. 190 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:52,640 And so that brings us to, I think, the. 191 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:56,920 The crux, the core of this passage. 192 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,200 And not just to read about. David's life, but his his call 193 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,680 to you, his call to us. This morning to call to any. 194 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:13,240 Believer who has ever. Read the song Oh Taste and see. 195 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:19,400 That the Lord is. Good taste and see. 196 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:26,480 He's he's. Pleading with us here, he's 197 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:30,920 saying, let my life bear witness to you I'm in a. 198 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:34,640 Bad situation. I don't know if I'm going to 199 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:36,760 live now. I know the Lord has anointed me 200 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:39,640 to be king, to be king. I don't know what tomorrow's 201 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:43,840 going to bring. Like do you think he's? 202 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:47,600 At least an ounce frustrated that he's been anointed and he's 203 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:52,240 living in a cave. He's been on the run for years, 204 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:56,280 and probably a handful more. Years after that, absolutely. 205 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,960 Psalm 42, he's saying my tears have been my food day and night. 206 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:10,040 Sorrowful, but his, his, his. Train of thought here his flow 207 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:16,520 and Psalm 34 is more of. A desperate, but why would I? 208 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,160 Leave him who has given me so much. 209 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:23,600 Why would I leave safety? Why would I leave the place? 210 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,920 Where I'm not ashamed, The place where I don't have condemnation 211 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:31,720 in his presence, he's saying this is who? 212 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,600 God is his character. This. 213 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,800 Is what he has done in my life. This is what he will do. 214 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,920 In your life, believer and this. Is what he will. 215 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:45,240 Do over and over again, and so the call. 216 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:50,280 For us today is that practice. Of tasting and seeing. 217 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:55,200 That God is good. It's pursuing God himself and 218 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,680 with that there is like a genuine experience. 219 00:13:57,680 --> 00:14:01,880 And now we're not in a sense chasing like the mountaintop 220 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:05,040 experience. We are pursuing God because we 221 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:06,760 know that. Ultimately, he has pursued. 222 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:13,840 Us, and he's still pursuing us in order to do that. 223 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:18,280 He's David. Saying that you need to be. 224 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,560 Aware of your. Brokenness and your deep need. 225 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:22,880 Let the humble. Hear it. 226 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:27,520 He's aware. In a cave, Spears being thrown 227 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:31,040 at him, where the challenge for us is we're in comfort. 228 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:32,360 I mean, it's not that cold in here. 229 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:37,040 I'm still kind of sweating a bit, but we're surrounded with 230 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:42,360 comforts. He's missing days. 231 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:47,000 Without food. But that doesn't mean it's 232 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,520 impossible for us. And So what? 233 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:55,120 You have to do is you have to. Be honest with yourself and 234 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,840 what's happening and I and I know from my experience as a 235 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,040 corn fed Iowa raised. Boy. 236 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:08,080 You figure things out. Just got to figure it out. 237 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:10,840 You don't always. Share your struggles. 238 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,000 You don't. Always ask for help. 239 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:16,720 And sometimes you're not always honest. 240 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:21,240 With yourself because it causes you to to pause, to have to to 241 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:23,160 stop. Working. 242 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:31,040 Stop doing things. It's a practically like what you 243 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,840 just have to. Do if you're feeling this and as 244 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,320 you go through these things in the future, but if you're in 245 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:40,240 this right now. Like get paper. 246 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,600 Out and write down. Write down how you feel. 247 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,120 Sit with God. And write it out. 248 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:54,280 Write it out that you. Feel let down that you feel 249 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:58,520 angry, that you feel confused, that you feel jealous because it 250 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:00,560 seems. Everybody else in your 251 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:02,720 community. Is is getting blessed but me? 252 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,520 Other people have. Families that have it figured 253 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:14,930 out, does that sound like some Psalms? 254 00:16:15,050 --> 00:16:16,770 Does that sound like Pink David's written? 255 00:16:18,130 --> 00:16:27,000 Yeah, I I had to do. This myself three years ago, May 256 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:34,240 of 22, I was doing starting my own sabbatical and I took a nap, 257 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:39,360 had a cabin just me. I woke up and God really 258 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:44,800 prompted me to write it out. Write down what I was feeling 259 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:51,480 and a couple lines just turn into. 260 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:57,920 A couple pages. And listing out memory after 261 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:07,640 memory of, of brokenness, of fears of sin, struggles and, and 262 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,720 it took a really hard moment where I, I sat there and I saw 263 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:16,960 20 years of my life with deep anxiety issues that I, I. 264 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:23,160 Really. Had not seen before and that's 265 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:31,360 horrifying to see, but I knew. That it was that all that. 266 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:34,520 Happened was for healing, not for condemnation. 267 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:39,600 And what? Followed with that was. 268 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:45,760 God reminding me of His promises to meet me in those struggles. 269 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,720 And so back to you, writing. This out write out. 270 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:52,080 What's wrong? Write out the grief. 271 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:57,480 Write out the struggles. Right next to each one, counter 272 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:00,880 it with God's promises and it doesn't take that hard. 273 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:02,920 Go through just this Psalm alone. 274 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:07,040 Let this Psalm. Speak to your life, speak to 275 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,600 your struggles. Go through Ephesians 1 because 276 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,320 every spiritual blessing in heaven has been given to you. 277 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:24,720 Every blessing and where? Some of the promises. 278 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,040 Are pretty big and where we have to. 279 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:33,320 You know, come to terms with some things that we we may not 280 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:39,440 see that fulfilled promise in on the side of heaven, but it will 281 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:44,400 come right when when we. Talk about. 282 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,440 Healing when I've talked with people and prayed. 283 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,600 With people. About healing the. 284 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,480 The the, the big. Understanding. 285 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,160 And I asked. For God to heal people of of 286 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,080 whatever it may be. In that moment, because I know 287 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:10,120 that he can do it in God's response to to that is not yes 288 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:16,040 or no, it's. Yes, or wait that. 289 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:21,600 Healing that, restoration that whatever it may be for you, what 290 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,280 you need. We do ask that. 291 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:28,480 God would bring healing to it, restoration to that, on this 292 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,480 side of heaven, when we pray for it, when we go. 293 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:35,400 To each other for for prayer. But it's never no if it's in 294 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:37,160 line with the gospel. The answer? 295 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:41,600 To it is yes. Or maybe later soon. 296 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,000 David says. Join me in this pursuit. 297 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:56,920 Magnify the Lord with me and it's not just a one and done 298 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,000 where he says this in Psalm 34 and then he moves on with it, 299 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:04,200 moves on from it for the. Rest of his life we get a 300 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:12,480 really, really graphic picture. In Second Samuel 6, I'm not 301 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:16,200 going to pull it up. You can bookmark that, but what 302 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:19,960 happens is eventually David does become king, and there's this 303 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:23,800 process where we're bringing the Ark of the Covenant into 304 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:31,520 Jerusalem and for the entire. Path of what? 305 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,400 Is a very lengthy journey, many many miles. 306 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:41,080 Every six steps. They sacrifice an ox. 307 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,480 So basically you. Sacrifice an ox, which is a 308 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,000 pretty big animal. Go 6 steps which. 309 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,120 Is pretty much from. But to face slaughter? 310 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:57,160 Another one go again and again and again for miles. 311 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:03,480 That's a lot of blood, and that's also the the the part. 312 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:05,720 Where he's dancing and and praising God and his. 313 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,880 His wife's like. Kind of belittling that and 314 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,840 there's judgement on her after that, but that that's that whole 315 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:13,560 scene. That. 316 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:17,800 He is so overflowing. With praise because. 317 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:21,880 He knew where he came from, like he knew. 318 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,760 The trials the. Tribulations that he's gone 319 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:30,280 through and he knew in then in those times that God would 320 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:33,360 deliver him and now he's in. The Deliverance. 321 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:38,720 Free, overflowing with praise, blood covering the entire. 322 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:43,720 Path back to Jerusalem. Blood on himself and he says 323 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:48,400 join me in that now the connection with. 324 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:55,240 That is this because? We're not going to do that and 325 00:21:55,240 --> 00:22:01,200 we're for us on this side of. The cross is Jesus says. 326 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:07,200 That's a picture, a parallel. Of what I've done. 327 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:19,160 For you the path. To home is paved in. 328 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:28,200 Blood with a sacrifice. One sacrifice, one time. 329 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,640 You don't. Have to keep. 330 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:38,680 Doing it. His blood paves away. 331 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:46,240 In your suffering it. Paves away in your. 332 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:56,340 Grief. That's that's the true. 333 00:22:56,340 --> 00:22:57,380 Redemption. That's the the. 334 00:22:57,380 --> 00:23:00,020 True deliverance that that David's. 335 00:23:00,020 --> 00:23:03,540 Talking about that. For those who. 336 00:23:03,700 --> 00:23:07,540 Are in Christ. Because of his sacrifice. 337 00:23:07,700 --> 00:23:10,340 The shame gone. The condemnation? 338 00:23:10,580 --> 00:23:14,100 Gone. And think about it this way. 339 00:23:15,420 --> 00:23:22,120 David had the anointing of being the future king over Israel, and 340 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:23,360 he knew. God would do it. 341 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:28,600 God would make it so it's different for us because. 342 00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:34,680 What we've been given is the anointing of being God's. 343 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:41,400 Children that's present, that's. Right now that's walking with 344 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,880 Jesus in this life. It's Romans 8 what Paul says 345 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:46,960 the. Spirit of adoption. 346 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:48,720 By whom we. Cry, O ABBA father. 347 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,440 That's an anointing we don't have to wait for. 348 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:56,920 But why? Why does? 349 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,240 Why does David use the word taste that that? 350 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:05,040 Language and if you think about. It taste is. 351 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,400 A unique sense. They're all unique, which is why 352 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:15,200 there's different senses, but it's unique because one, it 353 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,520 relies on smell for the full experience. 354 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:26,800 But taste requires. Nearness. 355 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:33,160 It requires proximity. It requires being close to 356 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:38,120 something, touching it, consuming it, right? 357 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:41,120 Because you can see and hear from a distance. 358 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,280 But what's also unique with taste? 359 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:51,560 Is we have. Insatiable. 360 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:56,080 Appetites, right? Like we, we have a desire. 361 00:24:56,080 --> 00:25:00,800 For quantity and quality. Right, we have a. 362 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,840 Desire for quantity, right? Because we. 363 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,480 Eventually just have to. Keep eating right. 364 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,600 We had breakfast. Most of us, we had, we're going 365 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:08,240 to have. Lunch. 366 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,960 We have, supper we're going to have snack and repeat, repeat, 367 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:16,080 repeat. But we also want an experience, 368 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,560 right? We want that dopamine hit. 369 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:26,480 There's a big difference between a frozen Jack's pizza and 370 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,560 Giordano's. There's an experience. 371 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:37,190 And it's also good. How many of you don't like 372 00:25:37,190 --> 00:25:38,910 Indian food? But I love Indian food. 373 00:25:40,510 --> 00:25:44,190 It's so complex, there's so many spices. 374 00:25:44,190 --> 00:25:46,510 Like how can you create all this flavor? 375 00:25:46,830 --> 00:25:49,880 With just a couple pinches of whatever they put in it. 376 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:51,600 It's really good. Stains my. 377 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:59,760 Clothes, but it's really good. But the appetite, The physical 378 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,200 appetite. Is also spiritual it's it's 379 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,440 connected right we. See, we see that in scripture 380 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,120 where? The eyes of your heart have been 381 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:13,440 enlightened like like God taps on all the senses, has a way of 382 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:18,840 connection with Him because we hunger for more. 383 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,080 And of course, for my sermon. Here's CS. 384 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:26,720 Lewis, he says. If I find in myself. 385 00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:30,800 A desire for which? No experience in this world can. 386 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,240 Satisfy the most. Probable explanation is that. 387 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,160 I was made. For another world. 388 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:45,160 Because we have to keep eating. And can never be. 389 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,880 Fully satisfied it's a. Sign that we were. 390 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,800 Made. For another world. 391 00:26:54,520 --> 00:27:02,480 We were. Made for something more right? 392 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,720 Hunger, right? And hunger isn't the issue. 393 00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:12,880 That's a good thing. But The thing is, what are we 394 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:18,280 consuming? Right, like we. 395 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:22,600 Become what we behold, we when we consume of something that's 396 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,000 not God, we become more like that thing we become more like. 397 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,640 Our kids, which that's great. We become more like broken 398 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:35,160 things. But here you have. 399 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:42,480 Jesus in the Gospel saying. That. 400 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:49,440 That I'm the living water and anyone who who drinks of this 401 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:50,760 will never. Be thirsty again. 402 00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:58,640 That I'm the bread. Of life he's. 403 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:02,000 Tapping into that, he's showing that there's something deeper 404 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:08,120 that's going to satisfy us more than just bread, more than just 405 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:14,960 water. So David says taste. 406 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:22,640 And see how. How do we do that so so. 407 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,400 Real practical. I don't know. 408 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:29,840 I think it is, it's practical and it's good and, and this is 409 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:36,880 really just a a insight to my own life that to taste and see 410 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,680 we need to step into and grow in. 411 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:48,240 Habits of gratitude, right? Whether that's something that 412 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,440 you're journaling out and and that's really helpful, but. 413 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,200 Also with people like it's really it's. 414 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,520 Letting people into your life and and praising God. 415 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,840 For what he's provided. For and what he's given to you 416 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:00,040 in your life and. What you look? 417 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:04,640 To Him for gratitude, that's magnifying the Lord. 418 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:10,160 Together. Right when you do that, it 419 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:15,720 doesn't give room for lies. It it. 420 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,800 Pushes those things. Out it releases those. 421 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,320 Things and it takes in. Beauty it takes. 422 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:26,600 In Majesty. Of God, honestly, that that's 423 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,160 right now. Like that's how we help our 424 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:30,360 kids. Learn how to pray. 425 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,280 What are you thankful for today, buddy? 426 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,920 Dinosaurs cool. Snacks. 427 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:43,920 Cool. But what's really sweet about 428 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:49,800 that? And it's a parallel when Emily 429 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:56,960 and I do that with them. It it develops. 430 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:02,600 A bond between the parent and the child so that we're seen as 431 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,120 a. Safe place which is a. 432 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:14,400 Minor reflection of when they get feet and run in prayer. 433 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:23,120 With God where Jesus is their safe place. 434 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:34,400 Where they don't have shame. Where they don't have 435 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:44,300 condemnation? Where? 436 00:30:45,580 --> 00:30:54,020 They taste and see that's what parenting is. 437 00:30:54,020 --> 00:30:55,180 We're just training them for that. 438 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:04,600 I have. Worship written down. 439 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,240 That's pretty self-explanatory. It's hand in hand with 440 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,040 gratitude. It's gratitude expressed. 441 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:15,240 In song and in the beautiful thing when we're doing that, 442 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,000 whether alone or with. People there are those. 443 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:25,080 Transcendent moments that it's not. 444 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,600 It's not a chord progression. It's not. 445 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:35,440 How? Great the singer is. 446 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:42,680 Although you guys are great, it's it's those. 447 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:49,520 Special moments where? It just feels like like God is 448 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,440 just more. Present for some reason. 449 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,880 Where it's so explicitly beautiful and we get. 450 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:01,600 To experience it. Together, that we. 451 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:08,800 Get to taste and. See his goodness and. 452 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:13,640 I mean, in a little bit here, we're going to do communion. 453 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:18,360 Together like I. Don't know how practical. 454 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,880 We can get other than. You're taking bread in wine. 455 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:26,040 And tasting. Tasting. 456 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,600 And seeing his goodness. Tasting of his sacrifice, of his 457 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,640 body and his bloodshed. And seeing his goodness. 458 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,440 That it would be a. Special moment of us getting to. 459 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,440 Do that together. And I'm not going to preach on 460 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,640 that. I'll let MC do that. 461 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,800 But enclosed I want, I want to share this. 462 00:32:54,440 --> 00:33:00,840 I I need this Psalm for myself today. 463 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:09,560 I picked it a few weeks ago. Thinking that's a great song and 464 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:14,320 then some things. Have occurred. 465 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:20,600 In my extended family, my immediate family and me and the 466 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,000 kids, we're doing good. But in my extended family. 467 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:33,640 We have to have a. Very difficult conversation 468 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:45,160 tonight. And so it's been weighing on me 469 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:50,440 significantly because I have. To lead. 470 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:56,000 This conversation, and it's most likely a conversation that all 471 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,720 of us. Will have to do. 472 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,719 So. It's God's timing I need to. 473 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,880 Believe David's words. I need to believe. 474 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:16,960 God's promises for myself. And so I need to. 475 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:23,360 Practically apply this. I have to be honest with my. 476 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:28,360 Situation I. Have to be honest. 477 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:40,920 With how I feel what's happening in the the hurt, the grief, but 478 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:52,730 God says this those who. Look to him. 479 00:34:52,929 --> 00:34:57,010 Are radiant their faces? Shall never be ashamed. 480 00:34:58,490 --> 00:35:00,970 I sought the Lord and. He answered me and delivered me. 481 00:35:01,530 --> 00:35:03,650 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard me. 482 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,680 Those who seek the Lord. Lack no good thing. 483 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:14,960 The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous. 484 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:19,040 In his. Ears toward their cry, the 485 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:20,600 righteous cry for. Help and the Lord. 486 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,160 Hears he delivers them out of their troubles. 487 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,160 He's near to the broken hearted and he. 488 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,360 Saves the crushed. In spirit, many are the 489 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,880 afflictions of the righteous. But the Lord delivers them out. 490 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:42,360 Of them all. So taste and see that's my plead 491 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:48,040 to you this morning, whether you need to do some of that this 492 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:52,720 morning with God or a friend or a loved one to to. 493 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:54,760 For you to be. Their strength alongside them 494 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:59,480 and take them to the Lord in. Prayer, let's do business. 495 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:10,280 In that. Let's pray, Lord, we. 496 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,280 We come before you. And for those. 497 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:24,080 Of us in this room. That just feel the weight would 498 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:25,600 our. Cries line up. 499 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:33,120 With David's cries would we? Would our hearts cry out? 500 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:45,450 For relief, for healing. For restoration, would we see 501 00:36:45,450 --> 00:36:49,730 your response? Would we know your presence more 502 00:36:49,730 --> 00:36:51,250 deeply? More closely. 503 00:36:56,770 --> 00:37:04,210 God, we want to taste and see your goodness make it so. 504 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,560 Would they taste and see your goodness for the first? 505 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:25,400 Time this morning for anyone who's felt. 506 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:33,360 Dry for a season, for years. Would they taste and see newly 507 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:37,120 again? Refresh our souls? 508 00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:44,200 Bring water onto dry ground you said you make. 509 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:50,960 A way in the desert. Would you do that, God? 510 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,680 Would you supply everything that we lack We. 511 00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:00,240 Come with open hands, open mouths. 512 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:04,120 To feed. Feed us God. 513 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:09,400 Quench our thirsts. Would you? 514 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,320 Do a mighty. Work in this church. 515 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:17,040 In this body this morning, anyone? 516 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:18,640 Under the sound of my voice.