1 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:10,200 Father again, we just pray. Yeah. 2 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:12,200 We exalt you. And that's what we want to do 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:14,400 this morning. Lord, thank you for Luke, and 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,000 his willingness to come, and share the message that you have 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:18,600 put on his heart. And Lord, we just pray that 6 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,800 you'll give him Clarity of thought and mind, is he, as he 7 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,300 does that. And Lord, just pray that we 8 00:00:23,300 --> 00:00:27,000 would have hearts open to hear what you want to say to us. 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:29,900 And that will be willing to be molded and changed. 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,200 Changed by Your Word, Lord. Yeah, again, thank you for 11 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:37,600 Luke's passion for, for you, and for your word and we just pray 12 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:42,600 that it changes us this morning, just pray in Jesus name, amen. 13 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:49,500 Hello. Yes, yes. 14 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:55,800 So today we'll look at Psalm 97 and it's likely not certain but 15 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:02,500 it's it's likely next one. That it's part of a liturgy that 16 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:07,200 was used in Old Israel. That includes the other Psalms 17 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:14,900 in round about the 90s, not the 1990s but some 90s and so on 18 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,100 like in Psalm 95 Says come let us sing. 19 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:24,000 So maybe that was for a festival celebration related to kingship 20 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:29,200 and in the middle of it we've got Sam's 97 and right on either 21 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:34,000 side of it, 96 and 98 and Dan, very kindly read out 96 for us 22 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:40,900 today are narrowing each other and they're both saying God is 23 00:01:40,900 --> 00:01:46,500 going to come and judge the Earth. and then in the middle of 24 00:01:46,500 --> 00:01:50,900 them, we've got 97, which has got the, most Vivid and direct 25 00:01:50,900 --> 00:01:59,700 District description of God, coming and judging And poetry as 26 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:03,800 we know of and has structure and the structure of this one, you 27 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:09,300 could say that this 126 is on the top. 28 00:02:09,300 --> 00:02:12,000 And then verse 8 to 12 hours of the bottom and they're kind of 29 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:16,600 balancing each other, and 126 days is got the earth and the 30 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,300 heavens. And it says rejoice and be glad 31 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,100 then 11:52 has got Zion and the daughters of Judah and says, be 32 00:02:24,100 --> 00:02:27,700 glad and rejoice. And then right in the middle 33 00:02:27,700 --> 00:02:34,500 saves shame on idolaters and these points are very finely 34 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:40,900 balanced, 126 has 42, Hebrew words and h-12 has 43. 35 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:45,100 Now, let's read the thumb and just keeping the structure in 36 00:02:45,100 --> 00:02:50,800 mind. The Lord Reigns let the Earth 37 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,100 Rejoice. Let the many coastlands be glad 38 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,700 clouds and thick Darkness are all around him righteousness and 39 00:02:58,700 --> 00:03:01,200 Justice are the foundation of his throne. 40 00:03:02,300 --> 00:03:05,400 Fire goes before him and burns up his adversaries. 41 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:10,100 All around his Lightnings light up the world, the Earth sees and 42 00:03:10,100 --> 00:03:14,600 trembles the mountains melt like Wax before the Lord. 43 00:03:14,700 --> 00:03:18,600 Before the Lord of all the Earth, the heavens Proclaim his 44 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,900 righteousness. It all people see his glory. 45 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,200 All worshippers of images are put to shame who make their 46 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,100 boast and worthless Idols worship him. 47 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:34,000 All you gods. This eight Zion he is, and his 48 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,700 glad and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your 49 00:03:37,700 --> 00:03:42,600 judgments O, Lord For You O Lord we've just been singing. 50 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,700 This, haven't we For You? O Lord, our most high over all 51 00:03:45,700 --> 00:03:49,400 the Earth you are exalted far above all gods. 52 00:03:50,900 --> 00:03:53,700 Oh, you who love the Lord hate evil. 53 00:03:54,700 --> 00:03:56,600 He preserves the lives of his Saints. 54 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:00,700 He delivers them from the hand of the wicked light is sown for 55 00:04:00,700 --> 00:04:03,600 the righteous and joy for the upright in heart. 56 00:04:04,700 --> 00:04:09,300 Rejoice in the Lord O you righteous and give thanks to His 57 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:15,400 holy name. Now, poetry often gives us many 58 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,800 things that we can visualize. So how we're going to approach 59 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,000 this today is we're gonna make a list of a lot of things in the 60 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,700 psalm that were able to visualize and just go through 61 00:04:25,700 --> 00:04:28,000 them. And at the same time, we'll be 62 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,800 going through the first half of the verses and jumping ahead as 63 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,000 appropriate to the second half in that way. 64 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:40,800 We'll cover it. Okay, let the many coastlands be 65 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:47,200 glad well, why coastlands nowadays, you can fly in a plane 66 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,100 from any one. Place. 67 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:53,100 To any other place, doesn't make much difference of a coastal 68 00:04:53,100 --> 00:04:55,400 and, or not as much as it used to. 69 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:03,500 But before planes, if you lived, deep in the Inland of one body 70 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:06,700 of land, then the only way that you're ever going to hear about 71 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:11,500 somebody, Deep in the Inland of another body of land was through 72 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:15,500 the coast lands in the middle. Here's a pretty picture of a 73 00:05:15,500 --> 00:05:19,600 coast land and there's the little Coastland running around 74 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,400 there. Yeah. 75 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:26,300 So the port cities would be very important and the ancient world 76 00:05:26,300 --> 00:05:29,700 was more International and more connected than we give it credit 77 00:05:29,700 --> 00:05:32,500 for. But if you did hear about the 78 00:05:32,500 --> 00:05:35,000 Inland of another consonant, it would be through that Coast 79 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,900 land. So the coast land does not not 80 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:42,100 the place where you have your Beach vacation it's it makes you 81 00:05:42,100 --> 00:05:45,100 think of the whole International scene. 82 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:52,300 Like some 96 that Dan read out sing to the Lord, Lord, all the 83 00:05:52,300 --> 00:05:56,500 Earth. Now, let's picture Thunder and a 84 00:05:56,500 --> 00:05:59,100 throne and fire and lightning and mountains. 85 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:05,500 And the Lord's presence and the Lord's coming is spoken of in 86 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:08,600 terms of a storm also. And I'm going to read a couple 87 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,900 of other great passage in the Psalms which have this Psalm 29 88 00:06:12,900 --> 00:06:16,400 few verses from it, the voice of the Lord is over the waters. 89 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,600 The the god of Glory Thunders, the voice of the Lord flashes 90 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:24,300 forth flames of fire. The Lord sits enthroned over the 91 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:26,700 flood. The Lord sits enthroned as king 92 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:31,200 forever. Psalm 18, starting at verse 9. 93 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:34,500 The Lord Bao the heavens and came down. 94 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,900 Thick Darkness was under his feet, he rode on a cherub and 95 00:06:38,900 --> 00:06:41,300 flu. He came swiftly on the wings of 96 00:06:41,300 --> 00:06:43,900 the Wind. By the way, a cherub is not a 97 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,300 baby angel. It's a very awesome Angel. 98 00:06:46,900 --> 00:06:50,400 He made Darkness his covering his canopy around him, thick 99 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:54,800 clouds dark with water out of the brightness before him, hail 100 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,600 stones and coals of fire broke through his clouds. 101 00:06:58,100 --> 00:07:01,300 The Lord also thundered in the heavens and the most high 102 00:07:01,300 --> 00:07:02,400 uttered, his voice. Voice. 103 00:07:02,500 --> 00:07:08,800 Hail stones and coals of Fire. Storms were about one of the 104 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,500 most powerful things the Ancients ever experienced and 105 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,300 for us to bad weather is pretty up there. 106 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:20,300 In terms of powerful things that we know about is we've seen on 107 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:25,700 the news with Auckland and the coromandel recently So, it is 108 00:07:25,700 --> 00:07:29,700 fitting that they describe God's power and presence in terms of a 109 00:07:29,707 --> 00:07:34,200 storm. Now, to the Canaanites bail was 110 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,500 the storm God, and they would often refer to him as the most 111 00:07:37,500 --> 00:07:40,100 high. But sounds like this, the 112 00:07:40,100 --> 00:07:45,800 challenge that and they say no God, the true God of Israel is 113 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,300 the lord of the storm, and he is the real most high. 114 00:07:52,100 --> 00:07:55,300 So this time it brings together Joy. 115 00:07:55,300 --> 00:07:59,200 Let's rejoice and also judgment in authority. 116 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:04,400 Now, the joy is because the authority is good and the 117 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:09,800 judgment is, right. Is righteousness and Justice 118 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,300 that are the foundation of God's Throne. 119 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:21,400 There's two and the judgment is also a rescue think of The 120 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,500 Exodus. Israel being rescued from Egypt 121 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:29,100 and brought up out of Egypt from being stuck there and at the 122 00:08:29,100 --> 00:08:32,299 same time the Egyptians and Pharaoh would being judged. 123 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,900 So as the very Judgment of them that means the rescue of the is 124 00:08:35,900 --> 00:08:42,600 the children of Israel. And Skip ahead to the verse 10. 125 00:08:43,100 --> 00:08:47,100 He delivers his Saints. Well, not every saint has 126 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:52,200 delivered from every danger all the time right now, but in the 127 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,800 final judgment, although all be resurrected and it will be 128 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:00,000 Vindicated. So that's something to be joyful 129 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,600 about, right? That's why we're joyful about 130 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:04,500 judgment. Judgment is a rescue. 131 00:09:04,700 --> 00:09:09,400 It's a vindication Let's talk about thunder. 132 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,300 So isn't Darkness supposed to be bad? 133 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:18,800 Well, it's often a symbol for evil, but not here here, it's 134 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:23,300 dark clouds and gods Riding the Storm as we've seen. 135 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:27,900 And in Israel's history, the presence of God often comes with 136 00:09:27,900 --> 00:09:32,200 a cloud and the cloud veiled his glory because it's just too 137 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,900 great for us. We're going to spend a fair 138 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:39,900 amount of time on this because this is key and look passage 139 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:45,100 that has this in Exodus 19. Starting this texting. 140 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:51,500 So Israel is encamped near to Mount Sinai and on the morning 141 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:54,600 of the third day, Thunder, roared and lightning, flashed 142 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,000 and a dense Cloud came down on the mountain. 143 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,100 There was a long loud blast on the Ram's Horn and all the 144 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:04,700 people trembled. Moses LED them out from the camp 145 00:10:04,700 --> 00:10:08,600 to meet with God and they stood at the foot of the mountain, all 146 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:12,900 of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord descended 147 00:10:12,900 --> 00:10:16,900 on it in the form of Fire. The smoke billowed into the sky, 148 00:10:16,900 --> 00:10:20,500 like smoke from a Brick Kiln and the whole Mountain shook 149 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:25,500 violently at the blast of the Ram's, Horn, grew, louder, and 150 00:10:25,500 --> 00:10:28,200 louder. Moses spoke and God thundered 151 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:32,400 his reply, the Lord came down on the top of Mount Sinai and 152 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,300 Called Moses to the top of the mountain. 153 00:10:35,100 --> 00:10:38,900 So Moses climbed the mountain. And then God gives them 154 00:10:38,900 --> 00:10:42,000 instructions to make the tent of meeting meeting with God, they 155 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,300 make the 10th contented all finished and chapter 40. 156 00:10:45,300 --> 00:10:49,600 The tenth of all finished and the cloud covered the Tabernacle 157 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,500 of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the Lord 158 00:10:52,500 --> 00:10:55,000 filled. The Tabernacle Moses could no 159 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,400 longer enter it because the cloud settled down over it and 160 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:02,700 the glory of the Lord filled it, And then later on when they 161 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:05,600 build the temple which is like the Tabernacle. 162 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:08,400 But it's a building the same thing happens. 163 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,700 Cloud comes down as the Lord's, Glory fills the temple. 164 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,800 And I also want to read without comment. 165 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:22,000 A verse from ahem, you might know, Immortal invisible, Great 166 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,100 him. And one verse that says, great 167 00:11:25,100 --> 00:11:28,800 father of Glory, pure Father of Lights, the Angels adore thee, 168 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,100 all bailing their site, all praise. 169 00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:33,200 We would render oh help us to see tis. 170 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,600 Only the Splendor of light. Hi Dorothy. 171 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:42,100 So, in the storm we're thinking of God's Throne, righteousness, 172 00:11:42,100 --> 00:11:44,600 and Justice are the foundation of your throne. 173 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:49,200 God is the king and he has the authority to judge. 174 00:11:50,700 --> 00:11:55,900 Now, Elizabeth, the second was given a sword at her coronation. 175 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,500 And I guess child's. The third will soon be given one 176 00:12:01,100 --> 00:12:05,200 and in the some we don't see God with a sword that we see him 177 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:10,000 with fire and fire is what he can use to judge speaks of 178 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:17,800 judgement. for our Monarch in England, that may be largely 179 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:23,200 ceremonial, but with God has power as very real So in the 180 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:27,300 ancient near East the king and the people would make a 181 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:30,200 covenant. Make a promise he'll be a king 182 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:34,600 and they'll be a good people and the good King is a king. 183 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:39,000 Who keeps that promise? Good King is a promise keeper 184 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:45,000 and God is righteous because he keeps his promise to be a good 185 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,800 King. He fulfills because commitment 186 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:54,700 by ruling in a good way and in a just way And the NIV Study Bible 187 00:12:54,700 --> 00:12:59,800 has a good note, says it that the whole idea of a throne being 188 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:04,400 established by righteousness and Justice was proverbial in 189 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:08,300 Israel. So what better place to look for 190 00:13:08,300 --> 00:13:12,600 it, then in Proverbs and Proverbs 25 5, the King's throne 191 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,700 will be established and righteousness. 192 00:13:15,700 --> 00:13:18,900 And 2914. If a king Faithfully judges, the 193 00:13:18,900 --> 00:13:22,000 poor, his throne will be established forever. 194 00:13:24,900 --> 00:13:29,500 Remember that we read a couple of other Psalms which talked 195 00:13:29,500 --> 00:13:32,600 about the storm before one of them was Sam 18. 196 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:36,700 And what that was actually talking about was King, David 197 00:13:36,700 --> 00:13:41,700 was talking about God, coming to rescue him, he was drowning and 198 00:13:41,700 --> 00:13:44,200 all his enemies. And God came in. 199 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,600 This big storm, the poetically to rescue him. 200 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:50,100 So that's the king and that some. 201 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:55,200 So obviously they love the theme of God's. 202 00:13:55,200 --> 00:14:01,000 Saving the king, the anthem of England is God, Save the King 203 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:05,400 and that's, that's a quote from the sand, some 20 but other 204 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:10,600 storms also rescue with God, not always saving the king. 205 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:14,900 I like some 89 says, well, you know, the monarchy has fallen 206 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:19,900 God, what are you doing? and part of the answer to that 207 00:14:20,500 --> 00:14:26,700 is God, Save the King and God is the king. 208 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:32,600 It's both end. It's in addition to the davidic 209 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:38,600 king, Is a growing appreciation of a Divine King. 210 00:14:41,700 --> 00:14:46,400 Let's talk about the mountains. Mountains, often mean, three 211 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:51,000 things and scripture, they can mean something very enduring, 212 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:57,200 the vet, they look like the very Pillars of Creation in Psalm 96 213 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,700 with Stan readout. It talked about how gloriously 214 00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:04,600 firmly established the Earth is and that's to God's credit him. 215 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,100 He made it. So firmly, another thing about 216 00:15:08,100 --> 00:15:12,600 mountains is that's where you build fortresses, that's very 217 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:14,500 important. It is a very real threat, threat 218 00:15:14,500 --> 00:15:18,900 of raids or invasions and the third thing was at their places 219 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:22,200 of worship. We know that Moses and Israel 220 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:26,500 met with God on Mount Sinai. Also in the Bible often places 221 00:15:26,500 --> 00:15:32,200 of false god worship and the prophets are always saying how 222 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,800 bad it is, that people are going to the high places to worship 223 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:41,900 false gods. well, if the sun tells us the mountains melt like 224 00:15:41,900 --> 00:15:45,800 Wax before the Lord, then, however, we're thinking of 225 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:52,400 mountains is telling us that God is supreme He's more enduring 226 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,500 than the very pillars of his own creation. 227 00:15:55,500 --> 00:15:59,600 He's stronger than fortresses stronger than whatever, we might 228 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:05,800 have safety or our security and he is high above all supposed 229 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:09,400 Gods. As in the later, verse you are 230 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:16,400 exalted far above all gods And finally, let's talk about the 231 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,700 heavens, the heavens Proclaim his righteousness. 232 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Now, the Bible proclaims to us God's message and Christ reveals 233 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:34,500 God to us, but for us, Whoever has not heard of those 234 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,200 proclamations. There are still the heavens 235 00:16:39,900 --> 00:16:44,200 whether you do or don't have the Bible or of heard of Christ, you 236 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,700 have God's creation all around you. 237 00:16:46,700 --> 00:16:49,700 You have got the sky above, you can just look up in this, there 238 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:56,200 can see his amazing work. Nobody is no one's responsible 239 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:01,800 to know everything about God, but we responsible to know what 240 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:06,300 we can. We responsible at least to look 241 00:17:06,300 --> 00:17:08,099 up and see the sky and appreciate that. 242 00:17:08,099 --> 00:17:12,700 There's a creator. Here are some photos of the sky 243 00:17:12,700 --> 00:17:19,300 of a Hamilton taken by my dad. And I want to read Psalm 19:1 244 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:21,800 and four saves the heavens declare. 245 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:26,200 The glory of God and the sky above proclaims his handiwork, 246 00:17:27,099 --> 00:17:28,900 their voice is the voice of the heavens. 247 00:17:28,900 --> 00:17:32,100 Goes out to all the Earth and their words to the end of the 248 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:33,700 world. Everybody's hit it. 249 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:41,300 And in Romans 1:20 Paul makes a similar point for every ever 250 00:17:41,300 --> 00:17:44,400 since the world was created. People have seen the Earth and 251 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:48,600 Sky through everything God has made, they can clearly see his 252 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:52,100 invisible qualities. His eternal power and divine 253 00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:56,200 nature, so they have no excuse for not knowing god. 254 00:17:58,100 --> 00:18:01,300 We'll pull Faith. The skies are showing God's 255 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:05,600 power, his divine nature and in our sun today, the heavens are 256 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:09,000 showing his righteousness. How did the heavens show God's 257 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,100 righteousness? Will the heavens show us day and 258 00:18:13,100 --> 00:18:17,900 night and the seasons and the seasons bring us the Bounty of 259 00:18:17,900 --> 00:18:21,300 the Harvest. So God's bountifully his strong 260 00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:24,200 as goodness by providing that. And he's also showing his 261 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,300 consistency and his ability to keep promise. 262 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:32,700 Has by the, the steady continuing repetition of the day 263 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:38,300 in the night and the seasons. Let's talk about idols. 264 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,000 So people have no excuse for not knowing god. 265 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,500 We should acknowledge Him at least seeing the heavens 266 00:18:49,500 --> 00:18:53,500 acknowledging him as the Creator, someone who created us, 267 00:18:54,100 --> 00:19:00,200 not someone that we created. Not someone that we created with 268 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,800 our hands like a wooden Idol and not someone that we thought up 269 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:08,700 with our minds. Catch the tone of verses 6 and 270 00:19:08,700 --> 00:19:11,700 7. So, we're seeing God's glory and 271 00:19:11,700 --> 00:19:15,000 all worshippers of images are put to shame those who make 272 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,100 their boast in worthless, Idols worship him, all you gods 273 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:22,600 Remember this, is that little pot in the Middle with a 274 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:28,000 scornful tone and right after it we go back to the tone of 275 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,500 rejoicing in our second half. And we've covered a lot of that 276 00:19:32,500 --> 00:19:36,700 second half already by jumping ahead, but I want to cover a 277 00:19:36,708 --> 00:19:39,200 couple of turns of phrase, which might be unfamiliar. 278 00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:47,100 The daughters of Judah. So Judah is one of the tribes of 279 00:19:47,100 --> 00:19:50,500 Israel. And after Israel, split due to 280 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:54,000 became the southern part of the Southern Kingdom. 281 00:19:55,100 --> 00:20:00,200 So, Judah, is that territory of that tribe and is capital is 282 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,400 Jerusalem, which has the hill of Zion. 283 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:09,300 And the daughters of Judah, are the surrounding towns that 284 00:20:09,300 --> 00:20:13,500 belong to it? And I also want to talk about 285 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:17,600 the verse that says light is sown for the righteous and joy 286 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:22,600 for the upright in heart. So someone is scattering seeds 287 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:27,200 on the ground and in that world where pretty much everyone did 288 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:32,400 Farming Farming made its way into their language a lot for 289 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,700 example, the prophet Hosea talked about sewing. 290 00:20:34,700 --> 00:20:37,500 He said you should so righteousness and then you can 291 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:42,000 Harvest love and in another place he says, watch out if you 292 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,300 sow the wind because then you'll reap the Whirlwind, you'll have 293 00:20:45,300 --> 00:20:48,800 as the Whirlwind and reap the Whirlwind made its way into 294 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:52,700 English as a It's a phrase that means to face terrible 295 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:56,700 consequences. So I do like how the ESV which 296 00:20:56,700 --> 00:20:59,900 I've been using for the saint that has daughters of Judah and 297 00:20:59,900 --> 00:21:04,100 it has light and so on and it shows something of the rich way 298 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:08,200 that psalmist's wrote. But if in your translation, you 299 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:14,000 have towns of Judah and light shines or light Dawn's, that's 300 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,500 also great because light is sown. 301 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:22,200 And Daughters of Judah, is Not clear English and Clarity is a 302 00:21:22,208 --> 00:21:24,200 very important translation priority. 303 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,600 So there's a trade-off and different translations have 304 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:33,000 different strengths but the NLT which has light shines is great 305 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,100 and I love it and I love the ESV as well. 306 00:21:38,100 --> 00:21:42,800 So, if I was to pick one thing and take away today to remember, 307 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:50,200 from all of this, it's rejoice. And it's a call to what I'm 308 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:56,800 going to call a solid Joy, not like a frothy shallow Joy. 309 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:02,000 So a frothy shallow Joy is maybe for example being flippant or 310 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:06,500 careless or or a selfish selfishly focused on happiness 311 00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:10,900 and and maybe the opposite of that is being very grumpy and 312 00:22:10,900 --> 00:22:14,900 gloomy and you know especially if you're focusing on morals as 313 00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:16,900 very easy to be grumpy and gloomy. 314 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:21,700 But It takes the wisdom from the psalm and from many other 315 00:22:21,700 --> 00:22:28,700 scriptures to teach us to be serious and joyful and then you 316 00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:33,500 have a solid Joy of very heavy very reasonable Joy. 317 00:22:34,900 --> 00:22:38,500 And it gives us a reason for the joy is that God's Authority is 318 00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:46,000 good and God will judge justly. It's not a naive Joy because 319 00:22:46,100 --> 00:22:51,100 when we don't ignore the unpleasant realities like there 320 00:22:51,100 --> 00:22:56,100 is such a thing as idol worship and it's shameful and in one of 321 00:22:56,100 --> 00:23:02,300 the verses of the psalm we hate evil, we know that there is much 322 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:05,600 Authority. That is misused, whether it's 323 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:11,000 from a boss, or a king, or a prime minister or a head of a 324 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:16,300 household. And But we know that at the very 325 00:23:16,300 --> 00:23:21,200 top of the tree of authority, the most high is good and he has 326 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:26,500 good authority. Oh you who love the Lord hate 327 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:30,300 evil and Rejoice. O you righteous? 328 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:38,400 His judgment is a rescue. It's a Vindication and his rule 329 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,500 is a faithful, keeping of a promise. 330 00:23:42,700 --> 00:23:47,900 So let the son help us to have a very gutsy kind of joy. 331 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:58,100 Right, let's pray. Father in heaven, we hear your 332 00:23:58,100 --> 00:24:02,700 call to rejoice. And with good reason. 333 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:09,400 You are the king you judge. In one day, you will carry out 334 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:15,800 the final judgement. and you are good and just Lord, you still 335 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,000 lie. Give us the seasons, the day, 336 00:24:19,300 --> 00:24:22,300 the night. You're a faithful promise, 337 00:24:22,300 --> 00:24:27,800 keeping King, and God, and you are the true most high. 338 00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:33,200 Over all the Earth. We thank and praise you. 339 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,300 In Jesus name? Amen. 340 00:24:32,100 --> 00:24:34,200 We thank and praise you. In Jesus name? 341 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:35,300 Amen.