1 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,600 Hi, and welcome to the. We are science, oven podcast. 2 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,900 We are a local church based here in Chennai, India, we are so 3 00:00:16,900 --> 00:00:20,200 glad you are with us and hope that this will encourage 4 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,100 Inspire. And in still, fresh faith in 5 00:00:23,100 --> 00:00:27,200 you, we begin a new series on the book of Psalms where we look 6 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,800 closer at this book and Dean from it. 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,400 It invaluable treasure. We believe that through the 8 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,600 series. Our worship of God will go 9 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,400 deeper and our love for him will grow stronger. 10 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,600 Let's listen in and see what God has in store for us. 11 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,800 However, one it is good to be back as always. 12 00:00:47,300 --> 00:00:51,400 I'm so we are kicking off a new series where we're looking at 13 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,900 the book of sounds for the next couple weeks, so long or more. 14 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:59,100 And so we'll be looking at some 22 today. 15 00:00:59,100 --> 00:01:01,500 So that's the script. Operators will be looking into, 16 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,099 but before we get into that, let me go ahead and start with the 17 00:01:05,099 --> 00:01:09,400 word of prayer and then we'll get into what we have referred 18 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,900 to by Heavenly Father. We thank you so much for today. 19 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:17,200 We thank you for giving us the grace for today. 20 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:21,000 Lord, we thank you that we can walk in that Grace and we can 21 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,700 rest in it. And the day we can find peace 22 00:01:23,700 --> 00:01:29,800 and comfort and it as always remember the people, Around in 23 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:34,600 this world that do not have the freedom and the Comfort together 24 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,300 in your name. As we do, thank you for the 25 00:01:37,300 --> 00:01:40,500 safety in which we gather, and we ask that for those who are 26 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:42,900 not able to gather in your name, we ask that you would provide 27 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:47,900 them with safety where they are and that you would change things 28 00:01:47,900 --> 00:01:49,200 like that. The, your kingdom would be 29 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:55,200 established things are changed that they will be able to gather 30 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,100 in any future that they will be able to gather as a community. 31 00:01:58,500 --> 00:02:04,800 And And We Worship You Lord and we ask that you would always 32 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:09,900 give us the words to say. And as we talked about some 22 33 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:14,600 that you would have something for us here today, and what you 34 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:19,300 have for us would sink deep into our hearts, it will penetrate 35 00:02:19,300 --> 00:02:21,800 our part. So I kinda didn't take root and 36 00:02:22,500 --> 00:02:28,500 produce fruit so hard. Best this time that we have, let 37 00:02:28,500 --> 00:02:32,100 it change. Yes, and let your word be spoken 38 00:02:32,100 --> 00:02:33,700 today. In Jesus name we pray. 39 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:38,800 Amen. So, yes, so we are starting on a 40 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:40,500 new series for the book of songs. 41 00:02:40,900 --> 00:02:44,000 So for the next couple weeks or more will be looking into the 42 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,600 book of sounds, the sound, we're going to focus on today is some 43 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:53,900 22, but before we get right into scripture, I just want to talk 44 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:57,300 about a little background on the book of Psalms. 45 00:02:57,300 --> 00:03:04,700 So the book of Psalms is made up of 150 songs, it's a book A 46 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:06,000 collection of 150. Psalms. 47 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:14,200 So some was mostly used for some kind of corporate Worship in the 48 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,900 temple. So, Psalms were sung as worship 49 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:21,000 as praise to God, similar to praise and worship that we have 50 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,500 in our corporate sitting, like, in a church in this corporate 51 00:03:24,500 --> 00:03:27,200 setting in the temple, these sounds were used as praise. 52 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:30,200 They were used as a form of worship, so it is very common 53 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:34,300 old corporate thing, right? So if it is, if that was the 54 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:38,300 purpose for it, you may be wondering what is it? 55 00:03:38,500 --> 00:03:40,800 Doing in scripture because there is no Temple. 56 00:03:40,900 --> 00:03:42,800 So what why is there a scripture now? 57 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:51,300 So thank you for asking great question the reason we have this 58 00:03:51,300 --> 00:03:58,100 book is few things in history, so When. 59 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:04,100 So, the temple was the central point in the Kingdom of Israel, 60 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,900 it is where God resided. It is. 61 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:10,100 Where all their worship focused on it, is where the sacrifices 62 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:14,300 will operate, so it with Central and core to their identities. 63 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:21,700 But in 586 BC, the Babylonians invaded Israel pretty much 64 00:04:21,700 --> 00:04:24,800 destroy the Kingdom of Israel along with that destroyed. 65 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,300 The temple stole the artifacts. And then LED most of the people 66 00:04:29,300 --> 00:04:32,000 of Israel back to Babylon as captives. 67 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:36,900 So this thing that they found entirely in the thing that was 68 00:04:36,900 --> 00:04:38,700 the focal point of their worship. 69 00:04:38,700 --> 00:04:42,400 The one true God was taking every was destroyed, and they 70 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:49,400 were LED away as captives to Babylon, so, in Babylon, The 71 00:04:49,900 --> 00:04:53,100 there was a shift in focus in the sums because there was no 72 00:04:53,100 --> 00:04:57,800 Temple to go and sing songs as part of corporate worship and 73 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,600 they start looking at the songs as a more personal devotional 74 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:07,000 prayer. Type of scripture and they start 75 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,800 looking to it as what is God want you to speak to us through 76 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,900 the sound? So here a shift happened in the 77 00:05:13,907 --> 00:05:16,800 way that people approach this towns and they started 78 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,300 transitioning from only you, what would have been used for 79 00:05:20,300 --> 00:05:23,800 corporate worship setting to more of a personal reflection 80 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,900 and prayer? Usage. 81 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:33,300 So that's how that shift in the sounds that scripture happen and 82 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:38,300 this is when the book of Psalms started being compiled as well. 83 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:42,200 So as they were wanting to save sounds with future. 84 00:05:42,900 --> 00:05:46,700 This is where the beginning stage of it being compiled in 85 00:05:46,707 --> 00:05:49,500 the book started. So that's how they kind of 86 00:05:49,500 --> 00:05:53,400 transition from corporate worship to what we have right 87 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,700 now where it is a personal prayer book almost that we have 88 00:05:57,100 --> 00:06:02,300 The Book of Psalms is a book of 150 Psalms there have been 89 00:06:02,300 --> 00:06:06,600 several more Psalms you attend, but it is in but that's been 90 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,100 intentionally compiled in these chat. 91 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,700 These sounds have been intentionally intentionally 92 00:06:12,700 --> 00:06:15,000 chosen to be a part of this book. 93 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:19,700 So if you look at sums, you see a lot of structure that's done 94 00:06:19,700 --> 00:06:21,000 it. It's 150. 95 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,500 Psalms the entire world can also be further. 96 00:06:24,500 --> 00:06:29,000 Studied, 25 additional books. All these five books sometimes 97 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,200 have bookends that separate them from the rest. 98 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:35,600 There is a lot of structure, a lot of talk that is gone it. 99 00:06:36,100 --> 00:06:42,800 So and the literature in the Book of Psalms spans over 800 100 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:47,900 years because if many times when we look at Psalms King David 101 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:52,500 comes to mind and we might attribute all of the sums to 102 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:56,900 him. However, King David is a bit The 103 00:06:56,900 --> 00:07:01,300 tribute close to around 70 or a few more than 70 songs, which is 104 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:06,800 just about half the Psalms there have been many other authors 105 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:12,300 ASAP as an author came in. And the and eaten is an author, 106 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:16,700 the sons of Korah or authors and even a Solomon and Moses listed 107 00:07:16,700 --> 00:07:20,900 at awesome as partners and there are a group of Psalms that are 108 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:23,000 also Anonymous. Boom, we don't know. 109 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:28,100 We don't know who the author is so If you look at this there's 110 00:07:28,100 --> 00:07:31,100 over 800 years of literature and history. 111 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:35,400 In the Psalms biggest if Moses is attributable to one and then 112 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:39,500 later on to King David and Solomon, it spans a long 113 00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:43,200 history. So there's eight hundred years 114 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:46,000 worth of literature and history in here. 115 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:54,900 Just try and imagine compiling an English book that has over 116 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:57,700 800 years. Years of history or 800 years of 117 00:07:57,700 --> 00:07:59,500 lobster right now. But English, the chaplain the 118 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:02,500 beginning will not look like the chapter in the end if you think 119 00:08:02,500 --> 00:08:07,300 of English and Shakespeare and places sound different from what 120 00:08:07,300 --> 00:08:09,700 the English we speak. Now, if you go further back, you 121 00:08:09,700 --> 00:08:12,700 may have read something called The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey 122 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,200 Chaucer in high school or college and few see the English 123 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:18,700 and that is so different from the English. 124 00:08:18,700 --> 00:08:20,400 We speak. Even though it's still English 125 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:25,800 though. Imagine how interesting and 126 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,400 unique that is that there's so much literature and history and 127 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:32,700 here in the Book of Psalms and as the book of Psalms was 128 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:38,400 compiled and its nature, turned from corporate worship doing 129 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,200 more internal personal thing, it really did become, like, look of 130 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,800 prayer and so you could call the book of Psalms, the book of 131 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,700 prayer that in our Bible and they've been used as prayer 132 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:54,500 since the beginning as well. So when you read a sum or you, 133 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:57,800 You're some something profound this happen. 134 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:02,200 You are joining in this cloud of witnesses that have trade, these 135 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:06,300 sounds for over 3,000 years. You're joining Moses, whose 136 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:09,300 period of time you joining King, David and Solomon, who prayed 137 00:09:09,300 --> 00:09:12,800 these exams, joining, Jesus, and Peter. 138 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,900 And Paul, you joining the members of the early church, 139 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:21,500 joining the church fathers you joining All of Christianity, 140 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:23,200 because everyone has at some point. 141 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:24,500 Read the psalm of, praise the Sun. 142 00:09:24,500 --> 00:09:30,400 So imagine how profound it is that when we pray Assam and read 143 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,800 us a joining in something that's been happening for 3,000 years 144 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,700 and we're part of those carbon witnesses that use this for 145 00:09:36,700 --> 00:09:42,000 prayer and use it for praising God and reflection. 146 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,900 So now that's just a quick background. 147 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,200 We're going to move onto some 22. 148 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,700 So for some of you who are familiar with something to do 149 00:09:53,100 --> 00:09:56,300 the moment, you hear the sound 22 of the moment, you hear the 150 00:09:56,300 --> 00:09:59,700 first? Phrase of Psalm 22. 151 00:09:59,700 --> 00:10:00,800 Just my God. My God. 152 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,900 Why have you forsaken me? Your mind goes to Jesus. 153 00:10:04,700 --> 00:10:08,600 Jesus may be the only context with which you have read this. 154 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:14,500 Some so this these are the words spoken by Jesus on the cross 155 00:10:14,500 --> 00:10:18,000 where he says, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 156 00:10:18,300 --> 00:10:21,600 He is referring to this song. So it is one of those sounds 157 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:26,700 that looks forward to what would happen to Jesus during the 158 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:28,400 crucifixion and do During his death. 159 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,800 So that might be the only context with, which you have 160 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:35,400 seen or you have read this or you have started to sound, but I 161 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,200 want to touch on that but I want to do it at the end. 162 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,000 So when you're thinking about it, let's put it on the back 163 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:42,800 burner. We will come back to it. 164 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:47,600 Now, as we read through it, I want us to focus on what this 165 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,700 some is for us. We will touch on Jesus at the 166 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:54,200 end but our primary focus as we start reading through. 167 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:55,900 It is, what does this sound have for us? 168 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:00,200 So the way I plan on doing this is I might be two or three 169 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:05,900 verses of time and we will talk through it and we will do that 170 00:11:05,900 --> 00:11:08,100 from the beginning till the end of this out. 171 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:12,800 Okay, so one thing before we go on, I forgot to mention earlier, 172 00:11:13,100 --> 00:11:18,900 the book of sounds can be divided to two large categories, 173 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:22,500 Psalms of lament, and sounds of phrase. 174 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:27,900 It so something to do here, Is a sum of lament, at least, it 175 00:11:27,900 --> 00:11:30,200 starts that way. It may not neatly fit in that 176 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,600 category, based on the transitions, it makes, but it is 177 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,000 the sum of limit. And when I say lament, I'm 178 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,100 talking about biblical Christian lamenting, I'm not talking about 179 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:48,000 wallowing in one's situation and Staying there, I am talking 180 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,300 about. When we feel the weight of a 181 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:55,100 situation lamenting is going to God. 182 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:59,600 With a complaint is, the complaint starts with God. 183 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,900 Why have you forsaken me? I think that is a good way to 184 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:05,400 start a limit. His many times when we lament, 185 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:09,100 it's this feeling that nothing is going our way or that we've 186 00:12:09,100 --> 00:12:15,300 been Forsaken and we go to God asking him or telling him how we 187 00:12:15,300 --> 00:12:19,000 are feeling. It but lamenting doesn't end 188 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,900 there. If you look at lamenting 189 00:12:20,900 --> 00:12:23,000 holistically, it is going to guard with the complaint. 190 00:12:23,300 --> 00:12:26,100 And then we petitioned him to act on our behalf. 191 00:12:26,100 --> 00:12:28,300 We request them to act on our behalf. 192 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,500 And then ask me make that request. 193 00:12:30,900 --> 00:12:34,100 We continue to trust and place our hope. 194 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:36,400 And in biggest, he's the only one that can change our 195 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,200 situation. So, when I say lament, I'm not 196 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:44,800 talking about wallowing in this place of your situation and just 197 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:51,500 wallow what I'm talking. but is when those Feelings and emotions 198 00:12:51,500 --> 00:12:55,100 of the fact that maybe we feel forsaken orb. 199 00:12:55,100 --> 00:12:59,800 And when they come up, we go to God with those feelings and we 200 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:05,300 lay it out of speed and then we petitioned him to intervene and 201 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:08,300 we turn towards. So that is what I mean by 202 00:13:08,300 --> 00:13:10,500 lamenting it and we will see that in the some. 203 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:16,200 So we'll get into some 22. Psalm 22 verse 1. 204 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:20,300 I will be reading from the ESV because I like couple of the 205 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:22,400 word choices, the years, we chose for this sound. 206 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,300 So I'm going to be reading from the ESV for the duration of this 207 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:28,900 message. Psalm 22. 208 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,300 My God. My God. 209 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:38,500 Why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving 210 00:13:38,500 --> 00:13:41,800 me from the words of my groaning. 211 00:13:42,900 --> 00:13:48,600 Oh my God, I Cry by day, but you do not answer and by night, but 212 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:54,300 I find no rest. So we start with these words. 213 00:13:54,300 --> 00:13:58,100 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 214 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:05,400 Why are you so far? This feeling of Agony at being 215 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:10,000 almost a feeling of Agony and being abandoned by God. 216 00:14:10,300 --> 00:14:16,100 He looks ominous feels the agony because he feels as though, God 217 00:14:16,100 --> 00:14:20,500 has forsaken him, he feels that God is far away. 218 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:25,700 He feels that God is not answering, and if you look it 219 00:14:25,700 --> 00:14:30,400 says, but you do not answer, it is not a, you cannot answer it. 220 00:14:30,500 --> 00:14:35,400 It is a you do not as in an intentional choosing not to 221 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:39,600 answer when you could. So it is really this picture we 222 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:44,800 get of Abandonment. Picture of the agony that comes 223 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:50,100 from feeling forsaken, the agony that comes from feeling that the 224 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:54,200 God and who you trust is far away and not answering your 225 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:59,000 call. So as we read through it, I want 226 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,900 you to love yourself too. You the emotions of the sound is 227 00:15:02,900 --> 00:15:05,600 this feeling? Try and put yourself in the 228 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,600 shoes. Think about moments where you 229 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:12,200 and our lead probably or where we haven't already. 230 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:15,500 Probably felt this way. I have certainly had moments in 231 00:15:15,500 --> 00:15:19,900 my life where these words that have been so appropriate where 232 00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:25,100 it feels as though, I was forsake nor abandon or The God 233 00:15:25,100 --> 00:15:28,200 was Far. So and remember, we're talking 234 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,400 about these feelings that we have. 235 00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:32,300 Have right? So remember that, these are 236 00:15:32,300 --> 00:15:37,900 feelings that we talking about. We are not saying that God 237 00:15:37,900 --> 00:15:40,400 totally abandoned him. What we are saying is that, that 238 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:44,100 is how he is feeling and many times that is how we feel based 239 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:45,400 on the circumstances in our life. 240 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:50,700 So he's in agony Agony at the thought that he's been abandoned 241 00:15:50,700 --> 00:15:54,400 Agony at the thought that he's been forsaken Agony at the 242 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,100 thought that God is delaying. Deliverance that God is 243 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:03,100 intentionally not speaking even though he can, and then we go 244 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:04,900 on. So, pay attention to the first 245 00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:07,100 two letters. Letters of worse 3 it says yet 246 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:09,700 you so he uses again in verse nine. 247 00:16:09,700 --> 00:16:14,200 So when he says yet you these contrasting, what he just said 248 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,900 that with something different. So he has given us his present 249 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:20,000 situation. So he's going to contrast that 250 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:24,500 with something else. As we read verses 32 fire. 251 00:16:24,700 --> 00:16:28,000 He says yet. You Are Holy enthroned on the 252 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,500 Praises of Israel. He knew our fathers trusted, 253 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,300 they trusted, and you delivered them to you. 254 00:16:36,300 --> 00:16:41,900 They cried and were rescued in you, they trusted and were not 255 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,800 put to shame. So, you talk about his present 256 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:50,800 condition of feeling abandoned. And now, he talks about how God 257 00:16:51,500 --> 00:16:56,000 is on the throne, so God is still in power. 258 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:00,200 Nothing's Dethrone God. So he is still in control, so it 259 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:04,599 re-emphasizes that but you do not answer, meaning he could, if 260 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:06,000 he wanted to, but he's choosing not to. 261 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,599 So he recognizes that. God is still in control. 262 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:14,400 He talks about the father's the Patriarchs of Israel. 263 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:19,000 The people of Israel, trusted God, and he has delivered them. 264 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:23,099 So, So in we have seen this fortitude, there have been so 265 00:17:23,099 --> 00:17:25,900 many moments that God has intervened and delivered Israel 266 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,000 to you. They card until they were 267 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,900 rescued. You knew they trusted, we're not 268 00:17:30,900 --> 00:17:33,900 put to shame. So we see a contrast of the way 269 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:38,300 he's feeling right now in his present circumstance and 270 00:17:38,300 --> 00:17:44,200 compared to the idea that in the past or that God has delivered, 271 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:48,900 that God has not put people to shame that God has rescued. 272 00:17:49,100 --> 00:17:55,300 So, Big difference from what God has done and his current present 273 00:17:55,300 --> 00:17:59,000 situation, they are seem to be are two ends of the spectrum. 274 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:07,700 So now he moves on verse 6, he says, but I am aware. 275 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:12,200 I am not a man scorned by mankind and despised by the 276 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:19,500 people all who see me mock me. They make mouths at me, they wag 277 00:18:19,500 --> 00:18:24,300 their heads, he trusts in the Lord, let him deliver him. 278 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,700 Let him rescue him for, he Delights in him. 279 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,200 So again, he's coming back to his present conditioner. 280 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,100 So we saw a first contrast present condition what God has 281 00:18:37,100 --> 00:18:39,400 done, and he comes back to his present condition. 282 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:45,300 Again, he said, but I am a worm, not a man, can the situation. 283 00:18:45,300 --> 00:18:48,500 He's in the way. He's feeling he's feeling 284 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,800 dehumanized. He is relating to himself as a 285 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:55,700 worm. A lowly worm worms are not. 286 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,300 It is not a positive image here. So this is an agrarian society, 287 00:18:59,300 --> 00:19:01,400 right? Worms that the things that eat 288 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,400 and kill. Crops word, worms are meant to 289 00:19:04,408 --> 00:19:09,000 be trampled on. So if you think about the worm 290 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,400 and Jonah that came and destroyed that tree, that Jonah 291 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:16,300 was Finding shade under so It is, he is identifying, with this 292 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:19,200 lowly thing, that's how though. He might be feeling. 293 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:23,600 He doesn't even feel the event and he is scorned and mocked by 294 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:29,300 those around them, right? They, and you hear a tone of 295 00:19:29,300 --> 00:19:32,000 sarcasm from the people around them. 296 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:36,100 In verse 8, he trusts in the Lord so he are some stressed in 297 00:19:36,108 --> 00:19:39,100 the Lord. So let God delivered him. 298 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,400 God Delights in him. So let God deliver him almost as 299 00:19:43,100 --> 00:19:45,000 almost as if. If people around, you can see 300 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:50,200 his point, see his desperate situation and mock him by being 301 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,200 sarcastic. Since he has put his trust in 302 00:19:52,208 --> 00:19:54,500 the Lord, led by Lord, come and delivered. 303 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:58,600 So, rubbing salt in the wound. That's what it feels like when 304 00:19:59,100 --> 00:20:04,100 you hear the people around him, speak those words. 305 00:20:04,300 --> 00:20:10,200 So again, he's in this place where God is Not intervening 306 00:20:10,500 --> 00:20:14,600 where he is smart. Those around them. 307 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,600 He feels so low to the point that he identifies being a worm. 308 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:23,000 So again this idea of being forsaken, his idea of being 309 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,600 abandoned. And again, this just seems like 310 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,800 this language of Agony that he's experienced case coming through 311 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:35,400 in this in Poetic form because this is a poem, right? 312 00:20:36,100 --> 00:20:40,200 And we see that face again chapter as, all right, in verse 313 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,900 9 yet you. So you're going to contrast is 314 00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:44,700 present Ian, with something else. 315 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:50,100 Says yet. You are he who took me from the 316 00:20:50,100 --> 00:20:52,900 wings? You made me trust you. 317 00:20:53,200 --> 00:21:00,000 At my mother's dress on, you was I cast from my birth and from my 318 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:04,200 mother's womb, you have been my God. 319 00:21:04,500 --> 00:21:09,300 We get in this yet. You as a contrast we get this. 320 00:21:10,700 --> 00:21:16,400 Very sweet image of intimacy that God was present at his 321 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,300 birth. The image we get here is that 322 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:21,800 almost as in God was the Midwife very he was being born. 323 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,900 God was the Midwife that delivered him. 324 00:21:23,900 --> 00:21:29,200 From his mother's womb, this phrase on you was I cast from my 325 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,800 birth. It's almost as if that he fell 326 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,600 into God's laps as he was coming out of his mother's womb. 327 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:41,000 So we get this picture of closeness right and When he says 328 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:46,200 you made me trust you at my mother's breast he made me trust 329 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,100 you as in he's talented he's been faithful to God from the 330 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:52,500 very beginning. He's been faithful to the one 331 00:21:52,500 --> 00:22:01,700 true God Yahweh from childbirth and so contrasting God, being at 332 00:22:01,700 --> 00:22:05,600 his great and being intimate with them to what he is feeling 333 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:11,600 earlier being scorned by those around him and being Dehumanized 334 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,100 to the point. He thinks of what we're right. 335 00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:17,100 So, he's present situation contrasted with what God has 336 00:22:17,100 --> 00:22:22,500 done and verse 11. He says, be not far from me for 337 00:22:22,500 --> 00:22:27,400 trouble is near and there is none to help again, going back 338 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:32,800 to earlier in verse 2, where he talks about God being far away, 339 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:38,600 Yusuf are your farm work from my groanings so that theme of God 340 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:42,300 being far as reiterated. And here, it almost comes with 341 00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:45,700 an extra punch because he had just got done talking about how 342 00:22:45,900 --> 00:22:51,000 close God was, God was close to him like a mother and a baby, 343 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,800 right? So, it's almost so as close as a 344 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:59,500 baby is due as a mother, that's how far the feels goddess in 345 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:01,900 this moment. So that contrast is there as 346 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:07,300 well. So This first section so versus 347 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:11,500 due to 11 is like the first stanza of this poem, and this 348 00:23:11,500 --> 00:23:14,000 poem has three. Stanzas will get in the other 349 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:18,200 tube, but if you can see the teams in this first one is been 350 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,300 abandoned. He is full of Agony from the 351 00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:25,100 situation of being abandoned by God being forsaken, God is far. 352 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,500 God is choosing not to speak to him. 353 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,000 God is withholding or delaying Deliverance. 354 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,800 Right. So and the g contrast that With 355 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,500 all the things that God has done. 356 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,400 But that don't reflect his present situation. 357 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:46,000 So now we move on to the next stanza, where the focus kind of 358 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,100 turns to his enemies and what that means to him. 359 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:57,900 So verse 12, 13 and 14 many bulls and Compass Lee Strong 360 00:23:57,900 --> 00:24:03,000 Bulls of Bashan, surround me They open why their mouths at 361 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,400 me, like a ravening and roaring lion. 362 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,700 I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint. 363 00:24:11,100 --> 00:24:15,600 My heart is like Wax. It is melted within my breast, 364 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:21,100 my strength is dried up like a potsherd and my tongue sticks to 365 00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:25,200 my jaws. You leave me in the dust of 366 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:29,900 death. So he compares the images you 367 00:24:29,900 --> 00:24:33,100 use as far as enemies of the images of animals and there's 368 00:24:33,100 --> 00:24:38,900 the bull and the lion here, but Sean was a very fertile area. 369 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,100 And so the cattle, there were well, fed and strong. 370 00:24:42,100 --> 00:24:45,700 So these are strong renowned rules of this place. 371 00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:51,700 So strong Bulls ravening Lions. Imagery gravity as in like how 372 00:24:51,700 --> 00:24:58,200 they attack prey or two on their prey so it is To fearsome 373 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,300 animals and that's how he is depicted his enemies. 374 00:25:01,300 --> 00:25:04,500 So, as enemies are Encompass, they're surrounded him, right? 375 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:12,500 And as enemies of surrounding, he feels like I am poured out 376 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:15,100 like water. My bones are out of joint. 377 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:22,200 So his physical body is broken. He feels like there's nothing 378 00:25:22,300 --> 00:25:24,600 left. I am poured out like water, all 379 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:29,900 my bones are out of joint so he is physically spent. 380 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,600 He's physically broken, he's drained. 381 00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:37,100 And then, so he talks about his physical body, then he talks 382 00:25:37,100 --> 00:25:41,100 about how his heart is. Melted like Wax the heart. 383 00:25:41,100 --> 00:25:44,700 The what he means is all his courage as left and he no longer 384 00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:47,100 has any courage because it's part has melted. 385 00:25:47,100 --> 00:25:52,700 So and he also mentions that my strength is dried up and my 386 00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:58,100 tongue sticks to my jaws. Many of you may have experienced 387 00:25:58,100 --> 00:26:01,000 this. When you have anxiety or fear, 388 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:07,500 when your body gets into the fight or flee response, it kind 389 00:26:07,500 --> 00:26:11,100 of shuts down. Down functions in your body that 390 00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:15,500 are not important to conserve energy for fighting or fleeing, 391 00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:16,900 right? So one of those things that it 392 00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:20,100 shuts down is shuts down productions for the saliva in 393 00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:21,700 your mouth. So your mouth turns dry. 394 00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:24,900 So, when your actions of fearful, you may have 395 00:26:24,900 --> 00:26:26,900 experienced, how your mouth turns, right? 396 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,700 And your tongue kind of sticks to the roof of your patent roof 397 00:26:29,700 --> 00:26:34,200 of your mouth of the palette. So he's talking about this fear 398 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:38,500 that has overtaken him to. So his body is broken here. 399 00:26:38,700 --> 00:26:43,800 Has no courage left and he is full of fear to the point where 400 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:49,800 the next thing is dead. So he is at such a low point 401 00:26:50,300 --> 00:26:53,100 where the only thing lower is death. 402 00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:57,900 And he goes on to say, he goes and talk further about his 403 00:26:57,900 --> 00:27:02,700 enemies. For dogs and Compass me company 404 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:07,500 of evildoers and circles me. They have pierced, my hands and 405 00:27:07,500 --> 00:27:10,600 feet. I can count all my bones, they 406 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,800 stare and gloat over me. They divided my garments among 407 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,500 them. And for my clothing, they cast 408 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,200 lots. So occurred animals years, 409 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:26,900 introduce dogs. So, again, where he is I mean 410 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,500 that's the images giving us for his enemies and now he has been 411 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:37,300 attacked and he he is pretty much emaciated. 412 00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:43,000 His body is emaciated, he is so thin and fragile and broken that 413 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,800 you can see the bones through its skin. 414 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,400 To the point where you can count all of his bones through his 415 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:54,000 skin, that's the present state of his body, and he is so 416 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:58,000 defenseless that. Don't even wait until he is 417 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,800 dead. Do a raffle off his float. 418 00:28:02,100 --> 00:28:05,100 They do it. While he's alive the raffle, his 419 00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:08,400 clothes off even before while he is alive. 420 00:28:08,700 --> 00:28:16,300 So he is in this defenseless Place he is in a place, that is 421 00:28:16,300 --> 00:28:18,900 just only slightly better than that. 422 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,400 And his enemies have attacked in their encircled them. 423 00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:30,700 And it kind of parallels that feeling of Abandonment, that God 424 00:28:30,700 --> 00:28:33,900 has not acting that God is delaying Deliverance. 425 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:39,300 This again in the context of his enemies, it's rehashing. 426 00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:41,400 Those teams that we saw in the first stanza. 427 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:44,800 So if you look at the next couple verses, it's a little 428 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,100 different to how the end of stanza. 429 00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:54,200 One came to a conclusion here it goes on but You O Lord do not be 430 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:58,400 far off. Oh you might help come quickly 431 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:03,300 to my Aid deliver my soul from The Sword, my precious life in 432 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:05,800 the power of the dog. Save me from the mouth of the 433 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,000 lion. You have rescued me from the 434 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,500 organs of the wild oxen, if you're interested in poetry, One 435 00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:16,000 thing I just want to point out is earlier in the stanza, we saw 436 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,100 that the border of the animals was oxen lion and dogs here, 437 00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:21,900 when he's recording them, he goes back. 438 00:29:21,900 --> 00:29:26,200 So it goes goes backwards, dogs lions and awesome says something 439 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:30,600 interesting. But here he petitions guide to 440 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,400 help at the end of stanza one. It kind of rehashes of far gone. 441 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,200 As he does not make a request. He starts out at how far God was 442 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,100 in verse two ends of how far God is in verse 11. 443 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:48,800 But he, Here, we started out with his enemies, encircling him 444 00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:53,400 and the state of his body. His emotions, his heart and his 445 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,400 and the fear that is overtaking them, but he Tallman he doesn't 446 00:29:57,500 --> 00:30:01,600 come back to the same thing. You started with he ends the 447 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,500 second stanza with this petition. 448 00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:08,200 He asked God to come and help him come quickly to my age. 449 00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:12,900 My pressure to deliver my precious life from the power of 450 00:30:12,900 --> 00:30:16,600 the dog. So this slight change, right? 451 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,700 He talks about his enemies with the ends, asking God to come and 452 00:30:21,700 --> 00:30:24,500 intervene. So, we see a slight changer 453 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,700 again, stanza. One stands it, dude. 454 00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:34,100 He is talking about a situation about how he's feeling and it, 455 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:40,700 The only imagine how difficult and desperate you must be to be 456 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:45,800 voicing this to God. Now, as in, go to stands at 457 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:50,300 three, we see a very sudden shift in. 458 00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:53,700 Almost this point of view. We've been talking about his 459 00:30:53,700 --> 00:30:57,100 present condition as Consul one and stanza to the team's of 460 00:30:57,100 --> 00:31:00,500 Abandonment. Themes of being forsaken themes. 461 00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:03,400 That God is far away, things that guard is withholding, 462 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,900 deliverance and justice. And not speaking, and all of a 463 00:31:06,908 --> 00:31:10,200 sudden in verse 22, it's almost like it's a difference. 464 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:14,000 Some we switch to this theme of Praise. 465 00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:18,000 Just I don't know where 180° return and he starts talking 466 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:24,300 about Grace. So, and we'll try and talk 467 00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:26,100 through that as we go through the last stanza. 468 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:31,700 So this is versus 22, 23 and 24. So, I will tell of your name to 469 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:33,200 my brothers. In the midst of the 470 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,100 congregation. I will praise you. 471 00:31:36,100 --> 00:31:38,000 You who fear the Lord praise him? 472 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,900 All you offspring of Jacob? Glorify him and stand in all of 473 00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:46,000 them. All you offspring of Israel for 474 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,800 he has not despised or abhorred, the Affliction of The Afflicted. 475 00:31:49,900 --> 00:31:55,200 It's, he has not hidden his face from him, but as bird when he 476 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,700 tried to him. So this sounds so different from 477 00:31:59,700 --> 00:32:01,500 how the first two-thirds of the sound. 478 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,300 Sounded. There's nothing about his 479 00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:07,500 present condition here. This all focusing on praising, 480 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,800 Yahweh praising, the one true God. 481 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:14,200 So I will tell if your name to my brother's is talking about 482 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,000 sharing why God is so crazy with you to people around them and in 483 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,700 the midst of the congregation, I will. 484 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,200 Raise you. So remember how it sounds we 485 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:26,400 used as a form of. They used to worship and praise 486 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,400 God in the temple. So that is what he's talking 487 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:30,900 about here. The midst of the congregation, 488 00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:34,900 meaning in the, in the midst of people in the temple, I will 489 00:32:34,900 --> 00:32:41,900 praise you and verse 24. He says that for he has not 490 00:32:41,900 --> 00:32:44,800 forgive me for he hasn't forgotten has not despised or 491 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,100 abhorred, the Affliction of The Afflicted. 492 00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:49,200 He has not hidden his face from him. 493 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:56,900 But as Married when he cried to him, this is this verse has both 494 00:32:57,300 --> 00:33:05,900 hope and joy as well as paying here because hopeful and joyful 495 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:09,800 because he's talking about God, who does not hide his face. 496 00:33:10,300 --> 00:33:13,900 God who hears when people cry out to him, but also a little 497 00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:17,500 bit painful because in stanza one and two, he is The Afflicted 498 00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:19,700 one, he is the one that is crying out. 499 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,700 But the repeated theme as that God is far away. 500 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:29,000 God is not speaking and God is Not intervening or God as where 501 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,400 he feels forsaken by God. So there's these are hopeful 502 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,400 words for him but also probably there's some pain because in 503 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,300 these are the words I'm speaking. 504 00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:42,100 But my situation does not seem to match up. 505 00:33:43,300 --> 00:33:49,300 Now. This last answer kind of serves 506 00:33:49,300 --> 00:33:56,000 as a model, you could say / how we approach the situations in 507 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,400 our life that are reflected in stanza, one at stanza dude and 508 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:04,200 these situations where we feel abandoned we feel forsaken, we 509 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,100 feel like God is withholding his deliverance. 510 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,900 We feel like he may not be speaking when he can. 511 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:15,800 So the first way to approach the situations that we see here is 512 00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:20,199 Crazed but more importantly in the midst of the congregation, 513 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:26,699 so finding support in the congregation, in our case, 514 00:34:26,699 --> 00:34:30,699 finding support in the church, finding support in this 515 00:34:30,699 --> 00:34:34,100 community here. So we find support when we're 516 00:34:34,100 --> 00:34:36,900 going through these troubled times in the community, we 517 00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:39,800 praise in the congregation but you might be wondering. 518 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,500 How can I possibly praise when this is my situation? 519 00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:45,699 When these are the feelings, I'm experiencing. 520 00:34:47,100 --> 00:34:51,199 Being in community helps but more. 521 00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:57,500 So we're going to read verse 25. It says from you comes my praise 522 00:34:57,500 --> 00:35:01,400 in the great congregation. So again, great congregation as 523 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,500 in the community in the temple but where does the praise come 524 00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:07,800 from the praise to God comes from God and ourselves. 525 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:12,300 God is the one that is strengthening you to praise and 526 00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:15,700 that is giving you the words to praise that is enabling you. 527 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,400 Impressed. So from God comes Our Praise. 528 00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:28,200 So God will give us the strength to praise him in hopefulness, 529 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:32,200 despite the situation here and he will supply us with the words 530 00:35:32,500 --> 00:35:37,500 from him will come the strength, the support, the sustenance to 531 00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:44,000 praise him back without knowing that he is God that he is still 532 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,900 in control despite what our circumstances. 533 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,200 Just answer that. So that is kind of first kind of 534 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:54,100 model on how to approach these difficult circumstances in life 535 00:35:54,100 --> 00:35:57,100 that are reflected in stanza, one in stanza to so that is 536 00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,700 praise praising in a community finding support in the community 537 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:05,800 and acknowledging that even the strength to praise comes from 538 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:11,200 God himself. Then he verse 26, The Afflicted, 539 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:15,000 she'll even be satisfied. Those who seek Him, shall praise 540 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,000 the Lord. Art's live forever. 541 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,200 So again reiterating the steam of praising. 542 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:26,300 God, now, verses 27, to 31, we see another small little shift 543 00:36:26,900 --> 00:36:30,500 in the sense. That if we look at is the model, 544 00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:33,100 the first model is, how you approach the situation is 545 00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:35,900 praised in the congregation, praise and Community. 546 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,700 This gives us another model approach it. 547 00:36:39,700 --> 00:36:45,100 So verse 27 starts with all the ends of the Earth shall remember 548 00:36:45,300 --> 00:36:48,600 and turn, To the Lord and all the families of the Nations 549 00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:53,300 shall worship before you for kingship Belongs to the Lord, 550 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:58,300 and He rules over the nation's. When this phrase, all the ends 551 00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:02,500 of the Earth comes in its use in portrait, the Old Testament, 552 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:09,700 almost always points to the end points to God making everything 553 00:37:09,700 --> 00:37:13,100 right at the end. The word we're looking for this. 554 00:37:13,100 --> 00:37:16,800 It's eschatological as it is looking to towards the end where 555 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:21,400 things culminate looking to the end with hope because in the end 556 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,600 God restores all things God sets all things right? 557 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:30,400 So the second model on how we approach difficult situations. 558 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:35,300 Like the ones mentioned in the sound is we look forward and 559 00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:39,700 hope we look towards the end with hope because we know at the 560 00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:44,000 end things will be set right? And he talks about the end here. 561 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,200 All the families of the Nations shall worship before you or 562 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,100 kingship Belongs to the Lord. He rules over the nation's all 563 00:37:53,100 --> 00:37:57,900 the prosperous of the earth, you don't worship before him shall 564 00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:00,200 bow. All who go down to the dust, 565 00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:03,900 even the one who could not keep himself alive, posterity Shall 566 00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:08,300 Serve him, it shall be told of the Lord, the coming generation. 567 00:38:08,700 --> 00:38:11,000 They shall come and Proclaim his righteousness. 568 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:16,000 Do a people yet unborn and that he has done. 569 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:23,300 So we see this end where everyone is worshiping God where 570 00:38:23,300 --> 00:38:29,500 everyone is together and everyone is Ben Almost as 571 00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:34,500 everyone has been provided for, and we are talking of God's 572 00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:36,700 righteousness to the generations to come. 573 00:38:37,300 --> 00:38:41,200 So we're looking towards the end. 574 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:45,100 We're looking towards the end where God restores and makes 575 00:38:45,100 --> 00:38:49,200 everything, right, and even ends that when it says, at the end, 576 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:53,500 it says he has done it as in. He has provided the Deliverance 577 00:38:53,500 --> 00:38:56,000 that we were hoping for. He has provided the Salvation 578 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,900 that we were hoping for and This sound ends with that. 579 00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:07,700 Hope so stands in three gives us two models to, to not different. 580 00:39:07,700 --> 00:39:13,600 But go hand-in-hand to approach, when life can be difficult, one 581 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,000 is support and praising your community. 582 00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:19,300 That will give you the strength to praise and you will find 583 00:39:19,300 --> 00:39:24,300 support in the community and to is to focus our attention on the 584 00:39:24,300 --> 00:39:26,700 hope that we have in the one true God. 585 00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:32,000 The hope that it It will be right, God will set things, 586 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,500 right? And so we focus on those two 587 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:41,000 dots on two of those things. Now, now, I want to come back to 588 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,800 Jesus. So we talked about how this some 589 00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:49,700 talks clearly about Jesus. We know that because Jesus 590 00:39:49,700 --> 00:39:51,800 mentioned the title of this song. 591 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,200 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me while he was on the 592 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:59,800 cross? And There are many things that 593 00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:03,900 seem to depict the crucifixion, right pierced his nails in his 594 00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:06,800 hands. His clothes were cast for Lots. 595 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,600 So, it is definitely a picture of Jesus. 596 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,700 Now. You. 597 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:23,100 May tell yourself that God does not know what I'm going through 598 00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:28,200 because how could he possibly feel the way I'm feeling? 599 00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,500 How could I feel about it? How could he possibly feel that 600 00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:34,100 I feel forsaken? How could he possibly feel that? 601 00:40:34,100 --> 00:40:37,500 I feel like he is not moving or delivering are speaking to me. 602 00:40:37,500 --> 00:40:42,000 How could he possibly feel them? Oh, you might think he knows 603 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,400 these things just because he's got whatever vote you're on. 604 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,900 You may say he's all-knowing so he sees the emotions experienced 605 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:55,900 and so he knows what I'm going through but I think there's 606 00:40:55,900 --> 00:40:58,200 something just a little bit deeper than that. 607 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:04,600 She knows what we are going to because he himself experienced 608 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:08,400 it. If you feel abandoned, you have 609 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,600 a God that knows what that means. 610 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:16,500 Because that is how he felt, he felt these things to the point 611 00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:21,700 that when he On the cross. He cried out my God, my God. 612 00:41:22,100 --> 00:41:28,200 Why have you forsaken me? So your God knows what you are 613 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,600 feeling and what you're going through because he has 614 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:34,400 experienced not. He has some knowledge of seeing 615 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,200 just what's happening in your heart or your mind, but he has 616 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:41,200 first-hand experience of these difficult moments. 617 00:41:42,100 --> 00:41:44,800 So difficult that these are the words of a call to his mind 618 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,400 while he was on the cross. Now. 619 00:41:49,100 --> 00:41:52,500 He felt abandoned right? He took the weight of this, 620 00:41:52,500 --> 00:41:55,900 broken World, broken creation item. 621 00:41:56,200 --> 00:42:00,000 And at that moment he felt abandoned. 622 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:04,300 Now remember we're talking about him feeling abandoned, right? 623 00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:09,100 The son, the Father, the Holy Spirit of part of the Triune God 624 00:42:09,100 --> 00:42:12,000 the Trinity. I am not saying that he was 625 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,300 abandoned by the father and the Holy Spirit and separate from 626 00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:16,700 them. No I'm not saying that I'm 627 00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:20,900 saying the wait. Was such that he felt that way 628 00:42:21,100 --> 00:42:25,500 and therefore he experienced it and he knows what you are going 629 00:42:25,500 --> 00:42:27,900 through. The truth is even though Jesus 630 00:42:27,900 --> 00:42:34,500 felt that he was never abandon, I mean, we serve a Triune God, 631 00:42:34,500 --> 00:42:36,800 they are one. How could he be, right? 632 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:42,200 So he was never just like that. We feel about it, we feel 633 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:46,300 forsaken, what we truly never are abandoned, we truly never 634 00:42:46,300 --> 00:42:49,100 are mistaken. Although the cell, Circumstances 635 00:42:49,100 --> 00:42:53,700 around us cause us to feel angry and it is totally okay to feel 636 00:42:53,700 --> 00:42:56,100 that way, because that is exactly how it feels. 637 00:42:57,700 --> 00:43:00,900 He is never far. He has not abandoned us, he is 638 00:43:00,900 --> 00:43:06,400 not a god, that is mean and withholding things for no 639 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:11,700 reason, right? Even think about Jesus is 640 00:43:11,700 --> 00:43:13,900 experience and feeling like use about it. 641 00:43:13,900 --> 00:43:19,300 But there was a greater purpose to that because At the end of 642 00:43:19,300 --> 00:43:22,400 that, we Jesus ends it is finished. 643 00:43:22,500 --> 00:43:28,400 It is done what he accomplished, what he set out to do, as he was 644 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,100 accomplishing. What he set out to do was there 645 00:43:31,100 --> 00:43:34,900 this feeling where he felt abandoned, and forsaken was the 646 00:43:34,900 --> 00:43:37,100 experiencing? What the psalmist says in Sumter 647 00:43:37,100 --> 00:43:40,800 to certainly. But it wasn't because God was 648 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:46,000 mean, it was because God was working out his good and 649 00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:52,300 ultimate good purpose for all. Creation and that is very much 650 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,900 in our lives as well. We go through these difficult 651 00:43:54,900 --> 00:43:58,900 moments where we certainly feel this way and it is good that we 652 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,500 share our feelings. We got and we voice our 653 00:44:01,500 --> 00:44:06,600 feelings. But we also should keep in mind 654 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:10,400 that it is not just mean God, that is withholding good things 655 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,400 from you. Everything he does is good, 656 00:44:13,500 --> 00:44:18,900 everything he does. Saves his serves, his good 657 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:26,900 purpose in creation, so and even and when we feel this way, we 658 00:44:26,900 --> 00:44:31,600 are still not abandoned, we are still not without hope, he is 659 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:37,900 close by and He will Deliver Us in the end. 660 00:44:37,900 --> 00:44:40,700 It says he has done it. Jesus talked about how it is 661 00:44:40,700 --> 00:44:45,700 finished on the cross. So God does in Devine these 662 00:44:45,700 --> 00:44:50,300 moments were We feel like we're dwelling in agony. 663 00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,600 We are in anguish because God has abandoned us, that God has 664 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,300 forsaken us, you do come to an end. 665 00:44:56,500 --> 00:45:01,700 But while we are in the midst, we praise God, we find comfort 666 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,200 in the community, besides supporting the community, and we 667 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:10,900 keep our eyes steadfast on, hope, hope that God will deliver 668 00:45:11,100 --> 00:45:16,700 hope that despite our circumstance, in the end, he 669 00:45:16,700 --> 00:45:19,500 wins. In the end, he said everything 670 00:45:19,500 --> 00:45:22,900 right in the end. Case. 671 00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,500 Perfect world will be accomplished and everything will 672 00:45:26,500 --> 00:45:33,400 be restored. So I invite you to pray this 673 00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:40,000 song in pray, this time all the time, but if you find yourself 674 00:45:40,300 --> 00:45:44,600 in moments where you, maybe you feel about it right now, maybe 675 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:48,500 you feel like that could deliver you but is holding it back. 676 00:45:49,100 --> 00:45:52,100 The truth is it is okay to feel that way you go. 677 00:45:52,300 --> 00:45:56,300 Him with those feelings. And he has not abandoned you. 678 00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:01,600 He has not forsaken, you he is there, and his good and perfect 679 00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:06,500 will is being worked out and he will sustain you through this 680 00:46:06,500 --> 00:46:09,200 difficult time and he will deliberate. 681 00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:13,200 So, thank you so much for joining us for this. 682 00:46:13,300 --> 00:46:22,100 Thank you so much for listening. So as you go out, keep this up. 683 00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:30,900 I'm in my and and also as you go out, pray, the sounds right? 684 00:46:31,100 --> 00:46:34,400 This is a book of prayer so copies, and we can get into his 685 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,400 reading the Psalms and reciting them have squares. 686 00:46:37,700 --> 00:46:43,400 And let's see how that changes the way. 687 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:47,800 We view these difficult things in our life, go out in the power 688 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:54,000 of the gospel and go out knowing that God has not abandoned you 689 00:46:54,300 --> 00:46:58,000 and God will deliver you. Thank you for joining us. 690 00:46:59,300 --> 00:47:02,700 We hope you enjoyed today's message, and we're blessed. 691 00:47:02,900 --> 00:47:06,500 If you like, what you heard and want to hear more messages from 692 00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:10,300 us, you could read us and subscribe to our podcast channel 693 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:14,500 for more content from we are Zion, or if you would like to 694 00:47:14,500 --> 00:47:19,300 get in touch with us, you can go to VR Zion.T in or follow us on 695 00:47:19,300 --> 00:47:24,800 Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. Most importantly, remember that 696 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,400 whoever finds Jesus finds life.