1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:08,160 Pray with me, Father, thank you so much for what you have given 2 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:15,240 us this day. These hymns, the voices, Your 3 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:21,360 Word, Your Presence, Your illumination, everything we 4 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:28,480 need, everything. As we open Your Word, as we 5 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:34,520 listen, as you illuminate Holy Spirit, our hearts and our minds 6 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:41,640 transform us for your glory and our good and the good of those 7 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:46,240 around us. Anchor us deep in the truth of 8 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:54,000 who you are and who we are in You because of the life and 9 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:01,680 death, resurrection, ascension, reign and promised return of our 10 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,560 Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and whose name we pray. 11 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:11,760 Amen. The bulletin went to print this 12 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:16,120 week on Wednesday. It's pretty remarkable to see 13 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,800 what the Lord has given us, knowing what we would know. 14 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:27,240 Amazing Grace, Jesus is Lord, and we went today with a mighty 15 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:31,800 fortress praying about what to preach. 16 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:37,520 I believe the Lord led me to Psalm 16 and not to this portion 17 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:39,200 of John printed in your bulletin. 18 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:44,320 I'll tell you why in a moment. And we will come back to John 19 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:47,320 15. Not next week, though, because 20 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:49,960 we have a guest preacher. Brent Baker, who used to serve 21 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,880 here as one of our pastors, will be preaching, and he'll be 22 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,680 preaching out of John 16. I'll be returning from family 23 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,960 camp after a few weeks and we will go back to this section of 24 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:05,400 John because it's so important. But what I want you to 25 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:12,080 understand is that as we look at this Psalm, we do so as people 26 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:16,800 united to Christ. Christ is in US. 27 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:23,320 What David is praying, he only sees into the future, but what 28 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:28,640 we are going to see as we listen to his prayer is that the very 29 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:32,840 God that he's petitioning is the one who through his Spirit lives 30 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,600 in US. And that is not a wishful 31 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,240 thought. That is not something to just 32 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,760 talk about. It's an experience, a reality to 33 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:47,080 be lived. We're going to look at Psalm 16, 34 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:51,600 these 11 verses that David prayed. 35 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:55,440 It's in your Bible. If you did not bring your Bible, 36 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,040 please grab a Pew Bible to save you time. 37 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,680 You can turn to page 453. That's where it is. 38 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:04,360 I'm going to read this Psalm in its entirety. 39 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:09,680 It's only 11 verses, and I trust that the Lord will use it to 40 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:14,400 encourage us deeply in this moment as you're moving there. 41 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:20,680 I think it's so powerful in moments like this to go back to 42 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,120 that which is familiar, that which is true. 43 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,400 And in a moment, I'm going to give you a proposition that I 44 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,080 heard from John Piper as he preached this text. 45 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,840 I've shared it here before, and I think you'll be deeply 46 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,360 encouraged by it. But let's go to the text 47 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,800 beginning at verse one of Psalm 16, a Psalm of David. 48 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,560 Preserve me, oh God, for in you I take refuge. 49 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,720 I say to the Lord, You are my Lord. 50 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,840 I have no good apart from You. As for the Saints in the land, 51 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,920 they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight. 52 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,360 The sorrows of those who run after another God shall multiply 53 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:02,280 their drink. Offerings of blood. 54 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,560 I will not pour out or take their names on my lips. 55 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,600 The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup. 56 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:14,000 You hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in 57 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,240 pleasant places. Indeed, I have a beautiful 58 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,079 inheritance. Verse 7. 59 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,600 I bless the Lord who gives me counsel in the night. 60 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:29,680 Also my heart instructs me. I've set the Lord always before 61 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,400 me, because He is at my right hand. 62 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:36,720 I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and 63 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:41,760 my whole being rejoices. My flesh also dwells secure, for 64 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:46,280 you will not abandon my soul to shield, or let your Holy One see 65 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:49,320 corruption. You make known to me the path of 66 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,440 life. In your presence there is 67 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:55,080 fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures 68 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,600 forevermore. This is the word of the Lord. 69 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:01,680 Thanks be to God. Please be seated. 70 00:05:07,220 --> 00:05:13,800 The statement I am about to read to you, I read in preparation 71 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:15,800 for preaching this Psalm many years ago. 72 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:22,760 I then learned that Doctor John Piper, author of many books 73 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:27,360 including Desiring God, had preached this Psalm at Watermark 74 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:32,160 on a Tuesday night at the Porch. He spends about an hour in this 75 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:36,680 text. It's worth listening to, but he 76 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,840 begins with this statement, this sentence, which really is a 77 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:42,800 proposition that encompasses the whole Psalm. 78 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,280 I've shared this with you before, and it goes like this. 79 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:57,360 God will lead you body and soul through life and death. 80 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:05,480 God will lead you body and soul, through life and death into 81 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:15,080 everlasting full pleasure if He is your safest refuge, your 82 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:22,200 supreme treasure, your sovereign Lord, and your most trusted 83 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:26,520 counselor. One more time, God will bring 84 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:33,280 you body and soul, through life and through death into 85 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:39,960 everlasting full pleasure. That's heaven if He is your 86 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:46,120 safest refuge, your supreme treasure, your sovereign Lord, 87 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,040 and your most trusted counsellor. 88 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:54,040 We're going to unpack that statement as we look at Psalm 89 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,520 16. The first thing I want you to 90 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:01,840 notice is the very first word David says Preserve. 91 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:07,160 What we learned from the psalmist here is that David is 92 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,840 petitioning God for something he is crying out and we don't know 93 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,680 why yet. Preserve me. 94 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:20,320 It's a petition. The Psalms are an amazing gift 95 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,160 from the Lord. First of all, because it's His 96 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,800 holy Word, and therefore because it's His holy Word, it is a 97 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,320 living word. It is active, and as the Spirit 98 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:34,760 illuminates it, it brings hope and courage and truth and peace 99 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:39,360 and true knowledge even when we are lost. 100 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:44,320 It teaches us how to pray. You're going to see how to pray 101 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,200 as you hear David's prayer, but it begins with a petition. 102 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:55,600 Preserve me, save me, rescue me. That's his prayer. 103 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:58,280 You have prayed prayers like that. 104 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:03,840 Maybe most days of your life, but then there are seasons like 105 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,520 the one we're in now where we almost don't even know what to 106 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,040 pray. But we are praying, God, 107 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,880 preserve, rescue, draw near, comfort. 108 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:15,720 And these are good prayers. They're prayers that are echoed 109 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,840 throughout Scripture. Why is David praying that? 110 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:22,320 We'll see in a moment. But I want you to notice what he 111 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:28,520 does. Preserve me, oh God, for in you 112 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:38,880 I take refuge. David, praying to God, is 113 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:43,440 preaching to himself, and as he preaches to himself, he is 114 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,120 revealing who God has revealed himself to be. 115 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,000 David is strong. David is courageous. 116 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,160 We've seen it. But in this moment, preserve me. 117 00:08:53,720 --> 00:09:01,200 He's afraid of something. Preserve me for oh God, for in 118 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,560 you I take refuge. God will lead you body and soul, 119 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:11,160 through life and through death, into everlasting and full 120 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:15,440 pleasure. If He is your safest refuge, is 121 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:20,480 he today? Have you rested and received 122 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:29,640 Jesus alone for salvation? Is Jesus your safest refuge when 123 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:33,840 you experience times of profound devastation? 124 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:40,480 When you are waiting for the results of something, fearful of 125 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:42,880 what they might be? Understandably so. 126 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:48,440 Where do you turn? Where do you bury yourself? 127 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:54,320 Where do you hide? Where do you find your peace? 128 00:09:55,840 --> 00:10:03,480 Anything other than God himself, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is 129 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:11,480 not ultimately secure. The only secure one is the Lord. 130 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:17,320 David knows that and says, Preserve me, O God, for in you I 131 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:21,200 take refuge. I don't take refuge in my 132 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,640 armies, I don't take refuge in my physical strength. 133 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,600 I don't take refuge in the wisdom you've given me. 134 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:34,880 I take refuge and the one and only one who is ultimately 135 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:39,400 secure, you are my safest refuge. 136 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:48,040 Verse 2 David says, I say to the Lord, You are my Lord. 137 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:55,280 I have no good apart from you. God will lead you body and soul, 138 00:10:55,280 --> 00:11:00,320 through life and through death into everlasting full pleasure. 139 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:05,760 If he's your safest refuge and if he is your sovereign Lord, 140 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:16,480 God is in control. The psalmist David says, I say 141 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:19,280 to the Lord, notice how it's spelled. 142 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:25,080 This is the name Yahweh. This is the name that speaks of 143 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,480 his might, of his power, of his sovereignty. 144 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:38,120 God is not off of his throne. David goes on in the Psalm in 145 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,520 verse 5 and says, the Lord is my chosen portion in my cup. 146 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:46,600 You hold my lot. What David is saying is I trust 147 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:52,400 you no matter what happens. You're my safest refuge and 148 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,760 because you're my safest refuge, I'm going to trust you. 149 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:59,440 Preserve me. He then says in verse 6, the 150 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,200 lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. 151 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,120 Indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. 152 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:10,160 What does that mean? The lines that God has ordained, 153 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:15,560 He never promised would be without pain this side of 154 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:21,000 heaven. Things like this happen unless 155 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,640 Christ returns first. You were going to die of 156 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:29,000 physical death. Your children are going to die 157 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:34,480 of physical death. Loved ones, friends, relatives. 158 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:42,000 That's a reality. But in Christ, facing all sorts 159 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:50,120 of devastation, we're able to say, as the psalmist did, the 160 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:58,480 Lord is good and he does good. That is not a license to then 161 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:04,040 say we can call evil good or darkness good or devastation 162 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:06,360 good. These are real, tragic 163 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:13,080 realities, but God's in control and in his sovereignty. 164 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:18,160 He is the only one who can give us the right perspective. 165 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:21,880 But that doesn't mean He's promised to answer every one of 166 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:25,120 our questions. So often when we ask the 167 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:29,080 question why, Brian Dunnigan, our dear friend who's past, 168 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,840 who's now with the Lord, said he often gives us a who. 169 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:41,600 When we ask why he gives us a who and The Who is him friends, 170 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:47,680 when people ask questions when you ask questions and the Lord 171 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:50,120 seems silent and what those answers might be. 172 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:54,880 Don't make things up. Instead, anchor yourself and 173 00:13:54,880 --> 00:14:03,640 what the word of God says and another Psalm 119, verse 114, 174 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:08,400 the psalmist writes, you are my hiding place, my refuge. 175 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:14,000 You are my hiding place and my shield, my protector. 176 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:22,320 And then the psalmist says, I hope in your word, as David 177 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:26,440 writes in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, you are my 178 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,640 Lord. I have no good apart from you. 179 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:36,120 There we see the supreme treasure God will bring you if 180 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:40,560 you're in Christ. God will bring you body and 181 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:45,520 soul, in life and through death into everlasting pleasure, if he 182 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:50,640 is your safest refuge, your sovereign Lord and your supreme 183 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:56,760 treasure. Is Christ, your supreme 184 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:00,920 treasure. Is there anything in your life, 185 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:06,040 any cup in your life that you're sinking to drink from that is a 186 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:09,240 greater treasure to you than Jesus? 187 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,880 That temptation is very real. It can even be subtle. 188 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,040 We can be deceived. We often are. 189 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:23,680 But David says verse 2, I have no good apart from you. 190 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:26,720 Think about what we've been learning about the union with 191 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:28,720 Christ. Apart from me, you could do 192 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:31,920 nothing. Friends, we are in Christ. 193 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:36,720 Christ is in US. Is that reality your supreme 194 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:41,160 treasure? Is there anything else competing 195 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:46,400 in your life for that place? David says in verse 5. 196 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,800 The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup. 197 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:56,120 What that means is if there is a table and there are many cups 198 00:15:56,240 --> 00:16:00,680 offering many things all over the table, David looks at the 199 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:07,160 table and sees the Lord and says this is my cup and this alone. 200 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,640 Nothing else that I could drink will satisfy. 201 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:17,600 Nothing else will ultimately keep me safe eternally. 202 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,400 Nothing else is worth being supreme. 203 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:34,400 You are my chosen portion and my cup, safest refuge, sovereign 204 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:39,160 Lord, supreme treasure. And then David says this in 205 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:44,080 verse 7. I bless the Lord who gives me 206 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:48,480 counsel in the night. Also my heart instructs me. 207 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:55,960 I bless the Lord who gives me counsel. 208 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:00,680 The same Lord that David was blessing is the only Lord. 209 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:11,000 The same counsel that God was giving David is the same counsel 210 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:18,400 he gives us. All Scripture is God breathed 211 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:24,960 and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and 212 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,840 training in righteousness. The reason I believe the Lord 213 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:35,080 led me to Psalm 16 for this Sunday is because He leads me to 214 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:41,280 Psalm 16 every day. For every day I am tempted to 215 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:46,400 put my refuge somewhere else. Every day I'm tempted to ignore 216 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:50,720 the sovereignty of God. Every day I'm tempted to put 217 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:56,040 something else supreme ahead of Christ and He corrects me. 218 00:17:57,360 --> 00:18:00,120 He corrects me because He loves me. 219 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:05,560 His Spirit illuminates my heart and my life and says this is not 220 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:09,600 in the proper place. Whenever I hear of news that 221 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:16,000 overwhelms my soul, this is the place I run. 222 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:23,000 And like David, I remind myself, anything I would seek to put my 223 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:28,080 security in other than Christ is ultimately insecure. 224 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,720 And we are tempted to put our security and insecure things all 225 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,360 the time. So is David. 226 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:40,520 So David says, I bless the Lord who gives me counsel. 227 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:45,640 What is the counsel? It's God's perfect wisdom. 228 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:50,560 No one else can give you perfect wisdom. 229 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:57,280 Brothers and sisters, pastors, teachers, scholars, theologians, 230 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,960 they can give great biblical counsel, and it can be true 231 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:07,880 counsel. God's counsel is never without 232 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:12,080 error. It is never confused. 233 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,160 God is never seeking to learn something. 234 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:20,600 And David says I bless the Lord who gives me counsel. 235 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:27,760 Is God your most trusted counselor? 236 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:33,920 Is there anything in your life, any place you're running, any 237 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:39,120 person you're running to whose counsel you're seeking more than 238 00:19:39,120 --> 00:19:42,800 God's? Is it your own counsel you're 239 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,880 seeking? Sometimes, because brokenness 240 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:50,120 can be so deep, we began to believe wrong things about who 241 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:55,000 God is, what he has said. Whose counsel are you listening 242 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:00,560 to as you battle your own disbelief, broken heartedness? 243 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,280 David says, I bless the Lord who gives me counsel. 244 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:09,640 And then this phrase is amazing. And the night also, my heart 245 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:14,240 instructs me. It takes me less than 30 seconds 246 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:18,800 to look out here. And remember what some of you 247 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:24,560 have told me about those nights when the unthinkable happened. 248 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:29,720 And it's not just one night, but it can be a long season of 249 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,600 nights where your heart is broken. 250 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:35,720 Where do you run to in the middle of the night? 251 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:44,720 Psalm 16 teaches us to turn to the Lord as our safest refuge. 252 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:49,560 Psalm 16 teaches us about the sovereignty of God. 253 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:57,880 It teaches us that He must be our supreme treasure and can be. 254 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:05,600 He must be our most trusted counselor in the night. 255 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:14,440 If you're in Christ, run to His Word, and if His word is in you, 256 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:21,440 your very heart that He has given you, which is a new heart 257 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,680 will instruct you, It will counsel you. 258 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,680 And you know how it's going to counsel you. 259 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:36,640 Just is it counsel, David, because it's in that counsel 260 00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:41,440 that the Lord reminded David that He alone is the safest 261 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:50,080 refuge, that He alone is the sovereign God, that he alone is 262 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:56,760 supreme. David then moves into verse 8 263 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:02,240 and watch what happens. It now moves from a petition. 264 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:12,760 It moves from preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge to 265 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:17,160 verse 8. I have set the Lord always 266 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:21,400 before me because he is at my right hand. 267 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:27,320 I shall not be shaken. Do you see what's happened? 268 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:33,400 David petitions the Lord, and then as the Lord brings counsel 269 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:39,680 to his life about who he is, David exalts his character, and 270 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:44,800 as he exalts his character as the safest refuge, the sovereign 271 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:51,280 Lord, the supreme treasure, David's confidence swells. 272 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:56,880 The man who is petitioning the Lord Preserve me now, says, I 273 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,640 shall not be shaken. And what are the results? 274 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,920 Therefore, verse 9, my heart is glad, and my whole being 275 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:10,520 rejoices. My flesh also dwell secure, and 276 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,920 here I believe is the reason his petition came in the first place 277 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:24,720 for you, verse 10 will not abandon my soul to shield, or 278 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,320 let your holy one see corruption. 279 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:36,760 David was afraid of dying. He was afraid of his own body 280 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,640 being desolated in the grave. The promise of Christ that's 281 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:47,080 coming, which he was seeing would happen in the future, is 282 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:52,440 the promise fulfilled. Reminds him that even in death 283 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:58,160 the Lord is alive. The Lord is my safest refuge. 284 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:02,200 The Lord is my supreme treasure. The Lord is my sovereign. 285 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:09,360 He will not abandon me even in death. 286 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:17,240 And so when we face death, when we face the death of our loved 287 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:24,760 ones, when we face what seems to be untimely deaths, tragedies, 288 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:37,720 God does not abandon his children because he died, truly 289 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:43,840 died, because he was placed in the tomb, because he cried out, 290 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,720 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 291 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:53,840 All who are in Christ can say now knowing more than David 292 00:24:53,840 --> 00:25:01,240 knew, he alone is my safest refuge. 293 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,000 David then ends the Psalm by saying this. 294 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:11,080 You make known to me the path of life while he's making known to 295 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,720 you the path of life today. Fred, in the past, perhaps you 296 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,760 have trusted Jesus and you know what that means. 297 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,640 Praise God for His grace. Maybe today is the day where you 298 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:28,720 realize the path you're on and it's not the one that leads to 299 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,320 all that has been promised. Maybe He's brought you here this 300 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:36,720 very morning to hear Psalm 16 so that you can rest and receive 301 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:41,120 Jesus alone and enter into the narrow Rd. that leads to life. 302 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,480 David says you make known to me the path of life. 303 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,600 In your presence there is fullness of joy. 304 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:52,720 At your right hand are pleasures forevermore. 305 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:57,640 That's the promise. That promise is not given to us 306 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:04,360 to experience only pleasure. This sight of heaven, pain is 307 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:05,880 going to be a reality of our life. 308 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,600 Suffering is going to be very real. 309 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:14,440 But as those who are in Christ encounter that pain, that part 310 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:19,200 of God's bitter Providence, we do not mourn like the world. 311 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:24,760 We do not run towards a multitude of other gods. 312 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:31,680 If we do, our sorrows only multiply, but instead we run to 313 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:38,160 the truth, to our counselor for those who are in Christ. 314 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:46,760 The moment our eyes close, this site of heaven, the moment we 315 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:53,400 die in Christ, our eyes are opened and that pleasure 316 00:26:53,400 --> 00:27:00,120 forevermore, that full and lasting pleasure is now our 317 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:05,040 reality forever this side of heaven. 318 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:11,760 That's the counsel God gives us. He's the safest refuge. 319 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:19,040 He's the sovereign Lord. He is the supreme treasure. 320 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:28,960 This is His perfect counsel. Is that true of you? 321 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:36,160 Father, thank you so much for your word. 322 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,520 Thank you for the word Jesus Christ. 323 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:47,680 Thank you, Savior, for being our perfect refuge. 324 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,000 Thank you for being the sovereign Lord and our supreme 325 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,080 treasure. Thank you that even now the very 326 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,360 one giving counsel to David is giving counsel to us. 327 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,560 And Lord, lift our eyes up, if there are any today who don't 328 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:08,000 know you who are in this place or watching online, would you 329 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:15,160 bring them to surrender to you as the Lord God truly hear them 330 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:19,720 Cry out, Preserve me. And may that prayer not be just 331 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:24,560 for a moment, but a prayer that is meant for all eternity, for 332 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:31,160 all who are in Christ are preserved now and forever. 333 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,720 This we pray in Jesus name. Amen, please.