1 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:10,100 Hey everybody. My name is Alan and I am one of 2 00:00:10,700 --> 00:00:14,100 Elders and pastors here at New Life Community Church. 3 00:00:14,100 --> 00:00:17,100 If you're new here, the way that we operate is we have a 4 00:00:17,100 --> 00:00:21,300 plurality of Elders, who have an elder team, Kyle, who you just 5 00:00:21,300 --> 00:00:25,200 saw and Jasper, who was up here, playing electric guitar and 6 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,400 myself and then James and Stever are in training right now as 7 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:29,900 well. And so how we kind of operators, 8 00:00:29,900 --> 00:00:32,400 we have a team so we don't always cause not the only one 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,100 that preaches. Luckily I'm not. 10 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:40,200 Not up here A whole lot. And so today, we are going to be 11 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,500 in Psalm 97 and we're going to end our Psalm series. 12 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,000 We've went through psalms of the last several years throughout 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,100 the summer will go through a different Psalm. 14 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 And so today, we're ending the series. 15 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,600 So this plane is landing. I told I think is Steven James 16 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,700 earlier that it is planes land in one way or another, you know. 17 00:00:59,700 --> 00:01:01,700 So, we may have a smooth sailing. 18 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:04,099 We may have a rocky landing and we may crash and burn but we are 19 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:06,600 Coming to a halt with the Psalms. 20 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,400 All right, so, bear with me. I don't do this a whole lot, but 21 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:18,300 I do have fun when I do this. So Psalm 97 I'm getting my name 22 00:01:18,300 --> 00:01:19,500 is out. We're going to read it in just a 23 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:22,100 second. Still got a got a minute to get 24 00:01:22,100 --> 00:01:25,500 there. So this song, before we get into 25 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:28,600 it, this is a unique. Psalm from the ones that I've 26 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:33,000 talked about before, the usually the ones that I have got up here 27 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:37,900 have had a specific author that we know who it is, whether it 28 00:01:37,900 --> 00:01:42,600 been Solomon or David or somebody this one, doesn't this 29 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:46,000 one doesn't have a any kind of author that we know of, when we 30 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,200 can make some assumptions. But we don't have a specific 31 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,800 timeframe. We can also make some 32 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:53,800 assumptions and we'll go into some of that later, but this 33 00:01:53,900 --> 00:02:00,600 this is a Psalm that is packed in between a couple other songs 34 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,800 that they would call the enthronement songs, which really 35 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:07,400 just state that the Lord Reigns, the Lord is glorious, the Lord 36 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:17,500 rules, Over all of creation. so, before we get into Psalm 97, I 37 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:20,500 saw a really interesting point this week that I've it hit me 38 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:22,100 in. So I wanted to, I wanted to talk 39 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:24,000 about it a little bit. Has anybody ever had one of 40 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,700 those weeks where you go through the week? 41 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,300 And some good things have happened, some bad things have 42 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:31,400 happened, but at the end of it, you just go, what happened, 43 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:34,700 like, what in the world this this week? 44 00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:37,300 I don't know what came out of it but I feel like I'm the same 45 00:02:37,300 --> 00:02:41,700 place I was last week and then this week is going to be more of 46 00:02:41,700 --> 00:02:44,600 the same. Anybody ever feel that way just 47 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,600 all this kind of stuff happened and you go what in In the world. 48 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,600 I didn't see that coming. I didn't see this coming and it 49 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:52,900 just feels like a wash and you go, I'm just going to start 50 00:02:52,900 --> 00:02:57,500 over. He'll start over next week so 51 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,600 that I felt like we had one. We would have one of those 52 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,200 weeks. Did we let my wife down there? 53 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,900 We had one of those weeks I think this week and it got me 54 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:09,500 thinking and I heard somebody on a sermon that had talked about 55 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:11,500 this and it got me thing I thought was a really good point. 56 00:03:11,500 --> 00:03:14,700 So there's worldviews that we can approach all kinds of things 57 00:03:14,700 --> 00:03:18,700 from so we can we can approach the world, what's called a 58 00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:22,800 secular worldview and it kind of deals with a lot of that. 59 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,900 And so I want to just Tell you what kind of a secular worldview 60 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:32,200 would sum up. So it would sum up that the 61 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,800 Universe billions of years ago. Fourteen point five billion or 62 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,400 something like that was just this great expanse. 63 00:03:39,500 --> 00:03:41,300 We don't really know where it came from, we don't know what 64 00:03:41,300 --> 00:03:43,600 happened. And then something happened, 65 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,000 some say, would be a big bang theory. 66 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,900 Some say other things in these billions of stars and planets 67 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:51,700 and all of this stuff just kind of happened just happenstance by 68 00:03:51,700 --> 00:03:53,800 blind chance. These things came together. 69 00:03:54,100 --> 00:03:57,100 And boom, our universe was created, which is wonderful 70 00:03:57,100 --> 00:04:00,300 because we live in this universe so all this stuff just happened, 71 00:04:00,300 --> 00:04:04,100 right? And then, however, long later 72 00:04:04,100 --> 00:04:08,300 there's a lot of debate somehow organisms and atoms and all this 73 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:11,800 kind of stuff came together and it started producing this thing 74 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:17,500 called life and then we move forward long time and then lo 75 00:04:17,500 --> 00:04:21,600 and behold, we are here and we breathe this thing called are, 76 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,200 which also just happens to be here and We can think and we can 77 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:29,500 do all of this stuff and it really just kind of is what it 78 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:32,300 is. There's no great explanation. 79 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:38,000 We've tried to explain it but we're just here And that seems 80 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,100 subtle but that's what a lot of people are taught and it does a 81 00:04:42,108 --> 00:04:46,100 few things. It makes us think that that 82 00:04:46,100 --> 00:04:48,000 statement. It just is what it is and it 83 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,500 also makes this thing saying you do you and I'll do me. 84 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:57,200 And we'll just all get along. So you do you, you do your 85 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,900 thing, I'll do my thing. And in society now we're seeing 86 00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:04,400 that also translate into you have your truth. 87 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:11,800 I'll have my truth. And we'll get along and R-Truth 88 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,000 can even be fluid nowadays, which is crazy, which means your 89 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,900 truth can change. Which means my truth may be 90 00:05:17,900 --> 00:05:21,100 different than your truth. But at some time, we can both 91 00:05:21,100 --> 00:05:24,000 change truths and it's all okay. Because it's still just true. 92 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:26,000 Never heard anything like this and news. 93 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,700 My truth may even be wrong but it's my truth. 94 00:05:31,900 --> 00:05:33,800 You have no right to tell me about my truth. 95 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,900 They may be different and when it relates to the Lord, a lot of 96 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:43,200 times that goes into either, well, there's a bunch of 97 00:05:43,207 --> 00:05:44,600 different scenarios. I'm going to focus on a few of 98 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,300 them so that could be, there's just no God at all. 99 00:05:47,300 --> 00:05:50,700 This is all just happenstance. Plain and simple. 100 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:56,800 It could go that we have a higher being that is so loving 101 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:59,600 that will just all be saved because how in the world could a 102 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:06,300 loving God. Not save all of mankind and so 103 00:06:06,300 --> 00:06:09,400 it doesn't really matter which God you believe in or any of 104 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,500 this stuff, because that might be your truth. 105 00:06:11,500 --> 00:06:13,200 That's fine. All the paths lead to the same 106 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,000 place. Or it could just be, there's a 107 00:06:16,008 --> 00:06:17,600 mystery, we just don't know. So we're not even going to try 108 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:22,100 to figure it out. Or you could get to kind of how 109 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:25,300 solemn gets in an ecclesiastic in a Verge, she still points to 110 00:06:25,300 --> 00:06:27,500 the Lord, but it just is what it is. 111 00:06:27,500 --> 00:06:30,700 It's all meaningless, we live, we die the end. 112 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:34,500 That's somebody I've sat down with lunch before and I've had 113 00:06:34,500 --> 00:06:38,500 somebody tell me that and it was just so normal for them than it 114 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:39,700 was when we when we die, we just die. 115 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:42,500 That's it. And this is a prominent way of 116 00:06:42,500 --> 00:06:46,000 thinking. So if that's how we feel, if 117 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,100 that's our worldview than our main goal in life, is probably 118 00:06:49,100 --> 00:06:55,000 just to be happy. The pursuit of happiness, and 119 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,100 the pursuit of happiness can lead to a lot of things. 120 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:03,500 It could lead to usually leads to wanting something new to make 121 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:06,800 us happy. Maybe it's a new job, maybe it's 122 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:12,200 a new vehicle, or maybe it's, you know, more money or maybe 123 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:16,500 it's a new spouse or maybe it's a new whatever, this will lead 124 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:18,100 us to happiness. I'm not happy now. 125 00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:21,000 So in order to get happy in order to have some kind, Kind of 126 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,500 meaning in this life because it's all kind of just 127 00:07:23,500 --> 00:07:28,600 meaningless and and a dire would be to obtain something else that 128 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,300 will make me happy. But at the end of the day, it's 129 00:07:31,300 --> 00:07:35,900 just That's that's really depressing. 130 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,300 I hope you're depressed a little bit and that well that sounds 131 00:07:38,300 --> 00:07:39,500 kind of mean. I hope you're not really 132 00:07:39,500 --> 00:07:43,100 depressed but I kind of do because all of that teaches us 133 00:07:43,100 --> 00:07:46,300 that I'm not important, you're not important and you're going 134 00:07:46,300 --> 00:07:53,300 to live and die the end. And that's really sad. 135 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,300 No, hope in that. Who cares? 136 00:07:58,300 --> 00:08:00,300 What the truth is, if that's like, it doesn't matter. 137 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:08,500 What if all of that is wrong? What if that entire thing is a 138 00:08:08,508 --> 00:08:16,400 lie, I hope you think it is but maybe you don't what if you are 139 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:21,000 important. And what if there is a king? 140 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,600 An actual ruler of this universe. 141 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:30,700 So what if we say rather than that, there is a king and that 142 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:32,700 this place was created by a designer. 143 00:08:35,900 --> 00:08:38,799 And he designed the cosmos and he designed the planets and he 144 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:42,200 designed a billions of the stars and he placed them each 145 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,700 individually out in the sky at. However, he decreed, because he 146 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:49,500 is The Sovereign Lord. And what if we say that he made 147 00:08:49,500 --> 00:08:54,800 Earth, this unique place to inhabit his creation, that would 148 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,200 be us that he would make in his own image. 149 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:02,700 That would live and breathe and populate the Earth, not just by 150 00:09:02,700 --> 00:09:05,400 happenstance, not by random blind chance. 151 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:10,500 But because he loved his creation and because it was part 152 00:09:10,500 --> 00:09:17,600 of his story. And so what if he made two 153 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,900 genders a man and a woman, this was truth. 154 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:25,800 It's not fluid. It was truth because he is 155 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:32,700 uniquely designed man and woman. And he allowed them to live with 156 00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:35,900 him and he allowed them to walk on the earth. 157 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:38,900 And he was their God and they were his people. 158 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:44,100 And then, if somewhere along the lines, not too far off, the 159 00:09:44,100 --> 00:09:46,300 people, disobeyed and sin entered the world. 160 00:09:46,300 --> 00:09:52,100 And then God said in motion his great Redemptive story of Saving 161 00:09:52,100 --> 00:09:56,000 mankind because he values mankind. 162 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,700 Because he has created mankind. What he creates is valuable. 163 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:07,100 And so what if he leads his people? 164 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:12,600 out of captivity and he leads them through the desert and all 165 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,400 of these trials and tribulations and it finally gets to where he 166 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:22,800 sends his only son Jesus, To Earth for the Salvation of his 167 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:24,800 people. And Jesus, who knew? 168 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:29,100 No sin lived the perfect life. For us. 169 00:10:29,700 --> 00:10:33,700 So that his father may be glorified so that he may redeem 170 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:38,700 his people through his blood. He's dead and he was buried. 171 00:10:38,700 --> 00:10:43,500 He was raised, he conquered death for us. 172 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,100 He conquered death to glorify his father. 173 00:10:47,700 --> 00:10:53,900 And he promised that one day he would return for us and lead us 174 00:10:53,900 --> 00:10:59,100 to a new Heaven and a new Earth. Where we would again get to walk 175 00:10:59,100 --> 00:11:04,700 and be with him and he would be our God and we would be his 176 00:11:04,700 --> 00:11:06,800 people that his glory would be made known. 177 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:10,500 And that he loves you very, very much. 178 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:16,200 That you're not just a number. Of the millions of people have 179 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,100 her many people, there are that he actually knows your name. 180 00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:26,900 He knows you, you're not just a pawn, in some grand scheme. 181 00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:29,600 You're not just a vessel that, he just uses. 182 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,600 However, he sees fit that you are more than that to him. 183 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:36,100 It's you are a son or a daughter of the king. 184 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:40,100 He'll be in the king That You're Made In His Image to glorify 185 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:43,800 himself. But you are important to him. 186 00:11:45,900 --> 00:11:50,200 For, he is your king. He's not only just your king, 187 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:54,600 he's King of Everything. The Lord Reigns. 188 00:11:57,500 --> 00:11:59,800 So this is his truth, this right here. 189 00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:03,200 We don't get to dictate the truth. 190 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,800 This is this is truth. This is his truth. 191 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:13,200 The word of the Lord. Let's read Psalm 97. 192 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:14,600 If you will, please stand with me. 193 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:23,500 Says this, the Lord Reigns. Verse 1, the Lord Reigns let the 194 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:27,400 Earth Rejoice. Let the many coastlands be glad 195 00:12:27,900 --> 00:12:32,200 clouds and thick Darkness are all around him righteousness and 196 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,000 Justice are the foundation of his throne. 197 00:12:35,500 --> 00:12:40,300 Fire goes before him and burns up his adversaries adversaries 198 00:12:40,300 --> 00:12:44,200 all around his Lightnings light up the world, the Earth sees and 199 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:48,700 trembles the mountains melt like Wax before the Lord, before the 200 00:12:48,700 --> 00:12:52,000 Lord of all the Earth. The heavens Proclaim, his 201 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,000 righteousness, and all the people see his glory. 202 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,600 All worshippers of images are put to shame who make their 203 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:01,900 boast in worthless Idols worship Him. 204 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,600 Are you God's Zion? Here's and is glad and the 205 00:13:05,608 --> 00:13:08,500 daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments O, 206 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:14,600 Lord For You O Lord, our most high over all the Earth you are 207 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:20,800 exalted far above all gods. Oh, you who love the Lord hate 208 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,500 evil. He preserves the lives of his 209 00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:25,200 Saints. He delivers them from the hand 210 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:28,800 of the wicked light is sown for the righteous and the joy of the 211 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,800 upright and heart rejoice in the Lord. 212 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,400 Oh you righteous and give thanks to his holy. 213 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:40,900 Let's pray. Father, thank you for your word. 214 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:48,000 Thank you for your goodness. We acknowledge you as king. 215 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:54,600 King of Kings, as Lord of lords, this morning Lord, help us see 216 00:13:54,600 --> 00:14:01,500 you Who you are help us submit Lord. 217 00:14:03,100 --> 00:14:05,900 You will? We ask that you speak to us 218 00:14:06,900 --> 00:14:09,900 spirit, guide us in Jesus. Christ's name. 219 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:16,700 Amen. So I propose not just what if 220 00:14:16,700 --> 00:14:19,900 all of those statements are true but I propose that is the truth 221 00:14:19,900 --> 00:14:25,200 and hopefully you would agree with that that this word is 222 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,600 truth and in that and we're going to get into this in a 223 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,500 minute in that means we need to stand firm on the word of the 224 00:14:32,508 --> 00:14:34,800 Lord. That secular worldview that we 225 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,100 were talking about is there are a lot of nuances so I don't want 226 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:40,400 to act like that. It's all 100 across the board 227 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,800 but that is the leading view of most higher. 228 00:14:43,900 --> 00:14:47,900 Ation. That kind of blanket statement 229 00:14:47,900 --> 00:14:50,200 that things just happened. You know, there's a whole 230 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:53,300 scientific thing that they'll get in that that we can get into 231 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,000 how they think things might have happened but that it all 232 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,900 happened, it's happened stance. We have evolved and we have no 233 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:02,800 idea what happens after this life. 234 00:15:04,300 --> 00:15:05,600 Some would say that. Yeah, there's just a higher 235 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,300 being someone say, you know, you'll hear on TV or you'll hear 236 00:15:09,300 --> 00:15:11,200 friends that just say, well, we hope to see you on the other 237 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:16,800 side because this the Lord saves all But the truth of God's word 238 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,700 doesn't say any of that. But that is the the kind of the 239 00:15:19,700 --> 00:15:24,500 predominant teaching on any kind of higher education in America. 240 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,000 It is not the truth of the Bible. 241 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:34,100 So, Psalm 97 mentioned this earlier a little bit, this is 242 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:36,200 part of what they've called some of the enthronement. 243 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,500 Psalms 96 97 98, I think maybe Psalm 43. 244 00:15:39,500 --> 00:15:42,000 There's a couple of these and they call them that simply of 245 00:15:42,300 --> 00:15:47,400 stating that this is that the Lord Reigns, The Lord sits on 246 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:53,100 the throne he is in power, he is in in control. 247 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,600 He is the king of all of the Earth. 248 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:00,000 But let's get into some of these verses here. 249 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,900 I'm going to try not to ramble or go off too many rabbit holes. 250 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,400 Try to stay on track as best as I can. 251 00:16:09,500 --> 00:16:13,300 So verse 1, the Lord Reigns let the Earth Rejoice, let the many 252 00:16:13,300 --> 00:16:17,500 Coastal lands be glad and how I like to do this at works for my 253 00:16:17,500 --> 00:16:18,900 brain. Hopefully, it does for y'all is 254 00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:22,800 I like to break things down into parts and then I like to just go 255 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:26,300 by on verse by verse. So we've only got 12 here. 256 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,700 Luckily, it's more than 3 and but luckily it's not like 37 257 00:16:29,700 --> 00:16:30,900 either. So I think my brain would 258 00:16:30,900 --> 00:16:33,100 explode. So there's kind of three parts. 259 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:37,800 The first six verses, which is kind of interesting I help do 260 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,200 music up here a lot and we, of take this approach to a lot of 261 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,900 the songs that we sing is we use this, Not method. 262 00:16:45,900 --> 00:16:48,000 I don't know what you want to call it, but usually the first 263 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,800 song or so that we're seeing and we want us to sing together, 264 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,700 maybe about the Lord to help prepare our hearts for who he 265 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:55,400 is. And then we'll slowly try to 266 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,100 transition into singing more directly to the Lord saying you 267 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:01,500 are good. God, you are good and then we 268 00:17:01,500 --> 00:17:04,000 may even end by again saying hallelujah. 269 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,900 Hey you people let's praise the Lord together. 270 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,200 The psalmist, kind of orchestrated like that. 271 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:14,599 So the first six verses the psalmist is going to be talking 272 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:19,300 of How how marvelous the Lord is, how great he is. 273 00:17:19,300 --> 00:17:21,800 How Grandy is, how much he reigns in power? 274 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:27,400 And then we'll get into verse 9. He turns it and he says, For 275 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,900 You, O, Lord our most high. He speaking directly to the 276 00:17:31,900 --> 00:17:36,200 father and then he ends with a proclamation to his people that 277 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:40,000 say, you who love the Lord Rejoice, so he spends a little 278 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,800 bit of moment saying how great he is. 279 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,700 Then he turns his attention to the Lord and says, father, you 280 00:17:44,700 --> 00:17:45,600 are good. Good. 281 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:48,400 And then he turns back to the people and says, you also 282 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:50,600 rejoice in the Lord. So that's kind of how it's 283 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,100 broken now. So let's go to verse 1, the Lord 284 00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:56,400 Reigns let the Earth Rejoice. Let the mini coastlands be glad 285 00:17:58,700 --> 00:18:02,400 So the whole earth rejoicing, the bottom of that, it says, let 286 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:06,500 the coastlines be glad your version may say Islands or owls 287 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:10,400 or something to that effect, what it's getting at this was 288 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,100 this was something. They used a lot old, biblical 289 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,700 authors, around the Mediterranean Sea and all that. 290 00:18:15,700 --> 00:18:18,300 So they're not speaking of the coastlands like Florida 291 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,200 necessarily, they don't really know Florida existed, but 292 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,600 they're speaking of all the coastlands that they knew simply 293 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,500 as a way to say all of the Nations everywhere. 294 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:31,900 They New be glad Rejoice Rejoice. 295 00:18:31,900 --> 00:18:35,800 Let the many coastlands be glad and there's some debate on this 296 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:40,800 song as to whether this is, simply poetry, as we'll see in a 297 00:18:40,808 --> 00:18:43,500 minute or if it's really more prophetic. 298 00:18:43,500 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaking of his second coming, but either way, it is 299 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:51,800 proclaiming all of the earth rejoice in the Lord. 300 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:57,400 Why do we rejoice in the Lord? He Reigns and so we'll get into 301 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:02,200 some of that. So, verse 2, Clouds and thick 302 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:07,100 Darkness are all around him. Righteousness, and Justice are 303 00:19:07,100 --> 00:19:11,900 the foundation of his throne. This answer is the why. 304 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,200 We can we can Rejoice that the Lord Reigns because 305 00:19:17,500 --> 00:19:20,300 righteousness and Justice are his foundation. 306 00:19:22,700 --> 00:19:28,700 So this is a god, The God Who is Almighty all-powerful, but he is 307 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:34,200 not a tyrant. This is not a domineering God 308 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:40,500 this is a loving gentle kind just. 309 00:19:40,900 --> 00:19:45,800 Holy worthy, God. And because of that, we can 310 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:50,300 Rejoice that he is our King. We don't Rejoice just because we 311 00:19:50,300 --> 00:19:53,700 have a king. We have a we Rejoice because he 312 00:19:53,700 --> 00:19:56,900 is our King and those are his characteristics now. 313 00:19:56,900 --> 00:19:58,400 The clouds and the thick darkness. 314 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,900 When I first read them were a little strange to me to be 315 00:20:01,900 --> 00:20:06,400 honest because It says be glad and then it goes like really 316 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,100 dark like clouds and darkness are all around Rejoice. 317 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:12,100 Whoo. I'm like that's kind of scary 318 00:20:13,100 --> 00:20:16,500 but if we go back to Exodus I think it's sexist 17. 319 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:26,400 Think it's X's 17 where 19 19 verse 17, where we're Moses on 320 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,000 Mount Sinai. This is right before the Ten 321 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,400 Commandments and we see a lot of this imagery in the Old 322 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,000 Testament where God is surrounded by 5. 323 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,800 Or will read that here in the next verse or he's surrounded by 324 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:41,900 thick his thick presence on Mount Sinai. 325 00:20:41,900 --> 00:20:44,700 When Moses goes up there, there was a, you know, a thick cloud 326 00:20:44,700 --> 00:20:46,800 of darkness and it ends up his glory as shown. 327 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:50,000 And we see him lead the people through a, you know, pillar by 328 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,700 day and Fire by night. So the imagery here is 329 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:56,500 consistent with with what they would have known back in back in 330 00:20:56,500 --> 00:21:00,300 these times. It's showing his marvelousness, 331 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:06,100 it's showing that his presence rains that he is powerful clouds 332 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:10,800 and thick Darkness are all around him, it surrounds him but 333 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:15,300 his foundation of How He Reigns as a king sitting on Throne his 334 00:21:15,300 --> 00:21:22,400 foundation, our righteousness and justice Verse 3, it says 335 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:28,400 fire goes before him and burns up his adversary. 336 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,900 I keep want to say adversaries I think that's the wrong word 337 00:21:31,900 --> 00:21:36,800 adversaries. Yeah his adversaries all around 338 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,600 verse 4. It says his Lightnings light up 339 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:44,600 the world the Earth sees and trembles the mountains melt like 340 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:49,600 Wax before the Lord before the Lord of all the Earth as joking 341 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,500 with with with Kyle a couple weeks ago. 342 00:21:51,500 --> 00:21:56,100 So I was gonna have like a like a science fair a demonstration 343 00:21:56,100 --> 00:22:00,000 up here in build like a volcano and have it melt be like, that's 344 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,500 cool. The whole mountain of the thing. 345 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,800 These verses really just they're getting at the power, its 346 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:11,700 imagery that they're used as the power and Majesty of God, thick 347 00:22:11,700 --> 00:22:15,000 clouds around him fire goes before him. 348 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:25,800 He is already won the victory. Nothing can stand in the way of 349 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:30,900 our all-powerful, God, He clears the path. 350 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,600 Things that we might see as unmovable. 351 00:22:36,100 --> 00:22:42,800 Mountains anybody's ever been to the Grand Canyon or there's a 352 00:22:42,808 --> 00:22:45,200 great Teton Mountains out in Wyoming. 353 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,100 We went on a honeymoon to Yellowstone. 354 00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:50,900 Just gigantic mountain ranges that man can't do anything with. 355 00:22:51,500 --> 00:22:58,100 These are immovable objects. Says they melt like Wax, like 356 00:22:58,100 --> 00:23:03,200 nothing. His Lightnings light up the 357 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:09,600 entire world, the Earth sees and trembles at his great power and 358 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:14,800 his great Majesty. The imagery fires me up because 359 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:19,900 I don't think of the Lord this way most of the time. after 360 00:23:19,900 --> 00:23:22,900 really be made to think of the Lord this way because I think of 361 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:27,900 the Lord as shaming lead to say a lot of times there's my buddy 362 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:30,900 remember when I was in Youth Group, there's a t-shirts with 363 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:37,200 Jesus as my homeboy, you know, my boy blue. 364 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,700 I'm a friend of God. We are his friend, but he is 365 00:23:43,700 --> 00:23:49,100 also all-powerful All powerful mountains. 366 00:23:49,100 --> 00:23:51,200 Don't stand a chance. The Earth doesn't stand a 367 00:23:51,208 --> 00:23:53,900 chance. Great Heavens. 368 00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:57,300 Don't stand a chance like the universe doesn't stand a chance 369 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,300 him. Nothing can stop him. 370 00:23:59,300 --> 00:24:01,100 He goes before he clears the way. 371 00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:07,400 Could you imagine what it would be like, if the presence of the 372 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,600 Lord, just burst through this room right now, like, like, like 373 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,300 truly what we see in the Old Testament. 374 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,600 Like, I think there's a reason that they would fall down and 375 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,800 say, as if I'm dead, they're terrified. 376 00:24:19,900 --> 00:24:24,000 Like in Luke when the angel appears to them and says they 377 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,000 just fall down and he says no no do not be afraid. 378 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,400 You don't have to be afraid and even the angels even just the 379 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,100 presence is terrifying because of his power. 380 00:24:33,900 --> 00:24:37,500 We should fear and respect the Lord because he is good. 381 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,500 Okay, verse 6. The heavens Proclaim, his 382 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:47,500 righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory. 383 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,800 We will see his glory and this, you know, this could simply just 384 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,400 be poetry. There is also some debate on if 385 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:01,400 this talking about eschatology, which is really just like a big 386 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,100 old word for the end of the last days. 387 00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:11,600 So if this is talking about, you know, his, his final coming, But 388 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,400 either way, all people, all of us. 389 00:25:17,100 --> 00:25:20,500 Will glorify his name. Because whether we want to admit 390 00:25:20,500 --> 00:25:24,500 this truth or not, he is King. Regardless of, if you call him 391 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:32,400 He is King. That is truth. when I will go 392 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:41,200 into verse 7, It says all worshippers of images are put to 393 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:46,600 shame who make their boast in worthless Idols worship him. 394 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,600 All you Gods. That's a little G Gods there 395 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,900 too. So did you know that you're a 396 00:25:51,900 --> 00:25:57,300 worshipper and something So it may be that your worship of 397 00:25:57,300 --> 00:25:59,800 Lord, you may come in here and you and you might even use the 398 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:01,300 Christian language of. Yeah. 399 00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:04,200 I'm a worshipper. But if you don't that you're a 400 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:08,000 worshipper of something, some kind of idol that you've got in 401 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,100 your life, it could be your family, these could be good 402 00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:14,300 things, but we're not to be a worshipper of anything other 403 00:26:14,300 --> 00:26:16,700 than the Lord could be a family. It could be for me it could be 404 00:26:16,700 --> 00:26:20,300 music or got to throw it in there WWE I love that stuff. 405 00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:23,800 Is so great, could be a worshipper of work. 406 00:26:24,300 --> 00:26:26,300 You could be a worshipper of your kids. 407 00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:31,000 Could be a worshipper of money of things. 408 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,400 Kind of going back to that secular worldview. 409 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,400 But in some regard, you are a worshipper of something and this 410 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,200 is good to be made known of. Because if you're not 411 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,200 worshipping the Lord, you are devoting yourself to something 412 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,400 else. So today, hopefully, this is a 413 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,900 call to say devote yourself to the Lord. 414 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,200 Why? Because his righteousness and 415 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,100 Justice are the foundation of his throne. 416 00:26:57,100 --> 00:27:00,700 That's why we can trust him. But there's a really cool story 417 00:27:00,700 --> 00:27:06,000 in Romans, not in Romans, I'm sorry, it's Paul, but it's an 418 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,400 Axe. And this is one of the stories 419 00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:15,400 that really kind of helped unlock my brain to really want 420 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,300 to dive in and study the Bible and some of the historical stuff 421 00:27:18,300 --> 00:27:22,800 in the Bible. So in Acts Well, the Josh 422 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,900 there's a there's a slide I just gave is the only slide I have 423 00:27:25,900 --> 00:27:28,700 and I just gave it to Josh like three minutes before we started. 424 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:34,900 And so he's a real MVP guys. This is the Temple of Artemis. 425 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:37,300 This is in. No, I'm sorry. 426 00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:40,300 This is not, this is the Parthenon in Athens. 427 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:48,400 And it was a big ol structure, just put it that way. 428 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:50,500 And then in Ephesus, somewhere else in the Bible, there's a 429 00:27:50,508 --> 00:27:53,600 place, there's a thing called the Temple of Artemis, that 430 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,300 would have said to have been about double that size. 431 00:27:57,500 --> 00:28:01,100 And I show you that because what they would do in Athens 432 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,100 particular back then. But in this Roman culture, that 433 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,100 Paul would have been in is they would build all of these kind of 434 00:28:09,108 --> 00:28:12,900 statues these images and they would worship them. 435 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,100 And a lot of what we call Greek mythology came or was around 436 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:18,400 back then. And so they mean, they would 437 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:23,200 have a god of sun, they would have, you know, like a Moon God, 438 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,500 or just you name it pretty much. They found something to worship 439 00:28:26,500 --> 00:28:28,600 that they didn't understand and they said we're going to, we're 440 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,200 going to worship this. And so when it says this worship 441 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:36,000 of images, there's a story back in Acts 17, where Paul is in. 442 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,900 I don't know if he's actually in this or not but he's in Athens 443 00:28:39,900 --> 00:28:44,100 and he would have been around this culture and he finds he's 444 00:28:44,100 --> 00:28:46,200 walking amongst them and he hears them worship and all these 445 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,100 things. And he finds this inscription 446 00:28:48,700 --> 00:28:53,400 that says to an unknown. God Which I find fascinating 447 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,500 because the people there were just as silly as we are today 448 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,500 and they're worshiping things. They don't even understand. 449 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,300 They don't know how it works. They don't even know who this 450 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:04,900 God is. But they're like, you know what, 451 00:29:04,900 --> 00:29:07,200 there might be another God out there that we don't know about. 452 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,000 So we're just going to worship this unknown. 453 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,400 God, we're going to devote our attention to this unknown. 454 00:29:12,900 --> 00:29:16,100 God. But that story really helped me 455 00:29:16,100 --> 00:29:18,200 click for understand the Bible because I'm like, oh man, I've 456 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:19,400 always heard of this app and stuff. 457 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,700 That's, that's right here in the Bible. 458 00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:23,000 It would have been something like this. 459 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,100 It would have been a massive structure. 460 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:30,600 I mean, the Parthenon itself, which is what that is. 461 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,500 The remnants of was one of the, what we would call the 7th 462 00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:36,200 Wonders of the World mean it's like upon a big hill. 463 00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:38,800 I mean, that is like Stone and Marble. 464 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,200 It's a engineering just genius for back in the time and they 465 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:44,600 would have had even a bigger one. 466 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,200 Another place that they worshipped all kinds of gods in 467 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:50,200 but not the Lord. So Paul. 468 00:29:52,900 --> 00:29:55,500 Believes that the Lord is powerful in Mighty and he 469 00:29:55,508 --> 00:29:57,500 believes enough in that that he walks in. 470 00:29:57,700 --> 00:30:01,500 And he he sees this and he's like, let me tell y'all who you 471 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:03,500 should be worshipping. Let me tell you about the one 472 00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:07,500 true God. And so, when you get time, go 473 00:30:07,500 --> 00:30:11,400 read acts 17 in there and he just lays it out for him. 474 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:17,000 He's like this is who Created the world. 475 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,400 This is who you should be worshipping. 476 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,000 This is God, the god, the one true God almighty. 477 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,900 Because all other things are going to be put to shame. 478 00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:34,300 And not just our the image is going to be put to shame. 479 00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:38,600 It says all worshippers of images are put to shame who make 480 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:43,000 their boast in worthless Idols things are worthless. 481 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,700 So then in verse 7, it says worship him, all you Gods, 482 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:50,800 little Jeep, all this other stuff worship, the one true God 483 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:55,800 verse 8 says, Zion here's and is glad that could easily be 484 00:30:55,800 --> 00:31:00,100 translated like Israel is here's and is glad and the daughters of 485 00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:05,300 Judah Rejoice because of Judgments of Lord, this is 486 00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:09,500 representing represents Israel. What this is saying is because 487 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:11,700 of who he is, we can Rejoice that. 488 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:14,500 There is salvation coming for our people. 489 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,200 Again, the Lord has promised that he will be returning. 490 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,800 So, Zion hears and is glad. And then in verse 9, he turns 491 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:28,800 his attention to the Lord and he says For You O Lord are most 492 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:37,800 high over all the Earth. You are exalted far above all 493 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:45,000 gods. I don't wake up saying that 494 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,500 enough. I don't wake up saying. 495 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,600 Lord, you are high above. All you are exalted. 496 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,000 I can say that easily when I'm here. 497 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,100 I said it easily when I'm surrounded by believers. 498 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:07,200 But far too often when I'm not. I think I live more of the 499 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,900 secular View. Of a wake up. 500 00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:12,100 It's another day. Got to do what I got to do. 501 00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:18,900 Do my little check boxes. We're not called just to check 502 00:32:18,900 --> 00:32:22,200 boxes off, we're called to wake up each day and say God you are 503 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,500 exalted, you are Lord, you are higher than anything else. 504 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:34,000 Verse. 10 verse 10. Hit me like a ton of bricks. 505 00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:38,500 He turns back to the people. So he's just kind of told him 506 00:32:38,500 --> 00:32:40,500 how powerful God is. He said mountains can melt like 507 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:44,200 Wax you know nothing stands a chance in his way then he turns 508 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,700 to God and he says Lord you are exalted, you are high above all 509 00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:51,300 else and then he turns back to his people and he says o you who 510 00:32:51,300 --> 00:32:56,500 love the Lord hate evil hate evil. 511 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,000 And I know for me far too often I am. 512 00:33:04,100 --> 00:33:07,000 What's the word for Passive with evil? 513 00:33:08,900 --> 00:33:12,200 Like the things that I might watch, don't tell people that I 514 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,000 hate evil. I may say, well, I don't say 515 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:20,300 that I wouldn't do that, I don't support it. 516 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:27,300 But I still watch it. I'll still be around it. 517 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:33,100 But he's saying the things it says, you who love the Lord hate 518 00:33:33,500 --> 00:33:36,300 evil. So as Believers were not called 519 00:33:36,300 --> 00:33:41,700 just to idly Stand By and not speak out on some of these other 520 00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:45,200 truths. We are called to call it for 521 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,400 what it is. And hate evil. 522 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,000 That's one of the things I'm most thankful for here at this 523 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,300 church. Specifically with Kyle and 524 00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:01,600 Jasper's when they get up here, there is no. 525 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,100 Hesitation about saying, this is who we are. 526 00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:07,700 This is what we stand for. We stand for the Bible. 527 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,900 It may not be popular and it may not be what everybody really 528 00:34:11,900 --> 00:34:13,900 wants to hear because it's not really just going to make you 529 00:34:13,900 --> 00:34:16,600 feel good. What's there's a guy named Ben 530 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:17,400 Shapiro. What's he saying? 531 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,000 The facts don't care about your feelings, right? 532 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,100 So the Old feelings, kind of justify the facts. 533 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:25,699 So how we feel means, this either must be right, or it must 534 00:34:25,699 --> 00:34:27,699 be wrong. The Bible doesn't do that. 535 00:34:27,699 --> 00:34:30,800 The Bible lays out, the word of the Lord, and the word of the 536 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:38,500 Lord at times is very I don't know the words, I'm even trying 537 00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:42,199 to say now. It's very pointed can always 538 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:45,000 just skirt around you know, some of these topics. 539 00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:49,199 And so I really appreciate you doing that Cal really appreciate 540 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:51,100 you doing that Jasper. Steven. 541 00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:52,800 James y'all do it to these two guys. 542 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:57,500 We see all the time. My brain will focus on. 543 00:34:57,500 --> 00:34:58,500 Okay. Well that's the. 544 00:34:58,500 --> 00:34:59,900 How do I say this in the right way? 545 00:34:59,900 --> 00:35:02,300 And a lot of times it's like there's no right or wrong just 546 00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:04,700 say it. Because the word of the Lord is 547 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:08,000 good, and if we say, we love the Lord, we should hate evil. 548 00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:11,400 So things that are adamantly against the word of the lord, we 549 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:17,200 should be opposed to And I like nuances, I'm a Nuance kind of 550 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,300 guy, like things that go, but there's really not a lot of 551 00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:21,800 nuance in the things that are evil. 552 00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:28,600 Generally. I want to hate even more, says, 553 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,700 he preserves the lives of his Saints. 554 00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:34,400 He delivers them from the hand of the wicked. 555 00:35:36,100 --> 00:35:40,500 Only the Lord. Can preserve our souls. 556 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:43,700 Only him. There is nothing in this world. 557 00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:46,300 This world can tear us down. This world can beat us up. 558 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,900 This world can take everything that we've got persecute us. 559 00:35:51,300 --> 00:35:55,000 We can. Be completely terrible, stewards 560 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,700 of everything. We've got But our soul is in the 561 00:35:58,707 --> 00:36:01,700 hands of the Lord. He holds it. 562 00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:06,900 He keeps it, we can be secure in him because going back to verse 563 00:36:06,900 --> 00:36:10,600 to hear his throne is built. His foundation is built on 564 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,700 righteousness and Justice. He is Holy and he's worthy. 565 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:22,000 Verse 11, it says light is sown for the righteous and the joy 566 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,100 and joy for the upright in heart. 567 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,900 Our happiness that we may be pursuing is is not from this 568 00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:35,200 world. Our happiness is actually sewn 569 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:39,800 by the Lord. he goes before, says the song, I don't know I 570 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:43,600 don't think we've saying it here but it's a song I've always 571 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,600 liked that kind of takes from Second Kings, where Elijah wakes 572 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,200 up and their whole tent is surrounded by all these enemies 573 00:36:50,900 --> 00:36:54,300 and all the people are scared and he wakes up and he says, 574 00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:00,700 Don't Be Afraid those that are with us are more than those with 575 00:37:00,700 --> 00:37:03,600 Bim and it says that the Lord opens his eyes and he sees the 576 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:08,300 God of Angel Armies surrounding watching out for from them. 577 00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:12,000 That they're not alone that you're not alone in the song. 578 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:16,300 Says, I know who goes before me, I know who stands behind. 579 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,400 It says the God of Angel. Armies is always by my side but 580 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,000 it's a it's this image that the Lord has already prepared the 581 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,000 path. He's already cleared. 582 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,800 He's already made the way the victory is his. 583 00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:30,800 There may be a battle but he is there, he's already done it. 584 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,300 He's already guarding behind you as well. 585 00:37:33,300 --> 00:37:37,300 He is around you. We may not see it, we may not 586 00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:40,800 always feel it but his truth doesn't rely on our feelings. 587 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:47,200 Right. Verse 12 and it kind of wraps. 588 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,400 The whole thing up. It says rejoice in the Lord O 589 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:53,400 you righteous and give thanks to His holy name. 590 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:58,800 So us that would call ourselves Believers can rejoice in him 591 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:03,600 because he is righteous, he is good, his foundation is firm, 592 00:38:04,300 --> 00:38:07,000 this Foundation is made on Justice. 593 00:38:07,900 --> 00:38:10,600 He is not a tyrant, he is a loving God. 594 00:38:10,700 --> 00:38:13,900 And he contrasts the whole thing that I'm not important in, 595 00:38:13,900 --> 00:38:16,600 you're not important at none of this matters with you are. 596 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:20,800 So very important to him because he has created you that he has 597 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:26,700 made a way through Christ to be with him all of our days. 598 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,500 And that one day, we will be with the Lord. 599 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:38,000 That is the goodness of Jesus. That is the greatness of his 600 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,200 majesty. So, we can rejoice. 601 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,400 We can rejoice and say thank you. 602 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,000 Lord. We're sewing your righteousness 603 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:57,000 for placing joy in my heart. And for being good. this was a 604 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:01,200 really cool song for me to for me to get into I'm going to ask 605 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:06,200 the worship team to come up. And we're going to sing a song 606 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,100 in a second. That just says, the goodness of 607 00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:11,300 Jesus. And some of the lyrics it says, 608 00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:16,000 oh the goodness of Jesus satisfied, he is all we need. 609 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:21,200 And this song points us to Christ in a few different ways. 610 00:39:24,300 --> 00:39:27,100 So this is part of the Old Testament and one of the things 611 00:39:27,300 --> 00:39:31,900 that we know about the Old Testament is that they knew a 612 00:39:31,908 --> 00:39:34,200 messiah was coming. So there's a lot of language 613 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:39,100 that points to a messiah to Salvation coming, but Jesus had 614 00:39:39,100 --> 00:39:43,000 not yet been on the earth. And so now we can look with the 615 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,900 lens of the New Testament and the New Testament helps us 616 00:39:45,900 --> 00:39:49,100 interpret what the Old Testament was getting at what it means. 617 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:57,400 and we can say with confidence that Jesus Reigns, That he is 618 00:39:57,500 --> 00:40:02,000 all in all that Christ Reigns? We can say with confidence that 619 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:09,900 Jesus will be an is exalted. High above all other names. 620 00:40:09,900 --> 00:40:16,800 There is no name like his And we can confidently, say verse to 621 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,100 hear the righteousness and Justice are the foundation of 622 00:40:20,100 --> 00:40:24,700 his throne that he will Deliver Us from the hand of the wicked. 623 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,600 That he preserves our lives that he saves that in Christ. 624 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:34,600 We can find Salvation that in Christ, we can have Grace and 625 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:39,000 forgiveness. That in Christ. 626 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,700 We can say, Lord, we submit to you. 627 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,200 You've made a way we can be grateful and thankful. 628 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:56,700 For who he is. so, as we sing this out the goodness of Jesus, 629 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:04,000 I want to pray first and I'm going to pray that let the Lord 630 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:05,500 help you. And me. 631 00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:10,600 See his grandness and his power and his majesty. it's not just 632 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:15,400 another song just to sing a song but that we can Fervently 633 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:20,100 proclaim, the goodness of Christ because his throne is Justice 634 00:41:20,100 --> 00:41:27,300 and righteousness. Lord, we love you. 635 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,900 You are high and exalted above all the Earth. 636 00:41:37,500 --> 00:41:43,400 Lord, who are we that you are mindful of us for your 637 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:48,500 all-powerful? We are weak. 638 00:41:52,900 --> 00:41:56,800 Sometimes it feels that we roam the Earth, but we know because 639 00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,100 your word says it that you value US. 640 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:05,300 You value a so much because we are created in your image. 641 00:42:07,700 --> 00:42:10,700 We thank you for being the Creator for being the designer. 642 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:19,200 We thank you for your son Jesus. The Salvation that you and you 643 00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:25,000 alone have offered. Not of our works. 644 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,100 As we cannot boast about it. Lord, this is a view. 645 00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:38,700 You are king and you are Lord help us to submit to you daily. 646 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:44,600 Christ name.