1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,560 Hi, this is Dave Olson. I'm the senior leader of 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:04,600 Heartland Church located in Ankeny, IA. 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,039 I hope the following message challenges, encourages and 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,160 ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us. 5 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:19,040 Amen. Good morning, man, God is good. 6 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,520 Amen. All right, this is Pentecost 7 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,600 Sunday and I am not going to preach on that. 8 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:29,320 I know it's disappointing, but I want to make a few comments 9 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:31,840 because we're in a vein. I, I feel like the Lord has a 10 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,360 word for us, but because it's Pentecost Sunday, we want to 11 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:40,760 touch on this Pentecost Sunday. You know, we, we think of as New 12 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:42,840 Testament believers, we are Pentecostal. 13 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,280 We believe in the outpouring of the Spirit. 14 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,280 We believe in the continuation of spiritual gifts. 15 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,240 That's what that's what people mean when they refer to people 16 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:53,880 as Pentecostal. But it really goes back to a 17 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,040 Jewish festival, the Feast of Pentecost. 18 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:01,520 And the Feast of Pentecost was, it means literally 50. 19 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:06,040 It was 50 days after Passover. So like Pastor Adam was talking 20 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,920 about the Passover lamb at 50 days later, the children of 21 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,760 Israel were at Mount Sinai. Moses ascended the mount of the 22 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,200 Lord, got the stone tablets, and brought down the law. 23 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,880 In the New Testament, Jesus is our Passover lamb. 24 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,680 Everything that Pastor Adam said sets us up for 50 days later 25 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:29,120 right here, we Jesus didn't ascend Mount Sinai, but he 26 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:32,480 ascended the hill of the Lord, literally stepping. 27 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,760 He's enthroned in heaven. He ascended, and now he's at the 28 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:37,160 right hand of the Father. And what did he do? 29 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:41,000 He poured out his Spirit on all flesh. 30 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,000 He, he poured out his spirit on his church. 31 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,440 So here's the deal. We don't have an external law. 32 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:50,360 We have the internal spirit living within us, enabling us, 33 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,520 strengthening us, empowering us to live up to the righteous 34 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:57,440 requirements of the law. So much so that what we see in 35 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,960 the Old Testament, Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount said, you 36 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:02,600 have heard it said, and he would refer to the law. 37 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,120 You have heard it said, you're not, you know, do not commit 38 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,759 adultery. But I say unto you, if you look 39 00:02:08,759 --> 00:02:12,080 lustfully upon a woman, you have already committed adultery in 40 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,680 your heart. So rather than lower the 41 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:19,040 standard, Jesus raised it in the new covenant because we now have 42 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,600 the indwelling spirit that enables us to fulfill the 43 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,360 righteous requirements of the law according to Romans chapter 44 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:27,920 8. So the spirit filled life is 45 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:30,760 literally him living his life through US. 46 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:33,800 Years ago we had a when I worked at Teen Challenge, we had this 47 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,320 guy. He was an old biker that got 48 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,520 saved and started a boy's home. He's now with the Lord, but he 49 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,640 he used to talk about his theology wasn't real deep. 50 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:46,600 He was very effective as a minister, but this was his 51 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,240 theology. I met Jesus, he came inside, sat 52 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,640 down in my heart and he looks out through my eyeballs and that 53 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:56,360 was his theology. Jesus is looking out through me 54 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:58,840 and living his life through me. And that's good theology. 55 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,600 It's not real deep the way he explained it, but it's good 56 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,800 theology. And so we'll, we'll give an 57 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,240 opportunity for people to have hands laid on him If you want a 58 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,760 fresh touch of the spirit at the end of the the message this 59 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,320 morning, if you need to be filled with the spirit. 60 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,440 But I want to continue on in the vein we have been in, especially 61 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:18,920 in light of what we were just singing. 62 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:23,000 So turn with me to Psalm 149, Psalm 149. 63 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:30,320 In Psalm 149, we've been looking at this whole concept of praise. 64 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:38,200 And in Psalm 149, he, he and lists these groups of people. 65 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:39,920 So we've been looking. I'm hold on. 66 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,720 I'm a guy. I can't multitask, OK? 67 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,200 I know women can, but I can't. I'm a guy. 68 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,080 OK, so this is what we've been looking at. 69 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:52,480 Psalm 1, Psalm 2, and what? Psalm 149, Psalm 2, the second 70 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:56,520 book in the Book of Psalms, and Psalm 149, the second to the 71 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,080 last chapter of the Book of Psalms. 72 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,120 The Psalms, were they? They were really the records. 73 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:08,000 They were scribes, psalmists and seers. 74 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:13,120 OK, these are functions of Old Testament individuals. 75 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,120 There were seers who would literally see things in the 76 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:18,720 spiritual realm. They were prophetic. 77 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,600 They would go into encounters and they would deliver to man 78 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,000 what they saw. They were seers. 79 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:28,600 What it was a it was a form of prophetic or prophets. 80 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:29,840 Being a prophet, they were seers. 81 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:36,040 Samuel was a seer. David and Asaph were both seers. 82 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:38,720 David was a prophet. He was not only a king, he was a 83 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,000 prophet. And so you had these prophetic 84 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,200 people and they would capture the word of the Lord in song. 85 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:49,080 And they were recorded by scribes as Psalms. 86 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,320 And so we have these in this book of Psalms. 87 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,960 And they're not just nice little ditties that we sing. 88 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,600 They are the tracks. They are the footprints that we 89 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,800 can follow into our own encounter so that we can 90 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,240 experience what David and Asaph and the others experienced. 91 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:10,440 And so David left us a trail. Now here's the really 92 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:15,400 interesting thing to me is that David, matter of fact, the the 93 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,760 movie Braveheart was on the other day and I caught just the 94 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:20,680 end of it. So I got my phone and I filmed 95 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:26,040 it because I love this end where Braveheart, William Wallace, who 96 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:31,240 was William Wallace, the real character, William Wallace had 97 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,320 carried the Psalms with him into battle. 98 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,760 And his one request when they were murdering him, when they 99 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,880 were killing him, was that he could carry the Psalms in front 100 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:41,440 of him. He laid them open as they killed 101 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,560 him because that was his battle book. 102 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,560 That's how he won freedom for Scotland. 103 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,840 And then Robert the Bruce, who's also in the movie, Robert the 104 00:05:50,840 --> 00:05:54,680 Bruce, actually had a prophetic ministry and had a healing 105 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:56,480 ministry. The real guy, Robert the Bruce. 106 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:02,080 Fascinating at the end it says that there's this scene where 107 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:06,800 they're they're standing before the hordes of of England and and 108 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:08,800 Robert the Bruce says we're going to we're going to, we're 109 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:10,320 not going to just acquiesce to them. 110 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,800 We're going to go into battle. And so the one dude throws the 111 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,560 sword and it dramatically flies through and then over the 112 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,960 narration, it says they were warrior poet. 113 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,200 They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scott Mcsman 114 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:27,000 and they won their freedom. You know what, oh, bagpipe 115 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,240 music. And it's it's a guy flick man. 116 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:33,120 It's inspiring. But he called them warrior 117 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,160 poets. And David was a warrior poet. 118 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,960 David was a worshipping warrior. He was a man of war. 119 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:44,440 But his his battle plan was written down in the form of the 120 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:46,280 Psalms. And that's what we see in Psalm 121 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:50,040 chapter 2 and Psalm 149. Listen to what Psalm chapter 2 122 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,520 says. It says the the title over the 123 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,320 ESV is the reign of the Lord's anointed. 124 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,360 Why do the nations rage? The people plot in vain the 125 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:03,640 kings so he says the nation's rage, the people's plot in vain. 126 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:08,520 The kings of the earth set themselves and rulers take 127 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,840 counsel together against the Lord and is against his anointed 128 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:16,400 one, saying, let us burst their bonds apart and cast their cords 129 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:18,000 from us. So there's these groups of 130 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:23,080 people, there are the nation's, the peoples, the kings and 131 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:26,840 rulers, and they try to set themselves against the purposes 132 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:31,680 of God. Now turn with me to Psalm 149 133 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,760 and listen to what this says. Look at verse 7 or look at verse 134 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,800 6. Let the high praise of God be in 135 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:44,800 their throats and A2 edged sword in their hands to execute 136 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,360 vengeance. And it enumerates those four 137 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:52,200 same groups of people, a vengeance on the nation's 138 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,720 punishments, on the peoples to bind their kings with chains and 139 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:57,600 their nobles with fetters of iron. 140 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:03,800 It is not a coincidence that the same ones that chapter 2 says 141 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,080 are trying to oppose the Lord's purposes. 142 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:12,840 Psalm 149 says that we literally bind them and we bend their neck 143 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:19,040 into the Lord's purposes through worship and the vivid language 144 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:25,360 it says with the praise of God in their throats and A2 edged 145 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:28,480 sword in their hand. Literally in the Hebrew it's a 2 146 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:33,039 mouthed sword. And the reason it says that is 147 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:36,720 in ancient times initially swords were curved and they 148 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,400 called it the mouth of the sword and you'd be consumed by the 149 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,840 sword. And then over time they began to 150 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,040 manufacture double edged swords. So they literally were called 2 151 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:50,480 mouthed swords and in the New Testament we see A2 edged sword 152 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,360 coming out of Jesus mouth. It's the word of the Lord and so 153 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,240 it's a picture of you and I in worship. 154 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:01,200 We're declaring him. We're enthroning Jesus over our 155 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,360 circumstance through worship, and then we're releasing the 156 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:10,280 word of the Lord and literally bending the neck of rogue rulers 157 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:14,200 in the world. We need to understand that there 158 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,840 is tremendous power that is released in worship. 159 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,000 And so let's look at chapter 149. 160 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:24,600 And then we're going to get into another Psalm as well. 161 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:29,840 So let's pray. Father, Lord, help me this 162 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,040 morning. I ask God that you would speak 163 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:34,600 to us and you would deliver your word. 164 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:36,800 Lord, that it would strike the mark. 165 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:40,000 Lord that it would be a flaming arrow. 166 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:46,120 God that would set our hearts on fire in Jesus name, Amen. 167 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,680 Psalm 149, praise the Lord. It's a command. 168 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,120 It's a call to arms for all of us. 169 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:58,360 Sing to the Lord a new song. It's that that word, a new song 170 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,280 literally means something that's never been heard before. 171 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,560 He's talking about touching the prophetic in worship. 172 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:09,400 Prophetic worship is catching what the Lord is doing in the 173 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,240 moment. And you can see that in worship 174 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,080 at times. It's like, you know, Scripture 175 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,560 says we see through a glass darkly. 176 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:19,560 We see in part, we prophecy in part. 177 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:23,480 So we're, we're, we're searching for what the Lord is doing in 178 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,520 worship and then we'll hit it. And those of you who are more 179 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:28,880 perceptive will sense that we'll hit that spot. 180 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,200 Oh, man, that's it. That's what the Lord's doing 181 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,520 right now. Prophetic worship is nothing 182 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:37,040 more and nothing less than the right song for the right moment. 183 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:41,600 We're releasing what the Lord is doing, just as Jesus, it says, 184 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,640 only said what he heard the Father saying and only did what 185 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:48,000 he saw the Father doing. In prophetic worship, we're 186 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,680 seeking what is the Lord saying? And we're putting that to song 187 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:53,920 and we're releasing that into the atmosphere. 188 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,760 We're trying to catch the word of the Lord because when we do 189 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,920 so, we literally begin to impose it on the enemy. 190 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:06,120 Now we need to understand that worship really has there's in 191 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:10,200 one sense 3 theaters in which that battle is fought or three 192 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,840 theaters that it affects. Yes, we're worshipping God 193 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:15,320 because He's worthy and we would. 194 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,040 We can worship for all eternity for that one reason. 195 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,280 He is worthy. But that's not the only reason 196 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,080 we worship. Do you know God's pretty secure 197 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,520 in His identity. You know, he wasn't feeling 198 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:29,640 insecure this morning. I think I hope I can just make 199 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,960 it to worship so that they'll reaffirm who I am. 200 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,040 It's not what's going on. Worship is not for God, It's for 201 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:39,840 us. We're declaring who he is. 202 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:41,800 We're we're recalibrating our mind. 203 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,440 But what what Scripture says, we're going to look at it in a 204 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:48,520 moment in Psalm 22 that literally God enthrones himself 205 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:52,600 in the midst of our praise. Our worship is a coronation 206 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:57,000 ceremony where we crown Him Lord of all, and we're getting our 207 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,400 minds aligned with that. So we worship him because He's 208 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:04,920 worthy, but we also worship Him because we've got to recalibrate 209 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:08,880 our mind and get our mind in the right place so that we crown Him 210 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:15,760 over our circumstances. In fact, let's let's turn to 211 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,920 Psalm 22. I've gotten stuck in Psalm 22 212 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:23,520 this last week, and in fact, the Lord spoke to me during worship 213 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:28,160 last week and it just fits in with the theme we've been on and 214 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,560 I've not been able to get out of Psalm 22 all week. 215 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,840 It's this is a very famous passage. 216 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,960 There are several prominent scriptures that you'll be 217 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,160 familiar with. What many believers don't 218 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:46,400 realize, however, is how close these opposite themes are in 219 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,720 Scripture. So look at what it says in verse 220 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:53,760 2022. One my God, my God, why have you 221 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:57,640 forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving 222 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,320 me, from the words of my groaning? 223 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:06,280 My God, I cry by day but you do not answer, and by night but I 224 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,840 find no rest. Now, of course, this is the 225 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:13,800 famous Psalm that Jesus himself quotes on the cross. 226 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,600 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 227 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:21,920 But again, like we were looking at Psalm 2 a few weeks ago, we 228 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:26,360 need to realize that this was first a Psalm of David, then 229 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:29,920 it's a messianic Psalm, and then there's an application to you 230 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:33,480 and I God's, God's always playing 3D chess. 231 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:37,240 He's releasing revelation. David is going through something 232 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:39,040 and he's leaving the tracks for us. 233 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,240 He lays them down so that we can enter into what he entered into. 234 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:46,200 But also he was, he was not only articulating his present 235 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,720 circumstance, he was also tapping into the Spirit and 236 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,840 prophesying of what Jesus would do. 237 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,960 And the reason these messianic Psalms applied to David and to 238 00:13:55,960 --> 00:14:01,000 us is because God has his ways, his templates by which he 239 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,600 operates. So God operated the same with 240 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:06,840 his Son as he operates with you and I. 241 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,920 And so if we can look in the book, you can find yourself on 242 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,880 every page and you can find how to navigate your circumstances. 243 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,480 And in this passage, it's, it's an amazing thing. 244 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,920 David says this, he's complaining in prayer. 245 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:24,520 And then the very next verse, verse 3, listen what it says. 246 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:31,080 Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel, and you, 247 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,360 our fathers trusted. They trusted, and you delivered 248 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:34,400 them. And he goes on. 249 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:37,640 He begins to remind himself of the testimonies of Israel and of 250 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,840 the history of God's people so that he can recalibrate his mind 251 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,200 to get his mind lined up with what God is doing. 252 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,280 But David begins with a complaint. 253 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,080 You know, David is a man after God's own heart. 254 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:56,480 God refers to David again and again and again centuries later. 255 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,240 And he would say things like, for the sake of David, I'm going 256 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:01,880 to do this thing. I don't know about you, but that 257 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:06,280 makes me jealous, makes you feel like, Lord, can I really live in 258 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:10,520 such a way that centuries later you'll refer to the light, the 259 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:14,040 short life I lived, and say, because of the way that man 260 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,440 postured his heart, I'm going to act in this hour of human 261 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,840 history hundreds and hundreds of years later. 262 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,480 And the answer is a resounding yes. 263 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,680 David was not meant to be an anomaly. 264 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,720 David is meant to be an example and a door for us to walk 265 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:34,480 through and to recognize that David discovered things and left 266 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:36,480 the tracks for us in the form of Psalms. 267 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:42,040 And this man that is called the man after God's own heart, what 268 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,560 does he say about him? This guy that pursues God? 269 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:50,320 David was a complainer. The difference between David and 270 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,720 other men were not that he didn't have doubts and 271 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,920 complaints and frustrations and even made some accusations 272 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,320 against God. The difference was not that 273 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:01,480 other people did and David didn't. 274 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:05,000 It's where David took those complaints and those even 275 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,360 accusations. You see, David understood that 276 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:13,960 prayer and praise are ways that we process our trials. 277 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,200 That is the area that we work these things out. 278 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,200 It's when we we get caught up in this life and and David's 279 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,240 feeling like God, why have you abandoned me, Lord? 280 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,880 I've cried out and you're not answering Lord. 281 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:32,560 But then David said, he says, yet you are the God of Israel, 282 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:34,640 you and throne yourself in our praises. 283 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:39,080 And all through this Psalm 22, David jumps back and forth. 284 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:43,560 It starts with a complaint and then verse 3 it says yet you are 285 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,200 the holy one of Israel. And then in verse 6 then he 286 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,800 says, but I am a worm and not a man. 287 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:52,240 And so David is being pulled back and forth between 2 288 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:56,480 narratives, 2 stories, 2 interpretations of what's going 289 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,640 on in his life. And David is working this out in 290 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:02,240 prayer. He's working this out in praise. 291 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:05,040 He's going to God. He's not ignoring his 292 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,960 circumstances. He's not pretending this isn't 293 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:12,760 his reality, but he's not. He's not satisfied to stay 294 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,079 there. He's getting in God's face, 295 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:18,240 getting in God's presence, and working this thing out. 296 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:25,079 It's not a sin to be frustrated and to have complaints. 297 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:28,920 It just depends on what you do with them. 298 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,560 Our complaints are not to be shared with each other. 299 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,440 It's to be shared in prayer and in the secret place. 300 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,800 We're hammering those things out and we're crying out to God and 301 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:43,200 saying God, what's going on? David was trying to find his 302 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,960 way. And if you read Psalm 22, it's 303 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:50,000 he has a complaint, but then he says yet Lord you are and thrown 304 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,880 in Israel and you delivered your people all the time. 305 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,200 But I'm a worm. And what he's saying is I'm 306 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:55,240 disqualified. I can't. 307 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:58,240 And then he said yet, and there's yet and butts and pulled 308 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:00,680 back and forth. And by the end of the passage, 309 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:04,720 David has found himself in victory, so much so that he not 310 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,000 only has the victory between his ears, he's now begin to, he 311 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,240 releases it over others and he begins to make these 312 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:13,520 declarations of the people of God will do these things and 313 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,200 they will see the deliverance of God. 314 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:19,000 And that's the way you and I are to live. 315 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:32,960 We've talked about it before. When you follow Jesus, he will 316 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,920 invite you into battle. If you really want to follow 317 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:42,040 God, get ready for a ride. I can't help but think of 318 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:46,040 Jonathan, Saul's son. And he says to his armor bearer, 319 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:49,480 they're all just kind of taking it easy under a tree. 320 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,640 And the Philistines, there's an outpost a ways away. 321 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:56,040 And Jonathan says to his armor bearer, hey, let's go pick a 322 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:58,800 fight with the whole outpost, just you and I. 323 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,360 He said, OK, whatever's, whatever's in your heart, we're 324 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:03,760 going to do it. And then they throw this crazy, 325 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:07,800 crazy fleece before the Lord. They said, OK, what we're going 326 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,480 to do is we're going to talk smack to these guys at the top 327 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:12,600 of the Cliff. And if they tell us to climb up, 328 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:14,280 then we'll know the Lord's in this. 329 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,200 I mean, if the enemy's lazy and they don't want to come down to 330 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,040 you, you know, it's God. They made it pretty easy on God. 331 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:29,080 But the picture is this, that the Son of the King has invited 332 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:32,240 you into battle and he's going to use your life as the bait to 333 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,440 take more ground and to overcome the enemy. 334 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,200 So if you really want to follow Jesus, just understand there's 335 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,360 going to be some battles. And so you're going to have to 336 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:44,640 be like David and get in God's face and say what is going on? 337 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,440 I know what your word says, but I know what I'm experiencing. 338 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,880 And he's pulled back and forth and through the Psalm, he's 339 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,720 processing his problems until finally, halfway through, he 340 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,920 settles it. God is in this thing. 341 00:19:58,120 --> 00:19:59,320 I'm going to get through this thing. 342 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:01,640 And then he's able to release the victory to others. 343 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:08,640 And you and I are no different. See, we have a tendency, if 344 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:12,960 we're not careful, to think that David had some secret sauce. 345 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:17,160 Some special grace that he was he was a special one and we're 346 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,960 just the normal normal ones and but David had this elevated 347 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:25,880 grace that he could pull on and that's not true David that what 348 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:31,160 what made David stand out among the rest was David knew what to 349 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,880 do with his problems. He would take him to the Lord 350 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:37,000 and at times even say outrageous things to God. 351 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:40,440 You ever said anything outrageous to God? 352 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,280 If you haven't, you need to start because I guarantee you, 353 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:46,800 you're thinking it. Don't look at me that way. 354 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:49,760 I know you've had those thoughts. 355 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:53,000 And so we take them to the Lord and we process and God, this is 356 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:54,600 what it feels like. And I don't understand. 357 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:59,200 And David's processing his problems in prayer, in worship, 358 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,960 and he gets himself to the point of victory. 359 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:07,680 So David says, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 360 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:12,000 Why are you so far from saving me from the words of my 361 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,920 groaning? It's like you're distant Lord. 362 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,920 Later on he says be not far from me. 363 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,240 So he's first convinced God is far, then he's saying be not 364 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,240 far. And by the end of the Psalm, he 365 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,240 knows he's he's walking with the Lord and he's got the victory. 366 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:33,400 And we need to sharpen though it that skill set to hammer out our 367 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:37,800 frustrations in prayer. We talked about it a couple 368 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,520 weeks ago, but it's that we live between two narratives. 369 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,480 There's the narrative of the enemy and the narrative of 370 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,840 heaven. And again, a narrative, a 371 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,520 narrator, is the voice that gives meaning to what's 372 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:58,720 happening on the stage. We have our experiences, and the 373 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:02,280 enemy is trying to impose his interpretation of what's going 374 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:05,320 on, and God wants to impose his interpretation. 375 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,800 And you will find God's interpretation of your 376 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:13,840 circumstances in His Word. And we cannot afford to listen 377 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:17,840 to any voice that violates the word of God because it's the 378 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,600 word of God that's going to give you the accurate perception of 379 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,960 what you're going through. And so David is working his way 380 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,760 through and crying out and he's like, God, what's going on? 381 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,920 It feels like you abandoned me. He didn't hide those feelings. 382 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,440 He got right in God's presence and began to pour out his heart 383 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,880 to God. And through that, God began to 384 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,400 bring him online. And he he moved himself into the 385 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,600 truth, recalibrated his mind not just with prayer, but with 386 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:50,120 praise. And so David said, Lord, you 387 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:53,760 enthrone yourself in the midst of the praise of your people. 388 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:59,320 Again, when when we praise him, we are crowning him. 389 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:03,200 There is an element of God's presence that he reserves to 390 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,760 praise. It's when we come together and 391 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:12,840 and the context here, by the way, is corporate praise in 392 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:17,000 Psalm 149, Psalm 2, there's there's this thing that we 393 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,080 worship him together. There is an element of his of 394 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,160 who he is. He will not commit to the 395 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:28,000 individual. It's very clear Psalm, Ephesians 396 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,200 rather chapter 1 and chapter 4. Ephesians chapter 1, the last 397 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,120 few verses says God has put everything under Christ's feet, 398 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,840 comma for the church, and then it says the church is this the 399 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:44,160 fullness of Him? You will never walk in the 400 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:48,480 fullness of God alone. In chapter 4 it says you have 401 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,760 been given a measure of the gift of Christ. 402 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,120 You have a measure. I have a measure, and the only 403 00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:58,040 way to discover the full measure is to get with someone else in 404 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:02,640 their measure, because wherever two or three are gathered in His 405 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,560 name, there he is. And so there's something about 406 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,280 availing ourself to corporate worship, and we begin to lift up 407 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,800 His name, and he begins to settle in there. 408 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,120 And from there he begins to extend his scepter and rule in 409 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:22,000 the midst of our situation. But if we become those people 410 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,440 that say, well, I'll believe in God's deliverance when I see it, 411 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,960 you'll never see it. We have to win the battle 412 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,880 between our ears before we win the external battle in our 413 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,840 circumstance. And with David here, David wins 414 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,280 the battle in these passages. By the end, he's declaring the 415 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,880 victory over his situations, but nothing has changed physically 416 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,320 yet. We come in here and we 417 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,720 recalibrate our minds and we exalt Him, and we begin to make 418 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:55,720 declarations over our situation. But for the most part, when we 419 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,160 get in our cars and leave this parking lot, our circumstances 420 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,520 themselves have yet to give way to the word of the Lord. 421 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,920 But the beginning of the that victory is the victory between 422 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,680 your ears. And so we've got to learn that 423 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,080 worship is a way that we train our minds, we recalibrate 424 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:18,000 ourselves, we begin to align ourself with the narrative of 425 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,720 heaven. And you see David doing that in 426 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:24,680 Psalm 22. Lord, you've ignored me yet. 427 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,120 You, you have. You deliver your people, but I'm 428 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:30,720 but a worm. And he complaints more yet. 429 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:34,360 And he reminds himself, and he keeps working back and forth. 430 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:37,400 He's pulled back and forth until finally he settles into the 431 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,120 victory. You ever been there? 432 00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:44,640 If you ever, if you haven't ever gone through something like 433 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:49,920 that, you haven't been walking with the Lord very long because 434 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,840 the Lord will take you. He'll lead you into impossible 435 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,880 situations and through your heart cry. 436 00:25:57,120 --> 00:25:59,200 He'll turn those situations around. 437 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:03,040 The way that God takes ground in the earth is through your life. 438 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,520 You are the bait. He will pick a fight with the 439 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,600 enemy, with your life and then use you to get more ground. 440 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,040 And if you don't understand that, you'll think, well man, 441 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,440 Lord, my life was pretty smooth till I got saved. 442 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:20,720 It's because you were flowing with all the other flotsam in 443 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,960 this world. You want to go up up against the 444 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,480 against the stream. You want to see God do some 445 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,880 things and you've got to align yourself with him. 446 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:36,080 So let's look at Psalm 149. This is this is so, so very 447 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,960 important. Psalm 149 and we don't have time 448 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,760 to get into everything. I would love to release to you 449 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,040 this morning, but we want to get to 1 part. 450 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:54,280 Listen to what he says here. So in Psalm 149 there are 5 or 6 451 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:59,400 rather let there's let's he says chapter verse one. 452 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,360 It's the command. Praise the Lord, sing a new 453 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:03,920 song. It's a prophetic song in the 454 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,640 praise in the assembly of the godly. 455 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,880 The word assembly in the Septuagint is the ecclesia. 456 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,480 So you release that in the ekklesia. 457 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,360 There's a command for us to gather and lift up his name, 458 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,680 because that's where he's going to enthrone himself. 459 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,440 And then he says this, Let Israel be glad in his Maker. 460 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,160 Let the children of Zion rejoice in their king. 461 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:27,880 Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him 462 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:33,480 with tambourine and lyre. So there's this full body sport, 463 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:38,000 contact sport called worship that we're to get involved in. 464 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:43,600 And it's not this I'm telling you, God is so good that when 465 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:48,560 you see him, it says in Psalm 22, he says, Lord, you are the 466 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,600 source of my praise. What he's saying is when I 467 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,160 finally broke through and I got a vision of you, I couldn't help 468 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:55,960 myself. I had to worship. 469 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,960 So we press through until we see him for who he is. 470 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:04,640 And once you see him for who he is, praise will erupt from your 471 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,520 being. God is more worthy than a golf 472 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,040 clap. Oh, isn't he wonderful? 473 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:17,760 There's this thing within us that God, you're amazing, and 474 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,520 that eruption of praise. It's a command in Scripture, but 475 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,920 it has a source. He tells us let's do this, let's 476 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:32,760 do this, let's do this. He says verse 4. 477 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,920 This is the motive for our worship. 478 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,680 This is the why behind the what you see in the New Testament, 479 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,920 Paul and his epistles, he will go into the doctrine on the 480 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,680 front half of the book so that he can go into the practical 481 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:48,600 stuff in the back half of his book. 482 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,760 Ephesians chapters one through 3 all doctrinal. 483 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,760 Then in chapter 4 he says now walk worthy of the calling in 484 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,480 light of that walk worthy of the calling. 485 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,680 And then it's things like husbands love your wives, wives 486 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:05,480 meant to your husbands kids obey your parents, parents don't 487 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,520 embitter your kids. It's real practical. 488 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,200 I don't know about you. When I got saved, I spent all my 489 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,360 time in the last half of these books because I didn't know what 490 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,000 Paul was talking about. Ephesians chapter 1. 491 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,000 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath 492 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,920 blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in 493 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,920 him. Like what I understood, Obey 494 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,600 your parents. But here's the thing. 495 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,240 Paul was brilliant. He understood that if you don't 496 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:35,760 understand the first part, the doctrine, this was the basis of 497 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,320 our ability to carry out the second part of the book. 498 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:45,520 And David's doing the same thing He's saying praise him, dance, 499 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:52,120 go wild, worship the Lord. I was, I was telling the first 500 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:55,280 service, you know, we talk about that prophetic worship. 501 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,640 I was up in Mason City, Chuck Moline and I went up there to 502 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,040 hear Joe Bieber this last weekend. 503 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,760 And the last song they sang was I'm Trading My Sorrows. 504 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,000 Anybody know that song? Yeah, Great song. 505 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,600 And you know where that song came from? 506 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:16,560 It was Spur of the Moment written in the moment by Darrell 507 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,720 Evans and Joel and Linda Budds Church. 508 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,680 Joel was on the front row in worship and the Lord told him 509 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,480 Joel had had really bad foot problems. 510 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,920 I don't remember what it was, but he had really bad foot 511 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:30,680 problems. And the Lord spoke to him and 512 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,400 said Joel get up and dance and I'm going to heal your feet. 513 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,880 And by the way, you're going to offend 2 families in the church 514 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,360 by dancing and they're going to leave your church. 515 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:43,720 So Joel's response, he jumped up and said, yes, Lord spun around, 516 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,800 His feet were instantly healed. Darrell Evans heard that and 517 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,560 said that's it and wrote the song on the spot. 518 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:53,160 That's prophetic worship. It released the power of God and 519 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,240 two families got offended and left because Joel was living up 520 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:00,360 to this passage. Extravagant worship. 521 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,840 Don't be Michael or Michelle or whatever her name was. 522 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:10,760 You know, David's wife, the daughter of Saul who did 523 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,720 despised him because he was undignified in his worship. 524 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,600 David said, oh, you haven't seen anything yet, girl, I'll be even 525 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:23,080 more undignified than this. And he just, he began to worship 526 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,680 and she became barren. Telling you he's worthy. 527 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,240 And there's something about when we see him for who he is. 528 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:33,640 And this is the key here. Listen what he says He says, why 529 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,480 do we worship him? Verse 4 it says for this is the 530 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,720 reason for the Lord takes pleasure in his people. 531 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,960 He adorns the humble with salvation. 532 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:51,360 Let the godly exalt in glory. Let them sing for joy on their 533 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,360 beds. Let the high praise of God be in 534 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,640 their throats, and A2 edged sword in their hand. 535 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,880 And he began in verse 6. It shifts into the corporate and 536 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:03,360 they begin to X to impose it externally because He first got 537 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,440 it settled between His ears. Here's the key. 538 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,840 This is verses four and five is the key to this whole passage. 539 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,520 What does he say? Why do we worship Him? 540 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,880 For the Lord takes pleasure in His people. 541 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,360 He adorns the humble with salvation. 542 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:25,960 Do you realize that God takes pleasure in you? 543 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,000 If you do not, you're going to be hard to sustain a life of 544 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,400 worship. But if you really begin to get a 545 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,360 vision for how God sees you, you will not be able to keep the 546 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,280 praise down. It will erupt from you. 547 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:45,960 There is a war in hell against your identity before the throne 548 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,400 of God. The enemy is out to convince 549 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,280 you. There's a lot of believers. 550 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:54,520 They have this low grade sense of divine disappointment that 551 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,560 they live in. They're continually feeling like 552 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:02,000 God's just kind of disappointed. He got stuck with me. 553 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,840 My son bought this guy and now I got to, it's like the ugly tie 554 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,080 your kids buy you at Father's Day, you know, when they're real 555 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,240 little big old thing, you know, ugly. 556 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,720 So you wear it, you know, but you don't like you're kind of 557 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,040 feeling conspicuous because it's ugly, but you're doing it 558 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,360 because your son bought it. A lot of people feel like that's 559 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,360 what they are. They're the ugly tie that the 560 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,840 father wears because the son bought us and they're kind of 561 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,000 embarrassed, like, oh man, you know, here's Dave, like Jesus 562 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,600 bought them. And we're, we see ourself as 563 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,200 merely tolerated rather than celebrated. 564 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:38,680 But this verse says God takes pleasure in his people. 565 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,040 I'm telling you, if you get a vision for this, it will change 566 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,200 your life. It will change how you approach 567 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,240 him. You won't you, you, you won't be 568 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,960 able to wait to get in his presence because God is 569 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,360 celebrating you. He's taking pleasure in you. 570 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:57,520 But if you have this nagging, even unconscious thought in the 571 00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,320 back of your mind, God's disappointed. 572 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,520 He knows I'm the screw up son that can't pull it off I can't. 573 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,520 I can't do what He's called me to do. 574 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,000 I can't live the life right. I'm telling you the reason you 575 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,679 can't live the life right is because of how you see yourself. 576 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:20,080 Theologians talk about original sin in the Garden of Eden, but 577 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,360 original sin was the result of an original lie. 578 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,760 You're believing determines your behaving. 579 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,840 And the original sin was twofold. 580 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:34,320 There's two sides of it. God can't be trusted. 581 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,000 God's trying to keep the good stuff from you. 582 00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:39,360 Don't eat that fruit. Oh, yeah, that's. 583 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,320 He's saying that because he's afraid you'll be like him. 584 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,760 You're going to take over his office. 585 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,480 You better take matters into your own hands. 586 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,320 God can't be trusted. He's not really good. 587 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,880 That's the lie. But there's a flip side. 588 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,480 There's a secondary lie. It's not theology. 589 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,000 The first one's your theology. The second one's your identity. 590 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,560 You're not good enough the way you are. 591 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,920 You're a cosmic accident. Other believers may be able to 592 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:08,840 do this, but man, you just keep messing up. 593 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,800 And there's this sense of disappointment that we walk in 594 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:19,360 and it robs us of our identity. And David tells us, listen, the 595 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,120 source of your praise is when you discover God takes pleasure 596 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:26,760 in his people. He takes pleasure in you 597 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,240 personally. He really does. 598 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,920 You know, I used to preach this. Curtis and Teresa, stand up real 599 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,080 quick here. This is Curtis and Teresa 600 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,160 Barnes. They're the directors of the 601 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,040 Women's Teen Challenge program out in Omaha, or not in Omaha, 602 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:46,560 but Nebraska. And yeah, so and Curtis went 603 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,520 through the Pro Teen Challenge back like 27 years ago. 604 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:55,960 We're both getting old. It's so good to see him and to 605 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,240 see these guys walking with Jesus. 606 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,120 I know you feel the same way, Curtis, seeing people that are 607 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,480 walking with Jesus all these years later, man, there's 608 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,000 nothing. John said. 609 00:36:07,240 --> 00:36:11,320 My greatest joy is to see my children walk in truth, to see 610 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,480 people you poured into still walking it after all those 611 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,960 years. But Curtis, I've had to repent 612 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:17,640 of a lot of stuff I taught back then. 613 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:24,720 I used to preach that we are valuable because of what Jesus 614 00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:30,200 did on the cross. You know, the the idea that 615 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,800 market drives value and well, you know, we weren't really 616 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,400 worth it, but Jesus was willing to pay with his lifeblood. 617 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,960 So that kind of raised our our standing in the economy, the 618 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:41,640 spiritual economy. You know, now we're worth 619 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,120 something because he, but he kind of got ripped off. 620 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,640 That was my theology. But that's not true. 621 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,120 Jesus died for you precisely because you're valuable. 622 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:57,440 We were the lost coin. The coin was still valuable. 623 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:01,440 It was simply lost. It still had the image stamped 624 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,600 upon it. And so he died to retrieve the 625 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,920 value. We have created value, not just 626 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:12,720 redeemed value. God made you and he takes 627 00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:15,000 pleasure in the way he fashioned you. 628 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:20,120 And in fact, self rejection is an affront to God because you're 629 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,640 accusing him of making some kind of defective thing. 630 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:30,280 You have created value that yes, sin caused us to be lost, but we 631 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,760 still had value. And Jesus came after us and paid 632 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,800 the ultimate price. And if we don't understand that, 633 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,240 we can relegate ourselves out here like, like we're some kind 634 00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:42,840 of reject that God got stuck with. 635 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,720 And that is not true. And what it does is it 636 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:49,240 undermines your ability to really have intimacy with God. 637 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,000 Who wants to hang out with someone who's constantly 638 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,800 disappointed in you? Have you ever known someone 639 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,720 that's always critiquing you? You're not real excited to have 640 00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:05,600 coffee with them, are you? That is not God's heart towards 641 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:09,240 us. God takes pleasure. 642 00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:14,280 He he. The The Hebrew word means just 643 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:18,200 what the English translate. He has a high degree of delight 644 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,200 in His people. He loves you. 645 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,680 He's not merely tolerating you. You're not the ugly Thai. 646 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,840 He is celebrating you and what you've got to do in worship. 647 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,280 What's going to ignite worship in your life is when you begin 648 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:38,240 to agree with Him. It's not pride when we agree 649 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:42,080 with our value. In fact, it's arrogant not to. 650 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,040 Because let God be true and every man a liar, including 651 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,200 yourself. When we agree with what he says 652 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,920 about us, it is liberating. I tell you, when you see how God 653 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,640 sees you, you want to hang out with them because there's no one 654 00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:00,080 that loves you like God does. He knows you best and loves you 655 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,120 most. And when you see that, you want 656 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,760 to be with him. But many of us, we live under 657 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:10,760 this kind of shadowy disappointment, feeling like 658 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,960 we're just we're this cosmic disappointment like God is like, 659 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,440 oh, I wish I would have skipped that one. 660 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,800 And that is not true. And God is not waiting for you 661 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,400 to live up to some standard before he's he takes pleasure in 662 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:29,240 what he created. In fact, when you enter into 663 00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:33,200 that is when you'll be able to walk it out because you cripple 664 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,720 your ability to draw on the grace of God when you constantly 665 00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:38,960 feel like he's already rejected you anyway. 666 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,960 But as you realize that Jesus redeemed as simple precisely 667 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,080 because of the created value put within us. 668 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:51,000 I, I am created in the image of God, and God longs to see that 669 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,920 that unique facet of his image shine through me and shine 670 00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,560 through you. And so we've got to get our 671 00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:02,200 minds around this thing. There is a reason that Jesus 672 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,320 didn't enter ministry until he heard the heavens open. 673 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,440 The dove descended and there was a voice. 674 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:12,160 You are my Son, in whom I'm well pleased. 675 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:17,640 If Jesus, the sinless Son of God, needed to hear that, how 676 00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,880 much more do you and I? You say, well, yeah, but it was 677 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:22,200 true of Jesus. He was sinless. 678 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,120 It's true of you, the psalmist said. 679 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:29,320 So let God be true and every man a liar. 680 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,200 Align our minds with what the word of God says. 681 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:38,480 God celebrates you. He really is crazy about that 682 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,440 quirky little personality he gave you. 683 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:45,960 And those years ago Bob Hazlett was here and he was teaching on 684 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,720 the prophetic and he said, OK, you know, pray right now. 685 00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:51,600 Ask the Lord about someone in the room and and ask the Lord 686 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:52,920 about them and share it with them later. 687 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,120 My my bald headed brother Christopher, come to me later. 688 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,080 He said, hey, I asked the Lord about you. 689 00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:58,880 I said, really? He said, yeah, do you want me to 690 00:40:58,880 --> 00:40:59,600 share? I said yeah. 691 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,560 And I'm telling you some of the things he shared that the Lord 692 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,680 shared with him, it just broke me. 693 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:12,160 It tenderized my heart because there were things that to me 694 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:16,080 were very insignificant about my life that the Lord highlighted 695 00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,560 and things nobody knew that to me weren't a big deal, but they 696 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,480 were a big deal to the Lord. And I knew it was God because He 697 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:27,400 didn't know about those things. I'm not unique. 698 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,960 It's true of all of us. God created you. 699 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,960 You are fearfully and wonderfully made. 700 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:41,720 He put His image in your personality and it's to shine 701 00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:45,440 out in a very unique way. And God is hungry for that to 702 00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,040 happen. But you've got to be convinced 703 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:49,520 of that before you can release that. 704 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,440 There's a reason that it's Psalm 149. 705 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,560 We don't get into releasing the word of the Lord through the 706 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:59,160 double edged sword over the kings of the earth until first 707 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:04,120 we come to this conclusion. He takes pleasure in His people. 708 00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:09,680 Jesus himself didn't enter ministry until he heard the 709 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,600 Father's affirmation. And if he needed it, how much 710 00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:19,720 more to you and I that the psalmist tells us the source of 711 00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:22,840 your worship? What will ignite it and erupt in 712 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:26,000 praise out of your belly? He's literally the high praise 713 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,920 of God in your throat. It's just kind of a manly way to 714 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:33,840 say it. But what's what what ignites 715 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:39,200 that is that we see God takes pleasure in his spirit. 716 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,920 And then there's this other, OK, I'm going to take two minutes. 717 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:50,160 It says he adorns the humble. What does it say adorns the 718 00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:54,120 humble with salvation. So there's two things he takes 719 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:57,880 pleasure in your in this people and he takes he adorns the 720 00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,320 humble with salvation. The in the Old Testament, when 721 00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:04,200 we talk about humble, it's more circumstantial than 722 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,080 psychological. What do I mean by that? 723 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:10,920 It means humble circumstances, our situation more than our 724 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:12,840 heart posture. Now, our heart posture is an 725 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,360 overflow of our circumstances. And when we see our 726 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:19,320 circumstances correctly, that will be humbling because what we 727 00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,360 realize is we can't save ourself. 728 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,080 I'm not talking about eternity. I'm talking about we can't 729 00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,400 figure out the most basic things in life apart from Him. 730 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,960 We can do nothing. And the quicker we come to that 731 00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,960 conclusion that Lord, all of this thing called life and 732 00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,520 parenting and pastoring, and it's all above my pay grade. 733 00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:42,520 I need you every day. And matter of fact, I'm just 734 00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:46,640 going to settle into my weakness and realize that that is the key 735 00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:50,640 to access your salvation, that your power is made perfect in my 736 00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,520 weakness. And if I'm going to settle in my 737 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:56,280 strengths and try to put pose, be a poser, you know, and try to 738 00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:59,320 act like I got it all together, I actually forfeit the grace of 739 00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,800 God through that pride. But if I'll humble myself and 740 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:08,280 say, God, I need you, I need your wisdom, you've got to speak 741 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,840 to me. There is a liberty in that. 742 00:44:11,240 --> 00:44:14,120 And those are the two criteria for erupting praise in your 743 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:18,080 heart. He takes pleasure in you, and 744 00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,480 you can settle in your weakness and just know God. 745 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,880 I am a man of humble circumstances, and if you don't 746 00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,040 intervene, it'll only be humble circumstances. 747 00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:34,640 It will be humiliating because I'll make a mess of things and 748 00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:38,920 there's a liberty in that. God loves you and delights in 749 00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:39,520 you. Where you're at. 750 00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:40,680 He does. He doesn't want to keep you 751 00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:42,600 there. There's all kinds of things in 752 00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:46,120 you He wants to bring out. But the beginning is that 753 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:50,840 foundation, the beginning of the work of God in your life is to 754 00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:54,760 know that He takes pleasure in His people. 755 00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:56,440 Amen. Go ahead and stand. 756 00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:58,880 Thanks for listening to our podcast. 757 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,400 If you'd like to help more people hear this message, you 758 00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,000 can get the word out by subscribing and sharing it on 759 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,320 social media. If you'd like to support the 760 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,160 ministries of Heartland Church, you can do so at Heartland 761 00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,400 Church online.com/give.