1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,680 Welcome to Christ Community Church, and especially welcome 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:05,680 back to our Summer of Psalms. We've had a break for a couple 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:08,720 weeks and just a couple announcements tonight. 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,600 Please join us this Saturday in West Wing Two at 7:30 to 10:00 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,040 for our bimonthly prayer meeting. 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,640 Everybody's welcome. And so we hope to see you at 7 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,400 7:30 for a time of prayer. We pray for the church, our 8 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,760 neighborhood, our country, all the ministries in the church. 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,480 7:30 this Saturday in the back, there's a bunch of signups. 10 00:00:27,930 --> 00:00:30,650 Summer's almost over. So the after Labor Day in 11 00:00:30,650 --> 00:00:33,010 September there's three different new classes, new 12 00:00:33,010 --> 00:00:36,050 members class you can sign up for evangelism training. 13 00:00:36,370 --> 00:00:38,450 And we mentioned last week, if you want to go to mission trip, 14 00:00:38,450 --> 00:00:41,250 don't wait till next year to get an Evangeline training, get in 15 00:00:41,250 --> 00:00:44,370 it now and then there'll be a soteriology class taught. 16 00:00:44,370 --> 00:00:47,130 So and there's also a women's event on the 17th. 17 00:00:47,130 --> 00:00:50,890 So look in the lobby at the signups and and avail yourself 18 00:00:50,890 --> 00:00:53,570 to that. Last week if you were here, you 19 00:00:53,570 --> 00:00:56,210 heard the testimonies from nine people that had never been on 20 00:00:56,210 --> 00:00:58,230 mission trip with Christ Community Church. 21 00:00:58,310 --> 00:01:01,110 And I mentioned briefly something that I wanted to 22 00:01:01,110 --> 00:01:06,390 continue tonight. When we went out Saturday, I 23 00:01:06,390 --> 00:01:08,790 only had three opportunities to share the gospel. 24 00:01:08,870 --> 00:01:11,630 Saturday it was like it was like West Covina. 25 00:01:11,630 --> 00:01:14,710 They didn't want to talk, It was cold, they went open the doors, 26 00:01:14,990 --> 00:01:17,790 lots of dogs. So it wasn't discouraging. 27 00:01:17,790 --> 00:01:20,910 But we had three. But then Sunday we went to 28 00:01:20,910 --> 00:01:23,390 church, two different churches, and I preached Sunday morning 29 00:01:23,390 --> 00:01:26,050 and Sunday afternoon they said we're going to go out and we're 30 00:01:26,050 --> 00:01:27,970 going to go to a park. And the park was, I can't 31 00:01:27,970 --> 00:01:30,570 remember, about 20 blocks. We had to walk and then we're 32 00:01:30,570 --> 00:01:34,970 going to share in the park. So Shane Anderson and I and our 33 00:01:34,970 --> 00:01:37,530 two interpreters group of about four or five people started to 34 00:01:37,530 --> 00:01:39,610 walk and we only went about one block. 35 00:01:39,610 --> 00:01:42,730 And there was a man washing his car when you talked to him. 36 00:01:42,730 --> 00:01:47,270 His name was John and he stopped washing the car and gave us 37 00:01:47,270 --> 00:01:48,590 about 1/2 an hour to share with him. 38 00:01:48,590 --> 00:01:50,630 So that was encouraging. And while I was sharing with 39 00:01:50,630 --> 00:01:53,550 him, Shane was sharing with a man named Christian who was a 40 00:01:53,550 --> 00:01:56,270 garbage collector. One of those manual guys walking 41 00:01:56,270 --> 00:02:00,830 around collecting the garbage. And then even before we left I 42 00:02:00,830 --> 00:02:03,270 mentioned last week there was a teenage girl named Marion who 43 00:02:03,270 --> 00:02:06,630 had the iPod ear things and but she stopped and we shared with 44 00:02:06,630 --> 00:02:09,150 her for about 45 minutes. So it was really encouraging. 45 00:02:09,150 --> 00:02:12,350 And then I walked around the corner and there were two old 46 00:02:12,350 --> 00:02:15,130 men. Hector was 75 years old. 47 00:02:15,450 --> 00:02:19,170 And Felicia, Felicia, if I'm saying it right, was 89 years 48 00:02:19,170 --> 00:02:21,210 old now. The sun was kind of shining in 49 00:02:21,210 --> 00:02:23,730 this cold day and you might have seen the remember the picture 50 00:02:23,730 --> 00:02:26,090 from last week? And they're just their 51 00:02:26,090 --> 00:02:30,010 countenance was bright and they said, sure, we'd like to talk to 52 00:02:30,010 --> 00:02:31,810 you. We were there for over an hour, 53 00:02:32,050 --> 00:02:35,810 sharing with them and. And just that, you know, you 54 00:02:35,810 --> 00:02:38,010 have somebody interested in your gospel presentation when they're 55 00:02:38,010 --> 00:02:40,770 asking questions, right? If you're doing all the talking, 56 00:02:41,330 --> 00:02:44,420 maybe they're not so interested, but they they just wouldn't shut 57 00:02:44,420 --> 00:02:45,940 up. They kept asking question after 58 00:02:45,940 --> 00:02:49,540 question after question. So that's always great And but 59 00:02:49,580 --> 00:02:51,940 when you ask them if they were to die tonight where they would 60 00:02:51,940 --> 00:02:56,140 spend eternity, I mentioned last week, I could not believe how 61 00:02:56,140 --> 00:03:01,180 many people told me No one can know, only God knows. 62 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:03,980 That was the answer I got. And I didn't realize that 63 00:03:04,380 --> 00:03:06,580 Argentina is not a Catholic country anymore. 64 00:03:06,580 --> 00:03:08,940 It's a secular country like America. 65 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,920 So yeah, they're Catholic in name, but they rarely ever go to 66 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:14,040 church, and they certainly don't know much. 67 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,840 So when they would say that no one can know, it just hit me 68 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,320 like a ton of bricks. They don't know because of 69 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,000 course the Catholic Church doesn't teach eternal security 70 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:24,440 and they don't even go to church. 71 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,360 But is there anything more important than internal 72 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,800 security? Is there anything more important 73 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:31,720 than your assurance of salvation? 74 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:36,070 I think not. So last our preacher on Sunday, 75 00:03:36,070 --> 00:03:38,470 Mr. Mason ended up his message with a verse. 76 00:03:38,470 --> 00:03:42,630 I'll begin with first John 513. I would open up first John 5, 77 00:03:42,630 --> 00:03:46,910 verse 13, and it says I write in first John. 78 00:03:46,910 --> 00:03:50,630 I think at least 13 times it says I write or I'm writing or 79 00:03:50,630 --> 00:03:54,430 I've written 13 times. And then it says, I write these 80 00:03:54,430 --> 00:03:58,670 things to you who believe in the name of Son of God that you may 81 00:03:58,670 --> 00:04:03,020 know 32 times in that little book of first John that says no, 82 00:04:03,220 --> 00:04:06,820 no, no, we can know. And that's what hit me. 83 00:04:06,940 --> 00:04:09,660 They don't know. The lost world doesn't know, you 84 00:04:09,660 --> 00:04:11,780 know, I know I have eternal life. 85 00:04:12,500 --> 00:04:15,380 I know my real home is in heaven and not here. 86 00:04:15,900 --> 00:04:18,700 I know that any sufferings I have are temporary. 87 00:04:19,339 --> 00:04:22,260 I know the Bible is the very words of God. 88 00:04:22,740 --> 00:04:25,700 I know about Jesus. I know about the Holy Spirit, 89 00:04:25,700 --> 00:04:29,640 who's in me, and I know about God the Father, but when I read 90 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:33,560 Psalm 63, I wish I really knew God more. 91 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,920 I really wish I had the desire, the burning desire that the 92 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,400 psalmist had in Psalm 63, J Vernon McGee said. 93 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,320 This is a special song. It's ointment that is poured out 94 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:47,600 upon all kinds of sores. It's a bandage for bruises. 95 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,040 It's a bomb to put upon wounds to help them heal. 96 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,560 It has been a marvelous song for the church. 97 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,240 It speaks of the thirst for the water of life. 98 00:04:56,890 --> 00:04:59,570 Christopher, who was early church father ordained and 99 00:04:59,570 --> 00:05:02,970 agreed that the Primitive fathers that no day should pass 100 00:05:02,970 --> 00:05:06,130 without the public singing of this song and the primitive 101 00:05:06,130 --> 00:05:09,050 church use this song. It was sung every morning or 102 00:05:09,050 --> 00:05:12,570 every time there was a public gathering, Derek Kinder says. 103 00:05:12,570 --> 00:05:15,610 There may be other songs that are equal, the outpouring of 104 00:05:15,610 --> 00:05:21,490 devotion, but there are a few songs that surpass Psalm 63, the 105 00:05:21,490 --> 00:05:24,170 type of Psalm it is. It's a lament Psalm and I think 106 00:05:24,170 --> 00:05:26,490 sometimes we forget that it's a lament Psalm. 107 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:29,700 Lament psalms expressed the need for God's deliverance. 108 00:05:29,700 --> 00:05:34,380 So David wrote at least 73 psalms and maybe 30 of them are 109 00:05:34,380 --> 00:05:36,700 lament psalms asking God for help. 110 00:05:37,300 --> 00:05:41,620 But this is such a beautiful poetic Psalm that I think when 111 00:05:41,620 --> 00:05:45,020 you read at least the 1st 8 verses, you forget that David's 112 00:05:45,020 --> 00:05:48,300 actually crying out. And as a lament, the 113 00:05:48,300 --> 00:05:51,830 superscription says a Psalm of David when he was in the 114 00:05:51,830 --> 00:05:54,070 wilderness of Judah. And I'll talk a little bit more 115 00:05:54,070 --> 00:05:56,030 about that when we get into our message. 116 00:05:56,030 --> 00:05:59,670 So let's read it and we'll pray. A Psalm of David when he was in 117 00:05:59,670 --> 00:06:03,630 the wilderness of Judah. Oh God, you are my God. 118 00:06:04,310 --> 00:06:08,670 Earnestly I seek you, my soul thirst for you, My flesh faints 119 00:06:08,670 --> 00:06:12,510 for you as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. 120 00:06:13,110 --> 00:06:16,470 So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power 121 00:06:16,470 --> 00:06:19,590 and glory, because your steadfast love is better than 122 00:06:19,590 --> 00:06:22,690 life. My lips will praise you so I 123 00:06:22,690 --> 00:06:25,730 will bless you as long as I live in your name. 124 00:06:25,730 --> 00:06:29,650 I will lift up my hands. My soul will be satisfied as 125 00:06:29,650 --> 00:06:33,130 with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with 126 00:06:33,130 --> 00:06:37,570 joyful lips when I remember you upon my bed and meditate on you 127 00:06:37,690 --> 00:06:41,130 in the watches of the night. For you have been my health, and 128 00:06:41,130 --> 00:06:44,130 in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy. 129 00:06:44,570 --> 00:06:49,260 My soul clings to you. Your right hand upholds me, But 130 00:06:49,260 --> 00:06:52,100 those who seek to destroy my life shall go down to the depths 131 00:06:52,100 --> 00:06:54,260 of the earth. They shall be given over to the 132 00:06:54,260 --> 00:06:56,980 power of the sword. They shall be a portion for 133 00:06:56,980 --> 00:06:59,940 jackals. But the King shall rejoice in 134 00:06:59,940 --> 00:07:02,140 God. All who swear by him shall 135 00:07:02,140 --> 00:07:05,660 exult, for the mouth of wires will be stopped. 136 00:07:06,500 --> 00:07:08,820 Father in heaven, we thank you for another opportunity to open 137 00:07:08,820 --> 00:07:11,660 up the perfect word of God and to look at one of the most 138 00:07:11,660 --> 00:07:14,460 special psalms there are. Father, may we leave here 139 00:07:14,460 --> 00:07:17,810 tonight knowing more of you having that burning desire that 140 00:07:17,810 --> 00:07:22,450 King David had to know you to be with you in Jesus name. 141 00:07:23,090 --> 00:07:25,370 Amen. I hope you have an outline. 142 00:07:25,370 --> 00:07:29,250 There's three simple points. How David long for God versus 143 00:07:29,250 --> 00:07:33,810 one to three, and how David lived for God versus 4:00 to 144 00:07:34,530 --> 00:07:37,170 8:00. And then how David looked for 145 00:07:37,170 --> 00:07:41,890 God versus 9 to 11. Let's begin with point #1. 146 00:07:41,890 --> 00:07:46,780 How David long for God and point number A there says where he 147 00:07:46,780 --> 00:07:50,420 was, where he was. Dave begins it by saying that 148 00:07:50,540 --> 00:07:52,700 beautiful verse. Oh God, you are my God. 149 00:07:52,860 --> 00:07:56,540 Earnestly I seek you, my soul thirst for you, My flesh faints 150 00:07:56,540 --> 00:07:59,780 for you, as in a dry and where he land where there is no water. 151 00:08:00,020 --> 00:08:02,060 So where is David? Well if you look at the 152 00:08:02,060 --> 00:08:05,140 superscription, it says a Psalm of David when he was in the 153 00:08:05,140 --> 00:08:08,740 wilderness of Judah. So commentators will debate. 154 00:08:08,940 --> 00:08:11,500 Most of them will agree upon there's two choices. 155 00:08:12,260 --> 00:08:15,020 Is he in the desert fleeing from King Saul and that would be 156 00:08:15,020 --> 00:08:19,460 First Samuel 19 to 31? Or is it when he's fleeing from 157 00:08:19,460 --> 00:08:22,980 Absalom, his son in Second Samuel 15 to 19? 158 00:08:23,500 --> 00:08:27,140 Well, if you look at verse 11, it says but the king, the king 159 00:08:27,140 --> 00:08:29,980 shall rejoice. So it's pretty obvious, and most 160 00:08:29,980 --> 00:08:32,820 commentators agree, that it's not when he's being chased by 161 00:08:32,820 --> 00:08:37,059 Saul, but it's when he fled Jerusalem from his own son, King 162 00:08:37,059 --> 00:08:39,520 Absalom. So because he was not yet the 163 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,440 king when Saul was chasing him for the most time. 164 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:44,600 And you know the story of Absalom. 165 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,160 He rebelled against David. It's told in Second Samuel, 15 166 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,520 to 19. Absalom was back in Jerusalem, 167 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:55,080 but he was estranged from David and he felt bitter and estranged 168 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,000 from him. So Absolom spent four years 169 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,360 winning the hearts of the people. 170 00:08:59,850 --> 00:09:02,530 He would sit at the gate and he would lie to the people, saying 171 00:09:02,530 --> 00:09:06,050 there's nobody here to to hear your request, but I'll I'll hear 172 00:09:06,050 --> 00:09:08,930 them. And it it says that he stole the 173 00:09:08,930 --> 00:09:12,290 hearts of the people. So when Absalom had the majority 174 00:09:12,290 --> 00:09:15,490 of the people on his side that he thought he was ready to set 175 00:09:15,490 --> 00:09:18,890 up a rival Kingdom in near in the nearby city of Hebron. 176 00:09:19,450 --> 00:09:21,930 And David was completely ignorant or caught off guard. 177 00:09:22,450 --> 00:09:24,650 And when it was told of him, he feared that there would be a 178 00:09:24,810 --> 00:09:26,730 bloody and a brutal attack on Jerusalem. 179 00:09:27,210 --> 00:09:31,510 So David fled and his loyal generals and soldiers fled, and 180 00:09:31,510 --> 00:09:33,710 they went east towards the Transjordan desert. 181 00:09:34,390 --> 00:09:38,270 He let the psalmist says he left weeping and crying in the night 182 00:09:38,910 --> 00:09:42,630 as Absalom moved into Jerusalem. So David crossed the Jordan 183 00:09:42,630 --> 00:09:45,790 River and he hit somewhere in this desert region, it's called 184 00:09:45,790 --> 00:09:49,030 the wilderness, while Absolom in the couple days was going to 185 00:09:49,030 --> 00:09:52,030 come and pursue him. This is supposedly have not been 186 00:09:52,030 --> 00:09:54,310 there, one of the most barren regions of the earth. 187 00:09:55,070 --> 00:09:58,880 And David uses this region as a poetic background for his 188 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:03,080 condition apart from God. He sees himself thirsting for 189 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,640 God as a man might thirst in the desert. 190 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,440 He begins by saying, oh God, you are my God. 191 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,600 This is a very personal song. If you count the personal 192 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:19,800 pronouns I, my and me, you see at least 20 times that how 193 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:23,920 personal this song is. David says the name, oh God, 194 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,550 that's Elohim. That's the name in the Old 195 00:10:26,550 --> 00:10:29,350 Testament that appears over 2000 times. 196 00:10:29,630 --> 00:10:31,990 It's first used in the very first verse in the Bible. 197 00:10:32,230 --> 00:10:35,630 In the beginning, God Elohim created the heavens and the 198 00:10:35,630 --> 00:10:37,390 earth. You know, you hear that phrase 199 00:10:37,390 --> 00:10:40,390 today, don't you? Oh God, as a curse word, as a 200 00:10:40,390 --> 00:10:43,510 blasphemous word in movies. And people say it much like they 201 00:10:43,510 --> 00:10:46,470 take the name of Jesus. Those people aren't believers. 202 00:10:46,470 --> 00:10:49,230 They don't know God. But David here, when he says, oh 203 00:10:49,230 --> 00:10:51,590 God, you can sense the feeling inside of him. 204 00:10:52,130 --> 00:10:55,330 He goes on to say, oh God, you are my God. 205 00:10:55,890 --> 00:10:58,530 He's a child of God. He's conscious of the personal 206 00:10:58,530 --> 00:11:02,650 relationship that he has. He knows his father and he knows 207 00:11:02,650 --> 00:11:04,650 his father's going to listen to this lament. 208 00:11:04,650 --> 00:11:07,530 He's crying out. He then continues by saying 209 00:11:07,530 --> 00:11:10,530 earnestly, I seek you. I don't know if anybody out 210 00:11:10,530 --> 00:11:13,410 there still uses the King James Bible or the new King James 211 00:11:13,410 --> 00:11:17,170 Bible, but your translation says, I rise early in the 212 00:11:17,170 --> 00:11:19,610 morning. So the early translation, the 213 00:11:19,610 --> 00:11:24,100 Septuagin that was written 200 years before the Old Testament 214 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:27,620 for Christ came, says early, I will seek you. 215 00:11:27,940 --> 00:11:31,580 So this is probably why Chris Lam and the early church fathers 216 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:35,300 read this Psalm at every every morning, sang it every morning. 217 00:11:35,300 --> 00:11:38,060 Because those translations said early, I will seek you. 218 00:11:38,380 --> 00:11:41,860 Our modern translations say earnestly I will seek you. 219 00:11:41,860 --> 00:11:44,580 But I was thinking about that this might be the song that you 220 00:11:44,580 --> 00:11:46,740 need. We talked a lot about the 221 00:11:46,740 --> 00:11:49,790 wilderness with our study in Job and in Hebrews. 222 00:11:49,790 --> 00:11:52,350 We talked a lot about it with our study in Moses and Hebrews 223 00:11:52,350 --> 00:11:52,950 10. Right. 224 00:11:53,430 --> 00:11:55,830 So this might be the song that you need to read in the morning 225 00:11:55,830 --> 00:11:57,950 before the troubles of the day to get in the mount up. 226 00:11:58,550 --> 00:12:01,670 But notice for David though, this is not a last resort. 227 00:12:02,150 --> 00:12:05,110 He always prays, always continually praying, right? 228 00:12:05,790 --> 00:12:09,430 Next he says, my soul thirst for you, my flesh faints for you. 229 00:12:09,830 --> 00:12:13,790 In our poetry this is called the Miriism and it just refers to 230 00:12:13,790 --> 00:12:16,310 the whole being, the whole body soul. 231 00:12:16,830 --> 00:12:19,670 He just yearns for God's satisfying presence. 232 00:12:19,910 --> 00:12:25,230 Much like the sons of Korra said in Psalms 42 as a deer pants for 233 00:12:25,230 --> 00:12:30,750 the flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, oh God, my soul 234 00:12:30,750 --> 00:12:33,670 thirst for God for the living. God, when shall I come and 235 00:12:33,670 --> 00:12:36,550 appear before my God. Psalm 42 One and two. 236 00:12:37,070 --> 00:12:39,230 I like what one commentator said about this. 237 00:12:40,790 --> 00:12:45,920 Verses 1 Here in In Psalm 63, stranded in an open sea, a man 238 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:50,040 was afloat on a small raft, dying without any water. 239 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:53,720 His weakened and crumpling body was about to collapse. 240 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,440 His lips were parched. His eyes were seeing spots. 241 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,040 His stomach was in knots. There was only one thing he 242 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:04,600 wanted water. He had no interest in watching 243 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,720 television or any desire for amusement or entertainment. 244 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:11,820 He was not daydreaming about as many possessions back home, or 245 00:13:11,820 --> 00:13:14,940 was he fantasizing about the stock market or his favorite 246 00:13:14,940 --> 00:13:17,260 sports team. He had only one thing in his 247 00:13:17,260 --> 00:13:20,140 mind water. He had to have water. 248 00:13:20,380 --> 00:13:23,260 But until he received it, nothing else mattered. 249 00:13:23,740 --> 00:13:27,940 This is precisely where David was, both physically and 250 00:13:28,060 --> 00:13:31,660 spiritually. As he wrote Psalm 63, he was in 251 00:13:31,660 --> 00:13:35,700 a dry and barren wilderness of Judea without water, his body 252 00:13:35,700 --> 00:13:39,500 ache for liquid replenishing. Yet the deepest thirst of his 253 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:43,710 life was for the living water. David's soul yearned for God. 254 00:13:44,190 --> 00:13:46,470 He did not want money or any material thing. 255 00:13:46,790 --> 00:13:51,390 He wanted God for who God was. With all his passion, with all 256 00:13:51,390 --> 00:13:55,790 his soul, he thirsted to know and experience the greatness of 257 00:13:55,790 --> 00:13:58,590 God. It was David's great desire to 258 00:13:58,590 --> 00:14:01,630 feel the presence of God. You know, do we thirst like 259 00:14:01,630 --> 00:14:02,910 that? I'll talk a little bit more 260 00:14:02,910 --> 00:14:04,710 about that and the application in my life. 261 00:14:05,110 --> 00:14:09,350 But the mark of a child of God is to have intimate knowledge of 262 00:14:09,350 --> 00:14:13,060 God and and of God the Father. It's the biggest and most 263 00:14:13,060 --> 00:14:16,460 important thing in our life. You know, in the New Testament, 264 00:14:16,820 --> 00:14:20,460 in John we have the story of the woman at the well right in John 265 00:14:20,460 --> 00:14:24,020 chapter 4. And it says that in John four, 266 00:14:24,020 --> 00:14:25,580 I'll just paraphrase it real quickly. 267 00:14:25,780 --> 00:14:28,540 The Samaritan woman said to Jesus, How is it that you, a 268 00:14:28,540 --> 00:14:32,820 Jew, asked for a drink from me, A woman of Samaria, for Jews 269 00:14:32,820 --> 00:14:34,500 have no dealings with Samaritans. 270 00:14:34,940 --> 00:14:39,060 And Jesus answered her and said, If you knew the gift of God and 271 00:14:39,060 --> 00:14:42,020 who it is that is saying to you, give me a drink. 272 00:14:42,460 --> 00:14:46,220 You would have asked for him and he would have given you living 273 00:14:46,220 --> 00:14:49,540 water, The woman said to him. Sir, you have nothing to draw 274 00:14:49,540 --> 00:14:52,180 water with, and this well is deep. 275 00:14:52,380 --> 00:14:54,100 Where do you get that living water? 276 00:14:54,100 --> 00:14:55,700 Are you greater than our father Jacob? 277 00:14:56,220 --> 00:14:59,780 He gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons 278 00:14:59,780 --> 00:15:03,060 and his livestock. Jesus said to her, everyone who 279 00:15:03,060 --> 00:15:05,140 drinks of this water will be thirsty again. 280 00:15:05,620 --> 00:15:08,060 But whoever drinks to the water that I will give him will never 281 00:15:08,060 --> 00:15:10,900 be thirsty again. The water that I will give him 282 00:15:10,900 --> 00:15:14,340 will be coming him, a spring of water welling up to eternal 283 00:15:14,340 --> 00:15:16,980 life. The woman said to him, Sir, give 284 00:15:16,980 --> 00:15:20,940 me this water so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here 285 00:15:20,940 --> 00:15:23,500 to draw water. And she got that living water, 286 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:25,860 didn't she? Just two chapters later, in John 287 00:15:25,860 --> 00:15:30,460 635, Jesus said to him, I am the bread of life, whoever comes to 288 00:15:30,460 --> 00:15:34,380 me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never 289 00:15:34,380 --> 00:15:36,650 thirst. And just the next chapter in 290 00:15:36,650 --> 00:15:40,650 John 739 on the last day of the feast, that great day, Jesus 291 00:15:40,650 --> 00:15:43,930 stood up and cried out. If anyone thirsts, let him come 292 00:15:43,930 --> 00:15:46,490 to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as 293 00:15:46,490 --> 00:15:49,730 scriptures have said, out of his heart will flow over livers, 294 00:15:49,890 --> 00:15:52,610 rivers of living water. Now he said this about the 295 00:15:52,610 --> 00:15:56,290 Spirit who had not yet whom those who believe in him were 296 00:15:56,290 --> 00:15:58,770 two received. For as yet the Spirit had not 297 00:15:58,770 --> 00:16:01,410 been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. 298 00:16:01,770 --> 00:16:04,630 And then if you go all the way to the very end of the Bible, to 299 00:16:04,630 --> 00:16:08,190 the very last chapter, Revelation 22, it says in verse 300 00:16:08,190 --> 00:16:12,470 17 the Spirit and the bride say, come and let the one who hears 301 00:16:12,470 --> 00:16:15,910 say come and let the one who is thirsty come. 302 00:16:16,270 --> 00:16:20,070 Let the one who desires to take the water of life without price. 303 00:16:20,510 --> 00:16:24,550 Does your soul thirst for God? Does your flesh long for God? 304 00:16:25,150 --> 00:16:29,190 If that's not your experience now, well, what will it be like 305 00:16:29,190 --> 00:16:31,030 when you go into the wilderness someday? 306 00:16:31,750 --> 00:16:35,370 Like David, all earthly satisfactions are ultimately 307 00:16:35,370 --> 00:16:37,330 unsatisfactory because they're earthly. 308 00:16:37,890 --> 00:16:40,010 I was thinking tonight of Maui, Hawaii. 309 00:16:40,010 --> 00:16:42,450 Did you see the pictures? I've been there twice. 310 00:16:42,450 --> 00:16:45,610 Tomorrow's my anniversary and we first went there, but everywhere 311 00:16:45,610 --> 00:16:49,370 we were in Maui is gone. Just a wildfire in the wind just 312 00:16:49,370 --> 00:16:52,490 completely wiped out. It was there yesterday and now 313 00:16:52,490 --> 00:16:54,530 it's gone. Everything on earth is just 314 00:16:54,530 --> 00:16:56,610 temporary, isn't it? Everything you see, it could 315 00:16:56,610 --> 00:16:59,890 just be wiped out in an instant. But living water that Jesus 316 00:16:59,890 --> 00:17:02,990 gives gives us everlasting eternal life. 317 00:17:03,030 --> 00:17:05,750 So that's where he was in the wilderness of Judea. 318 00:17:06,270 --> 00:17:09,470 What did he want? Some point B, verse two and Tim 319 00:17:09,470 --> 00:17:11,150 Reddit. So I looked upon you in the 320 00:17:11,150 --> 00:17:13,349 sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. 321 00:17:14,030 --> 00:17:17,150 David had a spiritual appetite. How did you acquire it? 322 00:17:17,150 --> 00:17:21,470 By worshipping God in the past, at the sanctuary or at the 323 00:17:21,470 --> 00:17:23,630 Tabernacle before the temple was built. 324 00:17:24,109 --> 00:17:26,910 It was there where David saw God's presence in the sanctuary, 325 00:17:26,910 --> 00:17:28,910 is there where David beheld God's glory. 326 00:17:29,650 --> 00:17:31,890 I think there's a verse that's probably read from this pulpit 327 00:17:31,890 --> 00:17:36,170 more than any other verse, and it's Psalms 27, four Lance 328 00:17:36,170 --> 00:17:39,450 quotes that often I've quoted it and I think A J quoted it 329 00:17:39,450 --> 00:17:41,570 recently. One thing I have asked to the 330 00:17:41,570 --> 00:17:45,370 Lord that I may seek after that I may dwell in the House of the 331 00:17:45,370 --> 00:17:49,490 Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the 332 00:17:49,490 --> 00:17:54,000 Lord, and to inquire in his temple David out of passion, to 333 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,120 come to the Tabernacle, to to sing the songs, to learn about 334 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:00,480 God, and to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord. 335 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:04,360 There the sons of Korus, set in Psalms 84 One and two, How 336 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:08,200 lovely is your dwelling place. So Lord of Hosts my soul longs, 337 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,040 yes, feints for the courts of the Lord. 338 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:13,680 My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God. 339 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:17,280 And then verse 10 says, For a day in your court is a better 340 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,280 than 1000 elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper 341 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,280 in the House of my God than to dwell in the tents of the wicked 342 00:18:23,890 --> 00:18:26,730 and then back to Psalm 42, that wonderful Psalm says in verse 343 00:18:26,730 --> 00:18:29,410 four. These things I remember as I 344 00:18:29,410 --> 00:18:33,490 pour out my soul how I would go to the throng and lead them in 345 00:18:33,490 --> 00:18:37,810 procession to the House of God with glad shouts and songs of 346 00:18:37,810 --> 00:18:41,290 praise, a multitude keeping festival What? 347 00:18:41,410 --> 00:18:45,290 Because David had seen God's power and glory in God's house, 348 00:18:46,290 --> 00:18:50,170 he wanted to experience that in the wilderness, as he had so 349 00:18:50,170 --> 00:18:53,410 often in the House of God. It was Spurgeon who said a weary 350 00:18:53,410 --> 00:18:59,210 place and a weary heart make the presence of God more desirable. 351 00:18:59,530 --> 00:19:01,490 What did David want? He wanted to be in God's 352 00:19:01,490 --> 00:19:03,010 present. Why? 353 00:19:03,090 --> 00:19:04,650 Why? He worshipped verse three. 354 00:19:04,650 --> 00:19:07,810 He says, because your steadfast love is better than life. 355 00:19:08,130 --> 00:19:11,090 My lips will praise you. We talked about the past in 356 00:19:11,090 --> 00:19:13,890 verse 2. This is the present David. 357 00:19:13,970 --> 00:19:16,890 David would say in verse three, your steadfast love is better 358 00:19:16,890 --> 00:19:19,370 than life, he says. In verse six, when I remember 359 00:19:19,370 --> 00:19:22,450 you on my bed, he says in verse seven you have been my help. 360 00:19:22,930 --> 00:19:25,810 He says you're right, him and upholds me. 361 00:19:25,810 --> 00:19:29,450 And I think that's verse 8. So here even though David is cut 362 00:19:29,450 --> 00:19:33,290 off from the sanctuary in Jerusalem, God has not cut 363 00:19:33,290 --> 00:19:37,730 himself off from David. David knew the steadfast love of 364 00:19:37,850 --> 00:19:39,770 of God was better than anything in life. 365 00:19:40,050 --> 00:19:44,690 Spurgeon also said there was no desert in David's heart, though 366 00:19:44,690 --> 00:19:49,360 there was a desert around him. You know, we spent a lot of time 367 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:51,680 I mentioned talking about Moses and the wilderness and Job and 368 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:53,280 the wilderness these past six months. 369 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,160 But even before David spent time in the wilderness and Moses, 370 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,000 Elijah would spend time in the wilderness. 371 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:03,520 You know, a true Christian will say, oh God, you are my God. 372 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,720 Earnestly, I seek you. Many people call themselves 373 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,880 Christians, right? But when something goes wrong, 374 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,520 either personally to them or perhaps to their loved ones. 375 00:20:15,130 --> 00:20:18,530 Their immediate reaction is to say, why has God done this to 376 00:20:18,530 --> 00:20:20,850 me? And often they turn away from 377 00:20:20,850 --> 00:20:23,650 God. They're like Job's wife who said 378 00:20:23,650 --> 00:20:26,610 curse God and die. But a true believer does the 379 00:20:26,610 --> 00:20:28,610 opposite like David does here in the desert. 380 00:20:29,090 --> 00:20:33,690 A true Christian is always driven by adversity to God. 381 00:20:33,730 --> 00:20:37,090 A true Christian is always driven by adversity to God. 382 00:20:37,530 --> 00:20:40,250 When I like to share with someone who's suffering or going 383 00:20:40,250 --> 00:20:44,110 through a hard time, I'd like to go to 2nd Corinthians 4 versus 384 00:20:44,110 --> 00:20:45,990 16 to 18, and you probably know it. 385 00:20:46,870 --> 00:20:49,350 It says so. We do not lose heart though. 386 00:20:49,350 --> 00:20:52,550 Our outer self is wasting away. Our inner self is being renewed 387 00:20:52,550 --> 00:20:54,710 day by day. And then you have that beautiful 388 00:20:54,710 --> 00:20:58,710 verse 17 that says for this light and momentary affliction 389 00:20:59,190 --> 00:21:01,990 is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory behind all 390 00:21:01,990 --> 00:21:06,350 comparison as we look not to the things that are seen, but to the 391 00:21:06,350 --> 00:21:09,350 things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are 392 00:21:09,350 --> 00:21:12,250 transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. 393 00:21:12,450 --> 00:21:14,650 That verse 17 is one of my favorite verses because it 394 00:21:14,650 --> 00:21:17,730 reminds me, he says that our light momentary troubles, 395 00:21:18,250 --> 00:21:21,290 they're light momentary. Many years ago in Siliguri, 396 00:21:21,290 --> 00:21:24,290 India, a preacher came and he was talking about sufferings. 397 00:21:24,290 --> 00:21:26,970 And he used this first. And he brought a rope and it was 398 00:21:26,970 --> 00:21:29,250 a really long lope, and it wasn't a big church, probably 399 00:21:29,250 --> 00:21:32,050 just about this size, but he took the rope and it went all 400 00:21:32,050 --> 00:21:33,970 around, went out the church and out the church. 401 00:21:34,330 --> 00:21:36,410 And and the point was that the rope just would kind of go 402 00:21:36,410 --> 00:21:39,020 forever. And then on that rope he had a, 403 00:21:39,020 --> 00:21:41,620 he put a piece of black tape, about just about an inch. 404 00:21:42,540 --> 00:21:45,660 And he said that black tape on that long rope, maybe 100 feet 405 00:21:45,660 --> 00:21:49,740 or 100 yards, that black tape represents your trials, your 406 00:21:49,740 --> 00:21:52,340 sufferings, your troubles. But then when you look at that 407 00:21:52,340 --> 00:21:55,420 rope, someday in heaven, you're going to look back and say, 408 00:21:55,420 --> 00:21:59,300 yeah, those were light. Those were temporary, momentary 409 00:21:59,300 --> 00:22:02,380 troubles when you look at eternal life, eternal glory 410 00:22:02,380 --> 00:22:05,650 forever and ever. And I've never forgot that why 411 00:22:05,650 --> 00:22:08,490 he worshipped Because David long for the love of God. 412 00:22:08,490 --> 00:22:12,210 He longed to be with God. Let's go to sub our point #2, 413 00:22:12,210 --> 00:22:15,490 how David lived for God. And here you have four points. 414 00:22:15,490 --> 00:22:19,650 He worked for God, he witnessed for God, he waited for God and 415 00:22:19,650 --> 00:22:22,930 he walked with God. So First off, in verse four he 416 00:22:22,930 --> 00:22:25,170 worked for God. He says I'll bless you. 417 00:22:25,170 --> 00:22:28,330 As long as I live in your name, I will lift up my hands. 418 00:22:28,890 --> 00:22:31,970 David was serious about worshipping working for God. 419 00:22:32,370 --> 00:22:35,710 You think back about David. He was the king that moved the 420 00:22:35,710 --> 00:22:38,910 Ark to Jerusalem right now. Incorrectly the first time 421 00:22:38,910 --> 00:22:40,550 right? And Josiah died. 422 00:22:40,910 --> 00:22:43,190 But he did get it right the second time. 423 00:22:43,710 --> 00:22:46,510 David was the one who organized the temple worship. 424 00:22:47,070 --> 00:22:50,550 He first assembled the Levites. He assigned their duties, their 425 00:22:50,550 --> 00:22:53,510 divisions in the Tabernacle, which was soon to be the temple. 426 00:22:54,070 --> 00:22:57,310 Then David assembled the priest to do the temple sacrifices 427 00:22:57,310 --> 00:23:00,030 every day, and the many types of sacrifices. 428 00:23:00,590 --> 00:23:03,110 And then he organized the temple worship, the singers, the 429 00:23:03,110 --> 00:23:05,910 divisions for singing and playing the musical instruments. 430 00:23:06,350 --> 00:23:08,950 And finally he would assemble the gatekeepers to be the 431 00:23:08,950 --> 00:23:11,510 soldiers outside and protect the temple. 432 00:23:11,990 --> 00:23:15,710 And it was also David who would prepare the materials for his 433 00:23:15,710 --> 00:23:19,310 son Solomon to build the temple, because he says that that 434 00:23:20,870 --> 00:23:24,190 Solomon was a young man. And David got all the the the, 435 00:23:24,350 --> 00:23:27,830 the, the, the rocks, the temple, the the gold, everything ready 436 00:23:27,830 --> 00:23:31,610 to build that temple. David was serious about working 437 00:23:31,610 --> 00:23:35,130 for God. He loved and valued the things 438 00:23:35,130 --> 00:23:37,850 of God. So he wanted to work for God. 439 00:23:37,850 --> 00:23:41,570 It's a good reminder for us. Move on to point number reverse 440 00:23:41,570 --> 00:23:43,050 five. He witness for God. 441 00:23:43,570 --> 00:23:45,490 He says My soul will be satisfied. 442 00:23:45,530 --> 00:23:49,450 As with fat and rich food. My mouth will praise you with 443 00:23:49,450 --> 00:23:52,050 joyful lips. Now this is just a metaphor for 444 00:23:52,050 --> 00:23:56,130 joy, a metaphor for greatness, for satisfaction of intimate 445 00:23:56,130 --> 00:23:59,550 knowledge of God that completely satisfies him. 446 00:23:59,950 --> 00:24:04,110 God feeds the hungry soul with rich and bountiful food and that 447 00:24:04,110 --> 00:24:08,830 leads to joyous praise. 1 Commentator says that this 448 00:24:08,830 --> 00:24:12,350 metaphor is of a royal banquet prepared with the choices to 449 00:24:12,350 --> 00:24:14,830 food. David probably remembered the 450 00:24:14,830 --> 00:24:17,190 stately feast he enjoyed as Israel's king. 451 00:24:17,670 --> 00:24:21,030 With the this regal background. He's reminded in his own heart 452 00:24:21,710 --> 00:24:26,590 that only God, only God could satisfy the true yearnings of 453 00:24:26,590 --> 00:24:28,960 his soul. And I like what David says. 454 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,600 I talked about the past, talked about the present. 455 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,240 Here I I think of the future. David knew of God's faithfulness 456 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,520 in the past, present, and now. The future, he says, will be 457 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,400 satisfied. My soul will praise you because 458 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,440 of David had a longing passion for God. 459 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,800 It resulted in him praising God. And many of David's 73 psalms 460 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:51,400 are praise psalms. This one is a lament Psalm. 461 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:53,880 Then let's look at verses 6 and seven. 462 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:59,010 He waited for God and he First off, he says when I remember 463 00:24:59,050 --> 00:25:03,250 upon my bed, and then we'll talk about meditation .2 The key here 464 00:25:03,410 --> 00:25:06,850 is that David meditated upon God's faithfulness in the past. 465 00:25:07,570 --> 00:25:10,090 He says, You know thou have been my help when you remember him. 466 00:25:10,690 --> 00:25:15,170 The phrase remember you means to recall what God has said and 467 00:25:15,170 --> 00:25:18,410 done in the past and apply it to our present situation. 468 00:25:18,730 --> 00:25:20,410 Many of the Psalms talk about that. 469 00:25:20,610 --> 00:25:25,570 Psalm 7711 says, I will remember the deeds of the Lord. 470 00:25:25,970 --> 00:25:28,650 Yes, I will remember your wonders of old. 471 00:25:28,970 --> 00:25:32,410 Psalms 105, which is a history of the The children of Israel, 472 00:25:32,690 --> 00:25:35,450 says in verses one to five, Give thanks to the Lord. 473 00:25:35,450 --> 00:25:38,970 Call upon his name, make known as deeds among the people, sing 474 00:25:38,970 --> 00:25:42,730 to him, sing praises to him, Tell of his wondrous works, 475 00:25:42,970 --> 00:25:46,090 glory in his holy name. Let the hearts of those who seek 476 00:25:46,090 --> 00:25:48,890 the Lord rejoice. Seek the Lord in his strength. 477 00:25:49,090 --> 00:25:53,330 Seek his presence continually. Remember the wondrous works that 478 00:25:53,330 --> 00:25:57,250 he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered. 479 00:25:57,570 --> 00:26:03,170 And in Psalms 11955 says, I remember your name in the night, 480 00:26:03,490 --> 00:26:06,810 oh Lord, and keep your law, You know, our God is called the 481 00:26:06,810 --> 00:26:09,370 great. I am not, I was. 482 00:26:09,530 --> 00:26:12,850 But he must always be recognized in our present situations. 483 00:26:13,050 --> 00:26:15,850 And that's what David remembered him when he was in the desert, 484 00:26:15,850 --> 00:26:19,770 remembering those good times. Then he says and meditate upon 485 00:26:19,770 --> 00:26:23,330 you in the watches of the night. Now the Jews had three watches 486 00:26:23,330 --> 00:26:29,130 at night, from sunset to 10:00, from 10:00 to 2:00 and from 2:00 487 00:26:29,130 --> 00:26:31,610 to sunrise. So David saying whenever he 488 00:26:31,610 --> 00:26:34,490 awoke in the night he's going to remember the Lord. 489 00:26:35,210 --> 00:26:39,010 Now I believe I mentioned in the last two years when I talked a 490 00:26:39,010 --> 00:26:42,130 little bit about meditation, I believe the art of spiritual 491 00:26:42,130 --> 00:26:44,890 meditation has been lost by our current generation. 492 00:26:45,410 --> 00:26:49,370 Maybe it's because of our social media television or just being 493 00:26:49,370 --> 00:26:53,470 visit all our gadgets we have. But older Christians used to 494 00:26:53,470 --> 00:26:57,590 meditate upon scripture. And last summer of Psalms I told 495 00:26:57,590 --> 00:27:01,630 you if you remember take one verse write it down like today's 496 00:27:01,630 --> 00:27:04,670 verse for me was I'm in Psalms 86 today. 497 00:27:04,670 --> 00:27:09,310 So I Psalms 8611 was teach me your way, oh Lord that I may 498 00:27:09,310 --> 00:27:12,390 walk in your truth. Unite my heart to fear a name. 499 00:27:12,590 --> 00:27:14,470 That was my verse to meditate upon today. 500 00:27:14,710 --> 00:27:16,990 But why don't you just take the one that we looked at today. 501 00:27:17,510 --> 00:27:21,310 Psalm 63, verse one. Oh God, you are my God. 502 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:25,200 Earnestly I seek you my soul. Thirst for you, My flesh faints 503 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,400 for you, as in a dry and weary land where there's no water. 504 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,840 You know, if you would write that down in a on a sticky note 505 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,680 or a cue card in the morning, and you could memorize it 506 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,440 literally a minute or two by saying it five times. 507 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,840 And I bet a lot of you already haven't memorized. 508 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,200 But then you start to meditate upon it and you ask yourself, is 509 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,720 he my God? Do I talk about God like David 510 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,960 does? Do I call him my God? 511 00:27:50,420 --> 00:27:53,980 Are there any idols in my life that would prevent him from 512 00:27:53,980 --> 00:27:56,420 being my God? Do I seek him? 513 00:27:56,420 --> 00:27:58,580 Is there anything that I need to get rid of in my life that I 514 00:27:58,580 --> 00:28:04,100 would thirst for God like David did and and then has my thirst 515 00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:05,940 for God diminished since my conversion? 516 00:28:05,940 --> 00:28:08,220 You know, when someone comes to the Lord, usually they're really 517 00:28:08,220 --> 00:28:09,860 excited. They're out doing Evangeline to 518 00:28:09,860 --> 00:28:11,860 Sharon. But as the years progress, it 519 00:28:11,860 --> 00:28:14,540 seems that they they lose that love. 520 00:28:14,860 --> 00:28:19,490 Remember in Revelation chapter two and three, five of the seven 521 00:28:19,490 --> 00:28:21,970 churches, God tells them they need to repent, they need to get 522 00:28:21,970 --> 00:28:24,370 right with God and then think about it. 523 00:28:24,370 --> 00:28:26,250 What can I do to restore my relationship? 524 00:28:26,250 --> 00:28:29,370 What can I align my priorities? So you know, we'll talk more 525 00:28:29,370 --> 00:28:33,530 about meditation later, but David would meditate upon God in 526 00:28:33,530 --> 00:28:35,210 the night, and boy do we need to do that. 527 00:28:35,890 --> 00:28:38,770 He then says, You've been my help, and in the shadow of your 528 00:28:38,770 --> 00:28:44,030 wings I will sing for joy. Psalm 64 one verse 4 says, Let 529 00:28:44,030 --> 00:28:47,830 me dwell on your tent forever. Lately, let me take refuge under 530 00:28:47,830 --> 00:28:51,750 the shelter of your wings. David remembered the past and 531 00:28:51,750 --> 00:28:55,470 how God had protected him and how and it would cause him to 532 00:28:55,470 --> 00:28:58,790 sing praises in the present. When and you know when you 533 00:28:58,790 --> 00:29:02,630 meditate upon Scripture, it should lead you to sing joyous 534 00:29:02,630 --> 00:29:05,750 praises for God. The more I read the Psalms, the 535 00:29:05,750 --> 00:29:08,730 more I study the Psalms. There's been some incredible 536 00:29:08,730 --> 00:29:11,850 amount of music coming out by Sovereign Grace, Music by the 537 00:29:11,850 --> 00:29:14,690 Gettys, by City of Light, one of my favorite groups. 538 00:29:14,850 --> 00:29:17,690 There's just so much beautiful worship music out about the 539 00:29:17,690 --> 00:29:20,570 Psalms now. And so when I, when I and now 540 00:29:20,570 --> 00:29:23,970 there's even a Grace Community Church has put out a book on 541 00:29:23,970 --> 00:29:27,850 Psalms and you read the Psalm and they have maybe 1-2 or 542 00:29:27,850 --> 00:29:31,490 three, four sometimes more songs to sing with that song. 543 00:29:31,490 --> 00:29:33,410 It's wonderful what's out there now. 544 00:29:33,410 --> 00:29:36,590 But when you meditate upon the Psalms, it should lead to joyous 545 00:29:36,590 --> 00:29:38,750 praise for God. You know, when you when you. 546 00:29:39,510 --> 00:29:41,830 I was thinking about it's not necessarily a Psalm. 547 00:29:41,830 --> 00:29:45,870 But when when I was reading in John today, you know, I was 548 00:29:45,870 --> 00:29:48,350 thinking about that when I surveyed the wondrous cross. 549 00:29:48,350 --> 00:29:53,310 And you know those words there says love, so amazing, so divine 550 00:29:53,750 --> 00:29:57,430 demands. My soul, my life, my call. 551 00:29:57,590 --> 00:30:01,230 That's where David was. Let's look at he walked with God 552 00:30:01,230 --> 00:30:04,190 verse eight, he says. My soul clings to you. 553 00:30:04,990 --> 00:30:08,190 Your right hand upholds me. You know, there's a phrase. 554 00:30:08,950 --> 00:30:11,990 It says, Tim read this. We had the song tonight, right? 555 00:30:12,270 --> 00:30:15,430 God will hold fast to it. But I I've noticed in 556 00:30:15,430 --> 00:30:20,110 Deuteronomy there's this phrase hold fast to him, Deuteronomy 557 00:30:20,110 --> 00:30:25,150 4/4 says, But you who held fast to the Lord your God, are alive 558 00:30:25,150 --> 00:30:27,670 today. Deuteronomy 10/20 says you shall 559 00:30:27,670 --> 00:30:33,110 serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear 560 00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:37,580 Deuteronomy 11/22. For if you will be careful to do 561 00:30:37,580 --> 00:30:40,420 all his commandments that I command you to do, loving the 562 00:30:40,420 --> 00:30:44,260 Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to 563 00:30:44,260 --> 00:30:46,460 Him. Deuteronomy 13-4. 564 00:30:46,460 --> 00:30:49,460 You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep 565 00:30:49,460 --> 00:30:53,260 His commandments and obey His voice, and you shall serve him 566 00:30:53,540 --> 00:30:57,940 and hold fast to him. And finally, Deuteronomy 30, 567 00:30:57,940 --> 00:31:03,060 verse 20 says, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and 568 00:31:03,060 --> 00:31:06,660 holding fast to him. For he is your life and length 569 00:31:06,660 --> 00:31:11,500 of days that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to 570 00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:13,500 your father's Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 571 00:31:13,780 --> 00:31:15,140 So what does it mean to hold fast? 572 00:31:15,300 --> 00:31:17,620 It just means to stick. Stick to him. 573 00:31:18,140 --> 00:31:22,260 Israel was to clean like David saying here intimately to her 574 00:31:22,260 --> 00:31:24,980 God. David clung to God in the good 575 00:31:24,980 --> 00:31:29,010 times and now it prepares him for the bad times which he's in 576 00:31:29,010 --> 00:31:31,570 right now in this wilderness experience. 577 00:31:32,010 --> 00:31:35,690 So he walked by with God by holding fast to God. 578 00:31:35,890 --> 00:31:39,090 In the New Testament we have that verse Galatians 220 that 579 00:31:39,090 --> 00:31:41,570 says I have been crucified with Christ. 580 00:31:41,850 --> 00:31:45,650 I no longer live, but I, but Christ lives in me and the life 581 00:31:45,650 --> 00:31:49,370 I live now in the flesh. I live by faith in the Son of 582 00:31:49,370 --> 00:31:51,450 God who loved me and gave himself up for me. 583 00:31:51,450 --> 00:31:54,250 We don't live for ourselves, we live for Christ, and we need to 584 00:31:54,250 --> 00:31:57,220 cling to Him. So you know, in .1 we saw that 585 00:31:57,220 --> 00:32:00,740 David had this passion for God, and because that passion, he 586 00:32:00,740 --> 00:32:04,060 would ultimately praise God. And then in .2 we just saw that 587 00:32:04,060 --> 00:32:06,660 David would pursue God in those four ways. 588 00:32:07,060 --> 00:32:11,340 Now we're going to move to point #3, and we'll see that the the 589 00:32:11,380 --> 00:32:14,820 passion, the praise and pursuit leads to protection from God. 590 00:32:15,100 --> 00:32:19,980 So .3 how David looked for God. Now these there are many 591 00:32:19,980 --> 00:32:23,480 commentators, liberal ones of course, that don't believe 592 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:27,360 verses 910 and 11 belong with verses 1:00 to 8:00, because 593 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,480 they're not the same poetically. If you just read this verse 594 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,560 verses 1 to 8, the poetry is just incredible, even in 595 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,240 English, let alone Hebrew. But when you get the verse nine, 596 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,680 it changes. But OK, so they're commentators 597 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,520 who attack this song, but I don't believe that they are 598 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,120 different poetically. But remember what our 599 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:50,000 superscription said, right? A Psalm of David when he was in 600 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,490 the wilderness of Judah. And we've explained the extreme 601 00:32:53,490 --> 00:32:56,650 danger that David was in. So Dave is in the wilderness. 602 00:32:56,650 --> 00:33:00,770 He's fled from Absalom, you know, he's lamenting out to God. 603 00:33:00,770 --> 00:33:02,850 And finally you get the verse nine. 604 00:33:03,450 --> 00:33:06,450 We see the first indication of David's distress. 605 00:33:06,610 --> 00:33:09,170 So two points there. He looked for victory and he 606 00:33:09,170 --> 00:33:11,770 looked for vindication. So he looked for victory first. 607 00:33:12,090 --> 00:33:16,650 OK, God is on his side. Absalom is the upsurper. 608 00:33:16,650 --> 00:33:20,290 So he's looking for victory. So during this song you see 609 00:33:20,290 --> 00:33:23,970 expressions like better than life in verse three, as long as 610 00:33:23,970 --> 00:33:29,050 I live in verse four, and here in verse 9, those who seek to 611 00:33:29,050 --> 00:33:33,370 destroy my life, it reminds us of the danger that David was in, 612 00:33:33,770 --> 00:33:36,650 the danger of death. Because Absalom, even though 613 00:33:36,650 --> 00:33:39,890 David had fled Jerusalem, the situation was very dangerous. 614 00:33:41,290 --> 00:33:44,530 But you know, I think David knew here, even when he's in the 615 00:33:44,530 --> 00:33:47,350 desert that he was going to win. Because remember what happened 616 00:33:47,350 --> 00:33:50,830 in in Second Samuel 15, David's leaving Jerusalem. 617 00:33:51,270 --> 00:33:53,110 His army and soldiers are going with him. 618 00:33:53,510 --> 00:33:56,870 And the priest come Abathar and Zadit came with the Levi's and 619 00:33:56,870 --> 00:33:59,710 they brought the arc of the coming of God, and they were 620 00:33:59,710 --> 00:34:02,190 going to take the arc of the coming of God to be with David. 621 00:34:02,350 --> 00:34:04,310 But what did David do? He said no. 622 00:34:04,750 --> 00:34:07,350 He said put the arc of the coming of back where it belongs. 623 00:34:07,950 --> 00:34:10,429 He says carry the arc of God back into the city. 624 00:34:10,909 --> 00:34:15,449 If I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me back 625 00:34:15,730 --> 00:34:19,170 and let me see it both and its dwelling place. 626 00:34:19,570 --> 00:34:22,290 I know David knew he was the king and Absalom was the 627 00:34:22,290 --> 00:34:25,969 Upsurper. And David knows that his foes 628 00:34:25,969 --> 00:34:28,610 are going to be doomed. Those who would kill him would 629 00:34:28,610 --> 00:34:31,570 be doomed. Remember he said, I I know he 630 00:34:31,770 --> 00:34:34,530 had the victory, but he cried to He told Job and told the 631 00:34:34,530 --> 00:34:37,290 generals, deal gently with my son Absalom. 632 00:34:37,290 --> 00:34:40,010 Because generally what you need to do in Upsurper, you slaughter 633 00:34:40,010 --> 00:34:41,850 him, right? And Job didn't listen to David. 634 00:34:41,850 --> 00:34:43,830 He slaughtered Absolom, but David. 635 00:34:43,949 --> 00:34:47,510 David didn't have to execute his enemies, but he knew that they 636 00:34:47,510 --> 00:34:50,550 were doomed. All he had to do was ask God to 637 00:34:50,550 --> 00:34:52,630 deal with them. Well, David and the believer 638 00:34:52,630 --> 00:34:55,270 hold fast to the Lord. The wicked will be cast into the 639 00:34:55,270 --> 00:34:58,150 depths of the earth. So his foes were doomed. 640 00:34:58,590 --> 00:35:01,510 His foes were also defeated. He says they shall be given over 641 00:35:01,710 --> 00:35:05,630 to the power of the sword. When you read the story of the 642 00:35:05,630 --> 00:35:12,630 battle in 2nd Sangle 18 it says that 20,000 men of Absalom were 643 00:35:12,630 --> 00:35:15,150 killed. But when you get the verse eight 644 00:35:15,190 --> 00:35:18,950 it says and the battle was spread over the face of the 645 00:35:18,950 --> 00:35:23,630 country and the forest devoured more people that day than the 646 00:35:23,630 --> 00:35:25,710 sword. I love that verse. 647 00:35:26,310 --> 00:35:28,710 I I can't get the thought. It's like that movie, The Lord 648 00:35:28,710 --> 00:35:30,470 of the Rings, one of my favorite movies. 649 00:35:30,670 --> 00:35:33,590 And they have those ants, those three people, and they devoured 650 00:35:33,590 --> 00:35:35,270 all those people. They keep thinking about that 651 00:35:35,270 --> 00:35:37,590 when I read that verse. So more people, the forest 652 00:35:37,590 --> 00:35:40,990 devoured, more people than were killed by the sword God killed, 653 00:35:40,990 --> 00:35:44,070 more people than the soldiers killed, but the foes were 654 00:35:44,070 --> 00:35:46,550 defeated and the foes were devoured. 655 00:35:46,790 --> 00:35:49,350 The last part of verse 10 says they shall be a portion for the 656 00:35:49,350 --> 00:35:51,230 jackals. What this means is they're not 657 00:35:51,230 --> 00:35:54,600 getting the proper burial, You know, the wicked. 658 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,000 Their bodies will be left exposed to be eaten by the 659 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,560 jackals and the birds. No proper burial. 660 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,320 So then we come to the last verse here, verse 11. 661 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:07,360 David, look for vindication. But the king shall rejoice in 662 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,680 God. All who swear by him shall 663 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,800 exult, for the mouth of liars will be stopped. 664 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,080 I said I believe David knew he would win. 665 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,880 That's why he wanted them to deal gently with absolent. 666 00:36:17,470 --> 00:36:20,390 But triumph always succeeds over liars. 667 00:36:20,670 --> 00:36:23,830 Absolom lied to the people, Absolom absurd the throne. 668 00:36:23,830 --> 00:36:26,510 Absolom lied and he stole the hearts of the men. 669 00:36:26,790 --> 00:36:30,350 But ultimately he would fail. You know the Bible tells us in 670 00:36:30,350 --> 00:36:34,990 in Second Samuel and get tonight second to 19 David will go back 671 00:36:34,990 --> 00:36:38,830 to Jerusalem and it looks like he would have about another 10 672 00:36:38,830 --> 00:36:42,730 years to reign of that reign. So he was vindicated. 673 00:36:42,730 --> 00:36:45,130 He would rejoice in God. He would go back to that temple. 674 00:36:45,330 --> 00:36:48,130 He would repair, he'd go back to the Tabernacle and he would 675 00:36:48,130 --> 00:36:51,770 prepare the stones, the gold, the iron so that his son solvent 676 00:36:51,770 --> 00:36:54,930 could build the temple. He would arrange all the the 677 00:36:54,930 --> 00:36:56,930 things that would have to be done for that temple. 678 00:36:57,730 --> 00:37:01,090 So tonight just a our apple. You've seen a lot of application 679 00:37:01,090 --> 00:37:04,090 through this Psalm already but just a couple points. 680 00:37:04,090 --> 00:37:08,810 Number one, do I see God above all earthly pursuits? 681 00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:12,900 Do I desire God above all else? The Westminster Shorter 682 00:37:12,900 --> 00:37:17,820 Catechism says the chief end of man is to glorify God and to 683 00:37:17,820 --> 00:37:20,620 enjoy him forever. Do I glorify God? 684 00:37:20,820 --> 00:37:25,660 Do I enjoy him forever? You know, this Psalm 63, so much 685 00:37:25,660 --> 00:37:28,340 of what I've said just kind of dovetails everything Lance has 686 00:37:28,340 --> 00:37:30,820 been teaching recently for the last six months. 687 00:37:31,020 --> 00:37:33,660 We've had a lot of messages, I think at least eight of them on 688 00:37:33,660 --> 00:37:37,820 the church, its meaning and it's ministry, right, about loving 689 00:37:37,820 --> 00:37:40,780 God and loving the church and not being away from it. 690 00:37:40,780 --> 00:37:42,740 And and then do you remember that message? 691 00:37:42,740 --> 00:37:45,140 One of my favorite messages Lance taught was he said was do 692 00:37:45,140 --> 00:37:46,980 I adore God, Do you remember that one? 693 00:37:47,580 --> 00:37:49,340 And Lance gave us seven points there. 694 00:37:49,540 --> 00:37:51,460 There's an excitation to be with him. 695 00:37:52,020 --> 00:37:53,660 There's a proclamation about him. 696 00:37:53,660 --> 00:37:56,060 If you're excited about him, if you adore him, there's a 697 00:37:56,060 --> 00:37:59,820 meditation upon him. There's a satisfaction with God. 698 00:38:00,220 --> 00:38:03,820 There's a celebration with him, There's a presentation to him, 699 00:38:04,310 --> 00:38:05,750 and there's the appreciation of him. 700 00:38:06,190 --> 00:38:08,710 So do I seek God above all earthly pursuits. 701 00:38:08,910 --> 00:38:11,390 Our lives are to be like that of the Apostle Paul, who said in 702 00:38:11,390 --> 00:38:14,710 First Corinthians do too. But I desire to know nothing 703 00:38:14,710 --> 00:38:18,070 among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 704 00:38:18,430 --> 00:38:21,950 So I hope that when you leave here tonight, you'll have your 705 00:38:21,990 --> 00:38:25,310 Your earthly pursuits will be temporary, like the all that, 706 00:38:25,430 --> 00:38:27,870 all the Lana and Maui that burned down. 707 00:38:28,150 --> 00:38:30,630 You desire God and the number two. 708 00:38:30,630 --> 00:38:34,870 Do I spend sufficient time meditating upon the character of 709 00:38:34,870 --> 00:38:36,750 God? You know, I mentioned many 710 00:38:36,750 --> 00:38:39,110 times, there's five disciplines to scripture, right? 711 00:38:39,550 --> 00:38:41,590 And hearing the word of God is 1. 712 00:38:41,590 --> 00:38:44,430 And we do that on Sunday. But let's be honest, most people 713 00:38:44,430 --> 00:38:48,110 are going to forget 90% of the message by lunchtime unless 714 00:38:48,110 --> 00:38:50,750 you're taking good notes. So hearing the word of God is 715 00:38:50,750 --> 00:38:53,390 number 1, #2 is reading the word of God. 716 00:38:53,750 --> 00:38:56,470 And I trust the Wednesday night crowd is the choir of our 717 00:38:56,470 --> 00:38:57,710 church. You're reading God in the 718 00:38:57,710 --> 00:39:01,400 morning and having a quiet time. #3 would be studying the word of 719 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:02,680 God. You've got a help book, a 720 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,520 commentary, maybe MacArthur Bible. 721 00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:06,760 You're you're studying, what is it? 722 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,320 What does it say? Maybe reviewing the messages out 723 00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,040 there. Number four, of course, is 724 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,640 memorizing scripture. And I think we used to have 725 00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,640 Bible, Bible, memory, association. 726 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,080 We used to have to memorize one verse a day. 727 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,480 And if we did it for I can't remember how many weeks we got 728 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,680 to go to summer camp. I don't know if they still do 729 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,000 that anymore. But you know, we're lucky if we 730 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,560 can get our kids to memorize one verse a week, But #4 is 731 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,000 memorizing and the number 5 meditating. 732 00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:36,520 So I mentioned briefly about meditating, but meditating upon 733 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,760 scripture is is a lost art, I mentioned. 734 00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:42,320 And it used to be when we didn't have all the social media, all 735 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,600 the sporting events, all the things going on. 736 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:49,480 And I remember 23 years ago I thought something like that 737 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,880 right before I went to India, there was a man in our church 738 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,780 named Omar. Have you any graduate from the 739 00:39:55,780 --> 00:39:58,500 master seminary and began a church at somewhere out in the 740 00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:00,500 Riverside. But he taught a sunny school 741 00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:04,180 class right before I left to go to India and I think maybe Gil 742 00:40:04,180 --> 00:40:08,020 Martha remember that class. Basically it was a follow up 743 00:40:08,020 --> 00:40:11,580 from Doctor Ruska about how to pray one of the professors at 744 00:40:11,580 --> 00:40:15,460 the master seminary and it was an hour prayer and you had a 745 00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:18,380 chart. You would pray 5 minutes on this 746 00:40:18,380 --> 00:40:22,140 particular 5 minutes for this, 5 minutes for that five, and you 747 00:40:22,140 --> 00:40:26,260 went through one hour of prayer. And I took that to India because 748 00:40:26,260 --> 00:40:28,740 when I went to India, you know, I didn't have a wife, I didn't 749 00:40:28,740 --> 00:40:31,700 have a daughter, I didn't have a ministry because the pastor that 750 00:40:31,700 --> 00:40:35,060 I was going to work with was in Manapor and I couldn't go there. 751 00:40:35,060 --> 00:40:39,340 So he said stay in Syligori, work, stay there for six months, 752 00:40:39,340 --> 00:40:41,740 I'm coming learn the language, you know. 753 00:40:41,740 --> 00:40:45,100 But so I show up, I'm, I'm living in a missionary's house. 754 00:40:45,100 --> 00:40:47,970 Who's not Who's home in America? You know, I don't know the food. 755 00:40:47,970 --> 00:40:49,530 I don't know anything. I don't know how to cook 756 00:40:49,530 --> 00:40:51,130 anymore. Finally realized that I need a 757 00:40:51,130 --> 00:40:53,130 wife. But what was it was the most 758 00:40:53,130 --> 00:40:56,730 special time of my life, because every morning I would get up and 759 00:40:56,730 --> 00:41:00,290 I'd go through that prayer for one hour and I would sing songs. 760 00:41:00,290 --> 00:41:02,450 That was one of the best times of my life. 761 00:41:02,850 --> 00:41:06,490 And and by the way, at that exact time, Lance was preaching 762 00:41:06,490 --> 00:41:09,530 in Genesis 24, how to choose a wife. 763 00:41:10,010 --> 00:41:11,930 Now I left. He only had three of the 764 00:41:11,930 --> 00:41:14,180 messages done. And so I had to wait to get 765 00:41:14,180 --> 00:41:17,500 message for, but I I relisten to those cassettes is what we had 766 00:41:17,500 --> 00:41:19,820 then. But that was a special time 767 00:41:19,820 --> 00:41:24,180 because I had sufficient time to meditate upon God and marriage 768 00:41:24,180 --> 00:41:27,260 and all the things of the Bible. And that's what I want to get 769 00:41:27,260 --> 00:41:29,180 back to. That's what I want you to get 770 00:41:29,180 --> 00:41:31,900 back to. You know, today, you know, we 771 00:41:31,900 --> 00:41:35,540 have that saying I'm busier than A1 arm wallpaper hanger, got a 772 00:41:35,540 --> 00:41:38,260 wife, got a kid, got a ministry doing this, doing that. 773 00:41:38,260 --> 00:41:41,260 But remember the song Take time to be holy. 774 00:41:42,010 --> 00:41:46,570 Speak off with the Lord, Abide in him always, and feed upon his 775 00:41:46,570 --> 00:41:48,970 word. Make friends with God's 776 00:41:48,970 --> 00:41:50,970 children. Help those who are weak, 777 00:41:51,410 --> 00:41:54,410 forgetting in nothing. His blessing to seek. 778 00:41:54,970 --> 00:41:56,850 Verse two says, Take time to be holy. 779 00:41:57,010 --> 00:42:01,530 The world rushes on. Spend much time in secret with 780 00:42:01,690 --> 00:42:04,650 Jesus alone by looking to Jesus like him. 781 00:42:04,650 --> 00:42:07,850 Thou shall be thy friends in thy conduct. 782 00:42:08,050 --> 00:42:12,830 His likeness shall see. I'm going to pledge myself to 783 00:42:12,830 --> 00:42:17,150 spend more time meditating upon God and less time upon the 784 00:42:17,150 --> 00:42:19,550 Dodgers and all the other things in the world that are out there. 785 00:42:20,270 --> 00:42:25,030 And #3 do I cling to God, and do I depend upon his power to 786 00:42:25,030 --> 00:42:28,190 uphold me? You know we need to stay so 787 00:42:28,190 --> 00:42:32,990 close to God that no sin can get between us and God or us and 788 00:42:32,990 --> 00:42:35,550 Jesus. We need to spend time alone with 789 00:42:35,550 --> 00:42:39,030 God in the word of God and prayer and cling to God. 790 00:42:39,660 --> 00:42:42,260 You know, we are all going to have wilderness experiences. 791 00:42:42,260 --> 00:42:44,660 Maybe you've had them, Maybe you're over them. 792 00:42:44,980 --> 00:42:47,900 Maybe you're going through that wilderness experience now, and 793 00:42:47,900 --> 00:42:49,700 maybe you haven't had it. But it will happen in the 794 00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:52,500 future. And I trust, like David and 795 00:42:52,500 --> 00:42:56,820 Psalm 63, it will drive you into the arms of our Savior and our 796 00:42:56,820 --> 00:43:01,260 God the Father. Psalm 63 has taught people for 797 00:43:01,260 --> 00:43:05,020 centuries how we should deal with ourselves when we find 798 00:43:05,020 --> 00:43:07,700 ourselves in a wilderness situation. 799 00:43:07,700 --> 00:43:09,740 So I hope that you will cling to God. 800 00:43:10,180 --> 00:43:13,380 I hope that you will spend more time meditating upon God. 801 00:43:13,900 --> 00:43:17,020 And I hope that you will seek God above all earthly pursuits. 802 00:43:18,180 --> 00:43:21,700 May you leave here tonight saying, oh God, you are my God. 803 00:43:22,460 --> 00:43:26,620 Earnestly I seek you, my soul thirst for you, my flesh faints 804 00:43:26,620 --> 00:43:30,460 for you, as in a dry and worry land where there is no water. 805 00:43:31,020 --> 00:43:33,150 Let's break. Father, may we leave here 806 00:43:33,150 --> 00:43:36,110 tonight, thirsting for you the living water. 807 00:43:36,710 --> 00:43:39,310 The Holy Spirit has given us living water if we have Jesus 808 00:43:39,310 --> 00:43:41,630 Christ and you. But Father, we can get 809 00:43:41,630 --> 00:43:44,270 distracted like the churches and revelation. 810 00:43:44,470 --> 00:43:47,150 We can get busy now that we're married, now that we have kids, 811 00:43:47,150 --> 00:43:50,350 now that we have jobs, now that we have ministry, and sometimes 812 00:43:50,350 --> 00:43:52,710 that that relationship you is lacking. 813 00:43:53,070 --> 00:43:55,390 We don't spend time talking to you in prayer. 814 00:43:55,750 --> 00:43:58,230 We don't spend enough time studying your scriptures and 815 00:43:58,230 --> 00:44:00,350 growing and knowledge of who you are. 816 00:44:00,990 --> 00:44:03,870 And we need to spend more time just meditating upon what you 817 00:44:03,870 --> 00:44:06,430 have done. The miracles of the past and the 818 00:44:06,430 --> 00:44:08,390 Old Testament. The miracles in the New 819 00:44:08,390 --> 00:44:10,670 Testament. Father, may we leave here 820 00:44:10,670 --> 00:44:15,950 tonight trying to do more and more thirsting for you like a 821 00:44:16,150 --> 00:44:18,310 dying man in the desert. Thirst for water. 822 00:44:18,310 --> 00:44:20,630 May we thirst for the living water more and more. 823 00:44:21,310 --> 00:44:23,550 We ask this in Jesus name. Amen.