1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:06,840 All right, today's Scripture is found in Psalm chapter 116. 2 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:12,520 If you're using one of the Bibles and around your chair, 3 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:24,600 that's found on page 478. Psalm 116 says I love the Lord 4 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:29,160 because He has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy, because 5 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,439 He inclined His ear to me. Therefore I will call on Him as 6 00:00:32,439 --> 00:00:36,040 long as I live. The snares of death encompass 7 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,960 me. The pangs of Sheol laid hold of 8 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,480 me. I suffered distress and anguish. 9 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:43,680 Then I called on the name of the Lord. 10 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:50,000 O Lord, I pray deliver my soul. Gracious is the Lord, and 11 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,360 righteous. Our God is merciful. 12 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:58,120 The Lord preserves the simple When I was brought low, He saved 13 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,120 me. Return, O my soul, to your rest, 14 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,440 for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. 15 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:09,080 For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, 16 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,160 my feet from stumbling. I will walk before the Lord in 17 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,920 the land of the living. I believed even when I spoke. 18 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,000 I am greatly afflicted. I set in my alarm. 19 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,560 All mankind are liars. What shall I render to the Lord 20 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:28,640 for all His benefits to me? I will lift up the cup of 21 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,720 salvation and call on the name of the Lord. 22 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,600 I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all His 23 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,360 people. Precious in the sight of the 24 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:43,040 Lord is the death of His Saints. O Lord, I am your servant. 25 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:46,680 I am your servant, the son of Your maidservant. 26 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,600 You have loosed my bonds. I will offer to you the 27 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,080 sacrifice of Thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord. 28 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,600 I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his 29 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,920 people in the courts of the House of the Lord. 30 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:06,520 In your midst, O Jerusalem, praise the Lord, this is God's 31 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,840 word. What's going on? 32 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,000 Port City family and friends, how are we doing? 33 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:16,440 Good. My name is Tanner. 34 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,360 I'm one of the pastors here. Glad to be with you. 35 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:23,080 It is middle of the summer. I just want to remind you, in 36 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:27,920 one month life is back. Like as a regular, all the stuff 37 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,280 and just a reminder that just extended time off vacations, all 38 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:36,280 the good things that we get to do in the summer do not make you 39 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,880 rest. They don't actually change who 40 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:40,040 you're going to be in about a month. 41 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:44,880 So just an exhortation, maybe what you need is a is a good 42 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:45,960 book. Maybe what you need is a 43 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,360 conversation with a friend or a pastor here at Port City or to 44 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,440 get to know somebody else in the congregation and just connect 45 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,360 with someone. Because it could be tempting to 46 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,760 increase your sleep, increase your your vegging and all those 47 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:59,400 things during the summer. Sometimes you just got to 48 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,240 remember that really don't help us here in about a month. 49 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,040 OK, So just a reminder, those things are good. 50 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,240 Enjoy the good food, enjoy the the weather, the pool, all that 51 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,000 stuff, but grab some good content, grab some friends in 52 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,440 this room and and that actually changes us and what we really 53 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,840 need here in about four weeks. Does that sound good? 54 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,920 OK, what I want to do is I want to pray one more time over Psalm 55 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:22,440 116 and we going to get after it quickly. 56 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:28,520 OK Almighty God, thank you, thank you, thank you Lord for 57 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:29,760 your word. God, we need it. 58 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:31,920 We are so desperate for your word. 59 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:36,880 We're hungry and God, I just confess in my own heart, God, we 60 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:40,280 just know how to go through the church rhythm and listen and and 61 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,600 hear the things and do the things and we know the right 62 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,080 answers. But God, I just pray by your 63 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,360 mercy would help us to listen in a deeper way. 64 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,160 God, you would help our hearts to receive. 65 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,200 God, you would challenge us where we need to be challenged. 66 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:52,800 You would humble us where we're proud. 67 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:54,720 You would strengthen us where we're weak. 68 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,880 You convict us where we're just blind. 69 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,920 So God, just just meet us now, please, by the power of the Holy 70 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,040 Spirit, we pray. Amen, y'all. 71 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:06,320 I'm gonna start real with you all this week. 72 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:12,880 Honestly, what does Jesus's death have to do with your life 73 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,800 tomorrow, Right? Like what does it have to do 74 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,200 with me? Many people for many years can 75 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,760 sit in church services and know that God died for them. 76 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,200 God loves me, but I'm jealous of that person whose life is going 77 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,600 better than me. And there can be a settling into 78 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:36,520 your spirit, a disappointment, discontentment, disgruntled. 79 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:39,920 Just. I'm just frustrated. 80 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,680 My life has not gone how I wanted it to go. 81 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:47,840 It's not going right. I felt that. 82 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,600 OK. And the reason I'm being real 83 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:52,640 with you to start was we're about to read what's known as a 84 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:56,920 deliverance song. OK, so the psalmist is going to 85 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,080 take us to the other side of Deliverance. 86 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,480 Think if you know your Bibles, think after Jonah gets spit out 87 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:05,360 that type Psalm and he's like talking about how good God is. 88 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,720 And she almost got me in. I was almost gone, but you saved 89 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:10,920 me. And it just sounds amazing. 90 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,920 Or it sounds amazing for some people to you and you don't 91 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,120 think it applies to you, and it just adds another layer of this 92 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,800 sounds good and I'm supposed to say that, and I know those 93 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:25,960 answers, but I don't actually think that speaks for me. 94 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,520 Remember, the goal of the Psalms is for them to go from speaking 95 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,520 to you to speaking for you, right? 96 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:35,080 That's the goal. They're speaking to us when we 97 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,760 read them, but the goal is that they become an expression of our 98 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:42,400 heart to God, not just information I'm receiving from 99 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:43,320 God. Does that make sense? 100 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:48,200 The Psalms are the one genre of Scripture that aren't teaching 101 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:51,120 you as much as they're speaking for you. 102 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:57,040 OK, Does that make sense? OK, so here's what I want to 103 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,840 tell you is that everybody in this room at some level is 104 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:01,560 struggling with the fact that life is hard. 105 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,080 We compare. We're going to have to be real 106 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,840 about that here today. I need you to be real, and 107 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:11,080 that's OK. But my prayer is that by the 108 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,760 end, like the psalmist, you can say I've been delivered. 109 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,760 I know you feel in your body right now where you want God to 110 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,240 deliver you. You're conscious of where you 111 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,200 need him to show up. And that's good. 112 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:25,160 And we're going to talk about that. 113 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:29,440 But I hope you leave convinced, as the psalmist is, that God has 114 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,280 delivered you. Does that make sense? 115 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,320 And we're gripped by that, and it shapes how we walk with God. 116 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:39,000 But I hope that's real and not just something, you know, to say 117 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:41,720 that makes sense. So here's how we're going to 118 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:45,120 take this point #1 is a vision of deliverance. 119 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,960 We're going to see the other side of what the psalmist now 120 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:50,440 says in light of what's happened. 121 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,360 Then we're going to talk about what keeps us stuck from ever 122 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,240 experiencing life the way the psalmist is talking about it. 123 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:59,880 And then we're going to talk about where do we go from here? 124 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,160 Does that sound good? If you're ready, let me hear you 125 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:04,520 say I'm ready. All right, let's talk about a 126 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:10,520 vision of deliverance, y'all. So the psalmist again, imagine 127 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:14,480 like just just it happened. They cried out and the Lord 128 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,720 answered, OK, the deliverance has occurred. 129 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:23,200 So what I want to do is walk through 4 marks of a delivered 130 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,720 life. So once delivered, what is this 131 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:27,640 life marked by? What does it look like? 132 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:30,000 What does it feel like, tastes like, sound like when you've 133 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,760 been delivered, how do you live 4 marks? 134 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,120 OK, Mark, number one is response. 135 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,320 People who've been delivered live in response to that 136 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,960 deliverance. Look again with me at verse one. 137 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:49,840 I love the Lord because He has heard my voice and my pleas for 138 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:51,480 mercy. It's happened. 139 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:57,080 I love Him because He did. He heard me verse 2 because He 140 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:02,960 inclined His ear to me. Therefore, I will call on the 141 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:06,560 name as long as I live. Verse 3 the snares of death 142 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:08,800 encompass me. The pangs of Sheol laid hold on 143 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,080 me. I suffered distress and anguish. 144 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:12,840 Then I called on the name of the Lord. 145 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:17,800 O Lord, I pray deliver my soul gracious of the Lord and 146 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:19,160 righteous. Our God is merciful. 147 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,400 The Lord preserves the simple when I was brought low, he saved 148 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:26,800 me. So do we see how the the posture 149 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,440 of the Psalm is responding to that deliverance. 150 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,240 See, I'll see that like it's a a recounting. 151 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,159 This is what happened. OK, It's, it's David, Psalm 18. 152 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:39,120 If you want to write that one down, very similar where David 153 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,760 is in a cave and Saul could have killed him and at the last 154 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,800 minute something happened and Saul has to leave and David 155 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,080 writes Psalm 18. It's kind of this idea of like, 156 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,400 I was gone, I was done, I was dead, but I'm not I'm good like 157 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:52,920 I'm free. Praise the Lord or Jonah. 158 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,680 He says the, the, the I was snared up. 159 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:57,640 She'll was grabbing me, pulling me. 160 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:01,160 And then the Lord answered, it's that kind of posture. 161 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,480 And over and over we see the psalmist saying because you did, 162 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:07,080 I will because you showed up, I live. 163 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,040 Because that happened, this is how I'm going to live now. 164 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,920 OK, So what got into the psalmist is a settled posture 165 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:18,640 that life moving forward is a response to what has occurred. 166 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:25,240 OK, so there's ongoing posture towards the Lord, still 167 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,680 expecting, still asking as we're going to talk about. 168 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:31,560 There's still stuff the psalmist wants God to do, OK, But there's 169 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:34,960 a settled posture that everything from here on out is a 170 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:36,080 response to what you've already done. 171 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:39,560 It's over. That is settled, will never be 172 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:42,880 undone in that heart. Does that make sense There? 173 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,240 There's other things that they want God to do. 174 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,640 David would be in another cave. Saul would chase him down again, 175 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:50,360 right? But there's this sense that 176 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,680 because of what you did, I'm never going to look at you like 177 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:56,840 you don't care about me. I'm never going to come with 178 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:00,040 that posture of you don't. You don't have my best interest 179 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,920 at heart. This settles who you are to me, 180 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:05,840 and now I will expect you to be that. 181 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,440 Yes, because you've been it. But it's settled. 182 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,400 Does that make sense? I don't know. 183 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,560 If you ever talk to somebody whose mind is just made-up. 184 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:15,800 They're unshakable. OK. 185 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,360 I remember the first time. And if you have not experienced 186 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:22,840 this ice cream, that's OK. But I remember when I had 187 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:24,240 Jenny's ice cream. Anybody. 188 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,200 I was in Georgia on a trip. See. 189 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:28,960 See. See. 190 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,200 I'm right. And I ate it. 191 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:35,280 I was just like, what is this? I've never tasted anything like 192 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,760 this. And other people, they tell me 193 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:39,000 they're little, you know, they're. 194 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,400 I respect you. I believe that you think that's 195 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,640 better than Jenny's, but it's not 'cause it's settled in me, 196 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:47,400 you know what I mean? Like it's settled. 197 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:49,760 So there, there's things about there. 198 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,880 You live settled on certain things, right? 199 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,200 You do it all the time. What the psalmist is saying, 200 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:00,880 something has happened. God responded, God acted, I was 201 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:02,240 done. God did it. 202 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,880 It's settled that I trust him. It's settled that I'm going to 203 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:07,680 him. It's settled that He's good. 204 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,240 So watch this. What happens to me does not 205 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:16,160 dictate who I view him as. You see how that works once it's 206 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:19,200 settled. These settled interprets what's 207 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,560 unsettling instead of the unsettling. 208 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,680 Interpreting who he is. Now. 209 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:30,240 Who he is shapes what happens instead of what happens tells me 210 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,840 who he is. You see how backwards that is, 211 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:37,280 how important that is. Once it's settled, your life is 212 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:41,240 just so much easier. So I just want to invite you to 213 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:45,760 a life of response, a life that is responding to what God has 214 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:48,160 done. And just one question as we 215 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,840 continue to walk through the Psalm is, can you sing this 216 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:55,560 right now and mean it? Not because you know you're 217 00:11:55,560 --> 00:12:00,160 supposed to, but does your soul sing this song right now? 218 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:05,720 Has God done enough? And if part of you, as I'm 219 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:08,640 saying that is wondering what has God done that would settle 220 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:11,480 it for me? Hang on to that. 221 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:15,280 Like I hope by the end you know what God has done that would 222 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:20,000 settle it for you. Second thing a delivered life is 223 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,240 marked by is just Godwardness. A Godwardness. 224 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:29,280 Verse 9 says this. I will walk before the Lord in 225 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,480 the land of the living. Like this image of like life now 226 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,120 is walking before God's face. It's walking in light of who God 227 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,200 is. Verses 12 through 14, what shall 228 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,920 I render to the Lord for all his benefits to me? 229 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:47,600 I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name 230 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,560 of the Lord. I will pay my vows to the Lord 231 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:51,880 in the presence of all His people. 232 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,280 It's just this image that all of life is about God. 233 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,880 Everything I do, I belong to him. 234 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,840 I'm yours. Scholars talk about this, this 235 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,120 imagery here between the lifting up the cup. 236 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,240 I know we don't really use that that language, but it's this 237 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:08,920 idea. Here's all that God's done to me 238 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,960 in this cup and lifting it up is just like just bringing it back 239 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:14,800 to God is like, dude, you're awesome. 240 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:16,600 Like it's it's in our vernacular. 241 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,360 It's kind of like toast, toast to the king type thing, but not 242 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:22,520 in a like I just made a three shout out to the Lord type way, 243 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,960 even though that's not wrong. Don't hate on them athletes. 244 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:26,840 It's it's never bad that they do that. 245 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:31,960 It's that they only do that. Amen somebody so so it's lifting 246 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,320 up all that he is and just just in the public assembly just 247 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,280 being like God. That's who you are like this is 248 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:39,040 you and it's saying I belong to you. 249 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,280 Life is yours. I I'm living God word. 250 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:46,280 What that means is all of life becomes about him. 251 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:51,640 All of it. It's not about your boss. 252 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,680 It's not about your spouse, it's not about your kids. 253 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:00,440 It's not about your friends, your neighbors, it's now the God 254 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,320 word. Life plays itself out in those 255 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:05,760 places, with your spouse, with your kids. 256 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,680 But because it's first and foremost about God, what you do 257 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:11,520 is dictated by who He is, not who they are. 258 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:13,640 I love my spouse 'cause God tells me to. 259 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:18,480 Because if I need them to be what my flesh dictates as 260 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:20,400 loving, there will be a time I won't do that. 261 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:22,680 Same with my kids. Same with my boss. 262 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:26,560 I, you know, I'm always tempted to gossip and all the things, 263 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:29,920 but the reason I don't is that life is God word. 264 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,200 It's not about them. It's not about the stakes of 265 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,560 what could happen to me if this happens or this or that or that. 266 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:36,200 I don't do that calculus anymore. 267 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:37,880 Does that make sense? That's kind of the idea. 268 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:42,200 Life is so God word. It's so living before Him that 269 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:45,920 it just ain't about those people as much. 270 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:48,160 And it just, it just, you see how that just chills you out a 271 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,960 little bit between life being a response and then it being a God 272 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,480 word, walking before the Lord in the land of the living. 273 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:57,600 When I do my job, when I wash the dishes, when I do anything, 274 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:59,920 I'm doing it unto the Lord. I ain't doing it for you. 275 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:03,040 There's a difference between doing your dishes so that your 276 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:06,600 wife will appreciate you and doing them because you love God. 277 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:10,720 You know what I mean? Like it's just everything, just 278 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:12,680 the edge just turns off just a little bit. 279 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:15,800 But I don't take this test so I can have a better grade than 280 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,000 that person and get into a better school than that person. 281 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,360 I take it because I care about the people I'm going to serve 282 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,320 through this job one day. It just, it just changes life. 283 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,840 So here's a question for you. Does life consistently feel like 284 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:33,640 it's between you and God? Or does it constantly feel like 285 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:35,440 it's others? And you got to remind yourself 286 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:41,760 God's even a part of it. 3rd mark of a delivered life is 287 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:45,400 trust, trust. Hopefully you picked up on this 288 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,920 phrase calling on the name of the Lord. 289 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,880 Hopefully you saw that. We see it in verse 2, verse four 290 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,520 and then 12 and 13. It says because he inclined his 291 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:58,120 ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. 292 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:02,240 Verse 2, verse 4, then I called on the name of the Lord. 293 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,280 Oh Lord, I pray, deliver my soul. 294 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:07,840 And then verse 12 says what shall render to the Lord for all 295 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:12,080 his benefits to me, I will lift up the cup of salvation and call 296 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:15,800 on the name of the Lord. You know this phrase, calling on 297 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,640 the name of the Lord in our vernacular is prayer. 298 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,480 But the second I do that, we got it, we got to. 299 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,040 I actually think calling on the name of the Lord might be even 300 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:28,040 more helpful if all of you've ever thought of is prayer. 301 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:29,960 OK. I think some of us relate to 302 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:34,000 prayer, the way people throw pennies in a wishing well. 303 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:39,880 Hope this works and just launching it just boom, we're 304 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,840 just throwing dreams up at the Lord and I know you love me and 305 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:44,280 just just maybe one of these will hit. 306 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,120 I'm just being honest. Like I think we we we we're just 307 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:51,200 throwing darts a little bit. And he told me to ask and not 308 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,640 all that's bad by the way, like that being the posture of like 309 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,240 you don't know and God tells you to ask and but I want to give 310 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:01,560 you the image of calling on the name of the Lord. 311 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:06,560 Y'all what the Bible means by that is the name that has 312 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:11,319 delivered me the name this person, this this God who showed 313 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:15,839 up this God who brought me out of a this God who delivered me. 314 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,440 That's who he is. His name is delivered. 315 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:23,240 That's who he is. So he delivered the psalmist so 316 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:25,520 that the psalmist would call on that name. 317 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:28,960 That makes sense. So like we think a prayer, like 318 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:33,080 just ask and I think ask is still probably one of the best 319 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,080 synonyms for prayer, but calling on the name is like grabbing 320 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:40,560 hold of the character of the person revealed to you and 321 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:43,760 begging them to be that name in the next situation. 322 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:47,480 Does that make sense? It's a casting oneself upon the 323 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,520 name. It's grabbing hold of. 324 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:52,840 It's it's what we see in the Gospels with with Jesus, you 325 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,120 know, like if we could and we're going to do a series later this 326 00:17:55,120 --> 00:17:58,040 fall in the book of Matthew, chapters 8 and 9 and we're going 327 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,760 to see it people just throwing themselves upon that's calling 328 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:05,000 on the name. It's I you were that to them be 329 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:10,120 it now it's not a wish. It's not a coin in a well, hope 330 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:14,200 you're having a good day, Lord hope you're in a good mood. 331 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:18,680 Throw this out there. It's it's casting yourself upon 332 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,000 him to be who he's shown himself to be. 333 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:26,640 And you so trust the name that you're OK if it doesn't happen. 334 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:31,440 And at the same time you're not calculated and getting him off 335 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,480 the hook if he doesn't. You're just throwing yourself. 336 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,680 You're calling upon the name. You're casting yourself upon 337 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:37,760 this. God, you care. 338 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,720 Kids are so good at this when they say the words you said, can 339 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:43,600 I have a popsicle after dinner at 2:00 PM? 340 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:48,160 You're like sure. 7:49 PM when you want them in bed. 341 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:52,440 Can I have that popsicle? No, but you said, but you said 342 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:55,880 they're calling on the name, man. 343 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:00,040 That's what they doing. They holding you to what you 344 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:05,480 said and what you did and they're holding you to yourself. 345 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:09,680 You see that they're calling on the name that that that's not a 346 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:12,560 bad image, y'all? I think many have issued up 347 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:14,840 thousands of prayers and never called on the name. 348 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:20,400 You see how that's different? Like we can say prayers and not 349 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:25,880 be calling on the name of God, like pulling His character and 350 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,480 His essence into it. And I'm just going to be honest, 351 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,880 it takes time. It takes. 352 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,720 It's not just like I do this y'all. 353 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:35,840 This is not bad. I've got a list of the stuff I 354 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:37,760 want God to do and I ask Him for them often. 355 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:39,440 How often am I calling on the name? 356 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,880 I don't know. The Lord will tell me one day, 357 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,480 but I just want to invite you to call on the name. 358 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:46,720 And again, the question is, what name? 359 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,760 And that's part of why we don't 'cause we don't know the name, 360 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:53,840 you know. OK, last mark of a delivered 361 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,520 life is rest. Rest. 362 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,520 Look at verse seven. Look at verse 7. 363 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:07,880 Return, O my soul, to your rest, for the Lord has dealt 364 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:12,440 bountifully with you. Y'all this image of the 365 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:15,520 Psalmist. No longer recounting what 366 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,400 happened and talking about God, but looking inward and saying 367 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:24,320 soul you good rest. Isn't it amazing? 368 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:27,960 For all that God had done? If the psalmist does not speak 369 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:32,160 to himself about the activity of God, the soul is still 370 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,840 scrambling. Isn't that amazing, even the 371 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,440 activity of God? God has designed us in such a 372 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,240 way that the activity alone doesn't rest you. 373 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,600 Isn't that crazy? You play a role in your own 374 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,600 rest. You've got to look at yourself 375 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,960 and say self, God has been good to you. 376 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:53,280 Rest, return to your rest. I love that image. 377 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,480 You don't purchase the rest, you receive it and return to it. 378 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,000 You don't have to pave the way, return to it. 379 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:04,040 So God has paved it for you. You just got to return to it. 380 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,000 Psalm 16's another one. Go read that. 381 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,080 There's this image of of the lines have fallen for me in 382 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,160 pleasant places. I wonder if you would say that. 383 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,320 I think what we tend to have is the list of ways that things are 384 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,200 not going the way they should. If God loved me. 385 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:22,800 So yeah, we got to talk to ourselves. 386 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:27,560 Y'all. Is rest defining your life like 387 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:29,880 just under the hood? I'm not talking vacation. 388 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,800 I'm talking as you do what you do day in and day out. 389 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,520 If we pull up the hood of the souls, it just rest. 390 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:40,640 Or is it scrambling? Is it just an utter frenetic 391 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,520 activity to feel like you matter, to reach the next thing, 392 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:46,960 to reach the next goal, to become a somebody, to feel 393 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,840 valid, to get what you feel like you need to be OK? 394 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:53,920 OK, so those are the four marks. Response, governance, trust, and 395 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:58,080 rest of a life post deliverance. Let's talk about what keeps us 396 00:21:58,080 --> 00:21:59,920 stuck. And I got to speed up a little 397 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:05,480 bit #1 hardship, y'all. Life is so hard. 398 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,720 It just is. It really is. 399 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:17,800 Terrible things happen, awful things and your families and 400 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,200 normal stuff. We've seen things we shouldn't 401 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,120 have seen that we were never designed to see. 402 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,160 Things don't change. You beg for them to change and 403 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:27,840 they don't. We get disappointed and we just 404 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,440 get grinded down. Life just grinds us down. 405 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:35,920 It's hard. And in that moment when your 406 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:40,560 dreams are not coming true, good things, and when hard things are 407 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:42,280 happening, you're just getting grinded. 408 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,640 And then you read a Psalm like this and it can feel insincere. 409 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,120 How can I sing this? How can I say God has delivered 410 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:52,400 me? How can that be my focus when 411 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:58,280 all I see is pain? When all I see is bad stuff? 412 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:02,760 For every moment of deliverance, there's a what feels like a 413 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,240 longer set of are you kidding me? 414 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,720 Are you actually kidding me? Moments, Right. 415 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:08,280 Is that not the world we live in? 416 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,240 If there's deliverance moments and then there's are you kidding 417 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,920 me moments over and over and over. 418 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,720 So please hear me saying I got my list of are you kidding me? 419 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,480 Please hear that. I'm not trying to say that if 420 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,200 you don't, if you have a list of complaints or if you have a list 421 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,320 of frustrations that's somehow antithetical to what the Bible 422 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,040 teaches, I would say that lamenting is a form of calling 423 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,200 on the name. Lamenting is a way to call on 424 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:37,880 the name. Go look up Psalm 88. 425 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,480 It's a great one. Put that in your in your list of 426 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,360 things to do after the sermon of just crying to God. 427 00:23:44,360 --> 00:23:47,440 And again, I would say many of us have a list of issues with 428 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:52,200 God, but we're not calling on His name and lament. 429 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,680 I think we just have a list of frustrations and I don't like 430 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,600 it. And I've been there. 431 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,960 I would, I would say if you're in pain, call on the name. 432 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:06,280 When in pain, call on His name. What can happen through hardship 433 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,600 is your eye shift from the deliverance to the pain. 434 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,600 And it's not that the pain is invalid, it's just 435 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,720 disproportionately big. Does that make sense? 436 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,000 And then all of a sudden the deliverance feels like, well, I 437 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,200 know he did that, but what about X? 438 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,680 And the jump to the X is so quick, Does that make sense? 439 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,840 Second thing that keeps us stuck, comparison. 440 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:36,760 We do this, we do this, we do this subconsciously, directly 441 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:40,560 all the time. Y'all the the the stats around 442 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:46,640 the 2006 to 2008 window of young women 12 to 18 and mental health 443 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,880 since the the the introduction of the iPhone are insane. 444 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:55,240 Go look at the likelihood to have suicidal thoughts images. 445 00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:59,880 The ways that the phones have shaped young people's ability to 446 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:04,080 be happy is staggering. And it's not just them, it's 447 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,520 adults. It's just a microcosm. 448 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,040 What we're all struggling with, which is we've always struggled 449 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,680 with comparison, and now we have a device that allows us to do 450 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,640 it. From the second you wake up to 451 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,280 look at a life that is better than yours and what happens in 452 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:24,040 comparison, OK, is you begin to think these people get to have 453 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:28,040 their cake and eat it too. They get the Lord. 454 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,760 Plus I just got to settle for this. 455 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,520 They get their dreams coming true and I don't seriously. 456 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,600 And you read a song like this and you're like, must be nice, 457 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,800 must be nice and you're just frustrated. 458 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:44,280 And y'all, we all do this kids behavior. 459 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:49,920 We compare spouses and how great their marriage looks or how they 460 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,680 treat them. The career stuff just keeps 461 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,320 going right for that joker. They get so many opportunities, 462 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:02,800 ministry sizes, their body. They can do whatever they want 463 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,320 and just look however they want. You know they're friends. 464 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,280 Why do people like them? I'm trying so hard to be a good 465 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,480 friend. Nobody likes me, guys. 466 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,920 We compare everything all the time and it's almost more like 467 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,640 an undercurrent just gnawing at us. 468 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,600 And when you add the hardship in there, we're just so angry. 469 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:25,240 And you're the last thing for that person who is stuck in 470 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,400 that. The last thing your soul can do 471 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:32,080 is rest Can't. Feels like rest is always a 472 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:34,720 luxury for those who are getting their dreams. 473 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,080 Not for me. Feels like rest is impossible. 474 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,600 We miss rest through control and apathy. 475 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,600 I'm going to get my goals so I can rest. 476 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,240 Once I get X I'll rest or we quit. 477 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,080 So either go hard to get it and then I can rest or we quit 478 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:51,880 because I'll never get it. They're going to get it. 479 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:56,040 So we we lean into detaching depression kind of paradigm or 480 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,680 we lean into heroism. And I could do it. 481 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,960 Just watch. But you ain't resting. 482 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,800 Your eyes shift from the deliverance you've received to 483 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,560 the deliverance you haven't but others have. 484 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:14,920 OK, third reason we say suck that both of these kind of point 485 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,160 to is we just misunderstand our biggest need. 486 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:22,200 The miss behind the misses in those first 2 is that we begin 487 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:27,360 to think God has not done enough for me. 488 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:32,040 God must do. We begin to think what God needs 489 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,200 to do is bigger than anything he's done and what He's done is 490 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:36,920 great. I know he did X. 491 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,320 That's great, but I need him to do why or he doesn't give a RIP 492 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,760 about me. And what can happen is we're 493 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:50,120 just so angry and frustrated and y'all this, this is the truth. 494 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,480 God has already done more than we need him to do. 495 00:27:54,920 --> 00:28:00,960 That's a hard truth. He has done more already than we 496 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,120 need Him to do. And when I say that I am not 497 00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:08,080 getting God off the hook of what I want Him to do in your life or 498 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:15,120 mine, OK, I have so much I want God to do, but I just need us to 499 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:20,600 hear God has done more already than we need Him to do. 500 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,080 So I wonder what you think your biggest need is here today? 501 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,320 What do you need most? What is our biggest problem? 502 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,360 Well, the Bible presents that our biggest problem is primarily 503 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:38,960 relational. We need reconciliation with God. 504 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,720 We need restoration. We need redemption. 505 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,800 I want your dreams to come true. I promise you I do. 506 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:49,680 But that is not your biggest need. 507 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,960 Your biggest need is righteousness. 508 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,880 Your biggest need is to be made like Christ. 509 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,200 Christ likeness to be one with him. 510 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,680 So let's talk about the way forward and we will be done. 511 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,520 Let's talk about the way forward Y'all I've told you, we've told 512 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,640 you throughout the series and each sermon, the Psalm series 513 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,280 we're doing Psalm 111 and 118, particularly 113 and 118 was 514 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,560 sang during Passover. OK, so the idea was they would 515 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,920 sing one 13114 they would do the Passover feast, OK, and 516 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,680 remembering what what happened to the Exodus story, and then 517 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:29,840 they would sing 115161718. So scholars think as best they 518 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,400 could tell, that's exactly what Jesus did the night before he 519 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,920 was betrayed. He reads and sings Psalm 113. 520 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:39,200 He reads and sings Psalm 114. Then he does the the bread, the 521 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,000 juice that we're going to do here in a little bit, the wine. 522 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,320 And then he talks about Psalm 115 that Pastor John walked 523 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,720 through last week and how we can be free from idols. 524 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:51,000 And then he sings this Psalm. So y'all, let's think about this 525 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:57,240 Psalm from Jesus's perspective. Y'all, the snares of death 526 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:01,000 encompass me, The pains of Sheol laid hold on me. 527 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,200 I suffered distressed and anguish. 528 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,520 Then I called on the name of the Lord. 529 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:10,040 O Lord, I pray deliver my soul yo. 530 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:14,240 First and foremost, as with all psalms, this Psalm is true of 531 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:19,040 us, can be yours, because of what it meant for Jesus. 532 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:23,440 First y'all, she all didn't just get a hold of his foot and he 533 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,720 got let go. She all took him down like he he 534 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,840 took the L like he was defeated by death. 535 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,280 He doesn't get to sing of deliverance in the same way. 536 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,440 And I know there's resurrection 3 days later, but he's swallowed 537 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,920 death whole like he took it on the chin. 538 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,160 He was crushed, he was mutilated, he was crucified, he 539 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,640 was destroyed. Y'all you can be delivered 540 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:50,200 because Jesus was destroyed. That's the story of the Bible. 541 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:56,360 And so when we read this Psalm before it's even about you, it's 542 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,240 about Jesus. That's the truth. 543 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,360 It's a messianic Psalm in many ways. 544 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,840 It's about the Messiah, about King Jesus. 545 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,840 We read earlier, What shall I render to the Lord for all his 546 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,880 benefits to me? I will lift up the cup of 547 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,600 salvation. Y'all, we can lift up the cup of 548 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,160 all the good things God intends to flow through his Son to you. 549 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,720 Because Jesus drank the cup of wrath, Yo, there was a cup, a 550 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,840 different cup that Jesus took, and it wasn't one of all God's 551 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,880 goodness towards him. It was a cup of wrath, a cup 552 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:31,760 full of wrath for our sin, for the consequences and effects of 553 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,920 sin. He stepped in to take that. 554 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,520 Yo, that's the gospel. How dare we sing a song like 555 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,840 this apart from the gospel? How dare we claim God will be 556 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,080 good to you? How dare we call on His name? 557 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,240 It would be a wishing well. Hope he's in a good mood and 558 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,000 that's what a lot of the other religions of this world are are 559 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,760 at their best is hoping that God is pleased with him on that day. 560 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,720 The difference in the Bible is God is going to be good to you 561 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,720 and is good to you. He is treating you as he would 562 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,360 treat his son. Whatever happens to you now 563 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:07,040 believer had to go through him first and he would not treat you 564 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,600 away. He would not treat his own son. 565 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,880 So whatever pain you're going through, God does not is not 566 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,080 pleased with your pain. He's not doing that to you. 567 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,360 He is in some kind of way is going through him to you. 568 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:22,720 He's saying yes in some sort of way, but God is doing no evil to 569 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,480 you. He is working it for your good. 570 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,640 He loves you. He sent his son for you. 571 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,280 But wait, there's more. Yeah, this is what's really cool 572 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,640 about this song. OK, you can go ahead and turn to 573 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,400 page 9 O 7 in your Bible. If you're if you're using one of 574 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,400 ours, going to be close down our time in Second Corinthians 4. 575 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:47,240 OK, so I want to set this up before I read it. 576 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,360 I'm going to read 2nd Corinthians 4 about 11 verses 577 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,400 over you to close our time here today, OK? 578 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,600 But I want you to understand why it's a big deal. 579 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,040 For those of you who don't know, Second Corinthians is a letter 580 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,800 written by the apostle Paul, OK? He wrote it to the church in the 581 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,760 city of Corinth. OK? 582 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,720 That's why it's called there the Corinthians, you know, So in 583 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,960 Psalm 116, verses 10 through 11/2 of the verses that were 584 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,160 like, what does that mean? Verses 10 and 11, it says this, 585 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,280 I believed even when I spoke, I'm greatly afflicted. 586 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,800 I said in my alarm, all mankind are liars, OK? 587 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,640 Those are two verses that basically in the midst of his 588 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,480 distress post deliverance, the psalmist says, now that I know 589 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,280 the Lord loves me, I'm going to be honest about my situation and 590 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:36,080 say this is really hard, OK? So part of the delivered life is 591 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,400 I'm going to be real. Now, Lord, just because you 592 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,200 deliver me doesn't mean I like this. 593 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:45,800 OK, here's what's cool. Paul picks that up and pulls it 594 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,920 into his letter to the Corinthians. 595 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,480 The second letter to the Corinthians. 596 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,920 Why is that a big deal? Because part of what was 597 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,360 happening in the 1st century is people start believing in Jesus. 598 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:59,520 OK, they're believing in Jesus. And a group of people would come 599 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,240 in and hear, oh, y'all heard about Jesus, And their ministry 600 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,160 would be real flashy. They're dressed all dope. 601 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,400 They're collecting money from them, and Paul had gone off and 602 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,199 is getting beat down by people every day, has no money. 603 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:11,960 He's not a good speaker. He's just a good writer. 604 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,960 And they started being like Paul. 605 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,080 You kind of a bum, man. These guys are dope. 606 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,880 They're good speakers, they're funny, they're cool. 607 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,000 And Paul's like guys. What he's like. 608 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:28,239 I taught you the gospel man. And he quotes this Psalm in his 609 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,520 defense of his ministry in 2nd Corinthians 4. 610 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,239 Y'all tracking with me, So I'm going to read that here in a 611 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,800 moment, but it's a big deal because watch this. 612 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,960 I started with the question of what does Jesus's death have to 613 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,560 do with you? Right? 614 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,639 For Paul, it had everything to do with everything he was going 615 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:49,120 through. So Paul didn't read Psalm 116 616 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,080 and think, doesn't have anything to do with me. 617 00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:53,480 I'm getting beat down. Where's my deliverance? 618 00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:57,080 My life's terrible. Where's the Lord showing up? 619 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:01,880 He was reading it through. Christ who died, who took the L 620 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,920 so that I could live, died in my place. 621 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,040 I'm alive now. Watch this. 622 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:08,680 This is what I don't think we get. 623 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,560 I've talked to so many people over the years. 624 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:15,040 They know Christ died for them. This is the difference though. 625 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,840 Y'all the purpose of deliverance. 626 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,800 Think about a delivery from somewhere to somewhere, right? 627 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,280 So like you're delivered from something to something. 628 00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:27,880 In Paul's mind, he was delivered from death, bondage to sin, all 629 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,360 the things, and he was delivered to God himself. 630 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,200 He was living life with God. What happened to Paul happened 631 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:37,480 to God. Listen to what I'm saying. 632 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:42,280 In Paul's mind, he was living every second of every day with 633 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:46,120 God and quotes a Psalm primarily about the Messiah, about his own 634 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,320 ministry. Do you see that? 635 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:54,560 So what I'm trying to tell you is God died to deliver you to 636 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:59,320 himself. We still think God died to 637 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,840 deliver me into some location, some place heaven. 638 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:07,840 No, God bought you through the cross and it's bringing you to 639 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,400 himself. And then he enters life with 640 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:11,840 you. And if it's hard, I'm not 641 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:15,160 surprised. This place sucks but he's with 642 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:16,880 you in it. Does that make sense? 643 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,920 So many of us think if this was happening to me, God doesn't 644 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,720 love me what he bought you. He's there. 645 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:27,120 It's not happening to you, it's happening to y'all like you are 646 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,760 him and he is you. Like that's the gospel. 647 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,080 But what we do is we think God died for me and it's this love 648 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,360 potion that I'm supposed to charge up through somehow. 649 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,360 But you've been united to God through Christ by the Spirit. 650 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:44,840 You're alive in Christ. So the gospel is that you are 651 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,600 alive with God. You've been delivered to Him. 652 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,880 Nothing happens to you that isn't happening to him too. 653 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:57,040 There is no you apart from Him. So whatever you're going 654 00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:01,840 through, he's with you. You don't just go to the Bible 655 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,200 to get coached how to deal with it. 656 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:08,280 You go to the Bible to be with Him in it. 657 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:13,880 Did y'all see that deliverance isn't a a trophy? 658 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,600 You get that one day I get out of this hell hole and get to go 659 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,240 to heaven. That's like the final phase of 660 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:22,440 the deliverance. But you're delivered now to God. 661 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:26,680 That's who you've been delivered to from sin, from hell to God, 662 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,360 not to heaven, even though that's coming. 663 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,480 Does that make sense? Like I can't wait for heaven. 664 00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,760 Amen somebody. But y'all, you've been delivered 665 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,000 to God himself. That's what Paul thought. 666 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,760 He didn't look at his life like God hasn't delivered me. 667 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,320 God had delivered him. God had done more for Paul. 668 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,760 He didn't need. If he did nothing else, it was 669 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,800 enough because he's alive with God. 670 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,760 So I just want to tell you, God has delivered you follower of 671 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,480 Jesus. He is with you in it in the 672 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,560 fire. There's another in the fire. 673 00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,920 Like we sing that song because the fire is still coming. 674 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,040 Y'all like we get in our heads if he's with me, there's no 675 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,080 fire. Wrong. 676 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,680 He bought you to get in it with you. 677 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,560 He didn't buy you to remove it from you. 678 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,720 I hate to break that to you. He's committed to making you 679 00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:14,240 like him, so he's going to get in it with you. 680 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,800 He didn't die to take the fire away. 681 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,320 Does that make sense? He died to get in it with you. 682 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:27,280 So I just want to invite you to union with God, life with God. 683 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:31,240 God has delivered you, believer. And if you don't know Jesus, he 684 00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:33,920 hasn't. You are alone. 685 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,800 You don't know God, you're not delivered, you're still caught 686 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,800 the first part of the Psalm like you're being pulled down. 687 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,240 The Bible would say you're dead and you're sin and you're alone 688 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,760 and what you're invited to is not a life of platitude, 689 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:51,360 Christian slogans. You're invited to a life with 690 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:56,240 God himself. Isn't that amazing? 691 00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:57,240 I don't know if you've heard that. 692 00:38:57,240 --> 00:38:59,680 I grew up in church where so it and it's like the lights just 693 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:01,640 come on where God actually wants to live with you. 694 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,280 That's the gospel. He died so he could live with 695 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,440 you. So I want to read 2nd 696 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:11,800 Corinthians 4 some of y'all's life man, it's just hard right 697 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:15,400 now and it just gets so blurry. It can get so blurry. 698 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:19,440 How is God good I can't see just listen to how Paul talks about 699 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,680 this after I read this I'm a pray and we're done. 700 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:26,640 OK when he says this treasure here in this first verse. 701 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:30,440 He's just saying knowing Christ in your body on earth, in a, in 702 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,320 a just what feels like God forsaken land sometimes when 703 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,760 it's just hard. That's what Paul's talking 704 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,720 about. But we have this treasure in 705 00:39:39,720 --> 00:39:45,320 jars of clay to show that the surpassing power belongs to God 706 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,040 and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, 707 00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,240 but not crushed, perplexed but not driven to despair, 708 00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:54,800 persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed, 709 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,760 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life 710 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,640 of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. 711 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,000 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus 712 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,360 sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our 713 00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,920 mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but 714 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,720 life in you. Since we have the same spirit of 715 00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:16,240 faith according to what has been written. 716 00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:19,280 I believed and so I spoke. We also believe and so we also 717 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,760 speak. That's Psalm 116, knowing that 718 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,120 he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus 719 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,360 and bring us with you into his presence, for it is all for your 720 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,240 sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people, it may 721 00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:33,600 increase Thanksgiving to the glory of God. 722 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:39,360 Here's the gold. So we do not lose heart. 723 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:45,360 Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being 724 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,600 renewed day by day. For this light momentary 725 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:52,520 affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory 726 00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:56,080 beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are 727 00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,240 seen, but to the things that are unseen. 728 00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:00,680 For the things that are seen or transient, but the things that 729 00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:04,040 are unseen are eternal. Let's pray together. 730 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:07,880 Y'all. Our Father, we love you. 731 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,880 God, I just pray. Lord, please, God, please, for 732 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,880 those who are in Christ here, God, would you remind us we've 733 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,480 been delivered. God, we can sing Psalm 116. 734 00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,640 We can go crazy. And God, I have so many things I 735 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:23,840 want you to do. Please. 736 00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,600 There's so many people you haven't saved, so many things 737 00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:29,280 you haven't done, God, and you know my frustration, I'm going 738 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,080 to keep calling on your name. God, may we be a church who 739 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,960 never gives up calling on your name to be who you promised to 740 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,480 be. Teach us to throw ourselves upon 741 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:43,920 you, God, please. But Lord, you have delivered us. 742 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,480 God, you have done so much. You've brought us to yourself. 743 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,400 What joy, what rest, what grace is possible for us. 744 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,680 Got to pray that over my brothers and sisters in Christ. 745 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,960 And I pray for my friends who do not know Jesus under the sound 746 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,840 of my voice. God, would you deliver them from 747 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,120 their sin? Would you deliver them to 748 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:07,280 yourself, God, from the Kingdom of self where we run the show 749 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,520 and think we're so pleased but we know we are miserable? 750 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,480 God? Would you rescue them from 751 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,880 themselves and sin and Satan and bring them to yourself by the 752 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,520 power of the Holy Spirit? We pray in Jesus name, Amen.